I am so sorry I took so long to update. I haven't been feeling particuly motivated as not many people have been reviewing yet lots of people have been reading. Anyway I hope you enjoy this cahpter. It is a bit shorter than the last two but i hope you all like it. By the way, Robert's appearence is a lot like Sven's from pokemon ranger 2 but he has the pokemon on my diamond game.
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon even though it would be a dream come true.
Ash, Brock, Dawn and Annabel had all set up camp for the night in a small clearing close to the path. Ash had agreed to let Annabel travel with the group since she had nothing better to do and she had returned his Pidgeot to him. Also he hoped that she might be able to teach him how to communicate with Pokemon through thoughts. He couldn't help but feel though that Annabel was hiding something from him. Ash didn't care though as long as he could catch rare Pokemon and prove to Paul that his victory over him wasn't just luck like Paul said it was.
Annabel couldn't believe her luck. Not only had she got to meet up again with himbut hehad allowed her to travel with him until she had to go back in a year. She would never have imagined this morning that she would be in Sinnoh travelling with Ash. Maybe now she would be able to have the chance to tell him how she really felt about him but she would have to wait until the timing was right otherwise it could completely ruin her chances. Her chain of thought was interrupted by Brock announcing that food was served. Annabel suddenly realised how hungry she was and dashed up to the table with the others.
The next morning
Everyone awoke early and, after eating a delicious breakfast prepared by Brock, set off heading towards Sunnyshore City. "Brock how long will it take us to get there," Ash asked. "Well if we don't get distracted we should be there by late afternoon," Brock replied. All of a sudden the group heard a rustling in the bushes ahead. All of a sudden a Spoink came bouncing out of the bushes and started heading straight at Dawn. "Ambipom, I choose you," Dawn said as she threw one of pokeballs. A purple monkey came out with two tails with a hand on the end of each one. The Spoink stopped bouncing and started to use psybeam. "Quick, Ambipom use swift," Dawn yelled. Ambipom jumped into the air and started shooting lots of golden stars towards Spoink. Spoink however shot the psybeam and the two attacks collided in a small explosion. Spoink then used confuse ray on Ambipom making him hit himself repeatedly with his tails. "Ambipom snap out of it and then use double hit," Dawn said. Ambipom however just started hitting itself harder until eventually knocking itself out. "Ambipom return. Go Pachirisu," Dawn said. The electric Pokemon appeared. "Now Pachirisu use discharge," Dawn commanded. Pachirisu jumped into the air and shot bolts of blue electricity from its body, hitting Spoink and knocking it out. "Now go, pokeball," Dawn said as she threw an empty pokeball at the Spoink. The ball hit Spoink and drew the Pokemon inside of it. It then fell on the floor and started shaking. With a click the ball stopped shaking and lay still. Dawn ran over and picked up the pokeball. "Yeah, I caught a Spoink," Dawn said as Pachirisu started dancing around. "Good going Dawn," Annabel said.
Suddenly Pikachu jumped off Ash's shoulder and started to growl at the trees nearby. "What is it Pikachu?" Ash asked All of a sudden a huge bolt of electricity shot out of the trees and hit Annabel. Annabel fell to the ground, unconscious. "Annabel!" Ash shouted as he ran towards her slumped body. A Luxray suddenly jumped out of the woods accompanied by a flustered looking trainer wearing a hat. "Luxray no!" the trainer shouted as the Pokemon leapt towards Annabel. "Pikachu use Iron tail!" Ash commanded. Pikachu's tail glowed white as the little Pokemon jumped into the air and brought a hardened tail down upon Luxray's body. The Pokemon was not expecting this and fell to the ground with a loud thud! "Luxray return," the trainer shouted as he held up a pokeball. "We have to get her to a hospital immediately," the trainer said, looking around at the four trainers. "Right," they replied in unison.
At the hospital Annabel was immediately placed on a stretcher and then taken away by a Chansey. The other trainers waited impatiently for the red light to turn green. "So what were you doing in the forest then?" Dawn asked the man. "I was training my Luxray when suddenly it shot into the bushes. Next thing I knew there was a bright flash of light and then I saw Luxray jumping at your friend.," The man said. "By the way my name is Robert," he said. "My name is Dawn," Dawn said pointing to herself, "and this is Brock. Ash is the boy over there, waiting impatiently for Annabel, who is the one whom your Luxray hit," Dawn said. "So what are you doing in Sinnoh," Brock asked. "I'm training up so I can become a gym leader," Robert replied.
After a couple of hours the light changed to green and Nurse Joy came over to the group of trainers. "Annabel should be fine now but she shouldn't do anything too suddenly or she could damage herself," Nurse Joy said. "Can we see her now?" Ash asked, relieved that his friend would be okay. "Yes you may but don't talk for too long as she needs her rest," Nurse Joy replied. Ash and the others, including Robert, walked through the doors underneath the green light and walked over to the bed where Annabel was lying. "Hey Annabel how are you feeling," Ash asked. "My whole body aches slightly but apart from that I think I'm okay," Annabel replied. "That was some thunderbolt you got hit by Annabel," Brock said. "You're lucky you weren't injured more." "I know Brock but I guess I'm one of the lucky ones," she answered back. "How come your hair isn't all frizzy?" Dawn asked. "Trust you to think of hair," Ash said. "And what is that supposed to mean," Dawn replied angrily. As Ash and Dawn started to have another argument, a man Annabel didn't recognise suddenly stepped into view. Brock saw the quizzical look on Annabel's face and explained to her that Robert was the owner of the Luxray who had attacked her. "That must be one powerful Luxray," Annabel commented. "I caught it soon after I started on my journey and have raised it ever since," Robert replied. "How long have you been travelling for?" Brock asked. "About six years now," Robert replied. All of a sudden a machine near Annabel's bed started bleeping and a nurse told everyone (except for Annabel of course) to leave the room.
A few hours later Annabel was discharged from the hospital. "It feels good to be able to walk around again freely," Annabel said as she took in a deep breath of air. "I never did like hospitals," Ash said. "They are always filled with people who keep coughing and sneezing." After a while the gang came to a crossroads where they parted ways with Robert and continued to head towards Sunnyshore City. "After that delay we will probably be lucky if we reach Sunnyshore before nightfall," Brock said after studying a map. "Well then we had better get a move on," said Ash as he started to run. "Hey, wait for me," Annabel shouted as she also started to run. "Don't forget about me," Dawn said, trying to keep up with Ash and Annabel. Brock just laughed and ran after them as the they tried to see who could outrun the other.
As the sun was begining to set thegroup of four saw the bright lights of Sunnyshore city. "Hey look guys, there it is," Dawn said, happy to have finally arrived. The group slowed down a bit and walked at a liesurly pace to the pokemon centre. As soon as Brock saw the nurse he couldn't help but start flirting with her, until an all too familiar pain hit him in the back and he was dragged off by Croagunk. Annabel stood looking bewildered as Ash and dawn handed over their pokemon to Nurse Joy. Annabel quickly followed suite and soon all their pokemon were as good as new. "By the way Ash, you might want to ask Professor Oak for Pidgeot's pokeball," Dawn said. Ash suddenly freaked out as he realised he had almost forgotten about Pidgeot. The bird pokemon had been waiting patiently outside the whole time until Ash quickly rang Proffessor Oak and then returned it to his pokeball. "You know Ash you are going to have to make a decision about whether or not to keep Pidgeot with you and if so, who are you going to send to Professor Oak?" Annabel said.
Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter and if you took the time to read it then why not review it as well? Hopefully the next chapter will not take as long to update but a few ideas would be nice. Until then, goodbye.