Chapter LVI- A Time to Relax
I was still a little upset, but Charmander and I had a happy goodbye after I finished crying and hugging her. I could tell she was in good hands with Roger. He gave me his
phone numer too so that if I ever wanted to talk to him or Charmander I could. It was up
to him now. I left her in his soot covered hands. I laughed at the thought of her covered in
soot all the time, and him petting her, only to get more soot all over each other. It was
actually a thought that cheered me up a bit. I switched Hinoarashi back into my party
afterward, gave him his charcoal and told Jarod and Noki about Charmander. Noki
however seemed quiet unphased by this. Then I yelled at her for making me pay for her
charcoal, which made me feel better, but apologized soon afterward. We finally made our
way to the Azalea gym. It actually looked more like a giant tree maze then anything else,
and we entered, walking around until we had finally made it to the center after probably a
good 1/2 hour of wandering, trying to get our bearings. A tall young man with short
purple hair and blue eyes stood in the middle with a bug-net in hand, facing his back to us,
intently watching a hedge ahead of us.
"Ugh....excuse me?" I asked and He suddenly turned around. So suddenly that he starteled
the butterfree out of the bush he had been staring at.
"Aw dang...." He said and announced, "I am Bugsy of Azalea! Have you come to fight
me?" Me and Erika had already decided on the way over that I was going to fight him
first.
"To answer your question; Yes. Yes we have. I am Marcy Silph of Cinnabar Island, and I
request a battle with you, Bugsy!" I said and grabbed Hinoarashis pokeball.
"Well then a battle you will get since you asked so nicely!" He said and tossed out a
pokeball just as I threw Hinoasrashis. The battle was actually too easy. His bug pokemon
had no chance against my fire pokemon, much less one with charcoal on it...two embers
and a flamethrower and the badge was mine.
"Ugh...." He sighed and handed the badge to me. "One of these days...all of the Gym
Leaders in Jhoto are going to get on the committees back to let us use more powerful
pokemon. Until then, great trainers like yourselves are just going to have it easy because
you went through the Indigo Leauge....and to top it all off you two tied for first...can't get
much better then that." he finished and then Erikas battle began. Erika instictly threw out
Ryus pokeball and he emerged frightening his small bug pokemon so badly that her fight
was over withing two minutes. All three went down easy under her command of Ryu. We
both walked out happy, and Noki was amazed at how well we did.
"Well I mean....his pokemon were kinda weak...it's sad they can't use their best really." I
said and Raichu jumped, begging to be picked up. "I can't sweetie." I said and pointed to
my arm. So I instead scratched his head a little as we packed up our stuff.
It wasn't easy to leave there without one of my pokemon, but I managed. I knew
that she would be taken care of as good as if not better then I had done. She had a friend
to play with, she had a master to talk to, even though he can't understand her, and most of
all, she wasn't stuck in a computer doing nothing.
We decided to fly well above Ilex forest this time, pending the incident we had last
time with Sylebi. It was about 2:00 by the time we had flown over the forest and reached
the midway point of Route 34, where the daycare was. We decided to stop there and grab
some food for the pokemon, then planned to head back to my house for a rest.
We flew into Goldenrod at about 3:00 and made it to my house sooner then we
thought. We landed, and mom was happy to report that the doctor had called that
afternoon saying that the cast can come off in another 3 days. Of course I was very happy
about this because it meant that we could run around and do fun stuff again, much to the
dismay of Jarod. We all gathered in the living room of my house and relaxed while Jarod
caught up on his long awaiting video games.
"What do you guys think?" I said casually as I watched Jarod playing an RPG.
"About what?" Erika asked as she driffted in and out of an afternoon nap.
"Do you think we should try and take Whitney today too?" I said and found a more
comfortable position.
"I dunno...." Erika said as she turned over and lay stomach down on the couch.
"Yea. You're right." I said and leaned up against Jarod, finding a nice spot on his shoulder,
and fell asleep.
I woke up later to find that Jarod was asleep, the game was turned off, and a
blanket was on both us and Erika. Most likely my mothers doing knowing her. I looked
around and finally found Noki and Raichu sleeping curled in two balls on the floor next to
the PS2 with a blanket on her too. I slowly got up and put the blanket back where it had
been before I got up. I slowly trugged up the stairs to my room and found it still a little
light outside. I opened the door then closed it upon entering and finding my clock.
"7:00....oi....ah well." I said and carefully got into my pajamas. I felt something odd and
pulled my now longer ponytail out of the back of my pajamas. "That's weird...before we
left it was short enough to stay out..." I said and now that my eyes had adjusted to the
enviorment, walked back down the hall. I walked slowly running my fingers against the
wall to make sure I didn't fall or anything, but my fingers instead caught something that
wasn't there the last time I had visited. I ran my hand up and down it and realized it was a
picture frame. I back up a little so that I could see it better and to my suprise it was one of
the paintings Noki had mentioned about the founder of Cinnibar Island. She really did look
like me in a lot of ways...or was it that I looked like her? And there beside her in the
picture, looking the same as last time I saw her, Lexa. Her red hair blowing in the wind,
and the phoenix pendant hanging gracefully around her neck. I finally finished looking at
it, and headed back downstairs where my dad hadn't turned the air conditioning on.
(Yes...he turns the air conditioning on in the fall.) I jumped back under the blanket with
Jarod and fell right back asleep.
The next morning I was awakened by the smell of bacon and eggs. I still stayed
under the blanket though where it was warm. I looked around and found Noki sleeping
still, but now with a pillow and a pair of my old pajamas on. She rolled over lightly and
snored, then dozed off again. I looked to my left and Erika was half on, half off the couch
on her back, holding Ryu's pokball in her hand and mummbling something about 'kick
them while they're down...'. Then I could hear footsteps behind the couch that were
coming towards us, and I quickly shut my eyes.
"Marcy...? Marcy?" She whispered and scratched behind my ear lightly. I opened my eyes
right away, accidentily startling her. "Oh! My!"
"Sorry mom...I've been awake for about 5 minutes now...what's up?" I asked as I decided
it was time to stretch a little. Maybe travling around all the time with minimal sleep was
finally starting to take it toll on all of us.
"Hey...I made you kids some breakfast if you want to come get it." She said still
somewhat quietly, but louder then before, then walked back past the stairs and into the
kitchen. I got up and rubbed Jarods tummy to wake him up. He dropped the controller
accidentilly and shot up grabbing a pokeball.
"What is it?? Who is it???!! WHY??" He asked frantically and I just looked at him raising
an eyebrow.
"Ugh....right..." He said putting the pokeball back, "...what time is it?" He asked and
looked around at everyone sleeping.
"It's about 7:30....AM." I said and he leaped up.
"Y-You mean we slept here all afternoon and night???" He asked and was slightly
annoyed.
"Mmmhm." I muffled and he still looked slightly annoyed. Just then my mom entered and
leaned herself on the couch.
"You know...Marcy..." She started and we both turned to her, Nok yawning in the
background and moving around slightly, "...it is almost Halloween...why don't you all stay
here until then? You can celebrate Halloween with us...just like before...but with more
friends now!" She said and looked desperate for us to stay. I sighed and asked,
"What day is it today?"
"Today is the 28th...It's only 3 days. Please hunny? It would mean so much to me and
your dad...besides, it gives you time to look around in all the shops and casinos here."
"Not that we can gamble or anything..." I said and giggled.
"Maybe not, but it'll still be fun to get to know your new town...don't you htink?" She said
and made kind-of-like puppy eyes. Me and Jarod looked at each other and I turned,
poking Erika on the other couch lightly.
"Mm..?" She responded gruntily.
"Hey Erika what do you say to staying here for about three days?" I asked and she rolled
over to look at me.
"Mmm.." She made a sound like approving the idea.
"Well I guess that's that mom. We're staying^_^" I said and she looked so happy.
I was still a little upset, but Charmander and I had a happy goodbye after I finished crying and hugging her. I could tell she was in good hands with Roger. He gave me his
phone numer too so that if I ever wanted to talk to him or Charmander I could. It was up
to him now. I left her in his soot covered hands. I laughed at the thought of her covered in
soot all the time, and him petting her, only to get more soot all over each other. It was
actually a thought that cheered me up a bit. I switched Hinoarashi back into my party
afterward, gave him his charcoal and told Jarod and Noki about Charmander. Noki
however seemed quiet unphased by this. Then I yelled at her for making me pay for her
charcoal, which made me feel better, but apologized soon afterward. We finally made our
way to the Azalea gym. It actually looked more like a giant tree maze then anything else,
and we entered, walking around until we had finally made it to the center after probably a
good 1/2 hour of wandering, trying to get our bearings. A tall young man with short
purple hair and blue eyes stood in the middle with a bug-net in hand, facing his back to us,
intently watching a hedge ahead of us.
"Ugh....excuse me?" I asked and He suddenly turned around. So suddenly that he starteled
the butterfree out of the bush he had been staring at.
"Aw dang...." He said and announced, "I am Bugsy of Azalea! Have you come to fight
me?" Me and Erika had already decided on the way over that I was going to fight him
first.
"To answer your question; Yes. Yes we have. I am Marcy Silph of Cinnabar Island, and I
request a battle with you, Bugsy!" I said and grabbed Hinoarashis pokeball.
"Well then a battle you will get since you asked so nicely!" He said and tossed out a
pokeball just as I threw Hinoasrashis. The battle was actually too easy. His bug pokemon
had no chance against my fire pokemon, much less one with charcoal on it...two embers
and a flamethrower and the badge was mine.
"Ugh...." He sighed and handed the badge to me. "One of these days...all of the Gym
Leaders in Jhoto are going to get on the committees back to let us use more powerful
pokemon. Until then, great trainers like yourselves are just going to have it easy because
you went through the Indigo Leauge....and to top it all off you two tied for first...can't get
much better then that." he finished and then Erikas battle began. Erika instictly threw out
Ryus pokeball and he emerged frightening his small bug pokemon so badly that her fight
was over withing two minutes. All three went down easy under her command of Ryu. We
both walked out happy, and Noki was amazed at how well we did.
"Well I mean....his pokemon were kinda weak...it's sad they can't use their best really." I
said and Raichu jumped, begging to be picked up. "I can't sweetie." I said and pointed to
my arm. So I instead scratched his head a little as we packed up our stuff.
It wasn't easy to leave there without one of my pokemon, but I managed. I knew
that she would be taken care of as good as if not better then I had done. She had a friend
to play with, she had a master to talk to, even though he can't understand her, and most of
all, she wasn't stuck in a computer doing nothing.
We decided to fly well above Ilex forest this time, pending the incident we had last
time with Sylebi. It was about 2:00 by the time we had flown over the forest and reached
the midway point of Route 34, where the daycare was. We decided to stop there and grab
some food for the pokemon, then planned to head back to my house for a rest.
We flew into Goldenrod at about 3:00 and made it to my house sooner then we
thought. We landed, and mom was happy to report that the doctor had called that
afternoon saying that the cast can come off in another 3 days. Of course I was very happy
about this because it meant that we could run around and do fun stuff again, much to the
dismay of Jarod. We all gathered in the living room of my house and relaxed while Jarod
caught up on his long awaiting video games.
"What do you guys think?" I said casually as I watched Jarod playing an RPG.
"About what?" Erika asked as she driffted in and out of an afternoon nap.
"Do you think we should try and take Whitney today too?" I said and found a more
comfortable position.
"I dunno...." Erika said as she turned over and lay stomach down on the couch.
"Yea. You're right." I said and leaned up against Jarod, finding a nice spot on his shoulder,
and fell asleep.
I woke up later to find that Jarod was asleep, the game was turned off, and a
blanket was on both us and Erika. Most likely my mothers doing knowing her. I looked
around and finally found Noki and Raichu sleeping curled in two balls on the floor next to
the PS2 with a blanket on her too. I slowly got up and put the blanket back where it had
been before I got up. I slowly trugged up the stairs to my room and found it still a little
light outside. I opened the door then closed it upon entering and finding my clock.
"7:00....oi....ah well." I said and carefully got into my pajamas. I felt something odd and
pulled my now longer ponytail out of the back of my pajamas. "That's weird...before we
left it was short enough to stay out..." I said and now that my eyes had adjusted to the
enviorment, walked back down the hall. I walked slowly running my fingers against the
wall to make sure I didn't fall or anything, but my fingers instead caught something that
wasn't there the last time I had visited. I ran my hand up and down it and realized it was a
picture frame. I back up a little so that I could see it better and to my suprise it was one of
the paintings Noki had mentioned about the founder of Cinnibar Island. She really did look
like me in a lot of ways...or was it that I looked like her? And there beside her in the
picture, looking the same as last time I saw her, Lexa. Her red hair blowing in the wind,
and the phoenix pendant hanging gracefully around her neck. I finally finished looking at
it, and headed back downstairs where my dad hadn't turned the air conditioning on.
(Yes...he turns the air conditioning on in the fall.) I jumped back under the blanket with
Jarod and fell right back asleep.
The next morning I was awakened by the smell of bacon and eggs. I still stayed
under the blanket though where it was warm. I looked around and found Noki sleeping
still, but now with a pillow and a pair of my old pajamas on. She rolled over lightly and
snored, then dozed off again. I looked to my left and Erika was half on, half off the couch
on her back, holding Ryu's pokball in her hand and mummbling something about 'kick
them while they're down...'. Then I could hear footsteps behind the couch that were
coming towards us, and I quickly shut my eyes.
"Marcy...? Marcy?" She whispered and scratched behind my ear lightly. I opened my eyes
right away, accidentily startling her. "Oh! My!"
"Sorry mom...I've been awake for about 5 minutes now...what's up?" I asked as I decided
it was time to stretch a little. Maybe travling around all the time with minimal sleep was
finally starting to take it toll on all of us.
"Hey...I made you kids some breakfast if you want to come get it." She said still
somewhat quietly, but louder then before, then walked back past the stairs and into the
kitchen. I got up and rubbed Jarods tummy to wake him up. He dropped the controller
accidentilly and shot up grabbing a pokeball.
"What is it?? Who is it???!! WHY??" He asked frantically and I just looked at him raising
an eyebrow.
"Ugh....right..." He said putting the pokeball back, "...what time is it?" He asked and
looked around at everyone sleeping.
"It's about 7:30....AM." I said and he leaped up.
"Y-You mean we slept here all afternoon and night???" He asked and was slightly
annoyed.
"Mmmhm." I muffled and he still looked slightly annoyed. Just then my mom entered and
leaned herself on the couch.
"You know...Marcy..." She started and we both turned to her, Nok yawning in the
background and moving around slightly, "...it is almost Halloween...why don't you all stay
here until then? You can celebrate Halloween with us...just like before...but with more
friends now!" She said and looked desperate for us to stay. I sighed and asked,
"What day is it today?"
"Today is the 28th...It's only 3 days. Please hunny? It would mean so much to me and
your dad...besides, it gives you time to look around in all the shops and casinos here."
"Not that we can gamble or anything..." I said and giggled.
"Maybe not, but it'll still be fun to get to know your new town...don't you htink?" She said
and made kind-of-like puppy eyes. Me and Jarod looked at each other and I turned,
poking Erika on the other couch lightly.
"Mm..?" She responded gruntily.
"Hey Erika what do you say to staying here for about three days?" I asked and she rolled
over to look at me.
"Mmm.." She made a sound like approving the idea.
"Well I guess that's that mom. We're staying^_^" I said and she looked so happy.