A/N:

101dragon: So… I'm back.

SB/SK: What took you so long? Oh and I told you so!

101dragon: Well for a while I didn't feel like doing it and I didn't know how to start it and then I had trouble getting to the end. It would be easier if I owned Pokemon but I do not nor do I own Harry Potter.

AK: So your excuse is that you are lazy and have writer's block?

101dragon: Yes to both.

HP/HK: Let's just get to the chapter people, I can't wait to see what happens!

Chapter 10

Harry, Jewel, Sirius, and Ash were getting some last minute training in before the triplets challenged Brock and Jewel competed in the contest.

Jewel was over with Harry with her Pokemon so that that he could help her get ready for the battle round and she could get some last minute coaching with his fear of snakes in. Ash and Sirius were having mock battles with each other.

All the pokemon were paired up too. Eclipse was paired with Flash, Inferno and Ray, Aqua and Jupiter, Star and Eli, Chomper and Terra, Comet and Aero, Sparks and Neptune, and finally Peri and Gem were working together (though near enough that Harry could see that he was in the presence of a snake-like pokemon).

The training was going well, everyone was working hard and getting stronger when suddenly there were three flashes of light as Jupiter, Peri, and Aero were covered in the glow that signified evolution.

When the light disappeared, three new pokemon were standing in their place. Jupiter was now a Metang, Peri was now a Nidorina, and Aero was a Pidgeotto. By the end of the transformation all the pokemon and Jewel were cheering for the newly evolved pokemon while Harry, Sirius and Ash stared at them in shock.

Finally, Harry ran forward and hugged Jupiter as tight as he could, saying that the Metang was even cuter than before and that he was proud of the iron claw pokemon. Jupiter looked a little off at the being called cute thing but then again, most of Harry's more unappealing pokemon were still off when their trainer did that.

Ash then went over to Aero and began stroking the bird's feathers, saying. "Great job, Aero, great job."

At the same time that Ash had went over to Aero, Sirius had gone over to Peri and, while being mindful of her poison point, he began to pet her, muttering soft words of praise.

The brothers couldn't believe that three of their pokemon had evolved at the same time. That didn't happen often unless you were using evolution stones. But they were so happy about their pokemon evolving that they didn't even stop to wonder how it happened, they were just glad that it did.

For the rest of the afternoon, the three boys were celebrating their evolved pokemon as they got use to their new forms. It was a happy time for everyone as the other pokemon got used to their friends' evolutionary forms and the evolved pokemon played with the small ones (especially Star, Gem, and Eli as they were the youngest).

However, eventually Harry got overly happy about the whole thing, going to the same level of happiness as he had when he had caught Neptune. Therefore, while celebrating, Sirius and Ash had to make sure that Harry had in fact not gone completely crazy while Jewel already thought that he was.

They had been planning on fighting the gym after their quick training session but with their pokemon evolving, by the time they stopped celebrating, it was already late and they didn't want to disturb the gym leader. They couldn't challenge Brock the next day though because he was one of the judges for the contest which just happened to be the very next day.

The triplets were obviously disappointed that they wouldn't get to do their gym battle today or the next day but they understood that some things can't be changed. Besides that, they had newly evolved pokemon and that was worth almost as much as a gym battle.

That night, Jewel picked out her outfit for the contest while the boys played with and groomed their pokemon.

"Should I go with the purple one or the green one?" She suddenly asked them, holding up two different colored shirts.

"Green! It goes better with your hair, complementary colors and all that." Harry told her, referring to Jewel's bright red hair.

"Green it is then, meaning I'm going with the red shorts." She smiled as she laid out her main outfit before moving onto accessories.

"Do you know who you're going to use in the contest, Jewel?" Sirius asked while he brushed out Inferno's fur. The puppy pokemon was lapping up the attention as he always did when Sirius brushed him.

"I'm going to use Eli for the appeal round and Flash for the battle round. I think we got a real good chance of winning this one." Jewel said excitedly.

"This one? This isn't your first contest?" Ash asked in surprise.

Not surprisingly, this caused a dark cloud to hover over their female traveling companion while Sirius and Harry shook their heads over how much of an idiot their brother was. Even Sirius knew that you never asked something like that.

"We didn't even get past the appeals our first contest." Jewel cried, now depressed instead of excited. "It was awful!"

The boys decided not to ask because Jewel looked like she was going to cry instead Harry told her. "Well this time will be much better because you're more prepared and you have us to cheer you on. You'll win that ribbon for sure!"

"You're right!" Jewel said perking up before she went to brush Flash's fur. "We'll do our best while looking our best and we'll win it for sure!"

"That's the spirit!" Harry said happily before he was pushed off his bed by Eclipse. "Hey! Eclipse! What did you do that for?"

Instead of trying to mime an answer, the Absol jumped off the bed and went to the door gesturing for them to follow him. The four traveling companions looked at each other before following Harry's partner. They returned the rest of their pokemon and followed Eclipse out of the room, through the pokemon center, and out onto the streets of Pewter.

They wondered where Eclipse was taking them, but it wasn't long until they reached their destination which happened to be the gym… or what used to be the gym.

The gym was partially destroyed. The police and Brock were standing in front of and amongst the ruins. The four traveling companions gaped at in shock before they walked over to the closest officer and Jewel asked him.

"What happened here, Officer?"

"Someone attacked the gym. We don't know who and we only know that they used a powerful pokemon to do this kind of damage." The officer replied, making Harry wonder how exactly they had missed the sound of the destruction of the gym? Was their hearing that bad?

"That's horrible!" Jewel exclaimed.

"Yes it is. We're doing everything we can to figure out who did this." The officer told them.

"Well if you ever need our help, while we're still here in town, we'll be happy to lend a hand." Harry told the officer before asking. "Was anyone hurt?"

"No, thankfully the gym leader and everyone else who works there were at home and all of the gym leader's pokemon were in their pokeballs." The officer reassured him.

"That's a relief." Sirius said before he yawned.

"I think it's time for us to get back to the pokemon center, we hope you solve the case officer." Ash said, making the officer nod at them before they started heading back.

As they walked back, the four of them discussed the destruction.

"I can't believe that we didn't hear the gym getting destroyed, if it weren't for Eclipse, we wouldn't have even known about it until morning!" Ash exclaimed in a completely shocked tone.

"Speaking of which, how did Eclipse know about that?" Jewel asked curiously.

"Eclipse is an Absol, which are known for causing disasters when in reality they can only sense when disasters are going to or have happened." Harry explained before adding. "Back at home, we usually knew when a fire or an explosion was about to happen first because Eclipse would try to get us to get there before it happened so we could stop it."

"We've only managed to do that a couple times though. And that was only because Mom left a pan on the stove and forgot about it so we were able to get there really fast." Ash added.

"Back to the matter at hand though," Sirius interrupted their explanation. "I wonder who would destroy the gym? It's an important place for most trainers, a place to test our skills or get advice. So why would a trainer destroy part of the gym?"

"I don't know. Maybe some bad organization did it to find something important out?" Jewel suggested, making all three boys realize something.

"Do you think it could be those guys we ran into in Viridian or someone related to them?" Harry asked his brothers, trembling as he remembered the Ekans that the girl had had.

"Maybe." Sirius replied. "It would not be unlikely, plus I doubt their team only consisted of those three."

"What are you guys talking about?" Jewel asked.

"Back in Viridian, when we first started out, we ran into these three guys who claimed to be part of Team Rocket and they tried to steal the pokemon center's pokemon." Ash explained.

"Do you think they had something to do with this?" Jewel asked with wide eyes.

"If they were, I would have expected them to take some pokemon. But who knows, maybe they were doing something completely different or they just wanted to blow up the gym. They could've been doing anything there." Harry told her.

"Well let's just hope the police catch them or whoever did this and get some sleep. I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired." Sirius suggested. The rest of their group agreed with him and they all headed back to the pokemon center for some sleep.

A/N:

101dragon: And done!

SB/SK: Great job, dragon, but you still took way too long.

101dragon: I know. Anyway, let's show the teams, which are:

Harry's Team: Eclipse (Absol), Comet (Spearow), Star (Cleffa), Jupiter (Metang), Neptune (Horsea)

Ash's Team: Ray (Electrike), Aero (Pidgeotto), Terra (Sandshrew), Aqua (Staryu)

Sirius's Team: Inferno (Growlithe), Periwinkle "Peri" (Nidorina), Chomper (Gible), Sparks (Chinchou)

Jewel's Team: Flash (Zorua), Gem (Dratini), Eli (Espurr)

HP/HK: Now for Reviews!

To Asmodeus45: I don't think that I will put a Chimchar on their teams… maybe Jewel's, but probably not. Thanks for the review!

To the Guest: Good idea with Regulus having powers, I'll see about adding that in. I agree that it would be cool.

AK: And now we're done. We hope that you review and that Sirius doesn't have to tell dragon 'I told you so' again.

101dragon: That won't be happening again!

HP/HK: Bye!