Pokѐmon Journey II: Gwyn's Passage
Chapter 28: Mt. Silver's Master
Gwyn's Point of View:
Violet was my opponent…
I couldn't believe it… I'd be facing the very person who taught me all I know…
I'd be facing the most powerful trainer in the world…
I'd be traveling through her mountain…
Wait… her mountain?
"Yeah, so the mountain belongs to all champions of past and present who are strong enough to make it to the top," Levy explained to me once we were at the pokemon center.
Night had fallen and it was only Levy and myself here, Violet forced all others to not follow since I was to journey up the mountain alone, only with the help of my pokemon. Even Levy was not allowed to go with me, only show me the entrance. She had done so once we had arrived and planed to go and join Violet, once morning came, where she was waiting for me on the peak. It was going to be strange traveling by myself again; I hadn't done that since… a long time ago, a very long time ago…
"But yeah, that mountain is her's for the most part since she's the one who keeps the pokemon in line up there and trains there all the time, she even has a year round home that's up there that she had build, which she and her pokemon helped her out with." Levy grinned. "It's a really cool log house like mansion that was built right into the mountain. It's where Violet stays and relaxes when she's not training. It's not often that anyone else gets to go up there though, even me, so this will be a real treat for all of us. Not just to see the battle between you two but also to see what's really up there on the tallest and strongest mountain in the two regions combined!"
"While that's great and everything Levy, I'm still just so shocked that I'll be battling Violet. I can't believe that I'm actually going to battle against the Violet Vilmos… I never dreamed…" I shook my head and tried to wipe away a tear that was forming in my eye from the happiness I was feeling. "I never thought that I'd ever get a chance like this."
"It means that Violet definitely thinks you're really strong, strong enough to be about her level." Levy shrugged as she played with her soup. The cold weather here was nipping at us both from being back in my home region, I didn't exactly like that. I had to grab my jacket then and put that back on and prepare for the cold road ahead. "Violet's hardly ever battled anyone since she was crowned champion, but that's because she loves the thrill of a harsh and long battle, so she hardly fights other trainers unless they can prove their worth to her, and that's still a few to none, other then Team Rocket which she loved to kick the butts of in her spare time."
"Don't we all know that!" Levy and I laughed at my statement as we tired to warm up our bodies.
"Well, not to be mean or rude Gwyn, but I should get going to bed." Levy rose from her seat and picked up the tray of food she had mostly finished. "I promised Violet that I'd meet up with her as soon as I got you situated, and she doesn't want me to reveal any sort of easy passage way for you to take. I need to make sure I'm up and gone before you are, so there's no cheating at all."
"Don't worry about it Levy, I'll meet you at the top." I waved at her. "Have a good night!"
The girl quickly took off to her own room that she was given for the night. We were the only two there since no one was allowed in the area except a select few, and even that was rare in itself. Everyone had to be approved by Violet or myself, or only Violet and myself could come here, due to how dangerous and steep the landscape was. Violet was having most of the people coming to watch our match arrive by flying pokemon, or she personally had her pokemon going out to get them all. From what I know, all gym leaders and elite four members have been offered an invitation, not to mention all friends and family members closer to us.
I silently ate up more of the food I was given while my pokemon all chatted with each other and laughed. They were enjoying this long and seemingly endless journey that we've been on, heck, I was too. It was hard to believe it could be over all by tomorrow night.
"I hope you guys are ready," I said to my team as they finished up their conversations and looked over at me. "Tomorrow is going to be one of the hardest days of our lives, and we'll be facing the most powerful trainer in the world. You think we can beat her?"
Multiple cries reached my ears that made my flinch.
"Sorry for asking, I should have known better." I chuckled. "Then let's prepare to win."
Cynder's Point of View:
The next morning came too soon for my liking. I hated it when I felt the sun hit my face. I rolled over in bed and curled into my siblings to avoid the sun waking me up. Much to my displeasure though, my human sister Gwyn was woken by it.
"Uh… morning already…?" She moved and pulled herself out of the bed that she was in and out of the middle of all of us that were curled around her. "Guess its time to get going. Come on everyone! Up!"
With her rallying cry, most of the others quickly jumped from the bed or the side of it, where ever they lay. I yawned and raised my head to look at Gwyn while she raised the blinds on all of her windows and I shielded my eyes from then, turning into the shoulder of North Wind.
"Need more sleep…" I muttered into her fur.
"Come now Cynder, surely you can rest in your pokeball while Gwyn climbs the mountain, yes?" North Wind questioned me as she stood from her spot and then sat down again, after stretching, while we waited on Gwyn from her cleaning room to prepare herself for the day.
"Yeah… but I still would rather Gwyn didn't get up so early…" I yawned and laid my head back down, without North Wind next to me now, but I curled into whatever was next to me, and it happened to be the inner scales of Scarlet's body.
"Cynder! Come on you lazy misfit!" I looked up from where I was and soon saw it was Gwyn standing over me. "Or don't you want to face the strongest trainer in the entire two regions that taught us most everything we know?"
"Of course I want to!" I growled back at my trainer. "But I'm tired!"
Gwyn only laughed at me. "You're always tired, and you growling at me just means that you want to be lazy, so you're not that tired. You just don't want to do much of anything before we actually get to fight Violet."
"…Pretty much…"
"Well too bad, since I need your help to climb that mountain and make sure I don't kill myself trying, or else we'll never get the chance to battle Violet." She snorted a laugh and grabbed her bag. "So you can either come now or I'll leave you behind and you won't get to participate in the best battle of all our lives, your choice."
It was then that my trainer walked out the door with most of the others behind her. After a good amount of huffing on my part, I followed after her. I was hungry after all…
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After a quick breakfast that we got form the healing place that Gwyn always takes us to, we walked to the base of the mountain that we had to scale before battling Violet and her pokemon team. The entrance to the mountain was a dark tunnel, I saw no light on the inside, which meant that I'd be used to light the way with my fire. I sighed at that. The jagged shaped passage seemed to go on forever inside the mountain, and not to mention that if you look up from where we were to begin, the mountain seemed to go on forever into the sky, its peak even wasn't visible from being hidden behind the clouds!
"Well, the only way we're going get through this is if we actually start walking." Gwyn looked around for a moment before she noticed something off to the side. It was a thick piece of wood that seemed to be covered in oil on the top half; I could smell it from the distance.
"Well it looks like your wish to rest may come true after all Cynder," North Wind spoke to me in a hushed voice.
I raised my eye brow at her. "What are you talking about?"
"She plans to make you light that torch, you idiot." Scarlet snorted from where she was wrapped around Gwyn before she returned herself to her pokeball without another word.
I howled at her words. "How dare you?"
"Cynder?" I simmered down my temper as I looked over at my clueless human sister. "Is something wrong? Did you and Scarlet get into a fight?"
"Its noting Gwyn… just pushing each other's tempers." I snorted and looked away from her.
"Well… okay… but if you want to talk about it, I'm here." Gwyn gave me a smile before she held out the wood thing before me. I think Scarlet called it a 'torch'. "Do you mind lighting this for me Cynder? This way I can have some light for a little while and you can rest."
"Sure." I blew a small amount of fire at the wood and its top exploded into flames, much like my smokescreen attack did when I hit it with flames. Gwyn held the flame out before her and nodded at its brightness before she grinned at me.
"Thanks Cynder, here, I'll return you now so you can rest until we get close to the peak." I grinned at that, finally getting my way as she pulled out my pokeball. "Little fire misfit."
"But you love me anyway." I smirked as she returned me to the comfort of my pokeball that kept me safe, secure and warm. I relaxed and I snuggled into the pokeball and allowed myself to drift off to a beautiful slumber of laziness.
Sunrise's Point of View:
Cynder finally got her wish and ended up back inside her pokeball. I don't exactly see why… oh wait, maybe I do… Cynder isn't exactly small anymore like she used to be as a quilava, where Gwyn could hold her entire body in her arms. Now she was too large… as most of my siblings were… I was the only one small enough to sit in her lap or lie on her shoulders or be carried in her arms. I'm sure Ticky missed it the most, being the baby of us all. She used to be carried everywhere by Gwyn until she evolved into her third evolution here in Kanto.
Gwyn decided that it would be easiest if most of the others were returned to their pokeballs and I would be out there with her while they rested some more and gained every ounce of energy for their fight. Because of my psychic abilities and type, it made it a logical choice for me to keep her from falling down into some pit and I can levitate her over ledges or large landslides and gashes in our way. It would be easy.
But it was the pokemon that might present a problem, since they were the ones that were trying to stop us or wear us out before we made it to the top to face Violet. I'm sure she'd allow us some time to heal, since she'd want to battle us at our most powerful. The only thing I dreaded about this battle is the possibly of being put up and against my love, my darling Chalcedony. If I had to fight him… there would be no way for me to face him, and I hope that would be the same on his side. We would die for one another, but we would never harm one another…
"Is something wrong Sunrise?" Gwyn pulled back her hair a bit to look into my mystifying eyes. "You seem upset."
"I'm worried," I bowed my head to my trainer and sister. "I don't want to face off against my love… is it wrong for me to think that?"
"Of course not!" I quickly felt her hand come back to gently rub and pet my fur. "I totally understand where your coming from Sunrise, if I was in your place, I'd hate to fight against Tristan in a real battle. For training? I think that's okay, since your working together to get stronger, but to actually fight each other and find a winner? No way." She gave me a grin that glowed from the iridescence of the torch she carried in the dark tunnels. "I'll talk with Violet and make sure the two of you don't have to battle each other, I promise."
"Thank you Gwyn…"
"No problem, now," she turned her head and held up the torch to show a bit more of the mountain that we had to climb. A large roaring could be heard from up in the distance, like a waterfall. "Looks like we might be heading strait up, you ready?"
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It only took a short while for Gwyn to make her way to the waterfall that we'd heard earlier on. Once we were at its base, she had me use my powers to help carry us both to the top, where we could easily see another level that must have led to the more dangerous terrain.
And that's when it finally got to the 'fun' part.
Something from out in the dark suddenly shot itself at Gwyn and myself. She cried out in surprise and I raced to use my abilities to teleport us away and onto a small ledge that was sticking out of the water fall. Gwyn cried out again when she slipped on the rocks. She dug her nails into the only ground below her to keep her steady and tried to stand up just as those bodies in the dark came at us again. The torch was long lost and fallen from Gwyn's reach, not to mention forgotten.
"North Wind, I need your help!" Gwyn quickly threw out North Wind's pokeball and out came my legendary sister. Without a single word needing to be said, North Wind picked up Gwyn by sliding her head between her legs and getting her onto her back before taking off up the waterfall with some amazing speed.
The next wave of terrifying pokemon came, multiple pokemon came and popped their heads out of the water and started to breathe and throw attacks of all types at us. North Wind howled at them angrily before she took off up the waterfall at an alarming speed in which Gwyn and I had to hold on for dear life to each other and her to make sure we weren't flung off, especially Gwyn, who still wasn't quite used to changing into some of our forms.
Gwyn screamed out in shock as an attack almost hit her in the head. North Wind took that moment to turn on her feet and stand on the water of the waterfall and I used my powers to keep Gwyn from falling. North Wind didn't have any problems standing on water, Gwyn however, still unable to use a changeling form of North Wind, was not so much.
"Watch it North Wind!" I snapped at the water type. "Gwyn's going to fall if you're not careful!"
"Hold her for a moment while I remove these brutes!" Before I could say another word at her, North Wind screeched and blew a thick veil of cold at them all, a sheer cold attack. When I saw the attack hit, the entire lower half of the waterfall was frozen and all the pokemon inside it as well. They were stuck.
"Nice North Wind!" Gwyn cheered for her. Then she sighed. "Well that's one heart attack I could have done without."
"We're not done yet Gwyn!" She blinked and gasped when she saw those same flying figures coming out of nowhere in the dark and gliding at us. "North Wind!" My legendary sister looked at me. "Take us up the waterfall and I'll take them out!"
She nodded her head and took off at the blinding speed she could up the second half of the waterfall. While she did that and Gwyn held on tight, I turned around to face the flying idiots that dared to attack us. Upon closer investigation, in the few seconds we actually had to think, I saw they were golbats. I hissed and used my powers to crate a barrier over us as North Wind sped up the waterfall.
The bats closed in and I could see the sharp ends of their wings coming at us to attack. I saw their sharp teeth looking for a meal. I snorted and watched with glee as they hit the psychic shield I placed up and around us that knocked them back with twice the power they put into their own attack, shooting them down to the rocks and ice below. With an evil smirk I giggled and settled myself back down on Gwyn's shoulders.
"Stupid pokemon…" Gwyn seemed to laugh at my statement.
"Oh don't be so sour Sunrise; we knew this would be a challenge when we entered here." She petted my head as we approached the level above the waterfall. "And its probably going to just get tougher as we go higher, after all, Violet is at the top."
"And I look forward to that fight, like we all do." I snorted as I looked to our path of destruction behind us. "I just hate the 'tag alongs'."
"Sorry to disappoint, but there's going to be many more of them."
It was at that moment that North Wind landed at the top of the waterfall and carried us both over to where land was. Gwyn was finally able to step off of North Wind's back and sigh. She bounced a bit on her feet to see how well her shoes would grip the ground and found it comfortable before she shivered.
"Man, am I glad I brought my jacket." She zipped up her mareep wool inlaid jacket and snuggled into it. "It's cold up here."
"I remember seeing some snow at the top," North Wind commented as she tapped her pokeball to let herself back in. "Its going to get colder and tougher Gwyn, please be careful and don't be afraid to call on the rest of us."
North Wind was quickly absorbed into the pokeball and Gwyn sighed. "Don't worry North Wind, I will." She patted my head again as she looked around the cavern with me of this next level, a light source could be seen from the side. "Look Sunrise! A path to the outside!"
"There could be a hole of lose ground somewhere, be careful." I snuggled into her shoulder, but my eyes stayed firmly on the path that my trainer ran incase she needed any help.
"Don't worry Sunrise; I'll be fin-whoa!" Upon coming out of the tunnel that led to an outer edge of this mountain, we saw small patches of snow among the green of trees and plants. It was lightly snowing along with a gentle breeze blowing as well. "Whoa…"
"It's quite beautiful…" I couldn't help but comment on the beauty of this place. Gwyn nodded with me and then slowly allowed herself to walk in the cold grass that seemed to be slowly turning brown as it was dying, shocking in the time of early fall. There was an edge to this scenery and Gwyn walked the two of us over to it, looking down to the steep fall below. Her eyes widened at it and she stepped back at it.
"Yeesh, that's quite a fall…" She continued to make her way back up to where we came from and looked around for another way to continue up the mountain. I looked as well and noticed a pathway that was quite a ways up, but there were a few large boulders and cracks open in the ground preventing my human sister from making it up there on her own.
"There Gwyn, but you'll need my help for this." I pointed up the pathway with my tail to show a stone sort of stairs that led up to another path way up mountain that was quite a ways up. Gwyn looked it over with wide eyes before blinking and looking back at me.
"You ready then? Because I'm ready to roll."
"I always am, do you really need to ask?"
She laughed at that and hurried up the steps to generate some heat for her body from the movement and when she got before the large boulders, she weaved through them easily as if she was dancing on her feet before she came to the open ledge and jumped off it. I used my powers then to carry us over to the other side and Gwyn easily took off up the rest of the stairs, shivering a bit as she did so. I could see why even while she was moving she was getting cold. The wind blew a little harder as we went further up, more snow was within it and it seemed to get to her skin, making her shiver all over. I curled my body closer to her neck to keep her warm.
"Just hang in there Gwyn."
"Okay, you stay close Sunrise, for both of our sakes to stay warm." She brought up her hood over her head to keep us both a little warmer while I stuck my head out to keep a look out for any other pokemon that dared to attack us.
None of them did as we approached the entrance higher up on the mountain that led back inside where the wind couldn't reach us. Again it was dark, and it took our eyes a moment to readjust to the amount that we actually had, which almost seemed to be less even though we were higher up on the mountain. Though from the little light we had and my excellent vision, I saw the glittering of ice all over the walls and icicles hanging from the ceilings that were very large in size, I couldn't see their base from where they began, and neither could Gwyn.
"Well this makes it a bit harder, and Cynder's being lazy so she won't help right now…" Gwyn sighed.
"We'll do what we can, what about Shocker? Couldn't he use electricity to light the path?" Gwyn thought about that for a moment before she nodded and threw out his pokeball, calling out his name. My brother soon appeared and blinked in surprise when he could hardly see us. I could hardly see him myself, I was lucky to be able to sense his presence and see a faint outline of his vibrant yellow color.
"Shocker, as you can see, we can't see," Gwyn explained as she reached forward to grasp his paw in the dark, or at least, I think that's what she did. "Can you light up the path a bit? Just so we can see where we're walking and not run into anything or trip?"
"Child's play!" Shocker grinned before his body lit up with multiple sparks of energy racing all over him. The red jewel like feature on the end of his tail glowed as well, creating a contrast of red and yellow light. From there we could see the path and it was now easier for Gwyn to walk.
"Nice Shocker! Thanks!" Gwyn gave him a grin (normally she could give some sort of physical acknowledgement, but Shocker would electrify her if the two of them connected) and hurried past him with a motion to follow her. The electric pokemon did so and quickly caught up to her, easily taking the lead as to light the way and give Gwyn enough time to decide, if a road block or a slit in the path showed up, which way to go.
We followed a path that we saw for a while now, climbing up walls and crossing home made bridges that most likely Violet had to construct. We climbed through holes in the ceilings that led to new floors above and some rocks that blocked off our path, which we had to move or destroy. Pokemon were pretty calm as we traveled through and hardly attacked us as we passed through their home.
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We finally saw a new light that suddenly seemed to appear after quite a long time that led to the outside would on this mountain. It was a bright white in color and you could see the snow. Gwyn's eyes lit up when she saw it and Shocker was finally able to stop using his attack, he was a bit tired form using all that energy, but he took it well, trying to calm his breathing so it wouldn't worry Gwyn so much.
"Thanks for the help Shocker, get a good rest so we can be at full strength to battle Violet." Gwyn quickly returned the tired ampharos to his pokeball and let him rest. "Now let's go Sunrise! We finally made it thought here!" She turned to look at my head that stuck out of her hood. "Do you think we finally made it to the top?"
"Only one way to find out Gwyn." I nudged the side of her face with my nose and she looked back to the source of light.
"Right!" She ran toward it, finally able to see where she was going she took off on the cold ground that was partly covered in ice that she paid little mind to.
Suddenly the light was cut off and Gwyn quickly skidded to a stop, wrenching out a cry when she slipped on the ice below her feet. I could see the movement and feel it beneath Gwyn's feet, something was here with us, and it was more then one.
"Sunrise!" Gwyn only shouted at me just in time to levitate her off the ground as something came crashing down onto the ground where we once were standing. The figure before the exit suddenly moved long enough to show a large group of ursaring, steelix and donphan that were all surrounding us.
"Oh man…" Gwyn gasped at the sheer number of them as they all looked up at her with hungry eyes. "I don't want to be eaten right before I was going to battle Violet!"
"We'll make it out of this Gwyn!" I pulled her over as something was swung at us, which I assumed to be a steelix tail. "Damn it girl! Call someone else out to help! I can only do so much while carrying you!"
"Sorry!" She called out and reached for one of the other's pokeballs when one of them opened without her command. Out of it popped Cynder, wide awake and grinning at the many enemies before us.
"Cynder!" Gwyn cheered out of fear and happiness. "Use blast burn!"
With lava oozing from her mouth, Cynder blasted out the white fire that hit the on coming enemies that lit up the entire room and burned everything in its path. Things that had never melted before did and the landscape, as rough and dead as it was, caught fire and still seemed to burn. It lit up the pathway some and I was happy to see that we no longer had any other pokemon to worry about.
"Cynder!" I set Gwyn down on the ground and as soon as her feet touched, she ran into the arms of her first pokemon. She hurried to grab her neck in a tight hug while the fire type did the same thing. "Oh I'm so glad you're here! And awake!"
"I'm sure." Cynder snorted a laugh and picked our trainer up and put her on her shoulders. "Now let's go, I believe we're almost at the top. Her scent is faint, but I can smell Violet and the others."
"Follow that scent then Cynder!" Cynder grinned in anticipation as she raced up the tunnel and to the exit of the mountain with her trainer on her back. Outside the exit of the tunnel was a snow covered land on the side of the mountain. Snow was coming down pretty heavily and the wind began blowing at us on and off. It was a beautiful sight, but it was so cold, I shivered in the hood of my trainer. I felt her shiver as well from the cold.
"Damn, this is colder then I though," Cynder muttered as she looked out into the snow.
"It's only a short distance Cynder, and I see no wind up there at all, see?" Our trainer pointed up to the section above us that was just above a set of snow covered stone steps. Cynder looked at the distance between the two places before sighing and beginning her small journey to the top of the mountain. The fire type had a hard time dealing with walking through the thick patches of snow that reached up to nearly her tail, not to mention that the fire type seemed to fall over a few times from all the snow and whatever was underneath it that couldn't be seen. My fiery sister blew out fire and puffed out her mane multiple times to keep her, and us, warm. It was a hard task for her, but she finally got us to the base of the stairs and past all that snow, though the stairs were all covered in a thick layer of ice, just to make matters worse for us.
Cynder groaned at the look of the icy steps, but she shook it off and began to make her ascend toward the section of the mountain where the wind was dead and it seemed to be calm, for once. She trudged against them and up them one by one, slipping a time or two, only barely catching herself before she could hurt herself or Gwyn and I. She actually had to resort to walking on all four paws at one point because the ice was so horrible…
"Cynder! You made it!" I cheered for my older sister once we made it to the spot where the wind instantly seemed to have died from the large rocks that were around. It was most likely in this last area, where the wind didn't reach the center of it, where Violet and all the others were waiting on us.
My hunch was right when we reached the top of the steps to see an eager Levy waiting.
"Gwyn! You're here!" She was dressed in warmer clothes, or at least she had a thicker jacket on to keep her warm from this horrible mountain weather. "Violet's waiting on you for a battle! We'll go heal you pokemon quick and heal you up before I lead you over to the arena, sound good?"
Gwyn grinned as she jumped off Cynder and allowed the fire time to burn herself up with fire to warm herself up. "I thick so, long as I get a cup of hot chocolate."
Third Person Point of View:
Time had quickly flown by and it was now only moments away that Gwyn Jalen and Violet Vilmos would begin their battle. Once Gwyn was rested and her pokemon healed from the journey they had taken through the large mountain of Mt. Silver, Levy led her away from the mansion that was built there and took her to the "battlefield of champions" within a cave just off to the side.
Both females took their positions in either trainer box they were to be in and glanced at each other with such serious gazes that it held the crowd gathered, most family and high ranking trainers in their two regions, in silence. Violet's look held more of a proud and playful feeling to it while Gwyn's was determined and ready. Both trainers had out all their pokemon behind them and were well prepared to being the final showdown.
"You ready Gwyn?" Violet questioned her former pupil.
"Of course," Gwyn countered easily on her tongue. "Though if I could say something quickly, Sunrise doesn't want to fight Chalcedony." She showed her pokemon looking worriedly over at its mate.
"No, I understand that, and I have no problems with Sunrise and Chalcedony not fighting each other, but other then that, all pokemon are fair game." She grinned. "So, shall we begin?"
The rocky field of gray stone was flat and only mapped out as to where the trainer's boxes were. An ominous feeling seemed to echo on the light wind as these two powerful trainers' were about to clash.
"Yes, let's go North Wind!" The legendary beast of the north wind stepped out before Gwyn, calling out a cry before it snorted at its opponent.
"Well then, let's just see how easily you can take her on Sapphire!" The legendary bird of ice flew out onto the field with a screech and it was legendary verses legendary for the first battle between the two champions of Johto and Kanto. The rest of the pokemon then returned themselves to their pokeballs to await their turn for battle in this amazing once of a life time event.
"Go North Wind! Start out with gust!" The first command came from Gwyn who called out at her water type. With a snort from the actual pokemon, its ribbon like tails whipped up around the side of her and send a double set of large tornado like attacks over at the articuno on the other side of the field.
"Fly right through it Sapphire! You can take it and then hit that pokemon with ice beam!" With orders from her trainer, the articuno took off for the two large tornado like attacks that were heading her way. The two attacks of North Wind then hit each other and suddenly combined to a larger one before its winds howled as Sapphire dived in and was swallowed whole. The pokemon itself screeched when it got inside, finding the eye of the storm and settling inside where it could make a counter current which shot the thick gust into nothingness and the tornado like attack dispersed.
Gwyn's eyes went wide at the attack and she had still yet to respond to the attack coming her way. She gasped when she finally shook herself out of it and looked over to her water type. "Dodge it! Then use agility around her!"
The pokemon named after the wind raced off and away from the icy attack that came her way and raced around the articuno at an incredible speed where the suicune appeared to have double, tripled, and ever so much more before it started to close in on the articuno to do some damage.
"Attack!" The suicune raced by and suddenly flung its body over at the articuno before it slammed into it and then jumped away, turning around, and doing the same process all over again. The ice bird screeched and tried to move out of the way but the water pokemon wouldn't allow her.
"Throw it away with blizzard!" Violet's cry reached the bird and with another screech the water type was thrown away by the wild icy winds and snow that was thrown in her direction. North Wind was merely knocked back before she stood up and shook off the cold and then glared at the bird that continued to screech at her opponent.
"North Wind!"
"Sapphire!"
"Use sheer cold!" In a shocking feature, both trainers called out the exact same move of sub-degree cold to be used against the other. Both of them cried out and the attack hit each other in the middle of the field. Both pokemon fought with all their hearts before the attacks exploded in their faces and ricocheted back at them in a white blast that swallowed them within.
Both trainers gasped as they called out worriedly for their pokemon that were in the mist of the attack and stuck within the sub-zero haze that seemed to be hovering over where their pokemon were. The haze slowly faded out into the air and the trainers were shocked to find out that both their pokemon were encased in a thick blocks of ice.
"Damn…" Violet hissed out as she returned her ice type, Gwyn did the same with her water type. "Not bad Gwyn, not bad at all. But let's see how you handle my next pokemon!" She tossed out her next pokeball. "Let's go Ruby!"
The aggressive ruby red scizor suddenly appeared on the field and threw out her claws, slashing at the air glaring at the opposing trainer. Gwyn paid no heed to this and pulled out her next pokeball.
"Oh yeah Violet? Let's see how you handle Scarlet! Tear her apart girl!" The shiny, red gyarados appeared on the field and cried out in laughter once it saw its small opponent. "Don't let your guard down Scarlet! She's really fast and powerful!"
"You better believe it!" Violet grinned at the other girl. "Now Ruby! Start out with fury cutter!"
The bug type raced out and ahead at a blinding speed toward the landed water and flying type. She took a swing that the water dragon's side, only managing to just skin the surface before darting away when the tail of the water dragon came back down and smashed into the ground, sending rocks hurling in the direction of the bug type. She jumped back and out of range while the red gyarados growled.
"Use surf Scarlet!" Gwyn called out and the dragon cried out before its tail slammed down and water emerged from the air, certainly quite cold, but in a solid form that sped toward the quick bug type. Without hearing a command from her trainer, she leapt up into the air and glided on her wings to avoid the attack that seemed dot take up most of the ground space she was on only moments ago.
"Hydro pump!" The eager, younger trainer cried out when her first attack didn't work. The gyarados screeched out and water exploded from its mouth, aimed at the scizor. The bug pokemon easily dodged its attacks as it flew in the air, gliding on its wings.
"Fly Ruby! Don't let it hit you!" The bug pokemon then pushed its body away from where it once was and the gyarados followed after her with a strong determination in her eyes. Gwyn growled out as the attack wasn't working at all.
"Use waterfall and take out that bug!" The water that was circling the water dragon on the ground jumped up in multiple streams and raced to hit the bug type. Still she avoided them and dived down toward her opponent.
"Now Ruby! Use metal claw!" Both the pincers of the bug pokemon became incased in a metallic glow as she dived at the other pokemon and grinned as she went in for the strike.
"Block with iron head Scarlet!" A metallic coating covered the top of the water dragon's head before the two attacks collided and a screeching sound echoed from the metallic attacks. From a sudden force between them, the two of them were thrown apart and dashed back at each.
"Now use aqua tail!" Scarlet then raced to stop her body and water suddenly surrounded her tail and swung it around her body at the scizor. That pokemon in turn jumped out of the way before trying to race back at it and dodging again when the same result of the flying water covered tail tried to hit her.
"Don't let her stop you Ruby! Head in for a slash attack!" The bug type leapt backward from another swing of the tail before she flashed her giant pincers at the water dragon, darting forward to cut her up.
"Bite her Scarlet!" A bit barbaric, but the attack came in quickly and ferociously toward the bug type, who didn't have enough time to move. It a quick ditch effort to protect itself, the bug type ended up grabbing the two teeth of the upper jaw of the red gyarados in her pincers, but the strong bones were just too thick, and would not bend under her sharp and strong grip. Ruby was however able to keep the water type at bay and not attack her while she held her back.
"Perfect!" Gwyn cried out in glee as she looked over the situation. "Take out that pokemon with hyper beam Scarlet!"
Violet's eyes went wide as she watched the attack gather energy in the large beast's mouth. In a quick ditch effort, even if she couldn't save her single pokemon on the field, she'd at least take the opponent's pokemon with her so she wouldn't have the upper hand.
"Silver wind!" Ruby realized her trainer's intention and the silvery powder was emitted from her wings before they flew toward the water pokemon and a sudden explosion took over the field. The force of it brought both trainers to cover their eyes from the sudden blast of light and fire lapping at their clothes for only a few seconds before the attacks and the smoke it caused cleared.
Upon the smoke dispersing, both pokemon were revealed to be upon the ground in a heap of exhaustion and pain. Both were covered in thick marks of heat from the explosions that took place only moments ago.
"Return Scarlet, great job girl…" Gwyn sighed as she returned her second pokemon, feeling foolish for falling for Violet's trick, even if her move had been the most logical at the time. Ruby was just a bad match up for her Scarlet's hyper beam.
"Amazing as always Ruby, return." Violet snickered as she returned her pokemon to the pokeball. "Don't worry; you'll get them next time."
"We'll see about that Violet, I just hope you remember our only deal in this battle." Gwyn pulled out another of her pokeballs and threw it out. "Let's go Sunrise, take her pokemon out!" The psychic pokemon cried out as she landed on the field. She sat calmly with graze and beauty as she watched Violet wearingly to see if the pokemon send out next by her was her love or not.
"Don't worry, I remember it well Gwyn, so let me show you my next pokemon!" She threw out the pokeball. "Let's go Zircon!"
The dragon pokemon suddenly appeared, and its normally playful demeanor was gone and replaced with that of a serious one for battle. Gwyn was a taken back by this and she blinked in surprise.
"You may have the larger pokemon, but that doesn't mean that Sunrise can't win!" She turned to her psychic type. "Let's go Sunrise! Start out with confusion! Mess with its head!"
The psychic type did just so with his eyes glowing and the mental attack hit the dragon head on. He swayed on his feet to regain control and block out the attack, but it seemed to not be working. Violet seemed to hiss at the scene before her before she realized something and grinned.
"Use twister! Don't be afraid to use all the power you have!" Against the dragon's impaired judgment, he roared and large cyclones appeared before him that rushed in the direction of the espeon on the other side of the field.
"Teleport!" A single command given was all that was needed for the espeon to vanish just as the attack hit was going to hit. She reappeared on top of one of the rocks that were spiting out of the side of the walls of the battlefield. She grinned and stuck out her tongue at the dragonite. It shook off its earlier confusion and growled before it rushed at her.
"Don't do it Zircon! She'll just teleport again!" Violet's warning was only partly heard by her pokemon. It continued to race through the air at the psychic pokemon only to swing a fist at her and miss entirely when the pokemon wasn't there anymore. It looked around in rage for her, spotting her on the other side of the field.
"Fine then, if you want to fight I'll fight with you Zircon! Use a combination of ice and fire punches!" The dragon cried out and carried himself by his wings on the wind toward the psychic type and swung his two fists, one covered in ice, the other in fire.
As he approached the psychic type, she vanished away just as the first punch was thrown that left the wall covered in a thick sheet of ice. She ended up back on the battlefield, right in the middle of it. The dragonite howled and jumped into the air, intending to land on her with the fire punch raised. The psychic type vanished again just as the fire punch was about to hit her and ended up smashing into the ground below her, melting the ground that was frozen from being apart of the high mountain peek.
The psychic type could only grin at the dragon that continued to miss her when he attacked. Her trainer did as well when she saw how at a disadvantage the dragon was, just by not being able to catch her.
"Now psychic!" Gwyn called out in glee and watched as the attack hit the frustrated and tired out dragon in full force. The dragon cried out as his mind was attacked and all his energy went out the window and he collapsed to the ground.
"Zircon!" Violet cried out worriedly at her youngest pokemon. "Take it down with you! Use draco meteor!"
A sudden dark blue and black mist appeared swirling over the battlefield and the espeon cut off her attack and looked above in fear. She quickly turned back to look at her trainer, who was also stunned by this, and waited for an order.
"Attack!" Violet's cry echoed off the very walls of the mountain as large meteors covered in a thick blue-purple energy started falling form the sky.
"Teleport!" The espeon was suddenly gone in the next second as the meteors came crashing into the ground. A strangled cry could be made out just barely over the sounds of the meteors crashing and the dragonite submitted to his defeat.
Gwyn worriedly looked over the dust and debris hanging in the air that prevented her from finding the member of her team that she had out there. She called out to her espeon multiple times, but no response came back, worrying Gwyn to death. Violet and many of the other spectators that were watching in case something bad happened were all intently waiting to find out the outcome of her espeon.
Suddenly the dust cleared and the battlefield was left covered in meteors that were left behind. The black and blue mist above was gone and all that was left was to find the psychic type. Many eyes looked around until it was a cry from young Levy that pointed out the location of the psychic type. She was lying on her side next to a crushed boulder that had hit her in all the chaos. Gwyn's eyes sank when she saw her pokemon had lost, but was relieved none the less to see her relatively unharmed.
"Nice job Sunrise, we'll work on more things to make you quicker in the future. I promise." She was returned to her pokeball at the same time as the as Violet returned her dragon.
"Thanks Zircon, sorry if that battle frustrated you too much. We'll work our way around that later on. Good job boy." Violet returned that pokeball to her arsenal before she pulled out another one, Gwyn did as well. "Damn, this is turning out to be a really good battle, but now I think its time to kick it up a notch!" She threw out the pokemon. "Go Chalcedony!"
The dark type was released from his pokeball and his eyes glowed bright red as he looked to Gwyn's side of the field.
"I believe your right!" She threw out her pokeball. "Let's go Ticky!" The flying and normal type baby pokemon of Gwyn's came out and flew into the air. She cried out playfully at her opponent, which she saw was a dark type, an interesting match up.
"Alright Chalcedony, let's start off with shadow ball! Then race in with bite!" The dark type nodded and rushed in after releasing a ball of purple and black energy.
Gwyn grinned at Violet little, but enormous mistake. "Head in with sky attack Ticky!" The baby pokemon cried out in glee as she circled up in the air before she swung back down and encased her body in a bright bluish white light. Chalcedony's attack was suddenly before that light and faded right through her before hitting the wall on the other side of the field, not hurting the normal and flying type at all.
"Damn! I forgot that pokemon was part normal type!" She desperately turned back to her pokemon. "Chalcedony! Use dark pulse!"
The dark type cried out as a dark energy wave pulsed off of him in separate rays that as they reached toward Ticky, hit her head on, but she continued to plow through them with her attack, taking on the damage that she was given before she struck the dark type and threw him into the deeper part of the field on Violet's side. He quickly got to his feet, but the damage was visibly done to him.
"Chalcedony! Use psychic on that pokemon now!"
A screeching pain went off in the normal type's head and she cried out, flinching and fretting in the air as she tried to escape the attack. Gywn looked up at her baby pokemon in fear for a moment before she pulled herself together and remembered she had to be a trainer right now and not a mother.
"Ticky! Use ancient power on him!" Along with her cries came that of anger and pain while rocks suddenly appeared in the air with their purple haze around them and then hurled at the dark type. He was shocked out of his attack that was forced onto the other pokemon and ran to take cover, for unlike his mate, he could not teleport away from attacks. He cried out as the boulders struck him and he was tossed aside and across the field from their force.
"Chalcedony!" Violet cried out worriedly to him.
"Bre!"
"Toge!"
Both pokemon cried out to their trainers to ease their worries, but then faced each other and growled.
"Finish her off with hyper beam Chalcedony!"
"Finish him with aerial ace Ticky!"
Both attacks were fired off. Chalcedony screamed and a blast fired off from his mouth just at the same time as the flying type flew up word before diving down at the attack head on. Ticky hit the attack before she dived right through it and slammed into the dark type and the two of them crashed into the wall behind Violet. The cave rocks fell on top of their bodies and covered them both under great weight.
"Chalcedony!"
"Ticky!"
Both trainers rushed to that spot on the field to find their pokemon under the rubble. With the help of their last two pokemon that had yet to fight, they cleared the area, only to find that their pokemon were out cold underneath. They both sighed to see that they were alright, but returned them with a bit of a sigh, knowing there was still no clear winner with the match ups that they had been using thus far.
"We're getting down to the wire here Gwyn, I hope you're ready." Violet grinned at the younger female.
"I was born ready Violet." Gwyn grinned back at her with a pokeball at the ready. "I hope you're ready to face Shocker! He's a lot stronger since when you helped me capture him!" Out came the electric pokemon of Gwyn's that was ready to face off against Violet's electric type, for real this time compared to the playful times when he was just a mareep.
"And it's long past time I've given him the chance!" Violet threw out the pokeball. "Let's go Amber!" The electric mouse pokemon then was released and she grinned as she swung about her long tail that hit the ground and discharged energy. Shocker snorted at her attempt and discharged his own energy into the ground by jumping, creating large sparks that jumped all over the place.
"Easy Shocker, you may accidentally hit someone that's a friend or family." Gwyn called out to her pokemon to settle him down. He growled a sigh before he turned back at his trainer. "Don't worry; you finally get to show her how much you've grown since you were a mareep. Now let's beat her!"
That the pokemon could agree with.
"Not gonna happen!" Violet quickly called back. "Fry that thing right out of here Amber! Use thunder!"
"Hold it Shocker!" The ampharos easy held his own and took the electrical attack that was sent his way, which as a mareep would have severely hurt him, but now, he could handle the amount of electricity and absorbed part of it. Amber seemed somewhat shocked to see this new electric type take on her power so easily. Her face then turned to that of a playful one that was ready for a battle.
"Nice, now you got her attention!" Violet seemed pleased with the progress we'd made since she'd helped me capture the pokemon all that long time ago. "And you got mine, so let's get to it! Amber! Hit him with everything you got! Mega punch and thunder punch combo!"
"You do that too Shocker! Knock her out of here!" The raichu jumped to her back legs before she ran at the opposing pokemon with both of her fists raised and covered in light and sparks. Shocker followed her suit before the two of them landed only a couple feet from each other and then punches were wildly thrown.
The punches clashed with one another and sparks from the battle flew in the air. The flashes of light were strong enough to blind some of the people in the stands that were cheering for the two trainers. Two attacks suddenly collided with each other before throwing the two of them backward and shoving them out of punching distance.
"Iron tail Amber!"
"You use iron tail too Shocker!"
Two more attacks of the same caliber collided with each other by these powerful opponents. One tail whipped around while the other was thrown with the body's swing. Both metallic attacks hit and pieces of metallic bits flew into the air as the two pushed for dominance. Neither was able to do so as they were suddenly pushed back and away from the power of each other and their selves.
"Use swift Amber!"
"And you use single beam Shocker!"
A new set of attacks finally were used and stars that glittered and shone through the air raced at a beam of multicolored light. The two attacks hit each other and collided, but for some reason, some of the attacks seemed to slip through and make it to the other side. Both pokemon were hit and their trainers called out to them, sighing when they saw they were okay and ready to go.
"Damn it! Why won't that thing go down?" Violet hissed to herself.
"We've got to take this pokemon out if we have any chance of winning…" Gwyn sighed as she looked to the field. "I guess I'll have to use Shocker's newest most powerful, non-electric type attack to stop Amber and Violet…"
A moment of pause then echoed in the room. Both trainers needed a moment to think and it gave their pokemon a moment of rest while they schemed.
Violet was the first to react though when she'd come through with what she's planned. "Alright Amber! Play time's over! Let's use that move girl! Volt tackle!"
The electric type grinned and raced around a small section on her side of the field, charging up energy for a moment before she was covered in a thick veil of electricity and then she leapt in the direction of her opponent.
"Like that scares us!" Gwyn turned to her pokemon. "Shocker! Use your new move that we learned! Giga impact!"
In the next second the other electric type of Gwyn's jumped forward with a white energy covering his body as he rushed forward to impact with Violet's pokemon Amber. The two of them rushed in close and what seemed to be a minute, lasted only a second as the two attacks collided and exploded right in everyone's faces from the tremendous amount of energy from both sides. Both pokemon were thrown back from the blast and both hit the walls behind their trainers. Both jumped back to examine their pokemon, shocked to see that for the fifth time, there was a tie.
"Hell… I really have underestimated you all up until recently Gwyn; you really got some powerful team members there to do this to my team." Violet grinned at the younger girl who returned her pokemon and Violet had already done her own. "Does it make you fell a little glad of the fact that you're the only one who's been able to best me so well like this?"
"Actually, yes it does." Gwyn snorted a laugh. "But I still plan on beating you."
"That's the spirit, but don't be too upset when you lose during this last fight!" The last pokeball came out and it was the fight that most of all people here were waiting for. The two most powerful pokemon, that belong to each of these trainers, would be facing off to find out who was the strongest of them all. Would it be the shiny, protective charizard, or the lava drooling, misfit of a typhlosion?
"Now let's get this thing started! And trust me, we won't hold back!" Violet hurled out the last of her pokeballs that exploded in fire as it reached the battlefield. "Let's go Amethyst! Burn her pokemon black!"
The last of Violet's team appeared and it showed the fire dragon, the most powerful pokemon on Violet's entire team, and the one who knew her the longest of them all. The shiny fire dragon spread her wings out from behind her back and roared out. White fire oozed out like lava from her mouth as she lumbered further onto the field, hungry for a battle.
"We won't be holding back either, let me tell you!" Gwyn grasped her last pokeball before she chucked it out onto the field. "Let's go Cynder! Smother her pokemon in your flames!"
The other fire type was soon out and onto the field and cried out as she saw the other fiery opponent. Cynder drool from her own lust of battle came out as white colored lava as well, dripping onto the floor and melting right through the hundreds of thousands of years of ice that was there under her feet.
"Go!" Both trainers yelled at the same time and both of the large fire beasts crashed together in the middle of battlefield. Their hands and paws were interlocked in a battle of strength; both seemed to be finally happy to have this battle. It had been mouths, almost a year of waiting for these two pokemon to finally come to the strength needed to face each other, especially on Amethyst's part who had to wait while Cynder got stronger over all this time.
"Flame wheel Cynder!" Gwyn waited no time in sending off the first move. Her pokemon dove into a spin and out of the charizard's hands while riding right up the heavy body before hitting the charizard under the chin. She growled at that and watched the pokemon spin circles around her. "Now change it to rollout!"
Her pokemon quickly compiled and went about cutting off her fire and suddenly cutting through the ground with her attack. Dust rose up from all over the battlefield as the pokemon had run circles around Amethyst.
"Damn it! Amethyst!" The dragon turned to her trainer. "Use a combination of dragon claw and shadow claw if she gets too close!" The dragon nodded and her two hands glowed with energy, bright red, purple and black, while the other was a dark purple and black.
Cynder came running around the corner, ready to take a hit out of the fire dragon. As she approached, Amethyst raised her claws and took a strike with the dragon attack. Cynder dove out of the way of the attack and rolled away. The attack had left a streak mark in the air of where the pokemon had attacked. Amethyst's claw mark then hung in the air for a few moments before it slowly faded away.
Gwyn bit the inside of her lip. Violet wasn't the strongest trainer for nothing…
"Go in for another attack Cynder, avoid her claws, but do you best to get her!" Her only reply from her pokemon was that she actually jumped right back into the game and headed toward the charizard.
Cynder rushed her way inside toward the pokemon, but just as she was about to hit it, Amethyst swung her claws and sent the other fire pokemon rushing away before the attack could hit. Cynder rounded around the field before she tired another time to hit the fire dragon, ending with the same result with the claw marks that stayed in the air as if they had cut through it and left its mark like a fading stain. You could still feel the effects of the claw slashes, of the heat or cool, depending on which one was used.
"Dang it…" Gwyn hissed out.
Violet shook her head. "Alright Amethyst, enough of this child's play or we'll never get anywhere. Take to the sky!"
"Go now!" Just as the fire dragon was about to take off, the other fire type rushed at her and finally hit with rollout under Amethyst's feet. The dragon cried out as it hit, but roared and suddenly shoved her feet downward and slammed the body of Cynder into the ground. Both pulled out fairly well off and still growling at one another.
"Alright Amethyst, use aerial ace on her!" The flying fire dragon flew up into the air before it dived down at the land fire type.
"Cynder! Keep her back with eruption!" The fire type screeched and from its mouth came a combination of fire and lava that was short right up at the ceiling, aimed for the fire dragon. Amethyst barely dodged it as she dived at the pokemon, but had to pull out of her attack to avoid getting hit directly.
The charizard flew around as the lava fire stuck to the walls and ceiling and began to blaze up everything on the battlefield. The cold mountain turned from a freezing mountain peak to the inside of an active volcano, at the center of it. The battlefield was burning at the ice and it was melting quickly, the ice quickly turned to a warm rain that sloshed down on the trainers and some of the spectators as well as the pokemon battling.
Everyone seemed to be screaming as the sudden rain poured down as ice that had never melted, was melted, and the fire continued to blaze and lava fell. It was an entirely different battlefield then from when they started. Both fire types and their trainers, however, grinned at this sudden change in atmosphere and terrain. It was warm; it was hot, just how their most powerful pokemon liked it.
"Amethyst!"
"Cynder!"
"Blast burn!"
The two commands of both trainers suddenly brought out the most powerful attack in their arsenal. White fire oozed from their mouths before suddenly it was fired across the field in large blast that took up the entire space of the field itself. Within seconds the two of them crashed and a large, blinding explosion went off, sending both the pokemon and the trainers back into the walls behind them and forced all to duck from the explosion.
Gwyn had been thrown back into the wall with something soft landing in front of her. After a few moments she opened her eyes and looked to see what was before her and it was her fire type. She cried out and hurried over to her, trying to shake her awake, but Cynder couldn't move, she was knocked out cold. Gwyn had no choice but to return her with a good job to her first pokemon with a smile.
Violet on the other hand was somehow still standing, even as she had been shoved off and into the wall. She dared to open her eyes and stumble out of her hole in the wall to find her fire type next to her, somehow still standing and just barely holding herself up with the wounds she seemed to carry from this long battle. Amethyst opened her own eyes and roared out of her victory. It echoed through the mountain and visibly shook the mountain under everyone's feet.
Spectators from up in the crowds soon started to show themselves and see that Violet was the victor and began to cheer for not only her victory and the amazing battle that the two trainers had shared. Violet finally pulled herself entirely before her dragon who suddenly fell into her arms out of exhaustion.
"You did amazing Amethyst, thank you." She smiled at her beast and looked her in the eye before she had begun to fall into slumber. "She was worth the wait, wasn't she?"
No reply could be heard from the dragon before she fell asleep and her trainer returned her. When she was done, she turned to the younger girl who just lost and walked over to the other side of the field. Gwyn had already returned her pokemon and was grieving over her loss.
"Hey, nice job there Gwyn." She held out her hand for the younger trainer. "One of the best battles I've had in a long time."
"Yeah… yeah I guess it was…" the girl grasped the hand of the older trainer and seemed to perk up a bit when she grabbed it and heard these words.
"Hey, don't worry about losing, either one of us could have lost, and it would have been a good lesson for each of us." Violet pulled her into a hug and gave her a squeeze before leading her toward the crowd that was waiting for them. "It just means that we have something to improve in."
"…I'll agree to that."
Gwyn's Point of View:
A short while after my defeat before Violet, we were led to a small party for both of our accomplishments over this past year. We were inside the large ballroom that Violet had built on top of this mountain. It was a bright white painted room with red accents on the molding that was put there on all walls and the ceiling while the floor was a beautiful black walnut.
I didn't have to dress up for this party, which was really nice, since it wasn't like a coronation or anything like that. Everyone was in a casual wear as we ate and just enjoyed the night and talked with people about how we felt about the battle that Violet and I partook in. While I did lose the battle, it was a fun one that was challenging, and it was interesting to lose, my team was already to battle in the morning once they had a good night's rest to recover, and to do so, they planned to train with Violet's pokemon.
"Hey Hon! How ya feeling!" Violet walked over to where I was sitting with my boyfriend, Aaron and Levy. Being in their presence was calming, even with the noisy sort of atmosphere.
"I'm doing fine, just getting over the high from being in that battle with you."
"Quite a battle wasn't it? I'm glad we got to have it." The woman took a seat across from me where she had enough room to take my hands into hers. "Not to be rude or get in the middle of your evening with your friends and boyfriend Gwyn, but could I have a private word with you?"
I blinked at her. Violet's being secretive again? It had been a while since she'd been like this, not since we'd begun our search from Rose in this region. It was a strange thing, but not totally uncommon to me.
"Uh… sure." She quickly got up and hurried off with me in tow. She rushed me out of the ballroom and down a hallway or two until she was sure that no one was around before she slowed down and faced me. I still looked at her in bewilderment. "What's up Violet?"
"Here's the thing Hon, I wanted to ask you about this for a while, but I felt that I needed to test my strength against you first before I could ask you." She lowered her head a bit and her eyes no longer were looking at mine. "I'm sorry about that, but I just wanted to make sure you'd be strong enough, physically and mentally to handle this."
"It's okay Violet." I patted her arm and she sighed. "Now what is it that you wanted to ask me?"
She shook her head. "Listen Hon, Rose is still out there and you know I'll be heading out there to find her. I'll be taking you with me, there's no doubt any more about that, but here's the thing that's been getting to me for a while." She pulled out a map of the world and pointed to a large island nation that was far to the south west of the earth. "Not only is Rose out there, but other organizations as well. Other evil organizations just like Team Rocket who want to take over the world or ruin it in some way or force pokemon to do their bidding and be slaves. We can't just go after Rose; we should be helping other people as well."
I took a moment to look up at her and nod. "You raise a valid point, what do you plan to do about that?"
She pointed to the same island nation back down in the corner again. "What I figure is that we need to head out to these other regions to help people as well as stop Rose, and I figured the easiest way to do that was to find the most problematic region at the time and go there, since Rose will most likely follow after any chaos that seems to linger in one place long enough, and I've been hearing some reports about stealing in the Hoenn region from two teams called 'Team Aqua' and 'Team Magma'. Rose had got to be heading there… but-"
"But? Why 'but'?" I questioned her as she placed away the map. "What's the problem, can't we just go?"
"Yes and no, pokemon champions are allowed to leave their regions, they do it all the time, but it's often frowned upon by other regions, especially when they only follow by their own agenda. What I figure is that we create an organization that's allied with the police so that way they're practically forced to let us go after Rose and Razi, while we also help other regions in peril, and maybe find other trainers like how I met you to train and help us in our quest."
"And I assume you have a name already created?"
"You bet!" She grinned at me. "I call it the 'Interregional Pokѐmon and Human Protection League', or we'll call it the 'IPHP League' for short."
"That's actually not a bad name at all…" I nodded slowly to her. "But won't it take some time for this to take effect and become legal?"
"Yes, I do know that, which is why I wanted to run the idea by you first to see what you thought about it before we actually submitted this to the government. I have no idea how long this will take, but if you go along with it, two champions will definitely win the committee over."
"Well, if we get to kick more bad guys butts and stop Rose, I'm all for it, especially if we're heading somewhere warmer! It looks like this place is going to be even warmer then back in Kanto!"
"I'll ask the others then about this, I'm sure they'll agree too." Violet grinned while she looked at me. "So, you ready for tomorrow?"
"Oh yeah." I grinned. "I hope you have something good planned."
"Oh I do, I just hope you're prepared for it…"
Witch's Note:
Alright! Now how was that battle? Violet still won in the end (poor Gwyn!) but it seems like she wasn't too upset over it. Plus, Violet did have three more years over here in training and strength…
Well, regardless people, we only have one more chapter left for this story and I can't wait for you all to read it! I'll be tying up all the loose ends from back in the first story when Tristan ran away in 'Violet's Trial' chapter 24 and in this story, 'Gwyn's Passage' chapters 17 and 18. I hope you're ready for all of this! I know Tristan isn't!
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