Shimoyuki: Hello! I have some good news and bad news for readers. Bad news is that it will be a couple of weeks for me to publish chapter five mainly because I will be gone for a month, so I will not have any internet access. But once I come back, I will have a lot of fanfics and chapters updated. (Well I hope to have a lot of them updated) And the good news is that once I come back, there will be a few new fanfics that I will add for readers to enjoy. As usual, enjoy chapter four of this fanfic! Oh and one more thing, this chapter will be special because I dedicate this fanfic to all of the shows, mangas, fanfics and many others that gave me ideas as I created this pokemon fanfic. (And no, this isn't the last chapter.)

I was about five years old that time. I was in Pokemon Academy for the first time in my life. It was my dream to know more about pokemon, even experience it in one's perspective. It was quite a happy day; the sun was bright, but not too bright. The grass shined beautifully in the sun and so did the trees. I thought of it as a perfect day.

It was break time.

Since I haven't met any of my classmates, I decided that this was a perfect chance to meet them right now. As I walked outside the building with a bunch of other classmates doing the same also, I looked around. I wasn't sure who to talk to actually.

As seconds went by, I started getting a bit nervous, even close to crying. A tear came from my eyes and went down my gentle face. I didn't know that I was literally crying, but I couldn't.

Then, a boy, probably the same age as me I assumed, was standing in front of me. His hand touched my face and wiped the tear that was on my face. He asked at the same time, "Are you okay?"

I looked up and I was speechless. Now, years later, I met that same boy again. However, he changed…a lot. The second I saw him; I was shocked to see him. I wasn't sure if I should have said something to him, or even ask him if he was the boy that I remembered, but I was pretty certain it was him.

As I think of that moment that we saw each other again, I've always wanted to thank him, especially that I saw him many years later. Each night, I always wished that we would meet again.

The mysterious group of people, who are supposedly Team Polar were inside the Oceania Hall. When they entered inside the hall, many other guests were standing there speechless. Actually the festival wasn't supposed to start until hours later, but Team Polar were there. Many of the staff members didn't know exactly what they're planning, but they were hoping it wasn't an evil plan that would destroy the festival, or even their surprise, a tournament.

Meanwhile, Raine, who was strolling around the mall area, decided to go look for clothes. She wanted to look good for the festival, especially that there would be a lot more good-looking guys. Raine was intrigued with one specific store, and decided to enter. Once she did, she was amazed to see so many different clothes from so many different styles that would be perfect for her.

Raine thought, "I wanna buy everything in here! But sadly I'm not rich..heh." She looked through each of the aisles carefully, hoping to find that perfect one that she wanted to wear. Even though she was on a small budget, she also thought about her money.

As time went by, she stood still and one specific top, which was in the 50 off area. It was a unique black and white floral v-neck top that coordinated really well with her hair. And as she went through all the other clothes in there, she also found blue skinny jeans that looked great with the top. She decided to get them and saved quite a lot of money with the fifty percent off.

Hours went by and Raine was in the Oceania Hall, wearing the same clothes that she bought but with a few accessories she had in her bag. Everything in what she was wearing looked very elegant that when she entered the Oceania Hall, there were tons of people in there. Many of them, specifically the guys loved her look.

Raine sat down on an empty table and mumbled to herself, "Where's Rhys when you need him. What happened to him, I mean the geodude wasn't in that bad of a situation…"

As she kept talking to herself, Chloe, the same girl who accidentally bumped into Rhys asked Raine, "Hey, is anyone sitting here?"

Raine looked up and replied, "Oh no. You can sit in here, there's extra chairs for my other guests anyway."

Raine was a bit clueless as to why this person who she didn't know wanted to sit in there. Her first guess is probably because there were so many people in the hall that they probably ran out of seats.

A minute or two went by and Chloe and Raine didn't say a single word to each other ever since. Raine got the courage to ask, "So, what's your name?"

Chloe, who had her brown hair up in a pretty bun touched it for a few seconds hoping it was staying still. She said, "My name is Chloe. I'm a soon-to-be pokemon trainer, possibly a gym leader. Even though with my intelligence, many people think I should be a professor."

Raine was a bit surprised when she said that. Just by Raine's first impression, she couldn't imagine her being a professor, or even a gym leader. Chloe continued, "And what's your name?"

Raine replied, "Raine. Raine Oimikado. Well for me, I have no idea actually, maybe a gym leader also, but I also love working with pokemon, so maybe a pokemon breeder!" Her enthusiasm when she said that made Chloe smile because she hasn't seen a person be so optimistic in what they say.

Chloe said with curiosity, "Ah…your last name sounds familiar…Oimikado."

Chloe kept thinking and thinking where she heard it from but Raine decided to interrupt her thinking, "Maybe because of my brother?"

A few seconds of silence occurred, and Chloe asked, "You have a brother? What is his name?"

Raine smiled, "Rhys. Rhys Oimikado."

The second Raine said that, Chloe stood there as if she was petrified. She would never expect that she met Rhys's sister, or even know that he had a twin sister. Chloe thought, "Wow. I never would expect him to have a sister.."

Raine continued, "Actually, he's my twin brother. The brother that I love most of the time."

Chloe was surprised yet again and said, "Sorry, but I must go to the restroom. I'll be back soon." Chloe left with her bag in the chair. Raine was quite puzzled as to why she wanted to go to the restroom so soon.

Once Chloe walked out of the hall, she accidentally bumped into someone. It was Niko. Chloe said to him, "I'm very sorry!" She left without caring what Niko's reply was.

However, Niko, who kept the two pokeballs with him decided to carry it with him until he entered Oceania Hall. As he took his first step inside, he looked around hoping to find Raine.

Raine turned and noticed Niko was there and waved at him. Even though there were many other people who were in the way, some of them thought that Raine was waving at them and decided to wave also.

Raine mumbled, "Not them! Gosh!"

Niko saw Raine and walked quickly towards her. Niko sat down on an empty chair next to Raine and gave her the pokeball. Niko was able to tell the difference between the pokeballs mainly because each of them had a specific color. The pink pokeball was supposedly for Raine and the blue pokeball was supposedly for Rhys.

Niko looked around for a quick second and asked, "Hey! Where's Rhys?"

Raine replied, "Ah! I forgot about him! He was suppose to meet me in here."

Meanwhile, Rhys, who was wearing a navy blue stripped t-shirt with black skinny jeans and his hair looking quite smooth, was walking towards the Oceania Hall. As he was entering the hall, he recently passed by the men's restroom, where he wanted to see if he looked good. But instead of going there, he saw Chloe, the exact same girl he accidentally bumped.

Rhys wasn't quite surprised to see her in there mainly because the people in the ship are people who wanted to go to different regions. Rhys said to her hoping that Chloe would stop walking, "Hey About what happened earlier, I'm very sorry about that again."

Chloe, who didn't bother to see the person kept walking straight a few more steps and then stopped. She turned around and replied, "Oh no, it's okay. I'm sorry I bumped into you, I wasn't paying attention."

Rhys and Chloe paused for a few seconds, waiting for one of them to say something. Rhys said, "Um…I must go…" He waved at her and left to go to the Oceania Hall forgetting that he wanted to go to the men's restroom.

When Rhys took his first few steps inside the Oceania Hall, he immediately found Raine, even quicker than when Niko did. Rhys walked swiftly towards them and sat down. He was already happy that he was on the festival right on time.

Raine who worried about her brother for quite sometime said, "Rhys! What have you been doing for the past four hours?"

Rhys, who wanted to say something simply replied, "Well I'll explain it to you later. It seems like that festival is going to begin right now." Rhys was looking towards the beautiful stage and so did Niko and Raine.

A woman, about in their twenties, had curly brown hair that illuminated the stage walked at the center of the stage. She was formally dressed for this occasion, and she was also carrying a microphone.

By the time she was in the center stage, she said with much excitement on the microphone, "Welcome all trainers from all regions! I am proud to say that you new trainers will love our festival and our surprises. Before we serve you food, we must tell you one of our surprises."

When people heard that, it made their curiosity widen wondering the possibilities of the surprises. She continued, "Since many of you think that this festival is a great way to meet other people who are in your situation. Fear not, we will have a game like that and of course we have to do the grand game that many people would be excited for…."

The woman paused for a few seconds to keep some suspense and raised her hands up while saying it, "A pokemon tournament!" Her hands went down except for her left hand, which was carrying a microphone. Many of the people in the audience were really excited when they heard that there was going to be a pokemon tournament.

The woman continued, "Well not only that, but we will have single and double battle tournaments! And you may be wondering, 'how would we know who are we competing?'. Well the answer is this!" She turned around, with her right hand pointing what were the curtains. However, the curtains soon opened and there it was, a huge screen, supposedly a television screen.

The screen soon turned on and when it did, it showed something that made many people even more excited for, their faces. There were pictures of them on the screen and even their 'opponents'. The woman said, "Once I say 'go!' the screen will immediately make a chart of who everyone will be defeating. Some may be people you know, others will be…well your soon to be rivals. Let the games begin!"

More and more people stared the screen hoping their wishes would come true. The woman exclaimed, "GO!"

A second after she said that, the screen randomly started picking the trainers, who they were competing, and if they were in a single or double tournament.

By the end of one minute, the screen stopped. It showed a list of people and whom they would be competing. Rhys and Raine were very happy that they didn't have to compete against each other. However Rhys ended up in the single battle tournament and was up against a cowboy man. Raine, who ended up in the double battle tournament was teamed up with a girl about the same age as her. They were up against a couple, or so Raine assumed.

After that, the woman said, "After dinner, we will all go to the battle room where we will see our trainers battle against other trainers. And don't worry; everyone who will be battling will be on live broadcast. And yes, we do have enough battlefields for everyone. Once everyone is in there, we will therefore assign people to random fields so it will be fair."

She paused for a few seconds and continued, "So let the battle begin! Food will be served right now." The woman got out of the stage and left. Niko, who decided to start off the conversation said, "Well I wish you good luck you two. I think you two will do well. Oh and Rhys, here's your pokemon."

Niko gave Rhys the blue pokeball and Niko continued, "And you two may see what your pokemon are after dinner. But I think you two will like it."

Raine nodded to Niko and asked Rhys, "Rhys, what happened to the geodude anyway?"

Rhys, who forgot about the geodude for a few minutes remembered, "Oh, geodude is fine. Actually, nurse Joy told me that once it gets well I can keep geodude since it seems to love me."

Chloe, who just came out of the women's restroom decided to sit on the chair she reserved, which was next to Raine. Chloe said with excitement, "Looks like this is going to be a great tournament!"

Raine who wondered how she knew there was a tournament decided to ask, "Chloe, how do you know there was going to be a tournament when you were in the restroom?"

Chloe replied, "Well I did enter in the hall right when they were saying there was going to be a tournament, so I was able to see who I was going to compete."

Rhys was certain that he should be quiet and try to think up a plan that would help him win the battle, or even the tournament. As food was coming by, they started eating at the same time conversing.

Raine remembered that she forgot to introduce Niko and Rhys to Chloe. As took a bite of her pasta, she said, "Oh and I forgot! This is my twin brother Rhys…" She pointed to Rhys and then pointed to Niko as she said, "And this is Niko, my friend."

Chloe nodded as she listened to Raine. As time went by, they started getting to know each other quite well. Before they were about to leave, a teenage girl that Raine would 'supposedly' team up walked in front of them asking Raine, "Are you Raine Oimikado?"

Shimoyuki: Yes I know this was shorter than the last three chapters. But I was in a very short deadline mainly because I wanted my readers to know that I will be gone so by the time I come back, there will be more chapters and many new fanfics to read. I hope that all of you will enjoy the incoming chapters and the fanfics that I will be creating while I'm gone temporarily.