Announcement

I'm sorry for all who liked the story but I deleted The Story Of Mew. I couldn't get into writing it like I do for this one, I just didn't enjoy writing it. Well, here comes a new part in Pokemon Journey!

Pokemon Journey: Part 4: Gym Preparation

Once we got to violet, which was a bunch bigger than Cherrygrove, we booked a room at the PokeCenter. I once again woke to someone screaming in my face... Only this time it was Blaze. I guess I accidentally let him out in my sleep because he was jumping up and down on top of me chanting "Char! Charmander! Char!" Once he knew that I was awake, he just sat down on my lap, as if expecting me to get up at 5:00 in the morning! I just returned him, put his pokeball back in my pocket, and went back to sleep.

The next day I told everyone what happened and we all agreed, we needed more trainer gear and maybe even some new clothes. MOST of the guys didn't exactly want the clothes, but when two girls threaten you to get some new clothes, you'd better listen to them.

At the PokeMart, I got a new green hat and black fingerless gloves, but I choose to keep my jacket and sweatpants. Joe, like always, was happy with the idea of new clothes and got some jeans, a pair of sunglasses, and a red sweatshirt. When I looked over, Blake was standing still in the corner of the store pretending he didn't know us, but he still got some new gear in the end. Melody got a new beanie-like hat, jeans, and a pink jacket; while Sylvia got a long blue skirt, a red top, and a new light blue jacket. We had all, including Blake, got a PokeGear device, a new belt to put our pokeballs on, and a few potions and pokeballs here and there.

"Well that was fun," Sylvia said as we were leaving the PokeMart.

"If that's what you call fun," Blake said, "I call it torture,"

"You didn't even get anything!"

"I didn't have to get anything to hate the trip, it was boring and I can see that Jake saw it the same way"

"Is that true Jake?" Sylvia asked me.

"Well..." I mumbled back, "I'd say Drake described it spot on," After i said this I just smiled at Sylvia because she wanted to smack both of us, but she didn't.

"I enjoyed it," Joe said, "I got new stuff!"

"Are you sure your not a woman?" Drake said, eying Joe carefully, and we all laughed, other than Joe, who's face went as red as a cherry. "Lets go train some to go against the gym!" Drake said, suddenly excited by the thought.

"Sure," everyone else said in unison.

We headed back to route 31 and 30 for training. When I looked around, everyone else was looking in the bushes, but my Charmander learned Metal Claw the day before, so I had a better idea.

"Hey guys, I'm going into Dark Cave to train!" I yelled so everyone could hear me.

"Ok, see ya soon!" Joe said.

"See you!" "Good luck!" Don't get crushed by a falling Geodude!" I heard from everyone, so I headed inside. I had luckily let out Blaze as we entered the route, because it was pitch black!

"Blaze, could you light up your tail a little more?" I asked him, but he didn't get what I was saying so I just sighed and looked around for pokemon. I didn't see any other that a few sleeping Zubat.

"Blaze, Ember those Zubats!" and he did, quickly, torch every single one. It didn't seem like much experience so I went deeper hoping for a bit stronger pokemon, but all I saw were boulders, boulders, and more boulders. I had heard that most of the rocks in here were Geodude, but I didn't want to tire out Blaze on some useless rocks.

"Cuuuuuuuu!"

Did you hear that Blaze?" and he started looking around for the source of the cry. About a minute later we found a Cubone hanging by its claws on a small cliff, and it kept yelling "Cuuuuu! Bone! Bone!" I ran over to it and pulled it up but noticed a femur bone of some large pokemon a bit higher up on another drop, so I assumed it fell from up there. "What's it doing here though? Cubone don't even live in this region!" I thought as I grabbed and then handed the large bone back to it's owner. It grabbed the heavy thing and just held it close to it's chest, as if it was special to it.

I pulled out my PokeDex and scanned it and it buzzed out "Cubone, the Lonely Pokemon, it always wears the skull of it's dead mother, so no one has any idea what it's hidden face looks like." I just looked at the pokemon and felt sad. If Cubone always wear the skulls, does that mean their mother always dies near them? If so, that's terrible! I scanned it with the PokeDex again and hit the stats option and it buzzed "Cubone, female, level 7, knows Bone Club and Growl." I looked at it felling sorry for it, but it was rare and lonely so I felt like I HAD to try to catch her. I backed up a bit and threw an empty pokeball at her, but she just sat there, not even flinching, and got sucked into the ball. It wiggled around a little, but then the center button turned green! I had caught a Cubone! I let her out and she just stood up, almost confused what just happened. "Hey girl, welcome to the team!" I said to her and she just cocked her head. Then Blaze cam over and playfully tackled her, and then they were just a ball rolling around saying parts of their names. I had to laugh, Blaze took me catching her as him getting a new playmate!

Once we were done I headed out of Dark Cave, but I had to return Cubone first since she didn't know to follow me yet. I found everyone and pulled the ball of my belt.

"You got a new pokemon?" Joe asked me, and then preceded to try to guess what I caught. "Geodude? Zubat? Sandshrew?"

"Nope, nope, and no." I said and let Cubone out of her ball. Everyone was shocked!

"A Cubone?! Aren't they supposed to live in Kanto?" Blake asked while putting it in his PokeDex.

"Yeah, they are. I think I'll call Elm once we're back at the PokeCenter," I said, returning her before she walked off again.

"Good idea, my pokemon are hurt anyway, so why don't we go back now?" Melody said, showing her fainted Bulbasaur.

"You guys go on ahead, I want to train Cubone a bit," I said, walking towards the bushes.

"Ok, see ya!"

After a bit of "training", Cubone finally realised she had to follow and listen to me now. I then found a Geodude outside the cave entrance and saw my opportunity. " Cubone, use Bone Club!" and she ran up to it and smacked the Geodude across the face with her bone, hard. It was a one-shot defeat! "Great job Cubone!" I said walking up to her smiling, but she just looked down and didn't make a sound. I guess this is what the PokeDex meant in "Lonely Pokemon"...

I didn't have to return her or Blaze returning, since she got that I was her Trainer now. Whenever I looked back though, Blaze was trying to get her attention and play, but she just ignored him and kept walking. I felt bad for her, and I hoped she would cheer up eventually.

Once we got to the PokeCenter it was dark so we all got in bed for the night. I looked over and saw Cubone sitting on a small sofa alone, do I got up and sat her down next to Blaze, who was snoring softly. She didn't even care that I moved her by what I saw, because she just sat there with her eyes closed, silent. I didn't have any ideas other than making her join Blaze next to the bed so I just went to sleep, planning to call Elm tommorow.

Hey, thanks guys for reading and I hope you liked it! If you want more please review and tell me ideas! Also, if you have a name I could give the Cubone, PM me the name or pit it in a review, I'd like to see what you guys come up with! Thanks again, and see you next time!