Chapter 41 - Round Three

A pillow slamming onto my face woke me up the next morning. I grunted in annoyance.

Now who the hell would do that?

"Wake up, sleeping beauty, it's 10:30," I heard Lance's voice. "10:30?!" I sprang up & used one of his combs to brush my messy hair. I then locked myself in his bathroom to pee, & wash off my makeup, which I had slept with last night. I looked a bit hungover, but I'm sure everyone else looked worse, I was among the most sober of us all last night, anyway.

When I got out of the bathroom, Lance was sitting at the edge of the bed, holding a cape & looking at it, dumb founded. "What the, did we do this?" He put it in my hands. There was an 'S' or was it a 5, drawn onto the cape with markers. It looked horrible.

Then it all came flashing back in my head. "You mean you don't remember, Super Lance?" I smirked. He growled & snatched the cape from my hands. "Oww!" I cried, even though he didn't hurt me. "You cut me with your sharp ass Zangoose nails," I lied.

"Let me see." He grabbed my hand (yes!) & examined it. I giggled. "Kidding." He pushed my hand away. "You just wanted me to hold your hand huh," he scoffed. "Don't flatter yourself Super Lance," I rolled my eyes.

"Lance! I need-" Bruno came in, shirtless. Oh Arceus. Please allow me to be blind for the next five seconds. "Oh, my bad, I will leave you two alone... But I need to borrow toilet paper, I ran out &-" "I don't wanna know. Go ahead," he nodded at the Elite Four member. Bruno smirked at us before walking to Lance's bathroom & then walking back out with a roll of toilet paper in his hands.

He looked at us for a good five seconds, gave us the biggest devilish grin, then winked & left. I wasn't sure what that meant, so I asked Lance. "Don't know, don't care. You gotta get going, it's 10:40," he urged me. I ran to my temporary room to change & met up with everyone in the living room. Except that no one was up... Brandon & Richie were passed out on the floor. Will was on the couch.

I woke them up, having to resort to body slamming them both, because they refused to emerge from their slumber. They growled & cursed like sailors, but when they realized they had about 20 minutes to get ready, they jumped up & ran off to do their thing. Once I managed to wake them up, I knocked on Lance's door. I needed him to help me find Adriana... I didn't know this house like he did. It was now 10:44. He took a while to finally open the door, & when he did, I was speechless. He was... Shirtless...

Oh Lord, I seriously thought I was gonna have a heart attack. His body was so amazing, so... Perfect. "Are you gonna say something or keep staring?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

I blushed deep red. "I... I-I wasn't," I choked. "My face is up here." But I couldn't look at his face. My eyes were glued to his perfect body. I was hypnotized. After what felt like forever, I finally snapped out of it. "I-I need your help... To find..." I trailed off, as my eyes descended back down without my control. "Oh Jesus..." It slipped out of my mouth. It was like I wasn't in control of my own body. This feeling was new to me, I had never before met a guy who could make my body switch onto stupid mode with just the sight of him shirtless.

"You need my help to find Jesus?" He asked, having to cover his mouth with his hand to able to refrain from laughing. I was red as a tomato by now, I was so emberrassed that I just wanted the ceiling to fall on me so he wouldn't see make more of an idiot out of myself. "I-I mean, Adriana! Help me find her," I said, now looking at his face. "Oh, yeah just let me put on a shirt." 'Nooooooo!' I cried in my head. "Please do," I said, even though my mind was thinking the exact opposite.

"That's why you were drooling, okay," he scoffed. "I wasn't. I look much better with my shirt off than you do," I rolled my eyes.

With a white shirt on now, he walked past me. "I need to see it to believe it," he said calmly as he led the way. I quickly shook away the nervous feeling he gave me, & followed him. We eventually came to a white door, that he knocked on. Adriana opened it, dressed & ready for the day. "I know, I'll be down in 5," she informed me & closed the door again.

"Let's get you some breakfast short shit," Lance led us downstairs. "Thanks tall ass," I replied, being a good five or six inches shorter than the Champion.

When we walked into the kitchen, everyone turned to look at us as if we had murdered someone. "What?" Lance grumbled. "Bruno tells me you two slept together last night?" Lorelei smirked. "What? Yeah, so? Well, n-not like that. No sex or anything. We just slept in my room, like a sleepover, damn you guys are perverts," he explained, looking uncomfortable. "No sex? That doesn't sound like the Lance I know," Karen raised an eyebrow suspiciously. "Shut up, she wouldn't be able to handle this anyway," Lance scoffed. "Oh please, you wouldn't know what to do with this," I rolled my eyes & heard people say 'oooooh'.

"Well let me know when you want me to prove it to you that I would know exactly what to do, short shit," he said, causing me to blush & everyone to turn to look at us once again. Did he just say that, in front of everyone? "Katrina's blushing!" Bruno shouted, causing Lance to glance away from the fridge to look at me for a moment. He lightly smirked, it was barely noticable, then got something out of the fridge. "Want pizza?" he questioned. I just nodded. I was still emberrassed.

By now I wasn't the center of attention, everyone was now conversating with each other. "Hey, wanna watch Mean Girls later with us?" Karen questioned. Bruno, Will, & Lance sighed. "You're always watching that dumb movie," Lance groaned as he sat down. "You can't sit with us," Karen quoted the movie, giving him an evil stare. He flipped her off. I agreed to our little, 'girls movie night' & scarfed the pizza down & checked the time. 11:07. We had to get going. We all quickly gathered our things. "We'll be leaving soon to go watch you guys, good luck," Karen spoke.

Adriana battled that day, & won. That was the end of the second round. Nothing new really happened at the mansion that night, with the exception of me, Lorelei, Karen, & Adriana watching Mean Girls & eating all kinds of junk food. It was nice, & I enjoyed it very much. Lance hung out with me in my room after that, it was like a daily thing now. Most days he would, & he would always come up with some dumb perverted remarks, but by now, I got used to it.

"& now we are down to 256 opponents for this round. & to make things more interesting, we are having tag team battles! Each trainer will use only three Pokemon!" The announcer said the next day at the beginning of the third round. All of the trainers in the room sighed. I did, too.

Tag team battles? No. If I was paired with a stupid trainer, or anything of the sort, I could easily lose! This got me really frustrated & worried.

As the first battle progressed, me & my friends were all worried. We hoped to get paired up with a smart, hard working trainer. The first of us to get called up was Amy. She was paired with another girl, who looked kinda young. Around 15.

Amy sent out her Flareon, her partner sent out a Swampert. Not bad. The two kicked ass & did a great job. Richie was less lucky. He was paired with a trainer who didn't have many brains & had no idea what he was doing. He probably cheated his way into the Indigo League because there was no way he defeated eight gym leaders, especially Gary.

Since Richie was a skilled trainer, he beat their opponents basically by himself; his partner lost his three Pokemon within the first two minutes of the match. I don't even kow how he got past the first two rounds...

I was next. I was shocked to see that my partner was Samantha! "Let's kick ass," Samantha winked at me. "Definately," I agreed. Our opponents were a boy & a girl, who I recognized as Lizzy. She gave a nod, silently wishing me good luck. I returned it. They sent out their Pokemon first. The boy sent out a Magmar & Lizzy sent out a Furret. Samantha sent out a Persian, & I used Venus. The crowd gasped when they saw me using a grass-type, & even the announcer was concerned, but we had a few tricks up our sleeve. Samantha gave me a worried look. "We got this," I told her & she nodded trustingly.

"Magmar use Flamethrower on Ivysaur!"

"Furret use Quick Attack on Persian!"

"Venus use Protect! Then Light Screen!" Venus protected himself from Flamethrower & then a small pink colored force field came over Ivysaur & Samantha's Persian. Magmar's special attacks would be weakened. Perfect.

Persian was now using a Scratch attack on Furret, the two were engaged in their own little battle. "Magmar use Sunny Day!" I knew what he was doing, he was trying to boost his fire attack power because Light Screen would weaken all his special moves temporarily. "Alright Venus, Toxic!"

Magmar was poisoned almost instantly. "Magmar! Use Fire Punch!" Magmar charged foward at Venus. "Use Venoshock!" Since Magmar was poisoned, the attack did even more damage, & Magmar had to stop & cringe at the pain. "Sludge Bomb go!" I wasted no time. Sludge Bomb knocked Magmar out & I had a proud grin on my face when its trainer looked at me with eyes full of confusion.

I heard the announcer say something about Venus winning despite the type advantage & that I had skills or something of the sort. Our victory moment was cut short by Furret using Quick Attack on Venus & knocking him back. I looked to see Persian defeated & Samantha retreating him. Light Screen had worn off now. I used Energy Ball & Furret was out. The crowd was cheering for Venus, who looked proud.

Next the boy released a Tauros, & Lizzy released a Blissey. I knew that Blissey would bring a lot if trouble with their rediculously high HP... Samantha let her Charizard, Cindy out.

"Cindy, Heat Wave!" The move hit both of our opponents. "Venus, use Razor Leaf on Tauros!" After being hit with Razor Leaf, Tauros used Take Down, hurting Venus badly. "Venus! Double Edge!" Venus sent the Tauros flying right back. "Vine Whip!" Tauros was a bit weak now. "Tauros, use Zen Headbutt!" "No!" I cried. Poor Venus didn't stand a chance, he flew back & didn't get up. I didn't retreat him. I let him stay out & watch the remainder of the battle. My Pokemon liked to do that.

This time I sent out my Charizard. The crowd went wild to see two Charizard's on the field. Charcoal looked happy to see Cindy, & Cindy looked happy to see Charcoal, but there was no time for catching up. "Focus Blast on Tauros!" Charcoal sent out a blast of energy & Tauros was out.

The boy then sent out a Lairon. Charcoal knocked it out in one hit, with one Flamethrower. Cindy & Charcoal had to do a bit of teamwork to take out Blissey, but Charcoal's Focus Blast did the trick.

Finally, Lizzy sent out an Ursaring. By this time Venus was up. Still weak, but he was up. He was standing by me, cheering for Charcoal & swaying his vines around like arms. Cindy & Charcoal made the perfect team, & within seconds, our double Flamethrower knocked Ursaring out.

Our Charizard's then embraced themselves in a big hug, which the crowd went crazy for. After hugging Cindy, Charcoal hugged me, & raised his chin up, waiting to be praised. "You were excellent," I smiled at him. He looked at me with eyes that said 'I know'.

I retreated Charcoal because he was so huge & let Venus hang out outside of his Pokeball when we got back to the room full of challengers. Brandon was the first to speak. "Great job Venus!" He yelled. Venus happily growled & extended his vines to hug Brandon. "I like your Ivysaur," Richie said, smiling at my Venus. Venus extended his vine to shake Richie's hand. Richie laughed & shook his vine. Adriana did the same. "He's so cute!" Adriana squeeled.

A few other trainers were also delighted to meet Venus. "I can't believe he beat a fire-type," they were acting like they had never seen a fire-type get beaten by a grass-type... Venus loved the attention, he shook everyone's hand & acted all cute & loveable. Trainers loved him. But not as much as I loved him.

Only me, Riche, & Amy battled that day. When I got back to the mansion at the end of the day, I was complimented by the Elite Four & Champion about Venus. I was in Lance's room hanging out for an hour or two, when he brought up my battle.

"I thought you were crazy for sending out your Ivysaur, I'll be honest. But wow, you really suprised me," he said, looking at me. Moments later I caught him looking at my chest, & decided to say something about it. "My eyes are up here," I said, grinning & using the same comment he used on me earlier. "I have to constantly remind you of that when I have my shirt off," he replied. "I know you get all nervous & hypnotized when I take off my shirt, but you're the first girl to not try to touch me at all," he said, raising his eyebrow in confusion. He had no idea how hard it was to stop myself from practically raping him.

"Because I don't want to," I rolled my eyes.

"You mean because you don't know if I'll let you," he teased. I blushed. "You can touch, you know," he offered, lifting up his shirt a bit. I began to get nervous & my heart beat began to speed up. "Umm... I don't wanna touch if everyone else is, too..." I turned away, blushing. "No one else is touching, I can assure you that," he said, making me feel all wierd & chirpy for some reason.

The next day was the end of the third round. Adriana won her battle, with slight difficulty. When she came back, she asked me a startling question. "What's up with you & the Champion?" She smirked evily. "What?" I blushed immediatley. "Come on, I know you two have a thing for each other, you flirt all day long, you guys hang out together for hours in your room daily, & you expect me to believe nothing is going on?" She laughed."I... I... Does everyone think that?" I gulped. She nodded. "Everyone knows something is up. Are you two like... You know... Fucking?" She raised an eyebrow. "What? No!" I cried.

"Okay, okay, then what are you doing?" "Nothing! I mean... Yeah we like... Flirt... But we haven't even kissed or anything," I replied. She had a wierd look on her face. "Really? He must like you," she continued to speak but I ignored her everytime she brought it up, because I didn't want to talk about it & get my hopes up, even though I hoped she was right.

Adriana then continued to ramble on about Gary & how much she liked him, & how perfect he was. I was happy for her. We continued to talk until Brandon was finally called to battle. "Good luck," I gave him a nod. "Thanks," he replied, as he walked away.

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Yeah , this chapter isn't very interesting >.< It's mostly like , romance , I guess .

I apologize , for this chapter , but the next one should be better ! I am introducing a brand new character !

Hint : This trainer doesn't appear in the anime , but does appear in the video games , any guesses ?

Anyway , you'll find out who it is in the next chapter , toodles .

- Karla Cizeta .