pokemon adventure

chapter thirty four

Chapter 34

The pond, the Houndour pack,

And the pokemon swap meet.

Today it was Misty's twelve birthday and the gang were having a picnic to celebrate Misty's birthday. Last year on her eleventh birthday they celebrated it on the beach near Pallet Town. "I thank you Ash, Tomo and Brock for this wonderful picnic" smiled Misty, who was enjoying it. "No problem Misty," said Brock. "Yeah, besides special days like birthdays deserve special treats like picnics" said Ash. Brock had made Misty a cake; a sponge cake, with strawberries and cream in the middle, and had decorations of a Goldeen and Psyduck on it. Misty also got presents from the boys. Ash got her a book which showed all the water pokemon in Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Unova. Tomo got her a Totodile doll and Brock got Misty a white jacket that had a picture of Cascade Badge on it. Misty was grateful and thanked the boys with all her heart. "Hey Misty," said Ash "did Rudy wish you a happy birthday too?" "Yes he did Ash," said Misty "and he and his sister Mahri sent me a new fishing rod for a present". Misty's new fishing rod was a super rod, with a blue handle. "Wow Misty," said Ash "are you going to use it later?" "Yes actually Ash," said Misty "in fact I want to use it now on that pond over there". There was a big pond not far from where the gang was sitting. "I wish to catch myself some new Johto water pokemon". So Misty ran off to the pond, leaving Ash, Tomo and Brock to tidy up.

As soon as Misty reached the pond, she put a lure on her new rod and tossed the line into the pond. Misty waited and waited for a water pokemon to bite onto her lure. "Any luck yet Misty?" whispered Ash. Ash had to keep quiet whenever someone was fishing, otherwise the water pokemon would get scared and swim away. "No nothing yet," whispered Misty "you can't expect something to bite your line right away". Just then Misty's line began to jerk in the water. "Oh I got a bite," said Misty. Misty carefully wound up her fishing line, trying not to break the line. "Need any help Misty?" asked Ash. "No thanks Ash," replied Misty "I've got this". Misty wound up her fishing line some more, until at last she hooked out what it was that she captured. But when she and Ash saw it, they were in a shock. What had hooked Misty's line were five Whoppers and five Marills (one Marill was clutching onto her rod and the other pokémon were clutching onto each other's tails) and they were all hurt. "Oh my goodness," Misty gasped "what on earth happened to them?" "I don't know," said Ash "but we better get them to Brock at once".

Ash picked up the five Whoppers and Misty picked up the five Marills, and they all ran back to where Brock and Tomo were. When Brock saw the ten injured Pokemon, he got out his pokemon medical kit at once. He sprayed potions onto them and wrapped them up in bandages. "Did you see how these ten pokemon got hurt?" Brock asked Ash and Misty. "No we didn't," said Misty "they were already hurt when I hooked them. And I don't think my rod had anything to do with the injuries". Ash knelt down to one of the Marills and placed his hand on its forehead. "What are you doing Ash?" asked Brock. "I'm going to read their mind to see if I can find out what happened to them," said Ash. Tomo, Misty and Brock knew that reading minds was one of Ash's psychic powers, so they let him get on with it. Ash had his eyes closed for a minute and then he opened them again quite quickly. "Did you see anything?" asked Misty. "I did and it wasn't good," said Ash. Ash explained that in Marill's mind he saw a wild Poliwrath attacking the Marills and Whoppers. "That Poliwrath sounds like a big bully," said Tomo. "It is," said Ash "and the worst part is that not only is it bullying the water pokemon around here, it also bullies the other pokemon that come here for a drink". "Well that's terrible," said Misty "no pokemon should be a big bully". "I agree," said Brock "that Poliwrath needs to be stopped".

After the Whoppers and Marills got a bit better, they led the gang to where the Poliwrath was. The Poliwrath was standing on a big stone that lay at the edge of the pond, and it was pumping its fists as if it was saying that it ruled the pond. "That Poliwrath is a big show off," said Misty. Misty did like water pokemon, but she still hated pokemon that act like big bullies and show off no matter what type they were. "Hey look there" said Tomo, pointing to something in the pond. The gang noticed two small blue crocodiles in the pond, and they were growling at the Poliwrath. "Hey those two pokemon are Totodile'' said Brock.