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.

9. Party on the SS Anne

Pokémon Journey I: Violet's Trial

Chapter 9: Party on the S.S. Anne

Violet's Point of View:

"So here's the game plan Amber," I said to my pikachu as we approached the pokemon center. "We need to be clean and presentable when we get on that boat, so I'm gonna give you a bath when we get back and I'm going to wipe Amethyst down with a washcloth with some soap."

"Pika pi pikachu pi, chu pika?" she questioned nervously.

"No I'm not going to make you dress up, I just wanna get you two clean, that's all. I'm the one dressing up." My pokemon snorted and laughed before she and I made it too the building we were traveling to and I walked inside. The nurse at the counter seemed quite surprised to see me coming from the front door rather then upstairs, but I quickly brushed that look off and handed Amber over to her.

"Uh… good morning Violet; would you like me to heal your pikachu?" she questioned worriedly.

"Yeah, I'd like that, sorry if we worried you at all, Surge had us battle him at six," I explained to her. She sighed and took my pokemon and handed her to her chansey and the pokemon took her into the room behind.

"Surge often does that, I'm sorry if he forced you to get up too early." She handed me over a tray of food and I sat before her desk and ate it. "So I'm guessing you won your badge?"

"Was there ever any doubt?" I grinned and pulled my badge case out of my bag and showed it to her. She smiled and handed it back to me.

"I guess not, you're starting to get very famous in the area," she said to me. "A lot of my family members have told me of you and how worried that set of boys are to find you."

"I don't need them to baby-sit me when I'm the one who's been ahead of them all this time." I scoffed and drowned the water she gave me with my meal. "I mean, can't they just see that I can handle myself just fine? Even Team Rocket doesn't stand much of a chance against me."

"Team Rocket? My goodness, I've heard about a couple of your encounters too, maybe they're not as big of threat as we thought so long as we have our pokemon." Nurse Joy sighed and sat down behind the counter. "Or maybe they are a real threat but you just happen to be special and can stop them."

"I really don't know," I replied to her. "My pokemon have been able to handle them without a problem since the day I started my travels. The only challenge I have is when I face a gym leader, they're stronger then Team Rocket."

"I see." She muttered a bit to herself before she looked over her shoulder and watched as her chansey brought out my pikachu, all healthy and looking energetic. She jumped over the table and onto my shoulder. The nurse handed me a tray of food for my pokemon. "You'd best get ready for the S.S. Anne, she starts excepting tickets soon and you'll want to get down there before the crowds get too large."

"Thanks, we'll be on our way then." I picked up the tray and headed back to my room. I allowed Amber to grab the key out of my pocket and open the door. Inside was nothing but darkness since Amethyst pulled the blinds closed and she was all curled up in bed. I snickered and set the tray down on the table in the room and Amber got right to eating.

"Eat it up quick girl; I wanna get you and Amethyst done before I start in on myself." Amber nodded and quickly scarfed down her food before she jumped into the bathroom and sat on the edge of the tub while I set it up.

I filled the tub with warm water that I had Amber test to see if she wanted it any warmer or cooler (its best to let her decide that since she's the one who knows what she likes better than I do yet.) Once it was filled to the point where she could just barely swim in it, I shut off the water and set her in. She squealed when she felt the warm water cover her body and I quickly grabbed some shampoo to scrub her skin and fur. It was easy to wash her since Amber like the attention and she loved the water and bubbles that would float up into the air. She reached into the air to pop most of them, the others she'd blow into my face and I let them pop on my nose. She'd squeal some more and repeat the process for her own enjoyment and my own as well.

It was almost a sad thing when I pull her out of the tub and dried her off. I wrapped her into a towel and rubbed her fur down so that it was only slightly damp. With Amber now clean, that only left Amethyst left, and I was doing really well on time with a couple hours and a half to go before the opening.

I opened the bathroom door and Amber hurried out to the bed where Amethyst was. She jumped on the fire pokemon and clearly was trying to wake her. Amethyst swatted her arm at her but Amber easily jumped out of the way and continued what she was doing. Amethyst finally turned her tired eyes to the mouse pokemon as if asking the silent question 'what?'.

"I'm just gonna clean you up a bit girl, after that I'm gonna get in the shower and you can eat before taking another nap before we go in two and a half hours, okay?" My pokemon tiredly nodded and sat up in the bed and allowed me to use the washcloth in my hand to clean her up at bit, and since I couldn't bathe her, it was very quick. While I did so, my two pokemon both ate more of the food that I had brought up from Nurse Joy, and when I finished, they were both done and Amethyst went back to take another nap under the covers and Amber decided to join her, a little tired herself, and I bet a nap wouldn't have killed them.

I smiled and hurried into the other room, placing all my clothes into the washing machine and dryer before I hopped into the shower and cleaned myself up. I tried to take as little time as possible so that way I could use the rest of my time to get myself ready.

After I had scrubbed off all the dirt so that my skin was nearly raw, I shut off the shower and wrapped a towel around myself and my hair and opened the bathroom door. My dress I had left out there along with all my items to prepare myself for the party. I carried them back into the bathroom and decided to work on a few other things while I waited for my clothes to dry since I needed the under ones inside (save for the strapless bra I had to buy for my dress.)

I grabbed a blow dryer that I'd bought and quickly dried my hair until I felt no moisture in it and then pulled out a curling iron. I set it to turn on while I quickly strapped on the under clothing (that had finally finished drying) and put them on and threw the towels to the side and began taking care of my hair. It took me a while to get it all done with all the hair I had, but soon I finished with it and all the touch ups it needed in certain spots before I moved onto my make-up. Now as I'm sure most know, I'm not much of a girly girl, but I do love some clothes and things. I only decided to use some eye liner, mascara and some eye shadow for the night and quickly applied them, which was dark blue. Once that was set, I quickly got on my dress and zipped it up (with my crazy amazing bending skins to reach behind my back) and slipped on my shoes. I left out all my things since I'd be coming back to get them later tonight and walked out into the other room where my shoes and jewelry were waiting.

I slipped on everything else and while I was applying my last shoe, I heard an excited squeal. When I looked up I saw my two pokemon looking at me with sparkling eyes. I placed down my foot, finally finished, and Amber rushed around me, looking me over.

"Pika!" she cheered. "Pikachu pi pika pi!"

"Char char." Amethyst nodded.

"Thanks girls," I rubbed the top of their heads and grabbed my bag of things I'd bought and pulled out the last item on my to-do list, sky blue nail polish. "This is the last thing I have to do and then we can get going." With my toes being open to the air through my shoes and my hands not restricted by anything, I quickly applied a couple layers and let them dry and had the girls bring out my bag to take with us. With it secured over my shoulder and the ticket in my hand, Amber jumped on my shoulder and Amethyst opened the door for me and we left, the key had been placed back in my bag and we set off down the stairs.

"Nurse Joy! We're heading out to the S.S. Anne! We'll be back later tonight!" I walked by her desk when I called out to her and she looked up to me from where she was.

"Oh my goodness! Violet you look lovely! Any boy will certainly find you attractive tonight," she complemented with a grin to me. "Oh and just to warn you," she motioned for me to get closer and I did, she whispered in my ear. "Those boys that are after you just arrived a short while ago and headed over to Surge's gym. You'd best hurry and avoid that direction if you can." I nodded to her message and I walked outside the door. The heels I wore didn't hurt, but I knew after a certain amount of time they would.

We kept to the shore line as we headed toward the S.S. Anne and avoided the area where I knew the boys had been heading or could have been coming from. I saw in the distance as we got closer to the ship, however, that there was a lot of people, dressed up as well as I was, heading to the ship. They started to gather and line up as eleven approached and I was lucky enough to get in line with only a few ten or fifteen people before me.

The line soon dwindled down to the point where it was my turn; I stepped up when I heard the attendant call 'next' and walked up to the booth. A woman sat behind it and looked up at me. "Ticket?"

"Yes, I have mine, but can I exchange it for a party only ticket?" I asked her. "I was given this ticket by Bill Hugh when I went to see him and because he doesn't like parties at all."

I watched the woman sigh. "That's Bill alright, here you are Miss Vilmos, he already forwarded us about you coming here instead of him with his ticket so I'll exchange it now." The woman took my ticket and exchanged it with a similar one that said 'party only' on it rather then 'round world cruise'. "Enjoy the party miss." I nodded to her and made my way onto the ship.

I heard my pokemon gasp as we stepped on board the large boat and they glanced at all the lights and decorations that were strung up. Many people of all ages, even young children, infants and older men and women were talking with their pokemon about the ship. I saw large groups of many pokemon all over the ship and one of them happened to be a pikachu group. Amber perked up when she saw them and tugged on my hair lightly.

"What's up Amber?" I asked my curious pikachu.

"Pika pika pi pikachu chu pika?"

"Oh course you can ask, just look for us when your done, I'm going to take Amethyst over to the buffet line since she's drooling over the smell, and I don't blame her, I think I am too." I was nearly drooling myself when the warm delicious smell of fish of all kinds captured my chameleon and I in its mouth watering aroma.

My fire type pokemon and I rushed over to the table, not seeing as Amber took off after the batches of pikachu. The colorful display of multiple foods around was elegant and enough to make anyone fall head over heels for it. A man stood in a chef uniform behind the stand that we were looking at and carefully handed me a plate.

"Here miss, take all you like." He bowed slightly in respect and I felt my eyes nearly turn to stars.

"Thank you!" I gushed to him before I looked over at my pokemon. "What do you want from here Amethyst?"

"Char char char!" She cheered happily and I grinned and piled the plate with at least one of everything on the buffet table. The man simply smiled and allowed us to grab whatever we pleased before we rushed off to a table nearby where Amber had taken off, hopefully she'll find her way back here when she's done finding out if her mother happened to be here or if any of the pikachu knew her.

Amethyst and I happily nibbled on all the small bits of food we grabbed from nearly every corner of the buffet. All of it was tender and well cooked (but still a little rare so that it wasn't like leather) and the taste of just one lone item was to die for. Sometime in the mist of our eating and what not, Amber had rejoined us and we left out some food for her to try and eat. She nibbled on it happily.

Once we were done with our food, we decided to look around the ship. I led the girls down many hallways and into many areas that included rooms that guests had left open while inside to invite trainers for battles, many of which I participated in. The more I trained now, the better I would become and be prepared should I run into the boys. It felt good to battle as many people as I like, and the trainers and their pokemon were endless.

The girls and I finally got tired and headed out to the observation deck at the front of the boat. It was the first time the girls had been on a boat and I wanted them to experience it ten fold. They looked over the edge and watched the water crash into the sides of the ship and roll up on shore in the distance. The lights from the city were like glowing flying pokemon from the distance between us, and very beautiful.

"Isn't it wonderful girls?" I asked them as they took in the sights.

"Pika…" Amber whispered happily.

"Char char," Amethyst agreed.

"By the way, Amber, did you find out anything about your mother?" I questioned my pokemon softly.

"Pika… pika pi chu pika," she muttered back. I patted the top of her head softly.

"Don't worry girl, we'll find her." I promised my pokemon. She nodded and we looked back onto the area around, night was coming upon us as a fast rate, the battles had really taken most of our time and if I had to guess, the time was probably six, so we had to be off this boat in the next three hours before it was leaving or we'd be stuck on this thing for a long while.

"Oh my goodness! It's a shiny charmeleon!" I turned around at a rapid speed as a larger man with lots of black facial hair and a grey suit run over to us, his face was hidden under most of his hair, but you could see tiny bits of tan skin under it. He looked at Amethyst in awe before he turned to face me. "Hello my dear! I hope your enjoying this wonderful party?"

"I am," I replied. "I don't mean to be rude however, but I heard you shouting over my charmeleon's appearance and it puts me a little on edge when people do that, what exactly do you want?"

"You're not being rude at all!" He laughed. "You're just a trainer looking out for her pokemon and good friend. As for my business with your charmeleon, I simply wish to have a picture of it." He pulled out a camera and showed it to me.

"A picture of Amethyst?"

"Yes! You see, I am a photographer of rare and abnormally colored pokemon-Ah! You have a pikachu too! I haven't seen one in person yet!" He gushed over Amber who sat questioningly on my shoulder as she looked at him. "Pikachu are hard to come by in this region and so are charmeleon, especially a shiny one! I was wondering if you minded if I took a picture of them individually to add to my book?"

"Well… I don't see why not, but I'd like to be present for these pictures." It wasn't a suggestion I was giving him with that subject, it was a demand and an order. I've already had Amethyst almost stolen back when she was a charmander, I wasn't about to let it happen again.

"I wouldn't expect any less! If you'd like, I'd be happy to take a photo of all three of you to keep once I'm done with the individual shots. It could be like a payment for the ones I want and a memory for you to reflect back on in the future."

"I guess that's alright, do you mind girls?" Both my pokemon shook their heads and Amber jumped from my shoulder to Amethyst's and from there the man told them what to do. He wanted a picture of Amethyst first so he had her stand by herself and be in any pose she wanted. She ended up bending her legs so that she looked like she was ready to jump and her claws were raised to attack. A grin was on her face that the camera man seemed too love and said that it made the picture look magnificent.

After taking a few shots to make sure he had the one he wanted, he turned to Amber. Amber had also been given the choice of how she wished to pose but ended up giving him a sweet look with her tail standing up next to her, showing its indent, and her ears bent so that one was slanted and the other was level with the top of her head. The camera man took a few photos of her from different angles and then allowed her to move. She hurried back over to me and she jumped onto my shoulder, ready for our last shot. Amethyst was already standing by my side, the two of them smiled up at the camera man and I soon did too as he took a couple shots of us and then picked the best picture to give back to us. We looked good in the picture, Amber was smiling happily with one of her arms raised while the other held onto my hair and Amethyst was grinning next to me. I was smiling nicely with my hands clasped together before my dress and my bag on my shoulder; it was a nice picture over all. I grabbed my badge case and placed the photo inside until I got my hands on some sort of photo album to put this picture in, along with any from the future.

"Thanks," I told the man once he was done.

He placed away his camera under his jacket and shook my hand. "It was no problem, plus, I should be thanking the three of you for letting me take these wonderful pictures, maybe I'll see you again in the future once these two are evolved?"

"Maybe." I didn't give him much more info then that and waved good-bye to him with the girls before I took off to another section of the ship, I was hungry for another meal.

Alexander's Point of View:

Violet had been really setting us off track for a long time now while we followed after her to keep her safe (even though she kept avoiding us easily in any city, forest and crowd since the day we discovered what happened to her and Amethyst back in Viridian City) and its starting to really get me on my last nerves. In the last city we went to, she had escaped us by using that smokescreen of hers from Amethyst and managed to hide in the city from us, then she managed to get around the police before they blocked off all exits and entrances to the cities. Vince often questioned if she ever had made it out before us and claimed that she couldn't have with the blockage.

But I knew better, Violet wasn't the type of person who would let others tell her what to do. I know Violet got down here a couple days ago and probably was living it up without having to worry about us here, but then again, she might also have moved on by now. With us after her, I don't think she would stay long unless she had a good reason or knew we weren't going to get here for a little while.

So after nearly two days, we finally got out of the city and headed to Vermilion. From what we asked around from some of the locals, she apparently had been all over town with shopping the other day and had been to the gym, so we knew she was going to move soon. While we were looking for her though, we decided to get our gym badges and get that out of the way, the gym leader however, wouldn't let us battle him since he was too busy at the time, but told us to come back in the early morning around six for our battle. We agreed since we needed that badge to be allowed to challenge the elite four, but why did he have to make the time so early?

It was on our way back that we were also looking out for Violet when my eye suddenly caught a lot of blue coloring pass us in the crowd. When I turned and looked when the person had passed us, it was none other than Violet who was heading over to a large ship that was parked in the harbor, I knew that it was the S.S. Anne from the many reports that had been done on the ship and its party before departure was today. But how did Violet get a ticket? The only thing that I could think of was that another person gave her it and she had saved up for the dress she was wearing.

"She just headed toward the S.S. Anne," I told Vince in a rush and turned to head toward the ship.

"Hold on Alex!" Vince grabbed my arm and pulled me back. "One, we need tickets to get on that ship and two, we're not exactly dressed for the party."

Vince was right, as much as I wanted to just charge on that ship anyway, we needed the right dressing and tickets to get on that ship. I sighed angrily and took off to the pokemon center. As if being told by the gym leader that we had to come back tomorrow morning at six wasn't enough…

I led Vince back to the pokemon center and once we got there we headed over to the video chat phones and called up my grandfather and sis. They picked up on the phone instantly, waiting to hear any news we had to tell them.

"Have you found Violet yet, Alex? Vince?" Gramps asked us.

"Yeah we did, but she's on the S.S. Anne, she somehow got her hands on a ticket. Do you have those extra ones that were sent to you a month ago for the trip? Vince and I'll use them to get on the ship and find Violet. We also need some nicer clothes to be allowed up there."

Gramps turned to Daisy on the other side of the video chat and she rushed off. "We'll get you what you need Alex, you just find Violet and get her under control before something really bad happens." I nodded to my grandfather and my sister came back soon enough with two dress suits and a couple tickets in hand.

"Okay you two; listen well so you don't draw too much attention to yourselves." My sister stated. "First, both of you need to take a quick shower if you haven't already today and get dressed in these suits I found. Vince, I grabbed you one of Alex's but with a different color tie and shirt, you'll know which one is yours. Once your all dressed up, head to the ship and get these tickets exchanged for party only ones, Violet wouldn't risk leaving Kanto until she's done all she can here. Violet most likely will be around the ship challenging trainers to battles since you know she's always wanting to become stronger, so check there first, if not, then the buffet and the observation deck. Act like any other trainer on that vessel if you get challenged to a match, accept it and beat the trainer quickly before moving on. She'll likely be there until the end of the party since I doubt she knows of you two being in the city." She placed the items on the teleporting machine to the side and quickly sent over the items we needed. "Be careful boys, Violet won't be easy to take down, nor will she listen." We both nodded and ended the call there and took off for our room to get changed.

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Getting on the ship had been a piece of cake for the two of us, and with Ivysaur and Wartortle at our sides; we were ready to face Violet and her team when we found them. Early night had befallen the city by the time we had made it through most of the ship and quite a few trainers, but there was still no sign of Violet.

Maybe she did know we were here, maybe that's why we can't find her… I sighed as we made it to the last observation deck on the ocean liner to take a break from all this drama and our walking. I sat down on one of the benches and Vince sat beside me. We both exhaled at the same time, as did our pokemon at our feet right after us.

I suddenly heard my turtle pokemon gasp before he grasped my sleeve and pointed off toward the other side of the deck, there was Violet, happily giggling with her pokemon at bench right before the edge of the ship. She was watching them look over the edge and at the clear ocean and sky that the world decided to give us tonight. She looked so happy, so calm… so strong. Was I wrong about what her mother had said? Couldn't Violet handle herself without us? She's beaten us and escaped our grasps so many times, if she's stronger then us, then what are we to her? We couldn't protect her if we wanted to, so what's the point to all of this nonsense?

I looked over to Vince and watched as he had his own expression of deep thought as well, from the beginning he hadn't really been in on this to protect his sister, of course he'd do it if she needed help, but she didn't and he didn't want her getting mad when she was fine on her own. I knew he was against this, but went with it for the sake of his mother. He looked back over to me in question and determination. I nodded to him. It was time for this to end.

I got up from my spot and acted as the brave soul that walked over to Violet. She didn't notice me as she enjoyed the scenery as well as her pokemon. I stood behind her and looked down at her with soft and sad eyes. "Violet?"

I watched as her entire body stiffened and she jumped from her seat and hurried over to her pokemon. Her pokemon growled and jumped before her body, ready to attack. I raised my hands before me to gesture them to calm down. Violet was looking around in anger, she saw where Vince was sitting and looked like she was cursing herself for not noticing us.

"Violet please…" I stressed out the word I hardly ever used and I saw Violet freeze over it. I never used my 'pleases, thank yous or sorrys' unless I was dead serious about what I wanted or needed and Violet and Vince knew that the best out of anyone.

I watched as Violet placed her hand on Amber's head to calm her down, she also placed her hand on top of Amethyst's paw and stepped around her fire type starter. Amber still glared at me on the shoulder of her trainer, but she didn't growl or attack.

"What do you want Alexander?" she asked me almost hesitantly. Her eyes averted from mine while she waited for my answer.

"Can we talk?" I questioned hopefully.

"About?"

"Everything." It was only then that she dared look up at me and looked at my eyes. She took a moment to look them over before she took another step toward me.

"What do you want to know?" I sighed then and held out my hand for her. She seemed hesitant of it at first, but eventually she slowly lowered her hand into my own and I saw the bright sky blue nail polish on her fingers. I smiled at her and chuckled lightly and she stilled in fear.

"Sorry, it's just that I never expected you to dress up like this, you look nice Violet." I told her sincerely.

"Are you sick or something Alex? You just gave me a compliment." She took her other hand to feel my forehead and I removed it and pulled her away from the edge and toward her brother and our pokemon.
"No, I just felt like complimenting you was all."

Violet's Point of View:

It took me a while to tell my solo adventures to the boys who sat before me and listened with much intent. They followed nearly every leg of my journey with a question or two about some fact or detail that they needed clarification on, like Rose, the people I've helped out, Bill, the ticket I got, Luke, everything. It had taken nearly and hour or more to tell them every detail of what's taken place since I'd last conversed with them for more the a few minutes. To catch up like this was really relieving on the soul. It felt good, but to say that I wasn't nervous for something they've planned up their sleeves, I'd be lying through my teeth.

"So you've been certainly a busy person Violet," Vince commented with a grin. "You get your third badge from that crazy Surge then?"

"Done and done." I pulled out my case and took the photo the camera man gave me earlier tonight and showed the boys my case; it had the thunder badge placed on the top row, second from the right. I only had five more to go in our home region. "But why are you guys suddenly just being so nice and… not chasing me around the region?"

"Well, with all this time we have since you keep escaping us, it's given us a lot of time to reflect on what we've been doing and how you've been doing," Alex began to explain. "As much as I hate the idea, you are stronger then the two of us, hands down, so… how are we supposed to protect you?" He sighed and lowered his head with his elbows on his knees. "In all honesty, I'd rather just be your rival and do what I've wanted to do all this time, get to the top, be a pokemon master, and I can't do that if I'm rushing around and chasing after you when you clearly don't need our help."

"But at the same time, we'd like to be able to keep contact with you or meet up with you at certain places," Vince continued. He pulled his hat off his head and looked down at it for a moment before he placed back on with a sigh. "Mom's just… I don't know what to say to be honest. I've never seen her like this; I don't understand why she's gotten over protective of you."

"Maybe it's because of Dad," I noted softly. "From time to time, when she got mad at me, she'd say I was just like him, I was the side of him that she always worried over."

"It wouldn't surprise me, your father was a large risk taker and a powerful battler, one that didn't stand down to a fight or lose easily." Alex sighed. "But no one's seen your father in three years, how would he come into play? I mean, I've heard he still keeps contact with your mother-"

"His letters stopped about a year after he left," my brother cut in. "We haven't had word from him since he made it to the Victory Road."

"Things haven't been the same after that, but Mom eventually got back to semi normal as long as we didn't really bring him up in conversation. She would from time to time call Vince a lot like him because of how he's always excited for a new adventure like Dad had been, but other then that, she never really talked about him." I looked up to see Alex's reaction to my explanation. It was a grim face, he didn't know how to reply, and neither did my brother or I.

"So… what do we do now?" Vince asked.

"Not chase me around the Kanto region for starters!" I snapped sarcastically.

"At least not in the way we have been doing." Alex chuckled. "Hey Violet, how about a battle before we go?"

"Awe no fair Alex! I wanted to battle her!" Vince growled.

"Relax Vince; you can battle me next time. We only have enough time for one battle before we have to get off this boat and I'm planning on heading out early tomorrow morning." I turned my attention to the ginger-bronze haired boy next to me. "I hope you're ready to lose Alex, I won't be going easy on you, even if we did patch up."

"I wouldn't expect or want any less." He snickered as he drew forth a pokeball and threw it out before us. From the white shimmering light that left the center of the pokeball came a creature that I recognized as a similar pokemon to Alex's abra, but it looked older, wiser, it had a mustache and a longer tail and a spoon in its hand while the coloration of the pokemon was still the same as its prior evolution, with the exception of some brighter purple-red markings all over its body in many different places.

"Alright then, this should be fun." I looked over to my electric pokemon and nodded to her, she grinned and bound forward before me to face off against the evolution of the abra, her red checks sparked with bright yellow electricity that was certainly powerful from the way it partly echoed in the sky.

"Kadabra use confusion!" Alex called out and the pokemon's eyes glowed, my pikachu naturally looked away from its eyes, worried it would be confused. It turned out my pokemon made a smart move on her part when nothing happened.

"Thundershock Amber! Fry that pokemon for dinner!" With her eyes still closed, her cheeks sparked harshly before lightly blasted around her body and then toward the kadabra. It fried the pokemon on the field and it stood with a burnt look to it. It must have been recently evolved since abra can't do much of anything but teleport and normally are pretty weak until evolved.

"Kadabra!" Alex yelled out worriedly to his pokemon. His kadabra was able to lightly glance through its sooted eyes to see us on the other end of the battle field. It was still managing to stand after a hit like that it just took, that pokemon right there is gonna be a tough one to beat when it gets stronger.

"Kadabra, use recover!"

Awe shit!

Kadabra's body was engulfed with a bright rainbow of colors as the energy flooded back to its body. I couldn't afford to let him due that or he'd make this battle last longer.

"Amber use quick attack!" My pokemon rushed forward and hit the kadabra head on with her body and I saw the other pokemon gasped in surprise. It was knocked back and wasn't finished with its healing process, but had gotten enough energy to survive the hit. "Again!" My pokemon repeated her last attack before the kadabra had a moment to act and was knocked over, the poor thing knocked out cold.

"Huh, so you have gotten a lot better," Alex noted and pulled out a pokeball, calling back his kadabra. "Great job, you did well for you first battle." Alex then beckoned his wartortle forward and the darker blue pokemon grinned, ready for battle. "But let's see you handle Wartortle! Water gun!" Wartortle prepared to fire a beam of water at Amber as she sparked her cheeks when a sudden roar cut off our battle. I turned to look beside me and watched as Amethyst stepped forward.

"Char, char." She said plainly. Amber stood up on her back legs and looked at her fire type friend.

"Pika pikachu pi?"

"Char." The shiny charmeleon nodded and stepped forward while Amber came back and jumped to my shoulder.

"Well if you wanna battle Amethyst, we won't stop you girl, it should be more interesting this way anyway." I grinned at my first pokemon and she readied herself for battle against Alex.

"Let's try this again, shall we?" Alex snapped on the other end of the ship and our battle field. I grinned; this was the Alex I remembered, impatient and moody. Just the way it should be. I snickered at my own silent comment before I prepared myself for battle with Amethyst. "Wartortle use water gun!"

From the dark turtle pokemon came a powerful beam of water that was aimed right at Amethyst; she leapt to the right, avoiding the water. Wartortle didn't give her the chance to recover however and threw another one at her.

"Ember!" I shouted and Amethyst countered the water with her fire. While the attack was countered for the most part, bits of water still hit Amethyst head on from the remains of the fire; she hissed at the cooler element and bared her claws and fangs.

"Rapid spin!" Alex shouted and the turtle pokemon withdrew itself into its shell and it started to rotate around, spinning quickly before it flew toward Amethyst.

"Ember!" I repeated the same attack and Amethyst fired her attack at the spinning turtle shell. The attack, however, did no damage whatsoever and suddenly crashed right into Amethyst's lower abdomen. She was thrown back to the edge of the deck and saved by the safety rails.

"Water gun!" My relief was short lived as another beam of water was hurled at Amethyst, she cried out as the water crashed into her body and I watched her fall to the ground.

"Amethyst!" I called out to her and I watched her not move. This was the first time she'd gone down, ever…

"Ha! I knew I'd beat Amethyst with Wartortle!" Alex cheered and high fived his pokemon. "Now send out Amber so we can finish this match!"

"CHAR!" The screech caught my attention instantly and I turned toward where it came from only to watch the most powerful fire type attack I'd seen yet blast by me and hit the wartortle head on. The attack knocked it back to the other side of the deck and once the fire cleared, we saw the turtle pokemon was slowly rising to its feet.

I looked to where the blast had come from and I gasped at the sight. Amethyst was standing in the spot we had seen her go down in with a furious look in her eyes. I could nearly see the darker aura that was flying all around her body as her body shook with rage.

"I thought we took you down!" Alex shouted angrily over the fact of his victory wasn't complete yet. "Wartortle use water gun!" The attack suddenly came at my pokemon and Amber and I called out to her in worry. The water hit her head on and suddenly turned to steam. When that cleared, the aura that was around Amethyst had gotten even darker and she looked even angrier, if that was possible.

"Again!" Alex had his wartortle attack too many times to count before the aura around my pokemon was nearly pitch black and her eyes had turned a nearly white amethyst color.

I pulled out my pokedex quickly to find out any information about what was happening here. Was it another evolution? An illness? A new move? My answer soon came when the pokedex showed me Amethyst had learned a new move, rage. With every attack that hits Amethyst, her rage increases and so does most of her states other then defense.

"Pika pi!" Amber snapped at me. I blinked quickly and put away my pokedex and turned back to the fight.

"Sorry about the wait!" I called out to my pokemon and the others. "Amethyst use metal claw!" Faster then I'd ever seen any pokemon run, Amethyst was across the ship and right in front of Wartortle in the blink of an eye and suddenly swung her metallic claws over Wartortle's head. In the next second, the deck below us was crushed and broken, and even below the deck was steel re-enforcement for the deck that had been dented and broken as well. The power Amethyst had right now was incredible, and after that final blow and all the rubble subsided, Wartortle was found in the center of it, bruised, knocked out and all.

"We did it!" I shouted happily and Amber leapt from my shoulder and hurried over to Amethyst, she looked to be back to normal and blinking her eyes a bit before she realized that she had won and I pulled her and Amber into my arms. "You did it girl! You were amazing with that new 'rage' attack!" I finally got a grin to plaster itself on the face of my starter pokemon and she wrapped her own arms around me and Amber in glee and victory.

"Damn it! I thought I had it that time…" I looked up from my little huddle with Amethyst and Amber to see Alex sulking and withdrawing Wartortle back into its pokeball. "I just have to train harder and get more pokemon on my team…"

"Great battle Alex, you did great." I held out my hand for him to shake after I'd pulled myself from the huddle of my pokemon. "I think the battle would have stayed in your favor if Amethyst hadn't learned rage."

"Yeah…" he grinned and grasped my hand tightly in his own. "You're right." He shook my hand with a mad grin on his face. "And next time we battle, I know I'm gonna beat you."

"Dream on Alex, you'll need an army to take us down." I could nearly feel the fire burning around us from the competitive tension and rivalry between us. In the process of our staring each other down, I heard a surprised gasp behind us. It broke my concentration on Alex and I turned to see a sailor looking at the deck we ruined.

"What the hell did you kids do?" he screeched and it scared all of us into a sprint away from the spot where Amethyst crushed Wartortle and the deck.

Ah, just like the good old days…

Witch's Note:

Yahoo! Another wonderful chapter done! Who knew these kids would ever get along again? What're their plans now and will the kids say anything to Mommy Worrywart? Are Alex and Vince really serious about just being rivals with Violet or are they going to give her up to the adults? All these questions and more soon to come with be explained as we continue through this story!

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Halloween Witch