Wendy was at the restaurant, she was in the girls restroom changing back into her casual clothes. She slipped her jet black shirt back on, she then put on her bright red hoodie, the exact same one she wore to the Vital Tournament. She reached down and grabbed her black and red checkered skirt. She looked in the mirror realizing that her style hasn't changed much, but was that really a bad thing?

"Hey Cherry, you here at work tomorrow?" Wendy asked.

"No I'll be calling in sick tomorrow, I'm going to be attending a professional battle with a few friends, just watching not participating," Cherry said.

"Oh alright," Wendy said.

"Hey Wendy, you know you should really try finding yourself a boyfriend. You're technically a school drop out, even though legally you graduated. You need someone to take care of you," Cherry said.

"Cherry, please... I'm still not ready to put myself out there again. I actually don't really plan on getting together with anyone else, I've kinda given up on love," Wendy said.

"Come on girl! Really?! You've got a good body, and you've got a sexy personality, any guy would love to eat you up," Cherry posed in an odd way as she lifted up one of her eyebrows, and put her hand to her chin.

Once Wendy was finished changing, she said her goodbyes to Cherry and headed out the back door. She had to work overtime that night so she ended up missing the bus, so she'd have to walk home that night. While walking home Wendy had this sneaking suspicion that she was being followed, she could hear a soft heartbeat behind her, but it was so quiet that it must have been far away.

But as she continued to walk, that same heartbeat, stayed quiet, but it was always behind her. Wendy began to pick up her pace, slightly moving faster hoping, that if there happened to be someone following her, their heart beat would increase. As Wendy started to speed walk, the heartbeat was still quiet, but it was much faster.

Wendy knew she was being followed, but by who? Who would be skilled enough to soften their own heart beat so that it sounded miles away. She quickly turned her head around, but she saw nothing, and this only freaked Wendy out a bit more, due to the fact that she was out in an open field.

Wendy began running, and there was no hiding it now, the heartbeat that she could hear was now echoing throughout her mind. She quickly turned the corner leading herself into an alleyway, she quickly jumped up, bouncing off the walls making her way up to one of the roofs of one of the buildings.

Once Wendy was up there she saw a pair of soft brown eyes. Standing there was someone she recognized, but she couldn't think of his name. He was the same guy who ordered a rare steak and a beer.

"Wendy, what a coincidence meeting you up here. It's me Justin,".

Wendy could hear his heart beat, and now it was very loud, but his face wasn't covered in sweat it was quite calm. Justin didn't seem tired at all, and his breathing was normal, the only thing that made it seem he was just running was his heartbeat.

"Justin, were you following me?" Wendy asked.

"You're quite skilled, I pride myself on being able to sneak up on people with ease, but you were able to find me as soon as I got close," Justin said. He put his hands in his pocket as a menacing look spread across his face.

Wendy took a step back to realize that she was at the edge of that building, if Justin could quiet down his own heartbeat so well, there's no telling how far his physical abilities can go. Wendy didn't want to risk running away, and having Justin instantly catch up with her.

She put her hands together, and formed a weapon that she missed quite a bit. Pulling her hand away from the other, a bright white glow formed. Energy pooled into her hands, and as she pulled her hands apart a bright white katana formed. Wendy put her katana up and instantly got into a strong fighting stance.

Once Justin saw the katana, he did something that even Wendy didn't see coming. "WAIT HOLD ON PLEASE! AhHHHH I suck at fighting, let's not. I just wanted to talk, and I was trying to look cool when I put on a scary face, please don't hurt me!".

Wendy shifted her stance, she put her blade out in front of herself. "I don't believe that for one second, now are we going to fight or what?".

Justin instantly got down on the ground and bowed before Wendy. His body was shaking, and Wendy could hear his heart beating even faster. There was now a visible sweat building up on his body. Wendy put away her blade, once she thought it was safe.

"Well if you wanted to talk, you sure have an odd way of showing it. If you wanted a talk you could've gone to the place I work," Wendy said.

Justin sat up and let out a soft sigh. "I went to your restaurant, but it was completely packed, even during when you guys are supposed to close up, I kinda like being at restaurants alone. I need some advice, and you're practically the only person I know in this kingdom,".

Wendy had a seat on the roof with Justin. "Uh... I barely know you, and you barely know me, I doubt I could give you any useful advice, but go ahead and ask what you need to ask,".

"Alright, do you ever hate your job?" Justin asked.

Wendy took this question as a surprise, she wasn't expecting such an ordinary question. "Well I don't hate my job, but I don't love it either. The only time I ever hated my job was when I was starting out, but jobs get easier the more you do them right?".

"The more you do it?" Justin said.

"Well yeah, anything gets easier the more you do it, what is your job?" Wendy asked.

"Oh... I'm a professional battler in a way, but I'm just not good at fighting. I'm completely self taught, and the only training I've received is an online marksmen course. But what I have to do in my job I don't think I'll ever get used to," Justin said.

"Just keep at it, and trust me what ever it is you do as a professional battler will become easier," Wendy said with a happy smile.

"Hey, thanks for the talk I really appreciate it!" Justin said, he walked over to the side of the building. He quickly jumped off the edge, Wendy quickly followed him, but to find out that he completely disappeared.

"Wow what a guy... He's so weird," Wendy thought to herself. She slowly climbed down the building and headed back home, once she was home she quickly undressed and lay down on her bed. She opened up her laptop and quickly checked her bank account, her face instantly filled up with delight.

"Yes! I can finally afford that one way ticket to Aether! Oh man with the moonlight festival coming up there, I can't wait, but I'll have to tell my boss that I'm going on vacation," Wendy thought to herself.

Wendy then pulled up a window on her laptop and decided to give Sealeous a video call, but she quickly remember to put on a shirt. The call went through, and Sealeous quickly picked up. The young prince basically looked the same from two years ago, except for the fact that his face was slightly more well toned.

"Sealeous, hey!" Wendy said.

"Wendy, hey how's it going?" Sealeous asked.

"Sealeous, I finally have enough money saved up to get a one way ticket to the capital of Aether. I've been planning this trip for months, and I can't wait!" Wendy excitedly said.

"Sure just tell me when you arrive, I'll have a special room prepared at the royal palace, but you know I'll be quite busy with royal meetings due to Nex needing a new ruler. Cause you know..." Sealeous said.

"Humph it was about time we needed someone new on the throne, Princess Cynthia's taxes were just too much," Wendy said.

"So anyway... when are you planning on leaving?" Sealeous asked.

"Probably by the end of tomorrow, then I just have to get ready for the 12h flight," Wendy said.

"Alright I guess I'll see you then," Sealeous said.

"Yup you can count on it!" Wendy happily said.

Wendy quickly rushed to her closet, she looked around for her suitcase, she saw it on the tallest shelf. She pulled out a stool to help her get the suitcase, she pulled it off of the shelf making it crash to the ground. Wendy soon started folding up her clothes, and packing the essential things she would need.

Wendy could hardly sleep that night, all she could think about right now was seeing Sealeous face to face again. Another reason she was so excited was the fact that Owen, Chara, Ivan and Amity, were going to be there for a big tournament that was going to happen. She wasn't sure if Skei and Astrid were going to compete. Of course Wendy wouldn't be able to compete even if Sealeous rejoined her for Team Frost, since the royal family was exempt from competing in the tournament.

The following day Wendy went to work, and finished up her shift for the day. She had a small talk with her boss as she was going to be gone for 3 weeks, her excuse was, she was attending school again. With some smart word play she was able to convince her boss that she was going to school.

Wendy headed out of the restaurant and grabbed her suitcase. She headed right for the airport, while she was there, she bought her plane ticket first before buying a large cup of coffee. Going through security was a massive pain in the butt, but she knew it had to be done. Security was extra tight due to the recent death of Cynthia.

Wendy headed over to her plane gate, and sat down. Now it was just time to wait for her flight to be called. While sitting down, she read a few short stories, she ended watching a videos on the internet, and of course ate a large sum of snacks. Once her flight was called she walked up to the lady at the front of the gate. She handed her the ticket, she quickly looked at it and told her which seat she'd be in.

Wendy was quite lucky she was getting a seat in the front, which mean't leg room for a 12h flight. Wendy put in her earbuds and started blasting her music, the plane quickly filled up, there was one seat left, and that seat just so happened to be the seat beside her.

That seat was soon filled up by someone who Wendy now clearly recognized. It was that same blaziken pokemorph with black hair and soft brown eyes. It was Justin, and Wendy was kinda getting pissed off, she turned her head to face him.

"Justin, are you following me or something?" Wendy asked.

"Wendy, hey what's up! This is a big misunderstanding, I have family in Aether, and I'm going there to visit them! Also the moonlight festival is coming up, and I don't want to miss it," Justin said.

"I don't know... it's kinda suspicious that we keep running into each other," Wendy said.

"Ouch, you're a whole lot meaner when you're not working," Justin said.

"What, you got a problem with that?!" Wendy yelled.

"No no no... It's just fun to know what you're really like," Justin let out a soft smile. His smile was quite similar to how Winston would smile, but his seemed just a little too friendly.

"Fine then, I'm going to sleep don't bother me," Wendy pouted. She crossed her arms and turned away from Justin. "What is it with this guy?! I can't read him at all, he's so... awkward, who is he?" Wendy thought to herself.

While on the plane, she noticed that Justin took an unusual amount of trips to the bathroom. And each time he'd sit back down he'd look even worse than before. Wendy was starting to think that he was getting motion sickness, but after a bit he'd be back to normal.

Justin also ended up ordering lots of food on the plane, an abnormal amount of food. It got to the point where the flight attendants had to tell him to stop, since he was just tearing through all the available food. During this entire time Justin was quite awkward, and very clumsy, it made Wendy giggle a bit, actually Justin was her main form of entertainment on that long flight.

"So Justin, what's your family like?" Wendy asked.

"Oh my family... um... well they're hanging in there," Justin said. There was a sad look in his eyes, but his facial expression said 'everything is going to be fine,'.

"Hanging in there?" Wendy said.

"Well yea... we aren't exactly the richest family, and no one in my has gone to a school except for me, I'm the only one who can really get a job so... Hey let's forget all this heavy stuff, I have about 10 brothers and around 5 little sisters!" Justin said.

"Justin... I-I-... I didn't know," Wendy said.

"Hey let's forget about it! When we land I could show you my family! They love meeting anyone who wants to meet them!" Justin said.

"Uhm... alright. Sure I'd love to meet your family, plus it's not like I really know my way around the kingdom. Why don't you become my guide for Aether," Wendy said.

"Then it's a deal," Justin smiled.

"It's a deal, my name is Wendy Higgleman, and I can't wait to meet your family,".

Justin let out a soft sigh. "I'm Justin Black, and I can't wait to guide you through my home kingdom,". He took Wendy's hand up in his and gave her a firm handshake.

Once the plane landed, Wendy was awoken jarringly, but beside her was Justin. She began to poke at his face to wake him up. Justin swatted away Wendy's hand mumbling "Uh... five more minutes,".

"Justin, we've landed, come on let's get our things at the airport," Wendy said.

Justin's eyes slowly opened up, he stretched his arms and let out a loud yawn. He stood up and got in line to exit the plane, Wendy was right behind him. She was getting shoved right into him by the impatient people behind her. Once they left the plane they headed into the airport, both of them patiently waited for their luggage.

Once Wendy's big suitcase arrived, she quickly picked it up. Justin saw Wendy's big suit case and began to giggle. He handed Wendy a small metal square with two buttons in the middle. Wendy felt the square it was about the size of a tennis ball, and surprisingly felt really good in the palm of her hand.

"Huh... Justin what's this?" Wendy asked.

"You're from Nex so I wouldn't expect you know what it is. But it's called a deep storage unit, and what it basically does it can store any item, in it, except for living beings of course, and another deep storage unit. It's a heck of a lot more convenient than carrying around all that luggage," Justin said.

He took the deep storage unit and held it up to Wendy's suitcase. A bright light shot out of the storage unit, it took a quick scan of Wendy's stuff. Then almost like magic it sucked in the suitcase with a beam of light.

"I'm not really sure how it works, I'm just a user of it, most people like to keep theirs on a belt or in their pocket," Justin said.

Wendy was pleasantly surprised, she took the chain on her skirt and tied up the deep storage unit to it. Justin also handed Wendy one of the rental coats before they walked out of the airport. Wendy pulled the thick coat on tight, and took a deep breath of air. The automatic door quickly opened up and Wendy was met with blast of cold air that sent a deep chill down her spine.

She opened up her eyes and was amazed to see the beautiful mountains that Aether was well known for. There were air ships flying everywhere, and the city was quite spectacular, as it was more like a futuristic city from a comic book. The streets instead of being built of concrete like Nex the streets were made from a dull metal. And any snow that fell on the streets instantly melted away, but anyone that touched the street seemed to be perfectly fine.

Up in the sky were many different blimps with murals of Sealeous and Ultima. Most of them had the two brothers doing poses with the title 'Your Future Rulers'. While a few of them only made Wendy feel bad for Sealeous. As there were a few up in the sky where Sealeous looked sad, but beside him was feminine silhouette. The title of those ones just so happened to be 'When will the prince get married?'.

"So Wendy, we should probably find you a hotel to stay at while you're here. I have some extra cash, but don't expect anything too fancy," Justin said.

"Nah it's all good. I have some connections in this kingdom, I'm pretty sure I can get a pretty nice room," Wendy said.

Wendy pulled out her phone, and walked away from Justin for a bit. Justin didn't follow her as Wendy told him that this phone call would be important. Once she came back, she had a bright smile on her face, that was quite charming.

"So who'd you call?" Justin asked.

"Just, Sealeous, he's a friend of mine," Wendy said.

"Sealeous Omega Ventus? The 1st prince of the kingdom..." Justin said.

"Yup! He's coming to pick us up. He's a real softie, he's going to bring us to the royal palace," Wendy said.

"Ha alright suuuure Wendy, the future ruler of this kingdom prince Sealeous, is going to come here and pick us up. That's almost as fake as Cynthia's blonde hair," Justin said.

After waiting a few minutes, Justin looked up into the sky to see the royal airship descending towards them. The airship was bright white with some gold accents much similar to Ultima's royal armor. The wings of it, had helicopter propellers within the the wings. The entire bottom of it was quite reflective, and it was in a shape of a dome.

Wendy looked at Justin who's jaw was completely dropped. She couldn't help but laugh at his reaction to all this. "Well then... I guess you don't really need a guide anymore huh...".

"Now look I always keep my promises, you're going to be my guide, I just need to know where I'll be staying," Wendy said. She handed Justin her number as the royal airship landed in front of her. "Justin I'll contact you when I want you as my guide,".

"Uhm... alright," Justin said.

The front of the airship lowered down almost like drawbridge from medieval times. As it lowered down standing inside the airship were a few very important looking people. But more importantly Sealeous was standing there, he was wearing what he wore when he was back in Nex. He walked down out of the airship to greet Wendy.

Sealeous ran down to give Wendy a big hug, which she happily accepted. "Wendy, wow it's so good to see you again!"

"It's good to see you to," Wendy said.

Behind Sealeous walked out Mei'li and Ultima. The two of them were wearing extravagant clothing. A few guards walked out of the air ship and surrounded the entrance to the air ship.

While hugging Wendy, Sealeous noticed the blaziken pokemorph behind Wendy. There was a menacing look across his face, he was lip syncing, and Sealeous could read his lips perfectly. He was speaking in a language that only the royalty across every kingdom knew how to speak. The language was taught at a young age for the purpose of needing to hide important information from the public eye.

Sealeous watch Justin's lips very closely and what he said was quite alarming.

"Hey prince Sealeous, you better watch out. I assassinated Cynthia, and next is Mei'li," Justin said in the secret tongue.

Sealeous went wide eyed. Thoughts going were racing through his mind, such as. 'Who is this guy? What does he want? Is he for real and how does he know the royal tongue?'. Sealeous released Wendy from his hug.

He straightened up, "So Wendy, is that the guy you mentioned in our phone call?".

"Yeah he is, I don't want to lose him. So actually can you manage to bring two people into the royal palace? Both him and I?" Wendy said.

"Uh... sure anything for you Wendy," Sealeous said cautiously. He turned his head to Mei'li and Ultima, and quickly nodded saying in his own way that something was seriously off about Justin.

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Author Notes: So what did you guys think of this chapter? I'd love to know, and wow over the past few days, I have already received so many OC submissions, I've been trying to respond to as many of them as quickly as possible, but sometimes my brain can't handle all that work.

As I'm posting this right now I currently have 23 PMs all from different people, that are still waiting a response, so please be patient with me I'm trying my best.