Chapter 7: Wandering In the Viridian Forest
Chris couldn't remember going to sleep, but when he opened his eyes, he saw Anne staring right at him.
"Good Morning." She said cheerfully.
Chris was usually grumpy in the morning, so he just said, "Mornin,"
Then when he ate a delicious breakfast made by Anne, he felt a lot better and his maniac glint of catching Pokemon came back.
"Did you know that many bug Pokemon live here?"
"Yeah, I know. I can't wait to catch one."
"My aunt, Misty hated and still hates bug Pokemon. I love bug Pokemon unlike my aunt."
Then she saw a Beedrill flying by and she added, "Some of them anyway."
"I gotta catch it! It's a Beedrill!" Chris started feeling excited again.
Anne looked nervously at the Beedrill and said, "I wouldn't do that if I were y-,"
Ignoring Anne, Chris yelled, "Charmeleon, go! Use your Ember attack!"
Charmander nicely roasted Beedrill. Then the Beedrill made a little painful cry. Chris ignored that, too and as he threw the Pokeball at the Beedrill, he didn't see a herd of Beedrill coming out of some trees nearby, nor did he see Anne already running away.
He wasn't aware of anything until the Beedrill stopped struggling inside the Pokeball. By the time he had grabbed the Pokeball, he saw the Beedrill herd 30 yards away from him. Finally, he quickly started running with his new Pokemon and he saw Anne far ahead of him. Then he felt the wind made by the Beedrill's wings and he felt his arm being pricked by some of the Beedrill's needles.
He felt his arms weaken as it was poisoned and he was being pricked all over his body and when he thought he could move no more, an arm pulled him right inside the bushes. Then the effects of the poison started taking place and Chris blacked out.
When Chris regained consciousness, he saw Anne and another person about the age of 20 standing over him.
"Thank you for the antidotes you gave him." Anne was saying with a worrying in his voice.
"No problem, miss. It was a good thing the poison didn't have time to spread." It was a man voice.
"Wait! I think he's getting up! Chris, are you OK? Anne was asking with anxiety and when Chris nodded, she blew her head."
"You idiot! How could you not see 30 Beedrills coming up at ya? And you call yourself a Pokemon trainer? If it wasn't for this Samurai, you'd be dead by now!"
Weakly, Chris just replied, "Well, a Pokemon Trainer must catch Pokemon and how else was I gonna catch a Beedrill without facing the whole herd?"
The samurai looked at him and said, "I like your courage. Let's have a battle. You remind me of a trainer years ago.
Chris tried to get up, but his arms still had no power in them.
Looking at Chris's state, the samurai said, "Rest for today. We will battle tomorrow."
When the Samurai left his cabin, Anne started yelling at him again.
"You little mother-&#%ing idiot! Don't you know that you had just done that might've killed you?"
"Yeah. You better get used to it, because I'm that kind of person."
Anne didn't know what to say, so she just went to bed.
Chris was trying to get better so fast, so he could battle that samurai and gain his third victory. He was feeling nervous at his first official Pokemon battle. (Since his first two battles were with Team Rocket)
Next day, Chris felt a lot better and he quickly came out of the house while Anne was still sound asleep.
He saw the samurai just standing there, waiting for him.
Samurai, who sounded impatient said, "Two against Two. I choose you, Butterfree!"
Chris, knowing what Butterfree was weak against said, "Go, Charmeleon!"
"Butterfree, Sleep Powder!
"Charmeleon Flamethrower!"
The Flamethrower mixed with the Sleep Powder, causing a chemical powder reaction. When the explosion happened, Chris thought it looked like a smaller version of the atom bomb he saw in a video at school. When the smoke cleared, Charmeleon and Butterfree had both been knocked out.
Samurai returned his Butterfree and said, "So this match is a draw. Then I choose you, Pinsir!"
A Pokemon with great, big pincers came out. Chris, just staring at the Pinsir's giant Pinsir, called "Go, Pidgeotto!"
Chris's newly evolved Pidgeotto came out to battle the Samurai's Pinsir. "Pinsir, Vice Grip Attack!"
"Pidgeotto, use your Whirlwind!"
Pidgeotto's Whirlwind had no effect to Pinsir's big body, much of a shock to Chris. Pinsir then used its Vice Grip to hang on to Pidgeotto.
"Pidgeotto, give it your Rapid Wing and free yourself!"
Pidgeotto kept beating its wings on Pinsir and when Pinsir's grip weakened, Pidgeotto flew out and used its Wing Attack.
"Pinsir, Tackle!"
Pidgeotto dodged Pinsir's slow Tackle and finished it off with a Quick Attack. "Hooray! Another victory for me! I'm unbeatable! HAHAHA!
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
However, this wasn't Chris's laugh. It was Team Rocket.
"Prepare for being mugged,"
"Or maybe being bugged."
"To use the Pokemon to our power,"
"And-,"
"Stop your damned motto and capture their Pokemon while their weak, and don't let them get away!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Meowth, even though you're a Persian, the reason we're still calling you Meowth, is because you're not intelligent as a Persian,"
Then Jessie looked at Meowth again and said, "As a matter of fact, I don't think you're even smart enough to be a Meowth." Jessie just sighed exasperatedly.
Meowth, turning red in the face retorted, "Well, for your information, I learned how to walk like a human and talk like a human! It that intelligent enough, Miss Know-It-All? Jessie just waved it away by saying, "Only a Meowth with zero IQ Points would try to walk and talk like a human."
"Your IQ Points are 2 points higher than a tree stump!"
"And you think you're Einstein?"
Jessie and Meowth started fighting while James turned his face from his watch to the fight. Hours later, Jessie, James and Meowth noticed everything was silent.
Meowth looked around and said, "It's too quiet."
Jessie screamed, "The twerps are gone!"
"We have to catch them Jessie! We have no time to waste!"
Chris, Anne and the Samurai had just calmly walked away while Team Rocket had been fighting.
"Be careful, don't make any sounds at night, unless you wanna die from Beedrill and Butterfree swarms."
Anne looking uncertain said, "Butterfree swarms? I thought Butterfree's were nice and cute."
"At night, they tend to not like being disturbed."
Then they heard panting voices making loud footsteps and it was no doubt, Team Rocket.
The Samurai looked urgent and whispered, "They're gonna wake up the swarms!"
Sure enough, they heard silent buzzing sounds from Beedrills and the cute sounds from Butterfrees. A few seconds later, Chris heard desperate cries from Team Rocket, obviously running around in circles. Then getting a good idea, Chris yelled, "Charmeleon, go! Use your Flamethrower on the Beedrills, Team Rocket, and the Butterfrees!"
Anne shouted, "Chris, are you trying to get yourself killed?"
Charmeleon started breathing fire everywhere and the Beedrill swarm and Butterfrees were roasted and Team Rocket once again said,
"Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!"
Then Chris threw every single Pokeball he had. Chris's plan had worked like a charm.
Soon there were numerous Pokemon containing the Beedrills and Butterfrees. Then they suddenly disappeared.
"Where'd my new Pokemon go? I had like 40 of them!"
Anne sighing said, "And you call yourself a Pokemon trainer? They all probably got transported to Professor Oak, where he's gonna keep them safe."
Chris embarrassed for acting so idiotically, said "Oh, yeah! I knew that! I was just pretending to not know it, so I could test how much you knew!"
The Samurai then said, "We must run. Your Chameleon's Flamethrower put fire on the trees. We must hurry out of this forest and into Pewter City, before the fire spreads.
The three of them started running fast and they saw the fire already spreading.
Anne, still glaring at Chris as she ran said, "Chris, you idiot! Look what you've done!" Chris, feeling guilty said, "Well, I did it to catch Pokemon!"
"Some dumb plan!"
Then they saw a trainer with a gray cloak with a Blastoise. "Blastoise, Hydro Pump."
The big Blastoise turned off the fire and when Chris took a better look at him, he saw Pokemon Master Gary.
Gary came up to him and said, "What kind of idiot started the fire?"
Chris just meekly said, "I did. I was trying to catch some-,"
Gary, with fury in his eyes said, "You first think of others before thinking for yourself. Remember that. You're lucky I came along."
Chris, suddenly sounding eager asked, "Can we have a battle?"
Gary stared at him and said, "You're still weak. When you get stronger.
Then Gary left without any notice.
Anne, staring at where Gary had gone, said "We're really lucky to meet him personally and we're lucky that he saved our necks." She glared at Chris again.
They walked some more and they saw something glow in the middle of the road. It was something with a note attached to it. Chris read it and it said,
Dear Chris,
I now know you hate me for leaving you years ago and I understand. I am now on a journey with Ash to lands people of this world have never seen. Once you're ready perhaps, you'd come along. When I heard news that you had left on your Pokemon journey, I can only wish you good luck. I have a little present for you. (Behind note)
Richie Sparks (&Ash Ketchum)
Chris read the note 5 times before putting it safe in his backpack. He looked at the glowing thing, which turned out to be a baby Pichu, newly born. There was a note on the Pichu and as the Pichu played cheerfully on Chris's hand; Chris read the note that said,
This is my Sparky's child. I've been keeping him with an egg, but now that it hatched, I decided that maybe you should raise it.
Chris knew Sparky was his dad's star Pokemon, a Pikachu.
Chris put Pichu on his shoulder and he felt good to get a note from his father. Then, seeing the end of the Viridian Forest, he felt so much happier.
Then, the Samurai said, "This is where I leave you, son of Richie Sparks. I know we will meet again and the next time, expect a tougher match."
Chris just said, "Exactly what I wanna hear!"
Anne said, "Come on, Chris! Let's get outta here!"
Chris, waving good-bye to another new friend started to head off into the road leading to Pewter City, not knowing how far Chris's skills were going to be tested!
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Chris couldn't remember going to sleep, but when he opened his eyes, he saw Anne staring right at him.
"Good Morning." She said cheerfully.
Chris was usually grumpy in the morning, so he just said, "Mornin,"
Then when he ate a delicious breakfast made by Anne, he felt a lot better and his maniac glint of catching Pokemon came back.
"Did you know that many bug Pokemon live here?"
"Yeah, I know. I can't wait to catch one."
"My aunt, Misty hated and still hates bug Pokemon. I love bug Pokemon unlike my aunt."
Then she saw a Beedrill flying by and she added, "Some of them anyway."
"I gotta catch it! It's a Beedrill!" Chris started feeling excited again.
Anne looked nervously at the Beedrill and said, "I wouldn't do that if I were y-,"
Ignoring Anne, Chris yelled, "Charmeleon, go! Use your Ember attack!"
Charmander nicely roasted Beedrill. Then the Beedrill made a little painful cry. Chris ignored that, too and as he threw the Pokeball at the Beedrill, he didn't see a herd of Beedrill coming out of some trees nearby, nor did he see Anne already running away.
He wasn't aware of anything until the Beedrill stopped struggling inside the Pokeball. By the time he had grabbed the Pokeball, he saw the Beedrill herd 30 yards away from him. Finally, he quickly started running with his new Pokemon and he saw Anne far ahead of him. Then he felt the wind made by the Beedrill's wings and he felt his arm being pricked by some of the Beedrill's needles.
He felt his arms weaken as it was poisoned and he was being pricked all over his body and when he thought he could move no more, an arm pulled him right inside the bushes. Then the effects of the poison started taking place and Chris blacked out.
When Chris regained consciousness, he saw Anne and another person about the age of 20 standing over him.
"Thank you for the antidotes you gave him." Anne was saying with a worrying in his voice.
"No problem, miss. It was a good thing the poison didn't have time to spread." It was a man voice.
"Wait! I think he's getting up! Chris, are you OK? Anne was asking with anxiety and when Chris nodded, she blew her head."
"You idiot! How could you not see 30 Beedrills coming up at ya? And you call yourself a Pokemon trainer? If it wasn't for this Samurai, you'd be dead by now!"
Weakly, Chris just replied, "Well, a Pokemon Trainer must catch Pokemon and how else was I gonna catch a Beedrill without facing the whole herd?"
The samurai looked at him and said, "I like your courage. Let's have a battle. You remind me of a trainer years ago.
Chris tried to get up, but his arms still had no power in them.
Looking at Chris's state, the samurai said, "Rest for today. We will battle tomorrow."
When the Samurai left his cabin, Anne started yelling at him again.
"You little mother-&#%ing idiot! Don't you know that you had just done that might've killed you?"
"Yeah. You better get used to it, because I'm that kind of person."
Anne didn't know what to say, so she just went to bed.
Chris was trying to get better so fast, so he could battle that samurai and gain his third victory. He was feeling nervous at his first official Pokemon battle. (Since his first two battles were with Team Rocket)
Next day, Chris felt a lot better and he quickly came out of the house while Anne was still sound asleep.
He saw the samurai just standing there, waiting for him.
Samurai, who sounded impatient said, "Two against Two. I choose you, Butterfree!"
Chris, knowing what Butterfree was weak against said, "Go, Charmeleon!"
"Butterfree, Sleep Powder!
"Charmeleon Flamethrower!"
The Flamethrower mixed with the Sleep Powder, causing a chemical powder reaction. When the explosion happened, Chris thought it looked like a smaller version of the atom bomb he saw in a video at school. When the smoke cleared, Charmeleon and Butterfree had both been knocked out.
Samurai returned his Butterfree and said, "So this match is a draw. Then I choose you, Pinsir!"
A Pokemon with great, big pincers came out. Chris, just staring at the Pinsir's giant Pinsir, called "Go, Pidgeotto!"
Chris's newly evolved Pidgeotto came out to battle the Samurai's Pinsir. "Pinsir, Vice Grip Attack!"
"Pidgeotto, use your Whirlwind!"
Pidgeotto's Whirlwind had no effect to Pinsir's big body, much of a shock to Chris. Pinsir then used its Vice Grip to hang on to Pidgeotto.
"Pidgeotto, give it your Rapid Wing and free yourself!"
Pidgeotto kept beating its wings on Pinsir and when Pinsir's grip weakened, Pidgeotto flew out and used its Wing Attack.
"Pinsir, Tackle!"
Pidgeotto dodged Pinsir's slow Tackle and finished it off with a Quick Attack. "Hooray! Another victory for me! I'm unbeatable! HAHAHA!
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
However, this wasn't Chris's laugh. It was Team Rocket.
"Prepare for being mugged,"
"Or maybe being bugged."
"To use the Pokemon to our power,"
"And-,"
"Stop your damned motto and capture their Pokemon while their weak, and don't let them get away!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Meowth, even though you're a Persian, the reason we're still calling you Meowth, is because you're not intelligent as a Persian,"
Then Jessie looked at Meowth again and said, "As a matter of fact, I don't think you're even smart enough to be a Meowth." Jessie just sighed exasperatedly.
Meowth, turning red in the face retorted, "Well, for your information, I learned how to walk like a human and talk like a human! It that intelligent enough, Miss Know-It-All? Jessie just waved it away by saying, "Only a Meowth with zero IQ Points would try to walk and talk like a human."
"Your IQ Points are 2 points higher than a tree stump!"
"And you think you're Einstein?"
Jessie and Meowth started fighting while James turned his face from his watch to the fight. Hours later, Jessie, James and Meowth noticed everything was silent.
Meowth looked around and said, "It's too quiet."
Jessie screamed, "The twerps are gone!"
"We have to catch them Jessie! We have no time to waste!"
Chris, Anne and the Samurai had just calmly walked away while Team Rocket had been fighting.
"Be careful, don't make any sounds at night, unless you wanna die from Beedrill and Butterfree swarms."
Anne looking uncertain said, "Butterfree swarms? I thought Butterfree's were nice and cute."
"At night, they tend to not like being disturbed."
Then they heard panting voices making loud footsteps and it was no doubt, Team Rocket.
The Samurai looked urgent and whispered, "They're gonna wake up the swarms!"
Sure enough, they heard silent buzzing sounds from Beedrills and the cute sounds from Butterfrees. A few seconds later, Chris heard desperate cries from Team Rocket, obviously running around in circles. Then getting a good idea, Chris yelled, "Charmeleon, go! Use your Flamethrower on the Beedrills, Team Rocket, and the Butterfrees!"
Anne shouted, "Chris, are you trying to get yourself killed?"
Charmeleon started breathing fire everywhere and the Beedrill swarm and Butterfrees were roasted and Team Rocket once again said,
"Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!"
Then Chris threw every single Pokeball he had. Chris's plan had worked like a charm.
Soon there were numerous Pokemon containing the Beedrills and Butterfrees. Then they suddenly disappeared.
"Where'd my new Pokemon go? I had like 40 of them!"
Anne sighing said, "And you call yourself a Pokemon trainer? They all probably got transported to Professor Oak, where he's gonna keep them safe."
Chris embarrassed for acting so idiotically, said "Oh, yeah! I knew that! I was just pretending to not know it, so I could test how much you knew!"
The Samurai then said, "We must run. Your Chameleon's Flamethrower put fire on the trees. We must hurry out of this forest and into Pewter City, before the fire spreads.
The three of them started running fast and they saw the fire already spreading.
Anne, still glaring at Chris as she ran said, "Chris, you idiot! Look what you've done!" Chris, feeling guilty said, "Well, I did it to catch Pokemon!"
"Some dumb plan!"
Then they saw a trainer with a gray cloak with a Blastoise. "Blastoise, Hydro Pump."
The big Blastoise turned off the fire and when Chris took a better look at him, he saw Pokemon Master Gary.
Gary came up to him and said, "What kind of idiot started the fire?"
Chris just meekly said, "I did. I was trying to catch some-,"
Gary, with fury in his eyes said, "You first think of others before thinking for yourself. Remember that. You're lucky I came along."
Chris, suddenly sounding eager asked, "Can we have a battle?"
Gary stared at him and said, "You're still weak. When you get stronger.
Then Gary left without any notice.
Anne, staring at where Gary had gone, said "We're really lucky to meet him personally and we're lucky that he saved our necks." She glared at Chris again.
They walked some more and they saw something glow in the middle of the road. It was something with a note attached to it. Chris read it and it said,
Dear Chris,
I now know you hate me for leaving you years ago and I understand. I am now on a journey with Ash to lands people of this world have never seen. Once you're ready perhaps, you'd come along. When I heard news that you had left on your Pokemon journey, I can only wish you good luck. I have a little present for you. (Behind note)
Richie Sparks (&Ash Ketchum)
Chris read the note 5 times before putting it safe in his backpack. He looked at the glowing thing, which turned out to be a baby Pichu, newly born. There was a note on the Pichu and as the Pichu played cheerfully on Chris's hand; Chris read the note that said,
This is my Sparky's child. I've been keeping him with an egg, but now that it hatched, I decided that maybe you should raise it.
Chris knew Sparky was his dad's star Pokemon, a Pikachu.
Chris put Pichu on his shoulder and he felt good to get a note from his father. Then, seeing the end of the Viridian Forest, he felt so much happier.
Then, the Samurai said, "This is where I leave you, son of Richie Sparks. I know we will meet again and the next time, expect a tougher match."
Chris just said, "Exactly what I wanna hear!"
Anne said, "Come on, Chris! Let's get outta here!"
Chris, waving good-bye to another new friend started to head off into the road leading to Pewter City, not knowing how far Chris's skills were going to be tested!
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