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Chapter 10: Travelin' Cerulean
It was a beautiful day as Ash and friends were walking along a road toward new adventures and places. Not that far away, but keeping a steady pace near Brock and Ash, was Angelina and Misty. Ash had slowed down enough for Brock and Pikachu to catch up.
"It's a great day to just enjoy the sunshine!" Ash yawns and stretches, forgetting Gary's insult.
"And while you're enjoying the sunshine, Gary is catching even more Pokemon." Brock reminded, which made Ash twitch. "But I guess a Pokemon trainer can capture Pokemon and enjoy the sun."
"Pika." Pikachu notices that something was missing, turning to see Misty rushing to catch up.
"Hey! Wait a minute!"
Everyone turns to see Misty skid to a stop right in front of them.
"Where do you think you're going?" Misty demanded.
"Oh, I know where we're going," Ash replied. "To Cerulean City."
Misty looks panicked. "Cerulean City? What are you going there for?"
"Well it's none of your business, but I'm going for more badges." Ash insisted.
"Uh, Ash…." Misty said, somewhat nervous. "You don't want Pokemon from there, trust me."
"Why not?" Ash asked.
"Because they're all…." Misty tried to think of something quickly.
"All what?" Ash raised his eyebrow.
"Very scary Ghost Pokemon that look like this!" Misty explained. She pulls a face, stretching her mouth and eyes wide and sticking out her tongue. "Rike mronsters," she muffles.
Everyone stares at Misty blankly.
"That's great, I always wanted a gastly." Angelina said. "Or maybe a Misdrevus." At this Misty deflated and Ash started to laugh.
"Nice face Misty!" Ash said. "Come on Brock. Let's go, Pikachu."
Ash and Brock (and Pikachu) turned away and set off up the road again. Angelina frowns in disappointment, following in toe with the boys.
"Hey! Hey! Wait a second!" Misty ran, rushing in front of Ash and others, setting her legs wide and throws her arms to the side. "What about Vermilion City? It's right on the water and there are lots of neat Pokemon and you can watch all the giant yachts pull into the harbor!" she gets a bit carried away by her own speech, cupping her arms beneath her chin and sighing happily, eyes closed while Brock stares impassively on and Ash just looks stupidly confused (Angelina and Pikachu listen intently). "And there's a litle park way up on the hill where you can sit and watch the sunset that's so romantic..."
"Uh... huh?" Ash asked, still confused.
"And it's much nicer than that old Cerulean City," Misty beams happily, clenching her fists, "So let's get going!"
"Okay!" Ash smiles, "Let's go!"
"Really?" Misty gasped hopefully.
"To Cerulean City," Ash grins, causing Misty to collapse on her face. He resumes walking with Brock and Pikachu. "I've got to get more trainer badges, Brock, and since there's a Gym in Cerulean City.…"
"Yeah, makes sense to me," Brock agrees.
Misty stares forlornly after the guys, sighing, "I never wanted to wind up back here."
"What for, Misty?"
Misty turned to see Angelina nearby, "It really hasn't been that long since I left on my own, and I kinda told my sisters I wouldn't return unless I was a great water Pokemon trainer."
"Well I hope your sisters will be understanding," Angelina said. "Come on, I don't think you'd wanna leave Ash behind."
The girls made a run to catch up with the boys and Pikachu. Toward the evening, Ash and friends stopped to rest and set up camp for the night.
It wasn't until later on that night when everyone was asleep, Angelina had been tossing and turning in her sleep, with a few problems under-way. And when she finally did fall asleep, Brock ended up waking her up.
"Angelina! You don't look so good," Brock told her.
"Well, maybe that's because I haven't eaten since lunch. And why is it a concern now?"
"I just noticed since we're sleeping in the same area," Brock replied. "You looked so pale... and I was worried."
"It's all right, I'm okay." Angelina said, sitting up in her sleeping bag.
"Angelina, I'm serious." Brock's eyes locked into hers. "I don't want anything bad happening to anyone, especially you."
"Why me?" Angelina asked, she had a strange feeling that something big was going to happen.
"One night, I had a strange dream," Brock began. "There was this girl, she was so pretty…. just like you. I felt like we were meant for each other, like we should be together when we meet, like we should be able to trust each other. I haven't been able to think about anything else ever since. I want to know if you're the girl from my dream. I need to know so I can protect you."
"Why?" Angelina asked again.
"Because," Brock continued. "There was another part of my dream where it said that something dangerous was going to happen to us both, so I need to know: was it you?"
"Yeah," Angelina said. "It was me. I had the same dream. Wait, we need to be together, right?"
Brock nodded.
"Then we have to leave now, without them." Angelina said, pointing to Ash and Misty.
"No," Brock said firmly. "I'm not leaving Ash and Misty."
"Fine then, but I'm not going with you."
"What?" Brock cried.
"I don't need your protection," Angelina continued. "I'm capable of protecting myself. I'm not weak."
"But you don't understand-"
Angelina narrowed her eyes, this was really starting to bug her. "You don't know me that well, Brock. I don't need protection from somebody older than me. I am much stronger than you think." And with that, she turned over in her sleeping bag and closed her eyes; pretending to be sleeping as Brock gave up and headed over to his sleeping bag.
The next day, Angelina followed Ash and friends to Cerulean City. Misty had snuck away un-noticed, leaving Angelina with Pikachu and the boys.
"So this is Cerulean City. Eh, Brock?" Ash asked, as they made their way down the clean streets.
"Pretty nice place, isn't it?" Brock agreed.
"Yeah, pretty cool." Ash turns around to the empty road to notice that Misty was not with them, but only Angelina was. "Hey look, that's weird. Misty's not following us anymore."
"Chuuuu," sighs Pikachu sadly.
"She really didn't want to come to Cerulean City, did she," notes Brock, realizing that Misty's repeated attempts to keep them from going to Cerulean City was just a front for the fact that she didn't want them to go there.
"I wonder why she hates this place so much?" Ash ponders, then grins and shrugs, "Ahhh, we'll never figure out girls."
"Hey Ash," Angelina's voice made him wince and wonder why he had forgotten there was another girl around. "I'm going off to find Mist-" Suddenly, she was cut off by sirens.
"The police!" Ash exclaimed. "I wonder what happened?"
"Yeah!" Brock nodded.
The two boys ran off toward the direction of the sirens. Angelina stood watch, but she smiled and decided now was the time to find the Cerulean City Gym.
Angelina had located what looked to be a building with the Pokemon Seel on top and walked inside. She almost left to see if she had walked into the right place; there was a huge swimming pool with four small platforms around it, a very high diving board, and seats set up for crowds to watch. She looked around for any sign of a gym leader, or, for that matter, a sign of a trainer.
"Hello, who are you looking for?" said a girl's voice from behind Angelina.
Angelina jumped, though kept her balance as she had almost fallen into the pool. She turned to see three older girls in bikinis approach. One girl had blonde hair and wore a yellow bikini, the second girl had violet hair and wore a blue bikini, and the third girl had pink hair and wore a pink bikini.
"Oh, I was…. looking for any trainers or the gym leader." Angelina replied.
"Well, you are in the Cerulean City Gym," the pink-haired girl responded, "I'm Lily."
"I'm Daisy." said the blonde girl.
"And I'm Violet!" added the blue haired girl.
"And we're the Sensational Sisters of Cerulean City!" they said in unison.
"Well I'm Angelina Murakami from Pallet Town, and I'd like the Cascade Badge!"
"You've got it, but you have to battle us first," Violet said. "Three against three!"
"I'll go first! Go Shellder!" Lily threw out a Pokeball and a purplish-blue shell-shaped Pokemon appeared with its red tongue sticking out.
"Shellder, the Bivalve Pokemon. It's shell is harder than diamond and can withstand any attack! However, its tender body is vunerable when its exposed."
"This'll be easy!" Angelina said, closing her Pokedex and tossed out a Pokeball. "Go Sparkette!" The white light revealed an orange mouse that hopped onto the floating platform.
"Shellder, Bubble Attack!"
"Sparkette, dodge and use Thunderbolt!"
Raichu dodged the stream bubbles that Shellder released and lightning struck the Water Pokemon, instantly knocking it out.
"No way!" Lily cried, recalling her fainted Shellder. "I can't believe my Pokemon went down so quickly…. oh well."
"My turn!" Violet said, thowing out a Pokeball. "Go Goldeen!"
"Goldeeen!" a white fish Pokemon with orange swirls on its body emerged and dove under water.
"Too easy. Sparkette, electrify the water with Thunderbolt!" Angelina ordered to Raichu as lightning surged through the pool, striking everything in it, including Goldeen as it resurfaced with swirls in its eyes.
"Oh no! Goldeen, come back!" Violet said.
Daisy stepped forward with a Pokeball in hand. "I'm the last one! Go Seaking!" she tossed the device into the air and a giant orange-colored fish emerged with white fins and a horn on its head.
"Seaking, the Goldfish Pokemon. The evolved form of Goldeen. It's sharp, drill-like horn is capable of crushing even stone."
"Better be careful," Angelina murmured, placing away her Pokedex.
"Seaking, like use Hydro Pump!" Daisy commanded.
Seaking blasted a powerful jet of water at Angelina's Raichu, knocking her into the water.
"Like way to go, Seaking! Now use Horn Attack!" Seaking charges toward Raichu with its horn glowing.
Raichu quickly grabbed onto a platform and hopped onto it just as Seaking swims by.
"Now use Thunder!" Angelina ordered.
Raichu surrounds its body with electricity and fires it at Seaking. The Water Pokemon was unable to dodge as the electricity surged through its body and floated life-lessly in the water.
"Seaking is unable to battle! The winner is Raichu and Angelina from Pallet Town!" Violet announced, she and Lily were surprised that their strongest Pokemon was defeated.
"Here's the Cascade Badge! You, like totally deserve it!" Daisy said, holding out the Cascade Badge- it was blue and shaped like a teardrop.
"Can't believe we lost to another trainer from that nowhere place called Pallet Town!" Lily said disappointedly.
Angelina waved goodbye to the Sensational Sisters. She had a weird feeling that this wouldn't be the only time seeing them, but she was now walking down the street and rounded the corner just to see Ash and Brock sitting on a park bench.
"Good thing I had Dexter and you had your badge." Ash said, relieved.
"Yeah," Brock agreed. "Shouldn't you head for Cerulean City Gym?"
"Yeah," Ash mumbled, then turns his friend, "Hey Brock, you got any inside info on the Gym Trainer there?"
"Ehh?" Brock asked, looking surprised.
"Ahaha," Ash laughs, "I just want to find out as much as I can about him before we have our match." He lifts a finger to make his point, "Know yourself, know your adversary, and you hold the key to victory."
"You sure know some pretty deep stuff," an impressed Brock notes.
"I learned that one from Dexter." Ash admitted.
Brock sits back and admits to Ash, "Well, I never actually met the Trainer here, but I know his Pokemon's Special Move."
"Yeah!" Ash gasped excitedly, "What is it?"
"I'm sorry, Ash," Brock grins, "But I can't give you that information."
"Why not?" Ash sobs.
"I'm a Gym Leader too, after all, I can't tell you out of respect, you understand." Brock said.
"That's cool," Ash sighs wistfully.
They get up and walk down the road till they come to an intersection. Meanwhile, Angelina stepped back around the corner and ducks down from sight.
"Well, I have some stuff I have to go check out," Brock tells Ash.
"What kind of stuff?" Ash asked.
"Just... stuff," Brock returns enigmatically, then heads off with a wave goodbye.
"Bye." Ash waves, then turns to Pikachu. "Well, let's get going, Pikachu."
"Ka!" Pikachu squeaked.
Angelina watches from around the corner of a building; Ash and Pikachu disappear from sight, but Brock was nowhere to be seen.
"Since when did you become a spy?" a voice from behind Angelina asked.
Angelina turned her head to see a hand on her right shoulder. She screamed, turned sharply and jumped away. She gasped, "Brock, I thought you had to do things?"
"I do, but now that you mention it," Brock grinned. "Since we're both new to Cerulean, why don't we explore the town together?"
"Like a date?" Angelina asked, blushing. "Oh, I dunno. I was planning to watch Ash so he doesn't get into trouble."
"You got a point, there." Brock agreed. "And Team Rocket is dangerous, I don't think Ash could handle them alone. So you go on ahead and we can reschedule later."
"Thanks!" Angelina smiled, then she made a run back to the Cerulean City Gym.
Angelina walked inside and into the stadium; luckily she found Ash and Pikachu standing at the top isle of bleachers.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the stars of our show – the Sensational Cerulean City Synchronized Swimming Sisters!" the voice of an announcer booms over the Shellder-shaped loudspeakers.
Atop the diving board, waving to the crowds were three young girls that Angelina recognized from her gym battle. Daisy wore a skimpy red dress, Violet wore a skimpy green dress, and Lily wore an orange dress. The three girls dive into the water as one and proceed to put on a display of synchronized swimming. The people in the crowd start to cheer, Angelina recognizes most of the audience as men.
"I thought this was the Pokémon gym, Pikachu!" Ash whines.
"Ka!" Pikachu wasn't listening as it was watching the sisters, sparkly-eyed. "Cha!"
Once the show was done, Angelina decided to walk through the aquarium before leaving and bumped into the Sensational Sisters.
"You were awesome!" Angelina said.
"Thanks!" Daisy replied. "Hey, why don't you stick around? Maybe we can get some chow or something."
"Sure," Angelina smiled.
"Come on, follow me."
Angelina followed the Sensational Sisters as they walked through the corridor of the aquarium.
"The crowd was totally awesome!" Lily said.
"I know, that was so great!" Daisy agreed.
"Daisy, the dive you did was super!" Violet praised.
"The practice really paid off." Daisy nodded.
"Totally!" Lily piped.
They laughed, then seeing Ash run up to them.
"Uh, excuse me," Ash interrupts.
"I'm sorry, but if you want an interview, you'll have to, like, call our manager." Lily said.
"No, it's not that," Ash tries again.
"We don't do... autographs," Lily sighs.
"I don't want one," Ash says with a shrug, "I really just wanted to know if this is a Pokemon Gym?"
"Duh," Angelina told him.
"Angelina! What're you doing here?" Ash looked surprised.
"You know him?" Daisy asked.
"Yeah, he's the little Slowpoke of Pallet Town. What else?" Angelina replied. Daisy laughed.
"Well I'm looking for the Gym Trainer." Ash announced.
"You're looking at them," Violet grins.
"Huh?" Ash gasped.
"The three of us are the gym-trainer here." Daisy replied.
"We're the Sensational Sisters." Lily introduced.
"We're world-famous." Violet added.
"Huh?!" Ash cries, "But what's with all that swimming?"
"It's like our hobby," Lily giggles, "And our fans love to watch us perform."
"We pool our talents to make a big splash." Violet says jokingly.
The sisters laugh uproariously. Ash, Angelina, and Pikachu groan.
Ash and Angelina follow the Sensational Sisters back to the stadium and stand beside the swimming pool. The seats are empty.
"Come on, I challenge you!" Ash demanded.
"Uhhh, well... ehhh," the three girls mutter, looking away embarrassed.
"What?" Ash asked, confused.
"We…. don't feel much like battling anymore," Daisy mutters.
"What do you mean!" Ash growls.
"We just got beaten three times," Violet sighs as a sweat-drop forms on Pikachu's head, "By these kids from this nowhere place called Pallet Town."
"Not again," Ash sighs miserably.
"It was just one defeat after another," Violet sighs, spinning her hands about them pulling her eyes into slants, "My eyes were spinning from all the losses."
"We had to like, practically rush all of our Pokemon to the Pokemon Center," Daisy sighs.
"This is the only one left," Lily says, and pulls a Pokeball out and lets loose the Pokemon inside.
"Goldeen, Goldeen Goldeen," the fish Pokemon flops around, "Goldeen, Goldeen."
"You mean ALL you have is a Goldeen?" Ash asked in disbelief.
Lily calls back the Goldeen.
"If it would evolve into Seaking we could use it," Violet complained, "But all it can do now is it's Horn Attack."
"So like, there's no point in battling," Daisy agreed.
"Now instead of having matches, we have time to make ourselves look more beautiful than ever!" Lily giggles vacuously.
"Ahhhhh!" Ash gasped in shock.
"I know what you want," Daisy grins, and claps her hands, "Seel!"
A white seal-like Pokemon swims across the pool and hops out the other side to stand next to Daisy. It sticks out its tongue, which has a badge on it in the shape of a teardrop.
Daisy picks up the badge and holds it out to Ash. "A Cascade Badge, this is what you want right? You can have it."
"Thanks," Ash mumbles, "I'd rather earn my badges."
"Take it," Daisy grins, "A badge is a badge."
Ash wavers for a few more moments. Then, with a sigh, he walks over to Daisy and slowly holds out his hand.
Daisy moves to give him the badge. "Here."
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" exclaimed a female voice, everyone sees Misty standing in the aisle between the now empty rows of seats.
"Misty!" Ash gasped.
"CHAAAAA!" Pikachu squeals happily.
§To Be Continued§
*This chapter is half of the episode "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City!"
*Angelina earns a Cascade Badge by defeating the Sensational Sisters of the Cerulean Gym
*Brock and Angelina admit to both having strange dreams, explaining how they have to be together, but they argue over it because they don't want to abandon Ash and Misty.
*The Cerulean Gym initially offers Ash a Cascade Badge without a fight. This is the first time the Cerulean Gym was shown surrendering a badge without a fight.
*Ash and Angelina arrive in Cerulean City and meets Daisy, Lily, and Violet (the Cerulean City gym leaders) for the first time.
Part 2 is on the way, thanks for reading! Reviews welcomed!