EDIT: You all might be wondering why I am reposting this fanfic. Main reason, the rival's name. Before I know the rival's official name as "Jun", I called him "Kengo". And since I became more of a Twinleafshipping/Futubashipping fan, I thought that it would be more appropriate if I start calling the rival's name by the original name, Jun. Not to mention that there's a character in the anime called "Kengo" and I definitely wouldn't want my readers to mistake "Jun" as "Kengo". So then while I change "Kengo's" name to "Jun", I might as well do some little change to each chapter. So then here we go the new and edited version of Pokemon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl.
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Pokémon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl
Chapter 1 – The start of an adventure; Meet Hikari and Jun
Every day is a beautiful day for every boys and girls in the world of Pokémon. For every boys or girls, who just turned to the age of 10, they are legally permitted by the Pokémon Association to be a legible Pokémon trainer. Many parents encouraged for their children to start on their Pokémon journey, it's a wonderful journey filled with adventures and friendship. A journey where Pokémon and humans learned to understand each other and bond together. Despite of this fact, there are some people who refuse to go on their Pokemon journey and some refuse to let their children to go on a Pokemon journey.
Our story begins in the Sinnoh region, in a small town down South-West, a small little town called Twinleaf Town. There resides in Twinleaf Town, lived a woman by the name Johanna Berlitz, who was once a famous Pokemon Coordinator and a former winner of the Grand Festival. Johanna was a talented Pokemon Coordinator living high in the big city, until she decided to retire early due to her pregnancy of her child. The child was a healthy baby-girl, her name is Hikari Berlitz.
Hikari was raised in Twinleaf Town all her life, not she ever complained living in such small town. Hikari dreamed of traveling on her Pokemon journey, just like any other boys and girls. But due to her strict parenting of her mother, Hikari was not to leave her home even when she wanted to. Now 15 years old, one faithful day changed her life forever and the Pokemon Journey she longed for is about to begin.
"Hikari! Are you awake yet dear? It's time to wake up!"
Hikari grouchily get up from her tiny little bed by the corner of her bedroom. She looked at the tiny ray of sun peeking in through her yellow curtains, shining her right on the face. Hikari rubbed her sleepy eyes and yawned out. She lied back down on her bed covering her whole body under the blanket; she's too lazy to get up this early.
"Hikari-chan!" her mother called out for the second time. "It's time to wake up!"
Hikari moaned under her blanket, her mother probably wanted her to go down by Sandgem Town to buy some grocery. Hikari decided to ignore her mother's call and put her pillow over her head.
"Wake up honey!!"
It's no use, her mother's call is louder than she thought it would be. As expected from a former Pokemon Cordinator, they have a strong voice. Hikari gave up and got up from her bed lazily.
"I'm up mom!" Hikari called out to her mother. "Geez, relax will ya!" she muttered silently.
Hikari put on her white indoor slippers and walked out of her room as lazy as any teen would be. She came down the stairs still wearing her pink pajamas, her long dark blue hair is all over the place and she still had that lazy morning look on her face. Hikari walked in towards the kitchen greeting her cheerful mother.
"Morning," she muttered audibly.
"Morning to you too dear," her mother Johanna called out behind the kitchen counter. "Can you please turn on the morning news?"
Hikari walked away from the kitchen and sat down on the living room couch. She grabbed the remote and turned the TV on as her mother requested. As soon as the TV turned on, a loud screeching roar of a Pokemon immediately got Hikari and her mother's attention. There on the television screen a red-coloured Pokemon roared mightily, Hikari is smitten at the beautiful sight of the shiny Pokemon.
"Butter on your toast dear?" Johanna asked her daughter. No reply from Hikari, she's too fixed on the red Gyarados.
Johanna smiled at the sight of her daughter; it's typical of her to be easily infatuated by some Pokemon. She lay out some toast on a plate and walked in to join her daughter. She put the plate on Hikari's hand while Johanna helped herself to her coffee mug.
"And that is on today's news about the red Gyarados," said the anchorwoman on the TV news. The image of the red Gyarados is soon minimized while an image of the anchorwoman and her male partner appeared on the screen. "Despite the exploration team's best efforts, however, the rare, oddly coloured Pokémon eluded detection. The rumoured red Gyarados failed to appear, even fleetingly, to the crestfallen team…"
"Wow, that Gyarados sure looked fearsome, Maryann," said her anchor partner. "I still can't believe a mighty Pokemon like that actually lived in the Johto region."
"The Lake of Rage is a very common place for Gyarados, but still too think a shiny Pokemon like that lived near Mahogany Town and still not discovered to date what surprised me the most Tyler," replied Maryann.
"Well that's shiny Pokemon for you," Tyler laughed. "Coming up next we go live with Trisha Takinawa in Sandgem town where the famed Professor Rowan returned…"
"That's it?" Hikari asked looking at the TV. "I don't want to see some Pokemon professor! I want the Gyarados!"
"Well honey, Professor Rowan just happened to be a famous Pokemon researcher; it's interesting to know what the professor learned while he was gone on his…"
"I'd rather go with the Gyarados," Hikari handed the remote to her mother. She walked towards the kitchen and buttered her toast while helping herself to a glass of milk. She took her breakfast and walked upstairs carrying her food along. "I'm going to go research on that red Gyarados!" she called out to her mother.
"Don't make a mess dear," her mother replied. She returned to the TV screen, the quick interview to Professor Rowan just end.
"Not a talkative fellow isn't he?" Tyler joked to his partner.
"He must be tired after returning from such a long journey from the Kanto region," explained Maryann. "Speaking of return journey, a ship arrived this morning on Canalave City arriving from a far away region known as Asia." The images of TV show a live camera scene in Canalave City where a mighty boat cruise landed on Canalave Port revealing hundreds of welcoming passengers into the region where Pokemon lived.
"As we all know, Asia is one of the most peculiar region where no Pokemon reside, along with other regions such as Africa and Europe," Maryann's voice echoed throughout the silent live scene. "Hundreds of tourists arrived today in hoping to see a live Pokemon for the very first time. This marks a huge step into the world of Pokemon for some of these excited civilians."
Johanna giggled watching the TV screen, she saw couple of kids and excited family looking around the city frantically with cameras ready for some memorable photos. "Welcome to the Sinnoh region," Johanna said to the people on the TV screen.
Along the excited tourists, a young man walked by with a stern look on his face. He seems to be the only one who is not excited among the tourists who walked out of the cruise ship. He has a grey hair and dressed in a "rebellious badboy" kind of way. By the looks of it, this boy seems to be around Hikari's age and yet he's smoking a real genuine cigarette. The grouchy young man dropped his cigarette and left the scene, avoiding to be shot by the incoming TV camera.
Hikari's Room
Hikari ate her toast silently as she researched about the red Gyarados on the Internet. The webpage opened up to a fansite about the red Gyarados, Hikari sipped her milk not taking her eyes off the monitor. According to the fansite, the red Gyarados disappeared after a notorious organization known as Team Rocket left Mahogany Town. The last person who believed to saw the red Gyarados was a young trainer with his Feraligatr. That's all Hikari needed to know about the fate of the red Gyarados, the Feraligatr trainer must've captured it. She finished her breakfast and brings the dishes down to the kitchen, she found her mother currently brushing her pet Pokemon Glameow (nicknamed Nyarmar) on her lap.
"Find anything dear?" Johanna asked.
"Some trainer captured the Gyarados," Hikari replied. "Lucky punk."
"Now, now dear," Johanna assured her daughter. "There's no need to swear… or to be jealous."
"Jealous?" Hikari asked while washing her dishes. "I'm not jealous, I'm pissed off!" She wiped her hands and cuddled Nyarmar's head gently. "While some people out there snagging as many as rare Pokemon they can get, I'm stuck here with not even a Pokemon of my own."
Johanna looked at her daughter, she lost her lighter side of life. She knew well that Hikari loves Pokemon but her mother just won't let her out on her journey yet. She felt that 10 years old is still much too young for her to go on wild rampaging adventure all by herself, of course Hikari disagreed to that theory. There are times when the two women argued about that topic, some even result to Hikari locking herself in her room for two days straight. But as strong as their mother-daughter bonds are, it all ended with a tearful apologies and a promise that Johanna will let Hikari go off on her journey one day.
"Hikari," her mother spoke. "Look I know that…"
"I know mom," Hikari cut in. "We've been through this so many times." Hikari looked up to her mother, her light returned to her inner body. "I'll wait until that time will come." Hikari picked up Nyarmar from her mother's lap and took the cat Pokemon to her own. Johanna smiled at her proud daughter, she has grown up and understand her mother completely. She has grown to be a quite of a mature teenager from a snotty nosed spoiled brat.
"Can I take Nyarmar out today?" Hikari asked hopefully to her mother.
Johanna sighed and shook her head slowly. "How many times do I have to tell you dear?" Johanna patted her own pet. "She's a pet and not fit for a battle. Isn't that right Nyarmar?"
"Nya nya," the Glameow purred back to her owner. She raised her tail and rubbed the end fluff of her tail on Hikari's nose. Hikari annoyingly shook Nyarmar's tail off, the cat Pokemon jumped back to her rightful owner.
"Oh come on, if you don't let her battle then who is going to protect you when you're attacked?" Hikari pouted.
"Honey, I have a Milotic, Kangaskhan and a Mismagius," her mother replied. "I think I'll be just fine."
"How come I've never seen these Pokemon before?" Hikari asked sweatdropped from her mother's confidence.
"A very good friend of mine is watching over them for me," her mother puffed.
"Oh, right a good friend from far away is watching over them for you," Hikari rolled her eyes. "That's real safe," she finished sarcastically.
"Honey, why don't you go outside and play with Jun or something," Johanna suggested. Being alone with a young girl at these time could get really annoying to some parents.
"No way," Hikari lied down on the couch lifting both of her feet on the nearby coffee table. "If he wants to play with me, he should be going asking me. Not vice versa." The door bell rang and a voice of a young man is heard behind the door of the Berlitz residence.
"Hikari, are you there?" the voice behind the door called out. "It's me Jun! Come on open up! Don't make me fine you 1,000,000 Pokédollar!" the boy said in a scurry tone.
Hikari groaned and got up from the couch. "Speak of the devil, what does he want now?" she asked herself. Hikari opened the door and meet face-to-face with her childhood friend Jun. He's wearing his usual white and orange striped shirt along with his brown pants and green scarf. He has that excited look splattered on his face and a rush jumpy impatient attitude.
"What took you so long?" he asked impatiently. "And why are you still in pyjamas?" he pointed to her clothes.
"What do you want Jun?" sighed Hikari.
"Did you see that news about the red Gyarados?" he asked.
"What about it?" she asked. Truth to be told, Hikari doesn't want to talk about the shiny Pokemon. Though as beautiful as it is, she doesn't want to think about the Pokemon she planned to captured has already been caught by another trainer.
"I'll tell ya later," he said in a rush tone. "Just quickly change your clothes and meet me in my house!"
"Wha-, you mean now?" she asked. Hikari is not a slow person; she's pretty fast, but not as fast or impatient as her friend.
"Yes! Now! What are you waiting for? Get dressed already!" Jun rapidly said and closed the door. Hikari looked out the window and saw Jun sprinting towards his home, no need to rush, it's not like she's going to get there before him.
"Are you going dear?" Johanna asked her daughter. Hikari looked at the sleeping Glameow on her mother's lap, there's nothing better to do for her today and she might as well go out with Jun. He may be impatient and rude in times, but he's still her best friend, though she wondered how.
"Yeah, I might as well," she replied dully. "Are you going to be okay by yourself?" she asked her mother
"No need to worry about me dear," she replied. "I'll be fine here all by myself. There's always something to do for a retired mother." Hikari wondered what her mother meant by that, obviously she wouldn't understand the life of a housewife.
Hikari quickly ran into her room, the first thing she did was lock her door and close the window curtain. Thanks to the accidents caused by Jun, she learned that no home is any safe place for your very own privacy. One time, Jun was in such a rush he entered Hikari's room without even knocking. Though Hikari was wearing her undergarments during then she still sucker punch him thus resulting him 2 days of black eye. The other time was when he tried to get Nyarmar down from a tree, he didn't realized that from that tree he can take a good look of Hikari's room. Of course he wasn't very lucky, Hikari was changing her clothes and spotted the boy thinking that he was off for a sneak peek of her. That incident resulted in Hikari flinging her broken Nintendo 64 at him, Jun had to use crutches for a few days till his legs get better.
Hikari came downstairs 10 minutes later dressed in her usual black and white singlet along her pink mini skirt. She put on her signature white beanie and red scarf just right after she done her hair the way she liked. She walked down to the shoe racks by the door and put on her long black socks along with the pink boots.
"Bye mom!" Hikari called out before leaving the front door. She walked down the small veranda and onto the main road towards Jun's humble home.
"Hikari-chan! Wait!" Hikari heard her mother called out. She turned around and faces her mother who's carrying her pet Glameow. Does she ever leave that Pokemon by herself for at least 5 minutes?
"What's up?" Hikari asked her mother.
"If you ever going out of town with Jun or something, don't go into the tall grass. Wild Pokémon might attack you," her mother warned. "It would be okay if you had your own Pokémon, but you don't so…"
"So I can take Nyarmar with me?" she asked with gleaming eyes. Nyarmar looked up to Hikari bug eyed and then looked towards her owner.
"Nya, nya!" Nyarmar meowed furiously to Johanna. Johanna giggled at her frightened Pokemon; obviously this Pokemon has been accustomed to her home for a very long time.
"Not a chance dear," Johanna replied. "Nyarmar is a pet not a battle Pokemon. You just have to avoid the tall grass ok." Much to Hikari's dismay, she grumbled while Nyarmar meow a relief.
"Ok…" said Hikari dully. "See you later."
"Have fun dear," Johanna waved a goodbye at her daughter.
Hikari walked down the soft earth road of Twinleaf Town, although she failed to get Nyarmar with her, it's still a beautiful day. The sun shined brightly while the wind blew softly across the morning sky, Hikari never realized how wonderful it is to live in such a small town. The air is clean and the environment is just perfect for a small little town. The friendly neighbors and civilians waved and greeted Hikari as she made her way towards her friend's house. She didn't know them all too well but they are always ready and willing to lend a helping hand when needed. Not long after enjoying her very short morning walk, Hikari arrived in front of Jun's home. She walked up the doorstep and ready to press the doorbell until, without warning the front door flew open slamming Hikari right on the forehead sending her down on her knees. Jun stood behind the other side of the door with a shocked expression.
"It's about time you got here!" he impatiently commented.
"How about an apology you little freak!" Hikari half yelled rubbing her sore forehead. Jun offered his hand, Hikari gladly accept it and she's lift up on her feet. "Alright so what's the big idea calling me this early?" Hikari curiously asked.
"No time to explain!" he said again in his scurry tone. "Just follow me!" Still grabbing Hikari's hand, he dragged her out to his destination.
"Wait! Where are we going?" Hikari asked. Not that she liked holding hands with Jun; she yanked her hand away from his grasp and follows him behind.
"To Lake Verity!" he replied back not slowing down for her.
"Wait! Wha-!" Hikari is loss for words. She had no idea what Jun is planning on the local lake. The Lake Verity is a local lake which was only 5 minutes by foot located north of Twinleaf Town. There's nothing much to see on the lake, but just to enjoy the scenery and play with the local wild Pokemon. Hikari and her mother sometimes go down there for lunch in some rare occasions.
Soon enough the two friends have finally arrived right on the forest entrance to the lake. Jun took a moment to catch his breath, Hikari did too, they have been running all the way from Jun's home. Hikari took this chance to ask Jun's intention on the lake.
"Jun," she said. "Why are we here?"
"You saw that morning news on the red Gyarados right?" Jun turned towards Hikari. Hikari nodded, she doesn't like where this is leading to. "That news got me thinking, that maybe there's a rare shiny Pokemon in OUR Lake!"
Hikari looked at him blankly; she knew that he's going to say something like that. Knowing Jun, he's probably going to do something stupid to catch one no matter what. And being his best friend, she's somehow going to be involved in something stupid and dangerous. Hikari turned towards the opposite side of the entrance heading towards Twinleaf Town. "I'm going home," she said.
"Hey wait!" Jun hurried and tugged on her right arm. "Come on, I'm not joking! Maybe there's really a rare shiny Pokemon in our lake!"
"The hell there is!" Hikari replied. "Let me go Jun!"
"Hikari! Come on, I'm serious!" Jun begged still tugging her right arm. "I need your help!"
"Go catch it yourself!" Hikari freed Jun's violent grasp and rubbed her right arm gently. "What do you need me for?"
"Well, I need a bait!" Jun said bluntly. Hikari looked at him dumbly, she turned around and walk away from him as fast as she can. "I was just kidding!" he yelled out. "I want to do this with you!" Hikari stopped on her track and turned around facing her childhood friend. "You're my best friend! And if I'm going on some expedition to catch a rare Pokémon, I want nobody else to go with but you!"
Hikari felt that the temperature has gone up for some reason, her face is feeling hot and she felt like her face is changing to the colour red. Hikari looked at her friend, his face is too slightly changing red. Hikari had to admit, despite knowing that this plan is completely stupid, what Jun said really touched her. Knowing him, this plan is probably just an excuse for Jun to hang out with her.
Hikari smiled and walked back to Jun, "Ok, let's go find that shiny rare Pokemon." She offer her hand, Jun smiled and took it pulling them both together into the forest that surrounds Lake Verity.
WELL THERE YOU GO PEOPLE, THE FIRST CHAPTER OF MY VERY FIRST POKEMON FANFIC. YES I RE-SUBMITTED IT AGAIN THIS TIME WITH VERY SMALL EDIT AND JUST THE NAME CHANGE. OH WELL LOOK FORWARD FOR MORE EDIT CHAPTER AND NEW CHAPTER TOO.