Wow, I've never had writer's block this bad before.

Chapter 13:A Day of R&R

It had been two days since Serenity had been purified, and we were now in Rustboro City, the Pokemon Center, to be exact. After defeating Roxanne yesterday, we had come here to rest, and had unanimously decided to rest for the entire day today. No battling, no Chrome Syndicate, we weren't even going to travel. At the moment, we were relaxing in the lounge, talking amongst ourselves avidly about nothing of particular interest. Serenity was sitting near me, simply because she enjoyed being near me. However, our conversations died down as a girl strode over with blonde scraggly hair and wearing an outfit that left little to the imagination. She stood right next to the seat where Serenity and I were sitting, hands on her hips.

"Move, thing," she ordered, looking at Serenity."The humans are going to talk."

Five seconds passed with an incredibly hostile silence in the air. I noticed Serenity put a hand to her mouth, offended, while the others glared daggers at the intuder. I wrapped an arm around Serenity, frowning at the rude girl.

"No one insults or gives orders to my friends,"I said, my calm tone betraying my irritation."Try again."She gave me a look that nearly made me gag in disgust. It instantly told me she was a slut.

"I'm a big fan of yours, Mr. Sinnoh League Champ,"she purred."I bet it must be lonely on your journey, so let me keep you company..."She reached a hand for me, but paused when I inched my head away. She slid into the seat behind me and tried again, but I moved my head again and the others began to growl. She glared at them.

"What's with the rats?"she asked angrily. Okay, this girl was really pissing me off, but she seemed to be completely oblivious to my rage. Rude and stupid. Yeah, that's attractive...

"I believe I just told you not to insult my friends,"I said coldly, glaring at her

"Come on, you know you want me," she tried again in a pathetic attempt of a seductive voice. "You wouldn to want to hang around with those filthy rats over me, right?"

"Filthy?"the ice in my voice could have frozen Articuno herself."For your information, they've bathed just yesterday."I smirked cruelly."And I just remembered something my mother told me about girls like you. I believe it was along the lines of 'Don't touch that, you don't know where it's been.'"She gasped in shock, then walked off indignantly in a huff. The others began to laugh and cheer.

"That's why you're the boss, boss!"Zaps hooted, laughing hysterically.

"You showed that stinking girl!"even the naive Zephyr couldn't stand her. Not surprising, really.

Psyche nodded, chuckling in amusement as he said "It seems even you can only take so much before your anger gets the better of you."I shrugged as Serenity smiled up at me.

"While I do appreciate you defending us, don't you think you could try not to get so angry?"she asked."I don't like it when you're mad."

"Sorry. I just can't stand it when anyone insults you guys,"I said honestly."You're the only friends I've got, after all."I shrugged."Well, aside from the Legendaries, but we don't hang out with them very often."I looked up in thought, scratching my chin."I wonder what they do with their free time..."

"It varies between us, actually,"a new voice spoke. We all turned our heads to see Rayquaza in his human form walk up to us. As one would expect, he wore mostly green clothes. He was pretty tall and, well, lanky, to be blunt.

"What's up, Ray?"I asked as he sat down across from me."Something new come up?"I hoped to Arceus not. Like I said, I was wanting this to be a day of relaxation for the team after that gym battle.

He shook his head, much to my relief."Nope. Just checking up on ya."He grinned fiercely."I gotta say, I like how you sent that whore off."I just shrugged again.

"Well, what have you been up to?"I asked, changing the subject.

"The usual thing, patrolling the ozone layer, keeping the idiots in check, yadda yadda,"he replied nonchalantly. I think it's pretty obvious who 'the idiots' are.

"Hey, what DO you do in your free time?"I asked, curious.

He scratched his chin."Well, I don't have a lot of free time, but whenever I do, I just like to sit back and relax. Nothing special. I like to watch the clouds go by, just from a different perspective than the usual, y'know?"He chuckled. I nodded, smiling.

"Sounds nice,"I said.

"What are you gonna do today?"he asked, looking through the team.

"All we're doing today is relaxing,"I said."We'll get back on the road tomorrow, though."He nodded, standing back up.

"I gotta go, Ken,"he said, holding his hand forward. I gladly shook it."Good seeing you again."

"Back at ya,"I said."See you at the next meeting."

"So long,"he said, then walked off. I looked at my watch.

"Well, he managed to kill about 2 minutes,"I muttered."Heck, not even that much."

"What do we do now?"Anubis asked. I shrugged.

"What do you guys want to do?"I asked."This city ain't exactly a well-known vacation spot."They all looked amongst themselves with raised eyebrows, all wondering the same thing.

"Um, I think I might know what we can do today,"Serenity said. We all looked at her."On the way here, I noticed a watering hole just on the edge of the woods. It was pretty big. Maybe we could go relax there?"I blinked. That idea was pretty appealing. I looked at the others.

"What do you think?"I asked.

"Sounds good to me!"Anubis asked."We haven't gone swimming in ages!"

"Probably cause you and Ken are the only good swimmers out of all of us,"Fang muttered.

"Eh, what the heck?"Zaps said with a shrug."Not like we got anything better to do."

"It should be rather relaxing,"COREM said. Psyche nodded in agreement.

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"Wow, you sure this a watering hole?"I asked Serenity. The reason I asked was because it looked more like a small lake.

She shrugged."We weren't that close to it when I first saw it, so I couldn't really tell."

"Fair enough."

"Move it or lose it, Slowkings!"Anubis shouted, running forward and diving in. I quickly hopped back, not wanting to get my clothes wet.

"I'll go get my swim trunks on,"I said, walking through some of the shrubs and out of their sight.

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"Alright, I'm back,"I said, walking back into the clearing, now wearing black swim trunks. I looked around; Anubis was leisurely floating on his back in the water. Zaps was standing near the edge of the water with a nervous expression on his face. (He couldn't swim very well.) Psyche was levitating a few feet above the middle of the water, eyes closed in meditation. Zephyr was splashing about in the water like a kid. (Turns out they were waterproof. Go figure.) Fang was snoozing peacefully in the shade of a tree, and I couldn't find Wrath anywhere. Serenity was...staring at me with her mouth hanging open slightly. I tilted my head."Is something wrong, Serenity?"She shook her head, as if snapping out of a daze.

"Uh, wh-what...?"she stuttered.

"What were you staring at me for?"I asked. Her cheeks went pink as she looked away.

"I've...never seen you without your shirt on..."she mumbled.

"Oh..."was my reply.

"You're....very...muscular,"she said quietly, her blush deepening. I looked down at my torso. I guess I was pretty ripped, thanks to all my training. It was certainly an improvement from before all this started. I looked back at Serenity. Even without psychic power, I could tell she was very embarrassed, so I decided to change the subject.

"Where did Wrath go?"I asked. She blinked, then looked towards the lake.

"They went to the lake bottom,"she said."They said that they wanted to think. About what, I don't know."

"Huh,"I said, then another question popped in my head."Do you know how to swim?"A sullen expression crossed her features.

"Y-yes..."she said quietly."My parents taught me how before...the incident."I flinched slightly.

"Sorry..."I mumbled. She smiled up at me.

"It's alright,"she said."As long as I'm with all of you, I'm happy."I smiled as well.

"Good to hear,"I said."C'mon!"I quickly ran past her and jumped into the water, making a nice splash in the process.

"Nice one!"Anubis said, grinning at me. Zephyr cackled insanely, splashing even more.

"SPLASHY!"he squealed happily. I looked back at Serenity, who calmly hopped into the water, then shivered violently.

"It's cold!"she shouted.

"It's not that bad,"Anubis said dismissively.

"SPLASHY!"Zephyr repeated.

"Don't worry, you'll adjust to it,"I told her.

"Easy for you to say!"she said, swimming over to us while looking at Anubis."You have fur."She looked at Zephyr."You can't even feel the cold."

"SPLASHY!"

She looked at me."And you're resistant to the cold."

"Well, how about I warm it up then?"I offered. All three gave me freaked out looks, even Zephyr. I smacked my forehead."NOT LIKE THAT!"I held my hand open, creating a small fireball."Get it?"

"Ohhhhh,"they all said. I rolled my eyes, then placed my hands against the surface of the water, concentrating. I felt the heat emanate from my hands, slowly beginning to warm the water considerably. When I felt it was warm enough, I stopped.

"That feels kinda nice,"Anubis mumbled, then sank into the water up to his nose. I looked at Serenity, who also seemed rather relaxed.

"Who knew you were a walking hot spring?"she joked. I cracked my neck, laying back in the water, hissing as my muscles began to loosen. I glanced at Zapperton.

"You coming in?"I asked.

"Uhhh..."he mumbled.

"SPLASH!"Zephyr squealed, splashing water at the Electivire and getting his legs wet.

"HEY!"he shouted angrily. Zephyr just kept on spraying him."CUT IT OUT!"

"I DON'T WANNA!"Zephyr screamed at him. Serenity giggled at his childish nature.

"DON'T MAKE ME COME IN THERE!"

I chuckled and laid back. This was the life. No missions, no training, just peace, quiet, and traquility.

"SPLASHY!"

"THAT'S IT!"

Well, sort of.

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End of Chapter

Okay, that took way too long. Sorry.