A Pokemon Tale Part I: The Journey Begins

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Bill the Collector

Cerulean City-

Red and Blue had lunch with Lorelei and Misty after the Gym Battle. Misty's cell phone rang.

"Hello?" she said. The voice on the other end greeted her excitedly. "Oh, hi Bill! What's up?" She listened intently, said bye and then hung up the phone.

"What did he want?" asked Lorelei.

"He was just calling to let me know that a nice young Trainer happened to help him out. As it so happens, the Trainer was none other than Professor Oak's grandson. He was so excited that he gave the Trainer one of his rare Pokémon, and sent him here to battle me."

"Who's Bill?" asked Red. Lorelei answered.

"He's a well-known Pokémon researcher and collector. He's seen many rare Pokémon and lives a few miles north of Cerulean City on a northern beach."

"Oh yeah," said Misty. "He also said he had something for you and me, and we should come pick it up." She rolled her eyes. "I can't go, because I apparently have to battle the Trainer that Bill sent over."

"Oh darn I can't go either," said Lorelei. "Lance wants me to meet him and Agatha. Hey!" she looked at Red and Blue, they were both stuffing their mouths. "You guys could go pick it up for us! Just bring whatever it is back to the Gym. I'm sure we'll make it up to you sometime."

Red would normally not go out of his way for a favor, but this was an Elite Four member asking. Besides, if this Bill had many rare Pokémon it would be a great chance to go learn and prepare for future battles.

"Sure we'll go" said Red. "Come on, Blue!"

"Thank you guys so much!" said Lorelei. The Elite Four member walked with them towards the northern slope of Cerulean City. She directed them along a path that she said led straight to Bills house. They began to walk along the path.

A few minutes later, they came to a tributary of the River that ran under the Nugget Bridge. It was a gentle stream lined with thick reeds and lilies. Blue stopped and Red wondered what she was looking at. She pointed in between two reed bunches and said "Look! It's so cute, oh I'm gonna catch it."

Red saw what she was looking at. A round blue Pokémon was drinking from the stream. It had two feet and no arms. Its tail reminded Red of a tadpoles. It sensed the Trainers and turned around. It had a large white belly with a black spiral on it. It also had two eyes and a cute little mouth. Blue released Bulbasaur to battle it.

"Use Leech Seed before it can get away, Bulbasaur!" Bulbasaur shot two seeds at the little critter, and the vines made it fall over. Blue threw a blank Poke-ball. The blue Pokémon was sucked in and the ball wiggled on the ground. Eventually the wiggling stopped, and the Pokémon became registered on Blue's Pokedex.