Chapter 1- Chikorita and the Redhead (Lyra's POV):
Someone is shaking my shoulder, and I groan when they stop, turning over to my other side. "Come now, Lyra! It's a new day!" my mom's voice, normally calm, sounds just a tad shrill. "Ethan Gold was here earlier, playing hide-and-seek with his Marill." This has me sitting up and almost screaming: "You let him in MY room?!" Mom laughs and shakes her head.
"No, dear. He was downstairs. Now that you're up, why don't you get dressed and I'll make you some breakfast?" she leaves me to do just that. After I am dressed, I head down to eat. "Oh, by the way, Prof. Elm wants you to go over to his Lab." I nod my head in answer, since my mouth is full of food. When I'm done, Mom gives me my bag and Trainer Card. The moment I step outside my house, Ethan's Marill comes up to me and soon after his Trainer comes and they go back to his house. Well, that was weird. I think as I shrug my shoulders and start to head next door to the Lab when I see a red-haired boy my age looking into the Lab. I go over to say hi to the new person.
"So, this is the famous Elm Lab. What are you looking at?" he shoves me away by my shoulders when he notices me. Appalled, I stare at him in shock.
"I was going to say 'hi' and introduce myself, but it seems like you are a rude person." Then I go into the Lab. Don't think about him, he's rude! I walk up to Prof. Elm and he smiles happily at me.
"Lyra! Good to see you. You know I have many sets of three rare Pokémon that will need a Trainer some time, and I was hoping you'd take one. To help with my research on Pokémon and their feelings towards their Trainer. One set is over there on that machine." Before I can go to choose, Elm's computer beeps. "Oh, I must've gotten an Email. Give me a second. Uh-huh, yep…OK!" he turns back to me after he reads the Email. "Lyra, I have this acquaintance everyone calls Mr. Pokémon who usually finds rarities. This time he says it's real. It's probably just another Pokémon Egg, and we're so busy with research…wait! You can go in my place right? Just pick one of the three Pokémon and you can go!" I walk over to the machine that holds the three Pokémon that Elm has been researching for a while now. I immediately take the first one, not caring what type it is, and call it out.
"Chiko?" it asks when it sees me.
"Ah, you've chosen Chikorita? That's fine, but oh my, that one is a girl! How about that! Why don't you give her a nickname?" she looks at me with pleading eyes and I smile at her.
"Megan, how do you like that name?"
"Chiko! Chikorita!" I laugh a little as Megan rubs the leaf on her head against my leg.
"Good, you two will get to Mr. Pokémon's house in no time! It's just past Cherrygrove City. Before you go, you should show your mom your new Pokémon." I only nod but before I leave the Lab, his assistant gives me three potions! Once outside, I overhear the person from earlier whisper something incoherent. Ignoring him, I walk with Megan behind me to my house. I bump into Ethan when I'm near my house.
"Lyra! So you chose Chikorita, huh? That's cool. See ya later!" his Marill looks at Megan and then follows his Trainer to their house. This day is getting weirder with him…ah, well. I continue to my house.