Chapter 8
Both Gold and I turned over to look at the person calling us.
"James?" I said, a bit in confusion, as I watched Elm's assistant walk over to us, carrying a large messenger bag with him, as he gave us both a bright smile.
"Well you remember my name, yes I was going to go out and look for you two, thankfully you were in here!" He said chuckling.
"Yeah we came here to heal our pokemon, they needed a rest after battling and what not." Gold explained to James.
"Oh of course, well Elm sent me here to give one of you two this," James said as he searched through his messenger bag, taking out a large oval like item, it was a deep yellow color, more like a golden yellow with dark chocolate brown spots on it.
"An egg?!" Both Gold and I said, a bit in shock. I mean I see why Gold is shock, Pokemon eggs are rare, as in you never really see how they appear of where they come from. I was shocked seeing it with my own eyes, it was amazing and beautiful at the same time.
"Yes it's an egg that Elm received recently from Mr. Pokemon . He asked me that one of you two to take care of it, and raise it." James explained as he carried the egg carefully in his arms as if it were a baby.
"Well what type of pokemon is it?" Gold asked , staring at the egg in awe.
I already knew what pokemon it was, remembering from the game, it would be a Togepi.
"Well it's up to you two to decide." James glanced at us both, trying to figure out who would keep it.
"Hey I think you should keep the egg. I think the egg will be happier with you." I told gold as I looked at him with a kind smile.
Gold smiled back happily, taking the egg from James arms carefully as James pass the egg to him.
"Really? Are you sure?" He asked
"I'm sure, don't worry." I told him as I lightly touched the egg, and then I felt the egg move.
"Hey it moved!" I said shocked, James was shocked too.
"Strange, it must like us. Well I have to go back to the lab you two." He said as he closed his messenger bag.
"Really so soon?" Gold said as he hugged the egg, it was really cute like seeing a kid hold his or her new baby brother or sister.
"Yes, lot's of work to be done in the lab. Well Bye you two." he said as he waved good bye and walked out of the pokemon center.
"Too bad he couldn't stay longer." Gold said with a sigh.
"Excuse me, you're pokemon is ready, I've healed them completely." a nurse said to us as we turned, seeing that she had a tray with our pokeballs, there. Gold had one while I had three pokeballs.
"How do you already have so many pokemon, did you have a pokeball or two before?" Gold asked
"Uhh yeah Elm gave me two so I could catch some pokemon!" I said making up an excuse with my best smile that i could muster.
"Oh okay cool, you're lucky. They don't sell any here, it isn't until the next town that they do." Gold replied as he looked at me closely.
"So what's the next town?" I quickly asked wanting to change the subject.
"It's Azalea Town, it's pretty close" Gold said with a bright smile.
"Oh okay, I think I'll leave for it today then, I don't have anything left at the hotel." I mentioned as I began to walk out.
"Hey can I come with you?" He said reaching out and got a hold of my hand, which were smaller than his since my body's age was younger.
"Huh? Well... I rather go alone... you know." I said and kindly as I could without hurting his feelings.
"Oh.. okay." He said, letting go of my hand, with a sad smile.
"Yeah.. plus it's better, next time we meet we can battle, and so our next battle it can be a surprise on who wins," I said trying to cheer him up, which worked seeing how his sad smile turned into an energetic one.
"Yeah! I'll train hard, and I'll beat you Lena! Plus I'll have more pokemon by then!" he stated as I started to walk out, "Yeah, see you until then." I told him once I walked out of the doors of the pokemon center, and took out Bayleef's pokeball, and got him out of there.
"Lena, finally you took me out of there, it's so boring in there, and yeah. I mean it's nice to sleep there and all but I don't want to sleep all day!" He energetically told me, as he walked around me a few times.
"Okay sorry, but I was talking to Gold, plus I needed him not to follow me." I explained to Bayleaf as I started to walk away from the Pokemon Center.
"Okay so where are we heading?" he asked, as he walked next to me keeping up with my pace.
"We're gonna go to the next town silly," I said as we passed by a few of the building, soon we were exiting the town to route 36, seeing a young girl up ahead.
"Hey an old tree is blocking the way to Goldenrod City!" she said, and then whinnied to me, "It's preventing me from shopping. Something should be done about it!" she said determined then sighed. "Too bad I can't do anything." she muttered silently
"I don't think I can help with that.... yet. Maybe later on when my pokemon and I get stronger, then I promise to help you." I told her with a kind smile
"Really, thank you! I hope you're able to help soon then!" she said as she ran off somewhere.
"Wa-hey!" I heard a shout and quickly ran toward the shout, "Hey are you okay!?" I asked seeing a slightly over weight kid that had fallen backwards, who got up.
"I was going to snap that tree with my straight arm punch," he explained to me as he help his right arm rubbing it, "But I couldn't. I'm a failure!"
"No you aren't! I don't think that's a normal tree... I'll deal with the tree later, alright." I told him with a smile.
"Really?" he said with slightly watery eyes, staring at me with awe.
I could see Bayleaf holding in his laughter, but I just replied, " Yes really. I have to go now though!" I told him and he gave me a nod and waved me off when I entered a building that was close by.
"This is the Ruins of The Alph.." Bayleaf said, "Well the North Entrance. But still you think we can visit the ruins?" He asked eagerly as he jumped around, as people stared.
"Yeah! Calm down sure we can visit?! Just stop jumping they're staring!" I said a bit embarrassed, and he gave a satisfied smile and stopped jumping.
The people stopped staring but I heard an old man whisper to the person behind the desk " Did you see that strange tree in the road?"
"Yeah I did, it was weird, it doesn't look like a normal tree."
"That may explain why fewer people are visiting the Ruins of the Alph."
"Yeah that tree wasn't there before until a few days ago... nothing's changed. I wonder why it's here now."
I just walked out silently, thinking about it.
As I walked out I could see that the area has changed, there was a small lake next to the building, and some mountain like structures. I just walked along a path that was set.
Soon I saw an opening in one of the structures, and a sign next to it, I read the sign out loud to Bayleaf.
"Mystery Stone Panel Chamber"
"Let's go in and see!" Bayleaf said as he ran inside, I laughed at his reaction and walked in.
We walked in, the floor was of stone, that's been aged through out the years, there was structures holding up the ceiling, and you could feel as if there was a strong presence watching you.
"Welcome to this chamber! There are sliding panels that depict a pokemon drawn by the ancients. Slide the panels around to form the picture. To the right is a description of the pokemon." a tour Guide told me with a bright smile
I walked over to a panel, and read the information to Bayleaf.
"A Pokemon that hid on the sea floor. Eyes on its back scanned the area."
"Cool" Bayleaf said, as I solved the puzzle quickly to reveal the pokemon, suddenly the floor shook violently, the Tour guide screamed in fright and fled, leaving bayleaf and I behind.
"Hey! What's happening?" I shouted when the floor under us disappear and soon we fell down in to the darkness.
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"This won't work! We'll never be able to escape, we couldn't even stop them from doing the experiments on her!" a woman cried, he voice was slightly muffled by something.
"It will, it has to." A man said, hugging the woman in the dark streets, in front of a home.
"We're here." He said after a few moments. Soon the door opened.
"It's time. Come in quickly." a man who looked like he was in his late 30's early 40's said to the pair, they walked in.
"Let me see my granddaughter." The man said, the woman had something wrapped in a light green blanket, and handed it over to him, he opened up the blanket to reveal a face of an infant girl, who was silently resting unaware of the danger of the world.
"She's beautiful..... she'll have boys chasing after her, just like her mother." he said as he admired his granddaughter.
"Too bad we won't see her grow up.." The woman said, sadden by the thought, though she wasn't alone on this.
"We have some friends on the other side who will protect her, don't worry. We got him to build a machine that can teleport her there, but we won't ba able to visit often." The younger man said.
"Still."
"Don't worry, she'll be safe, away from this world of Pokemon. It's better this way." The grandfather said as he gave the infant to the young man.
"Don't worry dad. I'll take her to them and be back before they notice." he said giving the infant a kiss, who stirred a bit in her sleep, then he touched a few of her dark brown strands of her hair.
"Could you tell me what her name was again? So I will at least remember her peaceful sleeping face before she leaves us?" The old man asked as her first looked at the woman then to his granddaughter.
"Dad, her name is..." She said but nothing else could be heard, because that's when a huge commotion began to occur outside, they were there.
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"Lenaaaaa.... Wake upppppppp.." I heard a voice echo, I felt groggy, nor did I want to get up.
"ngggghh" I said, and turned not wanting to be disturbed.
"Come on! Wake up, they're watching us!" I heard from the same voice, recognizing it.
"Watching.. us?" I said as I opened my eyes as I saw eyes in the darkness.
"GAHH!!?!? WHAT THE HELL!?!" I shouted freaked out, and some eyes blinked disappearing except one which came closer to us.
I couldn't tell what pokemon it was, I couldn't remember since I had just woken up. It was black, or it looked that color, and it was oddly shaped, it didn't have any arms or legs. It only had its one large eye, it kinda looked like a type of symbol or writing
"Time to fight!" Bayeaf said as he hastily got in front ready to battle.
"Alright tackle it!" I said, as the Unknown watched us, Bayleaf, who was eager to attack, tackled but the pokemon dodged easily.
"Hey where is it?" Bayleaf afterward looking around, then suddenly a large eye appeared behind him
"Watch out, behind you." I warned, but the pokemon tackled, making Bayleaf fall over.
"Whoa!" he said, as he got up looking around, suddenly we see small purple red spheres turning in a circle, and suddenly shoot out, Bayleaf dodged the spheres.
"Use Razor leaf where the pokemon was last at," I told him, "And quick before it moves." Bay leaf followed my order, and actually hit the pokemon, who opened its eye.
"Keep attacking where the eye is at." Bayleaf kept using Razor leaf to hit the pokemon, who finally passed out from all the hits it had taken.
"That pokemon is... Unknown." Bayleaf said.
"Unknown. I remember, they all look different because they're symbols of the ancient pokemon writing..." I recalled.
"Yeah, lets get out before anymore pop out." He said as he started to walk away I followed him out side.
Once we got out I noticed it was night time.
"Well that took a long time." I said, and looked over at an exit.
"Let's go there, maybe we're close to the next town!" Bayleaf suggested, so we went into the building and out of it but from the other side and read a sign.
"Route 32. Violet City- Azalea Town" I read. the sign.
We followed another path, but I saw a tree close by and walked towards it.
"Maybe... there's... ha! I was right Berries!" I said cheerfully, as I picked out a przcureberry and put it away in my bag in the berry pocket.
After leaving the tree, there was a guy next t o a path just standing there, admiring the night sky, then he noticed me.
"You must be a great trainer if you got a gym badge, here take this, a souvenir of Violet City. It increases the power of Grass-type moves. It's a Miracle seed." He said handing me the miracle seed.
"Thank you!" I said smiling.
"You're welcome"
I smiled, walking off, and put the seed away.
"Hey your experiences in Violet City should be useful for your joinery!" He shouted after I left.
Soon were we in grass, watching out for pokemon, but we never noticed someone who was watching us.
"Hey You!" a boy's voice shouted, we turned to see some grass moving revealing a boy who just wore a blue T-shirt, with some shorts.
"Huh?" Both Bayleaf and I said at the same time.
"I haven't seen you around before. So you think you are pretty tough? Then get ready to fight me Pokemon Trainer Albert!" he said as he whipped out his pokeball, sending out a Ratatta to battle.
"Okay Go Bayleaf, go straight for a quick tackle!" I said, looking at the youngster's determined expression.
Bayleaf quickly sprinted towards the unsuspecting Rattata, and tackled him straight on, got hit, but didn't fall over, keeping his ground though you could tell he got hit pretty hard.
"Okay tackle back," Albert said, and the rattata tackled with all it's might not really having much of an impact.
"I need to do this for Albert so he can become the best trainer ever!" The rattata shouted out, I felt a pang of sadness for him, though it was nice that he cared about his trainer so much.
"Okay tackle again, you can finish him off, but don't be too hard on him." I told him, bayleaf tackled the poor Rattata, who couldn't get up after the attack.
"I can't lose... i can't" The rattata said as he passed out.
"Okay good try Rattata! Come out Zubat!" He yelled sending out his Zubat.
"These guys will go down!" The Zubat yelled ready for anything.
:Okay use razor leaf since it might be hard to attack a flying opponent." I suggested, and Bayleaf nodded in agreement using razorleaf, and some of the flying leafs hit his wings.
"Ha is that the best you can do? Try harder!" It welled out taunting us. Then used Supersonic, which hit Bayleaf directly, confusing him a bit.
"You know what don't hold back for Zubat." I told Bayleaf.
"Got it!" He said, a bit out of it. And tried to tackled, while confused and ended up hurting himself.
"Ha he looked like an idiot!" Zubat laughed, and used leach life, weakening Bayleaf.
"Try again!" But again Bayleaf hurt himself in confusion.
"Pathetic!" Zubat used leach life again
"Come on try one more time please" I asked, worried about Bayleaf hurting himself anymore.
Soon he attacked no longer confused hurting the zubat a bit.
"Say that again Zubat, I'm going down so easily!" He shouted back
Again Zubat used leach life. And straight after Bayleaf attacked Zubat knocking him down to the ground, who finally passed out staying down.
"You're strong! It was a good battle, here's the money!" Albert said giving us our prize money.
After leaving that battle I used a potion on Bayleaf since he was pretty warred out from the battle.
"Uh-huh. Yeah, and you know... "
"Uhh hey?" I lightly tapped a girl's shoulder wanting to see if she wanted to battle.
"Pardon? Battle? I'm on the phone." she replied a bit annoyed.
"Okay then... later I guess?" I replied, as Bayleaf and I were about to leave.
"Oh, all right. but make it fast." She said annoyed as she put the call on hold, and took out her pokeball sending out, Nidoran.
"My name is Liz by the way." she said, determined to get back to her call.
Picnicker Liz watched us.
"Okay Go Bayleaf, use Razor leaf." i said, as the leafs flew in the air and stroke down on the Nidoran. who apparently passed out from the hits and fear.
"Poor guy." Bayleaf said worried about the small Nidoran.
"Take it easy! That's mean!" She yelled at us angry, as she picked up Nidoran, checking if he was alright and gave us our money.
She then sighed, "I was having a nice chat too. Wow you're good at battling."
"well not really..." I said not really believing I was a good at battling.
"Want to give me your phone number?" She asked with a smile.
Whoa, I do not go that way! I was about to tell her
"I'll phone you for another battle!" she said quickly after.
"Oh," I said happily, after knowing she didn't mean it that way . "Sure, here" then we exchanged phone numbers.
"I'll call you if something comes up!" She told me.
"Okay!" I replied as we waved off, and left.
We faced another battle soon after.
"That glance..... It's Intriguing."
"Ehh... what? Is that suppose to be a compliment?" I said kinda lost.
"My name is Rowland" He said and gave me a wink.
"The heck, you're a creepy camper!" I said straight out.
He sent out Nidoran, a pink one.
"okay use razor leaf and get this over with!" I quickly told Baylead who understood why.
"Horn attack" Both attacks hit each other at the same time, causing damage to both sides.
"Okay tackle!" I yelled and the tackle took down the Nidoran.
"Hmm this is disappointing." She said with a bored glance, I first thought he was talking about the battle until I noticed where he was looking at.
"THE HELL!?! YOU PERVERT!" I yelled crossing my arms over my chest. I got Bayleaf to get the money, and left before Rowland could say anything else.
"I found some good pokemon in the grass! I think they'll do it for me! The name's Gordon" A trainer stopped me and sent out a Wooper.
"Water type.. just use tackle through the battle." So through the battle Bayleaf used tackle on the Wooper. And once poisonpowder . So The wooper was poisoned getting weaker and weaker.
The Wooper would attack of a series of tackles and water gun. The battle finished rather quickly.
"How would you rather have this tasty slowpoke tail! Only for 1,000,000!! " a guy's voice asked with a creepy smile.
" Uhh no thanks." I neglected the offer walking away. Soon we found a pokemon center.
"Maybe we should rest here." I told bayleaf.
"Okay. I'll get healed meanwhile." he suggested, so I sent Bayeaf to his pokeall and took him to the nurse to heal, I got my pokeballs back after some time, and sent out bayleaf from it after.
"I hope it's okay to sleep here on the couch." I told Bayleaf as I started to close my eyes from being exhausted from battling.
"They won't mind." He said closing his eyes as well, and we both fell asleep, I was on a chair in the pokemon center and Bayleaf fell asleep by my feet leaning against my legs.
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