Green and Lucia had traveled to Cinnabar Island in complete silence. Lucia rode her Sharpedo but kept in line with Green, she couldn't speed off just because Sharpedo could go 75 miles per hour in the water, and she had to stay with Green so she wouldn't get lost. Green on the other hand rode his Lapras going at a steady speed, not too fast because pissing of Lucia by dragging out the trip was some of the pay back for jabbing him so hard in the chest.

It wasn't comparable to anything that he could do, but she'd only mildly pissed him off. Something about Lucia wanted to make Green grab her and shake her and tell her to shut the hell up forever. He knew on the other hand that this would set her into an uncontrollable rage that his wasn't even to be compared to. Then on the other hand something inside of him also wanted him to grab her and just claim her as his. It was kind of like a love hate relationship, the two could get along at one moment and one wrong sentence made the two hate each other.

It wasn't as bad as Green and Red; Green couldn't stand being near that idiot. Red just wouldn't shut up when he was around him, at least Lucia wasn't as pigheaded at him and Green could somewhat keep himself under control around her. Well besides when she asked just about the most annoying questions like – "Are we almost there?" she whined.

Green's eye twitched slightly as he glared at the water ahead. "If we were we would see an island, do you see an island?" he asked harshly as Lucia shrank back her Sharpedo barking something that he couldn't understand. His Lapras groaned in protest as if agreeing with the Sharpedo.

Lucia inclined her head to whisper something to Sharpedo. "Hey buddy you got instructions?" the Sharpedo nodded in reply. "Good, let's beat them there. It'll be easy, one, two, three!" the Sharpedo suddenly took off with such a jolt of speed that Green could hardly believe that Lucia actually somehow managed to hold on. She was tough; he'd learned that by now and over the years. As small and dainty as she looked she was headstrong, confident, and always looked at the bright side of things even in the worst times. She didn't like having other people seeing her weak or knowing her weaknesses she wanted to seem like she was reliable and could do anything she was requested without backing down. Lucia wasn't a chicken, but she was an idiot, but a good kind of idiot.

Green took his time not rushing his Lapras in the least bit. They reached Cinnabar a mere twenty minutes later, the beach was collected with tourists and people splashing in the water playing. Lucia was on the dock. She had her Cleric, Blaze, and her Luxray out with her. Her Luxray stood only a few inches shorter than her which Green found slightly amusing. As Green stepped onto the dock he returned his Lapras and shoved his hands into his pockets.

Lucia was talking to some younger trainers who had dark type pokemon with them. "The key to raising dark type pokemon is to befriend them well, because they don't like listening unless you have a really strong bond with them. The good thing about them is that they become really strong when you train them well, trust me it's worth it. As you can see I have quite a bit dark type pokemon as well as ghost. I'll let you in on a secret," she winked at them. "Ghost pokemon are easier to raise because they're extremely playful pokemon, the only reason most don't train them is because some find them to kind of be creepy. But the cool thing is that normal attacks don't work on ghost pokemon. Unfortunately I don't have any of my ghost pokemon with me, just all dark not including Luxray, but he looks like a dark type pokemon doesn't he?"

The children were beaming at her as she talked to them. "Yeah! I've never seen a Luxray before since they're from Sinnoh, but you're so cool Lucia you've been to all of the countries!" the girl with the Murkrow said.

The boy next to her knocked her hard on the side of the head. "You idiot, you've also forgotten that Lucia's defeated all the elite fours. She's not cool, she's the best!" he told her as his Poocheyna yipped in reply. Lucia smiled friendlily at the children giggling at the two fought.

"Oh come on you two don't fight, just because you aspire to be a dark type pokemon trainer doesn't mean you have to cold and mean. You can be like me and-" Green hit Lucia on the head like the boy had done to the younger girl. The blonde flinched and went to hold her head. "Hey what's the big idea? Green! Why'd you do that?" she huffed angrily rubbing the spot he'd hit furiously.

"We need to get going," he said blandly as Lucia puffed her cheeks out, but held her tongue in her mouth pouting at Green. "We can't fool around all day, there isn't much sunlight left." And Green was right; the sun was already starting to set over the horizon leaving only an hour left of sunlight. Lucia gave a small sigh and turned back to the children.

"Sorry but we have to get going, I'd spend more time but Green's a big bully," she grumbled as the children's eyes grew as wide as saucers.

"Green, as in Green Ookido?" the boy asked and Lucia nodded without sparing Green a look. "Why are you two traveling together? Are you on a big adventure?" he asked awaiting a liable answer.

"Yeah, none that's any of your-" Green started to answer when Lucia the heel of her foot on his toes making him stop long enough to wince in pain.

Lucia crouched down to be level with the two children. "Yes, we're going on a big adventure, but we can't bring you along so don't ask and it's because we're going to find the pretty bird pokemon that lives on this island. Do you know where it is?" she asked giving them a kind smile. Green had never ever seen Lucia so nice and for once he'd wish she was like that to him. It had to be that she liked children more than people her actual age.

The girl twiddled with her pony tail. "Well, if you're speaking about Moltres then you have to be careful."

Lucia smiled widely. "Of course, I mean seeing a Moltres or even trying to get close to it without the proper precautions would be catastrophic."

The boy shook his head. "No, she means that Team Rocket has been lounging around here the past few days and are after Moltres. More and more keep coming and we're all afraid that they might capture Moltres and take it from our island. Please, please, please Lucia can you stop them. If they take Moltres why would people want to come to our island anymore? That pokemon is one of the main attractions here, people always come thinking they'll see it," the boy said.

Lucia took his hands in hers. "Don't worry; I'll kick Team Rocket's butts. They're just bullies that need to be put in their place; I've dealt with their kind in other places. Like Team Magma and Aqua and Team Galatic in Sinnoh. They're getting a little too old for these tricks anyway I think someone should let them know it's time to retire."

The two children smiled at her brightly. Green grabbed Lucia's collar and began dragging her off as the two children thanked her and gave their goodbyes. "I promise!" she called to them holding up her right hand as if swearing to God. When the two were far enough away Lucia thrashed her way out of Green's hold and glared at him. Darkness was beginning to fall over the tropical haven.

"What did you think you were doing?" he growled at her running a hand back through his hair keeping his anger and bitterness under control.

"Talk to fans and getting information from locals. Children are the easiest people to talk to because they can't lie as well as other people, and when they admire you they have more reason to tell you the truth when you talk about something. See? We found out that Team Rocket was here trying to catch Moltres, I don't think we would have found that out until we met them face to face unless we exchanged greetings with the locals. Trust me, I know what I'm doing," she told him her blue eyes sharp and level with Green's.

Green felt his lips twist down at her as he shoved her against the wall, this time Lucia didn't resist instead she watched her head held high and her eyes dark. "Know what you're doing, have you ever searched for a legendary pokemon before?"

Lucia kept her lips pressed tightly for a moment before answer. "Yes and I found it. I know what I'm doing," she repeated and shoved Green off of her and then dusted herself off. "And I thought I was the one with the temper, at least I can keep mine more under control than you can ," she said running her fingers through her short blonde hair.

Green's temperature dropped back down to normal as he shoved his hands in his pockets. He followed Lucia as she took a trail that led up onto the volcano that attracted people from far and wide. A few minutes later he finally spoke up as she was pushing through brambles and branches letting them fly back and hit him. "At least I don't mope about something a while after it's happened," he pointed out as Lucia turned to face him. This time it was her turn to get mad.

"Oh please! I-I-I-" Lucia's face had turned so red that Green was wondering how it hadn't exploded. Cutting off from where she had started babbling she threw her head up and screamed loudly that the whole forest echoed and flocks of Pidgies flew out from branches. "You just live to piss me off don't you?!" she roared. "I haven't done anything but try to help and this is how you repay me? Being a complete asshole! You should have just left me in the forest and maybe I'd a gotten back up and walked to the next town. Unfortunately you saved me and you will probably never let me live it down! I really can't wait until I repay you this stupid debt so I can move a million miles away and never have to see you again!" she then turned and began back through the trees, this time she stopped flinging the branches and just ducked under them and sped herself up so that Green was left farther and farther behind.

Green on the other hand was thinking, thinking of all the times he'd made Lucia angry today. It was easy to make her mad, but now he'd done it. She was touchy and he'd touched upon a spot that Lucia wanted left alone. What was he supposed to say? Sorry? If he said that Lucia would think there was something wrong with him, but if he didn't say sorry then she'd probably be harder to work with and Green knew that if the two came across Team Rocket, they had to work together, not hate each other.

Green sped up and caught up enough that he could grab Lucia's wrist. He spun her around to apologize expecting bright fiery eyes to be glaring at him, but instead her head was put down her bangs cascading over her face. She didn't look up. "I'm sorry ok, it's just… We're opposites and it's hard not to get mad at each other. You understand right?" he felt like he'd been apologizing more than he had ever done in his entire life time in the total of a few days.

"I hate getting mad, but you just make me so mad and I can't help it," she said a raspy tone to her voice as she rubbed her eyes.

"Are you crying?" he asked, he tried to put the amusement out of his tone but instead it was still pain to hear him smirking at her emotional breakdown. Wide glassy eyes glared up at him as she turned and stomped on. The brunette then placed his face in his palm, maybe she was right, maybe he did live to piss her off even if he didn't mean to.

Green continued onwards after Lucia, he wasn't going to say anything else. For if he did he had a feeling that she wouldn't hold back on punching him out cold, when he caught up Lucia was setting up camp for the night all of her pokemon out, a stream wide enough to be sufficient to Sharpedo's size was nearby. The pokemon looked at him with those dark eyes and even if they weren't meant to be intimidating they still were.

After Lucia finished up starting the fire with Blaze the two turned and made somewhat of a dog pile Lucia stuffed in the middle of all five of her pokemon. Green didn't bother with trying to suck up to her; instead he sat on the opposite side of the fire, cold despite the flames roaring in front of him. He glanced down at his palms and sighed, this wasn't going to work at all if they couldn't get along.

X X X

When Green woke up it was only because Lucia was bent over him poking his face. "Wake up sleepy head we don't have all year," she huffed as she stood up hands on hip. Cleric and Blaze were back out glancing down at Green with a superior look, like they were better than him. It was the kind of gaze that Green was known to give other people or trainers he thought weren't as good as him. It was probably about the first time he'd ever gotten that gaze from someone else.

Green groggily sat up, the fire was out and Lucia was all packed up all of her belongings back in the shoulder bag she owned. The blonde stepped away and turned getting ready to leave without Green. The brunette heaved himself to his feet and dragged himself up the volcano's slope, it was clear to assume that Moltres probably lived near the crater of the volcano so that was where they were headed.

It wasn't going to much longer of a hike, maybe about an hour or two and they passed by rather quickly. When the four reached where the trees parted leaving a vast open area in the distance a camp made itself visible. It was a large camp appearing as if it had been there for a while, if Green didn't know any better he would come to think that it was a group of researchers.

"Hey, come on lets go investigate over there. There's bound to be someone who can fill us in on what activity has been happening around here," Green told Lucia as he stepped ahead of her and began walking. Someone stepped out onto the boundaries of the camp and Lucia cursed and tackled Green to the ground.

"You idiot!" she said pinning him down to the ground trying to keep low hoping that the person hadn't spotted them.

"Get off of me!" Green hissed writhing around in Lucia's grasp. As strong as she was she was still a girl who was about a foot shorter than him. He easily pushed her off of him, but Lucia reached and grabbed a fist full of his hair and pulled him back to the ground.

"That's Team Rocket, if they spot us we're-" the grunt turned and ran back into camp. "You've done it now! They've spotted us!" she said jumping to her feet letting go of Green's hair. "RUN!" she shouted and bolted up the steep slope of what was left of the volcano. Green watched as Rocket grunts poured from out of the camp. She wasn't being a sissy, she was being smart. Even if they both could defeat all of the grunts, where would that leave them?

The grunts followed them up the slope panting some falling back as the two barely missed a step. When they reached the top of the volcano the crater full of bubbling lava behind them Green turned to Lucia. "Plans?" he rasped as a crazy grin spread over her face as the Team Rocket grunts rapidly approached.

"Yes, release all of you fire type pokemon."