The look on Valerie's face was priceless. She stood there for two minutes in shock of what had just happened. By now the Goldeen had flopped itself back into the stream, and swam out of sight. Valerie slowly turned to me and Rodney and asked, "Was that the only Pokeball you guys had?" Rodney and I both slowly nodded our heads, slightly disappointed and slightly amused at the scene we watched before us.
We made it out of the cave in one piece (except for Valerie's attitude), and continued on into the small grouping of houses known as New Bark town. They were all fairly small houses, only looking as if they could hold two or three people at most. The town was rather sleepy at the moment, probably because all of the junior trainers had left. There was not much going on here, so we kept walking until we got to Cherrygrove City. This was a much livelier town. We stocked up on supplies, but as we were walking out of the Poke Mart, my side bag started wiggling. My egg was hatching. I alerted Rodney and Valerie and we went to the Pokemon center immediately.
I placed the egg on a table in the Pokemon center and watched it jiggle around. This was so exciting. Finally, a crack formed on the side of the egg, and a pink pompom of a tail burst out. "Nya-nya." The rest of the egg shell came off in a quick mini explosion, and a pink kitten now sat on the table. Once again, I pulled out my Pokedex.
"Skitty: The Kitten Pokemon. Skitty are very easy to distract. They will chase their tails when they get bored, and can take very long naps when they get tired."
"It's so CUTE!" squealed Valerie. "Can I have it?"
"No, you just caught a Pokemon. This is my Skitty. Besides, you already have more Pokemon than Rodney and I have combined." Valerie quickly realized this fact, and went silent.
"So Lina, what are you going to name it?"
"I have no clue Rodney." I didn't think about naming it. Before I could, the newly born Skitty walked, more like wobbled, across the table, towards me, inspected my face, and gave me a lick on the cheek. Valerie was right, it WAS so cute (by the way, haven't you noticed that when Pokemon hatch out of their eggs they are born with Pokeballs? Weird). I then sent out Juniper, since I thought it fitting that my other Pokemon meets my newest one.
Juniper stared at Skitty, walked a 360 around it, and then gave a squeak of acceptance, as if to say "Hello, Skitty. You are my new best friend." Skitty liked this new partnership too, but then it started to sniff the air. It looked around the room, and ran out the front door, like it was chasing something. What was up with Skitty?
We followed Skitty and ended up in a large forest. A singular path ran down the center of a grouping of trees. Skitty finally stopped and batted her paw in the air.
"Skitty, there isn't anything there. See?" I picked up a stone and threw it at the spot where Skitty was playing. Instead of falling to the ground, it hit something and bounced off of it. Whatever I hit must have been knocked out, because I heard a thud not too long after. A shape dissolved into thin air at the spot. It resembled a green lizard, with a red stripe circling its torso. The creature's tongue lolled out of its mouth and lay limp on the ground. Rodney rushed over to it and picked it up. "We need to get back to the Pokemon center, now!"
It took ten minutes or so for Nurse Joy to come back from the treatment room. "It will be fine," she said. "It just needs to rest up a bit."
"I'm sorry, but what exactly is 'it'?" I needed to know what the victim of my ruthless actions was.
Joy smiled. "Maybe you should go back there and find out yourself." Valerie and I walked into the room where the mystery Pokemon was laying on a hospital bed, Rodney at its bedside. He had a look of worry on his face. I took out my Pokedex.
"Kecleon: The Color Swap Pokemon. Kecleon has special nerves in its body that allow it to change color, or even turn invisible." This Kecleon sounded cool.
Just then, a Pokeball on Valerie's belt opened and the Slowpoke came out. "What is that Slowpoke doing here?"
"Maybe it wants to be with its new trainer," I said in a suggestive manner, which really ticked her off. "Stop it! It isn't funny. I did not purposefully catch this thing. I don't even want it!" Slowpoke looked at Valerie and started to walk towards her. It then decided to latch itself onto her leg and stay there. "EW! Get this thing off of me!" Slowpoke didn't budge. "Let go of my leg you Slowpoke." Slowpoke still didn't move. "Did you hear me? I am your trainer, and I order you to get off of my leg." Slowly and reluctantly, the Slowpoke let go her Valerie's leg, a look of depression went across its face. "Yeah that's right, you worthless piece of…"
"Be quiet Valerie, you're going to wake up the Kecleon." Rodney was harsh in his tone, and wanted the Kecleon to be as comfortable as possible.
"Rodney, if that Kecleon doesn't wake up, it might go into a coma. Do you really want that?" Valerie shouted, forgetting about Slowpoke for a moment and focusing on the limp body that lay in the bed. Slowpoke crawled up the bed frame and onto the bed. It slowly lurched toward the Kecleon and stared at it. It stared at it for a long time……….a LONG time.
Then Slowpoke fell asleep. That Slowpoke was hopeless.
Skitty then jumped up on the bed and started slapping Kecleon in the face. I am pretty sure that my Skitty just used the move 'Wake-Up Slap'. Kecleon was startled at its rude awakening and jumped off of the bed and into Rodney's arms. It looked up into Rodney's eyes, and pressed its head against his chest. I do believe that Rodney has a new Pokemon friend. Rodney pulled out a Pokeball from his bag, and tapped it against Kecleon's head. It went inside and the Pokeball made that satisfactory 'click'. Kecleon, welcome to the party.
