After the Hoenn Grand Festival was all over, the gang had taken a ferry for Ever Grande City where the Hoenn league was taking place.

Apparently this Pokémon league was called the Ever Grande Conference.

Luna felt excited about entering her fourth Pokémon league and she couldn't wait to get there.

"Hey sis do you think you'll win this Pokémon league as well?" Tomo asked.

"Huh, who knows. There's bound to be someone much stronger than me out there, my Pokémon and I need the competition." Luna shrugged, "You never know."

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Soon they had set foot in Ever Grande City. It was a busy city, filled with shops, restaurants and other buildings.

May had a guide which explained about the shops and restaurants in Ever Grande City and she suggested they try out the famous ramen restaurant.

With May leading, the gang tried to find the ramen restaurant. Of course with May having poor direction they found it difficult.

Then came trouble; a flock Murkrow were in the area and then they started to attack the gang with peck.

"Pi.. Pichuuuu!" Pichu instantly launched a Thundershock attack at the Murkrow.

"Nows our chance, use roar Growlithe!" Tomo commanded.

Growlithe roared loudly and the Murkrows flew away in terror.

"Phew, good work Growlithe." Tomo praised and Growlithe barked happily.

Just then a male trainer and a Meowth, who was wearing boots and a hat, ran up to the gang.

"Hey you okay?" The trainer asked.

"We're fine we just had trouble with a flock of Murkrows." Brock replied.

"That's the trouble with Murkrow, they love causing trouble wherever they go." The trainer said and he saw Luna, "Wow it's an honour to meet you Luna." He held out his hand to shake.

Luna smiled, "Your welcome..." She shook his hand.

Max asked the trainer if he knew where the ramen restaurant was, since his sister had no idea where it was.

"I'm going to the ramen restaurant too, so I will lead the way" said the trainer.

Thanks to the trainer they made it to the ramen restaurant and they were tucking in to ramen.

The trainer introduced himself as Tyson and he said that he was entering the Ever Grande Conference too.

So Luna had another rival, as well as Morrison, to deal with in the Ever Grand Conference.

"I must say Tyson," Brock said, "apart from wearing a hat and boots, your Meowth looks very well raised."

"Thanks I've had my Meowth for a while now." Tyson said.

Meowth was eating Pokémon food with Pichu, Pachirisu and Growlithe.

Despite being a dog type Pokémon, Growlithe didn't chase or pick a fight with Meowth; Growlithe had been trained to not chase or fight cat type Pokémon like crazy.

Suddenly Tyson said that he had to leave now because he was a runner of the torch.

"So that means you will be running with the Hoenn League Torch right?" Luna asked interest.

"That's right," Tyson said, "and they say that the flame of the torch came from Moltres."

"Just like the torch in the Indigo League." Brock said.

Luna explained that the flame of the torch was from Moltres too and he also explained that the flame for the torch in the Silver Conference was from Ho-Oh.

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On a hill a crowd of people were waiting for the Hoenn League Torch flame to arrive.

Officer Jenny, Nurse Joy and Mr Goodshow were there too.

But they weren't the only ones; Jessie, James and Meowth were also there waiting for the flame, and of course they were planning to swipe it.

"How shall we get the Moltres flame this time? I mean when we tried to get it back in Kanto we failed because Moltres appeared and it defeated us." James said.

"True, but that's because we used a big dish that was hard to get away with." Meowth said.

"Yes so this time we will use a small flame container that we can easily carry away." Jessie said.

"Let's do it." James said.

---•••---

At that moment some police arrived, carrying a flame on a dish, and then Tyson and the gang turned up.

Tyson apologized for being late, but Mr Goodshow reassured Tyson that he made it just in time.

"Mr Goodshow it's nice seeing you again." Luna smiled.

"Ah Luna, Brock and Tomo it's nice to see you three again," Mr Goodshow said, "Congratulations on winning the Hoenn Grand Festival Luna and I take it you're participating in the Ever Grande Conference as well."

"Thank you very much and yes I am, hoping that I'll win this one as well. You never know what new strong opponent's are here, but I'll never let my guard down." Luna answered.

"Ah full of spirit like always," Mr Goodshow said, "and I can't wait to see how you will do in this Pokémon league Luna, especially the past two leagues."

Max and May were surprised; they knew that Mr Goodshow was the president of the Pokémon league, but they were surprised that Luna, Brock and Tomo knew them.

Luna explained that they met Mr Goodshow at the Pokémon leagues in Kanto and Johto, "And Brock, Misty, Tomo and I were runners of the Torch at the Indigo League, and I got to run with the torch a bit at the Silver Conference."

May and Max were amazed.

Mr Goodshow also pointed out that he saw May at the Hoenn Grand Festival on TV and he was impressed with that.

Just then Tyson started the running of the torch and Nurse Joy and Mr Goodshow gave the gang a lift in the limo.

Thanks to Mr Goodshow's lift the gang got to the Pokémon Centre, where Luna had to register for the Ever Grande Conference and they even saw the area where the conference was taking place.

The stadium stood in the middle of a huge lake, with mini stadiums surrounding it in two big circles; you could say it looked like a ring target.

After Luna registered and got the guide book she felt ready now, just like she did at the Silver Conference, she decided to just use her Hoenn Pokémon for the conference; it was her Hoenn Pokémon who helped Luna or Winter get the badges after all.

Suddenly an alarm went off; the flame of the torch was stolen.

The gang met up with Tyson and Tyson told the gang what had happened.

What had happened was that he, a Nurse Joy and some Officer Jennies had reached the storage room where the flame was to be kept before the conference started.

But then a Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny stopped them and told them there was a Moltres in the sky.

But as soon as Tyson, Nurse Joy and the Officer Jennies looked up at the sky, the Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy swiped the flame and took it away with them.

"It's obvious that it was two crooks disguised as Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy, who stole the torch." May said.

"Let's go after them and bring back that torch." Luna said.

Without it the Ever Grande Conference wouldn't be able to start.

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The crooks who stole the torch were of course Jessie, James and Meowth.

Jessie and James disguised themselves as Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny to steal the flame and now they were using a motorcycle to get away.

Right now two Officer Jennies were on their tail and Tyson, the gang and Mr Goodshow was catching up.

At that moment Jessie and James ditched the motorcycle off a cliff and landed in their balloon where Meowth was waiting for them.

"Give back the Torch!" shouted Tyson.

Jessie and James took off their disguises and simply replied that the torch was theirs now.

"To be honest I'm not surprised that Team Rocket would steal the torch, especially since they tried to steal it at the Indigo League and the Silver Conference." Luna pointed out, then she added, "Which they always failed."

Brock and Tomo anime fall at the happy statement.

"Really!"

"Be quite twerp!" Jessie shouted angrily, "Your always getting in our way!"

"You don't say, your the ones that don't cover your tracks!" Luna retorted.

"Pichu!" "Chipa!"

"Whyyyy you!" Jessie had a tick mark and her face was red.

The gang sweat dropped as the argument of Luna and Jessie insult was happening. Luna had some really great comebacks of Jessie insults, they could see that Jessie's face is getting redder and wondering if the face could explode anytime now, Luna yawned.

Tyson was angry so he took his chance when Luna was distracting him and he took out a Metagross from a PokéBall, "Use confusion to stop Team Rocket from getting away Metagross." He commanded.

Metagross' confusion attack stopped Team Rocket's balloon in its place.

Meowth tried to make the balloon fly away with more rocket power but it was all a struggle.

"Luna do you have any ice type Pokémon with you?" Mr Goodshow asked, "an ice type attack won't put out the flame like a water attack would."

Luna thought for a moment, "I don't... but, Linoone I need your help!" She called out her rushing Pokémon.

"Linoone!" He said.

"Ice Beam pin point!" Luna pointed towards Team Rockets balloon.

Linoone fired an ice beam attack and froze Team Rocket with ice beam attack making them unable to move. The flame didn't go out or freeze.

"Pachirisu, Pichu tag team to get the torch."

Pachirisu told Pichu to use her tail as a spring, Pichu jumped onto the electric squirrel tail and she fling her towards the frozen Team Rocket balloon. Pichu took the flame from James and then jumped off the balloon.

Team Rocket was cross by that and they broke out of the ice.

"Get that torch back from that Pichu Meowth!" Jessie demanded.

"Don't need to tell me." Meowth said.

"Wait!" James was about to warned him about the Pichu but Meowth was already getting ready to jump.

Meowth jumped down from the balloon and got his claws ready to battle Linoone.

Luna was about to give Linoone a command, but Tyson's Meowth stepped forward to battle Meowth.

Tyson's Meowth dared Meowth to come and get him.

"Fine with me puss in boots." Meowth said.

Meowth attacked first with aerial ace, and Tyson's Meowth attacked with slashed.

"Is it me or does Team Rocket's Meowth look stronger?" Brock asked.

"Nope its not just you, Meowth is stronger than he used to be, I can sense that Meowth has trained himself to become strong." Luna answered.

"That's a surprise," Tomo said, "I mean before it wasn't anywhere near as strong as our Pokémon."

Meowth then fired a water pulse at Tyson's Meowth, but Tyson's Meowth used iron tail to counter that attack and then it used iron attack to send Meowth flying.

"I'm not done with you!" Meowth shouted, while blasting off.

Now that Meowth was out the way Tyson then had his Meowth use thunderbolt on the balloon.

Jessie and James were sent flying in a matter of seconds.

With the torch safe and sound and back in the storage area, the Ever Grande Conference could go on.

Mr Goodshow was grateful and he thanked Tyson and Luna for bringing back the torch.

"I must say Luna, I thought you were brilliant back there. Especially your Pokémon, I've never seen a ice beam attack from that far and powerful as your Linoone. I definitely cannot wait to battle you in the conference." Tyson said.

"Same here Tsyson can't wait." Luna said.

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Soon after the day was nearly over Luna meet up with Morrison who just arrived and they had a quicky talk about there day but Luna told him to quickly sign up before the decline is over, which he did.

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While the gang was sorting out with what to do before the tournament started, Team Rocket started to think of what jobs to get. Since their plan of stealing the torch failed, the least they could do now was gather more money from jobs.

"Well Jess it seems the way to get lots of money is selling refreshments." James said.

"Oh I hate doing that sort of thing," Jessie said, "the last time we did that, I got aching feet and sore arms."

"Me too," James agreed, "but then again there are going to be hundreds of people in the stadiums. So we should get plenty of money from selling snacks and things."

"Very well," Jessie sighed, "I'll bear with it just as long we get a lot of money."

So Jessie and James agreed to take the job of selling refreshments.

Meowth on the other hand wasn't thinking about jobs or money now; he was thinking about Tyson's Meowth, he wanted to deal with Tyson's Meowth for defeating him. "I'll defeat that Meowth if it's the last thing I'll do." He said to himself.

---•••----

Meanwhile Luna and Morrison were going over the Hoenn League rules with Brock.

Like the Indigo League and the Silver Conference, Luna had to go through the preliminary rounds before going to the main tournament.

In the preliminary rounds Luna and Morrison had to win one battle to enter the main tournament, and the rules said only 256 trainers can pass.

"Hm, so there is a double battle if you pass. This is great." Luna said.

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At that time Tyson's Meowth had received a written invitation to a battle from Meowth.

At first Tyson's Meowth thought it was a waste of time, but since Team Rocket Meowth was so desperate to battle, it agreed to.

Tyson's Meowth walked to a park area, where Meowth was waiting for it.

"About time you showed up." Meowth said impatiently.

Tyson's Meowth tormented Meowth to hurry up and get on with it.

Meowth tried to scratch Tyson's Meowth, but Tyson's Meowth dodged and then used double team.

"Hah I know what to do with this." Meowth said and he used swift which got rid of all the copies and struck Tyson's Meowth.

Tyson's Meowth admitted that Meowth did know how to fight.

"I'll have you know I have been training myself for ages to get strong." Meowth said. This of course wasn't true; he had only trained a couple of times in his times, but he liked to show off.

Tyson's Meowth went in with iron tail and Meowth used iron tail too.

"Now I will show you my favourite move." Meowth said. He used thunderbolt, but Tyson's Meowth dodged and then it used thunderbolt next.

Meowth didn't have the chance to dodge and he got shocked, and then Tyson's Meowth used iron tail again and Meowth got blasted off in defeat.

Tyson's Meowth thought that was actually a good fight, and then it made its way back to Tyson, who had no idea that his Meowth had been invited to fight Team Rocket's Meowth.

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Later that day it was time for the preliminary rounds that were held in the mini stadiums in the outer circle of the Hoenn League stadium.

Morrison was having his turn now, he was up against a trainer named Jump and Jump was using an Electabuzz and Morrison was using his Beldum.

The gang wasn't sure it was a good idea for Morrison to used Beldum against Electabuzz; Morrison hadn't had Beldum for long and it only knew take down.

Of course it did look a bit hopeless for Morrison since Beldum was only using take down, and Jump's Electabuzz was using protect, thunder punch and thunderbolt.

But then Beldum started to glow and evolved into a Metang.

Tomo looked at Metang on his Pokédex:
Metang, the Iron Claw Pokémon.
The evolved form of Beldum. It floats mid-air using magnetism. Its body is so tough, even a crash with a jet plane won't leave a scratch.

"Wow, I can't wait till my Beldum evolves to Metang." Tomo said.

The same thing went for Max.

Thanks to Metang's new psychic and steel moves Metang defeated Electabuzz, allowing Morrison to enter the main tournament of the Ever Grande Conference.

---•••---

After that it was Tyson's turn against a girl named Vivica, and Morrison and the gang watched.

Tyson called out his Meowth and Vivica sent out a Persian.

"I think this is going to be a great battle, seeing Meowth versing a Persian." Max said.

Luna felt alot of hatred aura emanating from Meowth, "I don't know about that, I sense that Tyson's Meowth has a real hatred towards Persian. So I'm worried that Tyson may have trouble with this battle." She said.

So far Vivica and her Persian was putting up a good fight against Tyson and his Meowth.

Vivica's Persian knew water pulse, hyper beam and dig as well as fury swipes.

But Tyson's Meowth proved to be stronger and it knocked out Persian with thunderbolt.

So Tyson was the winner, but even though Persian was defeated Meowth still wanted to fight it more.

Tyson knew what Meowth wanted to do and returned it before he could attack Persian some more.

Morrison and the gang saw everything.

"I told you that Meowth had a real hate towards Persian." Meowth stated.

---•••---

Once Tyson and the gang were out of the mini stadium where Tyson had been battling, Tyson explained about his Meowth's behaviour towards the Persian.

The story was that a few weeks after Tyson started to travel in the Hoenn region, he came across a gang of Meowths with a Persian for a leader and his Meowth was from that gang.

What happened was that Meowth had a fight with the leader Persian and it lost.

"That battle with Persian left Meowth with a lot of damage, especially to its legs, so when it recovered I gave it the boots and thanks to the boots Meowth's legs healed up. But since it had now become an outcast in the pack it couldn't go home anymore, so I captured it for myself." Tyson said.

"That explains why Meowth really hates Persian, especially after what that Persian did to it." Morrison said.

"I take it because of its hate for Persian, your Meowth doesn't want to evolve right Tyson?" Brock asked.

"That's right and it also wants to prove that even as a Meowth it can beat any Persian that comes in its way." Tyson replied.

What the gang didn't know was that the Team Rocket Meowth heard everything.

"That Meowth is the same as me," Meowth said, "because I too was treated badly by Persian in the past and I hate them very much too."

----•••----

Now it was Luna's turn in the preliminary rounds and she was up against a trainer named Gilbert.

Gilbert understood Luna's reputation so, he knows not to underestimateher no matter what Pokémon she uses.

"Go Hitmonlee!" Gilbert called out his kicking Pokémon.

"Hitmonlee huh?" Luna held out a PokéBall, "Okay then Marill go!" She called out her aqua mouse Pokémon.

"Marill! Mar~" She laughed as she entered the field.

Gilbert started things off with rolling kick and Luna had Marill counter it with iron tail.

Next Gilbert went with high jump kick, but Marill dodged it easily with a quick attack and of course Hitmonlee got hurt because of its miss with high jump kick.

Luna then ordered Marill to use focus punch and Gilbert ordered his Hitmonlee to use mega kick. Marill spun dodging the mega kick and punched Hitmonlee really hard.

"Finish this off with iron tail Marill." Luna said. Marill struck Hitmonlee hard with iron tail sending the kicking Pokémon into the ground with a crash and Hitmonlee fainted, making Luna the winner.

Trainers where wondering how much power can a little aqua mouse pack.

Morrison and Tyson were impressed with Luna and Marill, they hope to battle with Luna in the conference to test out their skill and Pokémon against hers.

----•••---

After the preliminary rounds were over, the 256 trainers who won the preliminaries made their way to the main stadium for the opening ceremony of the Ever Grand Conference.

Luna was given the position of running the last run with the torch and lighting the sacred league torch.

---•••---

At Pallet Town Julia, Professor Oak and Tracey were watching it on TV, so was Misty in Cerulean City and Norman and Caroline were watching it from Petalburg City, Gary was watching the tv from a Pokémon Centre somewhere in the Johto region.

So now the Ever Grande Conference had come to a beginning and Luna was excited for this.

But unknown to Luna, she is about to meet someone once again.

"Master?"

"Um, what's the matter Lucario?" The man asked.

"It's... Take a look up ahead." Lucario didn't finished he just pointed to the bright long golden blonde-pink hair with two electric types beside her.

Blue eyes stared at the young beautiful girl before starting, "Luna..."

Who could it be?

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Dun Dun Dunnnnn~~~~ Don't know how to make the serious sound effects or words.

Sorry for the long long wait for an update but its done!

And if readers do know who it is don't spoil it!~~
Wait for the next chapter to find out!!

P.S; Sorry about not updating for a while, to be honest I felt lazy for the last couple of weeks to continue or update sorry~ But I'm back hoping to stay motivated for a while. So I'll try to update my Yu-Gi-Oh!GX story.
Telling you now it's not easy with the new cards and OC, especially since I suck at romantic words or scenes, but I'll try my best. So it might take lonnnnggggg~~~ it's the life buddy. I basically have a small book filled with my OC cards ideas, still thinking some more and I'll tell you something a little pink cat is coming in the new chapter.
"Nyah~ Neko is Neko!~" illusion