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Chapter 3 Cerulean City

April awoke to the sound of a door sliding open. In stepped Sunon and Brian. They had just finished shopping for items and food for the long trip. They even bought three sweaters, because by the time they made it to Cerulean city it would be starting to get cold.

In an hour they left the city and started walking down Route Three. Suddenly a woman in a white lab coat ran over to them.

"Hello I'm one of Professor Oak's assistants and I need to deliver this to you," she said, handing them a silvery plastic card with some numbers and words on it. The name that immediately caught their eye was Silph Co.

"That's from your parents," she said. "They ordered it for you. If you give it to the women at the desk, in the main room, of the first floor of Silph Co., she will give you a new Porygon."

"What's a Porygon?" Sunon asked.

"They're a Pokemon made in a lab," she replied. "They are very hard to get so don't loose that card. Saffron city is a long way away, be careful now," she finished. Then she began to run back towards Pewter city.

"Wow," said April, shocked and amazed.

"Let's not loose that card," said Sunon, putting it away in his backpack.

Then the three walked on. It was a hot day so the three took lots of breaks under the shade of trees. Before long it was getting dark. So they took out the three new sleeping bags they had just bought.

Soon the night sky was filled with stars. Pokemon chirped and the wind blew flowers. It was a marvelous sight and experience, despite the hard ground. The two boys fell asleep and then April wrote this in her journal…

August 17th Day 4

"Today I got up. The boys had shopped for the trip. Soon we left. We were met up with one of Professor Oak's aides. She gave us a card from our parents for a new Porygon! Then she ran off, probably to run more errands. The walk was hot and moist, but extremely gorgeous. Now the boys are sleeping under the stars in new sleeping bags. I soon will too.

I could never get tired of this. I wish walking on this wonderful

Route, sleeping on this ground and looking up at the stars could last at least a month."

Then she closed and put away her journal and fell asleep.

She woke up early because the sun was in her eyes.

"It's the crack of dawn. I don't want to get up," she mumbled to herself.

"Good morning," Sunon said to her.

"Where's the bathroom?" She asked grumpily.

"Looks like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed," Sunon replied.

"Shut up and tell me where the bathroom is! Also I slept on the same cold hard ground as you did, not on a nice bed!" she shouted.

"Second tree to the left is the girls," Sunon said.

"Is this some kind of joke?" she mumbled.

"Oh, your in luck, there's a…" Sunon never finished his sentence because April cut him off.

"Don't even say it," she said angrily, as she pointed to a green plastic rectangular box, in between two trees. She opened the door, cursing to herself. When she opened the door the stench nearly knocked her out.

"Uhhhh, it smells like crap," she moaned.

"What should it smell like?" asked Brian.

Gradually she made herself eat her own words in the next few days. Her journal entries got shorter and contained more sketches of the scenery. After a week passed, there was one night Sunon couldn't sleep, because of some pokemon. So he instead trained his eevee all night. Around four, eevee started to glow and it glowed brighter and brighter then in his place now stood a larger black dog-like thing with yellow circles on it. That night, April finally had something new to add to her journal.

The next night Brian couldn't sleep, so he trained his spinarak. In the morning it evolved into an ariados. They continued on. Days passed, sleep was getting harder to get. It was late one day and they were wishing this route would end, when they came to the front of a large jagged mountain, which had a large cave door opening.

So, they went to sleep. In the morning, they woke up feeling refreshed.

"Let's go get through this cave," Sunon said. With that, they went in. Inside it was surprisingly well lit. Despite the few torches, cracks of sunlight seeped through. Inside there were very few trainers. They hadn't been walking for long when Furret spotted something shiny. Two TMs were wedged in between two rocks, so they took them and put them away. Then they saw a ladder, so they climbed it. Now they were in another large room. They started walking. It was a twisty, shady room with stalagmites on the ceiling. Then Charton spotted something beside a rock. It was a piece of candy!

"Can I eat it?" Charton asked.

"Sure," replied Brian. With that he ate it.

"Yuck!!!" screamed April. "How old could that thing have been!?"

"I feel stronger," said Charton.

"Imagine that, candy that makes you stronger and doesn't just rot your teeth," said Sunon.

" I think Charton is delirious," April said.

"No, I'm fine," Charton, replied. With that they continued on. April watched Charton to see if he suddenly rolled over dead.

Then after a long while, Squirty found a spray bottle that said: elixir gives pokemon energy. After what seemed like forever.

A small, light green thing with a fin-like thing on its head, a banana peel- shaped tail, a red-armored stomach, jumped out from behind a rock. Sunon immediately spotted a pokeball and threw it at the creature, catching it! With that, they continued on.

In the distance they could see two shady figures with bags. As they got closer, they could hear what they were saying. They heard this…

"Hey man, will the boss be pleased!"

"Yeah, we finally found these two fossils. We'll sell 'em for a bundle."

"Who are you?" Brian asked.

"Oh no, intruders," one of the two men, in black suits with red R's on the front, said.

"We're Team Rocket members," the other said.

"Team Rocket seeks world power," the first one said, as if making sure the three wouldn't ask too much. With that, the two sent out two zubats.

"Use bite on those three!" the two commanded. Then Charton and Furret jumped out in front. Furret used flamethrower, scorching one of the overgrown bats, while Charton used ember taking down the other. The two returned them, dropped the bag, and ran off yelling "retreat, retreat!" In the bag there was an orangey- brown stone, along with two rocks with fossils in them. Ahead of them was the exit.

So, they left the cave and came into a grassy passage, in between two mountains. They walked for a half an hour. Then a small city came into sight. There was a sign a few feet away that read…

Entering Cerulean City… the city of water.

They could see a few ponds and a large river off in the distance. So, they walked into the city. Eventually they found a Pokemon Center. Inside, they healed their Pokemon and the two boys fell asleep.

That night April's journal entry looked like this…

September 7th

"Today I decided I would stop putting in how many days it has been since we started. Today we woke up and went into that cave. It is called Mt. Moon. We found some TMs, an elixir and a candy that makes pokemon stronger. Sunon caught something called a larvitar. Later, two guys in black jump suits, that said they were part of Team Rocket, whatever that is, attacked us, with two zubats. Charton and Furret defeated them. The two guys dropped a bag and ran away. In the bag were two fossils and an orange thingy that was supposed to be a fossil. We got out of the cave. We took turns carrying the bag, all the way to Cerulean City. Along the way, Squirty found another candy and ate it. We are now at the Pokemon Center. The two boys are asleep. Tomorrow we will "challenge the gym".

She closed and put away her book and fell asleep.

She woke up and walked outside. As the door closed behind her, Squirty flew over her head and landed in the large river by the Pokemon Center.

"Holy crap! What are you doing to my Pokemon!!!?" she yelled at them.

"Were just training," Sunon said.

"You better be just training," she said.

"Look, calm down, your Pokemon offered to do this," Brain said. Then Squirty walked over to her, all wet.

"Are you O.k.?" she asked.

"Of course I am," Squirty said.

"Are you sure?" she persisted.

"What do you think? I'm a turtle and turtles like water," Squirty said.

"O.k. I guess I over reacted," April, said.

"Can we show a new technique?" Brian asked.

"Sure," she said. Then Squirty charged at furret. "Stop, you're going to pummel Furret!" she yelled at Squirty. To her amazement, Furret curled up into a ball. When Squirty hit him, Furret didn't budge. Squirty became dizzy and furret uncurled and slammed Squirty with his tail, sending her flying into the river. She was amazed at how powerful Furret had gotten.

They walked back into the Pokemon Center. They healed their pokemon. The nurse then asked them if they wanted any breakfast. They said yes, for they were happy to eat something different from what they bought at stores that sold food. They had some hash browns, juice, eggs and toast. They thanked her and left.

The gym was only fifteen minutes down the road. They entered through light blue double doors. Inside the walls were painted a light blue. The statue had maybe three less trainers, which had beaten the gym. So they didn't read it. There was no T.V. in the small room. So they just walked through the door in front of them. They were now in a large room, with 20-foot trenches on the left and right sides. At the bottom of each there was water. The water was deep enough so that if you fell you wouldn't get hurt. There was a ladder on both sides.

They then heard a voice. They looked up they couldn't see who was talking. They could not see who was talking, because they were up a flight of stairs, some 40 feet in the distance. The voice said…

"I'll make this quick. Your test is to get to the top of those stairs. Be careful, if you step on a hidden switch the water level will rise. When it gets to the top, you will have to fight hundreds of vicious tentacools. Have fun.

"O.K. I'll go first," Sunon said. He started walking forward slowly. The other two followed close behind. After about ten feet, something clicked under Sunon's feet. The water level rose about five feet. Then he walked left a little and then forward.

Now they were about half way to the stairs and something clicked again. The water level rose. It was now half way up to the top. They walked some more and then heard another click. The water level was now up to the sides.

"We can't hit any more switches," Brian said. They were ten feet away from the stairs. They walked forward some more. Five feet now! Then they heard a click.

"Run!!!" Sunon yelled. They ran and jumped landing on the stairs out of the water. They walked up the stairs relived.

"Close call," said a voice. It was a girl with orange hair and greenish blue eyes with a swimsuit on. She looked 11 or 12. They immediately knew it was the gym leader.

"I'm Misty leader of this gym. The rules are the same as your last gym battle," She said.

"How did you know we battled Brock?" Sunon asked.

"He sent me a letter, telling me of your success," she replied. "Any ways to make a long story short, who wants to go first?" She finished.

Brian stepped forward.

"Go krabby, said Misty. Out came an orange crab.

"Go Charton," Brain said. Charton ran forward from behind him.

Then a man that they hadn't noticed before, standing off to the right side, waved a red flag and shouted. "Begin!"

"Use Bubble beam!" Misty shouted.

"Dodge it and use Brick break!" Brian shouted. Charton effortlessly dodged the stream of bubbles and charged hitting Krabby head on. Misty returned the fainted Krabby.

April now stepped forward.

"Go Squirty!" April shouted.

"Go staryu!" Misty shouted. The man waved the flag. "Use rapid spin!" Misty shouted.

"Use bubble beam, followed by a bite!" April shouted. The bubbles pelted the yellow metal star shaped Pokemon. Slowing it down, while Squirty jumped up and bit it hard K. it.

"Is it me or is she easier then the last gym?" April asked.

"Go Furret," Sunon said.

Then Misty hit a red button on the floor, to the left of her. The floor then opened up in the center making a swimming pool.

"Go starmie!" she shouted, sending out a large purple metal star pokemon, with a large red gem in the middle of its body. The star then jumped into the water and the man waved the flag.

"Use water gun!" Misty shouted. A large blast of water shot out of the pool, hitting Furret. "Again!" she shouted.

"Dodge it!" Sunon shouted back.

"Furret jumped to the left, but the blast still hit him, this time knocking him dizzy. Misty knew that he was dazed.

"Use swift followed by a rapid spin!" she shouted.

"You know what to do!" Sunon shouted.

The star jumped out of the water, firing sandy yellow stars at Furret from its red jewel. There was now a large cloud of dust covering Furret, due to the immense force they hit at.

"Sorry, you can try again some other time," she said. Then starmie started spinning and it flung its self into the cloud of dust. They then heard a loud thump and the cloud of dust cleared, to reveal starmie on the ground. In front of it a curled up Furret! Furret then uncurled and his tail turned a gray color. He then slammed the star with his tail, sending it soaring over Misty's head, hitting the wall forming a crater.

"Holy S***!" Misty swore. "How the hell did it do that?" she finished. She then returned her fainted Pokemon, handed each of them the Cascade Badge, 2,000 poke and TM water pulse.

"I have nothing else to say," Misty said.

The three then left. Now it was after noon. They decided to see what lay ahead of the river. They found a bridge and crossed the bridge.

"They took a right and for an hour they walked and battled trainers. This route wasn't special. It was just covered with crab grass and bushes.

Suddenly they saw a flash of light in front of them. Sunon spotted a pokeball beside his foot. He threw it at the thing and caught it. The thing he caught was an abra. Sunon then let it out and for the next hour it watched Furret battle trainers and wild pokemon.

After about an hour it started to glow and it evolved. This thing was hard to describe. Off in the distance they spotted a house. They walked and walked until they were in the front of it. Then Brian knocked on the door. The door was answerd by a boy with brown hair and glasses.

"Hello I'm bill. I was the one who founded the P.C. boxes. Of course you may not have to use them yet. May I ask why you are here?" he asked.

"We were just exploring and we thought we could ask you, how to get back to Cerulean City," Brian said.

"Wait! I thought you were keeping track of where we are," April said to Brain.

"I was, but I kind of forgot where we were," Brain said.

"So that's why you knocked on this door," Sunon said.

"Any ways here is Map and a complementary board pass for the SS. Anne. All it's good for is getting on. In other words you can't sail on it with that. "Don't come back," he said, handing them the two pieces of paper and shutting the door.

"I think he was busy," Sunon said.

With that they left and walked back to the Pokemon Center. Along the way Brian asked. "What should we do with the fossils?"

"Oh sorry I forgot to mention. I mailed them to a lab to be brought back to life. They should be waiting for us in Vermilion City," Sunon said.

They then got back to the pokemon center and healed their Pokemon. The two boys fell asleep. April wrote this in her Journal…

September 8th

"Today we beat Misty and met a boy named Bill. He gave us a map and a board pass for the SS. Anne. Tomorrow we will head off for Vermilion City."

She then closed her journal and fell asleep.