From: TheWiz - 51 (thewiz51@hotmail.com) Subject: [PW!] Save Butterfree! Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2000/04/02 (my first PW!... dont be mean :(.......) The day had finnally come. The tension was building up was building up in all the muscles of her body. Anticipation, as well as Adrenaline, were pumping through her body in unison. She slowly stole a glance upward from where she was staring down at her desk. Restless. Nervous. Bored. Any of those words would describe her mood that morning almost perfectly. She was getting fed up of the waiting... "Come on!", Jorynn thought silently. "We haven't got all day!", she barely mumbled as she looked at the window in error. Outside, Jorynn noted, was a beautiful horizon filling with the morning sun. A butterfree was seen gliding on the crisp and cool morning winds, but also keeping an eye out for anything that could use it as a morning snack. Jorynn was not one to always take the easy way out, but getting to the Pokemon League without travelling around getting badges, was tempting to say the least. It would all matter here, becuase it was today that she and all her class, would be tested on their knowledge of pokemon. She once again skimmed through her notes, and as soon as she was sure she knew everything from all the evolutions, to every pokemon's height, Jorynn considered herself ready. She was about to go over it again, when two sudden bangs caught her attention. It was time! A million thoughts raced through her mind, thoughts of anxiety, thoughts of nervousness, and thats of anticipation. If everything went right, then she would be on the way to train for the Pokemon League! "OK everyone," Jorynn's Teacher exclaimed with a boot-camp style voice and attitude. "Listen up!". A sudden hounding screech came from an unkown position outside. Jorynn was the first to jump out of her desk. She could sense a feeling of shock and fear coming from an uknown pokemon outside. She ran toward the door, all of a sudden not caring about school, her mind only directed on the screech coming from the pokemon. As she came around the corner of the door outside, she let out a gasp. It was Butterfree! "Oh no!", Jorynn thought in an instant. An Ekans had sneaked up on it and was about to have a short snack! Without even knowing it, she instinctively grabbed for a silver pokeball on her belt. She gripped the Pokeball with a firm strength and threw it into the battle field. Out open Gladiator! The newly called open pokemon was strong and buff for anything that was to come. In a split second, it gathered all it needed to know from the scene ahead of it. "DRAAAAAAAAAAAA" Gladiator let out with a chirp as it let lose its amazing ice beam. The ekans saw it coming, and hurled itself out of the way. However Gladiator saw this howeve weak move jsut in time. He could see Ekans cowering in fear and trying to slither away. This time, the Ekans didn't manage to get away. Letting lose another Ice Beam, Gladiator was aware of every move his foe was to make. As the ice bombarded ekans again and again, Jorynn called a swift "Stop.", Gladiator sighed and stopped at his trainer's command. This Ekans knew when to stay and fight, or just walk away. It ran, or should I say slithered, with all it's might as if there was no tomorrow. Jorynn said, with pride in her voice, "Good Job!" and brought Gladiator back, however reluctantly, to it's silver PokeBall and resting place. She slowly walked over to the laying butterfree, fighting back horrible thoughts of it's fate. She tucked and scoooped her fingers under the butterfrees slim body and spoke gently. Fighting back what seemed to be a trace of a tear, she said somewhat soothingly "Are you... ok... buddy?". There was no response. The crowd that had gathered from whatching the battle, gave a small gasp. A small bit, at first, of rage went through Jorynn's body. "How can this be?" she muttered with a sad tone to her eyes. She looked over to the path that the Ekans had took in retreat. She cursed no one in particular, silently. She shook the butterfree gently, "Come on!! YOu have to be ok!!" There was no response. She let down her head in sadness, and a single tear flew down for face with a strong sense of emotion. "Freee...." a small mutter slowly came from the weakened bug type. It slowly grew louder with more courage, as it looked into Jorynn's eyes and gathered strength from it's new found friend and hero. The crowd let out a small smile, of relief and joy, as the butterfree started to get more and more strength in its jibberish language. Even people who didn't like Jorynn especially, smiled becuase it brought her so much joy to see the Butterfree alive and almost well. Jorynn unzipped her backback. From inside she grabbed an item that was unfamiliar to the Butterfree. "Here, don't be afraid," Jorynnn said with a coming voice. As she sprayed the contents of the Super Potion onto the buterfree, she could see it's wings start to glisten from the light. "freeeee" came from the butterfree. Had she been a stronger psychic, Jorynn would have known that that meant "thankyou". Jorynn smiled as the butterfree took flight once again, wobbling here and there, but much stronger than before. Ruining the Kodak moment, Jorynn's teacher yelled to the class, "You have a test to write! Get back in here!". The last person from the scene, Jorynn whatched the butterfree fly into the sky. She was about to come back into the school for her test, but heard a faint noise. If it were any other day, maybe she wouldn't have heard. Maybe she would have thought it was the wind. But this day, she stopped in her tracks. She slowly turn her head, knowing what was there, she saw her friend. It fluttered in the air in front of her. "BUTEERRRRFREEE!!", the Pokemon said with excitement. Although Jorynn didn't no exactly what it wanted, she had an idea. "Are you sure?", Jorynn said with hesitation, before grabbing the PokeBall. When it let lose another "BUTEERRRRFREEE!!", Jorynn was sure that it knew that She was the one it wanted. Jorynn grabbed a pokeball from her side, and threw. The pokeball sliced through the air, opened, and caught the beautiful pokemon inside. Jorynn equiped butterfree onto her belt, and started back for the school again. The teacher let her in, but warned her with a frown that they had already started for the test. Jorynn socumbed to the stric teacher and went inside. Had she stayed one second later, Jorynn would have seen the hidden, but slowly widening, smile on her strict teacher's face. -- -\ Wiz. High Tech Sig v1.3