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Chapter One: The Journey of a Thousand Miles Starts with a Single Step.
"What time are we leaving!?" A young boy yelled on his way down the stairs, with only one arm in his black t-shirt and his grey jacket dragging along the floor. He eventually managed to get his head through the neck of his t-shirt along with his arm, he wore blue jeans, and had scruffy, medium length brown hair along with black rimmed glasses over his brown eyes. "Mum!?" he shouted again as he slid into the kitchen on his white socks.
"What was that, Jack?" His mother turned from the kettle, she was a short woman, with the same hair and eye colour as Jack's.
"When are we leaving?" the ten year old repeated as he slam dunked some bread into the toaster.
"We'll set off in five minutes, the plane to Cherrygrove leaves in forty five minutes." She said calmly as she poured the boiled water into a cup.
Jack groaned and looked at the clock, ten past nine. He caught the toast as it popped up and ate it as though he was a starved Garchomp. His mother laughed. "Whut?" he spluttered, his cheeks looking like those of a Bibarel, he swallowed the whole thing in one go and was about to leave the room until his mother spoke.
"You know I was talking to Jasmine last night."
"Mm? What'd she say?" Jack suddenly became interested.
"She said you'd go far, that you'd make a good trainer. Not much else, you can't really get much out of that girl. Very shy. A lot like you, actually."
"Cool!" Jack beamed. The thought that a gym leader thought that he would do well filled him with pride. Jasmine was the fifth gym leader of Johto, the gym was not for away from Jack's house. He'd battle her one day, battle and defeat 'The Steel-Clad Defense Girl' herself. Jack beamed even more at this idea.
Freshly inspired, he ran into the living room to find his pokemon book, it was on the shelf as always. He grabbed it and thumbed through to the page he wanted, 'Traditional Starter Pokemon'. There were twelve to choose from, Jack looked desperately, trying to choose between the colourful, attractive, and undoubtedly powerful pokemon, he eventually narrowed it down to two of them.
"Cyndaquil or Mudkip..." he muttered to himself, "The fire mouse, or the mud fish?".
"Jack."
"Huh?" the boy woke up from his daydreaming to see his mother, already in her coat.
"Time to go." she said, smiling.
Jack's heart skipped a beat, he stuffed his book back on the shelf and grabbed his grey jacket and slipped into his black shoes, stuffing the shoe laces in the sides.
The next half hour was chaotic, the ticket line was ridiculously long and the crowds were terrible, today was the day that all ten year olds got their starter pokemon, and most were headed to the same place: New Bark Town, where they would recieve one of the twelve starters.
"Well, of you go honey." Jack's mum patted him on the back outside the aeroplane.
"What? You're not coming with me?" Jack said, his eyes wide with shock.
"No, this is your adventure now." she kissed him on the forehead, "Good luck."
Jack hesitantly walked across to the plane, waving his mother goodbye. He took a look at his ticket and found the corresponding seat. Upon looking around the plane while the stewerdess was talking and saw that almost everyone there, excluding security and the stewerdesses, were his age, some looking as nervous as he was and some jumping around excitedly, already making new friends, he had to admire that.
The plane was almost full, but luckily the two seats next to him were some of the only ones with no one in them, he was a little shy with new people. He looked outside to see the ground moving, the plane was finally taking off!
"Bye bye, Olivine." he whispered as the plane began to lift off the ground, waving off his home town.
The plane ride wasn't long, no more than an hour or two, but it felt like several sunlit days to Jack, he thanked his stars when the plane finally touched the ground.
There was a flood of passengers as the plane door opened, Jack, unfortunately, was caught in it, and had to do his best not to be crushed until the crowd dispersed outside the airport. There were planes from a number of other cities too, making the crowd even worse. He looked around, Cherrygrove City, all that was left to be done now was the short trip to New Bark. He waited behind the pokemon centre for about ten minutes to let the crowd disperse, and then popped his head out.
"Hey, you!" He flinched as a voice came from his left, he swung his head around suddenly to see a young girl - his age walking over. "Are you here to get your starter?" she asked as she approached.
"Erm, yeah." He said shyly, "Why are you still here?" he paused for a moment, thinking about what he had said, "Sorry, I didn't mean to sound-"
"It's okay," the girl cut him off, "There was a problem with my luggage, it's okay now though." she said cheerfully. "Come on, the crowd's gone now, and I need some company." she took his hand and pulled him from the shadow of the pokemon centre. The girl had pink hair which was in two plaits and a full fringe. Her eyes were blue. She wore a long purple strap top and white shorts along with purple running shoes and white socks, she carried a white shoulder bag and had a pink pokebelt. "What's your name?" she asked as the two began on thier way.
"Jack," Jack said simply, " I'm from Olivine." he added, "You?"
"My name's Ruby, from Cainwood." she said, "You don't talk much do you?"
"I guess not." he shrugged as they entered Route 29. He looked around, the scenery was beautiful, in a different way to the seaside view of Olivine, much greener. Sentrets, Hoppips and Rattatas, roamed around, but none bothered them, it wouldn't be long until he would be catching them - and using them to beat Jasmine. He decided to break the short silence, "So what pokemon are you gonna choose?"
Ruby thought for a moment, "I think Bulbasaur, or Cyndaquil! I can't really choose."
"Hmm, I was gonna go for Cyndaquil."
"Cool!" She smiled. She opened her mouth to say more but was cut off as something knocked her over.
"Wow that's a big rat!" Jack commented as he helped Ruby up.
"What is it!?" she she yelled, brushing herself off.
"A Raticate, I think." Jack squinted, he had read a few books in his time, "But looks... angry..."
The Raticate's teeth began to glow and it lunged for Ruby again, she managed to smack it away using her bag. "That was a Hyper Fang attack!" Jack said in awe.
"I don't care what attack it is!" Ruby yelled as she rolled and jumped up to avoid another attack.
"No, that's a high level attack! There should be nothing here above level ten!" He yelled back, pulling her away from a third attack. The two had backed up against a tree, and the Raticate ran in for a final attack.
To both Jack and Ruby's shock, something green swooped across them, hitting the Raticate, which immediately fled.
"So what's that one?" Ruby turned to Jack.
"Not sure." he said. "I think... Vibrava?"
"Flygon, return!" A woman's voice came from a few meters away.
The woman had sleek, black hair that fell to the middle of her back, her scruffy fringe was just above her eyes and her ears were covered. She also wore a white top with a black Pokéball insignia on it, and skin tight black trousers that covered the tops of her white and black sneakers. Jack thought she looked like she was in her late teens.
"You kids okay?" She asked.
"Erm, yeah, thanks." Ruby replied, Jack just nodded.
"On your way to New Bark Town?"
"Yup, can you take us there?" Ruby asked cheerfully, this girl didn't mince her words, however, the woman twitched a smile and nodded. She lead Jack and Ruby away. "So what's your name?" Ruby asked.
"Melissa, I'm helping Professor Elm with all of the new trainers today."
"Oh." The two ten year olds said at the same time.
They walked for about half an hour, on the way Jack told Melissa about the Raticate that attacked them, the older trainer dismissed it as 'unusual, but not unheard of'. They saw many excited looking trainers walking back to Cherrygrove on the way.
"We're here." she said. She looked back to the two ten year olds behind her but found only two clouds of smoke in their shape. Looking forward, she saw the two sprinting towards Professor Elm's lab.
"I'm gonna get there first!" Ruby yelled.
"We'll see!" Jack yelled back.
When the two arrived at the large doors of the lab - at about the same time, nerves hit them and they stood infront of it, hesitating to enter.
"Let's go in at the same time." Jack suggested.
"Yeah, sounds good to me." Ruby replied after taking a deep breath.
"One, two, three!" the two soon to be trainers said in synchronisity, grinning as they pushed the large double doors open eager to obtain their first of what would be many pokemon.
Wow! This chapter pretty much wrote itself! Ruby belongs to xPikachu-Princessx, Melissa belongs to Stabberz.