Sound: You know, I've been reading a lot of fic's lately and I've noticed something interestingly ridiculous.

Gaia: That would be…?

Sound: How people constantly have to say, right before their story, "I don't own pokemon, meh meh meh."

Gaia: What's wrong with that?

Sound: Well lets figure. Is Nintendo SO Anal, they have to make people say, "Oh, I don't own this, I'm just writing about it, drawing about it, or plain old making art about it." Do they need this for their ego or something? It's so god damned redundant, it freakin drives me NUTS! WE SHOULDN'T BE FORCED TO TALK ABOUT A COPYRIGHT. Seriously, if I owned pokemon, do you really think I'd be living in JERSEY? SCREW THAT! I'd probably be in Colorado…or some other place _

Gaia: …Well…maybe they do the copyright for any other reason: just to be safe?

James: Yeah, and maybe Batman makes Robin wear that skimpy dress cause he's not a pedophile.. WE DON'T OWN POKEMON AND HIGHLY DOUBT WE EVER WILL.

Sound: AND THIS IS MOST LIKELY THE ONLY TIME THAT SHALL BE STATED WITHIN THIS STORY. IT'S JUST GOD DAMN REDUNDANT!

The sun was still rising as the party slowly cleaned up their mess from lunch. Water pokemon were swimming up the stream and flying pokemon were hopping out of their nests. Tear and Violet picked up any trash that was laying about and Gaia was undoing the foldaway table. However, James was more intrigued, or rather annoyed, about Lillie and Jagex. Apparently after the two butted heads about their strength and superiority, they were childishly competing with each other. Jagex picked up a bowl, Lillie picked up two. Lillie put them away, Jagex put his away faster and neater. Along with other little tidbits, the two really wanted to go at it to prove who was better. At one point, they each had their arms full of junk, head butted each other, and started growling.

Jagex talked through his bill as he made contact with Lillie. "I told you, I'm better!"

Lillie actually lit the flame on her back for a quick second as she made contact, retorting, "No way!"

"Are you two gonna calm down?" Gaia asked shruggishly, not even bothering to glance at his peers for he was already too busy messing with the complex table. "If you don't concentrate on what you're doing, you'll probably break something."

Jagex casted Gaia a smirk and piped up, "Oh I'll calm down. The minute she says I'm better then her!"

Tear was witnessing the two go at it from a safe distance along with Violet, the nidorina picking up most of the trash. "Are they always this…Frightful?"

Violet nonchalantly picked up trash and answered, "Yup."

Tear turned and helped Violet, "But I thought they were friends?"

Violet placed her hand on her hip and gave Tear a smug look, "Coming from the princess who slapped her master~"

Tear's face went red with either fury or embarrassment as she spoke up "I said I was sorry!" She turned away and placed her hand upon her head like she had a headache, "I just don't know what came over me…"

Violet came up and patted her on the back, "Oh relax! We've all done our share of stupid crap. Like once…" This caught Tear's attention because she willingly entered the headlock Violet gave her as she looked to see if no one was listening, "Did you know… that Gaia… once, (whisper whisper whisper)"

Tear jerked back with a blush, "Nooo…"

Violet also had a blush on, still with a smug face, "Mhmm~" With that, both of the girls were caught in a giggle fit. As they were calming down, Violet looked back at Jagex and Lillie, "Although, this might get a little out of hand…"

"Oh get real!" Lillie was packing bowls away and stood up with her hands on her hips. "You know I can beat you!"

Jagex looked back at her as he packed his stuff away as well, "Oh, with what? Your pink armaments?" He swatted his stick into his other hand with a smirk.

Lillie blushed, threw her arms to her side, and yelled, "And what's that supposed to mean!" Unwittedly, however, she broke a cup during her fit of rage as it hit a rock on the way down. She gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. Everyone stopped and looked at her. "Woopsy.."

Without fully looking up, James calmed Lillie down with a slight monotone voice, "Aaah, don't worry about it. We'll get another as we stop through Ecruteak City." He then looked back down at the things he was packing away.

Both Lillie and Jagex gazed at him as he diligently packed things away. However, he did it with a sort of solemn and esoteric mood. Lillie whispered to Jagex, "Whats with him? He doesn't look to peppy. … In fact, he's always like that with that bag. Why?"

Jagex looked in the other direction, still moody. "I don't know. Maybe he wants to marry it~"

"Oh you dense-!" Lillie shushed as she whacked him across the head.

James only rolled his eyes and returned his focus to his bag. He was putting away important tools like his knife and pilot light. As he fitted them into their designated pockets, he slowly looked over his backpack. He got it from his brother as a going away present from his brother. It had a little snitch here, scrap there, but was all in all a very sturdy and roomy traveling assortment. He began to remember the day he got it. He shifted his gaze up a little as he daydreamed.

The heat was sweltering, made obvious by rattata running into their holes, pidgeys panting for air, and more pokemon then usual resting in the ponds. Heat waves slowly raised off the ground as the inhabitants of New Bark Town turned on their air conditioners, fans, and even released water, ice, or flying pokemon to assimilate most of the uncomfortable heat.

On Elm's porch sat a teenager, roughly 15, medium-short dark brown hair, with a cowboy hat and bottle of water. He had on blue jeans, a red T-Shirt, and a black multi-pocketed vest. He slowly sipped on his water as he waited for the professor to finish his business. He looked about the place when a child, about 7 ran up to him covered in wet mud. He wore shorts, a button up shirt, and a very big smile. "Big bro look! I found something while I was playing in the mud!"

The bigger figure slowly looked down from his drink and glanced at the boys hands. "Lets see here…" He took the object in his hand and pretended to observe it carefully. This made the little one smile even bigger, even jitterish. "According to my calculations…" The little one awed as he held it to the sun. "It's…" he made the air even tenser as he raised his voice. "…A ROCK!" Suddenly, the little brother found himself caught in a tickle fight as the other got him in all the right places. As they stopped, they were both in a giggle fit as they laid next to each other on the floor.

When they calmed, the little one spoke up with a slightly serious tone. "Brother? How long are you going to be gone?

"Hmm?.. Oh. I don't know…A long time probably.. But don't worry! I'll be sure to send ya presents, letters, and postcards, and," He stopped as he heard his brother sniffling. He looked over at the little boy on his knees, tears in his eyes, and him biting his upper lip. "What's wrong lil bro?"

The boy lunged into his brothers arms as he started bawling, "But I can't read!"

"Oh you little dolt…" He took his brother into a hug and cheered him up. "I'll tell you what…"

The little one looked up as his brother got up and picked up something with him. "Huuh?"

"Here.." The bigger brother slowly lowered a beige bag around the little guy as he gazed in amazement.

"What…what is it?" He looked around himself at the gargantuan of a bag placed around him. It was a slightly oversized beige denim messenger bag that was worn over the shoulder and hip

"Since you can't read, you can call this an early present! It's the bag I've been using as I've traveled.. You can use it when you start to become a trainer too!"

"R…Really?" The little brother looked up to the bigger brother with wide eyes.

"Yup~"

"A..And…W-will I be as good as you?"

The bigger one picked up his little brother as he put him a nougie, "Well, I don't know about that!"

That was when the door to Elm's lab opened. "Well Corey, it looks like everything's ready. I've set your pokedex up with a special transmitter, that way any pokemon you catch in Sinnoh will still be recorded here! Oh, and heres your pokemon back." Elm picked three pokeballs out of his pocket and gave them to the bigger brother. "Now good luck and don't get into too much trouble!"

"Thanks Elm! Cya around!"

Both brothers were now headed back to Olivine city at daybreak. The bigger one was catching the sites before he went to a new land, and the little one was playing airplane. The bigger one giggled at this until the little one stopped and walked aside his brother with his arms behind his head.

"Corey?"

"Yeah?"

"When we see each other again…Can we have a pokemon battle? Like they do on the television?" He turned and looked into his brothers eyes with questionable determination.

Corey only stared until he gave an affirmative nod and said, "..Yeah. You bet."

And gave his little brother a thumbs up. His little brother smiled and did the same.

James had the slightest of smiles on as he reminisced. When he came to, he again heard the bickering that Lillie and Jagex were making. He shook his head and began to shuffle through his bag until he came across something. "Wh-…what's tha-…Well I'll be damned..!"

Everybody heard him and looked his way. As he stood up, they ran over and crowded around him, bewildered about the discovery he had just made. Jagex and Lillie were still nudging each other trying to figure out as well.

James turned around with a big "Ta-Da!" This left everyone confused. With a big goofy grin, he was holding up a piece of rainbow colored plastic. No one had a single idea of what to do until Gaia took it in his hands, put it to his mouth, and with a single whiff, blew the plastic mesh into a large beach ball. James hopped on Gaia's back, robbed him of the ball, and hopped down.

Violet looked at it in amazement, "When the hell did you get that!"

James scratched his head and replied, "For a while. You know. For those boring times~"

Lillie pouted with her arms folded and blown up cheeks, "So we're boring now..?"

To this, James quickly wrapped her in a hug and just started swinging her around, her giggling along with it. "Of course not!"

Violet hopped up and grabbed the ball and hollered, "Well alright then! Lets get this party started!"

"First we're going to need teams." Jagex bopped the ball out of Violet's hands and kept it in the air for a bit.

"I don't think I should play…I'm probably not all that good." Tear backed up a few inches and floated on down near the campsite, "I don't think I can hit the ball hard enough…"

James had a blank expression. He spoke with a sarcastic tone. "Are you sure? Are you sure you can't hit hard?" Tear got red again and stuck her tongue out.

"Well…If we're going to be playing in the water, I can't play. I'd have to take off my suit, and I don't think we have a bikini on us…"

This time, James and Jagex looked at her with a blank expression and spoke simultaneously. "Are you sure? I mean. Can't you just play naked?"

However, she, unlike Tear, hopped up and slapped them both. "You know I have clothing complexes!"

"Alright, alright!" James rubbed his cheek. "Gaia you in?"

"Of course!." Gaia was happy that they finally got a chance to have fun.

"Ok." James held up his fingers. "That makes four of us."

Jagex pumped his fist and held his muscle toward Lillie. "Yeah! Now I can finally beat you fair and square!"

Lillie looked the other way as she scoffed. "Your going down!"

As they began to bicker once again, James came up with an idea. "Actually~" This caught both of their attentions as they looked at James from each others faces to see he was pointing at them. "You two, are going on the same team~"

"WHAT!" Both jaws dropped upon hearing the news.

"Yup~! Me and Gaia here will be on one team, while you two are on the other! Maybe this will teach you two to work together!" He held down an eyelid and stuck out his tongue as he did so. Gaia found it amusing too.

They looked at James for a second, back at each other, and put on evil smiles. "Fine! Your on!"

At this point, the pokemon in the forest heard all of the commotion and the news traveled faster then bad gossip. So in order to help, several caterpie and weedle set up a net with string shot, while a heracross made a ball out of tree sap, several twigs, and some non-sticky string shot. As the preparations were being made, Lillie took a moment to undo her bow by a few trees. As she almost had it, something poke her in the back which scared her. However, it was just James in his swimming trunks and his signature goofy smile. "You ok?"

Lillie was blushing but spoke playfully, "You scared me!"

He rubbed the back of his head "D'aaw I'm sorry. You almost ready?"

She admired how he didn't intentionally mean to scare her. "Yeah…Just getting my bow off."

"Here. Lemme help~" He wrapped his hands around her neck, but without turning her around. He brought his nose to her with a blush and a silly smile. She blushed too, knowing fully well what he was doing was supposed to be romantic…And it was~. As she went to kiss him, he brought one end of the ribbon in front of her face, blocking her. "Ta-da~!" And he skipped off with a silly tune. "Good luck!"

"Hey my ribbon!" She laughed though instead of being angry. She brought her hand to her neck, touching the area where her ribbon once was. She felt almost naked without it…You know: Second to her fur. But she gazed at her funny master getting ready for a match that they were going to have against each other. But she couldn't just stop admiring his handsomeness in those trunks. His minor six pack, his hair flowing in the wind, and his slimness. The diagonal scar on his back did bring a tingle to her spine, but she loved him either way.

He gave her warmth in her stomach from just being around him, ever since they were together. She placed her hand on her stomach and gave a hum of happiness. She loved him truly. She also knew she had to woop him in river volley ball. With that, she gave a nod of triumph and began to walk towards the river.

As she went to walk however, she noticed the warmth in her belly stung for a split second. She winced and held it again, kneeling over a bit. "What the heck was that..?"

She could hear Jagex in the distance calling for her, "Cmon, where are ya! We've got a game to win here!"

She looked up slightly and called out, "I'm coming!" She looked at the ground and tried to take a step. The pain wasn't there. She tried it once more. Nothing. "That was…weird…" She walked slowly back to the river, wondering the whole time there. What was that?

Sound: O_o Gaia, what did you do?

Gaia: (Blushing)

Violet: Yall will find out soon enough. Peace!