I'm back~! And guess who's still not updating her other chapter stories? That's right, me~(please don't hurt me). My followers and readers for those fics are mentally killing me as we speak! Or they probably think I abandoned the stories, sigh. Curse this procrastination/writer's block habit.

Anyway, I present to you all the second arc in this lovely series of fanfics: Lyra's!

REMINDER!: This arc will most likely be shorter than Leaf's because I will be following the game's plot line. This story will be following the Soul Silver plot, since that is the one that I am more familiar with. I doubt that it is too different from the Heart Gold version, but idk.

I will also be responding to reviews for this arc and the following ones, so please feel free to ask questions or make comments that hopefully I can answer to.

And with that out of the way, let us begin! Enjoy~!

Previously...

"Ugh. How did six months go by so fast?"

"Well, I'm sure she caught on to some of it at least."

"We'll fill you in next time, Serena. You can then join in more in our teasing." Dahlia assured her.

She and Rosa left on a Swanna and Unfeazant, respectively.

Dawn waved at Serena before she left on a Staraptor.

Serena sighed. It seems like the next meeting was going to be a hectic one for sure. Then even she left on the back of her Noivern.

Now...

The girls were meeting in Johto once more for their meeting.

"This is absolutely gorgeous!"

The meeting place this time was at a lovely Ecruteak restaurant that had an open air gazebo, with reservation of course, for the guests to meet and eat lunch. The girls were admiring the beautiful wooden structure that was painted white to contrast the Cherry Blossom trees that were in full bloom surrounding them.

"Excellent choice Lyra."

"Thank you, Milady!"

The girls were seated around the wooden table and sharing Ecruteakean delicacies among themselves.

"Although we could have done without the entourage..."

There was a crowd of people that were being held behind the restaurant. Many people were screaming out their names as if they were A-list celebrities (in a sense they were...). In fact, the restaurant had called up bodyguards to surround the area so that the girls would not be bothered. They would wave pleasantly at them, which enticed more cheers from the group of people gathered at the front of the restaurant.

"Well...at least they're far enough so that they don't bother us too much."

"Can't really hear what we're saying anyway."

"That's true."

"So Serena, did you enjoy our little chat?" Dahlia asked the new member.

-Earlier-

"Our lovely Grand Duchess is admired by so many~! It was honestly so hard-"

"-super time consuming honestly-" Dawn added.

"-trying to pick out someone worthy of her. I mean she's our Grand Duchess right? No boy will ever be good enough for her. Or girl for that matter, we don't judge. Anyway, a man-or woman-is the only one worthy of standing at her side. So we were completely ecstatic when we heard from Indigo that our Grand Duchess was reconciling with Red!" Dahlia squealed.

"You don't mean Red Satoshi? The Red Satoshi?" Serena asked.

"BUT of course I mean Red Satoshi!"

"I know he and Lady Leaf were mending their ties with one another, but they already have a romantic sort of relationship?"

"Well...no, but get this! Tell her Dawn!" Dahlia eagerly flapped her hand at the Galactic Commander.

"Right. My friend Cynthia, who is also the champion of the Sinnoh region, tells me that she saw Leaf kiss his cheek and that he looked at her like a fool in love after she left...or so she said."

Serena gasped.

"That Red is clearly one of the very few that could possibly stand by her side. He's already wealthy and famous, so the threat of him using her is nonexistent. He's more than capable of standing toe-to-toe with her on the battlefield now and has become extremely compassionate towards his pokémon and pokémon in general. He clearly also has some interest in Miss Leaf if that night at the Indigo League was any indicator." Rosa said.

"But not only is our Grand Duchess of interest, but so are..."

-Back to the meeting-

"Ah..." A slight reddening was visible on Serena's cheeks.

"What chat?"

"Oh, nothing. Just a small talk I had with Serena before the meeting." Dahlia assured.

The girls hummed suspiciously given Dahlia's smirk, but said nothing more.

"Well...Lyra, I suppose now would be a good time as ever to begin telling your story." Leaf said.

"Right! Well, my story goes a little something like this..."

Onto the reviews from the Bonus Story!

mocasiotorres27: You are so welcome. I'm glad you liked the one-shot~.

Mizhera: No worries about not reviewing! Some people just don't like to, and that's perfectly fine. I just get a bit unmotivated when people don't respond because I feel that the story I am writing isn't that interesting. But thank you for actually doing so~! And thank you for the praise ^w^. Hopefully these other arcs will be just as fulfilling!

fluffpenguin: *giggle* I might be tempted to write more, depending on how much people want more and how willing I am to write.

the willyrex: Phew! Thank goodness I wrote something good. Honestly, when I looked back at the fic, I thought that I missed the mark, but thankfully I didn't. And I present to you the second arc or series and hopefully this one will be satisfying too.