Shippu:
I woke with the hollow noise of the freezing machine disengaging.There was a flash of red, and I found myself on the floor. I stayed there for a moment, remembering what was happening, what had happened, and what might happen. The five other people all looked much more confident then me, yet none of them seemed to be appreciating the air. I was used to the lack or the lack of quality of air, of course.I got up and observed the surroundings, an action that had grown into me during my training in Mt Silver. I knew I was extremely luck to be here. I was heading back to Mt coronet when I stumbled across a contest electing the representant of the region for the virus project. I had come tied first with the only other girl in the tournament, was it Aqua? the rest of the challengers had been surprisingly easy.
i wondered whether we would separate into teams. i wondered....whether Aqua would mind teaming up with me.... no come on, Shippu, focus. those scars you have are only your fault, because you didn't focus. I let a tear roll dow my cheek, then lifted my glove to take a look at my scar. yup, still there. Stone edge doesn't go easy on you. I ws done for if it hadn't been for shadow.... oh!
shadow! I reached for my pokeballs, and as I let out my dear shadow, I heard the other peope sending out theirs. The familiar sound of and openign pokeball filled my ears, then the small creature that saved my life all those years ago slowly woke up. She blinked, then reckognized me and smiled. She then proceeded to looking around alertly, exactly the same way as me. The people around me had diffreent pokemon: there was an elekid, an axew, a buizel, a trapinch, and some sort of strange scyther.
The guy with the trapinch started walking ahead. I took a final look around, meeting a couple of eyes, eyes from faraway places...then me and shadow started along the tunnel towards the exit. I heard some sommotion in front of me and dashed forward, only to find a small fainted voltorb. The guy in front had obviously attcked it. But leaving it there just liek that, obviously none of the people here had spent eight years of their life in the mountains, studying pokemon. this tunnel was voltorb's natural habitat, and judging by the marks on the ground, it had not even had mean intentions. just curiosity. Oh well.( this part is editable: I don't know if we can get pokebells back from after having freed a pokemon if we can, I put it in a pokeball, if not,I just pick it up. either way, I continue down the tunnel with voltorb she then meets a family of voltorb and electrodes, gives them voltorb, and Shodow tells them to be careful in the future.)
I got to the end of the tunnel, noticing a few things. the guy with the trapinch was foolishly attcking the wall, but in vain (duh) but he quickly realised that he could not. The other thing I noticed and he did not, was the five colored indentations on the wall, each the type of the six chosen one's pokemon types. I suddenly felt guilty for having taken him for and idiot(I somehow thought he would keep on attacking the door), and to forgive myself showed him the indentations, explaining that we probably would have to be all five of us to open the door. My shyness took over and I clumsily backed away. indeed, everyone here seemed much older then me, and i was fairly opressed by the older , probably more experienced contestants. I saw a flash of expressions on his face as his gaze fell upon me, (him probably understanding I was the sixth one, the "special exception" ) then Shadow. I understood he felt at home here(he probably represented Hoenn) and he was omewhat a leader, it was almost as if he had made this whole place. I sighed, then sat on a far corner of the room, smiling at Shadow, who seemd to have undertaken the same treatment then me. i took her on my lap and snuggled her warm rocky body against me. Then I heard footsteps. I understood this meant that the trapinch guy and I were about to be joined, but by how many people? Maybe the other three made friends and are allied already...
"Jules."
My head flahsed round towards the trapinch guy.
"Jules. That's my name. this is libbeldra. you?"
he was being strangely friendly, and I suddenly realised just how much younger then the others I was.
"Shippu. this is Shadow." then the footsteps cameinto the, and we both looked to see who it was.