Dawn POV (This takes place the night of the day after when the previous chapter took place)
I sat there, in front of the blazing fire. Night had consumed the opened field where Robyn, the other Pokemon and I lay. Looking up, I saw a mountain looming in the distance. Robyn had told us about a channel of caves running through it. She has told us how the next Gym lay on the other side of it. I looked up as a single raindrop fell onto my nose.
I looked over at Robyn. She was admiring the first badge we had collected. We had obtained it from a large city nearby. It was known as the Cascade Badge.
The badge was the shape of a perfect raindrop, light blue in colour. It was made from either cheap metal or expensive plastic as far as I could tell.
After this Badge, we had to collect 7 more.
Robyn looked up at the dark sky, seemingly noticing the rain falling down. She reached into her bag, and pulled out multiple small material based objects I knew as blankets. She walked over to me and all the other Pokemon that she had captured along the journey and carefully put them over all of us to keep us warm and dry.
I looked over at all the different, unique members of our team.
First was Aether, a young male Pidgey. He sat on a low branch, just staring off into the distance. Although he was very reluctant to join our team at first, he has adjusted quite well over these past few days.
Next was Emblem, a female Pikachu. Although I have to admit she has an unusual name, she is quite smart when it comes to her battle strategies.
And finally there is a male Butterfree, who we just refer to as Butterfree, as he was nameless up until he was caught (although, Robyn refers to all of us except me as their species name). We had caught him just yesterday morning, making him the newest addition to the team.
In my eyes, Robyn has assembled quite a great team, combining multiple types with some great fighting styles.
I'm curious to know how Dusk and his trainer's team are going. Have they made a team of more Pokemon then Robyn has? I remember Robyn telling me once how a trainer is only able to have 6 Pokemon on the team at one time! So they obviously couldn't have that many more then we do.
I wonder, do he and his trainer have more badges then we do? Or do they have none? I really wish I could see him again.
The last time I saw him was four days ago, I think. It was when he left with his trainer.
I can still remember when Robyn came to get me so clearly, that had to be one of the best days of my life, despite the obvious sadness involving Dusk.
When we first left Pallet Town we met Aether, defeated him, and then captured him. We then went to Viridian City to challenge the Gym Leader there, but it was temporarily closed, so we couldn't. We were going to go through the forest that was on the edge of the city, but Robyn decided we take a shortcut to Cerulean City, where we met Emblem and got the Cascade Badge. Shortly after that we met Butterfree.
We had done a lot in such a short amount of time, I was surprised.
One thing that annoyed me though, was how Robyn kept making up words. I had managed to decode some of them though.
When she says 'lol', it means she finds something funny. When she says 'wtf' she is usually angry or confused. And when she says 'omg', she is excited about something. I have yet to decode what the fourth word, 'roflmao', means though. I think it may have a similar meaning to lol, I'm not sure.
To say that I find it annoying though is a lie, as I couldn't care less. Actually, I don't find any of the members of our team to be annoying. Although, Aether complaining how he wanted to leave us when he was first captured was irritating, but I've gotten used to it by now.
Either way, I still miss Dusk. I just want to stay with him forever. I hope he misses me too…
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Ruby POV (this takes place the same day as the previous chapter)
As the smoke cleared, I realized that Dusk was most defiantly unconscious. Not dead, luckily, as I could still see him breathing, but unconscious.
He did well surprisingly well against the Onix though. While not able to damage it, he was able to tire it.
I wonder, could he be a suitable mate for me?
"Damn it," Jon said, withdrawing Dusk into his pokeball. "Ruby, you're up," he said.
Let's do this.
The Onix started by smashing its head to the ground. I was able to jump out of the way, fortunately. To my surprise, the attack didn't hurt the Onix at all.
Before he was able to get up again, I slammed my horn into his side. It didn't have much effect unfortunately. The Onix got up again with little more then a grunt.
The Onix proceeded to bring his head to ground level and slide along it, leaving a large dust trail behind him. I jumped onto his head, and the past it, landing where the dust was just settling. I noticed as I looked around that I had hurt him by jumping on him! Only slightly, but much more then when I hit his side. Is his head his weak spot?
I decided to test that theory. I jumped to the side of him and focused on using Poison Sting on him. A small dart shot out of my horn and slammed into his side, just breaking the skin (or was it rock). However, I decided not to use poison, I only use that in emergencies.
The attack didn't have much of an effect on him. I was right, I had to aim for the head.
His tail came crashing down, again and again. I was forced to dodge out of the way, and at the same time constantly using my Poison Sting, which missed every time. Finally though, one of them scraped across his head.
He collapsed in pain from the blow, writhing in agony, although I had just scratched his head.
I suddenly realized that he did not have that protective layer of rock on his head, unlike the rest of his body. It was just a sensitive layer of grey skin, which makes it blend in with the rest of his body.
The attack left a small scratch across the side of his face. If I could just hit that I would defeat him.
I needed to find a way to hit him on the exact same spot as before. That should beat him.
But it is too risky to attack him from here; I've already tired myself out quite a bit. I had to hit him directly.
The Onix started trying to hit me with his tail again, this was getting annoying.
Finally he hit me, and I was thrown to the ground. Damn it, that hurt. I had to concentrate and I had to think of a plan, otherwise he would defeat me!
Let's see here, there were no rocks on the battlefield, it was all flat, so I couldn't climb anything. His head was too large, so I couldn't jump on it. What else was there to do? Would I just have to start shooting again and hope for the best? No, that wouldn't work. I was extremely lucky that I hit him in the first place.
His tail came crashing down and I dodged. I looked over at the tail, a plan suddenly forming in my head.
His tail was small enough for me to jump on, and if I did that I could travel up it and reach his head. But would I be able to do that? It would be extremely difficult to pull off, but if I did, he would be defeated.
But if I failed, he would beat me. What to do, what to do?
No, I should try it; otherwise I may never beat him!
I just had to wait for the next time he does it.
I started slowly circling around him, checking myself for injuries. There was a small cut and a bruise from when he had hit me, but that was about it. I must be lucky, when he hit Dusk, he was knocked unconscious.
Wait, what if the trainer has more Pokemon after this? Would I be able to defeat them? I guess Gold would be up then if I was defeated, but he is an electric type and has a disadvantage against Brock's rock type Pokemon. I'm not even sure if I could beat the Onix! But I had to try.
His tail came crashing down, and I rolled out of the way. This was my chance. I jumped up onto the tail and started climbing. This had to be the dumbest plan ever!
The Onix's body was made of 9 large boulders, and I had already climbed three of them, so that left six left.
The Onix started flailing around his body wildly, so I held onto the fourth rock with my front paws, as my back ones were thrown off of him. But I had to keep climbing. Slowly I pulled myself up him. Fortunately, he wasn't completely vertical.
Eventually I got to the top and saw the cut on his head, just below his horn. I only had one chance to do this, otherwise it wouldn't work.
I noticed that he was shaking his body more wildly then before, I have to hold on, or else falling would instantly knock me unconscious, or worse.
I jumped off the last boulder and onto his head. I quickly aimed my Poison Sting at him, adding just a tiny bit of poison to it, so if he was still able to fight, it would stop him, but not kill him.
In a flash I shot the dart into his cut, and was thrown off him. Luckily, I landed on my feet, so it didn't hurt much.
The Onix let out a massive roar of agony and fell to the ground in pain. I went over to him, he was still in pain, and almost unconscious. I grabbed the dart and pulled it out. The Onix let out a massive roar before losing consciousness.
"Onix, return," Brock shouted, returning him to his Pokeball. Have we won?
Brock walked over to Jon as I walked over to him.
"Good work Ruby," Jon said, smiling.
"Congratulations Jonathan," Brock said to him. "Your Pokemon are well trained! And for that, I give you this, the Boulder Badge!"
Brock passed Jon a metallic grey object, Octagon is size.
"Thank you very much," Jon replied excitedly. They said goodbye to each other, and we left.
"Hey Ruby," Gold said to me.
"Yeah," I replied.
"That was amazing what you did back there," he said to me.
"Eh, it was Dusk that did most of the work. But thanks, anyway. It's just a shame that you couldn't fight."
"That's fine," Gold replied. "I hope he picks me for the next Gym though."
"I'm sure he will," I said back to him.
"Let's go to the Pokemon Centre," Jon said to us. "We can get you guys healed up!"