PROLOGUE
"Grandpa! Read us a story!" 2 voices called in unison. Voices that
belong to 2
children, both of them were siblings, twins. At the age of 9 years old,
they were
filled with eagerness to start a pokemon journey. The person to whom
they
were speaking was an old man, about the age of 80. He just sat there and
smiled at his two grandchildren.
"I'll tell you two a story you've never heard before, one that'll make
you gasp in
wonder, amazement, and may even frighten you. It happened when I was a
young lad at the age of 13. And when it's finished, I will also tell you
something
else you won't know," He told the two young faces eager to listen. He
had
captured their attention…he was always good at that.
He slowly, but steadily got up out of his chair, "Follow me boys," He
called at
them. He reached a cabinet filled with yellowing newspaper articles,
books,
pokeballs, and pictures. As the man opened the cabinet, he stopped and
smiled
at a picture of two teenagers, standing in front of a crowd of people,
smiling,
laughing and cheering. The man carefully put it down, as to not destroy
it, and
pulled out a black, leather bound book. In gold letters it had the words
'Pathways to Adventure' written on it.
He slowly sat down in a nearby chair, and opened the book, and read
the
yellowing pages within.
POKEMON: PATH TO THE LEAGUE
"What would you like? You can choose from a Charmander, Bulbasaur, and
Squirtle," Said Jake, Prof. Oak's little brother. He seemed to look
exactly like
Prof. Oak with glasses and Brown hair.
"I'll take a Squirtle!" I, Thomas Hawke(people call me T.C. though
instead of
Thomas) said excitedly.
"Excellent choice," Jake said as he went to a table a couple yards
away.
"Here you go." he said as tossing me a red and white pokeball which
was
supposed to be containing a Squirtle, but it was missing something. I
looked
where the raindrop to show that it was a Squirtle and found that it
didn't have
one, in it's place stood a yellow lightning bolt.
"Uh, Jake. This isn't a Squirtle, it looks more like an electric
pokemon."
"That's because it is, you see we ran out of squirtles, but with this
raichu you
can get one."
"How?" I asked stunned because all the squirtles were gone.
"Well, first go to Cinnabar Island and trade with the guy who wants
one for an
electrode. After you trade with him he'll say 'this raichu you traded me
just
evolved!', so then you trade back and he'll be a newly discovered
species,
marill. When you get Marill give him a fire stone and he'll evolve into
a
charmander. With your new charmander throw him into the river near
Vermilion City, since Charmander can't swim, a squirtle from the
Squirtle Squad
will save him. When he comes throw this," he indicated towards a purple
and
white pokeball, which I recognized immediately as a Masterball. You see
I live
in Saffron City, and I'm a volunteer at the Poke-lab and Silph Co.
"But I thought that the Masterball plan was cancelled, so how could
you have
one?" I said surprised, not because he had one, but that I actually
asked him
about that instead of the nonsense he was speaking.
"Oh, some kid was given one; sold it to me." He answered as I looked
up from
my pokeball containing a raichu, and the first thing I noticed was that
Jake no
longer had a face, or even a head.
Then out of nowhere a blaring siren sounded.
"What's that?!" I asked because I couldn't even see the source of the
sound
anywhere.
"That's the air raid siren, in about 5 minutes we will be bombed."
Prof. Oak
said, or should I say Jake, because Jake was nowhere to be seen and
Prof. Oak
was standing in his place.
All of a sudden I was shaking and the lab walls were crumbling down
all
around us, and yet in the background there was a resounding 'Wake up!'.
I
winced in pain as the bricks fell down around me. Wait a minute, not
bricks,
Pokemon Bean Bags! All of sudden I sat straight up and my mom was
standing
there holding some Pokemon Bean Bags in a cocked hand.
"I'm up!" I yelled as I looked from at my clock. 5:15, too early for
somebody to
get up and start their pokemon adventure.
"You don't want to be late do you, and exactly how long did you stay
up last
night Thomas?"
"No I guess I don't want to be, and about 11:30." I said, not wanting
to have to
tell her I spent all night at the PO board.
"Well then, get moving." she said as I started getting ready to go.
When I got
done with all my chores, I went into my bathroom to make sure I looked
presentable, and sighed. I had just noticed my height once again, 4' 10"
, and
yet I'm 13. "Oh well, I guess I'll have deal with it" I thought. I
brushed my brown
hair until it was perfectly parted to the left. Washed my face, and took
a nice,
long, hot, shower. When I was all done, it was 5:45. I still had some
time left on
my hands, so I sat down in front of the computer and got on my local
internet provider. As soon
as I
signed on I noticed all these messages in my mailbox, when I checked
them it
was all my PO buddies wishing me good luck and saying that they'll miss
me on
the board. I got to the board and said thanks to all of them while I
checked for
unread messages, just the normal stuff, Wario dropping anvils on people,
Vincent
punting Wario to next Tuesday, Wacky and Firewolf arguing, and "No, I'm
a
dork, not you" argument between Roshi and Luke . I had only been on for
about 10 minutes when my mom came in carrying 3 pokeballs.
"Your dad and I want to give you these," she said as she handed them
to me
"They're not empty in case you were wondering, they contain an Oddish,
Growlithe, and Sandshrew. The growlithe used to be mine, the other two
were
your dad's, we want you to take care of them and be their friend."
"Okay, I promise I will." I said as I signed off and looked at my
watch, 6:00.
" Hey, Mom, I better get on over there."
"Okay, go on." she said with a smile. I ran over and grabbed the
pokeballs,
gave my mom a goodbye kiss and headed for my bag. When I reached it, I
noticed it was a little heavier than before.
"We put some gifts in there, but don't open them until you hit
Viridian City.
And remember to call us tonight." My dad said walking in getting ready
for
work at Silph Co.
"Okay, I promise but I really need to get over there and help set up."
"Okay then, get going, I love you."
"So do I Dad, Bye."
So I left then with a smile on my face.
When I got over there it was 6:05, I got out my keys and unlocked the
door so
I could get in and set up. It took about 10 minutes to get everything
ready for
the kids and me today. Then I noticed a table with a pillow on top of
it. "I still
have 15 minutes, that's enough for a short nap" I said aloud to no one.
I laid
down and fell asleep the minute my head hit the pillow. The next thing I
knew I
was waking up to a nice morning sunlight, I took a look at my watch, and
stopped breathing, it was 10:00.
"Well I see your awake now." Jake said walking over to me.
"Why didn't you wake me up when you got here? I'm late, I've even
missed
the bus to Viridian City, I'll have to wait 'till tomorrow now!" I
yelled in an
outrage.
"Don't worry they weren't all taken, you can still make our decision,
and about
the bus all the kids were taking to start their journey in Viridian.
Don't worry, I
can have my fearow fly you there. You'll get there before any of the
other kids
do."
"Okay," I said relieved.
"Now first, your choice, Bulbasaur or Charmander?"
"You mean no squirtles?" I asked disappointed, "I really wanted one of
those;
oh well, how about a Bulbasaur."
"Don't worry I've still got a squirtle, here you go." He said tossing
me a
pokeball, this time I checked it and there was a raindrop on the ball. I
let out a
sigh of relief.
"Now you can go to Viridian.," He said as tossing a pokeball, "Oh yeah
T.C.,
before you go take these." He gave me a pokedex, 2 pokeballs, 2
greatballs, and
1 ultraball. He then turned towards Fearow and told him to fly me to
Viridian, I
climbed on and he flew away. It was so fun to be flying. I looked down,
and it
we were flying over a beautiful country side. I eve saw the bus the
other kids
were taking. About fifteen minutes later I was checking into the
Pokecenter for
the night.
I went up to my room and since pokemon were welcome, I let my pokemon
out to stretch and roam around the room. I looked into my bag trying to
find
the gifts, I found 3 different boxes giftwrapped. I opened the first one
and
found two of every element stone, except for the moon stone I found 5 of
those.
The second one when I opened them contained all 5 HM's and 4 TM's. The
TM's
were Bubblebeam, Hyperbeam, Substitute, and Soft Boiled. "Boy, it's
great to
have old pokemon trainers as parents" I thought to myself. When I opened
the
last one it contained 3 different colored, leather bound, notebooks. On
the
front of the books it said in gold lettering 'Pathways to Adventure'. I
opened the
dark red one, and in the inside cover it said 'This journal belongs too:
Laura
Gibbs'. That was my mom's old name. I realized as I shut the book, that
she was
giving me the journal of her pokemon journey. Then I opened the navy
blue
one. This one said 'This journal belongs to: Jacob Hawke'
"That's Dad's name, so this one," I said aloud indicating the black
one, "is
mine." I opened it and found the pages blank and my name written in ink
in
the belongs to space, but that wasn't all, right next to it were
$19,000. I decided
to call my parents, and thank them for the stuff.
"Hello?" My mom asked as she picked up the receiver, then she looked
into the
video receiver and noticed it was me.
"Oh, Thomas, How you doing?"
"Fine, Thank you for the stuff."
"Your welcome, and Dad says he loves you, but we were just getting out
of the
door when you called, so we need to go. I love you son."
"Me too. Mom. Tell Dad the same, well bye."
"Okay, See you later Thomas."
My cheeks turned red as I hung up, and thought to myself I wish she
would
stop saying my full name. I kind of just sat around int he room all day,
getting
aquainted with me pokemon.
The Next Day
I woke up too early the next morning. So I turned on the TV to the
news to see
the weather. When I got there they were showing a car wreck on the
highway,
and it looked bad. Then I noticed the car, it looked familiar.
"...It turns out the driver of the other car was drunk, we found a
bunch of beer
bottles in the car, he died this morning at the hospital from his
injuries. The
other people were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Unfortunately
there were no survivors the two bodies found in this car were identified
as
Laura and Jacob Hawke..." He continued, but I had stopped listening. The
tears
welled up in my eyes, and streamed down my cheeks. Growlithe had just
woken up too. And when he saw me crying, he came over and nuzzled me
trying to find out what was wrong. All I did was hug him. It made me
feel
better, but not much.
END OF CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
I stayed in bed for the day, I came out at around 5:00, and talked
with Nurse
Joy about keeping a room reserved while I was gone. After I had gotten
through with keeping my room reserved, I went back and packed my stuff
back
in my bag, paid for bus fare and headed home in the sunset.
I returned home and stayed away from everyone until the funeral was
held.
When the ceremony was over I wanted to go for a walk, I didn't know
where; I
just needed somewhere to go away from the faces of pity, for my loss,
and
greed, because I just inherited everything. As I was going someone put a
hand
over my shoulder.
"They were good people, your parents, honest, hard working, and a
record
thinner than a piece of paper," While the man was talking I looked up
and saw
that it was a close, personal friend of my family's, and president of
Silph Co. It
was Mr. Silph.
"Oh, hi, Mr. Silph," I said without much enthusiasm, any that came out
was
fake.
"Please call me Ian, I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am of the
loss of both
your parents like that. They were very proud of you, you know that? My
wife
tells me that your mom would just go on about your accomplishments in
school,
sports, and other things. And your dad, he had his office covered in
pictures of
you, and pictures you drew as a young kid.
"Listen, why don't you come over tonight and eat dinner with me, it'll
just be
you, me, and my wife. My daughter went to one of those weird girl
slumber
parties, you know I never understood what those thing were about." When
he
said that, I started chuckling, which was quickly subdued because of the
memory of my parents dying.
"Yeah, I guess I'll come over, thanks for the offer."
"Your welcome, We'll be having diner at 7:00. Come over at 6:30
though,
we've got some things we want to give you." When that was done with, we
set
off for our own homes.
I got to my house and started packing stuff that I wanted to keep, my
most
treasured items, pictures, other stuff, and all of the left over money.
I decided
that since I didn't need the rest of the stuff I would donate it
somewhere to a
charity or something.
I reached Mr. Silph's (or as he insists 'Ian's') house a little early.
It didn't really
matter because it gave us time to talk, and take my mind off my parents'
death.
We talked for about half an hour. Then he got out the things he wanted
to give
me. They turned out to be a fossil some scientist in Pewter gave him, 10
empty
pokeballs, some bags for food, and the ever important junk food. There
was
also another present, it was a certificate saying that my house would
not be
torn down, or sold until I wanted to. I asked the Silph's if they would
take care
of it for me while I was gone, thankfully they accepted.
When we had finished dessert, I thanked them for inviting me, and
left. I went
over to the lab hoping Jake was still there, so I could ask him for
another ride, it
turns out he was just about to leave but he said it would be fine for
Fearow to
fly me again.
After I had checked back in with Nurse Joy, I went up and decided to
check
my pokemon. I let them all out, got out my pokedex and scanned. I
decided to
do Squirtle first.
Squirtle, a tiny turtle pokemon. After birth it's back swells and
hardens into a
shell. Powerfully sprays foam from it's mouth. Squirtle's current level
is 7 and
knows tackle and tail whip. Next came Sandshrew.
Sandshrew, a mouse pokemon. Sandshrews burrow deep underground in
arid locations far from water. It only emerges to hunt for food.
Sandshrew's
current level is 11 and knows sand-attack and scratch. Then Oddish.
Oddish, a weed like pokemon. During the day, it keeps its face buried
in the
ground. At night, it wanders around sowing its seeds. Oddish is
currently level
15 and knows Absorb and Poison Powder And last but not least,
Growlithe.
Growlithe, a puppy pokemon. Very protective of its territory. It will
bark and
bite to repel intruders from its space. Growlithe is currently at level
20 and
knows roar, bite, and ember.
After scanning them I decided to go to bed.
"Tomorrow's going to be a long day, you guys better get some sleep." I
said to
my pokemon. I went to bed and fell asleep.
END OF CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
I woke up with a start the next morning. Apparently Growlithe had
woken up
and got hungry. So of course he pulled that
'cold-nose-in-the-middle-of-the-back' trick, that dogs do.
I felt hungry too. So after I fed my pokemon and put them back in
their balls, I
went downstairs for some breakfast of my own. As I ate, a kid with
messed up
hair, a Pikachu hanging on his official pokemon league hat, and two kids
following him entered the center, I thought the kid looked vaguely
familiar.
One of the kids following him was a girl who was holding a newly
discovered
togepi, the other was a squinty-eyed teenager who immediately started
asking
Nurse Joy out for some pizza or something like that. After Nurse Joy had
gotten
the teen (Who I found out later was the gym leader from Pewter named
Brock,
the girl was one of the gym leaders for Cerulean named Misty) to stop
bugging
her she started talking to the other kid.
"Hi, Ash. I see you made it back here to challenge our gym leader for
your
eighth badge. How's Pikachu doing since I last saw it?"
"Just fine Nurse Joy. I see you recognized me." Ash replied
"Of course, how could I forget you?" She asked with a giggle. Then it
snapped
into place, that kids pikachu had inadvertently blown the Pokecenter up
while
trying to ward off Team Rocket from stealing all the pokemon. I decided
that I
wanted to battle him, even though he already had 7 badges.
"Hey, kid!" I yelled to him "you want to battle?" of course he replied
with an
affirmative.
We went into the battle arena and set the rules, 1 pokemon each, loser
pays
$1,000 to the winner. I thought I'd win for sure if he send out who I
thought he
would.
"Go, Sandshrew!" I yelled as I threw the ball to the ground.
"Okay then, go Pikachu!" Ash yelled, I had to contain my laughter at
his
incompetence, I also saw Misty pretending to hit her head up against a
brick
wall because of Ash's choice.
"Pikachu, Thundershock!" He yelled, Pikachu sent the electricity
towards
Sandshrew which he just shook off, as a dog would do with rain.
"Sandshrew, scratch!" Sandshrew obediently ran up to Pikachu and
started
scratching his stomach.
"Pikachu! Agility!" he yelled as he was watching him get scratched.
"Pika!" It said with a menacing tone
"Sandshrew! Role up into a ball, and try to hit it!" I yelled, a
little worried, that I
might just lose. Sandshrew rolled into a ball and sped into, Pikachu
with such
force, that it was sent flying against the wall.
"Cha! PIKA!" It yelled while charging up for a big electricity blast.
"STOP!" A voice cried out, it was Nurse Joy's, "I don't want the
center to be
blown up again!" Ash had to call Pikachu back!
"Cha, chu pi pi," It said sadly; Sandshrew just ran up and jumped into
my arms.
I had just won my first pokemon battle ever.
"I don't get it? Why didn't I win? I always win! I've even got 7
badges," he went
on whining, crying and being a sore loser, when Misty came up.
"I'll tell you the reason you lost. You've got know knowledge
what-so-ever
about pokemon weaknesses and strengths. He wouldn't have stood a chance
if
you had used Squirtle. Plus, you've only got 7 badges, because most
gym's just
give the badge to you the only ones you've fought and actually beat were
Koga, Blaine, and Lt. Surge."
After Misty had gotten through lecturing Ash about his incompetence,
he
handed the money over and stormed out of there. I wanted to stick around
and watch him go after the eighth badge and see how badly he lost, but I
really wanted to get moving and get my first badge. So I healed my
pokemon,
just in case, and headed off towards Viridian Forest.
END OF CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER4
As I headed for Viridian Forest, I saw the pokemart. Since I didn't
have any
potions or antidotes I stepped in and bought 5 of each.
I got toViridan Forest and didn't even spot any pokemon on Route 2.
After
exploring Viridian Forest for a few hours, I still hadn't even seen any
pokemon
yet. I sat down to lunch with my spirits lowering. Then decided to let
my
pokemon out so they could stretch and eat lunch too. As I was about to
bite into
a leftover sandwhich from the night before, someone came up and startled
me.
"Hey! You have pokemon, want to battle?" the kid said. I turned around
and
saw a boy about my heigth with blonde hair.
"Sure,"I replied, we set out for a clearing not too far from the place
my
pokemon were at. I had taken Squirtle with me. Along the way I found a
pokeball that felt like it had something in it, I just shrugged and set
it down
when we got to the clearing.
"Hey, what's that thing?" the kid asked me.
"Just a pokeball I found along the way," Then an idea struck me, "how
about
the winner gets it and 200 dollars."
"Sounds good to me."
We set the rules, which were one pokemon each and no revives or
potions.
"Bulbasaur, Go!" he yelled. I immediatly knew I was in trouble because
water
was weak to grass. But since I hadn't brought the others I had to choose
Squirtle.
"Squirtle go!" I yelled,then told him to tackle Bulbasaur which did
about a
quarter of damage.
"Bulbasaur, tackle. Then use leech seed while hes stunned!" the
trainer yelled.
Bulbasaur obediently did as he was told. After tackling Squirtle he spit
three
seeds on to Squirtle out of the bulb on his back.
"Shake it off, and use tailwhip on him!" I yelled out of desperation.
Squirtle
tried but was weak from being hit for the first time, so it failed. Then
one of the
seeds glowed and went back to Bulbasaur, fainting Squirtle.
"Squirtle,return."I said glumly. I started giving him the money but he
said it
was okay, and he'd let me keep the money if I let him come with me on my
journey. I reluctantly agreed because I thought it would cause fights
about the
wild pokemon we saw. We decided that if I saw one first I would get it,
and vice
versa. If we both see it it's whoever can get it caught first.
"Well, I guess you need to know my name, I'm Alex."
"Oh yeah, I'm T.C. Actually I'm Thomas but that's what people call
me."
"Okay, then T.C. I guess--" he was interrupted right there by
Growlithe barking
to let me know something was wrong. We started running back as fast as
possible only to see a rattata trying to get my food. As soon as it saw
us it ran
into the woods.
"Aw man! I wanted one of those."
"Don't worry, your not missing out on anything. I've got one and
they're not
that good."
At that moment we heard some squeals and chirps. We started looking
around trying to find the source of the noise. My eyes fell upon some
rustling
bushes and out popped a weedle and a spearow. It looked like the spearow
was
trying to get some lunch too. just from that weedle. I couldn't let him
suffer like
that because he already looked pretty beat up already. And the Spearow
would
have him in a matter of minutes.
"Pokeball, go!" I yelled. Weedle saw the ball coming and hesitated
because it
didn't want to be captured, or even dinner. The hesitation was all I
needed
because the ball hit weedle without him trying to dodge. And without a
shake
the center immediately had turned white, I guess he thought it would be
safer
in there.
The spearow, now angry from losing its pray, shrieked and started
coming
after us. I called my pokemon back as soon as he headed towards us,
because
one of my training books mentioned that wild pokemon might get jealous
of
trained ones.
"Duck!" I yelled as he was swooping for an attack run.
"No not duck, spearow," Alex yelled back. I had to admire him for
keeping his
sense of humor in this situation. After several minutes and attack runs
I decided
that it needed to stop.
"Squirtle, go!" I yelled, then realized my mistake.
"Here, this might help just a little!" Alex yelled while throwing a
Max. Revive at
Squirtle. He jumped with a start and saw the spearow about to dive bomb
him.
"Squirtle, use tail whip when he gets clost to the ground!"
"Squitle, Squirt." he responded. and obediently did as I said. Spearow
went
spiraling towards a tree now. When he hit it he fell down out cold. I
then threw
another pokeball.
Shake-Shake-Shake-Ding!
"Yes, I caught Spearow!" I exclaimed with delight.
"You did pretty good back there T.C."
"Yeah, I guess I did. But without that Max. Revive of yours it
wouldn't have
happened."
I then started to call Squirtle back when I saw him just looking up
into space. I
asked my pokedex what was going on.
Squirtle has just grown to level 8 and is learning the water type
move
bubble my pokedex said with a monotonous tone. When he was done
learning it he tested the move. All these water bubbles shot out of his
mouth
going pretty fast. They looked pretty cool so I decided to try to touch
one. When
I did the force of the pop blew back against a tree about an arms length
away.
"Woah, those are pretty powerful bubbles." Alex commented.
After eating our lunch, we packed back up and set out for some more
exploring of Viridian Forest. With no luck at all for the rest of the
day we
camped out at night and talked for awhile before we decided to go to
sleep.
We had just woken up and eaten breakfast, when we decided to get out
of
the forest and get our first badge in pewter. On our way over to Pewter
we ran
into a caterpie, since I already had a weedle I let Alex go for him. He
threw the
pokeball he got from our battle and out popped a.....
CHAPTER 5
Charmander!
"Char, Char!" The little fire lizard said with delight.
"Wow! A Charmander! I always wanted one, but I had to pick bulbasaur
and
because he was last, and I was last..." Alex kept rambling on about
Charmander
when I realized why he had gotten Charmander out in the first place.
"Alex! The caterpie! It's getting away!" I yelled
"Huh? What caterpie? Oh, that one! Charmander, scratch attack!" He
yelled
Charmander got down on all fours and ran up to the green bug as fast as
possible. He then threw his claws into it's skin.
"Eroo!" It yelled in pain, and started wiggling all over the ground..
It was the
perfect time to throw the ball, so Alex did.
Shake-Ding!
"Woah, didn't put up much of a fight," I said. to Alex, or so I
thought. He hadn't
heard me, he was down on the ground playing with his Charmander. So I
picked up the his pokeball.
"Charmander, return!" I said, just as a red beam of light shot out of
the ball
"Hey! What you do that for? I was playing with him!" Alex said with a
hint of
anger.
"So we could get moving. I want my first badge and my Spearow and
Weedle
to heal. You should with Caterpie too. he looked like he got hurt pretty
bad." So
we walked into Pewter City, and dropped off Weedle, Spearow, and
Caterpie at
the center.
"So, you know anything about this new Gym leader?"Alex asked. He had
run
into Ash also, but lost.
"Nothing much, except he trains rock pokemon too."
"So my Bulbasaur and your Squirtle should do fine then," When we got
to the
gym, it looked like it was closed. The lights were out and it was pitch
black.
"Ouch!" Alex yelled as I stepped on his toes "I wonder if anybody's
here?"
"Halt! Who goes there and what is your purpose!" A menacing voice said
over
a speaker system.
"Thomas Hawke, and my friend Alex! We have come here to challenge you"
I
yelled back, trying to sound brave and hide my nervousness. Then all of
a
sudden the lights came on. They were so bright that for the first 30
seconds I
had gone temporarilly blind. When my vision came back I saw a man in his
mid-forties standing right in front of me, holding two pokeballs.
"I only have two with pokemon with me. So that means one of you at a
time.
How about you go first Thomas, and my name is Flint by the way," The man
said
in a softer tone. It didn't sound at all like the voice over the
speaker.
"I know what your thinking," Flint said with a laugh, "Your wondering
about
the speaker system. My son had it when he was leader. I'm not a mechanic
so I
don't know how to get rid of it, so it's always been there." He said as
he led us to
the arena where he stopped us at one side and went to the other.
"Okay, well come on let's fight. Squirtle! Go!" I said as I threw the
ball.
"Well then smart choice with a water pokemon, Thomas. I guess I'll
have to use
my strongest on you. Onix! Go!" Flint yelled while throwing a
blue-and-white
ball. Which I recongnized as a Great Ball.
"Squirtle, get the first one in! Bubble!" I told him. He started
blowing those very
dangerous bubbles. Several dozen hit Onix's body, since it isn't to hard
to miss.
"Come on Onix, stay with it! Try tackling the squirtle, that should
faint it," Flint
said calmly, I never have understood how people can do that. Onix began
rising as high as the roof would let it. Then it started coming down
towards the
ground.
"Squirtle, get out of the way, Now!" I yelled like a maniac. Which it
did
obediently, Squirtle had barely gotten out of the way when Onix hit the
ground.
"Onix try binding it!" Flint yelled, Onix just kind of layed there.
"I think the hitting the ground like that ended up fainting him," I
said to Flint.
"I guess your right, Onix! return!" Flint said, "Now your turn Alex.."
Their fight ended quickly too. Geodude fainted with after a seed from
Leech
Seed returned, and a tackle.
"That was a good fight you two. Here take these," Flint said while
handing me
and Alex the Boulder Badge, and a small computer device, like a pokedex
design, and a piece of paper that looked like a list, "It's a TM, it
contains Bide.
Learn about it on this TM list."
We took the gifts and left to go pick up our pokemon. When we got to
the
pokecenter it did't look like Nurse Joy was very happy
"Which of you two owns the Weedle and Spearow?" She asked demandingly
"I do! What's wrong?" I asked
"You are a very irresponsible trainer! You shouldn't have battled your
Weedle
'til it got this bad, and you don't need to throw rocks at pokemon to
weaken
them either!" She yelled in an outrage at me, even though I don't know
what
she was talking about. So I asked, which wasn't such a great idea.
"Playing innocent then? How do you explain this then?" She asked a
little bit
calmer, as she showed me a picture of a scar on top of Spearows head,
that
looked like he had been hit with a rock.
"I don't know, " I said, then preceeded to tell her the story. She
didn't believe
that either and went into a speach about pokemon caring, battling, and
stuff
like that. When she had her back turned Alex grabbed our pokeballs, and
we
snuck out silently. We were getting hungry so we decided to go get
lunch, and
find a room at a hotel where away from the Pokemon Center.
END OF CHAPTER 5
"Grandpa! Read us a story!" 2 voices called in unison. Voices that
belong to 2
children, both of them were siblings, twins. At the age of 9 years old,
they were
filled with eagerness to start a pokemon journey. The person to whom
they
were speaking was an old man, about the age of 80. He just sat there and
smiled at his two grandchildren.
"I'll tell you two a story you've never heard before, one that'll make
you gasp in
wonder, amazement, and may even frighten you. It happened when I was a
young lad at the age of 13. And when it's finished, I will also tell you
something
else you won't know," He told the two young faces eager to listen. He
had
captured their attention…he was always good at that.
He slowly, but steadily got up out of his chair, "Follow me boys," He
called at
them. He reached a cabinet filled with yellowing newspaper articles,
books,
pokeballs, and pictures. As the man opened the cabinet, he stopped and
smiled
at a picture of two teenagers, standing in front of a crowd of people,
smiling,
laughing and cheering. The man carefully put it down, as to not destroy
it, and
pulled out a black, leather bound book. In gold letters it had the words
'Pathways to Adventure' written on it.
He slowly sat down in a nearby chair, and opened the book, and read
the
yellowing pages within.
POKEMON: PATH TO THE LEAGUE
"What would you like? You can choose from a Charmander, Bulbasaur, and
Squirtle," Said Jake, Prof. Oak's little brother. He seemed to look
exactly like
Prof. Oak with glasses and Brown hair.
"I'll take a Squirtle!" I, Thomas Hawke(people call me T.C. though
instead of
Thomas) said excitedly.
"Excellent choice," Jake said as he went to a table a couple yards
away.
"Here you go." he said as tossing me a red and white pokeball which
was
supposed to be containing a Squirtle, but it was missing something. I
looked
where the raindrop to show that it was a Squirtle and found that it
didn't have
one, in it's place stood a yellow lightning bolt.
"Uh, Jake. This isn't a Squirtle, it looks more like an electric
pokemon."
"That's because it is, you see we ran out of squirtles, but with this
raichu you
can get one."
"How?" I asked stunned because all the squirtles were gone.
"Well, first go to Cinnabar Island and trade with the guy who wants
one for an
electrode. After you trade with him he'll say 'this raichu you traded me
just
evolved!', so then you trade back and he'll be a newly discovered
species,
marill. When you get Marill give him a fire stone and he'll evolve into
a
charmander. With your new charmander throw him into the river near
Vermilion City, since Charmander can't swim, a squirtle from the
Squirtle Squad
will save him. When he comes throw this," he indicated towards a purple
and
white pokeball, which I recognized immediately as a Masterball. You see
I live
in Saffron City, and I'm a volunteer at the Poke-lab and Silph Co.
"But I thought that the Masterball plan was cancelled, so how could
you have
one?" I said surprised, not because he had one, but that I actually
asked him
about that instead of the nonsense he was speaking.
"Oh, some kid was given one; sold it to me." He answered as I looked
up from
my pokeball containing a raichu, and the first thing I noticed was that
Jake no
longer had a face, or even a head.
Then out of nowhere a blaring siren sounded.
"What's that?!" I asked because I couldn't even see the source of the
sound
anywhere.
"That's the air raid siren, in about 5 minutes we will be bombed."
Prof. Oak
said, or should I say Jake, because Jake was nowhere to be seen and
Prof. Oak
was standing in his place.
All of a sudden I was shaking and the lab walls were crumbling down
all
around us, and yet in the background there was a resounding 'Wake up!'.
I
winced in pain as the bricks fell down around me. Wait a minute, not
bricks,
Pokemon Bean Bags! All of sudden I sat straight up and my mom was
standing
there holding some Pokemon Bean Bags in a cocked hand.
"I'm up!" I yelled as I looked from at my clock. 5:15, too early for
somebody to
get up and start their pokemon adventure.
"You don't want to be late do you, and exactly how long did you stay
up last
night Thomas?"
"No I guess I don't want to be, and about 11:30." I said, not wanting
to have to
tell her I spent all night at the PO board.
"Well then, get moving." she said as I started getting ready to go.
When I got
done with all my chores, I went into my bathroom to make sure I looked
presentable, and sighed. I had just noticed my height once again, 4' 10"
, and
yet I'm 13. "Oh well, I guess I'll have deal with it" I thought. I
brushed my brown
hair until it was perfectly parted to the left. Washed my face, and took
a nice,
long, hot, shower. When I was all done, it was 5:45. I still had some
time left on
my hands, so I sat down in front of the computer and got on my local
internet provider. As soon
as I
signed on I noticed all these messages in my mailbox, when I checked
them it
was all my PO buddies wishing me good luck and saying that they'll miss
me on
the board. I got to the board and said thanks to all of them while I
checked for
unread messages, just the normal stuff, Wario dropping anvils on people,
Vincent
punting Wario to next Tuesday, Wacky and Firewolf arguing, and "No, I'm
a
dork, not you" argument between Roshi and Luke . I had only been on for
about 10 minutes when my mom came in carrying 3 pokeballs.
"Your dad and I want to give you these," she said as she handed them
to me
"They're not empty in case you were wondering, they contain an Oddish,
Growlithe, and Sandshrew. The growlithe used to be mine, the other two
were
your dad's, we want you to take care of them and be their friend."
"Okay, I promise I will." I said as I signed off and looked at my
watch, 6:00.
" Hey, Mom, I better get on over there."
"Okay, go on." she said with a smile. I ran over and grabbed the
pokeballs,
gave my mom a goodbye kiss and headed for my bag. When I reached it, I
noticed it was a little heavier than before.
"We put some gifts in there, but don't open them until you hit
Viridian City.
And remember to call us tonight." My dad said walking in getting ready
for
work at Silph Co.
"Okay, I promise but I really need to get over there and help set up."
"Okay then, get going, I love you."
"So do I Dad, Bye."
So I left then with a smile on my face.
When I got over there it was 6:05, I got out my keys and unlocked the
door so
I could get in and set up. It took about 10 minutes to get everything
ready for
the kids and me today. Then I noticed a table with a pillow on top of
it. "I still
have 15 minutes, that's enough for a short nap" I said aloud to no one.
I laid
down and fell asleep the minute my head hit the pillow. The next thing I
knew I
was waking up to a nice morning sunlight, I took a look at my watch, and
stopped breathing, it was 10:00.
"Well I see your awake now." Jake said walking over to me.
"Why didn't you wake me up when you got here? I'm late, I've even
missed
the bus to Viridian City, I'll have to wait 'till tomorrow now!" I
yelled in an
outrage.
"Don't worry they weren't all taken, you can still make our decision,
and about
the bus all the kids were taking to start their journey in Viridian.
Don't worry, I
can have my fearow fly you there. You'll get there before any of the
other kids
do."
"Okay," I said relieved.
"Now first, your choice, Bulbasaur or Charmander?"
"You mean no squirtles?" I asked disappointed, "I really wanted one of
those;
oh well, how about a Bulbasaur."
"Don't worry I've still got a squirtle, here you go." He said tossing
me a
pokeball, this time I checked it and there was a raindrop on the ball. I
let out a
sigh of relief.
"Now you can go to Viridian.," He said as tossing a pokeball, "Oh yeah
T.C.,
before you go take these." He gave me a pokedex, 2 pokeballs, 2
greatballs, and
1 ultraball. He then turned towards Fearow and told him to fly me to
Viridian, I
climbed on and he flew away. It was so fun to be flying. I looked down,
and it
we were flying over a beautiful country side. I eve saw the bus the
other kids
were taking. About fifteen minutes later I was checking into the
Pokecenter for
the night.
I went up to my room and since pokemon were welcome, I let my pokemon
out to stretch and roam around the room. I looked into my bag trying to
find
the gifts, I found 3 different boxes giftwrapped. I opened the first one
and
found two of every element stone, except for the moon stone I found 5 of
those.
The second one when I opened them contained all 5 HM's and 4 TM's. The
TM's
were Bubblebeam, Hyperbeam, Substitute, and Soft Boiled. "Boy, it's
great to
have old pokemon trainers as parents" I thought to myself. When I opened
the
last one it contained 3 different colored, leather bound, notebooks. On
the
front of the books it said in gold lettering 'Pathways to Adventure'. I
opened the
dark red one, and in the inside cover it said 'This journal belongs too:
Laura
Gibbs'. That was my mom's old name. I realized as I shut the book, that
she was
giving me the journal of her pokemon journey. Then I opened the navy
blue
one. This one said 'This journal belongs to: Jacob Hawke'
"That's Dad's name, so this one," I said aloud indicating the black
one, "is
mine." I opened it and found the pages blank and my name written in ink
in
the belongs to space, but that wasn't all, right next to it were
$19,000. I decided
to call my parents, and thank them for the stuff.
"Hello?" My mom asked as she picked up the receiver, then she looked
into the
video receiver and noticed it was me.
"Oh, Thomas, How you doing?"
"Fine, Thank you for the stuff."
"Your welcome, and Dad says he loves you, but we were just getting out
of the
door when you called, so we need to go. I love you son."
"Me too. Mom. Tell Dad the same, well bye."
"Okay, See you later Thomas."
My cheeks turned red as I hung up, and thought to myself I wish she
would
stop saying my full name. I kind of just sat around int he room all day,
getting
aquainted with me pokemon.
The Next Day
I woke up too early the next morning. So I turned on the TV to the
news to see
the weather. When I got there they were showing a car wreck on the
highway,
and it looked bad. Then I noticed the car, it looked familiar.
"...It turns out the driver of the other car was drunk, we found a
bunch of beer
bottles in the car, he died this morning at the hospital from his
injuries. The
other people were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Unfortunately
there were no survivors the two bodies found in this car were identified
as
Laura and Jacob Hawke..." He continued, but I had stopped listening. The
tears
welled up in my eyes, and streamed down my cheeks. Growlithe had just
woken up too. And when he saw me crying, he came over and nuzzled me
trying to find out what was wrong. All I did was hug him. It made me
feel
better, but not much.
END OF CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
I stayed in bed for the day, I came out at around 5:00, and talked
with Nurse
Joy about keeping a room reserved while I was gone. After I had gotten
through with keeping my room reserved, I went back and packed my stuff
back
in my bag, paid for bus fare and headed home in the sunset.
I returned home and stayed away from everyone until the funeral was
held.
When the ceremony was over I wanted to go for a walk, I didn't know
where; I
just needed somewhere to go away from the faces of pity, for my loss,
and
greed, because I just inherited everything. As I was going someone put a
hand
over my shoulder.
"They were good people, your parents, honest, hard working, and a
record
thinner than a piece of paper," While the man was talking I looked up
and saw
that it was a close, personal friend of my family's, and president of
Silph Co. It
was Mr. Silph.
"Oh, hi, Mr. Silph," I said without much enthusiasm, any that came out
was
fake.
"Please call me Ian, I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am of the
loss of both
your parents like that. They were very proud of you, you know that? My
wife
tells me that your mom would just go on about your accomplishments in
school,
sports, and other things. And your dad, he had his office covered in
pictures of
you, and pictures you drew as a young kid.
"Listen, why don't you come over tonight and eat dinner with me, it'll
just be
you, me, and my wife. My daughter went to one of those weird girl
slumber
parties, you know I never understood what those thing were about." When
he
said that, I started chuckling, which was quickly subdued because of the
memory of my parents dying.
"Yeah, I guess I'll come over, thanks for the offer."
"Your welcome, We'll be having diner at 7:00. Come over at 6:30
though,
we've got some things we want to give you." When that was done with, we
set
off for our own homes.
I got to my house and started packing stuff that I wanted to keep, my
most
treasured items, pictures, other stuff, and all of the left over money.
I decided
that since I didn't need the rest of the stuff I would donate it
somewhere to a
charity or something.
I reached Mr. Silph's (or as he insists 'Ian's') house a little early.
It didn't really
matter because it gave us time to talk, and take my mind off my parents'
death.
We talked for about half an hour. Then he got out the things he wanted
to give
me. They turned out to be a fossil some scientist in Pewter gave him, 10
empty
pokeballs, some bags for food, and the ever important junk food. There
was
also another present, it was a certificate saying that my house would
not be
torn down, or sold until I wanted to. I asked the Silph's if they would
take care
of it for me while I was gone, thankfully they accepted.
When we had finished dessert, I thanked them for inviting me, and
left. I went
over to the lab hoping Jake was still there, so I could ask him for
another ride, it
turns out he was just about to leave but he said it would be fine for
Fearow to
fly me again.
After I had checked back in with Nurse Joy, I went up and decided to
check
my pokemon. I let them all out, got out my pokedex and scanned. I
decided to
do Squirtle first.
Squirtle, a tiny turtle pokemon. After birth it's back swells and
hardens into a
shell. Powerfully sprays foam from it's mouth. Squirtle's current level
is 7 and
knows tackle and tail whip. Next came Sandshrew.
Sandshrew, a mouse pokemon. Sandshrews burrow deep underground in
arid locations far from water. It only emerges to hunt for food.
Sandshrew's
current level is 11 and knows sand-attack and scratch. Then Oddish.
Oddish, a weed like pokemon. During the day, it keeps its face buried
in the
ground. At night, it wanders around sowing its seeds. Oddish is
currently level
15 and knows Absorb and Poison Powder And last but not least,
Growlithe.
Growlithe, a puppy pokemon. Very protective of its territory. It will
bark and
bite to repel intruders from its space. Growlithe is currently at level
20 and
knows roar, bite, and ember.
After scanning them I decided to go to bed.
"Tomorrow's going to be a long day, you guys better get some sleep." I
said to
my pokemon. I went to bed and fell asleep.
END OF CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
I woke up with a start the next morning. Apparently Growlithe had
woken up
and got hungry. So of course he pulled that
'cold-nose-in-the-middle-of-the-back' trick, that dogs do.
I felt hungry too. So after I fed my pokemon and put them back in
their balls, I
went downstairs for some breakfast of my own. As I ate, a kid with
messed up
hair, a Pikachu hanging on his official pokemon league hat, and two kids
following him entered the center, I thought the kid looked vaguely
familiar.
One of the kids following him was a girl who was holding a newly
discovered
togepi, the other was a squinty-eyed teenager who immediately started
asking
Nurse Joy out for some pizza or something like that. After Nurse Joy had
gotten
the teen (Who I found out later was the gym leader from Pewter named
Brock,
the girl was one of the gym leaders for Cerulean named Misty) to stop
bugging
her she started talking to the other kid.
"Hi, Ash. I see you made it back here to challenge our gym leader for
your
eighth badge. How's Pikachu doing since I last saw it?"
"Just fine Nurse Joy. I see you recognized me." Ash replied
"Of course, how could I forget you?" She asked with a giggle. Then it
snapped
into place, that kids pikachu had inadvertently blown the Pokecenter up
while
trying to ward off Team Rocket from stealing all the pokemon. I decided
that I
wanted to battle him, even though he already had 7 badges.
"Hey, kid!" I yelled to him "you want to battle?" of course he replied
with an
affirmative.
We went into the battle arena and set the rules, 1 pokemon each, loser
pays
$1,000 to the winner. I thought I'd win for sure if he send out who I
thought he
would.
"Go, Sandshrew!" I yelled as I threw the ball to the ground.
"Okay then, go Pikachu!" Ash yelled, I had to contain my laughter at
his
incompetence, I also saw Misty pretending to hit her head up against a
brick
wall because of Ash's choice.
"Pikachu, Thundershock!" He yelled, Pikachu sent the electricity
towards
Sandshrew which he just shook off, as a dog would do with rain.
"Sandshrew, scratch!" Sandshrew obediently ran up to Pikachu and
started
scratching his stomach.
"Pikachu! Agility!" he yelled as he was watching him get scratched.
"Pika!" It said with a menacing tone
"Sandshrew! Role up into a ball, and try to hit it!" I yelled, a
little worried, that I
might just lose. Sandshrew rolled into a ball and sped into, Pikachu
with such
force, that it was sent flying against the wall.
"Cha! PIKA!" It yelled while charging up for a big electricity blast.
"STOP!" A voice cried out, it was Nurse Joy's, "I don't want the
center to be
blown up again!" Ash had to call Pikachu back!
"Cha, chu pi pi," It said sadly; Sandshrew just ran up and jumped into
my arms.
I had just won my first pokemon battle ever.
"I don't get it? Why didn't I win? I always win! I've even got 7
badges," he went
on whining, crying and being a sore loser, when Misty came up.
"I'll tell you the reason you lost. You've got know knowledge
what-so-ever
about pokemon weaknesses and strengths. He wouldn't have stood a chance
if
you had used Squirtle. Plus, you've only got 7 badges, because most
gym's just
give the badge to you the only ones you've fought and actually beat were
Koga, Blaine, and Lt. Surge."
After Misty had gotten through lecturing Ash about his incompetence,
he
handed the money over and stormed out of there. I wanted to stick around
and watch him go after the eighth badge and see how badly he lost, but I
really wanted to get moving and get my first badge. So I healed my
pokemon,
just in case, and headed off towards Viridian Forest.
END OF CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER4
As I headed for Viridian Forest, I saw the pokemart. Since I didn't
have any
potions or antidotes I stepped in and bought 5 of each.
I got toViridan Forest and didn't even spot any pokemon on Route 2.
After
exploring Viridian Forest for a few hours, I still hadn't even seen any
pokemon
yet. I sat down to lunch with my spirits lowering. Then decided to let
my
pokemon out so they could stretch and eat lunch too. As I was about to
bite into
a leftover sandwhich from the night before, someone came up and startled
me.
"Hey! You have pokemon, want to battle?" the kid said. I turned around
and
saw a boy about my heigth with blonde hair.
"Sure,"I replied, we set out for a clearing not too far from the place
my
pokemon were at. I had taken Squirtle with me. Along the way I found a
pokeball that felt like it had something in it, I just shrugged and set
it down
when we got to the clearing.
"Hey, what's that thing?" the kid asked me.
"Just a pokeball I found along the way," Then an idea struck me, "how
about
the winner gets it and 200 dollars."
"Sounds good to me."
We set the rules, which were one pokemon each and no revives or
potions.
"Bulbasaur, Go!" he yelled. I immediatly knew I was in trouble because
water
was weak to grass. But since I hadn't brought the others I had to choose
Squirtle.
"Squirtle go!" I yelled,then told him to tackle Bulbasaur which did
about a
quarter of damage.
"Bulbasaur, tackle. Then use leech seed while hes stunned!" the
trainer yelled.
Bulbasaur obediently did as he was told. After tackling Squirtle he spit
three
seeds on to Squirtle out of the bulb on his back.
"Shake it off, and use tailwhip on him!" I yelled out of desperation.
Squirtle
tried but was weak from being hit for the first time, so it failed. Then
one of the
seeds glowed and went back to Bulbasaur, fainting Squirtle.
"Squirtle,return."I said glumly. I started giving him the money but he
said it
was okay, and he'd let me keep the money if I let him come with me on my
journey. I reluctantly agreed because I thought it would cause fights
about the
wild pokemon we saw. We decided that if I saw one first I would get it,
and vice
versa. If we both see it it's whoever can get it caught first.
"Well, I guess you need to know my name, I'm Alex."
"Oh yeah, I'm T.C. Actually I'm Thomas but that's what people call
me."
"Okay, then T.C. I guess--" he was interrupted right there by
Growlithe barking
to let me know something was wrong. We started running back as fast as
possible only to see a rattata trying to get my food. As soon as it saw
us it ran
into the woods.
"Aw man! I wanted one of those."
"Don't worry, your not missing out on anything. I've got one and
they're not
that good."
At that moment we heard some squeals and chirps. We started looking
around trying to find the source of the noise. My eyes fell upon some
rustling
bushes and out popped a weedle and a spearow. It looked like the spearow
was
trying to get some lunch too. just from that weedle. I couldn't let him
suffer like
that because he already looked pretty beat up already. And the Spearow
would
have him in a matter of minutes.
"Pokeball, go!" I yelled. Weedle saw the ball coming and hesitated
because it
didn't want to be captured, or even dinner. The hesitation was all I
needed
because the ball hit weedle without him trying to dodge. And without a
shake
the center immediately had turned white, I guess he thought it would be
safer
in there.
The spearow, now angry from losing its pray, shrieked and started
coming
after us. I called my pokemon back as soon as he headed towards us,
because
one of my training books mentioned that wild pokemon might get jealous
of
trained ones.
"Duck!" I yelled as he was swooping for an attack run.
"No not duck, spearow," Alex yelled back. I had to admire him for
keeping his
sense of humor in this situation. After several minutes and attack runs
I decided
that it needed to stop.
"Squirtle, go!" I yelled, then realized my mistake.
"Here, this might help just a little!" Alex yelled while throwing a
Max. Revive at
Squirtle. He jumped with a start and saw the spearow about to dive bomb
him.
"Squirtle, use tail whip when he gets clost to the ground!"
"Squitle, Squirt." he responded. and obediently did as I said. Spearow
went
spiraling towards a tree now. When he hit it he fell down out cold. I
then threw
another pokeball.
Shake-Shake-Shake-Ding!
"Yes, I caught Spearow!" I exclaimed with delight.
"You did pretty good back there T.C."
"Yeah, I guess I did. But without that Max. Revive of yours it
wouldn't have
happened."
I then started to call Squirtle back when I saw him just looking up
into space. I
asked my pokedex what was going on.
Squirtle has just grown to level 8 and is learning the water type
move
bubble my pokedex said with a monotonous tone. When he was done
learning it he tested the move. All these water bubbles shot out of his
mouth
going pretty fast. They looked pretty cool so I decided to try to touch
one. When
I did the force of the pop blew back against a tree about an arms length
away.
"Woah, those are pretty powerful bubbles." Alex commented.
After eating our lunch, we packed back up and set out for some more
exploring of Viridian Forest. With no luck at all for the rest of the
day we
camped out at night and talked for awhile before we decided to go to
sleep.
We had just woken up and eaten breakfast, when we decided to get out
of
the forest and get our first badge in pewter. On our way over to Pewter
we ran
into a caterpie, since I already had a weedle I let Alex go for him. He
threw the
pokeball he got from our battle and out popped a.....
CHAPTER 5
Charmander!
"Char, Char!" The little fire lizard said with delight.
"Wow! A Charmander! I always wanted one, but I had to pick bulbasaur
and
because he was last, and I was last..." Alex kept rambling on about
Charmander
when I realized why he had gotten Charmander out in the first place.
"Alex! The caterpie! It's getting away!" I yelled
"Huh? What caterpie? Oh, that one! Charmander, scratch attack!" He
yelled
Charmander got down on all fours and ran up to the green bug as fast as
possible. He then threw his claws into it's skin.
"Eroo!" It yelled in pain, and started wiggling all over the ground..
It was the
perfect time to throw the ball, so Alex did.
Shake-Ding!
"Woah, didn't put up much of a fight," I said. to Alex, or so I
thought. He hadn't
heard me, he was down on the ground playing with his Charmander. So I
picked up the his pokeball.
"Charmander, return!" I said, just as a red beam of light shot out of
the ball
"Hey! What you do that for? I was playing with him!" Alex said with a
hint of
anger.
"So we could get moving. I want my first badge and my Spearow and
Weedle
to heal. You should with Caterpie too. he looked like he got hurt pretty
bad." So
we walked into Pewter City, and dropped off Weedle, Spearow, and
Caterpie at
the center.
"So, you know anything about this new Gym leader?"Alex asked. He had
run
into Ash also, but lost.
"Nothing much, except he trains rock pokemon too."
"So my Bulbasaur and your Squirtle should do fine then," When we got
to the
gym, it looked like it was closed. The lights were out and it was pitch
black.
"Ouch!" Alex yelled as I stepped on his toes "I wonder if anybody's
here?"
"Halt! Who goes there and what is your purpose!" A menacing voice said
over
a speaker system.
"Thomas Hawke, and my friend Alex! We have come here to challenge you"
I
yelled back, trying to sound brave and hide my nervousness. Then all of
a
sudden the lights came on. They were so bright that for the first 30
seconds I
had gone temporarilly blind. When my vision came back I saw a man in his
mid-forties standing right in front of me, holding two pokeballs.
"I only have two with pokemon with me. So that means one of you at a
time.
How about you go first Thomas, and my name is Flint by the way," The man
said
in a softer tone. It didn't sound at all like the voice over the
speaker.
"I know what your thinking," Flint said with a laugh, "Your wondering
about
the speaker system. My son had it when he was leader. I'm not a mechanic
so I
don't know how to get rid of it, so it's always been there." He said as
he led us to
the arena where he stopped us at one side and went to the other.
"Okay, well come on let's fight. Squirtle! Go!" I said as I threw the
ball.
"Well then smart choice with a water pokemon, Thomas. I guess I'll
have to use
my strongest on you. Onix! Go!" Flint yelled while throwing a
blue-and-white
ball. Which I recongnized as a Great Ball.
"Squirtle, get the first one in! Bubble!" I told him. He started
blowing those very
dangerous bubbles. Several dozen hit Onix's body, since it isn't to hard
to miss.
"Come on Onix, stay with it! Try tackling the squirtle, that should
faint it," Flint
said calmly, I never have understood how people can do that. Onix began
rising as high as the roof would let it. Then it started coming down
towards the
ground.
"Squirtle, get out of the way, Now!" I yelled like a maniac. Which it
did
obediently, Squirtle had barely gotten out of the way when Onix hit the
ground.
"Onix try binding it!" Flint yelled, Onix just kind of layed there.
"I think the hitting the ground like that ended up fainting him," I
said to Flint.
"I guess your right, Onix! return!" Flint said, "Now your turn Alex.."
Their fight ended quickly too. Geodude fainted with after a seed from
Leech
Seed returned, and a tackle.
"That was a good fight you two. Here take these," Flint said while
handing me
and Alex the Boulder Badge, and a small computer device, like a pokedex
design, and a piece of paper that looked like a list, "It's a TM, it
contains Bide.
Learn about it on this TM list."
We took the gifts and left to go pick up our pokemon. When we got to
the
pokecenter it did't look like Nurse Joy was very happy
"Which of you two owns the Weedle and Spearow?" She asked demandingly
"I do! What's wrong?" I asked
"You are a very irresponsible trainer! You shouldn't have battled your
Weedle
'til it got this bad, and you don't need to throw rocks at pokemon to
weaken
them either!" She yelled in an outrage at me, even though I don't know
what
she was talking about. So I asked, which wasn't such a great idea.
"Playing innocent then? How do you explain this then?" She asked a
little bit
calmer, as she showed me a picture of a scar on top of Spearows head,
that
looked like he had been hit with a rock.
"I don't know, " I said, then preceeded to tell her the story. She
didn't believe
that either and went into a speach about pokemon caring, battling, and
stuff
like that. When she had her back turned Alex grabbed our pokeballs, and
we
snuck out silently. We were getting hungry so we decided to go get
lunch, and
find a room at a hotel where away from the Pokemon Center.
END OF CHAPTER 5