Chap. 5

Another bright day. The sun was shining bright in the tent that Heart slept in. She had rolled onto her side to get more comfortable as she slept. The sunlight was beaming down right on her forehead. It felt hot and the light moved downwards and shined into her eyes.

"Damn it! Everytime!"

Heart shouted furious she had been woken up from another dream. It was of her and Soul again. This time they were watching a romantic film that she had suggested to him to see and while they were watching a tear rolled down his cheek.

"Soulie would cry from a chick flick. Hehe."

She said winking at chikorita who had just realized it was awake and wanted to go back to sleep. Heart noticed Soul again wasn't in the tent but she wasn't surprised this time cause it had happened twice before.

"He must be out training again. Oh well."

Heart mumbled then left the tent. Since she had gotten the badge she really had no reason to stay in Goldenrod anymore and decided to leave the city headed for the next town. Heart decided to look at her poke gear for a change.

"Lets see,"

She said with her finger over her mouth seeming like she was very intrigued as to what she was seeing.

"The next city is Ecruteak City. The city of ghost."

The word ghost sent a shiver down Hearts spine.

"G-ggg-Ghost! I don't like ghost!"

Heart started shaking in place but chikorita looked at her with its cute green eyes wondering what her trainer was doing and she quickly stopped shaking and had gotten over her fear. Or so she thought.

"Ghost arent so bad I guess. Besides we only have to challenge the gym we don't have to go see any towers or anything. I hope."

She healed her pokemon at the pokemon center in town and then left to the north headed towards Ecruteak. She passed by the bug trainers place. And she was stopped by a few trainers but she quickly defeated them and kept walking when she ran into an odd tree. Heart took the hm out of her bag to use to try and cut down the tree blocking her way. The tree didn't budge.

"Well this is an odd tr-"

Heart spoke but was interrupted with someone placing a hand on her shoulder. She turned around and saw a girl about her age standing beside her.

"I heard you beat my sister Whitney. Please follow me. I have something that might help you out."

Heart looked confused but followed the girl back. The walked all the way back to Goldenrod into a flower shop.

"Here you go. There is a weird tree blocking peoples way to Ecruteak or Violet. It wasn't safe to pass by but since you've beaten Whitney I figured I could trust this with you. Use it on the tree."

She handed her a squirt bottle. Heart took the item and thanked the girl. After leaving her flower shop she left Goldenrod again headed for the tree. She decided to take the weird girls advice and she used the squirt bottle on the tree. The tree suddenly attacked her. It took all three of her pokemon but finally her wooper knocked the tree out with its water attacks.

"Finally! Gosh that was tough, I am starting to hate trees now."

Heart said sighing. She walked further along and finally arrived in Ecruteak City. The city was desolate and looked like no one had inhabited it in a long time even though there were a few residents outside of buildings. The buildings themselves looked old and rusted like they could collapse at any moment but at the same time they looked like they had been well kept up for such old buildings. Heart walked around the city for a few minutes till she finally found the gym. She attempted to walk inside but the doors were locked.

"That's odd. The doors are sealed shut."

She turned around and a man walked up to her pointing at a nearby tower.

"Our gym leader isn't here at the moment. He is in the Burned Tower."

Heart figured since she couldn't fight the leader here maybe she could challenge him in this tower. She went towards where the man had pointed and entered the tower. The tower was fairly dark but it had enough light to see where you were walking and what all was inside. It was covered in rocks and looked like it had collapsed from the inside. She saw a person standing from a far and decided to go see who it was. She identified the person after she had gotten closer. It was Soul.

What was he doing in this tower? Was he gonna challenge the gym leader also?

"Hi Soulie!"

Heart spoke waving at him. He quickly placed a hand over her mouth which made her blush that he was touching her. His big strong grasp was around her mouth.

"Maybe he would place his hand elsewhere on me"

she thought to herself.

"Sshh, there are rumors of legendary pokemon in this tower. I wanna catch them if that's the case and prove I am not a weakling."

Heart took his hand off her mouth and whispered,

"Ooh Soulie, your grasp is getting stronger. Are you working out just for me?"

She said giggling lightly where it wouldn't make much noise in case there were legendary pokemon here. Soul just ignored what she said and continued looking down a platform that revealed the floor below. Sure enough there was legendary pokemon in the tower but not just one. There were 3. Each of them looked like a vicious dog or lion but they were different colors. One was yellow and white, one was brown and orange and one was dark and light blue.

"I'm gonna go check this out and get a closer look at these pokemon. You'd better not do anything stupid like following me for instance."

Soul said to Heart. She nodded and completely ignoring what he said followed him down to the bottom floor.

"When he gets that look of determination in his eye I just melt, god it is so hot."

She thought to herself with her finger in her mouth slightly. She was drooling and blushing thinking about it and Soul noticed she had followed him and that her face was lit up red and he figured she must be thinking about scaring off the legendaries so yelled at her and she quickly came back to reality.

"Heart don't say anything. Don't scare them off."

Heart realized he was yelling and smiled then said,

"Soulie I'm not gonna scare them off I was to busy thinking about you and your strong musc-"

Her sentence was cut short as the ground below her started to cave in and in a moments notice it fell threw and she landed hard on the ground right in front of the legendaries. They noticed how close she was and quickly ran off. All except the blue one who was staring at her for a moment then it to ran off out of the tower.

"I told you not to scare them off! Do you even listen to me!"

Soul said yelling at her again. Just then they noticed a man had walked down to the floor they were on with them.

"I'm Morty. I was intrigued by the rumors of legendary pokemon in these towers but I see they have already left."

Soul pointed at Heart and said,

"Yeah she ran them off. Typical for her."

Morrty stared at Heart for a moment seeming disappointed then said,

"I see. Well since they are no longer here I will return to my gym."

They then realized that he must be the gym leader. Morty left the tower and Soul went to walk out of it himself when he was stopped by someone wrapping there arms around his arm.

"Soulie where are you running off to now?"

Heart was saying blushing wildly and smiling at him. He wanted to take his foot and kick her so far away from him that she may never return. Was that wrong of him? What if he took her hand in his and they walked together. No, what was he thinking again? He isn't attracted to her in anyway. No matter how much she may try. He didn't like her.

"Give me back my hand. And stop calling me Soulie!"

Soul jerked his hand away from her in a rage and that made Heart sad. She felt like crying. Why did he show no interest in her? Did she smell? Was she ugly? She thought these things in her mind when he suddenly turned around and said,

"Sorry for yelling at you I just wanted to prove I am not a weakling by catching one of those lendaries."

Heart stared at his eyes and smiled.

"Soulie you arent a weakling. You're my superman."

Those words made Soul smile. He leaned in like he was going to kiss her when suddenly it started to rain. He quickly stopped what he was about to do and his smile turned into a mad frown. What on earth was he thinking?! He almost kissed her all because she called him 'Her superman'? He really was turning into a weakling he though to himself. And besides she had called him that horrid name again. He pushed Heart back away from him and said.

"First off, I lose the opportunity to catch a legendary and now it starts raining. Just my luck. Just leave me alone."

Before Heart could say another word he stormed off in a mad rage towards a nearby building in town. Heart wanted to follow him and see where he was going. Maybe even apologize if she had to. She hated seeing the man she loved mad at her because of something she did even if it was an accident.

"He probably needs time to cool off is all right chikorita? He doesn't hate me does he? Besides he loves the nickname I gave him, hehe."

She spoke talking to her pokemon. The rain was now pouring down even harder then before and she could tell it wasn't gonna let up anytime soon. She decided to challenge Morty while it was raining and maybe by the time she was threw the rain would of stopped. She started walking towards the gym when suddenly she saw a purple spirit floating at the entrance. The sight of it was horrid it sent shivers down Hearts spine. She went to gasp for air but no luck. She fainted right there in front of the gym beside the spirit while the rain poured down on her even harder then before.