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Disclaimer: So I really have to do this? That's depressing. Well I don't own Pokémon, Game Freak does.

ON WITH THE STORY! Nyah!

Chapter 12: Contest

"She's not waking up Lightning!" I said worriedly as tried shaking Erica awake. She slumbered on with a peaceful look on her face as pushed her on to back as her arms were slayed out on the floor.

"Well we better hurry up and do this together, because the contest starts in a hour and we still need to meet up with the others." Lightning said heatedly. Then he grew a devious smile as he walked towards me.

It's kind of funny, but I'm just now noticing that he's slightly taller me, excluding the spiky mane. If I was a normal person who didn't know him well I would probably be intimidated. But I am not normal and I'm proud to say that I am weird.

Lightning got close so that his face was only about an inch or two from mine as his devious smile was plastered to his face. For some reason, despite his closeness, I didn't draw back. "Let's throw her into the ocean." He said with... Satisfaction? Was this revenge for something?

"Is this for revenge Lightning?" I asked with a unsure look, voicing my thought.

"Maybe." He said with that mischievous smile.

To be honest, I wasn't entirely against it. I mean she has been taunting us for the longest time. Now that I think about it, I'm actually all for it. I grew a smile to rival Lightning's as we both turned our gazes on the sleeping Mew.

I carefully picked up Erica and placed on Lightning's back. Careful not to wake her, we walked down to the beach where the cold morning water was coming on to the shore. The town was still asleep so we got through without problem. We walked down the beach path, as I like to call it, until we arrived at our destination; the Beach. I picked Erica up from Lightning's back and went to the waters edge and turned to look at Lightning. With our mischievous smiles plastered to our faces we nodded to each other. I looked down at Erica and almost felt bad for doing this to her. Almost. I lifted her up over my head and bent my knees a bit for a better throw and...

SPLASH!

As soon as that sound was heard that, Lightning and me sprinted for the road. We already knew how grumpy she gets from waking up early. We were just about there when we heard her.

"BOYS!"

My heart jumped in my chest as I put on an extra spurt of speed. I saw Lightning speeding up past me as we ran. 'Dang Quadrupeds.' I thought. The Cross Roads came into view as we ran with Lightning gaining more distance between him and me. The only actual thought that was running through my head at this moment was that I needed to put as much distance between me and Erica.

It happened so fast I still don't know if I caught it all.

I was launched towards and past Lightning by an beam of psychic energy and into a tree. Unfortunately, as I slid down the bark of the tree getting some of it stuck in my fur, the tree didn't fare as well as I did and soon snapped and fell over IN MY DIRECTION! I rolled over and out of the way as the main trunk of the tree smashed down where I was. I stabbed my wrist spike into the ground and spun around before shoving off of the ground spinning to face my enemy.

Erica was blasting down the road toward me with a dark red aura surrounding her. She was soaked from head to tail tip with sea water and I knew how much of a pain in the but it was to get that stuff out of your fur. Her face was full of pure murder that would make anyone regret their decision. Not me. This both excited and scared me. But really all I was thinking was, 'It's been a good life.'

Then the thought hit me about where Lightning went off to. My question was answered immediately by being smashed to the ground by a falling Luxray. I groaned as Lightning got off me, after all, being smashed into a tree and then smashed once again into the ground is not something that feels like marshmallow bullets.

We both stood up and looked forward to where I last saw Erica. I probably jumped a foot I the air when I saw she was only an inch from my face with a look pure murder. A yelp told me that Lightning had also freaked out. On the bright side she wasn't soaked anymore.

"Would you mind telling me why you threw me into the ocean and which one of you thought of doing this?" She said, her voice deadly quiet and full of murderous intent. Her dark aura surrounded her making the fun-loving cat like Pokemon look truly evil and menacing.

"W-well you see, um," I started shakily. "You wouldn't wake up no matter what we did so I had the idea to throw you into the ocean to wake you." I continued, lying about it being Lightning's idea. I knew she would go easier on me then Lightning, She'd probably mortally wound him. "We had to wake you up because the contest was in a hour." I finished with Lightning nodding along with me.

She squinted her eyes at me and Lightning then smiled. But it didn't seem genuine. Her next words proved that.

"Thank you boys!" She said, her voice switching back to normal and her usual playfulness returning. "But I'm afraid you two will be to injured to participate in it though." She finished with the spine-chillingly sweet voice, her dark aura blazing up.

~Third Person PoV~

Bloodcurdling screams were heard throughout the village as it woke up, terrifying the inhabitants with in. Young Pokémon clung to their parents in fear and all looked down toward the base of the town where the Crossroads lie and where the sound of the screams came from. The screams stopped and a small figure appeared. The figure transformed into two more as they got ever closer. The strange thing about them was that they seemed to float as they moved towards the village.

The adult Pokémon gasped at what they saw when the three figures became identifiable. A blue mew was carrying what seemed to be the two lifeless bodies of a Lucario and Luxray with psychic. The bodies were bruised, battered and seemed to be broken. But they weren't bleeding in any way. She was smiling as she floated through the town creeping any who saw her out thoroughly.

She stopped and looked around at all the Pokémon's horrified gazes. She smiled even wider as she sent them all a telepathic message.

"Don't worry, their not dead." She said to them telepathically with her childish nature clear to them all. "They just fainted after I punished them. I'm taking them back home to get healed up so no need to worry!"

She giggled lightly to herself before continuing on her way.

~Steven's PoV~

I groaned as I tried to get up but fell back down on to my bed. My body was aching all over and I couldn't seem to remember what happened. My throat felt dry so I pulled myself over to the small spring of water and took some gulps of water directly out of it. I pushed my self into a siting position and looked around.

I was in our house inside the cliff and it seemed to be a little after morning. I saw Lightning laying in his bed with bandages all over his body. This made me pause to look down at myself. I was also covered in bandages that seemed to restrain my movement. I am kind of surprised I didn't notice this earlier. I must have been half-asleep if I didn't notice this.

I sighed at my own stupidity and went over to go check on Lightning. He was sleeping peacefully and seemed to be having a good dream by the look of that smile on his muzzle. I smiled as I looked at his sleeping face. I pulled myself over to sit by him as he slept. I glided my paw across his back as I tried to remember where we got these injuries.

Lightning moaned in his sleep as I pet him. 'Probably feeling pain from his injuries.' I thought silently, feeling a pang of guilt at not being able to comfort him.

I sighed in contempt at just being able to sit with lightning like this, as I looked over to the mouth of the cave that opened to the Ocean. I smiled as I thought about how lucky I was to be able to see and live in this beautiful world full of many mysteries and unexplored places. I then looked over to the entrance of the cave and saw what looked to be a piece of paper. I crawled over to it and picked it up in my paw and read.

Dear idiots,

I know you guys just wanted to wake me up, but throwing me into the Ocean was not the way to do so. I've already punished you enough so I won't punish you anymore. When you both wake up just use telepathy towards me and I'll teleport you to the stands so you two can at least watch the contest.

Sincerely,
Your loving sister and friend,
Erica

I put down the note as the memories of what happened this morning made there way into my head. I shivered as I remembered Erica's murderous rage. I crawled back over to Lightning and gently shook him awake. He groaned and mumbled something inaudible, I shook him a bit harder as he continued to mumble. Finally I got annoyed and put my muzzle right next to his ear before yelling,

"WAKE UP LIGHTNING!"

Needless to say, he jumped about a foot into the air as he woke with a start. I giggled as he landed roughly and painfully, groaning, making my giggling stop as I cringed. I went to help him into a sitting position as he groaned in pain.

"Why would you do that?" he asked in a pained voice.

"You wouldn't wake up so that's why." I said simply before frowning. "Sorry about getting you hurt though."

"I guess it's alright." He said with a sigh. "I will just have to get you back later for it." He added, grinning."

"Yeah," I replied, ginning too. "I guess you will."

"Alright, now." He said his grin fading into a serious one. "Why did you wake me up?"

"Oh," I said as my grin faded too. "That's because we have to hurry if we want to watch the contest. Erika will teleport us to the stands."

He frowned as he said, "The contest...? OH! That's right. We're late aren't we?"

"We will be if you don't get up right now." I said exasperated.

He quickly got up as I sent out a telepathic message to Erica so she could teleport us. I heard a groan and looked back to find Lightning collapsed on the ground. I sighed as I pushed him into a sitting position. He said a silent thank you when all the sudden I got dizzy. My vision flashed white and I found myself in a large arena like area.

There were stands with Pokemon on it and I could see myself on it along with Lightning. We were both covered in bandages so I deduced that this was a dimensional scream of the very near future. Everyone's faces in the crowd were pictures of horror, most of all, mine. I looked around the arena and saw the fainted forms of Aaron, Victor and Ray. I looked at the other side and saw and saw a fainted Zebstrika, Ariados, and Floatzel. The ground of the arena was completely torn up with the ground split apart and pieces of the ground pointing up. It looked like someone had used earthquake several times.

When I turned around I felt fear seep into me. Erica was beat up and tired looking in her Glaceon form. She was looking at the figure before her with fear. That figure was a Tyranitar with a devilish glint in it's eyes. It almost looked possessed. It was charging up a dark looking Hyper Beam and was just about to fire it directly at her.

I gasped as my vision of the real world returned and I found my self siting on the stands with Lightning looking worriedly at me. I looked at him after a second of catching my breath.

"Steven," He said worriedly. "What did you see? You never gasp after having a dimensional scream."

"I-I," I whispered to him as I shook from the Vision. "I saw something unbelievable and horrifying."

"Like what?" He asked with great concern in his voice.

I looked directly in to his eyes and said in a deadly quite voice, "Like Erica about to get killed."

His eyes widened as his face lit up in horror before hardening a moment later. He looked me in the eyes with cold, hard determination and nodded. We were going to have to change the future or at least adjust it slightly.

I told him everything I had seen in the Scream as we then formed a plan to stop the Tyranitar. We both knew we would be at a severe disadvantage because of it's Ground Typing and the fact that my Steel and Lightning's Electric Typing were week to it. But there was also the fact that we were both injured. This would be a very hard battle for us.

The announcer, who just so happened to be the Guild's very own Loudred, began to announce the team's as they came into the arena, snapping me and Lightning out of our serious mood. We changed our expression so as to not worry the rest of the team. I saw Erica in her Glaceon form along with Victor, Ray, and Aaron line up looking nervous but determined. They all looked around at the crowds until they saw me and Lightning covered in bandages. They held questioning looks until they turned and looked at Erica who was smiling smugly. Their expressions went from questioning to shocked to downright horrified. 'Yup, they knew what happened to us alright.' I thought with a small giggle.

The teams were finished being announced and the order was announced with our team going last. The contest worked like this, first there would be a round where every team demonstrated their teamwork as they fought off five monster houses worth of volunteer Pokémon from the Dojo. They had fight off at least 30 volunteer Pokémon in order to go on. If any members fainted then they would lose the right to go on to next round.

The rest of the contest would be held in a tournament like fashion where each team would square off against each other. Depending on the number of teams left the battles would either be three teams against each other or two. The remaining team would be the victor.

Lightning and me got settled in a comfortable position in a effort to recover or strength faster so we'd be prepared for the battle ahead. But for now we'd watch the contest to see how it went, after all, it could have just been teleportation sickness. When someone who is not used to teleportation teleports suddenly, they can get anywhere from simply dizzy to nauseated to fainting. So I might have just fainted and had a nightmare because I haven't teleported in years.

The first team had only two members which comprised of a Mudkip and a Torchic who fire burning in the eyes (not literally mind you). They stood valiantly against the hoard of Pokémon staying back to back. They nodded to each other before turning and using Ember and Watergun on each others moves creating a cloud mist obscuring the enemy Pokémon's vision.

I had to hand it to them, they were good at tactics. But doing that is a double-edged sword. You were not only obscuring the enemies view, but yours as well. The grunts I was hearing in the mist told me otherwise. I focused my aura vision and could make out their forms dashing through the mist and taking out their enemies with ease. Pretty soon all their enemies were down and the mist started to lift as I went back to my normal vision.

Their was a audible gasp from the crowd when the mist lifted to reveal them standing over the unconscious forms of the volunteers. I smirked as they exited the arena and the healers came into help the volunteers for the next round. They would be a challenge, that's for sure.

When the volunteers were back up they got out of the arena to wait for the next team. The next team comprised of a single Pokémon, a Alakazam. I knew from experience how strong Alakazam could be. So all I really thought about him was that he was way too cocky if he thought he could win in this contest against everyone. I knew he could fight off the volunteers, but I highly doubted that he could fight off the other teams. But Alakazam were known for their smarts so... Maybe he had an ulterior objective.

I didn't bother watching the match because I knew what would happen. So instead I laid my head on Lightning's back and closed my eyes. I opened my eyes at Lightning's jostling, as he pointed at Erica and crew getting ready for their match against the Volunteers. I must of fallen asleep so I missed most of the teams' fights. I mentally scolded myself before asking Lightning if I missed anything important.

"No, nothing really happened," He answered turning to look at me with a grin on his face. "Have a nice nap?"

"Yeah," I said with a bit of resentment. "You are way too comfortable, did you know that?"

He laughed lightly before saying, "Well it does help when I go to bed."

I grumbled before turning back to the contest. Our group was fighting off the Volunteers without a flaw in their position. They were in a diamond formation so they could get all around them as well as being able to back up each other when needed. Soon they were finished fending off the remaining Volunteers and could move on to the next round.

I let out a breath that I didn't know I'd been holding as they walked back out of the arena. I heard Lightning laugh a little so I turned to look at him giving him a questioning look. He was looking at me with a smile on his face before saying, "Sorry, it's just that we both let out a breath at the same time when the rest of the team exited the arena."

Now it was my turn to laugh lightly as I replied with, "I guess we were both worried about them."

We both exchanged laughs until it rose into full blown laughter. I honestly had no idea what was so funny and neither did anyone around us. But the laughter seemed to spread as if it was contagious and soon everyone in the stands were laughing. The only thing that could make this more unreal would be if someone started singing just like in Disney movies. When the laughter died down the announcer, Loudred, started asking (yelling really) why everyone was laughing. All that happened in response was a lot of shrugging.

"WELL MOVING ON!" He yelled in a attempt to get on to the tournament part.

He announced the teams that would be going against each other. What Surprised me though was that there was only four teams. I looked at Lightning and asked, "Nothing really happened? Why are there only four teams left?"

He grinned at me sheepishly before saying, "Well a lot of the teams either forfeited after seeing the first two teams or just lost to the volunteers."

"They forfeited simply because they didn't feel like fighting a lone Alakazam or a Mudkip and Torchic?" I asked incredulously, forgetting all my annoyance towards Lightning.

"Yeah," He answered, unsure if he was absolutely correct. "The Guild master got a bit upset so they had to go and calm him down."

"Wow." I whispered. "I didn't know Pokémon had become such cowards as of late."

"Hey." Lightning said looking slightly hurt. "I'm not a coward anymore."

I looked back at him and smiled as I said, "I know your not Lightning. I was just talking about the recent teams."

"I know." He said, now looking a bit down. "It's just while you were gone I felt so alone and began to get cowardly again. But know that your back I feel like I can do anything again."

I smiled at him and gave him a hug before returning my attention to the contest. The Alakazam walked, err... floated in with his legs crossed and with every Alakazam's favorite twisted spoons. On the other side was the Torchic and Mudkip looking at the Alakazam with cold, hard determination. Loudred announced the rules of the second round again before starting the count down for the match.

"3.." He boomed with his voice. "2.. 1.. START!"

The Torchic Dashed at the Alakazam while the Mudkip followed close behind. The Alakazam's didn't move an inch. The Torchic fired a slow and weak looking ember at the Alakazam before jumping into the air as the Mudkip fired a much faster Watergun directly at the Ember. The Fire and water dissolved into mist midway and and blasted right into the Alakazam's face temporarily blinding him. They both split up and hit the twisted spoons out of his hands as they both flew past him. They both turned only to be risen into the air by what looked like Psychic. The mist around the Alakazam's face dissipated to reveal him smirking as he threw them both into opposite walls creating body shaped indentations in them.

They both fell to the ground before getting unsteadily up to their feet. They both eyed each from across the stadium and nodded. The Torchic was surrounded with a fiery red aura while the Mudkip was surrounded with a blue aura. Their abilities Blaze and Torrent had activated. They both ran towards the Alakazam and fired what looked like a Hydro Pump and a Flamethrower. While were they ran towards him he fired what looked like two Psybeams from both of his hands. All four attacks hit their mark creating a cloud of dust over the arena.

When the dust settle it revealed three Pokémon who were all smirking. Then their eyes glazed over and they all fell down simultaneously leaving the arena with three unconscious Pokémon. The match had been a tie.

I smiled as I saw this, finally figuring out why the Alakazam entered by himself. He wanted to challenge those two by himself. He never intended to finish the contest. The look on their faces told me this much but beyond that, I knew nothing else. I closed my eyes and layed my head back down on Lightning's back. I felt him shift under my head and opened my eyes to find him looking at me with a smirk.

"What?" I asked, confused as to why he was smirking.

He giggled a bit before saying with his smirk never leaving his face, "You just couldn't resist my amazing charm could you?"

I felt my face heat up as I sat back up, but not before delivering a good hit to his head. "Ow." He whined as he rubbed the bump forming on his head with his fore paw.

I giggled a bit and returned my attention to the arena. I saw the crew come out of their side looking like their were pumped up for battle. When I turned my attention to the other side, my blood ran cold. There was that Tyranitar with the evil and possessed look in his eye. His aura was giving off pure malice; and that scared me more then the Legends. The rest of his team was looking up at him in concern. I turned back to Lightning and saw his face having utter confusion written all over it.

"Wha... But why.." He mumbled to himself before turning his attention to me. "Steven, You need to warn Erica."

I nodded before casting out my telepathy to her. 'Erica! Can you hear me?!'

Her head turned in my direction with a look of confusion on it. 'What's wrong? Why are you so panicky?'

'I'm panicky because that Tyranitar was in my most recent Dimensional Scream!' I thought back to her desperately. 'And I think he's been possessed!'

She gave me a look of doubt before shaking her head like I was crazy and cutting off the connection making me all the more frightened. I turned to look at Lightning and saw worry written all over it. Before I could say anything a tremor followed by two more knocked me off my seat. I looked down at the arena and saw it completely destroyed. It was just like in the scream. Everyone one was down except for Erica and the Tyranitar. She looked up at the Tyranitar in shock before fury was all that defined her facial futures as she looked her and his fallen comrades.

"HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO YOUR OWN TEAMMATES?!" She yelled at him before firing a Ice Beam at his face pushing him back about a foot.

He came out of it perfectly fine and grinned down devilishly at her before saying in a eerily familiar voice, "Teammates? I don't know what your talking about child, they are just pawns necessary to get to you." He charged and fired a dark looking Hyper Beam at her.

She dodged to the left but was blown away by the blast. She landed hard and struggled to get up but just fell back onto her stomach. The Tyranitar approached her as fear grew on her face. He then began charging another dark Hyper Beam and time seemed to freeze for me. I had fear as such I've never known grip me. But beneath it was a boiling anger. I was not going to let fear win or let that Tyranitar kill my only true sister and family I have left.

I felt power surge through me as I dashed forward with Time seeming to stand still I grabbed Erica and dived out of the way in time to avoid the beam and the blast. A cloud of dirt covered the area as I heard maniacal laughing. The dirt settled to show me holding a unconscious shiny Mew in my arms. I don't know what I looked like, but apparently it terrified the Tyranitar because his face held terror.

"Y-Your not suppose to be here!" He said, his terror evident in his voice.

I growled at him just like a feral wolf before saying in a threatening voice, "Who do you think you are to kill Pokémon? The god of all? Don't make me laugh. Their is no mortal who can truly justify killing. Now, I don't know who you are, but you better get out of that Tyranitar and leave unless you want me to fight you."

He seemed to regain his composure as he grew angry and said, "You are not the boss of me! I'll ri-" he didn't finish his sentence as he was whacked in the head from behind by none other then Lightning.

Lightning landed swiftly as the huge brute fell down before taking his place by me and going into a battle pose. We both glared at the Tyranitar as he got up, looking more angry then ever, but when he saw us glaring at him He shrunk down before fainting. A black shadow dashed away from his body and out of sight.

Both me and Lightning calmed down before turning our attention to Erica. She was beat up but she'd be okay. I placed her on Lightning's back as I said, "Go and take her to the bluff and let her sleep. Make sure you watch her." He nodded and dashed off as I went to check on the crew.

Ray was the most beat up but he'd be okay. I was about to go check on the other Team when I heard the all to familiar voice of Guild master Wigglytuff.

"Hiya Steven!" He said in his usual upbeat tone. "I'm glad to see your back from your journey!"

"Journey?" I asked confused as to what he meant. "But I-" I stopped short as he shot me a look that clearly said 'Shut up.'

"Well good job on saving the contestants!" He said trying to keep everyone calm. "We'll take care of the rest of them so why don't you go back to see Lightning!"

I sweat dropped as I said, "Uh.. Okay.."

And with that I dashed to bluff leaving everyone else behind. I used Extreme Speed to get there faster and before I knew it I was at the stair case leading down. I walked down slowly and was met with Erica sleeping peacefully on her bed and Lightning laying on his watching her. I walked in and Lightning looked at me questioningly.

"Wigglytuff said he'd take care of everyone else and told me to come help you." I explained. He gave a look that said, 'Ohh..'

I laid down on my bed and looked over at Lightning. "Let's just go to bed for now, we'll talk about it in the morning." He said. I nodded and closed my eyes. I thought one last thing before drifting back off two a dreamless sleep. 'That voice, who's was it? And why dose it sound so familiar?'

Yeah! I finally finished it! That took WAY too long. I'm sorry for taking so long and I hope you can forgive me. A month and a half is too long of a wait. I am putting my other story on hold for the time being, but I am not dropping it. Well that's all I hoped you guys or girls liked it! So without further ado, Nyah!