Okay, you must be wondering why I deleted this story and uploaded it again. One: I don't like how I keep changing my mind which Pokémon I want in Lapis's team. Two: I actually liked my first edit of this story until I have to change it again.

So now, this will be my final re-edit of this story. It's a good thing I quite like the team I had in Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's: Bonds of Evolution.

Anyways, enjoy the chapter.

Re-Edit: I did it again because I actually wanted to have Pikachu as Lapis's starter.

~CHAPTER 1~

"Hmm... What a bummer." A young trainer said as she looked out of the cave entrance she's in to the stormy sky above before turning to the yellow mouse perched on her right shoulder. "Seems to me the storm's not going to let up anytime soon. You alright, Chuchu?"

"Pika chu." The Pokémon nodded.

The young trainer nodded before looking back out again, "Still, this storm really came out of the blue, huh? A minute ago, it was bright and sunny. And I've already checked the weather forecast this morning. They didn't say anything about rain. If we hadn't found this cave, I bet we'll be soaked to the bones." She turned back to her companion. "Looks like we'll be camping in here then."

"Chu." Chuchu nodded before her head shot up and turned towards the deeper end of the cave. "Pi? Pika pi!"

The young trainer, after hearing the call, turned to her, "Chuchu? What is it, girl?" The Pokémon didn't reply as she jumped down from her perch and bolted inside the cave. "H-Hey! Wait up!"

The girl snatched up her satchel bag and chased after the electric mouse, albeit with obvious difficulty since she's in a cave so she has limited visibility. She's surprised she was able to see two feet in front of her. Finally, she caught up with the Pikachu who was staring in awe at something.

"Geez, Chuchu. What's gotten into you?" The girl said as she picked up the mouse before looking at the direction she's staring at; a large open space with strange cave paintings and glowing crystals decorating the walls. Smacked dab in the middle is a gate-like structure. "Did we stumble into a lost ruin or something?"

"Pi." The mouse tilted her head as her owner took a closer look at drawings which depicted dragon-like beings of all shapes and sizes surrounding what appear to be planet earth. Another showed the dragons waging war against each other. The last one showed two dragons, one white and the other black, facing each other with two people standing in front of them doing the same.

"Whoa... Even Granite Cave didn't have cave paintings like these..." The girl said as she looked at the last one after putting down Chuchu to have a better look. "This could be depicting the battle between the two princes in Eindoark Town but... These two-" Her hand glided over the dragons. "-don't look anything like Reshiram and Zekrom. Could they be two new Pokémon that had yet to be discovered?"

"Pika pi!" The girl turned to her Pikachu to find her by the strange gate-like structure. "Pika! Pika chu!"

"Alright, alright. I'm coming." The girl said as she ran over before inspecting the gate, going from one side to the other. "Hmm, it seems to be just a door. There's nothing connecting to it... I wonder if this is an entrance to somewhere. Try using Thunderbolt on it, Chuchu."

The Pikachu nodded before releasing a huge bolt of electricity at it but it didn't budge. "Not budging... Guess it doesn't run on electricity." She cupped her chin, thinking of another idea. But as she walked closer to the gate, she faintly heard something. "...A hymn? No, a song maybe?"

"Cha..." Chuchu seemed content as she stood beside her trainer listening to the faint melody.

"So this is what you heard." The girl said before closing her eyes to listen. "It's so beautiful... Yet it sounds so melancholic..." She started humming to the melody before singing along. "Sing with me a song of silence and blood. The rain falls, but can't wash away the mud. Within my ancient heart dwells madness and pride. Can no one hear my cry?"

"Cha..." Chuchu swayed to her trainer's voice while her tail swished from one side to another in a slow beat as the song.

"You are the ocean's gray waves, destined to seek... Life beyond the shore just out of reach. Yet the waters ever change, flowing like time. The path is yours to climb. You are the ocean's gray waves." At the end of the song, the gate glowed a bright blue, blinding both trainer and Pokémon. "Wha- What's going on?!"

"Pika pi!" Chuchu immediately jumped into her trainer's arms just as the gate opened, sucking them both in.

~XXXX~

Meanwhile, in a village somewhere in Hoshido, a young village girl was tending to her crops when she saw a strange light coming from the forest behind her home.

"I wonder what that could be." Mozu muttered before running off to check. Since she's used to picking wild berries and mushrooms in the forest, she knows the area on the back of her hand. So it wasn't hard to find the source of the strange glow, though she wasn't prepared to find a strange yellow mouse creature worrying over a girl her age who's lying on the ground.

Mozu had never seen such a creature before; it looks like a yellow mouse with red cheeks and a lightning-bolt shaped tail with a V-shaped notch at the end of it, which looks like the top of a heart.

With the way it's fretting over the unconscious girl, Mozu deemed it non-dangerous so she tried getting closer. That's when her feet snapped a twig, and the creature turned to her in alert.

Mozu stopped moving as the creature growled and glared at her while electricity sparked around it as it stood protectively in front of the unconscious girl. Knowing it's only protecting the girl and thinking she's an enemy, she tried reasoning with it.

"It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to help." She said.

The creature, sensing her sincerity, stopped growling and slowly moved away but kept a close distance. Mozu then hurriedly checked the girl to make sure she's still breathing before turning the body over. That's when she noticed the strange garments the girl is wearing.

A white sleeve-less collared top with a red ribbon tie, dark finger-less gloves, dark denim shorts with suspenders and dark hiking boots. A yellow satchel bag with light-yellow designs laid by her side. Her waist-long peach-coloured hair was in a half ponytail while pinned on the ribbon tie is a locket brooch with a round jewel embedded in the centre.

Mozu clearly had never seen such clothing before. Not even on the occasional Nohr troops that stormed by her village once in a while. As she was distracted by the girl's strange appearance, Chuchu took the initiative to wake her trainer.

"Pika chu!" By electrocuting her with Thunderbolt.

"Hey!" Mozu tried to stop the creature but was afraid to get attacked.

"YOW! OK, OK! I'm up! I'm up!" The girl cried out as she was shocked awake before glaring her deep-blue eyes at the innocent-looking Pikachu. "Couldn't you have done that in a gentler way?" The girl sighed as she shrugged over the after-shocks. "Geez, at least it's better than having an Iron Tail to the face."

"Pika pi!" Chuchu cried out as she hugged his trainer, happy to see her safe.

"Aw, I'm glad you're alright too." The girl returned the gesture with equal gusto.

Mozu, in the meanwhile, was dumbfounded. The fact that the girl in front of her had just been shocked senseless by the creature and seemed fine was incomprehensible to her. She had seen what lightning strikes could do to some unlucky people but to think this girl just shrugged it off like it's no big deal.

"Oh, and who are you?" Lapis asked after noticing the farm girl.

"H-How? How are you still alive?! I saw you being zapped a-and you seemed fine!" Mozu exclaimed.

"Oh, well." Lapis sheepishly said. "I got used to it. I'm Lapis, and this is Chuchu."

"Pika chu." Chuchu greeted.

"Well, I'm Mozu. And I lived in the village just outside this forest. I was investigating the strange light that appeared here when I found you and your... pet." The farm girl explained.

The girl was confused by the way she said 'pet' as if she had not seen a Pokémon yet but explained how she got into her situation. "...And I somehow ended up here."

Mozu, who had been attentively listening, nodded, "Then you must be a long ways from home. There ain't no caves around here, and the closest one is over three miles away."

Lapis scratched the back of her head, "Well, I don't mind travelling long distances but without an apparent direction, I won't know where to go. Oh, here I can show you the map. See if you can point it out to me." She then took out her map from her satchel and showed it the Mozu who took one look and was already confused. "What's wrong?"

"Sorry, but I don't know where this is. I've seen a map before when a local traveller came by the village to ask for directions but it didn't look like this." The farm girl confessed.

The girl paled before looking down at her map, "...Um, so where are we then?"

Mozu tilted her head in confusion, "We're in Hoshido, miss. Haven't you heard of it?"

"...No..." The girl shook her head before placing her map away. "And I'm starting to think I might be a much longer way from home."

Now for the locket brooch - the pin is in a shape of the Fire-Type Symbol while you can google search the pendant which is the Triskele locket pendant, the very first one. The Key Stone is where the moonstone is.