Hey everyone, I'm back from vacation, I had fun but now it's time to get back to work and continue writing this fanfic. Sorry I left you all on a cliffhanger last time but it's time to continue.

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Well I think I've wasted enough of your time, so lets get this started and I hope you like the chapter.


Chapter 29 Confused Feelings

"And now I'll show the match ups for the next round." Lillian said.

On the scoreboard showed eight cards, each with a picture of one of the finalists, which of course included Tori, Ashley, and I. After the cards were randomly shuffled, it showed the matchups for the Battle round of the Contest. When it stopped, I saw that I would be battling in the first round, while Tori would go after me, and Ashley was last.

"What do you know? Looks like we all get a reprieve from having to battle each other this round." Ashley said upon inspecting the screen.

"Then that means we have to survive another round before that happens." Tori said.

"No need to worry. I'm positive that all three of us will make it for sure."

"I know at least I'll make it, but you two better win, otherwise it'll be less fun if I don't defeat a potential rival." Ashley stated with a fierce look.

"I'm not gonna lose either!" Tori interjected, determination written all over her face. "You two will be in for quite a shock with what my Pokémon can do."

"Just try not to mess up again like with your performance."

"Only if you don't let your big ego get in the way." Ashley said

I could only laugh a little at how these two were acting, but smiled as it got me pumped up for my battle.

"Are you ready for this?" I asked both of them.

"Of course, besides we all need to face each other later. My only regret is that I won't get to face both of you" Ashley said.

"True but no need to worry. After all there'll be other contests right?" I said.

"I suppose so. Anyway we should prepare. After all we have our matches in a few minutes." Ashley commented on.

"Good point there. So Tori, are you ready for this because it could be fun." I said eagerly.

"Yeah but I have no intention of losing this contest." Tori said.

"Just don't get overconfident. That's defeated plenty of coordinators." Ashley warned.

"I'll be fine" Tori said annoyed.

"Whatever you say" Ashley said as she sighed and then walked away.

"You really don't like her" I noted.

"So what if I don't. She's my just another opponent and I hate how she thinks she's better then me." Tori said.

"She's not that bad besides, she's just trying to convince you not to get your hopes up because it's going to be a hard win for you. After all you have two senior coordinators here. That would be hard for anyone to face." I said.

"Yeah I know but she still bugs me." Tori said.

I suddenly realized something and got an evil smirk on my face. "Oh maybe you're just jealous that she's known Kai longer then you." I teased

"What? No way! Not a chance." Tori shot back defensively but I could tell by the red on her face that she was lying.

"It's okay, I can understand being angry about some competition." I teased.

"Dawn please stop" Tori said annoyed.

"Okay okay no need to worry, I was half kidding." I said giving a small laugh.

"The half kidding part makes me worry a lot." Tori shot back at me.

"Cut it out Tori you know I'm just joking around." I said.

"Fine, so what Pokémons do you intend to use in the second half?" Tori asked intrigued.

"Well my original plan was to go with Bagon and Buneary for the whole thing but I found out that you can use different Pokémon in each battle so for the first match I'm going to let those two rest and use my Squirtle and Ambipom." I said happily.

"Good plan. As for me, I intend to use the same guys as in the appeal round since they've waited so long to be in a contest." Tori said.

"Well I can't blame you for that and I half want to do the same but using Draco Meteor took a lot out of Bagon and if I use Bagon in the next round then I'm afraid Bagon won't be at full power and also I'm scared that Bagon will be too tired to do well. So I decided to save it for when I face you in the next round." I said happily.

"Well we both need to win first." Tori said

"Hey, were did all that confidence go to? You'll make it to the next round no matter what." I said with a grin.

"Yeah you're right." Tori said happily.

I then heard the speakers call the name of my opponent and I.

I then smiled. "Well I guess I'm up. Wish me luck Tori." I said as I walked onto the stage.


(Paul's POV)
I had just finished watching Dawn's first round battle and she won it rather easily.

"Well she did well this time." I said

"Yeah I know she's doing awesome right?" Barry said

"I just hope she can keep it up." I said

"She'll do fine Paul. But you got to admit she is doing great today. Besides so far she's on a great winning streak."

"Maybe but it's about to break." Kai said proudly

"Oh really, and what makes you say that" I said

"Just rooting for Tori that's all." Kai said laughing a bit.

"Hey you said you'd root for both her and my big sister." Sara said

"Well I half said that because I didn't want your sister to kill me." Kai said looking away.

"Hey!" Sara said annoyed.

"Besides, Tori needs the help, she's new to this and your sister has you right?" Kai said

"I guess so." Sara said

"Good job saving yourself there." I said

"I had to say something." Kai whispered to me.

We then saw Tori walk onto the stage and she got ready to face her opponent.

"All right, go Tori!" Kai cheered.

"Well he seems to be getting into this." I said

"It's normal to cheer for your friends. Besides I'm not half as loud as Barry was earlier today." Kai said

"Hey what was that? I think it's fining time. Besides I had to cheer loud because Paul was barley making a noise." Barry said.

"What do you want me to do? Screaming loudly in a huge audience of people is weird. Or at least screaming as loudly as you were is." I said.

We continued to watch the battle until we saw Tori win her match but she had a bit of a tough time.

"Well thankfully she was able to pull out a win." Kai said.

"Yeah so it looks like next round it'll be her vs Dawn." I said

"And the winner of that will face my sister." Sara said.

"She hasn't even battled yet so how do you know?" I asked.

"Trust me I know." She answered.

"Whatever. Well at least now we know for a fact that either Tori or Dawn will be in the finals." I said.

"Don't worry, because Dawn's going to win it all." Barry said.

We all kept watching the other matches and saw Ashley come up and she won her match rather easily.

"So, looks like everyone's advanced." I said.

"And the next round will be starting in a few minutes. Unlike most contests we've seen so far, this one is moving fast." Barry said.

"Well it's not like it's that big of a deal." I said.

"Yeah so Dawn and Tori are facing each other, this should be a good show." Kai said.

"Whatever, I couldn't possible care less." I said.

"He's just acting cool, he's really interested and he really wants Dawn to win. He just wants people to think that he doesn't care." Barry said while laughing.

"Do you know the definition of the word shut up?" Paul said

"Do you know that shut up is two words not one?" Barry teased.

"You are so annoying." I said as I face palmed.

"Come on you two cut it out. Let's just get ready to enjoy the show." Kai said.


(Dawn's POV)

"So it's me VS. you huh." Tori said as she starred at the screen.

"Yeah let's both try our best and make it a good battle." I said.

"You two will be going against each other in about a few minutes so you should get ready." Ashley said.

"We know. Let's get ready Tori." I said to Tori.

"Right" She said as we both started to prepare.

"I'm a little nervous to face you." Tori said to me a few minute before our match.

"Same here but I know it'll be fun." I said back.

"Will Dawn and Tori please come out to battle?" Lillian said.

"Let's go." I said as we both headed toward the stairs.

"Right" Tori said.

"Okay it's time for Tori to face Dawn. Let's hope it's a good battle and Let's get busy!" Lillian said.

"Zorua, Leavanny let's go!" Tori said.

"Buneary, Bagon Spotlight!" I said as I sent out my two Pokémon.

The clock then started and we began.

"Leavanny use X Scissor and Zorua use Shadow Ball!" Tori said.

Zorua fired Shadow Ball and Leavanny knocked the ball directly into Bagon.

"Darn it. Buneary use Thunderbolt!" I said as Buneary sent out some Thunder and hit Zorua dead center.

"Oh no Leavanny use Leaf Blade on Buneary!" Tori said.

Leavanny started running toward Buneary and it then took its arms and turned them into blades of leafs.

"That worked fine by me. Bagon don't let the attack hit. Get in the way and use Flamethrower!" I said.

"Gon!" Bagon said while shaking its head. It didn't move at all or attack.

"Bagon what are you doing!" I yelled as I started to Panic. Leavanny then took its blades and slashed Buneary.

"Use X scissor!" Tori said.

"We can't let that hit. Buneary use Ice Beam!" I said as Buneary shot out a beam of ice and sent Leavanny flying backward. "Good now Bagon use Flamethrower!" I said but again Bagon refused to attack.

What's going on. Why on earth isn't Bagon attacking?

"Zorua use Dig!" Tori said as Zorua dug a hole and slammed into Buneary.

"Bagon you got to attack! Use Dragon Rush" I said but again Bagon wouldn't listen to me.

"Now go Leavanny use Leaf Blade." Tori said as Leavanny slammed it's blade into Buneary.

"Ice Beam once again!" I said

"Zorua counter it with Shadow Ball!" Tori said as the two attacks got fired and cancelled each other out.

Darn it. I'm losing points left and right and I've barley even touched Tori's points. I thought.


(Paul's POV)

"Hey what's going on here? Dawns not doing so good." Barry said.

"She seems to be surprised for some reason and her Bagon isn't even battling. Why is that?" Kai asked.

"It's not that shocking considering the fact that Bagon hates battling. It only went with Dawn cause it didn't want to battle but I guess since this is a battle part of the contest then I guess Bagon won't battle. I was afraid this might happen." I said calmly.

"Well that's not good. Why would she use Bagon then?" Kai asked.

"Cause she's reckless that's why. Believe me she's stupid at times." I said.

"Tori can be a bit reckless at times too." Kai said.

"You two are smarter than that right?" Sara said.

"I suppose so. Still she really should've thought this through a little more. She was over confident."

"Like you're one to talk. Weren't you the one who was talking about beating Tucker even when you had almost never been in a double battle before? I guess if she is a little confident then she got it from you." Kai said jokingly.

"Shut up. She better change her strategy though otherwise she's done." I said

"You sound worried about her Paul." Kai teased.

"Shut up." I said again.


(Dawns POV)

"Buneary use Dizzy Punch!" I said.

"Leavanny counter with X Scissor!" Tori said

Leavanny knocked the attack out of the way and slashed Zorua with its arms.

"Now Zorua use Dig!" Tori said as Zorua dug a hole and slammed into Buneary once again.

"Buneary use Thunderbolt!"

"Dodge it both of you and Leavanny use Sing!" Tori said

Both Pokémon got out of the way and Leavanny sang a song that put Buneary to sleep.

"Now go Leavanny, use X Scissor once more!" Tori said as her Leavanny slammed into Buneary with its attack and knocked Buneary out.

"Buneary return" I said as I called back Buneary. I then looked at Bagon and it still didn't look like it wanted to battle. Why wasn't it battling?

Darn it. It's over. My Bagon doesn't want to attack for some reason. So now all Tori will have to do is attack my defenseless Bagon and she wins. I thought annoyed.

But for some reason Tori wasn't attacking.

"Dawn is everything okay?" Tori asked.

"I don't know for some weird reason, my Bagon isn't attacking. Look just attack and win." I said.

"No way, that's no way to win. I don't want to attack that way and even if I did, Kai would never let me live it down. Winning that way is low and pathetic so I won't attack!" Tori said.

She's not attacking. Damn it if only Bagon would attack then we could have a fair battle. "Bagon please try use an attack. Any attack" I said but Bagon still refused to battle. "Fine then… Bagon return!" I said as I called my Bagon back into its Pokeball.

"What are you doing?" Tori asked.

"I'm quitting for now. Look Bagons not obeying me so I couldn't even continue. But I promise one day I'll fix this problem and we'll have a real match. But for today, you were the better coordinator." I said.

"But…" Tori said but she stopped.

"The winner is Tori and she advances to the finals were she'll be facing Ashley in a few minutes." Lillian said.

I turned and left the stage while Tori remained there and waited for Ashley to come out.

"Sorry about that loss. It was rough." Ashley told me. "But hey! It had to happen so you could learn about your Bagon's little problem. So don't worry about it. It happens to everyone." Ashley told me and walked onto the stage to face Tori.

"Darn it I lost and that was just embarrassing." I said.

"Tell me about it." I heard a voice say. I looked up and saw Paul standing by me.

"What do you want?" I asked with tears in my eyes.

"Nothing, it was a pity 'bout the loss. Still I suppose it has to happen to everyone. Still it sucked that Bagon didn't want to battle. Maybe you should've thought of that first." Paul told me.

"Look I know okay." I replied.

"You say that but I doubt it. Did you forget that your Bagon hates fighting? Did you think that would change? If you want Bagon to help then you need to work with it better. Otherwise you will only be able to use Bagon for the first round." Paul told me.

I remained silent for a minute. "You're right. I suppose I haven't been worrying about Bagon's hatred of battling. We'll have to work on that so the two of us can be more compatible. Still if I'm being told that by you of all people then it must be bad. I was reckless."

"True but It happens. Just don't do it again. And learn from this."

"I guess I will, so thanks." I said with a grin. "Man I'm feeling a bit better. Hey is Barry or anyone else here?"

"No they stayed up in the stands." Paul told me.

"Huh so you came down here all alone. Why? Were you worried that I was sad and wanted to check on me." I said with a slight grin.

"Shut up of course not. Barry was acting all worried and Kai suggested that I should check on you. That's all." He said.

"Okay whatever you say." I said.

"Look we should head back to the stands. You do want to see Tori and Ashley's match right?" Paul said.

"Okay then, lets go." I said

"Good but first you should stop crying. We all lose sometimes but that doesn't mean you should cry over it." Paul said

"Yeah I know, it was just a really rough loss and I felt like I just embarrassed myself." I said looking down.

"Well it happens. I don't cry when I lose, and I've suffered some embarrassing defeats sometimes like when I faced Cinthia or Brandon. I got destroyed both times but instead of crying, I just trained harder and worked on some new strategies. Besides you always take so long getting ready if you ask me it'd be a shame if you ruined all that time you took by crying so stop and we can go back there." Paul said

I smiled and wiped up all my tears. "Okay then lets go back. Thanks for that, it helped." I said

"Like I said, I only came down because Barry insisted that I should." Paul said looking away.

"Okay Paul whatever you say." I said. I had a feeling that Paul was lying about the reason why he came down.


Paul and I then both headed back up to the stands so we could see the rest of the contest.

"Hay Paul your finally back from the bathroom huh. Besides why is Dawn with you?" Barry asked.

"Shut up Barry." Paul said.

"Huh what do you mean? Didn't Paul come down because Kai and you told him to." I asked.

"We did no such thing." Kai said.

"Oh really" I said looking at Paul with a small smirk.

"So how's it going so far?" Paul asked changing the subject.

"Not good." Kai said.

"Great." Sara said.

"So I take it Ashley's winning." Paul said.

"Winning and dominating." Kai said.

We looked down and saw that Tori was almost out of points while Ashley still had half of hers. Ashley was using her Altaria and a Sceptile.

"Leavanny use Leaf Blade!" Tori said.

"Sceptile use Detect and Altaria fly into the air and charge up for Sky Attack!" Ashley said.

Sceptile got out of the way and Altaria fired its Sky Attack straight at Leavanny and slammed into it.

"Darn it. Zorua use Shadow Ball!"

"Sceptile use Leaf Blade to knock the attack right back at the Pokémon." Ashley said.

Zorua fired the Shadow Ball but Sceptile took its leaf Blade and knocked the Shadow Ball and hit Leavanny.

"Let's end this Sceptile use Leaf storm on both of them." Ashley said.

Sceptile fired its barrage of Leafs that hit both of Tori's Pokémon and knocked out both of them.

"No way" Tori said shocked.

"The winner is Ashley" Lillian said.

"Darn it. I lost." Tori said.

"Good match. I hope we can battle again." Ashley said.

"Yeah you too" Tori said. She then left the stage and we watched as they gave Ashley her fourth ribbon.

"Well that was an interesting contest." Kai said.

"Yeah I suppose so." Paul said.

"We should meet up with the others outside." Kai said.


After a few minutes, everyone went outside to meet up. There we met up with Tori and Ashley. Paul also gave me back my Piplup inside of its Pokeball.

"Man I can't believe I lost." Tori said

"Hey I feel the same. But at least now I know that I have some things to work on." Dawn said.

"That's good although I wish I could've stayed faced you Dawn." Ashley said.

"Yea same but we'll face each other eventually." I said

"Good."

"So how long are you guys staying here because we may stay in this city a little longer" Tori asked.

"No Idea but I'd like to take it easy for a bit." I said.

"I know right." Tori said.

"I think I'll stay awhile too." Ashley said.

"I take it that means you're staying." Paul said to Kai.

"Of course if Tori stays then I will stay. Same for you right?" He answered.

"I suppose so. Besides I feel as though I should train a little more before my next frontier battle." Paul answered.

"Training's great but it is also nice to take it easy once in awhile. You should try it." Kai said.

"Maybe but I don't know how." Paul said.

"Come on. There are tons of fun things to do here. I hear they have a Pokémon fan club and they even have an awesome beach." Tori said.

"Wow I'd love to see the beach." I said happily.

"I suppose that means we'll have to come too." Paul said.

"Of course that's what it means. You need to learn to have a little fun once in a while. And we are going to have just that." I said as Paul rolled his eyes.

"Hey Dawn you have an Xtransceiver right?" Ashley said.

"Yea that's right."

"Well then how bout I register you and Tori if that's okay."

"That's great." We both said as all of us exchanged numbers.

"Oh right Dawn can I speak with you for a minute?" Tori said.

"Sure" I said as we both walked away from the others.

"Man that was a tough loss for both of us." Tori said as she looked into the sky.

"Yeah but they happen sometimes, I was feeling really down until Paul came and calmed me down." I said.

"Yeah before he went outside, Kai did the same for me. We're lucky to have such good friends." Tori admitted.

"I agree. You know I kind of take it for granted sometimes but we really are lucky. I guess Paul and Kai are alike in some ways." I said.

"Yeah but they are also very different too." Tori said as she laughed.

"That's for sure but it was just like that with another one of Paul's Rivals in Sinnoh. Him and Ash were the biggest rivals and they trained so differently yet their goals were the same. Of course back then Paul was a jerk and I couldn't stand him. But that's life for you I suppose." I said.

"Tell me about it. It's funny how things play out." Tori said as we both laughed a bit.

Suddenly I saw Kenny walking up to me. "Kenny, what on earth are you doing here, I thought you said you had have to leave." I said

"Well something came up but don't worry about it. Anyway, sorry about the loss." Kenny said.

"Oh you saw that? Well it happens to everyone right? There is no need to worry." I said

"Yeah, no need to worry. Anyway, I'm sure you'll do fine in the next contest but I just wanted to see how you were doing." Kenny said.

"Okay then thanks a million Kenny and I'm doing fine. I know I lost and I was feeling bad at first but after a while, I got over it and Paul helped calm me down." I said

"Oh Paul did? Well that was nice of him." Kenny said looking annoyed.

"What's wrong Kenny?" I asked.

"Nothing, just thinking about stuff. Anyway, tell Paul and Barry I said hi." Kenny said as he left.

"Okay bye Kenny." I yelled after him as he walked away. I then turned and saw Tori having an evil smirk on her face as she looked at me. "What is it?" I asked.

"Well somebody's popular with boys." She said laughing.

"What?" I asked a little weirded out.

"I'm just saying it looks like your part of a love triangle between that Kenny kid and Paul." Tori teased.

"Plup, Piplup" My Piplup said angrily as it came out of it's Pokeball. It must've heard what Tori said and got annoyed at it.

"Calm down Piplup. Tori just misunderstood something. From what I know, Paul and Kenny both have a crush on some girl so I guess you could say it's a love triangle. But I'm not involved and Paul won't admit to it." I said laughing.

"Oh really, I could've sworn they liked you. Pity too. Oh well either way it doesn't matter much. So who's the girl they like?" She said.

"No idea, they won't tell me. The only girl I think they both know is Zoey but last I checked, Paul and Zoey didn't get along but who knows." I said confused.

"I see and how do you feel about this?" Tori asked.

"Huh?" I said as confused as I was since the beginning of this conversation.

"I mean are you jealous of either of them?" she précised.

"No. Of course not. I'm happy for them." I said but for some reason I didn't feel so sure about that. I don't know why but suddenly I felt a little bothered by it. I shouldn't have but the thought of either Paul or Kenny with some chick annoyed me. Wait. Was it Paul I was angry about or Kenny? I just didn't know.

"Is something the matter?" Tori asked. She could tell I was in thought from the look on my face.

"It's nothing. Anyway we should head back. And we need to convince everyone to go to the beach soon." I said.

"With two cute girls like us, they'll come without any trouble." Tori joked around.

"Yeah your right." I said as I decided to dismiss the thought I had earlier about Paul and Kenny.

One thing was for sure, today sure was crazy and I may have lost but even though I did, I had fun and I learned something important. And I was more determined than ever to help train Bagon.

To Be Continued.


Paul: To bad about the loss.

Dawn:No need to worry right, losing happens from time to time

Barry:Of course, I've lost a bunch of times

Paul: Of course you do

Dawn: But whats important is that we get back up and try again

Paul: Good point just keep working hard I suppose

Barry: She'll do find, but Dawn are you confused about some stuff.

Dawn:Huh, no nothing at all so don't worry about it.

Barry: You look embarrassed

Paul: Cut it out Barry

Dawn: Yea, anyway we hope you enjoyed the chapter, please review to let use know what you thought and see you next time.