AHHH! MILKY SAID HI TO ME! And so did Noel. He slicked up his hair into spikes, and now I'm convinced that he looks like his OC. Except he needs to dye his hair red.
Disclaimer: Don't ownz Pokemon. And I say z's should replace s's.
Enjoy the kinda filler chap! Oh, AND HAS ANYONE SEEN THE NEW POKEMON! I call dibs on the water type. YEAH
Amethyst and Carmine presents…
Episode 7
Green, Gentle, and Mental
"DAY 3. I've decided to keep a log of my adventures since I'm REALLY lazy and don't feel like keeping a calendar on me. This morning we took a speed boat to Jubilife, and claimed our cart back. Now we're on Route 204 (I think) to Floaroma Town! YAY! It's almost time for lunch and I'm REALLY glad our storage unit has a cooler. Now I can store lunch meat. And CHEESE! YEEESS CHEEEESSSEEEE!"
"What are you doing?"
"Ahem, as I was writing, my Pokémon so far are Emporor the Piplup, Emp for short since my stamina capacity is low on letters. He's REALLY feisty I think, and he worked REALLY HARD on our gym battle yesterday! YAY FOR HIM! Urf. I need to stop capitalizing. It's getting cliché and cheerleader-ish.
"I also have a Shinx named Shina! Clever huh? Oh, we're stopping now. TIME FOR SANDWHIIIICH!"
Noel read over Kara's shoulder, "Sandwich obsessed, are we?"
"Snoop!" She cried out, closing the new notebook she bought in Jubilife. She looked around the clearing, and tucked the notebook into the glove compartment. "How far from Floaroma are we?"
"We have about a two hour drive left and we should be there." He answered, consulting the map on his PokeGear.
"Bathroom break?" She asked him with a lift of her eyebrows.
"You knows it!" He said, and dropped a pokeball into her hand, then ran into the forest to pee.
She dropped the pokeball onto the dashboard, along with her other ones. Her eyes narrowed towards the ground and she pocketed her hands, then began to walk slowly towards anywhere.
I still can't believe Edgar won and I lost…how is it like that? She wondered as her eyes glued to the path, I had way better grades then him in Strategy Class and Types Class! And History Class! Granted I copied out of the book most of the time…URG! Maybe…maybe I wasn't cut out to fight. I mean, sure, Emp and Shina are kinda good with it, but…Hm. Maybe contests would be good too…wait—where am I?
She looked up, her surroundings unfamiliar. She was at a pond, lily pads were scattered over the surface and the Pokémon that were swimming around it ran at the sight of her. It began to get hot and the first thing she did was strip herself of the heavy hoodie. "I'm sure I went in a straight line." She thought out loud, "But I don't want to be wrong and end up lost even more…"
She smacked herself and smiled, "PokeGear! Duh!" she reached for the black and white device on her bag, but a random Starly picked it up and flew to a tree. She chased it and glared at it from below. "Give that back!" She yelled, jumping to reach the bird to no avail. It began to dig its beak into the PokeGear, pressing buttons. "No no don't do that!" She said, knowing it would break under the pressure. She stepped closer and it was close to breaking it. She stepped back and the crushing noise stopped. She continued to step back till she was at the pond, and then the Starly dropped the PokeGear in its nest.
"Darn it…" She muttered, "How am I gonna get up there?" She looked to the ground and found several pebbles. She picked one up and threw it at the Starly, but it hardly made it up there and hit the branch. I better just practice then…I can't throw to save my life. She picked up another pebble and threw it as high as she could. It only went up three feet before dropping to the ground.
"Wait…every time I get in a jam, isn't there always someone there to save me?" She thought out loud, she then peered around the area, "Man, they're pretty good at hiding." But I shouldn't rely on that for petty things…I'm on my own. She huffed and picked up a bigger rock, then chucked it into the pond. Water sprayed in every direction and several lily pads began to move. One particular one kept moving, and it seemed more solid than the other flat ones.
Then the rest of it rose to the surface.
"What. Is. That." Kara found herself saying for some reason.
It was a cross between a duck and a plant. It had a saucer type lily pad on top of its head, it was mainly blue with a large yellow nose that looked like a mustache, and it had six legs.
"Lotad!" It cried out, blowing bubbles at her. They popped before they could reach her.
"Lotad?" She repeated what the weird water bug was saying, then pulled out her pokedex. "Lotad, the Water Weed Pokémon. It looks like an aquatic plant and serves as a ferry for Pokémon that can't swim." Announced the pokedex, she pressed a different button, "Rarity: Uncommon with the Sapphire cartridge inserted into DS." "Wait—huh?" "Moves: Astonish, Absorb, Mist, and Nature Power."
"Ooooh I want a Lotad!" She said, smiling while pocketing her pokedex, and pulled out a regular red pokeball. The Lotad dived under the water, and she scowled, putting down her anticipated arm. "Do I have to climb in there and get you?" She said threateningly, bubbles rose to the surface and she rolled her eyes. "Fine! Have it your way!"
"Back!" Noel called from his bathroom break in the forest. It was silent, and he checked the golf cart to see if it was his. It was. Then he found three pokeballs on the dashboard and released all the pokemon from it, and out popped Hound, Emp, and Shina. "Where's Kara?" He asked, giving them looks.
"(Dunno! She dropped us on the dashboard and left!)" Barked Hound,
"(Yeah!)" Shina agreed, nodding her head eagerly.
Noel just stared at them. "Uh...I don't speak pokemon. Sorry..." He laughed uneasily while the pokemon began to glare at him, "What? I don't have enough money for those wrist watch translators! They're like...5000 at most."
Hound snorted, and his trainer shot him a glare. The devil dog climbed up to his trainer and pawed his stomach, then found what he was looking for; the PokeGear. Hound carried it in his mouth and dropped it on the floor, then Emp began to press buttons. Noel just watched them, confused.
"(What?)" answered the call; a brownish colored bird with an angry face. "(I'm trying to sleep!)" It screamed, he picked up the device and said, "Kara? Hey Kara, did you catch a Starly? Those things are useless until they're Staraptors..." The screen began to get pecked.
"(Ooh, I got an idea!)" Shina cried out as she figured it out, she turned to Hound, "(Hound, you can sniff her out!)"
He scoffed, "(What do I look like, a blood hound?)"
"(Yeah)" Emp and Shina chorused. The devil dog sighed and swatted the PokeGear out of Noel's hand so he could stop arguing with a pessimistic bird, then hung up and left it on the ground.
"What was that foooor?" Noel whined, "I woulda won that argument hands down!"
The dog rolled its eyes and scrambled into the truck, and stuck its nose in the bag where Kara's old clothes were sitting. After getting a good enough scent he began to search the ground, his eyes brightening when his nose hit something familiar. "(I found her!)" he barked, "(Follow me!)" He ran off, followed by the other small pokemon.
Noel just watched them go off, clueless. "Wait, where are we going? I thought we were looking for Kara!" He cried out, then picked his PokeGear off the ground, tossed Barren's pokeball out, told him to watch the cart, and followed their tail.
After stripping herself of everything but her shirt and undergarments, Kara jumped into the pond, confused why it was so warm. She shook her head, not wanting to know, and began to swim to the middle, where it was surprisingly deep. With the pokeball between her teeth, she paddled towards Lotad, who spotted her and began to swim away. The chase was on, and she wasn't going to lose.
"Geh bah he!" She screeched with the ball in her mouth, making sure she didn't accidentally swallow it.
"Lotad!" laughed the floating lily pad.
"AHA!" She jumped it, knocking Lotad underwater. She got a good grip of its head and with one hand, took the ball out of her teeth and enlargened it, then poked Lotad, where it disappeared into ball.
"Shuppet!" screeched a pokemon above her, and blasted a black blob at her. She dove under and barely escaped the Shadow Ball, but while doing that, the pokeball slipped from her grasped just as it locked. She rose to the surface and cursed under her breath, then screamed as another Shadow Ball came at her.
It's the same Shuppet from Lake Verity! Wait...why didn't I see Mesprit then? I was in the same Lake...while pondering this, the rouge Shuppet, without its possy, shot another Shadow Ball at her, and it hit, knocking her under water. It laughed and waited for her to resurface, and when she did, she had Lotad's pokeball in her hand. She released her new Lotad, which blinked obliviously at its new trainer.
"Swim me to the edge! And hurry! That Shuppet Puppet is trying to kill me!" Kara wailed, holding on to its lily pad head. Lotad nodded and swam like a speed boat to the edge, dodging Shadow Balls and flinging her passenger around like a rag doll.
The Shuppet started to laugh as it got closer.
"It's too fast and this pond is to darn long!" Kara muttered while riding, "What were the moves of this Lotad? Nature attack? Power of Nature?" She shook her head, then ducked as another Shadow Ball headed their way, "Oh yeah! Lotad, use Nature Power! Quick!"
Lotad span around, then gave off a faint white glow before the glow gathered to its mouth, where it turned to Hydro Pump. The torrent of water struck it home, shooting the floating puppet far into the forest. Kara let out a sigh of relief and smiled at her Lotad, "Wow, that was cool! You know, I'm not liking "Lotad" as much as I like the nickname I just thought up for you. Wanna know what it is?" she asked as they reached the edge. Lotad nodded.
"Lale!" She chirped, "Isn't it great?"
Lale turned her head to the side in confusion before nodding.
"Yay!" Then Kara blinked, and checked her hands. "Oh da—I mean urf! I dropped your pokeball in the pond." Lale rolled her eyes before going back into the water to search. Kara turned to where her pile of clothes was at and her jaw dropped. "What the…What the heck happened to my clothes?" Everything but her hoodie and shoes were clawed and ripped through.
"(She's over here!)" barked a pokemon from the bushes,
"Is she over here?" It was Noel, also behind the bushes. She squatted under the water and hid her…exposed skin. Hound came from the bushes, looked at her, blushed, and turned its head. His trainer emerged from the bushes, along with Shina and Emp. "Oh hey—" He blushed when he saw the "situation".
"You guys better turn around and bring the cart with my extra pants or get a head full of Emp's Shadow Claw!" Kara threatened as they tried to steal glances. Lale returned with her pokeball resting on her lily pad, and watched the scene with a confused face. "And when you get that, get my PokeGear back from that lunatic bird!"
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Current Pokemon:
Kara
Emp - Piplup
Shina - Shinx
Lale - Lotad
Noel
See previous chapters
(Barren is a Blastoise, if anyone forgot)
