Disclaimer!!!
Yeah, like everybody else on this website im doin the disclaimer thing, I 
dunno if its like illegal not to, but I disclaim I do not own nothin, and 
ill just say i kinda got into the idea of typing muh own story after reading 
topaz and that marlix dudes story, so yeah.


After leaving new bark town behind us, the 2 of us walked silently for the 
next hour. Side by side. All I could think of was my new life without my 
Auntie.
My hands slipped into the pockets of my baggy jeans. They were too big, but 
that was my style. My black sleeve less shirt was just the right size, and 
had a picture of a zapdos on the back. My hair covered it up though. When I 
first moved in with Auntie Elm, my mother had roughly cut my hair and it was 
a mess. Auntie soon solved that though, and took me to the Newbark hair 
salon. Now my hair was long and a beautiful green color.
For the rest of the day we walked through route 29, but we only seen wild 
rattata's, and I wasn't really a fan of theirs. Eventually we came to a 
building towards sunset. I knocked on the door, but no one answered. Sure 
enough when I looked at the door, there was a sign saying "Closed for 
repair". This was a bit of a bummer, but I didn't have a clue what the 
building was anyway, so we made our way back to the forest.

After 20 minutes of searching, we found the perfect spot for camp. A small 
clearing in the forest, where a tree had fallen over and knocked some more 
down with it. Slash cut some of the wood for a fire, and I set about cooking 
one of the prepared dinners for us.
As we sat around the fire eating, I was in complete thought. What was I 
doing out here. I didn't know where to go first. I didn't no where the first 
gym was. I didn't even no how close to the next town I was.
Slash, as if sensing my distress, began to use some sort of attack. He 
started to glowa red color, and the fire started to move.  First it shaped a 
love heart. Then a flower, and with maximum effort a sneasle. My worries 
disappeared as he did this, and so did my doubts. As long as we were 
together, we could do anything. Slash smiled, as if he heard my thoughts. 
"What was that attack anyway", I asked in complete confusion. "It looked 
psychic. What's Dexter reckon. I pulled out my pokedex, and faced it at the 
gyarados shaped flame. "Tamed flame, the fire taming attack. Learned by few, 
this fire attack controls what a flame does".  I looked at Slash, who now 
had a huge grin on his face. The fire was standing in the air like a pole, 
the suddenly, it shot right over my left shoulder. I almost growled until I 
heard a shriek, and spun around. There, fainted behind me lay a Tediursa. I 
could see where the fire had hit him. Instantly, I grabbed a pokeball from 
my waste, and dropped it on him. The little teddy bear evaporated into a 
little red beam, and went straight into the pokeball. It fell to the ground, 
and shook once, twice, 3 times. I heard a ping, and the pokeball returned to 
my hand. I froze as if Slash had used his icebeam on me, looking at the 
pokeball. Slash just lay there, finished using tamed flame, with a huge 
smile across his face.
"I caught my first pokemon", I yelled out as loud as I could. Then, I 
realized what I had done, and burst out laughing.

After my little episode, I released tediursa and sprayed him with a potion. 
He looked up at me, and smiled. Then, he turned to sneasle, and turned back 
to me, gripping me as if he were scared of the beast to his left.
I cradled him in my arms, and lay down, whispering to sneasle about nothing.

The following morning, I awoke to find my new tediursa, teddy, sniffing 
around the campsite. When he seen me, he ran over, and gripped onto my 
stomach, a hug I guessed. I returned him to his pokeball, and woke sneasle. 
He woke in a somewhat grumpy mood, and when we packed up and got going, he 
ran ahead by himself.  The hours flowed, and we were still walking. Sneasle 
was back to his chirpy self, swinging from tree to tree, until I halted, and 
called out to him. "Lunch time", I yelled. He shot back in a blur of 
blackness. I lit a match, and then commanded sneasle to make it bigger with 
tamed flame. Sure enough, the flame grew a little bit, and then shot down 
onto a small pile of wood I made earlier, setting it ablaze. I released 
tediursa and gave him some pokefeed, while I shared my packed dinner with 
sneasle.
Just as I was finishing my meal, a young boy appeared in front of me. 
"Hello", I began. He looked at me, inquiringly. Then at my sneasle, and then 
at the sleeping tediursa by my side. "hey, im guessing you're a trainer, 
wanna battle". Wow, that was fast I thought. Tediursa started to stir from 
his nap. "Yeah sure I replied. 2 on 2".
"Yeah sure", he replied confidently. The excitement building up inside me 
was enormous. I'd never had a trainer battle before.
The boy reached for a pokeball on his belt, 1 of 5, and threw it out. A 
poliwag.
"Against your poliwag, I choose Teddy". Teddy jumped up and slowly walked 
over to the poliwag.
"you seem to be a beginner, so you can go first". "Whatever floats ya boat", 
I replied with a smirk.
"Leer attack". Teddy looked at me and smiled. His eyes went red, and he 
stared at the poliwag. "You no what to do poliwag", the boy said with a 
smirk. The poliwags spiral began to swirl. A hypnosis attack. "Don't look at 
the swirl", I yelled out tediursa, who was way ahead of me. His eyes were 
closed. Then, all of a sudden, his eyes opened, still red, and he roared 
like a ursaring. Poliwags immediately stopped its confusion attack, and 
stood back. I smiled and ordered Teddy to use head butt. He ran, jumped and 
and landed head first on top of the poliwag. Poliwag stumbled back, and the 
boy looked worried. "Ummm.....bubble", he said in a hurry, without thinking. 
Poliwag fell over and started to blow bubbles into the air. With a smirk on 
my face, I looked at Teddy, and said, "Finish him with fury swipes". He ran 
up to the poliwag on it's back, and began to scratch it repeatedly, until it 
fainted.
"That teddybear is stronger then it looks, but yet it has no chance against 
magby". With that, he released what appeared to be a mini magmar.
"Magby, the pre evolved form of magmar. Every time it breathes out, embers 
shoot out of it's mouth. It's body temperature is over 1100 degrees, so this 
pokemon should not be underestimated". Dexters screen went blank again.
I looked at teddy, he was breathing hard and seemed exausted. I recalled him 
to his pokeball, after thanking him for his effort.
"Your turn slash". The sneasle stood up with a slight grin on his face. He 
knew he was already under estimated.
"Your turn to go first I believe", I said with a slight smile across my 
face.
He didn't seem to take any notice, and looked at magby. "Ember". The little 
magby began to blow air, but in the air were little bits of fire. They 
traveled to Slash, and just before they hit, I smiled, and simply said, 
"Now". Slash shot up into the trees in his usual black blur. Magby looked 
around with worry. "In the tree", the boy almost yelled. Faint attack was 
the next order I gave, and Slash totally disappeared. Not only magby looked 
for Slash this time, but the boy as well. He started to look worried. Then, 
magby lifted into the air, and started flying backwards, straight towards a 
tree. Just as he slammed into the tree, Slash reappeared. The boy began to 
growl. "Flamethrower". Magby slowly stood up, but sneasle just stared at 
him. The fire started to emit from his mouth, but sneasle just stood there. 
"Use tamed flame". The boy looked at me in wonder as I said that, but was 
shocked when the flames charging at sneasle suddenly turned and slammed back 
into magby. The pokemon stood up, not hurt by the fire attack, but just as 
surprised. "Now, let's finish this", I started as I noticed the surprise on 
the opponents face. "Ice beam". Sneasle jumped into the air. He put his paws 
together, and a small icy blue orb appeared in front of him. Then, as if it 
waited for the perfect moment to appear, a streak of blue lightning shot 
from the orb, striking magby with direct aim. Magby started to freeze, and 
the boy shook from his surprise. But it was to Little to late. Magby was 
frozen up to his neck. "I give", the trainer said with slight 
disappointment. He jumped down to his magby, and tried to scrape the ice 
away. "Stand back a few steps would ya". He stood back I lit a match. 
Sneasle started to glow red, and the flame got bigger. Then, it shot 
straight at the ice, completely covering it and magby with fire. The 
trainers looked a little shaken by the display, but as the fire disappeared, 
so did the ice, and magby fell to the ground fainted. After returning his 
pokemon, he tried to hand me a few coins, but I told him to keep his money. 
"What do you want then"? he asked, his voice shaking a little. I began to 
speak, but he shot out his voice faster then I could. "If you're the guy 
taking people fainted pokemon, you'll have to beat my others first", he 
said, shaking the whole time. "As if, you little fruit. Why would I want 
your pokemon when sneasle here could knock them out no sweat". The boys face 
went from fear to anger. "Before you say something you'll regret, which way 
to cherry grove city. The boy gulped. He didn't say anything, just pointed 
to the top of a hill. Sneasle shot up it like a bullet, then when he reached 
the top nodded his head in agreement with the boy. Sure enough the city was 
over the hill.
Without saying another thing, I started to walk up the hill. "That boy was 
at least 12 and had half the maturity I had", I said to myself with a smirk.

After another half hours walk I reached my destination, cherry grove city. A 
lot bigger then new bark town, I could see the pokemon center in the 
distance. With a sudden boost of energy, I leapt into the air and shot down 
the road faster the sneasle could manage.

Apparently, the town was full of trainers, because I had to share a room 
with this other girl. She Didn't say much, but neither did I. She had a 
sentret and a pidgeotto that stayed out of their pokeballs. The rest I had 
no idea, but I didn't get the urge to challenge her.
In fact, we slept the rest of the day and all the night through till about 
5am, when Slash woke me up. He pointed outside with his claw, and I heard a 
lot of thumping sounds. The 2 of us snuck out together, and I waved to Jenny 
as we passed her. "She sure must start early", I muttered to Slash, who just 
stayed her usual quiet self.
We exited the building, and sure enough a woman was standing against a wall, 
and a man was facing her. Both were watching intensely as a graveller 
Battled to defend itself from a massive exeggutor. Graveller had used 
defence curl while the huge tree shot egg after egg at him, each exploding 
on impact. I watched from a small distance, neither seemed to notice me. 
"Exeggutor, solarbeam", the man spoke with a harsh but quiet tone. The 
exeggutor started to glow on one of the eggs it had for a face. Little bits 
of a golden dust seemed to enter its mouth, and with every single piece, the 
head glowed a little more. "Takedown", the girl who was leaning against the 
wall finally said. Graveller charged, and the egg head glowed more little by 
little. Then finally, the beam shot at graveller, but somehow it managed to 
jump into the air, causing the beam to miss. I was amazed, and even more so 
when the gravellers eyes started to glow. As he landed, he stopped right in 
front of the exeggutor and started to get bigger. He turned into a ball 
shape, with a pair of legs pokeing out of it. A pair of arms also, and 
finally a head. "Golem", I whispered to Slash. He just nodded, and watched 
with intense interest. The man started to sweat. "Quick, solar beam it 
again". The head started to glow again. "Don't let him even get there, mega 
punch", the woman now yelled. A few more people had gathered, and all around 
people were watching the battle. Golems fist began to glow white, and he 
slammed both into the mid section of the tree pokemon.. It winced in pain, 
and fell over, completely fainted. A few people began to clap, and she 
smiled. The man recalled his pokemon, and handed the woman over a small wad 
of cash, then, slowly walked away, disappointed with his loss.
She bowed, and smiled at the crowd. I noticed her looking at the pokeballs 
at a few peoples waists, including mine.
The woman waited about 5 minutes, and the crowd slowly got bigger. "Any 
challenges", she almost yelled out so everyone could hear. I looked around. 
People were backing away. Then, just as I was about to yell my name,Slash 
jumped forward, and stood in front of her. Following my pokemons lead, I 
walked up in front of her, and said so all around could hear. "Ill challenge 
you". She looked me over with curiosity. "How old are you kid, ten". She 
began to laugh, and then spoke again. "I don't fight beginners". She 
continued to laugh, but watched Slash with careful eyes. "Beginner eh", I 
replied. "Slash, let's show her what a beginner can do. She looked me over 
again, and smirked. When she looked back for Slash, he was gone. Sure enough 
he was up on a roof above her, grinning wildly.
"Ok kid", she began. "One on one".
I smiled as she lifted a pokeball from her belt. "Go scyther". The scyther 
came out of it's ball, and shrieked it's name. "Then I choose Slash".
Slash once again blurred out of sight, and appeared before me. "You win kid, 
and I'll give you a tm", she said with confidence. "I win, I get that jacket 
your wearing". She was pointing at my bubble vest.
I had no idea what a tm was, but a battle sounded good.
"Quick attack", she commanded just as I walked away from Slash. All I 
managed to say was, "get away". It was enough though, because he blurred up 
onto the roof of the house his back was against. Scyther missed him and 
crashed straight into the wall.
Slash just jumped back to the ground, and faced scyther as he stood up, the 
wild grin covering his face again. "Double team", the woman commanded with 
the sounds of a drill sergeant. Sure enough, scyther slipped into the form 
of 3 scythers. I smiled, and looked at sneasle. We had fought a gloom that 
knew double team before when we trained in the indoor jungle area, so we 
knew exactly what to do. "Do it", I said with a smile crossing my lips. 
Slash slowly disappeared. Slowly, the illusion scythers disappeared, and 
there was only one left. The woman began to growl, and finally yelled, 
"Agility". Scyther sped around the area, Slash still not reappearing. I had 
no idea he could hold the attack this long, but it was working. "Ice slash", 
I said softly, but so all could hear. The woman looked at me. I just smiled 
back to her, mouthing "Watch". And watch she did. Scyther suddenly stopped 
in his tracks, and Slash reappeared. Scyther had a mark across his chest 
where he had obviously been slashed. But slowly, his chest started to cover 
with ice, until the bug pokemon screamed its name with pain. "Now", I began, 
but also noticed the womans look of utter horror at what Slash had done to 
her scyther. "Fury swipes". Slash sped to the fallen scyther, and started to 
scratch at it with his claws extended. He clawed and clawed, until the 
scyther fainted.
The crowd which had now gathered looked at me with eyes full of surprise, 
and finally let out a howl of approval. I was so proud. With the 10 or so 
people watching, and the scyther laying on the ground out cold. I felt like 
I had just won the pokemon league.

After returning her pokemon, the woman looked at me with her eyes wide open. 
"How old are you....", she managed to ask. "10, I replied, happy as ever". 
She looked at me and sneasle.  "And how long have you been a pokemon 
trainer". I smiled at the woman. "What's a Tm", I managed to ask, ignoring 
her previous question. Her look of shock disappeared. "It teaches pokemon a 
certain move, very handy if you want a fire pokemon to learn a grass move, 
or a rock pokemon to learn a psychic move . Or something like that anyway.
"No way", I said aloud after a lot of thinking. "Slash doesn't need help 
from an item to be strong". I started to walk back into the pokemon center. 
Just as I was entering, the woman yelled out. "Have this then". A evolution 
stone of some sort, I realized. I brought out Dexter, and inspected it. 
"Unknown stone", it began. "Not much is known about this stone, but the 3 
people in the world who are known to of had one said that it made Eevee 
evolve, but in each case to a different pokemon". Dexter went blank again, 
and I put it away.

Later on that day, after Slash was healed, it was time to start towards 
Violet city. I had rung Auntie Elm while Slash was getting healed, and she 
was surprised beyond belief when she heard I had a Unknown stone. She told 
me to be careful with it, and not to let it touch any of my pokemon without 
both of us knowing.
That day, as we were traveling up the hill out of cherry grove city, I found 
out why the pokemon center was so full. Just outside the town was a huge 
quarry, and inside were almost a hundred trainers digging for pokemon 
fossils. Apparently, a few weeks ago a young kid found the fossil of a long 
dead articuno, but he took it to a lab and had them create one with the Dna 
in the fossil. Now some kid had a newborn articuno, and other trainers 
wanted a rare pokemon like it to. The only other fossil that was found was a 
scizzor. My guess was that they were fighting and a landslide killed them, 
or something of the sort, so I just walked straight by.
I wasn't really into digging for dead birds anyways. They should be left 
alone under ground in my opinion. Eventually darkness covered the sky, and I 
had to set up camp. I released Teddy, and had him go get some firewood, 
while I set up the tent and got his food ready. That's sure got him going. 
He returned soon with a huge bundle of wood, reaching way over his head. 
After lighting it, I handed him a jar of honey. He begged me to by him some 
at the pokemart, and I couldn't refuse.  Once again, I shared my meal with 
Slash, and sat down by the fire. The 3 of us sat together, Slash slightly 
glowing as he drew pictures in the fire. Once teddy had fallen asleep, I 
recalled him to his pokeball, and entered the tent, followed by slash after 
he extinguished the fire.
"Get up, quickly".
I stirred slowly. Then suddenly, the zip to my tent opened.
"Get up, There's going to be tauros through here in 10 minutes".
That certainly woke me up. I threw on my vest, over my white shirt I wore 
today, and started to pack up my gear.
As soon as I exited my tent and cleared up any gear I left outside, I 
stepped back and a herd of tauros trampled past the spot my tent used to be.
"Argh, thanks", I muttered, still half asleep. I waited for a reply, but 
there was none. I still waited. Then, I opened my eyes fully. Where had that 
guy gone. I looked around, left, right, ahead of me, behind me. He was 
nowhere to be seen. Then I seen Slash pointing at the sky. Sure enough, the 
guy who saved me was flying away calmly on a fearow, towards what appeared 
to be the direction violet city was in. I ashuddered at my near death 
experience, and sat down to wake up properly.

A few hours after the tauros incident, I was making my way along route 30 
again. Past a few houses here again. Past a house that had an old man 
outside it trying to sell me his nuts. It confused me beyond belief, but I 
didn't let the man see my confusion, I just walked on.
Eventually all the houses were past, and I was walking along a path through 
what was like a small forest. I kept a wild eye out for pokemon, but all I 
managed to see were caterpies and rattata's, and neither really interested 
me. Slash seemed to be kept amused by them though, because every now and 
then a caterpie or the occasional metapod fell from a tree. Teddy was also 
walking with me now, I decided he needed the exercise. He spent the time 
having just as much fun as slash it seemed, but with a lot less success. He 
would chase the rattata's, but never seemed to catch them. One time he 
surprised me a little, because he got frustrated and punched the ground, 
which proceded to shake a little. My guess was he was learning earthquake 
attack. The daylight started to fade eventually, and a few new pokemon 
showed their faces. A meowth was lying unconscious in front of teddy, and he 
had a cheerful smile crossing his face. Slash had stopped his masacre on the 
poor caterpie, and now walked alongside me, watching Teddy run ahead, still 
trying to catch up the wild rattata. Eventually the time came when we were 
all to tired to walk anymore, well, at least I was, so I set up camp and 
cooked a small meal. We had made it to route 31 about lunch time, and I 
guessed we were pretty close to Violet city.
As I set up camp, I realized I had lost something, but what. A roar filled 
the air and I knew what. Teddy was missing.
I followed the sound until I came to a small clearing. Standing in the 
middle was teddy, and next to him a beedrill, and about 3 meters away a 
young boy with a bug catching net. "Are you battling my tediursa", I asked 
the startled boy as he seen me. "Oh, good", I replied. The 2 pokemon were 
duking it out. Teddy only just managing to dodge the stingers of the 
beedrill. "Tackle", the boy said softly, not sure of himself. Beedrill 
charged at Teddy, and rammed him into a tree. Teddy stood up slowly, rage 
filled his eyes. He began to punch the ground, each time the ground moved 
slightly, but nothing much happened. The beedrill attacked again, ramming 
poor teddy. I watched in amazement as teddy got straight back up and punched 
the ground. It shook slightly again, but nothing happened. He stamped, the 
ground shook a little bit, but still nothing happened. "Twin needle", the 
boy said with a little more confidence then the previous order. The needles 
both struck Teddy, but he stood back up again.
This time, however, he didn't punch the ground or stamp, he opened his mouth 
and let out his roar attack. Beedrill froze with fear. The attack kept 
going, Teddy didn't stop for a breath, just kept going.
After a minute or so, Teddy finally stopped. He started to glow, just 
slightly. Then, he went totally white, and grew. He grew almost 5 times his 
original size. His face turned from it's caring usual face to the face of a 
angry Ursaring. The beedrill looked at him, still frozen from the huge roar. 
I just stared, and so did slash. "How did his level get so high so fast", I 
wondered to myself.
Finally, My new Ursaring started to move. He stomped his foot on the ground, 
and unlike when he was a tediursa, the ground began to split. Trees began to 
wobble, and then they fell. About 6, all towards the beedrill.
"Be.....b......beedrill", the boy stuttered in shock. Ursaring looked 
towards me and Slash, and what appeared to be a smile crossed his face. 
"Congratulations", I said, smile covering my entire face.

After getting ursaring to remove the tree's from the fallen beedrill, I 
returned to camp and cooked a dinner fit for kings. Well, a whole meal for 
ursaring and the usual half meal each for me and Slash. Ursaring wolfed down 
the meal, and also had one of his remaining 4 jars of honey. After dinner, I 
returned him to his pokeball and went to sleep.

The following morning I awoke to an amazing voice. It sounded like a 
lullaby, and it definitely wasn't a Jigglypuff. The sound wasn't the sound 
of a pokemons name, but a almost holy voice, not singing a song as such, 
just singing.
I slowly exited my tent, careful not to make a sound.
The pokemon slightly resembled a aipom, except it was green. "Celebii", I 
whispered to myself. The pokemon turned to me, smiled, and then began to 
sing.
All of a sudden, I couldn't see with my eyes. I felt as if I was flying.
Then, I started to see. I was flying. Beside me, flew the singing celebii. 
It pointed down, and I followed his finger, and gasped in horror.  Below us 
were 100's men and women, all with black clothes, all with an R in pink 
writing on their shirts. But that wasn't what surprised me. Over in the left 
hand corner, lay cages upon cages of pokemon, I had never seen so many 
pokemon. And stranger still, I couldn't tell what one of the pokemon were, 
they were all either rare, or Auntie Elm had never told me of them.
My theory of them being rare was confirmed when a huge articuno flew right 
in front of us, and then straight through us. The rockets were all chasing 
it, their pokemon flying after it as well.

Slowly, we began to fall back from the place. We crossed water, and went 
straight through back to land. A tower I didn't recognize . a farm. A city 
of some sort with a pair of towers, one only just rebuilt. We then went 
down, to a city me and Auntie had been to before, Golden rod. We kept going, 
until we reached a building. We stopped in front of a boy about 14, with 
blonde hair and blue eyes, with a rather big nose and a very skinny body. He 
wore what appeared to be a sack, and sat in a corner, a small Monsoon by his 
side.
He was a street kid, I realized. "We're coming", I thought I heard celebii 
mutter. The boys head began to move, and he looked as if he seen a ghost.
Before I got another look though, we moved on, through a forest, past a 
small village, over a small mountain. We kept going, over a forest, past 
water, into another town. Then , we started to get higher, and higher. We 
stopped on top of a huge hotel like building, at what appeared to be a 
battle ground at the top of a building. The man who had saved me from the 
tauros stood at the top, and appeared to be battling a kid my age, with a 
pichu. The fearows beak started to go into a drill, and he dived. He hit the 
pichu dead on, and the little pokemon fainted. I thought I heard someone 
say, "No badge for you kid". So he was the gym leader. I watched as the man 
walked to the corner of the building. A girl about 14 years old sat there, 
feat hanging over the edge, a spearow on one side of her, a pidgeotto the 
other, both looking at her with sympathy. Then , once again I thought I 
heard celebii mutter, "We're coming".
Just as I noticed her head turn, and look around in slight fear, we zoomed 
off again. Over a small forest, wait, we stopped. All of a sudden, we fell. 
Through trees, and back to my campsite.

"What did he do to you", I heard as I slowly awoke. "Michele, are you all 
right"? I heard a slightly feminine voice, and started to look around. I was 
surrounded by trees, and not one person was around me.
"Michele", the voice came again. I looked at Slash, she was just looking at 
me in worry over my face. "Are you all right". I gasped. Slash had spoken to 
me. "You spoke", I said in a tone filled with fear and surprise. "No duh, I 
always speak, just you don't understand me". I looked at her. "I understand 
you now though". "No you don't, you need a translator for.....". She stopped 
in mid sentence, and looked at me.  "You understand me". She said with 
shock. "You understand me". This time her voice was full of happiness.
Immediately, Her voice went serious. "What did that trickster celebii want".
"He showed me something, horrible", I managed to spit out, still confused at 
understanding Slash.
"There are pokemon trapped, all rare". He looked at me, and frowned. 
"Another trick I guess".
"No", I almost yelled. "An articuno, I think he wants me to help the 
pokemon".
After explaining the whole thing to Slash, he looked shocked. What I had 
just told him couldn't be a trick, he explained, because celebii isn't 
strong enough to make up that sort of dream. "We have to go", he whispered 
to me. "If they trap those pokemon to long, the elements will change. Hot 
places will freeze, cold places melt, and who knows what else. At least time 
is on our side".
I looked at him with confusion. "Oh, humans don't know, that's right". He 
began. "Celebii is the time keeper. As long as he is free we have plenty of 
time".
After packing up the gear in a hurry, we started on our way to Violet city.

Later that day, slash lost her voice.
It didn't really bother either of us, we were used to communicating without 
speech, and I personally liked it better. I couldn't really tell what Slash 
thought, because she spent most of the day in the tree's looking for violet 
city. I left Ted, my newly named ursaring, in his pokeball. Teddy just 
didn't suit him anymore. By late afternoon, Slash had seen violet city. So 
when it got dark, we continued until we found it.

That night I got a decent sized room with a bunk bed to myself. The pokemon 
center only had about 6 people staying in it, so there was a lot of room, 
unlike the cherry grove city one. I let ursaring out that night, and chansey 
brought him a whole tub of a special sort of honey, that wouldn't be bad for 
him if he ate the whole lot. Chansey also brought in some food for me and 
Slash, who shared the top bunk. Ursaring jumped straight onto the bottom bed 
and took a nap after his feed, while I just sat with Slash, thinking the 
days happenings over.

That morning, I woke up later then usual, 11.00am to be exact. Ursaring was 
still asleep on the lower bunk, snoring away, and slash was sitting on the 
ground, back against a wall, while he blew small rings of fire into the air. 
"training", I asked.
Slash shook his head, in agreement. I jumped off the bunk, and crashed down 
beside Ted on the floor. The crash woke him up, and he began to stir. I 
returned him to his pokeball as he slowly woke up, and motioned for Slash to 
follow me as I walked out of the room. I walked to the pay phones, and 
started to dial. Sure enough, a picture of Auntie Elm holding a pichu  
appeared on the screen. After explaining to her of what had happened since 
the previous call, leaving out the little incident with celebii. She wished 
me luck, and hung up the phone.
I stayed at the center that day until lunch time. After having a meal, I 
waved to jenny and began to make my way to the hotel from the dream celebii 
showed me. Sure enough, it was as huge as in the dream, obviously a hotel. I 
walked in, and moved straight to the elevator. As I entered, I pushed the 
button that said "gym", in big bold letters. The elevator took off, not slow 
like the usual ones, it took barely 10 seconds to reach the top.
I exited the elevator and entered a room that was total luxury. Velvet 
seats, widescreen tv, sound system, and a golden sculpture of a zapdos. I 
noticed a poster that said something about birds of council, but walked by, 
not taking much notice.
I heard a pair of voices, and walked up some stairs where they came from. I 
emerged on the roof to see the girl and the man from the dream arguing. In 
person, the man looked a lot bigger then the dream, but it was definitely 
him. The girl stood before him. "I don't need a companion", she yelled with 
anger. The man looked at her, eyes filled with rage. "You have no choice in 
the matter Leanne. Find a travel buddy, or you can't leave". I remembered 
how celebii spoke to the girl, and suddenly spoke up before I could stop 
myself.
"I'll travel with you". The 2 both stared at me. The girl looked shocked, as 
if she recognised me. "You", she said softly. "There father, someone to go 
with". He growled. He obviously didn't want his daughter to leave him.
"Oh yeah", I began. "I challenge you for that badge you got there". They 
both looked slightly startled, then the man smiled. "I remember you", he 
began. "You're the girl who I saved from the tauros". He smiled, and kissed 
a ring on his hand.
"Ok, if you beat me, I'll let my daughter go with you, and give you the 
badge. "You lose, he he". He smiled, and with an evil grin, continued. "You 
leave, without Leanne. That's the only way she can leave with you".
I looked at the girl, she just stared over the edge of the building. "Fine", 
I muttered as I lay my pack on the ground.
"Good, prepare to have your ass kicked by Falkner, bird master".
"2 on 2". He began, reciting the rules. "And finally, once a pokemon is 
returned, asleep or fainted, they are out of the battle", he said after 
about 5 minutes of reciting some rules.

The battle began, he threw out a pokeball, and Fearow emerged. I followed 
suit, and out came Ted. He almost jumped back when he seen the ursaring. Not 
many 10 year olds have pokemon this high a level.
"Fly", began Falkner. Before I could give an order, ursaring ran forward, 
and grabbed one of the fearows feet. "Over already", I said, with a tone of 
confidence. Falkner looked on, eyes wide. "Seismic toss". Ted started to 
swing around in circles, swinging fearow with him. "Now", I yelled on the 
3rd swing around. Ursaring jumped a meter or so in the air, and slammed 
Fearow onto the roof as hard as he could. "Now body slam". Ted jumped into 
the air again, this time without fearow, and landed on top of the bird 
pokemon, belly first. "Return", muttered falkner. Leanne now watched with 
amazement. Never had anyone beaten her father so easily, so fast. She didn't 
get her hopes up though, she knew what was next.
"Go articuno", the huge man roared as he chucked his pokeball. The young 
bird emerged, with a cloud of beauty. It was amazing . It shone as the sun 
reflected off it's icy body. "I brought this the day I met you kid", he said 
with a huge grin on his face. Ursaring roared, but the young bird didn't 
even flinch. Once again, Ursaring charged to grab the birds leg, but it took 
off to fast this time. Ursaring growled, and I just stood there, hooked on 
the icebirds beauty. "Ice beam", yelled falkner. Those 2 words woke me up, 
and just in time. "Hyper beam", was all I managed to say, bit it would 
hopefully be enough. Leanne just sat at a side, and watched. The beam of 
blue lightning collided with the beam of pure energy. A huge ball fomed, 
mixed of blue and a golden color. Then, the worst possible thing happened. 
The huge ball started to move towards Ursaring. "return", I yelled as the 
red beam sucked in Ursaring. The huge ball flew over the building, and into 
the countryside, over a hill, leaving a huge explosion of ice and an immense 
force.
Articuno hung in the air, breathing heavily.
"Your best is gone kid", falkner began. "You still wanna fight".
"You think that was my best", I said with a smile crossing my face. "Meet my 
real best". Slash shot from behind me in a blur of black.
Falkner almost swore as he seen Slash, but caught himself in time. "Ice beam 
it", he yelled at Articuno. Articuno looked at slash, but then stopped the 
ice beam. She disappeared before his very eyes.
Both trainer and pokemon stood amazed, I just smiled, and leanne seemed to 
no what was happening, cause she grinned to. "Now", I said calmly. Articuno 
began to fall to the ground, fast. As he hit the ground, slash appeared. 
"Now, lets finish this bitch", I said trying to sound cool. "Fire slash". 
Slash slashed at the fallen articuno, and stood back a second or 2, waiting. 
Immediately, a huge flame burst where Articuno had been slashed. The bird 
shrieked in pain, falkner looked at his prized pokemon in pity. "You give", 
I yelled.
Falkner looked at me, then finally yelled. "I give, stop the fire". "Tamed 
flame". I said to Slash with a grin.
Sure enough, Slash started to glow, and the fire disappeared.
Leanne asked me to wait until tomorrow before I leave, so I decided to have 
a look around town. Violet city was covered with buildings. A pokemon 
school, more then 5 poke marts. I was amazed at the sheer masses of people 
to. They were all very nice, most said hello, some even stopped for a chat.
"We're from New bark town", I told one guy. "Any good places to have a look 
around".
The kid boy looked at me, or more then often Slash. "Try the bellsprout 
tower", he began slowly. "The monks in there tend to want to battle new 
trainers, and some even give helpful hints for battle and items.
Lunch came, and boredom was setting in. Bellsprout tower didn't sound so 
great, But it had to be better then these lame ass shops.
After stopping a lady for directions, I started to make my way to the tower. 
As I approached, trainers started to appear. Not the monks, but just normal 
trainers looking for a battle.
I heard a commotion of some sort, and walked over to a battle taking place. 
Sure enough, a battle was taking place. Surrounding the battle were about 20 
kids, from 10 to 16, each watching intently as ayoung man battled a woman 
some age between 17 and her early 20's. I suddenly realized the woman. "The 
same one we battled in cherry grove", I whispered to Slash, who also watched 
intently as well. She was using a poliwrath against what appeared to be a 
red meganium. It's flower was now a flaming collar around it's neck, and 
it's to antennae were now horns. But other then that, it was a usual 
Meganium.
Poliwrath fired a watergun, but meganium dodged, sending a red vinewhip in 
response. Poliwrath used its watergun to stop the vine, but as the water 
hit, steam rose from the vine. "grass blast", the boy facing the woman 
ordered. Grass began to rip from the ground. It rose, masses of it. It all 
suddenly shot at the water pokemon, and when it hit, stuck like glue. The 
water pokemon fumbled and rolled about trying to move the grass, but it 
wouldn't move. The, as unexpected as a red colored Meganium, the grass burst 
into flames, surrounding the poliwrath. But that wasn't the amazing thing, 
the flames were green. Poliwrath fell, and the flames disappeared. "what an 
attack", I whispered to Slash, who was still glued to the battleground.
The boy soon returned his pokemon, and a young man, about the same age as 
the woman stood forward.
"if that's all the people who want to battle today", he began. I couldn't 
help myself. "I'll fight anyone". A gasp came from the crowd, and a few 
snickers. "No", the woman who lost the last battle said softly. "She beat 
Scyther, she's good". The whole crowd turned to look at the woman who spoke. 
They then turned to Me, eyes wide with wonder. Some of the eyes turned to 
Slash. Then the woman spoke again. "The only one ever to beat scyther yet". 
The crowd stirred at this, and the older man smiled. "I'll challenge you 
then". He said with a smile. "I get the unknown stone. You win, you can have 
this Moltres fossil". I heard whispers in the crowd. "She's the one with the 
unknown stone", some would ponder. "Not the moltres fossil", others would 
say.
Finally, I couldn't help but give into temptation. All my ideas about 
reviving pokemon through fossils disappeared from my head, and the thought 
of having a moltres flying above me filled my mind.
"Lets go", I said rather confidently. The crowd all cleared back, as if hey 
were scared. "Pokeball go", the man said. A nidoking emerged from the 
pokeball, and roared as loud as Ted did. "2 on 2", he said with confidence. 
I reached for Teds pokeball, and threw it at the center of the battle 
ground. "Go Ted", I said with a smile. The woman from before watched with 
massive interest. She had only seen one of my pokemon, and her eyes bulged 
when she seen an ursaring emerge from the red light.
The 2 pokemon stood in front of each other. Ted taller, The nidoking bigger. 
Much bigger.
"Lets go Ted", I started. "Slash attack.". Nidokings claws moved slightly 
out of it's paws, and he ran at the nidoking. "Horn attack", the man now 
said. The background was silent, but I could hear someone chearing for Ned, 
I guessed that was him. The 2 pokemon ran, and attacked. The horn collided 
with paw, both pokemon stood, pushing attack against attack. "Comon Ted, you 
can do it", I said with all my support I could muster. "poison sting", I 
heard as I cheered on Ted. Before I could give a order to defend him against 
the attack, the horn went green, and a heaps of green needles flowed from 
it, each colliding with Ted. Ted fell back, and stumbled, giving the 
nidoking all the time it needed. It charged, horn first into Ted stomach, 
sending him to the floor. "Hyper beam", Ned yelled, the sound of victory in 
his voice. The hyper beam shot through the air straight at Ted.
"Return", I muttered as the red beam sucked Ted into his pokeball. "Great 
try", I whispered.
"We've got an advantage, so make quick work of this lizard", I said to 
Slash. He just smiled, and moved onto the battlefield. "Go", someone yelled. 
Before I gave an order, or Ned could give an order, Slash was in the air. As 
he rose with his jump, a blue orb appeared in front of him.
"Ice beam", I yelled with sheer pleasure. The blue lightning shot at the 
nidoking with full force. Its feet started to freeze, followed by its waist. 
The nidoking screamed with pain, its body slowly freezing.
Not being able to handle his pokemons pain anymore, Ned returned the 
pokemon. "Good job Slash", I muttered. Everyone looked at slash with open 
eyes. Including Ned, who had obviously underestimated him.
Ned stood for a minute, hand slipping from pokeball to pokeball.
"The advantage is mine now", he said with a smile, as he threw out a 
pokeball. From it emerged a small fire pokemon, a flareon. "how do you like 
that", he said in an almost crazed manner. No one had beaten his Nidoking so 
easily, I guessed. I just stood there, smiling.
When he seen my face light up, his face almost screwed up with anger, but he 
quickly caught himself, and returned it to normal, a slight grin escaping.
"flame thrower", was his first command. The flareon stared at Slash, and 
then fired. As the fire was about to hit Slash, I quickly yelled, "Jump". He 
shot into the air in a blur, just missing the fire attack. The man seemed 
about to give another command, but the flareon continued to try and hit 
Slash, always just missing. The sun started to set, and night covered the 
skies. Still, Slash dodged the attacks, which always just missed him. 
"Bite", the man said calmly. The flareon tried to bite Slash, but he easily 
dodged, and shot onto the roof of a nearby building. The whole crowd of kids 
and teenagers were now watching the battle with intense interest, and even a 
few monks watched. "She's toying with me", Ned whispered to himself.
"Ok, Im getting tired Slash", I said for all to hear. "Lets finish this. 
Faint attack". Slash slowly disapeared from view, and everyone around me 
looked on in wonder. Flareon looked in fear. Suddenly, flareon  lifted a 
little into the air, and then started to dart straight at a wall with 
amazing speeds. He slamed into the wall, and Slash reappeared, right beside 
him with a smirk. "Fury swipes". Slash just scratched and scratched like mad 
at Flareon, until he didn't cry in pain anymore, he fainted.
"Return", Ned muttered in disappointment as he returned his pokemon.  I 
walked up to him and smiled. "Good battle". He looked at me with a newfound 
respect. "It's so strong", he muttered as he looked at Slash. She looked 
offended. "She is strong", I said with a little amusement in my voice.
Finally, the woman who I beat in Cherry grove city walked up to me. "My 
names Ariana", she told me. "And the man you just beat is Neddy, and we 
teach at the pokemon school just down the road". I looked around at all the 
teenagers and kids, sure enough that would explain a few things. "My names 
Michele Elm", I began. "And this here is Slash, and we are going to win the 
pokemon league". I had taken My aunties last name, because I didn't want my 
mothers when I won the pokemon league. She helped me change it legally, so I 
would never use my former last name again.
"I believe this is yours now", said Neddy as he handed me the Fossil. It 
looked like an evolution stone to me, but I put it in my pack and smiled. 
"thank you for the battle, and the future moltres". They both smiled as I 
called it a future moltres.
After a quick goodbye, and a few Congratulations for winning my battle, I 
ran back to the pokemon center. I gave Ted's pokeball to nurse joy, and left 
for my room after she healed Slash. The 2 of us jumped ona bed each, and lay 
straight down, and slept, no food.

That night I dreamt. Once again, I felt like I was flying, and it turned out 
I was, but this time without celebii. I flew over a small forest, then 
stopped at a pokemon center. A boy about 16 slept there, a bird at each of 
his sides. That was an amazing fact in itself, because the birds weren't 
regular birds. One was a articuno, and one was a zapdos. Each seemed young, 
but each clung to him with love. "Man they ain't so rare no more are they", 
I wondered to myself. By the boys feet were another pokemon. Not a bird, a 
small hound like pokemon. It had the shape of a growlithe, but at closer 
look I noticed something unusual about it. Where a growlithe was usually 
orange, he was green. And where they were usually white, he was blue. I got 
the sudden urge to speak, and words I hadn't formed emitted from my mouth. 
"I'll be with you soon boy", I muttered, as I slowly moved away from the 
pokemon center.

That morning I woke up startled. Not from the dream exactly, but from some 
girl knocking on the door to my room. I walked up, and opened it.
"We have to go now", Leanne said rather frightened. "He changed his mind".
I sighed. "And your sure you want to disobey him, your father"? She stood, 
looking me in the eye. A smile crossed her face. "I've wanted this more then 
life itself". I nodded, knowing the feeling.
About 20 minutes later, I was packed and ready to leave. Slash stood by my 
side, and we made our way out of the pokemon center, after I grabbed Ted.
We walked at a brisk pace, saying nothing. The light was dim, and we tripped 
many times over rocks, and pieces of wood. As we exited the town, I turned 
to look back. Lights were on in a lot of the buildings, and the sun was 
finally starting to rise. A sound I heard sent a shiver down my spine. 
"Caw". There it was again. A fearow. We turned to run, but 4 pokemon landed 
in front of us, cutting us off. An Noctowl, Pidgeot, pidgeotto and Articuno. 
I heard the "Caw", sound again, and a pokemon began to descend upon us. Upon 
the fearow, the gym leader falkner, with a look of pure hatred crossing his 
face.
"Come with me Leanne, and no 1 gets hurt". She was about to say something, 
but I stepped forward. "She comes with me, so your pokemon don't get hurt 
old man". Once again I was trying to sound tough, and older then I was, but 
did it work. He laughed, obviously not. "Slash", I instructed. He shot from 
my side, past the noctowl, and back again. For a moment the pokemon just 
stood there, then it doubled over. "Like I said". I reached for Ted's 
pokeball, and he emerged, ready for battle with a huge roar.
"no, she comes with me", he yelled. "Im sorry Leanne", I whispered slightly. 
"Perhaps you shouldn't watch this". She turned around, pretending not to 
hear what was about to happen. "Hyper beam". Ted smiled, and his eyes grew a 
golden color. "light screen, everyone", yelled the frightened gym leader. A 
huge light screen appeared before them, and I smiled. Finally, Ted opened 
his mouth, and the huge golden beam collided with the oversized lightscreen. 
At first they just collided, but then the pokemon beagn to be pushed back, 
and into the sky. Then, fearow Falkner sat on as well. Finally, Ted gave a 
huge burst of power. It didn't hit them, but it's force pushed them all off 
into the sky, and they sailed into the distance. All except the articuno, 
who now stood before us, a grin across his face. Sure enough, when I turned 
to look the same grin covered Leannes face. Articuno flew to her shoulder, 
and allowed herself to be pulled into a pokeball.
"You stole your fathers.....", I began. "He stole the fossil from me", she 
said interrupting me. "He deserves
all he gets", she said with a snarl.

That day, we walked at full pace along route 32. It was a overcast day, and 
there wasn't much sahde if it rained. We planned to get to the pokemon 
center outside union cave as soon as possible. Pokemon seemed to sense the 
coming weather as well, because they were rarely seen, and even then they 
disappeared into burrows or bushes of some sort.
Although most pokemon disappeared, Leanne found herself surrounded by 
wooper, and she even caught one. The wooper kept away from me, any that came 
close would get a glare from Slash, as if to say, keep away.
Finally, the rain came.
At first it was just little droplets, givings us enough time to find 
shelter. "Look for shelter", I said to slash. He shot off leaving a blur of 
black behind him. We ran in the direction he left us in.
Slash came back at the same speed he left, barely wet, and pointed to a hill 
in the distance. Sure enough, there on top were 4 trees, and all around them 
pokemon trying to hide from the water. Mareep and natu all sat at the 
bottom, at least 10 of each, and in the tree itself a dozen pidgey and 
pidgeotto, spearows aplenty and even a few xatu. "To the tree's", I yelled 
to Leanne. "I've got an idea".
We ran as fast as I could muster, which wasn't very fast, until we arrived 
in between the trees. I grabbed the tent, and tied each corner of the 
material to a tree, making a small canvas like shelter. We darted 
underneathe and sure enough, the pokemon followed slowly until we were all 
underneath. I noticed the other tents, and a few of the trainers inside 
peaking out at us. We were quite the site, pokemon and humans snuggling into 
the cover together. Night came, and it still rained, now a lot harder. We 
sat huddled in with the mareep, who kept us warm. They kept out of the rain, 
because there was no lightning for them to absorb. One of them seemed rather 
attached to Leanne, and she gave it a pokeball to join her team. I on the 
other hand was nursing a very young smeargle. Night came, and most pokemon 
and trainers fell asleep.

As night left us, the rain didn't, and I became frustrated. "I'm gonna get 
some training in", I said to Leanne with a little fury. The rain might help 
my pokemon get used to water attacks. "Good idea", she finally said. "It's 
so boring here". I put the smeargle down on the ground, but it wouldn't let 
me leave it. "Smear", it cried. Finally, I gave in, and put him inside my 
bubble vest. I motioned for Slash to follow me, and so did Ted. The train 
poured down on my back as I exited the cover of the canvas.  I almost fell 
with the pressure. Slash did, and landed on her back. But that didn't stop 
her, she got straight back up, and felt the pressure while she crouched on 
her knees. Ted on the other hand, felt the rain and shot back under the 
canvas. I smiled at him, I wouldn't force any of my pokemon under this heavy 
rain. I noticed that Leanne had also returned to the Canvas, and sat with a 
natu in her lap. "Practice your slashes", I screamed over the rain. The 
sound the rain gave made my screams seem quiet, but Slash seemed to hear. 
She started to slash at thin air, each time with more effort.

Meanwhile, Ted had gotten hungry it seemed, cause he was in my pack, looking 
for something. He pulled his paw out, and looked shocked. I couldn't see 
what he had in his hand, but his back began to tremble. He roared in pain, 
and I shot over to see what was wrong, careful to keep the smeargle safe. 
Then, an amazing thing happened. From his back, shot out 2 red wings, each 
much like a charizards. I gasped, and watched in disbelief. He started to 
glow, but I could still see what was happening. His paws trembled, and then 
a blade shot out from each, as long as a scythers at least, but his paws 
remained in tact. As quick aas they came, they were retracted back into his 
paw, he still roared with pain. From his head, a single horn shot straight 
out. It curved, and traveled down his back, until it stopped above his rear. 
The horn turned from a blood red color to silver as it stopped growing. His 
chest also turned silver, leaving his abdominal area in the same shape as a 
nidokings. The slight glowing finally stopped, and Ted fell over. He still 
roared with pain a little, but eventually stopped. His wings also gave off a 
silver metal look now, but anything except his black nose that wasn't 
silver, was now red. His eyes were plain silver. He stood up, his face 
rather serious, and looked at me, my mouth open with awe. He roared another 
roar, but this one was different. It was much louder then the previous, and 
demanded respect. I lifted up dexter and Ted grinned. Firringa, the thought 
to be false pokemon. A old pokemon trainer once took a photo of one of 
these, communicating to an ursaring. Although no human has ever seen one of 
these before, so not much is known about them, including if they still 
exist. It is suspected it is a fire pokemon, but again, not much is known 
about them.
"Firringa", I whispered.  The serious face disappeared, and the goofy grin 
of ursaring crossed his face. I jumped up to the pokemon, and wrapped my 
arms around him, a tear coming to my eye. His pain had hurt me, seeing him 
in so much pain, was it worth it for him to evolve. That was his decision to 
make, not mine. Ted was now almost twice his former size long ways, and 
almost half his former size taller. All f a sudden, he ran out of the 
canvas, and jumped into the air. He flew, around over head, and all over the 
place, ignoring the rain. Enjoying it maybe.
About an hour later that morning, The rain stopped and I returned my new 
pokemon. We packed up the tent as the pokemon all left, and began to leave 
ourselves. I felt a movement under my vest, and suddenly remembered the baby 
smeargle. It popped it's head out, and let out a cheerful "Smeargle". "You 
wanna come with me", I asked with a cheery smile. His smile disappeared, and 
his face started to twist and turn, as if in confusion. "Wanna stay with 
me", I asked again. He gripped my chest, and held on tight. "Here then", I 
said as I put a pokeball down there with him. Sure enough, he disappeared. 
The ball shook once, twice, three times and then let out a loud "PING". 
Immediately he emerged from his pokeball, and continued to hug me, a the 
huge cheerful smile back on his face.

That day was a great day, the clouds all left, and a beautiful sunny day 
soon replaced them. Plent of trainers soon filed the area, and Leanne had 
her first ever trainers battle. She won with only a little trouble, her 
pidgeotto beat a ivysaur, but a pichu beat it. Then her newly found natu 
defeated the poor little pichu with an amazing psybeam attack, which 
surprised everyone who witnessed the fight. Such a small pokemon made such a 
powerful attack. It's level must have been higher then we thought. We 
watched a few battles as well, and I got Smeargle to use his sketch ability 
to learn a thunders hock attack.
Day soon turned to night, as the small group reached a small forest of 
tree's. They made camp, and settled down for the night. All of the pokemon 
came out for a meal that night, although Firringa, who had now lost his 
nickname completely, had to pull a few tree's out to make room for his huge 
body. Like usual, me and Slash shared our meal, but I also gave some of the 
meals to Leanne and her pokemon. I only had 4 meals left after that, and 
just my bad luck, after smeargle took a few gulps and backed away, Firringa 
gulped all the rest down. I had to find the pokemon center soon.
The night was as great as the day, stars a plenty filled the sky, and we 
were even blessed with a full moon. The odd hoot hoot could be heard over 
the slight sounds of the forest.
About an hour after returning our pokemon, Slashes ears moved. He stood, and 
exited our tent. I followed him, and found him looking to the sky. 3 or 4 
birds flew past the moon, and I smiled. Their beauty was amazing. I looked 
at Slash, and was about to speak when I noticed his tense look. I looked 
back to the birds, and sure enough they seemed closer. "Get Leanne", I 
whispered.  The birds came closer, and on one I realized the shape of a man. 
As he drew closer, I recognized him as falkner.
"What do you want", I heard Leanne's half asleep voice whisper to me. "Up 
there". I pointed at the birds, and she turned to look. She shook, I wasn't 
sure with fear or anger, but she muttered not long after, "I'll handle 
this". The pidgeot landed first. It looked us over, and stared at me with 
obvious hate in it's eyes. Then, 2 noctowl landed, to my surprise each held 
a trainer. A boy and a girl, each scanning their surroundings with care. 
"Cousins", I heard Leanne mutter to the 2. They smiled, and hissed, "we have 
no cousin", in simultaneous hate. Before she could say anything, Falkner 
landed in between them. "Give me my bird", he yelled. "What, no greeting", I 
replied. "How rude of you father", Leanne said with a smile, playing along. 
"What do you mean father, little girl, I have no daughter". She jumped back 
in surprise at this, but didn't seem to worried. "Well then falkner", she 
replied. "Go home, because this pokemon was stolen from me, and I simply 
took it back". He snarled. "Get them". I looked at Leanne. Her eyes were 
locked on Falkners, so I took the 2 cousins. "My names Michele", I said with 
a cute smile. "Whats yours". They both smiled. "Quin and lynn", the male 
replied. "And against us you cannot win", the female said with a giggle. 
"did you make that up all my your little bitty selves", I asked 
sarcastically. They both snarled, and threw a pokeball each.
From each pokeball came a rhydon. The 2 14 year olds smiled as they saw my 
face. They must have misplaced my concentration with fear, I guessed. 
Finally, I smiled. "Lets go Slash". Slash sped like a black bullet, leaving 
behind the blur like usual. She passed the 2 pokemon, leaving a slash mark 
on each. The 2 teenagers looked at their pokemon, and then me, and they 
smiled. I smiled back, and pointed at their pokemon. As they turned to look, 
they had both fallen over, and their chests were slowly freezing. They both 
roared in pain, until their trainers recalled them. They both looked at each 
other again, and nodded. "Nice", the male said. "Try that on Alakazaam". He 
reached to his belt and pulled out a pokeball, the girl just stood back and 
watched.
Meanwhile........
"Peck attack", Falkner yelled at fearow.  "Use your barrier natu". Fearow 
flew down at the small bird with tremendous power, and just as it was about 
to reach it's attack, crashed into an invisible wall. He fell to the ground, 
but started to get up. "Quick, use nightshade". A purple ball appeared in 
front of natu, easily the size of the small bird pokemon. Then, as Fearow 
scrambled to it's feat, a beam of purple lightning shot at then flying 
pokemon, sending it flying into a tree not far away. "that's it", Falkner 
yelled. "That little bird has taken out all but 1 of my pokemon. I'll 
destroy it". Falkner threw a pokeball, the only one which had a pokemon left 
in it. A huge bird emerged. Steel coated it's wings, and it screamed out, 
"Skarm". "Skarmory, steel wing". The huge pokemon lifted into the air, and 
spread it's wings. "Barrier again", Leanne yelled as the metal bird drew 
nearer. The little bird started to concentrate. It was exausted. Skarmory 
flew closer, dived, and gained speed. Then, it collided with the barrier, 
although it did not fall like the fearow. Suddenly, the barrier gave way, 
and the steel wing connected with natu. "I have to win for leanne", it told 
itself as it smashed into a nearby tree behind it. Natu stood up. It's eyes 
glowed red. The ground began to shake, and rocks began to rise from the 
ground. A few small tree's followed the rocks into the air. All of a sudden, 
they fell. Natu teleported. "Where the hell is that bird of yours", Falkner 
yelled. Leane looked at Skarmory, and pointed with a smirk. Sure enough, 
it's eyes still glowing a red color, natu stood on the steel winged pokemons 
head. Then, natu's eyes turned from red to total blackness, but the weirdest 
thing, so did skarmory'. Natu jumped off skarmory, and flapped it's wings to 
float to the ground, while skarmory simply fell, unconscious. Leanne ran 
over to pick up Natu, and held him cradled in her arms. "Your amazing", she 
whispered. The pokemon smiled, and fell asleep.
Meanwhile.....
"Flash", the boy yelled, the girl stood by looking amused. The whole place 
went a white color. I heard a yelp, Slashes. When the light came back, Slash 
was knocked out on the ground,  her body occasionally spasmed as if she had 
been electrocuted, and sure enough black electricity seemed to vibrate 
around her body. I had no choice, I returned her to he pokeball, and reached 
for Firringa's. I noticed Leanne was finished with her ex father. "hey 
falkner", I yelled. Have I got a surprise for you and the rest of your 
family. Leanne smiled as she seen the pokeball I grabbed. Falkner and co. 
looked at me, and finally the male cousin said, "Come on then little girl, 
just bring it".
I smiled, and released Firringa.
Firringa roared as he exited the pokeball. As his huge body started to form 
from the red light, The 2 cousins eyes went huge.
Firringa continued to roar like a tyranitar, making it seem wild and ready 
to kill.
"What the...", falkner started, but couldn't finish. All three of the 
enemies had their mouths open wide with fear.
The boy suddenly shook off the sudden fear, and yelled, "Psychic".
Alakazaam started to glow, and then shot a huge blast of psychic energy at 
Firringa. The blast got closer, and I could feel the huge force the blast 
emitted. It now seemed to take the form of a ball as it closed in. Firringa 
roared again, and raised his hand. He hit the blast away as if it were a 
tennis ball, and stared at The male cousin. The female took action, and 
threw her only pokemon left into the battle. A snorlax formed from the 
pokeball, and stood facing the evolved form of ursaring. "snor, lax", the 
sleepy pokemon said with it's slothful voice. "Eartquake", the girl yelled. 
The snorlax jumped into the air, and landed on it's behind. The ground began 
to shake, but something unexpected happened. Firringa stamped the ground 
with his foot, and snorlax was flung into the air, landing back on it's 
feat. He earthquake immediately stopped. The 2 cousins looked worried. 
Finally, the male spoke. "Alakazaam, get over here". The alakazaam 
teleported in between the 2 trainers, and waited for it's next order. "We'll 
get you for this you little bitch, and you too cousin". The 2 looked at each 
other, and nodded. "Sorry uncle, but when the rough gets a coming, the tough 
get a going". With that, alakazaam flashed a white color, and the cousins 
disappeared into nothingness.
"Well Falkner", Leanne said as I returned Firringa. "looks like you are all 
alone".
"Blasted twins", Falkner said, referring to the cousins. Then, a young lady 
with blue hair on a motor bike raced up beside us. "My growlithe told me 
there was some trouble out here, so I came as soon as I could". I looked at 
Falkner, and so did Jenny. "What are you doing here Falkner", she asked, a 
look of hate on the womens face. "Wonder how he pissed her off", I pondered. 
Before Falkner could speak, Leanne stepped forward. "my father was trying to 
steal my articuno", she said in an ever so sweet voice. Jenny smiled. 
"Growlithe". 2 growlithe appeared on the scene, and began circling falkner, 
each held a bit of rope in their hands. They eventually stopped, leaving 
falkner tied up and gagged.
"You kids wanna ride to the pokemon center", she asked, looking at her motor 
cycle.








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