Chapter 8: Arrival of a Rival!

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"The eight coordinators moving on to the next rounds contest battle are..." Marian says, pointing to the big screen as the pictures pop up. With Harmony, Ash, Dawn, and Zoey's face on four of them. "These lucky eight!"

"Yes! Sylveon, we did it!" Harmony cheers squatting down to hug her pokemon, kissing her head gently. "Only have to get through three more people." she murmurs softly, "Then we get our first Sinnoh Region ribbon," she states as her Rotom phone buzzes and flies out.

"Message from Dragon King! Message from CharmeLEON!" her Rotom states making her grin, "Guess our best mates are watching it too! And it's like early in the morning for them." she murmurs, looking at them congratulating her and wishing her the best of luck.

Once they announced that they started to announce who they were up against. With Harmony matching up against Jessie, who looked oddly familiar to Harmony for some reason but she couldn't put her finger on it just that moment. Zoey against Ash, and Dawn against some random guy.

"Well, I wish you all the best of luck!" she says.

Harmony ended up going up first and wasn't surprised to make quick work of Jessalina's points. Having decided to use Sylveon once more was easier as her pokemon gracefully evaded most if not all of her pokemon's attacks making her grin and curtsy when the round was over, there was even two minutes still on the clock.

"Thank you so much Sylveon, you did fantastically!" she coos, tossing up a treat for her pokemon once they got back. "Good luck Ash! I hope you have fun and win!" she says high fiving him as he moved to enter for his battle with Zoey.

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It didn't end well, Aipom lost, and while Ash was giving him food and sitting off to the side.

"That was one of the most exciting battles I've ever seen! My heart was beating so fast!" Dawn says grinning.

"Yeah, but if you ask me don't you think things got a bit wild?" Brock points out.

"You kind of went into battle mode rather than contest battle mode Ash." Harmony points out.

"Yeah you two are right, I totally forgot about makings sure my moves were looking good," Ash says sheepishly as Aipom dug into her food.

"Yeah you two are right, I totally forgot about makings sure my moves were looking good," Ash says sheepishly as Aipom dug into her food

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However, he was quickly brought down when Zoey seemed to come towards him with a bit of anger in her eyes.

"Hi Zoey," Dawn says happily.

"Congratulations on your win, and good luck in the next round," Ash says holding his hand out only for Zoey to not take it.

"That last focus punch, it was so powerful I froze in my tracks," Zoey admits.

"Huh? Yeah? I guess I was just concentrating so hard" Ash says sheepishly.

"If time hadn't run out when it did, I'm sure you would have beaten me." Zoey points out with a smile on her face shaking Ash's hand finally, "Thanks for a great battle. Still, if you don't mind me saying I don't think a contest battle is where you shine."

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