Another day in the life of Blue, or Cowboy Blue! And his new friend Zack!
Zack and Blue were walking along the dark and dreary path as the wind picked up and it
started to snow, and the sky started to darken, and everythingwas so dark and cold.
The two of our heroes continued on, looking for a town on their map called Zayo city, they'd
heard it was a nice clean, warm place, with lot's of friendly people and the such.

"So, how far away do you think we are from Zayo?!" asked Blue as the wind picked up and
started howling, and he had to raise his voice just to be heard over the loud wind.

"I'd have to say about an hour away, but maybe quicker if we keep going at this pace,"
said Zack.

"Hopefully!" Blue shouted as it began to get even colder.

They walked on and on and it seemed like a lifetime, then about thirty minutes of more painful
hiking, they decided to stop for a food break, the mde some steaming chicken noodle soup
and drank it up fast, not even realizing how hot it was, for they were far too cold.

They both pulled out hooded sweatshirts and pulled them on and put the hoods up then they
kept walking on, and soon they were barely moving at all and it was so cold, and they were
staring to think about just stopping, it'd been another hour since they had took the break to
eat a bite, and eventully, "I think I see Zayo City!" shouted Blue extremely relieved.

"Good thing," said Zack.

They ran down to the city and walked up to one of the buidlings.

"Strange, no lights are on..." said Zack trailing off.

"Yeah..." said Blue agreeing with his good pal.

They crept slowly inside and looked around each corner, then after not seeing anything, they
both walked in side, which they would soon find out was a huge mistake.

The old and dirty floor creaked below them and then that's when they thought they heard
something, or someone else.

"What was that!?" asked Blue, scared now.

"I-I'm not sure," sputtered Zack.

"Let's check it out," said Blue.

So the two of them walked inthe dark where they thought they heard something, then all of
a sudden, someone, or something, grabbed them from behind and that's all they remembered a
after that.

The next thing the two of them knew they were sitting in some black room, and couldn't see
a thing, not even their own hands in front of them. All of a sudden bright light filled the room
and they could see two tough looking guys standing infront of a door that was in front of
them.

They open and closed their eyes a few times to try and get used to the light then Blue
spoke,"Who are you, and what do you want from us?"

"We're-" the guy stopped, the door opened and a taller, meaner, and more intelligent looking
guy stepped into the room.

"Hello, my new hostages..." he smirked, "I have captured you and stole your Pokemon, it's
been a day since I caught you two, and now you're going to have to pay the price..."

"Wha-What price?" asked Blue in a shaky price.

The tall man smirked again, "Zeichen's Game..."

"What in the hell is Zeichen's Game?!" shouted Zack.

"Well, first, I'll release the both of you, your Pokemon are haevily guarded somewhere
in this town, you must find them in order to win, you may run if you want, but then we can keep
your Pokemon."

Blue groaned, he'd had a lot of bad luck since he'd started his Pokemon Quest just weeks
ago. "Ok," he said, "we'll play you're game, now set us free!"

The man gestured to the two guards and they walked up to the boys and cut the ropes that
were holding them back.

The man smirked as the left the building, "Have fun!" he said in an eerie voice, then he laughed
an evil laugh.


Blue and Zack run out of the building and into the snowy road, "I wonder where
he put our Pokemon!?" asked Zack angrily, "I can't believe that jerk!"

"No kidding..." muttered Blue, who was very depressed at the moment, about losing his poor
Pokemon.

They walked up and down all of the streets, until they got familair, and new just about where
everything was, and they also realized this was some kind of ghost town, or at least they thought
so because they hadn't seen any other people since they left that old house they first walked
into.

Eventually it got dark, so they decided to make camp underneath a big tree, they pulled
out their giant sleeping bags and got ready for bed, then they lied down and tried to go to
sleep.


Blue was running around in the freezing cold weather when he heard the crack of
a whip inside, he ran in the house and saw a tall man whipping all of his Pokemon, hurting them
all. He ran at him and tried to throw a punch, but it went right through him.
"Nooooooo!!" he yelled.

Blue sat up in his sleeping bag, with sweat dripping down his face, "Oh my god..."
he said to himself.

He lie back down and went to sleep.

The sun rose slowly that morning, it was at least 8:00 when it was all the way up.
Blue was the first one to wake up and he immediately remembered the jam he was in, he
also realized he hadn't eaten in two days, nearly three.

His stomach growled so he shuffled around in his large backpack, he finally found a cold biscut
with butter and jelly on it, he ate it in a matter of seconds, then he found a little plastic bag
of rice, he practically drank that, then he pulled out some water he had put in a bottle before
his journey, he gulped that down, after that he decided he'd eaten enough, he sat there for a
few moments looking up at the sky, then Zack woke up.

They both got ready, repacked their stuff, then started to look around some more. Zack was
starting to get aggitated, "Where in the hell could they be?!"

"I dunno, but I hope we find them soon..." moaned Blue.

They searched house after building, after house, after building, they still found nothing, eventully
they came to an old creepy looking place on a hill, they decided this looked like a good place
to hide a Pokemon so they walked inside.

It was pretty dark so Blue flipped on a flashlight, "Ah, that's better."

"Yep," said Zack.

They opened a closet and saw a sleeping Pokemon there. "What is that?" asked Blue.

"It's a Machop!" said Zack.

Unfortunately for the two of them the two of the, talking woke the fighting muscular Pokemon
up, and it didn't look very happy.

"Uh-oh... what now?" asked Blue.

"I know!" said Zack, who luckily for the two of them, always has an idea.

He picked up a nearby stick and tried to hit Machop with it, that did the trick and knocked hte
little fighting Pokemon out for the count.

"This one's mine!" said Zack as he tossed a Pokeball at the Machop, the ball wiggled one or
twice, then it stopped.

"Hah, gotcha Machop!" said Zack laughing, then all of a sudden his expression changed,
"I think I'm gonne leave now..."

"What!?" said Blue in surprise.

Zack turned around and walked out of the building on the hill. Blue ran out and looked out
the front of the house, but he couldn't spot Zack anywhere.

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Zeichen sat in the room Zack and Blue were in earlier as he chuckled to himself, "Thos rambling
idiots won't find out my trick this time, I hid the Pokemon in this very building!"
He laughed on to himself when a rocket ran in the room.

"Sir!"

"What is it?" asked Zeichen.

"The second boy is approaching the building, and he has a Pokeball in his hand!"

"What the-!?" shouted Zeichen in anger, "That can't be possible!"

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Zack ran as fast as he could with his Pokeball ready, he ran in the house and sent out
Machop, "Go Machop!"

Machop appeared by him and tried to impress Zack but he wasn't even paying attention.
Zack burst into the room they were in earlier and saw the rockets.

"Ok, Machop, use your Karate Chop!" shouted Zack in anger.

"Ugh, you'll be sorry!" shouted Zeichen sending out a Raticate.

Unluckily for Zeichen normal type Pokemon are weak against fighting type and the karate
chope knocked out the Raticate and Zeichen recalled it, then he ran out the door as fast as
he could.

"Well..." started Zack, "that was no problem."

Zack found the Pokeballs and took his and left, he put Blue's on a table in the room. When
Blue finally checked that room he saw his Pokeballs, he picked them up and put them back
in his Pokebelt, then he noticed something else on the table in the dark room, it looked like a
playing card, he picked it up and flipped it over, it was an ace.

"Wha-?" he stopped and smiled realizing what it meant.

"Well, I hope we meet again..." he stopped and walked out of the house and walked through
the rest of the old ghost city and then when he got to the end of the city he stopped, turned
around and looked behind him to get a good idea of what the place looked like from the end
of the city.

He never did figure out what happened, but Blue figured he could guess. He continued onto
the next stage of his journey, he wondered what his next adventure would be, but whatever
it was, he knew he'd be ready...