Green's face had fallen when Lucia had said that. "What? Why?" he asked getting to his feet, Lucia's jacket still wrapped around his shoulders. For once he'd been with a girl who hadn't gone lovey dovey eyes over him and he had never thought that he'd like her or she'd like him, but he was wrong. Something about her made his heart race, something about her wanted to make him have her near him all the time and it'd taken a while for him to realize it and now she had to do something. "Lucia, please don't go," lately he'd been saying that word a lot and it was all for her. Never so much in his life had he apologized or even begged and it seemed like he'd been doing it more often and often.

She bent down and picked up the master ball. "I have some unfinished business elsewhere, but I promise you that I will come back… eventually," she told him and for a moment Green thought she was talking about Team Rocket, but there was something in her eyes that told him it was something he didn't know about. She shoved the master ball into her bag and turned back to Green. "I promise."

Green stepped up and hugged her to his chest tightly. "You better promise you idiot. I want you to come back in one piece," he said releasing her as she glanced up at him with a bright smile.

"Oh I'll be fine, but for now I guess we'll let fate decide when we meet next," she said.

Green smile weakly. "I look forward to that day."

Two Months Later…

Green had thought Lucia would have come back by now. Unfinished business shouldn't take this long… right? He'd have dreams about her, but those dreams would contort into nightmares where she was drifting away being taken by a ghastly pokemon whom's face he could not decipher. He did though continue on with going on the search for Zapdos. He'd stayed in a pokemon center nearby where Zapdos was said to be roosting and as many girls that would confront him, he would brush them away coldly his mind only focused on the one person who had deprived him of sleep.

Green made his usual trip over to where Zapdos was said to be only to be disappointed by the fact that after a while he still hadn't seen it. It wasn't until earlier today that he merely stumbled upon Team Rocket grunts nearby starting to set up a base camp, which meant that… they were planning on capturing Zapdos next. Later that day a bad thunderstorm blew in, any trainers nearby rushed to the pokemon center and bunkered in, but Green decided that it would be best to see if Zapdos came out around now to see if the pokemon would come out.

As Green took his usual root a few grunts stopped him as Green gave them each a cold glare and shoved his hands into his pockets. "Yeah?" he asked harshly awaiting for them to tell him he had to leave and never come back because they were conducting experiments that the public wasn't allowed to see.

"You aren't allowed to be around here," one grunt said.

"Says who? You're not the government, there for I can come and go as I want," he said throwing them a sharp emerald gaze. One of the grunts stiffened as Green let out a small mocking laugh. "What did you think you were going to do? Stop me, nice try but you fail," and Green continued walking coolly until a flash of lightning blinded him momentarily and in front of him stood the four elites. He stared at them blandly waiting for them to mock and say whatever they had to say.

"Where's your little blonde friend?" one of the guys asked as Green gave them a narrow glare keeping his mouth shut. "Did she dump you? She was kind of cute, I think I might just try and meet up with her some time," he said as Green's eyes flared angrily.

"Leave her out of this," he said as he kept his hands in his pockets clenched in fists. If he didn't keep his cool he'd probably end up sucker punching one this guy.

"Oh, so she did leave. Do you know where she went?" the guy asked as Green pursed his lips. She had never specified that. The guy then pulled out a badge and held it in front of his face. "Did you know that she dropped this last time we saw her? Do you know what this is?" Green focused his eyes to read 'Pokemon Detective'. "Yeah, she was in the whole police and investigation industry, bet you didn't know that," the guy tormented.

Green thought back to when Lucia had said she knew what she was doing and how she'd faced Team Aqua, Magma, and Galatic in the other countries. Of course she had faced them, she was a detective and yet she hadn't felt it was necessary to touch upon the subject with him? "Oh so you didn't know," one of the woman said cattily. "I wonder what else you didn't know about her."

It didn't matter that Lucia was a detective; she couldn't have been hiding anymore… could she have? What if all of that had just been a mask, an act? If you were a detective wouldn't you play as someone different so you weren't exposed for what you were? What if he really didn't mean anything to her and when Lucia had left she'd gone back on duty rather than to do whatever else she had claimed? Green's head spun with possibilities as he didn't want to think that all Lucia was had been a lie.

"Do you want us to put you out of your misery?" the woman asked placing a finger under Green's chin and tipping it up. "You try to act so cool, but deep down inside you're frail and now that you've discovered that that girl you liked hasn't told you everything you thought you knew, how do you feel? Like that cold heart of yours is chipping away on the inside about to shatter?" she asked as Green held his breath eyes closed. That was exactly how he felt, but he wouldn't show it.

Green opened his eyes to cast daggers at the woman as he slapped away her hand. "Don't touch me, you don't know me at all," he growled as he drew his Charizard's poke` ball preparing himself for a battle. The woman laughed in amusement as she beckoned at the others to join in with her to crush Green and get rid of him quickly.

It was a suicide attempt, but Green was feeling risky. He could do it if it just put his mind to it. He released Charizard from its poke` ball as it roared and stood firmly on the ground towering above everyone. He was about to command his pokemon to attack when a bolt of lightning seared closely nearby setting a tree on fire. He jumped back in surprise and then a cry from up in the air caused him to look up to see the mighty bird peeking from out of the thunder clouds.

The elites smiled as if this was what they were waiting for and Green had a feeling that they didn't want him to get in the way. He wasn't going to sit back and watch like he had last time though. As they exchanged excited glanced Green wasted no time in catching them off guard. "Charizard use heat wave," Green told his pokemon. Heat wave wasn't exactly fire, but extremely hot breath that could inflict a burn. It reminded him almost of like an invisible fire that was hard to see.

As Charizard directed it at the group they all cringed in pain one woman screaming in agony. It had to hurt to be under such unbelievable heat, but it was now their turn to feel what their pokemon would feel when they battled his Charizard. One of the elites let out his Aerodactyl and leaped onto its back launching into the sky. Green quickly gamboled on Charizard's back and took off into the sky. He wasn't about to let this guy take down Zapdos.

The two circled each other momentarily in the sky. "Use dragon breath!" Green ordered as his Charizard obediently chased down the Aerodactyl and started letting green flames pour from his mouth. The pokemon quickly darted from side to side, but Charizard quickly caught onto its pattern and nabbed it on a wing sending it in a weak flight too weak to be able to hold itself and its trainer up.

"Quickly Aerodactyl use hyper beam on Zapdos!" he called out as the pokemon unleashed a fierce red beam at Zapdos while the other elites waited on the ground for Zapdos to fall so they could capture it. Green would never make it in time to block the move, but just as he thought it was hopeless the hyper beam was blocked with a shimmering green wall. The Team Rocket member cried out in surprise as he had to land and when the smoke cleared Green could hardly believe his eyes.

Lucia was on the back of Darkrai. Her hair had fallen down below her shoulders and bright blue eyes smiled brightly in triumph as the elites stared at her and her pokemon in disbelief. "Come on Zapdos, get going!" she shouted as the pokemon cawed and flew away. Darkrai then took her bringing her down lower until the two of them reached the ground. The blonde jumped off his back and stared at them her hands on her hips. Green quickly landed and stood there with his Charizard staring at her. She'd changed ever so slightly over the past two months.

Her hair was so long that there was no way that she could have grown it that much over that period of time. She was wearing a fitted dark blue dress; it wasn't anything like the maroon one that Green had bought for her. It had kind of a dollish look to it, long fitted sleeves, white cuffs, the skirt of the dress pulled out quite a bit, but the bottom of the dress stopped at her knees. Around the waist was a white and blue stripped ribbon tied in the back. She had black stockings on and black Mary-Jane slippers and overall with the white bow in her hair she looked like a frail porcelain doll and more correctly a dark type pokemon trainer.

She smiled at Green as he stared at the Darkrai, she hadn't been lying after all. This must have been the unfinished business she had been talking about. "Dark void," she told Darkrai as the pokemon nodded and extended a ghoulish hand as darkness swathed beneath the elites and their pokemon sucking them into a dark sleep. "Finish it was dream eater," she told it and the pokemon simple answered by letting its eyes glow eerily as the sleeping foes writhed in agony plagued by nightmares.

Lucia then turned to Green. "I'm sorry for being gone for so long, but capturing Darkrai isn't something you can do in one day," she said throwing a tired smile at him. For some reason Green didn't feel mad, he felt… understanding. "I promised I'd come back, and I kept my promise," she said. Green turned away from her for a moment to walk over to the elites and pick up the badge one of the guys had had.

"I believe this is yours," Green said handing it to Lucia; he then placed his hands in his pockets as she flipped the badge in between her fingers.

"Thanks! I've been looking for this," she said as she stared at it confused and she then looked back up at Green. "Sorry I hadn't told you, I didn't think it was really that important. After all it is just a job," she said giving another half smile at Green.

Green shook his head, she was right it was just a job just as his was to be a pokemon researcher. "No, it's ok I understand. Although I never thought that you'd be the kind of person who'd become a detective, never thought you were smart enough," he grinned at her as Lucia accepted the challenge openly with a small feisty grin.

"Oh really? Well if you couldn't figure out I was a detective then I must be a pretty damn good one," she said as the two drew closer. Green wrapped his arms around her and it no longer felt awkward or unexpected, it felt right.

He reached down to kiss her but paused. "Wow did you grow?" he asked his lips turning up.

"Maybe an inch or two," Lucia shrugged as they kissed Green entangling his fingers in her long glorious blonde hair. "Maybe three," she breathed and Green laughed his lips just mere centimeters away.

"Are you ready?"

"For what?" Lucia asked.

"For Suicune, Raikou, and Entei?"