The wild cat laid in the billowing grass, with the wind whistling high. Meadow flowers bent in the gentle breeze. As the creature loped on the hillside and pounced its imaginary prey, a man was watching, hidden above the animal. He looked through the lense as it played. The man studied it more, waiting for the right moment to fire. Taking aim at the unknowing cat below with the wind stealing his breath, he shot… CLICK… capturing another great photo.
It was a warm sunny day in the middle of July and Ash was on the patio with all of his photography gear and was prepared for a shoot out. He was photographing a rather spirited Meowth as it frolicked around the yard and was capturing some great shots when his son, Will, came running, screaming, with an angry Nidorino in hot pursuit. Will ran in front of the camera, circled back around once more. CRASH! He collided head-on with the precious equipment. The tripod, the camera, the lenses, fell with a sickening clatter. The Meowth hissed and scampered off back into the woods.
"Will, will you please run and scream somewhere else and why are you antagonizing Nidorino? You know that he's supposed to stay in his pokeball. Where's his pokeball?"
"But Dad, we were playing tag. Everything was fine. And it's in my room. Nothing was going to happen," replied Will.
"I don't care where it is anymore. I want to know where you found Nidorino and do you even know what move he was using? He was attacking you with Poison Sting. If you were even pricked with the slightest touch, you would've been poisoned! You realized that I used the last of my antidotes, right?" He said as he pick up the busted camera lenses. "Now I need to go back to the mart and get some more supplies to keep you alive. You're more expensive than the pokemon! Now please put Nidorino back in his pokeball, and back in the PC," ranted Ash in a single breath.
"UUUGGGHHH. You're so boring, dad. You never listen to me!" groaned Will.
Will trudged to his room and pulled the pokeball out of his pillowcase. Nidorino followed him very slowly and allowed himself to be pulled back in the pokeball. He headed to the computer, logged into his dad's PC account and placed Nidorino in. With his spirits dampened, he gradually walked his way down back to the patio. To his surprise his dad had the equipment set back up again and had five different pokeballs resting on the table.
"OK, I will lend you one of these five pokemon to play with while I do my work for the magazine article. You the choice of either an Exeggcute, a Horsea, an Eevee, a Growlithe, or lastly, a… Gastly. So make your choice," said Ash.
"First, can I ask how did you fix the camera and get the pokeballs out so fast? And this such a hard decision! Which one is the strongest? Which one is the coolest? Which one is the fastest? What types are each of them? Can I play with two of them? Which one has the best moves? Umm… I choose Eevee! Yeah, Eevee seems the most perfect out of all of them. I choose Eevee!" responded Will as he grabbed the Luxury ball in his excited hands.
"Wait! One thing that you need to know about Eevee is that you mustn't let her touch any elemental stones. If you let her than she will evolve and she is not ready to be evolved. You need to strengthen her up in battle, but you aren't even going to battle with her anyways, so enjoy yourself with Eevee." said Ash as he corralled his son out the door.
Will dashed off without a goodbye. He cradled the smooth pokeball in his small hands. He was so full of excitement that he didn't care that he was dripping in sweat in the afternoon sun. He was so full of excitement that he didn't even care that his neighbors were saying 'Hello' to him. He was too excited for things to hold him back. He rushed his way to his favorite field, filled to the brim of wildflowers, the blossomy aroma so fresh and sugary that one sip from his nose energized his whole body. Roses, lilacs, tulips, any flower that you could imagine, they were there. The meadow was cut in half by a small little brook with cool liquid that moved with a silent beat and water splashes dancing gleefully.
"Come on out, Eevee!" yelled Will as he threw the pokeball in the air. It fell back into his hands and the pokemon materialized out of it. Eevee pranced around and romped in the flowers.
"Eevee, Eevee!" she chimed happily. Together Will and Eevee played all day. They frolicked around all over the place from the afternoon to sundown. Games of tag, and wrestling and hide'n'seek. Eevee was a great seeker. No matter where Will hid, Eevee always found him. When the sun was just a molten sliver in the sky and was dripping over the horizon, they decided it was time to head back home. As they trekked back to the comfort of their town, the brush began to rustle on the side of the path. They paused and suddenly a tiny plant pokemon tumbled out of the weeds.
"Hey. That's an Oddish!" Will told Eevee. "It's a plant type. My dad told me about this pokemon. He said 'even though they seem really cute and adorable, their leaves are super sharp and can cause major damage.' I wonder if it's wild or not."
The Oddish hopped around on his dainty feet. He twirled about here and there. Suddenly he shot a volley of razor-like leaves at them. Will grabbed Eevee and rolled across the walkway to avoid getting hurt. Oddish shot another wave of leaves at Eevee. Eevee stood entranced looking at the oncoming leaves. "Eevee!" yelled Will. He dove and pushed Eevee into a hollowed ditch on the side of the trail.
"Eevee! You are going to have to fight for me please Eevee! This is your chance to show me how powerful you are. Please do this for me Eevee. I'm trusting you." begged Will. Eevee stared at Will and understood his plea and jumped out of the gully. Oddish was still waiting for them.
"Wait! I don't know your moves! What did dad tell me about that?" Will thought as fast as he could. 'Remember if you don't know your pokemon's moves, just look at them and give your a head a few taps. Nothing like getting the old brain some motivation to think about something for once' said Ash in his memories. "Oh, right!" exclaimed Will as he tapped the side of his head vigorously. Suddenly in his eyesight right above Eevee, glowed an intangible screen of her demographics and the moves that she knows.
"OK! Eevee, Quick Attack!" yelled Will. Eevee glowed a blue hue. She dashed towards Oddish at an unbelievable speed. She dodged another volleys of leaves and Oddish tried to dodge Eevee but wasn't fast enough. He smashed straight into a tree. Oddish got back up. Instead of leaves, he grew long vines out of the ground and attempted to whip Eevee. Eevee was still glowing blue as she began to circle around the Oddish.
"Dodge that Vine Whip! Now use your Sand Attack, Eevee!" commanded Will. As Eevee was running in circles around Oddish, she dug her paws in the dirt and kicked it up. A large donut cloud of dust smothered the Oddish and clogged his senses. Eevee then bursted through the cloud and smashed Oddish against the tree again. With the cloud dispersed, Oddish jumped up, spewing seeds all over the ground, like a sprinkler. Eevee dodged the seeds with ease.
"Now is your chance! Do your Quick Attack now, Eevee!" Eevee glowed a blue and ran at Oddish. Suddenly Eevee tripped and fell flat on her face! Vine loops were growing out of the ground. "Eevee get out of that Leech Seed. It's a trap! Oddish set a snare for you to fall in!" yelled Will helplessly from the side.
Eevee was desperately trying to get out of the continuously writhing vines. Oddish was slowly walking towards Eevee. Eevee managed to get out but was smacked away with a Vine Whip. Oddish repeatedly whipped Eevee with the vines. Eevee sliced the vines to ribbons and ran at the Oddish. Oddish let out a never-ending blast of leaves that seemingly came out of nowhere at Eevee. They just collected up against the trees and in the gulley and the leaves just kept coming until it was waist high to Will. Eevee was engulfed in the wave of leaves and slipped out of sight. Oddish rustled around and poked about curiously, trying to find his opponent. Suddenly the foliage exploded and Will only caught a glimpse of an elongated vine and a blue glow. The leaves fell with a silence, and the sea was calm again. Not a rustle nor a sound could be heard.
"Eevee?" Eevee popped her head out, unscathed. A flock of brown birds flew by and sweeping the ocean of leaves away with a large Whirlwind to reveal a fainted Oddish. Will ran to Eevee and greeted her with a big hug. A twig snapped behind them and they whirled around. There was his dad, Ash.
"That was a good fight!" he remarked. "How do you like my Oddish? I just caught it on the way over for me to pick you up. Also decided to teach a move or two along the way over here." he said with a chuckle as he displayed a spent TM. "It's dinner time and I was also testing you for tomorrow." Winking, he took a Great Ball and retrieved his Oddish. "Let's go home now."
…
Back in the safe vicinity of their home, Ash had laid out a beautiful feast for him and his son. Eevee decided to join the group in chowing down the food. The "chicken" was roasted to perfection. It could be cut with ease and the juices leaked out. The Sinnoh seasoning crusted on the outside and a fresh scent of the Razz Berry zest filled the dining room. There also was a nice summer salad, tossed vegetables fresh from the garden. A Chesto Berry dressing added that nice zing to it. Eevee and Will both haven't eaten all day. They haven't realized it until they sat down that they were both starving to death. Each of them wolfed down three plates of food while Ash was calmly eating his only plate. By the time that they were done eating they were stuffed as a Snorlax.
"OK, about you birthday tomorrow, here is the plan…" Ash, began to say.
"Oh, I already know what's going to happen. I got the mail this morning and I found the letter from Professor Oak. 'So, the plan is to go and travel the whole of the island. First travel up to the Pewter City Museum, then visit Aunt Ashalei in Lavender Town, and take a tour of the S.S Anne. There is a slight chance that we could go to the Safari Game in Fuschia City. We definitely cannot miss the Seafoam Island Exploration. The final touch to this trip is to go to Cinnabar Island's famous Poke Festival! That's that. You better be happy with the plan because it took me like two hours to get all these great deals and find the times to go. Sincerely, Professor Oak.' So yeah. I know the whole schedule." said Will.
"WHAT!? You read my mail and you didn't even tell me that you did!? At least you haven't read my fan mail." replied Ash.
"Sorry, I read that too."
"WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Later that night after the sun went to sleep and all the creatures of the night fell silent, Will stayed up reading an old book that his Aunt Cheshire gave to him. It was a decrepit novel, called 'The Boy and his silver Magikarp'. He had a faded memory of her giving it to him. For it was his fifth birthday, she was just there for a brief moment. Her curled mousy brown hair and her twinkling blue eyes. She handed him this book and said 'Sometimes the biggest treasures are the things that we hold closest to us. The small priceless things. It's a central treasure to all of us and that's what makes us closer together no matter how far away we are'. He wish he knew what the treasure was and he hasn't seen his Aunt Cheshire for a long time to even ask her. He opened the crinkled cream pages and blew off dust that had collected in the creases.
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The Boy and his silver Magikarp
There once was a young boy. His biggest dream in life was to be a pokemon champion. On his 10th birthday his father gave him his first pokemon. A silver Magikarp.
His mother, just before she passed, had given him a stone set. A stone for him and a stone for Magikarp. That's what the mother wanted.
'Win for him' was her last request. The young boy made a vow to do what he was told. He made sure that he upheld the will of his mother.
He began to strenuously train with his pokemon. No matter how hard they trained and no matter how easy the task his Magikarp always failed him. But the boy never gave up hope.
Over the years him and his Magikarp made a nice team. The training was still rough on his Magikarp, but one day he got an invitation to the Indigo League!
He ventured to the Indigo League and started to battle the Elite Four. He lost several of his pokemon to the first trainer, Lorelei.
He managed to scrape by Bruno with a few casualties but still managed to push through the fight.
Sadly, he lost spectacularly to Agatha. His training was all in vain. His first pokemon and trusty companion has once again let him down.
The boy cried for his pokemon and over his defeat, on his fainted silver Magikarp. He remembered the times that he had with Magikarp and the tears kept falling.
The stone that they each held began to glow. His Magikarp suddenly evolved into a Gyarados. He thought it looked different but he didn't care for his friend hadn't let him down.
His pokemon was reborn, new moves, new speed, and new looks. He thrashed the rest of the Elite Four, both Agatha and Lance. He then demolished the Champion.
The boy and his still silver Gyarados were now the Champion of Indio League. His mom smiling down on him.