A New Life

Chapter 22 - Battling the First Traitor.

Ash was very confused.

The traitors were never good at battling or contests and somehow they managed to stay in this long. The groups had now been at the Indigo Plateau for one week, this means that all of those battling have had seven battles since they arrived here.

Ash liked it this way, it meant that he was not going to be tired easily throughout the day, as well as this Ash was glad that they changed the times of battling. Ash does not like to work as a clock, having one way to go with a set time, since they changed their battles all of the time it meant that sometimes he would be up early and sometimes he would not have to be.

His family had been very supporting and he had already made some new friends at the tournament, it seemed there was nothing wrong with the place. And then Ash was reminded of something.

The group he hated was here.

Ash believed that they finally understood they were not wanted here with them, Ash wanted nothing more then to send them to a place where no one would find them and no one would help them.

Ash awoke the same as he always did, it seemed that even when asleep he was very protective of his wife and child as his arm always wrapped around her and his hand always landed on her stomach that held their child. Ash knew that the baby was due in only a short time and he was hoping that nothing would go wrong, he did not want to lose his wife again.

Once he had awoken Latias he went to wake up the rest of the family, he found that Paul, Chase, Gary and Alain were already as they were in the battles, but he had to wake up Bonnie, Max, Norman and Caroline as they were still asleep.

Once this was done they got ready and went to have some breakfast before making their way to the arena where they learned who they battling. Latias, Caroline, Norman, Max and Bonnie all took seats of to the side while Ash and the other battlers stood in the middle. As per usual Ash and his family were to arrive, within half an hour every person competing had gotten there with the traitorous group coming last once more.

Also as usual the announcer gave his morning speech, which was basically just wishing everyone good luck, before directing their attention to the big board.

From the 100 people there was, there was now only 40. Even though everyone only battled for one day they had a lot of battles a day and they had been here for 7 days (6 days of them battling), this meant that 60 people had been removed. When it got to 20 people then they would be battling more then one battle a day.

Ash was very happy with who he was facing, it was time to take down Misty. And with this opponent Ash was going to use another of his surprise, he didn't just have legendaries to be strong.

"Ladies and gentlemen this match is between champion Red and ex gym leader Misty. Please choose your first pokemon." The referee said.

"Gyarados, I choose you!" Misty yelled. The large and blue sea dragon came out of the ball.

"Aurous, lets shine!" Ash yelled. The large dinosaur like pokemon came from within the ball. Ash had suspected since his first battle that in everyone he would be stopped to talk about the pokemon he has.

"Is that the Aurous? The pokemon of ice that went extinct?" The announcer asked.

"Yes I met one a long time ago, and lets just say we got close, she wanted to come with me. Her pre-evolved form also wanted to come as well so I have the both of them." Ash explained to the shock of the crowd.

"Gyarados use dragon rage!" Misty yelled to her pokemon, she was not going to let this know it all best her.

"Aurorus use powder snow!" Ash commanded. The snow formed a shield around the ice type pokemon, protecting it from the dragon rage. "Well done girl, now use aurora beam!" Ash yelled.