As we slid down the pole, all we saw was a long, dark passageway until the pole eventually ended and I landed on a large, sticky dew covered spider web. Annora fell on top of me and started to blush. I slowly pushed her off of me and got up, balancing on the thin web under me.

"Crap, this is a puzzle..." I whispered to myself.

"I guess I'll have to lead you through this..." She told me, trying to get water and strings of the sticky web off of herself.

"I'm smart enough to do this myself." I said in an annoyed tone.

"No, you're not." She said as she stood up.

I rolled my eyes and started to balance on the web.

After a couple minutes of walking, I accidentally stepped on a collapsing part of the web. As I fell, I used my right hand to grab onto a stronger part of the web while my other was keeping a hold of my bag. Annora was keeping balance, and she looked like she was trying to think of something. I looked down and I saw nothing but a dark abyss. There's probably something soft down there to land on. But I didn't want to take any chances.

"Annora, could you help me out?" I asked her as I saw my bag slipping off of my shoulder. I'm lucky I was holding onto it.

"Yeah." She told me, holding her arm out to me.

I grabbed a hold of her arm with my left hand, the one that was holding my bag. She tried to pull me up, but she couldn't.

"Could you try a little too?!" She yelled.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm trying!" I yelled back, pulling myself up with my right arm.

I eventually got back up to the web, and we kept walking, being cautious about where we step.

"Damn, this place is crazy..." I said.

"Sure is..." Annora told me.

After a few minutes, we finally got to the gym leader's room.

"Miss Viola, I'd like to challenge you to a battle."

The young woman that looked a bit older than me turned around, holding a Pokeball and a camera.

"I accept your challenge. But I have rules here. Only one Pokemon can be used, and there will be no healing items used." She told me.

"Alright." I said, a bit nervous.

I sent out my new Pokemon, a litleo. Viola sent out a Vivillion.

I checked the Pokemon's moves. Headbutt, Leer, Ember. I could easily defeat this Vivillon.

"Okay, litleo, hit it with an Ember!" I yelled as the small Pokemon shot small orbs of fire at the butterfly Pokemon.

"Dodge it and attack with infestation!" Viola yelled.

The Pokemon made a single movement and a small swarm of bugs came Litleo's way.

"Dodge it!" I yelled.

Litleo jumped over the swarm, and it came to me.

"Damn it..." I said as bugs ran up my left boot and up my leg, biting and stinging me.

I decided to continue the battle, ignoring the pain, no matter how bad it got.

"Headbutt!" I yelled.

The lion cub Pokemon ran towards the Vivillon, headbutting it. The vivillon fell to the ground, but got back up, ready to attack again.

"Vivillon, use tackle!" The gym leader commanded.

The butterfly Pokemon came flying towards litleo.

"Counter it with another headbutt!" I yelled as I looked down, seeing blood run down my leg.

Right when the opposing Pokemon was about to strike, litleo hit back with a strong headbutt. It must've been a critical hit, because the Vivillon went flying and got knocked out. I won.

"Good job. I'll award you with this." She handed me a badge.

I grinned and looked at Annora, ignoring the blood and pains from my leg.

"What, am I supposed to congratulate you or something?" She said.

"Yeah, you are."

"Congrats, stupid, let's get you to the hospital..." She said.

"Now, you might wanna look a bit closer behind me." Viola told us, pressing a button which opened the curtains behind her, leading to a set of stairs.

Me and Annora walked up the stairs. My left leg was in so much pain, I had to limp. The insects were biting, latching onto my skin, stinging and enjoying my blood. What next? Tunneling inside my skin? Laying eggs inside of me? The thought made me shiver.

At the hospital, the nurses had to painfully pick all of the bugs off of my leg with tweezers. They wrapped my leg up and said I should be okay. I walked outside where Annora was waiting.

"All better." I told her, smiling.

"Don't get yourself into something so damn stupid next time." She told me. I knew she had a hint of sympathy in her voice, she was just hiding it. I'm not sure why she does that, Annora is a mystery to me. We walked to route four, which leads to Lumiose city. I was hoping to meet professor Sycamore and get a Pokemon from Kanto.

As we walked on to route four, Annora grinned, looking at the abundance of Pokemon around us. Skitty, Flabebe, combee, Ralts, and so many more amazing Pokemon.

"I wanna catch a Flabebe..." Annora told me.

"Alright, have fun with that." I said, trying to be sarcastic like her.

"Don't mock me." She told me.

"Don't mock me." I said, trying to mimic her voice.

She punched my arm with barely any force. She couldn't do much damage. She's just a short weak little bundle of rage. So basically, she's a Tsundere when you really think about it.

My thoughts were interrupted when a Skitty jumped out at us. No, it jumped out at Annora and cuddled with her.

"Shoo!" Annora yelled, obviously not wanting the company of the little cat Pokemon.

"Ski, Skitty!" The Pokemon cried happily.

Annora pushed it off of her.

"Go away." She said.

The Skitty just stayed there.

"Vex, help me you damn idiot..." Annora commanded.

"Fine." I said, grabbing the Skitty.

"Hey little one. I know you wanna play or something, but my friend isn't in the mood right now. Could ya leave?" I asked the Pokemon.

"Ski, skitty!" It cried as I let it go.

"Now, THAT'S how you handle Pokemon, Annora." I said, grinning.

"Whatever, let's go." She said, walking.

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Hello, my beautiful, beautiful people! I'm announcing right now that I am starting a new account on ! I will have the same username, so look for me and the new story I will write there! (I don't have a name for the story yet, it's a Work in progress, and I haven't even started, to be honest. But I do have the general idea that will not be mentioned here.) And I will obviously be working on two stories at once, so production for both of these stories will be a little slow. I assure you that they will PROBABLY be finished.

(*￣∇￣)ノStay beautiful, my people. -GamerKitty

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