Nover slowly smiled. "I've lost," he thought.

Wes cursed under his breath as he tried to get up. His ribs were in pain. "Ah man, that Noctowl really hit me hard!" Wes said.

"Wes, are you ok?" Rui asked, as she helped him get up.

Quilava went to Wes, and to his surprise, stood next to him.

"Quilava, what is it?" Wes asked. He and Rui stared at Quilava in shock, as they couldn't believe that a Pokemon that was filled with so much anger
could change so quickly.

Quilava glanced at Nover intensely.

"No, Quilava it's over now," Wes said, meeting Quilava's gaze. "Here, return to your poke ball."

Just as Wes took out his poke ball, Makuhita walked over. He was badly hurt, but gladly returned to Wes's side, just as Quilava had done.

"Both of you, return," Wes ordered, as he put both of them in their poke balls. Nover then started to clap.

"Nice job, Wes- that's your name right?" Nover asked.

Wes looked back at him. "Yes, now tell me, how did you get that Noctowl?" Wes asked.

"Well, I must say no one has ever beaten me with that Pokemon," Nover replied. "No one in the Duel Square could touch me with it. And it was
all thanks to beating the Pyrite Colosseum."

"Pyrite Colosseum?" Rui asked. "What's that?"

Nover looked at her in confusion. "You guys must be new to this town, the Pyrite Colosseum is the biggest attraction here. Trainers come from
many different places to fight with their Pokemon to the top. It's hard to win, but if you get past the final round, you get a very special prize."

Wes stared sharply at Nover. "And, you got this Noctowl from there, am I correct?" Wes asked.

Nover nodded. "Every year the prize is different," he replied. "Sometimes it's a nice souvenir, or a golden medal. But, this year,
when I won, I was given a Pokemon. I was confused at first, but then when I saw it do battle, I couldn't believe how powerful it was."

Rui immediately asked, "Who gave that Pokemon to you?"

Nover shrugged his shoulders. "I couldn't tell you even if I wanted, it was these strange men with odd uniforms. They cordially congratulated me, and told me to use this Pokemon for battling and battling only. I do wonder though, why would this year's prize be a Pokemon? When I looked at the Pokemon, it was almost like they had imprisoned the poor little guy. It's eyes looked-

"Like it was suffering," Wes sadly said, finishing his sentence.

"Yeah, I didn't know why it was like that," Nover replied. "I do wonder though, how and why are you folks so interested into this, and would be willing to steal him from me," Nover said. "In fact, how did you steal a Pokemon from me in a battle, that shouldn't be possible!"

There was a pause. Nover's questions dissipated into the air as Wes looked back at Nover, and then looked away from him.

"I'm sorry, but we can't answer all your questions right now," Rui finally replied. "But, that Pokemon was subjected to terrible and
inhuman experiments, that closed its heart."

Nover stared at her in disbelief. "Closed? It's heart?"

Rui nodded. "I can see Pokemon who are like this, and even though I have no clue how, I've decided to use this power to find and help these Pokemon.

Wes finally said, "And we will both purify all the darkness from them. I stole your Noctowl so I could help it later. You understand Nover, right?"

Nover started to laugh. "Oh, I see," Nover replied. "You guys wanna do help Noctowl! Well, that sounds justifiable."

Wes smiled back. "He doesn't seem bad," Wes thought. "I almost feel like we can trust him."

"Could you point us in the direction of this tournament?" Wes asked.

Nover pointed to his right. "Just keep going in that direction, and you'll get there."

"Thanks Nover!" Rui happily said. "Wes, let's get going!"

As they started to walk, Nover called out, "Wait."

Rui looked back. "Yea?"

Nover suddenly looked at them in a darknened way. "This town is not what it may appear to be. Even at the best of times, there's nothing normal about this town.
Be careful."

Wes nodded and said, "thank you."

As they walked over the Pyrite Tournament, the other 3 trainers in the Duel Square started to to snicker.

"Nover lost, and just let him go," one of them said. "What a wimp. You just revealed-

"I told them all they needed to know," Nover instantly snapped. "Besides, I would hate to see those folks get all messed up by Mirror B."

Another trainer replied, "You know what happens to traitors Nover. And you just happen to fall in line among those people."

Nover stared at the trainers, "and what's that supposed to mean?" He asked.

"It means that once they find out what you've done, you'll be gone," Divel replied. Nover slowly took out Ledyba's poke ball.

"Perhaps this may be the end of the road," Nover thought. "Hopefully Wes finds out this town's secret, and protects all these Pokemon from becoming machines. I can only trust in him now..."

Wes and Rui both approached the Pyrite Tournament. It was a huge building, that made the other buildings in the town look like dwarfs. It had a huge circle at the top of the building.

"Whoa, this place is huge!" Rui said. Wes suddenly rushed inside. "Wait for me!" Rui yelled out.

"I need to figure this whole mess out now!" Wes angrily thought. "How many Pokemon have they made into these things!?"

Inside, there was a receptionist at a counter, and a thug at a Pokemon healing machine. Behind the receptionist was an opening to the actual tournament.

"Welcome to the Pyrite Colosseum!" The receptionist happily announced to Wes. "Are you here to register for entry-

"Yes!" Wes snapped. "Can I enter?"

The receptionist immediately was shocked by Wes's angry and cold stare at her. In an instant she was very fearful of Wes.

"Wes, please-" Rui began to say.

"WHEN can I enter!?" Wes yelled out.

"W-well, I'm sorry, but there's already a current challenge under way," the receptionist hesitantly said. "Please wait for the next challenge's registration-"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Wes angrily snapped.

The receptionist stared wide-eyed at Wes. "I-I-I'm sorry, sir, but I can't-

Just as Wes was about to yell even louder, Rui intervened.

"Oh ok, we understand," Rui replied. "Wes and I will come back once there is an open challenge, we're really sorry about all the trouble- Wes let's go!" Rui quickly said as she tried to drag Wes away. Wes finally stopped her from dragging him, and turned towards the exit, seething with anger. The receptionist became calm once Wes exited.

As they entered out, Rui said, "Wes please don't do anything like that ever again! You can't just demand people to give you something!"

Wes glared back. "Don't you get it? This little tournament is rigged, people are getting Shadow Pokemon left and right! I wonder how many people have won it already..."

"I feel the same way Wes," Rui replied. "But, we can't just go in and demand answers, we have to-

Just as Wes and Rui were walking in the town, they saw a police officer talking to another person. The other person had green hair, and had black and orange clothing. He had orange sunglasses resting on his head, and his face looked slightly filthy.

"Looks like trouble," Wes thought out loud. "Well, I don't think we should-

Rui instantly rushed to the scene.

Wes sighed. "Just great," thought Wes. "Hopefully the police don't find out who I am... maybe I should just leave Rui and-

But then a thought struck Wes. "What if that guy causes trouble..?" Wes thought. "He could be as bad as Trudly and Folly, or worse."

Remembering Nover's words about Pyrite Town, Wes followed Rui.

I would have made this longer, but I think this is a good ending. Next chapter will be much longer, thanks for reading!