Pokѐmon Journey V: Piper's Quest

by Halloween Witch

Another day has come for a trainer to start their journey, and Piper Theron is no exception. She receives her first pokemon and heads off into the Unova region, easily stepping into the role of a good trainer, but then begins to question herself when a group of protesters claim that pokemon are being discriminated if owned by a trainer and all trainers... Full Summary Inside!

4. Sights of Striaton

Pokѐmon Journey V: Piper's Quest

Chapter 4: The Sights of Striaton

Piper's Point of View:

Once everyone had arrived in Striaton, we decided to take that day and observe the new city, the sights and train in the near by areas to prepare ourselves for our first gym. Perhaps we were being overly cautious when it came to that. I spent a lot of time training with Bell and Everett in order to help them and myself by going back down onto route two. Izzy on the other had needed a break from me after leaving him in the mud early on that morning, so he left for the Dreamyard that was to the west of town. It was a place we planned to check out on the following day in order to have a final check over our teams before facing the gym leaders of town.

The gym leaders here were a set of three brothers, Chili, Cilan, and Cress. The way the gym leaders worked was that each of them had their own different elemental type. Chili had fire types, Cilan had grass types, and Cress had water types. From what we had heard from around town, it was a one on one battle. The true test of this gym was to face off against the gym leader that had the type advantage over you. So that mean that Bell would face Cilan, Izzy would face Cress and I would face Chili. My brother would be the only odd one out have a pokemon that had the advantage over one, but was more on equal terms with the other two. I could only guess that perhaps it would be Cress that would battle my brother, possible in order to use water and maybe ice moves against Everett.

"What do you think of this Piper?" Bell twirled around for me as we had approached a store that sold clothes in this new city. After being out for a few days, Bell had decided it had been long enough and she wanted to get a new set of clothes that would work better in this environment for traveling. I mean, come on, there was only so long she could go around in a dress before she was going to get caught up in something or hurt. Its not good to go climbing in a fricken dress.

Bell now had on a set of mint green long pants and orange sneakers on her feet. Her shirt was white, long sleeved, with a thin orange vest jacket over it with a lighter hood. She looked absolutely cute in it, and it would work a thousand times better for her when she traveled. She finally had clothes that weren't dangerous for her to wear, she could run if needed.

"It looks awesome Bell!" I gave her two thumbs up. "And your hat matches so well."

"You think so?" Bell twirled around for me one more time before she shifted her hat on her head. "I've always liked it since my mother gave it to me… but I never figured that I'd be wearing such a nice hat on my pokemon journey…"

I grinned at her. "Then wear it for that reason alone! It's your choice Bell. Look how much we've changed since we came out here!"

Bell blushed before looking away. "You really think so?"

I winked at her. "I know so. Now let's go pay for these and send your old clothes to the professor and meet up with Ev. I'm sure he's really excited to get over to the Dreamyard. I know I am to prank Izzy."

I snickered as I thought of the many different ways I could get to him out there while Bell sighed from my evil enthusiasm. "It scares me how much you love to prank him… can't you leave our poor best friend alone for a single day?"

"But he'd get bored!" I whined back at her, pouting heavily. "Besides, pranking him keeps him on his toes! Didn't you see how fast and quick he was in the battle yesterday?"

"I did." Bell nodded her head. "But I'm just thinking about emotionally how you keep pushing him. How about we make a deal? If he doesn't make anyone extremely made or irritated and keeps himself in check, you don't prank him for the day."

"Awe…" I huffed. "But that takes all the fun out of it!"

Bell sighed. "And you're going to scare him to death before he can even get his first gym badge…"

I shook my head. "Fine! I'll cut back, but I'm not holding back the next time he pisses me off!"

Bell's face was stunned for a moment before a smile overcame her and she hugged my waist. "Oh Piper, thank you! I know that will help him breath easier!"

I turned my head away from her. "You're just lucky you're really cute and my best friend or I wouldn't have agreed."

Bell pulled back and lightly tugged on my hand. "I know."

Bell and I then walked to the counter and paid for her new clothing. We had managed to pull together some money between all of us to get Bell more prepared for the road so she wouldn't be as likely to hurt herself. She would pay us back in the future with favors or money, it didn't matter which or how long it took. It wasn't like it was a lot that we gave her, just enough to get a single new outfit that would be more effective on the road.

Once we were set with that, Bell's old clothes were sent to the professor and we hurried over to where we would meet my brother. He had bought some ingredient to make us sandwiches for lunch and was most likely looking into chowder ingredients for my request I'd given him the day before.

"Hey!" As soon as I saw my brother waving at us, Bell and I hurried over to see him as he had a large brown paper bag in his hands, our food for the day. He whistled, however, when his eyes caught sight of the new clothing that dawned on her. "Bell… wow…" My brother seemed overly impressed with the way she looked. "You're really ready to travel now!"

"You think so?" She twirled around for him to see her entire outfit. "You don't think it's too much?"

"Landorus no!" My brother shook her off. "I'm just glad we got you some better clothes so you don't get hurt or ruin that dress you had on. That would've just sucked!"

"Yeah… you're right!" Bell smiled before she hurried over and hugged my brother. "Thank you Everett!"

"N-no problem!" My brother normally was quite the cool guy, ran with the flow of things, never stuttered or showed too many emotions unless he was concerned for the family. This was new to see out of him. I was surprised at Bell's bold move, but even more so at my brother's light stuttering.

Oh I was so gonna drag that out of him later on…

"So now that you two got that settled, can we head up to the Dreamyard? I heard some awesome pokemon were in the area, even a light rumor about a shiny pokemon!" I grinned at them as they pulled apart. "That would be so cool to see!"

"Yeah!" Bell tugged on my brother's arm. "Let's go find Izzy, eat, and find some new pokemon before the gym!"

My brother could only grin at her while he was pulled along behind us. "I'm coming!"

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"Whoa…" My eyes widened when we finally arrived at the entrance of the Dreamyard. From what information we were able to retrieve from the locals, this location used to be a research lab centered around the two pokemon munna and musharna would could power a entire region with the power from the psychic powers and their dreams. The building here was a huge lab that took over an acre or two of distance. It had been shut down for nearly a decade or two after and incident caused the building to explode. Only a few of the walls, small portions of the ceiling, and a chunk of its basement remained intact.

Many trainers tended to gather in this location for training and speaking to a woman who gave away pokemon to assist in their up coming gym battles. Apparently this woman was giving away pansear, pansage, and panpour. All of these pokemon looked nearly like each other, other then the fact that they were different colors and types, but they all contained the same tan fur and body shape.

"This is incredible!" Bell couldn't help but gasp as she looked around the abandoned area that was now overrun with pokemon. We all looked upon as nature had begun to take the building back, covering itself with vines and trees that over took the once proud standing building.

"It's about time you all got here." We all lifted our heads to see Izzy walking toward us. "I've secured us a spot to rest if you wish to have lunch now; otherwise, I plan to continue training with my new pokemon."

"New pokemon?" Bell questioned him.

"Yes, I've acquired a pansage to assist me with up coming battles, even if that may not include this gym." Izzy turned his head to look behind him. "Pansage, show yourself to the others."

Izzy's pokemon all soon appeared before all of us, but I noticed there was an odd one out that I hadn't seen before. Much like I had described, a tan monkey like pokemon with green growth on the top of its head as well as the lower half of it. I quickly pulled out my pokedex in order to learn more about this pokemon.

Pansage, the grass monkey pokemon. It shares the leaf on its head with weary-looking pokemon. These leaves are known to relieve stress. Its kind enough to share them with friends. Pansage nests are rare and tend to only be found in the Pinwheel Forest and Lostlorn Forest.

After looking over the information, I watched as the pokemon easily climbed up atop of Izzy's shoulder and bounced on him happily. The pokemon seemed to enjoy being in his care. Izzy didn't even reprimand the pokemon to move or leave him alone, which I was shocked over.

It was always one of the things I was worried about when Izzy decided he wanted to go on a pokemon journey. He always had such a terrible attitude toward others I was worried that would reflect toward his pokemon and they wouldn't be treated as well as they should. However, I guess I had been wrong at the time. Izzy showed incredible care for his pokemon. Perhaps that didn't make its way over to us as friends (more likely myself then anything) but as long as his pokemon were treated well, that was all that mattered.

"Oh I see you brought your friends over Isadore!" We all looked past Izzy to see a woman approaching us. "Hello! Are you all looking for new pokemon too?"

All of us looked between each other as the older woman approached. She seemed to be about the professor's age or a little older, dressed as a breeder or sorts. Hanging around her feet were two more pokemon that I could only assume were a pansear and panpour. The first of the two was red with a flame like styled fur on top of its head and a red lower half of its body. The other one was blue on color and the top of its head looked almost like a fountain of water shooting upwards. I pointed my pokedex at the two of them for more information.

Pansear, the high temp pokemon. When it si angered, the temperature of its head tuft reaches six hundred degrees. It uses its tuft to roast berries. It likes to help people. Pansear nests are somewhat rare and can only be found in the Pinwheel Forest and Lostlorn Forest.

Panpour, the spray pokemon. The water stored inside the tuft on its head is full of nutrients. Plants that receive its water grow large. It does not thrive in dry environments. It keeps itself damp by shooting water stored in its head tuft from its tail. Panpour nests are somewhat rare and only appear in the Pinwheel Forest and Lostlorn Forest.

"It seems the locations haven't been quite updated yet," the woman replied with the other pokemon. "I run a bit of a breeding home on the edge of town where I raise these pokemon for trainers. I bring three a day and give them out to trainers who are looking for new, rare pokemon."

"So she's the one who gave you the pokemon Izzy?" Bell questioned him.

"Yes, Pansage is now a new member of my team." Izzy then turned his gaze over to me. "And hopefully he'll be able to assist me with escaping you."

I feigned hurt. "Oh Izzy, how you wound me…"

"Alright you two, enough with your lover's spat." My brother rolled his eyes at us. "I thought we came here for some last minute training?"

"I would never have a lover's spat with her!" Izzy huffed as he threw an accusing finger in my direction.

I chuckled, showing him a sly grin. "I suppose that means I need to return our wedding china?"

"Wh-!" Izzy's eyes were wide and his face flushed before I saw his entire body shaking in rage. "That's it!"

I laughed as I jumped away from him and Izzy trailed after me with his hands in the air, as if trying to intimidate claws. I couldn't stop laughing at him before I jumped up into a tree and sat out of his reach while he screeched below me.

I was going to choke on laughter at that point…

Everett's Point of View:

While my sister annoyed the living hell out of Iz, I stood to the side with Bell and the woman who bred these pokemon. Bell was looking them over carefully, probably noting how cute they were, and they were in their own way. As we looked them over, both of them seemed to have polar opposite personalities. One was incredibly shy and hid behind the breeder while the other was jumping around in the area. I noticed that it was the fire type that seemed to come closer to Bell and I.

"Aren't you so cute?" Bell kneeled down in order to come closer and see the young pokemon who seemed to dance around her feet. The fire type quickly grabbed onto her arm and snuggled into her shoulder before looking back at the breeder, almost pleading.

The woman only smiled down at the pokemon. "If this trainer is willing to take you, you're more then welcome to go Pansear."

"Really?" Bell lifted her head up to look at the woman. "Can he?"

"Of course, that's why I brining them here in the first place." The woman rubbed the little water type's head that was cowering behind her. "Its not quite time for Panpour yet, but soon I bet. But if you're ready to go Pansear, then enjoy the world sweetheart."

"Yay!" Bell cheered as she pulled back to show me. "Ev! I got another pokemon!"

"He looks awesome Bell!" I patted her shoulder happily. "Wanna go take a walk and train a bit while those two are at it?"

Bell and I took a moment to look over were my sister was taunting Izzy from above in a tree. She held onto her egg with one arm while she held the tree with the rest of her form. Ivy was wrapped around her carefully, helping keep Piper in place while Izzy looked nearly ready to blow.

Bell giggled at the sight of them. "Yeah, let's go this way!"

I helped Bell to her feet. As soon as she was standing, her new pokemon jumped to her shoulder to hang there. Pansear grinned at his new trainer and danced around on her before the fire type noticed the other members of Bell's team. He jumped down then to play with them while Bell and I continued to move away from the bickering pair of my sister and Izzy.

"Oh! This looks like a great spot to eat! I think this is where Izzy was trying to lead us to before he got caught up with Piper." Bell pointed over to a flat spot that seemed to have once been a solid floor, but a tree was growing up right through the cracks. It was a nice shady spot today that would work well for our meal. It was one of those warmer fall days before it got cold, so we were going to take advantage of it before the snow came and made things more difficult.

"I can't believe I have three pokemon already!" Bell grinned as she sat down on a spot that seemed nice enough. I sat down across from her and began pulling out our food while our pokemon played within sight.

I chuckled at her. "And you chose all cute ones. They'll be a big help when it comes time to face some more serious battles. You want a variety on your team anyway. But it's still cool if you focus in only one type."

Bell blinked over to me while I handed her a sandwich. "Does it bother you that you don't have any other pokemon yet Everett?"

I shrugged. "Not really, its been me and Ruff for the longest time, so its not going to bother us to wait a bit more while trying to find the right team members to join us later on." Ruff jumped up to my shoulder and I petted the top of his head. "We'll find them in time, no different then Piper."

"I see…" Bell mumbled as she bit into her sandwich. Her eyes instantly lit up. "Oh this is so good! I love your cooking!"

"I just know what to use to make my audience happy." I chuckled at her. "Hey, at least if I can't make it big as a trainer, I could become a chef or something."

"I think that would be really cool!" Bell grinned at me. "I would buy from you every day!"

"Really?" I raised an eye brow at her, careful to try and hide the heat that was building in my face. "I didn't think you liked my food that much…"

"But it's really good!" Bell took another needy bite of her sandwich and chew for the longest time before she swallowed, basking in the scents and tastes. "I bet Piper and Izzy would agree too!"

I snickered lightly, shaking my head. "Whatever you say Bell…"

"I'm serious!" I raised an eye brown to her pouting face, which I totally couldn't take seriously with food on the corner of her mouth.

I laughed and grabbed a napkin before dabbing the spot on her face. "You got something there."

"Everett!" I laughed at her while she sulked at me. She snatched the napkin out of my hands and used it to clean up around her face. Bell threw it back at me once she was done, but that didn't cause me to stop laughing.

"Osha!" Bell and I both looked away from what was going on to check on the pokemon. Bell's pokemon were only a short distance away, but they were staring intently at something.

"What is it you guys?" Bell stood up from her spot and looked to where they were pointing at. Her eyes widened. "Oh Everett you have to see this!"

"What is it?" I stood from my spot and moved over to where Bell was. It seemed like she was reaching for something before I got there and my eyes widened when I saw that there was a pokemon looking at her fearfully. It was a munna, a pokemon common only in this area as far as I could tell, but the colors were off. Normally it'd be a small four legged pokemon with pink colors and little flower designs on its back, but this one was more green in color. A light yellow-green for its body with dark green flowers on its back, but a spot on its nose and the middle of the green flowers were a rich pink color.

I quickly pulled out my pokedex to learn more about it. Munna, the dream eater pokemon. Munna always float in the air. People whose dreams are eaten by them forget what the dreams had been about. When it eats a pleasant dream, it expels a pink-colored mist. Munna nests are somewhat rare and can only be found in the Dreamyard. Please wait… updating shiny information…

"Oh it's so cute!" Bell nearly squealed at the pokemon. "Are you hungry little one? Want some of our food? Everett here is the best cook ever!"

"Oh come on Bell," I rubbed the back of my head nervously. "I'm not that great."

"Yes you are!" Bell looked back at me for a moment before turning her attention back to the fearful pokemon. "Come on, we have lots of food to share!"

The little pokemon was hovering just barely off the ground and more seemed to be hiding behind some leaves, I could only assume so it could blend in with the area and hide. However, with it being fall, there was no way for this pokemon to hide with all the leaves becoming yellow, orange, and red in color.

It seemed quite fearful of us though. Had we hurt it? Or was it hurt from something else?

I narrowed my eyes as I focused in on the body. I could see some small cuts and scraps on the pokemon's body. I kneeled down to look at it better and its eyes widened.

"Its hurt Bell, why don't you see if you can convince the poor thing to come out and I'll get my first aid kit."

Bell nodded quickly to me. "Of course!" She turned back to the pokemon and held out her hand. "Come on… we won't hurt you. Can we make you feel better? Where does it hurt?"

While the pokemon and Bell stared down at each other, I hurried off to grab my kit. It seemed that in the mean that that Bell and I were talking and then working with the pokemon that Izzy and Piper had finally stopped teasing each other long enough to eat the food we had left out for them and their teams.

"Hey Ev!" Piper grinned up at me. "Thanks for the sandwich! I see you were able to get your hands on those sour pickles again! I love them!"

"Thanks Sis." I walked around her and grabbed the kit I had in my bad and Izzy took notice of it.

"Has someone been hurt?" Izzy raised an eye brow at me.

I rubbed the back of my head. "Yeah… this shiny pokemon appeared and Bell's trying to get it to come out and eat with us. It seems like its hurt."

Piper gave a worried look. "Is there anything we can do to help?"

I shook my head. "I think too many people or pokemon may scare it. Bell's working on it right now and I'll take care of the wounds. We'll be back soon enough. Watch our food for us?"

Izzy nodded his head. "Of course."

The curious pair watched as I moved from our spot only to stop as I saw Bell step around the tree we were by. She held the pokemon in her arms that seemed to cower in fear.

"I was able to get it to come out… but I don't know what to do now…" Her lower lip trembled. "What do I do Everett?"

"I'll take care of the wounds. You just keep the poor thing calm." I pulled out my stuff and organized the items I needed at her feet. Bell slowly lowered herself to the ground and held the pokemon tightly to give it some comfort. She whispered soft and sweet words to it, calming it down while I cared for its wounds. As they were cared for, the pokemon finally began to calm down, but its fearful nature just wouldn't seem to let up.

Piper's Point of View:

Once I watched my brother finish with the wounds on the poor pokemon before we finally thought it was time for us to head back into town. The little pokemon that Bell had found refused to leave her side. She was fearful of other people, and I couldn't blame her for that if some rude trainers roughly had tried to capture her.

The little munna, Bell had take special interest in her. The pokemon wouldn't leave her side for even a moment and Bell was doing the same thing. Bell had captured it and her new pansear earlier to make sure no others could capture them. Once Munna was Bell's, my best friend made sure that the little pokemon felt loved and cared for. During our lunch, she was wrapped in Bell's jacket to keep her warm. While the pokemon was still struggling to get comfortable with others, such as ourselves, apparently she felt relatively fine in the presence of Bell and my brother.

We arrived back in town about an hour later, once things had settled and appeared before the gym, ready to fight. It took us forever to decide on a battling order, but finally it was decided that I would go first. Izzy I'm sure had planned to watch my battle in order to find ways to beat me in the future.

We arrived at the gym to see that it was actually a restaurant. I'd heard about this before, where the front of the gym was also a business. The three gym leaders would cater to customers in between battles, and trainers often were the spot light in the middle of the excitement.

"Good afternoon! Welcome to Striaton's Gym and Restaurant!" a waitress appeared before us at the entrance to the building. "May I interest you all in a table? May assume that you're trainers here to face our gym leaders?"

"We're trainers yes, and we are looking for a gym battle." I grinned at her before showing her the pokemon I planned to use, Ivy, who sat on my shoulder. "I'll be using my grass type here and I plan to go first if I can."

"Of course, I'll alert our gym leaders and let them know that possibly all of them will be battling today and prepare our fire user, Chili, to battle you." The waitress bowed her head. "Please follow me."

The woman quickly led us inside and soon we were met with the large building before us. A large stage was the center of the room while set in romantic lighting of a more antique looking building. The stage itself was surrounded by a field to protect the other customers that seemed to be from a munna that belonged to the gym.

We sat at our table that the waitress gave to us and the others and I looked over the menu to decide what would sound good for dinner. We had faced off against a few trainers in the Dreamyard in order to win some money that we were using to pay for dinner.

"Good evening," we lifted our heads to look at a waiter who had rich blue hair that cascaded over one of his eyes and seemed to have a cool sort of attitude. "My name is Cress and I'll be serving you this fine night. May I interest you in some refreshments while you wait for you gym matches?"

"Yes please!" Bell told him quickly. "Could I have a mago berry lemonade for myself and my entire team? I would need five of those please!"

"I will have a hondew berry soda for myself and my team," Izzy told him. "I will need three in total."

"Oh! I'll have grepa berry soda for me and Ruff!" my brother quickly noted.

I grinned up at the waiter. "And I'll have an iapapa berry soda for me and my partner Ivy. Oh, you wouldn't also have a set up for my egg here?"

He bowed his head. "Of course, I'll get those right out for you and prepare my brother for you match. May I ask for your name so he knows who he's facing?"

The excitement of my first gym match was pumping threw me while I bounced in my seat. "Piper Theron."

"Thank you Miss Theron. I will be back momentarily." Cress left us in that moment to go and make up our drinks and I turned back to look at my friends.

"This place is really cool!" I grinned as I looked over the menu. "Oh nice… they have ribs!"

"That sounds really good!" Bell looked over her own menu showing it to her pokemon. "Do any of you guys want something yummy? Look! They have fruit salad. Oh! And they have some yummy looking pasta."

"All of this looks so good…" my brother was drooling from his spot. "Its gonna be nice to not have to cook tonight!"

Izzy sighed. "At least I don't have to worry about anything taking place while inside here…"

Bell sighed at him. "Oh Izzy…"

I snickered, my mood not shifting at all due to his attitude. "Whatever you say, I'll make up for it another time if you piss me off."

"That apparently isn't hard to do…" he muttered.

"Alright!" We all turned to the stage. A young man who seemed of similar shape to Cress was up there with fiery red hair curled like a flame. "Hey everyone! Its Chili Potter here to start off our night!"

The other trainers and people here for food clapped as the red haired waiter took the stage before everyone. He had a microphone in his hands that he used to deliver information throughout the building. He seemed to enjoy the spot light while I couldn't see either of his other brothers in that moment.

"So to start things off, we have four trainers here tonight that are looking for their first gym badge from myself and my brothers, so you'll be seeing all of us battle tonight!" He paused to let the crowd cheer. "I'm up first and my opponent is Miss Piper Theron! Come on up!"

I grinned and stood up from my table before approaching the stage. I left my egg in the care of my brother while I stepped onto the stage. Once I was in the spot light, it made it difficult to see past the stage, but I knew that dozens of people were just beyond the darkness. I stood before Chili with Ivy slithering down to the ground before me.

"So you're my opponent eh? This is gonna be fun!" Chili grinned as he saw me prepare to battle. "You look like you're going to be a challenge."

"Well, you're not my first fire type user for me to beat, so I hope I am." I clenched my fists as the adrenaline began to pump heavily throughout my body. "Let's go Ivy! Let's get our first gym badge!"

"Sni!" Ivy waited patiently for her opponent to appear, but was gradually becoming impatient.

"Alright, then let's get started!" Chili shouted. "Help me out Pansear!"

My eyes narrowed at the recollection. He had the same pokemon that were gifted to us? I watched as the same fire type appeared before us that we had seen earlier in the day, the same pokemon that Bell had. I watched the fire type dance around the stage before locking onto my pokemon to face.

"First move to the challenger." Chili gestured toward me and I chuckled.

"You really don't want that, but if you insist!" I turned to Ivy. "Leaf tornado!"

"Sni!" Ivy created another tornado filled with razor sharp leaves and hurled it at her opponent.

"Pansear, incinerate!" Chili's command didn't catch me off guard as the tornado quickly sucked in the fire that was hurled from the body of Pansear. Chili quickly noticed that the tornado didn't stop, even if fire was added to it and he dove to the side, his pokemon following as the tornado hit the barrier that protected everyone else around us.

Chili quickly got back to his feet with his pokemon following suit. I snickered at him while Ivy twirled her tail in anticipation. He watched us carefully, before sighing.

"Yikes, we'll have to be careful with this one Pansear…" Chili shook his head before sending out his next order. "Fury swipes!"

"Pan!" The pokemon dug its paws into its side of the field and hurled itself over to Ivy. She barely had a moment to think before glowing claws were out and ready to strike.

"Ivy! Wrap!"

"Sni!" Ivy raced to wrap her body around the fire type and she managed to do so, keeping its claws away from her body. She squeezed the pokemon tightly and it cried out in pain.

"Pansear!" Chili cursed. "Use incinerate!"

The fire pokemon attempted to use its fire type move, but Ivy's grip only tightened as he tired. Fire leaked from between its lips, but none of it escaped from the clamp on Pansears lungs.

"Damn it!" Chili flinched as he saw his pokemon being strangled. "Pansear, use lick!"

Well that caught us off guard…

As soon as Ivy was licked on the side of her face, she cried out in shock before releasing the fire type from her hold. The pokemon nearly fell away as it tired to get back its breath.

"Pansear! Are you alright?" The pokemon weakly nodded to its trainer as it stood up on wobbly feet.

"Ivy!" My pokemon wiped off its face and shivered from the feeling of the lick. "You okay?"

"Sni…" Ivy hissed out while she looked at her opponent.

I narrowed my eyes at them. "Don't you worry girl, we're gonna get him for that…"

"Incinerate!" The fire type wasted no time carrying out the order and trying to burn us on the field. Ivy shied back from the fire, but didn't falter too much. "Charge at her Pansear!"

The little fire type came racing forward with flames covering his entire body from the breath. Ivy was quick to dodge away from the flames, but the little pokemon just kept coming.

"Ivy! Leaf tornado!" My grass type quickly made another tornado to hurl at the fire type and push it back. However, before it left her hands, the fire type had grabbed her and both of the little pokemon were sucked in. "Ivy!"

Both pokemon were hurled from the attack we flames and soot covering them both. Ivy landed just before my feet with many burns on her body. She flinched from the pain and slowly came back to her feet. She was angry.

The fire type on the other hand seemed to have a bit of an easier time getting to its feet. It still carried the pervious wounds on its body from the attacks, but there was also less of an advantage on our part. Regardless of how strong Ivy and I were, if the types weren't favorable, she would have trouble in the battle.

But that wouldn't make us lose the battle. We were too strong for that. We wouldn't let it happen, and would fight to the very last breath, because we were too stubborn like that. If we couldn't beat the gym leaders… then there was no way in hell the rest of the others could.

A blinding light sudden appeared in the middle of our battle, jarring me from my thoughts. I focused in on it, trying to see if it was coming from the enemy, but it wasn't. It was Ivy…

"Ivy?" My eyes widened as her entire body had been engulfed in a white light and she quickly grew in size. She grew another foot or so, making her just big enough to stand below my one hip. She seemed to become longer in her body, reminding me a bit of an ekans. More leaves seemed to spring out of her spin and it was then that the light shattered around her and her new form revealed.

"Ser!" Ivy hissed out, dragging on in the syllables. I noticed her tone became a bit deeper, but still held the girly tone to it. The color of her body seemed to have stayed the same other then her growth in size and length; however, I did notice that her arms seemed to become almost nonexistent, being that of little leaves against her sides now.

I quickly pulled out my pokedex to find out what she was. Servine, the grass snake pokemon and the evolved form of snivy. It moves along the ground as if sliding. They avoid attacks by sinking into the shadows of think foliage. They retaliate with masterful whipping techniques. When it gets dirty, its leaves can't be used in photosynthesis, so it always keeps itself clean. There are no known servine nests in this region.

I grinned as soon as I pulled away the pokedex from before me and Chili gulped nervously with his pokemon as soon as looked at them.

"Ivy, I think its time to finish this up." My pokemon looked back to me with a grin before we focused on the last leg of our battle. "Finish this with vine whip!"

"Ser!" Ivy leapt into the air before moving about on the stage with the muscles in her body and slithering like an ekans. She got in close to the fire type pokemon before more vines extended from her talk and she flipped over and slammed the pokemon down into the stage. A straggled cry was heard and the whiplash affected even that of the pokemon holding up the field. The shield shattered at the same time the stage did and everyone cried out in surprise.

The dust quickly settled before Chili looked for his pokemon among the rubble. He was quickly able to find his partner under the crushed stage while Ivy stood just a few feet from where her attack hand landed, now back to her feet. Chili sighed when he saw his pokemon, and soon after I saw why. His pokemon had been knocked out and was in the arms of its trainer.

"Looks like you're the winner Miss Theron." I grinned and cheered while I heard the others clapping behind me in the crowds. Chili stood up with his partner before reaching into his pocket and pulling out something. "Here, you more then earned this."

The badge he placed into my hands had been golden in color with three different colored diamond shapes in the middle of it, each representing the colors of the brothers, red, blue and green. Two more diamond shapes were beyond the three colored ones made of the gold colored metal. It was beyond beautiful, and probably the most expensive thing I owned at the time…

"Its called the trio badge, and now that you have it, you can battle the next gym leader. I'll give Lenora a call at the end of the night and tell her you and however many of your friends passed that you'll be heading her way for the next one." Chili held out his hand for me to shake. I did. "Good luck to you, and hopefully you trash their gym too."

"Sorry about that…" I laughed nervously as I looked at the wake of destruction before me.

Chili shook his head. "Nah, trainers are like this from time to time. We kinda expect it at this point." Chili shrugged his shoulders with a silly grin. "We are gym leaders after all."

"Well, thanks anyway then, for the battle and the gym badge." I stepped back from him. "Now I'm gonna go enjoy my meal while my friends battle you and your brothers."

He grinned back at me. "Sounds like fun. If your friends are any good as you, we'll have a pretty exciting night ahead of us."

I chuckled. "You don't know the half of it."

Witch's Note:

Alright! We're to the end of another chapter and finally we're moving on to another section, or sort of. Gotta deal with something first before the others can move on. I'm sure that a lot of you noticed that Team Plasma wasn't in the chapter, so I gotta work on that in the next!

Hope you all enjoyed the craziness of it! Gotta love the relationship between Piper and Izzy! And Bell and Everett are pretty sweet too, but that's just me. Please don't forget to Review and Send in Questions! Love you all and see you next week!

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