Sorta Psychic
The Mysterious Sentinel: Alright! Here's the first chapter of "Sorta Psychic"! The story of a boy and his pokémon!
Dark Specter: *Monotone* That sounds just like every other pokémon story I've ever read. Does "Sorta Psychic" have anything to set it apart from all the other knives in the drawer?
TMS: I'm glad you asked! Un-planted stranger! This story also contains moral dilemmas, complex relationships, conflicting opinions, all balanced with comedic characters and adventurous exploits!
DS: *Monotone* Amazing. I've never heard of such a story. It sounds like- *Normal voice* I'm sorry man, I can't do this.
TMS: *Sigh* Fine but you still owe me a solid. Anyway I came up with the idea for this not too long ago, but I've planned some of the early chapters so hopefully I'll be able to get these out fairly quickly.
DS: And even though that was supposed to be a cheap joke, this story really does have all of those things Mys mentioned.
TMS: Yes, so let's stop talking about it and start the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon in any way, shape or form. Pokémon belongs to Nintendo and Game Freak.
Max's P.O.V
I'm so excited! My cousin's coming all the way from the Johto region to visit me! I haven't seen him for months, every time he visits me he shows me his pokémon. I wonder if he has any new ones, or if any evolved?
"I guess I'll find out when he gets here."
I walk out of the forest, he always meets me in this field. He said on the phone he'd meet me around noon, it's almost noon so he should be here any minute.
'Wait! Is that him?'
I see a small flock of bird pokémon in the sky. But none of them were the same. It's my cousin and his Pokémon, as they get closer I can see him riding a pidgeot. The pidgeot landed in the field along with a fearow, a peliper, a ducklett, and a swablu.
"Hey there cuz."
"Falkner! How're you doin'? I see Spearow evolved."
"Yeah he did, Fearow here's gonna be a big help in the gym."
"Man, I can't wait until Mom and Dad let me get a pokémon."
"Speaking of which, I got you something."
"Really?! What is it?"
Falkner reaches into a bag tied to Pidgeot and pulled out an egg
"You got me a pokémon egg!? Cool!What Pokémon is it?"
"I don't know; my Dodrio found it in the woods."
"Well, I don't think Mom and Dad will let me keep it."
"Don't worry, they're strict, not cruel, they won't abandon this little guy."
End P.O.V
He was right, while his parents weren't too happy about it, young Max Trevor was allowed to keep the pokémon egg. After a couple of weeks the egg hatched into a Hoothoot. Max couldn't have been happier, he loved flying types almost as much as his cousin. He named him Keapora, after a character from a story his dad used to tell him when he was little. However, Max soon found out Keapora was no ordinary Hoothoot.
"Hey, Maxie! Could you get your nose out of that book long enough to get me some food!?"
"Huh? Who said that?" Max put down his book and looked around, he was alone in the room except for Keapora.
"Me you idiot! We're the only ones here!"
Max jumped back in surprise, he saw Keapora's beak move, he could talk?!
"You can talk?!" Hey I just said that…
"Oh finally, took you long enough!"
"How are you doing that? And if you can talk why haven't you talked before?"
"Well, I was thinking; you said that I had a psychic type move; confusion, so I thought maybe if I can use psychic moves, I could do other psychic stuff, so I've been trying to use my psychic powers to make you understand me."
"How did you do it?"
"I sort of put the Pokémon language into your mind, so you can understand all other pokémon to!"
"Wow, I've heard of pokémon communicating with humans before, but not like this. That's so cool!"
"I know, I'm so brilliant aren't I?"
"Man, wait till Falkner hears this! I've got the first talking Hoothoot!"
For a few years Max and Keapora were the best of friends, talking, and playing together (his little mind tricks were great for pranking) and occasionally battling a few people around his home town of Gateon port. When he turned ten Max got his trainers license, but his parents wanted him to wait at least a few more years before he left, then at twelve years of age he convinced his parents to let him go on a journey with his pokémon as most trainers do. We now join Max and Keapora riding on Falkner's Swanna, headed for the Sinnoh region.
"Oh man Max! I can hardly wait, for years I've been honing my skills fighting the losers that blow into the port, but today we begin a journey that ends with me fighting the elite four! Soon all of Sinnoh will know how awesome I am!"
"Does that mean you'll stop telling everyone that you're awesome in every other sentence?"
"Maybe Maxie, just maybe… anyway Swanna, how much longer till we get to Sinnoh?"
"Not too much longer boys, not much longer at all. In a few minutes and we'll be over Sandgem Town. There you can register for the Sinnoh league."
"Alright! Say Swanna, maybe sometime you could fly over here and visit us? Maybe we could have a little fight?"
Max rolled his eyes, Keapora has hit on every single female flying type he has ever met, even a sigilyph they fought once. So far he's always been turned down, if not by the pokémon then by their trainers, lately he's been fixating on Swanna.
"Look Keapora, I like you, I really do, and I'm flattered, I really am. But come see me when you evolve, then we'll see what happens, we really will.
Yes she really talks like that, she really does! Max has asked Keapora how he can stand her talking like that, but he never gives a straight answer.
"Don't worry babe, I understand and I can totally do that! With my awesome skills it shouldn't take too long, it really shouldn't."
Max nearly jumped off of Swanna right there, but Sandgem Town was in sight so he held on until she got lower so he could safely jump off. The three of them said their good-byes and Swanna flew off to head back to Falkner's. Keapora hopped on Max's shoulder and the pair headed into the Pokémon center to register in the Sinnoh league, they went to the front counter and talked to the Nurse Joy in charge of the place.
"Alright, so a level eleven Hoothoot named K-E-A-P-O-R-A, Keapora! And his moves are wing attack, steel wing, hypnosis and… sorry what was his fourth move again?"
"That would be confusion Miss Joy" said Keapora
"Oh that's a neat trick! You throw your voice over to him! It must have taken a long time to train him to move his beak to what you say!"
"Uhh actually Nurse Joy he can-"
'Maxie just let her believe what she wants to believe, it would take way too long to explain my awesome powers.'
When Keapora's voice echoed like that Max knew he was speaking telepathically so no one else could hear. He decided to follow Keapora's advice and keep his talking abilities on the down-low.
"There, you're entered in, now I just need to connect to your pokédex so that any new pokémon you catch will be recorded."
"Here, Orre region PDA's work too right?"
"Sure, just give me a minute or two."
'Say Maxie I just thought of something, what other pokémon are you gonna catch?'
'I'm not sure, I want some type variety, but I also want more flying types'
'More flying types? Nah you don't need any more flying types, I'll take care of all the flying type stuff, you should catch a bunch of different types."
'Well I was thinking an electric type, fire type, and a water type and we'll just save the last two spots for any really cool Pokémon we find.'
'Sounds good, it'll be good to have some teammates almost as awesome as me'
"Alright, we're all done, here's your PDA back, have fun!"
"Thanks Nurse Joy, come on Kep!"
'If you're not gonna call me by my full name you should have named me something shorter!'
Max stood at the edge of Sandgem Town, ahead was route 202 and a grand Pokémon adventure. He looked over at Keapora.
"Well buddy, this is it. A grand Pokémon adventure!" Would you stop stealing my lines!?
"Yeah, we're gonna kick butt and take names! Epic opportunities are right in front of us, waiting for us! Let's get started!"
So twelve year old Max Trevor and his best friend Keapora began their… shoot I already used "grand adventure" Umm how about… Great journey! Yeah, I like the alliteration!
So Max and Keapora began their Great journey!
TMS: Well Dark, how was that?
DS It was fine, but I though "Keapora" was spelled with the "A" before the "E"
TMS: When I first played pokemon gold I named my hoothoot "Kaepora" but I spelt it wrong.
DS: Why did you name him after that annoying owl from Ocarina of Time?
TMS: I wanted to name him something. It was the first thing that I thought of. Anyway I hope you all liked that, reviews are appreciated and hopefully I'll have chapter two out soon!