All right, new chapter time!! Sorry that it took longer this time, what can I say, I love to put things off. The next chapter shouldn't take as long!!

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It didn't take long for the others to reach the pokemon dojo, trainers returned their pokemon, and all gathered around Riolu.

Roxel ran over to her pokemon, and picked him up in a hug, "I'm glad you are all right." With that, she looked around, and saw all of the different fighting pokemon. "You were training weren't you, you look a lot stronger."

Riolu nodded, glad that his trainer understood, he was afraid that she wouldn't understand, and he would be left on the sidelines again.

"All right, I have the perfect nickname for you, how does Fury sound to you," she asked her pokemon.

Fury gave a nod, agreeing with his new nickname.

"Ok, now that we are all together, we should head to from Vermilion Gym," now that the group was all together, Sarah was excited to get to the next town, and get her next badge.

Both Roxel and Rebecca looked a like they wanted to say something. Roxel seemed to get her voice first, "um, if you don't mind, I would like to stay here…"

Before she could continue, Rebecca got her voice back, and interrupted her, "I would like to do the same thing. I mean, I want to go back to the daycare, and learn about pokemon breeding."

Sarah looked a little down, "you mean you guys don't want to travel together anymore," she had enjoyed traveling with them, and was going to miss them terribly.

"Are you kidding, I don't want to leave the group, "continued Roxel, "I want to continue training here for a bit. I don't think you want to stay here, so I figured that I would join up with you after we were done."

Sarah nodded in understanding, it was true, and she wanted to move on. She would explore this town after she challenged Sabrina. She turned to Rebecca, hoping that she wasn't leaving either.

"I don't want to leave either." Rebecca answered, she was having fun hanging out with a group of trainers, it was better than traveling only with her pokemon.

"Ok, that means that for now, we will split up and join together in…" Sarah realized that she couldn't think of a good time, or even a good place for them to meet up.

Up until this point, Nicolai had just been standing off to the side. He was glad Riolu, wait Fury had been rejoined with his trainer. Hearing that they couldn't decide on a place to meet, he decided to cut in, "there is a pokemon tournament being planned in one month, which will be for trainers from all over the world. They say that people will even be coming from Sinnoh."

Both Rebecca and Roxel noticed Nicolai at the same time, they had been so happy with meeting Fury, that they hadn't given him a second glance.

"Oh, this is….." with that, Sarah realized that she hadn't even paid any attention to him either, and felt guilty about it. She looked at him for the first time, and noticed that he had the cutest eyes that she had ever seen.

Seeing that Sarah didn't know his name, Nicolai decided that he had better introduce himself, "Um, hi everyone, my name is Nicolai Valdes, and this is my blaziken, love. We found Fury, and took him here."

Both Rebecca and Roxel greeted Nicolai and Love.

"All right, we all agree to meet in one month at the pokemon tournament, which is," with that, Sarah remembered that she had no idea were this was taking place, and turned toward from Nicolai.

Seeing that all eyes were on him, Nicolai remembered that he had never told them where it was taking place. "It will be here in Saffron city."

"All right, we will meet in one month," cheered Sarah.

Sarah, Rebecca, Nicolai and Love left the dojo, all waving goodbye to Roxel and Fury. They didn't have to go too far before Rebecca split off from the group, waving goodbye to Sarah and Nicolai, with promises that they would see each other at the tournament in one month.

Now that she was all alone with Nicolai and Love, Sarah felt nervous, "so, do you want t-to head to Vermilion City." She didn't mean to sound nervous, but she was use to doing what she wanted, and have others follow.

Nicolai agreed with her, and they headed through the city, and down the road.

Noticing that it was getting late, Sarah suggested that they set up camp for the night, since it didn't seem that there were going to make it to the other city before sunset.

They both set up there own tents, Sarah noticed that Nicolai put his tent up much faster than her, and was in fact helping her set up her tent.

Seeing that Sarah was amazed at his tent building abilities, he went on to explain, "Love and I have been traveling together for a while. You see, we are from Hoenn, and she was my first pokemon. She stays out of her pokeball with me at all times."

With that, they started the camp chores. They both gathered the wood, and started cooking their food. The food was soon done cooking, and they were all sitting around the fire. For the first time, they got a good look at the others pokemon and Sarah was impressed with his.

"All right, as you can see, these are my pokemon," and with that, Nicolai introduced his pokemon as, loyal the manectric, courage the aggron, faith the absol, hope the altaria, and honor the grumpig. Of course Sarah used her pokedex on all of them.

Since he was nice enough to introduce her own pokemon to him as well, she hoped that her pokemon impressed him as much as his pokemon had impressed her.

"You know, you should head over to the Vermilion City Gym, and train Volta," Nicolai suggested, "and who knows, maybe she'll evolve."

With that, Volta shot Nicolai an evil glare, and shocked him.

Sarah quickly apologized for her pokemon's behavior, "sorry about that, Volta isn't to keen on evolving. But, yeah, that's a great idea."

With that, the meal continued, with no one saying anything. The food was finished quickly, and they started to clean up the dishes. As they washed, Nicolai kept looking at Sarah, like he wanted to say something. This went on until the dishes were done, and that's when he went on. "I know we haven't even been traveling together for a day, but I was wondering if you wouldn't mind if I travel along with you and your friends, when you all join together after the month is over."

"Sure, that sounds great," Sarah agreed quickly, this was great, not only had she made a new friend, but she would get to know this cute trainer more, wait, did she think he was cute?! With that, they finished the chores, and all went into their tent, each eagerly awaiting the new day.

Now, before I close this chapter, I want to thank all you people for taking the time, and reading my fanfic. I know that it is one of hundreds, and I am glad that you took the time to read mine. And I also want to thank the people who took the time and review my fan fiction, especially the people who suggested nicknames for the pokemon. If it hadn't been for reviewers, than this fanfic would only be about Rebecca and Sarah's journey through Kanto. I admit I didn't really plan on other people joining at all.

Here's an idea that I have, since Rebecca and Roxel will be having their own adventures while they are away, I was think that I should either make another story, that shows what happens to them, kind of like the pokemon chronicles. Any one think that's good idea? Goodnight everyone!!

It's been a while since I last made a new chapter for this fic, sorry about that. I'll say about 1 to 2 weeks, and I'll have a chapter down soon. I've been busy at work. Again, sorry. And there's going to be a new character joining.