Chapter rated T for implications
Kanto Journey episode 14
Mareep and the Persian gang!
The group gave chase to Joshua and Melissa hoping the catch up to them.
"Melissa, wait up!" Joshua said as his caught up to the girl who had a mareep by her.
"Reep!" The hseep Pokémon said. Its wool was yellow and its head was blue. Its feet were also blue and its tail and ears had a yellow and black striped pattern. It had an orange sphere at the end of its tail and the wool on its head was curly.
"Mareep reep reep ma!" It cried angrily its wool sparking.
"Melissa what's wrong?" Joshua said as he arrived with his injured elekid besides him but before she could speak Mareep released a powerful thunder shock witch charred her shirt. The shirt was begging to curl up and crumble from the bottom.
"Oh no!" She cried realising if this continued she would be shirt less.
"Hold on Melissa." Joshua said as he pulled out a pink shirt with a picture of an ampharos.
She put it to her and saw it was a perfect fit and hauled it over crumbling shirt before it turned to complete ashes.
"Thank you Joshua, but how come you had this shirt made for a girl in your bag?" She asked curiously
"Um it's a long story but right now what's the mareep attacking you for?"
"Um that's a long story to." She answered soon the others arrived realising she was wearing something else.
"What happened to your last shirt?" Sammy asked her.
"Well..." but before she could continue Joshua cut in.
"That mareep there blasted her with an electric attack and her shirt began to crumble so I gave her the shirt." He answered
"You mean that shirt?" Sammy asked
"Yes that shirt." Joshua said with his head down. Jere and Rin turned to each other with a smug face and said in unison.
"Did you see her..."
"SHUT UP!" Joshua said angrily as he turned his attention to the mareep.
"Mareep it's not my fault about Zane!" She said trying calm it down
"Mareep!" It cried as about ten meowth came down surrounding the group as mareep jumped into the bushes.
"Guys look like we have trouble!" Joshua said as he called back elekid to its ball.
"Alright let's show um geodude come on out!" Sammy said as he threw the red and white ball into the air. The ball opened and a gray rock with arms and a face emerged.
"Dude!" The rock Pokémon cried out as he emerged.
"Apollo I choose you!" Rin said as he threw out the wood gecko Pokémon. The small reptilian got ready to battle. "Treecko" it said
"Charmeleon I choose you!" Jere said ready to battle as the flame lizard popped out ready to fight.
"Go butterfree!" Joshua said as the butterfly Pokémon emerged. The meowth all pounced in towards the Pokémon.
"Geodude use rock throw!" Sammy commanded as geodude pounded the ground with its arms before sending multiple rocks towards 2 of the meowth.
"Apollo use quick attack!" Rin commanded as Apollo ran fast and rammed into 3 of the meowth knocking them down.
"Charmeleon use your flamethrower!" Jere commanded as charmeleon blasted 3 more of the meowth.
"Alright Butterfree finish them off with sleep powder!" Joshua commanded as the butterfly Pokémon flew over the weakened meowth and set them to sleep with a blue powder.
"Thank you guys follow me." She said as she started walking in the opposite direction to where mareep was. The group looked at each other before turning and following her after seeing many meowth the finally arrived at a small cottage.
"Tell us what happened." Joshua said in a monotone still upset about what Jere and Rin said
"Well a few months ago me and my best friend Zane were in vermilion my home town, we were ambushed buy a few rockets and they attacked him and his mareep. They battled the rockets but they were wining so I came out and hit one of them to the back of their head."
"He must have been mad." Sammy said wanting to know what happened next.
"He was he punched me sending me to the floor. Zane tried to help me when he did the deed."
"What did he do?" Sammy asked.
"He tried to shoot me with the gun he pulled out but Zane jumped in front and took the bullet. They then went to throw him off the edge but I grab him and I held on to him. Mareep tried to help me pull him up but mareep bit my shirt and made me lose my grip and he fell to his doom. Mareep blamed me for it. Zane said that mareep know belongs to me before he died but mareep didn't care it wanted revenge so it ran off and ask a gang of Persian to help it and now all the meowth and Persian protect it.
"I understand now, Mareep is mad at you because it believes it is your fault that its trainer died."
"Exactly!" She responded to Sammy.
"Can I talk to you for a moment, alone?" Joshua asked.
"Sure Joshua." She replied Jere and Rin looked at each other for a moment and were about to speak when Sammy gave them a demon eye.
"So what's wrong Joshua?" Melissa asked staring at the 16 year old who was almost her size.
"The shirt I gave you..."
"Yeah what about it, I kind of like it."
"It was, suppose to be for a girl who left my school in viridian to go to school in vermillion. Every year I made it to fit her size due to the calculations I made." Melissa smiled at touched his hand, suddenly both Joshua and Melissa had this feeling. 'I've felt this way before' they thought in unison. 'It feels like the first time I touch him/her at school in viridian could it be that his is her/him'
"Melissa is your full name Melissa Melinda?" Joshua asked
"Yes, then your Joshua Blue?"
"Yes" Joshua replied happily as they both hugged each other. "Well The shirt finally reached its rightful owner Melissa I've got to tell Sammy and leave those 2 out of it, he knows about the shirt. Melissa and Joshua beckoned Sammy over and told him about it,
"Know we have work to do so let's go help Melissa get mareep!" as Jere and Rin heard that they joined the group.
"We need a plan." Joshua said plainly.
"Well if I know the Persian the weakest is first then the second then the strongest and then mareep protected by the strongest meowth" She said sadly
"I'll fight first then Sammy then Jere and Rin together.' Joshua said ready to fight.
"Sounds like a plan so let's move out." Sammy said ready to move
"Wait. Heal your Pokémon on this machine." Melissa said as she held out a Pokémon healer machine. The group quickly healed their Pokémon and ran out of the cottage along the pathway with trees surrounding it. They soon found the first Persian waiting for them with a bunch of meowth.
"Melissa, take my elekid and go ahead." He said as he gave her his pokéball and looked towards the Persian. The group ran around as Joshua was left alone ready to face the Persian.
"Venn and Butterfree come on out!" Joshua said as he threw 2 red and white balls in the air. They both opened up to reveal a poison moth Pokémon and a butterfly Pokémon.
Meanwhile
The others continued running until they ran into the second Persian but unlike the other it was alone. The others ran on and Sammy was left to fend against it.
"Pearl." He said to the Persian "So you're protecting mareep then I must defeat you!"
"Per Persian!(So be it!)" The Persian said as it took a battle pose.
'I don't know how powerful you are sparky since your full power was revived, but I think its time we find out' he thought. "Sparky I choose you!" Sammy said as he threw a golden pokéball n the air as it opened up...
On a mountain
A mountain climber saw a huge lightning bolt fly straight into the sky from the ground. The power caused the rocks to start vibrating.
Back with the group
They continued until they saw another Persian jump down ready to battle. Both Jere and Rin stepped forward and threw a red and white pokéball in to the air.
"Go eevee!" Jere said as the pokéball opened revealing what seemed like a dog/ cattish Pokémon with brown fur, a bushy tail that has a cream colour tip. It also has a funny collar that is cream coloured and it has big brown ears and brown eyes.
"Vee!" It purred ready to battle.
"Go Leafeon!' Rin said as he threw a pokéball containing a bigger eevee witch resembled a fox with leaves for ears and a leaf for its tail. It has many sprouts all over it and a large sproute growing on its head.
"Feon!" It cried ready to battle.
Joshua's battle
"Alright guys get ready!" Joshua said as his butterfree and venomoth hovered besides him. The meowth began to charge and attack both bug type Pokémon.
"Butterfree, Venn, use psybeam attack!" Joshua commanded as the butterfly and Purple moth flew into the air and released 2 multicolour beams that fused into one and hit the ground making a huge multi colour explosion knocking away all the meowth.
"Persian!" The Persian cried as it took a battle position. Suddenly Venn flew off in another direction leaving Joshua and butterfree to fight alone.
"Butterfree hold your position and wait for Persian to come to you." Joshua said calmly. The Persian watched the grass surrounding it and then ran in a fast zigzag motion.
"Butterfree calm down and concentrate on it then dodge!" Joshua commanded as butterfree activated the advanced compound eyes and took aim at Persian. The Persian then proceeded to stick out its aw and strike butterfree with a slash attack but butterfree rolled back and avoided the strike. Persian then rolled into a ball and his tail was glowing as he struck butterfree knocking him back.
Sammy's battle
Sparky and Persian stood there staring down each other ready to battle.
"Hey Pearl I know that's you so stop staring at Sparky and come battle!" Sammy said to the Persian.
"Persian!(If it's that you wish My Friend!)" The Persian said das it charged towards Pikachu its claws extended. Sparky quickly dodge the attack but the Persian spun around and hit it with its tail damaging Sparky.
"Use thunder shock attack!" Sammy commanded as Sparky blasted electricity towards the Persian. Pearl quickly dodge the attack and an explosion happened at the impact causing a hole right there next to a tree. Pearl watched the hole and saw that Sparky was indeed powerful and got ready to battle again.
Jere and Rin's battle
"Eevee, use tackle attack now!" Jere commanded as his eevee charged towards the Persian which stood its ground.
"Leafeon help out eevee by using leaf blade!" Rin commanded as Leafeon's sprout on its head transformed into the leaf blade as both Pokémon hit the Persian at the same time doing absolutely no damage. The Persian then knocked both Pokémon away with a powerful slash attack knocking them down.
"It's to strong Rin!" Jere exclaimed
"But we still have to try Jere!" Rin said as Leafeon and eevee got back up ready to fight some more.
Joshua's battle
"Butterfree let's try to keep up, use gust attack!" Joshua commanded as the butterfly Pokémon began to flap its wings whipping up a small tornado witch held Persian in it while doing some damage to it. "Now finish it up with psybeam!" Joshua commanded as his butterfree blasted the Persian knocking it down. The Persian quickly got to its feet and opened its mouth the jewel on its head glowing as a black ball formed in its mouth.
"Watch out it is using shadow ball!" Joshua called out to his butterfree but it was to late. The black ball had left the Pokémon's mouth and connected on butterfree knocking it to the ground, its wings spread out of the floor.
"Free!" It said as it cried to move its wings but could not fly.
Sammy's battle
The Persian began charging towards Pikachu while the rat stood its ground awaiting the attack.
"Use iron tail Sparky!" Sammy commanded as the Pikachu's tail began to glow white as it whacked the Persian knocking it back. But the Persian bounced off the tree by pushing back on its foot to bounce forward and strike Pikachu knocking Sparky into a tree. The Persian then proceeded to attack Pikachu with multiple fury swipe attacks doing a good amount of damage.
"Sparky hold on and use thunder shock!" Sammy commanded. Sparky blasted the electric attack hitting Persian shooting it straight from the tree Sparky was on to another tree doing serious damage. "Is that all you got for me pearl." Sammy taunted
Jere and Rin's Battle
"Rin I've got a plan." Jere said as eevee took a fighting position again.
"What is it?" Rin said as Leafeon also got into a battle position.
"Follow my lead but use the tail this time." Jere said with a smirk on his face
"I get it!" Rin exclaimed as the Persian claws extended as it took a battle pose with its tail straight in the air.
"Eevee get close with quick attack then iron tail!" Jere commanded as the small fox Pokémon ran at a fast rate towards Persian
"Leafeon, use quick attack, then leaf blade, but with, your tail this time!" Rin commanded as his leafeon's leaf for a tail transformed into a green blade and it charged even faster than eevee did to catch up. The Persian quickly used its claw to collide with Eevee's iron tail. Eevee then flipped above the Persian to reveal Leafeon right behind it. Persian had no time to react and took the leaf blade head on forcing it back a bit where Eevee was.
"Eevee, use iron tail again!" Jere commanded as Eevee hit Persian with its powerful tail knocking back to Leafeon. The Persian saw what was coming and quickly disappeared into the grass leaving a hole behind. It used dig attack.
"Alright guys get ready!" Rin said as their Pokémon wondered which one it would come after.
Joshua's battle
"Butterfree hold on!" Joshua cried out as the Persian charged towards Butterfree when all of a sudden 2 sets of string shot grabbed its two front paws causing it to back flip and fall.
"Who did that?" Joshua said as he looked into the air to see Venn carrying 2 wurmple on his back. Venn looked injured.
"Venn return I'll heal you up later." Joshua said as his pokéball released a red light which engulfed Venn causing the wurmple to drop into his arms. The Persian then broke free and began walking towards Butterfree.
"Wurmple thanks to you guys I got a plan, Butterfree use string shot now!" Joshua commanded as Butterfree shot a string shot out of its mouth to tie up the Persian stopping it from moving. Suddenly Butterfree began glow in front of the sun set and was healed.
"Butterfree just learned morning sun." Joshua said happily "Now let's finish off Persian full power psybeam!"
"Free!" Butterfree said as it released a powerful psybeam which hit Persian knocking it out cold.
"Alright we did it!" Joshua said when all of a sudden the 2 wurmple began to glow, 1 a split second after the other. One evolved into cascoon the other silcoon.
"Want to come with me little guys?" Joshua asked
"Coon!" The both replied happily. Joshua then picked out 2 pokéball and placed them within it before running to catch up with the others.
Sammy's battle
The Persian quickly ran through and began to hit Sparky with a flurry of Fury swipes.
"Sparky hold on!" Sammy screamed as Sparky was ambushed by the multiple attacks. "Use thunder bolt!" Sammy said but as Pikachu proceeded in releasing a large lightning bolt the Persian dug away avoiding the attack and sent Pikachu fly high.
"Sparky use thunder bolt again!" Sammy commanded as Sparky sent a large lightning bolt down towards Pearl. Pearl quickly dived into a hole to avoid the attack but the lightning went straight into the hole and blasted pearly while it was under the earth, defeating it.
"Return Sparky you did great!" Sammy said as he lifted the red and white ball and shot a red light towards the Yellow mouse Pokémon which was engulfed in light before the light travelled back to the pokéball. Sammy then ran off to find the others.
Jere and Rin's Battle
The Persian quickly appeared and struck Leafeon knocking it over by Eevee.
"Leafeon use razor leaf!" Rin commanded
"Eevee use Shadow ball!" Jere commanded as they released both attacks at the same time charging towards Persian.
A Black ball formed in Persian's mouth as it blasted a shadow ball. The ball had black electricity travelling around it and was twice as big as Jere's Eevee's shadow ball. The attacks collided creating a huge explosion. Smoke engulfed the area and no one could see anything.
"Rin I've got you!" Jere said as he held tightly onto Rin's hand
"I hope eevee and Leafeon are okay." Rin said as looked deep into the smoke. The smoke cleared when...
"Gasp!" They both said in unison "Leafeon! Eevee, no!" They cried as they watched the forested area their Pokémon down on the floor beaten up while Persian stood there over them partially damage but looking as if it could take 3 more rounds with them.
"Squirtle use aqua jet!" A voice shouted as a squirtle flew out of the trees to the flat area and whacked the Persian straight off of both Pokémon. Sammy soon ran out of the forest followed by Joshua.
"Sammy, Joshua!" Rin and Jere shouted as both of their friends emerged from the forested area.
"Joshua, Jere, Rin!" Sammy said
"Yes?" They replied
"Go find Melissa and help her fast!" Sammy said as the group nodded
"Eevee, return!" Jere said as he called back his eevee to the red and white ball before running off.
"Leafeon, return!" Rin said as he did the same thing as Jere. After the group left Sammy began speaking.
"Pearly long time no see."
"Persian per Persian!" The Persian replied.
"Yes I guess there is no time to catch up so lets battle!"
Persian it said as it took a battle position its tail sticking in the air.
"Squirtle use aqua jet!" Sammy commanded as the blue tiny turtle Pokémon engulfed itself in water and charged towards Pearly the Persian. Pearly quickly jumped out of the way and shot a black ball out of its mouth.
"Squirtle look out a shadow ball is coming towards you!" Sammy said but it was too late the black ball collided with the tiny turtle Pokémon knocking it to the floor. Squirtle quickly rose to its feet and stared at Pearly. It then raised its paw and stated.
"Your going down Sammy commanded me now!"
"Right squirtle use water gun!" The tiny turtle Pokémon in haled its breath before shooting a stream of water out of its mouth towards pearly at a great speed. The attack connected with the Persian pushing it back but then the Persian released another shadow which easily ate through the attack as it headed for squirtle.
"Dodge it then aqua Jet!" Sammy commanded as squirtle stopped the stream of water and avoided the attack but as it did so pearly appeared right beside it and hit it with a slash attack knocking it across into a tree. Squirtle struggled to get up due to the excessive strength of the Persian.
"Squirtle, can you still fight?" Sammy asked
"Yes Sammy, don't worry." Squirtle said as it slumped to its feet. Its swirly tail began to glow and then a ring of water was travelling around it.
'I've seen this move before a few years ago what was it called again. Oh yeah aqua tail squirtle's learning aqua tail!' Sammy thought as the Persian sped towards squirtle ready to finish him off. "Squirtle wait then use aqua tail!" Squirtle stood still its tail glowing with water surrounding it. But as soon as Pearly came near he spun around and whacked her with his tail. She was blasted off of his tail by a water tornado and sent flying through 3 trees before rolling on the ground knocked out.
"Alright we did it squirtle!" Sammy said as he lifted squirtle on top of his head. Squirtle rested his hands on top of Sammy's hat and held on tight as Sammy began to run to catch up with his friends. He soon met them and Melissa stuck at a giant wall impossible to climb over.
"Guys need a lift?" Sammy asked as he held Jades pokéball in his hand.
"You beat that Persian?" Jere and Rin asked in Unison.
"Yeah Pearly was really tough." Sammy quickly stated
"Pearly?" The rest of the group asked.
"Oh sorry I forgot to tell you I know those Persian they use to be the gold Family's house pets but they got to strong so they had to leave.
"They must miss you?' Joshua asked.
"I don't think so I think they just tested us to see if we are strong enough trainers." Sammy said calmly. "Now let's get over this wall Jade come on out!" Sammy said as he threw the red and white ball in the air the ball opened up and a red light flashed out forming a large bird. The bird looked raptor like and was brown with a cream colour underneath. It had long red hair on its head which was its head-crest and its tail feathers were alternating colour between red and yellow. The bird Pokémon also had two powerful talons.
"Dgeotto!" Jade cried out as she emerged from the pokéball and sat herself down next to Sammy asking him to come on. Sammy quickly climbed on with squirtle still on his head and flew over the large wall. After a few more trips everyone was over to find a bunch of meowth guarding mareep.
"Jade use gust attack the wing attack!" Sammy commanded as Jade made a small tornado from flapping its wings which trapped the meowth before Jade whacked them all away with a powerful wing attack.
"Elekid use thunder punch!" Melissa exclaimed as elekid punched mareep on its foot preventing it from running.
"Mareep I'm sorry about what happened to Zane but you have to believe me I did not kill him or is it my fault, listen to this recording of the incident.
"Melissa, mareep be together my life is over mareep you belong with Melissa from now on please go and I'm sorry for all this Melissa I'm sorry... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The recording then stopped. "Mareep those were Zane's last words he wants us to be together it's his last wish. Mareep had a tear in his eyes after hearing his trainer's deep voice and used the last of its strength to jump into Melissa arms.
"Thank you for forgiving me Mareep."
"Reep!" The sheep Pokémon said. Soon after the group quickly made their way back to the small cottage and rested there for the night after a long day. The next day the group awoke and ate some scrambled eggs Melissa made before getting ready to leave.
"Bye Melissa." Joshua said as they hugged each other in private before he turned off.
"Bye" the whole group exclaimed as they left the small cottage and headed towards vermillion city where their next badge awaits them.
My longest chapter yet 3994 words Next time: Samuel vs. the "Rhy" Master.
Butterfree learning morning sun is an exclusive to gale of darkness after being purified.
Master Pokémon out!