UPDATE: I'm going to eventually redo this chapter because I think it sucks, you probably think it sucks, I can make it make more sense, less clunky, and just overall better.
This story follows the trainer Matt, and will be in his point of view, unless specified. Just remember one thing... Bold are thoughts and Pokemon conversations will be Italic.
Prologue
"Matt, get up!"
Sprawled across the bed, I suddenly feel the covers being pulled away from me, yanking me along with them and I find myself on the floor looking up at my friend, Alex. If it was anyone else, I would have got up swinging. Having grown up with him, I know him better than anyone here in Fordin. "Dude, it's ten in the morning, in the middle of summer, why are you here?
"You really are clueless, aren't you?" He replies with a smirk "Well, if you want to sleep, I'll just go get my starter from Prof Lilly without you."
That's right, today is the day that we finally set out on our journey throughout the Terian region."Ahh crap, you're right." I get up and give my back a good stretch. "Well, let's get going then!"
After I change my clothes and grab some supplies before meeting him outside and walk with him down the road and before we knew it, we were already there. We went in, got our Pokedex, our trainer cards and our starters, imported from Sinnoh. I got the turtwig and my cheeky friend tried to one-up me by taking the chimchar. I still kicked his ass in our first battle. Before we left, we told our goodbyes and made our way to the town of Korthwall. We were also asked to deliver a package there. Seeing that it was going to be a few days walk there, I try to spark up a conversation.
"So how much do you know about this place?"
"Yeah. It was supposedly a fort a very long time ago, but it has been restructured to be a town about a couple centuries now."
"No kidding?" He always was the smart one. Whether being an ass or not, he has always done his research. "By the way, what is it that you think we got here?" I shake the small box a little bit before he takes it off me.
"I don't know, but it will probably be broken by the time we get there, if you keep that up."
I just sigh and put my hands in my pockets as we march on into the forest. After some time has past, my friend ends up catching a bidoof and I initiate a battle with a wild caterpie.
Staring down the wild pokemon, I ready a pokeball. "Tera, just one more time, tackle 'im!"
The small turtle shakes off the string and rams into the caterpie, knocking him into the base of a tree.
I quickly toss the ball at the pokemon and watch it do its magic. Hearing the 'ding', I quickly pick up my catch and start trying to rip the rest of the string off of Tera. "You did very well." After finishing up with the string, I see that she has a look of horror. "Hey, what's wrong girl?"
I turn around and look up and I see them, hundreds of them, kukunas on every branch. The only thing that came to mind in that moment was You have got to be shitting me right now... I quickly return her to her ball as I see one of them glowing and make a run for it, bumping straight into Alex, knocking us both down.
Getting up off the ground, he gives me a scowl. "What the hell man? Why did you do that?"
Quickly getting to my feet I grab his arm. "We need to get out of here!"
He pulls his arm out of my grip. "What did you do this time?" Before I could speak, we both hear the buzzing and see a horde of beedrill quickly approaching. He grabs his chimchar and makes a break for it.
I made the decision to try and not follow him, and immediately regretted it. I find myself trapped as I look over a small cliffside, and behind me as the horde draws near. I see the river below and knew that was my only option at this point and made a jump for it.
As I hit the water below, the strong currents start taking me away. I twist and turn, scrambling to make my way to the surface, I find that I can't, stuck in the undertow. I suddenly feel a tug and see that my backback had ripped open, scattering all that I have throughout the waters.
I frantically try and grab only the important items, like my trainer card and pokedex, only managing to push them away. As the only things I have left, I clutch the balls that I have on my belt clip. I start trying to I need to get out of here! I need to-
I hit my head off of a large rock and almost lose the rest of my breathe, but I manage to hold on before getting hit in the side by a second one. I do manage to get my head above the water, taking another deep breathe, now seeing in time the fallen log. Close to blacking out, I hear a rumbling, and before I know it, I am being pulled down. As I pass out, I get a glimpse out over the falls, seeing the shore.
I slowly wake treading waters, everything a blur, I reach a rocky shore. I can't move and can barely keep my eyes open, and the last thing I see is something blue running towards me, before blacking out again.
As this happens to be my first real bit of writing that I have done, criticize the hell out of it, tell me what I did wrong and let me know any things you might want me to do for the future. This is going to be a simple little story, might go somewhere, might not. Let me know what you think! :3
