I forgot to do this in the first chapter, but I do not own Pokemon and have no plans to sell any of this for profit. If I did own Pokemon there would have already been such a thing as a rainbow unicorn pokemon. :)

-Forrest-

"Calem! Do you wanna have a Pokemon battle!" Shauna exclaimed jumping up and down with Chester, completely covered in ribbons, jumping right along with her.

"Um, don't you think you should take those ribbons off first," Calem questioned as he sweat-dropped.

"Why would I do that when it soo long to put them on?" Shauna pouted.

"Cheh-pa," Chester added in agreement.

Something was sireously wrong with that chespin, and it wasn't the fact that she had a boy's name when she was obviously a girl. Chester gave me an uneasy feeling. When she was up in front of the three of us, waiting to be picked, she seemed calm enough, but when she was chosen by Shauna, she instantly copied Shauna's personality. While I had heard that starter pokemon raised in captivity sometimes did this, it scared me deeply that Shauna happened to have one, especially since she had that condition...

I had to test something out.

"I'll battle if you want Shauna," I stated in my best challenging voice.

Shauna looked like a deer in headlights for a moment before a large smirk spread across her face. Shauna's demeanor change wasn't a surprise at all. Shauna just so happened to have split personalities. One moment she was the happy, go-lucky girl that skipped down the hallways, then the next she was the conniving mastermind that was able to stay ontop of the school's complex hierarchy of girls. I remembered my mom asking her parents about, but they seemed to pretend not to notice. I guess it was because she always had good grades and would never refuse to do the hardest chores.

Chester also changed demeanor, just as I thought she would. Her eyes no longer shined with that playful gleam, and she no longer looked cute and cuddly in those ribbons. LightHero also noticed the change and put his guard up.

"Alright, I accept the challenge, but how about we up the ante," Shauna declared with that smirk still playing across her lips. I shuddered a bit on the inside from her tone of voice.

"What kind of ante?" I questioned. I almost wished I had never asked that.

"How about if you win, I'll forget about what happened last week, but if I win, you hand over that necklace of yours," Shauna declared.

I froze up for a moment, just a moment. Apparently, Shauna had found out about my life value of repaying debts, and that I loved my absol necklace. I've had that necklace since who knows when, and there was never a day I wasn't wearing it. On the other hand, I had accidentally knocked Shauna's books into the school garbage when she was in her "mastermind mode". Trust me when I say that having your books knocked into the school garbage is worse than carvanha infested waters.

I was fraught with indecision, but in the end I tossed my necklace over to Calem. I would have tossed it to Tierno or Trevor, who were closer, but they would have broken it, calling it a hex piece.

"I knew you would come to the right decision. Let's win this, Chester," Shauna stated with confidence. Chester stepped up with an unnerving quietness that sent shivers down my spine.

"You ready, LightHero?" I asked my shy fennekin. LightHero stepped up with a little yip, and readied his stance.

I had had only a second to think of a strategy before Shauna commanded, "Chester, use vine wip!"

"LightHero, try using a strong growl and follow it up with an ember!" I countered.

Off to the side, Trevor and Tierno were watching the battle like a movie in the cinema with the "hero" facing the "villain". I think you can quess who they thought was who.

Calem was watching with a critic's eye, prepared to mark any flaws in our battle strategies. He was the son of two veteran trainers after all. Anyways, back to the battle.

Chester created two long, thin vines, and, as the name states, used them as wips. Just milliseconds before they hit, LightHero let out a surprisingly loud growl for his size that caused Chester to cover her ears and stop the attack. While Chester still had her gaurd down, LightHero shot a strong ember at the unsuspecting chespin, causing smoke to rise all around the surely fainted chespin.

When the smoke cleared, Chester was still standing without a single scratch. I almost lost my composure, almost.

Off to the side, Tierno and Trevor were whooping like there was no tomarrow because their "hero" had just beat the odds. A quick glance over to them promptely shut their mouths.

"That shouldn't be possible," Calem mused. He stared intently at Chester, and suddenly his eyes went out wide with recognition. "Wait a minute, those are Resist Ribbons. They've been banned from League Battles for years."

Resist Ribbons could greatly lessen the damage of special attacks. They were originally meant for Pokemon Rangers, but trainers started to secretly use them to win battles. Once the League found out about the trainers using them, they shut down the factory and banned them from ever being used in League Battles again.

"So that means you're cheating, Shauna. Have you no honor?" I stated inquisitively.

Shauna just smirked and commanded, "Chester, use vine wip to launch yourself at LightHero!"

I just barely managed to say, "Dodge it and use scratch!"

LightHero partially managed to dodge the incoming Chester but was still hit hard in the leg. Even with the hard leg hit, LightHero managed to use a hard scratch on the launched chespin, ripping out a few ribbons in the process. That gave me an idea.

"LightHero, you have to get behind Chester and rip the button holding all the ribbons off!"

"Don't let him do that, Chester! Stop him with growl!"

LightHero bounded towards Chester, but Chester let out a growl, stopping LightHero in his tracks.

"LightHero, counter with your own growl!"

LightHero also started his own growl, and neither pokemon let up their growl. Honestly the growls were more effective on the trainers.

After awhile LightHero's growl started to weaken, probably from already letting out a loud one earlier before.

"Ha, what kind of sad excuse for Pokemon is that? It can't even maintain a strong growl," Shauna mocked loudly over the sound of the growls.

LightHero winced at the harsh comment, and his growl started to weaken even more. I knew LightHero's confidence was waning, and to me, that was worse than losing my cherished absol necklace.

"Don't listen to her, LightHero! She just doesn't see what an amazing pokemon you are because she's soulless cheater! I believe in you LightHero!" I exclaimed.

"What?!" Shauna seemed so shocked by statement she almost fainted, almost.

LightHero on the other hand, seemed to have a major confidence boost. His growl became louder and louder until it became another sound all together.

"LightHero! You learned Howl!"

Chester's growl was nothing compared to the howl that LightHero let out. Chester's growl soon faded out, and she had to take a step back while covering her ears. While Chester's ears were still ringing, LightHero leaped behind her and ripped the button clean off her back. The Resist Ribbons all fell to the ground; leaving Chester vulnerable to special attacks.

"Hit her hard with ember, LightHero!"

LightHero obliged and hit Chester with an even harder ember than before. This time Chester fainted.

Shauna seemed to go back to her normal smiling self after Chester fainted, and she picked Chester up carefully.

"We'll get 'em next time. Right Chester?" Shauna asked as she tickled Chester's belly.

Chester also seemed back to normal, and she squirmed happily from the tickling.

"See ya guys later," Shauna stated in the rest of our directions. "We're going to go on a quest for Narnia! For Narnia!" Shauna raised first in the air, and Chester copied the movement although it was a little less enthusiastic than Shauna since she did just fight a tough battle.

Shauna skipped away singing some song that no one could understand with Chester cradled in her arms.

"I should head out. An adventure doesn't start itself," Calem stated as he walked away with Froakie hopping along at his side.

Trevor and Tierno, not wanting to be left alone with me, hastily stood up.

"Um, me and Trevor have to...pack. Yeah, we have to prepare for the journey," Tierno stated slowly. I was actually surprised that he was even was thinking about something other than dance.

Tierno and Trevor left, and I heard Trevor reprimand Tierno about his improper use of grammar.

I let out a large sigh. Thank goodness that they were all gone. I was just about to fall with exhaustion from talking to so many people. At least on my journey it would just be me and my pokemon.

I crouched down and started to pet LightHero. His light yellow fur was softer than snuggliest of blankets, and his bright blue eyes shined brighter than ever. That battle must have really boosted his confidence.

"Are you ready for an adventure?" I asked LightHero.

LightHero looked at me with those beautiful blue eyes and a wide smile spread across his small features.

"Wait are we waiting for, let's go," I declared and stood up.

"Feh-keh!" With that, the two of us walked through the whole of Aquacorde Town to Route 2.

We were on the bridge leading out to Route 2. The crystal clear river under the bridge that Aquacorde Town was famous for reflected the sky and the blooming shrubs that grew along the river. In the distance, I could see the grassy plain that was Route 2, and beyond that, the peaceful Salentune Forest.

I was about to take a step when a two ton rhyhorn barreled into me. LightHero just stood there; frozen with shock.

"You weren't going to leave without saying good-bye, were you?" My mom asked as she walked up to me. Honestly, I did want to say good-bye to Rhyhorn, but doing so also meant saying good-bye to my mom which could be awkward.

"Don't worry Rhyhorn, I'll come back to visit," I stated as he started to back off my limbs that somehow weren't crushed.

Even as I said those words they felt really hollow. I was probably never coming back. Anything that I actually treasured or needed, which wasn't a lot, was already in my bag, and I could always buy some new clothes at the stores in the other towns or cities I visited.

"Be careful alright, and keep your pokemon safe," my mom stated in that motherly tone that I rarely ever heard from her. She then proceeded to take me into a big, caring hug, and for a moment, I almost felt as if she actually cared, almost.

My mom ruined the moment by saying, "I wouldn't my little rhyhorn racer to get hurt." She gave me a playful punch and walked away with Rhyhorn.

LightHero had finally recovered from shock and gave me that what-the-heck-just-happened look.

I just shook my head and said, "I know, and that's probably just the start of the weird things that are going happen."

Little did I know that what I had just said was completely true.