From: Alyssa <thefews@primenet.com> Subject: [PW!] Bill-sensei and a new companion Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 12:52 PM > As she traveled along, Angel saw a figure in thte distance. Alyssa sighed. Maybe it hadn't been such a good idea to leave Mars at Saffron. What if somebody thought he'd been abandoned? What if somebody stole him? What if she never saw him again? She was brought out of these disturbing thoughts by Mace's cheerful "Wigglyyy! Wigglytuff!" Alyssa blinked and looked where the Wigglytuff was pointing with one tiny little arm. There was a figure in the distance. ((She's psychic!)) Mace chirped at her mentally. ((I can feel it!)) "Can you call her over here?" Alyssa asked. "My psychic powers are *really* limited. I can only talk to psychic Pokemon." Mace nodded enthusiastically and reached out his mind towards the psychic girl. She looked in their direction and hurried over. As she stood there panting, Alyssa dragged a water bottle out of her bottomless fannypack and handed it to the girl. She drank some and handed it back. "Thanks," she said as Alyssa stowed the bottle back in the deceptively small pack. "Why'd you call me over here?" "Actually, my Wigglytuff did. I told him to because he said you were psychic, so I got interested. Besides, a hyper, crazy Wigglytuff isn't the best traveling companion." Alyssa grinned. "Whass your name?" "Angel," the girl asked. "Where are you headed? 'Cause I was going to Cerulean..." "Hey, I'm going there too!" Alyssa grinned. "I'm going to see Bill-sensei, 'cause I got an e-mail from him saying he might have a cure for my condition..." "Wait a minute. Bill-sensei? Condition? Huh?" Alyssa grinned again. "Bill's a friend of my family, so my parents asked him to be my tutor when I wouldn't shut up about Pokemon. I studied under him for a while, but then I did something stupid in his lab, and the resulting accident caused me a *slight* inconvenience... namely, I morph into a Ponyta temporarily at random times. I can't control it, and I can't even speak English as a Ponyta." Angel blinked under the force of the long explanation. "Oh. Well, I guess si nce we're going the same way, I'll travel with you. Hey, you never told me your name..." "Alyssa," Alyssa responded. "AKA Lyss, Lyssie, Lyssa, Lyssie-chan, L-chan, and whatever else you can think of." ----- The two girls looked up at the huge Pokemon-engraved door of Bill's lighthouse. Angel clambered down off Alyssa's back - Alyssa'd morphed a little while ago and had offered, through Mace, to give Angel a ride to the lighthouse. As a result, the Ponyta girl was now rather tired out. Angel went up to the door and rang the doorbell. In a few moments, Bill himself answered the door. He saw Alyssa and smiled. "Hello, Alyssa! I've been expecting you. Who's your friend?" "Ponyta nyta po ponyta," Alyssa answered. Translation: Her name is Angel. Bill nodded. "I see. You're here for your possible cure, hai?" Alyssa fell over - an interesting sight, given that she was a Ponyta at the moment. Clambering back up to her hooves, she gave Bill a Look. "Ponyta nyta po?" 'What ELSE would I be here for?' "Good point. Okay, come on in!" He headed back into the lighthouse. Angel stared after him. "Did he understand you?" Alyssa's answer was a nod and nothing more, as she followed Bill into the lighthouse. Mace let out a cheerful little "Wiggly!" in Angel's direction. Angel shrugged and headed after the Ponyta girl. ---- OOC: Okay, I SO hope I got Angel and Bill right. Incidentally, Alyssa *will* be cured here. Thing is, she'll have another problem to deal with... You guys are so going to love this twist >:) -- Lyssie Obssessive fan of Raichu, Mew, and James-sama "There really must be a society against cruelty to James." -- Maria (I agree! Only YOU can save James from Jessie's paper fans of death!) "I admit, I set him on fire once with my magic paper fan." -- Corynn "If you took a Mega Kick to the most sensitive part of your body, how eager would you be to jump up and run after a Pokemon?" -- James, from an IM roleplaying session "Yes, ma'am, I know everything but the answers." -- Peppermint Patty "Pretty mother, so graceful in the water. Too bad I have to kill you." -- Tentacruel, from one of my fanfics "Fungus Terpsichoreus Kawaiius!" -- Me "For some reason, I seem to be losing my liqui-ibrium!" -- James (well, how would YOU spell it?)