So here is Chapter 10, I kinda like this chapter. The next one is when all heck breaks lose, and I am having troubles with the wording so I'm not sure when I will put it up, hopefully tomorrow though.

So yeah, Enjoy! :)

Chapter 10: Promising Trainer

The next morning I was startled awake by a loud "WHAAAAAAT?"

I jumped and sat up in the bed blinking my eyes, trying to focus them.

"I told you not to wake her up" I heard N's smooth voice say, "not to scream like a maniac and scare us all". I heard a smile in his voice.

I looked up to see N sitting again in the chair in the corner and a shocked Cheren standing in the doorway.

N looked over to me, "How did you sleep sweetheart?" he said giving a gentle smile.

Another loud "WHAAAAT" from Cheren and I could tell N was now getting irritated.

"Why do you insist on yelling so early in the morning" N said with a bit of annoyance in his voice.

"White, we need to talk" Cheren said while running over and dragged me out of bed; he pulled me down the hall until we were out of earshot.

"What have I missed, and are you out of your mind?"

I was still tired and it took a while for his questions to sink in.

"Calm down Cheren" I said, yawning. "What's got you so uptight?"

"N is in your room" he said, whispering and looking around like I didn't know this fact before.

"I know" I replied.

"You do?" Cheren's voice was getting loud and I shushed him.

"Please catch me up" he said with sad eyes.

"Well, N and I have gotten rather close lately" I said, not really sure what Cheren wanted me to say.

"So you are okay with him watching you sleep, like a total freak?" Cheren asked, trying to make the situation sound bad.

"Um, yeah I guess" I said, again my statement sounded more like a question.

I could tell that me being with N really bothered Cheren, but I didn't know why. He sighed.

"So why are you here in the first place?" I asked.

"Oh yeah" he said snapping his fingers. "Bianca is having a Pokémon crisis and needs you to help".

I rolled my eyes, everything was a crisis to Bianca, but I complied and got dressed to go help her.

N said he had to go take care of some stuff again and left, but not without a kiss on the forehead, which visibly bothered Cheren.

He then dragged me down to one of the docks and pointed over to a crying Bianca.

I rushed over, "What's wrong?"

She looked up and flung her arms around me.

"Oh White, it's awful, they took my Munna" she said between sobs.

I looked over to Cheren, "Who is they?"

"Team Plasma" he answered.

I growled, I was really starting to not like these people, it's fine if they preach what they believe, but the minute they start taking people's Pokémon, that was a major line that was crossed, by my standards anyway.

"We will go get it back" I promised and Bianca looked a little happier.

"Thanks White" she said, sniffling.

Cheren and I headed off and finally found the grunts who had taken Bianca's Munna. I was surprised to see a familiar figure standing, ready to battle them.

"Burgh?" I questioned. He turned around at the sound of his name and smiled at me.

After a few battles, and repeated defeats of Team Plasma's Pokémon we had gotten Bianca's Munna back. She was so happy to see it she started crying all over again, and apologized profusely for not being able to protect it.

"We should go teach those grunts a lesson" growled Cheren, and both Burgh and I agreed.

After a while of walking we saw two of them standing guard at the entrance to a building. After battling against them, and they again fell in defeat, we were reluctantly let in.

It was a large building but we entered into a small room, and sitting at a desk, the only piece of furniture in the room, was Ghetsis. He looked up and smirked.

"I figured you would find me eventually" he remarked standing up and walking over to stand and face Burgh and I. "So you are Burgh, the gym leader here" he said in his gravelly voice, he then turned to me, and his expression lightened a bit, "And you must be White".

"H-How do you know my name?" I asked, astonished.

Ghetsis paused, "Uh, I try to familiarize myself with all the promising trainers" he said, a little bit awkwardly. He leaned over and looked closely at me, "Hmph" he grunted and stood back up.

By now I could tell Cheren was very angry.

"What are you doing here?" he asked, his hands shaking with anger.

Ghetsis brushed off Cheren's question and turned back to Burgh.

"I figured you would find out about our little hideout sooner or later" he leaned against the desk, "But it has become very important to me, so I don't plan on just abandoning it".

There was a silence, and no one was sure what to say.

"Are you familiar with the legend of Unova's formation?" he asked, looking back to me.

I heard a voice from behind me, "Yeah, I know that! The one with the white dragon Pokémon right?"

I turned around to see a girl with purple hair. I looked at Cheren questioningly.

"This is Iris, she has been traveling with Bianca, they have become good friends" he explained.

Iris turned and gave me a wink and a wave.

"That's right" Ghetsis answered. "When all the countries in the world were arguing, it was wondered if there was really a way to fix it. Well, there was a hero who pondered that question, and a white dragon who turned it's fangs on those who defied it. The hero and his white dragon used their power to bring order to the hearts of all by creating Unova".

We all were quiet again, waiting for Ghetsis to go on.

"And just like in that time, once again a hero shall rise and the white dragon will help in capturing people's hearts".

"So your solution is to steal Pokémon until the hero arises" I half yelled.

"Oh, you will see it my way eventually White" he said with a grin.

"Until then, we Seven Sages will go by our king's demands, and work towards a world where Pokémon are free beings." He said, and started walking towards the door, glancing at me in the process.

Soon both him and his guards were gone and we were left alone in the room. Burgh, Iris, Cheren, and I walked out, not to see any sight of them.

We all dispersed, all with thoughts of malice towards Team Plasma, and their twisted values.

Cheren and Iris went off to find Bianca, and Burgh turned to me.

"So I expect to see you at my gym today". He smiled.

My thoughts were brought back onto training and I gave him a sly smile.

"Oh you bet". He walked off and I walked back towards the Pokémon center. After my Pokémon were given another checkup I then started heading for Burgh's gym.

I stepped inside the gym to see it was dimly lit, but after a while I could see properly.

"Hey" I heard a voice say. It was the man that I saw almost every time I entered a gym. He handed me a bottle of water and told me that Burgh was straight that way; the only problem was that he pointed at a wall. Noticing my doubting look he laughed.

"Yes you can actually get through that, it is simply honey, and as you know this is a bug type gym."

I walked up to the wall and stuck my hand in it. Sure enough it was honey, but when I pulled my hand back out, it was perfectly clean, nothing stuck to it.

"Hm" I mumbled and shoved my way into the first wall. It took a lot of struggling but finally I made it through. There was a whole maze of these walls and after a ridiculous amount of time wiggling to get through them, I had finally made it. I went through a door and saw Burgh standing at the other side of a battle field, waiting for me.

"Well it took you long enough" he said laughing.

I glared at him.

"After seeing you battle earlier my bug Pokémon were clamoring to have a fight with you." He then proceeded to send out his first Pokémon, a Whirlipede, the evolved form of Venipede.

"Alright Talace" I called and sent him out. I had a feeling this would be a breeze since fire was strong against bug types.

"Talace Flame Charge" I called and like I had expected, the Whirlipede was out with one hit.

Burgh looked discouraged, and called back his Pokémon, only to send out a Dwebble.

"Smack down Dwebble" Burgh called and the small bug Pokémon ran at Talace.

"Dodge and use Flame Charge" I called. Talace easily dodged and the searing flames hit the Dwebble in a direct hit, but the small thing stayed standing up.

"What?" I whispered in confusion, and looked at Burgh who was smiling.

"I've got some tricks up my sleeve" he said turning back to Dwebble.

"Let's try faint attack Dwebble". It flew at Talace with amazing speed and hit right on the spot.

Just then I remembered Dwebble was a rock type, so that would cancel out the weakness to fire. But rock types were weak against Fighting.

Talace was cringing from the impact and the Dwebble had just hit the ground when I called out "Arm Thrust". Talace smirked and he knew this would be it. After one hit, the small Dwebble was a goner, and there was a small dent in the floor as proof.

Burgh looked unhappy, and took out his last Pokémon. "Leavanny, you are my last hope" he called and a tall slender bug Pokémon emerged.

"Talace Flame charge" I again bellowed.

"Dodge and use string shot" the Leavanny started to move but didn't get out of the way fast enough, and it was also a one hit knock-out.

He walked over to me after he returned his Pokémon and gave a slight smile.

"I knew you would be tough, but man that was brutal, you definitely deserve this badge, it will be proof of your win here at the Castelia City gym". He held out a small badge shaped like a wing, and once again I couldn't stop smiling.

By the time all the excitement was over with Team Plasma, and getting a Gym Badge, it was late, I decided to head back to the Pokémon center for an early night, in hopes that I could get an early start and make it to Nimbasa City tomorrow morning.

I ate dinner at the Pokémon center's cafeteria and then headed back to my room. I was exhausted from such a wearing day, and so were my Pokémon, they had almost immediately fallen asleep when I called them out. I had transferred some to and from Juniper's and so now I had, Talace, Tranquill, Zebstrika, Pansear, Venipede, and Tympole. Zebstrika didn't comfortably fit in the room so I had to return it, and Tympole wasn't too happy being out of water so I returned it too, so tonight I only had four Pokémon out, the other two were happily sleeping in their pokeballs.

I was just about to climb in bed when I heard the familiar tapping on the window. I let N in and he closed the window behind him.

"I guess you decided to lock it then" N said, smiling at me.

I nodded, "After you said that, I was a little jittery thinking just anyone could come inside" I admitted.

He sat down on the bed and chuckled, pulling me once again into his arms.

"So, how was your day, darling" he asked.

"Well a lot happened" I admitted.

"Tell me about it" he said, looking interested. I thought after a while N would get tired of listening to my stories, but he never seemed to.

"Well," I started, "I got my third badge".

A big smile broke out on his face, "Good, congratulations, I knew you would win".

I smiled, blushing a bit.

"So why did Bianca need your help this morning" he asked sounding kind of concerned.

"Oh" I said, my ill feelings returning, "Team Plasma stole it" I said with hints of anger in my voice. N winced and I looked up at his face to see he looked somewhere between scared and angry.

"They shouldn't have done that" he said, staring off into space. He looked back down at me, "I'm sorry White, I hope you got it back".

"Yeah we did," I paused, "And you don't need to apologize, it's not your fault". He again winced and I looked up at him.

"What's wrong?" I asked, wondering why he was so twitchy.

"Oh, nothing" he said, his normal look returning and his gaze turned back to me.

"Anything else exciting happen?" He pulled me close to him and started stroking my hair.

"No, I don't think so," I said, nuzzling into his chest. Whenever he petted my hair it made me sleepy and I thought if I could fall asleep before he had time to lay me down and put a blanket on me, maybe he would spend the night again.

But he sensed that I was tired and tucked me in. He again routinely kissed my cheek and told me goodnight, and then climbed out the window.

I was starting to get used to falling asleep like that, and I liked it.