Pokémon: Journey of the Next Generation

by NEBSparky86

10 years have passed since Ash and May have settled down into their positions as members of the Atlantica Islands Elite Four. Now the time has come to pass the mantle on to the new guard of Pokémon trainers. Follow Cynthia Ketchum along with other new trainers as they find new friends and perils. Slight Advanceshipping... sequel to May and Ash's Unova Journey.

5. Chapter 4

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters and story elements of the Pokémon franchise. Nintendo, Game Freak and the Pokémon Company own everything and all credit is given to them. I'm only borrowing them for entertainment purposes only.

Chapter 4: Introductions, Battles and Competitions Galore!

Cynthia Ketchum's POV

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"Man… I can't believe Mom told me I had to come to Pokémon School too," Ren snorted as she and Benny were sitting in the classroom after she found out that Aunt Relena had them both enrolled in Pokémon School just like my friends and I. "This sucks!"

"I'm sure Her Majesty wants us to do something productive in between competitions," Ren's boyfriend, Benny Abyss, said to my cousin in a calm tone keeping Ren calm. "Besides, it was at the suggestion of my mother after all."

"And the stuff you want to do doesn't count as being productive," I said to the firstborn princess of the Atlantica Islands as I rolled my eyes and sat in the desk next to my boyfriend.

"Man, I can't believe we got more new students with us," Mallow said as she noticed Ren and Benny joining us yesterday after thwarting those Skull morons and sent them blasting off like Mom and Daddy used to do to those Team Rocket people in Hoenn and Unova. "What's next? We get a new teacher joining the staff?"

"Try two teachers joining the staff," answered Principal Samson Oak as he arrived with two familiar faces from Team Trident. "Class, I'd like to introduce you to our new teachers who will joining our school's teaching staff."

"I'm Yuffie Makoto," the first new teacher said with a smile on her face before she bowed to us. "I'll be teaching you about Electric and Ghost-type Pokémon as they're the type of Pokémon that I like to train and have as reliable partners."

"I'm Shelke Dotson," the shorter teacher said with her famously frozen stoic face. "I will teaching about various other Pokémon types.

The commander of Team Trident's electronic warfare unit then produced a Dream Ball and released the Pokémon inside of it as she continued, "This is my partner, Porygon. I hope that none of you will try to cheat or hack your grades if you are performing poorly. Because my Porygon will know."

'Will analyze computers and digital grade books,' Shelke's shiny Porygon said in a robotic-like tone remaining stoic like his mistress.

"Whoa!" exclaimed our short classmate, Sophocles, as he was amazed at Commander Shelke's shiny Porygon standing right there in front of him. "I never thought I'd get to see a Porygon! Let alone a seeing a shiny Porygon. Those are supposed to be ridiculously rare on the same level as shiny prehistoric Pokémon!"

"Yes, well this one has been with me since I was born 34 years ago," replied Commander Shelke.

"Huh?" asked a confused Lana as she heard Commander Shelke mention her age. "Aren't you a little too young be 34? You look like you're more about my age."

"Shelke was kidnapped when she was 10," Yuffie explained for Shelke. "The kidnappers performed experiments on her that left her permanently stunted as you see before you."

"That's horrible," Lillie said with a sad look on her face.

"What happened in the past is the past," Shelke said stoically. "I have moved on from that event."

"We'll show you the rest of our Pokémon tomorrow," Lt. Commander Yuffie said with a smile on her face as she brought focus back to the introductions. "But if you're ready, I'd be happy to start teaching you."

"Unfortunately," began Principal Oak, "I've already got a lesson ready to go. So let's make like Hoothoots and begin absorbing the day's lesson with our Foresight."

As always, the principal thinks he's a hoot when he does impressions of Pokémon. Yeah… that hasn't been the case so far since me, Isabella, Benjy and Shelby have been here at the Pokémon School. But moving on to the lesson, a somewhat familiar Pokémon came into classroom and reminded me of the Psychic/Grass-type Pokémon from Daddy's home region of Kanto, but it looked taller than the Exeggutor from Kanto. The principal then went into detail and explained at how the Exeggutor standing in classroom was much different from the Exeggutor I know from Daddy's home region.

"You see this Exeggutor is what you might call a regional variant," explained Principal Oak as he himself was wearing a costume of the Exeggutor my friends and I are more accustomed to knowing. "Also, this Exeggutor here is considered Dragon/Grass-type."

"Seriously?!" I asked in disbelief. "It doesn't look anything like it could be a Dragon-type Pokémon."

'Maybe you should rethink that, Little Cynthia,' Big Brother Victini chided me. 'Altaria is considered a Dragon-type Pokémon, yet it doesn't look like a Dragon-type, is that not so?'

"Well… yeah, but that's different," I answered my Victory Pokémon big brother.

'Battle her,' the Alola variant of the Coconut Pokémon said as he took offense to my jab at it. 'Battle the foreign bumpkin.'

"What the?!" I demanded as I took offense to the Alola Coconut Pokémon's jab at me. "Alright then, if you're looking for a fight you've got one."

"Well then, I guess we're going to see how the Alola Exeggutor fairs in battle," Principal Oak said as he let out a sigh.

"I need you Big Brother," I said to Victini as I looked to my big brother.

'Why not use your swimming partner?' Victini asked me as he wasn't pleased that I hadn't been focused on him. 'I'm sure Brionne would be more than happy to battle alongside you against the Exeggutor. After all, I'm not needed or good enough.'

"That's not fair," I shot back at Victini as I knew he was trying to get attention back to him. "And I'm not falling for your attempts to gain more attention with your guilt tripping me into giving it to you."

'Mmm… nuts,' muttered Victini as his plan backfired on him. 'Oh well, I tried. I'm ready to go nevertheless.'

'Never seen you before, little Pokémon,' the Alola Exeggutor said to Victini as we moved outside for the fight. 'Will defeat you nonetheless.'

'We shall see about that,' Victini replied to the Alola Exeggutor.

"Battle begin," Professor Kukuki announced as he brought his hand down to signal its start.

The Alola Exeggutor started first by launching a large egg at my big brother as he thought that he was the quicker Pokémon. But Victini and I could see the Quick Claw hold item he had that let him attack first. Despite being able to attack first, Victini dodged the Egg Bomb attack and retaliated with a Signal Beam, aimed at the Alola Coconut Pokémon's chest.

'Bug-type move bad!' exclaimed the Exeggutor. 'Take this then!'

The Alola Exeggutor then fired a barrage of hardened seeds at my big brother and he dodges them with such finesse. It reminded me of those Mobile Suit Gundam shows he made me and Shelby watch with him. Shelby even noticed that too as we watched him dodge another salvo of hardened seeds fired at him. Sophocles and his small Electric-type Pokémon even noticed that as well as they watched Victini dodging the Bullet Seed attack from the Alola Exeggutor.

"Man, that Pokémon is so skilled at dodging attacks like that," commented Sophocles.

'Yeah, no kidding,' agreed Sophocles's small hedgehog-like Electric-type Pokémon. 'I mean who else could have the skill to dodge attacks like that?'

"Oh some other Pokémon could have that skill," Isabella answered the small Electric-type Pokémon.

Before Sophocles could respond, Big Brother used his Dazzling Gleam attack and inflicted a lot of damage on the Alola Exeggutor since he was considered a Dragon/Grass-type Pokémon. I also knew that it was common sense that virtually every Dragon-type Pokémon were weak against Fairy-type Pokémon… except Daddy's Charizard when he mega evolved into Mega Charizard X, Lord Dialga, the Dragon/Fire-type Pokémon the Hero of Truth had, Lord Reshiram and the Poison/Dragon-type Mock Kelp Pokémon from Kalos like Doctor Nakamura's shiny Dragalge brother, Sargasso. But since this Exeggutor was neither a Steel-type nor a Poison-type Pokémon, my big brother had a complete advantage over it. Once the Dazzling Gleam attack connected, the fight was over as the Alola Coconut Pokémon fainted from being tagged by the Fairy-type attack and the fact that my Victory Pokémon big brother was also too powerful for it. I guess Victini wanted to at least give the Alola Exeggutor a somewhat fighting chance against him.

'I think I've proven that I'm stronger,' my Psychic/Fire-type big brother announced triumphantly with a smirk on his face.

"I guess so," replied Professor Kukuki, "because Exeggutor is unable to battle. Victini wins."

'As if I could ever lose a battle,' my very confident big brother with his usual grin on his face.

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"Man you guys have some really powerful Pokémon," Mallow said later as the lesson was finished. "I don't think I could find a Mightyena here in Alola or a Manectric, Meowstic or even a Victini for that matter."

"I got my Mightyena as a Poochyena back in the region of my birth when my family and I returned there to visit," Benjy explained to our classmates. "Same with Shelby and her Manectric. Found him as an Electrike and then trained him up until he evolved into what he is now."

"What about you and your Meowstic, Miss Greyson?" Kiawe asked Isabella with interest.

"I've known my big sister, Rika, as the Meowstic she is now," Isabella answered plainly. "Rika evolved into what she is now while my mother was pregnant with me."

'My little sister did acquire herself a shiny male Espurr and raised him up into the shiny male Meowstic he is now,' added the Kalos shiny female Constraint Pokémon.

"Do all Meowstic look like you?" Lana asked Rika as she had her Popplio in her arms.

"Of course not!" Principal Oak answered Lana before Rika could answer her question in male Meowstic costume. "Female Meowstic Pokémon have white coats as their primary color and then has midnight blue fur… or in Rika's case since she's a shiny Pokémon, a coat of white fur with yellow gold trimming."

"And… the male Meowstics?" asked a confused Lana.

'If my male counterpart wasn't shiny,' began Rika, 'he would have a primarily midnight blue coat with white trimming. But since he's a shiny male Meowstic like me, he has a yellow gold coat with white trimming instead.'

'How very fascinating,' Isabella's shiny female Torracat had said as she let herself out of her Dream Ball. 'Today is a purrfectly good day to learn new things.'

'I feel wiser myself,' added Shelby's Dartrix as she let herself out of her Moon Ball.

'You learn something new every day,' my Brionne chimed in happily before looking to me. 'By the way Cynthia, are we gonna do some training today? I really wanna evolve into my final stage evolved form, Primarina.'

"Oh, you'll evolve," I answered my shiny female Water-type Pop Star Pokémon, "but I just don't wanna push you too hard. I need you for the preliminaries of the Tapu Fini swimming circuit. They said the preliminaries require you have to have a Pokémon swimming partner with you."

'Aww… but I wanna evolve!' exclaimed my Brionne as she didn't like hearing that she wasn't going to evolve as soon as she wanted. 'Please help me to evolve!'

"You might as well help her out," Shelby said to me as she shook her head. "Besides, she's not gonna stop until you agree to help her."

'Pleaseeee!' Brionne cried out to me.

I let out a sigh as I shook my head and said, "Oh alright. We'll train some more until you evolve."

'Hooray!' Brionne exclaimed happily in approval.

"However… if I feel that the training is doing more harm to you," I informed my shiny female Pop Star Pokémon, "I will pull the plug and have to rein you in to rest and I'll have to rely on my big brother to be my swimming partner."

'What? That little wannabe who needs a wetsuit to become a Water-type Pokémon?' Brionne asked me in a mocking tone. 'I'm the only partner you need for the swimming competition.'

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3rd person POV

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Aether Paradise

"That's right Guzma, I've told you to stay away from the Pokémon School," Lusamine said to the person she was speaking to over the phone. "My daughter is at that school. Let alone that now a member of the Kaiou royal house is in Alola.

"No… I don't think you understand what will happen if we drag the firstborn princess of the Kaiou royal house into this plan," Lusamine said to the person over the phone in an angry tone. "The queen will come to Alola and she will bring the full force of her house against us both. And I seriously doubt you'd want to try and face the ruling royal house of the kingdom of the Atlantica Islands."

Lusamine then slammed the phone on the hook as she let out a frustrated sigh as the person she spoke to felt no sense of fear, the sense that she was feeling at the moment after hearing about and seeing footage of Ren Kaiou and her shiny female Gardevoir using overwhelming force against the grunts of Team Skull. If the leader of the Aether Foundation wanted her plan to succeed, it was imperative that Ren Kaiou and the mysterious young man with her be kept out of orchestrated fray that she had planned out. As for the four kids who showed up, she was making sure that they were kept under close watch. If anything, Lusamine would try to keep them out of the picture long enough to where she could gather the necessary strength to deter them from interfering in her plans.

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Cynthia's POV

"Okay, we're getting there," I said as Brionne had gained some more levels after training hard for the past few hours battling hordes and multiple… S.O.S battles against the native Pokémon population.

'I feel stronger now!' Brionne exclaimed happily. 'I'm so close to evolving, I can feel it!'

"Unfortunately, training towards evolution is done for the day," I informed my shiny female Pop Star Pokémon plainly as I needed to move on to training for the preliminaries for the swimming circuit I was preparing to enter. "We need to train for the Tapu Fini swimming circuit. Right now I feel that's more important to train for."

'Aww… but I wanna keep training until I evolve into Primarina,' protested Brionne.

'I don't think that the young Samayian princess is going to budge,' Dartrix said to my Brionne. 'You'd be better off listening to the young Princess of the Sea. She is your human after all.'

Brionne finally relented as I shamelessly shed my clothes to reveal my swimsuit on underneath. I had on a backless athletic pink formfitting swimsuit with splashes of rose pink and purple much like the Dream Ball from the Dream World. Benjy freaked out as he thought… I was going to take all of my clothes off. Heh, Benjy should've remembered that we were in the company of our classmates and that I would never do something like that in front of people who don't have my absolute trust like he and Shelby do. With my clothes in Benjy's arms, I raced Brionne to the warm waters so we could train for the swimming competition. Even Shelby shed her clothes to reveal the lavender tankini she wore since Aunt Rhea forced her to discard her bikini swimsuits.

"I still can't believe she made me give up all my bikini swimsuits," Shelby said to me as she chucked her clothes at her brother.

"You know Aunt Rhea," I said to my best friend of whom I had a sisterly bond with, "she feels that bikinis were an invention by perverse filthy men. But the tankini looks great on you nonetheless."

"At any rate, let's get you two ready for the swimming competition," said Shelby as she ran past me into the warm tropical water. "The prelims start in two days."

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"I still I'm quite shocked that training for the swimming competition was the trigger for you to evolve into Primarina," Shelby said to my recently evolved Soloist Pokémon as she had her arms wrapped around my waist and she happily cuddled with me. "Dartrix is almost there with her evolution. And her Long Reach ability helps her to exploit her advantage over those Pokémon who have Poison Point, Static, Flame Body and even Effect Spore abilities."

'Well… at least I can be a better swimming partner, not to mention I can also serve as your protector,' Primarina said happily as she was hugging me.

"I can't wait to show you to Mom," I said as I hugged Primarina back happily. "She'll be so jealous to see you. Even Lisa and Big Brother Manaphy will be jealous."

"Think you could wait until Dartrix evolves?" Shelby asked me with a slight grin. "Seeing the look on the face of my mom's Gengar will be priceless when he sees that I have a powerful Ghost-type Pokémon that can go toe-to-toe with him."

"Sure thing big sister," I answered Shelby before Primarina hugged both of us, startling Shelby and me.

'Sisters!' exclaimed Primarina as she hugged both of us.

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"Wow!" my mom exclaimed in amazement of my Primarina as she had my Water-type big brother in her arms. "You're really lucky to have such a beautiful Pokémon on your team."

Before I could say something, a Gengar dropped a bottle of ranch dressing as he saw both my Primarina and Shelby's Decidueye as he and Shelby's mother were visiting my mother. I think he was more surprised at Decidueye than he was surprised at my Primarina. It was almost as if he could sense that Shelby's Decidueye would be a potential rival for him even though he had retired before Shelby was born. Mrs. Summers, Shelby's mother, shook her head when she saw that her Gengar had dropped the bottle of ranch dressing he had helped himself to without permission from my mother.

"Seriously Gengar I thought we talked about helping yourself to someone else's food without permission," Shelby's mother, Margret Summers, said to her male Shadow Pokémon.

"Mom, you know Gengar is always gonna raid someone's fridge for ranch dressing," Shelby said to her mother. "Maybe you shouldn't have gotten him addicted to it in the first place."

"Yeah," I said in agreement with Shelby. "His addiction to ranch dressing is just as bad as Big Brother Pikachu's addiction to ketchup… even Big Brother Victini's addiction to barbecue sauce."

"I'm sure you two didn't call to lecture us about Pokémon having addictions," my mom said to me and Shelby. "How's the Alola region treating you?"

"We're doing fine," answered Shelby. "Cynthia's big brother is being his usual self as always."

"I would imagine that he would," replied my mom. "As long as he's staying at your side…"

'You can count on me to be at her side,' Primarina happily said to my mother.

"Where is your big brother by the way?" Mom asked me as she didn't see Victini at my side.

"See ya later Victini," Lana said as she had brought my big brother back from swimming with her. "Let's swim again soon."

"Victini, why haven't you been at Cynthia's side?" Mom asked my big brother as she wasn't happy that he spent time with Lana instead of staying at my side like he was supposed to do. "You're supposed to remain with Cynthia, not go off chasing after girls for attention and affection."

"It's alright Mom," I informed my mother. "Lana invited him to go swimming with her and I reassured Big Brother that I had Primarina watching over me and Shelby hasn't left my side either."

"That wasn't your call to make," Mom countered as she wasn't happy that I let Victini hang with Lana.

"Mrs. Ketchum, is there anything wrong with Cynthia wanting some time away from Victini, even for a while?" Shelby asked my mom in my defense. "Like Cynthia said, I've been with her the whole time, especially while she was training for the Tapu Fini swimming circuit. I don't see anything wrong with letting Victini enjoy himself with a pretty girl every now and then."

"Is Daddy still trying to insist that I have to be watched 24/7 again?" I asked Mom as I knew Daddy had been too overprotective of me once I turned 3.

"Dear, there's no need to worry about your father," Shelby's mother said with a smile on her face. "Some fathers tend to be overprotective and want to dote on their daughters too much."

"It feels more like Daddy wants to smother me and keep me locked up," I said aloud with a blank stare… and much to my embarrassment with Daddy just entering the picture.

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"Man, Daddy was not too happy," I said after spending an additional hour and a half getting a very loud earful from my father after I carelessly let my thought about my father slip out the day before yesterday. "But he didn't have to tell me that I can't come home or that I was cut off."

'Just give your father time to simmer down,' Victini said to me after I registered for the preliminaries of the Tapu Fini swimming circuit. 'It was reckless, what you said, and hurt his feelings.

I snorted as I rolled my eyes and said, "Knowing him, he's gonna tell everyone else about my accidental slip up… and make it seem like I said it out of hatred. Like I'm an evil ungrateful little brat."

Before Victini could say anything, I felt a hardback book slam on my head, leaving a decent sized comical dent on my skull cap. The person who hit me with the book was none other than Shelby as she glared at me. She wasn't exactly in the mood to hear me complain about my father after I said what I said but before I could say or apologize, I felt my cellphone vibrate and I looked to see what was on it.

'For now Cynthia, it would be best for you not to return home,' was the text that I got from my mom. 'If you get the chance to return to the Atlantica Islands, then stay with the Summers family, your godmother or your aunt at Sol Palace. I understand that you feel that we may be overbearing, but we do what we do because we love you. Once your father calms down, he'll speak to you. Until then, do not even attempt to contact him while I try to undo all that he did out of rage.'

"Well… I'm not going home," I said to myself aloud for Shelby and Primarina to hear. "Daddy will never speak to me again… I'll never be allowed to… OW!"

'Seriously Cynthia, you need to calm down and let things go,' Primarina chided me after slapping me upside my head with her tail. 'He will speak you, but only when he is ready to speak to you.'

"I'm with Primarina," Shelby said to me. "Let's… call it a day today and we'll train some more after class tomorrow."

I sighed as I replied, "Fine."

"You do owe him an apology once he calms down," Shelby said as she looked at me with a glance. "No girl should be without her father to guide her."

"Uh… okay," I replied as I shrugged my shoulders and followed Shelby after recalling Primarina to her Dream Ball.

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3rd person POV

"Was your reaction really that necessary… little brother?" Anna asked her younger brother and Cynthia's father as he made his way to Cameron Palace back in Kanto after being forced out of his own home by a couple of his Pokémon.

"I just reacted," answered Ash Ketchum as he shrugged his shoulders. "It's not like anyone else will let me stay with them until I apologize. Mom wasn't exactly happy to hear that her granddaughter was cut off and banished from the house. But until she, Minccino and Mimey gets things at the house cleaned up, I'm stuck coming here.

"I'm surprised you and your family are even allowed to live here," finished Ash as his sister placed a cup of tea in front of him.

"Well… I assist Master Lucario in heading up the Royal Guard to protect Queen Ilene," explained Anna. "And you don't need to worry about Her Majesty either. The only thing she knows is that you're having some… issues with your family."

"Thanks Sis," Ash said after taking a sip from his tea. "I guess she'd probably expel me from the kingdom if she learned the whole truth."

"Would you like me to tell Queen Ilene the rest of the details of why you're here?" the co-head of Royal Aura Knights asked her little brother.

"Um… n-no thank you," answered Ash with a sweatdrop on his forehead as he began sweating bullets in fear of what the Queen would do to him if she learned the entire truth in her present mood.

"Anna, you need to speak with Ashely again," Brendan Birch said to his wife before noticing his brother-in-law. "Ooo… man Ash, you got a lot of gall coming here. You should be thankful we're letting you staying here."

"I'm only staying here overnight," Ash shot back at his older sister's husband. "Yeesh… it's like everyone's against me just because I lost my temper and…"

Anna cut him off by placing a hand on his mouth to silence him and said, "Her Majesty isn't in the best of moods and hasn't been this week. So I'd be careful with talking about what you did around the Queen."

It was then that the firstborn child of Anna and Brendan had arrived to see that her uncle was speaking with her parents. Her name was Ashely and was quite the girly girl. Despite being one of the Royal Aura Knights, her uniform was made to reflect her preference to show she was a girl. She wore grey leggings and undershirt, an aura blue skirt and shirt, light armored aura blue gloves with a gem set in the armored gloves, lightweight aura blue armor on her legs, arms and chest and brown boots, much to her displeasure. As for Ashely herself, she was about 5' 5" in height, and 107 lbs. without the uniform, she had her mother's farmer's tan complexion and her long brown hair and her father's green eyes.

"Hey there Uncle Ash," Ashely said to her uncle before looking to her mother. "Master Lucario said that the Queen is requesting your presence, Mom."

"Alright, let Queen Ilene know I'll be there in a bit," Anna replied to her daughter. "I need to get the den ready for your uncle."

"Uh… the Queen said she wanted your presence now," Ashely said to Anna. "And I think Master Lucario could sense she wasn't in a patient mood either."

"You go and take care of Queen Ilene," Ash said to his sister, "I'll sleep on the couch. I'm used to sleeping on the couch whenever May's angry with me anyway."

"Ashely, get the den ready for your uncle," Anna instructed her firstborn child, "and you'll do it BEFORE you change out of your uniform."

"But Mom!" Ashely tried to protest before her mother cut her off.

"You take too long getting out of your uniform," countered the mother of five daughters and two sons. "It's a wonder that Princess Roux is tolerant with your need to dress fashionable, even when you don't go out with your other friends."

"Yes Mom," Ashely replied after letting out a sigh of defeat.

"Depending on Queen Ilene's mood, I may not be back until tomorrow morning," Anna said to her husband and daughter. "Ashely, once you've got the den ready, I need you to come and join me with Her Majesty."

"Please tell me the Queen isn't pregnant again," complained Brendan after remembering when the Queen put him through wringer before giving birth to her third daughter and second son.

"Is she irritable, having mood swings and acting like a rampaging Tyranitar minus the unusual food cravings and having cramps?" Ash asked his sister as he listened to his sister.

"Uhh… yeah," answered Anna as she was now curious as to how her younger brother knew about the Queen's mood.

"Oh no, not that again," moaned Brendan as he knew what his brother-in-law was talking about.

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Cynthia's POV

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The next day after getting the text from my mother, Aunt Rhea contacted us and informed us that since we made first contact with Team Skull, we were now allowed to call our other Pokémon from home. With that gratifying news, the four of us were now allowed to unleash our full strength on those Skull idiots and they weren't going to stand a chance against us. Benjamin and Shelby called home immediately and asked their parents for certain Pokémon to back up their Alola Pokémon. Once they got their Pokémon, it was my turn to get my Pokémon from home. I plugged in my login info to the family's Pokémon storage system so I could get a few of my Pokémon to back up my big brother and Primarina.

"Huh?!" I asked in shock as I saw the most unpleasant discovery on the screen. "Come on Daddy! You locked me out of the storage system too?!"

"What's wrong?" Isabella asked as she came to get some of her Psychic and Fire-type Pokémon from her home storage.

"Daddy locked me out of the Pokémon storage system when he banished me from home," I answered my best friend. "I won't be able to get to my Pokémon now. I knew Daddy hates me."

"He doesn't hate you, Cynthia," Isabella said to me calmly. "What you said to him really hurt his feelings and blindsided him too.

"I get you feel your dad is overbearing," continued Isabella, "but he's just worried about you."

"But you don't have Rika standing over you 24/7 like my big brother," I shot back as I tried to login into the Pokémon storage system back home only to see that the system locked up. "Oh for the love of Arceus, Daddy!"

"Well… I do want to get on and get Sado's Cherish Ball, along with a few other Pokémon from home," Isabella said to me as I got out of seat and then felt a vibration from my cellphone.

"Your mother isn't happy with you," Isabella said to me as she logged into her family's Pokémon storage system.

'I see you've tried to gain access to the family's Pokémon storage system,' Mom sent in her text to me. 'Unfortunately, since you failed to successfully log in three times, the system has locked everyone out of the storage system.

'Your father has told me that you are not allowed to access the system until you capture your first Pokémon from Alola,' finished Mom's text. 'And he expects to see you post your first capture.'

"Why must Lord Arceus give me such difficult parents to deal with?" I moaned as I put my phone to sleep.

"Oh… I don't think our lord Arceus gave you difficult parents," Isabella replied to me calmly as she grabbed Sado's Cherish Ball last. "Lord Arceus places us where we are meant to be."

Before I could reply, we heard a cry from a startled Pokémon.

"What was that?!"

"I don't know but we better go check it out!" recommended Benjamin, then turned his attention towards me as he knew how upset I was ever since I got banished from home and cut off immediately afterwards. "Try not to let what happened get the better of you, I'm sure things will be better soon.

I wasn't sure what to say though Benjamin giving me a small kiss did help me feel a little better, though at the same time I was worried for the Pokémon that cried out. "Okay, I can try.." I replied back, though Shelby later called to us.

"Are you two coming or what?" she asked, not wanting to waste any more time especially as she was starting to have a bad feeling she might know who was behind this. "For all I know, it might be those Team Skull bastards causing trouble again!"

Benjamin and I knew not to argue as we headed out to see what was going on and upon reaching the door, we noticed that there was indeed something wrong with this picture. It was hailing, something that didn't normally happen in this part of Alola.

"Great, just what we didn't need…" I muttered, silently cursing at the fact that there was a hailstorm though the good news was Brother Victini accompanied is so there shouldn't be any trouble. "Okay, here we go!"

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3rd Person POV

As the three trainers made their way through the hail, they failed to notice that someone was watching us from within the shadows and his attention was mainly towards Cynthia of all people with a darkened scowl on his face. "So that is Ketchum's daughter…" he spoke, his disgust was showing more and more upon identifying which of the trainers as being the child of.

Also in the shadows was a humanoid creature covered in yellow fur with black stripes. It appeared to lack a neck, and had red eyes, a black spot on its forehead, and a pair of antennae with bulbous tips. A pattern on its back resembled an electric outlet. The fur on its cheeks and shoulder were spiky and ruffled. It had two black tails with red rounded ends, resembling open electrical wires. It also had black feet with three, clawed toes, and give black fingers on each of its hands. 'Master, shall I attack them now?' it asked, causing its master to turn his attention towards it.

"Not just yet, let's see what they do first…" he replied with a hint of interest, although he hated Ash Ketchum with a murderous passion, he knew it wasn't the right time to take action… Yet, however once the three trainers were done with whatever it was they were up to, that's when he and his Pokemon will strike without any hesitation. "Probably some useless Pokémon in trouble."

The Pokemon with him didn't say a word, it remained fateful to him to the end alongside the other Pokemon that originated from their home region. "Come now, Electivire, we better begin our preparations…" he said to his servant. "Once Ketchum's daughter is alone, we will make sure she wished she was never born."

'What about Mistress Ursula? How is she doing?'

"The same as always…" the purple-haired man replied again with a shrug, he did find her pretty attractive and in a way they had a lot in common although now wasn't the time to get into the details regarding how they met all those years ago. "Now we better be going, we don't wanna attract unwanted attention from those Team Skull dimwits or otherwise."

'Understand… Master Paul…' The Pokemon replied out of loyalty, bowing before they slowly began to return to the shadows from whence they came although the man known as Paul had one last thing he wanted to say.

"Mark my words, Ketchum… You are going to pay for destroying every chance I had of winning the Sinnoh League ages ago… A pity that you were stupid enough to buy my false show of redemption but soon you're going to know what it's like to have your most precious thing in life taken away from you… Permanently."

However, before he could move on Cynthia and her quarry, his cellphone vibrated and Paul got a text message from Ursula that didn't make his mood any better.

'Just for the record, I never liked you at all,' was the text message Paul got before seeing a picture of Ursula with someone else. 'Vampires are definitely a lot sexier than you.'

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Cynthia's POV

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As we made our way towards where we heard the scream, part of me had a bad feeling that we were being watched though there wasn't enough time for me to dwell too much on the fact as there was a Pokémon in danger right now. 'Look, I see something up ahead!' said Victini as he was the first to alert us of what appeared to be a Pokémon and we were all shocked the moment we bore witness to it.

It was a familiar small, quadrupled, fox-like Pokémon. It had Snow White fur, purple, pupil-less eyes, large, pointed ears with bright pink insides, and six white tails curled with a wispy appearance. It also had pale blue paws, and locks of hair on its head were also curled with a wispy appearance like its six tails. Its snout is more pronounced and pointed than that of any other Vulpix. "Is that a Vulpix?" I asked out of surprise as I remember that one of my dad's friends had one on his team years ago in Kanto and for the early stages of Johto but had long since returned it to its original owner.

"From the looks of it, it's hurt pretty badly!" said Benjamin, noticing that the poor Pokémon was being attacked by not Team Skull but rather by a group of familiar Dark/Ice -Type Pokémon from the Johto region. "Oh hell, look what's surrounding it!"

The Pokémon in question were bipedal Pokémon that resembled both cats and weasels. They were primarily bluish black with three bright red feathers for their tails and a single one on their left ears. The ear feather on some of the group of opposing Pokémon were shorter than the ones on others. The other ear of the wild creatures was short and pointed, and they all had narrow red eyes. On their foreheads and chests were yellow, oval markings. They had red eyes with black eyelash-like markings on the edges. They also had long limbs with large, retractable claws on their hands and feet. "Sneasels, a lot of them!" commented Shelby as the Vulpix was banged up pretty badly by the time we got to our destitution.

I was at a loss of words, though I knew that the poor Vulpix wouldn't last much longer unless it had help and then turned my attention towards my Pokémon brother. "Think you could heat things up?" I asked, causing Victini to give a confident grin on his face as he was more than willing to provide aid to the injured Pokémon.

'I was born ready!' Victini replied, getting ready to turn up the heat against the attacking wild Pokémon though he would have to be careful as he was still weak to Dark-Type moves such as Sneasel's former signature move Beat-Up despite having his Fire-Typing being a huge advantage against Ice opponents. 'Take this!'

Not needing to be given an order, Victini unleashed a Flamethrower to get the attention of the Sneasels and needless to say, none of them were happy to see that we were intervening and the injured Vulpix was surprised that we came to its aid.

'What are you interlopers doing?' the Sneasel alpha demanded to me and my big brother. 'You'll do well to stay out of our way.'

'Yeah, we're trying to start a war with some stupid arrogant Ninetales who thinks she's too good to fight us by eating her precious little brat!' a second Sneasel exclaimed before realizing he made a mistake.

'YOU STUPID IDIOT!' the Sneasel Beta yelled at his companion before using his Crush Claw attack on him. 'Now the boss is really gonna be mad at you! The little brat is for HIM to eat!'

'Ow, ow, ow, ow!' moaned the Sneasel as he was in pain from the Sneasel Beta's Crush Claw attack.

"You know what to do Big Brother," I said to Victini as he and I had faced hoards before.

'Heh, say no more,' Victini said coolly with a smile on his face as a Dream Ball appeared in my hands. 'And it looks like the little baby is quite special if a Dream Ball appeared.'

"Then if that little baby has a…," I began and quickly looked to the still falling snow. "It's got the Snow Warning ability like Snover, Amaura and their evolved forms. And its Snow Warning is a Dream World ability."

'Special delivery from the House of Pain!' Big Brother exclaimed before unleashing his Dazzling Gleam attack on the group of five Dark/Ice-type Sharp Claw Pokémon. 'From yours truly… Victini!'

Four of the five Sneasels were too busy beating on their comrade for his slip up, that they didn't notice my big brother's Fairy-type attack until it was far too late. All five of the Sneasels were instantly defeated as they couldn't stand up to my Victory Pokémon big brother. Once they were defeated, I quickly ran up to the injured Alola Ice-type Fox Pokémon and scooped her up in my arms.

"You poor sweetie," I said to the baby shiny Ice-type Fox Pokémon as I could feel her pain. "Don't worry, I'll take care of you."

The little baby Ice-type stirred and looked to see that she was in my arms and then looked into my eyes. She was so cute and just that innocent little face was enough for anyone to go "Aww…". She was pretty battered, but healing her wasn't going to be problem for me since Aunt Relena taught me how to use healing magic. However, before I could start using a healing spell, a new player entered the field. He looked to be the leader of the Sneasels that Victini defeated easily. However, this leader was a Weavile, the evolved form of his Sneasel subordinates. The male Weavile looked at his subordinates and shook his head in disgust.

'All of you are worthless,' the evolved Sharp Claw Pokémon said acidly as his subordinates got up and peeled themselves off the ground.

'Hey boss,' the Sneasel who spilled the beans said cheerfully as he approached his leader. 'We were about to wrangle in the little brat and…'

Before the Sneasel could finish his sentence, the Weavile took his subordinate by his head and ruthlessly snapped his subordinate's neck off with little effort and much to our horror. The baby Vulpix clung to me as she was terrified when the unfortunate Sneasel had his neck snapped off. As for Victini, Benjamin and I, we had never seen a Pokémon kill another Pokémon before in our lives.

'If I find you to be worthless, then you will be disposed of,' the Weavile said coldly and without mercy to his terrified subordinates before looking to me and the baby Vulpix in my arms. 'I will make this simple and you will comply. Hand over the little brat or you will suffer the same fate as this useless pawn of mine.'

'Don't give me to the meanies!' the shiny female baby Alola Vulpix cried in terror as she clung to me.

"Don't worry, I'll protect you," I said in a soothing tone to reassure the little baby Ice-type Fox Pokémon.

'Think carefully about your choice,' the horrible Weavile said to me as he glared at me. 'Give the little brat to me and you will be in good standing with me. Defy me and you will not live. I am not forgiving nor am I the patient type either.'

'Not if I have anything to say about it!' Primarina exclaimed as she broke out of her Dream Ball to help me protect the little Vulpix. 'Try this on for size!'

'Pathetic,' the Weavile said in a not impressed tone as Primarina prepared to use her Echoed Voice and quickly put a stop to it as he lunged at her directing his attack at her throat.

I was surprised at the quickness of the evolved Sharp Claw Pokémon as he shut Primarina down quickly and followed his attack through with a Poison Jab attack. Given Primarina's weakness to Poison-type attacks, she took a lot of damage and was knocked down to the ground, but not defeated. The Weavile looked to my prone and hapless Primarina and instead of killing her, he used enough force and kicked her back towards me.

'I'll give you one more chance,' the Weavile demanded to me, 'hand the little brat over to me and walk away.'

'Not on my watch!' Victini exclaimed as he plowed into the cruel Weavile and caught the evolved Sharp Claw Pokémon off guard with his Flame Charge, raising his speed.

'Gah!' the Weavile exclaimed as he was surprised to get blindsided by my big brother's Fire-type attack.

'Ha, ha! How do you like me now?!' Victini asked the wicked Weavile as the callous Sharp Claw Pokémon got back up on his feet.

'You will regret striking me so cowardly,' the Weavile said in a sinister tone as he quickly retaliated with the same attack that he used against my now wounded Primarina.

'I've got bad news for you,' Victini replied as he got back up. 'I don't use sound-based attacks like Echoed Voice or Hyper Voice!

'Yes, I know about your Throat Chop attack,' Victini added with a grin. 'So open wide and say 'Ah!'.'

Big Brother then used his Signal Beam attack at the vicious Dark/Ice-type Pokémon only for the cruel Weavile to dodge the attack and retaliate with a powerful Shadow Claw attack. I was astounded to see that the heartless Weavile had such high Speed and Physical Attack stats. He was much faster than Victini and much stronger physically than him as well. Both Weavile and my big brother clashed for about ten minutes with neither one giving ground as both of them were dead even in the battle between them. Once ten minutes had past, a Flamethrower and Thunder attack struck the Weavile dead in his chest as he was caught unprepared for new arrivals to join the fight. Then the Weavile became even more alarmed when he heard sirens blaring in the background.

'Get up you worthless excuse of minions!' the Weavile shouted to his now four remaining Sneasel minions. 'Human law enforcement is coming and we need to retreat… NOW!'

The remaining four Sneasels complied as they were terrified of the police that were coming towards us. The Weavile leader then looked to me and said, 'You've gotten lucky today. Enjoy your moments with that little brat. I will have her life and have what is rightfully mine.

'I will even have your life too… Samiyan,' the Weavile finished as he had noticed the Mark of the Sea Crown on my left breast. 'I hope you two enjoy your final moments together. Because they will be your last.'

Isabella and Shelby arrived with Sado and Shelby's Manectric to provide us with help, but came as the Weavile and cohorts were withdrawing from the scene. The evolved Dark/Ice-type Sharp Claw Pokémon glared at all us for the last time before withdrawing into the woods as the sound of sirens were getting louder as they were three minutes away from us. Once the Weavile and his subordinates withdrew, the local police arrived with an unusual amount of force with six police cars arriving on the scene. When the cars stopped, the left passenger door opened and two Pokémon exited the vehicles. The two Pokémon that came out looked like a couple Sandslashes that had been frozen like popsicles. My wounded Primarina looked to me as she stuttered, 'Those… those… two Sandslashes… are d…different from the ones you… you're used to from your home region.'

Before Benjy or I could ask what Primarina meant, a police officer then went to the car that was in the center and opened the left passenger door to let its occupant out of the car. I think Benjy, Shelby and I expected there to be some rich shmuck who came looking the baby Vulpix I still had in my arms as she still clung to me, not even letting go for a second. Isabella and Sado both kept a neutral face even though they already knew who or what was coming out of the police car. As an indication, the snow had not let up as the occupant from the center car had exited the car and gently strode towards us. It was definitely not a person, but a Pokémon and a shiny Pokémon like the baby Vulpix I had in my arms. This Pokémon appeared to be a local variant of the Ninetales that I had back home. She definitely had the same lavender purple fur like my Ninetales back home, but she had rose pink pupil-less eyes unlike my shiny Ninetales back home. An Officer Jenny came alongside the Ninetales, I guess to act as a translator on our behalf.

'There's no need for you to need a translator,' my big brother informed the graceful and elegant shiny Alola Ninetales. 'These young ones do not require a translator. They understand and can converse with Pokémon just as well as they can converse with other humans.'

The shiny female evolved Alola Fox Pokémon gave my brother a slight nod and looked to the Officer Jenny with a glance, silently asking her to step aside. The Officer Jenny complied and stepped to the side as she looked to me and noticed the baby Vulpix in my arms. As for the baby shiny female Alola Vulpix, she turned and saw the Ninetales and leapt out of my arms as she ran to her mother.

'Oh Mommy!' the little baby shiny Alola Vulpix said to her mother with tears in her eyes. 'Mommy! Mommy! I was so scared Mommy!'

'It seems as if you have been beaten up a bit,' the shiny Vulpix's mother asked her baby daughter. 'Was it the humans?'

'No Mommy,' answered the Ice-type Vulpix. 'The big meanie and his bullies hurt me! Humans saved me. Especially her.'

The Vulpix had indicated me as she jerked her head in my direction. The shiny Alola Ninetales looked at me intently and then, like the wicked Weavile, noticed the Mark of the Sea Crown on left breast and knew right away what I was. The graceful shiny evolved Alola Fox Pokémon gave a slight nod to me as she said to me, 'So… you are a Samiyan, I see. Yes… my precious little baby would be much safer with you, Samiyan.

She then looked at her baby daughter and said, 'Go… stay with the Samiyan. She shall be in need of your help. Never leave the Samiyan's side and do as she tells you. Alright my precious little baby?'

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A few minutes later, once the excitement of me capturing my first shiny Pokémon in Alola had bled off, the shiny female Alola Ninetales explained what was going on and why her daughter had been caught in the middle. Before she continued, another vehicle came and two people came out as they had a stretcher they were pushing. The Alola Ninetales then looked to the body of the deceased Sneasel and said, 'I see that Dark Blizzard had taken the life of yet another minion of his. This is nothing new; but he is a danger to all who live in Alola.'

"His name is Dark Blizzard?" Shelby asked the mother of the baby Vulpix that I captured.

"Yeah," the Officer Jenny who was supposed translate for the Ninetales answered to us. "That Weavile is ruthless. He's already racked up quite a body count as well as a rap sheet. Three counts of armed robbery, numerous counts of assault and battery, fifteen counts of kidnapping and he's wanted in conjunction for the murder of five tourists who came to Alola from different regions plus fourteen Pokémon working for the Ride Pager Service. We've even heard that he's killed rivals in his own clan and even heard rumors that he's got people that he uses as slaves too."

'By the Alpha Pokémon,' Big Brother said as he couldn't believe what he had heard. 'He is a despicable monster and must be brought down.'

"Well… we do plan to try and arrest him and bring him to Justice for the crimes he's committed," Officer Jenny said as she was adamant about having Dark Blizzard captured alive.

'He seems to be trying to provoke me into battling him in a clan war back on Ula'ula Island,' the shiny female Ninetales said calmly. 'I wish to see new people come and enrich themselves in the culture of the Alola region and compete against one another as well.'

"You mean like a Pokémon League?" Benjy asked the Ninetales, who was known as Diamond Flake, clan queen of the Diamond Steel clan on Ula'ula Island.

'Yes young human, like a Pokémon League that you humans compete in,' answered Diamond Flake. 'Dark Blizzard does not share in my enthusiasm. Instead he wishes to drive humans out of their homes and allow as many of them to drown in the sea while the remaining few are enslaved or hunted for sport.'

"Please… be on your guard and watch your backs for Dark Blizzard," added Officer Jenny. "If you encounter him, don't try to battle him or capture him. Just call the police and let them know about Dark Blizzard."

'One last thing before you go, Samiyan,' Diamond Flake said to me as a stone was placed at my feet by one her Sandslash bodyguards. 'That is an Ice Stone. Only two Pokémon here in Alola evolve with that Ice Stone. An Alola Vulpix and the Alola Sandshrew both evolve when exposed to that stone. I recommend that you train my little baby before evolving her.'

"I will protect your daughter with my very life," I reassured the shiny female Ice/Fairy-type Fox Pokémon. "Who knows, she might even become just as strong and beautiful as you."

'Perhaps Samiyan,' Diamond Flake replied with a slight smile before using her power to dissipate the snow storm and letting things return to normal.

"You don't really need to call me Samiyan," I said to Diamond Flake. "My name is Cynthia. Cynthia Ketchum from Tsunami Island in the Atlantica Islands region."

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"Yeah… I'm getting a lot of likes on Facebook and Pokénet for my status update with my Vulpix," I said happily as I looked the Ice-type Fox Pokémon I had in my lap sleeping peacefully as I waited for the Nurse Joy to be done healing my wounded Primarina.

Before Shelby could say anything, my cellphone buzzed in my pocket as I had set to vibrate so the noise from getting alerts wouldn't wake my sleeping shiny Vulpix. But the vibration was enough to wake her as she sat up and looked at me. I got my phone out and saw that my sister Lisa had taken a selfie with the look on her face expressing "What the Houndour?!" including her showing her fangs as she didn't like that I got a shiny Pokémon and that she hadn't gotten one as she was traveling through Daddy's home region of Kanto.

After getting finally getting a confirmation text from Daddy that I was now able to get into the family's Pokémon Storage System, I was quick to call on a few more Pokémon from home. My shiny female Weavile, Naomi, my shiny regular Ninetales and a proud Jolteon named Lakota who was one of Big Brother Pikachu's many sons and daughters that he and Sissy Glaceon had together. For the moment, I would keep Naomi out of Vulpix's sight until I could introduce her to Naomi once she got more experience and could feel comfortable around my other Pokémon.

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Once all of the excitement was over, my baby shiny Alola Vulpix made herself comfortable in our apartment. Actually, she made herself comfortable by staying at my side, never leaving it. Ever since our encounter with Dark Blizzard, Vulpix became real clingy as she wanted to be right there with me. She was everywhere that I was at… including the shower, which she turned my showers from a warm shower to a cold shower in a split second with her Snow Warning ability. Every time she did that, I would have to set her outside so I could have a warm shower at least for a minute and a half before she jumps back in the shower making me endure taking the rest of my shower with cold water.

'Seriously Cynthia, you need to put that baby Vulpix in her Dream Ball,' my shiny female Ninetales, Lavender, said to me as she shook her head as she saw Diamond Flake's baby daughter following me closely.

"Don't you think I've tried that already?" I asked Lavender rhetorically. "She just breaks out and latches on to my ankle if she can."

'Wow!' Big Brother Victini exclaimed as he brought in a package with mine and Shelby's names. 'You and Shelby got a package from your fashionista aunt, Jessica.'

"Aunt Jessica sent us a package?" I asked in surprise as Victini set the package on the dining room table. "Well… I do need a new outfit. My current outfit isn't exactly the right choice for this climate… nor on Ruby Island either."

"What kind outfits did we get this time?" Shelby asked me as I opened the package. "Hope it's not anything that my mother will want to tear to shreds like the second outfit your aunt had us trying on."

"In Aunt Jessica's defense, she was gonna have her Flareon burn those outfits," I replied with a sweatdrop on the back of my head.

"Well… let's see what we've got," I said as I lifted out Shelby's outfit and then got my new outfit too. "Oh nice! I think this outfit will suit me just fine!"

"Doesn't Ruby Patterson wear an outfit like this?" Shelby asked me as she looked at the outfit that she laid out on the table.

"Yeah, she does," I answered happily I was eager to put on the new outfit after shutting the curtains to ensure no peeping toms would try to get an eager look. "Come on let's out them on! I know Aunt Jessica, she'll wanna make sure that our outfits make us look very sexy!"

"I do like that idea," replied Shelby as both of us were eager to put on our new outfits and did so shamelessly in our dining room while hearing a startling cry and someone falling on the floor with a loud thud on the floor. "Sounds like Benjy's on the ground."

'Wrong place at the wrong time,' Lavender said as she shook her head after looking at a passed out Benjy.

It took only a few minutes for Shelby and me to put on our new outfits, but we definitely looked very sexy. Shelby had on an ice blue high collared halter top, two snow white bell-sleeves with two small segmented pieces of armor on each of her upper arms, aqua blue fingerless gloves, white intersecting belts over her chest, a Dive Ball badge over the white intersecting badges, ice blue shorts, two strips of aqua blue cloth hanging over her hips, ice blue socks that went halfway up her thighs and as for footwear, she wore snow white traveling boots on her feet.

"Not bad… not bad at all," Shelby commented as she visually inspected her new outfit.

'Cynthia, you're not looking bad at all yourself,' Lavender said as she gave me a slight nod of approval with my outfit.

'Pretty Samiyan! Pretty Samiyan!' my baby shiny female Vulpix exclaimed happily as she was sitting on the table.

My new outfit was certainly tailored to be contoured to my stunningly cute girlish figure much to my liking. My outfit was almost identical except that it was in the colors of my shiny female Primarina, who was still stuck at the Pokémon Center after Dark Blizzard wounded her… physically as well as wounded her pride. But back to my new outfit, I had on a midnight blue high collared halter top, pink intersecting belts over my chest held together with a Dream Ball badge, two snow white bell-sleeves with a small segmented piece of armor on each bell-sleeve, blonde yellow shorts and white tennis shoes for my footwear. Once Shelby and I had finished inspecting our new outfits, we took a look at a still passed out Benjy as he was still dazed and had a nosebleed still running out of his nostrils.

"Oh Benjy," I huffed as I shook my head at the fact that he was still passed out. "Benjy, we've gotta get to school. Get up off the floor and get cleaned up. I'm not gonna be seen next to you if you still have a bloody nose."

"O-Okay," stammered Benjy as he quickly recovered and darted off to the bathroom.

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"Wow Cynthia… Shelby, you two are looking stylish today," Mallow said as she and Lillie amazed by our new outfits. "Where'd you two get those outfits?"

"My fashionista aunt back home made these for us," I answered Mallow. "And she did an awesome job too."

"So… when's your competition Cynthia?" Lillie asked me as she knew that I was entering the Tapu Fini swimming circuit competition.

"It actually starts today," I answered Lillie. "I just gotta go pick up Primarina from the Pokémon Center after class is done today. She took quite the beating from that cruel and heartless Weavile, Dark Blizzard."

"Oh man… not him again," moaned Mallow as apparently she knew of Dark Blizzard. "He better not try to expand his ambitions here or my home island."

"I take it you know of this Dark Blizzard," Ren summarized as she took her seat next to her boyfriend, Benny.

"He's a cruel and heartless Weavile, as Cynthia said," began Lana as she was holding her Popplio in her arms. "I've heard that he's actually killed before and that he treats humans like they're his personal slaves. Doesn't matter if they're poor or rich for that matter."

"If you're useful to Dark Blizzard, then you're his slave until he has no more use for you," chimed in Kiawe. "I've heard those stories too."

"Well… we saw Dark Blizzard actually kill one of his Sneasel subordinates," Benjamin said as a shiver run up his spine. "Snapped his neck so quick and callously. That Weavile is an absolute monster."

"May the Alpha Pokémon, Lord Arceus, see such cruelty and repay it with vengeance and swift judgement," I finished coldly as Vulpix could feel the cold tone and slightly shivered herself.

'May it be so,' finished my big brother, Victini.

"Alright then," Lt. Commander Yuffie as she came into the classroom with a few of her Pokémon, including her affectionate shiny Raikou. "Today, we'll be learning about Electric-type Pokémon and their various abilities and biology.

"I have with me some of my own Electric-type Pokémon to go along with the lesson today," finished the Rotom hybrid. "Come on out everybody!"

Five Pokémon came out of their special Pokéballs and out came five Electric-type Pokémon who were eager to help with the lesson. I found out it quite odd that the lieutenant commander had more Electric-type Pokémon with her rather than having an equal number of Electric and Ghost-type Pokémon. It was then that Yuffie began her lesson and taught us about Electric-type Pokémon. But her Raikou certainly showed his affection for Yuffie, interrupting the lesson a couple times.

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'Oh Cynthia, I'm so glad you came and got me!' Primarina happily exclaimed as she leapt at me glomped me after she was released from the Pokémon Center.

"I'm glad I could get my swimming partner back before the preliminaries for the Tapu Fini swimming circuit could start," I replied as I got back on my feet before letting out a sigh. "I'm sorry about what happened the other day… when we first encountered Dark Blizzard."

'It is I should apologize,' Primarina said to me as she shook her head. 'I was full of myself and overestimated my battling skill against that callous Weavile. It won't happen again.'

"I know," I reassured Primarina. "We'll be ready for him next time.

"But right now… you and I need to prep for opening preliminaries," I finished as I readied her Dream Ball. "That needs to be our primary focus right now."

'Agreed,' replied Primarina before I recalled her to her Dream Ball.

Within a half hour, my friends and I made our made our way to the main beach, the same beach that Ren and Benny competed at for their surfing competition. If anything, I was ready to show the competition here in Alola why I am called the Aqua Mermaid back home in the Atlantica Islands. As I got registered for the competition, I was unaware that a certain Pokémon was watching me or took any sort of interest on me.

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3rd person POV

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A female Pokémon that had a black torso and light blue hair. It has a white headband-like marking on its head and a white v on its chest. To the sides of this V mark were two violet shell-like extensions from which protruded two arms with three fingers, separated in a way that would befit webbed arms such as those seen in Golduck. It had a fin at the lower front and does not appear to have legs, but an oval shaped platform of sorts on which it stands. Its eyes have light blue eyeshadow-like marks and are light cyan with white eyebrows of sorts. Its shell is purple with a fin on top and a horn—when closed, this shell resembled a swordfish. This Pokémon had made the trip all the way from her island to meet with her fellow Island guardian, Tapu Koko.

'So… that is the one you spotted and say is a Samiyan?' the island guardian of Poni Island asked the Land Spirit Pokémon of Melemele Island as they observed Cynthia. 'She doesn't seem all that special.'

'I would think that you of all the island guardians would know there's more than meets the eye,' answered the female Water/Fairy-type Land Spirit Pokémon, 'considering that it was you who gave the Samiyan one of those Z-Rings that you gave to the foreigners.'

'Well… at least one of them was able to display such overwhelming power against those fiends who seek to sell our lesser kin for profit,' replied Tapu Koko before having to turn away as they saw Cynthia slipping off her outfit, revealing her swimsuit that was underneath.

'Calm yourself, Tapu Koko,' the Poni Island guardian said to the male Electric/Fairy-type Land Spirit Pokémon. 'The Samiyan is still covered.'

'O-Oh… right,' stammered a nervous Tapu Koko as he returned to observe Cynthia some more.

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Cynthia's POV

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I was certainly up against some really stiff competition here in the preliminaries. And I certainly didn't think that I was going to steamroll the competition here either. If anything, the pool I was placed in had a lot of seasoned veterans who participated in the competition in years past. Not to mention their swimming partners were fast themselves as Primarina had to use her Aqua Jet attack just to keep up. Despite the pool being full of veterans, Primarina and I managed to place in the Top 5. But the other reason Primarina and I finished in the Top 5 was because my swimming partner wasn't at 100% and we didn't have time to rest up because I got her back before we registered for the preliminaries started.

Within two hours, we were back at our apartment and thanked Lord Arceus that the opening round of the Tapu Fini swimming circuit wasn't going to be for another month and a half. That was going to be plenty of time for us to rest up and handle our field assignment for Aunt Rhea. As for me… well Vulpix still remained latched on to my left leg as she didn't like that I had left her just so I could compete.

'You weren't supposed to leave me!' Vulpix cried with tears running down her cheeks as she looked at me. 'I was afraid that meanie would come back!'

"I doubt he would try coming after us with the police presence that was there," I informed my little shiny female Alola Vulpix. "Besides… didn't I always come back after I swam?"

My little Vulpix gave me a thoughtful nod as she let go of my ankle, but still wanted me hold her as her as she looked to me and pawed at my leg. I sighed as I knelt down and picked up my Vulpix much her to her delight as she liked being held. While we would wait for the next competition, I had planned on competing in the Island Challenge as I wanted to prove that I was a strong trainer… but I also wanted to compete with my cute and handsome boyfriend as my partner and I didn't know if we would be allowed to take on the challenge as a pair or if we had to compete as individuals. It would've been a question for the next morning, but Benjy said that he wanted to take on the Island Challenge by himself, as did Shelby and Isabella. But the four of us resolved that if the Pokémon League were to be established, we wouldn't challenge it like we had been doing with the other regions we've been to and collected badges from. Other than the Pokémon League from my home region, I really hadn't challenged any other region's Pokémon League as it felt like they would pale in comparison to the Suicune Valley Conference that my parents won, three months after I was born. Even I had come so close to winning it had the daughter of Mikki Stone not competed. But the past is the past and I was looking forward to seeing how this Island Challenge compared to the gyms of my home region and other regions that we had traveled to previously.

"We need to go grocery shopping," Isabella informed us, getting me out of my daydream and back into reality. "I'm gonna go buy some groceries for us with Rika."

"Just make sure you come back with some delectable bento boxes," I said to Isabella as I knew that she and Rika were going to be fighting for bento boxes at the nearby convenience store that was three blocks away from our apartments.

Isabella's shiny female Constraint Pokémon chuckled telepathically as before asking, 'Oh… when have we ever failed to bring back delectable bento boxes?'

'Something sweet for me!' my shiny Alola Vulpix exclaimed to Isabella and Rika happily. 'Something sweet for me!'

"We'll see what we can get for you," Isabella reassured my shiny Vulpix, I decided to name after the Ice summon, Shiva, from a video game my big brother, Victini, got me addicted to a few years ago.

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Isabella's POV

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As Rika and I left the apartment to go… "shop" for groceries, Torracat walked alongside us and had asked us why we were going to the convenience store instead of the regular grocery store that was two miles the other direction. For Rika and I, the convenience store was closer to the apartment. Plus I had heard the convenience store had some interesting brawls that happened there. If the brawls were anything like the brawls back home, I wanted in and Rika and Torracat came along for the ride.

'Must we have to fight for food?' Torracat asked me and Rika. 'It would make more sense to just buy the food and clear out as quickly as possible.'

'Isabella and I enjoy the thrill of fighting to get the best quality food,' Rika explained to Torracat. 'Especially when it is marked at half price.'

"Besides… it also sharpens our fighting skills too," I added to Rika's explanation.

'Well… I guess if it helps to sharpen fighting skills,' said Torracat as she let out a sigh before nodding in agreement, 'I am with you, Fire Bender.'

"That's good to know," I replied with a smile as the three of us entered the convenience store and noticed quite the crowd of people and a handful of Pokémon too.

'Looks like there's quite a crowd tonight,' Rika observed before she took her usual position near the cashier, as per our usual strategy.

'I dunno ladies,' Torracat said nervously as she saw the crowd of people and Pokémon, 'we might be in over our heads for any good food tonight.'

"Since you're just starting with us, stay with me," I instructed Torracat. "I need backup."

Within ten minutes, a store employee rolled out a cart with many delectable bento boxes. While some of the bento boxes had delicious foods, some of them were shaped in questionable shapes that I would never show my family, let alone my friends. The employee took his time setting the bento boxes as he was nervous with everyone nearby just ready. It took another twenty minutes for him to set the price tags as he had beads of sweat running down his face. Once the price tags were set, the store employee hurried out of the combat zone as fast as his legs could carry him. With the doors shut, the fighting began as many rushed towards the more delectable boxes with raunchy and inappropriate designs. As for me, I had my Pokémon keep an eye on things as we waited for something more appealing to come. I did have some who thought I was trying to steal from them as they saw me. Some of those guys met my fists hard as I drove them back by cleaning their clocks and at least knocking out one tooth with a handful of them. A few of them dropped their bento boxes that I happily picked up, the ones that didn't have raunchy and inappropriately shapes. As many of the fighters were bashing each other's heads in for bento boxes with the inappropriately shaped food, Torracat and I spotted a few boxes that had food shaped like the various Pokémon from the Alola region. It was then that we made a break for those boxes that were rolling out from the kitchen, already marked half price. Of course there were a few guys who thought of themselves as lone wolves and tried to block me and Torracat. Two of those idiots tackled me to the ground and tried to hold me down by my ankles while two more numb nuts decided join in on the dog pile.

"Oh guys… this girl is hot," one of the idiots that were holding me down said to the others. "Oh my gosh… I think she's…"

That jerk never got to finish his sentence as I had enough of being held down by four guys. I channeled my Victini Psychic-type powers and used my Psychic attack to lift them off of me. The four idiots had no idea of what was going on as they saw I had thrown them off of me. After getting those jerks off of me, I decided that I was going to turn up the heat on them and show them why I'm called the "Fire Bender of Tsunami Island." The first moron got the first shot in me as he gave me a black right eye before I retaliated with a scorching Fire Punch to the face and broke his nose too. I turned to the second moron and used my Flame Charge on him as I cleaned his clock and knocking him out. The other two panicked when they saw I had fire in my right and me glaring at them with fiery hot daggers in my eyes. The pervert who tried to reach certain areas of my body that were off limits, I certainly didn't allow him to get away as I used my Flare Blitz on him as a cheap shot reminder to know his place.

Thirty minutes later, the sale was over and there was some… um… considerate damage to the store. Rika told me that I went a bit nuts with my Victini abilities. I guess I was fortunate that the store owner was forgiving since the bento brawl got out of control and those four who jumped on me were always looking for an excuse to jump on any girl they thought they could hook up with. As we walked home, the fire department had come to make sure that the fire I caused wouldn't cause the store to explode and that damage wasn't too bad. As for me, I earned a blackened right eye, some bruising on my legs, cuts that adorned my arms from a few shards of broken glass and eight delectable boxes of bento with five 2 liter bottles of soda. Rika and Torracat escaped with little injury to them.

'I must say that I enjoyed the thrill of that bout for the delectable food that we managed to get,' Torracat said to me with a smile on her face as we limped back to the apartment. 'We surely must do it again!'

"And we will," I informed my shiny female Fire Cat Pokémon. "We'll fight through as many bento brawls as we can throughout Alola. But right now, we need to get back to the apartment."

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Cynthia's POV

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"Jeez, Isabella," I said as I had finished cleaning the cuts on Isabella's arms after she and her Pokémon arrived home, "the fight got that bad?"

"Oh… it could've been worse," Isabella answered calmly as she waited for me to finish putting bandages on her arms. "I was just sticking to my usual strategy for bento brawls. Those idiots had to make it worse."

"Mm… the bento boxes you got us are certainly delicious," Shelby said as she was eating the bento box that she chose to open and eat. "But I see you got more bento boxes."

"Of course I did," Isabella said to Shelby as I grabbed three of the bento boxes with a smile on my face. "We all know she inherited her parents' appetite and metabolism."

"Ugh… so true," agreed Shelby as I wasted no time opening the first box and wolfed down the food in it. "Every time Benjy and I are at her house, we watch the entire Ketchum family wolfing down food like its candy."

'What are you talking about?' Shelby's Manectric asked Shelby. 'You wolf down food just as bad as young Cynthia.'

"Look who's talking," Shelby shot back to her male Electric-type Discharge Pokémon, "you go through meat faster than a Water-type using their Aqua Jet."

I ignored the squabble between Shelby and her Manectric as I enjoyed the food that Isabella got me and made sure she got the empty boxes as they had collectable stickers that she kept. Once I was finished, I was surprised to see that Shiva was sitting there waiting for me to give her something to eat. So I gave her the bento box that Isabella and Rika got for her. I should've known that she would be just like me as she wolfed down the box of super sweet bento like it was nobody's business as morsels went flying in the air and then settled on the dining room floor. Once she was finished with the bento, she pawed at my ankle wanting to be fed more food. Unfortunately for Shiva, we hadn't really gotten much in the way of groceries as we had living with a frugal budget for food even though we had more than enough money to buy what we needed. So I resolved that I was going to go the grocery store and buy some actual groceries and not a bunch of bento boxes like Isabella had bought for us. But before I could consider doing that… we had to go to school in the morning and then I was going to train Shiva up so she could become a valuable part of my team.

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'No way,' Shiva said to me after we were let out of Pokémon School. 'I'm not battling. Forget it.'

"Come on Shiva," I protested to my Ice-type Fox Pokémon. "I wanna have you be part of my team!"

'I don't like battling and I don't wanna battle,' Shiva added, acting like a prissy little princess. 'Momma never said I had to battle anyway.'

'How will you handle that Dark Blizzard Pokémon gang leader?' Lavender asked Shiva as she was there to help me train up Shiva. 'You need to learn to hold your own.

Shiva then latched on to my ankle and was about to answer when Lavender continued, 'And don't say that you're going to rely on Cynthia as your answer. What if Cynthia isn't there or if she's too hurt to issue commands for you.'

'No battling for me,' Shiva said as she still was acting like a prissy princess while still latched to my left ankle.

'You're hopeless,' Lavender said to Shiva as she rolled her eyes and shook her head before looking to me. 'Well, I'm ready to train. We need to make sure we're ready for the Island Challenges and those Team Skulls idiots, correct?'

"Yeah, that's right," I answered Lavender as my shiny female Fire-type Kanto Fox Pokémon was ready to go for training. "I know Aunt Rhea said not to underestimate these Skull idiots."

'Don't worry, we won't underestimate these Skull buffoons,' my shiny female Fire-type Kanto Fox Pokémon said to me. 'We'll be at the top of our game against them.'

'Not going to battle,' Shiva sang happily as she still remained latched on my left ankle.

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Author's note: Here's the next chapter and it's completed too. Hope you guys like what you've seen. Please leave reviews and favorite this fic. Suggestions are also welcome too.