"Do you have any hazelnut cream to go in the coffee?" "Here is Springtown our cows don't produce flavours." - The Wanted Bride by Sylvia McDaniel.
Hey, guys, I am so sorry about the confusion of the last chapter. Ash caught the female Nidoran and it evolved into Nidorina, however, throughout the last chapter I said Nidorino by mistake. This has been fixed, sorry!
Also, soon Ash will start to challenge gyms and, so I want him to be joined by an OC. I am asking you guys what sort of trainer she will be? The type of trainer with the most votes will be chosen!
Chapter 21
Ash followed Eevee's trail of paw prints as the evolution Pokemon, who was ahead of him, was following the scent of Team Rocket. The black haired boy and his Pikachu soon caught up to his other Pokemon, which was waiting in the bushes near an old wooden cabin. The cabin had one window and one door with a vent and wood pile on its left. Large flat grey stones were used in order to create a footpath leading to the front door, which Team Rocket and the egg were behind.
Peeking through the window, Ash watched as James cooked at the stove, Jessie ate on toast and Meowth polished the egg like it was his own.
"Ready Eevee, Pikachu," Ash whispered. The two Pokemon used the window as their entrance, breaking through the glass which scattered shards everywhere. "Dugtrio," Ash then called. "Use Dig to get under the house and take the egg back."
Pikachu and Eevee rampaged through the cabin, causing the cat Pokemon to lose sight of the egg. When the Meowth looked down he saw a small hole in the ground. "Ahh, where's the egg?" the Pokemon shouted loudly.
Meanwhile, Dugtrio resurfaced beside Ash with the egg, happily swaying back and forth in celebration.
"Good job, Dugtrio," Ash said. "Return."
Then as Team Rocket heard Ash's voice they turned towards the broken window. The black-haired boy stood just outside, watching as the chaos unfolded.
"Hey, give me back my egg," the Meowth said.
Eevee did not like the cat Pokemon calling the egg his. It. Was. Hers. She was not going to let some thieves take it from her.
Ash gasped in shock as his Eevee began to evolve, growling and hissing at Team Rocket as she did. Soon, in the place of the small Pokemon, stood Espeon with a thin forked tail and lilac fur.
"Espeon, the sun Pokemon. It uses the fine hair that covers its body to sense air currents and predict enemy's actions. This Espeon is female and knows that moves tackle, quick attack, swift, confusion and psybeam."
"Go, Arbok," Jessie shouted as she threw her Pokeball. The ball popped open revealing a serpent-like Pokemon with purple scales all over its body. It has a large hood just below its head, which has a design similar to an angry face. The pattern typically has red and yellow eyespot outlined it black, a wide black streak resembling a mouth, and a V-shaped stripe about the face pattern.
"Wheezing, attack!" James said. A purple Pokémon appeared from the man's Pokeball. It had two heads, the left head is larger, and has prominent eyebrows, pointed teeth protruding from its lower jaw, and two flat teeth in its upper jaw. The smaller, right head simply has two pointed teeth, one at each corner of its mouth.
Arbok and Weezing? Ash frowned in confusion and then felt recognition fill him. Team Rocket's Pokemon had somehow evolved since he had last seen them. Arbok was much larger than its pre-evolved form of Ekans and Weezing now had two spheres connected to its Koffing body by thin tubes.
"Go Pikachu, Espeon," Ash ordered. "Thunder and Psybeam."
The two attacks combined themselves together increasing the power of it. So, when Team Rocket tried to counter attack, Arbok and Weezing's poison sting and smog was destroyed. Team Rocket was then tossed out of the cabin, after a hole was blown in its side, blasting off again.
Suddenly, Ash could feel something moving inside the egg as it began to glow. It then slowly cracked, starting from the tip, sending web-like line halfway down it. The black haired boy and his Pokemon watched in amazement, waiting impatiently to see what Pokemon is inside.
The top half then completely shattered revealing a small, yellow Pokemon with a round body that was still partly encased in its eggshell. It has stubby hands and round feet with two toes on each. With black eyes and five spikes on its head that seemed to form a crown, it was one of the smallest and cutest Pokemon Ash had ever seen.
As for the Pokemon is stared at the black haired boy in confusion and then, as if a light went on, it began to cheer and laugh. This caused Ash to laugh along with it.
"Espeon," the lilac psychic Pokemon said as it watched the baby Pokemon it had saved hatch into the world.
After a while the baby Pokemon yawned and stretched, saying, "Togi."
Now outside of the cabin, sitting on a park bench Ash watched as Espeon played peek-a-boo with the newly hatched Pokemon. While the two played Ash sat with the Pokedex, search what type of Pokemon it was.
"Togepi, the spike ball Pokemon. The shell seems to be filled with joy. It is said that it will share good luck when treated kindly. This Togepi is female and had yet to learn any moves."
Ash marches onwards towards Cinnabar Island, along with the way expecting many challenges from other Pokemon trainers. After all, it was getting closer to the start of the Indigo League, where many people will want to battle their Pokemon. The black haired boy was going to use this as an advantage, allowing his Pokemon to gain more battling experience as well.
The black haired boy's next challenger was a man about a foot taller than him. He had a thick light brown beard and hair, which was covered in a green woollen hat. The man also wore a red shirt with a sleeveless denim jacket pulled over the top.
"Rhyhorn, I choose you," the man shouted.
With Espeon watching over Togepi, Ash chose his Dugtrio for this battle. It was ground type vs ground type.
"Rhyhorn, takedown now," ordered the brunette man.
The large grey Rhyhorn with red eyes charged towards Dugtrio causing the earth to quake with every step. It was the Pokemon's body weight that caused this shaking, resulting the triplet mole Pokemon to quiver along with it.
"Use dig," Ash ordered and Dugtrio quickly borrowed miles underground to escape the tremors caused by the Pokemon.
When the triplets resurfaced the Rhyhorn was glancing wildly around in confusion.
"Dugtrio, use a sand attack," Ash said not skipping a beat.
The mole Pokemon quickly began to throw sand into the Rhyhorns eyes, blinding the Pokemon and reducing the accuracy of it attacks. This gave Ash's Pokemon a higher advantage over the large creature.
"Horn attack," the other trainer ordered.
However, Ash just as quickly told his Pokemon to use tri attack. So, as the ground and rock type Pokemon charged towards Dugtrio, three beams of power shot from the mole Pokemon and converged. Rhyhorn was hit with all three beams, knocking it unconscious from the attack.
"Wow, your Pokemon have been really well trained," the man commented after the battle was over.
"Thank you," Ash said. "Your Rhyhorn is a great fighter."
After the two talked for a bit, they said their goodbyes, each splitting ways. The man, Steve, Ash learned had already earned his eighth badge and was challenging trainers in order for his Pokemon to gain more experience. The black haired did not mind this as his Pokemon were also gaining fighting experience very time he accepted a challenge.
Continuing on his journey, Ash found himself travelling through the forest, however, the forest wasn't as quiet as the black haired boy originally thought.
"Clefairy! Clefairy!" a voice shouted through the thick trees.
"What is that?" Ash asked his Pikachu and Espeon, who shook their heads not knowing either.
The constant calling of 'Clefairy', became louder as whoever was shouting slowly approached the area the trainer and his Pokemon were in. So, a few minutes later from the trees emerged a pink Pokemon with chubby, vaguely star-shaped body. A small pointed tooth protrudes from the upper left corner of its mouth.
As soon as the Clefairy caught sight of Ash, Pikachu, Espeon and Togepi, it rushed towards them saying, "Clef, Clefairy, fairy!"
Ash, of course, did not understand what the small pink Pokemon was saying and instead asked Pikachu to try and translate. This translation came in the forms of the yellow mouse Pokemon's surprisingly good stick drawings. Drawn into the dirt beneath their feet was, first, two stick people and then, second, one stick person (or Pokemon in this case) with question marks floating around. The black haired boy understood.
The Clefairy in front of him had lost its friend and was asking the boy and his Pokemon if they had seen it.
Shaking his head sadly, Ash crouched down on his knees so that he was roughly the same height as the fairy Pokemon. "I am sorry Clefairy, you are the first Pokemon I have seen since entering the forest," Ash said and watched as the pink Pokemon sagged in defeat, tears pooling in its eyes.
"But, hey, I am sure we can help you," the black haired boy said trying to cheer the Pokemon up. It worked.
With the thought of three extra pairs of eyes looking for its friend, Clefairy perked back up with newly found energy.
"Clefairy!" the fairy Pokemon said, jumping up and down.
"Okay, then let's go," Ash said. "Take us to the last place you saw your friend."
Clefairy nodded leading the way to a small clearing that the two Pokemon had slept in the night before. It was filled with tree stubs, which sat on either end of the small patch of grass. Scattered around were strange red and white mushrooms. These mushrooms were harmless and most Pokemon enjoyed eating them, especially grass and bug type Pokemon.
Upon further inspection, Ash saw a few of the mushrooms had been picked. Since the clearing was quite difficult for a human to get to then this meant that either Clefairy's friend ate them or a Pokemon stumbled across them.
"Clefairy!" Ash called. "I think you friend went this way."
"Clef," shouted the pink Pokemon as it followed the black haired trainer, who was trailing the eaten mushrooms. It was just a hunch, but it was a start, and it was the only evidence that he could find.
However, the trail soon ran cold as whatever Pokemon had been picking them had stopped. Ash hoped that this meant the Pokemon was sleeping somewhat around here.
"Let's take a break and eat something while we can," Ash said and began to cook the rice that the black haired boy had been carrying in his bag.
Once the rice was cooked Ash made over a dozen rice balls and began to feed Togepi as his other Pokemon helped themselves.
"So, what type of Pokemon is your friend?" Ash asked the Clefairy as he fed the baby Pokemon a small mouthful of rice.
"Clefairy," the Pokemon said approaching the black haired boy and pulled out his Pokedex. The pink Pokemon then pressed one of the buttons causing a picture to appear on the small screen. It was a Pokemon covered with thick blue vines that obscured its face so only its eyes could be seen.
Dexter then said in a robotic voice, "Tangela, the vine Pokemon. Its whole body is swathed with wide vines that are similar to seaweed. The vines shake as it walks."
Suddenly,the cry if an attacking Spearow caught the black haired trainer's attention. Other Spearow soon swept past the boy and his Pokemon, speeding towards wherever the flock was attacking.
"Oh no, we better make sure no one gets hurts," Ash knew that the Spearow and their evolved form Fearow were both extremely aggressive and territorial. If a trainer or Pokemon invaded their territory it was within the flying types belief that the intruder should be executed.
To make matters worse, it turned out that the Pokemon Ash and Clefairy were seeking was the one the Spearows were about to attack. What looked like hundreds of Spearow surrounded the Tangela as the grass type Pokemon trembled in fear.
"Clefairy," exclaimed the pink Pokemon as it ran over to it friend.
"Clefairy, no!" Ash shouted lunging to grab the daily type Pokemon, but it escaped, running directly towards the centre of the flock of Spearow.
"Pikachu and Magnemite, I chose you," Ash shouted. Pikachu quickly jumped off its trainer's shoulder as the magnet Pokemon emerged from its Pokeball. "Thunder."
The two electric type attacks struck just at the right time as the Spearow pecked and scratched at the Tangela and Clefairy. The flock then did two things: the weaker Spearow fell to the ground unconscious from the electric attack and the Spearow that were slightly stronger fled, flying unsteadily through the sky.
Taking the opportunity, the black haired trainer allowed himself to catch one of the fallen Pokemon just before he rushed everyone out of the Spearows territory.
Ash then took it upon himself to discipline the two Pokemon , telling them both to be more aware of their surroundings and not run head first into trouble. The two Pokemon then nodded shamefully at the boy agreeing with his words.
Then Ash signed and smiled slightly at the two Pokemon, "I am glad you two found each other again. We have to go now, so you guys be careful and, Tangela, don't wonder off again."
With that said Ash moved to set off on to his next adventure with Pikachu and Espeon at his side, Pikachu on his shoulder and Togepi in his arms.
The two friends looked at each other before turning back to the black haired trainer who was leisurely walking away.
"Tang!"
"Fairy!" the two Pokemon shouted and ran after the black haired trainer. They didn't want to be left behind.