Okay, first of all I would like to ask every reader who has seen the original line for this story to forgive me Since…chapter two (wow, that's depressing -.-') I've been in an EXTREME and SERIOUSLY STRESSFULL writer's block, see, I'm about ONE PARAGRAPH from finishing chapter three, but I just can't get the inspiration out for the last pokémon battle, and I got reeeeeeeeeeeeeally stuck there.

About why this chapter begins right after chapter three…yeah, Halloween came up and I wanted to upload this on time, buuuut my real life had other plans for me and time passed too fast, then Christmas came up, I wanted to upload this BEFORE Christmas so you wouldn't get too confused, still, I'll explain a bit in each author's note what happened last time, and if you want more details, you can PM me.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyways, about this…collection per se…I tried, seriously, TRIED not to make it important, buuut…I'll advance pairings here…(please don't kill me TToTT) other than that, these will be the stories of how each character got its Legendary Pokémon (yup, each will have their own!) and to go deeper into the characters' backstories, also, I wanted more humor and crossover references and less pokémon battles for this, and…this is how it turned out! Huzzah. TT-TT

So far, I've almost finished the first part (out of four, but I will only write two-Spoilers!-) of the Christmas special, only this from the Halloween special (ouch…) BUT I've got it all planned up, and I also planned New Year's, Valentines' and a little surprise over there! (yeah…so much for all of my surprises…) If you want me to write any festivity for this feel free to review it! (Only…I won't make any overly religious references, but I can make religious holidays…er…if it makes any sense…) so, if you want something for the Aztec Fuego Nuevo festivity or something like that, just tell me! (hmm…I could do something for the Fuego Nuevo…)

Goodness, I feel like I'm forgetting everything I had to say…well…(oh! I remember now!) I…feel guilty for making you read this HUGE author's note then get to THIS announcement, but…OC's will get bigger parts in this side-stories, that's mostly why this is rated T, because of a certain white-haired OC's addiction to swearing ("Shut up Nayru!" "*sigh*get out of my author's note, Shadow!" *pushes her away from the computer*) and this is ALSO why it's in the genre "Romance" (although not completely because of them). S-So, they'll be there almost the whole time in here, if you don't like OC's, I…doubt you'll want to read this.

Right! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE THE STORY! This whole story is a HUGE spoiler for the third Chapter, so if you want to read it first, wait a little until I finish it

Okay, Ricken is the bug-type gym leader, while Sev is fighting him Sheik is poisoned and faints, Sev defeats the rest with Robin but feels guilty for Sheik.

I…think that's all you need to understand the chapter, now, enjoy! Keep in mind that there are major crossover references here and extremely LONG descriptions, I marked the beginning and end of these.

Also, this chapter gets pretty intense in the end (not Romance-y like, mind) but…please take into account that this is my first attempt in undescribed angst, and it may not be…good…quite at all…

And thank you to my co-writer/beta PurpleComet5 (go check her YouTube account if you're a Vocaloid fan pleeeeeeeeeeease!) and my co-writer/miss-chibi-broccoli-er…don't-worry-about-it!-KyuubiKR8! I love you both! Big Pale Blue Juice forever!

Okay! I'm done here! Enjoy :D

"Well, that was...unexpected" I muttered, Ricken turned to me, only slightly crestfallen.

"What do you mean?" I sighed and lifted Sheik's empty pokéball in my hand, Sheik himself was jumping in front of me.

"I mean...I was overconfident and that made me lose Sheik, it...it felt horrible..." I whispered, the boy tilted his head, the rest of my group walked closer to listen clearly.

"I guess now I understand why that madwoman of a tactician always jumped in front of every sword that threatened to even scratch us, seeing someone hurt because of your orders is...awful, really" Sheik nudged his head on my side, like forgiving me and reassuring me that he's okay, I petted his head. Robin settled for pecking the top of my head angrily.

"Ugh, stop! Okay, back to happy stuff-hold...aren't those the crazy otaku trio again?!" I pointed at the three young trainers, Shadow pouted.

"Hey! We're not a trio! We're a QUARTET, just so you know!" I lifted my eyebrow and sighed, careful to ask the calm Yukito instead of the hyperactive candy addict.

"Quartet?" I asked quietly, the male twin shrugged.

"You know Suzumy likes breaking dimensions, the fourth of our group is from somewhere else too, but she didn't want to come here" he explained, I blinked at the name 'Suzumy'—I knew she would call him Yuki sometimes, but I never imagined he would call her pet names too—but shrugged it off, his sister and the white haired girl walked closer to me.

"So anyways! We're here to tell you you're forgetting something, and that something MAY be inside the Center right now, just...waiting..." Suzume said suspiciously, Laurent eyed her expression for a second and, miraculously, seemed to trust her.

"Thank you for reminding us of this matter, I'm afraid I had completely forgotten" he chuckled lightly and turned to us from Yukito's side.

"Everyone, we must head to the center. There actually IS something there, you can trust them...for the time being" he finished with a glare to the incomplete quartet, to which they quickly took out some colored glasses with letters on them out of nowhere.

"Meanie, we don't always intend pranks, you know?" Suzume pouted cheerfully, Shadow grabbed Inigo's wrist immediately and began pulling him to the center.

"Well, come on! Start walking! It won't be daylight forever!" She exclaimed. The rest of my group and I had no option but to follow her.

It was about 3 o'clock now, the sun shining brightly above us with few clouds on sight, I could see the occasional pidgey flying around and even stopping for a second to stand on Ricken's hat, yet in such a beautiful day...I was being dragged around by three crazy otakus who probably wanted to prank us.

"Um, Sev? I know Laurent approved but...do you REALLY think this is safe?" Cynthia asked me halfway to the center, I simply shrugged.

"I don't really know about Shadow, but those twins are quite honest, they just have the tendency to try and avoid the question. They've even thrown themselves headfirst some times because of trying that" The bluenette giggled and kept on running until we arrived at the red building.

I heard Suzume giggle, then Shadow shutting her up. 'Yup, definitely a prank' I nodded at Cynthia briefly and saw her answer me equally. Shadow slowly opened the door, and I just HAD to gasp.

Thankfully I was quiet enough and no one noticed. Inside the center was a young man waiting for his pokémon to heal, he had extremely dark—almost black—jeans, black boots, a really dark grey long-sleeved shirt and a black leather jacket on top. His hair was slicked back and light honey-blonde, contrasting with his clothes completely and— strangely enough—he was wearing some kind of black mask that covered from half of his forehead to the top of his nose, ending below his cheekbones in a weird, superhero-like shape. Pretty childish, from my point of view, but he was still quite dreamy.

Laurent didn't waste a second and proceeded to run at him like a little child 'heh, never thought I'd see Laurent this…expressive' I thought, the masked man smiled softly at Laurent and began chatting with him. I noticed his height was somewhere below Brady's, but still WAY taller that Laurent. From here, the man seemed to be something like the ginger's role model or elder brother, and Laurent in turn didn't seem so far from my age as he usually did around the rest of us, mostly because he was actually SMILING instead of glaring like our deaths depended on it.

Both soon noticed/remembered the company and turned to us, Laurent's smile faded slightly and turned serious. "I'm sorry, that was rude of us. He is the young man I mentioned earlier, his name is Gerome. Gerome, this is the group of trainers this year, we will be traveling together from now on" I only now noticed the coldness of Gerome's expression, unlike the somewhat warm smile he directed at Laurent, even Cynthia could notice he wasn't happy about us, and that he was glaring at someone through the mask, somewhere between the philanderer, the white haired girl and the twins (probably all four of them, actually).

He only nodded as a greeting and received his pokémon from the pink-haired Anna nurse, but before he could exit the center the otaku group blocked him, all with mischievous smiles plastered on their faces.

"Suzume, what is it now?!" I exclaimed, Shadow stepped front "Well, you made a TERRIBLE mistake, all of you…" she said darkly, Cynthia grabbed Brady's arm and hid behind him, Yarne followed her actions with his left arm. Yukito shook his head with an understanding smile, like assuring us that the girl didn't mean any harm, yet her expression said otherwise.

"What?" Laurent asked exasperated. Suzume sighed and pouted again "Laurie! Don't ruin the mood!" Yukito tilted his head.

"Yeah, we just wanted to remind you that-"

"IT'S HALLOWEEN!" Shadow interrupted, lifting her hands and throwing orange and black confetti.

Everyone stood still for a second with blank faces, before Cynthia, Yarne, Ricken, Henry, Suzume, Yukito and Kalm (quietly) cheered, the rest of us limited to a sigh and even face-palm.

"Oh! Oh! Are we going trick or treating?!" Henry asked while hopping, Inigo glanced at him.

"B-but we're still a long way from Luminose! I heard it gets awesome there!" Cynthia continued, slightly worried.

"Oh, it gets great here too! And Vaniville is still really close by!" Ricken exclaimed too, a bit calmer than the rest, a huge thick mark appeared on Laurent's forehead immediately, before he suddenly opened his eyes in realization and sighed.

"You can proceed with your…announcement" he muttered, Yukito beamed.

"Well then! We WILL go trick or treating!" cheers again, the male twin smiled and signaled to the changing room.

"We took the liberty of choosing costumes for you, you can go change in there! We really hope you like them!" I groaned. 'They chose them, right? Ugh, I could bet my entire life savings I'll be stuck in another mini-skirt the whole day…otaku points included' Shadow took out a binder from her bag and eyed me mischievously. 'right on schedule' I rolled my eyes.

"You're last, Sev, don't worry" Yukito assured, eyeing the binder discretely, but still receiving a leek in the head by Shadow's free hand.

Suzume walked closer to the white-haired trainer too and glimpsed at the paper. She turned to us with a giggle "You'll get your costumes in order of appearance!" A certain young man groaned.

(Long descriptions begin here, feel free to skip them -.-')

"Exactly! Your turn, Gerome!" The blonde trainer walked towards the changing room and closed the doors, the twins motioned us to sit down at some chairs around the center and wait for our newest addition. After some minutes he finally came out, blushing strongly and in a white robe like those "yukatas" I remember hearing about somewhere (I thank the twins for the blanks in my mind), he had a huge purple thread-like ribbon acting as a belt for a darker purple cloth wrapped around his hip, with kinda loose even darker pants ending in black sandals. His hair was somehow black instead of its usual golden color. The main reason for his dark blush was that a big part of his quite muscled chest-

"Sev! You're staring!" Cynthia whispered into my ear, snapping me out of my thoughts AGAIN…Anyways! As I was saying, he was fairly topless and his mask was still on his face, Shadow pouted at the last detail.

"C'm on Gerome! Sasuke doesn't wear batman masks! Take it off!" she exclaimed, attempting to rip it off his face. Sadly Gerome was fairly taller than her, and her hopping didn't disturb him much.

After some two minutes of the white-haired girl jumping, the twins finally sighed, and Suzume was the one to give up "Let him keep it for now, he'll take it off at some point" she giggled, Gerome kept pulling his yukata to try and show less skin, no avail, of course. Laurent seemed like he was struggling not to break down laughing, or even smile, for that matter. Inigo didn't waste a second suggesting they all went skirt-chasing during trick or treat, neither of the two really agreed to that idea.

"Okay then! I present to you…Uchiha Sasuke!" Yukito grinned, some clapped at him and I heard Anna whistle from her post, the blonde simply sighed in aggravation.

"Next up is Henry!" The boy stood up and ran towards the changing room in mere seconds, coming back even faster, yet his so called "costume" didn't seem like one at all. His clothing was closer to Inigo's that to his own, it consisted on a partially open white shirt with an orange one underneath, black formal pants, black belt and white sneakers, with his hair in light gray. Nothing Halloween-y AT ALL.

To my surprise, I saw many gasp next to me, the twins clapped while sobbing (fake?) dramatically and Henry bowed slowly. Shadow, Cynthia, Ricken and I were completely clueless about this, but shrugged it off shortly after.

"A PERFECT Kaworu Nagisa, everyone! I KNEW it was right to give you this one!" Many inside the center clapped before returning to their business, time really did seem to tick off too slowly…

The process went on with everyone, Ricken was next, and came out with a green formal suit with a blue ribbon, green matching shorts, long white socks with black shoes and a black patch covering his right eye, along with some fake black earrings. His hair was dyed dark blue. Suzume announced him as "Ciel Phantomhive".

Brady was next, his costume was a light purplish-blue suit jacket—like a high school uniform—with black formal pants and a yellow belt hanging from the side, his jacket was completely open and had a yellow shirt underneath, with a simple necklace with only a coin of sorts. His usually gelled hair was dyed red and covering his face in bangs, it seemed longer (probably a wig of some sorts) and was tied in a small high ponytail, half of "his" hair falling on his shoulders. He was "Kasanoda Ritsu".

Surprisingly enough (not really) Shadow went next, after some minutes with the sound of clothes rustling, groans and even some extremely censored words she finally came out. Her hair had been dyed dark purple and only her bangs flowed front, the rest was tied neatly with some cloth forming a long ponytail/braid of sorts falling in front of her shoulder; her clothes were like another Chon'sin outfit, a short dark blue yukata with a black stripe, a black and gold cloth belt wrapped around it, white gloves, dark blue pants, silver, gold and black armored boots and a darker blue cape with a symbol on the back, a long white cloth from her neck to the top of her head, shoulder armor and a golden sword with spikes hanging from her hip. The last ornament in her costume was a silver mask covering half of her face, her eyes were barely visible and gleamed in a yellow light. "Meta Knight".

After that HUGE description it was Inigo's turn to cosplay as some otaku whatever they wanted to give him, his outfit (lucky me) was WAY simpler than Shadow's, it was the same uniform Brady was wearing, only the suit was closed and had a white shirt with a tie underneath, the yellow belt was missing too and his hair was blonde. "Tamaki Suou"

Laurent time. He was dressed like a butler, to be direct. He was wearing a black tailed suit with a white shirt and a black tie underneath, black pants, black formal shoes, and a pocket watch's chain hanging from his pocket to the lowest button on his suit jacket, to complete his "completely black" outfit his hair was ALSO of this color. "Sebastian Michaelis".

When the young man walked—or stumbled, frankly, because he wasn't wearing his glasses—out of the changing room, Suzume motioned Shadow to stop, she walked past Laurent and into the changing room quietly, peeked inside, and walked to stand next to Laurent, she seemed confused, the other one looked annoyed.

"Suzume, could you please explain to me why I am currently dressed as a butler for Halloween?!" he glared, she shrugged hesitantly, eyeing his costume and handing him some red contact lenses.

"I…have no idea, actually. You were supposed to be Nagato Uzumaki, not Sebastian…" she explained as if someone could actually understand her, Laurent rolled his eyes after putting on his lenses and sat next to Gerome, fiddling with the pocket watch.

After some seconds of confusion Yarne was next, he was wearing a slightly long red jacket with a black T-shirt underneath, brown armor with yellow ropes, brown gloves, loose white pants, brown boots, a sword hanging from his hip and a red headband with yellow stripes, his chocolate hair dyed a maroon color. "Tsuboi Ryoutarou 'Klein'".

Kalm next, he had a long black coat with white belts and stripes all over it, a simple black T-shirt and black pants underneath, short black boots with silver armor, and finally a black elaborate sword behind his shoulder. "Kirigaya Kazuto 'Kirito'".

Cynthia had a short school uniform-like white shirt with a short black cape and a yellow ribbon, black/yellow leg and arm warmers, yellow and white shoes, really short shorts with a triangle themed yellow belt and a huge white ribbon circlet with earphones on her head. Her REAL hair was carefully tied in braids below a short yellow wig with white hair pins holding its bangs, along with a red temporal tattoo saying: "02 Kagamine Rin".

Suzume and Yukito went next 'geez, not another long description…' I sighed, Suzume's costume was quite simple, her hair was dyed light pink and had two yellow star pins on her bangs—one big and the other small—she had a thick, long-sleeved, short-dress-like, simple pink shirt that matched her hair 'such a long description for a simple article' I groaned. Long stockings the same pink color and short loose red boots, she said she was "Kirby".

Yukito's outfit was IN FACT elaborate (not as much as Shadow's THANK YOU) he had the usual prince outfit. With yellow string-like shoulder pads, a turquoise coat lined with golden string and with ropes hanging from button to button, long sleeves folded into a lighter blue end with another button-rope, an orange belt, dark turquoise leggings and orange boots, with a rapier hanging from his hip. His hair was dyed turquoise and held in a short ponytail, finally, there was a simple golden crown on his head. "Prince Fluff".

To my demise, the only one missing was me, Yukito signaled me to enter the changing room with a gentleman-like bow. I rolled my eyes at his dramas and walked inside the room, after closing the door I saw a small box with a Japanese name written on it. 'Probably the character I'll be cosplaying as' I thought, it had a note on how to use the hair dye next to a flask of some gooey liquid, below it was the costume, to me, it looked like a turquoise-gray school uniform. I decided to color my hair first, the note said:

"This liquid is an Anna Original product, handle with care!
Instructions:
Pour the contents of the vial completely over dry hair and wait some seconds.
You may feel coldness and the urge to scratch your head, wait until your hair color has changed to touch it, otherwise you will stain your hand (in this case wash with cold water and the dye will fall off)
This vial of hair dye lasts for 24 hours, after the time passes your hair will return to its natural state…"

I stopped reading there, the rest was just allergies info—I could remember dyeing my hair once with this thing, that's why I skipped it— and recommendations on more Anna Original products. I followed the instructions and watched as my long red hair turned a bright turquoise color (some shades lighter than Yukito's), I sighed, missing my natural color immediately.

Just as I had imagined, inside the box was a turquoise/gray, school uniform-like sleeveless shirt with a turquoise tie. As expected, below it was the mini-skirt I feared, black with the same shade of blue. I had arm warmers like Cynthia's in the signature color and really long black boots replacing my stockings, I had black earphones and swapped my simple hairbands for some elaborate, black and dark pink bands. Finally, I also had a temporal tattoo for my shoulder, it said "01 Hatsune Miku".

(End of long descriptions, you can keep reading from here -.-')

"Well then! We have Gerome as Sasuke Uchiha, Henry as Kaworu Nagisa, Ricken as Ciel Phantomhive, Brady as Ritsu Kasanoda, Me as Meta Knight, Inigo as Tamaki Suou, er, Laurent as Sebastian Michaelis, Yarne as Klein, Kalm as Kirito, Cynthia as Rin Kagamine, Suzume as Kirby, Yukito as Prince Fluff annddddddd…" Just then I walked out of the dressing room, many people inside the center clapped or whistled at me.

"Gosh, I KNEW IT! I just KNEW you would be PERFECT as Miku-chan!" Suzume squealed upon glimpsing at me, Shadow immediately hit the back of her head with a huge white fan.

"That, you pink puffball, is MY line, thank you!"

"I-I'm not a puffball…"

"You're KIRBY, Kirby happens to be a PUFFBALL"

"Meta Knight too" Yukito deadpanned.

"Well, Prince Fluff too"

"There, you are wrong, my friend! Because technically Prince Fluff is made of yarn and cloth—"

" ' ! PUFFBALLS ARE PUFFBALLS!"

My group and I decided to sneak out as the three discussed about string, puffballs and whatever. We walked out silently and let the Pokémon Center door close on its own.

I was the last to walk out. The moment I set a foot outside that door, everything went black around me. I heard a thud and screams afterwards. Many different people. All voices I had heard before.

"Henry! Henry, where are you?! Laurent…Gerome…Severa! Please, Answer me!"

"Inigo! I'm here! Where are you?!" no response, one voice stopped.

"Mother…Father…anyone…please help…I…I'm scared…"

"Y-Yarne? D-don't cry! I'm here!" a second voice ceased.

"Gerome! Gerome, answer me immediately! Inigo! Yarne! Please!"

"Laurent! I'm right here! I-I'm coming!" I tried to run, but my body wouldn't move, I could only scream and pray in the middle of the darkness. Another voice faded.

"Laurent! Inigo! Where are you?! Please! Answer me!"

"Gerome! Gerome, please, listen to me—" the voice stopped, another one interrupted me.

"Ricken! Ricken, where're ya?! Talk t'me!"

"Brady, please-" the fifth voice went silent.

"Ricken…Inigo…Please, promise me…promise me you'll be safe…"

"H-Henry…?" the voice cracked, at the last second, I heard the faintest of sobs. Silence.

The sobs and gasps began once again, now in a different voice.

"Henry…Brady…Please…! S-say something…! ...answer me…p-please…"

"Ricken! Ricken, calm down! I-I'm with you! I'm here!" I could only hear two voices now, a boy and a girl.

"Sev? …S-Sev, where are you? …Please…I-I'm afraid…Please…help me…"

"Cynthia! Cynthia, wait! Don't worry! I'm right here!" My voice finally faded to a whisper, I knew—although didn't feel—I had fallen to my knees, tears seemed to be flowing from my eyes, yet I couldn't feel my cheeks wet, nor I could see my vision blur. I just knew it, somehow. I knew I was screaming, crying violently, gasping and hacking in ragged breaths. But I couldn't hear a thing. Then, I heard a scream. The last voice.

"Kalm! Kalm, Please! Please, I-I need your help! Please…I need you…" I broke into sobs again, at the silence following, I shouted in fear once more.

"Please, Kalm, please don't leave me! Please!"

"Severa! Severa, I'm here! I-I'm right next to you! Don't worry!"

"Kalm! I-I can't see you, where?!"

"Severa! Please, talk to me! Don't…don't leave me here, I…I need you too…" I heard faint sobs. A piercing pain went through my skull that second. I screamed until my lungs hurt as much as my head. The voice gasped.

"Severa! Are you okay?! What happened?!" I couldn't answer, the pain was too strong.

"Kalm! Kalm, Please! Help! Please help me! KALM!" I felt my consciousness fading, the voice was fainter each passing second.

"Wait! Severa, I'm-I'm coming! Hang in there! Please! Severa! SEVERA!"

To be continued…

Yeah…that…

I REALLYREALLYREALLY didn't want to make such a HUGE cliffhanger, but sadly Christmas is only 4-5 days away and I'm pretty much…out of time…

A-anyways, I really hope you liked it, please review what you thought about the ending and feel free to yell at me for being SO late in updating, just…don't be rude, please, even if I deserve it for making this poor fic so lonely

Well then! SeeU in the next 4-5 days! 39! (goodness, too many Vocaloid puns…I'm doomed TT-TT)

(oh, every reference inside this fic WILL be posted on my profile so you can understand it…someday…)

Nayru, AWAY! (okay, not Virion…)