Hey everyone sorry chapter 5 took so long. But here it is now and enjoy.

Chapter 5

Sonic, Leon, and Elle went to the café and were about to order some chili dogs when Leon remembered something."Crap! There's something I need to get from the Pokemon Center, I'll be right back," Leon ran towards the Pokemon Center and turned around to tell them."Go ahead and eat without me, we'll meet up at the city exit! I'll grab something to eat on my way there!" Leon was soon out of sight, so Elle and Sonic got to the café and got some chili dogs. Sonic ordered five while Elle only got one and Sonic ate all of his in about five seconds while Elle stared at him in disbelief.

"H-how did you do that?" Sonic grabbed a napkin and wiped his hand. He set it down and looked towards her with his usual grin.

"I just love chili dogs. I usually eat more than this but I didn't want you to pay for too much," Sonic jumped out of his seat and stretched his legs."So how much longer is Leon going to be?" Elle only shrugged in response and finished her chili dog."So, how long have you two known each other?"

"We haven't known each other long at all. The first time we met was when you appeared" Sonic looked at her for a second and then went back to his stretching.

"Okay…oh! Before I forget, look what we found" Sonic reached into his quills and pulled out the yellow chaos emerald.

"You and Leon found the chaos emerald!" Sonic tossed her the emerald so she could inspect it. The emerald emitted a light glow as she gazed at the emerald."It's beautiful" She handed it back to Sonic and he put it back in his quills.

"Well why don't we meet Leon at the city's exit? Grab on!" Sonic grabbed her arm and quickly ran to the exit before she could protest. They made it there in three seconds and set Elle down. She fixed her hair right away when she saw her reflection in a store window. They waited a couple minutes when Leon finally showed up."Hey there you are Leo!" Leon walked up to them with a plain expression and looked at them both before walking out of the city."Hey where are you going!?" They quickly caught up with him and walked with him.

"I'm going to Saffron City to handle some business. Why are you two following me? I fulfilled our agreement Sonic so I can go wherever I want now" Sonic put his hands up to signal he wasn't going to stop him.

"I know, I know. But we can still follow you, right Elle?" She smiled at them nodded her head. Leon groaned inwardly but deep down he felt a little happy to have Elle along and as for Sonic, well, he was okay with it.

"So why do you need to go to Saffron City Leo?" Elle looked at Leon with pleading eyes but he kept his eyes on the road.

"Don't worry about it. I'll be sure to make it quick" Leon increased his pace which made Elle and Sonic do the same. They stayed silent for a little while longer when Sonic finally spoke up.

"Why don't I get us there?" Leon and Elle froze and quickly turned him down.

"No thanks! We want to walk and enjoy the scenery" Sonic nodded his head and agreed with Elle. They walked a little while longer and it started to get dark. Before Elle could suggest they make camp they heard some rustling behind some bushes. They stayed completely still to see what it was, until Sonic decided to get a closer look when a stream of fire shot out towards him when he stuck his head over the bush.

"Whoa!" Sonic jumped back and felt that some of his quills on his head were a little burned."What the heck was that!?" The fire's source revealed itself when it jumped out of the bush to reveal itself to be a charmeleon.

"That would be charmeleon and it's about to join my family" Leon stepped forward and confronted the wild pokemon.

"Join your family?" Elle mumbled to herself when Leon pulled out an ultra ball and threw it into the air.

"Absol let's make this quick!" The ultra ball opened and out came an absol.

"You have an absol!?" Elle exclaimed while Sonic just whistled at how strong it looked.

"Yeah, now absol, use Razor Wind!" Absol pulled its head back and its sickle like growth on its head started to glow. Absol swung its head around and sent the attack towards charmeleon; hitting it dead on. Charmeleon slid back but quickly recovered with and used flamethrower on absol; engulfing absol in flames."Shake it off absol!"

"Absoool!" With a loud roar absol blew the flames away and took a solid stance as charmeleon rushed forward with slash and hit absol across its face. Absol stumbled back a bit but recovered when it was about to be hit by charmeleon's fire fang.

"Absol use quick attack before its fangs get to you!" Absol quickly shot forward and rammed its head into the side of charmeleon's head. Charmeleon fell to the ground and slowly got back up."One more shot and you'll be ready. Absol, use Night Slash!" Absol's sickle grew dark and attacked charmeleon, getting a direct hit. Charmeleon fell to one knee and Leon pulled out a pokeball."Time to finish this" Leon threw the pokeball and hit charmeleon's head and got sucked in with a red light. The ball fell to the ground and started shaking back and forth with a red light blinking on the white button in the center. They waited a few seconds until finally it stopped and Leon breathed a sigh of relief."Got ya" Leon walked over to the pokeball, picked it up and put it on the back of his belt.

"What was that?" Sonic asked.

"I just captured a pokemon. This is what you do to capture new pokemon and befriend them but you can only do that with wild pokemon. If that charmeleon was with someone else then I couldn't have caught it" Sonic nodded his head in understanding but inside he didn't feel right about pokemon being caught like that.

"Congratulations on catching that charmeleon Leon that was impressive! But where did you get an absol?" Leon turned around and was going to tell her when he started to feel woozie."Leon are you okay?" Sonic and Elle got worried when Leon started to fall to his knees.

"Actually…I'm not. I haven't been sleeping for the past few days. I've been spending the time trying to make my pokemon and myself stronger and I think I might have…gone…too…far…" Leon fell to the ground and passed out on the ground.

"Leon!" Sonic and Elle shouted as they and absol rushed to his side.