Since I couldn't think of anything, I'm just doing this badge. And yes, all gym leaders in Johto are jerks. Why? You'll see soon enough!
Alex, the reason I don't have a pre-reader is because I often write then post a chapter on the same day.
In this chapter Ash will go for a fog badge. Since Ash in Johto Journeys hasn't gone here yet, I don't know how he will act, so I just made it up. He'll be kind of like Sabrina.
Midnight whimpered in her pokeball, unheard by Ash. She was getting more and more afraid of being in there.
Plants froze from cold and others withered under a too-hot sun. The Lessers shivered and burned. The sky was bright and dark, ignoring the natural night and day. Floods covered the land, and droughts appeared in other places. Food disappeared and did not grow again.
Midnight shook in horror as she watched them die.
Ash looked at the forbiding gym of the ghost type. Midnight should have the advantage in this gym, but ghost pokemon…he knew why most trainers saved this gym for last. No one fought here unless they had no other badge left. Better fail at some other gym then go here and pay the price of failure. Still, he had a pokegoddess.
Walking in, he saw the dark floor. He'd heard about this place. There was a path across the floor. The black path was indistinguishable from the rest of the floor. If you fell in, you'd warp back to the beginning…unless you were unlucky. According to rumor, one single place didn't have a warp panel. If you fell in there…
Ash decided not to take the risk. "Go Midnight! Fly me over to the other side!"
Midnight appeared. It was dark, even though she could tell it was-or should be-day. For an instant her dream came back in full force, but no, this was just a building. Ash got on her back and she obligingly flew him to the lone trainer on the other side.
"So, you want to challenge me?" said the trainer, hidden in the shadows. "So be it. I am the ghost trainer. I am very interested in legendary pokemon, as you may have heard. If you lose, rather then the normal price, I want that pokemon." He pointed at Midnight.
"If I refuse?" asked Ash.
"Simple. You pay the normal price, and after one of my pokemon has finished your soul, I take it's pokeball from your dead body."
"I see," said Ash nervously. "Okay, I agree. How many pokemon?"
"You have a pokegoddess, after all. A halfway good trainer can win with a pokegod, so you may use only that. We begin now."
So, what do you think will happen? Will Ash lose, and have to give up Midnight, then have to come back, risking his soul, and try to win her back, or will he just win?