Chapter XXI- Vacation has arrived!
(Even pokemon trainers need a break!)
Raichu's fur went considerably back to normal after he slept on it that night. I
should have guessed though that Mom wouldn't know how to dry him off. She's never
had a pokemon of her own before. Raichu seemed to like her though, even if she did mess
up his fur a little. That morning we came to the dock in Vermillion to wave good-bye to
Jarod. It was hard for me to let him go again, and I made him promise to call me if he gets
lonley. As a parting gift, he left me a pokeball with a rare pokemon inside. He said he
would bring one for Erika when he came back, and not to open it until then. It was a very
strange looking pokeball. He said it was a 'Yujin* Ball'. *Yujin means Friend in Japanese.
Apparently all pokemon trainers in Jhoto now, get their first pokemon in one of these
balls. It was a green color with yellow and red stripes. As we waved farewell, he hung out
one of the Port holes yelling,
"Have a nice summer! I'll be back soon enough!" After that, we flew back to Cinnabar
and went immediatly to the mall. I found a magazine about the new techniques pokemon
from Jhoto, Kento, or the Orange Islands can learn, so I bought one for Me and Erika.
"All right!!" Erika yelled as she ran into the bathing suit store.
"We're going to have an awsome summer!" I yelled and ran in after her. I ran to the bakini
section, and she looked through the one peices. I found two that I really liked and tried
them both on. One was a red color with orange stiped down the side. The other was a sort
of cloth-like faberic that was red and more comfortable. The bottom of it was almost like
something tarzan would wear though, thank God it had another bottom peice underneath
with it. I looked in the mirrors and asked Erika. She said that the fabric one was the best.
She got a one peice that was black with a pastel pink top and green straps that crossed in
the back.
After that, we went shopping at the 'Pokemon Paradise' a place only on Cinnabar where
they sell beach toys for pokemon both from Cinnabar and Cianwood in Jhoto. I bought
Raichu a beach ball with blue and yellow stripes, and Erika bought Charizard a pair of
black sunglasses. We walked out of the mall and began to walk home when I said,
"You know what would be really great on the first day of our vacation?"
"What?" Erika said and placed Charizards glasses on.
"If we had a pokemon picknick!" I said and Raichu said,
"RAI!!" *YEAH!*
"If we did, we could spend some time together, give our pokemon some exersise, and
Leafeon and Vaporeon can be left alone for a while." I said and Raichu jumped up into
my arms.
"You know, that sounds like a great idea!" Erika said and hoped onto Charizard.
"Great! Go Pidgeot!" I said and threw out her pokeball. I hopped on with Raichu in my
arms, holding the bag with his beach ball in it, while I held the other, and we flew back to
my house after Erika stopped at hers to get some of her stuff.
"Marcy! Was the mall busy? What did you girls find?" She said as she looked at the bags
in wonder.
"Hey mom! We were going to go to the beach ok?" I said and began to walk upstairs.
"Don't be silly! You don't have to ask, just walk out the front door!" She said and giggled
at her own joke. We ran upstairs, and I ran to my room, and Erika took the guest room
next to it. I came out with Raichu next to me a minute or two later to find Erika waiting
for me.
"Come on Marcy!" She yelled and opened the front door.
"Oh, Marcy! Here, you'll need this for a picknick." She said and handed me a huge
picknick basket, and gave the foldable umbrella to Erika. "Here you'll need this too! Erika
do you have sun block?"
"I've got everything!^_^"
"Well, have a good time girls, and watch out for those boys!" She said and closed the
door behind us.
"Vacation at last!" I yelled and ran down to the shore after Erika with Raichu following
behind me, and Charizard gliding overhead with his 'cool shades' as my dad would say.
Erika stopped at a spot far enough from the water that our stuff wouldn't get wet if the
tide came in. I set up the blanket while Erika set up the umbrella over it.
"Everyone!..." I yelled,
"Come on out!" Erika finished and we both threw all our pokeballs into the air except for
the one Jarod gave me and Raichu's empty one. I put Arbok back into the computer to
keep with me whatever it was that Jarod gave me.
"Nine!" *Marc!*
"Pidgeot!" *Stretch!*
"LeafLeaf!" *Marcy!*
"Grrr! Raaa!" *Surf time!* Gryrados said and swam into the water.
"Vaporeon!!" *Leafeon!* She said and ran over to him. He licked her nose, and they sat
down together on the sand.
"HauntHaunt!" *Marcy!* She said and rubbed up against my chest.
"Kadabra!" *Relax!* he said and layed down on the sand.
"Arrrbokk!!??" *Haunter!!??* He said and gave Haunter a very strange look. When
Haunter finally detached itself from me, it proceded to chase Arbok around. Erika layed
back on Charizard who was flat on the sand, and Raichu curled up in my lap as I blew up
his beach ball. After I finished, I threw it into the water, where Gyrados used his water
gun to hit it to Pidgeot in the air to keep himself occupied.
"Hey Raichu, you want me to teach you a new move?" I asked him, and his ears pearked
up. "It's called Thunderstorm. I don't know if you can learn it though, I heard it's very
hard."
"Rai, Raichu!" *I'll try!* He said and jumped off my lap to stand in front of me.
"Ok. Now, what you have to do is concentrate. Picture..." I began, but I was suddenly
interupted by a tap on the shoulder. I turned around to see a rather older looking boy with
black hair and brown eyes. "Can I help you?" I asked him.
"I'm sorry to interupt your training, but is that pokemon over there yours?" He asked and
pointed to Leafeon.
"Yes as a matter of fact it is why?" I asked and stepped compleatly around to face him so
he couldn't see Leafeon.
"Well, I was wondering what it is. It's not registering on my pokedex..." He said and
showed it to me. I took it from him and opened it up. It began to play a recording,
"I am Dexter, a pokedex designed for pokemon trainer Ash Ketchum of Pallete Town."
and I realized then, exactly who it was.
"You're Ash Ketchum!??" I said and looked from his picture to his face.
"Yeah...so you've heard of me?" He said and scratched his head.
"Of course! I followed all of your battles in Jhoto on T.V. I even saw your conquest of the
Orange Leauge two years ago. Your Pikachu is amazing." I said and looked down to see
him at his feet.
"Pika!" *Thanks*
"Really? What's your name?"
"I'm Marcy Blaze, and this is my best friend Erika Crimson." I said and Erika got off
Charizard.
"Hi! Nice to meet you!" She said and shook his hand.
"Ash!" Suddenly a girl with short orange hair ran up to him from behind.
"This is my girlfriend, Misty Umi" He said and she shook our hands.
"Aren't you the leader of Cerulean City Gym?" I asked.
"Yeah. But, I left the Gym for my sisters to run. I'm on a vacation with Ash." She said and
grabbed his arm.
"So anyway, what is that pokemon?" He said.
"Oh! Leafeon, come'er!" I said and Leafeon said something to Vaporeon that I didn't hear
and came over. "This is my Leafeon!" I said and picked him up.
"A what??..." Ash said and tried to use Dexter on it again. 'Not a know species. No data.'
"There won't be one in there for him. I just evolved him about two weeks ago. You
should probobly get your Pokedex upgraded." I said and Raichu walked over to my feet.
"Oh! Your Pikachu evolved! I always knew it had something special. She said and
kneeled down to look at him.
"Can you at least tell me what it evolves from?" Ash tried to ignore Misty temporarily.
"Oh sure! It evolves from a dark colored Eevee with a Leaf stone." I said and watched
Misty carefully.
"Really, I thought Leaf stones aren't sopposed to effect Eevees."
"They're not. But because of a recessive genetic trait, this type of Eevee can use the
readiation from it to evolve."
"Amazing! I've never seen anything like it. Not even in Jhoto." He said and put his
pokedex away. I put Leafeon down, and he strolled back over to chat with Vaporeon.
"Ash. Why don't you ask Marcy to battle? I think she would make a worthy opponent."
She winked at me which signaled to use Raichu.
"Yeah!" I said. "You're Pikachu against my Raichu."
"Well, I don't know, I'm an experienced trainer...." He said.
"Oh Ash will you put your ego aside for two moments?" She said and gave him a good
smack in the butt.
"All right. But only because you insist. A one on one battle?"
"That's great!" I said. I stepped back for a while, and Charizard drew a circle on the
ground for our pokemon. Erika sat next to Misty on the side lines and I sent Raichu to the
middle. Ash mummbled something to Pikachu then sent him out as well.
"Let the battle begin!" Misty yelled and Pikachu used a quick attack.
"Raichu, Agility!" I yelled and he dissapeared. For a while all you could see was the
ocasional blip in the air where Raichu hit Pikachu or vise versa.
"Pikachu, comet punch!" Ash yelled.
"Raichu, thunderbolt!!" As pikachu jumped into the air to deliver the punch, Raichu
shocked it, and it fell to the ground.
"Pikachu, double team and slap!"
"Raichu, BLIZZARD!"
"Blizzard!? It can't use that! You're more inexperienced than I thought!" Pikachu split it's
image and surrounded Raichu, hitting it every so often. But he blew out bursts off cold air
until he hit the real one and froze it to the ground.
"No way!!How??" He yelled.
"Raichu, slap!" Raichu calmly walked over to Pikachu and began to slap it face back and
fourth.
"Pikachu! Thunder!"
"Raichu, Light screen!"
"Rai?" *hugh?*
"Oh, he hasn't learned that yet!Quick, mimic me!" I began to wave my arms back and
fourth as the thunder came closer. Raichu raised his arms and...he used metronome! He
suddenly dissapeared as the Thunder hit the ground.
"Where?" Neither me or Ash could find him. Suddenly, he came out of nowhere behind
Pikachu, flying twords him with a kick.
"Pikachu!" Raichu hit pikachu square in the jaw, knocking him loose from the ice, but
k.o. ing him. "Pikachu!! But how!?" He ran over and picked up Pikachu.
"The match is over. Raichu and Marcy are the winners!" Misty yelled, and Erika ran over
to give me a hug.
"That was cool! But how did he do that?" Erika said and Raichu jumped up into my arms.
"You remember that magazine on teaching your pokemon new attacks? I was reading it
on the way home, and I learned how to teach Raichu metronome." I said and looked at
Ash. "I...I'm sorry. Is he ok?" I asked and Raichu put his paw ontop of Pikachu.
"It's all right. I just haven't been betten in such a long time. I guess I forgot what it's like
to lose. That was really amazing though! I never would have expected it." He said and
Pikachu opened it's eyes.
"Why don't you have lunch with us. You can order whatever you want. Then we'll be
even." I said and put Raichu down.
"What do you say Misty?." He asked and looked to her.
"That would be great!" She said and took Pikachu from Ash.
(Even pokemon trainers need a break!)
Raichu's fur went considerably back to normal after he slept on it that night. I
should have guessed though that Mom wouldn't know how to dry him off. She's never
had a pokemon of her own before. Raichu seemed to like her though, even if she did mess
up his fur a little. That morning we came to the dock in Vermillion to wave good-bye to
Jarod. It was hard for me to let him go again, and I made him promise to call me if he gets
lonley. As a parting gift, he left me a pokeball with a rare pokemon inside. He said he
would bring one for Erika when he came back, and not to open it until then. It was a very
strange looking pokeball. He said it was a 'Yujin* Ball'. *Yujin means Friend in Japanese.
Apparently all pokemon trainers in Jhoto now, get their first pokemon in one of these
balls. It was a green color with yellow and red stripes. As we waved farewell, he hung out
one of the Port holes yelling,
"Have a nice summer! I'll be back soon enough!" After that, we flew back to Cinnabar
and went immediatly to the mall. I found a magazine about the new techniques pokemon
from Jhoto, Kento, or the Orange Islands can learn, so I bought one for Me and Erika.
"All right!!" Erika yelled as she ran into the bathing suit store.
"We're going to have an awsome summer!" I yelled and ran in after her. I ran to the bakini
section, and she looked through the one peices. I found two that I really liked and tried
them both on. One was a red color with orange stiped down the side. The other was a sort
of cloth-like faberic that was red and more comfortable. The bottom of it was almost like
something tarzan would wear though, thank God it had another bottom peice underneath
with it. I looked in the mirrors and asked Erika. She said that the fabric one was the best.
She got a one peice that was black with a pastel pink top and green straps that crossed in
the back.
After that, we went shopping at the 'Pokemon Paradise' a place only on Cinnabar where
they sell beach toys for pokemon both from Cinnabar and Cianwood in Jhoto. I bought
Raichu a beach ball with blue and yellow stripes, and Erika bought Charizard a pair of
black sunglasses. We walked out of the mall and began to walk home when I said,
"You know what would be really great on the first day of our vacation?"
"What?" Erika said and placed Charizards glasses on.
"If we had a pokemon picknick!" I said and Raichu said,
"RAI!!" *YEAH!*
"If we did, we could spend some time together, give our pokemon some exersise, and
Leafeon and Vaporeon can be left alone for a while." I said and Raichu jumped up into
my arms.
"You know, that sounds like a great idea!" Erika said and hoped onto Charizard.
"Great! Go Pidgeot!" I said and threw out her pokeball. I hopped on with Raichu in my
arms, holding the bag with his beach ball in it, while I held the other, and we flew back to
my house after Erika stopped at hers to get some of her stuff.
"Marcy! Was the mall busy? What did you girls find?" She said as she looked at the bags
in wonder.
"Hey mom! We were going to go to the beach ok?" I said and began to walk upstairs.
"Don't be silly! You don't have to ask, just walk out the front door!" She said and giggled
at her own joke. We ran upstairs, and I ran to my room, and Erika took the guest room
next to it. I came out with Raichu next to me a minute or two later to find Erika waiting
for me.
"Come on Marcy!" She yelled and opened the front door.
"Oh, Marcy! Here, you'll need this for a picknick." She said and handed me a huge
picknick basket, and gave the foldable umbrella to Erika. "Here you'll need this too! Erika
do you have sun block?"
"I've got everything!^_^"
"Well, have a good time girls, and watch out for those boys!" She said and closed the
door behind us.
"Vacation at last!" I yelled and ran down to the shore after Erika with Raichu following
behind me, and Charizard gliding overhead with his 'cool shades' as my dad would say.
Erika stopped at a spot far enough from the water that our stuff wouldn't get wet if the
tide came in. I set up the blanket while Erika set up the umbrella over it.
"Everyone!..." I yelled,
"Come on out!" Erika finished and we both threw all our pokeballs into the air except for
the one Jarod gave me and Raichu's empty one. I put Arbok back into the computer to
keep with me whatever it was that Jarod gave me.
"Nine!" *Marc!*
"Pidgeot!" *Stretch!*
"LeafLeaf!" *Marcy!*
"Grrr! Raaa!" *Surf time!* Gryrados said and swam into the water.
"Vaporeon!!" *Leafeon!* She said and ran over to him. He licked her nose, and they sat
down together on the sand.
"HauntHaunt!" *Marcy!* She said and rubbed up against my chest.
"Kadabra!" *Relax!* he said and layed down on the sand.
"Arrrbokk!!??" *Haunter!!??* He said and gave Haunter a very strange look. When
Haunter finally detached itself from me, it proceded to chase Arbok around. Erika layed
back on Charizard who was flat on the sand, and Raichu curled up in my lap as I blew up
his beach ball. After I finished, I threw it into the water, where Gyrados used his water
gun to hit it to Pidgeot in the air to keep himself occupied.
"Hey Raichu, you want me to teach you a new move?" I asked him, and his ears pearked
up. "It's called Thunderstorm. I don't know if you can learn it though, I heard it's very
hard."
"Rai, Raichu!" *I'll try!* He said and jumped off my lap to stand in front of me.
"Ok. Now, what you have to do is concentrate. Picture..." I began, but I was suddenly
interupted by a tap on the shoulder. I turned around to see a rather older looking boy with
black hair and brown eyes. "Can I help you?" I asked him.
"I'm sorry to interupt your training, but is that pokemon over there yours?" He asked and
pointed to Leafeon.
"Yes as a matter of fact it is why?" I asked and stepped compleatly around to face him so
he couldn't see Leafeon.
"Well, I was wondering what it is. It's not registering on my pokedex..." He said and
showed it to me. I took it from him and opened it up. It began to play a recording,
"I am Dexter, a pokedex designed for pokemon trainer Ash Ketchum of Pallete Town."
and I realized then, exactly who it was.
"You're Ash Ketchum!??" I said and looked from his picture to his face.
"Yeah...so you've heard of me?" He said and scratched his head.
"Of course! I followed all of your battles in Jhoto on T.V. I even saw your conquest of the
Orange Leauge two years ago. Your Pikachu is amazing." I said and looked down to see
him at his feet.
"Pika!" *Thanks*
"Really? What's your name?"
"I'm Marcy Blaze, and this is my best friend Erika Crimson." I said and Erika got off
Charizard.
"Hi! Nice to meet you!" She said and shook his hand.
"Ash!" Suddenly a girl with short orange hair ran up to him from behind.
"This is my girlfriend, Misty Umi" He said and she shook our hands.
"Aren't you the leader of Cerulean City Gym?" I asked.
"Yeah. But, I left the Gym for my sisters to run. I'm on a vacation with Ash." She said and
grabbed his arm.
"So anyway, what is that pokemon?" He said.
"Oh! Leafeon, come'er!" I said and Leafeon said something to Vaporeon that I didn't hear
and came over. "This is my Leafeon!" I said and picked him up.
"A what??..." Ash said and tried to use Dexter on it again. 'Not a know species. No data.'
"There won't be one in there for him. I just evolved him about two weeks ago. You
should probobly get your Pokedex upgraded." I said and Raichu walked over to my feet.
"Oh! Your Pikachu evolved! I always knew it had something special. She said and
kneeled down to look at him.
"Can you at least tell me what it evolves from?" Ash tried to ignore Misty temporarily.
"Oh sure! It evolves from a dark colored Eevee with a Leaf stone." I said and watched
Misty carefully.
"Really, I thought Leaf stones aren't sopposed to effect Eevees."
"They're not. But because of a recessive genetic trait, this type of Eevee can use the
readiation from it to evolve."
"Amazing! I've never seen anything like it. Not even in Jhoto." He said and put his
pokedex away. I put Leafeon down, and he strolled back over to chat with Vaporeon.
"Ash. Why don't you ask Marcy to battle? I think she would make a worthy opponent."
She winked at me which signaled to use Raichu.
"Yeah!" I said. "You're Pikachu against my Raichu."
"Well, I don't know, I'm an experienced trainer...." He said.
"Oh Ash will you put your ego aside for two moments?" She said and gave him a good
smack in the butt.
"All right. But only because you insist. A one on one battle?"
"That's great!" I said. I stepped back for a while, and Charizard drew a circle on the
ground for our pokemon. Erika sat next to Misty on the side lines and I sent Raichu to the
middle. Ash mummbled something to Pikachu then sent him out as well.
"Let the battle begin!" Misty yelled and Pikachu used a quick attack.
"Raichu, Agility!" I yelled and he dissapeared. For a while all you could see was the
ocasional blip in the air where Raichu hit Pikachu or vise versa.
"Pikachu, comet punch!" Ash yelled.
"Raichu, thunderbolt!!" As pikachu jumped into the air to deliver the punch, Raichu
shocked it, and it fell to the ground.
"Pikachu, double team and slap!"
"Raichu, BLIZZARD!"
"Blizzard!? It can't use that! You're more inexperienced than I thought!" Pikachu split it's
image and surrounded Raichu, hitting it every so often. But he blew out bursts off cold air
until he hit the real one and froze it to the ground.
"No way!!How??" He yelled.
"Raichu, slap!" Raichu calmly walked over to Pikachu and began to slap it face back and
fourth.
"Pikachu! Thunder!"
"Raichu, Light screen!"
"Rai?" *hugh?*
"Oh, he hasn't learned that yet!Quick, mimic me!" I began to wave my arms back and
fourth as the thunder came closer. Raichu raised his arms and...he used metronome! He
suddenly dissapeared as the Thunder hit the ground.
"Where?" Neither me or Ash could find him. Suddenly, he came out of nowhere behind
Pikachu, flying twords him with a kick.
"Pikachu!" Raichu hit pikachu square in the jaw, knocking him loose from the ice, but
k.o. ing him. "Pikachu!! But how!?" He ran over and picked up Pikachu.
"The match is over. Raichu and Marcy are the winners!" Misty yelled, and Erika ran over
to give me a hug.
"That was cool! But how did he do that?" Erika said and Raichu jumped up into my arms.
"You remember that magazine on teaching your pokemon new attacks? I was reading it
on the way home, and I learned how to teach Raichu metronome." I said and looked at
Ash. "I...I'm sorry. Is he ok?" I asked and Raichu put his paw ontop of Pikachu.
"It's all right. I just haven't been betten in such a long time. I guess I forgot what it's like
to lose. That was really amazing though! I never would have expected it." He said and
Pikachu opened it's eyes.
"Why don't you have lunch with us. You can order whatever you want. Then we'll be
even." I said and put Raichu down.
"What do you say Misty?." He asked and looked to her.
"That would be great!" She said and took Pikachu from Ash.