Chapter Six
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Pokemon, except the ones I made up (you'll know which ones). So, read and enjoy! Don't forget to review!!!
"Are we almost there?" Yuri asked as she looked back at Brock, who dug around in his blue backpack for an out-dated map of Kanto. He looked at the map, and then looked down at the ground, then back at the map.
"It looks like we're just over the Pewter City Gym. Hey, I see something down there." Brock said as he saw 16 figures come out of the gym's front doors, followed by a bigger figure. They appeared to be waving up at the group.
"Aren't those your 8 brothers and 8 sisters and your father, Brock?" Ash asked as he looked down. Brock strained his eyes, and indeed saw 8 teenage boys, 8 teenage girls, and 1 older male.
"Hey, guys!!!" Brock shouted as he waved back.
"Moltres, go down there. Ho-Oh, follow Moltres!" Yuri commanded. Moltres started to fly downward, as did Ho-Oh.
"Brock! You're back home!" one of the girls said as she and her 7 sisters hugged Brock. His 8 brothers came over and gave him a pat on the back, and his father walked over to him.
"Dad, how are you, old man?" Brock asked as he escaped the grasp of his brothers and sisters.
"Just fine, Brock! What about you? Where is Professor Ivy?" Flint asked as he looked around.
"I'm not working with Professor Ivy anymore, dad. When Ash and Misty came back to Kanto after their journey in the Orange Islands, I decided to join them again. And now we're going to a new place. We were just on our way to Vermillion City." Brock explained.
"Oh, I see… well, how about some lunch before you start on your way again? Suzie was just beginning to cook." Flint said as he began to walk inside the gym.
"Well, how about it, guys? Do you want food?" Brock asked as he looked back over at Ash, Misty and Yuri.
"You bet we do!!! Let's go!" Ash, Misty and Yuri said as they ran inside the gym after Brock's brothers and sisters.
"What's for lunch, Suzie?" Brock asked as he stopped in the doorway of the kitchen.
"My specialty! It's tomato soup with French bread and water to drink. I love tomato soup!" Suzie replied as she walked from cutting the bread into pieces to stirring the soup.
"Great! Can I help with anything?" Brock asked as he stood in the doorway.
"No, that's okay. I've got everything under control. Thanks, anyway!" Suzie said as she continued to slice the bread.
"Okay, if you insist." Brock said as he walked out of the kitchen. He walked down the hallway to the dining room.
"Ash, how old are you now?" Flint asked as he began a conversation with Ash and Misty.
"I'm 16 now, sir. So is Misty." Ash replied.
"I guess you would be, since Brock is 17. You kids are just growing up too fast... I remember the first day you tried to beat Brock in a Pokemon match for the Boulder Badge." Flint said as he had a flashback.
"Yeah. Things were a lot easier back then. But I've gotten older and wiser!" Ash said as he smiled.
"Wiser? Are you sure about that, Ash?" Misty said with a sweat drop. Ash just laughed, as did Yuri. Flint looked over and saw her.
"I'm terribly sorry I didn't see you sooner. Who might you be?" Flint asked.
"My name is Yuri. I just moved to Pallet Town, and I wanted to journey with Ash, Misty and Brock." Yuri said.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Brock's father, Flint, as you could've guessed." Flint said. "So, Brock, have you found yourself a nice little lady?"
Brock just looked at his father. "Uh, yeah, of course I have! In fact, she's waiting back at Pallet Town for me."
"Good for you!" Flint said as he laughed. Brock chuckled.
"Lunch is ready, everybody!" Suzie said as she walked into the dining room. She had 13 boxes stacked on top of each other, each containing a bowl of hot tomato soup, one slice of bread, a little plate of butter, and a spoon and a knife.
"The preparation is stupendous, Suzie! Where did you learn to box food like that?" Misty asked as Suzie laid one down before her.
"Only from the best big brother in the world! Please, eat and enjoy!" Suzie said as she finished passing out all the boxes and sat down.
Lunch held many conversations, but the biggest one was where Ash, Misty, Brock and Yuri were headed.
"It's a place called Banto. We have to fly to Vermilion City and figure out how to get to Banto from there." Ash explained.
"That's nice. What are you going to be doing there?" Flint asked.
"Well, apparently there have been some recent kidnappings of Professors all throughout Kanto and Johto, and Professor Oak believes that they are being taken to the new Team Rocket headquarters in Banto. So we have to travel to find the headquarters." Brock said.
"Well, good for you, Brock." Flint said as he slurped his soup.
~Later in the evening~
"Thanks for lunch and dinner, Dad!" Brock said as he walked away from his home in the Pewter City gym.
"Come by anytime, Brock! Same goes for you, Ash, Misty and Yuri! Have fun on your journey!" Flint said as Brock and Yuri hopped on Moltres and Ash and Misty hopped on Ho-Oh.
"Bye bye, Brock!" 8 girl's and 8 boy's voices called.
"Bye, everybody!" Ash, Misty, Brock and Yuri said as Moltres and Ho- Oh took of in the direction of Vermillion City.
"You're father's nice, Brock. And I must say that Suzie is an excellent chef." Yuri said as they rode Moltres into the star-light black sky.
"Well, thank you. I'm a pretty good cook, too." Brock bragged.
Over on Ho-Oh, Misty couldn't stop starring at the stars.
"What are you looking at, Misty?" Ash's voice asked from behind her.
"Oh, nothing. Just seeing the stars and remembering how beautiful they were the first time I saw them. I couldn't believe that something so beautiful and small could just hang in the sky without falling. I would always reach my hand out and try to grab a handful." Misty recalled. Ash then looked at the stars, and tried to remember the first time he saw stars.
"My father used to tell me that stars were every Pokemon's souls that would watch over everything. He used to say that when a Pokemon died, that a star would burn out and fall to Earth." Ash said. "...I don't remember my father..."
"I never had a father or a mother. They died when I was little. Ever since then, my sisters have taken care of me. That's one of the reasons I needed to get out and journey for a while. I had no idea that it would be 6 years worth of traveling, though." Misty said. She felt 2 arms wrap around her stomach, and looked back to see Ash's smiling face. She blushed a little bit, and looked back at the stars.
Ash looked at Misty's face. He could see the reflection of the stars in her cerulean-blue eyes. She sighed and let her go.
'What am I doing? How do I know if she even likes me like that?' Ash thought to himself as he closed his eyes. He began to fall asleep, taking one last looks at the stars. He took in the night air and fell asleep.
~The Next Morning~
"Ash, wake up. We're above Saffron City now. We're almost to Vermilion City." Misty's voice calmly said as Ash felt something shake him. He slowly opened his eyes, and saw the bright sun shinning down on them. He sat up, stretched and yawned.
"'Morning, Misty. Man, am I hungry!" Ash said.
"What else is new...? Anyway, we're almost to Vermilion City." Misty said as she turned around as looked forward.
"Ho-Oh, start flying down! Moltres, follow her!" Yuri commanded. "Well, good morning, Ash! Glad to see that you're finally awake!"
"Yeah, thanks, Yuri. Are we almost there?" Ash called over to Moltres. He then felt Ho-Oh stop flying and watched Yuri jump down off Moltres.
"You figure it out." Yuri said as she winked at Ash.
"Okay, now that we're here, how do we get to Banto?" Misty asked as Ash helped her down off Ho-Oh.
"I don't know. Moltres, Ho-Oh, return!" Yuri said as she called back her two, tired fire Pokemon. "You guys deserve a good rest. Thanks for getting us here!"
"Well, why don't we try to call the Professor? Maybe he could help us." Brock suggested.
"Good idea." Ash said as he took out his PokeGear and pressed some buttons to get Professor Oak's phone number.
"Hello, Professor Oak's Lab in Pallet Town. This is Tracey, how can I help you?" Tracey's voice said through the speaker in the PokeGear.
"Hey, Tracey! Is the Professor in?" Ash asked.
"Oh, hey Ash. Could you hold on for a second? He's feeding the field Pokemon. I'll go get him." Tracey said as he put the phone down on what sounded like a table. A few seconds later, Professor Oak began to talk.
"Hello, Ash. Are you in Vermilion City now?" Professor Oak asked.
"Yeah, Professor, we are. Now how are we supposed to get to Banto?" Ash asked.
"Are you near some docks?" Professor Oak asked. Ash looked around, and saw some empty docks except one which had what looked like a cruise ship at it.
"Yeah, but they're all empty. Professor, what does this have to do with anything?" Ash asked with annoyance.
"Do you see that cruise ship? That's your transportation to Banto. Some gentlemen I know said you could use the ship to get to Banto, and all you have to do is tell them your names." Professor Oak explained. Misty and Yuri gasped, and their eyes began to twinkle. Brock grinned, and Ash smiled.
"Thanks, Professor! We'll call you when we're in Banto." Ash said as he hung up and put his PokeGear back into his pocket. He began to run after Misty, Yuri and Brock, who had a head start toward the ship.
~~Next chapter: Ash, Misty, Brock and Yuri are on the ship called the S.S. Oak, sailing toward their destination, Banto! How will their ship ride go? And what's going on between Ash and Misty? Will there be romance on the ship? Stay tuned to find out!
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Pokemon, except the ones I made up (you'll know which ones). So, read and enjoy! Don't forget to review!!!
"Are we almost there?" Yuri asked as she looked back at Brock, who dug around in his blue backpack for an out-dated map of Kanto. He looked at the map, and then looked down at the ground, then back at the map.
"It looks like we're just over the Pewter City Gym. Hey, I see something down there." Brock said as he saw 16 figures come out of the gym's front doors, followed by a bigger figure. They appeared to be waving up at the group.
"Aren't those your 8 brothers and 8 sisters and your father, Brock?" Ash asked as he looked down. Brock strained his eyes, and indeed saw 8 teenage boys, 8 teenage girls, and 1 older male.
"Hey, guys!!!" Brock shouted as he waved back.
"Moltres, go down there. Ho-Oh, follow Moltres!" Yuri commanded. Moltres started to fly downward, as did Ho-Oh.
"Brock! You're back home!" one of the girls said as she and her 7 sisters hugged Brock. His 8 brothers came over and gave him a pat on the back, and his father walked over to him.
"Dad, how are you, old man?" Brock asked as he escaped the grasp of his brothers and sisters.
"Just fine, Brock! What about you? Where is Professor Ivy?" Flint asked as he looked around.
"I'm not working with Professor Ivy anymore, dad. When Ash and Misty came back to Kanto after their journey in the Orange Islands, I decided to join them again. And now we're going to a new place. We were just on our way to Vermillion City." Brock explained.
"Oh, I see… well, how about some lunch before you start on your way again? Suzie was just beginning to cook." Flint said as he began to walk inside the gym.
"Well, how about it, guys? Do you want food?" Brock asked as he looked back over at Ash, Misty and Yuri.
"You bet we do!!! Let's go!" Ash, Misty and Yuri said as they ran inside the gym after Brock's brothers and sisters.
"What's for lunch, Suzie?" Brock asked as he stopped in the doorway of the kitchen.
"My specialty! It's tomato soup with French bread and water to drink. I love tomato soup!" Suzie replied as she walked from cutting the bread into pieces to stirring the soup.
"Great! Can I help with anything?" Brock asked as he stood in the doorway.
"No, that's okay. I've got everything under control. Thanks, anyway!" Suzie said as she continued to slice the bread.
"Okay, if you insist." Brock said as he walked out of the kitchen. He walked down the hallway to the dining room.
"Ash, how old are you now?" Flint asked as he began a conversation with Ash and Misty.
"I'm 16 now, sir. So is Misty." Ash replied.
"I guess you would be, since Brock is 17. You kids are just growing up too fast... I remember the first day you tried to beat Brock in a Pokemon match for the Boulder Badge." Flint said as he had a flashback.
"Yeah. Things were a lot easier back then. But I've gotten older and wiser!" Ash said as he smiled.
"Wiser? Are you sure about that, Ash?" Misty said with a sweat drop. Ash just laughed, as did Yuri. Flint looked over and saw her.
"I'm terribly sorry I didn't see you sooner. Who might you be?" Flint asked.
"My name is Yuri. I just moved to Pallet Town, and I wanted to journey with Ash, Misty and Brock." Yuri said.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Brock's father, Flint, as you could've guessed." Flint said. "So, Brock, have you found yourself a nice little lady?"
Brock just looked at his father. "Uh, yeah, of course I have! In fact, she's waiting back at Pallet Town for me."
"Good for you!" Flint said as he laughed. Brock chuckled.
"Lunch is ready, everybody!" Suzie said as she walked into the dining room. She had 13 boxes stacked on top of each other, each containing a bowl of hot tomato soup, one slice of bread, a little plate of butter, and a spoon and a knife.
"The preparation is stupendous, Suzie! Where did you learn to box food like that?" Misty asked as Suzie laid one down before her.
"Only from the best big brother in the world! Please, eat and enjoy!" Suzie said as she finished passing out all the boxes and sat down.
Lunch held many conversations, but the biggest one was where Ash, Misty, Brock and Yuri were headed.
"It's a place called Banto. We have to fly to Vermilion City and figure out how to get to Banto from there." Ash explained.
"That's nice. What are you going to be doing there?" Flint asked.
"Well, apparently there have been some recent kidnappings of Professors all throughout Kanto and Johto, and Professor Oak believes that they are being taken to the new Team Rocket headquarters in Banto. So we have to travel to find the headquarters." Brock said.
"Well, good for you, Brock." Flint said as he slurped his soup.
~Later in the evening~
"Thanks for lunch and dinner, Dad!" Brock said as he walked away from his home in the Pewter City gym.
"Come by anytime, Brock! Same goes for you, Ash, Misty and Yuri! Have fun on your journey!" Flint said as Brock and Yuri hopped on Moltres and Ash and Misty hopped on Ho-Oh.
"Bye bye, Brock!" 8 girl's and 8 boy's voices called.
"Bye, everybody!" Ash, Misty, Brock and Yuri said as Moltres and Ho- Oh took of in the direction of Vermillion City.
"You're father's nice, Brock. And I must say that Suzie is an excellent chef." Yuri said as they rode Moltres into the star-light black sky.
"Well, thank you. I'm a pretty good cook, too." Brock bragged.
Over on Ho-Oh, Misty couldn't stop starring at the stars.
"What are you looking at, Misty?" Ash's voice asked from behind her.
"Oh, nothing. Just seeing the stars and remembering how beautiful they were the first time I saw them. I couldn't believe that something so beautiful and small could just hang in the sky without falling. I would always reach my hand out and try to grab a handful." Misty recalled. Ash then looked at the stars, and tried to remember the first time he saw stars.
"My father used to tell me that stars were every Pokemon's souls that would watch over everything. He used to say that when a Pokemon died, that a star would burn out and fall to Earth." Ash said. "...I don't remember my father..."
"I never had a father or a mother. They died when I was little. Ever since then, my sisters have taken care of me. That's one of the reasons I needed to get out and journey for a while. I had no idea that it would be 6 years worth of traveling, though." Misty said. She felt 2 arms wrap around her stomach, and looked back to see Ash's smiling face. She blushed a little bit, and looked back at the stars.
Ash looked at Misty's face. He could see the reflection of the stars in her cerulean-blue eyes. She sighed and let her go.
'What am I doing? How do I know if she even likes me like that?' Ash thought to himself as he closed his eyes. He began to fall asleep, taking one last looks at the stars. He took in the night air and fell asleep.
~The Next Morning~
"Ash, wake up. We're above Saffron City now. We're almost to Vermilion City." Misty's voice calmly said as Ash felt something shake him. He slowly opened his eyes, and saw the bright sun shinning down on them. He sat up, stretched and yawned.
"'Morning, Misty. Man, am I hungry!" Ash said.
"What else is new...? Anyway, we're almost to Vermilion City." Misty said as she turned around as looked forward.
"Ho-Oh, start flying down! Moltres, follow her!" Yuri commanded. "Well, good morning, Ash! Glad to see that you're finally awake!"
"Yeah, thanks, Yuri. Are we almost there?" Ash called over to Moltres. He then felt Ho-Oh stop flying and watched Yuri jump down off Moltres.
"You figure it out." Yuri said as she winked at Ash.
"Okay, now that we're here, how do we get to Banto?" Misty asked as Ash helped her down off Ho-Oh.
"I don't know. Moltres, Ho-Oh, return!" Yuri said as she called back her two, tired fire Pokemon. "You guys deserve a good rest. Thanks for getting us here!"
"Well, why don't we try to call the Professor? Maybe he could help us." Brock suggested.
"Good idea." Ash said as he took out his PokeGear and pressed some buttons to get Professor Oak's phone number.
"Hello, Professor Oak's Lab in Pallet Town. This is Tracey, how can I help you?" Tracey's voice said through the speaker in the PokeGear.
"Hey, Tracey! Is the Professor in?" Ash asked.
"Oh, hey Ash. Could you hold on for a second? He's feeding the field Pokemon. I'll go get him." Tracey said as he put the phone down on what sounded like a table. A few seconds later, Professor Oak began to talk.
"Hello, Ash. Are you in Vermilion City now?" Professor Oak asked.
"Yeah, Professor, we are. Now how are we supposed to get to Banto?" Ash asked.
"Are you near some docks?" Professor Oak asked. Ash looked around, and saw some empty docks except one which had what looked like a cruise ship at it.
"Yeah, but they're all empty. Professor, what does this have to do with anything?" Ash asked with annoyance.
"Do you see that cruise ship? That's your transportation to Banto. Some gentlemen I know said you could use the ship to get to Banto, and all you have to do is tell them your names." Professor Oak explained. Misty and Yuri gasped, and their eyes began to twinkle. Brock grinned, and Ash smiled.
"Thanks, Professor! We'll call you when we're in Banto." Ash said as he hung up and put his PokeGear back into his pocket. He began to run after Misty, Yuri and Brock, who had a head start toward the ship.
~~Next chapter: Ash, Misty, Brock and Yuri are on the ship called the S.S. Oak, sailing toward their destination, Banto! How will their ship ride go? And what's going on between Ash and Misty? Will there be romance on the ship? Stay tuned to find out!