"Pokémon Endless Journey - Volume 1: Red, Green, Blue and Yellow - The First Legend"

Chapter 14 – Hair as Beautiful as the Sun:

"Idiot! Idiot, idiot, idiot! You promised we would play together today! I hate you! I never want to see you again!"

Red's eyes opened up and he shot up after that voice echoed in his red. From a distant past, that voice still haunted him sometimes. He breathed heavily and analyzed his surroundings. He remembered what had happened: after staying for dinner, Mr. Fuji and Akane offered the three Trainers to stay and sleepover during the night, leading to a rather amusing situation, where Green was given a blue sleeping bag, Blue received a Red one, and Red got a green one, which were traded around after a shared dumbfound look and a nod.

He was alone in the room. At first he found it rather odd, but he figured that Green and Blue woke up beforehand and left so they would have a head-start for the rest of the adventure.

Leaving the room after composing himself, he entered the living room, where he found Mr. Fuji reading a newspaper and Akane playing with Cubone.

"Good morning, Red."

"Good morning Mr. Fuji. Thanks for everything last night."

"Don't mention it."

"Have Green and Blue left already?"

"Indeed hey were rather fast, apparently. Akane and I were still sleeping."

"Wow." Red let it escape through his teeth. Glancing at Cubone, he frowned. "I thought Blue was going to take Cubone in."

"I actually asked her that last night. She said she didn't want to take Cubone way from his home." Akane explained, as the Cubone tried to balance his bone weapon on top of his head.

"I see."

Mr. Fuji folded up the newspaper. "By the way, Red, you said you were focused on defeating Gyms, didn't you?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Then I have something for you." Mr. Fuji stood up from the table and approached a nearby shelf, taking out a little box and handing it to Red. "If you go south from her, a path will take you to Fuchsia City, which possesses a Gym. However, you will need that instrument to get pst a certain obstacle."

"Hm?" Curious, Red opened the box, revealing a flute with a Poké Ball shape at the very end. "A… Poké Flute?"

"Before the creation of Awakenings, if a Trainer wanted to wake up a Pokémon, they would have to use a Poké Flute."

"Poké Flute…? Wait, why do I need this? If a Pokémon is sleeping in the middle of the road, can't I just walk around it?"

Mr. Fuji chuckled at the remark. "It's a little harder to do than to say."

Red's eyes widened in what could only be described as a mixture of disbelief and amazement. The first more than the latter.

On a wooden bridge lay a Pokémon of great size and weight, and it didn't seem like he would wake up any time soon.

Red, still staring at the obstacle, pulled out his Pokédex.

'Snorlax, the Sleeping Pokémon. Snorlax's typical day consists of nothing more than eating and sleeping. It is such a docile Pokémon that there are children who use its expansive belly as a place to play.'

"People use this Pokémon to play around?!" Red's surprise went off the scale. "Alright… Guys, come out." Opening the three Poké Balls at his disposal, Ivysaur, Beedrill and Pikachu came out. Facing their Trainer, they wondered what was wrong.

"Ivy?"

"There."

The three Pokémon turned and froze just like Red. "Pika…"

"Bzzz…"

"Look, we're going to fight him off. He might be big, but he's not a challenge for us!" The three Pokémon simply narrowed their eyes at their Trainer. "Don't give me that look!" Determined to keep on moving forward, Red took out the Poké Flute and started playing it. Apparently the record lessons when he was younger did help him out.

Shortly after, the bridge they stood on began to shake.

"Ivysaur!"

Staying on guard, the three Pokémon readied for battle as the large Pokémon slowly stood up. It didn't seem all that pleased.

"…Should we do something?" Red asked, somewhat confused.

"Snorlax!" Snorlax walked forward, placing his eyes on the three Pokémon and jumping forward, in an attempt to slam them with his body."

"Pikachu, Volt Tackle!"

"Pika!" Pikachu jumped forward, covering himself in golden electric energy after landing and dashing forward, tackling Snorlax's belly. The power seemed tied, and it ended with Pikachu being bounced into the air, due to the elasticity of the body. "Pikaaaaaa!" Luckily, Beedrill swooped in and caught Pikachu. "Pika? Pika-Pi!"

"Bzzz."

"Ivysaur, Leech Seed!"

"Saur!" A small seed was fired from atop Ivysaur's flower bud, which hit Snorlax and sprouted multiple vines, tying him up and shocking him every now and then.

"Snor…!" Snorlax didn't like having his movement restrained, apparently.

"Beedrill, Twineedle! Pikachu, Iron Tail!"

"Bzz!"

"Pika!"

The two fell down towards Snorlax, Beedrill using his glowing spears and Pikachu a tail turned into metal to attack, both hitting the Pokémon straight on.

"Snor…LAX!" Steam rose from his body and his strength broke through the vines, freeing him from the vines.

"He knows Strength?!"

"Snorlax!" Snorlax's fist began to glow brightly and he rammed it against the three Pokémon simultaneously, causing massive damage.

"Crap… Wait… I have a plan! Keep you distance! Solar Beam! Pin Missile! Thunderbolt!"

"Ivy…" Ivysaur started charging the beam through solar energy as Beedrill fired multiple energy arrows from his spears and Pikachu released a thunderbolt from his body, both attacks hitting the wild Pokémon.

"Snor…"

"Saur!" Ivysaur fired the beam, hitting Snorlax straight on and causing quite some damage.

"Now!" Red hurled a Poké Ball at the wild Pokémon.

"Here are your Pokémon, sir. We hope to see you again."

"Does every nurse say that?!"

Red took the four Poké Balls and placed them on his belt before leaving the Poké Center.

"…I didn't plan to catch it, but… if he fainted, how would I pass through?" Red laughed the situation off, thinking that at the end of the day, he actually added a powerful ally to his team.

Suddenly, his eyes were covered up, much to his surprised. A chill ran up his spine and he felt as if he shouldn't move.

"Guess who."

"Uh?"

"Guess who…"

The high voice, while a little different from the one in his memory, he recognized it almost immediately. "…Yellow?"

"Right you are."

The hands were removed and Red turned around, finding an old friend behind him. A girl, slightly younger than him, two years to be exact, with bright blonde hair with a straw hat placed on top of it, bright yellow eyes, wearing mainly black a yellowish-orange clothes.

As she smirked at the boy with closed eyes, Red hugged her almost immediately, rather tightly, surprising her. The girl blushed strongly from this, just like Red when he realized what he was doing.

"O-Oh! Sorry…" Red apologized, blushing and scratching the back of his head when he let go of the girl.

"Don't worry."

"I was just… amazed. I mean… I didn't know if you even were in Kanto, let alone here."

"I guess that one is my fault." Yellow laughed awkwardly, making Red remember the dream he had the previous night. Or rather, a memory.

"I… I thought you didn't want to ever see me again."

Yellow remembered what she told Red four years ago. "…I was a kid. You were my best friend. As soon as I moved, I missed you…"

"…I missed you a lot too." Red admitted, chuckling, making the girl blush nervously. "Things got boring after you left."

"I see…"

Red and Yellow met for the first time when they were 8 and 6 years old respectively, Yellow having moved in for some months. While they laughed and played around, friendship was inevitable. But on the last day Yellow stayed over, due to some unfortunate events, Red broke the promise of playing with her that day.

But apparently that wound was easily healed by the moment they shared in the present.

"By the way… I'm sorry!"

"Uh? If it's about what happened, I already-"

"Actually…" Red looked nervous. "Remember how I told you my first Pokémon would be a Pikachu?"

"Yeah…"

"Actually… I couldn't have one as my first… But I still caught one!"

"You did? That's great!" Yellow took out a Poké Ball and opened it, letting out a Pikachu that landed on her shoulder. The Pikachu had a V-shaped notch at the end of its tail, indicating that it was a female. "I caught one too."

Red's eyes widened in amazement. "Whoa."

"Pika!"

"How many more Pokémon do you have, Red?"

"Not counting Pikachu, three." Red took out the four Poké Balls and threw them up, letting out his team.

"Ivysaur!"

"Pika!"

"Bzzz!"

"Snorlax."

"Wow…" Yellow and her Pikachu were amazed by seeing Snorlax. "He's big."

"Snorlax…" Snorlax picked Yellow's hat.

"Snorlax, that's not… food…" Red noticed that Yellow's hair was much longer then it seemed in reality. Her hat hid within it a very long and thin ponytail, Red's blush returned, and so did Yellow's.

"…Pika?"

"Ivy?"

Both Pikachus and Ivysaur noticed how frozen their Trainers were. Beedrill in the meantime tried to save the hat from being eaten by Snorlax.

"He's staring at my hair! He's staring at my hair! He's staring at my hair!"

"Her hair… is so… beautiful…"

Pokémon of the Day:

Snorlax - It wakes up only to eat and seldom for exercises. It is not a picky eater, as its strong stomach allows it to eat even moldy food without feeling any ill effects. When hungry, it is not satisfied until it consumes 900 pounds of food. Snorlax is docile enough to let children and small Pokémon bounce on its large stomach.