Pokémon: Journey of the Next Generation

by NEBSparky86

10 years have passed since Ash and May have settled down into their positions as members of the Atlantica Islands Elite Four. Now the time has come to pass the mantle on to the new guard of Pokémon trainers. Follow Cynthia Ketchum along with other new trainers as they find new friends and perils. Slight Advanceshipping... sequel to May and Ash's Unova Journey.

11. Chapter 10

May: NEBSparky86 does not own the characters and story elements of the Pokémon franchise. Game Freak, Nintendo and the Pokémon Company all have ownership of it. He's just borrowing them for this story to entertain readers for fun.

10: Conflicts in Kanto part 1

Author's note: There's some light M-related themes in this chapter. Hopefully it won't be much of a problem.

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[Lily Sakura's POV]

"Marco!" I exclaimed as I ran towards my boyfriend from Oblivia as he came to see me after journeying to another region.

As I ran towards my boyfriend, I didn't think about the temperature of the tarmac and how hot it would be on my bare feet. Boy was that tarmac hot on my feet and I had to run back off the super hot blacktop. My shiny female Celebi big sister, Tulip, just shook her head at my rash decision to go run out and meet Marco Seabright.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow," I complained as I was nursing my burnt feet and Tulip floated down to my level.

'Guess you should've looked to see if the tarmac was hot or not, eh Lily?' Tulip asked me before using her Heal Bell on my feet.

"Shut up Tulip," I countered back as my feet started to feel soothed and much better. "Can you blame me for being happy to see Marco?"

"Oh boy," my silver haired boyfriend said as he had come over to me and Tulip. "You really gotta be careful about what you run on."

"Come on Marco, not you too," I whined to my boyfriend before he picked me up and carried me on his back with Tulip following closely behind me. "You know I can walk Marco."

"I know," replied my silver-haired boyfriend, "but once we make the halfway mark back to the Celadon Gym, you'll be moaning and complaining about how your feet hurt."

"But I don't wanna have to face Mom," I moaned to Marco as he carried me back home.

'You're definitely not the young Fairy Princess,' Tulip said as she glided right behind Marco and me as she brought up my boyfriend's younger sister, Vanna Seabright.

"If I want comments from the peanut gallery, I'll ask for them," I sassed at Tulip as I glared at my Psychic/Grass-type big sister.

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"Oh Lily," my mom, the current gym leader of the Celadon City gym, said to me after she had changed out of one of her usual kimonos she wore for doing a tea ceremony and some flower arranging that she was well known for. "When will you ever learn to not be so reckless? Your feet are really red."

"Aw Mom," I began to protest before she called over her Meganium over to us with Marco watching over us. "I couldn't help it if I was happy to see Marco after he had just gone on a journey that I couldn't join him."

"That's still no excuse for you to just run on a hot tarmac without protecting your feet," my mom chided me as her Meganium had come over to us and then shook her head.

'Oh boy, the young miss burnt her feet on something hot again, I see,' Mom's female Johto Grass-type Herb Pokémon said before she began her Heal Pulse on my feet.

"Daddy doesn't wear shoes anywhere he goes," I countered back to Mom and her Meganium as I made reference to my father, Ilex Sakura.

Oh yes that's right, guess it slipped my mind to tell you. I and my three siblings are half human and half Celebi as our father, Ilex was a Celebi at one point before becoming a human himself and married our mother. He and Mom really hit it off and they've had a pretty great marriage so far. But back to me, because Meganium was healing my feet in the garden, she was very fussy and, I have no Arceus-forbid reason why, insisted that I have on one of the kimonos that my mom got me for when I do flower arrangement in the garden. Since my feet were burnt, I used my Psychic attack to help me levitate while I put on my kimono for Meganium and the other finicky Grass-type Pokémon that insisted we have kimonos on whenever we entered the garden area. Plus I didn't want Marco to have another… "friendly chat" with my dad when he helped me into my kimono the last time I needed to have my feet healed by Meganium. Getting my feet healed by Meganium's Heal Pulse wasn't the problem for me, it was what I had to do after getting healed by Mom's Meganium. Mom would have me drink a really bitter herbal tea to help speed the healing process and it wasn't the most pleasant thing to drink… even for a Grass-type hybrid like myself.

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"Blech, I hate drinking that tea," I said an hour later after Marco and I left the garden to go change into our clothes.

"Maybe consider wearing shoes… or at least a pair of sandals like my mom does on occasion," Marco offered as a suggestion to me as I took off the kimono and put my sleeveless shiny Celebi pink tank top and shorts back on and put my Friend Ball necklace back around my neck.

"I don't wanna think about that right now," I replied to my boyfriend as I rolled my eyes and then reached for the TV remote. "I just wanna relax and see what's on the tube… if it's not depressing news again."

"It seems that most of what's on the news here in Kanto is depressing," my silver-haired boyfriend from Oblivia said as I turned on the TV and of course the depressing news was on.

"Moving on, the latest news from Celadon City shows that another business was ransacked by the notorious Fiend Venom motorcycle gang," the news reporter said before letting out a sigh before looking at the TelePrompTer once again. "The tech business had various equipment used in the development of magnetic technologies for things like the high speed train that connects the Kanto and Johto regions stolen from them."

"For the love of Arceus… not again," I snarled as I had enough of hearing the depressing news that came from the TV. "I'm sick and tired of hearing this."

"Eh? Lily?" Marco asked me in a dumbfounded tone before his Manectric let himself out of his Pokéball. "My Precious Blossom?"

"I'm getting really tired of hearing about how gangs are destroying Kanto," I said in an angry tone as I figured if Team Trident, in Ren Kaiou and Cynthia Ketchum's home region of the Atlantica Islands, weren't going to do something about the problems here, then I was going to deal with the problem. "Mikki Stone and her family have doing everything in their power to try and fight the gangs. I think it's time that we do something about it."

"Uh… I'm sorry, but what do you mean by 'we'?" Marco asked as he was uneasy and didn't like that I had used the royal 'we.' "My siblings, Hayato and I just took down Team Xen and I really wanna relax and not think about fighting another criminal organization."

"And here I thought you'd want to see me looking sexy in of those suits that Ren, Mizuki and Hayato's aunt, Lady Jessica, made for us," I said in a mock pouting tone as I knew how to push Marco's buttons. "You remember which suits I'm talking about, right? The dive suits from that Netflix show A.I.C.O. Incarnation that you made me watch with you when I journeyed with you that one time."

Marco thought about it for a moment and remembered the cosplay dive suits that Marco and I got for a cosplay fair in Oblivia. Both of us were glad that Lady Jessica gave us a special discount because the original cost of the cosplay outfits nearly gave my parents a heart attack. I really didn't like it at first because that it meant that I wasn't barefoot like I usually like to be, but I changed my mind about it over time as I saw the suit actually worked like it did in the show as per the reason why the cosplay suits were so expensive. As Marco was deep in thought about wither or not he wanted to see me in the cosplay suit, I just went ahead and put on the suit. After taking about 30 minutes to get it on and seeing Marco with a nosebleed after he saw me stripping my clothes off and putting on the suit, Marco followed suit and put on his suit that he left here as well. His cosplay suit and mine were both lightly armored and made with military grade Kevlar and also had a helmet made with the suits too. My cosplay suit was in all shiny Celebi pink with a pair of green visors. Though… little did I realize as to why the suits worked just like in the show Marco made me watch with him and I would find out later on in the trek through Kanto to wipe out or cripple the groups terrorizing my home region.

"I gotta say my precious blossom," Marco began, getting me out of my daze, with a grin on his face, "you definitely look sexy in that suit."

Before I could reply, my mom called us downstairs for supper. Both of us looked at our cosplay outfits and realized that we couldn't get them off in time so we just went down wearing them.

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After dinner, my mom gave me a Dream Ball with a new Pokémon in it. I knew that Cynthia was someone who had great fascination with Pokémon from the Dream World, but I too had a slight fascination with the Dream World too and was really wanting one of those Alola Pokémon that she had gotten or at least the Grass-type starter that her best friend had gotten. As for the part wither it was shiny or not, I really didn't care about that.

"Where did you get this Dream Ball?" I asked my mom as Dream Balls were never sold at any store or found anywhere else. "You couldn't have bought this at a store."

"I guess you can say that it appeared to me when a special guest came to the gym and had been staying in the garden," Mom explained to me. "He's from the Alola region where Cynthia has gone to."

"Really?!" I asked Mom with stars in my eyes and such enthusiasm in my tone. "So cool!"

"I assume that you plan to do some traveling around the region," Mom said as she looked to me and Marco intently.

"I'm doing this under protest," Marco said to Mom with a blank stare.

"Well, regardless as to why you're traveling throughout Kanto again," began Mom, "I would like for you to start your travels here with just Tulip and your new Pokémon that I just gave you."

"I'm fine with that," I replied to my mother as I shrugged my shoulders. "Besides, you know I really haven't caught anything except that Bulbasaur and the Lotad that I evolved into a Ludicolo."

"Yes Lily, I know," Mom said to me as she let out a sigh. "You mostly rely on Tulip."

'Is there anything wrong with Lily relying on me, Lady Erika?' my big Psychic/Grass-type sister asked my mom.

"I never said there is anything wrong with Lily relying on you," Mom answered Tulip. "But I just think that she needs more Pokémon, especially Grass-type Pokémon if she's going to run the Celadon Gym."

Mom did have a point as I really didn't have much interest in capturing many Grass-type Pokémon. Not to mention that I kinda set my goals a little too high by wanting to start out my journey with a Leafeon or a Gourgeist alongside me and Tulip. Add in the fact that Marco has had to bail me out on numerous occasions too and I think that he was getting really tired of having to bail me out when Tulip was unable to battle. So having to settle for just getting any Grass-type Pokémon was going to have to suffice for the time being. The more I thought about it, the more I was curious as to what kind of Pokémon that Mom gave me. Getting a nod from Tulip was enough for me to wanna sate my curiosity.

"Come on out, Pokémon!" I shouted as I tossed up the Dream Ball to set the Pokémon inside free for a meet and greet.

The Pokémon that came out of the Dream Ball was a small owl-like Pokémon with a bowtie on its chest. I'll admit that I didn't seem open to the idea of owning a bird Pokémon, especially since it looked a bit like a Hoothoot from the Johto region. But Tulip had the Pokédex that I got as a gift from Queen Relena when my family and I traveled over to the Atlantica Islands and enrolled me and my siblings into the Royal Pokémon School at Sol Palace. I aimed the Pokédex at the small green owl-like Pokémon with the bowtie.

'Rowlet, the Grass Quill Pokémon,' my Pokédex said to me before continuing its entry. 'This Grass/Flying-type Pokémon from the Alola region is known for using a trainer's bag as a nest as it prefers tight and dark places. The feathers on this Pokémon are very sharp like blades and its kicks are quite formidable. Its ability is Long Reach and allows it to attack opposing without having to make direct contact with the opposing Pokémon.'

"Oh… I thought you were just a Flying-type Pokémon," I said to Rowlet before bowing to it. "My apologies to you Rowlet."

'Oh think nothing of it, my lady,' the shiny Rowlet said as he bowed to me. 'Though I did hear that you were born of a Celebi father. Is this true?'

"Uh… it is," I answered Rowlet. "My parents told me everything. They never left anything out. I'm proud that I was born to a Celebi father."

'This will definitely be a new adventure for me,' Rowlet said as he looked to me. 'Though I do hope you have a backpack that I can climb into from time to time.'

"I gotta admit, your Long Reach ability will definitely come in handy," I said with the biggest smile on my face. "You won't get burned, paralyzed, fall asleep or become infatuated with an opposing Pokémon by direct contact."

'You've done your homework I see,' Rowlet said as he gave me a slight nod. 'Now then… about buying a backpack for me to sleep in…'

"What if I wanna pack in my clothes and a sexy swimsuit just for my sexy stud to see?" I asked Rowlet in a pouty tone.

"Yeah… you definitely always look sexy in a swimsuit, my precious blossom," Marco said aloud as he was busy picturing me in one of my swimsuits that I usually wear just for him… and then had Zeus right behind him with electrified fangs. "AHH! ZEUS!"

'Someone's gotta keep you in check when Lily's father is nearby,' Marco's male Manectric, Zeus, said to Marco after using his Thunder Fang on Marco's rear end to snap Marco out of his fantasy.

'Have you forgotten already?' Rowlet asked me. 'I'm able to squeeze into tight places. Even if you pack your clothes and any additional items in the backpack.'

"If you plan to go shopping for clothes and any swimwear, I'd go right now," Mom said to me and Marco.

"Please just make sure that Daddy or my other siblings aren't following me and Marco," I requested of Mom. "Every time one of them is tailing me and Marco, I get a shiver running down my spine when they tail Marco and me."

"Zeus does a fine job of making sure nothing happens between Lily and me," Marco said as he was still rubbing his butt after getting a Thunder Fang from Zeus. "He does it under my mom's orders."

'Lady Abelia just wishes to make sure that you don't make the same mistakes that she and your father made when they were a bit older than you are now,' Zeus said to Marco as he sat down next to his trainer.

"M-Mom is just worrying too much," Marco replied with a sweatdrop on his forehead.

"But that's what a mother does, Marco," Mom said to my boyfriend. "We worry about our children and try to ensure that they don't make mistakes that we might've made in the past. We just don't want our children to make the mistakes we made."

"Mom… we're not like those two sex addicts, Ren and her fiancé, Benny," I said to Mom in reference to the firstborn princess of the Atlantica Islands and the firstborn son of Team Trident's leader.

"Regardless, I'd feel more comfortable with you two having someone keep an eye on you two," Mom said in a stern tone.

"Then just leave the babysitting to Tulip and Zeus," I offered to my mother as I felt more comfortable with my shiny female Psychic/Grass-type big sister and Marco's Manectric watching over us than my own siblings and dad. "If you want us to be babysat, then I'd feel more comfortable with Tulip and Zeus babysitting us."

'You know that you can always count on me and Zeus to keep a watchful eye on Lily and Marco,' Tulip reassured my mom.

'That's right, Lady Erika,' agreed Zeus as the Hoenn Electric-type gave my mom a nod of reinforcement.

"Very well," relented Mom as she gave Tulip and Zeus a thoughtful nod. "I trust you two to keep a watchful eye on Marco and Lily."

'Your trust in Tulip and I has never been wasted, my lady,' Zeus said to my mom as he bowed to her.

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'How did we know that Lady Lily was going to make a beeline for the swimwear first?' Zeus asked Tulip and my Rowlet.

'I've just joined Lady Lily, so I have no clue,' Rowlet said to Zeus as the three of them were watching me looking at swimsuits.

"Yuck… why would any sane girl or woman wanna wear that?" I asked myself aloud as I was quick to toss an ugly and really raunchy two piece swimsuit. "Oh right… I'm in the wrong area. And in the wrong store from the look of things. A store of complete disgusting raunchiness."

Before the store manager could find me, Marco, our Pokémon and I made like Michael Jackson and beat it from the store. As we exited the store, the store manager glared at us and she wasn't happy with the things that I said.

"I don't ever want to see you in our store ever again, you disgusting little self-righteous witch," the store manager shouted at me before adding obscenities at me.

My response was just to flip the bird at her in retaliation for the obscenities sent at me. In response to me flipping the bird at her, the store manager charged at me as she wanted to make an example of me. But Tulip wouldn't allow her to do so by using her Psychic attack and flung her back into that filthy and disgusting place she called a store. I wanted to use my Psychic attack and do the deed myself, but Tulip was instructed by my mother to make sure that I didn't use any of the moves that I inherited from my dad. After Tulip dealt with the store manager, we managed to find a different store, an athletic store with the swimwear that I was looking for. All I had to do was ask the store owner where the swimsuits were located and they pointed me where they were. Marco… I dragged him with me as I wanted him to see me try out swimsuits and see which ones made me look and feel sexy. But I also wanted some alone time without having Tulip or Zeus right there watching us. So I decided to ask Rowlet to distract Tulip and Zeus for a while and asked him to pass along to both babysitters that if they left me and Marco alone for about… an hour, I'd make sure they got a sweet treat.

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3rd Person POV

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'So you're saying that you allowed Lily and Marco to go off on their own without supervision?' Zeus asked Lily's Rowlet as he relayed Lily's message to both of Lily Sakura and Marco Seabright's strongest Pokémon.

'What's wrong with Lily wanting to be alone with Marco?' Lily's Rowlet asked both strong and powerful Pokémon. 'I see nothing wrong with that.'

The male Hoenn Discharge Pokémon shook his head in disgust as the newest member of the small group had already fallen down on the job in keeping an eye on Lily and Marco. As much as he wanted to go in the store and stop whatever it was that Lily and Marco were doing in the store, neither Zeus nor Tulip were allowed in the store. Even Lily's new Rowlet wasn't allowed in the store. All the male Discharge Pokémon could do was hope that Lily and Marco weren't up to any sort of any mischief that they would regret later. Plus the thought of a nice treat did appeal to him as he didn't exactly get a special treat from Lily like he usually got from her whenever they were at the Celadon Gym.

'There's no need to worry about Marco,' Tulip said to Zeus. 'Otherwise, all you'd have to do was make sure he got proper correction from another Thunder Fang of yours.'

'That's true,' replied Zeus as he shrugged his shoulders and joined Tulip on the bench outside the athletic store.

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[Lily Sakura's POV]

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"Oh man, you definitely look sexy in that swimsuit," my silver-haired boyfriend said as I modeled a backless athletic one piece swimsuit in the colors of a shiny Leafeon for Marco to see as it contoured to my ever sexy girlish figure and was definitely skin tight, just the way I was starting to like it. "But can't you go in a fitting room and change in there instead of right in front of me? You're making me have a nosebleed."

I giggled in amusement as I was definitely getting a kick out of seeing him have a nosebleed every time I put on swimwear in front of him shamelessly. But I also had another reason for not going into fitting rooms at the time. With all of the criminal groups running around and amok in Kanto, there were bound to be perverts who had slipped hidden cameras everywhere they could possibly think of… fitting rooms notwithstanding. And I certainly was not going to become some freakish pervert's sideshow to sell on the internet. There was also the fact that Sabrina's firstborn child had been humiliated by videos of her in a changing room that was distributed over the internet. Poor Angie… she hadn't been the same ever since and remained locked up in the Saffron City gym. As for me, I certainly wasn't going to let that happen to me. I used my natural Psychic-type abilities and searched for any hidden cameras. Once I was certain that there weren't any hidden cameras in the area where the fitting rooms were located, I had made my decision as I wanted to be a model for Marco and give him quite the show too.

"Okay then," I said as I grabbed the next swimsuit that I was going to model for Marco in colors of a shiny Gourgeist from the Kalos region. "Time for this swimsuit."

"Where do you find some of these swimsuits?" Marco asked me in amazement of the fact that they were in the colors of my favorite shiny Grass-type Pokémon and knew that the store rarely ever had the swimsuits I liked in the colors of my favorite shiny Grass-types, Tulip included. "I know that the store managers couldn't have known what a shiny Celebi looks like unless they saw constantly saw Tulip outside waiting for you. Or even some of the other shiny Grass-types that you like."

I mischievously rolled my eyes with a grin on my face before replying, "Oh… I might've ordered them already and asked the store employees to make it look like they had them in stock."

Marco then smiled and shook his head as he replied, "Of course. I should've known you'd pull something like that."

"Wanna help me out of this swimsuit I've got on and help me into this one in my hands?" I asked Marco in a smooth and silky tone as I… decided to turn on my charms and sex appeal.

"Uh… n-no… no thank you," stammered Marco as his answer and was blushing profusely as his face was as red as a Roseli Berry. "I'd rather… rather not get another Thunder Fang from Zeus in my butt again. But if you need me to zip something up with swimsuit, I can do that."

I giggled as I took off the swimsuit I had on and then put on shiny Gourgeist water polo swimsuit in front of Marco shamelessly. And of course Marco let out a startling cry and had a nosebleed once again. The swimsuit that I slipped on was certainly skintight and formed perfectly to my girlish figure. Fortunately for Marco, he didn't need to do any zipping up for me as I used my Psychic attack to do it myself after looking at myself in the mirror and locating the zipper. Marco… was still on the floor with his nose still bleeding and him being dazed because of me continual exposing him to my… natural beauty. After a slight chuckle to myself, I continued looking at myself in the mirror, modeling the swimsuit I had on and then proceeded to do the same with the others.

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'You certainly took your time,' Zeus said to me after Marco and I had spent a little more time than I thought we would spend in the athletic store. 'Please tell me that no shenanigans of the sexual kind were performed inside the store.'

"Of course nothing like that ever happened," Marco strongly insisted to his Manectric, Zeus, as he shook his head violently.

"No Zeus, we never did any such thing," I added to reinforce Marco's answer as I had my purchase of swimsuits in a backpack that I also had purchased in the store and caught the attention of my shiny male Grass Quill Pokémon.

'Oh goodie, you bought a backpack,' Rowlet said as he flew up and then made himself comfortable in my new shiny Celebi backpack, despite the fact that I still hadn't purchased other clothes and essentials for the trek through Kanto. 'It's definitely cozy in here.'

"Well, you better enjoy it while you can," I sternly said to Rowlet. "Because I intend to buy more things and put them into this backpack. You may be in your Dream Ball instead of in my backpack. Or I'll just let you sleep in Marco's backpack."

"Hey!" Marco exclaimed in protest as he didn't want my Rowlet in his backpack. "He's your Pokémon, not mine! So don't let him sleep in my backpack."

'Well… regardless,' began Rowlet, 'until I evolve into Dartrix, one of you is gonna have to allow me to stay in their backpack.'

"Or you can just stay in your Dream Ball instead," I countered back to Rowlet as I produced his Dream Ball that Mom caught him in. "I've got other things that I have to buy and put in that backpack."

'Then Marco's backpack it is then,' Rowlet said as he got out of my new backpack that I bought and made himself at home in the backpack that I bought for Marco.

"What the Houndour?!" Marco asked as he wasn't happy that my Rowlet made himself comfortable in his new yellow and blue Manectric colored back.

'I know better than to snooze in a lady's backpack,' Rowlet said to Marco before falling asleep.

'Ouch Marco,' Zeus said to his owner.

'Lily you should recall Rowlet anyway,' Tulip suggested to me. 'At least do it while Rowlet is asleep.'

Without hesitation, I recalled Rowlet and got him out of Marco's backpack while my shiny male Grass/Flying-type was sound asleep. Marco let out a sigh of relief after I recalled Rowlet to his Dream Ball and then closed it up before he let himself out of his Dream Ball and began roosting in his backpack again. After taking care of Rowlet and purchasing some necessary supplies from the Celadon Department Store, Marco and I departed back home as there wasn't much in the way of winter clothing considering that winter as actually on its way sooner than predicted. I had complained to Mom about the cold and how much I hated it, but for her, Celadon City was her home and it was going to take a lot more than a bunch of rowdy gangs to uproot her from her hometown. As a Grass-type hybrid, I hated the cold and extreme heat so much like any other Grass-type Pokémon would. With a look of disappointment on finding suitable winter clothing, I figured that I was going to be freezing my butt off… not that my cosplay outfit couldn't keep me warm. I just wanted some winter clothes that would keep me really warm and comfortable when I had to go out.

"Cheer up Lily," Marco told me with a smile. "We'll find some winter gear you'll like. Even if we have to make them with the feathers of a bird Pokémon."

'Hey!' a shiny Pidgeotto called to me and Marco from the sky as he had overheard us talking about winter clothing and heard Marco bringing up bird feathers.

"Huh?" I asked as I looked around and then saw said Pidgeotto as he then descended down to a bench.

'You looking for some proper winter clothing?' the Kanto shiny male Normal/Flying-type Stage 1 evolved Bird Pokémon asked me and Marco.

"Uh… yes," I answered nervously as we looked at the Bird Pokémon. "Why… why are you… asking?"

'Oh… a little Pidgey told me that you're looking for some warm and comfortable winter clothing,' the shiny Pidgeotto explained to me. 'The guild that I work with can accommodate you with your request.'

"Wait… there's a guild here in Kanto?" Marco asked as he was flabbergasted at the mention of a guild outside of the Atlantica Islands.

'We're a small guild though,' the Pidgeotto said before bringing focus back to the subject at hand. 'But would you like for us to help accommodate your request?'

'How can you buzzards accommodate Lady Lily's request for proper winter clothes?' Zeus asked the shiny Pidgeotto as he was wary of him.

'What are you trying pull?' Tulip asked the shiny male Bird Pokémon as she too was cautious.

'Please… do not assume that we are trying to pull the wool over the young lady's eyes,' the Pidgeotto requested of Zeus and Tulip. 'My guild and I are from the Atlantica Islands and we want to invest here in Kanto.'

"Come on Marco," I said to my boyfriend after hearing that the guild was from the Atlantica Islands. "What harm would it be if we checked what they have?"

"Oh… alright," Marco reluctantly agreed as he let out a sigh and rolled his eyes as he followed me and the shiny Pidgeotto with Tulip and Zeus in tow.

'Better bring your berries with you,' the shiny Pidgeotto said as he then flapped his wings and then lead us to his intended destination. 'Because we only accept berries as payment. None of those human-made credit cards or human printed paper sheets are accepted.'

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"Wow, I feel like we just came from Rito Village," I said in amazement of the winter clothes that I had just bought with 15 Yache Berries and 20 Wacan Berries each for mine and Marco's outfits, a really hefty price, but it was worth it. "I definitely feel warm in this outfit made with Pidgeot and Talonflame feathers."

'That was a quick change of heart for you,' Tulip said as she was still amazed at my turn of heart after entering a store run by Flying-type Pokémon. 'But as long as you're happy, who am I to protest?'

'Lady Erika might not agree with that,' Zeus said to Tulip as I did have to raid my mom's berry garden… with her permission of course. 'Yache and Wacan berries are pretty rare anywhere.'

"You know Lily, all you're really missing are the pointy elf ears," Marco chimed in before he snickered at me.

'You two have been playing that Zelda game WAAAYYY too much,' Tulip said to Marco and me.

"We can't help it," I replied to Tulip before smacking Marco upside his head. "It's got me on the edge of my seat."

"Ow," complained Marco after I smacked him.

"I'm sure Mom will love this outfit," I said with such excitement as we hurried back home. "Though I am gonna have to find a trading post owned by the Draco Ruby Trading Guild for the Pokéballs that I wanna get."

"Come on Lily," Marco complained to me as he didn't like my insistence on using only Apicorn Pokéballs and certain other Pokéballs. "Why can't you just settle on using normal Pokéballs like everyone else?"

"Maybe because I like using Apricorn Balls and other Pokéballs besides regular Pokéballs, Great Balls and Ultra Balls," I answered as I glared at Marco.

"Or maybe you've just been visiting the Atlantica Islands one too many times," Marco said loud enough for me to hear.

That was enough for me to tolerate as I then slapped him across his face angrily. Marco didn't like that I slapped him as he and Zeus stormed off, away from the direction of the Celadon Gym. As for me and Tulip, we headed back home to the gym with Rowlet still asleep in his Dream Ball. I wasn't happy with Marco or the comment that he made. I will admit that I went to the Atlantica Islands a lot and picked up a few things from Cynthia and her royal cousins… like having a preference to Apricorn and certain other Pokéballs over regular Pokéballs. Regardless, I didn't like that Marco insulted me over my preference of Pokéballs. Tulip saw that I was angry and she wanted to say something, but stopped herself for the time being until we got home.

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"Where's Marco?" Mom asked me as she saw that Marco wasn't with me and that he had left me to carry his backpack. "I thought you two went shopping for clothes and other things needed for traveling."

'Lily and Marco had an argument and Lily slapped Marco,' Tulip answered for me. 'But it was over something silly. Lily's insistence over using Apricorn Balls over regular Pokéballs.'

"Not this again," Mom replied as she sighed and shook her head.

"Mom, you know that I like using Apricorn Balls," I said to her in protest.

"Yes, but having them shipped here from Johto does tend to cost much and it does add up," Mom said calmly.

"Maybe if we moved to Johto or the Atlantica Islands, we wouldn't have that problem," I said loud enough for Mom to hear me.

Before Mom could administer some form of discipline, Marco entered the house… forgetting to take his shoes off before entering our house. Of course one of Mom's Grass-type Pokémon followed Marco in annoyance of the fact that they had to follow him and clean up his shoe prints. My mom's Whimsicott was not happy that he had to clean up shoe prints from Marco's shoes. He acted like May Ketchum's Minccino whenever a mess was made. He used his Psychic attack to lift Marco up and then pulled his shoes off Marco's feet in such an annoyance.

'This floor is dirty,' the male Grass/Fairy-type Windveiled Pokémon said in such an annoyance and panic. 'These shoes are dirty! Dirty! Dirty! DIRTY! I can't stand a dirty floor! And you, young Seabright should know how much tolerance I have for dirty floors.'

As for me, at that moment, I couldn't bear to look at Marco as I was still angry at him for his jab at me about my preference of what Pokéballs I like to use. I knew Mom was going to try and get me to talk to Marco and try to work things out. Unfortunately for her, I was in no mood to talk to my boyfriend and wanted to do some swimming and practice some diving as I had become a professional athletic diver. No, I wasn't able to go to the Olympics because of my age, but I didn't really care about such things. Instead of looking at Marco, I reached into my backpack and heard my mother sigh as she knew what was about to happen and just walked away before the scene got even worse. With Mom gone, I changed into my shiny Gourgeist water polo swimsuit in front of Marco and Mom's Whimsicott shamelessly and got a shocked reaction from Marco as he fell on his back and had a nosebleed. Mom's Whimsicott just had a small nosebleed himself and quickly wiped it off before turning and seeing Marco on his back with his nose still bleeding.

'AHHHH! Young Master Seabright, you're bleeding all over my floor!' Mom's Whimsicott exclaimed in horror as I had walked away from the scene with Tulip following me closely and my new Rowlet making himself comfortable in Marco's now open backpack before I recalled him to his Dream Ball.

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'Don't you think that was a bit harsh of you to do that to Marco?' Tulip asked me as we were close to the indoor pool facility where I went to swim and practice my diving. 'You really should apologize to him.'

"Not until he apologizes to me," I retorted back to my shiny female Time Travel Pokémon big sister. "He should know that I prefer to use Apricorn Balls. We've been dating for six years now."

'Maybe so,' replied Tulip as we entered the aquatic complex, 'but I don't think it required you to shamelessly change into your swimsuit in front of him.'

"Oh... he's used to it," I countered back as I rolled my eyes.

'In any case, I'm glad you decided to come here,' Tulip said as I showed mine and Tulip's yearly passes to the security guard posted at the entrance. 'You really need to find a different Pokémon to be your diving partner.'

"No Tulip, I'm not interested in having a Cubchoo and evolving it into a Beartic," I countered as I knew Tulip would try to suggest that I have a Beartic as a diving partner for the fifth time. "You should know that I can't stand Ice-type Pokémon."

"Hey! Hey girl!" someone called to me as he waved me over to him with a smirk on his face. "You're looking for a good Pokémon to have for swimming competitions, right?"

"No, I don't," I started to answer him before he cut me off.

"Oh come on little lady," the seller said enthusiastically as he was up in my face. "I've got an unbeatable little guy who can help you out. Even in Pokémon battles too."

'I dunno Lily,' Tulip said with an uneasy feeling. 'This guy seems really sketchy to me.'

"He's a little guy from Kalos," the seller said to me as he still was trying to get me to buy the Pokémon he was selling. "I found him wandering about in Lumiose City, escaping from Professor Sycamore's lab."

I looked at the seller and couldn't believe that a starter Pokémon would just up and want to escape from a regional professor's lab just like that. If anything, I figured that he was lying and either stole it from Professor Sycamore or he had conned a rookie trainer out of their starter Pokémon. Regardless of how he "acquired" the Kalos starter Pokémon, I felt it was imperative to get it out of the hands of such a swindling con artist.

"How much do you want for it?" I asked the seller after I sighed and rolled my eyes.

'Wait Lily, you can't be serious!' Tulip exclaimed in protest to me.

The seller's smirk went bigger as he thought he had suckered me into buying the Pokémon that he had. Before I was going to pay for the Pokémon, I told him that he wasn't getting a cent from me until he showed me the Pokémon I was buying from him. As he called the Pokémon forward, a Dream Ball suddenly materialized in my hands. Tulip was surprised to see the Dream Ball materializing in my hands just as much as I was surprised. The seller brought the reluctant Pokémon out as I was quick to hide the pink and lavender Pokéball behind my back. The small Pokémon that came out was a small Water-type Pokémon I knew as Froakie. I was lucky that I had my Pokédex with me to make sure that I wasn't getting conned into getting some other Pokémon.

'Froakie, the Bubble Frog Pokémon,' my Pokédex reported to me, confirming to me that it was indeed a genuine Froakie. 'This Water-type Pokémon from Kalos uses Frubbles to soften damage from attacking opponents. Froakie also maintains a vigilant alert around its surroundings. This Pokémon's ability…'

I shut off my Pokédex quickly to avoid getting swindled out of as much money as he could get out of me or then decide that it wasn't for sale. But the more I thought about it, the more I decided that paying for the Pokémon was not a good idea. Right as the seller was about to tell me the price for the Froakie, he turned his back as he made it seem like he was figuring out the purchase price. Once he had his back turned to me, I made my move and swindled him by using the Dream Ball and capturing the Froakie, who didn't hesitate in allowing me to capture her. Once I captured Froakie, I was quick to grab the Dream Ball and hide it in my backpack, making a beeline to the women's locker room with Tulip following me.

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'Oh thank you kind human,' the female Bubble Frog Pokémon said to me as she bowed to me. 'That wicked human stole me away from Professor Sycamore and had forced me to be part of his scams.'

"That's nothing new," I said to my second Water-type Pokémon. "Kanto is full of crooks and thieves. No thanks to Team Rocket, Kanto's image as one of the most vibrant regions has been all but destroyed. More people are leaving Kanto then coming to live."

'Not to mention that Fuchsia City is no longer inhabited mostly by humans,' chimed in Tulip. 'Only the Fuchsia City gym leader, Janine, and her family still live there.'

"But let's get you taken care of before we start swimming and getting you set up to be my diving partner," I said as I used some healing magic that I learned from Queen Relena during one year at Sol Palace. "Uh… if you wanna become my diving partner. I just have to find a new partner as I've been relying on Tulip for a long while and my Ludicolo refuses to be my diving partner."

'So I take it you do athletic diving, am I correct?' Froakie asked me as she was being healed of her wounds inflicted by the con man.

"That's right," I answered Froakie with a slight nod.

'Hmm…,' said Froakie as she thought about it for a minute and then gave me a thoughtful nod. 'Why not? I'll join you as your diving partner and one of your Pokémon battlers too. But you'll need to use a few TMs as that con man made sure that I would be completely useless after being purchased by a trainer like you.'

"We'll worry about that later," I said to Froakie after I was done healing her. "Right now… I need to get you on track with my diving."

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"Ah… this feels so good," I said after I did a 3 ½ Twist and then jackknifed into the pool from the 20 foot platform and then resurfaced. "At least I don't have to worry about a boyfriend who gripes about what Pokéballs are bought."

'You really seem to like making quite a splash,' my Froakie said to me after she surfaced along with me.

"Well… that's usually how I like to work when I practice," I explained to my recently captured Water-type Pokémon. "Though a few cannonballs from 20 feet in the air are really fun too."

Before Froakie could make a reply, I noticed that my backpack was swishing around like something was poking around in it. I was a little nervous and thought maybe that the seller I stole my recently captured Froakie had sent a Pokémon to try and find her. Froakie and I swam closer to the pool's end where I put my backpack as the swishing still continued. As we got to the pool's edge I shivered as I had that feeling I got whenever Ice-type Pokémon were nearby. Sure enough after seeing two of my recently purchased swimsuits getting tossed out of my backpack, a bear with a lavender neck and head, white bottom and a purple snout with a drop of mucus that was starting to drop out of its nose. The Pokémon was indeed a Cubchoo from the Unova region and one of the many Ice-type Pokémon that terrify me.

'Oh darn, there's nothing in here to eat,' the shiny Ice-type Pokémon before noticing me shivering in terror and getting out of my backpack. 'Oh hello there, Human. I'm sorry for rummaging through your bag. Thought you might have some sort of sweet morsel to eat. Please… allow me to place your swimwear back in your storage tote.'

The small shiny male Ice-type ursine Pokémon got no response from me as I was still shivering in terror at the sight of it as he did indeed put my swimsuits back in my shiny Celebi backpack. When I finally did give a response of sorts, the shiny male Cubchoo got a cry of terror from me before I dove under the water and then swam away as fast as I could, trying to get away from the Cubchoo. The Cubchoo looked at my Froakie and then to Tulip and asked my Psychic/Grass-type big sister, 'Did I say something wrong?' The shiny Chilling Pokémon got no answer from her, but was sucked up in a Fast Ball that I had in my backpack. Once the shiny Cubchoo had been captured, I swam back to the edge where Froakie and Tulip were waiting for me.

'Why did you freak out that badly when you saw the little Cubchoo?' Froakie asked in confusion as she had no idea as to why I acted the way I did.

"I'm not a normal human," I explained to Froakie as I wasn't going to keep the truth from her. "My father is a Celebi and I have Celebi blood coursing through my veins. Even my mom underwent gene therapy and became part Celebi herself when she got pregnant with me and one of my brothers."

'Huh… guess that makes perfect sense as to why you were so terrified of the Cubchoo,' summarized my female Froakie said before hopping back in the water with me.

'Not to mention she hates the cold with a passion,' Tulip added to the conversation. 'Every winter since she was six, Lily goes to the Atlantica Islands and spends the winter there with either with the Ketchum, Patterson families or the Kaiou royal family.'

Before anyone could say anything, something new caught our attention as we saw a kid and a shiny Pumpkaboo, a Grass-type Pokémon that I had been really wanting, weren't really acting friendly with each other. The posture for both of them was a bit hostile. It was apparent that the shiny Ghost/Grass-type Pokémon from Kalos wasn't happy about something that their trainer did or didn't do. The three of us couldn't hear what they were saying, so we swam over there to see if we could hear the conversation between the kid and his Pumpkaboo. After swimming closer, we could finally hear what the kid and his shiny Pumpkaboo were saying.

'You said that I was going to learn some Grass-type attacks,' the shiny Pumpkin Pokémon said to her 8 year-old trainer as he glared at her. 'The only attacks that I really know are Flamethrower and Incinerate. I am part Grass you know!'

"You don't think I don't know that?" the kid shot back at shiny female Pumpkin Pokémon angrily. "I just don't have any TMs with Grass-type moves. A lot those TMs have been stolen around here and the nearest Move Tutors are in Johto at the Battle Frontier."

'Then take me to this… Battle Frontier in this… Johto place that you speak of,' the shiny female Pumpkin Pokémon demanded of kid.

"I can't take you there," the kid told his shiny Pumpkaboo before he rolled his eyes and snorted. "Man, you're like my older sister… you nag so much. Wish I had gotten a Cubchoo like I wanted instead of you."

'Care to repeat what you just said?' the shiny Pumpkaboo challenged her young trainer in a defiant tone.

"I SAID I WISH I'D GOTTEN A CUBCHOO INSTEAD OF YOU!" The kid shouted to his shiny Ghost/Grass-type pokemon in anger.

"Ahem, I might be able to accommodate your request," I said to the kid as I swam closer to the pool's edge. "My only request is that you trade me your shiny Pumpkaboo."

'Huh… someone who appreciates me,' the shiny female Pumpkaboo said with a smile on her face. 'I think that being with this human would be much better for me.'

'Lily has a great love and respect for Grass-type Pokémon,' Tulip said to the shiny female Ghost/Grass-type Pumpkin Pokémon. 'Lily has even grown up around Grass-type Pokémon all her life.'

'But she has a Water-type Pokémon right there next to her,' Pumpkaboo pointed out as she saw my new diving partner replacing Tulip as my diving partner.

"Froakie's my new diving partner," I explained to Pumpkaboo. "I kinda need a Water-type Pokémon to be my diving partner instead of making Tulip my diving partner."

'I suppose that's a logical move,' Pumpkaboo said to me. 'But wouldn't a Lombre or Ludicolo be a better choice? I mean they are Grass-type Pokémon, aside from being Water-types too.'

"My Ludicolo doesn't want anything to do with my diving competitions," I answered Pumpkaboo. "He rarely even goes near the water. Not to mention he prefers to stay home with Mom's other Grass-type Pokémon."

'Such disloyalty and cowardice,' Pumpkaboo replied as she shook her head. 'Well… let's get this trade over with. I wanna be with this human who respects the Grass-type.'

"Wait right here and I'll swim over to my backpack and get the Cubchoo," I said to the 8 year-old boy before I began swimming back over to my backpack where the Cubchoo was at.

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"Alright then," I said as I put the Fast Ball containing the shiny Cubchoo on the trading station and the kid put a Moon Ball containing the shiny female Pumpkaboo. "Time to get this trade underway."

With both Pokéballs ready, I activated the trade machine and both Pokéballs were sucked into the machine. I was so excited to see that I was getting a brand new Grass-type Pokémon to add to my starting team to support Rowlet and be led by Tulip until they were able to battle by themselves. Add in the fact that Pumpkaboo evolved when it got traded added to my overwhelming excitement. Once I saw the Moon Ball coming down on side of the trading machine, I just burst with excitement and enthusiastically grabbed the Moon Ball. Once I grabbed the Moon Ball, I let out my new Pokémon out it. Sure enough, my new Grass-type Pokémon began evolving as I thought it would. I'll be honest with you and tell you that I half-expected the kid to swindle me out of the chance of having a Gourgeist by having it hold an Everstone to prevent evolution into Gourgeist. But my expectation was false and seeing the shiny Pumpkaboo evolving into Gourgeist just made me so happy and certainly was full of the same enthusiasm that my best friend from the Atlantica Islands, Cynthia Ketchum, had. Once the evolution was complete, I tackled my new shiny Gourgeist into the pool and caught her off guard as she wasn't expecting me to tackle her into the pool water.

'Well… this is certainly unexpected,' my recently evolved Ghost/Grass-type Pumpkin Pokémon said after we surfaced. 'And your swimwear matches with me perfectly. You and I shall definitely get along for certain.'

"I'm glad you approve," I said as Gourgeist got out of the water and then helped me out of the water too.

'Oh by the way, I've got a bunch of moves that I don't wanna have knowledge of,' Gourgeist said to me as she followed me back over to the 20 foot diving platform.

"We'll get to a Move Deleter later," I said to Gourgeist before letting out a sigh and then ran off the platform as I just wanted to have fun and didn't care what kind of dive I did.

I certainly dove into the water really fast and made quite a splash into the water. I was wanting to see if I could make it to the bottom of the pool without having to dive down even further. Unfortunately, I wasn't successful in doing so, but I then had Gourgeist following me as she leapt into the pool with me, happily as she did a cannonball. I made sure to swim out of the way before my shiny female Ghost/Grass-type made her big splash.

'Pumpkin… BOMB!' shouted Gourgeist as she came down from the 20 foot platform and made the biggest splash ever and caught me off guard before surfacing and looking at me. 'You're right Miss Lily. This kind of diving is fun. We should do it more often.'

"Gourgeist, please call me Lily," I said to Gourgeist as I shook my head. "I hate being called 'Miss'. It makes my skin crawl being called that."

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After another hour and a half of diving practice and swimming, me and my Pokémon then decided to go home back to the Celadon Gym. I was sure that Marco had either left or Mom's Whimsicott had strong armed him into helping him clean the floors of the house. Regardless of what Marco was doing, I was sure of two things. Either Marco ran from the gym or Mom's Whimsicott had strong armed Marco into helping him clean the floors after Marco had bled on the floor of our house after I changed into my swimsuit in front of him shamelessly. Once I made sure my feet were cleaned, I made my way the living room where I saw my silver-haired boyfriend looking beat to death and completely drained of energy.

'Why does Mom's Whimsicott have to be so fussy about the floors in our house?' I wondered in my mind. 'He's just as bad as, if not worse than, May Ketchum's Minccino when it comes to being a neat freak.'

"Huh?" Marco asked as he weakly looked up and saw that I had returned from the aquatic center. "Oh hey Lily. Glad you're home. I've got some good news for you."

I turned my back to Marco and then replied as I was still upset with him, "Unless you found some place where I can buy Apricorn Balls or know of someplace that makes them, I'm still upset with you."

"The Draco Ruby… Trading Guild," Marco began before letting out a yawn as it was apparent that Mom's Whimsicott really worked him hard, "have a trading post set up at the abandoned Safari Zone in Fuchsia City. But that place is so run down, I'm sure that the Pokémon there haven't just demolished the buildings."

"I'm sure that the mayor running the town wants it left like that for a specific reason," I said as I joined him on the loveseat, sitting on his lap as I forgave him.

"Lily, you're wet!" Marco cried in a startled tone as he felt my damp clothes and swimsuit pressing up against him.

"And here I was thinking that you'd like to cuddle with me," I said in a pouting tone as I looked to him with Growlithe puppy dog eyes.

"Yeah, but not when your clothes are still damp from you swimming at the pool," replied Marco as he was blushing. "What did you do? Throw your clothes on over your wet swimsuit?"

"And if I said 'yes'?" I asked in a sexy and silky tone as I turned and sat on his waist looking down at him, turning on my sexual charms.

"Come on Lily," Marco pleaded with me as he was profusely blushing redder than a Roseli Berry, "your dad might be near by if he sees us like this."

With Marco's comment about my dad, I was instantly turned off and went back to my original position where I was sitting in his lap and wrapped his arms around my waist. I always hated when Marco brought up my dad whenever I started to turn on my sexy feminine charms. But sure enough, my dad did indeed show up and walked by as he saw us cuddling together on the loveseat.

"Hi there Daddy," I said to my green-haired father as I waved to him as he walked by.

"Hello there Lily," my dad replied to me as he walked by us. "Marco, it's nice to see you again."

"It's nice to see you again too, sir," replied Marco as he was trying to keep his cool and hope Daddy wouldn't be after him for something that I started.

"Lily, don't you think that you should get out of those damp clothes and swimsuit instead of trying to seduce poor Marco?" Dad asked me as he left room.

"Oh thank Arceus," Marco said as he breathed a sigh of relief and I got out of his lap. "Great, now I gotta change clothes too."

"Let's go then, Marco," I said as I grabbed his hand and led him back to my room where we slept together.

"Wait a minute," Marco protested as he didn't feel comfortable being in the same room as me changing clothes. "Can't I change in your brothers' room instead?"

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Marco Seabright's POV

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"Man Marco, you know we gave you a manual with all the warning labels about Lily," Lily's twin brother, Hinataro, said to me after I was able to wiggle away from Lily.

"Yeah, but that manual didn't have any warnings about when she hangs out with Ren Kaiou and Cynthia Ketchum," I shot back at Hinataro and his younger brother. "She was really pouring on the sex appeal with the damp clothes and swimsuit."

"Dude, we told you to read through it… throughly," chimed in Lily's green haired brother Alex.

'That manual is nothing more than a farce,' Zeus said to Hinataro and Alex. 'It was a complete and utter farce.'

"At any rate, why didn't you guys try to keep Lily away from Ren and Cynthia?" I asked Lily's brothers.

"You really think either of us could stop our oldest sister from hanging out with Princess Ren and Cynthia Ketchum?" Alex asked me after I finished putting on dry clothes. "We're not stupid enough to try and keep her away from her friends. The last time we did that, both of us got flung into a nest of angry of Scythers by Lily."

"Besides, why are you trying to keep Lily away from her friends?" Hinataro asked me in confusion. "I thought you were just as much friends with Princess Ren and Cynthia Ketchum too."

"I don't hang out with them as much as Lily might," I answered Lily's younger brothers. "But Lily hangs out with them a little too much."

"Speaking of Lily," Alex said before his eyes started to glow a cool blue, "she's coming this way."

Sure enough, Alex was right on the money as Lily came to the door and knocked as she said, "Alright Hinataro and Alex. I know Marco is here, so please send him out."

"Just don't make a sound," Alex whispered so faintly that it couldn't be heard… or so we thought.

"Saying 'Just don't make a sound,' is making a sound," Lily replied as she was still on the other side of the door.

"Damn her Vulcan hearing," I snarled as Lily's brothers and I knew that Lily was known for hearing even the faintest of sounds.

Before any of us could think of something, Lily used her Psychic attack to open the door. I was at least relieved to see that Lily wasn't still wearing her damp clothes and swimsuit underneath. The outfit that Lily had on was one of her usual outfits. As usual, she had no footwear as she disliked footwear much like her dad. I might as well be honest with you, she pretty much wore a shiny Celebi outfit. Pink tank top with her midriff exposed and pink shorts with Tulip's Friend Ball hanging on a necklace around her neck. I kinda wished that Lily would get more outfits, even if they were in the colors of her favorite Pokémon only. Of course Lily knew what I was thinking as all she had to do was read my mind and see what I was thinking. I at least made a mental note of wanting to call Queen Relena's older sister and fashionista extraordinaire, Lady Jessica, to see if she could make Lily some new outfits if she was in a creative funk at the moment.

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Lily Sakura's POV

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After getting my boyfriend from my brothers, Marco and I went back downstairs to the family room and sat in the loveseat together in front of the TV. This time, Marco was all too happy to allow me to relax in his lap. I guess because I wasn't trying to use my charm on him and wearing damp clothes made him feel at ease. I turned on the TV and launched Netflix for some binge watching before we set out on our travels throughout Kanto. Gourgeist came into the family room too as she wanted to find me and see what I was doing. Marco was definitely surprised when he saw my new shiny female Ghost/Grass-type Pumpkin Pokémon from Kalos.

"How did you get a Gourgeist, let alone a shiny one?" Marco asked me before my Gourgeist snatched the TV remote out of Marco's hands as he managed to get it out of my telekinetic grip.

"I traded a shiny Cubchoo that was rummaging through my backpack," I answered Marco as Gourgeist began looking to see if there was anything good on Netflix.

'Okay… let's see what we can find,' Gourgeist said as she looked through my list. 'Huh… nothing here seems good to watch.'

"Yeah well, I blame Marco for that," I said to Gourgeist as I got relaxed in Marco's lap. "And Hinataro… and Alex too. Plus Petunia and her insistence on watching 'My Little Ponyta' too."

"Seriously?" Marco asked me as he couldn't believe that my little sister still liked watching My Little Ponyta. "She's 12 and she still likes that?"

'Oh my,' Gourgeist said as a movie caught her interest. 'Kingdom… of… Heaven. Huh, sounds like an interesting movie to watch.'

"And I think it's kinda bloody," I replied to Gourgeist.

'Aww… how bloody can it be?' Gourgeist asked me as she wanted to see the movie.

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"You sure this is okay?" Marco asked me as he was a bit worried about us staying at the house that belonged to the Ketchum family in Pallet Town. "I mean… the Ketchums are okay with us staying in their vacation home, right?"

"Yes Marco," I answered my boyfriend as I rolled my eyes and shook my head in annoyance. "Mom called Ash and May Ketchum and checked with them to see if we could use Ash's childhood home as a base camp. We just need to make sure that the gangs don't find out where we're staying at."

"So what?" asked Marco as he was confused by what I was thinking. "You figure we make a secret base or something here in Kanto? Come on Lily, this isn't Hoenn or Sinnoh."

"Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum are trusting us with their vacation home," I replied calmly to Marco. "I don't want them to find Ash's childhood and vacation home destroyed."

"Look, we'll just be careful," Marco said after letting out a sigh.

"Now don't you know that one cold word's gonna lead to another," I sang as I had pulled out my iPhone and started singing some random old song that I downloaded. "Then we'll have nowhere to go! Even if heaven and earth collide tonight. We'll be alone in a different light. I don't care what the world can't see. It's just between you and me. I said it's just between you and me."

"I see telltale signs of a love in decline," Marco sang as he joined in singing the song I was singing. "Should be something to say but we don't take the time."

I was certainly surprised that Marco knew the words to the song that I was singing. Though I didn't complain as both of us sang the song together. It was nice to enjoy a moment together before we entered the Ketchum house and got settled in for the night. I knew that one of us was going to have get a Pokémon that could use Fly and I figured that Marco was going to dump that responsibility on me. The only Flying-type Pokémon that I knew of that I could feel comfortable riding on was Tropius, since it was big enough to transport both Marco and I… plus it's also a Grass-type Pokémon too. There was one problem for me though. Tropius wasn't native to Kanto and there hadn't been any sightings of Tropius anywhere in Kanto either. So I had my work cut out for me and only there were two solutions were presented to me. One… go to the Princess of Hoenn's home region of Hoenn and find a Tropius there. Or my second option was to rely on the Global Trading Station that started popping up at various Pokémon Centers in Kanto, thanks to Mikki Stone and her husband, Steven Stone. The more I thought about it, the more considered calling my two friends and see if they loan us some assistance when and if they could. I wasn't going to put the son and daughter of Kanto's Pokémon League champion in harm's way if I could avoid it. I would've called the Kalos Princess, but she had gone to Alola with her Braixen and perverted mongrel, Arcanine. Plus Gabriella had also gone to Alola as well so she was out of the question as well. With little opinions on who I could call on for help, I figured that Marco and I were going to be on our own for a while. Once Marco and I got settled in, I decided that I needed to get a head start on training Rowlet and Gourgeist so I could let Tulip take a breather and not have to step in so often. After double checking and ensuring that I had my EXP Share with me and turned on of course, I went out to Route 1 and began training my Froakie, Gourgeist and Rowlet. After using a few TMs on my Froakie, she was ready to go. As much as I didn't want to, I used the Ice Beam TM to help counter against Grass-type Pokémon. Other TMs that I used for her were Smack Down, Bounce from a Move Tutor and Grass Knot. As for my Rowlet, I used the Giga Drain, Ominous Wind and Shadow Claw TMs to give him a bit more offensive power and even gave him a Big Root hold item. For Gourgeist, I gave her Giga Drain and Seed Bomb as I promised to teach her at least couple Grass-type moves. Gourgeist was a bit disappointed that I didn't teach her more, but she was grateful that I at least taught her a couple Grass-type moves. I had to explain that I wanted to get her to a Move Deleter in Viridian City before I taught her more moves. Once I explained it to Gourgeist, she understood my reasoning and dropped the subject. I told my three Pokémon that I was going to rotate them once they gained a level or two, depending on their growth rate. I put Rowlet up first since he was the first Pokémon that I got before leaving home, then Froakie was next and finally Gourgeist was there in front of Tulip. My shiny female Pumpkin Pokémon didn't like that she was going to be last to be trained, but she was an evolved form and I remembered that Pokémon that evolved at early levels tended to grow a bit slower than non-evolved Pokémon.

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'Alrighty then,' Gourgeist said after she defeated a couple Rattatas and a horde of Pidgeys. 'Think we could move on to an area that's a bit more challenging?'

'I'm ready to move on to another area as well,' Rowlet said an agreement with Gourgeist. 'There's nothing here but Pidgeys and Rattatas.'

"We'll move on to the next area tomorrow," I said to my Pokémon as I felt that I had trained my Pokémon enough. "For the rest of the day, let's just head back to the Ketchum house and relax. I'm gonna grab Marco and we'll go cuddle with each other in the hot tub."

'No shenanigans of the sexual kind, Lily,' Tulip said to me sternly. 'Zeus and I will be close by, just so you know.'

"Come on Tulip, when I have ever wanted to do any sexual shenanigans with Marco?" I asked my Psychic/Grass-type big sister with a mischievous smirk on my face.

I led my Pokémon back to the Ketchum House and saw that Marco had just finished training with his Pokémon himself. He and his Pokémon looked pretty beat and his Pokémon looked like they were about to collapse. Fortunately for us, Cynthia's parents had the area around the house fenced in and the land was big enough for our Pokémon to roam around or at least relax and rest before we began our trek through Kanto and begin clearing out the dangerous gangs that have been leaving Kanto in ruins and chaos. After Team Rocket fell, many groups from other regions tried to take over after the criminal syndicate had its leader killed from within and then imploded with a full blown civil war. I'm surprised that Team Trident didn't try to come into to Kanto sooner and quell the fighting. But then again, they were busy fighting and wiping out other syndicates that could possibly oppose them for whatever plan they're looking to accomplish. Once I let my Pokémon into the large open yard, I went into house as I planned on taking a shower before getting into the hot tub. But then again… the more I thought about it, the more I considered doing something really sneaky as I did occasionally like to be in a hot tub… all naturale.

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"Why did you have to be naked while we were in the hot tub?" Marco asked me after we got out of the hot tub as he was blushing redder than a Roseli Berry. "Are you trying to get me to take your virginity so quickly?"

"I'm not desperate to lose my virginity so quickly like that slut, Ren," I answered my boyfriend after I had slipped my skirted shiny Celebi sukumizu swimsuit back on before getting out of the hot tub and into the pool.

"Wait a minute, I thought you were tight friends with Princess Ren," Marco said to me before hearing his smartphone vibrate. "Uh… hello there?"

"STOP CALLING ME PRINCESS!" Ren shouted to Marco as he winced in pain from her shouting at him through the speaker. "I HATE BEING CALLED 'PRINCESS'!"

Once Marco hung up and turned his phone off, I said to Marco, "I am tight friends with Ren. She knows I call her a slut and told me that she's fine with being known as a slut. Heck, even Cynthia Ketchum and Isabella Greyson both think Ren is a slut too and Ren isn't bothered by it at all."

"Wow," Marco said before I was about to dive into the 13 foot deep end of the pool.

But before I could even dive in, my Gourgeist felt like she had to join in as she leapt as high as she could, tucked herself as tight as she could and aimed for the pool. She did another one of her Pumpkin Bombs and definitely caught Marco by surprise. Gourgeist certainly looked happy as she surfaced from doing her Pumpkin Bomb and even said to herself that she could get used to doing and learning the dives that I performed. I almost considered turning her down, but then again I did introduce her to the professional diving that I compete in. So having her as another diving partner until Froakie evolved into Frogadier could work as diving competitions were starting to make their way here into Kanto. After swimming with Marco… and Gourgeist, we all went inside and got settled down for the night.

The news said that one group criminal group had suddenly vanished and that their hideout was in an icy rubble with many of their members completely encased in a thick icy coffin that was sure to kill them should they be thawed out. The news organization said Kanto's Articuno came from her nest in the Seafoam Islands and stated that she wasn't responsible for, nor ordered the attack on the criminal organization in Viridian City and their branch located near Mount Moon. Before Marco and I could get any more information from the news, Gourgeist switched over Netflix as she wanted to see if she could find a new movie or TV show that we could watch. Marco and I weren't happy about it, but then again was the news about to take depressing turn for the worst.

'What's good on Netflix that we can watch?' Gourgeist asked as she flipped through my viewing list.

"Ooo… Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," Marco said with enthusiasm. "I haven't watched it yet. Hayato said that it was a great show for anyone who's a fan of the Avengers movie series."

"But it's not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe," I protested to my boyfriend.

"Hayato said that it technically is," Marco replied to me. "This show and a few others are tied into the cinematic universe. Besides… how do you think Nick Fury found out about Hydra compromising S.H.I.E.L.D from within the organization itself? It certainly wasn't Captain America who found out first."

"Let me guess… Prince Hayato spoiled it for you," I summarized to Marco… before my cellphone rang. "Hello?"

"DON'T CALL ME 'PRINCE'!" Hayato shouted through the speaker, making me wince in pain. "I HATE BEING CALLED 'PRINCE'!"

"Your's and Vanna's Pokémon call you 'Prince Hayato'," I countered back before hanging up quickly and hearing Marco sigh.

With Marco's argument complete, he certainly had gotten my interest with his claim and I agreed to find out wither or not his claim was valid or not. So we started watching the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and I had to say… it was certainly better than the DC movies and even Supergirl that I had been watching recently. If anything, Marco was definitely making a convert out of me, getting me to turn from the DC Universe to Marvel. After binge watching the first season and going through three pizzas, it was time for Marco and I to go to bed. After making sure that our Pokémon were sound asleep, we got ready for bed ourselves and made sure that our armored suits were ready as once we got near Viridian City, we planned on putting on our armored cosplay suits and go investigate the sight of the attack. I had a sneaking suspicion that Team Blizzard from the Atlantica Islands was more than likely trying to leave the confines of the kingdom in order to gain a new foothold for their mission. If that was the case, then uprooting them from Kanto was certainly a top priority as I didn't want my home region being invaded by a foreign criminal syndicate.

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'So… why are your… cosplay outfits necessary?' Gourgeist asked me as Marco and I were putting on our armored cosplay suits in front of our Pokémon. 'Are you planning on going to a costume party?'

"No Gourgeist," I answered my shiny female Ghost/Grass-type Pumpkin Pokémon as I put on my visors before placing my helmet on. "We're going to investigate the sites of those two attacks."

"We just can't let the Viridian City Officer Jenny see us directly poking around," added Marco as he was putting on his visor and then helmet. "Besides… there might be the chance that Team Snagem or Cipher is trying to make a comeback."

"I doubt that," I said to my boyfriend before recalling Gourgeist to her Moon Ball. "If Snagem or Cipher are here in Kanto, then I'll eat a disgusting pickle."

Before Marco could say anything as he had a grin forming on his face, my cellphone vibrated as I got a text message from Coral Stone, the daughter of Kanto's champion, Mikki Stone.

"Hey Lily, I wanted to invite you to come to One Island for a relaxing hot springs vacation," read the text from one of my close friends from here in Kanto. "I'm not sure if you're planning on doing some traveling again with your boyfriend from Oblivia or not, but I just thought maybe you'd like to have a relaxing week with me. My Pokémon and I would like to see if you've gotten any new Pokémon other than your shiny Celebi big sister, Tulip."

"When are you going?" I replied to Coral as I was curious and wanted to at least ensure that Marco got the relaxation that I promised him when he came to Kanto from Oblivia. "Can I bring Marco with me if you'll bring your brother, Mike, with you?"

"I'll check back with you if Mike wants to come along," Coral answered me quickly. "Please tell me you're not going to Viridian City to investigate the site of that attack Mom just heard about. She's already there and looking into the matter. I heard that she's talking to Lady Relena about the attack."

"Oh boy… that's not good," I groaned as read the text from Coral.

"What's up?" Marco asked me as he heard me groan.

"The Kanto champion is in Viridian City investigating the attack," I answered Marco.

"Then maybe we wasted time putting on our cosplay outfits," offered Marco. "There are other groups that we can focus on knocking down. You know help Miss Mikki out by knocking down the other groups. Who knows… maybe people will start coming back to Kanto."

"I still wanna investigate the site," I said as we started moving into the area of Viridian City. "I at least wanna make sure that Team Trident isn't the one responsible for the attack."

"Why are you looking to rule out Team Trident?" Marco asked me in a quizzical manner as we were rolling along the road and then moved to the suburban outskirts of Viridian City to avoid the checkpoint at the entrance of Viridian City. "We both know that Trident has bunch of Ice-type hybrids."

"Yes, but they aren't going to go AWOL and just randomly attack willy nilly," I answered Marco as we had gotten the attention of a few children who were playing with each other and their Pokémon as we passed through the suburban outskirts of the city went directly to the site of the attack.

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"Man… that's a big block of ice," Marco said after letting out a whistle of amazement. "You know those guys are dead for certain."

I said nothing as I continued to examine the various blocks of ice, which was very unusual for me since I hated the cold with a passion. But thanks to the fact that my cosplay outfit kept the cold out, I was able to brave the extremely cold blocks as I used my Celebi abilities that I was born with. Using my Celebi abilities, I saw what had transpired at the group's hideout and was horrified to see what had happened. But unfortunately for me, I wasn't able to see Mikki Stone coming in as Marco tried to warn me and I had unintentionally shut him out.

"So… what did you find?" the Kanto champion asked me as I was caught unprepared.

"Aww crap," I snarled as I put my hands up while the Kanto champion, Mikki Stone, was right behind me.

The Kanto champion was about 5' 10", about 123 lbs., fair skinned complexion, fuchsia red hair, and had amber colored eyes. Her outfit was pretty nice as she had on a sleeveless red long shirt, a Keystone Bangle located on her upper right arm, long black pants and brown boots that almost looked like an Eevee as there was white fluff around the top of her boots and she also had glasses sticking out of sleeveless black jacket.

"Put your hands down, Lily," Mikki instructed me.

"How do you know I'm really Lily?" I asked the mother of Coral and Mike Stone.

"Tulip," the Kanto champion answered me quickly. "She was outside with your boyfriend.

"But what's with the 'Aww crap'?" Mikki then asked as she was confused. "Aren't you happy to see me instead of Officer Jenny?"

"I guess so," I answered as I slowly lowered my hands.

"So why don't you tell me what you found?" Mikki asked me calmly.

"Tell me…," I began as I response, "who does the Viridian City police think is responsible for the attack?"

"Some in the department think Articuno is responsible for the attack," Mikki said to me. "Some of them even want to believe that certain groups of Pokémon clans are responsible for the attack."

"Articuno doesn't leave her nest at this time of the year," I said to Mikki. "The fact that she left her nest to make her statement to the press was really rare. Unless she had a Ditto make the statement for her."

"And the claim of Pokémon clans attacking?" Mikki asked me.

"I know most of the Pokémon clans here in Kanto," I answered the Kanto champion, "and a lot of them wouldn't even dare attack humans unless they have a valid reason to do so."

"Yes, I agree," said Mikki as she gave a nod of agreement. "Not to mention that some of those clans have been moving into abandoned towns and villages."

'I just don't understand why so many humans are afraid of Pokémon forming communities,' chimed in Tulip as she joined the conversation. 'All the Pokémon wish to do is live in harmony.'

"I understand what you're saying Tulip," began Mikki as she looked to my Psychic/Grass-type big sister, "but not many people see it that way. People have been used to being in control over Pokémon for hundreds of years and they don't want to see things change any time soon.

"Seeing Pokémon form communities, owning a business where humans are underneath them," Mikki continued as she then shook her head, "people here are afraid of that thought ever since the Ocean Queen has allowed the world to have access to the Atlantica Islands."

"Yeah, there are many documentaries about the region," I said as I walked with Mikki out of closed off site. "I remember a lot of people gathering in front of our home trying to burn it down."

"Back to my original question," Mikki said, bringing focus back to the topic at hand, "what did you find out?"

"Team Trident from the Atlantica Islands is definitely not responsible for this attack," I answered the Kanto champion.

Before Mikki could get me to explain things to her, I made a speedy getaway and rejoined Marco and Tulip following right behind me. I wasn't happy that Marco and Tulip let Mikki get past them… but then again I was so into my investigation and not alert to my surroundings. However, I wasn't exactly going to tell Mikki something that was going to put her and her family in danger. To be honest, I had no idea what she went through before becoming the champion of the Kanto region. Regardless, I didn't want her and her family to be dragged into another fight involving me and/or my friends. I planned to try and keep the battle against Team Blizzard a private affair… at least that was my plan.

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'So why did you just blow off the Kanto champion the way you did?' Froakie asked me after we hightailed it out of Viridian City before Mikki could call Officer Jenny to try and stop us. 'I mean she could help us and all.'

"We've been through this already," I said to Froakie after taking off my helmet. "I can't let Mikki Stone or her family be dragged into a fight that can be dangerous.

"Besides… she bailed my family, Ren, Cynthia, Ruby and Hayato out five years ago when Celadon City was struck by rioters," I continued to Froakie. "It nearly got her put in the hospital."

"Come on Lily, you know we could use the help," Marco said to me. "Besides I'm sure that Mrs. Stone can handle herself against Team Blizzard."

"NO!" I shouted in frustration as I was firm in my decision. "No. I can't get her and her family involved. We gotta call Cynthia and get her to come to Kanto and help us out. I'm sure Trident's leader, Rhea wouldn't mind diverting Cynthia and her friends here to Kanto from Alola."

"But it's gonna take them a couple days to get here just to back us up," protested Marco.

"That's okay," a familiar person said as she came with a Ninetales that had a purple scarf around her neck, "we can help you out."

I turned around and facepalmed myself as it turned out that my local friends were out and about instead of being back in Celadon City like I thought they were. My friends were the daughter and son of Kanto's current champion, Mikki Stone, Coral and Mike Stone. Mike had his mother's fuchsia red hair and his father's light blue eyes. He wore an outfit similar to his recently evolved Lucario, a black sleeveless shirt with a Lucario blue jacket and black and cream colored biker shorts and black fingerless gloves with small spikes. As for his older sister, Coral, she hadn't changed much since I last saw her in person. She had her father's silver hair that went past her shoulders and her mother's amber eyes and was about my height… maybe a few pounds heavier then me, but why sweat those details? She wore a sleeveless black shirt with a purple vest and skirt with a belt around her waist, a black bandana on her head and an orange bandana around her neck. As for Coral's Ninetales, she had a purple bandana around her neck. Like her other Pokémon usually did.

'I'm confused here Coral,' Coral's Ninetales said to her owner as she looked at me and then back to Coral. 'I thought that Lily went barefoot all the time.'

"It's a cosplay outfit," I said to Coral's Ninetales plainly before looking to Coral herself.

"So… who's this… Team Blizzard you were talking about?" Mike asked me and Marco.

"Better question," Coral said as she narrowed her eyes at me, "why are you trying to shut us out? Why keep me, my brother and parents out of a fight that you're afraid we'll get hurt."

"You don't know Team Blizzard like I do," I answered Coral. "You've never seen them in action like I have, nor seen what they do to their victims when they lose."

"Yeah, you're right," Mike replied to me as he shook his head, "but it doesn't mean that you should just shut us out because we haven't seen whatever enemy it is you've encountered."

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"Okay so… where do we start looking for this Team Blizzard?" Mike asked me and Marco as we reorganized our group and sent Mike and Coral's mom a text letting her know that Mike and Coral were with Marco and me.

"We need to head to the next site of the group's branch site at Mount Moon and take a look at the site," I answered Mike as Marco and I loaned Coral and Mike our spare armored cosplay suits.

"I gotta ask, Lily," Coral said with a grin on her face, "you expecting us to run into Red Matter?"

"Oh ha, ha! Very funny Coral," I sassed back at my close friend as I narrowed my eyes at her. "You're a real comedian."

'Someone's gotta lighten our spirits if you're not going to do so,' replied Coral's Ninetales as she ran alongside us. 'I mean this isn't you. You're usually cheerful and happy.'

"I think it's because she learned about Team Blizzard's involvement in that attack in Viridian City," Marco said to Coral and Mike.

"So… then who is this Team Blizzard group?" Mike asked Marco and me. "If you don't mind my asking.

"I'd like to know that too," Coral chimed in. "You talk about these guys as if they're really sinister, yet you've never told us who they are or what they're planning on doing."

"An eternal winter," I said bluntly to Coral and Mike. "Team Blizzard wants to freeze the Earth and create an eternal winter. Anyone who gets an in their way gets killed in a deep freeze."

'That doesn't sound too good,' Coral's Ninetales said after we stopped to take a breather and rest a bit.

"Speaking of which," Coral said as she switched topics, "have you FINALLY caught some new Pokémon? New Pokémon besides Tulip, Bulbasaur and that lazy Ludicolo of yours?"

As much as I wanted to slap Coral for her jab at my Ludicolo, she was right about my male Grass/Water-type Dancing Pokémon. My Ludicolo was lazy after he evolved from Lotad and Lombre and wouldn't do much to help me out much after becoming Ludicolo. I just shrugged my shoulders and then produced my two Dream Balls and Moon Ball containing my new three new Pokémon.

"Come on out guys!" I exclaimed as they came out of their Pokéballs.

Coral became fascinated with my new Pokémon as she saw them. I think she was star struck especially when she saw my shiny Rowlet and Gourgeist. As for Mike, he liked my new Pokémon, but wasn't as giddy as his older sister was. As for Gourgeist, she was confused by the look on Coral's face or why she looked so star struck. Gourgeist looked to me and asked, 'Uh… Lily, why does she look so star struck?'

"I think she's interested in you, Gourgeist," I answered my shiny female Ghost/Grass-type Pumpkin Pokémon.

"Not just your Gourgeist," Coral said as she still had stars in her eyes, "but your Rowlet as well."

"Not my Froakie?" I asked Coral as I was confused by Coral. "She has the Protean ability instead of Torrent."

"Wait… seriously?" Mike asked he was now interested in my female Bubble Frog Pokémon.

"Okay, now that's cool too," Coral said as she was now interested in my Froakie.

"My Rowlet has the Long Reach ability too," I said as I was very proud of my shiny male Grass Quill Pokémon… before he decided to make himself comfortable in Mike's backpack.

'Ah… now this backpack is quite cozy for me,' Rowlet said before he began to fall asleep.

"What the?!" Mike asked as he didn't like that my Rowlet had roosted in his backpack. "Get him out of my backpack!"

"Relax Mike, he's close to evolving," I assured Mike before looking at my cellphone and seeing that Pokénet had an alert that I was looking forward to. "Yes! It's about time they made the announcement."

'What sort of announcement was made?' Gourgeist asked me as I went through my phone to get the details of what I was looking forward to.

"The Cerulean City gym is hosting the first diving competition that's making a comeback to Kanto," I answered my shiny female Ghost/Grass-type Pumpkin Pokémon.

'Oh goodie!' exclaimed Gourgeist as she thought I was going to have her as my diving partner for the diving competitions.

"Sorry Gourgeist, but Froakie is my diving partner once she evolves into Frogadier," I said to Gourgeist as I shook my head to her. "But I do plan to have you as my backup in case Froakie can't do it."

'Darn,' replied Gourgeist as she was a little disappointed. 'Well… I guess as long as I'm a backup, I can't complain.'

"Where are we gonna train so your Pokémon can get stronger?" Coral asked me as we were making ourselves ready to get on the move again before Beedrills showed up as we were in their territory and needed to be out of there before nightfall.

"We can train along the way," offered Mike as he was busy trying to pry my Rowlet out of his backpack. "Hey Lily, can you get your Rowlet out of my backpack, please?"

"You're gonna have to deal with Rowlet being in your backpack for now," I answered Mike. "Because right now, we need to get out here before the Beedrills show up."

'Agreed, Beedrills don't like having humans or even other Pokémon like me in their territory,' chimed in Tulip.

'Aww… how bad can these Beedrills be?' Gourgeist asked me and Tulip.

We all shuddered and looked to my shiny female Pumpkin Pokémon as our answer to her. We never gave her verbal answer, but just the glances she received as our answer to her were enough to quiet her before recalling her and Rowlet to their respective Pokéballs. Once all of our Pokémon were recalled to their Pokéballs, we were quick to speed away from the area right as the swarm of Poison Bee Pokémon were returning from their daily activities. As we exited from the Beedrills' territory, a shiny Beedrill came towards us and watched us as we left their territory and a Butterfree flew over our heads and acting so to speak as our scout… or messenger. As night completely descended on the Viridian Forest, we had exited without incident. We found out that the Butterfree was there to ensure that our Pokémon stayed in our Pokéballs and that we didn't train our Pokémon as various Bug-type hive communities tended to be rowdy in the evening and night time.

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"Let's get some rest for the night," I said to everyone else as we made it to Pewter City and once again avoided the checkpoint set up by Officer Jenny at the entrance to the hometown of Pokémon Doctor and former gym leader, Brock.

"Why is it so imperative that we avoid the checkpoints that Officer Jenny set up?" Coral asked me as we got out of the armored suits at our hotel room.

"I'd prefer to keep this job of kicking Team Blizzard out of Kanto quiet and discreet," I was quick to answer my best friend. "We'll still be doing everything we can to knock out all of criminal groups that have taken root and spread like cancer.

I notice Coral reaching for her cellphone and used my Psychic attack to get it from her as I finished, "I'm sorry. But all your mom needs to know is that you and Mike are hanging out with me and Marco. She doesn't need to know about Team Blizzard."

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3rd person POV

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"You're saying that Lily's being a bit withdrawn?" the current queen of the Atlantica Islands asked the mother of Coral and Mike Stone as she was on the phone with the current champion of Kanto.

"Yes," answered Mikki Stone. "I wasn't able to get much out of her before she and Marco fled the scene and headed north towards Pewter City.

"I need you to be honest with me, Relena," Mikki requested of her close friend, "is there a criminal group in your region that that uses Ice-type magic or has hybrids who were born of Ice-type Pokémon?"

"You're referring to Team Blizzard," Relena said to Mikki. "They use darkened Ice-type magic, but they don't have any hybrids born to Ice-type Pokémon or any other Pokémon anymore. The Blizzard Witch seeks to plunge the Earth into an eternal winter."

"That sounds really nasty," Mikki said as she shivered at the thought of earth being plunged into an eternal winter. "I had heard some rumors that another group from the Atlantica Islands was trying to leave the confines of your kingdom and take root in another region. Guess this… Blizzard Witch saw Kanto as the perfect place to try and take root in."

"I'll do everything that I can to help you out from here," Relena promised her friend. "Even if I have to personally come to Kanto myself and fight off Team Blizzard."

"Sorry Friend," Mikki replied with a slight chuckle, "but your kingdom needs its queen on the throne. And I'm sure Mizuki isn't ready to take your place on throne since your firstborn already threw away her right to the throne."

"Yes well…," the young queen began as she shook her head, "Ren forgot that I get to choose who succeeds me on throne and that there wasn't going any more of this… 'firstborn takes my place when I die or decide to step down from the throne' garbage."

Mikki chuckled as she replied, "Yeah… I really don't think Ren is suited for the throne in any capacity. No offense to you, Relena."

"Mikki, we've been friends for years," Relena said with a grin on her face as she chuckled, "you don't need to worry about being offensive. [Sigh] I'll make some calls and see about getting you some support ASAP."

"Thanks Relena," Mikki said after letting out a sigh of relief, "I knew could count on you for help. Just… please don't send the Royal Guard or Team Trident's entire armed forces."

"No problem Mikki," replied the Ocean Queen before the video screen snapped before turning to her shiny female Gardevoir and glancing at her.

'I understand, dear sister,' Michiru, Relena's shiny Gardevoir, said telepathically to the Queen. 'I'll make the appropriate contact and get Milady Rhea here.'

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Author's note: Another chapter in the books. Credit for the character Mikki Stone and her two children Coral and Mike belong to dA (deviantArt) artist Miyuki Tsukiyono. Credit for the Seabright children belongs to dA artist JusticeGundam. Please read and review. Let me know what you think and I'll keep writing.