Chapter 27: Blaziken (Dustin's POV)

I woke up with trees all around me.
"Ouch. Is it just me, or have I been getting knocked out a lot lately?" I mumbled. "Everyone alright?"
My team called out to me, to show that they were okay.
"Where are we?" I asked, then I saw. We were back at the house. I walked inside the cellar, and sat down on the blanket. I was miserable. I missed Natalie.
"Hello? Is there anyone here?"
I jumped, and raced over to the entrance. "Who is it?"
"I need a place to stay! Please, the League is chasing me!"
I opened the door, and there was a boy looking at me. He was a bit older than me, probably about 23 years old.
"Get inside then." I said.
He dove inside, then he pulled out a bag, and released a pokemon.
"Its gonna be okay, Eevee, just hold on little guy!" he cried, and began to wrap the tiny pokemon's midsection with gauze.
"Eeeeee!" the tiny pokemon cried out.
I raced to my bag, and went through the contents. Here it was. The extremely expensive potion. Warm Potion. Given to me for about a hundred thousand poke.
"Put this stuff under the gauze. It will sting, but it does wonders." I said, and gave it to him.
"Th-thanks," he said. "Eevee got hurt bad by that dude with the flying pokemon. That weird yellow bird."
"Zapdos." I said. "He's a nasty one." I knelt down next to the tiny pokemon. "Hey little guy. You were brave out there, weren't you?"
"Eeeeeeevee?" Eevee said, confused.
Suddenly, there was a sound by the cellar door.
"Go! Jolteon! Flareon! Vaporeon! Umbreon! Espeon!" the guy yelled.
The pokemon were out, and looked ready to fight.
The hatch door opened.
There was Natalie.
"Natalie!" I cried, and raced to her, throwing my arms around her. She felt tensed up. "What's wrong?"
"We got jumped by the idiot with Zapdos over some Ultra Balls." she said.
"We?" I asked, just as a girl walked in through the cellar door.
"My name is Rhonda. My mother is the gym leader of Lavaridge Town." she said.
"I forgot to introduce myself," the guy healing the Eevee said. "My name is Joshua. I am the youngest brother of Wionna, the Foretree Gym Leader."
"Great. Relatives of gym leaders. That could be helpful." I said.
"PikaPika!" I looked down and saw, next to Natalie's feet, was a Pikachu.
"You made friends." I noted.
"Blaziken!" I raced to the door, and saw that Blaziken was surrounded by pokemon.
About half a dozen Combusken, and half a dozen Torchic.
The pokemon attacked, and Blaziken was barely managing to fend them off.
That's when another half dozen pokemon, all of them Blazikens, grabbed my oldest friend and ran off with him.