It's another chapter here! This one is going to have some more first person, because I love doing it ;;

Disclaimer: I don't own pokémon, but I own my chars

The Povs for this chapter will be: Leo, third person, Sam and then third person.

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I slowly woke up feeling some light on my face. I blinked and then yawned; I looked over to see that PowerHorn was still asleep.

I slowly got up and exited my tent; I looked over at the horizon and then turned my gaze to see Lauren.

Wow, she really got banged up. I thought as I walked up to her and bent down.

There were a good few slashes and bruises on her body and face, all looked as if they were made by pokémon. 

My eyes landed on Lauren's Eevee partner, and I winced at seeing his scars and cuts.

There were two good slashes over his right eye, they were pretty deep and looked like they'd stay with him for the rest of his life.

Dammnit Lauren, you are your pride. I thought going back to a log by the fire that had been put out sense yesterday.

Now, most wonder why I call her Lauren, when she says and wishes to be called Oliver, well the truth is, Lauren is her real name.  Who do I know this? Well, I went threw some of her personal files...

My thoughts began to wonder from things, and I looked over to see that Lauren's partner was awake.

I grinned, back at Pokémon School, the only pokémon tongue I learn was Eevee, so it and a few words from PowerHorn are the only pokémon I understood.  

"So, what happened to you?" I asked in a low voice.

Lauren's partner pokémon blinked but responded.

"Eevee? Eve Eevee?" He asked yawning and sitting up.

(Translation: What? Why are you talking to me?)

I grinned it thought I couldn't understand it, I'd show him.

"Because, you're the only thing awake," I answered simply. The Eevee blinked and gave me a strange look, but decided to tell me.

"Eevee Eve Vee-Vee, Eevee, Vee-Evvee Eevee" he said, yawning, but still giving me that strange look.

(Translation: Mistress and me were training, She was attacked two times, the second time I felt that she needed help)

Why does he always call her mistress?

(A/N: Time for third person)

After Sam and Windy had woken up, the 'gang' were on there way threw the forest again.

Windy and Sam had battled most of the bug trainers, and now both Ghost and Flame were at level...9. Which wasn't much, but they didn't know that.

But they couldn't care, they, and the pokémon where all to busying paying attention to Leo annoying Oliver.

Leo was walking right beside her, With Aipom, known as "thief" on his shoulder.

"Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai!" He kept repeating over and over again.

(Translation: Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!) While Leo was 'mixing it up' a bit.

"Hey, guess what?" Leo said to Oliver.

"What" Oliver used her cold tone.

"Pop, spelled backwards, is pop" Leo finished.

"Good for you" was Oliver's reply.

"Hey, guess what?" Leo started again.

"What" Oliver said, still coldly, but with a sigh.

"Bob, spelled backwards, is Bob" Leo finished.

"Good for you" Oliver replied.

"Hey, guess what?"

"What?"

"Level, spelled backwards, is Level"

"Good for you"

"Hey, guess what?"

"What?!"

"Dad, spelled backwards is, Dad"

"Good for you!"

"Hey, Guess what?"

"WHAT?!?!"

"Mom, spelled backwards, is mom"

"GOOD.FOR.YOU!"

"Hey, guess what?"

"WELL YOU SHUT UP?!?!" Oliver screamed at Leo, who pretended to back off.

"Hey?" Said person asked.

"WHAT do you want?"

"Eevee, spelled backwards, is EEVEE!" Just when Oliver was about to knock him out he jumped back.

 Hahahahaha Your score maybe 4 Lauren, but I'm catching up. Lauren: 4 Leo: 1 Leo thought grinning like a moron.

(A/N: End third person, start Sam's Pov)

I think- wait know today was the funniest days so far, the way one person could piss someone off was just hilarious, how did he do it?

Flame is walking beside me; he's a good pokémon. I'm just really clueless to when to evolve him, maybe when he learns flamethrower?

But then, I looked down at Flame to see him look back up at me, and I realized that it wouldn't be fair to evolve him till we have a better bond.

We were walking for sometime, and that's when I saw it...

A shrine,

Not just any shrine, that shrine

"Errr.... Guys?" I said weakly.

(A/N: Time for normal Pov)

"Errr.... Guys?" Sam asked weakly.

Everyone stopped and looked at Sam.

Sam pointed her finger at the shrine.

And everybody gasped...Everybody but Oliver.

"Let's go" Oliver said as her and Slashwheel walked off.

Leo nodded and turned to everyone ease.

"We should take it! Those were just rumors!" With this, Leo took off after Oliver. Sam and Windy looked at each other, and nodded, and took off after Oliver and Leo.

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The Gold Mask Shrine

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It was beautiful, flowers everywhere, and trees blooming. Pokémon of all sorts running around. The gang walked in.

Windy had found himself at the front closely followed by Sam. Leo, and then the pokémon, minus Slashwheel who now always walked with Oliver, she and him were farther back.

They enter the shrine; there the elder greeted them.

"Hello, You are here to take the test...Yes?"

"Yes"

"Yes sir"

"Yes"

"Duh"

The elder glared at Oliver, but then went back to talking.

"Here is were you are tested, you and your pokémon partners will take on tests. Winning gets you're a pokémon, that's even stronger and cooler then a shiny" The elder finished.

Oliver, who had her eyes closed and had been leaning on the wall, ears twitched. Still keeping her eyes closed, she asked.

"How so, old man?"

"Hmmph, you'll be taking a special test...So will all of you, each test is only for you" When the elder said this, 3 men walked forward out of the shadows.

The elder turned to his apprentices.

"You know what to do, the one known as Oliver, wait here with me." The elder said, still turned to his apprentices.

 First, one dressed in all black walked forward to Leo.

"Come with me" Leo nodded and left to his left (A/N: No pun intended).

One in white and green walked forward, and bowed to Sam.

"Come with me" Sam bowed and walked to the right of were Leo was taken.

And dressed in all blue, the last apprentice walked up to Windy, he bowed, and without saying anything they went to the left of were Leo had goon.

Oliver's eyes had remanded closed the whole time.

The elder turned to Oliver.

"Now, your be battling me, is that understood?" The elder asked, picking out two pokéballs.

"Duh, old man!"  Responded Oliver. 

"This will be like no battle you've done before," Said the elder smirking

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Sam's Battle

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Sam was lead down a large hallway by the white and green robed apprentice, it took forever, but they got to a battlefield.

Sam walked to the first end, and the apprentice walked to the other. Flame walked to Sam's side and started to growl, not liking were this way going.

"Growl growl?"  He asked, looking upward at his trainer.

(Translation: You ok?)

Of course, Sam still didn't understand him.

"Surre..." She said, as her hands twitched. She was really nervous; she didn't know what was going to happen.

The apprentice bowed respectfully.

"My name is Ashtar, I've been training here for years, and I'm here to battle you. Each of your friends got a different test, yours is going to be one of the hardest to you, but to your friends, it may be easy, each test is to test the person, not everyone" Ashtar said, grabbing onto two pokéballs.

"If I win, I get a pokémon?" Sam asked.

Ashtar nodded.

"It's the prefect pokémon for its trainer." He answered, and then said something ease.

"You will battle a double battle! Go! Scyther! Go! Heracross!" Ordered Ashtar.

The two-bug pokémon landed, Sam just realized that they would have had to grow up together, most of the time, these guys fought.

"Ok! Go! Flame! Go! Zigzag!" Order Sam.

Flame jumped in front, and Zigzag, the Rattata was released for his pokéball and landed out in front.

"Flame! Ember! Zigzag tackle Scyther!"  The rat pokémon lunged forward, Scyther sidestepped...Right into the fury of the little flame attack known as Ember.

"Scy-Scyther!" The mantis pokémon snarled out, as he lunged at Flame and slashed him.

Flame landed on the ground, and Scyther used quick attack, disappearing and reappearing closing to Flame and went to slash him, but Zigzag came out of no where and head butted him on the back, changing his direction some. No one seemed to notice how Heracross stayed motionless. 

"Heracross! Now! Show 'em the shrines special move!"

(A/N Mawhahahahaha, Should I end here? I'll 'bout this)

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Windy's battle

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The apprentice showed Windy a maze of rooms and hallways, Intel he and the Apprentice entered an indoor battle area. As Sam before him, in a different area, he walked to his side and so did the Apprentice.

"They call me Waterway, I'm going to battle you. I'm the best trainer of those who do this test; we can only use pokémon that fly, one on one! Go! Spearow!" The Apprentice said, after bowing.

A Spearow appeared, clearly well trained because it didn't say anything (1)

"Very well, go! Dodge!" Windy realized the tiny bird pokémon.

"Dodge! Give it a tackle-peck combo!"  Dodge the Pidgey lunged at Spearow, smashing into him, he flew back and then Dodge started pecking at him.

"Spearow! Special combo 9!" Order Waterway, with a smirk on his face.

Everything seemed to go in slow motion. When Dodge pulled back to do another peck attack, Spearow pulled up and used his feet to grab the back of Dodge's neck. He then pushed it into the dirt.

"Dodge? DODGE! You ok bud?"  Dodge pulled out of the ground, and ruffled his feathers, obviously, he didn't like that.

"Ok! Spearow! Show 'em your Double Team!" about five more Spearows appeared, Dodge, had never seen this attack before, and started attacking random ones.

"Ok! Attack the one to the left!" Dodge turned around and pecked at it, but it just turned into 2 more.

No one seemed to notice that the real Spearow had snuck up behide Windy.

"Now! Show them the shrines special move!"

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Leo's battle

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Leo was lead down many corridors, many of them were just brown, but some looked like all the colors of the rainbow.  Thief was having a good time looking at these, but PowerHorn just snorted as he walked.

The apprentice dressed in all black lead him to an indoor ring area. Leo walked to one side, as did the apprentice.

"My name is Dart, I've been here my whole life, my job is to help the Elder take care of the Psycho pokémon that have been morphed, but I also guard the Jotho pokémon, Were are going to battle one on one" Dart said after he bowed.

"What do you mean 'Psycho' pokémon?  And guard?" Leo asked.

"Simple, Each apprentice, guards a type of pokémon, and if beaten, they most let the trainer get one of those pokémon, and the Elder guards the pokémon that have had horrible pasts.  And are part of the darkness, we don't care how the pokémon is, only that it can become it's best."

Even-no Leo thought this was horriblely disgusting, he didn't take heed to this, if this is what someone believed, then that was what that person believed.

"Anyway! Go! Sandshrew!" A mole like pokémon dug threw the ground, and appeared from the earth.

"Go! Thief!" Aipom jumped off Leo's shoulder.

"Thief! Scratch attack!"  Thief lunged at the Sandshrew, and mauled it up. Sandshrew jumped into the air Thief looked up, but it was to late, Sandshrew landed on top of him and held him down to the ground.

"Finish this! Special shrine attack!" Energy charged around Sandshrew's body, but when he was about to unleash it, Thief Slapped him on his check with his tail-hand, making his aim mess up and hit the wall.

"Thief! Fury attack!" Thief slapped the Sandshrew off of him, and then went into a fury of slaps. 

"Return!" Dart said, after that he whispered some strange words to the pokéball.

Leo walked up to his pokémon, and it jumped on his shoulder again.

"What? What was that attack?" Leo asked Dart as he stood up.

"The Shrine's attack, only pokémon from here can use it, and they most be one with the pokémon, and sense you beat me, I'll take you to the pokémon I guard. " Dart said, turning around and walking away, Leo followed.

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End of: Sam's battle

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"Heracross! Now! Show 'em the shrines special move!" Ashtar yelled.

Heracross's body charged with energy, but mostly his horn.  Scyther smirked, but didn't see that both Flame and Zigzag were in front of him.

Heracross fried a ray of light at the two pokémon, just as it was about to hit, Flame and Zigzag looked at each other and smirked, when it was about three inches away, they both jumped straight up, the blast smashed right into Scyther knocking him out. While this was going on Flame had snuck up behide Heracross.

"Flame Ember it!"

Heracross didn't see it coming, and it's back was burned as it fell to the ground...Defeated...

"Heracross return! Return! Scyther...I was...Defeated, you did very well, no one has defeated me before, now come with me" Ashtar said, bowing, Sam returned Zigzag and walked off after him.

"What was that move?"

"I will tell you, when we get there"

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End of: Windy's battle

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"Now! Show them the shrines special move!" Waterway cried.

Spearow's body started to pluses with energy, he opened his beak and a wave of energy blasted straight at Dodge.

Windy knew just what to do.

"Quick Attack!" Windy ordered at the last minute.

Dodge disappeared at the right time, he reappeared behide Spearow, and nailed it in the back.

Spearow fell to the ground, and scream in pain. Waterway returned him, both him and Waterway nodded, and walked off to were the Pokémon were kept.

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Sorry, I'm ending here. I'll upload more soon.

(1) From what I've seen, Spearows I REALLY loud.