Pokѐmon Journey I: Violet's Trial

by Halloween Witch

Violet Vilmos begins her pokemon journey like any other trainer in the Kanto region, she chooses a starter pokemon and off she travels to become the world's strongest trainer. But when Team Rocket comes into play because of the fact that Violet's starter pokemon isn't 'normal' and information about her missing father of two years comes up... full summery inside.

2. A Desire to Battle

Pokémon Journey I: Violet's Trial

Chapter 2: A Desire to Battle

Violet's Point of View:

The police showed up just after the woman from Team Rocket had bailed and I was left with the nurse to answer some questions. Why was she here? How did you find out she was a member of Team Rocket? Did you know anything about the woman? What did she look like? What pokemon did she have with her? So many questions that just continued to make my head spin at the amount.

Amethyst didn't like all the attention that we were getting at the moment, she kept squirming in my arms to get out of here, and I don't blame her. I was ready to bolt from the place as well. I knew exactly what that woman was after (well, maybe not mostly…) she had been after my charmander while she was here. She tried to steal her away from me.

Both Amethyst and I were happy when they finished questioning us and I'm sure Daisy and my mother and brother would all be questioning me once I got home or they got hold of this news, it wouldn't surprise me if they got wind of it tonight on the evening news.

"Thank you Miss Vilmos. You may leave now. Please be more careful on your way home and in the future." I nodded to the police man before me and hurried out of the building with Amethyst in my arms.

"Char…" she muttered sadly.
"I know, that was a nightmare, the police were worse then that woman from Team Rocket." I agreed and we headed over to the store. "Don't worry, what we'll do is we'll pick up a quick snack and pick up that package for Daisy before we head home and then we'll come back here tonight to rest. Sound okay girl?"

"Char!" She replied almost instantly and I heard her stomach growl along with mine. I guess we were both hungry…

I walked down the street a bit and walked into the blue roofed building. Inside was a single person at the register and a few people wandering around. I looked around the place first for a snack or two for Amethyst and myself before I found some fruit and a little package of cookies and headed up to the counter.

"Are you from Pallet Town?" the clerk asked.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" I questioned up at him.

"Daisy Oak just sent me an email about you heading up here… Violet Vilmos is it?" I nodded. "You're here to pick up a package for the professor. I have it all set right here." He showed me the small brown package on the counter.

"Can you also ring this up for me? My charmander and I are kinda hungry." I placed my snacks on the counter and reached into my side bag for some money to pay when the man stopped me.

"Please, I don't want you to pay for these few snacks."

"But-" he cut me off.

"After all the drama you went through next door with your pokemon nearly stolen and that Team Rocket woman, this is on the house, also as a thank you for taking this parcel to the professor."

"It doesn't feel right," I told him.

"Please, I insist." He pushed the snacks back toward me and I finally gave in.
"Fine, thanks." I grabbed the package for Professor Oak and placed it into my bag while I carried the rest of my other snacks in my hand and Amethyst in my arms.

"Say hello to Daisy for me!" he called as I stepped out of the market. I waved back at him and continued on my way back down the path I had traveled.

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A fair way down the path I stopped to eat our snacks once the city of Viridian was out of sight. I pulled out the fruit first and handed a couple to Amethyst while I ate some myself. She seemed quite happy with the food I gave her and she ate the snack right up. Once we were both done a couple of the cookies I had grabbed for our snack on the way back home with the parcel and I munched on one of the extras while we took the path back. I suddenly heard the sounds of battle pulled Amethyst with me off to the side. Through some of the trees and the tall grass was my brother with his pokemon, which I saw was a bulbasuar. The pokemon was small and the largest of the three starter pokemon and moved the slowest I believed. It was mostly a light blue with some darker blue patches in certain places with a large round face and red eyes that looked really adorable. On its back was a large dark green bulb and from its sides were vines that kept whacking a pidgey with them, but they did little damage due to the type match up.

"Use a normal attack! Grass doesn't do much damage to flying!" I called out to him. I saw my brother's concentration break and so did the bulbasuar's. They both looked at me and the pidgey chose that moment to strike. It flew up into the air and threw a gust at bulbasaur that threw it off its feet and toward my brother.

"Bulbasuar!" he shouted. He rushed over to where his pokemon had fallen and drew him up in his arms.

"Sorry!" I shouted and threw a potion his way. He snatched it up and started helping out his bulbasaur the best he could. I looked over at my pokemon. "Alright Amethyst, finish that one off with ember!" My charmander leapt before me and blasted the pidgey with a breath of fire and when Amethyst stopped her attack, we saw that the poor thing was burnt to a crisp. The pidgey shook off the soot off it and fled for the trees. It didn't come back out, but I saw it watching us, so it was okay.

"Char!" my charmander shouted happily up to me and I gave her a grin.

"Great job Amethyst." I turned back to my brother. "Sorry about that Vince, is your pokemon alright?"

"Yeah, Bulbasaur's fine." He lifted the grass pokemon, which took up most of the space of his arms, and showed us its face which grinned at us and shouted a happy "Bulba!".

"So you chose Bulbasaur as you partner? It's really cute," I commented. Amethyst came close to the grass pokemon and tapped its shoulder. The bulbasaur jumped out of my brother's arms and the two raced to the area next to us and started to play a game of tag, which seemed to be quite fun for my Amethyst since she was much faster then my brother's bulbasaur.

"So where'd you head off to Violet?" my brother questioned. "You cooled down at all since this morning?"

"Yeah, I was just over in Viridian City picking up a package for the professor and Daisy and healing after all the training I've done today. I guess you just got started?"

"I've been out here for an hour or so," he replied. "Alex went off ahead somewhere, but I don't know where, but he's probably training like crazy to get back at you and Amethyst."

"Alex would be the type of person to do that," I muttered. "So I guess I should be expecting a battle with him once we get back to the lab?"

"Probably, just to warn you though, he's got the squirtle, so he's got the type advantage over the two of you." I sighed at my brother's words and got back to my feet.

"Well, we'd best get back home and face the music, shall we? I still have to deliver this package."

"Sure. Bulbasaur! Amethyst! We're heading out!" he called out to our pokemon. They rushed back over to us and once they were by their respectable trainer's side, we headed back to town.

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Making it back to town was much easier then I had planned when my brother and I finally arrived at the first house on the edge of town. Amethyst and Bulbasaur in this time had refused to stop playing their game on our way back, but we let them so long as they didn't go out of our sights.

We arrived quickly back at the lab and hurried inside, the professor was standing before an angry Daisy who glared at him and made him jump when she looked his way, but her smile came out when she looked toward me. She saw Amethyst was happily at my side still and playing with my brother's bulbasaur.

"It's good to see you're all back and well," Daisy noted to us. "How was your trips and training?"

"It helped us a lot, though I'm not sure if I can face my sister yet," my brother said. "I've only been facing normal and flying types, and that's taken its toll on Bulbasaur. Not to mention that battle I had with Alex after you left Violet, even with a pokemon at a type disadvantage, he still managed to beat me. Though I think Alex probably is going to battle you as soon as his eyes land on you."

"It wouldn't surprise me in the least with the personality of my grandson," Professor Oak said. He lowered his head slightly in my direction. "Violet, I'm very sorry for what I said to you earlier on, it was wrong of me to say and to keep Amethyst here. I would be greatly happy though if you would keep me informed of the progress of your charmander while on your journey and see how she fairs compared to other charmanders and pokemon due to her strange color scheme."

"I accept you apology professor, but don't pull that again." I quickly reminded him and he nodded crazily. "And I don't mind letting you know from time to time what's going on with Amethyst."

"Thank you Violet."

"Oh! Daisy! I have that package you wanted me to pick up!" I quickly pulled out the package for her and handed it to the young woman assistant to her grandfather.

"Oh thank you Violet! We greatly needed this to continue our work on our research." She took the parcel from my arms and set it on the back table next to three devices, one fire red in color, the other two sky blue and leaf green. "Grandpa and I have something to explain to the three of you, so we just need to wait for Alex to come back. I just called him a little while ago, so he should be her shortly."

"Well if it isn't 'miss loves to sleep in' and her 'shiny' partner." We all turned to the door way and watched as Alex strolled in with his squirtle in tow. "I was wondering when you'd show up. You owe me a battle."

I huffed and turned away from him, Amethyst followed my lead. "I don't owe you anything Alex, but if you really want a battle so bad, you'll have to wait until Professor Oak and Daisy say what they need to, then I'll battle you."

The boy in return snarled but kept quiet and walked to my left while my brother stood at my right, both with their respective partners at their feet. Before us stood the professor and his granddaughter as his assistant since the others were not around.

"I have a task that I want all of you to partake in," the professor began. "You see, as a pokemon professor, I'm always after new knowledge of the world of pokemon around us and the pokemon that inhabit it. That is why I have these three devices behind me." Daisy walked behind him and made her way to the table, grabbing the items she needed and then walking back over to us. In her hands were the three small devices I saw earlier next to the parcel I had given her. She handed one to each of us. The sky blue device in my hands was small and had a few buttons on them. It looked quite high tech and had a screen that took up half of the device with a couple buttons and directional pad.

"This item you all have in your hands now is called the pokedex," the professor continued. "A hand held machine that will give you information about pokemon as you encounter them on your journey. For every one you see and point this device at, its information will be downloaded inside for you to view at a later date and for us to look over here at the lab when we get a chance. It's estimated to be around one-hundred and fifty pokemon that live in this region alone. I want the three of you to find them and help out my work here at the lab while completing you own journeys to become top trainers, or the top trainer."

"Leave it to me then Gramps!" Alex grinned and his squirtle jumped next to him. "Just leave everything to me. No offence, Violet, Vince, but you two would sleep through all the pokemon walking by and I'll be totally fine on my own. So Violet, about that battle…"

"Like I'd want to battle you now? All you've done today is insult us and acted like a jerk." Amethyst agreed with me and shouted at Alex right in front of me. I sighed. "But if you're that desperate for a battle, fine, I'll battle you, but on the sole condition that if I win, you have to apologize to the both of us and take back everything you said."

He shrugged his shoulders and ginned. "I won't have to because I won't lose, but if it makes you feel better, yes, I promise to do so."

"Then let's step outside, we've already made a mess here, we don't need to do it again and make more work for your sister." I could see Daisy silently praying as everyone walked outside. The professor had a large field behind his lab that we often used to play in when we were younger, but now it was going to become a battlefield for Alex and I. He and I often didn't argue and fight; I was normally the mediator between the fights he and Vince conjure. But now that's not the case, it's now a fight between me and him, and he has no idea what power we have. We will defeat him and prove to him that we are strong (but then again, it's hard to prove him wrong, so we'll have to fight hard.)

"Let's go Amethyst." My pokemon jumped out before me and watched as Alex sent out his energetic squirtle. My brother walked out between the two of us, standing back slightly, and took the spot of the referee.

"Let the match begin!" my brother shouted with his bulbasaur at his side, who ended up shouting 'Bulba!'.

"Squirtle, use bubble!" Alex shouted. The tiny bright blue turtle pulled its lips together and from its mouth came bubbles that made their way over to us, their speed was slow and Amethyst easily moved out of the way without me telling her to do so.

"Scratch." Amethyst bolted on my calm order and launched herself at the squirtle's side, scratching at its face. The small turtle cried out in pain and ended up on its back, flailing on its shell, unable to move.

"Get up Squirtle!" Alex shouted, but Squirtle couldn't move if it wanted to. It continued to move around and freak out and it suddenly froze once Amethyst loomed over it. "Use water gun!"

Amethyst jumped backward at the last attempt to harm her by the squirtle. Once the attack had gone down, Amethyst made her way back over to it. The poor thing freaked when it saw her and fled into its shell. While it didn't attack her while it was inside the shell, Amethyst attempted to scratch the shell right off it, but nothing she did got her any closer.

"Good job squirtle! Keep up that withdraw move!" Alex shouted. So it was a move? I see, the pokemon withdraws itself back into its shell and from there it's protected from those in the outside world.

"Well then, if I can't scratch that squirtle out, I'll burn it out. Amethyst! Ember on its shell!" My order was completed almost immediately as my charmander blasted the motionless shell on the ground with a large dose of fire, the attack even seemed stronger then normal.

I watched as the shell still laid there motionless, but I saw as my pokemon continued on its attack, I watched as the shell of the poor pokemon became bright red and was probably frying the pokemon inside.

"That's enough Amethyst." My pokemon instantly stopped and we looked at the bright red shell with scorch marks on it. The pokemon still hadn't come out yet and it worried all of us.

"Squirtle?" Alex called out worriedly. Suddenly we saw the shell begin to shake madly before the poor pokemon burst from its shell and ran all over the lawn in search for a large body of water. It suddenly found the pond off to the side of the lower level of the hill and jumped in. A loud hissing sound could be heard as we watched the turtle pokemon plunge in and bubbles appeared all around where it landed. We watched it hang out below the surface a bit before we saw it float to the surface, when it reached there, it was knocked out cold.

"Squirtle is down for the count!" my brother called. "Violet and Amethyst are the winners!"

"We did it girl!" I shouted and ran toward my charmander and picked her up in my arms. "I guess we know we've been doing good!" My charmander cheered in my arms and I held onto her as we turned back to the others. Alex had returned his squirtle to his pokeball and stood up from the pond where he was.

"Well Alex?" the professor said to him. "Don't you have something to say to Violet and Amethyst?"

"You promised her, little brother." Daisy crossed her arms and the air tensed as we watched him scowl.

"Fine," he sighed. "I take back what I said. You're strong, not weak." He then suddenly showed us his famous grin. "But that doesn't mean I won't win next time! You better keep training, cuz next time, I won't lose!" He bolted for the lab. "Smell ya later Violet!"

I felt a chill run up my spine when he said that. It was honestly the most horrid way to say good-bye, but it was Alex's way, and I sadly had to give into that since he wouldn't change any time soon.

Once I had shivered all the disgust out of my being from Alex's comment, I turned back to the others and pulled out my pokedex. When I opened it, it showed me Squirtle's page and listed the information known about it. Squirtle, the tiny turtle pokemon. After birth its back swells and hardens into a shell. It can retract into its shell and fire water off vigorously from the safety of its shell. There is no current information in Kanto about a squirtle nesting ground.

So that's what the pokedex does. I thought to myself and the professor came over.

"Oh, I see that you got the information on Squirtle. Try with Amethyst and Bulbasaur now and see what it says about them." I nodded to him and pointed my pokedex first to Bulbasaur and watched as the data flew in. Bulbasaur, the seed pokemon. There is a plant seed on its back right from the time it was born. This seed will grow and sprout as the pokemon does. There is no current information in Kanto about a bulbasaur nesting ground.

I lastly turned to my partner and she smiled. Charmander, the lizard pokemon. From the time of its birth, a flame burns on the end of this tail, due to this, should the flame go out, it would mean the end of the charmander's life. Charmander tend to love warm areas and hot things. When it rains, steam is said to sprout from the tip of its tail. There is no current information in Kanto about a charmander nesting ground. Please wait a moment, shiny pokemon data being uploaded.

So it also lists the different types of forms for female, male and shiny in this thing, cool! I handed my small blue device over to the professor and he smiled as he looked at the data.

"I see, so apparently your charmander's speed and strength are enhanced by this special coloration. Interesting... please keep me posted with this information as she grows and with any other pokemon that you come across." I nodded and grinned at him.

"Well… I hate to run, but I'd best be off, I still have to make it back to Viridian before nightfall," I told them.

"And you will, but you best go talk to you mother and get a last meal before you go. That and it might be a good idea to introduce her to Amethyst," Daisy noted. I sighed, but I knew she was right. I was a bit hungry anyway; even after all those snacks…

I heard someone's stomach growl next to me and I looked to see it was my little charmander. She smiled up at me nervously and I reset her in my arms. "I guess we have no choice now do we? Onward to my mother's then for lunch!" Amethyst cheered and I heard my brother and Bulbasaur follow after us as we hurried back to our house.

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I could already smell the wonderful aroma of pasta salad and sandwiches. I could see the drool forming in my brother's mouth as he raced by me and planted himself at the table with Bulbasaur still in his arms.

"Food! Food! Food! Food!" my brother cheered.

"Bulba! Bulba! Bulbasaur!" the seed pokemon cheered with him and the two eagerly waiting at the table for food while my mother prepared it.

"Just hang on a minute Vince, the food will be done soon- oh what a cute pokemon!" My mother soon saw his bulbasaur and quickly gushed over him. She gently let her fingers trail over Bulbasaur's cheek, gently rubbing the smooth blue-green skin before she turned to see me in the doorway with Amethyst in my arms. "Oh and Violet! You have your own pokemon too! It's so cute! And it's so beautiful in color. It looks different from the other ones I've seen running around Professor Oak's lab."

"The coloring's different on her Mom; it improves her states a bit, but not by much, and gives them a really cool color scheme," I told her. "This is my partner, Amethyst the charmander." Amethyst shouted out her hello to my mother and my mother picked her up in her own arms.

"Oh what a sweet little thing you are! Oh I know you'll do fine out on your journey." She turned back to my brother and his bulbasuar. "All four of you will, and any other pokemon that joins your team along the way."

"Thanks Mom." I grabbed a bowl of her pasta salad and took a bite, the wonderful mix of flavors quickly filled my mouth and I sighed. Amethyst jumped out of my mother's arms and to my side. I grabbed her a bowl of the food as well and grave her a small spoonful. "Try it first Amethyst, see if you like it." She nodded and took a bite of the food. She munched on it for a minute for I nearly watched as her eyes changed to hearts and she begged me for more. I laughed and gave her a bowl filled with the pasta salad and she stuck her mouth into it and ate it all up. She smiled at the end and was quite happy with her full tummy. Bulbasaur was soon the same with a full stomach and walked over to the open window where the sun was shinning in and laid down before it. Amethyst crawled up into my arms and sat their while I finished my own dish and soon pushed it away with a full stomach.

My mother set down a small package before me and I opened it partly to take a glimpse inside. It was a package of food, sandwiches and berries. I retied it up and watched as my mother set one before my brother as well.

"These are for you kids to take with you for a meal tonight, keep you from paying just yet and to give you one last meal for your journey," my mother explained. I smiled back at her and picked up Amethyst in my arms and we gave her a hug.

"Thanks Mom, Amethyst and I are going to be heading out now then. We want to try and make it to the next town before dark and get a room there for the night." I grabbed the package of food and gently placed it in my bag before looking back at her.

"So I take it you'll be heading into Viridian Forest then?" she questioned.

"Yeah, with it being a place filled with bugs and bug type trainers, Amethyst'll have a field day training against the lot of them since she's a fire type." I turned to my brother. "You better be careful in there though Vince, grass isn't all that strong against bug, but Bulbasaur's also poison type, so it should help balance out the types. The bug type does a pretty good number on grass pokemon alone."

"I'll remember that Sis, thanks." He waved.

I nodded and turned back to my mother. "Well, I'll see you later Mom."

"Bye Honey! You and Amethyst take care!" she called as I walked out the front door. One we were outside, I placed Amethyst out on the ground and we hurried out to the path that led to the next city.

Vincent's Point of View:

I was relaxing at home still with my bulbasaur still in the sun. My mom was running around the kitchen like crazy trying to clean everything up and preoccupied her time since she was soon going to have no kids to look after since we were both leaving for our pokemon journeys.

I was skimming through the channels on the TV when a news report on Team Rocket came up, this really horrible gang that steals pokemon of all kinds and uses them to do horrible deeds all over the Kanto region. The police haven't exactly been able to keep up with them, but they're caught from time to time.

I suddenly froze when I looked at the channel, my sister was there and the police were talking to her with an upset Amethyst in her arms. She worriedly kept her charmander close to her and kept answering the questions given to her.

"This is news live from Viridian City, at around eleven oh nine this morning, a young girl by the name of Violet Vilmos from Pallet Town and her newly acquired pokemon partner Amethyst, a shiny charmander, were attacked by a woman from Team Rocket, who intended to steal the charmander from her trainer in the attempt of dressing up like her. The crook was easily set strait by the trainer and her pokemon's trust for one another and it was then reviled (after a blast to her head by the charmander's powerful ember) that she was a member of Team Rocket. From what Miss Vilmos told us, the culprit sent out a zubat to subdue them, but the chramander was much too strong for her zubat and the woman fled the scene to the north toward the Viridian Forest. No one was thankfully harmed in this incident. People are urged to travel the routes with more caution more then ever. This is Lynn Porter live from Viridian City at three; stay tuned for information on the latest…"

I stopped listening to the channel then and looked over at my mother, the plate in her hands had dropped to the floor and shatter upon impact, scaring the crap out of my pokemon and it fled over to me and jumped in my arms. I held it close and whispered soothing words to it while my eyes focused on my mother.

"We're going over to the lab, come on Vince, Bulbasaur." I didn't dare argue with my mother and I rushed after her with all my things in hand. She left the plate in the spot where she dropped it, and I wondered if she would ever clean it up again.

Violet's Point of View:

The trip on the path was quite lovely to say the least, most of the pokemon in the area tended to stay closer to their homes now and didn't want to battle, so I left them be while Amethyst and I enjoyed a good walk.

A sudden rustle in the bushes alerted me to a pokemon coming toward us. It was the pidgey that I had blasted with fire to get away from my brother an hour or so ago. Its feathers were still singed a bit, but it would grow new ones soon enough and those would shed.

The pidgey glared itself at us and was most defiantly looking for a fight. I pulled out my pokedex calmly and pointed it at the pokemon that rose into the air angrily. Pidgey, the tiny bird pokemon. Pidgey are a common sighting in any woods or forests. They often flap their wings at ground level to whip up blinding sands. There are many nests of pidgey throughout the region and are mostly nested within routes one, two, three, five, six, seven, eight, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-five and Viridian Forest.

"That's quite a common pokemon then," I muttered. I didn't even see when the pidgey blasted by me and I felt something hit the side of my cheek. It didn't hurt much, but when I brought up my fingers to the side of my face, I pulled back and saw a bit of blood. It must have given me a small cut with its talons.

Amethyst wasn't happy with what it did and blasted it with a more powerful ember then normal. The poor thing this time was down for the count and scorched black. It jumped from its spot this time and blasted far away, and I don't think I saw it again.

"Nice girl!" I cheered her on, but she my pokemon looked at me worriedly and pointed to my sliced cheek. "Oh don't worry about me girl, I have a bandage for that." I pulled out the small piece of plastic with an absorbing pad on it and placed it over the cut. Once it wasn't seen anymore, Amethyst calmed down at bit, but she watched as it darkened and she pointed at it again. "It's alright girl, its just absorbing the blood I lost and stopping the bleeding, it'll be fine in a few days tops."

My pokemon didn't seem really convinced, but she let it slide anyway and we continued on our way to the next town. Speaking of the next town, I hope everyone didn't find out about my encounter with that Team Rocket woman this morning.

Alexander's Point of View:

I was still pretty sour over my loss to Violet, who knew she could be such a great battler? I guess I should have really fought for that shiny charmander she got, oh well, I might not have picked the right pokemon, but I'll work with it.

I turned on the TV and suddenly saw a report on the nefarious group of Team Rocket who had been tormenting the many citizens of Kanto for a long while now. I didn't want to hear another report about how someone's pokemon was stolen or attack, but I suddenly stopped myself from changing the channel when I saw Violet was in the picture. I felt my heart freeze when I saw the image of her talking to the police with an upset charmander in her arms. She looked drained of her energy and I felt anger flood through me. Why didn't she say anything? Was this happening now?

"Gramps! Daisy!" I shouted and my family came running at my panicked voice. When they entered the room I pointed at the TV screen and horror crossed their faces when they saw the Team Rocket report and Violet right in the middle of it.

"This is news live from Viridian City, at around eleven oh nine this morning, a young girl by the name of Violet Vilmos from Pallet Town and her newly acquired pokemon partner Amethyst, a charmander, were attacked by a woman from Team Rocket, who intended to steal the shiny charmander from her trainer in the attempt of dressing up like her. The crook was easily set strait by the trainer and her pokemon's trust for one another and it was then reviled (after a blast to her head by the charmander's powerful ember) that she was a member of Team Rocket. From what Miss Vilmos told us, the culprit sent out a zubat to subdue them, but the chramander was much too strong for her zubat and the woman fled the scene to the north toward the Viridian Forest. No one was thankfully harmed in this incident. People are urged to travel the routes with more caution more then ever. This is Lynn Porter live from Viridian City at three; stay tuned for information on the latest…"

I didn't hear anything else from the report well after that. Squirtle released itself from its pokeball and looked up at me worriedly. At the same time we hear the door slam open and glass shattered as Violet's mother, Ivory, and Vince walked in.

"Professor, I need to get a hold of my daughter!" the woman pleaded. My grandfather didn't dare argue with the woman and hurried over to the video-chat phone. When he dialed the pokemon center, the nurse stationed there told us that she had yet to arrive there; she must have been out on the trail.

"Alert her then when she arrives Nurse Joy, we need to speak with her urgently. Make it a top priority," the professor told the woman on the other end of the line. The woman nodded worriedly and the line was cut off there. The mother of Violet and Vince turned to her son and myself.

"I want the two of you to go after her, stay with her, protect her," she ordered. "Don't let her out of your sights."

"We'll do it Mom, but you know Violet will hate it. She'll think you're treating her like a helpless kid," Vince warned her.

"I don't care Vince! You keep you little sister safe!" the woman shouted. She turned to me angrily. "You're not going to tell me otherwise, are you?"

"No ma'am," I told her instantly. I turned to her brother. "Let's go Vince; if we hurry we can cut her off in the next town before she runs off to the forest." He nodded and the two of us took off down the road in a rush out of town up toward Viridian City.

I just hope that Violet isn't going to be in too foul of a mood over this. That girl will do anything to avoid our help and prove she can handle herself.

Violet's Point of View:

I arrived in the next town only a short while alter after running into a rattata on my way over, I took in the information of the small rat like pokemon and hurried into the pokemon center, ready to just crawl into bed and sleep. The events of this one day had been pretty taxing on me, and Amethyst was still only a young pokemon. With the time nearly at seven at night and the dusk settling in, we rolled into the pokemon center and headed strait for the nurse's desk to get a room for the night.

"Nurse Joy! I need a room please!" The woman took one look at me and at my pokemon before she easily handed me a room key. I yawned and turned to head up the stairs when the nurse called to me.

"Oh, excuse me Violet? Professor Oak and you mother wanted you to call home, they said it was urgent." I groaned loudly and marched over to the phone in a huff. I called the professor's lab and tiredly rubbed my eyes as the professor and my mother appeared on screen.

"Hi…" I muttered tiredly. "What's up? Can't this wait until morning?"

"Are you tired already Violet? Is that because you battle a Team Rocket member?" My mother seethed on the other end of the line. My eyes instantly went wide, I was wide awake now. My mother knew, so did the professor, I bet Daisy did too, and Vince and Alex. Wait? Where were they?

"Where are the others?" I questioned worriedly.

"They're on they're way up to Viridian City to stay with you Violet. I don't want you out there alone on your trip," my mother said.

"I'm not alone! I have Amethyst!" I shouted at her. "And I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself. You're overreacting at the situation! We both were fine in the end and the woman was hardly even a fight!"

"I don't care! The boys will be there tonight and you are to stay with them until Team Rocket is gone! I don't care if that means a few days to a few years! You will stay with them!" she snapped back.

"Like hell I am! Get over yourself!" Without another word from either of us I snapped the phone on the receiver and the call ended. Everyone around us was looking at me in a shocked manner. I glared up at them and they all went back to whatever they were doing before. I hurried up the stairs and found the room I was staying and locked the door behind me. It was a small bedroom with a small amount of furniture of a dresser and a table and a small TV on a nightstand. I quickly set Amethyst down and started moving the extra furniture toward the door and blocking it. Amethyst watched me for a little while before she helped me lift the nightstand over the door too.

"This is to just keep the others out girl. Early tomorrow morning we'll leave and head to the forest to escape them," I told her. She nodded determined like. She hadn't liked the conversation of us not being safe without the others on our own too well either. She was quite bitter and her tail was flaming event hotter then normal, I had to be careful what she placed it toward or else the place would be set on fire.

"Char!" she yelled. "Char char…?"

"Yeah, let's get to bed, and before we do…" I pulled out a package of ear muffs that blocked out all sound and picked up Amethyst and carried her to the bed. "These muff will keep all noise out so we can't hear anything and sleep well. If you wake up before me, remember to get me up, okay girl?"

"Char." She nodded fiercely and I placed the ear muffs over my ears. I pulled her into my arms and held the second set of muffs over her head.

"Night girl," I whispered. I placed the muffs on her head and relaxed into the bed. I was out before the dusk had turned completely into night.

Alexander's Point of View:

We soon arrived in the city of Viridian and hurried over to the pokemon center where Violet was after the sun had completely disappeared and it was night time outside. Once inside, we saw it was mostly abandoned except for Nurse Joy who Gramps asked to stay awake until we arrived so we could get into Violet's room.

Once the nurse saw us come through the front doors we nodded to her and she led us upstairs to the next level where all the other trainers were staying and led us to Violet's room. She inserted the key and turned the knob, but when she pushed, the door didn't give way and let her inside. She pushed harder against it, but still there was no giving to it.

"Here, let us try Nurse Joy," Vince offered and the two of us took over her spot before the door. We both slammed into it and the force nearly knocked us back. My shoulder was now tender with a soon to be forming bruise and the door was still unmoved.

"Damn, that door won't budge." I hissed through the pain. I turned to the nurse. "Is there anything possible she could have barricaded the door with?"

"Very, each room comes with its own dresser for those who stay longer then a night or two, a night stand, a stand that a TV stands on and a table," the nurse replied. "I don't believe we'll be getting through this door tonight boys, its best if we go to sleep and you'll wait for her to come out in the morning. She won't stay in there forever if she wants to get through Viridian Forest."

Vince sighed. "We'll have a room for two then." The nurse nodded and led us further down the hallway and handed us a key before opening a larger room with a bed on either side of the room, a table between them and a dresser in the back next to each bed. "Thanks Nurse Joy, sorry for all this trouble."

"It's no problem, when I wake up, I'll keep an eye out for her. Chansey should be up around five so I'll let her know too before I go to bed." The nurse handed us the key to our room and we hurried inside.

"Damn it Violet, she knew we were coming." I seethed.

"That's Violet for ya." Vince sighed and took off his hat and shoes before he crawled into the bed with his bulbasaur. "She always was a step ahead of us."

"Not tomorrow she won't be, she could get hurt out there with Team Rocket around, we have to keep her safe until they're gone." I followed his suit and took off my shoes before I got down into my bed. Squirtle jumped onto my bed and withdrew into its shell and let its breathing even out and fell asleep.

"Aren't we in the same position? We in just as much danger as she is. We no older then her by much at all and we've only just started out. She beat you in battle and I know she'd beat me, so why are we protecting her when she's been the one doing that for us over all these years?" Vince's reasoning hit me hard, but now was not the time to think about that, only that Violet was to be kept safe.

"Because Team Rocket was never involved until now," I answered him before I turned over in my bed.

"Yeah… you're right, I'll be sure to get us up early so we don't miss her," Vince said before he turned over as well. "Night Alex, Squirtle, Bulbasaur."

"Night," I replied back. It was hard to do, but I let my worries drowned out and allowed myself to calm down enough so that I could drift to a dreamless sleep.

Witch's Note:

Wow! What a long chapter and now we get into the meat of the story! Violet will always been on the run from these two to make sure they don't catch and have to act as her personal body guards, but that doesn't mean they're won't be some funny moments along the way between them. And we also have a reason to look over Alex some more, since he's now hell bent on protecting Violet, won't that be fun?

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