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Chapter 12-

Gary had gotten back to the campsite with some more wood for the fire. He saw Tristan wasn't back yet and glanced at his watch. Tristan had been gone for a while. He was just sitting down when a girl wandered into the campsite. A familiar looking girl…

"Hi Gary, where's Tristan?" Gabrielle said in a smug tone.

"Oh, um he's out looking for some Lunatone." he answered, slightly taken aback. "What exactly are you doing here? Don't you have a contest?"

"It's over, and I won. I'm on my way down to Rustboro for some business, and then I'm catching a plane ride over to Lavaridge to relax in those amazing baths they have."

"Sounds nice…"

"Yeah…"

They sat there for a bit in an awkward silence watching the flames dance.

"So…what kind of pokemon do you have? Gary asked.

"I have a Sceptile, Masquerain, Gardevoir, Torkoal, Milotic, and Absol."

"Wow, that's a lot of interesting pokemon. May I see your Milotic?"

"Sure I guess. Milotic, I need you." she said calling out the beautiful water type. Gary looked at it in awe. Suddenly, they heard a voice screaming. Both trainers stood up.

"Did you hear that scream? It sort of sounded like Tristan." Gabrielle said, recalling her pokemon.

"Let's go see."

Both hurried off in the direction of the scream. They ran for a minute then slowed down to try and hear if anyone was around.

"Tristan? Can you hear me?" Gary called.

Suddenly, Tristan ran past them, swinging his arms through the air wildly. The other two stood there stunned for a second, and then took off after him. They lost him for a minute until they came up on him in a clearing. He was curled up on the ground bleeding from several places. As they rushed to his side, they saw he was crying and muttering to himself "please go away, please go away."

Gary immediately looked into Tristan's eyes and so them completely out of focus. He called out his Umbreon and began looking around. Sure enough, he saw two Lunatone floating above them.

"The Lunatone are using Confusion on Tristan. He's seeing things that aren't there." Gary said. "If we don't stop the attack, he could hurt himself more."

"Well, I'd hate to see that happen. Go Absol."

"Let's go Umbreon."

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Tristan was lying there when suddenly the Beedrill flew off. He began to look over his body to see the damage. He was a bit surprised that there were no marks!

"Well that's odd."

Suddenly, a Plusle and Minun walked up to him.

"Hi there little guys. Did you scare those Beedrill away?"

The two pokemon shook their heads, and then smiled. Suddenly, both started to mutate into hideous monsters. Tristan's mouth hung open watching the grotesque sight in front of him. He wanted to run, but found himself unable to move. The Plusle/Minun monsters started to charge up, then released a huge Thunderbolt onto Tristan. All he could do was scream.

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"Absol use Bite."

"Umbreon use Quick Attack."

The two pokemon's attacks hit their marks as the Lunatone were concentrating solely on Tristan. Suddenly, Tristan began screaming like crazy. Both trainers immediately turned to see him shaking on the ground like he was being shocked.

"We have to stop them! Absol use Razor Wind." Gabrielle said in a bit of a panicked voice.

"Umbreon use Confuse Ray."

The Lunatone that Umbreon was attacking got hit and suddenly started to fly around in loops. Absol's was still attacking.

"Absol, finish that thing off with a Slash!"

The attack connected and the Lunatone dropped onto the ground unconscious. Tristan stopped screaming, and the two rushed over to him.

"He's bleeding pretty badly. Let's get him back to the campsite." Gary said.

"I'll take care of that." she said, calling out her Gardevoir. "Gardevoir use Psychic to carry Tristan with us."

The psychic pokemon picked Tristan up and led him behind Gary and Gabrielle back to the campsite.

"Stay here with him while I get some water." Gary said.

Gabrielle had Gardevoir lay Tristan down on his sleeping bag. She pulled out her bottle of water and a bandana from her bag and started to clean his wounds.

"What were thinking, idiot? You should have never gone out looking for psychic pokemon by yourself. That was really stupid. If you had gotten killed…" she said to his unconscious body. "Just be alright."

After five minutes, Gary was back, and the two of them were able to get Tristan bandaged up as well as they could.

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Tristan woke up and it was daylight out. He sat up in his sleeping bag. He looked over his bandaged form.

"These were from the Beedrill" he thought. He then turned and saw Gary lying in his sleeping bag, then turned more and saw… her.

"Ah, so the torture continues. I take it she'll be the one causing me bodily harm now. Maybe I can escape without waking the slumbering beast."

He quietly began to get up, but before he could get out of his sleeping bag, Gary's Umbreon, seeing that Tristan was awake, had already nudged her master awake and nodded her head toward Tristan. Gary looked over and saw Tristan attempting to stand, and promptly falling back down.

"Tristan! Jeez, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. These Beedrill attacked me after I threw my pokenav at them. Why was I so angry?" he asked, looking down in concentration. "Oh yeah, my brothers. I'M GONNA KILL THEM!" he shouted, waking Gabrielle up now.

"Chillar shut up! Incredible looks like this can't be bought you know. I need my sleep!"

"Well, you sure could fool me. And hey, take it easy, I got attacked by a Beedrill swarm."

"No you didn't, moron. Two Lunatone were using Confusion on you. Whatever you saw last night was an illusion."

"Well then where did all these injuries come from?"

"Well, we heard you screaming, then saw you running through the woods flailing your arms all over the place, so that's probably a good start. As for the rest, I have no idea, but there aren't even Beedrill in this area. Knowing you, you were probably bashing your head against a rock or something."

Tristan sat there for a minute in deep thought. "My head hurts." he said. Gabrielle and Gary just sighed.

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After getting a few more hours of sleep, Tristan was ready to get up and move around. Finally being able to get a good look at his body, he found his legs and torso were practically one big bruise, and he had mild to moderate sized cuts all over his hands, arms, and face. He figured he must have jumped off that hill he was on and rolled down over all the rocks, accounting for the bruises. The trees and bushes were probably the source of his cuts. Overall, he felt like crap.

"I think we should stay here another night Gary. I feel terrible." Tristan said.

"That's fine with me. But if you go out and try and get a Lunatone or Solrock again, I'm going with you."

"Oh I forgot-I did catch a Lunatone!" Tristan exclaimed.

"Do you think it will be as angry as those other two?" Gabrielle asked.

"Only one way to find out." he said reaching for the pokeball.

"Umbreon, be ready." Gary said as Umbreon tensed up.

Tristan released the Lunatone. It didn't react angrily at all. It looked Tristan over, then had a look of shame come across its face.

"Sorry for my friends. I hope you that you are alright. I will not hurt you." Tristan heard in his head.

"I think we're going to be fine guys." Tristan said. He called out his other pokemon and introduced them to Lunatone. While they got acquainted, Tristan turned to Gabrielle.

"So, not to be blunt or anything, but what the hell are you even doing here?"

"Well, I see those Lunatone didn't Confusion you into having some tact. I did happen to help save your life last night."

"Really? Why do I find that hard to believe?"

"Yeah well start believing. Even though you are completely unworthy of my time, I suppose you're just too pitiful to let die. It would be like ignoring an injured little Pichu. Pathetic, but too pitiful looking not to help. But don't expect too many handouts like that. I've already told Gary, I won my contest so I'm heading to Rustboro, then to Lavaridge."

"You're going to Lavaridge? Great." he muttered.

"What, you gotta problem with that?"

"No, of course not."

"Hmph. So what's up with that necklace you're wearing? I like it."

"It's Kyogre's symbol, and my mom gave it to me for luck."

"That's nice. I think I remember her from the Silver Conference. Blond hair?"

"That's probably her."

"She seemed nice. She'd probably like my mom."

"She's the one that I thought was your older sister wasn't it?"

"Yes. She's spoken glowingly of you ever since. Saying you were such a gentleman. Of course I know better, but she won't take my word for it."

"Oh ha-ha. Just because you don't like me doesn't mean other women can't see me for my awesome self."

The two went on like that for some time. Gary just sat and watched in amusement.

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The next day, Gabrielle left after breakfast.

"Well, it's been real, but I gotta get back to sane people before I become as crazy as you are."

"Well, we wouldn't want that." Tristan said sarcastically. "But, I just want to say thanks, you know, for helping me, and being, um, less bitchy than usual to me and stuff."

"You're welcome. Just try to stop doing dumb stuff."

"Whatever."

"Bye Gary, see ya Tristan."

The two boys went back to the campsite, while Gabrielle walked off with a smile.

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Be on the lookout for my new story this week. I think I'm gonna need some OC's...

Anyways, review if you please.