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Ruby's POV

-So ladies and gentelman, let the fun BEGIN!

And with that the audience yelled in excitement. After everyone calmed down a bit the judges made the four of us stand up in our spot, after putting the targets of the attacks in their place. They told us good luck and then they made Martin step forward to finally begin with the Tough section. Being the first Martin seemed a bit nervous but he then exhaled quickly before sending us a challenging glare. Then everything started.

-Okay Rocky, begin with Bind!- and with that the pokemon encircled the target in a very good movement. The judges watched him with quite a good look in their faces.

-Now Hita use Arm thrust!- yelled Emma and with that the pokemon slamed her hands in the target surprising everyone in the process, even Onix who stepped back loosing some points.

-Okay, time to start increasing our punctuation, Chop use your powerful Dynamic Punch- said John and with that the pokemon started running towards the target and hit a powerful punch in, what would be its face. With that the target split breaked and the pokemon who acted before jumped in surprise, Zuzu stood in place as calm as ever watching to the side.

-Okay Zuzu, it's our time to show them what you can do, use Bide!- I said to him only to see him glowing red before jumping just above the target and then slaming his paws in the target's head. The target was torn into shreds.

With that the first round ended and the results were showed on the screen. I was in the lead being followed closely by John. Emma was behind with a low punctuation and Martin was the last one because of the nervousness of his pokemon.

The second round started with my act (the order of the contestants is the one that the punctuations show). Zuzu did a great Mud Shot not failing one of his five little shots, John's Chop was good with his Seissmic Toss, but after that both Emma and her Hita and Martin with Rocky overpowered his act with a full powered Tackle by Hita and a Rock Slide. The three of them were pretty close as I was on top a bit further from before.

The third round just went perfect for me. Being the first I drove all the attention to me by making a combo by using Mud-slap with my prior Mud Shot usint the already put Mud in the target to make the attack more impressive and powerful, the audience was quite excited about that. This also made some od the next pokemon to feel more pressured and they didn't do to well in their performances. Rocky's Harden was the best of them all by protecting itself from furthter problems and made a good impression. Emma's Hita didn't do to well with her Endure, but that prevented the judges from noticing the accuracy of the Chop's Karate Chop. With that I was even further from them. The next one was Martin and behind him Emma and John were more or less tied.

The fourth round didn't go as well as the previous one, even though I didn't loose much. My act was dicreet since I used Protect to prevent my points from falling and saving my best shot for the final round. Martin's Rocky did a good job with Rock Throw. As expected both Emma and John tried to rise their points and to low the other's. That protect became very useful when Hita did her Arm thrust again and Chop punched the target with an even more powerful Dynamic Punch. They both gained a lot of points but they didn't cut the punctuation of the one who where in front of them. I was still in the first place and, even tough not as fara as I wass before this round I had still a point cushion. Martin finally left the other two behind while they were as tied as before. As I said I was still far ahead of them, but the final round would decide it all. Then the final round started.

-Well Zuzu, time to end this contest! Use a Take Down to that target!- I said ending my act in the Tough section. Zuzu did as I said and by making use of his strong arms and legs jumped towards the target and then he slamed into it breaking it in multiple and shining particles. The crowd clapped excited as he bowed along with me finishing our act.

-Okay time to finish this to... Rocky use Rock Tomb- and with that using the rocks already around the target the Onix made the Tomb earning himslef a combo by doing that. He then bowed along with his pokemon.

-The final one Chop, use Scary face to all the pokemon here- with a horrible face the pokemon tried not to flinch. Zuzu was able to stay put and Rocky only shivered a bit. The fact was that Hita stepped backwards and she lost a lot of points there

-Hita, we have to finish... use Vital Throw- being the last one the pokemonhad time to collect all his left power and send the target to the air and then slaming it back to the floor. The crowd clapped again for her.

-And that's all!-the speaker said- Please send the 4 finallist's their well earned applauses!

With that the crowd cheered and applauded at the four of us. Without hearing the results I knew that I was the winner. The demonstration part went perfect for me, and my pokemon was the one who shined the most in aspect, only the Makuhita could compete with that. The major judge then grabbed the microphone and began to talk

-Well, as the major judge I have to say that it's not always that anyone can see such a great show with the Tough sector. All the pokemon were powerful and they all gived their best!- He paused for a moment- But one coordinator and his or her pokemon were better than the others in this one...- and then he passed the microphone to the speaker as well as a piece of paper.

-Well, so after the judgements the winner of the Normal-rank Tough Ribbon is... our first time contestant Rub!

With that everyone shouted excitedly, I walked to the major judge who gave me the Ribbon to put it on my Mud-fish pokemon.

(2 hours and a half later)

I was in the final contest of the day, the Cool contest of the Normal-rank. The contests of the Cute, Beauty and Smart section went pretty well for me, I mean, I won them all.

In the Cute one I had little problem in winning. The other coordinators where Emma as before with her Skitty, Melanie with her shiny Flaaffy and Kelly and her Kadabra. They were all quite good, except Melanie who thought that by having a shiny pokemon everyone would fall for her pokemon and punctuate it better. She was so convinced that she made a lot of fails and she was in the last position. Kelly, on the other hand, did know how to make use of the psychic's pokemon abilities to both have some good acts and to put under pressure to the rest of the pokemon. The Flaaffy was scared by her actions and Skitty even couldn't do her routine once. The Skitty also got some good combos and quite good movements but the fact that Kadrabra made her loose a turn made her loose any chance of victory. Coco was just perfect. Every combo we trained went perfectly and the fact that she was able to resist calm even when Kadabra used Mean look made it even better. The final round was the one that everyone was better though. Being alternated the tourns by Kadabra using Confuse Ray made me be the last one to perform. The skitty used Assist becoming an impressive Razor leaf. The Fluffly used a quite well done Thundershock and finally Kadabra used Destiny Bond. Coco used his very good voice to perform a Sing to finalize my act.

The Smart one was more troubleing than the others. Popo did a great job while changing the weather in the escenario with Rain Dance and Sunny Day and then using Powder Snow or in the most cases his perfectly performed attack, Weather ball. The other coordinators were all new this time. Mike and his Spoink, who didn't became very affected by the weather changes by using only psichic and normal moves such as Calm Mind, Psychic and Hidden Power. The next one was Mary and her Meowth, who with his Payday attracted the attention of some of the public. The problem was that was the only dammaging move this pokemon knew of this section and with that she tried to neutralise our performances by trying to scare our pokemon using Screech or Taunt. The last one in this contest was an old man called David and his pokemon Magnemite. He was the best of them all with good moves as Screech, Metallic Sound to low our points, in one turn Popo was a bit startled by him, and then Flash Canon. The only mistake he made was that he tried to use Thunderbolt when my Popo just had chenged the weather with Sunny day in the fourth turn and it became much less effective. You can say that Popo's beautiful combos and the strategy allowed me to win.

The Beauty contest was the easiest of the day. Sure the coordinators did a good job as well as their pokemon, but Mimi was absolutely perfect. The Milotic attracted the eyes of everyone in the contest hall since the very beggining, her graceful movements were something to be seen, and the attacks she used were simply fabulous. Our opponents were Martin with his Rapidash, Eva with a beautiful Luvdisc and finally Mary with her Swablu. Martin's Rapidash was very graceful with quick and elegants movements but the special effects he wanted to creat with the fire-type attacks weren't accurate. I believe that the Rapidash had just evolved and he couldn't control his power fully enough. Luvdisc was an interesting pokemon, its Water pulse was very acccurate and beautiful, but the fact that this was the only non defensive attack he had was its problem... Eva never lost a point due to the effect of Safeguard or Aqua Ring, but she also didn't impress the public with his performance. Swablu was the best opponent we had. Her attacks Mist and Safeguard prevented her from loosing points, and with a very well trained Dragonbreath he striked good at the target. Her Perish Song in the last round made her win a lot of points. The only "but" in his show was that she wass uncappable to use any combo and that effected her punctuation. Mimi, as said, was perfect. She managed very well with the combos we practized, such as hitting and getting wet the target with Water pulse to then used the water still in the target to create a beautiful ice statue with Blizzard in the final round, or the Safeguard she used to shine far above the pther pokemon in the 2nd one.

Then I was in the final for the Cool ribbon. And that was the most difficult one... we all were almost tied up in the qualification. I was the third one behind two new coordinators who already had the Super- rank ribbon in this section, for what I heard in the changing rooms before the show. This was the best contest of the day and everyone was very excited. Having just ended the 2nd round Max was first with his Manectric, Strike. Arya was next with her Zangoose, Ghost. I was thrid with Nana, my Myghtiena, and finally was John with his Electrode. I knew that they were great and with 3 rounds they had still a lot to show. The two in front of me were rivals, they knew each other from previous contests and tought that neither me or John would be any threat for them. Still they wanted to win their rival and they would give the best they had.

Then the third round started. Max and Manectric concluded their Spark after Charge combo which was very successful, the crowd went all excited. After that I assume that Arya would want to get a good punctuation and scare her rival's pokemon by using Crush Claw. He cut the target in two and the said Manectric jumped backwards. Nana ans the Electrode weren't affected by that. Using this chance to lower their points a bit more I made Nana use Roar, and witht that the two previous pokemon were a little more startled loosing more points. John didn't miss the chance and with a good Spark he executed his combo because of his prior Charge. After that round I was the fourth while John was third and the others were in the same position. Even though the fact that I was the last, we were almost tied in punctuation and I still had the chance to win. I was calm because being the last one to act in this round would work in my favour after all, everything would be more unnexpected and marvellous.

The fourth round started, and as I predicted everyone was preparing his grand final attack in the 5th round. Max made Strike use Charge another time but I believe that hes was not going to use Spark next... The judges were watching closely to every movement because of the thin difference in the point of every contestan. Arya then followed with Swords Dance, obviously preparing the physical attack for the next round. John followed them by making his Electrode use Sonic Bomb, a good one but obviously saving energy for his next attack. Then it was my turn.

-Well Nana, time for us to change this! Use Hyperbeam!

With that happened two things: On the one hand Nana threw a very strong beam to the crystal lamp in the ceiling and with that the beam was reflected and focused to a simple point in the target by the tiny crystals making it explode. On the other one, the contest hall became quiet instantly, only one person clapped.

Sapphire's POV (4.55 p.m.)

I was going to the town, more exactly I was going to the Contest's Hall. Every single person in the world who know me enough would be surprised to see me there, so what I was doing there? Well I was going to see Rub's performances and more especifically his Pokemon and skills. As I can't have a fight with him, or STILL can't if I am lucky these next days, this was the only way I could see his pokemon in action. So yeah, I was entering the Contes's hall in my blue outfit, my every-without-school-day outfit, and a cap to prevent someone to recognize me.

When I arrived there I paid for the ticket and then took my seat. I knew absolutely nothing about Contests so I paid attention to my surroundings to at least learn some rules and things before it started. The schedule said that there would be some preliminary rounds and that only the four bests of every category would be in the stage to fight for the prize. I could hear that there are 5 categories: Cool, Smart, Beauty, Tough and Cute; and that the pokemon's attacks were divided in one of this 5 sections. I heard something about combos and intimidating their rivals, but I couldn't figure out nothing more. Then three people sat right next to me, one girl in the middle in both sides of her a boy around her age. For the appearances they looked to be around eleven years old. One of them, the one who sat next to me brought a large amount of snacks and that reminded me that it was time to eat something. After getting a large bowl of popcorn I went to my seat.

When I just sat down the speaker started talking. She started to explain the order of the different categories, presented all the judges and then explained the qualification rounds punctuation. I hoped that Rub would have passed as many of them as possible, not only because of that would give me the opportunity to see more of his pokemon, he had been very nice to me the last week and he had talked with me when I most needed it. As a friend of his I should cheer for him. Then the speaker said that he had entered the final in the Tough section I felt quite relieved, then I started to analyse him and his Pokemon, Zuzu for this contest. When I saw the coordinators I noticed that Rub's bruise on his right cheek had dissapeared. This calmed me a little because I had heard that the coordinator's aspect was very important in contests as well as pokemon's.

-Those 3 are the same ones that lost this same ribbon two weeks ago, aren't them?- asked the blonde boy to his friends right next to me.

-Yeah they are- said the girl- I don't know the last one though.

-Nope, I have never seen him before- said the other boy while eating a bag of crisps.

As the final ended I could only be happy for him, he had won after all and with quite a lot of difference. Even though that I knew nothing about his performanceand the asis of the qualification I could hear that he was the worthy winner of this final. Analising his pokemon I couldn't dicover much, only that he was quite strong and that he had been weel-trained for contests, contests and battles are not alike at all so I couldn't get any conclusion. Hearing the girl talking with the boys next to me talking about his performance only reassured that he was worthy of his win.

-Well, that was a quite a good strategy he used- she said.

-Why do you say that?- said the boy with the sancks next to me.

-Well, he managed well the advantage he had from his following competitors- she said- he deffended himself before striking his final blow, quite a good one I must add.

-Yeah he did- said the blonde one- he won by some points actually. Let's see if we happen to see him again in another category.

-Uhm, I'm sorry to interrupt, but why did the judge say that " it's not always that anyone can see such a great show with the Tough category"?- I asked them, that comment surprised me.

-Well, you see... the Tough section is the one that values the most the simple strenght of the pokemon- the girl said- Normally the coordinators only focuse in showing the strenght that the pokemon holds by breaking the target with powerful attacks.

-Yeah. In this one though, this new one showed that his pokemon could do more than show simple brute force- ended the blonde boy while the black haired one only nodded.

-Oh, thanks- I thanked them- I'm quite new at this contest thing.

-No problem- ended the girl before the speaker started to announce the next category's finalists.

After the Cute, Smart and Beauty one everyone was starting to ask where did this guy came from. It's not that his acts impressed me a lot (I've always been, or since five years ago, one of the supporters of what could be said as "The stronger, the better"), but I could alsos ee that his attacks were more accurate than the other ones. Everyone said that his attacks were simply more beautiful than the other contestant's ones. The 3 firends' talks obout the ended finals only comfirmed that he was good in this contest thing.

-Wow, this guy is good- said the blonde boy- the first time he partcipates and he has won four categories in a row!

-Yeah, he is quite good- comfirmed the girl- he won those three without much effort, his Milotic did a great job with those combinations and that Delacatty was very elegant there.

-Yeah and the Castform did a great job too- the black haired one said while eating some cookies- Do you thing he is going to be in the Cool contest too?

-We'll see...- spoke the girl.

After seeing the 4 contestants that were going to fight for the Cool ribbon they spoke again.

-Wow, he did it. He entered the 5 categories finals in his first day- the blonde one said.

-Yeah, but he is not going to win easily this time-added the black ahired one- in fact I hardly doubt that he can win.

-Why is that?- I blurted out- I mean, what makes you say that?

-Well, both Max and Arya have already got the Super-rank ribbon with those same pokemons- explained the girl- This is the Normal-rank so they are two levels above the rest, to say it simply. But we'll see, he has won 4 of them already so let'see if he can continue without making any mistake.

And with that the final started. It was a very close one, the best one of the day by far. Everyone was excited, even I was begginging to feel nervous. I was cheering for Rub and I wanted him to show something from what I could figure out his capability. Then the fourth round started, everyone was almost tied, but Rub was the last one. It was his trun when he made somthing that surprised everyone.

-Well Nana, time for us to change this! Use Hyperbeam!

After that this Mightyena launched a powerful beam to the crystal lamp in the ceiling and then the tiny crystals reflected that the beam was reflected and focused to a simple point in the target by the tiny crystals making it explode instantly. I found the move great, beautiful even and quite powerful so I started clapping. Some people joined me, but when I saw that I was mostly alone I stopped. Then I spoke to the trio next to me.

-Can you tell me please why no one is clapping or cheering?-I asked them- I mea, this move was great, what you would describe as beautiful.

-Yeah, that's right- said the girl stil confused- It was perfect actually, but the fact is that he made a mistake that will cost him this contest, it's like he has given up.

-Why?-I aked confused.

-Well, I believe that you are one of battles more than contests- said the black haired guy, I simply nodded.

-So what happens if you use Hyperbeam in a battle?-asked me the blonde one.

-Well...- I answered while thinking- the pokemon looses a lot of energy so it has to recharge for a while and not attack.

-That's it- said the girl- In contests there is no rule that prevents you from doing your performance, but after using Hyperbeam pokemon needs to recharge and even tough it's not very common some pokemon need more thatn one turn to attack again.

-And that's why everyone saves moves like Hyperbeam or Explosion for the final round- added the black haired boy- and waht's worse for him is that he is in the first position and he will have no time to recharge, he will not be able to attack in the next turn.

-Ow, I understand...- I said looking to Rub- Then if what you say it's true... why does he seem to be so calm and confident?

-I don't know- said the blonde guy- He has won 4 ribbons today so he has to be proud of himself despite this loss.

-WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN LET'S START WITH THE FINAL ROUND OF THIS HEARTBREAKING COOL CONTEST!- said the speaker.

Then Rub stood up in his place on the stage and looking as calm as ever he made Nana to be in position. Everyone looked puzzled at him, was he trying to act cool just after making a huge mistake like that? Still they looked at him with curiosity. Then he just spoke:

-Okay Nana, time to finish our show... Use Sucker Punch!- he said to his pokemon.

And with that the pokemon disappeared from her place, to appear again in front of the target before breaking it in two with a ver strong kick. Then the wolf-pokemon went nonchalantly to his trainer. Then they both bowed.

I was looking to him as surprised as the rest of the audience. Then I started clapping alone again, but unlike before everyone joined me shouting and whistling. When we stopped I looked to him again, he was getting somethig from his pocket. With my developed sense of sight I could see that seemed pokemon food, but in a cube shape. I knew that those things are called Pokeblocks and that some people feed their pokemon with that as a sweet. While I was looking over him and his wolf pokemon I heard a large explosion. Just after that I heard the speaker again:

-AND WITH THAT EXPLOSION THE NORMAL-RANK COOL CONTEST HAS ENDED! LET'S GIVE TIME TO THE JUDGES TO DECIDE THE REMAINING POINTS BEFORE ANNOUNCING THE WINNER!

I couldn't believe it. While watching Rub all the other contestants and pokemon did their final acts and I didn't even realize that. What surprised me more was that a lot of people seemed to have made the same as me. Then the speaker yelled again.

-Okay ladies and gentelmen... the judges have made their mind and they have already given the remaining points. They want me to tell you that this category was the best one by far today and with that we should thank the 4 coordinators that made that possible with their maginificents moves- she said in a low voice, only to make the tension rise- BUT someone has to win...- she stopped agin before ending- PLEASE LADIES AND GENTELMEN, GIVE THE BEST OF YOUR APPLAUSES AND CHEERS TO THE MORE-THAN-WORTHY WINNER OF THE COOL CONTEST TODAAY... RUB!

Then all the contest hall went crazy. Whistles, cheers could be heard from every single point in the contest hall. Even his competitors where clapping in a sign of respect. Using the commotion I went out to the building while I was, I don't know why, hoping that he didn't notice me being there.

When I got out the Contest's Hall I headed out to Red's apartment where we were going to have dinner that day. It was 8.30 p.m. and I was late so I run all the way there.

Crystal's POV (8 p.m.)

I knocked my neighbour's door, a boy with silver colored eyes and red hair, in other words Silver.

-Hey Crys- he said before locking his door- we can go now.

We then headed towards the apartment 3 houses more at the left. I got the feeling that the person who lives there was not going to be late today, he has always wanted to give a good impresion of him to Red. I knocked at his door only to hear some running steps from the other side. Gold then opened the door with one of his smirks in his face.

-Yo Silver, hi Super Serious Gal- he said before I elbowed his ribs. I don't like this nickname a bit, even tough I am more serious than him, who isn't?

Then we headed to Red's place. When we knocked Yellow opened the door and let us in. I smiled at the fact that she was the first to get there, they are together most of the time when Yellow is awake or Red is training, in fact they train together quite often. One after another Green, Blue and Emerald arrived not long after us, so Sapphire was the only one left.

-Do you know where Sapphire can be?- Yellow asked us- The dinner will be cold if she doesn't arrive soon.

-She was with his father doing some research on the fields yesterday... she was very excited about that- answered Blue- But she should be in the academy today, it was yesterday not today she was going out his PROF. BIRCH.

-Maybe something has made them to be late- said a calm Red- Why don't he call her?

-I'll do it- said Emerald.

And then he phoned his friend. After a while he said that Sapphire was coming a bit late and that we should start eating. 10 minutes after we started eating we heard her knocks in the door. Same as before Yellow stood up and opened the door allowing Sapph to enter. She seemed quite tired when she sat down next to Emerald.

-Where were you Sapph?- I asked- it's not like you to be late for dinner, and you seem quite tired right now.

-Well, the fact is that I was late so I ran all the way here- she said while starting to eat her food- and for the place I was in the Contest's Hall in town.

-Whaaaat?- shouted Blue before putting a hand in Sapphire's face- Are you ill or something?

-What? No i'm okay- she said in a deffensive tone.

-Then why you went to the Constest's Hall?- asked Red- It's the last place I would've tought you to be in.

-Well... You see...- she began a bit embarrassed- I went to see Rub's performances.

-So you went to see your little boyfriend?-said Blue in his teasing/matchmaking mode ON.

-What? No, he is only my friend- Sapph said in a deffensive and flustered tone- I only went there to see his pokemon in action.

That quite caught our attention. Sure we knew that he didn't like to battle, but we still where quite curious about his pokemon's strenght and power.

-Did you get something about them?- asked Green in a curious tone.

-Well, not much... he won all the categories and he didn't have much problem the first four categories- she said- In the last one though he had much more problems.

-He won the five categories?- asked Yellow startling all of us.

-You know about constest Yellow?- said Red.

-Well, yes... I sometimes watch them on TV- she continued- They are very different from a battle, but I like seeing attacks that can do something more than damage. I don't mind to battle when needed, but I don't like seeing pokemon in pain.

-Yeah, we know- said Red with a smile that made Yellow blush a little.

-So how where his pokemon?- asked Green.

-I could only see that they had more combinations than their opponent's- Sapph said- The fact that he didn't try them to be the most powerful ones didn't allow me to figure out nothing more about them. The only one who made soemthing out of the rdinary was his Myghtiena, who didn't even need a turn to attack again after a Hyperbeam.

-Well that's something interesting- Gold said- normally it can be a while before a pokemon can attack again after that.

-But winning those five contests things...- started Silver- Did he win just by luck or was he better than the rest?

-He was much better than his opponents- said Sapph with a grin- I don't know much about contests but everyone was very surprised that he could win the five contests in a row. He managed well the points difference and striked in the good moment, for what I heard people say.

-Well so he is quite the strategist- I said.

-Yeah, but contests and battles are not similar in any way- said Green- That still doesn't show if he would be a powerful triner or not.

With that we started talking about what we had done in the weekend. Emerald was at home making some new robot, Blue was with her parents, Green was with PROF. OAK at his lab doing some paper work between his training sessions. Silver went training somewhere. Yellow went fishing with his uncle when they saw Red training nearby and he joined them. I was at PROF. ELM laboratory helping him and then I went to help in the orphanage. Gold only went to his house to visit his family and the pokemon who live in there before going to train with Silver. Sapphire went to do a research with his father, but she found something unnexpected:

-So wat pokemon did you find?-aked Gold.

-Well it's not a pokemon what I found- she said- in fact what I found was a place.

-A place?-asked Blue.

-Yes a place, a clearing in the woods I used to go with my pokemon when I was little- she said with a kind of strange toothy grin- The same place where I was kidnapped that day.

Sapphire's POV

I was in a clearing in the forest very near my dad's research lab. I was sitting on the floor while trying to keep my clothes from the dirt while my pokemon were running and enjoying his time there. My Torchic, Toro, was attacking on her own a huge rock, Rono was digging a hole, as well as Dono, my Donphan. Finally Pilo, mine and my dad's Tropius was resting in the grass.

-Hey dad, come here! I think Rono found something good- I said to him pointing at my Aaron and the thing he was holding in its mouth, a necklace with a tiny shinning blue rock in it.

-Oh Sapphire, where did he found this?- my father asked me- You know what it is?

-There ,in that hole- I said pointing the hole in question- And no, what's this?

-Well this is a Sapphire, actually- he said with a grin- Your name comes from this blue gem.

-Oh, it's beautiful!- I said watching the deep blue gem.

-Yeah it is but I think that we shouldn't keep it- he said- You see hear in the rear says that belongs to a girl named Lys Morrisson, and the groceries cashier has the same name. I believe it's hers.

-Okay- I said sad- Sapphires are beautiful so I wanted to keep it, but if its hers... She should have it.

-Good girl-he said smiling- I have to go to town now and as I go I will return this to her. You wanna come?

-Uhm... no I'm good here- I said with my toothy grin- I will wait for you here.

-Okay, Sapphire just wait here- he said- I something happens just fly on Pilo to town. Keep him in the pokeball, it will be fasterfor you.

-Okay- and with that I returned the dinosaur pokemon to the ball.

I stayed there for a an hour or so, watching my cheerful pokemon play around. When I was going to make them come to me to clean them up I heard something in the brushes. I started to panic. I called all my pokemon back and I hid myself next to a tree. Then I saw the two grunts that were searching for someone, me:

-Look over there she was here a moment ago- I heard one say- I'll look over there.

-Do we really have to take her- asked the other- I haven't heard that her is that good at battling. Are we searching for this right?

-The master says that she has potential- said the other- So we just must obey his will.

And then I heard someone going towards me. I started to go back behind another tree while I was reaching for one of my pokeballs. Just before I could sent Toro to deffend me I noticed an orange powder and my body became rigid. I couldn't move so then the man finally found me.

-I found her!- and then a hand grabbed me from the wrist and pulled me up. Just then another powder was sent... a green one this tim.

After that I only remember waking up in aplane with 8 more people. We were all awake, but nobody was saying a word. I was crying, I was feeling lonely and scared. I didn't have my pokemon and I was tied so I barely could do anything. I was not the only one crying though. A blonde girl and a blonde boy were too. A girl with two pigtails was aproaching and whispering something to the blonde boy while she was nearly crying too.

After some time the plane landed and we all where brought out the plane and then to our prison. It was like a large cage with ten beds or so. It seemed a hospital room more than a cage, but that couldn't hide the fact that we were imprisoned there. A grunt locked the jail after that leaving there 9 people. Even though we were not tied anymore anyone moved a muscle nor said anything. There where two pairs that seemed very close to each other, a brunette girl and a red head boy and then the girll with the pigtails and the blonde guy. A guy with spiked brown hair who seemed very serious didn't say anything. The same happened with the two black haired boys next to him and the blonde girl was crying, the same as me. After some time we heard something coming from the corridor.

-Damn it... Why I have to bring this boy back to his jail after his medical tests?- said a grunt aloud- But that's okay, because I can beat him up al the way to his cage- he added with a devil voice.

After that we heard the sound of someone being beaten up and some laugh comming from the same guy. After two minutes or so a grunt came to the cage while holding a raven haired boy like a sack of potatoes. When he saw us he was a bit startled but he grinned with a devil smile.

-Well boy- he said to the boy he was carrying- You seem to have someone to speak now, see you tomorrow.

He then smirked in the same way ans then he threw the beaten up boy to the cage's floor with a "THUD". Then we walked to the boy, I was the one who arrived first and I made him turn to face us. When he opened his eyes we all 9 were watching hm with concern: he had some bandages in his right arm and a lot of bruised in his body, probably due to the beating up. He only stood up and while limping a little he went to his bed.

-Are you okay?- I asked him.

-Y-yeah, I'm okay- he said- it's nothing actually.

-Are you sure?- the Red capped boy said after that- Why did he do this to you?

-I won him on a pokemon battle, he is quite the bad looser- he said.

-Are you sure you are okay?- said the Crystal eyed girl.

-Sure- he said nodding- I'm Ruby by the way, who are you?- he finally asked with a smile I had never seen before.

Crystal POV

-You know, I still don't know how I should feel about that incident- Sapphire said when she finished her story.

-I don't know either- said Gold.

-I believe that neither of us does, actually- Blue said- It wasn't a good experience, but we wouldn't have met if that hadn't happened.

-Yeah... What surprised me was that I never found that place after that- I said- it's like I had forgot that it ever existed.

-I know what you mean... I was fishing when they kdnapped me- said Yellow- it ressembles your story in some many points.

-Well, if you allow me I would like to change topic of the subject- said Blue- Your birthday party is next Friday, isn't it Sapph?

-Yeah it is- she answered.

Then the subkect of the conversation changes from one to another and before we knew it was very late, so we all went home.

19th of September (8 p.m.)

Sapphire's POV

We were done. Me, Emerald and Rub had been our Pokemon Type's report for the next day for the last 3 hours. Every report we did as a tema was better than the previous one, even tough I always got the feeling that I was the less useful of us. I only typed in the laptop while Rub and Emerald were searching for information or telling me what to write. When we headed out I could see the sun already gone.

-Well guys I got to leave, I still have to make my dinner- Rub said turning to us.

-Okay, see you tomorrow- said Emerald.

-Wait, I would like to ask you something- I said to Rub- Tomorrow's my birthday so do you want to come to my birhtday party?


Well, so that's it the end of chapter five. I had fun witing this one actually.

The time skip in here, it's not like it is very large, will be explained in the next chapter. Next one will foccuse in an event that will take place in there. It will have some pokemon battles too for the people who likes them. As said I will not stick into the 4 moves-only rule, but I won't allow them to know 15 or 20 neither.

Having said all this all that is left to say is REVIEW and STAY TUNNED