[ WP ] A single pokemon appears in the real world .

The creek flooded the walking path today. I take the path to get to school. Usually, the creek barely covers its bed. But sometimes it overflows. It makes sense when there's a rainstorm. But sometimes rainstorms do n't cause the creek to flood at all, or the creek inexplicably floods during dry spells. There has n't been any rain for the last month, but the creek flooded the path today anyways. 
 
 I sloughed through the flooded section of the path, and continued to school. I passed by the cotton fields. Well, they were cotton today, and tomatoes the year before that. A plane flew over the fields with a fine mist in its wake. Sprinklers jettisoned spurts of water over the plants, but I was at a safe distance… a dry distance. 
 
 By the time that school was out, the creek had receded. My socks had dried by that time, so I was glad that they were n't going to get soaked again. The stream had left the usual jetsam on the path: a muddy streak outlined a scattered mess of twigs and sodden leaves. But I was shocked to discover an oversized fish splashing about in one of the leftover puddles. 
 
 The fish was about a meter long, and it was flopping around on its side. I could n't understand how such a large fish could muster so much energy as it splashed in a puddle that barely covered its tail fin. I thought that it might die if it was left in its shallow, muddy puddle. So I tried to pick it up. 
 
 `` Magikarp karp. Magikarp karp,'' said the fish.
