A little short, but next chapter is longer and I'll post it either tomorrow or Saturday. Thanks for the review zachlor16. Glad you like it.

Angel's feet crunch as the snow beneath her feet catches her weight like a cushion. Calamity silently pads along as her person looks along the cityscape from the Pokemon Center's famous red roof. She tightens her scarf around her neck as the air current swivels around her body and tickles her skin. Cynthia had followed Candice to the trainer school to demonstrate how to properly command pokemon in battle. Angel had snuck away when Cynthia wasn't looking, and judging by the way she didn't have a garchomp and her twenty-eight year old trainer on her tail, the tall blonde was fully aware that she had left. Calamity lets out a steamed huffs beside her.

"I don't work well with other kids; you know that. Besides, she would make me battle her and I don't want to humiliate myself… Come on. We can go train everyone."

A multi-colored dragon shaped beam erupts from the larger head of the hydreigon. The explosive beam is deflected by a Flamethrower as Diadem circles the Dragon Pulse in a flip. The mixture erupts and throws the snow outward to make sparkles fly through the sky. Destin watches in awe before shaking his head to focus on his trainer's commands.

"Destin, Bide!"

The white aura encloses the pokemon as the absol advances and raises a paw covered with a purple hue to bring down on the small pokemon. It concentrated his body mass into its core and took the attack. The ball of goo falls back slightly when the next attack hits.

Angel analyzes and waits for the inevitable attack. Calamity senses it a moment before she does, for the white pokemon flips away as the white beam erupts from the small body and demolished a line of trees. Diadem and Mystic pause their mock battle and turn to watch as the light fades and the newest recruit depresses into the snow, sweat beading its frame. Diadem huffs, condensated air fogs around his snout and his ruff expands with the movement.

"I wasn't expecting it either," Angel rests a palm on the goomy's body and gives him a smile. "That was awesome Destin! Good job!"

The blob raises his head and lets out a cheerful cry before straightening and looking forward with a focused stance.

"All ready to go again huh? Alright. Destin, Calamity, encore!"

…

Cynthia bids goodbye to Candice, who gives a rushed wave in return before dashing back inside to tend to the chaos inside her classroom. Her demonstration was cut short when two children started a fight over their loaned pokemon and fired an armada of fire based attacks into the room. Luckily, no one was hurt, but almost everyone had gotten soaked to the bone once the sprinkler system had gone off. The blonde champion turns to the still wet, unhappy dragon next to her.

"Think she's had enough time to herself? I wanted to show her the ruins and the lakefront, but we're running out of time if we want to get home tomorrow."

Garchomp grunts her reply and Cynthia wished she was able to tell if it was one of agreement or not. Even after having this pokemon since it was a gible, her garchomp could still be extremely hard to read, even after over a decade.

It's not like the champion was overly worried, she had released her lucario from its ball to trail her the moment she noticed the platinum blonde sneaking toward the door; but still, it makes her uneasy not knowing for sure where the little girl was. A claw lightly tapping her back made her snap back to the present. The garchomp motioned to Togekiss' pokeball.

"Okay, okay let's go find her."

Lucario looks up at the flying, white avian circling above his head. The bipedal pokemon stops at the invisible pulse she feels barrage her breastbone. She flaps her wings to remain hovering and looks down at her teammate. The white pokemon chirps and circles the area before jolting back, flapping her wings frantically in shock, when an explosive white beam topples an area of trees.

Togekiss lets out a surprised chirp and projects her body back to avoid collision. She tucks in her wings to torpedo out of the way and back to her trainer and hopes that Lucario had evaded the attack. She frantically flaps feathered wings in front of her trainer and the blonde's shoulders slump.

"Angel's near that explosion isn't she," the champion doesn't even wait for a reply, "I already know she's there. Thanks for the help Togekiss, return."

The red beam encases the white figure and the pokeball is deposited into her jacket. She perches herself onto the back of her garchomp. One arm wraps around the joint of the shoulder and a hand around the dragon's dorsal. The beast immediately speeds toward the area where the light had faded.

Garchomp stops when she meets Lucario's figure at the tree line. Cynthia moves to ask Lucario a question, but stops when the blue canine motions to be quiet. He raises a paw out to the clearing and the gray orbs gaze toward the outcrop. The champion looks out to see the goomy absorb the Flamethrower thrown at it by its larger teammate. She watches the young girl duck to avoid the Bide directed in her general direction.

"Great job Destin, but let's call it a day for now. You're getting tired."

The ball of goo lets out a defiant cry as his trainer takes out his capsule. Angel smiles as she returns the pokemon into its ball, "You did awesome. No need to overwork yourself Destin." She plants a soft kiss on the container and connects it to her belt. Purple eyes roll skyward and notice the sun lowering in the sky, "We should get back. Mama's probably going to send someone after me soon." Her two larger pokemon retreat to their balls and click to her belt until only Calamity remains by her side.

The platinum begins to panic when her vision vanishes and something warm wraps around her eyes. She forces her body downward to attempt to shake the mass off her eyes and tumbles into her attacker after slipping on the slush.

"Just me Angel."

"Mama? You scared me. Calamity, why didn't you say anything?!" The little girl accuses. She puffs out her cheeks at the pokemon when it grumbles. "That's not nice… I don't care if you knew she wouldn't hurt me; I got spooked!"

Cynthia laughs slightly and grabs the child's hand, "Come on Love. We have to get back for dinner. Sorry to tell you this, but we aren't going to get to the lake this visit."

"But, Mama!" Angel complains as she stops and tries to get Cynthia to reconsider.

"Sorry, Angel. Next time, okay?"

Angel sighs in disappointment.