What a nice cool summer day, this is the time of the year when most trainers like to start their journey into the Pokémon world. Let's meet the three heroes who will be starting their journey on this day to become Pokémon masters. Our main hero is Chance Larsen, a young man who has a great love for all types of Pokémon, no matter what they look like. Our next hero is a little bit of an encyclopedia when it comes to videogames but will try at nothing to sharpen her skills as a trainer, give it up for Zoei. And our last but certainly not least hero Aaron Hampton, an easily distracted young man who has a great love for jokes, pranks and food. There are many other characters that will join them on their quest but you will have to read to figure out who and what they are. Enjoy
Chapter 1
The Journey Begins
"Chance! Hurry up and get dressed! You will be late" my mother yelled to me from down stairs in the kitchen "Ugh…what?" I said groggy and tired "what time is it…" I moved my head in a slow manner to check my alarm clock "OH GOD! IM LATE!" I yelled jumping out of my bed to get dressed for the day. I pulled out a gray short sleeve shirt and shorts of the same color and put them on as I ran out the door with some citrus berries to eat for breakfast. I saw Zoei collecting Oran and Pecha berries from the small pot in her windowsill. Planting was one of her many hobbies she did, when she wasn't looking up info for all most every Nintendo and Sega game out their, she would always use a woven basket she made from that really thin bark most baskets are made from, to put the delicate berries in. by the way she was dressed I believe she forgot how important today was. "Hey Zoei! Why aren't you dressed?" I yelled to her through her window, she turned to face me "dressed for what?" she asked. I was a little disappointed she normally never forgot anything "did you forget what today is? Today we go and pick out or starter Pokémon remember" I said. For a minute she seemed confused but quickly realized what I said was correct "boy am I scatter brained today" she mumbled "wait for me ill be right out" then she walked away from the window and up to her room. I looked around the town thinking to myself that this would be the last time I see this place for a while when I felt something rub up against my leg, and of course when I glanced down I saw my pet Houndoom with a tennis ball in his mouth. I knelt down beside him and pet his head "hey buddy" I said smiling "how is my favorite Pokémon today?" he started wagging his tail and placed the tennis ball at my feet. "You want to play fetch?" I asked him, he nodded his head. "Ok boy go get it!" I said throwing the ball out into the field next to our house. Houndoom took off running the second I released the ball from my hand, which gave me enough time to search my bag for one of his spicy poffins that I normally gave him when my mother wasn't around. I took the treat out as Houndoom returned with the ball "sit" I said and he obeyed, I gave him the treat then picked up the ball, which was now burnt. That happens every time we buy him a new tennis ball, we buy them Light green, they become black later on. "Hey Chance! How about a little one on one?" a friendly voice asked from behind me; I turned around and saw my friend Aaron along with his family's pet Arbok behind him. "I'm surprised that you guys haven't gotten rid of Arbok yet," I said laughing under my breath "you know why? Cause I wont let them, he likes me to much don't you" Aaron said to his snake companion. The intimidating poison type wrapped him self around Aaron and agreed with a nod of his head "so about that battle I mentioned about a minute ago" Aaron said again. I looked at my Houndoom and asked, "Do you want to beat these two again buddy?" he got his game face on and stepped in front of me and started growling at Arbok ready for the battle "lets do this Aaron!" I yelled. Aaron nodded to Arbok who slithered in front of him swaying back and forth as if to confuse Houndoom and me. Battles aren't very common in twinleaf town so not many people have seen them; really the only battles people see are between Aaron and me in this small town. I looked around, and like always, saw people ether sitting in chairs or on the grass making bets on who is going to win. Normally a battle between us was a good 50-50 percent chance for ether to win. "Your move Aaron" I said being rather generous, "gladly, Quick Arbok use Smoke Screen!" Aaron ordered, which was rather predictable because he likes to impair his opponent's vision before attacking them. Arbok Shot a think black wall of smoke restricting Houndoom or me from seeing him and making me gag, "Now use Poison Sting!" Aaron yelled. This was always a bad situation for me because I couldn't see Houndoom and I don't know where Arbok was on the field. From the smoke I heard a yelp of pain from Houndoom as he was pushed back out of the smoke from Arbok's attack "Are you ok Houndoom!" I asked worried he nodded. "Ok now use flame thrower!" I ordered, Houndoom opened his mouth and shot a larger pillar of fire out of his mouth and as it went through the smoke, it cleared it making it easier to see Arbok. "Quickly use fire spin!" I said in haste, and Houndoom did as ordered, he shot a spinning flame pillar this time and aimed at the ground in front of Arbok. The second the fire type attack hit the ground, the poisonous snake was enveloped is a spiral cage of fire taking on damage every second. For 40 seconds Aaron watched his Pokémon take on increasing amounts of damage until Arbok finally gave in and fainted "Crap! Arbok!" Aaron side running to his Pokémon's side "Aaarrr…bok…." Arbok said.
"These battles never get old do they" Aaron asked "No they do not" I said smiling and petting Houndoom with pride "well come on Aaron its time for us to get going" "ok, hey Arbok you need to stay here ok? If they try to kick you out while I'm gone, come look for me" Aaron said to his rather tired Pokémon, Arbok nodded and went back into the house. As I started to walk away I heard Houndoom whimpering behind me as if he was begging me not to go and leave him here. I turned around and looked at him for a minute or so feeling sorry for him, I know that if I were him, I sure wouldn't want my friend and trainer to leave ether. "Hey boy" I said kneeling down "do you want to come with us?" Houndoom's face became glittered with joy as he jumped on me knocking me over with some force. I laughed "Ok! Ok! You can come, now let me up so I can go get your pokeball" he jumped off me and I walked up to my room to find his poke ball. It had been some time since I last used his ultra ball; I normally kept it on the bookshelf hanging beside my bed. I grabbed it and saw that it had collected tons of dust to the point of looking completely tan "that's... that's just gross" I said walking into my bathroom with the ball and a rag. I turned on the faucet and started to scrub the dust and grime off the ball making sure not to scratch it in anyway. All of it was easy to wash off and in the end it looked brand new. I walked out side to meet up with Aaron, Zoei and Houndoom who were all antsy to get going and get out starter Pokémon, "ok boy in you go" I said returning him to his old Ultra ball "ok lets go gang". We all walked out of the town discussing whom we were going to choose and got about 5 meters away from twinleaf before we all heard someone yelling, "Wait For Me!" We all turned around to see our friend Jacob running towards us with his partner Buizel. "You guys…huff…almost forgot…huff…us," Jacob said completely out of breath "bui…zel…bui…zel" his partner said in the same tone. We were all confused "I thought you said you didn't want to come with us" Aaron asked him "ya well, buizel wanted to come along and I wasn't about to let him go without me" he said. We all rolled our eyes "we'll come people lets get going, we are wasting precious daylight" Zoei said as she started walking down the road as we all followed in step