Erin heard the shouting and nodded looking as rattata was thrown to the ground and hit it's head. "use double-team now rattata" he said as the butterfree swooped in and The rodent began to do what looked like cloning itself. The butterfree stopped a moment before attacking the fake and was hit with another bite and a quick attack before being hit him self with another gust and being sent flying and hitting a tree, erin felt lucky and machop stood back up and began to cheer the Pokemon on which erin followed in only after yelling "come on you can get him use quick attack". rattata Noticed how erin and the crew were so confident and after shedding what looked like a smirk it turned and ran through the beats from the Pokemon and bashed into the butterfree sending it away, erin was shocked by the power of the Pokemon, maybe it was in the top percentage.

"Oh.. is that how you do it.." Hana sighed to herself, and continued to follow after him. The Shroomish looked kinda cute, too, but it was too bad. She looked around for her Exeggcute, but Arari was nowhere to be found. It didn't shock Hana too much, though; it happens often, with it looking around for something, and coming back unscathed, albeit unsuccessful in finding anything.
Sooner or later, they came across the battle between the Bug Catcher and one of the guys from the Route 1 group. The atmosphere was electric, with others from the group watching. Glancing from a distance, Hana tried to get into the entire thing but couldn't get her mind off of the Shroomish that got away. Arari soon hopped up beside her, and began to follow along.

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Kuroi quietly entered the Pokemart. Froakie and Honchkrow had been returned, leaving his large, muscular Houndoom to walk beside him in silent, intimidating steps. Calm silver eyes quickly glanced at the figure of a shorter male and a female, before turning over to a shady looking man in a suit. He walked over to the man in measured footsteps, his normal smirk forming on his face."Greetings, Perune." Kuroi said in his calm, silky voice, reaching out a hand. Perune stuttered out a greeting before giving Kuroi a small brown package and dashing out of the Pokemart. Kuroi frowned, but ignored the rude manners, quickly putting the package away. He noticed the store owner's stare, and walked over to the counter."Three antidotes and 10 Poke-Balls..." the trainer said, giving the man a check and grabbing the items without being handed them.

"Now...onwards to Pewter!"

Houndoom sighed, watching it's owner unprofessionally point towards the door with dramatic 'class and flair'.

((I'm sorry, just saw your post))

While checking out her items, Mana noticed the cashier was staring at something behind her. She turned around and saw what seemed to be two shady people doing business in the corner of the store. One of the guys suddenly dashed outside while the other walked to where she was to buy some items. Mana finished up paying for her stuff and stepped aside, closely observing where the boy placed the brown package. Is this some sort of illegal transaction... Is this guy a criminal?! She thought up a bunch of crazy ideas in her head while unintentionally staring. The boy suddenly struck a pose and pointed to the door. Mana was surprised but contained her laughter. So he's heading to Pewter... She remembered that's where she was heading too, but didn't know exactly how to get there. If this guy really is some sort of criminal, I could just follow him to Pewter and turn him to the police. It's killing two birds with one stone! Mana giggled to herself creepily and Dratini looked a bit nervous. After the boy and his Houndoom left, Mana slowly followed behind. She was wearing a different hat, some sunglasses, and a weird coat to disguise herself.

Again and again the butterfree would attack with it's gust or tackle but almost every time rattata was to fast for it, using quick attack to smack into the bug. But when the trainer shouted 'use stun spore' chills went down erin's spine, he couldn't fight when he was paralyzed without thinking He yelled out 'now double team' which saved him after the butterfree went for the wrong Pokemon. Quickly the rattata finished the Pokemon with a bite and Erin and the trainer shook hands. His win streak was now a three wins and zero losses, he was feeling pretty good about himself, and was sure that he could become a decent Pokemon trainer. He looked to the boy with the teddiursa who had helped him out.

"thanks a lot man, you saved me out there" he said, hopping not to sound too cocky.

Rosina had been cheering Erin on the entire time with the others. Even though in pokeballs, Azurill and Cottonee seemed to be excited as well, like they could see what was going on. Once Erin had won, Rose jumped up and dow, excited for her friend.

"Yeah, you showed him!" Rosina said happily. "You and Ratatta make a great team!" she said as well. This battle made her really pumped up, hoping she'd get to battle a trainer soon too.

She wasted no time pulling Erin and Lance along, knowing Carter would keep up. "C'mon boys! I have a gym leader to fight! We cant be stuck in this forest forever!"

Rosina waded through the grass then turned to her friends. "Oh! What do you think of the nickname Azul for Azurill?" she asked, walking backwards. "I cant think of one for Cottonee yet. I think once we get closer i'll come up with something." she said thoughtfully. Taking out Azurill's ball, she let him out then picked him up. He looked tierd and that hint of worry returned. "Azurill....you okay?" she asked.

"Rill! Azurill!" he said with as much energy as he could muster. Rosina knew better so she reached into her bag and got a potion, using it on her partner. Almost instantly he perked up and cried happily. "Rill! Rill!"

Giving him a hug before putting him down, she placed her hands on her hips. "What do you think of of the nickname Azul?"

"Rill?" he said, looking confused.

"It means blue." she said, still proud of the name.

"Rill! Azurill!" he said bouncing.

"Oh, well im taking that as a yes!" she said happily holding her arms out, and he jumped into them.

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Rosina had been cheering Erin on the entire time with the others. Even though in pokeballs, Azurill and Cottonee seemed to be excited as well, like they could see what was going on. Once Erin had won, Rose jumped up and dow, excited for her friend."Yeah, you showed him!" Rosina said happily. "You and Ratatta make a great team!" she said as well. This battle made her really pumped up, hoping she'd get to battle a trainer soon too. She wasted no time pulling Erin and Lance along, knowing Carter would keep up. "C'mon boys! I have a gym leader to fight! We cant be stuck in this forest forever!"Rosina waded through the grass then turned to her friends. "Oh! What do you think of the nickname Azul for Azurill?" she asked, walking backwards. "I cant think of one for Cottonee yet. I think once we get closer i'll come up with something." she said thoughtfully. Taking out Azurill's ball, she let him out then picked him up. He looked tierd and that hint of worry returned. "Azurill....you okay?" she asked."Rill! Azurill!" he said with as much energy as he could muster. Rosina knew better so she reached into her bag and got a potion, using it on her partner. Almost instantly he perked up and cried happily. "Rill! Rill!" Giving him a hug before putting him down, she placed her hands on her hips. "What do you think of of the nickname Azul?""Rill?" he said, looking confused."It means blue." she said, still proud of the name."Rill! Azurill!" he said bouncing. "Oh, well im taking that as a yes!" she said happily holding her arms out, and he jumped into them.

Erin snickered as the he heard the complement from the ranger but was brought back by a quick smack from the rattata, quickly he returned him to his pokeball and followed the other three he looked around, why were there so many boys? did they all lust over her or something, or maybe it was just a coincidence he didn't know. When he heard about her cottonee he chuckled a bit. "those things are so small there not all that strong are they?" he said as a returical question to himself but loud enough to hear. As they walked he wondered about the rattata and why it attacked him perhaps it was still sore about being captured but the cheers made him want to fight merely to have the others think he was as powerful as he thought he was, so in short it's a ego hound.

"say... what is this next gym?"

Lance

''Nice job'' Lance says he continues walking, ''The next gym is the pewter city gym, it is a rock type gym so a water type, grass type, or fighting type should work well'' Lance explained.

Carter walked over to them. "The Pewter City gym leader is a Rock-type trainer named Brock. Yeesh, Rock-types. Teddiursa and I are definitely gonna train some more. Why don't you guys go on ahead? Rosina, you shouldn't have much trouble with Brock. Both your Pokemon have a good type match-up. Same to you, Erin. And Lance, good luck." Carter smiled and headed back into the Forest. There was no way that Teddiursa would be able to beat Brock.

Carter's dad had met Brock a few times, and said his Pokemon were amazing. If Brock could impress his dad, what hope did Carter have? He sent out Teddiursa, and frowned, serious. "Okay, buddy. You're gonna get strong. Super strong! See that Weedle? Use Fury Swipes!"

Teddiursa nodded and rushed at the Bug-type. "Urs! Sa!" He said, slashing several times with his paws. The Weedle went down easy, but Carter frowned. "Too easy, let's keep at it." They went deeper in.

Erin did a little dance before looking at the machop he dragged behind him.

"they we're sure to win as long as they can't stun us"

"C'mon, let's go watch the fight!" Terry said, pulling Hana alongside him. By the time they got there the fight was already over. "Nice job with the fight! would you mind if we walk with you guys to the city?" Terry asked them right as they were about to leave.

Rosina called out to everyone going their seperate ways. "Meet up at the Pokemon Center guys!" Eager to train a bit more, she dashed off to said Center im Pewter City and got Cottonee and Azurill healed up. Once that was done, she headed back to the end of route two that she had gone through after the forest.

"Okay Azul, Cottonee, time to train!" she said tossing both pokeballs to release the two pokemon. Azurill looked eager and Cottonee looked rather upset to be around Rosina. With a frown she asked "Whats wrong Cottonee?"

"Cott...tonnneee." he said as if complaining. Then he had started floating back towards the forest where she caught him.

"Cottonee wait! Dont go!" she said chasing him and he turned and hit her with an energy ball. Falling back with a shriek, the force of the attack made her fall and scrape her left arm, the skin had peeled only a little, nothing terrible, but it stung like hell. Azurill came to her aide while the Cottonee continued to drift away.

Standing up again, she ran up to him and tackle hugged him, trapping the pokemon in her arms.

"Please dont go... i'll be a great friend. I promise. Just give me a chance. ....i dont want to lose any more pokemon." she said sadly. After a moment, the Cottonee relaxed in her arms and she let go. "Will you stay?" she asked.

"Cott tonee!" it said eagerly.

With a bright smile she said. "Great! Now lets get to know each other and train. What do ya say?"

"Cottonee!"

Azul hopped over with a frozen pile of leaves. He had used ice beam to make something for Rosina's arm. With a smile she said "Thanks Azul. Now, lets start. Use ice beam on Cottonee, and Cottonee dodge then use toxic!"

As the two sparred, she watched them, learning Cottonee's moveset and thinking about how to best use them in battle. They trained for hours, Rosina inevitably losing track of time.

Erin took in a deep breath before throwing the rattata out and instantly being attack, barely dodging each hit he felt like a bull fighter. After the rattata managed to bite him erin gave him a deep look before a tear went down his cheek, he was sure no one was around so he didn't let his feelings get bottled up. Soon another and another and even more flew out before a stream of tears formed, rattata looked at him sympathetically. It understood he wanted only to make rattata as good as possible and unclapped it's teeth only to be patted on the head . With a forced smile erin looked at the rodent and pointed to the forest. "I see now that what I did was wrong I should not have forced you into my team, so if you want to go it's ok but I wont forget you and maybe I'll come back someday and we'll be friends ok?" he said handing him a few poffins and walking away slowly. Rattata looked at the trainer confused for a moment but ran at him and jumped onto his shoulder, swatting the pokeball away and smiling at erin.

Lance

Lance left the group and decided to go back to the pond he had seen earlier. ''hmm we might need to find a water type pokemon'', Lance and Elekid sit down by the pond and wait for a water Pokemon. We saw a little fin pop out the water, Elekid stands up and gets ready. A mudkip popped out the water and used water gun on Elekid. ''Bwee bwee'' Elekid says and he blocks the rest of it. ''Elekid use thunder punch'' Lance says. Elekid tucks in his arm and it begins to glow with electricity, he then leaps at the mudkip and electrocutes the water. Mudkip hops out the water and onto a lilipad, ''Elekid use shockwave,'' Elekid rotates his arms in a circular motion and its head begins to glow, a blue beam is then shot at mudkip. Mudkip jumps into the air and uses tackle, ''Elekid use mach punch'' Elekid leaps out of the water and knocks Mudkip to the side, Mudkip regains its balance and lands on a tree safely. Mudkip then uses mud slap, ''Elekid quick use light screen'' Elekid protects most of the attack but still takes some damage.''now finish it with Thunder punch. Elekid leaps and hits mudkip towards the ground.''Here is my chance'' Lance throws a pokeball at mudkip. It wiggles three times then stops. ''Yes i got mudkip'' Lance says happily. He picks up the poke ball and puts it on his belt clip. As Lance was going a poliwhirl emerged from the water and fires a water gun at elekid knocked him into a tree. ''Elekid are you okay?'' Elekid nods and gets up. ''Alright elekid lets show this pokemon what we are made off, use mach punch. Poliwhirl takes the blow and then uses counter throwing elekid into the air, it then uses water gun. Elekid falls to the ground. ''Elekid get up.'' Elekid struggles to get up.''Good, use Thunder wave.'' Elekid fires a jolt from its antennae's that paralyze Poliwhirl. ''Now use thunder punch'' Elekid leaps and hits Poliwhirl in the face knocking it into a tree. ''Now uppercut it with mach punch'' Elekid hits poliwhirl into the air. ''Nice now finish it off with shock wave.'' Elekid uses the rest of its power and fires a shock wave engulfing poliwhirl.Poliwhirl falls back into the pond. ''Lets get out of here Elekid.'' Lance picks up elekid as he was injured badly. We exit Viridian forest and go to the pokemon center where nurse joy heals Elekids bruises.

"Ack..!" Hana tried to keep up with Terry when he had grabbed her by the arm. By the time the fight had ended, one of the trainers was embracing the Ratatta while the other seemed to disappear into the forest, prepared to catch some more bugs to let out some steam. "Um.. mm.." She muttered something under her breath, in a poor attempt to help Terry catch his attention. Interrupting someone having a moment with their Pokemon seemed wrong in a way, even if the Pokémon was a gross rat thing that jumps out of bushes. Her Exeggcute seemed to get what she was trying to do, and began moving over towards Erin. "A-Arari..! Wha.." It didn't seem to hear her, as it began to roll quicker and quicker until it was blocking Erin's way, all six of them with an annoyed expression.

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"Ack..!" Hana tried to keep up with Terry when he had grabbed her by the arm. By the time the fight had ended, one of the trainers was embracing the Ratatta while the other seemed to disappear into the forest, prepared to catch some more bugs to let out some steam. "Um.. mm.." She muttered something under her breath, in a poor attempt to catch his attention. Interrupting someone having a moment with their Pokemon seemed wrong in a way, even if the Pokémon was a gross rat thing that jumps out of bushes. Her Exeggcute seemed to get what she was trying to do, and began moving over towards Erin. "A-Arari..! Wha.." It didn't seem to hear her, as it began to roll quicker and quicker until it was blocking Erin's way, all six of them with an annoyed expression.

Erin smirked as he saw the exeggcute only to hear the other trainer and wave to him before walking over the rattata now on his shoulder and his machop at his side he seemed as if he had swayed the pokemon to come with him and that theynever had a pokeball, but he just disliked keeping them contained. "you must be a trainer is this your pokemon? It's neat were'd ya get it?" he said as rattata had bounced over to it and began poking the eggs. machop stayyed away seeing it was a physic type.

"It's.. um, my parents'.." Hana muttered, avoiding eye contact with him and holding a shoulder nervously. 'Terry, say something..!'
Arari began glaring at the Ratatta, as if trying to say 'stop touching me'. The stare slowly intensified, as their eyes glowed a bright pink. The Exeggcute began to rhythmically sway back and forth in unison, trying to lull the Ratatta into sleep using Hypnosis.

ratttata began moving away but fell asleep in the movement, and was quickly picked up by the machop before he ran away being a fighting type he was clearly afraid of any physic types.

Rosina could tell when Azurill and Cottonee had enough training. Azurill had learned a new move in replace of water gun. It was bubblebeam. It was really effective even against Cottonee. When Azurill had used it, Cottonee had literally been stunned by it. She had also memorized Cottonee's moveset and was eager to use them on Pewters gym leader.

Assuming the gym was not 24 hours, she quickly made her way to the pokemon center and then the gym. The first trainer stopped her nearly as soon as she walked in.

"Hey, you! As if i'd let Brock waste his time on you. I'll make sure you never reach him!"

With nothing to say as a retort, she simply prepared herself for battle.

(next post will be the battles.)

Sam and shade walked out of the gym after a long battle with Brock. It had started with his geodude. They had used iron tail to start off but it did little to geodude after it used defense curl. After several failed attempts to his geodude with an assurance attack they used dual chop and were hit by a rock throw. They finished the geodude off with another dual chop. Up next came his onix. They started with dual chop this time. The first move that onix used was sand tomb. It slowed shade down a bit but they tried to use iron tail and did minimal damage to onix. The next few turns of moves missed and they tried one more dual chop and finished onix off. Sam smiled and walked with shade to the pokemon center to heal up.

Rosina studied her first opponent in the Pewter City Gym. It was a boy who called himself a Camper. She was unimpressed but allowed him to brag about his skills to her. She knew in the end it came down to the pokemon, and Rosina had full faith in them.

"Alright, prepare to be smashed to bits lady. Geodude, go!" the trainer said, sending out his pokemon. Rosina recognized this pokemon from her time as a Ranger, though since she had the time, she pulled out her pokedex and made quick work of registering it. Knowing which pokemon to use was easy, either could take Geodude on, but in an attempt to further bond with Cottonee, she chose him.

"Cottonee, lets shut this little kid up. Ladies first so Cottonee, use grass whistle!"

The camper told Geodude to cover his ears and the pokemon did, putting its rocky hands on either side of his head.

"Now, quick Cottonee use energy ball!" she told her pokemon.

With a determined "Cott tonneee!" he formed a small green ball and launched it at the opposing Geodude. It hit dead on the mark and Rosina was sure it was going to faint, but the Geodude weakly shook itself off.

"What!? But how? Your pokemon should have fainted!" she said to the camper. He snickered. "Ha! Thats my trusty Geodude's ability sturdy! No matter how strong your pokemon's move, you cant take him down with one hit! Now Geodude, use tackle with everything you have left!"

"Geo!" it said before launching its body towards Cottonee. "No, Cottonee dodge it!" Rosina yelled, but her little cotton puff was too slow, and Geodude smashed into it, sending him flying across the battlefield. Rosina had to resist the urge to run to her pokemon so she just yelled for him to get up. It was a moment later that he did, an angry look on his face.

"Great job Cottonee! Use energy ball one last time!" she told him. He charged his attack and hurled it at the other Geodude who was too weak to move out of the way. After the attack landed, the Geodude fell and the frustrated camper returned him to a pokeball.

"Wow...guess you beat me." he said sadly. Rosina had returned Cottonee to his ball after giving him a potion, and was surprised when the camper gave her some money.

"What's this for?" she asked.

"Prize money. When you win, the loser has to give you prize money." He'd given her 200 pokedollars and she took it, putting it in her bag.

"Wow. Thanks. That was a great battle by the way!" she smiled with all her teeth then and the boy turned red as she went on to the other trainer blocking her way to Brock. This one was also a camper. He had said something about Rosina being light-years away from Brock, but really she didnt care what he said.

"Geodude, lets make this girl go crying home to her Mommy!"

Pushing her red hair out of her eyes, she got Azurill's pokeball and sent him out. "Azul, lets show him how a real trainer battles." she said with confidence. This time she let the other boy go first.

"Geodude use rock throw!" he called out. Rosina told her Azurill to dodge them and he did easily, bouncing out of the way with his tail. "Azul, now use ice beam!" she told him.

"Rill!" he cried before a stream of ice shot from his mouth and hit the Geodude.

"Hm, good try, but ice types are not effective against rock types-huh!? Geodude, what happened!?"

In an amazing stroke of luck, Azul's ice beam had caused the campers pokemon to be completely sealed in ice. "Great job Azul, now finish him with your strongest bubblebeam!" she called to her pokemon.

"Azurill!" Bouncing up high using its tail, it shot out a flurry of bubbles that crashed into the frozen Geodude. As the dirt cleared, it revealed a fainted Geodude once again.

"No, Geodude! How can this be?" the camper wailed miserably. "Woo! Great job Azul. Return." she said putting him back in his ball. After collecting another 200 pokedollars, she walked up to the head of Pewter City's Gym. Brock.

Rosina was confident and nervous all in one. Not knowing how it would go, or if her pokemon were good enough, Rosina tried to mask her fear and excitement.

"Well, i see another challenger has come. Welcome. I am Brock, and my rock hard pokemon are just as strong as my will to win. Get ready, because i'm going all out." he said to her.

Nodding and grabbing Cottonee's pokeball, she made a fist. "I'm ready to take you on. I may look like a noob but my faith in my pokemon will shatter your will to win. Lets do this!"

"Go, Geodude!"

"Cottonee, i choose you!"