Chapter 9: Crystal (Insert title here)
Quick note: I'm going to put each of the main character's stats up every chapter.
Gold Ryu
Occupation: none
Personality: Dumb but strong- willed
Pokemon:
Quilava-Pyro LV: 14
Phanpy-Trunks LV: 12
Kadabra-Kazam LV: 18
Flaaffy-Sparks LV: 15
Hiro
Occupation: none
Personality: Dumber then Gold, a bit of a sissy
Pokemon:
Croconaw-Highfang LV: 20
Drowzee-Sleeper LV: 16
Crystal
Occupation: none
Personality: Caring, gentle when not mad at somebody
Pokemon:
Chikorita LV: 15
Chansey LV: 8
Angie
Occupation: none
Personality: Controlling
Pokemon:
You'll see later
Silver
Occupation: Hired by Karen for unknown reasons (even by me)
Personality: Cold and enigmatic
Pokemon:
Sneasel LV: 18
Ursaring LV: 22
Gastly LV: 16
Zubat LV: 12
Larvitar LV: 17
Karen
Occupation?
Personality: Evil and enigmatic
Pokemon:
Houndoom (3) LV?
Nidoking LV?
Gengar LV?
Umbreon LV?
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Gold watched Silver walk away to Union Cave wordlessly. He looked back to the blown up bridge and charred landscape caused by the Qwilfish. He thought back to the other three who were on the other side of this.
"Shit. How are the other trainers gonna get to Azalea town?" he asked to no one. Pyro hunched up next to Gold's leg. It yawned and fell asleep on Gold's foot. He picked it up and let it rest around his shoulders. He decided to let the authorities handle the damage. When he got to the pokemon center, Nurse Joy had just locked the door to the pokemon center.
"I'm sorry but you're going to have come back tomorrow...?"
"But my pokemon are hurt now! You expect me to go to Azalea with just this one?" he said pointing at Pyro.
"Most people don't know this but we Nurse Joys have lives outside the center. I could care less about your problems right now. It's 1:00 in the morning!" Gold glared daggers at her as she left down the road.
"3-2-1..." Gold counted on his fingers
"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE ROAD! T-T-THERE IS NO ROAD! IT WAS BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS!"
"Calm down," Gold said as he came up to her. "I could help you out if you fix my pokemon."
Gold followed her back to the pokemon center. She put his poke balls on the healing machine. It was taking longer to heal them because they were all unconscious.
"I've always wondered how pokemon centers keep running if they work for free?"
"We depend on those vending machines mostly. It's actually a crime to tamper with a pokemon center vending machine. My cousin in Violet City had some trouble because some idiot in a hat couldn't control his pokemon." Gold pulled the hair out of his eyes and was thankful that he forgot to take his hat from Crystal.
"So-um why just vending machines? Why don't you charge for healing?"
"If you think about it it's a good way to make money. Most trainers nowadays are kids who eat piles of junk food. I see dozens of trainers a day who'll pay 20 pokedollars for candy." She handed his pokemon back to him and walked out the door again.
"Is it okay if I sleep in the center? The last time I slept in a bed was in the hospital."
"Hell no! I don't know if you're going to mess up the equipment!"
"You're mean for a Nurse Joy!"
"It's like I said before we have lives outside the center. I haven't seen my little girl in a week..."
"Let me guess... her name's Joy too..."
"Yes. You know one day I wish that one of us produces a girl who looks different from the rest of us. That way, people will stop stereotyping us."
Gold fell silent again. He truly felt pity for the Nurse Joy family. He guessed that he would feel the same if someone grouped everyone together as one person in his family. When they got to the damaged pier, Gold released Kazam.
"You were the last one to come from this place before I found out about it. You must know who did this, right?"
"Uh, a bunch of trainers with voltorbs blew it up." Nurse Joy didn't really believe him but shrugged it off.
"When I get to the other side, I'll tell the police about them. How exactly am I getting there anyway?" Gold had Kazam lift her with confusion. In a matter of seconds she was on the other side of the water. She waved to him and then walked away.
Gold ignored her and went back to the pokemon center. He had Trunks use tackle on the lock and then stepped inside. He searched for a room to sleep in and found Silver fast asleep. He occupied the only bed so Gold had to keep looking. He found an empty bed next to Silver's room and passed out there.
Meanwhile...
Crystal, Hiro and Angie had just woken up. Crystal rubbed her eyes and looked around their campsite. Gold was gone and there were burn marks and a place where it looks like lightning had fallen.
"Hey Hiro, where's Golden Boy?"
"I still think that's a pet name."
"What's your pet name for me Hirrykins?" Angie asked. Her love for Hiro was sickening Crystal to her core.
"Please focus. Where's Gold?" she asked again. The other two just shrugged. "We should look for him at the ruins."
"Nah. Places like that never interested me and Gold. Besides we couldn't get in."
"Huh? Why?"
"Because of that," he pointed to the entrance. A construction crew was using wooden planks to barricade the door.
Crystal walked up to the sign they had posted. Hiro and Angie followed her. Angie read it out loud.
"Ruins of Alph closed until further notice due to the awakening of the pokemon Unown. When the ones who woke them up come back please go to the police station in Violet City to tell us how you did it. All other trainers and civilians are warned to stay away unless they have at least four certified Johto league gym badges."
"They spelled Unknown wrong," Hiro pointed out.
"Unown is a pokemon you dunce!"
"No one gets to talk to my Hirrykins that way except me!" Angie shrieked at the top of her lungs.
"For the love of... Hiro is not in love with you."
"You're just mad because you don't have Gold with you. Hirrykins told me all about your crush on him."
"He did, did he?" she said glaring at Hiro.
"He also told me that you're a hothead who turns into a cry baby every time someone insults you WHA! WHA! WHA!"
Crystal fell silent. She had enough of this girl. No one was going to insult her like that anymore.
"Are you gonna cry again baby?"
Crystal slapped her across the face so hard that she fell to the ground. Angie clutched her now red cheek and started to cry.
"Cool! Girl fight! Hold on. I need to get a camera, some popcorn and a bottle of oil!"
"What-would-you-need-oil-for?" Angie asked in between bursts of tears.
"Congratulations. Your boyfriend is a perverted asswipe."
"Shut up! Go-voltorb!"
Crystal threw Chikorita's pokeball in between Voltorb's eyes and ordered a razor leaf. The leaves slashed into the ball pokemon's sides. It was thrown backwards into the barricade. Voltorb's anger reached its peak. It self-destructed. Pieces of wood and concrete flew in all directions. The workers just barely dodged out of the way.
"You must be the one who blew up the bridge too! Arrest her!"
"What I never-."
"Even if you didn't blow up the bridge you still blew up our barricade." And that was it. Gold's lie had gotten Angie thrown in jail in a twist of fate.
"That was weird..." Hiro said. Crystal shoved past him and started talking to one of the workers.
"Someone blew up the bridge and road to the pokemon center. This kid with a Quilava on his shoulders said that it was blown up by a voltorb." Hiro came from behind and joined in the conversation.
"Then that can't be Gold, he had a Cyndaquil."
"The pokedex said that it was close to evolving. This means we're cut off from Gold and Azalea town. How're we gonna get over there?"
"Lets use the map." Hiro pulled it out and pointed at the cross section between Ecruteak, Goldenrod and Violet City. "We just gotta go through Goldenrod and down to Azalea town."
"Humph." She wanted to do with Hiro or Angie anymore. All she wanted now was to prove her worth as a trainer. She wanted to make sure that people wouldn't call her weak ever again. "Don't you even care that you're girlfriend just got thrown in jail?"
"Not really. She was annoying. Besides both her and her pokemon lost on one hit. And any way I saw a chick fight!"
"Please. It was just one smack."
"Whatever." Hiro grabbed Crystal by her wrist and ran across the field and back into Violet City. He dragged her halfway through the city and across the path towards Goldenrod City. Unfortunately a certain imitation pokemon blocked their way. Hiro hit Sudowoodo face first and fell backwards. Crystal nearly crushed the egg in her backpack.
"Watch it! I'm running for two now!"
"You're pregnant? Way to go Gold!"
Crystal had finally snapped. She punched him in the nose and gave him a nose bleed. She kicked him in the genitals and lifted him by his collar.
"I swear... if you say one more word about me liking Gold, which I don't; I am going to stop that nose bleed of yours BY SHOVING A TAMP-ON UP YOUR FREAKIN NOSE THEN PULLING IT OUT OF YOUR ASS! ... DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!"
"Y-Y-Y-YES SIR!"
"WHAT'D YOU JUST SAY?"
"YES MA'AM!"
"I thought so." She dropped Hiro on the ground and walked up to the fake tree. Chikorita shuddered a little and glowed white. It evolved into Bayleef for no apparent reason.
Hiro was on the ground holding his crotch in pain.
"Hm. Bayleef use a weak vine whip on that tree." Bayleef smacked a vine onto a branch. The tree twitched a little at it like it was alive. "Don't you think it's weird that this tree only has two branches and no leaves in the middle of the summer?"
"Bay." It nodded. Crystal flipped out her pokedex which flashed on and started to speak.
"Sudowoodo. The imitation pokemon. Pretends to be a tree to avoid predators, humans and water."
Crystal pulled out a water bottle and dumped its contents on Sudowoodo. It sprang up immediately and tried to dry itself off. Bayleef grabbed it by its arms and threw it over its own head and onto Hiro's back. Crystal threw a pokeball onto that V shaped thingy on Sudowoodo's head. It rolled on Hiro's head for a bit and then stopped.
"Give me that!" She swiped the poke ball off his head and started to walk away into Goldenrod City.
"Crystal wait for me!"
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Let me just say one thing. I change the point of view of the chapter by giving it a different title.
Gold: Golden Flames
Silver: Silver Ice
Crystal: Crystal (don't have one yet)
Hiro: (Man that one's going to be tough)