Liza and Aaron are still scared to death from the incident a week before. Of course, a magicarp that can leave scratches and bite marks in a pokemon would scare anyone. Right? Anyways, a few days after, more things kept going on fire. Max was scared out of his mind with Alyssa and Taylor around. It seemed that Max was just having small problems with the others, so Laila played with him as much as possible.

"It's kind of fun!" She said to Liza, "Even though I wish he could play with the others."

Taylor tried a little too hard. He turned himself into another litleo, hoping that Max would like it. INstead, Max burned taylor so bad, Liza had to use two whole burn heals to heal Taylor's burns. And Max had to be locked in the attic for a few hours as punishment. After that, Liza shouted.

"DARN! I'm running low on healing stuff. I'm going to the store!" Liza ran out the door.

"Ok. See you in a bit!" Eric replied.

At the store, there were only two occupants, a tall boy, around 16, with only one pokeball on his belt. and the other one is the girl from the big house. She goes up to Liza.

"Hello, Liza," The girl said.

"Who are you?" This girl was already creeping Liza out. The boy turned his head around, shrugged, and then went back to looking at revives.

"I see that you and your friends have moved into the house near us. And you have been raising pokemon. Is that right?" She asked.

"U-um...yeah. So?" Liza tilted her head.

"My family raises pokemon too. And we just want to check on the compitition."

"WHAT?! We're not competing. We just help animals that are hurt!"

"Exactly. But the thing is, you didn't catch any of those pokemon. Which means that they don't belong to you. My brother still has the fennikin's pokeball, which means that you don't have any right to keep it. I insist that you hand it over to me," The girl demanded.

"Well your brother beat her up! Because she didn't do a trick! That's what our job is!" Liza stomped her foot. The boy walked over calmly and stands in front of Liza, facing the girl.

"Stay out of her way," He said, "Shut up."

"And what gives you the right to talk to me like that? Hmm?" The girl retorted. She walks to the door, "I'll pick it up tomorrow."

And she walks out the door.

"T-thank you," Liza stuttered, "What's your name?"

"Vesper," The boy responded, "And I'd like to become a part of your team."

YAY! CHAPTER 10! I can't believe it made it this far so fast! P.S, I don't own pokemon, or Vesper