Aright guys, today is the last chapter. Now I've been doing some major grinding since last chapter, I think I'm ready. Thanks for all the readers out there who decided to take their time and read my story. I would go on, but I think you guys want to see me conquer the elite 4, so without further ado, I give you "The Pokemon League"

Disclaimer, I do not own pokemon.

Morning had finally come, my pokemon were fully rested, and now is the time to take on the pokemon league. Unfortunately, the moment we step out of the room, we run into multiple reporters, camera man, newspaper writers, and they all notice us. Turns out someone has been videotaping me and my adventures since me and my mom moved here. I then remember May and Birch laughing about something before I left the lab, so I have a feeling they had something to do with this. I try to refuse, but they wouldn't have that, they take me and my team to a press conference, where me and each of my pokemon get our own set, mike, and name tag. But just then, I thought off something that might get me out of this.

"Hold on, you want to do a review, but how can you if no one will be able to understand my pokemon?" I was about to get up, but they stop me, saying that I will have to translate for them. Great, should've figure that reporters will do anything to get the scoop. Might as well get this over with.

One reporter is the first one to ask the question, "What is your favorite music genre?"

I decide to go down my team, Skipper being the first, "Being French, I am gifted with the ear for music, especially when it's symphony. So I like classic symphony."

Lavender was next, "I do not have a favorite, and I never really ever consider the thought."

Dash suddenly stands on the table with his arms in the air, sticking his tongue out, "Heavy Metal!" The screaming wasn't necessary.

Alistar answers next. "I usually don't have a favorite, but I tend to listen to classic rock a lot."

C-Run is thinking for awhile, until, "I always find the Mario bros theme song very nice." Each of us has a confusing look on their face as we look at C-Run. "It's an Italian thing."

Finally it was Raphael's turn, "Being a pokemon of music, I like all genres, from smooth jazz, all the way to hard rock. But my favorites are songs by Bob Marley."

Well that was one question down, who knows how many more to go. "We notice that you have encountered many different trainers, all who helped you with some of the struggles you had to deal with, what is your opinion."

Skipper, being himself, answers first. "I personally think we would've been better off without them, I am more than enough help for the team. But there have been some trainers that have been very helpful, plus, it was a great challenge racing against that Cinder girl and her vaporeon."

Lavender is up next, "It is very good to have many comrades, whoever they may be, but I find the trainer Chris interesting. He and her monferno were very helpful, though she can still work on her Russian a bit."

C-Run decides to go next, "That Dakota character was…interesting to say the least. I will admit, I was not expecting to see my sister again, it was great and I thank you for the reunion."

Dash was the one to go next, "Personally, I think they were more impressed with me than I was with them, but there are some who even surpass me, like that Jesse guy and his lucario, Aura sure knows how to fight."

Raphael was eager to go next, "I enjoyed meeting all the new trainer, with each new trainer, a new rhythm was adding to our music."

Alistar was the last one to go this time, "I personally liked it when Ketsu traveled with us through Victory road, he kept things interesting." Just then C-Run leans by Alistar and starts whispering.

"You sure it didn't have to do with his typlosion, Lily?"

Again I notice Alistar go a darker shade of red, "N-no, nothing like that!"

I decide to save the charizard by giving my own opinion, "Honestly I wasn't expecting to meet all these great trainers, they were all a great help, and made things crazier."

A different reporter gets up, "Alright, this is for Alistar only. How do you feel about Lily?"

He goes into a darker red, "Um well I…." He then takes a deep breath, "I find her very beautiful, smart, kind, strong, and caring. The moment I laid my eyes on her, I felt my heart stop for an entire second. And I knew, then and there, that I was in love!" I was not expecting that! I also notice Dash giving C-Run some money, guess they made a little bet.

Another reporter gets up, "This one is for Raphael. Do you have any connections to the ninja turtles, considering you are both green and reptiles."

"I am sorry but I have never heard of them, nor do I have any connections with them." He then winks at the camera, I don't know why, but I think he knows a thing or two about these turtles. Anyways, the next reporter stands up with a question.

"This is another question for Alistar. Turns out you have become popular, someone has even written a story about you."

"Really?!"

"Yes." The reporter gives Al a laptop with the story already loaded, he was reading through it fast, but only got to chapter 5 when he decides to stop.

"Wow, I never knew someone had written a story about me."

"Now here's the question. What did you think in "Calm before the Storm" when the weavile told you about your scar?"

He was about to answer, but I decide to stop him, "Sorry, but I don't think the story is done yet, if you want to find out, you are going to have to wait until whoever wrote the story is able to continue writing it. Next question!"

The reporter was slightly disappointed, but then has another question to ask. "There have been reports that you guys have had multiple encounters with a certain electric pokemon. What is your opinion on Raikou?"

At the mere mention of that name, we are all furious, and at the same time we all shout, "WE HATE THAT JERK!"

Some of the reporters were knock to the floor at the combination of our shouting. But then another reporter gets up and asks the next question. "What does C-Run think off pickled flavored Italian ice?" She shrugs, indicating she never tried it before, so they give her one and the moment she licks it, her face goes in a shade of green and she runs into the bathroom, and when she comes back she answers.

"I don't like it very much."

"Okay then, next question. Skipper, why do you think Americans are stupid morons?"

Just then Skipper pulls down a chart, "It is proven that more than 70 percent of Americans are stupid. And if that doesn't answer your question, then that must make you an American."

"Skipper, you need to tone down on the French insults a bit."

"TM, me stopping is like asking Raphael to stop playing music, or C-Run to quit making ice cream, or Alistar to remember who he is."

Al raises up a claw, "Actually I wouldn't mind that-" Skipper interrupts him by continuing.

"We are who we are, so everyone has to deal with it."

The reporter draws our attention back, "Okay then, TM, any reason why the birds you encounter seem to only be British or Italian?"

"Don't know why, but I did encounter a fearow once and he was American."

The reporter had one last question, "Okay, this is for only the pokemon. How did you exactly meet TM and what are your opinions of him?

Skipper is the first one to go first, "I was just patrolling in Rustboro cave, when I notice that this trainer was about to foolishly attack an aqua grunt. I decided to go and help him myself. And what I think of him is that he seems have random luck. One moment we are close to death, the next we make it out alive. I can never tell what will happen when I am with him. But I can always count on him to have my back. Don't be expecting me to say that again."

C-Run was next, "I notice that there were trespassers in my territory. It didn't help that it was a trainer, at first I was going to freeze them all, but then I had the pleasure of meeting KingC. Soon I learn how caring TM really is, I was mad at first when he let KingC go, but he was doing what KingC wanted. And that's what I like about him."

Raphael was next to go, "I was just playing some music, wandering if there were other rhythms out there in the world. That's when I notice TM come by, instead of battling me right there, he asked if I would like to come with him and travel Hoenne, and that's how we meet. I like it where he wants to make sure if the pokemon he encounters want to join him, instead of forcing them to join."

Alistar turn is up, "I don't remember how we meet exactly, just like how I don't know how I got this scar, but TM did everything he could to help me remember, and even though I still haven't retrieved my memory, it feels me with joy knowing that TM had tried his best."

Lavender wants to go next, "I remember that I was drowning at the time, I thought I was done for, but then he comes along and saves me. If it wasn't for him, I would be at the bottom of the sea. Plus I wouldn't have met Skipper and have become a mother. So I am grateful for what TM has done since that day."

Dash is finally up, "When I first saw this guy, I thought he was just another rookie trainer. But when he stopped my fast attacks, he tries to capture me. No way was I having that, but the guy was very persistent, eventually he ends up using duck tape. At first I didn't like him, but after seeing how all the other pokemon acted around him, I decide to give him a chance. Glad I did, or else I probably would be in that forest, still harassing other trainers as an elekid."

The reporter sits down as another gets up. "This is for Raphael, have you ever met Bob Marley?"

"No, but I wish I can. I was fortunate at the time to listen to him play his songs when he was traveling."

"Interesting, now C-Run, would you have like to start a family with KingC?"

She goes into a deep shade of red, "I would…enjoy having starting a family with him, but since KingC has his duties, it may be hard. But you never know."

"Thank you, now this one is for Dash. What would you do if I were to mention Locsite or Nelipot?" The moment he said those two names, Dash rushes forward and grabs the guy by the chest.

"You just did!" Seconds go by, until he starts laughing. He puts the guy down and gets back to his seat. "Saying the name does bring up painful memories, but I prefer to remember the times that I did spent with them then the time that they had died."

"Okay, I think that's enough questions, me and my team would now like to challenge the pokemon league." Before any of the reporters could stop us, C-Run makes an ice barricade, allowing us to leave and preventing the reporters from following us. "That was just time consuming! But now it's time." After showing two bodyguards my eight badges they let me through the gates, and enter the first room. Nothing really special about it, except for the guy waiting for me. I notice this guy had a red Mohawk, was wearing a red buttoned long sleeve shirt, with a black vest and carpenter pants.

"Welcome to the pokemon league, I am Sidney of the elite four. I can tell the moment you walked in, you are going to give me one heck of a battle. I am going to enjoy this very much. Let's begin!"

He starts things off by sending out Mightyena. I counter with Lavender, I figure her tough defense and offense will be perfect for this match. Lavender starts by rushing forward with a focus punch, the mightyena tried to stop her by lowering her vision with sand attack, but the nidoqueen already has the mightyena in her sight. She delivers the mighty blow to the gut, the pokemon didn't stand a chance. So far we are doing well, but who knows what this guy will do next. He sends out this brown and white pokemon, a shiftry, to the battle field. He rushes forward to attack Lavender, but then from her mouth she sends out a fiery fire attack, fire blast, at the pokemon. The force of the attack sends Shiftry crashing to the wall. Sidney sends out a big lobster like pokemon with a star on its forehead, Crawduant, onto the field. It starts doing this weird dance, I believe it was called sword dance, and that's when Lavender took her chance. She rushes forward with a glowing fist and knocks the pokemon out with a focus punch to the face. We are doing great so far, and just then he sends out a cactus like pokemon to the stage. Lavender rushes with another focus punch attack, but just before she could land the attack, the cacturn uses cotton spore to slow her down, but it wasn't enough to stop Lavender from finishing him off. One more pokemon to go, and Lavender still has full health. Sidney sends out his final and most powerful pokemon to the field, with its fur and black claws, I know that this absol was going to be difficult. Lavender prepares for the upcoming attack, but the absol starts doing sword dance, and seeing as how this is her chance, she charges up an especially powerful focus punch. By the time the absol was done, Lavender was already in front of the pokemon, and delivers an uppercut to its jaw, sending the absol through the roof. Sidney just stares, open mouthed.

"That was amazing! It's been a while since I had this much fun. Since you beat me, you are free to move ahead, but I must warn you, the other elite four are much stronger than me. Now if you can excuse me, I need to wait for a flying absol to come down."

"Good luck with that." The doors behind Sidney open and we start making are way through, but just before entering the next room, I turn just in time to see the absol land right on top of Sidney. I was going to check if he was okay, but then he sticks out an arm with his thumb up. "Great job Lavender, that focus punch really did came in handy."

"Just think of what would've happen if they actually attack instead of doing weird dances, then they might have actually stood a chance."

"Well that was just the first elite four, now it's time for the second battle." We enter the next room and I see that it was much darker than the last room. On the other side, I see a girl wearing hawaiian clothes.

"So I see you were able to beat Sidney, not bad. I am Phoebe, and I have trained my entire life on Mt. Pyre!"

"So then why the outfit?"

"I like the way it looks. Now prepare yourself!" She sends out this big mummified pokemon, dusclops, I didn't want to use Lavender, but she was the only one who knows a ghost type move. She starts things off by launching shadow ball at the pokemon, luckily it was a critical hit. Phoebe then sends out another ghost pokemon, except this one has a zipper for a mouth. Lavender lashes out again with shadow ball and the banett doesn't stand a chance. Okay, Lavender was starting to show signs of exhaustion, but I believe she can continue the fight. The next pokemon to come out is another dusclops. Just like last time, Lavender shoots a shadow ball at the ghost pokemon, but dusclops doesn't even flinch, this isn't good. The ghost pokemon uses earthquake, with does some damage to Lavender, but she is able to continue on. She sends another shadow ball at the pokemon, and this time it actually shows signs of pain, but it wasn't done. It sends out another earthquake that sends Lavender crashing into the wall. She shakily gets up, she was clearly damaged, tired, and could barely stand up. I was about to switch her when she starts charging up the shadow ball, bigger than usual, until it's almost half her size. Once it was done, she hurls the huge attack at the ghost pokemon, this time defeating dusclops, but she couldn't continue now, it was time to send in Skipper. As he enters the field, Phoebe sends out another banette. Skipper, being faster out of the two, starts things off by causing an earthquake, the attack did a lot of damage, but the banett didn't give up, in fact, it was starting to have a grudge against Skipper. The ghost pokemon should've attack instead of holding a grudge, for Skipper finishes banette of with surf. Phoebe sends out her last pokemon, Sableye, the pokemon with no weakness. It makes the first move by using double team, soon there were multiple sableyes everywhere, and there was no way to find the real one. Until Skipper came up with a plan, he combines surf and earthquake to make one giant tidal wave that attacks all the sableye, leaving only the original to take the full on force of the combined attacks. It was knocked out instantly.

"Wow, that was intense, guess I lost. I can tell there is a unique bond between you and your pokemon." Yeah, it's called having a crazy professor for a neighbor. "Go on, there is no need for you to stay here, go to the next room to fight the next elite four."

As we are entering the next room, I congratulate Lavender and Skipper. "Good job guys, and nice combination back there. Lavender, I think you are done for now, I don't want you to risk your life, you just heal up okay." She nods as I return her to her pokeball, knowing that she didn't have enough strength to even walk. When we enter the next room I notice the temperature dropping, the room is icy blue, and waiting for me is a woman in a dress.

"Welcome, my name is Glacia, few have made it past the first two, but when they face me, I only see weak trainers. What about you? Are you one of the weak, or will you surpass me?"

She sends out a seal type pokemon, sealeo, and I counter with Raphael. I know the move was risky, but I know Raphael can take her on. He makes the first move by delivering a flurry of razor leafs, it's a good thing that he got a critical hit with them, the sealeo was knocked out from the attack. She returns it and sends out another sealeo, Raphael repeats the same attack and soon the pokemon is KO. She returns it and sends out another seal pokemon, except this one is a Walrien, so far I think she only has repeating pokemon. Seeing that we are doing well so far, Raphael decides to stay. Walrien attacks first with ice beam, and does a huge damage to Raphael, but he was still in the fight. Before walrien could attack again, Raphael starts to use razor leaf, but instead of shooting multiple leafs at the seal pokemon, he shoots a single leaf that goes so fast that walrien didn't even have time to defend himself. The walrien just collapse as the single leaf makes contact with the body. I was shock to see Raphael pull a move like that, but apparently he must not be use to the move, for he was showing signs of exhaustions. I return him as Glacia sends out two glalies at the same time, I decide that it was time for Al to heat things up. He takes to the field and his body starts to glow red. The glalies saw what was happening and were about to attack Al before he could unless overheat, but they were too slow. By the time Al was done, the two ice pokemon were only a few feet away, and with that he unleashes the attack, burning the two ice types away.

"…Amazing, you and your pokemon are truly strong, and I can still feel the heat wave from that last attack." The door behind her open, and I was about to go but she stops me, "I must warn you, so few have made it to the final elite four, and almost all of them have failed. He is the strongest out of the elite four, so be ready." With that I enter the next room, I see the room was a dark red, filled with many spikes, the leader of the elite four was wearing a captions jacket, along with the hat.

"I must congratulate you, few have even seen this room, let alone face me in battle. I am the leader of the elite four, Drake the dragon master! You have overcome the first three, but this is where your skills are truly put to the test!"

It's a good thing he told me he was a dragon master, or else I would've never thought of using C-Run against him. He sends out shelgon, a gray dragon with a huge shell, C-Run instantly freezes the pokemon. He decides to counter with Flygon, but the moment he releases it, C-Run freezes the pokemon. He was getting mad, so he sends out Altaira to the field, and C-Run freezes the dragon bird, and when he sends out Kingdra, she also freezes the water dragon.

Drake was mad but also impressed, "Amazing, you should consider yourself lucky, only a few have ever seen my final pokemon!" He sends out a huge dragon type pokemon, salemance, to the field.

"Okay C-Run, ready to take this guy to the ice age?" She nods, and starts to prepare the blizzard attack, but just then, the dragon pokemon rushes forward and crushes C-Run with rock slide before she could attack.

"C-RUN!" Me and my team rush to her, moving the rocks out of the way, eventually we find her body, it didn't look good. "C-Run, hold on, everything is going to be okay!" But when I look at her eyes, I knew what she was thinking.

"Arrivederci TM." With that, I see the life leave her eyes, and I close them.

C-Run, met at route 116, level 6 – 51.

"Dash…you know what to do." Dash walks slowly to the battlefield and prepares to take on the hulking dragon pokemon, rage was in his eyes, and he wasn't afraid to hold back. He launches a powerful thunderbolt attack at the dragon, but it doesn't seem to do a lot of damage to the salamance. The dragon lashes out with dragon claw, almost finishing Dash right then and there, but the mere thought of C-Run dead was able to fuel his anger. He takes a deep breath, and summoning all the energy her could, he attacks with the most powerful thunderbolt I have ever seen, the salamance stood no chance against the electric attack this time. It falls to the ground and Drake returns his final pokemon. I am still holding C-Run's head, unmoving. Drake comes and puts a hand on my shoulder.

"I am sorry for what happen to your pokemon."

"…Tell me, you said you are a dragon master, right?" He nods. "What do you know about the dragon pokemon Rayquaza?"

"…He is a very powerful pokemon, he alone is able to stop groudon and Kyrogre."

"Then is it true that he has other…powers."

"I know what you are asking for, yes he does have the power to bring back the ones you lost, but I don't recommend it. Many have searched for him because of this power, only a few have ever found him, and only one has survived the encounter. I was like you, when my first pokemon died, I search everywhere for Rayquaza, hoping that he could bring back what I had lost, but he is unwilling to help, I barely made it out there with my life. After training for years, I decided to find Rayquaza again, only to find out that the sky pillar has vanished. It is a futile attempt, you will end up getting yourself killed."

"I don't care." I start to make my way to the exit and quit the pokemon league, but Drake then stops me.

"…You are going to go no matter what I say. So instead I will help you."

"I don't need your help."

"Yes you do, the sky pillar has vanished once again, but I know where the tower is. If you can defeat the champion, then it will prove to me that you can are ready to face Rayquaza." Seeing as I have no other choice, I agree with Drake. He takes me to the hallway, and starts leading me to the final room. "This is where we part, if you defeat the champion, meet me in one week, train and prepare. I will be waiting at the entrance. I wish you luck TM."

I enter the room and it turns out that the room is actually a stadium, all around there is an audience. In one particular section, I see all the pokemon I have met so far, including all the trainers I have met, from Dakota and his pokemon, all the way to Ketsu and his pokemon. My attention was drawn back to the man waiting on the other side for me, and it was none other than Wallace.

"Welcome TM. That incident in Sootopolis City…that was superb work, putting an end to the crises. You have gone far, overcame many obstacles with your pokemon, you are almost there. Now is the time for the final showdown. Show me what you are made of!"

He starts things out by sending a huge whale like pokemon to the field, Raphael decides that he will challenge this pokemon. Using the same technique as before, he uses razor leaf to shoot a single powerful leaf at the giant pokemon. That one leaf was able to go through Wailord all the way, making the pokemon faint. Wallace returns the whale pokemon and sends out tentacruel, and I decide to counter with Dash. He prepares to launch a thunderbolt attack, but before he could, tentacruel uses toxic and poisons Dash badly, but it doesn't stop him from finishing his attack. Tentacruel was instantly knocked out the moment it was hit with thunderbolt. I return Dash because he was poison, and send out Lavender. Good thing too, for Wallace had just sent out a gyrados. Being faster out of the two, Lavender electrocutes gyrados with thunder, making it faint in one move. Wallace sends out whiscash and I counter with Raphael once again. He makes easy work as he easily defeats the ground and water type with razor leaf. With that, Wallace sends out his last and most powerful pokemon, Milotic, all my pokemon were exhausted from battling his other pokemon, except for Skipper. He goes to the battle field, and the two water type pokemon prepare for battle. Skipper starts things off by using earthquake, shaking the entire stadium and doing moderate damage to milotic. She counters by using toxic to poison Skipper, then quickly uses surf. The attack, along with Skipper being poisoned sends Skipper crashing into the walls, and falling on the floor. I was afraid the same thing had just happened, but then his body starts to glow in a blue aura. He gets, up breathing hard, but still determined to win.

"You call that an attack? Let me show you a real attack!" He starts charging up his next and final attack. Milotic, seeing what Skipper was planning, unleashes another surf attack. I watch as the tidal wave comes closer and closer to Skipper, who is still charging his attack. When the wave was only a few feet away, Skipper summons a bigger wave, one that overpowers milotic's surf and starts making its way to Milotic. The tsunami was coming fast, Wallace can only stare as the attack overwhelms his water pokemon. And with that, Wallace, the champion of Hoenne, was defeated.

"Kudos to you TM, you have finally won, you are truly a noble pokemon trainer."

Just then, May walks up to us. "TM! I want to battle you before you fight the champion." But then she starts looking around, and realization comes to her eyes. "Wait, Tm, did you already won?!" And just like May, professor Birch himself comes.

"See, I told you May that he would beat the champion before you could reach him. I believe I just this bet. TM, congratulations, not only did you beat the champion, but you helped me earn loads of cash. Think of all the experiments I can do now. The other professors will be happy to hear this. Oh yeah, let's see how you did on your pokedex." He grabs it without my consent and sees that I had only encountered 179 pokemon, and caught 12. "Honestly I think you could've done better. Besides that, there is just one thing left to do. Wallace if you may?" He nods and starts leading me to one final room, but before entering, he turns to see that may was trying to sneak into the room with us.

"May, only champions can enter."

"No fair!" She was going to argue more, but then Professor Birch stops her.

"It's okay, let's just go." With that he leads her out of the building as I enter the room. On the walls I see pictures of trainers along with their pokemon, I'm guessing these are past champions. Wallace leads me to a machine at the end of the room.

"This room is where all former champions have come to record their time here. And now, it's your turn."

I put all the pokeballs into the machine, and watch as me and my team are recorded into the hall of fame.

Skipper, male swampert, mild, level 58, surf, earthquake, protect, brick break, French.

Lavender, female nidoqueen, relaxed, level 57, thunder, fire blast, shadow ball, focus punch, Russian.

Dash, male electabuzz, hardy, level 57, thunderbolt, thunder punch, strength, psychic, American.

Alistar, male charizard, jolly, level 56, aerial ace, dragon claw, flamethrower, overheat, American.

Raphael, male venusaur, relaxed, level 56, sleep powder, leech seed, razor leaf, sludge bomb, Jamaican.

C-Run, female articuno, mild, level 51, fly, ice beam, blizzard, façade, Italian.

I'm going to stop there guys. The battle was intense, it was difficult, but in the end I won, but at a price. Now I will do one last chapter, I will face Rayquaza himself. Feel free to review. And don't worry, I am going to work hard to finish the last chapter. See ya next time.