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The next chapter which I forgot what it is for the time being


If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ~Herman Hesse


Paul was waiting for Dawn at the contest entrance, it was quite crowded so he was well hidden watching the group of friends he thought on how he was going to do this, confront them? Yeah he could use the trainer against her maybe that would help, she would probably show her true feelings towards him soon if he just twisted one tiny part he just needed to find the switch and her trainer friend seemed perfect for a tester. He made sure he was behind them keeping an eye on them all.


"So Dawn who are you gonna use for the contests?" Dawn looked at Ash and smiled.

"Well I will be using Piplup for the Appeal round we've been practising a lot, right Piplup?" The penguin pokemon put its arms to its sides and nodded.

"Pip-lup." Dawn gave a giggle.

"And I will be using Ambipom for the battle round." Ash smirked

"That sounds great, I'm sure you'll win." Brock gave a sigh

"I wouldn't be so sure, there are a lot of other good co-ordinators here that might be able to beat you Dawn." Dawn gave her friend a grin.

"We'll just need to do more training." Brock smiled that was just like Dawn always wanting first place.

"Hey look there's Paul." Dawn pointed out to her friends all of them noticing that Paul was at the entrance hall, he looked like he was waiting on someone. Ash glared.

"What's he doing here? I never knew he liked contests." Paul looked over to them with his usual cold glare and started walking over to them. Brock watched him curiously. Why was he coming over here?

"Heard you were competing in a contest." He was looking at Dawn who nodded.

"So what's it to do with you?" Ash defending Dawn challenging Paul.

"Well I was asking her not you, so but out of it." He kept calm watching as Ash got angry with him every word he said.

"Well why would she want to tell you? You haven't done anything nice to he recently." Ash was getting worked up over the situation. Dawn glared at him looking back to Paul.

"Yeah I am competing, why do you ask?" Paul gave a shrug ignoring Ash now.

"I was just wondering, thought I might decide to watch since I have a bit of free time on my hands." He leaned against a tree crossing his arms in front of his chest. Brock who had kept quiet all this time was still quite curious about why Paul was so interested in watching Dawn at the contest.

"I did not know you liked contests." Paul gave him a glance before giving another shrug.

"Never been to one before, might as well see what the fuss is about." Ash glared.

"I don't see why you should bother it might cut in with some precious training time." Paul gave him a cold stare.

"I don't recall asking you anything, what was your name again? It doesn't matter, what I do is my business not you're business." This really ticked Ash off Pikachu glared at Paul

"Pika-Pikachu." Ash nodded turning to his partner.

"Me and Pikachu want a battle right now Paul, right here." Finally, Paul was worried Ash might not ask.

"Why bother battling you we both know I'd win." Now to see how things would go as planned it was going to get tricky not knowing how Dawn would react but he would try his best to make sure she rooted for him. Dawn gave Ash a glare.

"What do you think you're doing Paul was just asking me a question and you have to start a fight." Yes it was working, she was not liking Ash at the moment more points for him.

"What? So you're defending him now. He insulted me!" Ash turned to Dawn clearly not getting how things had unfolded.

"Well you asked for it. Paul was not wanting to come up here for a fight, you just happen to take everything he says the wrong way." Excellent things were turning out much better than he had planned. Ash turned his glare back to Paul who had kept his straight face.

"Paul I would be happy for you to come to my contest, could I talk to you for a second, in private?" Paul nodded Ash's face reddened with jealousy what had he done to make her like him? Dawn walked over to a place where Ash and Brock could not hear them.

"Why did you ask to come to my contest?" Paul knew this was coming he had been expecting it.

"I wanted to see how you did, I've never been to a contest before, it might be, interesting." Dawn smiled giving him a wave.

"Ok just wondering see you there." She walked back to her friends giving Ash another glare. Brock gave a smile he was starting to see why Paul had walked over to Dawn, this would be good.


Paul smirked, he didn't get in a battle with Ash but he knew Dawn would pick his side now and stay in a mood with Ash for a while maybe he would confront them after the contest and really annoy Ash that would work if he had him alone. Giving a smirk he walked away a plan hatching in his mind.


Well I thought it was good for being brain dead for a while. If any of you have any ideas for later on in the story feel free to mail me about it I would love some extra ideas. I'm wanting to put quotes in each chapter now, they help to give me ideas, more confrontation between Paul and Ash in the next chapter who will Dawn choose? Her friend or the cold-hearted Paul. I love reviews please feel free to add more if you have already.