Pokemon Daycare

New Beginnings

By: Cutegirlmayra (Before I go on my mission, I want to try and write the first chapters to stories that I want to do when I get back. This way, I can't possibly forget them! :D So, hopefully, my future self will be able to pick up where I left her off ;) You're welcome, and welcome home! :D)

A young girl rushed through the snowy streets of her home city, and dashed through the forest as quick as she possibly could.

"There coming!" She screamed, rushing by an old couple as the man and woman had to hold onto their coat and hats.

"My, that seemed to be Candy." The old woman stated, blinking her wrinkly eyes off to see her charging towards some direction off a beaten old path.

"Seems to be heading towards the old run down Daycare center. You know, the one that used to be famous for having Pokemon and Children learn to get along and be friends." The old man responded, holding his cane up before offering his arm again to his wife.

"Ah, I believe Pearl's grandmother first started that, before her family ran out of money. Oh, bless her heart." The woman took her husband hand and walked off, before calling, "Here, Delcatty! Here girl."

The old man then called out, "Purugly! Let's go, ol'boy."

The two pokemon bounced out of the bushes, and happily followed their masters on their daily scroll.

It had just ended snowing the night before, and though it was cold, the city was sparkling with winter delight! As candy wore her usual winter attire, with her warm and comfy beanie hat, and her signature two strings with puffballs on the end of them. They were everywhere on her, and she also held some gloves with the pokemon symbol on them to match her hat, and a dress that looped out like a hula-hoop, well, slightly. She wore pink and white, and tried to leave her hair down to keep the rest of her warm. She wore the normal length boots, but to protect her legs she wore black leggings that kept her nice and warm.

"Ohhhh! I'm gonna be late! There gonna be there, but I won't be!" she panicked, as she started to huff and puff and slow down, seeming to lose her way. "OH NO!" she looked around, and then threw her head back, placing her hands on her head.

"WHERE DID THE DAYCARE GOOO!?"

A short distance away, an old woman stepped out on the porch of a rusted old building, completely in shambles, with a rusty old jungle gym and playground that used to host pokemon and children alike. Completely unlivable… but Pearl wasn't going to give up her dream… not just yet, anyway!

"Octavius? My poor eyes can't see well with all this beautiful white snow… to bright for my old eyesight. Tell me, can you see my young friend? She was suppose to show up for work before the new shipment arrived." The old woman looked up, holding a string of pearls around her neck, and having her hair up in a neat bun. She was a sweet old woman, who was wearing a traditional Japanese get-up, very light in color, showing it was faded, as it was a silk pink.

The Octillery on her head, holding on with his Suction Cups ability as to not fall off her head, lifted one of his tentacles and seemed to be looking around. It shook it's head, "Octi…" it seemed depressed.

"Hmm… Maybe Nevermore can help us." She reached into her long sleeve and into a pocket with there, pulling out a ball, "No, no, that's not quite right." She put that one back, and then took the other pokeball out. "Ah, here we go. Come on out, love!" she threw the pokeball up and into the air.

"MURKROW!" the pokemon flew around and slowly flapped its wings down to hover in front of his master.

"I'm sure there's a young girl stuck in the forest somewhere. Would you be a dear and help her here, please?" Pearl nodded her head forward, and her Murkrow nodded in agreement, and flew off.

It was getting scary… as Candy knew wild pokemon were in the woods and only had two pokemon her father, a trading breeder, had given her. One from when she was born, and one as a graduation present for just barely passing her pokemon training school.

She wasn't very knowledgeable about pokemon, even with her studying… which she didn't do very well at either. But she had a natural ability to connect with pokemon, and her creativity in battle lead the teachers to believe she wasn't as stupid as her grades may have suggested…

"H-hello?" She shivered, not out of cold, but out of fear.

"Kaw! Kaw!" something in the shadows flew down at lightning speeds to her.

"AH! ZIPPITY SAVE ME!" she threw her pokeball, as a feisty young Pichu came out of it, and glared the unknown pokemon down. It was itching for a battle, and pounced left and right on it's feet, standing on all fours, excited to finally get some action again!

Even if her trainer was pathetic… she still felt at least SHE had potential in being amazing.

Even if Candy accidentally tripped at her Mother's jewelry store and forced a bunch of evolution stones off the table, including an Everstone that ended up being swallowed by Zippity making it impossible for her to get stronger by evolving…. Y-you know what; l-let's just get back to the battle at hand, shall we?

Zippity sparked her cheeks, ready as ever before the pokemon stopped charging them. "Kaw, Kaw!"

It then slowly approached, as Candy looked up and noticed it was one of Pearl's pokemon. "Wait… Murkrow!"

"Ka-ow! Murkrow! Krow, krow!" apparently, in the forest, it's sound was buffered by the trees, resulting in the distortion of it's cry.

"Oh phew, I thought I was gonna die!" Candy leaned her head back, and pouted, seeming about to cry. "I just wanted to get there before-"

Her Pichu, realizing their wasn't going to be a battle, ran up to it's trainer and slapped her across the face.

"OW! I'm sorry! I really did think you'd have to battle for me!" Candy rubbed her cheek as her Pichu folded it's arms, looking upset at her as it pouted and brooded over the fact that it was so excited to fight and now couldn't.

"Come on… forgive and forget?" Candy bent down to the snow, and gave the best puppy dog face she could to Zippity.

Zippity gave it a look, and looked away.

"hmmmmm?" she leaned in closer, eyes sparkling and growing bigger.

Zippity had a sweat drop on the side of her face, but then exchanged it with a huge anger mark. "Pichu!"

"HMMMMMMMMMMMMM?"

"PPPPPPPPIII-"

A huge thundershock was seen in the distance, as Pearl looked worried. "Oh dear."

"CHUU!"

"IIIIIII'MMM SORRRRRRRYYYYY!" Candy was electrocuted, and ended up having to walk in the ash of her clothes from it all, leaning over and dangling her arms out in front of her as her Pichu marked ahead, following the Murkrow as it lead them to Pearl.

"Ah! Nevermore! I saw a lightning attack and got worried." Pearl extended her arms out and the Murkrow happily landed in her arms, cawing his reassurance to her that he was quite alright. "Oh my goodness, deary! What happened to you?"

"I got hit with the lightning." Candy stated in monotone, and let her mouth puff out some smoke.

She then grew exciting, hearing the engine of the Mail truck and quickly leapt over the small wooden and creaky fence to look down the road.

"Pearl! Pearl, it's here! The Eggs are coming!"

"Splendid! Once Phil fixes the place up, we'll start letting the pokemon play here. Then it's the task of getting children to come." Pearl was also exciting, looking over to see the blue truck arrive as a boy with short blonde hair down to his upper neck, came out with his Pelipper and Ralts. "Ah! No thank you, Gail. I got this." He spoke to the Ralts, who was using her physic powers to help aid him getting the large box out.

"Ralts…" She seemed worried.

"It's alright! Really! I got this!" he assured her.

"…! Ralts!" she seemed to trust him, and let her influence over the box drop. When she did so, the boy stumbled a bit but got his bearings when his Pelipper nudged his huge beak in to help him not fall behind him.

"Ah, thanks, Seamour." He looked a little embarrassed that he needed so much help, but the Pelipper looked thrilled to be praised.

"Pelipper!" it chimed, before the boy made it over to the house and saw Candy.

"Hiya!" she beamed, waving her hand.

He immediately froze, and blushed pretty bad, and the box in his hands began to weigh more than they should.

"Uhh… the box.. the box with eggs!" Candy started to flip out, seeing them slowly tilt and begin to fall.

The boy snapped out of it and shook his head, straightening the box out. "A thousand apologies! I'm William. But my friends call me WillllLLL!" he started to lean to far backwards and his Ralts caught the box while his Pelipper caught him.

"…Pfft." He blew some air up to get his hair and hat out of his eyes. "Thanks guys…" he didn't seem to thrilled about his footwork as his Pelipper's happy-go-lucky face seemed to delight in praise, not realizing he was actually upset a bit with himself.

"Pelipper! Pelipper!" it rubbed against him, ecstatic to know that he was doing his job right.

Candy quickly went over to the box, and the Ralts let it fall to her hands. "Offph!"

"Is everything quite alright, Will? Candy?" Pearl came down, and seemed to chuckle at Will being on his butt. "A tricky dismount again, I see?"

"No ma'am. A rocky first step." He responded, and slowly got up, dusting himself off. He adjusted his hat and looked to Candy again, who was giddy to get the box inside.

"Hmm? Oh yes, Candy? This is Will. He'll be delivering the Pokemon Eggs from the other daycare center, for just pokemon raising." She explained. "Trainers that don't want the eggs tend to sometimes donate them, so they come far and wide to different places. But now, heh heh, some of them will be lucky enough to attend a place for both children and pokemon to learn and grow up together." Pearl's eyes sparkled with the future, as Candy nodded and looked to Will.

"Pleasure to meet you!"

He fumbled, "O-oh! The pleasures all mine! Miss Candy…" he took his hat off and squeezed it, before someone got out from behind the truck.

"Eh, Brother. Why didn't you wake me up, huh? I got a date at that old lady's run down day-" a man stepped out, clearly older than Will, as he smiled and leaned against the truck. "Oh. I'm here. Hello, ladies." He winked.

He was tanner than Will, and had a bit of a thin beard going on. He had hair that sleeked back into a ponytail, and he smiled a player's grin.

"I'm the construction worker. I'm here to hear your plans for this old dump." He straightened himself up and looked to Candy. "You new here?"

"Oh, um… well…" she REALLY wanted to get the eggs inside. She looked to Pearl.

"This is Candy, she lives up in the city."

"Past the forest? No way! I work up there most of the time, but I don't think I've seen you around…"

"I was down in another town for a while, training at a pokemon trainers school." Candy explained.

"Ah, high class kid." He took out a pick and put it in his mouth, and then pulled out some blue gridded paper. "Well, the snow should melt soon, and we'll have this place up and running in no time. Okay, lady. Let's get to work." He took Pearl and they started to walk off to talk business before Pearl looked back to Candy.

"While me and Phil discuss plans, why don't you and Will take those eggs in to get warm, hmm?"

"Octi!" her Octrillery waved Candy goodbye.

"AH! That's a pokemon!" Candy flipped out a bit, as Will looked to her a bit awkwardly.

"What did you think it was..?"

"Goodbye, dearies."

"Hey, Will! Don't go making any moves on a customer, ya hear? Haha! No matter how cute!"

"..!" Will blushed and looked away from his brother, as Candy's Pichu had been hanging on her shoulder this whole time, and gave him a stink eye, not liking what the other human was implying…

As they walked into the old building, Candy raced to the table, and gently set the box down. "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!" she loved pokemon, but she just ADORED baby pokemon. "What do you think will pop out of it!?" She asked, excited as ever.

"Uhh… I don't know. I hear these eggs that the other daycare for Pokemon get trainers from all over the world! I wouldn't have the slightest idea…" Will scratched his head.

"Ohh… when will they hatch?" Candy looked impatient.

"Give it time." Will comforted, before one began to wiggle and squirm.

They both gasped, Will in surprise and Candy in outrageous joy.

Gail leapt onto Seamour as he flew over the four eggs to see which one was supposedly hatching. Zippity leaned forward on Candy's shoulder, as the world seemed to pause for a minute.