pokemon adventure

chapter thirty Three

Chapter 33

Cyndaquil, Kurt and Azalea Town Gym

After earning a Zephyr Badge from Violet City, the gang were on their way to get Ash's second badge. Brock was looking at the map book of Johto. "According to this," he said "the next place to earn a gym badge is called Azalea Town''. "Azalea Town?" said Ash "oh hang on a minute, Prof Oak said that Kurt lives there". "That's good," said Misty "that way we can do Prof Oak's errand and get the gym badge at the same time". "I do hope this Kurt guy does find out about this GS ball," said Ash "cause I'm really anxious to know about it". Tomo, Misty and Brock were anxious about the GS ball too.

Suddenly a purpled haired boy came up to them. "Hey," he said rudely "you better not get in my way while I catch Cyndaquil". "Cyndaquil?" asked Misty. "That's right," said the boy, "wild Cyndaquil lives in this forest, and I plan to catch one. So again don't get in the way". Then he left. "Goodness me, what a rude person!" exclaimed Misty. "Yeah," agreed Brock "and if he does catch a Cyndaquil, I'll feel sorry for it". Ash turned to the others. "If you three don't mind, I wish to catch myself a Cyndaquil" he said. Ash was eager to catch each starter pokemon of Johto like he did in Kanto. He already had a Chikorita, now he could catch Cyndaquil. "Go ahead Ash," smiled Brock, "just make sure you catch it before that purple haired guy does". Ash nodded and he and Pikachu left the others to look for a Cyndaquil.

Ash and Pikachu walked through many grassy areas with trees to search for Cyndaquil, but they couldn't find one yet. "Man I thought we would find one by now" said Ash. Just then Pikachu noticed something and showed Ash what he saw. On a big wall of rock, with small caves, was a Cyndaquil standing outside a small cave. "All right a Cyndaquil," said Ash "good work buddy".

Ash took out the pokedex: Cyndaquil, the fire mouse pokemon. It has a timid nature. If it is startled, the flames on its back burn more vigorously.

"Okay Pikachu," said Ash "let's catch it".

Ash and Pikachu started to climb up the rocky mountain. "I hope that Cyndaquil doesn't leave before I get up there," said Ash. Unfortunately troubled appeared; the purple boy from earlier had turned up. The boy noticed Ash and the wild Cyndaquil. "That Cyndaquil is mine, kid," he said. He sent out a Sandslash from a pokeball. "Stop that kid with a sand attack," the boy said to his Sandslash. Sandslash climbed up the rocky mountain, stopped on a small cave edge above Ash, and sprayed sand down on Ash to make him lose his footing while climbing. "Hey, what are you doing?" shouted Ash. "I'm catching that Cyndaquil kid!" said the boy. Cyndaquil noticed what had just happened, and then it ran off. The boy and his Sandslash ran after Cyndaquil.

Ash began to climb up the mountain again. "Come on Pikachu," he said "let's get Cyndaquil before that loser does''. "Pika'' replied Pikachu. Ash and Pikachu climbed to an edge of one of the caves and ran into the cave. Inside the cave were lots of tunnels. "Oh man," said Ash "Cyndaquil could be anywhere in here". Just then they heard a noise; a crashing noise. "What was that?" asked Ash. He and Pikachu rushed to see what was going on. When they saw the answer, they were not happy. The purple haired boy had caught up with the Cyndaquil and he was ordering his Sandslash to attack Cyndaquil like crazy. Sandslash was throwing swift attack, sand attack and poison sting attack at Cyndaquil like crazy, and the poor Cyndaquil was having trouble trying to get away. Ash and Pikachu did not like that at all. "Come on Pikachu," said Ash "I can't stand this trainer's behaviour". He sent out Sentret and ordered her to use an ice beam to freeze the boy and his Sandslash. She froze them in a black of ice in a second. "That guy needed some cooling off" said Ash, and he returned Sentret.

After blocking the trainer and his Sandslash, Ash and Pikachu brought Cyndaquil out of the cave. "Man that was a nightmare," Ash sighed "are you okay Cyndaquil?" Cyndaquil nodded to say 'yes'. Cyndaquil was surprised that Ash had saved him from the humans with the Sandslash. "Seriously even if that guy was just trying to catch you, his way of catching you was just wrong". Just then the boy turned up. "There you are!" he shouted "Get away from that Cyndaquil, it's mine!" Ash got angry and stood in front of Cyndaquil. "I will not let someone like you catch this Cyndaquil," he said "an unfair person like you don't deserve a Cyndaquil". "Oh want a fight eh?" asked the boy "okay I'll challenge you to a pokemon battle. If I win I keep Cyndaquil, but if I lose you will keep it". Ash couldn't believe this trainer; making a pokemon the prize for a pokemon battle. "Very well, I accept your challenge" said Ash.