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05:00 PM

The sun was still high in the sky, it would be at least an hour before it would begin to set. Barry had spent the past hours hounding Lucas, he was attempting to assist him in finding the Legendary Pokémon.

“Have we checked that bush over there?”

“Yes, Barry.”

“Let’s check again!”

“Really? Okay then.”

Lucas’s patience really is an admirable thing.

“Dammit! It’s not here!”

Extremely admirable. I was sitting on the grass cross-legged, petting Elaine’s head as she was sleeping on my lap. I had my headphones connected to my Pokégear, I was listening to a radio station that played instrumental music from the Pokémon games, it was playing the wild Pokémon battle music from Diamond and Pearl.

Dawn came up to me and sat to my right with a massive sigh. “I’m exhausted.”

“You’re not the only one,” I replied, pointing to the sleeping Pokémon. “Do you still have your Poké Ball?”

“Yep! It might take a while, but we’ll catch that Pokémon eventually.”

“Do you even know what the Pokémon is?”

“Of course I do. We’ve been playing here ever since we were kids. It’s the Legendary Guardian Pokémon of Lake Verity.”

“Do you know what it looks like?”

She was silent.

“You don’t, do you.”

“W-well, we’ll know what it looks like when we see it.”

We could hear Barry shouting incomprehensible instructions to his friend, before taking and throwing the Pokéball that Lucas was holding.

“How old are all of you?” I asked.

“Lucas and I are eleven and Barry just turned twelve a few weeks ago. How old are you?”

“Eigh-” No, wait. I’m not. It’s June 2007 right now, and my trainer card says I was born in 1989. “Sorry, seventeen. I’ll be eighteen in a couple days.” Again.

“So you’re almost an adult.”

“Y-yeah. Hey Dawn?”

“Hm?”

“What everyone’s full names?”

“Full names? Well I’m Dawn Hikari Diamond, my brother is Lucas Koki Diamond, mom is Johanna Ayako Pearl and Barry is Barry… something Platinum.”

So their names are English canonical name, Japanese canonical name, and then Version. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. “What about your father?” That’s the biggest question.

“Dad? He’s gone to Kalos for his work. His name is Harry John Diamond.” So a complete stranger. Yay… “What’s your full name?” Dawn asked.

“Jack Harvey.”

“You don’t have a middle name?”

“Nope.”

“That’s weird.”

“Weird is cool.”

Barry and Lucas had come up to us, Barry had a defeated stride while Lucas happily walked with a Starly perched on his arm.

“What happened?” Dawn asked.

“I threw Lucas’s Poké Ball at some moving bushes, I thought it was the guardian, but it just a stupid Starly!” He explained as he collapsed onto the ground face down.

“Patience is a virtue,” I exclaim.

“You sound like my mom,” Barry replied.

“Well you both have Starly now, why don’t you get to know them. Let them meet the rest of your Pokémon.”

Barry lifted up his head. “Hey, that’s a good idea.” He jumped up and threw two Poké Balls into the air, “Come out guys.” The red and white spheres popped open to summon the fire monkey and the bird Pokémon. Lucas, in response, silently called out his Turtwig.

The Pokémon exchanged greetings, it was as if they’re chirps were a part of a small choir performance. It looked like the two Starly knew each other as they didn’t introduce themselves to each other but instead seemed to have some sort of avian conversation. Suddenly they stopped when they set their eyes on me. They started to glare, they glared at the Ralts sleeping on my lap. Wait, are these the Starly who were harassing Elaine.

“Elaine?” I said as I shook her slightly.

She stirred slightly. “Vm…” She groggily sat up and looked at the duo of Starly. Then she jolted to a stand, “Vah!” and ran around and behind me. “Jack!” That confirms it.

“Are they the same ones?”

She peeked around the back of me and nodded. “Vah.” She was eyeing the Starly with a fierce glare underneath of emerald hair.

“Did your Ralts just talk?!” Barry asked loudly.

Oh… right. “Uh, yeah. Though she can only say my name.”

“That’s so awesome!” He said as his eyes shone in childlike wonder.

“Forget about that, in case you haven’t noticed your Starly and Elaine don’t seem to like each other that much.”

Lucas walked up to the Starly and attempted to calm them down by petting them. “Why do you think they don’t like each other?” He asked before the Starly to his left pecked at his hand. “Ow! Sorry… I won’t do it again.”

“I don’t know the whole story, but I found Elaine here this morning being harassed by two Starly, I’m guessing they’re the same ones.”

“Now that’s not very nice!” Barry exclaimed. “Guess we’ll have to teach these Pokémon a lesson in kindness, won’t we guys! Uh…” He looked around. “Guys… where’s Dawn?”

Crap she’s not next to me! Where did she go?! She must have run off somewhere. Did something happen in the anime about her going missing at Lake Verity? She… meets Mesprit, on her own – no, wait! She came to the Lake when she was looking for Piplup, they both meet Mesprit. Is that’s what’s happening now?

Lucas stood up. His movements became faster and more panicked. “Dawn?! He was shaking. “DAWN!!!” Then he started running.

“Lucas!” I shouted, “Wait! Just, wait!” I came to a stand, my pleas seemed to have stopped him.

“What do you mean wait?! My sister might be in danger!” His anxiety was infectious.

I could feel my hands begin to sweat. Dammit, dammit, dammit. He needs to calm down, I promised Johanna I’d keep an eye out on them. I could feel a tugging around my ankle. I looked down to see Elaine, concerned. Calm down first, Jack. Right… I need to clear my thoughts. First, keep us from splitting up.

“Splitting up will just make things worse, we need to stick together so that when one of us we find Dawn, we don’t have to find the rest of the group.”

“But that’ll take too long!” Barry countered.

Lucas replied, “Yeah, that’ll take to long.”

“Then, tell your Starly to do an aerial search. They do that all the time in the anime.”

“The what?” Barry asked.

“Nevermind, just – tell them already.”

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