Chapter 4

POV: (yup, still) Amy

"Your Pokémon are all ready!" Nurse Joy exclamed.

"Thank you." I told Joy.

"Thanks." Sophie mumbled, still a little sore aftre looseing our battle,

"Looseing to a blind, first-time-I've-ever-battled, Pokémon Triner! This is redicules!" She said "No offence." she added quickly.

Now we sat in the Pokémon Center, thinking aboul the best place to train me for my Gym battle. Or mor accertly, Sophie was thinking about where to train for my Gym battle. I was sitting there, lisening to the conversation between Sophie and hersef.

"We could go to Route 16… no the Pokémon are to strong there…" she thought in silence for awile, then declared "We're going to Route 5!"

"Ok." I said "Where's that?"

Spohie sighed "You really are a newbie aren't you?" she asked.

"Yup."

"Tell Shadow to fallow me."

So sophie rolled out of the Pokémon Center, with Shadow and I closely on her heels.

"Shadow, Use Shadow Ball!" I called to my Mightyena. I heard its bell tinkling as it charged up a shadow ball to use on our oppponet, an Eevee.

"Let it rip Shadow!"

Shadow houled as it let loose the Shadow Ball. What I didn't hear was the Eevee get hit.

"What happened?" I yelled to Sophie, who was waching the battle form the sidlelines.

"Gost-Type moves don't work on Normal-Types." she said simply.

"Oh." I said stupedly.

"Wacth out. It's using Quick Attack." Sophie warned.

"Shadow, conter it with Crunch!" I called.

"Oohh! Nice idea!" Sophie said. "A way to stop the attack, and do damage at the same time."

"Thanks. Shadow! Stand by for Charge Beam!" I yelled. I rached into my bag and pulled out a Pokéball. I healed it in a througing posision, but stoped, not knowing where Eevee was.

"Stright in front of you." Sophie said.

I threw the Pokéball, hearing I bounce off Eevee, and suck Eevee into it. We stod in silence for awile, the Sophie said "You caught it."

"Shadow, stop charging the Charge Beam, the Feach the Pokéball." I said

A minute later, I had Eevee's Pokéball in my hands.

"Will you nickname it?" Sophie asked.

"Yeah, I'm going to call it… Storm."

"I like it. Oh and I thing that enough traing for one day. Let's head back to the Pokémon center."

"Ok."

So I let Storm and Flame out, and re-harnessed Shadow. Sophie let out her Slyveon and her other Pokémon, an Espeon. Then we walked back to the Pokémon Center.

"So why are you in a wheelchair?" I asked Sophie as we walked back to the Pokémon Center.

"I'm paralyzed from the waist down. Can't feel anything, can't do anything with my legs." Sophie answered.

"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be nosey."

"No! I like it when people ask, I mean, I would rather have people ask than just pity me. You get what I'm saying?"

I knew exactly what Sophie was talking about. Being blind, I was probably the best person to understand what she was talking about. We walked in silence for awile, enjoying the warm, sunny day.

Suddenly, I herd Sophie stop. I told Shadow to stop too, then whispered to Sophie, "What is it?"

"Something's coming."

Now that Sophie mentioned it, I could her something coming our way. And fast. All of a sudden, I that heard something bust out of the brush behind us, landing

about five feet in front of us, judging by the thud! that acuminated it's landing.

"I found some trainers!"