Pokémon Journey I: Violet's Trial
Chapter 11: A Talk & Evolutions
Violet's Point of View:
I rushed down the hillside with the white and magenta-purple colored pokeball in my hands and Amethyst trailing down behind me with a worried look on her face. In my first battle against my older twin brother Vince, he had poisoned my pikachu. None of my pokemon had ever been poisoned before, at least not while they were with me. I panicked and returned her to her pokeball and rushed her off into town at the base of the mountain side where Lavender Town was below, leaving my brother behind on the mountain with his own pokemon.
I passed anyone who had been in my way and didn't respond when they tried to stop me. I pushed through the small crowd and was finally able to make it to the pokemon center where the nurse was waiting at the front desk. I handed her my pokeball and breathed deeply from the run I'd just endured.
"Please heal my pokemon, she's been poisoned." The nurse quietly nodded and took the pokeball off into the other room. Amethyst followed after her to get herself healed up and make sure Amber was going to be alright.
"Violet!" I turned around after I had collapsed against the counter from my run and looked up to see not only Vince coming in after me, but Alex as well. The two of them rushed over to me and crouched down to my figure at the bottom of the counter. The nurse came back in a rush when she saw more people gathered at the counter and my brother handed over his two pokemon to her and she took them into the back to heal as well while I bet her chansey was looking after my pokemon.
"Damn you run fast Violet …" Vince wheezed and collapsed next to me. "I guess we don't need to worry about you getting away if you need to."
"Sorry, it's the first time that any of my pokemon has been poisoned with me and I freaked. I didn't want any permanent damage to happen to Amber," I replied to the two of them while catching my own breath.
"First time is always the worst," Alex noted. "No matter what it is." I nodded to him and sighed long, finally catching my bearings around me.
"Here comes the pokemon!" Vince shouted and I grabbed onto the boys and used their weights to pull me to my feet and I looked around the counter. Amethyst walked around first with two pokeballs in hand which she handed to Vince. He released Ivysaur and the pokemon in turn stretched and smiled up at its trainer. Vince pocketed Onix's ball and we all turned back to Amethyst who handed me Amber's primer ball. I opened it up and out came my pikachu, bright yellow, energetic and new. She smiled up at me and cheered before she lunged at my body and nuzzled me in my stomach.
"It's good to see you too girl…" I teared up a bit at her. "I was so worried…"
"Poisons are common and easy to deal with here in the pokemon center," said Nurse Joy who just entered the room with her pokemon helper chansey. "Though you might want to carry around a few antidotes next time in case this happens again and a pokemon center isn't around."
"I will, thanks Nurse Joy." I made a mental note to go shopping when I got the chance and allowed Amber to climb back up on my shoulder. I pulled the boys out of the pokemon center and into town.
"So what do you two wanna do now?" I questioned them. "Head right over to Celadon or stay for a little while, cuz I've got quite a bit of energy left in me."
"I could use a bit of a walk in the sun myself," Vince admitted. "I really don't wanna head inside just yet."
"I don't really care; we'll just head through the underground pathway on route seven until we hit the city. I've heard there's a cool fire type in the area I wanna get my hands on and add it to my team," Alex said.
"And what if I want it?" Vince challenged him.
"It doesn't matter if you do or don't, I'll still get it." Alex snapped at a reasonable volume and got right up in Vince's face. I sighed. I'd be mediator between the two of them again…
"Machop!" A sudden voice caught me off guard and I was suddenly thrown to the side. Amethyst caught me in her arms to prevent me from hitting the ground and a small pokmeon nearly half my size barreled over to Vince and Alex where he picked up Alex by his waist and threw him in my direction without breaking a sweat. My jaw dropped and I jumped back as Alex landed before us with Amethyst taking most of his fall.
"Thanks Amethyst," he muttered to her before she and I helped him back up to his feet. I looked over to where the pokemon was before Vince, jumping up and down in its place before it threw itself in his arms. I recognized the pokemon as a machop, the small muscular pokemon that I had faced back when I battled that Team Rocket member in the northern exit of Saffron City when he stole a pokemon technique book, but it wasn't the same one that I had battled then, this one was different, and seemed quite affectionate toward my brother.
"Awe man! I thought I lost this machop in the cave!" Vince shouted worriedly and tried to remove the pokemon from his body.
"And why's that Vince?" I questioned.
"Because its mom got pretty angry at me when she saw it with me." He sighed. "I better take it back up to the mountain before its mom comes after me again."
"Char!" Amethyst shouted before she pulled me and Alex out of the way as an angry large looking pokemon with four arms and a crazy amount of muscles came up to Vince with eyes blazing with fire strait from hell. With only one of its arms, it grabbed Vince who still had a hold on the young machop and marched with them up the mountain side.
I blinked my eyes a few times until they were out of site and I could no longer hear my brother's cries for help that I dared look at Alex. "So… wanna head to the next town?"
"Uh… sure." We simply turned our backs on my brother and headed in the opposite direction toward Celadon City. I knew my brother would be alright, his pokemon wouldn't let him get hurt or killed, and he said himself that he's escaped this pokemon before, so he should be able to do it again.
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Like Alex had said, there was a cool fire type pokemon in the area, it was called growlithe, the puppy pokemon that Alex had taken a liking too while we were on our way to Celadon. He caught the pokemon with ease and it's been loyally traveling at his side since. Its fur was extremely soft and mostly red with some black stripes on it with a bushy white bit of fur on the top of its head, on its belly and for its fluffy thick tail. It loved to be petted, and Alex didn't mind if I did it so long as Growlithe didn't drive him up the wall with wanting attention from us, Alex had to find the one growlithe that was an attention addict. But I didn't mind it, it was fun to play with it and watch it chase its tail when Alex and I were taking a break from walking or just relaxing in the warm sun that we haven't felt in weeks.
Amber and Growlithe had raced ahead of us, especially when we came up to the underground tunnel. The two of them played a large game of tag and practically ran on the walls and ceiling to avoid each other. They even ran in circles around us when they had reached the end of the hallway (which was quite a bit of space mind you). The two of them enjoyed each other's company immensely, especially when we were too tired to pet them (Growlithe mostly). And when they finally tired out, they fell asleep on top of each other, it was the cutest sight ever, and it made me wish I had a camera with me. A flash went off beside me and Alex tossed me the device in his hands, a camera. I grinned and looked back at the picture he took and noted he did a really go job.
We finally arrived in Celadon City a good amount of time later and our poor pokemon seemed almost shy at the largely laid out city. Buildings were high up into the sky and seemed to stretch for quite a distance and it excited me to no end to see this large city.
"Well, we finally made it here." Alex sighed as we started to walk into the city. "What do you want to do first? The gym? Training? A bite to eat?"
"Actually, I first need to ask Amber something." My pikachu in turn looked up at me. "Amber, do you remember when Luke told us we could get an evolution stone here? One that could make you evolve?"
"Pika." She nodded.
"Do you want to evolve?" My pikachu mulled over it for a moment before she questioned me.
"Pikachu pika pikachu pi pika?" I shook my head.
"I asked you because it's your choice Amber; and since we're here in the only city in the region that sells or has these stones."
My pikachu was silent for a moment before she looked up at me sadly. "Pika pi pikachu pi?"
I returned her sad look and nodded to her. "Most likely, since you'll have a lot more power like you dad has since he's a raichu, it probably would be enough to help out your mom."
"Violet what are you talking about?" Alex questioned worriedly.
"I'll tell you in a moment Alex." I quickly glanced at him before I turned back to Amber. "It's your call on what you want to do; it's your body and your choice."
Amber hesitated for a moment before she turned to Amethyst. "Pika pi pikachu pika?"
"Char char," Amethyst replied instantly. "Char char char."
"Pika?"
"Char char!"
"Pika…" My pikachu then turned back to look at me. She nodded. "Pika… pika pi pikachu."
"You're sure Amber? I don't want you to regret it once it's done. Once you evolve, you can't turn back into a pikachu."
"Pikachu pi!" she snapped.
I held up my hands in surrender. "Alright! I got it, you wanna do it. We'll go now." Amber instantly softened her expression and jumped up onto my shoulder.
"Pika, pika pi," she apologized.
"Its okay Amber, I know you're worried about your mom." I rubbed the top of her head and we headed into the city to find the department store. "You know Alex, you could evolve Growlithe too if you bought a fire stone, I've read that how normally growlithe evolve."
"Hmm… I'll probably get the stone for the future, I haven't trained at all yet with Growlithe and it wouldn't be right to evolve it right off. And its Growlithe's choice too, if it doesn't want to evolve, then so be it."
"Of course, it shouldn't be any other way. And should Growlithe decide it doesn't want to evolve, you can always sell the stone." Alex nodded and we entered the building.
"Welcome to the Celadon Department Store! Every item a trainer would ever need is within these walls, should you need any help, please be free to ask myself or any of our staff!" A woman behind the front counter of the store called out as we entered the store. Video chat phones were on the side wall that man people in the store seemed to be using at the moment while many posters were hung on the walls, neat and crisps as if they'd just come off the rack. A single stair case was behind the counter the woman who greeted us stood at and elevator was next to it in the middle of the back wall.
"Excuse me, could you tell me and my friend here what floor evolution stones would be on?" I questioned the woman at the counter as I approached her.
"Certainly miss, evolution stones are on level four and we have four different types in stock: fire, water, thunder and leaf. I hope one of those are what you're looking for." The woman pointed to the elevator behind us. "You can either take the elevator up to floor four or you can use the staircases. We hope you enjoy your time here and we hope you'll come back again as well." I thanked the woman and with Alex and our pokemon on our heels, we traveled toward the elevator and pressed the button. It came out on the floor that we were on pretty quickly and let off a few people before Alex and I stepped on with a couple other people.
I suddenly felt something warm by my ear and I felt my face flush after I saw who it was. Alex had leaned over to whisper to me and his lips were right at the edge of the flab of skin of the ear lobe. "So, are you ever going to fill me in on this family tree thing with Amber?"
"Her mom disappeared a short while before I found her, we don't know what happen to her, not even Amber or Surge's raichu, Amber's dad. Amber's now dead set on finding her and finding out what happened." I kept my body still while Alex remained close to hear my words. When he was satisfied with my answer, he pulled away from me and I felt like I could breathe again. I felt my heart beating rapidly in my chest and the warm feeling on my skin, especially the skin of my cheeks and face, refused to simmer down. Why am I so embarrassed? It's just Alex, sure he got a little closer then he normally tends to, but he doesn't care much about anyone beyond the level of friendship other then his family, especially with the snobbish attitude he has from time to time.
Without warning I felt the elevator come to a stop and it landed on our level. When I didn't move in the first second it stopped, Alex gently held his arm behind my back and pushed me forward to get me moving. It startled me enough out of my embarrassment to get me out of the elevator. Even after we were out, I felt the ghost like presence of Alex's arm right behind me, ready to give the faint push in the right direction I needed.
I shook my head and slapped my face. No one seemed to take mind other then my own group while I pulled myself together and pushed those strange feelings to the back of my heart and head. I didn't need to think about them right now, what I needed to think about was my next gym badge and helping Amber find her mom.
"You okay Violet?" Alex whispered worriedly.
I nodded to the trainer. "I'm fine Alex, just getting me focused and what not." He nodded and didn't question me further, but he had the looks as if he really wanted to.
"Welcome, how my I help you?" The clerk of the store level waited silently as we looked over the wares he had on this floor. Of course, all the most valuable things like the stones were kept in the counter he had where we could see through the glass and look at them.
"Yes, I'm actually here for and evolution stone for my pikachu, so I'd like a thunder stone please." I pointed out the single thunder stone that had caught my eye. It was a bright pale grass green with a single lightning yellow lightning bolt pattern in the center of it. The clerk nodded and took out a key to pull out the stone for me and placed it on the counter.
"That will be three-thousand please." I pulled out the money from the trainers that I'd beaten and handed him over the cash he asked for. Once it was in his hand, he let me have at the stone that was placed on his desk. I could feel the energy inside it, waiting to help a pokemon on its way to evolve.
"I'd also like a fire stone for my growlithe," Alex added and the man once again pulled out a stone. This one was a more pale yellow background with a bright flame on the inside of the stone that looked like it would burn the building down if it was smashed open.
"That will be three-thousand please sir." Alex easily fished out the money from his own wallet and then grabbed his own stone, pocketing it before we left the building.
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Once we had made it back to the pokemon center we took a relaxing seat at one of the tables outside and waited to be served our lunch. All our pokemon were out and about, playing with each other or simply taking a nap while they waited. Amber was the only one that was out of the ordinary, since I know she's been waiting on me to give her the stone so she could evolve.
We ate in silence once our food was brought out to us by cooks that worked at the pokemon center. The food was decent, but a little greasier then I would have like, but being in a large city like this, it doesn't surprise me with the fast food restaurants around the area. Next time I'll order a salad…
"Pika pi?" Amber questioned me once I stopped eating.
"Food's too greasy for my liking. I didn't think it'd be like this when I ordered it." I sighed.
Alex reached across the table and took my basket while he handed over his. "I'm not too picky about what I eat, so eat the rest of mine; I'll finish off your greasy chicken." He looked a bit sour at the fact of eating something other then the meal he'd ordered.
"You don't have to Alex-"
"It'd be bad to let that food go to waste and you still need some more energy," he argued and pointed down at his basket he'd given me. "Eat."
I groaned but obeyed him none the less and picked up his caesar sandwich. Its flavor was so much better then the chicken I'd chosen to eat. I'll have to remember that in the future to ask Alex what's better to get on the menu so I don't make this mistake again.
I'd only taken another bite when I heard a loud rustle in the bushes. I looked up from my meal and looked over to the area behind me next to the back door of the pokemon center. From the bushes came a flash of dark and light brown that landed next to my basket in front of Alex. Everyone looked startled over at the pokemon before him and it leaned down and started eating away at the food before it. It didn't seem to care about how greasy the chicken was and ate every bit of it. The pokemon itself was a mostly dark brown in color and its fur seemed to be extremely thick. It walked on all four paws and had a bushy tan colored collar around its neck and a fluffy dark brown tail. Its ears were long and stood tall above its head and it had the deepest onyx eyes I'd ever seen.
While the pokemon ate, Alex got up from his seat and walked over to where I was and grabbed my hand that had part of our half eaten sandwich. With my hand still attached, he pulled my arm up toward him and took a bite of the sandwich while his hand covered mine.
I felt a vein expand on my forehead. "You know, you could at least let go of my hand Alex." He stopped eating for a moment and looked down at me, mid bite. He shrugged and pulled the sandwich out of my hand and ate some more of it before he placed the last couple bites of it back in my hand.
"Finish it up, you need the energy." He stretched his arms over his head and walked back over to the order counter. "I'm gonna order another couple sandwiches."
"I would have eaten that sandwich if you hadn't eaten it right out of my hand," I muttered angrily. Alex looked back and grinned evilly.
"Yeah, but who's sandwich was that to begin with?" I huffed and turned on my feet away from him, eating the last couple bites of the sandwich he'd left me. The pokemon on the table soon finished up the food there and sat on the table, looking at me with its large onyx eyes.
"Ee!" it cried happily, licking its lips and its tail wagging quickly. I lost my sour mood in an instant when I looked at it and held out my hand for it. It slowly approached me and sniffed my hand before it circled back and sat back where it had been.
"What exactly are you up to you little cutie?" I smiled down at the pokemon and sat back in my chair. I fished out my pokedex and pointed it at the small creature and waited for it to load the information about this pokemon.
Eevee, the evolution pokemon. Eevees have an unstable genetic makeup that suddenly mutates due to its environment. Radiation from various stones causes this pokemon to evolve. Its genetic code is irregular. There are currently no known eevee nests in the region.
"Eevee?" I questioned the pokemon before me. I tilted my head slightly to the side and the eevee mimicked my move. I then moved my head back up right and the eevee did as I had.
"Here." Suddenly a sandwich flew right in front of me along with a large basket of fries. I looked behind me and saw that Alex and thrown them before me, a couple of the scattered fires the young eevee gladly raced after and ate.
"Okay, one, you didn't need to thrown the food, two, how am I supposed to eat all this after I already had my own fries earlier and part of your sandwich?" I demanded of him.
"Give the fries to the pokemon, it looks pretty hungry." Alex shrugged and sat back down in his seat and ate his second sandwich. I saw the poor eevee was nearly drooling as it looked at my food before I pushed the fires toward it. I nearly pounced on them and started to dig in while I ate my own sandwich.
I looked down at my lap. "Thanks Alex."
He glanced up from his sandwich for only a moment to catch my eyes when I glanced at him and I noticed how softer his were now. He nodded to me before he went back to eating his food and I did the same.
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A short time later everyone had finished their food, even the wild eevee, and as we prepared to go, the eevee stood their waiting and watching us. When it saw us leaving, it raced before us and gave us a sad face. "Ee!"
"I'm sorry little eevee, but we have to get going and you should be going home now. I bet your parents or whoever you stay with are worried sick." It ignored me and cried out again and Alex sighed.
"Let's just go Violet, we still have to go and battle the gym leader here." I felt his hand on my back again and Alex started to lead me away from the area with Amber on my shoulder, Amethyst at my side and Wartortle at his side.
"Ee! Ee!" it cried out again, and I turned back to face the pokemon, halted in my steps. It looked like it was about ready to cry.
"Violet, it probably belongs to someone, just leave it be." Alex waved it off and pulled me along again. I watched its tears fall from the side of its face as we left.
If it didn't belong to anyone, I would have put it on my team in a heart beat.
"EE!" I turned when I heard the angry screech and Alex pushed me to the side just as the small pokemon bit Alex on the arm, drawing a bit of blood. He cried out in pain before he threw his arm and the eevee flew off his. It then darted back at us and Alex angrily ordered Wartortle to attack. The eevee jumped over the water gun that shot from Wartortle's mouth and the eevee managed to snatch Alex's wallet that was still in his hands. With a desirable item in its mouth, it took off into the city.
"Get back here you little piece of tauros shit!" Alex shouted and took off after the pokemon.
"Alex! Wait!" I called and took after him with all our pokemon by my side.
The eevee led us down many alleyways and roads, it seemed to have an endless amount of energy it seemed to have from all the food we had given it. With Alex's wallet still in its mouth, it jumped onto a small walkway that led up to a building that had about four stories to it. Alex ran up the pathway with us right on his heels and we walked in the door to find the little eevee growling at Alex in the corner of the room where it had backed up into.
"Give me back my wallet you little-"
"Alex! Stop it!" I jumped before him and walked up to the little eevee. "Give me his wallet Eevee." It shook its head and I looked at it right in the eyes. Its angry expression soon clamed down as I continued to stare at it and it eventually released Alex's wallet into my hands. I patted the top of its head and handed Alex's wallet back to him.
"Your lucky Violet saved your sorry ass." Alex hissed.
"Would you calm down? I know there's a reason it did what it did but your going overboard Alex." I turned back to the eevee. "And you were no better, you should know that it's not nice to steal from people, especially after he was all nice and bought lunch for you."
"What's going on in here?" An elderly voice asked. Alex and I turned in a hurry to face and elderly woman who was looking at us with an angry expression. By her sides were three different pokemon that I didn't recognize except that two of them looked like the nidorans, but larger and more muscular. The third was very cat like and a light tan in color with what seemed to be a large gold coin on its forehead.
"I'm so sorry ma'am." I turned to face the elderly woman. "It's a long story, but the short version is that this eevee bit my friend and stole his wallet from him. We'd only just gotten it back from the eevee when you arrived."
The woman simply looked at me coolly, stilling me in fear, and she then turned to look at the eevee next to her. "You know Eevee, that's not how you ask to be apart of a person's pokemon team." The eevee in turn lowered its head and nodded to the woman.
"Huh?" Nearly everyone other then the woman across from us said that, including our pokemon. The woman sighed and motioned us over into a room toward the back.
"Please, come in the back and we can talk over this with a cup of tea." The woman walked out back with her pokemon and the eevee walked slowly after them. After a moment of watching them leave and then looking over at Alex, he shrugged as if to say, 'hell, let's just go for it'. I sighed; quite annoyed with this confusing setting, but I led the others into the back where the woman was waiting for us.
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"So let me get this strait, this isn't your eevee?" Alex nearly hissed out the question at the old woman who was now smiling at us and pouring us large cups of tea to drink while we all sat around a large table in the center of the room she had brought us in.
"That's correct young man," the woman, who we had come to know as Lily Marshal, replied. "I've cared and taken in the little rascal, but he's not mine, he's never had an owner or trainer, he was left here as a babe about a year ago and I looked after him until he was at an age where he could and would find his own food. I still offer him refuge here to stay since he has no other place to go, but he's pretty stubborn about finding his own food."
"Yeah, like having others pay for it." Alex muttered angrily at the eevee that was happily curled up in my lap. He looked up at Alex and stuck out his tongue at him and I saw Alex go red. The two growled at each other before a loud smack was heard, both of the two of them were hit over the head by Lily with some sort of cane she had resting against the side of the table.
"Both of you will cease and desist," Lily told them calmly. The two of them muttered under their breaths but kept quiet none the less from the fear they felt from the old woman Lily, who was quite stronger then her older age appearance would suggest.
"So no one will take in this little eevee? Not one person?" I questioned, moving us away from another feud between the boys.
Lily sighed. "Sadly, no, this little eevee is too much for anyone to handle, that and he seems to hate most everyone, surprisingly not you or your pokemon however. I've seen that little eevee get into many battles and fights in the city with humans, pokemon and trainers, but never have I seen him curl up into someone's lap and be content there, he doesn't even do that with myself."
"Maybe he just found someone he finally liked." I smiled down at the eevee and he in turn looked back up at me, giving me a cheery cry back with a grin of his own.
"Maybe he did." Lily sighed. She then looked over at me hopefully. "Is there anyway that you would take Eevee to be on your team?"
The eevee and Alex gasped, but I was prepared for this question when I saw the way she was heading with the conversation after I started it. "In a heart beat, I'd take him in a heart beat. But is up to Eevee whether or not he wants to go."
"Ee! Ee! Eevee ee!" He jumped up and down on my lap and looked up at me with gleaming onyx eyes that just jolted my heart with happiness to make this eevee smile.
"I guess you're on my team then." The eevee pounced onto me and nuzzled his way under my neck and then licked the tip of my nose with its fluffy tail wagging nearly as fast as Growlithe's. "Now we just need a nickname for you, to make it your own."
"Ee?" the happy pokemon suddenly asked me.
"Yeah, a name that would fit your personality."
"How exactly do you go about naming you pokemon, are their certain names you like more then others?" Lily questioned.
"Sorta, you see, I was always fascinated by the color, shape, texture and names of gem stones when I was younger, even now I still keep that interest alive with the books I have back at my house. My mom always thought I'd be a jeweler rather then a trainer." I laughed for a moment at the memory with my mother when I was eight but I pulled myself back to the present. "Anyway, I like naming my pokemon after gem stones that I think fit them best, mostly due to the color. Due to my charmeleon's coloration and her eyes, I named her Amethyst back when I met her as a charmander. My pikachu I named Amber since it had a softer and kinder feeling toward that kind of yellow stone. Topaz might have fit Amber's coloring better, but Amber fit much better. The only exception to this is Lovey, who's still recovering from being a Team Rocket pokemon with Bill; she took the name 'lovey' when I used that pet name to calm her down when we started treatment for her a few weeks ago."
"I see, and what seems to be on your mind for Eevee?"
"That's easy, since there's only one kind of stone that would fit him. Due to his darker personality and the pure onyx eyes he has, he'd be named after a darker stone, but there's only one of these that I know of, well, besides a black pearl."
"And that is?" Alex pressed.
"Chalcedony, it's the only stone I know of that actually is the color black." Alex still had doubts about the name I'd chosen, but the eevee in turn grinned up at me, I saw it like the name. "It's a dark name that sounds a bit soft so it shows that you have two halves to you. What do you think?"
"Ee!" He leapt on my lap and preformed a back flip and then landed back in my lap skillfully.
"Chalcedony it is, welcome to the team my little eevee." I held the pokemon in my arms.
"Thank you for taking him Violet, you don't know what that means to me, and how many headaches I no longer have to look forward to." Alex snorted at that comment and Chalcedony growled. From his mouth came a large ball of dark purple and black energy which he fired at Alex and it hit him square in the face.
"Why you little-"
"Enough! Both of you!" I snapped. I stood up from my seat and glared down at Alex. "I don't want to hear another sound out of you, and you," Chalcedony looked up at me sadly when he saw I was angry. "I will put you in a time out if you continue with this bad behavior, no more biting, attacking or anything toward anyone unless I say so or you're doing so to protect yourself from an attacker, understand?"
"Ee…" Chalcedony nodded and lowered its head.
I sighed. Now I see why Lily needed to get rid of Chalcedony, I think he'll behave better if I separate him from Alex; the two of them just seem to argue like territorial male arcanines.
"I'll take Chalcedony out for a quick breath of fresh air and get him into a pokeball so no one else might try to capture him and take him as their own." Lily nodded to me and I walked out of her home at the bottom of this large building.
Once I stepped outside, I fished out one of the pokeballs in my bag. The one that I ended up grabbing was one I'd found on the ground of the Rock Tunnel. It was black in color over all and had a gold line in the center for where it opened with a white rimming on the edge of the gold. Above it on the top half of the ball was a thick red line with gold edges to it that was evenly spaced between the top and the middle of the pokeball. If I remember correctly, this pokeball was called a 'luxury ball', a pokeball especially made for people to get pokemon to be a little friendlier that the richer class used. I'm not worried about Chalcedony being friendly to me, but to others and to keep him from attacking people. People would lock him away if this problem wasn't dealt with.
But I think I can let it slide every now and then with the situation's right.
"Alright Chalcedony, this will be your pokeball. I'm gonna capture you inside it so that you don't end up getting captured by someone else accidentally or taken by Team Rocket while you're apart of my team." Chalcedony nodded and I tapped the pokeball on his head. From the pokeball came a read light that turned Chalcedony into a red light and drew his body inside the small pokeball. The ball shook for a moment in my hand before the light in the center that was red died off and the pokeball stopped moving. I opened the pokeball to let Chalcedony out and he shook out his fur once he became solid and not red.
"Now we're all set." I picked Chalcedony and set him back up into my arms and he snuggled into me there. I liked the feeling of holding him in my arms.
"Violet?" I turned my head to the voice I heard and I instantly froze when I saw the person behind me. Without a second thought I turned and ran back into the building where my other pokemon were. "Violet wait!"
I slammed the door in her face and quickly locked it before I ran back into the other room where the others were. "Amethyst, Amber, we're moving out!" My pokemon instantly jumped to their feet when they heard my worried voice and rushed over to me. "Quick, out the back door!"
"Violet? What's going on?" Alex shouted worriedly.
"Violet! Would you just stop for a moment?" Amethyst jumped protectively before me and hissed at the person who had somehow bypassed all the locks on the front door. She took in all our surroundings and suddenly saw that Alex was here as well and the old woman.
"Welcome back Daisy," Lily told her. Daisy in turn nodded slowly and looked between the both of us.
"What's going on?" she finally asked slowly. "Violet? Alex didn't catch you did he?"
"No he didn't." I felt my grip on Chalcedony tighten. "And you aren't now."
"But I don't want to stop you, I'm here to help!" she pleaded.
"How do I know you telling the truth?"
"Because she's been saying here with me for nearly three quarters of the month waiting for you to speak with you," Lily vouched for her. "She's been talking worriedly about you for the entire time she's been here and it's started to get on my nerves, so I had to send her away for the day to calm down. She's been speaking none stop about how your mother's lost her mind and how she thought you might shut everyone out since they were all after you." Lily seemed to say in such a bored tone that it had to be true, she truly looked sick from the constant nagging over the same subject we new Daisy well for when she was worried.
"Will you hear me out Violet?" Daisy pleaded once more to me.
I mulled over it for a moment, thinking of the pros and cons of the situation. Daisy wasn't the type of person to steer me wrong, but I've been surprised and proven wrong every now and then, and that's more times then I'd like. I finally sighed and nodded to her. In the next moment I felt her arms around me in a warm hug. She was silent, but I bet on the inside she was praying pretty hard to whoever's above.
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"So you see, I just wanted to update you on what's been going on at home and how everyone feels. Grandpa still believes what your doing is dangerous and your mother is still hell bent on trying to keep you locked up in your room for the rest of your life, but not me, and apparently not the boys either." Alex looked down hesitantly and I sat next to him. Our pokemon surrounded us and waited on my verdict to believe her or not after the long story she told me about what happened back home.
"I believe you Daisy." She looked up at me hopefully and Alex looked up at me in surprise.
"You can?" he questioned me worriedly.
"I can, to be honest; I would have trusted her before I would have trusted you and Vince." He gave me one of those angry looks that made me laugh. "I mean, she and I grew up together practically as sisters when the two of you were fighting. I'd just easily trust her first, and Daisy never lies or plays dirty."
"…You have a point." Alex mumbled and let the subject drop.
"I mostly just wanted to give you my support so you wouldn't feel like the world was against you, but I guess someone else decided to do that first." Daisy smirked over at her younger brother and he in turn snorted and looked away from her with his arms crossed. Daisy and I both laughed with our pokemon at his behavior.
"So what do you plan to do now?" Daisy questioned. "Have you battled the gym leader here yet?"
"Not yet, Amber wanted to evolve first before that and then we ran into all this drama with Chalcedony, Lily and you. And before I forget…" I pulled out the thunder stone from my bag and set it down on the table before Amber. "It's your choice girl, if you're still sure, it's all yours, if not, I'll go get rid of the stone."
"Pika pi, pikachu chu pika pi." She reached over the table and grabbed the stone. Once it made contact with her skin, the stone began to glow, and suddenly after it, so did Amber. Her body began to get larger and it soon took on the shape of a raichu. The light soon vanished, the stone next to Amber that she'd touched now a regular old rock. Amber on the other hand was no longer a pikachu, she was a full grown raichu with the only difference between her and Surge's being the way you could tell if one was male or female. Unlike her previous evolution, there was no indent in her tail, but her tail was shaped like a lightning bolt just as her father's was, other then the fact that her tail didn't come to a sharp tip like her father's had, hers smoothed out where a tip would have been since she was female. I pointed my pokedex at her to upload the information on her evolved form since I forgot to when I last saw her father.
Raichu, the mouse pokemon and the evolved form of pikachu. If it stores too much electricity, its behavior turns aggressive. To avoid this, it occasionally discharges excess energy and calms itself down. Its long tail serves as a ground to protect itself from its own high-voltage power. There are no known raichu nests in the region.
"So… how do you feel?" My raichu looked over herself for a moment and looked up at me with wide eyes.
"Raichu rai, chu raichu rai," she said.
I smirked. "See, we told you it would be that bad." She grinned lightly at me and jumped on my shoulder. She was much heavier then she used to be as a pikachu, but I was still able to have her hang up there. She wrapped her tail around my middle and I steadied myself out with Chalcedony still in my arms and Amethyst making sure I didn't fall over.
"You okay Violet?" Alex questioned worriedly.
"I'm fine; I just have to adjust myself to the change as well." I shifted my shoulder under Amber's new weight and slowly started to move around. "It's honestly not that hard, but I won't be able to carry her around as much as I used to." Amber sighed at that, but she nodded. She knew the consequences to evolving and had accepted them when she'd taken the stone. She slowly slid down from my shoulder and un-wrapped her tail before she set herself on the ground. With my shoulder now free of my new raichu, I rolled it a bit before I looked at the others.
"Now we can go face the gym leader." I grinned at Amethyst. "And I've heard this is a grass type gym, so Amethyst, you're battling all the way, unless one of you two want to battle?" I questioned both of my other pokemon.
"Rai." Amber shook her head.
"Ee!" Chalcedony nodded his head and turned up in my arms. "Eevee ee!"
"You sure Chalcedony? You don't wanna train first?" The eevee shook its head in my arms.
"Oh there's no need to worry about him Violet, that little eevee has gotten more practice with the tussling with the pokemon in the area. I'm not sure how he'll fair against the gym leader's pokemon, but he'll fair well with at least one." Lily eased my worries with her words. "Chalcedony will be fine, especially if you place him up against Erika's tangela. It's the only one of her pokemon that isn't also a poison type."
I groaned. "Great, more poison. As if last time wasn't scary enough."
"Finally! I found you two!" All of us turned to look in the doorway to see my brother all scratched up and a machop attached to his arm, the same one that the angry mother had been after. Vince angrily glared at Alex and me before stomping over to us. "You two have some nerve leaving me to deal with that mother machamp!"
"Well apparently you were able to get away, and with its kid none the less, so we didn't have much to worry about." Alex brushed him off. "Besides, you said before that you'd escaped her before, so we weren't worried about you getting away. Your pokemon wouldn't let you die out there."
"She nearly tore me in half!"
"But you're here in one piece."
"That's beside the point! You did nothing to help me!"
"We were supposed to?"
I took the opportunity to motion Amethyst to come over to my side. Amber jumped up on her back and I leaned over next to Daisy. "I'm gonna take this moment to leave and battle the gym leader so I don't have to fight them to find out who battles her first. I'll see you guys later." Daisy nodded her head and hurried toward the fighting teens while I rushed out the door with my pokemon and proceeded to cross the large city in search of the gym and its leader.
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It had taken me a bit more of the last few hours of the afternoon, but I'd finally came face to face with the fourth gym of the region. Celadon City's gym was more like an extremely large flower shop rather then a gym. With another hour or two before a person could technically call the time 'evening' in the day, I walked up the steps to the large, clear windowed, flower filled building. Even at the hour of only about four in the afternoon, it was still busy with many woman and a few men looking for flowers, clothes, decorations and perfumes.
The door was wide open when I stepped inside and the place was jam-packed. Many girls of all kinds were busy around the shop bringing and towing items left and right, to and from customers, making the atmosphere lively. One girl in particular stood out among the rest with short black hair held back by a reddish pink head band and a pale yellow and pink kimono. She elegantly moved around the store and she seemed to be the one that all the girls, who I could see worked here, referred to. She most likely was the gym leader Erika Haruhi or she probably knew where to find her.
I walked up to the older girl and she quickly turned around to face me. "Hello there, welcome to Celadon City's garden shop and gym. May I interest you in some samples of anything? Or is there a particular item that you're looking for? I'm afraid to say that some have already been bought out of stock until next season, but we can put you on our waiting list for it if its not here."
"Actually, I'm not looking to buy anything today, though your wares and flowers here are gorgeous by the way," she smiled at my words. "But I was actually wondering if I would be able to battle with gym leader Erika Haruhi at all today. You see, I saw that most of the girls that worked here were coming to you most of the time, so I assumed that you either knew the gym leader well or you were her."
"Well, you came to the right person, I am Erika and I'd be glad to except your challenge." She suddenly blinked a few times before she gasped at me. "Oh my goodness! You must be Violet! I recognized you from the images of your battle with Surge!"
"Yeah," I rubbed the back of my head in embarrassment. "That'd be me."
"Of course I will battle you." She paused for a moment to think. "Though, before we battle… I'd like you do something for me."
I blinked. "What would you have me do?"
She held out her hand for me to take. "Come with me into the greenhouse in the back. I'll tell you what I'll have you do there." I nodded and I followed the woman with my pokemon through a door in the back of the store. It led through a small tunnel that opened up into a large green house that sheltered many plants and trees of all types. Bug and grass types floated and moved throughout the greenhouse, pollinating the flowers and giving the flowers water.
One pokemon in particular walked up to Erika and I as we moved through the greenhouse and handed her a single flower, it was small and there seemed to be many of them on the small stem the pokemon gave her. The flowers were small and white with only five petals. The center was also a shade of white, but not a bright white like the petals, nor the small stems that had the reproductive male organ of the flower that stood out between the beginning of every pair of petals.
"Thank you Vileplume. This flower expresses us both very well," Erika said to the pokemon. The large purple pokemon with tiny arms and legs with barley a couple of firsts and feet, and a large flower on the top of its head that was like a hat colored a bright pinkish red with some white spots on the flower, smiled up at the young woman and darted back off into the house. "Don't be gone long! We'll be battling this trainer as soon as I finish my test with her!"
"So what am I doing Erika?" I asked the gym leader once more.
"Well, I find it productive when I have a challenger select certain flowers from my garden here and I read their language which tells me a bit more about you." She replied. "What I'll do is turn my back and close my eyes, while I do so, you chose however many flowers in the garden here that really speak to you, and place them here on this table." She patted the dark, wooden desk beside her.
"That's all you want me to do?"
"Yes, and don't worry about picking any of the flowers, most of them are in pots next to where the rest are planted, if not, then point it out to me." I nodded and Erika turned her back. "You may begin."
I set down Chalcedony from my arms so I could look around the room for any flower that really spoke out to me. The first that I saw that caught my eye instantly was a single white flower with a few buds around it on the same stem. It had six petals that were all a snow white color and a thick, well patterned yellow center that actually reminded me a lot of the flowers that my father and I picked when he was still around when I was little. I picked up that flower pot and placed it on the desk next to Erika. I saw her smile when she heard the pot be placed, but she didn't utter a word.
When I went around looking for any other flowers, another caught my eye. It was very stringy like in shape, I couldn't count the number of petals it had, but it had a few more then three or four. It had nearly about the same number of reproduction stems sticking out of it. Its leaves were nearly a mirror image on either side of the stem until it reached the base where the soil was. I picked up that pot and placed it on the table next to the other white flower and headed back into the forest of flowers Erika had here.
The next flower I found was a very dark magenta pink, with a few hints of red in its petals. It had five of its very large petals and its reproduction stem that came out of the center of the flower was very long, at least an inch and a half with multiple clumps of pollen clumped together. It seemed so vibrant and for some reason it just screamed out to me. I picked it up easily and placed it next to the other two on the table.
I looked once more in the flowers that were more vibrant then others when I came to the end of the row and found a large clump of flowers that were on the end of a stem. They were a light purple in color that had some lavender color in there as well at their lighter areas of the flower. Large leaves were spread out around the base that were fat and thick white the petals of the flowers were thin and small, only about five or six petals per flower. It reproduction steps were hardly noticeable with them nearly blending in with the rest of the flowers' colors. I added that one to the table and took another look around.
I looked through the entire greenhouse for any other flowers to add to my small pile on Erika's desk, I was just about ready to say I was done when a flash of vibrant white caught my eyes, even whiter then what I'd seen before with the other flowers I'd chosen. A cluster of stems loomed together with long necked, widely bloomed petal flowers of an unaccountable amount. The white was also still in the center of it where the reproductive stems were. I grabbed the flower and placed it on the table and I knew I was done.
"I'm done Erika." I saw the woman turn around and her eye glowed at the flowers I placed down before her.
"Oh you chose lovely flowers. Lets go in order from first to last that you picked, hm?" I nodded and she picked up the first white flower I grabbed that reminded me of what I picked with my dad. "Hmm, the first flower you picked here is a common one I see trainers pick, such as yourself. This is called 'jonquil', and its definition is 'desire'." She placed down the pot. "I believe you can see why it's chosen so often, all trainers have a desire to become the ultimate trainer there is, so seeing a jonquil is common, or at least with most trainers that is."
Erika then proceeded to pick up the second flower that was stringy in shape and form with repetitively patterned leaves. "This is 'honeysuckle' and its definition is 'devotion'. For you to pick up this one, you must be quite devoted to your friends, pokemon and anything or one else in your life." I nodded and she set down that pot before moving on to the next one.
"Now this one that I only see people bring to me from time to time." She showed me the magenta-red hinted flower. "This is a 'hibiscus', which means 'beauty'."
"I don't know if I quite agree with that one, I mean, I know I'm not ugly, but I'm not too sure I'm beautiful either." Erika sighed, but she nodded.
"It's only natural for some women to feel that way, no matter what age they are, at least once in their life. It's your self-doubt that's talking, but I'm sure you'll learn to weave you way around it." She placed down the vibrant flower and picked up the next one.
"Hm… now this is one I hardly see at all." She looked over the purple flower in her arms as if she was re-assessing it. "This is 'rhododendron', which in translation means 'beware'. You must be quite the powerful person in order to get that kind of flower."
"I haven't lost a battle yet, maybe that has something to do with it?" I questioned.
"Hmm... maybe." She placed down the pot and grabbed the last one. "And this one I don't think I've seen at all before when I've given this test to a trainer."
"What one is that one? What does it mean?"
"This is 'tuberose' and it means 'dangerous pleasures'." She looked over at me in worry. "What exactly do you do in your free time to give you such a flower?"
"Uh… maybe my messing with Team Rocket's plans? Every time I see them I screw up everything and send them home running."
"That is quite a dangerous pleasure." She clapped her hands and some of the pokemon in the greenhouse came forward. "Make sure these plants get back where they should be, please?" The pokemon nodded and each grabbed a different pot and took it back to its location before I'd taken it and Erika led me away from the greenhouse room to where a battlefield was outside the building. "Now that I know you a bit better, we can battle. I'm not sure if you know of this or not, but I use three pokemon, but that's how many you have so it shouldn't be a problem." She walked over to her side of the battlefield and pulled out one of her pokeballs. "Now let's see if you can follow through with your flower readings. Go Tangela!" From the pokeball she threw came a small pokemon that looked entirely of tangled, thick, caribbean blue-green vines with eye showing through the small area between the vines and bright red feet that stuck out of the bottom of it.
"Good, that's the pokemon I was hopping you'd start with." I looked down to Chalcedony at my feet. "You ready boy?" He nodded and bound forward onto the battlefield and grinned at his opponent.
Although, now that I thought about it, I probably should've trained a bit with my pokemon first. The only attack I knew that he knew was bite and that shadowy ball attack he'd used on Alex earlier today. Other then that, I had no idea what moves Chalcedony could use.
"Either of you know what moves he can use besides bite? I forgot to check or ask," I quietly questioned my charmeleon and my raichu.
Amber shook her head. "Rai raichu rai rai." She sighed. "Rai rai, chu raichi rai, raichu chu chu, rai."
"Thanks Amber, I know I can always count on you to know what I don't." Amber rolled her eyes and sat down on the ground to watch the match. Now that I knew his attacks, I was prepared to fight with Chalcedony against Erika. "Alright Chalcedony, let's start off with quick attack!"
With a bounding leap, my eevee raced forward and hit the vine-bodied pokemon with a quick hit before he jumped back and watched as the pokemon rolled off to the side. It looked angrily over at Chalcedony and got back to its feet, ready to fight back.
"Alright Tangela, lets attack back with vine whip!" From the body of many entangled vines came a few stay ones that lashed out at my newest pokemon. Chalcedony sped out of the way, dodging each attack before the tangela stopped its onslaught and took a breather.
This must be one of her weaker pokemon or Chalcedony's stronger then I originally thought. I shook my head and focused on the task at hand. "Shadow ball!" Like before, a large ball of dark purple and black energy formed before the mouth of my eevee and was thrown at the tangela. It shrieked back from the impact before it hit the back wall and slowly tried to get up to its feet again, it took two tries to do so.
"Synthesis Tangela!" Erika cried out. I'd learned about synthesis before this battle when I'd been studying different moves. Apparently it was the grass move similar to recover. But it took a lot of sunlight to do so, and with the hours of the day weeding away, there wasn't much hope for the tangela, but I wasn't about to let it try either.
"Shadow ball Chalcedony!" Without giving the tangela a chance to recover, Chalcedony fired away another shadow ball at it and it hit it square in the face. With the final hit necessary to take it down, Chalcedony grinned as his opponent fell to the ground in a heap of tangled vines, not moving at all.
"Good job Chalcedony!" My eevee in return leapt into the air before it ran back to me. "Now we'll leave the rest up to Amethyst, I promise you'll get to battle more in the future, okay?" He nodded and sat back down by my side next to Amber and Amethyst lumbered forward into the ring. I saw Erika's face turn to horror as my fire type grinned at her.
"I won't let you get my badge without a fight, even if I am at a disadvantage!" she cried out and withdrew her tangela before she pulled out another pokeball. "Go Victreebell!" From the pokeball she threw came a large yellow pokemon that looked like it was a large bell flower with the opening as its head. A single vine was attached to that leaf on its head that lay next to it and ended with a pale golden leaf. Its arms were large leaves that looked razor sharp and a single large leave hung over the top of its head and it looked like an entire person or two could fit in there. Its eyes were at the lip of its mouth, just under where the top leaf hung over. It glared at Amethyst angrily and Amethyst in turn glared right back.
"Let's make this quick Amethyst, ember!" My pokemon blasted fire over at the other pokemon and in response to the fire attack, the victreebell held up its leafy arms before it as a shield. It screeched as the flames hit its body and enveloped it. The flames and burns lingered on its body after I told Amethyst to call off the attack. It still was glaring at us, but it didn't have as much power behind it due to the damage it took.
"Poison powder Victreebell!" Erika's pokemon, in turn to the command, opened the leaf over its mouth and from within its body came a thick smoke of a purple powder that slowly spread all over the field. Amethyst jumped away from it and suddenly I saw a look in her eyes and she planted her feet on the battle field. Her eyes pupils narrowed and lengthened and I saw her body shaking slightly as the powder reached her. Don't tell me the poison powder already got in her system! But… it doesn't look like she was affected, the way she's acting looks more like she was hit with a stun spore rather then a poison powder.
Even Erika on the other side of the field looked frightened at my pokemon, but her pokemon seemed not to care. It fired leaves from its arms right at my pokemon through the poison powder, carrying it closer to Amethyst. "Wait Victreebell!"
"Amethyst! Ember!" I tried desperately to call out to my pokemon so she could protect herself. She finally stopped twitching after a moment and suddenly her body was covered in a white light and sparkles that danced around her body. Another evolution?
The victreebell's attack came racing toward her and I suddenly felt the air get pretty hot. The temperature in the room rose with my pokemon's evolution and as her body changed form and grew, she let out a large blast of flames, quicker and thicker then I'd ever seen before, that took out both of the grass pokemon's attack in one go before striking the pokemon head on. It collapsed on the ground in a burned heap while Amethyst continued to grow and change.
From the mast of sparkles and white light, Amethyst's form nearly tripled in size and from her back grew a pair of large wings nearly the same size as the rest of her body. Her head became longer as did the neck to her body and her body in general became much wider. Her claws thinned out and became more muscle and bone while all the excess mass went down to her large feet and legs. A second horn grew on her head and I watched as her amethyst eyes peaked through the evolution. She roared and the white light and sparkles nearly exploded around her before her real colors were revealed to me.
Her skin color was more or less a dark gray, almost black with a few hints of a dark purple in it. Her undersides to her wings were a bright red with a hint of magenta while the rest of her wings and body were the same dark gray-purple color as the rest of her body. The flame on her tail was still bright red, orange and yellow and her eyes still held their amethyst color. She flapped her wings on her back, stretching the new appendages she had before she roared once again and the wind in the room stirred up and blew all around us so that I could nearly start to see it take shape and color around us.
"Whoa…" I muttered and pulled out my pokedex to see what my charmeleon had become. Charizard, the flame pokemon and the evolved form of charmleon. Its wings can carry itself close to an altitude of four-thousand six-hundred feet. It blows out fire at very high temperatures that is hot enough to melt boulders. It may cause forest fires and is always in search of a strong opponent, but will never attack a weaker or injured foe. There are no known charizard nests in the region. Please wait a moment for shiny information to be uploaded.
"Rai…" Amber gasped.
"Ee!" Chalcedony cheered, jumping up on his back feet and doing back flips. "Ee ee!"
Amethyst calmed down in the next moment and looked back to me, waiting to hear my say about her evolution. I simply grinned at her and placed my hands on my hips. "You always choose the best times to evolve, don't cha Amethyst?"
She only grinned at me.
"Let's win our fourth badge and find out what new power you got." She roared lightly in response and turned back to Erika, waiting for her final pokemon to face us.
Erika sighed and returned her victreebell back to its pokeball before she looked back at me. "Your strong Violet, really strong, but I've got one last pokemon that stands between you and my badge." She turned to the greenhouse we came out of. "Vileplume! I need your help!"
The large flower pokemon came back into the room in a hustle and jumped to land right before Erika. "Vileplume! Vile!" It stood protectively before its trainer and glared upward at my charizard. My charizard in turn growled at the offending pokemon and the vileplume shrunk back in fear.
"Alright, let's test out your wings Amethyst, into the sky!" My fist pounded the air and without an instant passing by, my charizard leapt into the air and caught the wind beneath its wings, carrying it toward the ceiling. It hovered once it got pretty high up there and waited for my orders. With my pokedex still out, I looked through the moves that it told my pokemon would now know after its evolution. "Let's try one of your first flying moves, wing attack!" Amethyst dived upon command and launched itself at the grass pokemon across the battlefield. The flower pokemon in turn yelled and ran away from my charizard and suddenly turned before Amethyst could hit her. Amethyst pulled upward on her wings to avoid a crash into the wall before she rose back high into the air again, watching the fearful pokemon below.
Alright, I'll need a faster move to take that pokemon out, Amethyst was nearly unable to save herself after she missed with that new move, I'll have to practice with her on that move until we get it down. "Alright then…" I scrolled down the list of moves before I spotted one that I thought would work. "Arial ace!" My pokemon became an envelopment of white light and I saw her disappear from her spot, the next instant I heard the grass pokemon cry out and fly into the wall. The move was so powerful; it took it out in one shot. Vileplume fell to the ground with 'x's over its eyes, and the battle was over.
"We did it!" I cried out and ran onto the field with my two other pokemon. Amethyst grinned and flew down to join us and ended up picking all of us up and flying us around in the air. She had me set on her shoulders while Amber sat in my lap and Chalcedony sat upon her head. We all cheered as she flew us around.
"Violet?" I looked down below us and watched as Erika stood by herself now with all her pokemon returned to their pokeballs. "If you'd join me down on the ground, I have something for you."
"Let's go get our badge you guys." The three of them nodded and Amethyst took a dive that made us hold onto her for dear life, and even Chalcedony fell back into my chest and I had to grab him before Amethyst came to a screeching halt before Erika and picked us up and set us down before her.
"What a wild ride." I laughed and nearly tripped over my own two feet before Erika caught me.
"I bet it was, and now, this was an intense battle, one that has showed me I need to spend a little more time out of the flower shop and more with my pokemon and training." She held out her fist and placed my hand below hers before she dropped something into it. "And here is my badge as proof of your hard work and teamwork." In the palm of my hand was a small flower like badge with each petal being a different color and a golden center. "This is the rainbow badge, hold onto it well. I'll let Koga know that you'll be heading to his gym in Fuchsia City next."
"Thank you so much Erika. I'd better go now; my friends are probably worried about me." She nodded and opened the back door for me. Amethyst had us all climb back onto her so she could practice flying again. "Good luck to you!"
Amethyst took that moment to leap into the air and race off into the sun setting sky. I grinned down at the new badge in my hands and pulled out my case to put it with the others.
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It had only been a few short minutes since we left Erika's gym before the night slowly started to settle in. The breeze was kind and gentle to us as we flew through the soon to be night sky. All the people below us looked like little specks in my vision.
"Thief!" I felt the air in my lungs freeze when I heard the shout in the still air. "Stop that thief!" I looked down at the ground below and could barely make out a man in a white overcoat running after a shady character. I looked down at my pokemon before me.
"Let's go you three." My pokemon all nodded to me and Amethyst dived down toward the person. Amethyst reached her claws out to the person who was running in the darkness and just barely missed catching him, but I was given enough of a look to see that he had some soft of lens like item in his hands.
And a large red 'R' on his chest.
Witch's Note:
Ha! Another chapter done with lost of humor and fun! And this is the longest one I've made for this story yet! Amber and Amethyst both evolved and we have a new character: Chalcedony, the eevee that likes to attack Alex for no apparent reason! Well, at least no reason I bet you guys can guess yet!
I hope you guys Review me and send in any Questions you have for me! I love any you send in and I'm sure Violet and her team would too! Love you all and see you next week!
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