A/N: Ok, Who else agrees that Steven rightfully deserves to be the Champion of Hoenn and not Wallace… besides Wallace likes contests more than battling. Anyways, I finished doing what I was doing for the past month and I'm finally back.

Pure Gamer: Let's both do our best!

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Chapter 23: Path of Soul: Erin

"What the" I said speechlessly, I had woken up in a valley in front of three huge mountains, the one in front of me was the most menacing, It had a black cloud surrounding the top. The valley I was in was the only source of greenery in sight. I stood up, I had been sitting on the grass, and looked in the other directions, and I was almost completely surrounded by mountains. "Where to start" I wondered to myself. "I suggest ignoring what's around you and go on ahead" a voice suggested. I contemplated his words and found they were easy to understand "ignore the other mountains and focus on the one ahead of me" I repeated. "Good, you understand me" he sighed in my head. "Yeah, it's like it's natural to me" I said starting to climb the mountain.

"This'll be a lot easier then, I'll guide you to my cave" he added. I nodded as I kept climbing. "So, what's the name of this place?" I asked to pass the time. "…It really doesn't have one, although I guess it's named after the central aura of this place, so this is the Emerald Dimension" He responded to the best of his ability. "So, then this would be Mt. Emerald?" I asked. "Yes, I guess it is" he answered. I had been walking for what seemed like 5 minutes but in actuality it was 15 (In actual actuality (the real world) it was only 7 seconds, but I didn't know that till later). "Not that I'm complaining, but how much longer?" I asked. "Eh, not much" he answered in a lax fashion. I sighed at his reaction; he wasn't very helpful right now. I guess I would have to trudge on for who knows how much longer. Again, this didn't bother me because I liked climbing mountains.

Hmm, this thought didn't strike me before, but I wondered if this world (dimension) was suited to my desires (tastes)? If it is, I wonder if the same was for the others. I also wondered if I should pay attention to where I was going, but figured I'd be fine. So I continued questioning myself…Great, I can't remember anymore. Oh well, I noticed the cave in the distance anyways. "Is that the one?" I asked. "Yes, it is, I must say you made it here quicker than the others" he commented. "Yeah, well I just like climbing" I answered. I entered the cave and found the light around me slowly dissipate as I kept walking. Nonetheless, I kept going till I felt I should stop "Okay, its official I'm blind" I said jokingly. "Nice try, but no. I, unfortunately, cannot light the way. I will, however, give you the power to see" he explained.

"Okay, I trust you" I said firmly. "Then you will have it, The Sight of the Dragon!" He announced. I felt my head pound three times and I closed my eyes in pain, when it subsided and I opened my eyes, the room seemed dimly lit. I could see candle holsters on the cave walls, however they housed no candles.

I took time observing my surroundings, it was the standard cave if you ignore the holsters, I was sure that nothing had changed besides my now possibly temporary ability to see in the dark. Right as I was about to continue on the path I felt something brush up against my legs. I turned around and saw I had grown a tail; it looked identical to a Dratini's. "…explain" I said as calmly as possible. "Sorry, I was hoping you wouldn't notice so we could avoid this" he started apologetically "First off, you are now part Dratini, but nothing more, this is the first stage of your powers. In this stage, as I said before, you can see things humans usually couldn't such as night vision, next you have the ability to move two times faster than a regular human. That's pretty much it for the Dratini stage; you'll get the rest of your powers when we meet" He explained. "Okay" I said, digesting the information and rubbing my new tail, I also had my regular ears with Dratini ears, they actually improved my hearing. After a while of getting used to my body, I followed the path until I came across a huge monument. "Ugh, Open" he said as the monument glowed and proceeded to disintegrate, revealing a hole. From behind the hole, I could see light.

I walked through and was blinded by the sun. After my eyes adjusted, I noticed how close the sun seemed. "Is…is this the summit?" I asked. The sun was obscured by the surrounding clouds, and therefore barely visible. I noticed a figure flying in a circle, almost as if it was circling the sun. Suddenly, the figure stopped circling and dived down to me. He landed 5 feet away from me and I could get a good look at him, he was a Dragonite. He was slightly bigger than a regular Dragonite, but it wasn't noticeable to someone who didn't know much about Dragon types (Pft, not me). "Hiya, Hiya!" he said happily "I'm the voice in your head! I guess I forgot to mention you can understand pokespeak now!" he said. "Makes sense" I said forgivingly. "Well, now what do we do?" I asked. "Well, usually I supposed to give you a test, but let's just skip it and get to the 'fun' part" he said uneventfully.

He tucked in his arms and seemed to start to charge a beam, when it was charged he flew into the sky and shot the ground he once stood on. The beam (Hyper Beam) collided with the mountain, causing a chain reaction in which the earth rose out, creating a cavern. The Dragonite floated back down, in front of the entrance to the cavern. "My name is Shakudo, just thought you should know" he said and proceeded into the cave.

I followed behind and we eventually came across a large room with a pattern on the ground, the pattern consisted of two circles, one big, one small, the circles were inside another circle, creating three rings on both sides. The circles were connected by one thin red line. I stood on the small circle and Shakudo stood on the one opposite me. "Sorry, but this may hurt, a lot, but it'll be worth it, trust me" he apologized. "Don't worry; if I'm strong enough to climb THIS" I started gesturing around me "I can take whatever comes with it" I finished enthusiastically. He sighed "If you say so, to start just say my name" he explained. I did as I was told "Rudolpho!" …wait, what just happened. Of course, I'm kidding to lighten the mood; I didn't actually say that, back to the story.

"Shakudo" I exclaimed. I felt…weird, it was like my body was slowly getting colder, and I my left hand felt stranger, I looked at it, blue scales had formed and they seemed to spread up my arm. "Just 5 seconds more" he warned. "4" the scales had traveled up my arm and shoulder, now going across my chest and down my waist. "3" the scales had traveled down my left leg and started moving across to my right side, on the bright side I hadn't grown any colder. "2" The scales had completely covered my lower half and started moving onto my right arm and neck. "1!" the scales seemed to cover up my right arm at a faster pace than my other ligaments and focused on my neck, it felt like it would suffocate me and suddenly it stopped. The scales disappeared, and for a second I wondered if they were there in the first place. "All done, as a consolation prize for getting your Dratini form before the others, I allowed you to skip the tests and threw in the Dragonite form" he explained, he didn't seem to have suffered anything at all.

"W-What's next?" I asked, stuttering because of the still ever-present chill, though it did seem to be dissipating. "Unfortunately, this is where we part, it's been fun, to leave just say the color of your aura" he explained, and sent me the color via telepathy, I nodded and said it:

"Emerald"

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A/N: Oh…My…What? I-it's nothing, nothing. Just uh, wait for the next chapter, sorry this took so long, I started reading Homestuck, an awesome series, and couldn't work on this. But, I'm finished with it now, and I'll get back to this. Till the next chapter:

Shakudo: Bye, Bye!