A New Journey Begins

Four Months Later…

            "Now come at me with Sky Uppercut Blaziken!" yelled out the cries of a trainer toward her Pokemon named Blaziken. 

The creature, standing well over six feet tall with a fire bird-fighting complexion in which having red and yellow feathers shrouded over his body, long cream colored feathers that fell back into a jet-like hair style, gray powerful claws, and piercing yellow and blue eyes, came after his trainer with a powerful rush.  The girl, an eighteen-year-old with natural red hair, bright hazel eyes, and wearing a simple white and green trainer's attire, held up her arms in a defensive pose which was covered in thick padding in which one could say looked like sparing pads used by fighters.  Blaziken got up to her and seeing an opening, he went for it as he threw up his now glowing fists toward her.  Seeing this, the girl quickly blocked the punch delivered by Blaziken, but she left another opening viable for the Fire/Fighting Element.  Blaziken rose up his free claw and, now in coated with another glow of light, swung it down to hit the girl.  The girl however caught sight of it and threw up her right arm to block the punch, only for her to lose her footing on the ground and to crash onto her hands and knees.  Blaziken stopped his attack and knelt down to her to make sure she was alright.  The girl looked back up and with a smile pressed on her face, she said:  "Wow!  You've gotten better in your strength Blaziken, I'm glad."

A smile crept on the fire bird's face and went to help his trainer up to her feet.  After helping her up, the two made honorary bows to end their spare and show respect to one another.  However, their moment of good sportsmanship soon came to an end when two blasts of air penetrated between them and forced them to pose themselves for another fight.  The two backed into each others backs and began surveying the environment around them, seeing nothing but the woods surrounding them in their training spot.  Suddenly, Blaziken leapt up into the air and with his claws covered in a shroud of dark light, began slashing the air around him; causing him to hit two things that were right next to him and were appearing to be shrouded in some kind of invisible veil.  After striking the two objects, Blazkien landed on the ground upon one knee as his arms crossed in preparation of another strike as the two invisible forms began to materialize side by side of Blaziken and ready to strike as well.  The two creatures, being Dragon/Psychic Elements, resembled avian-like dragons with one being well over six feet tall with blue and white feathers, a red triangular design on his chest, and piercing red eyes and the other being much smaller with red and white feathers, a blue triangle design on her chest, and bright yellow eyes.  They both also had massive glider-like wings that helped them to levitate above the ground, circular appendages on their chests, and feather crests on the sides of their heads.  The trio's stand off lasted for only a brief moment as they suddenly perked to the noise of hands clapping.  They turned to see the girl was smiling to them as she applauded to them.

"Great job guys," she spoke, "Blaziken: you're doing much better on defending against sneak attacks and Latios, Latias: you both have done so much to help us out in our training."

The two dragons, seeming to smile at the compliment, glided over to the trainer and began rubbing against her in a gentle manner that caused her to laugh softly as she petted them.  Her name was Beka Goldheart, a trainer from Hoenn who was now currently hiding away within the southern most area of the region known as Southern Island as she continues to train her Pokemon in order to build up not only her team's power, but to help build up her strength as well in order to help defend herself from Team Sky. Being on the island, isolated from the world, Beka and her Pokemon were helped out by the Pokemon inhabitants of the island to help them in their training; mostly by the Eon twins, and they were thankful for the extra help on their training.  Since no other humans live on the island, Beka allowed her Pokemon to be free from their Pokeballs' contents and allowed to train and roam free on the island to do whatever they wanted.   However, there was going to be more people coming to this island and they're slowly approaching…

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            "So are you sure this is it?" asked one of the girls as she held up a ticket to her eyes that aimed at the horizon and showed an image of an island appearing through a transparent mess on the ticket.

            "Why else would an island hide?" another girl spoke as she steered their motor boat forward toward a direction where no island was in sight, "It has to be Southern Island."

            The girl who was holding the ticket glanced over at her traveling companion concerned.  She was no older than fourteen years of age with red hair that was pulled into two bun hair styles, wore a pair of glasses over her green eyes, and wore a high collar, green shrug jacket over a black shirt, jeans, and sneakers.  "Are you sure about this Star?" asked the girl.

            "Of course I am Kate, why would I doubt it?" the other girl spoke.  She appeared to be around eighteen years of age with sandy tan and blond hair in which one part covered over the side of her face, blue eyes, and wore an attire consisting of a black sleeveless hoodie with a pink star screen on the chest, black jeans, and sneakers as well as wearing a pair of black gloves that stretched up to her shoulders and became padded in a thick, but light, material.  A strange Pokeball also worn around her neck that was black and had green and orange outline designs on the exterior. 

            "Well," said Kate as she looked up ahead uncertainly, "I don't see anything and what if this Eon Ticket really is a fake and someone is tricking us?"

            Star closed her eyes for a moment as if sensing something up ahead and shook her head.  "No, it is real.  We are close.  It's best you sit down now."

            "Wha-?" asked Kate, but then suddenly felt herself fall onto the boat's deck as it rocked heavily in the water, "What happened?!"

            "Pi-ka-chu!"  came a high pitched voiced that made Kate turn to see herself looking at an Electric Element that looked like a small yellow mouse with long, black-tipped ears, red cheeks, a thunderbolt shaped tail that was heart shaped at the tip, and deep green eyes that shown in the sunlight.

            "Hey Ireland," Kate spoke as she sat up, "I'm okay."

            Kate suddenly saw another creature instantly appear next to Ireland from thin air, looking like a purple spirit of some kind with a hat-shaped head, a long flowly body, red jewels around her neck, lavender colorations on parts of her ghostly form, and golden-red eyes that looked on in concern as well.  "Mis-mag-ius?" the Ghost Element asked.

            "She's alright Mismagius," said Star with a nod, "Nothing to worry about."

            Mismagius nodded and floated back to levitate next to her trainer and seemed to whisper something into Star's ear.  Star nodded and looked at Kate to say:  "Mismagius just informed me we've just passed through the island's protection veil and that's why we felt that impact."

            "At least we see the island now…" said Kate slowly as Ireland hopped on her shoulder and gazed out with her trainer to see a tropical island was now coming closer into view, being a few miles away. 

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            Latios lifted his head up to the sky, as if sensing something strange entering toward the island.  Beka, who was preparing lunch for her and the Pokemon, looked up from the fire where she was cooking from and saw Latios.  "Latios, what's wrong?" Beka asked.

            Latias also went over to her brother and asked in concern what was he sensing.  Latios said something to his sister and then took off quickly into the forest as Latias called out concerned.  Beka stood up and watched as Latios left.  "I don't like what I'm sensing…" Beka spoke as she turned to her other Pokemon who were lounging around the campsite after their training.  They seemed concerned at what was happening and looked at their trainer in question.  Her other team members consisted of a Flygon; a Ground/Dragon Element that looked like a dragonfly-dragon hybrid with green scales, a long green patterned tail that ended in a fan, massive diamond-shaped wings, antenna, and red dome lens that covered his dark eyes; a Salamence; a Dragon/Flying Element that looked like a Western dragon covered and blue scales, narrow black eyes, a grey underbelly, and massive red wings; a Milotic; a Water Element that was a serpentine creature with smooth peach skin that ended in pink, blue, and black scales and a fan-like tail, long hair-like fins on her head, and majestic red eyes; an Absol; a Dark Element that looked like a canine with a black face, massive white fur covering its body, sharpened features of a scythe on the side of its head, claws, and tail, and deep red eyes; and a Dragonair; another Dragon Element that was serpentine with blue and white scales covering her body, a small horn on her forehead, a pair of small wings on the sides of her head, crystal jewels on her chest and tail, and glisten deep violet eyes. 

            "You guys stay here," said Beka as Blaziken, now standing by her side, offered his assistance to her.  Beka nodded and the two took off after Latios as did Latias.

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            After pulling up and tying the boat up at a series of rocks, Kate and Star along with their Pokemon trekked onto the sands of the beach and began observing the place.  Kate looked around in excitement as Star seemed to quietly gaze the area around. 

            "Wow!  What an amazing sanctuary!" spoke Kate, "It's so amazing that no humans have touched this place!"

            "Actually," said Star as she closed her eyes as if sensing something, "there has been, but they didn't make it to the island…a ship had sunk around the waters of this island and the spirits of the dead sailors are roaming this beach in an eternity of limbo…"

            "What…?" asked Kate, kind of being creep out by Star and her ghost story, "Come on Star, quit talking about stuff like that!  You know I hate ghost stories!"

            "Oh really?" asked Star as she glanced at Kate in which caused a chill to go down the young trainer's spine, "I can sense them…they are awaiting for their Judgment…they are trying to leave this realm and of course, they may decide to leave by taking over a body of a soul…someone so young and innocent…"

            "AAAHHH!!" screamed Kate as she suddenly felt something covering her eyes and clung to her head.  She then suddenly felt the something lift off her head and to see that is was just Mismagius glomping over Kate's eyes from behind and causing Star to laugh at the now petrified Kate.

            "I was just kidding Kate," Star laughed and winked, "but what do you think of my newest ghost story?"

            "That was a cheap trick to pull on a friend Star!" yelled Kate as she accusingly pointed her finger at her, "You know I hate those stories and you being a shrine priestess from Ecruteak won't make it any scarier!"

            Star waved her hand at Kate for her to calm down.  "Relax, I know, but you got to have a bit more excitement in your life you know.  There's much more to this world than the senses can-"  Star suddenly stopped and looked up in the air as if she sensing something.  Kate growled as Star closed her eyes.

            "Quit playing that trick again!" yelled Kate, "It won't work-"

            "Get down!!" yelled Star and tackled Kate onto the ground as a massive blast of light streaked over head of the girls and hit the ocean water; causing a massive burst of water to explode from the shoreline.

            Star got off of Kate as Kate looked out onto the water in fright.  "What was that?!"  she yelled.

            "Mismagius, use Shadow Ball!"  yelled out Star.  Mismagius opened her mouth and shot out a sphere of purplish-black light that slammed in the direction from where the blast came from.  Star for a moment caught something appearing and then disappearing as the Shadow Ball hit the ground and missed the target.  'Was that…?' thought Star, but soon stopped her trail of thought as Mismagius seemed to be hit by something before her.  "Mismagius, Astonish!"  Mismagius slammed herself into something before her and caused the creature to reappear and flinch back due to the attack.  The girls gasped at the creature and they easily recognized it.

            "A Latios!" exclaimed Kate, but gasped when Latios opened his mouth to unleash a green pulse of light from his mouth, "That's Dragon Pulse!"

            "Mismagius, Shadow Ball!"  called out Star.  Mismagius unleashed another Shadow Ball attack that made contact with Dragon Pulse and the two attacks exploded upon contact.  "Now go in and Astonish again!"  Mismagius flew into the smoke filled medium and the sound of a cry of pain filled the air as Latios was sent skidding across the sands and flinched more to the attack.  Star saw her chance to strike: "Mismagius, use Dark Pulse now!"  Mismagius opened her mouth and unleashed a black sphere of light toward Latios as the Dragon/Psychic Element tried to recover from flinching.  The attack, however, was destroyed as something red blurred in front of Latios and a stream of fire incinerated the attack from making contact with the Legendary.  The girls gasped as they saw a very muscular and large Blaziken posed before Latios in a protection position and eyed at them to leave.

            "Wow, that Blaziken is protecting Latios!" exclaimed Kate, "How amazing is that?!"

            "Something about that Blaziken seems odd," said Star, as she closed her eyes for a moment, "As if…someone is here…"

            "Hey!  Leave Latios alone!" came Beka's voice as the trainer leapt from a ledge that made it onto the beach and got beside Blaziken.  Latias quickly went to her brother's side to check on him and rub her beak against his head.  Latios gently rubbed back against his sister as Beka and Blaziken looked ready for a fight against the two trainers.

            "Interesting," said Star as she looked at Beka, "So you've bonded with these two Legendaries."

            "Who are you and what are you doing here?!" demanded Beka.

            Kate held up her arms in response.  "Hey!  Calm down!  We didn't come here to steal them if that's what you're think-"

            "WAAHH!!  I can't see anything!" yelled Beka as her vision when black.  Kate stared in a blank matter as Mismagius had glomped onto Beka's head and was enjoying scaring the trainer.  Star let off a small laugh.

            "Mismagius really likes you," Star spoke, "She's just saying 'hello' by that head glomp."

            Beka soon relaxed when Mismagius levitated off of her head and seemed to nod to her in a friendly manner.  Beka smiled softly at the ghost and then turned to the girls as Blaziken and the Eon Legendaries surrounded her.  "So, what brings you two to the island?"

            "Well, we came here in rumors about there being the Eon Legendaries," said Kate, "We weren't trying to capture them, but try to stop some people who were coming for them."

            "Like who?" asked Beka.

            "That, I'm uncertain," said Kate with a concerned look, "you see-" She was suddenly cut short of her sentence when her stomach began gurgling for food and she held in her stomach, "Aww, I'm hungry.  I knew I should have had breakfast this morning."  Star and Mismagius sighed at Kate's behavior while Beka merely smiled.

            "Well, I have something cooking back at my campsite if you would all like to join me for lunch," Beka offered.

            Kate perk to her words as Star nodded with a small smile.  "That would be great, thank you," Star said.  As the girls and the Pokemon headed back to the campsite, Star spoke up to Beka with:  "You know, we never formally introduced ourselves.  Well, I'm Catherine Skyler from Ecruteak City; but you can call me Star for short if you wish."

            "And I'm Kate Starler from Fortree City," Kate spoke with a giggle, and then looked to her shoulder, "and this Ireland, my Pikachu."

            "Pi-ka-chu!" Ireland chimed from her shoulder.

            "She's quite an adorable Pikachu," said Beka, "I've never seen a Pikachu with green eyes before."

            "Yeah, she was born that way," said Kate, "but there's nothing wrong with it."

            Beka nodded.  "Yeah, and I'm Beka Goldheart, nice to meet you guys."  Kate and Star froze in their tracks at hearing her name, causing Beka to stop as well.  "Is something wrong?"

            "You're the Beka Goldheart?" asked Kate, "The one that Team Sky has been pursuing?"

            "Well, it would explain why she knows their name," spoke Star.

            Beka looked down for a moment and then nodded.  "Yeah, that's me alright."

            Star closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them again.  "Yes, you share a deep bond with the Legendary of the Sky: Rayquaza."  Beka looked at her surprised as Star waved her hand at her again, "Relax, it's something that I've been able to do when I was little and it's built up ever since I've studied under the elders and become a shrine priestess at the Tin Tower in Ecruteak." 

            "Wow, that's amazing," said Beka.

            "Well, enough bragging about me," spoke Star with a smile, "Let's go and enjoy that meal you were talking about, shall we?"

            "Oh sure," said Beka with a warm smile, "Right this way."

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            "So are you sure that their boat went through it?" asked a female figure who was standing at the front of her boat, which looked like a pharaoh's sailboat from Ancient Egypt, as they sailed after the motor boat.

            "Affirmative ma'am," spoke a Team Sky Grunt as he went over their latest calculations on a laptop in his arms, "How shall be proceed Ms. Hathor?"

            The female figure, who looked to be somewhere in her thirties with long brown hair that consisted of two long bangs resting over her shoulders and encased in golden bindings, blazing red-orange eyes that were surrounded by green eye liner, full red lips, and wearing a strange Egyptian like dress with a Rayquaza emblem sash around her waist, golden bracelets on her arms, high heeled gold sandals, and a choker collar with Team Sky's emblem around her neck; turned to the Grunt with a dark smirk on her face.  "We'll evade the beach of course and find what we need.  Those two brats will lead us to the Eon twins before anyone else."

            "Yes Ms. Hathor," the Grunt nodded again and prepared more calculations on his laptop.

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            Enjoying their meals in the warm sun, the three girls conversated as Beka's Pokemon relaxed in the warm weather.  "Wow, your Pokemon are amazing Beka," spoke Kate with a smile as she saw Beka's Pokemon nearby, "They look so powerful and well trained."

            "Thanks," said Beka with a soft blush of modesty, "I guess being here on this island for four months with other wild Pokemon, along with Latios and Latias, have helped us out.  I was surprised too when the Pokemon here even helped out with our training."

            Kate nodded as Star looked over to see Mismagius and Ireland playing tag with Latias.  "At least it is peaceful here," Star spoke.

            "So this is where you have been all this time, haven't you?" asked Kate to Beka, "There was a news report going around that you suddenly vanished at the Battle Frontier after Team Sky attacked the island.  I'm guessing that's why you had to flee huh?"

            "That and…something else," said Beka as she looked down at her mug of hot tea in her hand:  remembering the heartbreak and pressure she faced back at the island between Steven and Edgar.  True, she was changing into a more independent and confident person, but that memory seemed to come back and haunt her from time to time as well as pressure into her heart.  She had to live with the pain, but she swore never to give her heart to anyone until she felt the time was right.  A small tear tickled down her face that caused Kate and Star to look at her concerned. 

            "Beka, are you okay?" asked Kate.

            "Yeah, I'm sorry about that," said Beka as she quickly brushed her hand against her face to dry away the teardrop. 

            Just then, a sound of a Pokeball begin opened caused Beka to look up and see a small beam of white light expelling from a Pokeball on Star's belt.  From the light materialized a small Pokemon that looked like a small golden bell with red and white antenna that looked like ribbon on its head.  "Ching-ling!" the tiny Pokemon called out it a ringing voice.  Star smiled.

            "Hello Chingling, had a nice nap?"  The Pokemon nodded as Beka looked at it in curiosity.

            "I take it you've never seen a Chingling before, have you Beka?" asked Kate.

            Beka shook her head.  "Never, except in a book on Sinnoh Pokemon that a friend gave me," said Beka as she began approaching it to look at it better.  Seeing her coming, Chingling gently held onto Star's leg and shrank away behind it, holding a worried look on its face.  "Aww, poor thing is scared," said Beka.  Star sighed as she closed her eyes.

            "I would suggest covering your ears now…" Star spoke.

            "Huh?" asked Beka, "how come-"

            "CHIIIIIIING-LIIIIIING!!" screamed out Chingling in terror, crying out massively in fright.  Beka was literally blown back from the sound blast as Chingling began wailing wildly.  Blaziken easily caught his trainer back, but had to cover his head to block out the noise, as did Beka's other Pokemon, Kate, Ireland, Latias, Latios, and the other Pokemon surrounding them.  Star and Mismagius seemed to be use to the massive crying as they were pretty calm about the situation and Star went to pick up Chingling and gently rock her to calm her down.  Chingling soon stopped crying and wailing, resting against Star as the trainer rocked her to sleep.  The others uncovered their heads and looked at the tiny Pokemon in awe in what power it had in its cry.  Star looked up at them and saw their head's uncovered.

            "And that, was Chingling's Uproar," spoke Star to Beka.

            "Yeah, not the best thing to do is to startle Chingling like that," spoke Kate to Beka.

            "That Uproar was amazing," spoke Beka with a smile, "You're Chingling is amazing Star!"

            Star quietly recalled Chingling back into her Pokeball and placed it back on her belt.  "Thank you," she spoke, "but it is still a pretty young Pokemon that I had recently got on my team."

            "Still, you got to admit," said Kate, "Chingling is quite the character.  I remember getting close her too the first time:  blew me and Ireland both a good few feet."

            "Pi-ka-chu," spoke Ireland as she now stood by Kate and drooped her ears in embarrassment. 

            Beka smiled at the group, but then perked up to a noise that was being heard from behind them and yelled out: "Get down!"  The group forcefully did so as streams of air sliced overhead as if an ambush was occurring.  The group turned around to see who had done that and as they did so, Beka notice Star's face was turning into a very angry expression.

            "You!" exclaimed Star as she glared down at the woman figure named Hathor as a large Normal/Flying Element Pokemon landed beside her; looking like a giant bird with tan and cream feathers, a massive plumage of red and gold feathers flowing down its back, red tail feathers, and black markings around its narrowed dark eyes.  Hathor merely chuckled and stroke the large bird's head.

            "Come now Skyler," smirked Hathor, "is that anyway to treat guests?"

            'Who is this woman?' thought Beka as she looked her over but then gasped when she saw a familiar S emblem Hathor's neck, 'No, it's can't be…'

            Hathor scanned over to see Beka and her smirk grew wider.  "Well, well, isn't this an unexpected surprise.  The Emerald of Hoenn herself is here as well!"  As she said this, Beka noticed several Team Sky members coming up beside Hathor and narrowing their sights on their target.  "Surround them boys!" spoke Hathor and soon a series of Grunts surrounded the girls.  Beka noticed her Pokemon beginning to advance toward the Grunts with threatening demeanors, seeing their trainer in trouble and attempting to put the Grunts in their place.  The Grunts seemed a bit nervous at the massive Pokemon coming toward them.

            "B-Boss…" muttered a Grunt as he was slowly being over towered by Blaziken.  Hathor remained calm and slowly pulled out a strange harp-like instrument in which the frame was made of gold and crafted into a strange U-shaped design that looked like a pair of curved horns with a sun disk embedded on the crest.  With a swift movement of her fingers, Hathor played out an eerie tune upon the strings of the harp that caused Beka's Pokemon to go into a moment of shock before they all collapsed onto ground unconscious.  Ireland also went down with them, but Mismagius seemed to be the only one awake and resisting the harp's song. 

            "Guys!  Oh no!" gasped Beka as she tried to reach her Pokemon, but couldn't as the Grunts kept her in the circle. 

            "Ireland!" exclaimed Kate as she caught the electric mouse Pokemon from falling off her shoulder.  She then turned to Star.  "Star, what happened?!"

            "Hathor has used her Perish Song harp to knock out your guys Pokemon," said Star and then looked at Mismagius, "Mismagius, however, has built up immunity to it after the last several times Hathor and I have met."

            "So you guys have met up before?" asked Beka.  Star nodded as Hathor threw out another Pokeball.

            "Well now Star, if you will be so kind, tell me where the Eon twins are at as well as handing over Emerald to me," spoke out Hathor as her Pokeball opened to reveal a large Poison/Dark Element that looked like a purple scorpion-like creature with massive white pincers on its claws and tail, a segmented body that looked a bit centurion shaped, and small blue designs on its body.

            "Oh my, that's a big Drapion," said Kate a bit worried, "Those things are dangerous…"  Star got before Beka and Kate as a shield, along with Mismagius, as Drapion was getting closer to them.

            "You leave Beka out of this Hathor!" Star leered, "If you want her and the Eon Legendaries so much, then fight me!"

            "Mis-magi-us!" yelled out Mismagius as well as she readied for battle.  Hathor merely chuckled at this and nodded to a Grunt.  A yell was heard and Beka saw Kate was grabbed by one of the Grunts.

            "Kate!" exclaimed Beka as Kate tried to throw the Grunt off of her, but proved futile.  Hathor laughed as this as Star growled at the Sky commander.

            "Let her go Hathor!" yelled Star.

            "Only if you tell us where Latios and Latias are and hand over Emerald!!" demanded Hathor as she pointed at Beka.

            Meanwhile, since no one was paying attention to them from behind, Blaziken had begun stirring from the blow of the song and slowly opened his eyes to see the matter that was going on.  Seeing Beka still in danger, the Fire/Fighting Element quickly got onto his feet and began throwing out a series of fast punches that sent the Grunts, even the one who had his hold on Kate, flying in various directions and crashing hard onto different spots on the ground; leaving only the girls, Hathor, and Hathor's Pokemon to deal with.  Hathor smirked as she saw Blaziken readying to attack her next.  "My, what a powerful Blaziken…it even with stood the Perish Song harp longer and got up much soon than any Pokemon would," she then looked at Beka, "So it is true, you are a powerful trainer."

            "Hathor," spoke Beka in a serious tone, "your men are defeated and you are the only person here awake at the moment on this island that belongs to Team Sky.  I suggest you leave now and never return…"

            "Such measly words from a naïve child like yourself," smirk Hathor as she pulled out her harp again, "Perhaps I should play for you a much better tune that you will better understand on how I run things!"  With another quick swipe of her fingers on the harp, Hathor played another song; only this one was much different than the song of the Perish Song.  The music sounded deafening and was a high pitched tone that ringed hard into Blaziken' ear drums and caused the Pokemon to fall to his knees in pain as he held in his head in his claws.

            "Blaziken!!" yelled Beka as she kneeled to her Pokemon concerned, "Blaziken!  Are you okay?!"

            Blaziken seemed to stop withering in pain, but suddenly grabbed Beka by her arm tightly and flung her over to the side; causing her to yell as she crashed to the ground.  "Beka!!" Star and Kate exclaimed in shock as Beka struggled to stand back up.

            "I'm okay…" Beka spoke as she got back to her feet, only to feel herself being lifted up by her shirt and to find herself face to face with the clouded eyes of her Blaziken; deep within a controlling state, "Blaziken?" she asked concern.

            "No use it calling out to it," smirked Hathor, "you're Blaziken is mine now!"

            "You're lying!" yelled Beka and tried to break out of Blaziken's grip, "Blaziken!  It's me, Beka!  Don't you know me?!"  Blaziken just stared at her with a clouded, dark stare; unresponsive to her calls out to him.  Hathor chuckled at this.

            "Let me show you," spoke Hathor, "Blaziken, use Sky Uppercut!"

            Blaziken lowered his free hand into a fist and then sent it striking upwards to make contact with Beka and sent her flying into the air to the impact's blow.  Beka screamed in pain, at how powerful her Pokemon had become, as she was sent flying in the air from Blaziken's attack.  Suddenly, Beka felt something catch her in their arms and stop her from going any further in the air, causing her to look up and see that it was Latios who had caught her.  "Latios!" Beka exclaimed as the Dragon/Psychic Element nodded in concern and gently pushed his forehead against her cheek in comfort.  From below, Hathor grinned smugly as she watched Latios gently place Beka onto the ground. 

            "So I finally found you, Latios," Hathor grinned as the Legendary turned to glare a hole through the Sky agent's eyes, "but where is your dearest sister at?"

            As soon as Hathor said that, Latias suddenly appeared as well beside Beka and began looking her over in concern.  Beka smiled softly and patted Latias' head.  "I'm okay.  Nothing feels broken Latias," she spoke.

            "I see," said Hathor, holding onto her grin, "they must have been under their veils to help them be concealed as we visited, but seeing you in danger Emerald, they've risked their guard and let it drop just to come to your aid.  Such a waste of time to save someone like you!  Drapion, use Pin Missile!"  Drapion opened its mouth to unleash a series of green pins of light toward Beka and Latias, but Latios quickly got in the way of the attack and raised up a golden shield of light that deflected off the attack; using his Protect.  Hathor then called out:  "Blaziken, Brick Break!"  Blaziken came out from the side of Latios and slammed a brownish-aura fist hard into the shield and causing it to shatter from around Latios; shocking the Eon Pokemon.

            "Blaziken, stop this!" yelled Beka as she tried to reach Blaziken.

            Blaziken glared at her again as Hathor laughed.  "You heard her Blaziken," she spoke, "stop that to Latios…and use Shadow Claw on her and Latias!"  Blaziken raised up his right claw, now glowing in a purple aura, and charged at Beka and Latias with it ready to swing out to them.  Latios, however, got before Blaziken and began charging up a surge of light toward his chest in order to begin his Luster Purge attack.  Seeing this, Hathor called out:  "Drapion, stop Latios with Crunch!"  Drapion charged at Latios and grabbed onto the Legendary by biting hard onto one of his glider wings and slamming him hard into the ground.  Latios was forced to stop Luster Purge as he crashed into the ground as Blaziken leapt over them and aimed his attack for Beka and Latias.  Suddenly, a green surge of light admitted from Beka's form and she leapt into Blaziken; knocking off his direction in the air and forcing him to crash onto the ground with her.  Finding his trainer pinning him to the ground, Blaziken grabbed her even harder and swung her off of him; tumbling onto the ground and rolling for a bit before coming to a stop.  Seeing this, Hathor sneered.  "I see you want to go first, huh Emerald?"  she asked and looked to Blaziken, "Do it then Blaziken."  Blaziken nodded and began to approach her. 

            "Blaziken, don't do this!" yelled out Kate, "She's you're trainer!  Not your enemy!"

            Star growled softly and went for her belt to get another Pokeball, but was stopped in shock to see Beka having gotten back up and tackle into Blaziken hard; not to take him down, but to hug him tightly; surprising her.  From her messy red hair, the group could hear Beka muffle out tears as she pressed her face into Blaziken's chest hard.  "Blaziken!" she called out, "Please stop this!  This isn't you!  You're not a servant to Hathor or to Team Sky!  You're my best friend and a member of my family!  I love you!!" 

            "Blaziken!" yelled out Hathor, "Ignore her lies!  Finish her now!!"  Beka could feel Blaziken beginning to grip her shoulders tightly, but Beka held on even tighter as tears kept on coming out.

            "No Blaziken!!"  Beka yelled, "You're not a monster!  You're my friend!  My family!!  I love you Blaziken and I will never forget about the goodness inside of you!!"

            At that moment, a memory snapped into Blaziken's consciousness that happened a long time ago…

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The Pokeball popped opened and a blaze of white light came out. The light materialized on the floor, and there stood Torchic, a small, orange bird with dark purple eyes and yellow feathers and claws.

"Tor-chic-tor," chirped the small Chick Pokemon.

Beka looked down to see the Pokemon before her eyes. She knelt down to it and made direct eye contact with it.

"Tor!" it chirped again and jumped into Beka's arms.

Beka eyes filled with tears, to feel the small bird's soft, yet warm feathers against her bare arms, to know it was snuggling in her chest, to know it had a heartbeat. It wasn't a game piece...it was real…

"Torchic…" said Beka, hugging her first Pokemon close, "I'm never going to forget this moment…"

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            Beka suddenly felt herself being lifted and held close to something incredibly warm and soft that reminded her of a memory from long ago, causing her to look up and see her Blaziken looking down at her with tears filling his now clear blue and yellow eyes; unclouded by the song's spell.  A smile broke her face as Beka wrapped her arms around Blaziken's neck and hugged him; happy to see him back to normal.

            "Blaziken!  You're alright!" Beka smiled.

            "Blaze!" Blaziken nodded as he seemed to tear up at what he had done to his trainer.  Beka just smiled and wiped away the tears from Blaziken's eyes.

            "I'm just glad you're okay," said Beka, still smiling.  Hathor, however, was not pleased to see this event occur.

            "How can this be…my control tune shouldn't have-grr! Never mind!  Drapion! Use Cross Poison!"  Drapion rose up its heavy pincers and charged toward Beka and Blaziken in an attempt to strike them with its now toxic attack.  Beka and Blaziken turned to see the massive scorpion-like Pokemon overcoming them, but Blaziken shot up into Drapion and slammed a powerful Sky Uppercut into its chest and sent it back crashing down beside Hathor.  Hathor flinched at the damage inflicted upon her Drapion, but then called to her Pidgeot: "Pidgeot, use Brave Bird!"  Pidgeot lifted from the ground and sped toward Blaziken with its body in cloaked in blue light, but Blaziken clenched his fists and charged at Pidgeot.  When in range, Blaziken threw out his right claw and slammed a powerful crack of electricity head on into Pidgeot's attack that caused a massive blowback to both Pokemon.  Blaziken was able to catch his footing while Pidgeot crashed before its trainer, fainted and cracking in static.  Hathor's jaw dropped at what was before her as Kate and Star looked on impressed.

            "Amazing," said Kate, "you're Blaziken knows Thunderpunch Beka."

            "Yup," said Beka, turning to them with a smile, "never hurts to have moves that can help against the disadvantage."

            A growl was heard that caused the girls to turn and see Hathor fuming in rage as the Team Sky Grunts slowly came too and began to stand. "This is not over you brat!" snarled Hathor at Beka, "I am going to get what I want and-"  Hathor cut short when streams of various attacks came from behind Beka and the others and ended up slamming into the Grunts; causing them to be blown away from the impact and sent far away from the island.  Hathor stood there shocked as she saw Beka's other Pokemon, now fully awaken from the harp's song, standing and glaring darkly at her for what had happened to them; her feeling small compared to the force at hand.  "Hey, um…can we talk about this?" she asked meekly.  Her response came when Beka's Pokemon all aimed a series of beams of light out to the ground before Hathor and caused an explosion; sending her flying with the rest of the crew and vanished into the atmosphere. 

            "So long Hathor…" smirked Star as she and Mismagius gave off a joking salute to the sky.

            As Beka went to praise her Pokemon for jobs well done and to make sure they were okay, Kate realized Ireland was beginning to awaken from her sleep and rub her eyes.  "Hey, you okay?" asked Kate to her Pikachu.

            "Pi-ka-chu," said Ireland with a nod.

            After Ireland spoke, the girls and Pokemon turned to see a flash of light and Latios shimmering in a warm glowing light that seemed to cause the bruises and inquiries to his wing to heal instantly.  "Latios has finished using Recover," spoke Star softly as she saw Latios rise from the ground and Latias happily nudging him in relief to see him alright.   Latios pressed on a soft smile and nudged his sister back to see her alright as well; causing the girls to smile at the scene.

            "Aww, they're so perfect together," smiled Kate.

            After their few moments of sibling bonding, Latios and Latias both approached Beka.  "Is something wrong?" asked Beka.  The two Pokemon's eyes began glowing in a pale blue light that seemed to also graze within Beka's mind as voices began filling her head.

            Emerald, the time has come for you to go, spoke a masculine voice that seemed to path from Latios, it is not safe for you here anymore.

            'Latios?' asked Beka mentally, 'Are you speaking to me?'  Latios nodded.

            Yes, you are not imagining things Emerald, spoke Latias as she seemed to smile a bit, but it is funny seeing your face right now: all shocked and confused.

            Latias giggled softly after she spoke, but stopped when Latios gave her a look of seriousness.  Latias, now isn't the time.

            I'm sorry brother, spoke Latias guiltily before looking back at Beka, Yes, what my brother said is true Emerald, you must leave Southern Island.

            'I understand,' said Beka with a nod, but looked at them confused, 'but what about you guys and your island home?'

            Do not worry about us Emerald, Latios spoke with a smile, we are swift in the winds and our detection to humans is limited; we will not appear to anyone unless truly needed. 

            Our biggest concern is your safety Emerald, spoke Latias, yours and of the other Chosen Ones that are yet to be awaken.

            Although, spoke Latios as he glanced at Kate and Star, who now seemed oblivious to the conversation that was occurring, I do sense Chosen energy admitting from those two girls…phases of the moon it seems…

            'Phases of the moon?' asked Beka as she too looked at the girls.

            Time will reveal the truth soon enough, spoke Latias, but now, you must go and continue on your journey within this world.  Arceus has entitled upon you a great mission that is now approaching its time to be fulfilled.

            Until we meet again Emerald, both Latias and I will come to your call if you need us, spoke Latios as he and Latias gave humble bows to Beka. 

            Beka then felt the mental connection between the Eon Legendaries break and returned back to reality, just in time to see the two Pokemon lift up into the air and fly off into the sky; vanishing instantly in the blue stretch of heaven.  Kate was in shock to see them go as Star looked on in silence to their departure.  "Oh man, they're gone…" spoke Kate, "I guess that since Team Sky came here, it was best they left before they came back looking for them."

            "They're not the only ones to be leaving too," spoke Star as she saw Beka heading back to the campsite with her Pokemon trailing along her.

            They followed her back too and saw her call back her Pokemon in a series of Pokeballs that were now attached to a worn out Pokebelt that now strapped around her waist.  They continued to watch as she undid her tent, packed her supplies, and doused out and destroy the fire and campsite to try and make it look like no one had ever set foot within the area of mainland.  With everything settled and straight, Beka turned to see that Kate and Star were waiting for her; surprising the trainer.  "You guys are still here?" asked Beka.

            "Of course we are silly!" stated Kate, "Just leave you here by your lonesome and then not accompany you on your journey back to the mainland?  It's not right for you to be stuck here with a pretty easy target planted on you!  I can help you find a new place to stake out!"

            Star sighed softly at Kate's hyper antics as Mismagius giggled softly.  Beka smiled softly.  "I thank you for the kind offer," she spoke before going serious, "however, once I do get to the mainland, I will need to continue on my own."

            "Why not go somewhere so that you can rest and recuperate for a while?" asked Star, "It'll do both your mind and body good."  Beka pondered on that thought for a moment before nodding.

            "True, there is one place I do wish to go more than anywhere else," said Beka, "There are some people I'd like to see after so long…"

            "Then it's settled," said Kate, "We'll go back to the mainland of Hoenn to Lilycove City and then we'll depart from there."

            The girls nodded and headed back onto the small motor boat and soon departed from the shore.  Beka glanced back over her shoulder to see the island slowly vanish back into its cloak of invisible veil so that it could at least be hidden from passersby's in the world; only that sadly, the once tranquil and beautiful island will again be invaded and possibly taken over by man once word had been spread.  As night began to fall upon the ocean, Beka huddled onto the boat as she looked up at the twilight masterpiece of the sky and hoped that both Latias and Latios were doing well.

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            Back on the island, within the mound on the island, rested the crystal jewel of the Soul Dew within a pocket of the sacred landmark.  Only for it to suddenly be picked up by a mysterious stranger wearing a strange wandering nomad knight attire as his delicate fingers held the sacred jewel in his grip.  A small smile curved on his face as his long, white and black hair shimmered in the night and his red eyes examined the Soul Dew and caused him to lift his opposite hand up in the air.  "The Soul Dew, another treasure needed for safe keeping…" he spoke as he made a swiping motion with his opposing hand.  As he did this, a slice tore open in the air and showed a strange space scene on the opposite side of the slice where there was also three spheres made of sapphire, ruby, and emerald also rested within.  He gently placed the Soul Dew next to the Orbs and smiled softly at the Green Orb resting nearest to the Soul Dew.  "So your journey back into the modern world has come Beka," he spoke, "may you reunite with your friends and continue on your newest passage to finding the other Chosen Ones."

            "She has met our two, remember?" came a voice from behind the man that caused him to close up the void, turn, and see two new individuals standing behind him. 

One was a male with long white hair that concealed one half of his darkened complexion face and exposing one of his brilliant blue eyes, and wore black robes with a massive necklace adorning his neck; while the other was a female figure with golden blond hair in crescent-shaped hairstyles, dazzling violet-pink eyes, and wore beautiful maiden-like robes colored in pink, blue, lavender, and gold that wrapped around her form as well as a crystal colored veil.  The knight smiled seeing the two new individuals: "Ah!  So good to see you two again.  Have you brought the items that I've requested for our Chosens when the time is right?"

The female figure held out a large pink jewel and a yellow jeweled mirror in her arms as the male held out a deep blue, jewel sword and sheath to the man; each piece having an identical red jewel attached to each item as well.  "We found the first few of the Possessions of Sinnoh, with our items and now those of the Legendary Spirits."  The knight nodded and with the same swiping motion, he formed another slice that opened up another dimensional pocket to show a majestic green curved feather with a multicolored prism attached to it with a golden cord and a card-like tag made of a dark precious stone were also resting within the void.  The two strangers proceeded to place the items within the pocket with the other two items and then allowed the knight to close up the void once everything was inside.

"Are you sure this is the right time to bring all the items together?" asked the male, "Emerald has not even trekked into the deserts of Orre, nor has she shown signs that her true form is surfacing since her reborn form hasn't been able to fully control her comings and goings properly."

"Have patience," spoke the knight as he looked up to the sky, "Do not worry about what is to come, but worry about what is at hand."

"Of course," nodded the female and ushered the dark male to follow her, "Come, let us continue Arceus' request."

"Yes," nodded the male and left with the female into the night.

The knight's smile grew more as he continued to look at the stars.  "Beautiful," he spoke as he slowly morphed into a majestic, white, horse-like creature with golden hooves, a massive snow white and black mane, black patches on its chest and face, a large golden and emerald studded wheel on its back, and dazzling green and red eyes, "The most beautiful of existence: life."  He then vanished away into the night as a gentle breeze began to pick up.

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Coming up, Beka returns to the Hoenn mainland and reunites with long time buddies Brendan and May.  Along the way, Beka meets a new trainer along with receiving a new Pokemon as her newest journey begins to go underway…