Kale woke up and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. It was morning, and it was time for his pokemon adventure to finally begin. He looked around at his room, all his pokemon memorabilia, all the posters of famous coordinators and trainers and their teams. His plushies of some of his favorite pokemon. He was leaving all this behind to pursue his fortunes elsewhere. In the contest halls and the league.
Kale was finally going to become an official pokemon trainer.
"Well, Druid. Looks like today is the day." Kale said. His Ralts, who was laying on it's own bed at the foot of Kale's, gave out a sleepy cry. As if to say he would rather start his adventure later, thanks.
"Cmon, Druid. It's a big day. We're going to start our adventure together. Doesn't that sound like fun?" Kale asked. Druid, again, gave out a sleepy cry, which resembled a weary affirmative.
Kale got ready, putting on his white jacket over a green t-shirt and carrying his large bag and wearing his very own trainer hat. He was ready for anything this day could bring him. Or at least...he thought so. He grabbed Druid and headed down the stairs.
His dad was in the kitchen. Humming to himself loudly. Kale began creeping along. Hopefully, he could get out before his dad notic-
"Oh Kale darling! Off on your adventure so soon? You haven't even had breakfast." His dad said, appering as if out of nowhere. Kale hated when he did that.
There he was, up bright and early, in a white dress and heavily made up. Bothering him.
"It's fine dad. Really. I'm all good." Kale said. He needed to get out the door or his father would delay him all day.
"Really? You don't want a bite? I've made up your favorites." He said.
"No. I can take some on the go. But I really should be going. Mom is waiting." Kale said.
"It won't be the same on the go. Come on. Let your daddy feed you." He said.
"Ew. That sounds gross. Please just let me go. Mom won't like if I'm late." I said.
"Alright then. Have a good day. But please come back to say goodbye." His dad said, pouting a bit. His dad could be so clingy.
Kale was out the door quickly. He needed to head for his mother's lab across town. It wasn't a large town, so he didn't have to travel too far. Still he wanted to get his pokedex and get out of town as soon as possible. It was a quiet morning so he didn't get too many nosy questions, that he usually would expect
Kale was halfway there before he was stopped.
"Hey Kale! Let's battle." Called a familiar male voice. Arceus, he was so annoying, Kale thought. Why did he even bother?
"Ryan...I don't have time for this." Kale said.
"You don't have time for a battle? What are you scared?" Ryan said, chuckling to himself. Ryan was always such a tryhard.
"No. I'm going to my Mom's lab to get my pokedex and start my journey." Kale said.
"Oh yeah? Well, I'm going to be starting my own journey today too. So come on and battle me Kale. I'll 6-0 you." He said, a pokeball clutched firmly in his hand.
"Ryan, we both only have one pokemon." Kale said.
"Whatever. Let's just fight!" Ryan said.
"Ok. Sure whatever." Kale said.
"Yes! You're about to get rekt! Go Koffing!" He shouted. Kale sighed.
"Go Druid. I guess." Kale said, letting Druid down. He looked quite annoyed himself.
"Koffing use tackle!" Ryan said. The Koffing tackled but Druid nimbly dodged it. Then it tackled again. Again Druid doged. Finally, the Koffing managed to catch Druid and knock him back a ways, doing some significant damage.
"Druid, you ok?" Kale asked. It nodded.
"Ok then. Let's end this. Druid use confusion!" Kale said. Druid nodded and concentrated on the Koffing, in a moment a purple glow was emitted around the smiling poison pokemon and it fell to the ground, quite clearly unconscious.
"What? Damn it. You've beaten me again!" Ryan said.
"Yeah. It's 25-0. Poison is weak to Psychic, and your training hasn't done much to alleviate that weakness. Come on Druid." Kale said, Picking up his ralts again and walking off. Ryan just cursed, withdrew his Koffing and walked back to his place.
His mother's lab was at a beautiful location. It had quite a lot of space for his mothers pokemon to roam around. Trees and bushes, berry and otherwise, were abundant. It also had a nice view of the town from the top floor.
When he entered the lab, he saw his mother collapsed on the floor and a woman about his age standing above her.
