DIAMOND & PEARL
By Noen Tessaiga
Chapter 5
To Catch A Hariyama
Ash and the gang had decided to attempt to tame Shina’s Hariyama and reunite the two back together. The first thing was to find Hariyama. “So how do we find Hariyama?” Dawn asked.
“Well I’m not sure." she replied. "He usually finds me. I could be just walking around and all of a sudden he’ll be right in front of me or behind me. Sometimes he’s super quiet and you don’t even realize it until it’s too late. And sometimes he’s so loud you can hear him coming from a mile away.”
“I suggest that we just walk around with Shina in the forest until we encounter him. In a forest like this that shouldn’t be too hard.” Brock suggested.
“Good idea.” Ash said.
“Ok. We can do that.” Shina said. They began to walk around and see if they could find Hariyama…or the other way around. “I just see one problem with this plan.” Shina started. “Once we encounter Makuhita how are we supposed to reason with him if we can’t even understand him?” Everyone halted in their tracks.
“That’s a very good question.” Dawn said.
“Yeah, how are we supposed to reason with Hariyama if we can’t understand what he's saying?” Ash said.
“Shina,” Brock started. “You said that Hariyama had that transmitter around his neck, right?”
“Yeah, he does. But I think it got switched off when he evolved.”
“Well then that answers our question." Brock exclaimed. "We’ll just switch the transmitter back on and that’s how we’ll reason with him.”
“Are you crazy?!” Shina shrieked. “We can’t even get within twenty feet of Makuhita; let alone right up to the transmitter.”
“Maybe we can.” Dawn said.
“What?” Ash inquired.
“Look.” everyone looked at what Dawn was talking about. It was Hariyama!
“It’s Hariyama.” Ash said silently.
“Is he…sleeping?” Brock asked.
“Yes, he is.” Shina said. “Makuhita needs a lot of energy to fight because he’s not supposed to battle so he has to sleep a lot. The thing is that I’ve never seen him sleep before since he evolved.”
“Maybe he can go longer without sleeping if he’s got a bigger energy supply.” Ash said.
“That could be.” Brock said.
“What was the longest period of time you’ve gone without seeing Hariyama?” Dawn asked.
“Um, let me think…” Shina said as she pondered for a moment. “The longest time I’ve gone without seeing Makuhita was about three days.”
“Then he must sleep for three days. That’s perfect.” Ash said. “All we have to do is sneak up on him and turn on the transmitter. And then when he wakes up in a few days we’ll be able to reason with him.”
“But who’s gonna turn on the transmitter?” Dawn asked.
“…I hadn’t thought of that. Why don’t you do it, Brock?”
“I’m not going near that thing.”
“Ok then. You go, Shina.”
“No way am I doing it.”
“Dawn, how bout you go?”
“Are you kidding? I’m not going. Would you, Ash?”
“…I guess not.”
“Then what do we do?” Shina asked. “If we don’t turn on the transmitter while he’s asleep now we may never get another chance again.
“I know.” Ash said.
“I have an idea.” Brock said. He bent down and picked up 4 twigs from the ground; then snapped on in half and threw one of the halves away. “We’ll draw twigs." he started. "Whoever gets the short twig goes to turn on the transmitter. Fair?” They all nodded. Brock held out his hand to Ash and he picked a twig. Then Brock held out his hand to Shina and she picked a twig. Then Brock held out his hand to Dawn and she picked a twig. The last twig was Brock’s. “Ok everybody. Show us what you got.” Brock said. Brock unclenched his hand. The twig was long. Brock was safe. “*SIGH*” he said. Next Ash unclenched his hand. The twig was also long. Ash, too, had passed.
“Whoof.” he said. The only two that were left were Shina and Dawn. Dawn slowly unclenched her hand. The twig, too, was also long.
“*SIGH* *GASP* Oh no.” Everybody turned their attention towards Shina’s open palm. The twig was short. Shina had lost. Shina gulped back her growing fear.
“If you want Shina,” Ash started. “I’ll go instead.”
“No, no it’s ok. Makuhita’s my Pokemon. It’s only fitting that it’s me who does it. And besides, I lost fair and square. I’ll go.”
“Ok.” Dawn said.
“You be careful.” Brock said.
“Here, take Pikachu with you in case anything goes wrong.”
“Ok. Thank you, Ash.” Pikachu jumped off Ash’s shoulder and walked beside Shina. The two crept closer to the unsuspecting Pokemon.
“Pika.” Pikachu said silently. Shina was trying her best to hold back her fear. Closer and closer the came. Higher and higher the fear in Shina’s body rose till the two stood in front of the sleeping Pokemon.
“Ok Pikachu. This is it. There’s no turning back now.” Shina whispered. She slowly reached for the transmitter’s switch as the gang watched in complete suspense. Shina was only inches from the switch when, it happened. Hariyama woke up. “*GASP*” Shina could feel her heart stop.
“HARIYAMAAAAA!!!!!!” he screamed grabbing Shina with his right hand. His hand was so big he could wrap his hand around her and still have room for one more of her. Shina was scared to tears. She couldn’t say a word. Suddenly she remembered it was her responsibility to switch on the transmitter. She reached out as far as she could as fast as she could and flicked the switch.
“The transmitter’s on!” she shouted back to the gang.
“Ash, do something!” Dawn shouted.
“Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!” Ash shouted.
“No Ash; you’ll hurt Shina too.” Brock said.
“Darn! What are we supposed to do?!” Ash said.
“HARIYAMAAAA!” Hariyama screamed running off with Shina in his hands.
“Come on; we’ve got to rescue Shina!” Ash screamed at the gang sprang from their hiding spot to follow Hariyama.
