Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.

Chapter 7

"That was awesome!" Kit said upon returning to the house. Everyone else agreed.

"We should go there more often." Zanny replied.

Yuki walked in with a tired Hiarashi in her arms. The Cyndaquil tried to cuddle before yawning cutely and falling asleep. Kooky walked in and sighed. Zanny looked at him and wandered over, sitting next to the psychic Pokemon. He looked sad.

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong with what?" Kooky asked her in confusion. Zanny almost smiled. You always had to talk really formal to the Abra in order for him to understand your meaning.

"Why are you so sad?" she rephrased. Kooky paused and sighed again.

"No matter how pleasing this place is, we'll have to leave soon. We can't stay here forever. We have to get back home." he poked Zanny's bubble. The Zangoose nodded, looking down and pinning her ears down.

She looked around as Abra sat down and fell asleep.

"This place brings back alot of memories, huh?" she whispered. Kooky snored softly. Zanny smiled and got up. Giving Kooky one more comforting glance, she went off with the others.

When she was gone, Kooky abruptly woke up and looked a nearby picture of a teenage boy with an Abra and a Zangoose on each of his shoulders. That was them with their old trainer.

Kooky stared at the picture and levitated it closer. A tear fell from his eye and dripped to the floor, before the Abra fell asleep again.

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"I call the top bunk!" Sandy yelled. Zanny snapped out of her thoughts to meet the challenge. She smiled and chased after Sandy.

"In your dreams." The Zangoose grabbed Sandy's tail as the Sandshrew leapt for the top bunk. The ground type yelped playfully as Zanny pulled her down and made the leap herself. Zanny burrowed under the sheets, giggling.

Sandy bounced up and burrowed after her friend.

Zanny screamed as they play fought under the blankets.

"No! My sombrero!" The Sandshrew yelled between her laughter. Zanny poked her head out of the covers and laughed as Sandy climbed on top of her, trying to get the Mexican hat back.

Zanny sat up on her hindlegs, raising the hat up so the smaller Pokemon couldn't reach it.

Sandy gave a friendly Tackle, knocking them both off the bed. They rolled around, growling and giggling.

"Got it! Don't mess with me!" Sandy exclaimed, holding her hat up in victory. Zanny and Sandy stared at eachother in the eye for a whole moment before racing for the bunk.

"Mine!" Sandy yelled as they wrestled for the bunk again.

"Back off!!" Zanny yelled back as they bounced up and continued on the bed.

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Kit watched the girl's antics, smiling and shaking his head. He would love to join in their game, but was too polite to actually barge right into the scene.

Instead he was content to stand by and enjoy the fun. Fang slithered by him, looked at Zanny, Sandy, and then Kit. He scowled and went on his way. Stupid Zangoose. Just looking at her makes him sick to his stomach.

Kit stared at Fang, still unsure why the Seviper scowled at him. What did he do? Must be because he was watching Zanny play or something...

He shrugged and continued to watch.

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"What the fudge?????" Yuki exclaimed. Out of nowhere Kooky, still crying, had teleported on her head, needing moral support.

The human, not a big fan of Abras, grabbed the little Pokemon and threw him to the wall. Kooky teleported before making contact with the hardness.

"You never touch...the KiKi!" she shouted, before hugging Hiarashi and Mew. "Touch the Kiki and you die."

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Kooky teleported to Zanny, who stopped playing around and came to comfort him again.

"Hi." she greeted softly. Kooky snifled and wiped his tears. He smiled when Sandy came and petted his head.

"It's okay." she reassured. Zanny agreed when suddenly, Fang jumped her out of nowhere.

"DIE!!!!" the two Pokemon shouted at the same time.

"Don't be sad Kooky. It'll all be okay, right Zanny?" Sandy asked, looking casually at the squabbling rivals.

"Huh?" Zanny asked, laying on her back and using both her paws to keep Fang from biting into her.

"It'll all be okay, right?" Sandy repeated, as if unaware of the two's bloody-minded expressions.

"Okay? Yeah, sure...whatever you say..." she growled through gritted teeth before managing to throw Fang off. She stood, extended her claws and pounced.

Sandy looked back at Kooky. "See?"

The Abra watched Fang and Zanny fight, not at all comforted by the reassurances. Sandy sensed that.

"Zanny means it, even if it doesn't looked that at the moment. She's just too busy to sound honest. But she speaks the truth. Everything will be fine."

"I'll believe you for now." Kooky again sniffled and smiled. "Thank you."

"Any time, buddy." Sandy said with a smiled back. She hugged the Abra as Zanny and Fang dodged and lunged at their best. Sandy's eyes went big when she realized something. "Wait a minute? 'For now'!?! What are you saying?"

Kooky smiled as the Sandshrew playfully swatted him with her hat.

"I'm the most honest Sandshrew you know!" she said, grinning as she continued to swat him with her hat.

"How many Sandshrews do I know? Besides you, none." Kooky muttered. Sandy paused.

"Well, I'm the most honest Sandshrew there is!"

"Don't lie!" Zanny said, actually taking time from the fight to say that. They were busy trying to catch their breaths anyway.

Kit laughed as Sandy glared playfully at the Zangoose. Not even Fang could stifle a chuckle.

"What?" Sandy spat, coming for Zanny. Zanny grinned.

"You ain't honest. You lie to me all the time."

"Pfft...as if...Only time I 'lie' to you is sugar coating a compliment. Other than that, you got nothing."

"Don't flatter yourself."

The two friends were about to play fight again when:

"Yall better be asleep up there or I will beat the crap out of every one of you!"Yuki yelled from downstairs. Scared of Yuki's wrath, everyone ran into a bed and slept.

Sorry this took longer than usual. Friday was report card and I got into trouble, as always. I can't write on most weekends, and I was trying to work on this yesterday while training my Pokemon for the Pokemon League in the ruby version. Here's my progress for that:
Abra- Lvl.54 (Teleport, Psychic, Theif, Shadow Ball)
Zangoose-Lvl. 52 (Shock Wave, Slash, Thunderbolt, Crush Claw)
Seviper-Lvl. 41 (Poison Tail, Bite, Poison Fang, Crunch)
Swampert- Lvl. 51 (Muddy Water, Earthquake, Take Down, Water Gun)
Tentacruel- Lvl. 40 (Ice Beam, Bubble Beam, Surf, Dive)
Groudon- Lvl. 45 (Earthquake, Fire Blast, Slash, Bulk Up)

How do you think I'll do for the Elite 4? Do I even have a chance? And no, I'll never evolve my Abra, so that's out of the question.

And theredone1223, the Quilava is based on my cousin Quel, who loves ninjas. I don't know where he gets his line of "I'm a ninja!" All I know is that it's funny when he says it. And Hi theredone1223's sister!