Pokѐmon Journey II: Gwyn's Passage

by Halloween Witch

It's been three years since the disbandment of Team Rocket and Gwyn Jalen is beginning her pokemon journey as well in the Johto region. Things seem normal until she encounters a red haired boy gazing into Professor Elm's laboratory and a young woman who seems like she could kick everyone's asses. And is it fight or flight when an old enemy of the young woman's come into play?

8. Lots of Normal Types

Pokѐmon Journey II: Gwyn's Passage

Chapter 8: Lots of Normal Types

Gwyn's Point of View:

The three of us had taken off down the streets with my shaking egg in my hands. I could feel it shaking to the point where the shell would start to give way soon if we didn't hurry. I wanted it to be safe and in the warmth of a building before it hatched, but if we didn't make it to the pokemon center soon, that wouldn't happen, and who knows what that could do to my little baby pokemon?

"Alright, this is taking too long!" Vince snapped and pulled out a pokeball and threw it into the air before a large tan bird that had fire all over the edges of its wings, the back of its head and the fire was it tail appear. "Moltres! Take this girl and get her to a pokemon center as fast as you can! Just a few minutes to the north! We have a baby pokemon that's about to hatch from its egg that out here in the elements! We'll catch up soon!"

The pokemon nodded and screeched before I settled on the ground and allowed me to climb on with my two pokemon. Once we were all on, the pokemon flapped its wings and leapt into the air before it raced off toward the city that was still a mile or so away from us. This legendary bird of fire was fast, that was for sure, and it was quite convenient since we needed to get there fast, the only exception that I hated about this was how fast we were moving above everything below, the season of fall was fast ending and turning over to winter, and the icy chill of the north wasn't exactly comforting as we flew, nor did it set my nerves to rest as my baby pokemon had yet to hatch. I nestled my body down against the bird's back with the egg between the two of us and Cynder and Shocker on either of my sides, preventing the egg from sliding out and away.

"Please hang on little egg, hang on!" I looked to the bird's head. "Please Moltres! Faster!"

The bird screeched out and pulled her wings in, diving us toward the city. I screamed as we dropped until I felt a sudden thud and out the wings spared again and there was a few moments where it used its wings to glide and propel itself forward before diving again. I couldn't help my screams every time it suddenly fell, but I kept apologizing to the legendary pokemon every time.

But it did get me to the city, exactly where I needed to be.

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Once I landed in front of the pokemon center, I lept off the back of the bird's back and took off into the center. I saw the many people inside the building gasp as I lept inside with my pokemon with my egg still wrapped thoroughly in my arms. The Nurse Joy that ran the center ran up to me with her partner, a chancey, and she took a single look of the situation before she saw my almost jumping egg in my arms.

"Come with me!" I breathed heavily from the adrenaline of my flight and run as I rushed after the nurse who led me to the back of her pokemon center where she had me set down my egg on a table with the blanket around it. The egg suddenly started to glow as it shook even wilder then before and I gasped in amazement, while I caught my breath, as I watched the egg suddenly be enveloped in a bright white light.

My egg suddenly stopped shaking and the egg began to crack at the top of it, then on two spots on the top of the shell, the same amount on the bottom below them. From those few tiny cracks came tiny bright, pale tan appendages of tiny feet and little stubs for arms or hands. Out of the top of the egg where the biggest crack was, the shell cracked and disintegrated before a small head poked out barely from inside the shell, just enough to see the three smoothed out spikes on its head, its tiny, yet beady like, onyx black eyes and a tiny mouth. The light faded and the egg had changed color, the green spots on it were gone and substituted for hollowed out in color, red and blue triangles.

The tiny little pokemon blinked a few times before its eyes landed on me. It stared at me for a moment before it smiled and held its arms out for me. "Toge toge! Geeeee!"

"Oh you are such a little cutie!" I picked up the little pokemon in my arms and held it gently there while it continued to cry out happily in my arms. Shocker and Cynder quickly jumped up onto the table to meet their new sibling and I turned for them to meet it. It looked up to me in question. "There's no need to be afraid little one, I'm your Momma Gwyn and this is your big sister Cynder," Cynder came over and nuzzled its face. "And your big brother Shocker." Shocker came over and gently patted the baby pokemon's head.

It took the pokemon a moment or two to get acquainted with its older siblings in this amazing new world it was just hatched into, but other then that, it warmed up to all of us pretty quick. Nurse Joy came over to me while I held my baby pokemon in my arms and it played with its siblings.

"Why that's an adorable little pokemon you have there Gwyn, wonderful job getting it here before it hatched." Nurse Joy smiled at the little baby pokemon in my arms. My baby pokemon suddenly took interest in a clock that was hanging on the wall and watched it tick while I looked at the nurse.

"Thanks, but how did you know my name?" I questioned her. "I don't think I told you it."

"You didn't, but I knew through the news." The nurse turned and pulled out an article in a newspaper that was dated for almost a week ago. "You got famous overnight from taking on Team Rocket in Azalea Town. It was also described in the paper that while you were in the hospital, you had two pokemon on you and an egg that a friend was watching for you while you faced them." She placed it before me so I could look; on the front page was a picture of me while I was being rolled into the hospital with my pokemon on the table with me.

"That is an awful picture…" I muttered. What a great way for people to know me by, a picture of me on a rolling table heading into the hospital…

I turned my eyes back to my baby pokemon who still had its eyes fixed on the clock. Its eyes waved back and forth as the ticking did. Its sudden curiosity in the clock got me to laugh lightly under my breath as I watched it, getting my mind off of the picture and article.

"Tick, tock, tick, tock," my little pokemon looked up at me. I could only giggle at its face. "Do I sound like the clock Ticky?"

"Ticky?" the nurse questioned me.

"Well," I turned to her. "My pokemon all have nicknames and for a little cutie like this little one here, I thought that since it likes the sound of a clock, I'd call it Ticky." I looked down at my baby pokemon. "Do you like that name?"

"Toge toge!" It cried out with a smile. "Togeeee!"

"Ticky it is then! Oh!" I pulled out my pokedex and pointed it at the little baby pokemon. "I'm actually curious as to what kind of pokemon you are. Mr. Pokѐmon seems to think that you're from a different region, so if you are, then my pokedex shouldn't pick up on what you are, but if you're from this region or Kanto, I should be able to." Ticky looked at my crystal blue device in hand and watched as it blinked its lights on and off.

Togepi, the spiked ball pokemon. Its shell seems to be filled with joy. It is said that it will share good luck when treated kindly. It is said that happiness will come to those that can make a sleeping togepi stand up. There are no known togepi nests in the region.

"So you are actually from this region… and female… I'm not sure exactly how the professor will respond to that." I suddenly heard a yawn in my arms and looked down at my little baby pokemon, she was already prepared for sleep. I could help but chuckle at her. "You've only been awake for a few minutes and it's already bedtime? Fair-" a yawn escaped my mouth, "enough. I'm pretty tired too after all that's taken place today."

"I'll prepare a room for you then." Nurse Joy said and motioned me to follow her. "This way, and I'll prepare things for those boys when they get here too." I was about to question her when she stopped me. "I know that you have a best friend your traveling with and that's Vincent Vilmos' moltres out there that you came in on, he's been here a time or two before, so I know him. Relax."

I sighed and followed after her, my two older pokemon trailing at my feet. I'm trying! But that's not exactly easy when you seem to know everything about me!

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I yawned when the morning finally came and the sun was setting up high in the sky. I gently sat up as to be careful not to crush or harm any of my pokemon who slept in the bed with me. I opened my eyes and looked down at them, still in the same spot that we all fell asleep in last night. Shocker and Cynder had both been curled into my sides while Ticky was near my shoulder and head.

I was surprised to see that out of all my pokemon, Ticky was the only one awake. She was looking at a figure that was standing out there on a perch before the window, it looked like it had no where to leap to. "Toge toge?" It got up to its little feet and walked over toward the windowsill. "Ge?"

"Hang on little one; I don't want you falling for four stories on your second day of life!" I quickly took hold of my baby pokemon and placed her with her still arising siblings from slumber. "I'll check it out sweetie; you stay with your brother and sister." She only tilted her head to the side in confusion. I sighed, with her safely out of the way; I hurried over to the window and opened it to help the pokemon that was out on the ledge. As soon as the window was open, it leapt inside and hit the bed before it could stop itself, and rolled onto the floor. I watched the pokemon with wide eyes along with my two older pokemon who could only look at it as well; the only exception to this was Ticky who, as a young not even a twenty-four hour old pokemon yet, laughed at its fall.

The pokemon didn't seem to mind though, even as Cynder hushed her little sister's laughter, but Shocker began to snicker behind his paw. The pokemon before us was a small one, and most of its body seemed to be made of a bushy brown fur that was wrapped around its entire body, with the exception of an even bushier collar of tan fur around its neck and a tip of the same color on its very bushy tail. It had large black eyes and tall ears that stuck strait up while it looked at us until its gaze focused on me, then on dipped to the side in confusion as it also angled its head while our eyes locked.

"Ee?" it questioned me.

I blinked and pulled out my pokedex from the night stand to see exactly what this pokemon was. Eevee, the evolution pokemon. Its irregularly configured DNA is affected by its surroundings. It evolves if its environment changes. There are no known eevee nests in the region.

"An eevee?" I questioned myself as I looked over its information. "Another normal type… and it's female too… but why is she here?" I got down on the ground before it. "How did you get up on my windowsill?"

Before it could give me an answer, a sudden knocking could be heard from my door. I turned to face it and looked away from the normal type that then jumped up off the floor and went over to my pokemon. "Just a minute!" I shouted out and hurried over there while in less then a second all my pokemon but Cynder were playing on the bed, while she watched them with an older sister or motherly eye. I shook my head back at her just as I opened the door and the Nurse Joy of this center appeared along with a man behind her.

"Good morning Gwyn, may I and my friend step in for a moment?" I blinked a time or two before I yawned.

"I guess so, excuses me if I look a bit indecent though, but I just woke up about a few minutes ago." I didn't look too bad, I was wearing a thing strapped shirt and a set or shorts, but that was about it.

"Oh my…" the nurse chuckled. "Why don't you go get cleaned up and dressed then and we'll just wait downstairs for you? I didn't think that you'd still be in bed at this hour, but times are getting later, and so is the sunrise, my apologies."

"No, it's not your fault; I guess I was just really tired last night. Ticky was actually the first one up."

"Not surprising with a new born." She turned to leave with the man behind her. "Oh, and please bring down that eevee when you come down too."

"Okay!" I closed the door and hurried off toward the bathroom to take a quick shower and get into my day clothes. Cynder would watch the others without having me to ask her while I was away, and she would stop them if they got too rough, especially around Ticky.

The water felt warm and inviting on my skin as I let it roll in millions of streams down my now nude body. I quickly cleaned away the dirt and sweat of the night and yesterday in one fellow swoop while warming up my body as much as I could, this would be the warmest I would feel all day being under this nearly boiling water that I enjoyed. I really don't know why I stay here if I hate the cold so much, when I get older, I should leave to an island to the far south or something where it's always warm. I shook my head and sighed as I had to get out, the cold air instantly making me shiver as I stepped out of my shoulder.

"Darn its cold in Johto, remind me to ask Mom why we live here again…" I muttered to myself as I dried off the remaining warm water on my body and began to dress for the day. Once all my clothes were in place, I'd done all my essentials and I was nearly about to sweat in the bathroom from all the heat, I deemed myself ready to face the chilly day in the city.

I sighed as I opened the bathroom and suddenly felt how much colder it was in that room. My pokemon and the eevee all looked over at me once I'd come out. I grabbed my coat that I'd left out this morning on my bed and put it on over my shoulders, sighing when the mareep wool instantly took in my body heat and reflected it back to me. I threw my bag strap onto my shoulder and picked up Ticky into my arms before I walked toward the door, my other pokemon and the eevee following after me. I closed the door behind me and left the bed as it was like I always did for the cleaning people to take care of and headed down for breakfast.

Once I got to the lower section of the Goldenrod pokemon center, I noticed now considerably larger its variety was in food at the buffet that people were digging into and it was also much more spacious, and even held areas for larger parties, which apparently everyone waiting on me was waiting at in the back. Nurse Joy sat at the table with three males next to her, two of them I recognized as Aaron and Vince who were both gorging in large amounts of food while people watched in amazement and with their eyebrows raised. The last of them seemed to be an older young man then Vince, probably around the age of mid or late twenties. He was wearing a button up blue shirt, tan dress pants and black dress shoes. As I approached, I saw his shaggy, short brown hair and soft brown eyes.
"Hey Gwyn! What took you so long?" I rolled my eyes as I looked over at Aaron and took a seat next to him.
"Like your one to talk, what time did you even get here last night?" The boy shrugged and stuffed his mouth with some more food, swallowing it with a large gulp of milk.
"About eleven to midnight, was too tied to really check how late it was when we got here."
"I gathered that. After Ticky hatched we all just went to bed."
"Ticky?" I set the little bundle that was my baby pokemon on the table for Aaron to see.

He looked at the little pokemon in question and it did the same back.
"Toge?" Ticky questioned as she looked at him.
"You named it 'Ticky'?" Aaron questioned me in concern.
"Yeah, what about it?"

"It's a weird name Gwyn." Aaron shook his head and I saw the tears weld up on the edges of Ticky's eyes. She suddenly burst out into a fit of cries and Aaron jumped backward as her cries got louder and people began to look over at our table with angry and surprised looks.
"How could you do that Aaron?" I screeched at him and stood up from my seat, taking Ticky into my arms while she cried, her tears staining my shirt. Both Cynder and Shocker jumped up to the table to defend their little sister, and to my surprise, the eevee did as well, a not so pleased look on her face. "You heartless jerk! She's not even twenty-four hours old yet! I gave her that name because of how much she loved to watch a clock! And it's a cute name for a baby pokemon!"
"Gwyn! I'm so-" he was cut off by my hand whipping around to hit the side of his face, even a bit of claw marks could be seen from the tips of my long nails that I was now thankful I hadn't cut yet. He held it in pain as some more of my own tears fell.
"Don't you dare talk to me or my pokemon! Especially not like that!" One of my tears fell onto Ticky's head. "You have no idea how much I despise you right no-"
"GEE!" My attention was suddenly averted to the shaking pokemon in my arms while I watched as its tiny hands glowed and from above Aaron, tiny rocks fell from above and fell down on top of him. He hissed as each one of them hit him head on and Ticky and I angrily let him have it.
"Gwyn… maybe you should calm down a bit…" Nurse Joy tried to calm me down and I agreed with her internally that I should probably stop before I really hurt him, but one more just wouldn't hurt.
"Just one more and I'll feel better, right Ticky?"
My freshly hatched pokemon nodded and it cried out before a larger rock came hurling toward Aaron, almost the size of a brick or more. He cried out in pain and looked at us angrily, but before he could say another word, Vince grabbed his ear and pulled on it.
"Enough, both of you." He glared over at me and my anger was suddenly gone and replaced with a tingle of fear as I watched his eyes turn a deep red. He'd become a changeling… "I don't want to hear another word out of either of you, nor do I want you two fighting in here, there are other people trying to eat and enjoy their morning and your ruining it." He sighed after that. "And I just spent all yesterday trying to patch you two up too…"
A sudden phone rang and Vince sighed as he grabbed his pokegear. "Yes…" he sighed to the person on the other end of the line in an annoyed manner. "I'm a bit busy here Alex…"
He released Aaron from his grip and the boy in turn huffed and turned away from him, sourly looking down at the ground. Nurse Joy sighed and walked off, muttering something about bringing me and my pokemon some food.
I sighed. And this just has to happen… of course it does, Aaron and I just can't get along at times… I shook my head and petted the backs of my pokemon. "Alright you guys, off the table, it's alright now." My pokemon all grumbled, but obeyed none the less. They came down to my lap as that was as far as they'd leave until they felt like it would be safer. The eevee however didn't get off the table, she merely turned around back toward me and stuck up her tail and her nose into the air before she walked over to me and jumped onto my shoulder, settling there and glaring at my supposed "best friend".
"So I see you found a new friend Eevee, I'm glad to see that." I blinked my eyes and turned my head to look at the young man that sat next to us. "Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you at all Gwyn, I was concerned however when I saw Eevee on your windowsill this morning."
"Are you her trainer or owner?"
"Neither, she just stays with my family and I." He held out one of his hand for me to shake. "I'm Bill Hugh by the way; I'm old friends with Vince and his family, especially with his sister Violet back in the day."
I took hold of his hand. "I'm Gwyn Jalen, and this is my team of Cynder my quilava, Shocker my flaaffy and Ticky my togepi." All of my pokemon gave him a nod other then Ticky, who was still a bit upset, and I'm sure hungry for her first meal. We would have fed her last night, but she slept and never made a notion that she was hungry, so we let it be.
"Quite a team you have there, though may I ask you a strange question?"
"Uh… sure?"

"Would you like another member, as in, would you like to take Eevee with you?"
I blinked in surprise and even the eevee on my shoulder gasped as she looked at me with hopeful eyes. "Really?"

"Well… yes." Bill rubbed the back of his head. "Eevee was dropped off at our home here in Goldenrod a while back and we've been looking after her until someone was willing to take her on a journey or keep her permanently. Both my sister and mother will be sad to see her go, but I don't see why she shouldn't. I mean, she seems to really like you and I just want her to have a good family to be with." He chuckled behind his hand. "She also loves to battle and tends to pick up a fight here and there with some of the street pokemon or wild pokemon in the area."
I smiled and nodded. "I don't mind at all, but it's her choice." I looked over at the excited eevee on my shoulder. "So what do you say Eevee? Wanna join my team?"
"Ee!" She cuddled into the side of my face and neck excitedly. I had to put a hand on her back to slow her down and not knock me over.
"Alright! Calm down!" She did and stepped down onto my lap with Shocker and Cynder who congratulated their newest sister on becoming apart of our team. "Now all we need is a nickname for you, and once breakfast is over, I'll capture you and Ticky into a pokeball so no one else can and take you from me."
"I'm curious to ask how you name your pokemon Gwyn, when I asked Violet the same question a few years ago, she replied to me how much she had loved gem stones, and she named her pokemon based off of that." Bill questioned me while placing his hands below his chin and he leaned on them while he watched the interaction of all my pokemon of them watching me and waiting on a chosen name.
"Well… I like to name my pokemon after a certain feature about them, or something that they like, it also gives them a very different name so that way it stands out among others. I named Cynder after the fact that she was a fire type and liked to burn things when she was still a cyndaquil, Shocker I named after the fact that he was an electric type and that he liked to shock pokemon and people, and he still does if he gets the chance." My electric pokemon snorted at that while he patted little Ticky's head. "Ticky I named after the fact that she loved the ticking sound of a clock, and as for this eevee…" Her deep black eyes bore into mine while she waited on my answer. "Sunrise."

"Come again?" Bill questioned.
"Sunrise, it's the time of day when we first met and she's such a perky and happy personality that I feel that it fits." My eevee's eyes glinted when she heard the name and she grinned before she lept back up at my face and started to lick it. "Sunrise! Cut it out! I'm glad you like the name!"
"Another stupid name…" The mood was killed when Aaron once again opened his mouth and said something he shouldn't have. All my pokemon glared at him and before anyone could react, Cynder, Shocker and Sunrise all grabbed a part of him and threw him off his chair before dragging him outside of the dining room, him shouting and cursing the entire way before I saw sparks, flames and some sort of dark energy fly. That must have been one of Sunrise's moves; I wouldn't put it past her to have one or two.

"What just happened?" Nurse Joy had come back with some milk in a bottle along with some small pits of very soft food for my baby pokemon to eat while I got four plates of pancakes and sausage for my team and I.
I simply took the warm bottle of milk from and started to feed it to Ticky, who began sucking on it quickly. "My pokemon got angry at Aaron again."
She set down our plates and bent her legs to be more at my eye level and gently pet Ticky's head. "And may I ask what he did this time?"
"Said Sunrise's, my new eevee that agreed to come with my on my journey, name was stupid." The nurse only sighed as she took another seat by Bill and we watched from a distance as my pokemon fried and chewed out his butt before hurrying back over to eat.
Aaron walked in not a moment later with bite marks and charcoal all over his body, his hair was sticking up on end and his clothes were partially shredded.
"I hate you," he spat out at me.
I didn't even look back at him. "Then maybe you should have thought about what you were doing before you angered my pokemon."

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No more then a short while later, it was needless to say that I left the pokemon center. Aaron had irritated me, once again, beyond my limits, especially when he brought my pokemon's names into it. He can be such a jerk at times…

Anyway, while Aaron was left behind to lick his wounds, I decided to travel to the gym in town and see if we could earn our third badge. It would be Sunrise's first battle with me as well as Ticky seeing how a battled looked and worked for the first time in her life. All of my pokemon were excited to battle, especially Sunrise, she was extremely excited to face off against "the powerful cow pokemon" as she called one of Whitney Emil's pokemon. Whitney's gym was nearly at the most northern end of town, practically right next to the exit that led to route thirty-five, right next to an apparent flower shop that her family and friends run next door.

Since we left I also captured Sunrise and Ticky into their new pokeballs that I'd received from Kirk. I used the friend ball that he gave me, a normally colored pokeball other then the fact that the top half of it was green and it had four tiny red smooth edge rectangles around the opening part of the pokeball, to capture Sunrise in to hopefully make her more friendly to others, though it seemed to only work on my team and family and myself, not others so much. She normally stuck her noise up to them. I caught Ticky in a love ball, which was designed for pokemon of the opposite gender when trying to capture in the wild, but it didn't seem to matter at all when I caught her, plus, Ticky loved the way the ball looked. It was a bright pink with an almost glowing, hollowed out heart shape that was colored a pinkish red while it sat over a pink top half of the pokeball.

I walked up to the gym door and pushed it open to reveal inside a large and empty gym battlefield where the only thing that stood out as a decoration of sorts were plants that hung before the windows or sat before them, catching the rays of the morning sun. I guess she wouldn't need much of a specific battlefield if her special pokemon type is normal.

"Hello?" My voice rang out into the gym as I called out for anyone who possibly could be there. "Hello?"

"Hello!" I turned my head off to the other side of the field as a young woman, maybe a few years older then myself, strolled in with a large grin on her face. Her hair was short and curled along the side of her face and was a dark magenta with a couple bright yellow clips holding it back. She had on a shirt that was all white except for all the edges of it, including where it buttoned up in the center of her chest. She had on a set of indigo shorts and knee high socks that were striped electric blue and black with a set of white and red sneakers over them. Her dark golden eyes stood out against her hair and skin as she walked to her spot on the battlefield. "You must be my newest challenger! Welcome to the Goldenrod city gym! I'm the gym leader here! Whitney! Oh I'm so excited to face someone!"

"You're not the only one…" I sighed and she gave me a look in question.

"Wait a second, I recognize that look!" She put her hands on her hips and pouted a bit. "Boy problems? Friend problems? A combination of the two?"

"A best friend that's a boy who really made me and my pokemon all mad this morning, all over the names I gave my two newest members to my team and family." I snorted. "I still can't believe he got mad over the names 'Ticky' and 'Sunrise'…"

"But those are adorable names!" Whitney gasped at me. "If that boy comes around here, I'll give him a piece of my mind for you girl!"

I smiled softly at her. "Thanks, I appreciate that. But can you help me get my mind off it with a battle?" She nodded quickly to me as I got ready for battle. "My name's Gwyn Jalen by the way, I don't know if Bugsy told you about me or not, but I was in an even uglier mood when I faced him."

"Oh, he told me about you, you poor thing! Boys just don't realize how fragile a girl's heart is!" She shook her head. "Anyway, let's have an awesome battle and get our minds off things we don't want to think about!"

"Works for me!" I looked down to my team. "Who wants to go first?"

"Flaa!" Shocker jumped out in front of the others before we could confirm it. I shook my head at him with a grin and chuckle. He was always a gutsy and eager pokemon…

"Alright Shocker, just be careful out there!" My pokemon didn't quite hear that last part, only that he was allowed to fight.

"Toge!" Ticky cheered him on and I blinked as she waved around her hands and they suddenly started to glow.

"Ah ah!" Ticky looked up at me in confusion and its hands halted. I placed my fingers over them to put them down. "You can't help big brother Shocker right now Ticky, this is a battle between me and him, and the gym leader and her pokemon. I promise you'll get a chance to do this in the future, but right now, your too young and inexperienced, just watch and learn, okay?" Ticky I think still didn't quite understand what I was asking of her, but she stopped her almost attack of metronome and stayed in my arms and turned her eyes back to the battle that was about to start before us.

"I hope your ready Gwyn! Here I come!" Whitney grinned over at me on the other side of the field. "Go Clefariy!" Out from her pokeball came a very bright pink pokemon that was small in size, not much larger then Shocker was right now, maybe even a tad shorter by an inch or two. Its was a bit more rounded of a pokemon and had thick arms and legs and a big head with brown tipped large ears that were pointed. A large swirl of its fur was curled on the top of its head and it almost looked like there were wings on its back. It also had a tail that curled behind it and was pressed up against its body, puffy and bright pink like all the rest of it.

"Clafairy…" I pulled out my pokedex to see what we were dealing with here.

Clafairy, the fairy pokemon and the evolved form of cleffa. The moonlight that it stores in its wings on its back apparently gives it the ability to float in midair. Its adorable behavior and cry make it highly popular. However, it is rarely found in this region and its only known whereabouts are the Safari Zone in Cianwood.

Interesting… it's a normal type as well. Wow; my day has really been filled with just nothing but normal types, hasn't it? And now I'm facing a normal type gym leader!

"Hello? Gwyn! Can we get started? First move to the challenger!" Whitney called out from her side of the field.

"Sorry! I got a little distracted!" I looked out to my electric pokemon. "Let's go Shocker! Start out with shock wave!" It was Shocker's newest attack he'd learned apparently in the middle of the night when he couldn't sleep and decided to train instead. It was also like a disc of electricity that flew off of his arms he swung, throwing the electric attack at the pokemon. The clafairy was slow to react and cried as the attack hit it head on and drew itself into the blast. When the attack vanished, it was clearly apparent that the pokemon was now paralyzed and hurt; this must have been a recently caught or young poekmon if it was going to go down so easily.

"Clafairy!" Whitney called out worriedly. "Hang on! Use metronome!" Her pokemon struggled to do so, but it was able to complete the attack, rocking its hands back and forth before they glowed and suddenly I saw a glittering and glowing appear around the pokemon. I watched as the electricity damage that Shocker had inflicted on it was quickly disappearing and its wounds were healing.

"Oh no! Its metronome turned into recover!" I quickly turned to my pokemon. "Shocker, we have to take it out now! Shock wave again and then iron tail!"

My pokemon complied with a cry before it threw a large chunk of electricity at the clafairy, which cried out as it was hit and stopped itself from healing completely and also taking damage. Shocker then rushed in through the cloud of dust that had risen from the attack and his tail suddenly turned metallic in color before he jumped and I lost a visual on him. I heard a cry from the other side of the field from both Whitney and her pokemon and I watched as the dust slowly began to settle at the middle of the field so I could barely make out the outline of my pokemon's tail. I could see then that Shocker was standing over the body of the fainted clafairy, which Whitney was freaking out over.

I rubbed the back of my hand as the young woman rushed toward her fallen pokemon. "Sorry, did we get over carried away?"

I watched as Whitney took her pokemon in her arms and walked back to her box. "Oh no, I'm just very attached to my pokemon, I always tend to rush out to them if they've been defeated, its just part of my caring nature," Whitney said. She praised to her pokemon before she returned it and pulled out another pokeball. "Let's go Girafarig!"

From the pokeball came a pokemon that was about the same size as Aaron's bayleef, but was very different in appearance compared to it. It had two little antennas on its head that were white, as well as the top part of its head from the top of its skull to the back of its bright pink nose and above its eyes. It was half yellow and half brown with spots of the opposite color on that same side. It had pink spikes on its back and hooves for feet, looking a bit like a ponyta in that nature. It also had a tail that almost seemed to have a grinning face on it with yellow eyes and pearly white teeth that grinned when it looked around at us.

"Whoa…" I pulled out my pokedex for this new pokemon too. Girafarig, the long neck pokemon. Its tail has a small brain of its own. Beware! If you get too close, it may react to your scent by biting. It can instinctively fight even while facing backward. Girafarig nests are somewhat seen in the region on route forty-three, forty-eight and within the Safari Zone.

"Wow, you have some pretty rare normal types." I commented as I looked over the information on this pokemon, it was also a psychic type besides a normal one. I could see Whitney grin out of the corner of my eye.

"And I still have one more after this! That is… if you can beat this one!" She looked to her pokemon and she nodded to it before it raced over to Shocker without a command. My eyes widened as I watched it fast approach.

"Shocker move, then iron tail!"

"Counter it with iron tail too!" I watched as both our pokemon's tails glowed metallic light before they crashed into one another. I saw both pokemon struggling under the grip until Shocker somehow threw the girafarig's tail off and then he threw around his again to smack his tail right in its face. The pokemon hissed as it was thrown back, but quickly caught its footing once more and charged at my pokemon. "Use stomp!"

"Roll out of the way Shocker!" My pokemon had only just made it out in time as the enemy pokemon raised itself up on its hind legs and let its weight come crashing down through its front hooves that cracked the ground slightly under it. Shocker had rolled off to the side and quickly got to his feet, ready for the next command.

"Now! Use thunderbolt!" Shocker cried out as he unleashed a powerful beam of thunder right off of his body toward the long necked pokemon. It took on the attack, but stayed well up on its feet, even if it did sway a bit.

"Hold on Girafarig! Use confusion then psybeam!" The pokemon's eyes suddenly lit up purple like and stared straight into Shocker's. He cried out as the unseen attack hit him head on and his attack was disturbed and the giragarig was released from its hold. While it still seemed paralyzed, it was able to get out of there and the use its other move, a rainbow like psychic power that emerged from its mouth and was blasted at Shocker, which threw him back. While he was able to get up from the move, I watched him look a little tipsy on his feet, Shocker was confused.

"Dang it!" I hissed under my breath. "Hold off for a bit Shocker, come back and let the confusion wear off. Cynder will take your place." I saw my pokemon about to argue with me, but once he almost feel over again, he nodded and allowed himself to be pulled off the field and Cynder took his place. She blasted fire out of her head and back while she puffed it out of her mouth too, intimidating the enemy pokemon. It worked as the weakened pokemon backed up a bit.

"Hang in there Girafarig! You can handle this one! Now use confusion then psybeam again!" Whitney's order echoed in the room and the pokemon got its confidence back before its eyes glowed and Cynder instantly put her head down and closer her eyes.

"It's strait in front of you Cynder! Knock it out of here with flame wheel!" My fire type huffed out fire from its mouth before it was engulfed in flames and it suddenly rolled along the ground in a large wheel of fire. The pokemon on the other side of the field screeched before it was hit and thrown back from the attack and crashed into the wall behind Whitney, she gasped and turned as she faced her fallen pokemon that fell from the hole in the wall and was out cold.

"Girafarig!" She hurried over to the pokemon to make sure it was alright before she congratulated it and then returned it to its pokeball and called out a final pokeball, which looked much older and used, it must have been a very close pokemon to Whitney and one of her oldest and strongest pokemon.

She sighed and stood up in her trainer box while looking at the pokeball. "You know, it's been a long time since I've felt concerned that I'd loose the battle." She gripped the pokeball a little more. "But this is where we crush you! Go miltank!" Out from her pokeball came a large pink cow with black fur around its head and over its ears, paws, feet, and the furry round ball at the end of its tail.

"Just how many of these powerful and strange normal types do you have?" I pulled out my pokedex again as I looked at the screen as the picture of the pokemon came up. Miltank, the milk cow pokemon. Its milk is packed with nutrition, making it the ultimate beverage for the sick of weary. If it is around babies, the milk it produces contains much more nutrition than usual. It is seen somewhat on routes thirty-eight, thirty-nine, and forty.

"You up for this last battle Cynder?" My fire pokemon nodded to me as it continued to fire around its body. "Alright then, start out with flame wheel!"

"Counter it with rollout Miltank!" Both of our pokemon started out rolling in a ball around the battlefield, one covered by a light layer of dust from the ground, the other covered in a thick veil of fire. It took them a short while to actually collided, but once they did, the dust and the dirt was kicked up in a violent way. The winds were so strong from the force I was forced myself to drop to the ground on my knees and cover Ticky up with my body to protect her while my other two pokemon curled into me as well.

I suddenly heard a cry and I looked up as the wind was cut off like a light and both pokemon were thrown back. The miltank looked like it had taken hardly any damage while Cynder looked much worse off, her short fur was ruffled and I could see the dirt that had been kicked up all over her and lots of scuff marks. She brushed it off, however, and motioned for the miltank to come at her again.

"Rollout!"

"Flame wheel!

The two at them went at it again, and again, and again, each time with the same results. While the miltank was taking on more damage with every collision, Cynder was taking ever so much more. She was breathing heavily now and was struggling to stand. But we had to win this battle for another badge, and I was too lost in it to think about others things that I was glad I couldn't think of at the time.

"One more time! Go with rollout!" Whitney called from the other side. Her pokemon breathed heavily from all the moving around, but it nodded and lept into a fast paced rolling ball that kicked up dirt once more.

"One more time Cynder! Flame wheel!" My pokemon heaved in a breath of air before she headed off again. The two attacks once again circled around the field, over time their attacks had caused the ground crack and move all over the place or scorch, before hitting each other once more and the two struggled against each other before Cynder's fire disappeared and the attack hit her head on and threw her up in the air. She screeched as she came flying down into the ground and made a crater.

"Cynder!" I cried out to her.

"Now let's finish it off Miltank! Use body slam!" Her pokemon nodded as it came out of its rollout for a second before it started back up again to get some momentum and fly over my fire type before flattening out on its stomach in the air.

"Crud!" Whitney was finally going to have her way and take out of my poekmon, but we wouldn't do it without a fight and doing some damage. I noticed that while rolling along the ground, the miltank took little damage except from just rolling around and tiring itself out. The best way to attack it is when it's not in that form. "Come on Cynder! Use smokescreen and then ember!"

My pokemon spitted out with a last ditch effort to make some damage on this monstrously strong like pokemon. A thick black smoke came out of her mouth that the miltank flew into when she got closer to my trapped and tired pokemon. Suddenly the entire smoke was lit up in an explosion of flames and all the ground shook and cracked opened around them. Whitney screamed as she watched the place go up in flames and smoke, literally.

"Miltank!" she cried out.

"Cynder!" I gasped as I watched the damage. I watched as from the smoke emerged the miltank with many burns all over its skin and fur. It hissed in pain as it had jumped out of the smoke and skidded to a stop right before Whitney. I rushed out onto the field, setting Ticky with her other siblings before I hurried out to see if Cynder was alright. As the smoke cleared and I ran into the black fog and fading flames to find the crater much deeper then what I expected. Cynder was crushed and laid out on her back in the deepest part of the crater, black muck of some kind was stuck to the rocks and part of the gym that was crushed and shifted from all the damage, it was also all over my poor fire misfit.

"Cynder…" She cracked her open her eyes and tried to shift her joints and she cried out in extreme pain. I hushed her and crawled down into the pit and pulled her grimy body into my arms. "You just rest girl, you were amazing, don't worry, we'll avenge you." She nodded as I returned her to her pokeball and I climbed out of the hole and looked back to my two remaining pokemon that could and would fight. "Alright Shocker, you wanna take a crack at it now that you're better?" My electric pokemon nodded. He'd since recovered from his confusion as he took a break on the sidelines and was able to walk straight as he made his way onto the field.

"That pokemon of yours won't last long!" Whitney called out to me. "Now Miltank! Start with rollout and knock out that pokemon!" It nodded, and even while it hissed at the pain from the burns on its skin, it jumped and started to roll toward Shocker.

"Alright Shocker, jump into the hole that Cynder was in! Get to the very bottom!" My pokemon looked at me in fear for a moment, but after he looked at my face, he nodded and rushed down there while the rollout jumped right after him.

"Get it Miltank!" The rolling pokemon raced after my electric one that had already dived into the hole. I couldn't see Shocker from where he was, but if had remembered correctly, Cynder was in a small cavern at the bottom of the hole that was quite thick, that even that rollout attack would take a while to get through to it.

"Stay in that tiny cavern Shocker! From down in there, shock the Miltank with thunderbolt!" I watched as the rolled into the hole and I watched as a large bolt of electricity came flying out, throwing back the miltank into the air above. It was thrown out of its rollout and was still up in the air just from the attack.

"Body slam!" Whitney called out.

"Thunderbolt!" I ordered Shocker. I watched as a strong bolt of lighting came out of the hole again and it struck the miltank as it spread out its body to let it fall. It soon began its decent while taking on the full force of the attack. I could see the sparks lighting up all over its body, showing it was now paralyzed as well as burned before it crashed into the hole.

"Shocker!" I cried out as my pokemon was smashed upon, there was no way that little cavern would hold up the weight and the angle of the attack by that pokemon. The miltank was able to pull itself out of the hole, but just barely as I saw the electricity and burns slowing down and even stopping its movement entirely as I ran by it to check on Shocker at the bottom of the hole. I saw here was down there, totally knocked out from the attack. I sighed and jumped down to pull him out, his fur had been sooted from Cynder's last attack that had dirtied this entire hole.

"You did great Shocker, you get a good rest and Sunrise will finish this." I returned him and crawled back out of the hole a second time before I looked to my newest pokemon added to my team and that last one that could right. "Alright Sunrise, let's finish this up and get our gym badge!"

My eevee nodded and jumped out onto the field, staring down the enemy pokemon with a grin and a glint to her eyes. The miltank tried to stair her down right back, but it didn't work with all the pain and damage it had taken. It only made Sunrise's grin widen and her glint in her eyes become brighter.

"Alright Miltank, let's use rollout one more time!" Whitney called out to her pokemon and it moved forward to complete the attack, but it stopped from a sudden large spark that came from its stomach and it stopped. "Miltank!"

"Just what I was hoping for!" I grinned at the pokemon before us. "Let's wrap this up Sunrise! Use swift, quick attack and then iron tail in that order on the miltank! Put it out of its misery!"

From her mouth came a large stream of glittering, glowing and spinning stars that raced across the field in almost a beam like attack at the miltank. It cried out as it took the attack and was thrown backward. Before it could even hit the ground, Sunrise hit it to the side with a quick attack where she was almost lost in its belly. The pokemon was thrown back out of it and suddenly Sunrise's tail turned metallic in color before she used her speed from her last attack to hit head on the miltank. The pokemon finally came crashing down and even fell in the hole that my pokemon had both been defeated, but caused the most damage in.

"Miltank!" Whitney cried out as tears just strolled down from her eyes as she hurried over to her last pokemon. Sunrise called me over and I quickly grabbed Ticky in my arms so I didn't loose her and hurried over there. When I looked down at the bottom, which went down a lot further then it had before, I saw the miltank was down and out, its lower half of its body stuck in the ground and its eyes covered in x's.

"We did it Sunrise! We won our third badge!" Sunrise cheered with me and leapt onto my shoulder and rejoiced while Whitney cried over her pokemon. I calmed down when I saw how upset she was.

"Hey Whitney?" I slowly walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay?"

"Huh?" She looked up at me with tearful eyes. "Oh yeah… sorry about that, I always get upset when I lose." She kissed the top of her pokemon's head and congratulated it before she returned it to its pokeball. "You fought like crazy, even when your pokemon were at a disadvantage to my miltank's ground type attacks, you held it together and figured out how to weaken her when you got the chance, and for all of that and an impressive victory, you deserve this badge, my badge, the plain badge."

I was handed a small square shaped badge that was edged with a mid-tone silver color and had a center large square that was a plain dulled yellow. I grinned at the badge before I placed it with my two others and held out one of my hands for Whitney to shake. "Thank you Whitney, this was a great battle, and it got my mind off of things. I think I'm going to head up north early tomorrow morning and head to the next city, I'm excited to see what's up there for history with the two towers that stand there."

"And the next gym leader is there too, I'll give Morty a call and let him know that you're coming his way." She smiled and the tears from her eyes dried up. "And I'll make sure to kick that boy's butt for what he did to you, now go get some rest, you'll need it for your traveling tomorrow. There tends to be lots of trainers on routes thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven and inside the National Park."

"Thanks Whitney, I'm going to get out of here before he looks here for me." I turned to leave when I remembered something. "Oh! And by the way, his name is Aaron Verin!"

Her eyes suddenly turned a bit dark. "I'll crush him!"

I chuckled nervously. "Well… thanks again Whitney, I hope to see you again soon some time!" She waved to me, her scary expression gone as I hurried out with my two pokemon that were still awake for the most part. I needed to heal up, and since I was done in the city so soon and needed to get out of here…

I knew one gutsy young woman who would love a call from me.

Violet's Point of View:

I stretched as I lay out in the trees on the trail of route thirty-six. I'd been looking for more Team Rocket activity when one of my undercover sources in the region told me one or two had been spotted on this route heading north to Ecruteak City, but sadly I hadn't come up with anything. It sucked to be honest and I was bored and tired out of my mind.

I suddenly heard my phone ring and all my pokemon sleeping and or resting around me groaned at the noise of it. I apologized to them and got up form my spot against a large brand and jumped to the ground as I took the call. "Hello?"

"Hey Violet! I hope I didn't call you at a bad time." I heard the voice of my young little girlfriend on the other side and my boredom prays had been answered.

"No, no, no!" I told her quickly. "You called me at the best possibly time, I was about ready to die from boredom."

"I guess I called at a good time them… hey, I got my third gym badge today from Whitney, she was tough to beat."

"I agree, back when I faced her a couple years back, it was her miltank that was a pain in my ass the entire time, almost made one of my pokemon faint, but we pulled through."

"Just out of curiosity, who did you use in your battle if you only used one pokemon?"

"I used Chalcedony; he can be quite the little devil when he wants to be." I pouted my lips. "To be honest though Hon, you don't sound exactly like you want to talk about that right now, did you and Aaron not make up?"

"Oh my goodness, don't ask me that." I heard her groan and sigh on the other side. "Sorry, today hasn't been too pretty and I'm a bit emotional over it. Aaron and I made up yesterday, but today we had another fight over the names I gave to my two newest pokemon, the egg that hatched, a togepi I named Ticky, and a eevee that was given to me by Bill Hugh I named Sunrise."

"But those are cute names, why would he through a fit over them? And why start another fight with you when you only patched up?"

"I don't know!" she snapped on the other end. "Sorry Violet, but he and I need a vacation from each other, especially me. I'm tired of him just making me feel so angry and guilty… and whenever I think about that, it makes me think of you."

"Oh I'm so touched Hon, here, I've got some ideas already working in my head." I stood up from my spot and pulled out a couple tickets I had in my pockets. "Hey, I've got a set of tickets to this little karaoke place just on the edge of the city to the north of here and its pokemon friendly, even to little baby pokemon like Ticky, so why don't we go over there tomorrow for a while and enjoy ourselves?"

"How did you even get those?" I heard her gasp. "I've heard about that club, but it's almost impossible to get into. Only friends and friends of friends of the people who own it or those who prove their worth can get tickets or passes." She quieted down. "I've always wanted to go to Tempted Heart..."

I shrugged. "I offered to sign some autographs for the people at the club if I got a pass for me and pokemon and a friend of my choice. They agreed."

"What should I wear? I don't have any clothes that are more party like, like yours." I heard her voice turn a bit sad.

"Now don't you worry about that Hon, I'll pick out something for you tonight, the stores are still open and have a great idea about what you should wear. But just a quick question…"

"Yes?"

"What's your opinion on corsets?"

Witch's Note:

Yeppie! Another chapter bites the dust and now we're onto a little bit of a club one to have a little break from the drama for a little bit! Don't you just love Violet? She's always prepared for any situation!

Anyway, so now we've met little Ticky and Sunrise, the two newest members of Gwyn's team! And Sunrise even helped Gwyn win her third badge! Awesome right? Well, I'd better get started on that next chapter! Oh that's gonna be so fun!

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Halloween Witch