Johoto, Goldenrod City:
"It's been three days since I've heard from him, but he did say that he is coming home tomorrow after stopping at Prof. Oak's, so I think I'll meet him at professer oak's lab"
Mary closed her journal, and placed it in her dresser drawer. Standing up, she yawned and stretched then shivered in the cool breeze that blew in her window, fluttering her slightly curly red-brown hair. A sudden warmth washed over her, and she didn't mind the cold anymore, but she shut the window anyway, and drew the curtains as tight as she could.
Her Eevee looked up from where it was lounging on the bed, and made an inquiry.
"Yes, it's time for bed." Mary answered, holding out its pokeball.
"Return!"
Walking across the room, she locked her door, and turned off the light.
A sudden wave of heat blanketed the room with the darkness, and a sleek shape slid onto the bed, with a soft, almost pokemon-ish sigh. Bright red eyes glowed dimly in the darkness, until they wearily shut.
The next morning, Mary slung her backpack over her shoulder, tucked Eevee under her arm, and started walking to the Magnet Train station.
She stopped at the gym to chat with Whitney, gleefully noticing that the gym leader cowered when she entered the gym (Mary's Pokemon had beaten
Whitney the previous year, not falling for the roll-out attack, in one move apiece. Whitney was still upset about it).
"So, where are you off to?" Whitney inquired.
"Quite a few places." Mary started ticking them off on her fingers.
"Pallet Town, but as none of my Pokemon know fly, I have to take a long route around...and I have to go to a few cities first. Then maybe I'll come back here. Then up north."
"Up north?" Whitney asked blankly. "To Ecruteak?"
"Nope."
"Lake of Rage?"
"Heck no." Mary made a face. "I hate fishing..."
"Then where-?"
"Never mind, Whitney. Look, I gotta get going now. See ya..."
"Bye."
Kanto, Saffron City:
After arriving in Saffron City, Mary called home first, then started trekking north to Cerulean. Her Arcanine got her there in no time at all. Her extremely tall cousin, Sean, met her at the Pokemon center.
Kanto, Cerulean City: Pokemon Center
"So, dad told me you'd be coming through Cerulean," Sean said as they shared a bottle of Dr. Pepper between themselves and Eevee. "Any particular reason?"
"Of course."
"Why?"
"Got an errand to do."
"Oh?"
"Yes."
"Aren't you going to tell me?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Cause it isn't really anything I'd share with you...six footer!"
"Plump Jumpluff!"
Mary scowled and showed him just what a 'plump Jumpluff' could do as she grabbed the back of his neck. He froze as tingles ran up his spine.
Eevee just giggled.
"Give in?"
"Yes!" he squeaked. Mary released him. Sean rubbed the back of his neck
"Gezz, why do you always do that! When are you going to stop?"
"When will you stop calling me plump?"
"Point taken." Sean admitted. "Oh! I almost forgot!" He rummaged through his backpack. "Here!"
Mary accepted the ball he handed her, peered at it, then did a double take.
"Oh, come now...this must be a cruel joke..."
"Nope!" Sean grinned. "Dad got that masterball when he was a trainer, and never used it. I'm not interested in catching Pokemon, I'm happy with just Squirtle, so I'll never use it, I have no siblings, therefore it's yours." He mock scowled at her. "Don't you DARE waste it...plump Jumpluff! "He ran away as fast as he could. Mary uttered a shriek of rage, and chased after Sean. Eevee followed, threatening to bite him.
Mary was still fuming when she left Cerulean City. Oh, sure, she had clobbered Sean. But it had only partially relieved her anger. It was hard to get rid of negative feelings like rage when...never-mind, she told herself. No need to think of it now, especially when she had to pay attention to her surroundings. Without her firm control, Arcanine had stumbled a bit, and Mary hissed as Eevee slid off her head, and grabbed her messy ponytail for support.
"Okay, Eevee. YOU ride on HIS head!" Mary said, plunking the little Pokemon on the bigger one's head.
The rest of the trip was somewhat uneventful. Other than a few battles, all aced of course, and capturing a few Pokemon, nothing else happened.
But when she got near Pallet...
Pallet Town outskirts: Airstrip.
Mary dug her heel into Arcanine's side as a signal to stop. It looked like something had crashed...
She approached the scene warily. There were the smoldering remains of what must once have been a blimp, and a teenage boy sitting dazed on the tarmac. Something about him struck her as odd, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Yet.
"What happened?" Mary asked. The teen looked up bewilderedly.
"I'll tell you when my head clears...some time next week, I think..."
Mary forced what happened out of the strange teenager on the tarmac from the looks of him. She thought he must be a trainer or a scientist, because he was wearing a jacket that appeared to be a shortened lab jacket over a green shirt, blue pants, and black hiking boots.
"So, what's your name?" Mary asked.
"My name is Dustin." the stranger replied.
"What happened?" Mary asked.
"I don't know...all I know was that I was returning from a. project of mine in the orange islands by blimp. I took a late flight and was very tired so I went to sleep in one of the cabins on board, and all I know is that when I woke up, no one was on board the blimp. Next thing I know the ship dips down, so I called out one of my Pokemon and had him blow a hole in the side of the blimp and fly me down to the ground. Then the next thing I know, the blimp explodes not very far from here and then...well, that's what happened..." said Dustin.
"Well, what were you doing in the orange islands?" Mary asked. "I was out solving a legend. It appears that a tribe down there learned how to become part Pokemon through the use of a magic bean...
Mary's left eyebrow twitched. This was reminding her of one of those
Poke-tales her mother used to read to her...
"I solved it about two years ago, but I had an accident with one of the beans and I..."
"Yes?"
"...Kind of swallowed one..."
"Oh..."
"I started to glow and the next thing I knew, I woke up and I felt very strange. I seemed stronger, but I noticed that I looked very strange..." said Dustin.
"You don't look strange to me..." Mary replied. *Though...you seem...familiar...*
"I was getting to that.," said Dustin. "I decided to look more closely at the ruins that I was at, and learned that they learned to return to normal by training themselves to do so, and I started to train...and finally learned how do it last week. If it was not for my Pokemon, I would've given up long ago, but they encouraged me on.
It took me two days to pack up and 4 days to reach the airport." Said Dustin.
"Can you change back into...it?" inquired Mary, nervously.
"Yes, I can. Want to see?" replied Dustin, densely.
"Well, yes. That's why I asked." said Mary.
And at that Dustin starts to glow and change. All Mary could do was gasp in horror while his form changed into...a huge Dragonite! It looked like a regular Dragonite, except for its size and...it looked sort of human, too.
Mary suppressed a shudder.
"Now, could you change back, hmm?" Mary asked.
"Why?"
"Well obviously, you don't want anyone to see you? What if a trainer saw you, he'd try to catch you and you don't want that, do you?" *Plus, you're creeping me out. You just aren't the same...*
"I guess not..." Dustin shrugged, and changed back.
Just as Dustin was finishing his change back into a human, there was a loud explosion that came from of the other side of the airfield. Running over to source of the explosion. Mary found a trainer dressed in a black shirt and blue jeans. What gave away as to who he was the dragon necklace he was wearing.
"Having fun Pat?" she asked as she helped him up and hugged him.
"Huh? Oh the explosion well if you call crashing into a sleeping charizard fun then yes you could say i had fun." replied pat as he returned the hug.
"So what are you doing here in pallet town, i thought you were, with clare, showing her how to raise her dragon proplery?" she asked as they started walking back to where mary had left dustin. "i was in blackthorn, until i had told claire that silvera could easily take her entire team down without any items. "That was you? Clair was so ticked that day, you remember Whitney?" at Pat's nod she continued "Well when she got the call from Claire that some one had just cleared her gym with just one pokemon, I was in the gym and overheard what happened. It's not everyday you see one of the best trainers in Johto go insane. What did you do afterwards if you didn't stick around you had to go somewhere?"
"After the battle, I left Blackthorn, stopping at the Dragon Shrine to pay respects, and then from there I headed over to Sea foam."
By this time they had gotten back over to Dustin. "So what league are you thinking of doing Mary?" was Pat's question just as they reached Dustin.
"I'm not sure yet, I thought of doing the orange league, but I think I'll do that one at a later time" Dustin looked up as they approached. "I hear that there's a new league forming up north. A league for those that are ready for a new challenge." Mary brightens at the sound of a new league being made. "That sounds like something we should be able to handle."
"We?" the two boys asked. Nodding Mary continued "Yes we. The three of us, I know you, Pat would like to go. and you, Dustin, you should come anyway." Dustin stood there for a few moments before he answered "Well since I'm still trying to get a better understanding of my pokemon, sure
I'll come; I do have one question though. "How do the two of you know each other?" Smiling, both of them pulled out a pair of dragon necklace, that when put next to each other formed a heart. "Does this answer your question?"
"Oh, I guess that answers my question."
Suddenly a large explosion ripped through the air.
"What was that?" asked Dustin.
"I don't know, but it sounded like it came from Pallet Town" replied Mary.
"Let's go check it out." suggested Pat.
"Sure, why not?" shrugged Mary. "I choose you, Arcanine!"
"I choose you Rapidash!" yelled Dustin.
"Pat?" Mary jerked her head back, indicating he should climb on with her.
"Okay, let's go." Dustin said, and they raced off towards Pallet Town.
As they entered the town they noticed a plume of black smoke. "Looks like it's coming from professor Oak's place, so we should hurry!" said Dustin.
"Looks like your right it does appear to be coming from that direction." Said Mary.
Pallet Town: Professor Oak's lab.
As they arrived at the building front door, they went in the lab that was almost destroyed
"Oh, who could have done this?" Mary murmured.
"Let's find the professor." suggested Dustin.
"Then let's split up." said Pat. "Mary, come with me."
"Good idea." said Mary.
As they started to search the building, Dustin heard a noise that came from one of the rooms he went inside and saw what looked like a blurry image of a large Pokemon, but almost human he thought.
*Hey, that's not possible! I am the only one with that power! *
The image looked at him and took off, blasting through the wall, leaving a lot of smoke.
"I choose you Pidgeot!" yelled Dustin. "Use your whirlwind attack to blow away this smoke!"
As Dustin's Pokemon cleared the air he could see
Professor Oak lying on the floor. Dustin rushed up to him
"What happened here, professor?" he asked worriedly.
"They came for the evidence of those special beans you sent me a week ago." Oak coughed.
"They broke in and demanded it, and when I refused to give them up they started to destroy the lab, and when they found them they all swallowed one, and that's what caused the explosion. Then I heard the most horrible screaming and more blasts as they went through the wall. They didn't say who they were."
And at that he collapsed. Pat and Mary came in.
"Okay, what happened in here?" Mary demanded.
"Remember those beans I told you about earlier?"
"Yes, of course."
"Well I kind of..."
"Kind of what?"
"Sent some to professor Oak to study, and that's what was stolen." Said Dustin
"What beans?" said Pat.
"Mary will tell you later." Said Dustin. "Right now we should help clean this place up while he sleeps."
The next day, the trio headed off towards the new shortcut between Pallet Town and Saffron City
(Which was just opened the day before so it was previously unknown).
Saffron City:
As they all arrived in Saffron...
"If only I had known about that trail, I would have been to Pallet Town sooner..." said Mary as they walked up to the Magnet Train Station, showed their passes, and got on the train.
They sat down.
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Dustin pulled out a pokeball. "I choose you, Pichu!"
Pichu looked up at her trainer, jumped up and sat on his lap.
"Ooh that's so cute." cooed Mary. "What's her name?"
"Sparky." replied Dustin. Just then Pat pointed out that he still did not have any idea what those beans were about. "I guess one of us will have to tell him about it." Said Mary.
"Ok, I'll tell him." Said Dustin
"It's been three days since I've heard from him, but he did say that he is coming home tomorrow after stopping at Prof. Oak's, so I think I'll meet him at professer oak's lab"
Mary closed her journal, and placed it in her dresser drawer. Standing up, she yawned and stretched then shivered in the cool breeze that blew in her window, fluttering her slightly curly red-brown hair. A sudden warmth washed over her, and she didn't mind the cold anymore, but she shut the window anyway, and drew the curtains as tight as she could.
Her Eevee looked up from where it was lounging on the bed, and made an inquiry.
"Yes, it's time for bed." Mary answered, holding out its pokeball.
"Return!"
Walking across the room, she locked her door, and turned off the light.
A sudden wave of heat blanketed the room with the darkness, and a sleek shape slid onto the bed, with a soft, almost pokemon-ish sigh. Bright red eyes glowed dimly in the darkness, until they wearily shut.
The next morning, Mary slung her backpack over her shoulder, tucked Eevee under her arm, and started walking to the Magnet Train station.
She stopped at the gym to chat with Whitney, gleefully noticing that the gym leader cowered when she entered the gym (Mary's Pokemon had beaten
Whitney the previous year, not falling for the roll-out attack, in one move apiece. Whitney was still upset about it).
"So, where are you off to?" Whitney inquired.
"Quite a few places." Mary started ticking them off on her fingers.
"Pallet Town, but as none of my Pokemon know fly, I have to take a long route around...and I have to go to a few cities first. Then maybe I'll come back here. Then up north."
"Up north?" Whitney asked blankly. "To Ecruteak?"
"Nope."
"Lake of Rage?"
"Heck no." Mary made a face. "I hate fishing..."
"Then where-?"
"Never mind, Whitney. Look, I gotta get going now. See ya..."
"Bye."
Kanto, Saffron City:
After arriving in Saffron City, Mary called home first, then started trekking north to Cerulean. Her Arcanine got her there in no time at all. Her extremely tall cousin, Sean, met her at the Pokemon center.
Kanto, Cerulean City: Pokemon Center
"So, dad told me you'd be coming through Cerulean," Sean said as they shared a bottle of Dr. Pepper between themselves and Eevee. "Any particular reason?"
"Of course."
"Why?"
"Got an errand to do."
"Oh?"
"Yes."
"Aren't you going to tell me?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Cause it isn't really anything I'd share with you...six footer!"
"Plump Jumpluff!"
Mary scowled and showed him just what a 'plump Jumpluff' could do as she grabbed the back of his neck. He froze as tingles ran up his spine.
Eevee just giggled.
"Give in?"
"Yes!" he squeaked. Mary released him. Sean rubbed the back of his neck
"Gezz, why do you always do that! When are you going to stop?"
"When will you stop calling me plump?"
"Point taken." Sean admitted. "Oh! I almost forgot!" He rummaged through his backpack. "Here!"
Mary accepted the ball he handed her, peered at it, then did a double take.
"Oh, come now...this must be a cruel joke..."
"Nope!" Sean grinned. "Dad got that masterball when he was a trainer, and never used it. I'm not interested in catching Pokemon, I'm happy with just Squirtle, so I'll never use it, I have no siblings, therefore it's yours." He mock scowled at her. "Don't you DARE waste it...plump Jumpluff! "He ran away as fast as he could. Mary uttered a shriek of rage, and chased after Sean. Eevee followed, threatening to bite him.
Mary was still fuming when she left Cerulean City. Oh, sure, she had clobbered Sean. But it had only partially relieved her anger. It was hard to get rid of negative feelings like rage when...never-mind, she told herself. No need to think of it now, especially when she had to pay attention to her surroundings. Without her firm control, Arcanine had stumbled a bit, and Mary hissed as Eevee slid off her head, and grabbed her messy ponytail for support.
"Okay, Eevee. YOU ride on HIS head!" Mary said, plunking the little Pokemon on the bigger one's head.
The rest of the trip was somewhat uneventful. Other than a few battles, all aced of course, and capturing a few Pokemon, nothing else happened.
But when she got near Pallet...
Pallet Town outskirts: Airstrip.
Mary dug her heel into Arcanine's side as a signal to stop. It looked like something had crashed...
She approached the scene warily. There were the smoldering remains of what must once have been a blimp, and a teenage boy sitting dazed on the tarmac. Something about him struck her as odd, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Yet.
"What happened?" Mary asked. The teen looked up bewilderedly.
"I'll tell you when my head clears...some time next week, I think..."
Mary forced what happened out of the strange teenager on the tarmac from the looks of him. She thought he must be a trainer or a scientist, because he was wearing a jacket that appeared to be a shortened lab jacket over a green shirt, blue pants, and black hiking boots.
"So, what's your name?" Mary asked.
"My name is Dustin." the stranger replied.
"What happened?" Mary asked.
"I don't know...all I know was that I was returning from a. project of mine in the orange islands by blimp. I took a late flight and was very tired so I went to sleep in one of the cabins on board, and all I know is that when I woke up, no one was on board the blimp. Next thing I know the ship dips down, so I called out one of my Pokemon and had him blow a hole in the side of the blimp and fly me down to the ground. Then the next thing I know, the blimp explodes not very far from here and then...well, that's what happened..." said Dustin.
"Well, what were you doing in the orange islands?" Mary asked. "I was out solving a legend. It appears that a tribe down there learned how to become part Pokemon through the use of a magic bean...
Mary's left eyebrow twitched. This was reminding her of one of those
Poke-tales her mother used to read to her...
"I solved it about two years ago, but I had an accident with one of the beans and I..."
"Yes?"
"...Kind of swallowed one..."
"Oh..."
"I started to glow and the next thing I knew, I woke up and I felt very strange. I seemed stronger, but I noticed that I looked very strange..." said Dustin.
"You don't look strange to me..." Mary replied. *Though...you seem...familiar...*
"I was getting to that.," said Dustin. "I decided to look more closely at the ruins that I was at, and learned that they learned to return to normal by training themselves to do so, and I started to train...and finally learned how do it last week. If it was not for my Pokemon, I would've given up long ago, but they encouraged me on.
It took me two days to pack up and 4 days to reach the airport." Said Dustin.
"Can you change back into...it?" inquired Mary, nervously.
"Yes, I can. Want to see?" replied Dustin, densely.
"Well, yes. That's why I asked." said Mary.
And at that Dustin starts to glow and change. All Mary could do was gasp in horror while his form changed into...a huge Dragonite! It looked like a regular Dragonite, except for its size and...it looked sort of human, too.
Mary suppressed a shudder.
"Now, could you change back, hmm?" Mary asked.
"Why?"
"Well obviously, you don't want anyone to see you? What if a trainer saw you, he'd try to catch you and you don't want that, do you?" *Plus, you're creeping me out. You just aren't the same...*
"I guess not..." Dustin shrugged, and changed back.
Just as Dustin was finishing his change back into a human, there was a loud explosion that came from of the other side of the airfield. Running over to source of the explosion. Mary found a trainer dressed in a black shirt and blue jeans. What gave away as to who he was the dragon necklace he was wearing.
"Having fun Pat?" she asked as she helped him up and hugged him.
"Huh? Oh the explosion well if you call crashing into a sleeping charizard fun then yes you could say i had fun." replied pat as he returned the hug.
"So what are you doing here in pallet town, i thought you were, with clare, showing her how to raise her dragon proplery?" she asked as they started walking back to where mary had left dustin. "i was in blackthorn, until i had told claire that silvera could easily take her entire team down without any items. "That was you? Clair was so ticked that day, you remember Whitney?" at Pat's nod she continued "Well when she got the call from Claire that some one had just cleared her gym with just one pokemon, I was in the gym and overheard what happened. It's not everyday you see one of the best trainers in Johto go insane. What did you do afterwards if you didn't stick around you had to go somewhere?"
"After the battle, I left Blackthorn, stopping at the Dragon Shrine to pay respects, and then from there I headed over to Sea foam."
By this time they had gotten back over to Dustin. "So what league are you thinking of doing Mary?" was Pat's question just as they reached Dustin.
"I'm not sure yet, I thought of doing the orange league, but I think I'll do that one at a later time" Dustin looked up as they approached. "I hear that there's a new league forming up north. A league for those that are ready for a new challenge." Mary brightens at the sound of a new league being made. "That sounds like something we should be able to handle."
"We?" the two boys asked. Nodding Mary continued "Yes we. The three of us, I know you, Pat would like to go. and you, Dustin, you should come anyway." Dustin stood there for a few moments before he answered "Well since I'm still trying to get a better understanding of my pokemon, sure
I'll come; I do have one question though. "How do the two of you know each other?" Smiling, both of them pulled out a pair of dragon necklace, that when put next to each other formed a heart. "Does this answer your question?"
"Oh, I guess that answers my question."
Suddenly a large explosion ripped through the air.
"What was that?" asked Dustin.
"I don't know, but it sounded like it came from Pallet Town" replied Mary.
"Let's go check it out." suggested Pat.
"Sure, why not?" shrugged Mary. "I choose you, Arcanine!"
"I choose you Rapidash!" yelled Dustin.
"Pat?" Mary jerked her head back, indicating he should climb on with her.
"Okay, let's go." Dustin said, and they raced off towards Pallet Town.
As they entered the town they noticed a plume of black smoke. "Looks like it's coming from professor Oak's place, so we should hurry!" said Dustin.
"Looks like your right it does appear to be coming from that direction." Said Mary.
Pallet Town: Professor Oak's lab.
As they arrived at the building front door, they went in the lab that was almost destroyed
"Oh, who could have done this?" Mary murmured.
"Let's find the professor." suggested Dustin.
"Then let's split up." said Pat. "Mary, come with me."
"Good idea." said Mary.
As they started to search the building, Dustin heard a noise that came from one of the rooms he went inside and saw what looked like a blurry image of a large Pokemon, but almost human he thought.
*Hey, that's not possible! I am the only one with that power! *
The image looked at him and took off, blasting through the wall, leaving a lot of smoke.
"I choose you Pidgeot!" yelled Dustin. "Use your whirlwind attack to blow away this smoke!"
As Dustin's Pokemon cleared the air he could see
Professor Oak lying on the floor. Dustin rushed up to him
"What happened here, professor?" he asked worriedly.
"They came for the evidence of those special beans you sent me a week ago." Oak coughed.
"They broke in and demanded it, and when I refused to give them up they started to destroy the lab, and when they found them they all swallowed one, and that's what caused the explosion. Then I heard the most horrible screaming and more blasts as they went through the wall. They didn't say who they were."
And at that he collapsed. Pat and Mary came in.
"Okay, what happened in here?" Mary demanded.
"Remember those beans I told you about earlier?"
"Yes, of course."
"Well I kind of..."
"Kind of what?"
"Sent some to professor Oak to study, and that's what was stolen." Said Dustin
"What beans?" said Pat.
"Mary will tell you later." Said Dustin. "Right now we should help clean this place up while he sleeps."
The next day, the trio headed off towards the new shortcut between Pallet Town and Saffron City
(Which was just opened the day before so it was previously unknown).
Saffron City:
As they all arrived in Saffron...
"If only I had known about that trail, I would have been to Pallet Town sooner..." said Mary as they walked up to the Magnet Train Station, showed their passes, and got on the train.
They sat down.
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Dustin pulled out a pokeball. "I choose you, Pichu!"
Pichu looked up at her trainer, jumped up and sat on his lap.
"Ooh that's so cute." cooed Mary. "What's her name?"
"Sparky." replied Dustin. Just then Pat pointed out that he still did not have any idea what those beans were about. "I guess one of us will have to tell him about it." Said Mary.
"Ok, I'll tell him." Said Dustin