by IcyPikachu and Tauras
    Icy, InsaneLlama, and Tauras waved goodbye to Icy’s parents, as they headed for Lavender Town.  And now…
What’s in a Name?
    They began the long walk, going east.  After about an hour of walking they stopped to rest.  A bush was shaking, making Rapidash very jittery.  Tauras walked up to the push, with Poliwrath behind him.  A big pile of goo flew out of the bush at Tauras.  “AHHHHH!!!” screamed Tauras.   Poliwrath jumped up and began to punch the goo, but it only hurt Tauras.   InsaneLlama began to laugh.  The goo jumped off, Icy looked into his pokédex, it said, “Grimer, a Poison type pokemon, evolves into Muk.  They are very poisonous.” Said the pokédex.  Tauras threw the Grimer off his face and said “This is a very grim situation, Poliwrath, use Bubblebeam!” said Tauras.   InsaneLlama was still laughing because of Poliwrath punching Tauras.  The Bubblebeam hurt the Grimer a lot.  It leapt at Poliwrath, poisoning it.   Poliwrath began to punch the Grimer.  It fell to the ground, and Poliwrath used a Body Slam on it.  It fired off Sludge at Poliwrath, making him faint.   “Go Gengar! Use Night Shade!” said Tauras.  Gengar materialized.   It was dark for a second, Grimer was injured badly.  Tauras threw a pokeball.   Grimer broke free.  Tauras threw another one, and was successful.   InsaneLlama reached into Rapidash’s saddlebags and pulled out a Max Revive.   He healed Tauras’s Poliwrath.  “Thanks” said Tauras.  “It was the least I could do,” replied Insane.  They continued on to Lavender.   They reached Lavender after a short ride on Rapidash and Ponyta.  Icy was excited; he wanted to capture a Ghost pokemon.
    They walked up to the Pokemon Tower.  Tauras and Insane were scarred, but Icy looked very brave.  They walked into the tower.  Icy called out his Nidoran.  They began to climb levels in the tower.  “Ghast ly ly!” said a Ghastly.  12 Ghastlys surrounded the group.  One of them licked Tauras, Tauras fell to the ground, paralyzed.  InsaneLlama pulled out his Bull Whip.   “Nidoran, use Poison Sting!” said Icy.  The sting hurt one of the Ghastlys, but it flew at Nidoran, and used a Night Shade.  Icy called Nidoran back.   “Go Buttercup!” said Icy,  “Buttercup, use Psybeam!”.   Buttercup fired off the Psybeam, injuring the Ghastly a little more.  It replied with another Night Shade.  Buttercup became very angry.  He began to fire off Psybeams like crazy, Ghastly was looking pretty bad.  Icy threw a pokeball at it.  It tried to escape but was unsuccessful.
    Icy was happy with his new pokemon, Tauras had also just recovered and the group headed to see the Name Changer in Lavender Town.
    Icy opened the door and they walked in.  A strange looking man greeted them.
    “Welcome friends!  I am the Name Changer of Lavender Town.  Do you have pokémon you’d like to have named or renamed?  Icy stepped forward.
    “I do,” he said into the translator.  The Name Changer, like others, was very shocked to see a talking Pikachu.  Nevertheless, he agreed to give new names to all of Icy’s pokémon.  Icy dumped all his pokéballs onto the table. The table was half covered; Icy had captured a lot of pokémon.  The first pokemon he pulled out was Abra.
    “What name would you like your Abra to have?”  Icy thought about it for a minute.  He wanted to give his pokemon very special names.
    “Hocus,” replied Icy.  Abra grinned in acceptance.   The Name Changer did some special things for Hocus and his pokeball and he was finished.  Now, Icy sent out his Pidgey.  He had seen it since he captured it.   “I’ll name you Windstorm.”  Windstorm flapped its small wings with delight.  Icy pulled out the next pokeball.
    He continued naming his pokemon.  He named his Oddish, Leafy; his Nidoran, Pin; his Caterpies, Michelle, Moni, Sunshine, Lilly, Wiggler, Suctioncup, Sandy, Dill, Verde, Buggy; his Pikachu, Static; his Horsea, Neptune; his Porygon, Cyber; his Butterfree, Buttercup; his Dratini, Hyper; and Gastly, Vapor.  “That’s all of them!”  Icy put each of the pokéballs back in his pack.
    After Icy changed his pokémons’ names Tauras walked up to the name-changer.  He called out his Jolteon.  “Hi, could I rename these pokemon? The Jolteon will be Jolt, and the Poliwrath will be H20” said Tauras.   The name-changer nodded his head, and began to work on the pokemon.  Tauras set his backpack down and began to watch.  Icy was fiddling with his Porygon, so   he didn’t notice the 2 dark figures walking in.  One of them opened Tauras’s backpack, and took Tauras’s pokéballs.  They put the pokéballs in a bag and ran.   Nobody noticed what happened.  The Rockets ran off with the bag, when they were by Mr. Fuji’s doorway they were stopped by a man.
    “Hey, would you 2 like to buy the best pokemon in the world?” asked the man.  “Uh, what is it?” asked one of the Rockets.   “It’s the King of Karp, Magikarp!  No pokedex’s either!” replied the man.  “Sure, we’ll take it!” replied the Rocket.  They were too exited to notice that they left the bag at Mr. Fuji’s house, and ran off.  Mr. Fuji opened the door, and took the pokéballs.  They would be in good hands there.  Back at the Name-Changers house he had just finished.  Tauras thanked him, and they left.   Tauras reached into his backpack for a pokeball, but didn’t find anything.   “WHAT THE????” yelled Tauras.  “What?” asked Icy.   “Somebody stole my pokéballs!” yelled Tauras.  “Team Rocket?” asked InsaneLlama.  “Crap..” said Tauras.  “Well, I guess that means I’m starting over…. Well at least I got you guys, Jolt and H20” said Tauras reluctantly.  The group began to head towards the pokécenter.

To Be Continued…

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