My Pokémon Story
Kanto story The Beginning
The Kanto region home to the magical creatures known as Pokémon.
10 days after my 10th birthday I became a Pokémon trainer, myself along with three other young trainers named Connor, Kirk and his younger brother Alex had all made appointments to receive our first starter Pokémon on the exact same day and so on that morning myself Ian along with Alex and Kirk all waited outside professor Oak's laboratory all waiting for the last trainer Connor who was really late.
"Can we go inside now" said Alex
"It's only been 30 minutes calm down little brother" said kirk.
"Okay firstly your only 2 years older than me and um sorry what's your name again?" asked Alex.
"My name is Ian" I said rolling my eyes.
"Oh, right sorry Ian but you can agree with me that we've been beyond patient" said Alex
"You'll have to excuse my little brother he's just too excited about getting his first Pokémon" said Kirk.
I looked to the path to where Connor lives and saw nothing.
"Look guys I know the 4th trainer and he can be a bit of a slacker, I wouldn't be surprised if he's still in bed, so if you two want to go inside I wouldn't blame you" I said.
And so, Alex then Kirk went inside while I waited outside for as long as I could but then I finally decided to go inside.
"Oh well, you snooze you lose" I said as I went into the lab to get my first Pokémon.
Alex and Kirk had already spoken to professor Oak and had already told him that Connor was going to be late.
"Well you kids have waited long enough it's time to receive your first Pokémon" said professor Oak.
"First come first served so you go on Alex" said Kirk.
"Well I know I want the fire type Charmander" said Alex.
Alex picked up Charmander and became his first Pokémon, kirk went next.
"well if you're going to choose fire then I will choose the water type Squirtle" said Kirk.
Kirk picked up Squirtle and became his first Pokémon.
With the first two starter Pokémon chosen I was left with the grass type Bulbasaur and I was happy.
I picked up Bulbasaur and it became my first Pokémon.
After we received our starters Professor oak gave us a Pokedex each, and 10 Pokeballs. He then gave us a heads up that the first gym in Pewter city uses Rock types so get prepared and catch and train lots of Pokémon.
Alex left first, and Kirk followed him I stayed to ask the professor "What Pokémon is Connor going to get if we have your three starters?"
"Well he'll either have to go on his journey without a Pokémon or I'll have to go out and find him something else he can use" said professor Oak.
"well good luck to you, to Connor and his Pokémon" I said as I left Professor Oak's lab begin my journey to become a Pokémon Master.
Knowing the first Gym uses rock types and knowing Grass beats rock, Bulbasaur would be perfect for this however the only moves Bulbasaur knew were tackle and growl so we needed to do some serious training.
We arrived in Route 1 upon entering we spotted a Rattata in the grass, being a normal type it wouldn't stand a chance against rock types but in order to learn new moves and get stronger Bulbasaur needed to battle other Pokémon so I sent Bulbasaur to battle the Rattata, I ordered Bulbasaur to use growl to lower Rattata's Attack, Rattata attempted to fight back by using tackle but missed, Bulbasaur then used tackle on Rattata and it was a big hit and knocked out Rattata making it faint, Bulbasaur suddenly gained experience points, the Rattata disappeared but then a Pidgey appeared from the grass I ordered Bulbasaur to use tackle it took over half its hit points but then the Pidgey fought back by using gust that was super effective against a grass type like Bulbasaur, but Bulbasaur was stronger and was able to stand the attack, Bulbasaur fought back one more tackle and Pidgey went down, Bulbasaur gained more experience points and levelled up making itself stronger
As our journey continued through Route 1 we battled another Rattata and Pidgey then Bulbasaur gained more experience points to level up again to learn its first grass type move leech seed.
We then arrived in Viridian City and went to the Pokémon Centre to heal Bulbasaur to full health, we continued our journey to Route 2 we battled another Rattata then a male Nidoran and gained another level we then ran into a Spearow we first used leech seed to drain some energy from Spearow but then Spearow fought back with peck and it was a critical hit, I ordered Bulbasaur to use tackle on Spearow then more energy was drained from Spearow due to the leech seed earlier but Spearow could still fight and it did with peck again. Suddenly my Pokedex Flashed red indicating Bulbasaur was really weak and one more attack would finish Bulbasaur causing it to faint, that moment I knew I couldn't let Bulbasaur down so if I couldn't beat the Spearow then I can try to catch it so I threw my first Pokeball for the first time at spearow went inside the Pokeball it wobbled three times and Spearow was caught I had caught my first Pokémon I picked up my Pokeball and Bulbasaur back inside it's I returned to Pokémon centre to heal them both back to full health.
I then left the Pokémon Centre and called out both Bulbasaur and Spearow to check if they were ok and they were.
I returned to Route 2 to do some more training with my two new Pokémon I even found a potion lying around but then ran into Kirk.
"Hi there Ian, have you caught any new Pokémon yet?" Asked Kirk.
As well as Bulbasaur I showed him my Spearow and he was impressed.
"Impressive Spearow's are said to be more vicious then a Pidgey so catching a Spearow is tough" said Kirk.
"So where is Alex?" I asked.
"He went off ahead after I beat him in a battle, he went on through Viridian Forest to get ready to face the Gym leader in Pewter City, so you up for a battle?" asked Kirk.
My answer was yes.
Our battle was a two vs two battle I started with Spearow and Kirk chose Pidgey.
Spearow started the battle with peck, the attack damaged Pidgey slightly, Pidgey then used sand attack to lower Spearow's accuracy, Spearow then tried again with peck but it missed then Pidgey used gust on Spearow and it was a hit, Spearow then used leer and lowered Pidgey's defence, Pidgey used gust again and did more damage to Spearow my pokedex flashed red indicating the Spearow's HP points were really low, Spearow went for one more peck attack and it was a big hit and a critical hit knocking out Pidgey and Spearow gained more experience points, Kirk called back Pidgey and called out Squirtle, since Spearow's HP was so low I decided to return Spearow to it's Pokeball and called out Bulbasaur to battle, Bulbasaur used leech seed to drain Squirtle's energy, Squirtle then used tackle and hit Bulbasaur the leech seed drained a little of Squirtle's energy and gave half that energy to Bulbasaur.
Then out of nowhere Bulbasaur used vine whip which is a grass type move on Squirtle, Squirtle then used withdraw to raise its defence, Bulbasaur then used vine whip that was super effective but not as effective if it wouldn't for the defence increase but then the leech seed drained a little more energy from Squirtle but Squirtle could still battle and used tackle on Bulbasaur it was a critical hit but Bulbasaur could still battle and Bulbasaur ended the battle with tackle attack causing Squirtle to faint and I was the winner.
"Well done Ian although you probably lucked out when Bulbasaur learned vine whip, anyway I'm going to go heal my Pokémon then go challenge the Gym leader you should go on ahead, see you later" said Kirk.
I waved goodbye to Kirk as he went to the Pokémon centre to heal his Pokémon, I just used the Potions I got earlier and healed up everyone.
I told both Bulbasaur and Spearow I was really proud of them for winning our first match against a real trainer.
"I know my journey has only just begun but I already feel like a Pokémon Master" I said staring into the distance.