A/N: Time to finish up that cliff hanger at the end of the last chapter, no? (Don't mind me, just updating something that's been gathering dust a while X'D)

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. Both go to their respective owners. I only own my OCs.

Chapter 2- Bright Side of Things:

(Aurora's POV)

I landed on the ground with a grunt. "Ergh...ow...Ollie? Sauda?" I asked, looking around. I saw that I was back in my bedroom.

"We're here," Ollie replied, picking himself up.

"Ow, what'd I land on?" I heard Sauda groan.

"That would be me," Tara hissed.

"Tara? When did you get in...wait, HOW did you get in? I locked the door!"

"Duh, through the vents. Things are dusty as hell in those deals, but I can get almost anywhere." She dusted herself off when Sauda hopped off of her back.

"I think I'd rather hear it you crawled under the door rather than sneak around through the vents. But...how did we get back here?"

"I don't know. We were on Melemele one minute, back here the next."

"Wait...you guys managed to reach back home?!"

"Long story, Tara. At any rate, we got back...and I need to doctor this hand before Mom and Dad freak." I got off the floor, unlocking the door and peeking out. "Good, coast is clear." I made a beeline for the bathroom.

(Normal POV)

"Okay, so wait, you guys somehow got back to our world after seeing some red light in the distance?" Tara asked.

"Yeah. And Aurora had this pain on her arm that caused her to black out first," Sauda added.

"When she passed out, this silver arrow mark appeared on her arm and then we were blinded by a light," Ollie threw in.

"Huh. Guess that's one way to get a tattoo."

"Tara, this is serious. Something weird is going on and could turn out dangerous if we aren't careful!"

"Calm down, Ol. You're gonna pop a blood vessel." While Tara and Ollie were talking, Sauda noticed something sparkle on Aurora's desk. She went over to it, hopping onto the chair for a closer look.

"I am not going to calm if our human partner's life is at risk!"

"No one said it is!"

"Guys! I found something!" Sauda interrupted.

The two stopped their fighting. "Found what?"

"I dunno. Take a look." Ollie flew up onto the desk while Tara climbed the chair, hopping onto Sauda's back for a closer look. "Kinda looks like a ring of some sort."

"Where have I seen that before...?" Ollie muttered lowly.

(Aurora's POV)

I finished bandaging up the injury, letting out a small sigh. How in the world did we manage to get back? It felt like someone had pulled us out. Yet, when we were in the room...it was only Ollie, Sauda, Tara, and me. And I kind of doubt Tara could have pulled us back. She didn't even know where we had gone. Is it possible it was another Pokémon then? I'd have to ask Jeri if she knew of one that could do that, I thought as I made my way back to my room.

"Aurora? Are you up?" I heard my mom call, making me freeze.

"Uh...y-yeah! I'm up," I replied.

"Breakfast will be ready in a few more minutes. Be sure to have Perseus and your little friends fed too."

"Got it!" I let out another sigh of relief. Oh thank God she didn't ask where I had gone...guess they thought I was still asleep. I made my way back to my room. "Okay, guys. We just got off on a lucky- what are you holding, Tara?"

She was holding a gold bracelet in front of her snout. "Just something that appeared on your desk," she replied.

"I still say it's a magic ring!" Sauda piped.

"Sau, magic doesn't exist. And Aurora would be the last person to believe it."

"Well, you never know! Can anyone really explain how WE got here?"

"...good point..."

"Let me see that."

Tara handed the bracelet to me. It didn't look like anything special. Just a simple bracelet. Weighing it in my hand, I could tell it wasn't real gold. Too light. "Huh. Maybe Nadra slipped it into my bag as a practical- what the?!" When I slipped the bracelet on, it glowed and shrunk down to fit my wrist better without the risk of sliding off. "Never mind...looks like Sauda was right about it being magic."

"See! Told you guys!"

"...you sure you're a Serious nature...?" Ollie asked.

(Scene Shift- Time Skip)

"You sure you don't want to come watch the Fortune Cup with us?" Nadra asked. I was currently bent over fixing a car's engine that had the battery dead and Nadra sat on the bench in the garage.

"Can't. I've got work filled up to my ears and can't pull away for the next couple of days," I replied. I wiped my forehead with an arm. "Geez, you'd think some people would know how to charge a battery..."

"Well damn. So much for all three of us watching the big tournament."

"How'd you convince Jeri to go? She's not from here, you know, and doesn't understand dueling."

"Dunno. When I asked, she had this long pause like she was thinking it over—which I was sure she was gonna say no—and then said sure. Maybe she thinks she'll find that brother of hers?"

"Maybe." Jeri mentioned that she was with her brother when she had fallen from her world into ours, but she didn't know where he had ended up. She told us it felt like he was around New Domino, at least, so there was a bit of hope in finding him. "At any rate, I don't know if I'll be done with all my jobs before then and even when I do, I want to figure out a bit more about that bracelet."

"Still? Geez, I swear you're obsessed with that thing."

"Look, it's got to be tied with me ending up in the Pokémon world one way or another. I don't have a whole lot of jewelry and even then it's just a few necklaces."

"Guess that's true...well, what are you going to do with it anyway? Throw it in the air and see if something happens?"

"Ha ha. You're hilarious. Don't you have somewhere to-" I stopped when my phone went off on the table. "Can you get that? My hands are a little..." I looked down at them. "...dirty."

"More like covered in so much grease you'd put some mechanics to shame." Nevertheless, she answered the phone for me. "Hello? Yeah, this is the right number. No, Aurora can't come to the phone right now. She's a little...tied up at the moment." I rolled my eyes. "Uh-huh...hold on." She covered the phone with a hand. "Hey, how quickly can you make a delivery, Aurora?"

"Depends on how far the location is," I replied, pulling my hands out of the engine and grabbing a towel. "Might need a few extra minutes to shower all of this off, though."

Nadra went back to the phone. "Where is this delivery going? Okay...hold on, let me write that down." She pulled out the notepad and pen she usually kept with her. "Let's see...okay, got it! She'll be there as soon as she can!" Nadra hung up. "Got the location!"

"And?"

"Looks like...it's going to be pretty close to the Daimon Area."

"Pretty far to walk...I'll take my Runner this time around."

"Maybe you should take Ollie and the others, too. You know, for precaution. I've heard some rumors about some of the Pokémon being found there. Sounds like they're pretty tough, too."

"I'm not too worried. If anything, I can just hop back on my runner and speed out of there before they know it. I'll be okay."

"If you say so."

(Scene Shift- Half An Hour Later)

Yeah, I say that and even then I'm not so sure... I thought as I stopped my Duel Runner. It was nothing too fancy. It was dark violet for the main body with silver highlights and with burnt orange flame designs on the side. I pulled my helmet off, calling out Ollie and the others.

"Uh...Aurora? We're literally in the middle of nowhere out here," Ollie commented, rubbing his eyes.

"This is the address that Nadra wrote down, though," I replied, looking at the note. "Maybe the person didn't want us to find their home..?"

Tara climbed up onto my Duel Runner, onto the box, and then hopped up onto my shoulders. "Seems to me like it was either a prank call or they wanted you alone out here for a reason," she said.

"Then we better get out of here. Pronto."

"Hold on, guys. It may have just been a prank call and-"

"Aurora, look out!" Sauda yelped.

"Whoa!" I jumped back just as a small blast of fire hit where one of my feet were a second ago. I looked up to where the source came from and almost felt my eyes pop out of my head. Up on one of the buildings was a cloaked and masked figure with a large orange dragon-like creature beside them. The inside of the creature's wings were a green-ish color and a flame was on the tip of its tail. Is that...another Pokémon? Then could that person be a Trainer? I thought, snapping out of my surprise to glare up at them. "Who are you? Why'd you attack us?!"

"And secondly, why'd ya have your crazy Charizard almost blast our partner?!" Tara hissed.

"Tara, there's no telling if this guy can understand us or not," Ollie pointed out.

"At this point, I don't give a damn 'cause he almost hurt Aurora!"

The figure went onto the dragon's, or rather Charizard's, back and flew down onto the ground to meet us. Then he called out another Pokémon. This one looked a bit like a blue and tan dinosaur with spikes going from the top of its head down its back and along the tail. Both of them were bigger than Ollie and the others...and I'm not used to fighting any other Pokémon besides Aria and a few of Jeri's Pokémon.

"Well? Are you going to answer or what? Why did you attack us?" I asked again.

The person sent a hand signal, and the Charizard launched itself towards us. "Look out!" Sauda called as she and Ollie rushed at it. They were easily knocked away with a flick of a wing.

"Ollie! Sauda!"

"Oh, that's it, ya overgrown fire-spitter! Time for a bit of poison!" Tara jumped off my shoulders, gathering some of the poison into her mouth. However, the blue dinosaur caught her with a clawed hand and shoved her onto the ground. "Gack!"

"Tara?!" I turned to the cloaked figure. They were pretty much defenseless without either of the Pokémon beside them. Now's my chance! I rushed forward to the figure. They seemed a bit startled at my charge, giving me the advantage. However, before I got close enough to deliver a punch, the Charizard managed to blindside me and smacked me away with its tail. My head hit the ground, knocking me unconscious.

(?'s POV)

"Was that hit really necessary, Speck?" Isabel asked.

"Well...I-I guess not, but she was about to attack Bori!" Speck defended.

"Guys, calm down. Whether we like it or not, she and her partners are down for the count," I sighed, walking up to where the girl laid. Hope she doesn't have a concussion...I don't have an Audino on me at all, I thought, propping her up against the wall. I stepped back. But what's exactly special about her? It seemed like she could understand what the Pokémon were saying...or maybe I was kidding myself? No one outside the world we're from should be able to, right?

"Careful, Bori. She could still wake up."

"She just got hit with Speck's tail, Isabel. I doubt she's going to-" Something whizzed past my head, causing me to flinch away from it. The Dartrix was back on his feet and glaring at me.

"Stay away from Aurora!" he growled, getting ready to launch another attack again.

"Don't you dare hurt my Trainer!" Speck roared. He goes from his usual nervous nature to fierce when it comes to my life on the line.

"Speck, calm down. We could draw attention to us." I put my hand on his snout, mainly to prevent him from launching a potential Flamethrower attack.

"Yeah, we're not even supposed to be- Holy Arceus, she's getting up!"

What..? I looked back at the girl, seeing her staggering to get up and using the wall for support. Okay, that can't be normal. I've seen Rocket grunts being knocked silly from a smack with Speck's tail. That's when I felt my mark start to burn slightly. I lifted my arm up from the robes, seeing the green blade glowing. What's brought this up...Aki's not in danger...wait, if that's not it, then-

The girl's eyes opened to reveal the blue eyes having turned to silver. "Sauda, now!" she commanded.

"Have a rock to the head!" the Rockruff yelled, holding a rock between her front paws. She smacked it onto Speck's head with alarming power.

"Ack!"

"Speck!?" That did a lot more damage from a small Rockruff...hold on, that Rockruff's eyes are silver too! They weren't like that before!

"Hey, quit squirming!" Isabel growled. I looked to see she was struggling with the Salandit. That's when she lost her grip and the Salandit climbed up onto her shoulder.

"Have a taste of my ability!" The Salandit spat some purple poison in Isabel's face.

"Gah! What the hell?!" Isabel started rubbing it away as the Salandit hopped off and scurried over to the girl and Rockruff.

Even the Salandit's eyes are glowing! Wait...don't tell me...they can't have that power, right? It's only the ones from the Pokémon world! Nonetheless, it was easy to tell that the Pokémon with her had gotten significantly stronger. Where I'm from, it's normally psychic Trainers or Trainers from Viridian who have this ability which makes fighting them that much harder (and why I always seem to get beat when sparring with Sabrina's actual team she trained for years). The Pokémon's powers are heightened to the max and, even when they are low-leveled, can deal major damage. Of course, it can't always be activated whenever the person wants to. Usually when some sort of danger is present for the Trainer or the Pokémon.

"Ollie, create a smoke screen, fast!" the girl cried.

"Got it!" the Dartrix yelled, spreading his wings. He flapped hard toward the ground and the dust completely covered the area.

I coughed. "Hey!" I heard an engine start revving up. Oh shit! I jumped out of the way just as she sped off on the motorcycle she was next to. "Speck, clear out this dust!"

I heard his wings flap as the dust was blown away. "There, that should help." He rubbed his head with a clawed hand. "Arceus above, that was some hit, though!"

"And from a Rockruff...that's not exactly normal." I reached in my pocket, pulling out one of the storage units and pulling out an Antidote. "Isabel, you okay?" I sprayed the medicine on her face.

"I think so...man, I heard rumors about Salandits posioning anything, but I didn't think they were true!" she muttered, rubbing her eye.

"You need to pay a bit more attention to when Bori's doing his studies, then. Looks like there'll be problems when we hit Alola."

"Ha ha. I heard there's a Ground-type move that can hit Flying-types."

"...what?"

"Guys, focus please. We just found out that the info is right. Now I can see why Sayer is interested in her and her friend. If she's got a similar power to what I've got..."

"Yeah. Then once her partners reach their final forms, that's gonna be a lot of power to deal with."

"But wait a moment, the hit I got from the Rockruff felt like it was stronger than when we spar with Sabrina's partners."

"That can't be right, Speck. Her 'mons are all high-leveled and also fully evolved. You sure it wasn't just because it was especially effective against you?"

"Positive. What I felt rolling off the girl was more than what Sabrina had. It's like hers could prove to be even more hard to handle."

"..." More powerful than Sabrina, huh? I wouldn't believe that normally, but after that little event... Looked like something on her arm was glowing just when her eyes became silver. Sabby mentioned that my eyes turned a different shade of green when my mark glowed. Is it all tied to that? And could there be more like her in this world? "We better get back before someone notices we're gone."

"Good point. Don't want Sayer to find out."

"Ugh! I hate what he does to you when 'training.' He's lucky I don't try to set him on fire for hurting you!"

"It's fine, Speck. I've been hit harder with Iron Tails than with what he can dish out." Speck lowered down so I could climb onto his back. I recalled Isabel. "For now, let's keep this to ourselves...and hope she doesn't head to the police here."

(Scene Shift- Aurora's POV)

I pulled over once we got far enough away. My head was killing me and I didn't want to risk crashing if I could help it. I got off my runner again, pulling off my helmet and holding my head with a hand. I heard Ollie, Sauda, and Tara pop out of their balls.

"Aurora, you okay?" Ollie asked.

"I...I think so...ack, I must have hit my head harder than I thought," I groaned.

"Ugh! Those guys are lucky we held back a bit! I say we find them and teach them not to hurt our Trainer!" Tara hissed.

"Yeah, because they obviously didn't leave by the time we got out of there," Sauda said, rolling her eyes.

"Now you two are arguing? The world's gonna blow up...Aurora?!" Ollie shouted the last bit when I collapsed. "Oh no oh no! Aurora, stay with us!"

"She needs a doctor!"

"Sau, how's anyone supposed to know what we're saying when they could just call someone to take us to a lab to be dissected 'cause they don't like us!"

"Can't you be a bit more-"

"Guys! Not the time to fight! Wait, hold on..." I heard Ollie flap his wings. "Help! Help! We need help over here!"

My vision slowly faded to black. Before I completely blacked out, though, I heard footsteps coming over.

(Scene Shift- Jeri's POV)

"We've never been this far out before," Spectre commented, the Gengar sliding out from the shadows behind me.

"I just wanted to scope a few things out," I replied. I had sensed Spectre getting anxious and ducked into an empty alleyway to let him appear without consequence.

"Are you sure this is a good idea, though? I want to find out where Bori is as well, but if we get into something out of hand-"

"I know, I know, but there's just a nagging feeling I couldn't get rid of today." I sighed, looking up toward the sky. "I just hope Nadra and Aurora won't be too mad at me."

"No worries. You know Aurora said that if you found any leads on your brother's whereabouts to go for it. Just to leave a note if you do."

"Well, I left one to let Nadra know I was going to be a while. I hope it's-" I stop when I felt a shiver go down my spine. Normally, I only get those if I get those short visions, or if one of my family is near, the former being stronger than the latter. And this one is definitely not strong enough to hint a vision. There's no question about it. It's got to be... "Bori..?"

A/N: And I end a cliffhanger with another cliffhanger! XD Well, unfortunately, I don't know when I'll be writing the next chapter of this. I've been so busy with Ren that I've completely ignored anything to do with Aurora and the others in her storylines. And even still, I might be doing more changes especially to some OCs' last names.

For those who don't know, Aurora is actually my first OC for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. Ren was...kind of made in recent years. He started out as a male version Aurora (named Auren...don't ask), but I liked the idea enough to make him his own character and have a separate storyline completely. Then with stories like Surprising Each Other becoming more fun to write...I kind of left Aurora and the others to gather dust. ^^' I don't mean to, it's just...I dunno, maybe I got so used to writing about a character like Ren it's hard to get back to my first OCs. And actually, Jeri and Nadra weren't even in the first drafts years back. Aurora and Bori are pretty much the first OCs I created for the series and kept throughout. Though, I can't guarantee they haven't gone through their fair share of changes (I kept changing Bori from being a twin brother to an older brother to not even being related to her anymore, thus Jeri being created; heck, I even scrapped a few aspects because I wanted to separate Aurora and Ren's storylines a bit more and not have the same canon/OC pairing situations).

Okay, enough ranting. I'll try to work on this when I get the muse. But otherwise...don't expect too many updates. I'll be diving back into Ren's stuff, so look out more for those stories to be updated than this. Probably even Split Destinies in the coming months. We'll see. Anyway, see you guys in the next chapter!