Right then! Told ya to keep an eye out for chapter 9! We're back to Matt now, and will be sticking with him for the next 2 chapters or so. Thanks to WildTotodile for reading and reviewing my story! (If you haven't noticed, every time some one leaves a review for the first time I thanks them directly *winks*) Umm, as for Ruby and Sapphire pokemon, I'm not sure. I don't know those pokemon as well as I do the others, but I might have Robin and Matt battle other trainers who have them……we'll just have to wait and see how things develop. :P
Disclaimer: see previous chapters
Chapter 9
Matt's Journey
Violet City wasn't all that big. Just some houses, a Pokemon Center, a gym, and Bellsprout Tower. Matt thought about going to the Pokemon Center, but knew if he mentioned it, Michelle might get a tad angry. Just a tad.
So instead, he suggested "Why don't we go to Bellsprout Tower, then the gym?"
"That sounds fine." Michelle answered shrugging. When they got to the Tower however, a strange looking old man jumped out of the bushes in front of them. He had white hair that stuck out on all sides, but was bald on top. He was wearing overalls and a white t-shirt, and tennis shoes.
"You can't go in there!" he exclaimed waving his arms about. Larvitar was so startled by the guy, that he tackled him back into the bushes.
"ow… why did we do that?" the man asked getting up.
"You startled him!" Michelle replied with no sympathy and with her hands on her hips, "It was a reflex!"
"Why can't we go into the tower?" Matt asked curiously.
"it's….HAUNTED!" the man said, trying to sound spooking, but only succeeding in sounding like he had something stuck in his throat.
"Really? That's great!" Matt exclaimed. Eevee wagged his tail and smiled. Michelle, Larvitar, and the guy looked at Matt like he was an idiot.
"Pardon a simple girl for asking" Michelle began slowly, "but why is it great that the Tower is haunted?"
"If it's haunted, that means there are ghost pokemon that I can catch. Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar have always been some of my favorites." Matt replied grinning.
"oookay….." Michelle said still looking at him a little strangely. Larvitar just shrugged. Matt opened the door to Bellsprout Tower and they all went inside.
The guy glared after them and called "you'll be sorry for going in there!"
The only light in the Tower came from the windows, which caused an eerie glow around the room.
"How are you going to know where the pokemon are?" Michelle whispered to Matt.
"Well, knowing their personalities they will probably come to us. They'll want to pull some pranks."
"that's reassuring" Michelle replied sarcastically. Matt grinned at her then looked around. The tower was a giant room with stairs at the other side and a huge beam in the middle of it. The beam swayed back and forth like a….bellsprout.
"ve ee ve eve" Eevee said in a satisfied tone. He had been wondering why it was called Bellsprout Tower. They walked up the stairs into and into the next room. It was exactly the same as the first room.
"Such creativity." Michelle said with a grin. She seemed to find this whole thing very humorous. Matt turned toward her to reply when he saw something behind her. It was big, round, black and purple, with sharp fangs.
Michelle saw the look of surprise on Matt's face and asked "what?" Larvitar tugged on her leg and pointed behind her. She turned and looked straight into the Gastly's open mouth.
"Ack!" she screeched and fell back into Matt. Eevee and Larvitar hastily jumped out of the way as their trainers toppled to the ground, Michelle on top.
"Where did the Gastly go?" Matt asked looking around. They were both still on the floor.
"Right now, I couldn't care less" Michelle replied slowly getting up. "That thing had awful breath!" then she added, "I'm glad YOU think it's funny." As she glared at Larvitar. He was chuckling on the side.
Eevee was looking around the room uneasily.
"What's wrong Eevee?" Matt asked, also getting up. Eevee went over to Matt and he picked him up. Matt started to walk toward the middle of the room, when he ran into something.
"ow" he complained, rubbing his forehead.
"What's wrong Matt?" Michelle asked frowning as she walked towards them.
"Wait! Sto-" BAM! Michelle ran into the invisible wall. Larvitar stuck out his front claws and walked slowly toward them. Three Gastlys and two Haunters appeared, laughing. Michelle was getting ticked off.
"JUST CATCH ONE ALREADY!" Michelle yelled at Matt. Matt looked at her and swallowed hard.
"yes ma'am!" he said quickly and took out a Pokeball. Eevee had climbed to Matt's shoulder.
"Geodude, come-" WHACK! As Matt started to through a pokeball he slammed into another wall. That made the ghost pokemon laugh even harder. Michelle sighed and released her Natu from his pokeball.
"tu!" he said looking around curiously, then flapping to her shoulder.
"Natu, use a psychic attack and take care of all these invisible walls please." She told him. Natu closed his eyes and there was a small flash of light. Matt moved around cautiously, but didn't run into anything. The ghosts glared at Natu, who ignored them.
"Anyway" Matt said, "Geodude go!", and threw out his pokeball.
Geodude popped out. "Dude!" both Haunters and two of the Gastly's disappeared, but one stayed. This Gastly thought it would be amusing to fight the geodude.
"Geodude, Rock throw!" Matt said. Geodude started to chuck rocks at the Gastly.
"Gastly!" Gastly said in surprise as some of the rocks hit him. Then it started to let loose some hypnotic waves at Geodude.
"Geo?" Geodude said sleepily.
"Geodude! Don't go to sleep!" Matt yelled. Geodude's eyes started to close.
"VE!" Eevee shouted and tackled Geodude, which woke him up.
"Dude!" Geodude exclaimed shacking his head. Then he started to throw more rocks at Gastly.
"Thanks Eevee." Matt said to the little pokemon. The Gastly was busy trying to dodge the rocks thrown at him. Then the Gastly disappeared and reappeared in front of Geodude, giving him a big lick.
"Geodude!" Geodude exclaimed as he started to shake.
"he's paralyzed!" Michelle called out from the side.
"Come on Geodude, one more rock throw!" Matt shouted. Geodude took one last rock and hurled it at Gastly. It hit him dead on and the Gastly fell back.
"Pokeball! GO!" Matt shouted as he threw a Pokeball at the Gastly. It sucked him up and started shake back and forth. Everyone watched tensely as the pokeball rocked. Then the light went off and it stopped shaking.
"I caught Gastly!" Matt said happily. He picked up the Pokeball and snapped it to his belt.
Then he turned and asked Michelle, "Can you heal my pokemon?"
Michelle smiled and said "Of course!" She took out some of her medicines and gave it to Geodude. Then Matt recalled Geodude and called out Gastly. Michelle gave some meds to him to.
"Well Gastly, you're my new Pokemon now." Mat said to him. Gastly grinned at Matt then went back into his Pokeball.
As they walked out of the tower Michelle groaned and stretched her back.
"That had to be the most painful capture I've ever witnessed" she said.
"Lar vi tar" Larvitar agreed. Suddenly the weird guy popped up in front of them.
"AH HA!" he exclaimed.
"LARVITAR!" Larvitar shouted angrily as he tackled him to the ground. Michelle sighed as the man groaned.
"Will you never learn?" she asked him sourly.
The man ignored her and said to Matt "I told you, you shouldn't go in there. I said it was haunted. I warned you, I did. Looks like you felt the punishment of not heading my warning too."
He could see the bruises Matt got from running into the walls.
"Kids today" he said in disgust, "Never listening to their elders"
Eevee growled. He didn't like the man's tone with his trainer.
Matt shrugged and said "it came out all right. I caught a Gastly"
"You did?" the man asked him. "No, you couldn't have."
"Yes he did!" Michelle said angrily. She was not in a particularly good mood right now and this man was NOT helping any.
"If you expect me to believe a couple of rude, obnoxious, no-good, pokemon trainer teenagers caught a Gastly well you-"
"HOW DARE YOU CALL US THAT YOU OLD UGLY IDIOT" Michelle yelled. Larvitar and Eevee were just as angry. No one called THEIR trainers names. Eevee jumped off of Matt's shoulder, Larvitar leaped forward, and Michelle swung her fist. All three forces hit the man at the same time, sending him into orbit. Matt stroked Eevee to calm him down, and looked at Michelle.
"Are you okay…?" he asked hesitantly. She turned and gave him a big, happy, pretty grin.
"I am now." She said. "Let's go to the gym."
"Alright." Matt replied chuckling as they headed in that direction.
Tune in next time for Matt's first gym battle! The next chapter shouldn't take anymore then a week to get up, but maybe it'll e sooner, depending on the flow of homework. :P See ya then!
