I only own my OC, Xylia Arbrun.

Zia Sapphire belongs to Sapphire Light of Night

Kaoru Setsuma belongs to Shadowjohn 101

Vien Kamiya belongs to Ricepaddyhero

Ren Di Ceilo belongs to Happy2Bme.

Brent Stylus belongs to Reknownst.

Chapter 6: Caramelldansen

A spot of cold poked at Xylia's cheek. Her freckled face scrunched up slightly and she turned her face away from whatever it was. Once more it poked her, this time in her neck. A grumble left her lips and she readjusted her position so her face was buried under the soft comforter. A tiny breeze drifted through the covers as something small, cold and furry slipped under. Three tiny jabs of cold to her left side sent her squealing onto the tiled floors of the pokemon center. A squeaky whine sounded above her head and Celcius was kneading his paws into the plush bed. "Okay…I'm up now. Your nose is cold."

A malicious aura loomed behind the petite girl and out of instinct, she scrambled back, pressing against the bed side, grabbing Celcius and tucking him into her body. Ren stood above her in his night clothes and looking rather…grumpy for lack of a better work. His black hair was askew and his icy eyes were fixed in a satanic glare at Celcius who just stuck out his tongue at him. "Keep that….Girlish….fox….THING! Away from me when I sleep!" he growled and turned to the bathroom back in his room where they were joined together. Gauche glared from his spot in the room. He was soaking wet, but steam was rising from the anger and annoyance reacting with his element. Within the next sixty seconds, he was completely dry and fluffy and he stalked off…probably to find his trainer.

"What did you do this time?" She said with a sigh as she picked up the glaceon and held him out at arm's length. It mewed innocently and was placed down on the bed. A new change of jeansand a baby-doll shirt that was this time an electric blue one. "Oooo…. I don't remember this one…"

Once she was changed and ready to go for the day, she packed her belongings. Her care of the egg was extreme and she slid it in snugly in top with the thick layers of blankets. "Wonder what you are…." With that last note, she bounced downstairs to join her companions. Celcius followed at her feel, purposefully sticking up his nose and holding his tail high as he passed by Ren. A small huff escaped the boys annoyed lips and an irritated expression took place of the normal emotionally void one. Zia's gold eyes looked between the glaring contest between human and pokemon. There could've been sparks flaring between them with the tension and anger. Xylia wasn't anywhere near the glowering duo, so with a tiny smirk, Celcius spat a small ice shard at his purple and white skate shoes and scurried off before his (or Gauche's) rage could be unleashed upon him. The corners of the icy boy's thin lips formed into an even deeper, more predatory scowl.

Celcius whined at Xylia's ankles and pawed at her, wanting the food in her hands. A giggle left her lips and she gently nudged him outside. "You'll get it in a second." The pokemon center was plenty large enough to hold her pokemon, but the well-mannered boy, Vien was nowhere to be seen. Perhaps he was outside; she would find out.

She was right. Almost as soon as her foot passed the strip of metal that separated the damp outside air from the inside, his Bulbasaur smacked into her leg. Red eyes looked up at her and watery tears formed. It looked down, ashamed of what it did. "Oh no! It's okay!" Her pink lips curved up in a smile. It looked up, as if to say 'really?' and her head bobbed accordingly. Two lanky vines slithered out of the bulb and wrapped around her leg in a hug. The soft skin rubbed against the leg of her jeans in a nuzzle. She smiled and bent down to pet its head. Celcius scrambled into the love fest, wanting a bit of attention.

The vine wrapped around her fingers and wirst in a delicate, but intricate hold. Bulbasaur tugged softly, pulling her with him. Xylia followed, curious what it wanted. It wasn't too long, only a few yards along the sides of the building, and she found Vien. He was twitching and holding his hand with a glare at Electabuzz, who was emitting a meow-like chuckle. A few, dim sparks danced around its big fist. The dark glasses were on top of his head again, keeping the dark hair out of his face in the humid weather. Crimson eyes darted up to her face and he blinked, surprised at her being there. "Hey," he greeted, releasing his hold on his hand.

"I was wondering where you were." The little boxes of Pokefood were placed on the ground as she dug in the pockets of her shiny jacket with her free hand. Three pokeballs were balanced in between her fingers and a fourth one between her thumb and index finger. Two were passed over to the hand with the vines wrapped around. The safari ball and heal ball were in her left and the normal pokeball and the dusk ball were in her right. Enlarged, she had trouble holding them, but managed. Her four other pokemon were released from the capsules and stretched in the sun. Dusknoir slunk over to the shade, naturally wanting the darkness. She pocketed the balls and handed out food to them; each to their specific likings. There were pretty large boxes and even though compared to the pokemon's stomachs, it should last them until lunch time. She set her bag down and took out her tin of berries.

There was a whoosh of air past Xylia's shoulder and a tap of cold on her shoulder. Her eyes darted to where she felt it, but saw nothing was there. There was another tap on her head and she spun around. Once again, nothing. A small amount of fear bubbled in the pits of her stomach, automatically assuming the worst, but it faded away as she felt a tiny tap in the berry tin and another whoosh of movement. A few feet away, a large cherry red bug was holding a spiky Tomato berry in its clamping claws very delicately. "Scizor. You don't just take it. That's rude."

"No. It's fine. None of my pokemon like the tomato berries anyway." She pulled out 5 plump berries: A Razz Berry for Dusknoir who liked the spicy and dry flavor, a Pinap Berry for Arbok, who craved the spicy and sour tang, a sweet and sour Wacan berry for Dragonite who liked the nearly 10 inch size of the berry more than anything else, a Occa berry for Feugo (he liked to use his fangs to pierce the super hard skin and flesh as well as the spicyness) and lastly a colbur berry for little Celcius; he to rip off the barbs. With a flick of her wrist, the berries were tossed up high into the air. Vien's eyebrows knitted together; what was the point of this?

Celcius was the first one off the ground and in the air. He jumped high enough to where he was level with the berry, and shot it down with a blast of icy wind. The purple spiky berry fell to the ground, but the tiny layer of frost kept any harm from coming to it. After him, Dragonite, who was happy enough to use its wings, simply flew up and zapped the berry with a small thunder attack. The yellow skin that was opaque a few seconds ago was now translucent with the sweet juices. Wacan berries absorbed the electrical attacks and increased the flavor. Clever. Arbok waited and waited until the berry was within striking range and used a quick round of poison jab attacks to soften the hard skin. The snake didn't have teeth to chew with, so the juices had to be smashed out before. Sure, now it was infected with globs of poison, but Arbok is a poison type and could literally live, breathe, and eat poison. It snatched it out of the air with another quick strike and slurped it down. Feugo took the fiery approach to his berry; a tunnel of fire shot out to his berry and engulfed it, making its outside skin just a tad softer and crunchier with the quick roast. With a follow up of extreme speed, he made it to it in no time and landed on the ground with thump of its paws. Of course, that left Dusknoir's berry. It floated in the air, just bouncing and hanging like there was a string attached to the nub of a stem. A tangible layer of thin darkness hung around it and it was too sucked into the shadows of the tree.

A small whimper of disappointment came from Xylia. Her bag was once again empty on the ground, egg and all. Her silver tipped finger combed through it and a pencil was between her lips. The aquatic iris of hers was narrowed in panic. She relinquished her hold of the pencil in her lips and let it drop to the ground. Two vines caught it before and Bulbasaur rose up the drawing utensil by her face. A quick smile flitted across her mouth as she reclaimed it and placed it in its proper place. "I…can't find my sketchbook…" The girl had gotten worked up over her sketchbook…?

"You didn't leave it in your room?" she shook her head to this. "You must've dropped it somewhere…We'll look for it soon." Her hands waved dismissively.

"No, no. I can just buy another one. We should get moving onto the next city…"

"Heart home city." Vin was looking forward to fighting the ghost-type gym leader, whoever that was. It could wait though if Xylia's sketchbook was anywhere around.

"It's going to be muddy on the route there…," she started, pursing her lips as if to think about something. "I wonder…" Her silver covered feet carried her over to her dragonite. "You up for a little flying through the rain?"

She couldn't possibly be suggesting…flying through the rain…. Vien's eyes widened as Dragonite flapped her blue leathery wings, ready for some flight. She was serious….completely and utterly serious…

"You…want to…fly…through the rain…" Vien asked, running his eyes over the pokemon. Dragonite did guide sea travelers through rain, so it shouldn't be a problem for it to navigate through the weather. With one or more people on it though? That was going to be tough.

"Yup! Dragonite hasn't flown in a while, so I thought I'd let her!"

"…Lets be on our way before it gets too late."

Once the pokemon had eaten their fill, they were returned to their pokeballs (the exception being Dragonite; she was waiting to fly) and they returned to the front of the center just as Ren and Zia were coming out. "Xylia wants to fly to Hearthome. Does anyone else have another pokemon that can carry more than one?" Silence ruled over them for a few seconds before a beam of light shot from the Pokeball in Ren's hand. It released a Metagross with its sleek, metallic coat. Its red eyes narrowed at the three around it.

"Jiggy Pepper, group. Group, Jiggy Pepper," The tall boy gave as a quick introduction. "How many can you carry?"

"What a group of imbeciles you've chosen to travel with," it said cruelly, "I can take the little one easy and the other boy."

Zia stared at it, not sure whether to burn it or what. "If I could say as much, I'd like to take a trip through the marsh." Xylia blinked at her in surprise.

"Won't that take longer? What if you get hurt?"

"Psh…like I can get hurt. If worst come to worst, I have this," She flicked out one of her shrunken Pokeballs and twirled it on her middle finger like a tiny basketball, just for show. "This'll be able to get me around easily. I'll be off!"

"I'll come with you. Alone, something may happen and you can't bring out whatever pokemon you have in your arsenal," said Vein, "Besides, I don't have a pokemon that can fly me around."

"You better not slow me down! I want to get through this! I'm hoping to find something!" She zipped off quickly after that. The boy blinked, suddenly processing that Zia was on her way to the route between the cities and waved quickly at the remaining two before sprinting after her and her Ninetales.

"Let's go." Xylia nodded and ran to the back of the pokemon center where the huggable dragon pokemon waited for her. As she situated herself on its back, Ren simply jumped on the flat upper part of the metagross, which was just enough room for him to cross his legs comfortably. The metal beast used its telepathic powers to lift them off the ground with ease. It sways slightly, but kept relatively stable. From behind the pokemon center, a gust of wind blew and a yellow shape rose in the sky. Xylia's black curls could be seen from its back and she waved him to follow her. Dragonite flew off towards the graying skies that perpetually hung over the route near Pastoria City. Jiggy followed behind with a grumble about the humid weather.

On the ground, Zia and Vien were already making rather speedy progress across the muck of the marshy lands. Their pants were covered in mud and their shoes were hopelessly filled with it and basically useless, but Zia didn't slow one bit. The cool rain coming down drenched their hair and plastered it to their skulls. Vien's glasses were long taken off and his crimson eyes were glaring through the gray. A flash above them caught his vision. Lightning struck, catching the metallic coat of the blue machine like pokemon above them. Its red eyes glowed from the altitude they were at. They too were only visible for a second. The oversized dragonite was completely invisible, probably being at a bit higher altitude.

"Zia…Why is it you wanted to come again?"

"Well…to be truthful. I hoped that the mucky water here would draw a legendary pokemon…Suicune…A lake guardian…Anything. So Far, all its drawn is mud and more mud and rain."

"Didn't you say you had a pokemon to help you out?" To this, she nodded. "Are you going to use it…?" At that, she shook her head. "Is there a reason…why?"

"Oh, we're not going to use him yet. It's not quite unbearable yet. Maybe in another hour or two." His mouth dropped open. Hour or two more of this? Another flash of lightning and the rumple of thunder caught their attention.

"It's too light for that much lightning and thunder…" Another flash of lightning followed her words, than another in rapid succession. "And that closeness is time can be hard to see even in large thunderstorms."

A powerful gust of air raced over the treetops and blew the grass and leaves in the eastward direction. A murky splash of yellow accompanied the winds. Dragonite's back skimmed over the treetops along with the wind, but she managed to catch herself before her or her trainer that she was pressing to on her belly hit something more deadly. Xylia, who was nearly invisible in the continually darkening weather, scrambled onto the dragon's back. Scuffs on the scales were visible. With a tremendous push from its wings, they were brought up into the area of darkness again. A bolt of thunder came within the comfort zone and Dragonite had to swerve awkwardly, nearly throwing Xylia off in the process, to avoid it. The attack wasn't nature's doing; it came from the trees barely a mile away. They were being attacked by something on the ground!

"Move it or lose it, Vien! We gotta help them!" The chocolate haired girl said, taking off. The said boy followed in pursuit.

Xylia clung to Dragonite's neck for dear life. At the same time, her body shifted, throwing her weight in the direction she wanted the dragon to move. It listened carefully, moving exactly with Xylia. There were no reins or saddle or anything for the team to use; Xylia was using her muscle to hold on. Her bangs were blown back with the air and she gladly used both her eyes to help her see. Her lips were parted and her expression scrunched up in concentration.

Higher up, the storm was rough. Wind blew and the rain pelted them, stinging like little needles. It was a hopeless situation. Her enemy could know exactly where she was, but she was blind as a bat in the dark weather and murky storm. Her skin felt dirty with the rain; it probably picked up some mud and dirt in the natural process of the water cycle. Coming back down, it clung to her skin and hair. The shower would have to wait though.

Thunder blazed by them in a flash of light. It provided a split second of light that saved them. It lit up everything and the light glinted on the reflective red surface of the goggles of her opponent. She tilted her weight backwards, telling her dragon to loop backwards. Agilely, it obeyed, fluttering its wings and angling them so that it made an elliptical shaped loop. The attack passed them and Dragonite had the angle advantage; it swerved up in the sky so it was above the opposing bug-like dragon. "Use hidden power." Dragonite obeyed. Its body became outlined in blue and small gusts of translucent blue wind slashed around her body in sharp, unruly patterns. Her dark eyes narrowed in a glare and its muzzle scrunched up in anger.

Before anything could happen, a blur of white exploded past them and rammed into Dragonite, spinning it with the velocity of the attack. More thunder blurred past them, two streaks this time. One caught her and a screech of pain left its maw. Xylia's fist clenched roughly on one another. It barely Hit dragonite, but it hurt none the less. A tear leaked out her eye, but she surveyed what had happened.

The two opponents loomed in front of them. One being the Flygon they were battling seconds before, the other being the white blur that knocked them around: a Togekiss. Those were pokemon of peace, but why was it attacking them? There was a small black collar around its neck and there seemed to be a speaker attached to it; it was the same with the flygon. There was someone giving orders at the other end of the device. It glared and with a shrill, but oddly sweet scream, it went to strike again. An outline of white traced its already pure body and as it flew, a trail was left behind and it lit up the surrounding area dimly before fading away. Dragonite twitched, trying to rid itself of the aftershock of the electrical attack and was wide open, easily allowing a critical hit.

Togekiss was thrown off balance with a metal clang. It squealed in pain, but flew up, recovering, slightly angered by the attack. There was a large scuff on its side and the feather were ruffled. Metagross glared at Xylia and Dragonite; its fist was outlined in gold from the meteor mash attack used to knock the Togekiss away. "Fools, move," spoke the metal beast.

Dragonite glared back, now shaken the shock off. They jumped back into battle, ready for the next barrage from their rivaling duo.

"Jiggy, ice punch on Flygon."

"Use dragon pulse on Togekiss!"

A short girl tapped on the side of the microphone impatiently as it crackled, "Stupid weather…I'm all wet now." It was true; even though they were in a relatively dry place, the rain still leaked through the leaves and branches. Her bright, rainbow clothing was sticking to her underdeveloped form. Her rainbow undershirt was completely see-through under her white shirt and evero other color from the Knees down were too covered in muck to be distinguished well. Her chestnut hair was plastered to her skull and she was always brushing the bangs that fell in a sodden heap away from her eyes so she could use the binoculars to see the battle above. "Vilta is doing pretty good still. That mean Metagross and the boy on it hit her once though." She removed the optical device away from her round amber eyes.

"Don't worry June. We still have the upper hand," her taller companion said, gesturing to the two electric pokemon beside them. The person looked much like a boy with shortly cropped hair and 6'4 height. The clothing plastered to the person's waist and hips proved that they were of the female gender. The Red 'R' on the chest area stood out in the darkness. Her eyes seemed to be part of her brown hair with the chocolate color. A Luxray watched the sky with golden eyes and wet, ebony fur. Beside it was a Raichu with a similar sour expression; they didn't appreciate the rain.

"You're right, RIna." She replaced the binoculars, pointing with the middle and index finger spread apart and pointing directly at the two floating pokemon above them that she could see. "Thunder…Eleven 'o clock and one 'o clock." Luxray charged up with its fur now spiking and crackling with the electricity combined with the water on its fur. A small cloud of steam rose p from the conducting, but it didn't faze the pokemon. Rina nodded to the Raichu, allowing it to attack as well. It too had a cloud of steam rising from its pelt soon with the voltage.

"Flareon, stop the Raichu! Use secret power."

"Scizor, stop Luxray with X-scissor."

Both pokemon executed their attacks quickly and precisely as their trainers ordered. Flareon's body glowed pink and the light caught Raichu's eye. His dark spheres turned just in time for the fox's fluffy mane to smack straight into its forehead with the impact of a brick being thrown at him. It tumbled back slightly, but recovered, angry at the nerve of it for interrupting it. Its cheeks crackled with the volts and their onyx eyes locked in a battle of glares, fire against electricity.

The blue and black electricity pokemon turned its eyes from the position in the sky at the disturbance and saw Raichu glaring at the Eeveeloution of fire. Its swift movement was only able to narrowly dodge the attack of its assailant. The claws of the red bug pokemon missed it as it slashed in the 'X' fashion, but managed to slice off a lock of fur. The dark hair fell to the mucky ground and was sucked into blending in with the mud. Its angry expression snapped at the bug.

"Pests…" Rina growled, flicking her finger out pointing at Zia; they were about the same height. "We're busy, you know?"

Zia pointed up at the fight above, "Those are our friends up there. You can't just do that without us interfering and kicking your ass if I may be so bold." Rina scowled, her finger twitching with the action. Beat them? Hah!

"Sanda. Let's show them."

"Now you're talking. Flareon, Get on in there and fire it up!" She smirked, showing a small glimpse of her white teeth. Flareon, despite its size and the wet air, made some sparks roar to life from its cloud like fluff.

Vien, on the other hand, wans't having quite as much luck; the child that was his opponent was startled by his pokemon's sudden appearance and had her finger up to her lips in fear. The large amber eyes on her face seemed to be swelling in size with the few tears that cascaded down her cheeks. Luxray saw this and snarled at Vien specifically, charging with full intent of ripping him to shreds. He panicked for a moment, but the flash of red that was his pokemon gave him a blanket of relief. His eyes parted again and he kept his eyes away from the girl that was on the verge of crying her little heart out. "I'm sorry to make you cry, but those are my friends. I can't just sit and watch you hurt them."

She sniffled and wiped her face on the damp sleeves of her shirt, but returned the look of fierce determination. "Okay, I get w-what you mean. I'm not gonna give up though. I have my morals too! Ukko! Start us off! Thunder fang!" The luxray dug its now electricity infused fangs into the thin, vulnerable waist of the metal pokemon. It screeched and mercilessly and recklessly slammed its metal claws on the head of the luxray. In turn, it bit more fiercely and gnashed its teeth further into its skin.

"Calm down!" It followed orders with a sarcastic glare. "Thank you, brick break on the side of its jaws, hard as you can." Its claws grew white and with a bug like hiss, it slammed its power infused claws in the said spot. It hit with such speed and it hit just in the right angle that the claws parted the teeth and it could slip out.

"Scary face." Ukko allowed the sparks to clam and the field to grow murky again. Scizor glanced around, angry that its opponent would run away in the middle of its battle. It didn't feel the presence of it nearby and in a flash of electricity, its golden eyes flicked about with a predatory look on its maw. It made Scizor stumble backwards and its legs tremble with a stunned fear. "While its stunned, crunch!"

"Razor Wind." Before that move could be executed, much less said, the cat was on it and trying to rip it to shreds with the dark attack. It screeched again, battering its claws on the sides on its jaws again with its speed now fueled by its anger. It slowly pried its jaws off of it and it used the issued attack. It slashed its claws at the air, looking like it was ripping through a wall with the ferocity. Large sharp gusts of wind blew at it and sliced its fur and knocking it back. Scizor saw this opportunity and streaked forward, pinning it's arms down at awkward angle. It didn't seem to hurt it, seeing as it snapped at it, unable to reach. " Finish it with iron head."

As that battle was going on, Zia's flareon and its opponent were throwing their attacks mercilessly at each other. A flamethrower from Flareon, a bolt of thunder from Raichu, It could go on for hours. They were agile and quick one moving just as the attack passed ad firing one of their own elemental attacks right back at it. Dodge. Attack. Dodge. Attack. "Flareon, use lava plume." A cloud of fire and smoke erupted from the ground below Raichu, concealing any damage and blocking its side of the field from being seen. "Little too much there…." The fox looked back sheepishly.

From within the cloud of gray smoke, a bulky flying dragon popped out from the murkiness. Seconds later, the smoke was cleared by the wind and rain, to see that there was neither Raichu nor its trainer. The orange lizard swerved, revealing the boyish trainer on its back. She smirked and went further into the air, nearing the conflict above them. The tattooed girl glared as she took out two pokeballs: One containing her next pokemon and the other to hold her Flareone who was glaring harshly at the sky. It was brought back into the pokeball and her other pokemon was released.

It was the one she referred to earlier when they were still four. The mystery 'last resort' pokemon was a Charizard identical to the one flying in the air. It was a bit rounded at the middle and bulky with muscle where as the other was slimmer and sharper all over. One was male, the other was female. Zia climbed onto the lizards back and held on for takeoff. With a mighty push, her fire lizard followed swiftly in pursuit. "Steel wing." Rina caught the motion of another Charizard pursuing them and issued a command of her own.

"Iron tail."

They clashed in the air. Their appendages, both glowing with metallic power, collided with a clang. The force threw them back a few feet.

"Flare Blitz!" Both the girls ordered at once and jumped off in unison. As they fell, their pokemon cloaked themselves in blazing orange fire. They began to spiral, making a bullet from the flames and their bodies. Steam poured off of it with the rain and they became a light in the cloud of steam. They hit, making a burst of fire explode and throw them out and fall down. Their eyes snapped open and they plummeted down after their trainers, each circling each other. They snatched their respective trainer and attempted to smack each other with their leathery wings. They came within close quarters of each other and resorted to snapping at each other's throats with no real strategy.

June's eyes watered slightly but she looked up, seeing the scrap between the two charizards. The weather was a bit clearer. In a fit or revenge of wanting her pokemon to win, she pointed to where Zia's Charizard was just above them. "Rina! Watch out!" She cried into the microphone around her ear,"Let loose Thunder! Twelve 'o clock." A stream of electricity streamed past and towards the two.

Rina saw this and smirked, waving her hand to bid good bye to her opponent. Her charizard took a sharp backwards turn, smacking Zia's charizard under its jaw with iron tail and messing with its equilibrium. Below, Vien could only watch the thunder near closer and was unable to do anything fast enough to help her. His scizor slammed its glowing skull into the luxray's forehead, knocking it out cold. Zia caught the attack coming closer and her golden eyes snapped closed.

She was literally ripped out of her dizzy pokemon's grasp by someone else. She opened her eyes and glanced back in horror as it hit directly. Her golden eyes glared back at the person holding her. With the rustic bellow of pain, her glare sharpened. Ice met with her gold and with a bark or anger, Zia yelled at him. "What was that for?" An incredulous look crossed his face.

"What do you mean? I just saved you!"

"Charizard was hurt! You should've left me!"

"He can survive it; you wouldn't!" She was quiet after. Her charizard regained its control of its wings and he caught up with his trainer. She wriggled out of his grip and gently crawled back onto her pokemon. There was no sign of anything other than Xylia circling confused around, looking for her double opponents. Below them, Vein's lapse of attention allowed the girl to wake up her poekmon and flee. His eyes widened as he saw the three come together for a few seconds and talk, then fly off towards the city.

"They…Forgot me…" His lips parted and his mouth was wide open with shock. The rain dripped into his mouth and caused him to choke and splutter with the dirty taste. "THEY FORGOT ME!" He yelled in annoyance, hoping they'd hear him.

They didn't.

He trudged forward, miffed about it, but just making the best of the situation… He would be there and they'd feel horrible about leaving him. Zia would probably manage to lose Xylia and he'd end up finding her.

They forgot him…

The trio of flying trainers landed late afternoon. A feeling was deep in the littlest one's heart. It was like she had forgotten something important, but she couldn't put her finger on it…. It had been bothering her and gnawing at the back of her mind for an hour now, ever since they left the marsh where they were ambushed. Her hair was frizzy and she tugged a comb through her wet locks and they bounced back into place reluctantly. She grabbed a change of clean dry clothing and stepped into the shower. As the warm water hit her, so did her answer. She screamed and got out, putting her new clothing back on speedily and racing back down. "WE FORGOT VIEN!" She screeched like a banshee running past the rooms of her friends and taking two steps at a time.

Bad idea.

Her shoe caught the edge of the steps and she tumbled down, waving her arms wildly and hoping to catch herself on air. With a quick,"watch it!" from some unknown persons, her body, still damp from the shower was caught in someone's arms. Once stable, they hesitated on releasing her, but did so. A familiar sketch pad was held up in front of her face. "Is this yours?"

There….It felt like that fight scene would never end! I wrote the whole fight scene today! ALL OF IT! That took a ton of effort and a whooollleee lot of boredom. I'm sorry I lied about the fluff… This turned out so much longer than I expected. Well. Moving on.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

I have decided to experiment with something. I'm going to be doing something I want to call 'Crimson Points'. This won't be based on answering questions, that would be unfair. It's based on your comments/reviews and overall communication with me about this story. Here's the breakdown:

1 CP: Submit an OC (I always like a large OC profile. :3 It give me a large choice)

2 CP: Favorite (It lets me know you wanna keep reading. :3)

3 CP: Review. (It warms my heart to have good reviews.)

5 CP: Tell me what you want to happen! (I'm never sure what you want and I need ideas for fillers and fluff)

7 CP: Draw Fanart (maybe too early to ask for this… It'll make me so happy!)

10 CP: PM me. (it's so much more convenient and I look forward to it please talk to me about the story.)

I'll be keeping track of the CP. I'm never sure If you're lying just to get the PRIZE AT THE END OF THE STORY. I want to know what you want the prize to be (if you care). Its super important. I have an idea, but you may have a better one. :P For those that have PMd me, I'm going to not count the ones before 9/6/10. Pm after will count though. I just found it unfair to have a head start already. Reviews and OC's I will count though. I'll start right after this is posted! I'll have a prize halfway through and then another prize at the end. So you have TWO chances! If you don't like the CP idea…Don't say anything about it. I'm hoping it'll improve my feedback.

Reviewers are: A Lovely Name, Sapphire Light of Night, Happy2Bme, Joshua Chang, Rice Paddy Hero, MrMissMrs Random, and Shadow John 101

A Lovely Name: It takes more than school to kill me! Even though it's trying awfully hard… I get that pervert thing… -.- immature at times. I wish I had a Vien too! :3 He's so hopeless. I hope I can thing of more scenes with Zia and Ren. Updated!

Sapphire Light of Night: I've been Pming you more! :3 I put a decent Zia sized moment in here. I've even got something cute in mind!

Happy2Bme: This may be the battle for the next chapter… It took forever! I'm not as proud as I could be, but I'm satisfied. I'm not sure if I was or not. I actually have it solidly in my head now! :3 I'm not telling though! Whoopsie… My computer messes with me sometimes and forgets to highlight stuff like that… Oh well!

Joshua Chang: I was just busy and lacking inspiration…sorry!

Rice Paddy Hero: Heh… It just took me a while to get out the last chapter… Inspiration low… Smooth XD I love that. I thought of it last minute… I thought 'what the heck? It's all I have…" Is this better? It sure came out faster. How was the Vien moment at the end? XD I was laughing and depressed writing it. Poor kid…

MrMissMrs Random: I'm glad you like the cuteness. The baby leash may make its comeback! Is this soon enough? I wrote over half of it today…

Shadow John 101: Thanks! It's tough seeing as my head is still mush from summer… :/

ONE MORE THING! My plot (that is now solid in my head) involves the legendaries. Maybe not all of them. SEND IN YOUR OC's SPECIAL LEGENDARY. It increases your chances of that pokemon interact with your OC if you send in a reason why.

I believe that is all… OH! If I don't mention you owning your OC, they may not be in the chapter. Just tell me nicely if they are and I'll fix it immediately!

June Fletcher belongs to mystery umberon.

Rina Kolt belongs to Sakauto Doragon.

(PS: I am having SOOOO Much trouble uploading this chapter properly. IF half of it is bolded, DO NOT point it out. When I get a chance and it uploads to where everyone can view it, I will check it and FIX it. Just do not point it out! I will just explode. . Its extremely late where I am and I am tired. I will fix it if it is!)