Part 4
By Freakachu
At last, I was out of that cold lab. The meowth girl, I knew had a name. I had read it on some papers that were in the lab. Her name was Nyarthashi. She sat trembling, in the blanket I had wrapped around her, more from fear than from cold. Her dull blond hair hung in wet tangled strands midway down her back. Large meowth eyes darted around nervously and her tail twitched back and forth. I knew she couldn't talk. Not english, anyway. I pulled the flashlight out of my pocket and shone it around, the light reflecting on the charm stuck to her forehead. Taking the Pokéball with my used to be Pichu in it, I tossed it out. The pokemon stood before me, and blinked.
"Tai." It simply said, knowing who I was.
I breathed a sigh of relief. After realizing that nobody should know I was in the lab, I concocted excuses for my 'Taichu'.
"Ok," I said to Nyarthashi, "both these Pikachu were mine. And, they fell in my evolution stones at home. Does that sound reasonable?"
Even though Nyarthashi couldn't talk, or understand me, it felt good to talk to somebody.
Nyarthashi just looked at me, a blank expression on her face.
I looked through my backpack, and came up with a large red sweater that my mother had knitted me. I knew it would be too big for Nyarthashi, but it would help to keep her warm. I helped her into it.
"Meowwwwwwwwwth." She purred.
I collected all my things and held onto Nyarthashi's hand. Then I teleported to the harbour. Nyarthashi let out a howl like she'd been slapped.
"What?! What's wrong?" I tried to calm her, but she was so noisy that she'd probably wake up the whole island before she became docile.
It seemed that she didn't like the teleporting. It scared her really badly. I thought maybe from then on, with her, I couldn't teleport.
Finally after eons, Nyarthashi became quiet and I bought a ticket for the 3 am ship heading for Fuschia. We borded, Nyarthashi looking around with her huge meowth eyes. Everything seemed to fascinate her, especially round things, and shiny things. We found a seat and sat. Before long, we were asleep.
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"Miss? Are you awake?" I heard someone through the mist in my mind. Pulling myself out of sleep, I saw a man standing before me.
"Miss, the ship has docked." He said.
"Ugh.. thanks.." I sat up and looked around. Nyarthashi was gone!
"NYARTHASHI! WHERE ARE YOU?" I hollered. Frantically I began to search. I didn't need this.. not now. I was only 8, I wasn't cut out to be a babysitter.
After a while, I found her, under one of the seats, still asleep.
We left the ship, and standing near the port in Fuschia, people began to stare. I would have teleported right then, but Nyarthashi would make a commotion, and I didn't know this place well. Who knows where I would end up. Besides, I couldn't teleport very far. A half mile at the most.
And then, only once in a while. Especially trying to teleport with someone else. I grabbed her hand and pulled her to the nearest store. I'd have to buy her clothes that fit. She looked like a freak.
I browsed around until I found her a pair of overalls and a t-shirt. It was still summer for a couple weeks more, and decided that they'd suit fine. She also needed socks, shoes and underwear. And maybe a hat. I had to hide those ears somehow.
Everything cost more than I thought, and it turned out, I was glad I had the five hundred dollars I'd left home with. The total came to $34.99. Straight into the washroom I took her, and changed her. She looked pretty spiffy.
"Meooowth?" She asked. I didn't have the slightest idea what she was talking about.
"Ah.. yeah.. whatever."
The hat hid her ears well, and the overalls covered her tail. Later she'd need a jacket, but I'd worry about that later. Right now, I wanted to get to the gym.
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The match against Koga wasn't too hard. My Taichu knocked out all his vicious poison pokémon with one hit each. It seemed that Taichu were all the pokemon types combined, so whatever pokémon it battles against, it uses attacks that they are weak against. My two Taichu knew all the potential attacks that existed.
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It was on the way to Celadon City, when Nyarthashi said her first english word.
"Lil!"
"What did you say?!" I spun around so fast, I almost fell down in the dirt.
"Lil!"
Were my ears decieving me, or did she say something I could understand?
I had tried to teach her to talk for the month we had been on the way from Fuschia to Celadon. We had gotten lost alot, and it was taking a while to get there.
"Tai.." My Taichu looked sick, and about to collapse.It looked fatter too. I hoped I hadn't been over feeding it. Then something struck me. One Taichu was male, and the other was female.
"Oh my god! It's pregnant!" I yelled.
"Preg-nit." Nyarthashi mimicked.
I turned back around to continue on the way, and ran face first into a sign.
"Prussian Town Ahead. 2 km" It said.
Prussian Town? Oh darn. I was heading toward Celadon. Well, a town is a town and I hoped that maybe there'd be a gym there, and a place to stay, because we had been on the road for almost a month.