Chapter 3: "Hunt for the Cascade Badge!"
"Well." Tracey begun as Misty moved away from the doorway to let him in "Professor Oak." he was cut off again as the panicked cries of a Poke'mon, that Tracey could've been sure was Misty's bumbling duck Poke'mon Psyduck, were heard coming from the pool room that was also used as the main Battle Arena.
Misty gave Tracey an apologetic look before running off towards the pool room. As she got there the sight of Psyduck struggle to stay above the water's surface met her eyes, she rushed over to the edge of the large pool and stretched over far enough to pull Psyduck out.
"Oh, Psyduck.." She sighed as she placed the Poke'mon back onto the tiled floor of the Gym "You really have to learn how to swim"
Psyduck took no notice of Misty's words and stood by the pool's edge looking directly across it, relieved to be on dry land. Misty then turned to Tracey, who had entered the room while she was helping Psyduck out of the pool
"Sorry about that." she gave Psyduck an annoyed look, Psyduck however remained unaware of this "Um.what was it you were saying earlier"
"Oh," Tracey smiled "Professor Oak thought it would be a good idea for me to come here and help out, as well as get a chance to study the Water Poke'mon.."
Misty laughed.
"Well you can start with Psyduck!"
Minutes later Misty and Tracey had changed into their swimwear and weren't having much luck in getting Psyduck to swim. Tracey tried swimming a few lengths of the pool and telling Psyduck to jump in and do the same but Psyduck remained firmly placed on the pool's edge, giving Tracey a puzzled look. Misty sighed.
"Come on, Psyduck!" she said starting to get even more annoyed as she lifted the yellow duck Poke'mon from the edge with some force and began to make him imitate the movements that Tracey had demonstrated earlier, but Psyduck panicked as usual, struggling in her grasp. Psyduck wasn't going to give up soon, lunging for the pool edge he finally freed himself from his trainer's arms and ran or rather waddled as fast as he possibly could out of the room.
It appeared that Misty certainly wasn't going to give up so easily either as she climbed out of the pool almost fuming with rage at Psyduck's behaviour and ran after him. Being careful not to slip on the tiled floor. Moments later she returned, Psyduck held in her arms.
"Maybe we should start with something a little easier," Tracey added giving a small smile
"Oh, what did you have in mind?" Misty asked frowning slightly; having the feeling that nothing could be could be easy for Psyduck, especially when it involved swimming.
"Well, maybe it'd be better if we taught Psyduck how to breathe underwater first."
".I guess we could give it a try." Misty said getting into the water, somewhat uncertain that this was going to be an easy task
"This must be it, Espeon!" a young girl with her brown hair in bunches exclaimed excitedly looking from her Poke'Nav to the purple Poke'mon standing obediently beside her "The Cerulean City Gym! So are you ready to see Misty?" she smiled glancing back to her Espeon, who gave a small but happy cry as they entered the already open doors of the Gym.
"Psyduck! Get back here!" Misty yelled as she and Tracey both climbed out of the pool and gave chase after another failing attempt to teach Psyduck. Misty ran so fast, her attention focused fully on Psyduck, that she slipped landing hard on the solid tile floor.
"Oww." she muttered as Tracey began helping her up. At that same moment, the girl that had been outside the Gym a few moments ago appeared in the doorway, clasping a hand over her mouth at the sight of Misty and Tracey.
"Oh." the girls cheeks turned slightly pink "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt anything" she said trying not to look at the awkward scene in front of her. Misty was still partly sat on the floor, Tracey stood bent over one of his arms around Misty's waist, his free hand clutching Misty's.
Misty blushed a little, as did Tracey, but was surprised to see the girl standing in the doorway.
"Sakura!" Misty smiled as Tracey helped her up; she smiled again thanking Tracey and made her way over to Sakura
"What are you doing here!?" she asked, surprised that the trainer, a friend she'd never thought she'd meet again because it had been so long since they'd first met back in Johto, was standing right in front of her.
"Well," she smiled brightly "I've been out collecting Badge's and catching new Poke'mon, I've already collected the Badges from all the Johto Gyms, I've even been to the Hoenn Region but the Gyms there are far too advanced for my Poke'mon, so I decided to see how things go in Kanto, before heading back to Hoenn!"
"That's.great!" Misty smiled some
Sakura's mention of Hoenn, didn't leave her feeling too great.it just brought her thoughts of Ash and Brock back.
"Um.. I should really get changed" Misty smiled sympathetically at Sakura
"Sure, go ahead" Sakura gave a small laugh
Once Misty had sat Sakura down she and Tracey had gone to get changed and returned a few minutes later.
"Misty?" Sakura asked
Misty turned to look at her
"Well, you're obviously the Gym Leader here, right?"
Misty nodded
".Since I'm collecting Gym Badge's, I wondered if I could challenge you for the Cascade Badge?"
"Sure! I don't see why that would be a problem"
Sakura grinned.
"Great!"
"I'll have to go get a Badge first though, so I'll meet you two by the pool ok"
"Ok" Sakura said smiling happily
As Misty disappeared out of sight Sakura and Tracey both headed towards the pool.
"Your Espeon looks well trained" Tracey said
"Thanks" Sakura grinned as they entered the pool room
"Empty!" Misty muttered, closing the Safe door where the Cascade Badges' were usually kept "I can't believe this!" she opened the drawer of the nearby desk in hope that she might at least find one Badge, but she had no such luck. Reaching for the slip of paper that lay on the nearby desk, she picked it up and recognized the number scrawled across the paper as the contact number her sisters' had left her in case any problems had arisen. Walking over to the Gym's Videophone and called her sisters'.
Meanwhile back at the pool Sakura and Tracey were deep in conversation about training and Sakura was showing Tracey all the Gym Badges she'd earned so far, when Misty came storming into the room a frown upon her face.
"What's wrong with you?" Tracey asked
"There's no Cascade Badges left." Misty sighed
"Oh." Sakura cast her eyes downwards, as Espeon nuzzled her hand
"Don't worry, Sakura.my sisters told me when I called them that there's a man nicknamed the "Badge Maker" in the next town and if we go there, I can get more Cascade Badge's" Misty told her friend, as she bent down next to the upset girl, who sat on the side lines of the pool.
Sakura cheered up a little at hearing this.
"That's great.when can we go get them?!"
"We can go now, if you want."
"Ok," Sakura smiled, looking over at Tracey who gave her a small wave "is he your boyfriend?" she whispered
Misty blushed, sweat dropping some
"Uh, no." she laughed embarrassedly "He's uh, he's just a friend, here to study the Water Poke'mon for Professor Oak."
"Ohh." Sakura nodded as if the subject had just become very interesting
"Anyway," Misty cut in "Let's go get those Badges!"
"Thanks Nurse Joy!" Misty smiled as she handed the Gym Keys to the Joy behind the desk "I shouldn't be too long" The Poke'mon Nurse smiled politely and she left the Centre to join Tracey and Sakura outside.
The three of them set off up a steep cliff, Espeon leading the three as they walked breathlessly. Misty hoped that Psyduck wouldn't cause any trouble or more embarrassment, as she clutched Togepi in her arms. Maybe It would've been better to have left Psyduck at the Gym, or maybe not! She thought as her thoughts trailed back to earlier this morning when Psyduck had fallen into the pool.
"Esp!" came the whispered cry of Sakura's Espeon as it bounded off ahead of them
"What's up with Espeon?" Tracey asked
"I think Espeon senses something!" Sakura said quickly "We should go after her" she continued as she began to chase after the Poke'mon, Misty and Tracey in hot pursuit.
Sakura stopped at the edge of a small hill, the other two right behind her, before slowly making her way down to see what it was that Espeon had sensed. The three of them reached the foot of the hill to find an elderly man laying on his front unable to get up. Sakura gave a small gasp and ran over towards the man, helping him up.
"Are you all right, sir!?" she asked a little worried noticing the man's bandaged leg
"I'm fine, I'm fine." he said a little annoyed "but thank you for your help young lady"
"Your welcome!" Sakura gave him a bright smile, as the others looked on.
After helping the man back to his home, which wasn't far from where they'd found him, he introduced him self as Mr. Kokojo, "The Badge Maker"
Misty was overjoyed at hearing this and she calmly explained her predicament to him.
"Badge Making is very hard work, miss!" Mr. Kokojo said, getting annoyed again "Why should I go out of my way to make them for you."
It was now Misty's turn to get annoyed
".Because, in order to qualify for the Poke'mon League in Kanto, the Cascade Badge is needed and by not making those Badge's you're restricting many Poke'mon Trainers from entering!" she said raising her voice, her temper beginning to burn, as both Tracy and Sakura stared at Misty in shock, hardly believing she'd come out with something like that.
The old man looked defeated and paused for a few moments, Making Misty more annoyed by the second.
"Well.i guess I could make you a few Badges" he said calmly
Misty gave a sigh of relief
"But only if you help."
The three of them collapsed.
Misty was glad to finally get some rest that night, when Mr. Kokojo allowed them to stay the night. Togepi was sleeping soundly in its eggshell and Misty was slowly drifting off.
"DONG!!" Misty sat bolt upright to see not other then Mr. Kokojo , holding a large bell in his hand, he had caused all the noise, waking everyone up.
"What are you doing!" Misty asked tired and very annoyed
"We've got to start making the Badge's now" he said, flicking the light switch so that the whole room was now illuminated in bright light.
"Aggh!" Tracey cried burying his face in Sakura's shoulder, making her flinch "The light, the light..turn it off!"
The three of them were given various tasks to do, including a lot of chiselling and welding in order to make the badges, by early morning they each had a few uncoloured Cascade Badge's and were allowed to go back to bed and finally get some rest.
Later that morning they were all woken up again by Mr. Kokojo and his bell. This time they had to paint they're badges, when that was finished they were told to run up a hill whilst the Badges dried. They did so, letting Mr. Kokojo inspect they're Badges and were told that they're Badge were worthy when they returned. Misty smiled, happy that that was over, but the happy moment was spoiled when Mr. Kokojo told her that in order to get the rest of the Badges she'd have to prove that she was a worthy Poke'mon Gym Leader by defeating him in a one-on-one Match.
Misty was surprised when Mr. Kokojo released a water type of his own, a Feraligater and she paused wondering who to choose. Finally she'd made her decision and was about to reach for the Poke'ball when Psyduck popped out.
Misty groaned at the bumbling duck Poke'mon's appearance.
"Psyduck, this is not the time!" she yelled angrily at the Poke'mon
Psyduck ignored her and took one look at the fierce Feraligater in front of it and ran, tripping over and rolling down a nearby hill, straight into a lake.
Misty, followed by the others rushed to pull Psyduck out
"You can't be much of a Gym Leader, if your can't even teach your own Water Poke'mon to swim!" Mr. Kokojo exclaimed from behing her "I can't let you have those Badges until you prove yourself worthy"
With that he walked back towards his house leaving Misty, Tracey and Sakura to teach Psyduck how to swim.
"This is useless!" Misty sighed after a few minutes of continuous failing passed
"Don't say that Misty!" Sakura said cheerfully "Your bound to get it eventually"
"I hope so.." Misty said, trying to shove Psyduck's face underwater, as the duck Poke'mon began to freak out and ran towards Mr. Kokojo's house. Mr. Kokojo sighed as he opened the door of his house, Psyduck banging in to him at that precise moment. Tracey, Misty and Sakura who weren't far behind apologized fro Psyduck's actions, only to be told that all the Badge's had been stolen. Sakura gasped in shock when she saw the empty broken safe.
"We've got to do something!" she cried rushing out the house followed by Misty and Tracey. Releasing a Beautifly and shocking Misty, Sakura told both Espeon and Beautifly to search for suspicious looking characters.
"Hey, get away from me!" came a startled cry from the woods close by. Investigating Sakura found Espeon growling at two boys, one with a Zigzagoon, the other a Poohyena. The Zigazoon trainer was also clutching a small transparent bag, containing a bunch of small rain-dropped shaped Badges.
"They've got the Cascade Badges!" Misty cried, startling the Zigzagoon trainer more.
"Yeah, and there's no way your getting them back, unless you beat us, but I doubt that'll happen!" the Poochyena trainer chimed in.
"Beautifly go!" Sakura ordered, "Tackle that Zigzagoon!"
Beautifly soared forward knocking the Zigzagoon over
"Zigzagoon, get up and Tackle it!" the trainer called
Misty was about to release Corsola when Psyduck appeared in front of her
"Psyduck!" she yelled to no effect as Psyduck just stood there "Oh, ok Scratch Attack now!"
Psyduck ran forward at the Poochyena, and tripped on its way, making Misty slap her forehead in frustration.
The old man, Mr. Kokojo found the others just in time to see Psyduck use it's Confusion Attack on both the Poochyena and Zigzagoon, making the trainers' drop the Badge's and run.
"All right, Psyduck!, we did it!" Misty smiled happily
"I think these belong to you!" Mr. Kokojo smiled handing Misty the Badges that he'd picked up. "You've now proven yourself a worthy trainer!" he smiled before waving goodbye and heading off.
Back at the Gym, Misty had just finished her match against Sakura, Sakura being the winner.
"Here" Misty smiled, handing Sakura the Cascade Badge
"That was a great match, your Poke'mon are really strong, Misty!" Sakura smiled "Oh and take this!" Sakura handed Misty the Badge she'd painted herself, while at Mr. Kokojo's "Keep it as a sign of friendship!"
"Thanks!" Misty smiled; unaware that Tracey was sketching this scene from behind her
"See you around, Misty!" Sakura waved as the three of them headed outside and departed their own separate ways
"Yeah, see you..." Tracey smiled
"Bye!" she called, waving back after them from further down the path
Misty headed back inside the Gym, letting the water Poke'mon she had with her out into the pool, she watched them swimming happily, wishing Psyduck could do the same. Picking up Psyduck who was once again at the edge of the pool, she again attempted to teach him how to swim, she tried placing him in the water, but Psyduck struggled and somehow escaped again.
"Oh, Psyduck." Misty yelled chasing after him "This is going to take forever!"
(I was going to add the next part of Ash's Hoenn journey to this chapter, but it would take too long.and I've been up all night! lol Anyways, if you have the time I'd appreciate it if you could review this chapter.
Many of you may have been wondering by now, why I haven't updated, well as I'm basing some of my chapters roughly on Hoenn Episodes I need to know exactly what's going on in each episode I write about, and thanks to a very helpful and reliable site I've been able to do this, but recently a very unfortunate thing happened. The site went down, hopefully the site should be up later tonight, or that's what the Webmaster's told me, maybe later, but until then I can't really finished what I'm working on, and I apologize greatly for the long wait. Hope to update soon~Misty)
"Well." Tracey begun as Misty moved away from the doorway to let him in "Professor Oak." he was cut off again as the panicked cries of a Poke'mon, that Tracey could've been sure was Misty's bumbling duck Poke'mon Psyduck, were heard coming from the pool room that was also used as the main Battle Arena.
Misty gave Tracey an apologetic look before running off towards the pool room. As she got there the sight of Psyduck struggle to stay above the water's surface met her eyes, she rushed over to the edge of the large pool and stretched over far enough to pull Psyduck out.
"Oh, Psyduck.." She sighed as she placed the Poke'mon back onto the tiled floor of the Gym "You really have to learn how to swim"
Psyduck took no notice of Misty's words and stood by the pool's edge looking directly across it, relieved to be on dry land. Misty then turned to Tracey, who had entered the room while she was helping Psyduck out of the pool
"Sorry about that." she gave Psyduck an annoyed look, Psyduck however remained unaware of this "Um.what was it you were saying earlier"
"Oh," Tracey smiled "Professor Oak thought it would be a good idea for me to come here and help out, as well as get a chance to study the Water Poke'mon.."
Misty laughed.
"Well you can start with Psyduck!"
Minutes later Misty and Tracey had changed into their swimwear and weren't having much luck in getting Psyduck to swim. Tracey tried swimming a few lengths of the pool and telling Psyduck to jump in and do the same but Psyduck remained firmly placed on the pool's edge, giving Tracey a puzzled look. Misty sighed.
"Come on, Psyduck!" she said starting to get even more annoyed as she lifted the yellow duck Poke'mon from the edge with some force and began to make him imitate the movements that Tracey had demonstrated earlier, but Psyduck panicked as usual, struggling in her grasp. Psyduck wasn't going to give up soon, lunging for the pool edge he finally freed himself from his trainer's arms and ran or rather waddled as fast as he possibly could out of the room.
It appeared that Misty certainly wasn't going to give up so easily either as she climbed out of the pool almost fuming with rage at Psyduck's behaviour and ran after him. Being careful not to slip on the tiled floor. Moments later she returned, Psyduck held in her arms.
"Maybe we should start with something a little easier," Tracey added giving a small smile
"Oh, what did you have in mind?" Misty asked frowning slightly; having the feeling that nothing could be could be easy for Psyduck, especially when it involved swimming.
"Well, maybe it'd be better if we taught Psyduck how to breathe underwater first."
".I guess we could give it a try." Misty said getting into the water, somewhat uncertain that this was going to be an easy task
"This must be it, Espeon!" a young girl with her brown hair in bunches exclaimed excitedly looking from her Poke'Nav to the purple Poke'mon standing obediently beside her "The Cerulean City Gym! So are you ready to see Misty?" she smiled glancing back to her Espeon, who gave a small but happy cry as they entered the already open doors of the Gym.
"Psyduck! Get back here!" Misty yelled as she and Tracey both climbed out of the pool and gave chase after another failing attempt to teach Psyduck. Misty ran so fast, her attention focused fully on Psyduck, that she slipped landing hard on the solid tile floor.
"Oww." she muttered as Tracey began helping her up. At that same moment, the girl that had been outside the Gym a few moments ago appeared in the doorway, clasping a hand over her mouth at the sight of Misty and Tracey.
"Oh." the girls cheeks turned slightly pink "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt anything" she said trying not to look at the awkward scene in front of her. Misty was still partly sat on the floor, Tracey stood bent over one of his arms around Misty's waist, his free hand clutching Misty's.
Misty blushed a little, as did Tracey, but was surprised to see the girl standing in the doorway.
"Sakura!" Misty smiled as Tracey helped her up; she smiled again thanking Tracey and made her way over to Sakura
"What are you doing here!?" she asked, surprised that the trainer, a friend she'd never thought she'd meet again because it had been so long since they'd first met back in Johto, was standing right in front of her.
"Well," she smiled brightly "I've been out collecting Badge's and catching new Poke'mon, I've already collected the Badges from all the Johto Gyms, I've even been to the Hoenn Region but the Gyms there are far too advanced for my Poke'mon, so I decided to see how things go in Kanto, before heading back to Hoenn!"
"That's.great!" Misty smiled some
Sakura's mention of Hoenn, didn't leave her feeling too great.it just brought her thoughts of Ash and Brock back.
"Um.. I should really get changed" Misty smiled sympathetically at Sakura
"Sure, go ahead" Sakura gave a small laugh
Once Misty had sat Sakura down she and Tracey had gone to get changed and returned a few minutes later.
"Misty?" Sakura asked
Misty turned to look at her
"Well, you're obviously the Gym Leader here, right?"
Misty nodded
".Since I'm collecting Gym Badge's, I wondered if I could challenge you for the Cascade Badge?"
"Sure! I don't see why that would be a problem"
Sakura grinned.
"Great!"
"I'll have to go get a Badge first though, so I'll meet you two by the pool ok"
"Ok" Sakura said smiling happily
As Misty disappeared out of sight Sakura and Tracey both headed towards the pool.
"Your Espeon looks well trained" Tracey said
"Thanks" Sakura grinned as they entered the pool room
"Empty!" Misty muttered, closing the Safe door where the Cascade Badges' were usually kept "I can't believe this!" she opened the drawer of the nearby desk in hope that she might at least find one Badge, but she had no such luck. Reaching for the slip of paper that lay on the nearby desk, she picked it up and recognized the number scrawled across the paper as the contact number her sisters' had left her in case any problems had arisen. Walking over to the Gym's Videophone and called her sisters'.
Meanwhile back at the pool Sakura and Tracey were deep in conversation about training and Sakura was showing Tracey all the Gym Badges she'd earned so far, when Misty came storming into the room a frown upon her face.
"What's wrong with you?" Tracey asked
"There's no Cascade Badges left." Misty sighed
"Oh." Sakura cast her eyes downwards, as Espeon nuzzled her hand
"Don't worry, Sakura.my sisters told me when I called them that there's a man nicknamed the "Badge Maker" in the next town and if we go there, I can get more Cascade Badge's" Misty told her friend, as she bent down next to the upset girl, who sat on the side lines of the pool.
Sakura cheered up a little at hearing this.
"That's great.when can we go get them?!"
"We can go now, if you want."
"Ok," Sakura smiled, looking over at Tracey who gave her a small wave "is he your boyfriend?" she whispered
Misty blushed, sweat dropping some
"Uh, no." she laughed embarrassedly "He's uh, he's just a friend, here to study the Water Poke'mon for Professor Oak."
"Ohh." Sakura nodded as if the subject had just become very interesting
"Anyway," Misty cut in "Let's go get those Badges!"
"Thanks Nurse Joy!" Misty smiled as she handed the Gym Keys to the Joy behind the desk "I shouldn't be too long" The Poke'mon Nurse smiled politely and she left the Centre to join Tracey and Sakura outside.
The three of them set off up a steep cliff, Espeon leading the three as they walked breathlessly. Misty hoped that Psyduck wouldn't cause any trouble or more embarrassment, as she clutched Togepi in her arms. Maybe It would've been better to have left Psyduck at the Gym, or maybe not! She thought as her thoughts trailed back to earlier this morning when Psyduck had fallen into the pool.
"Esp!" came the whispered cry of Sakura's Espeon as it bounded off ahead of them
"What's up with Espeon?" Tracey asked
"I think Espeon senses something!" Sakura said quickly "We should go after her" she continued as she began to chase after the Poke'mon, Misty and Tracey in hot pursuit.
Sakura stopped at the edge of a small hill, the other two right behind her, before slowly making her way down to see what it was that Espeon had sensed. The three of them reached the foot of the hill to find an elderly man laying on his front unable to get up. Sakura gave a small gasp and ran over towards the man, helping him up.
"Are you all right, sir!?" she asked a little worried noticing the man's bandaged leg
"I'm fine, I'm fine." he said a little annoyed "but thank you for your help young lady"
"Your welcome!" Sakura gave him a bright smile, as the others looked on.
After helping the man back to his home, which wasn't far from where they'd found him, he introduced him self as Mr. Kokojo, "The Badge Maker"
Misty was overjoyed at hearing this and she calmly explained her predicament to him.
"Badge Making is very hard work, miss!" Mr. Kokojo said, getting annoyed again "Why should I go out of my way to make them for you."
It was now Misty's turn to get annoyed
".Because, in order to qualify for the Poke'mon League in Kanto, the Cascade Badge is needed and by not making those Badge's you're restricting many Poke'mon Trainers from entering!" she said raising her voice, her temper beginning to burn, as both Tracy and Sakura stared at Misty in shock, hardly believing she'd come out with something like that.
The old man looked defeated and paused for a few moments, Making Misty more annoyed by the second.
"Well.i guess I could make you a few Badges" he said calmly
Misty gave a sigh of relief
"But only if you help."
The three of them collapsed.
Misty was glad to finally get some rest that night, when Mr. Kokojo allowed them to stay the night. Togepi was sleeping soundly in its eggshell and Misty was slowly drifting off.
"DONG!!" Misty sat bolt upright to see not other then Mr. Kokojo , holding a large bell in his hand, he had caused all the noise, waking everyone up.
"What are you doing!" Misty asked tired and very annoyed
"We've got to start making the Badge's now" he said, flicking the light switch so that the whole room was now illuminated in bright light.
"Aggh!" Tracey cried burying his face in Sakura's shoulder, making her flinch "The light, the light..turn it off!"
The three of them were given various tasks to do, including a lot of chiselling and welding in order to make the badges, by early morning they each had a few uncoloured Cascade Badge's and were allowed to go back to bed and finally get some rest.
Later that morning they were all woken up again by Mr. Kokojo and his bell. This time they had to paint they're badges, when that was finished they were told to run up a hill whilst the Badges dried. They did so, letting Mr. Kokojo inspect they're Badges and were told that they're Badge were worthy when they returned. Misty smiled, happy that that was over, but the happy moment was spoiled when Mr. Kokojo told her that in order to get the rest of the Badges she'd have to prove that she was a worthy Poke'mon Gym Leader by defeating him in a one-on-one Match.
Misty was surprised when Mr. Kokojo released a water type of his own, a Feraligater and she paused wondering who to choose. Finally she'd made her decision and was about to reach for the Poke'ball when Psyduck popped out.
Misty groaned at the bumbling duck Poke'mon's appearance.
"Psyduck, this is not the time!" she yelled angrily at the Poke'mon
Psyduck ignored her and took one look at the fierce Feraligater in front of it and ran, tripping over and rolling down a nearby hill, straight into a lake.
Misty, followed by the others rushed to pull Psyduck out
"You can't be much of a Gym Leader, if your can't even teach your own Water Poke'mon to swim!" Mr. Kokojo exclaimed from behing her "I can't let you have those Badges until you prove yourself worthy"
With that he walked back towards his house leaving Misty, Tracey and Sakura to teach Psyduck how to swim.
"This is useless!" Misty sighed after a few minutes of continuous failing passed
"Don't say that Misty!" Sakura said cheerfully "Your bound to get it eventually"
"I hope so.." Misty said, trying to shove Psyduck's face underwater, as the duck Poke'mon began to freak out and ran towards Mr. Kokojo's house. Mr. Kokojo sighed as he opened the door of his house, Psyduck banging in to him at that precise moment. Tracey, Misty and Sakura who weren't far behind apologized fro Psyduck's actions, only to be told that all the Badge's had been stolen. Sakura gasped in shock when she saw the empty broken safe.
"We've got to do something!" she cried rushing out the house followed by Misty and Tracey. Releasing a Beautifly and shocking Misty, Sakura told both Espeon and Beautifly to search for suspicious looking characters.
"Hey, get away from me!" came a startled cry from the woods close by. Investigating Sakura found Espeon growling at two boys, one with a Zigzagoon, the other a Poohyena. The Zigazoon trainer was also clutching a small transparent bag, containing a bunch of small rain-dropped shaped Badges.
"They've got the Cascade Badges!" Misty cried, startling the Zigzagoon trainer more.
"Yeah, and there's no way your getting them back, unless you beat us, but I doubt that'll happen!" the Poochyena trainer chimed in.
"Beautifly go!" Sakura ordered, "Tackle that Zigzagoon!"
Beautifly soared forward knocking the Zigzagoon over
"Zigzagoon, get up and Tackle it!" the trainer called
Misty was about to release Corsola when Psyduck appeared in front of her
"Psyduck!" she yelled to no effect as Psyduck just stood there "Oh, ok Scratch Attack now!"
Psyduck ran forward at the Poochyena, and tripped on its way, making Misty slap her forehead in frustration.
The old man, Mr. Kokojo found the others just in time to see Psyduck use it's Confusion Attack on both the Poochyena and Zigzagoon, making the trainers' drop the Badge's and run.
"All right, Psyduck!, we did it!" Misty smiled happily
"I think these belong to you!" Mr. Kokojo smiled handing Misty the Badges that he'd picked up. "You've now proven yourself a worthy trainer!" he smiled before waving goodbye and heading off.
Back at the Gym, Misty had just finished her match against Sakura, Sakura being the winner.
"Here" Misty smiled, handing Sakura the Cascade Badge
"That was a great match, your Poke'mon are really strong, Misty!" Sakura smiled "Oh and take this!" Sakura handed Misty the Badge she'd painted herself, while at Mr. Kokojo's "Keep it as a sign of friendship!"
"Thanks!" Misty smiled; unaware that Tracey was sketching this scene from behind her
"See you around, Misty!" Sakura waved as the three of them headed outside and departed their own separate ways
"Yeah, see you..." Tracey smiled
"Bye!" she called, waving back after them from further down the path
Misty headed back inside the Gym, letting the water Poke'mon she had with her out into the pool, she watched them swimming happily, wishing Psyduck could do the same. Picking up Psyduck who was once again at the edge of the pool, she again attempted to teach him how to swim, she tried placing him in the water, but Psyduck struggled and somehow escaped again.
"Oh, Psyduck." Misty yelled chasing after him "This is going to take forever!"
(I was going to add the next part of Ash's Hoenn journey to this chapter, but it would take too long.and I've been up all night! lol Anyways, if you have the time I'd appreciate it if you could review this chapter.
Many of you may have been wondering by now, why I haven't updated, well as I'm basing some of my chapters roughly on Hoenn Episodes I need to know exactly what's going on in each episode I write about, and thanks to a very helpful and reliable site I've been able to do this, but recently a very unfortunate thing happened. The site went down, hopefully the site should be up later tonight, or that's what the Webmaster's told me, maybe later, but until then I can't really finished what I'm working on, and I apologize greatly for the long wait. Hope to update soon~Misty)