Sorry this chapter is so short. I think I'm starting to run out of ideas.

Chamo Adventures: A Secret Civilization

Chapter 14: Raina's Scheme

"I can't believe he got away!" I griped.

Raina and I were sitting on a couple stumps in the middle of the forest, resting after the battle with Theo. I couldn't believe it had been him! (I knew his name because I heard it mentioned a few times before.) Theo had stolen my little sister's pokemon…

Raina was busy bandaging up a whimpering Freya, who had been hurt pretty badly during the fight. "I can," Raina scoffed. "You have zero battling experience, you've barely trained Freya, you didn't know how powerful the Kittren was…quite honestly, I would've been surprised if you had won."

"Shut up," I muttered. "What about you? That cloud of smoke your pokemon made was enough to let Theo escape."

"That was Kittren's attack, Smokescreen," she replied simply. "It would've happened anyway. That's what Pudgy was for."

To clarify things a bit, Pudgy was a pidgey that Raina had captured shortly after leaving the city. When Kittren used smokescreen before, Raina called it out to have it blow the poisonous cloud away. Pudgy was sitting on a small tree watching us at that point in time. He'd occasionally zoom in and out of the trees but stayed in the general area.

"So that's it?" I asked. "You knew this was going to happen? Why'd you have to poison the cloud then."

Raina snorted. "That's a stupid question. That final blow must've seriously hurt Kittren. If you don't believe me, we'll find out when we get to the Magenta Pokemon Center."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that we're going to find Theo there, and his Kittren. He'll have to go there if he wants his pokemon to live."

"If," I pointed out. "I bet he wouldn't give a Damn if he worked that poor thing to death."

"Then we'll catch him in the desert. It's the only route that leads out of Magenta other than the one we're traveling on. Trust me, no one has hiked from Magenta to Orchid without the help of a pokemon. Too many strong ones out there."

I was shocked. I never knew my little sister, who was, in fact, extremely smart, oftentimes moody, would be so diabolical and try to strand a fellow human being in the desert with a bunch of beastly pokemon. She didn't even look diabolical. Just indifferent, as if she didn't really mind what she was planning. "I…I can't go along with that," I stammered. What else could I say?

"It's too late," Raina replied. "He'll either be at the Pokemon Center or in the Desert." She had finished patching up Freya at that moment who immediately crawled to my side, just as freaked out as I was. "Pudgy, return!" she called, raising a poke ball which shot a red beam of light at the pidgey, pulling him inside. Raina then picked up the open med kit and started walking west again. I scooped Freya into my arms and began to follow her.

"Poor Kittren," Freya said quite clearly.

I nodded.

"Hello, my name is Nurse Donna. How may I help you?"

Obviously, we at the Magenta Pokemon Center. Please, God, I was praying, let that son-of-a-houndour be here.

"First and foremost," I said aloud, "our pokemon need healing."

"Identifications, please?" Donna asked. We showed her our trainer cards and a chubby Chansey took our pokeballs away on a tray. "Anything else?"

"Yes," I took a big breath and showed her my Police Badge. "I'm here to arrest a person called Theo. He has a Kittren which I believe was dropped off here at some point."

"A Kittren? Hang on." Donna went to a computer and began typing. A few minutes later, she came back, saying, "I'm sorry. The only Kittren we have right now is owned by a different person. I'll keep my eyes open for this Theo boy. What does he look like?"

I sighed and told her. "He's wearing blue jeans, a brown jacket, and a big red Pizza-ria hat. Tell me," I added, "who brought the Kittren in?"

"Wedge Palmer."

Oooh boy.