Chapter XVI- Resolution of our Fears
We stopped at the pokemon center to drop off our pokemon and to get something
to eat. As we waited for our pokemon to be healed, we sat at a table, away from the other
people in the center, not saying a word.
"We have to settle this." I finally said.
"Settle...the dream?" Erika asked knowing the answer.
"I'm going to ask her who she is. I HAVE to know." Erika didn't say anything for a few
seconds, she just starred at me, not sure what to say.
"Well," She said finally, "It's about 5:00, and the Pokemart closes at 6:00, why don't we
pick up some supplies?"
"All right. I do need some more pokeballs." I said and finished off some fries I was
eating.
We picked up our pokemon, and headed towards the pokemart near the Safari
Zone. We walked past the pen where the Lapras was. There were other pens with rare
pokemon too. There were Electrodes, Chanseys, a NidoKing, and another Lapras.
I picked up a panphlet that was for the Safari Zone; a map, types of pokemon, area events,
"What's this?" I whispered and turned it over to find an advertisment.
"I'll get four pokeballs and you can get the potions ok?" Erika said as we walked past
some large bushes.
"Sounds good! But..." I said and stopped.
"But what?" Erika said and stopped ahead of me.
"But, I think I can beat you there!!" I said and broke out into a sprint.
"Hey! I'll catch you!" Erika yelled and ran after me. It didn't take her very long to run past
me, I can't run very fast.^-^()
We ran to the Pokemart where we each bought what we had planned, and I payed
her back for two of the pokeballs. We then walked back to the south of the City where the
gym was. When we were about half-way there, it was 5:30, and Erika pulled out her map.
"Let's see. If we take a left here, and go south some more, we should be there." She placed
her finger on the map and then read something. "It says here that the leaders' name is
Koga, and he has mostly poision type pokemon. Water type could be best." She finished.
"Or fire." I added.
We walked left until we found a fork in the road. One way lead to route #18, the
other to Koga's gym. We looked around, but there was no one to be seen. We took the
road that led to the Gym, and as we approched, it looked more like a japanese resturant
than anything else.
"Are you sure that this is the Gym?" I questioned as I stopped at a bridge that streched
across a casim, that led to the Gym.
"This is it..." Erika said looking at the map, then at the gym again. "But it doesn't look
like it's open." She said and put away the map.
"We should come back later and see what kind of pokemon the trainers around here use.
If we're lucky, we'll find someone from Jhoto." I said and began to walk back to the
pokemon center.
"What do you think Jhoto is like?" Erika asked as she walked next to me.
"I don't know. I read that they are always discovering new pokemon though. There's
something called a Cyndaquil that's a new fire type starting pokemon though. I read that it
was really cute." I said as I picked up Raichu and scratched his head.
"How did you find that out?"
"It was in a panphlet that I picked up at the Safari Zone. Apparently there's a National
Park in Jhoto that is the sister to this one. So, Safari Zone advertises them, they advertise
the Safari Zone; to bring in more tourists and trainers from all over I guess."
"Cool! We'll have to visit Jhoto some day..."
By the time we got back to the pokemon center it was about 6:05. We ate super at
6:30, spagetti and meatballs. Charizard ate about seven apples and two rice balls, while
Raichu ate seven rice balls and all of my meat balls.
"Raichu!! Those are mine!"
"RAI CHUUU!!!" He gave me one good zap and I instantly let go.
"Fine. But next time, ASK!!!!"
"Rai^_^" *K!*
For the rest the night until we fell asleep, we played cards. I taught Raichu and
Charizard how to play poker, while Erika sorted out the poker chips she asked Nurse Joy
if she could borrow. The Joys always had a closet filled with stuff to play with, especially
for the littler kids, but there were also cards, poker chips, books, and other stuff too.
That night, I had another dream. This one was stranger than usual though. It
wasn't the girl that was standing infront of me in this black endless room. It was a gastly. I
soon realized that this was no ordinary Gastly however, this was Erika's Gastly. I don't
know how I knew, but I did. It was the same feeling I got when I looked at it's pokeball on
the ground.
"What's going on!? What...Who are you?" Suddenly, it bowed it's head and it began to
glow a bright white.
"What are you doing!!!??" I demanded to know, and stepped closer, but it suddenly
stopped and looked up at me. Then something tapped me on the right shoulder. I looked
back, but there was no one there. I looked to my left, and there was Erika.
"See, now you know what it feels like^_^"(a little inside joke) Erika laughed.
"But....how...what's?" I was stunned. I figured I was imagining her, so I closed my eyes
and opened them again. She was still there.
"What's wrong?" She said puzzled.
"How, can you be in my dream? This feels too real." I said and turned back to Gastly. But
it wasn't there. "Where!?..." I flew around, and the girl I saw in my dreams before, ran to
me and clinged to my waist crying.
"Ah.....do you know her?o_o()" Erika starred in wonder. I looked down at the girl, not hearing
Erika's question.
"Who...who are you?" I asked and put my hands on her shoulders to stop her crying.
"I'm sorry.....this is my fault....." She whispered.
"What is?" Erika asked still puzzled.
"You really....don't know, do you?" She said louder.
"I'm sorry. I don't." I said, and she slowly stood up, and looked at Erika then me. Her long
hair fell in her face, and she whipped it away with her ghostly hand.
"A long time ago, in a past life, I was....your special friend." She said and another tear ran
down her face. "I've looked for you for centuries, but every time I find you, you slip away
somehow. This is the closest I've ever been." She took my hand and I pulled it back.
"I'm sorry, this is getting all too complicated for me....Wait? Is that why you're a ghost...
pokemon...because your unfinished business was to find me?" I said and Erika looked at
me weird.
"Yes. But I should have know that you wouldn't remember. I promise not to bother you
anymore. I should have expected that you would find someone else..." She looked at
Erika and brushed her hair with her cold fingertips. "Watch over her...don't let what
happened to me, happen to you too."
"Okay...." Erika said still stunned.
"It's my fault you will forever share the same dreams."
"What?! Wait!" I yelled and she turned back into the Gastly, which started to glow a
bright purple. "It's evolving!"
"It can't this is only a dream, right!!??" Erika yelled and we both covered our eyes.
Next thing I knew, we were both awake. It was dark outside, and it was Midnight.
The only light there was, was coming from Erika's backpack.
"You don't think.....?" Erika grabbed her backpack and I jumped over the table to the
other couch. She pulled out Gastly's pokeball and threw it on the ground. We were
amazed at what jumped out.
"It's a Haunter!!!!!!" I yelled in shock.
"But it was only a dream....how???!!!" Erika jumped off the couch and waved her hand
infront of it. It flew over to her and rubbed up against her.
"Well, whatever did happen, we won't tell anyone, right?"
"Right." She said and rubbed it's head. "Haunter, return"
The rest of the night I slept on the floor in my sleeping bag with a pillow over my
head and Raichu under the covers with me. Erika fell asleep right away with Charizard
close by. We kept our pokemon out, just in case anything else happened. But nothing did.
In the morning, we woke up and ate breakfast after we changed and both had a
shower. It was Nurse Joys' Pancakes and Baccon. (A delacasy in any pokemon center)
Raichu got himself three apples, and charizard ate two pancakes out of Erika's 7 stack.
We picked up the pokemon we left the morning before and were ready to face Koga of
the Fuchsia gym.
We stopped at the pokemon center to drop off our pokemon and to get something
to eat. As we waited for our pokemon to be healed, we sat at a table, away from the other
people in the center, not saying a word.
"We have to settle this." I finally said.
"Settle...the dream?" Erika asked knowing the answer.
"I'm going to ask her who she is. I HAVE to know." Erika didn't say anything for a few
seconds, she just starred at me, not sure what to say.
"Well," She said finally, "It's about 5:00, and the Pokemart closes at 6:00, why don't we
pick up some supplies?"
"All right. I do need some more pokeballs." I said and finished off some fries I was
eating.
We picked up our pokemon, and headed towards the pokemart near the Safari
Zone. We walked past the pen where the Lapras was. There were other pens with rare
pokemon too. There were Electrodes, Chanseys, a NidoKing, and another Lapras.
I picked up a panphlet that was for the Safari Zone; a map, types of pokemon, area events,
"What's this?" I whispered and turned it over to find an advertisment.
"I'll get four pokeballs and you can get the potions ok?" Erika said as we walked past
some large bushes.
"Sounds good! But..." I said and stopped.
"But what?" Erika said and stopped ahead of me.
"But, I think I can beat you there!!" I said and broke out into a sprint.
"Hey! I'll catch you!" Erika yelled and ran after me. It didn't take her very long to run past
me, I can't run very fast.^-^()
We ran to the Pokemart where we each bought what we had planned, and I payed
her back for two of the pokeballs. We then walked back to the south of the City where the
gym was. When we were about half-way there, it was 5:30, and Erika pulled out her map.
"Let's see. If we take a left here, and go south some more, we should be there." She placed
her finger on the map and then read something. "It says here that the leaders' name is
Koga, and he has mostly poision type pokemon. Water type could be best." She finished.
"Or fire." I added.
We walked left until we found a fork in the road. One way lead to route #18, the
other to Koga's gym. We looked around, but there was no one to be seen. We took the
road that led to the Gym, and as we approched, it looked more like a japanese resturant
than anything else.
"Are you sure that this is the Gym?" I questioned as I stopped at a bridge that streched
across a casim, that led to the Gym.
"This is it..." Erika said looking at the map, then at the gym again. "But it doesn't look
like it's open." She said and put away the map.
"We should come back later and see what kind of pokemon the trainers around here use.
If we're lucky, we'll find someone from Jhoto." I said and began to walk back to the
pokemon center.
"What do you think Jhoto is like?" Erika asked as she walked next to me.
"I don't know. I read that they are always discovering new pokemon though. There's
something called a Cyndaquil that's a new fire type starting pokemon though. I read that it
was really cute." I said as I picked up Raichu and scratched his head.
"How did you find that out?"
"It was in a panphlet that I picked up at the Safari Zone. Apparently there's a National
Park in Jhoto that is the sister to this one. So, Safari Zone advertises them, they advertise
the Safari Zone; to bring in more tourists and trainers from all over I guess."
"Cool! We'll have to visit Jhoto some day..."
By the time we got back to the pokemon center it was about 6:05. We ate super at
6:30, spagetti and meatballs. Charizard ate about seven apples and two rice balls, while
Raichu ate seven rice balls and all of my meat balls.
"Raichu!! Those are mine!"
"RAI CHUUU!!!" He gave me one good zap and I instantly let go.
"Fine. But next time, ASK!!!!"
"Rai^_^" *K!*
For the rest the night until we fell asleep, we played cards. I taught Raichu and
Charizard how to play poker, while Erika sorted out the poker chips she asked Nurse Joy
if she could borrow. The Joys always had a closet filled with stuff to play with, especially
for the littler kids, but there were also cards, poker chips, books, and other stuff too.
That night, I had another dream. This one was stranger than usual though. It
wasn't the girl that was standing infront of me in this black endless room. It was a gastly. I
soon realized that this was no ordinary Gastly however, this was Erika's Gastly. I don't
know how I knew, but I did. It was the same feeling I got when I looked at it's pokeball on
the ground.
"What's going on!? What...Who are you?" Suddenly, it bowed it's head and it began to
glow a bright white.
"What are you doing!!!??" I demanded to know, and stepped closer, but it suddenly
stopped and looked up at me. Then something tapped me on the right shoulder. I looked
back, but there was no one there. I looked to my left, and there was Erika.
"See, now you know what it feels like^_^"(a little inside joke) Erika laughed.
"But....how...what's?" I was stunned. I figured I was imagining her, so I closed my eyes
and opened them again. She was still there.
"What's wrong?" She said puzzled.
"How, can you be in my dream? This feels too real." I said and turned back to Gastly. But
it wasn't there. "Where!?..." I flew around, and the girl I saw in my dreams before, ran to
me and clinged to my waist crying.
"Ah.....do you know her?o_o()" Erika starred in wonder. I looked down at the girl, not hearing
Erika's question.
"Who...who are you?" I asked and put my hands on her shoulders to stop her crying.
"I'm sorry.....this is my fault....." She whispered.
"What is?" Erika asked still puzzled.
"You really....don't know, do you?" She said louder.
"I'm sorry. I don't." I said, and she slowly stood up, and looked at Erika then me. Her long
hair fell in her face, and she whipped it away with her ghostly hand.
"A long time ago, in a past life, I was....your special friend." She said and another tear ran
down her face. "I've looked for you for centuries, but every time I find you, you slip away
somehow. This is the closest I've ever been." She took my hand and I pulled it back.
"I'm sorry, this is getting all too complicated for me....Wait? Is that why you're a ghost...
pokemon...because your unfinished business was to find me?" I said and Erika looked at
me weird.
"Yes. But I should have know that you wouldn't remember. I promise not to bother you
anymore. I should have expected that you would find someone else..." She looked at
Erika and brushed her hair with her cold fingertips. "Watch over her...don't let what
happened to me, happen to you too."
"Okay...." Erika said still stunned.
"It's my fault you will forever share the same dreams."
"What?! Wait!" I yelled and she turned back into the Gastly, which started to glow a
bright purple. "It's evolving!"
"It can't this is only a dream, right!!??" Erika yelled and we both covered our eyes.
Next thing I knew, we were both awake. It was dark outside, and it was Midnight.
The only light there was, was coming from Erika's backpack.
"You don't think.....?" Erika grabbed her backpack and I jumped over the table to the
other couch. She pulled out Gastly's pokeball and threw it on the ground. We were
amazed at what jumped out.
"It's a Haunter!!!!!!" I yelled in shock.
"But it was only a dream....how???!!!" Erika jumped off the couch and waved her hand
infront of it. It flew over to her and rubbed up against her.
"Well, whatever did happen, we won't tell anyone, right?"
"Right." She said and rubbed it's head. "Haunter, return"
The rest of the night I slept on the floor in my sleeping bag with a pillow over my
head and Raichu under the covers with me. Erika fell asleep right away with Charizard
close by. We kept our pokemon out, just in case anything else happened. But nothing did.
In the morning, we woke up and ate breakfast after we changed and both had a
shower. It was Nurse Joys' Pancakes and Baccon. (A delacasy in any pokemon center)
Raichu got himself three apples, and charizard ate two pancakes out of Erika's 7 stack.
We picked up the pokemon we left the morning before and were ready to face Koga of
the Fuchsia gym.