It was now the day, the day where the tournament would start. Soul was excited, as he can finally battle others in a Pokemon battle.
He was a little sad that Anubis couldn't fight since there was a big chance, that he would be taken away from him, either by the League or Team Rocket.
He needed to wait to become stronger to where no one couldn't defeat him, even legendaries and mythical Pokemon. By then no one can oppose him and maybe he could live a peaceful life full of adventures and maybe be in a relationship.
Right now he was waiting in a lobby, waiting for the announcer to give the signal for them to come. There were around thirty-two kids around here. Some of them seem confident, some were nervous, some had an arrogance aura around them.
One thing for sure, he can't afford to underestimate them, even if they look pretty weak in his eyes. Suddenly a voice boom in from a speaker.
Announcer: Let's welcome the participants!
That was his signal, he and the others walk out of the room and were blinded by the sudden light. There he saw tons and tons of peoples sitting around the stadium, yelling excitingly. There were also some camera's recording them.
He didn't like to be in the spotlight, so he moved to the furthest back and hope that the camera wouldn't catch him too much.
When they walked to the mid of the stadium, he saw the old man, who he saw yesterday! He looked even fancier than yesterday.
The old man seemed to notice him and smirked, Soul looked at him confused, why would he smirk at him like that? Is he a pedo?
Old man: Hello everyone, my name is Tim Streak. I will be the judge today for this tournament.
He paused for a while before he begins to explain the rules to all of them.
The rules were, that they would start picking up a random number from a box. They would-be fighting their opponent, who has the same number as them.
This will continue to the finals. A simple rule.
Soul went up and pick up a number, he got the number nine, what a coincidence. After everyone picked up their numbers, they went back to the lobby and wait for their number to be called up.
He watched over the screen to try and study his potential opponents and their pokemon. All of them looked pretty weak except for a girl in sixth match, she seemed pretty good at using her Pokemon
Suddenly his phone vibrates, as he saw a message from Prof. Oak. He looked over at the message and wonder what the professor would write to him at this time around.
Oak: Hello, Soul, you might not know how the person, I asked you to beat looks like, so here's a picture, beat her up [Insert smiley face.]
He looked over at the picture, the professor sent to him and was surprised. It was the same girl from the sixth match!
She was certainly beautiful, but he didn't want anything to do with her if she has a bad personality, so he closed his phone and waited for his turn to come.
After a while, it was finally his turn as he and the other boy walked to the stadium. The boy seemed confident and smirks at him.
Mob-boy: I will win this fight for sure.
Soul ignored the boy and walked to the other side, this of course made the boy feels irritated that he got ignored! He would for sure destroy this kid.
The two boys stand at the opposite sides, waiting for the announcer to do what an announcer would do.
Announcer: This is the ninth fight, to the left we have Soul Winterflame and to the right Charlie White. The rules are simple! You can only use one Pokemon, now bring fourth your Pokemon!
Charlie: Go, Zubat
Soul: Come, Noibat.
As both Pokemons come out, the spectators and others were shocks to see a Pokemon, they have never seen before.
Announcer: What kind of Pokemon is that? It looks a bit like a Zubat, what do you think of this, Professor Oak?
Soul freeze when he heard the announcer said the name. What is gramps doing up there with the announcer?!
Oak: That's Pokemon, Soul took out is a Noibat. It's mostly found in the Kalos region. I won't say any more than that.
Soul: 'You're just said its name, now everyone can search for it your idiot! Why can't you just say 'I don't know.' ?!'
Announcer: Regardless, let's start the battle! Mr. Tim, would you like to start the battle?
Tim: Certainly I will, now lets the battle start!
As he said that, Charlie started his first move.
Charlie: Zubat use air cutter
White energy surrounded Zubat as it was heading toward Noibat slowly compared to Noibat speed.
Soul: Noibat dodge, then use Supersonic.
Noibat did as Soul said and dodged to the side, making Zubat missed its target before Charlie could even do anything, Noibat sent a way of supersonic against Zubat.
The attack went directly against Zubat and hit it, causing a small smoke coming out. Not a second later, Zubat fell and fainted.
Everyone who saw this had their eyes widen, even Lance. He was surprised by how strong this 'Noibat' was and is now more interested in Soul.
Soul was disappointed in how weak his first opponent was, even Noibat was disappointed, including Anubis.
Nobody was saying anything and Soul didn't want to wait too long, so he returned Noibat to its Pokeball and left the arena.
The judge, who saw this, snapped out of it first said.
Tim: The winner is Soul Winterflame!
After he announced that, the crowds begin to cheers and calling Soul name. Charlie who was still shocked, couldn't believe what he just saw.
Charlie: M-My Zubat, defeated so easily?
In the end, he returned his Pokemon and left the arena. Battles after battles, it came to an end with sixteens kids left, who would be fighting each other again tomorrow.
Soul just went back to the hotel with his mom and Prof. Oak.
While he was doing this, two people look at him curiously. One was one of the elite-four members, Lance. The others were a girl.