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Chapter 4

Touko slowly woke up. She felt terrible. Her eyes were puffy from crying last night and her head had hurt from sleeping on the hard ground.

She slowly got up, looking at her pokémon. They were all still sleeping around her. Touko quietly got up and grabbed her poke balls out of her bag. She put all of her pokémon into their balls so they could rest a little longer.

Touko put her arm out in front of her and looked at her Xtransceiver. She started to shake, she was nervous that her friends were hurt like Ghetsis had said.

She punched in Touya's number and waited. It started to ring, 'please be okay, please be okay, please, please, please!'

"Hey Touko!" Touya had yelled happily. "How are you? I haven't seen you in a while."

Touko felt relieved, she was happy her best friend was okay.

"Is everything okay? Did something happen? Are your pokémon okay?" He said with concern in his voice.

"Everything is alright. I was worried that something…"

Touya cut her off "had happened to me? Like Team Plasma threatening my life?"

Touko was shocked, "how did you know?!"

"They got to me the other day. They got to all of us, Cheren and Belle, I'm going to patch them in. You should hear what happened."

There were a few short rings and then 2 more screens popped up.

"Touko! I miss you! How are you? Hey Touya!" Belle had screamed happily.

"Hi Belle, hi Cheren." Touko said with a smile, glad that all of her friends were okay.

Cheren gave her one of his stern looks, "hey."

"Touko got threatened, just like the rest of us." Touya had said shortly but straight to the point.

Belle looked shock and Cheren nodded.

"I was attacked a few day s ago. Team Plasma grunts grabbed me and threw me against a wall. They pinned me there and threatened that if we didn't stop you from fighting N, then we would all get hurt." Touya had said stiffly.

"I was shopping when they got to me." Belle had started to say. "They said the exact same thing to me but they pushed me into a fitting room. It scared the crap out of me. I immediately called Touya and Cheren and they said it had happened to them to. I was going to call you but I was worried that if I did call, they would attack you." There were tears streaming down her face. "I am glad you are okay though."

"I guess it is my turn to tell you how it happened to me." Cheren said, hiding behind his glasses. "I just finished a battle with Gym Leader Skyla. I left the gym and started to walk towards the pokémon center. One of them pushed me to the ground and the other one sat on me. They laughed for a while and made fun of me until they threatened me. They got up and ran away after that. I would have followed them but my pokémon needed to rest."

There was moment of silence.

"How did they get to you?" Belle whispered.

"I was sitting around a fire with my pokémon when Ghetsis showed up."

"What?!" They all had yelled at the same time.

"Ghetsis, the Sage Ghetsis, the father of N?" Belle kept asking.

"Yes, he came out of the woods, threw a bottle that had Munna's sleeping attack at my pokémon and they all fell asleep, then he threatened me."

She showed them the hand mark that was burned into her skin.

"He did this to me also." Touya had whispered.

"I will find him and I will hurt him!" Belle had yelled.

"We need to meet." Cheren said.

"We can't stay separated anymore. There is a better chance of us being hurt when we are by ourselves."

"I agreed." Touya had said, "Let's meet in Nimbasa City, right in front of amusement park. Touko, you will tell us about the bottle that made your pokémon go to sleep. We will then come up with a plan that will protect all of us but will also help Touko defeat N."

"Okay, see you all soon." Cheren had said.

Cheren and Touya were gone. It was Belle and Touko left. Belle liked to be the last person to get of the Xtransceiver.

"Is there something wrong, Touko?"

Touko was starting to get scared. All her friends had been threated all because of her.

"It's my fault."

"No its not, N needs to be stopped, we all believe in you. We heard what happened in Icirrus City when you told him that you will personally fight him on this."

"You don't get it Belle… I met N twice. The first time… he kissed me."

"HE WHAT?!" She yelled, she started to look nervous.

"I was on the ferris wheel in Nimbasa city for the first time and he was on it with me. He told me that we were destined together and then he kissed me. He then jumped off the ferris wheel. I saw him again in Icirrus City and that is when I told him that I would personally fight him."

Touko stood up straight and took in acceptance that this was her fault.

'I need to stop this. This is my fault, but I will not let anyone else get hurt.'

"We will talk about this more in Nimbasa." Touko had said.

"Be careful. I will see you soon." Belle had said sheepishly.

Touko turned off her Xtransceiver, grabbed her bike and started to bike towards Nimbasa.

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