Thanks for the reviews (new and usual)! Sorry to say, but Steven is not the Champion. Anyway, here's the next chapter. I don't own Pokemon except my own characters. Enjoy!

Chapter 57: The New Champion

Angelina had been up for three and a half hours already. It was quite unusual for her to wake up at nine-thirty in the morning, but she had also laid in bed until noon, thinking. It was now twelve-thirty, and her battle had been moved up to two o'clock. Her FINAL battle. And if she won, then she was officially the new Hoenn League Champion.

Angelina gazed outside the window, and the rain was falling pretty hard. The minutes ticked by, and soon they became thirty minutes, and then an hour. It was one-thirty; she had to leave in fifteen minutes. So she got out of bed and changed into her usual outfit, then after brushing her hair and applying make-up, she was ready to leave.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm unbeatable

Walking down this endless highway
With nothing but my friends beside me
We'll never give in, we'll never rest
Advanced battle is the ultimate test
From the earth of land, the sea, and sky
We can never win, but we sure can try

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm unbeatable
Pokemon, Advanced Battle
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm undefeatable

From the stars and the ancient past
They'll come to play, but they'll never last

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm unbeatable
Pokemon, Advanced Battle
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm undefeatable

Oh, oh, oh
Advanced Battle
I'm unbeatable
Pokemon

The whole stadium seemed to burst into either cheer or dismay when Angelina entered the arena. She scanned the crowds for her friends and found their usual section; Dani, Seamus, Jeremy, Amber, and Christina waved to her.... even Marcus and April were with them! She waved them all, and she noticed the absence of the man that usually sat in front of them, but she didn't care since he wasn't important.

"Welcome to the final Hoenn League battle of Hoenn's current Champion Wallace and challenger Angelina Murakami from Pallet Town! Each challenger will be allowed to use four Pokemon with no time limit! Whoever is the victor of this match will be the new Hoenn League Champion. Let the battle begin!"

On the other side of the battlefield stood Wallace, smiling gently and ceasing his applauding. "Miss Angelina, congratulations on your victory over Hoenn's Elite Four. This won't be an easy victory as I stand before you as your final oponent."

"Well I didn't come this far to lose!" Angelina declared with a grin. "I'm planning to walk away as champion!"

"Let's see what fate has to decide," Wallace grabbed a Pokeball off his belt and tossed it into a pool of water on the field. "You're up, Whiscash!"

A blue and orange catfish-like pokemon with whiskers emerged onto the field, wading in the water. "Whis-cash!"

"Let's go, Forest!" Angelina said, tossing out a Pokeball that revealed her Ivysaur.

"Saur, Ivysaur!" the plant Pokemon growled.

"Whiscash, begin with Mud Shot!" Wallace ordered.

Whiscash shot a stream of mud from his mouth.

"Cut it down with Razor Leaf!" Angelina ordered.

"Saur," Forest said before firing off razor sharp leaves at the Mud Shot.

The leaves cut up most of the mud, but some of it made contact with Forest. Unfortunately, it was now in his eyes and now he couldn't see. He turned around wildly.

"Oh no, Ivysaur's blind!" Dani said.

"Use Water Gun while it's disoriented!" Wallace said.

Whiscash shot the stream of water at Forest. Forest couldn't see the attack coming at him.

"Forest, do an about face. Let the Water Gun wash the mud out of your eyes," Angelina instructed.

Forest turned around. The Water Gun came straight at the Ivysaur's face. The force of the Water Gun knocked him into the water. He surfaced and got back onto the platform. He turned towards Angelina, showing her that the mud had been washed out.

"All right! Ivysaur can see again!" Christina cheered.

"That was a great observation on Angel's part," Jeremy said, relieved.

"Belly Flop to create a wave!" Wallace commanded.

"Use Vine Whip to jump over it!" Angelina countered.

Forest used his vines as a springboard to catapult over the oncoming wave. Then he landed back onto the field.

"Finish with Solarbeam!" Angelina ordered, her Pokemon started collecting solar energy in the flower on his back, making it glow a hot white.

"Quick Whiscash, use Hydro Pump before it completely charges up!" Wallace said.

Whiscash opened its mouth and unleashed a massive surge of water. Forest used his Vine Whip to jump over the attack. He came down, ready to launch the Solarbeam.

"Fire away, Forest!" Angelina said.

"Ivy-SAAAAAAURRRRRRRRR!" Forest fired off the white-hot beam and engulfing Whiscash as it fell back into the water with a gigantic splash and slowly surfaced unconscious.

"Whiscash is unable to battle. Ivysaur is the winner!" the referee called out.

"Whiscash return!" Wallace said, recalling his Pokemon back to its Pokeball. "I must say, Angelina, you're very intelligent to have your Ivysaur face a Water Gun head-on and then use Vine Whip to jump over the Hydro Pump. You're a pretty good trainer," he added.

"Thank you, Wallace," Angelina said.

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"Do you suppose she'll win?" Christina asked.

"There's no way to tell," Seamus said simply, eyes glued to the match.

"She's already got one knocked out out of four. I have faith in her," Jeremy said with a simple grin.

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Wallace pulled out another Pokeball and tossed it out, "My next Pokemon shall be.... Tentacruel! Go!" the white light revealed a seven-foot tall jelly-fish Pokemon with a sharp beak. It was released onto the ground instead of in the water, lifting itself on its tentactles, using them like legs.

"Okay Forest, return!" Angelina called back her Ivysaur, then switched Pokeballs. "Let's go, Munchy!" she brought out her enormously plump and shiny Snorlax.

"Tentacruel, begin with a Toxic attack!" Tentacruel thrust its body forward while opening its beak, spraying out a purple glob of poison at Crawdaunt.

"Munchy, block it with Protect!" Snorlax quickly raised its arm defensively, forming a blue barrier around itself. The poisonous substance splattered onto the barrier and then dropped onto the ground. "Okay, Mega Punch!"

Snorlax obediently ran forward, its right fist covered in energy.

"Tentacruel, use Barrier!"

Tentacruel's body was immediately surrounded by a thick, glowing shield. Snorlax slammed its fist into the shield but it had no effect. Tentacruel lowered the shield, grabbed Snorlax's arms with its tentacles and threw it to the ground. Snorlax broke free and rolled to the side just as a stream of Acid shot from Tentacruel's mouth. Some of it got on Snorlax, burning its skin, Snorlax grumbled angrily as it got up.

"Now use Hyper Beam!"

Snorlax nodded and turned to face Tentacruel, preparing to fire its most powerful attack at only a few feet away.

"Tentacruel, weaken the attack with Barrier!"

Tentacruel quickly formed a blue barrier around its body in an effort to block the attack, just barely getting it up before Snorlax fired off its Hyper Beam. Tentacruel was swept up by the beam, but held firm to its position by latching its tentacles to the ground. Courtesy of the barrier, Tentacruel was able to get back up again after enduring the attack. It was a bit shaky on its tentacles from the punishment it had endured, however.

"Tentacruel, attack with Sludge Bomb while Snorlax is resting."

Tentacruel opened its mouth and raised its head back while building up the poison inside its body. Tentacruel then lurched forward and spat out a ball of sludge. The sludge hit Snorlax head on while it was resting to regain energy from using Hyper Beam, then exploded and splattered all over its body. The sludge burned Crawdaunt briefly before falling to the ground.

"Munchy, you got to try to get up!" Angelina pleaded.

Snorlax stood up a bit shakily, assumed a battle stance and prepared to continue the fight.

Angelina smiled, "Okay Munchy, use Harden!" she commanded as Snorlax in turn began to glow and its skin became as tough as steel.

Tentacruel fired another Toxic but was deflected once more by Snorlax's Protect.

"Good job Munchy, now lets shake things up, Earthquake!"

Snorlax leaped in the air and slammed its feet into the ground. A wave of seismic energy was sent straight at Tentacruel, ripping apart the ground in front of it. Tentacruel struggled to maintain its footing as the ground shook and fell apart beneath its tentacles.

Before Wallace could react, Angelina had already commanded another attack. "Finish it, Body Slam!"

Snorlax leaped even higher this time, slamming its heavy body into Tentacruel. After a moment Snorlax got up, a happy smile of triumph on his face and stood over the now crushed Tentacruel, its "ruby of the sea" cracked in several places.

"Tentacruel is unable to battle," called the referee. "Snorlax is the winner!"

"Thanks, Munchy!" Angelina waved to the Pokemon, whom turned and gave a thumbs up.

"Well played...." Wallace commented, recalling his Tentacruel and took out another pokeball to release his next pokemon.

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"She's doing extremely well," Marcus commented.

"You should've been here yesterday when she sent out Chocolate on a Flygon!" Christina giggled.

"She didn't have a clue it was a ground type," Amber added. "Even Drew couldn't believe it and he's got one!"

Seamus, who's eyes were glued to the battle, gasped. "Oh no!" he yelled. The rest of the group turned to the match.

"It's Gyrados!" Dani squeaked. "And it's super strong, too! Trust me, I know since I had to battle it."

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"Munchy, one more attack! Hyper Beam!"

"Gyarados, counter with Hyper Beam!"

Snorlax and Gyarados both opened their mouths, each pokemon bringing their respective methods of attack to bear. They both fired out a blast of energy at each other, their attacks coliding half-way. Snorlax's more powerful Hyper Beam easily pushed back against Gyarados', but not without some of the energy being expended as it blasted through.

Snorlax's weakened Hyper Beam eventually blasted Gyarados in the face, sending it stumbling backwards and collapsing into the pool. Snorlax collapsed soon after as the poison from Tentacruel finally brought it down. Gyarados slowly rose back up from the pool, but Snorlax was down for the count.

"Forest, you can take this one! Go!" Angelina released her Ivysaur from its pokeball, sending it out near Gyarados to take advantage of it. Gyarados still had to rest from using Hyper Beam. "Use your Razor Leaf!"

Forest shot dozens of spinning razor edged leaves. Gyarados growled as most of the attack bounced off its stronger then steel scales, a few leaves managing to nick it.

"Solar Beam!" Angelina yelled.

Energy from the sun began to be drawn into the flower on Ivysaur's back, the center of it glowing brighter and brighter as more energy built up.

"Gyarados, end this with Hyper Beam now!" Wallace ordered.

An orb of pulsing energy appeared in Gyarados mouth, doubling then tripling in size.

"Avoid it with your Vine Whip!" Angelina called.

Forest nodded. While still charging Solar Beam it brought out four vines, two on each side of its body, and sunk them into the ground much like it would do to divert energy from an electric attack harmlessly into the earth. Then just as Gyarados fired the powerful beam, Forest rose up on the strong vines, using them like stilts and then while balancing briefly on its right sides vines, brought the left side ones off the ground, completely avoiding the attack.

Wallace and Gyarados stood in shock as Forest landed, the Solar Beam fully charged.

"Ivy-SAAAAAAAURRRRR!" Forest yelled as the beam rocketed from his back. Gyarados roared in pain and anger as the attack struck, its scales proving no defense against the intense beam of solar energy and fell unconscious to the ground and Wallace recalling the Pokemon.

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"Lina beat another pokemon! She's going to win now!" Christina cheered happily.

"Although she's caught up in terms of pokemon, even a water attack will likely finish her Ivysaur at this point." Jeremy corrected Angela. "That will leave her with only two pokemon against one. For her sake, I hope she hangs on with her only grass type."

"She's been winning with her Ivysaur already though, you saying it wouldn't work now?" Dani asked curiously.

"Angelina probably had a feeling that her grass type wouldn't hold up because Wallace was using his pokemon that were best capable of dealing with them." Jeremy replied knowingly. "The final pokemon he's been holding back, is better for dealing with electric pokemon. I have a feeling Angel's last pokemon is an electric type, but I hope it isn't. Otherwise this battle may be over now...."

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"It has come to this then," Wallace took a pokeball from his belt and held it up for everyone to see. "My final Pokemon against your remaining two Pokemon. As my old teacher once taught me, one should save the greatest performance for last!" Wallace pressed the button on the pokeball, opening it and releasing a red pulse towards the pool. The pulse took the form of a beautiful, serpentine water pokemon.

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"Woah, now that's a Milotic!" Seamus gasped as everyone stared at the Pokemon. "And if I'm not mistaking, Juan used a Milotic last and was also Wallace's trainer!"

"But if my deduction is correct, maybe Ivysaur can win it all for Angelina yet with its Solar Beam attack." Jeremy thought to himself. Christina kept quiet this time, not sure how the battle would go after Jeremy's previous comments.

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"No way.... a Milotic!" Angelina gasped, realizing just who Wallace's teacher was. "Juan trains water pokemon, and he also used a Milotic last. Juan must have been Wallace's trainer!"

"Milotic, we shall play it safe to start! Remove Ivysaur's advantage with Rain Dance!"

"Forest, use Solar Beam again before the weather changes!" Ivysaur quickly absorbed sunlight as Wallace's Milotic danced around in the water, managing to gather enough sunlight to attack just before dark clouds covered over the sun. Ivysaur fired another beam of white light, striking Milotic hard and knocking it back into the ground. Milotic took the attack much better than Whiscash did, however, and immediately got back up and was ready for more.

"I know its not as weak to grass attacks as Whiscash was...." Angelina thought to herself, staring at Milotic in shock. "But it should have left more of a mark than that! Milotics really are durable pokemon thats for sure...."

"Now, Milotic, finish this with Twister!" Milotic began concentrating, and soon after a swirling vortex rose up around Ivysaur and concealed it from view. Inside the vortex, the energy of the twister ripped at Ivysaur. Ivysaur was quickly knocked out, and the Twister lifted as Ivysaur fell to the ground unconcious. Angelina was hardly surprised that the attack knocked Ivysuar out and recalled her pokemon.

"Alright then, lets see what else this Milotic can do...." Angelina quickly took out an Ultra Ball from her belt and held it up to release her pokemon. "Draco, let's go!" the orange dragon-like pokemon Dragonite emerged from the Ultra Ball, materializing on the battlefield before Angelina and a good distance from Milotic.

"Draco, use Dragon Claw and give it everything you've got!" Dragonite flapped its wings and took off flying towards Milotic. Milotic made a vain attempt to escape, but it was moving far too slowly due to paralysis. Dragonite reached out with its claws as it flew over Milotic and raked across the top of its head. Milotic dropped down slightly and winced as Draco's claws struck it.

"Milotic, bring Dragonite down with Ice Beam!" Milotic looked up at the retreating Salamence and fired out a blue beam. The beam quickly struck Dragonite from behind and formed a thin coat of ice on the back of Dragonite's body. Draco cried out in pain and was sent crashing into the ground, shattering the ice on impact. For a moment, it looked like Dragonite was out cold already, but it slowly began to rise back onto its feet. It still had a bit of fight left in it.

"Now, finish this with another Ice Beam!"

"Draco, use Protect then fly up!"

Dragonite quickly formed a barrier around itself, blocking another Ice Beam attack from Milotic. Ice formed on the barrier, but fell to the ground and shattered when Dragonite dismissed it to fly straight up into the air. It was slow to take off, though, as it was still recovering from the previous Ice Beam.

"Milotic, using Twister should end this now!" Milotic focused and, through a draconic power, formed a violet twister around Dragonite. The twister pulled Draco out of the sky and sent it crashing to the ground, this time knocking it out for good. Angelina hesitated for a moment out of shock before recalling her Dragonite.

"It knows Ice Beam.... the only pokemon I have left is.... Chocolate...." Angelina felt her confidence starting to drain away. One wrong move and her Pikachu would be taken out by an Ice Beam from Milotic, and she didn't have any pokemon left to fight Wallace's pokemon. "But.... we're each down to our final pokemon, and the battle isn't over till one of them falls! There's no way I'm giving up that easily!" she shakes her head, gritting her teeth in determination and takes a rhine-stoned pokeball from her belt. She held up the device and pressed the button to release her final pokemon. "Chocolate, I choose you!" The pokeball opened up and released the electric mouse pokemon Pikachu onto the battlefield.

"You had an electric pokemon in reserve," Wallace said to Angelina with a slight smile. "Interesting, but I will do my best to put up a strong offensive against your Pikachu!"

"Well I don't plan to hold back either! Chocolate and I are going to hit you with everything we've got!" Angelina called back while her Pikachu nodded her head in agreement.

"Very well, dear Angelina. Let the battle commance!" With a wide gesture of his arm, Wallace prepared to make the first move. "Milotic, begin with Toxic!" Milotic reared her head back, then lunged forward to spit out a purple blob of poison at Chocolate.

"Chocolate, quick! Dodge it with a Quick Attack!" In a flash of movement, Chocolate bolted off to the side and easily evaded Milotic's Toxic attack.

"Ok, this is his last pokemon. I don't want to take any unecessary risks, having come this far." Angelina thought, carefully planning out her first attack against Milotic. "Chocolate, paralyze Milotic with Thunder Wave!" the Pikachu charged up electricity in her body then fired it a static pulse at Milotic. The static electricity went through Milotic's body without causing any harm to it, but the attack instantly inflicted it with paralysis.

"Now follow it up with Thunderbolt!" Chocolate quickly gathered electricity in her body again, then fired off a powerful bolt of lightning at Milotic.

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"This is it," Amber yelled excitedly.

"Shh!" demanded everyone else, who all were intently watching the battle.

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"Gyrados is unable to battle! Ivysaur is the winner!" called through the intercom over the cheering of Angelina's friends.

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Angelina and her friends couldn't see the smirk on Wallace's face as Chocolate attacked. He had been waiting for this.

"Milotic, bounce it back with Mirror Coat!" A reflective barrier formed around Milotic's body just before Pikachu's attack struck it. The lightning bolt wasn't hindered at all by this, passing through and striking Milotic. Milotic cried out in a melodic tone as the electricity coursed through its body.

Angelina gasped, suddenly realizing what was about to happen next. "There's nothing I can do…" she thought as she watched hopelessly, "…Chocolate can't escape…could this be…. no….I can't give up! Not now!"

"Chocolate," Angelina was about to call out, but then she saw it was too late as Milotic was still under attack when a blast of lightning shot back at Chocolate. The lightning bolt was far stronger than Chocolate's own attack and struck it with twice the power it had against Milotic. Chocolate cried in agony then collapsed on her side; the powered up bolt was more than Chocolate could take. This caused Angelina to run from her trainer box and to run after her fallen Pokemon.

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"Pikachu is unable to battle! Milotic is the winner! Victory goes to Hoenn's current Elite Champion Wallace!" called through the intercom.

"Oh no! Angelina lost!" Christina cried furiously, everyone else shared epressions of upset and sorrow for their friend.

Dani stood up with tears streaming down her face. "I c-can't believe it.... after all she's done to get this far...." she said, hugging her crying Pichu.

"I know..." Seamus agreed sadly.

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Angelina had fallen to her knees, taking her injured electric Pokemon into her arms. "Chocolate, baby, are you…okay?"

"Piii…" Chocolate mustered weakly, then closed her eyes from exhaustion.

"Oh Chocolate," Angelina said, cradling her Pokemon closer as tears sprung into her eyes. "I… I lost, but how was Milotic able to shrug off Chocolate's Thunderbolt?"

"Angelina?" came Wallace's voice as he walked towards her after recalling his Milotic. "Its too bad you tried to use Thunder Wave first...." he told her as if he knew what she was thinking. "If you didn't, your Pikachu would have at least scored a decent hit."

"So.... because I used Thunder Wave first, it was able to shrug off Chocolate's Thunderbolt?" Angelina thought this over for a moment. "Milotic must have a special ability that raises its defenses when its paralyzed then.... but I guess this loss is okay," a smile then forms on her face, "and I know I'm not perfect all the time."

"My dear, will you be alright?" Wallace asked.

"I'm... fine, yes," Angelina smiled, standing up as she wiped away a tear that began to fall down her face. "Actually, I'm glad because I know my Pokemon battled their hardest and they helped me to win the victories I won today and throughout the others. I'm very proud of them all…" she then took Chocolate's Pokeball and held it to her Pokemon, "…Chocolate, thank you so much for the battle. Return!" a stream of red light shot out from the Pokeball and formed around the electric mouse, zapping it back into the Pokeball in a form of red light.

Angelina then looked over at Wallace, "This battle proves I still have a lot more training to do to get stronger and become a good Pokemon trainer. So thank you."

"You're quite welcome, Angelina." Wallace said, smiling. "I have never battled a trainer such as yourself with grace, power, trust, and love for them and their Pokemon. Even thought you lost today…you will always and forever be a champion in my eyes…" he took her hand into his and pressed a small kiss onto her hand in the manner of a proper gentleman.

"Oh Wallace," Angelina blushed at the comment. "I really don't-"

"Angelina!" somebody yelled behind the girl. She looked back to find Dani, Seamus, Jeremy, Amber, Christina, Marcus, and April. Dani looked she had been crying.

"You'll be okay," Jeremy whispered, embracing his best friend after she finally joins the group. "Your Pokemon battled to their very best, and that's all that really matters."

"I know, and I'm glad to have all of you here with me," Angelina said softly.

"What're we going to do now?" Christina asked.

"The Evergrande Conference, of course," Angelina replied. "Its coming up in a couple weeks and I need to start training again!"

'Sounds good enough for me,' Seamus chuckled to himself, happy to have the old Angelina back to normal after she was defeated by Hoenn's Elite Champion. He walked out of the stadium with the others and back to the cabin for a good nights' sleep. Angelina treats her battles through Hoenn's Elite Four as another page of memories in her life, and with determination, she can now concentrate on her future battles in the Evergrande Conference.

§To Be Continued§

So now Angelina is the new Champion of Hoenn and her friends and sister witnessed the victory. YAY! I'm happy and I can't wait to start on the other chapters! More is to come my dear reviewers! Thank you, and I shall return!