Orphan (Drifter)
By Shadow
"Are you all right?" Slasher asked. The Pikachu behind him peered at Sky. Putting down the picture and turning to the two Pokemon, Sky spoke.
"Guess I'm a drifter. Or some people call people like me orphans. I prefer drifter. It isn't so sad. I'm traveling now. As a Pokemon trainer I always wanted to be. I had my license yet was too afraid to leave. Guess it's not too ordinary for someone to do this. But, I'm seeking out the true meaning. I wanna seek out why I was born. Why my purpose is. If not to stay around the house to help out, I want to know why I was born. " Sky ran up into his room to collect some of his belongings and a backpack that he'd got for his birthday. He took out some of his pictures from his photo album and placed them inside the small compartment where you really couldn't store stuff. He took his no-battery watch that told you the time using how bright it was outside. He took a water bottle. Then he grabbed a pen, a notebook (pretty big) and stuffed them inside the medium sized compartment. Then he got his I-Zone camera out with some film and stuffed them in. Those were really the only things that were actually his. The more he thought about it though, the more he wanted to take his fathers TV/Radio that was pretty small. He ended up taking that. Then he rushed back downstairs into the kitchen to get some food. He got everything out of the fridge, and stuffed them in. Then he reached up to get the fire burner and the charger so he could start fires up to cook and keep warm. He took several 8 packs of batteries and was ready to go.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Crystal asked. "Like stuff to buy other things with?"
"Oh yeah!" Sky said running upstairs into his parent's bedrooms and grabbing all the money he could find, and then took the bank account cards. "I better be careful how I use this though." Running downstairs he thanked Crystal and got his Pokemon. "You guys walking? Oh wait! Crystal, you don't have your own Pokeball!"
"Shows how much you know." Crystal said. "Don't forget your box of Pokeballs!"
"How'd you…?" Sky wondered aloud.
"I have my ways with my big buddy over here. Thank Slasher." Crystal said.
"Oh… Which one did you choose? 'Cause I found this crystal like one…" Sky said rummaging through the box.
"A crystal one?" Crystal gasped. "B-b-but, that's IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Shows how much you know. You can change as long as you didn't go in the one you chose. Hey! On the back it says a Crystalball. There must be more around the world… Well, just get in!" Sky said, examining the ball.
Crystal hopped in the ball.
"No problem…" she said.
"Get her out now… Sky?!" Slasher said annoyed.
"You like her!" Sky accused sending out Crystal.
"Do not…" Slasher said. "Crystal, does it seem like I like you?"
"Ewwww! Don't say that. That's sicko." Crystal said. "Besides, your BIGGER than me all right." Then whispering to Slasher she asked, "Why's he so calm about this? Why are we so calm with this? Death and all, I mean."
"I really wouldn't know. Maybe it's because there is a lot of it around here. There's murderers." Slasher replied. Then he stepped outside into the sunlight and on the sand of the nearby beach.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Slasher's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All right. I admit it. Time's mean so I kill it. It just lags on and on. So I kill time by walking, talking, playing outside, training, or just sleeping. It's not all that bad really until Zone comes out and sees water when you're surfing and almost burns your head off…
Now I'm just dragging off subject. But that IS pretty scary… Admit it!
OK. So now I'm just sitting there, when who else comes outside? Sky! And he goes and steps on me before noticing I'm THERE. Then Crystal hears me yell, runs out and asks if I'm all right. I just stare at her and she asks me again. I say, "Sure!" and she doesn't seem to get what I just said. I notice that I'm still staring at her and then what do I do? I run back in the house and then Sky announces we should leave soon. What a day…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of Slasher's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sky ran inside the house and called his friend Nicky. She lived next door to him and saw his parents get slaughtered.
Relieved to hear him she started shouting at the telephone like there were monkeys on parade and he had to come see them.
"I'm so glad you're not dead! I mean, I saw the whole thing. I was playing outside and there was a rumbling noise and…"
"Yeah. Well, Nicky. It's been nice knowing ya and all, but now since I've become a drifter, I've gotta go. I'm saying goodbye for the last time, unless I decide to come back and all. Take care of that Onix you have got over there… It could be a tough fighter someday!" Sky said, trying not to sound too sad. It was enough that he had to hold back tears. He really didn't want to leave the place where he grew up. "Goodbye."
"Hold up!" Nicky said. "I'm coming with you."
"What?" Sky said, staring at the phone. "You are?"
"Yeah. Sure! Why not? I only have a Dad. That's good enough to become a "drifter" as you call yourself." She said.
"Be prepared to sleep in trees. Bring all the money that you can find that your Dad won't miss!" Sky said, relieved to have another human to journey with him. "I'll be on my way!" Then he hung up. "She's coming with us. I prefer no. There's only a few people left in this town. It's better she stay, maybe even help."
"Who's coming?" Crystal asked Slasher confused.
"Well, Nicky is his best friend. Best friends since they were 3 at least. Her Mom got slaughtered like those guys over there." Slasher said nodding his head over to Sky's parents. "They were Sky's parents. So, well, she's coming with us. You'll get used to her Pokemon sooner or later too."
"Ouch! That's gotta hurt… Hey, you wanna be best buds?" Crystal asked. "I'm new and all…"
"Sure! Just, err, don't get in the way in battles. It could cause major destruction of me. Heh." Slasher said, laughing a little. "You wouldn't want that, would you?"
"I wouldn't think so!" Sky said, obviously eavesdropping on their conversation. "But Crystal wouldn't do that. She's probably battled at least ONCE on her own. Right?"
"Well… No. Not exactly. But with a few others." Crystal said uneasily. "We usually help each other."
"You'll get the rules sometime or another. Either sooner or later, now or then…" Sky said, repeating different phrases from books.
"And…here we go again!" the Sandslash said looking annoyed. "Yet one of his many phases to hopefully pass soon."
"Hey! I heard that!" Sky said stopping. He didn't look happy. "Imagine daggers…"
"Imagine claws…"
"Imagine you two shutting up…" muttered Crystal. "It would be a miracle."
Slasher and Sky immediately burst out laughing.
"You…ha ha…don't…ha ha…get it!" Sky said, occasionally snorting. "It's a personal joke. Uh, I think I should only have one or two Pokemon out. Eventually one of you has to go in your balls. Oh! Shoot! We gotta get over to Nicky's house! I should leave a note though… Just so someone knows I'm still alive, but gone." Sky scribbled out something, left it on the kitchen table, and hurried out the door with his Pokemon and stuff he wanted to take.
"Looks like we shouldn't have done our 'personal joke' just then." Slasher said, huffing and puffing. "It made us have to run!"
"Crystalball time for me!" Crystal yelled, almost pulling down Sky's pants to get in her ball. "Serve's him right!"
"And why do I suddenly hear that?" asked Slasher. "Because… um… You said it maybe? Oh great, I'm confusing myself…"
He could hear the muffled voice coming from Sky's belt saying, "He's the, FREAK-'O'-NATURE!"
"I'm gonna get you!" Slasher said, then realized he was getting sucked into his Pokeball. "Why me?"
Sky started punching Slasher's Pokeball until he shut up and then rang the doorbell.
"Nancy Drew!?!? You in there?"
"First off, I'm NOT, n-o-t, Nancy Drew. Second off, I'm ready. Let me just get Onix and that new Wolfullfy I've been telling you about." Nicky said, opening the door and running back in the kitchen. "We're making waffles!"
"I…don't get it."
"Neither do I, but I've been watching Shrek and a couple of other movies." She said calling out Wolfullfy. "I've asked the 'dex and he said that it's pretty strong. Looks like I've caught myself a fighter!"
"Hmm… Interesting. Keep him out. See if he makes friends with the two I'm keeping out." Sky said calling out Crystal and Slasher. He watched Nicky's face as she inspected the crystal Pikachu.
"Oh my gosh! You've got a…?" Nicky asked. She looked around and blinked a couple of times. "It's pure, Day Zhah Vue!"
"Go ahead Crystal, talk!" Sky said. Wait 'til Nicky saw this.
"Ok! Geez! I'm talking already. What do you want?" Crystal said, looking over Nicky.
Nicky just stared wide-eyed at Crystal and then Sky. It went back and forth like this for 5 minutes.
"I think we should…go."
"Fine with me!" Crystal said, lagging back toward Wolfullfy and Slasher. "Wolfullfy, are you a new species or something?"
"You could say that. I don't know how the humans understand us and stuff. I mean, they must study hard?!" Wolfullfy said. "Call me Fanglifter. I guess my Mom, a Houndour, and my Dad, a Growlithe mated… Big mix."
"I'm going into a language that the humans NEVER learned to understand. The basic Pika-Pika stuff. We try too hard and then they studied the stuff we try pretty hardly and they never know the basic." Crystal said. "Although, I could teach you the human language…"
"Slash-sand-slash-slash!" Good idea. It'd be easy for all of us. How hard?
"Wolf-full-wolf!" Not very. I know it. It takes only 5 minutes to learn almost the whole vocab.
"Pika-chu-chu! Pi!" I'll just get Sky and Nicky to get their Pokemon out. "Sky! Nicky! We need all your Pokemon out here."
"Sure!" Nicky said sending out her Pokemon. Sky did the same.
"Pika. Chu-chu! Pika-pi-pikachu!" Ok, you guys. You're gonna learn the human language. And you're gonna use it too!
80 minutes had passed and all the Pokemon had learned the human language.
"Wow. It feels, well, um, great to be talking!" Zone said. "Now we just need some soda to celebrate!"
Sky turned around. "What the…? How'd you learn it?"
"Well, thank Crystal if you want. Our new ability. Turns out Pika over here, knows how to imitate other attack! She's got my Slash Attack already!" Slasher said. It's not so bad to be talking.
"Do you guys have any Cryst Berries?" Crystal asked. "I mean, I have some and all, but those are for newcomers. We should stop and collect some. They're just outside the forest. All you need is a little jar…"
"Got one!" Nicky said. "I mean, a jar and all. It can fit about 1000 of those berries. Why do you need them?"
"So we can learn attacks that say Slasher has. One berry for all is all we need. But 1000 is better." Crystal said. "It's only two minutes from where we're standing. Also, the berries only let you absorb a couple attacks. I wouldn't say that I could learn TWO of Slasher's moves. It limits you to absorbing 6, then you're done. Of course, if you're good enough, you might learn attacks on your own…" Everything takes so…short to finish. It's almost not fun!
Then Crystal led them to the bushes and they got their berries. Every Pokemon except Crystal ate one.
"Simpletons…" a boy about 12 said as he stepped out into the open. "I'm Zak. Let's battle!"
"Sure. Bring it on!" Sky said. "You can have first pick."
"Go… Drowzee!"
"Go… Slasher!"
"Bring it on baby!" Slasher stepped into the clearing. "Bring it on!"
"Drowzee! Hypnosis!"
"You don't know anything… Slasher! Hypnosis!"
Slasher looked into Drowzee's eyes and instantly, Drowzee fell asleep.
"You can do better than that!" Slasher yelled. "That was almost too easy!"
"Return, Drowzee. Go… Geodude!"
"Yeah… Let me see… Skull! You're up this time."
"No! I'll do it." Slasher said. "I'm not giving up either."
"Fine. Slasher! Um… Agility!"
Slasher ran around the Geodude while it tried to keep up with him. Eventually, Geodude got dizzy and fell hard to the ground.
"Dude…" Ouch!
"My Pokemon!" Zak shouted. "You…you…meanie!" He turned and almost ran when Sky stopped him.
"No! I'll give you… one of my Pokemon… I don't want to. But I can't bear to leave someone like this! Puncher… I'm sorry. So now I'll lose another important person in my life." Slightly crying, he called out Puncher to say good-bye.
"Ma-chop-chop!" It's ok. I really didn't like English anyway…
"Bye!" all the Pokemon said, waving. "We'll miss ya!"
"Gee. I'd never thought I'd see the day… I really want to go home. I'm sorry I dragged you all this way. Mind if I take um the berries? I mean, I want to see my dad and protect him and all. May we meet again?" Nicky said.
"Naw. It's ok. Keep them. I don't think they worked well. Let me just have one though. If I catch a Charmander, I'll be feeding him this! And yes, we shall meet again, when I am on a quest and you are on a journey." Sky said, disappointed anyway.
"Pika! Pikachu!" Hey! I can't talk anymore OR use Slash!
"Bone-Cubone!" Me neither!
"Vulpix!" I can't.
"Hey, I can!" Slasher said. "And… What? I lost Hypnosis? But I've got all these other attacks… Maybe, just maybe, only the special Pokemon can keep talking and cool attacks. Oh my Jesus! I remember reading something about Cryst Berries. Only the descendents of someone and someone will get new abilities never known so they'll know something. And the other thing was, if a talking Pokemon ate one, um, they couldn't talk and um, after a few minutes lose all special power. So -- "
The rest of the sentence was cut off by Sky shouting for Slasher.
"Slash him 10 times!" he yelled. So Slasher did so. And Sky threw a Pokeball, and he had caught a Charmeleon.
"Hey! Let me outta here!" the Charmeleon said, pounding on the Pokeball.
"Coolio! Sweet! Another talking Pokemon!" Slasher said, excitedly. "And you didn't give him a berry, but I can sense that he's got the same attacks as me! He's a descendent!"
"Pikachu! Pika-pi!" Now that you've got a friend, I'm out of here. This place is weird. Meet again, idol? Crystal said running off.
"Slash! Sandslash!" Goodbye! See you buddy! And Sky didn't even notice… Another "lost" person in his life.
"Char. Charmeleon!" Tell that kid to get me out!
"Slash! Sand. Slash-slash." Okay. Wait a minute.
"He wants you to get him out." Slasher told Sky.
"Well, that's what you were saying? Return Cubone. Come on out…"
"Volcano!" came the muffled voice from inside the ball.
"Come on out Volcano!" Sky shouted.
"Don't rip my ear off!" Volcano said. "Thanks, uh, Sandslash."
"Slasher. That's my name! Don't wear it out! Oh, and by the way Sky, Crystal just ran off."
"Vvvvvveeeeeerrrrrryyyyy funny."
"She did."
"Ok. Nice joke. No Pokemon can just run away like that."
"Watch it, Firebreath." Slasher said annoyed. "Or you'll be toast."
"Ha. Ha."
"She did? Oh… Another lost person… We SHALL meet again Crystal, if you like it or not." Sky mumbled crying.
"Let's… TCG battle! You offended me Firebreath. Either that or I will kill you." Slasher said, getting out his deck from Sky's backpack. (Must've snuck it in.)
"Sure. I've got this one with me. I was just playing it when this guy comes and catches me."
"Can I play?" Sky asked. Sniffing back a tear, he got out a tissue. "Plus, I shouldn't of gave Machop away. That was stupid, wasn't it?"
"I'll say…" Slasher whispered to Volcano. "I mean, it was his second Pokemon."
"Well, anyways. You can't play Sky. Kick it up Slasher." Volcano said.
"You wouldn't know how." Slasher said, pointing that weakness out. "It'd be too easy to win. And Volcano, how were you playing in the WILD? There is no mat or nothing."
"Grass. And stone. We burn it into a mat/table." Volcano said. "And again, no Sky."
"Like I care…" mumbled Sky. "Just watch who you actually 'talk' to. Keep it under cover. Go do your Poke-humble-jumble."
"Slash. Slash?" Like this?
"Like that!" Sky said. "I'm just watching out for you."
"And I'm gonna kill you good, Charmeleon." Slasher said. "You won't even know what hit ya."
Walking along a winding path, Sky led the trio. Behind him, the two Pokemon were fighting. (Actually, Volcano started it.) It went somewhat like this.
"Get away from me Volcano!" Slasher said.
"Nope. Just for that… You wanna hit the showers? *wink wink *" Volcano said, sarcastically.
"Freak."
"Freak of nature."
"That's the second, freakin', time someone's called me that!" Slasher yelled.
"Are you guys ready to shut up yet?" Sky asked. "Someday, you'll kill each other."
"Well, that'd be the darndest thing." Slasher said. "Like kids do the darndest things."
"Where are you getting that, man? Where?" Volcano said, obviously stressing himself out.
"Like I said, Charmeleon's do the darndest things…"
"Shut up already!"
"No." Volcano said, looking around. "Right about now he'll say…"
"Charmeleon-Char!" We're lost!
"We're lost guys." Sky said. Throwing his map aside, he walked to the nearest rock. He sat down for a moment, stood up, sat down again, and scratched his head.
"I don't get it. I was following the map and all."
Then Volcano went to pick it up. It turned out the map was upside down.
"We're right about…here!" Slasher said, pointing to a small forest on the map. "Looks pretty big when you're in it though." Studying the map carefully, he made out the nearest city. "Cerulean. Cerulean City." Freaky music plays in the back round and two guys and a girl jump out.
"Prepare for trouble…"
"And make that double…"
"And make that YADDA!" Charmeleon said, completely ignoring the music.
"And make that triple…"
"To protect the world from devistation…"
"To annoy all people within the nation!" Slasher said. "Am I right?"
"Never mind the slogan then." The girl said. "I'm Jane. Now give me your Pokemon."
"Never!" Sky said.
"Never!" chorused Volcano and Slasher.
Then there was a weird flash of light and the two Pokemon were blinded. But they fought blindly, eventually hitting James, Jane, and Howard.
"Look's like Team Rocket's blasting off again!" Then Team Rocket ran until they were out of sight.
"Thanks guys." Sky said. "I don't think I would've done it without you. Boy were they weird though…"
"Welcome!" they said in unison.
"I could've done it alone." Slasher said.
"No you couldn't. You need me dude." Volcano replied.
"No I don't."
"Yes, you do."
"No."
"Yes."
"One on one then. Me against you!" Slasher yelled.
"Sure. Bet your guts are tasty…"
"Grrrrr… Bring it on!"
Slasher jumped and took a dive at Volcano.
"You can surely do better than that!" Volcano taunted, dodging the dive.
"Break it up! I can't afford to lose one of you!" Sky yelled. "You'd think that'd you guys were dark and light… I might as well re-name my other Pokemon. Two Pokemon with nicknames are easier to remember. Volcano seems to be the light guy…"
"No!" Slasher protested. "I am!"
"Accept who you are dude. Do it." Volcano said, walking off into the woods. "I might as well take a walk."
To be continued…
By Shadow
"Are you all right?" Slasher asked. The Pikachu behind him peered at Sky. Putting down the picture and turning to the two Pokemon, Sky spoke.
"Guess I'm a drifter. Or some people call people like me orphans. I prefer drifter. It isn't so sad. I'm traveling now. As a Pokemon trainer I always wanted to be. I had my license yet was too afraid to leave. Guess it's not too ordinary for someone to do this. But, I'm seeking out the true meaning. I wanna seek out why I was born. Why my purpose is. If not to stay around the house to help out, I want to know why I was born. " Sky ran up into his room to collect some of his belongings and a backpack that he'd got for his birthday. He took out some of his pictures from his photo album and placed them inside the small compartment where you really couldn't store stuff. He took his no-battery watch that told you the time using how bright it was outside. He took a water bottle. Then he grabbed a pen, a notebook (pretty big) and stuffed them inside the medium sized compartment. Then he got his I-Zone camera out with some film and stuffed them in. Those were really the only things that were actually his. The more he thought about it though, the more he wanted to take his fathers TV/Radio that was pretty small. He ended up taking that. Then he rushed back downstairs into the kitchen to get some food. He got everything out of the fridge, and stuffed them in. Then he reached up to get the fire burner and the charger so he could start fires up to cook and keep warm. He took several 8 packs of batteries and was ready to go.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Crystal asked. "Like stuff to buy other things with?"
"Oh yeah!" Sky said running upstairs into his parent's bedrooms and grabbing all the money he could find, and then took the bank account cards. "I better be careful how I use this though." Running downstairs he thanked Crystal and got his Pokemon. "You guys walking? Oh wait! Crystal, you don't have your own Pokeball!"
"Shows how much you know." Crystal said. "Don't forget your box of Pokeballs!"
"How'd you…?" Sky wondered aloud.
"I have my ways with my big buddy over here. Thank Slasher." Crystal said.
"Oh… Which one did you choose? 'Cause I found this crystal like one…" Sky said rummaging through the box.
"A crystal one?" Crystal gasped. "B-b-but, that's IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Shows how much you know. You can change as long as you didn't go in the one you chose. Hey! On the back it says a Crystalball. There must be more around the world… Well, just get in!" Sky said, examining the ball.
Crystal hopped in the ball.
"No problem…" she said.
"Get her out now… Sky?!" Slasher said annoyed.
"You like her!" Sky accused sending out Crystal.
"Do not…" Slasher said. "Crystal, does it seem like I like you?"
"Ewwww! Don't say that. That's sicko." Crystal said. "Besides, your BIGGER than me all right." Then whispering to Slasher she asked, "Why's he so calm about this? Why are we so calm with this? Death and all, I mean."
"I really wouldn't know. Maybe it's because there is a lot of it around here. There's murderers." Slasher replied. Then he stepped outside into the sunlight and on the sand of the nearby beach.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Slasher's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All right. I admit it. Time's mean so I kill it. It just lags on and on. So I kill time by walking, talking, playing outside, training, or just sleeping. It's not all that bad really until Zone comes out and sees water when you're surfing and almost burns your head off…
Now I'm just dragging off subject. But that IS pretty scary… Admit it!
OK. So now I'm just sitting there, when who else comes outside? Sky! And he goes and steps on me before noticing I'm THERE. Then Crystal hears me yell, runs out and asks if I'm all right. I just stare at her and she asks me again. I say, "Sure!" and she doesn't seem to get what I just said. I notice that I'm still staring at her and then what do I do? I run back in the house and then Sky announces we should leave soon. What a day…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of Slasher's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sky ran inside the house and called his friend Nicky. She lived next door to him and saw his parents get slaughtered.
Relieved to hear him she started shouting at the telephone like there were monkeys on parade and he had to come see them.
"I'm so glad you're not dead! I mean, I saw the whole thing. I was playing outside and there was a rumbling noise and…"
"Yeah. Well, Nicky. It's been nice knowing ya and all, but now since I've become a drifter, I've gotta go. I'm saying goodbye for the last time, unless I decide to come back and all. Take care of that Onix you have got over there… It could be a tough fighter someday!" Sky said, trying not to sound too sad. It was enough that he had to hold back tears. He really didn't want to leave the place where he grew up. "Goodbye."
"Hold up!" Nicky said. "I'm coming with you."
"What?" Sky said, staring at the phone. "You are?"
"Yeah. Sure! Why not? I only have a Dad. That's good enough to become a "drifter" as you call yourself." She said.
"Be prepared to sleep in trees. Bring all the money that you can find that your Dad won't miss!" Sky said, relieved to have another human to journey with him. "I'll be on my way!" Then he hung up. "She's coming with us. I prefer no. There's only a few people left in this town. It's better she stay, maybe even help."
"Who's coming?" Crystal asked Slasher confused.
"Well, Nicky is his best friend. Best friends since they were 3 at least. Her Mom got slaughtered like those guys over there." Slasher said nodding his head over to Sky's parents. "They were Sky's parents. So, well, she's coming with us. You'll get used to her Pokemon sooner or later too."
"Ouch! That's gotta hurt… Hey, you wanna be best buds?" Crystal asked. "I'm new and all…"
"Sure! Just, err, don't get in the way in battles. It could cause major destruction of me. Heh." Slasher said, laughing a little. "You wouldn't want that, would you?"
"I wouldn't think so!" Sky said, obviously eavesdropping on their conversation. "But Crystal wouldn't do that. She's probably battled at least ONCE on her own. Right?"
"Well… No. Not exactly. But with a few others." Crystal said uneasily. "We usually help each other."
"You'll get the rules sometime or another. Either sooner or later, now or then…" Sky said, repeating different phrases from books.
"And…here we go again!" the Sandslash said looking annoyed. "Yet one of his many phases to hopefully pass soon."
"Hey! I heard that!" Sky said stopping. He didn't look happy. "Imagine daggers…"
"Imagine claws…"
"Imagine you two shutting up…" muttered Crystal. "It would be a miracle."
Slasher and Sky immediately burst out laughing.
"You…ha ha…don't…ha ha…get it!" Sky said, occasionally snorting. "It's a personal joke. Uh, I think I should only have one or two Pokemon out. Eventually one of you has to go in your balls. Oh! Shoot! We gotta get over to Nicky's house! I should leave a note though… Just so someone knows I'm still alive, but gone." Sky scribbled out something, left it on the kitchen table, and hurried out the door with his Pokemon and stuff he wanted to take.
"Looks like we shouldn't have done our 'personal joke' just then." Slasher said, huffing and puffing. "It made us have to run!"
"Crystalball time for me!" Crystal yelled, almost pulling down Sky's pants to get in her ball. "Serve's him right!"
"And why do I suddenly hear that?" asked Slasher. "Because… um… You said it maybe? Oh great, I'm confusing myself…"
He could hear the muffled voice coming from Sky's belt saying, "He's the, FREAK-'O'-NATURE!"
"I'm gonna get you!" Slasher said, then realized he was getting sucked into his Pokeball. "Why me?"
Sky started punching Slasher's Pokeball until he shut up and then rang the doorbell.
"Nancy Drew!?!? You in there?"
"First off, I'm NOT, n-o-t, Nancy Drew. Second off, I'm ready. Let me just get Onix and that new Wolfullfy I've been telling you about." Nicky said, opening the door and running back in the kitchen. "We're making waffles!"
"I…don't get it."
"Neither do I, but I've been watching Shrek and a couple of other movies." She said calling out Wolfullfy. "I've asked the 'dex and he said that it's pretty strong. Looks like I've caught myself a fighter!"
"Hmm… Interesting. Keep him out. See if he makes friends with the two I'm keeping out." Sky said calling out Crystal and Slasher. He watched Nicky's face as she inspected the crystal Pikachu.
"Oh my gosh! You've got a…?" Nicky asked. She looked around and blinked a couple of times. "It's pure, Day Zhah Vue!"
"Go ahead Crystal, talk!" Sky said. Wait 'til Nicky saw this.
"Ok! Geez! I'm talking already. What do you want?" Crystal said, looking over Nicky.
Nicky just stared wide-eyed at Crystal and then Sky. It went back and forth like this for 5 minutes.
"I think we should…go."
"Fine with me!" Crystal said, lagging back toward Wolfullfy and Slasher. "Wolfullfy, are you a new species or something?"
"You could say that. I don't know how the humans understand us and stuff. I mean, they must study hard?!" Wolfullfy said. "Call me Fanglifter. I guess my Mom, a Houndour, and my Dad, a Growlithe mated… Big mix."
"I'm going into a language that the humans NEVER learned to understand. The basic Pika-Pika stuff. We try too hard and then they studied the stuff we try pretty hardly and they never know the basic." Crystal said. "Although, I could teach you the human language…"
"Slash-sand-slash-slash!" Good idea. It'd be easy for all of us. How hard?
"Wolf-full-wolf!" Not very. I know it. It takes only 5 minutes to learn almost the whole vocab.
"Pika-chu-chu! Pi!" I'll just get Sky and Nicky to get their Pokemon out. "Sky! Nicky! We need all your Pokemon out here."
"Sure!" Nicky said sending out her Pokemon. Sky did the same.
"Pika. Chu-chu! Pika-pi-pikachu!" Ok, you guys. You're gonna learn the human language. And you're gonna use it too!
80 minutes had passed and all the Pokemon had learned the human language.
"Wow. It feels, well, um, great to be talking!" Zone said. "Now we just need some soda to celebrate!"
Sky turned around. "What the…? How'd you learn it?"
"Well, thank Crystal if you want. Our new ability. Turns out Pika over here, knows how to imitate other attack! She's got my Slash Attack already!" Slasher said. It's not so bad to be talking.
"Do you guys have any Cryst Berries?" Crystal asked. "I mean, I have some and all, but those are for newcomers. We should stop and collect some. They're just outside the forest. All you need is a little jar…"
"Got one!" Nicky said. "I mean, a jar and all. It can fit about 1000 of those berries. Why do you need them?"
"So we can learn attacks that say Slasher has. One berry for all is all we need. But 1000 is better." Crystal said. "It's only two minutes from where we're standing. Also, the berries only let you absorb a couple attacks. I wouldn't say that I could learn TWO of Slasher's moves. It limits you to absorbing 6, then you're done. Of course, if you're good enough, you might learn attacks on your own…" Everything takes so…short to finish. It's almost not fun!
Then Crystal led them to the bushes and they got their berries. Every Pokemon except Crystal ate one.
"Simpletons…" a boy about 12 said as he stepped out into the open. "I'm Zak. Let's battle!"
"Sure. Bring it on!" Sky said. "You can have first pick."
"Go… Drowzee!"
"Go… Slasher!"
"Bring it on baby!" Slasher stepped into the clearing. "Bring it on!"
"Drowzee! Hypnosis!"
"You don't know anything… Slasher! Hypnosis!"
Slasher looked into Drowzee's eyes and instantly, Drowzee fell asleep.
"You can do better than that!" Slasher yelled. "That was almost too easy!"
"Return, Drowzee. Go… Geodude!"
"Yeah… Let me see… Skull! You're up this time."
"No! I'll do it." Slasher said. "I'm not giving up either."
"Fine. Slasher! Um… Agility!"
Slasher ran around the Geodude while it tried to keep up with him. Eventually, Geodude got dizzy and fell hard to the ground.
"Dude…" Ouch!
"My Pokemon!" Zak shouted. "You…you…meanie!" He turned and almost ran when Sky stopped him.
"No! I'll give you… one of my Pokemon… I don't want to. But I can't bear to leave someone like this! Puncher… I'm sorry. So now I'll lose another important person in my life." Slightly crying, he called out Puncher to say good-bye.
"Ma-chop-chop!" It's ok. I really didn't like English anyway…
"Bye!" all the Pokemon said, waving. "We'll miss ya!"
"Gee. I'd never thought I'd see the day… I really want to go home. I'm sorry I dragged you all this way. Mind if I take um the berries? I mean, I want to see my dad and protect him and all. May we meet again?" Nicky said.
"Naw. It's ok. Keep them. I don't think they worked well. Let me just have one though. If I catch a Charmander, I'll be feeding him this! And yes, we shall meet again, when I am on a quest and you are on a journey." Sky said, disappointed anyway.
"Pika! Pikachu!" Hey! I can't talk anymore OR use Slash!
"Bone-Cubone!" Me neither!
"Vulpix!" I can't.
"Hey, I can!" Slasher said. "And… What? I lost Hypnosis? But I've got all these other attacks… Maybe, just maybe, only the special Pokemon can keep talking and cool attacks. Oh my Jesus! I remember reading something about Cryst Berries. Only the descendents of someone and someone will get new abilities never known so they'll know something. And the other thing was, if a talking Pokemon ate one, um, they couldn't talk and um, after a few minutes lose all special power. So -- "
The rest of the sentence was cut off by Sky shouting for Slasher.
"Slash him 10 times!" he yelled. So Slasher did so. And Sky threw a Pokeball, and he had caught a Charmeleon.
"Hey! Let me outta here!" the Charmeleon said, pounding on the Pokeball.
"Coolio! Sweet! Another talking Pokemon!" Slasher said, excitedly. "And you didn't give him a berry, but I can sense that he's got the same attacks as me! He's a descendent!"
"Pikachu! Pika-pi!" Now that you've got a friend, I'm out of here. This place is weird. Meet again, idol? Crystal said running off.
"Slash! Sandslash!" Goodbye! See you buddy! And Sky didn't even notice… Another "lost" person in his life.
"Char. Charmeleon!" Tell that kid to get me out!
"Slash! Sand. Slash-slash." Okay. Wait a minute.
"He wants you to get him out." Slasher told Sky.
"Well, that's what you were saying? Return Cubone. Come on out…"
"Volcano!" came the muffled voice from inside the ball.
"Come on out Volcano!" Sky shouted.
"Don't rip my ear off!" Volcano said. "Thanks, uh, Sandslash."
"Slasher. That's my name! Don't wear it out! Oh, and by the way Sky, Crystal just ran off."
"Vvvvvveeeeeerrrrrryyyyy funny."
"She did."
"Ok. Nice joke. No Pokemon can just run away like that."
"Watch it, Firebreath." Slasher said annoyed. "Or you'll be toast."
"Ha. Ha."
"She did? Oh… Another lost person… We SHALL meet again Crystal, if you like it or not." Sky mumbled crying.
"Let's… TCG battle! You offended me Firebreath. Either that or I will kill you." Slasher said, getting out his deck from Sky's backpack. (Must've snuck it in.)
"Sure. I've got this one with me. I was just playing it when this guy comes and catches me."
"Can I play?" Sky asked. Sniffing back a tear, he got out a tissue. "Plus, I shouldn't of gave Machop away. That was stupid, wasn't it?"
"I'll say…" Slasher whispered to Volcano. "I mean, it was his second Pokemon."
"Well, anyways. You can't play Sky. Kick it up Slasher." Volcano said.
"You wouldn't know how." Slasher said, pointing that weakness out. "It'd be too easy to win. And Volcano, how were you playing in the WILD? There is no mat or nothing."
"Grass. And stone. We burn it into a mat/table." Volcano said. "And again, no Sky."
"Like I care…" mumbled Sky. "Just watch who you actually 'talk' to. Keep it under cover. Go do your Poke-humble-jumble."
"Slash. Slash?" Like this?
"Like that!" Sky said. "I'm just watching out for you."
"And I'm gonna kill you good, Charmeleon." Slasher said. "You won't even know what hit ya."
Walking along a winding path, Sky led the trio. Behind him, the two Pokemon were fighting. (Actually, Volcano started it.) It went somewhat like this.
"Get away from me Volcano!" Slasher said.
"Nope. Just for that… You wanna hit the showers? *wink wink *" Volcano said, sarcastically.
"Freak."
"Freak of nature."
"That's the second, freakin', time someone's called me that!" Slasher yelled.
"Are you guys ready to shut up yet?" Sky asked. "Someday, you'll kill each other."
"Well, that'd be the darndest thing." Slasher said. "Like kids do the darndest things."
"Where are you getting that, man? Where?" Volcano said, obviously stressing himself out.
"Like I said, Charmeleon's do the darndest things…"
"Shut up already!"
"No." Volcano said, looking around. "Right about now he'll say…"
"Charmeleon-Char!" We're lost!
"We're lost guys." Sky said. Throwing his map aside, he walked to the nearest rock. He sat down for a moment, stood up, sat down again, and scratched his head.
"I don't get it. I was following the map and all."
Then Volcano went to pick it up. It turned out the map was upside down.
"We're right about…here!" Slasher said, pointing to a small forest on the map. "Looks pretty big when you're in it though." Studying the map carefully, he made out the nearest city. "Cerulean. Cerulean City." Freaky music plays in the back round and two guys and a girl jump out.
"Prepare for trouble…"
"And make that double…"
"And make that YADDA!" Charmeleon said, completely ignoring the music.
"And make that triple…"
"To protect the world from devistation…"
"To annoy all people within the nation!" Slasher said. "Am I right?"
"Never mind the slogan then." The girl said. "I'm Jane. Now give me your Pokemon."
"Never!" Sky said.
"Never!" chorused Volcano and Slasher.
Then there was a weird flash of light and the two Pokemon were blinded. But they fought blindly, eventually hitting James, Jane, and Howard.
"Look's like Team Rocket's blasting off again!" Then Team Rocket ran until they were out of sight.
"Thanks guys." Sky said. "I don't think I would've done it without you. Boy were they weird though…"
"Welcome!" they said in unison.
"I could've done it alone." Slasher said.
"No you couldn't. You need me dude." Volcano replied.
"No I don't."
"Yes, you do."
"No."
"Yes."
"One on one then. Me against you!" Slasher yelled.
"Sure. Bet your guts are tasty…"
"Grrrrr… Bring it on!"
Slasher jumped and took a dive at Volcano.
"You can surely do better than that!" Volcano taunted, dodging the dive.
"Break it up! I can't afford to lose one of you!" Sky yelled. "You'd think that'd you guys were dark and light… I might as well re-name my other Pokemon. Two Pokemon with nicknames are easier to remember. Volcano seems to be the light guy…"
"No!" Slasher protested. "I am!"
"Accept who you are dude. Do it." Volcano said, walking off into the woods. "I might as well take a walk."
To be continued…
