pokemon adventure

chapter ten

Chapter 10

Saffron Gym and Lavender Town

After finishing with Maiden's peak, Ash, Misty and Brock were now back on track with travelling to Saffron City. Right now they were walking through a forest and it was getting dark. "I hope we find Saffron City soon," said Misty "it's getting late". "Hey Ash," said Brock what pokemon are you going to use?" "Well," said Ash "since the gym leader, Sabrina, uses a psychic type I've been thinking about. I thought of using Gengar, Butterfree or Beedrill, since ghost and bug types beat psychic types. But since Gengar and Beedrill are part poison type as well it might not work as psychic beats poison. As with Butterfree, well I couldn't make up my mind. So I decided to go with Espeon. After all psychic vs psychic can work". "That's a great idea," said Brock.

Just then they heard laughter coming from some bushes. The laughter was from a little girl, about six years old, and was wearing a white dress, with a white hat and was carrying a white ball. "Hey little girl," said Ash "do you know if we are near to Saffron City?" The little girl laughed again and ran away into the bushes. "I was only asking for directions," said Ash. The group followed the path that the girl took and the path led them to a cliff. They saw Saffron City ahead of them; it was a city with many lights. "Wow it's beautiful," said Misty. "I guess seeing that little girl was a sign of luckiness" Brock chuckled. Ash and Misty also chuckled at that comment.

After spending the night in the pokemon center, the gang walked over to Saffron Gym, an unusual dome-shaped building. "Well time to get my fourth badge" said Ash. He was about to open the gym's door, when a dark grey bearded man, in a dark green jogging outfit and with a dark green cap, interrupted him. "Are you going to battle Sabrina?" the man asked. He started at Ash and appeared to be studying him. Ash noticed this, but shook it off. "Yes I am battling Sabrina," said Ash "is that a problem". "If I were you kid," said the man, "I'd go to another gym. Sabrina will not go easy on a newbie trainer like you. So leave now and go to another gym". Ash glared; he wanted to fight Sabrina. He looked at the old man straight in the eye. "Listen here old man," he said "I didn't come to Saffron Gym just to have you tell me to leave. I'm battling Sabrina, got that?" When the man looked at Ash's eyes he thought they had turned blue for a moment, but thought he was seeing things. Ash walked into the gym in a huff and Misty and Brock followed him. The old man just watched them go inside.

Inside, Ash, Misty and Brock saw a lot of people at tables. Some people were staring at spoons, as if they were trying to bend them. And the rest were trying to guess what shape was on cards, without looking. "What are they all doing?" asked Misty. "Hey what are you kids doing here?" said a voice. It was a man in a lab coat. "I am here to challenge Sabrina," said Ash. The man chuckled. "If you're here to challenge the great Sabrina," he said "then you are in big trouble". "Why is that?" asked Misty "and what are those people doing?" "If you must know, it's this," the man said. He took a spoon out of his pocket, held it up and stared at it hardly. The spoon suddenly bent a bit. "Hand on a minute," said Ash "you're a psychic". "Oh," said the man "then you know about psychic powers". "Of course," said Ash "besides I own a psychic pokemon myself". "Impressive," said the man "we hardly get any trainers with psychic pokemon. But I highly doubt that will help you. Besides you don't seem to have any telekinesis".

Ash was cross with that comment. He grabbed the spoon and glared at it hard. Misty and Brock knew that nothing was going to happen, but they looked quietly. Just then Ash's eyes turned blue and he bent the spoon more easily than the man did. Ash saw what he did and dropped the spoon in amazement. "Wow," he gasped "that was amazing". Misty, Brock and the man were in shock. "Incredible," said the man, "kid you must have a strong psychic relative down your line. Since you seem to have a strong psychic power, I will take you to Sabrina".

The man led them to where Ash's gym battle with Sabrina would be. The battle field looked like an underground temple. Misty and Brock were feeling a bit scared and Ash had a strange feeling inside of him. "I sense psychic energy" he whispered. He felt a bit strange after realizing that he had some psychic powers within him; he never noticed it before. The man bowed on the battlefield. "Great Sabrina," he said, and pointed to Ash, "This boy here wishes to battle you". Two figures appeared behind a curtain. One was a little girl in white, holding a pokeball, the other was a woman with long dark green hair, wearing a long red shirt. Ash recognized the little girl as the girl they saw in the forest. The woman's eyes turned blue, like Ash's did, and lifted the man into the air, then dropped him onto the floor. The man ran away in panic. The gang felt sorry for the man; it seemed really mean of Sabrina treating her own assistants like that.