It had taken almost half a day to reach route 104. Yulie stepped on to the beach and sat down. She got a nice layer of wet sand on her, but she wanted to enjoy the sunset. After thanking them, Micah returned both pokemon to their pokeballs and walked next to Yulie.

"Come on get up." He said holding out his hand.

"What if I don't wanna?" She said continuing to stare at the ocean.

"You sat on the back of a mantine all day, and almost drown."

"I was asleep!"

"No wonder you didn't swim!" He said sarcastically.

"I woke up." Yulie muttered. She watched as the sun sank three fourths beneath the waves. She stood up and went to her belt, she took a pokeball, enlarging it in the processes.

"I need to see Dr. Tintokrul real quick."

"The geologist?"

"And head assistant at Professor Birch's lab."

"I don't think Charm can carry both of us." Micah said, eyeing the pokeball nervously.

"Maybe, maybe not." Yulie said and released Charm.

A giant winged lizard appeared in front of them. It had orange pebbled skin. It's grainy skin had a warm glow in the fading light. Its wings had a thin membrane of skin stretched onto the frame, a healthy color of blue. Where a normally soft white underbelly was, a yellow mass, indicated this pokemon was experienced, well trained and no longer had that weak point. It's fangs and claws were the whitest and sharpest Micah had ever seen, and finally the flame on it's tail was a brilliant show of red, orange and yellow flames.

Before them stood Charm, Yulie's once little charmander.

"Charm, I need you to fly me to Littleroot town real quick." Yulie said hugging Charm around the neck.

"Your not leaving me here!" Micah shouted.

"Well, I suppose," Yulie looked up at Charm. "If it's not too much weight, you could ride on his back, and Charm could carry me in his arms." Yulie stepped back and allowed Charm to answer.

Micah stood still. He had never confessed it but he was slightly terrified of Charm. For two very good reasons, one this Charizard didn't like him, and two, this humongous lizard could kill him anytime he wanted, if Yulie ever left them alone.

Charm glared at Micah and snapped its fangs at him, and shook his.

Yulie sighed.

"See Micah, I told you Charm wasn't strong enough to carry both of us."

Charm looked at Yulie, he stepped back and started flapping his wings, then releasing a blazing hot flamethrower to the sky.

"What you saying Charm? My macho man can carry both of us?" Yulie said in mock surprise. Charm, not hearing the mock in her voice nodded ferociously. Yulie smiled and nuzzled at his neck.

"Thank you."

Micah almost smirked, almost. Charizard loved Yulie too much to ever even want to disappoint her. And up until last year, he was her favorite guy, then Micah showed up. Charizard was perfectly fine with Yulie have girl friends. He didn't like the fact that she had a guy best friend. And now Micah was going to ride on his back.

Micah climbed on his back and watched Charm pick up Yulie.

"What if he drops you?" Micah asked, as Charizard started to flap his wings.

A voice from bellow him answered.

"Charm would never let me fall… I'm not sure about you though."

Charm was soon in the skies and Yulie was looking at the ground from a new angle. She saw nothing out of the ordinary. They only activity she saw was a girl riding a tarus, but nothing more.


"I'm tired." Chelsea said stopping.

Isaac gave Chelsea a dirty look, that instant Chelsea regretted saying she was tired.

"Yay, it's 1:29. I'll make lunch!" Lydia said and began to set up a fire.

They had packed up the morning after Lydia's victory, while Lydia had made breakfast. Chelsea and Isaac hoped that breakfast would be better than dinner. They were wrong, the only thing edible in the meal was the burnt toast. Now they had been in the forest for three days, and Chelsea was running out of gum. That had been the only way she had gotten through the meals, and the taste of them out.

Isaac walked over to Chelsea and glared at her. He hadn't grown use to Lydia's cooking, and at times he would disappear all together one meal a day.

"I am going to go and walk for a while, see if I can catch any pokemon." He said loudly and walked away. Vulpix looked at Isaac walk away.

"Ok, be back soon, I won't take long." Lydia shouted.

"Um Lydia." Chelsea said approaching her.

"Yeah."

"Would you mind making sandwiches this time?" Chelsea knew there was no way she could mess up a simple ham and cheese sandwich.

"No, I have to use up everything I bought. Or else it would go to waste."

Chelsea contained a groan.

"Well, let me help."

"No, I want to do this by myself." Lydia said smiling, and went to go get her cook book. "Vulpix would you light the fire for me sweetie?"

When Lydia was done cooking, Isaac had still not returned.

"If we don't eat now the food will get cold." Lydia said sitting down and grabbing a plate. Chelsea wondered if the food would taste better if it was cold. Chelsea silently cursed Isaac for not being there and ate the food quietly. All while they ate, Vulpix stared at a nearby tree. When Chelsea put down her plate of food, Isaac was still not back.

"I wonder if he left for good." Chelsea wondered aloud.

"Don't worry Chelsea, I think he really wants you to buy him a new skateboard." Lydia said while cleaning up. It was only when all the pots and pans were packed up and the food thrown away that Isaac reappeared.

"Oh man, did I miss lunch?" Isaac asked.

Chelsea glared at him.

"Yes you did."

"Don't worry I have some berries you can eat." Lydia said.

"No it's ok, I wasn't that hungry anyway. I'll wait till dinner." Isaac said. And with that they continued through the forest.

"Did you see any pokemon?" Chelsea asked.

"Yeah, some Poochyena and slakoth."

"How did you see slakoth, I thought they lived in the trees."

"I um… Looked up?" Isaac said.

"You catch any?"

"No."

They didn't stop again until it was dark. You couldn't see the moon through the canopy of the trees. And it was with much regret that Chelsea allowed vulpix to light another fire.

Isaac looked at vulpix curiously.

"Foods done!" Lydia shouted.

Isaac sighed and walked over to the plate of food given to him. Rice, and something charred on top. He ate the food silently, to entranced by his thoughts to worry about the sooty taste of the meal. They washed dishes, and set up camp there that night.

"I'm changing!"

"Do we need an update every time you do something!" Isaac shouted back.

Chelsea went behind the tent to her usual changing spot. When she took off her shirt she got goose bumps. She slipped on her night gown, and had a feeling someone was watching her. She turned her head, and saw something move slightly.

She turned around completely and stared at the shrub. She had seen something move, she was sure of it. She took a cautious step toward the bush. She was startled a bit when she saw that the shrub moved again. Chelsea crouched down and stared at the bush.

Isaac stood up and went running when he heard a high pitched scream. Vulpix was right behind him.

"Chelsea!" He said stopping next to the tent.

Chelsea was on the floor panting, with a pokemon crying I front of her. Isaac looked from Chelsea to the pokemon. It had a white body, it looked no bigger than a foot. It seemed to be wearing a green helmet with a pink oval disk stinking out of it. Lydia was the last one to arrive. She had her pokedex out already.

"Ralts, the feeling pokemon.

Ralts has the ability to sense the emotions of people. If its trainer is in a cheerful mood this pokemon grows cheerful and joyous in the same way. The opposite is true as well."

Lydia closed the pokedex and covered her ears, Isaac did so too. How can something so little make so much damn noise? He wondered. He went to grab it. For a split second he had his hands around its little body. It stopped crying, then disappeared.

"What the-" It appeared seconds later in Chelsea lap. It lifted up it's head revealing one shiny ruby eye.

"Teleport." Lydia whispered.

Chelsea looked at ralts' teary eye.

"Are you the one who's been following me?" She asked it, her heart beat starting to slow down.

"What do you mean?" Isaac asked, staring at the ralts.

"Since me and Lydia left Oldale, I've felt if something was following me."

"That makes sense, ralts don't live around here." Lydia said, uncovering her ears. "They live on route 102."

They all heard a grumbling noise, ralts blush.

Isaac laughed.

"That little thing is hungry!"

"I don't have pokemon food…" Chelsea said.

"I think I have some berries." Lydia said running back to the tent. When she came back she had a hand full of berries. But ralts wouldn't eat.

"Don't you like berries?" Lydia cooed.

"Those are to big." Isaac said. He went through his pockets, (Chelsea realized how many pockets those pants had) and pulled out a switchblade. He took a berries and cut it into pieces. Chelsea took them and fed them to ralts. She happily ate them.

Vulpix growled, from behind Isaac. He almost jumped, he forgot she was there. Vulpix trotted over to Chelsea and sat down next to her.

"I think vulpix is jealous of ralts." Lydia said.

"Let's hope the green-eyed-monster doesn't come out." Isaac said walking away. Chelsea stood up with ralts in her hands. She shifted ralts into one arm and picked up her clothing with the other. Vulpix held up her hair band in her mouth. Chelsea said thank you, and walked over to her sleeping bag. Ralts had fallen asleep in her arms. Chelsea arranged herself so ralts was on her left, and with much squeezing, vulpix on her right.