[PW!] Cerulean, land of the water pokemon!

From: Dree Elle1 <dreeelle1@aol.com> Subject: [PW!] Cerulean, land of the water pokemon! Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 6:02 PM ((Another post! MWAHAHAHA! ::ahem:: I'm better now. Too many pepsis this evening. Heh heh. Hey Shard, drop me a line sometime and we can organize a meeting, k?)) ~Karma Rocket~ "Knave, we've been walking for hours! Are you sure this is the way to Cerulean City?" Aislynn asked, catching her breath. "We going right way." the clefairy insisted. "I see water from here." "That doesn't mean anything...there's water everywhere." Maki put in irately. "We could be halfway to Lavender for all you know." "How long YOU been guide?" Knave shot back. "I KNOW where we going." "Oh yeah? Then where are we?" he asked. "We....we almost there." Knave replied. "I not road map." "Well if you navigate as well as you flap that mouth of yours, we'll be there in no time." Maki smirked. "Guys, can we PLEASE make the rest of this trip without fighting?" Aislynn implored. "If you two want to tear each other up when we get to the hotel, fine...but I don't want to listen to it." "You sound just like my mom." Maki chided. "I'll pity YOUR kids." "Very funny." she replied, her voice devoid of emotion. "I could barely sleep last night with you two fighting." "He stole pillow!" Knave accused, pointing at Maki. "Yeah well you were hogging my side of the bed." he shot back. "Next time we stay in a hotel, we're gettin' separate rooms. I don't care WHAT you say!" he informed Aislynn. "Its not my fault there was only one room left...and you're the one who insisted we let all the pokemon out." she told him. "Yeah well I didn't think I'd be sharing a bed with YOUR pokemon." "What can I say? Fade-out and Zanthrax took up a lot of room in my bed." she shrugged. "Sorry to interrupt argument but we here." Knave informed the humans, pointing at a sign. "Welcome to Cerulean City." Maki read, looking at the drawing of the overly-happy Dewgong emblazened on it. "Home of various water pokemon and the gym leader, Misty." "Seems friendly enough." Aislynn nodded. "Okay, first thing's first. When we get there, we're gonna check into a hotel. That way we'll get two different rooms before the drifters all settle in at the last minute." "And then?" Maki asked. "And then the gym, I suppose." she replied. "No way....I gotta get to a phone. Hiro owes me a bulbasaur." he grinned. "Oh yeah...that bet you had with your brother." she smiled. "You're gonna fill up your pokedex in no time at this rate." "That's what I'm hopin'." he replied as they made their way down the path toward the city. The air smelled faintly of chlorine and humidity hung heavily in the air as they walked. "If anybody sees a hotel, let me know." Aislynn told them. "No hotels, but I DO see a gym." Maki told her, looking at the behemoth structure before them. "Wow...a lot more classy than the Pewter gym, huh?" "Is big!" Knave remarked, squinting in an attempt to see into the windows up ahead where aquariums were vaguely visible. "I think maybe I'll forget the boulder badge and see about a cascade badge." Maki said. "After all, I have a plant pokemon and they're supposed to really be able to stand up to water pokemon." "I guess I'll make do with what I have." Aislynn told him. "Lilly's a plant but I dunno how it'd stand up to water pokemon with more experience." "Can decide later." Knave told her. "Gotta find hotel. Remember?" "I remember." she told the clefairy. "And you're right...let's go, Maki." "I'll catch up with ya." he told her. "I'm gonna call my brother and then try my luck here." "Okay, have fun." she told him, hearing his footsteps recede. "See anything, Knave?" "Starmie's Drop-In." he read off of a nearby sign. "Think that one?" "Couldn't hurt to check." she shrugged. "Where is it?" "Take four steps forward." he instructed. "Then turn to the left." Aislynn followed the directions and stood still, waiting for him to tell her what to do next. "May I help you, miss?" a receptionist behind the front desk, straightening her glasses on her nose. Behind her was a massive fishtank where several staryu and starmie looped lazily in the water, stopping every once in awhile to release a jet of silver bubbles to the surface. "Is--Is this a hotel?" she asked, realizing how idiotic it must have sounded as the receptionist chuckled. "Only one of the best in Cerulean. Would you like a room?" "Yes...well, actually two rooms." Aislynn corrected herself. The clerk cocked a questioning eyebrow. "I have a friend here too and he's not here right now. He's off at the gym." "Gonna challenge Misty, huh?" she asked. "Are you two on your pokemon journey?" "Yeah!" Aislynn smiled. "Well, ya know, we have a ten percent discount for people on their pokemon journey so we'll only charge you 40 yen a night." the receptionist smiled. "That'd be great." Aislynn replied happily. "We might be here a couple of days anyway." "Just sign your name here." the receptionist said, flipping open a thick leather-bound book to a blank page and pointing at it. Aislynn hesitated. "What's wrong, little girl? Don't you have a pen? Here you can use mine." she offered, taking a pen out from behind her ear and handing it to Aislynn. The girl groped blankly at the air for a moment before Knave scuttled down her arm and took it from the woman, placing it in Aislynn's hand. A look of understanding came over the clerk as she reached out, taking the purple-haired girl by the wrist and guiding her toward the desk. "Right here, hon." "Thanks." Aislynn said appreciatively as she felt for the book and then signed her name, slightly unevenly on the page. "Here's your key." the receptionist said, pressing a small silver key into Aislynn's palm. "What's your friend's name? I'll give him his key when he gets here." "Maki." she replied. "Do I pay now or when I leave?" "Well, how about you go get settled into your room first and I'll send an attendant up later to see how you're doing and you can pay then?" she suggested. "Okay ma'am." Aislynn said respectively. "Your room number is 136 and its down the hallway to the left. It has a horsea on the door which I'm sure your little clefairy guide can point out for you." she instructed. "Turn right and take three steps. That where hallway is." Knave told her. "Thanks again!" Aislynn called over her shoulder, moving in the desired direction. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "No way..." Hiro groaned, his expression one of disbeilief in the monitor of the video phone. "Yes way!" Maki grinned. "I'm in Cerulean, man!" "How do I know you're not just callin' from somewhere in Viridian City? We don't have caller ID." he asked suspiciously. "Cause ya can't get one of THESE in Viridian." Maki grinned, proudly taking his newly-won Cascade Badge out of his pocket and showing it proudly to the phone's screen. "Now cough up my bulbasaur!" "Wait a sec...YOU beat MISTY?" he asked, almost yelling. "Yup! Scribbles and Smirk really kicked some butt in there!" he laughed. "Yeah and I suppose I just sat on my tail in a pokeball??" an irate voice asked as a pokeball on Maki's belt shook violently and then sprang open. "Don't forget, mister high-and-mighty-because-I-can-walk-upright human, that it was ME who saved yer hairless butt from that starmie!!" Maki facefaulted as Meowmix, his meowth, seated itself on the floor glaring daggers at him. "Errmm...sorry Meowmix..." he tried, taking a step away from the enraged pokemon...but then again, Meowmix ALWAYS seemed to be in a bad mood. "Sorry, nuttin!" the meowth screeched, rearing back and kicking his human counterpart in the shins as hard as he could which still wasn't enough to make Maki do more than wince. "You haven't let me outta that stupid pokeball ONCE since we left home!" "What? I let you out last night at the hotel!" he argued. "Oh REAL excitin'! I get to sit on top of the black and white TV and watch you and your little girlfriend snooze with all those other sorry excuses for pokemon you got!" the cat growled. "Look, she's NOT my girlfriend...and if you don't shut up, I'm gonna toss you into a masterball so fast, it'll make your eyes spin!" Maki snapped. "BIG threat. There's only one masterball and its under lock and key in a museum. So what else ya gonna threaten me with? Gonna sick your imaginary Mewtwo on me too? Ooooh! I'm shakin'!" Meowmix snapped. "Yup...YOU'RE sure the makings of a pokemon master." Hiro taunted, snickering as Maki grabbed up the cat's pokeball and recalled it, holding the ball shut tightly until Meowmix stopped struggling inside and settled down again. "Just gimme the bulbasaur." he growled in a menacing tone. Hiro shook his head laughing and then moved to press a series of buttons on the control panel of the phone. Maki kept his eyes focused on the small clear box to the side of the monitor as it made a whirring sound and then a pokeball slowly materialized. "I'd better get going." Hiro said as Maki opened the box and withdrew the pokeball, feeling the reassuring weight of the pokemon in his hand. "And Maki? Take care of yerself...okay? Mom's worried." "Yeah okay." he smiled. "Stay cool." and with that, the connection was terminated. Maki looked at the blank monitor for a moment before his attention turned to the pokeball in his hand. "Pokeball, go!" he cried, hurling it to the floor. "Bulbasaaauurrr!" the plant pokemon declared, appearing. "Yup I remember you." Maki smiled, kneeling beside the pokemon and petting it. "You're gonna stay with me now." "Saauurr." the bulbasaur rasped, making something between a sneer and a smile...Maki couldn't exactly tell. "Too bad I didn't call Hiro BEFORE I battled Misty...I'll bet you would've really kicked her water pokemon's flippers." he told the bulbasaur. "Oh well. Anyway, a friend of mine is supposed to be booking us a hotel room somewhere around here so I guess I'll let ya out once we find it." "Saur?" it asked. "Yeah that means back in the ball. See ya in a little while, pal." he told the pokemon, calling it back into its pokeball. "Ookay, that's two priorities down...now where did you get to, Aislynn?" he asked the thin air, walking out of the gym. TBC...