I Pokemon Don't Own
It took a little longer than I thought it would to get to the Center, getting there well after Vaporeon had woken up, and even then a couple afters mid day. It was actually turning to night by the time I had stepped into the Pokemon Center, their wasn't anyone up so I just signed myself in before making my way to the closest room.
I still had Vaporeon out, but I returned her so she didn't have to stay up with me, now that she knew I would be safe. The others, wouldn't be getting any sleep if I sent them out, so I just laid down on the bed and decided to get some sleep. At least that was the reason I came up with in the morning after passing out on the bed, twenty seconds after entering the room.
After I had woken up and fed my team, and about an hour later of cleaning everyone off, which took longer than it should have. I was currently standing in the main lobby, looking at a map on the wall in confusion. It took about three minutes but I found the store that sold Dusk Stones, but even after scanning over the map for the third time, I still didn't see the Gym.
I'll be honest, I looked at the map longer than I should have in confusion before I finally had a memory come up about the Fuchsia Gym. Yeah, it wasn't actually in Fuchsia. I felt myself let out a groan as I slapped my hand over my eyes as I felt more than a little annoyed this knowledge.
About a minute later, I decided I screwed up enough for today and made my way out of the Center to go to finally get a Dusk Stone for my ghost. I'll get to the Gym later, it wasn't as important as helping out my ghost. It still took awhile to find the store but that was mostly because of the fact that I have a horrible sense of direction.
Walking into the store, I found that the Stones were being held in the back, so I placed my order and while I had to pay up front I didn't mind. As the lady walked out from the backroom and handed over the stone, instantly I felt a strong connect from the item in my hand. Looking at the stone in my hand, ignoring the lady behind the register, I stared at the item rubbing a finger over the top of it.
I almost felt clam, it clearly had to do with the fact that the Stone, while the shell was purple, the inside was so incredibility dark, it almost felt familiar. Shaking my head away from those thoughts, I nodded to the slightly weirded out shop clerk before turning and making my way out of the store.
As I stepped out of the store, I looked down at the Stone in my hand, I wonder if this is what Vaporeon felt when she saw the Water Stone I had. Speaking of which, I still had it, just with the bubbles that seemed to almost float in the Stone itself missing. It had been about three minutes after I left the store, when I decided I had found a good enough secluded spot.
Reaching down to the fourth pokeball on my sash, I pulled Misdreavus' ball off before tapping the button and tossed it into the air. As she was appearing out of the ball, and after I had caught it and placed it back on my sash, I moved my right hand behind my back. My ghost looked around for a moment before looking over at me.
"What's happening Captain?" I gave her a smile, still having my arm behind my back, before saying.
"I got a surprise for you, I think you're going to like it" She seemed to realize for the first time, that we were in a city. She spun around for a moment looking around, as if to just make sure, before looking at me with a look that showed she knew what I had on me, and she was excited.
Giving her a smile, I moved my arm out from behind my back and held out the Stone in front of her. Her eyes seemed to sparkle with excitement as she looked at the Stone before looking up at me, giving her a nod, she floated straight forward and tapped her forehead to the Dusk Stone, as immediately her form began to glow.
After a second the light surrounding her dimmed down to reveal my now purple ghost, Mismagius. She looked down at herself before letting out a loud yell of glee, before tackling me. Smiling just as much as she was, with the now dulled Dusk Stone in my hand, I wrapped my arms around her new form.
"How are you feeling Mismagius?" She just pressed her face into my chest a little harder, not enough just yet to topple me over. As I listened to her start laughing with happiness, I just continued to smile, while giving her a pat on her new hat. After a few seconds she floated back a bit before telling me.
"Captain, that was awesome! That Stone is awesome. You're awesome. And I'm even more awesome. Everything is awesome!" I just chuckled as I listened to her rant, trying to describe just how awesome it is. I gotta say, I was kind of getting curious about what it felt like, it might take awhile but maybe one day I'll get there.
Shaking my head, I let her continue to show her happiness for a good few more minutes before she seemed to begin to teeter off on how many more times she could say awesome.
"Come on Mismagius, you need to get use to your body and I need to find some directions to this hidden Gym" She nodded before promptly flipping herself upsides down and began to float upside down with me, I just gave her a small laugh as she seemed to have a bit of trouble keeping her balance.
It wasn't hard to find out the location from the nurse at the Pokemon Center. It also wasn't even that far away, at least in comparison to the amount of walking that I had been doing recently, so it wasn't that bad. It would still be a little over two hours of walking though which would be annoying, as that meant at least four just spent on travel.
But that just meant I would have to hurry then I guess, it was only about ten in the morning, which meant if I kept pace with what I was told at worse, it would only take me about maybe five hours to get my badge and get back, and it would only be about three in the afternoon which gave me plenty of time to do other stuff.
Like plan how I'm going to manage to get to Cinnabar, I could probably afford a ticket, but actually finding one going there seemed to be a problem that I didn't think would really be taken in consideration. But like I said, I could deal with that later, right now I had to find a Gym to challenge.
It had taken a little more than two hours, closer to four sadly, but I blame that solely on the fact that it appears the map I was given was either really out of date or the nurse really didn't like me. I figured that out pretty quickly but afterwards it was quite hard to find a way back to the main road after only fallowing the map for about twenty minutes.
Needless to say when I did find the Gym I wasn't sure if I was more glad to see the old styled mansion like building or annoyed that Koga decided it would be a great idea to have it so far away from the city it was suppose to be apart. Though it did give Mismagius plenty of time to adjust which was nice, on a side note, she really seemed to like having arms.
Walking up to the front doors I pushed it open and walked inside while looking around, completely ignoring the fact that I shouldn't be able see at all in the near pitch dark room, I gotta say it's great being me. Anyway looking around for a moment I noted that at least two of the walls were differently colored than the rest.
Oh yeah, wasn't this place about tricks and traps. Well screw that, I don't feel like playing. Looking over to Mismagius, who was currently using Double Team as a mirror, and while I thought it was adorable, this wasn't exactly the time.
"Hey Mismagius, would you mind looking around and finding someone. Once you do, just Shadow Hop me near by ok? I don't feel like knowing what happens when I surprise a ninja" My voice seemed to snap her attention away from herself as she gave me a salute before floating upwards into the ceiling.
I wouldn't mind going through the Gym normally, with all the traps and tricks or whatever else because why not. But I didn't really want to, maybe it was because of the other stories the other me has written about ninja's but this place just makes me uncomfortable.
Thinking of which, I looked around the room again, I wasn't sure why, probably paranoia but I just couldn't help thinking that in a mansion full of ninja, that at least someone was watching me. I would have noted if some kind of illusion was up, after all if there was only one thing that I had the right to brag about as a Pokemon, it would be my skill in illusions.
And the room was almost completely one piece, so I wasn't sure how someone could watch me even if they wanted. Maybe a ghost type but why would one of them be in a poison Gym. God this is going to bug me until I'm three cities past this isn't it. After a moment Mismagius floated back down from the ceiling and told me.
"Captain! I found one!" I gave her a grateful nod, before looking around once more. After a second I turned back to Mismagius and gave her a second nod letting her know I was ready. She dove into my shadow as I felt it shift under me in a way I almost wasn't expecting, it seems like evolution helped her out on transportation it seems, as I seemed to slide into my shadow instead of drop.
Appearing out of a nearby wall shadow I looked at Mismagius who was in the process of humming happily to herself, pleased at the quick progress she made via evolution. Looking around the room, I noted there was only one door in the room besides the almost obvious rotating wall. I grabbed my ghost's attention as I pointed at the door with a questioning look.
She only shook her head, so I turned from where I was facing and made my way towards the fake wall and pushing a side of it causing it to rotate around it's axis, letting me pass threw, while my ghost just went straight threw the wall itself. Looking around the room for a moment was all it took before my eyes zero'd in on the man in the center of the room with crossed arms and with his eyes closed.
After a second he looked up at me, like he was expecting me, which meant I was being watched, I knew that I would be spending an annoying amount of time trying to figure out how. It couldn't be physic, I would have literary seen threw anything one would be able to do, and I still doubt a ghost was involved.
Whatever I'll think on it later, right now I have a battle to win after all. So with that I gave the man a smile showing I wasn't impressed that he noticed I entered the room and the he seemed to expect me, even if on the inside I was, if only because I was curious as how he did it. After a second I said.
"Nice to meet you, I hope you're Koga because otherwise this is going to be a little awkward if I just broke into some poor guys haunted house, while looking for the Gym" Humor, it seemed, was lost on him as he just gave me a stern look before walking to the end of the big room we were in before saying.
"You are not mistaken, I am Koga the Gym leader of Fuchsia, I assume you are a challenger. Very well, I accept your challenge, this will be a four on four battle, with substitutions allowed for you the challenger. Prepare yourself!" I gave him a nod before stepping back a little, to get closer to the wall before giving a nod to Mismagius, letting her know she was out first.
She gave me a happy smile, before floating out towards the middle of the arena, while Koga looked over my ghost before pulling a ball out from somewhere I wasn't sure, before looking at me and said.
"The second my Pokemon is released the battle will start, their will be no pausing between the enemy appearing and battle beginning, this is your one warning" Interesting, I gave him a nod after a second. He looked down at the ball in his hand for a second before tossing it into the air and as I saw what was released I already had a command already coming out past my lips.
Mismagius finally evolved, good for her, out of all the evolution on the team she was the one that I knew was going to happen last but I didn't really think about when that would actually happen, for some reason I just figured I would do it when Fuchsia got visited, and that was the only amount of thought I put into where Kyu was going to get a Dusk Stone. Also the Dusk Stone's effect on Kyu was something I thought would be interesting to add, after reading up on the description of the stone itself.
I don't know why but I like doing Gym leader cliff-hangers, also does anyone know how Koga kept track of Kyu in the main room, their is an actual answer to this and I wonder if anyone is going to figure it out.
