Flint VS Falkner

*Sprout Tower*

"We're almost at the top Flint! Come on!" I said as the two of us ran up the tower.

"C'mon guys quickly!" Talon cheered from a ledge at the top floor.

"Oh, my Arceus this is killing me."

"Ho-oh have mercy." Talon muttered as he flew down to pick Flint up and fly him to the top.

"Hey, wait for me!" I said as I started to run faster. "And who's Ho-oh?" I wondered aloud. I was only familiar with Sinnoh, Hoenn, and Kanto mythical pokemon, so Johto mythology was a new subject to me.

*Sprout Tower top Floor*

"Is that?" Flint asked.

"Silver." I confirmed as I saw him when I reached the top.

"Who?" Talon asked. "Is he friendly? Hey! Silver!"

"SHhhh!" Flint and I both shushed him. "Hide and listen." I said.

"Silver…" An elderly man said. "It is clear to me that you posses great strength and are worthy of one of my TMs of Flash, but you do not treat your pokemon with love and care. You will never become a great trainer until you change that."

"Hmph." Sliver replied. "Love, care, compassion. All those emotions make you weak! You become blinded by your care for others and are thus unable to continue fighting for yourselves. I have no more business with a weak, elderly man such as yourself. I'm leaving." He said as he used an escape rope to exit the tower.

"Oh my. That's going to cost a fortune…" The man said staring at the hole in the ceiling that Silver had created as I approached him. "May I help you?" He asked me.

"I'm here to train with my pokemon." I said motioning to Flint and Talon who were goofing off in the corner of the tower.

"Well then…" The man said with a whistle during the 'th' in then. "Why don't you call one up to use against my Bellsprout?"

"Ooh! Ooh! Me!" Talon said enthusiastically. "Choose me!"

"Hey! No fair, I want to go!" Flint whined. Although both of them had gotten really good at battling, I still worried when they got all cocky like that.

"Flint, if it makes you feel any better, I'll use you in the Gym Battle…" I offered him as a compromise. He reluctantly accepted.

"Fine. Talon can do it."

"Alright Talon, use Gust!"

…

"That was pathetic." Talon complained as we walked out of Sprout Tower. "The Bellsprout just fainted right away!"

"Well, what did you expect against a grass type, Talon?" Flint asked.

"I expected a fun battle." He mumbled under his breath.

"Talon, lighten up!" Flint urged him.

"I'm just a bit annoyed that you get the gym battle and I don't…" Talon pouted.

Ring! Ring! I picked up my phone. "Hello?" I asked.

"Well, you could still take out any gym trainers inside the gym." Flint urged Talon.

"Hey, Hank. It's Joey." Joey said on the other line.

"But it won't matter because you get the leader." Talon complained.

"Hey, Joey," I said. "What's on your mind?"

"Well, you can have the next leader okay?" Flint tried to negotiate

"Well, do you remember my Rattata?" Joey asked slyly

"But that's ages away" Talon protested.

"Yes, I remember it… What about it?"

Talon and Flint started argue so loud that I couldn't hear what Joey was saying. I put my hand over the phone. "You two need to SHUT UP!" I yelled at them from the top of my lungs. In fact, the clerk for the PokeMart ran outside to make sure everything was alright. "Something might be wrong with Joey's Rattata and I want to find out! Or is your arguing more important?"

"Sorry." Talon said looking down.

"It won't happen again." Flint agreed, seeming equally sorry.

"I'm sorry Joey, could you repeat that last part?" I asked.

"Well, my Rattata isn't like other Rattata. It's, like, in the top percentage of Rattata!" And then he hung up.

"Arceus Christ…" I said putting my phone away. "Talon, remind me to never pick up the phone from Joey ever again."

"All right." Talon said. "What was wrong with his Rattata?"

"Flint, let's get you to the Gym. Talon Return!" I said returning Talon, wanting to change the subject.

*Violet City Pokemon Gym*

As we walked into the Gym, I noticed that there was a small platform in the center of the area, and nothing else. "I don't get it. Is anyone here?" Flint asked me.

"I don't know." I said. "But something feels a bit off." I leaned against one of the entrance statues. Suddenly, it just fell to the ground and I landed on top of it.

"Owww." Said a man's voice under the statue. "That's the last time I disguise myself as that!" The man removed his statue cover to reveal himself to be Looker. "Long time no see Hank!"

"Looker!" I exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"

"I have a message from Professor Elm!" He replied. "He says that since it's your birthday today, he wants to give you something when you are done in this Gym. I also came because I need to ask for your assistance again. There are some rumors going around about Team Rocket starting trouble in Johto, but you know as well as I do that Giovanni disbanded Team Rocket when you beat him at his Gym back in Viridian."

I gave Looker a "Don't keep talking about that." Gesture and motioned to Flint. "Oh. I get it. You don't want him to know. That's fine. I understand."

"Don't want me to know what?" Flint asked.

"Just, Just return." I said holding out my poke ball. He returned and I turned back to Looker. "And?"

"Well, I thought you could help me. Have you encountered anyone claiming to be part of Team Rocket?"

I had, in fact, encountered someone who was boasting to be part of Team Rocket but that person was Silver and I didn't completely trust anything he said so I lied.

"No, Looker. I haven't. I think you're just overreacting. Besides, I got a message from Cynthia two days ago saying she couldn't talk to me on my birthday because of reports of Vandalism all over Sinnoh. Shouldn't you be there right now?"

"Hank. I know you're lying." Looker saw through my disguise. "You aren't the only part of my squad stationed in Johto you know. My prized Trainer Joey informed me you would be here, and Hank, mark my words: There is something Evil in Johto." With that, Looker disappeared.

*Leader's Room*

Flint and I finally figured out that we had to use the platform as an elevator to get up to Falkner, the Violet Gym Leader, and our battle was noteworthy as the shortest gym battle I'd ever participated in ever. (Even shorter than Blaine).

"Hank… I don't feel so good…" Flint said as he hobbled back to me from a defeated Pidgeotto. "It's making me all dizzy."

"It sounds like your Cyndaquil is ready." Falkner told me. I nodded. Flint was level 16 now. I had kept him from evolving at 14 because I'd rather keep the 16, and 36 approach when it comes to starter pokemon. I took the Cancel Evolution button out of my pokedex.

"What's going on?" Flint asked hysterically as he was enveloped in a white light. "Hank, am I dying? I don't want to die!"

I started to laugh at how naïve this was for him. "This isn't funny!" He yelled. "Talon! Get out here and help me!"

Talon released himself but when he saw Flint evolving he just smiled. "I don't think you need any help." He said.

"Guys, I'm scared!" Flint said nervously as the white light enveloped him completely. He started to change shape until finally, Flint the Cyndaquil had turned into Flint the Quilava.

"I feel…. Bigger." He said as he came back to his senses.

"You are bigger." I said as I showed him his reflection in his poke ball. "You're stronger too."

"Cool…" He said as he admired his reflection. "I think I'll take a nap though. Oh, and happy 16th birthday Hank."

"Thanks, Flint." I said as he returned himself.

"Come on Talon." I said.

"There's someone at the PokeMart waiting with a present for us."

*PokeMart*

"Professor Elm, what are you doing here?" I asked him astonished. "It's dangerous out here. The least you could've done was send your assistant or something!

"It's fine. Hank." Professor Elm said. "I came by to give you this egg back. I think there's something inside it, and I believe it will hatch if it's near other pokemon so can I ask you to carry it around for me?"

"Do you know what pokemon is inside it?" I asked.

"I haven't the slightest clue." Elm replied. I took the egg, Thanked him, and walked outside to find myself face to face with one of the Kimono Girls that my sister Pearl always dragged me to see nearly every summer.

"So you are the child that Professor Elm gave the egg to.' She studied me and Talon intently and it was creeping us out. "You will take great care of that egg won't you?"

"Yes, Miss!" Talon and I said in a unison soldier salute style.

"Hmmm. We will meet again Hank Coro." She said as eh walked away.

"How did she know my name?" I wondered.

"Hank, you're from a pretty high standing family. People will know your name sometimes." Talon replied. "But that doesn't matter right now. All that matters is that we open your 'present' as soon as possible." He said motioning to the Egg we now had in our position, which started to move just ever so slightly as if it agreed.

So there it is. 3 chapters in and were about to hatch an egg… that came out wrong. Anyways, a fair heads up… this book will function a lot like a musical, mainly because I want to, and also because I need a way to get all of my Theatre Class out of my system. So, there you go. Until Next Time, don't open your presents early.