Chapter 1: How the adventure began
Mark lived in a very small village. It was far from all pokémon so no
pokémon trainer came there, and nobody could give away starting pokémon for
kids that wanted to train pokémon.
And that was why Mark thougt he could never become a pokémon trainer.
UNTIL THAT DAY.
Mark was outside with his friends. Then there came a thunderstorm with rain
and they went home, but Mark suddenly saw something moving in the bushes. A
pokémon? He looked, but there was nothing. He went home with the others.
After dinner, he sat down, staring through the window. Were pokémon in the
town? Or was it just the wind? Suddenly, he stood up from the chair. There WAS
something moving out there, and it was NOT the wind! He hurried outside.
On the road was a Charmander and the flame at the tip of its tail was
nearly dead. He picked it up and ran inside. The Charmander opened one eye,
then fainted again.
“Mom! Dad! I – I found a Charmander outside and it is dying!”
“Oh, stop teasing us, Mark,” said his father. “We know very well there are
no pokémon here.”
“No, really! Can you help me a bit!”
“You will have to keep it warm,” said his mother. “Charmanders die if they
become to cold to keep their tail burning.”
He heard his father say something like “do you really believe that stupid
joke” but he didn’t mind. All he was thinking about now was the Charmander. He
put it in his bed, stroke it and made sure the room was warm before he went to
sleep on the floor.
He woke up early in the morning. When his eyes opened, he saw an orange
face with big, black eyes looking at him.
“Charmander! You’re alive!”
“Charmander!”
He sat up and got dressed. Charmander certainly knew who had saved him.
The next day, he started training pokémon, that is, he started walking to
the next city with a Pokémon Center, Cleanwater city. A Suicune was said to
clean the Lake of Purity next to the city every day, and the city’s name came
from that legend. At least, the water was so clear that you could always see
the bottom (and all the Goldeens and Seakings and Magikarps living in the
lake). Once, a Gyarados lived there, but it could never catch prey, as the prey
saw it if it moved in their direction. No one knew where the Gyarados went, as
there was no river in or out of the lake. But, at least, the city had a lot of
legends about pokémon, so many trainers came there, and many trainers need at
least one Pokémon Center and a Pokémon market. As Mark had no pokéballs,
Charmander just walked beside him.
“Charmander, I’ve been thinking...”
“Charmander?”
“What were you doing out there? You can’t be a wild Charmander, then you
would know where to go when it’s raining. Besides, there are no pokémon around
our village.”
Charmander went sad. “Char charmander char mander,” he said.
“A trainer owned you? But – did he leave you?”
“Charmander mander char charmander.”
“Traded you? For what?”
“Char charmander mander.”
“A Quilava? But – no one trades an evolved pokémon for an unevolved pokémon
if they both have three stages in all and are equally strong. It’s like trading
Mewtwo for Magikarp!”
“Charmander charmander char!”
“Sorry, I didn’t mean you were weaker than Magikarp, I...”
“Charmander char char charmander!”
“I didn’t mean Quilava is stronger than Mewtwo either! It’s like... It’s
like... trading Quilava for Charmander.”
“Mander!”
“Yes, but anyway, why did that Quilava trainer accept the trade?”
“Charmander mander charmander, char mander charmander.”
“The Quilava was level fifteen, and he told the other trainer you were also
level fifteen and just about evolving? What level are you then?”
“Charmander.”
“Five? Well, what did the other trainer do when he found out you were only
level five?”
“Char char char mander.”
“Threw your pokéball away so you got out? And for what did you go to our
village?”
“Charmander charmander.”
“Looking for your old trainer? But he betrayed you! He traded you and lied
just to get a stronger Pokémon in exchange for you!”
“Char man der.”
“You are angry with him now so you don’t want to find him anymore? Well,
guess I would be too. Just forget about him... Oh, a house!”
There was a house ahead. They hurried to the house and saw it was a farm,
as there were Miltanks and Tauroses inside a fenced meadow and Ponytas and
Rapidashes inside another, a Meowth was walking around, and a Growlithe was
watching some Mareeps and Swinubs inside another meadow. But a sign in front of
the meadow with the Ponytas and Rapidashes intrested Mark. It said: PONYTAS AND
RAPIDASHES FOR SALE.
Just that moment a woman came out of the house. “How much is a Rapidash?”
Mark asked her.
“40000,” was her answer.
“Oh, I only have 10000. Aren’t the Ponytas cheaper?”
“They’re 20000,” the woman said.
“Can they battle?” Mark asked.
“No, of course not!” the woman said. “They are trained not to attack
anything but in self-defense, and then they are not supposed to use their fire
powers. But of course they can burn people that touch them,” she added when she
saw Mark’s hand was getting close to one of the Ponytas. He quickly withdrew
his hand.
“Can I sleep here tonight? And my Charmander too?” Mark then asked.
“Okay with you, but your Charmander... well, if you make sure it won’t burn
the house, it’s okay.”
“Oh, thanks a lot!”said Mark.
Chapter 2: The great book
They went inside. In a large bookcase Mark saw an intresting-looking book
called Pokémon legends – old and new legendary pokémon and pokémon-related
things. By the size of the book, Mark got the feeling that it included more
than just those normal legendary pokémon everyone has already caught. As a
matter of fact, he also had the feeling that he just had to read that book, so
he asked:
“Can I read a book?”
“Guess you can,” said the woman and went into another room.
“Thanks,” Mark said and drew the book out. It was dusty. The woman
certainly did not seem to be very intrested in reading about legendary pokémon.
He opened the book.
Moltres 10
Mew 13
Mewtwo 16
Molzapart 17
Raikou 18
Entei 21
Suicune 24
Rainteicune 27
Ho-oh 28
Lugia 31
Hogia 34
Celebi 35
Chaletwo 37
Laitos 38
Laitas 40
Waraider 42
Flamer 43
Hydrocean 43
Electrone 43
Leafer 43
Freezer 43
Psycon 43
Darkan 43
Dracolor 44
Dragoreen 45
Dragored 45
Dragoblue 45
Dragold 45
Dragowhite 45
Dragoblack 45
“Wow! Molzapart, Rainteicune, Hogia, Chaletwo, Waraider, Flamer, Hydrocean, Electrone, Leafer,
Freezer, Psycon, Darkan, Dracolor, Dragoreen, Dragored, Dragoblue, Dragold,
Dragowhite, Dragoblack – I’ve never heard of any of those!” Mark was delighted.
He turned to page 17.
Molzapart is a mix between Articuno (see pages 4 -
6), Zapdos (pages 7 – 9), Moltres (pages 10 - 12), and Mew (pages 13 – 15). It is the most powerful pokémon, apart
from Chaz (page 37). There is only one that was born when Articuno, Zapdos,
Moltres and Mew were at Seafoam Islands. They saw the ultra-powerful Mist stone
(see page 58) and thought is was a Geodude, so they attacked it. Articuno used
Blizzard, Zapdos used Thunder, Moltres used Fire blast and Mew used Psychic.
These attacks all hit the Mist stone at once so it broke. Most of the parts
scattered all around the Islands, but, the middle part of the Mist stone was
left. It stood right before the eyes of the legendary birds and Mew, it glowed
after the Fire blast, sparks came out of it because of the Thunder, it was
frozen solid because of the Blizzard and it was flying a few cm from earth
because of Mew’s Psychic. And it turned to life. It transformed into an
ultra-powerful pokémon with Moltes’s head, Zapdos’s body and Articuno’s wings
and tailfeathers. It didn’t look like Mew at all, but it had Mew’s psychic
powers. Why? Who knows. It attacked them with Peck, but they were quick enough
to avoid the attack an run. Then, Molzapart started to train itself and at last
it reached level 100. But it wanted more, it wanted to become the most powerful
pokémon ever, so it trained even more and with help from its psychic powers, it
finally managed to get over level 100 with experience. When it then reached
level 255, it used all of its psychic powers to get farther and got itself to
level 256. After that, it had to rest for three years but then it could train
itself for ever without help from the psychic powers. No one knows for now what
level Molzapart is currently on. Molzapart learns these attacks:
--- Peck
6 Thundershock
7 Ember
8 Powder
snow
9 Gust
18 Icy
wind
20 Wing
attack
22 Flame
wheel
23 Spark
24 Psybeam
26 Fly
30 Drill
peck
34 Psychic
35 Thunderbolt
36 Flamethrower
37 Ice
beam
40 Aeroblast
41 Sacred
fire
42 Zap
cannon
45 Fire
spin
50 Blizzard
51 Fire
blast
52 Thunder
55
Sky
attack
Molzapart is Fire/Electric/Ice/Psychic/Flying-type and can know five attacks at the same time. Its pokédex data is “If some trainer thinks he can capture it, nothing can stop it from killing the trainer and his pokémon and use its psychic powers to make everyone forget the trainer, even his parents.”
“Better not try to catch that one,” Mark thought. “What about
Rainteicune?”
He turned to page 27.
Rainteicune
Rainteicune is a mix between
Raikou (page 18), Entei (page 21) and Suicune (page 24). It was born when Raikou, Entei and Suicune were on their
race around the Johto world when a terrible thing happened; they all crashed
into each other. It knocked them out, of course, and they all died there.
Suicune died first. It turned into a pool of dirty water. But when the water
touched Entei’s body, it died, too, and turned into ashes. But just as the
water touched Entei, it touched Raikou, wich was still alive, but couldn’t move
or even open its eyes. Without thinking, it let of its last Thunder in defense,
and then died.
The little life left in Raikou went with the
Thunder straight to the place where Suicune’s water and Entei’s body touched
each other and Entei died. A Thunder with some life in it can turn dead pokémon
back to life. So the Thunder with Raikou’s life turned Entei and Suicune back
to life and the three mixed into the resulting pokémon, Rainteicune, wich had
Suicune’s head and “ribbons”, Raikou’s body and tail and Entei’s “clouds” and
feet. Rainteicune is Fire/Water/Electric-type and learns these attacks:
--- Bubble
6 Thundershock
7 Ember
10 Bubblebeam
11 Spark
12 Flame
wheel
18 Fire
spin
22 Surf
23 Thunderbolt
24 Flamethrower
30 Rain
dance
36 Hydro
pump
37 Thunder
38 Fire
blast
Rainteicune’s maximum stats at level 100 are: 433
HP, 328 Attack, 328 Defense, 328 Speed, 328 Special Attack, 328 Special
Defense.
“That’s a good one,” Mark thought. “I’ll bet Hogia is some mix between Ho-oh and Lugia.” And he turned to page 34.
Hogia looks very much like Ho-oh (page 28) but the
feathers on the head are different and also the colors of the
tail-and-wingfeathers. It also learns different attacks. It learns Aeroblast,
wich only Lugia (page 31) learns apart from Molzapart (page 17), wich after all
knows every damaging attack of Fire, Electric, Ice, Psychic and Flying. That’s
why it’s caled Hogia. It is Fire/Flying-type and learns:
--- Gust
--- Peck
--- Transform
--- Ember
17
Metal
claw
27
Whirlwind
37
Wing
attack
47
Flamethrower
57 Sacred
fire
67
Stare
77
Aeroblast
87
Fire
blast
97
Hyper
beam
“A mysterious pokémon with Transform. Would be good with Sacred fire,
Aeroblast, Metal claw and Whirlwind. Let’s look at Chaletwo,” Mark muttered and turned to page 37.
Chaletwo is equally powerful as Molzapart (page
17). Only one exists once every year. It always appears at the same place, just
out of Green town, in the grass down from the Pokémon center. It appears at 4:
26: 45 PM at the 25th of May. There is a clock in the pokémon center that tells
the exact timing for people that want to see Chaletwo. It looks like a Mewtwo
(page 16) except that its eyes are
extremely powerful and it has to keep its eyes closed to avoid destroying
everything. It travels across time like Celebi (page 35) and always travels one
year to the future, turns to every direction and then goes again. Chaletwo’s eyelids are the only thing that can
resist the power streaming from its eyes, and even with its eyes closed, Chaletwo can see through anything. When it’s
turning on it’s once-a-year appearence, it’s actually checking the whole Earth
for bad problems. The truth is that even though it’s a Dark/Psychic type, it’s
good, not evil, and if it sees a really bad problem, it travels back to the
start of the problem and tries to fix it. Chaletwo also thinks very fast, so it does not need to
stop to think, wich means the Earth is scanned for bad problems once a year and
Chaletwo will fix everything
that goes wrong. Just as it has turned around, tons of information stream to
its brain and Chaletwo has worked it all out and is gone before you can say anything. Chaletwo’s Psychic powers are incredibly strong,
it has very powerful stats and is level 4739 when this is written. Its Special
attack and Speed are rumoured to be even higher than Molzapart’s, but the
Attack, Defense and Special defense of Molzapart are slightly higher than Chaletwo’s. When Chaletwo opens its eyes, one could see they are
bright yellow if one wouldn’t be dead before, but it never does. The attack
when it opens its eyes is called Death Stare. It also knows Psychic, Future
Sight and Teleport, and Chaletwo can also learn Mirror coat, Ancient power, Mind reader, Confusion, Psybeam,
Psych up, Psywave, Recover, Reflect and Barrier. Its abilities to control the
weather are also said to give it Gust, Whirlwind, Powder Snow, Blizzard,
Thunder, Rain dance, Sunny day, Sandstorm, Earthquake, Haze, Mist, Icy wind,
Moonlight, Morning Sun, Razor leaf, Razor wind, and Solarbeam.
“Wow! It’s the 10th of May today! If I get to Green town within two weeks,
I can see it!” Mark was exited. He turned to page 42.
Waraider is a legendary pokémon that few people
know. It is a white flying unicorn, Normal/Flying type, and knows Horn attack,
Fury attack, Horn Drill, Wing attack, Double kick, Jump kick, Hi jump kick,
Stomp, Mega kick and Gust. Its evolutions all know these attacks and more, they
will all be described on the next page. Waraider and its evolutions all race
around in company, and try not to be caught. They are said once to have been
only Waraiders, but when they were all near a town, some kids started throwing
stones at them, but didn’t notice many of the stones they threw at them were
evolution stones which evolved the Waraiders as they hit them. The pokémon ran
away, only two of them were still Waraiders, and one unfortunately stepped on a
part of the Mist stone (page 58) and evolved too. After that, the last Waraider
became the leader of them all.
Flamer
Flamer is the fire evolution of Waraider, evolved
with a Fire stone. In addition to Waraider’s moves, it learns Ember, Fire spin,
Flame wheel, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Sunny day, Sacred fire, Morning sun, and
Fire punch. Its tail and mane are made of fire, like Ponyta’s, but its body is
white.
Hydrocean
Hydrocean is the water evolution of Waraider,
evolved with a Water stone. In addition to Waraider’s moves, it learns Water
gun, Waterfall, Hydro pump and Rain dance. Its tail is a waterfall and its mane
is a river. Its body is deep blue.
Electrone
Electrone is the electric evolution of Waraider,
evolved with a Thunderstone. In addition to Waraider’s moves, it learns
Thundershock, Thunder wave, Spark, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Thunderpunch and Zap
cannon. Its horn is a little shaped like a bolt of lightning and its mane and
tail are always sparkling. Its body is bright yellow.
Leafer
Leafer is
the grass evolution of Waraider, evolved with a Leaf stone. In addition to
Waraider’s moves, it learns Razor leaf, Solarbeam, Synthesis, Absorb, Mega
drain, Giga drain and Leech seed. Its tail, mane and wings are not made of hair
and feathers, but leaves. Its body is white.
Freezer
Freezer is the ice evolution of Waraider, evolved
with a Mist stone. In addition to Waraider’s moves, it learns Powder snow,
Mist, Haze, Ice beam, Icy wind, Aurora beam, Ice punch and Blizzard. It is cold
to the touch and its tail, mane, horn and wings are light blue. Its body is
white.
Psycon
Psycon is the psychic evolution of Waraider,
evolved with a Sun stone. In addition to Waraider’s moves, it learns Confusion,
Psybeam, Teleport, Barrier, Light screen, Mirror coat, Psych up, Amnesia,
Agility, Future sight, Hypnosis, Dream eater, Meditate, Kinesis, Psychic,
Psywave, Reflect and Rest. Its mane, tail, wings and horn are purple, but the
body is white.
Darkan
Darkan is a little different from the others, as
its wings are those of a bat and it has sharp teeth. It is the dark evolution
of Waraider, evolved with a Moon stone. In addition to Waraider’s moves, it
learns Pusuit, Bite, Crunch, Faint attack and Thief. It is completely black.
“Those are interesting... but I’d like to see Dracolor!” Mark turned to page 44.
This is a baby pokémon. It can evolve into
Dragoreen, Dragored, Dragoblue, Dragold, Dragowhite or Dragoblack. They all
learn different moves at different
levels. Dracolor starts with Bite and Tail whip but doesn’t learn anything
else. It’s a Dragon/Flying type, although the wings are small and can barely
keep it in the air. It evolves at level twenty, but it will always evolve into
Dragoreen if nothing special is done. According to the legend, it needs to be
treated in a special way in order for it to evolve into other evolutions. Those
“requerements” will be described on the next page. Dracolor is a Baby dragon
pokémon. Its evolutions are Dragon pokémon. Dracolor is green, but its color
changes when it evolves into an “advaced” evolution, or so are the evolutions
that need special requerements called.
“Now, THAT’s a true legendary! A dragon! The evolutions must be cool!” Mark
turned to the next page.
Its name comes from “Dragon” and “Green”. It is
green and it is the regular evolution of Dracolor. Its type is Dragon/Fire/Flying
and it has high Special attack, very low Attack, medium Special defense, medium
Defense, and high Speed. Its attacks are:
--- Bite
--- Tail
whip
11
Dragon
rage
22 Slam
33 Dragonbreath
44
Flamethrower
55
Outrage
Dragored
Its name comes from “Dragon” and “Red”. It is red
and it is the Fire evolution of Dracolor. Its type is Fire/Dragon/ Flying and
it has very high Special attack, very low Attack, low Special defense, medium
Defense, and high Speed. Its attacks are:
--- Bite
--- Tail
whip
--- Ember
11
Dragon
rage
22
Flame
wheel
33
Slam
44
Flamethrower
55
Dragonbreath
66
Fire
blast
77
Outrage
Its requerements are hatching the Dracolor at day in open land, having a Fire pokémon all the time of hatching, Fire attacks (have to be damaging) need to be used on Dracolor, and no Water attacks may have been used on Dracolor (do NOT have to be damaging) – all BEFORE Dracolor evolves.
Its name comes from “Dragon” and “Blue”. It is
blue and it is the Water evolution of Dracolor. Its type is Water/Dragon/Flying
and it has very high Special attack, very low Attack, low Special defense,
medium Defense, and high Speed. Its attacks are:
--- Bite
--- Tail
whip
--- Water
gun
11 Dragon
rage
22 Slam
33 Hydro
pump
44 Outrage
Its requerements are hatching the Dracolor in water, having a Water pokémon all the time of hatching, Water attacks (have to be damaging) need to be used on Dracolor, and no Ice attacks may have been used on Dracolor (do NOT have to be damaging) – all BEFORE Dracolor evolves.
Its name comes from “Dragon” and “Gold”. It is
golden and it is the Steel evolution of Dracolor. Its type is
Dragon/Fire/Steel/Flying and it has high Special attack, medium Attack, low
Special defense, medium Defense, and medium Speed. Its attacks are:
--- Bite
--- Tail
whip
11 Dragon
rage
22 Pay
day
33 Slam
44
Dragonbreath
55
Flamethrower
66 Outrage
Its name comes from “Dragon” and “White”. It is
white and it is the Ice evolution of Dracolor. Its type is Ice/Dragon/ Flying
and it has very high Special attack, very low Attack, low Special defense,
medium Defense, and high Speed. Its attacks are:
--- Bite
--- Tail
whip
--- Powder
snow
11 Dragon
rage
22 Aurora
beam
33 Slam
44
Ice
beam
55
Blizzard
66 Outrage
Its requerements are hatching the Dracolor in the Ice cave, having an Ice pokémon all the time of hatching, Ice attacks (have to be damaging) need to be used on Dracolor, and no Fire attacks may have been used on Dracolor (do NOT have to be damaging) – all BEFORE Dracolor evolves.
Its name comes from “Dragon” and “Black”. It is
black and it is the Dark and Poison evolution of Dracolor. Its type is
Dragon/Fire/Poison/Dark/Flying and it has very high Special attack, very low
Attack, low Special defense, medium Defense, and high Speed. Its attacks are:
--- Bite
--- Tail
whip
--- Water
gun
11 Dragon
rage
22 Poison
fang
33 Slam
44
Dragonbreath
55
Flamethrower
66
Crunch
77 Outrage
Its requerements are hatching the
Dracolor at night, having a Poison and a Dark pokémon all the time of hatching,
Poison attacks (have to be damaging)
need to be used on Dracolor, and Dark attacks have to be used on Dracolor – all
BEFORE Dracolor evolves.
The next page, page 46, had a note on it.
As the author of a book about legendary pokémon, I
had to talk to many people. One, who chose to remain unnamed, told me about
Molzapart and Rainteicune, and said he/she had seen both of them, knew their
attacks and even pokedex datas. What you see in this book about them is exactly
what that person told me. The information on the others comes from the legends
mentioning them.
Mark closed the book, turned to Charmander and said:
“Charmander – I’m going to be a legendary collector! I’m going to catch
every single legendary pokémon in the world!”
Chapter 3: Mark gets his second pokémon
The next day, Mark and his Charmander continued their pokémon journey.
“Charmander, do you want to evolve?” Mark suddenly asked.
“Charmander? Char mander Charmander?”
“Yes, I am asking you! I won’t make you evolve if you don’t want to. And
you will learn attacks faster if you don’t. A Squirtle can know Hydro pump
while a Blastoise at the same level only knows Water gun. There’s nothing
really wrong about not evolving a pokémon. But, of course... you will be
stronger as a Charizard.”
“Char... mander. Charmander. Char char mander charmander.”
“You want to evolve? Okay then. I was just thinking about my future team.”
They kept walking for a while. Then Mark saw a pokémon – a Rattata.
“Charmander, go!”
“Char!”
“Rattatt!”
“Charmander – Scratch! And again and again!”
“Char! Man! Der!”
“Rattattatt!” Rattata used Tackle.
“Charmander – keep scratching until you win!”
“Charmander! Charmander! Char man der!”
“Raaaatt!” Rattata fainted.
“That was easy!” said Mark and they went on.
“As Charizard, Charmander could have Fire blast, and Wing attack...
Earthquake... and something, maybe Swords dance... that would beat grass, ice,
steel, fighting, bug, rock, electric, poison and fire...” Mark muttered. “Then
I would still need something to beat normal, water, ground, flying, psychic,
rock, ghost and dragon... that’s eight to go... dragon can only be beaten with
dragon and ice...”
“Charmander!”
“A pokémon? Where?” Mark asked. Charmander used Ember on a bush, and out
ran... an Eevee!
“Wow! Eevees are incredibly rare nowadays, I just HAVE to catch it! And you
must be over level seven now, as you could use Ember... Oh, I forgot I have no
pokéballs. What can I do now?”
But the Eevee was no longer running away. It just sat two or three meters
away from them, shaking with fear. A quiet “Eeeveee” was the only sound it
made.
“Charmander?” Charmander said carefully.
“Eeeee!” the Eevee shrieked, taking a few steps backwards. Then Mark saw
something on the ground – it was a pokéball, just when he needed it.
“Pokéball, go!” he shouted and threw the pokéball at the poor Eevee that
didn’t dare to move.
“Charmander!”
Charmander suddenly jumped up and punched the pokéball back to Mark.
“Charmander charmander!” he said angrily.
“Scared?” Mark looked at the Eevee. It most certainly was.
“Don’t be scared, I won’t hurt you,” Mark said as his hand reached for the
Eevee and stroke the soft fur. Then he picked it up. A loud “eeeee!” came from
the eevee at first, but then it became quiet.
“Better hurry to Cleanwater city,” said Mark to Charmander. They ran a
little longer and, to their great relief, they saw some lights.
“That must be Cleanwater city!” said Mark. “We’re almost there!”
After a few minutes, they arrived at the Cleanwater city Pokémon center.
Once inside, Mark went to nurse Joy and asked her: “Um, I think there’s
something wrong with this Eevee, it wouldn’t fight, it just stood there and did
nothing when I found it.”
“Oh, this Eevee is obivously very young, it just must have been scared, the
poor thing.” Nurse Joy scratched the Eevee’s ears and it looked happy. “But it
might need something to eat. Wait here.” And nurse Joy got a bowl of some
pokémon food for Eevee and Charmander.
“There’s a pokémon gym here, right?” Mark asked.
“Yes, but the gym leader, Rick, is not a very... kind sort of man. He uses
legendary pokémon and he is very strong. It is said that he caught legendary
pokémon with Master balls and then cloned them and released the originals. The
clones are stronger, but their powers make them care less about the trainer’s
orders, and that makes their hits not as strong as the originals’. But that’s
only a rumour... Well, there are more sick pokémon around, and your Eevee and
Charmander have finished eating. We hope to see you again.” She went to some
other trainers.
“Let’s go,” said Mark, and they went out of the pokémon center.
Mark went to buy pokéballs while Eevee and Charmander searched for the
pokémon gym. They found the gym easily, it was a huge building in the center of
the city. There were also signs all over that made the gym very easy to find.
Then the met Mark just outside the pokémon market.
“Hi. Did you find the gym?” Mark asked.
“Charmander.”
“Eevee!”
“Okay, good. But Eevee, are you... do you want to be... my pokémon? Do you
want me to train you and travel with me?”
“Eeee!” Eevee nodded and licked Mark’s hand.
“All right then. You will need to go into that ball.” Mark held out a
pokéball, and Eevee turned into a red beam of light that disappeared into the
ball.
“And Charmander, here’s your pokéball,” said Mark and held out another
ball.
“Charmander. Char charmander charmander.” Charmander shock its head.
“Don’t want to go into a ball? Well, I guess you can just walk beside me
like you’ve done since we started, I can understand that pokéballs remind you
of your former trainer. It’s okay. Hey, I also bought a pokédex.” He pointed
his brand-new pokédex at Charmander. “Let’s see how much you grew when battling
that Rattata.”
“Charmander, lizard pokémon. If the flame at the tip of its tail dies, so
does this fire pokémon.”
“Yeah, I know, tell me the level,” said Mark, rather impatiently.
“A level 7 Charmander should know Scratch, Growl, and Ember,” said the
voice of the pokédex. “Level seven? That’s two levels against one Rattata. It
must have been pretty high level... anyway, we’ll need to train a lot.” And
then they went out of the city to train for the gym.
Chapter 4: Training and battling
As Mark and Charmander, along with Eevee in its pokéball, went out of
Cleanwater city to the Lake of Purity, Mark saw a lot of tourists. He knew
people came from all over the world to see how clean the water was, but he
never thought there were so many. When he got to the lake itself, he looked at
the water and saw why: the water was very deep, and very large, but the bottom
could as easily be seen as the grass on the bank. And as the water was so pure,
many pokémon prefered drinking that water.
Mark saw a sign, mainly for telling tourists the depth and size of the lake, but also had a legend written on it: the Gyarados that disappeared and the Suicune that cleans the lake. It said:
Once, not so long time ago, a Gyarados lived in
the Lake. It had evolved from a Magikarp said to be actually powerful. It
evolved after beating a trainer that came to the lake with his weakest pokémon
to battle some Magikarps. In those times, the water was icky. The Gyarados
caught fish and could easily hide. No one could get rid of it and soon all the
fish was hiding and didn’t dare to move when the people of the city were
fishing. This made people hungry and in the end, everyone was making their own
mixtures to kill the Gyarados and get the fish back. They poured them into the
lake and even though each mixture was only supposed to kill the Gyarados, it
made the whole lake poisonous. All the fish was dying, and people who drank the
water were dying, even after cleaning it as well as they could. The Gyarados,
however, was not harmed at all. Then a woman prayed for help, and a Suicune
rushed to the lake, dipped one paw into it and it was perfectly clear. Then it
ran away again.
The next day, the Suicune came again to clean the
water, and then it visited the woman’s house, told her it would come every day
thereafter to clean the lake, and that she should not worry about the Gyarados.
The next day, everyone saw how the purity of the
lake annoyed the Gyarados. All the fish saw it from the other end of the lake,
and it couldn’t hide anywhere. And the day after that, it was nowhere to be
found. As no rivers run in or out of the lake, it is still a mystery what
became of the Gyarados. Who knows, maybe it can fly, after all Gyarados is a
Water/Flying type pokémon.
“That’s interesting,” Mark said. “Perhaps I will find it. Well, let’s start
training.”
Just at that moment, he heard someone say: “A pokémon trainer? What about a
battle?” He turned around and saw it was a blue-haired girl about his age. She
had a pokéball in her hand and she was throwing it up and catching it again. He
could also see that in the belt around her waist, she had one more pokémon.
“Okay! Let’s begin!”
“Go, Butterfree!”
“Freeeeh!”
“Go, Charmander!”
“Chaaar!”
“Butterfree, String shot!”
“Freeeeee!” Butterfree covered Charmander in threads.
“Charmander, Ember!”
“Chaaaaaar!” Charmander set Butterfree’s wings on fire.
“Butterfree, Confusion!”
“Freeh!” A blast of psychic powers hit Charmander, and it fainted.
“Oh, no! Charmander, come back! Go, Eevee!”
“Eeee!”
“Free!” Butterfree’s wings were still burning.
“Eevee, Tackle!”
“Vee!” Butterfree fainted.
“Come back, Butterfree! Go, Skarmory!”
“Skaaaaaar!”
“Eevee, crouch to the ground, and Skarmory can’t hurt you!”
“You think so! Skarmory, Swift!”
“Skaaaaaaaaar!” The Swift almost made Eevee faint.
“Eevee, don’t give up! Jump on Skarmory and drag it to the ground!”
“Skarmory, fly higher!”
“Eee!”
“Skaaa!” Eevee caught hold of Skarmory’s tailfeathers and they crashed.
Both of them seemed to have fainted, when...
“Eeeveee!”
“I won! I won!” Mark was delighted. “Eevee, come back!”
“Skarmory, return,” the girl said. “You’re a pretty good trainer. What is
your name?”
“I’m Mark,” Mark said.
“My name’s May. Are we friends, then?”
“Friends!” They shook hands.
“Anyway, I need to go. I have to train a lot.” May hurried off.
Then, Mark took out his pokédex and pointed it at Eevee.
“Eevee, evolution pokémon. It has many possible ways to evolve, as its
genetic code is very unstable. At level 9, Eevee should know Tackle, Tail whip,
and Sand-attack,” said the pokédex voice.
“Level nine? I need to train Charmander as soon as I’ve healed it!”
Then he went to the Cleanwater pokémon center.
After Mark healed Eevee and Charmander, they went back to the lake.
“Charmander charmander charmander?” Charmander asked.
“Oh, that’s a good idea. Eevee, come out for a minute.” He let Eevee out of
the pokéball.
“I asked Charmander, so it is just fair that I ask you too. Do you want to
evolve?”
“Vee?”
“Yes, you can. Didn’t you know?”
“Eevee.” It shook its head.
“Well, you can easily evolve into Vaporeon, Jolteon, or Flareon. Vaporeon
is a water pokémon that can turn itself into water and then back to its normal
form. Jolteon is an electric pokémon covered with spikes that it can shoot at
the enemy. Flareon is a fire pokémon that can blow fire over 5,000 degrees. And
then, you can evolve into Espeon or Umbreon, but that is much more difficult.
Espeon is a psychic pokémon that has a glowing crystal on its forehead. Umbreon
is a dark pokémon that can hardly be seen in the dark. Well, do you want to
evolve, or do you not?”
“Eevee vee.”
“Want to? Well, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon or Umbreon?”
“Eevee.”
“Don’t mind? Well, I wouldn’t want to make you an Espeon or Umbreon, that
would take ages, and I already have a fire pokémon – that means either Vaporeon
or Jolteon. We’ll see. Well, Charmander, you’d better be trained too. Two
levels needed to tie with Eevee.” And Mark recalled Eevee into its pokéball,
and soon they were back at the lake.
“Well, the question is: Where are the pokémon?” Just as Mark said
that, a wild Sandshrew appeared.
“Shreeew!”
“Charmander, go!”
“Chaar!”
“Shrew!” Sandshrew used Scratch.
“Charmander – Ember!”
“Chaaaar!”
“Pokéball, go!” The ball wobbled once, it wobbled twice, and...
“Shreew!” an angry Sandshrew popped out and used Sand-attack.
“Oh, no! Charmander, use Ember and try to hit if you can!”
“Char!” Ember missed.
“Shreew!” Sandshrew used Defense curl.
“Charmander – Ember!”
“CHAAR!” A really angry Charmander used Ember on Sandshrew.
“Pokéball, go!” Mark shouted. The ball wobbled once, it woobled twice, it
wobbled three times, it wobbled for the fourth time, and...
“YES! YES! I caught a Sandshrew!” Mark picked up the pokéball and pointed
the pokédex at it.
“Sandshrew, mouse pokémon. This pokémon can dig very fast and it can also
curl up in a ball so that almost no attack can hurt it. At level 13, Sandshrew
should know Scratch, Defense curl, Poison sting and Sand-attack.”
“Level thirteen! No wonder it popped out of the ball! Charmander, we need to
find another pokémon.”
After a long search, they found a Pidgeotto.
“Pidgeooott!”
“Charmander, go!”
“Charmander!”
“Charmander – Ember!”
“Chaar!”
“Ottottott!” Pidgeotto used Gust.
“Charmander, Ember!”
“Chaaar!”
“Pidgeoooott!” Pidgeotto used Quick attack.
“Charmander – one more Ember!”
“Chaaaaaaar!” Pidgeotto fainted.
“Good, Charmander! You really did great!” Mark pointed the pokédex at
Charmander.
“At level 10, Charmander should know Scratch, Growl and Ember.”
“Level ten? Then it’s time to train Eevee!”
And so he kept training.
Chapter 5: Legendary pokémon
Late in the evening, Mark had trained all three of his pokémon to level 15.
“Whew... time to go and find a hotel.” Mark said and recalled Sandshrew
back to its pokéball. “Charmander, go first so I can see the road by the light
of your tail.” But they had only taken a few steps when Mark suddenly felt
something. He turned around, and Charmander seemed to feel it too as it also
turned around.
Then they saw it. A large, blue shadow that stopped by the water. Then it
looked up and its graceful shape suddenly could be seen by the moonlight.
It was Suicune.
It dipped one paw carefully into the water, and then it rushed off at great
speed. Then, another, fearful shape rose from the water, a sea monster, or rather,
a Gyarados.
“It’s the legendary Gyarados that disappeared! I’m going to catch it! I
swear that I’m going to catch it!” Mark whispered.
Then, he
shouted:“Hey, you ugly version of Magikarp! Stay here and face me like a
pokémon!”
“Gyaaaaro!” it roared.
“Go, Eevee!
“Eeevee!”
“Eevee, Sand-attack! It must not hit you!”
“Ee!”
“Gyaaaaaro!” roared the Gyarados.
“Eevee, Tackle!”
“Eeee!”
“Gyaaar!” Gyarados tried to use Bite, but missed.
“Eevee, Tackle! And just keep tackling!”
“Eeeevee!”
“Gyaaar!!” Gyarados missed again with Bite.
“Eee!” Eevee used Tackle again.
“Gyaaaaroo!” Gyarados missed once again with Bite.
“Eeevee!” Eevee Tackled once again.
“Gyaaaaaaar!” Gyarados used Bite again, but didn’t miss this time. Eevee
fainted.
“Oh, no! Eevee, return! Do it, Sandshrew!”
“Shreeew!”
“Sandshrew, Sand-attack!”
“Shrreeew!”
“Gyaaaro!” Gyarados used Bite, but it was not near to hitting.
“Sandshrew, Scratch!”
“Shreeeew!”
“Gyaaaaaaaar!” Gyarados missed once again.
“Sandshrew, Scratch until you win!”
“Shreew!”
“Gyaaar!” Gyarados used Bite and Sandshrew fainted.
“Sandshrew, come back! Go! Charmander!”
“Chaaar!”
“Charmander, Smokescreen so it can’t hit you!”
“Chaar!”
“Gyyaaaaar!” Gyarados tried to use Bite, but it missed.
“Charmander, uh... well... do something!”
“Chaar!” Charmander used Ember. It didn’t damage Gyarados much.
“Gyyaaaaaaaaaro!” Gyarados missed with its well-known Bite attack.
“CHAAAAAAAAAR!” Charmander blew a blast of flames at the Gyarados.
“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaroooo!” Gyarados was falling.
“Pokéball, go!!!” Mark shouted and threw a pokéball. It wobbled once, it
wobbled twice, it wobbled for the third time, it wobbled one again, and...
“I did it! I did it!!!!! I caught the legendary Gyarados that disappeared!”
“Char!”
“What’s wrong, Charmander?” It was glowing white, and it was growing
larger, and then it stopped glowing.
“Meleon!”
“Congratutations, you evolved into Charmeleon!”
“Char...mele...on!”
Mark pointed the pokédex at Charmeleon.
“Charmeleon, flame pokémon. This pokémon is known to blow out blueish-white
flames when excited. At level 16, Charmeleon should know Scratch, Growl, Ember
and Smokescreen.”
“Meleon!”
“Let’s go. I’m sure we can beat that Rick guy now, but first let’s find a
hotel.”
When they were back in town, Mark healed his pokémon and went to the Cleanwater
hotel, a large building beside the gym. He got a room for him and his pokémon
at the tenth floor. When he was up in the room, he looked at the city through
the window. Who would know what challenges awaited him in the gym? Would he
catch the Suicune? He let Eevee, Charmander and Sandshrew out of their
pokéballs, but Gyarados was too big for the room. He told them to find a place
they liked to sleep, but he went to sleep in the bed.
“Good night, Charmander, Eevee and Sandshrew. We’ll cream that Rick
tomorrow.” Then he fell asleep.
Mark woke up early and went to the gym. Outside of it, there was a sign
saying: “CLEANWATER CITY GYM – LEADER: RICK – The Low Level Legendary pokémon
trainer!” When he entered, he saw he was on a large battlefield with a pool of
water in the middle. On the other end there was a large ironic door. A trainer
approached him and said: “Hey, I’m first up! You can’t battle Rick just like
that!”
“Let’s begin!” Mark said.
“Go! Arcanine!”
“Aaaarr!”
“Go! Gyarados!”
“Gyaaaaro!”
“Arcanine, Extremespeed!”
“Arrc!”
“Hey! Arcanine doesn’t learn Extremespeed until level 50!”
“It’s cloned, you fool,” said the trainer.
“Cloned?”
“Yes. Arcanine – Extremespeed!”
“You... you... okay, Gyarados – Bite!”
“Gyaaaaaaaro!” Arcanine fainted.
“Arcanine, return! Go, Zapdos!”
“Dooooos!”
“How the heck did you get... oh, forget it. Gyarados, come back! Go,
Sandshrew!”
“Shreeew!”
“Zapdos – Drill peck!”
“Dooooos!”
“Sandshrew, quick! Dig to dodge the... oh yes, you can’t dig through the
floor... uh, just curl up and roll out of the way!”
“Shreew!”
“Zapdos – Drill peck again!”
“Sandshrew – keep rolling so it won’t hit you!”
Then, a very funny pursuit began. Sandshrew rolled around the whole
battlefield, closely followed by Zapdos, which flew at its highest speed after
Sandshrew, trying to peck it. In the end, both of them fell to the floor,
completely exhausted.
“Zapdos, return! Go, Articuno!”
“Cuuuuuno!”
“Sandshrew, return! Go, Charmeleon!”
“Char meleon!”
“Articuno, Mind reader!”
“Aaaaaart!” Articuno’s eyes glowed, focusing on Charmeleon.
“Charmeleon, Ember!”
“Chaaaaaaaaaar!!” Articuno melted into a pool of water, filled with
feathers.
“Yuck! Articuno, come back! Go, Moltres!”
“Moooool!”
“Charmeleon, that’s enough! Go, Gyarados!”
“Gyaaaaaaro!”
“Moltres, Sky attack!” Moltres started glowing.
“Gyarados, uh, well, It could be dangerous for you to use Bite when it’s
glowing like that... hey, I know it sounds stupid, but – Splash!”
Gyarados started to laugh, that is, to roar wildly between catching his
breath. The other trainer also laughed, fell to the floor and rolled around of
laughter. He reminded Mark strongly of Sandshrew. Even Moltres’s glow was
flashing, like it wasn’t concentrating. Finally, even Mark started to laugh.
“No, really, Gyarados, use Splash!” he choked in the end.
“Gyar...” Gyarados said lousily and Splashed. It was obivously supposed to
be funny, as Gyarados laughed even more, but a large Gyarados using Splash can
make a lot of water splash around. They all became wet and stopped laughing.
But Moltres, being a Fire pokémon, could not stand the water. It fainted.
“Moltres, return,” the trainer said in a hollow voice. “Okay. You beat me. But the next trainer will cream you!”
The door opened into another identical battlefield. When Mark was at the other side of the door, a nurse stopped him and said: “Wait. You want me to heal your pokémon, don’t you?”
“Oh, thanks, I forgot,” Mark said and handed her the pokéballs. She put
them one by one into a Pocket healer (A small machine you can put a pokéball in
and press a button to heal it). Then she gave them to Mark again, smiling.
“Good luck,” she said.
“Thanks,” Mark replied and went on to the middle of the battlefield. He saw
the door he went through close automatically. Then a trainer came.
“Let’s begin!”
“Fine for me,” Mark said and took out Sandshrew’s pokéball.
“Go, Raikou!”
“Raikou!”
“Sandshrew, I choose you!”
“Shreeeew!”
“Raikou, Crunch!”
“Sandshrew, curl up, but have your Poison sting out and put poison in its
mouth!”
“Raiiikou!” Raikou tried to catch Sandshrew with its teeth, but biting in a
ball is very hard, so it just rolled out again. Sandshrew, however, stung it in
its mouth and poison leaked out.
“Raikou, Swift!”
“Kou!”
“Sandshrew, Defense curl!”
“Shrew!”
“Raikou, Swift!”
“Kou!” Sandshrew almost fainted.
“Sandshrew, Defense curl!”
“Shrew!”
“Raikou, Roar!”
“AAAARRRRRRaikou!” Sandshrew suddenly turned into a red beam of light and
disappeared into the pokéball.
“Hey, Sandshrew! What do you think you’re doing!? Well, go, Eevee!”
“Veeeeee!”
“Raikou, Thunderrrr!”
“Raiiikou!” A blast of lightnings hit Eevee and it fainted. But now, the
poison had hurt Raikou so much it just fell to the floor.
“Raikou, come back! Go, Entei!”
“Entei!”
“Go! Charmeleon!”
“Meleon!”
“Entei, Stomp!”
“Charmeleon, quick! Smokescreen!” The whole room got covered with smoke.
Entei missed with Stomp.
“Entei, Sunny day!” Suddenly, sunlight shone through the smoke and it
dissolved into the air.
“Charmeleon, Ember!”
“Chaaaar!”
“Entei, Stomp!”
“Entei!”
“Charmeleon, keep using Scratch!”
“Char! Mele! On!” Entei fainted.
“Entei, come back! Do it, Suicune!”
“Suicuuuuuuune!”
“Charmeleon, you won’t stand a change! Go, Gyarados!”
“Gyaaaar!”
“Suicune, Bubblebeam!”
“Cuuuune!”
“Dive, Gyarados!” The bubbles covered the room, but couldn’t reach
Gyarados, that watched just under the surface of the water.
“Gyarados, Bite!”
“Gyaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrooo!” Gyarados rose from the water and bit Suicune. But
when it had dropped Suicune again, Suicune looked at the Gyarados and then just
stood there and did nothing.
“The Suicune... it’s cloned from the one that cleans the lake! It must know
Gyarados!” Mark whispered. “Suicune isn’t going to battle anymore!”
“Cune,” Suicune said weakly and then fell to the floor.
“Suicune, come back!” said the trainer. “Okay, you beat me, but you won’t
stand a change against Rick!”
Mark went into the next battlefield. There was also a nurse there. She
healed his pokémon and then he checked their levels. Charmeleon was level 17,
Eevee was still level 15, Sandshrew was level 16 and Gyarados was level 21.
Then the trainer of this battlefield came.
“I’m tough, don’t expect a stupid trainer like the ones you’ve already
beaten. I’m the only junior trainer in this gym with real power!”
“Okay, can we begin now? Go, Sandshrew!”
“Shreeeew!”
“Go! Mew!”
“Meeeew!”
“WHAT? You have MEW?!”
“Yes, we’ve got about twenty in all.”
“But... but...”
“Are we going to start the battle or not? Mew, Psychic!”
“Sandshrew, Sand-attack!”
“Shreeeew!” The Psychic blew all the sand back to Sandshrew and also hurt
it.
“Sandshrew, Poison sting!”
“Shreeew!”
“Mew, Transform!”
“Shreew!” Mew turned into a Sandshrew.
“Sandshrew, Scratch!”
“Shreeew!” It missed.
“Mew, Scratch!” Sandshrew fainted.
“Sandshrew, return! Go, Gyarados!!!!!”
“Gyaaaaaaarrrrrooooooo!”
“Mew, Ancientpower!” Mew transformed back into its real form and used
Ancientpower.
“Gyarados, Bite!” Gyarados bit Mew, super effective, and it fainted.
“Mew, come back! Go, Mewtwo!”
“What do you want now, kid?” (If you didn’t guess, Mewtwo said that.)
“Oh, shut up, kitten. Just use Psychic on that annoying Gyarados over
there.”
“Why should I obey you, kid? I could hypnotize you any time and take over
the world. What can stop me from doing it?”
“Don’t get any ideas, you overgrown cat,” the trainer said. “We changed
your genetic code. Actually, you were supposed to obey after we did those
changes...”
“I don’t care what I was supposed to do. I’m on my own now. Good-bye.”
And then Mewtwo teleported away.
“Mewtwo, what are you doing?!!! Oh well, the last one also did. Go,
Mewtwotwo!”
“Uh, are you sure you said that right?” Mark asked, but out of the pokéball
came a strange pokémon. It looked like a Mewtwo, but it was larger, darker in
color and had much longer arms and legs. The ears were also longer and the eyes
were smaller and more evil-looking.
“What is that?” Mark asked.
“It’s Mewtwotwo, of course – cloned from Mewtwo and much stronger.”
“Whaddayawant?” said Mewtwotwo.
“Psychic,” said the trainer.
“Okay,” said Mewtwotwo lazily and waved one finger. At first, that seemed
to be careless, but the effects were incredible. The water all went up into the
air, leaving Gyarados in a deep, dry hole. Then it started to headbutt the
walls until it fell down and didn’t move. Then all the water fell down again
and Gyarados floated up at first, but then it sank to the bottom.
Mewtwotwo yawned. “Anything else? Maybe something a bit more...
challenging?”
“Just wait a minute. He’ll most likely send out another pokémon,” said the
trainer.
“Go, Charmeleon! Ember!”
“Chaaar!”
“Mewtwotwo, Psychic!” Mewtwotwo made the fire go back at Charmeleon and
then lifted it into the air and then dropped it to the floor. Mewtwotwo turned
to its trainer and asked: “Is there anyone here that TRAINS pokémon, not just
catches them?” But in the meanwhile, Charmeleon stood up again with difficulty,
and then rushed at Mewtwotwo and used all of its attacks at once. Mewtwotwo
also did something and the two pokémon then blasted away from each other and
crashed into the walls. For a few seconds, both of them laid next to the walls,
looking knocked out, but then Charmeleon opened its eyes and stood up.
“Chaaaaaaar,” it said and walked dizzily to Mark. “Charmeleon...”
Then it fell down, fainted.
“It’s a draw,” said the other trainer.
“No, it isn’t! Look!” And Mark sent out Eevee. “I have one more pokémon
left! I won!”
“Okay then,” said the trainer angrily and made the door open. Mark went
through, healed his pokémon and found out that Charmeleon had grown to level 18
and Gyarados was level 22. The next trainer didn’t bother talking to Mark.
“Go, Ho-oh!”
“Houuuuuu!”
“Go, Sandshrew!”
“Shreeeew!”
“Ho-oh, Sacred fire!”
“Sandshrew, Defense curl!” Sandshrew curled up in a ball and its hard skin
repeled the super-hot flames.
“Sandshrew, Sand-attack!”
“Ho-oh, Gust!” The sand was blown back at Sandshrew.
“Sandshrew, you can’t beat it, come back! Go, Charmeleon!”
“Meleon!”
“Charmeleon, Smokescreeen!”
“Chaaaaar!”
“Ho-oh, Gust!”
“Houououuuu!” It blew all the smoke away.
“You’re a tough guy, but I’ll beat you! Charmeleon, jump and Scratch it!”
“Mele! On! Mele! On!”
“Ho-oh, Fly!” It flew high into the air, where Charmeleon couldn’t reach
it.
“It’s way too strong, and my pokémon’s attacks are too whimpy,” Mark
thought. “I surrender!” he then said aloud to the trainer.
“You’re giving up?” the trainer asked. “You’re really GIVING UP now??!!!!”
“No, I’m not giving up,” Mark said. “I’m just asking you to stop and I’ll
come back within ten minutes and battle you again – from the start.”
“Well, okay,” said the trainer. “But you’ll have to battle the other trainers
again!”
“Okay! I’ll be back!”
Then Mark went out, healed, and went to the Pokémon market.
“I’m going to buy... uh, one Thunderstone, one Fire blast TM, one Surf HM,
one Shadow ball TM and one Earthquake TM,” he said to the woman at the counter.
She got it all from shelfs and said: “It’s 10700, but as you’re a young trainer
and you’re buying 5 items, you can get it for 96700.”
“That’s exactly what I have left,” Mark said and handed her the money. Then
he tought Fire blast to Charmeleon, Surf to Gyarados, Earthquake to Sandshrew
and then let Eevee out.
“Eevee, now I have a Thunderstone for you. You will become a Jolteon. At
first, you’ll feel a little strange, but you will get used to it. But if you’ve
changed your mind, I can still return the Thunderstone. Are you sure you want
to evolve?”
“Eeeveee.” Eevee nodded. Then Mark took out the Thunderstone and gently
made it touch Eevee’s head. It started glowing white. Then it grew larger and
spiky and then it stopped glowing.
“Jolteon!!” It scratched itself and got a spike in its hind leg. Mark drew
it out.
“You should not scratch yourself, even if it itches,” he said.
“Jolt!”
“Now let’s train a bit, and then we’re ready for anything!” Mark recalled
Jolteon and went to the Lake of Purity.
“Feaaarow!”
“A wild Fearow! Go, Jolteon!”
“Jolteon!”
“Feeeeaaaaarrooow!!” Fearow dived to Peck Jolteon.
“Jolteon, you’re much quicker! Evade the Peck!”
“Jolt!”
“Jolteon, Sand-attack and then Tackle!”
“Teon!”
“Feeeaaaaarow!” It tried to use Fury attack, but missed.
“Jolteon, Tackle, Tackle, Tackle!”
“Jolteon!” Fearow fainted.
“Great, Jolteon! Let’s see your
level!” Mark pointed his pokédex at Jolteon.
“Jolteon, Lightning pokémon. This pokémon is the electric evolution of
Eevee, very fast and powerful. It can shoot its spikes very accurately. At
level 17, Jolteon should know Tackle, Tail whip, Sand-attack and Thundershock.”
“Great! You’ve learned Thundershock! Now we can take on Rick!” And Mark
recalled Jolteon and went back to the gym, ready for anything.
Chapter 6: Rick
When Mark got to the gym again, he reminded himself not to talk to the
first trainer while battling, or he would lose a turn. He checked if his
pokémon were all right and then went in and took out Sandshrew’s pokéball.
“You again? Go, Arcanine!”
“Arc!”
“Go, Sandshrew!”
“Shreeeeew!”
“Arcanine, Extremespeed!”
“Arcccanine!”
“Sandshrew, Earthquake!”
“Shreeeew!”
“Arcanine, Extremespeed!”
“Arrrc!”
“Sandshrew, Earthquake!” Arcanine fainted.
“Arcanine, return! Go, Zapdos!”
“Sandshrew, that’s enough! Go, Charmeleon!” Mark still remembered the
pursuit between Sandshrew and Zapdos.
“Zapos, Thunderbolt!”
“Doooos!”
“Charmeleon, Fire blast!”
“Chaaaaaaaar!”
“Zapdos, Thunder wave!”
“Charmeleon, Try to be quicker and use Fire blast!”
“Chaaaaar!!!” Zapdos fainted while it was still charging for the Thunder
wave.
“Zapdos, come back! Go, Moltres!”
“Mooool!”
“Charmeleon, come back! Do it, Jolteon!”
“Jolteon!”
“Jolteon, Thundershock!”
“Jolt!”
“Moltres, Fire blast!”
“Moooool!”
“Jolteon, Thundershock!”
“Jolt!” Moltres fainted.
“Moltres, come back! Go, Articuno!”
“Articuuuuno!”
“Jolteon, Thundershock!”
“Jolt!”
“Articuno, Blizzard!”
“Cuuuno!” Jolteon almost fainted.
“Jolteon, Thundershock!”
“Jolt!” Articuno fainted.
“Articuno, return. You beat me again,” the trainer said.
“Yeah, I guess so,” said Mark and went on. After he healed his pokémon, he
checked their levels. Charmeleon was level 19, Jolteon was level 18, Sandshrew
was level 17 and Gyarados was, of course, still level 22.
“You? Go, Raikou!” the next trainer said as soon as Mark entered the
battlefield.
“Raaikou!”
“Go, Sandshrew!”
“Shreeeew!”
“Raikou, Crunch!”
“Sandshrew, quick! Earthquake!” Mark yelled. But Raikou was quicker.
“Raikou!”
“Shreeeeeeeeew!” Sandshrew did a powerful Eathquake and Raikou fainted.
“Raikou, come back! Go, Suicune!”
“Suicuuuuune!”
“Sandshrew, come back! Go, Jolteon!”
“Jolteon!”
“Suicune, Hydro pump!”
“Now you made a big mistake! Jolteon, be ready with Thundershock!” Jolteon
charged for a Thundershock.
“Suiicuuuune!” Suicune used Hydro pump but when the water was just about
touching Jolteon...
“Now, Jolteon!!! And evade the Hydro pump!” Mark shouted. Jolteon used
Thundershock and the water led it at Suicune which got fried. It then jumped
aside and the Hydro pump just hit the wall.
“Suicune, come back! Go, Entei!”
“Eeentei!”
“Jolteon, come back! Go, Sandshrew!”
“Shreeew!”
“Sandshrew, Earthquake!” This time Sandshrew was quicker and Entei fainted
in one hit. The trainer said nothing, he just recalled Entei and opened the
door. Mark went to the nurse and healed his pokémon and then he checked their
levels. Jolteon had grown to level 19 and Sandshrew was level 18, almost 19.
Charmeleon and Gyarados were, of course, still level 19 and 22.
“Okay, now it’s the trainer with Mewtwotwo,” Mark thought. “Better be
careful this time.”
But the trainer wasn’t there. Mark went to the door and saw a note saying
“Went to get another Mewtwo. Challengers, please go through, it’s not locked.”
Mark thought of how the Mewtwo had teleported away. And the trainer had said
“the last one also did”. How many Mewtwos could be lurking around, waiting to
take over the world? Mark tried not to think about it and went through.
May’s team
Butterfree –
Psychic, Giga drain, Sleep powder, Whirlwind – Super effective on Poison,
Fighting, Ghost, Water, Rock, Ground
Skarmory – Drill
peck, Swagger, Steel wing, Whirlwind – Super effective on Grass, Bug, Fighting,
Rock, Ice
Typhlosion – Fire
blast, Thunderpunch, Roar, Earthquake – Super effective on Grass, Bug, Steel,
Ice, Water, Flying, Electric, Rock, Fire, Poison
Tyranitar –
Dynamicpunch, Earthquake, Crunch, Outrage – Super effective on Electric, Fire,
Rock, Poison, Steel, Flying, Bug, Ice, Psychic, Ghost
Lapras – Surf,
Ice beam, Rest, Thunderbolt – Super effective on Fire, Water, Grass, Ground,
Rock, Bug, Flying, Dragon
Raichu –
Thunderbolt, Agility, Reversal, Endure – Super effective on Normal, Water, Ice,
Rock, Flying, Dark, Steel
Normal **
Fire ***
Water ****
Electric **
Grass ***
Ice ****
Fighting **
Poison **
Ground **
Rock ******
Bug ***
Flying ***
Psychic *
Ghost **
Dragon **
Dark **
Steel ***
Mark’s team
Charizard – Fire blast, Wing attack, Swords dance, Earthquake – Super effective on Grass, Ice, Steel, Fighting, Bug, Rock, Electric, Poison, Fire
Dragonite – Outrage, Thunderbolt, Fly, Fire blast – Super effective on Dragon, Grass, Bug, Ice, Steel, Fighting, Water, Flying
Gyarados – Icy wind, Flail, Surf, Endure – Super effective on Dragon, Grass, Bug, Flying, Ground, Rock, Fire
Jolteon – Thunderbolt, Thunder wave, Shadow ball, Reflect – Super effective on Flying, Water, Psychic, Ghost
Sandslash – Earthquake, Swords dance, Rock slide, Submission – Super effective on Fire, Poison, Electric, Rock, Steel, Ice, Flying, Bug, Normal, Dark
Freezer – Horn drill, Wing attack, Mist, Blizzard – Super effective on Grass, Bug, Fighting, Rock, Ground, Flying, Dragon
Normal *
Fire ***
Water **
Electric **
Grass ****
Ice ***
Fighting ***
Poison **
Ground **
Rock ****
Bug *****
Flying *****
Psychic *
Ghost *
Dragon ***
Dark *
Steel ***
Cleanwater city
Gym – Leader: Rick, Level 7-15 (first) 5 jr element badge
Jr 1:
Arcanine Lv. 10
Articuno Lv. 7
Zapdos Lv. 7
Moltres Lv. 7
Jr 2:
Raikou Lv. 8
Entei Lv. 8
Suicune Lv. 8
Jr. 3:
Mew Lv. 9
Mewtwo Lv. 8
Mewtwotwo Lv. 7
Jr. 4:
Ho-oh Lv. 9
Lugia Lv. 9
Jr. 5:
Celebi Lv. 14
Rick:
Ho-oh Lv. 12
Celebi Lv. 12
Articuno Lv. 13
Mew Lv. 13
Raikou Lv. 12
Suicune Lv. 12
Metal city Gym –
Leader: Cristopher, Level 15-20 (second) shining badge
Cristopher:
Steelix Lv. 15
Scizor Lv. 18
Skarmory Lv. 20
Scorpion city Gym
– Leader: Mitch, Level 21-24 (third) venom badge
Mitch:
Ariados Lv. 21
Beedrill Lv. 23
Scorplack Lv. 24
Aqua town Gym –
Leader: Marge, Level 25-30 (fourth) 2 jr get over water surf badge
Jr 1:
Azumarill Lv. 25
Quagsire Lv. 25
Jr 2:
Politoed Lv. 25
Vaporeon Lv. 26
Gyarados Lv. 27
Marge:
Starmie Lv. 28
Lapras Lv. 29
Feraligatr Lv. 30
Green town Gym –
Leader: Flora, Level 30-36 (fifth) 1 jr leaf badge
Jr 1:
Tangela Lv. 30
Sunflora Lv. 31
Jumpluff Lv. 32
Flora:
Victreebel Lv. 33
Vileplume Lv. 33
Bellossom Lv. 34
Meganium Lv. 35
Venusaur Lv. 36
Thunder town Gym
– Leader: Sparky, Level 38-44 (sixth) 4 jr light badge
Jr 1:
Magneton Lv. 38
Jr 2:
Electrode Lv. 39
Jr 3:
Magneton Lv. 40
Jr 4:
Lanturn Lv. 41
Sparky:
Ampharos Lv. 42
Raichu Lv. 43
Jolteon Lv. 43
Electabuzz Lv. 44
Volcano city Gym
– Leader: Carl “Fireball”, Level 48-52 inside a volcano lava badge
Carl:
Magcargo Lv. 48
Ninetales Lv. 49
Arcanine Lv. 50
Typhlosion Lv. 51
Charizard Lv. 51
Flareon Lv. 52
Acaria city Gym –
Leader: Dianne Level 52-55 trapdoors dark darkness badge
Dianne:
Murkrow Lv. 52
Umbreon Lv. 52
Houndoom Lv. 53
Sneasel Lv. 54
Tyranitar Lv. 55