Pokemon Holiday Specials! Thanksgiving 2012
*I do not own Pokemon
*I only own the story
This is the first story of my Pokemon Holiday Specials series! Enjoy lots!
Thanksgiving 2012
Pikachu
Yawn.
(Sigh, I can't sleep...) I roll over for the fifty-fourth time.
(All this counting is supposed to make me sleepy... Why am I not falling asleep? Maybe I'm thinking too hard... or maybe the counting is keeping me awake...)
Yawn.
I hear some quiet footsteps in the other room. We were in someone's house... I forgot whose. I roll over onto my belly and rubbed my eyes slowly.
Yawn.
I could see two shadows, both smaller ones, so they couldn't be people.
(Not Excadrill or Crustle... Maybe Snivy is watching Axew.) I look to where Snivy was sleeping. I could see her sleeping soundly and quietly, unlike everyone else who was either snoring, drooling, or sleeping with their mouths open.
(Perhaps those two are... hmm...) I got up drowsily then walked towards the open door.
I saw them, Axew and Scraggy.
"What are you guys doing so early in the morning?"
"Ssssssh! Pikachu, whisper!" Axew said almost silently.
"Today is Thanksgiving so we planned to make preparations before anyone wakes up," Scraggy whispered.
"That's a lot to do... Yawn. I guess I could help you guys. I haven't been able to sleep, anyway."
"Great! Now we just have to wake Pansage up so he can do the cooking!"
"But, Axew," I whispered back. "Pansage probably- yawn. wouldn't want to be disturbed."
"Ha ha! That's why Scraggy and I planned ahead! Pansage agreed to it, so he'll do it!"
"Well,... Yawn. Go and wake him up, then." Axew sneaked quietly into the room, trying not to laugh at Oshawott's crazy snoring. It was quite hard for him to get to Pansage. He almost stepped on Pignite's tail, almost walked into Crustle, and almost tripped over Cilan's leg. Gratefully, no one woke up.
"Hey, Pansage!" Axew began to poke the monkey in the side.
"Huh? Whuuuuuh?..." Pansage moaned.
"Sssssh! Remember, Pansage? You wanted to help set up the food for the party today!"
"I did? Oh... Yawn. It's 1:38. We have plenty of time before the party. Just ten more minutes plssssszzzzzzz..."
"No, wake up now, Pansage! There's more than just the cooking you need to do!"
"Oh yeah... I will..."
"Then c'mon!"
"Ten more minutes..."
"Ugh. Fine, we'll get you in ten minutes." Axew walked back over, frustrated. He took a safer route back this time.
"Ok, Pikachu, you can help with getting the food. Ok?" Axew said to me. I nodded, only waking up a tiny bit. He handed me a list of food.
(When in the world did he learn to write?)
"Good. I'm doing decorations and Scraggy is doing the cleaning. If you need anything, call me!" Axew rushed toward the closet.
(Huh, it feels wierd that a whole party is being hosted by the two youngest. Well, at least they know what they're doing. I'm glad they're so thoughtful.) I looked down at my list.
-Pumkin Pie
-Apple Cidder
-Barry Tarts
-Lemoneade
-Water
-Bred and Butter
-Cranbarry Jely
"That's quite a list. Yawn. How am I supposed to get them all?"
"Go to the store or find them in the wild."
(To the store? But I have to money...) Axew handed me $1000.
"WHAAAAT? Where in the world did you get all this?"
"Oh, I've been saving Iris's and my money for quite a while. We never buy anything, so go ahead and use it."
"You get money? How?"
"We sell berries sometimes when you guys are doing something else."
"Oh, ok. Well, I'll go get- yawn. the ingredients. I'll be back. Hopefully I don't turn into a Slowpoke on my way to the store."
"What's a Slowpoke?" Axew questioned.
"Oh, nothing." I ran out the door into the cold night air.
(I hope I don't run into anyone or worry any of my friends.)
Pansage
I felt someone poking me again. I looked up to see Scraggy staring at me right in the face.
"Oh, already?" I mumbled.
"Yeah, sleepyhead. We let you sleep thirty minutes, actually. Time to get up, now. Pikachu brought the stuff for some of the food. C'mon, time to cook for the party!" I slowly got up and followed Scraggy. I walked out of the room, almost blinded by the bright light.
"Yeah! You're awake, Pansage!" Axew jumped in joy.
"Hardly. So Pikachu's helping, too?"
"Yeah. I got most of the ingredients. I still need to get the cranberries and lemons," Pikachu told me. Then he handed me a list of food.
"I guess I should get started. Yawn." I walked over to the pile of goodies.
(I wonder how Pikachu managed to get all this. Actually, I'm too tired to wonder... Why did I sign up to waking up so early?) I checked the clock.
(2:13. I think I have enough time to make everything.) I took out the berries and dough, starting on the Berry Tarts.
"Hee hee! I'll use this Pecha Berry for the inner tarts then Yache Berries for the outside... Then I'll use these Aspear Berries for the drizzle! Boy, there are too many!"
Axew
I watched Pansage look through the basket full of berries, fascinated and talking to himself.
(Well NOW he's awake. I guess he's really into food.) I walked back to where I was working. I made a frizzled paper Pidove for the centerpiece of the table. White and red streamers are going to be hanging from the ceiling. I'm going to color these feathers I plucked off Unfezant to decorate the walls. So many things I want to do!
(It's 2:14. No need to rush. Excadrill, who I think is the one who always wakes up first, usually wakes up around 6:00.) I picked up the roll of white streamers. I ripped them unevenly, not caring. I did the same to the red streamers. They have little pokeballs all the way across. I looked around the house for some tape.
"Hey, Pikachu, can you help me find some tape?"
"Sure thing," he replied. He jumped towards the drawers in the office room, searching through all the papers and pencils.
I decided to move on to the feathers. I picked up the container of red ink and began dipping them in one by one. I layed them down on the plastic wrap Pikachu cut for me.
While they dried, Pikachu helped me tape the streamers onto the ceiling.
Until I accidentally fell of my stand.
CRASH! I fell into the bucket of spoons, gladly missing the forks and knives.
"Oooops! I hope I didn't wake anyone up!"
"Are you ok, Axew?" Pansage asked me, frightened by the sudden, loud noise.
"Hey, why are you guys awake?" I turned around to see who said that.
It was Snivy and Leavanny.
"I'm sorry if I woke you two up! I accidentally fell!"
"And what exactly did you do?" Leavanny asked.
"I was hanging up the streamers onto the ceiling."
"Is it for a party or something?" Leavanny questioned some more.
"Y-yeah. I wanted to set up for a Thanksgiving party before anyone wakes up."
"Let me handle putting up the decorations. Looks like you four have a lot to do," said Snivy. She gave me a grin.
"Great! Thanks a lot!"
"I'll help Scraggy." Leavanny picked up the broom and dustpan.
"Thank you, brother Leavanny!" Scraggy said happily.
(Great! I believe we'll be able to be finished on time!)
Scraggy
(It's 3:52 now. Almost everything is about done.)
"Great work, everyone! I have one more thing for us to all do before we go back to the bedroom!" Axew announced.
"What is it?" I asked.
"We need to make games for everyone! Anyone got any ideas?"
"Ooh, ooh! I got one!" I raised my hand. "Pin the tail on the Blitzle!"
"Uuuh... ok, then. Anything else?"
"Perhaps we should do ring toss?" Pikachu asked.
"Ok! We need one more!"
"Let's set up obstacles outside so we can play flour dodgeball." Snivy suggested.
"Ooh, that's a nice one! Ok, Pikachu and Snivy could do that one. Leavanny can do the Pin the Tail on the Blitzle and Scraggy and I will do the Ring Toss!"
(Sweet, I get to do it with Axew!) Everyone nodded in agreement then ran off to do their thing. I went to the bathroom and picked up some of the empty toilet paper rolls in the cabinet. I got the scissors and began cutting them into rings.
"That's a clever idea, Scraggy!" Axew chuckled. He was holding a board made of cardboard. He sticked some glue in a few places then put some sticks from outside onto the glue blots.
"That's a clever idea, too!" I replied. I began to paint my rings with green, yellow, blue, and red.
I looked up into the office where Leavanny was printing some papers with the picture of Blitzle. He's smart, too!
Thirty minutes passed, and the three of us in the house, discluding Pansage, waited for Pikachu and Snivy for a while.
"Boy, what's taking them so long?" I asked during the moment of awkward silence. We decided to walk outside, only for Axew to be whacked in the face by a small sack of flour.
"Oops! Sorry, Axew! I was aiming for Snivy- Oh! I guess we got carried away. We were testing the dodgeballs until we started throwing them at each other. It's really fun!" Pikachu laughed.
Snivy walked towards us, covered in the white powder.
"I think this is the best game we have so far."
"Heh heh! Well, now that everyone's done, let's go back and sleep some more. I'm beat!" Axew yawned.
"But I'm already awake!" Leavanny said.
"Well, the two of you should get some more sleep." Snivy pointed at me and Axew. "You both have to grow some more. We'll make any finishing touches."
"Aaaw! Ok..." we both groaned. We walked back to the dark room and lied down. I listened to the soft moaning of the older Pokemon. I could hear Ash and Cilan snoring, too.
(Heh heh! They'll have a blast today for sure!)
Oshawott
Yaaaaaawn. I stretched my arms in the light coming out of the window behind me. I looked around at the other Pokemon who were still sleeping. Only, I didn't see Pansage, Pikachu, Snivy, or Leavanny.
(I guess they already woke up.) I walked through the door into the hallway. The walls were lined with feathers, and I could smell something tasty. I walked down into the kitchen, seeing the table set with delicious food and drinks.
"Mmmm! Maybe Cilan made this!" I said quietly to myself. I saw some red and white streamers hanging on the ceiling. A large poster was taped onto the wall that said "Hapy Tanksgiving Evrywon!"
(Oh yeah! Today's Thanksgiving! But who could've set this all up? Everything is so nicely decorated! Except, I didn't see this stuff here yesterday!) I walked into the family room. It had papers and colored pencils on the floor, a picture of a Blitzle without a tail on the wall, and a ring toss board leaning on the opposite wall from the Blitzle picture.
(Wow, they even set up activities! But I don't see the four Pokemon anywhere here!) I looked around the house. They weren't in the bathrooms, not in the closets, not in the office.
(Maybe they're outside.)
I look out the window door and saw tables, chairs, and other large obstacles scattered all over the backyard. They were all covered in white blotches.
Maybe another game? I decided to go out and explore the area. First I find Pikachu sleeping behind one of the chairs. Then I saw Pansage and Snivy asleep under tables. Lastly, Leavanny was sleeping on top of a tree. All of them were covered in the same white blotches and lying next to small squishy sacks of flour.
(Ah! Flour dodgeball! Sweeeeeet! But why are they asleep?)
"ACHOOOOO!" Leavanny sneezed. That made me jump and fall backwards. He woke up and saw me.
"Hey, Oshawott. I think I'm allergic to flour dust."
"Is this all for flour dodgeball?" I asked.
"Heh heh! Yeah. We'll tell you about it later." He jumped down and picked up all the flour sacks, then he placed them into a bucket. We both walked back inside and heard Ash shouting.
"WHOOOOOOOA! What's all this? Did you make this, Cilan?"
"No, I've been asleep."
"I didn't see all this here yesterday." Iris told them and Pignite.
"Then that means it could've been the Pokemon that made this!" Cilan concluded.
"Wow! But I haven't seen Pikachu or Snivy," Ash said, worried.
"I can't find Pansage. Hey, Oshawott, do you know where they are?" Cilan asked me. I pointed out the door.
"Ooh, what's out there?" Iris exclaimed. She ran into the backyard."Hey, guys! Pikachu, Snivy, and Pansage are out here!" The boys walk outside tp see the three sleeping Pokemon.
"Hey, is this flour dodgeball? I never played that game, but I've heard of it!" Ash shouted quite loudly.
The three Pokemon woke up.
"Oh, they're here! Time to say today's phrase!" said Pikachu. The three quickly got up and ran into the bedroom.
"Now what are they doing?" Suddenly, the three, Axew, and Scraggy ran out and jumped onto the table. Leavanny stood next to them. The other Pokemon except Crustle came out and walked toward the table.
"Hey! Hey! Someone get Cilan! I can't get through the door! Y'know, I'll just take off my rock..." -_-
"Did you guys make all this?" The six nodded and said,
"HAPPY THANKSGIVING!" They pointed at the sign.
"Wow! Thank you guys so much! I think we should all dig in!" Ash shouted.
"Wait! We should all say our thanksgivings before we eat," Cilan suggested.
"Ah! I've got mine! I'm thankful for my Pokemon journey and my best buddy, Pikachu! Oh, and of course all of my Pokemon I met on my journey!" Ash yelled.
"I'm thankful for my tribe and all of my Pokemon, too!" Iris said then patted Emolga's head.
"I'm thankful for being an A class connoisseur, my brothers, and my three special Pokemon! Oh, where's Stunfisk?" Cilan looked around, trying to find that flat fish.
"Stun stun, fisk!" Stunfisk was under the rug on the floor.
"Ha ha! I'm guessing that the floor must be a bit cold," Cilan guessed.
(Come to think of it, my feet are a bit cold. I guess I was too surprised by all this stuff to notice.)
"Well, I'm thankful for Ash and all my Pokemon buddies I've met and traveled with throughout each region!" Pikachu stated.
"I'm thankful that I'm part of this awesome team, and that Ash took me in when I was still a Tepig!"
"Mine is just having so many great friends!" I exclaimed. Palpitoad, Crustle, Leavanny, Unfezant, and Scraggy agreed.
"I'm glad to have Iris as my trainer and Scraggy as my best friend!" Axew exclaimed.
"I'm thankful for APPLES! YEEEEEAAAAAH!" Emolga shrieked.
"I'm thankful for our trainers that work so hard for us when we're sick, hurt, or hungry," said Boldore.
"Ah! I totally agree. I am also thankful for Iris being a great trainer," Excadrill said, giving a warm smile.
"I'm thankful for Cilan teaching me and training me!" Pansage raised his arms then bowed.
Everyone looked at Snivy, who was frowning.
"What about you, Snivy?"
"Yeah! What are you thankful for?"
Snivy said nothing then turned towards us.
"A good and thoughtful trainer." She grabbed a Berry Tart then walked into the office glumly and slowly.
"Hm... I guess Snivy was thinking about her former trainer. The poor Pokemon must've had it rough," Iris guessed, trying to talk quietly so Snivy wouldn't hear.
"But besides that, thank you, Leavanny, Scraggy, Axew, Pikachu, Pansage, and Snivy, for all your hard work and thoughtfulness you put into everything! You all made this party happen and made Thanksgiving a joyful day!" Cilan cited.
"But these two are the ones who planned it all in the first place!" Pikachu pushed Axew and Scraggy forward.
"Wow, really? Thanks, you two, so much!" Pignite said with a loving smile.
"I guess we'll all have to dig in, now!" Cilan shouted.
"YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH!"
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Make sure to think of what you're thankful for, whether it be funny or serious. Everyone have a great holiday! :)
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