Journal of Dane and Hammond, day 0
Dear journal,
Today was a crazy day at school. Because it's one of the last days of school the pokemon professor was gonna come by and tell us about being a pokemon trainer! Our class isnt that big, since we live in Dewford town. It's just Maggy, Tristan, Hammond and I. Hammond has been my best friend for atleast 10 years or so, We both wanna become really strong pokemon trainers and travel across the entire world! Our teacher doesn't think we can accomplish this and should just start a career in fishing like all the other kids in Dewford. But we believe we can do it! I can already hear our names spread across the world: Dane and Hammond! World champions! Now about my crazy day, this is how it went:
It was a sunny day in Dewford town, And since we didnt have much to learn anymore we decided to go to the harbor and wait for professor Birch and suprise him. The rest of our class didnt care much about him but me and Hammond we're so excited! "I can't wait to see him and tell him of our plans to become trainers!" Hammond said and jumped in the air, Hammond was always excited when it comes to pokemon. I cant remember a day where he didnt tell me about the adventures he wanted to have. "Hey teach, when is the professor gonna be here?" Maggy asked with a slight annoyance in her voice. "He should be here any minute now Maggy" HOOOOOOOONNKKKK! The 4 teenagers jumped into the air as the loud noise trembled their bodies. "There is the boat!" The teacher said with excitement in his voice. We all turned towards the sea and saw a large boat with alot of people on the open air deck waving at the people in the harbor. "Quick look for the professor!" I said to Hammond and we glanced across the decks to look for the pokemon professor. After a while Hammond looked to me and said with a soft voice: "Uhm Dane? Do you know what the professor looks like?". "Wait i thought you saw the professor once Hammond?" I said suprised. "Well, i may have lied about that." We both let out a big sigh and went to ask the teacher. "Well, he always wears a white labcoat, Has a bushy beard and brown hair. And no matter what weather, He always wears his green shorts." While we were talking to the teacher, the boat already was unloading the huge amount of people. Normally Dewford is a quiet and calm city, except in the summer. Then all the people from the big cities come here to chill on the beach. So that explained the huge amount of people. "The first one to spot the professor can talk to him first!" Hammond yelled and started to look for Birch. There were alot of people walking past our group, some people walking toward their family and some walking towards the taxi's waiting for people to hop in. But nobody who looked like the person the teacher described. Eventually everyone got off the boat, But no professor. "What if he didn't want to come?" Hammond said almost sounding dissapointed. "I'm sure we have just missed him walking by us Hammond" The teacher said comforting. "Sorry im late everyone!" We looked towards the boat and saw nobody coming off. "Behind you guys!", We all quickly turned around and saw a man with a strawhat and a coconut in his hand. "Ah professor, great to finally meet you!" Our teacher said and shaked his hand. "I took a boat earlier to have some time to stock up on supplies for our field trip today!" The professor said with a smile. "FIELD TRIP!?" we all shouted in sync. "That's right, A field trip! Why sit around in a hot classroom while i can show you actual pokemon on the beach!" Dane and i jumped up and down out of excitement, We we're gonna see actual pokemon in the wild! "Let's get moving children." the teacher said and wanting to walk towards the beach. "Not so fast mister! I have something to show the kids" the professor laughed while grabbing his bag and reaching inside. His hand was holding a pokeball. Hammond and I stared breathless at the device, Did the professor bring a pokemon for us to see? "Treecko, let's say hello!" The professor threw the ball into the air and it opened, showing a bright light coming from it. The light projected towards the floor, emerging into a treecko shape. The light got dimmer and dimmer, Until there stood a treecko before us. The pokemon looked at us with his big eyes and stood on his 2 legs. For the 15 years me and Hammond had been alive, we had actually never seen a pokemon from this close before. We still stood there breathless and looked at the professor's treecko. "Everyone, this is treecko. Treecko, meet the rest of the group for today." Treecko look happily toward us, "Treecko-Tree!" The pokemon exclaimed. "He says hello" The professor laughed. "He will protect us if any pokemon attack us, treecko will protect you. Right Treecko?" The pokemon nodded and spoke again: "Tree-tree-treecko!" The professor laughed and started walking toward the beach. "Just follow me ! And don't be scared to play with treecko on our way to the beach!"
Me and Dane slowly walked towards the pokemon, nervous as we didnt know what would happen. Hammond was the first to try to touch the treecko, stroking the top of the pokemon's head. "It's so soft!" said Hammond happily. The other kids didnt care much about the treecko and followed right behind the professor, but me and Dane just had to meet this treecko. After a few cuddles and pets the pokemon started to also follow the rest of the group. "Quick let's get going Hammond" i said to my good friend, and we reunited with the group and started walking toward the Dewford beach. "Hey professor, we walk here everyday and I never see pokemon around. How are we gonna find pokemon?" asked Maggy. "Well Maggy, since the beach is crowded right now pokemon wont show up as often. and the pokemon on Dewford are really shy ive heard." What the professor said there was true, Pokemon are a rare sight on Dewford island. Most of them hide in Granite Cave at the edge of the island. "What if we cant find any pokemon on the beach professor?" Asked Hammond with a scared look on his face. "Then we're gonna have to look harder for them if we cant find them!" Laughed the professor with enthousiasm. The professor is always happy from what ive noticed, there hasnt been a sentence where he didnt burst into laughing. Not that it's a bad thing, But it gets repetitive after a whole day with the guy. After an hour of walking along the beach we couldnt find any pokemon. "Hey professor, there arent any pokemon here! Are we gonna go to Granite cave now?" asked Maggy to the professor. "Well, im afraid we're not gonna find any pokemon here, Let's head to the cave then!". From the corner of my eye i could see Hammond light up with the biggest smile in the world. We had never been inside the Granite cave, But we have heard alot of stories about the cave. Mostly stories about the horrors inside and why we should never enter it that our parents told us just to scare us off, But damn did they work. I was terrified of that cave, even if that cave was gonna be the first step of my long adventure. Eventually, we arrived at Granite cave. The entrance was a totally different thing than the rest of Dewford. Dewford was bright and sunny, But this cave was dark and haunting. "Ok everyone, I know this looks scary and you probably think we're not gonna enter this cave. But we are, since we have Treecko to protect us! So just stick with the group and then we will all be save from the pokemon that are inside. Are you all ready!" Said the professor to brighter the mood a little. Nobody responded to the professors question, but we were going in anyway, Treecko suprised Hammond by climbing on his shoulder to cheer him up, Which worked since Hammond was way more confident than the rest now. Hammond was chatting with Treecko and seemed to be having fun, But i was looking around the cave to look for any pokemon that might suprise us. There was nothing to be seen, and less to be heard. Nothing had happened so far, except from some zubat passing by us. As we went farther into the cave there the light got alot dimmer until we couldnt see anything anymore. "Uhm professor, do you have a flashlight with you or anything?" Asked Tristan. He had been quiet the entire trip, since he didnt care much about meeting pokemon. "I dont need a flashlight for that Tristan, Come out Abra!" The professor pulled another pokeball from his bag and threw it out. There stood an abra before us, floating in the air with his psychic powers. "Abra use Flash!" the professor yelled. "Abbbrraaaaaa!" the pokemon put his hands together and a bright light appeared. Suddenly the entire cave was lit up. We looked around to see what was around us, and we were just surrounded rocks like before. "Uhm professor, what is that on the ceiling?" Asked Hammond with a trembling voice. We all looked up and the ceiling above us wasnt made of rocks, but of a large dark blue and purple coating. Treecko hopped off Hammond and seemed ready to fight. "Ok everyone, dont freak out. As long as we are calm they wont wake up. Those are sleeping zubats, Alot of sleeping zubats." The professor tried to act calm, but we could see he was suprised by the huge amount of zubat above us. The zubat started to shake, It looked like the ceiling was coming down. But it was way worse, The zubat started to wake up because of abra's flash. The zubats started to fly around us in a circle, making an inpenetrable wall of flying pokemon. "Ok everyone, we're gonna have to fight ourselves out of this one. Dont worry, Me and my pokemon will protect us!" said the professor nobly. "Why dont you use treecko to battle your side of the circle and me and abra do our side, maybe you'll learn something about battling for real!" Said the professor. We stood back to back, protecting each side to protect ourselves. We could hear the professor yell commands to abra and launching attacks toward the zubats. "Hammond do something! You seem to have bonded a little bit with treecko!" I yelled to Hammond, trying to be louder than all the zubat around us. "Ok ill try, Treecko use bullet seed!" Commanded Hammond toward treecko. "Treeeeeeee-ko-ko-ko!" Treecko spewed a rain of green balls towards the wall of pokemon, blasting a hole right through and knocking out a few zubat. A few of the winged pokemon started attacking the treecko, getting hit with what seemed to be leech life. "Hammond make him dodge the attacks! Forget what you learned at school about battling and improvise!" I yelled desperatly. "I'm trying! treecko dodge those attacks and counter with a pound attack!" Treecko jumped left and right and smacked the zubats with his tail, slamming the pokemon into the cave's walls. "That's the stuff treecko! Now use bullet seed!" Hammond was always hyperactive and excited, but now he seemed serious and focussed. He wasnt thinking of anything else but winning this battle and protecting his friends. The zubat stopped with flying around us and regrouped as a large cloud in front of us. coming straight toward us. Hammond and the professor commanded their pokemon to launch attacks toward the cloud of pokemon, but they didnt seem to be stopping. "Geeooooooduuudee!" Large rocks were thrown toward the zubat cloud by a couple of geodude behind us, creating a thick cloud of smoke. "This is our chance! Everybody follow me!" Yelled the professor and started running toward the exit. Everyone followed him, but i was to slow. I was completely frozen by terror and certain of imminent death. Crossing my arms in front of my face to protect myself as best as i could, Preparing myself for the impact of all the zubats. "Sableye-lye!", "Maku-ku-hita!", "Machop!". The cries of different pokemon could be heard around me, and no zubats were felt on my body. As i opened my eyes, i saw that wild pokemon had jumped in front of me and wore of the zubats their attack, making them all retreat into a part deeper into the cave. I stood there, looking at the pokemon that had protected me. One was a machop, i had learned about machops in school and that he was a fighting type. The other fighting type was makuhita, But the third pokemon i couldnt really place. He was short and had dark purple fur, but he was covered in gems and minerals! The two fighting types made their way back into the cave, But the purple pokemon stood still and we both looked at each other. "Why did you protect me?" I asked toward the pokemon. "Lye-lye-sableye!" the pokemon said. I didnt have a clue what he was saying, but somehow i understood what he was trying to tell. "So the rest of the pokemon in the cave are being scared off by the zubats and i guess this was a way to scare them off." The pokemon nodded in agreement. Flabbergasted at what had happened just now i was suddenly jumped from behind and fell to the ground. once on the ground i was turned around and saw a familiar face. It was Hammond in tears talking about how he was certain i was dead, followed by the rest of the group surrounding me. Everyone started to ask questions to me at the same time, until the professor raised his voice to tell everyone to be quiet. "Dane, did you get hurt? Are you ok?" the professor asked calmly. "I'm fine professor, just a little confused about what happened, and why that pokemon saved me." The professor looked confused and looked around if he could find the pokemon i was talking about. "Did that sableye save you Dane?" the professor asked, pointing at the dark pokemon standing beside me. "Yeah professor, sableye and some other pokemon scared off the zubats before they could harm me." I said with a slight smile on my face. "Well then, you owe your life to that sableye. why dont you say thanks to him?" The professor laughed. everyone seemed to cheer up a bit after these troublesome events. i began to sit up and turned myself towards the sableye that stood beside me. "Thank you so much sableye!" I said while tearing up a bit. The sableye seemed glad and responded with a proud cry: "Sableye!". I didnt know how to react, This pokemon had saved my life and i just was so glad that he was so brave. "Well everyone, i think it's time to leave this cave!" the professor said to everyone, which was a great idea actually. As we all stood up and started to leave the cave, i heard something behind me. The sableye was still standing behind me. "Thanks again lil' guy, but im leaving now. Take care." i said to the pokemon and started to walk again. After a couple minutes of walking we were outside again. And again i heard something behind me. It was the sableye again, with a smug grin he spoke to me: "Lye-lye!". Confused as to why he was following me the professor interuppted. "I think he wants you to be his trainer Dane." the professor looked really serious, something i havent seen him do the whole trip. i looked down at sableye and he looked back at me. Somehow i knew what he was feeling, i knew that he wanted to come with me. the professor grabbed his bag and quickly grabbed another pokeball, handing it to me. "You know how one of these works? just throw it toward sableye and he should be captured!" he said. I looked at the pokeball in my hand, and with determination i threw the ball toward sableye. the ball bounced on his head and opened, transforming the pokemon before me into light and was sucked in the pokeball. the sphere fell to the ground and shook once. It shook twice. It shook again. Poof. For a second everyone was quiet and looked at the ball laying in the dirt. then Hammond jumped in the air with excitement. "You just caught your first pokemon Dane!" He yelled at me and shook me up. It finally dawned on me, I now owned my own pokemon! I started to grin and lifted my arms into the air and yelled together with Hammond. "I CAUGHT MY FIRST POKEMON!" while we were doing our little victory dance, the professor was talking to our teacher. "Those two boys are destined for something great, is it ok if i ask them to become trainers?" the teacher laughed, of course he was fine with them doing what they loved since they were little. In a week they would graduate, and they would leave almost immediatly on their journey he said to the professor. Birch walked towards the two boys celebrating. "Hammond, ive heard from your teacher that you and Dane want to become trainers. if that is true, then i ask of you two to visit me in my lab in littleroot town. if you can manage that journey, then i will let you become pokemon trainers. do we have a deal?" Me and Hammond were already excited. but now we were gonna explode! after a little while of excited hugging and jumping we answered the professors question. "Alright professor! when we graduate in a couple of days were gonna head straight toward littleroot, make sure the tea is ready!" the professor laughed at the determination of these 2 kids. "Ok then, now 1 final thing. Dane now has his sableye, but now you dont have a pokemon! how can you become a trainer without a pokemon?" the professor acted suprised. "How about i give you my treecko? You two already battled together against the zubat, so why not let you two become partners?" Hammonds jaw literally dropped to the floor. He was gonna get a pokemon?! He leaped toward the professor and hugged him. "Thank you so much professor! A million times thank you!" we all laughed and the professor handed Hammond treecko's pokeball. "why dont you both say hello to your new pokemon?" Hammond and I both threw out our pokemon and there they stood. My sableye and Hammond's treecko. "Now that that's settled, lets head home. i have a boat to catch, i will see you two very soon in my laboratory. goodbye everyone!" the professor waved towards us and started to run towards Dewford town. "Alright class, i think we all deserve a break after todays event. Tomorrow you will have the day off!" our teacher said exhausted. We all started to cheer of course, since that would mean no school and more time to spend with our new pokemon. Back in the city we all seperated our ways to head home, but Hammond stayed with me for a while since we lived relatively close to eachother. when it was time for him to take a turn he looked at me. "let's have great adventures together Dane!" he said with a smile. "We will Hammond!" i responded, and walked towards my house. "Moooooom im hooommeee! you have no idea what happened today!" i yelled at the doorstep. The rest of the day ended quickly, and with me writing this in the adventure journal my mom bought for me as a present. Perfect timing i guess. When me and Hammond go on an adventure, i will take this with me and record our entire journey to Littleroot town! But for now, Hammond and i need to train our new pokemon and get ready. There was gonna be a suprise at the end of the graduation, so im curious on what that is gonna be. For now im gonna go to bed, goodnight journal.
-Dane
