Yama: I dont really have anything to say.. for once... I dont own pokemon...
Dawn was scaning the croud for her brown haired friend.
"I dont see hims Zoe!" Dawn complained.
"Mabey thats because hes behind you" A fimiliar voice retorted with a laugh.
"Oh!" Dawn gasped "Kenny!" She squeeled, captureing the 17 year old boy in a hug.
"I missed you too DeeDee but we have to get down to buisness" Kenny concluded.
"Okay" Dawn sighed releasing the man. "So who is it, we have to go find her!"
Zoey gasped, looking into Kenny's eyes "hes alredy here Dawn."
"He?" Dawn questioned "Its a guy?"
"Yes, it is. You also know him Dawn." Kenny explained.
"Ill give you a few hints, Dawn. He was born in Velistone, he is one of the most thick headed people ever born?"
"hmm..." Dawn thought for a minute, then sudenly it all conects. "PAUL?"
"Ding ding ding, we have a winner!" Kenny laughed.
"Woah... I guess I get it..." Dawn sighed. "Does he know?"
"No" Zoey says simply.
"How?" Dawn shreeks. "How could you not notice a glowing stone fallowing you around, and your eyes fucking glowing!" The bluenet howled, causeing people to stare at the embaresd blunett.
"He has a blocking tattoo, someone didnt want him to be a part of it." Kenny answered.
"So how to we get it off?" Dawn asked.
"like normal tattos, you burn it off" Zoey said.
"Or..." Dawn says, looking for any other option than that painful one.
"Thats the only way Dawn, I know you hate people going through pain but, it has to be done." Zoey sooths, trying to calm her friend.
"I know... Lets go find him" Dawn concludes.
When the duo located the purple haired man, Dawn sighed, feeling the dread of the forecomeing pain she is requiered to cause. Zoey looked at her, a questioning look across her face.
"You okay?" The red head asked, conserned.
"Fine!" Dawn chirped, working hard to make it true. Dawn looked uo and saw Paul retreating out into the yard of the contest hall.
"Lets go, Dawn" Kenny sugests. Dawn nodds, and begins to casualy stroll in the direction Paul sauntered off in. When the group located Paul, he was gazeing out over the horizon. Being placed convienently on a lake, the contest hall had a amazing few.
"Hey Paul!" The bluenett called happily.
"What do you want troublesome?" He asked, irritably.
"We erhm..." Dawn trailed off, feeling akward.
"We need to talk to you, it is of the upmost importance." Zoey explains, in buisness mode.
"Well, get on with it" Paul comanded.
Kenny steped up. "Have you herd of the Keppers of the Gems, or more commonly kown as a Keeper of the Lake?" Kenny asked, knowing the answer.
"Of course I have, Im from Shinnoh" Paul scoffed. "what does this have to do with me? Or Troublesome and the red head for that matter?"
Gaining her confidence back Dawn spoke up, "Woah Paul, I thought you were smarter than that!" She exclaimed.
"What in the name of hell is that suposed to mean?" He asked, iritated.
"Okay, There are three keppers, correct?" Paul nodded "one from SnowPoint" Dawn nodded to Zoey "TwinLeaf" she guestured to herself "And from Veilstone, Ill give you one guess" When Paul said notheing she sighed. "two plus two eguals?" It all clicked for the plum head.
"Me?" Paul's voice is confused or appauled, Dawn couldnt tell.
"Yes" Kenny said, confidently.
"You have a tatto correct?" Zoey checks.
"Erhm yes.. not that that is any of your buisness." He lookes as though he feel uncomfotable.
"Well, Paul, Dawn needs to take that off of you." Kenny demands.
"Like hell she does!" The larger man roars.
"Paul" Dawn said, speeking timidly "I-i know this is scary, but you have to understand, its important." Dawn tryed to reason.
"Prove it" Paul demanded.
"What?" Zoey asked, confused.
"Prove that your one of the Keepers" His smirk was defiant, he didnt belive Dawn would or could.
Dawn glanced to zoey, who after closing her eyes to ponder the posible outcomes, aperintly they were all fine, because she nodded.
Dawn steped back, lifts her hands, and begins to concentrate. She breaths in and out, feeling the energy flowing through her, feeling the pressure in her veins her body, her bones. Being carefull to control what kind of energy she created, Dawn let out the breath of air she was holding, as she did so, a large yellow ball of mist apeared in between her hands. she begain to go through the regular set of motions she knew like the back of her hands. Being that the mist was yellow, Zoey saw that Dawn was well in control of her emotions. Yellow ment calm. The yellow ball was growing and Dawn began to move quicker, until she stoped and wached the ball with concentration. As Dawn wached, her hair begain to rise around her, floating until she to began to rise, Seeing Paul's shocked expression, Zoey put a hand an Dawn sholder, signaling her to stop.
"So, belive me now?" The blunett asked, smileing, to Paul, who nodded.
"I can do that?" Paul asked, amazed.
"Not exactly, well, techanly we dont know what you can do, not until we get rid of that damned tatto" Zoey explains.
"What does my tatto have to do with anything?" Paul asked, anoyed, like ushaul.
"Its a blocking tattoo. Its keeping your erhm... For lack of a better word, Powers, inactive." Kenny explains.
"so if that thing comes off, I can.. what? Besides the whole freak of nature thing, what else is there?" Paul asked.
"erhm... we dont know... Yet!" Kenny added as a after thought "We cant contact the trio of the lake without you and your stone, so..." Kenny trailed off.
"So you need me?" Paul asked, smirk in place. Dawn's heart skiped a beat, Dawn convinced herself it was simply just nerves.
"Yes Paul, we need you. Now, be the big tough boy you are so Dawn can burn your tattoo off" Zoey said pointing to the bluenett.
"Her? Why does she have to do it? Paul asked, appauled. To be honest, he was afraid that Dawn would burn him, after all, she had proven her clumbsyness many times before.
"Shes the only one who can," Kenny explains "Dawn is the stongest, best at concentrateing, and baisicly has the most active power"
Dawn just looked down when Paul's shocked expression moved to her. When Paul realized he was stareing he quickly looked back to the red head. "how do we do this?"
"Dawn will create a orb and use it to.. remove the tattoo." Kenny explained, makeing sure not to say anything about burning. Paul turned to the bluenett and nodded.
"please point out where your tattoo is" Dawn respectfully asked. Paul nodded again, then began removeing his shirt. Dawn gasped, Paul turned to the shocked bluenett and raised a eyebrow, Dawn swiftly looked away with a blush obvious on her face. When Paul removed his shirt, Dawn gazed at the beautiful sight in front of her. Paul was standing looking at her, but Dawn was ignoreing his expression, focusing on his finely sculpted chest. She admiered the curves of the planes of his broad chest, when she realized she was stareing, she quickly looked up to meet Paul's glare.
"Just do it alreddy" Paul growled out, turing around to reviel a deep purple tatto of a upside down cross. Dawn lifted her hands again, moving them slowly, but building up momentum. When she stoped them, the ball of mist was more of a pink lomonade color, Zoey smirked, Dawn was flustered. Over Paul.
"Brace youself, this is gunna hurt" Dawn warned the plum head, who nodded. Dawn moved her hands containing the orb cloer to the man's back, eventualy touching him with it. Paul winced at the pain, Dawn tryed to sooth him but he shot her a glare.
When the tatto was completly gone, Dawn quickly pulled her hands apart, rendering the mist unuseable. Paul turned around, streched his back and looked to Dawn. "Is it off?" His gruff voice shocked Dawn slightly.
"Y-Yes" Dawn stuttered "try raiseing your hands!" Dawn exclaimed, remembering when Zoey had explained her powers to her. Dawn had been flustered, shocked and disbeliveing. Dawn had tryed to fight it, but when Zoey unrepresed Dawn's memory of saveing the legendary pokemon, Dawn couldnt argue.
Paul looked at Dawn, sceptical. She smiled, reasureingly. He sighed, and raised his hands in a manner much like Dawn, but when nothing happened, he looked to Dawn who shrugged. He clenched his hands, and glared at the blunett, but when she tryed to appologize, she wouldnt move. Dawn began to panick. She tryed to call out but couldnt.
"I dont know what to try now" Zoey sighed "My ability is more telapathic, I assumed you would be more like Dawn" She turned top the frozen blunett. "Dawn? Are you alright?"
"Dawn!" Kenny yelled frightened. He turned to Paul and growled "What did you do to her?"
"I dont know" Paul snarles back, looking to Dawn "can you hear me?" His voice was rough but the way he looked at Dawn, made it seem as though he ment for it to be soft. Paul observed as Dawn's eyes darted back and forth. "she can hear" Paul stated. Paul looked down at his hands, and sighed reclenching them.
"Oh gosh!" Dawn exclmaimed, snaping out of the frozen state. "What was that?" She asked, looking around at her companions.
"I think I... froze you..." Paul sighes, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"We can help you get it under control" Dawn consoled, looking at Paul "you should have seen me when I was trying to learn, Oh gosh!" Dawn laughed. The next few hours was spent telling storys of Zoey's and Dawn's learning peroid.
"Dawn?" A voice called, to wich the bluenett turned around. It turned out to be Ash. "you made it into the final battle round tomarrow!" Te raven hiared boy exclaimed happily.
"Thats great!" Dawn chirped.
"yes, Dawn, It is but may I ask, Why are you with Paul?" Brock asked.
"We met up with Kenny, and ran into Paul" Zoey explains. This explanation seemed to keep the breeder at bay.
"uhm Paul, we can continue this conversation tomarrow, Goodnight!" dawn said, as she gathered her things to return to the room they would be staying in.
Paul wached as Dawn's figure diapeared, soon fallowed bye Ash, and Brock. Paul sighed, remembering how afriad he was when he thought he had hurt Dawn. He then looks up to see Kenny smirking.
"What?" The plum head asked, blushing.
Yama: Paul blushes? hmmm who wudda thought?