Poké Pen Pals

Chapter 2: Violet Obsessions and Tarika's Rantings

By: Miss Black Dragon (A.K.A. Prima)

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To:
Angel_of_peace@pokenewbies.net
(Cassie)
From:
I_wanted_Cyndaquil_you_idiot@pokenewbies.net

Subject: Re: First day on the rode (typo, my dear. *road.)
Dear Cass,

It's quiet where you are? Heh, lucky girl. I'm sort of stuck with Zack and Jace
- did I tell you about them? Anyway, Zack's the guy I have a crush on -
coincidentially, my rival in training, AND he got Cyndaquil. T_T Jace is his
best friend, he's kinda weird, but really nice once you get to know him.

Kinda stuck, you're asking? Wellll, I do have a choice in the matter, but I'd
rather have company on my journey than going it alone. For the time being,
anyway. You're so brave, facing your journey alone on your first day. I probably
couldn't do that. (Oh yeah, I did.. But I did run into Zack and battle him, so
it wasn't so bad. Got any rivals over there in Kanto?)

OKay, I suppose you aren't really alone if you've got your Pokémon with you.
It's so different out here on a journey...

Yeah, I'm finally free of my hyperactively annoying sister, and my overbearing
parents! YAAAAY! *slight sarcasm*
I miss my friends, though.. Celebi, that sounds so pathetic, I miss my friends
more than I miss my family. Really, Saffire, Corynna, and everybody else, I'll
miss 'em...
(random note, wonder if Zack misses Corynna. Corynna's his little sister, in
case I forgot to mention that. Pro'lly doesn't miss her.)

How ridiculous, I've mentioned nothing about my own journey. As my e-mail
address suggests, I didn't get Cyndaquil. T_T You're so lucky, you got a pyro
Pokemon. Oh well, decided to at least go for the type advantage over Zack and
get Totodile. Called him Splashter, for obvious reasons. Splashter's kinda
hyperactive, whenever I let him out of his 'Ball he wets everything in site
(including me), so I only let him out for battles.

I usually don't have Pokémon out of their Poké Balls... This may sound
superficial or something, but my mp3 player's pretty good company. I end up
singing most of the time, a trainer had to yell at me a few times before he
could get a battle out of me.

I'm in Violet City now, the third town on the map. Cherrygrove City's not too
far from New Bark Town, I've been there in the weekends and stuff. But it's a
pretty boring town, the most there is is a Pokémon Center, and a P-Mart. And
there was this old guy that gave me a map card for my Poke Gear, pretty nice of
him, no?

What am I thinking, I forgot to mention my other Pokemon! My Pokemon are all at
level 10. There's Splashter, my Totodile, and then there's Flya, my own Pidgey
(Pidgey, not Pidgi =P). There's Rocky and Rocky, Geodude and Onix respectively,
and I have a Butterfree called Bugsta, and a Rattata called Jawz. Rocky (Onix)
won't listen to me, he keeps ignoring me in battle... ='(

The first day of my journey? (I'm on day 3.. I think..) It was just like walking
the way from New Bark to Cherrygrove, but this time, I was the one who sent out
trained Pokemon to battle the Wildies. It took a while to get the battle
reflexes sorted, but the thought process is automatic now. For me, during
battle, it's like, "Pokemon! Sentret... Normal type... Normal moves won't hurt
Rock type.. send out Rocky! GO!"

Wow, I'm weird. ^_^

Well, I'm glad you're having a good time in Viridian Forest. (only one R) It
sounds really beautiful there, next time I visit Cousin Erika, I'm gonna beg and
beg and beg to go to Viridian Forest. (and bring my digi-cam along, a'course)
Violet City is very... violet. I swear, the builders and painters and stuff are
obsessed with VIOLET. Violet paint, violet flowers, violet violets..
Oh great, now the guys are starting too, Jace just stole my Poké Gear and turned
my font violet for no apparent reason.

(To annoy her! Nyah nyah!)

Ohhh goody...

Must go, before Jace and Za(asduliojselfdfhurtg[a=fosad)ck stuff up my e-mail
(daoplkdsapoilsdfodsvl) further.

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BAD BOY! Fiddling with my Cut and Paste like that...

Love ya, cheesiness is good, yes the new life thing is very fitting, already I'm
missing my friends and wondering who m'sis is annoying, love the way you
described V.Forest btw,
~Tari/ka [running off rather hurriedly]

(TARI LOVES ZAAACK!)

GIVE ME BACK MY POKE GEAR!

So now they hit Caps Lock on me... T_T

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[A/N: As it seems, my parts seem to be the oddER parts, seeing as Tari's not
alone on her journey...

Pokémon belongs to people who aren't us, Tari, Jace, and Zack belong to me, and
Cassie belongs to Lavenderangel.

The original PokéPenPals fic was written by us about.. two years ago, is it?
However, it was on a joint account that we've lost the password to, so we can't
write it anymore. T_T

If you like A) the concept of letter/e-mail writing, or B) the characters in my
section (hoping not to sound too conceited here), the original PokéPenPals fic
is here:

And Out'a the Stereotype, my fic with Tari, Jace, and Zack in it, is here:

Now, I think I've ranted on long enough. Ta-ta!

~Miss Black Dragon]