[Disclaimer!] – I do NOT own Pokémon or any of the official characters that appear in this fanfiction!A/N: Hey guys! ~ It's Glowie here! ^^ I'd like to thank you SO much if you read this! It REALLY means a lot! :3 This is a Pokémon fanfiction being written by me and my Best friend Daniel! :D We're gonna alternate between chapters (I write one, he does ect) I'll be writing all the odd chapters and he'll be doing all the even chapters, and when I write it's from Glow's P.O.V and when Daniel writes it Neon's P.O.V, Kay? ^^ We got SOO into platinum we decided to do a fanfiction :D Glow is meant to represent me and Neon is meant to represent DanielJI really hope you enjoy this as much as we do writing it! 3 PLEASE DON'T GO ALL TL;DR IN MY CHAPTERS! I worked really hard on them! TwT;
Chapter 1 – Pokémon: Platinum Adventures!
It all began on August 14th. It was a warm summer's day in the small town of Twinleaf in the Sinnoh region. Our adventure focuses on a pair of young teenagers who go by the names of; Glow and Neon. They were both very bored of the quiet life in twinleaf and ached to travel to new places and find out new experiences. But ultimately, they wanted to meet Pokémon.
[Glow's P.O.V]
For about the tenth time today I let out a huge sigh, as I bent my head forwards into my knees.
"Geez...I'm so bored..." I murmured, staring at the grass-blades, grabbing a few between my fingers and plucking them out. I'd racked my brain for some sort of way to spice up our boring day lives and had no hope of conjuring up a good idea. There was next to nothing interesting to do in Twinleaf, since there were no shops we couldn't go shopping and since there was no Pokémon centre, no interesting trainers ever visited the town. In fact, the town itself only consisted of: a few houses, trees and a small lake called "Verity Lakefront". There was a huge legend involving a legendary Pokémon associated with this lake but, I'd lost count of how many times me and Neon had raided the area around the lake trying to find any hints of a legendary Pokémon and we'd not found so much as a footprint, so I have no reason to believe any of the legends spoken of this so called legendary Pokémon supposedly living next door from us.
"Yeah...I know, I am too" Neon replied, gazing across the grassy area in front of us. He was lying down on his side, one hand supporting his head, the other just hanging over the side of his body in the air; we called this the "Slaking" pose. A look of thought swept across his face as his eyes met the tall grass about 10ft away from where we were sat.
Neon's head spun round, I could tell because of the noise the wind made, "Hey! I just got an awesome idea!" I could tell this was gonna be something that would hopefully keep us amused for an hour or two since he has the same amount of enthusiasm his voice when he gets good enough ideas to keep us entertained for that long on a day like today.
"Oh yeah? I'm listenin'..." I open one of my eyes which I had, had previously closed to try and think for ideas myself.
"I dare you to go in the tall grass, AND get a Pokémon!" He grinned, pointing at the sea green forest in front of us. I blinked to take in what he just suggested.
"T-The tall grass? But our Mom's told us we're not allowed to go in there..." I wasn't the sort of person to be a complete goody-two-shoes all the time but from what I'd heard if you get in a mess with a wild Pokémon with none of your own to protect you; you would be pretty much screwed.
"That's the point!" Neon smirked; this was slightly out of character for him, since out of the two of us he was clearly the more behaved one. Maybe the boredom had got to him so bad he wanted to get in trouble for something to do...
"Okay wise guy...Then how are we-"I stopped talking since something in the tall grass caught my eye. "Hey! Wait! What is that?" I pointed at what was definitely something moving out of the tall grass at a rapid pace towards us. Neon turned around to get a glimpse of whatever strange thing I'd discovered to make sure I wasn't joking around. A flash of blue emerged from the tall grass patch to reveal a very shocking sight. What I had spotted appeared to be a Piplup! It appeared to be extremely distressed and frightened judging by its facial expression and how fast it was running.
"Whoa! It looks like a Piplup!" Neon exclaimed, taken back by the fact a rare Pokémon was within 5ft of us. The Piplup's path appeared to be set to go straight past where Neon was sat and he began to react instantly.
"Ah! Hey wait!" Neon sprung to his feet and pounced at the Piplup, he out-stretched his arms in an attempt to get a closer look at this rare sighting.
"Gotcha!" A triumphant grin grew on his face as he landed on the ground to find he had managed to capture the Blue penguin in his arms. I rose up as quickly as I could and rushed over to examine the water specimen, and try to decipher why it appeared to be in so much distress. Neon sat up and held it up but then quickly tightened his grip on it, when the poor Pokémon's natural instinct began to kick in and it began to squirm and struggle to get away.
"Ah geez! Hold still will ya?" He grunted, his arms being pulled to and fro, he seemed a little overwhelmed by her strength. "Man, she's pretty strong!"
I suddenly realised why she was running so quickly out of the grass. "Oh no! She's really hurt!" I exclaim seeing all the cuts and bruises on her. I swiftly crotch down to my bag and unzip it quickly and pull out an Oran berry. While I may not have any Pokémon of my own to feed berries too, I have a lot of fun planting and growing them, so I always have a good supply on me. Once I had the blue fruit secured in my palm and turned back around to face the injured Piplup who was now almost free from Neon's clutches with her relentless squirming.
"Here eat this, you'll feel much better!" I explain calmly to the poor creature, offering the berry out to her. She immediately stopped struggling to get away, opened her eyes and gazed down at the berry, then gently placed her small yellow beak on top of the berry and consumed it quickly. Once I heard a swallow her eyes began to sparkle and her cuts and bruises healed instantly.
I let out a high sigh of relief and smiled widely, feeling so glad that she was better now.
"Whoa!"
I automatically went back a few steps as I feel something being launched into my torso and I looked down to see what big object had been thrown at me and to my shock it was the Piplup and it appeared to be hugging me tightly, making a grateful little chirpy noise. I looked up at Neon whose arms were still out-stretched but were now empty-handed and he began to laugh.
"Well! That sure done the trick!...Geez she really likes you Glow!" Neon pointed out, watching this amusing scene.
I laughed along with Neon, hugging the little blue bird back; she appeared to have no intention of letting go soon. "Wow! She does, doesn't she?" I feel slightly awkward with this Pokémon being so friendly, I was convinced all wild Pokémon were vicious and I was feeling a bit dumb-founded. Neon suddenly came closer to me, a complete look of excitement in us eyes.
"Hey Glow! If you keep her then we can go see Prof Rowan and I can get my own Pokémon too!" Neon was waving his arms around as he explained this idea and he was twitching with hope, pretty much everything he was doing at this point could easily symbolize how excited he was feeling. I don't think I've ever seen him this excited about anything before in our whole time together. I suddenly realised what he'd actually suggested and it hit me.
"Oh my god! You're right!" I squeal, and then I look down at our new friend "Would that be okay with you, Piplup? Protecting us until we get to Rowan's lab? It's only in the next town from here" I saw Piplup consider and then she hopped out my arms. For a split second my heart sank since I thought she was gonna run away to into grass, never to be seen again, but then I saw she was stood next to my feet. She puffed herself up and looked determined and ready for whatever came at her. "Piplup!"
"I think that means yes! ~"
And so it begins...
After a few encounters with a Bidoof and a starly or two we had made our way to Sandgem town, where Prof Rowan's lab resides. To my surprise, Piplup seemed to be in very good shape considering she'd had to under-go several battles during our journey here.
"Are you okay, Piplup?" I asked her, looking up as she was now lying on top of my head since we had cleared the grassy terrain and I figured her poor little feet must be tired.
"Pip!" She nodded and smiled happily. I grin and look and Neon.
"Guess Rowan's lab is our first stop then!" I say to Neon, seeing the big blue walls of it in front of us.
"Hell yeah!" Neon goes to walk in but then collides with another boy. His messy blonde hair is so easily recognizable...
"Neon! Hey man!" a familiar voice cries in delight. This voice belonged to none other than Barry, a childhood "friend" of ours. Me and Neon are convinced he has several forms of ADHD and generally never get the chance to hang out with him for very long since he can't do the same thing for more than five minutes and has to run off to find something else to do. Wait a minute if he's here then that means...
"Oh my god! Hey Neon!"
Yup...thought so...Ella...She's Barry's sister. My thoughts on her? Well I've lost count on how many times I've killed her in my head. That should sum up my thoughts towards her.
"So like, me and Barry bumped into Prof Rowan and he gave us these Pokémon!" Ella was explaining to Neon. She hadn't even acknowledged my presence yet, although that's probably a good thing since I'm gonna guess I have a look of disgust on my face right now. Ella held up a Chimchar in her arms. "I picked this one because-"
I've decided to go into space out mode now, I really don't care about her Chimchar to be honest...Piplup can whoop it's ass I'm sure...
"That's awesome Ella! Have you named her yet?" Neon asks petting the fire monkey.
"Yup! Her name is Chimez!" She announces proudly.
"And this is Wiggy!" Barry butts in, shoving his Turtwig's head in Neon's face.
"I think Prof Rowan said he had one more Pokémon so I'm afraid I don't think you'll get one Gl- Oh my god! Where did you get that Piplup from Glow!" Ella shoots right over staring at Piplup in shock.
Oh you notice me now, huh?
"Me and Neon rescued her" I say, backing away slightly. I could feel Piplup tensing a little on my skull.
"Oh she' sooo cute! Are you sure you're okay to have her Glow? Maybe you should let me have her. You have no experience with Pokémon y'know..."
Dude! Neither do you! Jesus...
Ella began to stroke Piplup's face and to my shock I felt her throat go back as she proceeded to spray Ella is the face at full throttle with a water gun. My eyes widen and I clamped my hands over my mouth, trying not to laugh. Barry stared for a second absorbing what just happened then he began roaring with laughter. Even Neon was chuckling, which then turned into roars along with Barry.
"You think this is FUNNY!" Ella screeched at Barry and Neon.
"I-I'm so...ahahaha! Sorry Ella!" I managed to blurt out between splutters. Barry was on the floor laughing at this point.
"She got you GOOOOOOD Ella!" He taunted her, pointing.
I suddenly realised that Ella might try to slap me or worse for humiliating her so I tense up in case she attempts to try anything.
"Neon, how can you be laughing at me?" She cried looking up at him.
"C-Coz ...ahaha! It was funny!"
I even saw her Chimchar was having a little snigger to herself. She then pulls the scariest face I've ever seen her pull in my life, grabs Barry by his scarf and runs off with him.
"A-Ah see you Neon and Glooooow! ~" He cries as he's dragged off into the distance. I had tears rolling down my face, from laughing so hard as I waved back at Barry.
"Piplup...You are SO AWESOME!" I hug her tightly, "Gimme a high five!"
Piplup raises her flipper in the air and I tap it with two of my fingers.
"Okay...Shall we go in now?" Neon smiles at me, opening the door.
"Sure thing!" I grin back at him.
We both step into the huge laboratory and are shocked at the astonishing amount of Pokémon equipment. Rowan's assistants are running around all over the place and one of them bumps into us, a young man with black hair wearing glasses.
"Hi there! Is there something I can help you with?" He asks, balancing a pile of files in his arms.
"Oh! We're looking for Prof Rowan, could you take us to him please?"
"Sure, follow me"
Me and Neon are then lead into a big room where we notice Rowan in crotched down in the top right hand corner. "Hey Professor there's some kids here to see you...Uh...Professor, are you okay?" The man asks, noticing the strange posture Rowan was currently in.
"Oh yes, that's fine, come over here kids" He says, not turning around, or even moving at all for that matter. The man nods and then walks off. My Piplup suddenly perks up, leaps out off my head and zooms over to Rowan.
"Piplup!"
"There you are! Where on earth did you get to?" Rowan cries at the Piplup, picking her up.
"Oh she's your Piplup Professor?" I say, very surprised.
"Yes! I was training her, but she got so reckless she broke out and ran off on her own! Thank goodness you bought her back okay! Now...you need to go back in your pokeball!" Rowan holds up a pokeball and aims it at Piplup.
She shakes her head vigorously and jumps out of his arms and hides behind my legs.
"Did you help her by any chance?" He asks looking at me.
"Uh yeah, we both did. She came out of the grass really badly hurt so I gave her a berry" I explain.
Rowan looks very shocked but also impressed. "Do you two happen to be Glow and Neon?"
Me and Neon look at each other very surprised.
"Yes! How did you know?" Neon asks.
"Your friends Barry and Ella just stopped by and they mentioned you. Hmm...Tell me Glow..Do you really like this Piplup?"
"Oh yes! Ever so much so, Professor!" We may have only been together for about an hour but I already felt an incredible bond with her. I'd got a really bad feeling in my stomach when Rowan was going to put her in the pokeball.
"Then you may keep her" He smiles. Me and Neon gasp in shock.
"R-really! Oh my gosh, thank you so much Professor! Thank you!" I cry in delight hugging Piplup tightly. Rowan walks over and places her pokeball into my palm.
"She owes her life to you two, so it's my way of saying thank you. Now Neon...Can you come over here please?"
"Of course"
Rowan leads Neon over to the corner he was crouching in earlier. "Take a look down here Neon"
"Ahhh!" Neon's eyes widened as he saw another Piplup cowering away in the corner, looking very scared. "Glow come look at this!"
I wander over and crouch beside Neon and Aurora hops out of my arms and runs over to the other Piplup and the one hiding suddenly chirps up.
"So will you come out now?" Rowan asks, only wanting to hear one answer.
The hiding Piplup still looks hesitant to leave his hiding place, glancing at each of us watching him.
"Hey glow...You got anymore of those berries?" Neon whispers to me.
I giggle and dip my hand into my bag, pull a Pecha berry out and place it in Neon's hand.
"Thanks" he grins; he then offers the berry out to the cowering Piplup. My Piplup takes the other one's flipper in hers and guides him over to Neon's hand. He then shyly takes the berry and eats it slowly and waddles up to Neon's feet, looking very appreciative.
"Whew! I thought he'd never come out!" Rowan exclaimed "I'm glad he's taken a shine to you Neon since I'm giving him to you"
A massive grin sweeps over Neon's face and he bows repeatedly in front of Rowan.
"Thank you so very much, Sir!" He cries.
"My pleasure, I trust you two will take very good care of them. I also have these Pokedex's to give you. Your two friends were told to go explore the whole of Sinnoh and meet new Pokémon and I wish for you two to do the same!"
Me and Neon couldn't stop smiling and we both sincerely promised we'll travel every spot of Sinnoh we can. Rowan also gives us some pokeballs and explained in detail to the point where we're both ninety-nine percent sure what to do to expand our teams.
"Now before we go...Do you plan on nicknaming your Pokémon?" Rowan asks.
"I think I'll call you Aurora!" I smile at my Piplup. She cries happily at that name, so it's then decided.
"Very well, a very pretty name that is!" Rowan nods and then turns to Neon "How about you?"
"Hmm...I think I'll call you...Luppy!" Neon smiles down at his Piplup who does a similar cry to Aurora, but he's far more quiet than her. He seems to have a very quiet personality compared to Aurora, which I found adorable.
"Very well! Neon, Glow. Luppy, Aurora...I wish you all the best of luck on your journey! "
We both sincerely thank Rowan multiple times again and then we set foot out the door.
At first neither of us say anything we just look at each other, beaming with excitement.
"Hey Neon..."
"Ya Glow?"
"...Are you buzzing?"
"...HELL YEAH!"
"GOOD! COZ I AM TOO!"
"Oh Glow! Before we go...We need to go back home and tell our Mom's that we're going off, otherwise they'll worry their heads off!"
"Oh yes! You're right! Let's go!"
Me and Neon trial back home and explain the whole day's events up until now and that we've both decided to go on an adventure and eventually after a little bit of persuading they let us go, giving us some snacks, money and essential supplies we'll need for our journey. I make a quick little stop in my garden before we go.
"You ready Glow?" Neon asks, walking over to my soil patch.
"Yup! I'm just stocking up on berries for the trip! Here!" I place 5 out of 10 of my berries into Neon's hands. "You'll need them!" I grin.
"Thanks! Hey...Can you teach me how to plant berries and stuff...?"
"Sure! Of course! We have to be sure to plant lots around Sinnoh okay?"
"Yeah, we shall"
After I taught Neon the joys of gardening, said bye to all our neighbours we were ready. Off to Jubilife City!
TO BE CONTINUED ~