AN: Hey there anyone who happens to read this! (what would be the correct term? aspiring authors? Readers? I don't know...) Welcome to my first story:"Just a little different" I'm writing this because I have a big writing test coming up, and i want to improve my writing. (especially first person). Also, I just wanted to try writing a Pokémon fanfiction. so uh... yeah, enjoy!
"Talking"
"Thoughts"
-Noises-
Disclaimer: I own pokémon... wait, what? I don't?... oh. Well, I have just been informed that I infact do NOT own pokémon... crap.
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Chapter 1
Your First Pokémon
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"It was a warm summer day in Newbark town" I recalled "and I was going to Professor Elm's lab just down road to get my first pokémon."
-Evan
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"Evan!" My mom called "It's time to get up!"
"five more minutes..." I mumbled into my pillow
"Evan! You don't have time for this! you're getting your pokémon today and it's already 9:20! you're supposed to get there by 9:30!"
"my pokémon?..." I thought "MY POKÉMON! I'm getting my pokémon today!"
"Coming mom!" I yelled
I frantically scrambled out of bed, threw off my pajama pants and shirt and put on a pair of faded, blue jeans, I then pulled a grey shirt with a white diamond on the middle with a blue pokéball inside of it over my lean fourteen year-old frame. Next I ran over to the bathroom and speed brushed, looked into the mirror, and shook my head back and forth once, making my brown hair settle in a wave like motion over my blue grey eyes. After that I sprinted out of the bathroom and downstairs, quickly putting on a pair of white socks and a pair of black and blue running shoes.
"Gotta go mom!" I yelled as i ran out of the door
"Bye honey, have fun on your journey!"
"BYE!" i yelled as i threw the door closed, resulting in a loud -thunk!-
I sprinted as fast as I could down the dirt road that lead to professor Elm's lab. thinking about the Indigo League, and how badly I wanted to get there. I whizzed by houses and trees until, several minutes later, I saw a two-story, green roofed house in the distance. when i got there, i saw a black haired teenage boy with a black and goldenrod hat casually walking towards me.
"Yo! Evan! how's it goin'?" asked the boy
"pretty good, considering I just ran here from my house in a matter of minutes. how 'bout you Gold?" I asked
"It's going awesome for me, I'm getting my pokémon today!" the boy called Gold replied
"you act like I'm not"
"oh yeah, by the way, did you see Crys on the way here?"
"well, no, but I wasn't really looking for anyone, I was just running here..."
"hm, i figured she'd be here by now, waiting by the door, calling us a couple of slowpokes"
"yeah, that wouldn't be all that out of character for her."
We chuckled, and then stayed silent for a moment, until i asked something
"hey, what time is it?"
Gold looked at his watch and then replied
"its 9:28"
"thanks."
As we waited for it to become 9:30, i saw a figure in the distance, kicking up a cloud of dust in it's wake
"Well, it looks like Crys just about made it" I said
"whadda' ya mean?" Gold asked
"look." I said as I pointed to the cloud of dust coming towards us
"oh yeah... HI CRYS!" he yelled
Kris walked up to us, and panted out "h-e-y G-o-l-d, h-e-y E-v-a-n."
just as Crys finished her sentence, we heard a bell ring and we all turned around to see Professor Elm standing right inside the doorway
"hello you three!" he said cheerily "nice to see your on time!"
"Hi professor!" the three of us replied in unison
"come on in" he said as he made a hand motion as to usher us in
We all walked in to Elm's lab and looked around at the cramped bookshelves, and large machines with cables sprouting out of them in all directions like vines. The professor gave us a brief tour of his lab, ending at a small, circular, red, and white machine with three pokéballs on them.
"so these are our first pokémon then?" I asked
"Yes. they are, in order, Chikorita, the leaf pokémon." as Professor Elm finished his sentence, he sent out Chikorita, and then continued "Cyndaquil, the fire-mouse pokémon" once again, he sent out the pokémon he was talking about " and last but not least, Totodile, The big jaw pokémon."
The three of us got down on our knees to greet the pokémon, All greeting different pokémon at the same time, and once we did, Professor Elm asked a question.
"so which of you is choosing first?"
"uh, I don't know, how do you usually decide?" Crys asked
"well i usually just let the trainers decide amongst themselves."
"and that works?" Gold asked, a bit skeptically
"well, sort of." We all slumped our shoulders in exasperation when we heard this "They usually start arguing..." The professor finished
"and you never thought to do anything like, oh, i don't know, first come, first served?" I asked
"well, I never really thought about it, but yes, I guess we could do that." The Professor Replied
"Okay." Gold, Crys and I replied
"Good. Now which of you got here first?" The Professor asked
"I think it was Evan." Gold said
"no objections?" The Professor asked, silence.
"Awesome!" I yelled, slightly startling the pokémon. "oh, sorry." I added when I noticed the alarmed pokémon.
"Okay then Evan, which Pokémon will you choose?"
"hm..." I thought for a moment " I choose... Totodile!"
Totodile jumped up and down happily and ran over to me
"I'm gonna call you Jaws!" I remarked ecstatically as the newly named jaws gave me a toothy grin.
"Okay then, here is Totodile's pokéball." He said as he handed me a standard red and white pokéball with a water droplet emblem on it. "who got here next?" The Professor asked to all of us
"Oh, that was Gold." I answered.
"Oka-" The Professor began, but was interrupted by Gold
"Cyndaquil"
"Okay, here is Cyndaquil's pokéball." He said while handing Gold a pokéball with flame emblem on it.
"so then, it's safe to assume that Crys got here next?" The Professor asked knowingly.
"Ye-" The three of us started, but we were interrupted by a loud banging, and suddenly, smoke filled the room.
"Get down!" The Professor yelled as he dropped to the ground, and we did likewise.
I waited in the inky black darkness for what felt like days until it finally cleared just as abruptly as it had started. We all stood back up, and Professor Elm inspected the damage to his lab, finding nothing but a broken window and a card that said "Silver". Then he walked back to us.
"Okay Crys, here's Chikorita!" The Professor said proudly, holding nothing but air.
"um... Professor?" Gold asked
"yes?"
"wheres Chikorita?"
The professor looked at his hand, and realized what Gold meant.
"Oh no! no no no no! Chikorita has been stolen!"
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"I'm sorry Crys," The Professor said to a crying blue haired teenage girl who was sitting on a chair in professor Elm's lab. there were Police looking around the house, but they found nothing except for the card professor Elm showed them.
"Yeah, don't worry Crys!" Gold said "I'll catch that good for nothing crook!"
"B-but you don't even know what he looks like..." Crys replied
"oh yeah..." Gold said, looking rather deflated "But I'll hunt him down!"
"I'm sorry too, Crys." I finished
"C-Chikorita's gone!" Crys sobbed
"It's ok, I have another Pokémon you can have!" The professor said.
Crys looked up at the professor, still crying.
"You do?"
"yes, come with me."
Professor Elm lead Crys back into the room where the pokémon were, and clicked a button on a machine next to the circular machine that the pokémon had been in, which revealed another Pokéball. It had a small white circle above the button on the pokéball.
"Go, Eevee!" The professor shouted, revealing a small, brown, fox like pokémon
"Oh!" Crys said. "I love her! Thank you professor!"
"your welcome Crys. But before you three go, I have to give you one more thing." The professor said as he grabbed some red objects from a table behind him. "here are your pokédexes and pokéballs, you each get five pokéballs."
We all left Professor Elm's lab after thanking him, and headed back to our homes, seeing as it was already five o'clock and we wouldn't be able to get to Cherrygrove city before nightfall. When I got home, I showed my mom Jaws, and I told her about what had happened at Professor Elm's, packed up some stuff for my journey, including another shirt, a pair of shorts, some extra pairs of socks, some extra pairs of underwear, a watch, some water, and a back-pack. I went to sleep that night dreaming about winning the Indigo league...
AN: so! whadda ya think? I think it was OK compared to some of the other stories out there, but I also (personally) feel like there was WAY too much dialogue, and i had a hard time putting in actual paragraphs. It's really bugging me, although, I do suck at setting, so maybe If I get better at that, My story won't just be a wall of dialogue.
please review! I want to know what you think!