Where The Red Fern Grows: A Pokemon Story

Cerulean Shadow's Note: To Soft Flame Matthias, about the other chapter, no, Misty will not blow it. I don't want any bad things interrupting the play. If you had that feeling that Richie, Tracey, and Drew will come back in a future chapter, you better change that feeling. No, they will not come back. But there is only one nemesis that will come back and cause trouble between Ash, Meowth, and Pikachu. Can you guess who it is? Also, I'll let you have a guess why this story is called "Where The Red Fern Grows". Anyway, thank you for commenting me that Kellie will always have a special place in my heart. God Bless You.


The next scene was going to be pretty easy... and fun for Meowth and Pikachu. Because they were going to be trained to tree Zigzagoon... and wear Ash out! But, Ash was going to be fully ready for this. Especially with the training.

BEGINNING OF SCENE FIVE

At night, Ash started a fire to keep him and his Pokemon warm for the night. He decided not to wear the shoes, since he wanted to feel the breeze on his feet.

"Ash couldn't figure out why anyone'd put these things on their feet on purpose. But he had his Pokemon, and they were already about to bust his heart in two. He tried not to think about that black cloud hanging over him when he got home..."

While Ash was asleep, he heard deep growling. He shot his eyes up, and stared at the trees ahead of him. Pikachu and Meowth started to wake up by the sound of the growling, too. The growling continued, only this time... more closer. Ash put more wood in the fire, but didn't see the large figure ahead of him. Thinking it was a predator, Ash picked up one of the wooden branches, that held a large flame at the end. He started to wave it in front of the creature's face, wanting to scare it off.

"Yaa, yaa!" he screeched.

Meowth and Pikachu stayed behind him. A little scared, but determined to know what the creature was. But before they could see it, he scampered off. Meowth and Pikachu had no idea, what that creature was, or what it wanted. But Ash knew right from the start...

... It was a Persian. And he wanted Meowth and Pikachu.

At morning, Ash knew that he was right on track back at home. He started to recognize the road that led him to his house. Pikachu and Meowth were determined to get to his home, and meet his family. In fact, one family member came up the road. It was Ash's mother, Jessie.

"Ash." she said.
"Ma, I-" Ash began.
"Don't you say a word, Ash Coleman. You broke a promise to me."
"I had to get my pups, Ma. They might have died. You never would have let me go."

"... Turns out it was Ash Coleman's lucky day."

"This one's Little Pikachu and that's Old Meowth."

"Just as he'd hoped, the sight of Ash all beat up and sore... Well, it was too much for her."

"Poppa went over the hill looking for you. Come on, now." Jessie said as she and Ash were heading back to the house.

As they went inside, James, Misty, and May were quite surprised with the new Pokemon.

"Well, Jessie. Will you looky here?" James asked as he took out the healthy Pikachu.
"Are those your Pokemon, Ash?" May asked Ash as Misty gave Pikachu a kiss on the head.
"Mm-hm." Ash replied.
"Did you bring me a treat?" Misty asked sweetly.

Ash reached right into his pocket and pulled out the bag of candy. As he handed it to Misty, she winked at him. He winked back, blushing.

"There you go." Ash said.
"What about me?" May asked.
"Thanks, Ash." Misty said as she walked into her room.
"Here you are." he said as he handed the other bag of candy to May.

With the bag of sweet candy in her hand, May walked into her room to taste the delicious gummies.

"They're sure fine Pokemon, son." James said.
"I figure they'll do." Ash said. "Here. This is for you, Pa." Ash handed James a large package which contained the overalls.

"Thank you, son." James said.
"This is for you, Momma." Ash said as he handed Jessie another package.
"Let's open these up... Oh, well, now. Will you looky here?" James asked as he looked at the overalls. "And just in time. These old ones are barely keeping me in, and the breeze out. Jessie... Your momma's been wanting a new dress. Looks like there's enough material there for half a dozen."

"You like it, Momma? The colors are all right?" Ash asked.
"It's perfect." Jessie said as she studied the dress. "Thank you, Ash."
"Yeah, thank you, son. It's mighty thoughtful of you." James said.
"Tell your pa their names." Jessie said.
"Well... this one's Old Meowth, and this one's Little Pikachu." Ash said.
"I'd say that fits 'em both just fine. What do you say, Jessie?" James asked.

"... I think it's about time this boy has a decent meal." Jessie said.

During the day, Ash had to train Old Meowth and Little Pikachu how to train for capturing Zigzagoon. First, Ash put a board on a large rock, creating a teeter totter. There, Old Meowth and Little Pikachu had to walk across there, just in case of a bridge. Old Meowth examined it, while Little Pikachu was on the other side, scratching his ear with his foot. Ash tied a Zigzagoon's tail on the end of a piece of string, and used it for practice. He wanted Old Meowth to follow it across the teeter totter, which Meowth did. But, he accidentally fell down, flat on his face. The second time, he did it again. On the third time, he makes it to the other side, but accidentally fell down as soon as he was about to hit the ground with his paw.

Playing with each other later, Old Meowth and Little Pikachu were chasing each other around Ash's legs. Ash actually thought he was about to trip! Old Meowth walked around a little, but Ash caught him from going any further to danger. Ash ran with the string in his hand across the field, with Old Meowth and Little Pikachu running after him, only focusing on the tail. After they stopped, Ash held the string up high for them to catch it. Old Meowth and Little Pikachu both jumped for it. But as soon as one of them caught it, they started fighting over it.

Ash ran the tail up the stairs of the barn, with his Pokemon following. Then, the two Pokemon, once again, started fighting over it. Until Ash pulled it away. After long hours of training, they decided to take a break at the waterfall. There, Little Pikachu started to jump on Ash's legs, and licked his face. A few girls started to awe at the cute sight. Then, Old Meowth walked up and licked Ash's face. Underneath a few wood from the barn, they started to chase after the tail. But Old Meowth stopped and looked around.

"Go find, Meowth." Ash said.

Again, Ash tries to make Old Meowth make it across the teeter totter. Finally, after a couple of tries, he made it! As soon as Ash was running across the field with tail, Old Meowth stopped at another sight of nature.

"Over here, Meowth." Ash said.

Ash tied the string to the ed of his bike, and started to ride it across the woods, with his Pokemon following the tail. Without the tail, Old Meowth and Little Pikachu started to run across the field with Ash. Soon after, with Ash up a tree, who tied the string to a long stick, waited for his Pokemon to find it up the tree. Meowth spots it, and tries to jump up the tree.

"Come on, Old Meowth. Get it. Get it." he said.

After that, Ash took them over to the lake, to teach them how to swim. He built a large raft to search at the middle of the lake. As soon as their bodies touched the water, they already swam right onto the raft. But Old Meowth was swimming really fast. In real life, Meowth didn't enjoy it.

"All right. Come here, Meowth."
'Thank you, God.' Meowth thought.

After all of that hard work and training, they were ready for the final test to come. Old Meowth and Little Pikachu were tied to a tree, waiting for their moment to come.

"Time for the final. test. You two wait here." Ash said.

Ash dragged the tail across the woods, the river, the gravel of the road, into the barn and out, up to the window of his house. He hung the string at the hook of the window. But what he didn't know, that Jessie was washing the windows from inside, and might notice it. Back over to the Pokemon, he set them free to search for the tail.

"All right, let's go. Come on. Come on!"

At the house, Jessie opened the window, and saw the string. She unhooked it and pulled it inside the house, letting part of the tail drag on the floor. As soon as she got out the door, she threw it on the front yard. While that happened, Old Meowth and Little Pikachu were sniffing out the trail of the tail through the river. They crossed the bridge, with Ash following. As Little Pikachu led the way, they crossed inside the barn. Back at the house. Jessie was knitting a small sweater with pink yarn outside on the porch. The rest of the ball of yarn fell off the table and rolled under the other side of the chair, leaving a line of yarn across the door. Sniffing the tail, Old Meowth and Little Pikachu darted into the window of the house. Ash stopped, and noticed that the tail was gone, and the window open. He was in trouble.

Jessie heard a loud running inside the house, stopped knitting, and saw Little Pikachu run out the door-- with the long piece of yarn clinging on his legs. As Pikachu pulled, the yarn pulled away from the sweater. There was nothing left of the sweater except for the pink material around Pikachu. Ash catched up to the front porch, and caught a glimpse of an angry Jessie.

The Pokemon did pass the test... only a little too far.

Outside, James was sharpening a hatchet for Ash. It was finally the night for Ash to go on his first hunt for Zigzagoon wit Old Meowth and Little Pikachu. The water on the wheel started to run out.

"Gimme a little more water, son." James said as Ash poured in a jug of water in the funnel. "Just a little. That's it."

"You know, Grandpa says in New England, everyone's going crazy over coonskin coats." Ash said.
"Is that right?" James asked.
"So we should be getting a good price."
"Well, I'll tell you what. You can use the side of the smokehouse wall if you think your Pokemon can cover it."

"It ain't hardly big enough."
"It's not, huh? ... What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Well... you were always saying how you could use another Ponyta."

"... Well, you be careful with this axe, son." James said as he handed Ash the hatchet. "I put a fine edge on that hatchet. It's for cutting down trees with coons in, that's it."

"Yes, sir." Ash said.

At night, Ash was fully prepared to go hunting with his two faithful Pokemon. Ash had the hatchet in his pocket, with James leading him to the front porch where the Pokemon were.

"Look at them. They're sure ready to go hunting." James said to Ash.
"Here's a little something for when you get hungry." Jessie said as she handed Ash a napkin of food.
"Don't worry, Momma. I'll be fine." Ash said.
"Yeah, well, put this on." Jessie said as she put a jacket on Ash. I just don't understand why you have to do your hunting at night."

"Well, that's when Zigzagoon are up and about. Come on Ash. Better get going." James said as he handed Ash his Pokemon and a torch. "And good luck, son. I expect to see a big coonskin on the smokehouse wall in the morning, okay?"

"All right. See y'all in the morning." Ash said.
"Bye, Ash." Misty said from the porch.
"Bye, Ash." May said.

Ash waved at both May and Misty, but winked at Misty. As Ash walked off, James whooped. It was a sign of good coon hunting. Ash turned and smiled, and continued to search for wild Zigzagoon.

In the kitchen, Jessie was washing dishes, while James was looking at a newspaper on the dining room table.

"I hope he'll be all right." Jessie said as she looked out the window. "... James? What are we going to do about Uncle Fred's offer?"

"Oh, it'll take a miracle to get that $1,000 he's asking us to put down. I mean, Uncle Fred wants to go back East by springtime." James said.

"Well... I suppose I can do some patchwork and mending and such."

Hearing that, James slowly walked up to Jessie, and stared at her blue eyes. Jessie put both of her hands on his chest. A few boys in the audience were wooing, hoping to catch a glimpse of a nasty sight. But instead, James picked up her hands.

"You're working your fingers to the bone as it is. Pretty as they are. I sure wish I could have given you an easier life."

"You're doing fine." Jessie said as she stared into his eyes. She's liked him from the day she mat him. Especially in her Team Rocket days. It was wonderful with him. "I just want my children to be able to go to school so they can read and write... And go to church."

After that, Jessie put her hands behind James' neck, and both stared into each other's eyes... thinking about each other.

END OF SCENE FIVE


During the break, Jessie and James were staying really close to each other. Practically ever leaving each other's sight. As soon as they were all sitting in the lounge backstage, Jessie and James sat down together.

"Do you two like each other or something?" Misty asked.
"Like? Well, as friends... yeah, friends! Nothing else." Jessie said.
"Right." Ash whispered to Misty."We're serious!" James exclaimed.
"Oh? Den how come you're beside each odder all da time afta dat last scene?" Meowth asked.
"... It was just a scene." Jessie said.

"Well, so far. The story is going great." Becky said.
"Great. Will?" Ash asked.

"He's still waiting for more. As for now, Meowth, Pikachu, you're going to have to do your best for the next part. It's a promising scene." Becky said.

"Can do." Meowth said.

TO BE CONTINUED...