A/N: Okay. Welcome back, guys! Hm.. well, let's start things off with some reviews to reply. Speaking of reviews, thank you so much with all that you give! It raises my interest to think more and make the story. As I said, reviews are fuel and a sign of interest! Unless it is flames, and i will ignore you.

First, Gender. I admit that I made the pokemon's gender based on their looks. Like Ralts and Kirlia will always be female and Aggron are always male. But don't worry, there'll be a female Pokemon and Female Character soon. Oops a bit of Spoiler there.

Second, Character Death. This review merits some thought and I decided that maybe on a later chapter. Not death cuz that will just made me.. Sympathetic? Just close to death or losing a limb or two. Should I make Leo be the victim? Kukukuku (Evil Laugh)... Oh and to Pegasus to answer your question, Leo is my OC.

Third, Original Character From The Series. There are some reviews who asked me about this. There would be passing mentions and little meetings here and there, I guess. The big guns would be later in the League itself. Rookie Danny vs Ash. How awesome is that?

Four, Pokemon. I really really intending to make Danny have more than six Pokemon on him. Why? Have you ever thought what your Pokemon would feel when they're caught but never really been taken care off by it trainer? I don't think Danny would like that very much considering her's a very loyal person. So, I planned to give him a max capacity of 20. What do you think? Is it too much or too few? I personally think its a good number.

Anyways, thanks for the review once again. I hope you enjoy my work. You know how disclaimers went so i'll forgo that part.

Chapter 4

Riiiiiinng!

Icy blue eyes opened blearily, staring blankly ahead as it struggled to regain complete consciousness. Danny let out a jaw breaking yawn and, with his inhuman and trained flexibilty, stretched in ways that would make accomplished gymnastics and most felines cringe and wince. With practiced ease, Danny slammed his hands to the side, effectively turning off the blaring alarm clock before grabbing said object and throwing it out of the conveniently opened window.

Hissing in annoyance as the sunlight fell over his face and stung his eyes, Danny pulled back the cover and buried himself inside his blanket, hoping that he would lost his partial consciousness and went back to his blissful sleep.

But alas.. It wasn't to be.

"That was refresh- Oh, Hell no! Danny! C'mon buddy its time to wake up! Wakey Wakey Wakey! Danny, don't force me to call your mom to wake you up!" An annoyingly bright voice cheered.

Faster than the eyes could follow, the cover was blown back and a hand comes out of it. Unable to dodge due to the speed and abruptness of the attack, Leo was forced to receive a knife-hand chop to the head, sending the happy-go-lucky ball of sunshine flat to the floor with a red and slightly smoking forehead. The room was silent for a moment before a silent sob could be heard.

Danny immediately threw his cover and jumped to his feet. His face was an epic combination of annoyance, exasperation, a bit of guilt, disbelieve, drowsiness and incredulity. He turned to the side to see Leo sitting in the corner with his face bowed and knees to his chest, a small trembling rocking his body. Treecko suddenly appeared from wherever it is he was hiding and made his way silently to his trainer, patting his trembling shoulders as if consoling him.

Suddenly, the wood gecko Pokemon turned to him and practically gave him a murderous glare, sliding his thumb across his neck as he hissed warningly. Damn.. For a little green gecko he was intimidating when he wanted to be.

Danny gulped, losing some of his annoyance and made his way over to the sobbing redhead. "Err.. Sorry, Leo. I don't mean to hit you on the head." He apologized.

He suddenly found himself face to face with a grinning Leo, tears still glistening down his face but that didn't seem to bother him one bit. The younger redhead placed his hands on his shoulder and with a grin greeted him cheerfully. "Mornin'. Finally! I thought you were going to just sleep there like a slakoth! C'mon Danny, we're on schedule!"

"W-what." Danny stammered his surprise, his still slightly hazy mind unable to process the speed in which Leo's mood seemed to change.

"Still, I don't know you were bad with tears! Lucky that I brought this fake tears from back home, huh? I could get you to wake up faster then!" He continued cheerfully. "It's not an easy thing to find you know.. You gotta order it first and wait for some time before you could get it delivered."

BAM! And he was back on the ground, forehead smoking slightly.

Danny pulled back his hand and sighed. "It should be a crime to be so cheerful this early in the morning." He grumbled before heading towards his bag to get his clothes, stepping over the still asleep Torch and Zenith along the way.

"Ouch.." Leo groaned weakly, Treecko facepalming by his side.

A Short While Later..

Danny pondered over the things he set as his goals as he walked down the semi-busy street of Jubilife City with Leo dashing around excitedly like a kid on sugar high. There was the teleporting function of the Pokedex that he wanted to disable, he should probably consult to professor Rowan about it rather than trying and failing on his own. Last he checked, he wasn't a Techno Geek like a certain african-american from back home.

And then there was Zenith. He needed to help him reach his final evolution and turn into a Salamence then help him to rescue his parents. That reminds him, ever since the confrontation the night before with Team Galactic, Zenith has turned more like his old self. He hid it well of course, enough so that Gale didn't notice any change in his behaviour pattern. But him and Torch, they knew him for almost two months -he wasn't fooling either of them. There was an underlying tenseness in him, the kind of feeling that screamed he wasn't in the mood for unicorns and rainbows. Which lead to a suspicion to form in the raven haired Trainer's mind.

The bad people that Zenith says kidnapped his parents was either Team Galactic or someone that was associated with them.

Even so, he noted amusedly, the tense atmosphere around Zenith didn't deter Gale from chattering about random things to both him and Torch. It was amusing to watch Zenith's expression turn into something like a dead fish as he tried in vain to block out the Starly's inane chatter. Who knew that Gale was a very random scatterbrain?

Lastly, there was the search for Palkia. He.. doesn't know where to start with this one. The best chance would be to go by ears and listen to the grapevines and rumour mills around Sinnoh.

He was pulled out of his thoughts went Leo grabbed his hands and pulled him through the rapidly filling street. "Whoa! Leo, where are you pulling me?" He asked in shock.

"Ice cream!" He shouted, golden eyes glittering madly as it honed in on the vendor at the side of the street. "Want some!" He drooled and his feet practically turned to black blurs from the speed he was moving.

Danny planted his feet to the ground, ignoring the loud screech the sole of his brand new shoes -a gift from Professor Rowan- made against the asphalt road. He needed to stop the younger redhead right here and now. "No!" Danny denied. "We're not getting you anymore sweet food today!" The kid was already on a constant sugar high, adding another sugar would just make him twice as worst.

"Aww.." Danny tried to ignore the dejected and crushed look the redhead wore. "I can hear it calling for me!" He whined.

Danny just grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and dragged him away from the potential death trap. "I can't hear a thing. All those maple syrup you put on your pancakes must have turned you delirious. Let's just go, Bud." He said, but then he paused when he bumped on someone causing said person to slip and fall.

"Ouchie~"

Danny turned around to see a girl on the ground. She was a bit on the petite side, with long pitch black hair, pale skin and dark blue eyes that made her look like a living porcelain doll. She wore a knee-length one piece black dress with a white cross on each of her shoulders and a pair of high heel boots to complete her look.

Danny averted his eyes away, feeling a bit home-sick after seeing the girl. She reminded him of Sam with all the black she was wearing. After making sure that his face wasn't showing any bad feelings, Danny turned back and offered the falled girl a hand. "Here, let me help you up." He said. Wordlessly, the girl did as she was asked and slipped a smooth pale hands for him to hold. Danny wasted no time in pulling her up and back to her feet.

"Sorry I wasn't looking at where I was going." He said, still gripping Leo tightly to prevent him from making a beeline towards the ice cream vendor.

"Hum.. Its fine. I wasn't hurt." The girl said in a silky soft voice. "I'm Lily. You are?" She introduced.

"Danny. And this is Leo." The raven haired teen tugged harder at the struggling rehead and practically pulled him up front towards the girl.

Whatever thought crossed on the redhead's mind before, flew out the window as golden eyes fixed towards the dark blue orbs of Lily. Leo went stock still and silent, as if he was petrified and turned to stone. Danny thought the kid was having somekind of withdrawal attack because he was denied his sugar, but then Leo's face started to turn redder and redder until it completely matched his hair.

And it was still turning redder... He doesn't think a person can be That red.

Leo ducked his head down to hide his blush and offered a hand to the confused girl. "Hi! I-I'm L-L-Leo. Leo Hashiri. I'm from Hoenn. How do ya do?" He said, gaining more confidence as his introduction went on.

"Hum.. So nice to meet you." She said, practically making the redhead swoon and grin like a loon. Lily professionaly ignored him. "If you'll excuse me, I have to go for my contest." She said and walked away into a large blue building in the distance.

"Well, that was quite interesting." He said, still trying to wrap his mind over the fact that human skin could turn as red as boiled crabs. Why was he even blushing for? Danny thought to himself before suddenly he was grabbed on both sides by Leo who had her eyes pinned at the retreating figure of the black clad coordinator. "Huh?"

"Let's watch." He said.

"Buddy, we need to get to Oreburgh if you don't want to-" It was now his turn to get grabbed by the scruff of his neck and be dragged to the blue building where the contest was being held. Danny just gave an explosive sigh of exasperation and let himself be dragged away by the redhead.

Suddenly, much to his shock, a Pokeball popped open from his belt, letting out a stream of white light, releasing Gale from his Pokeball. The Starling Pokemon flapped its wings as it tried to follow his Trainer even as he chuckled heartily. ::Aaah~ A boy stepping into manhood.::

"Hey Gale." Danny greeted flatly, seeing as the bird was in one of his mood to be a bit poetic and philosphycal. Like the fist time they meet.. something about love and war.

Later, Contest Hall...

Danny learned that morning that Leo could be scary in his own way. The redhead practically shoved the entire queue away and barged inside the ticket booth to get the transaction done. When the cashier told him to get in line and wait for his turn, the redhead immediately leaned in close and whispered some long strings of word that turned the man as pale as a sheet of paper.

A minute later Leo was out of the booth with two VIP seat tickets in hand, grinning happily as if he won the ticket to heaven. According to him, the man was very cooperative and even lowered the price to half the original.

It was as convincing as telling him that pigs could fly...

Danny shrugged and just followed the hyperactive Hoenn native to the hall where the show is going to be held. He have to admit though, the seat Leo proccured for them was strategic and well placed. It was right in the middle where he would get to see the show from the most comfortable spot and point of view without having to crane his neck.

Leo, somehow, managed to proccure two box of popcorn and two glass of coke for them to consume while enjoying the show. He was pretty sure that Leo meant he was going to eat until it was Lily's turn though, the redhead doesn't seem much like a contest kind of person.

Pretty soon, the whole hall was starting to fill with people, empty seats preoccupied and buzzing excited chatters echoed through the hall. The lights slowly turned dim before going completely off, shutting the room into pitch black darkness. Suddenly, a spotlight turned on and shined down upon the stage, showing a man in a flahy white shirt and red vest standing proudly on the stage.

"Welcome! One and all to the Jubilife Contest!" He greeted loudly from with his microphone. "I, William Cipper, your humble host-" Most of the audience clapped politely for his introduction. "-Present to you, our beautiful judge and Gym leader of Eterna City, Gardenia!" The spotlight turned on, illuminating one of the three front row seats to show a young woman with shoulder length orange hair with two bangs framing her face, fair skin and an equally orange eyes. She wore a green cape over a black skin-tight shirt that doesn't cover her stomach. She also wore a pair of baggy brown pants to complete her look.

"Hello!" She greeted. "I hope to see some beautiful performance today." The audience, again clapped. Danny followed suit since this was a Gym Leader.

"Next! We have the ever beautiful nurse! Presenting Jubilife City's very own Nurse Joy!" The host, again, pointed dramatically to the special seats where a second spotlight just shone down on the familiar pink haired nurse's visage.

"Morning everyone." She greeted. "may the best coordinator wins." She said.

"Aww.. such chivalry and kindness." The host cooed, causing the large crowd to either coo with him, or laugh at his antics. Danny joined the latter, while Leo busied himself on emptying the bucket of Popcorn in his hand. "Last, but certainly not least, is our region's Pokemon Professor! Prof. Rowan!" The light shone down upon the familiar old man, causing Danny to gape in shock.

"Gramps? What's he doing here?" He asked in shock.

Regardless, the old man waved to the crowd and smiled politely at the crowd of audience. "Greetings." He said before he sat himself back down to his seat, signalling that he wasn't going to talk any further.

"Well then! Without further ado, Let us start on the first part of our contest! Performance Show!"

Danny wondered if all hosts have training that allowed them to make dramatic exclamations all the time, but it was soon drowned by the cheers and applause made by all the audiance as the first performer, a boy in a fancy suit named John, appeared in the stage. He smirked confidently before throwing a slightly darker pokeball to release a Chimchar in a burst of sparkling glitter.

"Where are all those glitters coming from?" He asked aloud.

Fortunately, Leo was willing to stop and part with his salt and butter Popcorn to give some well-deserved explanation. "Using combinations of Ball Capsules and Seals. Notice that Pokeball is darker than normal and there's a sticker plastered in front? That's the thing." He explained, surprisingly knowledgable on the subject.

"I thought he stuffed a bunch of glitters inside the pokeball.." Danny smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head in a small but of embarrassment.

Leo turned to look at him as if he was a nutjob. "...Arceus..." He breathed out. "That's bloody brilliant!"

Or not.

A Lot of Performance Later...

Lily appeared from behind the large luxurious purple curtain and entered the stage, unknowingly causing Danny to sigh in relieve. Finally! I thought she wasn't going to perform! He thought as he watched her gracefully and confidently strode to the center of the stage. She, instead of her preciously reserved black dress, wore a black leather long sleeved jacket over a dark purple short shirt that exposed her stomach the same way Gardenia's did. A skinny black jeans and a black high heel shoes decorated her legs while a black fedora hat was perched on her head.

Nice theme... Danny thought to himself.

*THUD!*

He turned to the side to see Leo slumped lifelessly on his seat with, disturbingly enough, hearts instead of his yellow eyes. A dorky and slightly silly grin plastered on his face even as a small, steady and continuous stream of blood keeps on flowing from his nose. Danny, ever the dense guy, didn't understand the situation and instead rationalized it as him consuming too much salt and coke.

"Oi! Leo! Dammit, Leo!" He called to his unconscious but happy friend, lightly slapping him on the cheeks.

"Aaah... I have no regret." He moaned weakly.

"Hey! Don't say that line! That's the line from action movie characters who's about to die! Oi!" He slapped harder, but Leo kept on nosebleeding and grinning. "Gross! There's blood on me!" He said, wiping the blood on his hand using the redhead's shirt.

Unaware of the panic her choice of attire has caused, Lily continued on and pulled out her Pokeball before throwing it up into the air. It opened but instead of letting out a stream of light, the pokeball released a thick grey smoke, effectively covering her and the pokemon she released.

Realising that the crowd has turned silent, Danny stopped his job at abusing the redhead friend's cheek and turned to watch the procceding performance.

"Ooooh! Lily Greyfell has decided to take the Mysterious and Dramatic approach, what will It be!?" Danny was now very tempted to blast the host with a low-powered Ecto-ray to shut him and his distracting commentary.

There was a slight shift inside the smoke before a purple burst of light exploded inside it, along followed a small gust of wind that blowed the smokescreen cover. Once it disppeared, Danny and everyone else, along with the half-conscious Leo, could see that Lily was striking a very elegant but none-less baddass pose with a crow-like Pokemon perched on her outstretched hand, while the other hand was holding her black fedore hat.

"Wow.. A murkrow." Danny and Leo breathed out, awed and speechless at the dramatic start of the girl's performance.

"Murkrow, take off and rain down Shadow Balls Rapid Fire. Suspend them with Psychic before using use Tailwind to increase your speed and destroy some of them with Pursuit and aerobatic. Leave some to destroy with Dark Pulse for the ending. I leave the numbers of Shadow Balls to you." She whispered her order.

The Murkrow cawed once before flying up high above the stage, cawing ominously all the while. It circled the stage once, like a vulture eyeing its prey before opening its yellow beak wide and shooting off spheres of swirling dark and ghostly energy that left Danny fidgeting in his seat as he sensed the ghost-type power behind that move. The speheres, easily more than twenty of them stopped mid air and started to change their trajectory, moving around aimlessly as if it has a life of its own.

Murkrow kept its Psychic activated to control the Shadow Balls' movement, eyes glowing an eerie red as she did. The Murkrow flew up higher before taking a nosedive, folding its wing and spun around like a drilling torpedo. Its body turned into a black glowing missile as it used pursuit and Tailwind to increase its speed. One by one, the drilling ullet that is Murkrow started obliterating the Shadow balls, creating exlosions of darkness and showering the stage and the nearby seats with black glittering powder.

Murkrow flew up and emerged from the tempest of Shadow Balls before performing acrobatic movement in the air, gracefully dodging some of the shadow balls that moved to attack before she plunged back inside the proverbial zone of war.

Explosions after explosions kept ringing throughout the show, Murkrow adding bits of pieces of something else to keep the audience interested in the show of destruction. Then, all too soon, the number has dwindled to a mere seven and Murkrow somehow set herself inside the circle of seven Shadow Balls without making it look like an act. The Darkness Pokemon gained an evil glint in his eyes that most audience inching frwards in their seats in anticipation.

Huh, Mean Look has that effect on humans? Danny wondered.

Murkrow twisted and spun in place even as the Shadow Balls moved in to deal the last blow. The crow-like pokemon stopped and spred her wings wide, releasing a pulse of dark energy at the Sahdow Balls causing them to explode outwards into a shower of purple and black sparks.

With a caw, the Murkrow landed gracefully on Lily's outstretched hand, once again spreading her black wing majestically behind her. The black clad girl and her Murkrow bowed to the crowd, eliciting a round of deafening applause, cheers and cat calls from the audience before setting her fedora hat back on her head and heading back behind the curtain.

"That was awesome!" Danny cheered along with the audience.

"Lily! Marry Me!" Someone among the crowd called out, followed by a few cat-calls and wolf-whistles.

"Over my dead body!" Leo roared beside him before he proceeded to sniff out and hunt the guy who said that through the crowd, paying no attention to the judge who was giving their compliments to Lily's performance. Several people sweatdropped at the sight.

Danny faceplamed. "That moron.."

Minutes later, after subduing a berserk Leo and preventing the appearance of security guards to detain him, Danny found himself bored at watching the performance. Having seen one so incredible and dramatic made the other performances look dull and boring, bar that self-appreciating blonde girl with a Piplup and a stoic beautiful guy with his Skarmory. The former was stunning in a simple way while the latter was making the show interesting since he was using a bird almost entirely made of steel.

In laymen's term, the audience was looking forward to see some violence involving the guy being shreded by the Skarmory's bladed wing.

"A~aaand finally! We're done with the first part of this contest! Are you curious as to who made the cut to move on to the next round? I'm sure you all are! If you would look to the screen behind me-" Everyone averted their eyes from the host and onto the large screen set on the wall. "-We're going to show you the winners of this round!"

The screen lighted up and four pairs of faces appeared in it along with their names. Unsurprisingly, Lily was there. This elicited a round of clapping from the newly made and named Lily Fanclub. You all undoubtedly know one of the members; a certain red-haired, golden-eyed happy go lucky trainer

Also, unsurprisingly, the guy with the Skarmory made it to the next round. Guess the audience still wanted some violence with that bladed wings it possessed.

One Five Minute break Later..

This is ridiculous.

Danny didn't try to disguise his growing boredom and disinterest as he watched the second part of the contest, a battle, proceed. The fight, if it could even be called that, was seriously ridiculous. Well, it looked ridiculous to him and Leo didn't care one bit. The contestants have to fight with a limited amount of time and point. With each successful attack, your point will decrease until it runs out, signifying that you lose. Should both pokemon didn't run out of point by the time the match ends, it will be counted who had larger points to decide the winner.

Those rules sounds normal. He had no problem with those.

But there's one rule that he couldn't help but want to erase: fight BEAUTIFULLY.

That.. was the most idiotic thing he has ever heard. While he had seen some movie heroine did a very awesome fight scene while being a beautiful baddass, he learned early on that you could never compare fiction with reality. It just wasn't fair. Looking at this now, he gave himself a mental pat in the back. Look at those pokemon did unnecessary twirls and jumps and flicks.. They're wasting precious energy.

At least, the guy with the skarmory and Lily herself wasn't doing any of all the mentioned things above, both for different reasons. The stoic guy has a skarmory. That alone should be an obvious reason. Why? It's a fucking skarmory. Will you twirl and spin around like a ballerina when you're a man-sized bird of steel with bladed wings?

No way in hell.

As for Lily.. She's just a no-nonsense type of girl. As shown when she blasted a jigglypuff ("Poor adorable little thing.." -Danny) with a rapid fire Shadow Ball. She earned herself the name Miss. Heartless for that action.

When it comes down to it, both doesn't need grace and beauty to get their job done. And in the end, both of them was the only one left to fight and win the ribbon. Lily and the stoic guy stood ramrod straight across from each other, faces completely stony and devoid of any emotion.

When the host gave another commentary that was too distracting to be important, Danny swore to himself to sic Torch on him and get him to teaar a hole on his pants and straight to his undergarments before setting it on fire.

Mr William, the host, felt a shiver ran down his spin as an ominous feeling settled over him. Looking around, he saw the Murkrow owned by Lily smirk at him. Remembering the less than stellar belief of some superstitious people about Murkrows in general, the host began preparing himself for some tragic accident to come to him.

"B-Begin." He stuttered meekly, to scared to be dramatic.

Both Murkrow and Skarmory shot up into the air, flapping their wings to get airborne. "Murkrow, Rapid FIre Shadow Ball!" Lily cried out. Murkrow opened her mouth and shot out a rapid stream of dark purple spheres at the iron bird.

The stoic guy didn't look the least bit troubled. "Skarmory use Steel Wing and destroy those." Skarmory nodded and in a flash, the spheres of condensed black material was destroyed by metallic grey wings.

"Murkrow, Pursuit!" Murkrow nodded and proceeded to let out a purple glow around her body before shooting off in a show of speed. She moved randomly, zigzag, straight, down, up, all the while getting closer to the Skarmory to avoid getting tracked by the iron bird's sharp eyes.

"Air Cutter, Air Slash." Skarmory screamed its shrill cry before flapping its red bladed wings, creating a gust of sharp cutting winds that he sent randomly all around, hoping to catch the murkrow by chance.

"This is intense." Danny said. His battle experience was just against the usual trainers around the route and wild pokemons that were willing to spar. Other than that, he was completely amateur. Looking at the ruthless Skarmory and the relentless Murkrow, it hit him that he still had much to learn.

"Mm Crunch! Yeah! Much! Awesome right?" Leo agreed with him even as he continued to shove a handful of Popcorns into his mouth.

"You're messy.." Danny said.

"Aren't all guys?" He inquired.

"Good point."

Both turned to the fight when a loud boom sounded, showing that Murkrow has finally been shot down with an Air Slash. Skarmory's mouth spread into a bloodthirsty grin that promised untold pain to his target and shot down into the stage, ready to give a good old styled body slam. With a panicked order from Lily, Murkrow quickly rolled to the side, avoiding a possible life-threatening injury by being crushed by several kilograms of living steel while giving the Skarmory a decrease in point by the recoil caused by Body Slam.

"Shadow Ball now!" Lily ordered.

With a cry of her name, Murkrow shot out a Shadow Ball to Skarmory who reared his head back and successfully dodged the attack, letting it fly and explode on the far off wall. Murkrow didn't seem dettered by her unsuccessful attempt and chose to create more Shadow Ball to launch. It wasn't to be however as the stoic guy issued his next set of command.

"Metal Sound and Flash Cannon." He intoned calmly.

Danny clamped a hand to his ear as the horrible grating noise reverberated through the walls of the hall, bouncing around the room to create an even more horrible echo. Danny opened his eyes, finding himself shutting it down in a vain attempt to repress the sound and block it from his enhanced hearing, to see that Skarmory was gritting its own bladed wings together to create the noise.

The Iron Bird opened his mouth and reared back his head before shooting a grey and more metallic version of Shadow Ball at Murkrow who was pressing herself down to the ground while both wings pressed uselessly to her ears to block out the noise from Metal Sound. Unable to dodge, Murkrow was forced to take the Flash Cannon right on the face.

And her points went down the drain.

Lily lose.

Outside the Hall, After Contest..

"Such a shame.." Lily sighed in disappointment, her Murkrow patting her softly in the head with her wings. "And we were so close too.."

"There's always another chance." Danny said, attempting to console the disraught and disappointed coordinator. "Besides, I'm sure most of the judge liked your performance as well. Right Leo?" He asked.

"Right!" He nodded enthusiastically. "I mean, you got this purple light show and acrobatics and that really cool pose!" He said, blushing a bit as the dark haired girl watched him as he ranted.

"Hum.. I suppose. Thank you for the encouraging words." She said with a small smile to the both of them. Leo's face heated again, a small steam of smoke rising softly from the top of his head. "Now, I must embark to the next town with a contest hall.. I shall win the next ribbon. Mark that." She said determinedly before turning and waving goodbye at them.

"Wait!" Leo shouted, halting Lily from getting further away. "Would you like to travel with us?" He asked.

Danny stayed silent. He wasn't against it.. If anything, it might be interesting to have her around. And as most say, the more the merrier. So, he let the younger teen talk his idea to the girl.

"It would be nice. However, our paths differ from each other. I can tell you're going for the League, right? I'm going for the Grand Carnival and whatnots.. So.. its a no." She rejected softly. Leo's face lost some of his excitement but he forced himself to smile to honor the wish of the girl she liked. "But, should we meet again, I don't mind a lunch or two.." She winked at him and waved before walking away into the distance, Murkrow snickering something that suspiciously sounded like Young Love..

"YESS!" Leo shouted happily, jumping into the air in excitement.

Danny just grinned and laughed at the younger male's antics before he turned a bit sad, remembering his not so secret crush on Sam that was now impossible to grow since the boundary of worlds and dimensions separated them. Dammit! I'll find you, Palkia! He resolved.

"Let's go, Love-puppy!" Danny called out, causing Leo to stumble and glare at him with a blush on his face.

And so, after making a short visit to the Pokemart to restock and get anything they might need, Danny and Leo are off into the wilderness of route 203. Again, just as their previous trip, the two trainers let themselves enjoy the walk through nature before someone decided to breka the calmness and asked a battle with the two of them.

A tag battle. Something they had done before against the grunts of Team Galactic on the event that was now dubbed as the Pokemon Centre Attack by the newspaper. So, it wasn't a surprise when the both of them came out victorious with some more cash transfered to their account as a token for winning.

It wasn't long before they passed through a small pool around the forest and decided to rest and have lunch, despite Leo's previous consumption of three buckets of popcorns.

"Mm? I hihn nodis yu meik a Poke wud." Leo said incoherently.

"Huh?" Danny asked. "Don't talk with your mouth full."

Leo gulped all of his sandwhich before pointed to Torch, Bagon and Gale who was eating a handmade food by Danny's own recipe. "I said, I didn't notice that you make your own Pokefood." He restated.

"Ooh.. that." He smiled. "You see, different recipe of Pokemon food could give different effect to the consumer. Most people just aim to make something healthy for their Pokemon. But me, I make something that made them bigger and stronger in comparison to the normal ones." He said proudly.

"So you spiked it with steroids?' Leo asked, cocking his head to the side in contemplation. "Thats.. unique."

Danny face-palmed. "..Jesus.."

"Who's Jesus?" Leo asked.

"My version of Arceus." Danny said simply.

"I don't know Arceus has many identity!" Leo laughed. "Anyway, do you have a fishing rod? I wanna get a water type for an edge against the Gym in Oreburgh." He said.

"If anyone needed an edge, its me." He said sullenly, eyeing his team which has a Fire type and a Flying type who was both weak to Rock type. "But yes, I do." He digged up his back and pulled out a rectractable Super Fishing Rod. "Here."

Leo tok the offered item with a thank you before marching off to the small pool, determined to get himself a water type. Not even five minute after the bait was down, something has already tugged on it, causing Leo to excitedly cheer and pull. It proved to be a strong fish, however, as it resisted the pull and went further away. Leo, gritted his teeth and threw his arms back as far as he could, pulling out..

"Gyaaaaaaaaraaaaaa!"

A Gyarados.

How in the name of Ghost Zone did a Gyarados survive in a small pool!?

There was a stunned silence as every pokemon and human in the nearby vicinity stopped what they are doing and stood stock still as if petrified by the presence of the Atrocious Pokemon. Leo turned back and whispered softly, but the silence managed to make his sound come off as loud. "Should we run?" He asked.

"We should run." Harry answered.

Gyarados, sensing that its prey is about to run away, roared to the heavens above, sending a flock of Starly flying away by the sheer terror it radiated. Gyarados reared its head and let out a beam of white light.

There's only one thought that could run in your head when a white beam of massive destruction came heading your way courtesy of a giant sea serpent. "Oh shit!" Danny cursed before an explosion sent them flying into the distance.

...

Danny opened his eyes with a groan of pain as he sat up and rubbed the back of his head. His enhanced healing working overtime with all the damage did to his head. No wonder Gyarados' was known as the Atrocious Pokemon.. their rage are unholy and their hyper beam even more so. Should we get a magikarp and train it to be a Gyarados?

Meh.. Too many risk of possible death by Hyper Beam.

Turning to his side, he saw Leo up and about and he founf himself wondering if Leo himself had and enhanced healing. But chalked it up as one of the wonders that is known as Leo Hashiri. Then he found his bag, still strapped to his back since the sudden appearance of the sea serpent, started wiggling and moving, a small glow coming from inside it.

The egg! It took him a moment to remember about it before he ripped open the zipper furiously. Out of it popped up he head of a white otter.

"Osha!" It cried cutely. :: E'o!::

Danny quickly fished out his black and white Pokedex with one hand, finding his other one preocuppied by being the little white otter's plaything. He turned it on and aimed it at the white otter when it beeped.

"Oshawott, the Sea Otter Pokemon. The scalchop on its stomach is made from the same element as claws. It detaches the scalchop for use as a blade. This Oshawott is Male and it is Lv. 1. It knows the move Tackle. It has the ability Torrent." It intoned with its synthetic voice before turning off automatically.

Danny grinned deviously. A water type! Just what he needed!

"You know little buddy, I think we'll be getting along really well!" He smiled, thinking of ways he could express another of his gratitude for the old wizened professor.

T.B.C

Danny's Team:

1. Torch (Houndoom) - Lv. 28 - Male.

Howl, Tackle, Leer, Ember, Flamethrower, Fire Fang, Bite, Crunch, Dig, Feint Attack, Headbut, Quick Attack, Inferno, Nasty Plot, Shadow Ball, Hyper Beam, Iron Claw, Smog, Foul Play, Dark Pulse.

2. Zenith (Bagon) - Lv. 27 - Male.

Rage, Ember, Bite, Leer, Dragon Breath, Headbutt, Skull Bash, Zen Headbutt, Flamethrower, Double Edge, Hyper Beam, Brick Break, Dragon Claw, Hone Claws, Dragon Rush.

3. Gale (Starly) - Lv. 12 - Male.

Tackle, Screech, Quick Attack, Wing Attack, Steel Wing, Aerial Ace, Agility, Whirlwind, Peck, Double team.

4. Unnamed (Oshawott) - Lv.1 - Male

Tackle.

Leo's Team:

1. Treecko - Lv. 14 - Male.

Pound, Leer, Quick Attack, Absorb, Bullet Seed, Pursuit, Slam, Agility.

2. Starly - Lv. 11 - Male.

Tackle, Screech, Quick Attack, Wing Attack, Peck, Double Team.

That's it for this chapter! More reviews guys and don't foget the nice Fav and Follows! Until Next time!

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