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The Pokemon Sisters

Chapter Two: A Ready-Made Team

Gaika turned and re-entered the house. The wood floor creaked in a lonesome way under her feet, and the place seemed empty, devoid of the usual warmth Flame, Asaia, and Nicola seemed to generate. Or perhaps that was just Hifoyer (A/N Remember Flame's Typhlosion?) and she was being sappy and sentimental.

Whatever it was, the youngest of the sisters had no time to waste. Without a second thought, she hurried back upstairs to her computer, and once again immersed herself in the digital world. She did not withdraw from her electronic stupor for hours, as pages upon pages flashed up. There seemed to be no end of it, and after many websites, fact, fiction, myths and truths, seemed to blend together into a fog in Gaika's brain.

Suddenly, a harsh yell split the air.

Immediately, Gaika was aroused from her daze. In the time it took her to pull on her shoes and rush outside, a crowd had gathered by one of the pathways. The girl pushed her way through the horde, and a startling sight met her eyes. Standing a ways down the path were two men. Both were dressed in the deepest jet black, with eyes like Onyx stone (A/N: Not the Pokemon Onix. The stone Onyx). They both wore fearsome masks, which sharpened to a point in the middle of their face, and each had just released a Pokemon-an Ariados and a Sableye.

Facing the two men was Professor Birch-Gaika knew him well. He was the man who had given Nicola her Treecko, Salvador. Beside him was his son, Brendan, who was already a Pokemon trainer. Gaika knew for a fact Nicola had a crush on him.

Gaika nudged the young boy next to her. "What's going on?"

The boy was shaking. "The Professor and Brendan were out looking for Skitty—they had heard there was an outbreak around here—and those to thugs came over and…" he waved helplessly at the scene. "None of us dare go out…we don't have any Pokemon!"

Unexpectedly, something flared up inside Gaika. She shoved past the few people in front of her, and ran out on to the path, right between the two gangsters and her friends. "Ok you two, leave right now, or you'll be sorry!"

The men began to laugh cruelly at her, their eyes glittering through the slits in their masks. "Ha!" said the taller one spitefully. "Girl, in case you haven't noticed, you haven't got a single Pokemon." His Ariados made a hissing sound and advanced.

"Gaika, don't mess with them…" warned Brendan. She stood her ground.

C'mon! She thought. I need something to help me get rid of these guys!

As if some invisible being had heard her silent plea, something rustled in the bushes. Several things.

"Vee, Eevee!"

A little brown creature with a white ruff and long ears emerged from the bush.

There was a general mutter of, "Hey, it's an Eevee!" and "Aw, how cute!" from the onlookers.
The little Pokemon looked at Gaika for what seemed to be a very long time. Not even the two thugs moved in the unnatural silence.

The Sableye and its trainer was the first to snap out of it.
"Sableye, use nightshade!" yelled the man.

The attack might have hit a slower Pokemon, but the Eevee dodged easily. It leapt up—right on to Gaika's shoulder. The girl stared at it.

"Are you saying you want to give me a hand?" the little thing nodded, smiling (As well as a Pokemon can, that is)

"Alright then!" Gaika grinned. She had spent the year she put off her Journey studying Pokemon. She could figure out strategies, weaknesses, strengths, everything.

But how am I supposed to fight two fully trained Pokemon with one wild one I just met?

Once again, the Eevee seemed to answer. It let out an eerie, ethereal cry, like a wind chime.

"I've never heard anything like that." Murmured Birch. He immediately took out his recorder and microphone. "I don't think any Pokemon makes a noise like that." Said Brendan. "Not even Chimecho."

Something was responding to the Eevee's call. Out of the underbrush came five other Pokemon-Growlithe, Vaporeon, Flaaffy, Seviper and Bagon.

Gaika stared at them. Birch and Brendan stared at them. Murmurs trembled through the crowd of people, and the two thugs glared.

'Uh…these your friends, Eevee?"

The Growlithe walked over and sniffed the girl, then barked approvingly. The Flaaffy baaaaahd happily, Vaporeon wagged it's mermaid-like tail in greeting, and Seviper cocked it's head and bared it's fangs in a grin. Bagon simply looked at her.

Eevee smiled again.

Gaika smiled. "And you think they'll listen to me?"

"Vee!"

"Alright then. Come on, team!"

Yeah, it wasn't my best, so sue me. Chapter 3 coming up, blah-dee-blah.

Bye.