From: Continue <continue@netzero.net> Subject: [PW!] Shopping in Celadon (was: [PW!] Now in Saffron...) Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 7:00 PM Vulpix5746@aol.com wrote: ><snip> > >As Jon, Sarah Jane, Damian, and Nori were standing in Saffron's >Pokecenter discussing something, Jon's Pokedex began to beep. He >couldn't stop it. > >Jon walked over to the secretary Joy and showed her the 'dex. <snippage> >Jon nodded and pushed the off button. He walked right out the door, > telling his friends he would be back. > >"Pidgeot." Jon called the bird out. "Fly me to Celadon." [NS]: See Leaving Saffron for where Nori goes. It was only a few moments thereafter that Nurse Joy called Damian and Sarah Jane over to retrieve their healed pokemon. When they turned around Nori had disappeared. Damian and Sarah Jane quickly surveyed the room. "Maybe she's still somewhere in the building? Why don't we look for her?" Damian suggested. He shot a few feet into the air as somebody tapped him on the shoulder. After returning to the ground he turned and saw Drake standing next to him. The dragonite shook his head and pointed to the door. "I take it you mean she left?" Damian asked of the large pokemon. Drake nodded in response. Damian put his hand over his chest as he turned to Sarah Jane "After I recover from my heart attack, what do you think we should do about finding Nori?" Behind him Drake grinned devilishly and suppressed a chuckle. "She knows where we are but we have no idea where she went, so it would probably be best if we wait here for her to return after she finishes with whatever she left to do." Sarah Jane reasoned aloud. "Sounds good. I'll be watching some TV." Damian abruptly turned after he said this and walked off to sit in front of the TV. He couldn't bring himself to take the tome from his backpack and read from it. Ever since Lavender Town he hadn't felt very much like reading from it and the day's events hadn't really changed his attitude. Maybe he would do so again another day, but for now he just felt like losing himself in some vacuous entertainment. After Damian had left earshot Sarah Jane wondered out loud "That was unusual. What's wrong with him?" Drake walked over to her and quietly told her "I'll fill you in." She released Cuddles, Spunky, and Shields and began to play with them to cover the exchange. Another half-hour passed before a young girl came storming into the Pokemon Center swearing like a kid from South Park. It was when one of those epithets included a Lickitung that Damian and Sarah Jane took notice. The two met in the middle of the room. "Do you think she ran into Nori?" Damian shot to Sarah Jane. "How many other people actually have a Lickitung? It seems like a very good possibility that that girl ran into Nori. However, we won't know for sure unless we ask her." Sarah Jane started to walk over to the girl with Damian following. At Nurse Joy's insistence the girl stopped wearing, but she still looked extremely upset. As Sarah Jane walked up behind the girl she ventured "Excuse me, but-" "What ?!" the young girl snapped at Sarah Jane as she turned to face her. Sarah Jane continued unruffled, however "I overheard you say something about a Lickitung, I take it you were beaten by someone using one?" "Yeah, but she cheated. There's no way her Lickitung could've beaten my Dewgong after how easily I beat her the last time. And to top it off she stole my Porygon! That little &#$%!!!" After that the girl trailed off into a string of expletives. "Yeah, that sounds li--" Damian was cut off as Sarah Jane yanked him aside. "I think it would be best if we didn't tell her Nori's name. It would probably end up in more trouble than it's worth." "So what do we do if she asks us if we know Nori?" Damian shot back. Sarah Jane paused and thought for a moment "We can say that Nori has done the same thing to us, that seems the most likely to give us a cooperative response." Damian nodded his response and they walked back over to the girl, who in the meantime had calmed a little and had started to eye the pair with suspicion. "Did you happen to catch the name of the Lickitung?" Sarah Jane questioned the young girl. She started in "Yeah, it was something stupid like Hakuna, or Akuma, or" Damian leapt in with "Akuni?" The suspicion crept from the girl's eye into her voice "Yeah, that was it. How did you know?" Sarah Jane quickly made the save "She did the same thing to us. We're amazed to have come so near to encountering her again. Did you see where she went?" The suspicion slowly drained from the girl and she shook her head "No, after she took my Porygon she used it to take off. I wasn't able to keep track of where they went." "Thanks for your help. We're going to get going now, but hopefully one of us will be able to catch up with that thief one day." Sarah Jane waved as she and Damian walked away from the girl and out of the building, collecting their pokemon in the process. "You don't think Nori will come back here, do you?" Sarah Jane shook her head in response to Damian's question. "Both she and Jon knew that were going to head to Celadon City. In fact, she was the first one to suggest it, so we stand the best chance of meeting up with them there. In addition, it's only a few hours walk from here to get there. We should make it by nightfall." Damian hefted his backpack onto his shoulders and noted "It looks like a good day for a hike. Let's get going." As Sarah Jane had predicted, they reached Celadon just as night began to fall. The large glass and steel buildings were painted in a full palette of colors by the jealously competing lights. The tops of the building were bathed in orange from the sun. The orange dripped into a harsh pink from the sun's indirect light. Below that the faces of the buildings carried a cold purple hue from caught without the warm rays of the sun and sharp lights from the streets below. The bottom of the canvases that these great buildings presented swam in golden hues speckled with white where the street lights shone directly on them. Competing for attention amongst these awesome sights were the many shops of Celadon, including the largest Pokemart in existence where a trainer could get anything they needed to train their pokemon save for skill and a little bit of luck. TBC... Jeff Hauser* *Sig Sold Seperately