On our trip we had to walk in some tall grass. In there popped out a little pokémon with black fur and red tips. It had bright green eyes sort of like N's. I took out the pokedex that Professor Juniper gave me and found out that it was a zorua. By the picture in the pokedex I could tell that it was a little unique because they all have blue eyes and always hide themselves from people. I was wondering what this one was doing here?

"Hi, I'm White and this is Serperior, are you all right?" I asked to it. "Right like humans can understand what we have to say, OW!" she said. I could tell it was a girl by the sound of her voice. Then I told her, "I am different in a way because I can understand all pokémon such as yourself. Now let's check you up to see what happened that hurt you, If it's serious or small it needs to be treated before it gets infected. By the way I think you have brilliant green eyes."

Like all Pokémon she was shocked when I responded to her after she got over the fact then she said, "Okay... it hurts on my side near my neck. I got a cut there a while back I think." "Okay lets see." When I looked there was a five-inch long cut that was half a centimeter in. It looked large compared to the size of her. "Okay this might sting a bit, I'm going to use a potion on the cut and then bandage it after because it is too much for a potion to heal. It's a pretty bad cut. Are there any more areas that hurt or cut? Also and how did you get a wound this bad?"

Zorua winced a bit when I sprayed the potion on. After I bandaged her neck that is when she spoke. "Well I had another friend that was taken by a man with something on his eye and green hair. It has been years and when I finally found where he was taken a bisharp attacked me I got this slash and I knew I had to flee and leave him behind."

I saw tears weld up in her eyes. She traveled for years to find her friend and came back with a cut instead. That is when I had an idea. "Hey you're strong by the sounds of it how about you travel with Serperior and I and we can help each other out." Then Serperior pitched in, "We can help you get to your friend and you can help us along the way there. So where is this place?"

"Well..." she started, "You see I was carried off here by a mandibuzz and it only dropped me when it was hit by a heracross that looked starving. I was lucky to land on a patch of soft grass. I do not know how far I flew, but I know what you humans call this area. Victory Road."

This shocked the both of us. We knew that it was where only trainers with all 8 badges can get in. These were trainers that were the toughest out of them all. "O-Okay, we will help you get there but it will take some time to get there." "Thank you I will try to help in any way I can along the way." "Now," I start, "I will not catch you but if you want I can carry you some parts of the way. I want you to be free to leave at any time." "Thank you for that." Then we set out with our new friend.

The three of us arrived in the snow-covered Striaton City. I took out some coat that I brought out of my bag and but them on all three of us. I brought a lot of extras in different sizes because I knew I would find more pokémon friends along the way. We walked into the Pokémon Center to rest for a while. There I found out from the Nurse Joy that the gym leaders were the triplets Cilan, Cress, and Chili. We heard that Cilan uses grass-types, Cress water-types and Chili fire-types.

We walked to the gym ready for our first gym battle. When we entered we were surprised to see that it was a restaurant. A green haired man came up to us and asked with a welcoming smile, "What would you like this afternoon?" I was confused, "Um... I came here thinking this was the Striaton Gym. I came here for a battle."

I felt sheepish but he kept on smiling, "Well than you have come to the right place. Allow me to introduce myself; I am Cilan, one of the gym leaders you will be facing. Here are my brothers." He gestured to the two men with blue and red hair. "This is my brother Cress." Introducing me to the blue-haired man, "Pleasure to meet you." Cilan continued. "And this is my brother Chili." Introducing me to the red-haired man, "I will enjoy our fiery battle." "Now," Cilan started, "you will have to fight all three of us and win at least 2 out of 3 battles. Those are the rules now let the battle begin."

I start off with a battle against Cilan. I send out Serperior and he sent out his simisage. "This will be an interesting battle since our pokémon are the same type," said Cilan. "Alright Serperior use Aerial Ace!" She sprang up coming from above with her tail coming down. "Simisage use Bullet Seed to take it out of the sky!" Pansage then shot sharp little seed from its mouth with intense speed. "Serperior use your speed to dodge and get in with a close attack!" I yelled.

If you blinked you would have missed it. She straitened out then in the air slithered out of the way of each seed. Only one grazed her cheek as it left a red streak on her white skin. Then as she came in close she used her momentum and turned herself into a whip. The strength of her body could be seen with the look of her eyes her muscles were tensed up and when the crack hit the battle was over at the sound.

Cilan's simisage was out cold for an hour after that. He was tending to it till it was able to stir a bit but when the battle ended he said, "Your Serperior has the strength of many. She has been trained well. Make sure you don't forget that some pokémon are weaker than others so can defend such powerful attacks."

It was a few minutes before the next battle started. I was lost in thought until Cress snapped me out of my thoughts, "Now even though I have type disadvantage don't think that it will an easy win," Cress said with confidence as he sent out his simipore.

My thoughts called out to Serperior and she came out of her coil in the corner and was directly in front of me within a second. She was ready for the battle I could tell. We stood there for a few moments before Chili announced, "This is a one on one battle. The battle will end when one of the sides' Pokémon is out. Ready... Begin."

Within seconds simipore was clutching Serperior's tail and threw her into the air. "Simipore now use scald!" I heard Cress command. Boiling hot water shot toward Serperior and threw her back into a wall leaving her burned. "Serperior shake it off and use razor leaf!" I called out. She gritted her teeth and surrounded herself with sharp leaves then the soared to the water type Pokémon.

"Simipore quickly use protect!" yelled Cress. The water monkey put up a barrier around itself but not fast enough to black all the incoming projectiles. A few of the leaves came in and hit the pokémon hard leaving cuts along it's face and arms. The barrio dropped, showing the injured pokémon. I take the chance. "Serperior use Frenzy Plant!" Vines came out of Serperior and dug underground, they came out of the ground underneath the other Pokémon, far larger when they entered the ground. They gripped the water type and hit it hard. The vines then loosened and disappeared reveling the unconscious pokémon. "Simipore is unable to battle, the winners for the battle are White and Superior!" Chili said with a booming voice.

I ran to Serperior and hugger her. "We won, you did great out there!" "You helped out telling what moves to counter bother the simisage's as well as the simipore's moves." I smile at her. The three gym leaders walk over to me with a tray in Cilan's hands. "Congratulations on your victory, you two work very well together. You have earned the Striaton city gym's badge, the Trio Badge." I pick it up and smile happily. "Thank you so much it was really fun to battle you, and I hope one day I get to battle you too Chili." "Definitely you haven't had the heat of the fire type in this gym, so be ready when you battle me!" "You can count on that!"

We headed out of the gym and head to the pokémon center to heal Serperior and rest for the night since it was almost 10. After Nurse Joy healed Serperior I rented a room and then crashed for the night, thinking what type of gym would we meet next.

Ugh I hate the ending of this chapter… Sorry for the wait I was still at school and had to write the rest of the chapter since the first part I had written a long while ago. I hoped you liked it. My writing will be better in the next chapters, hopefully anyway. Thank you for reading ~3