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Just wanna say I don't own Pokémon or any of the characters.

CHAPTER TWO

"Electabuzz, use thunder shock, on Weavile!" Paul yelled at his battling Pokémon. Electabuzz shot out a large bolt of lightning at Weavile. Weavile dodged skilfully, but not skilfully enough for Paul. "Useless" he spat disdainfully "I could do better in my sleep."

"Then why don't you? Give your Pokémon a show and teach them a lesson all in one go" Dawn joked from the side-lines, clearly enjoying herself, legs crossed, with her Piplup nestling comfortably in her lap.

Paul clenched his fist. He had stopped to fit in some training, but Troublesome girl had insisted on watching. That, he could live with, if only she didn't keep on giving her opinion on everything he did.

"Look" she got up, and walked over to him, Piplup following after "maybe I'm going out on a limb here but… I once battled against a gym-leader and…"

"I don't need your help" he snapped. She held up her hands up "Calm down, calm down" she smiled "But I was just trying to say that once I used some contest moves in a battle and that threw off my opponent. I don't think that you will use this technique… but may I try with your Pokémon… just to show you what I mean?"

He was about to refuse when she suddenly added "I promise to stop talking afterwards" the offer was tempting, tempting enough to accept. After listening to two hours of her comments, he'd be an idiot to say no. "Fine" Paul nodded "let's see you do better, but not a word after"

She nodded happily and ran to the waiting Pokémon. "OK Electabuzz… I want you to use thunder bolt right in the air above Weavile, but don't hit him, understand?"

Electabuzz looked unsure and glanced at Paul, but he just nodded and so Electabuzz obeyed Dawns command and fired above Weavile.

The lightning shot up and exploded in a blinding firework, Weavile flinched as he tried to look up to see where to jump to avoid the attack. Suddenly lightning came raining down like falling stars; Weavile didn't know where to run.

"Pathetic" Paul murmured at his Weavile. Weavile looked down shamefully "Don't listen to him" Dawn called. Both Paul and Weavile looked at her. The wind caught on her hair and blew it to the side; the sun was glinting on her face as she flushed with excitement. "Keep calm and you think, use ice-beam in the most effective way" she smiled "I've seen you battle, I know you can do it"

Weavile stared at her shocked; this was the first time it had ever gotten encouragement. Paul would usually just call him useless and give him a new attack to try.

Paul meanwhile had noticed something else when he saw Dawn. She was happy, ridiculously happy. And he envied her. Whenever he battled with his Pokémon, he never felt…felt like it was enough. No matter how perfect his attacks were, no matter how many times he won he never felt satisfied. And that feeling he hated the most, if he was the best, why couldn't he be happy about it. But Dawn was happy, her face flushed with happiness as she worked with Pokémon that weren't even hers.

Weavile used ice beam to create huge wall to block the lightning. Electabuzz move forward to attack again but dawn shook her head and instead signalled for Piplup to jump in.

"Use whirlpool!" she called out and Piplup obeyed with a powerful swirl of water which bashed through the ice. Weavile jumped out of the way instantly.

Weavile countered with another ice-beam that grazed Piplup's wing. Dawn stayed calm "Weavile try to battle against Piplup and also try to make your movements as beautiful as possible" she called.

Weavile nodded and braced himself for the next attack. Paul stared at Weavile in awe, this was the first time he had seen Weavile so…determined.

Weavile used shadow claw repeatedly while jumping off trees to make it seem as if it were coming from every direction, the sight was beautiful and Piplup was trapped.

The shadow claws hit hard and Piplup was thrown back. Weavile huffed in triumph, suddenly what started out as just training, turned into a full-out battle.

Paul watched in fascination as they battled, Dawn's hair blew in the breeze as she moved with her Pokémon; her smile was wide as her midnight blue eyes sparkled in the sunlight. Paul for some reason felt himself smiling softly to himself 'she looks kinda…cute when she's battling' he shook his head wildly 'what's wrong with me?' he thought 'must be the sun, there's no way I could've thought for even a second that Troublesome was cute'

Dawn suddenly turned to him and his face immediately coloured red, he turned away before she could see.

She shrugged and turned back to the battling Pokémon "Piplup use bubble beam" she cried Piplup leaped into the sky and spun around as the bubbles spun around with him, they hit Weavile randomly in a very pretty way.

Weavile wasn't doing very good, when it attacked, its attacks were gorgeous, but he didn't know what to do with them, or when to use them.

Suddenly Paul stepped in and yelled "Use ice-beam and shadow claw!" Weavile obeyed instantly and the shadow claw froze in ice and hurled itself right into Piplup, knocking him out.

"Match over" Paul murmured to himself. And to Weavile he murmured "You did well on your own."

He looked up at Dawn who was cradling Piplup and smiling widely "You should congratulate your Pokémon more, it makes them happy and your bond with them will grow stronger."

Paul looked down; Weavile was looking up at him with adoration and happiness shining clearly through his eyes.

Paul shook his head "I don't need my Pokémon to like me, I just need them to be strong" he said.

Dawn bent down to pat Weavile's head; her elbow accidentally grazed Paul's jacket and he jumped back.

"But those attacks were absolutely beautiful; Weavile is so good with contest moves. Like what it did with those shadow claws…I was speechless" she babbled.

She looked so invigorated as she talked about her Pokémon, It was something he wasn't used to. But there was still one thing that he was confused about. "Why did you tell Weavile to think for himself?"

She stood and said smiling "I wanted to see what Weavile could do. I've noticed…" she caressed the back of her Piplup fondly "That Pokémon can come up with the most amazing things if you give them the trust to do it."

Paul's heart sped up again as he looked into her eyes, he had never noticed it before, but her eyes had a small ring of turquoise around the iris, like the ocean. The only way to see it was top look directly into her eyes, but until now…

Quickly he turned away from her and broke the connection that he still denied was there and called back his Weavile and his Electabuzz. "Come on" he murmured "We need to get moving."

DONE!

As you all probable noticed most of the story has so far been in Paul's third person, but there may be some of dawns P.O.V next chapter

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