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.

4. City of Rocks

Pokémon Journey I: Violet's Trial

Chapter 4: City of Rocks

Violet's Point of View:

It took us the rest of the week in order for us to get through the entire forest, none of us were traveling by the actually path, which would have taken us no more then a day or two tops if we had followed it, but that would be too risky, I'd be cornered in the city. So we ran around the forest for what seemed to be about a week or so and arrived just outside of Pewter City on the north end of route two.

When I saw the sun again, not fragments of it through the thick tress like I had, but a full blown sun out in the middle of a clear sky that hurt my vision and I had to look away, I knew we had reached freedom (or at least for the moment.)

"Let's go you two! The quicker we get to the next city, the faster we can get out and move on, we can't wait for Vince and Alex to find us." Both of my pokemon nodded and threw in their agreement cheers and Amber jumped off my shoulder and Amethyst from my arms and they raced down the road. I shook my head at them and hurried after my two eager pokemon.

The two of them raced over the hill and made it to the top and took in the sites of the city. I hurried up to their sides and looked it over in amazement as well. The city was a little larger then Viridian had been, but it was still a smaller city that was surrounded on most sides by forest and the last side by stone and mountains that held the path to the next town.

"Let's go you two, I want a decent meal and I need to make a call to Luke." Amethyst nodded right away and headed down to the city, but Amber looked confused and jumped onto my shoulder.

"Pi? Pika pikachu pi?" Amber questioned as we walked into the next town.

"Luke's a friend I made right before Amethyst and I fled into the Viridian Forest and met you. He's the one I got that special ball from that I caught you in," I replied to the pikachu.

"Pika? Chu pika pi? Pikachu chu pi pikachu pika."

"Yes, he is really nice. He's given me a lot of stuff for free that makes me feel really guilty, but he's a nice guy that refuses to accept 'no' as an answer. I learned that in less then an hour of spending with him in the time span of two days."

"Pika!" Amber suddenly rubbed her cheek against mine and I laughed as I raced to catch up with Amethyst before we hit the more populated roads.

"Char!" Amethyst called out after a short while and I looked to where she pointed. I saw the bright strawberry red roof and smiled down at my pokemon.

"Good job Amethyst! Alright, now let's get to the pokemon center and get you guys healed up. Then we'll get a bite to eat and a room key before we look around the city for a bit and then go to the gym." My two pokemon nodded and we walked inside the building. Like the last time I was here, the front desk was the major focal point of the room and many seats and TV, books, and magazines were around for those who were only waiting on their pokemon to be healed.

"Nurse Joy?" I called to the nurse as soon as I stepped up to the desk. The woman turned around and smiled at me and looked to the two pokemon in my arms and on my shoulder.

"Healing for two I presume?" She asked. I nodded and handed over my pokemon to her. "This should only take a few minutes; I'll be back with them shortly." I waved to my pokemon and watched as they were taken to the back room by the nurse and her trusty partner, a chansey. I sat down on the closest stool to the desk this time (not too thrilled about what happened last time I handed Amethyst over to the nurse to happen again, but I have a feeling it won't) and opened up my map to look at what was in town.

There wasn't much here, although they did have a museum on the north side of town while the gym was on the east. We could check the museum out first and then head over to the gym later, after I make my call to Luke and update him on what's been going on and why I didn't call him sooner.

I pulled out the paper he gave me over a week ago, it had his number and the times best to call him where he could either be at home or call a break time for himself to talk to me. Early morning he doesn't have many people flowing in, plus it's a Monday, so everyone's at work or on the road or sleeping in, not shopping.

I heard the nurse call me over and I grabbed my two pokemon. I carried Amethyst in my arms and Amber climbed back onto my shoulder and we headed over to the video-chat phone and dialed Luke's number. I didn't have to wait long before the phone was picked up on the other side and a flash of blond hair I could see Luke tiredly pick up the phone.

"Viridian market store, how may I serve you?" his voice flooded over as if it was prerecorded and I laughed.

"I don't know, you think Pewter City has what a young trainer and her shiny charmander and pikachu can find?" I saw his eyes soon bulge open and I laughed as he nearly freaked out.

"Violet! I thought you weren't going to call me at all!" he said on the other end of the line.

"Now why would I do that?" I pouted. "Sorry about the wait though, I've been running off the paths of Viridian Forest for the past week to avoid the guys after they caught me once."

"They caught you? How?"

"I tripped in the forest and ended up crashing and rolling on the ground until I hit a tree that my head took a nasty hit on and I blacked out. But thanks to Amethyst and Amber, they knocked out two of their three pokemon and once I woke up, I was able to walk right out of there. But I've still been avoiding them since I bet their pokemon were healed up after the night and I bet they had potions on them."

"Maybe, I never saw them in here, but it might not have been my shift." He then looked down at my pokemon who were in the screen. "Now who might that cute little yellow pokemon be?"

"Say hi Amber." My pikachu jumped from my shoulder and into my lap and called out "Pika!" to Luke. "This is Amber, I caught her with that primer call you gave me before I left last Sunday."

"Well hello there Amber, its nice to meet you," Luke replied. "So you three made it all the way up to Pewter City? What do you plan to do there besides the gym? I don't expect you to be staying long."

"No, we won't." I answered. "We'll stay until tomorrow, so I want to get everything done today. I'm going to head by the gym this afternoon and before that, we'll head over to the Pewter Museum of Science to see some of the things they have on display."

"Sounds like you have the day planned out." His smiled turned to a frown. "But what if those two guys show up later today?"

"Then we'll have to move out early. We can survive on potions and berries until we reach the next town, city or pokemon center, whichever comes first."

"Alright, well you three be careful, I gotta go now, customers are starting to come in."

"Alright then Luke, if we get a chance, we'll try to call you within the next few days. If we don't, expect that we're on the run and will contact you as soon as we can."

"Understood 'milady runaway'," he saluted me. "See ya!"

"Bye Luke." I hung up the phone and hurried out of the pokemon center.

I ended up rushed over to the market first to buy some berries for my pokemon and myself to have later on until we got a decent meal when we left the city. I grabbed a few containers of mago, figy and iapapa berries and put them in my bag for later. They looked nice and ripe, but I planned on having a real meal at lunch out with my pokemon.

"Pika pi pikachu?" Amber perched herself back on top of my shoulder and questioned me once we had pulled out of the market.

"I thought that maybe we'd head over the museum first, then head out for lunch, then head over to the gym and battle the gym leader hear and then, depending on if we see Vince and Alex or not, we'll head out toward the next city or stay the night here," I explained to her and Amethyst. "So our first stop is to catch up on some history and relax a bit."

My pokemon both agreed to that and I walked along the streets until I reached the back side of town and found the large, elegant building that was the museum. Its structure from the outside looked even larger then any other building in town, even the gym.

I stepped through the front doors and weaved my way through the crowd of people that were slowly making their way out of the building. A few came in behind me, but hardly any people were inside when I got there. Pokemon apparently got in there for free and I only had to pay fifty for my ticket (it sure helped that those bug catcher trainers like to battle, so they lost a lot of money.)

Once we made our way in, we first saw the two large fossils of a kabutops and an aerodactyl. The two sets of bones were so large that they were nearly twice the size of myself. One actually had a set of wings and a large tail while the other had a fat boomerang like head and scythe like hands with spikes coming out of its back. I pulled out my pokedex and pointed it at the two, surprised to actually get some information off them. Kabutops, the shellfish pokemon. Its sleek shape is perfect for swimming. It slashes its prey with its claws and drains them of their fluids. Kabutops is an extinct pokemon that has no nests anywhere.

Aerodactyl, the fossil pokemon. It is a ferocious prehistoric pokemon that goes for the enemy's throat with its serrated, saw like fangs. Aerodactyl is an extinct pokemon that has no nests anywhere, but fossils of the pokemon have been found and are trying to be revived on Cinnabar Island. I raised my eye brow at that. So now they're bringing back pokemon from their fossils? Weird…

I let the thoughts pass by me and followed my pokemon as they raced upstairs to look at the second level. Unlike the first, it was filled with pieces and replicas of old shuttles. Amber seemed to get a real knack out of them and kept running around the shuttles in circles until she made the rest of us dizzy. Amethyst on the other hand, was more taken by the stones on the other side of the room. Apparently it was a large meteorite that had landed here a long time ago and was considered a moon stone, some sort of rare rock that evolves certain kinds of pokemon. Amber soon rushed over to it as well and ran around it in circles, sadly dizzying a poor scientist here on the floor as well, and an older man and his young child.

"Amber! Stop that!" My pikachu halted in her tracks and I picked her up. "Sorry about yelling Amber, but you can't just go around things in circles like crazy, it's making the people here dizzy and me and Amethyst as well." Amber looked away from me and to her companion pokemon, who was holding onto the study exhibit base, and was trying to keep on her feet. The other three people in the room held onto the walls and what not to keep their balance, but didn't seem too upset with what just happened.

"Pika pi…" Amber muttered softly.

"Its okay, just remember that for the future, the one exception is in battle, you can go around you opponent as many times as you like, like you did when we first met in Viridian Forest."

"Did you say you found that pikachu in Viridian Forest?" the older man with his daughter questioned.

"Pikachu!" The little girl cried and reached up to me. "Can I hold it?"

"Do you mind Amber?" My pikachu shrugged and I handed her over to the little girl who hugged the life out of her.

"I'm sorry about my daughter, but she's been after having a pikachu of her own, I've been looking for one all over, but I've had little luck," the man said to me.

"They're not very common in this region, but I found Amber in Viridian Forest. There also is apparently a nest in the abandon power plant on route ten, electric pokemon really like to hang out there, so that might be your best option."

"I would, but the monster of the plant scares away all that try to enter."

"Monster?"

"I guess you've been living out of the way haven't you?"

"Pallet Town, most information doesn't come there unless you're starting a journey or if the information's about a pokemon in particular." I sighed. "So what do you know about this 'monster'?

"It apparently watches over and guards the power plant and has been for a few years now, especially after Team Rocket really started making a scene in the region. A lot of pokemon that could leave, they fled with food and their children to other regions and islands off the coast of Kanto to avoid them and keep their families safe. This has also happened over at the Seafoam Islands, and on an island off the coast of Kanto known as One Isle, there's a mountain where this is happening too, Mt. Ember. And it all started when Team Rocket was ruining the lives of both humans and pokemon, which caused so many of them to be agitated."

"Those poor pokemon…"

"I know, but a common man like me can't do much other then donate money and food to help out those in need. Oh well… thanks for the information about pikachu."

"You're welcome. I'd better get going; we've got a gym battle to win."

"Well I wish you luck, if those two pokemon are the only ones you got, your going to need it. Brock Carolos, the gym leader here, uses rock types, which both have the advantage over your fire and electric pokemon."

"Hmm, yeah, we'll have to be careful then. Thanks for the info." I turned back to my two pokemon that were playing with the little girl. "Amethyst! Amber! We're going now! Time for lunch!" My two pokemon hurried over to my side and then waved good bye to the girl before we left the museum, the thoughts of those poor pokemon in pain in my mind.

It didn't take long for us to head back to a dinner that served pokemon and humans food. Amber and Amethyst thought the world of where we were once we got into the tiny dinner and ate inside at one of the tables built for smaller pokemon and their human companions.

Once our food came out, Amber and Amethyst nearly gobbled up everything and I had to order them seconds while I slowly ate over my small meal. I was deep in through over my battle with the gym leader here. He was a rock trainer, both my pokemon were weak against that. If I didn't play my cards right, he'd take both of them down in a single hit and we'd be out for the count, then while I'm waiting for both of them to recover, Vince and Alex could find me, and that time, I might not escape. There might be no way out. I can't risk that.

The better of my two pokemon to face Brock would have to be Amethyst, she has more speed and strength thanks to her strange coloration then a normal charmander, and fire would do more damage to the rock pokemon rather then electricity, since ground and rock would mostly absorb it. Amber would be at the largest disadvantage there, and only her normal attacks would work, but that wouldn't be enough to take them down due to their rock hard bodies, it'd be no different then trying to file your way through the bars in prison, its take a lot of time, but I doubt the rock pokemon would stay still for us to do that.

"Okay you two, battle plan time." Both my pokemon looked up at me as they nearly finished their second meal. "We need a plan for the most part on how to beat Brock."

"Char? Char char char," Amethyst questioned.

"I know this is the first time we've done this, but we need to because of the type of pokemon he uses," I answered her. "He uses rock types, a huge advantage over the two of you, Amber more then you Amethyst."

"Pika? Pi pika pi chu pikachu?" Amber asked worriedly.

"Amethyst is going to have to go out first; you're going to have to be our main fighter with your fire type moves. You need to take them out as fast as you can without fainting. Amber won't last long with only thundershock and quick attack as moves. We have no moves that would even do a normal hit to them, but fire does more damage then electricity to rock, since it and ground absorb that attack."

"Char, char char?"

"Yes, that's our game plan. You two ready to put it into action?"

"Pika!"

"Char!"

I grinned at them. "Then let's go get our first gym badge."

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Lunch ended pretty quickly after that. Once I had finished eating, I took the girls over to the gym constructed of rock. Once I stepped inside the building with Amber on my shoulder and Amethyst at my side. We walked within the dark area and I saw a faint white outline on the ground, but beyond that was darkness.

I took another step forward until my foot had passed the white line and suddenly the doors behind me closed. I turned to look before me and watched as the field suddenly lit up, the light blinding me.

"Welcome challenger! Welcome to the Pewter City gym!" I removed my arms from before my eyes and let my vision adapt to that of the young man that stood before me on the other side of the arena. His hair was brown and spiked, his dark tan skin and his eyes narrow like so it was hard to tell what color they were. He was dressed in an orange and black jacket with gray green pants. "I'm Brock Carolos and the gym leader here, and I'm betting you're here to challenge me."

"Yes sir, for my first gym badge," I replied.

"Well then, lets cut the chatter then and we'll start right in, shall we?" He brought forth one of his pokeballs and enlarged it in his hand. "But just to warn you, if those two pokemon are all you have, then you're not going to last long."

"So I've been told." I looked over at Amethyst. She nodded to me and jumped into the battle field.

"Then let's get this battle started! Go Geodude!" From his hand flew a red and white ball that released a small creature made of rock that latterly looked like a rock the size of a person's head with two arms. Its eyes were wide and dark and glared at Amethyst.

Brock gestured to me. "Challenger gets the first move."

I nodded and turned back to Amethyst. "Let's go Amethyst! Ember!" My charmander replied with a blast of fire from its mouth that flew at the geodude. I watched Brock watching his pokemon smugly. He knew that not much damage would be done.

Little did I know that something was different now, the flames my charmander produced were stronger then normal, even for her. Brock noticed it too and suddenly he had to shield his eyes from the intense light and heat from my charmander. Soon my charmander needed a moment to breathe however and halted her flames, reviling the very singed geodude.

"Geodude! Are you alright?" Brock shouted out to his pokemon. It shook off some of the soot from the flames and nodded to its trainer, but you could see the damage that had been done. Some of the spots were most defiantly burned on its body, and it was suffering from them when I saw it wince when it tried to move, in a single move, Geodude had nearly been taken out by my charmander. What exactly did that mean? Does it mean what I think it means? Is Amethyst…?

I didn't get a chance to think any longer when the geodude rushed forward at Amethyst. Before I could let out an order, the geodude swung and managed to graze the side of her abdomen as Amethyst jumped out of the way. I couldn't afford her to take any hard hits or it could be the end for us.

"Pika pi!" Amber shouted out, cheering her on.

"Amber's right Amethyst! You can do this! Do it again! Ember!" My charmander quickly turned her head toward the rock racing at her and blasted it with fire.

"Don't let that fire stop you Geodude! Tackle!" Brock called out. I saw the other pokemon fly through the flames toward mine and I felt my heart nearly stop beating.

"AMETHYST!" I screamed. Out of the flames came the geodude and it slammed into my little charmander. It sent her flying into the side wall where I watched her stuck in the outline of her body in the wall. "AMETHYST!"

"Char!" She squirmed out of the wall and jumped to the ground, but I saw her wince boldly when she landed. She was hurt; she wouldn't be able to take much more at this rate.

"Let's finish it off Geodude! Tackle!" Brock's order rang in the air and I watched time slow down as it hurried its way over to Amethyst.

"Come on girl! It's weakened! Don't let it beat you!" I tried to cheer her on while not expressing my worries too quickly. "Ember!"

I watched as my golden charmander for some reason glowed and shot a brighter flame out of its mouth that shot across the gym and shoved back the geodude. I covered my face and Amber's from the intense heat that came our way, as it did with Brock as well. Through the opening between my arms I watched as my little Amethyst glowed even brighter then before and watched as her body turned white and sparkles glittered around her. I didn't know if it had to do with her different coloring or what not, but I knew what happened when I pokemon turned white, it was their evolution, my Amethyst was evolving.

I watched as her body grew and her features began to change. Her arms nearly tripled or more in size and her claws became much thicker and extended. Her tail grew longer and her legs enlarged and you could see all the muscles in her body against the skin, even with her body still white. I watched as her head grew longer and a single horn of some sort grew out of the back of her head.

It was then, while the evolution was still taking place, I saw her claws turn metallic like and she bound forward a second later with a new speed I'd only seen Amber use when we first captured her. The claws were swept at the geodude and the thing was thrown into the wall right behind Brock, just over his head, making his hair whip and then he turned to see his partner down.

I breathed a sigh of relief as I watched the white light vanish around Amethyst, she was still her golden color and she still had her amethyst colored eyes, but she was larger, faster and stronger then before. I pulled out my pokedex to see exactly what my charmander had turned into.

Charmeleon, the flame pokemon and the evolved form of charmander. It lashes about with its tail to take down its foe; it then tears up its fallen opponent with sharp claws. It also elevates air temperature to high levels. There are no currently known nests for charmeleons. Please wait for shiny information to be uploaded.

I stared at my evolved pokemon in shock. I was right, she was going to evolve! Amethyst is stronger now, and maybe we have the strength we need to beat any other pokemon Brock puts against us with her new power.

But I have to consider the down side as well. Amethyst took a lot of damage while she battled Geodude, she might not be up enough to take care of one more pokemon, and who knows what that pokemon could be? It could be some sort of giant monster pokemon that'll take her out in one hit. I have to be careful.

"Are you alright for another battle Amethyst?" I questioned my pokemon.

"Char!" she yelled back enthusiastically. Her voice was much deeper now, but I still heard the same cheer behind it that was there, only more high pitched, moments ago.

"You got lucky there girl!" Brock shouted, "Geodude return!" He called back the pokemon to its pokeball and pulled out another. "But let's see you take out my most powerful pokemon! Take them out Onix!" From the other pokeball that he threw out came a large mountain sized pokemon that was made of chain of boulders that started from a large one that had a horn on its head, two eyes and a mouth before the boulders for its body got smaller until it reached the end of its tail.

"Let's take her pokemon out quick, finish it with bind!" The bolder snake roared and raced toward my Amethyst.

"Pi pi pi!" Amber shouted.

"Amethyst! Use that new attack of yours!" I shouted.

"Pika!" Amber corrected me angrily.

"Sorry! Amethyst! Use metal claw!" My charmeleon finally responded and jumped out of the way of the onix's tail before she landed next to its face and her hands turned metallic again before she slashed the rock pokemon's face. The pokemon in return roared and collapsed on the ground before it angrily turned back to my pokemon. I saw that it had taken massive damage from Amethyst's one attack, but it was still trying to take her out.

"Onix!" Brock shouted. "Rock tomb!" The bolder snake replied by moving away from Amethyst and the boulders all over the gym flew out of the ground and hurried their way toward Amethyst.

I had to think of a plan fast or else the boulders would crush my pokemon. I watched as Amethyst was able to jump out of the way by the boulders still seemed to follow her. If they continued to follow her as they were… I could use his own attack against him!

"Amethyst! Make you way to Onix!" My charmelelon roared and took off toward the other side of the gym.

"You're just crazy! Your pokemon will be hurt!" Brock shouted.

"Mind your own damn business!" I snapped back at the other side. "We will beat you! Amethyst! Jump onto Onix and run up its back!" My pokemon did as I asked and quickly jumped higher as one of the boulders that were sent to crush Amethyst crashed back into the onix's tail, causing it to screech. Brock's eyes went wide as he watched his prized pokemon get pelted with its own attack before it fell to the ground and Amethyst jumped off it. The rest of the rocks directed at her still and dropped to the ground, sticking themselves in the ground once more.

The place was a mess, but it was a good battle, and I wasn't as nervous as I had been since the beginning. I sighed and I rushed out onto the field, knowing that Brock didn't have any more pokemon when I watched his call back his onix and sighed. I rushed to my pokemon; even Amber had the adrenalin rushing through her and had jumped off my shoulder to run to Amethyst. She stood there with a smile on her face as she waited for us to arrive at her side. Amber crawled all over her, shouting her congratulations to her. I was next to reach her, bringing her into a hug.

"You did good girl, I'm so proud of you." My golden charmeleon beamed at my praise and quickly hugged me back just as hard as I did her. Amber squeezed in the middle of us and squeaked as we rubbed our cheeks against hers.

"You mind at all if I cut in?" I looked up from where my pokemon and I were rejoicing and saw Brock looming overhead. "I thought you might want the boulder badge."

"Thanks Brock, and thanks for such a great battle." I took the small boulder like badge from his hand and held it in my own; it was such a proud feeling to have my own badge in my hand. I nodded to him and others, showing them the badge we won before pulling out my small, square badge case and placing it inside the first slot. One down, seven to go.

I picked up my pikachu and my charmeleon walked at my side as we left Brock's gym. "Wait! What's your name?" he called out.

"Violet Vilmos!" I turned back for only a moment to grin at him and give him a thumb up before I took off back into town. I saw him smiling back at me, even after I turned the corner. "Well guys, I guess we can go get a room over at the pokemon center and rest-ah hell!" My pokemon looked at me with wide eyes as I cursed and they looked over to where I was.

Across the busy streets of the city that were slowly thinning out with the sun setting, I watched from a distance as Alex and Vince walked right into town. Their pokemon were at their sides and they looked much better then they had when I last saw them nearly a week ago.

"Man they caught up fast. I guess we won't be staying in town tonight." I heard Amethyst whine. "Sorry girl, why don't you rest in your pokeball while Amber and I sneak through town, and that way you won't bring on attention to us, okay?" My fire pokemon easily nodded her head eagerly and I pulled out her pokeball and she was absorbed back inside it with a red beam. I don't think she's been inside there since the first day I met her.

"Let's go then Amber, we need to sneak around them and get on the next route, we'll rest at the next pokemon center I saw that was stationed right outside Mt. Moon." Amber nodded to me and within the somewhat thick crowd, I managed to slip around my brother and Alex as they walked into the pokemon center and kept their eyes out for me and I rushed off to the route.

Once I was at its entrance, the pokemon center was too far away to see and it had gotten darker, most people would be starting to head in for sleep and Alex and Vince would have few to no leads, at least until morning. If I had to travel through the night to get to the next center, I'd do it, plus, I'm willing to bet that Alex and Vince will stay in town for their badge, they need it in order to keep pressing forward, and they have their own dreams to complete.

My next question though was how was I supposed to get by thought the dark without Amethyst to light the way? She was dead tired and there was no way I was going to call her out just to light the way to the next pokemon center.

"Pika! Piki pi pikachu pi!" Amber jumped off my shoulder and I watched as the electricity lightly bounced out of her cheek sacs and she then spread the electricity all over her body, causing her to be a dim light in the dark forest.

"Great going girl!" I cheered her on. "Now let's get out of here! The sooner we make it to the center, the sooner we can get a good night's rest, we'll pig out in the morning at breakfast on food and give Luke a quick call." Amber nodded and turned to bolt down the path and I had to race to keep up with her.

Vincent's Point of View:

We finally arrived in Pewter City around late afternoon to early night, the sun was just barely starting to set off in the distance and we had few to no leads about Violet here, other then we know she had to stop here to get the first badge. I doubt she could have run all over this city and gotten her badge in one day, but Violet for some strange reason always manages to come out on top and is the fastest (against our wishes.)

When we first got into town, we headed right over to the pokemon center since we knew she'd head there for healing her pokemon. After talking to nurse joy and getting out own pokemon healed after being stranded in the middle of the woods for a week, she told us that she had seen Violet, but that was this morning, around nine. She didn't know anything more other then her talking to some boy on a phone (something I really was going to question her later about) and that she had mentioned going to the museum in town and then the gym.

We thanked the nurse for all the information she gave us and we headed outside of the pokemon center, the day was turning into dusk, and we had to work fast if we wanted to catch my sister soon.

"So which place she should we question about my sister Alex?" I questioned the guy next to me.

"Probably the gym, that way we can also schedule our matches for tomorrow, I don't expect the gym leader to keep it open much longer," he replied. I nodded to the bronze/ginger haired guy and we hurried over to the gym in town that seemed to be made of boulders.

When we arrived there, we saw a guy a few years older then us, probably close to twenty, give or take a year or so, and he was dressed in a dark orange and black jacket with gray green pants. His skin was darker due to genes or a tan and his hair was a dark brown. We couldn't see his eyes from the way they were squinted shut into a line.

"Hey!" I shouted. The guy looked up at us and we stopped before him.

"Sorry guys, I was just shutting down the gym. Can you come back tomorrow?" he asked politely.

"We're planning on it," Alex breathed as he straitened himself out. "We're looking for our friend right now; another trainer who we heard already came your way."

"It's my sister," I continued. "Her name's Violet Vilmos."

"Violet Vilmos?" the guy asked. He suddenly chuckled, "No wonder you look just like her, that makes sense."

"You've seen her?" Alex pressed.

"Yeah I saw her," the guy replied. "She was out here a few hours ago and won her badge from me, and that was quite a feature. Her charmander evolved into a charmeleon in the middle of the battle and took out both of my pokemon while her pokemon were both at a disadvantage, though she only had to use the charmeleon."

"Crap!" Alex hissed. "That means that getting her to listen is gonna be much harder now." He looked back over at the guy. "Do you know where she went?"

"Well… I last saw her heading in the direction of the pokemon center, and that's near by the entrance to route three." He replied while rubbing the back of his head. "My best guess would be that she's spending the night there. If not, then I'd have to guess that she's trying to walk in the dark all the way to the next pokemon center outside of Mt. Moon, and that's about a couple hours from here."

"Thanks, we'll be back over early in the morning to battle you; we're trying to catch up to Violet," I told him. "Thanks again."

"No problem, I'll see you two in the morning."

From there Alex and I rushed back to the pokemon center, by then the sun had set and it was dark. As we pushed ourselves to hurry inside, we collapsed once we hit the benches within the pokemon center. Nurse Joy rushed over to us and gave us some water while we calmed our breathing.

"Thanks." I finally gasped out to the nurse. She nodded and turned to leave.

"Wait, Nurse Joy, did Violet come back around here by chance while we were gone?" Alex questioned.

"No," the nurse answered honestly. "I haven't seen her at all."

I moaned. "Then that means she headed onto the next area already, she must have seen us when we got into town or else she would've stayed here."

"Damn, how does she do it? You'd think with a shiny pokemon by her side she practically make the news every time!" Alex snapped angrily.

"Violet is Violet, she knows how to get around us, she's always a step ahead of us, she used to be the mediator between us, now… I don't know what to call her. Our rival? Our enemy?"

"No, our priority," Alex replied angrily. "I promised your mom that I'd keep her safe, and I intend to do so."

"Alex, I know we've been friends forever, but this still seems out of character, even for you," I said. I stood up from my spot and grabbed the key to our room and led us inside. Once the door was closed I looked him right in the eye. "Do you like my sister?"

"No!" he shouted as a bright red blush came to his face. "I just care about her, if you were in danger…"

"Would you really chase me all over Kanto to keep me under your watchful eye?" I questioned. "I can imagine my mother doing that, not you or Violet or anyone else. It's only Violet that you'd do it for." I sighed. "Again I ask, do you like my sister?"

"N-I don't know," Alex muttered. "I'm too confused right now to give you a strait answer."

"You're just prolonging it," I muttered. I think he heard it from the glare I received, but he said nothing to it.

"Give me some time to think Vince. I know I care for Violet, but not how much or on what level."

"I'll give you time Alex, but I expect an answer in the near future." He nodded and crawled into his own bed with Squirtle while I did the same with Bulbasaur.

Things were way too silent that night.

Witch's Note:

A ha! Chapter four complete! Oh how I torment poor Alex! I love playing with him.

Sadly I'll have to put that off to the side for a while, its time to focus on Violet mostly. We'll still have small movements with Alex and Vince's POV, but we'll mostly be sticking with Violet's since this is her story and her trials as she goes through her journey.

You guys can hate me as much as you want in your reviews, but I've got more writing to do, so I'll see you guys later! Please Review and send in Questions!

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