"I-I can't believe it," a girl with long blue hair whispered to herself, looking back at the forest she just left.

"What is it?" asked a black haired boy.

"We-we didn't get lost," the girl said not whispering anymore.

"Ugh, well of course we didn't," the boy showed a little irritation. "What? Did you think that Raden wouldn't get us out of there?"

"Well I heard stories that if you stray away from the main path, it's just too easy to get lost and we definitely didn't know where we were. But here we are – out of the forest and I never even once thought that we were lost."

"Heh, I didn't even think of thinking that, while Raden was our leader. It's impossible for him to get us more lost than from the start," Farrioust looked at the Braviary, circling around them in the vast sky. Walcekite joined the boy in observing his valiant pokemon, but she couldn't help but think he strongly resembled a Mandibuzz because of that circling.

The boy with spiky black hair loudly whistled with his right hand's thumb and forefinger inside his mouth. The Braviary reacted immediately and rather quickly descended to the ground. Just before he hit the ground, he flapped his wings powerfully and landed with a little thump.

"Very good Raden. I knew I could count on you," Farrioust petted the fluff on the Braviary's head and scratched the pokemon's chin. Raden let out a sound similar to a purr and was recalled to his respective pokeball. "Well, let's get going. I see the SkyarrowBridge upfront."

"It's enormous," Walcekite gasped.

"You never saw it?" the boy raised one of his eyebrows to show his surprise.

"Sure I did. It's just that the size of this bridge always amazes me."

"That sounds childish," decided Farrioust.

"Ah? Fine. Never mind," Walcekite felt her confidence lowering. "But why should he care if I'm childish or not?" Walcekite puffed her cheeks a little, but thought that seemed childish too and released the air she was storing in them.


It was already evening and only a hint of sun was showing in the horizon almost right in front of the two teenagers. The sky had beautiful shades of yellow, soft crimson, and light blue from the sun and through the whole sky. Walcekite couldn't help but think this scenery was romantic, especially with some fog at the foot of the bridge, like it lead to mystery.

"Do you need anything at that pokemart?" inquired Farrioust spotting and pointing at a pokemart near the bridge.

"Uh, me? No. I don't think so," Walcekite's thoughts were interrupted and she made her fingers go through her long hair, like she was pulling the thoughts away. She was embarrassed that Farrioust caught her daydreaming.

"Fine. I don't need anything either. Then let's get across this bridge. I want to reach Castelia City's pokemon center before night," said Farrioust and rushed to the bridge. Walcekite thought about teasing him because of his strange dislike of the night, implying he's afraid of the dark, but she decided to be a little more grown up and went after him not saying a word.

On the bridge, the fog was even thicker than it seemed or maybe it grew thicker over time. It was hard to see, but still possible.

"Stay close. I have a bad feeling about this," warned Farrioust and Walcekite listened, getting so close only about a feet was separating them.

"What do you mean?" asked Walcekite cautiously.

Just then a magenta beam of energy with multicolored particles inside was shot only a few feet in front of the two teens. Walcekite got so startled she grabbed Farrioust's arm, but let it go the moment she realized it.

"Why do I keep doing that? It seems Farrioust makes me act that way. Or maybe I am childish, it's just that it really shows only when people are around?" Walcekite was lost to her thoughts, as a dark pokemon descended from the sky and extended its arm towards the two, with the palm of its hand facing them. "I-is that a Gothitelle? Did it use Psybeam?" Walcekite looked at Farrioust who was observing the somewhat hostile pokemon and nodded after the girl's words.

"Goth-Gothitelle!" the dark pokemon shouted with a furious face and her hand still extended towards Farrioust and Walcekite.

"It seems she doesn't want to let us pass. Though I think we can battle her," proposed Farrioust. His voice was calm once again, though it just was so cautious. It seemed when he saw the danger, it wasn't so scary to him anymore.

"Let's see," Walcekite observed the Psychic type pokemon. "She is weak to dark, ghost and bug types. I have two dark's. What about you?" she asked Farrioust.

"I have a dark type and a bug type. This will be a piece of cake," smirked Farrioust readying his two pokeballs. Walcekite followed his example.

"Goth!" Gothitelle seemed irritated of the idea that they want to battle her. She clapped her hands and another Psybeam was shot at the teens that still didn't release their pokemon.

Suddenly, everything turned white and Walcekite got a falling sensation. She tried to keep her mouth shut, but the disappearing into the white light got a scream out of her. She thought she even heard Farrioust do the same.


"Wh-where are we?" Walcekite felt she was lying on grass and then she sat up.

Farrioust was recovering next to her. They both gazed around the scenery. They saw the same fog from before, the same pokemart and, finally, they saw a bridge being built.

"Doesn't that remind you of the SkyarrowBridge?" inquired Farrioust.

"It does, but-but how can it be. It's been finished for quite a long time now."

"Something's so wrong. How did we end up here?" Farrioust stood up and scratched his head.

Although the sun wasn't showing anymore, because of the fog, that only let them see the outlines of the buildings from Castelia City, the sky was still colored the same yellow, crimson and light blue colors, though all the colors were somewhat lighter from the white fog.

Walcekite and Farrioust ventured towards the bridge and saw something swimming in the water beside it.

"Hey! Do you want to get to the other side?" both of the teens heard a question that seemed to be shouted by a little girl.

"Is that some kind of boat?" Walcekite tried to see better by almost closing her eyes.

"We can get you across with the water taxi!" the boat moored to a small bridge and a girl jumped out of it. "Well? Come on," she grinned joyfully.

The girl had greenish brown hair, an orange dress and a yellow short coat.

"Well, we need to get to the other side anyway," figured Farrioust. "Maybe it's not such a bad idea. Let's go," he encouraged Walcekite and both of them went to the girl.

"My name is Sally. And what are yours," she asked still with a smile on her face.

"I'm Walcekite and this is Farrioust. Nice to meet you," Walcekite smiled back.

"Nice to meet you too. Here's your ticket," she gave the blue haired girl a piece of paper with something written on it. "Gothitelle, we're leaving soon. Get ready," the girl turned around and only then the two teens saw another Gothitelle. Or was it the same one?

But this Gothitelle was happy and had a smile on her face, just like Sally had. Once Sally, Walcekite and Farrioust went aboard the taxi, she used Psychic to untie a rope from the little bridge to let the water taxi swim onwards.


"Do you want any sandwiches or juice?" Sally asked the two while they were observing the foggy river around them. "I made the sandwiches myself," she said proudly.

"Don't mind if we do," grinned Walcekite and took two sandwiches of which one she gave to Farrioust. She also took some juice.

When Sally, along with Gothitelle, went to the captains cabin, where a man was driving the water taxi Farrioust whispered to Walcekite, a little bit irritated:

"I didn't say I was hungry."

"I just assumed and I think I was correct," said Walcekite a bit snootily, "Come to think of it, I didn't eat since those Pecha Berries and I didn't even once see you eat," Walcekite looked at Farrioust while tilting her head.

"I don't need much food. You can stop worrying about me," Farrioust turned away with a calmer voice.

"Oh, don't worry. I wasn't. I just wanted to be polite," Walcekite turned away as well, although she knew she cared. "If he doesn't want my caring side – so be it," she thought to herself.

Farrioust saw the sudden change and knew something was up. "Was she hurt by that?" the black eyed boy thought to himself.

Walcekite remembered she had food in her hands and started eating it. She tried to peek at Farrioust, to check if he did the same and finally a triumphing smile appeared on her face – the boy gave in.


"Well, we're here," announced the little girl as they reached the shore.

Walcekite and Farrioust jumped out of the taxi and said farewell to Sally. They wanted to get to Castelia City, but they actually found themselves on the same shore they just left. They saw the PinwheelForest in the back and the same pokemart.

"What is going on?!" Walcekite was frustrated and wanted to come back to the water taxi, but it had already swam away and only Gothitelle was walking along side the shore. "You think this is her world?" Walcekite immediately cooled off finally getting some ideas.

"Yeah. Probably her memories. Only she can let us come back to the real world. Let's go after her," Farrioust didn't wait for Walcekite's approval and ran after the quite tall pokemon with a black dress with white ribbons and a purple face and hands.

Gothitelle didn't pay any attention to the teens, or at least it seemed so, and simply went on the bridge and walked to the spot that was still being constructed. As the two reached her, she turned around with the furious face she had in the real world.

"Goth! Gothitelle!" she shouted and while using Psychic, raised the building materials around her.

Farrioust and Walcekite readied the same pokemon they wished to use before, but Walcekite stopped herself and Farrioust from throwing them.

"Don't you think it's unfair to battle 4 vs 1? I mean, even 2 vs 1 is quite foul."

"So what do you propose we do?"

"Maybe the only one that gets to battle her should be the one that will be attacked by her first. Furthermore, the one battling should only use one pokemon. Agreed?"

"Agreed," Farrioust wasn't very pleased. Maybe he just wanted to defeat her quicker and be released from her enchantments, but his pokemon should still be quite powerful.

Gothitelle seemingly understood their conversation and was looking at both of them, choosing her victim. As she decided and raised the building materials even higher, she still threw them at both of the teens.

Walcekite and Farrioust jumped to opposite sides of the bridge and were in time not to get hurt.

"That's it! I don't care that she hit us both, she will pay! Deisus, I choose you!"

Walcekite pondered, that Farrioust's bug type was probably a Larvesta and she really wanted to see it battle, but Deisus – being a part dark type, was completely immune to Gothitelle's psychic attacks. "Yeah, that's a better choice," admitted Walcekite.

"Deisus, use Bite!"

As the Zweilous ran towards his victim, Gothitelle tried to use Psybeam on him, but as her psychic attack didn't work, she got a big chomp to her arm with one of Zweilous heads and to her "dress" with the other. She released a painful cry and jumped away when Deisus opened his mouths.

"Nice job Deisus, now use Focus Energy!"

As the Zweilous started to glow, Gothitelle tried to move him with Psychic, that, of course – failed, but it didn't stop her from trying Psybeam again. After a few more tries, that didn't give the needed result, her face was drenched in fear. She knew that this battle was a complete loss.

"Deisus, Bite!"

The same dark type attack that hurt Gothitelle before, was launched again and easily got it's target.

Because of the raised dark type power of this attack, not to mention the raised chance of landing a critical hit because of Focus Energy, Gothitelle was almost done. After the double bite, she fell on her back to the ground and both trainers carefully approached her.

"We're sorry Gothitelle, but we really need to get back to our world," Walcekite tried to make her voice as soft and calm as she possibly could.

"Gothitelle," the pokemon nodded with a painful look.

"You shouldn't lie on this filthy ground like that," Walcekite gave Gothitelle her arm, so she could get up. The pokemon inspected the arm for a bit and took the help.

She was higher than Farrioust and Walcekite and both had to look up, to look her in the face.

"These are really great memories, Gothitelle, but this just isn't out world. I'm sorry that the water taxi probably had to close because of the bridge, but what's done is done. Don't hurt people just because you miss the good old days. You can go and make some new, even greater memories," Walcekite smiled all the time she talked to Gothitelle. She saw how her face changed from frustration - to thinking about the future.

"Goth, Gothitelle," the lolita style pokemon finally smiled back, tilting her head a little and the white fog all around them began to engulf the trainers and the pokemon until no one saw a thing.


As the fog cleared, both trainers were next to the bridge, still at the same side where Pinwheel forest was. It was already quite dark and not a hint of the sun was visible on the horizon. Both of the trainers went on the bridge and started to go across it.

*sigh* "I knew we wouldn't make it," Farrioust seemed troubled.

"Why? Because of the night?" asked Walcekite.

"Yeah. Well, you see, I had a bet that I would reach Castelia City's pokemon center before the sun completely sets."

"Yeah? With whom?"

Farrioust sighed again and stayed quiet for a bit.

"…Catlesy."

Walcekite pressed her hand against her mouth and tried not to laugh. "That girl can do anything with her weird acts. She even got mister calm here." *cough, cough* "So, what will you have to do now?"

"Join her in her journey."

"So why didn't you go to Castelia City immediately? Why spend the night in PinwheelForest?"

"That was part of the bet. Ugh. And I fell for it. I don't think I'll manage to stand her," he gave himself a soft face palm.

"What would have happened, if you came to the pokemon center before night?"

"She said she would teach one of my pokemon Shadow Ball. I don't have any ghost type moves, so I figured I could use it. But it seems it wasn't such a great idea."

"Well, one of my pokemon know Shadow Ball. If she really won't teach you, then I would be glad to," she grinned at Farrioust.

"Is that a joke?" he asked cautiously.

Walcekite groaned. "Why do you think I want to trick you or something. Have I ever did that before?"

"Um, not that I recall. But if you are anything like Catlesy, you could trick me. Sometimes I'm very gullible," he admitted.

"Really? Well, don't worry. I won't trick you…on purpose…" she giggled and asked. "So how many badges do you have. I bet almost all of them."

"Nope, this will only be my third."

"What?" Walcekite was shocked. "But you already have a full team of powerful pokemon. How can you still have the same amount of badges as me?"

"Well, I started my journey from LacunosaTown. I caught Deisus and Raden in the Victory Road and after that, I got many pokemon while traveling towards the StriatonCity. I started battling from there. Because my starter was Snivy, I had to battle Chili, but it wasn't very hard. The same was for the Nacrene City Gym. So I go on like this."

"It must be so easy for you," Walcekite had a bit of an envious tone.

"Well I wouldn't say so. A little Skitty along with a Pignite defeated my two pokemon, that took out a whole squad of knights before," he reminded for Walcekite and grinned to himself. Walcekite smiled as well.


The bridge was rather long, but they finally reached Castelia City. The many skyscrapers gave off bright lights and it was like the night dissapeared.

After finding the pokemon center, they noticed Catlesy waiting for them.

"Heh, I knew you would come together," she winked at them. "It's obvious there is a spark between you two. And I don't want to hear your denial. I will believe what I want," she hushed them before they even got the chance to speak. They both were a bit blushed, but it might have been anger towards Catlesy. The blonde girl came to Farrioust and flicked his forehead.

"You – lost," she said in a sardonic tone.

"Ouch! I know! You don't have to flick my forehead for that!" he exclaimed at her and Catlesy quieted him down.

"Sh, sh. It's almost night. You two should get yourself a room. I already have one. Good night," she ran off leaving the two again not able to interfere.

"I can't believe that girl," said Farrioust stroking his forehead. "Who does she think she is?"

"I have no idea," Walcekite really didn't. "But she is right. We need to get ourselves some rooms."

Walcekite and Farrioust walked up to nurse Joy and asked for some rooms.

"Oh, I'm sorry. We only have one room left. Is it alright if you two share?" asked nurse Joy with a little bit worried tone.

*sigh* "Either Catlesy knew this, or she is psychic," sighed Walcekite and after getting a big and filling dinner, both of them decided to spend the night in the same room.