The Nido King
Chapter 3
You are running back to the quaint little house. It is incredibly late. It is around the time you usually leave the house. As the house comes into view, you see lights flashing and hear sirens going off. When you get a better focus of the house you see many growlithe, police cars and motorcycles, and about five women who all look identical and are all dressed in blue. You walk right up to one of the ladies.
"Please leave this area." She starts to say. "Only family and friends are aloud here tonight." You give the women a powerful look. "Are you a family member or friend of Frank?" The women asked you. You nod. "Oh! I'm sorry. Police business, you know."
She puts her gloved hand to her head and gives you a salute. "I am one of the many Officers here tonight. All of which are named Jenny. My job is to protect people and pokemon alike. There has been a major accident here tonight. Frank was seriously injured and his money was stolen. We suspect that Team Rocket has something to do with this."
Tears start rolling down your face. You take your sleeve and wipe your eyes.
"Don't worry," She says to you. "Frank is fine." She puts a big smile on her face. "And all his money wasn't lost." She says to lighten the mood.
You run inside to check on Frank, leaving the kind officer behind. You fight your way past the cars, the pokemon, and the people to get inside.
You gasp as you enter the house. The once neat house was now in tatters. The blue table and chair has been cut in half, the bed's sheets are now all ripped up, and all the wall hangings are hanging crooked. Upon the little scraps of sheets left on the bed, lay Frank. By his side, and the only other person in the room, was another teenager who was also dressed in all blue. The teen now turns his head to you.
"Who are you?" He says. "And how did you get in here." You point to the officer you were talking to before, well, the one you think was the one you were talking to before. "Oh," The teen says. "then you must be a family member or a friend of Frank I never knew."
You kneel on the floor next to the bed and the teen. You look at Frank. He appears as if he's sleeping and has a huge gash in his head. You start to cry again.
"Hey," The teen said. "don't worry. Frank is strong." The teen puts out his hand. You shake it. "I'm…"
"Ok, time for everyone to leave!" One of the officers said with authority as she came into the house. "You may comeback tomorrow if you want." She continued. "It's to late tonight. NOW GO!"
Both you and the teen leave the house fairly quickly so as to not annoy any of the officers. The two of you walk behind the house and then continue along the path leading to Viridian City. The teen turns to you.
"Umm…you going this way too?" He asks you. You nod. "Cool, so…OOPS!" The thought of not finishing introducing himself came back to him. "I'm Pluscuam." You look at him with a weird look on your face. "Yes, I'm Pluscuam."
The two of you continue to walk along the path and remain quiet. You pass many pokemon. Some look like birds, and some look like rats. Neither type looks as cool as Frank's Tony and Maria though. Pluscuam looks over at you and notices that you are having a hard time coping with what happened to Frank. The two of you soon arrive at a big building with a red roof that says Pokemon Center on the building's door in Viridian City.
"You head inside." Pluscuam says to you. "I'll catch up…if that's ok?" You nod and walk inside the center.
You find the inside of the center to be somewhat cozy. The walls are pink and white. You walk over to a glass table and sit on a glass chair next to the table to wait for Pluscuam. In about ten minutes, Pluscuam returns with a brown paper bag in each hand. He walks over to you at the table and places one of the bags in front of you. You peer inside to find the food you have been wanting all day. You pull your food out and start munching on your delicious food. Pluscuam is happy to see your happy face.
"I thought you would enjoy this." Pluscuam said. "And I have another thing I think you'll enjoy." After you swallow a bite of your food, a big smile appears on your face. "Frank told me about how you've been coming by recently and like to listen to his stories. So to cheer you up even more, I want to tell you a story about this little fella." Pluscuam reaches for a green and orange ball from his belt. It grows larger in his hand and after a few seconds, the ball opens up, revealing a purple-bodied creature with red flowers in its hair and green and yellow leaves around its hip. It lands on the table and starts to sway back and forth. "This is Tart." He says. "Tart is my bellossom."
After about a minute of the cute little creature's dancing, Pluscuam sucks it back into its ball. Pluscuam clips the ball back into his belt.
"I brought Tart with me today because Frank gets a kick out of Tart. Sometimes, I think he likes Tart more than I do." He now pulls out his food. He has a cheeseburger and a side of fries. "Shall I start my story now?" He asks you. You nod your head.
"One day, Frank and I went over to the Safari Zone. The Safari Zone is a place where for a certain price they give you thirty balls to catch pokemon with. Your not aloud to battle the pokemon like when you try to normally catch it, but you can give it food or hit it with pebbles to catch it easier. Well, we paid our amount and received the thirty balls each. Right when we started, I swore I saw a strange shimmer in the thick grass. I told Frank and he said it as probably just a piece of metal or something, so I ignored it. We continued our expedition and saw many cool pokemon, but none cool enough to try to catch. Soon, I saw the shimmer again. I ran to the spot where I saw it and found a little oddish. The oddish looked the same as every other oddish. I remembered at that point though that there were chances of finding shiny pokemon. Without any thought, I tossed a safari ball at it. While waiting to see if the pokemon would stay in, I kept shouting…'Stay in there you tart.' After about what seemed to be forever, the pokemon stayed inside the ball. It was like we were meant to be. And that is how I caught my Tart."
The two of you finish up your food and then head back outside the center. Pluscuam turns to you.
"Well, needles to say, I think you can figure out where Tart got its name. It was Frank who suggested I name it Tart, after I made that comment earlier."
The two of you start heading back to Frank's house. Pluscuam finishes his story now.
"Just to finish this story, I'll tell you how my Tart became a bellossom. You see, the oddish form of Tart, looked about the same as any other oddish. The shininess didn't really alter its look. But I wanted the shininess to make my pokemon look different from any other of its specie. So I battled other pokemon with my Tart, so it can grow and change species. Because as I hope you know, pokemon evolve. The next form of Tart was just like the oddish form. It looked the same as any other pokemon of that species. Then a thought came to me…I had a sun stone and I like the next stage of my Tart, if it evolves when I give it a sun stone. So by taking a big risk, I give my Tart the strange rock to hold. In a matter of seconds, the old pokemon disappeared, and in it's place, stood a cute and distinctive looking bellossom. It worked out perfectly. And that raps my story up."
Pluscuam bows after his accomplishment and you clap to support him. The two of you continue on the path to find out how Frank is. The two of you fade off into the distance.