Chapter 10

OMGOMGOMG! I'm so excited to right this chapter because I'm preparing myself to wright this chapter and the next chapter of bother Legends and Cute Revenge! Aggghhhh and I'm freaking out about this week's Doctor Who! All in all I'm really in a good mood.

Desert the Fennec Fox- I don't think it is possible for anyone to not love Ash. Especially in the fanfics, he is so dense but he has those moments where you are just like O.o "what". And no dissing Paul! He is one of my favourite characters! You can't just say "he's alright" he

is the lovable asshole that comes through in the end! That and if he were really I can see him being really hot...i need a life...oh and it seems like he would like good music like me...METAL MUSIC FOR LIFE!

Daughter of sea and wisdom- Thank you very much, when you are running on like 5 cans of coke then pass out while playing pokémon, you come up with things XD and he is. That's how he got it. Everyone else was over thinking it and him, first things come to mind and he says it.

Pikachushinystar- Yup! No more searching after that! YAY! Well maybe not yay for readers but for me I love this cause now I get the full interaction of the characters and I hated writing the quest searching for people thing. And I didn't notice that you kept writing that XD I need to be more observant!

4EverETRNL – see thinking too hard. Be like Ash just shout first thing that comes to mind :P and thanks it's people like you that keep me motivated!

Amy47101- DAMN RIGHT ASH! And oh don't you worry your pretty little head, that will be coming, just wait until they get the weapons that I have chosen for them then Misty can beat him better! Is that proper grammar...oh well who cares!

To the chapter!

Normal POV

"So how do we get there exactly?" Ash asked after everyone agreed to head to Mt. Pyre. The group had thought about what Ash suggested the night before throughout the night. They had made their way to Mauville to get breakfast instead of fending for themselves all the time. They sat outside situated around a circular table of a small café.

Dawn had placed the map on the table and everyone's eyes were glued to it. "Well if we just go right from here to route 118, then take that to 123 we should be able to get to route 122 as well." Dawn spoke pointing with her figure to each route as she spoke.

"But there is water there...not all of us can cross." Leaf spoke.

"Well you can. I'll die if I take that route, there's not enough rocks to lea from and I don't do water, what so ever." May spoke, with Ash nodding in agreement.

"Okay fire and electricity can't go in water, true... Leaf, you can levitate on a piece of ground couldn't you?" Misty asked in a cheerful tone.

"Ya but I can only use a piece of ground that fits me." Leaf responded.

"Well I can make a path of ice that Ash could cross on," Gary spoke up leaning forward from his sitting back position. "May, no offense, but you would melt it."

"None taken. But I could cross after Ash, which would melt the path so that there would be no suspicion."

"You would need to run across so that the ice wouldn't melt from underneath you, which is the only complication." Drew stated.

"So stay close to her and prepare to catch her if that does happen." Gary said with a wink, which only Drew caught, causing him to grow a little pink. Drew elbowed him in the stomach and went back to the map.

"We can use the ice to get across then." May said, taking a sip of her iced tea.

The waitress came to the table and delivered there food, they each ordered the same thing so it was quick to retrieve from the kitchen. Everyone began to eat their meals except for May and Gary who were examining it.

"What is wrong with it?" Ash asked with a mouthful of food. He speech was clear to the ear although no one understood how with the amount of food the teen had shoveled into his mouth.

"It's not cooked enough." May spoke.

"And mine's too hot." Gary said next.

"Wait I can solve this!" May exclaimed before using her figure as a blowtorch to burn her food to a crisp. Gary saw her actions and then blew on his food causing it to frost over.

"Much better," they said in unison before chowing down. The others looked at in disgust at how the members of the team ate their food.

Once they finished, everyone but Gary went to pay for their meal. Gary decided to take his chances with the waitress.

"Excuse me miss?" Gary tapped the waitress on her shoulder. She turned and looked at him, her blonde ponytail flipped over her shoulder which Gary took into play. He played with the ends of her hair as he spoke. "Would you be able to give me directions?"

"Sure, where to?" she questioned, a faint blush appearing on her face.

"Your heart," he smirked as the blush grew redder.

"Leave her alone would you, we're leaving and we kinda need you."

Gary turned to the familiar voice "Leeeeaaafff, I'm busy now. Can it wait like ten minutes?" he whined.

"We need to get moving so that we can get to Mount Pyre before sunset. So, no," Leaf said before crossing her arms and turning to face the groups directions. "And don't make me force you." Gary's eyes widened knowing just what she would do.

"you flirt with someone while you have a girlfriend in the same building! That's low; treat her with more respect if you care about her that much!" the waitress fumed.

"I don't care about her that much!" Gary pleaded back at the blonde haired girl. The waitress grabbed the nearest plate of food, which she took off a waiter passing by, and dumped it into Gary's hair. This caused some giggles from young children and shouts calling that he deserved it from a nearby group of young adults.

Joining back with the group, Gary walked sluggishly unnoticed. Once the teens noticed him they burst out in laughter at the playboy's appearance. There was ketchup, eggs, hash browns, toast and bacon smeared throughout his hair and face. Ash jumped on the opportunity and began to salvage what he could of the 'free food' as he called it. Gary was pushing him back pleading for Misty to help him.

With a simple whack to the back of his head, Ash passed out onto the ground curled up into a ball. "Can you help clean me off too?" Gary asked in a whine.

Before he could finish what he was saying, Misty created a wave of water that was strong enough to push him to the ground. Slight laughter was heard from the group yet again while Gary stood up. He shook himself dry, leaning forward to shake his head and have his spiky locks return.

"Not necessarily what I meant." Misty shrugged at his comment before the group began to walk towards route 118. Once they reached to water way of the Route the used the plan in which they created earlier on. Drew and Dawn would fly, Misty swim, Leaf levitate some ground and Gary would make on ice path for May, Ash and himself. Everyone had crossed except for Drew and May who were going once everyone had reach the end so that May would be able to sprit across without having catch anyone and Drew there in case of emergency.

May began to run with Drew flying above her. The path that you would expect to be slippery like ice was not due to Gary creating it somewhat rigid to make it easier for the others to cross. Before long May reach the other side and there was no sign of the bridge that she had just crossed.

The group stopped to get some berries to snack on as they continued on the route to their destination. Once they began walking Dawn pulled out her trusty map, "We should be reaching another patch of water soon, and we take that to get to Mount Pyre."

"So same plan as last time?" Drew asked the leader of the group.

"Yup."

"Not more running," Ash whined.

"Suck it up would you or I will make you run now too." Misty threatened, if you classify that as a threat. With that Ash walked without a word.

Out of the corner of his eye, Gary noticed a pair of red eye peering at them through the bushes. He nudged Dawn with his elbow and once he was aware of her gaze he nodded his direction in the way that the eyes laid. Quick to think, she stopped and shot a ball of light towards the figure. A growl was heard, grabbing the attention of all the group members.

Before them, the figure emerged from the forest. "Not him again!" Gary shouted in annoyance.

"Again?" Ash asked Misty. She told him about the night at camp that they were watched by the same creature.

Dawn and Drew took an air attack while the others stayed on land. Drew blew the wind at the trees which caused leaves to fall from it. Leaf directed them towards the Houndoom at fast speeds with Drew's air cutter attack following right behind them. Water beams were froze to icicles as Gary froze Misty's attack. May threw fireballs, but had to be careful not to light the forest on fire. Dawn used psychic abilities to keep the Houndoom in place and inflict damage. Ash stood there unaware of what to do.

"Do something Ash! It might help!" Misty called.

"I don't know what to do!" he called back.

"Charge the icicles!" Ash did as told and used a bolt of lightning to electrify the icicles. The now powered up ice hit the Houndoom causing it to collapse to it's knees.

"Halt!" yelled a deep voice unknown to any of the young heroes. They ceased fire and looked around for the voice. The Houndoom perked it's head up as it recognized the voice. "I see you have met my pet."

"Pet!" Dawn screamed. "That "pet" is a dark being from the shadow world!"

"Ya and in a way, so am I."

"Show yourself!" Leaf screamed. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the forest, the presence of another being was close. She summoned vines and pulled the figure out of the darkness.

He hung his head down, his bangs covered his face. He wore black and grey camouflage shorts with a black chain hanging from each side, a black long sleeve shirt with a white cross tribal pattern on the front left side. He raised his head, the purple locks falling out of his face.

"Put me down."

"Not until you tell us who you are." Ordered Dawn, hovering down towards the ground to land right in front of him.

"Heh, funny you should want that." The figure spoke with a dead, husky tone.

"You're the last one." Dawn sound loud enough for only her and the mystery man to hear.

The figure grunted in response. Dawn gave Leaf a signal to let him go. He landed on his feet and went to pet the Houndoom that lay on the ground.

"Everyone meet the Dark Soul..." Dawn trailed off not knowing the name of the teen that would be accompanying him.

"Paul." said boy answered, not taking his eyes off the creature in front of him. "You need to go back to the shadow world now. I'll come get you again when I can." Paul said. The Houndoom nodded before Paul stood up and lifted his hand to face his dark pet. A dark aura appeared around the Houndoom and it disappeared in front of everyone; they asked no questions. They just stood in awe as they watched the advanced powers of the boy.

"Whoa, check out the mark on the leg." Gary whispered to Leaf. Leaf looked at the new members left calf, where his mark was located. The head of a dragon along with about three-quarters of its body, all in black and in it's mouth the dark half of a yin yang.

At that moment, the mark on Paul's leg started to glow a bright black glow. Leaf noticed Gary mark glowing a bright blue as well, and Misty's mark was doing as the boys' were. Soon after she noticed that May's sleeve was gone and her mark was glowing a red. Drew's shirt fell as the back had disappeared to show a pair of glowing green wings. Dawn's right short leg, turned into a shorter leg to show her glowing white mark. Ash's shirt fell off as well to show his mark, glowing as the others' were. She looked down at her own shirt and noticed that it now didn't cover from her ribs downward to the top of her skirt. She looked best she could and her mark was just like the others.

"What's going on with these things?!"

And finish it there. How was it? I did my best because I'm typing this as I wait to get my stupid knees X-rayed and the line is taking forever. Ugh! But I am excited for the next few chapters of writing because now everyone is it! Yay!

So looking forward to the next few chapters of the story. Here's a sneak peak at what should happen:

The group meets people that will help them hone their powers better.

They head back to May's home town to train.

And, they are in for an unexpected surprise.

Ya that's about it...Reveiw!