Last disclaimer(for this story):I own nothing

I enter into the cave that's at the end of the route I caught Sike on. Upon entering the cave, a hiker hands me a HM or Hidden Machine. He told me that it contains Rock Smash and that I can only use it if I beat the Oreburgh City Gym Leader. I take the HM and put it into my bag in the TM/HM department. I continue through the cave and eventually reach the exit.

When I exit out of the cave I can smell the strong scent of dirt and gas. Guess that makes sense since this is a mining town. A boy walks up to me and tells me that The gym leader has left town for the week and won't be back until next week.

"Great," I whisper under my breath. "Is there anything I can do to get a gym battle soon?"

"Well you can check with the gym to see if they will replacement gym battle," The boy responds.

"Ok, Thanks," I reply.

I walk down the path until I reach the gym. I knock on the glass door of the cities' gym. A speaker comes out of the roof of the gym and says this: "The Gym Leader is currently absent and will be back in X amount of days. Please leave now or be forcefully removed."

I decide to not press my luck and leave, probably for the best. I decide to go to the pokemon center as a way to pass time. I let Sike and Bubble out of their pokeballs and tell them that it might be awhile before we can get our first gym badge. I stay a night at the pokemon center, figuring that I'll make a plan in the morning.

When I wake up in the morning I grab my pokeballs and head out. I decide to try the Gym again and the same gym alarm message comes on.

"I guess the next place to try is the mine.", I say out loud while walking through the town.

When I reach the mine I see multiple Machops working with the miners to, well, mine. I walk around in the mine for a few minutes trying to see if there was anyone there to help me. Thats when I find a man and his Bastiodon pounding away at the wall.

"Umm. Hello, my names Rayne and I came to this town to battle the gym leader, but he his absent currently. Is there any way you can help me?" I ask cautiously.

"Hahaha. So my son left town again for his research. Good thing I came here to help with the mining. Haha, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Byron, the gym leader's father.", The man shouts, "I'll give you that gym battle. Meet me in front of the gym and I'll tell you more there."

I then exit out of the mine and proceed my way to gym thats when I run into an old "friend." Its that boy that I met outside Sandgem Town right before I started my journey. His name was Wiatt I believe.

"Hey Wiatt, what's up?" I shout out at the boy.

"Oh hey, Rayne, right? I met you outside of Sandgem Town," Wiatt responds, "I'm surprised a girl without a pokemon could make it all the way to this town."

"Actually I have a pokemon now. Thats why I was headed to Sandgem Town," I reply cheerfully.

"Well I guess that makes sense. So I assume you're here to take the gym challenge," Wiatt says, "Too bad he out of town for the week."

"Actually...I met the gym leader's father in the mine. He said that he is going to give me a gym battle," I respond hesitantly.

"Really? Mind if I come watch? I might try to battle him also," Wiatt asks.

"I'm not going to stop you," I say playfully.

Me and Wiatt head to gym awaiting a epic gym battle.

So my goal of writing longer chapters is going well. I will now be sticking to my upload schedule of Monday and Friday