A/N: I hope everybody is doing well and keeping their health up due to the coronavirus hitting hard everywhere around the world. Stay safe and stay healthed up. I've been on a 2-year hiatus from this site due to life, trying to make legit friends and playing games. I thought to myself... Damn, I miss writing... Either way, I will be returning to my past stories.

(Wedgehurst) (Trainstation)

Sordward and Shielbert left the train station after talking to Tai, trying to persuade him to let them be his bodyguard and giving the young champion their royal treasure.

Still feeling skeptical about what transpired, Tai gazed at Hop with the rusted sword and shield in both of his hands.

" I don't need both these weapons I'm better off with one, you have this Ho... Uh, what's with that look?" Tai studied the expression on Hop's face.

"Just seeing you being showered with so many gifts... I really env... uh I mean... What royal garbage, Zacian and Zamazenta rusted weapons look better then what you have. Hop said with a ticked-off expression.

Tai raised an eyebrow sensing disrespect. "What's your problem? Your part of Galar history too after stopping the darkest day with me.

You got zamazenta so you might take this royal shield as a keepsake." Tai said as he threw the shield to hop.

Hop caught the shield and held it. "To be honest I don't feel like I did enough throughout my journey... Sure I collected all of my gym badges, helped save Galar and help beat the rampaging dynamax pokemon at the stadiums, but I still lost to you Tai. but... At least I finally found my passion in life, to be a pokemon professor, and what do ya know, professor Sonia offered for me to be her assistant. Professor Sonia maybe your adult crush but it sucks to be you, cause as her assistant I get to be close to her." Hop bragged as he held the shield under his right arm like it was a suitcase.

"..." Tai felt an immense amount of jealousy, he recalled the moment when Professor Sonia asked Hop to be her assistant at the slumbering weald alter. Sonia was there most of the time throughout his journey helping, rooting for Tai, and asked for help investigating ruins. With beauty, smarts, great personality, and spending time together, it was impossible to not catch feelings.

" Did you have to rub that in my face? I kinda liked Professor Sonia cause she looked a whole lot like the water gym leader named misty from Kanto. I'm only fourteen... Yeah, so what! Any teenager can have adult crushes it's practically normal. I'm over here trying to be humble and here you are looking down on me." Tai said as he gripped the handle of the falchion tighter.

Hop smirked a bit. "Cool down dude, I'm just picking at you if you keep stressing your braids are going to fall out. This gym leader named misty I'm not too familiar with her. But anyways crushes are just temporarily before you even realize the girl you like already has a boyfriend and looking at Sonia she not gonna be bothered with all that lovey-dovey stuff. Also Nessa... huh?"

Hop's Rotom phone ringed, the device floated in midair in front of his face, he saw the caller id, identifying the person who was calling him and pressed the talk button.

"Oh, Professor Sonia! What's up" Hop said with his usual expression.

"What's up? Did you forget we had plans today? We were supposed to catch starter pokemon for new gym challengers." Sonia said in a Disappointed tone.

"OH WE WERE? CRAP! I-IM ON MY WAY TO THE LAB." Hop yelled as he jogged without even moving forward.

Tai shook his head as he laughed. "First time being an assistant and Hop is already messing up, That's a fat F coming to his first-ever science test."

"Make haste, Nessa will be coming from hulbury town to visit us at the lab later this afternoon bringing us fresh seafood. It's her day off from the gym, She told me she needs to speak to our champion, we got to invite him as always." Sonia explained to Hop.

Tai turned into a deamination cut out, he did his best to sneak out of the train station by tiptoeing while Hop was distracted by his rotom phone.

" Awesome, he's right here if you want to say hi to him, the whole gang and I were waiting for him to show up to the train station all day. Tai's sleep patterns got worse throughout the weeks. Hop said to the professor.

Tai's eyes turned into beady squiggly eyes once the rotom phone turned around facing him.

"Hey Mr sleepy head, How are you?" Sonia said through the phone, her eyes sparkled as she smiled gently.

"Dang... Put on blast.." Tai said in his mind. He couldn't endure the beautiful face that was in front of him.

"What's wrong Tai? You look like you seen a ghost today, did you sleep well yesterday?" Sonia said as her happy expression turned into a serious one.

"I'm fine I just had a rough morning that's all, I don't think I'll be at the lab when Nessa comes by, I'm... allergic to seafood, one smell of fried fish I'll get a runny nose and sore throat," Tai said as he walked up to the rotom phone.

"WHAT!?" Hop and Sonia yelled.

Tai had a confused expression on his face. "What? you guys never asked what foods I was allergic too when we first met.

"You don't know the goodness your missing Tai, one of the best foods so far in Galar." Hop said with confidence.

"Who cares, even if fish tastes good we shouldn't be eating fish pokemon in the first place. Hope you guys have fun at the lab, if Nessa wants to chat with me then I'll be at my house napping for the time being." Tai said

"Napping? You're too young to be sleeping all day, you should be outside catching pokemon and completing the Pokedex like other trainers. Did you even decide where you want to go next?" Sonia explained

"The gym challenge took a lot out of me physically and mentally. Just think about it as a little vacation. When I get my motivation back I'll figure out where I'll travel too to catch more pokemon." Tai said.

" Alright, rest easy then, don't let your life pass you by." Sonia said

Tai just nodded the rotom phone turned around facing Hop.

"Alright Hop, Hop to the lab as fast as you can, I need you ASAP!" Sonia said in a chipper voice.

Hop nodded and dashed right out of the train station with the rusted shield in his grip.

"Later I guess... Left hanging, out to dry like laundry..." Tai shook his head. He placed the sword back in the brown pouch. The young champion took out a deck of league cards and went through them using both of his hands as he passed each trainer.

He stopped going through the cards when he encountered Nessa's rare league card. Looking at the water gym trainer he felt a surge of butterflies in his stomach as she wore her model dress, Looking into her intense blue turquoise eyes was very bewitching and couldn't help the overwhelming infatuation.

" I wonder what she wants to talk to me about, I'm so confused..." Tai said as he walked over to the exit of the train station while being distracted by Nessa's beauty having his head down, not aware of his surroundings.

Tai suddenly bumped into someone, due to the bump, his deck of league cards fell from his right hand and dropped on the floor scattering like glass upon impact.

Tai stood back from the individual that bumped into him and seen his deck of league cards all over the floor.

"S-sorry, I should have watched where I was going," Tai said quickly as he dropped the brown pouch and kneeled down picking up the cards from the floor.

"No worries, here let me help you pick these cards up." The female voice spoke. The female spoke in a soft tone of voice.

Helping Tai pick one card up at a time and place each card in her left hand, within a firm grip. Picking one card up she saw Tai's league card, it had the number 21 at the bottom and Tai's picture in the middle with a holographic design. She looked at the league card and gazed at Tai's face, he was the same person on the card and at the gym challenge on tv.

"Do my eyes deceive me? The champion himself stands before me!"

The random girl said as she giggled.

Tai took his gaze off of his cards from the floor and gaze at the girl.

He gasped seeing such stunning beauty before him, this girl looked like she just got done winning a pokemon beauty contest, but quickly put on a gym challenge uniform out of nowhere.

"Uh..." Tai just stared at the girl with an embarrassed expression on his face and didn't say much.

"Hee hee cat got your tongue? So what they say on tv is true... You are pretty shy, quite the introvert I see. The girl teased.

Tai had an irritated look on his face. "T-that's not it! Why do you girls always assume stuff about people you don't know!" Tai lied to himself as he pointed his index finger at the girl using his right hand.

Once the girl stood up straight she was slightly taller than Tai and she had a perfect figure. The champion was tall up to her chest.

"I don't know, that's how we are I guess... I'm Klara by the way."

Klara had poison pink hair that was in a bob hairstyle, with pink bangs covering her forehead and had blue eyes. She had a huge white pink and dark blue bow attached to her hair that looked like a dustox. She wore a pure white fur coat, a dark purple and green gym uniform and dark purple and green knee-length stockings, pink and white boots with white bows attached at the end of both shoe wear. Klara had a dynamax band on her left wrist and with dark purple and green glove on her hand. A bow ring was on her index finger in her right hand and another bracelet that was oddly shaped around her right wrist.

"No point in introducing yourself to me, everybody in Galar knows who you are, Tai the great!" Klara said as she handed some cards to the young champion.

Tai nodded as he blushed, and tried to avoid Klara's gaze, the young trainer kneeled again and picked up the rest of his league cards.

"Scuse me maam the train going to the isle of armor is almost here, do you have your armor pass ready?" A random man in a suit walked up to Klara.

"Hee Hee why of course, I have one." Klara reached in her right pocket and using her right hand and handed the armor ticket to the man.

"Isle of Armor what's that place?" Tai said as he gazed at the two adults

"A wondrous land filled with dojo's and rare Pokemon, I heard the teacher of the former champion, resides there... It's no wonder Leon was unbeatable until you got endorsed in your gym challenge Tai." Klara explained to the young champion.

"That's incredible, that's a place I'll markdown on my places to visit. Strange Leon never mentioned his master to me on my journey, Hop probably knows tho..." Tai said.

Appearing through the gates was a slowpoke with green coloring on its head.

"Sloooooo"

Hearing the cry of the pokemon Tai turned around gazing at the slowpoke getting into his battle stance ready for anything.

"Ooooh, Is that a galarian slowpoke?, I never saw a green coloring on top of its head, it must be really rare." Klara moved her body back and forth as if she was dancing.

"You're a pokemon trainer, right? Can you deal with this pokemon? If more pokemon keep showing up like this it might ruin the business with us and the customers." The man said to Tai.

Tai turned around and gazed at the Klara and the man.

"I already caught a slowpoke during my gym challenge, I do not need another one, Klara how bout you take it with you? Tai asked Klara.

"Actually I have one of my own, it evolved into a Slowbro." Klara simply said

"WAT!?" Tai yelled, the young champion turned around, expecting to see the slowpoke still there but somehow it vanished, it was no longer in the same spot Tai last seen it.

Klara and the man reverted their attention back to the spot where the slowpoke was and realized the pokemon was gone as well.

"Eh? weren't slowpokes supposed to move slow? How in the world did it disappear so fast?" Klara said in an oblivious state.

"Who knows but at least we don't have to deal with it now." The man said as he walked over to the desk to scan the Armor pass.

Tai left ear started to ring, due to the immense pain he held his left ear using his left hand.

He gazed at the brown pouch the falchion was placed, he picked it up quickly with his right hand and gazed at Klara.

"It was nice meeting you Klara, I got to get going I've been at this train station for a while now," Tai said as he tried to force a smile through the pain.

"The pleasure is all mine! The only chance in a lifetime to see greatness before me! I was gonna ask If you wanted to come with... But I realized you don't have an Armor pass. I guess this is goodbye?"

"No this moment right isn't goodbye... One day we'll day meet again, maybe at the Isle of Armor or a place far away from the Galar region." Tai smirked with confidence.

"Deeply apologize for the wait, we scanned your Armor pass, your all clear to board the train." The man handed Klara the pass back to her as she placed it in her right pocket using her right hand.

Once the man walked away Tai walked towards the entrance of the wedgehurst train station. Stopping in his tracks he took one last gaze at Klara.

"I'll hold you to those words, my future rival." Klara winked, closing her right eye, and blew Tai a kiss.

Tai's eyes turned into dotted eyes with a big blush on his face, he didn't know what to say.

Klara giggled and boarded the train.

Tai walked out of the train station as the scene faded to black.

"Can I promise that? No.. It's only doubt that holds me back from keeping my word. I will keep my word."

(Wedgehurst)

It was about 4pm, the sun was slowly setting and the clouds began to turn orange. Tai walked towards the path leading to the entrance of the town towards the plains. He turned his head to the right and seen Hop and Professor Sonya walking side by side together.

A wave of frustration hit him inside, he was a bit jealous that hop was in the presence of someone with such beauty with an awesome personality and smarts.

"Tch... I got to snap out of it, besides seeing myself in that position with Sonia... I can't be an assistant and a pokemon trainer at the same time. Unless if I take a break from being a trainer. Sonia was there 90% of my journey giving me support." Tai said as he sighed.

Tai quickly walked out of wedgehurst before he could be spotted by anybody else that we're fans of him.

(Postwick)(Tai's Aunt house)

Opening the front door with using his house keys, Tai was greeted by his aunt's Munchlax. The Munchlax handed Tai a piece of paper as the champion closed the door behind him and locked it.

Holding the paper in his right hand, he dropped the brown pouch on the floor. Tai began to read the letter.

"If you arrive at the house when I'm not home right now, I've stepped out to run a couple of errands, I'll be home soon."

The letter reads...

"Munch Munch" Muchlax cried hopping up and down. Tai petted Munchlax on the head and sighed.

"Darn it... I was gonna ask if she could re braid my hair... Oh well, I'm not hungry or anything I'll just go take a nap till she gets back.

Tai removed his hand from Munchlax's head and walked over to his bowl noticing there wasn't any food in the poke bowl. He checked each and every kitchen cabinet until he found a bag of hard food.

Picking up the big bag of poke food using both of his hands,Tai struggled walking across the kitchen trying to get to the spot where the bowl was.

"God It's like attempting to carry an oversized full-grown Snorlax!" Tai complained.

Few moments later

Tai was in his room sound asleep in the bed, with his blue cover his entire body as his head rested comfortably on the pillowcase.

On the brown table decorated with pokemon action figures near the flatscreen tv and the tv stand, the Falchion on the table on top of the brown pouch.

The falchion started to glow in a faint fiery blueish aura.

(? Dream)

The young champion was dreaming...

He was laying on his back, he opened his eyes slowly, in his blurry vision the sky was blood red along with the fluffy red clouds.

His head was hurting, certain areas of his body were in pain and his left leg was asleep to the point he couldn't feel his blood flow in it.

He slowly lifted his right hand and placed it on his forehead.

When Tai finally lifted the upper half of his body, he noticed his surroundings. Everything around him was blood red, he was at a beach that had blood-red sand, with a blood-red sky and blood-red sea.

The look on Tai's face was the look of pure horror.

He gazed down at the lower half of his body and realized that he had on the same clothes from before but parts of his attire were ripped as if he got done from fighting.

There was nobody insight wandering such an eerie place, standing on his feet the only thing he could do was walk towards the crimson sea.

Having difficulty walking with two legs due to one leg being asleep, Tai limped his way to the best of his ability.

"I can't stop thinking about you, even with my best team, you were always one step ahead." A female voice said with a heavy British accent.

Tai eyes widen in shock recognizing the voice as he stopped in his tracks.

" N-nessa?" Tai whispered in an oblivious state.

The further Tai limped the more voices he heard in the area.

"Now that I think about it, Sonia was saying something about how amazing you were."

"I wish I'd paid more attention to what she was talking about."

"..." Tai stayed silent

"You've become something of a hot topic among the Gym Leaders."

"Here you go, Mr. Famous. I already heard about you, so you should learn about me, too."

At a distance, there was a feminine figure standing near the crimson ocean having her full attention at the blood-red sea.

Tai limped closer to the female who had her back turned to the young champion.

Stopping in his tracks he recognized Nessa's backside, the sea wasn't regular it was blood-red water filled with thousands of dead bodies of humans.

Tai was horrified on what the female trainer was looking at before her.

"I'm sorry..."

Tai gazed at Nessa.

" Those people showed up, along with that monstrosity... I tried...

Nessa turned around opening her eyes as tears of blood streamed down her face and mouth, the expression on her face was sadness mixed with dread.

Nessa pulled Tai into a tight embrace, his head was against her chest as her arms were wrapped around the young trainer. Resting her head on top of Tai's head she began to speak again.

"I desperately wanted to protect you, from t-them."

Tai felt Nessa's body shake, trembling in fear she hugged the young champion tighter.

A titanic sized dragon with six glowing red eyes arose from the ocean of dead bodies letting out an inhumane cry of despair.

Towering over the two pokemon trainers, the massive beast fired a red beam at Tai and Nessa.

Tai tried to yell and move but he couldn't yell or run away, he was completely frozen in place.

Tai and Nessa were disintegrated completely by the blast.

The dream ended, Tai immediately shot up breathing heavily after waking up in his bed. His body was all sweaty, he tried to process what just happened in the dream he just had in his mind.

Tai pulled the blue covers from his off his body and sat at the edge of the bed as he rubbed his sweaty forehead with his left hand.

The rotom phone floated infront of Tai's and the screen displayed 40 missed calls from Gary Oak (aka Blue). One unread message.

Tai looked at the screen and didn't say a word. The rotom phone flew right back into Tai's pocket.

It was dark outside and dark in Tai's room, the young champion gazed around his room and noticed the Falchion was gone from his brown table.

Noticing the missing sword Tai jumped from his bed and landed on his feet with his socks and pikachu pajamas on.

Singing was heard from outside his window, putting Tai in a trance once he heard it. The atmosphere changed drastically as if time had stopped.

Tai had a blank expression on his face, he slowly walked out of his room like he was possessed.

(Postwick)(Farmland)

A slowpoke with green coloring on top of its head sat in the middle of a yellow field. Singing underneath the night sky of a full moon with no audience, the Slowpoke transformed into blue fiery energy into a humanoid form.

Sennzai - Liebe Dahlia

Für mein Schatz, mein geliebter Edelmann,

du beteuertest, dass du wohlbehalten aus Schlachtfeld kehrest heim.

Meine Angst, meine unerschöpfliche Angst, die mich zerdrücken will,

wird nur von deiner Nachricht geschmolzen.

Für mein Schatz, ich vermisse dich, Edelmann.

Deine Nachricht aus dem Schlachtfeld hat seit Monaten erloschen.

Meine Einsamkeit, meine gefrierende Einsamkeit, die mich verdecken will,

durstet nach den kurzen Wörter "Liebe Dahlia".

Endet der Krieg? Kein Essen passiert durch meiner Kehle.

Ich bin zu hilflos, um ohne dich auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen.

O, wo bist du? Wo bist du jetzt?

Der Ring passt mir nie mehr. Der war die Gabe von dir.

O, wo bist du? Wo bist du jetzt?

Wenn ich den Spiegel gucke, Ich bin hässlich, ich bin krankhaft,

ich bin nicht mehr das, was es mal war.

Komm, süßer Tod, schmelzt mein Eis.

Tai slowly approached the blue flame energy being, the singing continued as the unknown being revealed its true form. It was another feminine figure with green hair and pointed ears with godly attire on.

The blue flame aura dissipated from around the female's body and slowly approached the pokemon trainer. In her hands was once a rusted falchion but now a newly refurbished falchion holding it out.

Upon reaching each other's presences, Tai just stood there with no emotion. The female figure bit her lips with her sharp fangs as blood flood down from the wounds.

Simply kneeling down the female figure leaned in for a kiss, the scene zooms into Tai's iris's as a mark appeared in his blue eye.

chapter end.