i love you
with all my
effort because
a heart is something
i just don't have anymore

Kenny and Zoey were truly her best friends. They had jumped on the chance, shouting how they were truly her companions and would never let her down. Paris, her scout/manager, of course understood but warned there would be no progress and no pay.

Dawn could put up with that. She could not deal with having a brother she didn't know about running around in Johto. So, the very first boat available was taken. Rashly packed and exhausted from their travel, the trio sprawled various places during the turbo-speed boat's travel, trying to avoid getting sea sick and get some rest.

"What pokemon did you bring?" Some one asked it, maybe Kenny.

Dawn answered first, always rash and quick witted. "My team doesn't vary too much, you know. Piplup, buneary, pachirisu, mamoswine, quilava, and togekiss." She thought about it. "I'll go fetch ambipom once we find my brother, though."

Zoey nodded. "Yeah. You couldn't let her come back from ping-pong and go 'WHO DAT'," she said, even adding a monkey-voice. "My team's pretty static, too. Glameow, mismagius, gastrodon, lumineon, gallade, and leafeon." She grinned cheekily as glameow ran under her chair, tiny magikarp in her cattish mouth. The gray puss mewled at piplup, who also wished for a fishy dinner.

"I've got empoleon, alakazam, breloom, machoke, floatzel... I need another pokemon." Kenny sat up as empoleon dumped a small school of minature magikarp right where he had been sitting. The huge penguin chirped to the smaller and the cat. The trio dinned on the fish. The trainers realized after a moment that they were not real magikarp, but bits of what was one some fish pokemon cut into decorative food bits.

Zoey laughed. "This is crazy."

"Life's crazy," Dawn replied.


I don't capitalize pokemon names. Why? Because you don't say Dog instead of dog.