The Tale of Twins- Kanto Region

Chapter 8: Goodbye Viridian Forest & Meeting a new face

"But Metapod," Ash said as we ran away from the swarm of Beedrill chasing us.

"They're gaining on us," Misty said, worried as we turned to the left behind a bush, making the swarm go right passed us.

"That was close," Cody said, letting go of Ash's arm and looking at the Beedrill flying passed us.

The four of us then let out a sigh of relief. We then turned to see a hive of Kakuna gathered near a large tree.

"A whole hive of Kakuna," Samurai breathed out.

Misty let out a small gasp of fright before Cody covered her mouth with his hand.

"We don't want anymore Beedrill to hear us and find where we are," Cody reminded are bug hating friend, who nodded with nervous sweat. The thought of more bugs was enough to motivate her to keep quiet. With that out of the way, he removed his hand and pulled out his pokedex along with Ash.

"Kakuna, a transitional stage between Weedle and Beedrill. Kakuna remains inactive until they evolve into deadly Beedrill and hatch," Dexter explained.

Ash's voice loudly caught everyone's attention when he spotted something."Hey, it's Metapod!" Ash cheered before Misty covered his mouth as Cody did with her earlier.

"Weren't you listening? Keep your voice down," She whispered.

Unfortunately, The Kakuna started to turn their attention to where we were. Then there was a cracking noise as the Kakuna shells all started to open.

My eye widened at sight started to look at them nervously. "Oh no. Don't tell me...''

The cracks became bigger as fully evolved Beedrill emerged from their Kakuna shells one by one. They turned their attention to our Pokemon and us. Pretty soon, the chase was on again, and to make matters worse, we were still tired from having to flee the first time, so the bug types were catching up faster than the first group.

When a wooden cabin came into view, Samurai caught our attention. "That's my cabin! I think we can make it!"

As soon as we made it inside, they slammed and shut the door. A couple of Beedrill had rammed their stingers right through the door. Were they going to break the door down? The tension in the air was thick. After the Beedrill then pulled themselves loose from the door, the bug types all seemed to stop their assault, but they were still hovering outside.

The worst was over, so Ash let out the breath of air he was holding. "That was close," he muttered.

"Yeah, too close," I agreed, almost forgetting how hostile Beedrill could be. I haven't been around too many wild Beedrill.

"I hope you've learned your lesson, Novice. You allowing that Weedle escape almost cost us our lives," Samurai said.

"Take that back, that novice crack!" Ash demanded, feeling absolutely sick of hearing the samurai trainer insulting him.

"I do take it back," Samurai retorted. "Because not even novice would abandon his own pokemon as you did."

Ash turned his head away, trying to contain his anger."I tried to save Metapod," Ash muttered. His body shook in rage at the accusation of abandoning his Metapod.

"That kind of harsh he didn't abandon his Metapod," I said, defending Ash.

"Well, to be honest, sister, he kind of did not return it to safety," Cody stated.

"He right. A smart trainer would return their pokemon safely to their Pokeball when they saw and heard a Beedrill swarm," Samurai argued before turning back to face Ash."Your Metapod will pay dearly for your inexperience," He continued to scold and belittle Ash."The other trainers from Pallet would never have been so irresponsible."