Attention: this chapter has had minor details edited.
*yawn*... So sleepy. Updating because I dunno if I'll update Thursday or even Wednesday. Classes are starting on Thursday, so I'll probably be lazy... And, I kind of want to update because I need something to distract myself with.
Lindy's POV
After I got dressed, with the same Pokémon look out routine as before, it was breakfast time. Gee, looks like I'll need more. Pokémon sure eat a lot. I thought as I poured the Pokémon food into the three bowls. Once I was done, they all came over to eat, but not as quickly as they did yesterday. I still feel bad about that...
I took out a blueberry muffin and some fruit for myself. Mmh, when I get to town I should buy some bread. That way I can make sandwiches!
After we finished eating, we packed up camp. I wanted to make it out of the forest so I could make it to Pewter today, but I was still up for a few trainer battles, though I doubt they would be awake. A good night's rest seemed to help my Pokémon recover, which relieved me a lot. I was worried they might be worn out because I still want to do a little more training so my gym battle will be a guaranteed victory.
As I walked along the path leading out of Viridian Forest, I saw someone. Oh good! I can ask them how close I am to getting out of the forest! ...Wait!
I jumped behind a tree on the side of the path quickly. I don't know who that is... It might be Gary. Okay, stealth time! I jumped behind tree to tree, getting closer so I could get a better look at the person ahead of me
Almost theeere, I thought as I dove into a bush. The rustle of the leaves and a few snapping branches caused the person to turn around. Crap! Stay still, stay still.
While they were looking back I got a good look at them. It was a guy in a uniform. Blue-green hair that was almost in a bowl cut style; definitely not Gary. I waited for him to turn around and keep going. Just jumping out of the bush and asking for directions would seem rather suspicious. And creepy.
After he was about 40 feet away, I carefully got out of the bush and onto the path. Okay, gotta make this seem believable. I started running on the spot for a minute to get my heart rate going. When he was about 60 feet away I started jogging up to him. "Hey! Excuse me!"
"Huh?" he turned around to see me jogging up to him. At first I thought he was going to run away.
"Excuse me sir!" I panted as I stopped in front of him.
"Yeah?" he asked suspiciously.
"Do you know how much further the path is until it reaches Pewter City?" I asked him, doing my best to be polite and as none-suspicious as possible.
"Oh, Mmmh. I'd say about an hour or so," he told me thoughtfully.
"Really? Only an hour? Great! Thank you," I said smiling.
"Yeah no problem... What are you doing in the forest so early?" he asked me. Oh boy, he probably thinks I'm some sort of stalker.
"Oh, I got lost yesterday so I had to camp out here over night. I thought I was only half way through the forest, but I guess I was closer than I thought!" I laughed.
"Oh, okay. Well I have to get going now, I'm in a hurry. Bye," he said and took off running.
"Oh, okay bye," I said. "Well since I'm so close to the exit... Time for some training!"
I lost count of the amount of wild Pokémon run ins, but I did have two more trainer battle. All I knew was that there seemed to be a lot of Bug type trainers.
"Finally, Pewter City." I said to myself. It looked to be about ten from where the sun was, maybe quarter to ten. "Time to head to the gym."
"How am I supposed to get there... if I don't even know where it is?!" I screamed in frustration after what seemed like hours of wandering around the city. "This bites... I know!"
I opened my bag and took out Beedrills pokéball, "Come on out, Beedrill."
"Drill?" she asked me.
"Beedrill I need you to fly up and look for a PokéMart. They have blue roofs, so it shouldn't be too hard to spot," I instructed her.
"Beedriiiill," she buzzed as she flew up high.
She stayed up there for a minute or two, looking around. "Beee! Beeee!" she buzzed happily, flying back down.
"Found it?" I asked her hopefully.
"Beeeee," she buzzed nodding.
"Can you lead me there?" I requested.
"Drillll," she buzzed. She started flying at a walking pace so I didn't have to run after her.
"Hehe, thanks Beedrill," I said happily, following her as I put my backpack back on.
After a few minutes we reached the PokéMart.
"Finally, thanks so much Beedrill," I said as I patted her on the head.
"Drilllll," she buzzed happily, following me into the PokéMart.
"Gah! It's a Beedrill!" a costumer shrieked.
"Huh? Oh its perfectly fine, sir. This is my Beedrill, she won't hurt you." I said to the middle-aged man.
"Hmph! It better be!" he growled.
Oh I'm so scared. I thought sarcastically as I headed to the checkout counter.
"Excuse me ma'am," I asked the cashier.
"Yes, how may I help you miss?" she asked politely, my voice clearly indicating that I'm a girl.
"I was wondering if you have any guidebooks or maps of Kanto here," I asked.
"Yes we do, follow me," she said as she got out from behind the counter. "Just starting out on your Pokémon journey?"
"Is it that obvious?" I laughed, following her through the aisles.
"Just a bit," she giggled. "Here you are."
"Oh thank you," I said taking the green book from her.
"You're welcome; do you need help finding anything else?" she asked me.
"Yeah actually, do you guys have bread here? Or would I have to find a grocery store?" I asked her.
"Follow me," she said leading me to the next isle. "Here."
"Great thanks," I said, picking up a loaf.
"Is there anything else I can help you with?" she asked.
"No that's all thanks," I said, following her back to the check out.
"That will be $23.99," the cleric said to me as she put the guidebook and bread in a plastic bag. Gee, expensive guidebook. All I can say is it better have everything I need.
"Okay," I said as I took the money out of my change bag. "Here."
"Thank you. Would you like your recite?"
"Sure," I said taking the plastic bag after she had put the recite in.
"Have a nice day!" she said cheerfully.
"Thank you, you too," I said, exiting the store.
"Alright," I said, taking the guide out of the plastic bag. I went to the index then flipped to Pewter City. "Okay... So we're here, and the gym is over there. So I just have to go this way then turn here..."
"Drilll," Beedrill said looking over my shoulder.
"Oooh, I should go to the Pokémon Center first!" I exclaimed. "That way you guys can rest up, and I can pack my bag. I really don't want to carry this extra bag around."
"Drill drill?" Beedrill used one of its needles and took the bag from me.
"Huh? You'll carry it for me?" I asked her.
"Beeee," she said nodding.
"How lucky am I, to have such a nice Pokémon?" I giggled. "Alright lets go to the Pokémon Center!"
I got some weird looks from the other trainers when I walked into the Pokémon Center. I guess people don't normally walk around with a Pokémon like Beedrill. "Excuse me Nurse Joy?" I asked the pinket at the desk.
"Oh hello there," she greeted me. "How may I help you?"
"I was wondering if you could heal my Pokémon," I asked her, as I took my pokéballs out. "None of them are really injured. They just had a few battles."
"Of course, I'll just take your Pokémon for a while," she said, taking my pokéballs from me.
"Okay Beedrill," I said taking the bag from her. "Into your pokéball."
"Drillll," she said, as she disappeared with a red flash of light.
"And here," I said to Nurse Joy, handing her Beedrill's pokéball.
"Thank you, please come by again later for them," she said heading into the back.
"Will do," I said, heading over to the lounge to pack my bag. There weren't too many people since it 11:23. I sat down on a couch near the back, away from the windows.
I took out my headphones, MP3, and its charger. While I'm here I should charge it. There was an outlet on the wall below the couch I was on. I was glad I had a five foot cord for once, so I didn't have to be all bent over trying to keep my headphones in. Six Feet Under The Stars by All Time Low came on. Great, I need a good song right now. I thought as I started bobbing my head and sing along silently.
I took the bread and guidebook out of the plastic PokéMart bag. I set the guidebook on the couch and carefully put the bread into my backpack so it wouldn't get squished. I grabbed the guidebook and took a look through to find how to get to the next gym.
"Oh wow," I said to myself. "That looks like it'll take a while to Cerulean City. Too bad there's no short cut to Celadon City. Okay, so it only took meee... about three days to get to Pewter City. But that was also because of the car... So, it should take me maybe a week to get to Cerulean?"
I drummed fingers on my leg in thought. "A whole week..." I said with a sigh. That would be kind of lonely. But I guess I did have my Pokémon.
"Yeah. I've got my Pokémon. I don't need him," I told myself. "Okay, six Pokémon times three meals a day, times seven days. Uuh..."
I dug through my bag to get my notepad and mechanical pencil. "Got cha," I said pulling them up. I flipped the little black notepad open and pushed on the eraser bit of the pencil to make some led come out.
"Okay, first six times three," I said to myself, writing the equation down. I had never been that great with mental math. "Okay, eighteen. Now eighteen times seven... um. I really wish I had a calculator right now. Okay eight times seven is... is..."
"Graw! Screw it!" I growled standing up, gaining some unwanted attention. Opes... I put my stuff back in my backpack and left for the PokéMart. Again.
"Oh, welcome back," the same cleric from before said to me.
"Hi," I said sheepishly.
"What can I help you with this time?" she asked me kindly.
"Um, do you guys have calculators?" I asked her hopefully.
"Yup," she said getting out from behind the counter. "This way."
"Thanks," I said with a timid laugh.
"Oh, it looks like we only have mini ones left," she said a bit disappointed. "Is that alright?"
"Oh that's perfect," I said smiling, grabbing a red one. "I just need a basic one."
"Well that's good," she said smiling, heading back to the counter.
"Mhm," I nodded following her back to the check out.
"Is this all?" she asked me as I placed the calculator down.
"For now yeah," I laughed.
"Hehe alright," she rung it through. "2.50 please."
"Alright," I said as I dug out my change bag. "Here."
"Thank you," she said taking the money. "Would you like a bag and your recite?"
"No thats fine," I told her, putting the small calculator in my pocket. "Thank you."
"Have a nice day," she said nodding.
I exited the PokéMart and headed back to the Pokémon Center.
"Okay lets try this again," I said taking out the notepad and calculator. I punched in the keys. "Eighteen times seven iiis... 126?! I have to buy enough for 126 meals... Maybe there'll be some fruit trees or something on the way... Ugh. I'll ask gramps what he thinks I should do."
I headed over to the telephone/PC to call him. Selecting video call, I dialed the lab's phone number and waited.
Ring, ring, ring. Phone call, phone call. Ring, ring, ring. Phone call, phone call. Ring, ring, ring-
"Ah, hello?" gramps said, as he finally answered the phone, with the video call on. "Oh hello, Lindy!"
"Hi, gramps," I said with a small smile.
"How are you doing? Have you called to show me your progress so far?" he asked me happily.
"Oh! I didn't even think of doing that," I said as I took my pokédex out. "Right now my Pokémon are being treated by Nurse Joy, but I can show you my pokédex."
"Aah I see. Alright, insert your pokédex into the slot on the right hand side of the PC," he instructed me.
"Huh? Oh," I said noticing the slot. "I guess that makes more sense than me holding it in front of the camera haha."
"Hahahahaha, yes it does. Rather convenient isn't it?" he said as I put my pokédex in.
"Yeah I guess so," I replied.
"Mmh. According to this you have the Bulbasaur you started off with, and caught a Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Beedrill, Pidgey, Rattata and Pikachu. But you can only have six Pokémon on your person at once..." he said, puzzled.
"Yeah I know," I said. "The Caterpie evolved into Metapod, I released the Weedle and Kakuna. So I have Bulbasaur, Metapod, Beedrill, Pidgey, Rattata, and Pikachu."
"You're off to a great start Lindy," gramps said nodding. "But why did you release them, Lindy?"
"Well, since I already had a Beedrill, a Weedle and Kakuna really wouldn't do me much good. So I didn't want to keep them and they just be in their pokéballs all the time. Plus I was positive you wouldn't really need them for research since their so common," I explained to him.
"Aahhh, I see. That was a kind thing to do. Some trainers just capture Pokémon for the sake of capturing them," he said with a sad sigh.
I frowned. "That's kind of pointless..." I muttered.
"Mmh, it can be. If they intend to interact with all of them, its not a bad thing. But just to leave them in their pokéballs, I disagree with that."
"I do too... But that's not the reason I called."
"Mh, what is it then?" gramps asked, now curious.
"Well, I was looking at this guidebook I got, and checking out the way to the next gym in Cerulean City, and it looks like it will be a while," I started.
"Mhm," gramps nodded for me to continue.
"So I estimated it would take me about a week to get there on foot-"
"Oh no. If you intend to go on foot, it wouldn't be a week Lindy," gramps told me. "Not unless you only travel for a few hours.
"Oh, really...?" I asked him. "That's good..."
"Whats wrong?" he asked me.
"I was planning on what to pack," I started to explain. "So I was doing the math for how much Pokémon food I should buy. It came out to 126 meals for just a week..."
"Aah I understand. Your concerned about how you'll feed your Pokémon," gramps said nodding in understanding. "Well Lindy, Route 3 and 4 go by rather quickly. Viridian forest is more of a winding path, so it takes longer. Getting through Mt. Moon will probably be your biggest challenge for getting to Cerulean City."
"Oh really? Why?" I asked him. I had been more concerned about the distance.
"Well its a large place, and easy to get lost in. Honestly you might end up camping out there for a night. I would suggest bringing a flash light for when it gets dark. Since it's a cave, its dim, even during the day." He explained to me.
"Huh..." I muttered to myself, thinking. "So three or four days tops?"
"I'd say so," he nodded.
"Alright sooo," I took my mini calculator out of my pocket. "Six times three times four is seventy-two?! Oh boy..."
"Lindy, unless all of you're Pokémon are going to be battling, you could just feed them twice a day. If you don't even use them, just a lunch is normally enough for younger, less experienced Pokémon."
"Oh really?" I said, a little shocked at this information. "Alright then, six times two times four is forty-eight."
"Lindy..." Gramps said with a sigh. "I can almost guarantee you that forty will be more than enough."
"Are you suuure?" I asked him, crossing my arms.
"Positive. You shouldn't be battling that much for your Pokémon to eat that much anyway. There is no Pokémon Center until Cerulean, so you should preserve your Pokémon's strength and only battle when need be. It's not just about keeping your Pokémon's stomachs full."
"... Yeah you're right," I said quietly. "I didn't really think of that. I should of...Sorry I let you down gramps."
"Now Lindy," gramps said giving me a small smile. "Unless you've been battling until you're Pokémon feint. And it's not me you should apologize to anyway. Its your Pokémon."
"I already did..." I said with a sigh. "I was frustrated so I vented with battling. I felt bad for making them do that, when it was me who had the problem not them. None of them feinted though! I would never do that..."
"Then there's no harm done. Don't be so hard on yourself Lindy. You're just starting off as a trainer, no one is expecting you to do everything right. Making mistakes is how you learn. That's all part of being a Pokémon trainer."
I let out another sigh. "You're right. Thanks gramps," I said giving him a small smile.
"You're very welcome, Lindy," gramps said. "Now, how about heading off to the Pewter Gym?"
"Yeah my- hey! How did you know I didn't go there yet?" I exclaimed.
"Because if you had, you would of shown me you badge by now," he said chuckling.
"Well I could of lost ya know," I stated.
"I highly doubt that," he said laughing. "The progress you've shown me is proof of your efforts. It's not easy to catch a Pikachu, Lindy. And I'm sure you and your Bulbasaur will work together to win the gym battle."
"I wish I had as much confidence in myself as you do in me, gramps," I said with a small laugh.
"Well go challenge the gym leader, and I'm positive you'll see why I have confidence in you."
"Mmh. Alright! I'll see if my Pokémon are healed then go!" I said with enthusiasm.
"Good luck, Lindy."
"Thanks gramps, I'll need it."
"You take care now alright?" gramps requested, some concern in his voice.
"I will gramps, promise." I said smiling.
"Good girl, goodbye now," he said.
"Bye!" I said happily, as I ended the call.
And yeah... Some comedy and heart to heart conversation going on. Yeah...
This chapter wasn't edited by my sister this time, I did. Or tried to anyway. If it seems a lot worse, spelling, punctuation ect wise, let me know.
Gonna go have a nap and die in bed now... Slakoth style.