Ashy picks up a Pokeball, and looks down at it. She gives a slight smile, before tossing it upwards into the air, giving a slight flick of her wrist to make it spin as it goes up. The two girls lean forward slightly, eager to see the Pokemon my sister has trained.
A smile lights up her face, as she says, "Go, Palm!" Out spurts the white light from the Pokeball, and it lands on one of the plate forms. The white light forms a tall figure, and it looks like leaves are spurting out of its head. Gabi and Feather wait patiently as the light dims, to reveal the Pokemon.
"Exeggutor!" The girls, and Saturn, fall backwards in their seats. I'm not surprised by this edition to Ashy's team; she usually goes after Pokemon with potential that cannot be seen.
"An Exeggutor?!" Gabi gasps, as she pushes herself upright. "Is she that stupid?! The only possible moves an Exeggutor could know that is good against water types, is Wood Hammer, Seed Bomb, and Leaf Storm; and that would take years of training for it to be able to learn those moves. She really must be stupid."
"I wouldn't be surprised if she taught it some...peculiar, moves." I say slowly, looking down at the field.
"Peculiar moves or not!" Gabi snaps, straightening up in the seat, as Saturn and Feather slowly recover from the shock. "If that Floatzel knows any Ice type moves, she's screwed, 'cause Ice type moves are super effective against Grass!"
"You act like she was born yesterday and doesn't know anything about Pokemon." Saturn says, glancing at the arena. "I'm sure she knows enough that it shouldn't be a problem; and she also has her Scizor to back her up." Gabi just snaps her jaw shut, crosses her arms, and looks to the field, somewhat angrily.
"Well," Gabi spats, "She can kiss that Fen Badge goodbye, then." I just roll my eyes, and don't say anything else.
"Floatzel!" Crasher yells, "Use Ice Fang!"
"Palm!" Ashy shouts, "Use Confusion, and knock it backwards!" Palm's eyes glow pink, and suddenly the Floatzel gets shot backwards, and its fangs stop glowing with ice. The Exeggutor does a small happy dance, before Ashy commands him to, "Use Hypnosis on Floatzel!" As the Floatzel struggles up, Palm hops from platform to platform, until it reaches the Floatzel. The water Pokemon looks up at the Grass and Psychic just in time to get blasted in the face by the Hypnosis. The Pokemon's eyes droop, and slowly close.
"Good job, Palm!" Ashy shouts, "Now, use Wood Hammer!" Palm uses that said attack, and Floatzel remains asleep. Crasher gets mad, and starts shouting at his Pokemon to wake up, but it's a futile attempt.
"Use Leaf Storm!" Ashy calls once again. Palm whips its head, sending leaves scattering across the floor towards the Floatzel. The attack hits its target, and the Floatzel still doesn't wake up. "Finish it off with Solarbeam!" The Exeggutor's mouth opens, and a yellow light begins to appear, and grow. The Floatzel wakes up, as soon as the attacks shoots from Palm's mouth. It hits the Pokemon, and sends it flying backwards into a wall, smoke, and plaster blowing up everywhere. Everyone coughs, and covers their mouths, trying not to inhale any bits of the plaster. When the smoke clears, Palm is standing on top of a fainted Floatzel. Ashy lets out a whoop, before hopping on the platforms over to Crasher, and her Pokemon. She hugs the grass and psychic type Pokemon, saying something about a job well done.
Crasher sighs, before handing Ashy the Fen Badge, and tells her something, before disappearing into the back room. Ashy looks towards us, and motions us to leave, as she hops from platform to platform, until she makes her way to the entrance. She hops off of the last platform, where we're waiting for her.
"Crasher wasn't too harsh to you about over self confident, was he?" Feather asks, "'Cause Gardenia was really harsh to you when you got overconfident, and then whipped her butt." Which, I remember that too, because she called me laughter that night, laughing really hard about it.
"No, he told me that was a job well done." Ashy says with a shrug, even though I can tell she's lying. Crasher must have said something really bad to her, if she doesn't want us to know about it.
Feather slowly nods, before Saturn says, "We've got two rooms at the Pokemon Center; one for the girls, and one for Silver, and I." I glance at him, and nod, as the others murmur something about how "it's stupid to buy two rooms when we could all just fit in one".
"Next time," Ashy chirps, "We can all just share a room. Saturn and I could squeeze into one bed." Saturn's face pales. My sister frowns at him. "What's wrong, Saturn?" She asks, batting her eyelashes at him. "I don't bite...Much."
I narrow my eyes at her and Saturn, as a light blush spreads over Saturn's cheek. Did they know each other, before recently? Or, have they both suddenly got feelings for each other? "Or, even better," Gabi says, sarcastically, "You two can share the second room tonight."
"No," I suddenly snap, cringing at the idea of my sister sleeping in the same room with a boy; it disturbs me...
Since our father practically disowned us, I guess you can say I took over the "overly-protective father" role, and tried to protect my sister as best I could. From Team Rocket, from wild Pokemon, from the world, and from the most dangerous evil out there...
Boys.
Everyone turns to look at me. Gabi snorts, and says, "Jeez, Silver, I was kidding. Learn to take a joke." Rage begins to boil inside me at the comment, because I have a sense of humor; and that was not at all humorous. But, I try to suppress the rage, with a deep breath.
"Whatever the hell you say, Gabi," I say to her calmly, before pushing my way through the entrance to stand outside of Pastoria City's Gym. The others follow me, and suddenly a blurr attacks me, knocking me over. "Agh!" I cry, falling backwards.
"Silver!" The others-besides Gabi- gasp, as I'm suddenly forced down onto the ground. The other person, is surprisingly heavy.
"I'm fine," I tell the others, before shoving the dude off. I look him up and down, with a scowl. He's got crazy, blonde hair, and I can't see his eye color. He's wearing a orange and white striped shirt, with a green scarf, and blue jeans.
"Hey!" He shouts, jumping up, "Watch where you're going! Now, I'm going to be late!"
"Maybe you wouldn't be late if YOU had watched where YOU were going." I say, standing up, and dusting myself off. "God, what are you? An idiot? Because that's what you seem like; for running towards a gym when anyone could walk out at any moment."
The kid bristles, his orange eyes flashing. "I am not the idiot here! It's you! Why the heck would you block the Gym entrance?!"
"Because the Gym's closed," my sister snaps at him, and points her thumb to the door. The kid looks towards it, to see the "closed" sign. The kid's jaw drops, and he suddenly looks angry, until he sees Ashy's Fen Badge. "W-wha? You beat Crasher?"
"Yup."
"YOU?" He questions again, still looking shocked. "B...but you're a total weakling! You couldn't have beat Crasher!"
She narrows her eyes at him. "You have a lot of room to talk; considering you look like a weakling yourself."
"I am not!"
"Prove it; show me your badges," the kid grumbles, before pulling out his badge case, and showing her the his badges. He's got three badges. Ashy busts out laughing, and pulls out her badge case, showing him six of her badges; having all the badges except for Cadence's, and Volkner's. The kid frowns at that, before shoving his badge case away.
"Okay, so maybe you're not a weakling," he states, "But I bet HE is," he says, pointing to me, "'Cause it doesn't look like he has the Fen Badge."
I narrow my eyes at him. "I don't need to have the Fen Badge; I won the Indigo League a couple years ago; I don't have to prove my strength to you. As far as I'm concerned; you're just some stupid punk who thinks they're better than everyone."
The kid bristles visibly. "Do you even know who I am?"
"No," I say, ripping my shoulder away from the kid. "And I don't care."
The kid curls his upper lip. "I am the son of the strongest trainer in Sinnoh!"
"That being...? Sorry kid, I'm not from Sinnoh, so I could really care less."
"Palmer!" The kid says, irritated. "My dad is Palmer!"
"Cool, good for you," I respond.
The kid goes quiet. "...That's all you have to say?" I nod, rolling my eyes. "Well, I'm going to make you remember the name Palmer!" The kid shouts, whipping out a Pokeball. "Because I'm going to battle you right here, right now, and beat you!" The kids' voice is incredibly loud, and annoying.
"Trust me, kid, you're loud and annoying enough that that name will stick in my head." I say, annoyed. The kid looks seriously pissed off.
"Look!" Gabi says finally, standing in between us, glaring at the kid, "He'll battle you tomorrow, but right now, we're all tired, and want to go to bed."
"Fine," the kid continues to glare at me. "Meet me here tomorrow at one o'clock, and don't be late!" He yells once again, before taking off.
Feather shakes his head. "Wow, he moves faster than a Scyther on sugar." She mumbles. I snicker at the comment, as we head to the Pokemon Center. We walk inside, and Saturn hands out the room keys, before we go our separate ways.
"We should have two other roommates; I don't know who they are, but we should be expecting them..." I only nod, as Saturn explains the whole situation to me, and shoves the key in the lock. He turns up, and pushes the door open. We walk inside, and both of us freeze as we see the other two people in the room. It's Cast-who I don't really mind rooming with...-, and...
That stupid kid from earlier.
"Not you!" The kid shouts angrily, flopping back down on the top bunk. Cast glances up from the book he's reading, and adjusts his glasses.
I snort, before climbing on the top bunk across from the blonde haired kid. "Trust me, kid," I respond to him, a bit snarkily, "I'm not pleased either." The kid purses his lips, before flopping back down on the bunk.
Cast blinks at Saturn and I, before turning his gaze to me. "Aren't you the one who saved my Turtwig?" I only nod in response, before rolling over away from them. Then the blonde haired kid says (shouts) something about an Empoleon.
Ugh...this is going to be a loonnnnggg night.