A/N: I'm back with a complete brand new story for a reason. A while ago a computer virus or something deleated EVERYTHING that I had saved in the other computer, so now I'm using a different computer. Sadly I don't have Microsoft Word anymore, so at the moment I have to use Word Pad. The virus deleated all my stories such as my fourty-five paged chapter 10 of The Anthro Gang as well as updates of Pokéquest: Kanto, Eeveelution Gang, Mystic Trainers and so on. Since everything has been deleated including info I have collected it's going to be difficult for me to write fictions, so I'm making do with a complete new one until I can do something about it. Oh by the way this damn thing doesn't have spell check, so tell me if any words are spelt wrong or sentences look weird.
Explanation: Ok, I must admit that this is another Hybrid story, but it was one planned before my FF.Net days and anyway I'm allowed to write these things. *Pokes tongue out* Besides this one is a different never-before-read fiction and no, it's not because it is new. You'll get what I mean later on, trust me on that. Anyway I'm doing this fiction with the help of my RPG, FF.Net and just General friend Angelic-Shadowcat. ^_^ Anyway I don't want to loose all my readers, so just read the story.
Footholds: If you see a number between these * just liket this *1* then go to the bottom of the page to read some info about whatever the number was next too. This is just to explain things without the A/N in brackets interupting the story.
Chapter 1
It was a cloudy, but warm day. The sun was bearly peaking from behind a fluffy white cumulus cloud and the Pidgeys were singing, while the Spearows were sqweaking over food.
The Pokémon were excited about a few things as well as the humans, but not as excited as one normal human girl. She had been up for twenty minutes so far staring outside her bedroom window. She sucked in a deep breath of air and let it out slowly.
She had gotten out of bed earlier then usual, but still hadn't gotten dressed yet. She was up way too early and couldn't leave until an hour later, so she had time to spear.
Finally ripping her gaze from the window she walked to her wardrobe to find some clothes to wear. She bit her bottom lip as she looked around for some clothing that wasn't crinkled, unwashed or just not right for the day. After about five minutes she settled down with a baggy white T-Shirt, loose baggy midnight blue jeans and a pair of lilac trainer shoes.
She then went into the bathroom to give her strawberry blond hair a quick brush. Her hair was a little further from her shoulders and was curled at the ends. She did this while looking at the bathroom mirror until she was satisfied.
Having only twenty minutes left she went back into her room to pack up. She packed ten items into her backpack just by random, but didn't forget her most important and cherized item. When she was ready and had eaten her breakfast as well as said goodbye to her parents she left the house and headed to her one desternation.
The girl known as Katheryn or Kat *1* as she rather be called was excited about today for a reason. Today was the day that six trainers get their Pokémon liscence and that excited Kat more then anything in the world. She had always wanted to be a Pokémon Trainer, but had to past Pokéschool fist. It was hard, but she and five others had finally made it through.
Last night Kat and the other five were each given a sheet of paper listing the six Starter Pokémon *2* with their gender and personality. Kat had read the list of Pokémon and had already decided which one to pick.
Glancing at the list as she walked she read each Pokémon's detail just incase she changed her mind, which was doubtful. The list read something like this.
1.Eevee-Normal Type: Sarcastic, loves to mock its trainer and angers at the slightest remark. Gender: Female
2.Charmander-Fire Type: Strong minded, loyal to trainer and it always eager to battle. Gender: Male
3.Totodile-Water Type: Shy, energitic and extremely jumpy. Gender: Male
4.Mareep-Electric Type: Easilly frighted, hates to battle and loves peace. Gender: Female
5.Poochyena-Dark Type: Loyal, vicious and usually hides in the shadows. Gender: Female
6.Aron-Steel Type: Loves destruction, smashes objects and comsumes almost anything.
Looking at the list ten times since she had gotten it was exhusting for Kat since she was so excited. She arrived at the lab in just ten minutes of walking and went inside to join the five other soon-to-be-trainers.
Excitement washed over her like a wave of water as she lookd around at the lab. Instead of having the usual off-white walls it was actually a pale whitish-blue colour with the ceiling and floor being a pale whitish purple-pink.*3* Kat thought that this was a change form the other Pokémon labs she had visted for the school excursions. Besides the large healing machine, a table and a few other equipment there wasn't really much interesting to look at.
Kat noticed the five trainers standing patiently in front of the square table, which housed six Pokéballs each in a different colour. There were three boys and three girls including Kat.
Kat regonized all three boys. One was a tall blond hair and blue eyed boy by the name of Zayd who had been trying for six years to become a Pokémon trainer, so obviously since he was here today he had made it. The second boy was short and scrawny with cropped dark brown hair that was almost black and chocolate brown eyes. His name was Niaz and he had just finished his Pokémon Evolution exams. The third boy was tough looking and had short styleless reddish hair and darkish eyes. His name was Kanu and as far as Kat knew he was training to become a water Pokémon Master.
Kat glanced at the two girls. One was short and slightly overweight, but not much. She had midback-length auburn hair and crystal blue eyes that shone like diamonds. She wore a sleeveless hot pink top and a pair of tight pale jeans. The second girl was tall and strong looking for a girl of her age. She had waist-length dark purple-blue black hair, which might have been dyed and violet coloured eyes. She wore a loose lavender T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans fringed at the bottom of each leg.
Kat whistled in disbelieve as she looked at the girl. The girl's clothing weren't creased, but neatly worn and every strand of hair on her head was neatly in place. Her hair was silky and her eyes bright and shiny. Kat made a metal note to reminded herself to ask this girl which shampoo she used.
Kat knew that the auburn-haired girl was known as Alyssa, but didn't seem to regonize the dark-haired girl. Kat did notice a pair of black sunglasses resting on the collar of her lavender T-Shirt.
The boys, Kat and Alyssa where waiting patiently for their starter Pokémon, but the dark-haired girl was not. She kept glancing at her expensive gold wrist watch almost every second and glancing at the Pokéballs.
Finally a tall, slender woman wearing a white lap coat entered the room. She had shoulder-length silvery-blond hair and hazel eyes. Her name was Professor Dean, but most knew her as Anitra and she preferred to be called by her first name.
Anitra glanced at each wannabe trainer in turn and smiled in satisfactry. She waved a hand over each of the six Pokéballs on the table and spoke in calm, gentle voice as if speaking to a child. "Inside these six Pokéballs are Pokémon that will help you on your quest to became a Master of what you wish to be. They will help you acchive your goal and your destiny. But let me remind you that if you are to be uncaring to them they will loose their loyalness and their faith towards you, so your kindness in your strength. Remeber that."
All six teenagers listended carefully at every word that came out of Anitra's mouth with intrest. They were eager to start their journey to greatness, but they where willing to listen to the Professor.
Anitra continued her speech, the smile not leaving her face yet. "There is however one rule that you must learn before you start your journey. This rule is extremely important and if it is disobeyed your Pokémon will be taken straight off you." "What rule is it?" Alyssa asked curiously.
Anitra's smile broke into a grin as she replied to the question. "The rule is that each of you must have only one partner to journey with. Their are three leagues to start off with before you go to the most dangerous and strongest league of all. The three leagues are Kanto, Johto and Hoenn. Only one group can go to one of these three Leagues. In fact, why don't you pick your partner now?"
Kat gulped quitely as she looked around for a partner. She had preferred to journey alone in Kanto, but maybe one of the others would like to start off as Kanto. Kat saw the auburn-hair girl talking to the dark-hair girl, but after Alyssa had finished speaking the other girl shook her head and explained something to Alyssa who nodded and walked up to Kanu. She spoke to him and he happily agreed to become her partner.
The two leftover boys Zayd and Niaz partnered together, which left Kat to join the remaining dark-haired girl whose name she still didn't know. Kat was also intrested to know that her partner also wanted to start off in Kanto 'cause she said she wanted to capture a few certain Pokémon. Kat tried a few times to ask which ones, but the girl stubbornly shook her head frantically and walked off to choose her starter Pokémon.
Soon all six teenagers and Anitra were standing in front of the table where the six Pokéballs where kept. They weren't named and even the top half colour didn't exactly help to tell which of the six starters where inside which Pokéball. The colours of the six Pokéballs were lilac, purple-blue, blue-green, orange-red, purple-black and blue-black.
Kat glanced at each Pokéball in turn before she decided that she liked the lilac one. Anitra had explained that since three of the trainers had wanted the Eevee, two had wanted the Charmander and so on Anitra had decided that she's used different coloured Pokéballs from usual to make things fair while they were guessing which Pokémon was inside which Pokéball. She also explained that the Pokédex was the same as the choosen Pokéball.
When they had all choosen thier first Pokémon they where each given a Pokédex matching thier Pokéball and five normal red Pokéballs.
Kat and her partner walked out of the lab clutching their first Pokéball in one hand. Kat was happy with her lilac Pokéball and her partner looked fairly pleased with the remaining purple-blue Pokéball. Both girls where eager to see what they had gotten as their first Pokémon.
As they walked to the boat that would take them to Kanto Kat decided to start a conversation with her partner.
"So, what's your name?" She asked casually.
"Ezza*4*." The girl replied simply.
Kat blinked and was about to tell her partner that her named sounded weird, but stopped herself just in time. Instead she said, "I wanna be a Feline Pokémon Trainer*5* and maybe even an Eeveelution Trainer. How 'bout you?"
"A Dragon or Beast Trainer*6*." Ezza replied, sounding destracted.
"Beast Trainer? What's that?" Kat asked, confused.
Ezza sighed as the two girls boarded the ship. "Beast Pokémon such as Gyarados, Entei, Suicune, Raikou, Tyranitar, Charizard, Arcanine and so on."
"Oh, they sound really scary and vicious." Kat commented uncertainly.
"Yep, that's why I want to train those sort of Pokémon*7*." Ezza said. "They are much more interesting then the other types. Although I do like Dark, Fire, Steel, Feline and Eeveelution types. Plus Legendary and Shiny types, but they are rare."
The boat trip only lasted half-an-hour and for most of the way the girls watched the water in silence. It was obvious that Ezza did like action, but preferred some peace and quiet. Kat had spent most of the entire trip looking around on the boat and she didn't wanna release her Pokémon in a boat surrounded by water in case she got the Charmander or the Aron, which where both extremely weak to water.
After the boat trip had finished both Ezza and Kat headed straight off to Route 1, not wanting to wast time. As they serched in the grass, behind trees and peering in bushes Kat went back to talking to Ezza again.
"Hey, what Pokémon do you think we have?" She asked.
Ezza stopped serching in the bush and stood up. She brushed herself off and walked carefully out of the grass area with Kat followering her. "Good question, let's have a look."
Kat released her Pokémon first and was amazed to discover a lilac beam of light that emerged into a small Pokémon. The now fully merged Pokémon cocked its head to one side as it stared at Kat.
"Oh, how cute!" Kat cried as she picked up her first Pokémon. It was small in size and very furry.
As Kat tightly hugged the small form it struggled frantically in her arms.
"Veeeee!" The creature said uncertainly when Kat finally put it back down on the ground.
"Wow, an Eevee!" Ezza said, but she didn't sound exactly that interested. Looking at her direction Kat could see why.
Standing in front of Ezza, taller then Kat's Eevee was a Charmander. The Charmander was a male, while Kat's Eevee was a female.
Kat picked up her Eevee and hugged it tightly, while Ezza patted her Charmander on the head. The two girls were obviously happy with their starter Pokémon.
"Let's see, I'll call you Kitty*8*." Kat said, smiling at her Eevee.
The Eevee, or Kitty as she was now known, squealed in delight.
Ezza frowned as she thought of a name. Even with her facial expression the way it was she still somehow managed to look some what pretty. "How 'bout Spew*9*?" She suggested to her Charmander unsurely. "Like spewing out flames from your mouth?"
Spew nodded and gave a happy. "Char!" He leaped into Ezza arms and hugged her tightly before jumping back down again.
Ezza smiled at him before unzipping her purple and blue backpack and taking out a map. She glanced at the map and nodded in satisfaction. "Ok, well head of to Veridian City and hopefully we'll be in Pewter tomorrow or the next day."
Kat nodded. "Ok, so do we go now?"
"Yep, but any Pokémon we see that we both like thoughout our journey we'll toss for, 'k?" Ezza said.
"Right." Kat agreed. She ran towards Veridian City shouting, "Come on, time waits for no one!"
"Too, right." Ezza muttered as she hurried to catch up with her partner.
"So, any Pokémon you are thinking of capturing?" Kat asked as soon as Ezza had finally caught up with her. "I wanna train Feline and Eeveelution Pokémon, but I know they don't have 'em here. The same goes for you Dragon and Beast Pokémon."
"We'll I was actually think that we both capture random Pokémon that we either want or need, train them till they evolve and then swap them over for another Pokémon to train. At the same time we'll collect our Feline, Eeveelution, Dragon and Beast Pokémon and when we need to make our main team we'll sort everything out from there. There's just one slight problem with all this."
"Yeah, like what?" Kat asked.
"Well you know how more then a hundred new Pokémon have been descovered?"
Kat nodded. "Yeah, so?"
"Well originally before I learned all about those new Pokémon I was originally going to use Charizard, Tyranitar, Rayquaza, Suicune, Salamence and Groundon for my main team, but now I have a much bigger list to choose from."
"What do you know about this new League?" Kat asked.
"Well I don't know its name just yet, but I do know a fair bit about it. The two of us will love it there 'cause it has loads of new Feline, Eeveelution, Dragon and Beast Pokémon. It has eighteen Gyms and eight Elite Trainers and one Grand Master*10*. The Grand Master is the actual Pokémon Master at the moment, so he or she is the strongest Pokémon Trainer. I think it's a he. The new League also allows you to have a team of twelve rather then the usual six."
"Wow, that sounds like my kinda League." Kat commented. "It's too bad we couldn't have started there instead of here."
"Yeah, but that League was beyond our ability." Ezza explained. "The League is for only advanced Trainers that have made it through all obstacles, defeated every challenger in a duel, collected all the badges, beaten the Elites, won against the Master at the League they are in, captured and tamed every Pokémon and so on."
"Whoa, that does sound tough." Kat commented. She groaned a little. "This is gonna take forever."
"Yeah, plus I was thinking off going to the Orange Islands*11* and collecting four badges from there." Ezza said. "It'll give our Pokémon heaps of experience and it's mostly an insland, so we can relax as well."
"Sounds good, but we still gotta get passed Kanto." Kat sighed.
"Don't worry, this place has improved a lot in some cases. They Pokémart stock more on items then ever before. The Department Store in Celedon has now been rebuilt and is four stories higher then it originally was. The Museum in Pewter City has gotten some new fossilized Pokémon in such as Almardo and fossil Pokémon from the new League. They even have a large area that is the pet shop, but the Pokémon there are very expensive. Especially the rare ones and the ones out of the Kanto region. And there's heaps more then what I told you."
"Jeez, there's heaps to do in a Pokémon Journey." Kat breathed. "I'll probably conk out half way before I even get to Johto or anywhere else."
"That's why we're taking things slowly." Ezza grinned. "There's no hurry really and anyway the next League tornament isn't until three years from now, but I'm not really sure we'll make it there in time. Hey, did you know there's a new League before Kanto?"
Kat looked surprised. "No, I didn't."
"Well there is and it's the easiest Pokémon league ever. It's for beginner Trainers that have never learned about Pokémon. I've forgetten its name, but it has four gyms. You can only carry up to three Pokémon in a team and the starter Pokémon are Pichu, Azurill, Claffa and Igglybuff. Plus, there are no vicious, scray or completely rare Pokémon in this League such as Gyarados, Dratini, Charmander, Ekans and so on. You'll mostly find harmless, docial and easy to train Pokémon such as Pidgey, Rattata, Paras and so on. There's no Legendaries either and as you can tell not many new trainers go there. Even beginners want a bit of a challenge and Kanto is perfect for that."
"Phew, I'm glad we didn't go there." Kat said. "I don't think I could have stand to capture easy-to-tame sweet, gentle Pokémon."
Ezza nodded. "Neither could I, but Kanto isn't so bad and it has improved somewhat."
"Yeah, but we better speed it up a little if we wanna reach Veridian before it gets dark 'cause I didn't bring any sleeping equipment with me."
"You didn't?" Ezza gasped. "But that means we have to find a Pokémon Shelter*12*"
"Pokémon Shelter?" Kat asked.
"Yeah, it's where Trainers and their Pokémon can stay the night. There's one in every Town, so it's convinient. Anyway as soon as we get to Veridian and it gets dark we'll camp in their shelter."
"Are you collecting Badges*13*?" Kat asked Ezza as they walked across the tall grass.
"Yeah, but I don't really have a reason since I'm probably not going to aim to be the Grand Pokémon Master, but that could change later on. What about you?"
"I don't know, I haven't really decided yet." Kat said and then suddenly she stuck her arm out to stop Ezza from walking to far.
"What's up?" Ezza asked her.
Kat's eyes narrowed. "I don't know. I thought I saw something move past over there." She pointed to a bush not far off from where the grass ended.
"What do you think it was?" Ezza asked Kat as the two girls wondered off with their Pokémon to find out what Kat might have seen.
"Dunno." Kat said, already further ahead then Ezza. She parted the pushes and instantly jumped back when something threw itself at her.
With a scream Kat stood up and ran towards Ezza, who had a strange look on her face. Ezza sighed in relieve and Kat turned to see why. Standing, wings spread in a take-off posistion was a male Spearow. Behind him was a female Pidgey and both Pokémon were royally peed off.
"Wow, a Spearow!" Kat said in excitement. "I'm gonna capture it!"
"Great then I'll go for the Pidgey." Ezza grinned.
"Go, Kitty!" Kat called out to her Eevee, who jumped into battle.
"You too, Spew!" Ezza added as her Charmander waited for his first command.
"Kitty Tackle attack!" Kat yelled.
Kitty rushed towards the Spearow, knowing that that was her target. She rammed into the Bird who gave a squark of protest and anger before pecking her on the right shoulder. Both Pokémon tumbled and scrambled over each other, so it was hard to tell who was defeating who. Finally after about two minutes Kitty stood victorious on top of the fallen Spearow, panting heavily.
"Good work, Kitty." Kat congraulated her Eevee. "Now please get off the Spearow, so I can capture it."
As soon as Kitty was off the Spearow Kat threw a Pokéball at it. The Pokéball didn't even shake once and Kat picked the ground off the ground and clipped it to her Pokébelt.
Ezza grinned at her partner before facing the Pidgey. "Ok, Spew start off with your Scratch attack!"
"Char! Char!" Spew cried as he rushed towards the Pidgey.
The Pidgey was ready for him and used Sand-Attack to blind the fiery lizard. Spew yelled in pain and with one hand he tried to wripe the sand off, while trying to scratch the Pidgey with his other hand. The Pidgey kept dodging every single Scratch attack Spew used, but finally Spew manged to get the sand out of his eyes.
The Pidgey saw this and imdiently began to beat her wings to create the powerful Gust attack, but Spew was already angered. He opened his mouth and growled at the Pidgey, stopping her Gust attack. He then charged towards her, leaped into the air and landed back down to scratch the Pidgey across one wing. The Pidgey cried out in pain and fell to the ground.
Ezza took a deep breath and throw a Pokéball at the Pidgey. The Pokéball caught the Pidgey with ease and Ezza clipped it onto her Pokébelt. Now the girls had two Pokémon each, but the two Bird Pokémon had been an easy capture and the further the journeyed the tougher the Pokémon were going to be captured.
After healing their Pokémon at the Pokémon Centre the two girls decided to train their two Pokémon before capturing more Pokémon or heading off to the Gym. After walking for ten minutes they came across two boys and two girls, who were aguing about whose Pokémon was the best.
Ezza and Kat walked up to them, but it was Kat who spoke. "Hey, you lot look like a bunch of intelligent people.*14* Prehaps one of you could tell us wheather you have Pokémon or not."
One of the boys scrowled at her. He was way taller then Kat, which made her a little nervous. He had dark hair and eyes and wore loose dark clothing. "Yes, we have one Pokémon each."
"What's it to you anyway?" A tall girl said, flicking back her jade coloured hair.
Kat shrugged and replied casually. "Nothing, nothing! We just wanna battle that's all."
"Fine, I'm game." Said a short girl with cherry red hair and light green eyes.
"Yeah, but you'll be sorry that you ever messed with us." A short boy with light golden hair and brown eyes smirked.
Ezza yawned and replied, "That's ok 'cause Kat and I have two Pokémon each and neither of us know what we have. So, we'll each battle the two of you."
"Fine, I'll go first." Said the tall girl with the jade hair and light blue eyes. "You can call me Jade by the way."
"Figures." Kat rolled her eyes. "I'm Kat and you'll be battling me."
"Sounds extremely exciting." Jade yawned. She took out a Pokémon from her jade colour Pokbelt and tossed it into the ground. "Go, Jigglypuff!"
Out emerged the small pink Pokémon with the large green eyes.
"What no jade coloured Pokémon?" Kat asked sarcastically as she reached for a Pokéball. "Go, Spearow! Start off with Peck attack!"
"Jigglypuff use Sing!" Jade called out.
While Jigglypuff started on her singing Spearow flew up into the air to Peck the Jigglypuff, but his eyes were already drooping.
"Spearow ignore the song and concentrate on the battle!" Kat yelled at the sky where her Spearow was flying around.
Spearow's eyes snapped open and with an angry squark he zoomed down straight towards the Jigglypuff. With a flicker off his wings he manage to straighten himself, skim across the Jigglypuff and peck her on the head. The Jigglypuff gave a yell of pain and Jade was forced to recall her.
"Here's your lousy nine-hundred dollers." Jade grumbled, handing Kat the money.
Kat took the money and pocket it in her jeans pocket. She then recalled her Spearow and took out another Pokéball.
Kat's next challenger was the short boy whose name was Brendon. He released a Krabby and Kat sent Kitty into the battle field.
"I'll start first." Brendon said and pointed at Kitty. "Krabby use Bubble attack!"
"Dodge and Tackle it!" Kat ordered.
Kitty managed to dodge the bubbles swiftly and Tackle the Krabby. The Krabby skidded back, but managed to survive the attack.
"Krabby, Leer!" Brendon yelled despretely.
"Kitty use Tail Whip!" Kat said calmly.
Both of the Pokémon's Attack power was weakened, so the battle could go either way. Krabby used another Bubble attack, but Kitty dodged them. Krabby managed to keep Kitty away from him by constantly using bubble to send her back. Finally after about five minutes Kitty took the courage to dodge all the bubbles and ran towards Krabby. She Tackled the Krabby, sending him sprawling backwards and into a tree.
Brendon happily handed her six-hundred dollers and recalled his Krabby into is Pokéball. Kat moved away from the battlefield to count her money, while Ezza entered the battle area.
The tall boy stood in front of Ezza, scrowling. "My name's Greggory and there's absolutely no way you're gonna win. Go, Ekans!"
"Pidgey, I choose you!" Ezza called out. "Start off with your Gust attack!"
"Ekans, Wrap attack!" Called out Greggory.
Pidgey flew in the the air and began beating her wings powerfully against the air, creaing a huge tornado of wind. It sent the Ekans crashing into a tree, where it lay dazed, but still in the battle.
"Pidgey finish it off with Tackle!" Ezza ordered excitedly.
Pidgey rammed into Ekans, which made it faint. As Greggory recalled his Serpent Pidgey took a right turn and landed neatly on Ezza's shoulder.
"Good work, Pidgey." Ezza cooed. "I reckon you deserve a nickname. Does Aerial sound ok to you?"
"Pidgey pid pid!" Pidgey, now known as Aerial chirped happily in agreement. She did a little dance on Ezza's shoulder, obviously liking her first Trainer already.
Spearow looked at Aerial's happy face with a scrowl, but then it's facial expression softened. If Aerial could like her trainer then he could like his. He flew up to perch on Kat's shoulder and nuzzled her cheek.
"I'll work on your nickname later." Kat told the Bird, who squarked happily. "A nice, strong Fearow will be good for my team as well."
"Spear spear!" Spearow boosted happily, but Kat couldn't really understand him. She knew what he was feeling, though.
"Are you ready to battle or not?" The short girl, who now had to battle Ezza whined. "I don't like to be kept waiting."
"And I don't like pushy, rude little girls." Ezza growled, which surprised Kat. For the last two hours or so that Kat knew Ezza she lays thought that Ezza was gentle and kind.
"My name is Sarah, so let's get this battle started." She pulled back a loose strand of cherry red hair and threw the Pokéball she had been holding onto the ground. "Go, Oddish!"
"Go, Spew!" Ezza called out, releasing her first Pokémon.
"Odish use Absorb!" Sarah called out.
"Spew use Scratch." Ezza said calmly.
The Absorb didn't really effect Spew. Loosing only a little bit of his HP he rushed at Oddish and scratched her with his claws. Ezza wasn't surprised when the Oddish fainted, but she was disappointed that the battle hadn't contined on longer.
"Either you just caught that Oddish and haven't trained it yet or you're just a weak trainer." Ezza smirked, her arms crossed over her chest. She clicked her fingers and Spew walked towards her to stand tall by her side.
Sarah gowled, her eyes locked on Spew's. Spew's eyes were narrowed dangerously and his teeth were barred.
Kat gulped. Obviously her new partner wasn't as sweet and gentle as she had thought. She watched Ezza wearily for a few minutes before slowly saying, "Um...Ezza, maybe we should continue our journey. Lot's of Badges to collect, Pokémon to capture and train, some many challenges ahead."
Ezza scrowled, but didn't glance at Kat. Instead she calmly recalled Aerial and walked off, Spew following right behind her. Kat jogged to catch up and finally posistioned herself next to Ezza.
"What the hell happened back there?" She raged. She tried to keep her voice calm, but wasn't secceeding. "Are you out of your mind?!? You could have gotten us both into trouble?"
Ezza stared at Kat for what seemed like ages. Finally she said calmly, but with a hint of uncertainty in her voice. "But I didn't."
Kat frowned, but decided to drop the subject. For now at least. "So, what are you going to do now? I'm starving!"
"Well we could get something to eat now and then train our Pokémon. They're all still level five. I guess those Pokémon we battled weren't strong enough." Ezza shrugged.
"Yeah, maybe we should look out for stronger trainers." Kat suggested as they headed to the new cafe. "Although, we need to raise our Pokémon's levels first."
The girls ordered their food and sat down on a square table to wait for their pizza. It appeared twenty minutes later while the girls were in deep conversation about their favourite Pokémon. Kat took a slice of the steaming hot pineapple Pizza and bit into it, while Ezza hesitated for a split second and then grabbed a slice for herself.
As the two ate they talked about the Pokémon they were hoping to capture and what kind of Master Trainer they would like to be.
"I like Eeveelutions, but I think I might prefer being a Feline trainer." Kat stated with a mouthful of Pizza. She swallowed and looked down at Kitty, who was eating a smaller slice of Pizza. "No offense to you of course, Kitty."
Kitty looked surpirsed and shook her head. "Eve ee vee vee!"
"I can't even understand what you're saying." Kat laughed and rubbed her Eevee on the head, who purred.
"Char mander char char." Spew said, then giggled.
Aerial looked horrified. She glared at Spew and slapped him with a wing. "Pid pidge pidge!"
Spearow nodded and squarked, "Spea!"
Spew just scrowled and mumbled, "Mander." *15*
"I wonder what they're saying?" Kat said with a frown.
"Beats me." Ezza shrugged as she finished her last slice of Pizza. She looked down at her figure and sighed. "I gotta stop eating Pizza if I wanna stay in shape."
"Great, that means I can take the last slice!" Kat said quickly, practically snatching the last slice of the box. She shared the Pizza with Kitty, Spearow and even Aerial and Spew.*16*
Half-an-hour later they were back outside and were heading to the Pokémon Centre to heal their Pokémon. While they waited for their Pokémon to get treatment they walked over to read the notice board.
"Hey take a look at this!" Kat said excitedly, pointing at the pice of paper stappled to the notice boared. "It's a party invertation for new trainers from around the world. You can wear your best clothers and battle beginner trainers. It's on tommorow, so if you agree we can go there."
"Great." Ezza said enthusiastically. "It has been ages since I've been to a Party before. Do you have anything to wear?"
"Ah, yeah." Kat said, after a moment's hesitation. "So, what do we do in the mean time?"
"Train our Pokémon of course." Ezza said, walking towards the counter where Nurse Joy was waiting for them with their now healthy Pokémon.
"They're all healthy and well, but please remember to heal them before you battle as well as after."
"Yes, Nurse Joy!" Kat and Ezza promised at the same time.
They left the Pokémon Centre and headed off to the Grass area to train their Pokémon.
It's too bad there aren't any Eveelution, Cat, Dragon or Beast Pokémon around here." Kat said after her and Ezza had continuedly battled their Pokémon against the ones of this Route.
Ezza nodded, but her Pidgey was too focused on the battle against a Caterpie. Aerial had won the battle, but as an after thought Ezza threw an empty Pokéball to capture the Caterpie.
"Why did you capture the Caterpie?" Kat asked Ezza curiously. "They aren't exactly strong."
"Maybe so, but a Butterfree is." Ezza pointed out. "Plus, it'll be a good idea for us to also capture a Nidoran each. They know Double Kick and Fighting moves are strong against Rock type Pokémon."
"Really?" Kat asked. "Wow, I didn't know that."
"I'm gonna name this Caterpie Crawler." Ezza said, as if that mattered. She shrugged and recalled Aerial back into her Pokéball. "I'm going to heal Crawler. Be back later."
Kat nodded and stared at the Weedle defeated on the ground. Her Eevee stood victorious. Kat bit her bottom lip, then shrugged. *It couldn't hurt* She thought as she threw a spare empty Pokéball at the Weedle, which sucked it inside. The Pokéball barely twicted when it pinged and the red light went off.
Kat picked up the Weedle's Pokéball and headed off to the Pokémon Centre with Kitty ridding on her head and Spearow perched on her right shoulder.
Five minutes later both girls were back in their training grass area. Kitty was still sitting on Kat's head and Spearow was still perched on her right shoulder, but her Weedle was taking a quick nap on her left shoulder. Spew was sitting on Ezza's backpack using it as a seat and holding tightly to her shoulder, while Aerial perched on her right shoulder and Crawler looked around curiously on her left.
The next hour the two girls spent training their Pokémon. Training Weedle and Crawler was the most difficultest thing to accoplish, so they had given up ages ago with the two Bug Pokémon only having grown one level each against other Caterpies and Weedles.
Kitty was now at level thirteen, but Spearow was at level twelve. Spew was at level fourteen and Aerial was at level thirteen, but then again they had been battling almost non-stop. Only occasionly pausing to take a small break or to get healed at the Pokémon Centre.
Not many Trainers provided enough chalenge as they were mostly all Bug Trainers. Still, batling these trainers did give thier Pokémon some experience, but not much. Especially since they had to take turns in battling a Trainer. Sometimes the trainer would battle Ezza then heal his or her Pokémon to battle Kat or vise versa.
They made it into Veridian Forest, which was huge. The trees were too thick even for Aerial and Spearow to fly through. Not only that, but the whole forest was also dark. Luckily Spew had his own source of light from his tail flame, so they were all able to see their way through the Forest.
Knowing that the two girls were Pokémon Trainers most of the Pokémon kept their distance, while others stood in the path of the trainers to be challenged. Since Kat's and Ezza's Pokémon were stronger they always lost. Especially to Spew, Aerial and Spearow since most of the challenging Pokémon were Bug types.
A noise in the bushes caught the attention of both girls. Ezza was the first one to investagate since Kat wasn't so sure. Ezza quietly walked over to a medium-sized blueberry bush and gently parted its leaves away. A small gasp escaped from her mouth as she stared down at the little frantic figure at the ground.
Every Trainer knew that Pikachu could be found in Veridian Forest, but no one has ever really seen a Pichu in Veridian Forest. Although, it probably is possible since Pikachu do breed in Veridian and the newborn Pichu*17* more likely evolve too quickly for people to see.
The Pichu stared at Ezza and then at Kat who arrived seconds later. It had a sad expression and was frantically tugging at something. Ezza looked at what the Pichu was tucking out and noticed that the Pichu's short jagged black tail was caught in the thorns of the blueberry bush. With little effort Ezza freed the Pichu's tail who gave a happy cry and jumped into her lap.
Spew walked over and had a small chit-chat with the Pichu. The conversation were mostly a lot of soft growls and high-pitched squeaks. This lasted for a few minutes and even Aerial and Crawler joined the conversation. When the convo had ended Spew walked up to Ezza and plucked out one of her remaining Pokéballs and walked over to the Pichu.
"Hey, Spew gave that back!" Ezza protested halfheartedly. She didn't really seem that worried about Spew stealing one of her Pokéballs.
Spew held the Pokéball at the Pichu who touched it with a small yellow paw and was sucked inside. The Pokéball didn't even shake as the red light went off and the ball gave a soft 'ping'.
Ezza thanked Spew and picked up the Pokéball. Clipping it to her belt she membled something about this being her firth Pokémon. A while ago both Kat and Ezza had caught a Nidoran. Kat had a female Nidoran and Ezza had the male. Kat had also caught a grumpy, disobient Mankey by accident. She hadn't even released the Monkey Pokémon after it had given her a blood nose, but since Fighting Pokémon were strong against Rock types she had no choice.
Both girls had five Pokémon each, so they were looking for a sixth. Earlier they had searched everywhere, but couldn't really find anything. Even the Rattatas had seemed to make themselves scarce.
Through the forst were many Bug Trainers to challenge, but they were easily defeated until they came across a boy with four Pokéballs in his Pokénbelt. He wasn't carrying a Bug catcher net, so he couldn't have been a Bug Pokémon Trainer. He was a few years younger then Kat, who was younger then Ezza. When he noticed the two girls his brown eyes lit up. He had wild looking messy dirty blond hair and his clothing, a pair of light blue short and a plain white T-shirt, were plain and creased.
Ezza screwed up her nose in distaste at the boy. The boy made his way slowly towards them with an eager look on his face. Kat was ready for a battle, but Ezza looked somewhat annoyed.
The boy took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "Would both of you girls wanna battle me? I have Pokémon, but I was hoping for a one-on-one battle against both of you one at a time. What do ya say? I'll give you a rare Pokémon if you win."
"Couldn't hurt." Kat said, shrugging at Ezza. She turned to the boy and smiled playfully. "Ok one-on-one and if I win you give me a Pokémon, right?"
The boy nodded. "But if you win you give me your most rarest Pokémon, k?"
"'K." Kat agreed. Her most rarest Pokémon was her Eevee, but she was converdent that she could win this battle.
The boy introduced himself as Ryan and both oponents threw a Pokéball at the ground in the same exact moment. Kat's Pokéball burst open to release Kitty, while Ryan's contained a Rattata. Kitty was ready for battle, but the Ratttata looked unsure. Both Pokémon took a battle stance, while their trainer thought of their first order.
"Rattata start off with your Quick Attack!" Ryan yelled, starting off the battle.
"Hey!" Kat protested, who wasn't really ready yet. Her eyes narrowed and she grinded her teeth. "Fine, two can play at this game. Kitty use Sand-Attack, then Tackle!"
As Rattata rushed towards Kitty, disappearing and appearing here and there, Kitty threw a paw-full of sand into Rattata's eyes before following up with a Rugby Tackle attack. While the Rattata was out of focus and despretely trying to rub the sand out of its eyes Kitty gave it another Rugby Tackle that ended the battle.
Ryan looked disapointed, but happy none the less as he recalled his Rattata. "Here," He said, handing her a Pokéball. "But don't open it until after the battle with your friend. Rattata wasn't my strongest Pokémon, but maybe we can have a rematch someday."
"I'm looking forward to it." Kat said as she sat down on a follow log to watch Ezza and Ryan battle.
Of course Ezza sent Spew onto the battlefield and Ryan's strongest and most loyal Pokémon turned out to be a Sandshrew. It was Ryan's starter Pokémon, but Ezza didn't seem worried about the fact that Sandshrew was a ground type Pokémon. Instead both she and Spew looked as cool, calm and collected as a Treecko.
Ezza flicked back her long dark purple-blue black hair and stared at Ryan's Sandshrew with cool violet eyes. "Spew use Smokescreen and then fire off an Ember, don't hold back." Her voice was soft and the command was almost distant, as if ordered by someone futher away.
"Sandshrew quick use Slash attack!" Ryan called out.
The Sandshrew made the first move, while Spew just stood there with his eyes narrowed and his teeth bared. Kat looked up at Ezza's face to see her reaction, but her partner was smirking. Sandshrew lifted up one clawed hand and brought it down fast to slash Spew across the chest, but a blindingly fast red blur flew past and seconds later Spew had a grip on Sandshrew's wrist with one of his own clawed hands. The little Charmander gave a mischievous look with a slight glint of triumpth in its eyes before opening his mouth wide, a puff of thick, black smoke difting inside.
The Sandshrew tugged its arm away, but too late. Spew blew the smoke on the Sandshrew's face and followed it up by spiting a small ball-like Ember of fire at the Sandshrew's back, while it had turned away from the smoke. The Sandshrew was busily trying to get the smoke away from its eyes when it was burnt at the back. With a cry of pain the Sandshrew jumped up and turned away to glare at Spew, who seemed to look murderous.
"Spew, finish it off with Scratch." Ezza ordered, still calmly.
"Sandshrew use Defense Curl and then Poison Sting!" Ryan was getting desprete now.
Sandshrew curled into a ball and turned a greyish-black for a mere second. He then sprung open and released a Poison Sting at Spew, who took the attack full force and was poisoned. Spew replyed back with a Scratch attack across Sandshrew's flank, making the Shrew Pokémon faint.
Once again Ryan looked disappointed, but happy as he recalled his Sandshrew into its Pokéball. Ezza gave Spew an Antidote, but he refused the Potion indercating that he was fine and didn't need it.
"That was a great battle." Ryan told Ezza as he handed her a Pokéball containing one of the two Pokémon Ryan had not used. "Your Charmander is a teriffic battler, but I wish Speedy could battle as good as both your Charmander and Eevee did. I seem able to tame Mankey's 'cause they like me, but I haven't had any seccess in finding one."
"I have a Mankey." Kat said as if it wasn't important. She unclipped one of her Pokéballs from her Pokébelt and held it out to Ryan. "He's in here, but he won't even listen to me in battle."
"Oh, could I have him? I'll even give you Speedy." Ryan said, eager once again. "He's the Rattata your Eevee battled and he might not seem like much, but trust me he's a natural battler. He defeated my Sandshrew when I was battling him for my first Pokémon."
"Yeah, ok I'll trade Mankey for him." Kat said and Ezza sorted. "Is there a Trading Machine anywhere around here or is there one at the Pokémon Centre?"
Ezza rolled her eyes. "You need a special trading device that clips onto the top of your Pokédex, but they are way too expensive, so I doubt anyone of you have one."
"Actually I won mine for free at a compertision, which is also how I got my Sandshrew." Ryan said. "I came first place and had a choice of Sandshrew, Houndour or Shroomish."
"I don't have one." Kat said.
Ezza took off her backpack and rampaged inside it. "Well I do." A few minutes later she took out a neatly cleaned purple-pink weird-looking plain device. The part that clipped onto the top end of the Pokédex was like a box with only it top bit. Ezza took Kat's lilac Pokédex to show her how to clip it on. Once clipped on the Pokéball holder, which looked like the drink holders you find on the arm of the cinema chairs, only without the gap.
Ryan's Pokédex Trading Device or PTD*18* for short was dark blue. Kat noticed a red-black small square onto top of his PTD and glanced at Ezza's to see if she had one, which she did.
"What's this?" She asked Ezza, pointing at the red-black square on the PTD.
"That's the infra red connection*19*." Ezza said, putting Mankey's Pokéball on the slot as the drink-like holder was called. "You just the Pokéball in here and then level your infra red connection with the other person's PTD infra red." She pointed at a small black button that could barely be seen. "You push this button, but your Pokédex had to be on. When you push the black button data of the Pokémon in the Pokéball slot is shown, which in this case is your Mankey. You got that so far?"
Kat nodded and she and Ryan leveled the infra red connection together. Kat pushed the small black button and instantly her Mankey's stats were displayed. Mankey turned out to be level fourteen and so far only new Scratch and Leer. Ryan did the same thing and his Rattata's stats came up.
Ryan then pushed the enter button on his Pokédex and Kat followed suit. Instantly the Pokédex made a weird humming noise and Kat's infra red connection started to flash red, then spot. What looked like a tiny lightning bolt jagged from her infra red connection to Ryan's.
"First Pokémon transport has been completed. Pokémon Mankey from Kathryn now has been traded to Ryan. Starting second transportation."
Kat looked fascinated as a second bolt of red lightning came out from Ryan's infra red connection and into hers. Instantly Rattata's Stats appeared.
"Second Pokémon transport has been completed. You can now remove your Pokédex from each other."
Kat did so and picked up the new Pokball from the slot. She then carefully unclipped the PTD from her Pokédex and handed it to Ezza who took it and put it in her backpack.
Kat checked Speedy's stats. The little Rattata was level seventeen and knew Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack and Hyper Fang. Kat clipped Speedy's Pokéball onto her lilac Pokébelt and followed Ezza out of the forest.
As soon as they were out they headed off to the Pokémon Centre to heal their Pokémon. After that they headed back outside.
"When does the party start?" Kat asked.
"Three PM tomorrow." Ezza replied. Her face was direct with the sun and she had her eyes closed. "I've already brought something to wear." She opened her eyes since the sun was going down. "It's getting dark, we better find that Pokémon Shelter."
She walked further into Pewter and Kat followed her cllose behind, jogging to keep up. A few minutes later they came into a large off-white building about four stories tall.
"Welcome to the Pokémon Shelter." Ezza grinned, waving her hand at the building. "We can stay here for the night for only three hundred bucks."
The two girls went inside the building and walked up to a tall women behind the counter chewing gum. She had a bored look on her face as she blew and popped the bubble with a loud cracking noise.
"Welcome to Pewter City Pokémon shelter, how may I held you?" The women, Ingrid as her name tag read, droned.
"Um, yes w would like a seperate room please." Ezza said politely.
Ingid clicked her long bright pink nails on the keyboard for a few seconds. "Ok, room thirty-six and thirty-seven is free. That's be three hundred dollars each."
Both Kat and Ezza gave three-hundred dollars to Ingrid who put the money in the till. She then rang a bell and two young men appeared from the door behind the counter.
"Matthew and Carlos will show you to your rooms." Ingrid said tonelessly, flicking her hand towards the stair case.
As they follwed the two men up the stairs Ezza started complaining out Ingrid.
"I don't see why she works here if she's so bored with her job. I mean, honestly she's a mence." Ezza stopped and looked around the building as they climbed the stairs. "I can't blame her, though. Listening to people over and over asking they want a room would get old after a while."
The finally climbed the stair case to the third floor and began walking down the boring hallway past all the other rooms until they reached rooms thirty-six and thirty-seven. Kat entered room thirty-six, while Ezza entered room thirty-seven.
Kat's room was more interesting then she thought. The walls were cream instead of off-white and a large window brighted up the room. The blanket on the single bed was dark blue with purple edges. There was also a TV, a bathroom and a small work area with a desk and everything.
Kat layed her backpack on the bed and opened the big pocket. She took out her favourite Eevee plushie and placed it on her pillow before leaving her room to visit Ezza's next door.
Ezza's room was the same as Kat's except the walls were more antique white and the bed spread was purple with blue edges. Ezza had already stacked some papers on her desk and after she had opened the door to let Kat in she sat back at the desk to do her work.
"Nice." Kat commented and then walked towards the desk to look over Ezza's shoulder. "What ya working on?"
"Well I'm hoping to get a job as a Pokémon artist and breeder.*20*" Ezza replied, thumbing the sheet of lined paper she was writing on with her pen. "I'm writing all the things I've learned about certain Pokémon and then with the help of my Pokémon I'm going to draw them with a beautiful background behind them."
"Sounds interesting." Kat said, not able to find anything else to say. "Have you drawn anything yet?"
Ezza nodded and handed Kat a large, thick purple Art book with what looked like blue glitter or something. Whatever it was it made the book beautifully shiny. Kat took the book and flicked it to the first page.
The first page that appears as soon as you open the cover was labled in big violet-blue lets 'EZZA'S POKéMON ART BOOK 2003'. Kat turned the page and found a picture of a two cute Meowth Kittens, one with a blue bow and the other with a pink bow around the neck, huddled up together in a large cane basket. The background was a mint white wall with painted pink, blue and purple flowers and tiny green diamonds. Obviously the wall of someone's house.
Next to the picture on the other page was what looked like info about the Meowth Kitten drawing. It read 'Cuddly Meowth Kittens-January 1st'. Kat didn't bother reading the rest, but instead flicked to the next page.
The second drawing was a Goldeen swimming underwater. The sandy-yellow bottom could just be seen at the bottom of the page and the Goldeen itself had beauitful sea-blue eyes even though it was just a picture. The water itself seemed to sparkle on the paper.
The third drawing was an Eevee cuddling up to a small red-headed girl with light blue eyes. The little girl looked about seven and was wearing a knee-length pink dress with mauve flowers.
"They're really good." Kat said, after she had handed Ezza back the Art Book. There were fourteen drawings in all. "I love the Eevee one."
"Thanks, but I prefer the the Charmander pic." Ezza replied, not looking up since she was still working. "It's more resent. Only drawn about a week ago."
"The Ninetales is cool." Kat commented. "And so is the Dragonite."
"Uh...yeah," Ezza said destractedly. She paused for a few minutes with her pen inches away from the paper, a thoughtful look on her face. Obviously finding some more stuff to write she began to put pen on paper once more.
Kat could see that Ezza was busy, so she headed back to her own room. She watched TV for an hour until it got way too late, so she headed off to bed. She layed awake most of the time, but then fell asleep while clutching tightly to her Eevee plushie*21*. Kitty was already asleep at the end of Kat's bed, curled up into a small furry brown ball.
The next morning they got up bright and early and started tidying things around 'cause they messed up their room last night. 'Specially Ezza's desk with all its papers and writing equipment. They then had breakfast of bacon and eggs that Ezza made since each room has a small stove and fridge.
Even though the party starts at three Ezza had suggested to get ready now 'cause there were a lot of things to be done before then. Kat emptied her back onto her bed looking for something to wear, but she only brought with her one outfit of clothing. She hit herself mentally for being such a forgetful idiot.
"Oh cool, I did bring my Greatball with me." She suddenly cried out gleefully. "Wow, this should make it much easier to capture a Pokémon, but maybe I should save it for later."
It was lucky enough that the clothing Kat managed to pack in her bag was good and stylish enough. Ezza had said not to wear something to fancy or flashy, but to wear something nice and not too casual. Kat thought that her outfit was perfect for something such as a Pokémon Trainer Party.
She wore a shortsleeved lilac cardie and a lilac bandana around her head, making her look somewhat like a ninja in casual clothing. She also wore a huge pair of blackish jeans that seemed to go with the top and bandana.
She then went into Ezza's room to see how she was going. Ezza hadn't even got dreshed yet safed from the outfit she was wearing yesterday, but she had washed her hair until is shone and turned silky. Ezza even helped Kat style her hair into what looked like a neat stylish bun with two bangs of hair hanging from each side near the front of her face. Ezza then died the loose bangs of hair into a lilac colour to match Kat's top and it made her look really pretty.
While Kat went to get a drink from the fridge Ezza finally went to the bathroom to get dressed. She then came back fifteen minutes later looking completely different then she had when Kat first met her. Instead of the loose lavender T-shirt and blue jeans she wore yesterday and a few moments ago she was wearing a silvery-purple T-shirt under an unbottened cotten material midnight blue waist-length jacket and a pair of dark blue denim jeans. Her hair wasn't in a bun like Kat's, bus instead tied up in a loose ponytail and held together by a black Snap Dragon clip encrusted with a row of four real diamonds. Like Kat's Ezza's hair was streaked, but with pink and blue streaks and not lilac.
"Wow, you look nice." Kat commented.
"Thanks. So do you, but I wish these jeans weren't so baggy." Ezza said, then shrugged. "Oh well, it's not like I'm gonna wear them for too long anyway."
Ezza then walked over to her dressing table and picked up what looked like a golden chain with something hanging off it. She clipped it on with surprisingly no difficulty at all and when she turned it around Kat could see that it was a gold chain with a golden locket hanging off it.
"That's pretty." Kat commented, pointing at the locket.
"Yeah." Ezza said smiling as she opened the locket and showed Kat the legendary Dragon Pokémon Rayquaza on one side and the Legendary Beast Pokémon Groundon*22* on the other. "Everyone knowns that these are the Pokémon I sneak."
"Really? I'm hoping to get the legendary Feline Pokémon Mewtwo or Mew and all of the Eeveelution Pokémon." Kat said, a dreamy look in her eyes.
"Good luck." Ezza laughed, snapping the locket shut. "You're gonna need it since more and more Eeveelutions are being discovered almost everyday. Even the professors can hardly keep up."
"Seriously?" Kat asked in awe, her eyes wide with excitement.
"Yeah, seriously." Ezza nodded. "The Eeveelutions we know now are easy enough to get, but the ones from the new League-Dominus*23* if I remember correctly, has hundreds of new Pokémon. Even more then Kanto, Johto and Hoenn put together. It's gonna take ages to collect every single Pokémon there."
"The Dominus League?" Kat breathed in awe. "It sounds so mysterious"
"It is." Ezza confirmed. "It's name means the Master League, which is named after the fact that you became a Master if you have achieved everything in your path. I wouldn't mind meeting a Dragon Trainer who's just as interested in Dragons then I am."
"It two-fifteen I'm gonna have to finsh cleaning my room." Kat said.
"Sure, I'll just finish my paper work and I meet you outside the Pokéon Shelter at two-thirty." Ezza waved Kat off before sitting back at the desk and continuing her work once more.
After Kat had finished cleaning her room and Ezza had finished her work they met each other outside the Pokémon Shelter. Having half-an-hour left until the party the trained their Pokémon up to two levels each and then the rest of the time they got something small to eat.
Ezza checked the time on her expensive gold wrist watch with its small silver numbers and pale pink face. The time read two-fifty five, so they had five minutes to head off to the new large building known as the Pewter City Battle Tower where the party would take place.
"You ready?" Ezza asked Kat, dropping her gaze from the watch.
Kat nodded and stood up from the bench. She threw the hamburger wrapper in the bin and grinned mischievously. "Yup. Let's go show those party duelest what we're made off."
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Footholds-It's important to read these, even if you think you know what I mean.
*1*: As Kathryn/Kat does not belong to me please do not ask me to borrow her. You can ask Angelic_Shadowcat, through. Kat has appeared in many of A_S' fics with her Eevee Kitty, but this is the first time she's appeared in any of my fics. She does however appear in the third chapter of Pokéanthromorph Warriors has a Delcatty Hybrid.
*2*: Originally I was planning on getting using the Pokémon Characteristics List to make Kat and Ezza guess which one matched the characteristics of the Pokémon they wanted. For example Arena Trap was Trapinch, Battle Armour was Anorith and no I'm not gonaa write down the full list here.
*3*: Sorry I got bored with the usual white labatory walls. O.o
*4*: There's a bit of a mixup on the name, but it has an interesting story to it. You see Ezza's real name is Ezra, but if I'm correct that's a boy's name. *Sniggers* Anyway Ezza's mother didn't know that, so she changed Ezra's name to Lyra. Lyra's still called Ezza, though. Sounds weird, huh? O.o
*5*: Well how many Feline Pokémon do you think there are in the world? Skitty, Delcatty, Mewtwo, Mew, Sneasel, Persian, Meowth...no the list hardly goes any further besides the ones I've made up. In fact, I don't think I'm missing any. Of course there's the new made-up Esculis and Grypther.
*6*: I made Ezza into a Dragon Trainer wannabe, because of a Dragon-loving friend of mine-DRACO the Dragonite of Pokémon PUK forums only to find out that he likes beasts as well and since Ezza is a Dragon/Beast wannabe I guess it works in both ways.
*7*: Did I mention that I don't own these little critters?
*8*: Sorry Shadowcat, but fail to see how an Eevee can actually look like a Cat. Although, while I was looking at the Eevee in my Red Version I did comment on how Kittish-looking it was. 'Specially the ears and cute facial expression, as well as the actual body.
*9*: Spew sounds like such a great name for a Charmander, but for a Charizard it probably would make it puke. Spew gets its name changed to Dominus later on. Yes, named after the fourth League, firth if you wanna count the EASY League before Kanto.
*10* I haven't figured out yet who I'm going to use as the Grand Master, which is why I never included his/her gender. However I can asure you that it isn't Ash and whoever it is has twelve strong Grand Pokémon.
*11* Hmmm, Orange Islands. I'm not sure if I'm gonna make the girls journey though there after the finish their Kanto Quest.
*12* I could think of a name at the time and guess what? I still can't. -_-' I was thinking of something a little less original, though.
*13* Since neither Ezza nor Kat are training to become Grand Pokémon Masters I'm not really sure if I'll actually make them collect Badges anyway. Or at least Ezza since she's my character.
*14* Trust me, that was not an insult. At least I don't think it was. Who can tell?
*15* If ya really wanna know what Spew said you can just ask me by e-mail or whatever. Although, it really isn't that important.
*16* How she managed to share a single slice of pizza with four Pokémon and even have some herself, I'll never know. O.o I can assure you it's a complete Fantasty-free non-magic reality pizza.
*17* Yes I know Pichus can't be found in Veridian and that the only way you can get one is to breed a Pikachu. However, Pichus probably do leave in Viridian, but evolve into a Pikachu before anyone actually notices them-That's my theory anyway.
*18* As the are extremely expensive not very many Trainers have this gadget, but it allows Trainers to trade Pokémon if they aren't anywhere near a Pokémon Centre. It's also much more advanced then the old Trading Machine.
*19* This is very similar-looking to the infra red system of top of every Gameboy colour and that actually is where I got the infra red location and idea from.
*20* Yes Ezza does have a second hobby after Pokémon Training and no I'm not sure if Kat does as well.
*21* Yes, an Eevee Plushie. Come on it's not much different to the stuffed Animals we have here. Oh, word of advice-NEVER call Kat baby just because she carries around an Eevee soft toy in her bag.
*22* Ezza is actually after ALL Legendary Pokémon, but capturing Rayquaza and Groudon is her actual main goal besides being a Dragon/Beast Master Trainer.
*23* Dominus means Master in Latin and this is actually also the name of the League in my RPG. In fact, it's almost the same League, but with a lot of difference. For example the whole League belong to an Espeon Hybrid-yes me and a golden Dragon-Cat known as Auarneus.
Phew, you have abosutely no idea what a pain this is going to be to put all this in HTML since Word Pad doesn't have it. Because of this I'll be updating fics less for the time being, but I won't stop updating unless something actually happens.
Starting from chapter 2 is where the fun begins. *Smirks* I bet you can't wait. Well at least I can't wait to write it. While you're waiting for the next chapter feel free to send me a review. In fact, if you want the next chapter I strongly advise that you DO review.
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