I've taken to visiting Cheren every day now, as he trains in Victory Road. We battle, occasionally.

I win. Of course.

He tells me that he's beginning to understand my strengths and weaknesses, but aside from a battling point of view, he's wrong.

Like, by now he should know that since I removed Minipete from my team to better situate Reshiram, I fail at battling Flying-types, which leaves me useless against his Unfezant, except my Simipour knows Ice Beam, but she is still hopelessly weak against U-Turn.

Aside from that, he doesn't really know my weaknesses.

Let's say he met a girl. She's fabulous, beautiful, etc., etc. Her name is, oh, I don't know, Z.

He falls in love with Z. He admires how she cares for Pokemon, or whatever the case may be.

And then, after he's grown attached, only then, does he find out that she's one of the "bad guys." This does not, nor will it ever, effect how he feels about her.

Everyone expects him to kick Z's ass and save the day, but how's he supposed to feel about this? He wants to "save the world" or whatever, but come on, he loves this girl.

And so he does it, he defeats her. And before she disappears from his life forever, he whispers "I love you."

And she leaves without even saying goodbye.

If that happens to him, then, and only then, will he know my strengths and weaknesses.


I stay in the Pokemon Center (Black City today), mostly because I feel uncomfortable in the Riches' home when I barely know any of them. And I can't stay anywhere too close to where the phrase "my lord N" has been uttered, so that rules out my home.

There is, however, a party going on in one of the towering apartment buildings near by, so it's kind of hard to sleep.

I end up just grabbing my bag and running north of town, until I reach the bunch of trees that tells me that I'm at the Abundant Shrine. I train my Pokemon here, because some of the wild ones are at that level where battling them is almost useful.

I start to wonder if Pokemon ever get sleepy, because after an hour of this I'm about to pass out from exhaustion.

Once, a Murkrow flew out of effin' nowhere and scared the daylights out of me (jeez, I sound like an old woman) and I lost my footing so Sawk had to catch me. Slightly embarrassing.

It is now well past 2 AM and still the partigoers are no less noisy, so I have decided to fly to Lacunosa Town because nobody is ever out at night there.

I almost chose Nimbasa but I remembered that it's like the city of lights or something, and then Icirrus but I decided that was too close to, err, Dragonspiral Tower…

So, as I was saying… I flew to Lacunosa town on Sitti's back, and my team decided that now was the perfect time to become tired, so we almost had a few accidents… had to stop and rest a couple times, but we made it.

I stumbled into the Pokemon Center where Nurse Joy was surprised to see me, but still managed to act like there was nothing weird about me falling through the doors at three in the morning. She probably thought I was drunk or something. I wouldn't blame her, I've been rather… irritable lately. Stressed, I guess…


AN: I am very tired and moody, and so this chapter may be a bit poor quality, but I wrote the first part because I am emotional and moody (for no reason, I kid you not) and it was too short so I wrote some more... Eh.

Anyway, if you didn't notice, Z is a sideways N (z0mg no wai!1) so that's kind of why I picked Z. I thought this up last night and I knew I would forget so I drew a Z on my hand but then I was like "What if I forget and think it's just an N?" so there was an unimaginable dilemma and okay I'm leaving now bye.