Pokѐmon Journey II: Gwyn's Passage
Chapter 5: The Return of Team Rocket
Gwyn's Point of View:
It's been a couple weeks since Aaron and I teamed up to travel together though the Union Cave and train together. He's been a bit disappointed since every time he battles me he's defeated by Cynder or Shocker, so he's been a bit sour over that. Other than that, things have been pretty decent in the cave and both of us had pokemon evolve in there, in fact, three of our pokemon evolved in there.
Aaron's chikorita was the first pokemon to evolve. It turned into a larger four legged creature that was a yellow with a hint of brown mixed in with it for its skin tone. It still had its large red eyes, but the small beads of plants that had been around its neck had turned into leaves, and the leave on its head just got larger. It was called a bayleef and I looked up its information earlier.
Bayleef, the leaf pokemon and the evolved form of chikorita. The scent of spices comes from around its neck. Somehow, sniffing it makes you want to fight. There are no bayleef nests in the region.
The next to evolve was Aaron's pidgey into pidgeotto. While I had seen one before, I hadn't gathered the information on it when I last got it, so I did that when I got chance.
Pidgeotto, the bird pokemon and evolved form of pidgey. It has outstanding vision. However high it flies, it is able to distinguish the movement of its prey. It renders its prey immobile using well-developed claws, then carries the prey more than sixty miles to its nest. Pidgeotto nests in this region aren't as common as they're pre-evolution and are found on routes thirty-seven and forty-three.
Then the last to evolve in the caves was Shocker. He now walked on two legs and turned pink in color, even his tail, but it was still striped with black and had a glowing blue ball on the end of it and his strangely shaped ears were striped pink and black too. He didn't exactly like his coloring, but he shrugged at it. This evolution, while not a color he likes, meant more power for him, and he was looking forward to when he wasn't going to be a 'girly pink color'. His words, not mine. Although, I have to admit he looked pretty cute as he did now. I looked up the information for him on my pokedex.
Flaaffy, the wool pokemon and the evolved form of mareep. Its fluffy fleece easily stores electricity. Its rubbery hide keeps it from being electrocuted. As a result of storing too much electricity, it developed patches where even downy wool won't grow. Flaaffy nests are rare and can only be found on routes forty-two and forty-three.
And since Aaron's beedrill had evolved before I got a chance to get the information on it, I had to get it in the cave. Beedrill was a large hornet like pokemon that was nearly the size of myself and had large red eyes and six black appendages, two of them with thick, grey, non spiraled drills on them. Its wings were quite large and it tended to be a bit of a pain when battling because of how fast it moved, but Cynder eventually adapted to its speed and found it easy to beat now.
Beedrill, the poison bee pokemon and the evolved form of kakuna. It can take down any opponent with its powerful poison stingers. It sometimes attacks in swarms. It has three poison barbs. The barbs on its tail secrete the most powerful poison. Beedrill nests are hardly seen in this region, but on rare occasion can be found in the National Park.
The cave had been a great place for training, well… at least for Aaron's pokemon at least. There was mostly water, rock and ground pokemon in that cave. Types that mostly had the advantage to my pokemon, but we were still able to take them out. It just took up a lot more of Cynder and Shocker's energy.
"Look up there Gwyn!" Aaron shouted as he once again grabbed my wrist and pulled me forward once again toward the exit of the cave. I could see the heavy rain and wind from the back of the tunnel, but Aaron seemed not to notice as he dragged me along. Cynder squeaked when she saw the rain and popped herself into her pokeball while Shocker ran beside me and I held my egg, wrapped in a thick blanket I had on me, in my other arm that Aaron didn't have a hold of.
Aaron continued to tug on my arm until I finally had enough and refused to be dragged out into the rain and ripped my arm from his as we got to the entrance. Aaron turned back in surprise, but my tugging hadn't quite stopped his sprint, so he ended up just outside of the cave and felt the downpour fall upon him. He looked up at the weather and quickly reached into his bag and pulled out an umbrella while returning his pokemon other then his bayleef.
"Sorry about that Gwyn, I guess I got pretty excited." I sighed as he rubbed the back of his head and held the umbrella out for me to get under in the pouring rain. I quickly got under it and Shocker jumped onto my shoulder to keep dry himself without going back into his pokeball. He didn't exactly care for it, that was for sure.
I noticed the patches of heavy water that had washed out a lot of the bank, in all honestly, the path were on, that was paved by the way, was one of the only things around that didn't look almost swampy with all the rain water that came down.
"This place is pretty wet," I commented as I continued to look around at the super saturated area.
"Yeah? It doesn't look too bad," Aaron shrugged as we continued to walk down the road. "I mean, we can walk on this road, right?"
"But that's only because its paved Aaron, if it wasn't, we'd be treading through swamp right now." Just to prove him right I pulled him over to the edge of the road and grabbed onto his arm so he'd keep me stable as I pushed my foot down on the edge of the road. It was muddy and mucky and my foot sunk right down in. Aaron had to help me pull out my foot from how awful the conditions were.
I shook off the mud from my shoe and pulled it off my foot as we continued on our way, I was bouncing on my one foot while the other tried to keep dry while I had to have Shocker carry my shoe since my hands were very full with an egg and holding on Aaron to keep from falling over.
It started to clear up in weather once we stepped off of route thirty-three that led us away from the cave. Aaron grinned when he finally saw the sun and hurried off, dragging me with him with only one foot to walk on, or more like hop on.
"Aaron!" I snapped and the boy let up on his speed. He chuckled nervously at me again and helped me at a more pacing speed to town.
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Getting to the town was actually much easier and what not then we thought. Though when we got there, the place almost looked like a ghost town. Hardly anyone was out and about and there was latterly no pokemon in sight, not even a cry from a nearby pokemon at all. It didn't put off a good vibe to me, and even my best friend noticed it.
"Whoa, what happened here?" He blinked and looked around worriedly at the few people who were out and about. I sighed and finally gave up on wearing my other shoe again and just grabbed my hanging up foot and pulled off the sock and placing it on the ground. It felt extremely cool to my skin, but I would bear through it until I could get my shoes warm and the mud and water out of them.
"I don't know Aaron, but something bad took place here." I pulled out an extra plastic bag from my side bag that I had accidentally left inside and put my shoes inside it, I'd taken off the other one as well since its weird to have one shoe on and one off. Once they were packed up and I was safe from getting them on anything, I took another look around to see if there was anything out of the mist that was going on in Azalea Town.
"I'M GONNA STOP YOU!" I whipped my head around to see a man in his mid life age flying toward us toward the outskirts of the town. "I WILL STOP YOU TEAM ROCKET! GIVE US BACK OUR POKEMON AND MY GRANDDAUGHTER!"
I gasped when I heard that. That was the same evil team that Violet told me that was after Aaron, Tristan and I! I looked after the man that then zoomed by us and gaped at his enraged face. Does that guy have any pokemon on him? If he doesn't he's gonna be really hurt if he encounters those Rockets!
"Grandpa! Wait for me!" I turned my head back around to see a little girl of about the age of seven hurrying up to the man that just flew by. "Grandpa! I wanna help save Sissy and Slowpoke!"
"Wait, what's going on here Sweetie?" The girl slowed down at my question and breathed heavily as she fell to the ground.
"Te-team Rocket s-stole the po-pokm-mon in town, and my Sis-ssy went to ge-get them b-back." She breathed harshly as she tried to explain. "Sissy left tw-two days ago… and Grandpa only h-has one po-ke-mon…"
Violet was right! These guys are horrible! I quickly handed my egg over to Aaron and dropped the bag with my shoes in it with him and headed back the way we came, slightly off to the north where apparently the old man was going. At least maybe I can offer him a hand if things get too hard on him.
Third Person Point of View:
Just to the side of the town called Azalea, there was a well, deep under guard by a man in black while his comrades worked below. Pokemon of all kinds were kept down there, but the one mostly trapped where those known as slowpoke. One by one they would be grabbed and by a merciless hand they would have their bodies held down and their tail cut off for the meat, which was apparently very rare and delectable on the black market.
Along with those pokemon and the evil men that stole parts of their bodies, there was a young woman there as well around the age of fourteen or fifteen maybe. Her hands were bound over her head to a rock while most of the work passed around her. She hissed though her damp black locks that covered her face as she glared at all the men and woman who dared to do this to her home town and all its pokemon.
"My, my, my dear, you'll burn holes into the back of their heads if you don't calm down." She seethed as she looked upward to the man that stood over her, the man that had captured her two days ago when she first entered here. Her captor was a higher up ranked member of the organization called Team Rocket and his name, which she had heard finally after a long period of time, was Proton.
The best way to describe this young man in Team Rocket was cocky, arrogant, and lustful. He certainly didn't give in easy unless the opponent he faced was far too much for him to handle, such as Violet Vilmos, other then her and a few select others, Proton didn't often back down and just kept on the attack until he got what he wanted or needed. Proton was dressed in a Team Rocket uniform just as the other members were, but since he was a higher up, he got to have some changes to him to make his more personalized. He wore his hair in his own spiky hair style compared to changing it to match the other grunts, which was a bright Caribbean blue-green and curved slightly toward the front of his face. He was dressed in a Rocket uniform like the other members, but at the neck you could see where his collar was open to see the front of his neck and the points and the ends of his open collar that was outlined in gold. Up to his knees and down past his elbows were boots and gloves that were an off-white color with a red ring close to the end where you slipped them on. A thick and blocky belt was around his waist that held square pouches for certain things he may have needed.
The man licked his lips. "You know, you've been here for a while…" the girl continued to glare at him, even as he set him self down onto the ground, hanging over his bent knees to look at her at eye level. "I have to make sure you stay quiet until it's a more appropriate time to tell others about what we're doing here."
"And what kind of operation are you running here?" She spat out at him when he tried to reach for her face. He snarled and whipped it away before he grabbed a large chunk of her hair and pulled. She hissed out in pain, but made no other sound for Proton to enjoy from her.
However, he still managed to show her an evil smile in his neon blue eyes. "A quick penny to be made off of pokemon and a delectable meat, nothing more, nothing less." The girl suddenly gasped however when she felt the top part of her shirt was ripped off and whatever she had safely protected behind the cloth was now open for all to see. "But to keep you quiet, I may have to do a few things that your family wouldn't like… but I don't mind, I have no problems with raping minors."
The girl groaned as she was shoved harshly against the rock behind her that she was bound to and all of her shirt was ripped away from her body, and anything that remained under it was long gone as well. With her chest exposed and bare, she finally showed the fear that the man wanted to see upon her face and deeply embedded in her eyes.
His face slithered down close to her own, sliding past it to so his lips touched and pulled on to top of her ear. "Now that's the look I love to see."
"GET OFF ME!" The girl opened her mouth wide and bit down hard on the open flesh of the guy's neck that was exposed to her. He moaned as she bit down on the cords there and grinned before nibbling at her ear again.
"You're not the first one to bite me there." He laughed as he reached for her jeans.
She released his neck, hissing out curses and unmentionable words until a thought crossed her mind and she quieted, almost startling the Rocket Executive. His hands stilled as a sudden grin appeared on her face, nearly as mad as he had been.
"Fine then, so tell me if I'm the first to do this!" She shot her knee upward into the man's crotch and he buckled over and chocked on his pain as the young woman kept smashing the man's balls deeper between his legs until nothing would remain with the hard bone known as her knee.
Proton rolled away from her to protect his manhood from any further damage and looked up to her with enraged eyes. "You bitch…"
It was then that shouting could be heard from close to the entrance of the well. Proton and many of his men looked over in surprise and all collectively gasped when they saw a more elderly man and the member they posted outside at the entrance to the hideout fell from above and crashed in a heap at the entrance.
"Grandpa!" the girl shouted.
"Hey! Are you alright down there old guy?" Another voice came from above and quickly after, young Gwyn and her two pokemon hurried down to the bottom level, sliding on the ladder there to the bottom. She looked around at the cave and operation of Team Rocket's in surprise. "Whoa…"
"Get them!" Proton's voice ran out and it was a frenzy after that. Who would be first to catch the two of them? Or would they be caught at all?
Gwyn's Point of View:
The old man that I'd followed down to the bottom of the well sure was a strong old guy. With all the pent up anger from his missing granddaughter and Team Rocket, not to mention all the speed he had from running all the way from in the middle of the town, he knocked down the barricade and the darkly dressed man at the entrance to boot. Both of them went crashing down into the well below. My eyes had widened when that happen and I looked down into the well.
"Hey! Are you alright down there old guy?" I got no response other then a groan from the two. I looked worriedly at my two pokemon I had on hand that were both latched onto my shoulders and they motioned for us to go downwards. I sighed and gently grabbed onto the poles of the ladder and let them slide me down. I didn't have gloves on, so it was going to hurt when I landed.
I gripped the pole harder when I came closer to the bottom and where it had gotten pretty dark and quiet. When I felt my feet hit the ground, I instantly looked around at the dark cave that was below. Hundreds of pokemon were caged up below and I saw the particular pokemon, slowpoke, scattered around or in cages as well, most of them with their tails chopped off. Men in dark uniform like Violet had described before as Team Rocket were scattered about the cave, one in specific that looked slightly different then the others was near a girl who was tired up and her entire top half of her body naked.
"Whoa…" I muttered at the intensity of all the action that was down here.
"Get them!" The differently dressed Rocket shouted. In the next second, all men in black lept from their posts and dashed towards me in an effort to stop me. I gasped then looked over to the old man beside me, he was out cold. If I didn't protect him, then no one would!
"Alright then! If you guys wanna play, let's play!" I looked over to my pokemon and nodded before they jumped off my shoulder. "Start us out Shocker! Use thundershock on all the grunts or as many as possible!" My flaaffy nodded and cried out as it used the move. He screeched out and from his body came thick waves of lighting that hit all the humans in the room head on, knocking them to the ground. None of their pokemon were out, so it was easier to deal with them. "Now Cynder! Use flame wheel and release all the pokemon and that girl!"
Cynder nodded before she jumped into a roll where she was doing continuous summersaults before her body became aflame as she rolled about the bottom of the damp cave. She hit the pad locks on the doors and all the cages burst open and the pokemon rushed out of here like their lives depended on it. I watched Cynder roll over to the girl where she was with the head Rocket here and she hit him head on with her attack while turning her body sideways to cut the rope with one of her claws.
The girl pulled at the ropes and they fell apart. I could physically see her sigh in relief before she hurried over to my side of the room and thanked me. I took off my jacket and handed it to her to cover herself up. She blushed as she saw she was still exposed and used my jacket to cover her top half of her body before she hurried over to her grandfather and helped him sit up.
Thank Ho-oh… she's alright, and it looks like he is too. I smiled back at them before Cynder rolled up back before me and I turned to look at the head Rocket getting to his feet. And now I have to face the head guy, dang it…
"You little brat!" the Caribbean haired man shouted in anger. "You messed up my entire operation!"
"Well you kidnapped people and pokemon!" I huffed at him. "I think it's a fair trade."
The man looked like he was about to say something else when he suddenly blinked at me in surprise before he almost seemed to calm himself down enough where I saw his evilness pull back through to the surface of his body and face. "You're Gwyn Jalen."
"What of it?" His sudden change in attitude almost frightened me and I unconsciously took a step back from the pure evil written all over his face and merciless glint in his eye.
"The boss lady's been on the hot trail for you and your two buddies." He snorted and called out two pokemon, a koffing and a zubat. The two of them stayed by his side as he snorted a laugh. "It wasn't exactly very smart of you to come here with us after you as it is, but I guess it doesn't matter if we tell you a little bit about ourselves."
Cynder and Shocker both snapped at the man to get on with his speech as I stood worriedly behind them, the situation was starting to scare me.
"My name is Proton; I'm an Executive member of Team Rocket's newly formed team." Proton's smug look never changed in his eyes as he paused and watched my reactions to his words. "We've been working and training here in Johto for the past three years with our boss lady, the old boss' wife, Rose Agustino, Champion Violet's archenemy. As for our goal, I'm not telling." He swung his finger back and forth in its joint at me. "Boss Lady Rose would kill me if I did that, especially to one of our targets. So why don't you be a good little girl and hand over you pokedex and your pokemon before you get hurt more then I'm already going to do to you?"
His threat is what finally shocked me out of my moment of fear. While I was still fearful of him, I couldn't allow him to harm others, nor could I allow him to hurt or torture any kind of pokemon, especially my own. While the two of them were a couple of trouble makers, they were still like best friends and family to me.
"No way!" My fear inside my heart that had kept me froze was now being replaced by my anger and frustration, ready to take him down and kick his butt. "Try and take them from me you jerk!"
"Very well, since you put it that way…" he snorted and looked to his koffing. "Smokescreen." The poison type pokemon nodded before it wheezed and out came the smokescreen. His attack covered the field around him and the area between us while leaving me in the area where I could still see. It made me grin, that attack didn't help him, it would only hurt him.
"Cynder! Use ember!" My fire type nodded and sent her flames from her mouth toward the smoke before us. It made me gasp, however, when I saw the fire go right through it. This smokescreen doesn't explode? So it only works if it's Cynder's own smokescreen? This entirely caught me off guard and I looked around worriedly as the smoke started to make its way closer to us. I suddenly saw a large boulder behind us and turned to Shocker.
"Go and get behind the rock Shocker, I'll meet you there in a second!" My pokemon was about to question me but then thought otherwise when he looked at the area around us. He then nodded and booked it toward the large boulder and stayed behind it as I leaned down closer to my fire type.
"Use your smokescreen attack and then light it with ember. Hide with us behind the bolder after you've blown enough fire for it to ignite." She nodded to me and I kissed the side of her cheek worriedly before I dived backwards towards that bolder and pulled Shocker into my arms and kissed his own forehead in worry as I waited for Cynder. It made me terrified to leave her out there, but we didn't know where Proton or his pokemon was, as long as they hid in the smokescreen, they could attack at any angle that was hidden and stay hidden. Plus, their smokescreen for some reason didn't ignite like Cynder's does. Maybe it was because it was a poison type's smokescreen compared to a fire types? Maybe the fire type's contains some type of flammable material in it that makes it explode? It would make a lot of sense to subdue or catch or kill prey like they have in the past.
I heard my fire type cry out and I could smell the smokescreen that belonged to her, yes I could smell it, sight wasn't the only powerful sense I had. I suddenly hear what almost sounded like a puff of fire being coughed out of her mouth before she rushed back out to where I was and jumped into my arms just as the explosion went off. Heat, fire and smoke were all around us as I held my pokemon closer to my sides.
Amethyst's Point of View:
My human sister was watching from within the trees like a fearow when she had learned that not only was Team Rocket below and inside the Slowpoke well, but the young girl that she'd taken a liking to had also been down the there, the girl she knew as Gwyn Jalen. Of course, it made all of our blood's boil to watch our old enemies target our close friends, especially one as young as our human sister had been when all of this dramatic battling and veiled war in this world had begun between our human sister and that corrupt woman.
My eyes suddenly picked up on a flash of red just as a wave of putrid sinners graced my nostrils. I glanced through the corner of my eyes at my human sister. "There on the ground, heading this way from the well."
"Thanks girl," I felt her hand reach up and gently rub her fingers against the side of my face, which I rubbed my chin into before I allowed her to move and make her way to the ground. She borrowed some of my power, using my eyes to track the bastards as they tried to escape from the town.
We both saw them as they approached; it was a decent sized group of them, nearly ten of them or so for a small operation as this. I felt the fire building in the back of my throat, ready to fire on my human sister's signal, as were the others as we silently watched them come closer with their haul in their arms.
"Let's take them out." Our human sister rose to her feet, revealing herself to the members below. The all gasped and froze when they saw her and then us in the trees. "Sapphire, let me borrow some of your power."
"As you wish sister," her voice was gently like the snow as she allowed our human sister to take on her traits and powers. From her arms came elegant icy, sapphire colored wings and feathers while her eyes turned red and her hair turned into the same feathers and coloring as her wings. Her feet turned into darkly colored talons and she leapt into the air before screeching and freezing the ground and each Rocket member's feet to keep them from moving.
All of them were hit by this attack other then the mastermind behind the attack, Proton. He lept out of the way of her attack and into the trees, right where Amber was waiting for him. He gasped and jumped well out of her way as she swung her tail at him before Chalcedony lept off her body toward the human male and chomped his steel like strong teeth into his leg, tearing the flesh and causing the man to scream. He fell to the ground and my human sister landed before him, removing her traits of our ice type sister and Chalcedony took this moment to jump back onto her shoulders.
"Do you want my traits Violet?" our dark type brother questioned her.
"Yes, if you'd be so kind." She absorbed his energy into her body, now changing her hair to black and her skin took on the glowing marks our brother had on his body and her eyes turned to the red and black colors that were just like out brother's. With her intimidating look on, she focused on Proton. "Now," he hissed as she spoke and circled around him like prey and predator. "What is Rose up to this time Proton?"
"You already know that the boss lady wants what the kids have, what else is there to know?" The human played dumb, as if he though our human sister would fall for his tricks.
"Wrong answer." She lifted the male up off the ground with strength he didn't realize she had and began to close off the pathway to his lungs with her hand. "Try again."
"I-I'm (cough) not t-tel-telling y-ou an-any (cough) thing!" Proton struggled to breathe but kept up a strong front, he would not tell us what Rose planned to do.
"Fine then," our humans sister dropped his body only for Ruby to trap his arms under her pincers. "I'll just see if one of your weaker, new members who crack under persuasion, pressure and pain to see what's going on." She looked to the other nine members of the group, looking among them for the most timid and nervous and who would be the easiest to break in this moment.
I saw one of them shiver and shake in absolute fear as he hid behind a female member. "The one hiding behind the female, sister, I believe that would be your best option." I pointed to where they were and our human sister nodded as she grabbed him next dragging him to the front and causing him to drop all his items that scattered over the ground.
"Now let's talk then, shall we?" She gripped his neck harder and I saw his body struggling for breath. "What's Rose up to? Or better yet, where is she and her husband that's she's stowed away?"
"R-" he began but began coughing. My human sister loosened her hold on him and glared at him with her devilish eyes she borrowed from our brother.
"Again."
"Ra-adi-io w-wav-ves," he choked out.
That caused us all to blink. "Radio waves? What is Rose planning to do with radio waves? How does that help her?"
The grunt was about to speak again when a flash of light appeared before Ruby and a sudden koffing appeared before it hit Ruby in the head and forced her to loosen her grip enough for the man to escape her grip. He called out to his pokemon to use smokescreen and the entire field was soon covered in a black smoke. I heard my sisters and brothers coughing as we bore through it and heard shifting and running while I tried to use my wings to blow away the smoke.
"Damn it!" My human sister hissed and once I saw her again, I saw that we were all alone, the evil men and women had escaped from our grasp and into the forest, and it would be hard for us to find them, even with our heightened senses. "They got away!"
"My apologies sister, it was my fault for their escape, I was distracted by your interrogation." Ruby hung her head in shame. "I assure you it won't happen again." Her body shook in rage and upset and she couldn't face our human sister or look her in the eyes.
Our human sister blinked and looked back at our bug type sister who stood there in anger, waiting for our human sister's judgment. Our human sister has never struck us, nor given us a reason to fear her, so I doubt anything would take place where she would hurt Ruby. If she ever did, then I couldn't be her sister or pokemon anymore.
"It's alright Ruby, it's not your fault. I wasn't paying enough attention; he caught you off-guard." She gently placed her hands over Ruby's pincers. "Next time, I promise we'll get them for sure. We'll all have to be on guard next time, every chance we have to catch them counts as to protect others from getting hurt and dragged into their schemes."
"What should we do now Sissy Violet?" Zircon questioned our human sister.
"I'm going to go check on the people in Azalea Town and the Slowpoke Well to make sure they're all alright. After that, I'm going to pin point all the locations on the kids to make sure they're alright. Tristan is the one I'm mostly worried about, he keeps well ahead of the other two. And Gwyn, she seems to be getting in as much trouble as I seemed to get into at that age. Aaron I'm the least worried about, but it still does good to check on him. Lets start at the well, Team Rocket's operation was there so it would be a good place to start with and clean up their-" our sister was suddenly cut off when we saw and explosion come out of the Slowpoke Well. Our human sister's eyes widened when she saw it and saw the large amount of regular and poisonous smoke.
"Gwyn!"
Gwyn's Point of View:
I coughed as I inhaled a large amount of the smoke filled air around us, not able to hold it any longer. I could taste the vile poison in it and coughed some more as I tried to look around for my pokemon. They were right in my lap as they had been before the explosion; they clung to my waist in fear. I slowly leaned down and kissed both their foreheads and they looked up at me as I suddenly had another coughing fit.
"Quil!" Cynder freaked as she saw me slump against the rock. "Quil! Quil!"
"Flaaff!" Shocker and Cynder I could hear crying out for help. "Flaaff! Flaaff! Flaaffy!"
"Gwyn!" My vision blurred as I heard a female voice. I watched as a few different shades of purple and black entered my vision. "Can you hear me?"
"Violet?" My voice sounded slurred as the poison started to take its course through my body.
I felt her somehow pick me up from the ground and carry me in her arms. "Hang on Hon; I'm getting you out of here!" I suddenly felt my body moving as blackness came over me, sending me to the world of darkness within my own mind.
Aaron's Point of View:
I hated just sitting around.
But to make matters worse, my best friend just ran off after an old man and I'm stuck behind worrying if she's alright or not while watching over her egg that she suddenly thrust in my arms before she took off. It had to deal with an old man, his granddaughter and Team Rocket.
The thought suddenly hit me. Of course! That's why she went off by herself! She wanted to keep me safe from them! It made me feel guilty that I'd never figured it out. I shook my head in worry before leaning it against one of my hands that wasn't holding the egg wrapped in a blanket.
I suddenly heard my pokeballs open and I looked out before me. My three pokemon stood there with worried looks and softly asked if I was okay.
"No I'm not," I sighed before I felt a set of tears coming. "Gwyn took off to stop a bunch of bad guys and to protect me and I'm sitting around here while she's gone!"
"Bay!" Bayleef hit me on the head with his leaf. "Bay bayleef!"
My eyes suddenly widened and I looked at him in surprise. "Of course! I'll go help her!" I was about to leave when I stopped and turned back to my pokemon. "Wait, what about Gwyn's egg? I can't take it with me, it may break and she'll never forgive me!"
"Bzzt!" Beedrill took the egg gently from me and sat it and himself on the bench that I'd been sitting on.
"You mean you'll watch it Beedrill?" My bug pokemon nodded and I grinned at him. "Thanks bud! I'm gonna take Bayleef and Pidgeotto and go find Gw-"
"Nurse Joy to back gate, emergency, poison in humans and pokemon. I repeat, Nurse Joy to back gate, emergency, poison in humans and pokemon." I blinked before I felt my blood run cold and I rushed to the front with my pokemon following behind me, Beedrill carrying the egg.
Once I got to the back where the nurse and her assistants were, I saw them, the old man, a young girl that looked like his granddaughter with Gwyn's jacket on, and then I saw her. Gwyn was there, situated on a table just like the others were that were being rolled in as quickly as possible with her two pokemon on there with her, Shocker and Cynder. I turned back to look where'd they come from when I saw a cloaked figure run off from the back door where Gwyn and those other two people came from.
Who was that person? Did they save Gwyn? My attention I quickly turned away from that person though and looked back in the direction where they quickly took Gwyn off to. Hang on Gwyn! I'm coming!
Witch's Note:
Wow, here we go again with Team Rocket doing things they shouldn't! (And what an awful person Proton is! I hope Gwyn watches out! He may tear her apart next time!) And Gwyn got in the middle of that one! Anyone guess what really happened? It's not that hard to figure out, but I know sometimes people don't always understand the hints I give in my writing, so rest assured, all shall be explained next time when we have Gwyn awaken!
So, to all of you, my dear readers and reviewers, I ask you with all kindness and what not to please send Reviews and any Questions for the Q's & A's chapter at the end!
Love you all and see you next week!
Halloween Witch