Hey everyone, the last chapter was pretty confusing right? Well sorry to say this, but it isn't going to clear up very much in this chapter hahaha. Anyways, here is the next chapter hope you enjoy!

Chapter 21

Shadow looked at all of us, I saw a flash of fear earlier, but he was doing a very good job of hiding it now. Misty raised an eyebrow, I still didn't understand why she decided to tag along, she just complained about everything, and I could see steam coming out of her ears from her trying to keep her comments to herself.

"Leah I have been thinking, I have decided it is time to start training again," Shadow said.

I groaned, Shadow was merciless when it came to training, did I mention I had to FIGHT shadow the on the first day of my training?

"I know that look and you must understand Leah, you have been injured and it will probably always prevent you from moving the way you used to, you cannot continue fighting the way you used to."

I rolled my eyes at Shadow, I was completely fine! Sure I was stabbed and infected, and probably slowly and painfully dying, but whatever, I was FINE!

"That's great and all, but weren't we here to relax and lay low?" Dawn asked, Suicune seemed to agree as her eyes watched Shadow's reaction to the question.

"We are laying low, and hopefully we won't have to deal with Team Rocket here in Unova, and since Leah is injured and cannot teach you two how to defend yourselves, you will be training with her first thing tomorrow morning."

Dawn squeaked in joy, while Misty quickly protested.

"I am NOT training with Leah, not after the horror stories she has told us!"

"Oh my gosh I am going to be a real life NINJA!"

Shadow put his hands up to silence the cries in the room, "You three should relax for today, because tomorrow will be very hard on you."

"I have a great idea, how about we go shopping for today, that's a great way to relax!" Dawn said, rubbing her hands together excitedly.

Misty crushed a few chips in her hand and flung them at Dawn, the chip pieces covered her freshly brushed hair, making Dawn furious.

"I think that is the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard in my life, I am not wasting my last day on this planet shopping with you two bozos!"

"Oh come on my training isn't that bad, and Dawn I think that is a great idea."

I was bewildered, Shadow thought it was a great idea putting us three together? I mean I could handle Dawn, but Misty?

"I do have to say, you three need some new clothes, like as soon as possible," Lupe said.

Shadow nodded his head, it looked like it was decided, I am just going to treasure my last moments on this earth, before Misty and Dawn destroy it.

"Well I am glad you think this is a good plan Lupe, because you are going with them," Shadow said. Lupe's eyes widened, I choked on my laughter, he didn't think it was a good idea now did he?

Misty returned Suicune to her ball, before sighing and glaring at Dawn dangerously. Dawn returned her glare with a mischievous smile while Lupe caught Misty's gaze making him gulp.

Soon enough, Shadow shoved us out the door, and we were soon wandering around Unova's biggest city. Several people shoved past us, all talking on their cell phones, and carrying giant briefcases. Lupe created an illusion before we left, his human form made him look to shy and delicate, it was hard to tell that he was a pokémon created to destroy and kill.

Lupe's black hair fell over his left eye, his sea-blue eyes looked to the ground, as his hands slipped into his pocket on his white pullover. Lupe pulled up his jeans with his left hand, before trailing behind us silently.

Misty's fists were balled, as she huffed in annoyance at Dawn screaming at the top of her lungs about passing up some shop she wanted to visit.

"But guys, they have the cutest clothes in Unova, you don't understand what you are missing!" Dawn whined, causing Misty to lose her cool right off the bat.

"You are the most annoying little brat I've ever met in my life, do us all a favor and get yourself lost," Misty barked.

Lupe rolled up his sleeve, apparently his illusion had a watch too, "Well girls that's a new record, it's been exactly ten minutes since your last argument."

Misty and Dawn were at it again, Dawn ripped at Misty's hair, as Misty shredded Dawn's clothing with her hands. Once the girls had exhausted themselves, their hair was sticking out everywhere, and their clothes were wrinkled and stretched out.

"Great now you two look like you survived a tornado, our clothes already looked bad, but now we look homeless," I said.

Dawn and Misty turned away from each other, both clearly steaming.

"Can we just please start shopping like normal city folk, and try to get along for two hours?" Lupe whined, I did have to agree, it was only two hours we could at least do that right?

Soon enough Dawn and Misty started walking again, but as soon as we passed a giant store, Dawn shoved us all through the door demanding we do our shopping here. Several people were packed in the store, looking at all the different brands of clothing that were on sale.

"Hey Leah, what kind of clothes do you like?" Dawn asked, going through a rack of clothing viciously, did Dawn even have any money?

"Um, I don't really care as long as it's comfortable."

Dawn nodded her head, as she searched for something for me. Misty was looking at the clothing rack as if it were something she has never seen before, she pulled out a tank top, before wrinkling her nose and putting it back.

"I think this shirt is so me," Lupe said. He put the shirt up to his chest and looked at us for approval.

I cocked my head to the side, Lupe seemed a little different, and he seemed to be really into this whole shopping thing now. Lupe found another shirt, and soon enough started having a collection going on.

I jumped when Dawn shoved something in my face, "Here, follow me to the changing room, I have the perfect outfit for you!"

I sighed before following Dawn to the back of the store, Misty and Lupe followed us both curious as to what Dawn had found. Misty sat on a bean bag chair, and stared at me intensely, as Lupe sat beside her in a chair.

Dawn shoved me in a changing room, before throwing clothes over the top of the door. I sighed, before taking the clothes and changing into them, when I was done I stepped out of the changing room, and shyly looked towards the floor as Lupe and Misty rubbed their chins.

I was wearing a black crop-top with a silver rose starting from the bottom left corner of the crop-top and stretching to my chest. I was also wearing short jean shorts, and a black backwards baseball hat. I also had new shoes, they were white sneakers with no other color.

"I am so good at picking out outfits," Dawn said flipping her hair. Misty snorted, before standing up and examining me from the front and then to the back.

"Dawn did an awful job, Leah isn't the type to wear cute clothing, she's more of a tougher dresser," Misty said.

"I think she looks appropriate, she definitely looks like a teenager," Lupe said. I looked at my clothing, I didn't think I looked half bad, I was pretty confident in my look, so I decided that this was the outfit I would purchase and wear.

"Alright, fine if that's what you want to wear," Misty said.

Misty shoved past Dawn with an armful of clothes she found while I was changing, the gym leader took an awfully long time to change, and I started to think she was doing it on purpose.

Misty finally stepped out revealing her new outfit, she had on a purple sweater with several designs in the fabric, she also had a white beanie hat on, her long orange hair fell from her beanie hat, and touched past her shoulders. She also had on black yoga pants and purple tennis shoes.

"I look so good you all are speechless, it's okay, not all of us can be this stunning," Misty said.

"So Lupe are you going to buy anything?"

"Hey don't ignore me!"

Misty angrily roared, when she realized we weren't paying any attention to her, making me chuckle a little. Dawn went to change after us, and came out with a casual dark blue tank top, and a turquoise skirt with brown flip flops.

The four of us decided to pay for our new clothes, and discarded our old dirty clothes, Lupe was so confident in what he had chosen he bought them all without even trying them on.

The four of us decided to eat at Unova's local hotspot for food, and once we were seated outside, we all silently looked at our menus.

"So, since we all bonded over shopping, let's have some girl talk," Dawn said.

My eyes darted to Lupe, his left eye was still hidden by his black hair, as he shyly sank into his seat.

"I guess I can participate even though I am a male," Lupe quivered. I have never had "Girl talk" before, so I really didn't know what to expect.

"So what is everyone looking for in a significant other?" Dawn asked, I tapped my chin with my finger, I have never really thought about it until now.

"I guess my husband will need to be really classy and romantic," Misty said. I was a little shocked that Misty was so open to answer.

"Yeah my man will need to have class, because it's obvious some people have no class," I said putting my feet on the table and picking my teeth trying to relax.

"Yeah, class." Misty said slowly, carefully removing my feet from the table.

"Well if those things are important to you what about size?" Dawn giggled. Misty dropped her menu in surprise, while I sat in my seat in confusion.

"Dawn you can't ask people that!"

"It's important though!"

Lupe closed his eyes before speaking, "Dawn is correct, size is important."

"What on earth are we even talking about," I said. Misty's cheeks were so red, I couldn't understand why though. Our conversation was interrupted by our server, and it seemed like Misty was relieved for some reason.

Misty ordered hamburger, while Dawn ordered a salad, Lupe ordered tacos and I ordered just about everything on the menu. Misty rubbed her forehead when I was done ordering, I was hungry and she needed to understand that I eat a lot of food when I am hungry.

"So Lupe how did you and Leah meet exactly?" Misty asked us. Lupe got ready to open his mouth but I interrupted.

"We found him when we tried to get information from a Team Rocket base, he is missing a lot of data, so he isn't very good at battling, but he is great at supporting defensively, he also has the ability to make realistic illusions that can actually fight. But unfortunately if he is hit by any attacks by any pokémon, he is practically defeated."

Lupe nodded his head, "Yeah I am not a great fighter like Shadow, but I can boost defense and attack with abilities I have, I am also not even a psychic type."

Misty blinked in surprise, it was true, Lupe is a dark and fairy type. He has the ability to use psychic moves, but he is not in fact psychic.

"You are a fairy? Wow Team Rocket sure made a fool out of you!" Misty laughed, Lupe growled angrily as he looked away.

"I mean they probably didn't mean to make him a fairy, it just kind of happened, we broke him out before they could really fix their mistakes, but they messed up on Lupe, so he is kind of a broken shadow pokémon." I said. Lupe seemed to be pouting, I guess he was a little offended that I called him broken.

Soon enough our food came, and we all ate silently. It took me a decent amount of time it eat my food, it wasn't bad, but not worth the giant bill we were getting. Misty seemed pretty satisfied with her hamburger, and Lupe seemed happy about his tacos as well.

I stared at the sky, it seemed to be getting cloudy, and soon enough little raindrops started falling from the sky. One landed on my face, I flinched as another one fell on my cheek.

"It was sunny a few minutes ago, I wonder what happened," Dawn said. I shrugged, I guess Unova just had strange weather patterns.

We paid our bill, before departing from the restaurant and heading back to our hotel to avoid the rain. The rain started falling harder, and soon enough it was hard to see three feet in front of us. I looked towards the sky, I squinted when I saw a black blob hovering in the sky surrounded by clouds.

I soon recognized it to be some sort of a rip in the sky, but before I could warn my friends, a giant boomerang shaped light sliced through the sky, cutting through the clouds and crashing into a building completely ripping it in half. People screamed as the building started to collapse, Lupe grabbed us and created a screen above us to protect us from falling debris. The building crumbled as if it were made of glass, the ear splitting screams of panicking people started to get louder, as they pointed towards the sky.

A giant creature slithered out of the rip in the sky, before roaring loudly making everyone cringe at the loud sound. It was a light purple theropod-like pokémon, with two short arms, and a long thick tail. It had a darker shade of markings all over its body, and it had two circular plates on its shoulders, and two large stones were embedded in the shoulder plates. It had two large wings popping out of its back, but no matter how much the creature moved, those wings hardly moved.

It roared before dropping out of the sky, and planting its giant feet into the concrete street. The concrete immediately gave out, as the creature looked around with its red eyes.

"BWARRR!" the creature cried, shaking the earth with its destructive voice. It charged up another attack, and soon enough a pink wave of light blasted from its claws, slicing another building in half. The metal from the building exploded into fiery hot splinters, as the building collapsed.

The creature was about twenty nine feet tall, it stomped its feet and roared once again.

"We have to stop that thing, or it will destroy the city!" I yelled. I burst from under the protective barrier Lupe made, and I shoved past the people running in the opposite direction, before standing meters away from the giant pokémon causing chaos.

Rayquaza felt my anger, and popped out of his pokéball without hesitation. The two giants gazed at each other, the other pokémon seemed surprised to see Rayquaza, and it seemed to create a deep rumble in its throat trying to communicate with the sky God.

"Shriiiii," Rayquaza responded.

"Gwoara!" the creature said, this went on for a few minutes, before Rayquaza got angry and released a blast of light from his mouth, enveloping the other pokémon in a dragon pulse. The creature roared in pain, before stumbling back, it tried to steady itself using a building, but its claws just ripped through the building as if it were butter.

The pokémon crashed on its back, before Rayquaza stood over it. The pokémon grabbed Rayquaza's neck, and threw the dragon into a building, causing a giant earthquake to shake the city. Glass and metal fell from the dent Rayquaza made in the building, but the dragon recovered, and wrapped his body around the other pokémon, before blasting fire into the pokémon's face.

The giant pokémon dug his claws into Rayquaza's smooth skin, Rayquaza cried out in pain, as the purple pokémon tried to pry him off.

"Go Lugia, Aeroblast!"

"Ho-Oh attack with Sacred Fire!"

Misty stood with her arm stretched out and a pokéball lodged firmly in her hand, Lugia bounded out of his pokéball, along with Ho-Oh from Dawn's pokéball. The two legendary beasts stood firmly in the street, people gasped and pointed as the two legendaries flapped their wings and flew into battle.

Lugia opened his mouth as a ball of light formed in his jaws, Rayquaza quickly released just in time to dodge Lugia's attack. Wind viciously tore at the purple pokémon, making it shield its face with its arm, but once the wind subsided it was soon roaring in pain from hot flames surrounding it's body, and burning its body.

"Gwaaror!" the purple pokémon screamed, as it slashed its arm across the flames making them vanish instantly.

Lugia, Rayquaza and Ho-Oh stood side by side, looking at their opponent with fierce gazes.

"We do not obey Arceus anymore, your mission is not ours to abide by." Lugia said, he must have been replying to the other pokémon.

"Gwarooo!" the purple pokémon growled, its tail thumping on the ground angrily as Lugia and the other stood their ground.

"We will not allow you to kill the one named Pithya, even if you suspect that the one who caused the war centuries ago is among us, you will never get to our masters Palkia" Ho-Oh said. The newly named pokémon, roared in anger before another pink wave of light sliced through the air.

Ho-Oh was too slow to dodge, Lugia pushed him out of the way and the attack enveloped Lugia, making him drop out of the air like a fly. Lugia crashed on ground, roaring in pain, as Rayquaza flew into battle cloaking himself in emerald green light.

Palkia shielded his body with its arms, as Rayquaza crashed into Palkia using dragon ascent. Palkia seemed to be taking more damage than usual, the impact must have either been more than he could handle, or Rayquaza's attack was super effective.

Palkia shook off the attack, and Rayquaza flew back. Rayquaza flew higher into the air, before charging up fire blast, flames blasted towards Palkia, but the pokémon seemed to not be fazed by the scorching flames inching towards him.

Palkia opened his mouth, and a powerful blast of water came from his throat, coating the flames and taming them. Rayquaza couldn't move in time and the water blasted him in the face, it wasn't entirely effective, but water pressure that strong will definitely hurt a little.

Palkia swung his arm at Rayquaza and a pink light started heading right towards the dragon, Rayquaza dodged, but the light kept going, slicing a building, and making debris fall towards the street below. Rayquaza cried for me to get out of the way, I dodged most of it but a giant piece started falling right towards me.

Rayquaza sped towards me, but the piece fell too fast and I cowered on my knees, ready for it to crush me.

I heard the concrete piece of the building snap in half, I blinked before looking to see Shadow standing over me with a barrier over us. I released a shaky breath, as the dust settled, Shadow offered me a hand and I took it, glad that he made it in time.

Palkia growled, before stomping his foot on the ground, the concrete immediately split revealing hot bubbling lava underneath. Eruptions started spreading everywhere, blasting Rayquaza and the rest of our team with hot steam and lava.

Lugia was on a large chunk of concrete, but his body was dangerously close to the lava. The earth was shaking quite a bit, as I tried to steady myself on a piece of concrete, avoiding the lava. The heat was intense, Misty and Dawn wobbled on their feet, trying not to fall in.

"This is earth power, do not fall into the lava, it may not be very deep but it could kill you," Shadow said.

I felt rumbling from beneath me, and before I could react, my body was hurled towards dawn and Misty by psychic power. I looked back at Shadow as an eruption from Palkia's earth power, erupted from the concrete blasting Shadow with a splash of lava.

"Shadow!" Misty cried in alarm.

Palkia snapped his head towards Misty, and it was like a fire was lit in its gut. Palkia slapped Rayquaza to the side, and walked through the lava as if it were nothing. Its giant feet made lava splash up to its knees, but it didn't seem to feel it.

Ho-Oh flew towards Palkia, but the pokémon knocked Ho-Oh into the building beside it. Ho-Oh cried out in pain, as it sank deeper into the building, almost as if gravity was against him. Ho-Oh crumbled along with the building, he was unable to fly because for some reason the gravity had changed.

Palkia stretched out his claws, I was shocked to see him grab Misty! The gym leader screamed and screamed, as Palkia held her tightly in his hands. Palkia roared before jumping up from the lava, making the lava splash dangerously close to everyone else. Palkia opened his wings and soared into the sky, nearly crashing into several buildings.

"Rayquaza go help Misty, you are the only one fast enough!" I screamed. Rayquaza wasted no time in using extreme speed, in seconds he caught up to Palkia. The pokémon held out its arm to keep Misty away from Rayquaza, the dragon charged up dragon ascent, but once he charged at Palkia, the pokémon stopped Rayquaza with its giant foot.

I watched in slow motion as Palkia sliced his arm through the air down towards Rayquaza, and the dragon was caught in a pink light. Whatever that move was, it was devastating, Rayquaza roared in pain as he dropped out of the sky and crashed into the lava below, shaking the city.

Palkia looked back towards his fallen enemy, before thrusting his arm towards the sky, creating a rip, and disappearing into it.