New Days Dawn
A kid with tussled black hair, wearing simple jeans and a black tshirt was packing a blue backpack with spare clothes and some toiletries. The bottom of the bag was already stuffed with jerky and pokemon kibble leaving room for only four sets of clothes, more jeans and several logo tshirts. The boys room was miracously clean for belonging to a twelve year old, but seeing as he would be gone for awhile he figured he should clean it before leaving. Today was the day he had been waiting for since christmas, he mused happily. He had received his trainers license in the mail yesterday and had spent the rest of the time since preparing to leave.
Understandably his mom was worried about the whole thing, for a good reason too, people who underestimated how dangerous wild pokemon in the Aia Region often ended up dead. Though to be fair the majority of trainer deaths were caused by reckless decisions made by the trainers themselves, or due to the trainers not being properly prepared for the hardships whil traveling. He was ready though, journeying to beome a famous trainer had been all he could ever think about since he was young. The dream finally blossomed into reality when on last christmas eve his parents gave him a baby Eevee. The pup could just barely walk around when he got it but bloomed into a cheerful and playful young pokmon within the last three months.
He looked at his pokemon now, he had named her Eve since he was given her on christmas eve, who was chasing her ball around the room batting it with her paws. She had no battle experience but had learned how to respond to the attack names he called out, the brown ball of explosive energy was a quick learner. Making his way out the door he walked down the stairs into his homes comination living and dining room. His parents were standing near the table both smiling, his fathers one of giddy excitement and his mothers one of worry. His fathers own pokemon a Pidgeot named Guster and a Vileplume named Flora were munching away at their food uninterested in the precedings around them.
Eve had chased her trainers down the stairs and ran over to the food, both of the bigger pokemon had the grace to make room before the bundle of energy charge into them. The boy looked sadly at his dads pokemon. He had grown up around them and the various others that his father studied and cared for. Guster and Flora were his fathers only pokemon but as a researcher his father often kept several other pokemon with him for study. "Zack dear," his mother began," please dont do anything reckless." His father laughed and said,"He'll be fine dear, after all with the energy Eve has she could sweep every gym in the region on pure tenacity, isn't that right girl?"
Upon hearing her name Eve looked up from the pokemon kible and ran over to his father juming straight into the older mans arms. Zacks mother looked at her husband critically before saying,"That's what I'm worried about, Eve is more like a pet than a fighter." she complained. "Mom," Zack said," me and dad taught her how to respond to attacks, she just needs some experience and don't worry, I won't take on anything I can't handle." "I worry about what you think you can handle." His mother sighed.
His father however kept up his cheery attitude and asked,"You have room in your bag for a couple more things?" "I guess so why?" Zack replied as his father pulled a large pokemon guide book and a pokedex from behind his back. "Between these to things you should be able to handle any pokmon you come across." His father said proudly. Zack was speehless as he took the blue pokedex, it was the newest and most expensive model, most rookie trainers could never afford it, and the black cover bound pokemon guide held detailed information on how to raise different species as well as where they could be found in the Aia Region.
He left his home shortly after with a quick goodbye he ran to the park where he was meeting his friends before leaving. Skystone was a small town but had the bustle of a much larger city due to the many skyscrapers that dotted the landscape. As he made it to the park he saw his friends Patrick, Dustin, Eric, Brittany and Brianna at the gate. Eve had ran ahead of him and was already playing with Nico, Patricks small and energetic Pichu.
Eric's Poochyena Fang was resting next to Brianna's Zigzagoon Ziggy, while Dustin's Tyrogue Knuckle's was doing self training. Brittany's Seedot Dotty was handing from a nearby tree absorbing nutrients for itself. Out of them only Brittany and Patrick where staying in town, Brittany she disliked the idea of her Seedot getting hurt and Patrick because he had recieved a job as a gym trainer from Pike, the Skystone Leader and an Electric type specialist. Eric and Brianna who where dating were taking off to journey together while both Dustin and Zack where heading out on their own, to train and make new friends in their journeys. The group said their goodbyes, with even the guys getting teary eyed as they left the park where they all played as kids, and their hometown with all its memories.
Zack decided burning his energy running out of town wasn't a good idea so walked instead. He soon came to the outskirts of the city and smiled as he looked at the expansive forrest in front of him, his journey was finally begining. Zack walked slowly through the forrest, he had never been here alone, and had only been allowed to go with his dad to study pokemon occasionally. Eve was still out of her pokeball, simply because she hated to be confined. She stayed close by but kept jumping into bushes and sniffing at flowers as they travelled.
Zack was begining to wonder if there were any wild pokemon in this area, he shrugged off his backpack and was about to check the pokemon guide when a Weedle inched down the side of a tree. "Eve heads up!" He called and his energetic brown furball raced over to him. "Alright Eve see that Weedle, hit it with a Swift attack." He said. Eve turned to face the Weedle, opening her mouth a small yellow sphere appeared, before vanishing as a multitude of small yellow stars shot from it. The attack hit the Weedle dead on causing it to fall from the tree, the attack had left light scratches on the wild pokemon but hadn't been enough to defeat it.
The small barbed worms horn glowed purple as it fired its poison sting attack. Eve dodged the attack by rolling to the left and then ran full speed towards the Weedle, kicking up some strewn leaves. "Alright Eve use Bite." Zack called as Eve rached the pokemon. Eve sank her teeth into the small worm as she had been taught to do, but released her jaws almost instantly. The Weedle's green ooze like blood sprouting from its wound as it ran away. Eve was chewing on leaves from a nearby bush, trying to remove the foul taste the bug pokemon had left in her mouth. Zack sighed as he walked over and sat by her, his mom had been right, Eve was more like a pet than a battler, he had a lot of training ahead, both to make Eve stronger, and ensure that she didn't stop attacking because she didn't like somethings taste.
It had been a few days since the weedle incident but Zack still hadn't captured any new pokemon. Eve was getting better about holding her enemies when she used bite but the pokemon he came across all ran away before he could knock them out or capture them. He decided it was time for a break and sat down for lunch, pulling out some Bidoof jerky for himself and some kible for Eve. She was faring well enough, scavenging berries from bushes that she'd come across and avoiding most of the blows from wild pokemon. Zack had taken the time to pick some of the more useful berries she had come across and had them store in a side pocket on his backpack.
Zack was just begining to doze off when he heard a twig snap. Bolting upright against the tree he was leaning against. Then he heard the sound of footsteps get louder until a young boy about his age came into view. The boy had short black hair and was wearing a green hoodie with jeans. He looked surprised to see someone but smiled and called out,"Hey there!" Zack responded by raising his hand in greeting. The other boy continued until he was in the small clearing with Zack. "Hey, I wasn't expecting to come across anyone this deep in the woods, my names Dexter, whats yours?" The other boy seemed to be the happy over friendly type, so Zack replied,"I'm Zack and this is Eve, I started traveling a few days ago I'm on my way to Stormstone City, you?" He asked. "Oh, i just came from Stormstone, on my first badg there, I'm heading to Skystone next." Dexter said with a smile on hs face. "If you're going for a second tier battle watch out fo his Raichu." Zack told him as he scratched Eve behind her ears.
"You've seen him battle?" Dexter asked surprised. "Well I live in Skystone, so yeah." Zack said simply, "I don't have enough pokemon for a gym challenge so I decided to comeback here later. Pike trains certain pokemon for each tier and a Raichu is his best in the second tier, if you can take it out you're golden." Dexter stopped and thought this bit of information over for a minute, "Thanks for the info, it'll help and since you are new training how about a practice battle? We won't even bet anything it can be purely for fun."
Zack took a moment to think about this before accepting, The two boys moved to opposite sides of the small clearing. Eve moved to the field in front of Zack. Dexter grabbed one of the pokeballs on his belt and released the pokemon he would be using, a Venonat whose large red eyes shone brightly. "Alright lets wn this Eve start with Swift." Zack called out, Eve created the small yellow sphere in her mouth before shooting out a multiude of stars from it. "Dusty use Agility then hit it with a Tackle." Dexter ordered his Venonat, whose speed rocketed up as it dodged the oncoming Swift attack and rammed into Eve at high speeds with a Tackle.
Eve was thrown back by the force of the blow but quickly stood back up, "Alright then Eve try a Quick Attack!" Zack ordered. Eve dashed quickly at the Venonat striking it hard in the middle of it body. "Alright now again!" Zack shouted excited about the hit. "Dusty use Confusion." Dexter called out to his pokemon calmly and this time as Eve rushed the insect pokemon its eyes glowed brightly as a near invisible force slammed into Eve, sending her flying into a tree. "Eve!" Zack shouted worried but Eve stood back up a look of determination in her eyes. Dexter just shook his head, "She's your only pokemon right now so i dont want to hurt her too badly, so Dusty clean house with a Sleep Powder." The Venonat released green spores from its antennae quickly surrounded Eve, who despite her best Efforts couldn't stay awake. Zack ran over to where Eve lay, she would have some bruises from the battle but they would heal quickly.
Dexter left soon after the battle, and Zack had taken care to spray some potion on Eve's wounds without waking her. She however woke up a few minutes later and was back to her normal overly energetic self. Deciding she was fine to continue he let her race off ahead into the tree's as he followed slowly behind. He thought that Eve had done well for her first trainer battle but it occured to him during that fight, he couldn't just brute force his way through the battles. He steeled himself to look over Eevee's information in both the guide book and his pokedex before he slept tonight. He carried on his walk running across no wild pokemon as the sun began to set. Zack gathered a bunch of branches and started a fire before both him and Eve climbed into his sleeping bag and fell asleep. He dreamt that night, wondering what Eve would evolve into as she grew stronger, she could evolve into eight dfferent pokemon and even in the dream he couldn't choose.
Well, this is my first story so I hope you all enjoy it. I appreciate any and all reviews and will attempt to fix whatever faults in my writing are pointed out.