"Here we are... Sapphire was it? Pal Park!" The captain of the boat said.
A man walked up to him. "Is this the Mightyena that was suppose to arrive?" He asked.
"Yep. Let it go in the park." The captain ordered, taking off when the Mightyena was given to the man.
The man started to walk down the path.
"You'll like it here. You'll find a new owner!" The man told Sapphire.
"NEW OWNER?! NEW OWNER? I DON'T WANT A NEW OWNER YOU STUPID PERSON. I WANT ALEXA." Sapphire snapped.
"Oh my! You seem excited." The man merely chuckled and continued walking.
"I'M NOT EXCITED YOU IDIOT!" She yelled.
They continued walking. Soon enough, Sapphire was in front of a building.
"Here we are!" The man smiled and brought her inside.
He set her on a countertop. "Here's the Mightyena. Free to be caught by any trainer." He told the lady.
She nodded and grabbed the cage, taking her outside.
Sapphire found herself surrounded by a huge field. Small mountains were in a corner of it, and there was a huge lake. Pokemon that she'd never seen before were all around it.
Her eyes sparkled, but then she saw trainers as well. She growled.
The woman opened her cage, and Sapphire bolted out, trying to escape and go back to Alexa, her old trainer. As she ran past the lake, she rammed headfirst with a Wartortle.
"Ow! Watch where you're going." He said, rubbing his head.
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO." Sapphire snapped. "NOW TELL ME WHERE I AM."
The turtle blinked. "Uh. Pal Park in the Sinnoh region. You know. You wait here for your trainer to pick you up after they came from a different place."
The canine's eyes widened. Sinnoh region... Not the... Hoenn... Region?
Sapphire growled and ran in the other direction, leaving behind a very confused turtle.
"Darnit. Now I'll never find Alexa." She growled to herself, coming to a stop. She sighed, lying down underneath a tree.
"Guess I'm on my own then..."
"Leo. This isn't where Sandgem City is." Lian groaned.
"I know but... I just thought we'd come here to look around!" Leo said, looking around the field.
"Sightseeing is not on the schedule." Nina snapped.
Leo rolled his eyes. "Well, look at all the pokemon around here! I mean, I've never seen anything like them!"
It was true, actually. The park was full of pokemon lounging about, many that probably lived very far away.
"Hey, look a berry bush!" Lian said, running over and plucking a few berries.
The group sat down to take a quick lunch break.
Sapphire snarled at the trainer. The boy had already sent out his Beedrill, and a battle was about to be issued.
"Beedrill! Poison Sting!"
Sapphire lept to avoid the attack, firing a Shadow Ball at the insect.
It hit its mark. The Beedrill fainted.
"Man, you're too strong." The trainer said, returning his pokemon and running off.
The mightyena smirked to herself. That was the fifth trainer to be defeated. I wonder what Maxie would think now. She looked up to see a trainer fighting a trio of pokemon.
Sniggering to herself, she sat back down. "Weaklings."
"Nice, Leo. Pick a place to go to that is completely flooded with trainers." Lian said as he fired a Magical Leaf attack at an Azumarill, knocking it down.
"Well, at least it's given us some battle experience!" Leo snapped as a Swift attack hit it's mark into the face of a Pikachu.
Finally, the trainers gave up, returning their pokemon to go somewhere else.
The group sighed, sitting down.
"These trainers are getting annoying." Nina declared.
The group agreed.
Sapphire widened her eyes. How could they have defeated them so easily. She shook her head. No. She wasn't weak.
The canine stood up and walked over to the trio, sitting down.
Leo blinked. "What could you possibly want?"
"A battle." Sapphire replied.
Leo stood up. "YES."
Taken aback by his enthusiasm, Sapphire prepared herself for battle.
Leo charged, encasing himself in water. He hit Sapphire head on. She tumbled back, landing on her feet, she fired a Shadow Ball. Leo whirled around and twisted his tails, launching the blob back at the bite pokemon. Sapphire dodged the attack, but not before Leo's Swift hit her on the side. Leo opened his mouth and fired a jet of water. Dazed, Sapphire was hit by it, knocked back into a tree. She sighed, admitting defeat.
Leo smirked. "This is getting too easy."
Sapphire snarled. Suddenly, she sighed. Anger never got her anywhere.
"What's your name anyway?" Lian asked, running over to Leo.
"None of your business, skirt boy." Sapphire snapped.
Leo fell on the ground laughing. "Oh man, she got you good!"
Lian groaned.
Sapphire sniggered. "My name's Sapphire, if you must know. What brings you guys here, anyway?"
"We're trying get to Sandgem Town so Proffessor Rowan can fix this Dawn Stone." Nina said.
Sapphire blinked. She shook water from her fur. "Mind if I join you guys for a while?"
"N-" Lian started to say.
"SURE." Leo yelled. "Welcome to the team, I'm Leo, this is Nina, and Lian, better known as Skirt Boy!"
Lian groaned again.
Sapphire blinked slightly. "Okay then. Well, shouldn't we go to Sandgem Town now?"
"N-" Leo started to say.
"YES." Lian yelled as he started to walk, dragging Leo behind him.
A few days later, the foursome were deep in the forest.
Sapphire was telling them her story.
"Wait, who's Team Magma again?" Leo asked.
"A group of criminals in Hoenn." Sapphire replied. "Now-"
"Does that mean you're a criminal?"
"No. Now-"
"You sure?"
"SHUT UP AND LET ME TELL THE STORY."
". . . Okay."
"Now then. Maxie told Alexa, my owner, that I was too weak to be in the team, so I was sent to Pal Park to find a new owner."
"That's horrible." Nina said.
"I know, seriously." Sapphire sighed.
Leo leapt up. "WE SHOULD GO PUMMEL THAT MAXIE GUY."
"YEAH!" Sapphire yelled.
Lian sighed. "It's like having two Leo's."
Nina nodded.
Soon enough, they were out of the forest and in Sandgem Town.
"Nice to see a tidy town for once." Leo said, looking around.
The town looked peaceful enough. A few people were walking and talking to eachother.
"Let's hurry." Nina said, taking off.
The pokemon followed her, looking around for a lab.
A few hours later, no luck.
The group sat down, groaning.
"Well now what?" Sapphire snapped. "There's no way we'll ever find the lab." She stared at Leo who was staring at something. "What are you looking at?"
Leo turned Sapphire's head around. There was the lab.
"Finally." Lian groaned.
They walked over to the door.
"... How exactly are we suppose to do this?" Leo asked, staring at the building.
"Simple. Ring the doorbell and drop the stone on the steps." Sapphire replied.
She took the stone and told the others to hide behind a bush. The canine pressed the doorbell and dropped the Dawn Stone on the step, running away and joining the other three behind the bush.
An old man opened the door. He looked around, then at his feet.
"Oh? A Dawn Stone?" He picked it up, looking at it. "It's broken! Better fix it up so we can study it." He brought it inside and shut the door.
"Great! Now we don't have a stone!" Nina groaned.
"... Good point..." Sapphire said, groaning.
"We can wait until he fixed it, then go and grab it." Lian suggested.
"I AM NOT GOING TO SIT AROUND AND WAIT." Leo growled.
"Where else do we have to go then?" Nina asked him, glaring.
Leo smirked. "Lemme see the map."
Lian handed him the map. He spread it out, pointing at an island. "That's Iron Island. Where tough trainers and pokemon go to train. If I go there, I can become a whole lot stronger."
"Then who's going to stay behind?" Lian asked.
"I will."
All eyes turned to Sapphire.
"I'm good at nabbing things and running away. You guys go and train. I'll stay here."
"BUT SAPPHIRE. WE'VE ONLY BEEN TOGETHER FOR A FEW DAYS." Leo cried, hugging her.
"... Get off of me you idiot."
"Sorry."
Sapphire rolled her eyes. "Just come back for me."
They nodded. "Yep."
The group packed up their things and walked away, waving goodbye.
"That was a short lived encounter." Lian commented.
"Oh well." Nina said, shrugging.
"Mmfhgh." Leo grumbled.
In the Ozone layer...
"GRAWRGH. Why won't this dumb thing work?" The dragon roared, messing with a rubix cube. He gave up, sighing and tossing it onto a cloud.
Suddenly, his eyes widened. He felt a disturbance.
"What the heck was that?"
He glanced around, shrugging.
The rubix cube hit a passing Taillow on the head.