"Now, there has been a ridiculous rumor going on about how this girl here is my girlfriend. It is not true in the least. Her name is Elizabeth and she is merely a childhood friend and was helping me out," Lance started off. A few camera flashes went off as Ellie just stood there looking at the crowd.

"Usually I wouldn't bother to clear up such rumors but it is starting to get in the way of my work. The League opens up soon. Don't you have something better to report on? Then again, I suppose we will now take questions to clear up any more misunderstandings," Lance added on staring into the crowd along with Ellie. The reporters filed up in a line to avoid any conflict.

"My question is for Elizabeth. What kind of pokemon do you have?" the first reporter asked. She had already been told she didn't have to answer any questions she didn't want to but it seemed harmless enough.

"I currently have on hand; a Delcatty, Ampharos, Feraligator, Marowak, and this girl here," Ellie answered. The reporter nodded before going to the back of the line. Ellie couldn't help but wonder what a weird question that was.

"My question is for Elizabeth as well. Are you participating in the League?" another reporter asked. Ellie sighed, she hoped all of these people weren't going to ask her questions. Lance deserved to deal with them as well.

"I am currently on vacation in Olivine, but yes I am collecting gym badges. However, I do not have any plans to challenge the Elite Four," Ellie answered as the reporter walked to the back of the line.

"Another question for Elizabeth. Do you train dragons like Lance?" a new reporter asked.

"I am not currently training any dragons, but I have in the past," Ellie answered. Lance just glanced down at her before covering a laugh with a cough. She gently kicked him and was pleased to notice that no one else seem to had seen it. The questions were never ending, or so it seemed to Ellie.

She was tired of talking already and she just wanted to go back to the pokecenter. She didn't even want to say how hungry she was becoming. She was defiantly making Lance buy her food for making her go through this. Most of the questions were directed towards her and Lance had to deal with very few. It wasn't fair and she was getting a headache. Luckily for her Lance quickly said only one more question and the last reporter walked up.

"Elizabeth, are you aware of the rumor that you are playing around with Champion Lance's feelings?" the reporter asked. Ellie spit out the water she was drinking.

"How did you come up with something like that," she said, after a coughing fit. Even Lance was shocked and looked around for guards. Ellie just held up her hand.

"I asked you a question, please answer it," she said.

"Well, there are photos of kissing two different people in just a day. Plus my news station has got testimony from two men that you were flirting with them," the reporter answered.

"Let me see these photos, please," Ellie replied, knowing all to well what she was about to see.

The reporter handed two copies to a nearby guard who brought them up to Ellie. Lance leaned in over her shoulder to see as well. Ellie just sighed when she saw exactly what she predicted. Two rather low quality pictures that looked like they were taken with a Pokegear, both taken on the beach. Once showed the forced kiss between her and Alex while the other showed her fake kiss with Chloe.

"Okay first off, this first one between this man and I is real. However, you could say he is a bit of a stalker and forced the kiss on me. He quickly ran away after Lance showed up on the scene," Ellie said, handing the photos to Lance.

"This second picture is a fake. I did not kiss this girl on the cheek. She was being harassed by two men, so I pretended to be the girl's girlfriend in order for them to leave her alone. And as for the two men that said that I flirted with them...I do believe I did no such thing. In fact it was probably the two men that I chased off of my friend here. They were rather mad that my pokemon defeated theirs without a scratch even though my pokemon were outnumbered. I believe this answers everything, so I would love it if you got rid off all these pictures. Besides, it is hard to play with the champion's feelings if he has none," Ellie explained, taking another drink of water after her mini rant.

The reporter didn't say anything else but instead walked out the door in a huff.

"Well, um that was interesting. Now that everyone knows the truth of the matter then please take your leave," Lance said.

"I'm truly sorry that you guys don't have an interesting story," Ellie added on, with a smile.

"Why don't you two battle for us?" a voice called out. Ellie just laughed.

"I'm sorry but Lance is far above my abilities as a trainer. He would defeat all of my pokemon before I could even get a order out. Like I said before, I'm on vacation and I do not want to have my pokemon get hurt. So no, we will not battle," Ellie said, her headache growing.

"She is putting herself down but even if we wanted to...it doesn't quite feel right with the Elite Four taking challenges soon. If she wants to battle me she will have to defeat all of them first and since she doesn't have plans to challenge them, I suppose that battle will never happen," Lance stated, simply.

"Now, if you don't mind. I must return Elizabeth to her vacation," Lance added on. The reporters and bystanders began to file out and the people manning the cameras turned them off.

"There, now you owe Chloe and me dinner," Ellie said, sticking out her tongue. Lance just sighed and handed her some money.

"That should be enough," he said. Ellie just looked at it and pocketed it. She waved goodbye after letting all of her pokemon out again. She quickly adjusted the now sleeping Sienna and walked out the door,leaving Lance behind. She quickly called Chloe on her Pokegear and asked her what she wanted to eat. She had to admit she probably looked pretty comical to the people around since Nila was holding her Pokegear while she attempted to speak into the microphone with a sleeping Charmander in her arms.

She walked over to a nearby restaurant and ordered out a pretty good amount of food, along with food for their pokemon. She ignored the stares and whispers of the people around while Nila carried the bags of food for her back to the pokecenter. Chloe was waiting for her in the lobby and helped Nila with a couple of the bags as they claimed a table.

Ellie sighed wondering what she should do with Sienna. The pokemon was obviously tired but she still needed to eat. She gently woke up Sienna and began to feed her while the food was distributive. Sienna quickly finished her food and feel back asleep, still in Ellie's arms. Ellie had to laugh with everyone else as she tried to eat with one hand. She knew it looked silly, just like she knew that a lot of eyes were on their table. It seemed it would take a while for everyone to just forget about here but she was certain once the Elite Four battles started up, everything would go back to the way she liked it.

At least she wasn't being attacked by anyone. She looked up at one of the TVs only to see her face on it and she sighed once more. Her headache was still there and the chatter in the lobby was making it worst but she didn't have any medicine to take for it. She quickly finished up her food and excused herself saying that she was taking Sienna up to their room and for Chloe to just bring her pokemon up whenever she gets done eating. She got to their room and walked in, quickly taking to her bed. She situated Sienna on the bed without waking her up before she quickly fell asleep herself. She didn't even stir when Chloe came up and her pokemon got into bed with her.

She woke up in the morning with a fever and unable to stand properly. Chloe started to freak out and tried to nurse her until Ellie finally had enough. She banished Chloe to go train for the contest and made her take Nila with her just in case. She spent the next several days sick in bed and they passed with a blur.

Ellie didn't exactly know what had made her so sick and neither did any of the nurses in the pokecenter but she was told to take it easy till she felt better. At least it was nothing life threatening even if her pokemon seemed to act as if it was. They were on edge the entire time she was in bed and Nila didn't seem happy that she couldn't be there to take care of Ellie most of the day.

Ellie still felt weak so she tried to restrain from doing anything strenuous just so she could make the contest tomorrow. She was finally feeling a little better on the day before the contest so she got up and went to go watch Chloe train only to find out that Chloe wasn't going to train today but instead letting her pokemon rest. She couldn't wait to see the contest. She had never saw one before and she had to admit she was curious to what would happen. Come to think of it, she didn't really even know what a contest entitled. Surely it wasn't all about looking pretty, if it was it would be quite boring.

Chloe also introduced her to special pokemon treats called pokeblocks and poffins which were to help the appearance and other attributes of pokemon. They were made of berries and Chloe promised to help teach her how to make them after they discovered that Ellie's pokemon loved them, especially Sienna.

The day before the contest passed pretty uneventfully. They went to go watch a movie and hung out at the beach for a while before going back to the pokecenter to just hand out. Chloe had already registered for the contest when Ellie was sick in bed so she was pretty amused some people were waiting until the last second. Ellie was pretty surprised that Chloe didn't seem nervous at all, even when she found out that the contest would be broadcast.

Luckily for everyone the photos of the 'kisses' had not been anywhere on the media. Ellie would have hated to explain that one to Chloe's parents who seemed rather traditional. Chloe on the other hand seemed grateful to be staying out of public attention. Ellie could hardly blamed her. She was getting random people coming up to her with letters and gifts for Lance, asking her to give them to him. She hadn't even spoke to Lance since the press conference and she didn't plan to either. It was annoying that people expected her to do such a job. Not to mention once she refused, they would get angry and challenge her to a battle even though she kept insisting that she was still sick and couldn't.

Author's Note:

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We will be leaving Olivine soon. I promise. This has taken more chapters then I thought it would. ._.