CHAPTER FIVE
The next morning Archie, who was seemingly barking at his own shadow, rudely awaked me. Unfortunately he also woke Percy and Lucy who weren't too impressed by that fact either. I chuckled at our misfortune, much to the unconvincing delight of the others, I've always been like that though, and I have always laughed at my own misfortune and my own shortcomings. Sometimes you just have to let everything go and just laugh. Lucy got breakfast started while I sat nervously, waiting to see Mt. Moon for myself, Percy was more interested in the training we could get in and the Pokémon he could capture, fairly sure he has a one hundred per cent catch rate so far, but again, he isn't one to brag. After a quick breakfast we packed up and both Lucy and I were out stepping Percy two-to-one as we anxiously trekked route three before reaching Mt. Moon. Stopping every now and then to talk, catch Pokémon and wait for Percy to hurry up. We found the entrance to Mt. Moon just behind another Pokémon centre and Percy insisted we stop for a rest so he can recover his Pokémon and switch around his party. Both Lucy and I were surprised that he had enough Pokémon in order to switch it around; I had only caught five whereas Lucy had six, obviously Percy had more than six as you can only carry that many on you at a time. After Percy had rested and recovered we exited the centre, made a U-turn and headed straight into Mt. Moon. We barely managed a few steps before being attacked by a Zubat, taking action I leapt to the chance to catch another Pokémon. Sending out Pidgey this time, knowing a flying type will have a clear advantage over most ground bound Pokémon.
"Quick Attack, Pidgey!" Pidgey goes flying into Zubat with incredible speed and Zubat falls backwards before regaining itself and coming in for Leech Life attack, Zubat manages to bite Pidgey on the neck and starts to regain its health.
"Shake it off Pidgey! Tackle it!" Pidgey flails Zubat off and dives in for a Tackle, "Gust to finish it off." Immediately Pidgey flaps his wings and creates a massive gust, blowing Zubat into a wall, finishing the battle as Zubat slides down the wall,
"Time to catch it." I say to myself and throw the ball at the fallen Zubat, it shakes slightly before settling and confirming the capture. I re-collect my ball and was greeted with cheers from Percy and Lucy. 'My sixth Pokémon.' I thought quietly as I looked down upon the ball containing Zubat, smiling, knowing that my family back home would be proud of me if they knew, but I'm fairly sure there is no mobile reception in this cave. We were about to start moving again before my Pidgey starting to shine brightly, before I knew it the light had subsided and a Pidgeotto stood where Pidgey had, it had evolved. After that, the evolution kept coming for everyone. After battling numerous Pokémon, we all had at least three Pokémon evolve. Percy had Charmander, Kakuna and Nidoran evolve into Charmeleon, Beedrill and Nidorino. Lucy evolved her Bulbasaur, Metapod and Nirdoran into Ivysaur, Butterfree and Nidorina. My Pokémon evolved from Squirtle and Nidoran to Wartortle and Nidorino. We dove deeper into Mt. Moon, just trying to find our way through, we decided that finding a Clefairy was near impossible so we decided that we would just find our way and head on to Cerulean City. We managed to battle other wild Pokémon, in order to level up our party before the next gym.
We continued on the path that slowly twisted and turned, we found a set of stairs and went deeper again, it was eerily quiet.
"I don't like this." Percy mentioned, "It's too quiet." I strolled on while Lucy heeded Percy's warning,
"Nonsense, there's nothing." I reassured them as an alarm sounded 'Too perfect.' three men in black suits with a large red "R" emblazed on their shirts popped out of nowhere. The place suddenly turned silent except for Percy muttering in the corner
"Told ya so." I chose to ignore it and looked intently at the three men,
"Wait, it's just some kids." the first one barked,
"Well who did you expect?!"
"A Pokémon called Mew, seen it around?"
"No, we haven't." Lucy replied,
"Well if ya do, leave it alone! And come find us!" and the three men ran away. We all looked at each other and shrugged and continued on through the cave, before too long we found what we were looking for.
"The exit." Percy said breaking the silence as we could see the faint outline of an arch way and light shining in, we headed towards it but something caught my attention in the corner of my eye, I turned and walk towards the object and knelt down to investigate.
"What is it Airen?" Lucy inquired, I picked them up and walked back to the group,
"Moon Stones." I replied with a glint of a smile on my face, "Three of them, one each." I handed them around to everyone.
"Moon stones work on the Nido evolution line correct?" Percy looked at Lucy, Lucy looked down at her hand and smiled,
"Yes, yes they do, and we all have a second stage Nido Pokémon." We all had a moment of silence and contemplation,
"Well personally, I would like to get to know Nidorino more before I evolve him." I said, followed by chorus of nods and agreement. We walked out of the cave toward route four and all breathed a sigh of relief as we saw the sky once more, it was late afternoon and near sunset, so we headed for Cerulean City as quick as possible. We got to just outside the city boundaries before we decided to set up camp. I thought back on the three men from the cave, searching for Mew,
"What is Mew?" questioned Percy, this question related to my specialty,
"Mew is a legendary pokémon, a pokémon that is said to be the ancestor of all others. It is unknown where it resides and there is even some debate amongst researches what it looks like."
"How do you know about this?" Lucy inquired, "I have always found legendary pokémon, myths and artifacts so interesting, I love researching it and my dream is to become a Professor specializing in this, I'd love to write a book on it as well."
"Studying at university?" Percy questioned,
"Yea, at CIU, doing field research for my final year." Both Lucy and Percy understood,
"I'm on field research to become a Professor as well, but I love researching other, more interesting evolution techniques." Lucy stated and we both looked at Percy, he sighed
"Ah peer pressure." he chuckled "Not to be original or anything, I want to be a Pokémon Master, a true master, training extremely strong Pokémon and defeating the Regional Champion from every region I can, I mean, I went to uni as well, but my classes were on breeding and battling techniques."
"You a breeder?" I asked,
"Not exactly, it was my minor." We all looked at each other, each with a different dream, and we were travelling together.
"Maybe we can all help each other." Lucy laughed. We all nodded in agreement, we finished our dinner each and before too long we were asleep, knowing that tomorrow, another gym battle awaited us.