A New Life

Chapter 24 - Battling the Second and Third Traitor.

The battling group were now down person.

It turned out the champion had to face his own elites and Ash went up against Alain, they had the longest match in all of the tournament right now due to the fact that they had watched each other and their pokemon train, so they knew the strong points and the weak points.

All of Ash's family, except Latias, were able to use aura on their pokemon, Latias though she couldn't do this was able to use aura to enhance her abilities as well. Now everyone was able to hear what their pokemon are saying, boost the attacks and defence of all pokemon and even mega evolve some of them. Unlike Ash they had not been studying aura for many years, Ash began when he first betrayed as he knew he had the power of aura, he just hadn't used it, therefore all of his pokemon were able to mega evolve with it. The others had not been doing it for very long and therefore only some are able to do this.

Alain put up a good fight and in the end neither of them used the mega evolution, they were going to save that for the traitors, Alain in the end lost but after taking two of Ash's pokemon out which no one else in the tournament had been able to do yet.

There were now only 20 people left battling and this meant that they now had to battle one another more then once a day, when they made it to the arena they were welcomed with the same speech by the announcer as every morning.

When they all turned to look at the board Ash grimaced, he was facing another Gary another of his elites and friend.

This match did not last as long as the one with Alain, he maybe an elite but Gary was still a pokemon researcher before he started travelling with Ash, though he has come along well Gary was still not as strong as Ash.

Everyone else had battled well, although Paul had been taken out by someone using a legendary, it was a Latios. Ash knew this to be impossible, there was only ever one Latios and one Latias, he had Latias and the Latios he watched die many years ago. Except him, who is a Latios, but no one will know that till the end.

This meant that Chase and Ash were the only elite and champion left in the match, and they were facing one another next. Out of all of his elites Chase was the strongest, followed by Paul then Alain and then Gary. He loved and treated them all the same but all of them knew in what order they came.

Ash was due to battle Serena.

Chase was battling Dawn.

May and Iris had both been taken out the previous day, May by the one claiming to be using a Latios and Iris was taken out by Paul before he was taken out.

This left Serena, Dawn, Brock, Cilan and Clemont left to take down.

Chase was quick with taking out Dawn, she tried to use her contest knowledge in battling, but as everyone knows contest moves are for just that, they are judged on how pretty the attack is not how strong it was. Since Dawn was using these kind of attacks it was easy for Chase to beat her. He only had to use one pokemon against her three.

Then came the battle for Ash and Serena. Ash was really looking forward to this, he was not as dumb as the people thought he was, he saw how Serena looked at him and acted around him. And he knew that she did not love him she lusted after him, and he got sick of the watching it, this is why he pretended to not notice it meant that she would not try pursue something. By this time Ash realised that there was never going to be a girl other than Latias, he had fallen for her many years ago and because a human girl showed him interest doesn't mean he was going to loose those feelings.

"You have caused nothing but problems, I am going to be the one to take you down." Serena said.

"You can try." Ash taunted.