Pokѐmon Journey I: Violet's Trial
Chapter 5: Encountering a 'Friend'
Violet's Point of View:
Amber and I hurried through the night until we finally reached the pokemon center right before Mt. Moon at nearly midnight. The place was just about to close down for the night when I showed up with my pokemon. I had Nurse Joy heal my two pokemon before I carried Amber up to the bed and we left Amethyst in her pokeball since she'd probably be cranky to wake up from her sleep just to go back to sleep.
I now knew we had made a great deal of distance on the boys, it's their own fault for being slow. I was able to do everything in town before they even got there! And that battle with Brock was intense, especially since we were placed against such odds that were against us. His pokemon had been all rock types, and only once Amethyst had evolved into a charmeleon had we really stood a chance with her extra speed and strength, not to mention a new attack, metal claw. That was certainly going to help up in the future.
I felt a nudging at the side of my face and I rolled over in my bed. Please, just a little more sleep… the nudging didn't go away however and I looked up tiredly to see Amethyst standing before my bed, the sun was high up in the sky with how bright it was and still steaming in the window, it must have been early morning, maybe seven or so.
"Thanks girl, is Amber up yet?" My charmeleon shook her head no and pointed over to the ball of yellow that was curled up on the bed. "Wake her up, would you? I'm gonna go get a quick shower before we leave." My shiny charmeleon nodded and proceeded to wake up my other pokemon while I stepped into the shower. I pulled out an extra set of clothes (under clothes to be exact) and placed them on the counter while I threw my old ones into the built in washing machine and drying machine all in one while I was in the shower. I needed to get my clothes clean, I'd been wearing the same ones for a week until yesterday when I finally caught a break and cleaned up a bit, but now, it was time to get really clean. I started the machine and stepped into the warm water of the shower. It felt amazing as the rivers and beads of water rolled down every inch of my body.
I stood there for a moment to enjoy it before I grabbed the soap and started to wash my body and hair. Oh how nice it felt to have a clean body… Nearly halfway through my shower, Amber and Amethyst showed up in the bathroom, I mean, we were all girls so it didn't matter to me so much. Amber jumped in under the water and sighed when it rolled under her fur and against her skin. Amethyst didn't care much for the water, especially with her being a fire type, but she did love the sauna like steam around. I reached down in the spread some of the soap on my body on Amber and scrubbed her fur, which she really seemed to like.
Once I was done I stepped out of the shower and grabbed one of the towels there. I dried myself off before I wrapped it around myself and grabbed another towel for Amber. My pikachu squealed as I tried to dry her off and Amethyst just sat in the corner enjoying the still warm air. I don't blame her; I like the warm weather too. Once we were all dry, I grabbed my under clothes and slipped them on while I waited for my clothes to finish drying in the dryer. They had gone through most of the cycles while I was busy with the shower and-
Suddenly the machine let off a beeping noise. I smiled and opened the machine to pull out my warm, dry, clean clothes. I quickly got them on and grabbed my things from the bathroom and placed them all inside my bag (which honestly wasn't all that much, just some essentials) and I headed downstairs to where the video chat phones were, passing Nurse Joy along the way, and I saw down with my pokemon at my side and called Luke.
"Viridian market store, how may I be of service?" I heard Luke's voice quickly come over the other end of the line and smiled.
"Just an old friend checking in." I laughed. I saw him smile and he chuckled back at me.
"I'm guessing since you didn't call me last night that you ended up getting everything done and the boys ended up in the city, so you left," he stated jokingly, knowing fully well what I had done.
"Maybe… and maybe something happened along the way."
"Something happened? Like what?"
I turned my eyes away from him playfully. "Maybe an evolution."
"And if this evolution was to take place, whose evolution would it be?" Amethyst and Amber finally couldn't take my toying with him any longer and rushed by me in order to say high, taking up most of the screen and crushing me with their bodies (Amethyst more the Amber.)
"Hey you two!" Luke laughed at our scene. "I see some certain fire pokemon evolved."
"Char!" Amethyst agreed.
"Pika!" Amber squealed.
"Yeah, so we were just letting you in that we're about to head into Mt. Moon. After that we'll end up on route four before heading into Cerulean City. We plan to make it there by night fall so we'll call you again either tonight or tomorrow morning, but I don't think I'll have to rush the pace too bad since the boys are probably still trapped up in Pewter City, waiting for the gym to open up so they can battle."
"That makes sense, and most gyms don't open for another hour or so, but no gym is the same as another." Luke turned his head to a voice that called to him behind the phone. "Coming sir!" He turned back to us. "Hey, I'll see you guys later okay, I've gotta get back to work. I'll talk to you more tomorrow; it's my day off then."
"Awesome, we'll see you then." We ended the call there and we grabbed a quick breakfast from the kitchen they had here before we left the pokemon center and turned to the opening in the side of the mountain. From just glancing in the entrance, there was enough light to pass through with lights lit up among the walls that showed the wiggling of some pokemon that crawled along the floors.
"You two ready?" I questioned my pokemon.
"Char." Amethyst readily agreed and flexed her claws, ready for a fight.
On my shoulder I heard a sparking sound and watched as my pikachu's red electric sacs were spouting electricity from them. "Pi."
I grinned in response to their answers and looked forward into the cave. "Then let's go." I took my first step inside the cave and out of the light of day.
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"Amber use thundershock!" My pikachu bound forward at the zubat that refused to back down inside the cave, we faced off against one of the trainers here within Mt. Moon after a little while in here, finding a few dropped items here along the way.
We'd been inside the cave of Mt. Moon for a little over a couple hours now, the path had been long and there had been many trails to follow, many or which led us to dead ends. But to our relief we found many items here as well, trainers had dropped them along their way through the tunnels and we managed to find wild items as well, I ended up finding large sphere like gold, which I believed were called 'nuggets' and small stones that gave off the same energy and look the same as the ones we had seen back in Pewter City's Museum of Science, I believe they were called 'moon stones', an item capable of evolving certain pokemon.
Finally the zubat went down with the last electric attack I had Amber unleash upon it. It collapsed at the feet of its trainer who sighed in defeat and handed over my winning money before he took off back into the cave with his pokemon. At moments like these when there are trainers who don't expect anything other then victories are when I pity them and I watch their backs fade away like from dark to light. All they fight for is winning. I fight for my pokemon, to prove my mother wrong, to achieve my dream and become the strongest of us all. Those are the major reasons why I fight and aim to win, and should I lose (which I know will happen at least once in my life) I'll learn from it and grow; it's always the first time that stings the hardest.
As we traveled further into the cave, I ended up crawling through some pathways that ended up leading me and my pokemon into small rooms with ladders out of them in different directions. In one of these rooms, I actually found someone that I never expected to find here, a Team Rocket member. He was dressed in the all black uniform and hat, other then his gloves and boots that happened to be a dark gray. The large red symbol of a red 'R' was on his chest and I saw him messing up the room, digging for something.
"What are you doing?" I snapped at the criminal. The man jumped and turned back to look at me.
"We're pulling a big job here!" he shouted and sent out a zubat. "Get lost kid! Zubat, take her and her pokemon out!" The bat pokemon screeched a few short words before it flew down at us.
"Amber, thundershock," I told my pokemon calmly. Amber I noticed didn't even have to move from the comfort of my shoulder as she let loose a weak bolt of energy at the zubat, which fried it and it fell to the ground.
"Useless pokemon!" the grunt shouted. "Go Ekans!" He threw out another pokeball without even bothering to call back the first one. A purple snake like pokemon emerge from the pokeball and ended up hurrying its way toward us without even listening for an order from its trainer. I prepared to tell Amethyst to attack when I watched the snake pokemon slither right around us and it hurried to make its way out of the cave. I let it go as I looked bitterly back at the single Rocket.
"Amethyst, destroy the two pokeballs he has on him." My charmeleon flexed its claws before it left at the frightened human male before us. With a swipe of my dear Amethyst's claws, the pokeballs on his waist that kept Ekans and Zubat prisoner were smashed to bits and the second pokemon still here flew off now that it was no longer bound here.
"You don't wanna mess with Team Rocket kid," the man hissed as I glared at him before he took off.
"I think it's a little late for that, wouldn't you two agree?" My pokemon shouted out their agreements before we headed down a different tunnel from where we ended up.
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After another small maze of tunnels and pathways, we finally made it to another large room the seemed to scale the side of a underground portion of the mountain. I scaled down some of the rocks with my town pokemon helping me to make sure I didn't get hurt on some of the sharper spots and suddenly I saw another Team Rocket member. Like the last one he had been looking through the dirt looking for something as well.
Amethyst helped me down onto the same ground level as him and I kept my distance form the ledge before I spoke out to him, "What are you doing?" No different then the last time, this one jumped as well and looked back at me, but the site of facing a kid and her little pokemon isn't really all that scary to a full grown man (even if they're were pokemon on max level I bet) and he laughed before he ripped out a pokeball from his belt.
"Little kids shouldn't be messing around with grown ups! It could be bad news! Go Rattata!" From the pokeball in his hands came a small purple little rat pokemon called rattata with somewhat large incisors and red eyes. The poor thing was forced against us and ended up headed toward my Amethyst.
"Metal claw." I called out softly. Amethyst did I said and stuck right before the rattata, it screeched and halted right before the metallic claws of my charmeleon. It shook in fear before it ran around my pokemon and it and ran down the tunnel behind us.
"Stupid pokemon!" The grunt reached out to withdraw the rattata back but I nodded to Amethyst and she jumped forward toward the grunt and smashed the ball into pieces, the pokemon was freed.
"You brat!" he snapped. "You'll pay for that! Go Sandshrew!" From the second pokeball he had he released a small rounder pokemon that looked to have a pointed nose and black eyes. Its underbelly was a bright white while its entire back was made of hard, smooth, rock plates that make up some sort of protective surface.
"Quick attack Amber." My pikachu jumped from my shoulder and rushed at the pokemon across from us.
I saw the guy across from us grin as Amber quickly closed in. "Defense curl!" He called out and suddenly the pokemon wrapped itself up into a small ball and its body became a harder material. Amber hit her mark, but the pokemon took little damage.
"Amber, come back." My pokemon nodded and rushed over to my, climbing back onto my shoulder before I turned to my first pokemon. "You're on Amethyst, burn it out of its shell." My shiny charmeleon easily agreed and stepped out before me. From her mouth brewed a thick and heavy fire that she blasted the poor pokemon with. She kept up her attack for a while before she saw the poor sandshrew shaking. It suddenly burst from it's rolled up position and ran in pain with its shell turned bright red, pretty much just like Squirtle had been when I first battled Alex.
"Let's get ride of them. Amber use thundershock." My pikachu's cheeks wildly spouted electricity and suddenly she unleashed it at the two before us. They yelped when the attack hit them and they were shot from their spot to an area ahead of us. "Let's go! I'm willing to be that they're more here!"
My assumption was highly correct once I got over the tall rocks before me on the cliff side. When I looked over the edge I saw that there was another Team Rocket member at the bottom standing at the entrance to another pathway that led further through this mountain. After looking at one of his other members and then looking in my direction. He bolted up the side of the cliff and I slowly walked down toward him. Amber stood protectively on my shoulder and Amethyst stood before me.
"You brat! You won't get in our way of finding those fossils!" The guy shouted and threw out two pokeballs at once; they contained a rattata and a zubat. Amber jumped off my shoulder and stood next to Amethyst as the two pokemon made their way toward us.
"And I won't let you get away with what you're doing!" I snapped back at him. I looked over at my pokemon. "Amethyst, use metal claw on rattata! Amber, use thundershock on zubat!" My two pokemon took a moment to store up electricity and change their claws to their metallic hue before Amethyst jumped toward the small pokemon and Amber let loose while electricity. Both were knocked out in a single hit and flung backward into their trainer where Amber's electrical shock carried over and shocked all three of them. Amethyst landed back by my side as we watched the show that Amber was putting on. I couldn't help but giggle a bit before I patted my pokemon's head and she halted her attack and we watched as the poor member and his pokemon fell to the ground in pain, totally fried.
Amber climbed back up onto my shoulder and we continued to scale down the cliff (with the help of Amethyst who was worried I'd slip on the steep slope) and we then made it to the spot where the Team Rocket guy was guarding. Through the opening to the next room I saw two people, one happened to be another Team Rocket member, but this one was female. She hung over the body of a scared looking guy who was clutching two strange looking rocks to his chest and his pokemon of a grimer, koffing and voltorb sat all around him, protecting them as the woman closed in on him.
"Well I guess I ran into you again," I called out to the woman. She stiffened and turned back to face me. Her eyes were cold as ice and clear like the color too. Her uniform still as the others were, but her's cut off as a skirt in the middle of her upper leg and she had on tall dark grey boots and gloves. The top part of her uniform still covered all of her chest and arms, but more of her neck was shown then the guys and there was no hat upon her head like there had been over a week ago. Her dark red hair flowed in curls down her back as she looked at me with a hand on her hip.
"Well deary, I didn't think I'd be seeing you so sooner after our last encounter." She then looked over at Amethyst. "And you're still just as beautiful, but you've evolved now too!" She sighed. "Oh if only I had the opportunity…"
"Hell no lady." I hissed back at her. Amber's cheeks sparked angrily and Amethyst angrily glared at her with her claws covered in the metallic coloring, ready to attack.
"I didn't think you would, why do you think I tried to steal your pokemon back in Viridian?" She paused and sighed dramatically. "Oh the irony." She then grinned and looked back at us. "So I'm guessing you're here to stop my plans?"
"That's the idea."
"We'll your not going to get away with ruining our plan to get these fossil rocks!" She looked back at the man and he flinched. His pokemon stood before him to protect him and the rocks he carried. "We've been watching everyone in this cave until they found some fossils, which happened to be this young man right here." I saw the poor guy shaking where he was. "And this operation has been over three months, we refuse to let anyone get in our way, so dearly, I believe its time I showed you a lesson."
"Really? And I thought you were gonna talk me to death all morning, or afternoon, which even it is. I haven't really checked the clock in a while." My two pokemon bound before me and waiting for orders or an attack.
"Then you should pay attention dear Violet Vilmos." I froze when she uttered my name.
"How do you know my name?"
"I've known since we got a report of a shiny charmander at Professor Oak's lab and the list of the three trainers it possibly could have gone with, and only one of them was female, your information was easy to find and receive," she replied coolly, releasing a small little bulb like pokemon and a gas like pokemon. I quickly grabbed out my pokedex and pointed them at each of the pokemon. The little bulb pokemon that was colored a dark blue with tiny feet and bright green leaves on its head was first. Oddish, the weed pokemon. This pokemon grows by absorbing moonlight. During the day it buries itself in the ground, leaving only its leaves exposed to avoid its enemies. Oddish are partly common and can be found on routes five, six, seven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-four and twenty-five.
I then turned my pokedex from the grass type pokemon to the gas like one with a face and a long red tongue sticking out of its mouth. Gastly, the gas pokemon. Almost invisible, this gaseous pokemon cloaks its target and puts it to sleep without notice. Gastly nests are common, but only found in the sole location of the Pokѐmon Tower in Lavender Town.
So I'm facing off against a ghost type and a grass type. I have one advantage against the oddish, but none against the ghost type. I'll stick with Amethyst against the oddish until it's down and then send her in to help Amber with the gastly. I also have to remember that normal and ground moves don't work on gastly due to it being a ghost type, but then again, my two pokemon mostly know other moves then that, so we should be fine, but this woman mostly like has a few unfair tricks up her sleeve.
"You know; its common courtesy to introduce yourself if you know the other person." I told the woman.
She grinned. "Oh I'm so glad you asked Violet, the name's Rose."
"What? No last name?" I joked lightly at her secretiveness.
"No, but I can't have you alerting the authorities to who I really am. Now Gastly! Oddish! Attack!" Both pokemon came at mine from two different sides.
"Let's go you two! Ember on oddish! Thundershock on gastly." My pokemon easily shot off their attack soon oddish was knocked out for the count from Amethyst's fire, but the gastly was a different story. It managed to avoid the electrical shock and made its way over to Amethyst, liking its face with its long red tongue before Amethyst froze up, and suddenly I saw electric pulses on the skin of my fire pokemon.
"Amber! Get that gastly away from Amethyst! It's paralyzing her!" Amber rushed over and shocked the living daylights out of the gastly, sending it flying back over to its trainer, but it was still prepared to battle and floated back up into the air with some more effort.
"Hypnosis Gastly." Rose grinned and I watched as the eyes glowed on the ghost pokemon and my pokemon shielded their eyes instinctively from the attack.
"Amethyst, right in front of you! Ember!" My charmeleon obeyed and released a fiery attack while its eyes remained closed. It hit the gastly head on and knocked it to the ground and I watched as its eyes turned to 'x's and the battle was over. Rose hissed as she returned both her pokemon to their balls and threw a smoke bomb to the ground.
"This isn't the last time you'll hear from me Violet, I'll be sure to take you down!" The woman's yell echoed along the walls of the tunnel and soon, when the smoke cleared, all that was left was the young man and his pokemon protecting him. His fossils were still in his hands and he nervously sat up.
"Are you alright?" I questioned him worriedly. His pokemon opened their eyes to see that they were now out of danger and we looked toward the guy on the ground.
"Ye-yeah, I-I think so," he stuttered. "Thanks for the help."
"Anytime." I walked over to him and helped him to his feet. "You probably should get out of here. They might come back once I'm not around."
"Yeah, I will." He looked away from me while his pokemon and mine looked at him worriedly. "Um…"
"Yeah?"
"C-can you… escort me to the next town? I don't want my fossils stolen."
"That's not a problem," I told him. "Come on, we better keep moving before more people come by here, I wouldn't be surprised if cops came too to question us."
He nearly pulled out his hair. "But they might take my fossils!"
I shrugged. "I don't know if they will or not, but since you found them, I wouldn't think so." Amethyst and Amber quickly ran up to me and my charmeleon stood at my side while my pikachu jumped onto my shoulder. "We better get going then, once we hit Cerulean City, you can get another escort or someone to get you wherever you have to go and what not."
"Ye-yeah, thanks." I saw the guy put his fossils into his bag before he hurried up to me and placed his hands on my arm and shoulder nervously. I rolled my eyes and let it go as we continued to walk down a short hallway that soon led to light.
We'd reached the end of Mt. Moon.
"Oh the sun feels so nice!" I cheered as we came out into the afternoon on route four. I felt the guy remove on of his hands from my shoulder to shield his eyes from the sudden change in lighting. "Doesn't it feel great to be out in the sun again?"
"I think so; it's been a long time since I've left the cave," the guy replied.
"Well, let's enjoy it while we head to town." I started to follow the path down the road toward the river that led to Cerulean City with the guy holding onto one of my arms and shoulders, Amber on the other one and Amethyst at my side.
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"And here we are!" We suddenly turned on one of the longest downhill paths where we had to scale down some higher and strangely set pieces of land before we finally made it to Cerulean City. Dusk was only barely starting to settle in now and I knew that we were going to have a nice restful night tonight. The town was littered with people and some pokemon and I saw a small road that headed north of the town, some place I'll most defiantly check out tomorrow since that's the only other way to go besides the gym tomorrow.
"Thank you for bringing me here," the guy said. "I'm going to stay the night here and then head off to Cinnabar Island tomorrow with an escort of some kind. I don't think I would've made it if you didn't bring me all the way out here."
"Its not a problem, now lets get to the pokemon center, I'm hungry and I'm sure these two are, I don't really remember stopping for lunch," I rubbed the back of my nervously. "But I do remember we all were munching on some berries we brought with us."
"Lead the way then dear Violet." I rolled my eyes at his behavior change since I'd become his body guard, it was as if he could do nearly anything so long as he had me on his side to keep him safe, but I kept a lid on my mouth and led him into the city. From there we walked down the single road that led us right to the pokemon center, with the Gym just a little ways away so I could challenge it as soon as I was ready tomorrow.
Once we made it inside the building, the young man bid me farewell and quickly got himself a room and a meal to eat there as well while I got myself my own room and the girls and I had a good real meal to eat before I dragged them up to bed. The Team Rocket grunts were easy to take out, but they took a bit of energy, plus we've been walking all day (with the exception of Amber who spent most of her time on my shoulder) so we were all tired.
I settled easily enough into the bed with my pokemon at my sides and soon we all were fast asleep in the comfort of each other, knowing fully well we'd have our next gym badge by tomorrow.
Witch's Note:
Wow, a chapter totally in Violet's POV! Haven't seen one of these since chapter one right? So it's been a while, but here we go! And now we know that crazy Team Rocket woman Rose! She is such a pain and I can't wait for you guys to see her later on when she really starts to become a problem.
Anyway, please Review and send in Questions to me! I'll see you all next week with some more fun for us all!
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