So sorry I took so long to update, but I've found it's really boring going kind of by the episodes like I have been. So, I need to do that a bit to get to a certain spot.... so I'm going to do this chapter in, pretty much, super fast forward. So, please bare with me for a while.
Chapter # 8
Alex's first gym battle ended in a victory. Ash had arrived not long after, and discovered that Alex had just been there, and left with her badge saying, "When a boy in a red hat with a pickachu on his shoulder comes by, tell him I wish him good luck."
He watched Paul win his badge as well, and was now more determined than ever to show both of them how strong he really was. His fists balled up, showing his frustration. He had lost to Roark, the gym leader.
'Great, I'm still the one behind all of the others' he thought.
Little did he know, Alex had watched both him and Paul battle before leaving the rocky city terrain and going on her own way.
Next, she traveled back to the busy streets of Jubilife once again. There she made a quick stop at the pokemon center as her egg hatched into a healthy, baby riolu. It stood a bit taller than eevee with its red eyes, blue and black fur and a yellow collar. The group happily accepted the new addition to their family, nick naming him Aura.
The picturesque Floaroma town was next up. There is where she met a new friend, Kenny. Alex's cubone and Kenny's breloom went into battle, but Kenny's powerful pokemon won. Alex stayed to watch Kenny and Dawn, Ash's friend, compete in the contest, which Dawn won.
Moving down the road to the next town, she discovers a training camp in the area. She thought her pokemon could use a bit of training, so she challenged multiple trainers. She heard about the champ twins from one, and eevee and her decided they would be her next victims.
Two green haired boys, twins, were talking (or rather shouting) at an oddly familiar purple haired guy.
"I said we only do tag battles," said the twin on the left, "So either find a partner or no battle!" Finished the other.
"Excuse me," she smiled walking up to them, " I'll tag up with him."
"Nobody asked you." Purplenette growled.
"Well sorry you rudeness," she coated her words with sarcasm, " But you needed a tag team partner and I was nice enough to offer."
"I told them I'd take them on by myself." He said balling his hands into fists.
"And we told you to find a partner."
"Ok listen you annoying little purple dude." Alex snapped, and he looked at me with shock, as if nobody ever stood up to him before. "You want to battle them and I want to battle them so just stop arguing and tag up with me!"
He thought about it for a minutes, but finally growled out, " Fine, just stay out of our way."
"Oh, by the way, I'm Alex."
"Bryon" "And Ryan" the twins announced proudly.
"Paul." Purple head said.
"Ok, let's battle." "Go quilava!" "Go croconaw!" The twins called.
"Chimchar, stand by for battle." "Take them down eevee!"
The battle was intense, but all of the pokemon were still holding themselves together. "Chimchar," "Quilava," "Flamethrower!" Their trainers ordered. Unluckily eevee was standing a little too close to the flames and got her tail charred.
"Keep your eevee out of the way." Paul said.
"Asshole." She muttered under her breath, and eevee attacked quilava mercilessly, knowing better then to attack her partner.
"Oh no, quilava!" Ryan shouted as eevee finished it off with a final blow.
"Croconaw, finish it off with water gun." She heard Bryon say.
"Flame wheel." Paul commanded. Alex looked at him in shock. His chimchar was in trouble, and she couldn't stand to watch it.
"Stop!" She yelled to chimchar. Both it and its trainer turned to stare at her. "Now quick eevee, use blizzard to counter."
Eevee shot back into action, placing herself between the water attack and her partner to protect it. She let loose a frosty gust of snow, which wrapped around the torrent of water, freezing it in place and kept going to hit croconaw. "Now finish this off, shadow ball!"
The dark orb shot through the frozen water gun and finished off demolishing the croconaw ice sculpture. Sparkles coated over eevee's fur from the attack. "Pretty." Alex awed.
"Aw that was supposed to be our tenth straight win." " Oh well, we'll just have to start again. Thanks for the battle, bye!" The twins shouted, running off.
"Thanks eevee, you were absolutely amazing." Alex praised, and then turned to Paul. " As for you. That stunt you attempted to pull with that flame wheel was just plain stupid. You could have gotten your pokemon seriously hurt."
Paul looked at her for a few seconds. "Hn, whatever. I don't need you're opinion." He said stuffing his hands in his pockets and walking away.
"Fine then." Alex again started walking towards her next town.
She had arrived in Eterna, getting a new addition to her family and using it to win her forest badge. It was a very spunky, very quick totodile, Chomp. As she walked up to pick up her newly caught totodile's pokeball, though, the ground suddenly disappeared from under her feet and she fell.
"Ow." She groaned sitting up, eevee landing beside her. She waited for the expected annoying faces of team rocket to peer down at them, but they didn't appear. She sighed in relief.
The hole was too deep to get out, and the sides were too steep to climb. She was stuck. "Ok eevee, I'll give you a boost up to safety and I want you to go find help. Alright?" Alex asked the little fox as she picked her up. "1…2…3…" She heard eevee scampering at full speed away from her to find help. Alex coughed from the dust caking her dry throat and sat back down to wait.
It was a long time until she heard footsteps approaching and her eevee calling down to her. "Is somebody there?" she asked hopefully, covering her eyes at the blazing sun to glare upwards.
"Take my hand." A male voice said.
"Well gee that's helpful. I can't see a thing, how do you expect me to do that?" She asked with evident sarcasm.
"Do you want my help of not because your eevee seems to think you do." He grouched.
She sighed, "I'm sorry. It's been a bad day." She stood up and raised one of her hands to grasp someone else's. The mystery person gradually lifted her up until she was planted firmly back on her feet. She was slightly dizzy and blinded from the light and she held onto the persons shoulder for support.
"Paul?" she asked as her vision focused on the purplenette in front of her. His eyes were softer than usually and almost looked… worried? No, she must have been seeing things.
"Thank you so much, Paul." Alex gave him a small hug. He tensed slightly and she pulled back, taking her backpack from eevee. "Well, we best get going. Thanks again Paul." She waved, eevee resting on her shoulder and left, Paul watching after her.
Upon arriving at the pokemon center, she learned her journey would have to be put on hold as Professor Rowan asked her for assistance on a special mission. This traveling, though, gave her a chance to win 3 ribbons in back to back contests and challenge the Snowpoint City gym (which she lost to). It felt great to step into Veilstone City, especially since she lost in Snowpoint and the Hearthome gym being closed.
"WHAT?" She shouted to the man outside the gym.
"I'm sorry miss, but somebody is challenging the leader at the moment, you'll have to come back later." The black haired man in his karate uniform said.
Alex, eevee, and riolu dragged their feet away with glum faces as the sought out a way to kill time.
The city was fairly large, not overly crowded but not vacant either. It was comfortably populated with tourists visiting all of the attractions. The walkway was nicely paved and easy to walk though. Alex searched for any sign of excitement to keep them entertained for a while.
'Oh no. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.' "Come on guys this way." Alex announced, turning abruptly on her heal.
"Alex? Alex is that you?" A voice called.
"Um… uh… Nope wrong person, gotta go." She tried to slip away but froze as the voice shouted. "ALEX!"
"Oh no, kill me now." She mumbled, jumping a wooden fence bordering somebody's yard. "Hey…"
Ok. So who was she trying to hide from? Any ideas? Reviews are greatly appreciated, so please review!
If you have any idea's for like a rival, friend, ect. that I should add to the story, e-mail me the info and I'll see what my mind comes up with =P.
Until next time, au revoir!
