Helping out with Paras
Today the trio were out in a forest near a peaceful village called Mossgreen Village and Selina was looking at her map guide book. "So where are we going now Jessie?" asked James. "Well there doesn't seem to be much out here James," answered Selina "so the only thing to do here really is shop on supplies like food, water and medicines really. Then we leave to find a new place to search for new Pokemon". "Alright, Meowth we're leaving now" said James. Meowth didn't answer. He was resting by a tree. "Meowth did you hear me?" said James. Again Meowth didn't answer.
Selina went over to Meowth to wake him up, but Meowth didn't look good. He was all sleepy and his face was red. Selina touched Meowth's head and it felt very hot. "Oh no Meowth has a fever," she said "James get Cloyster out and have it freeze some leaves with ice beam". James released Cloyster at once and had it freeze some leaves with ice beam. Selina placed a frozen leaf on Meowth's head at once and gave him some water to drink from her water canteen. "Okay that's good, but we should really get Meowth to a Pokemon center for a proper rest and recovery" said Selina. "Do you people need some help?" said a voice.
The voice came from a woman with green hair. Selina recognized her as Cassidy from the problem with Paras episode. "Oh thank goodness," said Selina "do excuse me but do you know where a Pokemon center is please? My poor Meowth has come down with a fever". "Oh dear," said Cassidy "well I have medicine here with me that's good for fevers. So I'll give some to Meowth now and I'll guide you to the Pokemon center right away". "Ah that's brilliant thank you" said Selina. Cassidy gave Meowth some medicine and led the duo to the pokemon center where Meowth could get medical attention from Nurse Joy. "Thanks for helping us ma'am" said James. "Think nothing of it," said Cassidy "i hope your Meowth will recover soon".
It wasn't long till Nurse Joy was getting treated by Nurse Joy. "What shall we do now Jessie?" asked James. "Well I still need errands to run," said Selina "so James you stay here with Meowth and make sure he does get plenty of rest so he could recover by tomorrow or the next day". "Alright" said James.
So while James and Meowth stayed in the pokemon center, Selina went off to buy supplies. She first bought food packets of noodles, rice and pastas, and small tins of food and cans of pokemon food. The next thing to buy was medicines. Selina remembered Cassidy's pharmacy store and decided to head over there. She asked Nurse Joy where Cassandra's pharmacy was and Nurse Joy gave Selina directions.
Selina made her way to the pharmacy thanks to Nurse Joy's directions. As she got closer to the shop, she heard some voices. Someone was giving commands to a Pokemon. "That sounds like Ash" said Selina. She was right because she saw the gang with Cassandra. By Cassandra's side was a Paras. "This means Cassandra trying to evolve her Paras now" said Selina, remembering the problem with Paras episode. Right now Ash had his Pikachu try to use a very weak thundershock, but Paras fainted. Next Ash sent out Squirtle and told it to use a very weak water gun but Paras fainted from that too. "I don't know if Ash's Chamander has evolved since I prevented the Exeggutor disaster," said Selina "but I better step in here just in case".
Selina stepped forward towards the group. "Oh hello there Jessie," said Cassandra "is Meowth better now?" Cassandra explained to her grandmother and the gang about helping Meowth earlier. "Oh his doing fine now thanks to your help," said Selina "and James is taking care of it now. I came here to thank you again and get some medicine from your shop. But I heard you battling". "Oh well you see I'm trying to get my Paras to evolve" said Cassandra. She explained she wanted to evolve Paras to make a medicine from Parasect's mushroom. "I do understand your situation Cassandra," said Selina "but you're doing this all the wrong way. Do excuse my rudeness but as your Paras is such a coward and weakling, well it will never evolve at this rate. It really needs to build up courage, confident and muscle before you have it battle". "I agree with your words young lady," said Cassandra's grandmother "what do you suggest we do with Paras?" "Easy;" said Selina "we work on its moves and teach it to learn how to dodge moves. I know all this because I had to do this sort of training with Meowth because he's weak too". Cassandra, her grandmother and the gang agreed with Selina's idea.
"Okay first order of business, what moves does your Paras know Cassandra?" said Selina. "Well it knows stun spore, spore, scratch and leech life and it also knows cut" said Cassandra. "Okay that's good," said Selina "so let's see what Paras's scratch and leech life attacks are". She released her Zubat and Primeape and picked two big sticks. "Okay Zubat show Paras what your leech life is like and Primeape show what your scratch is like". Zubat and Primeape demonstrated their attacks. "Okay that's good, now Cassandra have your Paras demonstrates its scratch, cut and leech life attacks". Cassandra did that but Paras's scratch, cut and leech life attacks were weak. "Okay then well let's have Paras learn how to dodge attacks," said Selina "Ash may I have a Pokemon battle with you?" "Of course" answered Ash. Selina returned Zubat and Primeape. "Paras you watch this closely" Cassandra said to Paras. Paras nervously nodded.
Selina released her Venonat to battle and Ash sent out, to Selina's surprise, his Chameleon. 'No way, when did Charmander evolve?' thought Selina. "When did you get a Charmeleon?" she asked Ash. "Ah I battled a trainer yesterday and Charmander evolved after the battle" said Ash. Selina had a bad feeling that Ash's Charmeleon was disobedient now just like the anime, but decided to carry on. Selina got ready to battle. Ash was about to give Charmeleon a command but Charmeleon started off by firing a flamethrower attack towards Venonat. "Venonat dodge that and use psybeam" said Selina. Venonat dodged the attack just in time and fired a psybeam attack. Charmeleon got hit. 'I knew it, Charmeleon is disobedient now just like the anime' thought Selina. Ash started to tell Charmeleon off but Charmeleon just flamethrowered Ash in the face. It was about to use flamethrower at Venonat again but Venonat used disable and stopped Charmeleon from using flamethrower. "Good work Venonat now use supersonic" said Selina. Venonat released a supersonic attack and Charmeleon became confused. Ash tried to give Charmeleon a command but it was too confused to do anything right. "Now's our chance to use psybeam again Venonat" said Selina. Charmeleon got hit by Venonat's psybeam attack and was defeated. Ash returned Charmeleon at once.
"Wow that was impressive with how your Venonat battled Charmeleon" said Cassidy. "I've practiced battling a lot during my travels," said Selina "but to be honest with that Charmeleon being disobedient it seems quite easy to defeat it". Ash looked sadly at Charmeleon's pokeball; like the anime he didn't expect for this to happen as he and Charmander got along so well together. Selina felt sorry for Ash and spoke up. "The reason why Charmeleon is disobedient is because of your inexperience as a trainer Ash. The thing is about some pokemon species after they evolve from their smallest forms like, Charmander for instance, they gain new kind of attitudes like a vicious nature, or overconfidence nature or independence nature. So depending on the trainers attitude or experience as a pokemon trainer that pokemon can lose its respect towards the trainer after they evolve. So Ash as you are still a rookie Charmeleon has lost its respect towards you and you will have to try and earn its respect again". "Jessie is is right Ash" said Brock, who understood what Selina was saying. Ash still felt sad about this.
Just then Paras walked up to Venonat. "Oh were you impressed with how Venonat battled Paras?" said Selina. Paras nodded yes. "Well you can become strong but you need to train on your moves, so we need to get back to work of strengthening your cut, scratch and leech life attacks". Paras understood. So during the afternoon Selina had Paras practice using its cut, scratch and leech life attacks on sticks to make them stronger. She even had Paras practice stun spore and spore with confidence and then had Paras learn slash. "I have to say young lady you're doing wonders here with Paras" said the grandmother. "This is what I had to do with Meowth" said Selina.
After that Selina decided it was time for Paras to try again with battling. "Do you think Paras can do this now?" asked Cassandra. "It will be okay Cassandra," said Selina "we've built up some of its confidence now". Cassandra wasn't so sure but she agreed to battle with Paras again.
Selina decide to battle Paras with her Venonat. "Okay Venonat start off with tackle" said Selina. Paras dodge Venonat and use slash" said Cassandra. Paras managed to dodge Venonat's tackle attack and it scratched Venonat good. "That's it Paras," said Selina "that's a lot better than you did before". Even Cassandra's grandmother and the gang agreed that Paras was doing a bit better. "I have to admit Jessie is a good pokemon trainer" said Misty. "Yes especially since she knew what to do right away to help Paras" said Brock. "That woman will go far" said the grandmother. "Okay Paras let's try your leech life attack" said Cassandra. "You use leech life too Venonat" said Selina. The two bug pokemon bit down on each other and then let go. "You're doing great Venonat" said Selina. "You're doing great too Paras" said Cassandra.
Suddenly both Venonat and Paras started to glow. "I think both Paras and Venonat are evolving" said Brock. He was right because Venonat evolved into a Venomoth and Paras evolved into Parasect. "Wow this was unexpected," said Selina "but I'm not complaining, especially since Paras is now a Parasect". Cassandra was happy her Paras finally evolved because now she could use its mushroom to make medicines with.
After that the gang brought all the medicines they needed, said goodbye to Cassandra and her grandmother and they left. Selina stayed to buy medicine too and also to talk to Cassandra. "Hey Cassandra I have TM's that can teach your Parasect some more new moves," she said "is it okay I teach it some new moves". "Well it would be nice to have Parasect learn some new moves," said Cassandra "what do you think Parasect?" Parasect nodded yes because it wanted to learn some new moves. So Cassandra returned Parasect to the pokeball and Selina started to teach it some new moves. She taught it toxic, dig, solar beam, mega drain, double edge and bide. "Wow that's some nice moves, thank you Jessie" said Cassandra. "Think nothing of it," said Selina "well I better get back to James and Meowth soon. No doubt they'll be wondering where I am".
Jest then Cassandra's grandmother came in, holding a Persian in her right hand. "I found it outside sleeping and thought it would make a great mascot for our shop" she said. "I agree it is so adorable" said Cassandra. 'Oh dear, Meowth is not going to like this' thought Selina. She was right because as soon as she got back to the pokemon center she told James and Meowth about Cassandra, her Parasect and her Persian. Meowth felt disappointed as he really liked Cassandra because of how pretty she was. "Never mind Meowth," said Selina "come on let's get some nice dinner, go to bed and we'll set off to search for more pokemon tomorrow". "Okay" said Meowth.
So with the problem with Paras dealt with, and Meowth was all better it was time for the trio to move along with their travels.
Selina will help Ash out with his disobedient Charizard before the Indigo League happens.