Lileep

"Lileep originally came from the Mezutamzoic era, over a hundred million years ago, when the oceans were much larger and warmer. They lived in shallow seas with sandy beds, much like this display area, where they blended into seaweed to hunt for small fish. Although they were made of rock-like materials, they still had predators that would kill them if they moved about too much, another reason they have for staying undetected. Several fossils of Lileep were recently discovered to have enough DNA to revive, which is how our aquarium came to have this group of Pokemon. Some Trainers have been known to use them, and they…"

A group of schoolchildren stood around, bored while on their aquarium tour. Right by them, there was the surface of a salt-water ocean habitat tank, where a group of five Lileep were grouped. Some of the girls had thought they were pretty initially, with pink tentacles around a brown stem that appeared much like an exotic sea flower. As the tour guide stated, the Lileep were not doing anything. They swayed with the flow of the water, as did the simpler seaweeds around them. One Lileep was separated from the rest, having climbed out of the water to hang out under a sunlamp. But even on the mottled rock, it did not do anything interesting.

"When are we going to get to the interesting exhibits?" one of the boys grumbled quietly.

"Probably not until the end," another whispered back. "And we won't get long to look."

"And this was supposed to be a good trip."

"Be quiet," their teacher said, walking by them.

"All right," the one boy replied, turning to her.

But right as he looked away, the Lileep on the rock decided that was the time to move. It leaned over quickly and snatched the boy's baseball cap off his head with its tentacles. The kids who saw this started laughing, amused at the break of tension.

The boy spun back around, putting his hands on his head. "Hey! Give my hat back!"

Chuckling, the tour guide said, "It may have thought your hat was something to eat. But they usually eat things whole."

His face paled. "I want my hat!"

Patting the hat with its tentacles, the Lileep tested the hat to see if it was edible. Apparently it wasn't good, because the Pokemon then spit the hat back out at the boy, hitting him in the face. Quite a bit of slobber ended up all over the boy's face, and soaking the hat.

"Ewww," some of the kids near him said, while others laughed gleefully.

The boy grabbed at his hat before it hit the floor. "Gross, now my hat is ruined."

"You'd better go back to the bathroom and clean that spit off," the tour guide said. "Leave it on too long and it'll become irritating."

As the teacher led the boy away, the smartest girl in the class asked, "Isn't its spit part of its digestive fluid, so it could eat holes in his hat?"

"That could happen," the tour guide said. "The Lileep's stomach is just past its mouth, in this bulbous area." She tapped the area behind where the wide tentacles were hanging. "But don't go touching it like I do. As a prehistoric Pokemon, its mind is not as developed as current day Pokemon and it will not recognize your hand as something not to eat. You have to become familiar to it before you can do this safely."

"What kind of Trainers actually use this kind of Pokemon?" one student asked. "I mean, they aren't doing much, so how good are they in battle?"

"They actually have very good endurance, especially after evolution," the tour guide said. "Generally only fossil hunters have access to them, but the most famous Trainer of the higher form of Cradily is Steven Stone, former Champion of Hoenn. Although you kids would have to wait a few years to train any Pokemon, the Lileep might be more commonplace. We do have a Cradily around, but it might be further down the tank. Do you want to go find it?"

The response wasn't completely enthusiastic, but they needed to stall a bit for the teacher and student to get back to the group. In the meantime, the sunning Lileep observed the crowd, looking for any more potential food sources. In its primitive mind, it considered the children too large to eat. The Cradily might be able to snag one of them. However, the tour guide wouldn't let the kids anywhere close to that one if it was out hunting. Even in captivity, it was still deeply wild.

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Lileep Emerald entry: It disguises itself as seaweed by making its tentacles sway. Unsuspecting prey that come too close are swallowed whole. It became extinct a 100 million years ago.

Some of the in-game 'dex entries are just so boring. Lileep's not very interesting that way. Sigh.