Subject: Re: [PW!] Ecruteak? What Kind of a Name is Ecruteak? Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:45:00 -0700 From: "Tech Weaver - Biggest Dreamer with Bathtubs Full of Hope!" <nichirasu@hotmail.com> Organization: CompuServe Interactive Services Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon "Pipian" <pipian@pipian.com> wrote in message news:bV1B8.11018$9O5.1642226877@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com... > > By the time they finally got to Ecruteak, the sun was setting. It wasn't > much longer when they got to the Pokemon Center. > > Mamoru yawned. "Boy, today was a long day. I could almost fall asleep." > > "Yeah, but something's wrong," said Yolei. > > "Hmm? What do you mean?" asked Mamoru as he walked up to Nurse Joy to get > his pokeballs back. > > "Well... Aren't there too few trainers here? Almost as if it was daytime?" > > "Oh!" Piped up the Joy. "You're wondering where all the trainers are?" > > "Yeah... It's rather... quiet." > > "Ah, you see, the local Gym Leader Morty likes to have his matches at night. > He uses Ghost-types, you see?" > > "Thanks for the tip Nurse Joy." > > "So we have to battle tonight? And I thought I could have some rest..." > > "Well, either that or we wait until tomorrow." > > While the two began to decide on the best course of action for the night, > Lynkeru, who had been meandering around near the entrance of the Pokemon > Center saw a glimmer in the corner of her eye... > > It was another Shiny Unown... > "Hey!" Lynkeru called out. The Shiny realized it had been spotted and made a break for it, but Lynkeru took off after it. "Huh?" asked Yolei. "It's one of those Unown!" Lynkeru explained as she dashed out the door. "C'mon!" Mamoru groaned. Yolei sighed. "Think she can catch it on her own?" Mamoru asked. "We might as well at least follow her," Yolei replied, dragging Mamoru behind her. Lynkeru wished she had a Bunny Hood or Pegasus Boots or something that would help her move a bit faster. The Shiney Unown attempted to lose her by turning randomly down the streets and alleyways of Eckruteak, but Lynkeru was hot on it's trail. Eventually she came to a dead end with no Pokemon in sight. "Look!" Indi the fairy suddenly called out. "Up there!" Lynkeru looked up and saw the Shiney disappear over a roof's edge. She quickly got out Shiney Unown Y and used it to pull her up onto the roof. Mamoru and Yolei caught up with her just in time to see her go up. "This way!" Yolei said, pulling Mamoru back down the alley. "There's no where to go," Lynkeru told the Unown. It slowly backed away as she approached it. "I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just going to take you back home. Just come with me and everything's going to be okay." The Unown merely retreated to another rooftop. "Okay," Lynkeru said. "There is somewhere to go. Sigh... They sure don't make this easy." Lynkeru backed up as far as she could go and took a running leap off the top of the building. She landed on the other building and kept running as the Unown continued to flee. Yolei and Mamoru followed them on the streets and she chased it across more rooftops. Eventually, the Unown got to the edge of one building and dropped. Lynkeru skidded to a halt but was unable to keep from going over the edge. Fortunately, she landed in a garbage can. When she climbed back out, the Unown was no where to be seen. "Lynkeru!" Yolei exclaimed when she and Mamoru found her. "Did you... Ew, you reek!" "You would too if you just dropped three stories into a rubbish bin," Lynkeru said. "And the answer to you question is: No, it got away." "Maybe it's hiding in the rest of the garbage in this alley," Mamoru suggested. "Maybe my Unown Radar can find it," Yolei said, looking to her PokeGear. "Or maybe we can look... in THERE," Lynkeru said, pointing at the building just outside the alleyway. To be continued? [NS: Is it the gym? The Pokemon Center? A Rocket hangout? Beauty Man Garden? Don't ask me. I'm too tired and I don't really care where we're going now.] -- Chet "Tech" Weaver's Revised Basic Sig All that's required of us is to survive. Anything else is a product of modern society. Desperado Coyote! http://desperadocoyote.keenspace.com "No ride is complete without a clown in an electric chair." -- My brother AIM: PanGatomon, Rorschach Mask, NemesisWolfHelm