"Ssso, Honchkrow. You truly are leaving the mountainsssss?" Arbok hissed. He and his Ekans were gathered around a clearing in the mountains, along with Honckrow and his Murkrow.

"I said not to call me that. It's Lyal now." Honchkrow... Or Lyal said. "And yes, I think it'll be best to start over in a different place. The mountains were never kind to us."

"Are you sure you're not jussssst mad that we beat you ssssso badly?" An Ekans piped up.

Lyal shot him a glare.

"As I was saying. I'm leaving today." He continued.

"Very well then. We'll missssssss you... I guesssss." Arbok replied.

"Farewell, then." Lyal flapped his wings and took off, his flock close behind.

"Well that ssssettlessss our feud I guessss..." An Ekans hissed as he watched them leave.

"Yeah, bu- WOAHWHATTHEHECKWASSSSTHAT?"

A small pink creature whizzed by, narrowly missing the snakes. They ducked out of its way, watching it fly by.

"... What jusssst happened?"

"No idea."

"I miss Sapphire."

"That's great, Leo."

"I miss Sapphire."

"We know, Leo."

"I mi-"

"WILL YOU SHUT UP." Both Lian and Nina yelled.

Leo had been complaining ever since they left. But now he finally decided to stay quiet.

Nina sighed with relief, taking a look at the map again. They were headed for Lake Verity. So far, so good.

Lian looked around the forest, listening to the birds chirping. "So why exactly are we headed for this lake instead of Canavale City?" He asked.

Nina whispered in his ear. "To cheer Leo up. He's been down since we left Sapphire a few days ago."

Lian snorted. "I noticed."

Nina rolled her eyes.

The group finally got out of the forest. In front of them was a vast lake with sparkling waters and a small cave in the middle.

"It's beauti-" Nina started to say.

"CANNONBALL." Leo cried, rushing forward and jumping into the water.

Except there was no splash.

Leo blinked for a second, then was hurled back on land.

"Ow." He groaned, rubbing his head.

"Golly, mister. You landed right in my blowhole!" A voice said.

Nina looked around, confused. "Who said that?"

"Why, me!" The voice answered.

A freaking huge whale emerged from the lake. A Wailord.

"HOLY CRAP YOU'RE FREAKING HUGE." Leo cried.

The Wailord blushed. "Shucks, mister. Why thank you. I'm Louis."

Lian blinked. "I'm Lian. This is Nina and Leo. And why the heck are you here? Should you be in the ocean or something?"

Louis lost his big smile. "Golly. I haven't been in the ocean in ages. I got split up from my Ma when this big red Gyarados attacked me."

Leo raised a brow. "Red? Are you sure you're not colorblind, Louis?"

Louis shook his head. "No siree. The Gyarados attacked me and I was blown back in this here lake.

The group stared. Lian checked the map.

"Er. There's a forest in between Lake Verity and the nearest body of water... You sure you were blown al the way here?" He asked.

"Yepper." Louis replied.

"Well, he must have been pretty strong." Nina commented.

"The strongest you'll ever darn well see, purdy lady!" Louis said.

"Which makes him a perfect opponent for me!" Declared an exicted Leo.

The Wailord's eyes widened. "Golly! You can't possibly take that big thing down!"

"Yes I can."

"No siree, Leo mister!"

"Yes."

"No!"

"Yes."

"No, I say!"

"Y-"

"WILL YOU BOTH SHUT UP." Nina yelled.

The two stopped immediately.

"We have a bigger problem on our hands. How to get Louis here back." Lian said.

"Golly! How're you gonna do that?"

"Simple. With my Psychic abilities." Lian replied, lifting a rock with telekinesis to prove his point.

Leo burst out laughing.

"Dude, this guy is one of the biggest pokemon in the world. How do you expect to lift him with your pea brain?"

Lian narrowed his eyes.

"He has a point, Lian." Nina piped up. "He's much too big."

"Then I will help." A voice said.

The group looked around, trying to find the location of the voice. A pink and blue fairy descended from the sky, floating in front of Louis.

"With my help, Kirlia. We can lift this Wailord and deposit him in the nearest body of water." It said. "My name is Mespirit."

Leo's jaw dropped.

"WOAH MAN A LEGENDARY. OH MY GROUDON." He ran on top of the Wailord, reaching out to touch a tail on Mespirt.

"I TOUCHED A FREAKING LEGENDARY." He yelled.

Mespirt slapped him off Louis and into the water.

"He does this often?" She asked.

"More than you think." Nina replied, sighing.

"Let's get this done." Lian said, surrounding Louis in his Confusion attack. He slowly lifted the whale out of the water.

Mespirit joined him. Her psychic abilities allowed her to give Lian a boost. Louis was carried toward the end of the lake and over the ground.

Leo poked his head out of the water and followed the two psychic types and Nina as they carried the massive pokemon through the forest.

"Giratina!" A small cat like pokemon called.

A bigger creature appeared. "Mew! There you are. I wondered why you missed my tea party. Lugia was there." He looked around. "What's going on?" He asked.

Two mammoth pokemon walked out of the shadows. "Mewtwo, Mew. Glad you're here." A pink one said.

"Dialga, Palkia? You're here two?" Mew asked. He giggled. "Are we throwing Giratina a birthday party?" He asked.

On cue, a giant pokemon appeared. "No. It's great of you to come here, all the way from the Kanto region, Mew, Mewtwo. But there is something up."

Mewtwo floated over to a rock, sitting down. "Something up? How would you know anything while you sit here all alone in Turnback Cave. You're home even sounds antisocial."

Giratina rolled his eyes. "Because some wierd energy signal went through my dimension. I'm not sure what it means but... I want you all to go and investigate in your own regions."

Mew giggled. "Yay, investigations!" It squeaked.

Mewtwo grabbed the little pink pokemon's hand and dragged it out of the cave.

"Whatever. Come on Mew. Let's have a party at my place."

"Okay... Gently... Gently..."

Louis landed with a splash. "Golly! I'm out of that lake at last!"

Leo lept into the water, swimming around.

"Yep. Now can we go to Canavale and then Iron Island?" He asked.

"Actually, I was hoping that Louis could ferry us there." Lian said.

Louis blushed. "Shucks. I'd be honored to."

Mespirit nodded towards Nina. "Well, I best be off. See you." She turned around and sped away.

"Well. I guess we have another person on our team." Nina declared.

Lian lept and landed neatly ontop of the whale. "So I guess we can leave now?"

Leo surfaced from the water, smirking. "Sure thing, pretty boy."

He ducked to avoid a sparkling leaf aimed at him.

Nina merely rolled his eyes and got on top of Louis.

"Okay, fellas. We're off!" The Wailord said happily.

Leo swam behind them as the group headed out to the ocean.

Mespirit sighed as she returned to the cave, picking up her cards.

"The nerve of some people." She mumbled as she looked at them.

"You're cheating again, Azelf."

"HOW WOULD YOU KNOW, UXIE. YOU'RE FREAKING BLIND."

"Would you like me to open my eyes?"

"STOP SAYING THAT."

Sapphire peered through the window. The scientists were still fixing the Dawn Stone. She groaned, slumping down.

"Ugh. Why did I let myself stay behind. I bet they're having a bunch of fun now." She mumbled, pacing impatiently.

Meanwhile, at the edge of Canavale City.

"Lunch time!" Nina called, taking out some berries.

"Sweet!" Leo said as he climbed ontop of Louis, grabbing a berry.

"Finally, I'm star- AHH WINGULL." Lian said as a gull started attacking him, trying to take his food.

"BACK DEMONS. BACK I SAY." Leo cried, slapping a Wingull away from his berry.

Nina sighed.

"I wonder how Sapphire's doing..." She murmured.