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(It finally gets interesting in this chapter~)

Tsuki and Hiro slowly took Crystal out of the room, trying to only make it seem like she was drunk but they both knew it was something else, maybe added to the fact that she had a few drinks. James reminded them to look after her and that she didn't know who he was yet so not to tell her. They only laughed at that. James was going to teach her friend a lesson about how to treat girls, especially Crystal. Something bad may have happened to her if he didn't recognize her and he didn't want to think about what.

He waited for what felt like an hour or so glancing around the walls and singers. He kept a to himself in the corner of the bar and waited, sipping flavourful drinks. Until someone around his age came to the bar alone. Brown curly hair around his ears, green eyes, white shirt, black vest, green tie. James assumed it was him but waited until he mumbled to the bartender about 'the girl he left'.

Before the bartender could respond, James rose his hand and spoke up. "Were you the one that left her here?" The boy looked over to him and James could see the tint of drunkenness that hes seen too many times.

"Who are you?" He spoke up

James got off the stool and repeated his question, "Were you the one that left her here?"

"Yeah, sure I left her here but I asked her Eevee to take care of her"

James balled his fist and slammed it against the bar "That single Pokémon wouldn't have ever been able to protect her from a damn thing!" he almost yelled

"Then she could have protected herself," He boy said it with the most confidence and certainty, as if he was certain 2 and 2 added to 5.

"She could barely walk by herself and you expect her to protect herself?!" James' fist was balled up and ready to punch him

"Well if you knew her like I do then you'd feel the same way!" The boy arrogantly flaunted their friendship in his face, ignorant to everything James knew about her.

James laughed at him "I know and always will know so much more and her than you could dream of knowing," he said through gritted teeth, "Leaving her alone would-"

He looked shocked but then it subsided with anger "-Who the hell do you think you are anyway?!" He threw a fist at James but he caught it

James grabbed the neck of his tie and brought him closer to his face "Her boyfriend.".

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After that was over James left him there and made his way to Tsuki's room… Although he forgot to ask where it was. So he went to the main desk and slowly made his way to her room

James couldnt help but wonder what he was going to tell Crystal after all these years, let alone what happened to her friend, he didn't even know his name. How in the world would he explain the boyfriend thing? Maybe he could become her boyfriend before the two had a chance to talk again? Yeah, right

After finding the correct door James debated whether or not he should actually check up on her… He looked down at his Pikachu following him, his eyebrows furrowed, confused. After waiting a moment, Pikachu knocked on the door,

"Wh- why did you do that?" he started sweating in weird places and his legs psychically debated whether he should run or not. After the door opened he had no choice.

Tsuki opened the door and looked at him, shocked. "Um"

"Is it bad?" he croaked

"yeah your face has a whole bunch of-"

"- I meant Crystal," James' voice startled her as she backed away from the door and pointed to the bed as she closed it behind Pikachu.

"Nothing, really. Jay would be the only one who knows if this sort of thing has happened before so we'll need to ask him about it," Tsuki started

"How'd that talk with him go by the way?" Hiro winked at James, noticing his bruises and stained shirt, stained with the drink he was drinking when Jay came.

"Oh yeah so um…" James had sweat forming on his forehead, obviously nervous about telling them. He looked down at crystal sleeping form on the bed, "So he thinks I'm her boyfriend… and I'm pretty sure he won't want to see my face again"

Tsuki glared at him, "That bruises are from him?!"

James nervously laughed "You could say so"

Hiro sighed "Are we going to need to bandage both of you guys up?" he paused, "You won though, right?"

James sighed before he grinned and nodded

Hiro slapped his back as he walked past him, and laughing. "I can't say I ever liked that guy but he did seem sort of cool. I guess I'll go wrap him up. Where is he?"

"He stormed off. Maybe to his room?"

Hiro sighed again "I'll be back later"

"Good luck" Tsuki called before he closed the door behind himself, taking in the stain on James' shirt

Tsuki and James stood in silence for a while before he noticed Eevee staring intently at him from beside Crystals pillow.

James smiled at her, walked up to her and sat on the floor beside her so he could face her, with his back against the wall.

James explained everything Crystal and him have been through, how close they were and how they were meeting up to start their journey together. Cyndaquil jumped out of his pokeball and listened alongside Pikachu and Eevee.

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After the meeting with this black haired boy, Crystal felt something so familiar but was too distracted by all of the things unfolding to pay any attention to it. She knew she's heard his voice somewhere before. -Maybe one of Tsuki's friends?

No. He had a Pikachu with him. All of her friends had far powerful Pokémon and are a lot older.

Crystal felt her body get warmer with every second. Every thought getting louder and the voice she kept hearing getting louder and more familiar as well. The voice started to sound exactly like the Entei when she experienced something similar three years previous, in Hoenn. He told her that something important would happen soon but she never expected three years being "soon". She could feel her veins heating up her arms, one after the other, slowly getting to her main body.

She realized she was fumbling across hallways when her leg stumbled against a doorway before she felt herself bounce on a bed. She allowed the comfort of the bed help her drift into a state of comfort and bliss as she pinpointed the voice and listened to it getting clearer.

She heard a voice and recognized it as Tsuki's right away.

If you can hear me Crystal, you need to know that you are going through something very important right now and you need to give that your full attention. Please. Please stay down, close your eyes and concentrate on what your senses can pick up…

She trusted Tsuki's judgement and so did as she was told and relaxed under the enormous pressure on top of her body. The pressure eventually pushed her consciousness into whole different worlds

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Eevee looked up to James with big watery eyes. He couldn't help but feel bad for making her feel so sad. She jumped into his arms from on top of Crystal and stated licking his cheek.

"Hey now, it's alright. All we need to do now is let her know who I am…"

The group noticed a glow coming from Crystal's body, after turning his head he noticed that her skin glowed a red –ish colour as well. Cyndaquil and Pikachu got startled and jumped into him and hid in his clothes.

A tiny ball of red fire emerged from her chest and floated in a single spot above her chest. It slowly took the form of a miniature Entei roaring from on top of the mountains, summoning its own volcano to erupt. Another flame emerged from her chest and called Cyndaquil from his shirt, to crystals bedside. The flame touched Cyndaquil's head and was then emerged into Cyndaquil from on top of his head. Cyndaqil then started to glow himself. Cyndaquil then opened its mouth, but an Entei's roar came out instead of his original high toned cry, startling us all.

The light was not the same as Crystal was glowing, as if he was evolving instead. The white light took more of a form and did actually change the shape of Cyndaquil into a Quilava as he was roaring. The overwhelming light then stopped and they noticed the room light also flickered and completely shut off.

The moonlight coming from the window shone on Quilavas new coat as he rose from Crystals chest, the light from the ball of fire reflected off his eyes. The flame went back into her chest as Quilava sank back into Crystals stomach, knocked out.

James looked over to Tsuki who was running to the door. She opened it, peeked her head out and came back in and closed it behind her. "Powers out," she stated

"In the middle of the ocean," James said to himself. James looked back at Tsuki in the overwhelming darkness as she just starred at Crystal with complete shock written all over her face. "What are you worried about?" James finally pulled some words together. She remained speechless.

The only reason James was so calm was because he was used to seeing Crystal use her powers when they were together. Either to show off or to defeat foes. But Tsuki had powers as well, which confused him.

"Have you ever seen something like this before?" he asked, knowing the answer

"Yes" She kept her bewildered face

"What does it mean?"

"She was chosen"

"Is it a bad thing?"

"It can be a bad thing" She closed her eyes, getting serious again. "I'm not sure how strong willed she is at the moment but if she isn't then it can be a very bad thing"

James looked down at his feet. But then he realized something he knew his whole life. "She is and always will be the most independent, strong willed person I have and ever will know"

Tsuki looked back at him, keeping her demeanour. "She must be strong willed or else she wouldn't have been chosen... but she can't ever lose that or she will die"

The seriousness of the situation finally clicked in. "…What chose her? What did they choose her for?"

"I can't give you all of the details as of now due to us not knowing everything just yet. But Entei chose her. For what, I don't know"

"Entei… So it must have something to do with her ability"

She nodded, "The same thing happened to me. I was chosen by the three spirits of Sinnoh"

"Who..." James quietly looked up at her.

"Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf. I've still yet to master my Psychic abilities but you know about all that," she starred at Quilava, in thought

James nodded to himself, remembering the Team Rocket attack she helped defend Crystal against- the one that made her family flee Hoenn.

Tsuki opened her mouth but hesitated before she began again, "Hope was mine. Of course she was a Ralts back then. I was far older than Crystal when it happened to me though"

"Crystals been at it for years though," James spoke up

Tsuki laughed, "It's just surprising seeing someone so young"

Something finally processed in James "Ralts? What was that thing then? Why did he evolve? and what was with the light?" he paused before she got too overwhelmed by all his questions.

"You see, this whole thing is a ritual. The whole thing goes like this; the legendary one chooses a few people to give his power to and tests them throughout their life. What these people don't realize is that their entire life is a competition, slowly eliminating one after the other before one wins and is chosen" Tsuki paused

"What happens to those that get 'eliminated'?" James asked, getting worried

"We dont really know everything yet but if they live, they lose their power. Sometimes they simply die if they aren't trusted"

James widened his eyes. He stopped talking, allowing Tsuki to go on

"The part we just witnessed is the ritual. It has to be done when the individual is alone with the people the legendary trusts with their life. And for Quilava, The Legend chooses a Pokemon for which she is needed to partner with for life. One who can protect her and protect as well. And gives it power if necessary. In Crystals case that is her Quilava, as well as us."

"But what about her parents and Lance and all those people who've-"

"And the rest, most powerful individuals, are to attend her 'test of strength'" she looked puzzled, "or a 'test of spirit'... we dont really know what that is. But it has to be done in a special place. We need to get off this ship and take her their soon" They looked to Crystals face,

"Who's we?"

She sighed. "Do you know who the mysterious champion is?"

James looked at her, confused, "Of course I do."

"You know exactly who they are?"

James nodded, "I don't think there's anything about her family I don't know about"

Tsuki laughed at him, "Well, you know everything Crystal knows"

James looked at her, shocked, "There's more?"

She grinned as she starred at him. Her eyes glowed purple as she nodded at him, "You know more than I thought but still not everything"

"Please tell me you did not just read my mind, again"

"Okay I won't." She smiled devilishly

James sighed against the wall.

"Well it's a good thing you know. You see He is the leader of this group. He is trying to gather all of us together, together with the most powerful trainers to figure everything out and if worse comes to serve, have an alliance prepared"

James cussed under his breath, "I didn't know anything like this existed"

"You guys were too young," She looked down and pulled out something that looked like a phone, "I need to contact him and let him know that it happened" she looked up at James, silently staring at Crystal sleeping, "I trust you. Even Entei trusts you with her life. You better not let any of us down. Especially Crystal. Truth is, you're supposed to be drafted into this group when you get chosen so you would have found out anyway but it's too dangerous for her to contact him right now" She got up from her seat and headed for the door.

"I understand" James nodded in agreement but widened his eyes and the door closed, "but i don't have powers" he mumbled, Chosen for what?