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Chapter 14 - The Mysterious Light House

Misty, Brock and Glissel said to Ash,"congratulations for getting all the stater pokemon of kanto."

Ash thanked them for their congratulations and they started walking towards Vermilion city after walking for sometime they are lost again.

"We're lost aren't we? " Misty asked, clearly irritated that they haven't arrived in the vermilion city yet.

"I'm sure roads are around here somewhere. " Brock replied

"I hope so." Glissle prayed

The gang walked out of the forest and arrived in a beach.

"What a beutiful beacxh." Ash commented as the sun began to set over the horizon. He was distracted from the view of the sunset when he noticed a very small krabby scuttle between his legs. He leaned down untill he was looking down at the kraby and pulled out his pokedesk.

[Krabby, the River crab pokemon. Living on sandy beach in burrows it digs, krabby can grow back its pincers if they break off in a battle. It's average height is about 15 inches]

Krabby merely snapped his claws then looked at Ash if asking for something. Not sure what the water wanted he took out his pokeball instinct, "Do you want be my pokemon krabby?"

It responded by saying"kra kra(If you win in a battle against me.)

Ash said,"ok lets battle."

Ash said, "Go pikachu and use a light thundershock on krabby."

Krabby used bubble on pikachu but he doged it swiftly and used a light thundershock on krabby which knocked it out. Ash then throws a pokeball at krabby and captured it. After capturing it he sent the pokeball to Professor Oak.

Pikachu pointed out at something in distance,"Pika!pikachu!(Everyone look ovef there! It's a light house!)"

The gang turned to where pikachu pointed.

"It's a lighthouse! That's good maybe we can rest up there and I can make us some food." Brock said

"I got go sleep in a nice, cozy bed! Let's go their already!" Glissle said

"Pika, pikachu( wow, she must be really excited to sleep in a bed)." pikachu commented.

"Well, there are limits of when Glissle wants to sleep in a real bed instead of a sleeping bag or tent." Ash stated

"That's true sometimes." Misty agreed. Although knowing Glissel only for a week she and Misty has understand each other better then anyone else.

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By the time the group made it to the building it was already dark."Ash sighed in relif when they finally reached the doors

"That was farther than it looked." Ash stated

"The light house looks weird." Brock commented.

The grouo stared at the door, Ash was in awe at all the pokemon craved on the door, the first he notiched the carving of an pikachu.

"Guess we better ring the bell." Misty said

"I got it." Ash said when no one steeped up, pressing the red button on what looked like the intercom. The doorball sounded off chilling church like melody of gonging bells which spooked the group out.

"[Who's there?" A voice over the intercom said

"Please excuse us sir," Ash said"we are travelers and we're lost. So, is it all right to rest here for the night?"

"And I am wondering if I could use your kitchen to make bacon double cheeseburgers for our group and I'd be more than happy to make something for you." Brock added

"[That's great. Can you cook without using tofu?]" The man on the intercom asked.

"Oh, sure I can cook lots of things without using any tocu." Brock replied

"[That's greag. I've been eating tofu since my cook went on vacation. Come on in!]" He invited, the large doors opening with a deep creaking sound to reval a dark high ceiling hallway.

"Would you mind If I borrowed your phonee?" Ash asked, his question echoed

"[There's a phone rightb near you]" The voice replied, still sounding as if it was coming over an intercom. The group looked to their left to see a phone in the shape of a bellsprout with a screen next to it.

"Hey, it's a Brllsprouy shaped video phone." Misty stated

"I'll just call professor Oak now. I've been meaning to talk to him about how my pokemon are doing." Ash said as he as he walked over to the phone. Then he dialed and Professor Oak appeared on the screen, and he was cooking something.

"[Well Hi Ash! You caught me cooking dinner! My cook is on vacation, and I've got fend for myshelf untill he returns.]" He said

"I'm just calling to see how my pokemon arew doing." Ash said

"[Your pokemon are doing great.]" Professor Oak assured him,[your shiny Gardiviore is doing a fine job welcoming them and Ferow is helping them train with the other pokemon. The others make sure to follow their example.]"

"Oh good. That's a relif. By the way, did you get krabby yet?" Ash asked

"[Yes I did.]" Professor Oak replied,"[It's smaller than Gary's Krabby though.]"He showed Ash his krabby and Gary's krabby.

Ash sighed,"Of course Gary caught a krabbg as well. How I forgot that."He mutterd to himshelf

"[Anyways Gary has caught 35 pokemon.]" Professor Oak changed the subject somewhat.

"Oh, I see." Ash calmly said

"[By the way, Ash. Just where are you calling me from anyways?]" Prof. Oak asked

"We are at a lighthouse on a high cliff." Ash explained

"[Oh, that must be Bill's lighthouse! He's a young pokemon reacher who knows even more than me! See what you can learn from him. He can teach you just everything about pokemon ]" Prof. Oak suggested

"This is Bill, professor Oak. Good to hear from you." Bill's voice sounded over intercom.

"[Hello Bill!]" Prof.Oak greeted. "[Please give my friends here a crash course on pokemon.]" Oak said."[Uh-oh my tofu's is done.]"He said as he picked up the tofu out and blew on it before the screen blacked out.

"I'm to wonder why Prof. Oak is always eating whenever I call him." Ash wondered

"Pika pikachu(I'm starting to wonder too)." Pikachu agreed

Suddenly Ash heard some yipping from a cardboard box next to the table. He walked over to the box, and to his great surprise he found five Eevee's in the cardboard box. He took out his pokedesk.

[Eevee, the evolution pokemon. A normal Type. Eevee is rarely seen, and can adapt to several habitats by evolving, changing its capabalites and form.]

He smiled as he held his hand out to them and one sniffed his hand and pressed his cheek against his palm. Ash gently petted the Eevee and scratched the chin of another Eevee. They cooed, liking the attention.

"That's amazing," A male voice said,"Those Eevees are normally shy."

Suddenly the light turned on, "I am Bill of the lighthouse." The voice introduced himshelf, turning the group's attention to a large kabuto at the top rubbing its first two claws together.

"It can't be! That's a kabuto! An extinct pokemon!" Brock said

"I wonder what it's doing here." Misty said

"I don't think that's a kabuto." Ash said

The kabuto was waving its tentacles."That's right, I'm not a kabuto."He said"I am Bill the pokemon researcher."

"Is there a reason you look like that? " Ash asked

"This is a costume. I'm stuck inside ot!" He explained

"Do you need help getting out?" Ash offered

"Yes!" He said in relifd."step up here."

Ash walked up quickly."Just tell me what to do."He said

"Push the button." He pointed with a claw."I tried to press it before, but these claws are too short."Bill said

Ash pushed the small red button and stepped away when it started to beep and pluse with red light. The claws popped off first, then the black face and last the shell to reval a young, drapper man with seawees green hair. Ash knew This was Bill.

"Thanks guys for helping me out. I've been stuck in the coustume for hours." Bill said

"Did you just come back from a coustume party?" Ash asked

"Eh oh no, this is a speical coustume I use for my recarch." Bill explained "Getting inside its skin help me get inside its head."

"I see, you're trying to understand how an exinct pokemon lived by wearing that coustume." Ash commented

"That's right. There are many kinds of extinct pokemon and putting on a coustumes is one of the way of figuring out what they were like." Bill said

"You can understand what a pokemon was like by wearing this coustume?" Misty asked

"Yes indeed, or I'm beginning to." Bill replied

"By the way, are those five Eevee's yours?" Ash asked

"No, not really " Bill shook his head sadly, "The truth is I found these Eevee's in a box one stromy nighy. So I'm looking for someone who would take care of those Eevee's."

Ash felt sorry for the Eevee's. To be left abandoned alone. Somehow he kept meeting pokemon who are abondend by their trainers. He couldn't belive that their trainers would just easily give up on them or are too lazy to raise them. Just what is it with most trainners these days?

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Afte Brock made a meal of double cheeseburgers for everyone, Bill showed them to a room, which had picture of lot of pokemon. "This world was created 12.9 billon year ago. During that time, all kinds of pokemon existed. They had many ways of living."

"All kind of pokemon...how many?" Ash asked

"On this planet there are curently more than 900 known speices of pokemon." Bill replied

"Wow, that many." Misty said

"I have also discoverd that these pokemon are not only pokemon in this world." Bill stated

"Your're lucky to be a pokemon trainer. Your goal is to catch all these kinds of pokemon. That's a great task." Bill suddenly said."No one knows how many pokemon there are exactly. The search goes on. There's always something new to look for in our lives and in ourshelves."

"Something to look for?" Misty repated

"Yes, there's a lot for us to look for inside and outside ourshelves." He trot down the steps."There's meaning for every creature, a meaning for all the pokemon and meaning for all us human too."Bill said, his arms raised as he walke down the hall, the projection of the kantonian pokemon on the walls.

"A meaning for all...." Ash mumured as he looked at the kanto regional pokemon on the walls.

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After completing to tour of the room, Bill had told them that he head something to show them and led them to the top of light house.

"Keep looking for new pokemon to catch. It's something that is very important for pokemon recarchers. It's a vital to me as it is to you." Bill turned back to the gang."Right now, though, there's only one pokemon I'm searching for."

"It's probally the biggest pokemon ever, bigger than all of the rest, and no one has ever seen it. " Bill said as they looked to the ocen, coverd in darkness and mist, only occasionally lit by the spinning lighthouse light."It's been wandering the world for thousands of years, looking for friends."

"But doesn't that pokemon have any friends or family?" Glissle asked

"The pokemon wanders beacuse it's alone. It's the only of it's speices, one of a kind." Bill replied."One night I heard this very strange sound coming across the ocean."He took out a remote from his poket and pressed a button. Suddenly the strange sound he seemed to have been talking about started playing."I... I want to meet you, that's what it said to me."

Pikachu gave him a strange look.

"Some time ago, I recorded a Similar sound and played it from the lighthouse towards the ocean....'Let's be friend. I want to meet you'...One day, I heard the same voice calling back to me from the ocean.'I want to meet you, too.I want to be friends'It was answering me back...some foggy night, that pomemon might come near here to meet a friend it's been seeking for a very long time." He smiled."I would be saw happy to meet that pokemon!"

"Are you going to try to capture that pokemon?" Misty asked

"Why would I need to capture it?" Bill asked in return, turning to them. "Meeting it would be enough for me. Just a chance to study it would make my long wait worthwhile." He seemed ready to speak more untill they heard an explosion.

"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"

DING!

"Something tell me that was team Rocket." Brock gussed

(And they must have angred a pokemon nearby which caused them to get blasted off)" Pikachu said

Suddenly they all heard a resounding sound come from the foggy ocean, making them all return to watch the area.

There seeming to stand on the wate was a silhouetted figure what, they saw a very large pokemon their as large and tall as the cliff and the lighthouse it was holding. The pokemon was Godzilla sized and might be the only of it's kind.

"The signal!" Bill gasped as the others watched the large pokemon wading towards them ever so slowly in shock and awe. The sound Bill has recorded played in the background as the lighthouse light, for some reason, began to flash in different colours.

"It sounds like it's singing." Glissle said softly

Bill, Ash, Brock, Misty and pikachu were still glued to the ralling, watchinv the pokemon in awe. The pokemon walked untill it fially reached the lighthouse. The pokemom was so big and tall it reached from both the sea floor to the top of the light house.

The pokemon showed itshelf to the group and lowerd it's head to Bill.

"Let's be friend forever." Bill said to the pokemon

The pokemon roared in happiness. Ash, pikachu, Misty, Glissle and Brock were happy for Bill as he finally met the Giant pokemon.

Ash was gald that Bill finally got to meet the pokemon. It was a good thing that he sent out pikachu for some time to make sure Team Rocket was sent far away from while Bill would meet The pokemon. Bill deserved to have friends while he lived up here in lighthouse.

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It was next morning Bill and the pokemon were saying goodbyes to the gang.

"I cannot thank you enough for being here with me last night, when I finally met the pokemon." Bill thanked the gang

"I just hope your friendship with The pokemon last forever." Ash said

"If you're looking for Vermilion city, it's not far from here." Bill said,"oh and Ash I have something to ask you."He handed Ash five pokeballs."These pokeballs contain the five Eevee's, I've decided to give them to you."

"Me. " Ash asked littel surprised

"Yes." Bill noded, "After seeing the Eevee's bond with you very quickly and for seeing your passion about pokemon last night, I've decided you're Perfect for them."

"Wow thank you Bill." Ash said,"I promise I will take good care of them."

"I know you will." Bill said

After the Eevee's were sent to prof.Oak the gang had set off for vermilion city.

After some time, While they were walking the gang came near a sign which says....

To be continued

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