Hello everyone, I'm back with the next chapter. Hope everyone is enjoying the story so far, give me your most honest opinion on how you think I'm doing with the story. Honesty is a must have and it will tell me how much I need to work through with my writing to make it much more enjoyable. Anywho, in this chapter Ashley and friends will be on they're way in leaving Viridian Forest towards Pewter City where Ashley will be challenging Brock, the rock type gym leader, how will she fare going through the forest with her injured arm thanks to Team Rocket's Ekans? Well just read and find out.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POKEMON
Ashley's current Team:
Growlithe (name: Connall) Starter Pokemon
Pidgey (name: Esther) Secondary Pokemon
Gyarados (name: Poseidon) Third Pokemon
Machop (name: Cratus) Fourth Pokemon
Weedle (name: Mel) Fifth Pokemon
Pikachu (name: Pal) Sixth Pokemon
newer Pokemon caught in chapter 8:
Scyther (name: Remo) Seven Pokemon, in storage
MiSTY'S TEAM:
Staryu
Starmie
Goldeen
NEWER POKEMON CAUGHT in chapter 8:
Caterpie
Ashley groaned a bit when she woke up with Pal and Cratus curled up next to her almost protectively and smiled at the nicknames she gave them the day she woke after being injured, she even named her Weedle Mel, short for Melissa which was the God of all bee types like the Beedril which her Weedle liked the sound of the name rather happily she recalled. Ashley frowned when she spotted her injured arm, it was getting better for sure thanks to Samurai but it was still held still in a cast and will be for some time, which made things harder for her.
After getting herself ready and packing her stuff, Pal jumped to the point that he was riding her shoulders and Cratus stayed by her side, almost protectively she noticed and made her way outside to find Misty and Samurai waiting for her. She smiled at Misty. "Are we ready to continue our Journey?" She asked her friend as she swings her pack back on her back. Misty nodded happily. "I'm about ready to get out of this forest and stay in an actual bed for once, we've been here way too long," Misty said with a groan causing Ashley to giggle at her in amusement and turned to Samurai.
She did something that surprised everyone by giving him a peck on the cheek, causing him to stammer and stare at her in shock. "Thank you for everything you did for us while we stayed with you." She told him, unaware that Cratus was glaring at the boy and Pal was giving them a confused tilt of his head with a question,"Pika?" Misty was giggling at Samurai's look and grabbed Ashley's arm, "Let's get going Ashley, I want to get out of here sometime soon." She said slightly impatiently and just continuing to walk forward in a slight march. Ashley turned her head a bit and gave a still slightly shocked Samurai a wave goodbye as the girls and Pokemon made they're way out of the forest.
A DAY LATER:
Ashley smiled tiredly when they could finally see the exit to Pewter City showed when she heard her friend Misty groan in relief as her Caterpie rode on her head with a happy chirp. Everything happened all at once, Her Mel had evolved into a Beedril after some intense battling the last day or so and she managed to catch a Scyther which she named him Remo which meant "The Strong One" after he protected her from a multitude of wild Beedril that was furious when her and Misty had accidentally run into their territory along with a caterpie that protected Misty from a random stinger and managed to get Misty to catch it which surprised her what with Misty's fear of bug type Pokemon.
"What, it wanted to be with me and it said it wouldn't leave me alone unless I caught it which I did." Misty had defended herself when she noticed Ashley's shocked look after catching Caterpie.
"Finally, we're out of that Forest, thought we'd never get to Pewter City," Misty said with a tired groan as she sat down on one of the boulders. Ashley grimaced a bit at the slight pain in her still bandaged arm and gave Misty a nod. "Same here and I need something to kill the name in my arm," Ashley answered Misty which caused the girl to give her friend a concerned look. "Here, let me check you're arm real quick," Misty said, gently grabbing her arm in her hand.
After carefully removing Ashley's bandages, everyone grimaced at the sight of her arm. It was heavily bruised, yellowish pue look surrounded the two bite marks which oozed a bit with sweat and some loose dried blood showing on her injured arm. "Oh my, that's quite the bite mark you got there miss." Both girls jumped nervously and turned around to see an old man sitting on some rocks, he had a mustache and a hat to shield the sun from his face, he was wearing a kinda cape-like cloak around his body, his skin was dark as well.
Ashley was flinching at the pain but warily glanced at the man before them, her Cratus was glaring at the man and standing in front of her protectively. " We ran into Team Rocket trying to capture this Pikachu here and I was bitten by their Ekans." She said a little shakily, trying to ignore the pain in her arm as Misty carefully cleaned it and rewrapped her bandages. "Who are you by the way?" Ashley warily asked the old man.
She saw the man give her a look but then gave her a gentle smile. "My name is Flint, by the way, want me to show you girls the way to the pokemon center?" He asked them. Ashley her head before Misty opened and grabbed her friend's hands, about to leave. "No thanks, Pewter City is a small country, I'm sure we can find it without trouble, thank you though." She said to the man and turned to Misty who gave her a frown. "Let's get out of here." She hissed lowly to her friend who gave her an 'O' look on her face before following her friend with her Pokemon, all three glaring at the man in warning to keep away from their humans, making him take a step back at their looks, especially when that girls Pikachu started sparkling its cheeks.
A FEW MOMENTS LATER:
Both girls and Pokemon finally made it to the Pokemon Center and Ashley just felt even worse than she did before they entered in Pewter City, feeling faint, she leaned against Misty who looked at her worriedly. "Ashley, what's wrong?" She asked her friend, both they're Pokemon looking at the girl in worry, Cratus especially. "My arm." Ashley wheezed in pain and felt her eyes closed, not hearing Misty calling out to her.
MISTY'S POV:
Misty wrapped her arms underneath Ashley's arms, keeping her from falling to the floor and looked at the desk to where she could see Nurse Joy who was working on the computer. "Nurse Joy, please, she needs help!" She called out worriedly causing Nurse Joy to look up and gasp at the sight of a young girl holding up her dark-haired friend, their Pokemon surrounding them protectively. "Chansey, get a stretcher, we need immediate attention right now." She said, going into Doctor mode immediately. Her Chansey did as told and immediately made her way to the girls and helped laid down the young woman onto the stretcher and Nurse Joy turned to Misty with a stern glare on her face.
"Tell me what happened." She demanded the red-headed girl.
Misty had told Nurse Joy and was now currently out in the lobby waiting for news about her friend Ashley with Cratus, Pal, and her Caterpie when she spotted her old friend, Brock walking in who gave her a wave when he spotted her. "Misty, hey, what are you doing here?" He asked her and she frowned worriedly, remembering her friend. "My friend, Ashley is really hurt actually. We ran into Team Rocket trying to capture Pikachu here, whose nicknamed Pal by the way, and their Ekans bit her in the arm when she ran in front of Pal." She explained to her Gym leader friend.
He frowned as well at hearing Team Rocket. "Well, I'm sure Nurse Joy will do the best she can to help Ashley, are these three Pokemon hers?" He asked her as he looked at Pal, Machop, and Caterpie. "Well Pal and Machop, whose name is Cratus by the way, belong to Ashley, believe it or not, Brock, Caterpie actually belongs to me." She admitted at his shocked look. "But how, what happened to your fear of bug type Pokemon?" He asked her in shock.
She gave him a smile. "It was Ashley that helped me get over the fear, to be honest. " Just as she said that the emergency room light went out and Nurse Joy came out and gave Misty a gentle smile. "Well Nurse Joy, how is she?" Misty asked her. Nurse Joy took a few minutes of silence but gave Misty a wide smile. "She'll be alright, Ashley just needs rest overnight and the only thing she'll have to worry about is some slight pain in her arm tomorrow. She had some amount of poison in her but the person that tried getting all the poison out gave her a fighting chance even though it gave her some infection which is why she fainted in the lobby, but she'll be okay though, you can go in and see her if you like." Nurse Joy explained to her showing them the way to Ashley's room.
A FEW DAYS LATER:
Ashley Ketchum grinned in excitement as she stood in front of the Rocky Pokemon Gym with Misty and Cratus and Pal at her side. "Someone looks ready for her battle," Misty said with a teasing grin at her friend. Ashley gave her a smirk. "You know my team and I are most definitely ready for a battle Mist, been training for a few weeks, more than a normal trainer would spend." She said in determination. Misty gave her a smile, eyes frowning though as they flickered to Ashley's bandaged arm.
Both girls and Pokemon stepped into the dark gym and a light flickered on in a single silhouette above Brock who was sitting cross-legged, almost like he was meditating before they arrived. He smiled at them. "So I see you finally arrived for that battle, huh Ashley, just because we've become friends, doesn't mean I'll take it easy on you." He challenged her as he stood in front of a battlefield on one end and with Ashley on the other end. Ashley just gave Brock a smirk. "Wouldn't want it any other way Brock, bring it on." She said loudly as she grabbed Connall's Pokeball. The referee stood in the middle on the left side of the battlefield raised a green flag.
"This will be an official gym match and will be a battle of two against Pokemon, the rule states that when a Pokemon faints the winner is the challenger's Pokemon and when both are unable to battle, the battle will be ended, we can now commence!" He said as he threw down the flag and backed off.
"Go Geodude!"Go Connall!" Both trainers threw their Pokeballs in the air and both Pokemon, A Geodude, which is a rock type cried out a challenge as a Growlithe, a puppy fire type Pokemon growled in fierce determination. "Geodude, knock back that Growlithe with Tackle!" Brock demanded his Pokemon. Geodude gave a loud cry as he started spinning like a rolling ball and moved at a high speed and made its way to slam into Connall. "Connall, dodge it and use Iron Tail!" Ashley yelled out to her best friend.
Connall gave her an answered bark and ran forward and used his hind legs to jump mid-air as his tail started glowing silver colors and slammed it against Geodude's head who grunted loudly at the hit and backed off as he shook his head a bit. Brock looked on impressed that Ashley worked out her Growlithe's weakness and turned it in an advantage instead. "Geodude, use rock throw!" Brock ordered his Pokemon.
Geodude grunted to his trainer in affirmation and used his arms and moved them to the ground and started shoving large rocks in Connall's direction. "Connall, dodge it and use Fire Fang!" Ashley said to her partner. Connall gave his trainer a bark and sped his way through the rocks that started tumbling nearly on top of him, fire coating his teeth as he gave Geodude a growl and launched a bite on the rock type's arm who gave out a loud screech of pain and struggled to get the Growlithe off of him but the puppy pokemon ust viciously continued to hold on while tightening his teeth around the rock type's arm, not letting go until he felt the other Pokemon suddenly felt limp and finally stopped struggling and let go of the arm and gave Ashley a happy bark when Geodude fell forward in a dead like feint with swirls in its eyes.
The Referee looked at the puppy pokemon almost nervously for a minute before raising the flag in Ashley's direction. "The winner goes to the pokemon and it's challenger. Both trainers, please get your next Pokemon ready!" He said waving his flag around and then backing up again.
Brock returned his Geodude just as Ashley did the same with her Growlithe and hung up her Pokeball back on her belt. "One more Pokemon, I gotta say, Ashley, you certainly did a good job preparing your Pokemon for this gym battle, but let's see you beat my Onix!" Brock yelled out as his rather big Onix as it gave off as a slightly scary challenging roar that shook the ground a bit. Ashley gave Brock a smirk. "I guess you just didn't think of how I'd train my Pokemon, but did you ever think there'd be a surprise Brock? Go Poseidon!" She yelled out as her Gyarados gave out a loud roar that shocked Brock.
He was surprised that a beginning trainer actually caught a Gyarados and also have it obey you during a battle, the fact that this girl before him has just that, well this will be a tough one to beat, he thought to himself.
Hello folks, just thought I'd leave this right here. So I know parts here and there seems rushed but I just didn't have the time and patience to write it all out in full detail. But it's finally here and honestly a little longer than my last chapters so that kinda makes up for it. Anywho, let me know what you guy's think of this chapter in my reviews and I'm also looking for a permanent Beta to help me out with my stories and if anyone knows anybody available, have them check out my stories and see which ones they would be interested in betaing for me through PM. Hope all of you readers have a good time.
