Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, if i did Ash would Bloody Age and keep his skills from each region.

A/N: Hey everyone, i am so sorry for the long delay, but i have finally got my muse back for this story. This chapter will be purely about Cynthia and how she is getting on with her Journey. In the next chapter it will switch back to Ash, as he makes his way to Saffron city to face Sabrina's father.

Bold is headers, Moves and Referee speech.

Sinnoh Region

Cynthia was walking through a forest on her way towards her next gym battle. She had already managed to Claim her first league badge. She had her new Lucario to thank for her win. It seemed she was a much higher level then Cynthia first thought, and few force palms and aura spheres, had made light work of the Oreburgh Gym leader. She was now on her way towards Eterna City, where she would battle for her second gym badge. Cynthia looked up through the forest above her. The sun was already at its highest point in the sky. Cynthia decided to find a place to rest and have lunch. She hadn't eaten anything since this morning. She noticed a small lake in one of the clearings. Walking towards the bank of the lake she laid her bag down and began to dig through it for her pack lunch. She then pulled out to packs of Pokemon food and a bowl. She then released her two Pokemon. Gible and Lucario. They all sat down and had lunch together. Cynthia started to think back to her first gym battle.

Flash back

Cynthia entered the huge rock building. As she did the battle field flood lights lit up. She covered her eyes from the brightness. And could see a shadow walking towards her. Once her eyes had adjusted to the light, she noticed she was standing in front of boy in his older teens. On his head was a yellow hard hat, and on his face were a pair of glasses.

"Welcome to the Oreburgh gym. I am Roark the gym leader. I take it you wish to challenge for the coal badge?"

Cynthia just nodded her head, and waited in front of the boy. To be truthful she was a little nervous about facing her first gym leader. However she soon relaxed as Roark grinned.

"Very well then. If you take your place over in your trainer box. We will begin our battle."

Cynthia looked to see where Roark was pointing, she then walked over towards the small rectangle box that just sat out the main battle field. Once she had taken her place, she noticed Roark took his. She then noticed a referee appear on the side line, with two flags. One green and one red.

This is an Official league gym battle, between the challenger Cynthia and Raork. This is a two on two battle. All clause are in effect, only the challenger may substitute. Now three, two, one, Battle!"

Cynthia grabbed a ball from her belt. "Go Lucario!"

The ball snapped open on the field revealing the steel/fighting type. Cynthia noticed Lucario, turned towards Cynthia. She heard a soft female voice in her head.

"Thank you mistress for rescuing me. Now lets win this battle."

Cynthia felt a tad more confident now, that Lucario had spoken to her. She had been worried that as she was a rookie trainer then Lucario might not listen to her.

Roark eyes widened. He had never seen a rookie trainer use a fully evolved Pokemon before. Also he wondered where she could have gotten a Lucario as they were not common to this area of Sinnoh. For now though he decided to ignore his thoughts and threw his ball onto the field.

"I choose you Geodude!"

Roark poke ball snapped open on his side of the field, revealing a Pokemon that look like a small boulder, that had arms. Roark decided to start things off.

"Geodude use magnitude"

The rock Pokemon brought it's two hands together, before slamming them into the arena floor. Creating a small quake.

Cynthia knew she had to act fast, Lucario being part steel could take some damage if she didn't act. "Lucario jump onto those Rocks, then use Aura sphere!"

Lucario leaped onto the near rocks, avoiding the small quake, she then brought her paws together, before forming a blue sphere made of aura and lopped it at Geodude"

Roark growled. "Geodude dodge then counter with Tackle!"

Geodude dodged the attack and then charged straight towards Lucario, ready to hit her with his tackle attack.

Cynthia waited till the last minute, then shouted. "Lucario Jump then use Force palm!"

Lucario jumped over the rock Pokemon and then used her paws to smack Geodude right on his head, causing the rock Pokemon to fly into the far wall. It then landed back on the ground. The attack had caused a small dust cloud to appear where Geodude had impacted on the far wall. Once the dust had cleared it showed Geodude knocked out with swirls in his eyes.

The referee raised his flag."Geodude is unable to battle the winner is Lucario. Trainer send out your next Pokemon."

Raork was surprised that one force palm had taken out his Geodude. This Lucario he was facing must have been at a rather high level to get a one hit K.O. Roark recalled Geodude before throwing another ball onto the field. "Cranidos your up!"

The poke ball landed on the field then opened up revealing a tall, blue and black dinosaur type Pokemon. Its red eyes glowed, as it lowered its head, showing of the circular piece of bone, surrounded by small spikes.

Roark again decided to get the battle started. "Cranidos, use Earthquake!"

Cranidos lifted one of its huge feet and stamped on the field causing a huge earthquake. The quake cause the ground underneath Lucario to give way, trapping her legs in the process.

Cynthia looked on worried. She was trying to come up with a plan to get her Pokemon out of this mess. "Lucario aim, an Aura sphere at the ground in front of you. It should help you get out of the hole.

Roark could see what Cynthia was trying to do. But he wasn't going to have any of that. "Cranidos, use Head smash now!"

Cranidos lowered it's head before running at full speed towards Lucario. It circular bone head glowing with a blue aura. However Just as it was about to hit Lucario, it noticed she jumped from the hole using her aura sphere, and was now right above him. Unable to stop its attack it went head first into the arena wall. Slowly it pulled it's head free, slightly dazed by the contact with the wall. It failed to fear Cynthia call out Lucario next attack.

"Lucario use Aura sphere!"

Cranidos looked up, just in time to see the sphere hit him in the chest, sending him flying into the wall once more. Steadily it got to its feet, and winced from the pain that it was in.

Roark lowered his head, this battle was already lost. However his eyes widened as his Pokemon was suddenly engulfed by a white light. Once it had died down where Cranidos had once was, now a Rampardos now stood. Roark couldn't believe it his Pokemon had evolved. It was a whole new ball game now.

Rampardos use Take down!"

Rampardos roared before charging towards Lucario, ready to tackle it to the ground.

Cynthia growled, just her luck that the gym leaders Pokemon would evolve. She could see Rampardos getting closer. "Lucario counter with Iron defence, then use Bone rush!"

Lucario crossed her arms against her chest, then started to glow a metallic colour. She felt Rampardos, crash into her, once the attack was over, she created a small bone made between her paws and began to unleash several strikes on the Fossil Pokemon.

Roark looked on and growled. Rampardos had been hit several times, he could already see the evidence of the strikes, Rampardos was covered in bruises from head to toe. He had no choice, he had to go all out now. "Rampardos use Head smash!"

Rampardos growled once more before running towards Lucario, its head glowing blue once more.

Cynthia knew she had this match in the bag now. "Lucario dodge then use Aura sphere!"

Lucario again waited till the last minute, before dodging the attack, it closed its eyes as it heard Rampardos hit the arena wall once more. Now was the time to finish him. Again she formed a blue sphere between her paws before lopping it towards the now dazed Pokemon. The sphere hit dead on creating a cloud of dust. As the dust settled, Lucario noticed Rampardos was still standing. She noticed it grinned before falling forward with swirls in his eyes.

The referee raised his flag. "Rampardos is unable to battle, the winner of this match is Cynthia"

Cynthia jumped into Lucario's arms and hugged her Pokemon, she had won her first gym battle. She then let go to see Roark walking towards her holding out a case with her badge inside.

"Congratulations Cynthia. You battled well. Now I would like to give you the Coal badge, in memory of our battle today."

Cynthia took the badge out of the case then, and then placed in her badge case. She had finally got her first gym badge.

End of Flash back.

Cynthia smiled as she took a bite of her sandwich, however she noticed her Lucario was just standing by the lake looking over it. She got up and left Gible to carry on eating, she then stood by Lucario.

"Is anything wrong Lucario?"

Lucario turned to her mistress and shook her head. "No Mistress, just thinking about my son, who I had to leave in the region you rescued me from. I was just wondering if he found a nice trainer to look after him."

Cynthia lowered her head. Her eyes then widened. "Hey now that you mention it, I did remember seeing a trainer with a small Riolu, and judging by that your species is only found here in Sinnoh, must mean that it was your son. His trainer helped me rescue Gible from a group of thieves who had cornered me. His name was Ash Ketchum, and he too had just started his Journey."

Lucario looked down. "Mistress to you remember what moves the Riolu used in the battle?"

Cynthia tried to think back to the battle. Riolu had used a number of different moves, but one move stuck out for her. "It used Blaze kick, if I remember correctly."

Lucario eyes widened, she now knew that the Pokemon her mistress had seen was indeed her son, As she had breeded with a Blaziken, who also knew that move. The two had been happy together, that was until he had been killed by team rocket, she had then been captured and dumped into a cage. It was in the cage that she had laid her egg. She had decided that she needed to escape and had used most of her power to smash out of her cage. She had then used aura sphere to rip a huge hole in the ship that had been transporting her. She noticed they were approaching a tall tree. Grabbing her egg she leapt out of the ship and landed on the branches of the tree. She had then jumped down and started to run as fast as she could to get away from her captors. She then recalled praying to Arceus to keep her son safe, and had been told that he was destined to be with the God Pokemon's chosen one. She guessed that this Ash must be this chosen one. Suddenly she heard something splashing in the lake, she and her mistress turned towards the disturbance.

Cynthia wondered what was making the splashing noise. It was then she noticed a small brown spotted fish, jumping in and out of the water. Cynthia grabbed her Pokedex and opened it.

"Feebass The ugly Pokemon, due to its appearance, it is rarely caught. Feebass is very hardy and can survive on little water."

Cynthia then placed her pokedex in her pocket, before leaning down by the lake. She noticed the Feebass was looking straight her. "Well I don't think you're ugly. You're just unique that's all." Cynthia then broke off some of her sandwich and threw into the lake. She watched happily as the Feebass began to eat it smiling. Cynthia was wondering what she could use to catch it. She had no water Pokemon that could battle it, and it wouldn't be fair to ask Lucario to do it. She then turned to see Feebass was now swimming closer to her. She stretched out her hand and giggled as the Feebass moved below her hand allowing its fins to be touched. "Feebass do you want to come with me on my journey? I know you will be a great Pokemon to have."

Feebass smiled and nodded its head. It then jumped out of the water touching the ball that Cynthia had thrown. The ball then floated back to Cynthia hand before shaking for a few seconds, before she heard the small ping, signalling the capture had been a success. Cynthia smiled as she posed with a new Pokemon. It was then she checked her Poketech and noticed it was getting late. She really didn't want to camp out in the forest tonight. She quickly returned Lucario to her ball, before clipping it onto her belt. She then picked up her bag and started walking into the forest once more.

A/N: There you have chapter 21. Hope you enjoyed it. And please review.