Kine and her pokemon arrived at the Pokemon Center. Nurse Joy stood at the counter as usual, welcoming anyone that walked in. She saw Kine walk in and smiled.
"Welcome to the Pokemon Center. How may I help you?"
"I was looking for a room to stay in."
"Okay, let me go check."
Of course, there were plenty of benches to sleep on in Goldenrod, but nothing beats a nice comfy bed. Benches didn't have all that much support. They hurt after a while too.
"You're in luck! We have one more room available."
Kine nodded.
"Thanks."
"I'll take you to it. Your room is on the second floor, end of the hall on the right. Follow me."
Kine followed Joy up the stairs and toward her room. Kine walked in and Nurse Joy handed her the room key. Kine took it and walked into the room with her pokemon behind her. Nurse Joy looked like she had something else to say. Kine looked at her.
"Well, since there are two beds in this room, there might be a small chance that someone else rooms with you. But that's just a small chance."
Kine nodded. If someone came, she couldn't do anything about it. Nurse Joy bowed to her, and walked away, leaving Kine with her pokemon.
Kine sat on the bed and looked at her pokemon. They had already curled up on the other bed and were sleeping. Kine sighed and decided that she should go to sleep as well.
The next morning, Kine woke up and immediately felt that something was wrong. She looked around her, but then remembered the events of the previous day. They had taken away her blades. Wait no, that was not it. She gave her blades to her. Kine sighed. That was idiotic of her. She was going to have to find something else that would serve the same purpose.
Kine sighed and crossed her arms. It really sucked not to be able to have her blades. But it was her fault for getting caught like that. She was caught up in the moment the previous day, and at the time, did not care about her blades. She just wanted to leave that place, and that was what she got for it. Next time she is able to get some daggers or blades, she is going to hide them extremely well.
Cadmus was the first to wake up out of Kine's three pokemon. He looked over at his trainer and saw that she was upset. Well, maybe that was understatement. She looked pissed. Cadmus inched back just a little bit, accidentally waking up Fia and Ruva in the process. Ruva didn't really care, but Fia did not like having her sleep interrupted. She glared at Cadmus, and then blew a small weak flame at him. It hit Cadmus, but he shrugged it off. Fia jumped off the bed and then climbed onto Kine's lap. The trainer noticed this, and realized it was time to get ready if she wanted to challenge the gym today.
Kine got up.
"Alright, let's get ready to face the gym today."
I can always find a dagger later. There are always plenty of places to look.
Kine and her pokemon walked out of the room, and out to the cafeteria. It was almost completely full because of all the trainers that were there.
Two trainers were sitting at one table finishing their breakfast and talking. Kine accidentally kind of listened in on their conversation.
"-it would be better to go to the other Pokemon Center?"
"Maybe, but that one might be pretty full too."
Kine looked at them in shock. There was another Pokemon Center? It took her a few moments to realize that obviously they would have two, considering how big the city was. That meant she could technically spend ten days in a room with no rent to pay. She technically had nine days left, since she used the first one the night before.
Kine walked away from the two trainers, and went to get some food.
When they had finished eating, Kine went out with her pokemon toward the gym. Today was the day she was going to challenge Whitney. Kine and her walked around for a bit, and then found the gym. She walked inside.
The gyms was filled with many boxes arranged to form the face of a pokemon. It was also pink. Very pink. The walls and floors were pink, and the boxes were sea green and brown. Fia, Ruva, and Cadmus looked ready for a fight.
Kine saw one of the gym trainers and decided to challenge her first. The trainer looked at Kine and smirked. She walked over to Kine and out a hand on her hip.
"Let's battle. Go!"
She sent out a sentret. Kine looked down at Ruva, and the chikorita jumped out in front. She was staring down the sentret in front of her, ready for anything.
"Ruva, use Magical Leaf!"
Leaves surrounded with different colors appeared around Ruva. The leaves flew toward the sentret, hitting it and knocking it out. The gym trainer sighed, and then sent out another sentret. It used tackle on Ruva, and the chikorita flew back.
"Poison Powder," said Kine.
"Dodge!"
The sentret tried to jump too late. The move hit it, and it fell to the ground. A purple line appeared right above its nose, indicating that it was poisoned. Kine smirked and looked at Ruva.
"Magical Leaf!"
The attack hit the sentret, but did not exactly knock it out. It was on the ground, and it was close to fainting.
The gym trainer looked at her sentret with worry. "Come on, you can do it, just get up!"
Kine looked down at Ruva.
"Use Tackle and end this."
Ruva ran toward the sentret and hit it. Along with the poison, it was too much for the poor pokemon to bear. After the hit, it flew back and hit a wall, causing it to faint.
The girl sighed, gave Kine some prize money, and then signaled for her to move on.
Kine beat the rest of the gym trainers the same way. She kept using Ruva in the battles, letting her gain a lot of experience. While the chikorita was ecstatic about this, the vulpix and dratini were not. They were itching to battle and do something. They didn't like just standing around like that and watching someone else do all of the work.
Whitney was a girl with pink hair in pigtails, a white and dark pink shirt, shorts, long black socks, and sneakers. She probably thought she was extremely cute. A miltank stood by her side, as well as a clefairy, the pokemon the arranged boxes resembled.
Kine stood before Whitney, the gym leader of the Goldenrod City Gym. Whitney smiled and walked a little further toward Kine. Her eyes widened as she realized who Kine was.
"Hey! I recognize you! You were at the Radio Tower with that other girl! Welcome to the gym! Everyone was into Pokémon, so I got into it, too! Pokémon are super cute! You want to battle? I'm warning you-I'm good!"
Kine looked down at Ruva. The chikorita had been doing very good during the entire gym, so what was the problem with using her during the battle against the gym leader? Plus, Ruva hadn't gotten all that much battling recently. Whitney smiled. "Go Cleffy!"
Her clefairy jumped forward. The pink pokemon looked ready to fight, and so did Whitney.
"Cleffy, use Double Slap!"
"Ruva, get out of the way!"
Ruva tried to move, but she was too slow and ended up getting hit. The chikorita was pushed back a little bit, but she did not let it phase her.
"Magical Leaf!"
The leaves coated in different colors flew and hit the clefairy. It was forced back because of the hit. Ruva looked back at her trainer, and Kine nodded in approval.
"Good job Ruva. Now use Tackle!"
Ruva nodded and started running. As she was running, a white glow started to surround her, and she started to change.
Fia and Cadmus looked at their teammate in shock. Ruva was evolving!
Once Ruva's Tackle hit, the white glow stopped. The chikorita no longer stood there. Instead there was a yellowish green dinosaur with a green leaf on its head and long green buds around its neck. Ruva had went from a chikorita to a bayleaf.
Ruva looked down at herself. It was about time she evolved! She felt like it was never going to happen.
Whiteny smiled. "Congrats! Your chikorita evolved, that's pretty cool! It's so cute too!"
Kine smirked. "Ruva, use Magical Leaf!"
The bayleaf nodded and used the move that was now even stronger since she had evolved. The move hit Cleffy before it could even react. Whitney looked down at her fainted pokemon and sighed.
"Okay Cleffy, return," she said with a disappointed tone. She then looked at her miltank, and her miltank nodded back at her.
"Alright Melty, let's do this!"
The miltank stepped onto the field. Although Ruva had just evolved, she was a little bit intimidated by the miltank.
Kine's smirk disappeared, and her expression was completely unreadable. She needed to see what this miltank was going to be able to do; it does have a reputation for being extremely hard to battle. A lot of trainers would complain about that in the Pokemon Center.
"Be ready for anything," she said to Ruva and the rest of her pokemon. They all nodded.
"Alright Melty, use Rollout!"
The miltank hopped a few times, and then started rolling toward Ruva. Kine clenched her fists.
"Dodge it!"
The bayleaf tried to dodge the attack, but the miltank was too fast. It hit Ruva and made her fly back. She slowly got up and nodded toward her trainer.
"Use Magical Leaf!"
The attack of leaves hit, and the miltank received damage. It got up and used Rollout again without Whitney telling it to. Ruva got hit again, and the move was stronger than before, making Ruva fly back farther. Ruva got up, and Kine was starting to get frustrated. They needed to do something to avoid that move, before it knocked Ruva out. Kine looked at Ruva. She was going to have to heal the damage that Ruva was taking.
"Ruva, use Synthesis!"
The bayleaf nodded and started absorbing all the light that she could. She then used it to heal the damage that she had taken and restore her health. Ruva looked like she was in better shape. Kine looked at Whitney's miltank to see what options she had to defeat it. She clenched her fists and looked forward.
"Ruva, use Magical Leaf!"
Ruva used the move again and it hit Melty. The miltank was pushed back, got up, and then used Rollout again. Ruva was hit again, and the damage she had healed was gone. One more hit, and she would be down. Kine looked over at her pokemon. Cadmus and Fia looked ready to fight.
"Ruva, come back. Cadmus, get out there."
The bayleaf made her way over to her trainer, and the dratini jumped out in front of the miltank. Melty used Rollout again.
"Cadmus dodge it!"
Cadmus jumped out of the way, and was able to avoid Metly's attack. Kine sighed in relief. That was good.
Whitney smiled. "Melty, use Attract!"
"Dodge it and use Twister!"
Cadmus was a little too slow, and was not able to get out of the way of the hearts that were now circling around him. They got closer, and then hit Cadmus. His eyes turned into hearts, and he refused to attack Melty. The miltank was now smiling as much as her trainer.
"Melty use Stomp and then Rollout!.
Melty used those two moves in succession, landing a hit both times. Kine had tried to tell Cadmus to get out of the way, but he chose to ignore her. Attract had immobilized him. Kine sighed.
"Cadmus, come back here. Fia, let's go."
The dratini somehow made his way back to Kine and Fia stepped out onto the battlefield.
All they needed to do was attack and knock out Melty. She was at a low enough health that she would faint if another strong attack hit her. Kine and her vulpix looked at each other and nodded.
"Fia, use Heat Wave and end this!"
Fia used the attack and it was able to hit the miltank. Melty was pushed back and hit the wall yet again. This time, there was enough damage to knock her out. The miltank fell forward onto the ground from the wall. It was knocked out, and Kine had won. Cadmus snapped out of his infatuation and jumped up and down, along with a tired Ruva. Whitney turned away from Kine.
"Waaaaah! Waaaaah!...You meanie!"
Kine took a step back because of her shock to the gym leader's reaction.
"The hell...?"
Kine tried to ask for her badge, but Whitney would not stop sobbing. Kine sighed and turned around after returning Cadmus and Ruva. She didn't want them walking around when they were tired like that. She could come back and ask for the badge later. She tried to walk out of the gym, but one of the gym trainers stopped her.
"Hey, don't worry about Whitney. She always gets like this when she loses. You just have to go back up to her and try again."
Kine sighed. Why did one gym leader have to be this difficult to deal with? She turned around, and walked back to Whitney with Fia on her shoulder. Kine took a breath in before speaking.
"Hey, can I have my badge now? I did win it from you."
Whitney turned around to face Kine.
"... What? What do you want? A Badge? Oh, right. I forgot. Here's the Plain Badge. Oh, yeah that's right! I heard this thing called the Pokéathlon Dome is now open right next to the National Park. You should go try it, since you're so good at battling with your Pokémon!"
Kine nodded.
"Oh, before you go, the next gym is in Ecruteak. Good luck."
She smiled again, and Kine walked out. She had to get to a Pokemon Center to get her team healed.
When Kine finally made it to the Pokemon Center and handed her pokemon over to Nurse Joy, she sat down on one of the chairs in the lobby. Kine leaned back and crossed her arms. Whitney had said that there was something called a Pokeathlon Dome somewhere nearby, but was it really worth it to waste time and check it out?
The trainer shook her head. No, that would just be a big waste of time. She needed to get through all the gyms so she could go to Unova and get a Fire Stone for Fia. What she needed to do was get to Ecruteak and win that gym battle. Then she would have four badges with her.
Kine took out her bag and found her three badges. She found that there was a pocket on the inside of her bag where she could put all of her badges. She found a way to clip them inside that pocket and have them all semi organized.
Kine suddenly felt a hot burst of air near her face. She looked up and saw Fia glaring at her. Nurse Joy was standing there with Fia, Ruva, and Cadmus. They were out of their pokeballs, and for the last few minutes, they were trying to get Kine's attention.
Nurse Joy smiled and bowed.
"Thank you for visiting the Pokemon Center. Have a nice day."
Kine nodded and walked out of the Pokemon Center. She decided that it was time to go look for some daggers or something. She did want to be able to finish the league as fast as she could, but she wouldn't be able to do it if she got killed by some random wild pokemon.
She walked with her pokemon around the city as she looked around. She wanted to explore more of the town as well. After walking around for a while, she found something like an entrance to go underground. She walked toward the entrance with her pokemon behind her.
When she got to the bottom of the stairs, she saw many things related to pokemon care. There wasn't anything she could see that would really help her. She decided to walk around more because it couldn't hurt to look around, right?
Many people were staring at Fia as Kine walked by. Some were out in the open and looking in awe, but Kine noticed some of them that were in the shadows and had a glint of something else in their eyes. The trainer looked around, and then walked over to a bench. She was going to find one of those people in the shadows and see where they went.
Kine turned to her pokemon, and returned Ruva and Cadmus. Keeping Fia out would be a good way to lure out those people in the shadows.
Kine started walking again, this time, with only Fia out. She was also walking closer to the walls and walking differently. She walked in a manner that was more relaxed and confident, as if she were a figure with power. She kept walking until she saw a man signaling to her.
The man was wearing black clothes, including black gloves, sunglasses, and a hat. He had a scowl on his face.
Kine walked over to the man, and he silently led her to another area, one that not many trainers went through. Most trainers didn't want to go underground, since they thought there was only an area to take pictures of their pokemon.
The man stopped, and Kine looked at what was behind him. She wasn't really that impressed. There weren't that many things. In fact, there was barely anything. Just a few knives here and there.
As Kine was looking, the man decided to talk.
"Does anything interest you?" he asked in a husky voice.
Kine turned to look at him.
"I mean, do you want to buy anything? I'm a merchant from Kanto, but I have to sell these beauties in secret because of some...issues with you Johtoans."
"Issues. So you're saying you smuggled these."
The man looked a little intimidated. "Let's not talk about that. You want a dagger, yes? I see the way you walk. You like having those types of things with you."
Kine rolled her eyes. "And how would you know that?"
The man looked more smug.
"Just the way you hold yourself," he said. He then held up Kine's gun. "And because of something like this."
Kine immediately looked on the inside of her jacket. The man definitely had her gun. She looked back at him and all he did was smirk. The trainer sighed and returned her pokemon, not wanting to take anymore chances with this guy.
Kine walked around and picked up two daggers, and a couple of hunting knives. All the knives were really good quality, so it did make choosing them. As for the daggers, the man had many to choose from. Kine picked the two that she saw as the best.
When Kine was done, she looked at the man and said, "What do you want for them?"
The man just held up the gun. It took a few moments to decide, but a Kine accepted the deal, especially since she doesn't use her gun all that much anyway.
The man led Kine out and wished her a good rest of the day. Kine hid her new purchase inside her jacket and went back above ground to the main part of the city. Now that she had protection, it was time to move on to Ecruteak.
And that is the end of the chapter. Hope you enjoyed!