AU: Ok so this is my first attempt at a Pokemon story, this is mostly a OC story with just a bit of anime in it, if you want a character inside the story, submit your characters name, age, gender, what type of pokemon fan they are (trainer, coordinator, etc.), pokemon (gender, dont care about level, if you want their moves selected, say so.), personality, and a short bio (If you want to do alot more, send it to me in a PM).
"Go Noctowl! Use take down!"
Noctowl let out a low screech and flew down from his position toward Garchomp. The champion of the Sinnoh Region Cynthia was all that stood between Nicholas Grayson and the Champion position.
"Garchomp, use Dragon Rage." Cynthia said calmly
Garchomp cried out, a combination of green and dark blue flames erupted from the pokemon's mouth
"Dodge it!" Nick cried out
It was too late, Noctowl was hit square in the chest but the hit barely did any damage. The owl let out a cry out pain but recovered.
"Psychic!"
Noctowl let his psychic powers trigger and tried to lift Garchomp into the air but only succeeded to a point.
"Garchomp, Draco Meteor!"
It cried again and a large meteor formed around Garchomp and it launched it through the air at the owl pokemon who couldn't avoid it. It struck the brown owl and it fell to the ground knocked out.
"Noctowl is unable to battle!" The referee cried "Garchomp is the winner; the victory goes to the champion Cynthia!"
But that battle was a year ago….
Nick looked out at the ocean, Unova was nice, but he wanted to go back to Johto and see his pokemon he left at Professor Elm's lab.
The loss at Sinnoh was the best he had ever done, in Johoto, he lost to his longtime rival Joshua Morrison and in Kanto he made it past the first four rounds of the Pokemon league. The other two didn't go so well. This loss struck him that what if he wasn't cut out to be a Pokemon trainer? It didn't hit him until he finally turned seventeen years old that he might not be cut out for the job.
He opened the custom badge case he had, it had a middle compartment, then three flaps used for his Johto, Kanto, Hoenn and Sinnoh badges and the middle slot remained empty, he felt proud the moment he won those badges, but those gym symbols alone weren't enough to boost his confidence as a trainer any, he still felt like a failure when all the eyes in the stadium were on him, he called out the moves, his pokemon performed the attacks and they fell one by one, the cheers coming from the crowd as they cheered on the opponent, never him.
He wiped these negative thoughts from his mind as he looked out at the sea, the ship he was traveling on was a commercial liner, upper deck was for entertainment, food and the crew to work, let alone sleep and down below was for the passengers and VIPs to sleep in their own private rooms, as Nicholas understood it, the boat belonged to some old sea captain named Briney who was from Hoenn, he owned a smaller vessel until he got a job at a shipyard working as the new captain in Slateport City.
We are approaching New Bark Town! Passengers please gather your things and proceed down the gangplank one at a time.
Nick was already inside his cabin gathering his things together inside his suitcase; he was on traveling after a year from training for the Sinnoh tournament. It had only been a few month cruise travel just something to get his mind off of his losses, at least that's what Professor Elm told him.
As he closed his suitcase, he felt a slight tug on his jeans leg, the source was a small yellow rodent, with diamond shaped ears with black tips, pink sacs on its cheeks and a black lightening shaped tail along with a small black pattern under its chin. The pokemon, Pichu was Nicholas' favorite pokemon, the only one he carried with him for the last eight years and even during his time off he had Pichu with him.
"Pi-chu!" He cried out
Nick smiled "Come on Pichu." He extended out an arm
Pichu got down on all fours and rode up it and placed himself on Nick's shoulder.
"Let's go home." He grabbed his suitcase, walked to the door; he looked back then turned out the lights and closed his room's door
The small town of New Bark was quiet for a nine in the morning and it seemed just as tranquil as Nick remembered. The windmill by the Professor's lab turned calmly and smoothly and many of the people were still in their homes and most likely sleeping or they were having breakfast by now.
The young pokemon trainer approached Professor Elm's lab and calmly knocked on the door.
"Professor? Are you in?"
He quietly opened the door and walked inside, he could feel Pichu holding onto Nick's shoulder tightly, he was nervous Nick could tell it wasn't every day that Professor Elm didn't open the door; it was a bit odd.
The field out back of the Professor's main laboratory was a very large field, within its borders; a number of pokemon could be seen playing together, running or even sleeping.
Nick had a large number of pokemon here, all of them recognized him and cried out in happiness, he could also recognized belonged to other trainers, specifically all the more final evolved pokemon such as a Altaria, Sandslash, Machoke, Graveler, and even a Shiftry, they belonged to Joshua, along with many others.
He found Professor Elm tending to a bandaged Beedrill, the white cloth was wrapped around the stinger on its right arm, and Nick figured it was fighting with another bug type, more than likely the Heracross he caught back when he first started in Johto.
"Let me guess…Heracross did this right?"
"No Nick, this was caused by me letting the bug types go too far into the woods, I forgot to tell them that there were wild pokemon that could cause some harm, and he got this from fighting a wild Ariados." The Professor turned to Nick and letting the Beedrill go "Trip went well?"
"Yup, I didn't catch anything. Just needed some time to think." Nick kept calm "When you called me you sounded pretty excited about something. What happened, you got to research one of the legendary beasts?"
Elm chuckled "No…and I wish I had…But what I have to tell you is for you Nick."
"For me?" He asked confusion in his voice
"That's right." He looked back at the Beedrill as it flew away from the Professor, looking back; it waved its stinger happily and went to join the other bug types. "Follow me please."
The Professor stood in front of his computer and began to type a few keys and kept his back to Nick and Pichu. Nick was calm and still a bit confused something else he discovered about knowing the Professor all his life was that he never got this excited unless it was finding a new pokemon to study.
Elm turned back toward Nick, a smile spread on his face, and a piece of paper in his hand "Nick, I hold in my hand a letter from my old friend, who also is a pokemon researcher, Professor Douglass about the pokemon league in the area where he studies, in the NeoTerra Region."
Nick still looked confused, unsure where the professor was going with this, he hadn't been in a league for a year now and it point wasn't being revealed.
"He recommended that you join. He's a big fan, watched all the other leagues on the TV."
Nick shook his head "Professor, you must be insane, I'm not entering another league, not after every loss I've taken."
"Yes…but this could be your chance…." Elm started
"To prove to yourself your full potential, you say that every time I try for a new league, but I just don't see the point."
"Nicholas, I've known you your whole life, you've never been one to back down from a challenge."
"That's true, but I also have never suffered a big of a failure as I did with Sinnoh," Nick stood up and walked toward the window, looking out at the field "I had the championship title in my hands, but I let it slip away."
"You know what you told me when you were eleven after you lost at the Indigo Plateau?"
"I'm going to keep going…." Nick hung his head as he whispered "Because that's what my dad would want."
"And do you think he would want you to give up like this?"
Nick took in a breath, raised his head and exhaled; Pichu had followed them inside and looked at Nicholas in worry as he stood by his trainer's feet.
"How long will it be until the boat leaves?"
"Half an hour from now. It'll give you time to see your pokemon and choose which ones you want to take with you."
Nick shook his head "No Professor, unlike before, I want to go with just one Pokemon, and I choose Pichu."
"Seems understandable, the rest will be here when you need them."
Nick smiled and looked at Pichu "Ready buddy?"
Pichu jumped up and landed on Nick's shoulder and raised a hand "Pi! Pi! Pi!"
Elm smiled at the pair "That's good to hear, and before you go Nick, I want to give this to you." He held up a square package and handed it to him "Just open it on the boat, happy birthday Nick."
Nick shook Professor Elm's hand "Thank you Professor."
The boat he arrived in New Bark Town was the same one he was going to travel on, not that Briney minded, he enjoyed the money he was getting from the young seventeen year old, and that was all that mattered to him and his Pelipper Peeko.
He was in the same room that he was in for his trip to and from Unova and Pichu felt at home, the young electric pokemon ran off of Nick's shoulder, ran over to the bed, jumped up and fell asleep and began to take a nap.
Nick laughed, the room he was in had a bed along the right wall, a table with a chair on the southern wall by the circular window which gave a great view of the sea and a closet on the right wall.
He placed the package on the table and noticed a letter attached to the top, he removed it, the writing was not like Professor Elm's hand writing, the professor wrote like a surgeon or even a doctor writing a prescription, but the hand writing was neater, and more eligible, almost like a woman's hand writing.
He opened the envelope and opened the letter, sitting down on the chair provided for him.
My son,
By the time you receive this package, you will be a young man no doubt and also I will not be around anymore.
I know how upset you must be, to know that you never had parents your whole life, but we always wanted to tell you Nicholas how proud we are of you and how much we love you. Even in death, that will not change.
I love you son, always
Mom
Nick smiled as Pichu watched him, even his mom believed he could achieve what he wanted, she didn't say it, but it was written between the lines. He opened the package and inside surprised him, inside was a brand new outfit for him to wear in NeoTerra, he had grown so accustom to his hoodie, t-shirt and jeans he didn't realize how old they were.
Well, I guess now is as good as ever to start new again.
Second AU: Just as a shout out to Pokemon Trainer Green and Blaze210, your characters will appear very soon, Green, yours will be next chapter, Blaze, yours is the chapter after that.
