I giggled. "I have an idea. Ray and I double battle against the strongest, then Jason and Kon fight one each. Well?" I said casually, as if it were obvious.

The three nodded. "Fine!" They all replied in unison. They each led a different member of the group into seperate rooms. Jason followed the blonde reluctantly and sighed. "Can we just get this over with?" He rolled his eyes. She looked at him crossly. This kid's gonna be annoying...I can tell now. They stood by a large pool and she pulled out a ball. "Go Seel!" A seel-like pokemon came out and smacked its flippers together. "Seel!" It dove into the pool. A water-type...I thoguht so. "Gastly!" It appeared next to him. "You ready?" It nodded anxiously.

Gary sighed heavily. "Fine..." Gary took a ball from him belt. "Being you're the leader, I think it's traditional for you to go first. "Playing by the book are we?" Misty smirked and threw her first. It was the Staryu from before and hopped into a slightly smaller pool then the last. Staryu? Ok... "Beedrill!" He threw the ball and Beedrill came out into battle happily. "Bzzzz" It looked around for the Staryu. "Stay away from the water, okay?" It nodded quickly and watched the water below carefully.


((I'm gonna let you guys control your own unless you'd rather me be the leader being I've got Jason for awhile now too.))

The oldest of the sisters led me and Ray to a certain room made for her pokemon. It was mostly water, with a grass patch in the middle. An island. I nodded to Ray, and sent out Hitoshi.
(I guess you can control Ray. I dunno though...)
The girl chuckled. "Wise move, girl. Go, Staryu!" A small clam pokemon came out, and I frowned. It wasn't good to underestimate things....
She then also let out a Seel to take care of Ray's pokemon. She turned to me. "Alright, Staryu, use Rapid Spin!" I looked at her, startled. It wasn't wise to use major moves this early in the fight. Maybe it will be over quickly, then. The better for me.[i/] I smiled. "Hitoshi, use Vine Whip to stop him!" Hitoshi did that. "Good, now play around!" I smiled again. Hitoshi threw the Staryu in the air, caught it, and slammed it into the wall, then to the island, and let it go. Violet(or Lily, or whoever?) frowned. [i]This little girl was going to beat me! It was a given now....darn grass pokemon. It was a one-on-one, and with three pokemon I could win, but for now, she has the advantage!

Jason smirked as the girl across from him thought for a second. how can i do this? Seel only knows Normal-type attacks. She sighed. "Fine, you win this match. Seel, return. Go Dewgong!" A Dewgong lept from its ball and into the pool area. Jason's smirk faded to a worried frown. "Dewgong? What's that?" She lughed lightly. "Let me show you...Ice Beam!" It shot a silver beam from its horn right at Gastly. It let out a silent cry as it was frozen inside the ice. "Gastly! Come back!" Jason huffed. "Fine, you leave me no choice. Squirtle!" Squirtle jumped from its ball. It looked around curiously and saw the Dewgong. "Squirt!" It lept behind Jason. "Hey! Get out there!" He tapped its head and it moved onto the feild. "Hahaha! That's your last resort?" She laughed hard as the Squirtle got an angry look. Jason knelt down beside it. "...tackle" It quickly lept into the water ontop of the Dewgong. "What!? What are you doing?" The two battled underwater for some time bewfore Squirtle was blown out of the water. "Squirt..." "Water gun!" It shot a blast of water from its mouth which had just barely missed Dewgong. "Dewgong, Ice Beam!" Dewgong shot Ice Beam after Ice Beam at Squirlte. Once it had the time Jason called to it. "Skull-Bash!" It lowered its head and ran towards the Dewgong. "Hurry! Ice Beam!" It shot another, slowing Squirtle down but it rampaged through the bright beam and lept into the air. "Squirt!" It landed right between Dewgong's eyes. "Dewwww!" A large burst of water splashed out of the pool, drenching both trainers and Dewgong slowly floated back to the top. "Dewgong, return." The girl sighed. "Looks like ya beat me kid." She walked over to him and handed him a badge. "This is the Cascade Badge. After you leave here, there's a city south called Vermillion. Go there to verse the next leader. By the way, he uses electricity so be careful with your Squirtle." Jason's eyes widened. Squirtle! He looked at the water and saw nothing. He quickly dove in and saw a large shadow swimming about. Once he surfaced there was another pokemon there. "What the--" "Wartortle!" It gave a large grin. Jason smirked. "I knew you'd get stronger." He returned it and they walked back to the main room to wait for the others.

I smiled. "Now, Hitoshi, finish the Staryu with your new attack, Razor Leaf!" Hitoshi unleashed a fury of leaves, and well, let's just say that the poor Staryu never knew what hit it. The girl smiled, congratulated me, gave me my badge, and went to fight Ray. "Good luck Ray!" I called to him. Hesitating for a second, I ran to him, and whispered into his ear, "I have to go get them. Meet me you-know-where when you finish." I started to run towards the door. "See you!"

Gary stood at his side of the feild, watching the water carefully. "Watch, Beedrill...it could come from anywhere..." "Water Gun!" A bolt of water shot from below Beedrill who quickly dodged. "Now!" It swung downward. "Staryu, camouflage!" Staryu mixed with the water, making it invisible to the Beedrill. "Now what are we going to do?" Gary thoguht carefully and heard the water churning. "Beedrill, move!" It dodged again as Staryu came out of the water with a rapid spin which hit the wall hard, knocking a few chunks away. "Now, Attack!" While Staryu was int he air, Beedrill jabbed it with its stinger. It fell back into the water hard and splashed for a bit. "Staryu you ok?" Misty called worriedly. "He-ya!" It jumped up onto the land and it's gem started to glow. hundreds of tiny stars started to spew from the gem, hitting Beedrill hard. "Bzzz!" It struggleda bit but soon regained posture. "Beedrill, fury-attack!" It flew back to the Staryu and quickly jabbed it with its three stingers relentlessly. Finally, the Staryu fell back; defeated. "Return!" Misty scowled under her breath. "Now you're gonna get it! Go, Starmie!" It lept up on the ledge of the water. "Okay, Beedrill, go!" It flew towards it, only to get bombarded by a flurry of bubbles. Gary had a flashback of his dream. no... Beedrill turned to dodge them but was blown back by another swift attack which threw him into the water below. "Beedrill!" Gary quickly rushed towards the water and returne it back to it's ball. Gary sighed in relief. Now what... "Ahem! I'm waiting." Misty called to him very impatiently as she tapped her foot. Gary sighed and pulled out the ball Farfetch'd was in. "It's up to you. Farfetch'd!" He threw the ball and out came the small bird and it's onion. "Far!" It gave Starmie a determined stare. "Far..." "Swift!" Misty called again with a confident voice. The stars flew out again as Farfetch'd tried desperately to dodge them. A few managed to hit as Farfetch'd neared the Star-pokemon and smacked it hard with it's onion. Starmie shook quickly and responded by spinning rapidly and throwing Farfetch'd across the room. Gary could tell it was becoming weaker. He smirked as he thought and looked to Farfetch'd. "Hey, remember that move i taught you the toher night?" Farfetch'd nodded. "Okay! Fling!" Farfetch'd looked around and saw some of the wall that had broken. It picked some up and threw it hard at the Starmie. Starmie was hit hard adn fell backwards. "Starmie!" Misty rushed to its side and hugged it. "you did good...return." She walked up to gary and congratulated him. "Here's your badge, great job." He walked out of the room and saw Kiki and Jason. "Aww...I came in third?"

(I guess I get Violet then)

Violet took Kon to another one of the rooms of the gym, where there was a smaller pool that had small floating platforms "You ready, Kon?" Violet asked, holding up a Pokeball "You bet!" Kon replied happily. Kiiro jumped onto one of the platforms and gave a show of sparks. Violet giggled and said "Okay. Go, Shellder!" she released the clam-like Pokemon from its ball and it landed on one of the platforms, sticking out its toungue at Kiiro "Kiiro, use your Thundershock!" the Pkachu charged up the electricity in his cheeks and then released it, badly damaging the Shellder "Oh no!" Violet said, "Shellder, use Withdraw!" the Shellder then closed its shell. Kiiro looked at it curiously and was tempted to poke it, but Kon then said "Kiiro, use Iron Tail on Shellder!" the Pikachu's tail glowed, and then he slammed it down on the Shellder's shell. The Shellder then opened its shell, which revealed a knocked out Shellder "No, Shellder!" Violet cried. She returned the clam Pokemon and threw another Pokeball, saying "Go, Cloyster!" the Pokeball opened up to reveal an even bigger clam-like Pokemon, it had spikes on its shell and looked like it was demented, likea Shellder on steroids "Cloyster, use spikes!" Violet ordered. The Cloyster spun around, and shot out spikes that landed all around the pool and platforms. One of those spikes almost got Kiiro's tail. "Kiiro, use Thundershock!" the Pikachu did as told and the Cloyster was shocked to say the least (bad pun!!>_<) "Cloyster, use Ice Beam!!" Violet shouted. Cloyster then shot a beam of ice at Kiiro, who danced around trying to avoid them, only to have his tail iced. "No, Kiiro!" said Kon. She tossed him a berry and he ate it, curing his frozn tail, "Now, use another Thundershock to finish it off!" Kiiro charged up a larger amount of electricity and released all of it, completely knocking Cloyster out. Violet stared in belief, and then sighed. Returning the exhausted Pokemon, she walked over to Kon and pressed a badge into her hand, saying "You're good, Kon. It was a good battle." Kon gave her trademark grin and said "Thanks, Violet. It was fun." Kon said goodbye to Violet, and then went to the main room, where she saw the others. "Looks like I'm one of the late ones, huh?"

(Here's something I noticed, all of the sisters had two Pokemon, one a basic Water type, and then its evolved form. Is this some kinda conspierecy?)

((Weird...))

I looked at the others, then acted as if I had just remembered something to do, and was embarrassed. "T-That reminds me..." I said, backing away. "I forgot something..." I ran off, and then remembered that I had a sprained ankle. Muttering German curses, I ran until I reached the half-way point to the base, and found my crutches by the base of the tree. "Huh? I on't rememebr leaving those here..." I took them swiftly, looked around, and started to walk back, the entire time feeling as if someone was watching me.

Gary watched her leave with an odd look on his face. "what's gotten into her all of a sudden? That was really wierd." He turned to Kon. "You think something's wrong?" He glanced back at the door and then to Jason who was sitting in the corner trying to defrost his Gastly. I'd better leave him be...he's not the greatest person to talk to at a time like that.

I walked back, not een using my crutches. Even once I reached the pokemon center, I sat down and leaned against the wall, on my tiptoes, but leaning down so that my butt almost was on the ground, with my arms hung lazily over my knees. I would some times move then crisscross behind my head, ut I kept looking forward to the door, sometimes looking at my crutches. Or, should I say, glared at them.

"That was weird..." said Kon, agreeing with Gary. "So, uh, where to next?" she said, changing the subject "I remember Violet talking about an Electric-type gym, so I think we should go there." Kon answered herself

I finally got up and walked to the others, knowing that they wouldn't be walking to me any time soon. During that time, I continued to glare at my crutches, which I let drag on the ground besides me. I reached the gym with the others, and sat down on the ground, laying the crutches beside me. I continued to give the poor, innocent(cough) crutches a death glare.

Gary shook his head. "We need to wait for Ray, he's still battling his half of their battle. But you're right, there's an Electric gym south of here. We should probably get down there next." He looked around, waiting for Ray to finish up.

Kon sighed, and let out Kyouko to keep Kiiro company. Kyouko looked at Kiiro with a smug look, and then turned away from him, trying to make herself look cool. Kon gave the Charmeleon a bonk on the head and said "Don't be mean, Kyouko. Just 'cause you evolved doesn't mean you're the top dog." Kyouko ignored this, and blew an Ember right at Kon's face. She stared at Kyouko in shock and then said "Okay. Then that means that you get no food, Kyouko. Because bad Pokemon don't get any meals." the Charmeleon gave Kon a glare and then sat far away from her trainer.

(Oh no, now I have Ash's Charmeleon!! NNNNUUUUUU!!!!!)

((Haha let's just hope you don't get lit on fire.))

Gary laughed at the two pokemon while Jason huffed and turned away. "...idiots..." They all sent him a glare and went back to what they were doing. Gary couldn't help but wonder when his Sandshrew was going to evolve. He smiled as he thought. It'll be the best Sadnslash ever!

I sighed, and sat down on a real chair, by Jason. "I smiled a greeting to him, and he responded in the same way. I giggled when Kon got into a 'fight' with her Charmeleon. I handed her a crutch. "Seems like you got quite a dilemma on your hands. Why don't you try this?" I winked at her.
I stood up. Sighing, I looked at my remaining crutch, and longingly at the trash can. I may need these, but there's something wrong with them....I'll have Ray inspect them once he gets out.

Kon and Kyouko kept giving eachother the cold shoulder, and when Kiiro tried to calm them down, Kon started to baby him, hoping to make Kyouko jealous. Kyouko saw this, and turned her head around moodily. "Regreting what you did now, Kyouko?" Kon asked. Kyouko merely responded by blowing another Ember into Kon's face, resulting Kon running around in circles trying to put out th small fire that started in her hair. Kyouko smirked, and continued to ignore Kon's screams for help

(My poor hair *sniff*)

"Wartortle, put out that fire!" Kon was doused with water putting out the fire. "There, that should take care of it." Jason returned Wartortle and sat back in his chair. "No need to thank me. ust quit being so stupid."

I sighed, and conked Kyouko's head with my fist. When he turned, I had Kon's pokeball. "Return." I asid calmly, and smiled at the look of the pokemon's face when he realized what I had done. I smiled, and gave the pokeball to Kon. "Mischief managed."

"I'm not being stupid, Kyouko's being stubborn!" Kon said angerily. Kyouko started retaliating with her own language "Oh yeah? Well you're a pompous brat!" Kon returned heatedly. They continued this argument, when Kiiro, fed up with their arguing, decided to use Thundershock on the to hotheads. As they were laying on the ground, Kiiro scolded them "Pika Pi. Pika Pika Pi. Pikachu!"

(Kyouko's bein' mean, and now Kiiro shocked me. I think I'm goona go in the emo corner now *walks off* *runs back up* drat! Sasuke's there...)

((Aww...did mean Sasuke take your spot? Don't worry, I have reservation seats just in case. *hands you ticket* Here ya go, have fun kiddo.))

I sighed. I stood up, and paced. I finally stomped my foot down, catching the attention of others. "I'm bored. Ra sure is taking his sweet time." I mumbled. A thought then struck me, and I smiled evilly. I crept into the other room, and was disappointed. They weren't doing anything, not even battling. What was up with them?

(*takes ticket and kicks Sasuke out* *sits in a corner and sings* Nobody like me, everybody hates me *gasp* I'm Cruella Devill!! *cries more* )

((Puh-lease, my *coughmonocromatic(sp)friendcough* *goes to you and acts friendly. I'm your friend...))

(B-but Kyouko lit my hair on fire and Kiiro shocked me )

((Kyouko is a meanie, but will be nicer later on. Kiiro shocked you so you would stop fighting. He still loves you. ))