A Pokemon Story

-by: me again... who did you think?

Disclaimer: I still don't own it... wish I did...

Part 8

We stop at the pokemon center just outside of Mt. Moon. I give my pokemon to Nurse Joy

to heal. While I am waiting, I spot a young boy about my age on the other side of the center.

He comes over to me.

"Hi. What's your name?" he asks.

"That depends on who wants to know." I reply.

He laughs. "I'm not trying to pick you up."

"In that case, my name is Ariana. What's yours?"

"Calatain."

"Cool name."

"Thanks, I like it." He looks up, and so do I. Nurse Joy comes over with my pokeballs on

a tray.

"Here you go!" She says. The only person I have seen smile that much was Prof. Selsan.

Great, now I'm homesick.

"You're a trainer?" asks Calatain.

"Yup." I take the balls and attach them to my belt, but not before letting Chan out. He

looks at Calatain suspiciously. Calatain backs up a step.

"Don't worry. He won't hurt you unless you act like you will attack."

"Ok..."

"Do you have any pokemon?"

Calatain gets all proud. "You're looking at the future Pokemon Master!" As he says that,

he pulls out a pokeball. He throws it out and releases a Machoke.

"Cool. But I will be master first. Then you will have to go through Chan here."

"Machoke could beat the living daylights out of him any day."

I turn to Chan. "He insulted you. Wanna rectify that?"

"Of course!"

I turn back to Calatain. "Wanna battle?"

"Let's go outside so we don't disturb Nurse Joy."



OUTSIDE:



Calatain and I are facing each other. Chan and Machoke are exchanging glares. Calatain suddenly

brightens.

"Ariana, how many pokemon do you have?"

"Three, but one doesn't fight."

"Wanna go 2-on-2 then?"

"You wanna lose that badly?"

"You're on!" He gets pumped. "Machoke, Vital Throw!"

"Chan, Mach Punch!"

Machoke misses the Vital throw. Chan, however, connects and does major damage. But Machoke is

not out of this yet.

"Seismic Toss!" Calatain yells.

"Chan, HI JUMP KICK!!"

Chan gets his move off before Machoke. Machoke goes down. Calatain recalls it. He pulls out

another pokeball.

"I still have one more try!" He throws the ball. "I choose...Noctowl!!"

The owl pokemon appears. Chan remains calm. But I get a little nervous. This guy really knows

what he is doing. But I am not giving up.

"Chan, bring it back down to earth!"

"Noctowl, CONFUSION!"

The psychic attack does its damage, but not enough. Chan manages to connect with the Thunder

punch and it falls back to the ground, fainted. Calatain walks up to me.

"I have never seen a fighter with such a strong defense against psychic moves."

"Chan is very special. But it looks like he needs a break."

"DO NOT!"

"Sorry Chan. I am not going into Mt. Moon with you at anything less than full power." I recall

Chan, and both Calatain and I go back and have the combatants healed again.

"So what else do you have?" Calatain asks while we are waiting.

"I have a Natu named Caelestis and a baby Eevee named Michiko. Michiko is the one who doesn't

fight." Nurse Joy comes up with our pokeballs, and we take them. I let Chan out again.

"That trip was unnecessary." Chan says.

"Better safe than sorry."

Calatain just looks at us. He shifts his gaze over to Chan.

"Ariana... how did you teach him to speak?"

"Huh?" It takes a minute to figure out what he means. Then I pull out the pokedex. "This has a

translator in it."

"Oh. I thought I was losing it for a bit there."

"Ariana lost it long ago."^_^

"Watch it smart alek..."

Calatain thinks a minute. "Hey Ariana, where are you off to?"

"League challenge. I already have one badge. The next on is in Cerulean. Why?"

"Mind if I join you? I am on the challenge too. Let me guess, you beat up Brock?"

"Yeah, but I had type advantage. And a pokemon who doesn't know when to quit." I look at Chan who

is staring off into space. "Chan is going to be my personal slave for the next two weeks."

"WHAT!"

"See what happens when you don't pay attention?^_^" Chan just grumbles. "Come on Chan. Lighten

up. Let's go." I turn to Calatain. "If you can put up with this," I point to Chan, who is

playing with the door itching to leave, "then you can come."

"I think I can handle it." We leave for Mt. Moon, one friend richer.





I'm going!! But I'll get there as soon as I get a certain pokemon I want... See ya!!