Acacia, Lickitung, and a Cool Pokémon Journey
Part 7
After getting away from Team Rocket, with the help of some new friends, Acacia continued on to Cerulean City for a Cascade Badge. But first, she had to go through a bunch of different wilderness settings. The first was a beach and very, very steep cliffs.
"Wow! They're so big. I wonder how long it would take to climb one of these things?" wondered Acacia. Then a water droplet formed on the back of her head when she saw a sign that said, 'Balloon ride above the cliffs. Takes you to the top in under five minutes! Only $35.00!' Acacia had exactly $100.00 that her parents had given her. What was a measly $35.00? She payed the balloon people and took a ride up with in a balloon that looked like a Voltorb. Her guide was a 19 year old guy with wavy brown hair and a safari hat. His name was Allen
"You chose a great time to take a balloon ride. Right now, you can watch the Butterfree's mating season. It's a time when wild and tame Butterfree alike find a partner, cross the ocean, and have their babies. It's really pretty to watch, even if you don't have a Butterfree of your own. Would you like to go in for a closer look?" asked Allen. Acacia said yes and Allen took them over to a big cluster of Butterfree and balloons. Trainers were releasing their Butterfree everywhere. It was beautiful to see all the happy
Butterfree couples doing their courtship dances and flitting here and there for a perfect mate.
Suddenly, she and Allen saw a red and white striped balloon piloted by a young teenage girl with long blonde hair in twin braids. She looked kind of mean. She opened her Pokeball to reveal another Butterfree. But this one was different. It was bruised on its foot, stomach and hand. It was flying lopsided due to the fact one of its wings had a tear. But the thing most noticeable was that it had a long scarlet slash across its left eye. The line of the scar became whole whenever the Butterfree blinked or closed the eye.
"Good riddance to you mate! I hope I never see you again!" said the battered Butterfree's trainer. She sounded Australian in accent, but cold hearted in tone.
Acacia was infuriated. That girl was abandoning her Pokemon. It would never survive in that condition on its own. So she told Allen to fly next to the girl's balloon. When they were near, Acacia said, "Hey! Are you just going to leave that Butterfree by itself like that?! What kind of trainer abandons an injured Pokemon?"
To which the girl replied, "I would. My name is Milly, and that good for nothing Butterfree is a burden on me that I have got to get rid of!" Now that sent Acacia over the deep end. She began to grow a long light orange tail which spit open the seat of her pants. She sprouted wings of light orange and blue. Horns busted from her head while she got more orangey and more dragon-like. Last but not least, the tip of her tail burst into flame. After a few moments, Milly was screeching her head off at a Charizard sitting in the balloon next to her.
"Rooaarr!" boomed the Charizard. But before she could try to torch Milly, she noticed the injured Butterfree nose diving out of control towards the cliffs below. Milly would have to wait. Acacia/Charizard swooped down at maximum speed towards Butterfree. It was about to be impaled on a high peak but Acacia saved it. She got a nasty scar across the belly because she flew to close to the peak.
Milly started shouting threats up at Acacia. Stuff like, "Come down here and we'll see how tough you are!" and, "I sick my Blastoise on you if you even bring that tail of your's close to me!" Acacia just flew down, set Butterfree in the Voltorb balloon, gave Milly a burnt face from a distance, and changed back into herself.
"Let's settle this! Set down on the ground and we'll have a little fight! All Pokemon out at once!" shouted Milly. Acacia agreed. They went to the ground and started immediately.
"Go Blastoise, Pidgeotto, Oddish, Sandshrew, and Persian!" yelled Milly as she sent out her collection of Pokemon.
"Go Lickitung, Ekans, Growlithe, and Venomoth!" said Acacia doing the same. Lickitung, Growlithe and Ekans looked alert and ready to battle, but Venomoth decided to take a nap on the ground. A little bubble came out its nose. "Darn." said Acacia.
The fight began. Ekans was in a big competition with Persian. They seemed to be comparing bite attacks. Growlithe had already torched Oddish and was now dodging wing a attacks from Pidgeotto. Lickitung decided to take on Blastoise and Sandshrew single handed, er, single tounged. In five inutes,
all Pokemon on both sides were down except for Lickitung and Blastoise. Lick attack, miss. Water Gun, hit. Double-Edge, hit. Hydro Pump, miss. It went on like this for quite a while. At last, Lickitung triumphed with the TM Acacia got from Sabrina, Psywave!
Milly stormed away in quite a bit of a rage. Acacia decided that if Milly was getting rid of Butterfree, she might as well take it. She turned around to find Allen smirking at her.
"What's that supposed to mean?" questioned Acacia.
"I see my invention is working well. Tell me, what else have you used it for?" said Allen, who was apparently not Allen. He yanked a wig off his head and risers off his shoes. This revealed him as someone Arcacia knew all too well.
"Ian! How did you find me?" exclaimed Acacia. She was very startled to see him again. It had been about a week or two since he had first zapped her with his device. She wasn't as mad at him as much any more because this new power actually came in handy sometimes.
"Oh, I have my ways." He pointed to the sky. Acacia saw a red dot that could only be his Moltres. He continued, "Now please answer my question. What else have you transformed to?"
"Well, a Primeape when I got mad at you, a Lickitung when I was worried about mine, a Beedrill to help me win a match, and a Muk to help me defeat Team Rocket." she replied.
"Very good. I'm off for now, but I can appear to check on you anywhere and anytime I want." said Ian. He gave a shrill whistle and his Moltres came down from the sky to fly him to unknown parts. After watching him go out of sight, Acacia got back in the balloon to take a look at Butterfree. She applied some temporary bandages that would hold until they got to the nearest Pokemon Center. The nearest center was about an hour long journey from here, somewhere in the nearby forest.
Once there, she handed her Pokeballs and the injured Butterfree to Nurse Joy. After ten minutes, Nurse Joy gave Acacia her Pokeballs and Butterfree back.
"About your Butterfree, I was able to eliminate all its bruises and it feels very active and healthy, but that scar across its eye just won't go away. I have a feeling that it could be there for quite some time." informed Nurse Joy.
"That's okay Nurse Joy. Its how Butterfree feels inside that counts, not a scar. Besides, I think it looks cool that way." said Acacia. When she was alone with Butterfree, she said to it. Since you're mine now, I think I'll nickname you. Looks like something sharp made that slash, so I'll call you Dagger. You like that?"
"Free, frreee!" said Butterfree with a nod of its little purple head.
"Good. Dagger it is then. Come on Dagger, time to get in your Pokeball." said Acacia. Dagger looked scared. And started a series of squeaks of its name.
"Pokedex translation activated. 'That other trainer treated my Pokeball like a cage that I was supposed to stay inside no matter what. I will go in a Pokeball someday, but not now.' Translation deactivated." said the Pokedex.
"Okay, you can stay out but someday you'll have to call your Pokeball home okay?" said Acacia.
"Free." said Dagger. This meant yes. So Acacia, Dagger, and all her other Pokemon set off for the rest of the forest and the ultimate goal, Cerulean City.
Part 7
After getting away from Team Rocket, with the help of some new friends, Acacia continued on to Cerulean City for a Cascade Badge. But first, she had to go through a bunch of different wilderness settings. The first was a beach and very, very steep cliffs.
"Wow! They're so big. I wonder how long it would take to climb one of these things?" wondered Acacia. Then a water droplet formed on the back of her head when she saw a sign that said, 'Balloon ride above the cliffs. Takes you to the top in under five minutes! Only $35.00!' Acacia had exactly $100.00 that her parents had given her. What was a measly $35.00? She payed the balloon people and took a ride up with in a balloon that looked like a Voltorb. Her guide was a 19 year old guy with wavy brown hair and a safari hat. His name was Allen
"You chose a great time to take a balloon ride. Right now, you can watch the Butterfree's mating season. It's a time when wild and tame Butterfree alike find a partner, cross the ocean, and have their babies. It's really pretty to watch, even if you don't have a Butterfree of your own. Would you like to go in for a closer look?" asked Allen. Acacia said yes and Allen took them over to a big cluster of Butterfree and balloons. Trainers were releasing their Butterfree everywhere. It was beautiful to see all the happy
Butterfree couples doing their courtship dances and flitting here and there for a perfect mate.
Suddenly, she and Allen saw a red and white striped balloon piloted by a young teenage girl with long blonde hair in twin braids. She looked kind of mean. She opened her Pokeball to reveal another Butterfree. But this one was different. It was bruised on its foot, stomach and hand. It was flying lopsided due to the fact one of its wings had a tear. But the thing most noticeable was that it had a long scarlet slash across its left eye. The line of the scar became whole whenever the Butterfree blinked or closed the eye.
"Good riddance to you mate! I hope I never see you again!" said the battered Butterfree's trainer. She sounded Australian in accent, but cold hearted in tone.
Acacia was infuriated. That girl was abandoning her Pokemon. It would never survive in that condition on its own. So she told Allen to fly next to the girl's balloon. When they were near, Acacia said, "Hey! Are you just going to leave that Butterfree by itself like that?! What kind of trainer abandons an injured Pokemon?"
To which the girl replied, "I would. My name is Milly, and that good for nothing Butterfree is a burden on me that I have got to get rid of!" Now that sent Acacia over the deep end. She began to grow a long light orange tail which spit open the seat of her pants. She sprouted wings of light orange and blue. Horns busted from her head while she got more orangey and more dragon-like. Last but not least, the tip of her tail burst into flame. After a few moments, Milly was screeching her head off at a Charizard sitting in the balloon next to her.
"Rooaarr!" boomed the Charizard. But before she could try to torch Milly, she noticed the injured Butterfree nose diving out of control towards the cliffs below. Milly would have to wait. Acacia/Charizard swooped down at maximum speed towards Butterfree. It was about to be impaled on a high peak but Acacia saved it. She got a nasty scar across the belly because she flew to close to the peak.
Milly started shouting threats up at Acacia. Stuff like, "Come down here and we'll see how tough you are!" and, "I sick my Blastoise on you if you even bring that tail of your's close to me!" Acacia just flew down, set Butterfree in the Voltorb balloon, gave Milly a burnt face from a distance, and changed back into herself.
"Let's settle this! Set down on the ground and we'll have a little fight! All Pokemon out at once!" shouted Milly. Acacia agreed. They went to the ground and started immediately.
"Go Blastoise, Pidgeotto, Oddish, Sandshrew, and Persian!" yelled Milly as she sent out her collection of Pokemon.
"Go Lickitung, Ekans, Growlithe, and Venomoth!" said Acacia doing the same. Lickitung, Growlithe and Ekans looked alert and ready to battle, but Venomoth decided to take a nap on the ground. A little bubble came out its nose. "Darn." said Acacia.
The fight began. Ekans was in a big competition with Persian. They seemed to be comparing bite attacks. Growlithe had already torched Oddish and was now dodging wing a attacks from Pidgeotto. Lickitung decided to take on Blastoise and Sandshrew single handed, er, single tounged. In five inutes,
all Pokemon on both sides were down except for Lickitung and Blastoise. Lick attack, miss. Water Gun, hit. Double-Edge, hit. Hydro Pump, miss. It went on like this for quite a while. At last, Lickitung triumphed with the TM Acacia got from Sabrina, Psywave!
Milly stormed away in quite a bit of a rage. Acacia decided that if Milly was getting rid of Butterfree, she might as well take it. She turned around to find Allen smirking at her.
"What's that supposed to mean?" questioned Acacia.
"I see my invention is working well. Tell me, what else have you used it for?" said Allen, who was apparently not Allen. He yanked a wig off his head and risers off his shoes. This revealed him as someone Arcacia knew all too well.
"Ian! How did you find me?" exclaimed Acacia. She was very startled to see him again. It had been about a week or two since he had first zapped her with his device. She wasn't as mad at him as much any more because this new power actually came in handy sometimes.
"Oh, I have my ways." He pointed to the sky. Acacia saw a red dot that could only be his Moltres. He continued, "Now please answer my question. What else have you transformed to?"
"Well, a Primeape when I got mad at you, a Lickitung when I was worried about mine, a Beedrill to help me win a match, and a Muk to help me defeat Team Rocket." she replied.
"Very good. I'm off for now, but I can appear to check on you anywhere and anytime I want." said Ian. He gave a shrill whistle and his Moltres came down from the sky to fly him to unknown parts. After watching him go out of sight, Acacia got back in the balloon to take a look at Butterfree. She applied some temporary bandages that would hold until they got to the nearest Pokemon Center. The nearest center was about an hour long journey from here, somewhere in the nearby forest.
Once there, she handed her Pokeballs and the injured Butterfree to Nurse Joy. After ten minutes, Nurse Joy gave Acacia her Pokeballs and Butterfree back.
"About your Butterfree, I was able to eliminate all its bruises and it feels very active and healthy, but that scar across its eye just won't go away. I have a feeling that it could be there for quite some time." informed Nurse Joy.
"That's okay Nurse Joy. Its how Butterfree feels inside that counts, not a scar. Besides, I think it looks cool that way." said Acacia. When she was alone with Butterfree, she said to it. Since you're mine now, I think I'll nickname you. Looks like something sharp made that slash, so I'll call you Dagger. You like that?"
"Free, frreee!" said Butterfree with a nod of its little purple head.
"Good. Dagger it is then. Come on Dagger, time to get in your Pokeball." said Acacia. Dagger looked scared. And started a series of squeaks of its name.
"Pokedex translation activated. 'That other trainer treated my Pokeball like a cage that I was supposed to stay inside no matter what. I will go in a Pokeball someday, but not now.' Translation deactivated." said the Pokedex.
"Okay, you can stay out but someday you'll have to call your Pokeball home okay?" said Acacia.
"Free." said Dagger. This meant yes. So Acacia, Dagger, and all her other Pokemon set off for the rest of the forest and the ultimate goal, Cerulean City.
