Pokemon The Novel: Next Generation

Chapter 7: Tournament Finals

With the month ending with just a week left for the tournament, the finalists in the semi-finals are doing their best to reach the finals. Still, only two can go through, and there are six left, with the finalists being Ash, Jaden, Brock and Paul, who managed to reach the semi-finals and the last of the traitors to make it while the others were knocked out of the tournament. For the first semi-finals, it's Jaden against Paul, whom they don't show any respect to each other as Paul wants to end Ash's career and still wants him to give up on his dream, which makes Jaden mad after hearing this again, their match is a three on three Pokemon matches, and the two are on their last Pokemon. Still, Jaden has a better idea than using his last Pokemon from his best, as he called the referee to give him a minute. Jaden looks at the VIP box and signals Ash to lend him, Mew, for a minute. Then Mew goes down to see Jaden. "What is it, Jaden? Are you alright?" she asks, looking worried, but Jaden just smiles. "I'm all good, Mew," he says, then takes off his belt and holds his Pokeballs. "Do me a favour and take these with you," he says. Then he quickly removes a small collar around his neck and gives it to Mew, confusing everyone.

Mew then left Jaden's side, returned to Ash via teleport, and watched the match to see what Jaden had planned, but they were more confused as he walked out to the field. Then he started gritting his teeth and screaming at the top of his lungs. He continued screaming as his eyes changed, and slowly, his body began to morph into something else. Everyone's eyes widened, and even some were scared, all except Flannery, who smirked, knowing Paul was super screwed. Then Ash noticed this. "What is he doing, Flannery?" he demands an answer that gets the other's attention, too, but Flannery just puts her finger to her mouth and then points to Jaden. Just then, black smoke escaped from Jaden's back, covering him while his body grew bigger. Then, it all changed to green with yellow line patterns, but everything remained silent. As soon the smoke cleared, everyone was in shock and awe as they saw Jaden had changed into Rayquaza. The ref, shaken in fear, started the match with Paul using Electivire. Both Paul and Electivire were too scared even to move. Paul quickly looked at the ref. "Ref...I give up," he said, returning his Pokemon, leaving Jaden the victor of the semi-finals, where he'll face off against his brother for the main finals. After regrouping with the others, they all crossed their arms and had annoyed looks, with Flannery and Jaden chuckling nervously and rubbing the back of their head. "Um...I can explain..." he says, but then Cynthia speaks up. "You can explain at dinner time, got it, mister," she says, scaring both Flannery and Jaden, making them cringe as they respond with a simple nod.

Just as the group was about to leave the stadium, Ash could hear his name being called behind them, and it was the traitors again. Everyone noticed Ash moaning and grunting, and then they turned around, only to be annoyed. "What do you lot want this time..." he says in an annoying tone. The traitors stop just fifteen feet away from them since Jaden is still with Ash. "We...Want to ask for forgiveness, Ash," says Delia, who looks terrified of what she saw today, but both of her former two sons crossed their arms at them. Jaden wants to kill them, while Ash shakes his head annoyedly. Before Ash could speak up about what he wanted to say, Cynthia stepped before her adopted sons. "You dare ask for forgiveness after what you all did to him," she said, showing a more deadly glare than Jaden's. The traitors all backed up except for Delia, who was not backing down. "Look here...I don't care who you are, and "MY" boys are coming home with me, " she says, crossing her arms and noticing how mad she made Cynthia. Then Delia flinches as Cynthia shows her some paperwork in her face. After Delia had read the papers in front of her, she gasped. "You adopted "MY" sons..." Before she could say anything else, Cynthia spoke up. "Yes, I did, and Last I checked, you disowned them both," she said, having her clenched fists on her hips. Then she turned around to her group. "Okay, you lot, let's go." She says, shoving everyone out of the door like logs with confused looks on their faces; the traitors just crossed their arms with anger. ''This is where I had enough of being around you all," says Dawn, then storms off, wanting to get her stuff and leave. At the same time, the others are surprised by this and follow her lead, doing their things now that their plan to ruin Ash is no longer a thing to them, while Delia returns to her room and gets her stuff to go back home.