"Celadon City! Ready or not, here we come!" I yelled into the clear, blue sky.

" you were here a few hours ago," Blue said.

"Hey!!! You weren't supposed to follow me here!" I jumped back. Sheesh, what's wrong with this guy?

"So? Who said I was following you?" He snorted. "You're so boring that your pokemon are falling asleep, look at them."

I took a peek, and Rai, Jolty, and Charcoal were walking drowsily. "Well, maybe it's just some sleeping powder in the air." I started feeling sleepy myself. "That's strange, what do you think of it Blue? Blue?" I turned around. Blue was gone. Where'd he go? "That jerk!" I kicked a tree. "Stupid, stupid."

"Who's stupid?" Some one asked.

"Blue!!!" I growled. It was Red. "What do you want?"

" I just wanted to know where he was going, so I followed him."

"He was following me, ok? Now, let's go to the pokemon center," I beckoned for my pokemon.

"Pikazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz," Rai started snoring. I sighed and returned her, along with my other pokemon.

"Can I come too?" Red asked. Yeesh, did he have to ask?

"Yeah, whatever," I shrugged.

) Later, at the pokemon center.(

I sat up when the nurse said my pokemon were healed. I thanked her, took the poke balls. Hearing something from outside the window, I went out to check.

"No use hiding, come out!" I beat the bushes with my tail.

"AAA!!!!! Don't hurt me!" There was a figure crouched in the bushes.

"Who are you?" I glared. "What do you want? Where did you come from?"

"AAAAAGH!!! PUT THE KNIFE DOWN!!!" The kid yelled. "Its just Carol, geez!"

"Oh. Ok," I withdrew my tail blade.

"OH MY GOD!!! Tari, what happened?" Carol gasped.

"Um. I'll explain later."

"Okay!" She giggled and skipped into the pokemon center.

) Mean while.(

"Well? Did the experiment work?" A deep voice questioned its victims, two scientists.

"Er. Yeah, well, not really." The scientists answered nervously.

"What do you mean by that?" The voice boomed.

"Er, boss, the experiment escaped."

"WHAT?!" His Persian jumped off his lap in shock. "You worthless fools! Never doing anything right!!!"

"No, she wouldn't have escaped if he hadn't come."

"Who is he?" The boss boomed.

"Erm, this boy. He came in and caused mass chaos, then took her out."

"THEN GET HER BACK!!!" The boss roared. The scientists scrambled away.

) Tari's POV (

"And that's what happened?" Carol asked. Her Natu sat in the bowl of pokemon food, pecking here and there.

"Yeah." I muttered.

"Oh, you poor thing." Carol put her hand on my arm.

"I'm not a poor thing," I pulled away roughly. There was a long, awkward silence. Then.

"I've got to get going. Bye!" Carol scooped her Natu out of the bowl and walked out the door.

"'K, bye." I turned to Nurse Joy. "Can I get a room here?"

"Sure Tari, here's the key."

"'K." I took the key and marched to my room. Rai and Jolty immediately started fighting for the top bunk. Charcoal picked the other top bunk while the other girls were arguing. Daggers curled up in one of the lower bunks. Looking around sleepily, I noticed that this room was missing something. What was missing, I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I shrugged and crawled into bed. "'Night."

"Goodnight Tari!"

"Goodnight Tari!"

"'Night."

""

Jolty and Rai burst into a fit of giggles.

"Shhh!!! Some of us are trying to get sleep, you know!" Charcoal whispered fiercely.

MWAHAHHAHAHHAA!!! SOMETHING BAD'S GONNA HAPPEN SOON!!!!!!!!