August 10, 2012 Friday
(This is my first entry here in my training diary, I will record all my pokemon training experiences and my journey here from now on! [ha! XD])
Today is a very special day, not because it's the first day of my last year on school but because this day I will become someone that I want to be as long as I can remember. This day I will finally be a pokemon trainer, an official licensed Pokemon trainer. I have met all the requirements needed, I'm 13 years old which is the legal training age in Phine Region, I have finished my 5 years academic studies that start when I was just 7 years old and I passed the Trainers qualifying exams.(Though I still have to finish my 6th year which is 3 months long) Yes I know, our region is very much unlike other region, but a lot of great trainers come from this region because Phine trainers are intelligent and prepared. I arrived at my school just on time but it seems I'm the last 6th year student to arrive, each one of them holding a Pokedex which serves as a trainers ID which also means they are already registered, I got scared that I might have got the time wrong and that I'm late and that they will not allow me to register too. I run to the registration booth and there I saw Prof. Levine the town's resident scientist, nurse joy and officer jenny, I immediately got on my knees and begged them to still accept my registration, the three of them looked at me with wide eyes and suddenly they broke into pits of laughter. After 10 minutes. I got out of the registration booth with my own Pokedex, it turns out that I'm not late, the others are just very early so they decided to start already the registration so we can finish early too, I got really red on my face when they tell me that and shut up the whole time they lecture me about the privileges and responsibilities of being a pokemon trainer. My two best friend, Arianne and Marco, saw me when I walked out, they were both excited as I'm to get to the main event of this day, the awarding of our very first pokemon our starter, take note that I used "awarding" because I think this wonderful Pokémons are the reward for our years of hard work and now they are minutes away from us. As if on cue the boxes were laid out on the field in front of us, these boxes contain our reward but they are not pokemon, yet, what are in the boxes are eggs. This is another thing that sets apart Phine region from others, the starters here starts from egg that will hatch soon after a day or two, in this way the trainers and their starter grow together physically and mentally and bond more strongly. After all the 48 boxes were laid down, Prof. Levine called the first trainer that will get the privilege to pick his or her pokemon first, he called Marco, he is the first to register so he will get to pick first and since I'm the last to registered I'm gonna get that last one, which sucks, but a little cool too because the one that will be my egg might be my pokemon soulmate, he/she surpassed all the odds just to be with me, well okay, the last part was to make it look even more cooler. Marco came back with a red egg with curls like clouds that has darker red color on the bottom. We all know what is gonna be when it hatched, and I'm a little jealous, no, a lot jealous, who wouldn't? It's a freaking vulpix, it's strong, it's cool and I think everyone will agree it's cute. I wished I was the first to pick and that vulpix could've been mine. One by one the eggs are starting to lessen. Arianne already has her egg; it's a brown egg with a circle and 2 arrows in the middle like a clock. I have no idea what is it and she admit she haven't got any idea too, she just thought it looks cute. Girls... the last guy before me just got his egg and now it's my turn, the last egg is in the other side of the field so I have no idea what my egg looks like, when I finally get closer I saw a violet egg with a pale red oblong on the middle, I picked it up and it feels very hard. From now on it's you and me now, I whispered to it. I felt like a real trainer during that moment, with the beautiful egg in my hand, I felt that I'm complete. After I have gotten my egg, we were dismissed and will go back to Monday for the classes. We have the rest of the day free and as usual I hang out with my two best friends. We inspect each of our eggs excitedly while being careful not to drop it, Marco's egg feels warm to touch well because it's a fire type pokemon duh!. Arianne's egg is pretty normal except for the markings on it and mine is unusually hard and thick, but I also noticed that the red oblong part is not as thick as the violet part. We also talked about what pokemon would come out of our egg, well mine and Arianne's egg, we already know what would come out of Marco's. Our guesses for my egg are rattata, oddish, grimer, and nidoran. I hope we're wrong for I do not want any of those pokemon as my starter, well except for grimer minus its smell. We don't have definite guess for Arianne's because it really looks peculiar and we don't know of a pokemon with a clock thingy trait on it, I guess we'll have to wait. By late afternoon we said our goodbyes to each other. We decided to meet again tomorrow afternoon at the park and maybe one of our eggs has finally hatched by tomorrow. I got home just as the sun is setting and proudly show my parents who are both former pokemon trainer my egg, they are very happy and I can see they are very proud of me. The whole days excitement has worn me out and I already feel sleepy after dinner, so I go up to my room and lay in my bed with my egg, I'm not worried that I will crack it because it's very hard, probably harder than my head, and immediately fell asleep with my arms my egg.