Pokemon Fan-Fic

Title: Luna Festival part 1: New Friends

Shan was sitting under a tree on a hill overlooking Luna City. Charmander and the others were playing behind her. The City lights were shining like stars; she watched them and sighed. Tachi knew her fear now and would make the most of it. Shan leaned back and punched the ground.

"I'm never going to let them get to me. If I do they win, I won’t let that happen." Shan closed her eyes and stood up. Charmander ran to her owner and hugged her leg Shan picked her up and hugged her tight. "We'll beat them girl. I know we will," she set Charmander down. "We have to." Shan turned to the others. Eevee was rolling Metapod around and Rattata was watching.

"Come on guys, we're running low and we have to get some supplies." Shan recalled all of them except Charmander who again refused to go into the ball. Shan picked her up and walked down to the city.

Luna City was beautiful. The streets were filled with Cherry blossom trees. The petals were lightly falling to the ground. Charmander jumped down from Shans arms and began to roll in the petals.

"Charmander," Shan laughed. "You silly pokemon, we don't have time to play we have to get to the pokemon center."

"Char," Charmander said and continued to roll in the blossoms. Shan sighed and picked her up, brushing some petals off of Charmander she continued to walk down the street. When she finally came to the Pokemon center Charmander had fallen asleep in her arms.

"Hi," Shan said walking into the pokecenter. A familiar face looked up and greeted her.

"Hi," Said Joy. Shan decided that it would be less confusing if she skipped the whole "Are you related to the Joy in Pewter," act.

"My pokemon and I need a place to stay for the night," Shan said setting Charmander on the counter. "Do you mind if we stay hear?" Joy smiled.

"Of course you can stay. But you might have a hard time finding a space." Joy pointed to the lobby. Shan turned to look at what Joy was pointing at and almost fell over. The lobby was packed with trainers.

"Wow. There are allot of people hear." Shan said leaning on the counter.

"There hear for the Moon festival." Joy said frowning. "Could you not lean on the counter please."

"OOPS sorry." Shan stood up. "So what's this festival anyway?" Shan asked picking Charmander up. Charmander opened her eyes and fell back to sleep.

"The moon festival is held every year. You see there's a legend that says the mountain came from the moon god." Shan raised her eyebrow.

"Oooo k." Shan said shifting Charmander to her other arm.

"Of course the festival is just tradition." Joy said laughing.

"Wow, sounds great. So what kind of events do you have in this festival?" Shan took out Charmanders pokeball and recalled her. Charmander may have been cute but she wasn't light.

"Well there are all sorts of games, rides, and food booths. Oh and the tournament of course."

"A tournament?" Shan asked. "Relay, were do I sign up." Shan shouted and threw her hands in the air.

"Um, well you can sign up hear." Joy said and handed Shan a form. "But you can only enter under your badge class." Shan grabbed the form, filed it out quickly and handed it back to Joy.

"Are you sure you wrote down the right badge type?" Joy asked. She seemed to doubt Shan.

"Of course," Shan took out her bolder badge. "I won this badge from the Pewter city gym." Joys eyes widened.

"Oh my gosh," a few people in the lobby turned and looked at them. "You have the real badge. I mean you didn't buy it."

"Yep," Shan rubbed her head nervously. "I did," she was beginning to feel uncomfortable.

"There are only a few people who ever get a real badge. And your one, you know what that means don't you." Joy handed Shan back her badge.

"No, I'm afraid I don't."

"It means that you can enter as a class 2 trainer, even though you only have the one badge." Shan smiled and raised her badge in the air.

"Does that mean I can only battle other 2nd class trainers?" Shan asked

"No, you can battle until you lose or win."

"I rule," she shouted. Slowly she turned around; the people in the lobby were staring at her. Waving at them she turned back around. "This is great. My pokemon are going to get so much experience from this. How long is the tournament?" It was great; she could finally be in a real tournament and maybe even get some money for some supplies.

"Three days," Joy said. Shans smile faded. If she stayed in town that long Tachi could find her.

"Three days? I don't think I can stay that long. I mean I should go on to Curlien to get my next badge."

"Oh," Joy said leaning smiling. "I know. You want to get a head on your badges."

"Well yea,"

"You really should compete. I mean since you have a real badge, you stand a great chance in winning." Joy came out from behind the counter. "Let’s go into the lobby and talk. My lunch break just started." When Shan walked in the lobby and sat down at a table with Joy. Around them were many trainers and their pokemon all scurrying around. A few kids were playing with their bug types in the corner.

"Wow," Shan said looking around. "There are allot of people hear."

"Yes the festival is very popular." Joy said taking a drink of her soda. "You relay should stay. Oh by the way what's your name?"

"My names Shan," Shan said taking out Charmanders pokeball. In a flash of red light Charmander appeared and jumped into Shans lap.

"Well Shan you can't just go from gym to gym. Your on an adventure, you should explore and seek out other trainers to battle with. I mean you may have gotten one real badge but with out more experience you might not get another one." Joy took a bite of an apple. Shan leaned back in her seat and sighed.

"I guess your right," she smiled "what the heck. I'm staying to win the tournament." Charmander jumped on to the table and laid down. "Charmander, you get a good sleep because tomorrow we are in for a great battle." Shan began to wonder if the one on one challenge would be in the tournament?"

"Joy?"

"Hmm." Joy said with her mouth full.

"Does the tournament have one on one trainer fights?" Shan asked.

"Well, it depends. You see if one trainer loses they can call for the one on one challenge, but not many people call for it." Joy took a sip of her soda. "You know this years tournament has a relay great grand prize, and the runner up prizes are great to." Someone coughed behind them.

"Relay what are the prizes?"

"Well every one gets a pokeball just for entering. Third prize is a poke-gift basket with potions, an ultra ball, pokechow, three evolution stones, and a rare candy. Second Prize is a capsule bike, and first prize is a capsule house."

"What in the world is a capsule bike and house?" Shan asked.

"Oh Sylph Company just released them. You can store the bike and the house in a pokeball that is specially designed for it. The bike is fast and easy to handle. The house is very small but great if you’re out in the woods." To sci-fi, but man would that be a great prize. Shan smiled at the thought of having a portable house.

"So what's the grand prize?" Shan was wondering what it could be. What in the world could top having your on house?

"A all expenses paid trip to the safari zone. That goes to the top winner." Joy said. Shan jumped up causing Charmander to land on the floor.

"NO WAY," Shan said. Charmander rubbed her head and jumped back on to the chair. "The safari zone is the best place to catch some relay strong pokemon." Besides her Charmander growled a bit and curled back up.

Joy looked up at the wall clock and stood up. "I have to get back to work. I’m glad you’re going to stay." Joy walked off to her counter. Shan took out Rattatas pokeball and let him out.

"Come on you two lets check out the competition." Rattata and Charmander followed their master as she sat down amongst a group of trainers her own age.

"Hey check out my Squirtels shell. It’s so smooth and sleek," A guy with light brown hair and green eyes lifted his Squirtel up for the crowd to see. "He's a sure fired winner."

"Ha you never won with it before." Said a girl with short blond hair. "Look at my Staryu," she held Staryu up. "Its gem is so shinny and lovely. That makes it a true winner.

Shan smiled to her self, maybe she was proud but she had a feeling that her pokemon were the best. No one in the room could have possibly had a Charmander that was as beautiful as hers, and Rattatas fur was so deep in color that he was by far more handsome than the Squirtel.

"Hey what about you?" Asked the Guy pointing to Shan. "What kind do you have?" Shan smiled.

"I have a Charmander and this Rattata and. . " The guy began to laugh.

"You really know how to pick them,"

"What do you mean by that crack, hu?" Shan said frowning.

"I mean that your puny pokemon are no match for mine," He pointed to his Squirtel. "My water pokemon could easily wipe the floor with that Charmander. You probably don't even have any badges." That did it. Shan stood up and took out her bolder badge and showed it to the guy. His mouth hit the floor. "No way," he said pointing at the badge.

"What is it Mark?" Asked the girl with the Staryu.

"Quin, She has a real badge." The girls’ expression fell. Around them the crowd murmured to themselves.

"That's right," Shan said putting it away. "Don't you?"

Mark looked at Quin and they both hung their heads down. "No, but we have two badges." Said Mark.

"Look man I have no reason to argue or get into a yelling match." Shan said. "I'm just hear to see what types of pokemon everyone has." Mark and Quin smiled.

"Don't mind Mark," Quin said punching him in the arm. "He's just a show off."

"Ow, hey." Mark said rubbing his arm. The three sat down at a table and began to talk.

"So Quin you have a Seel, Farfetch'd, Tangela, a Goldeen and a Staryu. And Mark you have a Tauros, a Weedle, Pidgey, a Ekans, and a Squirtel. That's pretty impressive." Shan said scratching Rattata behind his ear.

"Yea. I'm glad I have at least four. You can only use four in the matches anyway. "Quin said. "Mark and I have been traveling together for a while now," she put her hand on her head and smiled "I'm not sure why I put up with him." Mark frowned.

"It's because your mom is my Ant and my mom made me travel with you. Just to keep her out of trouble. " He folded his arms in front of him. "So Shan what kinds of pokemon do you have? I mean other than those two."

"I have a Metapod and a Eevee."

"An Eevee? I heard that they can be very expensive? Hey what do you want to evolve it into ?" Mark asked.

"Well I like fire type, so my choice would be Flareon but I want Eevee to choose since she is my first Eevee. I don't want to evolve her unless she wants to evolve and even then I want her to choose."

"Wow really." Said Quin. "Your Eevee might choose something you don't want it to be." Quin leaned forward.

"That's right." Mark said. "Who ever heard of letting a pokemon make its own choose to evolve."

"Well I am going to let her choose. "Shan said sternly. "If I were to evolve her into something that I wanted it would be unfair to her. I mean if she wanted to be a Vaproeon and I evolved her into a Flareon she might get depressed and lose the will to battle." Mark looked at his cousin.

"I never thought of it that way before."

"Yea I know what you mean Mark." Said Quin. Shan smiled.

"Sorry I didn't mean to lose my cool. It’s just I don’t want my pokemon to evolve just because I want them to." The people in the lobby were begging to quiet down.

"That's ok," said Quin. "Mark can make a monk lose his cool."

"Hey," Mark said sticking out his chest. "It's a gift that I take great pried in." All of them laughed.

"Well I'm going to go to bed," Shan said picking up both Rattata and Charmander. "I'll see you in the morning."

"Hey, I have a great Idea." Quin said jumping up. "Since the tournament isn't until 11:00 why don't you come with us to play some games?"

"Sounds like fun. Sure I could go for some fun." Shan said. Charmander squirmed under Shans arm.

"Cool," Mark said. "We'll meet you tomorrow in front of the Pokecenter around 8:00."

"I'll be there. Good night." Shan said and walked over to a corner of the lobby and laid out her sleeping bag Charmander and Rattata were recalled and Shan fell asleep, hopping that she wouldn't have a nightmare. That was the last thing she needed, or wanted but of course she got one.

"Lavender town." A strange voice said, she was standing in the woods again. Cold winds blew her hair violently around her face. Dark clouds were in the sky hiding the light of the moon.

"What? Were are you?" Shan shouted. It felt dead there. Her question was answered by dead silence. "Answer me."

"Go to Lavender Town." The voice said again. She looked for the voice but saw nothing. Around her the trees were swaying in the wind and as she turned to look behind her a hand grabbed her from behind.

She jumped awake. The woods were gone and all she saw was a row of trainers sleeping with their backs against the wall. Stretching she looked at the clock. It was 7:45. She stood up and packed up her sleeping bag and went outside to wait for Quin and Mark. It was a beautiful morning. The blossoms on the Cheery tree were lightly falling, it would be a day of victory. She could feel it. Behind her the door opened.

"Hi Mark, Quin." Shan said without turning around.

"How did you. . " Shan turned around and smiled.

"It's 8:00. I just guessed." Mark and Quin smiled.

"Well let's hit the games." Mark shouted and ran ahead. Quin frowned.

"How embracing, he's 15 years old and he still acts like a kid. Hey wait up you dork." Shan and Quin ran after him.

They started off by playing a guessing game. Quin and Mark came close to winning but Shan guessed the right number. Smiling she picked out a potion as her prize.

"Theses prizes will be so useful," Shan said putting the potion in her pack.

"Yea," Mark said grumpily. "Let's go to the next game."

"He's just a sore looser, just ignore him." Quin said and walked on. Shan smiled to her self and followed them. After a few more games Shan and Quin soon found themselves loaded down with potions, pokeballs, and a few healing herbs.. Mark on the other hand hadn't won anything and was beginning to feel a little down.

"This sucks." Mark said sitting down on the curb. Shan smiled.

"Hey, what about that game Mark?" Shan pointed to a booth with a picture of a Magikarp on it. "That one could be your lucky one." Mark stood up and sighed.

"Maybe." They went to the booth. Inside they saw fishbowls setting on a table and a little old woman.

"Hi there kids." She said walking up to them. "Try your luck. If you get a ball in the fish bowl you could win a great prize. How about it boy, want to try to win one of theses cute young ladies a great prize?" Mark blushed a bit.

"Sure," he handed her a dollar. Shan began to focus her energy on the ball in Marks had. Mark tossed the ball and Shan released the energy. The ball bounced off the rim of one bowl and landed in another.

"I won, I won. I WON!" Mark screamed and began to jump around. Quin tried to hide her face with her hand, embarrassed by her cousins actions. The old woman handed him a pokeball.

"Hear you go. Your prize is a Magikarp." Marks happiness disappeared.

"A Magickcarp. Swell." Shan sighed.

"Hey it's a pokemon, and a good one."

"What do you mean? Magikarp is worthless." Quin put her hand on her hip.

"Mark you dope. Don't you know what Magickcarp evolves into." Mark shook his head. "Gyarados," she slapped him on the back "it takes a long time but if you work with it can become a great fighter."

Mark smiled, "Your right geek." Quin glared at mark. "It might be useful. It will just take some time to train it.

"Uh, speaking of time." Shan said "What time is it?" Quin looked at her watch.

"Oh it’s 10:30. Hey we better get going." Mark clipped his new pokemon on his belt and the three headed off to the arena. Shan gasped as she entered. It was like a football field but different. In the center of the arena was a large area for the final competition, surrounding the large field were smaller fields. Off to the side was a giant scoreboard with names of who would be fighting who. When Shan saw her name she frowned.

"I'm number 20. I have to wait. What about you two?" Quin smiled.

"Number 16," she looked at Mark. "So dork what did you get?"

"50," Mark said sighing. Quin began to laugh.

"50 relay. Man you are way back there." She smiled. "Hey Shan who are you fighting? I'm up against number 40. And Mr.50 over there is up against 55." Quin said pointing at her annoyed cousin. Shan looked up at the board and saw the person she was suppose to fight with.

"Number 7. Hm I wonder when we'll battle." Shan said taking out Charmanders pokeball. I'm ready to get started." A crowd was beginning to form around the board and a man in a uniform walked up to Shan, Quin, and Mark.

"Hey you kids," he said gesturing to them. "Hear are the schedules." He handed them all a piece of paper. "Now head on to your areas." Shan scanned the paper and saw her Name next to it she saw the name of the person she was battling.

"Hey Shan who are you up against. I'm up against some guy named Luis."

"And I'm up against a guy named Dr. Pain." Mark hung his head low. "Just my luck." Quin laughed.

"Well I'm fighting someone named Prudence. I wonder what type she likes to use?"

"Hey we have to get going," Quin said. "Good luck guys. Let’s go to dinner after the battles." Mark waved at Quin and then said goodbye to Shan. Shan walked over to her area and waited for her name to be called. Watching the battles with anticipation, Shan was begging to think up strategies that might help her against certain individuals. All of them were good and she could see it wouldn’t be easy.

"Shan and Prudence," A voice announced. Shan stood up and walked to the arena. Across form her a girl dressed in a blue skirt and blouse stood. Shan narrowed her eyes and waited for her to make a move.

"Ha, you are my opponent." Prudence laughed. "Like that is sooo funny, its like to neat. I mean I’m like so going to beat you." Shan sighed.

"Great a valley girl. Look we can talk or we can get to business?" Shan said.

"You’re so right," Prudence grabbed a pokeball. "Like go Meowth." The red beamed formed into a catlike pokemon.

"Finally, Go Eevee." Shan shouted. Eevee jumped out of her pokeball.

"Like use your Fury swipes Snowball." Snowball leapt forward at Eevee and began to scratch her across the face. Eevee cried in pain.

"Eevee you can do this. Use your tackle." Eevee jumped out of Snowballs reach and ran at it. Headfirst Snowball was hit hard and landed next to it’s trainer. Prudence looked down at her Mewoth who began to cry.

"Um, Like return." Snowball disappeared in a flash of light. "Like go, Weepinbell."

"Eevee return." Shan smiled. "GO CHARMANDER." Charmander jumped out. "Use your ember attack now. Charmander began to spin around and rings of fire were thrown at the Weepinbell. Weepinbell began to roll around on the ground trying desperately to put out the fire. Prudence quickly recalled it.

"Ok go Doduo." A two-headed bird jumped out of the ball.

"Ok Charmander lets give it to them. Ember attack." Charmander began to spin around again but before the ring of Fire could hit the Doduo it ran at Charmander and began to peck at her face. "Charmander. Use Ember and then jump on its back and scratch it."

"Char," Charmander spun around and threw more flames out and Dudo began to shriek. She jumped high in the air and was about to land on Dudo when one of its heads pecked her in the stomach causing her to fall to the ground. Shan gasped.

"Ok girl return." Shan recalled Charmander.

"What's like the matter can’t take the heat." Prudence said.

"You just wait. Go Rattata." Prudence began to laugh. "Rattata hyper fang."

"Rattata," Rattata said and ran forward and began to bite the Doduo rapidly. Doduos two heads shriek in pain. Rattata was to fast for the Doduo and with one quick bite the Doduo fainted.

"Ok now go Mankey. And like totally get that rat." A monkey like pokemon jumped form the ball.

"Ok use your Quick attack Rattata. May be this will shut that trap of hers." Rattata ran forward but was kicked by the Mankey. Rattata tried again but was punched repeatedly in the face by the Mankey. Rattata fell to the ground. Shan recalled him and sent out her last resort.

"GO Metapod." Prudence along with the other trainers began to laugh.

"You are soo kidding right. I mean, look at that ugly thing."

"Your voice is beginning to get on my nerves. Either fight or give up now." Shan said angrily.

"Like why would I do that. Hu? Hey what is like going on with that Metapod."

Shan looked at Metapod. It was glowing and suddenly a huge Crack broke the cocoon open and Buterfree flew out. Buterfree flew over to Shan and hovered next to her.

"Don’t underestimate my Pokemon. Metapod was beautiful to me and now it has become a Buterfree. I hope your Mankey likes naps." Shan said and pointed at the Mankey. "All right use sleep powder now Buterfree." Buterfree flew over the Mankey and a light dust of powder began to drift down onto it. Mankeys eyes began to close and finally fell asleep. Prudence began to stomp her feet and recalled her Mankey.

"Nooo. Like I can’t believe it."

"Looks like all you were was big talk Prudence. You should have never underestimated my Metapod." Shan said. Buterfree hovered next to Shan.

"Well I’m not done."

"What do you mean? You lost." Shan said.

Prudence looked over at the referee. "I want to have the one on one challenge." Shan sighed. The referee walked to the center of the ring and raised his hands in the air.

"Prudence Miro has offered a second challenge. Will you accept?" He asked looking at Shan. She looked down at her feet. Nothing could make her want to fight Prudence, but she knew if she didn’t she would have to forfeit.

"I accept." Shan said glaring at Prudence. There was a reason she didn’t want to fight, it was because she enjoyed it. The thrill of fighting anyone weather they were stronger or not gave her so much happiness that it scared her. "You know I thought that you were a stupid valley girl, looks like I was right." Prudence smiled.

"Sticks and stones," her fist waved at Shan. "You just wait, you are so done for." The referee stepped between them.

"The one on one will be after the battles until then you must wait. Now go get your pokemon healed and meet back hear for your next challenge." Turning Shan walked towards the pokecenters tent. Behind her she could hear Prudence swearing at the fact she had lost. The tent was packed but Shans pokemon were healed quickly, much to her surprise. She was looking at a chart of pokemon illnesses when she felt someone tap her on her shoulder.

"Hey Mark," Shan said turning. "Look who evolved." In a flash of light Buterfree appeared. "By the way how’d your match go?"

Mark sighed and lowered his head. "I won."

"You don’t seem to happy." Buterfree began to fly around Shans head.

"Well Dr. Pain wants a one on one. You should see this guy he’s huge. I mean the guy’s got so many mussels it was all I could do to find his head." Shan laughed. "It’s not funny. I'm going to get killed by this guy."

"I was hoping just to battle my pokemon but I have to do a one on one to. That girl Prudence lost to me and wants to do a one on one. I don’t want to hurt her, but if I don’t fight I forfeit. That means that my pokemon won’t get the experience that I was hoping they would get."

"Well at least she won’t kill you." Mark said as Buterfree flew around his head. "What is that thing doing anyway?"

"Oh he’s just being friendly."

"How do you know it’s a male?" Mark asked.

"Freee Free," Buterfree chirped and landed on Shans head.

"His wing markings are thick, that means he’s a male." She took Buterfree down from her head and hugged him. "I have to go Mark I have to report back to my area. I’ll be there rooting you on when you fight Dr. Pain. It can’t be that bad Mark. See ya." Shan said and ran off with Buterfree flying besides her. Mark sighed.

"You didn’t see the guy." He went back to his area.

"The Winner is Shan," shouted the Referee. Shan had fought five other trainers and it was time for the one on one. The referee walked out to the center of the area and called for her and Prudence to enter the ring. Shan took off her hair clips and vest and walked to her spot in the ring. Across from her Prudence stood glaring at her, she had changed into a blue Karate GI.

"Ok," shouted the referee. "Hear are the rules. You will fight until one of you is knocked out or until one of you have left the circle. Do you both under stand?" The two girls nodded.

"I’m am so like going to kick you but," Prudence said stepping forward.

"Are you going to fight or are you going to annoy me with that voice of yours?" Shan said crossing her arms in front of her.

"Why you?" Prudence said and ran forward. Shan stepped to the side and Prudence ran past her and nearly tripped out of the circle. Shan stood with her back to her.

"Give it up Prudence. I don’t want to hurt you." Behind her Prudence was gritting her teeth.

"Like shut up." She ran forward again, Shan jumped high and Prudence ran under her. Shan smiled as she landed in the same spot, it was fun. Prudence began to clench her fists into balls.

"Will you fight already?" she shouted and ran at Shan. Shan ran forward as well and jumped over Prudence again but this time threw a sidekick as she landed knocking Prudence to the ground. Shan landed and smiled. She felt like laughing but held her serious demeanor.

"Ow, like that really hurt?" Prudence began to cry and ran out of the ring. Shan, a bit dumbfounded by Prudence actions watched her run away.

"The winner is Shan!" Shouted the Referee. Shan left the ring and was given her battle schedule for the next day. Shan began to wonder about Mark and ran over to his ring, were she met a worried Quin.

"Shan," Quin shouted. "You’ll never believe what Marks’ gotten himself into."

"He told me Quin," Shan said. "I just won mine and I came over to watch."

Quin grabbed Shans wrist and dragged her threw a crowd of people to the front row. "Look at that guy," she said pointing to a huge muscular man. "He’s Dr. Pain."

"He’s the guy Marks fighting?" Shan asked. "Let’s go see Mark. I think I can give him some pointers." The two ran to were Mark was and found him praying.

"Mark what are you doing?" Quin shouted and hit him on the back of the neck. "Forfeit the match, you can’t beat him." Mark stood up and looked down. "Come on forfeit," Quin said again.

"NO!" Mark shouted. "I have to do this. If I can stand a few rounds with him maybe I can get a real badge when it comes time to fight a gym leader."

"Mark. You’ll get hurt," Quin cried. Mark looked down. Shan stepped forward.

"Look Mark. He’s big and strong but he’s probably slow." Mark and Quin looked at Shan. "If you hit him and run, maybe you can ware him down."

"Don’t encourage him!"

"Look Quin," Shan said sternly. "No mater what we say he want’s to go threw with it. I’m trying to help him." Quin turned and ran to her seat.

"She’ll never let me live this one down." Mark said looking over at his crying cousin. They may not always have gotten along but Shan could see that Quin really cared about Mark.

"Do you think I stand a chance?" Shan looked over at Dr. Pain. "If you stay away from him. If he gets a hold of you are going to be in real trouble. I think you should try to trick him into falling out of the circle."

"Man am I glad you know how to fight," mark said sighing. "Were did you learn by the way?"

"Your up, I’ll tell you later." Mark walked forward into the ring. Shan watched as he took his place.

"I hope he’ll be ok," said Quin shakily. Shan smiled.

"I hope he will be to Quin. Right now we have to rout him on."

"Your right," Quin threw her hands up into the air. "COME ON MARK YOU CAN BEET THAT DORK!" Pain glared at Mark and began to mumble to himself.

"Hey Quin thanks for the support but could you not insult the guy whose about to kill me." Mark said. Quin just smiled. Shan looked over to Dr. Pains corner and quickly yelled to Mark. "Mark he’s going to charge for you, make sure you get out of the way." Mark looked back and nodded.

"How do you know?" Quin asked.

"You see that girl over there in the blue GI." Shan said pointing.

"Yea."

"I fought her and by the way she’s hanging around Dr. Pain makes me think that they are either related or are friends." Quin sighed.

"Well what doses that have to do with anything?"

"It means that maybe they trained together or that they know each other. I know that she likes to run at her opponent head on, so if that big guy runs head on at Mark he might lose his balance giving Mark an edge. I might be wrong but hey it’s worth a try." Shan folded her arms in front of her. Quin sat down on the ground and released her Staryu and began to hug it tightly.

"You little twerp. You got lucky when my pokemon fought yours. But now your lucks run out. I'm going to enjoy separating your head from your body." Pain said and took a step forward.

Mark swallowed hard and slid his foot forward. "Oh, Oh yea. Well um," He clenched his fists. "I'm going to beat you." Pain laughed loudly causing Mark to blush.

"I can’t believe he didn’t come back with something a little more intimidating." Said Quin standing up.

"Mark he’s trying to psyche you out don’t let him." Shan shouted. Dr. Pain took a step forward causing Mark to take a step back. Then it happened Dr. Pain ran forward and Mark was standing right in front of him terrified.

"MARK, TRIP HIM UP HE WON’T BE ABEL TO STOP IN TIME HE’S TO BIG!" Shan shouted. Mark still terrified by Pain running at him stepped to the side and stuck out his foot. Pain ran right into it and tripped causing him to fall forward. Pain tried to regain his balance but was to top heavy and fell out of the ring. Quin jumped over Pain and ran to Mark and hugged him.

"Way to go Mark." She shouted.

"Hey great job." Shan said walking up to him. "I was right he was to top heavy to get any balance."

"Thanks for your help Shan. I would have been lost if it wasn’t for you." Shan smiled.

"Hey you did it." Pain groaned and stood up, he looked over at the three just as the Referee raised Marks hand up in the air. The three walked out of the ring and Shan and Quin were congratulating Mark when Pain taped him on the shoulder. Marked turned and was grabbed by the throat.

"Ahh," he said as he was lifted up in the air.

"No way am I going to let a little punk like you beat me that easily. You are going to get it now." Pain said. Mark gasped for air desperately. Quin grabbed her Staryu and held it tight.

"Hey you put him down right now!" Shan said handing her vest to Quin.

"Or what honey, you going to beat me up." Prudence ran up behind Pain.

"That’s the girl that kicked me uncle Milo." Mark eyes looked over at Shan. Shan ignored Pain and Prudence and walked up to them. Reached out and grabbed Pains arm and began to focus her power threw her hand. She squeezed causing Pan to shout out in pain and drop Mark who gasped for air.

"You little. I’m going to get you for hurting my little niece." Pain took a step forward. Shan could feel her power pulsate threw her body. Here eyes flashed blue for a second. Pain stared at her. She smiled; the longing to fight him was there. It began to fill her mind.

"Nice trick. But it will take more than that!" Pain raised his hand to punch Shan. Shan caught Pains punch in mid air. Behind her Quin and Mark watched with surprise. Shan lunged forward and punched Pain in his stomach. For a second he just stared blankly, then fell to his knees. Shan stood her ground, here eyes flashed blue again and then back to normal. She was enjoying the fight, too much. She was barley keeping control. Pain grabbed his stomach and fell to the ground. Shan stepped back and glared at Pain.

"That was for my friend." She said and smiled. "Next time I won’t hold back." Prudence ran over to her uncle and helped him up. Shan turned to Quin and Mark.

"How did you? I mean." Mark said rubbing his neck. Shan grabbed her head and fell forward. Her power was still there flowing threw her mind, the pain came from using it.

"Shan," Quin said and ran over to her. "Hey are you ok?" She asked and helped Shan up. Quin handed Shan her vest and she put it on.

"I’m fine. I’m just tired," Shan put her hand on her head and looked up at Mark. "Are you ok?"

Mark stood up and walked over to Quin. Shan sat back and looked up at him. Mark grabbed Quins arm and pulled her up.

"You stay away from us," he said staring at Shan. "Your some kind of freak. I don’t want you hurting me or my cousin."

"What?" Shan said standing up. She wobbled. "I don’t understand. What’s wrong?" Quin pushed Marks arm away.

"Hey Mark what exactly is your problem? She just saved your but." Quin said shouting at Mark.

"Look Quin," Mark pointed at Shan. "She's different. No way could she take on that guy if she was normal. You didn’t see her eyes but I did. They looked like they were on fire and they even seemed to glow." Shan looked down. "You stay away from us."

The power had robed her of friends yet again. She turned and ran out of the arena. Behind her Quin was calling to her. Shan couldn’t hear her though, she was running from them back to the pokecenter. Shan stopped in front of the pokecenter and leaned up against the building.

"I hate this. No mater how I try the power ruins everything." Shan hung her head down and hugged her knees to her chest. She could hear people walking past her laughing and talking about the battles. Charmanders pokeball jiggled and she jumped out.

"Charmander," she said sadly and rubbed up against Shans leg. The street still had blossoms on it. A few blew around her as she petted Charmander.

"Oh, Charmander." Shan said picking her up. "You and the others are my only friends. You don’t think I’m a freak." Charmander nestled her head under Shans chin. She knew her master was sad, but she didn’t know why.

"I don’t think you’re a freak Shan." Shan looked up. Quin was standing in front of her; Mark was standing behind her looking sorry. Shan quickly looked away and wiped her eyes."

"I’m sorry Shan." Mark said stepping forward. "It’s just that. I got scared, I mean I got embraced when you fought for me."

"This bozo’s pride was hurt." Quin said punching Mark in the arm.

"It’s ok Mark. I forgive you." Shan sighed. "I didn’t mean to use my power. You see I never want to use it. I just want to be normal."

"Power?" Quin asked. "What do you mean?" Shan looked down.

"Nothing," Shan picked up Charmander and walked past them. Mark and Quin followed her into the Pokecenter. Once inside Shan sat down at one of the tables and looked out the window. Quin and Mark sat down with her.

"Shan," Quin said. "Mark and I were wondering if you would like to travel with us for a while. We’re on our way back to Cerulean city." Shan looked up.

"You’re from Cerulean?" Charmander chirped and jumped on the table.

"Yea it’s our home town." Said Mark.

"I was on my way there." Shan said. "I don’t think we should travel together." She said petting Charmander. Mark looked down and Quin glared at him.

"Is it because of this jerk?"

"No Quin, it’s not that."

"Then what is it Shan?" Mark asked looking up.

"Well it’s difficult." She sighed. "Team rockets been after me and I don’t want any one to get hurt."

"Why are they after you? I mean I thought they stole pokemon not kidnap people." Mark and Quin exchanged looks.

"They want me because I’m," she paused.

"You’re what Shan? You can tell us, we won’t say anything. Right Mark?"

"That’s right."

"I’m psychic, that’s why they want me."

The three were silent. It was the first time she had ever told anyone about her powers. It was because she trusted them, which was rare.

"Hey we’re not afraid of team rocket," Quins said giving a peace sign.

"That’s right," Mark said smiling. "Besides I want to learn to fight like you do."

"Me to," Quin said. Shan smiled and looked up at them.

"Well then," she said standing up. "Let’s win this tournament, but first lets go get some dinner to celebrate all of our victories. Charmander jumped into Shans arms. Shan smiled and pet her on her head. All of them left the pokecenter and headed towards the food booths. That evening Shan enjoyed the rides, the food, and mostly the fact that she finally had some real friends.