Chapter XXX- Beggining of our Training
We all got onto our flying pokemon and left Cinnabar Island for the last time. We
were on our way to the Indigo league and there was nothing that was going to hold us
back. We flew over route #25 as the sun rose to the right side of us. Suddenly, I heard a
ringing in my back pack and answered it,
"Hello?" I said trying to hold onto Raichu and the phone at the same time.
"Oh I'm sorry honey, did I catch you at a bad time?" It was my mom!
"Mom!!!! Oh! I'm sooooo glad you're ok!! Where are you??!! Are you all right??!! Is dad
with you?!" I began yelling as Jarod flew Pegesedon closer to me.
"Oh! I'm so sorry I didn't call you earlier honey! There was a long line for the phone, and I
didn't have time to grab the cell phone.....oh....sweety are you all right?" She said and
gradually slowed her speech down.
"Yeah. But....where are you?" I said repeating myself.
"We're all here at the pokemon center in Fuchsia City. Erika's parents are here too." She
said then quickly interrupted. "Ohhhhh..., honey! I have to go! There's still a bit of a line
to use the phone. Don't worry! Don't come here! We'll be just fine. Just keep on your
journey till you reach your goal.....I'm rooting for you baby! And I'll watch the poke-news
for you! Bye!" She said and hung up. Luckily for me, the cell phone she got me had caller
I.D., so I just had to press a button to put that number on the second speed dial.
"Who.....?Nope, scratch that....Where are they?" Jarod said as he began to fly to the
ground with me and Erika.
"They're at the pokemon Center in Fuchsia City." I said and landed on the ground next to
Erika and Ryu. I called Pidgeot back and Jarod landed next to me on the road, calling
back Pegesedon.
"Are....my parents..." Erika said as she called back Ryu.
"They're fine. They're there too." I said as I put Raichu down and we began to walk to
town.
"Sooo, what did she say?" Erika said as she walked next to me on my right side with
Raichu between us.
"My Mom?" I asked not sure who she was referring to.
"Yeah, I mean....should we go and see her?"
"She told me to keep going no matter what, and not to come to visit her."
"I hope nothings happened...." Jarod said.
"I don't think so. She would have told me; she wouldn't want anything to keep me from
achieving my goal." I said and looked down at the dirt path that we were walking on. We
walked silently for a little longer and reached Pallet Town. It really wasn't that big at all,
and the buildings were mostly painted white with light, light, blue roofs.
"Well, let's go to the gym first." Jarod said and looked at me.
"I don't know where it is....?" I said looking at Erika.
".............." Erika just starred at us. "OHH!!! The map!!^_^()(Right I knew that)." She said and
pulled the map out of her bag. She turned it over to look at the Kanto region, and looked
around, tracing her finger and looking up. "Looks like it should be right next to the
pokemon center, gee I wonder why???, which should be somewhere over there." She said
pointing to a colorfully painted building.
"Are you sure that's it?" Jarod said squeezing between me and Erika to look at it too.
"I'm sure of it!!!" She yelled excitedly and began to trace a route on the map from our
position to the center, which ironicly, was at the center of Town. Once they decided on a
route, we walked all the way there. It was definetly one of the oddest buildings I had ever
seen; it looked like it came from some place in the future or something. Anyway, we
walked inside, and who to our delight was there,
"Ash!" I yelled out as the slidding glass doors closed behind us.
"Marcy! Hi.....hey, I heard about what happened on Cinnabar Island, I'm really sorry." He
said as he took pikachu off the counter and put his other pokeballs back on his belt.
"Well, actually, we came here to see if you could help us...?" I said and picked up Raichu.
"Raichuuuuu!!??" *Pleaseeeee!!??* He said and nearly fell out of my arms.
"Well, what can I help you with? I mean, if you want to train, I can help you with that; but
if you mean to help you find a place to stay.....I'm sorry. I'm just too busy to leave the gym
for such a long time. You can talk to Professor Oak though. He might be able to lend you
a room or two if you do him his....favor..." He said and put pikachu down. I put Raichu
down too, and they went over to the couch to talk.
"Favor?" I asked suspiciously.
"When I say his favor, it's sopposed to be a secret....but since you're friends of mine, I'll
tell you." He said and walked us over to a booth in the corner of the pokemon center. We
all sat down and Ash continued, "He's been working REALLY hard lately to try and get
his pokedex's upgraded, but with all the new pokemon, and new trainers, he can't keep up
with the demand. He's just too old to keep working like this any more. It's true he's only
in his 70's, but he can't get around like he used to when I was a kid. So, he usually askes
anyone with rare pokemon, that comes by Pallet, to let him examine them. However, no
one believes he can do it any more, so they ignore him. Every one goes to Proffesor Ivy,
or Proffesor Elm. It's just so sad." He said and Pikachu and Raichu came back.
"PikaPi!" *Ash!*
"Raaai chu Raichu Raichu!" *We have a plan!* Raichu said and hoped onto my lap.
"What is it Pikachu?" Ash said and he jumped onto his lap too.
"RaiRai chu Raichu chuchu Raichu chuchu Rai...." *We go see Proffesor Oak and we...*
"...PikaPika chu Pikachu Pipi!" *...ask him for a pokedex!* Pikachu finished.
"That's a great idea!!" I said and hugged Raichu.
"Um.....what...did he say?" Ash asked as he watched me curiously.
"Oh! I'm sorry! He said we should go to Proffesor Oak and ask him for a pokedex! That
way, we can update it all the way through our travels. It seems to me that we have an
awful lot of encounters with rare pokemon, *too many to count*, so why not?" I added on.
"I don't know if he'll belive you just based on your word though..." Ash said and got up,
after pikachu jumped off his lap.
"But we do have rare pokemon, and some undiscovered ones with us!" Jarod said
standing up, insisting Ash stayed.
"You do?" Ash said.
"Sure we do!! Let's show him girls!" He said and threw out Pegesedon's pokeball.
"Right!" Me and Erika both said and I threw out Leafeon's and put Raichu on the ground
next to him and Pegesedon. Erika threw out Ryu's pokeball and he materialized next to
the rest.
"What.....what are they???"Ash asked as he starred in wonder.
"Pokegods! All of them. Ryu, Pikablu, Pegesedon, and you met Leafeon." Jarod said as
he pointed to each of them. "Now, if you'll excuse us, we should get going." He said and
we called back our pokemon except for Raichu and Ryu.
"......Come by the gym any time... you need to level up!" He said gladdly as we walked
out of the pokemon center with Raichu and Ryu following us. We walked up the street to
the right for a while then stopped at Proffesor Oak's house. We explained to him our
situation and he was glad to have us while we trained for the Pokemon Indego League. He
also gave me and Erika both a version of his old pokedexs to work on in our free time.
After we had gotten our rooms established, we decided that the rest of December through
to our birthdays, because they were all realativly close, we would train. Then at the end of
June, after both me and Jarods' birthadys, we would try to enter the Indego Leauge. And
as Erika's birthday present, she may just get the number one spot!^_^ (Not if I get there
first that is!!^_^) Anyway, we went outside the town later that afternoon so that I could
train my Cyndaquil, Hinoarashi. There were low level pokemon out there that would help
him to gain some levels without getting too beat.
"There's something!" Jarod yelled as he pointed to the bushes on the side of the road.
"Go, Hinoarashi!" I yelled and threw his pokeball into the bushes. He ran out after a
Rattata had jumped infront of him. "Hinoarashi! Use your tackle!" I yelled and he ran at
the Rattata, but it jumped out of the way. "Try it again! You can do it!" I yelled and
watched as he rammed into it the second try. It got up and wagged it's tail, then hit
Hinoarashi. "Hinoarashi, use ember!" I yelled and little flames shot out of his back and
surrounded the Rattata, finishing it. "Great job Hinoarashi! Oh! Your so cute! And
strong! And ohhh!!" I yelled happily as he jumped up into my arms as I kneeled down. "A
few more battles and you'll evolve!^_^" I said happily as I put him back down. We all
battled at least twice more using Hinoarashi, so that he would get used to us all. He
battled two Pidgy's with Jarod, two more Rattata with me, and two Bellsprouts with
Erika. He seemed very happy to have all the attention from all of us. He loved me the
most though; at the end of the battle, he would hop over to me and rub his head against
my leg.
We trained like that for another half hour, then it was time to head to the training
hall in Veridian City to get in some real training. The training hall was a place where
trainers from all over the pokemon world could come and battle. They didn't keep charts
unless you asked, and most of the people there were decent trainers who had motive
behind their moves not just 'Blast'em through the roof' stratagies. *Hmm(clears throught
and gives Erika a look.)*
"All right! Let's go!" I yelled and headed for the stairs.
"Miss..." A man stopped me and Raichu bumped into my leg.
"Yes...?" I said and Raichu jumped onto my shoulder, holding on tight.
"You have to have at least eight badges to enter the battle ring dowstairs." He said and
pointed to a sign posted next to a stari case.
"Oh! Sorry. We all have eight badges, and Jarod..." I pointed to him, "has...." I said and
let him finish while me and Erika both got ours out.
"16" He said and took them out of his back pack.
"All right! You're all set then. I just need to know if any of you'd like us to keep a record
on you." We looked at each other and it was a mutual, "No thanks." We went down the
stairs and looked around the huge room. It looked a lot like Clarrisa's gym in that it was
very long and was fairly dark.
"Excuse me!? Is there anyone down here?" Erika yelled out and two people walked across
from the other side of the ring. One was a girl with long red hair, and another was a guy
with short blue hair, like Jarod's. I couldn't see their eyes though.
"My name is Marcy. This is Jarod and my best friend Erika." I said as they walked closer
just a little too silently for comfort. They suddenly stopped in the light and I could see
their faces. "Team Rocket!!??" I yelled and moved to step infront of Raichu.
"So, you remember us?" James said. But he wasn't dressed in his TR unifrom. Neither
was Jessie. They were both wearing their normal clothes, besides the fact that it was
December and James had a shirt on that showed the good majority of his chest. (Six
packs and all!!!^_^) "No....we're not part of Team Rocket anymore. It fell apart when
Giovanni was killed in the eruption on Cinnabar Island." I stepped back again and looked
at Jarod; he looked frustrated and a little angry. He had his hand in a fist infront of him,
his eyes beating down on James.
"....Jarod??..." I said quietly. He didn't say anything to me at first, he just starred at James.
"....James.......James...Silph!" He finally said and James looked up at him.
"...Jarod!?" I yelled as James walked up to him. I was confused because this was Jarod's
last name.
"How do you know my name?" He asked and starred Jarod down. I looked at them both
and realized that they were almost identical. The same blue hair, the same green eyes,
even their hair line was the same.
"Are you...really James Silph??" Jarod asked and lowered his fist for a moment.
"Yes....that is my full name....why?" He said and Jarod just stared at him. Then to my
surprise he said, "...because...I'm your little brother."
"WHAT!!??" I yelled and nearly fell over.
We all got onto our flying pokemon and left Cinnabar Island for the last time. We
were on our way to the Indigo league and there was nothing that was going to hold us
back. We flew over route #25 as the sun rose to the right side of us. Suddenly, I heard a
ringing in my back pack and answered it,
"Hello?" I said trying to hold onto Raichu and the phone at the same time.
"Oh I'm sorry honey, did I catch you at a bad time?" It was my mom!
"Mom!!!! Oh! I'm sooooo glad you're ok!! Where are you??!! Are you all right??!! Is dad
with you?!" I began yelling as Jarod flew Pegesedon closer to me.
"Oh! I'm so sorry I didn't call you earlier honey! There was a long line for the phone, and I
didn't have time to grab the cell phone.....oh....sweety are you all right?" She said and
gradually slowed her speech down.
"Yeah. But....where are you?" I said repeating myself.
"We're all here at the pokemon center in Fuchsia City. Erika's parents are here too." She
said then quickly interrupted. "Ohhhhh..., honey! I have to go! There's still a bit of a line
to use the phone. Don't worry! Don't come here! We'll be just fine. Just keep on your
journey till you reach your goal.....I'm rooting for you baby! And I'll watch the poke-news
for you! Bye!" She said and hung up. Luckily for me, the cell phone she got me had caller
I.D., so I just had to press a button to put that number on the second speed dial.
"Who.....?Nope, scratch that....Where are they?" Jarod said as he began to fly to the
ground with me and Erika.
"They're at the pokemon Center in Fuchsia City." I said and landed on the ground next to
Erika and Ryu. I called Pidgeot back and Jarod landed next to me on the road, calling
back Pegesedon.
"Are....my parents..." Erika said as she called back Ryu.
"They're fine. They're there too." I said as I put Raichu down and we began to walk to
town.
"Sooo, what did she say?" Erika said as she walked next to me on my right side with
Raichu between us.
"My Mom?" I asked not sure who she was referring to.
"Yeah, I mean....should we go and see her?"
"She told me to keep going no matter what, and not to come to visit her."
"I hope nothings happened...." Jarod said.
"I don't think so. She would have told me; she wouldn't want anything to keep me from
achieving my goal." I said and looked down at the dirt path that we were walking on. We
walked silently for a little longer and reached Pallet Town. It really wasn't that big at all,
and the buildings were mostly painted white with light, light, blue roofs.
"Well, let's go to the gym first." Jarod said and looked at me.
"I don't know where it is....?" I said looking at Erika.
".............." Erika just starred at us. "OHH!!! The map!!^_^()(Right I knew that)." She said and
pulled the map out of her bag. She turned it over to look at the Kanto region, and looked
around, tracing her finger and looking up. "Looks like it should be right next to the
pokemon center, gee I wonder why???, which should be somewhere over there." She said
pointing to a colorfully painted building.
"Are you sure that's it?" Jarod said squeezing between me and Erika to look at it too.
"I'm sure of it!!!" She yelled excitedly and began to trace a route on the map from our
position to the center, which ironicly, was at the center of Town. Once they decided on a
route, we walked all the way there. It was definetly one of the oddest buildings I had ever
seen; it looked like it came from some place in the future or something. Anyway, we
walked inside, and who to our delight was there,
"Ash!" I yelled out as the slidding glass doors closed behind us.
"Marcy! Hi.....hey, I heard about what happened on Cinnabar Island, I'm really sorry." He
said as he took pikachu off the counter and put his other pokeballs back on his belt.
"Well, actually, we came here to see if you could help us...?" I said and picked up Raichu.
"Raichuuuuu!!??" *Pleaseeeee!!??* He said and nearly fell out of my arms.
"Well, what can I help you with? I mean, if you want to train, I can help you with that; but
if you mean to help you find a place to stay.....I'm sorry. I'm just too busy to leave the gym
for such a long time. You can talk to Professor Oak though. He might be able to lend you
a room or two if you do him his....favor..." He said and put pikachu down. I put Raichu
down too, and they went over to the couch to talk.
"Favor?" I asked suspiciously.
"When I say his favor, it's sopposed to be a secret....but since you're friends of mine, I'll
tell you." He said and walked us over to a booth in the corner of the pokemon center. We
all sat down and Ash continued, "He's been working REALLY hard lately to try and get
his pokedex's upgraded, but with all the new pokemon, and new trainers, he can't keep up
with the demand. He's just too old to keep working like this any more. It's true he's only
in his 70's, but he can't get around like he used to when I was a kid. So, he usually askes
anyone with rare pokemon, that comes by Pallet, to let him examine them. However, no
one believes he can do it any more, so they ignore him. Every one goes to Proffesor Ivy,
or Proffesor Elm. It's just so sad." He said and Pikachu and Raichu came back.
"PikaPi!" *Ash!*
"Raaai chu Raichu Raichu!" *We have a plan!* Raichu said and hoped onto my lap.
"What is it Pikachu?" Ash said and he jumped onto his lap too.
"RaiRai chu Raichu chuchu Raichu chuchu Rai...." *We go see Proffesor Oak and we...*
"...PikaPika chu Pikachu Pipi!" *...ask him for a pokedex!* Pikachu finished.
"That's a great idea!!" I said and hugged Raichu.
"Um.....what...did he say?" Ash asked as he watched me curiously.
"Oh! I'm sorry! He said we should go to Proffesor Oak and ask him for a pokedex! That
way, we can update it all the way through our travels. It seems to me that we have an
awful lot of encounters with rare pokemon, *too many to count*, so why not?" I added on.
"I don't know if he'll belive you just based on your word though..." Ash said and got up,
after pikachu jumped off his lap.
"But we do have rare pokemon, and some undiscovered ones with us!" Jarod said
standing up, insisting Ash stayed.
"You do?" Ash said.
"Sure we do!! Let's show him girls!" He said and threw out Pegesedon's pokeball.
"Right!" Me and Erika both said and I threw out Leafeon's and put Raichu on the ground
next to him and Pegesedon. Erika threw out Ryu's pokeball and he materialized next to
the rest.
"What.....what are they???"Ash asked as he starred in wonder.
"Pokegods! All of them. Ryu, Pikablu, Pegesedon, and you met Leafeon." Jarod said as
he pointed to each of them. "Now, if you'll excuse us, we should get going." He said and
we called back our pokemon except for Raichu and Ryu.
"......Come by the gym any time... you need to level up!" He said gladdly as we walked
out of the pokemon center with Raichu and Ryu following us. We walked up the street to
the right for a while then stopped at Proffesor Oak's house. We explained to him our
situation and he was glad to have us while we trained for the Pokemon Indego League. He
also gave me and Erika both a version of his old pokedexs to work on in our free time.
After we had gotten our rooms established, we decided that the rest of December through
to our birthdays, because they were all realativly close, we would train. Then at the end of
June, after both me and Jarods' birthadys, we would try to enter the Indego Leauge. And
as Erika's birthday present, she may just get the number one spot!^_^ (Not if I get there
first that is!!^_^) Anyway, we went outside the town later that afternoon so that I could
train my Cyndaquil, Hinoarashi. There were low level pokemon out there that would help
him to gain some levels without getting too beat.
"There's something!" Jarod yelled as he pointed to the bushes on the side of the road.
"Go, Hinoarashi!" I yelled and threw his pokeball into the bushes. He ran out after a
Rattata had jumped infront of him. "Hinoarashi! Use your tackle!" I yelled and he ran at
the Rattata, but it jumped out of the way. "Try it again! You can do it!" I yelled and
watched as he rammed into it the second try. It got up and wagged it's tail, then hit
Hinoarashi. "Hinoarashi, use ember!" I yelled and little flames shot out of his back and
surrounded the Rattata, finishing it. "Great job Hinoarashi! Oh! Your so cute! And
strong! And ohhh!!" I yelled happily as he jumped up into my arms as I kneeled down. "A
few more battles and you'll evolve!^_^" I said happily as I put him back down. We all
battled at least twice more using Hinoarashi, so that he would get used to us all. He
battled two Pidgy's with Jarod, two more Rattata with me, and two Bellsprouts with
Erika. He seemed very happy to have all the attention from all of us. He loved me the
most though; at the end of the battle, he would hop over to me and rub his head against
my leg.
We trained like that for another half hour, then it was time to head to the training
hall in Veridian City to get in some real training. The training hall was a place where
trainers from all over the pokemon world could come and battle. They didn't keep charts
unless you asked, and most of the people there were decent trainers who had motive
behind their moves not just 'Blast'em through the roof' stratagies. *Hmm(clears throught
and gives Erika a look.)*
"All right! Let's go!" I yelled and headed for the stairs.
"Miss..." A man stopped me and Raichu bumped into my leg.
"Yes...?" I said and Raichu jumped onto my shoulder, holding on tight.
"You have to have at least eight badges to enter the battle ring dowstairs." He said and
pointed to a sign posted next to a stari case.
"Oh! Sorry. We all have eight badges, and Jarod..." I pointed to him, "has...." I said and
let him finish while me and Erika both got ours out.
"16" He said and took them out of his back pack.
"All right! You're all set then. I just need to know if any of you'd like us to keep a record
on you." We looked at each other and it was a mutual, "No thanks." We went down the
stairs and looked around the huge room. It looked a lot like Clarrisa's gym in that it was
very long and was fairly dark.
"Excuse me!? Is there anyone down here?" Erika yelled out and two people walked across
from the other side of the ring. One was a girl with long red hair, and another was a guy
with short blue hair, like Jarod's. I couldn't see their eyes though.
"My name is Marcy. This is Jarod and my best friend Erika." I said as they walked closer
just a little too silently for comfort. They suddenly stopped in the light and I could see
their faces. "Team Rocket!!??" I yelled and moved to step infront of Raichu.
"So, you remember us?" James said. But he wasn't dressed in his TR unifrom. Neither
was Jessie. They were both wearing their normal clothes, besides the fact that it was
December and James had a shirt on that showed the good majority of his chest. (Six
packs and all!!!^_^) "No....we're not part of Team Rocket anymore. It fell apart when
Giovanni was killed in the eruption on Cinnabar Island." I stepped back again and looked
at Jarod; he looked frustrated and a little angry. He had his hand in a fist infront of him,
his eyes beating down on James.
"....Jarod??..." I said quietly. He didn't say anything to me at first, he just starred at James.
"....James.......James...Silph!" He finally said and James looked up at him.
"...Jarod!?" I yelled as James walked up to him. I was confused because this was Jarod's
last name.
"How do you know my name?" He asked and starred Jarod down. I looked at them both
and realized that they were almost identical. The same blue hair, the same green eyes,
even their hair line was the same.
"Are you...really James Silph??" Jarod asked and lowered his fist for a moment.
"Yes....that is my full name....why?" He said and Jarod just stared at him. Then to my
surprise he said, "...because...I'm your little brother."
"WHAT!!??" I yelled and nearly fell over.