When I woke up, I saw Riolu working on the house. He had built tools from the stones we collected. He was holding a hammer made from the purple stone Chimchar found. I asked him, "How long have you been working on the house?" He replied, "A few hours. Without Houndoom helping me, it's kind of hard." I looked over at Eevee, she was still sleeping.

I walked out of the house and saw that Riolu had built some practice targets and more weapons. There was a blood-red bow with the exact same symbol as my headband on it lying on a table he built. I picked it up and held it for a while. Its grip was made of leather and the rest was wood. I saw a quiver with arrows in it, which also had the symbol on it. The arrows had wooden shafts that were painted green, and they had multicolored stone heads. I put on the quiver, took the bow, and walked back to the house.

I asked Riolu, "How did you paint the weapons?" He told me, "I used dyes I made from the berries and leaves you guys collected. Here are some seeds so you can plant more berries." I grabbed the seeds and he gave me a shovel. I asked, "How long were you awake creating all this stuff!?" He replied, "All night." I said, "Earlier you said a few hours." He explained, "No, earlier you asked how long I had been working on the house, not how long I've been making things." I told him, "You should go rest, it's unhealthy to not sleep." He walked over to his bed and fell asleep almost instantly. I fell asleep in my bed too.

A few hours later, I was woken up by Eevee. She looked like she was excited about something. She said, "Pikachu! Riolu has finished the house!" I looked up and saw a roof. The house really was done! Eevee said, "Riolu is in the lake nearby. We should go talk to him." I grabbed the bow and quiver next to me slowly, because my left arm was still broken. Eevee asked, "Where did you get that?" I replied, "Riolu made it for me."

We walked out of the house and over to the lake. Riolu was swimming with another Pokémon. I asked, "Who is this?" He answered, "This is Shinx. I just met her a few minutes ago." Shinx had blue fur, and her eyes were a blue-green. She had a yellow star shape at the end of her tail. We showed her the house and made another bed. Now we have six Pokémon living in the house.

I went out to the target area. I took out my knife because it was a one-handed weapon. I stabbed and slashed at the targets swiftly and violently, so that I could kill things quickly. I kicked it once and it fell over. I sheathed my knife and lifted the dummy back up. Something hit me in the back, and I could feel that it was something blunt. I fell to my knees and cried out in pain. When I turned around, I couldn't believe what I saw. A Pokémon that looked exactly like Riolu, but I don't know if it really was him. It punched at me again but I blocked it, then I grabbed out my knife and went to kill it. It kicked the knife out of my hands and the blade slid across the dirt, out of reach. I got my bow and drew an arrow. I was crying in the pain I was going through, my left arm broken and back badly injured. I closed my eyes, shot the arrow, and heard a thump. I had killed the Pokémon.

I went back to the house to talk to Eevee. She saw me bleeding and rushed over to help. I told her what happened and she said, "Well, that wasn't the real Riolu." I asked, "How do you know?" She replied, "You described the Riolu to have a blue pelt, which is normal for a Riolu, but our friend has a red-orange pelt." She was right, I had never paid attention to it, but Riolu did have a different colored pelt than the others.

I saw Riolu building two more houses and asked him, "What are those houses for?" He looked at me and said, "One is for more Pokémon, and the other is going to be a storage house for the weapons and tools." Obviously, he was planning on letting more Pokémon join. I saw a bed already in the house and asked, "Who's that for?" He said, "It's for Ralts. She is differently colored like me." He took me to go see Ralts. I saw her hiding behind a tree. Riolu explained, "She's kind of shy around new Pokémon." He shouted to her, "Hi Ralts, this is just one of my friends. His name is Pikachu. I took him here to meet you." She came out of her hiding place. She had a blue 'dress' I guess you would call it, but the other colors were normal. I said, "Hi." She hesitated and replied in a small voice, "Umm, hi." There was a long, silent pause until Riolu said, "Alright. I guess I should get back to work." He left and I felt awkward around Ralts. I followed Riolu and asked him about the Pokémon I killed earlier. He explained, "That was a Ditto, it can transform to look exactly like any other Pokémon."

We continued walking until we reached the house. Houndoom had been painting words and pictures on it. It said "Team Lightning's House" and it had pictures of all of us on it. The pictures were beautiful and captured every detail about us. I loved the team name too, but you can probably guess why. I went back to the training area. I saw my knife still on the ground where the Ditto had kicked it to. I grabbed it, stabbed at the target a few times, and went back to the house. I stepped in the door and there was furniture everywhere. Riolu must have been up all night again. There was a sofa, some tables, chairs, and different rooms. I just stood there and stared in amazement. There were private rooms for each of us, so nobody could enter my room without permission. I checked out my room. It had a desk with a team roster on it, there was a chair in front of the desk, and on the wall it showed each of the Pokémon's responsibility. Beside my name it showed leader. I smiled at that. Eevee was the medic, Riolu was the craftsman, Houndoom was the guardian, and Chimchar was the planner, which meant he had control over land and battle strategies. I put the bow and quiver on my desk and fell over on my bed, falling asleep instantly.