Chapter 21\Her Childhood

I woke up sometime the next morning still naked, and lying next to her. She was still asleep. Strangely the tv was still on from last night, we must have fallen asleep and forgot to turn it off.

I kissed her softly on the cheek before I got up to take a shower, I also shut off the tv. A few minutes later she woke up and got in the shower with me.

-confused- Me: "Uh Goodmorning honey?"

Phoebe: "Goodmorning."

She wrapped her arms around me and we kissed.

Me: " I thought we agreed last night we weren't going to have sex again until...

-cutely- Phoebe: "I know I just wanted you to hold me a little longer."

Me: "Oh honey."

We made out for a little while I tried to keep her from touching my crotch as we did this, I knew she wanted to, but both of us were still sore from last night, and we really needed to get on with the day.

Me: "Allright honey, come on, you know we have stuff to do today right?"

I got out of the shower, and she followed soon after. Turning the shower off behind her.

Phoebe: "I know, but..."

Me: "Honey,-sighs- sex wasn't built to last."

Phoebe: "-sighs- I know."

After that we left the bathroom gathered up our clothes, got dressed, and packed up our things, for there was a good chance we would finally be leaving Vermillion City today. After that was done, I pulled close and held her as we rocked back and forth, kissing her softly on the cheek before letting her go.

Phoebe: "Oh Cj...now you're tormenting me."

-softly- Me: "Hehe, now come on Phoebe, I still have to get that third badge and then we can finaly leave here and go to Celadon."

-sudden realization- Phoebe: "Um...wait Cj."

Me: "What?"

-sincerly- Phoebe: "After breakfast, can I tell you how I grew up?"

Phoebe: "Cause I already know your past I think it's only fair if you knew mine."

Phoebe: "And it's been bothering me for quite awhile now."

Me: "Yeah, that sounds good.."

She was right, despite us being together for so long, I knew very little about her life before she met me. I knew her, it's just I didn't her past and after all these years, she never really told me much about it, as she went under the cover that she was created in the game.

We kissed once more, then left the room and headed downstairs for breakfast.

Nurse: "Are you two going to stay here another night?"

Phoebe: "It depends on if he beats the gym leader or not."

Nurse: "Well if so please keep it down, there's kids in here you know?"

Me: "Honey I thought you said..."

-nervously- Phoebe: "Well...hehe...I lied."

Needless to say...this was awkward.

Me: "Nevermind, just stop lying though sweety."

Me: "I'm going to have to break you of that habbit."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj...feel free to try."

We kissed before we got our plates and sat down at one of the tables.

-quietly- Me: "I just hope none of those kids actually knows what we were doing in there."

Phoebe: "I hope so too."

Phoebe: "I'm sorry I lied Cj."

Me: "I know."

Phoebe: "I just really wanted you."

Me: "I know."

Me: "I forgive you sweety."

Phoebe: "Thanks."

We finished our breakfast a few minutes later.

Phoebe: "Ok now come on."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "Let's go back up to the room sweety, so I can tell you my story."

Me: "Allright."

So we went back up the room, and she left her shoes and purse by the door and we sat across from each other on the bed.

Phoebe: "I guess it's time you know."

Me: "Yeah your right, it's weird not knowing what you were doing before you met me."

Phoebe: "Ok, well, I was born twenty one years ago in the Gardevoir City in Sinnoh."

Me: "Uh yeah...I kinda figured."

Phoebe: "I was treated like a princess, but I always hated it because I never got to do anything fun."

Me: "Like what?"

Phoebe: "Well, during the morning I always had to stay inside with my mom, because she had to teach me about royalty and how to be the queen and other random things. I never got to go outside with the other kids, and none of the kids in the city were allowed beyond the waterfall on one side, or the river on the other, and 2 clearings where the trees were cut down to mark the boundaries of the city on the other 2 sides."

Me: "What other things did she teach you?"

Phoebe: "Bacically things regarding gardevoirian customs and stuff, the laws of the city , mathematics, and basic human laws and general etiquette type things."

Phoebe: "She taught me stuff like that during the mornings, and then in the afternoons me and Rath were taught some basic combat moves by my father."

Me: "Sorta of like school then?"

Phoebe: "Ehhhh, kinda."

Phoebe: "All the other kids in the village were allowed to play all day though, only me, Rath and the royal guard's children ever had any schooling. And the guard's children only had the combat training."

Me: "Wait...they taught you math?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, even calculus, but after I learned that they stopped teaching it, I was only 5 years old."

I wasn't too surprised, as a psychic type, it was easy to believe she was a genious. The question was were all gardevoirs geniuses?

Me: "Are all gardevoirs as smart as you?"

Phoebe: "Well...Cj, I'm not actually that smart, it's just that I remember things really easily, even at that young age."

Phoebe: "And yes as far as that goes, all gardevoirs usually have good memories."

Phoebe: "And I was still a ralts back then, not a gardevoir silly."

Phoebe: "Anyway."

Phoebe: "One day my mother took Rath and me to Hearthome city to see the humans."

Phoebe: "Cuz my dad usually had to stay in the city."

Me: "Hehe, how did that go?"

Phoebe: "It was weird, riding on that old truck and seeing human society for the first time, I was really young so I didn't really understand what was going on, with all the cars driving around and people walking down the street, and other pokemon."

Phoebe "and then she took me into the pokemon center and showed me around, and introduced me to the nurse."

Phoebe: "And after that she brought me to the pokemon center and bought a box of crayons and some paper for me and Rath, and later that day she tried to teach us how to write, but Rath kept throwing the crayons at me."

Me: "Hehe, and no one tried to catch you while you were in the city?"

Phoebe:" They couldn't, it's illegal to catch ralts and kirlia if they're acompanied by a gallade or gardevoir. And most of the people there knew my parents as the king and queen of the Gardevoir City, thanks to a tv documentary on our city."

Me: "Really? There's a tv show about the gardevoir city?"

Phoebe: "Yeah...maybe we should see it sometime."

Me: "Yeah, that would be interesting."

Me: "What kind of toys did you have?"

Phoebe: "Well, I had alot of wooden dolls, the city didn't have a lot of money, but thankfully our powers made it easy for us to craft things like toys out of wood."

Phoebe: "Once a year, the guards, which were all gallades, would cut down a tree and then all the parents would make toys for their children out of the tree."

Phoebe: "But when I was born, they cut down a tree, just so my mom could make toys for Rath and me, because my dad was busy being king and all."

Phoebe: "And my mom made me this nice set of wooden dolls."

Phoebe: "Of course they were gardevoir and gallade dolls not human."

Me: "Makes sense."

Phoebe: "Actually that's how the city got any income at all was from high quality furniture and toys made from the trees."

Phoebe: "Allthough we had to be carefull, otherwise we would run out of trees."

Phoebe: "But unlike humans, we could cut furniture out of solid pieces of wood."

Phoebe: "Which is alot more efficient."

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "Anyway."

Phoebe: "Me and Rath were both just ralts at that time."

Phoebe: "But then Rath evolved into a kirlia sometime later."

Phoebe: "But I was still a ralts."

Me: "How come you didn't evolve, but he did?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, I guess it was because he was allowed to go outside more than me, I guess he just got more experience then I did."

Phoebe: " He kinda thought he could push me around because he was slightly more powerful than me, even though he was only just a couple years older."

Me: "Hehe."

Me: "Did you have any friends?"

Phoebe: "No...not really, I wasn't allowed to play with most of the other children because of the customs."

Me: "Are you serious?"

Phoebe: "Well sometimes I was allowed to play, sometimes I wasn't, it depends if Rath was watching me or not."

Phoebe: "He was such a tattle tale."

Phoebe: "Cause my parents really didn't care if I played with the other children or not, but Rath kept bothering them about the customs and how I wasn't following the rules and every single time he saw me playing with them he told on me and then the other kids had to leave the palace by order of my father."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, and then I screemed at him for telling on me."

Me: "Ok?"

Phoebe: "I was really little at the time."

Phoebe: "And my dad always seemed to favor him."

Me: "Wow..."

Phoebe: "I know it's hard to believe."

Phoebe: "Not to mention he was always allowed to go outside, but I wasn't."

Phoebe: "Because I was the princess."

Me: "How did you deal with that?"

-slyly- Phoebe: "Oh...I got him back on a few occasions."

Phoebe: "He used to collect these sticks outside and sharpen them into spears, it was something alot of the little boys did in the city."

Phoebe: "The gardevoir city didn't have much for modern appliances back then."

Phoebe: " Back then we had that old gasoline powered truck, a gasoline generator, and a healing machine that was donated by a pokemon center for the good of the city."

Phoebe: "They put in electric lights,modern plumbing systems, air conditioning, and modern kitchen appliances all while I was growing up."

Phoebe: "That's why I didn't know how to cook very well cause my mom only taught me how to cook over an open flame, not about microwaves or toasters or ovens."

Phoebe: "You see the gardevoir civilization didn't really need much technology, since we can teleport, light up, and lift heavy things solely using our powers."

Me: "Yeah, makes sense."

Phoebe: "Electric lights and other things were really just luxuries, although it was nice to have them as it made things alot easier for us."

Phoebe: "Anyway back to the story."

Phoebe: "He kept all these sticks in a little box in his room."

Phoebe: "One day, before he left the house, he saw me playing tag with some other children, so he told on me again like he always did."

Phoebe: "And then my father came down the stairs and asked the children to leave, so they teleported away, leaving me alone, and then he scolded me saying I shouldn't of been playing in front of my brother knowing how he is."

Phoebe: "So I went upstairs, and notice the door to his room was open."

Phoebe: "And then I snuck inside."

Phoebe: "And I found the box with all of his sticks in it."

Me: "And what did you do?"

Phoebe: "ehehe..."

Phoebe: "I threw the entire box out the window and it hit the ground and smashed into tiny little pieces, keep in mind...the palace was built in a tree, so the window is about 20ft in the air."

Me: "hehehe..."

Phoebe: "I think I was just 7 years old when I did that."

Phoebe: "Rath would of been 9."

Phoebe: "And then I pulled all the drawers out of his dresser and threw his clothes everywhere."

Me: "Oh you naughty little girl."

Phoebe: " Hehe -sighs- Cj."

Phoebe: "And then I heard my father comming up the stairs so I teleported to my room before he saw me in there."

Me: "And then what happened?"

She put her head down, grinning.

Phoebe: " He sent the royal guards after Rath and they dragged him into the palace and brought him to his room."

Me: "So he was blamed for the whole thing?"

Phoebe: "mhm."

Phoebe: "And he was grounded for a week."

Me: "Hehe that's hilarious."

Phoebe: "And then I was allowed to play with the other children cause he wasn't able to tell on me."

Phoebe: "But then he got me back for that too."

Me: "Why, what did he do?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-, a few weeks later I was playing downstairs with 2 of my only friends, Solana, and Grace, both of them were daughters of the royal guards."

Phoebe: "So we got bored playing tag so I went upstairs to get my dolls, the same one's my mother made for me."

Phoebe: "But Rath cut off all their heads and drew on them with red crayon to make it look like blood."

Me: "All of them?"

Phoebe: " Mhm."

Me: "What did you do then? Set his room on fire?"

Phoebe: "Nooooo."

Phoebe: " My father wasn't home, he was in the human city with a few of the guards to sell furniture, so I went to tell my mother."

Me: "Did you get blamed for it?"

Phoebe: "No my mother believed me and Rath was grounded for yet another week."

Phoebe: "And then she asked why Rath would do such a thing and I had to come clean that I trashed his room."

Phoebe: "So we both got grounded for a week."

Me: "How long did this little fight go on?"

Phoebe: "Well eventually, we grew up, although I never evolved, I don't know why."

Phoebe: "But while I was grounded, my mother made more dolls for me."

Me: "Awe..."

-cutely- Phoebe: "I love my mom, she was always so nice to me."

Phoebe: "I should of introduced you to her when we were there, but she was busy."

Phoebe: "Atleast she was at our wedding though."

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "Anyway..."

Phoebe: "When I was about 15 Rath started dating Solana."

Phoebe: "Both of them were kirlias at this point."

Phoebe: "Solana pretty much stopped being my friend at this point because she almost always sided with Rath whenever we got into a fight."

Phoebe: "So one time I told my father that I saw them kissing, even though I really didn't and then he got mad at Rath, and forbade him from seeing her for awhile."

Phoebe: "But he got so sad, I had to come clean a few days later because I just felt sorry for him."

Phoebe: "And then on his 18th birthday, Rath, like all males in the city, was given a choice."

Phoebe: "He could either evolve into a gallade and become one of the royal guards, as well as retain his title as the prince, or according to gardevorian customs, he could leave the city, which was mandatory for all the children once they reached the age of 18, and try to find a human trainer, or try to get enough experience to evolve into a gardevoir, in which case he would be allowed to return as the prince."

Phoebe: "As tradition, a dawn stone was provided for him if he wanted to evolve."

Phoebe: "Rath was always obsessed with fighting so naturally he chose to evolve into a gallade."

Phoebe: "Solana became 18 soon after, and because she was female, she had no choice but to leave."

Me: "Awe."

Phoebe: "She would only be allowed to return if she evolved into a gardevoir or if her life was in danger."

Phoebe: "So she left, and despite Rath trying to reason with the 12 year old little girl that challenged her, she was captured."

Phoebe: " Since then he's always had a grudge against humans and rarely leaves the village."

Phoebe: "Everytime he does he thinks about her."

Me: "What happened to your other friend?"

Phoebe: "You mean Grace?, Well she became my best friend, but before she was even 18, she was out in the city with her family, but someone broke the law and captured her."

Phoebe: "I was so upset when her parents told me what happened, and I never saw her again after that."

Phoebe: "For awhile I hated humans..until my father told me that not all humans were bad."

Phoebe: "Rath never really believed him though."

Me: "Ok, that explains alot."

Phoebe: "Well before long, I became 18 as well."

Phoebe: "Allthough I was still just a ralts."

Me: "What happens if a ralts manages to evolve to a gardevoir before they're 18?"

Phoebe: "That hardly ever happens."

Phoebe: "In fact I don't even think that's possible."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Good question though."

Phoebe: "Anyway, it was then that My father had heard about the experiment from a human he met in Hearthome City , so that was the first year 18 year olds were allowed to volunteer for the experiment instead of being kicked out of the village until they evolved or got captured."

Phoebe: "I didn't think too much about it at first, I was sad because all my childhood friends had left."

Phoebe: "But my mother urged me to go, she said that if I went I would meet someone special."

Phoebe: "I couldn't doubt her, I knew she could see the future, she was the only one in the family that could."

Me: "And..."

Phoebe: " Me as well as alot of other 18 year olds, were taken to the airport in a large bus, and loaded onto an even larger plane."

Phoebe: "None of us had ever seen an airplane before so we were all amazed."

Phoebe: "And then they flew us to goldenrod city, except we didn't know it at the time, so we all thought we were still in hearthome city."

Phoebe: "After we landed they put us all into another bus and brought us to the experiment facility, where we were all put into the game."

Me: "Wow."

Phoebe: "And then I met you, and realized you were the one my mother was talking about Cj."

Me: "Oh honey."

I put my arms around her and we kissed.

Me: "That's the truth right?"

Me: "You're not going to say you were lying several chapters later?"

Phoebe: "No...Cj I'm done with lying to you."

Me: "Good."

We finished hugging. Then we got off the bed, she got her shoes back on and we left the pokemon center for the gym.

Phoebe: "Cj are you sure you're ready to face him?"

Me: "Of course honey."

Phoebe: "I know Nelson is a total nerd but he almost beat me."

Me: "And the last time I battled you I won didn't I?"

Phoebe: "Just cause you had Geodude."

Me: "Well..I still won."

Phoebe: "We should battle again sometime."

Phoebe: "Just to see if you're still better than me."

Phoebe: "But only using pokemon we caught here."
Me: "Allright if you say so."

Me: "But let me beat Nelson first, then we'll head to Celadon and battle over there."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "You mean, if you beat Nelson."

Me: "Do you have any confidence in me?"

Phoebe: "I do, I just like messing with you."

Me: "Oh honey, I love you."

I kissed her on the cheek.

-after arriving at the gym a few minutes later-

We both got out of the car and headed inside. Nelson was giving a kid a a badge, meaning he had won, and then left to go heal his scyther, telling us he would be back shortly. The kid left and got into the back seat of his parent's car, and they left for Celadon. Some kids had to walk the entire way, much like the anime for that matter, others were lucky enough to have their parents drive them around. We were old enough to drive ourselves. Although neither of us even had a valid driver's license. I had a farm permit from the other world though. Not that it would mean anything here. Besides that, it would have expired last year anyway. The year, for the other world anyway, was 2016, in case any of you wanted to know, nearly 3 years since I first met Phoebe, it was amazing how things had changed in such little time. Unfortunately, things were about to change for the worst. We stayed in the lobby for a few minutes, eagerly waiting for Nelson to return so I could battle him for the badge.

Phoebe: "Hey Cj...?"

Me: "Yeah?"

Phoebe: "When Nelson comes back.."

Me: "Mhm..."

Phoebe: "Good luck."

Me: "Thanks sweetie."

Phoebe: "I'll be watching you from the stands."

Me: "I know."

Me: "Why are you acting like this battle is so important?"

Phoebe: "Cause I barely won, and I just hope your pokemon don't get hurt too much."

Me: "-sighs- Oh honey..."

Me: "I'll be fine."

Me: "If all else fails, I got HellBlade with me."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj, If you have to rely on him to win, that's pretty sad."

Me: "I know but still."

Me: "I'll only send him out if everyone else is knocked out allright?"

Phoebe: "Ok."

We hugged, and a few minutes later Nelson came back and led us into the back of the gym, and a minute or so after that, I sent out Geodude against his Scyther and we started the battle.

Nelson: "Your wife just barely won yesterday, I hope you're better than her."

Me: "Yeah I've beaten her a few times before."

Nelson: "You what?"

Me: "Don't take that out of context, you know what I meant."

-quietly in stands- Phoebe: "Oh Cj..."

Me:" Right honey?"

-from stands, almost mischeivously- Phoebe: "Oh Cj I love you."

Me: " I love you too sweety, and this is for you."

-Cutely- Phoebe: "Awe...Cj."

Nelson: "You are so lucky..."

Me: "Yeah well, you should of seen what my life was like before I met her."

-waiting for commands- Geodude: "Geo?"

Me: "Oh sorry, Geodude um, use rock throw."

Geodude magically summoned rocks out of no where and through them at Scyther, but they missed, and then scyther moved in to attack with slash. Fortunately Geodude was strong enough that slash only did minimal damage to him.

Nelson: "That Geodude is a tough pokemon for it's level, usually my Scyther knocks out most trainer's pokemon in 1 or 2 hits but this one may take more."

Me: "Got that right."

Me: "Come on Geodude focus, I know it's fast but you can hit him if try."

Scyther was running through the trees like crazy, he was insanely fast and Geodude was having a hard time trying to hit it. I was starting to think the same thing Phoebe was, how we were able to slay so many of these so long ago, yet it was hard as hell to defeat in battle now. I guess this one must have been stronger cause it was trained.

Me: "Ok Geodude hold your fire."

Geodude: "Geo!"

Geodude stopped throwing rocks, as the scyther continued running around.

Me: "Allright wait for it."

I knew it had to get close enough to strike eventually, and Geodude wasn't having any luck hitting it at range, so I was going to wait until it got close enough then attack.

-quietly- Phoebe: "Cj what are you doing?"

Eventually Scyther leaped at Geodude, another slash attack."

Me: "Allright...Now."

Geodude smashed scyther in the face with a rock.

-in pain- Scyther:"Scyth!"

Nelson: "Oh crap."

Scyther fell backwards, a few specs of blood trickling down its face.

Me: "Give up?"

Nelson: "Never."

The scyther struggled in pain for a few seconds before falling unconcious.

Phoebe: "What?"

Nelson: "Unbelievable."

Nelson returned his Scyther.

-amazed- Me: Is that it?"

-amazed- Nelson: "Um...yeah."

-amazed- Phoebe: "He...won...in...just...one...attack...?!"

It seemed that all three of us were phased for a few seconds over how I managed to win so easily.

Me: "Um goodjob Geodude."

Geodude: "GEO!"

Me: "Return!"

I returned Geodude, and then Nelson walked up to me and handed me my badge.

Nelson: "You got lucky."

Me: "I know."

Nelson: "All the time I've ran this gym I had never seen that happen before."

Me: "I can't really believe it myself."

Me: "Well, see ya."

Nelson:" Yeah, well, um thanks again for saving me."

Me: "No problem."

I shook his hand and then I walked out, calling Phoebe from the stands as I was entering the lobby.

Me: "Come on Phoebe let's go."

Phoebe: "Oh sorry, comming Cj."

She climbed down from the stands and walked out beside me.

-as we were leaving the gym-

Phoebe: "Cj I just can't believe you won so easily."

Me: "It was a lucky break, scyther has a 4x weakness to rock type moves and I managed to get a direct hit with one."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I guess that makes sense."

Phoebe: "-sighs- I wish I had Geodude with me when I was fighting him."

Phoebe: "I wish I could be as good as you, but not even my powers can help me win at pokemon."

Me: "Oh sweety, you're doing great, and I got lucky ok? None of your pokemon had the advantage against Scyther, but my Geodude did, it's ok."

Me: "It's not like I have more badges than you or anything."

Me: "So cheer up sweetie."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Oh Cj..."

We got in the car, and began the 2 hour drive to Celadon City. For about half an hour it was a beautiful drive along the coastline, until the highway began to curve inland and eventually you couldn't see the coast anymore. Normally, you would have to go by Lavender town to get to Celadon, but Phoebe decided to take a detour to stay as far away from that place as possible.

Me: "Honey, why are you turning off the highway?"

Phoebe: "Cause I don't even want to be within 100 miles of Lavender town."

Me: "Um...ok, but how are we supposed to get to Celadon then?"

Phoebe: "Um..I'll get back on the highway in a few miles."

-confused- Me: "Ookkkkaaaayyy."

Phoebe: "Look I just don't like Lavender town."

Me: "I know, but..."

Phoebe: "Especially after what happened there."

Me: "-sighs- Yeah."

Me: "Fine, but just don't get lost."

Phoebe: "Aren't you the one that's supposed to be navigating?"

Me: "Oh...um...yeah I guess so."

Phoebe: "Well..um, can you look at the map and find the fastest way back to the highway?"

I dug the map out of the glovebox and opened it up, it took me awhile to find out where we were.

Me: "Uh...it looks like there's a turn off in the next town, it looks like we can get back to the highway from there."

Phoebe: "After the highway passes Lavender Town right?"

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "Good."

The town I was refering to was Crimson City, a town not even shown in the games.

It was a pretty average small town, a population of about 3000, a few business scattered around, but no gym or even a pokemon center, it did have a pokemart though, anyway from there we started heading back to the highway, having gotten around Lavender Town, I thought it was weird that she took this detour to begin with, considering the highway bypassed lavender to by about 20 miles, although you can see it's infamous tower in the distance. I guess Phoebe was so terrified of that place she didn't even want to see the tower. Personally, I didn't really have any interest in going back there either. When we finally got to Celadon, it was about 2:00pm, so we went to the pokemon center and had lunch. Celadon City was a huge place, with a population of about 50,000. It was kinda like Las Vegas, as there were alot of casinos and luxury hotels around. Even the pokemon center here was more luxurious then the ones in the other cities. Fortunately the food here was also the best we have had in awhile.

-sometime after lunch-

Me: "Ok honey, remember, we're not going into any of the casinos ok?"

Phoebe: "I know..."

Me: "Just making sure."

Do to the size of the city, we asked the nurse for directions to the gym.

-when we were just about to leave for the gym.-

Phoebe: "Wait Cj..."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "Aren't you forgetting something?"

Me: "Umm..."

Phoebe: "You said you would battle me when we got here."

Me: "Oh yeah."

Me: " Sorry honey, it's been a rough week."

Phoebe: "I know."

Phoebe: "Come on, let's go outback."

Me: "-sighs- Fine."

The battle arena behind the pokemon center was also alot nicer then most , it was made out of reinforced concrete, painted a dark green to resemble the grass that surrounded it, a far cry from the primitive dirt and chalk arenas most pokemon centers had.

Phoebe: "This is a nice arena."

Me: "Yeah."

A sign posted on the fence warned trainers that they would have to pay for any damage done to it as a result of battle.

-noticing the sign- Phoebe: "Looks like we'll have to hold back on the attacks."

Phoebe: "That means your Geodude can't use magnitude."

Me: "Yeah I guess so."

Phoebe: "So...3 on 3?"

Phoebe: "I don't want to do 6 on 6 cause I know you have HellBlade on you."

Me:"Sure sweety."

Phoebe:"Ok that's settled."

Currently there was a battle going on between two kids. One of them had a Poliwhirl, and the other was using a Weepinbell, a few minutes later the poliwhirl lost and the kids left the arena. It was our turn to battle now.

Me: "So darling how do you want to start this?"

Phoebe: "You seem to be very interested in Cloudela recently."

Phoebe: "So I'm going to start with it."

She drew Cloudela's pokeball out of her purse and tossed it into the air. The cloudlike monster came out of it's ball and hovered over its side of the arena.

Cloudela: "Clow?"

Me: "It's been a long time since I've seen that little guy."

Phoebe: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "It was great in battle yesterday."

Me: "So I've heard."

Phoebe: "Oh so now your're getting cocky huh?"

Me: "Well, honey, not to burdt your bubble but I did beat you last time."

Phoebe: "Oh, but Cj...I was going easy on you."

Me: "Oh really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Prove it."

I sent out Bubba, thinking Cloudela was atleast half fire type.

Bubba:"Wartortle."

Phoebe: "Oh good you sent him out first."

Phoebe: "Cloudela use thunder bolt."

-aggresively- Cloudela: "Clou!"

Me: "Oh crap."

-urgently- Me: "Run Bubba!"

-scared- Bubba: "Wartortle..TORTLE!"

Cloudela started chasing Bubba around trying to hit it with thunderbolt, I had no idea Cloudela could use electric attacks until now.

Me: "Honey that was so cheap..."

Phoebe:" What...you didn't know it could use electric attacks?"

Me: "No..I didn't."

I returned Bubba before he got hurt and sent out Geodude, in turn Phoebe returned Cloudela and sent out Polli.

Me: "Honey you have got to be kidding me."

-mischeivously- Phoebe: "Nope."

Polli: "Pwowee."

I stood there, contemplating my next move, she just stood there as well.

-mischeavously- Phoebe: "Watcha thinkin Cj?"

Me: "That you pretty much screwed me over..."

-mischeavously- Phoebe: "Oh..really?"

Me: "Yep..."

I returned Geodude and sent out Zubat.

Phoebe: "Hehe."

She returned Polli and sent out cubone.

Me: "Seriously?"

Phoebe: "I can do this all day."

Me: "You know actually it's not that bad."

-happily- Cubone: "Cubone..Cubone bone!"

It waved at me, recognizing me from when we first met in Lavender Town.

Phoebe: "I've never even used Cubone in battle before, this is it's very first time."

Phoebe: "Alright Cubone, are you ready?"

It turned to her and nodded it's head."

-happily- Cubone: "Cubone!"

Me: "Hehe it's kinda cute."

Phoebe: "Yeah..."

It's cuteness was slightly ironic since it was wearing a skull on its head...oh well.

Me: "You know I almost don't want to fight him."

Phoebe: "Oh CJ you can't back out now."

Me: "-sighs- fine-"

Me: "Zubat, use supersonic."

Zubat screeched loudly, causeing Cubone to panic as it tried to cover its ears.

Phoebe: "Use... Rage."

-angry- Cubone: "CUBONE!"

Cubone got really angry...seemingly for no reason, it charged at Zubat, jumped up, grabbed him by the wings, and violently threw him towards the ground.

Me: "Get up zubat don't let him beat you!"

Me: "Supersonic."

Zubat screeched again, in Cubone's ran around, trying to cover his ears and then he tripped.

Phoebe: Come on cubey get up."

Phoebe: "Huh? That's what I'll call you. Cubey."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Cubey the Cubone."

Me: "Really Phoebe?"

Phoebe: "Why not?"

Me: "-sighs- whatever, Zubat, Wing attack! Go now!"

Phoebe: "Come on Cubey."

Zubat got back up and flew towards Cubone..or I guess it was Cubey now. Cubey got up, looked around, trying to figure out what just happend when Zubat flew straight into him, knocking him down once again.

-in pain- Cubey: "Cubone..Cubone!"

Phoebe: "Oh no."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Oh...poor baby."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Are you ok?"

Cubey nodded his head before getting back up. Zubat was comming around a second time.

Me: "Allright Zubat another wing attack..."

Phoebe:"Come on Cubey focus."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Pwease I weally want to win."

Me: "Honey, i'm not going to go easy on you just cause I love you."

Phoebe: "I know, and I like that you're taking this seriously."

Zubat managed to hit Cubey again, he fell to the ground and started crying, to weak to get back up.

-crying- Cubey: "Cubone...Cubone..Cubone...bone."

Phoebe: "Oh Cubey..it's okay, I still love you, it's your first time, it's ok if you lose."

She returned Cubey. I was just glad I didn't have to hurt the little guy too much.

Phoebe: "That was mean Cj..making him cry like that."

Me: "Well..it could of ended worse."

Phoebe: "Yeah well."

She sent out Cloudela.

Cloudela: "Clou?"

Phoebe: "Hello again."

I withdrew Zubat and sent out Geodude.

Geodude: "Geo!"

Phoebe:" Oh Cj cmon..."

Me :"I already told you I wasn't going easy on you."

Me: "Rock throw."

Geodude started throwing rocks at Cloudela, even when they hit, they bounced off of Cloudela like it was some sort of pillow, barely even scratching it.

Me: "Oh come on..."

Me: "Dam that thing is tough."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Now Cloudela..use Light beam."

Cloudela: "Clou!"

Cloudela shot a beam of pure white light from its mouth at Geodude. It was so bright both Phoebe and Me had to look away.

-shielding eyes- Me: "Holy crap that's bright."

-smugly, while shielding eyes- Phoebe: "Mhm, but let's see what it does to your geodude."

Unfortunately Geodude was blinded by the light, it was still in battle, but it couldn't see very well, think of the move flash on steroids.

Phoebe: "Please don't tell it to use rock throw."

Phoebe: "I don't want to get hit, and I don't think you want to either."

Me: "Yeah."

Me: "Well um..Geodude, try tackling it!"

Geodude: "Geo..."

Geodude spun around in circles a few times, before finally spotting Cloudela, then he charged towards it and slammed it on the ground. Then Geodude just started punching him.

-in pain- Cloudela: "Clou!"

Me: "Yeah..keep doing that."

-in pain- Cloudela: "Clou...Clou...Clou..Clou."

Phoebe: "Comeon Cloudela hang in there..."

Phoebe: "Lightbeam."

Cloudela shot another beam of light from it's mouth, hitting Geodude point blank and knocking him back quite aways.

Me: "Oh crap..."

Cloudela floated back up in the air, whilst Geodude laid on the ground, struggling to get back up.

-urgently- Me: "Come on get up..get up."

It was no use... Geodude had had enough.

Phoebe: "1 down 2 to go."

Phoebe: "So what's it going to be Cj? Zubat or Bubba?"

Me: "Honey you're not making this any easier..."

Phoebe: "I know."

I sent out Bubba. Realizing I really needed to get out and find some more pokemon, no one made it this far in the games with just their starter, a Zubat, and a Geodude.

Me: "Hey honey?"

Phoebe: "Yeah?"

Me: "After this, I need to go find some more pokemon."

Phoebe: "Yeah you probably should."

Phoebe: "But this battle isn't over yet, so hold on."

Me: "-sighs- allright."

Bubba: "Wartortle!"

Cloudela was chasing Bubba around once again, trying to shock him.

Me: "Um..withdraw.."

Bubba withdrew into his shell, Cloudela caught up to him and shocked him, but his shell absorbed most of the damage.

-in pain- Bubba: "Wartortle!"

Cloudela eventually grew tired from shocking him and had to stop, giving me a chance to go on the offensive, if Bubba was still concious.

Me: "Allright Bubba...if you can hear me, jump out and bite it!"

-no response-

-concerned- Phoebe: "Do you think it's still concious after that?"

Cloudela: "Clou?"

-nervously- Me: "Come on buddy..."

Bubba's shell just sat there, then started to shake a little bit, then Bubba popped out and leaped into the air.

Phoebe: "Oh no."

Me: "Yes!"

He grabbed Cloudela and bit into it.

-in pain- Cloudela: "Clou!"

Phoebe: "Thunderbolt!"
A few sparks came off of Cloudela.. but it was too late, it blacked out and fell to the ground when Bubba let go out of fear of being shocked.

Phoebe returned him and sent out Polli.

Phoebe: "Cj..I'm so sorry."

Me: "Oh honey, you're doing great, one of us has to lose right?"

Phoebe: "But this isn't over yet!"

Phoebe: "Polli..use Hypnosis!"

Me: "Quick Bubba look away!"

It was too late...Bubba couldn't help but look at Polli hypnotized him into a deep sleep.

Phoebe: "Ha!"

Me: "Come on Bubba wake up."

Me: "Phoebe...you haven't won yet."

I returned Bubba and sent out Zubat.

Phoebe: "Oh c'mon Cj I'm just having fun."

Phoebe: "Um try hypnosis again."

The hypnosis didn't work on zubat because he was blind, something not accounted for in the games.

Phoebe: "Oh cmon."

Me: " Bite it."

Zubat swooped down on Polli and bit him, quite brutally, blood seeped from it's wounds as it squeeked in pain.

Phoebe: "Oh no."

Me: "Keep biting it."

Phoebe was getting scared, she was always a bit squeemish.

Phoebe: "Cj please stop."

Polli now had multiple bite marks and was bleeding. Its squeeking was becoming weaker.

-scared- Phoebe: "Stop please that's enough."

Me: "Ok fine zubat that's enough we won."

Phoebe: "Thankyou."

Zubat backed off and I returned him, Phoebe ran out onto the arena to collect Polli, who was getting very weak.

Phoebe: "Oh Polli are you ok?"

It squeeked very weekly.

-sobbing- Phoebe: "Cj how could you be so mean?"

-confused- Me: "Honey.. battling remember?"

Me: "Just calm down, we're right next to the pokemon center."

We had our pokemon healed and then we got a room and spent the next few minutes inside.

-nearly crying- Phoebe: "How could you do that to my pokemon?"

Me: "We were battling honey, and that's like the only offensive move zubat knows."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj I'm sorry, it's just, it's hard for me to see them get hurt like that."

Me: "Oh honey, it's ok."

Me: "I understand."

Me: "But you have to understand that it's part of battling."

Me: "Your pokemon are going to get hurt on occasion."

Phoebe: "I'm so sorry."

I hugged her.

Me: "It's allright ok...Polli is fine, the injuries they get in battle have no lasting effects you know that..."

I kissed her on the cheek.

Phoebe: "Oh Cj I love you."

Me: "I love you too babe, I love you too."

-sadly- Phoebe: "I just get so scared."

Me: "I know..it's ok..."

-sadly- Phoebe: "Because everytime I even see a drop of blood I keep thinking they're going to die."

Me: " I understand."

Me: "Look honey, it's good that you're so concerned."

Phoebe: "Really?"

Me: "Yeah, cause...I tend to not pay enough attention, allright? , you need to be cautious cause I tend to be reckless, we balance eachother that way."

Me: "I need you, otherwise, and I can't believe I'm saying this, I'll probably end up getting myself killed."

-cutely, happily- Phoebe: "Oh Cj...you're so sweet."

We kissed.

Me: "You ok now honey?"

-cutely- Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me: "Good."

We hugged again, and then we headed downstairs.

Phoebe: "So where are we going now Cj?"

Me: "I told you I need to find more pokemon."

Phoebe: "Oh ok."

Me: "So why don't we just go look on the outskirts of this city?"

Phoebe: "Allright then."

So we ventured outside the town, to the untamed forrest that surrounded it. We parked the car by the side of the road and headed out on foot, down a path marked by a sign, the path led up a small hill and into a vast timber-like area. Walking through the brush and grass, we didn't see much, a few rattata here and there that quickly scurried away on sight, a few pidgeys and the occasional spearow in the trees, the pidgeys usually flew away when approached, but the spearows would stay there, watching us carefully. Spearows, while relatively weak, were fairly aggresive birds, much like how they were portrayed in the anime.

Phoebe: "I wouldn't get too close to those spearows Cj, they look mean."

Me: "Yeah, I hear ya."

Me: "Wait do we even have any pokeballs left?"

Phoebe: "Yeah of course, we have plenty left, we only caught like 4 pokemon total. And I still got 8 empty pokeballs."

Me: "Ok good."

Phoebe: "So what now?"

Me: "I don't know...keep wandering around until a pokemon shows up?"

Phoebe: "Ok.."

Phoebe: "What if a big evil pokemon shows up?"

-confused- Me: "A what?"

Phoebe: "Like a gengar or something..."

Me: "Honey I don't think we'll come across a gengar out here."

Phoebe: "But what if?"

Me: "Honey, I highly doubt we'll ever come across a gengar, that's just ridiculous."

Phoebe: "I know, but who knows what we'll find out here?"

Me: "Isn't that the fun of it?"

Phoebe: "Ummm...I guess."

Phoebe: "Cj you are very hard to scare."

Me: "Yeah, I know."

Me: "What are you? Trying to scare me again like in Mt. Moon?"

-cutely, but also suspiciously- Phoebe: "Maybe."

Me: "Hehe...sweety cut it out, let's try to find a new pokemon for me, so I have some time to work with it before it gets dark."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Yeah I know I had alot of pokemon, if you count my original team I transfered from the games, the problem was though, that so far, the only ones I had that were fair for me to use Against the gyms were Bubba, Zubat, and Geodude. I wanted the gym battles to be fair, because it wouldn't be anyfun, if say, I wooped a gym leader's ass with Hellblade, or Aggron even. But I did have Hellblade, Staraptor, and CapnMagnum on me if I needed their help, and Aggron was just hanging out in the Pc in the PC. So in total, I had 7 pokemon, but really only three I could allow myself to use as the others were way overpowered at this point in our adventure here, perhaps if I made it to the league I would use them there, cause by then my opponents would be closer the their level. But so far, we were only on the fourth gym, and my 3 new pokemon were doing great, but I really needed to get some more.

As for Phoebe, she had 6 pokemon to use, Bulby, Mouser, Cloudela, Cubone, Polli, and Buzzer. The only reason she had a full team already was because when we started, Mouser and Cloudela were low enough level for her to use.

Cloudela was a pokemon that really fascinated me, as it was one that I hadn't seen in any of the games. It's body was soft but resistant, alot like a pillow, although it looked like a cloud, and it could learn a great variety of moves, but the question was..could it evolve?

Anyway we continued to look through the wilderness for pokemon, the place kind of reminded us of the timberlands near our home. It was a large area with small hills, tall grass and several trees. As we continued down the path, we began to see even more pokemon, a few nidorans, both male and female, mankeys, which would swing from tree to tree much like a real monkey, and a few caterpies and weedles as well, usualy either climbing up a tree or eating the leaves off of a tree. Metapods and Kakuna were also fairly common, and could be seen in some trees, though they were completely immobile, butterfree and beedril were usually harder to find, but flew overhead on occasion, with the beedrills making a loud buzzing noise as they flew. What was strange is that there wasn't any sign of an oddish or bellsprout, which usually could be found around here in the games. And I guess that was really the pokemon I was looking for right now.

I wasn't really interested in catching these other pokemon though, and they seemed to know that as they began to ignore my presence after awhile and continue with their day to day lives. Phoebe was a pokemon, so they normally didn't run from her anyway, though they would squeek, cry, or perhaps even attack out of fear if she picked one up. Which is what happened when we first spotted a caterpie.

-after spotting a caterpie-

Phoebe: "Oh look Cj, I found a caterpie."

Me: "Oh cool."

The caterpie was climbing up a tree minding it's own business. Phoebe, out of curiousity decided to use her powers to pry the poor thing off the tree and suspend it in the air.

Phoebe: "Let's get a better look at you."

-confused...scared- Caterpie: "Cat...cater...caterpie."

Me: "Honey, that's probably not the best idea..."

The caterpie, after struggling for a few seconds simply shot her in the face with string shot.

-grossed out- Phoebe: "Ew stop it...stop it!"

Phoebe: "Ahh...Cj help me!"

Me: "Let it go!"

She dropped the caterpie on the ground, and the frightened little caterpillar inched away into the bushes, out of site.

-laughing- Me: "Hehe, Um..honey? Are you ok?"

Phoebe: "Ew...ew...ew..."

She wiped the blob of string off her face and threw it on the ground.

Phoebe: " That was the most disgusting thing that has ever happened to me."

Me: "That was also pretty hilarious."

-somewhat shocked- Phoebe: "What...Cj?!"

Me: "Well it was."

-imitating her- Me: "Help me Cj a caterpillar is spitting on me!"

-somewhat annoyed- Phoebe: "-sighs- You're lucky I'm madly in love with you."

-touched- Me: "Oh honey..."

Phoebe: "Don't touch me..."

Phoebe: "My face is all sticky now."

After that we continued to walk down the path, until she stopped.

Phoebe: "Hey Cj..come here, look at this?"

Me: "What I don't see anything."

Phoebe: "Well the plants I mean."

Me: "What about them?"

Phoebe: "It's weird, but they have thought waves."

Me: "Really?"

There were four or five strange plants sticking out of the ground, they sort of looked like wild lettuce.

Me: "Hmm, I wonder."

Phoebe: "Wonder what?"

Me: "Allright use your powers and pull one of them up."

Phoebe: "Um ok..."

She lifted one of the plants out of the ground, The leaves connected to a large blue ball on the end like some sort of strange onion. But the ball also had feet. and soon it began to wiggle around slowly. It was asleep when we picked it up, but was waking up quickly.

-just waking up- Oddish: "Odd...dish..."

Me: "Hm..it's an oddish."

Phoebe: "Neat."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Hi little guy.."

She set the oddish on the ground. It shook the dirt off itself before opening it's eyes.

-tired- Oddish: "Odd...dish Odd... dish odd...dish."

It looked up at us, and then at the hole where it was previous burried in a somewhat angry way, I guess it was somewhat mad at us because we woke it up.

Phoebe: "Sorry to wake you, we were just curious."

-as if saying, it's ok- Oddish: "Oddish Oddish."

Phoebe: "All right you can go back to sleep now if you want."

Oddish: "Odd...dish."

The oddish walked oved to its hole and quickly burried itself once again, with only its leaves sticking up out of the ground.

Me: "Hmm, well that was neat."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "You know on second thought I could probably use a decent grass type."

Phoebe: "Hmm?"

The oddish, appearently hearing what I had said, quick climbed out of its little hole and approached me.

Oddish: "Oddish...odd...dish?"

Phoebe: "It's asking if you're a trainer."

Me: "Um...yeah."

It walked back over to the other oddishes, who were still asleep, and woke one of them up, the second oddish got out of its hole and shook itself off. And then both the oddishs engaged in their own little conversation and then the second one walked over to me while the first one began to speak once again.

Oddish: "Oddish...oddish...odd...oddish...odd..odd..odd..o ddish."

Phoebe: "Um...it basically said that this little one has wanted a trainer for some time now and it's wondering if you would be willing to take it in."

Me: "Hmm this little guy?"

I held my hand out and the little Oddish hopped onto it.

2nd Oddish: "Oddish odd...oddish."

Me:" Hmmm...I suppose it would work."

Phoebe: "Awe, here you go Cj."

She handed me an empty pokeball from her purse.

Me: "Allright ready oddish?"

It nodded it's...err...body, and said goodbye to the other oddish, who reburried itself. I clicked the button on the ball, which opened, drawing the oddish into it.. it was my pokemon now. After that we started to walk back towards the car.

Me: "Hey sweety?"

Phoebe: "Mhm?"

Me: "When Polli evolves, and my Geodude evolves...want to trade?"

Phoebe: "What so they'll evolve again?"

Me: "Yeah.."

Phoebe: "We'll trade right back afterwards right?"

Me: "Ofcourse."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "But I need to find a king's rock first for Polli."

Me: "I know."

This way her Polli would be able to become a Politoad, and my Geodude would become a Golem.

Me: "Ah well, I got a new pokemon so let's go back to the center."

Phoebe: "-sighs- allright."

We made it back to the car and went to the pokemon center, once there I place staraptor into the PC and then we went up to our room.

Phoebe: "So..uh what do you want to do now?"

Me: "I don't know, I guess I should introduce oddish to the rest of my team."

Phoebe: "Allright sounds good."

I let out Bubba, Zubat, and Geodude inside the hotel room, and then I let out Oddish.

Me: "Allright guys this oddish here is your new team mate, please play nice ok?"

Geodude: "Geodude.!"

Bubba: "War tortle war."

Zubat let out a low screech.

Oddish: "Oddish odd...oddish."

My pokemon talked amongst themselves for a little while and they seemed to get along fine. Then Phoebe let out Bulby, Buzzer, Polli, Cubone, Cloudela, and Mouser. So we had a large group of pokemon in the room all at once.

Phoebe: "You know Cj I think it would be better if we brought this party outside."

Me: "Yeah probably."

Me: "Hey guys were going to move this party outside now ok? there's not alot of space in here."

We returned all our pokemon, left the room and let them all out again in a park across the street. I even let out HellBlade and CapnMagnum.

-happilly- HellBlade: "Dooooom!"
-happilly- CapnMagnum: "Magnezone...Magna..."

Phoebe: "Hi guys, haven't seen you in awhile."

Me: "Yeah I figured, since I let everyone else out."

Phoebe: "Hehe."

Me: "Allright you two, I need you to keep an eye on the others, ok? Make sure they don't get into any fights or any thing."

-affirmitively- CapnMagnum: "Magnazone."

-affirmitively- HellBlade: "Doom."

Our pokemon began to play around, while we sat back on a picnic table and watched them, it was a nice day outside, and we figured they could use a break. It was late in the afternoon, and it wouldn't be long until the sun set.

Phoebe: "-sighs- This is nice."

Me: "Yep."

Me: "So tomorrow..are you going to challenge the gym first or will I?'

-cutely- Phoebe: "Well, it is your turn..."

Me: "Ok then."

We watched for awhile as our pokemon played, I called Oddish and CapnMagnum over, I guess now was the best time to figure out what attacks it knew. It walked up to us , and I picked it up and set it on the table.

Oddish: "Oddish..Oddish..Oddish?"

Phoebe: "It wants to know why you called it over."

Me: "I just wanted to see what attacks you knew."

Oddish: "Odd?"

Me: "Just go ahead and practice on CapnMagnum, don't worry he can take it."

-Concerned- CapnMagnum: "Mag?"

Me: "Don't worry He's a low level grass type, I highly doubt he can hurt you that much."

Phoebe: " Yeah, Magnum relax."

So Oddish faced CapnMagnum and hit him with every thing he knew. Sure enough, Magum just shook off the attacks and was virtually unharmed, although when Oddish used sleep powder, he fell asleep.

Phoebe: "Looks like he knows absorb, poisonpowder...and...sleep powder."

Me: "Good enough for now."

Phoebe: "Yeah."

Me: "Have a good rest Magnum..hehe."

Magnum had fallen asleep do to Oddish's sleep powder, so I returned him.

Me: "Good Job little guy."

-happily- Oddish: "Oddish."

I petted oddish on the head, and then he scurried away to play with the rest of the pokemon.

Phoebe: "Hehe, that oddish is so cute."

Me: "Not as cute as you honey."

-slightly embarassed- Phoebe: "Oh Cj...not in front of the other pokemon...please."

Me: "Oh allright."

Me: "I love you sweety."

Phoebe: "Ohh...I love you too."

We hugged for a moment, and then continued to watch over our pokemon, as they played. It was strange how well her pokemon got along with mine, even though they had fought against eachother several times before. Bubba was playing in the sand with Bulby, Cubey, and Geodude. Hellblade was taking a nap next to a tree, while both of our zubats where in another tree trying to stay out of the sun. Cloudela was playing tag with Mouser, Oddish, Polli and some other kid's Ratticate, Ekans, and Charmelion.

Phoebe: "You know Cj...I just realized something..."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "All these pokemon...they're like children..."

Me: "Maybe..."

Phoebe: "No Cj they are..."

Phoebe: "They play around like children do."

Me: "Yeah, but children don't fight."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj..."

Me: "They're supposed to be more like friends or pets than children."

Phoebe: "Am I just a pet to you?"

Me: "No honey...you're my wife."

Me: "You mean so much more to me than that."

Me: "And besides, you're nothing like them...you're more intelligent."

Me: "Sentient I mean."

Phoebe: "But they understand us.."

Me: "Perhaps, to a limited extent."

Phoebe: "And we raise them in order to make them stronger and get badges."

Phoebe: "They grow up like children."

Me: "Perhaps..."

Me: "But, honey...they aren't children."

Phoebe: "I know, but...I just wish."

Me: "Honey I know...ok?"

Me: "But right now, it just isn't possible, and you know that."

Phoebe: "I know."

Me: "It will be fine, honey, they're working on the drugs right now."

Me: "You just have to wait."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "Come on honey, you want to play with them?"

Phoebe: "Um sure I guess."

So we got up and started to play with our pokemon. It was a really peaceful afternoon, but eventually the sun began to set, so we returned our pokemon and headed into the pokemon center for the night.

-at about 8:00pm-

Me: "It's starting to get late honey..."

Phoebe: "Yeah...we should go in soon, before it gets dark."

We rallied all our pokemon together and returned them, then we went back inside the pokemon center.

Like I said earlier the rooms in the pokemon center here were very luxurious, with a large flat screen tv, and, I kid you not, waterbeds, and one of those half bath half hottub things in the bathroom. Compared to other pokemon centers, Celadon's was like a five star hotel. What made it all the better though, was that it was all free.

-after we got in the room-

Phoebe: "I'm going to take a shower Cj..my face is still sticky from that caterpie earlier."

Me: "Allright."

She went into the bathroom, I went over to the bed but she called for me just a few second later.

Phoebe: "Hey Cj come in here."

I went into the bathroom, she was standing there, still wearing her dress, I was half expecting her to be naked.

Me: "What going on honey?"

Phoebe: "Um..what kind of bath is this?"

Phoebe: "There's no shower."

Me: "Um..I don't know, it's like a hot tub, but not really. Here."

I turned the water on and it started to fill up.

Phoebe: "Oh so you press the button and it turns on the water jets."

Me: "Um..yeah basically."

Phoebe: "Um..ok you can go now.."

Me: "Allright."

I left the bathroom and went back to the bed, took my shoes off, and turned on the tv. There were a bunch of advertisements for the city's casinos and a few other tourist attractions.

-on tv- Man: "And remember to come down to the Celadon Game corner, everyone's favorite playground."

After watching a few of the ads out of curiousity I switched to the next channel which was some movie I couldn't recognize that featured pokemon, of course, in this movie the pokemon had human voice actors, which was weird, but very well done, to the point where I almost believed they were actually talking until a houndoom showed up, and then I realized, because I have a houndoom, that houndooms can't talk. Anyway I watched that movie for about half an hour then Phoebe came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her waist, carrying the clothes she was wearing earlier.

Her breasts were fully exposed, but there wasn't much she could really do about that.

Phoebe: "Um Cj?"
Me: "Yeah?"

Phoebe: "I think we should get our clothes washed."

Me: "Um ok.."

She slipped off the towel, leaving her naked for just a few seconds before she put on one of her other dresses.

Phoebe: "They have a laundromat downstairs, why don't you take a shower now..I'll go out and get our clothes clean allright?"

Me: "Um..ok..yeah."

I got up and hugged her.

Me: "Just be careful allright?"

Phoebe: "Oh Cj..ofcourse."

Phoebe: "Ok now let me have your clothes."

Me: "Um ok."

So i stripped down to my underwear and handed her my clothes which she just put into our suitcase.

She kissed me on the cheek.

Phoebe: "I'll be back in a little while ok?"

Me: "Ok, I love you sweetie."

Phoebe: "I love you."

So I went into the restroom to take a bath, while she got dressed and went downstairs to the laundromat to get our clothes cleaned.

I took my time, knowing it would be awhile before she got back. The water was soothing...

- a few hours later-

I was woken up by a knock on the door.

Phoebe: "Um..Cj.. did you fall asleep in the bathtub again...it's almost 10:00pm honey."

Me: "Oh crap..."

I pulled the plug and got out, and after quickly drying off...I slipped my underwear back on and left the bathroom. She was laying on the bed in her nightgown.

Me: "So you got our clothes clean right?"

Phoebe: "Um yeah all clean..."

Me: "Good."

Phoebe: "You must have been in there for over an hour Cj.."

Me: "Sorry Sweety I must of fallen asleep."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Awe it's ok...I still wuv you."

I layed down beside her.

-romantically- Me: "I love you too my sweet little angel."

I pulled her close and kissed her.

-cutely- Phoebe: "Awe Cj, I love you."

She kissed me back.

Me: "Goodnight my love."

Phoebe: "Goodnight."

We both fell asleep sometime later, expecting to challenge the gym tomorrow.