I'm going on vacation, so I wrote this wrather long chapter to make up for it.
Chapter Eight:
Mark of a hero!
To David, the tower at first seemed altitudinous, but in actuality, it was not to big.
Note:
altitudinous meens "indefinitely high"
The reason it seemed like this is because he hadn't seen many towers in his life.
He had taken a field trip to Lavender town when he was 6, but it had been a long time since then.
"Bellsprout, Bellsprout!"
A Pok mon jumped at them soon after they had intered the tower.
"I would remember this Pok mon anywhere" said David, "My best friend, and a big rival, named Joeseph got one for his Pok mon trainers school partner."
"I know how to battle it, too" David continued.
"It looks pretty cool" said Rose.
"I'm gonna catch it!" she yelled with_determination in her voice.
"Go Munna!" she said.
"Bell bel l l l l sprout."
The Munna appeared, and the Bellsprout gathered itself ready for a fight.
"Bellssprooouuuuu!"
Bellsprout lonched a powerful Razor Leaf at Munna.
"Munna, use psybeam!" Rose said, sounding a little bit Worried.
Suddenly, an earsplitting clap of thunder rumbled in the sky, letting them no that the expected thunderstormwas here.
"BELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!"
The bellsprout ran away, and out of site.
"Damn it!" Rose swore, "I might have caught that Pok mon!"
She was odviously stressed.
"It's my turn to be looking at the Pok dex now" Rose said.
"Bellsprout, the Flower Pok mon."
"Even though its body is extremely skinny, it is blindingly fast when catching its prey."
"It odviously runs like that when scared too!" she said exasperated.
"It's not the end of the world, I'm sure there's more where that came from" said David optimistically.
There was some walking, then a trainer who came here to train challenged David to a battle.
"I'll go on wile you battle him" said Rose, "Theres no sense in wating arround."
"We'll meat up at the Pok mon center in 4 hours k?" she asked.
"Yeah ok" David answered.
"Now, let us battle!" the man who challenged him to a battle said.
His name was Mark.
"Go Hoothoot!" Mark said.
"Go Mareep!" yelled David.
The Pok mon came out, and began to look at they're apposers.
He pulled out his Pok dex, and looked up Hoothoot.
"Hoothoot, the Owl Pok mon."
"It always stands on one foot. It changes feet so fast, the movement can rarely be seen."
The machine blinked, and desplayed some more data.
"It marks time precisely. Some countries consider it to be a wise friend, versed in the world s ways."
"Hmm!" David thought, "That there is an amazing Pok mon!"
"Hold the battle" David said, "would you be willing to trade that Hoothoot?" David asked.
David had an emence love for Flying Pok mon, ever since trainers school where he aquired a Pidgey as a learning partner.
"Hm?" Mark asked.
He then continued, not wating for a response.
"There happens to be one Pok mon I'm trading for."
"Who?" questioned David.
"A Pok mon called Gastly" Mark answered.
"Al right see yah!" David said rapidly, running ferther in the tower.
"Wha? what about our battle?" Mark asked, but David had already ran out of earshot.
Mark noticed 2 Pok balls, one empty, and one containing a Nidoran.
"These must have been David's Pok mon" Mark thought.
"Return Mareep" Mark said.
The Pok mon did as he said, much to his surprise.
...
"YIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" David yelled in horror.
2 gastly, and 3 rattata cornered him.
He had just reached for Nidoran's Pok ball, but realizing the horible truth.
"I left my Pok mon with MARK!"
"yIIIIIIIIII!" he yelled again.
"Go Pok ball!" He said in desparation, not caring who it hit, just wanting to catch it so he could escape with his life.
It hit a Gastly.
The Gastly odviously wasn't expecting this move, and was unprepared to escape.
It clicked completely shut, under the ownership of David Grey.
"Go Gastly!" he said.
"Gaaaaastlyyy."
"Use you're umm" David thought, "What are Gastly's attacks!"
"Oh yeah, I know, use your lick attack!" David told Gastly.
Gastly didn't know who to aim for, but he did know that Lick would do 0 damage to a Rattata, but a lot to a Gastly, so he attacked the other Gastly.
The lick attack hit him, and he became paralized.
"Good job gastly" David congradulated.
"Finish it off with another Lick attack!" said David.
The Gastly, unable to move, was hit with lick, and fell unconcious.
"Now, we've gotta get out of here!" yelled David, "Return!"
He returned gastly, and jumped over Rattata.
He landed on the other side, and bolted down the Tower.
...
"Who are you?" asked Mark.
He was cornered by Lio.
Lio had figured out that Mark had David's Pok mon, because he overheard Mark trying to haller for David.
'I uhh..." Mark said.
He really didn't know what to say.
Lio stretched out a hand, and smacked Mark in the face.
Mark's head hit the wall, and he automatically reached up to feal for any damage.
Lio stull the 2 Pok balls, disregarding the others.
"See yah around then" Lio snickered and ran out of the tower.
Mark quickly got to his feet, and chased the man.
Go Sanshrew!" he said, throwing one of his Pok balls.
"Sanshrew, use poison sting!" he told Sanshrew.
The Pok mon obeyed, and shot the Poison at Lio.
"What the hell?" he exclamed falling to his nees.
"Sanshrew, use Furyswipes!" Mark said.
"No wait!" Lio cried out, "You can have the Pok balls."
Lio threw the Pok balls up in the air, and Mark tried to catch them.
However, Lio got quickly up, and ran off.
"Damn you Lio!" cursed Mark.
He did manage to catch the Pok balls, though.
He ran back in to the tower to find David.
"Now, go Pok ball!"
Shake, shake, more shaking, more shaking, ... ... click!
"I caught Bellsprout!" Said Rose in triomph.
She had been looking for one all day, and just now found one.
She looked at her Pok dex, which said the time was 5:37 P.M.
"Oh!" she exclamed, "I'm 7 minutes late to go see David at the Pok center!"
She ran in to the Pok center at 5:45.
They weren't their.
She wated, and wated.
It was 6:30 when she started to worry.
"I've got to find him!" she said, and with that, left the Pok center.
It was 6:25, and Mark still hadn't found David.
He was walking to the top again to look for him their.
Finally, at 6:42, he found David looking for his Pok mon.
"You've gott em right?" asked David.
"You're Pok mon?" asked Mark teasingly.
"Do you?" David asked again.
"Yes yes" Mark said..
"Well, since we're already up here, why don't we battle the tower master?" asked Mark.
"Tower's master?" asked David.
"He's an elderly man who lives, trains, and aposes at the top of the tower" Mark explaind.
"Hmmmm!" David said, "sounds challenging!"
"I'll do it!" David said.
They finished the treck up the tower, and entered the topmost floor.
An elderly man with graying hair was setting, stroking his Bellsprout.
"So, you are more challengers?" asked the elder in a raspy voice.
"Well, he is" said Mark pointing at David, "I personally am training to become a Pok mon PROF."
"You're training to be a Pok mon PROF.?" both David and the elder said in unisin.
"Yes" was Mark's only reply.
"There you are David!" said a odviously inraged Rose.
"I've been looking for you forever!" she yelled, "Why didn't you show up at the Pok mon center like we agreed!"
"I- uh- I lost my Pok mon, then I had to go find Mark" said David.
"Who the hell is Mark" she questioned.
"Him" David said, pointing at Mark.
(Now, I will discribe Mark)
He is a tall 17 year old man.
He ware's bluejeans, with a swetshurt.
His hair is cut short, and he wares glasses.
"Oh" said Rose, beginning to calm down.
"Sheesh" thought David.
"Now we must begin our battle" the elder said.
"Go Hoothoot!"
"Hoothoot again!" David said, remembering the agreement he had with Mark.
"Go Nidoran!" David said.
"Hoothoot, confusion!" the elder said.
"Nidoran, fall backwards!" Yelled David.
It didn't work.
On the contrary, it seemed to have done more damage.
"Nidoran, hornattack!" David said.
"Hoothoot, peck!" the elder comanded, with impressive reaction speed for his age.
The hornattack landed it's mark.
However, Peck did it's part of hurting Nidoran.
"Hoothoot, finish it with Tackle" The elder said.
"hooooooo!"
"Nidoran, Tackle!" said David, trying to react fast.
The Tackles colided, and Nidoran was the victor.
"Hoothoot, return" the elder said.
"Go Abra!" the elder said.
"Nidoran hornattack" said David.
"Abra, Teleport" the elder comanded.
The Pok mon complied, and teleported out of Nidoran's way.
Nidoran came crashing in to the wall, and fainted.
"Holdon a sec" said David.
He walked over to Mark and said:
"Can we trade now?"
"Of corse" said Mark.
They traded Pok balls, Mark now with Gastly, and David now with Hoothoot.
"Go Hoothoot!" said David excitedly.
"OK hoothoot, use forsight!" David comanded, "Then use you're gust attack!"
The elder knew it would be pointless trying to teleport away, so he told Abra to use reflect.
This would have worked, however, the Gust was lonched and hit Abra first.
"Abra!" yelled the elder.
"Come on, use Psybeam!" the elder told Abra.
"Hoothoot, use confusion!" David said.
The 2 psychic attacks hit they're target, and both Pok mon fell.
"Return" they both said.
"Go Mareep!" said David.
"Go Bellsprout!" said the elder.
"Thunderwave!" David told Mareep.
"Bellsprout, dodge, and use vinewhip!" the elder countered.
Bellsprout easily dodged, and vinewhiped Mareep.
The side effect from this was that Bellsprout became Paralized, so dodging the Thunderwave was completely pointless.
"Bellsprout, use acid!" the elder said.
"Mareep, thundershock" David said.
The acid hit mareep, and the Thundershock hit Bellsprout, but they were both ready for more.
"Mareep Tackle!" David said.
"Bellsprout, Razorleaf!" said the elder.
Mareep was knocked off balance from the attack, and fell over fainted.
"Looks like I won" said the tower elder, "You might want to strategize more."
They left the tower, and David asked Rose a question.
"Why didn't you battle the elder of the Sprout Tower?"
"I'm not really a gotta beat em all type" said Rose, "I mean, I was when I met you, but I've realized that battle ends in chaos."
She probably had this attitude because of the death of so many of her family members.
later that night at the Pok center, Mark aproached David.
"Hey David, I was wondering if I could come on you're journey with you?" Mark asked.
"Of corse!" said David happily, "I was personally hoping you'd say that."
The trio slept well that night, knowing they had new friends, and new challenges on the way.
So things don't get confusing, here are the characters matched up with they're respective Pok mon.
David's Pok mon: Nidoran(mail), Mareep, and Hoothoot.
Rose's Pok mon: Munna, Starly, and Bellsprout.
Mark's Pok mon: Gastly, Sanshrew, and Bronzor, allthough Bronzor currently hasn't been publically mentioned in a chapter.
Well? How was this one?
I personally like it cause it is how I determined that his friends wouldn't be battling gyms, and how Mark joins the group..
