It's been a while, hasn't it. Sorry, but I got inspiration for a fanfic in another section, one that reviewers were threatening to kill me for from lack of updates, so I had to get them satisfied. Hopefully chapters 31-33 will take them a few weeks to read, so I can work on this story and others.

This chapter starts off the next day, after breakfast. . .

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"Goodbye!" Call Ash, Misty, and Brock, waving as they leave their friends.

"Pika!" Calls out Pikachu, running up the hill after apologizing for being mean in battle to Ari.

"Get all the badges, ok? I don't want to be known as a wimp that any kid can beat!" Calls out Myra, waving furiously, Ari on her shoulder more or less intact thanks to a few potions.

"Oh! I almost forgot!" Calls out Cat, running towards them. Catalina was beaten up pretty badly (imagine a kindergartener against a high school bully with a bee-bee gun) but was mainly intact after the battle. After all, as she had explained to Ash that morning, most people decided to fight her sister in the pokemon battle, and she had gotten a lot of practice, especially during the first time she tried to take on the league herself. She didn't give many details, except she had given up in frustration after her fifth day of trying to find her way through a forest that had beedrills on every tree. Her exact words were, "Every time I stopped moving and tried to rest they'd come out of their hives and gang up on me. I tried the last time when I found a large meadow, and I still think every single beedrill hive for miles around sent at least half the hive." Ash had winced when he imagined how she must've looked when she got home: covered in beestings on beestings, bleeding, pokemon all in critical condition; he hoped he and Pikachu didn't have that sort of trouble. She stopped in front of them a bit out of breath. "There's lots of wild pokemon around here, most rare. And it's the job of whoever you beat last to tell you a bit about the next place."

"A warning? Ash'll need it!" Jokes Misty, causing Ash to glare at her.

"Not a warning for ASH. A warning for YOU, maybe. . ."

"What do you mean by a warning for them?" Asks Ash, looking down at the small child.

"The next gym was made specifically to cause arguments. It also has a bit of a nasty sting to it. . ."

"A nasty sting?" Asks Brock, not sounding very worried.

"Due west to Clentie town, south from there. DON'T upset the locals." Cautions Cat, obviously not joking. "And you might meet up with Rune there. If she asks to come with you, say yes. If she doesn't ask to come with you, invite her along. Her older sister came in second last year, she's trying for it this year, and her sister also warned her about what some of the clues meant. Plus, you aren't allowed to get the next badge unless you're traveling with at least four other people, and Pikachu doesn't count."

"Pika!" Shouts Pikachu, looking annoyed. Cat grins at them. . .

And falls over when a rock comes flying at her, narrowly missing her head.

"Hey! Is this that Kanclach pokemon gym, home of the infamous Myra? I want a battle!" Someone calls out, and they turn around to find. . .

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