"The Legend Of Pokémon" By: Josh Franklin (Mewthree) Episode 1: Money and Danger Chapter 1 "GO! Blastoise!" My Blastoise went charging at Jonathan's Graveler. "Graveler! Rock Throw now!" A ton of rocks came tumbling onto my Blastoise. But, lucky for me, rock type pokémon are weak against water. Jonathan made a bad choice with using Graveler! "Blastoise, Hydro Pump this thing away!" I yelled. The water hit the Graveler and it fainted. "Kick ass!" I yelled. "Looks like your Graveler needs a Pokémon Center badly!" I said. Hi. My name is Steve Bryant. I am 16. I have been training pokémon ever since I was 10. I love it. I hang out with my friend Jonathan. I just beat the crap out of his graveler before. We were just having a practice match, not like we were in a real fight or anything. I am in Celadon City now. Now, let me get back to the real story. "Hey! How'd you beat my Graveler? He's on L89, and your Blastoise is only at L60!" Jonathan exclaimed. "Well, In case you did know this, Graveler's are weak against water. Duh." I said. "Oh, Steve, mind if we go to the Pokémon Center? My Graveler's hurt pretty bad." Jonathan said. "Sure. I'm hungry anyway." I told him. "But, since we're all the way on the other side of Celadon City, let's just fly there." Jonathan said. "Do you have any flying pokémon on you? I have an Articuno." I asked. "Yes, a Moltres." He replied. "Articuno, GO!" I yelled. "Go, Moltres!" He screamed. After those words, we flew off towards the Pokémon Center. When we got there, we saw a Charmander that was about to die. The flame on his tail was almost microscopic. Nurse Joy took him and gave him a Hyper Potion or something. That didn't work so much, so she took him to the emergency room. "What the hell happened to that Charmander?!" I asked. Nurse Joy replied, "Some damned Gyarados Hydro Pumped almost all the fire off his tail. The poor thing's been here for 30 minutes. I hope he recovers." "My Graveler is back to normal again." said Jonathan. "OK. Hey, look at that Charmander over there. He might die." I said. "Wow. I have never seen a pokémon so beat up before..." Jonathan whispered. Chapter 2 As we were walking along the road, we saw a McDonalds. "Hey, dude, I could sure go for a Big Mac right now." I said. "Yeah. And some Super Sized fries!" Jonathan exclaimed. Well, in about 20 seconds, we were chomping on fries. "Damn. I only have $30 left. Hey I have a good idea...we could go gam-" "NO! You know how I hate-" "Gambling. Let's do it Jonathan. I mean, if we win big, we could get a porygon, then sell it for BIG BUCKS!!" I yelled. You see, in this town, Celadon City, If you are 10 or older, you can gamble. But, it's not like any other regular casino. It's a lot different. You buy coins, then you use the coins for the slot machines. If you win, you get 15-100 coins. You can use those coins for the place next door. They sell very rare pokémon and TMs. But, they are NOT cheap. "Listen, all I need is 300 more coins for a Porygon. I have been saving up since I was 10. I have 9,699 coins. It won't take long man." I told him. "Fine." he replied. "Let's go." "How come you don't like gambling?" I asked. "Remember when we were 13? You insisted on going gambling, and I lost all of my money. Then, we had to fly all the way home to Fuschia City. Remember how long that took?" he said. "Oh yeaahh...OK fine you don't have to gamble. I mean, I don't suck at it so I will do it." I said. When we walked in, we heard all this corny music. "Let me go buy 20 coins." I said. I went to the back of the room where there was this fat guy with short brown hair and this other lady that was HOT! "Hey, here's $2. I'd like 20 coins." I said. "OK. Good luck." muttered the lady. I guess she has to say that to every customer. I'd get sick of it too. I sat down at a slot machine. I put 3 coins in. "Come on..Come on..Darn." I missed. I put in 3 more coins. "Please God let me get a 7-7-7..YEAH!" I exclaimed. I got a 7-7-7!! "Wow!" Jonathan said. I put in 2 coins. I got a Bar-Bar-Bar! "Wo! This one is like a jack pot!" Jonathan whispered so nobody would here and come over here and try to take it over. I put in another 2 coins. I got nothing. Again nothing. "Maybe you should stop..." Jonathan suggested. "Naw. All i need is 150 more coins." Again nothing. Yeah! Now I got a 7-7-7! I put in 3 coins. "KICK ASS!!!" I yelled. "Excuse me sir. There is absoloutely NO cussing in here. I am afraid I am going to have to kick you out." What? Excuse me if I'm happy just because I got a 7-7-7. Well, I didn't really care anyway because now I had enough to buy a Porygon! Chapter 3 As we walked over to the exchange shop, we saw some rich guy with a TM 50! "Dude! How the heck did you get that TM 50?!" I asked the guy. "Well, I am a bad gambler, but I'm very rich, so I just bought the coins and I got the TM 50." the man said. Then, I was thinking to myself, "Pretty weird guy.." But I just said, "Oh." We said bye to each other, and then Jonathan and I went to the exchange shop. As we walked in, I saw that Porygon behind the counter! There was only 1 left. I ran up to the counter as fast as a Cheetah to the counter so know one could get it before me. "Hello sir. I'd like that Porygon please." I said it like I was in no rush. "OK. Sure. That will be 9,999 coins." The man told me. "OK here it is." I said. He put the Porygon in the pokeball, and handed it to me. It felt so great to be holding one of the rarest pokémon in the world! I told the man, "Thanks! Bye!" He said bye and we walked out. I walked around all of Celadon City trying to sell my new Porygon. Finally, some mysterious guy in messy clothes walked up to me. He kind of looked like Mankind in WWF, except without that mask. He said to me, "Hello. Could I buy that Porygon? I will pay you $12,000 for it." HOLY GOD! $12,000! "You got yourself a deal man!" I told him. "Thank you." he said. As he walked away, I saw a pokeball drop out of his belt. "Umm.. excuse me sir, you lost one of your pokeballs." I yelled. He didn't hear me. He was too far away. "Well, you got yourself another pokémon!" Jonathan told me. "Let's see what kind of pokémon it is." I said. I threw the pokeball. "Pokeball, go!" I yelled. The pokeball exploded, and some very weird looking pokémon came out. "What the..?!" I screamed. Jonathan couldn't even speak he thought it was so weird. I couldn't believe it. It looked like a cross between a Gyarados and an Aerodactyl! It was flying around with a Gyarados tail. I didn't really want anyone to see it. "What ever the heck you are, return!" I called. It came back in the pokeball. Jonathan and I went off to the forest to find out what the hell it was, and so no one could see it. I made the weird pokémon come out of the pokeball. "OK. What the hell are you?!" Jonathan asked the pokémon. "Gyarodac! Gyarodactyl! Gyaro!" It said. "OK. Let me get this straight. Your a "Gyarodactyl?" I said very softly. I have never heard of there being a pokémon that is a cross between 2 before! I took out my Pokedex. I told it to tell me about this "Gyarodactyl." "There is no picture or information about this pokémon." It said in that annoying robotic voice. "Dang. I wish there was. I need to get this piece of junk upgraded." I said angrily. "I wonder what moves it has." Jonathan said. "Let's find out." I told him. "Blastoise, GO!" I yelled. My Blastoise came out. Now your probably wondering, "Why the heck is he calling his Blastoise?!" Well, for some strange reason, my Blastoise can speak English. I don't know how it happened but he just can. So he can translate what the Gyarodactyl is saying. They both started talking in "PokéLanguage." "He says he has Hydropump, Sky Attack, Hyperbeam, and Psychic." My Blastoise told me. "Yo! Steve those moves kick!" Jonathan exclaimed. "I know. Oh, by the way Jonathan, don't think your gonna be using him." I told him. "Awww..man..." Chapter 4 "Hmmm..." I said quietly. "What should we do with this? I mean, if we try to battle people, they'll probably call a Pokémon Center and we'll probably get arrested for some like stupid animal abuse." Jonathan said. "Why is that?" I asked harshly. He replied,"Because they'll think that we're friggin mad scientists and WE made this weird thing in our laboratory." "You got a point there. And, if someone finds out about it, they'll spread it all around town, and word will get to that guy with the weird, messy clothes." I said sadly. He didn't answer back. We just kept walking. About a half hour later, I changed the subject. "Listen, dude, I wanna go catch some Pokémon. I need some more fire pokémon, so I was thinkin about heading over to Cinnibar Island." I threw out my pokéball with Mew in it. He got the picture and threw out his Moltres. "Let's hurry up, ok?" he said. "Why?" I asked him loudly. "Because I wanna find out more about this Gyarodactyl." "Fine. Well let's go now then." We got onto the birds and flew over to Cinnibar Island. "What Pokémon do you want in paticular?" He asked. "Magmar and Arcanine." "Ummm...Steve? Magmar's are ONLY in volcanoes. Wild Magmars that is.""And your point is.." I whispered. "My point is that we're gonna have to go into a freaking volcano to get a God damned Magmar!!" He screamed. "I don't give a damn. We can buy some of those insulated clothing." I said. "Those are wayyy too expensive." "Uhh...remember, Jonathan, we have $12,000." I said brightly. "Oh yeah." he said. I was freezing. I was on an Articuno. "Articuno, your so damn cold. Hurry up!" I commanded. "Artic! Articun! Cuno!" It said in that PokéLanguage. Jonathan was burning up so he ordered he Moltres to go faster. We landed on Cinnibar Island. I saw a shop that sold clothing. We went in. "Hello! Is there anything you're looking?" This nerdy guy asked. "Yeah, we would like some of those insulated clothing." I said. "Right this way." he said. "How much are each suit?" Jonathan asked. "$400." "OK." We went to the clerk to pay. We payed and walked out. We saw this guy and asked him where the volcano is. "Hmm...the volcano is probably about..say... a good 20 miles from here." "Damn it! That'll take hours to walk to!" Jonathan exclaimed. "The hell with walking!" I yelled. There were 2 kids walking toward dirtbikes. They were probably their's. I ran toward the dirtbikes. Jonathan followed me. We hopped on them. "What the hell??" one kid said. "Hey! Those are our bikes!" the other kid yelled. "We'll return them...someday." I said. Chapter 5 We were at the volcano in no time. There was a restroom near by so we went in there to change. It took us about 10 minutes to get all the stuff on. We've done it before, so we knew all about the components and stuff. "Let's head in" I said as I pointed toward the volcano. It was very hot as we walked in. It was a dormant volcano, so it wasn't really about to erupt. We saw Growlithes, Charmanders, Ponytas, and lots of other fire Pokémon. I didn't see any Magmars. "Let's go deeper in." I said in a weird voice since I had this helmet thing on. "OK." As we walked closer, we saw some Ponytas. They were forming a circle around something. A much, much bigger Ponyta. "A Rapidash!" I exclaimed. "Whoa!" Jonathan said. "Wanna catch it?" I asked him. "Sure. I don't have a Rapidash." he said. "Use your Vaporeon." I told him. "I know." he said. "Vaporeon, go!" The Vaporeon came out. "Vapor! Poreon!" It said. "Vaporeon, Bubble Beam!" He ordered it. Hundreds of bubbles shot out of Vaporeon's mouth. The Ponytas ran away. The bubbles hit Rapidash head on. The Rapidash did Ember. Lots of little bits of fire hit Vaporeon. Ha. No damage whatsoever! The Rapidash was already crippled. "Vaporeon! Finish it off!" Jonathan yelled. Finish it off meant "Hydro Pump". Hundreds of gallons of water shot toward Rapidash. Rapidash fainted. "Pokéball, go!" He yelled. "That was one hell of an easy battle." I told him. "Yup." We kept walking untill we came to a part where there were 10 different pathways. "Which way should we go?" I asked. "Let's go here." he said. As we kept walking down farther, we had to keep taking different pathways. "Crap. Dead end." I said. I heard a weird noise. "Did you hear that?" I asked Jonathan. "No." There was an even louder noise. "Now I heard that." he said. I heard something plop to the ground. We both spun around. It was a Magmar. "Yes! A Magmar! Now I can catch it!" I exclaimed. "Steve? Turn around." I did. Another Magmar. 4 more fell to the ground. We both looked up. There were Magmars all over the top of the cave. They all dropped down and surrounded us. "Uhhh....Steve? We got a problem." Jonathan said very softly. "I know, Jonathan. I know. We are surrounded by about 50 dangerous little bastards." The End! 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