Sorry for the long wait guys (or whoever reads this.:P) things got in the way, hopefully you'll forgive me by letting me give you the extremely longest chapter I've ever made in the history of ever:O heh, enjoy.

Chapter 10: Encounter

Alex finished getting his keys and walked off to a bench. Many people were there taking out their Pokémon to show-off, and there were a lot of trainers waiting patiently just to get to battle on the Pokémon Arena. Alex sighed and got a Pokéball from his belt out. He really wanted company on the long ride to the Battle Frontier.

"come-out," he said throwing the Pokéball, "Ghost." The ghost-type formed together and looked back at its trainer. "Sab-leye?" Ghost asked in his own language. Alex sighed, "You know, all of this stuff here is making me really jealous about everyone that has already beaten the Elite Four. This is just a ship, imagine the actual Battle Frontier." He rolled his eyes and wondered of everything he would be missing by the time the time came to finally be able to fight the Elite Four.

"Blaye, sableye sleye ley," answered Ghost. Alex turned around and in every corner he saw people with all eight Hoenn Gym Badges. "Just think," said Alex, "eventually, we'll be the ones on this ship with all the badges. I can't wait for that day to come." Alex looked to the Pokémon Arena and saw people getting ready to fight.

"Come-on," said Alex, "let's take notes." He got off the bench and started to walk to the watchers doors. There was a small concession stand serving Hot-dogs, Burgers, and Pizza.

"Do you want something to eat, Ghost?" asked Alex. Ghost nodded his head. Alex got behind the two people in line and waited for his turn with Ghost at his side. After a few minutes, Alex turned his attention to Ghost and saw that he was looking the other direction, in the area where the suites were. "What's the matter Ghost?"

Ghost gave a look to the opposite way and shook his head. "Sab," he answered. Even though it looked like Ghost had said nothing was wrong, Alex couldn't help but wonder about what he was thinking.

Ghost waited with Alex in the line. Everywhere he looked he saw his trainer's dream. To him, whether they made it that far or not, he would still be happy. He had to admit though; he was starting to like fighting. It made his job seem more like a game. A really hard game you have to work at in not only your power, but in skill of it and physical strength.

He heard a noise somewhere around him. Ghost turned in all directions trying to see what it was. He couldn't tell if anything was wrong because all the other trainers seemed jolly and talked with each other not caring about a thing in the world, but something inside him told him to be careful. It was a strange sense he had very rarely, he hadn't even had it with his trainer yet until that very moment. It was a sense that told when there was a powerful and dangerous Pokémon coming into the cave area he used to live in before he met Alex. The thing that kept him wondering was that they only went off when there was a threatening Pokémon, only wilds that were dangerous. Whenever it was a trainer's Pokémon they never would go off.

Could it be, thought Ghost, that there is a dangerous Pokémon onboard? Everywhere he looked were carefree trainers chatting about something either important or just nonsense. Through the jewels of eyes Ghost had he tried to find something, anything that posed a threat, but he couldn't see anything.

With a quick glance, Ghost turned to see a shadow on one of the walls, but nothing to reflect with. What was more, it seemed to be hovering. It was like staring at smoke, his sense was telling him danger, but in the opposite direction of where the shadow was. He turned around and looked into the hall that the strange feeling was pointing towards; it was the 'Hall of Suites' that the humans always wanted to get to. Even though he saw nothing, his senses kept telling him something was there.

"What's the matter Ghost," his trainer Alex asked. Ghost faced the direction of where the shadow was and saw it was gone, and thankfully so was the sense. "Nothing," replied Ghost shaking his head.

Alex was next in line. He looked at the menu for a moment wondering what to get. "Well hi there," said the employee at the stand, "what would you like?" it was a girl asking him the question. Alex looked at the menu again and then started to order.

"I'll have a burger with medium fries and a medium sprite," said Alex, "what do you got for Pokémon?" "Well," started the girl, "let's see." She took out a small card menu from the bottom of the counter. "We've got the ordinary Pokémon food, then we got-erm-what type of flavor berry or Pokéblock do your Pokémon like?"

Alex thought about that for a moment. He never really gave them a berry or Pokéblock before; he always gave them Pokémon food. "I'll just stick with Pokémon food." Said Alex

"Here you go," said the girl and passed Alex the Burger with fries and drink all in one bag (except the drink) and the Pokémon food. "That'll be 240 Pokédollors."

Alex searched his wallet and took out the money. "Thank you sir, have a nice ride on the S.S. Tidal." Alex got the food and called Ghost who was again staring at some random direction, but then snapped out of it and followed Alex.

Alex went inside the Pokémon Arena and sat on one of the bleachers with many other trainers watching the Pokémon Battle. "Here you go, Ghost," said Alex giving the Sableye the Pokémon food. Alex took a bite from the Burger and stared intently at the five battles going on. It didn't come to him when he noticed two very familiar trainers fighting each other, and he met both of them earlier that day.

"Battle!" yelled the Referee. In a flash, Jill got out her best skilled Pokémon from her belt. "Go, Skarmory!" she threw her Pokéball onto the field. Out came the Skarmory with red in its eyes and dark pupils, along with a heavily armored body of steel blades ready for battle.

"Noon, go!" yelled Darry releasing his Linoone. This was going to be a bit hard for Jill to fight, Linoone is a normal type; it can basically learn any types. She turned to her Skarmory and thought of a good move to fight a normal type. The only moves that Skarmory has strong against a normal are the steel moves and that HM, but I can't risk getting Skarmory near it, who knows what this guy has taught it, thought Jill not underestimating both of them, she remembered what happened the last time she underestimated. Jill didn't have enough time to think anymore; she heard Darry give Linoone a command and saw it start to give electric energy, it was Shock Wave.

Oh crap, thought Jill. And immediately gave Skarmory a plan, it would be hard though since Skarmory was like a 5'09" lightning rod, plus the move Linoone was using never missed opponents. "Skarmory, throw spikes on the field!"

With even more speed than the Linoone, Skarmory released its steel blades outwards and let small spiky steel objects be tossed on the ground making them scatter everywhere on the field Darry was in. just a few more spikes were thrown until Skarmory was hit by the waving electric shock and fell injured on the floor.

One hit almost knocked Skarmory out due to it being a flying and steel mix. Jill knew that Skarmory couldn't make it on the field if Darry used another Shock Wave, so she did the one remaining plan she should have used right at the beginning of the battle…

"Skarmory, return," she yelled throwing her Pokéball onto the field and returning her Pokémon. She had to think about what type she would use next. She was fighting a normal type; she needed something strong against one. Jill took out her Pokéball and threw it onto the field. "Go Machoke!"

The fighting type came out of the Pokéball and looked at its surroundings until it laid its eyes on Noon. "Noon, return!" yelled Darry as he got out the Pokéball and called back his Linoone. "Feather, come out!" at that, he released a Pokémon out and Jill groaned. A Swellow was in the Linoone's place.

Great, thought Jill, good thing I used that TM on the right Pokémon. She remembered when she passed her first GYM, Roxanne had been kind enough to give her a good Technical Machine for winning. "Machoke, use Rock Tomb!"

With all of his strength, Machoke slammed his fist into the ground. "Ma-choke!" it yelled as three chunks from the ground came up, then he punched them hard enough to move them to the Swellow without breaking them.

"Feather, dodge it and use Arial Ace!" shouted Darry, and quickly, the Swellow moved away from the first rock, but was hit by the remaining two. "No!" yelled Darry as his Swellow fell back. Jill saw Darry trying to talk to his Pokémon. "Can you fight?" he asked it. By then, Jill knew what type of trainer Darry was. He was the type that cared more about his Pokémon if injured than to command it to continue fighting. But, that was just her speculation, she honestly couldn't say much about him, from the looks of it though, it seemed that way and she planned to use that to her advantage.

As soon as Jill saw Darry give Swellow the Super Potion, she told her Machoke silently to use Seismic Toss when ready. This gave an advantage since she didn't have to repeat it and her opponent wouldn't see it coming in time. In the corner of her eye, she saw Darry also telling the Swellow something. Great, none of us will see anything coming, thought Jill.

Darry finished and turned to his opponent. "You ready?" Jill asked. Darry nodded and gave the OK for Feather. The Swellow with great force flew straight for Jill's Machoke. "Machoke, now!"

Machoke ran looking like it was going to Headbutt the Swellow, then turned slightly to the right and reached out for Feather's wing. He missed as Feather changed its flying direction and went back for Machoke using fly.

"Machoke," yelled Jill, "try and counter the attack!" Machoke was hit and pushed back by the force, he was getting weak by the attack, it was too powerful. With all the strength he had left, Machoke jumped by Feather and pushed his fist right into it.

The Swellow cried out in pain and slowly picked itself up with the attack pinching every bone in its body. "Feather, Return!" Jill sighed as she heard that and was ready to congratulate her Machoke for the fight and call him back, but then she found out Darry wasn't calling his Pokémon back.

Just as Machoke was walking back to Jill, with all of the Swellow's love and passion for fighting with its trainer, it went and attacked with one lost blow, Return. "No," yelled Jill, "why didn't I see that coming!"

Jill just cursed at herself and returned her fainted Machoke. Darry did the same with his and called out another Pokémon. "Go Erupt!" yelled Darry releasing his Camerupt from its Pokéball. It couldn't really get a good stand as it formed on the floor, its massive body forced it down and pushed the spikes scattered into its feet causing damage.

Ha, perfect, thought Jill as she reached for her next Pokémon which was slightly smaller than Darry's Camerupt, but still had somewhat a good type advantage move.

Amy was quiet waiting for anything. She was very comfortable, but she knew her best friend, Jill, was way too much of a trainer. Amy remembered the first time she met Jill; they were back at Lilycove City, Jill's hometown. Amy was from the Kanto Region, she remembered what her home looked like with her entire family, but she always tried to avoid thinking about that. It was in Kanto that her cave was attacked by Team Rocket; they took almost every Pokémon in the Icefall Cave without hesitation. The worst part was that they ended taking her family away. That was the last she saw of her family. Her Mom, her Dad, her somewhat annoying two brothers and the only other brother that actually made sense, her sister and her friend too. It was too much, before Team Rocket took her mother away, her mother told Amy to run. And like anyone would do at that time, she listened and without a word, ran away to find someone at Four Island that could help her.

She ended up being taken away, but not by Team Rocket. With only time and hope, she went with the trainer that took her, someone around twenty. He was a determined person, and he was taking Amy to Hoenn; Amy liked that fact of leaving Team Rocket, but couldn't help but blame herself for what happened in Kanto.

After they arrived in Hoenn, the trainer went to a house that was celebrating. That's when she met Jill. Turned out that everyone was having a party for Jill finally going on a Pokémon journey. At the end of the party, Amy joined Jill's journey and Jill promised Amy that she would be her best friend.

That's what started off a journey of hard work, and now they finally reached the top. Amy was proud to be with Jill, even if Jill sometimes didn't understand her. Now she waited for the call on which Jill said were the last battles until they ended their quest, and then…

"Sneasel, come-out!" a voice came through the walls of her peace and slowly light seeped into the round sphere Amy was resting in, red light appeared everywhere. It all flushed around her, and she was transported out of the small red and white Pokéball. Amy looked at her surroundings, in front was a trainer dressed in well clothing, next to him was a towering Camerupt ready for action, and of course, behind her was her best friend, and trainer, Jill. "Alright, seems simple enough," said Amy.

"Simple enough?" asked the Camerupt readying himself for the battle, "please, I was trained to be able to avoid and conquer anything, advantage or even disadvantage."

Amy shifted herself to a fighting position as well. "Well," started Amy, "all we can do know is find out." She smiled as she knew and felt the positive feeling flow through her and listened for a command from her trainer.

"Sneasel, use Slash!" at the start of the command, Amy ran right at the Camerupt right as it was about to attack. "Erupt, Take Down now!" just as the Camerupt was going right for Amy, she jumped at the right moment and just managed to walk over Camerupt with the jump and onto the other side, where she turned and slashed at its back.

The Camerupt roared in a small pain but then pushed it aside and turned to face Amy, which now made it seem that Amy belonged to the other trainer and that Camerupt belonged to Jill.

"Sneasel, use Rain Dance!" Amy started to charge up her body making her appear somewhat bluish for awhile, then like as if summoning a spirit, she reached above her and made the water that appeared as if from nowhere to the top of the arena and start off the sprinkler system which threw more water down onto only her battle field.

"Erupt, use Flamethrower!" Camerupt blew steam out through its nose and like a horse would in the cold when breathing hard, got on its back legs and blew flames in the air for awhile then slammed its front feet on the ground causing a minor earthquake and making Amy uneasy trying to balance herself, then it blew with all the strength of heat in its body it had at Amy.

Fire twirled towards Amy as she waited for her trainer's command. "Sneasel, do it now!" Amy concentrated on the water that fell onto the arena floor, some of it slowing the flamethrower down as it hurtled pass the small water droplets and towards Amy. Quickly, Amy pushed as she concentrated and the water started to form a wall in front of her. It started a wave that stopped the flamethrower completely and dashed at Erupt. Amy had successfully done the move, surf.

The water hit Camerupt hard, but like it said earlier, it was trained to handle type disadvantage attacks. Quickly, with so little hit points of life, the Camerupt got up and aimed at Amy.

"Alright, you know what to do now Erupt!" the Camerupt nodded and started to charge up its body. A bright beam started to form in its mouth, not like a Solar or Hyper Beam. Amy found the attack and started to back up to try and get away from the blast that was about to be shot. Camerupt used Eruption.

A beam of fire and light shot at Amy, and just a few feet away until…

"Use Faint Attack Sneasel!" yelled Jill, and before the Eruption could even touch her, she disappeared into a dark cloud opening next to her. With the portal like opening still open, the Eruption attack entered with Amy. Another opening appeared by the side of Erupt and at that precise moment, Amy jumped out of the way when a bright light followed her out and hit the Camerupt hard.

Erupt couldn't stand the pain of its own attack, so it fainted onto the floor, tipping on its side and causing a small quake from impact.

"Yes!" yelled Jill, "you defeated it, Sneasel!" Jill was excited about her win; Amy walked back to her side of the field and turned around to see the other trainer calling back his Pokémon and getting another Pokéball ready to throw.

"You want to try again?" asked Jill. Amy nodded still facing the other trainer. "I can handle anything he'll throw at me," replied Amy with still confidence. Jill agreed with showing the "OK" sign with her fingers and was ready for the next Pokémon the other trainer would throw against her.

"Aqua, go!" yelled the trainer and he released an Azumarill. The Azumarill immediately got ready for the fight with a fighting stance set right at release point, and messing up due to the spikes. This time, Amy was in a bit of trouble. She didn't have any attacks strong against water; she was just going to have to get it with all she had.

Charley walked passed the many trainers hanging out right around the place, nothing bothered anyone. Through the crowd there were many stores and gift shops everywhere. Charley didn't really feel that bothered like most people weren't, but the fact was that he still felt something strange. Slowly taking every step he took, something came over him that gave a short chill, and then it went away.

Charley stopped at a small bench and rested. Now he could admit he was bothered. Everywhere he looked he saw happy trainers, but he felt something had or was going to go wrong. He tried to ignore it, but then a sharp pain came screeching inside his body.

He tried to look normal, but the pain was too much. He quickly got up and ran inside a store. With the pain hanging inside his body, he talked to the clerk.

"Excuse me," said Charley, "do you know where the restrooms are, I really got to go." The man backed away seeing Charley slouched on the counter and then pointed to a hall across the store with a big sign that read: Casino, Restrooms, Pokémon Grooming…

It went on with two other signs. "Right over there, um, I didn't need to know that much information," said the clerk and then started to give a weak laugh. Charley ignored him and ran out the store and into the hallway. The pain slowly grew even more with every single step.

Charley dashed into the door and leaned against the sink looking into the mirror in front of him. The pain grew more and Charley could see in the mirror a little blurry. He tried to concentrate on one thing but he couldn't.

Okay, thought Charley, come-on, think of something!

Charley looked more into the mirror and looked straight into his left eye. It was vibrating; Charley could see his pupils start to grow big then small. He closed his eyes as more pain came from his stomach. He opened his eyes and looked into the left one again. He could see an image, then it was as if all sight went away to show him something.

It was like watching a movie, Charley was swimming in water in the image, and there were many people around him drowning each other. He could hear himself screaming someone's name. He couldn't make out the name he was shouting. He realized he was outside somewhere. As Charley tried to see where he was, he saw ocean all around him, there was a boat right near everyone. The S.S. Tidal!

People were shouting, there were also Pokémon in the water, some saving people, others dieing due to type disadvantage. Fire Pokémon were drifting unmoving on the water, probably dead. It finally came to him that the S.S. Tidal was on fire, one side was cracking and breaking apart, the other was started to lean to the side. The side Charley was on!

It turned and Charley saw people flying out into the water. Charley was looking around shouting someone's name, but he didn't know who. Straight ahead was a submarine, and written on the side of it was one terrifying sign: Team Aqua.

Charley was brought back to reality in the restroom. He looked around him and saw no one. He turned his attention back to the mirror; nothing different on his facial features. He stared into his eyes and saw the pupils back to normal size. Charley knew what he just saw, and knew that it was going to happen. He had just used a Pokémon attack, more specifically, Future Sight.

Charley was shaking now. He didn't want to die, or for that matter see anyone else die. Who was I calling?, thought Charley now confused. He was thinking too much about what he saw, he wasn't paying any attention to the figure slowly forming behind him.

Smoke came across all behind Charley; silently it started to form behind him. There was too much smoke there, and it started to get to one place, and was shaping a human form. Charley noticed through the mirror and quickly turned around to see the smoke come together. The grey and dark smoke started to get some color; it gave way to a face that was very familiar to Charley.

"No," said Charley silently, "your dead, how are you hear?" the figure now fully human (except for the small smoke strides), walked over to Charley. It grabbed his T-shirt collar and pulled him up, Charley started kicking around and started yelling for him to let go. The figure smiled at Charley, and then with all strength, it threw him across the room, making him hit the toilet door head first, and get knocked out.

Again, sorry for the wait. Oh yeah, and about Feather not being hit by the spikes, I found that pretty hard to put. A bird slipping on spikes? I don't know, seems kind of impossible to me. One more thing, I haven't really played Pokémon in quite awhile, and I haven't really seen the show in a L-O-N-G time, so sorry if I did the battles wrong or explained the attacks wrong. It would help if I got a couple of reviews, heh. :P