Chas and Anson had pocketed the small fortune they made selling the two fossils and had promised each other to keep their mouths shut. The chunk of amber was dropped off at the pokemon lab in Cinnabar Island; the kindly scientist had been expecting them. Vasseur had persuaded, as well as threatened, him into hurrying along the transformation process.
Originally, the aerodactyl had been his back-up plan. But after Dawson and his brother returned from Seafoam Island empty-handed, Vasseur's hopes of using the elemental birds faltered. Instead, he focused on the perks of using rock-hard wings instead and thus had sent Chas and Anson on the case.
They had returned with good news. Vasseur shed a rare smile and set to updating Scott and Dawson. In the meantime, whilst they waited, Vasseur handed the two poachers a list, containing other specific pokemon he required for his plan.
They were too late. By the time they had rushed into the town, the poachers were gone. Panting, the two girls frantically searched the buildings, except the gym, to find only angry villagers who shooed them out of their houses instantly.
Defeated, the girls dragged themselves off to the pokemon centre to clean themselves up and take a rest.
Several hours later, earlier than Kirralie would have liked to admit, they wolfed down some lunch, fed their pokemon, and continued on their journey to Fuchsia. One thing Kirralie found extremely annoying, though Kelsie wasn't too bothered, was the lack of strong pokemon. As they stepped into Viridian Forest, only low-levelled caterpie and weedle were in sight. Her pokemon, her brand-new clefable with them, left a trail of unconscious pokemon behind them as they weaved their way through the thorny branches and muddy grass patches.
Not to be deterred, Kelsie lead the way, cheered by the thought of seeing her typhlosion soon. She partook in a spot of battling herself, mainly because it entertained her pokemon. Muzzy took to eating the smaller bugs, much to the girls' disgust. He stared at them, his huge eyes full of satisfaction, as he ate, creeping them out further.
"Kelsie, make your pokemon stop that!" Kirralie hissed, throwing the remains of her pidgey dinner aside, feeling sick, whilst Muzzy crunched noisily, green fluid dripping from his mouth. He wasn't allowed out of his pokeball after that, not until they were out of the forest.
Togepi, pichu and flaaffy were more than happy to gobble up what Kirralie and Kelsie left. Polly, bellsprout, skiploom and clefable, all vegetarians, turned up their noses, munching on their apples and berries. Full, Kelsie laid back on the ground trying to watch the sky through the trees. It was rapidly darkening, the day had sped past, due to the fact they had slept through the morning.
Kirralie finished erecting her tent and slumped onto the grass beside her friend. A nice, cool breeze was picking up around them and occasionally a twinkling star would break free off the canopy and shine down. Silence surrounded the group, wild pokemon, after earlier encounters, were steering clear and most of their pokemon were dozing off contentedly. Kirralie had just started to feel her eyelids droop, when;
Crack… crack.
Startled, she bolted upright and turned to her right. Kelsie was already sat up, holding her pink egg in her hands, wide smile on her face, faint crack lines visible on the egg. Shell chipped away, tiny pieces at a time, wobbling occasionally in Kelsie's already shaking hands.
A little over an hour later, most of the shell had peeled away. A small arm had forced its way through, followed shortly by an even smaller leg. Noises could be heard, but neither girl could quite make out the pokemon's cry.
Polly and clefable, the only two pokemon awake, aside from Kelsie's occasionally shaking pokeball containing Muzzy, crept closer to watch the egg hatch too. Clefable was acting especially excited, pointing at the pink colouring of the limbs in sight. She was hoping for a little cleffa she could look after.
After both arms and legs had broken free, the egg glowed the evolutionary white light and faded, revealing a small, round pokemon, a smile on her cute face.
"Buff! Iggly!" She cried, pirouetting. Her whole body was the same pale pink the egg had been, her legs; stubby little points sticking out of her rounded physique. There was a small swirl pattern on her forehead, just below a small tuft of hair. Her amber eyes stared, big and wide, right past the two girls and the two pokemon, staring at the mixture of pink skin and white wool that was flaaffy. "Iggly!"
Her stubby legs ran forward until she tripped, rolling onto her rear and then bouncing the rest of the way. Her loud giggles resounded through the forest, waking the remaining pokemon. Flaaffy watched the ball heading towards her, her wool beginning to crackle with static. "No!" Kelsie cried, rushing forward and scooping up the bouncing igglybuff. "This is our newest member!"
Flaaffy stared at the crying bundle in her trainer's arms. She reached out and poked it, causing the pink ball to giggle once again. "She likes you flaaffy. I think it's the pink colouring you two share." Kelsie laughed. Kirralie's clefable 'humph'ed, looking upset about the fact the pink thing didn't prefer her.
Lysander, confident he was far enough from Fuchsia to be able to stop, fell back against a tree, closing his eyes in sheer exhaustion. He had been running non-stop for well over a day. It had almost been two days, in fact, since he had escaped death. He had forced himself to swim back to Fuchsia, hitching a ride from a friendly trainer and her lapras, and had kept to the town's outskirts, once back on land. By the afternoon, he had managed to escape the city and was running as fast as he could out onto the surrounding route.
By the next nightfall, after being on the run for almost twenty-four hours, he had reached the end of route thirteen and had managed to snaffle some poached magikarp from a friendly fisherman. Gulping down some water to wash the fish down, he rested his aching feet, closing his eyes for a few minutes.
Which quickly turned into hours.
With a yelp, he awoke, drenched in cold sweat. His nightmare had reminded himself of the danger he was in and he took off, once again. Cursing Scott Fletcher, Lysander hurried through route twelve, stopping every so often for a few minutes, keeping himself hidden by the foliage planted on the edge of the long fishing route. He was halfway through by the time nightfall had fallen again. At this rate, he was never going to be able to escape.
Not sleepy at all, Kelsie concentrated on training up her igglybuff. Although she wasn't the biggest fan of training, she felt bad that the pink ball was so far behind the rest of her team.
Kirralie went to bed. She watched Polly and flaaffy help igglybuff adjust to her moves for a while, stifling yawns, but it soon got too much for her. She bade Kelsie and her pokemon goodnight and then crawled into her crowded tent, nestling up beside her baby pokemon and resting her head on clefable's stomach.
Igglybuff showed more interest in dancing and singing than battling. She was a performer. If loud enough, her beautiful singing voice caused nearby pokemon to feel drowsy or even fall asleep, but mostly she kept it to a reasonable pitch. Kelsie enjoyed watching her spin around and around, spewing lyrical 'igglys'.
Every so often, flaaffy managed to capture the little pokemon's attention and make her interested, for a few minutes, in battling. She would belly-flop onto a random prey and then start bouncing off, elapsing into a fit of giggles. Flaaffy would set her upright and then flop back down, sighing, continuing to attack wild pokemon alone.
By morning, she had evolved again. Kelsie, only a little tired from staying up all night, had squealed excitedly, mimicked by igglybuff, who started hiccupping. Which started the bouncing fit again. The four females laughed and Kelsie handed her baby pokemon a flask of water. Igglybuff gulped it down, smiling gratefully.
Kirralie stirred from her tent, waking from the noise. She rubbed her eyes sleepily and stuck her head out of the tent, coming face to face with a tall, yellow pokemon with black stripes decorating the neck, ears and tail. It was beaming at the shocked girl, the sunlight causing the two red, crystal-like structures, on the head and tail of the pokemon, to gleam.
"Aaaargh!" Kirralie screamed, falling backwards. Ampharos and her trainer laughed.
Another filler before a big plotline :)
Sorry the egg took so long to hatch. I knew what I wanted straight away, but couldn't find the right time to hatch it. Kelsie doesn't particularly want to be a trainer and never showed much interest in catching pokemon, so I didn't want to give her a full team. Anyway, it's hatched now. And it's going to evolve quickly too, to get it out of the way. Jigglypuff's evolve from happiness anyway and she's pretty happy performing.
I'd also like to add- Thank you to my newest reviewer- Stonekipsta- for reviewing, adding an alert and favouriting :) You rock! Just like everyone else :)
The next chapter will be much more action packed, I promise, I just wanted to get the egg out of the way.
