Pokemon: A New Journey

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After getting a full night of rest in Pewter City, Stork and I started to set out for Route 3. Before leaving, we stocked up on potions because Cerulean City was the next city over and was a ways away. Stork ended up having to sell 15 of his pokéballs to afford some potions. Also, my Togepy insisted on buying a head of lettuce, which had become a bad addiction of his.
We finally left the city at around 9:30 a.m., but we were well ready for whatever would happen. Togepy sat on my shoulder while we walked, usually munching on a piece of lettuce happily. My Growlithe still refused to stay in his pokéball when there were plenty of things to sniff out on a spring day like today. We hiked and hiked, with Stork keeping his eyes and ears peeled for any sounds or movement of pokémon.
Eventually, my Togepy entered his pokéball because there was an unbearable heat outside. Stork and I were down to shorts and t-shirts, putting the rest of our clothes in our backpacks. My Growlithe began to pant heavily and I didn't want a fainted pokémon, so Stork and I looked for a water source of some kind.
We finally found a pond that lay under a canopy of trees, so we went there and set our things down for lunch. My Growlithe happily gulped down water as his strength slowly returned.
After Stork and I ate our lunches, I began to read a book by Professor Oak entitled, "Pokémon and You: The How-To on Catching and Raising Pokémon." Stork, on the other hand, wasn't ready to just sit down and wait for pokémon to come along, so he immediately took off to find a nearby rustling on the other side of the pond (or it could be called a small lake because it was quite large). In a matter of minutes I heard a familiar yelp, "OWWWWWW!"
"What has Stork down this time?" I asked myself as I got up and went to the source of the sound.
When I saw what it was, I practically dropped down laughing. Stork was standing red-faced with some sort of pokémon biting his butt with anger in its eyes.
As I wiped tears from my eyes, I stuttered, "Stork…hehe…What did you…What did you do? Hahahaha!"
"Shut up," he replied angrily, "get this thing off my ass!"
As I slowly stopped laughing, I ordered Growlithe to attack, "Growlithe, sniff, um…bite it, sniff."
My Growlithe even had a happy grin on its face when he bit the pokémon off of Stork. Stork then said, "I'll take it from here. This pokémon is mine!"
"Growlithe," I commanded, "come back."
I then pointed my pokédex at the small pokémon:
<EEVEE: An evolution pokémon. Eevee will evolve into three different pokémon, depending on if the trainer uses a water stone, a thunder stone, or a fire stone>
"Hey, Stork. Watch out, it might bite you again!" I yelled jokingly.
"Hey, stay out of this. Spearow, let's do it!" he screamed as he threw his pokéball.
"Spearow!" it screeched.
"Spearow, peck it!"
The Spearow then proceeded to dive bomb the eevee, pecking it several times, each time causing the poor pokémon to cry out more. But on another dive, the eevee jumped out of the way and bit into the Spearow's wing hard. So hard, the wing began to bleed.
"Spearowwwww!" it cried out in pain.
"Oh no. Spearow, return! Metapod, go!"
"WHAT?" I yelled out in confusion, "What are you, doing, Stork?!"
"What?" he asked, "Metapod will kick this little guy's butt!"
"Don't you remember what my pokédex said? The only move Metapod knows is HARDEN! He has absolutely no offense!"
Stork then realized the error of his mistake. But it was too late, the eevee had the poor Metapod pinned. Stork did the only thing he could, seeing that the eevee was blocking the pokéball ray from reaching Metapod, "Metapod, harden!"
The Metapod's cocoon then started to become thicker and stronger, right when eevee was trying to slash it with its claws. The eevee cried out in pain as its claws broke on the hard shell. Stork then cried, "Metapod, return! Pidgey, gust!"
The Pidgey flew out of the pokéball and started flapping its wings heavily, causing a gust of wind to form. The gust hid the eevee and knocked it to the ground. The fight was over and Stork screamed, "pokéball, go!" as he threw the red and white ball.
The eevee finally gave up after about a minute of struggling in the pokéball. Stork picked it up and immediately released it. "Here you go, eevee," he said as he gave it some potion and then bandaged its claw. After returning the healing eevee, he released his Spearow and bandaged his wing. I looked down and noticed my Growlithe saw something over at the area where all our stuff was.
"Growlithe," I said in a stern voice, "don't bark."
He muffled his mouth and kept quiet while we slowly headed towards the site. I noticed our bag of food was tipped over and was shaking. "Hey," I said, "there's something in our food!" I ran over there and grabbed the bag, closing it on top. The bag began shaking frantically and I struggled to hold on. Unfortunately, I dropped it and a small pokémon fell out with a piece of bread in its mouth. It ignored me though, and continued to eat the spilled food. I pointed my pokédex at it:
<POLIWAG: A water pokémon. This tadpole enjoys eating algae, but also enjoys eating grainy foods, such as bread and wheat. Trainers should be cautious of its water-type moves>
"Ok," I said, "water is weak against plant. Oddish, go!"
My Oddish popped out of his pokéball and yelled with a happy face, "Oddish!"
The Poliwag looked up at us, but then back at the more interesting food. "Oddish, sleep powder!"
My Oddish proceeded to spray the sleep powder on the Poliwag. The Poliwag looked at me, eyes dimming and then finally closing into a deep sleep.
"Ok, Oddish, absorb!"
Oddish then hopped on top of the sleeping Poliwag and started to glow softly as it sucked health from it. "OK, Oddish, that's enough. We don't want to faint it," I said, taking precautions. He hopped off of the tadpole as I threw my pokéball, "Pokéball, go!"
The ball didn't shake for long because the Poliwag was sleeping deeply. "Oddish, return!" I then yelled as the red ray came out and sucked Oddish into his pokéball. After healing the Poliwag and returning it to its pokéball once again, I walked over to Stork who was just finishing bandaging up his pokémon.
"I heard some sounds," he said, "What happened?"
"Oh, I caught a Poliwag who was eating our food. He's still sleeping from my Oddish's sleep powder."
"Cool. Well, let's get going," he said as he stood up and then yiped in pain, "Owww! Y'know, maybe we shouldn't do anymore hiking to day."
"Yeah," I agreed with a smirk, "Your butt might need to be tended to."
"Shut up," he said as he started waddling over to our campsite with me following him, laughing.
"I can't believe you let that eevee bite you," I said to him, still laughing, as we laid down and started picking up the mess that Poliwag left us.
"I didn't see it coming. It bit me out of nowhere!"
"Sure it did," I replied as I gave Growlithe some of the half-chewed bread scraps.
***
That night, it was spaghetti for dinner and scraps for the pokémon. The injured Spearow would not be able to fly for a couple days, and eevee's claw would need to heal a couple days also. His Metapod and his Pidgey were unharmed, so they were fine. My Poliwag finally woke at dinnertime, so he got to feed of some more bread. We also got him some pond water to drink.
We had a fire going, which was really easy to start with Growlithe around, and Stork and I talked while our pokémon ate.
"So," he said, "today was a pretty good day. I've got myself an Eevee and you caught a Poliwag."
"Yep," I replied, "So what are you going to evolve your Eevee into?" I then asked as I opened my pokédex:
<Eevee will evolve into Vaporeon with the water stone, Jolteon with the thunder stone, and Flareon with the fire stone>
"I don't know. I don't have a water, electric, or fire pokémon yet, but I've always liked electric pokémon, so I might use the thunder stone," he replied.
"Well, I don't know which one I'd do," I then said, "If it were me, well, I wouldn't even want an Eevee because I wouldn't be able to decide."
"Yeah, well, we'll see," Stork said as he started to return his pokémon to their pokéballs. I soon did the same, except for Togepy who was still chewing on a piece of lettuce. When he was finished, he waddled over to me and touched his pokéball, which quickly sucked him in.
"So," I then said to Stork while looking at my map, "route 3 ends I about a mile or so, where it leads to Mt. Moon."
"Mt. Moon?" he asked, "Check your pokédex and see what it says about it."
I flipped open my pokédex and said, "Search Mt. Moon."
<MT. MOON: This mountain is rumored to be filled with the mysterious stone called the MOON STONE. Pokémon of Mt. Moon include Zubat, Paras, and the rare Clefairy and Clefable>
"Cool," Stork said, "I'm gonna catch all of them!"
"Ok," I said, "Just don't get too eager to catch all of them or you might just not catch any of them."
"Whatever," Stork said with a grin.
"Hey," I then started, "What happens if you get over 6 pokémon?"
"Oh, Viridian has their own professor, too. He's the brother of Professor Oak. I think his name was Drake Oak or something like that. Anyway, my pokémon will be transported there if I get over six."
"Oh," I replied, "then why didn't you have a starting pokémon and a pokédex?"
"Well," Stork started, "Our professor didn't have any pokémon to begin with, and he never received any pokédexes from his brother. Apparently, the shipment was lost or something like that."
"Oh," I then said, "Aren't you mad?"
"Nah. First of all, I still had my Pidgey, so I didn't need a starting pokémon. And, now that you're around, I don't need a pokédex."
"Oh," I said with a grin, "so you're just using me for my pokédex?"
"Well, yeah," he started with an even bigger grin, "you think I would hang out with you because I'm your friend?"
"Of course not. But what about your pokémon license? Your pokédex is supposed to be your license."
He replied easily, pulling out a small, laminated index card, "Well, we got these nifty ID cards." The card had a picture of him and other info on it.
"Cool," I said, "Anyway, we better get to bed because we've gotta get to Mt. Moon tomorrow."
"Yeah," Stork agreed with a yawn, "Good night."
"G'night," I replied.

TO BE CONTINUED
Coming Up in PART VII:
Our heroes enter Mt. Moon. Will Stork catch any pokémon?