Morgiana rubbed her eyes and examined her wound again. Her leg was stiffening and the pain was becoming a little more than she could bare. The wound itself was rather deep, she guessed, but not very long or wide. She had ripped the strap off her messenger bag and wrapped it around her leg to try and stop the bleeding. She had read in a book once that: You have to make the bleeding stop. That's the important part. She wasn't sure if the bleeding had stopped or not. The beam of her flashlight was starting to shake a little. She felt cold and warm at the same time. She wished she had a bottle of water. Her tears were only enough to make her lips wet. "Eevee..." she muttered tiredly, "Go-go find Jordan." She coughed and the movement of her body sent another bolt of pain to her leg. She winced. "I can't send Dei... Jordan might attack him. You have to go." She waved the Eevee away. It stared at her for a moment, but its ears seemed to perk up at a far off noise she couldn't hear. It rubbed against her, seemingly wanting something. Morgiana coughed again. "I supposed you're right. Here," she reached up and fingered the clasp to her necklace. "He'll want proof you found me, won't he. I'd- I'd write a note but... I-I don't have any paper. Si-silly me." She took off the gold chain; it held an amethyst pendant and had her name carved on the back of the gem's gold setting. I wonder how he paid for it She thought before handing the charm to eevee. The pokemon took it from her and held it in its mouth. It nodded once and took off quickly into the darkness.

"Dei?" she muttered. "I'm tired. The book said to s-s-stay awake... but I'm so ti-tired. I'll just-t rest m-my eyes f-f-or a f-f-ew minutes..." She laid down and rested her head on her folded arms. Dei moved to lie beside her, guiding her - his eyes scanning the darkness all around them. Morgiana's flashlight flickered in her hand. She rubbed her eyes on her arm and coughed again. Her leg hurt and her throat hurt. The dryness of the tomb, mixed with the sand, was a torture in its own way. She was certain her leg was now caked in blood-colored mud. It was heavy and it hurt. She began to whimper and cry again... which cake parts of her face in sand. If only mother could see me now! I don't think she'd know who I am. She thought as her mind began to wander.

"Morgiana Aberforth, how dare you dress like that!" Mother screamed. Morgiana looked down at her outfit. She was only wearing pants and a tee-shirt, what was so wrong with that? "But Mother... I'm comfortable." she said. Her mother wouldn't hear of it. She was not to leave the house looking so, so common. Her mother had sneered the word. "But mother, it's not practical to travel in one of those ballgowns." Her mother had stopped listening. Two servants came up behind Mother and bowed. Mother pointed towards her and sneered, "That. Take it away. This person is not any daughter of mine."

"Ana, you're special." he said, "I don't see how you can out up with your family." The boy laughed and threw a stone into the water. His hair caught the sunlight and the wind and he smiled. Morgiana sat on the white sand beach and looked across the ocean to the horizon. What was beyond that? She wondered. The boy helped her stand and said, "Come with me. Leave all these rules behind. You're different. You have something special. I, uh, I have something for you." She could see his blush as he reached for something in his pocket. "I-I know it's not much... but it reminded me so much of you I had to get it. Turn around?" She did and she felt his hand on her neck, and the coolness of metal. The gem caught the sunlight and shone brilliantly. She picked up the pendant to examine it more. Morgiana it said, follow your dreams . "It's beautiful." She said turning around to meet his eyes. He chuckled and took a gentle grasp of her chin. "Just like you." He whispered before laying a kiss on her lips.

Jordan was leaning against the wall panting, his flashlight was beginning to dim, "Crap" he said and his Tranquill looked up at him with concern, "Sorry, buddy, We gotta stay positive right." Tranquill flew up and landed on his shoulder and nudged him. Nodding Jordan open both his and Morgiana's bags and dug through them. In his hew found some old rags and smiled, "I may have found our source of light Tran." he stated and the bird pokemon gave a sound of approval. In Morgiana's bag he found some rubbing alcohol, and a collection of things that could be used as splints, he took a couple and returned the rest of the them to the bag.

Jordan stripped off his coat and threw it on the ground, he placed the rags on top oh his coat and opened the rubbing alcohol, and poured/sprinkled a little more then half of the liquid onto the rags. he wrapped the rags around the splints he had taken, "I hope this works." He muttered as he reached for his belt, grabbing a pokeball he threw it into the air, "Pignit, I need you for a moment." The fire/fighting pokemon came out of it's pokeball with a yawn. "Sorry to wake you but could you use Ember on the end of the stick I am holding?" The pokemon blinked at Jordan for a moment then turned and blew out a small ball of fire the hit the torch, when it caught and worked just as planned Jordan smiled and recalled his two Pokemon thanking both of them for the help.

Jordan took off again not as fast as before as he entered a room he heard a familiar cry, "EEVEEEEEEEE!" Jordan spun in the direction of the sound and saw an Eevee running full sprint towards him, "Hey I think you belong to me he called and ran over to his pokemon." Jordan got down and caught the pokemon in a one armed imbrace to protect it form the fire in his hand. "Did you find Morg-" he stopped mid sentence when he noticed the pendent in his pokemon's mouth. Grabbing the amethyst he turned it over and saw Morgiana engraved in elegant lettering on the back. "Take me to her Eevee." he said standing up and following his pokemon at a full run.

Jordan was beginning to wonder if his Eevee remembered the way it was going. I can't let somebody else get hurt, not again, I have to hurry. THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN! Jordan thought as he rounded a corner into a room and saw a flickering light laying beside a dark figure laying on the ground. "MORGIANA" he called out and sprinted forward, as he got near a Deino jumped up and started growling, "BACK OFF" a deep voice echoed in Jordan's head. Eevee started making noises and the Deino back off to let Jordan approach. "Thanks," he said to both pokemon thinking he would figure out what that voice was later. He knelt beside Morgiana, "Hey wake up, Morgiana you need to get up don't sleep, PLEASE be alive." Jordan shook the girl in front of him.

"Ana," the boy mumbled on a sigh, "I have to leave tonight." The two were wrapped around each other on the ground under a palm tree. The stars that shone bright in the sky reflected in his eyes. Morgiana lifted her head from his chest, and he continued. "I still have another badge to get before I face the League. Humilau City is still a few days travel from here, and it's even longer still to Victory Road. I've already spent too much time here. Ah, man... I said that wrong. Ana, Ana please don't cry." He shifted to wipe the tears that had formed in her eyes. "Ana... you could come with me. Please. Please come with me." He kissed her quickly a few times. "Ana, please."

"Morgiana..." said a voice in Morgiana's ear. She was moved rather violently and scream in agony. Her eyes shot open, but her vision was blurry. A figure was above her, but she couldn't make out the face. "Please..." it said. Gregory? She opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out but a fit of violent coughing. Her lips trembled and she began to sob. "Gregory... how did you find me?" she finally managed to say. "I thought... You left. How did -" She wrapped her arms around the figure's neck and kissed him firmly on the mouth. "Gregory... I finally found you." She nuzzled her face into the figure's neck. "I've missed you so."

Jordan stammered as Morgiana called him by his brothers name, and was even more surprised by the kiss that she planted on him. "Uhh, Morg, I'm Jordan, not Gregory, you must have hit your head in the fall." Jordan composed himself by assessing her condition, she seemed weak and her leg was covered in blood, "Crap that looks bad, but at least you put a tourniquet on it, the bleeding seems to have stopped." Jordan dropped both bags and opened them, "Okay sorry this may hurt." he grabbed what was left of the rubbing alcohol and poured it on her leg. "Sorry, sorry is it broken?"

Morgiana howled. It felt like her leg had caught fire. The pain woke her from her stupor. "Jordan!" She yelled. "You... Eevee found you. Good God! Ow!" Her voice became calmer, but was still rapid, "Water. I need water. My throat's dry." She fumbled around and tried to stand, but her leg protested violently so she fell back into her seated position. She looked at Jordan. Jordan, not Gregory. Gregory was long gone away. "It's not broken." She said, "It's just a deep cut. I fell onto a sharp rock in the sand pile." She ran her hands over her thigh, where the cut was and pulled away the fabric of her clothing. He was right, the bleeding had stopped, for which she was thankful. However she had miscalculated, the cut was rather long - approximately four inches. It began at the tip of her knew and scrawled, rather linear up her thigh. The rock must have been in the floor above and not in the sand pile. She had recalled seeing rocks in the pile though... She knew then that she would probably have several bruises too.

"There should be a first aid kit in my bag... which I see you have." She went to reach for it, but it was just enough out of her reach to make her have to lift her leg. She tried. Once. Twice. On her third try, she was standing. Her leg screamed. Her chest screamed. She gritted her teeth and took a step. She managed to take two more before collapsing again, the pain too much to bear. "I'm certain it's not broken. Heavily bruised, but not broken. I didn't fall that far." She looked over her shoulder to Jordan's still kneeing form. She couldn't see the expression on his face... but she guessed it was probably worry. At least she hoped it was. "I'm useless to you now. I can barely walk on my own."

Jordan watched as Morgiana walk and collapse back onto the ground. He reached into his bag and grabbed his water bottle, "Here," he said as he stood and walked the few paces to her side and handed her the bottle, "Drink slow, you don't wanna make yourself sick." Sitting down beside her and reaching back and grabbing the Morgiana's bag he dragged it to them being careful not get too much sand in her wound. "Let's see here," he began to dig through her bag again, "Bandages, um, you should do this yourself. He handed her the roll of bandages to her.

Jordan smiled a warm reasurring smile before he realized that the torch my be too far away for Morgiana to see what she was doing so he got it and stuck it in the sand near them. "Your not useless, I didn't run into any wild pokemon on the way down here so I think I can carry you once your all bandaged up. I would also prefer if you splinted the leg, just to give the muscle a rest in case you cut into that " He gave over to splint sticks from the medical bag and looked up, "Once we get to the entrance, We can send a pokemon with a note for help. Jest let me know when your ready alright" Jordan put another warm smile on his face and Eevee came over and started to lick gently and Morgiana's hand show that it cared about her also.

Morgiana tried to pace herself with the water, she really did. But the second the bottle touched her lips, she was gulping it. She had to force herself to stop... the bottle was mostly empty by then. Although it refreshed her, her throat still burned. She took the splints from his outstretched hands. She tried her best to wrap her leg; she had never been very good at first aid. It was the one skill she had neglected on her journey. Of course, she had never been in a situation like this before. Dei let out a growl next to her and nudged her shoulder. She met concerned eyes. "I'll be fine Dei, I promise." She felt the wetness of a tongue and turned, "I promise you too eevee. You really helped me out. Oh!" She looked around frantically. "My necklace! Do you have it?" The eevee looked up at Jordan and she understood.

"It would be very kind of you to carry me." She said to Jordan. She thought about all her bags and groaned. "Dei, come back." She said raising her pokeball. "Gothita, I choose you." The small female pokemon appeared before her. I'm fine Gi. Morgiana thought, looking at the pokemon. The pokemon was not convinced and looked over Morgiana's bandage and split. It cooed. Can you handle the bags, Gi? I'm afraid I can't lift them and I don't want to burden my companion with them. The pokemon cooed again and walked over to where the bags lay. "Hita, hita, hita" It chanted as the bags began to rise off the floor. "I believe we're all set now. I do hope you remember your way to the entrance."

Jordan smiled to hear Morgiana reassuring the two pokemon that were concerned with her. When she called out her Gothita and the pokemon just stared at it's owner then started to levitate the bags. "Thank you, Gothita" Jordan said and walked over and looked down at Morgiana. "Hold on a second we are going to need some more help." Grabbing a ball on his belt Jordan called out his Pignite once more. The pokemon looked at Jordan with the look like that seem to say it was woken again and it was unhappy about it. Jordan gave the pokemon a look and it looked around, when it saw Morgiana it's face changed, "How can I help?" Again the voice echoed in Jordan's mind, he shook his head.

"Pignite can you grab that torch and take point with Eevee?" The two pokemon got together and faced the only door out of the room. "Gothita would you mind taking the middle and I will take the rear with Morgiana here." The pokemon just simply took it's place no eye contact with Jordan at all. Bending down he picked up Morgiana carefully trying to keep her injured leg on top as he cradeled he in his arms so there was no pressure on it. "Ready?" He asked the pokemon in front of him, "Eevee, lead us back to where you found me." With that the group started moving slowly forward, "And once we get to that room I can get us out." Jordan smiled down at Morgiana with a reassuring smile.

Morgiana was overcome with another wave of tiredness. Her body just couldn't stay awake under the stress of her leg. Sleepily she wrapped her arms around Jordan's neck and rested her head against his shoulder.

"Young lady I refuse to let you leave with that-that mongrel!" Her mother yelled, pointing at her. Morgiana knew that there was no way she could lie to her mother, but telling her the truth had had repercussions. "You are to stay in your room. Jenkins!" Her mother called for the head butler. "Mind her! She is not to leave that room."

The windows in her room had been sealed shut ages ago - since the last time she had tried to run away. Her parents had not trusted her to stay, so they sealed them. Sneaking out the door was her only other option, but that meant running into Jenkins and the dozens of staff that had been positioned around her room. She was trapped. She sat on her bed and sobbed. She looked at the necklace... ]he's not going to wait for me... she thought, she knew. His was too driven by his dreams to give up on them now. He was so close. He wouldn't wait. He would see it as rejection and forget all about her. She tore the necklace off and threw it across the room.

Three days had passed and she was free to roam around the house - but not outside without an escort. She had one of the servants -Josie- accompany her to the beach. To their tree. There was a small parcel under it. The note on the top said:

My dearest Ana,
I waited for you for awhile. Each time I wanted to leave, I remembered your smile and your laugh. It took me four hours to realize... you weren't going to come. I want you to know that I forgive you. Maybe you saw the error of your ways, spending time with a guy like me, and chose to stay; maybe you did try to leave, but your... family wouldn't let you. Whatever the reason, I completely forgive you.

This is one of my final gifts to you. If only I could see your face! I would have enjoyed seeing your reaction in person. In this box is something very special to me. In this box, is an egg. A very special egg. An egg I know you can care for and love. Think of it as a part of me that I'm leaving for you. One final lasting memory.

Ana, do you remember my brother? The one I told you all the stories about? He's setting out after me, I'm sure of it. He doesn't look too much like me, but he has something. The same thing you have. The same thing I have. I can't put words to it... but it's there. It's... the reason we do what we do. It's the reason I gave you that egg. You'll see it one day, just like I have.

I don't know if you will ever leave this place. My hope is that you do. That you somehow break free from here. My hope is that someday, I'll be able to see you again. If my brother stops in Undella, I hope you treat him with a similar kindness that you treated me. Now, now, now... I'm not saying make-out with my baby brother.

That may be a little too kind. But... you know what I meant. Take care of him. Don't let his thick head fool you, he's smart. He just forgets to use that brain of his sometimes.

Anyways, the sun is starting to come up... so I'll be leaving shortly. Ana, I will always love you. I wish I could have stayed, I wish you could have gone. I wish things could have been different. I guess the Universe just has different plans for you. Follow your dreams Ana, maybe one day they'll lead you back to me.
All my love, and so much more, Gregory.

Jordan had stopped trying to keep Morgiana awake by the time they had reached the entrance to the ruins. He had sent his Pignite with a note to Join Avenue hoping it could find a police officer or medic quickly. Morgiana's Gothita was standing near it's trainer on guard while Jordan's Eevee was laying beside her head trying it's best to help. Jordan took a seat and sipped from a bottle of water he found in Morg's bag and began to ponder things that have happened.

What was her connection to Greg? Why was she muttering his name the entire time she in and out of consciousness? And what was he hearing down in the ruins? Was it the pokemon? It couldn't be, none of the pokemon that were out when it happened were Psychic type. Jordan shook his head, he had read somewhere that the original leader of Team Plasma, a young man named N had the ability to talk to Pokemon. But he had never believed it was real, It had to have been the stress of finding Morgiana that caused it, I was hallucinating. Jordan looked up and looked out into the dessert. The wind had died down since the two companions entered the Ruins, in the distance he saw a vehicle approuching and jumped up.

"Morgiana time to wake up again. Help is here." He went over and gently shook the girl laying on the ground, his coat over her leg to keep out the sand.

There were dried tears on Morgiana's face when she awoke. She rubbed the slight bit of sand from her eyes. She'd had dreams like that for the past few months - her entire journey, to date. They filled her with both joy and sadness. I'm doing it Gregory. She thought I'm finally out on our journey. She looked up at Jordan and smiled. I found your brother. He reminds me of you in some ways. Kindness. Is that the special thing he has?

Morgiana heard the vehicle in the distance before she saw it. The man and woman were driving a jeep capable of carrying at least eight people. It had to front seat and then two benches. The man jumped out first - as the woman had been driving. "Ho there!" he called as he walked towards them. "Heard that someone had been hurt out here." He walked over to where Morgiana was sitting. "Be surprised as to jus' how many folks get hurt here. Janet an' I," he pointed to the woman who was walking towards Jordan with his pokemon by her side. "formed a rescue team. You the injured person?"

Morgiana nodded. "Yes, My name is Morgiana Aberforth. I fell -"

"Aberforth! Shoot! Yer from that rich family in Undella, ain't cha?" The man was rude. That was the word for it. rude

"Um, Yes, Sir. I am. I've injured my-" She had started to point to her leg - covered by Jordan's jacket, when he interrupted again.

"Well I'll be! Don't worry 'bout nothin' darlin' ol' Jeb'll have you right as rain in a jiffy." The man picked her up - none too gently and carried her to the jeep - on the bench right behind the driver. He leg was streched of the remainder of the hot leather seat. Gothita, not missing a beat had already carried the bags to the vehicle and sat on the floor in front Morgiana.

The woman had been speaking to Jordan - probably about the incident. Jeb jumped in the front passenger seat. "It'll be alright darlin'. Once Janny gets here we'll head on up to Nimbasa City. I wager you was going there next anywho." Morgiana only nodded.

Jordan nodded as he talked to the woman who came to help, Jordan's Pignite, who he had sent with a note to find somebody cam over and started playing with his belt. "Alright, alright great job buddy you can come back now." as the red beam hit the pokemon it was yawning like it was going to take a nap. "Sorry about that he can be a little demanding sometimes." he said to Janny.

"That's Fine, do you have everything?" the woman asked as she turned and went back to the jeep.

"Almost," Jordan said and turned and picked up his Eevee since it didn't wake up when Morgiana was lifted to the Jeep. holding the small pokemon in one arm he picked up it's ball in the other hand and recalled it into the device. Jordan turned and ran to the jeep after doing a final check of the surrounding area near the entrance for anything left over. Jordan got in and sat behind the driver. Being very careful not to hit Morg's leg he made himself comfertable. As the Jeep was put into gear Jordan reached his hand out to shake the man's hand, "Name's Jordan Searl."

The ride to Nimbasa City was smooth and quick. Janet had obviously driven this rode several times. Morgiana was glad to be back in familiar surroundings. She had spent sometime in Nimbasa before going to challenge Burgh. She had to get the badges in order, after all - and Elesa was known to be tough.

Morgiana remembered when she was younger her older sisters would go on and on about how pretty the gym leader was. They didn't understand why she fought with pokemon when her modeling career must be so much more fun. Gregory had been the one to tell her of the fierceness of the woman.

Electric type master. Be careful of her Emolga, it's crazy fast. Gregory, in fact, had been the one to give her so many books... or rather, book titles. She had purchased the books herself.

The clinic that they came to was rather small, but next to the pokecenter. The two rescuers help secure a room for Morgiana and then their pagers went off and they were gone.

"Jordan?" She said to her companion. "It will be a few days before my leg will heal enough for me to walk. Why don't you go challenge Elesa?"

Jordan looked at the young woman and smiled, "Now how much fun would it be if my companion was not there to watch and cheer me on." Jordan chuckled and he helped himself to a seat near the bed in which Morgiana's bed and looked at her. "Besides, Greg is Champion he isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I'm in no rush to finish collecting the badges." He kept a smile on his face while he silently added and I have to make sure you're alright because I couldn't live with myself if you were hurt permanently, like what happened with Greg. Jordan's smile faded as he finished his thought. "So do you want anything to eat?" Jordan asked Getting up and going over to the Take Out/Delivery menus on the desk in the corner.

(( Sorry for not posting... life caught up with me))

A few days had passed and the hospital granted Morgiana leave. (Of course, once they had found out her name they had given her top priority.) It was true that she hadn't broken anything - which would have caused her to have a cast. The gash didn't go as deep as she thought either. There was surprisingly little damage to her muscle. They did give her a brace, in case she needed it. Which she figured she did - better safe then sorry.

The first day of her release, she had made sure to find a place to actually stay in the city. She had been to Nimbasa before - indeed she'd had to pass through it on her way to the area beyond Join Avenue. There were quite a few enchanting hotels that cater specifically to trainers. She - not really thinking - had chosen one of the higher costing ones. She was reminded of this upon seeing Jordan's embarrassed face when the attendant told them the price of the rooms. Not wanting to offend, Morgiana said she was paying for both rooms. She whispered to Jordan, "This is me paying you back, for all that you have done thus far."

She had made a point to get two separate rooms. While they weren't next to each other, they were on the same floor. She led Jordan to his room, then left to find her own. She knew that he had wanted to assist her, but her leg was feeling better, honest - maybe it was just the pain medication...

The room wasn't overly large, but it was by no means small. It was similar to a small one room apartment. There was a sleeping area - which housed a large bed, a night stand, an armoire, and a lamp; a living-room-esque area - which was decorated with a television, a couch, a coffee table, a lounge chair and a few shelves of books and movie; and a kitchen area - which was a miniature version of a real kitchen, as there was a mini-fridge, a mini-stove, a mini-sink, a microwave and a mini-preparation area; the last area looked like it was for children, but it was actually for pokemon. There were several soft mats set on the floor and dishes for holding food. The bathroom was another separate room, but it spared no luxuries. There was both a bath and a shower amongst the regular amenities.

A bath... A real, proper bath. That was the first item on her agenda for the day. She set her bags down and let her her pokemon free to wander the room. Deino slowly made for the bed - Morgiana's - and she didn't stop him. Litwick sat on the coffee table, "Be careful," Morgiana warned. The pokemon nodded quickly. Gothita and Petilil sat on the lounge - so Morginana turned on the television for them to watch. Stunfisk looked at Morgina and groaned. "Okay, Okay... you don't have to come out if you don't want to." Ducklett nudged her toward the bathroom. "I'm going! I'm going!" she laughed.

She undressed, entered the room and turned on the water. Ducklett quickly jumped into the basin. "This isn't for you, you know." Morgiana said, unimpressed, but still laughing. The Ducklett let out a happy noise and swam around in the rising water. "I guess there is no stopping you now." Once the water was at a decent depth, Morgiana stepped in, sat down and began to relax.

((It's fine, I understand life is life and it is always there.))

Jordan staid with Morgiana the entire time she was in the hospital. He was secretly glad that he was able to sleep in a real bed. When she chose the hotel and then offered to pay for him the pieces clicked in his head. Aberforth, her mannerisms, the "Sir Jordan Searl." It all made sense now, she was from that loaded family out in Undella. Jordan was going to argue when Morg said there would be two rooms, but decided not too. He was happy to find they were on the same floor and he went into his room without a word.

Jordan guessed "room" wasn't the word, more like single apartment. Jordan dropped his bag on the coffee table before sitting down and holding his head in his hands. "Moron, Jordan, you are such and IDIOT." At the word idiot two of his pokeballs started to shake. He opened them and released the pokemon. His Eevee and Pignite both appeared in front of him. Eevee jumped up on the table and into Jordan's lap and Pignite looked at him with concern.

"What is up you two?" Jordan asked his pokemon looking puzzled as the pokemon stared at him, "What?" he repeated. His Eevee looked up him and he heard. "Don't be so hard on yourself Jordan" Jordan just stared at the Eevee, because at the same time he heard the voice in his head he heard the pokemon whimper. "I agree, it isn't your fault you piece didn't together." Jordan snapped his head towards his Pignite. "Okay, now I know I am not hearing things. What is going on?"

A few days of relaxation was exactly what she had needed. She had spent most of her time cooped up in her room, leaving Jordan to explore the city by himself. She truly felt guilty about it, but her pampered nature had kicked in being surround by the luxury of the hotel. She had enjoyed waking up and taking advantage of both the pool and the pokemon training gym that the hotel offered. And of course she had had several trips to the on-site spa.

She walked down through the city's blinding mid-morning sunlight towards the pokemon gym. She had heard of Elesa... the two women had been friends, in fact. That was back when Morgiana was part of society, of course. She wondered if the gym leader/ super model would recognize her. It had been months since they had last seen each other. In that time, Elesa has risen in the fashion world and in the poke-world. Morgiana had disgraced her family, runaway and become a trainer. Two very different paths that led to the two meeting, rather abruptly, at the doors to the gym.

"Morgi?" the gym leader said, surprised. An electric smile lite up the blonde's face as she hugged the brunette before her. "My dear, how have you been?"

Morgiana laughed and hugged the woman back. She noted that Elesa still had a rather delicate frame, despite her height. Elesa stood nearly a full head taller than her. A perfect picture of a well-bred socialite. "I've been doing well, El. Are you busy right now?"

"Oh!" Elesa exclaimed, her face becoming serious, "Are you here to challenge my gym?"

Morgiana laughed again. "No, not yet. I was just wondering if you wanted to go out to get a bit to eat, and catch up. It's been a while since I've had any news about my family." Elesa nodded a few times then turned to yell though the partly open door into the gym.

"I'm going out! The gym is closed until I get back!" She then linked her arm with Morigana's and said, "Come on, I know the most perfect burger shop. It's just around the corner. My guilty pleasure... cheeseburgers with a side od chile cheese fries. Oh, just talking about it is making my mouth water."

Morgiana let the blonde drag her down the street, happy for the distractive nature of the blonde. Elesa prattled on about the going-ons in the city, and in the short trip a block away managed to point out every building in the city and it's use. Morgiana was highly interested in checking out the amusement park on the other side of the city. She wondered if Jordan was afraid of heights.

The two women sat at a booth table by the window that offered a view of the street in front of the shop. Morgiana took in the people that passed by. A few stopped to point at Elesa and some took pictures. I guess that is one way my family will hear about me.

"Morgi, you've barely said a word." the blonde drew Morgiana from her thoughts. "Tell me, what's new with you? When I got word that you had left Undella, I was shocked. I mean, I'm very proud of you. You finally told your parents to shove it."

"Oh, El, don't be so cruel." Morigana said taking a bite of french fry. "I didn't tell them anything. I just left. I had to. That life they wanted me to lead, it wasn't mine. Gregory... he wanted this for me."

"Have you been to see him yet?" Elesa interjected. "He misses you dearly. I was actually at the Plateau a few days ago. He talks about you a lot."

"He... he does?" Morgiana was flabbergasted. After all this time, he still cared for her? "El, tell me more."

"Morgi... He loves you... Why have you been avoiding him? You know where he is." she took a drink of her banana milkshake. "Why don't you just ask him yourself?"

"El, I can't to the champion without beating the elite four. To do that, I have to beat all of the gym leaders. It's why I'm here. He's the one that made me do this. The League Challenge. What if I can't do it? I'll never be able to face him."

"Well, I may be able to help you with that. I am after all, the gym leader of this city." Elesa chuckled and paid the tab.

"I did know that, of course." Morgiana said matter-of-factly. "My friend is looking to challenge you too. My friend being Gregory's younger brother, Jordan."

"My, my... can't have one, so you go after the other. You are really getting into the scandalous life of the rich and famous now aren't you?" The two women laughed and walked back towards the gym, arm in arm.

Pignite snortted before looking at Jordan, the voice that Jordan was beginning to associate with the pokemon. "Jordan, your not hearing things your just finally listening." Pignite said looking up at Jordan. Eevee jumped off Jordan's lap and stood beside the other pokemon, "Yes, Jordan we could always speak to you. This is the first time you have been able to understand us." Jordan shook his head, "NO, this is not happening."

"Yes it is Jordan, and you are not the first person to have the ability to do this, one of the previous champions and ex-ruler of Team Plasma. N was what he was known as and he is the only person on record that can do this" said Eevee looking up at Jordan while is scratched it's ear.

"You mean, this is real?" asked Jordan trying to wrap his head around what his pokemon were, telling me the are TELLING ME he thought. "Okay you two, I am going to shower and wrap my head around this, uhhh just, well you know don't break anything alright?"

"Sure but can you let the other out? I would like to catch them up." said Pignite with with a confused look. Jordan nodded and tossed the other four pokeballs from his belt releasing the others, he then slipped into the bathroom and closed the door behind him. Once Jordan closed the door Pignite looked and the others and began to inform the rest of the part that Jordan could understand them now.

After Jordan got out of the shower he recalled all 6 of his pokemon before they could start talking. I need to go and talk to Morgiana about this maybe she knows something like this. he thought as he went into the hallway. It then clicked that Jordan had no idea where her room was but he could check at the front desk. After talking to clerk at the Desk he found that Morg had left so he decided that he would go out and look for her, with a sigh he turned and walked out of the hotel into the sunny day.