Author Notes: Hello there, FirefoxDriver here again. Thank you to everyone who reviewed the first chapter, things will be very similar to Jpr123's story in the beginning, but things will definitely begin to differ as we go along.

Anyway please enjoy the chapter.

It had been four days since Wendy watched the battle between Sceptile and Torterra. The sun was blaring into her eyes. She stood in the middle of a large grass field, there were a few trees dotted throughout the field and the lack of a breeze made the trek unbearably hot. Even with the few trees here and there, none of them were large enough to form a sufficient amount of shade to rest calmly. Looking at the overall colour of the grass it was clear that it hadn't rained in a good while, but due to the combination of high humidity and dark clouds along the horizon it was soon to rain.

Wendy's stomach growled aggressively. Food was the forefront on her mind as just two days ago she had run out of food for herself and her team. Riolu and Pikachu were staying in their pokeballs as a way of dealing with the lack of food. Wendy knew she had to make it to the next town soon or else she might actually go insane from hunger.

After walking for a few more hours Wendy could hear the sound of running water, and the scenery had changed from an open grass field to a thickly dense forest. The forest floor was dense with vegetation. Wendy had to watch her step as not to sprain her ankle on a random tree root. It was hard to see the sky from where she stood, and she wasn't exactly sure what time it was either. When she got to the sound of running water there was a large amount of relief that washed over her shoulders. She had found a river, and it just so happened that this river would lead her to the next town, or at least a small village. Most towns, cities and villages were usually down stream of a river, mainly for the fresh water, and a source of power.

Wendy leaned up against a tree and took off her backpack. She had a mind breaking headache from her long journey, and as each minute passed by she felt the need to eat something. She was exhausted and was barely able to walk for the rest of the day. She crawled up to the river and took a few generous sips filling her stomach only with water. It was a temporary solution to her hunger, but was an attempt to fool her stomach that it was full. Taking the cold water in her hands she splashed some water on her head, face and arms, feeling the hot tension being released from her aching limbs.

A bright light came out of Wendy's backpack and in front of her, her small riolu formed. She looked at him with a disappointed face, but she wasn't disappointed at him, she was disappointed at herself. Her heart almost just about broke when Riolu reached into her backpack and grabbed a metal bowl asking for food. Wendy let out a soft sigh, stared her pokemon in the eye.

"Riolu, I'm sorry... I don't have any food right now, but when we get to the city we will restock on supplies, and we'll go to a buffet and gorge ourselves on food ok," Wendy said.

Riolu sadly nodded and went back inside his pokeball leaving his trainer to herself. Wendy didn't have the energy to get out her basic tent or anything. She kinda just lay down on the ground and fell asleep. In her dreams she could only see mountains of food on fine dinning plates. She only thought about the things she would do when she got back to the city. She could only think of digging into a mighty medium rare steak, completely devouring it, using her hands no matter what it cost to get something into her stomach.

Wendy found herself in a large dinning room with deep red walls. The walls had large paintings with gold trim. In front of her was a large table with a snow white cloth. On top of the table was an array of her favourite foods, from pizza to steak and many different burgers. Her plate was a fine white plate with a rim of gold, and the utensils fit perfectly in her hands. She was about to dig when she felt a sharp pain shoot right up her leg.

Wendy's eyes opened wide. "Arrrggghhh!" Her voice echoed throughout the forest. Wendy looked all around her. There was a wild thunderstorm all around her. The sky was almost pitch black with how dark the clouds were, and her clothes were soaked from the constant pour of rain. She looked down at her leg and on top of her ankle was a fallen tree. The pain was surging through her leg, it burned, it ached, she felt the weight of the tree crushing the bones in her ankle. She pushed against the muddy ground, but it was no use, she wasn't able to break free. The crunching sound of her cartilage and bones echoed through her mind, and when things couldn't get worse Wendy spotted something absolutely frightening.

Rushing towards her was a flash flood. The flood was carrying rocks, trees, and all kinds of debris. Wendy quickly grabbed onto her backpack and zipped it up. She made sure it was strapped on well. She bit the bottom of her lip, and in an instant the flash flood slammed into her like a freight train. From the impact she took a in a deep gulp of water, and she was forcibly ripped out from under the tree. Her broken ankle flopped and turned at the will of the water, and each time her foot moved an even stronger pain was shot up her leg.

Wendy tried to swim up the surface of the water, but it was no use trying to push against something like a flash flood. Every time Wendy reached the surface of the water, the flood quickly swallowed her back up into its clutches. She was dragged along the bottom of the river swallowing rocks, dirt and mud. Her head was banged against a few rocks, and eventually she was slammed and pushed up against a large rock in the river. Wendy held on for dear life she used the force of the water to push her self up towards the surface trying so hard not to slip. Her lungs, arms, torso, and good leg were all burning. She was taking in breaths of nothing but water, she could feel her own eyes welling up underneath the surface. She felt her hand break the surface, and with the little might she had left, she heaved herself up with her aching arms. She could only think about reaching the surface, with all of her might she gripped onto the rock for dear life. She bit the bottom of her lip, and grunted from the force, she clenched her fingers and finally pulled herself out of the water. She saw large amounts of debris flowing around her. The water was murky beyond compare, and there was a white foam that flowed on top of the water from how fast it was flowing.

Wendy coughed and coughed over again. Large sticks were hitting her in the back forcing her against the rock, and she could feel her body continuing to bruise. Wendy closed her eyes in a fear she was trusting in the rock to keep her safe until this flood was over. She felt a sharp pain in her arm, she was scared to open her eyes. The pain in her arm grew to a point where she could no long ignore it. She saw a large metal rod stuck in her arm presumably from a bridge that was washed away.

The metal rod was stuck in her shoulder. She reached over with her mouth and clenched the rod between her teeth. She bit down on the rod and attempted to remove it, but as she did the pain only grew more. Tears were falling down from her eyes, and she wasn't sure if she was going to make it. The metal rod twisted and turned in her shoulder as the water bashed against her back. The pain was growing stronger and stronger, she looked up to the sky and closed her eyes.

"SOMEBODY! ANYBODY! PLEASE HELP ME! PLEASE HELP! PLEASE HELP! PLEASE HELP!" Wendy screamed.

Wendy felt her burning arm's fingers begin to slip, and her broken ankle just couldn't take the abuse anymore. With one final impact from the flash flood Wendy was thrown back into the river. Much like before Wendy tried to swim up to the surface for another breath of air, but with a bad leg and arm she wasn't able to do much. She tried to break the surface, but the flash flood quickly swallowed her back in. Her head slammed against the bottom of the river and everything went black.

Crack... Snap... Pop... Thoughts of warmth...

Everything was black for what seemed like forever until Wendy could hear the soft crackle of a fire, but more importantly she could feel the warmth of a fire. Her head ached with a pain that wasn't all that familiar to her. She tried to move both of her arms, but she could feel both of them being completely restricted. She heard the soft snoring of a few of pokemon. She slowly opened up her eyes, and noticed she was underneath a rock with a large overhang. Looking over through her blurry vision she saw a boy who was probably the same age she was.

This boy had dark brown messily kept hair. He was thin but had a very feminine facial structure. His skin was quite dark, and it was probably from being out in the sun for long periods of time. Looking closer at his arms they actually had a good amount of muscle on them, but they were hard to see due to his clothes. He wore a long sleeved white farmer's shirt. The sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, and his white shirt was covered by a blue twine top. He wore a pair of big baggy pants that were also covered up by knee high leather boots. The boy looked directly at her and she noticed his dark green eyes which complimented his faded freckles.

"Oh gosh golly, you're awake... Uh... name's Donny, what's yours if you's don't mind me askin."

"Uhgg... my head hurts," Wendy groaned.

"Well it would make sense, you's was pretty banged up when I found ya by the river rocks. Lookin at yer ankle I fixed it up with a few twigs and cloth. As for yer arm I recommend you keep it propped up against your stomach. I tried to stop the bleeding the best I could, but I eventually just tightly wrapped some cloth around the wound after I removed that metal barb," Donny said.

Wendy was about to close her eyes in relief, when a thought just came into her mind. Sure she was being taken care of this stranger, but one question blurted out "Hey, where's my pokemon!?"

"Are you referring to dem pikachu and riolu? They're in your backpack, safe and sound in their pokeballs," Donny smiled.

Wendy let out a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness."

Once Wendy heard Donny's word she slipped into a deep sleep. She thought about the rough experience she just went through, she thought about what if she had actually died. She thought if anyone would worry that she was dead.

Wendy didn't have parents anymore, and her only relative left was her grandmother who could barely remember anything. She had a few friends, but most of them had by this point either given up on their journey or completed it. Would they even be worried if she had died, or would they haven even found out, after all Wendy was alone when the flood happened.

Wendy felt something similar to warm water being poured on her arm. Where the metal barb had entered her arm it stung slightly, but once the stinging stopped the feeling was actually quite pleasant. She felt that same warm water flow over her ankle, and that stung with a great amount of pain. It was a pulsing pain that surged up her leg over and over again. She opened her eyes slightly and there she saw Donny holding her ankle as he poured glowing water over it. The water glowed with a bright white light, and looking over at Donny's face he looked extremely tired. Wendy intently watched the water as the moment the water touched Donny's hand it would form and morph into the shape of his hand.

Wendy closed her eyes once again and just waited. Time flew by as it had only seemed like a few minutes to her, but in actuality she had fallen asleep for several hours. Rolling around on the surface she was on, she had noticed that it was a bed. She felt the soft sheets, the relaxing scent of detergent, and the wind of a cool breeze from ceiling fan. She slowly opened her eyes and saw a room that was very familiar to her. The room's colour was a soft white with a few region pictures on the wall. Right beside her bed was a small table with a reasonably sized lamp. It was a standard pokemon center rental room. Sitting up in her bed she looked at the base of the tv and saw that both her pokeballs were there, and beside the pokeballs was a note.

Wendy pulled the sheets off of her body and was about to get off the bed when she remembered her damaged ankle. She tried to ease into walking, but soon noticed that her ankle was completely fine. She soon checked her arm and saw that the her wound was completely healed. She did find it odd how her body had healed so quickly, but she took it as a miracle and decided to not worry about it too much. She walked over to the note and unfolded it, the note was from Donny, and his writing was just barely legible.

'After you fell asleep I pulled you along into the nearest town. Sorry if I made you backtrack on your journey, but I got you to the nearest pokemon center for treatment. Anyway if you're reading this then it means I'm already on my merry way to either the forest or the nearest tree village. I left your some cash in your backpack and bought a bunch of supplies based on the receipts you keep in that backpack, please be safe on your journey.'

Good luck from Donny

"Huh what a guy," Wendy thought to herself.

Wendy walked into the tiny washroom, and saw herself in the mirror for the first time in a good while. Her skin was much darker than she had remembered, and her hair was wildly messy. She took a nice long shower. She made sure to scrub off every single piece of dirt off of her body and when she had finished in the shower she cut her nails and did a basic hygiene routine that she had missed.

She walked into the dinning area that the pokemon center had. They had already started the free breakfast buffet. Wendy let out both pikachu and riolu to grab what they liked. Wendy piled her plate high with pancakes, fruit and a bit of bacon. She sat down at a nice blue table and leaned back in the seat, she let out a loud sigh of relief brining a lot of attention to her, but she didn't care one bit.

"Uh... hello, uhm... all the seats are full. Can I by any chance sit beside you?" A girl in her early teens asked.

Wendy looked at the girl and saw that she had long blonde hair that was tightly tied up, and held back by a capped hat. She had bright blue eyes and quite a lean build. She wore a yellow zip up hoodie, her jeans fit tightly around her legs, but were ripped by the knees.

"Yeah sure, the seat isn't taken. Oh by the way the name is Wendy, what's yours?" Wendy responded.

"Oh how silly of me... I-I-I'm Hibiki Kohaku," she said.

The two girls talked for a bit, the two of them brought up some small talk, and their individual goals eventually sprung up in the conversation. The two of them both had the common goal of becoming strong trainers, and as the two of them talked a pokeball on Hibiki's belt opened up. The bright white light emerged from the ball formed into a very small poochyena.

"Awww isn't he so cute!" Wendy said.

"His name is Rei, he's my partner, and my only pokemon," Hibiki proudly said.

Wendy pointed to her Riolu and Pikachu that were at the buffet bar gorging themselves on food. "Those two are my party, we've earned three badges together, and while I'm in Berry Grove I hope on getting my fourth,".

"Oh really I just earned my second badge today. The gym leader in this town specializes in steel type pokemon, it took me multiple times to beat him. If I'm being honest he's kinda cute," Hibiki laughed.

"Hey if you're up for a battle I'd love to have one, you know I'd love some practice before I challenge the gym. See who took him down you know, kind of get an idea of what he's looking for," Wendy said.

"Ok sure, I'll buy you some ice cream if you win, and I win you're buying me ice cream," Hibiki said.

"It's a deal then," Wendy excitedly said.

The two of them walked outside of the pokemon center. The sky was still quite cloudy from the intense rain last night, and the humidity was still quite high. Wendy looked at all the stone buildings and the currently murky water channels that flowed throughout the town. There were multiple buildings that generated power for the town in the way of water wheels. While Wendy was distracted by the town Hibiki brought her over to a battlefield located beside the pokemon center.

Wendy stood on one end while Hibiki stood on the other. They had discussed before hand that this fight would be a one on one battle. Hibiki grabbed the pokeball on her belt and threw it into the field. The pokeball opened up and a bright white light formed into her poochyena. Wendy thought about the two pokemon she had, and this was an easy choice.

"Riolu! Come on out!" Wendy yelled.

Wendy clenched the pokeball in her hand and tossed it onto the field, Riolu formed from the bright white light and stood in front of Wendy. Her riolu looked at his opponent and instantly looked back at Wendy with a worried look. Riolu ran behind Wendy's leg and cowered in fear to the tiny mutt of a pokemon.

"Riolu, c'mon. This is just some friendly competition, I can't have you running away from every single fight!" Wendy yelled. She grabbed Riolu by the arm and sat him down on the battlefield. Riolu looked back at Wendy and made multiple signs that he didn't want to have a battle, but Wendy didn't listen.

"Alright we're good to go!" Wendy yelled.

Hibiki felt a little bit of fear creep up her spine. Her little Rei was going up against a fighting type, she just had to hope that he would be fine against a pokemon with a clear type advantage.

"Ok we'll take the first move! Rei, use thunder fang!" Hibiki yelled.

Rei let out a soft roar and began to dash around the field in a zig zag pattern. Riolu tracked where Rei was going, but he was simply following him, and wasn't really predicting where he would go. Bright yellow electricity began to from around Rei's mouth, and with a quick dash Rei went right after Riolu. Rei bit down on Riolu's arm sending the young aura pokemon staggering back. A thick black dust cloud formed, and Rei jumped out of the dusty cloud only to leap back in.

"Great job Rei! Keep it up and use thunder fang again!" Hibiki yelled.

Rei let out a soft bark and ran around in the cloud freely. He had his target, and landed thunder fang after thunder fang. Rei grew in delight with each successful hit, and he grew more confident as he felt Riolu slowly being chipped away at. Mini explosions could be heard within the dust cloud, and Wendy knew that Riolu was taking hit after hit. She could hear the scared whimpers of Riolu, and decided that enough was enough.

"Riolu when you see Rei come in close, make sure you dodge!" Wendy commanded.

Riolu could only see a thick cloud of smoke around him. His legs and arms ached from the constant gnawing. He could hear the pitter patter of his opponent's steps, but since Rei had black fur it made it impossible to see him in the smoke. A sharp pain shot up Riolu's leg and as he looked down there was Rei once again.

"Come on Riolu! Get out of the smoke, and prepare for a counter attack!" Wendy yelled.

Riolu tried his best to run out of the smoke, but he was too afraid. The pitter patter just became louder and louder. Each time he came near the edge of smoke Rei would simply dash in front of him scaring him back into the smoke. Wendy could see this happening as Rei would fearlessly dash in and back out of the smoke to attack her Riolu. It was almost as if Rei was herding mareep in a field.

"Riolu! Just try your best and use cut when Rei gets near you!" Wendy yelled.

Riolu completely panicked, he put both of his hands together and formed a bright white blade. He swung the blade around wildly in the smoke hoping he would hit something. Rei simply ducked and weaved around Riolu's wild swings and dashed in with more thunder fangs. Hibiki grew in delight as she knew that Rei had the complete advantage.

"Rei, you're doing great! Let's wrap this up with Iron tail, and follow it up with thunder fang!" Hibiki yelled.

Rei dashed in for the final time, his tail began to glow with a lustrous shine. He slammed his tail into Riolu sending him flying. Rei jumped into the air and clenched Riolu with his mouth. A massive explosion formed when Rei brought out thunder fang while Riolu was in his mouth. Rei threw Riolu into the ground and began to dive down, his tail was covered by another lustrous shine, and Wendy knew she had to act fast. She bit the bottom of her lip and clenched her fists. She made full eye contact with Riolu and screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Riolu! Listen to me! Let's prove everyone wrong! I know you're scared, I know you hate battling! But let's not forget the day I picked you up! Never forget that day! I will prove to your breeder, to your family, I will prove that you can be strong, you are strong! You can do this just trust in me, and never forget that you are strong in my eyes! Now use counter!" Wendy yelled.

Riolu straightened his stance, he was scared, he was terrified, but he had his trainer at his back. There was a black bullet headed his way. His body shook with fear as Rei flew towards him faster and faster. He began to focus, a soft blue energy formed around his body, he felt the full force of Rei's iron tail. The pain raged through his body, but he wasn't going to give up. As the pain raged through his body his aura skyrocketed in strength. He grabbed Rei by the tail, and formed a fist with his other hand. He reeled back his arm and as he was about to land a solid hit on Rei, but Rei bit down on his neck, and fired off another thunder fang.

Riolu let go of Rei's tail and fell to the ground. Both trainers watched the epic moment and when Riolu fell to the ground Hibiki ran up and gave her partner a warm hug in celebration. Wendy slowly walked over to Riolu and returned him thanking him for the hard work.

"Hey Wendy, that was fun match! I thought Riolu had us there at the very end with that counter, but thankfully Rei here was quick on his feet with that thunder fang. If you don't mind me asking, what was that whole deal of proving everyone wrong?" Hibiki said.

"Oh well you see, Riolu isn't a wild pokemon he was bred. He was bred for stats, but unfortunately he was the runt of the litter, his personality wasn't really suited for battle. His breeder was going to put him in a shelter, so I stood up and took him on the spot. I'm going to prove to his family and his breeder that he can be strong," Wendy said.

"I guess that makes sense, so you're buying me ice cream?" Hibiki asked.

"A deal is a deal, let's walk around the town for a bit," Wendy said.

"I'd like that," Hibiki said.

Author Notes: Anyway there you guys go the second chapter of this fic. I hope you're still enjoying it. As always with the SYOC fics that I do, whenever I introduce new OC's that aren't mine I give credit where credit is due.

Hibiki Kohaku - Created by "KenjiSpiritSlasher"

Alright Hibiki was super awesome to write, I like her a lot. You'll receive a PM from me soon, I need to tell you where and how I'm going to use Hibiki for the fic.

Donny Winder - Created by "DarkWingedLancelot"

Nice job on this character, he fit well with the cast.

See you all in the next chapter!