Nightmares...the nightmares keep coming... feeling the serpent's withing coil wrapped around
Haupia's neck.

"No...stop! I didn't do anything to you! NOT even my parents! Please, don't kill me like you did
with my parents!"

It's long continuous body tighten as it was making her barely catching her own breath."Don't try to
hide it, your 'ancestors' mock my kind long ago...how does it feel when you get set back when you
can't even fight of what remains with our strength?"

"I'm sorry!" But it didn't stop. She felt her stomach clamp and couldn't breathe. Haupia couldn't talk
anymore. 'Daddy....mommy... I wish I can be strong...I want to try...'

Her tears made her broke out of her nightmares. She breathe heavily and saw the pink greninja
silently staring back at her. She huff before her dad pulled her into a hug which she needed it the most.

"It's not a sharpedo is it?" Zelos asked to make sure he's correct.

"No...it isn't."

"I seen your flippers holding your head, almost looked like something is squeezing the life out of you. Is it...what I
think it is?...a Milotic?" It seems Zelos already quickly figured it out. Most serpents like Arbok and Seviper are
mostly on land...but they're not found around Haupia's place since the steep rocks and treacherous waves
near the shore could've knock a Pokemon if they aren't careful. Milotics...are what considered a rare threat.
Though she heard old tales between the elders. Why they are considered 'rivals'. While sharpedos are dangerous,
most fully evolved popplios are capable of handling the sharks.

She nodded.

Their rivalry started when a fool of a popplio started to tease the feebas. Calling it ugly, a trubbish,
a trash where it belongs. However that mockery, is what made feebas made a wishful attempt to
become as beautiful...but powerful, the same sense of grace and elegance.

When it evolved...it started to attacked the ones that were ill-prepared. Making the colony of the
popplio's line to a near extinction because of the milotics.

Then a certain popplio was able to halt their terror. It was using some sort of strange power breaking away
and having the milotics not bother them. Although, this doesn't stop them; they only prey on them when they get hungry...

And when they get hungry...it is enough to suffocate a full grown adult. Their scales are impenetrable,
special moves can barely leave a mark. Only a powerful move of what that certain popplio has, was able to falter them.

But what sort of move was it? Noone ever knows or heard about it...but all she remembers about
this move only revolves a 'very strong bond'.

A strong bond...this sort of sentence did became a focus of her mind a few times. Is it a trainer?
Perhaps a certain love one? How can a single popplio able to fend off a dangerous milotic?

Haupia hopes under the guide of Zelos. She would have to be stronger, fend off any predators that
would make their attempts of eating her. Hopefully...she can survive the perilous world she is in.
Even though beauty is inevitable sight, but being 'pretty' is awfully perceived deceiving.

Popplio, Greninja, Milotic, Feebas(c)Gamefreak and Nintendo