Porta Vista-Saffron City
The gang had a time of bad luck after the Vermillion gym. They ended up winning a cruise on the famous ship St Anne, but it was just a trap from Team Rocket wanting to steal pokemon from trainers. The gang and the trainer fought back and won, but the ship had begun sinking. Everyone managed to get off the boat and into the life boats and some used water pokemon to help get to shore. Ash had used his Poliwag and Magikarp to get to shore and in the process the two pokemon evolved into Poliwhirl and Gyarados, which became a big help of getting to shore.
After getting the shore the gang had come to a place called Porta Vista. There was a problem there because a greedy selfish woman named Nastina wanted to build a hotel in the ocean but Tentacool were stopping it from happening. Worse of all one of the Tentacools evolved into a giant Tentacruel and went on a rampage on wanting to destroy Porta Vista. Because Nastina was destroying the ocean, Tentacruel was fighting back. But Ash, Brock and Misty managed to convince Tentacruel that no one would build in the ocean anymore and the destruction stopped. Nastina was arrested for what she had done.
In the midst of that Ash and Misty caught some new water pokemon in the ocean; Ash caught a Tentacool, Staryu, Shellder and a Horsea, and Misty caught a Tentacool, Horsea and a Shellder.
Kanto Route 8
After leaving Porta Vista the gang ended up visiting Maiden's peak, where they celebrate the dead and where a famous story, about a maiden waiting for her lost love, laid.
After visiting Maiden's peak, the gang were made their Way to a place called Lavender Town. The gang heard that the Saffron gym leader used psychic type pokemon. Ash knew that psychic types were tricky and Misty and Brock told him that none of his pokemon was ready for it. A mysterious man also told Ash his way to win would be to catch a ghost pokemon. So to make himself ready Ash decided to train and catch a ghost type pokemon.
So now the gang past Saffron City onto route 8 for Lavender town, to get a ghost pokemon. Along the way Ash caught a Growlithe to his delight because he had always wanted a Growlithe, and then he caught a Vulpix. Brock caught a Growlithe and Vulpix too; to him a Growlithe and Vulpix were perfect for a wannabe pokemon breeder.
Lavender Town
When the gang finally got to Lavender Town it wasn't a town they wanted to stay in because of the creepy mist. The bravely made their way to the pokemon tower where the ghost pokemon lived in. It was a creepy place in fact even Ash didn't like it.
The gang ended up realizing how mischievous ghost pokemon were because they ran into Gastly, Haunter and Gengar and they loved playing jokes all the time. Ash ended up catching a Gastly and Haunter.
After capturing his ghost types Ash trained his Abra and new Gastly together for the Saffron Gym. During training Abra evolved into Kadabra and Gastly evolved into Haunter, so Ash had two Haunters now.
Saffron City
The gang returned to Saffron City to battle the gym leader. The gym leader was a woman named Sabrina and she possessed real psychic powers. She was also an emotionless woman and had no feelings at all.
Ash and Sabrina sent out their pokemon to battle; Sabrina used a Kadabra and Ash sent out a Haunter. Sabrina's Kadabra turned out to be strong and Misty and Brock became worried that Ash might not win. Ash wouldn't give up and had Haunter keep using shadow ball and lick to fight back.
Just then Ash second Haunter came out of the pokeball and started pulling faces at Sabrina. A minute later Sabrina started laughing and Kadabra was laughing with her because of their telepathic link. So Ash was declared the winner by default.
The mysterious man from earlier turned out to be Sabrina's father, and he explained that because of her psychic powers Sabrina had lost all of her emotions. But thanks to Haunter Sabrina got her feelings back and her powers were no longer controlling her. Ash decided to leave his second Haunter with Sabrina to keep her happy.
So Ash now had four gym badges and only need another four to go.
I'm very sorry for the long, long wait. I had been busy updating my Ash's pokemon journey story and I'm still working on my pokemon movies chapter the 9th movie. Ash still keeps the Haunter which evolved from Gastly. Don't forget to check out my new Jigoku Shoujo story Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori Aftermath.