Pokѐmon Journey II: Gwyn's Passage
Chapter 3: The Sprout Tower & Gym
Gywn's Point of View:
I caught up with Aaron later that night by about six and he was still worried as hell, pacing in the front lobby with Nurse Joy trying to calm him down. I hit him across the head when I finally caught up with him and told him to stop making others worried. He told me about his day and how strong his team was now, since bug types are practically the easiest and quickest to evolve out of most all pokemon, his weedle had already evolved when I finally got to meet it. It was a kakuna now which was a sort of dirty yellow color with black eyes. His pidgey on the other hand looked quite plump for a pidgey, either Aaron been really feeding it or it was like this when Aaron caught it.
We went to bed early that night, wanting to battle at some place called the "Sprout Tower" tomorrow, at the most northern point of the town. Its apparently a good place to train before heading to the gym here in town, since some people at the tower work with grass and flying types, and to boot, flying types are what the gym leader uses here in this city, so that's a plus.
I ended up sharing a room with Aaron that night, but I told him that if I got up before him and he didn't wake up with one waking call from me, I was leaving him there while I went off to the tower. Morning came and after the wake up call I gave him, only his pokemon were awake, not him. I took them down to eat breakfast with me and Cynder while Aaron slept before I let them go back to the room and then headed out into the city.
Violet City actually was a bit of a contrast between old Japanese culture and buildings made entirely out of wood with arches and designs everywhere while incorporating some of the modern-day buildings, including the gym, pokemon center and shopping center. The houses and any other building were either one or the other here, but it was pretty cool to see the contrast.
With Cynder nestled in my arms, I traveled to the tallest building in the entire town, the Sprout Tower. It was a larger older style building that had the Japanese flare of the curved edges with each level of the tower, even to the top. It looked pretty breathtaking with its dark colors and the swaying center pillar I saw moving through the doors as I approached it. Cynder was quite amazed but it as well.
"Cyndaquil cynda?" she asked me as we approached the entrance to the tower.
"I think so, I know we were told that we can battle in here, but I'm just not sure how since I don't want to wreck this wonderful building." Cynder agreed with me as I carried her in and instantly was met with the dimmer lighting from the closed up tower. Candles were lit all over the place and it was nice to see that that. Men in what seemed to be sage cloaks of some sort were littered about the place with showing people around, but it seemed that many of them were turned away from the stairs. I tilted my head to the side in confusion and approached the man.
"Excuse me?" The bald man sage turned to me with a soft smile on his face. "Why exactly are you continuing to turn people away from these stars?"
"Ah, that is because today is not a tourist day for people to look through the tower. Today is a battle day," he explained to me. "Only trainers who wish to face off against the sages of the tower may go upward. We do this and not allow tourists up because some of our sages and pokemon that live above may mistake them for a trainer and it gets a bit… ugly in appearance. If you are a trainer, you are welcome to journey to the top and battle our sensei, if not, please remain on the bottom floor and enjoy the tower."
"I'm a trainer; I'd like to face the tower."
"Ah! Wonderful! Step right up the stairs, and a warning to you," he placed a hand on my shoulder and looked at me with powerful eyes like Violet had, but not as strong as her so I didn't feel as trapped in their gaze. "Enemies will be around every corner, so be prepared to fight."
I nodded to him. "I got it." He kept looking in my eyes and I was beginning to freak out internally by it before he finally let my shoulder go and allowed me up the stairs. I hurried up them and didn't look back at him.
But Cynder did. She jumped out of my arms and onto the stairs before she blew fire at his face. The guy wobbled on his feet before he fell over, burnt and knocked out. She huffed at him before she made her own way up the stairs. I rubbed the back of my head, relieved that Cynder took the step that I was unable to do.
"Thanks Cynder." My pokemon looked up to me and shrugged as if it was no big deal. She caused me to laugh and I picked her up into my arms and carried her up the rest of the way to the second floor.
As soon as I stepped up there though, I nearly fell backward when I saw a man come out to battle me. He raced forward to pull me back up and safely away from the stairs. Once I was away from them, he pulled out a pokeball, throwing out his pokemon, a bellsprout.
"Let's go then Cynder!" My cyndaquil nodded and leapt out of my arms and landed before us on the ground, ready to take down the now shivering grass type pokemon when it saw I had a fire type pokemon. "Ember!"
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"Wow, these sages really like bellsprouts don't they?" Cynder shook her head as she and I walked on the highest level of the tower to battle the sensei or head sage here. Most of the pokemon these sages really had were bellsprout, which, I hate to say this, was extremely easy to beat and didn't provide much help for Cynder to get stronger. My first gym battle is with a flying type gym leader, not a grass one. I didn't see how this training would help us. Cynder was getting quite tired of facing the same pokemon and if we didn't find a real challenge quick, I think we might not have as good of a chance to beat the gym leader in town as we would've with more training against the actual type we were going to face off against.
I suddenly heard a crash up ahead; I felt it in the structure of the tower. I looked up to the area before us and there was Tristan, a calm and relaxed look on his face for once compared to the fearful one I've seen before. Tododile was out before him and was dancing about over its victory before Tristan returned it to its pokeball.
It's probably best that I don't say his real name here; he might attack someone in rage and fear. I sighed to myself. So that means that it's Silver Vilmos…
"Silver!" My voice rang out into the room and caught the boy's attention. He turned back to me in a rush and in surprise that when his dark eyes met mine, I was momentarily frozen. You know, its kinda scary how bright his eyes look, they look really… amazing to me. Wait, what? I shook myself free of my gaze and sudden through when that single sentence passed through my mind.
He seemed to blink out of his own frozen gaze at me as well before he freaked and blasted away from the elder and toward me. Cynder growled and puffed out fire at him as he got closer, but as he got in really close, he booked it to the side and sped down and out of the tower.
"Wait! Silver!" I called out to him, yet he didn't seem to respond. He just kept running until he was out of sight and gone. "Darn it!" I stomped my foot in frustration.
"He has quite the way of 'not talking', doesn't he?" I turned my head to look at the elder sage that was dressed in a brighter set of robes compared to the other men that mostly wore grey and black compared to his yellow and purple. He had no hair on his head, but he had a very long beard on his face and was slightly hunched over as he stood next to me.
"I think he's just really afraid of people." I shrugged my shoulders at the man and Cynder climbed up to them to sit there, watching the man closely. I patted her head. "Relax Cynder; he's not going to hurt me."
"Quite, I only approached you since you are a trainer if you have journeyed this far and I wished to see if you wanted to have a battle with me." The man laughed lightly at my fire pokemon. "Your cyndaquil seems to be much of a misfit and protector of yourself. She cares deeply for you, even for the short amount of time it seems you have been together."
"How can you tell that?"
He winked at me. "It's an old sage trick; I'm not allowed to tell, plus, that would ruin the fun of my secret."
I sighed. I guess I'd have to wait until next time to try and talk to Tristan… I shook the thoughts from my head and looked back at the elderly sage. "Yes I'd like a battle, if you wouldn't mind that is."
"I am the one that asked." He laughed lightly and crossed to the back of the room on the other side of a battle field that seemed to have been drawn here. "Let's start out shall we? Go Weepinbell!" I blinked in pleasant surprise when I heard a different name other then bellsprout come out and I watched as its evolution stepped out onto the field. I pulled out my pokedex to give me a bit more information about it to make sure I wasn't too far out of my league.
Weepinbell, the flycatcher pokemon. If its prey is bigger then its mouth, it slices up the victim with sharp leaves, then eats every morsel. Even thought it is filled with acid, it does not melt because it also oozes a protect fluid. Weepinbell are uncommon and tend to live on route forty-four or in the Safari Zone near completion in Cianwood.
I pouted my lips to the side of my face. Well, that certainly means its going to be more of a challenge to battle compared to its pre-evolution. But how much of one? It's still a grass type.
"I would like to begin if you don't mind miss." I looked back up to the head sage and nodded to him. Cynder made her way out onto the floor and I waited. "You may make the first move."
"Okay…" I shrugged my shoulders before I looked over at my fire type. "Cynder use ember!" My fire pokemon blew fired at the grass type and it couldn't move to quickly so it took the hit, crying out as the fire took hold of it, but it still stood tall even with a burn on the side of it. It flinched when the cold air blew against the wound, but shook itself off and prepared itself for whatever would happen next.
"Acid Weepinbell!" The pokemon's cheeks inflated before spat out a large chunk of purple goop form its mouth, Cynder ducked out of the way and I even moved to the side as some of the impact thrown off acid bits flew in the air towards myself.
I forgot it was also a poison type! Dang it!
"Avoid the poison type attacks with quick attack Cynder!" My fire type used her speed to jump around and avoid the poison as it chucked at her from the back of the weepinbell's throat. She dodged left and right, avoiding every hit and the weepinbell's throat looked to be getting a little sore from all the hurling.
"Nice! Now's our chance Cynder! Use quick attack to get close and then ember!" My fire type nodded and jumped into a dash toward the acid spitting pokemon we faced. It tried in a last effort to protect itself by blasting more acid at it, but Cynder just leapt out of the way to the side where it couldn't turn quickly enough.
Cynder grinned as she ended up right before the pokemon's face and a small explosion of fire came from her mouth. The grass type erupted in flames as it's body caught fire and it ran around and rolling on the ground, trying to put out the fire. When the fire finally went out, the pokemon fell to the ground and didn't get back up, but acid still secreted from the edges of its lips.
The sage only smiled at the pokemon before returning it. "You have fared well against this match up my friend, good work." He placed the pokeball of his fallen grass type in some type of pocket in his robe before grabbing the next pokeball he had on hand. "This is my only other pokemon, but I believe you will enjoy facing this one rather then the grass types you've been facing in this tower. Let's go Hoothoot!" Out came the small bird pokemon that was normally nocturnal that had a large head with pale red eyes and black pupils, very tiny wings and feet compared to the body and head, which had dark brown and tan feathers. With some black ones on his head for eyebrows that stick off to the side off its head.
It looked quite angry as it tiled its head to look over at me and Cynder; it seems we must have accidentally woken it from its nap for this battle. Its eyes had a red glint to them as well as a bloodshot look as well when its eyes twisted just right. To say I was a little freaked out would fit the picture as well as be an understatement. I looked over at my pokemon and she raised an eyebrow at me, waiting on me to call out a move for her or something for her to do in this battle.
"Sorry for the wait Cynder! Let's start out this battle with quick attack!" Cynder jumped off the ground to give her a boost and she sped toward the flying type and leapt to attack it but the flying pokemon flew out of the way with a speed that was quite shocking to me. How did Violet take out so many of these fast flying types if I can't even hit one of them?
"A bird pokemon's speed can be hardly matched by few other types my dear," the elder only smiled on the other side of the room. "But there are exceptions in the world; is your cyndaquil one of them?"
"I guess we'll have to find out, won't we?" I looked over at Cynder, a new look of determination on both of our faces now. "Let's go again Cynder! Quick attack!" My fire type nodded and threw herself forward toward the flying type again. Even in its tired state, it managed to fly out of the way. It seemed that with every try, we only succeeded in making it madder compared to actually hitting it.
"I see you are tired my friend," the sage said to his pokemon. "Let us end this match quickly so that you may rest. Use hypnosis!"
The pokemon's eyes glowed a bright red and looked over at my pokemon. Cynder was smart to duck and close her eyes (but then again she didn't have her eyes wide open much anyway) but the pokemon kept on the attack, trying to put her under.
"Don't let that stop you Cynder! Smokescreen!" An explosion came from my pokemon's mouth and the field was covered in a thick, dark smoke. I could hear the coughing of the sage on the other side as well as his pokemon. Cynder hurried back over to me with the smoke distracting the pokemon and she emerged from the cloud. We waited for a short while before we saw a red glowing in the smoke from its last attack and watched as the bird pokemon flew up and out of the smoke before whirling it away with strong winds from its tiny wings.
"Quick Cynder! Before the fumes are away! Ember!" My fire type was quick to do as told and pointed her flames at the still present smoke. Apparently I didn't realize how that stuff would combust, because the next thing I knew, the place was blown up in fire and heat.
Violet's Point of View:
I was calmly relaxing over at the Ruins of Alph, reading over the ancient writings of those that lived in times where humans and these pokemon called "Unknown" lived together, it was from their shapes that the first alphabet was created.
I was reading over pictures of certain texts I'd found in the ruins below and in each of the chambers about the past of these strange and rare species of pokemon when I suddenly head an explosion off in the distance and looked off toward the area of the Sprout Tower in Violet City. Fire and smoke was coming out off the top floor and I blinked a few times before I laughed at the scene.
"I knew that girl was special! She's like another me!"
Tristan's Point of View:
I'd just gotten my badge from the man in charge of the Violet City gym, a young man a few years older then myself name Falkner. He'd just placed my first badge in hand when a roar was heard off in the distance and we turned our heads to the Sprout Tower, the area I'd just come from. Fire slipped through the holes in its sides and windows to escape, followed by smoke.
I knew that girl wasn't like your average trainer, but she's almost as bad as Violet!
Falkner blinked beside me before he laughed himself. "It looks like my next challenger is almost here, somewhat reminds me of Champion Violet in a way." He turned to his pidgeotto. "Go and help her get over here quick, I really want to battle this trainer."
Aaron's Point of View:
A sudden explosion off in the distance startled me from my sleep. I jumped in my bed and looked around worriedly. The first thing I saw was that I was still in my bed over at the pokemon center and my three pokemon where all playing with each other on the floor, but had stopped and looked up to the window. I looked out there myself and watched as fire and smoke came out of the building.
That isn't Gwyn is it?
"Chika!" My chikorita pointed at the clock on the night stand with the leaf on its head and I turned to look. I gasped when I saw the time.
"WHAT THE HELL? WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME IT WAS THREE IN THE AFTERNOON? SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN ME UP SOONER AND NOW GWYN'S GONNA BATTLE THE GYM LEADER BEFORE ME! ...AND I MISSED BREAKFAST AND LUNCH!"
Gwyn's Point of View:
I coughed as smoke, fire and heat had filled the entire room. I shook off what I could that had gathered on me and looked through the patches of ash and dust to see the elder sage on the other side of the room. He worriedly looked out onto the field like I did to see if our pokemon were alright.
I suddenly head a coughing over to the side and sighed in relief when I watched my little fire misfit emerge from the ash cloud. She was covered head to toe in black, but it seemed not to bother her, nor did it bother me now that I knew she was alive.
The smoke continued to hang around, even as we watched and waited on the hoothoot to show itself. I was deeply worried for the angry bird when I didn't hear anything out of the ash cloud. I suddenly head a bird's call and looked up to the window to see another bird pokemon fly in, using its wings to blow away the ash that floated around in the air. I turned back to the battle field to watch as the ash disappeared and the body of hoothoot remained. It coughed out some left over ash and groaned as it lied on the ground.
We won…?
"Cynder…! We won!" My cyndaquil cried out in joy and cuddled up into my arms, happy as could be with what had just taken place. It was our first official battle, and we'd won!
"Congratulations my dear, it seems you are faster then my pokemon are." The sage returned his pokemon to its pokeball for some well needed red. "And it seems you've already been requested to go to the pokemon gym and face Falkner."
"How do you know that?" I tilted my head in confusion at the man.
"He has sent his pokemon to retrieve you from here, that's how." He turned to the large bird that was flapping about above. "Come here Pidgeotto, I shall let you take her now to your trainer for a battle."
The bird pokemon cried out and flew towards us. With soot all over my clothes now from Cynder, I rolled my eyes at how I looked and the sage pulled Cynder into his own arms and asked me to zip up my jacket before he placed Cynder at the top of the jacket and had me set her inside where she could grab onto the jacket.
He then had me raise my hands up into the area above and I suddenly felt the larger bird pokemon grab my wrists with its talons before it lifted me easily off the ground and through the window above and out of the tower. I yelled in surprise as I watched the elder sage wave good-bye to me and I was gone from his sight in no time.
"Next time I think we'll take the scenic route!" I yelped as the winds blasted in my face from this wild flying pokemon. Cynder nodded as I felt her burry beneath my jacket.
"Cynda!" She agreed with me.
The bird pokemon carrying us soon brought us closer to the ground when it brought us before a gym that was edged in light blue, showing that it was a flying type gym. I sighed as the bird soon allowed me to slow us down when my feet hit the ground and once I had enough stability, it released my arms before it flew through an open window in the gym.
"I guess we don't get much of a chance to rest before this battle Cynder." I looked down at my fire pokemon that had climbed out of my jacket which was now covered in black ash paw prints and stains. "I am so taking a shower when we're done, and you're getting a wash down."
"Cynda…" she mumbled at me an apology.
"Don't worry about it Cynder, now lets go win our first badge." She nodded and I pushed open the doors to the gym before us. Cynder jumped down to the ground and looked around just like I was. The room was very empty and had hardly a floor to it. It almost looked like it was suspended over a dug out basement where it was hard to see the bottom. Cynder and I looked over the edge to see how far down it was, but once I looked, I knew I'd die if I fell…
"Welcome challenger! I've been eagerly awaiting your arrival for our match!" I looked to the other side of the gym and watched as a young man not too many years older then myself motion me toward him onto where there was a battlefield. A thin pathway over this deathtrap of a room was the only way to him since I couldn't fly and neither could my pokemon.
"You certainly don't give a girl any rest, do you?" I slowly started to make my way toward him while he laughed on the other side of the room. The gym leader had neon dark blue hair that was cropped off at the base of his ears and dark hazel eyes. He seemed to be wearing a dark blue robe of sorts and had a very light, almost icy blue colored jacket over it that was rolled up at his elbows. Long white socks were on his feet and legs while those strange wooden shoes were on his feet and black wrist bands on his wrists.
"No, I'm just excited to battle a powerful beginning trainer like yourself," he replied to me. "You remind me of Violet Vilmos in a way, so I had to battle you!"
"So badly that you had to kidnap me and my pokemon from the Sprout Tower?"
"Uh…" he stuttered at that. "…yes?"
I rolled my eyes and sighed. "Whatever, its fine. Let's have that battle so you can get that crazy feeling out of you."
"Yes!" He pumped his fist and jumped up into the air as I finally made it across the board and then made my way over to my side of the field.
I hope all gym leaders aren't like this…
"Alright! Let's go Pidgey!" He threw out his pokeball and out came a small flying bird pokemon, much like the one I faced yesterday before Violet had to save me from the flock of them and hoothoot. The gym leader then gestured to me. "Sorry, I forgot to say who I was. I'm Falkner Guthrie, the leader of the Violet City gym and the first move goes to the challenger!"
"Whatever you say." I looked over at Cynder, still covered head to toe in smudged ash. She nodded to me. "Alright Cynder, let's start this out with ember!"
My fire pokemon nodded and sent out a blast of fire at the small bird pokemon. It cried out with a screech when my pokemon's attack hit it and it was thrown back into the wall, Falkner and I were both shocked and it made me turn to my pokemon in wonder. Is Cynder really that strong? Even after so little time together?
"Cynda!" My cyndaquil cried out and sent another set of flames at the pokemon across the field and pressed into the wall. These flames were stronger then and I watched in surprise as they seemed to get more intense as time went on. Eventually, the pidgey fell from its spot on the wall and crashed into the ground, it was entirely burnt and a lot of its feathers had gone, but that seemed to mean nothing to Cynder. She continued to cry out before I finally saw a white light overtaken her fidgeting body.
"Cynder!" I cried out in worry as my pokemon was taken over by that white light. I watched as her shape changed and she got a tab bit larger before I saw fire spit out of the top of her head and the lower back and practically on her rump. Her body was longer now and through the white light I watched as her eyes opened for the first time, I saw the white part of her eyes like any other human and some pokemon with neon dark red coloring in the center and a black pupil.
The light around her shattered with the flames on her body and she snorted before she looked back at me. "Quil!" she told me and I gasped as I looked at her newly evolved form. I quickly pulled out my pokedex and pointed it at her.
Quilava, the volcano pokemon and the evolved form of cyndaquil. Quilava is fully covered by nonflammable fur. It can withstand any kind of fire attack. Be careful if it turns its back during battle. It means that it will attack with the fire on its back. There are no known quilava nests in the region.
Whoa… Cynder evolved… she looks so pretty…
"Quil!" My pokemon shouted at the gym leader across the battlefield. I could hear the urgent-ness in her voice, she was desperate to battle some more, especially now that she'd evolved.
And she's still a little fire misfit, my fire misfit.
"Cynder's quite ready for the next battle, so if I were you, I'd send out the next pokemon please!" I gave him a light grin and Falkner blinked as he returned his pokemon.
"You are like Violet, or at least your pokemon is like her fire type" Falkner said to us, amazed by each of us. "Then I won't try and keep you waiting at all, in fact, I'm over the edge with excitement!" He laughed before he whistled and down came the larger bird from before that had brought me here. "Let's go Pidgeotto!"
The larger bird pokemon flew down from its perch above and hovered over the ground as it glared at my fire type. Cynder merely snorted at the bird which caused it screech in anger.
Man, what is it and bird pokemon that really seem to hate us? Or at least Cynder and then they come after me?
"Pidgeotto! Get a hold of yourself and calm down! We'll never have a chance at beating her if you loose your cool!" Falkner yelled out to his pokemon and it seemed to snap the pokemon out of whatever trance it was under before it did indeed calm down and look at us with a set of determined eyes.
"Let's end this Cynder!" My pokemon agreed with my order and the flames erupted on her head and back. Her eyes locked on the bird pokemon and glared at her, for some strange reason, it brought out the anger in the bird's eyes again. I raised my eye brow at this and Falkner looked to be very confused, as was I.
Man, bird pokemon really hate us!
"Pidgeotto!" Falkner tried again to calm the bird, but his efforts were useless, it seemed the bird had a mind of its own and dived right at my quilava.
"Cynder use smokescreen!" With a screech from both myself and my pokemon, the field was then suddenly covered once again in ash and soot. "Now use ember!"
I could hear from the other side of the field as Falkner sucked in a breath of worry, and as soon as that flame of my pokemon's touched the flying ash, everything went up in smoke.
Violet's Point of View:
I'd gotten over my laugher from earlier on from when Gwyn had nearly blown things up inside the Sprout Tower and I'd relaxed and gotten back to my translating of the Unown and dotted languages to understand of what took place in the past. I was nearing the end of my document when I felt another flame off in the distance, with Amethyst's senses; I could smell it from as far away to the south west of the city as I was and my pokemon in her pokeball.
It was another explosion in the town, this time coming from the gym itself. I snorted and felt my lungs clench up as they knew what was about to happen. I suddenly burst out laughing once more and collapsed against the rocks that surrounded me as I sat atop of the ruins.
"O-oh my… M-Mew! Ah ha ha!" I couldn't stop my laughter. "Sh-she's just ge-getting better a-and be-better!"
"Violet! You know you're not supposed to be on the ruins!" The voice of the scientist's was dull to my ears as I continued to roll and laugh atop of the ruins until I felt crumpling under me, and suddenly screamed when I fell inside.
Random Male Rocket Grunt Point of View:
As our leaders had sent us out to do, we were to find either the boss lady's son Tristan or a girl by the name of Gwyn Jalen that had the pokedex and rare pokemon that the boss lady was after. We were waiting patiently on route thirty-two for when the two children would leave Violet City and here we could ambush them.
As we waited hunched over in the grass, we could hear laughter from off in the distance. I turned my head past my partner, assigned to me to complete this mission, and watched as a young woman danced around the top of the ruins that were slightly north of our location. My eyes widened when I heard her laughter, it was a voice that was hard to miss, especially if you'd faced her in the past. It was the voice of Violet Vilmos that I heard. She was so close to where we were! Trying to take anything from these kids now would be like suicide!
But the boss lady wanted the device and the pokemon, so we have to go along with it. I shook all negative thoughts from my head and looked back to the grassy path that led to the city. But my mind kept wandering back to that woman that stopped us three years ago. Her laugh still haunted my mind…!
Her sudden scream startled me and I looked back to where she had been to no longer see her. It was music to my ears to hear silence and not her haunting laughter…
"Dude! Pay attention! Boss lady's son at twelve o'clock!" my partner snapped at me. I looked away from the ruins and turned to look back at the grassy path that led onto this route from the city. Just like my partner had said, there was the red haired boy. He cautiously looked around the area before hurrying past the clearing that we waited at the edge of and booked it to the pokemon center that was at the end of this route before the cave.
"Now let's go get that brat's pokemon and pokedex for the boss lady!" I shouted in a whisper to my partner. He nodded and grabbed the rope next to him.
"Hmm? So you guys are still around." I suddenly felt an enormous amount of shivers run up my back when I heard that voice. I slowly turned my head around to see the haunting eyes of Champion Violet Vilmos looking at me, her eyes bright and daring as she glared at us. I couldn't move as her gaze held me.
"So… Rose is after some things Tristan has? Or is it something that all three kids have?" I cursed mentally; the woman was reading our minds with the power of her dark type that sat upon her shoulders. That mean and nasty little rat that could tear you limb from limb!
"We're not telling you anything you bitch!" My partner yelled to her.
Violet merely tipped her head to the side and pouted at us before a grin appeared and she closed her eyes for a moment before every inch of them, even the whites of her eyes, turned neon dark red, like the color of a slightly brighter then blood color and a black reptile like pupil was in the center, just like a slit of black in the middle.
"This is gonna be interesting then…" She grabbed both of our uniforms and dragged us away. I tried to scream and struggle, but her pokemon prevented me from doing either with its psychic powers.
What is she gonna do to us?
Gwyn's Point of View:
I coughed once again as the smoke started to clear on the field. Though the one eye I could see out of, I glanced around to see what was still around after that large explosion, the second one I'd caused today. I could only imagine the look on Aaron's face when I tell him it was me who caused both of them… or Violet's when she catches wind that I blew up the battlefield in both the Sprout Tower and the Violet City gym. Just thinking about that for some reason gave me shivers down my spine.
I suddenly saw Cynder, she had ash all over her again and was black from head to toe, the only exception was the fire on the back of her head and her butt and lower back that burned brightly. She was hardly breathing heavily at all and shook some of the soot off her body before she snorted and looked out into the smoke to see her opponent. A body fell out of the smoke, complete covered in the ash. I blinked at it and watched as the blob took shape of the pidgeotto, the last pokemon that Falkner had.
"We won Cynder! We won our first gym battle!" My quilava turned back and grinned at me before she lept into my arms, smudging even more soot and ash onto me. "Yuck! We're going to need nearly thirty baths just to get these stains off of us!"
"Well, that's what you get for using explosions on the battlefield twice in one day." I turned my head to look at Falkner as he approached me, his pokemon returned and resting in its pokeball. "You fought like a mad woman out there and I was incredibly happy to face you, I hope maybe I can face you again in the future, and as proof that you've beaten me this time, here is my badge, the zephyr badge." He had in the palm of his hand a badge that resembled two wings that had been combined as one with them flapping downward and the space between. It was an icy blue, almost off white in color with a silver edge.
I took the badge from him and placed it in my badge case. "Thank you Falkner, it's my first badge, I'm excited to see where we go next."
"I'd suggest going south from here to Azalea Town, it's the only way to another gym without the roads being cut off, apparently something really fishy is going on, on route thirty-six." He scratched the back of his head. "I have no idea what's going on, but heading south would probably be the best way to go, and I'll send the gym leader down there, Bugsy, a message to know that you're coming to face him next."
"I really appreciate that Falkner, thanks." With Cynder in my arms I turned to leave, but not before I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Wait, before you go, what's your name?" Falkner's question stumped me for a moment or two before I realized I'd never told him my name.
"Sorry about that, my name's Gwyn Jalen." I nervously chuckled. "Sorry, I thought I already told you my name, I tend to be a bit oblivious and forgetful at times."
Falkner waved it off. "Don't worry about it, now you'd best get some rest for your travels tomorrow. I wouldn't leave tonight; my bird's sensed a large storm coming in over night."
"I think I'll follow that advice-" I was cut off mid-sentence when my pokegear rang. When I saw who it was I rolled my eyes and opened it after mouthing an apology to Falkner. "Hello?"
"Do you have any idea what you did to me?" I could hear the angry voice of Aaron on the other side of the phone as he seethed at me.
"No, should I?"
"You didn't wake me up this morning and I didn't get up until three in the afternoon! I missed breakfast and lunch all together! Now I have to wait until tomorrow to face the gym leader since bad weather's kicking in and it's getting late…"
"Well, that's your own fault for not getting up when I tried to wake you hours ago. I did try, but then let you be since you wouldn't get up." I snorted a laugh. "By the way, I got my first gym badge; see you back at the pokemon center."
It was quiet for a few moments before I heard him growling on the other end. "I hate you…"
Witch's Note:
Yahoo! Another chapter done and now we have one badge under the belt! Only seven more to go and now that we've finished chapter three, only twenty-six more chapters left! Yes! I know! I have the entire outline done so I know how many chapters there will be! Originally I had planned only twenty-eight in total, but there was one event that I had to put in since it was in the first story, and I bet you guys can put two and two together in time, once you see how that event connects all the rest! So there will be twenty-nine chapters in total, not including the Q's & A's chapter.
Moving on! I'd love if you all would send in Questions and Reviews for me and the characters! It's something for us to do so we don't get bored and destroy things in our free time and I'm not writing. (It's a dangerous thing to leave me bored, or blood might get spilled… ;P)
Love you all and see you next week!
Halloween Witch