If something is in italics it means that the character is thinking something. The bold letters are the author's notes. Most chapters will be longer than this one. This chapter is one of the least humorous ones. Update:Fixed a few things.

"I'm sorry to say that your son has failed the normality test. " The psychologist had said on that fateful day.

"What does that mean?" My mom asked.

"He can't do things that a fully functioning human being should be able to do. To be honest, his social skills are horrendous. I don't think he'll make any friends anytime soon."

"That's horrible!"

"I don't understand how this is possible, to be honest it looks like your son doesn't want any friends anyways." I was nine then, when I was told that I failed the normality test. I'm fifteen now, and about to finally start my Pokemon journey. I would have started it when I was ten, but I needed to help support my family's flower stand, which was doing very poorly. Now that it was making money again I could start my Pokemon journey. I had never actually seen a real live Pokemon before, because I rarely left the house, but I did a ton of research. So I knew what to expect, or that's what I thought.

I entered Professor Juniper's lab with a smile on my face. Despite being fifteen, and most trainers who got their first Pokemon were ten, I felt just as exited as any ten year old would be. Maybe even more so because the only friend I was leaving at home was the Internet, unlike most people who had actual friends that they were leaving behind. I had learned a lot from the Internet, but it wasn't a real friend. It was just like a informational book to me. I never used it for leisure, only for learning. I looked around the mostly white room. There wasn't much there other than lab assistants and machines. I guess I should explain a few things before I continue. First of all I'm a guy, I'm white, I'm six feet tall, I have brown hair, green eyes, I always wear a plain white t-shirt, light blue sneakers, and black shorts. Today was July seventeenth, my fifteenth birthday.

"Hello." I said. "Who is supposed to be giving me my first Pokemon?" One of the lab assistants realized I was there and walked up to me.

"You must be Savan, I'm sorry but Professor Juniper isn't here right now. I'll be the one giving you your starter and stuff." The lab assistant wore a white lab coat that had a pocket near the bottom, had a white skirt on and had white sneakers on. What is it with these people and the color white? She like she was in her early twenties. She grabbed three Pokeballs from her lab coat's pocket and threw them up in the air. Suddenly a male oshawott, a female snivy, and a female tepig appeared in front of me. "Pick one to go on your journey with." The lab assistant told me. The oshawott jumped up and down excitedly.

"Pick me, pick me!" He yelled. Wait, aren't humans not supposed to be able to understand Pokemon?

"You know that humans can't understand us, right?" The snivy said.

"I know but why not try?" The oshawott said.

"I guess I might as well try too." The snivy said, she then turned to me and clasped her small hands together. "Please pick me, living with these two is torture! Please, I'll be your best friend."

"No, pick me." The tepig said. "I'm strong and more useful than these too. My fire could burn down this whole building if I wanted it too."

"That's a lie." The oshawott said. "You don't want a liar on your team, do you?"

"Excuse me, lab assistant person? Am I supposed to be understanding what the Pokemon say?" I said.

"No, don't worry about not being able to understand what they say, very few can." She said.

"I want the snivy." I told her.

"Yes!" The snivy said with excitement. "I finally can stop living with your two!" The lab assistant then handed me snivy's pokeball and a pokedex, along with five empty pokeballs.

"These-" The lab assistant started.

"Don't bother," I told her "I'm fifteen, I know what all of this stuff is. I then put the spare pokeballs and pokedex in my backpack, which was dark blue by the way. I then looked over at the snivy. I don't really want to put her in a pokeball. "Would you rather ride on my shoulder or be inside your pokeball?" I asked her. She responded by leaping onto my left shoulder. I then put her pokeball in my backpack as well. "Okay. See ya lab assistant person." I said while walking out of the lab. There was a field near the lab, which was just in front of route one. The field was so commonly walked used by humans that not many Pokemon lived there. Once I got there I took a seat on a bench. "Before we go any further we need to think of an awesome name for you. Do you have any ideas?" I asked her.

"It doesn't matter because you can't understand me." She said.

"I can understand you fine." I told her. Her mouth then gaped.

"How is that possible?" She asked me, she was still on my left shoulder.

"I have no idea, but we might as well use this to our advantage. How do you feel about being named Emi?"

"That sounds really cool."

"Great, then your name will be Emi." And that was how Emi and I began our great adventure.