Prologue:
Hello there! Yes you there reader! We are about to enter into world where the bonds of man and beast are at their peak in the sense of friendship. But like any circumstance with man, the lust for greed and power run amok. Creatures known as Pokémon run rampant around the planet. These creatures harbor special types and abilities, some elemental, such as grass, fire, and water, and some supernatural such, such as psychic, dark, and ghost. Humans and Pokémon try their best to live together as partners. Although some humans believe Pokémon to be tools for their own success, or even to the extent as instruments for their ideals. Nevertheless, we begin our story on Planet Earth, in the region of Kanto, a bustling green landscape with several towns, including 8 towns where the 8 Gym Leaders of the Indigo League reside. Gym Leaders are monotype specialty trainers that look over their cities. Some are protectors of the weak, others are corrupt and power-hungry. Trainers who defeat all 8 Gym Leaders in the Indigo League proceed to the Indigo Plateau, where the Elite Four reside. The Elite Four are the strongest trainers in the Kanto region, other than the Champion. Those who defeat the Elite Four gets the chance to battle the Champion of the Indigo League. The winner of the match either keeps or wins the title of Champion.
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Chapter 1: Red, the Trainer from Pallet.
We will begin in the town of Pallet, where an uprising trainer named Red begins his journey In the town of Pallet where we begin our story, there are two trainers in the midst of a battle where a small crowd is seen hovering around them in a circle. The match is being held in an open field of grass, as one trainer is battling with a Nidorino, and the other is battling with a Gengar. One trainer had slick black hair and casual clothes, with a whip around his belt, "Nidorino, use Poison Sting!", he exclaimed. The other trainer was a brunette with long hair, with a girl's school uniform. "Gengar, use Lick!", the girl emphatically pronounced. The poison sting of the Nidorino missed the Gengar, and the Gengar jumped out in front of the Nidorino and licked it in the face. "Oh, well. It looks like your Nidorino is paralyzed. Do you forfeit?", asked the girl. "Damn you! I would have never agreed to that match, had I known you had a Gengar. And here I thought Nidorino was more fully evolved than everyone else's Pokemon around here.", he answered. "Get lost, novice. If anyone here in this town thinks they can challenge me, step for-"
"You know, you really are an arrogant little showoff, you know that?", said a boy from the shadows. "And just who are you?", asked the girl. A boy with spiky black hair under a red cap, red jacket with a black undershirt and jeans came out from the shadows where a tree was hovering. "My name is Red. I am the champion of this town. I'm here to prevent smug little upstarts like you from thinking you have what it takes to become a Pokémon Trainer outside of this town.", says the boy with a smirk. "Smug little upstart? Did you not see my Pokémon? It's fully evolved!" exclaimed the girl. "How about I teach you a little lesson? Let's battle, and settle this one on one. What do you say?", Red offered. The girl screamed in agitation, "AAAAAAGH! GENGAR, USE YOUR NIGHT SHADE ON HIM!" "GENGAR! GENGAR!" exclaimed the girl's Gengar. "Using a Pokémon on a human being, eh? That's against the law, but I'll spare you from such trouble. Go, Poliwhirl.", Red throws out his Pokéball, releasing his Poliwhirl. "Poliwhirl, dodge." Poliwhirl dodges the Gengar's black aura, "Use Hypnosis.", a purple clear rounded beam appears from Poliwhirl's swirly belly, "Poli! Poli!" and sends Gengar asleep. "... but... but Poliwhirl is a Water type! How could it possibly know a Psychic move?", said the girl astonished.
"Hmph, continuing to show your ignorance to the very end, eh? Pokémon's moves are not inherently exclusive towards their type. All of the 119 different species of Pokémon are unique. Poliwhirl for example has a unique spiral on its belly. It can emit psychic waves from its spiral. However it is limited to what kinds. And it's evolution after this stage gives it incredible fighting strength, thus disrupting its psychic abilities. But you wouldn't know that, would you?" "Hmph! You're such a jerk!", the girl cries and runs off. "Geez, what a bab- whoa!", Red falls over with his pants around his ankles. "WHA- WHAT THE HELL?", yells Red.
"Smug little upstart? Look who is talking, hehe." Red looks up and sees a beautiful girl with long brown hair, and a white rounded hat with a blue tank top, and a cute red skirt around her waist. "Leaf? What the hell are you doing here?", asked Red. The crowd is heard laughing at the side, "HAHAHAHA! OH MY GOSH LOOK AT HIS POKEBALL CHARACTER PRINT BOXERS! WHAT A BIG TALKER! HAHAHA!" "Hey you all shut the hell up!", Red shakes his fist at them, and notices Bulbasaur's vine whips around his belt loops. "Bulba!" said the Bulbasaur. "Leaf, what the hell, you jerk? What did you go doing that for?" "Haha, well, I just saw you talking over there like a big know-it-all, so I thought I'd knock you back down a size, hehe.", Leaf explained. Red began to get up and pulled up his jeans, "You jerk!" Leaf goes over and picks up a Pokéball, "What's this? I thought Poliwhirl was your only Pokémon?" "Oh, that's not mine. I'm just holding onto it until I can give it to someone else.", explained Red. "But what is it?", asked Leaf. "Who cares? Its NOT my Pokémon." "Okay, okay, calm down..." Leaf hands the Pokéball to him.
"Hey." Red and Leaf jump up in fright, "WHAAAA!" A boy with brown spiky hair with a black shirt and khakis appeared out of nowhere. "Blue, you sneaky freak! Why did you do that?", yelled Red. "Sorry, I suppose its just my personality. Look, not that you pipsqueaks care or anything..." Red and Leaf thought, "Pipsqueaks? We are all fourteen years old..." "... there has been rumors of a shady group planning to appear around the area to catch a new Pokémon.", explained Blue. "A new Pokémon? You mean they found a 120th species?", asked Leaf. "Supposedly. Apparently there are other kinds of Pokémon in the world. I, for one, plan to champion this region, so any knowledge I can obtain will be useful, so I'm going to follow them. Now I don't care what you all do, I just wanted to tell you this to let you know not to follow me. I'm going alone.", Blue explained. "But, Blue, aren't you afraid of getting hur-" "Stop it.", Blue interrupted Leaf. "Do not show sympathy for me. We are not friends." Blue walks off onto the path in the sunset. "I suppose its getting dark, we better go back. You're not going to go look for that Pokémon, are you, Red? I don't want you to get hurt..."
"Psh, what business do I have with a new Pokémon? I honestly couldn't care less..." Red and Leaf both walk towards their houses as nightfall approaches.
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Authors Note: Hello everyone! My name is Volt. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of Pokémon Journeys! I know the first chapter was short, but I figured that was appropriate. I promise later chapters will be much longer, (unless you guys persuade me otherwise). This chapter was very lighthearted, but as you can see somewhat, this story will be a very intensified fusion of the anime/manga/game worlds of Pokémon. The characters will be mostly based off the manga characters, the plot will follow a rough structure based of a fused element of the anime and manga with a lot of my own twists, and I want to implement the structure and logic of the RPG's as much as possible in this world. The logic that is constructive to a complex storyline of course. This next chapter may remind you a lot of the first couple of chapters of Pokemon Adventures, however, I assure you that you'll see, even in this next chapter that there are a lot of twists, turns, and suspense. Red and Blue will undergo intense character development psychologically, and the characters relationships towards one another will be a lot more complex.
Either way, I hope you all enjoy this! Please leave me any constructive criticisms you have, or ideas or things you'd like to see! I can't guarantee I'll implement them in the story, but I definitely wouldn't mind hearing them, and you never know, I might just use it! Please be up to date on the story however, if you are going to leave me ideas. Feel free to criticize any individual chapter as you like.
Thanks guys!
-Volt