"Come, Dom! You're holding me up! Come ON!"

Dominic had had his final straw. They were at the docks on Dewford Island, and Rilee had forced Dom to carry her things off the boat. All Dom could think while he carried her bag was that Rilee was getting bitchier by the minute.

"There we go. What a good boy!" she said as he dropped the bags at her feet. They were on land, and Dom had never been so glad to be able to run away.

"Rilee, I'm not a dog.."

"Whatever. Okay let's go to the gym quick so we can get out of here.."

"What? You don't want to stay a couple of days..?" Dom frowned. He wanted to stay a little.. see the sights..

"Excuse me? We're getting these badges fast and furious! Now come ON!" She snapped her fingers and Dom picked up her bags again. He walked after her, mumbling something that no one wanted to hear.

He waited back awhile, just to annoy her, but she turned around quickly.

"Dom! Where ARE you? Oh.. there you are.."

* * * * * * * * * *

"Madison! Where are you? Oh.. there you are.." said Logan. The Team Aqua clan had taken their submarine back out into the ocean after retrieving their moonstone from Rusturf and now were heading off the Shoal Cave.

"Why are you so desperate to find me?" asked Madison. She was in the back of the sub looking through a small porthole.

"Just.. because.. I.. I wanted to make sure you were still here.." Logan looked around nervously.

"Oh come on. Where would I go? You are such a loser." Madison said flipping back her hair.

"Widdle Wogan has a cwush!" shouted Nelson, steering the sub away from a huge wailord.

"Bastard," said Logan. He stood up and was going to walk away but soon realized there was nowhere he could go. "I do not.."

"Would you all just shut the hell up?" screamed Bianca from the small cot installed on the left side of the submarine. She had just been woken up from what she called a "nap".. which in other words was a hibernation.

Madison started ripping her hair out as she sat down on the hard, cold floor. She opened up a small blue book with a skull engraved on the leather cover. She pulled out a pencil from her backpack and began to write.

"Dear Diary..

"I must say, I hate my comrads. They are some of the most immature and lazy pieces of shit I've ever met. But aside from that, this little 'quest' is going okay. We have two stones left to get and then I'll be free from the wrath of these three. Shoal Cave.. it's far off the mainland and I'm not sure we'll find a stone easily there. The tides change every thing in that cave, depending on the time of day. Ah.. well I think we're relatively close, so.. catchya on the flip side.

"Signed..

"Big M"

* * * * * * * * * *

"Signed..

"Jessie Harris"

Jessie slammed his journal shut and looked up. He and Bresin were sitting on the back of a lapras sailing from the GLA to Slateport City, where they planned on staying until their venture to the Typhoon Islands. Bresin sat ontop of the huge lapras' head gazing out at the sea around her.

A lot of people had said that the only reason Bresin had gone to the gym leader tryouts was to see Jessie, but he didn't believe it. They had met at a previous leader tryout, in which they had both been eliminated. Now they were good friends, but that was all.

"Jessie.. what do you think it will be like?" she turned to him. Her green hair flew behind her in the wind. Wearing a cream colored blouse and blue skirt, Jessie thought it was obvious she was trying to conceal her weight. By no means was she large.. she was actually kind of tiny. Jessie knew she was weight concious.. she thought her thighs were fat, things like that. This was one thing about Bresin that Jessie didn't like, but he couldn't convince her that she wasn't fat..

"Huh?"

"Being a gym leader.. what do you think it'll be like?"

"Oh.. it will sure be different," said Jessie. He started twisting his curly brown hair around. "But I bet we'll be great. I mean, who doesn't want to be a gym leader? It's so cool!"

"You're right.. it will be awesome."

"Yup.. now all we need to do is get to Slateport.."

* * * * * * * * * *

"Yup.. now all we need to do is get to Slateport.." said Rilee. She had just emerged from the Dewford Gym with a shiny badge in her hand. Dominic was amazed at how fast Rilee had done it.

"Rilee.. you just walked in.. I.."

"Ha! My pokemon are just ultra powerful, I guess. Plus, that Brawly is a pushover. Can you say weak?" she put on her glasses, making Dom flinch.

"But Rilee, I still have to get my badge.."

"Dominic, Dominic, Dominic. Speed things up! I need to get to Slateport so I can take the Cycling Road back up to Mauville City. From there I get the badge, head on up to Mount Chimney.. go to Petalburg.."

Dominic once again drowned her out and walked away. He was staying as long as he liked and he didn't care what Rilee said..

"Dominic! Get back here! Get the badge! UGH!"

Dom walked into the pokecenter and talked to the nurse at the front desk.

"I neeed a room.. fast," he said, slipping her his trainer liscense. She smiled and gave him a key card and pointed down the hall.

"Room 155.." she said, "Oh! And you have a message on your TV phone. It'll be in your room.. thank you, Mr. Jenkins!"

Dominic walked away wondering who could have sent him something..

He had locked the door to the small room just as he heard the pokecenter doors open and Rilee scream, "WHERE ARE YOU?!?"

* * * * * * * * * *

Dominic sat down on his bed and pulled the TV phone onto his lap. He turned it on and it began flashing - indicating a message. He hit enter and a voice rang out over the room.

"DOMINIC JENKINS, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!"

Dominic stared at the screen and realized that the person talking was his own mother..

"You think you can just walk out of this house and go on some crazy journey? I hope you know that I don't appriciate this one bit. Not one bit! I can't believe.. I.. ugh! I hope you know, Dominic, that when you come home you will be grounded for the REST OF YOUR LIFE!" Her face looked about to blow up. The light of the screen flickered and soon died out.

Dominic sat back on the bed, laughing. If only she knew.. he didn't plan on coming home..

Oh, and he was going to stay on Dewford until Rilee left.