Author's Notes: Derp. Lots of stuff goes on in this chapter. So don't skim through it or you might miss something!

Chapter Thirteen

"Dawn's father died a couple of years ago," Jun said.

He, Pearl, Thorton, and Raven had given the tied up Galactic grunt to the police that had mysteriously gathered there and were now sitting outside of the Battle Tower. Well, only him, Pearl, and Thorton. Raven had disappeared off somewhere.

"He used to love traveling around everywhere. He died when he got caught in an avalanche in a mountain range somewhere."

"I see…" Pearl mumbled. "But, why would Raven say that it was Dawn's father who just helped her right now?"

Jun shrugged. "Beats me. Maybe she was delirious."

"In any case…" Thorton interrupted and got up. "It's a good thing that she caught that Team Galactic grunt, but we all need to keep a lookout for anymore of them. I can trust you two to do that, right?"

"Yep!"

"Then, I'll be heading back to the Battle Factory," he said, walking off towards the facility he ran.

"Hm…" Pearl mumbled and began thinking. "Dawn's probably pretty angry at Raven… We should try to go calm her down so she won't get angry the next time she sees Raven…"

"Yeah…"

"I can't believe she got so angry like that…"

Raven was out at the Survival Area, which could probably now be called her "Hang-out Area." She sat outside by the east exit of the route, apparently in a bad mood.

"It's true! I couldn't recognize him at first, but it was him! I'd recognize him from anywhere! But… He's dead, right?"

She shook her head. She really needed to stop talking out loud. Raven suddenly looked behind herself as she heard the sound of someone walking towards her.

"Hey, you're the kid that battled with Jun the other day, right? Remember me?"

Ah, that was one person she could remember and who wasn't dead. Volkner, the gym leader she and Jun had battled together against.

"Yeah…"

"Something wrong?"

"No."

"Liar."

Raven sighed. "Yeah, I know it. It's just… I got in a fight with one of my friends."

"Was it Jun?"

"No, it was Dawn. Do you know her?"

"Yep."

"Well, I got in a fight with her. I guess that's what it'd be called… But, I didn't mean for it to happen! You see, just now at the Battle Frontier, I spotted the person who'd let all those Pokémon out. And when I ran after him, I kinda realized that I wouldn't be able to stop him by myself. Then, some guy came out of nowhere and I knew I recognized him, and he helped me out by tying the guy up. But… the guy… He was…"

"He was…?"

"He was Dawn's dad! But Dawn's dad is dead! So… I knew it was him, and I told her that it was him, but she got angry and hit me! But… I'm absolutely positive that it was him!"

"How could it be him if he's dead?"

"…I don't know."

Volkner and Raven both sighed at the same time.

"…Maybe it was him," Volkner said and Raven looked at him oddly. "I mean, maybe it was, like, a ghost of him or something."

"No, no! He was solid! Er… You know… A Pokémon jumped onto his shoulder! And stayed there!"

"What kind of Pokémon was it?"

"A Pichu! With a weird looking ear!"

"Hmm… Maybe the Pichu was a ghost too?"

"No, no! The Pichu landed a kick on the Galactic grunt and totally knocked him out! It couldn't be a ghost!"

"Hmm… I honestly have no idea what it could've been then."

"Yeah, I noticed that."

And again the two both sighed at the same time as Volkner made his way over to sit next to Raven.

"Well, you can always make a wish that you and Dawn will make up tonight."

"Huh?"

"You didn't hear?" Volkner asked and pointed at the sky. "Tonight there's supposed to be a meteor shower. So I mean, you can make a wish on one of them."

Raven looked out at the route. Hmm… Meteor shower, huh?

After about an hour of climbing around, Raven finally made it to the top of a mountain that was off the exit of the Survival Area. However, much to her surprise, there were people up there.

"Hurry it up! We need to be prepared, you hear me?" an old man snapped at them. He then noticed that Raven was standing there, looking at them with a suspicious look.

"…What're you guys doing up here?" she asked.

The old man was at a loss for words. He couldn't think up a decent excuse right then.

A red haired girl stepped forward. "We're… setting things up for that meteor shower tonight, you know?"

"Ohhhh, I see."

"Yeah! Aha… Ahahah…"

"Can I help?"

The girl looked surprised. "Eh? You want to? You really want to?"

"Sure!"

The girl looked back at the old man, who simply shrugged.

"In that case… You can help us with setting things up! Here, take this and put it over there…"

Raven did as told, following the girl's orders and not even wondering for a second why some of them looked a lot like the guy they caught at the Battle Frontier…

After she'd run around and finished helping them, the girl walked over to her yet again.

"Hey, thanks for helping us!"

"Not a problem!" Raven said and waved good-bye to them, heading back down the mountain and back towards the Battle Frontier.

It wasn't until she was well past the Survival Area did she realize something.

"Oh, wait! I totally left the mountain! I wanted to stay up there! Crap!"

She sighed. There was no way she was going to go all the way back up there. Besides, it was already dark outside and…

"Oh!"

She looked up at the starry sky, seeing a white light suddenly streak across the sky.

Looking up at the sky, she suddenly realized something.

She'd never noticed how many millions of stars there were.

Raven wasn't at the Battle Frontier yet, but she didn't care as she simply sat down at the ground she was at, fixated at looking at the sky.

Sure enough, more lights began falling down, and pretty soon, it really was a meteor shower.

"Woooww!"

She looked away for a second to see if anyone else was around. It looked like she was all alone on the route. Too bad.

Raven shook her head and looked back towards the sky. Oh, there was a really bright one…

Raven frowned. That light wasn't going away. In fact, it was getting brighter, and… bigger?

All of a sudden, the ground began shaking and the entire area lit up brightly. The light quickly went away, but the shaking lasted for a couple more seconds.

Raven was in shock. What the heck was that…? Nearby, there was smoke rising from the ground.

Now, because Raven is not a very smart person, she ran towards the direction of the smoke to go check it out.

It took her barely a minute to reach the area. She waved her hand around in a sad attempt to make the smoke disappear.

There was a giant ditch that hadn't been there before on one of the routes many hills. Raven slid down into it, determined to find the source of the smoke and everything else.

Now she couldn't see at all after she jumped into the ditch. She was still sliding down it, but there was so much smoke she couldn't see.

She suddenly slammed into something and covered her eyes because of the bright light emitting from it. Once she got used to it, she was able to identify it.

It was a large, purple crystal.

"What's this?" she mumbled and reached down to pick it up. Despite its size, it was rather light.

Raven shrugged and held the rock to her chest, hurrying back up the ditch and off towards the Battle Frontier…

I've honestly never seen a meteor shower before, but I looked up videos of it on YouTube. :| Yep...