It was the day after the forest fire. The Kalos natives were currently huddled around a hospital bed. Kisai had just woke up and would be able to leave in a few hours. She was all simles despite all the worry looks that the others gave her. Shauna seemed the most worried since it was supposed to be her in the hospital.
"How are you feeling?" Tierno asked.
"I have a headache, but it's nothing I can't handle," Kisai laughed.
"Stop it," Shauna whispered.
"What was that Shauna?" Kisai asked.
"Stop laughing all the time," she said louder. "Look at where you at. You're in a hospital!"
"I can see that."
"Don't you care that you could've died back there!" Shauna cried.
The boys were silent. They had never seen Shauna this emotional before. It could have been since she was stuck in a forest fire, but there had to be something more. They looked at Kisai to see what she had to say. Not surprising, she still had a smile on her face.
"I wouldn't mind if I died because I was protecting you," Kisai answered.
Shauna was taken back by her answer. She watched as Kisai took out her. It had a few burn spots, but Kisai could still read it. Kisai flipped through a few pages till she landed on a picture of three kids.
"Lucas, Jun, and Dawn. They all come from the Sinnoh region. These three help save their whole region from a evil team and they also fought against the three legendary Pokémon. When I asked them why did they do all of that all of their answers were similar. Jun said, 'They hurt innocent people. I couldn't sit back and let that happen.' Then Lucas added, 'No one was going to go out of their way to stop them, so we did it. If we didn't they wouldn't stop at just Sinnoh.' Dawn was the last one and she said, 'When you're protecting others you forget that you could get hurt to.'"
"Three kids did all of that?" Calem questioned. "There is no way something like that could happen."
"I guess you Kalos people don't know what happens outside your region," Kisai sighed.
"Wait, Kisai are you saying you saved me because-"
"Because if I didn't it would had been you in here," Kisai finished. "I would've done that to any of you."
The group went silent again. She haven't even known them for a week and she says something like that. The guys, mainly Calem, wondered if they could say the same thing about her. Waiting to change the subject, Kisai asked about the fire woman who saved them.
"That was Malva," Calem answered. "She's apart of the Elite Four."
"She chased off the two that was chasing us," Shauna added.
"What were they aiming for anyway?" Tierno asked.
"It must had been something important if they went to all that trouble," Calem said.
"They wanted me," Kisai answered.
"For what?" Calem questioned.
"Like I know. They were acting super weird."
"Shauna did anything weird happened out in the forest," Trevor asked.
The entire time the orange hair boy was silent. He thinking about what he saw back in the forest. In all of his books, he had never seen a hole just like that. An Onix or its evolution would be a good guess, the problem was that they don't live around in this area.
"Are you talking about that giant hole or how the fire just suddenly vanished?" Shauna questioned.
"What are you guys talking about?" Kisai asked.
"It happen right after you fell unconscious. This big z-shaped Pokémon came out of no where and put out the surrounding flames. I don't think it was even using a attack to do all of that stuff."
"Z-shaped!" Trevor yelled.
"Yes."
"What's wrong Trevor?" Tierno asked.
"You met him! You met him! Trevor repeated.
"Breath buddy," Calem said.
"You met Zygarde!" Trevor finished.
"What!" the rest of the group minus Kisai yelled.
"I'm guessing that's a legendary," Kisai said.
"Zygarde is only supposed to come when ecosystem falls into disarray," Calem said. "I know it was a forest fire but-"
"Maybe him showing up was a warning," Kisai butted in.
"What do you mean?" Trevor questioned.
"Well Pokémon are in tune with things, so maybe that Zygarde showing up was a sign about the future."
"I don't get it," Shauna said.
"I do," Calem said getting up. "Whoever those freaks were are going to cause big trouble for Kalos. We can't let them do that."
"Can't we let the police do that?" Tierno asked.
"Yeah, I agree with Tierno on that one," Trevor said.
"You didn't see their power Calem," Shauna said. "I know that even you can't beat them."
"Maybe not at my level know, but I know that me and my Pokémon can get stronger."
"Plus it's not like we can have a normal journey aanymore, " Kisai added.
"What do you mean?" Tierno questioned.
"They seen both of us," Kisai said pointing at her and Shauna, "it is only a matter time till they figure out who the rest of you are."
"I guess you're right," Shauna whispered.
"But don't worry I don't think that they'll come after me again. They caused to much trouble."
"Well no matter what I'm not stopping my journey till I reach the top," Calem said.
"You're right Calem," Tierno said. "If I want to be the very best dancer I won't let anything bring me down."
"And I want to be a scholar, " Trevor added.
"To learn everything about Pokémon," Kisai said.
"I want to be stronger," Shauna said.
"Then it's settled," Kisai said, "we won't let those red wearing freaks crush our dreams."
"Yeah!" they cheered.
"Well I'm off to the next city," Calem said. "I heard that there's a gym there."
"The next town is Lumiose City," Trevor commented. "I can visit my family."
"I can go with you," Tierno said.
"Where are you guys going?" Calem asked.
"I don't know," Kisai said. "Shauna?"
"We're gonna be here for a while," Shauna answered.
"Umm, excuse me visiting time is over," a nurse said.
With that one by one the group got smaller. The boys decided to head to Lumiose City while Shauna waited for Kisai to get out. Shauna kept herself occupied while wanting. She was training with her Chespin and Skitty. Once Kisai got out of the hospital, Shauna told her something very unexpected.
"Kisai, I want to take on the gym."
