AN: I got some new reviewers! Either my theory is working, or more people read original trainer stories then I thought. ;) Thanks to ImagineThat debo1, xiamysticmoon, and the Pokemon Breeder for reading this. And of course, DarkCatXX and SuliMike23 for continuingly reading this. Also thanks for the tips on writing! I'll try to use them. The dollar yen thing was cool too! But since I believe I've already said dollars in previous chapters, I'm not gonna use yen, but that's still good info to know! *smiles* Neway, enough of the idle chit chat. Go ahead and read the chapter!

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Chapter 6

Robin's Journey

I clicked the off button on the phone part of my Pokegear. Then I turned to Beowulf, Murkrow, and Raven. Grinning I said, "Matt's doing fine. He and a girl named Michelle, who's a Pokemon Healer, are almost at Violet City."

Raven smiled, "that's good. What did you want to do in Goldenrod City?"

I shrugged and asked, "What is there to do?"

"Well, there is a Pokemon center of course, a gym, and a mall." He answered thoughtfully, ticking the choices off with his fingers.

"Let's go to the Center first, then the mall, and lastly the GYM!" I said energetically. Beowulf barked his agreement; Murkrow crowed hers and Raven grinned.

"Guess that's the plan then" he said with a wink at me. He turned as I started to blush and said, "The Pokemon center is this way. Come on." We followed him around the city while Beowulf and I stared at the sites. Raven noticed.

"Haven't you been here before?"

"I've never been to any other town except the one I live at, and neither has Beowulf." I replied.

"Most cities aren't this big" he told me, "Goldenrod and Celadon City in Kanto are two of biggest cities in those two countries."

"I can believe that" I told him, nodding my head as we got to the Pokemon Center.

"Good Morning" said the Nurse Joy in a joyful voice. "Can I help you?"

"Can you heal our Pokemon please?" I asked her

"Of course!" she replied with a big smile. Raven and I gave her our pokeballs. Murkrow flew from Raven's shoulder onto Nurse Joy's. Beowulf looked up at Nurse Joy then at me.

"Go ahead with her." I told him. "Raven and I will be right here when you come out."

 He nodded and woofed "dour" then followed Nurse Joy into the back.

Nurse Joy said over her shoulder, "this will take about ten minutes."

"Alright" Raven called after her and we made our way to the couches to wait for our Pokemon.

"What's the mall like?" I asked Raven after we had sat down.

"Well it's more like a mall for Pokemon trainers." He told me apologetically, "they sell things for the trainers and their Pokemon."

I grinned, stretched and said "that's better than a regular mall. They have a bunch of useless clothing shops."

He looked at me in surprise.

"You don't like to shop for clothes?" he asked me.

 "Nope" I told him gleefully. "Why do you look so surprised?" 

He rubbed the back of his head and shrugged, "I've just never met a girl who didn't like clothes shopping" he told me

"You have now!" I answered smiling. To my amusement, he blushed.

Then he asked quickly, "do you know much about the gym leader here?"

"I know absolutely, positively, nothing about the gym leader here" I said with a lopsided smile.

He grinned, "It's an all girl gym. They only use normal Pokemon there."

"I hope Beowulf, Falcon, and Bo are up to it." I said, biting on my lower lip in worry.  "Bo has never been in a battle before."

"I'm sure you will do fine." Raven said reassuringly, putting a hand on my shoulder, "I've heard that the leader here only has one really strong pokemon. The rest aren't supposed to be that good." 

Just then, Nurse Joy appeared with our pokemon. Murkrow flew to Raven's shoulder and Beowulf ran over and licked my hand.

"Did you get refreshed?" Raven asked the Pokemon.

Murkrow crowed and Beowulf barked. Raven laughed. "I'll take that as a yes."

I scratched Beowulf's ears and said to him, "I hope you behaved back there."

Nurse Joy came up with the rest of our pokeballs and said in that happy ever so slightly annoying I love every one voice, "They all behaved perfectly. You both have very well mannered Pokemon"

"Thanks" Raven and I said. We accepted our pokeballs and left the Pokemon Center.

"Which way is the mall?" I asked Raven. He pointed and I saw the big building across the street. It said PokeMall in big letters.

"I knew that" I said, trying to play it off. The pokemon nodded and rolled their eyes.

Raven said "yeah, sure you did" sarcastically.

"I did!" I said defensively as we made our way to the mall. We walked through the doors and my eyes widened. I had never seen so much stuff in one place before! As I gaped at all the stuff, Raven took a look at the floor plan.

"What did you need?" he asked me.

"I'm running out of potions and I would like some extra pokeballs…." I said in a daze.

"The potions are on the third floor. The Pokeballs the second." He said as he made his way to the elevator.

"You mean there's MORE!?" I asked in astonishment, following him.

"of course" he answered. He didn't seem too fazed by the size of the mall.

"Houn dour dour houn" Beowulf barked at me. Roughly translated I think he said that the size bothered him and he wanted to get out of here soon. I agreed. The sheer mass of people was starting to get to me. As we got on the elevator and went up, I looked at Murkrow to see if she was nervous too. On the contrary, she seemed just as oblivious to it all as Raven was. The elevator dinged and stopped at the second floor. We went over to the Pokeballs. They had pokeballs in every color imaginable. They also had pokeballs with pokemon names on them and ones with the first names of people! I went over to the regular pokeballs and picked up three more.

"Do you think this is enough Beowulf?" I asked my pokemon. Beowulf considered than nodded.

"Dour" he ruffed and we went over to the counter.  I paid the man at the counter 75 dollars then looked around for Raven. I didn't see him anywhere.

"Beowulf, find Raven and Murkrow." I told the fire, dark dog. Beowulf sniffed the air then the floor. I followed Beowulf up a flight of stairs and onto the third floor. I looked around and saw Murkrow perched on a shelf. Beowulf and I went around the shelf and saw Raven looking at some small jars, and writing in his journal.

"You left me!" I accused him as soon as we were close enough.

He looked up and grinned sheepishly, "I was going to go right back downstairs, but I saw some Proteins and I wanted to mark the prices in my journal, and I sorta lost track of time…."

 I glared at him. "If it wasn't for Beowulf I wouldn't have found you at all!"

Murkrow flew down from her shelf and perched on my shoulder. She ran her beak through my hair and crooned softly. Raven looked in my eyes and I could see real regret in his. He really did have beautiful green eyes…..

"Oh all right" I said breaking his gaze and looking at Murkrow. I decided that it would be better f I didn't complete that thought.

"But only because of Murkrow." I said with a grin. Beowulf barked to get my attention, and I looked over at him. He was standing by the shelf that had the potions.

"Alright! Potions!" I said and went over to the shelf. Murkrow went back to Ravens shoulder as they followed me over to them. I picked out 5 more potions and 2 super potions.

After I had paid for them, I asked Raven "did you want to get a Protein or whatever?"

"Nah." He replied and shrugged, "To expensive."

I nodded and we left the mall. Back on the street, we headed toward the gym.     

Now since this chapter really had no point to it, I've put up another! So go read that one. *makes shooing motions with her hands* shoo shoo. ;)