Danny's Journal, Part 4- More Hardships

This whole trainer business is definitely a lot harder than it looks. Another member of my team passed away today... well, more like 'he went out with a bang'.

I was training Charain (my newly hatched Togepi) on a trainer outside the Union Cave. It was going well, his Pokemon were at much lower levels than mine. But then, Charain used Metronome again... and used Explosion.

Ugh, I was so stupid! This death really hit me hard, as it was mostly my fault... and Charain had been with me since he hatched not too long ago, and dying in one's infancy is just... horrible. I'm not giving up, though. I promised Elm I would take on the Gyms, and I will.

I got through Union Cave without many problems, thankfully. I got another member of my team, an Onix named Granite. He doesn't like to fight, and he seems to be happy enough just using his power to smash rocks, and I'm okay with that. When I got out of the cave, I caught another Ekans in the route before the next town. I named her Vipera, and I'll keep her in my PC box until I need her. Indiana seems to like her.

When I got to Azalea Town, however, I noticed a bunch of Team Rocket members walking around like they owned the place. I remember seeing them on the news from a few years ago when they were causing trouble in Kanto, but I thought they disbanded by now. Huh, weird. A few of the locals said they were doing something in the Slowpoke well in the town, and they also mentioned something about a Pokeball maker who lives on the edge of town.

I quickly found the Pokeball maker's house- Kurt is his name, apparently. He told me he isn't in the mood to make any balls (hurr hurr, balls), and then shouted something about Team Rocket and rushed out of his house. I followed him to the well, and found him lying at the bottom. He apparently fell down after chasing a Rocket member. Y'know, you shouldn't go jumping down wells after you're like... 50. Dumb old man.

I followed a path deeper into the well (damn this place was huge for a well), and found a bunch of Rocket members cutting off the Slowpokes' tails. Angry, I fought my way through them to get to the deepest part of the well, where who appeared to be their leader sat on a rock, surveying the other Rockets. He introduced himself as Proton, and he challenged me to a battle over the well. Cocky bastard. I won easily thanks to Scheme and Indiana. Kurt then caught up to me and took me to his house, where he gave me a Fast Ball as a gift.

I left the old man alone for now, taking a quick stop at the Pokemon center before going to check out the Gym. It was filled with spiderwebs, which creeped me out a bit, but Thorne took care of the trainers' Bug types fairly easily. I eventually made my way to Bugsy, the leader, and led with Vesuvius.

Scyther was the first Pokemon, and it went down surprisingly easy, thanks to Vesuvius' Ember (which caused a burn first off, thankfully). I switched to Thorne to finish off the last two Pokemon- a Kakuna and Metapod.

...What. Who has a Kakuna and Metapod and still manages to be a Gym Leader? At least have the courtesy to evolve to poor things... they got destroyed. I got the badge from Bugsy, and Thorne evolved thanks to the battle! Damn, he's impressive as a Fearow. Remind me to never make him mad.

After that, I left the Gym, and am now resting up at the center before heading off into the Ilex Forest. My team could use the rest, we've had a long and tiring day.

Come to think of it, I have no idea if Bugsy was a boy or a girl...

Current Team:
Quilava 'Vesuvius' Female, Lv.20
Fearow 'Thorne' Male, Lv.20
Ekans 'Indiana' Male, Lv.20
Gastly 'Scheme' Male, Lv.19
Onix 'Granite' Male, Lv.9