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?

18. The Return of Rose

Pokѐmon Journey II: Gwyn's Passage

Chapter 18: The Return of Rose

Gwyn's Point of View:

The sun was rising; bringing heat to the already pounding fury in my heart as I rode on Cynder's shoulders back to the tower. It was the dawn of a new day and soon to be the fall of this organization that I promised my father I'd fight against, no matter what.

Fight!

I would not listen to others.

Fight!

I would not accept any bribes.

Fight!

I would not listen to a soul until the deed was done.

Fight!

Rose has frightened me for a while now, mostly because that she was a wanted criminal and she would be on death row or killed on sight when found. Death had always frightened me, but now, I was in such a fit of blinding rage that that was the least of my worries. Death was in the furthest corner of my mind. All that I cared about was taking Rose down, and if I wasn't powerful enough… then I'd die trying.

He was alive, after all these years, Rose had kept him away from Mom and me, made him suffer like some sort of caged beast behind locked iron bars. I still remember the image, gruesome as it was. But he was there, and that's all that mattered.

After being supposedly dead for so long, I could finally say that he was alive. I can finally tell Mom the truth…

Wait, it's been a long time since I've even talked to my mother… almost half a year or more. I should really call her more… But I could do that at a later date, I had things I needed to take care of now, and Rose was one of them.

I looked off in the distance and watched as the radio tower came into view. Its black color reflecting the darkness of those that were inside at the moment, especially the heart of the operation, a cold-hearted killer who cared not what was lost, who was lost, so long as it aided her. I couldn't let her continue on this path.

Even if I have to be the one to kill her, I'll do it.

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With a loud explosion, flames burst into the radio tower on my command. With the doors blasted in, still on Cynder's shoulders, she walked inside the building and I jumped off to the side to give her more room to take them out. A large group of Rocket grunts were in the lobby, taking care of the damage that we'd dealt them with only a short while ago. They all backed away in fear when they saw us and Sunrise even jumped off my shoulder to blast some shadow balls at them, effectively clearing the way as we headed up to the next floor.

Upon reaching there, the place was actually much emptier then I thought it would be. Only a couple grunts were there, which Sunrise easily took out before we rushed past their bodies to head to the third floor where an apparent secret door that led to the real fourth and fifth floor was.

When on the third floor, we found the door toward the back of the level that we needed to get up to the next level on. Rocket grunts were guarding it with their lives as they tried to fend my team and I off, but I was too angry to care what happened to them or be careful like I normally was as we faced them, though I happily did take noticed that no hostages were on this level. They either were hidden away safe, or they escaped. Either way, it meant me and my team could go all out against these idiots.

Sunrise blasted the lot of them with her shadow ball attack while Cynder followed her up with a flamethrower. The two of them combined and exploded before the area, leaving patches of burning fire behind. I stepped over their bodies with my two pokemon in tow and Cynder grunted as she knocked down the hard metal door that led up to the next level we wanted to get up to.

I led the two of them up the short set of stairs it took to get up to the next level and I was shocked to see a wide open area for a lookout here with two people waiting for me. Both of them were higher ups in Team Rocket from their white uniforms. One was a male and the other a woman, the male looked somewhat like Proton had with electric blue hair and the woman reminded me slightly of Rose with red hair, but her eyes were darker, but filled with less anger and darkness as the woman in charge of all of this was. Her hair was much shorter then Rose's, have a bit of spiky set of bangs that hung between her eyes and pulled back into a short tail behind her head that spiked out.

"So you finally made it here Gwyn Jalen, I must say that the boss lady isn't quite happy with all that you've done, including leaving your father by himself in those tunnels." The woman sighed as she took in the sight of me. "And you would leave your father there?"

"As much as I want to save him, I have to fight all of you first." Sunrise and Cynder both growled before more of my pokemon emerged, all of them, including Scarlet, who loomed over us all and was situated behind me on the ground. Shocker, who stood next to me with his ears sparking. Ticky, who flew over my head and had rocks floating in the air with the purple mist around them, ready to throw. And lastly, Shelly, who sat in my arms. While he still didn't like fighting, he would stand together with us. "Don't even try to bribe me, I won't agree to any of your terms or anything you offer me."

"Not even if it means seeing your father again?" the male questioned me.

"Yes," I glanced over at Cynder and she flared up and blew a smokescreen all around so no one could see. I could hear their coughing on the other side of the room. "He told me to fight, and I'll do that and find him on my own, I don't need to lower myself to any demands you or Rose want just to get him back. He'd hate me if fell to your demands." I snorted and crossed my arms, a very 'Violet like' pose of me. "Oh, and if I were you, I'd duck."

Cynder cried out and the flames went wide as the smokescreen lit up and exploded before our faces. I heard a scream from the other side of the room from the woman. A sudden hole in the fiery smoke screen appeared and from it came a large snake like pokemon that was a dark purple color with multiple color marks on its chest. An arbok.

"Ee!" I quickly looked to Sunrise and watched as she blasted at the arbok and pushed it backward with her attack until she got to a sudden point, then she starting firing them randomly and windows around the area were breaking as the morning sun was brightly shining in. Sunrise deeply looked out to the sun while everyone on the other side was recovering and I was watching her.

"Sunrise?" It brought me out of my rage for a moment when I saw the look on her face; she was stunned at the look of the sun, entranced. "Sunrise? What's going on?"

"EE!" She cried out to the sun that she was so entranced with and her body began to glow as beads of the sun's light flowed right into her glowing white body. My eyes widened as her body grew, just enough to be a size larger, much like Chalcedony. Her body and fur smoothed right out to where it was thin and fine against her body. I saw her tail loose the fluffy fur it had as well and her collar of fur was gone too, it all smoothed out and her tail almost grew another half a tail long before the end of it split into two thick ends that swished in the wind. Thicker bits of fur came out from the sides of her cheeks and hung from there and her ears grew in size a bit while moving further from each other on her head.

The slight suddenly disappeared as Sunrise cried out once more and the energy of the light exploded in floating beads all around her. She was an elegant pokemon that was a darker lavender color while her eyes were a bright snow white colored pupil and a dark violet color that would take the place of the whites of a person's eye. A centered red circular gem resided on her forehead and the insides of her ears was a pale dark blue.

"Esp!" Her voice was much deeper now, but I still heard the energy and what not behind it. "Espe esp!"

I pulled out my pokedex to see what Sunrise was now. Espeon, the sun pokemon and the evolved form of eevee through the sun's rays. Espeon use the fine hair that covers its body to sense air currents and predict its enemy's actions. By reading air currents, it can predict things such as the weather or its foe's next move. There are no espeon nests in the region.

"Espeon…?" I looked over to my newly evolved pokemon and I could tell she was grinning from the way her tail would swing and whip mischievously about. "Well then…" I felt the air tense from the others side as they watched us wearingly. My eyes locked on them. "Have at it Sunrise!"

"Esp!" My pokemon was quick to respond and in the next second she was gone from before us. As she had disappeared, I watched as the bodies of the admins we were facing were picked up off the ground and thrown into the air and swung around as they cried out in discomfort and fear as they neared walls and floors and the ceiling. I looked up above and watched as Sunrise, evilly I might add, laid down on a suspended metal beam from above and watching over the scene as the bodies floated around under power and while her eyes glowed a bright lavender color.

Suddenly I saw the glow of red eyes from behind Sunrise from up on the beams. "Sunrise! Behind you!" Without moving an inch, the figure from behind her flew over her head and down into the area with the admins that was added to the juggling she was performing with her newly developed psychic powers. It was the arbok she's been facing a short while before that'd disappeared during the battle.

Once things were settled down and once again in control, it was nice to laugh at the comical seen of two admins of Team Rocket were flying around from a young thirteen year old girl's single psychic pokemon. My entire team joined in with me as they pointed and laughed.

"So this seems funny to you eh?" My eye was drawn to the side where I saw a figure of another female that stood behind the two of the admins that were flying about. She was dressed in a female, white, Team Rocket uniform with long, vibrant red hair and icy blue eyes that I could feel chills from her gaze. A scare was on her right eye that stretched from the top of her forehead to the end of her chin.

Both of the admins and the arbok fell to the ground and Sunrise disappeared from her perch, and then reappeared back on my shoulder. Her eyes glowed as she glared at the Rocket boss before us, but the attack did nothing. I heard a sound as if a shield had been broken and to my surprise, the woman's form changed to that of dark purple hair and red eyes. She flew up into the air and next to her then suddenly appeared to be a gengar, hers.

"Boss Lady Rose!" the female admin cried out when she saw her leader. "I'm so sorry for the child; I will deal with her-"

"It's far too late for that Ariana, you've already failed me by my being here." She glared at them with a furious grin that made the color of her eyes seem darker then they actually were. "You and Archer both failed me."

"It won't happen again milady." The woman bowed her head and Rose only snorted.

"You're right, it won't." Rose threw her arm around and at the woman before Ariana screamed out and clutched her head and chest in pain before falling to the ground.

It was a curse attack!

"Scarlet! Use dragon rage!" My water dragon screeched as she released a powerful beam of black, red and purple. Rose quickly glanced back at us before I saw her vanish and the blast took over, eradicating that part of the wall and blasting a hole right through it before Rose suddenly appeared before Scarlet and reached out to pet her scales.

"Oh what a pretty red gyarados…" Scarlet took that moment to swing her tail forward and the woman was thrown into the ground. She swung her tail back and then crashed it back into the ground where Rose had landed. When her tail came back up though, to all our surprises, she wasn't there. My eyes widened and I quickly looked around to see the woman on the other side of the room, simply watching us with a smug grin.

"Gengar, kill the girl." I suddenly felt a heavy, overwhelming weight on my chest that just seemed to be invading and then trying to tear apart my heart from inside my body. I screamed and dropped to the ground, rolling about. I could hear my team calling out for me, but I was unable to respond when I suddenly felt my voice go, it was no longer there.

I couldn't scream…

"Let her go Rose!" I glanced off to the side and watched as a flash of red and purple and red flashed by me, Tristan… "You face me now!"

"Gwyn!" I could only tilt my head to the side as I still suffered through the pain. I saw red, yellow and black. It was Aaron…

They came…

"I don't think so!" I heard Rose shout as she sent Tristan and whatever pokemon he'd choose back with her attack. I felt the wind move around me and they were thrown into a wall. I still tried to scream, but nothing still would come out.

"Hang on Gwyn!" I felt Aaron shaking me and trying to hold me still.

To discover the name of the ancient move that only a few pokemon can know, you must protect someone who's at the point where their fear overtakes them and they are unable to do anything. Only then will your spirit realize the name and you will obtain victory so long as you continue to fight.

Those were Violet's words to me about the ancient move Cynder and I had learned, or hadn't learned yet. I could feel the fear around and it's what brought the move back to my mind from where it once was not there. Aaron and Tristan were afraid for their lives, as well as my own. Tristan was facing his own murdering mother for crying out loud! How much more fear can you face then that?

"Don't worry Gwyn! Violet will be here soon and set things right!"

But Violet won't be, she's facing Giovanni, wherever he is right now. I was on my own, so were the guys. I had to break this curse! What happened to all my strength I had just a short while ago? Where's my fighting spirit?

I couldn't let her win.

That was when I felt the pain fade and I could open my eyes. I looked up and off to the side where I saw that horrible gengar at that hovered over me. I could see the twinge of regret in its eyes when it saw it couldn't hurt me anymore with its attack. It flew back over to Rose on the other side of the field and worriedly told its mistress. The woman glanced over at me with a nervous and furious look all in one as she glanced at me.

I staggered to my feet and even them I wobbled. Aaron hurried up to make sure I could stand, but I pushed him off me as I glared at Rose. The hatred in my eyes could only be matched at that moment by her own.

"Cynder." My fire type glanced over at me, as did most of my pokemon as their attention wondered what I would do next. "Blast burn!"

The markings suddenly erupted all over her body and even her eyes glowed as Cynder suddenly let loose a ginormous attack of white fire that shot across the floor and hit Rose head on, along with her pokemon before I heard multiple windows shattered under the pressure of the attack and most everyone ducked, even if they weren't in the fire's pathway.

It was just so bright…

Cynder cut off her fire and stood there loud and proud with the marks that were glowing all over her body as we checked to see the other side of the room. Rose was still there with her pokemon before I saw her body fade and so did that of her pokemon. I whipped my head around to look for any sign of them as the field was bare of their physical forms. Even the two Rocket admins that worked for her were terrified of where she could be.

I suddenly felt a pang in my heart and I looked over to where Tristan stood off to the side, but still somewhat before me with Feraligatr.

I saw him be lifted up into the air and I watched him choking on air and struggled to breathe as Rose suddenly appeared before me. Gengar floated around her and laughed, even with the burns that it had taken on.

"You have a choice here Gwyn," Rose's glare pierced her son's eyes as she glared at him, and then me, before a smirk appeared. "Either you surrender and he lives, or you attack and he dies. Take your pick."

There was no coldness inside me from her demand, only rage seemed to flow through there. I felt my fists clench and my eyes trailed over to where the woman held Tristan. I could see his pain, it only fueled my anger, and I was hungry for revenge.

It almost felt like a door had opened inside me and pure fire was pouring inside of my heart. Lava in the pit of my stomach and I felt my body get so hot. Cynder stepped next to me and growled at Rose along with my other pokemon.

Rose on the other hand and all the others that were in the room apparently were shocked by what was taking place and Rose even dropped Tristan so he could get away as I glared at Rose with a sharper vision then what I'd ever had before.

"Fight!" I leapt forward and punched her face.

Violet's Point of View:

Getting to the mountain range where Giovanni had been quiet easy, though I can't exactly say that's how I feel about leaving Gwyn behind to deal with the grunts and admins of Team Rocket, but at least she wouldn't be facing Rose. Using the abilities of Amethyst, I was able to fly over most of the mountains while allowing my pokemon to keep most of their energy as I made my way to the supposed cave where Giovanni was stashed away.

Upon landing there, I saw that there were no footsteps outside of the cave, not in the snow, nor in the ground or on the rocks. It was as if no one had come out or out of this place for years. But I could hear some kind of noise inside, yelling, battling, it sounded like a young girl's voice and that of an older man. I quickly ran inside and I was stunned by the sight before me.

"What are you doing here?"

But that wasn't the only thing that scared the crap out of me.

Rose wasn't there…

Third Person Point of View:

No one could have foreseen the events of this day and how it all let up to these very moments. No one expected Gwyn Jalen to lose her temper, no one expected her to barge into the radio tower and put past all her fears of death and everything around her to face the crime lord of the region, maybe even the world, Rose Agustino. And to make matters worse, no one expected Gwyn Jalen to figure out her ancient move that belonged to her fire pokemon, nor did anyone expect her to figure out how to become a changeling.

Gwyn's appearance changed once this new found ability took over. Her hair didn't change to a certain color; it literally became fire that blazed from the apparent pours on the back of her head. Her eyes turned to that of a deep neon red and claws extended on her hands, and possibly her feet too if they weren't covered by her boots. She threw off her coats and scarves and gloves and boots to leave the girl in her blue shirt and red sweatpants. Everything was out in the open and free for her to use.

It was then the girl charged at Rose.

Her fist, covered in a thick veil of fire, hit the woman square in the nose before throwing her backward into wall which the woman had been sent flying through. Rose managed to regain her balance as she floated out in the air only to look up in time as Gwyn leapt out of the building that they'd been fighting in and grab onto the floating woman who had harmed her friends and other innocent beings. Her claws dug into the side of the woman and the woman howled in pain as they were suddenly dragged down form the weight and Gwyn continued on the attack. Scratching, biting, ripping flesh off the woman in every effort to stop her and take her down.

The two males that were the young girl's best friends could only watched from their spot above where they had once been standing with her. Now they watched her fight on her own and see the amazing power she had inside her.

"I know I told her once she couldn't handle Team Rocket by herself…" the more arrogant of the two, Aaron said as his voice was soft and upset. "But now… she can… just like Violet."

The other male said not a word as they watched the fight of their friend trying to claw her way through the woman's body in her pure rage and the woman trying to throw her off. Rose then suddenly crashed her body and that of Gwyn's into the building that they were fighting beside and out came Rose from the dust cloud without the young girl on her body any longer.

The girl suddenly appeared on the wall outside of the building, her claws digging into solid black metal walling. All four of her appendages were deep into the walling and she growled and snarled up at the woman before the girl launched herself at the woman that had floated up in the air. One of her claws slashed forward and hit the woman's face, leaving a thick scar of four scars that crossed her other eye that had once been perfectly pristine while the other side of her face had the scar that had come from Violet Vilmos' hand.

Rose screamed as she was thrown back down and held the side of her face with the newly made scar that most likely would also be with her for the rest of her life. Gwyn then screamed back at her and blew a white fire at her body. Rose was engulfed in the flame and thrown down into the ground level of Goldenrod City. Gwyn leapt after her.

On the other side of the battle field that took place on the wall of the building still, the gengar that belonged to Rose and Cynder, Gwyn's pokemon, were battling each other. The ghost type was failing miserably against the fire type that kept the ghost pokemon using its abilities long beyond what it was capable of. It cried in pain as it was also thrown down into the ground next to its trainer and was unable to move.

Rose's abilities then of her own changeling power were then cut off and she turned to look at the woman that was left by herself. The girl and her fire type were racing toward them, she had no where to run too.

"Boss Lady Rose!" Suddenly the other woman, Ariana, flew down next to her along with her other admin, Archer. The two of them quickly grabbed her and her pokemon before turning to look at the transformed girl that was racing toward them with her pokemon. She blasted at them with white fire and the three of them ducked out of the way.

"Boss Lady Rose, we have to leave!" Ariana begged her leader. "Violet Vilmos is already coming back from where the big boss was hidden and defeated him, and she knew you weren't there!"

"If we don't get out now," Archer looked at her worriedly, "we'll all be captured or dead. And then your new plan, whatever that may be, will never get a chance to go off the ground because we'll have two or more changelings to deal with, and even you can only handle one or two at a time. But now… there are four changelings in the world: Violet Vilmos, Vincent Vilmos, Alexander Oak, and now, the final one thus far, Gwyn Jalen."

Rose could do nothing but growl, but she was out of options. "Fine, have us retreat for now. Gather as many of the grunts as you can…" she paused for a moment as a ghost pokemon was used to help them phase through the road and away from Gwyn Jalen and her pokemon. "What of my husband?"

"Captured ma'am, no one was there to stop him from being captured. Violet Vilmos still is champion over all of us, and now Gwyn Jalen is rising to her peak."

They faded away and out of sight after that, and Gwyn Jalen's still roaring cries howled through the city as she tried to break through the ground and get after the woman once more. She crushed her fists into the grounds in attempts to get the woman back, but they were all in vain.

"Gwyn! Stop!" The girl turned her head back somewhat to see the two boys that she cherished and was fighting for were coming closer to her. She growled and turned her head back to what she was doing, ignoring them.

"Be careful you two!" From the distance came two older male humans that held them back as they watched their friend in her fit of rage, attacking the ground. Vince took a hold of Aaron and Alex took hold of Tristan. "She's a changeling right now; she could take you out and kill you in a second if you piss her off enough."

"But then what do we do? Rose is gone and she'll tear up the entire city for her!" Aaron continued to struggle in the older male's arms that kept him back, and even with all the kicking and pain he could inflict on the young man, he would not let go. "Can't you stop her? You're changelings too!"

The two older males looked at each other before looking at the furious female changeling. While the boys were right in the fact that they were changelings, they were worried that a battle between changelings would result in some extremely dangerous events or the destruction of Goldenrod City. No one said a word as things continued to run as they had before. The girl changeling continued to be mad and attack the ground, which was starting to give way under her, and the males could only stare and watch.

"Gwyn! That's enough!" The girl changeling look up just in time to see another body shoot into her and a large dust cloud emerged. As the dust slowly cleared, another female body looked to be over the first. It was an older female with wings, claws and a tail with fire on the end of it. Violet Vilmos had returned to stop her good friend from destroying everything.

Gwyn's arms were trapped under the elbows of the older woman and her knees kept Gwyn's legs in place. The tail of the older woman was the one thing that was free, other then her wings and she kept them at bay while she tired to keep Gwyn's attention on herself.

"Gwyn, listen to me!" Violet snapped over the girl's heavy growling and howling. "Rose is gone! You've won! But you'll lose soon if you keep going on like this and destroy the city!"

The girl under the older woman finally calmed down enough to see that her narrow lined vision, through a heavy veil of anger mind you, was lifting up and Gwyn was finally able to see what was going on. She looked up at Violet and her eyes widened.

"What… hap-happened…?"

Before the girl or the woman could speak again, the girl's eyes rolled into the back of her head and she was out cold.

Gwyn's Point of View:

I groaned as I felt myself coming awake from the heavy sleep that I'd been under. Everything was a blur to me, I couldn't remember anything up past the point where I finally gave in and went past my fears of everything and… that's all I remember. I think it may have had something to do with Aaron and Tristan, I was protecting them right?
"Nice to see you up Gwyn, sorry if I hurt you at all in Goldenrod." I looked over to the side and saw the woman, Violet, come into view as she took a seat next to me. "You really gave all the guys a scare, hell, even me."

"What happened?"

"You don't remember?" Violet sighed when she saw me shake my head. "You became so enraged that you figured out how to become a changeling, but you were unable to control its power once Rose had escaped-"

"Wait!" I stopped her and sat up, dizzy and confused from the suddenly movement, I had to lay back down and wait for it to settle before I could talk again. "Rose got away?"

"Yeah," Violet sighed and punched her fist against the wall next to the bed. "Just before I got there too, that damn woman."

"Everything's still a little fuzzy, but I think I remember giving her another scar to match the one you gave to her." I tried to offer some sort of comfort for her in this situation. She actually snorted a laugh and nodded.

"I saw, nice handy work by the way; three is much better than one. Now she has four!"

"And who knows how many others with us getting in her way."

"Us? Gwyn, sweetie, I'm not sure…"

"No just yet, I know I'm not quite up to the level you want me to be at to travel with you should something happen, but I know I'll get there, and soon. I want to train with you Violet, I've seen the ugliest side of Rose, she showed me my Dad-" the woman gasped. "And I know I need to help you take her down, and I want to after what she did, she nearly killed Tristan!"

"I thought you said the memories were fuzzy?"

"They're coming back faster then I thought they would." I blinked as I saw the flashes of our fight. "You need me out there with you," I gave her a hard and determined look, "once I'm strong enough."

"Yeah," she nodded and held out her hand for me to shake. "Once you're strong enough."

I shook her hand.

Witch's Note:

Oh boy, now Rose is on the loose again, when will the girls ever catch that woman? She's such a-

Oh, I should be careful… some young pokemon lover could be reading this… oh who am I kidding?! After my first story with Violet you guys should be used to it! Rose is such a bitch and I wish we could destroy her from the inside out with the hottest flames from the pits of hell!

There, now I feel better! Oh well, I better get onto the next chapter! I can't wait! But you guys will see it in a week! So I'll see you guys later! Love you all and please remember to Review and send in Questions!

Halloween Witch