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Yays chapter 10! im excited, enjoy :)

Life is never easy

Hikaru's Pov:

"What happened to Jessica?" I asked, still shocked that he was here.

He looked sad yet angry at the same time. "Why did you leave me, and go off on your own?" Jonny asked, not answering my question, but responding with his own.

I sighed, after the shock wore off. "I thought you and Jessica, would be happy traveling together. Plus, I thought that it would be best to leave you guys, and continue my journey alone." I answered, feeling a little embarrassed saying the first part out loud to him.

Jonny frowned when he heard this. "I had to admit Jessica was nice," He blushed slightly, but kept going; "But we said we would travel Sinnoh together, not to separate close after the start of our journey." He emphasized together, and our, more then the other words. I rolled my eyes and nodded, agreeing that he would come with me, but secretly inside I was very happy that he chose me instead of Jessica. He grinned, now that he got that out of the way, and said; "By the way, thanks for getting Volkner back into battling, it was very helpful to win that badge." He bowed mockingly at me.

I put a hand to my mouth to stop the laugh that was threatening to explode, so I grinned wide and mocked curtsy back to him. "You are welcome, it took me most of the day to do it." I replied.

Coming up from the bow, Jonny then noticed the two people that were standing off to the side, not wanting to bother our conversation. He stared first at Cynthia, mouth gaping and everything. "w-why are y-you here?" Jonny sputtered, still gaping at her.

Smiling, she nodded to me. "Well, Hikaru bumped into me while I was in the forest, and I had some free time, so I went along with her, to travel here." Cynthia explained.

Jonny finally managed to stop gaping at the Sinnoh Champion, and noticed the other person that was with me, and glared immediately at him. "You two know each other?" He asked them.

Cynthia bobbed her head up and down. "Guess you already know Cyrus." She said, Jonny jerked his head down then quickly back up, all the while keeping his eyes on Cyrus. "How I know him is because of his interest in pokemon history. So he help funds our researches, and often comes with us to help out even more." She clarified.

'That's how they know each other.' I thought to myself, then what happened in the day really started to kick in, and I let out a huge yawn, distracting them from their conversation. "Can I please go to bed now? I want to be well rested for tomorrow's match." I asked with another yawn.

They all agreed, and we headed to our rooms, Jonny and Cyrus each had their own rooms, and Cynthia and I shared a room together. When we entered our room, I noticed that it was larger then the regular rooms that I had been staying in. It had two queen sized beds, with a dresser in between the beds, the bathroom, was on the right of the entrance, it was pretty nice too. A TV was facing the two beds, and finally a window on the far side of the room. Cynthia winked at me. "It is pretty nice once your a Champion, if you don't mind all the business's and meetings." She said.

I grinned and put my stuff by the bed that was closest to the window, I turned back towards Cynthia. "Mind if I let out my pokemon for the night?" I asked shyly, not knowing what she would say.

"Sure you can, if they aren't that big." Cynthia replied, as she grabbed her night clothes and went into the bathroom. I grinned, then got ready for bed. I let out my team, and they looked around the room, then asked my why it was so big. "Cynthia is sharing a room with me, so she got this one." I told them. I wrote a quick entry in my journal, and finished as Cynthia came out of the bathroom, in her . She looked at my team with peculiar eyes, but said nothing as she got into her bed. I got my egg and set it next to me, Piko was in his usual spot on my pillow, sole was at the end of my bed, angel decided to sleep on the other side of me, while Ace perched on the dresser. I smiled once again and turned out the lights, a few seconds after my head hit the pillow I was gone, what I didn't notice was; there was a small crack forming on my egg.

I woke up at seven thirty, not by the sun for once, as the curtains were covering the window, that was a nice change. Looking over at the other bed, I found that the bed was nicely made, with no Champion in it. Once I got out of bed, I noticed that she had left me a small note on the dresser:

Hikaru
I do not know when you are going to be up, but when you read this, I will be at the dining hall at eight. Hope to see you up by then, if not we shall see :)
Cynthia.

I put the paper down, and shook my head, wondering what she would've done if I was a late sleeper. It took me twenty minutes to get dressed and ready. I gathered my stuff with my pokemon, and headed to the dinning hall to get me some food. I grabbed my breakfast with my team's food too, they helped carry their food with me. I saw Jonny on one side of the dining hall, with Cyrus and Cynthia at the other end of hall. I sighed and went over to my current traveling buddies for a while, Jonny looked at me as though I had betrayed him, but it was his fault for sitting all the way over there.

"So, you're here." Cynthia said, grinning evilly.

"I would have been here sooner, but I didn't get waken up by the sun glaring in my face this time." I replied, setting my food down. We finished our breakfast slowly as we chatted about the weather and such, after we threw away our trash, we stood outside planning what we should do.

"I am guessing you two want to go to the gym right away?" Cynthia asked first, knowing that I had already explored everywhere in the city, the previous day.

I bobbed my head up and down. "Yes, I want to get my next badge today." I answered excitedly, but like always, Jonny butted in.

"Don't forget I get to go first this time." He said, then went on before any of us could speak; "Besides, you still haven't seen me in a gym battle."

I thought about that for a couple of seconds then shrugged "Ok, I may even steal a couple of your techniques if they are good." I wriggled my eyebrows, while grinning.
Jonny rolled his eyes, but grinned back as we headed towards the gym. We got to the entrance of the gym, it was a big gym, the biggest gym that I have seen so far. We entered the gym, the battle field was filled with water, and platforms were floating around in it, to let other pokemon, who was not water type, be able to battle. Jonny let out a huge breath. "I'm here to challenge the gym leader." He nearly yelled those words out.

A large heavy set guy came over to us. He was wearing tight blue and black pants, no shirt, and a mask on his face. "So, you are here to battle." He stated to Jonny, he nodded, the guy grinned "It has been a while since my last challenger. Name's Crasher Wake, by the way." Wake said to us.

"My name is Jonny, your first challenger." Jonny then pointed to me. "This is Hikaru, she will be battling after me."

Wake looked at me with surprise. "We don't get any girl challengers very often, they are into contests now-a-days." He said looking at me with interest.

I shrugged. "What can I say, contests are too.." I trailed off, shuddering at the thought of being in a contest.

"You said it." Wake chuckled, then looked at Jonny who was getting annoyed from all the talking. "Well then, lets get to that battle of yours." He said, as Jonny grinned. Wake went to the other side of the field and stood at that side of the field, whilst Jonny stayed on his side of the field. Cynthia, Cyrus and I went to the stands to watch the battle without getting hurt by the attacks.

The referee said his words; it was a two on two battle, and the battle had begun. "Lets go quagsire!" Wake cried, throwing his ball out in front of him.

"A quagsire is it." Jonny mulled over it, then grabbed his own pokeball. "You're up staravia!" He yelled as he let out his flying pokemon.

I looked at his pokemon. "So, starly evolved huh?" I noted, to no one in particular.

"Water gun!" Wake instructed. Quagsire took a death breath and let out a powerful water gun.
The attack was about to hit when Jonny called out calmly; "Double team!" Staravia multiplied as the attack missed. "Now use quick wing attack!."

I tilted my head in confusion, I had never heard that attack before, this was a very interesting battle, even though it had just started. Staravia disappeared, then reappeared in front of quagsire, hitting him hard with a wing attack.

"So, he learned to combine attacks." Cynthia gawped, then she looked at me. "And he started the same time as you did?" I nodded, and she whistled. "This kid is good." She said as we turned back towards the battle.

"Use mud shot!" Wake commanded, having fun with this battle. Quagsire shot mud out of his mouth towards his opponent.

Jonny thought for a bit, then getting excited, almost yelled; "Use brave bird, straight through the attack!" Red light enveloped staravia, as he flew fast to quagsire, going straight through the mud shot and hitting quagsire straight on. He knocked quagsire all the way to the opposite wall, almost hitting Wake.

"Staravia is the winner." The referee declared, as Wake returned his pokemon.

"Very nice, it has been a while since I had a true challenger, it feels great to battle hard again." Wake grinned as he pulled out his other pokemon.

Jonny grinned also and inclined his head. "I always love the feeling of battling against hard gym leaders." He responded, as staravia saluted, but was a little worn out.

"Lets see how you face up against gyrados." Wake said as he let out a large blue dragon water pokemon, onto the field.

I gulped, that pokemon was huge!

"I will go first staravia, use aerial ace!" Jonny commanded, as staravia flew to his opponent this time with white light surrounding it.

Wake grinned as he let staravia get closer then called out; "Dodge and use bite!" Gyrados went to the side, then opened wide and bit down as staravia was flying past. While he was caught, Wake called out again; "Now use hydro pump!" Water shot staravia out of gyrados' mouth, over to the wall behind Jonny, knocking staravia unconscious.

"Gyrados, is the winner." The referee declared, as Jonny recalled his pokemon, saying words of encouragement to him.

"You wont be so lucky with this one." Jonny said as he held out his pokeball.

"Try me." Wake challenged. Jonny grinned wider, and tossed it in front of him at a platform. A small blue dog pokemon came out. I, of course, not knowing what it was, pulled out my 'Dex, to see the information on it.

'Shinx the electric pokemon. Its forelegs have a muscle-based system of generating electricity. Its body shines if endangered.'

"Tackle!" Jonny ordered, shinx nodded and rushed towards gyrados.

Wake grinned evilly and called out, when shinx got close; "Wrap her!" Gyrados wrapped his long body around shinx, squeezing her tightly.

Jonny looked worried for his newly caught pokemon. "Use thunder fang!." He called out. Shinx's fangs sparked as she bit down on gyrados' body. The biting didn't hurt gyrados, but the thunder did, and he let go in surprise. Jonny brightened up. "Now use thunder!." Shinx looked really tired, but managed to charge up for a thunder.

Right when she released it, Wake called out; "Dodge it underwater!"

Jonny smiled again this time. "Big mistake." He said as Gyrados dove underneath the water. "Aim it at the water!" We all were surprised when shinx's thunder changed direction from mid air, to down at the water, lighting up the whole pool. Gyrados came floating up, eyes swirling.

"Gyrados is knocked out, Shinx is the winner, the battle belongs to the challenger Jonny!" The referee cried, and Jonny pumped his fist in the air. Both of them put their pokemon in their pokeballs, and Wake came over, just as we got there.

"You did good kid, as proof of beating me here is the fen badge." Crasher Wake said, holding out his badge to Jonny. He took it, and placed it in his case, which was green, he now had three badges.

"Congratulations." Cynthia and I cheered together, whilst I patted his back.

"Thanks." Jonny replied, brimming with happiness, then looked at me. "Now it's your turn."

I grinned and looked at Wake, but he held up a hand. "Give me fifteen minutes, to heal my pokemon." I nodded and he went to the back room. I called out all my pokemon and conversed with them, telling them about the new strategies. Soon, the fifteen minutes were up, as Wake came walking in, I put my team back inside their balls, and went to the challengers place.

"It will be a two on two pokemon battle, everyone ready?" The referee asked us, we both nodded and he dropped his arms down. " Battle begin."

"Go Gyrados!" Wake yelled, throwing his pokemon out first, and once again gyrados came out, raring for another battle.

I smirked. "Lets go, Piko!" Piko jumped off my shoulder onto a platform.

The battle had begun.

Authors notes: Bah I hate writers block, and writing battles, I was kinda in a rush on the battle part in the chapter, thats why it was so short, but the next one will prob be longer. I will try to get the next chapter up on fri, but I've been working a lot, and I got a new ipod, and thats so much fun :D anywho enough of me talking. Review if ya want. Til next Chapter!