Chapter 5
Callista Tests her Strength
After a long lecture from Emily, Ruby really started to think about everything Callista said. "when did My journey become YOURS!" These words kept repeating in her head. She wondered if Callista would ever forgive her. It would serve Ruby right if she didn't. Ruby could already hear Callista angry voice calling her name.
"Ruby!"
There is goes again.
"Ruby!"
Ruby realized all of her worrying will not do her any good. She needed to go out and find Callista and attempt to talk to her. Maybe then Callista would forgive her.
"Ruby!"
That voice again.
"Ruby!"
Wait, this voice did not sound like the same one from a few minutes ago. The one before sounded angry and far off, but this one sounded scared and much louder.
"Ruby!" The voice echoed.
Ruby jumped up from the grass. "Do you hear that?" Ruby asked Emily.
Emily listened.
"Ruby!"
"Yes I do." Emily agreed. "It sounds like Callista." Emily also jumped up from the grass. "It sounds like she is in trouble."
"Ruby!" The voice sounded extremely close now as it echoed around them.
Ruby and Emily searched the area with no signs of their friend.
"Ruby!" The voice sounded like it was right on top of them this time and the two girls looked up.
Callista, still hanging on to the rope, was floating above them as the balloon grew even higher into the sky. With all of her screaming, the strangers discovered her on their balloon and were trying to shake her off.
"Callista!" Ruby called as she raced after the balloon with Emily right behind.
"What is she doing?" Emily asked.
"I have no idea!" Ruby answered as they continued to chase after the balloon.
The balloon was too high and the balloon was getting farther and farther away from them.
Emily stopped running and grabbed a pokeball. "I'll get her down."
Ruby stopped, turned and watched Emily call out a pokemon.
"Pidgeot, I choose you!" Emily threw her pokeball into the air as high as she could get it as the giant bird pokemon appeared. "Go and save her before she falls!"
The bird pokemon flew up to Callista as Callista hung on tightly. The two thefts were still trying to shake her off so Callista refused to let go, even with Pidgeot flying underneath. "Pidgeo pidgeot pidgeot." Pidgeot tried to coax her off.
Emily called to Callista. "Callista let go, Pidgeot will catch you!"
"You can do it," Ruby called out.
Callista took a deep breath, closed her eyes, leaned back and let her hands slip from the rope.
Within an instant, Pidgeot caught Callista on its back and was already carrying her back to its master.
Finally safe on the ground, Callista jumped off of Pidgeot's back and immediately started to chase after the balloon again. Before she could get very far, Ruby grabbed Callista's arm. "Could you tell us what is going on!"
Callista looked at Ruby and then at Emily. "Those guys are the ones who took the Sun Stone."
Ruby let go of her arm and let Callista dash after them.
"So what do we do?" Emily asked Ruby.
"What do you think?" Ruby grinned. "We go after her!"
"That's what I figured." Emily answered as the two girls ran after their friend.
Callista noticed that the balloon was traveling through Route 35 when she raced by a small sign that was nailed onto a tree. "I hope nobody notices that we left the park without permission from Officer Jenny." Callista thought to herself.
"How did you find out they have the stone?" Ruby asked as she and Emily caught up to Callista.
Breathing heavily, "I saw them in the forest. But then they saw me so they ran."
The trio followed the strangers for a few more minutes until they noticed that the balloon was beginning to drift further away from them.
"We can't keep this up we have to do something." Ruby was exhausted.
"Maybe we can pop the balloon." Callista suggested as she grabbed a pokeball. Callista stopped and tossed the pokeball in the air. "Chikorita, go!"
Chikorita appeared from its pokeball.
"Razor leaf now!"
"Chika chika," Chikorita released a few razor leafs toward the balloon, but it was too far for Chikorita to reach.
"Let me try," Emily said. "Pidgeot go!"
Pidgeot appeared from its pokeball.
"Fly up and pop that balloon!"
"Pidgeot!" Pidgeot flew up to the balloon and using its quick speed and sharp beak Pidgeot busted through the hot air balloon creating a large hole.
As the balloon lost its air it began to sink into the trees.
"Great job," Emily said to Pidgeot as Pidgeot flew back to its friends.
"Wow, that pokemon is quick?" Callista asked.
"Yes, one of the fastest." Emily stroked the feathers on Pidgeot's head. "Now let's move!"
The two thieves crawled out of the deflated balloon and straightened out their disguises.
"Those little brats will pay for this!" The man said as he grabbed the brown bag. "Now let's get out of here. We can take care of them later."
"Hold it right there!" A voice yelled as the trio appeared on the scene with Pidgeot soaring above.
"You give back that stone. It doesn't belong to you!" Callista shouted.
"Of course it doesn't. It belongs to our boss," the woman said, sarcastically.
"I mean it!" Callista shouted, she was trying to sound tough.
"You brats are starting to get on my nerves!" The woman shouted.
"Maybe it is time to teach you little pests how to mind your own business," as he slowly moved his hand to his waist and grabbed a pokeball.
There was no way Callista's pokemon would have the strength to battle after the match they had earlier. Luckily, Emily stepped up to the challenge before Callista could react.
"Don't worry we'll take care of this." Emily signaled to her Pidgeot. Pidgeot flew down, landed in front of its trainer and braced itself for battle.
"Go Ariados," The man called out his pokemon. "Show that little brat whose boss!"
Ariados appeared from its pokeball.
"Ariados use your string shot!"
"Pidgeot, dodge it!"
Pidgeot bolted into the sky causing the string shot to miss.
"Now use your whirlwind and blow that pokemon away!"
Pidgeot began to flap its wings rapidly creating a huge whirlwind. The whirling wind headed straight toward the bug pokemon.
"Ariados use your string shot on the nearest tree to dodge."
Just as the whirlwind approached, the Ariados quickly shot a string shot at a high limb on the closest tree and pulled itself out of the way just in time. As the whirlwind died down Emily called out another attack.
"Pidgeot, use your wing attack!"
Pidgeot dove toward the Ariados that was sitting on the tree limb.
"Now use your poison sting!" The man called out.
"Look out!" Callista shouted as she watched the Pidgeot get closer to the Ariados.
Ariados aimed at the Pidgeot and shot several poison stings. Pidgeot was so focused on hitting its opponent that it did not notice the poison sting in time and got hit in the face and chest with numerous stings.
"Pidgeot no!" Emily cried out as she watched her pokemon fall to the ground.
Pidgeot tried to get back up onto its feet.
"Ariados, finish it with poison powder." The man ordered as the Ariados covered the bird pokemon with a thick blanket of poison.
"Pidgeot!" Emily screamed. "Pidgeot return now!"
"Poor Pidgeot!" Ruby said as she and Callista watched Emily's face change from concerned to angry.
She called her pokemon back and then stepped back a few steps. After two consecutive poison attacks there was no way Pidgeot made it out of that battle without being badly poisoned. She had to get Pidgeot to a pokemon center right away, but she couldn't leave the area until the Sun Stone was back in the hands of the police. These villains will have to be taken care of now and quickly. Emily reached for another pokeball. "You guys will pay for this." Emily pulled her arm back and threw the pokeball into the air. "I choose you!"
A large silver bird pokemon appeared from the pokeball.
Callista had never seen this pokemon before and was curious to know what it was. She pointed her pokedex at it.
Pokedex: "Skarmory, the armor bird pokemon. Skarmory is a solitary pokemon that is hardly seen and very difficult to capture and train."
"Wow that looks like a very strong pokemon." Callista whispered to Ruby.
The two strangers refused to back down.
"I will defeat this bird like I did the other one." The man called out. "Ariados use your poison sting one more time!"
"Skarmory we need to end this fast, use your steel wing attack." Emily ordered as Skarmory's wings began to glow as it charged its attack.
Ariados took aim and shot out several more poison sting attacks. Skarmory refused to budge and took the attack. Skarmory continued toward Ariados and struck the bug pokemon with a powerful steel wing attack. Ariados got tossed out of the tree it was sitting in and crashed on the ground.
The man called his pokemon back. "Ariados return."
The girl trio advanced on the two strangers.
"Give it up you can't escape!" Ruby shouted.
"Watch us!" The woman said as both of the strangers turned and ran from the girls.
"Not so fast! Chikorita I choose you!" Callista called out her Chikorita. The pokemon appeared from its pokeball, obviously still exhausted. "Use your vine whip to get that bag!"
"Chika chika!" Chikorita obeyed as it stretched out its vine whip and wrapped it around the bag. With a small tug, Chikorita pulled the bag from the woman's arm.
"Hey, that is ours!" The woman called out.
"Forget it we have to get out of here. We will have another chance. That Skarmory is too strong." The man argued as he and the woman disappeared into the forest.
Callista took the bag from Chikorita and pulled out the Sun Stone. The trio looked at the shiny orange stone.
"Well, here it is." Ruby said.
Emily, not wasting any time, quickly spoke up. "Listen, I really need to get my Pidgeot to the Pokemon Center. So how about I take the stone with me back to the park and you two can continue your journey right away. No sense in going to National Park just to turn back around and walk through all this again."
Callista liked that idea. "Since you have the stone Officer Jenny shouldn't have a problem with us leaving." Callista nodded. "Okay, that's a great idea. Thank you very much."
Callista and Emily shook hands and then Ruby and Emily shook.
Emily turned to Skarmory and got onto its back.
"Hopefully, I will see you two soon. You guys are awesome." Emily said as she closed the conversation. "Good bye."
"Bye." Callista said as Ruby waved.
"Let's go Skarmory," Emily said as the bird pokemon opened its wings and flew into the sky back toward National Park.
Callista looked at the path ahead of them and then looked down at the ground. Ruby stepped up to her and put her hand on her shoulder.
"Callista, I need to talk to you." Ruby said.
Callista turned to her as Ruby removed her hand. "Yes?"
"Listen, I really need to apologize for how I acted earlier. What you said to me at National Park really got me thinking. This is your journey, not mine. I have already had mine in the Kanto League. You let me come along with you on yours and I took control." Ruby looked into Callista's eyes. "I'm sorry."
Callista thought about it for a minute and then smiled. "I understand. It's okay, really. Maybe I was over re acting a little bit myself, so I apologize too." Callista held out her hand. "Friends?"
"Friends," Ruby said as she shook Callista's hand.
The two girls turned and continued their journey through Route 35. It took only a few minutes for them to get though the forest and when they finally reached the end they found themselves on a hill over looking a large city. To their surprise it was Goldenrod City. Callista and Ruby realized they must have chased those crooks a lot farther than they thought. Filled with joy and relief the duo raced toward the city even more determined to get to the train than ever.
Callista Tests her Strength
After a long lecture from Emily, Ruby really started to think about everything Callista said. "when did My journey become YOURS!" These words kept repeating in her head. She wondered if Callista would ever forgive her. It would serve Ruby right if she didn't. Ruby could already hear Callista angry voice calling her name.
"Ruby!"
There is goes again.
"Ruby!"
Ruby realized all of her worrying will not do her any good. She needed to go out and find Callista and attempt to talk to her. Maybe then Callista would forgive her.
"Ruby!"
That voice again.
"Ruby!"
Wait, this voice did not sound like the same one from a few minutes ago. The one before sounded angry and far off, but this one sounded scared and much louder.
"Ruby!" The voice echoed.
Ruby jumped up from the grass. "Do you hear that?" Ruby asked Emily.
Emily listened.
"Ruby!"
"Yes I do." Emily agreed. "It sounds like Callista." Emily also jumped up from the grass. "It sounds like she is in trouble."
"Ruby!" The voice sounded extremely close now as it echoed around them.
Ruby and Emily searched the area with no signs of their friend.
"Ruby!" The voice sounded like it was right on top of them this time and the two girls looked up.
Callista, still hanging on to the rope, was floating above them as the balloon grew even higher into the sky. With all of her screaming, the strangers discovered her on their balloon and were trying to shake her off.
"Callista!" Ruby called as she raced after the balloon with Emily right behind.
"What is she doing?" Emily asked.
"I have no idea!" Ruby answered as they continued to chase after the balloon.
The balloon was too high and the balloon was getting farther and farther away from them.
Emily stopped running and grabbed a pokeball. "I'll get her down."
Ruby stopped, turned and watched Emily call out a pokemon.
"Pidgeot, I choose you!" Emily threw her pokeball into the air as high as she could get it as the giant bird pokemon appeared. "Go and save her before she falls!"
The bird pokemon flew up to Callista as Callista hung on tightly. The two thefts were still trying to shake her off so Callista refused to let go, even with Pidgeot flying underneath. "Pidgeo pidgeot pidgeot." Pidgeot tried to coax her off.
Emily called to Callista. "Callista let go, Pidgeot will catch you!"
"You can do it," Ruby called out.
Callista took a deep breath, closed her eyes, leaned back and let her hands slip from the rope.
Within an instant, Pidgeot caught Callista on its back and was already carrying her back to its master.
Finally safe on the ground, Callista jumped off of Pidgeot's back and immediately started to chase after the balloon again. Before she could get very far, Ruby grabbed Callista's arm. "Could you tell us what is going on!"
Callista looked at Ruby and then at Emily. "Those guys are the ones who took the Sun Stone."
Ruby let go of her arm and let Callista dash after them.
"So what do we do?" Emily asked Ruby.
"What do you think?" Ruby grinned. "We go after her!"
"That's what I figured." Emily answered as the two girls ran after their friend.
Callista noticed that the balloon was traveling through Route 35 when she raced by a small sign that was nailed onto a tree. "I hope nobody notices that we left the park without permission from Officer Jenny." Callista thought to herself.
"How did you find out they have the stone?" Ruby asked as she and Emily caught up to Callista.
Breathing heavily, "I saw them in the forest. But then they saw me so they ran."
The trio followed the strangers for a few more minutes until they noticed that the balloon was beginning to drift further away from them.
"We can't keep this up we have to do something." Ruby was exhausted.
"Maybe we can pop the balloon." Callista suggested as she grabbed a pokeball. Callista stopped and tossed the pokeball in the air. "Chikorita, go!"
Chikorita appeared from its pokeball.
"Razor leaf now!"
"Chika chika," Chikorita released a few razor leafs toward the balloon, but it was too far for Chikorita to reach.
"Let me try," Emily said. "Pidgeot go!"
Pidgeot appeared from its pokeball.
"Fly up and pop that balloon!"
"Pidgeot!" Pidgeot flew up to the balloon and using its quick speed and sharp beak Pidgeot busted through the hot air balloon creating a large hole.
As the balloon lost its air it began to sink into the trees.
"Great job," Emily said to Pidgeot as Pidgeot flew back to its friends.
"Wow, that pokemon is quick?" Callista asked.
"Yes, one of the fastest." Emily stroked the feathers on Pidgeot's head. "Now let's move!"
The two thieves crawled out of the deflated balloon and straightened out their disguises.
"Those little brats will pay for this!" The man said as he grabbed the brown bag. "Now let's get out of here. We can take care of them later."
"Hold it right there!" A voice yelled as the trio appeared on the scene with Pidgeot soaring above.
"You give back that stone. It doesn't belong to you!" Callista shouted.
"Of course it doesn't. It belongs to our boss," the woman said, sarcastically.
"I mean it!" Callista shouted, she was trying to sound tough.
"You brats are starting to get on my nerves!" The woman shouted.
"Maybe it is time to teach you little pests how to mind your own business," as he slowly moved his hand to his waist and grabbed a pokeball.
There was no way Callista's pokemon would have the strength to battle after the match they had earlier. Luckily, Emily stepped up to the challenge before Callista could react.
"Don't worry we'll take care of this." Emily signaled to her Pidgeot. Pidgeot flew down, landed in front of its trainer and braced itself for battle.
"Go Ariados," The man called out his pokemon. "Show that little brat whose boss!"
Ariados appeared from its pokeball.
"Ariados use your string shot!"
"Pidgeot, dodge it!"
Pidgeot bolted into the sky causing the string shot to miss.
"Now use your whirlwind and blow that pokemon away!"
Pidgeot began to flap its wings rapidly creating a huge whirlwind. The whirling wind headed straight toward the bug pokemon.
"Ariados use your string shot on the nearest tree to dodge."
Just as the whirlwind approached, the Ariados quickly shot a string shot at a high limb on the closest tree and pulled itself out of the way just in time. As the whirlwind died down Emily called out another attack.
"Pidgeot, use your wing attack!"
Pidgeot dove toward the Ariados that was sitting on the tree limb.
"Now use your poison sting!" The man called out.
"Look out!" Callista shouted as she watched the Pidgeot get closer to the Ariados.
Ariados aimed at the Pidgeot and shot several poison stings. Pidgeot was so focused on hitting its opponent that it did not notice the poison sting in time and got hit in the face and chest with numerous stings.
"Pidgeot no!" Emily cried out as she watched her pokemon fall to the ground.
Pidgeot tried to get back up onto its feet.
"Ariados, finish it with poison powder." The man ordered as the Ariados covered the bird pokemon with a thick blanket of poison.
"Pidgeot!" Emily screamed. "Pidgeot return now!"
"Poor Pidgeot!" Ruby said as she and Callista watched Emily's face change from concerned to angry.
She called her pokemon back and then stepped back a few steps. After two consecutive poison attacks there was no way Pidgeot made it out of that battle without being badly poisoned. She had to get Pidgeot to a pokemon center right away, but she couldn't leave the area until the Sun Stone was back in the hands of the police. These villains will have to be taken care of now and quickly. Emily reached for another pokeball. "You guys will pay for this." Emily pulled her arm back and threw the pokeball into the air. "I choose you!"
A large silver bird pokemon appeared from the pokeball.
Callista had never seen this pokemon before and was curious to know what it was. She pointed her pokedex at it.
Pokedex: "Skarmory, the armor bird pokemon. Skarmory is a solitary pokemon that is hardly seen and very difficult to capture and train."
"Wow that looks like a very strong pokemon." Callista whispered to Ruby.
The two strangers refused to back down.
"I will defeat this bird like I did the other one." The man called out. "Ariados use your poison sting one more time!"
"Skarmory we need to end this fast, use your steel wing attack." Emily ordered as Skarmory's wings began to glow as it charged its attack.
Ariados took aim and shot out several more poison sting attacks. Skarmory refused to budge and took the attack. Skarmory continued toward Ariados and struck the bug pokemon with a powerful steel wing attack. Ariados got tossed out of the tree it was sitting in and crashed on the ground.
The man called his pokemon back. "Ariados return."
The girl trio advanced on the two strangers.
"Give it up you can't escape!" Ruby shouted.
"Watch us!" The woman said as both of the strangers turned and ran from the girls.
"Not so fast! Chikorita I choose you!" Callista called out her Chikorita. The pokemon appeared from its pokeball, obviously still exhausted. "Use your vine whip to get that bag!"
"Chika chika!" Chikorita obeyed as it stretched out its vine whip and wrapped it around the bag. With a small tug, Chikorita pulled the bag from the woman's arm.
"Hey, that is ours!" The woman called out.
"Forget it we have to get out of here. We will have another chance. That Skarmory is too strong." The man argued as he and the woman disappeared into the forest.
Callista took the bag from Chikorita and pulled out the Sun Stone. The trio looked at the shiny orange stone.
"Well, here it is." Ruby said.
Emily, not wasting any time, quickly spoke up. "Listen, I really need to get my Pidgeot to the Pokemon Center. So how about I take the stone with me back to the park and you two can continue your journey right away. No sense in going to National Park just to turn back around and walk through all this again."
Callista liked that idea. "Since you have the stone Officer Jenny shouldn't have a problem with us leaving." Callista nodded. "Okay, that's a great idea. Thank you very much."
Callista and Emily shook hands and then Ruby and Emily shook.
Emily turned to Skarmory and got onto its back.
"Hopefully, I will see you two soon. You guys are awesome." Emily said as she closed the conversation. "Good bye."
"Bye." Callista said as Ruby waved.
"Let's go Skarmory," Emily said as the bird pokemon opened its wings and flew into the sky back toward National Park.
Callista looked at the path ahead of them and then looked down at the ground. Ruby stepped up to her and put her hand on her shoulder.
"Callista, I need to talk to you." Ruby said.
Callista turned to her as Ruby removed her hand. "Yes?"
"Listen, I really need to apologize for how I acted earlier. What you said to me at National Park really got me thinking. This is your journey, not mine. I have already had mine in the Kanto League. You let me come along with you on yours and I took control." Ruby looked into Callista's eyes. "I'm sorry."
Callista thought about it for a minute and then smiled. "I understand. It's okay, really. Maybe I was over re acting a little bit myself, so I apologize too." Callista held out her hand. "Friends?"
"Friends," Ruby said as she shook Callista's hand.
The two girls turned and continued their journey through Route 35. It took only a few minutes for them to get though the forest and when they finally reached the end they found themselves on a hill over looking a large city. To their surprise it was Goldenrod City. Callista and Ruby realized they must have chased those crooks a lot farther than they thought. Filled with joy and relief the duo raced toward the city even more determined to get to the train than ever.