7. Shaymin

Today is the day, no going back now.

One day down, 28 to go.

I can't believe we're so sad to have organised this.

Giratina

Today is the day.

Dialga and Cresselia were already up. Palkia was too, but she was on her phone, on Facebook. I could tell because of the way she's smiling to herself and typing awkwardly. Flirting with Zekrom, no doubt.

I flung myself onto the sofa next to Dialga.

"What you watching?"

"What does it look like, Giratina?"

"Sad person. Only idiots find amusement in watching the news."

Shaymin was wandering around the kitchen like a ghost. I got up from the sofa, leaving Dialga in his sad, sad life, and went to see if she was okay.

"Oh, hi Giratina."

She didn't seem sad, well, her voice didn't show that. But I could tell deep down that something was bothering her.

"You know what today is, don't you?" I didn't want to be awkward, but it was all i could say right now.

"No need to remind me."

"You okay Shaymin?"

"Yeah I just don't really want to go to school today."

School. Of course. Today was the first day of term, and because we were sixteen as humans and lived in stupid England for the time being. We all had to go. Except Arceus of course, because he's the special one. His human form is eighteen, and is at University, so he doesn't go back until next year. I always used to annoy him by bringing up two points about him. One, his retarded Pokemon voice. Everyone finds his voice amusing. I mean, he has a normal voice when he's a human, but when he's a Pokemon, it's just so funny! i think I'll stick to not being able to speak as a Pokemon. Two, his age. If you think about it, he created the universe, so that makes him about 13.5 billion years old at least. He hates that. He hates being about seven billion years older than me, Dialga and Palkia, and he hates being 12 billion years older than Cresselia and Darkrai. Did I mention he hates his age?

"Look Giratina. I just got a call from team galactic saying their helicopters are bust, so they have no way of getting out here."

No. All of this was gone. My chance to win her back for good, get Arceus out of the picture. That was it. I would have to go alone, do this by myself.

And I had just the plan to do so.