Viridian Forest- Hornet's Nest

[ButlerForLifeNumber2]

Mona's head turned, responding to her name, and twisted around. "Roach!" she called Cricket (not out of spite, she just thought that was his name), "You're just in time to watch this guy get me a Pokémon!"



"Excuse me!?" Giovanni roared, "I don't remember ever saying so!" He stopped in his tracks and turned his head towards Mona. "And my name is Giovanni, you stupid girl! The greatest Pokémon Trainer in the world!"

"Wowzer!" Mona exclaimed, "Then it'd be super duper easy for you to get a Pokémon for me then! Since you're the greatest and all!" She walked closer to the gym leader and rubbed her chin as she thought.

"I want a Pokémon who's just as super cute as me!" she finally told him, with two fingers pointing to her cheeks.

"PFFT!" Giovanni stifled his laugh with a hand, "As cute as you?" he repeated. "I apologize, I don't think there's a Pokémon ugly enough for you then!" he teased.

"HEY!" she peeped, "Thats not very nice!" "Make it up to me by catching a Pokémon! I'll be your best friend!"

The gym leader wiped a tear from laughter from his eye, then reached into his bag for a pokeball. "Let's make a deal," he told her as the ball expanded, "If I catch something for you, you'll quit being a pain in the--"

"Deal!" Mona agreed eagerly.

He laughed lightly at her response. He was charmed by her enthusiasm, it showed she would be a dedicated trainer and would grow into a strong one. He noticed the Beedrill following Yuan and took out an additional Pokeball. He tossed it to Yuan. "That thing seems to take a liking to you, huh? Maybe you should just catch it already..."



He looked up into a tree and noticed a small Spinarak. It had spun a web and was sitting in it, waiting for its dinner to get stuck in it. Its abdoman showed it was hungry with a frowning, worried expression.

"Tsk," Giovanni stated. He tossed the pok?ball into the air, obsorbing the spider. It dropped straight down. The Spinarak's condition had made it's Health low and an easy catch. Giovanni walked up to and picked up the pokeball. "I hope you two took notes," he told Yuan and Mona, "Catching Pokémon is simple as that, but its not that easy... Pokémon can be caught by a simple toss of a pok?ball at them, but the trick is, it has to be weakened to do so. This one hasn't eaten anything in days, it appears, so it was caught without hassle."

He walked to Mona and put the pok?ball in her hand. He took her empty hand and place it over the one which held the Pokémon. He pressed the top hand tight.

Mona, starry eyed and flushed, replied, "I-I'll love it forever...!!" She gave Spinarak the nickname: Smiley.

[mrfancypants]

Yuan caught the pokeball, almost dropping it multiple times due to his butter fingers. After he got a good hold of it he stared at it with bewilderment while comprehending what Giovanni was saying. He didn't want that beedrill so he just held the pok?ball in his hands and watched as Giovanni caught a Pok?mon for Mona.

He looked really cool. Yuan wanted to look that sexy too! So he threw his pok?ball at beedrill.......and missed by a long shot. Beedrill blinked and felt kind of sorry for him and flew over to the pokeball, going inside. Yuan walked up to it and picked it up. It started to move and opened up again. "Uh...was it supposed to do that?" Yuan asked as the beedrill latched onto his back. "HEY! Watch where you're pointing that stinger!"

He held out the pokeball. "Go back in, you mo'fo." He waved his arm frantically. Beedrill however ignored him and nuzzled his head against his back.

[Mage]

...Roach? Well she was attacked, she could have been dazed. But Cricket properly reminded her again. "Its Cricket, and you wouldn't believe the adventure I had! Fighting some weird rocky guys in a cave, some of them were floating too! Being attacked by a flock of birds that hit me with winds an...Huh?" He looked at Giovanni, he looked to be dangerous. "Who are you?" He felt worried for a moment, but he did protect Mona from those Beedrill...or at least it looked like he did.

[ButlerForLifeNumber2]

Mona heard Cricket's real name and a quick summary of his adventure, but she wasn't listening. She was nodding at him after every sentence, but looking down at her pok?ball as he spokee. Then a thought popped into her head.

"Hey! My Pokémon's a spider, just like your name, Spider!" Mona told Cricket holding the pok?ball close to his face, "Isn't that funny?"

"I could've sworn he said his name was Cricket..." Giovanni stated in confusion, rubbing his chin.

Mona took Giovanni's sleeve and pulled him to her side. "His name is Giovanni, and he's the bestest Pokémon Trainer in the whole world!" she told Cricket. "And don't get any ideas, cause he's my best friend; not your's!"



"Puh-lease!" Giovanni sighed in one quick breath (not like Puhhhh-leeease) as he shook his arm out of Mona's grasp. "I need to get to a Pokémon Center this instant! Incase you forgot Persian is poisoned, and your Pokémon isn't in its best health neither. We have no time for petty introductions!" He walked up to his Perisan, who let out a faint cry as he came close. The trainer bent down to takethe cat's paw and examine the area infected.

"It looks worse than I thought," he told them, "Tsk." He stood up and reached deep in his jacket pocket. He took a small lather pouch. Inside was Persian's Luxury ball. He never thought he'd say it, but Giovanni called Persian to return to it's ball.

"Now hurry up," he called them, walking ahead, "or I'll leave you here to be eaten by the Ariados!"

She didn't know what Ariados were, but they didn't sound cute or sweet. She speed walked to Giovanni, holding her pok?ball tight to her chest.