Chapter 6: Burnt Tower and The Beasts Within
I woke up rubbing my forehead with my thumb and index finger trying to clear my mind of the cheerful pigtailed girl that was making my entire thought process a mess. I got up heading to the bathroom of my room taking a shower letting the hot water run down my body as I thought of what I would do today. I knew my day was going to be spent in the Burnt Tower training and looking for handy items left there through the years. I had successfully got my mind to concentrate on something other then the pigtailed girl as I got out of the shower putting back on my cloths zipping up my black jacket. I grabbed my bag walking from the Pokemon Center to the tower. I opened the doors of the tower going inside looking around seeing a couple of people ahead of me near the center of the tower. I quickly hid behind a statue of Ho-oh looking around it seeing one of the people was Lyra and the other had spiky blond hair with a purple headband.
"Oh Morty your very kind," I heard Lyra say as I clenched my fist looking down as I caught what she next, "To have come with your friend to research Suicune."
I looked up seeing the man nod and heard him reply, "Yeah, even if it means I have to take some times away from my gym."
So this teenager was the gym leader of this town, so what was he doing with my Lyra. Wait did I just call Lyra mine? I shook my head trying to clear my mind keeping my fist clinched shut hiding behind the statue better as Morty and another guy came over walking by where I was hiding.
"I know your there Silver, I see your red hair," Lyra said after awhile coming over to the statue where I was hiding.
"Damn," I muttered coming out from behind the statue, "I just came to train, girly. I wasn't spying on you."
"I never said you were," Lyra said with a shrug shaking her head then smiling at me, "I guess we thought the same thing, this old place would be good to train at."
"Well if we both came to train, why not a battle, girly?" I said with a smirk knowing I would win this time as I place my hand on Ghastly's pokeball.
Lyra sighed nodding calling out her most of recently caught Vulpix since I knew she didn't have that the last battle we had in Azalea Town. I called out Ghastly and our battle began. Besides her Vulpix she also had Marill along with her Flaffy and Bayleef. The battle went like our normally did, I couldn't defeat one of her pokemon even if she did switch between them as we battled. Do I even need to tell you I lost badly like always.
I fell to my knees grumbling, "I lost again to you of all people... I always lose to you."
She came close as I looked up hearing a creak in the floor getting up quickly to grab her as the floor beneath crumbled and she fell through it.
"Aaaaaahhh," Lyra called out as she fell into the basement of the tower and I heard her call out after hitting the floor, "Ouch..."
I sigh looking down the hole asking concern for her over taking my ego, "Are you alright, Lyra?"
"No my ankle..." Lyra said trying to get up but falling right back down holding her ankle.
I opened my bag pulling out a rope tying it to the statue climbing down to the floor below grabbing Lyra putting her on my back so she was piggy backing me.
"Silver," Lyra said looking at me surprised as I carried her having left my bag up above looking for the stairs back up.
"What I'm not that cruel to leave you down there alone, no matter if you think I may be," I said as I held her up on my back walking down the hall.
I felt her arms around me her head on my shoulder as she whispered, "I never thought you were cruel Silver, I always thought how you acted was a front..."
I shook my head as I carried her down the hall saying, "Yeah whatever girly."
I carried her into a big chamber hearing her gasp as I looked up seeing three beast, Entei, Raikou, and Suicune. Entei ran by my left, Raikou ran by my right, while Suicune ran toward us touching Lyra's ankle glowing as she roared Aqua Ring running around her ankle before jumping over us both running from the tower as well.
"What the hell just happened?" I asked looking back to Lyra who was still on his back.
Lyra looked at my face with a smile saying, "I think Suicune just he... was just saying hello."
I gulped feeling her wrap her arms around me tighter as I walked toward the stairs climbing over the ledge separating the central part from the stairs. I walked up the stairs carrying her as I went over to my bag placing her down on the ground carefully pulling a first aid kit from my bag wrapping her ankle in an ace bandage.
"There that should make you able to put some weight on it until I can get you to the Pokemon Center and out of my hair," I said looking into her eyes feeling my heart going crazy knowing my mind and emotions were a mess once more.
Lyra frowned looking at me saying, "If you don't want to help me there you don't have to."
I shook my head picking her up putting her back on my back handing her my bag to hold saying, "I am not going to leave you, If I've decided to help you much I might as well take it all the way."
She smiled holding my bag in front of me as she had her arms around my neck as I carried her out of the building to the Pokemon Center. My heart was beating wildly in my chest as I smelled the Strawberries and Cherry shampoo in her hair. I had never been happier to get to a Pokemon Center in my life as I opened the door sitting her down gently in a chair going to get Nurse Joy to heal my pokemon and to check Lyra's ankle. I got my pokemon healed and left while Nurse Joy was tending to Lyra. I needed to clear my head walking through town going to the west of town picking up a rock skipping it. I sighed calling out my Quilava smacking it's head saying, "Let's train since it was all your guys fault we lost to her again today."
Quilava growled before nodding his head making the fire come out of his back as he practiced against a tree. I watched gritting my teeth trying hard to clear my head still feeling her soft body against my back and the smell of strawberries that still filled my senses. I sighed calling back my Quilava walking to the gym wanting to get out of this town tonight before I ran into Lyra again. I battled through the mediums to get to Morty narrowing my eyes.
Morty looked up at me asking, "Hello, I'm Morty the gym leader. Here to challenge me?"
"Yes I am," I said calling out my Ghastly as he called out his own. The battle began and raged on. His Ghastly and both Haunters went down easy against my Ghastly and Zubat. As Zubat defeated his second Haunter he began to glow evolving into a Golbat. I smirked knowing I had this in the bag now as Morty called out his Gengar. Gengar took out my Golbat after a bit but Magnemite finished Gengar off with ease leaving me the winner.
"You beat me, I'm surprised but today you were the better trainer," Morty said coming over handing me the Fog Badge and a new TMCD, "This Tm is Shadow Ball, your Ghastly would greatly benefit from having this."
"Right," I said taking the badge and TM before turning walking from the gym to the east heading toward Olivine City keeping my head down my mind drifting back to the smell and gentle touch of Lyra. What in the world was that girl doing to me?
