GoggleMaster01- I felt evil, so I stuck a song in this fic, effectively making- songfic!MUAH HA HA HA (koff). Anyway, the song is If You Only Knew by Shinedown and belongs to them. Luckily for you, only the refrain is in this chapter. It may seem like the song makes absolutely no sense at this point in the story, but it will at the end.

Pokemon still belongs to Nintendo and GAMEFREAK, sadly.

Chapter 5

Terrell didn't want to admit it, but he was scared. He was scared that the Marina that would come back wouldn't be the same as the Marina who left. Thankfully, his fears were put to rest. But not for long...

It's 4:03 and I can't sleep

Without you next to me

I toss and turn like the sea

If I drown tonight, bring me back to life

Breathe your breath in me

The only thing that I still believe in is you,

If you only knew

Terrell hummed to himself as he gently carved a spiraling wave pattern into the wall above Marina's bed. He'd just come to his and Marina's room. It was split in two halves. Terrell's half had lava trapped behind heatproof glass for walls and a bed of stone with a surprisingly soft mattress and a nice warm blanket. Behind the bed was a wall of brown stone. Marina's side, on the other hand, had a giant fish tank for its walls and her bed was of course a water bed, behind which was a cool blue wall already decorated with painted waves. Each side had their name and the name of their Colosseum embossed in gold above their beds.

Terrell was tracing the wave patterns that were already there. He tried to keep his hand still as he wobbled on the water bed. Just as he'd finished, he slipped. His claws scraped the bed, which popped.

"Dammit!" Terrell went down with the bed. He was sitting in a sad puddle of popped water bed and liquid. Terrell had never seen a water bed before, and he didn't know how easily it could pop.

That's when Marina came it. "You stupid lizard!" she screamed. "My bed! What did you do?"

Terrell turned around. Marina didn't look different at all, but it didn't mean she wasn't. "Sorry," he said. "I got bored, so I traced your wave patterns for you. Then, I popped the bed by accident."

Marina hadn't seen a water bed before, either. She examined the mess. "That's okay, as long as it was an accident," she said, putting her bags down.

"No it's not!" Terrell said. "Where will you sleep?"

"Here." Marina put out her hands in front of her. She began to let out a high pitched squeal, sort of like a dolphin using echolocation. A droplet of water formed in Marina's hand. She continued to squeal and stretched it until it was a large bubble, big enough for Marina to fit inside of. Marina rolled the bubble until it was in the place of her old bed. Then, she crawled inside.

"Ah, cozy," she said, her voice sort of like an echo inside the bubble. She came back out. "That'll be good for a week or so," she said. "Don't pop this one, okay?"

Terrell blinked stupidly. Hadn't she thrown away her Kyogre powers? "Um, didn't Sashay-" Terrell began.

"Sashay didn't do anything," Marina said, sitting down on her bags. "See?" Marina took off her boot. Her webbed feet were still intact. She took the other boot off and stretched her feet. "See, I got to her Colosseum using a weaker version of the Toguchi-monko. Her Colosseum was exactly what the name implies- a sunny park, but the sun was setting. There was this building there, and we went inside. Sashay had a secret elevator in a broom closet, and we went up to this room with this huge machine inside. It looked like a metal table underneath all these ray guns. It scared me. Sashay gave me a milky drink and told me to drink it so I wouldn't feel anything. I thought to myself- is getting busted really worth this? I changed my mind, so Sashay sent me back and said she'd always be there if I changed my mind. So, here I am."

"Oh!" Terrell said with a sharp-toothed yawn.

"We've had a long day," Marina said. "Go to bed."

"I don't wanna," Terrell yawned.

"Tomorrow's a big day, so get in there." Marina shoved Terrell into his bed and tucked him in. "Good night, Terrell," she said. "Try not to burp in you sleep. Your earthquake's small, but it could burst my bubble."

"Maybe I can arrange a little burp for you," Terrell said with a toothy grin.

"I don't think so," Marina said as she left him to go to her bubble.

"Marina?" Terrell asked.

"Yes?" Marina said, halfway in her bubble.

"Don't leave me," Terrell said softly from under his blanket.

Marina got in her bubble. She turned around and noticed Terrell's wave patterns. He'd traced the ones already painted on the wall with little dashed lines. They seemed to pop out of the wall- and they looked beautiful.

"I won't," Marina said, her voice echoey inside her bubble. She was greeted by a muffled snoring noise. Great. Terrell snored. She'd never known because they'd always had two separate rooms. Thankfully, her bubble muffled most of the noise. Marina pulled her legs to her chest and hugged them, closed her eyes, and drifted off to sleep.

"MARINA!!!"

Marina's eyes snapped open. Terrell was out of bed and waving at her. "C'mon, get up, lazybones!" he said with a laugh. "Today's our first day!" He started jumping around the room.

Marina yawned and got out of her bubble. Dammit, she was so cozy in there. Why did she have to get up? And, she was having a nice dream, too. But, she couldn't remember what the dream was.

The twins had two doors in their room- a north door and a south door. The south door was labeled BATHROOM and obviously led to the bathroom. The bathrooms of the Waterfall Leader and Magma Leader had been melded together as well. The side with the bathtub was obviously the Waterfall Colosseum side. More painted wave patterns decorated the walls, which were made up of some kind of foamy blue surface. On the other side, the room was warm and made of brown stone. This was the side where the sink was.

Terrell scraped the stone wall. It reminded him of his cave back on the island. Groudon had carved it out for him when he was born. Last night was the first night he'd ever slept away from that cave, but he was happy that his new room featured the same brown stone.

Both twins brushed their teeth and got ready for the day, then went back into their room to pick up their backpacks. Marina curiously fished the killer comb out of her normal luggage and put it in her backpack.

"Rayquaza said I'll only need this once," Marina said. "But for what? Will I have to kill somebody?"

"You don't need no special comb!" Terrell said with a laugh. "Just looking at your funky feet is enough to kill someone!"

"Shut up!" Marina aimed her comb at Terrell, and he settled down. "Okay, so now what do we do?" Terrell asked.

Suddenly, there was a loud voice in Terrell and Marina's head, sort of like telepathy. It sounded a bit like Kruger's. "ATTENTION ALL LEADERS! PLEASE REPORT TO THE MAIN ROOM! FOR LEADER TERRELL AND LEADER MARINA, THIS ROOM IS LOCATED ON THE FIRST FLOOR!YOU ARE ON THE SECOND FLOOR! GO OUTSIDE AND TO THE ELEVATOR AND GO DOWN ONE FLOOR, THEN ENTER THE FIRST DOOR ON THE LEFT! YOU WILL HAVE YOUR BREAKFAST THERE, THEN REPORT TO YOUR COLOSSEUM! THAT IS ALL!" The voice stopped.

"Guess that answers that question," Marina said. They followed the voice's instructions and entered the main room. In this room, Dusty, Taylor and Voldon had already gathered. The room had a round table and six chairs. In the back were three empty plates with a pair of chopsticks, a knife and a glass on each one.

Dusty was the first to notice the twins. "Hey, look, guys. Looks like the new kids finally got up! See, I told you guys they'd get up before Rosie!"

"I never doubted you for a second," Taylor said. "Voldon, on the other hand..."

Voldon developed a sweatdrop as he dropped his chopsticks into his rice. "Well, she does sleep for a long time..." he began.

Dusty walked up to the twins. "You can take those plates," he said. "Kruger made them. You just think of what you want, and it appears on the plate, just how you like it. The Masters can do all kinds of stuff like that. That's why I'm excited about my promotion. I'll finally learn how to do that kinda stuff." He looked at Taylor, who sat next to him, eating a lump of sugar cubes.

"Don't eat sugar for breakfast," he said. The little girl said "Too late!" with her mouth full of food.

Terrell and Marina got their plates and returned to their seats. They each thought of their favorite foods.

Dusty was about to talk to them when he dropped his chopsticks. He was having steamed rice, miso soup and a side of seasoned nori. That's a normal Japanese breakfast. Marina, on the other hand, had a fish. As in a raw fish. Eyes and scales and everything. She gut the fish in front of everyone and then took out her knife and cut the fish into tiny pieces. She then used her chopsticks to eat the fish.

The fish was a special blue trout/tuna hybrid that lived only around the island. Marina called it truna. It was her favorite. But, she couldn't tell the others she'd lived on an island and was raised by three Legendary Pokemon and ate raw fish every day.

"I wanted homemade sushi," Marina lied. "I guess the plate expected me to actually make the sushi."

"That's okay," Dusty said. "Sometimes those plates are weird like that. One time, I asked for fresh chicken, and a Torchic popped up. It ran all over the place until Joe finally came from Stargazer Colosseum and caught it. It's all because Kruger's a normal Master. Only the Poketopia Master can use flawless magic."

Dusty then took a look at Terrell's plate. "I don't know what he wanted, though," he said. Marina spun around and nearly screamed. Terrell was tucking into a plate full of lava minnows, small fish that lived in the lava. They were still alive. He picked them up with his claws and popped them into his mouth.

"NO! Use the chopsticks!" Marina yelled. "Like this." She showed him the right position. Terrell nodded and picked the chopsticks up. He clumsily picked up each minnow one by one and ate it whole. Some of the minnows wriggled off the plate and onto the floor, near the one empty chair.

That's when Rosie finally came into the room. She got her plate and took her seat. She stepped on something squishy. Rosie groaned. It was probably somebody's rice. She looked down, just to check-

And saw the guts of a small fish on her shoe. Rosie screamed like a maniac. "Ah, Sleeping Beauty finally woke up," Voldon said sarcastically.

"Oh, no! I'm still asleep! I'm just stuck in a nightmare- with YOU PEOPLE!" Rosie screamed. "Fish guts! Who the heck-" Rosie looked around and saw Terrell innocently eating some live wriggling fish.

"You!" She stormed over to Terrell's seat.

"What did I do?" Terrell looked up with wide amber eyes. He didn't do anything wrong, did he?

"I-I stepped in YOUR food!" Rosie said. "Make sure it doesn't happen again, got it?!"

"Okay!" Terrell grinned. Rosie got a full view of Terrell's sharp teeth. She screamed and ran away back to her seat. Unfortunately, another runaway lava minnow was in the way. She slipped on it and went right down.

Everyone looked at Rosie, then back at Terrell. Terrell gulped. What did he do that made Rosie scream like that? Did he have fish breath like Rayquaza? Was it his claws again?

Next to Terrell, Marina slapped her forehead. Why was her brother such a dunce? Didn't he know his chompers would had scared Rosie? Humans didn't have sharp teeth like Terrell. Seeing something like that was enough to give Rosie a heart attack. So, why the hell did he grin at her?!

Suddenly, all the other Leaders began to clap. Dusty slapped Terrell on the back. "Woah, I can't believe you actually quieted her," he said. "Not even I could do that. But you have to be careful. Rosie's not gonna go easy on you after- huh?"

Dusty's eyes had caught something shiny. He looked down at Terrell's claws. "Hey, are those claws?" he asked. Terrell nodded slowly. "Hm. They're pretty cool. Are they part of that costume? They're- not real are they?"

"Oh, they're real!" Terrell said. "Watch." He began to carve his name into the table as Marina mouthed, "No, no, NO!"

"Woah, that's pretty cool," Dusty said. "Not even Mysterial can do that."

Marina sighed in relief, then gave her brother a glare. They got lucky this time, and Dusty thought Terrell's claws were part of some magic trick, rather than part of his body.

"Well, unless he turns into a leopard," Dusty went on, still on the topic of Mysterial. "Then again, we don't want to see him to that. He did it when that guy quit and ripped him to pieces. You have to be careful."

Marina gulped. "Does he kill people who want to leave?" she asked.

"Yea," Dusty said. "I saw it three times. He lets you leave once every two years to see your family and stuff, but then you have to come back."

Marina sighed in relief again. She wanted to see her family again, especially her mother. As long as she knew she'd get to see them, she was okay with whatever Poketopia had to throw at them.

After breakfast, the twins followed the other Leaders to a room with six doors, each with the name of a Colosseum on it.

"Mysterial made these Toguchi-monko for us," Dusty explained. "It allows easy access to and from our Colosseums. Yours are the Magma and Waterfall Colosseums, so you go through those doors. You'll have a few opponents to fight, but they're usually just kids, so I think you'll do good. At six, we come back here. Joe instructs newcomers, so he'll tell you more later. See you at six." Dusty stepped through a door labeled "Sunset Colosseum" and vanished.

Taylor entered her door, "Main Street Colosseum". Rosie, covered in rice that Voldon had thrown on her, pointed her finger at Terrell and whispered, "I'll get you," before going into her door, "Neon Colosseum". Voldon walked by and patted Terrell's head. "Good luck," he said to Terrell. "You'll need it." Then, he went through the door to "Crystal Colosseum".

Terrell and Marina were alone. "Well, this is it," Marina said sadly. "We each have our own Colosseums to attend to, so I can't go with you."

"What?!" Terrell sort of knew this moment would come, but it was so sudden. "You promised you wouldn't leave me alone," he said, his amber eyes darkening.

"I'm not leaving you forever, you big baby," Marina said. "Just until six. If anyone asks you about your claws again, they're part of a costume. No more scratching to show off. We just lucked out with Dusty. He thought it was magic. But the next person might not think so."

"Okay," Terrell said glumly. He liked showing off his claws.

"Also, don't do anything that might make people think you're the son of Groudon. Keep your identity hidden. No burping or anything like that. Just do your best. Now, please try to stay out of trouble," Marina said. "Please? Do it for me, okay?"

"'Kay! No trouble!" Terrell said, flashing a victory sign with his clawed hand. Then, he leapt on his sister and gave her a hug. "See ya later," he said.

Marina hugged Terrell back. "I will." The two stopped hugging and walked through the doors to their Colosseums.

GoggleMaster01- You know me well enough by now. Please review, blah blah blah and all that crap.