“A Meowth is born!”, Whitney was telling to everybody! Many people went to see Kala and to congratulate Meowsie and I. The first one to arrive was Morty, of course. “Wow, that’s a cute baby! Congratulations Meowsie, congratulations Meowth!” “Thanks. I’m so happy.”, I replied. “Kala, you’re so cute!”, Whitney added. “I’m sure you’ll be a great pokemon.” -One Year later- Kala had sure grown mighty. She was a strong and beautiful pokemon. She looked a lot like Meowsie. I tried to teach her the human language, but she found it too difficult. I think only love can make a pokemon learn that language. That day, Whitney wanted to take a walk in the Ilex Forest. Kala, Meowsie and I went to walk with her. My daughter loved to ask lots of questions (in the pokemon language, of course). “Mom, what’s that pokemon?” “It’s a Kakuna.”, Meowsie answered with her wonderful voice. “Dad, what’s this pokemon?” “That’s a Paras.”, I answered. “Mom, what’s that pokemon?” “It’s a Metapod…”, Meowsie grinned. “Dad, what’s this pokemon?” “That’s a Psyduck…”, I grinned back. “Mom, what’s that pokemon?” “Kala!”, my love shouted. “Will you stop asking those questions!” “But what is it?” “It’s a… IT’S ATTACKING US!” The unknown pokemon attacked. It was green and had little wings. He also had antennas and big eyes. Whitney chose Meowsie to battle it. “Use hyper beam!” The pokemon was hurt. But it used Psychic on Meowsie and made her faint! “No! Meowsie!”, I shouted. “It’s ok, she’ll recover.”, Whitney said. “Meowth, use slash!” I slashed him and then, he made me faint with another Psychic. I could still watch the battle. “Go, Kala! Double-edge!” Kala weakened it and endured its Psychic! “I won’t catch it!”, Whitney decided. “Make it faint with quick attack.” Kala obeyed and the pokemon fainted. A white light surrounded Kala. She was evolving! Wow, she became a Persian! She was now taller than Meowsie and I! “Perrrrsian!”, she growled. “Wow, you evolved!”, Whitney exclaimed. “It’s so great, I am a Persian!”, Kala exclaimed back. “You look beautiful!”, Meowsie added, proudly. “Let’s go back to the gym!”, our trainer ordered. “I could phone everybody and tell them you evolved, Kala! We’ll do a party and their will be only a few people…” -Later, at the gym- The party had started! The “few” people Whitney invited were Morty, Falkner, Clarita (Falkner’s girlfriend), Jasmine, Chuck, Clair(she came with her boyfriend Gary and her baby, Ken), Will, Koga, Aya, Bruno(he came with his girlfriend, Audrey, Clair’s mother) and Karen. Everybody came with a pokemon: Morty with Gengar, Jasmine with Skarmory, Chuck with Poliwrath, Clair with Dragonair, Gary with Umbreon, (Since Ken was a baby, he didn’t had any pokemon ^-^), Will with Xatu, Koga with Venomoth, Aya with Ariados, Bruno with Hitmontop, Audrey with Sneasel and Karen with Houndoom. I was having fun at the party because I met important people. I talked with Karen and I thought she was really nice. “So… you’ve fight a unknown pokemon?” “Yeah, he was enormous and strong, but Kala defeated it and that’s why she evolved! I’m so proud.” “I know, I was proud too when I saw my Houndour evolve into Houndoom. Right, pal?” “HOOOUNDOOM!” “He said: right.”, I translated. “Cool! You can understand any pokemon! That’s awesome!” “All pokemon speak the same language: it works with the kind of stress that you put into each word.” “Wow, I didn’t know that!” “Now you do!” Then, Falkner, the Violet gym leader and his girlfriend, Clarita, came over to talk with us. Clarita was a black person, had black hair and beautiful blue eyes. It’s the first time I saw a black girl with blue eyes. She heard me talking and seem really surprised. “Wow, you really can talk!” “I told her, but she wouldn’t believe me!”, Falkner told her girlfriend. “It’s hard to believe that a pokemon can talk like humans, I can understand.”, I replied. “Sorry, I didn’t introduce myself, I’m Clarita and you’re…” “Meowth.” “I should have known!” We chatted, chatted, chatted, chatted for hours… Until it was supper time. Everyone gathered around the table where Whitney put all the food she made by herself for the party(so I didn’t eat anything!). I looked around to see were Meowsie and Kala were. I found Meowsie and went over to her. “Where’s Kala?”, I asked. “Don’t know. I thought she was with you.” I felt like I have heard this too many times… “Oh, no! Where is she?” I continued to look and I realised I was not the only one to be looking for someone. “Has anyone seen my Sneasel?” “Ok, ok, don’t panic!”, said Whitney who was panicking even though she told us not to. “We’ll be looking for Kala and Sneasel! Everybody: in teams of two! Look everywhere in the gym and also outside! We’ll gather here an hour later!” We checked in all the gym and, an hour later, we found that one of the team had disappeared! It was Gary, Clair and Ken. “Listen to me. Many of us are not in. I say that we stay all in one and only one group!”, I suggested. We did as I said. We were all staying together, trying not to loose sight of anyone. After hours of searching, we all became very tired. “I’m hungry…”, I whispered. “I feel… so… weak…”, Whitney added. Suddenly, we saw Kala and Audrey’s Sneasel outside! LAUGHING AT US! “Kala! Where were you?”, I screamed. “We were so worried and…” “Don’t worry, Dad! Sneasel and I just felt like doing a joke!” “I wanted to know how all of you will react if some of us go away!” “So you’re the one who got the idea!”, I said angrily. “This joke isn’t funny at all! We lost Gary, Clair and their baby! Because of you and your stupid ideas! Kala, I don’t want you to see him again! Go in the gym now!” “But, Dad!” “I said, go, NOW! And you, Sneasel, I want you to keep away from her!” He seemed angry at me and was going to attack, but Audrey calmed him down. “That’s enough, Sneasel! Now, return in your pokeball!”, Audrey said, recalling her Pokemon. “I’m sorry, Meowth, Sneasel doesn’t have a very good behaviour, but he’s improving!” “I guess my party is a big mess… “, Whitney sighed. “We have to look for Clair and Gary to tell them that we’ve found Kala And Sneasel! LikeMeowth said before, we must be in one group, let’s go!”