I just realized yesterday that when Spearow learned Fury Attack I didn't say anything about it, I think. I certainly can't find where I did if I mentioned it. Ah well, not that I use it much anyway.

By the way Alicia, if you don't like reading through battles because they're boring, try writing them. Also, you'll be bored quite a lot, though I've shortened a lot of the battles. You do know that most of the time in Pokémon games you spend your time battling.

Disclaimer: Pokémon, along with any people, places or things from it are not mine, nor do I claim it to be. The only thing I do own is myself and the dream this all started from.

"You are such a hypocrite," Dana said angrily, "I almost mention the fact that Pokémon was a game to Blue and Red and you don't even let me talk. But you can go off and tell some guy you just met that you created the world."

"What else could I do?" I retorted, "He told me a personal story, I couldn't just say 'Alright, nice to know, bye!'"

"Lie?" Dana suggested, "Tell him something else?"

"I wouldn't lie," I commented, "And what else could I have told him. If I had told him anything that had happened in our world I'd be mentioning places like where we lived, or our school. I would have had to tell him about creating the world anyway if I had done that. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place."

Some of the anger faded from Dana's face as she listened to my reasoning.

"And you were about to tell the protagonist and one of the major antagonists about only being a game," I continued, "That would change everything that happens here! Telling some unimportant boy out in Viridian forest who won't tell anyone about it is completely different."

Dana sighed, "I guess you're right," she said, "But I don't like it. What if he does tell someone? What then?"

I nodded, "Believe me; it's crossed my mind many times in the twenty-six it's been since I told him," I said, looking at my watch, "I'd have to make something up."

"I've got it!" Dana blurted suddenly.

"Got what?" I asked.

"What you could tell people if that guy blabs," Dana explained, "You could say you were talking with him about what Arceus would have said to someone that didn't know who he was."

I shook my head, "Dana, that wouldn't work. These people probably don't know what Arceus is. If they do know, who would believe that?"

"Well, I don't know," Dana said exasperatedly, "At least I came up with something, unlike you, whose been wasting her time these past twenty-six hours doing...what have you been doing?"

I chuckled, "Exiting the forest and losing a battle against Samantha and Paula."

"Oh," Dana said, "You lost?"

"Yes, though I could have won," I said, then recounted what had happened in the battle to her.

When my story was over Dana laughed, "It's just like you to make one tiny, little mistake."

"Hey, if it were you the battle would have just been pathetic," I joked.

Dana put on her over exaggerated frown and fake pouted for a second.

"Speaking of battles," I said, interrupting her fake pouting session, "Samantha and Paula may be facing Brock right now. Want to see if we're allowed to watch?"

Dana's frown disappeared, "Of course!"

We walked around the counter-clockwise spiral that was required to walk to get to the Gym, and entered the Gym through the sliding doors.

The Gym was filled with sand, boulders sticking out at obviously human-made intervals. There was a pathway that was shaped like an F and a backwards F joined together along their long edge.

"Hiya!" said a voice. Dana and I looked over at the man standing beside a statue near the entrance."

"Hello," Dana replied.

"Do you want to dream big?" he asked.

"Not quite yet, thanks," I said, "Our friends headed over here, Samantha and Paula, the ones walking up the pathway past that trainer. Is it okay if we watch their battle with Brock?"

"Oh," the man said, looking saddened that his "dream big" speech was interrupted, "Sure thing. Just walk up this visitor's path," he said, gesturing to his left.

Dana and I followed his gesture and rested our eyes on a staircase that wasn't in the Gym in the game.

"Right," Dana said, "Thanks."

We walked up the mysterious stairs, which led us to an elevated pathway. The end of the pathway was situated above the space where the battle would be taking place, giving us a perfect view.

"Should we let them know we're here?" Dana asked.

"I don't see why not," I replied, looking down at Samantha and Paula as they walked up to the battling stage.

"Hey, Paula, Samantha," Dana yelled down at the two girls, "Up here!"

They looked up at us with a confused look before the recognized us.

"How'd you get up there?" Samantha called back up at us.

"Stairs," I replied.

"There were stairs in here?" Samantha looked around herself, "Where?"

"Near the entrance," Dana responded, "We didn't notice them at first either."

Paula nodded, then looked back at the trainer and the man by the entrance, who were looking at us, seemingly angry, "I don't think they like our yelling," Paula mused.

Dana nodded back, "Well then let's stop yelling so you can get on with your challenge."

The two girls continued up to Brock. After the exchange of dialogue that Dana and I couldn't hear Brock sent out his two Pokémon, as did our friends.

Unfortunately for the two girls the Onix was faster than both of their Pokémon. Brock had it use Rock Tomb on Paula's Charmander, who barely remained conscious after the hit.

Paula's turn was next. She grabbed a Potion out of her bag and sprayed the contents of it onto her Charmander.

"This isn't looking too good," Dana remarked.

Next it was Samantha's turn. She had Squirtle use Bubble on Onix. The Bubbles, though they looked harmless, did enough damage to bring Onix's health down until only one third of it remained.

"You were saying?" I smirked at Dana.

Brock told his Geodude to use Defence Curl, which made its already solid body become harder to hurt.

Again it was Onix's turn, who used Rock Tomb on Charmander a second time, nearly knocking it out again. Paula easily healed the damage with another Potion.

Squirtle knocked Brock's Onix out with another Bubble, leaving Brock's Geodude as the only target.

Dana smiled, "This battle just became a cake walk."

Brock had Geodude use a Tackle on Squirtle, probably hoping to get a critical hit and knock it out. This, luckily, did not happen.

Paula had Charmander use Ember, since it was really the only thing it could do to damage the Geodude, because it naturally had lower special defence and had used a Defence Curl already.

"This battle's over," I said just before another stream of Bubbles caused the rock-like Pokémon to faint.