Journey Towards Greatness

Julian, of course, felt bad for doing this to Barry, from what he saw Barry looked like a really cheerful kid who likes to make friends and make others laugh but Julian had to do it.

He has a reputation to keep. ​​

Since Julian is not a champion he doesn't have to display his skills in front of his fans every time someone challenges him.

Since his lack of exposure to the media trainers like Tobias and Brian is really underestimating him, just because he has a new team every year doesn't mean he will be weak.

Of course, he likes challenges but people underestimate him because he always has a new team and they don't prepare properly to face him and when the time comes they are destroyed completely by Julian.

If these scenarios keep on repeating itself Julian might lose interest just like the gym leader of Sunyshore city, Volkner.

This time Julian wants to make a statement so next time when people come to battle in a league which he is a part of, they won't be looking for an easy battle.

Julian walks towards Barry who is cursing his bad luck, his whole team got defeated before they could even show their true capabilities, it was indeed tragic, even the crowd felt bad for him but they were also excited to see Julian's pokemon's limit.

But little did they know, this is not his limit, Julian's Sinnoh team is the strongest team he has created, even his Kanto team is not a match when it comes to power if they were compared by the time taken to reach the level they are now.

And on top of that Julian's Sinnoh team have monsters like Garchomp, Crystal, Manaphy, and Victini, there is no way a normal trainer or even a champion can go against all four of them, well maybe the current Cynthia has a chance as she has grown a lot stronger as well.

Julian "Now get up, the son of the battle tower leader shouldn't be discouraged so easily"

He said and gave him a hand.

Barry looked up and saw Julian giving him a hand.

Barry "You know me?"

Julian "I did some research, well you could improve a lot, you got lucky, reaching the quarter-finals of this conference league"

Barry "I guess, haha"

He laughed awkwardly and got up.

Julian "Train further and grow a lot stronger and we might have a battle again, maybe in some other conference league"

He said and left with Victini floating around him happy as it showed V sighs to all the people in the audience as they went wild over its cute behavior, some people in the crowd posted the video of Victini being cute on the internet and it went viral in minutes as Victini became an Internet Idol.

Julian has no idea what just happened, he just went back to the waiting room where he saw Cynthia waiting for him.

Cynthia "You didn't have to go too hard on that kid"

She said while pitting Barry.

Julian "It was now or never, my opponents in the league are getting weak as I grow stronger day by day, I need to pressure them so they can at least put up a fight"

He said and smiled.

Cynthia "Seriously, I don't understand you at all"

She said and chuckled.

Julian "Let's go and have some dinner"

He said and took Cynthia to dinner while the rest of the world were discussing Julian and his battle today, they didn't see it coming at all.

During the whole league Barry really stood out with his strong line up of pokemons, especially his Empoleon, it stole every battle it was part off but it got destroyed by a powerful Fire Move in one hit.

After seeing the battle the percentage of people who were supporting others soon fell down, some brave-hearted people who bet on Tobias and Brian to win lost all their faith and started to go crazy as they realized they lost all the money that they used to bet.

The 90 percent who were supporting Julian to win became 99% after watching the footage of his battle, while the people discussed Julian and the new internet idol Victini, his future opponents Tobias and Brian were having a hard time right now.

They didn't expect Julian to wipe out Barry so easily, even they wouldn't be able to do it so easily, well they could defeat Barry with a single pokemon but now so easily as Julian did.

They started to second guess if they can really face Julian in a head to head battle or not, they started to project themselves in front of Julian and his Victini's V-Create but every time they thought of it, they saw their own defeat.

Julian is successful, his opponents are feeling pressure from his little act today while he is having a fun time with his girlfriend.

The only person who is not bothered by today's battle is Ash, he is as carefree as ever as he wants to battle Julian again in the finals.

The day ended and the build-up from the semifinals started as soon as the sun rose from the east, it is Julian Vs Brian and Tobias Vs Ash.

People already are betting on Julian Vs Tobias as many of them are already predicting that Ash is going to lose against Tobias while Brian has no chance against Julian.

One of the biggest news for Julian Vs Tobias was the betting rate, it was 1:100.

If people bet on Tobias they could make a fortune if he wins and there were some crazy bastards out there who placed their bet on Tobias because they are just that rich.