A/N: I just want to thank everyone who took the time to review my chapter. I hope you all like this one as well. I'm not too good at sad scenes. I usually do more humerous things, but I decided to give it a try. Please enjoy.

Close and Far Apart

( Present Day )

( Violet )

"Ah, this is so nice." Violet commented as she closed her eyes to feel the gentle caress of the wind across her face.

"Pachi..." Kaya seemed to agree from Violet's lap.

She glanced up to see a few Wingull circling lazely overhead, further away she could hear the ocean waves crashing to shore.

"Oi, crazy girl! That's dangerous! Get down from there!"

Violet glanced down from her perch atop a water tower in Kyotasu City. "A native...?" she mumbled to herself, as she looked over to boy wearing a cap with a Dragonite on it. The cap covered his starteling blonde hair which went down to his shoulders. His eyes however were covered by a pair of shades, a wingull sat perched on his shoulder. "Hi down there. Nice weather right?" she waved.

The boys jaw dropped.

Kaya climbed onto Violet's shoulder and she climbed, or more like slid down the ladder.

"Are you always this reckless?" the boy asked once she reached him.

"Reckless?" she looked from him to the top of the water tower and back again. "You mean like bunjie jumping without a rope, or walking over a live volcano?"

The boy adjusted his glasses and cleared his throat slightly. "Uh, never mind then." he winced at her cheerful expression. "You wouldn't happen to be a pokemon trainer by any chance?"

"Not just any pokemon trainer." Violet winked. "You happen to be in the company of soon to be top gym leader Violet."

"Soon to be?" he smiled. "Meaning your not there yet right?" his hand was behind his back and a pokeball slid in place.

Violet suddenly got this teary eyed expression, making the boy wince slightly. "You are soo mean for someone I don't even know."

"Umm I..."

A sudden flash of light occured and the boy stepped back. Before him now stood a Luxray, giving him a death glare too as it seemed. "You did want to battle me right?" Violet's face was completly different from what the boy had seen earlier.

"To battle?" the boy asked, still in shock. The girls expression seemed only mirrored by that of her pokemon.

Violet pointed behind the boy's back to the pokeball he'd concelled there. "Why pull a pokeball on me otherwise? Or perhaps were you hoping that by my being a girl I'd be a easy defeat."

"Fine. I was going to take it easy on you." the boy scowled when Violet's only reply was to make a come on motion. "Go Nidorino!"

"Shido attack." Violet smirked.

"Lux luxray." her pokemon growled, and charged in.

"Nidorino, horn attack!"

The horned pokemon charged horn down straight for Shido.

"Stand your ground!" Violet commanded, as Nidorino closed in. "Now, iron tail!" she commanded once the pokemon was within range.

"Lux... Ray!" Shido'a tail slammed into the ground right infont of Nidorino. The boy laughed, as Nidorino gave a confused look.

"I think your aim is off. Or maybe you just need more training little girl."

"Really." Violet hid a giggle with her hand. "The way I see it you need more training."

The ground before Nidorino split slightly causing it's foot to catch, and unable too keep his balance fell over.

"Shido finish it! Shock wave!"

Nidorino convulsed violently as large amounts of electricity flowed through him, before passing out in a heep.

"No way!" the boy exclaimed in shock. "That's not possible."

( Teal )

"Quil quilava." Blaze pointed, after sniffing around for a bit.

"Alright Blaze I knew you could do it!" Teal shouted in trimuph as he looked the fruit tree over. "High five buddy."

"Quil!" Blaze hopped up and smacked his paw into Teals hand, causing the boy to wince slightly.

"Nice one Blaze." Teal grinned. Together the two collected an armful of fruit each, and Teal laid out a blanket. "Alright, everyone out!" Teal tossed five pokeballs into the air.

"Buzzz!"

"Aipom pom!"

"Marowak!"

"Seviper!"

"Piplup!"

"It's been awhile since our last picnic, But let's enjoy it while we can." Teal frowned slightly when he noticed a few downcast looks from his pokemon. "Come on guys, we don't need Violet to have fun... We don't..." he winced.

"Pip piplup?" his newest pokemon questioned as it nudged his leg.

"Oh, it was her fault anyway!" Teall suddenly shouted, making the penguin pokemon fall over. "I'm sorry Daisy. You wouldn't know right?"

Teal sat down quickly, crossing his legs in the process and Daisy took a seat in his lap. He took a bit of friuit and chewed thoughtfully. "Where to begin...?" he mulled over as his pokemon found comfortable places on the blanket.

"Quilava." Blaze nudged his hand.

"It's fine buddy." Teal patted the fire type on the head. "I suppose it began shortly before my sister and I arrived in this reagon. We had to travel for a long time just to get here. Across Johto and Hohen, then we had to take a ship south for about a week."

( flashback a few months earlier )

"I am so bored I think I'm going to die!" Violet moaned from the small cabin she and her brother were currently sharing.

It was a small cabin, containg a bunkbed ( Violet had insisted the top bunk ), a dresser, and a small morror on the wall. Off to the side there was a tiny bathroom with a sink and a small walk in shower.

With their limited funds this was all the teens could afford. But it beat sleeping out on deck, like a few other trainers opted to.

"You've said that repeatedly for the last five hours." Teal was balancing a pokeball on his foot. Every so often he'd glance out the small circular window. "Why don't you go explore the ship if your that bored?"

Violet looked annoyed at this, though pissed would have been a better term. "What's there to explore. It's a small boat in the middle of the ocean." she walked over and peeked out the window. "What's so interesting out there anyway?"

There was an attrictive older woman with a considerable amount of bust leaning over the railing of the ship. Her wavy blonde hair blew lightly in the breeze and she seemed to be enjoying the view, Teal on the other hand seemed to be enjoying her view,

Violet looked almost vivid now. It was disgusting when her brother acted in this manner, the idiot was actually almost drooling. "Kaya, thundershock..."

"Pachi!" Kaya lept easily into the air.

The room suddenly seemed to light up. "Ahhhhhhh! I get it already!"

"Hmm, I wonder what's going on in there?" the woman outside smirked and looked over a few items with the Team Shelin logo on them. "I still need to get back ant let the boss know I finished in Hohen."

"Boys." Violet slammed the door open. "I don't know why I thought my brother of all people would have been the exception."

"Violet wait..." the slightly charred figure of Teal, twitching slightly appeared at the door.

"Look you said explore, so that's what I'm going to do." Violet turned to smile, in her arms wasan egg. It was yellow at the top, with a black stripe in the center. "Besides eggy needs some fresh air."

"Look, I just want you to know..." Teal had started to rush toward his twin, when he slipped on a wet spot and slid rapidly towards her.

Violets eyes widened in a fraction of a second as she realized what was going to happen. "Teal!"

He slammed into her, knocking the egg from her grasp.

"Someone catch it! Please!"

The woman over the banaster reached out her hands, and the egg slipped through her grasp and fell into the churning waves of the ocean below and sunk out of sight.

Violet's mouth was opn in a silent scream as she watched her precious egg sour out of sight, and into the water. "No... no, no, no." Tears began to fill her eyes.

Both of the twins were sprawlled out on the deck, Violet's hand streached out.

"I'm so sorry. I tried." the older woman bowed slightly and left for her room.

"Violet, I'm really sorry. I didn't... I mean I..."

Violet turned to him and smacked him across the face. "Idiot!" she sobbed. "Do you realize what you've done? My Pichu is gone now. She's gone and she'll never come back!"

"I... I just..."

Violet stood up, her back to Teal. "I... I never want to see you again ever. When we get to Acer Reagon we'll be going our seperate ways Teal."

"But why?" Teal was almost in tears now. "I'm ralyy sorry. I don't know how many times I have to say so, but I am. It was an accident."

"I hate you!" Violet sobbed and took off for the furthest area of the ship, Kaya trailing behind.

( End flashback )

"So maybe it was my fault." Teal sighed dejectedly.

"Piplup..." Daisy sighed as well.