Bubblykunzyz: Hey! I hope you guys are enjoying the story so far! I know I'm enjoying it XD I do not own pokemon but if i did, id be a millionaire! Anyways, enjoy chapter 3!


Chapter Three: Touring the World

When I woke up, all of my pokémon were still in the bed with me. I returned them to their pokéballs, got into a new change of clothes and ate my leftover lunch from yesterday for breakfast, giving some of it to Umbreon. My outfit consisted of baggy, navy blue pants, tennis shoes, and a red camisole. I walked over to the pokémon daycare and placed my Patrat in storage.

I then walked out to Route 3 just as two team plasma goons pushed me out of their way and continued running. "It's six o' clock in the morning!" I growled. They had knocked me into some tall grass. I got back up as a pokémon jumped in front of me. My pokédex revealed it to be a Blitzle.

"Catch me if you can, silly trainer!" called the Blitzle, sticking its tongue out at me.

I grinned. "You asked for it, come on out Lillipup!" Fighting and catching Blitzle was easy, but trying to catch a Pidove while battling them with Blitzle was a little more difficult. After a while, I caught a Pidove, having Umbreon take him to the pc at the daycare, and rode Blitzle to the nearby cave known as Wellspring Cave. I got off of him and returned him to his pokéball. It would be a dead end for team Plasma.

The two I had chased stood just inside the entrance, as if waiting for me. "So kind of you to wait for me." I smirked, Umbreon smirking with me.

The girl whipped around and gasped. "Ace!"

I frowned, it was Natalie. "So this is what you've done with your life. How sad."

"You're pokémon are sad to be used as tools!" she cried. "Go Patrat!"

I snorted. "Says the girl who can't talk to pokémon! Go Blitzle!"

"So the rumors are true. You can talk to pokémon. Use bite, Patrat."

I glared at her. "You traitor! Use shockwave!" Her Patrat was knocked out in one hit.

"Pokémon will be liberated, you'll see," she hissed before returning her pokémon and running off with her partner. Two more team plasma members challenged me to a double battle and I couldn't refuse. They were beaten within three rounds and when they ran off, they dropped something. I walked over and picked up the pokéball as Umbreon jumped over a ledge and brought me the TM he found.

I placed the TM in my bag and threw the pokéball into the air. A Lillipup came out of it. "Let's find your owner." I picked up the pokéball and the Lillipup and exited the cave. On Route 3, I ran into Bianca and a little girl.

"Pup-pup!" cried the girl. The Lillipup jumped out of my arms and ran to the girl, licking her face. I handed the little girl her pokéball.

"Ace, you saved her pokémon from team plasma! You're amazing!" Bianca hugged me and then grinned. "I'm going to take the little girl back. Bye Ace!"

I used my last two pokéballs to catch a male Roggenrola and a female Woobat in the cave which Umbreon and I took to the pc in Striaton. I also bought more pokéballs while I was there. I then returned back to Route 3. I leveled all of my pokémon to level twenty by battling two schoolboys, two schoolgirls, and quite a bit of Audinos.

I then continued into Nacrene City. It was quite a sight, but I had seen bigger cities in my past travels. "It is something, isn't it?" I looked down at Umbreon with a smile.

He looked back up at me and nodded. "It's a nice little city. Most of the cities are too crowded for me, but this one is nice. Striaton was a little too small to be called a city, but too big to be called a town."

I nodded when I heard a laugh from behind me. I turned around to see Amelia. "Ace, come on! Everyone is meeting at the café! It's where Aidan works." I grinned as she led me northwest, past the museum. I saw Bianca and Cheren sitting at an outside table, to which I was led. Amelia pulled another chair up to the table for me and sat in her chair. I sat on her right, with Bianca on my right and Cheren on Amelia's left.

I heard the café door open and saw an extremely recognizable Aidan. He strode over to the table and placed a hand on Amelia's right shoulder. "Hey sis, Bianca, Cheren." He looked at me and grinned, holding out his hand. "Aceline, was it? It's a pleasure to meet you, cousin."

I laughed and shook his hand. "A pleasure to you as well."

Umbreon sat at my feet and eyed Aidan warily. "Master. I can smell N. He's in Nacrene." I looked and Umbreon and gave a solid nod.

"What time is it?" I looked at my wrist and groaned, realizing that my watch was at home.

Aidan looked at his watch. "It's around eight o' clock. Why?"

I stood up. "There are a few things I need to take care of. I'll come back for lunch."

Cheren stood up. "Ace, wait." He walked over to me and opened his bag, getting out a small plastic bag. "Here are some Chesto berries. I would like you to have them."

I smiled and took them, placing them in my own bag. "Thank you, Cheren." I walked off of the wooden deck and headed west to the outermost part of Pinwheel Forest. While I was there, I avoided trainers and settled for catching pokémon instead. I caught a Sawk for my party and Throh, Timburr, and Tympole went to my pc.

As I entered Nacrene once more, I looked at Umbreon. "Where is he?"

Umbreon lifted his head and sniffed the air. "The museum." I nodded and headed in that direction. As I neared the museum entrance, N was exiting.

I froze in my tracks. "N."

He looked at me and I realized that his eyes didn't match his hair and that they were instead a blue-grey. "I... want to see things no one can see. The truths of Pokémon inside Pokéballs. The ideals of how Trainers should be. And a future where Pokémon have become perfect... Do you feel the same?" His look was almost sad and it tugged at my heart as if he was a child. I nodded slowly and his eyes lit up. "That so? I think my friends and I should test you to see if you can see this future, too."

He tossed up a pokéball, releasing a Pidove. "Come on out my friend!"

I nodded and grabbed one of my pokéballs as well. "Go, Sawk!"

N adjusted his baseball cap. "Use gust."

"Use double kick!" I cried, knowing that N's Pidove was much quicker than my newly acquired pokémon. Sawk made a grunting noise and rushed at the bird, kicking it hard before it could listen to N. He kicked it a second time, and being super-effective, knocked Pidove unconscious.

I grinned. "Great job Sawk!" The blue pokémon looked back at me and smiled. I laughed. "Come back, Sawk." I withdrew Sawk as N sent out his next pokémon, a Tympole. I smirked. "Let's go, Blitzle!" He came out of his ball and reared.

"Let's go, Master!" cried Blitzle.

I grinned. "Alright, Blitzle, use shockwave!" Blitzle raised his head and his mane glowed yellow before electricity flowed to the water pokémon in waves. It was also a one-hit knock-out.

N frowned at me. "You're strong." He withdrew the fainted pokémon and his next one was a Timburr.

I nodded. "Come back Blitzle. Let's finish this, Munna!" I withdrew Blitzle and sent out my Munna because Psychic was super-effective against fighting. "Munna, use psywave and follow up with psybeam."

N's mouth twitched. "Dodge and use tackle!" Timburr wasn't quick enough to dodge Munna's attack. Timburr used tackle and Munna retaliated with psybeam, knocking out N's last pokémon. "I cannot see the future yet... The world is still to be determined..."

I shook my head and withdrew Munna. "Nobody can, and that's normal."

He walked up to me until his breath was against my hair. "Right now, my friends aren't strong enough to save all Pokémon. Maybe I can't solve the equation that will change the world. So, I need power... Power enough to make anyone agree with me." He took a deep breath and lifted my chin so that I was looking directly into his eyes. "Now I know what power I need. Zekrom! The legendary pokémon that, along with the hero, created the Unova region. It's my turn to become that hero-and you and I will be friends!" He let go of my chin and began to walk away.

I shook my head and grabbed his arm. "We can both understand pokémon in a way no one else can. We're both… different. So aren't we already friends?"

N froze and looked at me, startled. "Are you saying that you want to be a friend of mine?" I nodded and he looked away again, pulling his arm out of my grip. "So be it." He then left out of my sight.

I sighed and entered the museum to see the skeleton of a Dragonite as the main exhibit. I walked up to it and snorted. "How a Dragonite skeleton is in Unova is quite amazing, isn't it?" The only response from Umbreon I got was a pawing at my calf, which usually meant that someone was approaching me.

"I'm surprised that you recognized the pokémon skeleton. Are you into archeology?"

I looked at the man that had spoken to me and shook my head. "No, I've been to Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Orre, and now I'm back here."

"You must be Aceline, the singer and national champion, am I correct?"

I nodded. "That would be me."

The man cleared his throat and held out his hand. "Well, let me formally introduce myself. I'm the co-director, Hawes."

I shook his hand. "Well, where would the gym be?"

He grinned. "I can show you, but may I interest you in a tour first?" When I nodded, he turned to the Dragonite skeleton. "This skeleton is of a Dragon-type Pokémon. There's a theory that it had an accident while it was flying around the world, and so it became a Fossil." He then lead me to another exhibit. "This rock is amazing! It's a meteorite! It contains some kind of energy from space."

I saw a shiny white stone close by and walked up to it, Umbreon at my heels. "What's this?"

Hawes joined me. "Oh, this? It's an ordinary old stone. It was found near the desert, but other than the fact that it's old, it doesn't seem to have any value... We only display it because it's rather pretty to look at." He then walked me up the staircase near the back and pointed to the double doors. "The Pokémon Gym is just beyond here. At the end of the Gym, a very strong and kind Gym Leader is waiting. By the way, the Gym Leader Lenora happens to be my wife!"

I laughed and walked through the double doors, to see Clyde. He gave me some fresh water and I made sure to keep Sawk at the front of my party. As I continued further, I was challenged by a boy with a Patrat. After I beat him and was rewarded, I went to the bottom-left bookshelf and picked up a book there entitled "Nice to Meet You, Pokémon!"

Inside of the book was a clue from Lenora, asking me what the first Pokémon I fought in the gym was and that I should go to the middle row. I followed the clue to the middle row where I found a book titled "The Biology of Patrat."

The next clue described a fiery thing with smoke all around it, and hinted that someone was reading it. I noticed the scientist that was reading a book and went up to her. She challenged me to a battle with her Herdier and wasn't too hard to beat. After I beat her, she handed me a book, in which I found another clue.

I decided to skip the clue, knowing that if I battled the other girl in the library, that she would tell me where Lenora was. Her Lillipup was easily beaten by Sawk and after pushing a switch on the bookcase, it moved to reveal a secret staircase. Umbreon and I shared a look before descending into the basement.

When Lenora saw me, she beamed. "Now, I know who you are, Aceline."

I smiled. "Well that quickens the introductions, huh Lenora?"

She nodded. "Indeed it does. Now, let me research how you've raised your pokémon!" She threw a pokéball into the air. "Go, Herdier!

I smirked. "Let's do this, Sawk!"

Sawk punched the ground. "I'll win this for you."

"Use work up, Herdier!"

"Ignore it's status change and use double kick, Sawk!"

As Sawk charged at Herdier, Lenora smirked. "Counter with bite!" Sawk kicked Herdier in the face as Herdier went to bite him. After the second kick, Herdier was in critical condition.

"Good job, Sawk!"

Lenora knelt down, calling Herdier to her. "Come on, super potion!" Herdier drank it and jumped back into the battle. "Use bite!"

"Counter with karate chop!" Herdier had managed to sink it's teeth into Sawk's arm, but Sawk used the other hand to karate chop Herdier off of him. "Finish it off with double kick, Sawk!"

"Dodge and use roar!" Lenora's command wasn't quick enough, because Sawk had knocked out Herdier before she finished.

Lenora nodded. "Herdier return. Go Watchog!" Since she made a move returning and sending out another pokémon, it gave me the advantage.

"Use double kick!"

"Use super fang, Watchog!"

As the pokémon charged at each other, I smirked. "Counter with another double kick, Sawk!"

Lenora frowned. "Dod-" Watchog was knocked out, quickly. She sighed, returning Watchog. She then looked up at me and grinned. "The way you battle, it's enchanting, it's charming. Please accept the Basic badge."

I grinned as I took the badge and placed it in my case. "Thank you."

Lenora shook her head. "No, thank you for the amazing battle. I want you to have something else as well, this TM. It's retaliate. I'm sure you know about it."

I nodded as Hawes stampeded down the stairs. "Deeear! Dear! Come quickly! Team Plasma is threatening to steal some bones!"

Lenora looked at him, shocked. "What? What's going on?!" She looked at me, frantically. "Ace, you come too!" She then ran up the stairs with Hawes.

"Master, let's go!"

I nodded. "Yes, let us, Umbreon." Umbreon and I dashed into the museum to see nothing except smoke.

"Now, you wait! Enough fooling around! What's going on?" Lenora's voice echoed through the museum and I knew that team plasma had stolen something.

"Umbreon, I can't see!" I coughed and covered my mouth when I felt someone grab my arm and drag me. "Umbreon, can you see me?"

Umbreon sneezed. "I'm right behind you, Master." I was led outside the museum and I looked at the person who had led me out and it turned out to be Cheren.

I smiled at him and coughed again. "Thank you, Cheren."

He nodded. "Lenora ran off to search the city. Bianca, Amelia, Aidan and I are staying here to protect the museum."

"And you're coming to search pinwheel forest with me." I turned to see the man that had spoken. "I'm Burgh, the gym leader of Castelia city."

I nodded. "Well it's nice to meet you. I'm Aceline and this is my trusted partner, Umbreon."

"Let's start in Pinwheel forest, that's really the only way they could have gone. Can you check the outer forest and then meet me inside?" Burgh didn't wait for me to respond and left to the forest.

I looked back at Cheren, who nodded his head and went inside the museum. "It's up to us, Master." Umbreon looked back to Cheren as well.

I nodded. "I know how to make the search faster, come on out, Blitzle!" I threw Blitzle's pokéball into the air and released him out of it. Umbreon then grabbed the now shrunken pokéball and gave it to me. I placed it back on my belt with the other pokéballs and looked at Blitzle. "Umbreon, Blitzle is much faster than I am at running, can you keep up?"

As I got on Blitzle's back, Umbreon snorted. "Don't underestimate me, Master."

I grinned. "You ready guys?"

Blitzle reared. "Let's go!" He then bolted, sparks flying from under his hooves as the three of us raced through the outer pinwheel forest. I used a repel to keep away the wild pokémon, but I couldn't avoid the six trainers. After the three of us had searched the outer forest, we entered the forest.

As said, Burgh was waiting for me. I smiled as Blitzle slowed down near him. Blitzle was a little too small to ride, but since I was petite, he didn't mind carrying me. "I'm guessing that you didn't find them?"

Blitzle snorted. "I would have shown them a thing or two."

I shook my head. "No, we didn't, but I can find the skull in no time at all."

Burgh nodded. "I'll head the straight path and if I don't run into them, I'll block them off. You head through the forest."

I nodded and got off of Blitzle. "Blitzle, return." I returned him to his pokéball and looked at Umbreon. "You ready?"

Umbreon nodded. "Let's go, Master."

We started walking until we were spotted by a pair of twin girls that wanted to battle. I had a double battle with them and their level sixteen Sewaddles. After them, I ran into a team plasma grunt with his level sixteen Sandile. I continued on, only to battle a pokémon ranger, who gave me another Chesto berry, with a level eighteen Herdier and another grunt with her level sixteen Purrloin. I continued on, battling a youngster with his level sixteen Venipede and Timburr.

I managed to catch more pokémon including the three elemental pokémon that Amelia, Cheren, and Bianca had. I caught a Petilil, a Cottonee, a Venipede, and a Sewaddle. I continued walking until I saw a hollow log that I would have to walk through. "Master, a person is hiding." Umbreon motioned his head to a bush near the log. I nodded and continued on, and sure enough, there was a female ranger that ambushed me. I battled her and her level eighteen Panpour. After I beat her, she gave me a Pecha berry.

As I continued on further, I ran into a Grunt with a level 16 Patrat, another Ranger with a level 18 Pansear, and the final Grunt that had a level fourteen Patrat and a level fourteen Sandile. He glared at me harshly once he was defeated. "Don't you understand the cause we fight for?! We'll free pokémon from those who don't deserve them!"

I crossed my arms and glared back at him. "You steal other people's pokémon for your own uses! You are the ones who don't deserve pokémon!" Umbreon jumped in front of me and growled at the grunt, advancing towards him.

The grunt ran off, dropping the skull as he did so. When I went to pick it up however, I was interrupted. "You have constantly gotten in our way, but you will get in our way no longer." I whipped around to see an elderly man that dressed similar to Ghetsis. "I am Gorm. I am one of Team Plasma's Seven Sages."

Umbreon was once again in front of me, protecting me. "Master, we can take him!"

I nodded. "Bring it on, plasma sleaze."

Burgh rushed to my side. "You picking on a child?"

I rolled my eyes. "I am not a child, Burgh."

Gorm glared at us. "We shall retreat for now, just know that this isn't the last time we meet if you continue to get in our way." The two then fled from the scene.

Burgh groaned in annoyance. "Darn, I thought we had them trapped. No matter though, is that what they stole?" He pointed to the Dragonite skull and I nodded. He cleared his throat and attempted to pick it up himself, grunting when it was too heavy for him to lift.

I laughed and tossed a pokéball into the air. "Come on out Sawk!" Sawk, being the silent type, looked once between me and the skull before lifting it with ease. He then looked back at me for guidance. "Come on Sawk." I led him and Burgh back out of Pinwheel forest where Lenora was waiting for us.

"You retrieved the skull for me! I owe you one, Ace." She held out her arms to Sawk, who returned the skull to her. I held out Sawk's pokéball, returning him in a bright flash of red light.

Burgh gave me a pat on the back. "I congratulate you and I hope to see you at my gym in Castelia City."

I nodded and grinned at him. "You bet I'll see you." Both he and Lenora both walked their separate ways back to their own gyms. I sighed and leaned against the fence that was on each side of the path leading from Nacrene to Pinwheel forest. "Well, it's almost lunch time, so what do you want to do, Umbreon?"

Umbreon sat at my feet. "Lunch sounds good. Then I say we should explore Pinwheel forest some more. I have the feeling that there might be some legendary pokémon there."

I raised an eyebrow. "Legendary?" Just the word legendary brought back memories. I had managed to befriend all the legendary pokémon I had encountered thus far. They had even let me catch them, but I refused to keep them in pokéballs. They were mine and heeded my calls whenever I called, thus being mine, but they were still free to roam the earth. I cleared my throat and began walking back to the café, where only Amelia and Aidan were waiting for me.

"Did Bianca and Cheren ditch?" I laughed as I sat at the table.

Amelia grinned. "You could say that."

"Amelia already received the badge from Lenora this morning, shortly before you did, and then all of the chaos broke out. So Cheren and Bianca decided to test themselves." Aidan cleared his throat and stood up, handing both me and Amelia menus. "What can I do for you today?"

Amelia smiled. "You already know my favorite meal, Aidan."

"Ah, indeed I do, but what do you wish to drink?"

Amelia couldn't help but laugh, causing me to smile. "Well, I hear that your lemonade is absolutely fantastic."

Aidan nodded and turned to me. "And what would you like, Aceline?"

I bit my lip and scrolled through the menu. "I'll take the lunch party special and some lemonade please."

Aidan's eyes widened. "What? With the pokémon food and all? Who are you feeding, your whole family?"

I laughed. "Pokémon food and all. I'm traveling so I make sure to have leftovers and Umbreon refuses to eat pokémon food." I shot a smile at Umbreon, who growled and cowered in embarrassment. Aidan nodded and hurried off to get our orders.

"So where are you heading after this, Ace?"

I shrugged. "I'll probably continue on to Castelia and then on to Nimbasa and so on and so forth."

Umbreon stretched. "We should find out where that team plasma's hideout is and trash 'em like we did team rocket." I laughed aloud to Umbreon's statement, earning a raised eyebrow from Amelia.

"If you go to Castelia, they have their famous Castelia Cones selling until two nights from now, since that's officially when winter starts." Aidan returned with a platter of drinks in one hand and a large bag of pokémon food in the other hand.

I grinned and tossed my pokéballs into the air. "Come on out guys! Time for some food!" I was handed bowls by Aidan as he worked on setting all of our food on our table. He didn't seem to mind the fact that I had bought way too much food for myself, but rather enjoyed serving us. I poured some pokémon food into different bowls and served my companions. Umbreon naturally got the first bite of whatever I had been served. I wasn't exactly sure what everything on the party platter was, but everything smelled so amazing and delicious, that it made me excited to eat.

"Master, this is really delicious, you should try some." Umbreon continued to gobble down the food I had placed in his bowl. I began eating, flavors of all kinds exploding in my mouth. Amelia laughed as I greedily stuffed food into my hungry mouth. I had enough lemonade to wash down every bite I took, which was just as delicious as the food.

Soon enough I had enough food in my stomach that I boxed everything else, placing it in my bag. I withdrew my pokémon into their pokéballs and placed some money plus the tip on the table. "Well Amelia, I'll be taking my leave then, I left the money on the table."

Amelia frowned. "Leaving already?"

I nodded and looked down to Umbreon, my trusted partner. "Yeah, Umbreon and I have the next city to conquer as well as another gym." I hugged Amelia and smiled. "I'm sure I'll run into you again." I then waved as Umbreon and I went back through Pinwheel forest. This time however, we decided to take the straight path, running into many more trainers than on the long trail.

Umbreon stopped in the middle of the path. "In the grass, to our right, go Master!" I nodded and ran into the grass, coming up upon a wild Snivy. I grinned and tossed up Lillipup's pokéball.

"Lillipup, use tackle!" Lillipup charged at the wild pokémon, but was quickly caught up in Snivy's vine whip. Snivy's vines wrapped around Lillipup's waist and threw him into the air.

Lillipup landed badly and rolled and I knew that this Snivy was probably a higher level than Lillipup. "Try tackle again then try bite, Lillipup." Lillipup got back to his feet as the Snivy danced around tauntingly. Lillipup once again charged at Snivy, but while Snivy's back was turned. Lillipup slammed harshly into Snivy, knocking the pokémon over. The startled Snivy blindly attempted to use his vine whip, but Lillipup wouldn't have it and bit Snivy hard.

I smirked and took out a pokéball. "Step away from Snivy, Lillipup!" Lillipup listened and my pokéball flew from my hand and landed in front of the weak pokémon. Snivy was too weak to fight back and made it easier to catch him. Once the pokéball stopped moving, Umbreon took the shrunken ball into his mouth and darted off into the direction of the pokémon center to place my newly caught Snivy into the p.c.

"Great job Lillipup!" I knelt down in front of him and he trotted over to me proudly.

"Did ya see that? He didn't have a chance against us!" Lillipup danced around in a circle before a glowing light began to consume him. I laughed and stood up again, taking a step back. The light swirled around Lillipup and I could see his shape beginning to change form. I took out my demo pokédex as the light around Lillipup dimmed out. He had evolved into a Herdier, the same pokémon that Lenora had.

Placing my pokédex away, I grinned at Herdier. "Are you happy that you evolved?"

He nodded briskly. "Of course I am." His voice had gotten deeper with his evolution, but I smiled anyway. I held out his pokéball and he returned in a red flash of light. I returned the ball to my belt as Umbreon returned to my side.

"Was there anything I missed master?" Umbreon looked around the grass, making sure there weren't any pokémon close to ambushing us.

I nodded. "Yeah, Lillipup evolved into a Herdier."

Umbreon shrugged. "Eh, we've seen enough evolutions, they aren't that big of a deal anymore."

I laughed. "Well, they still make me smile and isn't that all that matters?" Umbreon nodded in agreement as we got back on the path. We continued until we reached the man-made tunnel. As we passed through it, the security guards seemed to be uneasy. Umbreon noticed it as well and pawed my leg. I simply nodded, letting him know that I understood their uneasiness as well as he did. It was probably because team plasma had passed through, escaping from Burgh and I. As Umbreon and I exited, I had to cover my eyes from the harsh afternoon sunlight. When I was able to open my eyes, I gasped in complete awe. In front of us was the longest metal bridge we had ever seen. My eyes widened as I glanced at the sign in front of the bridge. It was called Skyarrow bridge and I could see why as I walked up the spiral incline to the main part of the bridge.

The bridge towered over the water and boats that passed under it, although boats didn't just pass under the bridge, cargo ships did as well. I swallowed and gripped the railing. "I hate heights." I flinched as a gust of wind blew past me.

Umbreon chuckled. "Master, you're perfectly safe, nothing's going to happen."

I squeezed my eyes shut tightly and shook my head violently. "You don't understand. I don't trust man-made heights!"

A hand was placed on my shoulder. "Would it help if I accompanied you?" My eyes flew open and I whipped around to stare into blue-grey eyes. A gasp escaped my lips and for some reason, I felt my heartbeat speed up and my stomach was full of butterflies. N's hand was still on my shoulder and that alone was enough to flush my cheeks into a bright shade of red. His hand slid down my arm in a slow, relaxing manner until his hand held mine.

I simply stood there stupidly as he smiled at me. "I-uh-yeah."

N chuckled and walked on my left as Umbreon walked on my right, glaring at N. "So, tell me a little bit about yourself, Ace."

I swallowed, wondering if N could feel my pulse racing. "Well, I was born here in Unova, but at the age of ten I moved to the Kanto region to start my journey, where I discovered my talents of talking to pokémon and singing. From there I traveled to Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Orre, and now I'm here." I smiled to myself, reminiscing. "I've befriended all kinds of pokémon and fought off so many villains in just six small years."

N lightly squeezed my hand and smiled. "Well, I hope you are as honest and kind as you are interesting. Until next time." He then let go of my hand and disappeared from my sight.

I looked around, we had reached the other side of the bridge. "Umbreon?"

"Yes, Master?"

I looked down at my companion. "Did he seriously lead me across the bridge that quickly without me knowing?"

Umbreon nodded. "Well for a minute or so you were staring into his eyes as if you were in a trance. I thought he had done something to you, but it just so turns out that you only have a crush on the guy." Umbreon snickered.

My face flushed again. "I do not!" Umbreon darted into the tunnel and I followed him. On the other side was Castelia, one of the biggest cities I had ever seen in my entire lifetime. "Umbreon, I think that we'll need a map to get through this place."