-One Year Later-

I had gone on to become a much tougher person and trainer (at least in my eyes), and so did my Pokémon. Spitfire had trained enough against other Pokémon, against my Pokémon, and trying to compete with me, that she had evolved from a Torchic to a Combusken. She could now wrestle with me and every so often win. I also had my friend Cid. He had evolved from a Lotad to a Lombre not so long ago. Cid appeared to dislike evolution and did not want to become a Ludicolo. Another addition to the team was my Banette, whom dubbed herself the name Shadow. One of my more peculiar Pokémon was probably Tyro, my Gyarados. I named him Tyro, which means novice, because when I caught him he only knew splash. I insisted on training with him as much as possible until he finally learned a new move. He learned how to tackle which allowed him to actually do damage. Then training became much simpler, and eventually he evolved into Gyarados.

This team that I had assembled was my greatest friends. We are virtually indomitable. We could intimidate the strongest of trainers in all of the Hoenn Region. Then when we got to the last trainer in the Hoenn League, We lost. We were battling each other two on two. It was my Gyarados and Combusken against his Milotic and Wailord. I screamed, "Go, Tyro! Charge up your Hyperbeam! Spitfire," She looked at me with intensity, "Use Double Kick on Wailord!" She zigzagged up the field from left to right, and jumped to kick him directly in the back. I heard Wallace shout, "Wailord!" The whale Pokémon responded with a moan. "Hit them with blizzard!" He turned towards Spitfire and his eyes glowed blue. The stadium became colder and colder, until snow began to blow violently. I could faintly see that Spitfire was being slowed down, and becoming frozen. Gyarados shrieked, and then shot his charged up Hyperbeam at Milotic. The Milotic clenched in pain, the Wallace shouted, "Now! Milotic hit his Gyarados with Icebeam, and Wailord use your Water Spout on his Combusken!" I saw what was coming but could do nothing but shout, "Tyro, dodge the Icebeam!" The blizzard only slowed him down, so he was not able to move away in time, so he was frozen and unable to move. That caused him to be counted as a K.O. so all that was left was Spitfire. When I had turned my attention back to her, she was already being hit by the Water Spout which was enough to take her out. That was my last two Pokémon so the battle was his and he told m, "Your team was sure strong enough to defeat me, they just didn't have their minds to it." That's when I realized. The whole time that me and my team trained, we never got close as a team. That was when I decided to Change my ways a little bit.

- Present Day (On a Ship to Far Away Island) -

It was about two months ago when I was defeated by Wallace. I talked a bit to my team afterwards and told them that we we're going to go to this Island in order to relax, maybe get along better, and train a little bit. They seemed a little bit on edge, to me, because when we boarded the ship they were all outside of their Pokéballs. It seems to me that they are not used to this kind of treatment, yet they also seem happy. Tyro was trudging along on his back alongside of the ship. Spitfire was lying on the tanning deck, sleeping. I wasn't sure that a Combusken could tan, but I wasn't going to be the one to burst her bubble. Cid was relaxing in the pool, and every so often would splash water on Spitfire to make her mad. She would just shake it off and get back to what she was doing. Shadow stayed under the umbrella with all our stuff sleeping. She didn't seem to mind the sun, for her it was just the heat. I was leaning over the side of the boat looking into the distance to see if I could find Far Away Island. I knew it was a two day trip, but I still insisted on looking. When the sun began to set, I put Tyro in his Pokéball and the others followed me to our room. It was a very large room, and had enough room for all of us to sleep in it. There was one bed and two futons. Cid and Spitfire took the two futons, while Shadow found the darkest corner of the room to sleep at. I went to go get changed and I realized, that after this year a lot has happened. My physique was higher than before, I was tanned dark, and I had some of the coolest Pokémon with me that anyone could wish for. And it was only one year and about two and a half months ago that I stared out with just a rebellious little spitfire.

When I went to sleep, in the middle of the night I heard scuffling. I assumed that it was just Shadow who was getting restless, or Cid who was thirsty. I just ignored it and tried to go back to sleep. When I was finally awake I looked around and saw Cid sleeping completely sprawled out on the ground, and Shadow was sleeping upside down on the ceiling. And then, I saw Spitfire in my bed. I was a little bit shocked and confused. I wondered if she had done this before, or if this was the first time. Then I noticed that her arms were wrapped around my waist. I wiggled out and continued to get dressed and go outside. I released Tyro so he get stretch and relax himself a bit. I still couldn't stop thinking about what spitfire did. I had never been with a girl before so it was all kind of strange to me. I tried to stop myself from thinking about it until I just rested my head on the railing, while Gyarados looked at me confused.