Oakbark: Lol, i'll be good! It was an hour after school :--/ i got my pocket money banned for a few weeks...DAMNIT! PM-ing me with your suspicion would really be appreciated, i love hearing how you interpret the fic! Rika won again, with Roy's useless Ditto and his reliable Gengar. Remember him in Chapter 34? He was really strong back then....ho-hum. Absol is really powerful, as you'll see in Chapter 28 below, and weather or not he is caught is another matter. Articuno....lol, 'that thing' the fic is loosely based on. You'll find out about him soon, hehe. Something happens.
Powarun: That was 5 options :-P It's true, those are the options, although there are more obviously, one inparticular you wouldn't expect. Fpreshadowing indeed, but it is also a gateway into Espeon's feelings and how she reacted to being left with Kimi. Tom's my best mate, he's the best! cool guy, really is. I wish he went here on TPM, i wish he liked Pokemon really, because then I wouldn't have to hide this from him :-(. Oh well. Swablu for Tom? he may already have one, if he owns a Gym. Hmm, keep guessin and all will be revealled.
TSS: Hey again, thanks. I hate viruses. Oh well, just get a Porygon2 to kill them off, that might help!
Oakbark: Nice question. Well, the end is slowly being set in stone as to what happens - I'm really very proud of the ideas i've churned out. Krystal may not catch anymore Pokemon, you have to see that, although she may...if i want to introduce any dragons, that is! James? lol, he STILL hasn't been written in, but I'm trying to, I really am! Hehe. Soon, soon he will appear. :-)
Dragonfree: Well, i hope you have a great time and don't miss us that much! we're not worth it! Hehe. Catch ya in 2 weeks mate.
*dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn!*
The Indigo Road
Chapter 28 - Fighters
By Shiny
Chris
Umbreon raced forward and tackled Absol from Krystal’s body. He leapt back but kept his balance as he skidded along the grass. Umbreon stared at the terrifying wolf Pokemon, the rings glowing on his body.
Absol howled, before focusing power into the blade on the side of his head. He leapt into the air and swung his head around, releasing a blade of energy forward at Umbreon. Umbreon shot to the left as the energy scarred the ground.
“Come on, guys” I croaked. “Seviper, poison fang! Electabuzz, focus a Thunderpunch”
Electabuzz thought hard, focusing his energy into his right hand. It crackled violently as he thrust it towards Absol. However, the speedy Pokemon leapt into the air and evaded the attack, before firing a blade of energy again and smacking Electabuzz in the stomach.
Seviper lunged at Absol and sunk his deep red fangs into Absol’s ribcage. He howled in pain as Seviper swung Absol to the left, making the wolf graze across the floor. I stood there, watching the action from afar. Kecleon stood by my side, transfixed, while Pidgeotto pecked at some seeds on the ground.
I ran over to Krystal and picked her up. She opened her eyes wearily.
“…Chris?” She asked.
“How are you?” I asked her. “You look bad”
“Get me….” She began.
“Get you what?” I asked quickly.
“Get me help…” She breathed, falling down.
“KRYSTAL!” I cried. I looked around wildly. What could I do? Electabuzz, Umbreon and Seviper were panting heavily after the adrenaline rush. I looked around, walking over to my scooter and standing it up.
“Ok, I want you five to STAY HERE and protect Krystal” I began. “Get Ampharos and Charizard, too”
Kecleon released Ampharos and Charizard, and the 7 Pokemon stood around Marill and Krystal. Absol lay in the ground, gasping slightly. I pushed off from my scooter and towards Fliscoula City, looking for help.
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“Is she alright?” Kecleon asked nervously. “Krystal, I mean”
Charizard looked down at his trainer: he was Krystal’s first capture, and he had held that title with pride. He had often held a macho image, but if the truth were to be spoken, then he was worried. Very worried for his trainer.
“She’ll be fine” Charizard huffed. “Now, Myself, ‘Buzz and Kecleon will be attacking anything that comes near. The rest of you will be circling Krystal and Marill, making sure you attack anything that comes near. Put simply: WE go forward to attack, you attack anything that goes forward”
As the biggest and probably physically strongest Pokemon, Charizard seemed to be taking a lead role in all of this. Ampharos seemed to have respect for his friend, but his new size and capabilities had given the impression he was willing to be a leader, too.
Seviper, Umbreon, Ampharos and Pidgeotto formed a ‘circle’ around Krystal’s body. Charizard, Electabuzz and Kecleon walked forward and prepared to attack anything. Ampharos, however, was looking at Absol with a confused expression. Absol looked up at Ampharos, and started to speak…
“You should have caught me while you had the chance”
Within seconds, he launched himself at Ampharos and clung to his upper body. Ampharos screamed and stumbled around as Absol created a gash on Ampharos’ body.
“Haha! Take that!” Absol cried manically.
Electabuzz send a surge of electric energy down to his fist, before racing forward, roaring his name and smashing Absol in the face. Howling, the white and grey Pokemon flew back and smacked against the floor. Ampharos stumbled slightly, but Electabuzz managed to support him.
“Are you…all right?” Electabuzz asked. Far from it being him who was the ‘caring one’, this situation had really meant all Pokemon stuck together, looked out for one another, and fought for Krystal no matter what.
“Yea…” Ampharos muttered, nodding awkwardly. Electabuzz settled him down with Krystal.
The Pokemon looked around. Umbreon walked to Charizard.
“Should we catch him now?” He asked nervously.
“I’m not sure,” Charizard grunted. “Catching him would only mean we’d have to keep him, wouldn’t it?”
“I suppose so” Umbreon muttered, slightly ashamed of his idea.
“But” Charizard went on. “If we do not catch him, then we can only guess what he’ll do next”
Kecleon ran up to Krystal and got an Ultra Ball from her belt. He then ran over to Charizard and handed it to him. Charizard prepared to throw the ball at Absol, when he froze on the spot.
“Can you…hear that?” He asked the group. A series of howls rose up from the surrounding forest. “It could be more of them”
“Pidgeotto, you can go and check” Kecleon advised. Pidgeotto looked up from the sand he was kicking.
“No”
Angered, Charizard walked up to Pidgeotto and grabbed him:
“If you’re in this group, then you’ll fight for your friends, help your friends and even put yourself before your friends”
“My friends are all on Route01” Pidgeotto rasped. “I’d fight for THEM any day”
“You’re in THIS group now” Electabuzz said boldly, getting up from talking to Ampharos. “Your priorities lie here now”
“Well then, Ok, I will look” Pidgeotto snapped. He ran, spreading his wings and flapping them hectically, before swooping up into the air and going towards the forest. However, another Absol leapt through the bushes and landed on Pidgeotto, pinning him to the ground and biting his left wing. He screeched loudly, as the rest of the group stared I disbelief.
“PIDGEOTTO!” Kecleon cried. He eyed the Absol and charged at it with his claws. “YOU BASTARD!”
Kecleon slashed Absol across the back, but he bucked his back legs and sent Kecleon flying through the air. The chameleon smacked against the floor and lay there, breathing deeply, a gash on his back.
“Come on guys” Electabuzz said. “Me and Charizard will take on these two –
“What do you mean… two ?” Absol said, chuckling. Three more Absol leapt from the bushes and bombarded the Pokemon. Charizard and Electabuzz were currently battling Absol, but Umbreon was now squaring off against a rather bulky one. Seviper had to take on two at a time, which was looking rather grim.
Charizard opened his mouth and blasted a torrent of flames at Absol. He screamed as the flames engulfed his body menacingly, running wildly around the path between Celadon and Fliscoula.
“Come on, Chris” Electabuzz gasped, smacking Absol in the face. Absol then sunk his teeth into Electabuzz’ knuckles. He roared in pain.
Kecleon lay there, as did Marill, Pidgeotto and Ampharos. Charizard, Umbreon, Electabuzz and Seviper battled to the max against the ferocious Absol, waiting for some help from their trainer.
*
Megan
“I’m sure you’ll be let free soon,” I told Sabrina, who was pale, shaky and rather paranoid at the time. “You gave Jet the keys to the Gym, and the takeover won’t take long, so we can only wait”
“But…but I don’t want to go” Sabrina whimpered.
“It’ll be fine” I assured her, assuring being something I did an awful lot recently. I got a buzz on my pager:
“Megan – Gym doors opened, we’re in! Come visit us, JH has Promo’s for us. Luv Jet”
I presumed JH was James Holmes. Our Promo Pokemon were in! A new friend for me…I sighed happily, putting my pager away.
“Well, I have to go” I told Sabrina. “We’ll probably be taking you tomorrow, or the day after”
“Please!” Sabrina cried. “PLEASE!”
“I’m sorry,” I said, walking down the staircase.
I wandered through the City of Saffron: The heat had died down after the Saffron bomb, but Police officers were still patrolling a lot more than before. Jet the Gym Leader…he had always dreamed of making a name for himself…
I arrived at the Gym, and went inside. Inside, I saw the long arena, and Jet, as well as about 5 Grunts.
“Hey Meg” Jet said, walking over. “Like the Gym?”
“Are you refurbishing it?” I asked keenly.
“We will be, but we can’t just yet” Jet said. “Officials have been told of the new Gym Ownership, but if we change it straight away they may get suspicious”
“Yea” I said emptily. “So, you said our Promo Pokemon were here?”
“Yup” Jet said. “Well, as I said, I’m keeping Magmar, but yours is right here”
Jet handed me a Violet Pokeball with a yellow star on the front. I smiled, taking it off him and throwing it out into the Gym.
The ball opened and released a blob of white light, white light that slowly took the form of a purple shell. I looked down at it. It was shut.
Suddenly, as I bent down to inspect, its hinge opened, a big red tongue flopped out and it rasped “Shellda!”
“Shellder?” I questioned. Its actual body must be the black part inside, I thought. Shellder was a pretty cool Pokemon. “Try an Ice beam!”
I pointed at Simon, a grunt with a Shroomish. Shellder once again opened her mouth, and from her black body, she blasted a pearly white beam. It was smooth, with a hint of sky blue as it hurtled towards the grumpy, dumpy Mushroom.
The beam made contact, and Shroomish soon became encased in a block of ice. His expression was rather fixed as he stared into the nothingness ahead of him. Simon turned around.
“What was that for?” He asked hotly.
“Cool off” I snapped. “Clamp!”
Shellder rocked slightly, before launching herself forward at Simon. She shut her shell over his shoe, clamping onto his foot. Simon tried to shake her off by swinging his leg up and down. Shellder stayed on.
“So, are you pleased?” Jet asked.
“Yea! She’s great,” I said happily. “When…when are we leaving?”
“Maybe four days time?” Jet said. “At most, that is. Four days at most. I need legal papers sorted and whatnot”
Jet then took me to the back of the Gym and through a door. Once there, I saw a large plane, silver in colour.
“The same ones they use for parachute dives” Jet explained.
“This is what we’re leaving in, ey?” I said, moving my hand across it. “What’s happening then?”
“I managed to persuade Smokey to pilot for us,” Jet said. Smokey was this Rocket we knew who had a Numel. He was a good trainer, but his pyromaniac antics had often got him suspended from work. He was one of a large selection of pilots on the Rocket Force, as was Domino. She was in Pewter City, however, taking over the Gym.
“We’re flying over Oldale” Jet told me. “It’s a nice town in another continent. There’s a forest nearby you can drop from –
“DROP?” I questioned.
“Yea, Parachute drop out the plane” Jet told me obviously. “You’ll safely land in the woods, and you can get to Oldale”
“Sounds good” I began. “I’d better change out of my rocket uniform before we leave!”
“Yea, but I’d spend the next few days training Shellder. She’s strong, but just train that extra bit,” Jet advised.
“Thanks” I said, kissing Jet on the cheek. “Thanks so much”
“It’s Ok” Jet assured me. “It’ll be sad seeing you go, but…but I know I’m doing the right thing here”
I hugged him, before running off to train my new Shellder.
*
Al
“Run away?” I questioned. Monica nodded.
“My dad owns an 18-wheeler; we can use that to get to Fuchsia!” She said enthusiastically.
“Are you sure that’s safe?” I asked. “I’m one year off taking my driving test, and you’re only 14!”
“Oh, stop whining” Monica said hotly. “We have to keep on the run, in case Sandra catches you!”
She had a point.
“Yea…yea, you’re right,” I said, hugging her. “You’re very special to me, you know”
“Thanks, I feel the same” Monica told me.
And with that, Monica ran down the road, presumably towards her father’s 18-wheeler. I hoped he wasn’t a steel adept with giant metal fists or something. Or some big dude with tattoos. I did hope, however, that he was a weedy little man with glasses…
I stared in disbelief at the huge truck. It was red, rather bulky and looked MASSIVE. Monica clambered in with no problem, but it took me a while to boost up into the truck.
Inside, it was very warm. The chairs were big and comfy, but the steering wheel was about the size of a dustbin lid! Monica gripped the wheel confidently, and slammed her foot down on the accelerator.
As he tore out the peaceful Lavender Town, the one place where I’d felt secure and at home, a large cloud of black exhaust trailed after us. I felt guilty: from an adults perspective it may look as if I had kidnapped Poor Monica, but I had to say, it was much rather the other way round. We drove south towards Fuchsia, where Monica’s Soul Badge lay. Once there, we’d escape somewhere else. I heard Fuchsia was by the sea…maybe we could get a boat…
*
Tony
“Keep going!”
We ran across the maze in the dim light. Misty and I hissed across to each other where to go: right now, we had just nipped straight across a 4-way turn in Dave’s maze. I felt my heart smash against my body through every beat it gave off. Dave really had this planned.
Misty, who was infront of me, stopped. Staryu, her only Pokemon with her, stood still too.
“What’s up?” I asked.
“I can hear something,” She hissed. I stopped, and tried to listen. As I listened, a thick slither could be heard from somewhere nearby.
“I hear it too” I assured her.
“What can we do? It sounds like a Pokemon,” She said.
“You attack if it comes infront, I’ll attack if it comes behind” I said to her. She nodded, gathering her wits and turning.
“AIIIYEEEEEEEEEEE!” She screamed, pointing. I turned, and saw a humongous Bronze Steelix staring at us. It cocked its head slightly, but then forced it down at Misty. I grabbed her delicate frame and pulled her back as Steelix smashed the floor.
We both breathed in quick spurts. Misty had her hand to her chest as her other hand kept Staryu close.
“We’ll go back to the 4-way and take the right path,” I said to her. She nodded, as we both turned on our heels and pelted down the maze’s path. Steelix followed, although rather delayed, as it had to un-jam its head from the floor.
As we came to the 4-way path, we darted down what was the right path and followed it as it turned left, right, right, left, forward. We ran on evermore, the path being totally straight, and it looked as if it would stay like that for a lot longer.
As we turned left, we ran down a small straight and turned right, before the path opened up and revealed…
“The arena!” Misty cried. She ran onto it: it was cement, with engravings in. “What happened to it?”
“He’s changed it. Changed it for his own uses” I muttered. Misty got her key for her room and ran up the stairs. Once there, she slotted the key in and accessed her bedroom.
While Misty freshened up, (I didn’t need to), I got all my Pokeballs (except Seaking’s) and attached them to my Pokeball belt. It felt good having them there. However, as I examined the arena, I felt someone grab me by the back of the neck. I turned, and saw Dave standing with Blastoise.
“Welcome home, Aquadox” He snapped.
“Hey DAVE” I snapped.
“How you been? Living in fear?” Dave sneered.
“Not any more” I told him. “What’s this about?”
“It’s MY new Gym” Dave said. “In thirty minutes I will be the Cerulean Gym Leader, so I refurbished this as part of The Gym Plan”
“The Gym Plan?” I asked.
“Never mind” Dave uttered. “The point is, this Gym will be mine in thirty minutes!”
I heard a sharp noise, and saw Dave clasp his arm on pain. I looked up to see Misty in her swimsuit, white jacket over it and her short ginger hair curving out at the ends. She held a pistol in her hand.
“It’s only a pellet,” She snapped. “But LAY OFF HIM”
Dave stepped back, and I walked to the left a little.
“Dave, we’re taking you on in the last 30 minutes we have” Misty told Dave. “We’re going for an all-out dogfight for the ownership of this Gym, so watch out”
Dave stared at her. He plucked a Pokeball from his belt and maximised it.
“Bring it on, *****”
Chapter 29 - Tears of Hope
Posted on Thursday
-Chris, after suffering a lot in the forest, meets another trainer in Fliscoula City. And it just so happens he's into Dragon Taming...
“Oh, I see. I got to the semi-finals of the Miami League, but lost to a girl named Rika” I explained.
“She beat me, too” Thomas said. “She’s very strong. Oh, I’m Tom, Tom Chambers”
“Chris Haruka” I said, shaking Tom’s hand.
-In the Pokemoncenter, both trainers hear some good news...
“With the recent Saffron City explosion, the Devon Corporation heist and petty vandalism up 80%, the future looks grim. People need more protection on these streets we walk, which is why I will declare that Pokeball belts are to be sold holding eight balls. HOWEVER, League matches will resume as 6-6, but Gyms unofficial or registered may hold 8-8 bouts”
-Wobbuffet collects his fears and takes on Smeargle:
“Noctowl! Help me!” I shouted. I then heard a coo, as Noctowl clasped his talons on Smeargle’s head. Staring fiercely, Noctowl hurled Smeargle into a primrose bush. Dustox, shocked at this, fluttered off to find Weezing. I smiled at Noctowl.
So come online on Thursday to see all this and more! How much chocolate can YOU get for £10?
From Rookie To Champion - The Indigo Road
I'm wondering what Chris plans to buy for Krystal. 
Now i'm in an after school detention and at my own risk, i'm quickly coming on.
Misty should have pulled a real pistol on Dave and shot the bastard dead right there! 
This is getting even more interesting! 
