Hail Kinak,
My path was laid before me as it was back to Celadon for me. From there, I would be off to Viridian City, then the Viridaian Forest, and finally, Pewter City, where my journey will just begin, but before I leave Fushia, though, I made a stop at the Safari Zone. As I approached the massive fence erected around the silvian area, I wandered into the the almost hidden front building. I walked inside and handed over my coupon, which I had won in a contest. The vendor smiled at me. It must be part of her job.
"Why aren't you the lucky one," she says with a forced glee. "Please, go enjoy yourself." I noded and made my way to the heavily barred door. "Oh, wait," the service woman stopped me, "You have to take these." She handed over a multitude of green Pokeballs with S's on them. "And you have to leave your Pokemon with us," she stated.
"What? Then how am I suppose to catch anything?" I demanded. "I didn't just come for the view, you know."
"That's the point," she said with a mischievous wink and giggle. "Here, you can use this." She thrust a bag of brown pellets at me. "Most of the Pokemon eat this stuff, so it should keep them off guard." During her explaining, two large men opened the heavily locked gate. Before it closed, the woman waved. "Bye bye. Have fun."
The metal door slammed shut, and I could hear the frantic effort of locking it back up safely. I could barely peer through the thick, steamy wilderness as I walked along trying my best not to make any sudden movements or loud noises. I soon came upon a Chansey. How lucky am I, I thought to myself. She was currently busy helping a wild Electabuzz. Carefully, I reached for one of the Safari Zone Balls I was given, and tossed it.
The orb spiralled towards the egg type, and broke into hemispheres. Surges of enery jolted downward, shrinking the Chansey as the halves went back together. She still seemed to wear a smile on her face. The Ball sealed around the edges and laid still. I jumped into the air unwillingly, dancing for joy. Chanseys fetch a good penny at Markets. I continued my jig and reached down to get the ball, when a hand grabbed my wrist. Oh dear, I had forgotten.
The Chansey was feeding one of its eggs to a wounded Electabuzz at my arrival. It now seemed plenty healthy enough now, though. I slid my eyes up to its, and they did not look happy. Looks like it was returning a favor. The pupil faded from its eyes and let out a yellow flash. Electricity ran through its body to mine. The shock blasted me clear of the area. While I was gone, the Electabuzz destroyed the Pokeball, freeing the contained Chansey, which bounded away. While the Chansey had fled, he did not seem done with me yet.
I stood up, shaking my head, trying to regain some sense of what had occurred when I saw an enraged Electabuzz charging me. After a girlish scream of fright, which, thankfully, no one was around to hear, I stummbled to my feet and ran away, but Electabuzzes can move fast, as I soon discovered. Panicking, I tossed the occasional stone that I found laying on the ground at the rampaging fiend. That was pretty stupid since it seemed to only make him madder. My eyes scanned for a bigger rock that might me able to damage it enough to stop it. I spotted one, and dove for it.
Unfortunately, it was bigger then I had expected. In fact, only the a small portion was sticking up above the surface. I tried to pull it out, but to no avail. Knowing the monster was not far behind me, I braced myself for an impact. And I waited... but it never came. I turned to see that in my dive, I had spilt my bait bag, and the Electabuzz must still be somewhat tired from its damaging battle. It ravenously clawed at the ground, sweeping up food. I used this moment of distraction to slip away into the shrubbery.
The Electabuzz ate busily, with paranoia causing it to look over its shoulders, like it expected some bigger monster to take the food from it. This gave me a twisted idea. I picked up a little rock and tossed it. Not at the Electabuzz, but at the area behind it. It landed with a thud. The noise startled it, and it looked around in fear to find out what was pursuing it. I was ducked in the shurbbery, of course, out of view. I did this a few more times. Finally, it got to the point were the Electabuzz was so frightened and desperate for food that when it brushed the earth for food, which it now did frenzied, it would even eat what its hands held if it were dirt. It was now completely confused and ran around in circles as I released showers of pebbles. Amidst the rain of pellets, I had a Safari Ball. It struck the Electabuzz true...
Afterwards, the loud speaker cried out with the garbled voice of the female desk attendent mixed with a loud static sound : "jackdaw. attention, jackdaw. your time is up. please return to the front building." The loud static sounded cut off.
I walked out from the building. Diane was leaning against the wall, waiting for me. She looked rather bored, until she laid eyes on me.
"What happened to you?" she said in shock. "You look terrible."
"What do you mean?" I asked her, really not knowing what she meant. She pulled out a small vanity mirror and let me gaze at my reflection. "Oh, it always looks like that," I explained while examining my ugly mug, which was a little singed.
"No, not that, your hair." I tilted the mirror back a little.
"Eeee!" I shrieked girlishly. Diane stared at me with puzzled eyes. "Um, I mean, ‘AHHH!'," I quickly covered up. My hair was standing up wavy and frizzled. The jolt I recieved must have done it to me. "Well, at least this explains why the gate attendents were laughing at me." After a quick combing, the two of use hit the road to the bike trail, and on our way to Celadon City.
Next time, on the Chronicles of Jackdaw: Biker Trail Battle; Growltithe does something! Don't miss it.
"What the heck was that voice?"
"Just ignore it, that's what I do," responded Jackdaw.
From the desk of Jackdaw
