Radnus here! . . . only like three chapters and this story already had plot holes, characters have not become what I envisioned, and there were some problems with the way I wrote Alexander. So i'm rewriting it! I wanted to go into certain things and events slower or faster, and somethings are the same. So tell me what you think of this. Reviews are useful, even if you aren't interested I would love to know why you didn't particularly like this or are not interested in this story so I can cover my bases in the future. There will be another note for all you guys at the bottom. Thank you!
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, I only own my OC's and the story.
Chapter 1: All good things begin with pancakes!
Our world, a beautiful and prosperous planet. A world filled with elegant and mysterious creatures known as pokémon. In this world, pokémon fill the land, the sea, and the sky! Even the deep void of space can be a home for such beings. And where there are pokémon, there are pokémon trainers. Trainers battle to raise their bond with pokémon to the limit. There is more to a life of a trainer than battling, performances, challenges, sports, cooking, therapy, there are many types of trainers including those who wish to use pokémon for there own selfish wishes, but ultimately it is the job of a trainer to raise their bonds with their pokémon and break the limits-
"Fletch!"
. . . . Ehem. To break the limits of of what is known, to rise to a higher challenge-
"Fletchling!"
" . . . . . . Ugh." The boy slammed his head on the keyboard, his groans of annoyance muffled by the space bar. His bed head made his black hair stick up at odd angles, he squinted his blue and white eyes at the screen in front of him. The kid slowly rose from his from his seat at his desk, he was an average height for his age but was slimmer than most boys too. He was dressed in a simple shirt and pajama pants. A thick aura of anger surrounded the bed head ridden child. The boy slowly turns towards the noisy intruder. It fluttered its wings as it continued to make its chirping sounds. " . . . Oh Harvey~" The boy sang to the red and blue bird, venom dripping from his voice. The kid walked speedily towards Harvey and grabbed the bird by the mid section, "If i've told you once i've told you a thousand times," the bird made a surprise 'squack' as the boy opened the window and proceeded to throw the avian "Stay out of my room!"
"Fletchling!" The bird rocketed through the air, the normal type's confusion only lasted for so long, righting himself he was covered in a white glow as he rocketed back towards the window, aiming to strike his offender with his quick attack. Seeing the birds attempt at revenge, the human shut the window, leaving the bird to slam into the glass. "Flech!" Harvey bounced off the window and fell to the yard below, the small creature twitching and groaning softly.
"What was that?" The question came from downstairs, a feminine and concerned voice echoed through the boys closed door.
"I just fell, nothing to worry about mom." The boy snickered to himself, 'It's was his fault anyway.'
"Alright then, go ahead and get dressed. Grab your travel bag too, I have a job for you to do, . . . and be careful!" The boy instantly shivered, a job from his mother always ended in shenanigans . . . six times out of ten painful shenanigans. "Its nothing that big Alex, its not like i'm sending you into the forest again," The boy flinched from the mention of Santalune Forest, trips there ended in some kind of pain and trauma. "Anyways, go ahead and get ready."
"Alright mom!" The young teen, Alex, grabbed some clothes from a basket his mom brought up yesterday and lazily got dressed. He slipped into simple brown cargo pants and white shirt with a blue and grey pokeball print. Grabbing a brush from his computer table he tamed the wild beast called his hair. 'I really need a haircut, it's getting pretty long.' Properly combed, his hair reached down to his shoulders but luckily his bangs like his mother's stop right above his eyes. His mom usually cut his hair, he was going to have to ask for a quick cut before he left. Alex walked over to his closet and he pulled out a gray and blue travel bag along with black short sleeve hoodie. Packing his laptop, solar power charger, toiletries, swimming trunks and shirt in case anything ended up involving water, and some change of clothes.
"Are you ready yet?!" His mother questioning voice rang through the the house.
"No, almost!" Alex had just finished slipping on his hoodie leaving it unzipped.
"I thought I taught you to be faster than this?!"
"Not all of us can wake up perfect like you can!" Seriously this woman could jump straight from the bed to the runway without really trying.
"Aww thanks, just hurry up!" Alex's eye twitched as he grabbed his glasses of his desk, thin gunmetal frames and transition lenses. Fitting well on his young rounded face, his skin had paled a bit from not seeing solid light for awhile. Slipping on his black and white running shoes he opened the his bedroom door. The natural light from the hallway window illuminated the second floor. He headed down the stairs, slowly the clattering of dishes became louder as the kitchen came into view.
Alyshia Knight was not a typical mother. Despite with being a single mother of a twelve year old she had become a famous baker, she had also been the first normal type gym leader in Kalos. A huge feat considering she was only twenty-seven. Santalune city had been in deep when she arrived with Alex. Apparently after the previous gym leader when on to join the elite four the town had been having a steadily rising infestation problem, luckily Alyshia had solved it with relative ease and has been revered as a savior ever since. The women had grown her blonde hair out since then, even tied in a ponytail it reached the small of her back, a smile graced her heart shaped face as her white and pink eyes were trained on the flying pancake. Cake batter and patches of flour can't covered her pink apron, she was wearing a simple white blouse, blue jeans and pink sandals. Today was the celebration of the city's founding and a huge festival was being set up, even the famous retired Professor Sycamore was here. But as of right now she was putting soft buttery pancakes on a plate for her approaching child.
"I forgot it was Monday." The young boy sat at the counter and watched his mother pour syrup over the Pikachu shaped pancakes.
"Huh?! You forgot about Pancake Mondays, heresy~" His mother said teasingly. Putting a plate and fork in front of Alex.
"Hey! Its Monday, i'm pretty sure no one even wants to acknowledge its existence." Alyshia walked over to the table behind Alex, she placed three dishes of pokémon food on the floor. Soon enough two pokémon walked out from the living room. Both were large canine pokémon with great posture, pure white fur neatly groomed and floppy ears. The only difference between them was one had a red collar with a bell and the other had a blue scarf around its neck.
"True, but that's why we put pancakes in it, so we have something worth getting out of bed for." Walking back over to the counter his mother took her own fork and plate sitting down next to him. "I'm really not looking forwards to the back to back challenges today. Maybe I can get out of it somehow." His mother's grumbling a were smothered by a mouth full of pancakes.
"That sounds super irresponsible, are you sure your an adult?" The response was a flick to the forehead. "Ow!" Alex rubbed his forehead a bit. He could hear snickering from behind him, Alex turned to glare at the two Furfrou. The one with the red bell, Marie, continued to laugh as the one with the scarf, Louis, blushed and turned back to his food feeling a little ashamed for laughing.
"Rude, but true." They finished their pancakes rather quickly and stood up leaving their plates for later. "I have a job for you remember?" Alex suddenly deflated. "What did you forget or something?" His mother hustled to the living room and was back relatively quickly. She was carrying a package, it was the size of a shoebox and wrapped in the standard brown paper.
"So this is a delivery? Why did I need a bag then?" He was generally confused. 'Couldn't she have done this herself?' But he was flicked again. "Owchey! I didn't say anything!" The boy yelled,
"But you were thinking it." Alyshia wagged her finger at Alex.
"But . . . how?"
"Let's call it a mother's intuition and leave it there," She handed the package to Alex who in turn put it in his travel bag. "Now this is a package addressed to Mr. Sycamore, he's in town remember? He's been staying at the pokémon center. After you deliver it to him, he's gonna give you another delivery. He'll give more details when you meet up with him. But you know~," Alyshia nearly sang. "On your trip something could happen and maybe you'll go on an adventure!" All the mother got was a dead stare, Alex had been avoiding going on a journey for about two years and his mother has been trying and convince him how good it could be for the past two years.
"Nope nothing like that, just a simple job." Alex could as well go on a journey, when he turned ten he got his trainer license and everything. He even got his own pokémon awhile back, but he didn't really feel the drive to go out and see the world, no it was more like he never felt like he needed too. "I guess I'll head out know before the festival crowd gets here." The boy was about to head towards the door before his mother spoke up again.
"Don't forget Pecan" The boy eyes widened as if he nearly forgot. He nodded as he stuck his middle and ring finger in his mouth and gave a loud whistle. There were a few seconds of silence before a white blur speed out of the living room, it slowed down after it got closer not wanting to knock down its trainer. The slender pokémon hovered in the air, it had a round head with spikes at the top, a slender neck and a round oval like body with red and blue triangles decorating it and had little white wings. It's legs and feet hung in the air as it waved its stubby arms as a sign of happiness.
"Toge!" The Happiness pokémon hugged Alex, it was so excited to see him even though even though it only saw him yesterday. Alex returned the hug rubbing the Togetic on the back of the head with a small smile.
"Hi Pecan. We've got ourselves a job today, you ready?" The pokémon did a quick spin in the air before raising its arm in excitement.
"Toge!"
"Well it's nice to see one of you is chipper." The both turned to Alyshia, she was smiling after seeing her son and the Fairy-Flying type interact, she could remember the day when Pecan first hatched. The two had been attached ever since. The five of them including Marie and Louis headed towards the door. Alex hand touched the doorknob as he turned to his mother one last time, blue and white eyes met pink and white.
"I'll be back soon." He turned the knob, opening the door to see the late morning light shine and blue skies far and wide. Their was a distant hum in the air, the sound of everyone working on the town could even be heard from here in the suburbs. Alex walked out the house with Pecan following close behind him.
"Don't be too quick, try to enjoy yourself. I'll be at the gym for most of the day so stop by after you meet up with Mr. Sycamore, alright?"
"Alright, bye mom." The flying pokémon gave a little chirp as a goodbye as the two strode off towards town.
"Goodbye Alexander." Alyshia closed the door and sighed, but she ended up smiling, 'Maybe, . . . today is the day.' She thought as she walked back into the dining room, the seemingly untouched dish on the floor caught her attention.
"Wait, . . . where's Harvey?"
-_- Outside -_-
The small little bird wobbled in circles, flapping its wings as it attempted to fly but ended up on the ground again with a thud groaning.
"Fletchling~"
Hey Radnus here! Thank you for reading this chapter all the way through even if you didn't like it. It still means a lot, please review and tell me your honest thoughts. What did you like? What didn't you like? How could I do better? All of these will be very helpful. The original Alexander will stay up if you want to read and compare and see what I've changed for good or worse. So I'll leave you with Trainer status and a chapter question, I'll answer each question along with you guys so we can learn a little more about each other. Trainer status will update as we learn about the people and pokémon of this story, I'll only show the trainer status of those who show up in the chapter. Thank you for your time!
Alexander Knight: Rookie (not)Trainer
Age: 12
Pokémon: 1
Pecan (Togetic M) Fairy-Flying
Ability: ?
Moves: ?
Alyshia Knight: Santalune Gym Leader/ Super Mother
Age: 27
Pokémon: 3 known
Harvey (Fletchling M) Normal-Flying
Ability: ?
Moves: Quick Attack, ?
Marie (Furfrou F) Normal
Ability: ?
Moves: ?
Louis (Furfrou M) Normal
Ability: ?
Moves: ?
Question:
What was your first Pokémon game?
Mine was Diamond and Pearl. Growing up in a family with one source of income I was never expecting to get not only a DS for Christmas but both versions. And from then on I've played every game since.
