Disclaimer: Even after a week, I have not own Pokemon.

Hey guys! Guess why I'm updating so early again? I did so well in Area competition! My group made it to the finals, but we lost there (sobs.) But that's okay! We just made school history (No one else ever made it to the finals in our school!)

Anyways, I decided that whenever something good happens (to me), I'll be selfish and update the story that gets the most votes on my profile (DP is number one so yeah...)

I have a new OC. I know I'm going fast with OCs but I'm trying to go through the story line. And it is... X-Spark's Fuuta! yay! I'll try to get another OC in the next chatper, but it depends.

Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 12:

The battle has started and things were still neck to neck. Damion had sent out his Starly while Lily had her Pichu. Despite their desire to get to the next town, Dawn and Lucas had no choice but to sit out at the sideline. Dawn had her Piplup out and both of them were watching the battle with intense interest, hoping to get some tips on battling. Lucas was having some snacks with Turtwig and Muchlax; all three of them were completely oblivious to their surrounding except of the food in front of them.

"Starly use Wing Attack!" Starly came straight toward Pichu.

"Don't move Pichu!" Lily ordered. Pichu stood in its spot and took the aerial attack.

"Yes! Direct hit!" Damion said, excited, but then he realized that Starly was wincing and seemed to have a harder time staying in the air. He suddenly saw static all around Starly's wings. "What?! Starly!"

"Pichu's special ability is Static," Lily said, smirking at Damion's confused and shocked face, "Basically any attacks that require physical contact on Pichu will result in paralysis. Pichu use Thundershock!" Pichu concentrated really hard and from its little red circular cheeks, send a stream of electricity toward the unmovable Starly.

"Ah! Starly dogged!" But it was too late. Starly took the attack and fell to the ground immediately.

"Sheesh," Lily said in an unsatisfied voice, "So much for that battle."
"It's over already?" Dawn said surprised.

"Huh?" Lucas said, looking over, "what is?"
"Hey! That was just a lucky shot. Besides I haven't trained Starly yet, and YOU!" Damion grabbed Lucas by the throat- again. "PAY ATTENTION!"

"Stop!" Dawn yelled, trying to pry off Damion's hands from Lucas' throat which was producing gagging sounds.

Lily stared amazed at the three people. There are indeed strange people in the world. She snapped back to reality and realized that the battle was not over.

"YO! Blondie! Get back here so I can finish you off."

"What?! Stop calling me blondie, flower girl! Go Chimchar!" The monkey Pokemon came out of its Pokeball.

"Pichu return!" Lily sent the small mouse Pokemon back into its ball and took out another one, "Go Evee!" A small fox Pokemon jumped out of its Pokeball and without further ado, started to chase its tail.

"Wow, such a cute Pokemon!" Dawn said amazed. She took out her Pokedex to record Evee's data.

"Chimchar, let's go! Start off with Ember" The small monkey took a huge breath and exhaled a blast of fire toward the targeted Pokemon.

"Evee, Quick Attack!" The little brown fox wagged its ears and playfully dogged the attack like it was playing tag.

"ARGH! EMBER! EMBER! EMBER!" Chimchar kept blasting out the fire attack but Evee kept dogging it as if it was playing.

"Now, I'm completely bored," Lily declared, sighing at the pointless battle.

"Chimchar!" Damion said, obviously ticked off, "Get close to Evee and use Fury Swipes!" Chimchar, thanks to its speed, raced toward Evee and started scratching Evee three times.

"Evee!" Lily screamed. Evee whimpered, and winced at its bruised face. "Evee finish it off with a Bite!"

"Chimchar! Scratch!" Evee and Chimchar charged toward each other and immediately crashed head on. The force was so strong that the attack knocked them both down. Both of the Pokemon had fainted, obviously unable to continue battling.

"Shoot!" Damion groaned, "A tie!" He quickly returned Chimchar, and Lily did the same. Lily sighed in frustration. She was so sure that she would've defeated that guy.
"Not really," a voice said. Damion, Dawn, and Lily turned around and were surprised to hear Lucas speak up. "You see, Lily still has her Pichu, so the battle basically goes to Lily."

"Yeah, that's right," Dawn said, realizing what Lucas was saying, "Okay Damion, you lost, so you have to apologize to Lily first." Damion gave Lucas a death stare that made Lucas cringe in fear. Damion, with an annoyed and stubborn look, faced Lily.

"Sorry for bumping into you," Damion said, frowning. He was determined not to look at Lily when he apologized. Clearly it was an embarrassment for Damion to lose to a girl.

"I accept your apology," Lily said, shrugging her shoulder, "And sorry for calling you a blondie and pathetic."

"Yeah, well," Damion mumbled, "you're a pretty strong trainer. You got talent to become a rival. Maybe we can battle again some time." For some reason, Lily turned bright red at Damion's compliment and, like him but for a different reason, avoided Damion's eyes.

"Thanks," Lily said, in a shy voice that she found that she never used before.

"You okay?" Damion asked, confused at the sudden change of personality, "Your face is all red." Dawn giggled at Lily's expression which caused Lily to jerk back to reality.

"I'm totally fine!" Lily exclaimed, talking very fast, trying very hard and failing miserably to act normal, "Why wouldn't I? I'm always fine. I'm super duper fine! Okay I got to go! I need to heal my Pokemon! Bye!" Without hesitation, Lily ran off to Sandgem Town, where Lucas, Dawn, and Damion came from.

"Something is wrong with her," Damion said, watching the girl leave until the road bend and she wasn't there anymore.

"Oh, there's nothing wrong with her," Dawn said, smiling, "Just a small affection."
"Infection?" Lucas said, looking concern immediately, "She's sick?"
"Sick?!" Damion said shocked, "How did she get sick all of a sudden?"

Dawn and her Piplup groaned as the two boys have an animated discussion. Maybe it was best to just keep her mouth shut instead since boys are obviously clueless.

...

"I didn't catch a single Pokemon," Dawn sighed. They arrived at the Jubilife City. So far, Dawn had not found a single Pokemon that she wanted to catch.

"I wonder what's there to eat," Damion wondered out loud, ignoring Dawn's statement, "I'm starving."

"Oh," Lucas said, sounding excited for the first time, "I can't wait to eat. What kind of foods do they have here?"

"Uh," Damion said a little uneasy at Lucas' joyful face, "usually I go with the fast food. They're everywhere so-"
"You guys just had breakfast!" Dawn roared. She was completely frustrated that Lucas and Damion were both ignoring her. Lucas immediately cowered behind Damion while Damion received the full blast of anger from Dawn's aura.

"Okay, okay," Damion said, backing away, "you don't have to be so angry." Dawn sighed in frustration again and left in a huff. "Dawn wait!" Lucas watched as Damion tried to catch up with the frustrated Dawn.

Such an amazing place, Lucas thought as he looked at the city clearly for the first time. There were many new buildings that seemed to tower over the facility back home. The varieties of color seemed to blind him. He couldn't even recognize which building is what. People were walking to and for at a leisurely pace, gossiping with their friends and smiling a lot. Definitely a better place. Lucas closed his eyes and sighed in relaxation. He could feel the sense of calmness that he had never felt before. Lucas decided that traveling around the place a bit should be a good place to start. And, as usual, he forgot about Damion and Dawn.

...

"Excuse me but have you seen a young guy with a red cap with bizarre looking clothing?" Dawn asked the man in front

"Nope sorry." The man shook his head and left.

"Drats," Dawn groaned, "where in the world is Lucas?" After Dawn calmed down a bit, she and Damion realized that Lucas was not with them. After a couple of screaming and frustration, Dawn and Damion started walking around, asking random people if they have seen Lucas.

"When I get my hands on him," Damion growled, not finishing his sentence. He pretended to wring an invisible neck as if to vent out of his anger.

"Calm down," Dawn said, "Let's think back. First off, where would Lucas be?"

"Well, if I was Lucas," Damion thought, "I would most likely go to..."

...

A few hours later...

"I've never eaten so many delicious stuff," Lucas said happily. He came out of the department store where they were giving out free food sample. It was like pure heaven going to each floor and eating while looking at amazement at the different stores inside. There were varieties of clothes, Pokemon items, toys, food, and other stuff. Of course most of the people inside were really nice and polite. Lucas felt like he found his place in this world.

"Okay, where to next..." Lucas mumbled as he flipped through the guide book that a nice lady from the travel department gave to him. "Oh, this is interesting!" Lucas said, excited, "The Pokemon Center! There should be a lot of injured Pokemon I can help with!" Without further ado, Lucas followed the directions to the Pokemon Center, having his eyes completely on the map. Then without warning, he collided into something.

"Ouch!" Lucas grumbled as he look up and saw that he had hit the sign that said, 'Pokmon Center.' A giggle came from the back and Lucas saw two girls, obviously laughing at Lucas' stupidity.

Both of the girls obviously just came from the Pokemon school on the other side of the road since they both were carrying school books in their hands. Both of them were wearing a white collared up shirt with a loose black tie and light blue plaited skirts with knee length black stockings and brown leather shoes. Lucas turned bright red from embarrassment as he watched the two girls continue to laugh as they walked down the road. One of the girls, a shoulder length layered red hair girl, looked back at Lucas and winked, making his face turn even redder. Trying to shake off the huge embarrassment, he walked into the Pokemon Center.

"Whoa." Lucas was amazed at the Pokemon Center. The whole place was furnished lavishly. Most of people around the place were hanging around with their Pokemon. Lucas couldn't help but to walk around amazed. He was in such awed that he didn't notice a kid coming up from behind.

"Hey there! It's been a while!" Lucas felt a hand on his shoulder and nearly jumped out of his skin. He turned around and saw a guy about his age.

The light brown hair guy was wearing a white shirt and sky blue jeans. Over his shirt was a long black coat that went down to his knees and his black and orange shoes were sticking out. His hands were wearing black gloves, and his brown eyes seemed to shining with happiness. On his shoulder was a Pachurisu.

"I'm sorry?" Lucas sputtered, confused. The guy looked confused at Lucas' face but immediately grinned.

"Silly, trying to keep it a surprise still? You should've told me that you were moving back here. Hey! What's with those weird clothes?" the guy laughed and slapped Lucas' back.

Ouch, Lucas thought as he rubbed his back, he reminds me of somebody.

"I'm sorry, but I think you've mistaken me for somebody," Lucas said, trying to get away.

"Huh?" the guy said confused, "You're joking right?" But the blank look on Lucas' face changed the guys mind. "Oh geez, I'm so sorry. Guess I got carried away. But, still, you look so much like Daniel Diamond. Are you sure you're not related to him or something like that?" Lucas froze at the name.

"What did you say?" Lucas asked.

"Uh," the guy said, confused, "I just said that look a lot like Daniel Diamond."

Lucas slid to the ground in confusion.

"Hey!" the guy said surprised, "Are you okay? Was it something I said?!"

Daniel Diamond... Lucas thought could he be...

Author's Notes

MUHAHAHAHA! Now things are getting interesting! I'm so diabolically evil (grins).

If you don't understand the last few sentences, let's just say Lucas' last name is also Diamond (HINT HINT!)

okay, now that Area competition is over, updates will probably be back to normal. (meaning I'll update on weekends instead on random days of the week.)

Now to thank my reviewers.

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xoxbb

hehehehe, glad you like the chapter. I hope you like the battle. I wanted to use some Pokemon that I really like for the battle, and hey, Lily won! thanks for the review.

X-Spark

oh, okay so you added more stuff to your OC. (Grrr) lol. hope I wrote down your OC correctly.

Phantom shadow mask

its sort of a foreshadow, but since it already happen... more like a hanting past... lol. thanks for the review.

CC411

YES! Thank you for agreeing. I don't think Lucas and Dawn will kiss (unless that's what 11 year olds do these days... shudders...) thanks for the review

fatal whispher

thanks for the reivew and about your OC!

Jarkes

Rutherford is the man with the whip and the horrible accent in the beginning of the last chapter. About the secrete revealing, it'll be a while, since I have NO idea how to present the issue...

All right another OC! Don't worry, you'll probably figure it out sooner or later. I can wait.

ap13095

hey thanks for your OC. I still take OCs but whether or not I have a chance to use them will depend on my story's progression. I'm sorry! thanks for the review and I'm glad you remember to put in the disclaimer. (hahaha).

renniegirl

thanks so much for the review.

SsX-77

hahaha, yeah, Damion is an idiot. and thanks for agreeing to the compromise.

Aiko

oh, that's right... you can only PM others when you have an account... Okay, just put down in a review in one of Spark's stories I guess or you could just review to me and I'll send it to him in a PM form. Thanks.

Ketchum Kid

All right! You did it right! thanks for the OC and review! Please continue to review, so that if I have questions, I know that I can still contact you.

Blake Wilson

heheh, glad the chapter is more interesting. As for area, i'm competing in marching band. Its pretty tiring, but I love how insane we are when we scream.

As for profile, I guess anything about your OC specifically. Anything mysterious about your OC. Ask for X-Spark for more details. I just give out the message. thanks for the review.

dark5523

whoa, that's a really long review. Thanks for your OC. Glad to see you're specific.

Unknown

the dream creeped you out? It was that scary? (In my head: ALL RIGHT!) That dream is the beginning of a specific event later on in the story. (smiles to myself)

I never played Mystery Dungeon before. Is that a good game? And what's the ending like?

Well, the english translations always have "eh" used when somebody is confused. I like the word a lot since its easy to say and makes others annoyed (eh?) lol. thanks for the review.

Lady of the DarkFire

Past... or future? Future... or past? Lol. Yeah, time traveling can be so confusing. thanks for the review!

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well, with so many people to thank, I'm already tired. (phew...) Thank you all and I'll see you next time!

-JapanDreamer