Rigorous Relationships

Starting Off With A Bang!

Diana, Serena, Dena, Aura and their Pokémon sat on top of the remains of a garden wall, a cooler amongst them, drinking the last of the refreshments while wearing dusty ball gowns. They stared soberly at little explosions occurring behind remains that had been Aura's home just a few hours before. Another blast and another section of wall collapsed, provoking Diana to speak up.

"Shouldn't we stop them. You know, before your entire house is destroyed?"

Aura looked at the burning remains of her childhood home, an eruption of flames illuminating two mournful amber eyes, as the battle threatened to snatch away all evidence of the buildings existence. She had been busy etching every detail of her home into her mind, before it was all turned to cinders. The memory safely stored away she took a swig of her drink, and glanced over at the redheaded girl to address her question.

"The house is pretty much tinder by now. There's no point in saving it."She dolefully said. A large discharge of lightning caused her attention to shifted back to the battleground, "However we should do something to keep them from seriously injuring each other." She said bitterly, while glaring at the trainers who had destroyed her home.

"Already got that covered," Dena said calmly while putting away a new cell phone, "I called officer Jenny. She'll be here with her officers and the paramedics in a few minutes. They'll sort this whole mess out."

"I guess it is their job to handle these things." Diana said. She then looked quizzically at her friends, "What should we do while we wait for them to get here?"

Serena, who had been completely silent for the past twenty minutes, spoke up. "How about you two fill me in on how this happened?" She said, looking accusingly at Dena and Diana.

The two girls smiled sheepishly at each other and began explaining the events that lead up to their current situation.
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Earlier that day
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"Come on you two! Hurry it up, I don't want anything to spoil." Diana said over her shoulder.

Behind her Ash and Cal were trudging along slowly. The spoils of an all out grocery trip weighing down the teens. They'd been shopping all morning, gathering ingredients for treats to bring to the Danpens party.

"Diana how much longer are we going to be shopping?" Cal whined.

"Oh? Do you have somewhere more important to be?" Diana's face fabricated a phony tearful pout, "Or do you just not like spending time with me?" She said adding an artificial quiver to her words.

"The first one." Ash answered loud enough to block out Cal as he said both. Ash's swift response probably saved them from a world of misery. Intrigued, Diana impelled Ash to tell her what they were up to.

"I promised Cal we'd have a rematch once we got back to the hotel." Ash explained. "We've both been itching to tryout that underground battlefield Serena and Dena found yesterday."

Diana looked a little bummed to learn they were just going to go sparring with each other, but set aside her disappointment for the time being. She still needed one of them to help her finish with her errands and decided that Ash would be more tolerable than Cal. Acting on her decision she sent Cal back to the hotel, entrusting him with their entire food supply and leaving him with instructions to start baking the treats. 

As Cal hefted the groceries home, Ash and Diana went to find Serena and Dena, whom they'd left at a fancy emporium three hours before. Upon walking in they found Serena semi conscious reaching towards thin air, at a mannequins feet. Reacting on instinct both teens rushed over to their fallen friend.