Better and Tougher, the Real Adventures
Chapter 32: Seaking the Surface, Part 1 of 'Ocean Adventures'
Torrential currents sweep their way across the ocean, as foamy, salty water disperses all about. Fortunately, the weather was hardly stormy, and that makes things very much in one's favor. Only an idiot would even think (or rather, wouldn't be able to think) of going into such treacherous, briny water. Well that explains why Elise would wind up in these waters, but why the heck is everyone else there?
There's much chaos within our group of friends. Charmeleon hasn't too much time, but the ocean is vast indeed, how will Carl ever manage to save his friend? "Charmeleon!" he yelled, trying to find his pokemon, seeing if he could get some sort of clues to the location. "If you're still conscious, send out a blast of fire!" he remembered seeing flare guns being used in things when stranded, such as on TV. "Wait a second! Chinchou, help me out!" he weakly said, tossing the fish's pokeball with what might he could muster. He breathed in and out deeply, coughing from the intake of too much saltwater. "Chinchou," he coughed, while grabbing the pokemon's back for support, "Create a bright spark in the air, we have to locate Charmeleon before anything bad happens!" he commanded.
In an area of ocean, not too far from our main man, "Carl!" came a woman's voice; it was Kim, really quite disappointed with the loss of clothing. "Oh, I don't think I can make it. Tentacool, I need you!" A toss of the pokeball, and the jellyfish pokemon that Kim possessed was now supporting his trainer with its floating, boneless body. "CARL!" she yelled a bit louder!
It had been quite a bit, and Carl had not found any signs of his missing pokemon. "Chinchou," He gasped for air, "I need to rest." he fainted of exhaustion from too much swimming, and salty air and water.
It was at about this time that fortune favored our main man, for beneath the waves was a young woman seeming to go about an everyday leisure swim beneath the waves. With her, a faithful horned goldfish swims with her, "Look at that!" said the young girl. "Looks like humans." She noticed, as though that was a big ordeal. That's quite true due to the fact that beneath that human upper torso, but under that was the fishy features of scaly, legless body, "Let's give these people a hand!" she smiled, swimming as quickly as she could to reach our main man before anything bad can happen.
***
All was black, or so it seemed, as a voice sounding almost accented, but not in a way that makes you wish they went to grammar school more often, instead it was rather musical, and filled with life. "Are you ok?" it asked, as our first person perspective become more than a black dot on the screen.
"Huh?" woke up a very confused Carl, who gazed around the room. He noticed there were many things that could only be found in the imagination. And to his right, Carl saw something that gave him a shock, "Charmeleon! This cant be. we're in heaven, aren't we?" he then noticed the scaled young girl who saved him. Strange, she looked ok, for the most part, even attractive, for an upscale point of view. She had long, coral colored hair, and nice green eyes. "Who. who are you? And where are we?"
The woman giggled, and rose a bit, swimming in place from a slight distance away from our main man, "My name is Tanya, and we are beneath the sea. I believe you land people call us sirens, or mermaids. I'm not too sure which it is."
"I'm under the water. HOW CAN I STILL BREATHE?" he began to panic, "How did you save me? There's no air underwater, so." he panicked extremely.
His scared behavior was easily quelled however, with a calm gentle voice, and a reassuring touch on the shoulder, gentle and smooth, enough to woo Carl's favor, "You humans really are amazing creatures." She laughed, "Such magnificent, and good looking people." She meant in a general sense of the word.
"Well, not everyone looks like me, and you aren't so bad yourself!" he admitted.
Tanya merely smiled to his complements, but got right to the point, "My apologies, you're in the ocean country of Brinetanica, here we ocean peoples live leisurely, and carefree." She smiled, "I saw you on the surface, floating there, hanging on for your life, with your pokemon, which looked like a Chinchou. I also saw a strange draconic pokemon, which judging by its fiery sense, was not enjoying the water." she realized something "You know, you never did introduce yourself!" she became a tad disappointed.
"Yea, I'm Carl. And that fire pokemon is a Charmeleon. How either of us are still alive is beyond me."
"Well," Tanya explained "Ocean peoples have to be careful where they dwell too, we breathe oxygenated water, but we require more oxygen than fish do, almost like you humans. It's a long story, and really doesn't matter right now." She stopped, trying to avoid any more possible loopholes.
"Well, whatever, I feel like such a wreck." He chuckled, but then remembered, "Oh no, the boat, my friends! They must be crying their eyes out. I hope Elise and Kim really miss me." he pulled out a pokeball, "Charmeleon, you better get back in here before you get sick. Return!" he zapped the fire reptile back to salvation.
"You humans put pokemon in tiny contraptions! What are they?" she wondered.
"It's a pokeball." Carl explained, "It's used to capture and hold pokemon within. From there, you can train them up. You don't have pokeballs down here. odd. Do you people domesticate pokemon at all?"
"Yea!" She responded, "Seaking!" she shouted, receiving a slight response from the giant goldfish, after it quickly popped into appearance from who knows where.
"You know," Tanya changed the subject, "I found a bunch of other humans too. One was a green haired girl who supported herself with a Tentacool. Do all women in your world wander around without required covering of their upper torso? I guess the rules have changed."
'I 'wish' they would' Carl dared not let slip from his mind, to roll off his tongue. "I don't think so." He had a feeling he knew who it was, "I never knew she cared so much about me." he trailed, 'and to think I thought of her as a sweet, tender, voluptuous piece of meat, for shame I only realize now that she truly is one, "I think I know these humans you speak of." Carl responded, 'But why is Kim gone topless, I better 'find out' before I miss out.' He mentally noted within the confines of his dirty mind. "So, where are they anyway?"
"In the other room?" she pointed upwards a bit, "Swim through the cavern archway on your right, cant miss it." She giggled a bit. 'Maybe they can be the ones who can help me, as I seek the surface life."
***
"You guys are ok!" Carl cheered, then gazed over towards Yetis, "Dude, what's wrong?"
"I missed it!" he moped, "Elise got to Kim first with her clothes."
Carl blinked a few times and stared across the room towards the girls, "Damn! I feel for ya, bro!" he tried to be reassuring, "So ladies, what's with the topless search, do I mean 'that' much to you?" he then made a stunning realization, "And Elise, you chickened out! I should smite thee for mocking thy savior!"
All it did was get him a few slaps on the face, even some from Elise this time, "You could say that clothes are flimsy, but the real reason I went overboard was to save your unapologetic hide. I think I now regret that!" Kim angrily despised his belittling of women.
"We can swim!" Elise cheered, "And still breathe goodly! We got to get back to the ship somehow though."
"Stay awhile!" Tanya offered as she swam in from a nearby alcove. "You may never get a chance to live beneath the waves. safely, ever again! "
"She's right!" Kim cheered, "Let's have fun beneath the waves."
"Yea!" Yetis smiled, "We have salvation, but I wonder why a mermaid like you would want to save humans like us."
Tanya hesitated, but soon sighed, and came to with a response, "Well, you are people, and you live above the water, and." she got to the point, "I want to become a person, just like you!"
At that, everyone stopped, but Carl spoke first, "First step is learning manners. See, humans have few manners, and." he paused, as a few bubbles came from his behind, "Whoops!" he apologized, "At sea, nobody can smell your stink!"
"Thank goodness!" replied Kim relieved by the lack of fart scent.
A/N: Sorry bout that last part, I was dared to include at least 1 fart joke in my story. Anyways, Carl and Co. now must save our mermaid friend from her old life. She wants to be a person, but how? Better review so you can find out!
Chapter 32: Seaking the Surface, Part 1 of 'Ocean Adventures'
Torrential currents sweep their way across the ocean, as foamy, salty water disperses all about. Fortunately, the weather was hardly stormy, and that makes things very much in one's favor. Only an idiot would even think (or rather, wouldn't be able to think) of going into such treacherous, briny water. Well that explains why Elise would wind up in these waters, but why the heck is everyone else there?
There's much chaos within our group of friends. Charmeleon hasn't too much time, but the ocean is vast indeed, how will Carl ever manage to save his friend? "Charmeleon!" he yelled, trying to find his pokemon, seeing if he could get some sort of clues to the location. "If you're still conscious, send out a blast of fire!" he remembered seeing flare guns being used in things when stranded, such as on TV. "Wait a second! Chinchou, help me out!" he weakly said, tossing the fish's pokeball with what might he could muster. He breathed in and out deeply, coughing from the intake of too much saltwater. "Chinchou," he coughed, while grabbing the pokemon's back for support, "Create a bright spark in the air, we have to locate Charmeleon before anything bad happens!" he commanded.
In an area of ocean, not too far from our main man, "Carl!" came a woman's voice; it was Kim, really quite disappointed with the loss of clothing. "Oh, I don't think I can make it. Tentacool, I need you!" A toss of the pokeball, and the jellyfish pokemon that Kim possessed was now supporting his trainer with its floating, boneless body. "CARL!" she yelled a bit louder!
It had been quite a bit, and Carl had not found any signs of his missing pokemon. "Chinchou," He gasped for air, "I need to rest." he fainted of exhaustion from too much swimming, and salty air and water.
It was at about this time that fortune favored our main man, for beneath the waves was a young woman seeming to go about an everyday leisure swim beneath the waves. With her, a faithful horned goldfish swims with her, "Look at that!" said the young girl. "Looks like humans." She noticed, as though that was a big ordeal. That's quite true due to the fact that beneath that human upper torso, but under that was the fishy features of scaly, legless body, "Let's give these people a hand!" she smiled, swimming as quickly as she could to reach our main man before anything bad can happen.
***
All was black, or so it seemed, as a voice sounding almost accented, but not in a way that makes you wish they went to grammar school more often, instead it was rather musical, and filled with life. "Are you ok?" it asked, as our first person perspective become more than a black dot on the screen.
"Huh?" woke up a very confused Carl, who gazed around the room. He noticed there were many things that could only be found in the imagination. And to his right, Carl saw something that gave him a shock, "Charmeleon! This cant be. we're in heaven, aren't we?" he then noticed the scaled young girl who saved him. Strange, she looked ok, for the most part, even attractive, for an upscale point of view. She had long, coral colored hair, and nice green eyes. "Who. who are you? And where are we?"
The woman giggled, and rose a bit, swimming in place from a slight distance away from our main man, "My name is Tanya, and we are beneath the sea. I believe you land people call us sirens, or mermaids. I'm not too sure which it is."
"I'm under the water. HOW CAN I STILL BREATHE?" he began to panic, "How did you save me? There's no air underwater, so." he panicked extremely.
His scared behavior was easily quelled however, with a calm gentle voice, and a reassuring touch on the shoulder, gentle and smooth, enough to woo Carl's favor, "You humans really are amazing creatures." She laughed, "Such magnificent, and good looking people." She meant in a general sense of the word.
"Well, not everyone looks like me, and you aren't so bad yourself!" he admitted.
Tanya merely smiled to his complements, but got right to the point, "My apologies, you're in the ocean country of Brinetanica, here we ocean peoples live leisurely, and carefree." She smiled, "I saw you on the surface, floating there, hanging on for your life, with your pokemon, which looked like a Chinchou. I also saw a strange draconic pokemon, which judging by its fiery sense, was not enjoying the water." she realized something "You know, you never did introduce yourself!" she became a tad disappointed.
"Yea, I'm Carl. And that fire pokemon is a Charmeleon. How either of us are still alive is beyond me."
"Well," Tanya explained "Ocean peoples have to be careful where they dwell too, we breathe oxygenated water, but we require more oxygen than fish do, almost like you humans. It's a long story, and really doesn't matter right now." She stopped, trying to avoid any more possible loopholes.
"Well, whatever, I feel like such a wreck." He chuckled, but then remembered, "Oh no, the boat, my friends! They must be crying their eyes out. I hope Elise and Kim really miss me." he pulled out a pokeball, "Charmeleon, you better get back in here before you get sick. Return!" he zapped the fire reptile back to salvation.
"You humans put pokemon in tiny contraptions! What are they?" she wondered.
"It's a pokeball." Carl explained, "It's used to capture and hold pokemon within. From there, you can train them up. You don't have pokeballs down here. odd. Do you people domesticate pokemon at all?"
"Yea!" She responded, "Seaking!" she shouted, receiving a slight response from the giant goldfish, after it quickly popped into appearance from who knows where.
"You know," Tanya changed the subject, "I found a bunch of other humans too. One was a green haired girl who supported herself with a Tentacool. Do all women in your world wander around without required covering of their upper torso? I guess the rules have changed."
'I 'wish' they would' Carl dared not let slip from his mind, to roll off his tongue. "I don't think so." He had a feeling he knew who it was, "I never knew she cared so much about me." he trailed, 'and to think I thought of her as a sweet, tender, voluptuous piece of meat, for shame I only realize now that she truly is one, "I think I know these humans you speak of." Carl responded, 'But why is Kim gone topless, I better 'find out' before I miss out.' He mentally noted within the confines of his dirty mind. "So, where are they anyway?"
"In the other room?" she pointed upwards a bit, "Swim through the cavern archway on your right, cant miss it." She giggled a bit. 'Maybe they can be the ones who can help me, as I seek the surface life."
***
"You guys are ok!" Carl cheered, then gazed over towards Yetis, "Dude, what's wrong?"
"I missed it!" he moped, "Elise got to Kim first with her clothes."
Carl blinked a few times and stared across the room towards the girls, "Damn! I feel for ya, bro!" he tried to be reassuring, "So ladies, what's with the topless search, do I mean 'that' much to you?" he then made a stunning realization, "And Elise, you chickened out! I should smite thee for mocking thy savior!"
All it did was get him a few slaps on the face, even some from Elise this time, "You could say that clothes are flimsy, but the real reason I went overboard was to save your unapologetic hide. I think I now regret that!" Kim angrily despised his belittling of women.
"We can swim!" Elise cheered, "And still breathe goodly! We got to get back to the ship somehow though."
"Stay awhile!" Tanya offered as she swam in from a nearby alcove. "You may never get a chance to live beneath the waves. safely, ever again! "
"She's right!" Kim cheered, "Let's have fun beneath the waves."
"Yea!" Yetis smiled, "We have salvation, but I wonder why a mermaid like you would want to save humans like us."
Tanya hesitated, but soon sighed, and came to with a response, "Well, you are people, and you live above the water, and." she got to the point, "I want to become a person, just like you!"
At that, everyone stopped, but Carl spoke first, "First step is learning manners. See, humans have few manners, and." he paused, as a few bubbles came from his behind, "Whoops!" he apologized, "At sea, nobody can smell your stink!"
"Thank goodness!" replied Kim relieved by the lack of fart scent.
A/N: Sorry bout that last part, I was dared to include at least 1 fart joke in my story. Anyways, Carl and Co. now must save our mermaid friend from her old life. She wants to be a person, but how? Better review so you can find out!