Spooky looked at round at the sights and sounds of White City. The awakening city was in a full festive mood. People and pokémon enjoyed the games, the contests, and exchanged general knowledge. Spooky looked at her companions. Michael was busy talking to Ebony; Lisa was taking in the sights too, and Marius was just watching her.

"We’ll meet up with the Silent Searchers in the main square. Each of us will split up. Lisa will head to the pokémon centers and labs. You know how to navigate that area. Michael, you need to head to the gym leader castle area. Marius you get the main stadium. Spooky you will get the fair and I will get the free area and the ports," Ebony said.

"That sounds like a plan to me," Michael said.

"Of course he would agree, he always does," Marius said. "But since I can’t do better I’ll go with it."

"Fine, but we must take care," Lisa said.

"Sure why not. I can have fun with this," Spooky said.

"Just remember to keep it down and not call attention to yourself as you look for the key holders." Michael said. With that they where immersed in there own thoughts until they reached the city center. It was a large green hill in the middle of a park and had a fountain in it. A vaporeon statue spouted water in the air and around the fountain it sat in there where many wild flowers. From here one could just barely see the main stadium.

"We’re here, so where are they?" Spooky asked.

*Right here, * Luna said as the Silent Searchers teleported in.

"Medic!" Spooky shouted as she hugged her caretaker.

*Hello dear, * the chansey said back.

"Driller your with me. Luna your with Ebony, Nocturan your with Marius, and Drift your with Lisa. Medic you watch out for Spooky, break," Michael said.

"Come on let’s go!" Spooky said grabbing Medic’s arm and pulling her toward the fair area.

"It must be nice to be so young and carefree," Ebony said to Luna walked up to her side as she turned to walk from the others. Michael turned and went his way with his partner the bee pokémon following behind him. Marius and Nocturan left next, and Lisa and drift last of all.

*It seems to busy around here, * Drift commented as it navigated around a researcher.

"This is not just a world wide tournament, but a way for everyone to get together and exchange information. Some researchers only come out of their remote stations to come to this place. For instance that guy over there," Lisa said pointing a bespectacled researcher who was talking about the life and habits of clefairy to some other scientists. "That guy Seymour, hasn’t been in human contact in the last 6 years."

*Whoa, that’s dedication, * Magnemite muttered.

Lisa nodded then said, "Yes that’s right. The search for knowledge and the desire to create can be like an all-consuming fire. One that can cause you to forget everything and do nothing else."

*That may be so, but don’t we have to find the key holders? Where do you think they are going to be? * Drift asked.

"I think they may be in the main hall/research lab. If they where to go anywhere, then they would be there," She said to the steel/electric type. The two walked/hovered up to the large white washed building that was the main hall.

As soon as they where about to enter the building, they noticed that one of their targets, Kryis, had just started to leave though a door down the street. The two looked at each other and gave chase.

Michael looked around at the kids running up to the different booths. The gym leader castle was area of white city where various gym leaders and high level trainers hung out. Pokémon officials used this time to find the material to expand old gyms and to open new gyms. Each stand glorified different gyms from around the world. And each had a theme. Driller and Michael hesitated by the stand for the Vermilion city gym.

"Hey you," The large gym leader Lt. Surge said pointing to Michael.

"Me?" He answered.

"Yes you. Is that beedrill yours? If so I want you to help me with something?" He asked walking over to the smaller man.

"We are traveling together. But he is a friend of mines companion," Michael said warily. "I guess I can’t help you," He said trying to walk away.

"Nonsense, I want to prove a point to Bugsy the head of the Azalea gym that electric pokémon are better then Bug pokémon," Surge said. "We decided to the best way to find out would be if a random electric pokémon trainer fought a random bug trainer. So that’s why I need you help."

"But that wouldn’t prove anything. I mean you have no way to know how skilled each trainer is before hand. And that may make all of the difference!" Michael said as Surge pulled him in the direction of Bugsy’s booth. Now normally Michael could have easily overpowered Surge, but he was trying not to draw attention. Driller followed after sighing.

The two quickly found themselves standing across from a lass who had a Flaaffy. Michael sighed and looked around the crowd. He noticed Jared standing in the audience. (There is one of our targets,) he thought.

"Driller end this quickly!" He yelled. The Flaaffy blasted the bee pokémon with a thunder shock, but Driller dodged it. He countered with a poison sting that hit on target. While the sheep was reeling he dove down and hit her with a devastating twin needle attack. Oddly enough, that was all it took to take the sheep pokémon down. While both Surge and the Lass bemoaned the loss, Michael looked around to find Jared, but the ten year old had just left. Michael and Driller quickly slipped after him. After all they had the light focus.

Ebony and Luna found themselves slipping though the crowd on the docks. The two had to watch it as people and pokémon where coming and going. They were looking for Isaac’s ship The Flying Pixie.

*Hey, this place is very busy. Does this tournament draw that many? * Luna asked.

"Well yes, it is only held once every thirty years. The winner of this tournament will be crowned the strongest trainer in the world. Every strong trainer in the world will be here, a gather of strong souls that rarely ever happens. This tournament is filled with the most talent this world has seen for ten thousand years," Ebony answered.

*So that’s why he will come here, * Luna said thoughtfully.

"Yes, anyone that can oppose him will be here. That is why we can’t fail. If he gets by us there will be no stopping him," Ebony said quietly. "But look, there is our target." She pointed to the red and white ship. After a few minutes they had reached their target. Jumping on board they looked at the door main cabin.

*Hello, what do we have here, * Luna said finding a note on the door.

"Hi, this is Isaac. We have gone to the stadium. If you want to find us, look for us there. Sorry," the note read. Ebony looked at the stadium that loomed over the city. (Did we just miss them?) She thought.

Meanwhile Spooky and Medic where having the time of there lives. They pair just got of off a roller coaster. They were on their way to the Farris wheel when Medic spotted a bunch of other chansey that were playing an egg caching game.

"Hey do you want to try your luck," Spooky asked her friend and caretaker.

*I don’t know, I don’t think I have the reflexes, * she said watching one of the chansey catching a voltorb and getting shocked, dropping all of the eggs she had.

"Come try it once, you never know if you just might win!" the rainbow holder said dragger the reluctant pokémon behind her. The two found themselves in front of the booth for the game. After giving the man behind the counter a ticket the two went in. The game consisted of eggs and voltorb being dropped to the pokémon below. The egg pokémon had to catch the eggs and not the voltorb. At first Medic was nervous but when the game started she found that it was easy. After a moment and a few close shaves, she found that she won with no trouble.

"See I told you could do it," Spooky said as the man handed her prize, some coins that could be traded for thing at the fair.

*Well I thought it would be harder, but I found that it seemed like they where falling in slow motion, * she answered. *Did you do something? * She asked.

"Nope. That was you and you alone moving that fast," was the reply. (Plus all of the silent searches get a stat increase.)

The two next went on the Farris wheel. They had a great time looking at most of White City from the air. Getting off, Spooky asked something of Medic.

"Did you see some storm clouds coming from the direction of the old stadium?" She asked.

*Now that you mention it, yes. I hope it doesn’t rain, * she said to herself.

"I hope that it is just rain," Spooky said shaking her head. Suddenly turned to her left and noticed Ann giving her magby a balloon. "Hey that’s one of our targets! Come on!" she shouted and dashed in to the crowd. Her Chansey friend quickly followed. After a short period of time they found themselves near the large stadium. They also found that they had lost her.

"Great where did she go?" the Pichu girl asked. Medic taped her on the shoulder and pointed at a large video screen on the wall. On the screen was Ann about engage in a pokémon battle in the main stadium. It didn’t take them long to reach the main Stadium gate. There they found the others who had followed the trail there. Marius and Nocturan had been standing in front of the gate waiting for the others. The figured at some point the gathers they were looking for would come there.

As soon as Spooky and Medic reached the door Marius spoke, "They’re inside. Shall we watch them in action, before we give them the rest of the keys?" He asked.

"Sure why not. It will give us a good picture of how much their abilities have grown. Unless there is an objection?" Michael said. Spooky thought of the clouds she saw, but didn’t say anything.

"Good. Then let’s go," Ebony said.