Back to Saffron!!

"So.. where's this blue guy?"

We were in the Pokemon gym talking about where to go. I never heard of this guy but he's the only one who can rival the champion so he's gotta be one of the best.

"We …have no idea-" Erika said with her sleeve covering her mouth as if she was thinking about where he would be.

Surge seemed equally as clueless.

"He would most likely be at Saffron city." Erika said.

"Saffron??" Chloe asked, shocked.

"Yeah what's wrong?"

"We just passed Saffron!"

"Well it's not that far we can go back." I tried to comfort her, it was just the next city over.

"Wait so why didn't you have the gym badge?"

Erika asked intrigued as to why I skipped a whole gym battle.

"The gym was closed so we decided to come straight here."

I grinned and rubbed my head from embarrassment .

"Come on Chloe we got this not only will we reach this blue guy, we're also gonna get the badge from that gym too! Right Zorua?" I turned to my best friend and she jumped around in agreement.

"I don't think…"

Chloe was gonna say something but didn't want to ruin the high spirits of the room.

" Chloe was it?" Erika said, getting the attention of Chloe.

"Are you not a trainer? Do you want to have a battle?"

"No-...well yeah..I don't know.." Chloe said, trying to explain her situation but failing miserably.

"To be completely honest..I don't want to be a trainer. I don't know what I wanted to do- I just wanted to be out and travel."

Erika nodded in understanding.

"One more question.."

She pointed to the necklace.

"Oh this? Mr.Fuji gave it to me, He said to keep it safe…and it will protect me." She showed it to Erika.

"Oh I see."

"Chloe what are you doing?? Come on, let's go!"

I tried to get her attention so we could leave.

"He has a lot of energy doesn't he.."

Chloe sighed

"You have no idea-"

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"So where to now?" Chloe asked as we walked to our next location.

Our pokemon were fully healed and we were only four badges away from my goal!

Not to mention meeting up with this blue guy.

"They said we needed to go to the next town over to meet a guy called blue." I said hands behind my head walking carefree with Zorua by my side.

"Hey.. Ayuna i know this is your dream and all but are you sure you're up to this?" I could hear the concern in Chloe's voice.

I grinned from ear to ear.

"Chloe with Zoura by my side, nothing can stop me! Not even Team Rocket or Paradox!"

Me and Zorua chuckled at the thought of losing.

"Right..about that i was meaning to ask you-"

"Hm?"

"How did you know about Team Paradox…their name?"

I stopped and turned to her because I didn't understand what she meant to ask.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean… uhh how to put this-" She started rattling her brain about how to ask me this.

"Well.. for the most part- we didn't know their names but when that guy came with Misty you suddenly figured it out."

"Oh right-"

I turned around and started to walk again.

"Well i don't know..it just clicked, like a forgotten memory everytime i see them.. I feel like I've been there before fighting them."

The sound of battle cries and pokemon moves flood my mind just thinking about it.

Everytime i try to remember it felt like I was gonna be brought to tears by a memory that's not even there.

"You ok?" Chloe asked.

I wiped my eyes and stared at the path ahead.

"Yeah, I'm fine."