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."