Misfits 29 - It's just. Not. Fair.

I...this story is one of the hardest to tell. Because I am so - so angry. I'm angry at myself. And I just can't let go of the anger.

We were training for the Sunyshore gym, like we've been doing. Nearly everyone was up to level 60 - since training around here was so easy for him, Spirit was at 62. Gilly and Mo were the ones having difficulty training, since Gilly's attacks didn't do much on Gastrodon or Purugly. Mo didn't mind not training, so much. Gilly was getting antsy, which I understood. We had already tried fighting a few of the gym trainers, with Marsha, and they weren't very hard to beat. So finally I agreed to fight the gym.

But Gilly...she wanted to fight in the gym...she was itching for a real fight, was what she was saying. And I was so - so - so STUPID! And I LET her!

It was the first trainer we saw when we went in, in the second room. A Raichu. It was level 44, and Gilly was 57, so I thought...but then, when she hit it with Aerial Ace, NEARLY KOing it, its Static got her. It used Slam, but it didn't do much. So I tried to have her attack again, but she was paralyzed. It used Quick Attack, knocking her out of the air, but she just laughed at it, blew a raspberry at it. I thought she was going to be okay. It was only using normal type attacks. Gilly was faster...
So I told her to attack again...
But the paralyze made her slower.

And that - that Raichu - it used Thunderbolt.



She lay there, burned and broken on the ground...Spirit rushed to her...I was frozen, like I was with Calvin. I can't even remember which of my Pokemon rushed forward to avenge her. The room was spinning. No, not this, this couldn't be happening, not Gilly...not Gilly...and then anger filled me up.

It wasn't fair. I had made a horrible, stupid, cocky mistake.

Spirit hovered over Gilly, holding her head, as she passed away. I heard him talking to her, and she managed a few words back, but I didn't know what they were. I was so dang furious. I felt like I could punch the wall - and I did. I wasn't crying. I was too angry with myself, with this gym, with everything.

I turned to go. We couldn't do this. Then Spirit rested his arm on my shoulder.

"We have to finish this. Now." He said softly. For someone who had just lost his best friend, his voice was surprisingly calm. "Gilly wants that. We have to beat them now."

So we did.

We went through the gym, and took them all out. Mo, Marsha and Spirit headed the charge. They all fell. Even Volkner. He gave us the badge that felt like it weighed a thousand pounds, because of what it meant. He congratulated us on the best battle he'd had in a long time.

I ignored him, and we left.

I still...I'm still so angry. So angry at myself...at everything. Because of me...because of my foolishness, my cockiness...I was a bad trainer, and Gilly paid the price.

Gilly. My first real catch, since Bea lasted only one battle. Gilly, with her goofy sense of humor and her cheesy puns. Gilly who always smiled.

She's gone.

We don't have a flier anymore, so we couldn't go to Floroama, to bury her near Sir Calvin. So instead we went to the beach where she had loved to fly with Spirit, and we buried her where the air swept over the sea grass.

And then I boxed everyone, everyone except Spirit. And I don't know what to do now.

RIP Gilly the Staraptor
Level 4 - 57

Misfits (c) me
Pokemon (c) Pokemon

(I'll add stats later.

Gah...I am just so MAD at myself. For losing Gilly like that. It wasn't even a crit. It could have been avoided so easily, if I hadn't been cocky. And now...now I don't have a flier. I never caught another flying type, besides Dia, but she can't learn Fly. And I don't know who could take her place on the team.

Could...could you guys help? I really...I have to set the game aside for a bit, and figure this out. I really don't know what I can do without a flier. I'll have to go to the E4, and not turn back, because I'd have to go all the way through Victory Road over and over. And now, I need to find a new teammate...Here are my options...

Feldspar the Onix (timid, quick tempered) has a good moveset, and I like Onix...
Bark the Bonsly, he's got a killer moveset after being in the Daycare for so long...
Maybe Teresa the Pachirisu, but at this point, where would I use an Electric Type? Plus I'm a little sore towards Electrics...after Gilly...
And then there's Remus the Riolu, Mo and Dia's son. I could train him, and make Mo my pure fire type user, and make Remus the fighting type user. But I'm hesitant to risk their son.

What do you guy think? Those are really my best options at this point...sigh...why. Why did I have to be so stupid and lose Gilly.)