CHAPTER ONE: PEBBLE OF THE STONE LEGACY
It was 3 in the morning too late for any sane person to be up, but the rest of my life was going to be so insane it barely mattered what I did now. My name is Hayden Stone, I'm a pokemon trainer. Pokemon training had been in my blood for years, a distant cousin years ago was the champion of some far off region, my grandpa is a leader in the Hellspun region and his sons both grew up to be great trainers. His daughter, my mom, is a famous breeder and my older brother is a great researcher.
I wanted to be like my uncles, both worked in gyms now as assistants to the leaders, and even though I hadn't seen them in years my goal was to beat them in battle. Tomorrow morning my brother was going to give me a pokemon to start my adventure and he said it was a rare one from a far off region he visited with our grandpa. I looked through an old catalogue that I'd gotten one year for my birthday. It was filled with notes being a hand me down from my dad. Pages written on types and abilities filled the book, sketches of pokemon and information on them lined the back pages. My favorite was one from Sinnoh, Munchlax. Munchlax made me laugh because of its gluttony, but I found it awesome for its evolution.
That's how I guess I fell asleep, looking into my book of pokemon, almost too late to catch my brother before he went off on an expedition. I rushed to his house and barged into his basement where he did all of his studies. He was standing over a desk when I walked in dressed in a lab coat, grey jeans, and a long sleeve black shirt, his dark brown hair fell over his eyes and hid a good deal of his face.
"Well this is embarrassing, " he said with a smirk
I looked down to see that I was wearing similar clothes, although I had shorts, short sleeved shirt and a vest, and my hair, although black, was combed in a similar way.
"Guess so," I said pushing my hair out of my face and tucking in my t-shirt to make us look a bit more different.
"Well I don't have too much time to spare, but I decided that I am going to let you choose your pokemon" he placed three pokemon balls infront of me. "First off, we have from the Kanto region a Vulpix, its pretty young and has some valuable moves, next we have from the Hoenn region a more sturdy Makuhita, its almost 3 years old and has some very powerful moves in its disposal, and lastly we have my personal favorite from the Sinnoh region a baby Bidoof, its weaker than the others, but very cute." He said grinning.
I didn't want to take my brothers favorite, that much I knew, besides a baby would only get in the way against the wild pokemon around here. The Makuhita was obviously full of power and would probably evolve soon. The Vulpix sat as a middle ground though, I knew its evolution was a rarity and it be trained to be very powerful..
" I'll take Bidoof," I said
SHIT! It was a complete slip of the tongue.
"Little brother, to be honest I really don't want to part with Bidoof, " He paused, " I have one more pokemon to show you, if you still prefer Bidoof he's all yours," he reached to the back of his belt and tossed a pokeball up.
"Come on out, Albero!" In front of my brother stood a pokemon I'd never seen before. "Its called a Sudowoodo," he said," I haven't had it too long so I barely know it, my friend Lucas from Sinnoh sent it over the other day, if you want it, its all yours."
I stared at the pokemon amazed by it. It appeared to be a plant, but its steps and skin gave away a rocky profile.
"I'll take it, " I said grinning as I grabbed the pokeball off the counter.
"Alright, just let me make a quick call, " he said stepping into the other room. "Hayden, come here for a sec," he called. He stopped me at the door and began speaking in a hushed voice," you're about to talk to my friend and mentor Prof. Lucas of Velistone City, he's a former trainer and challenged the Elite 4 of Sinnoh, " I walked into the call room to see the face of a middle aged man staring at me, he had a pale face, and salt and pepper hair, except the pepper was…blue.
"I understand your brother is re-gifting Albero to you?" he said
"Yessir," I replied, a powerful looking assembly of pokemon stood behind him including a more experienced looking Sudowoodo.
"I wasn't aware that Thomas had a brother of age to go off and train pokemon, I have a favor to ask of you," he said sitting back in his chair as he pet the head of a massive turtle pokemon. "I'd like you to take a pokedex across Hellspun, the pokemon in your region seem to have different habits than the ones here and I know that it would be a useful part of research."
I came back into the conversation after watching a huge metallic bird and a fiery ape walk in the background of him, "I'm sorry sir, but I'm just starting wouldn't it be smarter to get someone of more experience?"
"Well, then," he leaned toward the screen now, " I hope you wouldn't mind returning Albero then?" he smirked knowingly
I groaned knowing he had me, " Where do I get the pokedex?"