disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. I only own my OCs

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Ch 37: At the market

After the battle with Baron Darkria told Ryan and Latias about Baron being a member of genesis. Darkria assured them that he was no threat at all so the two of them headed to the market place to see what they had to eat. What they found was a wonderland of berries they had never even seen before.

"Look the them all." Latias said. "So many different shapes and colors."

"This is going to be a fun day." Ryan said as they started looking around.

The two of them looked around until a berry caught their eyes, it was about six inches long and the top was shaped like a star and had four colors on it.

"Excuse me," Ryan said. "What type of berry is that?"

"This my friend is a Starf berry." The clerk said. "It is very rare and extremely hard, here have one on the house."

"People around here sure are kind." Latias said as he gave each of them a berry.

"That one of the things we take pride on here." The clerk said. "You two from around here?"

"Na," Ryan said. "Were on vacation with our family, we spend out time in Hearthome but our true home is in Alto Mare."

"I have heard of that place." The clerk said. "I hear it's a real nice place to live, is it true that there are two new guardians there?"

"Yep," Ryan said. "We have seen them with our own eyes.

As soon as they tried to bite into it it felt like they bit a rock.

"What the heck?!" Ryan said looking at the berry. "What are these made, cement?!"

"I told you they were hard." The clerk said laughing.

"I can fix that." Ryan said putting the berry on the counter and drawing Dragon Fang. "Please stand back, I wont hurt you table."

Ryan brought the blade down on the berry and it stopped half way through.

"Dang," Ryan said breaking the berry the rest of the way. "When you said hard you weren't kidding. Here you go Ruby."

The two of them ate the inside of the berry and tried to figure out the taste.

"This is good." Latias said. "Its sweet and a little sour with just the right amount of kick."

"Well take a pound of them." Ryan said as he spotted another strange berry. "Hey whats that one?"

"This my friend." He said handing each of them a black and white berry. "Is an Enigma berry, they are hard but not that hard."

The two of them bit into the berries and felt like they ate a firebolt berry.

"Hot hot hot!" Ryan said.

"Here you go my friends." They guy said handing they each a bottle of water. "On the house."

"Holy cow." Latias said. "Those things were HOT."

"We should get some for Lilly," Ryan said. "Her birthday is coming up next week."

"Hey yea," Latias said. "She likes spicy stuff."

"We'll take three pounds of those as well please." Ryan said.

"Do you got any sweet berries?" Latias asked.

"Well of course," He said handing them both a strange red and white berry. "These here are Custap berries, these are some of the sweetest on the planet, the outer shell is hard so it might be a pain to get into."

Ryan smiled as they threw the berries into the air and cut them in half.

"You two are really hands with those blades." The clerk said.

"We has had a lot of practice." Latias said eating the insides of the berry. "Dang these are sweet."

"Yea," Ryan said finished off his. "We'll take three pounds of these as well. Say why does everyone around here hate Darkria so much?"

"Well he's the pokemon of nightmares." The Clerk said. "He's the one who brought Palkia and Dialga to our city."

"Who told you that load of bull." Ryan said.

"Baron Alberto." The clerk said. "What do you mean bull?"

"That figures, his web of lies never seems to stop." Ryan said. "If he brought them here why did he give his life to stop them."

"Say what?" The clerk said looking interested.

"Look at this." Latias said pulling out a laptop and typing on it. "A friend of our video taped the whole battle between Palkia and Dialga."

Latias show hit the part of the video where Darkria stopped Palkia and Dialga's attacks at the cost of his like, or so everyone though till he returned. By this time a huge crowd of people had gathers to see this and there were comments going through out the crowd.

"He did sacrifice his life for the town!" One said.

"Baron has been telling us all lies!" Another said.

"Darkria is no monster!" Someone shouted. "The real monster is Baron!"

Just then Vespera ran in.

"Ryan we got trouble," She said telepathically. "Baron has gotten together a bunch of people and they are going to attack my dad!"

"Go get Cress and Arceus." Ryan told her. "I got myself a plan."

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What could Ryan have up his sleeve this time?

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Guard: Hey everyone.

Jade: So guard are the plans for the next chapter done yet?

Guard: Check them out. Hands her a paper

Jade: If that don't get Baron to back off nothing will.