Hi people of Earth and possibly beyond. So i love all the positive reviews i've been getting. Now this chapter takes place a couple of days after the events of the last chapter. In this chapter Lyra completes her pokemon team and gets an unexpected visit. Also Ethan has added his larvitar to his team making his team five instead of four. Okay so i hope you like it.

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Chapter 7: Team Complete

Ethan watched as Lyra and her pokemon ran up and down the river. Chimchar was in the lead followed by Meganium and Lyra was running alongside Munchlax. Aipom was helping him set the table. He looked over at his larvitar, who was sitting on a rock with Charmander watching them train, and promised himself that they'd do some training. He set out the bowls of pokemon food and served lunch to himself and Lyra.

"Hey you guys lunch is ready." he called out to them and they came running.

"Thanks Ethan." she said with a smile as she dug into her food. "With all this training we are sure to win the Cerulean City Pokemon Contest!"

"Hey don't get in over your head Ly. According to the guide book the contest hall is new and it incorporates some of the aspects from the gym. The performance stage is in the middle of a beautiful pool. The performance stage then becomes the battlefield which depends on the type of pokemon battling. So if there are two ground types then it becomes a normal field, if there are two water types then the whole pool raises, it's an open arena perfect for flying types, and when a water pokemon and a non water type battle then it's like the performance stage." he explained. Lyra's eyes widened and she turned to look at the river. "What are you thinking about?"

"The contest and how I miss my Eevee and how I need more pokemon. Watching you battle with six pokemon the other day really got me thinking about well my last six on six battle. We all know how well that one went. Watching you work with Jolteon, it just reminded me of the day we got our Eevees from your grandparents." she sighed.

"Well then you should get it back if you miss it so much. Grandpa tells me that it misses you too. When we get to the city we'll ask him to send it to you." Ethan said and she smiled at him. Splashes and screams coming from the river grabbed their attention. A small turtle caught their attention. "It's a baby squirtle."

"It's headed for the falls." Lyra said. They got up and ran down the river. On the other side of the river they saw more turtle pokemon. "Look Ethan!"

"More squirtle, and wartortle." he said. He looked at his pokemon and an idea came to him. "Heracross use protect." the green barrier appeared in front of the falls and prevented the pokemon from falling over. The current was still to strong for the baby pokemon to swim through. "Quick Lyra have Meganium use vine whip to grab Squirtle" she nodded and the grass type unleashed it's vines. They wrapped around the tiny turtle and pulled it out of the water back to it's friends. "Good job."

They watched as two wartortle pulled the baby pokemon into an embrace. They nodded in their direction before disappearing into the woods. All but one of them left, it was a bigger squirtle then the one they had saved. It ran but not into the woods but toward calm waters where it crossed the river and met them at their camp. It poked Meganium's side multiple times before the grass type finally looked at it with an annoyed look on it's face.

"What's that squirtle doing here?" Lyra asked.

"I think it may want to battle Meganium." Ethan said noticing how it had a determined look on it's face. "Maybe it wants to be caught." the pokemon nodded. "Go Lyra battle it."

She nodded and got up from her chair. The small pokemon started off by using water gun. Meganium countered it with razor leaf. When it was time for vine whip the wild squirtle used aqua jet to dodge and hit Meganium. Petal dance was used to distract the pokemon while body slam finished it. Lyra threw the blue and white ball. It shook three time before it stopped. Lyra picked up the ball and let her new pokemon out.

"Welcome to the team Squirtle." she said happily.

"Squirtle…squirt!" it said cheerfully. It looked over to the other side of the river where a bunch of squirtle and wartortle had gathered to watch. Squirtle scratched it's head nervously as a blastoise came out of the trees. It nodded as did the others. "Squirtle!"

"I think that they just gave it the approval to leave." Ethan said and Lyra nodded.

A couple days later…

"So you want Eevee back." the old lady on the phone said.

"Yes, you see I've raised it since it hatched and well I miss it. I know that I left it with you so that it could have more training that I couldn't provide it with but now I think it's time that I raised it." Lyra said scrambling to find the right words.

"Okay I shall send it to you."

"Thank you."

"Grandma look I caught an aipom." Ethan said pushing Lyra out of his way. "I also have a charmander and a larvitar. Yes Heracross is still with me and no Croconaw hasn't evolved."

Lyra left Ethan on the phone with his grandparents. Nurse Joy came up to her and handed her the pokeball she was waiting for. She thanked the pink haired lady and went outside. She let out her five pokemon and they started playing with each other. They walked over to the contest hall and registered. She was using Squirtle in the first round and Munchlax in the second. When she walked out of the building she was shocked to find a red headed boy leaning against a lamp post.

"What are you doing here?" she asked curiously. "I thought you were doing some rigorous training."

"I was but word gets around you know." he answered starting to walk. When she didn't follow he turned around. "Come on I think we should talk." she and her five pokemon followed him. He led them to a playground at the park. Lyra took a seat on a swing while he leaned against the a pole looking out at her pokemon who had started to play on the playground. "That's quite an energetic bunch of pokemon you have there."

"You should see them when Ethan's pokemon are out." she said following his gaze. He called out his six pokemon and they joined hers on the playground. "Silver what did you hear?"

"I heard that Lance beat you." he said. She remained silent. "I heard it from the dragon master himself though he wasn't telling me he was telling the costume wearing weirdo. He also mentioned that you were traveling around the Kanto region."

"So you came over here." she said.

"I wasn't going to at first but then a couple days ago he came back to the den. Again the conversation wasn't directed towards me but I over heard anyway. He was telling the weirdo about how you refused to battle him which seemed strange to me." he said. His gaze drifted up to the full moon hanging in the sky. "Why didn't you battle him?"

"Silver you are my eternal rival and I gave you advice which I didn't take myself. I guess I haven't answered your question well to be honest I am terrified of him." she said and he turned to face her harshly. She looked down at her feet digging them into the sand as she swung forwards and backwards slowly. "Before that day I saw him as just a person but when I was standing on the opposite end of his attack something just snapped. He wasn't the same person I had met before, he was someone who would do anything to defend what they worked so hard to earn."

"I get it. I'd be afraid if I was facing him and he was going at it with everything he didn't show me before." he admitted. "I honestly don't know how to help you. What are you doing competing in contests?"

"Oh I'm going to face him, I don't know when but I will face him and to do so I have to learn different styles of battling. Contest battling isn't the same as gym battling plus it's fun. I'm going on this journey to discover new things and to discover myself." she said looking up at him, he nodded. "You should stay and watch the contest."

"I don't know about that I have my own discovering to do." he said and then the sound of fighting drew their attention to their pokemon who were fighting with each other. Typhlosion, Magneton, and Sneasel were angrily bickering with Meganium, Squirtle, and Chimchar. The other five pokemon were just watching as they went back and forth with accusations. "I wonder what that's all about."

"Yeah especially since they were playing so nicely before." Lyra said. The two rivals ran up to their pokemon and tried to break up the fighting. A quiet laugh stopped them from their fighting. They turned to find a small dog like pokemon laughing at them. "A riolu."

"So he caused this problem." Silver said angrily. He counted the pokemon that weren't his before turning to the girl in the white hat. "Catch it. It's a Sinnoh pokemon and it's rare in the Johto region. Plus if you were to catch it I'd get to pummel it in a battle."

"That's mean but I'll catch it besides it's so cute." she said happily. She looked at Eevee who nodded. "Use quick attack." Eevee started it's attack but the screech attack from it's opponent stopped it from continuing. Riolu used it's quick attack and hit Eevee then followed it with sky uppercut. It used double team to confuse Eevee. "Knock them down with shadow ball Eevee."

Eevee unleashed a shower of shadow balls that took out the fakes and knocked out the real one. A white glow started to come from Eevee and it's shape started to change. When the glow stopped Eevee's body had changed from brown to black and the golden rings around it's body were illuminated by the moon. The wild pokemon came at the newly evolved one with another quick attack. Umbreon sent it flying with it's psychic attack. It hit the ground and Lyra threw the blue pokeball. She picked it up when it stopped shaking.

"Your team is now complete. I won't promise you that I'll stay to watch the contest but I will see you later." he said recalling his pokemon and taking his leave.

Lyra watched him go before she turned to her pokemon and gave them a smile. Chimchar jumped on to her shoulder, Squirtle jumped on to Meganium's head, Munchlax walked on her other side, and Umbreon walked on the other side of Munchlax. They found Ethan standing outside of the pokemon center looking around restlessly. He spotted them and ran over to them, he tried to skid to a stop when he saw the newly evolved pokemon in her company but wound up crashing into her and they fell to the ground.

"Nice to see you too Ethan." Lyra said and Ethan got off of her. He pulled her up and she held out the blue pokeball. "Guess what?"

"Eevee evolved." he said pointing at the black and gold pokemon.

"Yes thanks for that assessment captain obvious." she said.

"You registered for the contest, you met up with Silver, and oh I know…wait never mind that's all I got." he said not noticing her wave the pokeball in his face.

"Well yeah I did register and I did meet up with Silver and well we talked. While we were talking a wild riolu was messing with our pokemon causing them to start fighting. Eevee battled the riolu, evolved into Umbreon, and I caught Riolu." Lyra explained as they walked into the pokemon center. She called out her new pokemon. "Hey there Riolu I'm Lyra, you're really strong. How would you like to come with me and my pokemon."

The pokemon nodded and went to apologize for messing up their fun. They went into a lounge and sat down on one of the couches and directed their attention to whatever was on TV. Their mouths fell when they saw Bruno wearing a hard hat talking to the reporter. Ethan raised the volume.

"So what can you tell us about this project?" the reporter asked. Bruno was about to answer when an orange tail knocked him down. "Uh Master Bruno?"

"I can't tell you much or that will happen again." he laughed. "Why don't you ask the one in charge, right now I'm just a lackey? May I add that I am not getting paid." another tail swipe sent Bruno off into a pile of dirt. "You'll pay for that when this is over!"

"Hahaha!" the reporter laughed nervously before tuning to the one in charge of everything, Lance. "So what can you tell us about you project Lance?"

"Well all I can say is that the Indigo Plateau will never be the same again." he said firmly.

Ethan turned off the TV and turned to face Lyra. "Did you see that? It's not just the Elite Four building, it's the entire place where the Indigo League and Grand Festival take place. I have a feeling that when we get there it will be a sight to behold."

"Yeah me too." she agreed.

The next day…

"As this year's Cerulean City Pokemon Contest draws to a close, it's Lyra to my left and Marley to my right. There's five minutes on the clock." Lillian said.

Lyra called out her munchlax and the purple haired girl named Marley called out her Seel. The white pokemon started the battle by using aqua jet. Munchlax used focus punch to defend itself, it sent the pokemon flying back into the water. Ice shard and horn drill was the attack combination from the opponent. Munchlax used a shadow ball and focus punch combination to sent it back into the water. For the finishing move Munchlax used thunderbolt to cover the entire pool's surface with yellow bolts of electricity, each one going down into the water and hitting Seel.

"That's it for Seel and Marley the winner is Lyra and her munchlax."

Outside after the contest…

Lyra sat on a bench staring at the cerulean colored ribbon. She was joined by the red headed boy whom she called a rival.

"I watched." he said looking at the ribbon with her. He looked at the gold raindrop center. "You know that the center of the ribbon looks like the Cascade Badge?" she shook her head. "Yeah except the badge is blue. If I'm not mistaken you'll be fighting for that badge tomorrow."

"It's the Cerulean City Badge." she said simply. "What's next on your agenda?"

"I'm going to travel around though not here in Kanto. I think maybe Hoenn or Sinnoh." he said. He looked up to see Ethan getting scratched by his purple monkey. "That's a unique relationship they have."

"Oh they love each other really. Aipom just tells Ethan when he is doing something wrong." Lyra laughed as she watched Ethan attempt to get his stubborn pokemon into it's pokeball. Silver got up. "You're leaving?"

"Yeah though we'll meet again after all we're rivals. The next time we meet you better be standing in the winner's circle ready to fight me for your title." he said.

"I will be." she said confidently.

To be continued...

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Ethan's team...

Croconaw

Aipom

Heracross

Charmander

Larvitar

Lyra's Team...

Meganium

Chimchar

Munchlax

Squirtle

Umbreon

Riolu

So that's that please review and i'll see you next time when Lyra battles Misty for the Cascade Badge. (: