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Ch.7 Struggle from the past

My punch was stopped by his strong hand. I was stunned that he even caught my attack but then he surprised me even more by twisting my hand and flipping me on to my back.

As I hit the floor I quickly got up to see that his entire group of flowers where in my path in front of him.

"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" I yelled as I pressed into the crowd of his protectors. Two of them put their arms out but I quickly swatted them away. I was going to get to lance no mater what!

"let him through!" commanded Lance to his party "he must be something important if he wanted to attack me." he said as some of the guards looked at him and backed away.

"what do you want with me?" he asked not changing his expression.

"you….you killed…my sisters Salamance!" I yelled at him

"oh!" gasped Lyric from behind me.

Lance looked like he was just hit with a punch to the stomach "No…I…I'm sorry…" he tried to explain

"NO! saying our sorry isn't enough! She cant even train pokemon anymore! You bastard!" I yelled out rushing to strike him. This time he didn't move…with one good swift shot I got him in the stomach.

"LANCE!" many of the other called out in shock. Feeling like I had gotten what I wanted I backed away to see if my hit was to my satisfaction.

"ugh….its ok…you are allowed that…I never forgot that night…truly I am sorry." he said holding his stomach.

Watching his actions and his calm state I started to calm down my self. "you don't even know how much pain she was in…" I started to explain

"no. I do know what pain she felt…I never killed a pokemon before…I was actually on my way to talk to her…its been a long time but I finally tracked her down to this town. I wanted to apologize to her by giving her this egg…but hearing that she doesn't train pokemon anymore it wouldn't be any good in her hands." he explained popping open a poke ball and revealing a large egg.

"she would so appreciate it! She has her own pokemon kennel now. She knows how to take care of pokemon." I swiftly explained, feeling my anger swell.

"this isn't a normal pokemon egg. Its an egg from my Dragonite and a man named Drake's Salamace. I wanted to give her back a Salamance that would be as strong as her own some day." he said now holding the egg to his body.

This was such a confusing moment…I wanted to hurt this person…but I could tell he was genuinely sorry.

"what's your name?" he asked me bluntly.

"Jet." I told him looking him in the eyes.

"well Jet, can you tell me where I can find your sisters pokemon kennel? I would like to talk to her. Please if not for me then for her…this is something that's been put off for too long." Lance said.

"…go up the path here and continue till you get to the farmlands…after about 3 farms you'll see it…" I said feeling almost bad about all that I had done to him…he was here for forgiveness. After all it was my sister who needed to forgive him not me…

"thank you Jet…I hope to battle you some day…but seeing that you have only one pokeball I'm guessing a new trainer. I'll battle you when your stronger ok?" he said trying to cheers me up…not working…

"No…I want to battle now!" I called out suddenly.

"…if you wish…let's do it then" Lance said slowly taking out a pokeball from within his cloths.

Knowing this wasn't going to be good I drew my pokeball as well.

"Go Dratini!" said Lance throwing his pokeball. In a blaze of light a small creature immerged from the light. It had a small stature but looked powerful.

Almost coping Lance I called out "Go Shroomish!" and once again My Shroomish came out ready to fight by my side.

Lance: "Dratini wrap!" With that his pokemon swiftly strung it's self around Shroomish.

Jet: "Ah! Shroomish get out of there!"

Lance: "now give it a Thunder Wave!" A large Yellow aura surrounded both pokemon, it grew and suddenly centered upon Shroomish. Shroomish let out a yelp as it went limp within Dratini's wrap attack.

Jet: "Shroomish? Can you do anything buddy?"

Lance: "I told you that you need more experience. A pokemon who's in this condition cant do anything…this match is over. Dratini Re-what?" Shroomish suddenly emitted a large amount of green spores that filled the air and covered both pokemon. Almost instantly Dratini became limp.

Jet: "Great job Shroomish!" Shroomish hoped off of Dratini and stared it down…but made a weird gestures as it started to wobble and soon dropped to the floor.

Jet: "Shroomish? He's asleep…?"

Lance: "well that was unexpected…well that's it. Your only pokemon is out. Looks like I win. Like I said next time I hope you are ready for it."

With Lance now on his way to my Sisters kennel and with me heading back to the car to continue my trip to Sprout Village I now had something to work towards…but I know it will take quite some time…