THE BLACK LEAGUE
By d2kfuture
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THE BLACK LEAGUE

Chapter 4

I woke to the sound of Houndour growling quietly into the darkness of the 
pokemon centre.  I couldn't
see a thing so I turned on the small bedside lamp at my side.  I saw, to my 
astonishment, a small tail
poking out of my bag.  I got up quietly and made my way over to the bag.  
The tail continued moving
around and it was obvious that whatever pokemon was in there was unaware of 
my presence.  I
pounced as soon as I was close enough and found myself holding a slippery, 
slimy pokemon.  I got out
my pokedex.  'Wooper, a water/ground pokemon.  It is the unevolved form of 
Quagsire.'  I was so
excited at having found another pokemon that I didn't even bother listening 
to anything after  'Wooper,
a water....'.  I immediately sent out Mareep and he emerged, still drowsy, 
from his pokeball.
'Thunder Wave', I ordered.  Mareep quickly complied but nothing happened.  I 
then realised that it was
also a ground pokemon.  I returned Mareep and Scyther attacks with a vicious 
Slash.  The Wooper
immediately fainted.  The pokeball I threw closed over the fainted form of 
the Wooper and I looked at
my watch with shock.  The events which had unfolded had taken over a hour.  
It was almost daylight
and Nurse Joy would probably be on duty by now.  I got dressed quietly and 
exited the room.  Nurse
Joy was sitting behind her desk, yawning every now and then.  I walked up to 
her and handed over my
pokemon.  A few minutes later they were all fully healed and I released 
them.  They sat quietly while I
enquired about the next gym from Nurse Joy.  She informed me sleepily that 
it was the water gym and
was located in the large Crimson City, a few miles south of the town we were 
currently in.  The gym
leader was Misty, a powerful trainer who had become a gym leader in the 
Black League after leaving
her Indigo League post and winning all the other leagues.  However, she had 
been defeated in the
quarter-final of the Black League by John and had taken up the Gym Leader 
post immediately after.  I
thanked her and we set off for Crimson City.  The weather held fine and by 
the time the sun was
directly above our heads, we had walked far and even managed to train too.  
The Wooper was quite
strong and had fought a practise battle with Houndour, which it had been 
closely defeated in.  It's
Water Gun was extremely powerful.  Meanwhile, I had scavenged around and 
seen a few rare
pokemon.  I even found a Magnemite, but it fled.  However, when it was 
floating quickly away, it had
banged off a tree and dropped a Metallic Coat item.  I found out that it 
raised the power of steel moves,
but, since I had no Steel pokemon, it meant nothing to me.  However, I gave 
it to Scyther to hold as he
seemed very interested in it.  We continued on quickly after another hour's 
training, at the end of which
Mareep evolved into the more powerful Flaaffy.  At around 6 I heard the 
sound of a battle and walked
towards the sounds.  We came into a clearing and found Mike and Amanda 
battling each other.  I
watched quietly from the cover of the trees.  Smoochum was battling Elekid 
and the Elekid was
winning comfortably.  It used Fire Punch twice and the Smoochum was KOed.  I 
clapped and they
turned, startled.  'Why didn't you meet us', demanded Mike, as Amanda looked 
on impassively.  'You
weren't on the helicopter either so we thought you had disappeared'.  'I 
went by foot', I replied, 'and I
got some rare pokemon.  You want to see'.  They both looked eager and I 
called on my pokeomn to
come out and say hello.  Amanda gasped audibly when she got a look at my 
team, strolling casually
along.  Mike's mouth dropped as he drooled shamelessly.  'How did your 
Scyther get so big', Amanda
asked.  I hadn't really noticed but Scyther was growing at an alarming rate. 
  I cheacked my pokedex
and was informed that, according to his size, he was at roughly L25.  Most 
of my other pokemon had
also grown considerably but Houndour was huge.  He had learned Flamethrower 
and Crunch and was
poised to evolve any day now.  Wooper was still quite small but very 
powerful.  'What are your teams
like now?' I asked.  Amanda had caught a high-level Pidgeotto and Mike had 
snatched a Butterfree.
The Pidgeotto had a slightly bluish tinge to it's wings and when I commented 
on this Amanda informed
me that this was because it could use water moves.  She guessed that it's 
father must have been a water
pokemon for such a strange occurrence to happen.  We decided to travel 
together and set off for
Crimson City.
We arrived just as the sun was setting and stared in awe at the huge 
skyscrapers towering above us.
We headed for the pokemon centre which was about five times larger than a 
normal one.  It was also 4
storey's high.  We walked into the absolutely spotless waiting room and were 
confronted with about 10
Nurse Joy's sitting behind different counters.  We walked up to a free 
counter and had our pokemon
healed.  Nurse Joy told us that the Water Gym was located at the top of one 
of the huge skyscrapers but
refused to tell us which.  'Part of the challenge is actually finding the 
gym', she told us.  It was getting
late so we turned in for the night.  I woke to the sound of Nurse Joy 
screaming about an hour before
dawn.  I rushed out to the reception area but stopped dead in my tracks when 
I saw the horrible sight
which I was confronted.