The Epic Challenge: Hoenn Region

[Koroc]

Chapter 3

Marcus happy to see he caught a wurmple and call it out. The bug pokemon stared up at its new trainer and made a spot on his head. Marcus thought it was cute and decided to leave it on his head until he got to the pokemon center in Oldale town.

"Okay little one time to come off my head." Marcus said stopping in front of the pokemon center. "Oh yeah I almost forgot to name you." he said with a smile looking at the wurmple. The pokemon turned its head and started shooting silk everywhere.

"Okay I will call you Ribbon." Marcus said picking up her pokeball and returning it. "Hammer you to it is easier for the nurse to care for you in your pokeball." Returning his pokemon he entered the Pookemon center.

"Welcome trainer to the Oldale Pokemon Center. I am Nurse Joy and I will be happy to look after your pokemon while you stay here." The lady from behind a desk said as Marcus entered the center.

"Chan sey Chan sey." A pink egg shaped pokemon said coming up behind Marcus and walking him to the front desk.

"N-nurse J- Joy." Marcus began speaking afraid of being made fun of by the other people in the center. "C-could you look after my pokemon while I am here."

"Gladly" She said reaching out for Marcus's pokeballs. Handing them over he then turned and saw Rebecca sitting alone on a bench by the window. He made his way over to her.

"Hey Rebecca." Marcus said with a nice smile.

"Huh. Hey Marcus." She said jumping off the bench hugging him. "What are you doing here?"

"Well I am healing my pokemon what about you?"

"I just came from my dad's house and he gave me two pokemon eggs that were about to hatch so I came here as quickly as I could."

"Pokemon eggs?" Marcus said confused

"Yeah, eggs that you get from breeding 2 pokemon from the same egg group." She explained "You see my dad is a breeder and he takes care and raise really nice pokemon that they own or other people bring them."

Marcus than thought what if he could see her dad to see if he could get some pointers on how to raise pokemon properly.

"That sounds cool." Marcus said just imagining the possibilties of pokemon the eggs could be. "Do you think I will be able to meet your dad sometime?" Marcus asked politely.

"Sure after these eggs hatch I will take you to see him."

"Oh Rebecca the eggs you brought are about to hatch." Nurse Joy yelled out. Rebecca jumped up grabbing Marcus's hand and pulling him into the room to see the eggs hatch. They walk back into the Hatchery where they seen many different pokemon eggs.

"Here we are." Nurse Joy said pointing to two eggs that were glowing. The eggs began to crack and out of one of them popped out a pokemon with two long pink ears and the inside of them were green and the other one had a pokemon with blue ears and the inside were a dark blue. Marcus pulled out this pokedex and pointed to both pokemon.

Nidoran Male: It constantly moves its large ears in many directions in order to detect danger right away.
It extends its toxic spikes when angry. The size of its body thorns indicates its toxicity.

Nidoran female: A mild-mannered Pokémon that does not like to fight. Nidoran has barbs that secrete a powerful poison. They are thought to have developed as protection for this small-bodied Pokémon. When enraged, it releases a horrible toxin from its horn.

Closing his pokedex he saw the two pokemon jumping around each other already playing as if they have been friends forever.

"Okay you two come to your pokeball." Rebecca said as she was happy to se that the pokemon were okay and healthy. "And now how about coming with me to come visit my dad?"

Marcus knew this was a great chance to get some really good tips from a master pokemon breeder. They left the pokemon center and heading to the a small house that was close to the forest with a tall fence that kept the many pokemon they had inside it.

"Mom. Dad. I am back with the pokemon and I brought a friend." Rebecca yelled out from the doorway. No one answered her back so she thought they could have left for Rustboro City to visit the school. She closed the door and apologized to Marcus.

"I am sorry my parents weren't here but maybe they went up ahead to Rustboro City to visit the school and you could meet them there."

"Okay thanks Rebecca. Well I have to run to the pokemart real quick before they close and then I will be back at the pokemon center for the rest of the night." Marcus said walking away from Rebecca's house and to the pokemart. Upon arriving at the pokemart he saw that it was closed and so he headed for the pokemon center to get some shut eye.

The next morning Marcus woke up and headed to the front desk.

"Good morning Nurse Joy." Marcus said with a little yawn. "I am here to pick up my pokemon."

"Okay they all are in fighting shape again." Nurse Joy said handing him his pokeballs that contain his pokemon. "Oh yeah almost forgot this girl named Rebecca left this note for you." Marcus took the note and began to read it.

Marcus if you are reading this then you must be up
and I want to battle you again on Route 102. Hurry
up and come already. There will be a surprise for you
if you beat me in this battle.​

Marcus knew he could not just decline the battle so he headed out the pokemon center and headed to Route 102.

 

[§acred†Beo!]

Beo watched as the pokeball he threw at pikachu stopped moving.

"Yes I caught you pikachu" Beo shouted excitedly. Beo returned skitty to its pokeball and then looked at his newly aquired pikachus pokeball. "Now this will add some definate power to my lineup" Beo thought to himself as he tossed pikachus pokeball into the pack.

Beo had been walking for about an hour now and you could see the sweat start dripping from his head band. " Man how long is this forest, I bet i'm lost" Beo excalimed in a sigh. Just then Beo was hit from behind by some force, he fell to the ground. Beo got up quickly and turned around to see a boy and his pokemon standing there.

"Hey you, I saw you catch that pikachu, now I want to battle you" the boy excailmed.

Beo pulled out his pokedex " Raticate, the normal rat pokemon" the pokedex said.

"Hmm ok fine then, which pokemon to use though" Beo thought to himself "ahh i'll use seedot" Beo said to the boy.

"No I want you to use that pikachu" the boy shouted.

"I would but it's pretty worn out, it's had a rough day" Beo exclaimed.

"Hmph your just scared it's to weak and you'll lose" the boy shouted with a grin on his face.

"Pikachu please forgive me for this but I hate cocky kids" Beo said as he threw out pikachus pokeball.

"Pika pika" the pikachu said tiredly.

"Now Raticate use quick attack" the boy ordered.

"Pikachu dodge it and hit it with thundershock" Beo exclaimed.

Raticate moved fast towards pikachu and lunged its claws right for the electric mouse, but pikachu barely dodge it, before swiftly turning around and jolting the raticate with a thundershock attack.

"Pikachu nice move, try to conserve some energy though" Beo shouted.

"NO way raticate get up and use hyperfang" the boy ordered.

Beo wasn't fast enough in giving an order and the tired pikachu could not dodge quickly enough takeing a little less then full damage.

"ah if pikachu would have gotten hit fully it would have probably fainted, i'm gonna have to end this battle forgive me pikachu" Beo thought to himself

"I.... gi.." Beo was in the middle of saying it when pikachu turned around to him " PIka pika pika" pikachu shouted at him, Beo saw the determination in pikachus eyes and then a great idea crossed his mind as to how to end this battle quickly.

"Pikachu wait for my command just hold your place firmly" Beo shouted.

"ha that won't do much just standing there, Raticate now finish it with hyper fang" the boy shouted. Raticate lunged at pikachu with its fangs ready to strike. Pikachu still just stood there waiting, Raticate hit pikachu directly "Pikachu now thundershock while it's still biting you" Beo shouted.

As pikachu shocked the defenseless raticate making it eject off of pikachu and back it it's trainer, pikachu fell to the ground.. Both pokemon struggled to get back up, before raticate passed out, pikachu stood there firmly breathing heavily, you could tell that that last strike had just taken it's toll.

"Pikachu i'm really proud of you, now return you deserve rest" Beo said happily as he returned pikachu.

"hm raticate great battle" the boy said as he returned his pokemon, then walked over to Beo to shake his hand.

"Im Beo" he said to the other trainer.

"I'm Houston, that was great strategy, I hope I see you again so we can battle" Houston said.

The two new rivals shook hands and went there sepreate ways. Beo once again had prevailed, even with the odds against him, maybe all of his fathers training had paid off, he thought to himself.

 

[~SilverSoul]

To Trainer Kat: Leslie seems to be more of the popular boy feminine name lol. The battle was very good!
Lotad grew to level 8!
Lotad learned Absorb!
To Koroc: I love how you made your post about Pokemon eggs. I've been waiting for somebody to do that.
To dboring: It was a great way to battle with a tired pokemon!
Pikachu grew to Level 6!
Pikachu learned Tail Whip!

I can't update right now since I'm on my Wii. I'll get to it in the morning!

 

[Koroc]

Chapter 4.1

Marcus entered an area that had a pond full of lively pokemon and beside it was patches of grass that seemeded to be totally different then the rest of the area. He continued to walk a little further when out of no where a numel came running at him and knocked him down. Marcus recognized the pokemon and tried to see if its trainer was around.

"Rebecca I know you are here somewhere!" Marcus yelled "This is your numel!"

"It is about time you got here." She said folding her arms. "Didn't your parents teach you to never keep a girl waiting?" Smiling she told her numel to come to her.

"Yeah but I got this letter saying you want to battle again."

"I sure do this time I have a new pokemon."

"I have a new pokemon too." Marcus said thinking this would be great practice.

"Then you would mind a double battle." She said with her eyes glowing and looking as if she would cry if he said no.

"Fine." Marcus sighed. "Hammer and Ribbon lets do this." Releasing his pokemon they stared at each other wondering how they will help each other.

"Oooh a wurmple I always wanted one of those pokemon." Rebecca as admiring the wurmple.

"Don't we have a battle to get to?"

"Your right." Rebecca said changing into a more serious mood. "Go Lotad and Numel your up!"

Marcus saw that his pokemon had the advantage over hers. "Yeah this should be easy he said looking down at his pokemon."

"Not as easy as you think because I have the advantage grass beats water while fire beats bug." Rebecca said waving her finger. "Numel use your ember attack on Wurmple and Lotad use absorb on Corphish.!"
Numel shot a spray of small flames at the bug pokemon while Lotad eyes began to glow green and a green aura started to form around Hammer.

"Ribbon use string shot on Lotad and pull him to you." Marcus yelled and Then turned to Hammer. "You use bubble on numel." Wurmple shot out silk and it made contact with the distracted pokemon and and pulled it closer to its body. Hammer then turned to Numel and opened its claw and shot a steady stream of bubbles at the fire pokemon that was concentrating on the wurmple. The ember attack ended you hitting Lotad and ending its absorb attack on Hammer pretty quickly.

"No Lotad!" Rebecca yelled out forgetting to command her numel to do an attack and it was hit by the bubble attack.

"Quick Ribbon use Poison sting attack on lotad." Ribbon released a spray of purple needles at while it was still on the ground. It pushed the pokemon back to Rebecca's feet but it was far from out.

" Use absorb Lotad on Corphish again and Numel tackle Corphish!" Both pokemon directed there attacks at the water pokemon. Absorb was draining Hammer's energy while The numel cae in and tackled it. Hammer went up into the air and hit a tree trying to get on its feet.

"Now Numel use ember on Wurmple and Lotad do astonish ." Numel shot another spray of embers at the worm pokemon while lotad ran up to behind it to try to attack from behind.

"Ribbon use String shot to dodge the ember attack!" Marcus yelled. "Hammer try to use bubble again on Numel!" Ribbon shot a stream of silk at a near by tree and use it to pull itself out of the wave of the ember attack. By the time Wurmple had moves Lotad was hit by another one of Numel's embers and fell to the ground hurt badly. Surprised that it hit Lotad for the second time it looked at its trainer and was hit by the on coming bubble attack.

"Numel, Lotad are you two okay." Her pokemon got up to their feet slowly and waited for their trainers orders. "Okay then Numel use tackle on Corphish and Lotad use absorb on him to!"

"Ribbon quick use a poison sting on Lotad!" As Marcus commanded it shot a spray of Needles at the lotad who was focusing on Corphish and knocked it out while The Numel continued to charge at the Corphish.

"Now use string shot on Numel and Hammer use bubble!" Ribbon shot some silk at the feet of the numel to trip it up and Hammer jumped to the side to dodge the tackle and shot a bubble attack at the falling numel.
Numel hit the ground from being tripped by string shot and was hit by the barrage of bubbles.

"Oh no!" Rebecca cried out seeing that her numel was about to faint like her Lotad. After the bubbles cleared Numel was on all fours and panting. It gave a smile to its trainer and then fell over from exhaustion.

"Great job guys!" Marcus yelled as his pokemon walked over to him.

"Return Numel and Lotad." Rebecca said returning her pokemon to her pokeballs.

Marcus walked over to Rebecca and told her that was a great battle. Rebecca could only smile as she turned towards Marcus.

"Like I said if you won you would get a surprise." She said going into her bag and pulling out a piece of paper.

"What is this?"

"It's a voucher for you to be able to get a egg pokemon from my dad later."

Marcus smiled and then placed the voucher in his bag and turned to Rebecca and thanked her. Rebecca pulled out a couple of potions and walked to Hammer and Ribbon and sprayed it on their scars from the battle. After that she walked back to Marcus and gave him a kiss on the cheek and walked away back to Oldale Town. Marcus grabbed his cheek and just stared at Rebecca as she left.

"I am beginning to think she likes me." Marcus said to his pokemon and they laughed.

 

[~SilverSoul]

To Koroc: What a great battle. The eggs are going to excite me the whole time!
Wurmple grew to level 8!
Corphish grew to level 8!
What? Wurmple is evolving! Will you allow this process to continue? (You may have your choice what it evolves into. It wil know Harden if it evolves.)
Corphish learned Harden!

 

[§acred†Beo!]

Ch 6 pt 4

After a tough battle with his new rival Houston, Beo decided to take a rest, since he figured he was close to the end of petalburg woods. He found a nice spot underneath a big oak tree where he laid down and slowly drifted off to sleep. As Beo was sleeping, a wurmple started to crawl down the tree at a very slow pace. Eventually the wurmple head reached Beo's head and was now crawling down his face. Upon feeling this Beo woke up, as he slowly started to lift his eye lids open, he saw the bug pokemon crawling down his face.

"Holy crap get off of me" Beo shouted as he started flailing his head around trying to jerk off the wurmple. The wurmple would not budge though. Beo reached into his bag and pulled out skittys pokebal. "Will do this the tough way then, skitty go hit it with tackle!" Beo shouted angirly.

Skitty came out of its pokeball and jumped right at Beos face full throttle, but the wurmple jumped off Beo's face and back into the tree, skitty hit Beo right in the face.

"Oww skitty" Beo shouted as he fell to the ground holding his hands to his face.

"Skitty go up the tree and hit the wurmple with tackle" Beo ordered.

Skitty raced up the tree follwing after the wurmple, as skitty caught up she lunged at the wurmple. But once again wurmple was tricky it shot a string shot out of its mouth to a branch above and dodged the skittys attack. Skitty missed wurmple and fell to the ground landing once again on Beo's head.

"Skitt----y" skitty yelled at Beo.

"Don't yell at me your the one who can't catch a bug" Beo yelled back

Just then the wurmple fell down into Beo's lap and looked him in the face... then shot him with a string shot.

"Ahhh I hate freaking bugs, skitty use your cute charm on it or something" Beo yelled.

Skitty looked wurmple in the eyes and started wagging her tail back and fourth. The wurmple started to shake it's head along with skittys tail. " Now skitty use tackle" Beo shouted. Skitty then hit the immobilized wurmple directly knocking it back and out.

"Nice job skitty now return" Beo said as he looked back at the unconscious wurmple, then he started off once again walking towards the exit of the petalburg woods.

"Woo this has been a long rough journey just to get through this forest" Beo thought to himself.

Beo finally saw a clearing at the end of the path, between two trees he saw Rustboro city over the horizon. "Ha finally i'm out of this forest, no more bug pokemon" Beo said aloud.

 

[~SilverSoul]

To dboring: Good post! You'll have to wait for everyone else now until I put up Rustboro.
Skitty grew to level 10!

 

[Koroc]

Chapter 4.2

After Rebecca left Ribbon began to a bright white. Marcus didn't know what was going on so he ran over to his pokemon to see if it was alright.

"Ribbon are you okay?" He asked helplessly just watching his pokemon glow. It then began to change from it worm like shape into an oval shape that laid horizontally. As the glow disappeared he noticed big red eyes with a little bit of what seemed to be like part of the cocoon over it eye. The white silk covered pokemon hopped over to Marcus and tried to hug him but only knocked him over. Hammer smiled as his new friend evolved and they continued to the route and Marcus got tired of carrying Ribbon so he returned he to her pokeball. Hammer amazed at how many people we on this route and how many battles it seen while walking.

Marcus saw a nice spot where they could rest by a berry tree and walked over there. Sitting down on the soft patches of grass reminded him of home and his bed. Grabbing a few berries from the tree next to him he handed some to Hammer and he seemed to like them but Marcus was still curios if they were safe for him to eat. The berries were oval shaped and they had a dark blue shade to them. See that Hammer liked them he sat it down next to him and go up to see if he could find somewhere he could eat come real food.

Standing up he saw nothing that looked like a store or a house anywhere around so he sat back down staring at the berries. A lady walks up to Marcus and begins to speak.

"Oh those berries are perfectly safe for humans to eat they are oran berries." The lady said smiling at Marcus. She then Turned to Hammer who was eating. "Wow I never seen a Corphish that had a nice sheen to its shell before. Most of the ones I see are covered in dirt of marks that make their shells rough."

Marcus smiled as he accepted the lady's complements and he turned to Hammer and then stood up.

"My name is…" Marcus began speaking and then stopped to think if this lady is nice or up to something. "Marcus glad to meet you."

"Well hello Marcus, I am Jessie and I just seen your pokemon from a distance and had to see it up close."

"Thank you for telling me about the berries I would have starved if it weren't for you." Marcus said rubbing his head.

"No problem at all. Many trainers don't know what berries are good for them so I try to help anyway I can." Jessie got up and told Marcus to follow her to a special area where she thinks his Corphish will love.
They traveled closer and closer to an open area but Marcus couldn't figure out why Hammer would like an open area more that it would like water.

"Here we are." Jessie said moving out of the way so they can see. They seen a waterfall coming down from a high cliff and crashing down into a little lake. Pokemon began to come out to see there new visitors. The pokemon all looked like Hammer.

"They all are Corphish?"

"Yes, this is a corphish farm where I raise and help train other corphish."

Hammer began to jump up and down and went to join the other Corphish in fun. Hopping in the lake they began to splash water on each other and they even battled a little. Marcus looked up into the sky and saw that the Sun had made its way to the middle and then looked down to see Hammer coming out of the water running to him.

"Cor phish phish!" It said happily tugging Marcus's shirt. Marcus knew Hammer wanted him to play with them so he got up and took his shirt and shoes off and decided to play with them. After about an hour or two the came out of the water and they new that they had to go.

"Thanks Jessie for the wonderful time." Marcus yelled grabbing his soaked pants and headed to his bag

"Don't you want to change first into some dry clothes." She yelled back at him offering to let him use the house to change. Marcus accepted the offer and went in real quick to change.

"Ah all nice and dry." Marcus walked out the building and grabbed his bag and they left the farm. They didn't get to far when they seen a sigh that read.

Welcome to Petalburg City.

 

[Arumus]

Chapter Six: Petalburg Woods​

Part Four​

Through out James's journey through the Petalburg Woods he has defeated a member of Team Aqua and caught a Pineco, but has also lost his Poochyena and a nearby Wurmple all in the space of one day. It was coming towards the end of the day and James was searching for his Poochyena with his Mudkip, his starter Pokémon. But on his search for his beloved Pokémon, he encountered a rare find.

James and his Mudkip walked into an open spaced area with a lake nearby. Looking around he and his Mudkip noticed a Pokémon lying on the ground sleeping. As James does, he reached for his Pokédex and gathered some information on this odd Pokémon.

Slakoth are brown mammalian Pokémon with shaggy coarse fur and brown stripes on its back. It has long arms with sharp claws which it uses to hang from trees. It is extremely slow. Slakoth will spend its whole life in the same tree. However, Slakoth are known for being good swimmers, traveling far during floods to reach a new tree. A potential predator will often find that Slakoth isn't as easy to catch as they may think. If it senses danger, Slakoth will dig into its branch with its sharp claws and lock its muscles into place, making it almost impossible to pry off, even for the strongest carnivores. Slakoth's daily diet usually consists of all of three leaves.

James looked at the Pokémon that still slept. Looking confused at why it's just sleeping in the open, he slowly walked towards it. The teenager kneeled down beside it and looked to his Mudkip that walked over.

"Why would a Slakoth be just lieing here?" James asked himself as he looked through his Pokédex. He noticed a tree nearby with Pineco in the branches and leaves, the boy knew why the Slakoth was just lying there. The Pineco had done something to scare it off from its tree. James looked around at the area to see the lake nearby that's stream led to a river nearby. Walking back to the Slakoth, he noticed it waking up and bursting with energy sharpening its claws. James looked at his Pokédex again to see what it was doing and James was a threat.

"No, no." James explained to Slakoth. "I'm not a threat, I'm fine you see." James tried to calm the Pokémon, but it wouldn't take notice. It jumped towards James but Mudkip sent out a burst of water to send it away in the other direction. James looked to his Mudkip in surprise.

"You learned Water Gun?" James asked his Pokémon in relief. The Mudkip nodded and spoke out it's name. James looked to the Slakoth starting to get up and getting angry, but this one like other Slakoth wasn't running away, it was going to fight. James and Mudkip were ready to battle the Slakoth, but as they were about to start a few noises came from the bush nearby. The boy looked confused, but then saw a Pikachu running swiftly across the grass, James's attention was distracted but then seeing a couple of trainers run through the bushes after the Pikachu. These were the two the teenager had heard earlier.

"Get back here Pikachu!" One of them yelled. "Go Seviper! Use Wrap!" The trainer yelled to his Pokémon coming out the Pokéball, James looked to the Pikachu that had stopped and was going to hold it's ground like the Slakoth. The boy as always took out his Pokédex to get some information on the snake like Pokémon.

Seviper are fairly large snake Pokémon that are usually depicted scrunched up like an accordion. They are mostly black in color, but have several markings on their body. Seviper have yellow hexagon markings that run from their head to their tail, small yellow bumps where they touch the ground (this is presumably to help with movement) and various purple scar-like marks. Seviper has several different weapons it can use in battle, such as elongated red fangs that protrude from the mouth and a bladed tail which it can stab or swipe with. Seviper also have fierce red eyes that make it able to use attacks like Glare.

It is theorized whether Seviper are distant relatives of the Ekans line, considering they are both snake Pokémon, can breed together and have similar behavioral patterns.

Seviper can create a horrible poison that it can channel through either the tail or fangs, quickly dispatching prey.

Seviper is the only known Pokémon that learns Poison Tail through leveling up. Seviper are bitter enemies with Zangoose, willing to battle them to the bitter end. It is suggested that this feud has lasted since the beginning of time. This Pokémon is found on Route 114 and Route 208, which suggests its habitat consists of grassy plains with sparse trees and mountains.

James recognised them two trainers from at the Pokémon Center before, with the other trainer who he nearly had a Pokémon battle with. The trainers and the Pikachu didn't notice the Slakoth and James, they started to battle with the Seviper where the Pikachu was holding its ground with various attacks. The teenager noticed the Slakoth was still ready to fight.

"Mudkip use Water Gun!" James shouted to his Mudkip, which then ran forward and sent water from it's mouth towards the Slakoth that didn't move quick enough to get away. James was confused at how incredibly slow it was and thought of a tactical way of catching it. The Slakoth started to move towards the Mudkip and attempted to scratch the Pokémon, but Mudkip jumped away from the attack.

"Man its slow.." James said to himself. The Slakoth got very frustrated and started swiping the grass with it's sharp claws.

"Mudkip use Tackle." James said as the Mudkip speeded towards the Slakoth and collided with it, the Slakoth held it's ground and latched onto the Mudkip and sent it flying back over it. The Mudkip slided across the grass and flipped itself back onto it's feet.

"Use Water Gun quickly!" James reacted and the Mudkip sent a burst of water to the Slakoth that hit it directly on it's face sending it back at emmense speed and power, landing onto the grass. The Slakoth lay there without moving, James took out a Pokéball and clicked on the middle button, enlarging it ready for another catch. James threw a Pokéball towards the Slakoth but as he did, the Pikachu appeared running past the Slakoth as another ball was thrown towards the Pikachu. James blinked and then saw both Pokémon be sucked into the Pokéballs, the problem was. Which one was his?

 

[~SilverSoul]

To Koroc: Wow, the post was very interesting and creative to read!
To BrianGabriel: The idea is very unique! I've never been asked something like that yet! I think the Slakoth should be yours just because it seems like you'll have more of a bond with it. It's strange, really...... btw is Poochyena gone for good?
You caught a level 5 Male Slakoth!

 

[Pikalover10]

Max stood up holding his aching head. His head was still spining from the Zubat's supersonic. He looked down at his pokemon's pokeballs. Zigzagoon looked like she was about to fall asleep, Pikachu was asleep, and Treeko looked rearing to go. Max smiled and looked down the path. Max walked onto the dusty path and trodded down it. Kicking tons of dust up with every small step.

"You would think there wouldn't be this much dust in a forest." Max said covering his mouth and nose with his hand.

He coughed a little and had to rub his eyes a little to get the gritty dust out. The trail was finally through with having dust on it and Max sighed with relief. He looked behind himself unsure wether or not Team Aqua was still on him. Max still worried decided to ignore it and turned to face the path again.

He noticed the trees were taller then the ones he passed a few minutes ago and wondered why they were smaller back there then up here. He was trying to figure this out when a huge pinecone fell on his head.

"Ouch!" Max cried falling off balanced.

Max almost fell into the wet with dew grass, but quickly caught himself.

"What the heck is that pinecone doing?" Max asked.

The pinecone was slightly moving and Max didn't know what it was. He pulled his pokedex out thinking it might be a pokemon.

Pineco, the pinecone pokemon. It hangs and waits for flying insects to come near. It does not move much on its own.


Max blinked and rubbed his eyes thinking that he was imagining it. He wasn't, it really was a Pineco! He understood that Pineco were really rare pokemon! He looked closer at the shaking pinecone pokemon. It looked frightened.

"Aw. You're scared aren't you?" Max asked.

"Pine." it said.

Pineco jumped into Max's arms and Max noticed a white torn up tag on its body. He read it and it said " This Pineco is property of William Daring."

"Oh. You've lost your trainer huh?" Max asked looking down at it.

It answered him by giving out a loud cry "Cooooooone!"

Max flinched back covering one of his ears.

"Ok then, we'll go find William." Max said recalling the name from the tag. "Go, Treeko!"

The green gecko popped out of it's pokeball.

"Treeko I need you to carry Pineco if that's ok?" Max asked.

"Tree." Treeko said taking the pinecone.

Max smiled and started walking down the path.

"William! William!" Max called out into the forest.

There was no answer.

"Williaaaam! Williaaaam!" Max called even louder.

Still no answer.

"Williaaaaaaaaaaam!" Max screamed as loud as he could.

Then finally an answer...sort of. A man came tumbling out of a tree and landed on his back with a loud THUMP!

"Ouch." the man said.

Max ran over to the man and helped him up.

"Why thanks you young man." the man said.

"No problem. Hey, do you know a William Daring?" Max asked.

"Why yes! Were you the one calling for him?" the man asked.

"Yeah. He lost his Pineco and I was returning it to him-"

The man cut him off "Ok then. Let me take my little Pineco back."

"Wait. You're William Daring?" Max asked.

"Yeah. Why, young man you've looked like you've seen a ghost." the man said bending over Treeko.

"Well, I just though that this Pineco's owner would be a lot younger...No offense." Max said.

"None taken. Why, have you seen my son Frank?" the man asked.

"Who?" Max asked.

"My son Frank. He is a little shorter then you and he is wearing a red T-shirt, blue shorts, a blue bandana, and black shoes." the man said looking worried.

Max then flinched again. The boy who was tied up was wearing the same outfit.

"Yeah, I saved him from a gang member of Team Aqua I think it was." Max said.

"Oh! Then he has headed home. Well I was on my way here to save my son after recieving this letter." the man said digging in his pocket.

He took up a crumpled up blue envelope and held it out to Max. Max looked inside and saw a white folded up piece of yellow paper. Max took it out and read

Dear Mr. Daring,

Team Aqua has taken your son hostage in the Petalburg Forest and we demand that to retrive your son unharmed, that you must come to the forest in 20 minutes with a Pinco, a Pikachu, and a Slakoth. If you do not bring these pokemon to us within 20 minutes we will take your son to our base and you will never see him again.

-Team Aqua.

"That was a dirty dirty trick." Max muttered almost ripping the letter in half.

The man took it back and said "Yes it was. I just captured this Pinco on my way here and was running around with it in my arms when I tripped and lost Pinco. I was climbing the tree after seeing many Pinco and figured he was in there. Well, I best be leaving to find my son...knowing him he probably was caught side tracked in here somewhere." the man said looking back towards a side path.

"Ok. Told Frank I said hi ok?" Max asked.

The man nodded and quickly returned Pinco to its pokeball and dashed off.

"That was an odd meating huh Treeko?" Max asked looking at the bewildered pokemon.

Treeko nodded and Max sat down under a tree wondering what to do next.

 

[CTFx]

Chapter 5 (Part 2): Middle School Wanna-Be's

The Pokeball lay still, laying on a small patch of soft grass in an ocean of dirt. He walked over and picked up the ball. He felt a joy inside, A Pokemon that can put Pokemon to sleep. Amazing. He looked at the broken horizon. Too many trees.

He began to walk, step, step. It was silent, except for the occasional cracking on a stepped-on leaf. For the first time, he felt free. No boundaries entangled him, no rules, no laws. He could do whatever he wanted, go wherever he wanted to go. He looked at his injured Makuhita, he was walking painfully. Hunter kept walking, straight, left, right, right, straight...dead end. He looked at the sun, almost directly overhead.

"Lets get out of here before sundown..." He told himself. He began to turn around.

"Maku, Maku..." Makuhita protested as he stumbled over. He leaned up agianst a tree. He was obviously injured badly. Hunter turned around to look at him, and walked over to him.

"You OK, buddy?" He said, putting an arm on his Pokemon.

"Makuhita..." He faintly cried. Hunter put him back in his Pokeball, where he could rest. He took 3 steps before feeling scared. He released his newest addition to the team.

He threw a Pokeball, and out came Slackoth, asleep. Hunter sighed, he picked him up and carried him. He was pretty heavy, and his hair was sticky and matted down, obviously it had not been cleaned in weeks.

He tried to make sense of where he was going in the labrynth of trees. It really didnt help his concentration that Slackoth was drooling on his shoulder. He was about to turn to the right when he heard a couple voices coming from behind him. Hunter turned and hid behind a tree, curious as to who these people were.

They came into vision, it is a bunch of Middle School kids following this one, fat kid. They were all throwing around cuss words and decided to throw rocks at any wild pokemon that they saw. Hunter decided to do something about it, he revieled himself.

The kids stopped and laughed, A trainer with a drooling Pokemon on his shoulders didnt make much of a threat.

"What are you doing blocking my sunlight?" Said the fat leader. The followers readied their stones.

"Quit throwing rocks at Pokemon, and for Christ's sake, your in Middle School. Stop trying to act like you're all that." The kids didnt take this very lightly.

"Why dont we put up that Drooling...Thing...Up agianst something real, eh?" The fat one turned around, and all the followers nodded.

"Fine, Slakoth, Its time to fight." The Slacker Pokemon opened its eyes dazily. Hunter put him on the ground, and he flopped right over, snoring again.

The kids laughted as the fat kid threw out a Pokeball, and out popped a small Pikachu. Hunter had seen these before. His friend Lance had one as a pet, and they were supposed to be really cool and friendly. This one, however, looked in terrible shape.

"Pika...Pi", Groaned the Pikachu

"Alright you little rat, Thundershock!" Yelled the fat kid.

"Slackoth, dodge it and...tackle?" Hunter said, realizing he didnt know Slakoth's moves.

The Slackoth just sat there, not asleep, but not moving. Lucky for him, the Poor Pikachu barley did anything like a Thundershock. It didnt even get to Slakoth.

"You stupid rat, tackle it!" The Pikachu slowly ran toward Slakoth, but barley hit him, doing no damage.

"Slakoth...uhm...do that thing you did earlier! You know, to that one Poochyena?" Hunter pleaded

Slakoth layed there and yawned a huge yawn right next to the Pikachu.

"You stupid ass! Tackle him!" Said the fat kid. The Pikachu attempted a final tackle, but couldnt muster it. It fell over asleep.

The fat kid growled, and signaled for his crew to start pegging it with rocks. Quickly, Hunter recovered Slakoth and grabbed the sleeping Pikachu, rushing through blurred trees and leaves.

"Dont worry, Ill take you away from here" He said to the sleeping Pokemon.

(This isnt a catch, read the message I sent you :))

 

[Koroc]

Chapter 5: The New Member.

Finally happy to see another city Marcus decided to stay here and leave the next morning so he and his pokemon would be refreshed. Enetering the city he noticed that many trainers were at the door of this building. The building was a lot bigger than most of the other buildings and the town and it was the only one that had a sign out in front of it. "What so important about that building" Marcus thought as he headed for the sign.

"Petalburg Gym lead by the Great Norman." Marcus said reading the sign to himself. "This is unbelievable! A gym right here." Marcus started to get excited but he looked over at the crowd and noticed everyone had sad faces. Marcus walked over there to see why they would be so upset.

"The Petalburg Gym is temporarily closed ?" Marcus asked as he was surprised.

"Yeah the gym leader is currently gone out on some kind of hunt for a new pokemon." A kid responded nearby.

"Well that's a bummer." Marcus sighed beginning to walk away from the gym.

"But you know there is a gym in Rustboro city to the north of here that you can battle." The kid shout at Marcus as he left the crowd.

Marcus made his way to a bench that was right next to the pokemon center. He sat there for a while and then decided to take a look at the voucher that Rebecca had given him.

"Wow a pokemon egg." Marcus said looking at the voucher.

As Marcus said that an older couple was walking by.

"Excuse me young man did you say pokemon egg?" The man asked as he approached Marcus.

"Yes I did sir." Marcus responded and showed the man the voucher.

"Well what do you know dear! This is one of our pokemon egg vouchers." He said turning to his wife. "Young man where did you get this?"

"I got it from a friend named Rebecca." Marcus said smiling and scratching his head.

"Rebecca!" The Man said surprised

"Oh Rebecca must really like you if she gave you one of these." The lady said smiling at Marcus.
"I am sorry I never properly introduced myself. I am Dr. Christoper Storm but many call me Dr. Egg" The man said shaking Marcus's hand. "And this lovely lady is my wife Tasha Storm."

"Honor to meet you both. I am Marcus Druid and I met Rebecca on route 101 when I first got my pokemon." Marcus said respecting the older couple.

"So you are the young man my Rebecca has been talking about." Dr. Egg said "Lets go to the pokemon center and see if we can not get you and egg."

Marcus followed the couple into the pokemon center smiling as he would have never thought to meet them here of all places.

"Hello Nurse Joy." Dr. Egg said as he entered the Pokemon Center.

"Oh hello Dr. Egg I mean Storm."

"No need either name is fine." he said with a little smile. "I was wondering if you had any special reserve eggs left?"

"Yes we have one left but hopefully it will hatch in the morning." Nurse Joy said

"Good well I would like you to give it to this young man here." Dr. Egg said pointing over to Marcus who was looking down at Hammer.

"Right away." Nurse Joy replied. "Young man if you would please follow me. I will show you your egg."
Marcus followed Nurse Joy to the hatchery of the pokemon center and showed him an egg that had a light purple shell with little dark blue spots in very few places. Amazed at how he finally had a pokemon egg he went in to look at it up close.

"Sir I think it will be in your best interest if you left it here for the night and if it doesn't hatch take it with you tomorrow when you leave." Nurse Joy said in a serious tone as she cared for the egg for a long time.

"Yes Nurse Joy ." Marcus replied as he left the egg in the room.

Making there way back to the front Marcus seen Dr. and Mrs. Storm at the front.

"So is that a cool egg or what?" Dr. Storm asked.

"Yes it was. I really think it will be a really cool pokemon." Marcus said as he thought about what pokemon it would be.

"Okay since that is taken care of I hope I see you again Marcus and take care of that egg pokemon." Dr. Storm said walking out of the pokemon center.

"Nurse Joy do you think it will be alright if I stay here for the night.?" Marcus asked

"Sure let me get you a key." Nurse Joy said grabbing a key from the desk. "Okay you will be in room 132 in the right hall."

"Thank you." Marcus said Making his way over to the hallway where his room lied. He walked to the back and saw his room and he put the key in the door to open it. The door came open and Marcus saw a nice and comfortable bed where he walked over and place his head down dozing off.

By the time Marcus got up it was morning. He checked the clock and saw it was 6:00 am and he ran into the pokemon hatchery as fast as he could to see if his egg has hatched or is hatching. When he made it there nothing was happening it was just sitting there. Marcus sighed and hoped that it would have hatched.

"Don't worry Marcus it will hatch just give it another day." Nurse Joy said coming in and handing him a pokeball so he will have somewhere to put it once it hatches. Marcus smiled and grabbed his egg and walked out of the pokemon center holding it in his arms. Gently rubbing it as he continued to Rustboro City to have a gym match there.

 

[~SilverSoul]

To CTFx: I agree. Middle-Schoolers who think they're all that are losers. What till they get to high school. :D I did talk to you about your request.
Pikachu joined the group!

To Koroc: Good post and a great story about the egg you have going on here!
You received an Egg!

 

[Koroc]

Chapter 6.1

Chpt. 6.1

Marcus entered the woods holding his pokemon egg close to his body so that he didn't drop it or someone could not run up and snatch it out of his hands. He let out Hammer so he would not have to hassle with it later on if he had to battle pretty quickly. Hammer followed Marcus into the forest just waiting for him to give an order.

"Don't worry pokemon egg I won't let anything happen to you." he whispered to the egg as if it was born already. Hammer just looked at Marcus as he paid much attention to the egg. He did not mind because he knew that an egg could not care for itself but he did feel a bit lonely.

"Cor cor cor phish." Hammer said to Marcus hoping he would hear him. Marcus looked down at Hammer.

"That's right I am usually talking to you aren't I buddy." Marcus said looking down at Hammer. "I will release ribbon so she can keep you company." Releasing Ribbon seemed to make Hammer a lot happier.

They continued down the path when they came across a kid in a straw hat and had on a white beater and a pair of blue shorts. They kid turned around and noticed Marcus and beside him a Silcoon. The kid ran over and began to hug the Silcoon.

"Wow a real silcoon I always wanted one but all I got were Cascoons!" The kid shouted out. " Now they are Dustox but I wanted a Beautifly." The kid continued.

"Yeah Ribbon is the first pokemon I caught on my adventure after I got this Corphish." Marcus said

"Would you trade it for a Dustox please!" The kid pleaded.

"Sorry man but Ribbon is very special to me and I can't just trade her like that."

"Well then how about a battle and if I win I get her." the kid said jumping up on his feet. Marcus looked down at his egg and thought he couldn't risk losing Ribbon but since he is a trainer he cant deny a battle. Marcus looked at the kid and agreed to the battle.

"Okay first one to lose all there pokemon loses the battle." The kid said smiling.

"Fine by me." Marcus said knowing he only had two pokemon he could use.

"Dustox lets go!" The kid said releasing a huge moth that had a purple body and big yellow eyes. It had huge wings but it didn't look all that intimidating.

"Hammer your up!" Marcus said as Hammer ran to the front.

"Dustox us poison Sting go." Dustox flew closer to Hammer and then released a spray of purple needles at Hammer.

"Dodge it and then use harden." Marcus yelled as Hammer jumped back to dodge the poison sting attack and then he struck a pose and it looked like a sheen came over Hammer.

"Defense wont save you now." The kid shouted telling his Dustox to do another poison sting attack. This time Marcus didn't tell Hammer to move out of the way. Hammer was hit by the barrage of needles but most of them just bounced off.

"Hammer use bubble attack." Corphish jumped up to be leveled with the dustox and then launched a spray of bubbles at it close range. The Dustox was hit by the attack and went down to the ground. Just before it hit it regained balance and flew towards Hammer who was in the air falling back down to the ground.
"Use tackle Dustox." the kid shouted as he knew the pokemon could not dodge in the air. The tackle hit knocking Hammer into the air a little further. "Keep tackling it higher and higher into the air."

"Hammer use bubble attack right before it hits you again." Marcus shouted out to his pokemon. Hammer waited for Dustox to get a little closer and then fired a bubble attack at it head on. Dustox fell to the ground with Hammer close behind and the kid could tried to tell his pokemon to tackle again but it was to late. Hammer fired another bubble attack at it as it got closer to the ground so it could not react. Dustox fainted and the kid got mad.

"Return Dustox." the kid said angrily "Go Nincada." The pokemon surprised Marcus as he pulled out his pokedex and wrapped his arms around the egg to use it.

Nincada, the Trainee pokemon, usually is under ground and uses its antennae to sense the surrounding since it is virtually blind.

Marcus closed the pokedex and figured this would be an easy match.

"Hammer bubble lets go." Hammer fired a bubble attack at the pokemon.

"Nincada use sand attack straight ahead." The trainer shout as the pokemon threw up sand and stopped the bubble attack from landing. "Now use scratch." Using its antennae it located Hammer and lunged towards it with a scratch attack.

"Counter it with Bubble." Marcus said as Hammer put out its claw and fired a high powered bubble attack at the on coming pokemon. The nincada was hit by the bubble attack and went flying into a tree and fainted.

"Darn you weak pokemon." The kid said returning the pokemon. "Here is my last one lets go Paras." The Kid released a crab like pokemon with mushrooms on its back. Marcus opened his pokedex to see what it said about it.

Paras the mushroom pokemon. They have mushrooms on there back that grow as the pokemon does. The mushrooms get nutrients from the host's body and are said to be the medicine of life.

Marcus closed the pokedex and then was ready for battle.

"Hammer use bubble." He shouted out and Hammer fired a stream of bubbles at Paras.

"Now Paras use your bullet seed attack!" The paras opened its mouth and a heavy stream of yellow seed shaped objects jetted out and completely destroying the bubble attack and hit Hammer. Hammer went falling to the ground and struggled to get up.

"Okay Hammer that's enough come back." Marcus said fearing that he could not take another hit like that. "Ribbon you are up lets go." RIbbon hopped up in front of Marcus as Hammer made its way to his side.

"Paras use Poisonpowder!" The trainer shouted as he was happy about his last win. A purple cloud of powder made its way to Ribbon and Ribbon closed her eyes as it was in pain but it didn't last as a layer of its cocoon came off and it seemed to have cured it of its aliment.

"Now Ribbon use string shot and a poison sting comdination!" Marcus yelled out as Ribbon shot a string shot attack at the paras and then pulled it towards her body and then fired a barrage of purple needles at it. The paras didn't seem to like that attack and seemed to have gotten poisoned as well.

"Paras use a bullet seed attack lets go!" the kid shouted as it shout a round of yellow seeds at the silcoon.

"Ribbon use string shot to dodge it quick." Ribbon didn't do anything and Marcus wondered why.

"Yes my effect spore ability worked." The kid said smiling as the silcoon took the attack.

"Effect spore?" Marcus said confused.

"That ability let the pokemon that attacked y paras get effected by paralysis, poison or even put to sleep." The kid proudly announced. After the bullet seed Ribbon shed another layer of skin and recovered from the paralysis and then lauched a poison sting at the weakened paras. Paras couldn't take the poison any longer and it fell over fainting. The kid got up set and returned the pokemon and ran away.

Marcus thought that was weird that he would do that and decided to find a place to rest so his pokemon could get some energy back. They found a nice spot by a yellow leafed tree and sat down to get some rest. Marcus sat the egg in his lap and as he did that the egg began to glow and crack. Marcus amazed tha his egg hatched so early sat there and wanting to see what it would be.

(ooc: I want you to decide what it will hatch into so it will be more surprising to me when I put the next post up.)

 

[~SilverSoul]

To Koroc: Wowee, you guys are asking me a lot of stuff, aren't you? Give me a little while to think about it and don't be surprised if the pokemon is from another region.
Corphish grew to level 12!
Silcoon grew to level 11!
Corphish learned Vicegrip!
What? Silcoon is evolving! Will you allow this process to continue? (Will learn Absorb if evolves)

 

[CTFx]

The Pikachu began to move, she was waking.

Long ago, the voiced died to an eerie silence. Hunter had ran a long time, not thinking about where he was going. He was lost, and it was night time. Both are not good, added together, even worse.

The Pikachu opened its eyes to the purple, moon-lighted sky. She looked up confused, trying to figure out where she was. She looked, apparently, for the fat kid and his gang.

She rejoiced. She found no trace. She fell over in exaust though, as Hunter studied her.

There is something wrong with her. She cannot do much without overdoing herself. and she cannot battle. How odd...As soon as I get to the next city, then I need to ask that Nurse Lady.

He searched his Pokedex, looking through an encyclopedia of genetic disorders, diseases, and disabilities. He couldnt find much on a fatigue disorder, so he would have to wait.

The Pikachu finally saw him, Hunter was up in a tree, next to his Slakoth. They had been studying her from the shadow of leaves.

It didnt take a while for the Pikachu to put two and two together. Her Result: They were stalking her, going to attack her.

She mustered up a spark from the red cheeks, then fell over. Face it, she couldn't put up a fight.

Hunter, by this time, had hopped down from the tree and was at the exhausted Pikachus side.

"No more electricity for you!" He said, picking up the Yellow Mouse Pokemon and putting her over her shoulder.

"Lets go, slacker." He said, referring to his Slakoth, still in a tree.

He jumped down, falling agianst the floor. Then, he sat still, waiting to fly first class like the Pikachu.

Hunter said to himself, "Pokemon...God you were think I would be running a day care."

Once again, he navigated through the trees. He still seemed at loss. He would run around for 20 minutes, just to see a familiar branch. It was very confusing.

He thought about Poochyena, but it was too much to ask, given the fact that she got ripped apart by Team Aqua. Hunter was at a total loss, maybe they could camp in the woods? He had nothing to camp with.

After another half-hour of fruitless searching, Hunter could fight his drowziness, no more. He set up against a tree, making a pile of fluffy grass as a makeshift cushion. He released all of his Pokemon. Poochyena and Makuhita were still injured badly, Pikachu was tired from trying to tell Hunter where to go, and Slakoth, well Slakoth couldnt be happier then to accept a nap.

With help from some of Slakoth's yawns, the whole team was asleep. The moon's shift ended, turning moonlight to sunlight. Rays swooped down and opened Hunter's eyelids. He was still exhausted, but he was too much of a light sleeper.

He went from the thick of trees, out into the open paths of the woods. There were trainers, EVERYWHERE.

Yesterday, he was lucky to find 1, but there was 4 or 5 in plain sight. There were some battleing, some waiting. Hunter crept back to his camp.

"Wake up team, we need to get a move on!" His team, reluctantly, woke up.

Poochy and Makuhita were rested, but still not in good fighting condition. Slakoth didnt get up, he just sat there, forcing Hunter to pick him up. Pikachu decided that she could walk on her own, but changed her mind after a few steps.

As soon as Slakoth saw all the other Pokemon out in the open, he insisted to walk with Makuhita and Poochy to show that he isnt an incapable Pokemon.

Every now and then he would start to whine and Hunter would have to go and carry him. After a couple of steps, Slakoth would want to get down, and he would repeat the process.

Hunter followed the general flow of moving trainers, making their way to the exit. How do they all know where to go? He stopped a trainer.

"Hey, how do you know how to navigate through this maze, and why are there so many trainers here"

The trainer looked puzzled. "There were always people going in and out everyday, until Team Aqua showed up. But they are gone, thanks to some trainers. He pulled out a peice of crumpled paper. There were 5 names listed on it.
Max
James
Hunter
Marcus
Beo
Shaun

These trainers did not look familiar. As he exited the woods, thanks to directions from trainers he told himself that he would have to find these trainers and hook up with them. If they could defeat Team Aqua by themselves, they would be really good together.

 

[~SilverSoul]

To CTFx: Good post! I like how you included the other trainers in it. There will be a time where you will have to fight them all together!

 

[Yrie]

Chapter 5
Petalburg City

Shaun and Electrike were walking on a well trodden path, Poochyena back in the safety of its pokeball. She glanced briefly up at the sky, and a strange expression crossed her face before she turned her gaze to the map that she was holding in both hands.

"For some reason, this map is amazingly accurate, even though it only shows a small part of Hoenn, it says that we likely will encounter a sign that says Petalburg City: 0.5 miles really soon." At that moment, she looked up from the map to see a wooden sign which was beginning to fall apart. Though initials and words and the like had been etched onto the surface, the original words on the sign were still quite clear. 'Petalburg City: 0.5 miles.' Electrike gave a bark, though this time Shaun couldn't quite interpret what Electrike meant, though she suspected it might have been one of surprise, or maybe I saw it first. Something along those lines.

"Yeah, see? I knew it, you probably saw it first, though, since you didn't have your face buried in a map." Shaun pointed out, and Electrike gave another bark, softer and shorter than the first. Shaun nodded and smiled and then returned to the map. "Well, there's not much more we need to know, is there? 'Cause we're almost at Petalburg City, and that's where we can challenge the gym!" She said excitedly, "though we probably have to train beforehand…yeah, probably, I heard the normal type gym leader's pretty strong." She commented, as Electrike gave a growl of agreement.



Walking into Petalburg City, the first thing Shaun noticed was how large it was, well, it was larger than the small town she had grown up in, that was for sure. Much larger than Oldale Town as well. From here, she could see several shops, restaurants, and a pharmacy. There was also a small group of people with collecting tins, and Shaun and Electrike approached them curiously, yet cautiously. She could see a professional looking sign, apparently the collection was sponsored by the Pokemon Medical Laboratories, she had heard of them. Apparently they made Pokemon medicines or something like that, in addition to helping to support the Pokemon Center. Well, what did these people want? Shaun read further, taking in the words that were printed in red letters on the sign.

"Pokemon Medical Laboratories Collection Event
Please donate money to help a group of Pokemon
Supposedly injured by the notorious Team Aqua,
According to our sources, they were used for some
Experimental purpose, and when it was all over,
The weakened Pokemon were discarded from one
Of their secret laboratories. Many have been severely
Weakened by the ordeal that they have been through.
The Pokemon Center asks that you give a small donation
To help pay for the costs of the special treatments some
Of the Pokemon will need in order to survive.
Thank you.
The Pokemon Center and the Pokemon Medical
Laboratories" ​

It was a rather large sign, to have fit all those words on, that was Shaun's first thought. Then her thoughts shifted to those poor Pokemon, she hardly knew who Team Aqua were, but if they had really done what they did, then they must be pretty rotten. Apparently, Electrike had understood the message as well, because it growled both sympathetically and angrily. Shaun dug into her pocket for some spare change, and was pleased to find a number of coins in her pocket.

"I know its not much, but hopefully it'll help." Shaun murmured, depositing the coins in the collecting tin, and earning herself a grateful smile for those who were collecting the money. She noticed that she wasn't the only one giving money either. Another trainer who was passing through into Petalburg had also noticed the sign and the group of people who were collecting the money for the Pokemon Center and was currently reading it. Shaun saw a concerned expression spread across the trainer's face before she turned around. "C'mon Electrike. Maybe we should get to the Pokemon Center."

"Trike…"

The Pokemon Center wasn't far off, though it was located in the center of Petalburg. Shaun passed through the doors, carrying Electrike in her arms. A Chansey came over and greeted Shaun, and then led her through a set of double doors where a few other trainers were eating. She thanked the Chansey, though she had really come to ask about the Pokemon injured by Team Aqua. Suddenly, a growl from her stomach interrupted her thoughts, and the Chansey pushed her gently towards a table into a seat, and then disappeared, to return moments later with a tray of food. Shaun thanked the Chansey again as it placed a dish of Pokemon food on the table for Electrike. Electrike growled a word of thanks as it leapt onto the tabletop to eat. The Chansey left, and Shaun began to eat, looking up as the Chansey appeared again leading another surprised looking trainer.

After eating, Shaun placed her dish and tray in a sink in the corner, filled with warm soapy water, and left the room with Electrike. She found Nurse Joy with no problem, seeing as she was often sitting at the front desk. But before Shaun could approach Nurse Joy, she had run off to treat another Pokemon. Shaun sighed.


"Well, we might as well at least visit the gym, maybe there will be a battle going on that we could watch." She suggested, as Electrike led the way out of the Pokemon Center.



"What? I can't believe it!" Shaun said, as they stood outside a locked gym, Electrike growled, but didn't really seem to upset. Shaun sighed, "well, I don't know about you, but we might as well return to the Pokemon Center, seeing as there's nowhere else we can go and I'm not too fond of sleeping in the forest tonight." They set back towards the Pokemon Center, wondering why the Petalburg Gym was closed.


Ooc:// Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been somewhat busy, but here you go, I'll start Chapter 6 in a bit. (By the way, this post was a bit rushed, just so you know in case this post seems a bit...lacking to you.)

 

[~SilverSoul]

To Slytherfang: Nice to see you again! I thought the post was good and it didn't seem that rushed. You may start in the Petalburg Woods.