Double duty, just because I slacked off!

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~~~Shadow's p.o.v.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The cool night breeze whooshed by, ruffling the leaves in the trees. The sun had long set beneath the western horizon in a brilliant display of reds, oranges, and yellows. Even with the picture show, none of us were too cheerful. Though we were able to defend against the Rockets, Aquafire was still possesed, everyone had some sort of injury from the battle, and Calypso was poisoned badly. None of us knew whether she'd survive through the night. About three-quarters of us, though, believed that she'll live, since Rokon and Redyan had nade this makeshift antidote out of leaves and herbs in the area. Now, everyone was gathered around the fire except Rokon, Calypso, and Aquafire. The fire was started by Fireburst and Arbiter from some dried tree branches.

"We were barely able to survive that battle," said Kirin, looking at the nasty gash on her left side.

"We're just gonna have to train better and be ready for them, I guess," said Blade, looking at the sleeping figure of Rokon. I think there was something going on between those two, but I don't assume anything.

"What will happen now?" asked Redyan, coming out from the shadows. "Calypso's down, Aquafire...well, you know, so now what?"

"Yeah, do we keep on our original journey or do we try and find help somewhere?" asked Lunar.

"I don't know," admitted Shockwave. "I know I'm supposed to be the leader, since the other two are out, but I'm not cut out for this kind of stuff. So let's put it to a vote; yes to go on, no to find help, what do you all vote?"

"I say, since we got this far, we go on," said Arbiter, pointing to the south.

"Second on that," said Firestrike.

"I agree," said Larissa. "We didn't get this far just to give up."

"Is that how everyone feels?" asked Shockwave, looking around the group. We all nodded in reply.

"We might as well," I said. "We definitely don't wanna get caught by the Rockets. Who knows what they might do to us."

"Then it's settled then," said Shockwave. "We continue our journey south!"

~~~Firestrike's p.o.v.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The sun broke over the mountains clear and bright. It cast long rays of soft sunlight over the entire area. Calypso was definitely looking better because of the concoction that Redyan and Rokon had created. Kirin had Calypso on her broad back, because even though she was awake, she was too weak to go travelling so soon. Larissa and Fireburst were flying high above, covering surveillance of the area. Shockwave led the way.

"Larissa, Fireburst, is everything clear up there?" I heard Shockwave yell up.

"Everything's clear...wait, what is that?" Larissa yelled.

"What is it?" I yelled.

"It looks like a group of pokémon coming this way!" Fireburst replied. Shockwave stopped the group and waited for those pokémon to arrive.

From the distance appeared a group of pokémon. I saw a Marowak tossing its bone weapon from one hand to the other. There was also what looked like a cross between a Mew and a Charizard as well. There was even a blue Butterfree, a big Haunter, and a Jigglypuff with a purple mask over its face. They looked like they were looking for us.

"Hey, look, Boneguard, there's that group of pokémon that Hiruna said to escort!" said the Mew/Charizard.

"You're right," replied the Marowak, who I assumed to be Boneguard. "That saves us the trouble of looking for them."

"Excuse me, but who are you?" I heard Flameheart ask.

"You're forgetting your manners again," sighed the Butterfree. "My name's Shineshower."

"I'm Mewizard," replied the Mew-Charizard cross.

"My name's Dimension," replied the Haunter, laughing all the way.

"I'm the Masked Jigglypuff, but just call me MJ," replied the Jigglypuff with the purple mask.

~~~Mewizard's p.o.v.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We had been sent by Hiruna to find these strange pokémon. And by sheer luck, we found them on our first try.

"Nice to meet you," said the weird looking Vulpix. "My name's Rokon."

"I'm Blade," said a lightly tinged brown Scyther.

"Kirin," said a Kirinriki.

"Shockwave," replied the tinged black Jolteon.

"Redyan," I heard the Itomaru say. (A/n: Don't forget, I wrote this before American G/S came out)

"I'm Lunar," replied a dark, wolf-like thing.

"Shadow," said the dark furred Pikachu.

"Larissa, and that's Fireburst," said the Lugia, and also gesturing at the light blue Moltres.

"Flameheart," replied a Flareon.

"My name's Arbiter," said a dark colored Charmeleon.

"My name's Calypso, and that strange looking Arcanine over there is Aquafire, who's currently possesed," said a light yellow Vaporeon. It looked injured from something, but thinking about it, all of them were injured in some way or another.

"You're here to guide us to the valley, what ever its name it?" said the Jolteon, Shockwave.

"The valley is the Rainbow Valley, and yes, we are here to lead the way," I said, agitated.

"Hey, we're finally gonna be going the right way!" said Shadow, that weird, dark Pikachu.

"It looks like Astroleon wasn't so featherheaded as we thought," said Flameheart. "He was actually leading us the right way!"

"Well, are you ready to go?" asked Dimension to those strange pokémon.

"Man, after beating those Rockets, we are ready for anything!" said Redyan, the bug.

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New friends! Mind you, though, that they're normal… well, as normal as you can be without a Rocket's help. And an exorcism exercise! What next?

Boneguard-Marowak

Mewizard-Mew/Charizard mix

Dimension - Haunter

MJ-Jigglypuff