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Post by bennyjr123 on Mar 16, 2008 20:54:40 GMT -5
It was six in the morning and the sun had just barely arrived. After a long night of telling stories and laughing, Cara and Joey were fast asleep in their sleeping bags. But, Kevin had something else in mind. "Wake up everybody!" He shouted, "Wake up!"
"This better be a nightmare," Cara grunted with her eyes squinted.
"What's going on?" Joey yawned.
"You especially have to get up!" Kevin bent down, and shook Squirtle awake. He picked it up. "Squirtle, today is the day we first begin your training. And if we really want you to do good, we need to get an early start. So come on everybody, wake up!"
"I repeat, this better be a nightmare." Cara grunted even more angry.
"Oh boy!" Joey suddenly jumped up, "I get to see a real pokemon getting trained. This is going to be the best day ever."
"Hurry up and get dressed Joey." Kevin smiled, "I found some fruit growing on the trees that we can eat for breakfast. We'll start as soon as we're done eating."
So, much to Cara's dismay, Joey and Cara got dressed for the day, as Squirtle helped Kevin set up the picnic cloth. Soon, they all gathered around eating the fruit that Kevin found. Chikorita came out to join the feast as well. "Squirtle, how do you like your food?"
"Squirtle!" Squirtle cheered in delight.
"Good," Kevin laughed. He turned to Cara and Chikorita, "Cara, are you planning on doing some training with Chikorita?"
"Well, I was planning on sleeping in until we had to get on the road again," Cara said annoyed, "but when you're living with a boy who seems to wake up earlier then the birds, it seems to be impossible. But I guess it's good you got us up. Now we can train, and get some traveling done in one day."
"You still didn't answer the question." Said Kevin.
"Well, maybe I think Chikorita is fine the way it is," Cara retorted, "besides, why am I training it? So I can go around challenging people to pointless battles where nothing comes out of it but pain for the pokemon? No thanks."
"Now hold on a minute," Kevin stopped eating, "battles are not pointless, okay? Do you know how many pokemon leagues I've watched? Those trainers worked hard to get where they are today, and it was through hard work and training, and MEANINGFUL battles."
"Oh I'm sorry. Excuse me." Cara said sarcastically, "Let me give you a little sneak preview of your future battles. 'Squirtle use water gun, oh no squirtle got hit, now tackle, yay we knocked the other guy out. Yay!' The end. Now explain to me, where's the insight on that?"
"Battles aren't like that. They take strategy," Kevin said a bit angrier.
"Whatever," Cara laughed a bit, "What the world needs is something that shows how hard you worked with your pokemon's moves. That would actually show some effort."
"Righhhttt" Kevin rolled his eyes. "Just what we need, a pokemon beauty contest! I can see the headlines now."
"I say again, whatever." Cara stood up. "Well, I'm cleaning up camp. You guys get started on whatever it is you're doing because we're leaving no later 3:00 this afternoon. Come on Chikorita."
"Alright!" Kevin said excitedly, "Squirtle, let's start training"
"Squirt!" Squirtle nodded making it's two imaginary muscles.
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Post by bennyjr123 on Mar 17, 2008 17:05:12 GMT -5
Kevin and Joey walked a good distance away from camp, where there was a wide open space full of objects they might need to help train. Kevin took in a deep breath of the fresh air. He could tell this was going to be great. "So what do we do first?" Joey asked.
"Well, that's an easy one, we.."Kevin said a but unsure, "um...anyway, then we'll..uhh....but then after that we're going to...um.....i guess I kinda sorta have absolutely no idea what i'm talking about."
"Ugh," Both a Joey's and Squirle's heads went down in shame.
"But never fear." Kevin gained confidence, "I'm the trainer, and all I have to do is call out a command and everything will fall into place. Squirtle, train!"
"You're kidding right?" Joey said looking around a bit embarrassed.
"Oh man," Kevin sighed, "I guess I don't what i'm supposed to do. Just thought things would work out differently."
"I know!" Joey got an idea, reaching in his older sister's back pack. "I thought this might help, so I took Cara's back pack along. Here."
"Oh, right." Kevin said taking the book from Joey. "The guide book that Renji gave me. I bet this has a lot of information on pokemon and strategies. Let's see..." Kevin flipped through the book. "Hmm, maybe this is where we start. This page has all the moves that a pokemon can use. Now, since Squirtle's a water pokemon, it should be able to learn some water pokemon moves right?"
"Yeah," Joey pointed to a word in the book. "Teach it that one."
"Bubble beam?" Kevin read the definition out loud, "'An attack used by water pokemon, that hurdles a series of powerful bubbles at the target. Usually through the mouth of the pokemon.' That seems do-able."
"Yay!" Joey cheered turning to Squirtle, "Squirtle, we're going to teach you a really cool move. Are you excited?"
"Squirtle! Squirtle! Squirt!" Squirtle cheered showing yes.
"That's great." Kevin smiled, "But first I think we need to warm ourselves up. Jumping jacks everyone. And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4,"
"And 5, and 6, and 7, and 8." Joey joined in the excercise.
"Squirtle,Squirt,squritle, squirt!" Squirtle did some jumping jacks as well.
"Now bend down to your toes." Kevin said reaching down to his sneakers. Joey and Squirtle did the same. "Yeah, you're doing great. Now let's run some laps."
Meanwhile, Cara was finishing up folding the blankets, as she watched the three warming up. She rolled her eyes at how silly they looked. "Man," Cara scoffed, "Don't those guys look like idiots Chikorita."
"Chiko!" Chikorita giggled. "Chiko?"
"Huh?" Cara and Chikorita looked up in the sky as they felt the wind blow past them. "Feels nice doesn't it?" Cara smiled. She then looked up, seeing a bundle of leaves blowing in the breeze, in a unique style and pattern. "Woah, that looks really nice. It's like the leaves are dancing."
"Chiko!"
"I know." Cara suddenly got an idea. "Chikorita, try using razor leaf."
"Chiko!" Chikorita shot out a series of bladed leaves out of it's back. The leaves scattered everywhere through the air. Cara frowned a little bit.
"Hmm," She thought, "Chikorita, you think you could do that again, but this time with a little bit more concentration. Try shooting the leaves out one by one."
"Chiko!" Chikorita tried again, this time going a bit slower. The leaves came out, but this time so seperated you could barely tell they were coming from the same directions.
"Alright, this is going to need some work." Cara put down her things and bent down to Chikorita.
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Post by bennyjr123 on Mar 17, 2008 22:06:22 GMT -5
"Alright," Kevin panted, "I think we've done enough warming up. What do you think Joey?" Joey did not answer. He simply gave a thumbs up to Kevin as he fell to the ground in tiresome. "Alright Squirtle. I think before we try a new move, we should review the move that you already know." Kevin walked over to a rock, about the size of Squirtle. "Let's try this. Pretend this rock is your opponent, and use tackle on it. Okay?"
"Squirt!" Squirtle nodded.
"Okay, Squirtle, use tackle now!" Kevin shouted a command.
"Squirtle!" Squirtle jumped up into the air, and came down onto the rock. The rock was barely dented, yet Squirtle was in pain. it was about to cry.
"Don't cry Squirtle," Kevin sympathized, "try going a little bit higher in the air this time."
"Squirt!" Squirtle sniffed up it's tears and tried once more. Though this time jumping higher in the air, Squirtle still failed to come down on the rock with enough force to make more than a dent on it. Squirtle really wanted to cry.
"Hey, how about this." Kevin smiled lightly at Squirtle's face. He picked Squirtle up and took him further away from the rock and sat it down. "Hey, do you remember yesterday, when you were running away from that machop? Well here's the deal. I want you to pretend like that's happening again, and run straight at that rock. When the time comes, jump as high as you can, and then land straight on it. Got it?"
"Squirtle," Squirtle nodded with tears still in it's eyes. Kevin walked back to the sidelines with Joey.
"I don't get." Joey said, "What are you going to do?"
"When Squirtle was battling back in Cherrygrove city," Kevin explained, "I noticed something. It was running super fast, without even getting tired. I'm not sure, but I remember my dad telling me that pokemon all have different personalities. Strengths and weaknesses that make them who they are. I'm willing to bet that Squirtle's greatest strength is it's speed."
"Woah, that's cool!" Joey said excitedly.
"Alright, now Squirtle!" Kevin commanded.
"Squuuiirttlle!" Squirtle charged at an intense speed at the rock. When it was barely a foot away, it jumped high in the air, then came down, not only making more than a dent in the rock, but smashing it into tiny pieces. Squirtle barely felt it.
"Ha! Wait a go Squirtle!" Kevin wooted.
"Hooray! Hooray!" Joey cheered along. They both ran up to it. Squirtle jumped into Kevin's arms.
"That was really good." Kevin smiled, "Now, it's time for you to learn bubble beam. I just wonder how we're going to do that?"
"Oh, I have an idea." Joey began to turn around, "In the meantime, you should show Squirtle how bubble beam is supposed to look."
"Ok," Kevin waved, unsure of what Joey was planning to do. He turned to Squirtle. "Okay Squirtle. I'm pretty sure I saw a water pokemon use this move in a competition on tv once. It looked like this." Kevin stood on his toes, and began blowing air out of his mouth while making gurgling sound. "See. Now you try."
"Squir," Squirtle nodded, then did the same.
"That was good, but try to make the gurgling sounds for more of an effect." Kevin said repeating the same thing. Squirtle tried once more, making it look even better. "That's really good. Keep going." Soon, Joey returned with his hands behind his back.
"I got two things for Squirtle," He said proudly. He pulled out his right hand, and in it sat a pink bottle. "These are my blowing bubbles. I wanted to do something on my way to meet up with my sisters so I took these before I left home. If Squirtle sees us blowing these, it'll probably get the idea."
"That's a great idea Joey," Kevin said taking the bottle away. He dipped the blowing wand into the bottle, then took it out and began blowing, making a bundle of bubbles flow through the air. Squirtle's face lit up when it saw this. "See Squirtle. You try. Take the wand, and blow through the hole."
"Squirtle," Squirtle looked at the bottle of bubbles curiously. It then took it, and blew. Bubbles flew through the air once again. Squirtle got really excited and started blowing more.
"That's great Squirtle, slow down a little bit though." Kevin said hesitantly. But Squirtle did not slow down, it continued to blow more and more until there was no more bubble liquid in the bottle. Squirtle through the bottle, and began to cry. Kevin picked it up, "Shh, it's okay Squirtle. Joey, go get some more bubbles and quick!"
"I can't," Said Joey, "That was my only bottle. I used most of it when I was playing around yesterday."
"Aw man," Kevin whined still nursing Squirtle, "Now what are we supposed to do."
"Don't worry I have a plan b!" Joey smiled slyly putting out his hands. "Give me Squirtle." Kevin hesitantly handed Squirtle over. "Now open wide Squirtle." Squirtle opened it's mouth, as Joey pulled out a bar of soap, and stuffed it down Squirtle's throat. Squirtle couldn't help but swallow.
"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING!" Kevin exclaimed, quickly grabbing Squirtle away.
"Squirtle needs to make bubbles." Joey smiled proudly. "and since soap makes bubbles it'll work perfectly."
"No Joey," Kevin shook his head, making sure Squirtle was ok, "People aren't supposed to eat soap, and neither are pokemon."
"But it was supposed to be a perfect plan." Joey whined.
"I know you meant to help but," Kevin suddenly looked down at Squirtle.
"Squir.." It moaned, as it's eyes glazed over, and it's face turned green.
"Oh no, Squirtle's getting sick. We have to help it."
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Post by bennyjr123 on Mar 19, 2008 18:17:34 GMT -5
Kevin and Joey ran back to camp as fast as they could. Cara was still working with Chikorita when they arrived. She looked surprised to see them. "What are you guys doing back so early?" She looked at her watch, "I said 3, and it's 1 now. You do know how to tell time right?"
"Haha, very funny." Kevin said sarcastically, "In case you haven't noticed I have a bit of a problem here. Squirtle's not doing so well."
"You can say that again," Cara said taking a look at Squirtle's face. "What happened? It looks like someone took a bucket of paint and splashed on the poor thing."
"Well, it sort of, accidentally ate some soap..." Kevin said guiltily.
"You too knuckleheads fed Squirtle soap?" Cara exclaimed.
"No, I did it." Joey sighed, "It's not Kevin's fault. I made Squirtle eat it, and now it may be in big trouble. I'm sorry."
"Just be glad there's more soap in my backpack." Said Cara.
"Hello!" Kevin interupted, "Can we please focus on the big problem here? Squirtle is sick, and none of us have any idea of how to help it. What are we supposed to do."
"We're miles away from Violet city," Cara thought out loud, "and by the time we're hours away from Cherrygrove City. By the time we find a pokemon center it might be too late."
"This all my fault," Joey sulked.
"It's alright Joey," Kevin patted him on the back, "There's no way you could've known. I just wish there was something we could do for Squirtle."
"Where's the guide book?" Cara asked, looking around for it.
"Here it is," Kevin handed it to her, "But what do you need it for now?"
"There has to be something in here about sick pokemon," Cara flipped through the book. "Aha! Here's a list of healing remedies. This one should be perfect, for pokemon with a belly ache. We'll need to split up to find this stuff. Joey, go around the bushes and get all the oran berries you can find. Chikorita and I will try and find this Sillisweed plant stuff, and Kevin, you should stay here with Squirtle, get a bowl and fill it up with water. There should be one in my bag."
"Okay!" Kevin nodded.
"Don't worry sis, I'll come back with hundreds of oran berries. No, thousands, no millions, even better BILLI-"
"Joey, just hurry up." Cara interupted him.
"Right!" He nodded, turning around and running the other way. Cara did the same in the other direction. Kevin walked over to Cara's bag, and began looking through it. He found a small bowl that he could use.
"Good," He said pulling it out, "Don't worry Squirtle! I'm going to find some nice water for you, and you'll be feeling better in no time."
"Squir..." Squirtle moaned, half awake. Kevin walked to the edge of the route, where there was a stream of water. Probably connected to the one that he and Squirtle had fallen into two nights before. Kevin took the bowl, and ran it under the water, filling it almost to the top. He then returned to camp and waited for the others.
Meanwhile, Joey was searching high and low for any signs of oran berries. He looked on every leaf, branch, and limb he could find, but they were nowhere in sight. He was beginning to lose hope. "This stinks!" He grunted, folding his arms and sinking to the ground. "First I got Squirtle sick, and now I can't find any darn oran berries to help it. I hate this. Huh?" Joey looked up to see a small, round, blue berry hanging on a bush limb right in front of him.
"Hooray!" He cheered, running up to the berry and grabbing it. He pulled on it, but something pulled it right back. "Hey! Give it back!" He said pulling on the berry again. The same thing happened. Joey got up once again, and tugged on the berry, this time not letting go. "Let it go! It's mine, it's mine, it's mine! Give it nowww!" Finally the berry came loose, knocking Joey to the ground and revealing what was on the other side. It was a houndour, who was looking very hungy. It growled at Joey.
"What kind of pokemon are you?" He asked curiously. The houndour growled even more. "Well I don't care. My friend is sick, and i'm taking the berry to it. Goodbye!"
"Howwwlll!" The houndour began to howl. As Joey began to turn around, he heard sounds of fast running feet. Joey quickly turned around to see a larger pack of Houndour behind the original. They were all growling at Joey angrily.
"L-l-leave me alone." He said nervously, backing up. "I-i'm warning you. If you don't-"
"Hou!" The original houndour pounced at Joey.
"WAHHHHH!!!! HELP!" Joey screamed running the other way as fast as he could.
Not much further away, Cara was with Chikorita trying to find the rare plant known as Sillisweed. Down on her knees, she searched. "The book says that Sillisweed is found in shady places." She said, "This should be a perfect spot then right?"
"Chiko chi," Chikorita agreed. Suddenly, both Cara and Chikorita heard a sound coming through the bushes. Both quickly turned around to see Joey running for his life. Cara quickly grabbed him.
"Joey, what the heck are you doing?" She said, "why are you making so much noise?"
"I can't explain I gotta get going before the dogs get me!" He said frantically.
"Dogs? What do-" Cara was interupted by the sound of Houndour barking and running at a high speed. They were coming right for both of them.
"See, I told ya! Come on!" Joey grabbed his sisters hand, and pulled her away. Chikorita followed. All of them ran as fast as their legs could carry them. Doging tree branch after tree branch, bush after bush until they finally made it to their campsite, where Kevin was still sitting nursing Squirtle.
"You're here!" Kevin said excitedly. "You got the stuff right?"
"We got a little side tracked." Cara said running behind Kevin.
"Ya, big time!" Joey said running beside Cara.
"What are you two doing?" Kevin said anxiously, "Stop playing around. We need to give Squirtle the remedy and fast. What's wrong with you?"
"That!" They both said, pointing to the houndour who were growling less than 10 feet away from Kevin.
"WAHHH! WHAT ARE YOU HIDING BEHIND ME FOR?" He screamed, looking for somewhere to hide.
"Well you're the big macho pokemon trainer!" Cara said, "show us some skills!"
"In case you haven't noticed, i'm at a bit of a disadvantage." He retorted sarcastically. "What are a bunch of houndour doing chasing you guys anyway?"
"The one in the front tried to take my berry." Joey said pointing an accusing finger.
"Great. So you ticked it off?" Cara rolled her eyes.
"Did not!" Joey retorted.
"Guys focus!" Kevin shouted. He turned to the houndour nervously. "Look, my friend didn't mean to bother you guys. We just need that berry for our friend Squirtle. See! I'm sorry, but i'm sure there's plenty of berries for you elsewhere around here, right?"
"HOUU!" The all barked ferociously, now beginning to inch closer.
"I don't think they're buying it Kevin." Cara said ducking behind his shoulder. "We're not exactly in any position to battle either. Squirtle's basically k.Oed and a grass pokemon couldn't stand a chance against all these fire-types." The Houndour began to move even closer.
"Squir..." Squirtle slowly began opening it's eyes, trying to regain strength
"Now hold on a second!" Kevin said as firmly as possible. "You guys just need to calm down. I bet we could come to an understanding, if you just cool it with the all the barking and growling."
"Hou!" All the Houndour began charging without warning.
"Wahhhh." Joey screamed.
"This is it," Winced Cara.
"SOMEBODY HELP!" Kevin blurted out. Suddenly, Squirtle bounced out of Kevin's arms and into the air. Kevin looked up at Squirtle, as it took in a deep breath, and began to blow out. An amazing series of bubbles emerged from Squirtle's mouth. They pelted the Houndour like bullets.
"Squuirtt-tle-tle-tle!" Squirtle grunted as it shot out as many bubbles as it could. It finally closed it's mouth and landed on it's feet. The group of Houdour began to wimper of the ground.
"Was that..." Kevin said in disbelief, "was that bubble beam?"
"Atta boy Squirtle!" Joey cheered. All the houndour quickly got up and retreated into the trees.
"That's right! And don't let us catch you here again!" Cara called after them. Chikorita barked after them as well. Kevin quickly ran to Squirtle and picked it up.
"Squirte..." He began, "What did you...h-how did you...when did you..."
"Squirt!" Squirtle interupted him with a smile.
"Haha, and it looks like you're feeling better to." Kevin gave Squirtle a hug. "I don't know how it happened, but I don't even care. I'm just so glad!"
"Squirtle Squirt!" Squirtle hugged him back.
"Weird," Cara said, "Squirtle didn't even need any medicine, and it's feeling so great right now. How is that even possible?"
"I don't know." Kevin shrugged, "Maybe the soap just passed through it's system."
"Or maybe that bubble beam was Squirtle trying to get it out of it's system." She said, "It did look kind of forced."
"So wait a minute." Kevin stood up, "You mean, in a way, Joey's plan actually worked?"
"I guess, half and half, yea!" Cara shrugged.
"Hooray! Hooray! I'm a genious! A genious! Yay!" Joey cheered, jumping up and down.
So now, the gang has learned a new lesson. Some plans, no matter how strange, can sometimes work out in their own way. Now knowing a new move, Kevin, Squirtle, and their friends continue on their way to Violet City.
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