Cerulean City

Dust POV:

"Time for cerulean!" I laughed. "The name sounds so pretty. Cerulean's a color. Maybe I could get some cerulean colored earrings."

"Oh, you should. I think the color would look great on you." Misty said but then she froze. "Did you say Cerulean? As in Cerulean City?"

"Yeah, Misty." I said confused. "It's our next stop."

"But we can't go there!" Misty stopped.

"Why not, that's where our next badges are." Ash said.

"No, you don't want pokemon from there, trust me." Misty insisted.

"How do you know?" I asked. "Have you been to cerulean before?"

"Oh, well..." Misty stuttered. "All the pokemon are very scary ghost pokemon!" Misty exclaimed.

"Um, okay." I said. "A ghost would be good to have on my team, as long as they don't scare me to bad." We continued on our way but Misty stood in front of us, arms stretched out to prevent us from coming. "You know, you don't have to come, Misty." I said.

"I'm coming with you to get my bike paid for." Misty insisted "But how about vermilion city? It's right by the water and there are lots of neat pokemon and you can watch all the giant yachts going in and out of the harbor and there's a nice little park way up on the hill where you can sit and watch the sunset that's so amazing."

"Hey, there's a gym and competition in vermilion so we'll get there." I said. What can I say. I've been doing my homework.

"Okay, let's go." Ash said. I was suprised. What was he doing?"

"Really?" Misty asked hopefully.

"Yeah, to cerulean city." Ash smiled and Misty's face fell. I should have known. As David, Ash, Brock, Pikachu, Pikablue, Midnight and I walked away, I looked over my shoulder and gave Misty one more look before heading to Cerulean City.

"So, this is cerulean city?" Ash asked.

"Wow, after seeing nothing but trees, this is amazing." I gasped.

"Hey look, that's weird. Misty's not following us." Ash commented.

"She really didn't want to come to cerulean." Brock said.

"I wonder what's here she didn't like. Seems like a pretty good place to me." I commented. I wasn't paying attention and tripped over something...or someone.

"Hey! Why don't you watch where you're going!" I snapped from my knees. The guy I tripped over had his legs stretched out while he sat on a bench. He just chuckled. The guy had messy brown hair and dark green eyes. "Huh?"

"Maybe you should watch where you step." he chuckled.

"Maybe you shouldn't be sitting like that. Any one can trip over you!" I snapped, standing up.

"Let's go, Dust." David said. He grabbed my shoulders from behind and forced me away.

"David, why'd you make me leave?" I asked with narrowed eyes. Something about that guy just made me want to scream.

"Maybe because there's something dark about him. If you ever see him again, be cautious." David insisted.

"Alright, but I doubt I'll ever see that jerk again!" I declared.

David's POV

I was seriously worried. That kid reeked of darkness but his heart was filled with light. I wasn't even sure that was possible until now. So the big question was who is that kid and why was he both dark and light at the same time? But just then we came across the place where Team Rocket had stolen a vacuum cleaner. Then all of a sudden we were accused of being the robbers. Here we go again.

"The criminal always returns to the scene of the crime." Jenny said

"By that logic everyone here could be the robber." I pointed out and then we showed her our pokedexes and Brock his boulder badge. Brock asked to be shown around town.

"I would but I'm not off duty until past your bed time."

"Ouch, score one for her." Dust remarked and later Ash asked about the Cerulean gym. Brock couldn't say anything out of respect for a fellow gym leader. But I had no such qualms. I told him Cerulean city does water type pokemon. Once we got there we had to suffer through an underwater ballet by Misty's sisters. Dust and pikachu liked it but Ash was more worried about the gym battle and pikablue had seen it before and I just didn't care for it. So later we challenged the gym leaders. But they didn't fell like battling.

"Same old same old." Pikablue remarked as Daisy held out a cascade badge for each of us. But we had our honor! We were going to win those badges fair and square. And then Misty showed up to put a stop to this outrage. So Ash discovered why Misty had been against coming here. Then the who boyfriend/girlfriend thing between Ash and Misty began. Daisy is the one who started it all folks! I really need to stop putting purple pokeblock in my cereal in the mourning.

"IF YOU WANT THAT CASCADE BADGE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BEAT ME!" Misty shouted and pikachu ducked out because he didn't want to battle Misty.

"Softy." Pikablue remarked but the word in my mind was more like traitor. So out came butterfree and Misty called staryu. It was a draw and then pidgeotto kicked starmie's butt. Then Team Rocket struck.

"Yawn, how many times do we have to listen to this?" Dust asked but I told her that if she knew she would cry. They started to suck up water but water conducts electricity so we put the double thundershock into action.

"Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!"

So Ash won his badge and then Dust used Midnight to clean up, especially where the water/psychic type starmie was concerned. So now it was my turn.

Dust's POV

David for some reason chose to go out in his fire type form. That made no sense until staryu used water gun. Then he made like he was taking a shower.

"WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING?" Misty shouted in frustration but to tell the truth I didn't know what was going on either. Then staryu got nailed by a sky uppercut and was finished. Next came starmie who was part psychic type according to my research. But psychic type moves or water type moves it made no difference to David. If you'll excuse the pun, he was on fire. Then he used solarbeam. That did it for starmie. With all of us now having cascade badges we continued on. But I had to ask David how he did it.

"I've been training by swimming around and doing other watery activities to build up my water type resistance for years. As for the psychic thing, I'm just about as powerful as psychics come. Do you really think I'd let some second rate psychic attack hurt me?" So I had my answers.