Hiya! Again! It took me a wile to write this because I usually write long battle scenes. Anyway here's the next installment of Juniper's Tale, "A mysterious trainer…"

Chapter 2

"A Mysterious Trainer"

June and the boy looked intently at each other. Their pokemon did the same. "Yo! Stop starring and start the fight already!" Yelled Xenos.

"Andrew why are waiting? We have to fight. I'm a pokemon it's what we do!" Said Audry. The boy trainer, Andrew looked like he understood. "I'll strike first then! Razor Wind!" Audry said. A fierce wind began to blow.

"Xenos, uhhh use Volt Tackle!" Ordered June.

"What kind of an incompetent trainer did I wind up with! I don't have a clue how to use that move, do I look like a pikachu to you!" Said Xenos. He rested his head against his paw for a few secands.

"Ahem!" Said June, wail she glared at him. "Swords Dance!"

"Finally. Swords Dance!" Xenos turned in a circle and began to glow with red light. The wind got faster and only blew at Xenos. Energy discs appeared in the wind and sped at him.

"Agility!" Said Xenos. He jumped up and began to hop from one energy disc to another. He was right in front of Audry. She looked at him slyly; just as the energy discs spun around and came back at Xenos.

June was finally remembering what types of attacks normal types like Xenos had. "Hummm… Was it furry cutter of furry swipes that was normal type?..." Mumbled June. "Xenos, use agility!"

"Agility!" called Xenos. Nothing happened. He was so busy running that he forgot what attacks he knew.

"Uhhhhh…" June struggled to think of what attacks a zangoose knew. "Try furry cutter! No uh-furry swipes! Ummm…"

"Why did I have to get paired with this idiot? Why!" Xenos cried in anguish as another energy disc missed him and slammed into a giant mud puddle. "Gahhh! My fur! My eyes! I can't see! This is all your fault June you idiot!" Xenos began to run in circles franticly trying to get the mud out of his eyes.

"This isn't going anywhere. Xenos, return!" June held out Xenos's pokeball. A red beam shot out of it but it didn't hit Xenos.

"I'm not going back into that thing, human! Furry Swipes!" Xenos managed to remember his attacks and lunged at Audry.

She was barely standing from facture from an unknown source. "Flamethrower." She called. She blew at huge column of fire at Xenos. His claws began to glow with energy. He began to almost blindly swing at the fire and it began to disperse.

"Crush Claw!" Xenos called as he stood in front of a stunned looking Audry. Xenos's claws began to glow with an even more powerful energy and seemed to get longer. Audry took the attack directly as a critical hit. She fell to the ground.

"Audry!" Called Andrew. "Well it was foolish of me to fight anyway."

"That was a good battle! It's never foolish to accept a challenge, Andrew." June replied.

"I'm a pokemon coordinator, Audry is wicked strong in a contest but she can't fight. Thanks anyway… Wait… I never told you my name!" Andrew looked at me in shock. "I should have known it seemed like you snuck up on me. You're number two of team Lugia, well Xenos anyway." He sighed and winked at Xenos as a gust of wind blew again and mist appeared around Andrew. When it faded Andrew had disappeared. Audry opened on eye lazily.

"Audry get over here you're ruining the mood!" Andrew called in perfectly flawless pokespeak. He was on the swage plant roof witch was disguised as a ledge. Only now he didn't have his bandana. Also he had a giant horn that was previously hidden by the bandana. He also had pointed ears and clawed hands.

"I just fainted and that's all you can say!" Audry barked. She ate a healing berry that had been hidden in her fur. She jumped up to Andrew on the sewage plant roof that was poorly disused as a ledge.

"It smells up here…" Andrew swayed and clasped from the smell.

"Oy. Well see ya two!" Audry grabbed Andrew by his horn and threw down a smoke bomb that had also been mysteriously hidden in her fur.

When the smoke cleared the two were gone, for real. June was left starring at where Andrew and Audry had been with a poetic and mystified expression as the sun set on the horizon.

"That was so strange…" June said with a somewhat dreamy look in her eyes. "Word. I really need a bath." Xenos said.

"You sure know how to ruin a mood."

"Yup."

June sighed as a white rose with a note tied to it flew threw the air and landed in front of her. It was strange that it was standing up in the ground though it had obviously been thrown from an angle. June walked up to it and picked it up.

"What's that?" asked Xenos.

"It has a note attached," June picked off the note and read it aloud. "Dear soon to become a pokemorph, we are a small and unimportant organization called Team Lugia. We are a group of pokemorphs dedicated to helping our kind since no one else will. Anyway, your pokemon is the second of a group of experiments known as project Gale. All of Team Lugia is the effect of the project, to get a super pokemorph. Anyway none of us were a success. If you want to join go to the top of Battle Mountain at dawn the day after tomorrow. By the way I didn't say to beat your way there. Sincerely, 5. PS if you want more detail, ask Xenos, if he hasn't told you already." June inhaled deeply. "My lungs… Owwww! I'm not used to talking that long."

"Then stop talking and start walking. We need to set up a camp now if we want to wake up nice and early so we can make it to Battle Mountain in the next week." Said Xenos.

"You're way off. If we wake up at 6 am we can get there by noon to 1 pm depending on wind patterns."

"How do you figure that? You have the common sense of a rhyhorn, and they run into things for no reason! I don't trust your intelligence any more than your common sense is what I'm saying."

"Since there's twenty miles and Skeeter's wings are…" June went on in mathish for a wile. "So its practically first grade math to be able to that. Xenos? Hey are you even awake?" June asked.

Xenos was sound asleep on the ground. June managed to get him into his ball and went to get some supplies and a tent. What does he know about Team Lugia? Just what is Andrew? Juniper puzzled over these questions for the rest of the night.

She managed to set up a tent and lay out her and Xeno's sleeping bags. There was a sudden blast of light as a fully awake Xenos burst out of his poke ball.

"Man! I hate those things!" he yelled. "Hey where am I?" he mumbled.

"In a tent in the outskirts of Agate Village. Oh I gotcha a sleeping bag. The store had a 50 off sale on pikachu sized ones and your so tiny I figured it would work for ya." June said. Xenos looked to the side, insulted. He was sensitive about being so small for his kind, pokemon and zangoose in general.

June decided not to batter him about Team Lugia. She could tell he had fallen asleep earlier for more reasons than just boredom. The battle had taken a toll on him even if he hid it very well. He was out like a light in seconds. June figured it was just an act of being awake and soon fell asleep herself.

So? What do ya think? Please review.

P.S. in this I plan to have all the chapters with battles in them somewhat comical and everything else as serious as the first one. Skeeter will appear next chapter along with an explanation for Andrew the pokemorph. June really is quite smart but it will show later on in the story.

Thanks for the reviews every one of you that did so far!

-Inu