Hey guys, Zeldasheik555 here. I want to say thank you for reading my Nuzlocke Challange story. Over two years ago, I released a sneak peek for this story and since then I have had issues involving computer compleatly breaking down, school, a family member's death, and writer's block. Now I have chapter two ready and chapter three is underway. Just to let you know, the only reason this is a "crossover" is because I'm not good at coming up with names on the fly, so I just chose names from characters from fandoms that I am in. Most characters in this story are from Soul

"Alright! Let's go find some other pokemon to join our team to rise above the gods!" Black Star exclaimed as he ran through the tall grass fields in front of Twinleaf Town.

"Black Star! Wait up!" I call out as I try to the rushing pokemon. "We need to be careful about what we're doing!"

I was running faster than I ever had before just to keep up with the piplup. The thing is, Black Star is very energetic and hard to keep up with. Unfortunately, that can get him into a lot of trouble, which is almost exactly what happened when he stepped on the tail of a wild starly.

"HEY! What the hell was that for?!" the starly angrily tweeted. I honestly didn't blame her. If I was a bird pokemon, and my tail feathers were stepped on, I'd be angry too.

"Heh heh, sorry about that," Black Star apologized. "I was just looking for pokemon that would help me and my trainer rise above the gods, and you look very strong! So you will join our team!"

"MAKA CHOP!" I yell, hitting Black Star in the head with the spine of a book for the very rude comment. I look at the starly, who was ruffling her feathers. "Sorry about Black Star. He's an idiot and full of himself. It can be really annoying"

The starly giggled, "Well, at least you're able to keep him in line"

"Sort of… He's very energetic and it's hard to keep up with him" I state and sigh.

"Sounds like you need support from another female," the starly said, holding out her wing. "My name is Kagu."

"Nice to meet you, Kagu. I'm Maka." I say, trying to shake hands with the starly. Not the easiest thing to do with someone who uses wings for hands. It make me wonder how Black Star is able to hold a pen and paper.

After the possible fail of a handshake, I dug through my bag and pull out a pokeball. "Are you sure about this? There are more capable trainers in the world that you can join."

"Of course!" Kagu exclaimed. "I don't want you to be stuck with just that idiot of a Pokemon!"

"HEY!" Black Star yelled. "I'm going to rise above the gods with Maka! Just you watch!"

I shook my head for what felt like the hundredth time today. Kagu was facepalming with her wing. I tossed the pokeball at Kagu waited for the click of the ball letting me know that I caught her.

"Welcome to the team, Kagu," I say, picking up Kagu's pokeball, then press the button to let her out. The starly ruffled her feathers.

"I had no idea that something the size of baseball would be so roomy!" Kagu said in surprise.

"Come on!" Black Star exclaimed before I could say anything, "We have to catch more pokemon!" The piplup then rushed in the the complete opposite direction to the next route.

"Why is he in such a rush?" Kagu asked in confusion.

"I have no idea" I say in response, just as confused. I start to follow Black Star with Kagu walking right beside me. We weren't walking as fast as Black Star (who more ran then walked), because we were enjoying the nice weather. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, which I liked a lot. Around Twinleaf Town and Sandgem, clouds almost always meant rain due to the bodies of water that are near both towns.

We eventually find Black Star chatting with a small shinx. Shinx are generally 50.8 centimeters tall, but this shinx stands at 30.48 centimeters. The shinx was also female, which one could tell just by looking at her (or at least they should, in my opinion). She had a beautiful tsubaki flower placed right next to her left ear which contrasted nicely against her blue and black fur.

"Yeah! Maka is an amazing trainer!" We heard Black Star tell the shinx. "You'll love her, Tsubaki!"

Tsubaki smiled. "She sounds like the perfect trainer for you, Black Star! I can't wait to meet her"

Kagu and I approached Black Star and Tsubaki who were still chatting. They seemed liked old friends, which reminded me of Soul and me. I was about to say something, but Kagu seemed to know what I was going to say, and spoke up, "You two know each other?

Black Star turned to to us, not surprised that we were there, "Hey Maka. Hey Kagu. This is my old friend Tsubaki!" He said. "Tsubaki, this is Maka, the trainer I told you about"

Tsubaki bowed her head, "It's nice to meet you, Maka. Black Star has told me so much about you."

I raised my eyebrow in confusion, "But Black Star has only known me for at least twenty-four hours. How can he know a lot about me if he's only known me for one day?"

"He says that your personality is easy to see through"

"Is that so?"

"Yeah. He told me that you like to study to the point you could be an assistant to Professor Rowan if you wanted; you look up to your mother all the time; you may read a little too much; you don't take anyone's sh*t; you haven't seen your father for almost fourteen years, and I honestly don't know how he got that information; and you you might have a thing for a boy named Soul"

Of course Black Star told her about me and Soul. "I don't like Soul in that way. Soul and I are just childhood friends"

Tsubaki tilted her head, "Really? 'Cause from the sound of it. You and soul really like each other."

"Enough about me! How about you; how long have you known Black Star?" I ask to end the previous conversation.

"Oh, I've known Black Star for about 5 years," Tsubaki said while watching Black Star goof off. "It's really nice to see him again after 3 year.

"Black Star has been waiting for years to get out of Professor Rowan's lab. He's always wanted to explore the entirety of Sinnoh. I'm glad that you two met, otherwise he would still be stuck in that lab, not knowing what to do with himself"

"I guess you're right" I say. "I really haven't given it much thought. He just helped me when two starly attacked Soul and me. I felt like owed him a favor"

"Well, now you, Black Star, and that starly" Tsubaki motioned her head to Kagu, then shyly patted her paw on the ground. "Do you mind if I join you on your journey as well?"

"Sure, if you want," I pull out a pokeball, and Tsubaki rammed her head on the button which allowed it to activate. The ball caught her, shook three times, then clicked; letting me know that the capture was successful. I pick up the ball, then let the little shinx out.

"Thank you, Maka" Tsubaki said smiling.

We spend the rest of the day training. I figured that we would need to get stronger before we head out to battle Sinnoh Pokemon League Gym Leaders, taking our first steps to defeating the Elite Four and maybe even the Champion.

Black Star and Kagu had done pretty good. There were times when I had to go to mom to get them healed up. Tsubaki on the other hand was great. She was doing her best to catch up to Black Sar in strength. Everything was good, even though clouds started to form. Everything was great until the evening.

"Wow, Tsubaki, you doing an amazing job with training!" Black Star blurted out after Tsubaki defeated her fifth wild pokemon in a row without need to be healed up.

"Thanks, Black Star," Tsubaki gleefully replied. "But I still have a long way to go before I am as strong as you." She turned around to focus on a wild bidoof that had just appeared. However something didn't seem right about the pokemon.

"Uh… Tsubaki, I think we should get you healed up," I say, really worried about the shinx's safety.

"What do you mean? I'm perfectly fine. I can ha-" Her words were cut off when the wild bidoof had tackled Tsubaki right on the chest, causing her to cough up a lot of blood. The worst part of it, I literally felt the impact on my own chest; which caused me to collapse in pain.

"TSUBAKI!" Black Star yelled as he rushed over to beat the bidoof that more than likely crushed a few of Tsubaki's organs. Meanwhile, Kagu came over to see what was going on with me.

"Are you okay, Maka" Kagu asked, obviously concerned.

"I'm…. fine… I'm more worried about Tsubaki," I lift my head to look at a distraught Black Star holding what looked like a dying Tsubaki.

"Come on Tsubaki! You can hang in there!" Black Star said with a shaky voice. "We'll just get you to a PokeCenter" Tsubaki shakily opened her eyes and looked at the piplup.

"I'm... glad that... I got to… be with you," Tsubaki hacked, spraying blood all over Black Star's face. "in the end"

"Come on, Tsubaki! I'm not letting you die. I'm going to make sure you get healed up!" Black Star stood up and Tsubaki put her paw on his cheek.

"Black Star…. I…. love…. you," the shinx closed her eyes and went limp.

I even saw her breathing stop as Black Star's eyes welled up with tears.

"Tsubaki? Come on Tsubaki, don't die on me!" Black Star said as he began to shake Tsubaki. "Open your eyes Tsubaki! Tsubaki, speak to me! Tsubaki! TSUBAKI! TSSUBAAAKIII!" and with Black Star's cry, I had realized that there were storm clouds above us.