Chapter 6: Good Eeveening!
After getting my 5th badge, a Rainbow Badge, I faced an even more difficult task, getting Josh and Zach out of Celadon! Nothing short of a Thundershock from Raichu would do the job. After knocking the sense back into my friends, we decided to leave for Fuschia City. Actually, I decided to, Graveler had to drag Zach and Josh along. We didn't make it past the city borders when we were stopped by a strange man.
"You! You're Pokémon trainers!" exclaimed the weird man.
"Uh, uh huh" I stutterly replied.
"Are you heading for Fuschia City?" the man said as he grabbed my hands.
"Uh, y-y-yes" I could only say.
"Perhaps you could help me. I have this Pokémon I need to transport to my brother. The Pokémon refuses to get inside the Poké Ball because it is afraid of being transported by computer. Because of my age and health, I can't deliver it on my own. Can you deliver it?"
"Sure, but why not use the postal service?" I asked.
"Postal Service? If I do that, it'll take almost a year to get down to Fuschia!" The man shouted.
"Right," I agreed.
The old man took us to his house and showed us the Pokémon. I whipped out my Pokédex to analyze it.
"Eevee. Some say this Pokémon was genetically enhanced, since its DNA structure is irregular. It can evolve into 3 separate forms when exposed to certain stones, plus 2 more when it gets very happy."
An Eevee! I was going to transport an Eevee! At first, it didn't trust us, but with the help of Zubat and Pokémon food, Eevee adored us. We said good-bye to the old man and set off on our new mini-quest.
Later....
"Raticate! Finish it with Hyper Fang!"
Raticate leaped toward the helpless Weepinbell, and before my opponent knew it, Weepinbell was history.
"All right! I did it! Victory #100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I shouted as I jumped up.
I finally reached my short-term goal! Zubat was very excited, although Eevee had no idea what the fuss was all about. Josh congratulated me, and Zach gave me a strange, red package.
"Go on and take it." He calmly told me.
I opened it up and inside was a Fire Stone! Zach said he had this ever since he first went on his journey. These things were pretty rare, and I couldn't believe I was holding one! Eevee just stared at it and could only say "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". The excitement of my 100th victory covered up the fact that we had been on this trail for a week without seeing one sign for Fuschia City. I started to get downed again, but Josh found a dusty map on a sign, and from that we headed on our way.
Soon down the path, I came across a huge mountain. All of the sudden, we heard a humungous roar. It came from the mountains, so we ran over to see what was going on. When we reached the site, I could only look in awe. A Charizard was stampeding over a Spearow flock! The Spearow tried to retaliate, but the Charizard just shot out its flame attack and charred the poor birds. I decided to get into the fight.
"Fearow! I choose you!" The white beam shot out and formed into my longtime friend. Fearow saw the flock in danger, so it promptly used Drill Peck to fling Charizard away. It was weakened, so I tried to capture it, but it managed to fly away before the Poké Ball could get to it. The Spearows flew over to Fearow, who asked them what happened. Fearow then told us what was going on. It seems that when it was a Charmeleon, it attacked the Spearows for no reason. The Spearows retaliated, and that got Charmeleon angry and evolved into Charizard, and started hunting down the Spearows. I guessed, because of the way Charizard was trying to grab the Spearows, that it was hungry. But now it was time for the Spearows to lay their eggs, but
they can't because of Charizard.
Fearow felt sorry for the Spearows, and volunteered to protect them against Charizard. That meant that Fearow would have to leave the group. I started to protest, but we were interrupted by a loud roar. Charizard was healed and angry to boot! Charizard flew down and sprayed fire everywhere. I wanted to call out Graveler, but Fearow raced ahead and started battling with Charizard. Charizard's Slash and Ember attacks didn't touch Fearow, but Flamethrower did, and Fearow was injured. It wouldn't give up, however, and started to glow red. Next thing I knew, Fearow was spraying fire all over Charizard. Dexter called this the Mirror Move attack. Charizard wasn't injured badly, but it was open to attack, a Fury Attack, and that managed to knock Charizard over the mountain. I once again tried to capture it, but it once again managed to escape. After the ordeal, Fearow still wanted to stay with the Spearows. Acknowledging its persistence and its feelings, I agreed and released it. We said our good-byes, and waved to Fearow, who was on top of a cliff.
It took us only a couple days more to reach Fuschia City, but we first headed towards the outskirts, where the Pinker Pokémon Ranch is. I admit I didn't like the name, but that's where we had to take Eevee.
On the ranch, we met Mr. Jones, the caretaker of the ranch. He said he was glad to have Eevee back, as trouble has been brewing. His only protector is a Growlithe, and it has been injured. I asked Mr. Jones what could've happened, and he said a huge green monster came down one day and started tearing up the ranch. He said it may have been an evolved form of a Bulbasaur that Mr. Jones had at one point, but was kicked out because it started a lot of trouble. We looked around, and saw tons of injured Pokémon. Mr. Jones said they would be alright, just needed time to heal. Soon enough, the earth started rumbling. We turned around, and I saw one of the biggest Pokémon I'd ever seen. I whipped out my Pokédex.
"Venusaur, an evolved form of Bulbasaur. It must constantly move in order to gather sunlight. Venusaur are extremely hostile. Take extreme caution."
"Oh great, just perfect." I said.
It was time to send my Pokémon, since Venusaur obviously wasn't gonna stop, we had to stop him. I sent out Raichu, while Zach sent out Scyther and Josh called for Nidorino. The three Pokémon fought well, but were no match for the huge Venusaur. Raichu's Electric attacks were doing no good, and Scyther & Nidorino's attacks were being blocked by Vine Whips. Angry with our presence, Venusaur let loose some Vine Whips and grabbed Zach and Mr. Jones. Growlithe came out of the house and leaped at Venusaur, but was shoved off by some Razor leaves. I decided to try Beedrill and Raticate against Venusaur, but that proved ineffective. Both were seeded by Venusaur's Leech Seed. Even more annoyed by our persistance, Venusaur grabbed both Josh and I with vines and held us high in the air, squeezing us. Zubat and Eevee decided to step in, but Venusaur grabbed them too. Eevee managed to escape, and tackled Venusaur. This caught the giant Pokémon by surprise, and managed to make it stumble. Venusaur then proceeded to hit Eevee with Vine Whip, and injure it badly. During the confrintation, my Fire Stone slipped out of my backpack and next to Eevee. Eevee noticed it and just stared at it. Venusaur then tried to squeeze us some more. I had lost all feeling in my hands, forearms, waist, and legs. None of us could take much more of this. Eevee saw this and proceeded towards the Fire Stone. It looked at intensely, and then looked at Venusuar. Eevee then got real angry and flipped the Fire Stone so that it landed on its forehead. Suddenly, red light shot out of the stone and covered Eevee. Eevee's body turned red and started to grow. When the light disappeared, Eevee and the Fire Stone were gone. They merged to become a more powerful Pokémon.
Venusaur wasn't even paying attention when all of the sudden, flames shot out at it. Venusaur dropped all of us and we looked over at Eevee. I took out my Pokédex.
"Flareon, one of the stone evolutions of Eevee. This Pokémon is quite powerful and rare. It is estimated that Flareon can turn a room from 70şF to 600şF in a couple seconds."
While we were amazed that Eevee did this, Venusaur was charging at us. Flareon jumped in front of us to protect us.
"All right! Venusaur, you're gonna get charred badly! Flareon! Give it your Flamethrower!"
Flareon nodded and shot out a powerful flame, and almost engulfed Venusaur. Venusaur was injured badly, but shot out multiple Vine Whips, which were quickly doused with Ember. Flareon then finished it off with Fire Spin, and created a tower of fire with Venusaur inside. When the tower vanished, Venusaur was very close to fainiting. I threw my Poké Ball, and it sucked up Venusaur and proceeded to capture it. The red light blinked a few times, then the Poké Ball locked. I caught my own Venusaur! Afterwards, we helped fix the ranch and take care of the Pokémon. Then we set off. We were about to leave when Mr. Jones come up with Flareon.
"I want you to take Flareon. If it stays here, it won't be able to harness it's power or live happily. I want it to be somewhere where I know it'll be safe and happy. It's with you. Besides, I saw how well you handled it, and Flareon could use some proper growing up with a proper trainer. Growlithe should be able to handle the situation with that Venusaur gone. Please take it."
"Uh, all right. If you really want me to......" I said.
Flareon then lept into my arms and hugged me. We said good-bye, and Flareon was sad that he had to go away from the place it grew up in. I cheered it up by promising we would come back someday. Flareon agreed, and we were off to Fuschia City.
To be continued...
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