_Arial p.o.v_

"This is so easy!" I said. I juggled the three spheres of aura I had created, then let them fade into nothingness. I then made another one, which I split into many smaller ones, which floated around like some crazy grid.

"Now don't get too carried away," Lucario said.

"Why? She's a natural," Mark said. He was leaning against the railing, watching with a grin on his face. He made an aura sphere and flattened it into a disc. "Pull!" He threw it into the air, where I shot it down with an aura sphere of my own.

I sighed. "Well, that was productive. Let's go find Mewtwo and see what he's up to. Plus, I have a feeling that Roserade took my pokedex." They nodded, and we all started walking.

"Eevee, use trump card!" I turned to see a battlefield where an eevee was fighting a flareon. The eevee shot five red plates at its opponent, but it jumped out of the way.

"Flareon, use giga impact!" The flareon's trainer called. Flareon charged the Eevee, becoming surrounded in a white aura. It hit the Eevee, who flew back and landed by its trainer.

Who was, incidentally, Mewtwo.

"Hang in there!" he said. Eevee got up and faced its opponent once again. "Double team."

The eevee broke off into many others, which surrounded the Flareon.

"Flamethrower!" His opponent said.

The flareon started to spin, shooting fire at the ring of Eevees. The fake ones disappeared, and the real one was thrown back. It tried to stand, but fell down, defeated.

Both trainers withdrew their pokemon. I finally paid attention to his opponent. No way.

"Hey, Hailey!"

She turned to look at me. "Hey, Arial!" She turned to her twin, which was sitting on the ground a good distance away. "Kailey, get over here! It's Arail!"

They both promptly ran over and hugged me. "Long time," Kailey said. "Why no see?"

"I've been having some trouble lately."

The both crossed their arms and raised their left eyebrow. "Do we want to know?"

"No."

"Okay then." Hailey walked over to Mewtwo. "Nice battle. Your eevee is extremely strong."

I walked over as well, followed by the others. "That was pretty good for a first battle. Or, at least, what I saw of it."

Hailey looked at us. "Know each other?"

I nodded. "Yep. We're on our way to New Island to search for Mew."

Hailey nodded. "Nice. Now, onto a more important matter." She grabbed Arial's Arm. "Their having an open mic in the starmie lounge in about five minutes! Want to come?"

"Sure!" I ran after her, closely followed by Kailey, with Mewtwo and the lucarios lagging behind. I saw Gallade and Teddiursa as we ran by, but I didn't say anything. The others could explain.

We made it to the starmie lounge, which was basicly an ordinary lounge which was decorated to look like it was under the ocean. There was a stage covered with instruments, and people to play them if you didn't know how.

I smiled. "What should we sing?" I asked the twins.

"Who cares? Let's figure out it up there."

_Mewtwo p.o.v_

"They're pretty good," I commented, watching the twins and Arial sing.

"You should have seen them when they were in a quartet," Mark said. "They made about a hundred dollars in one hour by singing on the streets."

When they finished, they got a standing ovation. They bowed and walked over to us. "Did you guys enjoy us?" Arial asked.

We all nodded. Gallade started for the door. "I'm going to go train with Teddiursa some more."

"I want to come!" The twins said at the same time. "We love teddiursas!" They followed Gallade out the door.

Lucario started to walk out as well. "I plan to go do some aura training myself." He left.

"I'm going to go bug him," Mark said, grinning evilly. He followed Lucario out the door.

Arial rolled her eyes. "Well I plan on staying here to listen to the songs. Care to join me?" I nodded, and we both sat down at a table in the back?

"I'm still very confused," I said. "Why do you dislike your father so much? Not that there isn't a lot to choose from."

She sighed. "I have mixed feelings about him, to tell you the truth. Yes, I hate what he does and how he treats people, but what I hate more is how he never acts like a dad. I'm going to be nineteen in about two weeks, and if he actually showed up on that day, it would bring the total birthdays he celebrated with me to one. I can't hate him entirely though because he's my dad. Not to mention how different we are. Our philosophies for life are just so opposite."

"What is your philosophy?"

She listened to the music for a second. It was a slow country song. "I've never told my philosophy to anyone before. I tell them what I feel like would benefit them the most. I just don't think I could put it into words."

"Try."

She thought for a moment. "I would put it that you should enjoy the time you have on earth. Be with people you love. You should be happy. You are alive, and life is wonderful."

I felt a shockwave pass through me. My head started to hurt a bit.

You should be happy. You are alive, and life is wonderful.

Ambertwo.

"Where are you going?" Arial asked. I didn't answer. I ran out of the theater and flew towards the other side of the boat, where I landed in a tree ungracefully.

I started to feel an emotion; one that had eluded me for such a long time, it was almost alien to me. I had felt everything from anger to joy, but the one emotion I felt right now was one that avoided me for a long time.

Sadness.

I clutched the tree tightly. Tears started to form in my eyes.

There tears. You're crying. My daddy used to tell me a bedtime story that when pokemon are sad, and they cry, their tears are filled with life.

I shook my head violently. Ambertwo. I looked into the sky. It was dark out, with a full moon and millions of stars.

That's the moon, and the stars are the little lights that twinkle all night so we just so we won't feel alone in the dark.

I couldn't help it. The tears started to spill out of my eyes. I cried. I felt psychic energy well up inside me. I wasn't going to be able to control it, but I didn't care.

Ambertwo!