Shimoyuki: Yay! Another chapter added! I am sorry that the first chapter didn't contain much about pokemon. But I had to do that mainly to let the reader know about the characters first. Now in chapter two, I've added more of pokemon into the concept. So enjoy!

Rhys stopped and the man continued to walk, however he walked around him as if he was examining Rhys. Rhys started getting a bit nervous seeing this man in front of him examining him. So he asked the man, "What do you want?"

The man, who ended his examination, stopped walking. He paused for a few seconds, which made Rhys even more nervous. The man wore a hat with a cape around him. He looked like a magician and a cowboy put together. His hair was blonde that made his gray eyes shine. Also he looked somewhat tall compared to Rhys, but older than him. The man soon started talking, "My oh my. A new trainer I must say."

Rhys replied hoping the man would leave soon, "Yeah, so what? There are a lot of new trainers in here. Why pick me then?"

The man stood there looking Rhys from his feet all the way until his head. He said, "Because I want to challenge you. I want to see your experience." Before Rhys could even reply, the man commanded, "I CHALLENGE YOU IN A BATTLE! One against one. We will be having our challenge in the battle room. Meet me in there in five minutes." The man immediately ran to go to the battle room while Rhys had to figure out where the battle room was.

Since Rhys only got a glimpse of this area, he only knew very little about it. So a stranger, who wore a hooded jacket and had the hood up, came by and told him, "Hey. You're the one that challenged him right? Well all you have to do is make a sharp right in here and go straight ahead. It should be like an auditorium. Many trainers in there fight, so if you see a lot of people in there, chances are that you're in the right place."

Rhys, trying to get all the necessary information that the stranger said, nodded and replied, "Thank you very much!" Rhys dashed hoping he went in the right way the stranger said.

The stranger removed their hood and their look was quite mischievous, even evil. The stranger now revealed as a middle age man stood there with an evil smile. He mumbled to himself, "You shall experience the wrath of evilness within us, the powerful team, team polar!" The strange continued to laugh manically and with the other people walking by, many of them thought that he was mentally insane.

Meanwhile, Rhys continued to run until he stopped. In front of him were two huge doors waiting to be opened. Rhys gulped at first mainly because this was going to be his first battle and a bit nervous as to how powerful the trainer was. Rhys tried to remember to make him be relaxed because that's what his mother taught him.

Flashback:

Rhys, a little child who was about five years old was playing around with a bunch of pokemon; chansey, togepi, squirtle, pilpulp and many more. They were all running around non-stop. However, Rhys's mother, who seemed like a mysterious shadow was standing there. Watching the pokemon and her son playing. Rhys tried to touch one of them but wasn't able to because of their speed. Rhys started getting nervous and resulted in crying.

The mother squatted and looked at Rhys. She said in a calm and soothing voice, "Rhys, don't cry. If you want to get them, be calm." She touched Rhys's face and tried to remove the tear that was on Rhys's cheeks. Rhys soon stopped crying. He didn't know exactly why or how, but he had a warm feeling in his heart that made him stop.

Now, Rhys decided to go inside the building with confidence because he wanted to become a great trainer like his role models Ash Ketchum and Koga, the ex-gym leader of Fuchsia city, now one of the members in the elite-four in the Hoenn region. Rhys walked straight into the door pushing the door and not caring whether or not it was broken due to his force. After he took a few steps inside with so much confidence, he stood there with much amazement.

There were so many battlefields, from simple ones to elemental kinds. Rhys thought, "Uhh..where should I go? I don't see the man anywhere!" He kept looking around, however there were so many people in there battling that he started thinking that many of the trainers looked like him. Before he took a step further, he saw the man waving non-stop. He decided to go towards that man hoping it was the man that challenged him to a battle.

As Rhys was walking by, he turned around looking at other trainers battling against other trainers and the field that they were battling in. Rhys mumbled to himself, "I'm amazed to see all of this." While he was walking, he stopped as he noticed he was already close to the man. The man greeted, "Hello! It looks like you've finally found the battle room. We will be battling in this ground." The man pointed towards the field, which was a normal grass field.

Rhys thought when he saw that, "Hm…is the man going to use grass pokemon? Because if he is, I'm in big trouble…" The man continued, "Well it will be a one versus one battle. Oh and just one thing to remember before you lose, my name is Rutherford."

Rhys replied, "Hey, I'm not going to lose. Let the match determine that." Both of them walked in their positions and a referee came in to judge their match. The referee was carrying two flags, a red one and a green one. The red one represented Rutherford and the green one represented Rhys.

The referee raised his arms up carrying the flags and exclaimed, "This match will be Rutherford against Rhys. You both must use only one pokemon. Whoever's pokemon survives last is the winner. Let the games begin!" The referee immediately rises down the flags with a swooshing effect. Rutherford, being the first person to move, got his pokeball from his pocket and threw it at the ground.

Once he did that, a pokemon was summoned out of the pokeball. It was Growlithe. Seeing the Growlithe, Rhys knew it was Growlithe because there were many of them in Avalon Island. Since the police officers always had Growlithe with them, Rhys knew what type of a pokemon it was. Rhys thought, "Okay. So Growlithe is a fire pokemon. What is this man's plan? I think it's very strange to have to use a fire pokemon in a grass field."

Rhys, being a newbie trainer only had one pokemon. That was the pokemon that his mother gave to him before they died, which was Mudkip, a water type pokemon. Rhys, having some sort of a background on battling knew a few things about it from books that he read in the library in Avalon Island. He got his pokeball from his messenger bag and threw it. Once he threw it, the pokeball opened and Mudkip came out.

Growlithe and Mudkip were standing there all in their battling positions ready to fight. Rutherford commanded, "Growlithe, use your ember on Mudkip!"

Growlithe ran towards Mudkip so fast ready to use its ember that Rhys commanded, "Dodge it Mudkip!" While Growlithe was running, Mudkip moved to the right and ran until it was behind Growlithe. Growlithe used its ember, however it only burned a small portion of the grass.

Rhys thought, "This should work…" He decided to use one of his techniques that he knew. He said, "Mudkip, use your tackle on Growlithe!"

Rutherford started seeing Rhys's strategy and told his pokemon, "Hey Growlithe! Turn around and use ember again!" Like what Growlithe did previously, it turned around and used ember on Mudkip hoping it worked. Sadly it ended up working which made Mudkip a bit in pain.

Rutherford told Rhys, "Hahaha. You're not as challenging as I thought." Rutherford kept laughing on and on as if it was the funniest joke ever. Mudkip was right in front of Growlithe, both of them not moving. Rhys decided to take a good opportunity of doing a counter attack. He commanded, "Mudkip! Use water gun straight at Growlithe!"

While Rutherford was laughing so much, he soon forgot that Rhys's Mudkip didn't faint yet. Rutherford kept laughing that the second he noticed his Growlithe taking a huge hit of water gun straight ahead his laugh soon became silent. Since Mudkip attacked Growlithe so close, the water gun hit was a critical hit. It therefore resulted in Growlithe fainting.

The referee counted down from three until one to see if Growlithe was really dead. In the end it was, and Rhys was surprised that he was able to do that. He didn't care if it was pure luck or anything; at least he won his first battle. Rhys was celebrating while Mudkip walked towards him. It was the first time Rhys battled with his Mudkip before, but it wasn't the first time they've met with each other. Actually they've met together for a long time, but they became close when Rhys's mother died.

While Mudkip was getting closer, he noticed someone walking towards him. It was his twin sister Raine and a stranger in Rhys's eyes. As Raine walked towards her brother, she soon stopped in the middle of the walk. She started feeling pain, not exactly sure where but it was terrible pain.

Raine stood there trying to survive the pain as she was walking closer, but she couldn't. It was getting worse whenever she goes closer. Niko, who was right behind her started wondering what was happening to her. He asked, "Hey, Raine. Are you okay?"

Rhys squatted down and took his pokeball and opened it, which made Mudkip go inside the pokeball. Rhys ran straight ahead to meet with Raine not caring what happened to Rutherford. As Rhys was running, he saw his twin sister falling down so suddenly.

Rhys ran faster and faster, however, Niko was closer to Raine so he caught Raine in his arms. Rhys looked at Raine a bit shocked. He stood there for a few seconds, but he said, "Um… whoever you are, can you please help me bring my sister up in the room?" Since there was so many people around the battle room, many of them were shocked and wondered what happened to Raine.

Then Nurse Joy and her pokemon, Chansey, ran straight ahead with a first aid kit with them. Nurse Joy touched Raine just to see if there were any problems with her. After a few minutes, Nurse Joy said to Rhys, "Mister, I think this lady has fainted. I would recommend that you would put her to bed and let her relax for a while." As what Rhys thought at first, he hoped that Niko would help him.

Niko nodded and said, "I'll bring her up to her room." Rhys decided that he'd follow Niko just in case he was going to trap her. While Niko and Rhys were brought Raine up to their room, they looked at each other with death glares in mind. Rhys was pretty sure that Raine has some sort of a good reason as to why Niko is with Raine. Rhys decided to ask, "Mister, who are you and how do you know my sister?"

Niko replied, "Oh, so you're her twin brother. She told me. I am Niko Zumbakthall. I am a student at a school where all of the famous professors graduate. I'm hoping to become a professor later on once I graduate. Actually I was looking for a trainer to help me with my project and—"

Rhys interrupted, "What kind of a project may I ask?"

Niko continued, "I was planning on observing a trainer who is new and seeing their bond with their pokemon change. And so yeah… I'm not planning on courting your sister, Raine."

Rhys nodded and said once the elevator door opened, "Well follow me." He walked out of the elevator first and walked to their room, with Niko and Raine right behind him. Rhys unlocked the door and opened it. Once he did, he took a few steps inside the room and a step to the right next to a clean bed. Rhys said as he was pointing to the bed, "Here, put Raine in the bed."

Niko, who was carrying Raine kept walking and walking until he put Raine in the bed carefully. When Niko put Raine in the bed, they soon heard a ring. The sound was quite familiar to Rhys because he opened his messenger bag and went through there hoping to find the item he was looking for. Once he did, he opened it and it was his cellphone.

He put an alarm in his cellphone to remind him that he should get dinner right now before he takes a good night sleep. Rhys looked at his black flip phone and turned the alarm off. He then put his cellphone in his bag and closed the zipper. Rhys said, "Hey, Niko. I'm going to go buy food for you guys, want anything?"

Niko thought for a few seconds and replied, "How about a ham and cheese sandwich?" Rhys nodded and walked out of the door. Before he closed the door he reminded Niko, "That reminds me, keep yourself at home. If you need anything, you can wait for Raine to wake up. She knows where a lot of the things in here are. Bye."

Rhys left the door and went straight into the elevator. Meanwhile, Niko sat down in a chair next to Raine and decided to look at the view of the ocean from his chair. Many minutes later, Niko decided to go to their bathroom and find a towel so he could put it on Raine's head hoping that it would make her regain conscious.

Niko stood up, looking around the area wondering where the bathroom was so he decided to go in a dark hallway and he looked to his left a switch. He turned the switch on and the hallway was brighter because of the lamp. Niko continued to walk in the hallway and saw a door. He opened it hoping that it was the bathroom. Once he opened the door, he turned on the lights and it was the bathroom.

Niko continuously searched for the towel until he found a small towel that he needed. He damped the towel with cold water and got a small bowl to put it on. Once he was done doing that, he brought the bowl and the towel with him and went back to sit down. Before he sat down on the chair, he twisted the towel to remove all the excess water it had and folded it.

He put the towel on Raine's head and sat down. He waited and waited for her to recover. An hour later, Raine woke up seeing at first a blurry image but then remembered that she had her glasses on so her vision was really clear. She got up wondering what happened to her. The moment she turned to her left, she was really astonished to see what she saw. She saw Niko sitting in a chair sleeping. Raine was really curious what happened and she knew that if she shouted, she would wake up the whole entire hotel.

Raine thought, "So…what should I do? I don't think Rhys would be here, because if he was, he would be the one guarding me…not Niko."

She decided to do what her only safe choice was, to wake Niko up. She tried shaking Niko once or twice hoping that he would wake up, but once Raine decided to shake him really hard, he woke up wondering what happened. Niko saw with his two eyes that Raine was awake.

He greeted Raine, "Oh! Hello Raine. How are you?"

Raine, who didn't care about how she was because she wanted to know what actually happened, she asked, "Niko, what happened to me? I remember having this really painful feeling, I didn't know where it was or what I did that caused that, but it was really bad."

Niko answered, "According to what Nurse Joy told us, you fainted. But the pain thing, I have no idea how you would get that especially that you fainted, not have some sort of a painful feeling."

Raine thought of all of the possibilities that could have happened to her, but there wasn't any that would explain that painful feeling and 'fainting' while walking. She soon became alert when she remembered that Niko said 'we' instead of 'me'. She asked, "Wait, what do you mean by 'we'?"

At first Niko was a bit curious if Raine remembered that she was walking to see her brother Rhys. He replied, "Don't you remember? We were walking to meet your brother and you fainted while walking towards him."

Due to the strange occurrence, Raine didn't remember walking towards her brother or anything like that. She thought,"Was I controlled by somebody..? I was pretty sure something was wrong with me…"

I was walking to the PC near the front desk of the hotel, hoping to get a call from someone really important. I sat down in the PC that was nearby waiting for a call. I thought, "I guess he will call back later. I was pretty sure he was going to ask about my update. As of now I have nothing much to say but that it is going very well."

As people passed by, I started getting a bit worried hoping that no one would notice what I was planning to do. While I was sitting down there trying to keep myself occupied for a couple of minutes, I saw someone who looked really familiar to me. I wasn't sure exactly where I saw this person or who the person was, but I was really sure I saw this person somewhere.

This person was a man with seriousness in his eyes. He seemed to be waiting for me to say something, but I couldn't figure it out. I don't know what it was in him, but I felt a mysterious aura towards him. I was drawn to his aura, but before I could ask him, he asked me, "How is it going my child?"

I was very shocked to hear what he just said. I thought, "My child?" The man stood in front of me wanting to know something. I wasn't convinced that time whether or not he was the person I was really looking for.

Shimoyuki: This is the end of chapter two. Chapter three may bring more questions, but as usual, please review! Oh and about the part above that's italicized…Hahaha, you'll eventually figure out the meaning of it and how it relates to the story.