Full Summery: It's been three years since the disbandment of Team Rocket and Gwyn Jalen is beginning her pokemon journey as well in the Johto region. Things seem normal until she encounters a red haired boy gazing into Professor Elm's laboratory and a young woman who seems like she could kick everyone's asses. And is it fight or flight when an old enemy of the young woman's come into play?

Quick Witch's Note: Oh boy… here we go again! On to the story!

Pokѐmon Journey II: Gwyn's Passage

Chapter 1: The Start of a Friendship

Mystery Letter:

Hey Hon,

I'm sorry it's been so long since I contacted you last, but I got caught up in my training all over again. Things have been busy up on the mountain, but I'm sure you're just as busy as I am with your gym battles.

Is it true that Lance has claimed the title of the Johto championship for himself? It seems a tad rude for him to do that. I mean, he and the others waited forever for their first champion in the Kanto league, so why did he suddenly take the title of the other region?

Anyway, I'm getting off topic. This letter may be short, but I thought it would interest you immensely.

You know how I love games, especially as we got older and stronger together. And you've always been good at solving them. So here's my proposal to you…

I'm in the Johto region, where I am I won't tell you, since it's against the rules. Come find me and I'll come home with you…

If you can…

And let me tell you…

I'm not that easy to catch…

And I don't plan to go easy on you…

But that's the fun in it, so catch me if you can…

(The last of the note is ignored and the person reading this note has left it behind.)

Gwyn's Point of View:

"Yippee!" I squealed and jumped from my bed when I realized it was morning, the day of my thirteenth birthday had finally arrived. I was finally at the age where I could leave home and become a trainer by my own free will. But the part that really excited me was the fact that I was leaving this day (to my mother's disappointment.)

I quickly got dressed into my bright yellow kapris, rolled up slightly at the end of them to reveal the pale yellow color underneath, and my magenta colored shirt that was cut off on my lower back and angled upward over the front of my chest, then kept up with a tie that came around my neck. To keep warm I put my white jacket over it that was lined with mareep wool that could keep even the most brisk of weather out (unless I paid a trip to the Ice Path.) I slipped on my white and pink sneakers and my yellow fingerless gloves before I finished up all my other essentials in my bathroom, looking up to see my bright blue eyes looking back at me and straight dark blue hair that sat against my shoulders and back. I grabbed my light pink side bag that sat by my door and rushed down the stairs from my room.

"Slow down Gwyn! You'll end up hurting yourself!" I heard my mother call from the first floor right as I reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Sorry Mom, I'm just excited for today." I smiled over to my mother who sat calmly at the table, watching me. She sighed and stood from her spot and walked over to me. Her wavy, black locks framed around her face and her light brown eyes. She was already dressed in her pink dress with her blue and white apron, so I knew she was ready for the day. I saw a light meal and a box sat waiting for me on the table.

"Happy birthday Gwyn." She sniffed, tears forming along the edges of her eyes and hugged me tightly in her arms. "My baby is going on her journey…"

"Mom, you know I'm going to come back and visit when I can." I reminded the sobbing woman, whose hands had latched into my hair and soaked my shoulder.

She patted my back a few times while I held her a little longer and she finally pulled herself away from me and took a deep breath to relax. "You're right honey, I'm over worrying again. Just promise me you'll call me every now and then on your pokegear."

"You know I will Mom." It was then that we heard a knock on the door. "Come in!"

The door quickly opened and I all too soon saw my best friend Aaron walk in the front door. "Morning! Hi Mrs. Jalen! Happy thirteenth birthday Gwyn!" He cheered to me and I couldn't help but laugh as he walked into our home. Aaron was always a loud and head strong person, never bothering to let anyone else tell him what he should do, but he's always open to suggestions.

I saw my best friend had changed into the new clothes his mother most likely made for him for when we left town today. He was dressed with his shorts that came down to just below his knees that were black in color (if not that color then a really dark gray), his sneakers, his black under shirt over his red hoodie like jacket that was white on the underside and he already had his backpack attached to his back with a single strap that wrapped over his chest. To finish the outfit, he wore his favorite black and yellow three striped hat over his head backwards and had a large chuck of black hair sticking out from under it before his face that sat just before his dark brown eyes.

Today was the day we'd been waiting on for a long while, my birthday and the day we both got our first pokemon and would be able to leave town on our journey. Its normal for many kids at thirteen to leave home for a pokemon journey, though the age limit used to be ten. Due to many complaints from about their young children out on their own at such a young age, the law's been changed since then to thirteen, and if you do see a child younger then that, they have papers, to say that its okay with their parents, on them so they don't get in trouble.

Anyway, Aaron had been waiting for the past few months until I turned thirteen so we could go. Its not like my mom didn't want me to go, but she asked I wait until I reached thirteen before I left, and I agreed if she gave me full support.

"So what's the plan for this morning Gwyn? I'm ready to get going whenever you are." I snickered at Aaron's readiness to leave the town, and I don't blame him. I love my mother, but I'm ready to hit the road.

"Just as soon as I eat and I get anything else my mom wants to send with me." I told him and turned back to my mother, who handed me the small box. Inside were my trainer card and my badge case. I looked at the bottom of the box once I pulled out a photo album. I gave a confused look over to my mother and she smiled.

"There've been quite a few camera men going around to certain cities that make a living off of taking pictures, so I thought you might want to take a picture here and there of you and your pokemon so you can see them as they grow and remember later on." I smiled at my mother and hugged her before I placed my items into my bag.

I grabbed my small breakfast from the table. I practically shoved it down my throat before I passed Aaron and ran out the door. I heard a muffled snort from him before he raced after me in the small town of New Bark and we headed down the street to where the professor's lab was located near the edge of town. His lab was a two floor large building where he hand living arrangements for him and his family above the lab while his research was below him.

We entered the building without a knock; the professor knew we were coming that day. We immediately saw his many shelves of work and books as soon as we walked inside along with his single assistant he had. We moved beyond them and there we saw the professor, he seemed to be placing pokeballs on a machine and jumped with a yelp when he turned around and saw us. When he finally calmed down he gave us a better welcome then he had a moment ago.

"Good morning Aaron, Gwyn!" The professor easily greeted us with a large smile. His light brown hair was cut short and he had a small spike of it sticking up at the back of his temple. Small glasses sat upon his nose before his eyes and a large white lab coat rested over his shoulders and arms, around his body that covered most of his tan pants and his blue shirt. "I take it your both here for you first pokemon?"

"Yes sir." We replied together. Grins were set upon our faces and we looked at the pokeballs in anticipation.

"Alright you two, go ahead and pi-" the professor suddenly stopped mid-sentence and looked back at his laptop on his desk. "Hang on a moment." The professor moved over to where his computer was and he looked over an apparent message that was on the screen. He mumbled as he read it and Aaron and I looked over at each other in confusion.

Soon enough though, the professor came back over to our sides and apologized. "I'm sorry kids, an old acquaintance of mine was telling me of a discovery he made. He wants me to come over to his house and see something he found." He shook it off. "Anyway, go ahead and pick out your pokemon."

I bound forward before Aaron could and opened up the first pokeball I had grabbed, which happened to be the one I'd been eyeing since we got here. Out of the ball came a small four legged creature that was blue and tan in coloration with small red dots on the blue coloring, where I'm sure fire came out, was on its back. Its long snout was probably about the length of my hand. It stood up on its back legs and looked up at me with its eyes hidden behind its eye lids that were mostly closed. It was a cyndaquil, the fire type of the bunch. I hadn't even met the others yet and I knew this was the one I wanted.

"I want this one professor." I told him. I picked up the small pokemon in my arms and it squealed and squirmed up out of my arms and onto my shoulder. It sniffed my entire body over before it settled back down my arms and called out "Cynda!"

"Awe! No fair Gwyn!" Aaron whined and looked back to the two remaining pokeballs. He picked up the two of them and released them. One of the two was a small blue gator of some sort that stood on its back legs and had a white stripe across its chest and red spikes on its back down to its tail. Sharp teeth were in its mouth and sharp claws outlined its little hands. The totodile's wide eyes looked around happily and it started to run around.

The other little pokemon stood where it was and looked up at Aaron in amazement. Its body was mostly green and stood on four legs. It had a stubby tail and small little dark beats of green around its neck. On top of its head was a large leaf and its eyes were bright strawberry red. Aaron and the chikorita looked at each other for a while before the small green pokemon walked over to Aaron and rubbed his leg. Aaron smiled down at it and picked it up in his arms.

"I'll take this one professor." He told him and picked up the grass type of the group. Chikorita smiled at Aaron and rubbed its head against his jacket.

Tododile finally noticed that it was the only one that wasn't chosen and suddenly lowered its head. Professor Elm walked over to it and patted its back. "Its okay Tododile, I've got another starting trainer that's making their way up here and you'll go with them." It made me feel bad for the little one. It wanted to go on a journey too just like our pokemon, but I guess this one had to wait just a little longer.

"Now with that out of the way, is there any nickname that the two of you want to name your new pokemon?" The professor questioned us.

"Naw, I'm good." Aaron said. His chikorita nodded in his arms.

"I will." I told the professor. I looked down at my cyndaquil. "I was thinking of Cynder cuz you're a fire type and I bet you can scorch a lot of opponents. What'd you think?"

"Cynda!" The cyndaquil cried happily and nuzzled its face into my arms.

"What a wonderful name Gwyn, I hope you and Cynder treasure your friendship together, and don't forget to be there for each other in hard times when you need each other, the same goes for you and Chikorita, Aaron."

"Don't worry about us professor; we'll be some of the best trainers ever!" My best friend grinned at the man and the man supplied a smile back.

"That I'm glad to hear Aaron, now let me give the two of you some items to take with you for your trip." The professor reached off to the side and grabbed a few items for us, starting out with some pokeballs to use for capturing pokemon to have on our teams while he also handed us a few potions in case our pokemon were hurt. "Those items should come in real handy for you kids, and also, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind if I put my number in your pokegear? I'd like to know how the progress of your pokemon and how they are doing as they grow."

"That's not a problem professor," I smiled brightly at him. "What's your number?"

The professor quickly gave us his number, and I programmed it into my pokegear. I quickly tucked it away in my pocket. It was then that we heard the phone ring again for the professor and he groaned as he hurried over to pick it up.

He grumbled to the person on the other end of the line who they, apparently opposite to the professor, were quite happily about something that was happening over on his end of the line. The professor sighed and leaned against a piece of machinery that he had on hand and tapped his fingers against it while he listened to the person on the other side. He then raised his eye brow; he was surprised or shocked by some feature. I blinked over at him before I looked to my best friend. He only shrugged back. Both pokemon looked worriedly in our arms at him.

When the professor finally noticed us looking at him so intently while he listened to the other person on the line, he smiled shyly and waved before he hung up with the person after agreeing to something. He sighed and fell backward into his chair and pulled up a map of the area.

"Uh, professor?" I questioned him and he turned around to look at me. "What just happened?"

"Oh don't you worry yourself over it Gwyn, my colleague just won't take no for an answer, he wants me to come down and see what new discovery he's made on pokemon, but I don't have any time to leave the lab." He sighed. "I'll have to ask the wife and kid to watch it for me while I obey his whim. I sometimes hate that man…"

"Well," I looked over at Aaron and he nodded before he looked back at me. "Aaron and I could go get it for you. We could also make this a contest to see who can get there first with the object or whatever he wants to show you. It would also help our pokemon train and give us some good beginning experience under our belts."

"And it wouldn't take us long too, I mean, we'd probably be back before nightfall if it's not too far away right?" Aaron added. "Come on professor, we'll do it for you!"

"Well… if you kids are so insistent, then I guess I don't mind." The professor looked relieved as we told him that. "So my colleague is named Mr. Pokemon, he lives out on route thirty route thirty in the forest there where he can be surrounded by nature and pokemon to study them. You should find his house easily enough, just north of Cherrygrove and it's surrounded by berry bushes and trees of all kinds."

"That doesn't sound too hard." Cynder nodded in my arms in agreement.

"Yes, but sometimes people can get lost in the forest, so do be careful you two." He relaxed into his chair and turned to a computer. "I'm going to get back to work now, so you kids get going and I'll meet you back here later."

Aaron and I nodded to him before we took off out the door with our new pokemon in our arms.

"So Gwyn? You think I can battle you now and see how awesome our pokemon are?"

I rolled my eyes at him. "Aaron, let's complete our task first, then you an I can battle, okay?"

He grumbled, but nodded toward me as we exited the lab.

As soon as we were about to leave town however, we saw a young boy about our age that was staring into the professor's window. I blinked a few times at that before I showed Aaron and he looked too. Aaron's eyes narrowed and he made his way over to the boy who stood there.

"Hey! What are you doing?" The boy there glanced at him with cold hard eyes beneath his long, shoulder length red hair. He turned his body to show the dark clothing he had on, a dark jacket with sections outline in a blue lavender color while his jacket was midnight blue. His pants were a more lavender purple shade and he hand on some sort of black sneakers.

"Stay out of my way!" He gave Aaron a shove and I watched fearfully as he fell only to look at the boy and demand an apology when I saw he wasn't there anymore. I helped Aaron up and he looked around for the red haired boy too, but we couldn't find any sign of him. I sighed and dragged Aaron away toward route twenty-nine, hoping we wouldn't run into him again.

The route that was between the towns was relatively short with only many trees in between and a few pokemon were out and about. Some I recognized, like pidgey and sentret, but none that I wished to add to my team. We were also on the clock right now; our fun would come in place when we split up in the woods to find his house.

Our traveling made us all the way through route twenty-nine before we made it to the quite tiny city of Cherrygrove, the small town was filled with pokemon and flowers of all kinds. It was a cute little place that was nice to look at, with its small pond to fish in.

We quickly pushed our way past the city and into the next set of woods north of that, route thirty. It was a largely forested route with many trees, the perfect place for a house to hide in.

"So this is where we'll split up. You choose the way you want to go and I'll go the other way." Aaron told me. His chikorita was already on the ground and ready to get going. My cyndaquil was also ready and the fire was coming out of its back through its pores while it waited for us to race off.

"I'll go the left then," I told him.

"Then I'll take right then." Aaron grinned. "Just the path I wanted! I'm gonna head out now then Gwyn, good luck!"

"Good luck to you too Aaron!" I waved him off as he disappeared into the woods and I turned back to my pokemon. "Okay Cynder, lets go!"

Cynder and I took off into the woods on the left side, following the path that was marked out. Many pokemon seemed to be gathered and eating at the many berries in the area as we walked by them. They never noticed us as we made our way by, though one did stiffen, it must have been a bad berry from the way it scrunched up its face.

"Cynda!" Cynder called out and pointed me toward the back of the woods where I finally saw a clearing. A house appeared at the very back, quite old and log cabin like in appearance. It blended right in with the surroundings, which is why it probably was hard to find. Many berry trees were placed around the front of it, but at the same time, there was another tree. It seemed to have colored apricorns, which if I remembered correctly, they could be used to create pokeballs. They were about the size of a pokeball, if not, then a tad larger. They were pink in color; I'd have to see if Mr. Pokѐmon minded if I took some.

I walked up through the patches of grass with Cynder until I made it to the door to the house. I knocked on it politely and I heard a scuffling sound inside. I tilted my head in confusion and leaned my ear up to the door to listen. While I heard the sounds inside, the door was ripped backward and startled me, Cynder as well from the way it jumped into my arms.

"Ah! You have arrived!" A small man that was dressed in a brown suit and hat commented as he pulled me inside. He held a cane to keep him upright, even with his high energy spirits. He dragged me and Cynder inside and set us down at his table before a large machine. My eyes grew wide at it and Cynder was confused by the machine.

"Cynda?" it questioned.

"I don't know what it's for Cynder." I whispered to my pokemon. I set it into my lap and Cynder cuddled there while we watched the man dig through many items in the back before I noticed that there was another man in the house with him. It seemed to be another professor of pokemon, but one that was much more calm and held together as the situation went on with first man. He gave me a smile at his computer before getting back to work.

"Ah ha!" I turned back to the first man who finally pulled out what seemed to be an egg from his pile of junk that was within a container. He left the pile of junk behind him as it was before he came over to me and presented me the egg. "Here is my discovery! A pokemon egg that I am certain is not from this region! Oh, wait!" He laughed as he paused and moved backwards. "My apologies, I'm Mr. Pokѐmon. Professor Elm emailed me that you and your friend were coming to get the egg. So I assume you are Gwyn, yes?"

"Yes, that's me sir." It was finally calm enough around him where I wasn't freaked out by it. I lifted up Cynder for him to see. "And this is my pokemon, Cynder; we just met earlier today and plan to start a journey together!"

Cynder raised up its paw and cheered, "Cyndaquil!"

Mr. Pokѐmon sighed. "Another pokemon journey… oh how exciting! Maybe you may even get the chance to challenge Champion Violet one day."

I pouted at him. "I don't know if I'll get that strong, but I'll certainly aim towards her."

"That's the spirit!"

"Excuse me, but may I take a look at your pokemon?" I turned to the side and looked over at the other man who had been at the computer. He was looking intently at Cynder.

"I guess so." The man's face lit up and he hurried over to me to look at my fire type in my lap. I saw Cynder get nervous under his inspection of it and it suddenly screeched before the professor was blasted by a puff of fire. The professor cried out and fell backward and I gasped when I saw him in a heap on the floor, covered in soot and the tip of his hair still caught with a flame.

"Cynder!" I scolded my pokemon and it lowered his head.

"Oh don't worry; she did exactly what I expected her to do." The professor got up and stood wobbly on his feet.

"She?" I looked down at my cyndaquil and it smiled up at me before it laughed and pointed at the professor's face.

"Yes, she. Your cyndaquil is a she." The professor confirmed. "Though I didn't expect you to know right off the bat, you don't know how to tell the genders apart, but then again, cyndaquil would be hard to tell apart since males and females look identical." The professor went over to the other side of the room and grabbed three devices, handing one to me to look at. "These devices are called pokedex; they tell you nearly everything about the pokemon that you come across. Like for example, it told me that she was female, was only about the age of one or two years old. It also gives me a bit of information about the pokemon species." He pointed it at my pokemon and her picture came up on the screen.

Cyndaquil, the fire mouse pokemon. It's timid and usually stays hunched over. If it is angry or surprised, it shoots flames out of its back. There are no known nests for cyndaquil in the region.

"Oh wow, I didn't know anything like that!" I gasped in amazement of the device.

The professor laughed. "Most people don't; only pokedex holders or professors have them. You know…" he looked at me intently. "You look like a really reliable young trainer, much like my grandson's girlfriend, Violet Vilmos."

"You know Violet Vilmos?" I gasped. She was the most amazing trainer ever. Three years ago, she took down the entire organization of Team Rocket and found her long lost father that disappeared from over five years from now. Her pokemon are the most powerful in both regions of Johto, my home region, and Kanto, her home region; even though she's the strongest, she's refused to go for the Johto championship. She also hasn't been seen for the longest of time since the last time she was challenged over a year or two ago. Her family and friends have probably seen her more often then the public, but I think even they haven't seen her in a while.

"Oh yes, she got her charizard when it was still a charmander from me, she named it Amethyst." He laughed. "Her fire pokemon also blasted me in the face with fire, as well as my grandson, Alex."

"Oh wow…" Alexander Oak was one of the two trainers that ran the Viridian Gym in Kanto after the crime boss leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni and his wife Rose, ran out of the region after Violet defeated them three years ago. Along with Violet's brother, Vincent Vilmos, he and Alex run the gym. They use no specific type of pokemon like other gym leaders do, its what makes them pretty cool and stand out compared to the others.

Professor Oak laughed at my shock and surprise. "Well, I shouldn't keep you much longer then I already have, but if you don't mind, why don't you do me a little favor?"

"What would you like me to do professor?"

He handed me the other two pokedex. "I'd like you and two other trainers to gather all the information in this region about the pokemon that live here to assist Professor Elm's and my research. At the same time, this device will help you learn about pokemon you find and face. Would you be willing to take on this task?"

I gasped at the professor. He really wanted me to handle a task like this? Such an important task? I blinked and looked at the devices in my hands, the crystal, gold and silver colored devices that reflected back my image before I looked back at the professor.

"Sure, should I give the other two to some friends of mine that I know could help me out with that?"

The professor nodded wildly. "Of course! I would love it if you did that for me! Thank you my dear, could you give me your name please?"

"Sure," I stood up and shook his hand with the free one I had while Cynder climbed up onto my shoulder. "I'm Gwyn Jalen."

"Cynda!" Cynder cried out.

"And that's Cynder, my cyndaquil," I introduced her again.

"And I'm glad to have met you Gwyn, Cynder." The professor released my hand before he headed back to his computer and looked toward Mr. Pokemon and the rest of us. "And it was good to see all of you, but I must be getting back to Kanto, do come and visit some time."

"One day we will Professor!" I called out to him as he left.

"Cynda! Cyndaquil!" Cynder called out to him as he left.

"And we'd better get back too," I told Mr. Pokѐmon as I walked out. "We still have to find Aaron and get home, I'm surprised he didn't come by now."

"He's probably lost on the side of the house in the woods, it happens to trainers all the time." Mr. Pokѐmon eased my nerves. "Give him a call first and if you still can't find him, come back and get me, I know these old woods better then the back of my hands!"

"I will do sir, thank you and I'll be sure to get this egg to Professor Elm… Oh! I forgot to ask, do you mind if I pick off some of the apricorns on the tree you have outside?"

"Not at all, take all of them if you want, no one uses them around here. Have a safe journey back!" I waved him good-bye and placed the pokedex of my choice, which was a crystal clue color, in my jeans pocket while I put the other two in my coat pocket to easily give Aaron. I'd decide what to do with the second pokedex when I got the chance.

As soon as I made it outside, I saw that the sun was just starting to set in this region. Oh, I better call Aaron and find out what happened to him, he normally doesn't get lost like this. I pulled out my pokegear and dialed up Aaron's number. I decided to fill up my bag with the apricorns in the mean time while I talked with him.

"Hello?" I heard him ask on the other end of the line.

"And just where have you been Aaron?" I heard him gulp on the other end.

"Sorry Gwyn… I got a bit sidetracked…" I blinked and softened my tone.

"With what?"

"Pokemon, the area's been littered with them, I caught two and I've been training them all with the wild pokemon here. I caught a pidgey and a weedle."

"That's cool and all, so I'll meet you back at Cherrygrove unless something happens and I call you again okay?"

"Sounds fine with me, I'll meet up with you there Gwyn, if not, just head back to town, we'll make it there sooner or later."

"And leave my best friend behind? I don't think s-" I was about to tell him off about that when I head a beeping on the line, another person was trying to call me. "Hang on Aaron, someone else is trying to reach me. I'll call you back in a second."

"Okay Gwyn, don't worry about little ol' me." I rolled my eyes and closed off his call before I opened up the next one.

"Hel-" I didn't even get to finish my sentence.

"HELP! GYWN! COME BACK OT THE LAB! HELP! THEIF! THEIF! CALL THE POLICE!"

"Professor!" I called out to him. "Calm down! I'm coming back with Aaron! Call the police!" The line then went dead on me and I quickly ran down the road with Cynder on my shoulder still and hurried back to Cherrygrove while calling Aaron.

"Hey Gwen! What's u-"

"No time Aaron! The professor's just been robbed! Something's happening at the lab! Hurry back!" Not bothering to wait on his reply, I hung up and hurried away to the road and burst into Cherrygrove with a faster speed then I knew.

People looked at me strangely as I ran through the city and ran down every alleyway that I could find to get closer to the edge of the small city that would lead me home. Most of the young pokemon that lived in the city thought I was racing someone and decided to chase after me, but I left them in the dust as I rushed away.

I almost fell a few times in my rush to escape the city and get home to make sure the professor and anyone help. My breathing felt heavy as I lept over some large cracks and holes in the road and I tried to pick up any more speed I had in order to get home.

I turned a final corner as the night was beginning to settle in and I suddenly ran into someone. I crashed and was thrown backward; they must have had either a lot of speed or power in order to throw me. I yelped as I hit the ground and groaned as I obtained some wounds, my ankles felt scratched and sore. I looked up and saw him in the lamp light that hung overhead.

I saw he was the same boy that I'd seen this morning peering into Professor Elm's window and that had pushed Aaron. He had also been knocked onto the ground from our impact and looked quite skinny like I was, like it'd been a while since he'd eaten. His coat looked like it hung on him and swayed easily in the wind. His hair covered most of his cold eyes, but when I looked closer, I saw fear in them, worry, he was scared and nervous, but seemed to be putting up this cold front. Why?

He quickly got to his feet and felt around in his pockets for anything he may have been dropped. He noticed a pokeball and grabbed that first before he saw the two extra pokedex that I'd had, I never noticed that they'd dropped. I dove for them and he did after me. I made it in time to grab the gold one, but the silver one was gripped tightly in his hands and he jumped away.

"Hey! Give that back!" I snapped at him and Cynder growled on my shoulder.

"You have two of them, I don't see why I can't have one," he snarled back at me. His eyes still tried to give me that cold look, but I could see the regret underneath them.

"Why are you lying to me? You're afraid and upset to take it. I can see the regret in your eyes." The boy stiffened and (lept) back and pulled out his pokeball. He threw it out and from it came the same pokemon I saw earlier in the morning. It was tododile from the lab. It must have been stolen. I couldn't really imagine the professor giving it to him.

"Shut up!" the boys shouted at me and leapt backward. "Tododile, use bubble on her and her pokemon!" The pokemon danced around, I was surprised to see it didn't mind this trainer and obeyed with ease, firing a blast of bubbles at us.

I gasped and backed away from the attack when Cynder (lept) off my shoulder and cried out before she used an ember attack to pop them all. She landed before me and her back lit up in flames. "Cynda! Cyndaquil!"

"Careful Cynder! This guy has the advantage over you!" She twisted her snout in a huffing motion and motioned for the tododile to bring it on.

"Alright then, use scratch Tododile!" the young boy cried out and the water type. Tododile in return, rushed toward Cynder on its tiny legs with its arms extended to the side, its claws ready to swipe.

"Dodge it!" I cried out to my fire type and she easily jumped to the side out of the way. She continued to jump away or over its head and the pokemon quickly tired out from all the running around. "Now use tackle Cynder!"

"Cynda!" My pokemon ran at the tired water type and its tackle threw the pokemon back toward the red haired boy. He hissed as he watched his pokemon fall, but grinned once he saw it easily get to its feet.

I guess this battle may be tougher then I thought. I shook my head and looked worriedly at Cynder; she seemed fine for the most part, so I brushed my concerns for her at the moment. The boy on the other hand, wasn't looking away where in my direction; it was easy to pick up that he was nervous about this encounter.

I pulled out my pokedex from my pocket and pointed it at the water type to see if I could learn any information about it to help me. Tododile, the big jaw pokemon. Its powerful, well developed jaws are capable of crushing anything. Even its trainer must be careful when handling it. It won't hesitate to take a bite out of anything that moves. There are no tododile nests in this region.

Well, I guess that helped a little. But I'm still at a type disadvantage, so that doesn't help me. I looked back up to the boy and he finally met my eyes. He nervously darted away, darkening his look before he turned it to me, but it seemed to crumble as soon as I looked at me. I could see his eyes watering up, what was going on with him?

"Stop looking at me like that!" he snapped at me with his watered eyes and a snarl to boot.

"Then why do you look so guilty when you look at me?" I fired back at him.

"Be-I don't have to tell you anything!" He turned to his pokemon. "Tododile, use bubble again!" The water pokemon nodded and fired away at us with a barrage of bubbles. I was shocked with how easily this pokemon obeyed him, it's like they've met before… or something like that, or they have a really strong connection off the bat.

"Deflect it with ember Cynder and then use it again once the vapor clears!" My fire type nodded and blasted away with small specks of fire that popped all the bubbles. Just as the vapor from them all vanished, she fired another set at the water type. It was thrown back from the attack and landed right before its trainer. I tried to get up and continue the fight, but it fell back to the ground with x's over its eyes.

"Damn it!" the boy hissed and returned his pokemon. "I lost…"

"Yes, you did, now give me back what you stole from me and the professor!" Cynder and growled at him and my pokemon blew out puffs of fire to prove her point.

The boy looked back at me with another dark look in his eyes, but this time, they looked very real… "I don't care what you say, I may have lost, but I need Tododile and this pokedex to become a strong trainer! And until I achieve my dream, I won't rest or look back on my mistakes!" He pushed past me without another glance and was about to head out of town when he stopped and noticed something. He looked through all his pockets before he looked back at me and I took a step back. I then felt something in my hand that I hadn't felt before, it was behind the golden colored pokedex that was in my hands. It was a card, a trainer card. I looked at the name and saw that the original one was crossed off and another name replaced it in a male's handwriting. But I could still make out nearly three letters from under what was crossed off.

"Hey! That's mine!" The boy leapt at me for it and I jumped back in fright from his shouting. Cynder jumped between us and blew fire at his feet to make him back off. She growled at him and I could tell she was daring him to try and get any closer to me.

"I think I may keep this card." I told him with a glare. "In return for the pokedex and Tododile I'll give it back to you however, deal?"

The boy had to think about if for a moment before he glared at me and jumped toward the woods. "No deal." He was gone in the next second, hidden within the dark trees and forest to conceal him.

I watched him leave and I suddenly felt a weight on my shoulder. I turned my surprise face to Cynder who sat calmly on my shoulder. She'd gave me a worriedly look as she died down the flames on her back so I could touch her without fear of burring myself. I patted her head and looked back to the woods where the boy had run off into.

Why didn't he try to trade? Doesn't he know that he could be ruined forever if his name gets out? Or what if the police find out his real one with this card?

"Gwyn!" I was startled from my thoughts and hid the card along with the pokedex in my pocket as Aaron rushed up beside me. His chikorita was out and running beside him and was quite out of breath as Aaron was as they skitted to a stop next to me. He breathed heavily, leaned over onto his knees for a moment before he looked up at me with shocked and worried eyes. "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." I brushed off his worries. It's best to keep him from knowing what I have about that trainer; I won't tell him I have his trainer card. "Sorry, he got away."

"What?" My best friend scratched the back of his head. "What are you talking about Gwyn? Who got away?"

I shook my head and turned to walk down the path back to our home town of New Bark. "Come on, I'll explain what happened on the way home; I assume we'll have to talk to the police too." My best friend blinked before he nervously looked at his pokemon, but quickly obeyed and hurried after me as I stepped into the darkened forest.

Mystery Boy's Point of View:

Man… I thought she and that boy would never leave. I quickly pulled myself from the trees and bushes that I'd hidden myself in, easily done with my darkly colored clothes, and stayed out of the light of the lamp while the city darkened. While I still had a chance I had to heal Tododile and get some potions and move ahead to the next town, staying here wouldn't help me at all. I can't believe she took my card too… now the police will know who I am… it won't take them long to recognize my picture or ask Violet for verification, she knows my face like the back of her hand…

But that girl, she hid the card away when her friend showed up, why? Why didn't she tell him or show him my trainer card? Does she plan on not showing it to the police? I shook my head from these thoughts. It still didn't matter; I still had to get out of there as quick as I could.

I pulled out the pokeball and the pokedex that I'd taken from the lab and that girl. I didn't want to steal… but in order to achieve my dream, I had no choice. No one would freely give me a pokemon or anything if they knew who I was. I have to show her that I'm strong, just like she did when she saved me, and I have to help her stop them for good…

I hurried off to the pokemon center before I got too far ahead of myself. Of course she'd give the card to the police and run it all, that blue haired girl, which she seemed to be able to read me pretty well, she'd tell… even though it didn't feel like it.

Gwyn's Point of View:

It didn't take me long to get back to town with Aaron and explain to him what exactly took place over at Cherrygrove City, though I failed to tell him about the card I still had in my pocket, and I didn't plan to. I planned to figure out what to do about that boy on my own rather then give him away, he looked so lost… the police would only make it worse on him. I think I could help him out, but it's going to take time to earn his trust and get him to think I'm his friend and not his enemy. As much as it would probably hurt Aaron that I didn't tell him, I thought it was for the best, and I would face that punishment when I had to face it.

We soon entered our home town with only seconds to spare as the night settled in. Police cars we could see were parked outside of the professor lab and we hurried up over there. Once we arrived inside, we saw that the professor was unharmed and a few neighbors, including my mother and Aaron's parents were here as well.

"Oh Gwyn!" My mother rushed over to me and took me into her arms. "I'm so glad you're alright!"

"I'm fine Mom; I came running back when the professor called." The woman nodded and released her strong grip on me enough to look around the lab, not much seemed touched other then the broken latch on the lock to the window where I'd seen the red haired boy earlier today and the missing pokeball that belonged to Tododile, the professor's last pokemon he had on hand.

"Gwyn! Aaron!" The professor called the two of us over to him. Aaron left the arms of his parents, that had also tackled him upon arrival, and we hurried over to the professor and a couple police men that were taking notes on what happened at the lab. "Its good to see you two are alright, and your pokemon?"

"Both are fine professor, including the two extra that I caught too," Aaron told him with a hint of proudness in his voice, though the professor seemed to not to notice.

"That's good to hear Aaron, but I'm in a peck of trouble! Tododile was taken!" The professor waved off what Aaron had said and fretted about as he worried over the large jaw pokemon.

"Actually professor… Tododile didn't look upset at all," his eyes and everyone else's enlarged and gaped at me. "It actually looked quite happy to obey its trainer." I looked at Cynder and she nodded to me, gently pushing her nose into my neck to encourage me. I turned back to the others. "I battled Tododile's trainer, or pokemon kidnaper. It actually looked really happy with that boy."

"So you saw him?" The police officer questioned, writing down furiously on his pad.

"Yeah, I did."

"Can you describe him?"

"I'll do the best I can," I sighed and took another deep breath. "He had long red hair that came to his shoulders. It was a very bright red and strait, cut in a couple layers and had a bit of a spikiness to the ends of it. He also wore dark clothing, mostly black and purple and blue. He was white in complexion and had black eyes; he was about my age, maybe a little older. He also seemed…" I paused for a moment, "really upset when I confronted him, but I only did so after I knew he had Tododile when he let it out to attack me in fear."

"That's quite a description miss; we thank you for your help." The police officer tipped his cap to me and was about to leave when I grabbed his arm and held him back.

"…There's more." I couldn't look at anyone in their eyes. "I'd met Mr. Pokѐmon and at his house was a friend of his named Professor Oak. He gave me three pokedex for me and two others to use to help him gather data on pokemon, but this boy stole one from me. It was silver in color."

The police man wrote it all down, an angry huff escaping his mouth, or was I the only one who noticed it? "Is there anything else miss? Like a name for this fellow?"

"…Yes, he dropped his trainer card and I got a look at it before he snatched it from me." I shifted my hands in my pockets around the card and extra pokedex I had on me and sighed. "His name was crossed off, but I was able to make out three letters, two from the first name and one from the last. In his first name, there was a 't' and a 'r', while in the last name there was a 'a'… but he had another name on there. Under his old one, he had 'Silver Vilmos' written."

"Vilmos?" the police officer asked with a light glare. "As in Champion Violet Vilmos or gym leader Vincent Vilmos?"

"Yes, just like their name." I paused again as I thought the name over as I had for the past couple hours. "If you'd like my opinion, I think he's comparing himself to Champion Violet. He doesn't believe he's as powerful as her, which is why he has the name silver, almost as a rank to show he's not at her level, and he took on her last name because he's upset with his life. Thus, his old name was thrown away and his new name is born, Silver Vilmos."

"Very insightful," though the police officer said that, he looked quite annoyed. Though his body posture still showed he was concern, but I could just hear the hint of it in the back of his voice and a dark glint in his eye. What the heck is going on? I'm smelling some miltank poop in the air, and it doesn't smell too pretty.

"Thank you for everything kids, I'll send this to the base and get started looking for that kid. Enjoy your night." The police man hurried out of there and my mother came over to hold me while we turned back to the professor.

"Don't worry professor, we'll get back Tododile, the police will find them before too long," Aaron told him.

"I hope your right Aaron, I really hope you right." The professor mulled over it and collapsed into his chair. "Now I don't have a pokemon for that kid to take when he comes here in a month."

"I'm sure you'll get another one for him professor, they are many pokemon around so I wouldn't fret." I reached into my bag and pulled out the egg that Mr. Pokѐmon had given me. "Oh, and this is the egg Mr. Pokѐmon wanted me to give you." I handed it to him and the professor looked dumbfounded. "Mr. Pokѐmon had said that he thinks it might be a pokemon not from this region."

"From out of this region… but all this fuss over an egg?" I simply shrugged at his question and I suddenly felt some heat next to my face and watched as Cynder sneezed and blew out a puff of fire toward the professor. He jumped form his spot and cradled the egg in his arms while looking at my pokemon in pure fear.

"Excuse you Cynder," I simply laughed at her. "Just be careful not to blow off another professor's face like you did with Professor Oak's." My pokemon only laughed at that and rolled from my shoulder into my arms and snuggled in them toward my chest. She quieted down and her breathing settled out too. "I guess its time for bed for you too(,) you little misfit. For a cyndaquil, you certainly aren't timid." I grabbed my mother's hand. "Come on Mom, lets go home, I gotta make sure Cynder eats something and then the two of us should probably head to bed before Cynder and I head out in the morning."

"Oh, okay honey. You go ahead and head over; I'll be with you in a minute. I just need to talk some things over with Professor Elm." I released her hand and she smiled at me, but I could feel the worry under her skin and deeply in her heart.

"Okay, I'll meet you at home then." I carried Cynder out of the lab and headed back to my house. The time seemed to past by fairly quickly as I woke Cynder back up to eat something and then head to bed myself. I'd leaned my head on my arm and just below it, against my chest, my pokemon snuggled into me to keep warm. I smiled at her and turned off the lights, dreaming about my adventure, and the boy I knew I was going to help.

Witch's Note:

Alright! Now here we go! This is the first chapter to the second installment of my story series "Pokѐmon Journey II: Gwyn's Passage". For those of you who don't know me (which I hope you do but if not oh well) I am Halloween Witch, and I have a little passion for the Pokѐmon games that I've turned into this five story series. Though a fair warning to those who have yet to read my first story, "Pokѐmon Journey I: Violet's Trial", I'd go back and read that first because this story will carry over information from the first story that if you don't know anything about it, you will be lost and confused.

Moving on however, we have a new batch of characters with this story! We have our first main character and our heroine of the story, Gwyn Jalen, who had just begun her pokemon journey with her partner Cynder, the cyndaquil. Also on this journey we have our two other main characters, Gwyn's best friend Aaron Verin and his now three pokemon of Chikorita, Pidgey and Weedle, and our mystery boy named (for the time being) Silver Vilmos and his pokemon (which he stole from the lab) Tododile.

Another thing I want to motion is that I refuse to use the new female character they have for this game. They should have remade the first female character "Crystal" in this game rather then create "Lyra", so this is also my tribute to the old character and the first ever female playable character in the pokemon games, an updated version of "Crystal" for this game! Though please don't hate me if you are a Lyra fan, I just think that what the Pokѐmon company did was wrong when they made this new game.

I hope you all remember my favorite pass time of getting questions from you for my Q's & A's page (questions and answers) where you ask me and the characters about things that you want answers, now remember, we have a moody person or two this time around, so you best at least ask them one question, or ask more then one at the same time! We all love questions here and we're excited to see you guys send them in! If you still have no idea what I'm talking about, look at the previous story to this one on the very last chapter or some of my older stories for examples.

Okay, I've talked off your ears enough and I bet you guys just want another chapter, so I'll get too and get it up by next week! I love you all and hope to see you soon! Don't forget to Review and send in Questions!

Halloween Witch