Pokémon Platinum (Currently being rewritten as Pokémon: Platinum Chapter)

Chapter 7: Contest Time!

I wake up in the Pokémon Center. I look at the clock. It's about 9. Piplup is still at the bottom of the bed, curled up in some of the blanket. I walk to the bathroom. When I grab my toothbrush, I hear the shower start next door. 'Dawn's up.'

The sound of a pokéball opening startles me as I reach for the toothpaste. "Everyone's up actually," Uxie says.

Uxie floats to the bathroom, half happy, half annoyed. "Is something wrong, Uxie?"

She sighs. "Nothing. Just some troubling thoughts."

"You can tell me," I say telepathically as I start brushing my teeth.

"I can't tell you. It's about yesterday and what we did. I was consumed with rage."

"I thought you couldn't tell me."

"This isn't what's worrying me. I'm just telling you something you have to remember."

Uxie opens her eyes, which is something she does very rarely. "When all three of us are together, Mesprit and Azelf, we start sharing each other's powers. You know I'm the Knowledge Pokémon. When I'm near the other two, the power starts overflowing into the two. It's weaker, but still very powerful. Mesprit was angered when the grunt who surrendered was killed, which leaked into Azelf and I. That's why I attacked that woman. If it weren't for you, we would've killed her."

I spit out the toothpaste in my mouth as I ponder what Uxie told me. Uxie flies in front of me and looks into my eyes. She smiles. "You know I'm a Psychic type, right?"

"What does that have anything to do with this?"

"I can see your thoughts. You like Dawn, don't you?"

I spit out the water in my mouth. "NO!!!"

Uxie laughs. "You can't lie to me, I know if you are! You want to tell her, but you don't know if she thinks about you the same way. If you want me to, I could... you know."

"That's cheating! I want to find out normally."

Uxie laughs. "What if I told you that it's a mystery to me, too. I've never read her mind."

I put my toothbrush and toothpaste in my bag and get dressed. Piplup gets up as I'm putting my hat on my dark blue hair. "Pip?"

"It's contest day, Piplup. Dawn and I are competing."

She jumps up and says her name proudly. Uxie hovers in front of her and looks into her eyes. She smiles at Piplup when she nods. "Chris, Piplup agrees with me on the fact you obviously like Dawn!"

My face immediately goes red. "It's true, but it doesn't mean I want to tell her right now!"

Uxie laughs for what seems like the thousandth time today. "Oh, Chris. Even if I wasn't a psychic, I can still read you like a book. Piplup figured it out and she's a Water type."

I roll my eyes at my two pokémon. "Return," I say, grabbing Uxie's pokéball.

She returns to her pokéball in a beam of red light. I walk out of the room and run into Dawn, who was waiting in front of my door. We fall to the floor and look at each other. Both of our faces go red. "What were you doing in front of my door?"

"Uhh... Nothing."

I look away. "You can tell me."

Dawn gets up and brushes her skirt down. "I was waiting for you. The contest is today, so I wanted to make sure we get there in time."