Pokemon Brick Bronze: A novel

Prep for Rosecove Gym

Play found himself in a huge, rocky cavern with jagged, sharp edges jutting out from all sides. The cave was hollowed and at the end of the cavernous tunnel, was a humming purple light at the end, Play felt drawn to it, like a moth to a lamp, or a piece of metal to a magnet. Before he knew it, his bottom half had taken control, and the dazed Pokemon trainer was walking towards the light. As he got closer, he realised it was fire. Purple fire. In it, was the shadow of a bulky figure with six floating hands, they beckoned for Play to come closer in unison. The figure had several hoop like shapes flying around it, for some reason, he felt like he'd seen it before. Even though, deep down, he knew he hadn't. The figure had a deep booming voice.

"I can tell you what happened." It boomed. "That morning." Play instantly knew what it was talking about, he got even closer, feeling a slap of heat from the flames. He couldn't have gotten any closer otherwise he'd have been scorched. Play noticed that the figure looked quite disturbing, with two horns poking from the side of it's head, a swooshing tail, a vicious jaw full of fangs, and two glowing red eyes.

"Come closer." It whispered. Play reached out his hand, but then one of the floating hands shot out and grabbed him firmly by the wrist, pulling him inside the overdrive of fire.

"Nooooo!" A harsh scream escaped his throat.

Play suddenly awoke, it was all a dream, a stupid old dream. His Prinplup lay in the corner, it shorted sharply as it's trainer woke up. He sat there for several minutes, catching his breath. And took a swig of water on the bedside table next to his bed. He put it back down, and began to calm down. He glanced across the room and saw all his other Pokémon. The large Nidoking was snoring loudly, he'd had to rent an even bigger bed for his now fully evolved poison type. Flaafy was using it's wooly coat as a bed, no need for a rent there. And the small Ralts, sleeping, but rising a few inches off the ground with every intake, and floating gently back down with every out-take. His eyes felt heavy again, and before he knew it. Play had fallen asleep again.

Next morning, Play yawned and got out of bed, with no memory of last night's nightmare, he got dressed and rounded up his Pokéballs, to return his Pokémon ready to start the day. Perhaps enduring Kyogre's origin pulse the previous night and nearly getting blasted by it himself had triggered that vivid dream. Oh, and Tess and joined them, the old man's granddaughter Him and Jake had met at the lighthouse, where Kyogre had appeared. Play sat down for breakfast at the Pokemon centre, along with his Pokémon. Now that Team Eclipse was out of the way (At least for now), he could focus on earning gym badges, today he would prepare for Rosecove gym, a water type gym. Nidoking wasn't that useful anymore, seeing as it gained the ground type. Flaafy would be an excellent choice, being an electric type, and although Prinplup was resisted by the gym, IT also resisted the gym's primary type. The gym leader was called Quentin. Play had no idea what Pokémon he favoured but all he knew was that he had water types. Not a massive amount of info to go off there exactly, especially since Water was the most common type. Finally, Ralts only knew two moves, Psybeam and Teleport, so that would need some work. 

"Back to breakfast!" Play thought. Feeling his stomach gurgle. The upcoming day was full of training. He ordered a large stack of pancakes with maple syrup, and medium, small and large for his Pokémon respectively according to their types. Right and queue, Jake and Tess arrived for breakfast. Jake had already combed his hair and sprayed some cologne.

"Someone's falling head over heels." He laughed in his head. 

"So Tess?" Jake asked in an overly polite tone. "How many badges have you got?" Tess sat down, and brushed her long purple hair behind her head.

"None." She said. "I'm trying to be a dragon master. Their my favourite type after all." Jake looked thrown off guard for a little moment.

"Like Iris." Play announced. "From the Unova region." Tess snapped her fingers several times.