Chap. 6

The rain had stopped now. Heart regained her consciousness and saw she was in the pokemon center.

"What happened?"

She looked around and saw that she was in the pokemon center.

"Oh yeah I fainted. How did I get here?"

She said thinking back about the purple spirit.

"That thing was soo ugly! I wonder what it was?"

She shrugged off the thought and looked out the window of the pokemon center. She noticed the rain had let up. It looked like the sun was still out also so she could go challenge the gym leader. The nurse walked up and handed her her pokemon. Heart politely accepted them and left the pokemon center heading for the gym.

"Ok chikorita lets win us that badge!"

Heart said enthusiastically. She approached the entrance to the gym again and saw that the purple spirit was not there this time.

"Good. Maybe it died or something."

She walked inside the gym and started walking till she suddenly almost lost her balance.

"Whoa!"

She looked down and saw that there wasn't a floor or it wasn't lit up or anything. Then she noticed a purple light wrapped around her whole body and lifted her into the air. It floated her to a nearby platform that was barely visible to the eye. Hearts chest was pouding while she was in the air. What was going on? Was she gonna fall to her death? Before she could answer the question in her head she was standing on that platform. Someone spoke up and said,

"Welcome! This is the Ecruteak City gym and I am its leader Morty."

It was Morty who Heart had met in the tower.

"Hi Morty. I am gonna challenge you for the badge. Is that alright?"

Before she got a reply he released out his first pokemon. The purple spirit that she had seen before she fainted. Heart stood shaking in place but tried to get over her fear.

"This is haunter. He is the pokemon you saw before you fainted. Luckily I came out of my gym in enough time to notice you had fainted and carried you to the pokemon center."

Heart blushed lightly. He had saved her from what she thought was near death and had taken her to a safe place while it was raining. Heart finally came back to reality and threw out her first pokemon. Her Geodude. Both trainers commenced into battle commanding there pokemon to attack. Geodude struck first but was knocked back with haunters sucker punch attack. Geodude retaliated with its own rock tomb and after a few minutes both pokemon were exhausted. Haunter laid in one final blow and knocked Geodude out. Heart returned Geodude and sent out her next pokemon.

"Go wooper!"

Wooper and haunter battled for a while but wooper finally got the best of it and knocked it out.

"Good job, but I have one pokemon left."

Morty stated and released his last pokemon.

"Go Gengar."

Before Heart or wooper knew what to do gengar had put it to sleep and was using its dream eater attack. Wooper woke up just in time to be nailed hard in the face with a shadow ball knocking it out.

"Well its all up to you now. Go chikorita!"

Chikorita ran onto the battlefield ready to fight. Gengar struck first with sucker punch but was knocked back by chikoritas large vines. Genar and chikorita kept going at it till finally gengar had gotten the upper hand and knocked chikorita onto the ground. Chikorita appeared to be out of it when suddenly her body started to glow and she was engulfed in a bright light. Her appearance had changed. Heart looked threw her poke gear and it said that chikorita had evolved into bayleef.

"Yay! Chikorita you evolved."

Bayleef got back on its feet and readied for fight once more. Gengar wasn't letting up though but bayleef wasn't gonna either. Both trainers were wondering what to do to finish the other when they both got an idea at the same time.

"Gengar use shadow ball!"

"Bayleef use Energy ball!"

They said at almost the exact same time. Both pokemon charged up and unleashed a powerful ball attack at the other and the attacked crashed into each other causing the battlefield to be covered in smoke. When the smoke finally cleared out there was no doubt who had won the fight. Bayleef was standing over gengar with its foot ontop of its stomach. Heart had won the long battle.

"Yay! We did it!"

Morty smiled and handed heart her badge she had earned. Heart accepted it and left the gym. Bayleef was looking at the gate way indicating it wanted to go that way but heart had other ideas.

"hold on bayleef. Lets go to that building soulie went into. I wanna show him my new badge."

Bayleef shrugged its head and they walked to the building. They saw Soul holding a man in the air like he was gonna punch him and they noticed the mans uniform it was a rocket member. Heart quickly ran up to soul and he noticed she had walked up but didn't turn around to face her.

"What are you doing here? Go away."

He asked her. Heart walked closer and said,

"Soulie look I won the badge."

Soul didn't take his eyes off the rocket member but he spoke up and said,

"I already have it."

Heart seemed shocked by that statement. How fast was he? He had already gotten it? Then she smiled.

"Nice job soulie. You are one step ahead of me it seems. But I will get ahead of you hehe."

She said smirking and left the building. Soul was still inside and threw the rocket member onto the ground. The rocket member quickly ran off out of the building as fast as he could run. The rocket member ran by Heart nearly knocking her onto the ground spinning her around.

"Wow! He was running fast. Soulie must of put a beating on him or something. He is after all strong and handsome and…."

She started thinking again and was smiling in thought of who knows what when she felt a hand placed on her shoulder. She turned around and to her delight it was Soul.

"He didn't hurt you did he?"

Soul asked her. Hearts face lit up bright red. Was he really asking her if she was alright? Maybe he did care after all? Soul noticed her face was lit up red and he figured she would soon wrap herself around him and do no telling what to him and he spoke up again before she could even reply and said,

"Not that I care or anything. I am not attracted to you!"

What was he thinking again? Why did he place his hand on her shoulder and check on her condition? Why did he care at all? He walked off from her headed towards the next city. Heart just stood there in place smiling.

"He does like me doesn't he?"

She said eyeing her bayleef who was looking around in confusion. Heart pulled out her poke gear and scanned it.

"The next city is Olivine City. The city of sea breezes."

Hearts face lit up once more as she was thinking and she winked saying to bayleef.

"Maybe soulie will get a breeze under him and be blown into the sea so I have to rescue him with mouth to mouth resuscitation, hehehe."

Bayleef just shook its head. Heart walked further past the gate to route 38 then 39. The wind blew her hair in a wave like motion and the sun was starting to begin sitting. Heart thought it was a beautiful sight seeing the sunset over the route.

Since the sun was begging to set though it would soon be nighttime. Heart looked around to see if she could see soul nearby but didn't see anything but a nearby house. She ran to it and noticed outside was a lot of miltank outside. The owners of the property agreed to let her stay the night there and Heart found the guest room and laid down on the bed.

She was exhausted. Before another thought could enter her head she was out cold sound asleep.