"It'll take us a minute to clean and bandage him, but your Slowpoke will be fine," Nurse Joy smiled, and Arella couldn't help but smile back..
"I'll be back soon then," she nodded, then walked out of the Pokemon Center with Matthew following behind her. As soon as she did, she called Daniel and Fudge out once again.
"This is a Bug Gym, so it's your guy's time to shine," Arella smiled, "I'll be counting on both of you" she looked over at Matthew, "And you for back-up. Got it?"
All three nodded, and she looked over at the gym looming in front of them, smiling.
"So you're the gym leader here?"
"Yep," Bugsy smiled, "I've been studying Bug pokemon a long time, so I know everything there is to know about-. . .Why are you staring at me like that?"
"Sorry," Arella shook her head, "I was trying to figure out if you were a guy or a girl. . ."
He frowned, "I'm a guy."
"Well, I was making sure," she grumbled.
"You came here for the badge, right? Then let's get this over with," he took out two pokeballs and tossed them, "Go Kakuna and Metapod!"
"Pupae forms? This should be easy" Arella grinned, "Go Fudge! Use Rock Throw!"
Listening to the orders of his trainer, he threw rocks at both cocoons, smashing them instantly.
"Those were just meat-shields. Go Scyther!" a Scyther came out next, scythes sharp and glaring at Arella.
"Piece of cake, Fudge use Rock-" she was cut off as Daniel sped in from behind her, tackling the Scyther.
"D-Daniel? What are you doing?"
"Fudge got the entire last gym," Daniel stated as he dodged just in time to avoid being split in two by the now angry Scyther, "You think I'm just going to sit there and watch him get all the glory again?"
She sighed, "Fine, take care of it. But the minute your health gets low, I'm switching back to Fudge."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence," Daniel speed into the Scyther again, then pulled back as quick as he could to avoid its sharp scythes from hitting his wings. It went after it, landing a clean, critical Fury Cutter when it got close, sending Daniel down.
"Daniel! Are you okay?" Arella ran up to him.
"I'm fine," he grimaced, "It wasn't very effective anyways. Fury Cutter is bug type," he took flight again, then sent a rather large gust hurtling towards the Scyther, this time downing it.
"Looks like you win. . ." Bugsy sighed, recalling the Scyther back into its pokeball, "Take this Hive Badge, its yours now," he held out the badge to Arella, and she took it, nodding in thanks.
"Hey. . .Arella?" Daniel asked as they headed back towards the entrance of the gym.
"Yeah Daniel?"
"Thanks for letting me defeat that Scyther."
"No problem."
"Well. . .Zetta's safely in the pc, and I bought enough healing items to heal an army. . .I think we're ready to go into Ilex Forest," Arella smiled.
"Why did you buy so many Antidotes?" Elizabeth enquired as they headed over to the entrance.
"Well, forests usually have stuff that can poison. . .I don't want to get caught in that forest with no antidotes and a million miles away from healing," she sighed.
"Hey, Arella!"
She turned around to see Silver standing there, a Bayleef by his side. Arella simply stared at him before pointing at him.
"Heeeeeeeey, you remembered my name!"
He sighed, "I did at the Sprout Tower too, dumbass."
"Still, what are you doing here anyways?"
"Uh, one, the gym over there," he pointed to the gym, "And two, I heard Team Rocket was over here. . ."
"Team Rocket? Oh, they're long gone. I drove them out."
"You drove out Team Rocket?" Silver stared at Arella, examining her, before he burst out laughing, "A wimp like you drove out Team Rocket? Yeah right."
Her eyes narrowed, "I'll make you eat those words. Go Matthew!"
Matthew stepped out in front of Arella, eyes fixed on Silver. He sighed, shaking his head "Even when evolved your pokemon still looks weak. Take care of him Ghastly!" he sent out a Ghastly.
Right as the Ghastly popped out, it ate a Water Gun to the face, knocking it down instantly.
"Someone needs to train their pokemon a little more."
Silver only grimaced, calling back the Ghastly and using the next pokeball on his belt: a Zubat.
"Hey, I have one of those too," she grinned, "Matthew, I'm going to let Alucard take this for the experience"
Matthew nodded to her, stepping back as she called Alucard.
"Don't tell me this is going to be an endless Leech Life battle," Silver's Zubat sighed, "Those are so laaaaaaaaame"
"No, good sir, it isn't going to be one of those," Alucard nodded, then charged at the other Zubat, biting into its body until it went down, "Because my trainer went through the trouble of raising me until I learned bite."
"Worthless pokemon," Silver grumbled, calling back the Zubat, "Go Bayleef!"
"Oh dear. . ." The Bayleef sighed, "Look, can we not fight? Call this a truce or something?" it asked.
"Really now? You don't want to fight?" Alucard questioned.
The Byaleef's facial expression suddenly turned into an evil grin, "Nah, just kidding," he then charged at Alucard with a tackle, but he simply flew up higher.
"You know, good sir, you should get better at lying. I'm sure it will help a lot," he flew back down, biting onto the back of the Bayleef's neck.
"Holy shit! What is doing? Oh Arceus, what is doin- Woooaaahh, I feel kinda woozy," the plant starter suddenly started swaying, then fell to its side.
"I do say, Bayleef blood does taste quite good," The Zubat said happily, returning to Arella.
"Look, you just won because my pokemon were weak," Silver crossed his arms.
"Well maybe if you treated them with a little more love and respect they would be a little better," she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Why are you following such a girly concept?"
"Maybe because I am a gir- shit!" she covered her mouth, then ran towards Ilex forest, her pokemon following close behind.
". . .That guy. . .is a girl?" Silver asked himself, still looking at where Arella was standing as if she was still there.