Chapter XXV- The Rest of Our Vacation
Jarod had given me an adorable pokemon that almost looked like an ant-eater. it
had brownish-red colored skin with a cremish colored underside, and six small dark green
circles going down it's back in two rows of three.
"It's so cute!!!" I yelled and went to pick it up. It suddenly curled up into a ball and burst
flames out of it's back! "Oh!!!Hinoarashi!!*" I yelled. *Japanese for 'Storm of Fire' I decided that's
what I would name him.
"That's a Cyndaquil. It's one of the starting pokemon that you get from Professor Elm in
New Bark Town. The one I gave Erika is also a Cyndaquil."
"Cnynda Quillll!" *Hi!*
"I also got you something else." Jarod said and pulled out a small box.
"What...?" I looked at this small little black box and opened it. "A...." I starred in wonder
as I realized it was a ring. "You...this isn't..." He took it out of the box and took out a gold
chain he had in his pocket. He slipped the ring onto the chain and put it around my neck.
"Don't worry, it's not what you think. This is only so you can have a little peice of me
with you if I ever have to leave again." He said and put the box back into his pocket.
"Thank you..." I said still a little stunned.
"Now you can say I'm your boyfriend!" He said and smiled.
"Were you here to hear that???!!!" I said.
"Of course!" He said cheerfully. I turned a little red and said,
"Well I guess we had better get going. We'll see you later Ash, Misty!" I said,
"Hinoarashi, return!"
"Bye!" We all yelled and Raichu jumped up into my arms as we walked back to my
house.
"See you guys later!" Misty yelled to us as we began to run. We ran all the way back to
the house and changed into our regular clothes. Mom knew that Jarod had been here
before though, she just didn't tell me. 'He had to come to change' she said. So after we had
finished eating our lunch, we sat down in the living room with the Noon Poke-News on
and put two maps on the table. One of Kento, and one of Jhoto.
"I really wish you guys could see what Jhoto was like. It so beautiful this time of year
too." He said and pointed to Cherry Grove City.
"I'd love to go." I said reading the map.
"We'll just have to stay on the ship when everyone else gets off for Olivine." Erika said.
"So after we get on at Vermillion city," Jarod began, "We arrive a day later in Olivine,
and take the boat back to Vermillion. That's three days on a boat. You think you can
handle it?" He said looking at us.
"What about you?" I said, "Can you handle it?"
"Oh, I've had to spend more time than that flying home. It's no big deal to me."
"So you brought your costume back with you right?" Erika asked.
"Oh yeah! It's hangging upstairs in the other guest room!" He said and blushed a little.
"You're staying here?" I asked him. At this point a big sweat drop fell down his head.
"Well....your mom said it would be ok...and I really didn't want to stay at the pokemon
center because there were no more rooms at any of the hotels...." He said and tried to
distract me by tracing a road on the map with his finger.
"Well, if it's ok with mom, I guess it's ok with me. Just don't get up in the middle of the
night, no sleep walking, and no drinking milk out of the milk carton!!" (All of which I do
every so often...^_^())
"Right!" He said and laughed.
"So, we have a plan! Yeah!" Erika yelled.
"So, we get on board the S.S.Aqua," Jarod started,
"We go to the ball," I said,
"We stay on board," Erika said,
"And we come back here!" Jarod finished.
"Then we'll have to fly to Pallete Town to challange Ash." I said pointing that out.
"No problem!" Erika said. "Do you have a flying pokemon Jarod?"
"You bet I do! And you'll never belive what it is!" He stood up excited.
"Just don't tell me it's an Articuno." I said still sitting.
"Nope! Pokeball go!" He threw a Great Ball onto the rug behind the couch, and I couldn't
belive what I saw.
"What....What is it?" I said in shock. It looked just like a Rapidash, but a little larger, and
it had an amazingly long horn. But the best part about it, was it had wings. It was so
beautiful. They almost seemed to shine as she opened them. They looked just like a
phenoix's wings. Yellow, blended into orange, then red and dark red.
"I call it, Pegesedon." He said and rubbed it's fire mane.
"Where??" I was still in shock.
"It'll only evolve from a Cinnabar Island Rapidash at Lv.90 and only if it loves it's
trainer." He said and she nuzzled up against his chest. Both me and Erika stared in
wonder and awe at it. We had always wanted to ride the legendary Pegusus, and this was
as close as we were ever going to get.
"Can I....pet it??" I said and got up off the couch slowly.
"Well, she doesn't usually let people get too close..." He said, but I slowly walked up and
held out my hand palm up. I was still a good two feet infront of her. She smelled my hand
then licked it.
"Good girl..." I said in a calm voice. Jarod starred at me as I walked closer to her. I stood
perfectly still right infront of her, and she nuzzled my chest just like she did to Jarod.
"Amazing??!!" He said. She licked my cheek and nuzzled my neck.
"Good girl..." I said again, and purposely touched her fire mane.
"Wait!" Jarod said, but I put my hand on her. To his astonishment, she didn't burn me.
The fire went around my hand like it was air. "How....?"
"She knows by smell who to trust and who not to. She knew that I wouldn't hurt her." I
said and gently stroked her mane. "Isn't that right?" She made a cute neighing noise and
licked my cheek.
"Pegesedon, return." He said and called her back. "That's really amazing." Jarod said still
wondering just how I did that.
"So...." Erika said, "after we fly to Pallete and win our last badge, we can come to Jhoto
with you."
"Right!" I yelled and jumped over the couch to sit with Erika.
So after that we spent the rest of our vacation preparing for our final Gym battle in
Kento with Ash, and catching pokemon in the burned down mansion. There's a legend
that it was burned down by Ho-oh himself after a dangerous pokemon was born there.
That pokemon is the legendary Ryukirin. A fire pokemon even stronger than Lugia,
guardian of the other bird poke-gods. It is now said to reside in Jhoto, running all over the
land, trying to escape from Ho-oh's wrath. It's one of the legendary pokemon that run
across the land, escaping the wrath of the birds. Suicune, the legendary dog of water, was
said to be the one who destroyed Atlantis with it's roar alone; and Raikou, the legendary
dog of thunder, is said to be responsible for the Northern Lights in Jhoto. He ran through
the sky, heating the clouds to high temperatures using thunderbolts to create it's glow; and
Entei, the legendary dog of fire, who can paralyze a pokemon with it's roar alone. But
none is as strong as Ryukirin.
Now, however, the only thing that can be found in the mansion, are Charmanders,
Ponyta, Growlithe, the occasional Rapidash, and the elusive Magmars. But the Magmars
are easier to find around the base of Mt.Magma, a volcano that erupted hundreds of years
ago, forming the secondary parts of the island. While we were there, we saw very few
Charmanders, but I caught two Ponyta, Erika caught a Growlithe and a Rapidash, and
Jarod caught a Charmander.
Later that day, about 4:00, Erika and me both dropped off our Masterballs with
dad so he could alter them for us.
"Ok dad, now, this one is for Raichu, this one is for Erika's Charizard, and this one is for
Jarod's Pegesedon." I said and put three masterballs on his desk.
"Sure thing sweet heart, but, could you explain to me what a Pegesedon is?" Dad asked as
he picked the balls up off his desk and put them in a machine that almost looked like an
oven.
"Oh, evolution of Rapidash at Lv.90 with love from trainer." Jarod explained.
"Fascinating." He said as he picked up five small paint brushes. "Well, they should be
ready before you leave for Jhoto guys. You can probobly pick them up tommorrow
morning."
"That's great dad! Thanks!" I said and closed the door after me. "We can come back
tommorrow before we start to pack." I said as I walked down the hall.
"Hey Marcy? Do you remember that guy in Pewter City? He gave us that Old Amber
stone?" Erika said and stopped.
"You're right. We should probobly leave it here." I said and Erika rummeged through her
back pack.
"Here it is!" She said and pulled out the circular, semi-translucent stone.
"Great! We'll leave it at the desk."
"Raichu Rai chu rai ChuChu?" *Can I see it Erika?*
"Sure." She handed it to Raichu and he ran past us to the desk.
"Raichu!" I said watching him trying to pull himself up onto the desk.
"Raichu chu!" *Here you go!* Raichu said putting the stone on the desk.
"Thanks Raichu!^_^" The receptinest said.
"Just leave that for my dad!" I said as I picked Raichu off of the counter.
"Sure thing Marcy. Bye!" She said as we walked out the door.
"We should probobly go home and get something to eat. I'm starving!" Erika yelled.
"That's a good idea!" Jarod yelled.
"Yeah, but you know what a better one is?" I said as I began to run, "The last one home
cleans the dishes!" I yelled and Erika and Jarod soon caught up.
"Very funny!" Jarod said.
"Funny? But I was serious! And since you two are much faster than me, Go White
Blaze!" I yelled and threw her pokeball infront of me.
"Hey! Not fair!" Erika yelled as I jumped onto White Blaze. "Go Charizard!" She yelled
and hopped onto Charizards back.
"Hey! Go, Pegesedon! I'm gonna get you Marcy!!" He said and jumped onto Pegesedon.
It was neck and neck for a while, but just as Erika flew through the front gate, Jarod
jumped off Pegesedon and onto White Blaze.
"Hey! Not fair!" I yelled.
"Sure it is!" He said and grabbed my waist.
"Ok! White Blaze, return!"
"Hey!!!??What's the big idea!!" He said as we fell to the ground. I landed right on top of
him. "Ouch!!" He yelled and just looked at me. "Now....how is that going to help you
win?" I got up, laughed and started running. "Hey?!" He laughed and tried to get up, but
that worked perfectly! His butt hurt so bad, that he couldn't stand up! ;^)
"I knew that would happen!" I yelled as I rounded the gate.
"Ok! I give up you win! I'll wash the dishes! Just help me up?" He said as he tried to get
up again.
"OH!! OK!!" I yelled back and ran over to him. "Here," I held out my hand and he took it,
but pulled me down onto the ground with him, "Hey!!" I said and he sprinted off. I got up
and ran after him as fast as I could, but I was trying far too hard.
"Come on Angel! Almost there!" He yelled as I began to catch up to him. I was panting
hard, and I was steadily slowed down. "Marc?" Finally I stopped just inside the gate.
"Marc you ok?" He asked me and ran over. I couldn't say anything to him because I was
panting so hard my chest hurt. "Marc! Say something!?" He said and put his hand on my
back.
"I........I'm......ok....." I said with gasps inbetween every word.
"Are you sure?" I shook my head, which wasn't a good idea, because I was already dizzy.
He put his hand infront of me as I began to fall over. "Marcy!?" he said. I fell into him,
still panting away, a little easier now though. Suddenly, he took his other arm, and put it
under my legs and picked me up. "Erika!!" He yelled. Erika came out and said,
"It's ok, she'll be all right, just put her on the couch." He put me on the couch and held my
hand, which was a little shaky.
"What's wrong with her?!" He said worried.
"Oh sweat heart! You shouldn't be running around too much like that! You know better!"
Mom came down the stairs and walked over into the kitchen. Erika walked over and gave
me a chocolate chip cookie to eat.
"Marcy gets tired very easy. It's because she has chronic fatigue syndrome. She isn't and
can't be as active as a normal person. She just needs to rest." Erika explained, and with
my free hand I touched Jarod's worried face.
"It's ok....I'll be fine. Just wake me up tommorrow morning, you watch."
"You promise?"
"I'm positive I don't have to promise." I said and fell asleep on the couch by the fireplace.
Jarod had given me an adorable pokemon that almost looked like an ant-eater. it
had brownish-red colored skin with a cremish colored underside, and six small dark green
circles going down it's back in two rows of three.
"It's so cute!!!" I yelled and went to pick it up. It suddenly curled up into a ball and burst
flames out of it's back! "Oh!!!Hinoarashi!!*" I yelled. *Japanese for 'Storm of Fire' I decided that's
what I would name him.
"That's a Cyndaquil. It's one of the starting pokemon that you get from Professor Elm in
New Bark Town. The one I gave Erika is also a Cyndaquil."
"Cnynda Quillll!" *Hi!*
"I also got you something else." Jarod said and pulled out a small box.
"What...?" I looked at this small little black box and opened it. "A...." I starred in wonder
as I realized it was a ring. "You...this isn't..." He took it out of the box and took out a gold
chain he had in his pocket. He slipped the ring onto the chain and put it around my neck.
"Don't worry, it's not what you think. This is only so you can have a little peice of me
with you if I ever have to leave again." He said and put the box back into his pocket.
"Thank you..." I said still a little stunned.
"Now you can say I'm your boyfriend!" He said and smiled.
"Were you here to hear that???!!!" I said.
"Of course!" He said cheerfully. I turned a little red and said,
"Well I guess we had better get going. We'll see you later Ash, Misty!" I said,
"Hinoarashi, return!"
"Bye!" We all yelled and Raichu jumped up into my arms as we walked back to my
house.
"See you guys later!" Misty yelled to us as we began to run. We ran all the way back to
the house and changed into our regular clothes. Mom knew that Jarod had been here
before though, she just didn't tell me. 'He had to come to change' she said. So after we had
finished eating our lunch, we sat down in the living room with the Noon Poke-News on
and put two maps on the table. One of Kento, and one of Jhoto.
"I really wish you guys could see what Jhoto was like. It so beautiful this time of year
too." He said and pointed to Cherry Grove City.
"I'd love to go." I said reading the map.
"We'll just have to stay on the ship when everyone else gets off for Olivine." Erika said.
"So after we get on at Vermillion city," Jarod began, "We arrive a day later in Olivine,
and take the boat back to Vermillion. That's three days on a boat. You think you can
handle it?" He said looking at us.
"What about you?" I said, "Can you handle it?"
"Oh, I've had to spend more time than that flying home. It's no big deal to me."
"So you brought your costume back with you right?" Erika asked.
"Oh yeah! It's hangging upstairs in the other guest room!" He said and blushed a little.
"You're staying here?" I asked him. At this point a big sweat drop fell down his head.
"Well....your mom said it would be ok...and I really didn't want to stay at the pokemon
center because there were no more rooms at any of the hotels...." He said and tried to
distract me by tracing a road on the map with his finger.
"Well, if it's ok with mom, I guess it's ok with me. Just don't get up in the middle of the
night, no sleep walking, and no drinking milk out of the milk carton!!" (All of which I do
every so often...^_^())
"Right!" He said and laughed.
"So, we have a plan! Yeah!" Erika yelled.
"So, we get on board the S.S.Aqua," Jarod started,
"We go to the ball," I said,
"We stay on board," Erika said,
"And we come back here!" Jarod finished.
"Then we'll have to fly to Pallete Town to challange Ash." I said pointing that out.
"No problem!" Erika said. "Do you have a flying pokemon Jarod?"
"You bet I do! And you'll never belive what it is!" He stood up excited.
"Just don't tell me it's an Articuno." I said still sitting.
"Nope! Pokeball go!" He threw a Great Ball onto the rug behind the couch, and I couldn't
belive what I saw.
"What....What is it?" I said in shock. It looked just like a Rapidash, but a little larger, and
it had an amazingly long horn. But the best part about it, was it had wings. It was so
beautiful. They almost seemed to shine as she opened them. They looked just like a
phenoix's wings. Yellow, blended into orange, then red and dark red.
"I call it, Pegesedon." He said and rubbed it's fire mane.
"Where??" I was still in shock.
"It'll only evolve from a Cinnabar Island Rapidash at Lv.90 and only if it loves it's
trainer." He said and she nuzzled up against his chest. Both me and Erika stared in
wonder and awe at it. We had always wanted to ride the legendary Pegusus, and this was
as close as we were ever going to get.
"Can I....pet it??" I said and got up off the couch slowly.
"Well, she doesn't usually let people get too close..." He said, but I slowly walked up and
held out my hand palm up. I was still a good two feet infront of her. She smelled my hand
then licked it.
"Good girl..." I said in a calm voice. Jarod starred at me as I walked closer to her. I stood
perfectly still right infront of her, and she nuzzled my chest just like she did to Jarod.
"Amazing??!!" He said. She licked my cheek and nuzzled my neck.
"Good girl..." I said again, and purposely touched her fire mane.
"Wait!" Jarod said, but I put my hand on her. To his astonishment, she didn't burn me.
The fire went around my hand like it was air. "How....?"
"She knows by smell who to trust and who not to. She knew that I wouldn't hurt her." I
said and gently stroked her mane. "Isn't that right?" She made a cute neighing noise and
licked my cheek.
"Pegesedon, return." He said and called her back. "That's really amazing." Jarod said still
wondering just how I did that.
"So...." Erika said, "after we fly to Pallete and win our last badge, we can come to Jhoto
with you."
"Right!" I yelled and jumped over the couch to sit with Erika.
So after that we spent the rest of our vacation preparing for our final Gym battle in
Kento with Ash, and catching pokemon in the burned down mansion. There's a legend
that it was burned down by Ho-oh himself after a dangerous pokemon was born there.
That pokemon is the legendary Ryukirin. A fire pokemon even stronger than Lugia,
guardian of the other bird poke-gods. It is now said to reside in Jhoto, running all over the
land, trying to escape from Ho-oh's wrath. It's one of the legendary pokemon that run
across the land, escaping the wrath of the birds. Suicune, the legendary dog of water, was
said to be the one who destroyed Atlantis with it's roar alone; and Raikou, the legendary
dog of thunder, is said to be responsible for the Northern Lights in Jhoto. He ran through
the sky, heating the clouds to high temperatures using thunderbolts to create it's glow; and
Entei, the legendary dog of fire, who can paralyze a pokemon with it's roar alone. But
none is as strong as Ryukirin.
Now, however, the only thing that can be found in the mansion, are Charmanders,
Ponyta, Growlithe, the occasional Rapidash, and the elusive Magmars. But the Magmars
are easier to find around the base of Mt.Magma, a volcano that erupted hundreds of years
ago, forming the secondary parts of the island. While we were there, we saw very few
Charmanders, but I caught two Ponyta, Erika caught a Growlithe and a Rapidash, and
Jarod caught a Charmander.
Later that day, about 4:00, Erika and me both dropped off our Masterballs with
dad so he could alter them for us.
"Ok dad, now, this one is for Raichu, this one is for Erika's Charizard, and this one is for
Jarod's Pegesedon." I said and put three masterballs on his desk.
"Sure thing sweet heart, but, could you explain to me what a Pegesedon is?" Dad asked as
he picked the balls up off his desk and put them in a machine that almost looked like an
oven.
"Oh, evolution of Rapidash at Lv.90 with love from trainer." Jarod explained.
"Fascinating." He said as he picked up five small paint brushes. "Well, they should be
ready before you leave for Jhoto guys. You can probobly pick them up tommorrow
morning."
"That's great dad! Thanks!" I said and closed the door after me. "We can come back
tommorrow before we start to pack." I said as I walked down the hall.
"Hey Marcy? Do you remember that guy in Pewter City? He gave us that Old Amber
stone?" Erika said and stopped.
"You're right. We should probobly leave it here." I said and Erika rummeged through her
back pack.
"Here it is!" She said and pulled out the circular, semi-translucent stone.
"Great! We'll leave it at the desk."
"Raichu Rai chu rai ChuChu?" *Can I see it Erika?*
"Sure." She handed it to Raichu and he ran past us to the desk.
"Raichu!" I said watching him trying to pull himself up onto the desk.
"Raichu chu!" *Here you go!* Raichu said putting the stone on the desk.
"Thanks Raichu!^_^" The receptinest said.
"Just leave that for my dad!" I said as I picked Raichu off of the counter.
"Sure thing Marcy. Bye!" She said as we walked out the door.
"We should probobly go home and get something to eat. I'm starving!" Erika yelled.
"That's a good idea!" Jarod yelled.
"Yeah, but you know what a better one is?" I said as I began to run, "The last one home
cleans the dishes!" I yelled and Erika and Jarod soon caught up.
"Very funny!" Jarod said.
"Funny? But I was serious! And since you two are much faster than me, Go White
Blaze!" I yelled and threw her pokeball infront of me.
"Hey! Not fair!" Erika yelled as I jumped onto White Blaze. "Go Charizard!" She yelled
and hopped onto Charizards back.
"Hey! Go, Pegesedon! I'm gonna get you Marcy!!" He said and jumped onto Pegesedon.
It was neck and neck for a while, but just as Erika flew through the front gate, Jarod
jumped off Pegesedon and onto White Blaze.
"Hey! Not fair!" I yelled.
"Sure it is!" He said and grabbed my waist.
"Ok! White Blaze, return!"
"Hey!!!??What's the big idea!!" He said as we fell to the ground. I landed right on top of
him. "Ouch!!" He yelled and just looked at me. "Now....how is that going to help you
win?" I got up, laughed and started running. "Hey?!" He laughed and tried to get up, but
that worked perfectly! His butt hurt so bad, that he couldn't stand up! ;^)
"I knew that would happen!" I yelled as I rounded the gate.
"Ok! I give up you win! I'll wash the dishes! Just help me up?" He said as he tried to get
up again.
"OH!! OK!!" I yelled back and ran over to him. "Here," I held out my hand and he took it,
but pulled me down onto the ground with him, "Hey!!" I said and he sprinted off. I got up
and ran after him as fast as I could, but I was trying far too hard.
"Come on Angel! Almost there!" He yelled as I began to catch up to him. I was panting
hard, and I was steadily slowed down. "Marc?" Finally I stopped just inside the gate.
"Marc you ok?" He asked me and ran over. I couldn't say anything to him because I was
panting so hard my chest hurt. "Marc! Say something!?" He said and put his hand on my
back.
"I........I'm......ok....." I said with gasps inbetween every word.
"Are you sure?" I shook my head, which wasn't a good idea, because I was already dizzy.
He put his hand infront of me as I began to fall over. "Marcy!?" he said. I fell into him,
still panting away, a little easier now though. Suddenly, he took his other arm, and put it
under my legs and picked me up. "Erika!!" He yelled. Erika came out and said,
"It's ok, she'll be all right, just put her on the couch." He put me on the couch and held my
hand, which was a little shaky.
"What's wrong with her?!" He said worried.
"Oh sweat heart! You shouldn't be running around too much like that! You know better!"
Mom came down the stairs and walked over into the kitchen. Erika walked over and gave
me a chocolate chip cookie to eat.
"Marcy gets tired very easy. It's because she has chronic fatigue syndrome. She isn't and
can't be as active as a normal person. She just needs to rest." Erika explained, and with
my free hand I touched Jarod's worried face.
"It's ok....I'll be fine. Just wake me up tommorrow morning, you watch."
"You promise?"
"I'm positive I don't have to promise." I said and fell asleep on the couch by the fireplace.