I woke up, once again, to the weird feeling of materializing out of my pok‚ball.  "Charmander char!  
Charmander," I grumped.  Of course, JJ, my trainer, thought I was just excited about the battle.
Okay, maybe I should back up just a little bit.  I'm a Charmander, and I've belonged to JJ for about 3 
months. He's a pretty decent guy, but I was having a nice dream!
I turned to face my opponent.  A Rattata.  Couldn't JJ have called out Nidoran?  Or Spearow?  I sighed.  
"Charmander, flamethrower attack NOW!"  I blew a small jet of flame at the Rattata, and it fainted.
I couldn't believe the other trainer even bothered to try and raise that puny rat.  "Good job, Charmander!"  
"Mander char," I answered.
Since I had done such a good job barbequeing that Rattata, JJ decided to let me stay out of my pok‚ball.  
Like I said, he can be a pretty nice guy.  I asked him if Bulbasaur could come out too. "Charmander char, 
mander char char mander?"  Now that his excitement about winning the battle was lessened, he actually 
paid attention to what I was saying.  "Sure Bulbasaur can come out too.  Squirtle deserves to be let out as 
well..."  It ended up with all 6 of his pok‚mon sitting out with me.  There was Bulbasaur, Squirtle, 
Spearow, Nidoran(male), Caterpie and of course, me.  We were in the middle of Viridian Forest, and there 
was plenty to explore.  We all ran off in different directions at once.  "Char char!" "Bulbasaur!" "Nido!" 
"Spear!" "Pie!" "Squirt squirtle!" was kind of the noise that we made put together, yelling that we 
wouldn't run away.
I saw an apple tree, and decided to take a climb.  I hoisted myself up from branch to branch, and finally 
found a comfy place where I could sit and eat.  I munched on my apple, and watched Nidoran beat up a 
Weedle.  He shouldn't pick fights like that, but he won't listen when we tell him that.  When I finished my 
apple, I decided to bring one or two for Squirtle.  All the others could climb trees like me, and Spearow 
ate worms.  Squirtle is afraid of heights, though, so I brought him some lunch.  "Squirtle squirt squirt," he 
thanked me.  "Mander char char" (No problem, buddy) I replied.  He ate near a stream, and I sat beside 
him.
 Then, once he was done, he suddenly tapped me on the arm and said, "Squirtle squirt!" (You're it!)  I ran 
after Squirtle, but he's pretty fast.  So I snuck up behind Bulbasaur, tapped him on the bulb, and said, 
"Mander char!"  (You're it now!)  That might have been a mistake because of his vines, but he couldn't 
touch me  back.  Game rules.  So I watched him tag Nidoran, who went and tagged Squirtle.  Squirtle saw 
me and started running.  I laughed, and started running too.  I was looking behind me to see if he was 
gaining (which he was, because he's faster than me), when I saw his expression change from laughing to 
horror.  He stopped dead in his tracks as I...  WHAT?  I wasn't running on the grass anymore, I was... I 
looked down.  OVER THE RIVER!  I thought, "Oh no.  I'm gonna die.  I'M GONNA DIE!"  I splashed 
heavily into the cold river.  After flailing around for a good 5 minutes, I managed to clamber onto the 
bank.  What?... I was still alive!  I looked over my shoulder to see my tail flame burning brightly, as 
though nothing had happened.
"Weird,"  I thought to myself, as I walked back to JJ, who was calling us.
As I walked, I saw  Squirtle with tears in his eyes telling JJ what had happened.  I guess he ran and tried 
to get help when he saw me fall in, but he didn't find me when he came back because I had washed 
downstream.  I saw a tear in JJ's eye as he hugged his other pok‚mon close.  That's so sweet.  He cried for 
me.  I walked out of the bushes.  He didn't seem to notice me until I was about 5 feet from him.  He looked 
up with a questioning look.  "Charmander?" he whispered.  Then his eyes lit up as he yelled 
"Charmander!" and ran towards me.  He picked me up and hugged me.  Then he asked how I was still 
alive.  "Charmander char char," (I don't know) I confessed.  But he was too happy to really care.  Then he 
had a thought.  "I'm going to take you to the pok‚mon center in Pewter as soon as I can.  Nurse Joy should 
be able to figure out what happened."  So off we went to Pewter City.