Chapter 1 My jerk relative comes back?
My name is Robert. If your reading this, I'm either the greatest trainer in the world, dead, or just want to tell my story already. In any case, your reading the story of one of the worlds greatest pokemon trainers in the world. I'm 10 at the beginning of this story, but pretty much look the same. I have light brown skin, brown eyes, and light blue hair (it runs in the family). I'm kind of short, and some people say I look like I'm 7. I come from a nice little town called Cherrygrove City in the Johto region (one of 4 major regions in the world). It's a small boring town, were nothing really happens. It's close to the sea, and has the scent of flowers in the air all the time. There are a few houses there. There's my small green house with the blue roof, and fence somewhere near the woods leading to New Bark Town just to the east (where odd Professor Elm lives). Then there's my friend Tyson's house. He has spiky green hair, wide eyes, and light brown skin. He's my good friend at times, and at other times I just want to strangle him. He lives next door to me, and always comes over to talk about whatever (usually what will happen once we get our pokemon). Then there was Joes all blue house. He's a fisherman with tanned skin, messy brown hair, and I never see him without his yellow fishing hat. He was usually on his boat (a crappy row boat), fishing. There are also some other houses, but those aren't important. Finally there's the Pokemon center, and the Pokemart. Just north is Violet City, where there's a Pokemon Gym run by a Gym leader. There are 8 Gyms total in Johto, as well as the other major 4 regions. Each Gym has a badge, and if you collect all 7, you can enter the pokemon league. That's what I'm trying to do when I get my pokemon, and start on my journey. The day had finally come. It was September 4th, and I was old enough to start on my pokemon journey. The whole night before, I couldn't sleep at all (that's what happens when I'm excited for tomorrow). I was going in my lucky red shirt, blue jeans, dark blue vest and sneakers, and finally my hat. My hat was my dads old hat from when he was starting out. We look kind of alike, only he looks much older, and has a mustache, beard combo. He gave this hat to me before he left 2 years ago. He used to be a legend when it came to battling, but he doesn't battle anymore, now he's an explorer. Anyway, I practically jumped down the stairs, and got ready for breakfast. My mom had made pancakes for the occasion. My mom was also my complexion, only she had black hair. She was wearing a purple blouse with flowers, and her was in a ponytail. "Happy Birthday Sweetie!" greeted my mom as I came down the stairs. "Hi mom." I said, a little embarrassed. "I made your favorite breakfast this special morning". She said cheerfully. "Today's the day you start on your great journey into the world." "Yup" I said happily "Time for me to make my place in history". We ate breakfast, and I started packing my stuff. I had a green backpack hung around my shoulders, and a small pouch around my waist. "Do you have everything?" asked my mom. "Yeah I think so." I replied. "Your extra cloths?" she asked. I sighed "Yes mom". "Your toothbrush? A Sleeping bag?" "Yes and yes mom. I'm fine. I'll be coming back later anyway." I said. "I just want to make sure. You know how you get when your exited. You tend to forget things." She said. I'll be fine mom." I said. I kissed her on the cheek, and headed to Newbark town.
I had mapped out the path to New Bark Town perfectly. Normally, you shouldn't go into the forest without a Pokemon, but in my case, I mapped out the path through Route 29. My dad had brought me through a few times, and I was able to find a way through without even being 3 feet from a pokemon. As I was walking through the forest, I heard a rustling sound in the trees. I looked around frantically for something to defend myself from whatever was in those trees. I found a stick about 3 feet long, and not very thick, but it had to do. Whatever was in those trees, it was coming fast. It was a Pidgy flying past me, but it wasn't after me. Instead it was running, err flying away from something. "AFTER IT CHARMANDER!" a familiar voice yelled. A Charmander jumped through some bushes running after the fleeing Pidgy. It jumped up and scratched the Pidgy in the back. Then, I guess it lost control and crashed into a tree. Then a Poke Ball whizzed past my head, and hit the fainted Pidgy in the back. The Poke Ball wiggled for a few seconds, with the center button blinking red. Then the ball stopped wiggling and the red light stopped blinking. "Way to go Charmander." said the voice. Then, a boy walked through the bushes where the charmander came from. He had light brown skin like I did, and the same blue hair. He had a smirk on his face from his success, and a calm expression on his face. He wore a blue and purple bandana, a black and blue collared shirt, some blue jeans, and purple shoes. He had a brown sac slumped on his shoulder, attached to a rope. I automatically recognized who it was. It was my jerk of an older brother, John.
"Hey bro." He said in a calm voice. "Hey." I said coldly. I always hated my brother. Ever since we where little, we went at each others thoughts. First off, he's always trying to make himself seem so much better than me. He liked to 1 up me at every chance he got. Like when I caught a fish, he had to catch 2. There was also an incident involving a teddy bear. When we were little (like 4 or 5) I had won a Teddy Bear at a carnival. John also wanted the bear, so he tried to take it. He tried to pull it away from me by it's head. I had it's chest, and I guess we were some strong toddlers because we ripped that bears head clear off. I never forgave him for that and that's how our sibling rivalry began. It only got worse after that point. He knew how I was, and could just poke at my emotions. But I also knew how to do the same thing with him. That's why we always ticked each other off. One day my mom said that if we kept it up, we'd kill each other one day. If that was the case, it would be me who would do the killing. "So, what are you doing back here?" I asked bitterly. "Does that really matter?" he asked with a smug look. "Yeah! It does need to be explained." He had won a free trip to Kanto a while back (It was in some random drawing) when he had turned 10. He started his journey there, so I figured that he would be there for a while, so I didn't have to deal with him. "Well, I did some training there, and got myself this little guy here." he said as the Charmander walked back towards him. "Yup, it's pretty cool, since he's pretty strong." The small pokemon cried out in pride at the complement. "It also helps to know my baby brother is going to start on his little journey today" he said in a mocking tone. "Just wait," I snapped back "you'll be the first I stomp in the dust." "Oh please, you couldn't beat me in a fishing contest. What makes you think you can beat me in a battle." That was one of the things I was talking about with him being able to tick me off. "What did you say?" I snapped back. "What's wrong? You think I didn't remember?" "I'll kill you jerk!" "Ah Ah Ahhh! Temper Temper. Don't start acting without thinking again." "Whatever" I said without being able to think of a good comeback. He walked over and picked up the poke ball, and put it into his pocket. "Anyway, I mainly came here to say hi to mom. She told me to come with you on your Journey." "NO WAY MAN!" I unintentionally yelled back in astonishment. "You'd probably die if I don't." "Heh, yeah right. Your not very helpful. I hadn't thought about it, but as we were bickering, we were walking to New Bark at the same time. Pretty Soon we had reached the town in no time at all. The town was Windy, with a few houses, and a windmill thing near the ocean. There was also a big house on a hill that I knew would be Professor Elms Lab. "There it is." I said with excitement. I didn't care if it was the last person I wanted to be with, I was excited. I ran toward the house, but John didn't move at all. "Hey, aren't you coming?" I asked. "Nah. I'm going to head off to find a pokemon center." "Fine" I said shrugging. I didn't really care. I was going to get my first Pokemon. So I ran full speed at the big house.