Pokemon: Crystal's Journey
You abuse me, I report you. Simple math, actually. Mind my feeble attempts at Pokemon talk please. And at Pokedex entries. Pie is the ending sound on Caterpie, and is pronounced as such. When I saw the show, that's all I EVER heard a Caterpie say, so that's what I'm going by. If ya don't like it, go do your own Pokemon fic and make YOUR Caterpie
say what YOU want.
Crystal and Charlie sat on a nearby log, both panting and laughing.
"Man, Charlie. That was a blast!" Crystal said when she could breathe again.
"MudKIP!" Charlie said, doing the Mudkip version of a laugh.
The duo had just raced through the first part of the forest, avoiding a group of not-so-tame Pidgey. After climbing across a river, they parked on a log.
Crystal lived in a region where all the types of Pokemon could be found, called Miora. There were 4 towns and 7 cities, with the gyms being in all the cities and the largest town. Crystal and her family lived in Lima Town, a tiny town on the midwestern coast of Miora. Her sister, Amethyst, was last heard of outside of Koreno Town, on the southern coast.
Amethyst was the one that Crystal had always looked up to. Her dream was to become the Champion of the Miora Pokemon League. Although Crystal respected her for that dream, she did not share it. Crystal just wanted the chance to learn as much as she could about Pokemon--to get to travel, live without modern luxurties, and to have nothing but the supplies she could carry and her Pokemon to talk to. According to her mother, Amethyst was going to try to meet up with Crystal sooner or later, as she also had a gift for her.
Crystal picked up Charlie, putting him into her lap. "So, Charlie. Do you want to add some more Pokemon to our team?"
"Mudkip. Mudmud kip, Mud kip. Kip kip."
She laughed. "A big team, huh? Well, any Pokemon you want to have help you out?"
"Mud...kip kip. Kip mudkip! Kip mudmud. Kip..."
"Whoa, slow down there little guy! So you'd like to travel with a Butterfree, a Sandslash...and a Chikorita?"
"MudKIP!"
"I'm just glad we agree on Pokemon. Those are 3 I want to catch!
Charlie suddenly looked up, his head fin vibrating slightly. Crystal also looked up, and, at seeing Charlie's intent gaze, she looked in that direction. The bushes were shaking. Suddenly a Catterpie crawled out. Charlie turned to Crystal, looking eager.
She nodded. He hopped off of her lap quietly and slowly crept up to the Caterpie, waiting for the command.
The little Caterpie turned around, looking confused. "Pie Pie??"
Crystal took out her Pokedex, hitting the pink button
Caterpie, Female, level 3. Bug type.
She nodded in approval. "CHARLIE! tackle attack, now!"
"MUDKIP!" he yelled as he tackled the unsuspecting Caterpie.
"PPIIEE!!" the Caterpie yelled, shooting out a sticky strand at Charlie.
"CHARLIE! That's her string shot, DODGE, THEN TACKLE!"
Charlie jumped upwards, just barely missing the attack. He then tackled the Caterpie in the head, flipping her backwards a few feet.
The Caterpie cried as it hit a tree, then fell over, fainted.
"Pokeball! Go!" Crystal yelled, throwing the ball. The little Caterpie disappeared into the ball. It shook three times, then the glowing light went out with a distictive "PING" sound. Crystal jumped up and down, excited.
"YES! I GOT A CATERPIE!" Crystal screamed. Pidgey flew out of the trees as Ratatta ran full force from the area.
Charlie tugged at her leg. "Mudmudmud mudkip. Kipkip mudkip."
Crystal glared at him, a smile on her face. "Be nice, she's the first I ever caught!"
Charlie good-naturedly rolled is eyes. "Mud KIP!"
"Okay okay, I understand that if I don't be quiet I'll scare away all the Pokemon in the area and we'll NEVER catch another..."
"Mudkip."
"You're pretty spunky for such a little guy...anyways let's say hello to our new friend!" Crystal threw up the Pokeball. "COME ON OUT, CATERPIE!" she yelled.
The Pokeball opened, releasing a red light. From the red light emerged Caterpie. She looked around a little, weak and confused.
Crystal kneeled down next to it. "Hey little one, relax..." she said, gently spraying some of her potion on it. Caterpie winced. "...Okay, I guess that stuff must sting like that spray Mom used to spray on my scrapes when I was little..."
Caterpie, blinking twice, flashed her version of a smile to Crystal. "PIE!"
"I take it you're feeling better...no hard feelings now, right?"
"Mudkip, mudmudkip?"
"Pie! Piepipie!" was accented with a shake of her head.
A sigh escaped from the female trainer. "Thank goodness...I'm Crystal, and this is Charlie...he won't attack you anymore--for the record."
Caterpie nodded. "Pie...piepie...pipie??"
"Help you...with what???"
"Pie pie pi pie pi piepipie."
"You wanna be a Butterfree? Hey, no prob there Caterpie! You're a bug-type Pokemon, which are known for evolving quickly. With some training, you'll be a Butterfree soon enough. And if Charlie here wants to evolve into...the next form of a Mudkip..."
"Kipkip, Mud, Kipkip..."
"...Yeah, Marshtomp...or the...top form..."
"Mudkip, Mud, Mudkip..."
"...Right, Swampert, he can too...What I'm trying to say I guess is I'm not gonna force you guys to evolve if you don't want to...I know you two evolve by the natural mean--gaining enough experience--, but if you guys evolved by Stones, I wouldn't force you to evolve. I hate it when people make me do what they want merely cause they want me to, so I'm not doing that to you guys."
Apparently Crystal's statement hit home to the little Caterpie. She crawled up onto her shoulder and nuzzled her head against Crystal's cheek. "Pie! PiePIE!"
Crystal giggled. "No prob, Caterpie...you want a nickname?" At Caterpie's shake of her little green head, she added, "Then Caterpie it is...until ya evolve of course."
Mudkip smiled. "Mud, mudkip kip kipkip mudmudkip, kip?"
"No, Charlie, we're not alone anymore. Caterpie's on our team now."
"MudKIP!!!!" he cheered happily.
"PIE!" Caterpie joined in.
Crystal looked down at Charlie. "If you want me to carry you, I will. And before I forget, you were AWESOME battling today, that was GREAT for your first battle little guy!"
Charlie shook his head, turning away from his trainer. "Mud, mudkip kip mud, kip MUD mud kip kipkip mud mudkip, mud mud mudkip kip," he said sarcastically.
Caterpie promptly string shot his head for that comment. "PIE PIE PIEPIE!"
Crystal immediately stepped in "ENOUGH BOTH OF YOU! Yes, Charlie, you did well and you can walk if you wish, just don't be a sore winner. And Caterpie, we do not attack our teammates. EVER. Both of you understand?" The Pokemon nodded. "Good. Now Charlie, if you come here, I'll get that sticky mess off your head. Honestly, you look like a Castform from here!"
After removing the remains of string shot from her Mudkip's head and getting a relative idea of where she was, Crystal turned back to her Pokemon. "Okay, I'll give you guys your food, then I'll make mine...after I start a campfire of course. It's getting late, and it'd be better if we just stayed here for the night. That way, we know we're in a safe area with water nearby, and won't be lost in the dark later on. but first, if Caterpie can point us in the general direction of the river, and if you, Charlie, can use your fin to track down the exact location of the river, we can all three get a drink."
The two Pokemon nodded. Caterpie, after some thought, pointed an antenna toward the west. Charlie then concentrated, his head fin vibrating. He started running off. Crystal quickly scooped up Caterpie and took off after him. A minute or two later, they came to the river. Charlie immediately dove in.
"Pie pie pie piepie pie?" Caterpie asked.
"He's a water-type Pokemon. They love water, use it in their attacks, and need to swim in it every day to stay healthy."
"Pie pie pie pie piepie pie piepie, pie piepie pie pie pie pie."
Crystal was amazed. "That would be a great idea...moving toward this river...HEY CHARLIE! WANNA JUST MOVE CAMP HERE?!"
"Mud KIP!"
^Okay...that means I need to get my bag...which is back there...but I'm not like Charlie, with his ability to sense things, or Caterpie, who knows this forest like the back of her head, so I'll probably get lost...unless...^ Crystal took the rope she had purchased before her journey and unwound a bit of it. "CHARLIE! COME HERE!" When Charlie came running, she handed him the end of the rope. "Hold on to the end of this, and don't let go no matter what. You and Caterpie stay here, I'm gonna go back for my bag. This rope will lead me back to you guys, without me getting lost. Okay?"
"Mudkip," Charlie said, bitting onto the end of the rope offered to him.
"Pie."
She easily made it to her bag and back without a hitch, only seeing one or two Poochyena along the way. "Okay, need to get some..." Looking up, she saw Caterpie by a pile of wood that would work well as firewood. "Caterpie???"
"Pie piepie pie pie pie piepie..." she said shyly, Charlie nodding and waiting for the command to drop the rope.
"Charlie, good job! And Caterpie...you didn't have to..."
"Pie piepie pie..."
"...I think I lucked out getting you Charlie, and catching you, Caterpie..."
"MUD!"
"PIE!"
"Okay, I'll start the fire after I feed you two." She carefully poured out Pokemon food into two bowls from her bag, then devoted the next 10 minutes to starting a fire.
~~~~~~~~/~~~~~\~~~~~~@
Laying on her sleeping bag, Crystal stared up at the stars. ^So many of them...Millions of them, all burning...just because they can! That's like my journey now...I'm out here traveling with Charlie and Caterpie just because I can. I have a gift, now I need to use it. And if I can help others with it, then it makes my journey all that much better!^
She sat up, looking at Charlie, sitting in front of the fire, and Caterpie, curled up next to Crystal's bag. Picking up Caterpie's Pokeball, she recalled the small bug Pokemon.
Charlie looked up and shook his head. "Kip. Kip mud kip."
"Okay, you can sleep out of the ball. But you MUST stay by my pillow all night long. That way, I know you're safe." Charlie nodded and did as she said. Crystal picked up her bag and pulled out a small blue blanket and put it over him. "So you don't get to cold." She then curled up in her sleeping bag and quickly fell asleep.
But, little did she know, a few visitors wanted something that she had, didn't know right from wrong, and weren't afraid to steal from her open backpack...
You abuse me, I report you. Simple math, actually. Mind my feeble attempts at Pokemon talk please. And at Pokedex entries. Pie is the ending sound on Caterpie, and is pronounced as such. When I saw the show, that's all I EVER heard a Caterpie say, so that's what I'm going by. If ya don't like it, go do your own Pokemon fic and make YOUR Caterpie
say what YOU want.
Crystal and Charlie sat on a nearby log, both panting and laughing.
"Man, Charlie. That was a blast!" Crystal said when she could breathe again.
"MudKIP!" Charlie said, doing the Mudkip version of a laugh.
The duo had just raced through the first part of the forest, avoiding a group of not-so-tame Pidgey. After climbing across a river, they parked on a log.
Crystal lived in a region where all the types of Pokemon could be found, called Miora. There were 4 towns and 7 cities, with the gyms being in all the cities and the largest town. Crystal and her family lived in Lima Town, a tiny town on the midwestern coast of Miora. Her sister, Amethyst, was last heard of outside of Koreno Town, on the southern coast.
Amethyst was the one that Crystal had always looked up to. Her dream was to become the Champion of the Miora Pokemon League. Although Crystal respected her for that dream, she did not share it. Crystal just wanted the chance to learn as much as she could about Pokemon--to get to travel, live without modern luxurties, and to have nothing but the supplies she could carry and her Pokemon to talk to. According to her mother, Amethyst was going to try to meet up with Crystal sooner or later, as she also had a gift for her.
Crystal picked up Charlie, putting him into her lap. "So, Charlie. Do you want to add some more Pokemon to our team?"
"Mudkip. Mudmud kip, Mud kip. Kip kip."
She laughed. "A big team, huh? Well, any Pokemon you want to have help you out?"
"Mud...kip kip. Kip mudkip! Kip mudmud. Kip..."
"Whoa, slow down there little guy! So you'd like to travel with a Butterfree, a Sandslash...and a Chikorita?"
"MudKIP!"
"I'm just glad we agree on Pokemon. Those are 3 I want to catch!
Charlie suddenly looked up, his head fin vibrating slightly. Crystal also looked up, and, at seeing Charlie's intent gaze, she looked in that direction. The bushes were shaking. Suddenly a Catterpie crawled out. Charlie turned to Crystal, looking eager.
She nodded. He hopped off of her lap quietly and slowly crept up to the Caterpie, waiting for the command.
The little Caterpie turned around, looking confused. "Pie Pie??"
Crystal took out her Pokedex, hitting the pink button
Caterpie, Female, level 3. Bug type.
She nodded in approval. "CHARLIE! tackle attack, now!"
"MUDKIP!" he yelled as he tackled the unsuspecting Caterpie.
"PPIIEE!!" the Caterpie yelled, shooting out a sticky strand at Charlie.
"CHARLIE! That's her string shot, DODGE, THEN TACKLE!"
Charlie jumped upwards, just barely missing the attack. He then tackled the Caterpie in the head, flipping her backwards a few feet.
The Caterpie cried as it hit a tree, then fell over, fainted.
"Pokeball! Go!" Crystal yelled, throwing the ball. The little Caterpie disappeared into the ball. It shook three times, then the glowing light went out with a distictive "PING" sound. Crystal jumped up and down, excited.
"YES! I GOT A CATERPIE!" Crystal screamed. Pidgey flew out of the trees as Ratatta ran full force from the area.
Charlie tugged at her leg. "Mudmudmud mudkip. Kipkip mudkip."
Crystal glared at him, a smile on her face. "Be nice, she's the first I ever caught!"
Charlie good-naturedly rolled is eyes. "Mud KIP!"
"Okay okay, I understand that if I don't be quiet I'll scare away all the Pokemon in the area and we'll NEVER catch another..."
"Mudkip."
"You're pretty spunky for such a little guy...anyways let's say hello to our new friend!" Crystal threw up the Pokeball. "COME ON OUT, CATERPIE!" she yelled.
The Pokeball opened, releasing a red light. From the red light emerged Caterpie. She looked around a little, weak and confused.
Crystal kneeled down next to it. "Hey little one, relax..." she said, gently spraying some of her potion on it. Caterpie winced. "...Okay, I guess that stuff must sting like that spray Mom used to spray on my scrapes when I was little..."
Caterpie, blinking twice, flashed her version of a smile to Crystal. "PIE!"
"I take it you're feeling better...no hard feelings now, right?"
"Mudkip, mudmudkip?"
"Pie! Piepipie!" was accented with a shake of her head.
A sigh escaped from the female trainer. "Thank goodness...I'm Crystal, and this is Charlie...he won't attack you anymore--for the record."
Caterpie nodded. "Pie...piepie...pipie??"
"Help you...with what???"
"Pie pie pi pie pi piepipie."
"You wanna be a Butterfree? Hey, no prob there Caterpie! You're a bug-type Pokemon, which are known for evolving quickly. With some training, you'll be a Butterfree soon enough. And if Charlie here wants to evolve into...the next form of a Mudkip..."
"Kipkip, Mud, Kipkip..."
"...Yeah, Marshtomp...or the...top form..."
"Mudkip, Mud, Mudkip..."
"...Right, Swampert, he can too...What I'm trying to say I guess is I'm not gonna force you guys to evolve if you don't want to...I know you two evolve by the natural mean--gaining enough experience--, but if you guys evolved by Stones, I wouldn't force you to evolve. I hate it when people make me do what they want merely cause they want me to, so I'm not doing that to you guys."
Apparently Crystal's statement hit home to the little Caterpie. She crawled up onto her shoulder and nuzzled her head against Crystal's cheek. "Pie! PiePIE!"
Crystal giggled. "No prob, Caterpie...you want a nickname?" At Caterpie's shake of her little green head, she added, "Then Caterpie it is...until ya evolve of course."
Mudkip smiled. "Mud, mudkip kip kipkip mudmudkip, kip?"
"No, Charlie, we're not alone anymore. Caterpie's on our team now."
"MudKIP!!!!" he cheered happily.
"PIE!" Caterpie joined in.
Crystal looked down at Charlie. "If you want me to carry you, I will. And before I forget, you were AWESOME battling today, that was GREAT for your first battle little guy!"
Charlie shook his head, turning away from his trainer. "Mud, mudkip kip mud, kip MUD mud kip kipkip mud mudkip, mud mud mudkip kip," he said sarcastically.
Caterpie promptly string shot his head for that comment. "PIE PIE PIEPIE!"
Crystal immediately stepped in "ENOUGH BOTH OF YOU! Yes, Charlie, you did well and you can walk if you wish, just don't be a sore winner. And Caterpie, we do not attack our teammates. EVER. Both of you understand?" The Pokemon nodded. "Good. Now Charlie, if you come here, I'll get that sticky mess off your head. Honestly, you look like a Castform from here!"
After removing the remains of string shot from her Mudkip's head and getting a relative idea of where she was, Crystal turned back to her Pokemon. "Okay, I'll give you guys your food, then I'll make mine...after I start a campfire of course. It's getting late, and it'd be better if we just stayed here for the night. That way, we know we're in a safe area with water nearby, and won't be lost in the dark later on. but first, if Caterpie can point us in the general direction of the river, and if you, Charlie, can use your fin to track down the exact location of the river, we can all three get a drink."
The two Pokemon nodded. Caterpie, after some thought, pointed an antenna toward the west. Charlie then concentrated, his head fin vibrating. He started running off. Crystal quickly scooped up Caterpie and took off after him. A minute or two later, they came to the river. Charlie immediately dove in.
"Pie pie pie piepie pie?" Caterpie asked.
"He's a water-type Pokemon. They love water, use it in their attacks, and need to swim in it every day to stay healthy."
"Pie pie pie pie piepie pie piepie, pie piepie pie pie pie pie."
Crystal was amazed. "That would be a great idea...moving toward this river...HEY CHARLIE! WANNA JUST MOVE CAMP HERE?!"
"Mud KIP!"
^Okay...that means I need to get my bag...which is back there...but I'm not like Charlie, with his ability to sense things, or Caterpie, who knows this forest like the back of her head, so I'll probably get lost...unless...^ Crystal took the rope she had purchased before her journey and unwound a bit of it. "CHARLIE! COME HERE!" When Charlie came running, she handed him the end of the rope. "Hold on to the end of this, and don't let go no matter what. You and Caterpie stay here, I'm gonna go back for my bag. This rope will lead me back to you guys, without me getting lost. Okay?"
"Mudkip," Charlie said, bitting onto the end of the rope offered to him.
"Pie."
She easily made it to her bag and back without a hitch, only seeing one or two Poochyena along the way. "Okay, need to get some..." Looking up, she saw Caterpie by a pile of wood that would work well as firewood. "Caterpie???"
"Pie piepie pie pie pie piepie..." she said shyly, Charlie nodding and waiting for the command to drop the rope.
"Charlie, good job! And Caterpie...you didn't have to..."
"Pie piepie pie..."
"...I think I lucked out getting you Charlie, and catching you, Caterpie..."
"MUD!"
"PIE!"
"Okay, I'll start the fire after I feed you two." She carefully poured out Pokemon food into two bowls from her bag, then devoted the next 10 minutes to starting a fire.
~~~~~~~~/~~~~~\~~~~~~@
Laying on her sleeping bag, Crystal stared up at the stars. ^So many of them...Millions of them, all burning...just because they can! That's like my journey now...I'm out here traveling with Charlie and Caterpie just because I can. I have a gift, now I need to use it. And if I can help others with it, then it makes my journey all that much better!^
She sat up, looking at Charlie, sitting in front of the fire, and Caterpie, curled up next to Crystal's bag. Picking up Caterpie's Pokeball, she recalled the small bug Pokemon.
Charlie looked up and shook his head. "Kip. Kip mud kip."
"Okay, you can sleep out of the ball. But you MUST stay by my pillow all night long. That way, I know you're safe." Charlie nodded and did as she said. Crystal picked up her bag and pulled out a small blue blanket and put it over him. "So you don't get to cold." She then curled up in her sleeping bag and quickly fell asleep.
But, little did she know, a few visitors wanted something that she had, didn't know right from wrong, and weren't afraid to steal from her open backpack...