2nd Place Winner in Short Story 2015 Pokemon Watty Awards You know what's difficult? Being Childhood friends. First, you are fused at the hip. Never apart for a second. But as the years pass by, you find the both of you are growing apart. Each year, more things come up to drive the rift. And then the fear sets in, that one day you two will merely be... Strangers passing by. This is the slowly falling childhood of Mei Rosa and Hyuu Hugh torn by time.

1st place winner of the Romance 2015 Pokemon Watty Awards --- "Falling in love only can bring pain. Love can only be stolen from you right as you realize it. Or maybe right before." She was fifteen and a kid-genius. She was fifteen and living a life no child should, but so many do. She was fifteen when the accident happened. Her life would never be the same. Leaf Verde was a fifteen year old girl when she hacked her Pokémon Red game and fell across a failsafe. One that took her into the game. Once inside the virtual world, Leaf Verde is ordered to clean up the mess she made. All of the imported hacks. She will embark on a journey that she never could've imagined back when she sliced through codes in her room all alone. It wasn't too long until she found herself falling for the fictional world of numbers. But as destruction encroaches and the truth is revealed, nothing will ever be the same. The feelings the girl held for the world, Can and will be used against her. "And I was too late to save him, too late to realize."

Team Miasma is the new threat that looms over Unova many years after Team Plasma has been disbanded. Their reasoning for causing terror is unknown, but it's nothing the brave, Braviary Man, can't handle. Just don't talk to Sylvia about it. She's always found the idea of a superhero more troubling than ever. Instead of traveling around, Sylvia spends her days helping Nurse Joy heal Pokémon, but that will soon change the day she actually faces Team Miasma for the first time. Now, Sylvia must make a choice: stay with the life she knows or become an Unova superhero like Braviary Man to stop Team Miasma because they will stop at nothing until they've reached their goals. Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, just the idea and a few characters like Sylvia, Rudi, Rena, and the concept of Team Miasma. Rated PG 13 as some scenes may not settle well with younger viewers. Cover made the the wonderful @ImberLapis.