It was about 45 minutes before Chide actually got around to finding the secretive trainer. One because she had went into a deep forest and was hard to spot, and two because he was just lazy. Flying low, the reptilian Pokemon finally spotted her in a small clearing by a somewhat large lake. Quickly memorizing the location, Chide, with a single beat of his wings, did a 360 and flew off to find his trainer.

Meanwhile, Kit and Izzy were busy talking, both feeling slightly nervous about what they would do when they found her. It was like they were going to see their head hancho boss about a million dollar project that they had bombed. Got that feeling? Well there you go.

"So...whaddaya think we should say to her....?", Izzy asked, fidgeting with her jacket zipper.

"Uh...still thinking...", Kit gave her a side glance, "Haven't you thought of anything yet?" Attitude maybe?

Izzy ignored the comment's tone, but answered, "Well...all I got is that maybe if we follow her long enough, she'll just get used to it," she sighed, "but I think she would catch on and report us as stalkers to the nearest Officer Jenny."

"Soo...you got nothin."

"Yep."

They took a few more silent steps before Kit decided to speak again.

"You know, I'm surprised that you didn't FREAK out about the whole Raichu morph thing..."

Izzy smiled, "What?" "I thought it was part of your costume, you being a superhero and all, remember?"

"Heh, riiiight" she laughed. Maybe this kid wouldn't be so bad. She mentally decided that she would "test" her later, see how much she could handle.

Moments later, Chide came into view and hovered in the air, getting their attention.

"Chide!!"

"Did you find her??"

He roared in response and flew off slowly in Yua's direction.

Kit shoved Izzy gently into a quicker stride, "C'mon!", and took off into a run.

"Hey don't shov-WAIT FOR ME!!!"

Back at the peaceful, little area, all was...peaceful? Yua had set up a small camp, and had let her Pokemon free. She had 6 Pokemon altogether, each an individual. Mizo, Koji, Zuma, Shakaku, Kiza and Hira. All were napping at this point, except for one. Kiza her empoleon was bustling around making a fire and working various pots, cooking up the meal for her family. What? Did anyone ever say that Empoleons couldn't cook? Didn't think so.

As for the rest of her Pokemon, Shakaku, an old, motherly Arcanine, was curled up underneath a large oak, acting as a pillow for Koji the absol and Zuma the mancetric, both male.

Hira was..in the water, but just by a bit. The lake was deep and large, but sorta a tight squeeze for a 30-somethin' foot Gyarados, but she didn't mind, and was curled up like a dog in the water, a huge shadow in the cloudy water.

A Mizo was right next to Yua, like he always was. The machoke was laying on his back with his hands behind his head, snoring slightly.

So what was Yua doing during this description? Not sleeping, but meditating. Sitting cross-legged at the edge of the lake, her hands on her knees, both forming a weird hand sign. Her face was calm...almost serene, but there was a small hint of concentration. But this pretty scene would soon be interrupted by our other two girls.

Right outside the clearing, Kit patted Chide on the side again, "Nice Job Chide, we'll take it from here." She then returned him to his pokeball, stuffing it in her bag.

They were just about to walk into the camp, but Kit pulled Izzy back.

"Izzy wait, lets watch and see what she's doing first, don't wanna walk into anything awkward.."

Izzy just looked at her.

"I'm not even gonna ask."

They crept around the clearing, staying hidden by the forest. Crouching down, the girls peeked through small opening between two trees and a shrub.(heheh, shrub)

Kit squinted her eyes, "What the hecks she doing!?"

Izzy clamped her hand over Kit's mouth, "SHHHH!! She'll hear you!!", she whispered loudly.

Kit glared at her and stuck her tongue out, which made Izzy snap her hand back,

"EW, hand licker!"

"guh..what's she doing??", Kit asked again, in a much quieter tone.

"She's meditating...duh"

"Ohhh, my apologizes Oh Great Master Izzy-sama~", Kits voice dripping sarcasm.

Izzy just glared and continued watching the white haired woman.

"I don't think we're gonna get much outta this if this is all she's gonna do.."

"ohhoho!" "Genius once again!"

"SHUTUPALREADY!"

Izzy clamped a hand around her own mouth.

Too loud.

What happened next all went down in about 4 seconds.

As soon as Izzy finished her sentence, Mizo eyes snapped open. Jumping up, he took the maximum of three steps before he had Dynamically Punched in the area of the sound. His fist landed embedded in a tree, or of what there was left of the tree, riiiggghht above Kit's head.

Her eyes were huge and she was paler than usual.

"H-h-holy......"

Mizo had then grabbed her and Izzy by the front's of her their shirts, glaring menacingly, which wouldn't be so bad if this Machoke was regular height....but he was taller than Kit...so yeah, not good.

Waving her arms like a crazy woman, Izzy cried, "WAITWAITWAITWAITWEWERN'TDOINGANYTHINGDON'TPUNCHMEPLEEAASSEEE!!!"

"Mizo."

The Machoke turned around and looked at his trainer, with a look that said, "Whad' I do?"

Yua was standing there with her arms-crossed, gesturing at the ground with a jerk of her head.

"Let them go Mizo, it's okay."

He immediately released his grip on the girls, but not before giving them a final warning look.

Kit straightened her vest, "Geeze...what's his problem?"

"You woke him up."

"But that's no reason to almost kill us!!" Izzy frowned

Yua looked at her, "You spied on me, sneaked around, intruded on our camp, woke up my Pokemon and interrupted my meditation....sounds good enough for me."

"ehhheh......"Izzy's voice trailed off as she withered under Yua's stare.

Without another word, Yua turned and walked away, leaving the pair standing there like 6 year olds that just got a lecture...which is sorta true.

If Yua was the bad cop in this situation, Kiza would've been the good cop. The large empoleon quickly went up to the two, giving each a BIG hug and happily poketalking to them like they were best buds.

Izzy grinned at the Pokemon, "Wow, wouldn't think that someone like her would have a Pokemon like you huh?"

Kiza smiled, obviously heard that before, and started ushering the girls to the newly prepared food.

"You can cook....", Kit stated, jaw dropping a little.

"COOL!"

Kiza squawked again, setting each girl down by the fire with some food, not really giving them a choice, but Yua had disappeared so they didn't really care.

Izzy tasted the dish, "OOOOO, IT GOOODD!!"

Kiza squawked proudly, finally getting some feed back by a human. VICTORY.

They both began to eat, talking laughing..

Then Yua reappeared, holding a now-full water bottle.

"Kiza."

The sound of her voice caused two things: For Kit and Izzy to spit out their food and not move, and for Kiza to spin around and shuffle her webbed feet.

The 17-year old walked up the empoleon, placing a hand on her yellow horns.

"Didn't I tell you to stop giving food to random people?" Her tone was still the same, but there was a back note of something gentle, making her voice soft.

The Empoleon looked away and shrugged her feathered shoulders, squawking that she forgot.

Yua sighed and patted the Pokemon, "Last time, go get everyone else settled." Kiza nodded and waddled away to pass out the pokefood.

Once all the Pokemon were happy, Yua grabbed a small bowl and sat down across from the other two, the fire flickered up, sometimes blocking their view of her. It was around dusk now, letting them know that they didn't have much time to convince Yua to let them go with her.

After about a minute Yua spoke.

"You can eat."

At the same time they both let out a breath, finally relaxing.

"S-sorry...didn't wanna be rude."

"Whatever.", Yua shrugged, picking a small piece of rice from her bowl and popping it in her mouth.

"Why did you two follow me."

It was more a statement then a question. Both girls stiffened, they hadn't thought of a reason yet, and being on the spot didn't really help.

Deciding to just get it over with, Kit blurted it out, "We wanna go with you to Oreburgh City!!!"

She was silent for a few seconds before she replied,

"Why."

She wasn't looking at them, but just staring into the fire, looking deep in thought.

Izzy answered this, talking a mile a minute, "Because we're not from here and you are and you know how to get to Oreburgh and we don't and we both need a gym battle and your friends with the gym leader so we were hoping we could go with you!!"

No reaction. She just continued to stare into the fire.

One minute...two...three,

it felt like forever before her eyes flicked up.

"So...you wanna follow me, because your both dumb and didn't bring a map."

"Uh, if we say yes, will you?"

Yua closed her eyes and leaned back, "...For now."

The girls leaned forward, "So...?"

She stood up, "We leave around noon."

"Why noon?"

"Because."

She walked away from the two and again disappeared into the falling darkness.

The two friends grinned at each other, they were now one step closer to understanding this Yua girl, and even closer to getting their Orebrugh gym badge.