Kaith: Gezze, a little over three weeks since my last update huh? Sorry, life has caught up with me and bit me pretty hard in the ass. Well…not really. Just a lot of homework and papers had to be written. I was also flooded with messages from a ton of people asking me to update my Warriors High story, which I accidentally abandoned for almost a month because of this story =P
I've also been taking lessons from my art friends on how to use Paint . net (which is like Photoshop but free) to make better drawings. Thanks to them I've been obsessed with trying to make the pictures that Blue has taken over the course of this trip.
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Chapter 13: And the Winner is…
Dodosk continued to run, its legs quickly cutting through the water like a knife through butter. Yellow kept looking over her shoulder, expecting Green to show up at any minute. Maybe running from him was a bad idea. After all, both his Golduck and Charizard were taken out and Yellow wasn't sure if he had anything else he could use to catch up. But then again, she didn't even know his full team.
Before Yellow could even consider slowing down, Green interrupted her thoughts. He and an Alakazam appeared directly ahead of Dodosk. The bird's three heads squawked in alarm and veered off into another section of the bayou. That section happened to be a tree.
Yellow was thrown from her little 'boat' and splashed into the water next to the tree Dodosk had run into. She was still trying to regain her balance when Green ordered his attack. "Alakazam, use Psycho Cut!"
A glowing purple blade appeared before Alakazam and with one flick of its spoons it rushed off in Dodosk's direction. Only one of its heads managed a squawk of surprise before the blade collided with Dodosk and pushed it into the tree again.
The blade faded from existence and Yellow's head had finally stopped spinning. "Tri Attack!" She ordered.
Dodosk's three heads fired off their separate bots of fire, electricity, and ice at the same time. The three elements combined in mid-air and started spinning together. It looked like it was about to hit Alakazam.
"Teleport!" Green ordered, slapping his hand onto Alakazam.
Pokémon and trainer vanished and the attack crashed harmlessly into a tree, reducing the section it hit to splinters. Yellow and Dodosk both looked around quickly, trying to find where Green and Alakazam had disappeared to. Dodosk's far head squawked and pointed to a spot above them. Yellow looked up and the brown haired boy was materializing above her. "Psycho cut!" Green ordered again.
Another blade materialized and flew at Dodosk. However, this time Yellow was ready. "Drill Peck!" She ordered, pointing at the trunk for the tree Green was in. Dodosk made quick work of the trunk and just managed to take out a large chunk before the blade hit him and sent the bird flying back a few feet.
Yellow ran over to her Pokémon quickly, urging it to get up. Dodosk stood up slowly, it's legs wobbling slightly. Yellow knew he couldn't take any more hits, but all she needed was…
The tree Green was perched in groaned and the sound of splintering wood filled the air. The tree lurched and started to fall towards the water. Green gave his order. "Telep-"
"Pursuit!" Yellow interrupted.
Just as Alakazam put its spoons together to teleport away, Dodosk appeared out of thin air. Dodosk's three beaks became covered in a dark glow and quickly jabbed themselves into Alakazam. As the super effective move finished, Alakazam was thrown down into the water, its spoons landing several feet away.
Green was now forced to jump from the tree without Alakazam's help. Before he even landed in the water, several counterattacks had already been formulated in his mind. However they were all useless now that Alakazam's spoons were missing in the water. The psychic-type Pokémon was on hands and knees, searching through the water.
Yellow didn't waste much time. "Endeavor!" She yelled, issuing her next attack. Dodosk jumped onto Alakazam's back and began stomping on it, jabbing it with his beaks, and even yelling what was probably something very mean in the language of Pokémon.
Green grimaced as the bird left Alakazam's body. The only still visible part of the Pokémon was a hand twitching above the water. Green held up his Pokéball to call his Pokémon back. He knew Endeavor couldn't knock a Pokémon out. It simply made the Pokémon's health equal to each other's. And based on the amount of damage Dodosk had just inflicted, both Pokémon were most likely very weak.
"Alakazam, re-"
"Pursuit!" Yellow interrupted again.
Green swore mentally as the bird appeared again above his Pokémon and jabbed its dark beaks into the water. Alakazam's hand jolted slightly and then fell below the water. "-turn." Green finished. He had planned to bring Alakazam out again later and have him use Recover, but Green had already forgotten Dodosk knew Pursuit.
"Looks like I'm down to one Pokémon." Green said while he tried to think of who his final Pokémon should be. "And with Dodosk like that, you pretty much are too."
"We don't go down easily though." Yellow smiled at her Dodosk. "Right?"
Dodosk's three head cried happily in agreement before glaring at Green. If he hadn't known any better he would have thought the bird was smirking at him. He needed to take the bird out fast. There's no way he'd let it pull off another Endeavor. Green's hand reached for the Pokéball of his final Pokémon.
"Let's finish them Scizor!" Green yelled, throwing the ball into the air. The steel bug appeared in a flurry of wings, its pincers sharp and ready to go. "Bullet Punch!"
Scizor's pincers glowed and the Pokémon shot off at Dodosk. The bug was behind Yellow's Pokémon in half a second, the water still spraying in every direction after Scizor's lighting fast movement.
"Acupuncture!" Yellow yelled quickly as Scizor brought back its pincers. Dodosk's three heads quickly turned and jabbed its own body. Yellow could only hope that the right stat had been raised. After all, Acupuncture raises a stat sharply, but the stat was random. She was taking a big gamble here.
Scizor made contact, quickly jabbing Dodosk multiple times. With one final, swift punch, Dodosk went tumbling backwards into the water. "Dodosk!" Yellow yelled, hoping that her luck had held out. Dodosk remained immobile. Then, the bird's body twitched and Dodosk rolled over and stood up. Green couldn't believe it, Acupuncture had actually raised Dodosk's defense and on top of that, the bloody bird had to be holding on by literally one health point.
"Our turn," Yellow smiled. "Agility, and then Endeavor!"
"Go up!" Green ordered.
As Dodosk's legs whirled into action, Scizor's wings beat as fast as they could. Both Pokemon took off; Scizor broke though the top of the trees just as Dodosk reached the spot the red bug had just been. Thinking it was safe, Scizor gave a sigh of relief.
"Don't relax!" Green's voice yelled from below. "Below you!"
Scizor looked down, and to its surprise, Dodosk had just propelled itself off of a rather rubbery branch. The flightless bird had somehow ended up above Scizor's position. Scizor raised its pincers, ready to intercept.
"Baton Pass!" Yellow yelled.
Dodosk blew a raspberry at Scizor and disappeared in a beam of red light. Another Pokémon took Dodosk's place, a very round, rocky, and heavy looking Pokémon. "Golosk, use Earthquake!"
Golosk issued his battle roar and fell towards the earth, Scizor trapped beneath the boulder Pokémon. Scizor's eyes were wide and it was screaming out in terror as the ground got closer every second.
The two Pokémon impacted seconds later, sending up a wall of water and causing the ground to shake. Green shielded his face as the water hit him and was pushed back several feet. "Scizor!" He coughed through the water. However, said water was receding along with all the vegetation that was growing around them. Eventually, everything had receded back to the plain white room.
In the center of the room sat Golosk, a large grin on his face while he used a knocked out Scizor as a chair. Yellow ran over to her Pokémon and threw her arms around Golosk's neck. "We did it!" Yellow cheered happily. "We won!"
Golosk grunted happily in agreement. Green himself couldn't help but smile as well as he called back his smashed Scizor. Red was running over to them with a big grin on his face, Pika keeping pace with him at his feet.
"That was great Yellow!" Red exclaimed, pulling her into a hug. Yellow blushed and Pika cried happily, jumping onto Yellow's head.
Green waited a minute before coughing. "If you two are done," Green said as the two quickly spilt apart. "It is my duty to award Yellow, the victor of this battle, the Earth Badge." Green put up his pointer finger and a small, spinning green badge appeared hovering in midair. With a flick of his finger, Green sent the badge flying to Yellow. Before the girl could react, her trainer id card appeared and caught the badge for her.
The card floated down into Yellow's hands after that, proudly displaying her very first 'Inside' badge. Yellow was grinning so hard that it was starting to hurt. She was so happy she could help but yell gleefully, "My first 'Inside' badge!"
Yellow's heartbeat rushed, her checks started to flush, and her eyes kept glancing over at Red. The lights were dimmed and the bench they had chosen was so small Yellow practically had to sit in Red's lap. If Blue where here, she'd call it, 'The Perfect Mood!'
"Mommy, what's that fish?"
"Well I don't know."
That is, if they weren't surrounded by little kids. After the concert hall (where Mrs. Rosewood almost caught everyone with their DS's) the class had gone to lunch and they had been set free on Cerulean City until five that night. It would have been some of the best hours of Yellow's life, only on top of all the kids being around she and Red were also working on a paper. Apparently the parents were against a field trip purely for fun and only allowed this trip to happen because the school promised they would have the students write a five page paper about Cerulean City.
Yellow looked down at her notebook and sighed. She and Red had decided to do a report on the Cerulean Aquarium and it wasn't exactly going well. All she had written down was: The Cerulean Aquarium was built back in 1978 and is connected to the ocean to let fresh sea water flow in and out every day.
Yellow flinched slightly as a little girl next to her screamed excitedly as a baby shark swam past the glass. Red noticed this and half-smiled at her. "Do you wanna go somewhere quieter?" He asked.
"Yes please." Yellow sighed happily at the idea.
Red stood up and looked around. His eyes rested on a stairway and turned to offer Yellow his hand to help her up. Yellow blushed slightly as she took it and stood up. Red led her through the groups of children and their parents, which was surprisingly a large amount considering it was one o'clock on a Thursday.
Thursday. There was only one day left in Cerulean and then Saturday morning they would set off for Viridian City. So much had happened since Yellow had met Red and Green that it felt like she had known the two boys as long as she did Blue. If it hadn't been for any of them she would probably just be that lonely little girl who sat in the back of the class and lived a normal life…That would be pretty sad.
"Here we are!" Red announced at the top of the steps. "This is where they do the shows with the dolphins and the next show won't be for a while so it should be quieter here." Red turned to look at Yellow and his smiled disappeared. "Eh, Yellow you're crying."
"What?" Yellow reached up with her hands and found that some tears had in fact started rolling free. "Oh, I…I don't know why." She lied. She had just been imagining a life by herself, of course she would be crying a bit. "I just I was just thinking about my uncle."
"Did something happen?" Red asked, his voice full of concern.
Yellow shook her head. "It's just I haven't been away from his from this long since I moved in with him." She wasn't lying really, just telling a different truth.
"Oh." Red said, looking a little unsure of what he should do as he led Yellow over to one of the carved stones that made up the audience stands. "So how long have you been living with your uncle?"
Three years, eight months and three days. Yellow thought sadly to herself. It was the day her parents died, and she would always remember that date. "About three years. He's the reason why I wanted to come here." Yellow changed the conversation to avoid the question she knew would come; Where are you parents?
"Really?" Red asked. "I thought we just kinda wandered in here." He smiled.
Yellow smiled too. "My uncle's a fisherman and ever since I started living with him, he's always told me to love the ocean and respect the creatures that live in it. I've always loved animals and now because of him I love sea creatures. Because of him I want to become a marine biologist."
"Yet you still don't know how to swim?"
Yellow laughed. "Yeah, I know it's kinda stupid."
Red turned to look at one of the dolphins that had surfaced and was lazily swimming around the pool. "Not really." He said. "You've got a goal and dream in mind. I don't even know what I want to do next week."
"Well…" Yellow said, drawing Red's attention away from the dolphin. "Today's Thursday so next week this time you'll probably be in school." Red laughed and smiled at Yellow. Yellow couldn't help but smile back at him and think, He's so handsome…
It took Yellow about a minute to process the thought and realize what she had just told herself. She blushed madly and turned away from Red. I can't think that! She thought quickly to herself. Why would he even be interested in me? Sure we came here together but now we're alone…we're alone. Yellow blushed even harder.
"Hey Yellow, you okay?" Red asked, trying to figure out why Yellow had just turned away.
"Y-Yeah!" Yellow said quickly. "I just-"
Yellow was interrupted as Red grabbed her and turned her around. "You're all red, do you have a fever? Are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah, I-I'm fine!" Yellow practically squeaked. He was so close to her now…Then Red put his forehead to Yellow's, causing her to blush even more. Practically all her blood was in her face now. "W-What are you d-doing?"
"Checking your temperature." Red said. "This is how my mom used to check mine."
"I-I'm fine!" Yellow squeaked again, trying to stand up. She only succeeded in knocking both of them to the floor, Red lying on top of her. They both groaned slightly and as Red tried to come up, his face came up to Yellow's and only then did he realize what position they were in. Now he was blushing.
Before he could apologize or even get off of her, a voice froze both of them. "Now if you'll follow me this way we'll come to the audience seating and the show will start shortly." A woman dressed in one of the aquariums staff uniforms appeared at the top of the far staircase. Red and Yellow looked up at her and the woman looked at the two on the ground. Reading the situation completely wrong, the employee quickly turned around. "Excuse me I seemed to have led you up the wrong staircase. This area seems taken."
As the employee walked away Red quickly got off of Yellow. The dolphin down in the pool of water was making some sort of noise like it was laughing. After helping Yellow up, Red asked, "Wanna see the sea turtles?"
Yellow quickly nodded, hoping that the sea turtles could take her mind of all the thoughts racing through her mind about her and Red.
Green grumbled to himself as he wrote Silvers name down at the top of the paper. He glanced up at an abstract painting that resembled something like a tree that had gone through a shredder and then glued back together. He glanced at the small metal inscription that named the artist and a short description of the painting. Green started to copy it.
"Hey, don't make Silver flunk on purpose." Blue read over Green's shoulder.
"I'm not. I'm giving him a D." Green replied, sounding bored as usual.
Blue frowned at him before an idea popped into her mind. Blue dropped her own notepad onto the bench next to Green and placed her head on top of Green, using his shoulder's as a support for her elbows. Pain shot through Green as she placed more weight on his injured side. "You know, I'm not even sure what half of these painting are supposed to be." She said absent-mindedly, ignoring Green's whimpers of pain.
Green knew what she was doing and wouldn't give in. "M-Me either."
Blue smirked. Green's stubbornness would just make this a whole lot more fun. Blue placed a little more weight onto Green shoulder and the boy started to squirm. "It'd be a shame for Silver to get such a low grade, considering that he's the one hard at work, encrypting all our DS's back at the hotel."
Green didn't respond. He just tried to stand up and get Blue off of him. Blue smiled and shoved him back down. Green yelped out in pain as Blue drove her elbow into his shoulder. "I don't think so." She whispered into Greens ear. "Do a good job, alright?"
"F-Fine!" Green almost yelled.
"Excuse me, can you keep your lovers quarrel quite?" Blue and Green both turned to look at a woman, dressed in a red two-piece suit. "Some of us are trying to enjoy the art around here."
"Oh I'm sorry ma'am." Blue smiled at her. "Men just have certain needs, if you know what I mean."
The woman blushed, looking slightly taken aback. Her eyes dropped to the floor as a hand rose up to cover her mouth. "Oh, I do know. But for two people so young to-"
"We're not-" Green started but was cut off by Blue's hand.
"It's rude to interrupt someone when their talking honey." Blue smiled at him. Green glared at her for a moment, but eventually gave up. Once this woman put her mind to one of her devious plans, there was almost no stopping her. He could only sit back and hope nothing back happened.
The woman sighed. "Well if you must the bathrooms have locks. I know they're not very romantic but when your man has the urge its best to compile, right?"
Green went up like a roman candle while Blue just kept her usual sly grin painted on her face. "Thank you for your advice." Blue smiled and grabbed Green's hand pulling him through the gallery, following the restroom signs that happened to be just about everywhere.
"B-Blue! What are you doing?" Green stammered. Never before had he been so caught off guard in his life. He had no idea what was going on or what he should do.
"Oh you'll see." Blue giggled. She was having the time of her life. Green, the emotionless statue was now reduced to a puddle of raging hormone and emotions. She pulled him down a small corridor and reached the door labeled 'Women.' Blue turned and smiled seductively at Green, leaning against the bathroom door. "Now, do you want to know what to do?" Blue whispered into his ear. She didn't even wait for his response. Blue simply fell backwards and closed the door to the bathroom.
Green's mind clicked with the lock on the women's bathroom door. "I need some guy to make sure perverts don't try and take advantage of little old me." Blue laughed. Green's face went even redder than before and he had the over-welling urge to kick something. But he restrained himself from kicking the door down. That would only result in two things; letting Blue know that she had gotten to him, and she would just end up calling him a pervert again. Instead Green stalked off with the image of a sneering Blue haunting his thoughts. That's it, Silver's getting a F no matter what she does now.
Silver sneezed into his sleeve back at the hotel room. Am I getting a cold? He thought to himself. Silver shrugged it off and turned his attention back to the computer. After having finally written the encryption he was sure would be strong enough, all he really had to do was rewrite and copy the new data over the old stuff already written into the DS. The only real problem was that each encryption took about an hour or longer to do.
The red-haired boy stood up and stretched. Having just started the copying for Blue's DS, Silver decided it should be okay for him to take a short walk. As he left he made sure he had one of the room keys. A mistake he never wanted to repeat again.
Silver made his way to the elevator and rode it down to the lobby, trying to resist from humming along with the elevator music that was playing. The doors open and Silver walked straight forward into the lobby. Well, straight forward into another person that is. Both he and the person he walked into fell to the ground, landing on their butts. "Sorry." Silver quickly apologized. "I wasn't looking where I was going."
"Oh, Silver." Silver looked over the person he had run into and realized that it was Lyra lying on the ground in front of him. "I'm s-sorry too!" She quickly apologized. "I wasn't watching either."
Silver offered Lyra a hand and helped her up. That's when he noticed the blank notebook in her hands. "Are you working on that paper?"
Lyra flinched a little. "Well, sort of. I haven't really found anything to write about yet." She sighed. "What're you writing about?"
"Um…" Silver scratched the back of his head. If he knew Blue then he knew that she had Green working on it right now. He just didn't know what Green was writing for him. "I'm not sure."
"Well um…" Lyra fidgeted with her hands while not meeting Silver's eyes. "Do you wanna go out and look for something to write about?"
Silver scratched the back of his head and thought. He had the time and it'd be nice to take a walk around town. With the shooting and his work with the encryption he hadn't really had any free time for himself. "Sure, why not?" Silver shrugged. He didn't know Lyra too well other than the girl who sat quietly in class but she seemed like an okay girl.
Lyra's eyes lit up and she smiled happily. "Okay, let's go!" She grabbed Silver's hand and dragged him out of the lobby. She didn't really know where she was going, but right now she didn't care.
A white flash surrounded Yellow's eyes for a moment before she found herself standing in the familiar surroundings of a Pokécenter. Now having finished what they could on the papers and the DS's finally finished encrypting, Green had let it slip that he and Red were going to be meeting with Misty, the Cerulean City gym leader.
In the waiting lobby was a girl that Yellow assumed was Misty. She looked about the same age as Yellow and her bright-red hair was pulled aside into a pony tail on the right side of her head. Her avatar was dressed in some very short-shorts and a bright yellow t-shirt. She noticed Yellow right away and walked over to the blond. "Hi, I'm Misty." She said with a smile.
"Yellow." Yellow said taking the hand and shaking it. "I'm Red's friend." She seems like a nice person. A few seconds later and everyone else had 'beamed' into existence. And all was right with the world. That is until Red appeared. Misty practically disappeared from view and had reappeared glomping Red.
"Red!" Misty exclaimed. "It's been forever since we talked! I heard you beat Lance's dragons to Timbuktu! You need to tell me all about it."
"It's nice to see you too." Red said, trying to push the clingy girl off of him for a moment. "So you told Green you think you found something?"
Misty nodded and took Red's hand, dragging him away and completely forgetting about everyone else that had gathered. "I found some strange things north of the nugget bridge." Misty explained, her voice fading away as she dragged Red out of the Pokécenter. "There's some strange things going on by the northern pier too. Did you know they modeled that after the actual place on the 'Outside?' It's supposed to be one of the most romantic spots in the world. Apparently a lot of people have confessed their…" And her voice was gone.
The four teens still left in the Pokécenter just stood there until it clicked in their brains that they should probably follow. Green spoke first. "Well she certainly hasn't changed. Still talks like a broken record."
Blue was about to make a remark when a short little blond pushed past her, a dark aura pouring out of her body. "When I'm done with her, she'll wish she was a broken record." Yellow muttered under her breath as she stomped after the Red-stealing-girl.
Blue's Special Notes 14: Region Traveling
Now while the number of 'Outside' badges may be limited to 8 per game, the number of 'Inside' badges a trainer can get is infinite. Well, assuming infinite means the number of gyms per region and that a trainer can get to all of those areas on the date of the gym battle. There are boats that can take you to different regions, as well as the train that runs between both Kanto and Johto that you can take. However, once you board one of these things you've got to clear a certain requirement to move on. I've never actually traveled out of Kanto but according to my sources the condition is almost always the same; battle and defeat NPC's (Non-Playable Characters).
I've also heard that there are special routes that let you instantly travel between regions in only seconds. There are secret passageways hidden away in caves or even underwater that can pop you out in another region! Apparently some of the legendary Pokémon use these routes to fast travel. Figures that's why the Pokédex has a new location for them every single time I try and track them.
Blue's Special Notes 15: Roaming Legendary's
Unlike on the 'Outside' every single Legendary Pokémon on the 'Inside' roams around every single region instead of just a few set Pokémon per region. Meaning Articuno could appear in Unova or Arceus could appear in Kanto!
Kaith: Yeah, I know it's shorter than some of my other chapters but I hope you all liked it! I'm on break right now so hopefully I can get the next chapter up by the end of the week. Please Review!