Like okay wow I was not expecting any reviews? but I got some?

Seriously thanks so much! Really!

Since I started this story before ORAS came out, it is based off of the original games, however, after a time skip and such, it will sort of be based off the new game? Like you know the teams turning over a new leaf and all that jazz

this chapter is a mess? everything I write with Natalie and Cassius is a mess though


Mikhail felt like death. It was almost five in the morning and the salty air was making him sick. "This blows." He complained, his bag on his back. Leighton had her purse and her book bag as well and Jordan just had a messenger bag.

"I'm glad you three pack light." Cassius was leading them to the port. It was dark out, but the moon was bright against the ocean. He had umbreon at his feet, scanning the area to make sure it was safe. "Makes everything so much easier."

"It's too early." Mikhail groaned, wanting to be snuggled up in bed.

"Never too early to make a grand escape." Cassius told him, pulling his own duffel bag more onto his shoulder. He winced and knew he couldn't make it much farther like this. He was so beaten up and the hour nap he took didn't help him at all, it only seemed to make it worse. He had hoped one of them would be keeping an eye out for any danger, but all three were too into their own world.

"I can argue that." Mikhail muttered, looking at Cassius, who had a black eye, ruffled up hair, and was walking with a limp. He looked horrible, yet he was still protecting them. "Cassius, you need to go home and rest."

"I'm never going back there." Cassius told him, glancing over at Mikhail. "That's home no longer. Once you three get on that ship, Natalie will get me and I'll be on my way to a new place."

"And we'll meet up, right?" Leighton questioned as they reached the port. The ship was there, already boarding its passengers.

"Of course, give me a call." Cassius told her, dropping his duffel bag on the bench nearby. He glance around again, barely seeing anyone. "You guys go ahead and board."

"But.." Leighton mumbled, sighing. "I'm going to miss you."

"I know, who wouldn't miss me?" Cassius smirked, shrugging. "I'd hug you, but, I'm way too beaten up, so I owe ya one. Now, go get on the boat." He nodded towards the boat.

"We'll see you soon!" Leighton smiled happily and pulled Mikhail and Jordan over to the boat. They got their tickets checked and headed up the ramp. "Be safe!" Leighton called once they got on the boat. She leaned against the railing, waving at Cassius. The ticket man followed them, ushering them onto the ship and telling the others to raise the anchors and get going.

"I'll be fine!" He told her, waving back at her. "We'll see each other again. You know how fate is." He smiled at them, sad to see them go, but was incredibly relieved that they were safe and on the boat. It started to move and he watched it. "Keep her out of trouble!"

"We will!" Mikhail shouted back, waving now too. Cassius pissed him off but he couldn't lie, he really liked him. He really couldn't wait to meet back up with him and get to spend more time with him.

"Fuck!" Cassius shouted as he dodged an ice beam attack. It came out of nowhere but he should have been expecting it.

"HOW DARE YOU!" Shelly screamed at him, ordering another ice beam attack from her sealo.

"Jordan, we have to do something." Mikhail begged him as they got further and further away from the dock. He wanted to jump ship, but, there was no way he could. Leighton gripped the railing, watching.

Cassius dodged an attack as Shelly screamed at him for betraying her.

"How dare you! I taught you everything you know!" She shouted, face red. Leighton had to do something, but, she really couldn't. All she could do was watch as Cassius got the worse end of the stick, while she got off free.

"I had to teach myself! You left me half the time to go run after 'Tabby'." He spat back at her, sending his umbreon after her. He needed Natalie to show up immediately, because he and umbreon couldn't do this much anymore. He just had to distract her enough until the ship was out of her reach, or until Natalie got here.

"He can handle it." Jordan reassured his two friends, trying to get them to relax, even though he was worried about the male himself. Cassius was in no shape to take on Shelly.

"You are an idiot boy! How dare you treat me like this and go running off with that damn magma girl behind my back!" Shelly was pissed as hell now and she wasn't going to let Cassius get out of here alive. "Sealo, body slam!" She ordered and the pokemon slid, slamming into Cassius.

Cassius was sent flying backwards, hitting the cement hard and rolling over towards the edge of the port.

"Cassius!" Leighton screamed, ready to jump ship to help him. Cassius laid there, not being able to get up. He was in too much pain. Umbreon barked, whining at Cassius to get up. "We need to do something!"

"Leighton, we can't do anything." Jordan told his girlfriend, holding her back.

"But…Jordan!" She cried, seeing Cassius laying there as his pokemon tried to fend off the attacks from the sealo. Cassius wasn't moving and he was getting farther and farther away from her. She cried louder, clawing at Jordan's arms to get him to let her go.

"What the hell is that?" Mikhail questioned, squinting his eyes. A flygon landed on the port, shooting a hyper beam at the sealo. "Guys…It's Natalie!"

"What?" Leighton questioned as Natalie climbed off the pokemon's back and ran over to Cassius as her flygon fought off the attacks with umbreon.

"Sorry you kids, you need to get inside." A worker joined them on deck. "We're about to hit some rough currents, so please come inside."

"We can't!" Leighton exclaimed as Natalie screamed at Shelly. Leighton could barely understand her or see them anymore. She needed to know they were going to be okay!

"You have to come in." He told them more forceful now as he shooed them inside. Leighton was still fighting against it, but Jordan forced her inside and glared at Mikhail, who tried to argue against going inside. The door shut and the last thing they saw was Natalie shaking Cassius, trying to get up to get up.


"C'mon, Cas." Natalie begged, shaking him. "Get up get up!"

He groaned and sat up, slowly, world spinning. "Natalie…" He mumbled as his vision cleared. "What..?"

"I showed up just in time. I thought you were down for the count." She stood now, looking off at Shelly. "Flygon, dragon breath!" She ordered and helped Cassius up. "That old hag blindsided you, didn't she?"

"I was…expecting it…but…the kids got on the ship…" He didn't want to be standing anymore. "Umbreon, return!" He ordered, holding out the pokeball, returning his worn out pokemon.

"How dare you interrupt us!" Shelly shouted and Natalie was ready to punch her. Natalie grabbed Cassius' duffel bag off the bench and hauled it onto her shoulder with ease.

"Oh, shut the fuck up." Nate spat at her, nodded to her flygon to show no mercy in it's attacks. "You go tell Tabitha he can fuck himself, and if I ever see him again, he better pick a god and start praying!"

"We need to go." Cassius stumbled over to her, holding his shoulder.

"Flygon, dragonbreath!" Natalie ordered the attack and it knocked sealo out. "Let's go!" She grabbed Cassius, yanking him along with her. They climbed on flygon and he took off swiftly into the morning sky. "Hold on."

"God, you hurt me." He rested his head on her back, holding his duffel bag. "But thank you…I was about to be a goner…my phone is completely destroyed…" He muttered, patting his pocket where is crushed phone was. "Guess that doesn't matter now.."

"Out with the old." Natalie told him as flygon landed in Slateport by the docks. Lily was there with her and Natalie's bags, waiting eagerly for her friends.

"Oh gee, they really did get you…" Lily mumbled when Cassius got off of flygon.

"Thanks." He grumbled. Natalie held his bag for him and returned her pokemon.

"Let's get on that boat and out of here." She told them, ushering them towards the ship.

"Time for a new adventure!" Lily squealed happily. The two ex-grunts just looked at each other, hoping this was all worth it.


"What are you reading?" Cassius questioned, peaking over Natalie's shoulders. He was taking a break from fixing his boat and Natalie was sitting on the dock, dangling her feet off the edge of it and reading a book.

"Book about Latias." Natalie replied, turning a page. "Thought you were working on the boat?"

"I am. Taking a break. The control panel is almost done. Then we can go adventuring." He grinned as she turned to glance at him. "How is it going with Lil?"

"She went off to call her parents. Seems her brother wants her back home…I can't really do anything about it. I know she doesn't want to go back to Snowpoint City, but, she shouldn't have just disappeared on her brother like she did."

It had been four months since they left Hoenn. They had spent a month with Lily's parents, trying to recuperate, then they moved on to Cassius' parents. They had his boat and more space for the trio, which pleased Natalie greatly. Cassius got to work on his boat which gave him something else to focus on and helped him with stress, while Natalie got to go to the local library and read all about legendary pokemon. Lily got to run around town and go off exploring, entertaining herself, although now, she was wanted back home in Sinnoh.

"I didn't think guarding a snow temple was that important." Cassius told Natalie, sitting down next to her. "But..thats a family matter, we have no say in it, do we?" He really didn't want Lily to leave them, but, it was probably for the best. Neither of them were in the best places right now. They were trying to adjust to a semi normal life and were still looking over their backs everywhere they went.

Lily was putting up with it, but, it still wasn't fair to her. Sending her back to Snowpoint wasn't fair either, but, they really had no control over it.

"I told her to just stay a month. Talk to her brother about it and actually…you know, talk to him. Sit down and tell him how she feels." Natalie closed her book, sighing. "I don't see why he wouldn't allow her to go travel around Sinnoh and just come home on the weekends."

"I think she needs to go back home and work out her issues with her brother. They need to figure this out." Cassius agreed, glancing out at the small river that led out into the ocean. "We can come get her and take her to Unvoa one week or something. We can work around it."

"I wouldn't mind stopping in Unvoa and checking out their ruins." Natalie mumbled, interested in the region. Legendary pokemon and ruins and myths had always interested her, but now she had more time to research and study. It was relaxing and helped her slide into a somewhat normal life. Plus, she was ready to leave the region.

Being here was fun, but she was starting to feel a bit restless. She wanted to go out and explore now and just do something.

"Looks like I'm going back home." Lily complained, joining them on the dock. "I'll be gone tomorrow. First ship out of here."

"Gee, that's fast." Cassius flipped his wrench in his hand, fiddling with it. "Well, I guess we'll go out tonight for one last hooray. Good news, my boat is almost done, so we'll be coming to visit you soon."

"Really?" Lily questioned, excited. "You guys will really come and visit?"

"Of course." Natalie told her, nodding her head. "We'll call all the time too. You're our best friend, dork."


"So." Cassius started as he set in his coordinates for their destination. He had gotten his boat up and working a week after Lily left, and of course he and Natalie set off the second they could. "Hows your mom?"

"Good. It's peaceful now in Hoenn. Seems that brat of a kid turned out to be a savior…" Natalie mumbled as she flipped through a book she had as Cassius leaned against the edge of the control panel. "I always hated her. She beat me no matter how hard I trained."

"I liked her. She had that spunk." Cassius chuckled, thinking of the girl. "Archie called her little scamp. Kind of endearing I suppose…."

They both went silent, thinking about it.

Hoenn, and the rest of the world, had almost been destroyed. The two leaders saw what they did wrong and were quick to help the girl who had been trying to stop them all along. She, amazingly, prevented the world from dying.

They weren't too sure what became of the teams after that.

"They won't come looking for us." Cassius reassured Natalie, because he knew she was thinking about it. He knew she took it harder than he did. She had been in love with Tabitha for a long time, and she really had no closure with him. Cassius got closure when Shelly tried to kill him, and he figured that was decent enough for him. "You know, we should look for Leighton and the others…"

"We've tried before." Natalie sighed, her mind moving to another depressing topic. Cassius' phone had been destroyed in the brawl, and unfortunately, Lily nor Natalie had the trios' numbers and vice versa. They tried looking them up, but, that was difficult in itself and it led them nowhere. "Cassius, it's a huge world.."

"Fate will work it's magic, Natalie. Look how we turned out?"

"Mentally fucked up and forever scarred?" She questioned, shooting him a look. "We have no clue where we're even going, or what we're going to do with our lives. We have no real skills, other than those of a villainous nature, and we have tons of skeletons in our closets." She was frustrated so much. She thought this would be a fresh start, but she still had baggage.

"Natalie, it's only been four months." Cassius told her, trying to make her feel better. "Four months isn't enough time to heal or to figure life out. God, we're only eighteen you know." He reminded her, shaking his head. "We've got so much time in the world. We don't have to follow anyone's orders anymore. We're free."

"Barely." She sighed, feeling hopeless. "So where are we going?"

"Felt like Olivine would be a nice place to hit up. It has great beaches and good food." He told her, hoping to make her feel better. "About two hours to get there."

"Sounds good. I'm going to take a nap." Natalie told him, leaving the control room.


"First stop of our adventure." Cassius sighed happily as they strolled around Olivine. He bumped shoulders with Natalie, smirking at her. "Wonderful supply of attractive people."

"They're so tan." Natalie mumbled, staying close to Cassius. This was the first time she had been out of her region in an actual city. They had stayed with Lily's parents, then Cassius'. They never really left the house too much. "This place is way different than Hoenn." She looked around, taking in everything. She was actually feeling a bit hopeful. "All you think about is how good the people look?"

"Uh, yes. I like to have fun, ya know?" He winked, chuckling. She glared at him and he shrugged it off. "Natalie, you know, I think we fit really well together. I'm glad we ran away together. We're barely alike, but, ya know, we share the same emotions and back stories. We went through terrible shit together. I remember battling you for the first time. Even then, I kind of knew you'd be important."

"Cas, shut up." Natalie grumbled, embarrassed. "Look, we share the same bed. We're best friends, I get it. Now, what are we going to do?"

"Probably grab something to eat…" He thought as he glanced around, eyes stopping at a male who was shouting at his skitty. "Hold up." He started towards the boy, and the clearly distraught skitty. It was shaking, scared, as the young male continued to yell at it. "Yo, bro, what's the deal?" Cassius called out to him, Natalie right behind him. He assumed Natalie was going to stop him, but she looked pissed.

"None of your business." The male shot Cassius a glare, eyeing him up and down before looking away disgusted.

"It's our damn business when the poor thing is trembling." Cassius scooped the pokemon up in his arms, cooing at it to help calm it down. It purred, liking Cassius.

"That's my pokemon!" The boy shouted. Cassius' hand shot out and snatched the skitty's pokeball from his hand.

"Not anymore." Cassius said before glancing to Natalie. They both took off into the crowd, the boy screaming after them.

"I can't believe you did that!" Natalie screeched as they dodged people. The skitty seemed happy in Cassius' arms and Cassius was not sure what to do now.

"I couldn't leave it back there!"

"Cassius, we're trying to away from our life of crime, not continue it!" She was angry, furious even, but she was quick to pull them both into an alley and out of view from the child. "God, Cas…first day out and we're already stealing."

"Guess it's in our blood." Cassius chuckled, looking down at the skitty. "Least we did good."

"We…..we did…" Natalie mumbled, looking at the feline pokemon.

"And now, you are free." He told the skitty, hoping it would hop out of his arms. It didn't. "uh.."

"It likes you." Natalie looked at the content pokemon and back to her friend. "Maybe I could use it in contests….figured I'd give them a try, right?"

"Oh, great. I have a skitty now.." He grumbled and it yapped at him happily. "You're going to try contests?"

"I might. Nothing like hiding in an alley to make you reevaluate your life. First step of our adventure and we've already broken the law." Natalie told him, looking at her friend. "Guess we could never escape that life….we'll have to keep trying though."

"Or…just deal with it. We're still young." Cassius returned the skitty to it's pokeball and hooked it on his belt. "We'll figure this shit out…."

"Let's get out of here." Natalie told him and they stepped out into the sun, looking around. It seemed safe, so they continued through the town, keeping an eye out. "Maybe we should go to another town?"

"But…" Cassius mumbled, looking at a girl that walked by in her bathing suit.

"This will be a long adventure."