Chapter 12:

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It was obvious Paul wanted to win this gym battle. He was always training making his team stronger even though they were strong enough. Dawn was always there cheering him on getting ready to help if he took his training to seriously. "Electabuzz, use Brick break on that tree." Fist glowing, Electabuzz was quick. It ran up to the tree and snapped it in two like a twig. "Ok now aim for that rock and use Thunder." A wicked thunderbolt appeared hitting the rock head on. "Now Thunderpunch on the same rock." The Pokemon's fist let out sparks before travelling at a tremendous speed smashing the rock so nothing was left.

A lone clapping was heard behind them Dawn turned her head noticing the grinning trainer behind her. "Gary? What are you doing here?" Dawn ran up to him excitedly the trainers Umbreon was standing ready to obey its trainer. "Well I heard Team Galactic was in the area so I decided to check if everything was ok up here." Dawn stepped back "Team Galactic?" Her voice was almost a whisper as she remembered her dream the night before. What if anything happened to Paul while Team Galactic was here? "Hey." Paul's voice snapped her out of her dream. "Oh Paul, sorry this is Gary Oak, you know Professor Oak? Well Gary's his grandson." Gary glanced at Paul before shrugging him off the glare on Paul's face never changed. "Yeah so, why is he here?" Dawn rolled her eyes before turning back at Gary. "Don't mind him, he's a bit touchy." Gary looked around the area. "So where's Ash and Brock?" Dawn shrugged. "I left them both to travel with Paul; Ash's next gym battle is up here so he'll be here soon." Gary looked to Paul "You must be really special since Dawn has started travelling with you." Gary gave a smirk noticing he was getting on Paul's nerves. "Yeah, so?" Paul looked to Dawn who smiled back at him. "Well I think you shouldn't be such a jerk to her." Umbreon looked at the Electabuzz then to its trainer. "Well I notice I got her before you did." Paul tried to keep his calm not wanting Gary to take advantage over him. "Yeah, well Dawn must have been stuck with you or else she would have picked me." Dawn glared at him "Gary stop it." Paul snapped "Well let's see how tough you are with a battle." Paul was really pissed of now. "Huh you're on." Gary folded his arms. Dawn didn't care she knew Paul would let out his rage with fighting. "Ok I'll be ref but you boys better play nice." She ran off to the middle of the field the two trainers took their positions. "This should be fun, Umbreon let's show them what we can do." Umbreon jumped out in front of it's trainer. "Fine I'll use Electabuzz." Paul was going for a bigger Pokѐmon knowing it would give him an advantage. Dawn smiled she was prepared for a tough match between them of course she would be rooting for Paul but she would be ok if Gary won as well. "Let the battle between Gary and Paul this will be a one on one battle with no substitutes." Dawn smiled at the both of them and indicated for them to start.

"Ok let's go Electabuzz use Thunderpunch." The fist of the electric Pokѐmon started to glow before sparks surrounded it. "Umbreon use double team." Gary acted quickly so did Umbreon quickly splitting into multiple copies of itself making Electabuzz stop with confusion. "Hit them all." Paul clenched his fist he knew Gary was good he had heard about him in the Kanto region. "Now Umbreon use Shadow Ball" Gary was confident he would win Paul was to angry to realise that he would lose. The Shadow Ball plunged into the rival Pokѐmon knocking it over. "Get up Electabuzz." Paul glared at Gary who had not broken a sweat. "Ok Umbreon now use Quick Attack." Umbreon started gaining speed showing how quick it was. "Electabuzz use Protect." A light blue shield appeared in front of Electabuzz Umbreon was thrown back as soon as they collided but Electabuzz showed no signs of damage. "Paul managed a grin he was getting into the swing of things now." Gary smirked watching as his Umbreon got up with ease. "You're good Paul I never thought you would be this good. Umbreon use Hidden Power" Gary was felling slightly less confident now what if the stuff he heard was true he may even beat him. Not wanting to look worried he kept the grin plastered on his face. "Electabuzz use thunder aim directly for Umbreon." Paul stayed calm he would definitely not win if he was as hot headed as he had been. Charging up power Electabuzz unleashed a magnificent Thunderbolt which collided with Umbreons' Hidden Power causing a huge explosion* knocking both Pokѐmon back. Dawn was amazed by the strength shown by both trainers and their Pokѐmon she could not predict the end of this match whoever would win she was unsure. "Ok Umbreon let's finish off this battle with Quick Attack." Gary was getting quite annoyed now he thought he could beat Paul easily. "Ok Electabuzz counter it with Thunderpunch." Paul smirked he could tell Gary was worried he was getting slower at calling out moves like he was losing control. Again both Pokѐmon collided with each other causing a huge explosion** knocking them back again. The strain could be seen on both sides having trouble to keep themselves up due to the amount of damage they had taken. Both of the Pokѐmon knew that they wouldn't last long but none of them were prepared to give up. "Umbreon Quick Attack." Gary could see his Pokѐmon was getting weaker by each attack maybe he would lose the thought made him smirk he would never lose. "Electabuzz use Thunderpunch again." Umbreon was too quick hitting Electabuzz in the back but managing to overcome the pain Electabuzz got Umbreon by turning around quickly. Both Pokѐmon couldn't last any longer and the match became a tie. "Both Umbreon and Electabuzz are unable to battle we have a tie." Dawn was shocked by the outcome she though that at least one of them would win. A smile dominated Gary's face, Paul on the other hand was not happy. "You did great Umbreon." He picked up the Pokѐmon before looking to Paul "You're a good trainer Paul I hope we can battle again sometime." He turned to head off Dawn ran up to Paul before turning to Gary. "You were great Gary." Paul just gave a nod the red beam came out his Pokѐball as Electabuzz disappeared and with that Gary was gone.

My Note: Done again ^^ Don't worry the battle with Candice is next. You know all the annoying run on episodes that have nothing to do with the plot but we have to watch them. This is something like that. As I said if you want me to update quicker feel free to PM me or something like that.

*Overdramatic super special awesome explosion that could only happen in Pokѐmon

** Same as above but even bigger