They had arrived!
Dawn finally had the Sinnoh League building in sight. Buildings actually.
"Why are there so many buildings?" Dawn asked, so excited she was literally bouncing when she stood still.
"There all battle areas, think about it, they start off with a minimum of three hundred trainers, so it takes more than one field." Lucas said with his hat on his head covering his face.
But Dawn was too excited to care about that though.
"Daaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn!" a voice said faintly but gradually got louder.
Dawn quickly stepped out of the way and a orange and white streak blew past them before stopping and turning around.
"Hey Barry." Dawn said simply.
"Well Dawn like usual you were too slow." Barry said with a disappointed shake of his head.
"Right, did you actually battle Volkner or just grab a free badge?" Dawn asked with her hands on her hips.
"I just grabbed the badge. Why go the slow road when I can go the quick road." Barry said.
"Hey you guys!" a new voice said.
Running towards Dawn, Lucas and Barry was Riley.
"Riley!" Dawn said happily and hugged the other girl.
"Hey Dawn, sorry I couldn't talk to you more on the ship, but I had some massive training to do."
"Its ok, have you met Barry? He's a bit of a bone head but he's my best friend." Dawn said.
"Nice to meet you." he said before he looked at Dawn and said "bone head?" making Dawn and Riley giggle.
"Nice to meet you too." Riley said.
"Well howdee doo my dear." a western voice said.
Turning the four saw Lane walking toward them.
"Hello Lane." Lucas said, snaking an arm around Dawn's waist, almost protectively.
This didn't escape Lane's notice and he laughed and said "look partner I'm not a man to chase after a girl who's been taken." he stuck his hand out.
"Its ok." Lucas said shaking Lane's hand.
"Well, now that all that's out of the way, hello pretty lady, names Lane." he said as he turned his eyes on Riley.
"No." Riley said instantly before she looked at Dawn and said"talk later?"
"Sure." Dawn replied and Riley walked away.
"Well excuse me too but I'm not one to give up easily. Hope we battle again gorgeous." he ran after Riley and said "hey beautiful wait up!"
Dawn looked at Lucas and said "see? He's just a flirt, but he's also respectful."
"Yeah, I just don't like anyone calling my girl beautiful, you know except me." he said with a grin.
Dawn blushed at that, not him being so protective but because he called her "my girl."
"So, Dawn I'm guessing you've gotten stronger since Canalave city right?" he asked.
"Yeah. Want a small one on one battle?" Dawn asked.
"Sure, but no Darkrai." Barry said.
"Don't worry, I don't even have him with me. But you mind if I quickly switch out a pokemon first?" Dawn asked.
"Fine but hurry." Barry said impatiently.
Dawn quickly went to the nearby pokemon centre and sent Magmortor to Professor Rowan and brought someone else.
"Alright I'm back." Dawn said.
Dawn and Barry took there place and Barry sent out his pokemon first "Absol let's go!"
"Whoa! An Absol!" Lucas said.
"Its beautiful." Dawn said looking at the white coat.
"Absol." Absol said in thanks.
"Well, let's see how you do." Dawn quietly said "now Sudowoodo let's do this." she said a loud.
"Sudowoodo!" it said saluting before doing its little dance left and right.
"Wow? A Sudowoodo? Nice but let's see that grass type deal with my mighty Absol." Barry said.
Dawn was about to call an attack before she hesitated.
"Something wrong?" Barry asked.
"No. Just one moment." Dawn said before she pulled out her pokedex.
"This Sudowoodo is a male and knows the following moves.
Hammer arm.
Mimic.
Stone edge.
Wood hammer.
Double edge.
Brick Break.
"Whoa." Dawn said.
"You ready?" Barry said tapping his foot.
"Yep. Alright Sudowoodo, use brick break!" Dawn said.
"Dodge and use flamethrower!" Barry said.
Absol quickly jumped away before Sudowoodo was even half way toward it and then quickly fired a jet of flames at Sudowoodo.
The flames coated Sudowoodo but Barry was surprised when Sudowoodo didn't even react, or cry in pain.
"What the?" Barry said.
"Mimic!" Dawn said.
Sudowoodo then opened its mouth and launched a jet of flames at Absol.
"Quick double team!" Barry said.
Absol quickly made several copies of itself. The flames hit one of the Absol clones.
"Now shadow claw!" Barry said.
The real Absol quickly sprinted forward before jumping. Its front right paw became a claw full of shadows and slashed Sudowoodo sending him to the ground.
"Come on Sudowoodo. You can do it!" Dawn said.
Sudowoodo jumped back up and said "Woodo!"
"Yeah alright stone edge!" Dawn said.
Chunks of the ground surrounded Sudowoodo then with one gesture the stones flew at Absol.
"Dodge." Barry said.
In an amazing style of grace Absol dodged and swerved out of the way of all the stones.
"What?" Dawn said in shock.
"Sudo?" Sudowoodo said in with equal shock.
"Oh yeah! That's right! Now ice beam!" Barry said.
"Oh no quick make a shield with stone edge." Dawn said.
"Woodo?" Sudowoodo said in confusion.
Absol however fired a bright blue ice beam at Sudowoodo who cried in pain.
"Hammer arm!" Dawn said.
Sudowoodo shook off the ice attack and ran forward with his three green orbs glowing white and slammed into Absol.
"Oh man! Absol stand strong." Barry said.
Absol got to its feet and winced in pain, but otherwise looked fine.
"Alright! Now ice beam again." Barry said.
"Dodge!" Dawn said.
Sudowoodo ran out of the way, but Dawn noticed that he was slower.
"Now double edge!" Dawn said.
Sudowoodo ran towards Absol and shoulder checked the snow white pokemon.
"Well at least Sudowoodo gets some recoil damage." Barry said happily.
Sudowoodo however looked fine.
Lucas started to laugh at that. Then said "Sudowoodo's ability must be rock head. It prevents recoil damage."
"Wow. Handy ability." Dawn said.
By now there was now a sizable crowd surrounding the two.
"Now Absol ice beam!" Barry said.
"Double edge!" Dawn said.
Absol fired the ice beam right as Sudowoodo started his attack.
Sudowoodo however kept running towards Absol, despite the super effective attack.
"Do it!" Dawn said.
Sudowood slammed into Absol knocking the dark type down.
"Oh yeah!" Dawn said.
"Sudo!" Sudowoodo said happily before falling to the ground.
"Oh no!" Dawn said as she ran towards her newest pokemon.
"Lucas? Some help please?" Dawn said.
Lucas walked over and calmly pulled out a full restore calmly started to spray it on Sudowoodo's wounds.
"Barry your Absol need any help?" Lucas asked without taking his eyes off Sudowoodo.
"If you wouldn't mind." Barry said.
"Go help Absol, I've seen you help my pokemon enough to know what to do." Dawn said.
Lucas nodded and walked over to Absol.
"Well I thought I recognized you miss." a voice said.
Turning Dawn saw that old man from the boat, Sylar. He was walking towards her with a fancy cane.
"Hello Sylar." Dawn said as she returned to spraying Sudowood, who had recovered conciseness.
"Well, a Sudowoodo, haven't seen one of them since I was trekking through Jhoto. A tricky pokemon. Look like a grass type then overcome any fire or fly types." Sylar said.
"Yep. This guy nearly managed to take out my Magmortor. And he's one of my strongest pokemon." Dawn said.
Dawn finished applying the full restore and Sylar held his hand out for her to take.
"Thank you." she said.
"Wow Dawn, looks like we've both gotten stronger." Barry said.
"Yep, last time we battled you got destroyed." Dawn teased.
"Hey." Barry said making Dawn giggle.
"If I may, young ones, you'd better get registered for the League. Registration closes in a couple hours." Sylar said.
"A couple hours!" Dawn and Barry shouted.
Barry quickly returned his Absol and started to run towards the main office.
"Lucas let's go!" Dawn said.
"Lucas?" Sylar said as he walked towards her boyfriend and got a good look at him "well, we'll well." Sylar said before he started chuckling.
"Dawn you go on ahead." Lucas said.
"You sure?" she asked.
"Yeah yeah. Go ahead, I'll meet you in a minuet." Lucas said.
"Ok." Dawn then ran after Barry.
Once she got there she went up to the desk and said "I'm not to late am I?" she asked.
"Just in time dear." the woman said.
"Great! So what do I need to do?" Dawn asked.
"I'll just need to verify that you have received eight badges, so can I see them?" the woman asked.
Dawn handed her badge case to the woman.
"Hmm, excellent. And here you are. You are now registered for the Sinnoh League."
"Thank you." Dawn bowed respectfully.
Dawn left and ran right into someone.
"So all registered?"
Dawn looked as realized that she just ran into Lucas.
"Yep. All good." Dawn said.
"Good, and I managed to get us some rooms." Lucas said.
Dawn wrapped her arms around him.
They walked to the hotel and went to her room.
It was huge! Easily three times as big as the one back on the boat.
It had two levels with a giant TV that was bigger than Lucas, there was a huge bed that could fit Torterra's entire body, and an outdoor jacuzzi.
"This! Lucas?! This?!" Dawn said in shock.
"Lucky for you I'm your boyfriend." Lucas said.
"How can you afford this?" she asked.
"I've got my ways." he said.
"Lucas." Dawn whined cutely.
A/N well its been a long journey but we're finally at the Sinnoh League. First battle may start next chapter, depending on what I feel like.
Now I will warn you. After the first battle I will be accepting no more O.C for the League.
However I would like you guys to keep submitting O.C's. Maybe I'll use them later in another story.
And finally I would still like an answer for my previous question.
If Anakin Solo had survived the Yuuzhan Vong War. How different would the Swarm War and Second Galactic Civil War have been.
Now until we meet again.
Jaffa3 out.
