"Why cant Absol be larger?" Kayla mumbled as they left western of Eterna. There was no use going down Cycling Road again, so this was the only route that they could take.

"Why do you want your pokemon to be larger?" Matt questioned, letting his Leafeon run in front of him.

"So I can ride him, I'm too tired," she muttered and Matt chuckled at her.

"So, what pokemon do you have now? 5, right? Whats your next pokemon?" Matt asked, curious. He already had his full team of 6. And she was catching some pokemon and training them gradually.

"Well, lets see. I have Furret, who is Normal. Beautifly is Bug and Flying, right? Then I'm sure that Lunatone is Rock and Psychic. Ludicolo is Water and Grass. Absol is Dark. I dont have Steel, Fighting, Ghost, Fire, Poison, Ground, Ice, Dragon or Electric."

"Woah, that is a lot of types. But luckily, you don't have a bunch of pokemon that repeat types, right? Actually pretty diverse," he nodded in reply.

"Yeah, but I really want a dragon type next. It may seem cliché bu I think you can find some Dratini in this cave," she pointed to the cave entrance they were nearing.

"Eh, but they are pretty rare. I'll think you'll be easier getting a Ponyta or something. Plus, they could carry you." Matt was trying to compromise because he wasn't going to waste his time trying to find one.

"Plus, there are some nice Electric or Poison types you can get. Not to mention Fighting. You dont want a Hitmontop or something?" he also tried to symphathize with her.

"Well, I want a Scorpion or a Croagunk. But those are only in the Great Marsh, unfortunately. We are a long way from Pastoria." She cringed at the thought of all of that traveling.

"Well, lets see. Ludicolo knows Ice Beam, so you are sort of covered for that. In the following gyms, there is Fighting. Absol, Solrock and Ludicolo will probably win you that. Then Water in Pastoria, you have Ludicolo. Absol maybe and Furret?"

"I don't know, but there are a bunch of types that I dont have and so many that I want," she sighed and they entered the cave.

"Flareon!" Matt sent out his Flareon, who managed to light things up with a fire attack. Kayla also used the Flashlight App on her poketch to guide her through the darkness.

"Zubat!" they heard the call of a pokemon and just as Kayla was going to reach for Lunatone's pokeball, Flareon already was attacking.

"Ember!" Flareon spat out several balls of fire that burned down Zubat, bringing it to the ground.

"Dig and Scratch!" Flareon dug into the ground and made a hole. Digging through the ground, it then popped up again and scratched against the Zubat, causing it to faint.

"Wow..." Kayla gasped in surprise at how the Zubat didn't even get a hit in. Matt was becoming a better trainer by day. Flareon seemed stronger with every hit.

"Did he just level up?" Kayla asked, showing how Flareon grew a little and its fur glistened with more vivid red fur.

"I guess so," shrugged Matt as he picked up his pokemon, holding it in his arms and rubbing the spine of the Eevee evolution who purred in reply.

"It seems pretty content," he shrugged and they kept on walking, until they reached a clearing.

"Can we break for lunch?" Kayla asked. The ending of the cave was far away, but it was so sunny so that the light peered in a little bit.

"Sure," Matt said, withdrawing a small package from his bag that had some plates, utensils, and glasses, all plastic. He laid it out on a package and then used Flareon's ember to light the candles.

Matt laid out the sandwiches he pre-prepared in Eterna City and then took out a bottle of pecha juice, filling each glass with pecha juice and they enjoyed their lunch.

"I saw some pretty good pokemon out here..." she finally said, taking a bite into the rather good sandwich.

"Yeah, me too. If I wasn't too focused on my Eevee studies I would catch some more. You know, they actually said if you breed an Eevee with a Dragon Pokemon, it would turn purple and grow wings. The off-spring when they reach a certain level."

Kayla was rather amused by this, as a Dragoon Eevee might be cool. She found Eevees interesting, but then she had another question.

"But wait, dont you need another Eevee to get Glaceon? You already have six?" She wasn't sure how he was going to pull that off.

"Well, you know how I have Tropius and I always have to put another pokemon out if I want him there? Well I'm going to do that. Except, Tropius will be Pced until needed. I'm only going to use him to fly anyway." Kayla nodded, understanding as she sipped the last of her pecha juice.

"Here," he handed her a gronola bar which she happily began to eat and asked him another question.

"Where does this cave lead?" she said, looking around with her pokedex to try to get to the Town Map application.

But, Matt had it out already. "We left east of Eterna... so we are heading to Celestic. From Celestic, we need to pay a quick visit to Solaceon, and then head to Veilstone for the Gym Battle."

Kayla was a bit curious why they were going to Solacean. "Why Solaceon, though? They dont have anything there. Except the Day Care of course, but I dont have any pokemon I want to be raised."

"Actually, I need to pick up my Eevee. It should be pretty high leveled by now..." It would probably be one of the strongest in his team by now.

"Oh, thats cool then. Well, I guess we are near Celestic then. They have those cool ruins to check out. And that rare pokemon spring..." she smiled and Matt followed her after packing up.

They were walking to the end of the cavern, happy to get out and see sunlight and take a break from walking. It was late in the afternoon so they wanted to enjoy dinner and some sleeping.

Then, two people jumped out in front of them right before the exit.

"Fantina!" she said with extra emphasis on the 'n'.

"Fiyero!" he announced, rolling the 'r' on his name.

"Phoenix, Phoenix. Take some flight," they announced in a chorus.

"With our flaming wings bright," announced Fantina.

"We're here to fight," added Fiyero.

"Reborn from the ashes of Team Galactic!" they added together.

"TEAM PHOENIX!" they both announced and sent out Magmar.

"Oh my god, new pokemon!" Kayla pointed and reached for Ludicolo. She then moved her pokeball to Furret. She hadn't used her in a while.

"That doesnt mean anything, we are still better then them." He had a sly grin on his face, and pulled out his pokeball. Matt looked up at Fiyero.

"Aww, it seems like you're little girlfriend healed your nose," Fiyero talked to him in a baby voice.

"GRRR... FANTINA IS A WHORE!" Kayla screamed, causing her and Fantina to growl again, ready for a rapid slapfight.

"NO!" both Fiyero and Matt held back their respective girls.

"Furret! Flareon!"

"Okay Furret bounce and then pound!" Furret began bouncing on her tail and then swung its tail towards Magmar.

"Smog!" Both of them said this with a chorus and a dark mist filled the air.

"D-dont inhale it Furret!" But Furret was too lated and was poisoned, while Flareon was still ready.

"Flareon! Stay low and run onto them and dig!" Flareon ran towards htem and used dig and then Kayla grinned.

"Furret, stay low and use Fury Swipes!" Furret looked up and then ran under the smog, still poisoned and then used Fury Swipes.

"EMBER!" they both said in a chorus as a flurry of fireballs glew in the smog and hit their respective pokemon.

Although, Flareon's flash fire allowed it to absorb the heat and its power of Fire Attacsk to increase.

"Now, use your new move! Steam Roller!" Flareon began to roll forward, while using the Overheat attack, glowing red in heat and slamming into Magmar, hitting the ground.

Furret's claws glew like the fire and cut into the Magmar, sending them both flying back into the air.

"Nice combo," Kayla whispered and then saw Fantina running towards her. Kayla put up her hands and got engaged into another slap fight.

The guys sighed, returned their pokemon and dragged the girls away.

"WE HEARD WHAT YOU DID EMBER! MY FATHER!" Fantina screamed and this caused Matt to raise an eyebrow in suspicion.

"She's Ember's daughter... and I'm Flare's son," Fiyero announced, Fantina safely by her side.

"You know... this is weird with the gym leader being named the same thing..." Kayla wondered out loud, causing Fantina to growl.

"Disregard her, who is Flare? And Ember, what is up with him!" Matt asked frantically.

"Well, for one, Team Phoenix is trying to do an objective which we aren't going to reveal to you because we aren't dumb. We are under control of Ember, Fantina's dad, Flare, my mother, and Blaze, their other brother whose child is currently unknown."

Matt nodded, and Kayla looked alongside him still wondering if Fantina and Fantina were related.

"But still, we need to go," he grabbed Fantina and walked out of the cave.

"If they left from Cycling Path, how would they get here so fast? Unless they moved through Eterna at night," Matt wondered out loud as the duet exited into Celestic Town.

"Well, I'm just hoping... whoa!" a piece of paper was blown by the wind into her face and she read it, smiling.

"A Hearthome Tag Battle Competition! Thats cool, we can enter together and we can win the grand prize!" she smiled but Matt took it.

"Partners are randomized... you get them by a machine," he pointed out the small print on it.

"Well whatever, but I don't care much. I can still win!" she said triumphantly, pumping her fist and showing off her two badges.

"Well, there are probably more experienced trainers there. Plus, still, we have to head south of Celestic, through Solaceon and then get to the city. We might as well spend the night here," he sighed as they approached the pokemon center.

"Whatever," Kayla mumbled and sat four of her five pokeballs on the counter to be healed.

"Kayla, why'd you only put down five?" Matt asked, putting all six of his on the tray while Nurse Joy took them into the back.

"I need to go catch a pokemon I saw..." and then she ran forward in the city, and was walking around. She saw it somewhere. She stalked by the trees.

"T-there it is!" she mumbled and tossed her pokeball to show Absol, who charged forward and she knelt by its side.

"Find Vibrava," she whispered and Absol launched forward, its scythe glowing and fiercely cutting the pokemon.

"Nice job!" she commanded, stepping forward and ready to face the wild pokemon.

Vibrava slashed its wings, releasing a flurry of sand that surrounded Absol in a sand storm.

"Razor Wind!" The scythe on its head began to glow once more and then crescent-like blades of wind shot forward, cutting through the sand but missing.

"At least it still cleared it! Hit it with Dark Pulse!" A combination of dark purple circles in a beam moved towards Vibrava, who flew out of the way and moved forwards.

Vibrava suddenly disappeared and approached Absol, pointing its wings to a certain direction and then Absol got distracted and Vibrava hit it.

"The heck! Thats foul play! Dark Pulse again!" Vibrava flew up, avoiding it and then used SonicBoom, dealing damage to Absol.

"Okay Absol, use Cut!" Absol cut at Vibrava again, who released a large blue coloured mist from its breath and Absol fell to the ground, fainted.

"N-No! T-that was my only pokemon!" she returned it and put the pokeball back in her belt, digging for a Great Ball that she had as the Vibrava tried to escape.

"Oh no you dont!" she dove for it, extending her hand and grabbed it by the tail, pulling it to the ground.

"YES!" she commanded, tossing her pokeball at the pokemon. It was sucked it and began to shake. But the near fainted Vibrava didnt give up much of a struggle.

"YES! I CAUGHT IT!" she scanned it with her pokedex and saw that it knew Sonic Boom, Sand Tomb, Sand Attack and DragonBreath. She skipped back to the Pokemon Center.


"Hey, you wanna battle?" asked a kid who was wearing blue shorts, a red shirt and a red cap turned backwards. They were currently in a grass field in the middle of Celestic.

"Sure!" Kayla agreed enthusiastically. "Okay, go Vibrava!" she released the pokemon she caught the night before and the boy released an Electrike.

"Heh! Vibrava is part ground type so it wont take damage to Electric type moves!" she pumped her fist in success, but the kid still grinned.

"Luckily, I taught Electrike non-electric moves. Hit it with your Swift Attack!" Electrike opened its mouth and released a flurry of stars towards Vibrava.

"Hit it away with your wings, and then DragonBreath!" Vibrava got ready and then just flew upwards, letting the swift hit Kayla.

"What the heck Vibrava!" yelled Kayla loudly as it charged forward and used Sand Tomb. "I DIDNT TELL YOU TO USE SAND TOMB!"

"Flamethrower!" the youngster yelled, causing Kayla to gasp. "Fly over it and then Sand Attack!" But again, the pokemon didnt listen and used DragonBreath straight for the fire.

"LISTEN TO ME!" she yelled, frantically stomping her feet against the ground as a powerful explosion of moves occurred and Vibrava then used a move that Kayla didn't recognize.

It began to slam its tail and wings into the Electrike powerfully, immune to its Static ability and knocking it out.

"Whoa... what was that!" the kid yelled in awe, returning his weakened pokemon.

"I-I d-dont know," Kayla stuttered, falling to her knees.

"That was Frustration... it's power increases as much as it dislikes its trainer. That was as powerful as it could be... it hates you Kayla."

Tears pooled Kayla's eyes and streamed down her cheeks, and Matt came to comfort her. "Its okay..." he added, trying to console her.

"I dont care... I'm not going to use it," she returned the pokemon and ran to put it in the PC for eternity.

"W-wait, Kayla! It doesnt respect you because its too high leveled. It saw you only had two badges and a pokemon like that, you would need at least three, or maybe four."

She groaned as her third badge was so far away. They had to travel south to Solaceon and then the Hearthome for the battle tournament, and then back through Solaceon and then to travel to Veilstone.

"Whatever..." she sighed again and went to take a nap.


They were currently in the trainers cafe, watching television while munching on some spaghetti.

"Hey, Matt, there is a contest in Solaceon in four days!" she exclaimed loudly.

"Really? Oh thats cool, you wanna watch it? The Hearthome Tag Battle thing is in a week. So we have three days to travel. Of course, the two cities are barely an hour and half away. So we have time to see the sites in Heartome."

Kayla nodded and then glanced at Matt, swirling up the spaghetti in her fork and ate. She already had it drizzled in Parmesan. "Well, I want you to enter it."

"W-what!" Matt exclaimed, cuddling Leafeon who was munching on some spaghetti.

"I mean, if Alice is going to enter, I dont want her to win! And I need to train for my gym battle in Veilstone soon after, so you need to!" she raised her voice, continuing to eat.

"No! I wont! I wont exploit my Eevees like that!" he yelled. Contests were for prisses. Although they were pretty fun. (1)

He had entered one in Floaroma when he first started his journey and ended up losing in the finals with his Eevee, who evolved into Espeon mid-battle after giving it one last poffin.

Kayla was giving him a pouting face, and he found himself tempted to give in.

"F-fine... but no promises. One and thats it." Kayla grinned, and he immediately knew she was up to something.

"What!" he said sternly.

"Wellllll," Kayla wondered, sipping at her pecha juice. "If you win, you travel with me as a coordinator. If you lose, I'll groom your Eevee for a month." She grinned.

"Deal. My Eevee are a mess!" They were always running amuck in the dust and dirt and he took ages to clean them all. But, you had to keep your pokemon in tip-top condition if you wanted their offspring to be well-bred.

And they continued eating in silence. But what they didn't know, there was somebody listening to them in the stall behind them.

So little Kayla had won two badges already? And now he was becoming a coordinator? He had expected Kayla to be a coordinator.

The green haired boy straightened up his posture and adjusted his glasses, cutting into his garlic bread.

Yes, spaghetti was the special for today in the pokemon cafe. "I'm surprised," he muttered. He also wanted to enter that tag battle thing.

He opened up his badge case to show that he won three badges. Immediately from leaving Orebourgh, he took his Mach Bike up the ramp and then down Cycling Road, won the badge, left Cycling Road and ended up using his Fearow to get to Veilstone.

It was cheap, yes, and he avoided battles, but using his Kirlia, still un-evolved with an Everstone until he got his hands on a Dawn Stone and Mightyena, he could easily win the gym battle.

Which he did, of course. Kirlia did exceptionally well.

He got up to his seat and smiled at the group. "Hey guys," Max greeted.

"Oh, Max! How have you been! What badges have you won since I saw you?" Kayla asked with a wide smile.

He flipped open his badge case to show the three badges shined to perfection. "Three," he grinned.

"Oh, I won two," she showed the side of the yellow bag with the two badges pinned to the side of it.

"So you decided to become a trainer, heh?" he asked.

"I expected you as more of a coordinator girl, but whatever." He scooted into a seat next to Matt.

"Well, I like doing opposite of what people expect of me," she nodded. As much as she wanted to be a coordinator – she had to challenge the new Champion. That really influenced her decision.

"Oh, well then. I overheard you talking about the Hearthome Tag Battle thing, so can I tag along with you guys to Hearthome for it?" he asked and they all nodded, agreeing.

"But, we were going to stop in Solaceon for the contest," Matt added, weary of Max a little bit.

"Oh, no worries, I'll watch."

And thus, he joined their party temporarily.

(OKAY. And thus completes this chapter.

(1) So anyway. Will Matt become a coordinator? Find out later!

Anyhow. Vibrava will be PCed until then, but checked off of her list. I sorta want her to get an Electric type, like Plusle or Minun maybe. But an ice-type wouldnt hurt. But she doesnt need another water-type.

Although Ludicolo is barely water... I like Spheal :) It's so cute.

But dont cancel out Steel. Or Electric/Steel. Gah. In your review, send me an idea of pokemon or two of the following types:

Electric, Steel, Ice, Ghost, Fighting, Fire or Poison.

Preferably dual-types. I dont want to repeat types much.

OK. Breakdown. Next chapter = CONTEST

After that = TAG BATTLE TOURNAMENT

Dont own Pokemon.)