Chapter 2: Revelations
A few weeks later, after Brock had died, Misty was still thinking about him. It was about 8:00 and Ash was getting some food at the pokémon centre's canteen. Misty had had something to eat earlier and she made an excuse that she wasn't hungry. Misty noticed Brock's backpack which had been lying in the corner of the room since he had died. She picked it up and looked through it.
She emptied the contents out onto the top bunk, the bunk where Brock used to sleep. She looked at all the things, which had scattered out of the backpack. There was about 4 Pokéballs each, which Misty guessed probably, contained his pokémon and a few spare for catching some new pokémon. Misty then stumbled across the Pokéball, which the Pokéball craftsman, Kurt, had made for Brock, it was the heavy ball. Misty knew that Brock would have wanted to use the ball to capture a rock pokémon. Misty remembered that Brock had told her that the pokémon that he wanted most had been Golem.
"Brock never got the chance to capture one did he?" she thought out loud to herself. She picked up Brock's Pokéballs, which contained his pokémon. She then put them in her bag. Misty continued to look through his stuff. She found a book. She opened it; it was Brock's diary. She knew that it was impolite to read someone's diary but she was curious and without thinking, Misty opened the diary to the first page. Brock's diary was a 5-year diary and it just so happened that he had started to write in it on the first day he battled Ash,
Monday 1st January
Today I met a trainer. At first I thought he was just another trainer after the Boulder Badge. He had a Pikachu with him. I could tell when he came into my Gym for the first time that his Pikachu was at a low level as it was in its cutest stage. But the boy, keen to battle with me, introduced himself as Ash Ketchum of Pallet town. I had met another trainer from Pallet town the previous day; he said his name was Gary Oak. I didn't think much of Gary. Even though he beat me, I thought that he didn't seem to care too much about his pokémon. Even when they won he yelled at them saying that they were still weak. But with Ash I could see that he loved his pokémon as he cared about them a lot, he even forfeited the first match he had with me. He then apparently went to my good-for-nothing father and asked him for advice. It was then, that I think he understood about my background. When he battled me the next time, some sprinklers in the gym got set off by Pikachu. The water sprinkled onto Onix. Ash was about to beat Onix, when my brothers and sisters showed up and told him to leave Onix alone. After I told my brothers and sisters to get off him, I thought he was going to continue to beat my Onix but he didn't. I then kinda felt sorry for him so I followed him to give him a boulder badge, because I thought he deserved it as he was kind to all pokémon. I told him about how I wanted to be the World's Best Pokémon Breeder and about how I couldn't leave my family behind; it was then when my father arrived. He agreed to let me go and follow my own dreams while he returned back to the family and gym. I was relived that I could go and follow my dreams, so I went along with Ash. He said it was great that he now had a travelling bud. That's nice. There is this strange girl following Ash though, apparently she wants to get Ash to repay her for her bike, which he destroyed.
Anyway, I'll write more tomorrow,
Brock
Tuesday 2nd January
Today I visited Mt Moon with Ash and the girl whose name is Misty. I found out that Misty likes romantic things as she said that Mt Moon sounded romantic. We were heading up to the mountain and when we got there we reached a cave. We heard some cries of a person and we found out that a flock of Zubat were attacking the man. Ash used Pikachu to get rid of them. I secretly caught a Zubat just before it flew into the cave again. The man introduced himself as Seymour the Scientist. He had come to Mt. Moon to learn more about the Mysteries of the Moonstone, which was a rock, which the Clefairy pray to. We saw some Clefairy.
Today I met Team Rocket. They were a gang of troublemakers and they and their talking Meowth had planned to steal the Moonstone but Pikachu foiled their plan.
Well I have to go now,
Brock
Misty closed Brock's diary sadly, she decided that she didn't want to read anymore because it reminded her of how much she missed him. She looked at the other things in Brock's backpack. She found a picture, which he had had of herself and Ash when they were at the pokémon league. She then put back all of the things, which had been scattered onto the bed, back into Brock's backpack. Misty thought to herself. She knew that Brock had desperately wanted a Golem when he was alive. Misty then got an idea. She went to tell Ash about this.
"Hey Ash, I've just thought of something. Brock always said he wanted a Golem. Maybe we should capture one in memory of him,"
"Yeah… that's a good idea. I really still miss the guy. I wish he had told us sooner. But instead he kept it bottled up. Maybe we could have done something to help him,"
"No… Brock said there wasn't anything that could be done to save him. I don't think there is any point hoping because we cant do anything now anyway… he's… dead." Misty said sadly…
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