Ok...this is to answer some questions.
checkmateyroxmysox- I will try to add more romance. It's not gonna be a bunch yet. That's for later on. But I'll do my best.
Daydreamer- I am sooooo glad to see that you r reading my story again! After all you were my first reviewer ever! Just makes me happy! Don't worry about not reviewing. I don't know who deleted my fic, or why. I wish I knew...
sausuge- sorry bout' putting that in. Just have to keep Gary in character.
Twilight The Umbreon- I am honored to have you reading my story! I love yours. They are soooo good. Thanks!
NekoGuyFan- I will ask the question again about the 'powers' thing. I still can't decide, and since Trust Me was deleted, I have no way of remembering all of the votes. So I will post that next.
To everyone else...THANKS FOR REVEIWING!
DISCLAIMER: I didn't own pokemon in the last chapter...why would I own it now?
Chapter 9: Attack of the Shadows
"FINALLY!" Rika yelled running through the gates that were leading into Rustboro City.
"I can finally get my badge!" She started to run off in search of the gym, but a firm grip held her so she couldn't run away.
"Have you seen yourself lately? I say we drop of our pokemon at the center, get cleaned up, get some lunch, then we can get your badge" Gary said, Rika still pulling to get away.
"But I-" She stopped and thought about a nice hot bath.
Rika looked up at Gary and saw he had dirt all over and even a few twigs in his hair. If she looked anything like him, then he was right. They both needed to get cleaned up.
"Fine" She said giving in.
Gary let go of her arm and she started giggling.
"What?" He said with a confused look.
She reached up and picked a twig with a leaf on it out of his hair. He just shook his head and dragged her to the pokemon center.
Once they were at the center, they got a room for the night and gave the nurse all of there pokemon. After that, Rika and Gary walked into the room they were sharing tonight. There was a bunk bed in the room to the far right. Beside it was a table with a lamp on it.
On the left of the room, there were two doors. One was a closet, and the other was a bathroom.
"I get top bunk!" Rika shouted running to the beds.
Gary smiled and ran to the bathroom. "I get first shower then!"
"No Way!" Rika shouted running to the door just as it slammed shut.
"FINE...jerk" Rika mumbled under her breath.
"What was that?" Gary said not hearing what she said.
"Nothing..." She said going back over to the beds and sitting on the bottom one.
She started thinking about her upcoming battle as soon as she sat down.
'Guess I could work out my strategy. Ok, Roxanne is the gym leader and she uses rock pokemon. So water and grass pokemon would be the smart thing to use. Psychic would do ok too. Electric, fire and normal will do no good against rock. That leaves me Mudkip, whom I got only months ago, Espeon, and Shroomish'
Her thoughts went on like this for a while longer before Gary came out of the bathroom drying his hair with a white towel.
(AN: YES HE WAS DRESSED!)
"Your turn" He said throwing the towel at her. Rika caught it and dropped it on his bed.
"Thanks..." She said walking into the bathroom to take her shower. After she was done and got dressed, she came out of the bathroom.
She walked over to a mirror and brushed her hair until it was tangle free.
'Where is Gary?' She thought to herself. He wasn't in the room unless he was hiding in the closet.
Rika looked over at the door leading out of the room and saw a note stuck to the door.
Rika,
Went out to get some food.
Be back soon, or you can come look for me.
That is if your out of the shower by then!
...Gary
P.S.- your pokemon are healed so get them before you leave.
"Why that inconsiderate little jerk. I can't believe he just left...without me. Oh well. Better get my pokemon."
After Rika picked up her pokemon from Nurse Joy, she went out in search of Gary.
'And when I find him, he's dead!' Rika thought, still angry at him for leaving.
Gary took another sip of his soda pop. He was in some fast food restaurant, waiting to see if Rika would show up or not. He looked around at the other people in the building.
There were two girls his age who were talking in the front.
A guy and his girlfriend were in one corner.
There was a family of four, and a hooded figure in the back, away from everyone else.
Although he couldn't tell, Gary felt like the person was looking at him. He was tempted to go over and yell at the creep, or just leave the building.
He chose to do the later and got up to leave.
As he was walking out the door, Rika and Eevee stood there, Rika looking extremely angry.
"Why did you leave without me! I'm hungry too ya know! I could just-"
Gary put a hand over her mouth and dragged her outside after getting strange stares from everyone inside.
Once outside he let go of Rika.
"Shh! You trying' to get me kicked out!"
"Maybe!" She said.
"Look, let's go somewhere else. There's a guy creeping' me out in there." He said motioning towards the restaurant.
"Whatever" Rika answered quietly.
Gary let Umbreon out now that he was out of the building.
"Bre!" It said happily.
They had walked until they came to a large building. There was a sign beside it the said
'Rustboro City Gym;
Gym Leader-Roxanne'
"It's the gym! Let's go!" Rika said running up and pushing the doors open.
It was dark inside of the gym...
Suddenly, lights shined on them as they all covered their eyes.
"Are you here for a match?" A voice asked from the darkness.
"Y-yeah..." Rika said. "I am!" She said a little more bold.
"Then we'll use two pokemon each! Pokeball go!"
All of the gym lights were on now. Rika looked to the other side of the gym and saw Roxanne standing there with a young girl beside her.
'A student from school?' She thought remembering that Roxanne was a teacher also.
The pokemon she threw out was a Geodude.
"Dude Geodude!" It shouted raising its arms in the air stretching.
"Go Mudkip!" Rika shouted throwing a pokeball out to the field.
"Mudkip mud!" It shouted emerging from the pokeball.
"Geodude use rock throw!" Roxanne shouted to her pokemon.
Geodude started to hurl rocks at Rika's pokemon.
Mudkip took some damage but was pretty much ok. It was a water type after all.
"Use water gun!"
"Defense curl!"
The water gun hit Geodude and had little effect.
"Now use roll out!" Geodude started rolling towards Mudkip swiftly.
"Mudkip!" Rika shouted as Geodude ran full force into her pokemon. Mudkip went flying back and landed on its back.
Rika stood in shock. Mudkip was an ok level and had a type advantage, yet it still lost to a rock/ground type.
'She must have trained her pokemon for water attacks' Rika thought.
She could only choose one more pokemon to fight with. She was looking at two pokeballs. One in her left hand, the other in her right.
She finally chose the left one and threw it out onto the arena.
"Shroomish shroom!"
"Getum' Shroomish"
"Why didn't you choose Espeon!" Gary nearly screamed.
"Because Shroomish has tried its hardest and deserves this chance." She answered not taking her eyes off of the battle.
"Fine, a grass type. Geodude, use roll out again." Roxanne said calmly.
The student beside looked confused of why she wasn't worried about the grass type.
Was Roxanne underestimating her opponent?
(AN:Yup!)
Rika waited until Geodude was nearly a foot away from Shroomish.
"Stun Spore! Then jump!"
Shroomish shook its body around, creating a thick green powder all around itself, then jumped into the air to dodge Geodude's attack.
Geodude ran into the powder and was paralyzed.
"Now use giga drain!"
Shroomish sucked any energy that Geodude still had and absorbed it for itself.
"Yes! Great job Shroomish!"
"Shrooooom!"
Shroomish started to glow very bright.
"It's...evolving" Rika said shocked.
The light grew brighter as it changed shape and got taller and grew a long tale. It had a little mushroom like object on its head that looked like a hat an had short clawed arms and long legs.
"Brelooooooom!" It said jumping around in a circle.
"Neat! A Breloom! I can't beleive it evolved!" Rika yelled while jumping up and down.
"Rika! That doesn't mean the battle is over!" Gary said shaking his head.
"Oh, right. I knew that. Gary, what would a Breloom know that a Shroomish wouldn't?" She asked turning towards him.
"Fighting moves. Try Mach punch." He answered her.
"Wow...I have never seen a pokemon evolve in my gym before. But no matter. I will still defeat it! Go Nosepass! Use tackle!"
Roxanne said while tossing out her last pokeball. Nosepassw apeared ready to fight.
It ran up to tackle Breloom, but Breloom jumped out of the way.
"Use Mach Punch Breloom!"
Breloom ran up at its enemy with great speed and punched it on its side. It jumped back holding one of it's claws with the other claw.
"Oh yah...Nosepass is like a rock. Try using you speed to an advantage. Then use absorb!" Rika shouted to her injured pokemon.
"loom!"
Nosepass tried another tackle, but failed once again as Breloom moved swiftly out of the way. As Nosepass was turned around, Breloom jumped on its back and use absorb. Nosepass tried to throw Breloom off, but failed as it sunk to the floor in defeat.
"YES! Go Breloom!" Rika cheered as Breloom ran up to her and jumped in her arms. She hugged it tightly.
'My first Hoenn badge. And as a bonus, an evolved pokemon.'
Roxanne stood in shock for a moment before the student at her side asked if she had just lost. Roxanne returned her Nosepass as she told the student that Rika was a great trainer and deserved to win the badge.
"Here. That Breloom of your is really great." Roxanne said to Rika holding out a badge.
The Stone badge. Rika took it and pinned it to her bag, then put it back over her shoulder.
"Thank you. I just can't beleive it evolved. I hadn't even thought about it doing that."
Rika pet Breloom again before returning it to its ball.
Gary and Rika walked back to the pokemon center talking about the new moves that Breloom could learn.
Once they got there, the sun was nearly all the way down.
Umbreon's rings were glowing again in the darkness.
"So, do you think the battle was hard or easy?" Gary asked her once they were both in there beds. "Well, without Shroomish evolving, I might not have won. It was pretty chalenging." She yawned after she said this.
Eevee yawned after that and fell asleep next to her.
Umbreon was sitting on beside the window, looking at the moon.
"Where are we going next?" Gary asked.
"Well, there used to be a cave to Verdanturf Town if you take route 116. I haven't been ther for long time, so I don't know if its still there or not. We could try."
"Isn't that where your from?" Gary said to her.
"Yah. I haven't been there since I left for Kanto."
"Then let's go there tomorrow." Gary said rolling over and falling asleep.
Rika followed suit and fell asleep too, but was visited by a certain pink pokemon in her dreams.
'You must help us. They are looking for me now! If they catch me then they will-' '
Wait, who is they, and we? You mean the other legendary pokemon you told me about?' Rika inturupted Mew. It was talking frantically.
'Yes, the others. And the humans that are after me call themselves Team Shadow. I can't beat all of their dark pokemon. There are too many for even me. You must help!'
'I will. Just tell me where you are.' Rika had no clue what she was doing.
Mew had never sounded this scared in her dreams before.
At first, she thought she was going insane. But after talking, er...thinking more with Mew in the dreams she started beleiving it.
Every time Mew would start to say the really importain things, Rika would wake up.
This time was not the same. She listened for Mew's answer, but it never came.
'Mew? Are you there?'
No responce.
Why wasn't Mew answering! She tried saying its name a few more times.
Nothing helped.
Rika sat down in defeat. She wasn't awake, but it was an empty dream.
Suddenly she opened her eyes to see herself in her bed still. But something didn't seem right. Eevee wasn't beside her! She looked under bed to see that Gary and Umbreon were gone too. She jumped down to the floor.
She quickly put up her hair to keep it out of her face.
After grabbing her bag and slipping on her shoes, she went out of the door to look for them.
As soon as she stepped out of the door, she was grabbed and gagged from behind. Whoever it was put a cloth up to her face. It had a strong nasty smell to it.
Rika tried holding her breath, but eventually had to breath, and passed out.
"We've got them both. We'll be at the HQ right away sir." A female voice said into a speaker.
After hearing the responce from the other person, her and two other people (one of them was holding Gary, who was also asleep. The other was holding Eevee and Umbreon) left the pokemon center and Rustboro city as quietly as they had came.
Ok. That is all! Oh, and I need your guy's thoughts on something. I will post it as the next chapter. I'll replace it once I get some answers.
Please reveiw!
-kitsune