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Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon GameFreek does, though I do own my OCs.

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Chapter 6: A New Team

I woke up with the sun still down and immediately thought of something to do while I wait for the others to wake up. I made my way pass them and head up the stairs, but not before grabbing Oran berry. I came up the stairs berry in hand err... paw and sat down on the cliff edge waiting for the sun to come up. I then brought the berry to my mouth and sniffed it.

It smelt kind of like an orange but now that I think about it, it did look just like an orange beside the color. I took a bite and I could feel the mix of flavors running down my tongue. It tasted really good and had the after taste of a perfectly ripe orange. I couldn't really explain the initial taste because I had nothing to relate it to. The only thing I can say about it is that it tasted magnificent.

I finished the berry in the next bite by eating it whole, it was actually quite small. I looked up when I heard the noise of paws coming up to me. Lightning sat next to me as we waited for the sun to rise. I looked over at him only to see him yawn. He looked kind of cute when he did that despite his furious look. I giggled at the sight while thinking that. He looked over at me questionably only to see me yawn as well. I couldn't help it, his yawn was contagious. He giggled at me when I yawned, then laughing when I stopped. I couldn't help this either as I too started to laugh.

When we finally stopped we looked back at the horizon smiling broadly at the morning cheer. It got a bit cold so I scooted closer to Lightning to keep out the cold better. If he noticed he did not do anything to say he did. A few moments later the sky began to get steadily brighter as dark blue turned to blue. Then the sun peaked out over the mountains casting a pink glow over cliff and the sky.

"I never did tell you did I?" Lighting asked, more to himself then me, as we stared at the horizon.

"Tell me what Lighting?" I asked, curious as to what he didn't tell me.

"Remember when Grovyle was still here?" He asked. When I nodded he continued. "Well one morning while you were still asleep me and Grovyle came up here to watch the sun rise. You know what he told me?" I shook my head. "He told me that when he came here he was dumbfounded by the sun rise. He told me that seeing it only strengthened his resolve to change the future. At the time I didn't know what he met that. I only found out latter when you told me what happened to the Pokémon of the future. When you disappeared for the first time." He was smiling when he said all this. Tears gleamed in his eyes when he looked over to me. "I'm glad you are okay Steven."

I smiled and hugged him saying, "I'm glad your okay too Lightning."

We embraced for a few moments before he asked the question I had been hoping he wouldn't ask. "So Steven how did you get here exactly? I thought you couldn't get though your portal. Also why don't you have a chest spike? I thought all Lucarios had chest spikes."

I sighed before telling him, "I had hopped you wouldn't ask that. Oh well, but first, as for your second question I have one theory for it that goes with my past. So we will be here awhile, okay?"

"Alright, we have all the time in the world, so go ahead." He replied.

Before I could start I was interrupted by the sound of paws coming towards us. I turned to see Erica sitting down on the other side of me. I looked over at her and then asked, "Do you want to listen too?"

She nodded, though she looked like she was still asleep. I then began to tell them how my life was when I was in my world. I told them about how I was mistreated earning a gasp from Erica, but I ignored it and continued on. I started farther back for Erica's sake seeing as I told Lightning a about my past, up to the point where I had gone to his world. I then continued the back story, skipping Lightning's and my adventures, from where I had been separated from Lightning. When I got to the part about Angel, Erica asked what a dog was so I told her to think of a Mightyena but without the white and a lot less ferocious looking. Continuing, I reached the part where I linked with Lightning in a dream getting a 'wow' from Erica. I ignored her and reached the part where I beat up Matt.

"I can't believe he was the reason Angel died." I said keeping back some tears. "I won't ever forgive that horrible excuse for a brother." Lightning saw the distress in me and put a comforting tail around me. I sent him a metal thank you before continuing on. I finally at long last reached the part where me and my family had gone to Yellowstone national park. I kept talking up until the part where we reached the cliff.

"When we arrived at the top I immediately went to the edge of the cliff. When I turned around the first thing I noticed was them all smiling at me weird, then my dad pulled out a gun." I said with venom drenching my words. I saw the quizzical looks they were giving me so I told them to imagine a tiny pebble being shot out of a L-shaped metal object at the speed of a thunder bolt attack. They nodded and I continued. "My dad then preceded to shoot me in the chest right where my chest spike should be. They then laughed like the manics they were as I fell of the cliff back words." I sighed heavily, having relived that part of my life, before telling them how I had fallen through what seemed like a portal and heard a voice. After I told them what the voice had said I finished by telling them how pain had erupted through my body before blacking out.

I was then tackle/hugged by Lightning causing me to fall backwards onto the ground as he tried to comfort me. "I'm sorry you had to go through that Steven." He cried while I could not due to my anger at my family which was drastically depleting.

I sighed at not being able to hold on to my anger. "Thanks Lightning, I needed that." I said hugging him back.

Soon Erica joined the hug not wanting to be left out. "Guys it's great that you care for me so much, but can we move this hug away from the cliff edge?" I said somewhat nervously.

They got the point and got off me so we could move away from the cliff edge before talking me to the ground again. Erica was laughing like a little child as she said, "This is fun!"

Both Lightning and me laughed along with her before I remembered something Erica had told me yesterday. "Hey Lightning." I asked.

"Yes Steven?" Lightning said as he and Erica got up off me.

"Would you be willing to help Erica join the contest?" I asked, finally understanding why there were so many Pokémon in the town yesterday.

"Sure," He said with a smile. "I've been itching for a real challenge for quite a while anyways."

That was when Erica decided it was a great time to break our ear drums as she screeched in happiness saying, "YES! I CAN FINALLY ENTER THE CONTEST!"

"Um. Ow?" Lightning and I said as we rubbed our ears. We had actually forgotten she was there.

"Sorry. I'm just so happy." She said as she jumped around all giddy like, barely able to contain her excitement.

Lightning and I laughed for a bit before we got up, then a thought occurred to me. "Hey Lightning? Can we go practice?" I asked. "I haven't fought like an actual Pokémon in over 4 years."

"Hmm? Oh! Yeah!" He said, seeming to come out of a daze. "Lets go to the beach so I can help you recall the basics."

"K!" I said, with a bit of a giddy voice. 'Yeah! I get to practice with Lightning again!' We then got up and made our way to the town.

Erica noticed we were leaving and yelled, "Hey! Don't leave me behind!" before dashing off after us with her cheeks puffed out in childish irritation.

~Time Skip~ 1 hour

I focused my mind as I brought my paws to my side. Soon a small blue sphere formed and launched it at Lightning as he charged at me from the waves. The small, seemingly innocent, sphere whizzed past Lightning's ear as he dodged before exploding in the water behind him, causing a fountain of water to shoot up some twenty or so feet in the air. I was then tackled to the ground as lightning rammed me.

"HA!" Lightning yelled as he stood over me, pinning me successfully to the ground. "I win again!"

"Dang it..." I grumbled to myself. "You just had to have the 4 year advantage..."

"Aww. Don't be like that Steven." Lightning said playfully as he got off me, allowing me to get up. "Besides I was hardly trying, and I know you can do a lot better then that."

It was the early afternoon as me and Lightning battled on the beach. Erica was shopping for some supplies while I constantly get beat up. The beach had many large rock formations that were tinted slightly red from who knows what. The back of the beach preceded into a jungle that me and Lightning did never really explore because it only goes for about mile before dropping off a cliff into the ocean. The sand was tan as sand was suppose to be and got darker as it continued into the ocean. The ocean glistened from the rays of the sun giving it a pure and mystical look as it washed on to shore before being drawn back in.

"I know, but you know it's kind of hard to practice your moves when you can't even use them." I sighed. "But I will sti-" I didn't get to finish as I was launched toward the sea by a flying brown ball of fluff with a loud grunt.

Me and the brown fluff landed into the see with a splash while Lightning just stood there with a shocked look plastered across his face. I groaned as I stood up in the shallow water with the now soaked brown ball of hair in my arms. I looked at it as it groaned as well. I was surprised to find it was an Eevee, it was about a third of the size of lightning so I could easily hold it in my arms. It also had this strange necklace on with three stones strapped to it. It appeared to be knocked out so I took it to the shore to heal him up.

Suddenly another blur of something whizzed past me but a lot bigger. It also splashed in the water but it quickly got up and rushed back to the shore right by me. He panted as I got a better look at him. He was a Quilava with blue fur that expands to the back of his body with a yellow underbelly and red spots on his head. His eyes were a nice hazel color and seemed to burn with a determination of some sort.

I didn't have to wait long to find out what the determination was for because suddenly a big and very angry Ryhorn burst out of the jungle. I sighed and looked at the panting Quilava.

"What did you do?" Lightning asked him incredulously.

He looked up as if noticing us for the first time before smiled nervously. "We kind of hit her with a rock when we were training."

I groaned and gave him his Eevee friend before walking over to Lightning. "How are we going to calm down the Ryhorn?" I asked.

"We aren't going to do anything." Lightning said, surprising me. "They should be able to handle it just fine, look." he says pointing behind me at them with his paw while sitting down, his star tipped tail swishing behind him.

I look behind me to see both the Quilava and the Eevee standing side by side. The Quilava's flame on it's back was dark blue for some reason. The Eevee shook out the water in it's fur in a dog like fashion before growling and glowing white. My eyes went wide seeing it evolve into a Jolteon as it only lasted a second. I looked behind me and giggled at Lightning's open mouth. Before wondering how the Eevee evolved into a Jolteon without a Thunder Stone. I then remembered the necklace it was wearing. 'One of the stones on there must have been a Thunder Stone. But why did he not evolve when it was touching him earlier?' I thought to myself.

A load roar then caused me to remember the rampaging Ryhorn as it snapped me out of my thoughts. I was about to give it a piece of my mind but stopped as I remembered what Lightning told me. I sighed and sat down by him as I got ready to watch the battle.

The Jolteon then dashed toward the Ryhorn at the speed of... well, lightning. It circled round her before it glowed yet again with the power of evolution. It turned into a Flareon and scorched the back of the Ryhorn's head with Flamethrower. While this was going on, the Quilava was distracting the Ryhorn up front by throwing small embers at her as he dodged her swipes at him. When the Flareon was getting ready to launch the flamethrower at the Ryhorn, he charged up an Overheat And launched it at the Ryhorn's stomach as the Flareon launched it's Flamethrower at the back of her head. The Ryhorn screamed in pain before falling on the ground, fainted.

The two friends sighed in relief as the Flareon started to glow with the power evolution again. In the place of the Flareon was the Eevee from earlier. They then walked over to us with big grins on there faces as they saw our mouths hanging open.

Too say I was shocked would be an understatement. I wasn't shocked about them defeating the Ryhorn, but that the Eevee could Evolve and un-evolve at any given time.

"I'm guessing you guys are wondering why I can change my forms." The Eevee said with small smile. He sounded male so therefore I dubbed him male.

Both Lightning and me nodded, closing our mouths in the process. But before anyone else could speak I quickly asked, "Before you answer, can you first tell me your names?"

"Oh, okay I'm Victor." said the Eevee.

"And I'm Ray Michaels." The Quilava said.

"Alright I'm Steven." I said with a pleasant smile.

"And I'm his partner Lightning." Lightning chimed in with a giddy smile that showed off his teeth by accident.

Now that the pleasantries were over I could get a good look at Victor. He had brown fur like most Eevees but had a messy tuft of fur on his head that went in every which way. He had a fluffy white mane and a tip of white on his fluffy tail. His eyes were a deep royal blue that sparkled with intelligence and self doubt.

"So as I was about to say-" Victor said but stopped abruptly before hiding behind Ray.

Both Lightning and me looked at Ray questionably at Victors reaction. Ray sighed and pointed behind us. We looked to see Erica coming down towards us with a treasure bag strapped around her neck. She stopped by us with a quizzical expression.

"Erica, this is Ray and Victor." I said gesturing to the Quilava and cowering Eevee as I answered the unspoken question. "Ray is the Quilava, and Victor is the Eevee hiding behind him. Victor and Ray, this is Erica."

Victor came out behind ray slightly and said, "Hi." before hiding behind Ray once more. Ray nodded to her while Erica started to jump around saying, "Yay! Yay! New friends!"

"Hey Victor, why are you hiding?" Erica asked, still jumping around. 'Where dose she get all that energy?' I thought as we all sweat dropped. "Oh! Oh! I know! We are playing hide-n-seek aren't we!"

I sighed and decided to use telepathy to ask him while Erica continued to bounce around like a child on a sugar high. I reached out with my mind for him and found him. "Hey Victor!" He jumped and Ray looked at him weird before returning his attention to the bouncing Glaceon. "It's me Steven. I'm using telepathy. Just think words and I'll hear them." I said as he peeked around Ray too look at me.

"Hello?" He thought.

"Yes I can hear you. Now can you tell me why your hiding behind Ray?" I asked him.

"Um... Okay." He said to me. (Telepathically of course) "It's because she's a girl. But I'm not being sexist it's just I'm uncomfortable around girls."

"Okay." I said before severing the connection.

"How much energy dose that girl have?" Ray asked incredulously.

"Apparently a lot." Lightning said, answering him as we all sweat dropped.

About ten minuets passed before Erica finally settled down. She opened the Treasure bag and brought out some tender pecha berries and gave one to each of us, Ray had to give Victor his because he was still to shy, saying, "It's lunchy timey!"

We all ate our pecha berry while thanking her for for the delicious treat. It was really sweet and would probably be good for soothing any sweet tooth. We finished our lunch but before any one could leave, Erica asked question. "Do you two want to join our team for the contest?" She looked at them with big pleading eyes that I would be surprised if they were even able to say no.

"Alright!" "Okay." Both Ray and Victor said.

"Yeah!" Erica said as she burst in to another bouncing fit.

We all sweat dropped for the third time that day at Erica's unusual amount of energy. She suddenly stopped and said, "Alright team! On the count of 3 we all jump into the air and shout 'Go Team', Okay?"

We all nodded and she began the count down.

"1"

"2"

"3!" We all jumped and yelled. "GO TEAM!"

We all landed and fell over as we began to laugh like a bunch of idiots. I laid down on the sand next to Lightning as the sun reached it's highest point.

"Hey Lightning." I whispered to him as I looked into his mint green eyes.

"Yeah?" He said in an equally quiet voice.

"Looks like we got our selves a new team." I giggled.

"Yeah." He replied.

"Well better get back to training." I sighed, but then grinned evilly. "Your it." I said as I got up dashed away after poking him. I heard him get up and dash after me and I briefly wondered if he was faster on four legs before increasing my speed, laughing like a maniac.

Awesome! I finally finished this chapter and I hope you guys liked it. Also here are the OCs and who's they are that I added.

Victor the Eevee is Wildlian's

Ray the Quilava is Fearofbeans's

Also I'm doing a poll to see who thinks I should make a Prequel to Friends Reunited about Steven and Lightning's adventures before Steven disappeared? Just a simple yes or no will do unless you have more to say. So without further ado. Nyah!