"What pokemon could it be?" wondered Chris
"Yeah." agreed Taylor and Max.
THey set off in the forest once more, till they came to a quaint little house with a tiled roof and smoke coming out of a chimney.
Chris stood on the front step and knocked on the door. For a minute no one answered, and Chris was about to walk away again when the door opened and standing there smoking a pipe was Prag.
"CHris! Taylor! Max! Do come in. I have the kettle on the boil and magikarp for supper."
"You eat magikarp?" Taylor gulped
"Yeah. THat's what they sell all around the world. Except they describe it as 'fish'. Everything is actually pokemon meat, you just haven't noticed it."
"We eat pokemon?" said Crystal looking faint.
"Hey it's no big deal. Unless you want the world to be vegetarians."
"Anyway stop standing there in the cold. COme on in."
THey walked into Prag's house, and were not too surprised that the house had Prag's odour clearly in it.
"Tea or coffee?" Prag said.
Practically gagging, Chris shook her head, and Taylor and Max opened their mouths long enough to say, "Nothankswejusthadteabackatthehotel!" before shutting their mouths again.
"Suit yourself."
Chris was smiling politely trying to hold her nose.
"Do yug know oo or wat ook de baby pogemon?" she said while pinching her nose shut while Prag's back was turned.
"THey say that it is the mystical pokemon that haunts this forest which has taken the baby pokemon to train up an army of pokemon to fight against the trainers at Black Town."
"Do you know the way there then?"
"No, but I could show you the way to the pokemon's secret hideout."
"Surelet'sgothen!" said Taylor.
"I'll give you a map..."
"We alreaby ave a bap thank oo"
"Let's see it then."
Prag marked the secret hideout on the map then ushered Chris, Taylor and Max out the door.
Smiling politely they headed out the door and took a deep breath of the fresh (fresh but damp) air.
Max started coughing.
Prag waved goodbye as they headed off into the night (or maybe day, they couldn't tell).
They walked on for ages, Chris stopping every now and then to look at the map.
Finally she stopped and looked at the map.
"Well, at least we're sure of one thing."
"What's that?" asked Taylor.
"We're lost."
"GIve me that!" said Max, and he grabbed the map off Chris.
He led them away through the forest, Chris occasionally stopping to point out some rare pokemon.
After a while he stopped as while.
"We're here."
They had stopped in front of a mass of vines stretching away in front of them.
"How are we going to get through that?" asked Taylor.
Chris was already ahead of him. "Go! Bulbasaur!"
Bulbasaur came out of his pokeball.
"Bulbasaur!"
"Okay bulbasaur, use razor leaf!"
Bulbasaur's razor leaf quickly cut through the mass of leaves and vines that blocked their path.
What they saw thorugh the vines was astonishing.
A ring of some sort of stones surrounded a tree that had dark, shadowy berries growing on it.
As they came closer they saw some pokemon around the tree in the shadows.
Chris picked up Growlithe in her arms, worried that something might happen to Punk if she wasn't careful.
"Hey you!" yelled Max.
Taylor and Chris spun around and glared at Max.
"We came all the way here to see a TREE! I can't believe it. A stupid tree with weird berries on it. So what?"
The tree moved. It shook off the berries from its branches which in turn fell in a neat circle around it, and turned around and looked at Max. He gulped and started backing away. It looked like this was the pokemon that the statue as built to honour.
*Who dares disturb the dark sudowoodo of Dark Forest.*
"Dark Sudowoodo? But aren't Sudowoodos rock pokemon?" asked Taylor.
*The berries from my branches turn any pokemon into dark pokemon. They are called Conversion Berries. I am readying my dark pidgey's at this very moment to go and distribute the berries to all the four corners of Rieto.*
"But why would you want to turn all pokemon into dark types?" Chris was bewildered. She didn't know much about Sudowoodo, much less about a Dark Sudowoodo with psychic abilities.
*That is for me to know and you to remain in the dark.*
"What importance have you got in Black Town anyway? We can get a whole lot of humans to destroy you!"
*What humans may I ask?*
"The gym leader for a start."
*But I am the gym leader of Black Town.*
"Then I challenge you to a battle! If I win, you give ME the badge and you stop trying to make all pokemon turn into dark types. If I lose then we won't try to stop you and we will be the first to give our pokemon the Conversion berries."
Max and Taylor gasped. Their pokemon were now at stake as well as Crystal's.
"Yeah." agreed Taylor and Max.
THey set off in the forest once more, till they came to a quaint little house with a tiled roof and smoke coming out of a chimney.
Chris stood on the front step and knocked on the door. For a minute no one answered, and Chris was about to walk away again when the door opened and standing there smoking a pipe was Prag.
"CHris! Taylor! Max! Do come in. I have the kettle on the boil and magikarp for supper."
"You eat magikarp?" Taylor gulped
"Yeah. THat's what they sell all around the world. Except they describe it as 'fish'. Everything is actually pokemon meat, you just haven't noticed it."
"We eat pokemon?" said Crystal looking faint.
"Hey it's no big deal. Unless you want the world to be vegetarians."
"Anyway stop standing there in the cold. COme on in."
THey walked into Prag's house, and were not too surprised that the house had Prag's odour clearly in it.
"Tea or coffee?" Prag said.
Practically gagging, Chris shook her head, and Taylor and Max opened their mouths long enough to say, "Nothankswejusthadteabackatthehotel!" before shutting their mouths again.
"Suit yourself."
Chris was smiling politely trying to hold her nose.
"Do yug know oo or wat ook de baby pogemon?" she said while pinching her nose shut while Prag's back was turned.
"THey say that it is the mystical pokemon that haunts this forest which has taken the baby pokemon to train up an army of pokemon to fight against the trainers at Black Town."
"Do you know the way there then?"
"No, but I could show you the way to the pokemon's secret hideout."
"Surelet'sgothen!" said Taylor.
"I'll give you a map..."
"We alreaby ave a bap thank oo"
"Let's see it then."
Prag marked the secret hideout on the map then ushered Chris, Taylor and Max out the door.
Smiling politely they headed out the door and took a deep breath of the fresh (fresh but damp) air.
Max started coughing.
Prag waved goodbye as they headed off into the night (or maybe day, they couldn't tell).
They walked on for ages, Chris stopping every now and then to look at the map.
Finally she stopped and looked at the map.
"Well, at least we're sure of one thing."
"What's that?" asked Taylor.
"We're lost."
"GIve me that!" said Max, and he grabbed the map off Chris.
He led them away through the forest, Chris occasionally stopping to point out some rare pokemon.
After a while he stopped as while.
"We're here."
They had stopped in front of a mass of vines stretching away in front of them.
"How are we going to get through that?" asked Taylor.
Chris was already ahead of him. "Go! Bulbasaur!"
Bulbasaur came out of his pokeball.
"Bulbasaur!"
"Okay bulbasaur, use razor leaf!"
Bulbasaur's razor leaf quickly cut through the mass of leaves and vines that blocked their path.
What they saw thorugh the vines was astonishing.
A ring of some sort of stones surrounded a tree that had dark, shadowy berries growing on it.
As they came closer they saw some pokemon around the tree in the shadows.
Chris picked up Growlithe in her arms, worried that something might happen to Punk if she wasn't careful.
"Hey you!" yelled Max.
Taylor and Chris spun around and glared at Max.
"We came all the way here to see a TREE! I can't believe it. A stupid tree with weird berries on it. So what?"
The tree moved. It shook off the berries from its branches which in turn fell in a neat circle around it, and turned around and looked at Max. He gulped and started backing away. It looked like this was the pokemon that the statue as built to honour.
*Who dares disturb the dark sudowoodo of Dark Forest.*
"Dark Sudowoodo? But aren't Sudowoodos rock pokemon?" asked Taylor.
*The berries from my branches turn any pokemon into dark pokemon. They are called Conversion Berries. I am readying my dark pidgey's at this very moment to go and distribute the berries to all the four corners of Rieto.*
"But why would you want to turn all pokemon into dark types?" Chris was bewildered. She didn't know much about Sudowoodo, much less about a Dark Sudowoodo with psychic abilities.
*That is for me to know and you to remain in the dark.*
"What importance have you got in Black Town anyway? We can get a whole lot of humans to destroy you!"
*What humans may I ask?*
"The gym leader for a start."
*But I am the gym leader of Black Town.*
"Then I challenge you to a battle! If I win, you give ME the badge and you stop trying to make all pokemon turn into dark types. If I lose then we won't try to stop you and we will be the first to give our pokemon the Conversion berries."
Max and Taylor gasped. Their pokemon were now at stake as well as Crystal's.
