And here we have the seventh chapter! And just to let you guys know now, school has started up for me so it may be awhile for me to write these chapters. Although I might end up doing most of the writing mentally while IN school :P (That's what usually happens XD) Also, just a little heads up but I figured out some stuff for this story to have a bit more of a plot ;) But more on that later on in a different chapter :P


Sora woke up that morning feeling refreshed. After receiving their Eggs from her aunt Mia and Sora headed to Mia's house to rest for the night. There Sora met Mia's cousin, the current Gym Leader (Mia was previously the Gym Leader but didn't like being on so she let her cousin take over since he always wanted to be the Gym Leader anyway). He also met the rest of her Pokémon since Scott didn't have any of his own yet.

"Morning there, sleepy bones," Mia smiled as Sora entered the kitchen.

"Morning," Sora yawned. "How's it going?"

Avis flew from one of the many perches that were in the corner of the kitchen and onto Sora's shoulder.

"Morning buddy," Sora smiled petting Avis on the head.

"You know for a Pokémon that's supposed to have a terrible attitude, Avis seems to be pretty chill around you," Mia laughed. Sora just shrugged. "So, it's breakfast, some morning training, and then shopping."

Sora looked at the blonde. "Shopping?"

"Well yeah. Do you expect to wear the same outfit all the time? We're going to have to get you some more traveling clothes obviously."

Sora snorted at the obvious idea.


Morning training for the Dogwoods started out pretty simple. It was pretty much letting all the Pokémon out and then deciding which ones needed the most attention. The rest of the Pokémon were allowed to just relax and do whatever (as long as they didn't get into trouble from what Mia said). Although once Crimson came out of his Poké Ball (it was different since he was caught in a Luxury Ball instead of a standard one) he instantly let out a roar and some flames. Sora took out his Pokédex and scanned him.

"Charizard—the Flame Pokémon. It is said that Charizard's fire is hotter if it has experienced harsh battles. It is also said that Charizard's powerful flame can melt absolutely anything."

Sora noticed that Crimson looked different from the picture of a Charizard on his Pokédex. Crimson had black skin and a tan underbelly while the front of his wings was dark red. Not just that but he had several scars all over him. Sora also saw what Mia's aunt meant when she said he was intimidating the other Pokémon. All the other Pokémon that tried to get near him he just growled at causing them to flinch then back away. However, when Mia walked up to him his attitude did a complete one-eighty. He seemed to be smiling then started to lick her face like a dog-like manner.

"Oh Sora, I haven't introduced you to the rest of my Pokémon have I? This is Quad my Metagross, Menace my Gengar, Poisontail my Scolipede, and Aquajaws the Feraligator."

"Aren't you forgetting about Mayhem?" Scott frowned. Sora looked at the nine-year-old.

"Mayhem?"

"Oh Mayhem's the last Pokémon I have but let's just say that Mayhem doesn't get along with anyone," Mia said waving it off. "Plus Mayhem's a serious loner and prefers to only come out at night anyway. Anyway, why not let Nicolai have some fresh air too. Can't let Avis have all the freedom."

Sora wrinkled his nose but did just that. Nicolai let out a roar then walked over to Scott and sniffed him. Avis then tried to perch himself on Nicolai's head. Nicolai growled for a second but did nothing else. Sora chuckled at the sight.

"So mom gave you guys some Eggs to look after?" Scott asked pointing to the Eggs. Sora nodded. Mia's Egg was on his right, the third one on his left, and his Egg was resting in his lap. "What do you think's going to hatch from them?"

"I don't have the faintest clue," Sora chuckled sheepishly. "This is the first time I've ever tried to hatch one."

"Really?"

"Scott!" Mia called. "Leave Sora alone and get over here. I got something to show you."

Scott walked over to Mia and Poisontail, who, actually wasn't looking all that great. Scott noticed this since he started to get more nervous as he got close. Sora figured that Scott was in trouble with Mia for not keeping her Pokémon in top condition.

"Scott, have you been making sure Poisontail's been eating all his food instead of just feeding him Poffins?"

"Yes."

"So then why does he have a stomach ache?"

"Well…see, I thought that he might like his food better if I made them taste a bit more like his favorite Poffins. So I tweaked your formula a bit."

Mia sighed in frustration then face-palmed. "Well, that explains it then. First off, calm down I'm not mad. If you were just trying to help then I can't be mad anyway. Alright, here's what we do. Why don't you go inside and make some of Poisontail's food—the right way please, then we'll give him that plus some medicine for his stomach. I'll try and figure out how to adjust the formula for his food later on."

Scott nodded then headed back into the house.

"Oh, what am I going to do with him?" Mia sighed then chuckled. She then talked soothingly to Poisontail, telling him that she'd have him feeling better in no time and such. Meanwhile, all the other Pokémon were all lounging about just relaxing. Sora saw that Menace was following Mia like some shadow although, Menace was making all these strange faces at the other Pokémon behind her back. He snickered at the faces then decided to scan Menace.

"Gengar—the Shadow Pokémon and the fully evolved form of Gastly. Gengar hides in the shadows. Gengar has the ability to absorb surrounding heat, causing a chill."

Sora raised an eyebrow and looked up from his Pokédex to Menace. Menace was currently glaring at Quad. (Sora wasn't sure if Quad was glaring back though.) During this, Mia was kneeling on the grass and inspecting one of Quad's feet. When she glanced up though, she finally saw Menace glaring at Quad. She only rolled her eyes then continued inspecting all her Pokémon. As she did Sora glanced around to see that Nicolai was resting under a tree in the shade while Avis was perched on the branch eating some berries that were growing on the tree.

"All right," Mia said. "Time to practice some combinations. After all, the next Pokémon Contest is in Everot Town just a few days away. We got to stay in top form!"

All of Mia's Pokémon let out a cheer. Sora turned his attention back to Mia. Seeing Mia's Pokémon showing off their combinations seemed pretty interesting.

"Okay, Starlight, let's show them what you've got! Spin and use Swift let's go!"

Starlight then jumped into the air and soon started to spin while sending out golden stars out of its center gem. The stars formed a circle around Starlight as it continued to send out more.

"Great! Now use Water Gun!"

Starlight soon stopped spinning, then started blasting out water from its uppermost top limb aimed at the ground, skyrocketing it into the air. Starlight was soon ten feet in the air in about a minute.

"Finish it off with Cosmic Power and lastly Rapid Spin!"

Starlight stopped the Water Gun and soon lightly bathed in white light. Next minute Starlight started to spin at high speeds then sped towards the golden star ring. After coming into contact with Starlight the stars exploded into a shower of sparkles.

"Starlight that was wonderful!" Mia clapped as Starlight landed perfectly on the ground as all the sparkles rained down on top of it. Sora whistled in admiration. Pretty cool.

"Okay Fatmir, you're up next."

Fatmir seemed to grin then stepped forward just as Starlight joined back up with all of the other Pokémon.

"Start things off with Rock Slide!"

Fatmir complied by raising his claws into the air. Pretty soon multiple rings of white energy rose up into the air coming from his claws. The rings rose up into the air until they rippled. As they did boulders came out and rained down. Mia then ordered Fatmir to perform Drill Run. Fatmir then put his arms up, jumped up then started to spin like a drill. Fatmir drilled right through all the falling boulders that sent some sparks flying from the impact.

"Finish it with Focus Blast!" Mia called out.

"Exca!" Fatmir shouted as he pulled out of the Drill Run once all the boulders had been destroyed. He placed a claw in front of him as a ball of light blue energy formed. Fatmir threw the ball into the ground which exploded sending out blue sparks and sparkles everywhere. Fatmir landed on the ground then struck a pose while holding his head high, as if in self-admiration of his skills.

"You guys are great!" Mia grinned, hugging all her Pokémon in one large group hug. "You guys are going to rock that Contest!"

"Isn't someone getting ahead of herself a bit?" Sora snickered.

"Yeah but that's cousin Mia," Scott grinned as he sat down on the stone bench next to Mia's Egg. "You should have seen her back when she was the Gym Leader."

"Why? She declare she'd win every challenge she ever got?" Scott snickered. "Something like that. The only problem was that she almost did. Which is one of the reasons she stepped down as Gym Leader. Although back when she was the Gym Leader, she somehow earned the title of 'Rainbow Trainer.'"

"What about you? You finally got to be the Gym Leader like you wanted. How's that feel for you?"

"Tiresome I'll admit. But fun!" Scott held up nine fingers. "I've won nine matches in a row already. And not just that but I've only had to give out five Badges so far."

"That's good I'm guessing?"

"Yes and no. All depends you could say."

"Speaking of which, what does the Badge look like?"

Scott reached into his pocket then pulled it out. The badge was shaped like a sun and moon placed on top of each other in a yin-yang fashion. Didn't look all that bad actually.

"Alright! Time for shopping!" Mia called out with a grin. Sora just groaned.


"Seriously? How long is this going to take?" Sora groaned as Mia quickly searched through another rack of clothes. For the past hour, Mia had been looking for some more clothes for Sora to wear other than the clothes he already had on. She already searched through five clothing racks at the local clothing shop in town.

"Until I can actually find something in your size how about that?" Mia countered as she continued looking.

Sora sighed then rolled his eyes. Shopping with Kairi was one thing, at least then the two would talk to each other while she shopped. Mia was a different type of shopper. She was more of a get-in-get-what-I-need-then-get-out type of shopper. And the only reason this was taking so long was that so far none of the clothes here had Sora's size.

"Alright, forget this," she huffed standing up. "For now we'll just buy something then adjust the size of it later."

"And you couldn't think of that earlier?" Sora said rolling his eyes.

Mia looked like she wanted to say something but didn't. Instead, she just walked over to another rack and looked through it just like all the other ones. This time she pulled out a fairly large white T-shirt, jean shorts, and a jean hooded vest. Then she ran to another rack and came back with a couple more clothing items.

"Yeah I guess this can do for now," Mia muttered to herself. "We can go through them later. Let's just go now."

"Thank you. About time," Sora muttered as they left for the register.

"Oh hush up over there," Mia grumbled as she pulled out some money out of her jean jacket pocket than paid for all the clothes.

The two soon then left the store then headed back to Mia's house. Along the way, Sora noticed the Pokémon Center down the street. He saw some people coming in and out of it. He wondered just how many of them were Trainers.

I wonder just AM I going to do now that I'm a Trainer too, he thought to himself. Challenging one of the Pokémon Leagues didn't sound all that interesting. Taking part in Contests didn't sound like this thing either. Pokémon Breeder? Doubtful. Hopefully, he would figure it out soon.

"And we're back from shopping!" Mia declared upon barging into the front door.

Zorua, who had spent the past three hours sleeping on the couch, yawned, then readjusted himself. Scott came out of the kitchen just as Mia set down the shopping bag on the living room table.

"The shopping was a success I guess?" he said looking into the shopping bag.

"Eh, sure."

"Jeez, don't you sound happy," Scott mumbled.

Just then a buzzer went off that sounded through the entire house. Zorua only stirred but didn't wake. Sora blinked as the buzzer ceased.

"And that was…?"

"It means the Gym has a challenger." Mia sighed. "I still think I should change it to something else. That buzzer is just annoying."

"Well, you got a challenger so better go meet them."

Mia just grumbled, "I know that."


The Gym was just down the road a bit. About five minutes worth of walking. The inside of the Gym was built to look like space (least that's what Sora thought). The ceiling was painted black with various stars and planets painted as well. For a brief moment, Sora thought the stars were moving. The battlefield was black colored steel while two six-foot-tall podiums on either side were located. The two podiums were also located under a sun and a moon. The moon on the right side, where Mia/Scott was supposed to be. The sun podium was for the challenger. The color scheme for each podium matched was different—the moon podium was colored silver, black, and gray, while the sun podium was colored gold, light orange, and bright red.

Currently, a challenger was standing on top of the sun podium waiting patiently. Sora looked to see it was a fourteen-year-old boy with dark brown, freckles sprayed across his face, and violet eyes. On his head was a black and white baseball cap with a bright green Poké Ball symbol on the front. He wore a white shirt with sleeves that went to his elbows, a dark green sleeveless hooded vest with large pockets on the front, tan jean pants with large pockets on them as well, then black and blue sneakers. Resting on the podium was a white and bright green backpack and in his hand was a Poké Ball.

"Here to challenge my Gym eh?" Mia called up to him as she walked over to the moon podium, much to the amazement of Scott and Sora.

"Yeah, I'm Hector," the guy called as Mia climbed the ladder onto the moon podium. "Are you the Gym Leader?"

"Well to be honest I was the Gym Leader. But I think I can let my cousin see how a Gym Battle really goes," Mia smirked. "If that's alright with him."

"This is going to be awesome," Scott grinned.

"Now that that's settled." Mia turned back to Hector while taking out a Poké Ball. "Time to get this battle started. Scott, care to do the honors?"

Scott nodded then ran to the sidelines of the battlefield. Sora took a seat on some of the stands that were located along the far wall.

"This battle will be between Mia, previous Gym Leader of the Silvader Gym, and Hector the challenger. This will be a"—Scott looked to Mia who mouthed, Three—"three-on-three battle. Only the challenger will be allowed to substitute Pokémon. May the battle, BEGIN!"

"Go Dewott!" Hector called out as he threw the Poké Ball into the air. Soon an otter-looking Pokémon appeared on the battlefield. Sora took out his Pokédex.

"Dewott—the Discipline Pokémon, and the evolved form of Oshawott. Through rigid training, Dewott uses the double-scalchop technique to accomplish its fluid swordsmanship."

"Alright then, Cronkers! Take to your stage!"

Once Cronkers appeared onto the battlefield he let out a roar then stomped his right foot in anticipation of the battle.

"You can have the first attack Hector," Mia smirked.

"Alright, Dewott! Use Razor Shell!" Hector commanded.

Dewott obeyed then crossed its arms in front of its chest and touched the ends of the two scalchop on its legs. After touching them the two scalchops glowed yellow then Dewott jumped at Cronkers, slashing at him with the scalchops, leaving behind a small light blue trail of energy.

What surprised Sora was that Cronkers just stood his ground at took the blows. He knew that Water-types were strong against Ground-types, so why was he just standing there? Not just that, but why was Mia just standing there…smirking?

"Cronkers—Grass Knot!"

Cronkers gave a crocodile grin as he jumped back and away from Dewott, dodging on of its slashes. As he did his eyes glowed green. Sora saw that two small blades of grass sprouted out from the ground, glowing green, then tied themselves in a knot. Dewott didn't see this and ended up tripping as it's foot got caught in the newly created knot. Dewott slammed into the ground hard, both of it's scalchops sent flying out of its hands.

"Way to go Cronkers!" Scott cheered.

And since Grass Knot is a Grass-type move, it'll be even more effective, Sora thought with a grin. Even so, he still couldn't understand why Mia let Cronkers take all those hits from Razor Shell. Obviously, from that smirk on her face, she did have some form of a plan.

"Cronkers! Fling let's go!"

"Krokorok!" Cronkers shouted as he picked up Dewott then threw it all across the battlefield and even ended up slamming into the base of the podium Hector was standing on. Dewott struggled to stand on its feet as Hector egged him on. Mia then commanded Cronkers to use Stone Edge. Cronkers briefly became surrounded in a light coating of white energy. Some of that white energy turned into glowing white orbs that orbited around Cronkers and soon turned into boulders. Cronkers flung out his arms and all the boulders when shooting towards Dewott, who only just got back on its feet.

"Dewott! Dodge it!"

Dewott jumped out of the way and only ended up getting hit by a few of the boulders that only left it dazed for a moment.

"Now Cronkers—Dig!"

Just how Cronkers was able to dig his way underground, Sora would probably never know (unless Cronkers was just one hell of a digger). Either way, once Cronkers was underground Hector told Dewott to take this chance to get it's scalchops back. Dewott dashed over to one scalchop and managed to grab it just as the ground beneath him exploded. When the dust cleared Sora saw that Dewott was sent flying as Cronkers reappeared on the surface.

"Cronkers! Thunder Fang, quickly!"

Cronkers opened his mouth and yellow sparks of electricity flowed through his fangs. Then he bit down hard on Dewott, causing it to become surrounded by in that electricity.

"DEWOTT!" Hector cried out as Cronkers released Dewott, who fell to the ground upon release. Dewott tried to get back up, only to collapse onto the ground.

"Dewott is unable to battle, the winner of the match is Cronkers!" Scott declared.

"Dewott return." Hector looked at Dewott's Poké Ball with a small smile. "You get a good rest. Thanks, buddy, you did what you could."

"You raised your Dewott well, I commend you on that," Mia smiled. "I'd appreciate it if you'd honor me by showing me your other Pokémon."

"Well then, here's Crobat!"

Hector threw another Poké Ball into the air and let out another Pokémon. This one was a small bat-like Pokémon that had four wings, two large ones, and two smaller ones.

"Crobat—the Bat Pokémon. Having four wings allows it to fly more quickly and quietly so it can sneak up on prey without it noticing."

"Hmm, a Crobat eh?" Mia mused. "This battle is getting more exciting."

"Crobat, use Wing Attack!"

Crobat let out another small screech as the top two of its wings glowed white. Then Crobat sped towards Cronkers.

"Dodge!" Mia commanded.

Cronkers tried to jump out of the way but unfortunately didn't dodge quick enough. Crobat's attack was a success and Cronkers was sent back flying a few feet. Sora could see that Cronkers was starting to get worn out. Probably from those Razor Shell slashes from earlier. Sora still didn't fully see the point in letting Cronkers taking those slashes.

"Now Crobat! Use Swift!"

"Cronkers! Use Payback!"

Cronkers body became surrounded by a large white ring of energy just as Crobat opened it's mouth and shot out yellow stars at Cronkers. Just as the Swift attack struck Cronkers, he sent out the white ring of energy straight back at Crobat. Crobat didn't seem all that fazed by the attack. Instead, it seemed to just shake off the attack. The same, however, couldn't be said about Cronkers. The poor Pokémon seemed to be close to fainting.

"Finish it off with Leech Life!" Hector ordered. "Quick!"

"Cronkers! Dodge!"

Crobat's fangs glowed white as it sped to Cronkers. Cronkers evaded Crobat's attempts to bit him but sadly Crobat managed to bite hard on Cronkers' arm. Cronkers let out a howl of pain then started to sway on the spot. Cronkers attempted to shake off Crobat but it didn't work. Cronkers soon swayed too much to the left then ended up falling onto the ground. Crobat released its hold on Cronkers as he fell to the ground.

"Cronkers is unable to battle! The winner of the match is Crobat!"

Mia let out a sigh. "Cronkers return." Mia glanced at Cronkers' Poké Ball. "You were grand. Rest now."

"One down, two to go," Hector grinned.

"Don't get cocky now my friend." Mia pulled out another Poké Ball. "The battle is still just getting started."


There's the end of this chapter :) All nine pages of it XD Anyway, next chapter already in progress so hopefully, that'll be up soon! :) Also, I'd like to take this time to thank those of you who are enjoying this story! ;W; It makes me happy to hear that people are actually enjoying what I write :)

Krokorok can learn Grass Knot/Payback via TM and learn Thunder Fang via breeding

More info on why Mia is called the "Rainbow Trainer" in the next chapter :)