Chapter 10

Japanese Names:

Sakaki = Giovanni

Disclaimer: We do not own pokemon in any shape or form. This fanfic is written for entertainment and self enjoyment with OC characters and plot own by us. Game characters' personalities are based off game counterparts.

Ecruteak Gym

The Viridian gym leader found himself staring at the Ho-Oh painting again. The painting was done in oil paint on a small canvas displayed at the front of Matsuba's gym. He and Red have checked on Matsuba this morning to see if his condition had improved. The gym leader was still out of it when they met him due to the medications, but he was aware enough to tell them the whole prophecy.

"Green?" His friend's voice came out of the blue.

"What is it?"

The brunette looked up to see the red eyed trainer giving him a look of concern. Although Red didn't talk much, he could still be expressive through facial expressions and body language if he chose to, which wasn't that often. Years of seclusion has made Red lose his sense of interacting with other human beings. The gym leader couldn't recall if any other human being lived at Mt. Silver beside the pokemon nurse or the movie star, who also chose to live away from the rest of the world.

"What do you think?" Red whispered.

"You mean the prophecy?" Green mumbled back, "It's...odd." Six trainers looking up at Ho-Oh, one is reaching out for it, and the last one lying in the shadows. It was so vague. The gym leader wasn't one for believing in things like faith and destiny, but after spending years running into odd happenings, it was no longer hard to believe in such things.

The Kanto champion understood him and nodded, "There were two before us."

His Espeon was out of its pokeball. The feline pokemon sniffed the stiff air. The gym had no trainers because its gym leader was in the hospital. All of the gym trainers were gone and the referee was only there to open the gym for them. Espeon couldn't sense any change in emotions in the atmosphere. Red absently pets the psychic pokemon when it came back with no results.

"Matsuba said that he had already found two of those trainers before us," Green finished. The ghost trainer described them as two teenage girls, no older than sixteen years old. One was a proud brunette whose battling style was purely offense while the other trainer had blue hair and used status changing moves to battle.

"He said they were going to Olivine," the raven haired trainer said, still petting his Espeon. "They're probably going for the badges." They have gone back to the gym to search for any further evidence in whom the attacker was, but they were out of luck.

"Yeah," Green turned away from the painting to look at the rest of the gym. The gym was not open to the public since yesterday. It was odd to be inside an empty gym; it reminded him of Sakaki's gym when he first moved in. The air conditioner was turned off and the room was warm and humid.

Red took out a red device that was folded like a small notepad. He flipped open the machine and said, "Too bad I can't use this." He missed being able to track pokemon. However, he and Green have only met Kanto's legendary pokemon. They would not be able to locate legendaries of other regions.

"That's the new Pokedex in Kanto!" The green eyed trainer gawked at the red machine in his hand. The Pokedex looked exactly like the one Green had in his bag right now. He asked, "When did you get that?"

"Blue gave it to me," Red said. "When I left for Sinnoh." The girl insisted that the Kanto champion had to update his Pokedex if he was going to visit a new region. She was actually right. Red spent a lot of time in Sinnoh looking up the pokemon, noting that many of them resembled some of the pokemon back in Kanto. A ringing sound came out of Red's backpack, startling the champion, who wasn't used to getting many phone calls.

"H-hello?" Red answered his red Pokegear, which was taking out of the upper compartment of the backpack.

"RED~!" A loud boisterous voice filled his ear canal. Red distances the red communication device away from his ear to hear the caller shout, "RED RED RED RED RED RED RED! Hey, you know how Blue, like, totally warned us that there was like, that legendary pokemon collector person?"

"Uh, yeah?" the Kanto champion plugged the ear closest to the Pokegear in the attempt to possibly lower the volume. Gold's voice rang loud and clear, despite the device already being on the lowest possible setting.

"So like, I think that the guy who tried to sneak into the lab was, like, totally that guy, you hear me?" His voice echoed through. Green snapped his head to the tiny electronic transceiver.

"Loud and clear," Green said warily from the summer's heat and started to fan himself with his hand.

"Okay, so like, we caught him and he started running when Silver called out his Alakazam. It was weird! Alakazam only used two moves and the guy already figured out that the two could Mind Sync, it was like he knew those two didn't need to talk, like at all, not even the pokemon!"

"I think most people would figure it out after he doesn't talk for a few moves," the gym leader said, distancing himself a little bit from the Pokegear from the caller's sheer volume.

"But, like, it was only after two and they were moves that Alakazam could have totally used on his own. Then like, the guy called out an Entei!"

"The volcano pokemon?" Red's eyes went wide.

"Yeah! Like, the trainer even talked to the legendary and said that they needed to, like, run." Gold's voice somehow sounded more excited like the teenager was jumping up and down from the other side of the call. Red imagined whoever was nearby the teen was rolling their eyes.

"What did he look like?" Green asked.

"Um, punkish? Totally punk more or less. He had chains and belts and crap everywhere, though his, like, clothes look pretty damn loose." Gold recalled.

"Gold..." Red's voice gave off a warning tone, like the teenager was going too far with something.

"Had, like, gears that were shaped into pokeballs for the loose parts of his short sleeved hoodie and the zipper part too," The other champion ranted on. ""He also had a Ralts and an Eevee. They don't look at all trained. Like, totally."

Bingo, looks like Matsuba's attacker had somehow shown up further down south for the last several hours, but how? Green asked himself, his mind crashed into a crazy train wreck. What about the blue haired trainer that was the 'legendary catcher' and her friend? Was there more than one person going after legendary pokemon? It seemed likely. He was still in deep thought and added to himself, One person going after several legendaries could take years to accomplish and it could end disastrously. Perhaps those girls were 'looking for their friend' as an excuse to catch legendary pokemon. Maybe they were working with that punk trainer?

"But like, a weird thing was, HE DIDN'T SAY A SINGLE WORD TO ANY OF US!" The Johto champion whined. "Like, seriously, NOT A SINGLE WORD. He was like, totally deaf to all of us. He only talked to his pokemon..."

"Doesn't talk?" Red said.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. Like, his Eevee's name is like, Elliot or something like that. It was like, so not cute when that pokemon flashed out of his pokeball without his trainer's permission and all-"

"CAN YOU STOP TALKING LIKE A STUPID VALLEY GIRL?" Another voice interrupted the first caller, followed by a few crashes and a girl's voice in the background.

"Hey! I'm trying to tell my senior what is happening!" Gold said it in a tone like he was pouting, "I found the thief and you're trying to interrupt me!"

"Interrupt you? I don't think they can understand you!" The other voice emphasized the end of his sentence.

"Aw come on Silvy- OW!" the teen's voice cried out on the other end. Red clearly imagined that the redhead was purely annoyed with his rival's use of odd pet names.

"Anyways," Silver's voice overtook the line. Through the static, one can hear Gold screaming something along the lines of "gimme back my gear" and "Silver, I'll never forgive you for this," and then a "now I can't tell Red about all those crazy hot nights we spend together-OW." The last one obviously ended with another smack in the head.

"We're done with this conversation!" Silver shouted over the phone. Red's Pokegear abruptly hung up with the tone still on. The empty gym was met with a long silence with the two Kanto trainers exchanging weird looks.

"Well, that was fun," the Kanto champion rubbed his poor ears.

"If those girls are in Olivine," Green said. "We can catch up to them by flying there right now." He mused on the thought of possibly catching the pokemon thief. Red saw that determined look in his eyes.

"It might not be them," Red said quietly. His Espeon looked up at the Viridian gym leader and tilt its head.

"Her grandfather said so himself, 'legendaries', Red," Green groaned while he stretched out his back. He called out his Charizard, preparing for the flight back to the port city. He ignored the strange stares he was receiving from the citizens of the city. It was a rare sight to see a Kanto champion in Johto.

"Where you actually listening to what he said?" He asked. Green fell silent when his friend asked him the question. Red noticed his childhood friend zoning out while the old man was blurting out random tales of his life and his family. The gym leader had that glassy look in his eyes, somewhere in a different world.

"What kind of person would casually talk about legendaries in everyday conversation?" The green eyed trainer shot back, "Where you listening to everything he said?"

"No." Red wasn't paying attention either after the grandfather introduced himself and gave them the bare bones of their situation. He had no interest in the minor details of a villager man's life or of his children.

"He knows more than most people do," Green said. "This has to be it."

"Does he look like he's reliable in keeping secrets?" Red questioned, as he released his own flying type, Aerodactyl. The prehistoric pokemon stretches its neck and roared to the sky. The two gym leaders signaled the referee that they were done and allowed him to lock the gym after they stepped out of the building.

"There has to be some ounce of truth in what he says," Green was desperate for hints and this was the closest they got. Other than that, they had no idea who the pokemon thief could be, where the thief was, or what the thief's objections were. He was ready to grab the first evidence he saw.

"I don't know about this," the champion said.

"We better hurry, they may have left already," the brunette rushed, hopping onto his fire hybrid. "I want to get to Olivine before the night comes. Fly!"

"Red, how many times have I said to go left?" Green yelled over Charizard's wings. His Charizard was enjoying the rush of the breeze as the fire type pokemon swooped down the route to scare a few wandering Miltanks, who have walked off too far from the rest of its herd.

"What?" Red had to raise his voice, as the brunette can be quite deaf.

"I said left." The gym leader repeated himself over the wind.

After leaving Ecruteak City, the two young men found themselves in the middle of what they thought was route 38. Or was it route 39? They thought that flying to a city they have been to before would have been a cinch, but now they were not too sure. The whole route looked identical where every bush and tree repeated in the same pattern. The routes had no landmarks and the same pokemon appeared in every corner. Green also noticed that the place had a lot of Tauros and Miltanks. The bull and cow pokemon were constantly flirting with each other and sat on the grass with a dumb look on their faces.

"By now much?" Red asked.

"By seventy five degrees!"

"What the hell is seventy five degrees?" the Kanto champion replied, a vein pulsing in his head. Why can't he just turn and I follow? He asked himself with an annoyed expression. How was he supposed to understand what degrees were? It has been years since he took a math class of any sort.

It's a wonder we didn't get lost in Mt. Silver, Red's Aerodactyl, Pte, rolled his eyes as it roared to Charizard. You would think we would be in the city by now. The rock type pokemon looked like it was trying not to laugh and touched the top of the trees with his claws.

I think Green went the wrong direction, I'm pretty sure that the city is straight east not north-east, the fire pokemon called out. Those Miltanks look fine mighty good, the dragon like pokemon licked its lips as it glared at the pink colored cow pokemon with hunger.

"Seventy five degrees is a little less than a quarter from a clock!" The gym leader raised his voice, "Counter clockwise!" Green pulled on his Charizard's horns and shouted, "Stop looking at those Miltanks like that! No! You can't eat them! They're someone's property!" The fire starter growled in disagreement, but obeyed his trainer and flew higher up.

"Just tell me the number on the clock!" Red screamed out while the gym leader loudly groaned.

What was the point of learning degrees if he didn't have to use it in everyday situations? Red found it frustrating how symmetrical the whole route was. It was impossible to tell if they were flying the right direction or if they were flying in circles. The champion was getting tired of watching the Tauros and Miltank flock together in herds. He was told that there was a farm in the middle of route 39, but he had yet to see a farm. It was hard to tell if the bull and cow pokemon were wild or if they had owners. He grew up as a city boy and he had no interest in the countryside whatsoever. Even Mt. Silver was more interesting than this route with all the strong wild pokemon and the harsh climate.

"HOW THE HELL DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT IS SEVENTY-FIVE DEGREES?" Green's voice rose in volume while their pokemon winced from their trainers' exaggerated tone.

"WHY WOULD I NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS SEVENTY-FIVE DEGREES WHEN I'VE BEEN TRAINING ON A MOUNTAIN?" The Kanto champion gave up keeping his voice down and hollered back at Green.

"OKAY THEN, WHY THE HELL WERE YOU ON THAT GODDAMNED FORSAKEN MOUNTAIN IN THE FIRST PLACE?" Green demanded, bringing up the topic that was dropped several days ago when Red was about to puke on the S. S. Aqua's floor.

"I SAID IT EARLIER ALREADY." He didn't want to talk about it again. He made Aerodactyl take a sharp turn to where he thought Olivine City was. He spied a farm below him. The Miltank cattle from earlier were pokemon that wandered too far from their home. They were at the main part of the farm.

"WHAT?" The gym leader asked, unable to hear from the wind whistling through his ears

"I SAID, I SAID IT EARLIER ALREADY." Red's voice was beginning to grow hoarse.

"WHAT?" He repeated.

"DAMMIT, I SAID I WAS THERE FOR TRAINING!"

I'm hungry, Aerodactyl yawned while the two trainers argued. You think they're going to finish bickering? They're acting like a bunch of newly hatched Omanyte. In fact, those baby Omanyte were always crying for food from their parents, well, until something happened to them.

Couldn't they just check their Pokedex? Charizard shrugged, still eyeing the farm they were passing by.

It was the stereotypical red barn that appeared in children books with C for cow. Next to the barn was a small house that probably belonged to the owners of the ranch and there was a stable nearby. In front of the barn was a fenced in ranch full of pokemon. The two trainers didn't seem to notice that the path downhill had several trainers lined up. That must have been the main path of route 39.

Wait, don't you mean Pokegear? The flying rock type corrected.

The fire type pokemon roared, Pokegear, Pokedex, same thing. Both are red. The winged pokemon was never the type to pay too much attention to such details. Humans had devices for everything; it was almost ridiculous.

Aren't they really different? Aerodactyl asked with a confused tone. Wasn't the Pokedex that rectangular red thingy and the Pokegear is that watch thing..? Or was that something else in Sinnoh? Ah, all these trainers and their fancy gizmos and gadgets. Silly how useless humans could be without their devices.

Uh, I don't think these two own watches, Pte...

The prehistoric pokemon shook its head when it suddenly froze in place for a split section. The rock type pokemon heard cawing from the distance and people chattering. Was that the sound of Wingull? The sound of the water pokemon excited Aerodactyl. The trainers said they were going back to a city next to the ocean, right? Wingulls meant ocean. Ocean meant Olivine City. They were going to the right direction.

Aerodactyl thought of the trainers below them and roared, I think Olivine is down there. The pokemon pointed its arrow shaped tail down south.

I think so too, Charizard roared back. I can hear lunch coming! Now his trainer could feed him pokemon food and maybe some of those Pokeblocks he got for Christmas from that girl trainer, Blue. The fire pokemon cared about his trainer and his health, but he was a hungry pokemon and he couldn't do anything for his trainer unless he was full and bloated.

"Pte, where are you going..?" the Kanto champion asked his pokemon, who suddenly dipped down and snapped towards an about seven o'clock turn.

"Red, where do you think they're going?" There was panic in his voice. Green called to his friend as his Charizard began to pick up speed in the same direction.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Red shouted back; the gym leader's voice sounded like a whisper in a crowded plaza.

"SCREW IT, NEVERMIND." Green slammed his head onto the back of his pokemon's skull, only to rebound. He began to rub the round, red skin that centered on his forehead. The champion poorly disguised a snicker with a cough as the two descended towards the port city.

Pokemon Center - Olivine City

"I can't believe I lost again..." Mirei groaned when she woke up from her blackout later that day. "I lost...twice!"

She glared at the ceiling angrily. How could she lose so easily? After Pidgeot evolved, she and Mirei rested before arriving to Olivine by bike. The gym leader was tough! The Olivine City trainer had three steel types with her while Mirei only had one pokemon that had any super effective attacks on the opponent's pokemon. Mirei's Nidorina had no issue on Mikan's Magnemites, not surprisingly since the poison pokemon had plenty of practice fighting against the magnet pokemon from route 38 and 39. Mikan's last pokemon however, sweep the entire team, leaving Mirei with no pokemon left to fight. Mirei was knocked out for an hour before waking up to rechallenge the steel clad trainer, only to lose again. The brunette trainer was about to get up when the door suddenly slammed open with Chiharu coming in.

"You're awake!" Chiharu sounded relieved, "You want to go to Olivine Pier and go fishing?" The blue haired trainer was holding a fishing rod with Phoebe by her side. The Gloom was holding bait for her trainer.

"I need to defeat her," Mirei gritted her teeth. "I need to get my fifth badge!"

"Maybe you'll find a pokemon to counter her steel types," the catcher said, looking uneasy. This was the second gym her friend was struggling with. She could be losing it any minute now. "I hear that Strays come out at night to the ocean's surface," Chiharu continued. "I hear they look like stars in the sky."

"Maybe you're right," the battler frowned. She grabbed her bag and said, "Maybe I can fish for a Staryu and crush her Steelix with it!"

Chiharu sighed. She was one tracked as usual, but at least she was agreeing with her again. Where is that tower? The blue haired trainer wondered. Was the tower in the ocean or was it near the Safari Zone in Cianwood? Chiharu was unsure of what she was supposed to be looking for. She then asked, "You ready, Mirei?"

Mirei grabbed her black bag which matched her boots and said, "Yeah." Nidorina was out of her pokeball and was standing by her trainer. "Let's go!"

Olivine City Pier

Hey, look! The pokemon flashed its red core, Trainers!

Don't be silly, the other Staryu flashed back. Trainers are just a myth! The star shaped pokemon resembled a bronze colored starfish with a red core in the middle of its body. The Staryus talked by flashing their cores like Morse code and making a few noises back and forth.

That's what you think! The first Staryu cried, I saw one at the beach a few weeks ago! That trainer looked like a Tentacruel and had a scary face! The starfish pokemon was very eager to share its story with its friend, who showed no interest.

Not again... The other Staryu sighed. Staryu saw a piece of food dangling from above the water. It looked at it curiously and started swimming towards it. The first Staryu noticed this and started followed its friend.

Hey look, free food. The first Staryu said, I don't think you should go after it.

Let me guess, it's a trap? It sounded like the other Staryu was rolling its eyes if it had any and kept swimming towards to the food. For the last time, there is no such thing as traineeers! The last few words were dragged out when Staryu was pulled out of the water and met a pair of feet crashing against its red core. The water pokemon staggered at the surprise attack and saw that a human has fished it out. Shocked from the attack, Staryu fainted from the strong Double Kick and sank into the ocean to recover from the battle.

Hey, you okay? The first Staryu saw its friend sink into the ocean, Hello? Darn it...

"Ugh!" Mirei groaned, "Another one fainted!" Nidorina's ears drooped down, "It's okay, Kisaki. That Staryu was too weak, anyway."

The poison pokemon looked unhappy at her comment and sulked on the dock. It was dark when Mirei and Chiharu came out to Olivine City's pier to go fishing. The night sky was crisp and clear after the night rainfall casting a blanket of rain over the port city for an hour or so. The air had a clean salty taste if one was to stick out their tongue. After sitting on the dock for several minutes, the brunette had encountered a few pokemon, mostly Krabbies and Staryus. Unfortunately, most of them couldn't withstand Nidorina's attacks and have all fainted.

"You want to borrow Phoebe?" Chiharu asked, "She can help you catch a pokemon if you want." She pointed at her Gloom. The grass pokemon was now bigger. She kept her blue body and grew arms and her leaves have turned into a flower with dead leaves.

"That's okay," Mirei said. The trainer didn't say it out loud, but Phoebe stank. Ever since she evolved, the pokemon's flower carried a smell of rotten meat after using attacks like Stun Spore or Poison Powder. The stench was so strong that she was able to smell it despite her weak sense of smell.

A new Staryu came up to talk to the first one, who was still floating in the water near the dock. The new Staryu laughed, They always follow the food!

The first Staryu sighed. I told him there were trainers and he wouldn't believe me. The water pokemon sounded disappointed.

Of course there are trainers! The other pokemon cried, Just like how there are aliens! Staryu looked up at the sky and said, Hello, hello. This is Staryu 0120, can you read me? The star pokemon flashed its red core at the twinkling stars above it.

There is no such thing as aliens! The Staryu was annoyed, You are not from space! Talking to the stars all day will do nothing! The other Staryu had an odd habit of staring at the sky every night and talking to the stars like its family was from there.

"I wonder what the Staryus are saying." Chiharu was lying on her stomach as she gazed at the spot in the ocean where red spots glowed in the dark. They really did look like stars at night. She saw a few brave Staryus come up close to take a look at the trainers.

Chiharu's Espeon groaned, (You're not missing much.) The psychic pokemon mumbled, (They talk like they've never seen trainers before.)

The blue haired trainer noticed that her pokemon didn't overreact when she was talking and said, "So you have some control with your talking now?" Chiharu didn't hear as many random thoughts today as she had the day before.

(Somewhat,) Asahi flicked her tail. (Training with Shion helped me a lot.)

"Shion is a good pokemon," Chiharu smiled. "I'm glad I overheard the conversation yesterday..." She didn't realize how much evolution bothered the yellow duck pokemon. She hoped that Psyduck felt better now about the subject; Psyduck looked happier today and smiled more often with the other pokemon.

(You're not going to catch a Staryu, are you?) Asahi didn't like the idea of having to deal with the odd star pokemon talking about aliens or conspiracy theories.

"I already caught one with Phoebe earlier," her trainer replied. "Anyway, I sent that Staryu to the PC so Keigo can have it live in the ranch. Can Mirei hear all of this?" Chiharu turned her head to look at her friend, who didn't show any signs of hearing their conversation. Mirei's pokemon didn't seem to hear it either.

(I can limit my conversation to one person now,) the psychic pokemon smiled. (But it still takes a lot of effort to do so.)

"Hey! I got something!" Mirei cried. She felt a tug on the fishing rod and reeled in her line. A small round blue pokemon flew out of the water with a soft squeak. It had tiny white fins and blue feet with a large set of antennas with yellow orbs at the end. The reeled in water pokemon had plus signs as its eyes.

"Chinchou!" The pokemon squeaked, Hello!

"A Chinchou?" Chiharu turned her head to see the pokemon landing on the dock. The pokemon cheerfully jumped around on land and smiled. The catcher stared at Chinchou for a moment before saying, "It's a female."

Mirei looked at Chiharu with confusion written on her face. "How can you tell?" she wondered. "I'm pretty sure they all look the same."

Without a Pokedex, she had to rely on Chiharu's guesses to determine the pokemon's gender if they were in the middle of nowhere. If they were near a Pokemon Center, Mirei would find out the pokemon's gender and level by talking to the nurse or checking the PC. She taught her pokemon moves based off of information she read from the internet and from the information provided by the PC.

"Actually, females are bigger than males and you can see under their gills-"

"I don't want to know," Mirei interrupted her friend, not wanting to hear the details of the water pokemon's anatomy. "I just need something that can defeat Mikan, but this doesn't look like it would be able to..." She looked disapprovingly at the little blue pokemon skipping about with excitement and fascination on the wooden surface.

"Chin, chou. Chin, chou." the Chinchou sang as it nodded its head to the music playing in the background from a restaurant nearby and nearly tripped over, unused to walking on dry land.

Mirei watched the pokemon as it chanted the lyrics of its own song, thinking about how ridiculously it was behaving for a wild pokemon. Chinchou was singing too loudly to notice the disapproving look Mirei was sending to the angler pokemon. Catching Chinchou was a stupid idea. They would not be able to fight that man with a Chinchou.

"Nidorina?" Where are you going? Nidorina followed the pokemon hopping around the dock. She moved the angler pokemon away from a fisherman with her horn when she saw it walk almost blindly towards the fisherman.

"Chinchou, chou!" I don't know! The electric type laughed and said, "Chou, chou!" This is fun! Chinchou splashed in a small puddle nearby.

"Chinchou are pretty rare," Chiharu mused, watching the very happy pokemon dance on the dock. "They don't normally come up from the bottom of the ocean. They usually only show up at night."

"Nidorina?" Are we going to fight it? Mirei's Nidorina looked at the water pokemon with interest. She has never seen a pokemon like it before.

The Chinchou began dancing around her feet, still chanting musically. She simply stared at the pokemon before firmly declaring, "Rare or not, I'm not catching it. I doubt that it would be able to do anything against that gym leader or him for that matter." Then she turned so that she was facing Chiharu. "Let's just go back to the Pokemon Center."

"But... Isn't Steelix weak against-" Chiharu started when Mirei flashed a glare. With a sigh, she gave the blue fish a quick glance, expressing some sadness. Mirei put her fishing rod back into her item capsule along with a few pokeballs and healing items. Chiharu already had all her stuff in her bag because she had finished catching a few pokemon. The two girls stood up to leave.

Chinchou stopped bouncing about and watched the retreating backs of the two trainers. The water pokemon saw them chatting to each other and their pokemon as they were walking towards the red roofed building not too far from the pier. Chinchou hopped on the wooden dock to catch their attention and cried out its name a few times. Mirei tilted her head towards the blue pokemon's direction but didn't seem to be looking at it.

"Chou..." Aw... Her yellow antennas drooped when she saw that they weren't coming back. "Chou?" Huh? She noticed that the red roofed building had a pokeball design on its doors. Chinchou hopped to the building and was ignored by the pokemon nurse when she passed through the glass automatic doors.

Pokemon Center - Olivine City

"It looks like I have no pokemon to fight Mikan with," Mirei sighed when she and Chiharu were back in their rooms. This pokemon center chose to go with an ocean scheme and had the room decorated with blue bunk beds and curtains with water pokemon designs on them. She shook her head when she noticed that there was a Chinchou imprint on the border of the walls.

"You could have-" Chiharu was once again interrupted by a stare.

"Pidgeo, geot!" We'll think of something! Pidgeot was sitting on Mirei's bed beside her.

"Nidorina, rina?" Maybe if you teach me Dig for that Steelix? Kisaki suggested to her trainer.

(Kisaki said that you can teach her Dig,) Espeon said with boredom.

She was the translator as an Eevee, she was still the translator now. Things haven't changed much. At least doing the translating could help her practice her telepathy. The purple feline was lying down lazily on the floor near the door. She noticed that something blue was peeking out from the door, but when she looked again, it was gone. Espeon shrugged.

Upon hearing that suggestion, Mirei went digging in her bag in search of TM28. Mirei shuffled through and found potions, pokeballs, sleeping bag and many other miscellaneous objects that have found its way into her bag. She finally found the bronze colored CD and took out her pink CD player.

"Here it is," her face lit up when she found it. "That was a good idea, Kisaki," she praised the spiked pokemon. The brunette placed the CD into the CD player and offered a pair of earphones to Nidorina. Once the poison type pokemon had the earphones in place, she listened to the recording for a few minutes in silence.

"Pidgeot, pidgeot." I guess I can't be used for the gym leader, the bird pokemon grumbled. Using Steel Wing against a steel pokemon was a terrible idea.

"Alakazam," She's not going to be able to defeat Mikan. Mirei's Alakazam remarked, but was ignored by Pidgeot, who was too busy bemoaning about his uselessness against a steel type gym.

"Nidorina," Kisaki took off the earphones. I'm done. The poison type handed the CD player back to her trainer. Mirei opened the CD player and found the bronze colored CD broken into many pieces.

"Not again..." the brunette trainer groaned. "They always break."

"You know how Silph Co. is," Chiharu looked at the broken CD. "They make those TMs cheap so we have to buy them again and again."

The trainer read a news article a few months ago that a company in Unova had developed TMs that were capable of being used more than once. All HMs were durable and could be used more than once because they were made of tougher materials and were designed by the gym leaders themselves. TMs in most regions, however, were made of weaker materials and would break automatically after first use.

"Nidorina," Thanks for the TM. Kisaki nudged her trainer.

"It's getting late," Chiharu came out of the bathroom and was already in her pajamas. Her hair was down and she had already brushed her teeth. She glared at her blue Pokegear for the time. "We should get some rest for tomorrow's gym battle." She has not battled the gym leader yet because she had to look after Mirei after her blackout from the battle.

"All right then," Mirei said. She was already in her pajamas and was ready to go to sleep. She said to her pokemon, "Alright guys, time to sleep!" After Mirei and Chiharu's pokemon went back to their pokeballs, Mirei turned off the light and almost fell asleep immediately when her head hit the pillows. She didn't notice a dim yellow glow coming from her bag.

Author Notes: New chapters will be post on Friday from now on due to schedule changes of the authors in real life. We're pretty happy that we decided to explore deeper into pokemon interactions. It adds more drama and it makes the pokemon feel more than just pets who fight for their trainers. It was difficult to think of a good logical method of how pokemon should learn TM moves. Lots of parodies show the pokemon eating the CD, but we wanted to make it realistic, so having the TMs be recordings to teach the pokemon was the best approach for us. Question of the chapter: What is your favorite water pokemon and why? Remember to read and review! Until next time, see you later!

"RainSonata": My favorite character in this chapter has to be Conspiracy Staryu, the Staryu that claims that trainers exist. The poor thing lost its friend when it was lured into bait. I love water pokemon! I want that Chinchou... If Mirei doesn't want it, I'll keep it. =_=

"LunarAbyss":… CHINCHOU, COME HERE AND I'LL GIVE YOU ATTENTION. Why are you so mean to that innocent pokemon?