I don't own pokemon. HOW MANY TIMES DO I GOTTA SAY THAT?!
"Tell me, one more time, where are we going?" Ari was getting a little ticked. this must be... what... the tenth time she had explained it? "I need to fight a gym leader and get a badge, then better people will fight me and I can get more money." "Oh." "Listen, Keydin, I know you're used to being in charge and all,... but I'm the better battler, so you're going to have to listen to me, okay?" Keydin didn't look too happy about this. They had had to ask directions three times already, and, lets face it, guys hate that. Finally, they came to a large building with a round roof, it had the words "pewter gym" written across the top, and they went inside. There were many trainers there, and they saw many battles going on as they walked through. "Err, ummm, where can we find the gym leader...?" asked Keydin sheepishly. The girl he had asked gave him a look. "Everyone knows the leader's room in every gym is at the back. Are you new?" "Um, uh, yeah..." "Well, he's in the back. Ta-ta" Keydin walked back over to Ari. "Who in their right mind says 'ta-ta' anymore?" "Beats me, let's go!" Keydin was getting nervous. "Are you sure about this?" "Positive"
"who are you?" asked the brown haired man. "My name is Arianna, and this is my friend Keydin. I have come to battle you for the pewter city badge." Ari said. She had rehearsed that more times in her head than she could count. "Geeze, we don't get many with manners, maybe I'll go easy on you." "you'd better not, my team is dynamite." she said. "Oh, really?" asked the man, eyeing Kiara, Kikira, and Littlefire. "They look pretty young. I can't even identify that white and violet one. How long have you been on the road?" "About a week. Come to think of it, I could really use a shower." the man gave her a look. "If you beat me, I'll give you the Boulder badge, twenty dollars, and tell you where you an get cleaned up for cheap. Kay?" "Deal!" said Ari, she couldn't wait to start.
they came out into a room that looked like some kind of catastrophe had struck within, there were rocks and stuff strewn everywhere, Ari and the man (who said his name was Deven) stood on opposite sides of the room. Keydin stood in the corner and watched. "Are these three your only pokemon?" asked Devon. "Yes." replied Ari. "Then we're gonna use three each, okay?" "Okay..."
The battle started. Deven sent out a pidgeot. "Gweeh" it said. "Gweek!" "ooookay... it sound like screechy car tires.... Kiara, get 'em!" the tiny orange pikachu rushed into the battle. Next to the pidgeot, the tiny mouse looked pathetic. "Kiara, um, blast it with as much lightning as you can handle!" Kiara obeyed, and the pidgeot was shocked. Literally. However, it was still standing. err,.... flying, rather. It took a dive at Kiara. Missed, but just by a hair. Kiara shocked it as best she could with another jolt of lightning. That did it. The type difference had severely outmatched the huge level difference, and Kiara won the first round. Next, he sent out a zubat. It looked freshly caught. Ari sent out Littlefire. It was, indeed, freshly caught, as it was not a very good opponent; it kept missing Littlefire and slamming into his tail which was quite hot, to say the least. Needless to say, Littlefire won that round. The next pokemon Deven sent out made Ari nervous, and Keydin nearly yelled out loud. It was enormous. It was an Onix! The thing was huge; it's head as about five feet over Ari's... Ari sent in Kikira, confident that Kiki would be able to handle the onix. the onix roared, and Kira shivered. She sent a bubblebeam right at it; the Onix roared again. "Steven, rock throw!" the Onix lifted several of the rocks strewn about the place up in it's mouth and spat them out at Kikira. Kikira managed to dodge most of them, but one of the rocks hit home, Kiki was struck right in the rear! A little bit of blood dripped off of the end of her tail. "YUYURIA!" Kiki was infuriated. She concentrated everything she could, and blasted the Onix with a ball of fire that would have knocked Keydin's car ten feet. The Onix was down, but not out. It tried to catch the tiny white kitten in a bind hold, but Kiki was too quick for him. "What type of pokemon is that?! What kind of pokemon can use both fire and water abilities to their full advantage?!" Kiki was getting dizzy. She floated up high in the air for a quick time out. "And it can fly, too...? Is it water, or fire, or flying... or all three?" "Can't say." replied Ari. She was enjoying Deven's confusion immensely. Keydin, in the background, couldn't keep his eyes off the battle. "Kikira, finish it off with ice beam or blizzard!" Kiki didn't want to use ice beam or blizzard. She wanted to try the new move she had been saving. Kiki concentrated very hard. She began to glow with a strange light, even while dodging the onix's attack. Suddenly, she closed her eyes as this bright light shot out at the Onix. The onix couldn't take it, it passed out. "Steven! Hey, buddy, are you all right?!" "Kikira, I said ice beam or blizzard! What was that, anyhow?" "That..." said Deven, "was a hyper beam.... I want to know what kind of pokemon that is, right now!" Ari shrugged. "A psychic type" Deven was bewildered. "Who gave you that? That pokemon is incredible, someone must have trained it previously." Ari smiled. "Nope, just me. In fact, Kikira is only a baby, one week old. I found her abandoned in the woods. The pokedex can't identify her. She's a Mew." "whoa... so.... the stories are true... I never paid any attention to it before..." "What?" "The legend. That pokemon you have there will grow to legendary status, and it will do whatever it wants unless you have enough badges to qualify to handle it." "What do the badges do to help me keep Kiki under control?" "A type of technology even I don't understand gives the holder of the badge power over pokemon, the badges earn a pokemon's respect, you see. But I have no idea how many you'd need to keep the trust of that thing." "Who are you calling a 'thing'? Kikira is a SHE!" "okay, a girl, huh, well, um, oh yeah! The clean up center. about that.." "Oh okay. Could you slow down? You're starting to confuse me..." "Um, okay, Donna!" a red-haired girl appeared, grinning like an idiot. "Could you show these guys to the Wash-up house? Tell the person in charge that the girl here gets free service for beating me." he slapped a twenty- dollar bill in Ari's hand as well as a shiny black badge that was surprisingly warm, and Donna led them out of the Gym. "Erm... where are we going...?" asked Keydin. "You're a newbie, aren't ya? Well we're going to the wash-up house, it's generally $10, but for you it's free 'cuz you beat the gym leader. Basically, its a place with bathrooms and showers and such, you get an hour to shave, shower, change, etc. they provide a small amount of shampoo and conditioner, you can pick the brand, shaving cream, and some low-cost cheap-o razors.. It's a pretty good deal for 10 bucks, don't ya think?" Ari and Keydin listened to Donna ramble on for a while longer, but then asked if she could take them there. Donna introduced them to the lady at the register and explained that Ari was free because she had beaten Deven. Keydin paid his ten dollars, and went into the guy's showers, and Ari went into the girls' showers, leaving her pokemon with the lady at the register to be fed. Kiki was very pleased to find that the food they received was not as "crappy' as her trainer had predicted. "Myururie" she said, (this isn't so bad) Littlefire, however, believed otherwise. "Chruuuuugggg" he said in disgust, and pushed the dish away, instead, he began attacking Kikira's tail. After a while, Kiara joined in the fun, and they had been having quite a time until the lady supervising the pokemon pen realized what was going on. Meanwhile, Ari was trying to figure out how to work the shower. It wasn't like a traditional shower, at least not any that she knew. There were three knobs; one was marked with an "H", one with a "C" and one with a "W". The thing was shaped like a small bathtub with a seat-like protrusion coming from one wall. She tried the hot and cold water. Then she looked at the knob labeled W. she gave it a quarter turn to the left. Spouts of water poured out from all the walls, so the water was spraying at her from all directions. It made things a lot easier. Meanwhile, Keydin was having quite a time with the shaver in the men's' room a little screen next to the mirror kept telling him to stick his chin in the Whoop. He had no idea what this meant, until he saw something shaped like a jawbone jutting out from the counter. He placed his chin against it and was splattered with shaving cream. The machine. or whatever it was. missed his chin completely and proceeded to plaster his eyebrows with shaving cream. "Aye, buddy, ya gotta be careful when usin' those!" Keydin stood up before the machine could remove his eyebrows. "I think I just realized that. Thanks for the advice though." "My name is Jeff, lemme give ya a hand. You should never use the one on the left, it always screws up." Keydin was rather surprised at this guy, who was wearing only a towel. "Thanks for your help, man. I think I can handle it from here" he said, brushing the shaving cream from his eyebrows.
Back to Ari.
Ari was pleased to see that they supplied all kinds of goodies; acne meds, Q-tips, floss, even disposable toothbrushes and toothpaste. She opened another drawer, and found various kinds of makeup of all different brands. She also noted each had a tiny magnetic tag, that would trigger an alarm if removed from the room. Geeze, she thought, the fuss they go through over 88- cent nail polish. Ari put on a bit of Pink and purple eye shadow, and a bit of cover stick, and tied up her hair in a hair tie from a dispenser (insert one quarter.) "feels. great. to be clean." Ari exited the girls' room, and went to wait at the register for Keydin, who, as it turned out, was already there. "What took you?" asked Keydin, noting Ari's hair was back in it's usual half-pony. Ari gathered up Kiki and her other Pokemon, and she and Keydin left the Wash-up house. "We may be on the road for a while, Keydin, I think we should stock up on food and perhaps get some sleeping bags." "Sleeping bags?! Exactly how long will we be on the road?!" "a few days at least, well, that's how long it was last time." "Wait!" came a voice from behind them. It was a young boy; He looked about 16 with auburn hair and brown eyes, and a funny look on his face that said he knew what he wanted to do but didn't know what he himself was thinking. "Take me with you!" Ari stared. "And exactly who the hell are you?" the name is Pakike. Ya can call me Pak! I saw your match against Deven! You were amazing! I've been getting kinda tired of traveling alone, could I pllleeeeeeeaaaaase come with you?! Puh-lease?! Ari didn't know what to say exactly. She took a minute to think. "Um, I guess you can come, um Pack-geek, just don't expect me or Keydin to Pay for you and stuff, we all have to pull our own weight on this team!" "Aye-aye, captain! And, it's Pakike, not Pack-geek." He said, just a LITTLE too enthusiastically. "you have a sleeping bag and food, right, Pack- gik?" "ya, and that isn't my name, um, you can call me Pack for short." "Okay, everyone, it looks like we're back on the road!" said Keydin "Let's go catch me something!"
Kay, what do u think? Now that all the characters are in, I think I'll add a bit of tention, etc. maybe I'll give Keydin a Pokemon, perhaps a Ratata, something weak. heehehee! I'm gonna put Keydin through sooo much! Maybe I'll give pack- whatever his - name - is a big crush on Ari for some extra laughs! Heeheee!
"Tell me, one more time, where are we going?" Ari was getting a little ticked. this must be... what... the tenth time she had explained it? "I need to fight a gym leader and get a badge, then better people will fight me and I can get more money." "Oh." "Listen, Keydin, I know you're used to being in charge and all,... but I'm the better battler, so you're going to have to listen to me, okay?" Keydin didn't look too happy about this. They had had to ask directions three times already, and, lets face it, guys hate that. Finally, they came to a large building with a round roof, it had the words "pewter gym" written across the top, and they went inside. There were many trainers there, and they saw many battles going on as they walked through. "Err, ummm, where can we find the gym leader...?" asked Keydin sheepishly. The girl he had asked gave him a look. "Everyone knows the leader's room in every gym is at the back. Are you new?" "Um, uh, yeah..." "Well, he's in the back. Ta-ta" Keydin walked back over to Ari. "Who in their right mind says 'ta-ta' anymore?" "Beats me, let's go!" Keydin was getting nervous. "Are you sure about this?" "Positive"
"who are you?" asked the brown haired man. "My name is Arianna, and this is my friend Keydin. I have come to battle you for the pewter city badge." Ari said. She had rehearsed that more times in her head than she could count. "Geeze, we don't get many with manners, maybe I'll go easy on you." "you'd better not, my team is dynamite." she said. "Oh, really?" asked the man, eyeing Kiara, Kikira, and Littlefire. "They look pretty young. I can't even identify that white and violet one. How long have you been on the road?" "About a week. Come to think of it, I could really use a shower." the man gave her a look. "If you beat me, I'll give you the Boulder badge, twenty dollars, and tell you where you an get cleaned up for cheap. Kay?" "Deal!" said Ari, she couldn't wait to start.
they came out into a room that looked like some kind of catastrophe had struck within, there were rocks and stuff strewn everywhere, Ari and the man (who said his name was Deven) stood on opposite sides of the room. Keydin stood in the corner and watched. "Are these three your only pokemon?" asked Devon. "Yes." replied Ari. "Then we're gonna use three each, okay?" "Okay..."
The battle started. Deven sent out a pidgeot. "Gweeh" it said. "Gweek!" "ooookay... it sound like screechy car tires.... Kiara, get 'em!" the tiny orange pikachu rushed into the battle. Next to the pidgeot, the tiny mouse looked pathetic. "Kiara, um, blast it with as much lightning as you can handle!" Kiara obeyed, and the pidgeot was shocked. Literally. However, it was still standing. err,.... flying, rather. It took a dive at Kiara. Missed, but just by a hair. Kiara shocked it as best she could with another jolt of lightning. That did it. The type difference had severely outmatched the huge level difference, and Kiara won the first round. Next, he sent out a zubat. It looked freshly caught. Ari sent out Littlefire. It was, indeed, freshly caught, as it was not a very good opponent; it kept missing Littlefire and slamming into his tail which was quite hot, to say the least. Needless to say, Littlefire won that round. The next pokemon Deven sent out made Ari nervous, and Keydin nearly yelled out loud. It was enormous. It was an Onix! The thing was huge; it's head as about five feet over Ari's... Ari sent in Kikira, confident that Kiki would be able to handle the onix. the onix roared, and Kira shivered. She sent a bubblebeam right at it; the Onix roared again. "Steven, rock throw!" the Onix lifted several of the rocks strewn about the place up in it's mouth and spat them out at Kikira. Kikira managed to dodge most of them, but one of the rocks hit home, Kiki was struck right in the rear! A little bit of blood dripped off of the end of her tail. "YUYURIA!" Kiki was infuriated. She concentrated everything she could, and blasted the Onix with a ball of fire that would have knocked Keydin's car ten feet. The Onix was down, but not out. It tried to catch the tiny white kitten in a bind hold, but Kiki was too quick for him. "What type of pokemon is that?! What kind of pokemon can use both fire and water abilities to their full advantage?!" Kiki was getting dizzy. She floated up high in the air for a quick time out. "And it can fly, too...? Is it water, or fire, or flying... or all three?" "Can't say." replied Ari. She was enjoying Deven's confusion immensely. Keydin, in the background, couldn't keep his eyes off the battle. "Kikira, finish it off with ice beam or blizzard!" Kiki didn't want to use ice beam or blizzard. She wanted to try the new move she had been saving. Kiki concentrated very hard. She began to glow with a strange light, even while dodging the onix's attack. Suddenly, she closed her eyes as this bright light shot out at the Onix. The onix couldn't take it, it passed out. "Steven! Hey, buddy, are you all right?!" "Kikira, I said ice beam or blizzard! What was that, anyhow?" "That..." said Deven, "was a hyper beam.... I want to know what kind of pokemon that is, right now!" Ari shrugged. "A psychic type" Deven was bewildered. "Who gave you that? That pokemon is incredible, someone must have trained it previously." Ari smiled. "Nope, just me. In fact, Kikira is only a baby, one week old. I found her abandoned in the woods. The pokedex can't identify her. She's a Mew." "whoa... so.... the stories are true... I never paid any attention to it before..." "What?" "The legend. That pokemon you have there will grow to legendary status, and it will do whatever it wants unless you have enough badges to qualify to handle it." "What do the badges do to help me keep Kiki under control?" "A type of technology even I don't understand gives the holder of the badge power over pokemon, the badges earn a pokemon's respect, you see. But I have no idea how many you'd need to keep the trust of that thing." "Who are you calling a 'thing'? Kikira is a SHE!" "okay, a girl, huh, well, um, oh yeah! The clean up center. about that.." "Oh okay. Could you slow down? You're starting to confuse me..." "Um, okay, Donna!" a red-haired girl appeared, grinning like an idiot. "Could you show these guys to the Wash-up house? Tell the person in charge that the girl here gets free service for beating me." he slapped a twenty- dollar bill in Ari's hand as well as a shiny black badge that was surprisingly warm, and Donna led them out of the Gym. "Erm... where are we going...?" asked Keydin. "You're a newbie, aren't ya? Well we're going to the wash-up house, it's generally $10, but for you it's free 'cuz you beat the gym leader. Basically, its a place with bathrooms and showers and such, you get an hour to shave, shower, change, etc. they provide a small amount of shampoo and conditioner, you can pick the brand, shaving cream, and some low-cost cheap-o razors.. It's a pretty good deal for 10 bucks, don't ya think?" Ari and Keydin listened to Donna ramble on for a while longer, but then asked if she could take them there. Donna introduced them to the lady at the register and explained that Ari was free because she had beaten Deven. Keydin paid his ten dollars, and went into the guy's showers, and Ari went into the girls' showers, leaving her pokemon with the lady at the register to be fed. Kiki was very pleased to find that the food they received was not as "crappy' as her trainer had predicted. "Myururie" she said, (this isn't so bad) Littlefire, however, believed otherwise. "Chruuuuugggg" he said in disgust, and pushed the dish away, instead, he began attacking Kikira's tail. After a while, Kiara joined in the fun, and they had been having quite a time until the lady supervising the pokemon pen realized what was going on. Meanwhile, Ari was trying to figure out how to work the shower. It wasn't like a traditional shower, at least not any that she knew. There were three knobs; one was marked with an "H", one with a "C" and one with a "W". The thing was shaped like a small bathtub with a seat-like protrusion coming from one wall. She tried the hot and cold water. Then she looked at the knob labeled W. she gave it a quarter turn to the left. Spouts of water poured out from all the walls, so the water was spraying at her from all directions. It made things a lot easier. Meanwhile, Keydin was having quite a time with the shaver in the men's' room a little screen next to the mirror kept telling him to stick his chin in the Whoop. He had no idea what this meant, until he saw something shaped like a jawbone jutting out from the counter. He placed his chin against it and was splattered with shaving cream. The machine. or whatever it was. missed his chin completely and proceeded to plaster his eyebrows with shaving cream. "Aye, buddy, ya gotta be careful when usin' those!" Keydin stood up before the machine could remove his eyebrows. "I think I just realized that. Thanks for the advice though." "My name is Jeff, lemme give ya a hand. You should never use the one on the left, it always screws up." Keydin was rather surprised at this guy, who was wearing only a towel. "Thanks for your help, man. I think I can handle it from here" he said, brushing the shaving cream from his eyebrows.
Back to Ari.
Ari was pleased to see that they supplied all kinds of goodies; acne meds, Q-tips, floss, even disposable toothbrushes and toothpaste. She opened another drawer, and found various kinds of makeup of all different brands. She also noted each had a tiny magnetic tag, that would trigger an alarm if removed from the room. Geeze, she thought, the fuss they go through over 88- cent nail polish. Ari put on a bit of Pink and purple eye shadow, and a bit of cover stick, and tied up her hair in a hair tie from a dispenser (insert one quarter.) "feels. great. to be clean." Ari exited the girls' room, and went to wait at the register for Keydin, who, as it turned out, was already there. "What took you?" asked Keydin, noting Ari's hair was back in it's usual half-pony. Ari gathered up Kiki and her other Pokemon, and she and Keydin left the Wash-up house. "We may be on the road for a while, Keydin, I think we should stock up on food and perhaps get some sleeping bags." "Sleeping bags?! Exactly how long will we be on the road?!" "a few days at least, well, that's how long it was last time." "Wait!" came a voice from behind them. It was a young boy; He looked about 16 with auburn hair and brown eyes, and a funny look on his face that said he knew what he wanted to do but didn't know what he himself was thinking. "Take me with you!" Ari stared. "And exactly who the hell are you?" the name is Pakike. Ya can call me Pak! I saw your match against Deven! You were amazing! I've been getting kinda tired of traveling alone, could I pllleeeeeeeaaaaase come with you?! Puh-lease?! Ari didn't know what to say exactly. She took a minute to think. "Um, I guess you can come, um Pack-geek, just don't expect me or Keydin to Pay for you and stuff, we all have to pull our own weight on this team!" "Aye-aye, captain! And, it's Pakike, not Pack-geek." He said, just a LITTLE too enthusiastically. "you have a sleeping bag and food, right, Pack- gik?" "ya, and that isn't my name, um, you can call me Pack for short." "Okay, everyone, it looks like we're back on the road!" said Keydin "Let's go catch me something!"
Kay, what do u think? Now that all the characters are in, I think I'll add a bit of tention, etc. maybe I'll give Keydin a Pokemon, perhaps a Ratata, something weak. heehehee! I'm gonna put Keydin through sooo much! Maybe I'll give pack- whatever his - name - is a big crush on Ari for some extra laughs! Heeheee!