Two weeks of boat travel and team Alola had arrived in what is considered to be the largest city in all of the regions. Castelia City.

For all of them, the size was much for them to handle until Elio shouted out. "Alright minions! We have over two months to prepare for the tournament! We are to meet in Driftveil city by then! Unless there is anything specific you need of me, your pretty much on your own!"

Kaiwe and Guzma agreed to go to the desert north of the city. Lana, Mallow and Plumeria went to the bridge south of the city to Pinwheel forest. Ilima and Sophocles went with the fire dancer and the skull boss. Ilima spoke his reason while letting out a charm inducing look. "I heard of a hidden grotto near Nimbasa city that should have what I am looking for."

Mina went to the sidewalk and found a place to begin painting as Elio whispered to her. "From what my pop's said about this city, there is someone here you might get along with!"

Mina shrugged. "I might find him when I get the chance."

As the Alola champ dismissed them to do their own activities as he smiled to Lillie. "This is just the first sight!"

Lillie knew that two months was limited time and wanted to enjoy the region with Elio as much as she would. "What do you want to do first?"

Elio answered. "Lets head over to Nimbasa city first! While there is one thing I want to do in this city, the problem with it is that finding one person in this crowd would take way too long. That is also something I want to do alone. Pop's said of an ice cream shop in this city, want to try that place first?"

The two bought themselves Castelia cones as they walked over to the northern desert. The route looked like buildings were built over a dessert and sandstorms were common. They finished up as they found the Kaiwe trying to catch the pre evolution of Darmanitan, Darumaka. As he caught one in a quick ball, he was initially startled by the duo.

Elio greeted him with a hearty hello. "You already captured a pokemon in this region and have to wear a shirt for a while?"

Kaiwe felt inconvenienced by the red shirt he was wearing and answered. "Ilima went ahead of us while we went off the road. Guzma left for the ruins you told him about. Any trainers that would have challenged him were frightened into getting out of his way."

Elio understood. "He been wanting to get a Volcarona for months! Let him get what he can, this region is known for having some very good bug pokemon. Give him at least four hours and if you haven't heard from him, call me to bail him out!"

Kaiwe picked up the quick ball as he looked back the route the duo came. "I have somethings I want to do back at Castelia, going to wait in one of the buildings in this route and hope this sandstorm dies down." Elio understood as Lillie encouraged him to keep going through the route.

She shouted to Kaiwe. "Good luck raising that Darumaka, it becomes very strong when it evolves!"

As Guzma descended into the Relic Castle.

He found a few things that annoyed him. First was the large amounts of Sandiles and Yamask. After dealing with ten of each, Guzma cursed as he used a max repel to keep them off. The second most annoying was a puzzle that involved going down sand traps to actually go down the castle. It took him two hours before he finally descended to the very bottom.

Guzma looked up and grumbled. "That moth is going to be worth all that, it ought to show Kukui who is the boss!"

As he descended down the stairs, he found something very odd, even in comparison to the many Yamask. Strange looking people dressed up as a combination of a pirate and ninja with a strange emblem on their uniforms, they glared at Guzma and asked. "So you are here for the pokemon in the ru.."

Guzma folded his arms and shouted. "Damn right I am! I been wanting to catch that moth for months!"

The orange haired male of the emblem group looked at the others and talked back at Guzma. "Is it right to even capture it? Even right for you to have captured any of yours? Do they even want to be with you?"

Guzma glared at the group and laughed. "Okay first off, screw you! Second..." Guzma sent out his Golisopod before he finished. "If he wanted to ditch me, he would have done it years ago!" The grunts drew out a Watchog, a Krokodile and a Liepard.

Guzma glared at them more as he sent out a Masquerain and a Heracross. "And you went out of the way to lecture me on that crap? You all are stupid!" The three bug pokemon made very short work of the grunts pokemon, causing them to flee from their trainer. Guzma drew his Masquerain and Heracross back as he walked deeper into the ruins with his Golisopod.

The maze he went through took nowhere near as long in comparison to the sand traps as he found another strange looking person in black robes, wearing the same emblem as the grunts running for his life. "Oh no! I am not getting caught in between those two things!"

Guzma scratched his head as he wondered what was going on. He felt intense heat as he progressed to the next room. There he found a large radiating Volcarona doing battle with, or had done battle with a large muscular mosquito known as Buzzwole in front of a wormhole he was all to familiar. The Buzzwole flexed as it went back into the collapsing wormhole, waving to what ever was at the other side that they should not go this way. As the Ultra Wormhole collapsed, it left the Volcarona to deal with the other intruder. It stretched its wings as it prepared for battle, flaring up in flame and an aura for a boost.

Vs Totem Volcarona, its aura flared up, boosting its special attack.

Guzma shouted to the Golisopod. "Use aqua jet on that Volcarona!" The life orb siphoned energy as the Golisopod rammed the Volcarona into a wall. The Volcarona blew back an intense heat wave, causing the Golisopod to make an emergency exit back into its ultra ball; leaving Guzma to think of his next pokemon. "I seen how fast this thing is, Pinsir come out and get ready!" The Pinsir roared as he prepared the order. "Use x scissor to weaken it, then it is as good as caught!"

Pinsir rushed to the Volcarona and swung both its pincers and its arms into it for a critical hit. Guzma cringed as the Volcarona began to fall to the ground from the damage, a blazed in flame. By instinct, the skull boss called back the Pinsir, hid behind a big sturdy pillar and crouched. Boom! Any section of the room that wasn't blocked by the pillar was blown away in a sea of flame. Guzma felt the intense heat rush around him and sweated, while he was not burned it was one of the more intense moments of his career as a trainer.

As the flames died down, he saw ashes and a pedestal in front of a stone carving dedicated to the Volcarona. On the pedestal was a nest filled with four eggs that began to hatch into tiny larva known as Larvesta. One by one they rushed from the pedestal and into cracks on the wall. Guzma saw a more timid Larvesta slightly hesitate to go with the group and hurled a net ball.

Shake...shake...shake... click!

Guzma grinned as his capture. "You'll do, now to get out of this place!"

Elio and Lillie arrived in the rather high tech city called Nimbasa City.

"BZZT! A bustling city of entertainment, known for having a theme park! BZZT!"

The duo were too busy looking at the sights as they sent out an Incineroar and Raichu to join them in the sight. Both trainers were arguing over what they should do. Elio asked Lillie. "I heard they were having a base ball game and a tennis right now... so it is too late to get tickets. How about we take a train to Anville town?"

Lillie was about to agree until she noticed the Ferris Wheel. "Do you want to go on that? We need a should see what this region has in store for us anyways."

She blushed as she finished. "I heard that many people go to this for their own reasons."

Elio blushed back. "Talk about things in a very good sight... okay."

The two rushed in holding hands as their pokemon groaned and followed.

Incineroar spoke to the Raichu in his own language. (The two are at it again, hope this means they are not going to have issues following!)

Raichu chattered. (Oh come on Brimmy, that region was completely different from this one! Lets forget about that mess and enjoy the...) The two pokemon caught up with their trainers as they noticed another couple about to go on the Ferris Wheel ahead of them. Two teenagers, a brown haired boy in a blue shirt with a red hat and a pink haired woman in a white hat.

Elio thought to himself. "Look like a short line, meh shouldn't be to mu..."

Three white haired ninjas surrounded the older couple with a trio of Bisharps ready to strike at the couple ahead of them.

Lillie glared at shouted. "Oh come on! We haven't even been in this region for a day and we are having problems, Shockums use focus blast on the one in front of us!"

Elio gritted his teeth. "Brimmy flare blitz the on at the guys side! He needs our help!"

The Bisharp barely noticed the blast as he turned around to the noise, it was knocked out as the one on his side was slammed by a raging Incineroar for a knock out. The teenagers jumped back as the furthest Bisharp tried to slash at the older boy. He took a pokeball and shouted. "Baker! Get that Bisharp away with a hammer arm!"

A large fiery pig known as Emboar came out of the ball; he slammed his fist into the Bisharp for a quick knock out, giving the pink haired woman enough time to send out a pokemon of her own. "Go Rhydon!"

With four pokemon out, the assassins tossed out an Accelgor, an Absol and a Banette. The Accelgor used Giga drain on the Rhydon; because of its eviolite, it was able to withstand the attack.

The Absol tried to use night slash on the Raichu as Lillie posed for a "GIGA VOLT HAVOC!" to knock the Absol out.

Banette swiped a shadow claw at the Emboar as Elio shouted. "BRIMMY USE DARKEST LAIRAT ON THE BANETTE!" In a spin, the Banette was knocked out before the Emboar was able to retaliate.

The pink haired woman shouted. "Finish that Accelgor with a stone edge!" In sharp rocks the Accelgor was knocked out of the fight.

The assassins glared at the younger couple as they sent out another trio of Bisharp in an attempt to go for the kill on the brown hair teenager. Lillie shouted. "Shockums use focus blast on the furthest one!"

Elio joined in shout. "Same move on the side one again!"

Both bisharps were knock out, leaving the solo one to try and close its claws in a guillotine at the teenage boy, he dodged as he shouted. "Baker, flare blitz!"

In a fiery brutal ram, the Emboar ended the encounter, leaving the trio of assassins to glare at the younger couple.

One of them muttered as they escaped in high speeds. "You have just made enemies of us!"

The teenage boy collapsed on the ground exhausted as he realized he barely escaped death, the pink haired woman calmed him down as he turned toward the younger couple. "I thought the Shadow Tirad gave up on coming after me. Thanks you two for the quick thinking, thanks for helping out Yancy!"

Yancy blushed as Elio frowned toward the teenage boy. "No problem but a couple things. Who the hell were those guys! Also what is your name."

The teenager introduced himself as Nate. He frowned as he explained who the Shadow Tirade were. "Personal goons of a mad man named Ghetsis. Thought he had a stroke last I heard of him."

Elio wondered. "Could it be these guys trying to avenge him or something? Normally if you bang your head against a wall, you try going around it; especially if your nuts enough to keep trying for that long!"

Nate listened and thought of it. "After a year's worth of attempts at my life and disappearing for a while..." Lillie frowned in worry over the fact they dealt with assassins and wanted to change the subject.

She and Elio introduced themselves to the older couple and asked. "What are you doing here?"

Nate and Yancy blushed red as the former answered. "It was that time of the month where we go on the Ferris wheel together. Gives you a good view of the towns over. The sun set is at its best from the top!" Lillie asked the two, how long have they been dating.

Yancy answered in a more red blush. "Four years, I am normally busy with work so I have time for a couple days in the month."

Lillie grabbed Elio's hand before he had the chance to grab hers, both asked each other in unison. "Would you like to go on the Ferris Wheel with me?"

The younger couple blushed even more red in comparison to the older couple as Nate asked. "I haven't seen you two before, first time in Unova? If so, what brings you here?"

Elio shouted bold and proud. "Been invited to the World tournament! Unfortunately Lillie and I are going to be in separate teams. She is part of team Kanto simply because she beaten Lance. As for me... the world is about to see exactly what the Alola region has to offer in terms of the best!"

Nate frowned and asked with a puzzled look. "What are you... a type of Champi..."

Elio nodded and grinned. "My minions have came to this region early for one reason. Some have five pokemon as is and they need to pick up and train it up! This region has some last minute pokemon as is!"

Nate squinted his eyes and asked. "Minions?"

Elio pointed a thumb to himself and shouted. "Say hello to Alola's dark and terrible tyrant!"

Lillie pulled Elio away and apologized to the older couple. "He hasn't actually done anything terrible to the region, but he acts way too over the top about this."

Nate thought of it and laughed. "And the boys at Poke Star would love someone like you two! Tell your minions that Unova is more than prepared for what they have to offer!"

The older couple called their pokemon back and went to the Ferris Wheel after they said their farewells. Leaving the younger couple to wait for the next cart.

As the duo called their pokemon back to enjoy the ride, they looked at the view, then back at each other before returning to looking the sight.

Lillie asked Elio what was wrong as he was smiling. "Nothing much. Just enjoying the view."

Lillie moved over to Elio's side of the cart as she prepared to kiss him. It lasted until they began to descend, Elio took a deep breath as he broke the kiss and asked. "Lillie, I already said what I wanted to say to you back on Sinnoh. Should I say it again?"

Lillie blushed more and shook her head. "Once is enough for me, you don't have to if you don't want to. It is getting late, should we head to the poke center for the night as soon as this ride is over?"

Elio nodded as he realized he was holding Lillies hand again as they left the cart. "Might as well end our first day in this region after this."