Chapter 1: All those Glitters aren't ever Gold!
Gold Elm was never one to care.
He was the typical teenage loner with Black hair and intimidating
gold eyes. Back in the Johto region he never had friends and that was
the way he liked it. Gold would generally try to alienate himself
from others as much as possible. Gold believes in one thing and that
is to make money. That's all Gold ever wanted. However, he will
soon learn that there is a lot more to life than simply money. Gold's
family was moving from Johto to the region of Ryusho. His father, the
great Professor Daniel Elm, was to be transferred there as the
new professor of the east region. Daniel's family was quite
happy…all except for Gold who didn't care either way. The whole
family was overjoyed to hear that they get to start a new life in the
nation with the most attractions, museums, and culture in the entire
world. Gold as well as his family began to pack all they could, made
sure they had their passports up to date, and said goodbye to all
their friends in one week. Soon they found themselves on a plane to
the new region. Gold's older sister Michelle was so excited she
would even be studying in Ryusho's top University.
"Gold
aren't you excited about starting a new life?" asked Michelle to
her ever apathetic teenage brother.
"Why the hell would I care?
It's just another place to spend my life until I die." Gold
replied while rolling his eyes.
"Gold stop that! We are going to
be in a huge island nation with so much to do. Maybe you should think
about becoming a trainer. I mean your finally sixteen, you got your
driver's license, maybe it's time to try to get a
trainer's---"
"Why would I do that? Pokemon are stupid.
They're what? Something to waste my life with--"
"Gold,
pokemon are not a waste of time! I've devoted my entire life to
studying and researching pokemon to discover all I can about them.
They are a mystical creatures that have a lot to offer us and I think
if you just took the time to understand what they are and why they
are here then maybe you'd appreciate them." Said Gold's father.
"Dad, I'm not you. Just because my last name is Elm, doesn't
mean I have to care about pokemon. I mean Mom is a famous breeder and
you are a famous professor. Michelle is trying to become a Pokemon
Neurosurgeon. However, just because I'm related to all of you
doesn't mean I care about pokemon at all. I mean really, all I want
to do is open up a store somewhere and live a nice peaceful life
alone."
"Oh Gold, when will you learn…?" Said Gold's
mother who had just woken up from her nap. "You need to understand
how important pokemon are. They are just as important as you or
I."
Gold rolled his eyes and fell asleep.
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Gold
awoke in a large black area. "Where the hell am I?" Suddenly in
the background there was a laugh. "Well Mr. Gold you're here in
the bounds of time…and time is what you don't have! Tick tock Mr.
Gold. Time is about to run out. Suddenly two giant white silhouette
of what looked to be pokemon started battling each other. The two
beasts turned around and attacked Gold with two beams of light. As
they were
about to hit Gold, he had woken
up.
Gold awoke in moving van. "Where am I?" he thought to
himself as he had got up. Michelle sat next to him. "You were out
for hours. Dad had to carry you out of the plane and they showed them
all your ID and stuff. For a sixteen your old, your surprisingly
light."
Gold hissed at his sister. "Shut
the hell up! I rather be light then be a County fair Miltank like
you!" Gold's mom hit him over the head. "Gold behave! We are
starting in a new town and we will be at our new house in about
fifteen minutes. Tiny Seed Town is known for their small town feel
and goodness towards your fellow man. I don't want us to be the
town outcasts like in New Bark because of your apathy mister, so you
better turn that frown upside down or no dessert tonight!" She said
to her son. Gold, as per usual, rolled his eyes. He then took
out his notebook.
Something you should know
about Gold is that he loves to write. He jots down random notes in
his notebook of things he thinks of for novels and interesting things
he sees around. This notebook is the only thing that Gold truly sees
as a friend. Ever since he was a child all he would do is write in
various notebooks. He has filled up 151 different notebooks with
information he has gathered, as well as short stories , and poems.
Gold was always gifted at writing. He was even published in a Johto
Children's magazine at the age of twelve, but didn't care
at all since there was no prize for being published. Gold wrote
down what his mother had said in his notebook and closed it. "Why
do I even have to come with you people? Couldn't I just have moved
in with Grandpa and stayed at his ranch by Olivine City? I mean I
liked the Miltanks there in the very least." Professor Elm narrowed
his eyes. "Dad wanted you to stay with him too, but I said the
islands would do you some good." Gold glared at his father.
"If I commit suicide tonight it's your fault!" Professor Elm
rolled his eyes. "You say that every other night. Seriously, if
your going to do it, please do." Gold's mother punched her
husband in the shoulder. "Daniel! Don't tell Gold to kill
himself. He's your son. He maybe a whiny little nihilist, but he is
still your son!"
"Oh whatever!" Gold yelled. "Let's
just get this over with. I'm not going to deal with any of you. I
don't have the strength."
"You never want to deal with
anybody!" Michelle exclaimed while raising her arms. "All you do
is complain about the world. If you hate it so much, drop dead or do
something!"
"Oh whatever!" Gold repeated. "I don't care
because I don't need nor want to."
When
the Elm family arrived in Tiny Seed Town, Professor Elm got out of
the moving van and opened the back of the truck. "Alright Gold, you
and your sister, should start taking out the boxes out of the van. I
have to go get some boxes from the other vans that have all the
stuff from the Johto lab that I brought." Gold rolled his eyes and
went into the van. "Alright let's see…first I'll get the
heavier things out of the way. Since mom will want me to help set up
too, since she is unbelievably lazy, I'll set up the heavier things
so the lighter things will be easier to put up." Gold thought to
himself. "Michelle, help me bring in Mom and Dad's armoire.
"Right sure thing." The two siblings carried the large shelf like
antique into the large house they would now be living in.
Upon entering the house, Gold had noticed it was unusually
large. At least in his eyes anyway. They put it down next to the
door. "Hey Michelle, why is the house so big? I mean isn't this
suppose to be like New Bark?" Michelle grinned. "You noticed too,
eh? Well it so happens that Tiny Seed is an obscenely rich county.
Mostly Lawyers, doctors, and other white collar professionals live
around here. Dad's a doctor technically, so we will fit in."
Gold rolled his eyes. "Just what we need something else to feed our
parents' egos. Maybe they'll kill themselves, though I could only
hope." Michelle grin quickly turned to a frown. "Gold please, we
are living in such a great nation now. Can you please try to make
this a bit easier on everyone. I mean really, you could find
something you really like here." Gold rolled his eyes again. "Look
Michelle, I will never care about anyth---" Suddenly, bursting
through the door were three very strange creatures. One was a green
Gecko will yellow eyes, a small body, three fingers, a pink belly,
and very thin legs. The second was a blue penguin like creature with
a darker blue cape, a white face, black eyes, and yellow feet,
the third was an ant eater pokemon with a black back, a
yellowish-white stomach, slit-like closed eyes, and finally 4 red
spots on it's back. It was also the only one of the three to be on
it's back.
"Hey a Treecko, a Piplup, and a
cyndaquil! This region doesn't have it's own three starters so it
mixed and matched Houen, Sinnoh, and Johto pokemon." said Michelle
pointing to the three pokemon. Gold looked at them. "Okay so the
green lizard thing is treecko, the bird is piplup, and the mutant
fire thing is Cyndaquil. " Michelle smiled. "Your taking an
interest in pokemon! That's so---" Gold shook his head. "Dad
made me read his notes one day. He had to research the other two
since he isn't used to Sinnoh and Houen pokemon." Michelle
frowned again. Professor Elm ran into the house. "Kids, the
pokemon are going wild because they are scared! Help me get them
back!" Gold turned away from his father. "Eh, I don't
care. You can handle this one." Professor Elm slapped his head and
then looked at Gold. "I'll pay you $1000 to catch Treecko and
bring him back to the lab." Gold's ears perked up when he heard
the word pay. "You can leave it to me Dad."
As
Gold left the house to find Treecko, he felt a sharp pain in his head
and was
unconscious.
Gold awoke in the same Dark area he was in his dream. The two giant beasts appeared in an image beneath him. The beasts blasted each other with giant beasts, but on one side was a man in a business suit and the other was Gold. The man and Gold battled each other in a seemingly endless battle in which the man was winning. Suddenly, his beast and the other beast fused into one super being…" The man laughed. "Your time is running out Mr. Gold…tick tock…tick tock…"
Gold awoke minutes later and found himself in front of his new
house. Piplup and Cyndaquil had already been found by Gold's mother
and Michelle. Cyndaquil was smiling and took a liking to Michelle.
"Gold go find Treecko." Gold got up and nodded. Gold ran through
the town looking for Treecko. He scoured the town looking for the
wood gecko pokemon. "Alright let's see…if I was a stupid green
lizard…I would probably be in a tree." Gold ran over to a
near by policeman and asked if there were any places with many trees
around.
"Why sure kid, there are a lot of places with trees in
Tiny Seed. Go try the woods by Seedling Pond. If your treecko likes
to climb, he'd love it over there."
"Thank you pigs…I mean
Officers."
Gold ran off and went to woods by
the large pond. "Hmmm, I wonder if there is anything interesting
that happens around here. Oh well I don't care." Gold walked
around and finally caw Treecko at the top of a giant tree. "Okay
you stupid lizard some down now." Treecko stuck his tongue out at
Gold and picked a blue Oran berry and then threw it at Gold,
which splattered on Gold's face on impact. "Alright, that's it.
I'm no longer pulling any punches." Gold began to climb up
the tree. As he did, Treecko picked another Oran Berry and threw it
at Gold again. Gold moved his head this time and it hit another
pokemon at the bottom of the tree. This pokemon was a purple monkey
like pokemon with no real arms. However, it has a giant hand on it's
tail. "Oh crud, an aipom. They usually travel in packs. I really
hope it doesn't---" Suddenly hundreds of Aipom and larger
monkey pokemon with two tails and a more defined hand on each tail
appeared. "Great, it's evolved form Ambipom too!" Treecko
laughed at the pokemon and started to pound the Aipom. Ambipom
however started to use the same attack on treecko. Treecko was no
match. Gold tried running away but froze up. "What am I doing…I
don't care about that stupid gecko…though if I don't
bring him back I won't get paid." Gold rolled his eyes and turned
around. He saw treecko being carried off by the Ambipom and Aipom.
As they were about to go off into a very large tree with the
wood gecko, Gold appeared with a stick in hand and started to pummel
all the monkey pokemon. He grabbed Treecko and ran.
Treecko was severely beaten. It was completely unconscious but also
had a high fever. Gold ran to his Dad's lab to find him inside
checking all the pokemon. "Alright pay up. He got attacked by some
Aipom and Ambipom." Professor Elm's jaw dropped when he looked at
Treecko's condition. "How can I pay you Gold when you brought
back this to me!?" Gold turned bright red. "Look it's not my
fault that he's haughty and rude. I tried to get him, but he kept
throwing things at me and then he got attacked by the stupid
monkeys." Professor Elm rolled his eyes. "Well a deals a
deal son, but your mother is not going to be happy that I did this. "
Gold rolled his eyes in the same fashion. "Whatever dad. What some
ever." Gold pocketed the money as his dad handed it to him. Gold
then turned around and went home.
That
night, Gold's family got together with the three starter pokemon.
Treecko had been sitting in the corner, while the other two seemed to
have decided to join the Elm family. "I'm going to take Cyndaquil
with me to college dad. Mom, Dad, is Piplup going to be helping
you guys at the lab?" Professor Elm smiled. "Yes Michelle,
Piplup is going to be helping out with Corsola and my other pokemon
lab assistants. We have other starters coming tomorrow so it's
fine." Gold turned to Treecko. "What are you going do about
Treecko? I mean he's a starter too." Professor Elm thought. "Well
Gold we've decided. We don't really think it's healthy that you
want to just stay in the house forever. I mean really there is a
whole world out there and well you should be apart of it!" Gold
stepped back. "What exactly are you saying?" Gold's mother
smiled. "Well we are sending you out to become a trainer starting
tomorrow. Before we left we got you a Ryushodex, the pokedex of the
region, and since Treecko needs a home, he'll be your starter. We
even got you some new clothes and a pokegear." Gold looked at
his family with a glare of utter contempt. "Why do you hate me so
much?!" Gold ran upstairs to his new room and locked the door.
Later Gold had found himself on his bed awake from a dream. It
appears to have been around 6:00 AM. "It's weird, this is the
first time I've fallen asleep in the last twenty-four hours in
which I didn't have a dream about that guy." Gold opened the door
to his room and found Treecko asleep on the wall next to Gold's
room. "Heh, I guess this thing is a bit attached to me…" Gold
picked up Treecko and put him on his bed and tucked him in. Gold fell
asleep on an arm chair in in the corner of his room.
Gold awoke later that morning to find Treecko awake and looking
around him room. "Hey, um I guess we should start looking for what
to bring." Treecko rolled his eyes in the same fashion Gold did and
pointed to a bag pack with clothes next to it. "I guess mom started
already. Let's see, so far my pokedex, wallet…with credit card,
poke balls, changes of clothes, my pokegear, and some notebooks are
packed already. So I need a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a water
bottle and some and a mini-TV." Treecko rolled his eyes again and
showed Gold on the pokegear there was already a TV function. "Oh
well I suppose that makes sense that they got me the newest version."
Gold and Treecko went downstairs and got the things they needed.
"Morning Gold." His mother said to him with a smile.
"For breakfast we have Pancakes, fried eggs, and bacon."
Gold made himself a plate of eggs and bacon. Then he had
quickly inhaled his breakfast. "Just saying I will never forgive
you for forcing me out of the house and I do hope you and dad slowly
burn in the depths of hell." Treecko was a bit frightened of the
way Gold treated his mother. "Treecko, my parents don't want you
or I here anymore so they are kicking us out. So, let's go get our
stuff and get out." Treecko nodded and jumped on Gold's
shoulder and they went upstairs.
Gold
saw new clothes laid out for him. The clothes included a red
sweatshirt with a gray hood, gray pocket, and tabs on the
sleeves that were gray, yellow shorts with black pockets, silver
sneakers with a red poke ball symbol with black sides, all topped off
with a black hat with a gold hat. He put on his new clothes and put
the hat on backwards. "Alright, Treecko let's figure out
where to go first. I suppose since I'm signed up for the Ryusho
league I should probably find the first gym." Gold looked at the
town map on his wall. "According to the map, the first gym is in
Carnation city. The other gyms are scattered across Ryusho's
archipelago-like region. I suppose we'll figure out how to get on a
boat there to the other parts of the region." Treecko nodded and
hopped on Gold's shoulder. "By the way where is your poke ball."
Treecko pointed to the silver and black bag pack that his parents had
bought him. In the small pocket where his poke balls were he found
one labeled Treecko's ball. Gold nodded. "Alright, let's
go."
The two partners left the town without
another word. They ran and found themselves on route 203 with
hundreds of pokemon everywhere. "Alright, I say we make our first
capture."
