Chapter 3: A Friend or A Foe?

Ash arrived at Viridian City a night. He gave his Pokémon to Nurse Joy and her assistant Chansey, he waited for about ten minutes when Nurse Joy came back with his Pokémon in perfect condition. He stayed there for the night as he was too tired from the long walk and all the chaos caused by the mysterious organisation called Team Rocket. 'Who are those people, and why do they capture Pokémon against their will? Whatever and whoever they are, I won't let them get what they want!' he had a really long thought about who they were and about whether or not telling Officer Jenny, but he too tired and fell asleep before he could give any further thought.

It was morning, Pikachu woke him up by shocking him with a Thunderbolt. "Aaaaah! Pikachu, why did you do that for?" he asked enraged. "Pikachu!" it replied with a big smile on its face pointing at the window. Ash could clearly see that it was morning and that he had been sleeping for a long time as it was 10 o'clock. "It's ten already! Thanks, Pikachu. I need to call mum and tell her that I have reached Viridian!" Excited about talking to his mum he got up, went for a shower and ate his breakfast. He then left the Pokémon centre and went shopping.

First, he went into a Poke Mart. There he saw many different poke balls and everything needed for a Pokémon and their trainers. He bought some healing potions and a mega ball which was the last one left. It cost him nearly half his money he had (Ash used to work part-time jobs in Pallet Town before he became a trainer. So he has got plenty of money). When he left the Poke Mart, he saw on a map that there was a park in the town with a battlefield. Ash looked at Pikachu who got really excited when he got told that they were going to battle other trainers. They started walking towards the park.

Meanwhile, in the same town, there was a young girl called Misty, wearing a yellow tank top, and orange hair tied into a side ponytail. She walked past a tree, suddenly a bug type Pokémon fell out of it. "Aaaaaaaaa! It's a Caterpie, get away from me!" she screamed at the poor bug type. A man who walked by asked her why she was shouting at a little Caterpie. "I'm scared of bug type Pokémon. They are gross and weird," she said disgustedly.

"Can you please get it away from me, please?" the man took the Caterpie and put it on the tree and walked away staring at Misty. She carried on walking, she was planning on going to the park as well. She wanted to catch some Pokémon other than the water types she had except bug types.

Meanwhile, Ash was at the park battling other trainers. He battled a trainer called Mandi, a boy with long green hair and a red band around his forehead. He had a really bad attitude when Ash went to shake his hand before the battle he refused and showed his poke ball! He said that Ash was going to definitely loose, but even with three Pokémon, he couldn't win against Pikachu and Squirtle. He just walked away when he lost. Ash was battling another trainer called Brian. He was pretty kind and funny but when it came to battling he was pretty strong and it ended in a draw. He had a Growlith, a Charmander and a Flareon. So, it was obvious that he was a fire type trainer, or at least Ash assumed that he was a fire type trainer.

"Hello, I am Leaf, what's your name dickhead?" a voice from behind Ash asked him arrogantly.

"Excuse me! Mind your language Leaf! How are you old friend?" he asked back at the girl happily.

"Well Ashy-boy, I am fine and I assume you are fine too!" Leaf replied joyfully.

"Want to battle, Leaf? Don't think so, because you never got close to Pokemon, did you?" he asked with a grin. Not replying, Leaf took out a poke ball and threw it out in front of Ash. I a flash of blue light appeared a huge Pokemon, "Ivyasaur, the seed Pokemon. When the bulb on its back grows large, it appears to lose the ability to stand on its hind legs." it was an Ivysaur!

"You can touch a Pokemon! I mean, Leaf Green can touch a Pokemon!" he said when he saw Leaf stroking Ivysaur's bulb. "Well, now that you can touch Pokemon, would you like to have a Pokemon battle with me.

"Yeah, sure." she walked over to one end of the battlefield. Ash walked over to the opposite side of the battlefield and said, "OK, it will be a one on one battle. Fine?"

"Fine! Ivysaur, get ready for battle." Ivysaur walked in front of Leaf and stood firmly on the ground.

"Pikachu, I choose you!" Ash stretched his arm out, Pikachu ran to the tip of the arm and jumped onto the battlefield.

"I see you have got a Pikachu! It's so cute," she said excitedly.

"And...he's cute but strong!" he said fiercely. "OK, let the battle begin. I let you have the first move," he said laughing.

"Ivysaur, use Razor Leaf." Ivysaur bent her front legs and shot razor sharp leaves at Pikachu.

"Pikachu, use Quick Attack to dodge it and then use Thunderbolt." Pikachu ran very quickly past the leaves and then charged electricity in his cheeks. When he was running at a steady pace he discharged his stored electricity at the opponent. Ivysaur fell down when hit by the attack and fainted. Leaf ran over knowing this by seeing Ivysaur's spiral eyes. "What happened?" Ash asked, shocked to see the Ivysaur was knocked out by one attack.

"She hasn't been well for the past few days." Leaf replied with tear filled eyes.

"Let's take her to the Pokemon centre. I think Nurse Joy will be able to make her well again." Leaf picked up Ivysaur into her arms and started running toward the Pokemon centre. Ash followed he until they reached Nurse Joy's front desk. "Nurse Joy! Nurse Joy! Please do something, my Ivysaur is not well." Leaf said panicking to Nurse Joy.

"Don't worry, please put Ivysaur on the bed and wait over there," she replied pointing a the cafeteria. Leaf and Ash walked over to the cafeteria slowly, both with their heads down.

"Don't worry, Ivysaur will be fine," Ash said joyfully... After waiting for nearly an hour, Nurse Joy called Leaf and Ash over. "Your Ivysaur had eaten too many snacks, so please give a limited amount of snacks to your Pokemon and keep them healthy," Leaf called back Ivysaur into her poke ball and started walking back to the entrance. Ash realising what Nurse Joy said, asked Leaf, " You still don't feed Pokemon a lot of snacks do you?" Laughing, Leaf ran out of the Pokemon centre and sat on a bench. When caught up, Leaf said she needs to go back to her parents and left. Ash went back to the battlefield in the Park.

Sorry for not adding in Misty's part in for a long time...

Meanwhile, Misty had reached the Pokemon centre just after Ash and Leaf had left for the Pokemon centre. She was just walking around the park when she noticed Pikachu wandering around in the bush.

...Ash has reached the park...

She followed it... when it jumped to land on Ash's shoulder, Misty thought that it was about to attack him. She threw a poke ball at it in attempt to capture it. When Pikachu realised that a poke ball was flung at him, he used Iron Tail and the poke ball, when hit by a powerful move like that, the poke ball exploded into a million bits. Ash turned around at the sound of the explosion to see smoke covering his front. When the smoke cleared, he could see Misty (he didn't know her yet ¬_¬...) standing in front of him. "What are you doing, whoever you are?" he asked enraged.

"Sorry! I wanted to catch that Pikachu!" she replied.

"Why would you want to catch my Pokemon, are you a Pokemon thief?!" he asked walking towards Misty angrily.

"No, no! I didn't know that, that Pikachu was your Pokemon. I'm sorry." she then shouted at him enraged. "But your Pikachu exploded my poke ball. Ash had bought some poke ball earlier but he gave them to Leaf as she needed some.

"I don't have any poke ball, and anyway, it's your fault for trying to catch my Pikachu!" he replied.

"It's OK, it is my fault. I'm Misty, and you are?" she asked politely. Ash was surprised that Misty just forgot about her poke ball and was asking his name kindly. "I'm Ash, Ash Ketchum, from Pallet Town. Nice to meet you, friends?" he asked back doubtfully.

"Sure, where are you heading next?" Misty asked Ash.

"Pewter City, I'm going to challenge the gym leader for a battle," he said excitedly, as he imagined winning the boulder badge.

"Cool, I'm going through there as well, want to head there together?"

"Sure, let's leave tomorrow, it's getting pretty dark now," he said. They both headed to an inn and stayed for the night. They were going to Pewter City tomorrow, but Ash didn't know who Misty really was...

Hello readers, thank you for all the support you have given me since the first chapter. This was the chapter where Misty and Ash meet. In the next chapter, Ash will battle the Pewter City gym leader. I made Misty a bit kind in my fan-fiction as she was hot-headed in the Anime. Oh yes, kraftues, I take a long time to write my chapters because I plan what will happen, I don't write what comes into my mind.

Pokemon

Ash:

Pikachu (Male)

Squirtle (Male)

Misty:

Goldeen (Female)

Staryu (Gender-less)

Update v1.1: I changed Cerulean to Pewter City because they have to go through there, so Ash will battle Pewter City Gym leader not Misty.