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Chapter 13

We had just finished lunch and were going to the gym when my pokegear started to ring.

"Hello?" I said into the phone part,

"Robin?"

"Hey Professor! How's Ariados doing?"

"Well, he went a little crazy when I got him. I've been studying him though and it looks like some sort of mental illness. I should be able to cure him with enough time though."

"That's great!" I said. I was really happy that Ariados would get better.

"That's not why I called, Robin" Professor continued, "Where are you now?"

"We're at Azalea town."

"Great! Could you do me a favor? There is a man named Kurt who lives there. He makes special pokeballs. He said that he has found two new balls and he wants a trainer to have them. Could you go and see him?"

"Sure Professor!"

"Thanks, I would ask Matt too but he's farther away and you're already in the town so…"

"Don't worry Professor we'll see him now."

"Good, bye Robin"

"Bye Professor!"

I finished and hung up. Then I turned to Raven, Murkrow (who was on his shoulder), and Beowulf who were looking at me in curiosity.

"That was Professor Redwood" I told them. "He wants me to meet this guy, Kurt, and get these special pokeballs from him."

"I've heard of Kurt" Raven said eagerly, "He's a world famous pokeball maker. He specializes in making pokeballs that are unique in some way."

"You don't mind doing this little errand before we go to the gym do you Beowulf?" I asked looking down at him.

"Houn" he barked, shaking his head.

"Now we have only one problem." I said to the group.

"What's that?" Raven asked cocking his head to one side.

"I have absolutely, positively, no clue where Kurt lives." I told them. Beowulf, Murkrow, and Raven all stared at me, then they sighed in unison and started to walk off.

"What?" I asked them as I followed. "What??"

"So how are we going to find him?" I asked as we walked around aimlessly.

"Well we coul-"

"Excuse me" A girl that looked about 12 interrupted Raven. "Are you Robin?" she asked, pointing at me.

"Yes, who are you?" I replied, confused.

"I'm Mazie," she said with a slightly bored tone, "I'm supposed to take you to see Grandpa Kurt."

As we followed Mazie, I asked, "How did you know I was Robin?"

She shrugged and replied, "Grandpa said look for a girl with a houndour."

"Oh, his name is Beowulf" I replied and he brought up his paw to shake her hand.

"That's so cute!" She squealed excitedly as she shook his paw. Beowulf and I glanced at each other. Cute? Raven chuckled behind his hand Murkrow just rolled her eyes. 

Mazie stopped at a house with a giant tree in the backyard. We could see the top of the tree "peering" over the roof of the house. Mazie opened the door and yelled "GRANDPA!"

"Back here" a voice call from the back of the house. We followed Mazie through the house and into a room in the back. Inside was a weird machine and there were tools all over the place. On one shelf were many different colored pokeballs. On the shelf below it were two pokeballs that were black on the top and red on the bottom. Also in the room was a short older man. He had short white hair and was fusing with the weird machine.

"I'll be with you in a moment" he said, without looking up.

"Grandpa is making a Lure ball" Mazie told us, "he's almost done though."

Kurt put on some heavy gloves and some tongs and reached into the machine. He pulled out a red hot pokeball, which he dunked into a bucket of water. It sizzled and steamed for a minute them he pulled the pokeball out and set it on the top shelf. He took off the gloves and set down the tongs, then asked, "Who are all of you?"

Mazie answered, "This is Robin, the girl who you are supposed to give the pokeballs to. The Houndour is her pokemon," she waved her hand toward Raven, "and the guy, Raven, is her friend."

I smiled and said, "Hello, Professor Redwood said you wanted me to have some sort of pokeballs?"

"Yes, yes," Kurt grumbled as he took off his gloves. He pointed to the two black and red pokeballs. Beowulf made a surprised sound that everyone else except me didn't hear. I looked down at Beowulf suspiciously as Kurt continued to talk.

"I found these pokeballs in one of my explorations in the slowpoke cave. I had gone pretty deep and I saw something glittering, it turned out to be those pokeballs. They looked a lot like another pokeball I had come across called the G.S. ball, which looked exactly like these except it was gold and white with the words G.S. on them. None of these balls can I, for the life of me, get opened. Another trainer has the G.S. ball and is trying to find a way to open it. Could you-"

"BEOWULF!" I shouted interrupting Kurt. Beowulf had snuck away while Kurt was talking and had put his front legs on the bottom shelf to see the balls better. The shelf couldn't take his weight however and, with a loud CRACK, it snapped in two. Beowulf fell and landed sprawled on his stomach with the two pokeballs landing on his back. I rushed over to Beowulf as Raven started to apologize.

"I'm really sorry Kurt!" He said while Murkrow fluttered over to Beowulf, "I don't know why he did that."

Kurt just shrugged, "I needed to get that shelf fixed anyway." He said. As I knelt besides Beowulf, he got up and started to sniff at the two pokeballs. Murkrow fluttered down and Beowulf and Murkrow started to talk to each other in low excited voices. I picked up one of the balls, engraved on the top half of the ball were the letters G.F, on the bottom half was a C. On the other ball were letters G.F. on the top and a D on the bottom. Beowulf turned to stare intently at the pokeballs then started to bark rapidly

"Houndour houn dour our dor. Houn our dor dour oun houn! Dour dor dour hound dour dor." He was gesturing wildly to the pokeballs, then to himself and Murkrow. Then he pointed to me.

I looked at Beowulf apologetically and said, "I'm sorry Beowulf, I don't know what you're saying." Beowulf looked at me in frustration, then sighed and shook his head. Murkrow was having equal trouble communicating with Raven. I looked up at Kurt who was looking at our pokemon strangely.

"Anyway" he continued, "I wanted you to keep them and see if you can find anyway to open them."

"I will Kurt" I said getting up and clipping the pokeballs to my belt. He thanked us and Mazie showed us the way out.

Beowulf was slightly angry with me. He was muttering to himself as we walked to the gym.

"Beowulf," I said to him, "I really am sorry that I don't get what you're talking about. It looked like it was really important too, but cheer up! We have a badge to win!"

Beowulf looked up at me and favored me with a slight smile.

"I can't help but wonder what Beowulf and Murkrow were trying to tell us about those balls though." Raven said thoughtfully.

"Maybe we'll find out someday" I said.

"Krow" Murkrow sighed agreeing with me.

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