20th Birthday - Pokémon Y Nuzlocke Run - A Reminiscence of Life
=For those who don't know=
Now for one thing, it's not because Pokémon had a 20th birthday, its more on the lines of myself having turned 20 not to long ago, As such I reflected on a lot of things and I came across reading the and read the comics again and that's what made me decide to play Pokémon Y in this mode.
Now for some people hearing the word Nuzlocke challenge for the first time and scratching their heads. To simply put, it's a self imposed challenge that is designed not only to make the game harder and lets you use Pokémon that you never use before, It because it also creates a sort of bond with each Pokémon, even the creator of the original comic made his Pokémon talk every now and then expressing themselves making them all the more special and all the more terrifying ... knowing that their lives hang in the balance.
Why did I say their lives? Well if you could please observe the two main golden rules:
1. You catch the first Pokémon in any given area, If fail to catch it, tough. You have to wait till the next route to catch it. (For those who want clarity, A town is a area, a route is a area, a cave is a area. Fossil Pokémon count more for the town they are revived in and water and grass on the same route do not count as the same area)
And 2. (Which answers why I said their lives) If a Pokémon ever faints in battle, you either release it or put in a "Grave" Box because... it's dead. *Sighs* That's a no exceptions even with revive items, It will do no good. It's gone. Forever.
along with these rules, there are other rules that will make the game harder still. I'll be playing along with these Rules as well as the two above:
-Switching the game to "SET"
-Nicknaming each Pokémon
-No trading
-Can use TMs
-Can only heal at Pokémon Centers which includes status aliments (But does not count for the first 6 potions you get and the Full restores at the Elite four)
-Can only heal ONCE at a Pokémon per after a gym battle, any other time it that would heal to full health before a battle does not count, but if I can use it to heal more than once I am still restricted to only doing it once.
- No healing items, You get 6x lowest level potions at the start and that's it
- No catching Legendaries unless the plot demands so
- If all my Pokémon faint I will start over, Unless there is Pokémon in the box
- Also if a bloody shiny appears... I'll pounce on it. PERIOD
- If I make it to the Elite Four, I gain 2x Full restores
- If I lose I stock up my Full Restores back to 2x. Once all towns with a gym have been won, I gain a Pokémon center heal from each town without a gym.
Now the reason for me starting over is that if I do start over, I will be putting something in the story about that will happen when it happens. And I'm tweaking the rules a bit to have only six potions so I can level my Pokémon a bit at the beginning, but after that it will be on my head to decide when to use my heals and when not to.
Lastly, I will be also updating another story in between called "Only Time Will Tell" at the same time, as well so that if you don't like this you can go read that for something a bit different than the Nuzlocke from time to time and updates will be as long as a I play it.
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Day 1: Together We Ride
"GAH!" Khamil yelled as he felt a sharp peck at his side and flailed in his bed
He eyed groggily at the small bird flying around his bedroom, only to a blur of red, heading down the stairs. Khamil shuffled out of bed like the worm he was and wriggling from the blankets and as he didn't liked being interrupted from his sleep even if it was morning. Though he didn't really want to, after washing himself up and fixing his hair to let his red cap fit, he began to take out his outside clothes. While the deep blue jacket with a strip of white were the zipper was, the bluish jeans and black boots he looked at him.
Khamil being twenty, sure didn't really look like it, though his tall stature and light sideburns almost reaching his chin. His hair while usually curly and in afro form, was styled to be a short brownish-black hair with a ponytail by brushing it and tying it back, only to cut really loose strand of it. His lightly tanned face started back at him along with his big brown eyes as well.
He slapped himself in the face as he knew he was going on today, Having moved to Vaniville Town was a long trip for him even if he was a bit lax about it. He was kind of timid to be honest about all this be kept a good disposition about himself. He grabbed his bag and ran down the stairs and turned to see that his mother was cooking.
"You overslept." His mother said in a somewhat annoyed but understanding tone.
"Well, I can't help myself, I would have still been sleeping if someone didn't wake me." He said, turning his attention to the Fletchling on the floor with its Orangey red head and beady black eyes staring at him.
"Oh don't blame, him. Flecthling is just doing as I tell it."
"Yeah, but it still hurts every morning. I think I'm missing a piece of myself" Khamil said pointed at the side of his chest.
"You still alive aren't you beside I could always ask Flecthling to set you on fire every morning." She said with the most lovingly smile that you could swear that was hiding evil tendencies
"..." Khamil thought deeply about it, shivered and sighed as he felt his mother "Point taken."
"Oh by the way, The new neighbours kids are out there you might want to say hello to them" His mother said as nonchalant as possible.
"You just want me out of the house don't you?" he said as he crossed his arms and looked at her..
"That's the idea." His mother said as she began cooking some breakfast.
"...Fine, I'll go out for a while. Don't let Fletchling eat my share again!"
"Oh I won't, Who do you think I am your mother? Oh I am your mother" She laughed at herself.
"Ha... ha... I'll be going he said as he opened the door to the outside the house.
The minute he opened the door, he saw figures in front of him and when the light finally hit his eyes he saw them both, two girls. He still wasn't the greatest with people so he was generally quiet as he saw one of them beginning to speak. He kept a cool looking demeanour to showcase his own age as well
"Welcome to Vaniville Town." The taller of the two began towards him. "I'm Serena, Your neighbour."
Serena seem to Younger than he was, She had longish blonde hair reaching to her upper back, Her eyes were a milky grey that complemented pale skin, her top was sleeveless and was very cover as it reached to the inside of her bright red skirt a that reached only to the bottom of her thighs. She also wore along with all that black long stockings that covered most of the other half of her legs.
"I'm Shauna, Great to meet you!" The other girl she said as Khamil only raised a hand and waved at her and Serena.
Shauna was even probably not a year behind Serena. Her peppiness did startle Khamil a bit. He wondered if her hair was combination of buns and pigtails or a completely different beast entirely. She was a bit shorter than Serena, along with the almost the same skin tone as his self. She bounced around as she stared at him with bright green eyes. Her shirt was extremely pink with what seemed to be three black bow shaped patterns on the front of it. He quickly ran his eyes down her short shorts with black frills at the end and look at her pink sandals.
"...Khamil." He said sheepishly as he shuffled in place.
Before I even get a question out, They began talking about how they came to get me and how some professor "Sycamore" asked five people to do a request from here and further more we are supposed to get a Pokémon. They told Khamil they would be waiting for him the next town over and ran off in jiff. He pondered a bit and looked at his house and wondered if this was really his mother's doing after all. He gave a deep sighed as he really didn't like where this was going, but didn't want to say it aloud for his mother had ears of a Zubat. He looked at Ryhorn sleeping soundly and petted him before placing his hands in his pockets and started headed down the road to the next town.
As he walked route one he felt a sort of inner peace calm him, there was no one around, even though it was slightly chilly this time of year it was not really a big problem, He could still feel the warmth of the new morning sun and the smells of the fresh air, He enjoyed being alone. Though the moment he touched a branch of a nearby tree, he felt his head hurting as he just got hit with a frying pan and fell to the ground, tried holding on to the nearby railing but it wasn't enough, the searing pain in the back of his head was overpowering. All he heard was a ominous cry of something he had never seen before which made him rattle to the bones, followed by a flash of red and then darkness enveloped his mind.
He didn't seem to have been to hurt for around five minutes later he started to awake and laid on the ground flat looking up at the clouds, He slowly but surely got up to his feet looking around to see what had hit him. He scanned the area as he turned around and around hoping to find some kind of answer but couldn't think of a valid reason, He then remember that he didn't eat anything since he was sent out of the door, He sigh that lack of food could have been the culprit, but he didn't let the thought leave his mind as he entered the next town by jogging there.
He could see that Aquacorde town was very fond of the color yellow as almost every brick of the street, houses and a bridge was made with the same type of coloured bricks as he was about to move forward into town a familiar voice appeared out of nowhere
"Hey Khamil! Over this way!" Shauna started "We were just talking about you. C'mon have a seat!"
He said nothing as he walked over to a seat near Serena and looked over to the two new face that were now across from himself.
"This is the meeting place, Khamil. Here let me Introduce you" Serena said with a brimming smile on her face as she faced the whole table. "Everyone this is Khamil."
"Wow... Shauna's description was spot on!" The larger boy said as he gave a surprised grin.
Serena said simply that his name was Tierno, with some serious dance move, with his larger than life smile as his shirt had the picture of a Vanillish on it along with his noticeable Yellow shorts. Serena also mention the boy with the dome shaped of red hair was Trevor, a very intelligent boy who was very shy, with a teal t-shirt and white sleeves along with grey pants that give his greyish-blue eyes a run for their money.
"All right! Nice to meetcha!" Tierno said holding that smile.
They all began to decided to call each other by nicknames to know them better. From K-Meister to Lil'K to even asking Trevor who responded with Big-K. None of which Khamil like very much. He rather have them call him by his name or his Nickname. He decide to ask them to call him "Kage" since it was a combination of all what they said and didn't make it seem like he was a bad poké-rapper.
" Can we see the Pokémon now? I want to meet my new partner soon! " Shauna said with spunk towards Tierno.
As they finished talking about the feeling of meeting a new friend for the first time Tierno took out three pokéballs. Right away, without a moment hesitation, Khamil took the one on the far right a bit unsure what Pokémon that was until Tierno said that it was the water type, Froakie. He didn't have a idea on what it looked like, but it feel all too familiar as he felt like he has done this adventure many times before.
All I knew that it that is was it was a girl so thinking up a name for it would be fun. Many names ran in his name that he could name her. But Khamil didn't even know what she looked like so he decided just to give her the name, Osara. It sounded like a nice name to him so he was happy and grinned as he held the pokéball. Shauna took the fire type Fennekin, and Serena chose Chespin right after. Trevor also gave them all pokédexes that would record the data of anymore Pokémon that we would encounter. Tierno also handed a letter to him that came from the good professor and Khamil would have to give it to his mother, and with that, Tierno and Trevor went out to look for Pokémon.
"I'll go give this to my mother... Before I leave" Khamil said quietly as he left from his chair.
He was about to go back until he heard a sharp yell from Shauna for him to wait. He looked around back to see her right behind him looking at him with a look in her eye and sure enough. She wanted to battle right then and there.
~BATTLE START~
Vs Shauna: o - - - - -
Shauna sent out Fennekin!
Khamil looked at the fox futures of this creature and smiled as it was yellowish with daps of red and white around it, The tuffs in its ears almost looked like fire. He smiled and gave a grin to her took out his pokéball.
"You only brought this upon, but enough talk! Have at you! Go Osara!" Khamil said as he vigorously threw the pokéball.
Khamil sent out Osara!
As Osara, came out of the pokéball, Khamil gave a quick glance at his new parter who know knew was a blue frog with white bubbles around her neck. She was small, but Khamil didn't care, she was perfect first member, He thought this trip would be boring but things just got interesting .
Osara/Froakie
Level: 5
Gender: Female
Nature: Lonely
Moves: Pound, Growl, Bubble.
"Oh Shauna... Poor, Poor Shauna. Osara, Bubble!" Khamil chuckled and commanded.
Foe Fennekin used Tail whip
Osara's defence went down.
Osara used Bubble.
It's super effective!
Though it was a battle between two newcomers the fight became alive. Fennekin rushed in close and managed to get in a tail whip and made Osara trip since she was faster but Fennekin took a direct hit for Osara's bubble that she managed to conjure up and attack her with it causing massive damage
"Bubble again!" Khamil said with glee as he pointed at it.
Foe Fennekin used Ember
It's not very effective
Osara used Bubble
It's super effective!
Another display of movement as the Pokémon decided to run at each other and Fennekin used Ember on Osara, but since it's a fire type move it didn't do very much. Osara smirked as it pinned Fennekin by the tail and let it have it with another bubble.
Foe Fennekin fainted
~BATTLE END~
Osara turned around and gave a sigh as it wasn't expecting Khamil to be so happy. He picked her up and spun her around. Shauna returned Fennekin back in its pokéball and was bit down that it didn't had much time to do anything. She smiled and looked at Osara and healed her real quick before she ran off to a direction of her own. Khamil quickly returned her to the pokéball and walked down the road to his house.
Khamil walked down the small path back to his house again, He was enjoying the scenery until his pokéball Suddenly flashed open and Osara landed in front of him. Khamil wasn't to sure what this was about but him and the Froakie began to stare at each other as if to finally to try and break the silence Osara began to open its mouth.
"It's nice to meet you." Osara said in a quiet, teen-ish sounding voice.
"Oh, why thank you it's nice to- HOLY GIRATINA, YOU CAN TALK!?" he said backing up to the nearest fence as quickly as he could being extremely aware of what just happened.
"Well, yeah I can talk are you stup- WAIT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ME?!" Osara said as she hopped backwards and kept her eyes.
Khamil decided to take a big sigh, "Okay... okay... this is weird but I need answers first," He said taking a deep breath and walking up to the Froakie. "Alright, though I may sound like a complete mad man, I need you to keep calm and explain it all." He said, bending down at the other side of the road.
Osara looked up and kept her composure as she slowly moved towards Khamil. " Well... To tell you the truth, I don't know what is going on. I mean, I always was able to understand humans, but this is the first talked back to me directly and because they think they understand either, you answered me.
Khamil thought for a moment and the look he gave was more serious and in deep thought. "Osara...
if your alright with me calling you that, do you mind coming with me to meet this... Professor Sycamore. He might have some insight on... all this. I would say I'm crazy but you just talked back there, but we are talking right now.
"...Well, while I don't have really have a choice on where to go at the moment. I do want to figure it out with you and I am your Pokémon either way, So I'll follow you wherever."
"You always have a choice, there but I appreciate your coming." He said motioning a place on his head for Osara to climb up on to which she did and finally headed for home with Osara in tow.
Like Khamil expected when he got home his mother hugged him and started praising him for getting a Pokémon, Osara said "Hello," on top of Khamil's head which gave him much worry for a brief second only to have his worries broken by the fact that she didn't scream or nothing. She simply cuddled with Osara as much as the Froakie didn't want to be. When he handed her the letter and pointed him in the right direction. She gave him a smile, placed six potions in his pack and told him not to wake up Rhyhorn. Much to his surprise out the door, Ryhorn, already awake, walked up and roared to say goodbye. His mother and Rhyhorn looked at Khamil and seemed to be both smiling. Because his mother was a retired Rhyhorn Racer, it would make sense that his mother kept at least one.
When he waved back at they and they were finally out of distance they off on their journey towards Aquacorde town, to the bridge of at the edge of town, as soon they made it there, He saw Shauna and Serena were finishing up a lesson on catching Pokémon. Serena offered to teach Khamil. but Khamil got the general idea from what was happening. He also Chuckled at Shauna's innocence at the fact that Pokémon went inside pokéballs. Though when Serena gave Khamil his pokéballs and Serena waved farewell, Shauna moved back to say to catch a "cute" Pokémon.
Khamil with Osara in tow, began walking into the tall grass hoping to find his first Pokémon to capture and sure enough after a short while of walking they found something. It was a Bunnelby, a girl even. It had long ears that you could swear dig into the earth and it was grey and brown body went that was pleasant to the eyes. Osara easily weakened it to allow Khamil to throw a pokéball at for an easy capture. Khamil thought about her name finally came up with one and named her Lapi. Before he could take her out to properly greet her, The ball opened once again for him and Lapi came out hopping to shyly to her new owner.
Lapi/Bunnelby
Level: 3
Gender:Female
Nature: Quiet
Moves: Tackle, Agility, Leer
"... Hi...," Lapi said in a whisper to Khamil as she saw him for the first time.
" So you can talk too...," Khamil said in a troubled tone.
" Yeah, Osara is the name, newbie," The Froakie said in a cool as ice tone.
"...Should I not talk?...," Lapi asked curiously.
"No... it's fine. I'm not about to-," Khamil started
His eyes caught a Wild Fletching passing by and with a quick of a flash Khamil threw a pokéball at to capture it to have another member but something happened. A reddish barrier appeared to have blocked the pokéball from catching the Pokémon and bounced it back at him. When he finally got the ball back to his hand a voice echoed in his head:
"Only one per area, Khamil."
Khamil shivered as he looked for where the voice came from and looked around. He didn't know what to think about it, He was still confused about it. He tried throwing it again and the same thing happen and the voice returned:
"I said only one per area."
Khamil looked around for the voice again as he quickly shuffled the pokéball back in his pocket and looked to the ground to both Lapi and Osara. He wondered quickly if did have something to do with the dizzy spell he had earlier...
"..I...Is something wrong, Master." She asked out of worry.
"Khamil is my name... and nothing... Nothing at all." He said taking a deep breath. "Let's level you two up a bit before heading into the forest.
"Hey I'm down for that, but the newbie better not slow me down." Osara said with a grin on her face.
Lapi nodded "I'll give it...my best shot..."
Khamil being very sparing with his potions, let them go into battle a bit. The current line of potions and healing products have been tampered by an unknown source with as said on the news saying that they might cause certain abnormalities in a Pokémon's personality and as result, most of them have been discontinued from sale until further. So his mother gave him six homemade potions so that he wouldn't be too reliant on the Pokémon centers but to his knowledge they were free so it didn't matter. But still he was very careful not to let either of them faint but surprisingly, they were both doing well, though Lapi needed some more training before she could be a heavy hitter, While Osara was learning fast and levelling up at a good pace. She even won her first trainer battle, To which she was very proud of herself.
Lapi looked at Khamil as she hopped along. "Umm... Khamil...," She asked.
"Yes?" He replied back to her.
"Are you sure it's okay for me to come along... I mean Osara seems so much stronger than I, I might never catch up and ... and...," She started but Khamil patted her on the head.
"Listen, You have potential. Every Pokémon has potential. You may not be strong now, But I'm sure with training and a lot of work you too will be as good as her."
"Okay..." Lapi shuffled her ears in front of as they made their way to along to Santalune Forest.
Once they made it there, Shauna bumped into Khamil and asked if she could tag along the end of the forest, to which Khamil couldn't really argue with and she did offer to heal his Pokémon one time. So she followed around as he went around the forest until, he stopped and spotted something in the tall grass. A wild Weedle appeared in front of them but before Lapi even could attack it Khamil simple tried catching it at full health and did it, and promptly to name her Zenna and as the same as the other two it automatically left it's Pokéball and began sliding around.
"Easy does it... Now, Oh Hello there, it's nice to be aboard the team, Just watch your step okay." She asked in a careful voice.
Zenna/Weedle
Level: 2
Gender: Female
Nature: Careful
Moves: Poison sting, String shot.
"Yep, the more the merrier, The name's Khamil " He said to Zenna
"Lapi... Nice to meet you"
"Osara, and Newbie, be careful"
"Careful? I'm always careful!?" Zenna said in worried tone.
"Just watch yourself out there. Who knows what might happen"
"D'aww ain't that just the cutest thing" Shauna began, "Your talking with your Pokémon and they understand you. It's just too cute!"
"Well they are my te-... No. Friends after after all"
After using his potions to heal Osara and Lapi, not wanting to waste Shauna's help so early He pressed on levelling his team along the way. Battle after battle using two more potions to heal his two main fighters while slowly levelling up Zenna on the side. Khamil noticed their personalities. Osara while she is a lone fighter and prefers fighting alone, likes the attention that the other two are giving her. Lapi while very quiet is getting stronger by the minute as she aims to prove herself and becoming less and less shy and Zenna herself was a very careful Weedle, only fighting fights that she can win like against a Metapod, but a few levels later, Zenna had a bright glow enveloping her and swirling round and round. This was a surprise to all except Khamil who know that Zenna will grow fast as she now became a Kakuna.
Zenna evovled into Kakuna!
"Wow. I like this. I really do" Zenna exclaimed and gave a slight cheer.
"Looks like it would be a bit too cramped up in there for my style." Osara said as she poked Zenna.
"Nope I rather like this. No more worrying about being pecked to death by Flecthlings and Pidgeys. Just have to harden up and I become a wall of defense!" Zenna said being more proud and cocky about herself.
"I think...We are all getting stronger slowly. Thanks to Khamil." Lapi said
"More like thanks to ME? I'm the strongest out of both of you." Osara said pointing to herself.
"Well regardless of who or what happens. We just need to keep moving I want to get out of this forest." Khamil said as he motioned all of them to move along.
Shauna wasn't really paying attention to what Khamil was saying but in the end they started to finally reach the end of the forest themselves. Following behind them was Serena, Tireno and Trevor when Khamil, His Pokémon and Shauna were at the end first, Khamil then asked her to heal his Pokemon before they left.
"So, Your the first to arrive." Serena said to Khamil she said with a challenging smirk but before she got the chance to ask, Tierno and Trevor came along the rear
"We're all here! Let's go to Santalune City! " Shauna said while everyone agreed including the Pokémon.
They all exited out of the forest at the same time, The reach Route 3 where each member decided to go their own way, Trevor wanted to finish the Pokédex while Tierno wanted to find Pokémon with a lot of different moves, While Khamil and Serena decided to head towards the Santalune Gym, but Serena went on ahead as Khamil was still quite unsure that he was strong enough with the team he had to beat the gym. As everyone left. It was only Him, the Froakie name Osara, the Bunnelby named Lapi, and the Kakuna named Zenna. He looked at them all.
"Okay everyone, This is it. As of right now our adventure starts right now!" Khamil said with determination.
"About flipping time I was tired with dealing with small fry." Osara said as she was getting excited.
"Yes... I was getting worried we would never leave that forest... No offence, Zenna." Lapi said in a apologetic tone.
"Don't sorry this is great!, I can explore the world without having to deal with everything wanting to eat me now. I'm ready for anything." Zenna said hopping forward moving.
With that they were off, Khamil was still a bit unsettle about certain events, but he wasn't going to let that slow him down. He had come this far now and finally got more fresh air that he wanted. He was going to find out exactly what was going on but he knew along with his new found friends with these Pokémon, He would be alright... He hoped.
Saving...
Save Complete!
The Team
Osara the Female Froakie/Level 10
Moves: Pound, Bubble, Lick, Quick Attack.
Lapi the Female Bunnelby/ Level 8
Moves: Tackle, Agility, Leer, Quick Attack.
Zenna the Female Kakuna/ Level 7
Moves : Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden.
Gym badges:0
Deaths:0
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So that was the first chapter, I hope you enjoy as I did writing it. I'm playing along with my 3DS so if progress is a bit slow, That's why :P. If you would like say anything or comment on it, Please do or if you think I should add anything or remove something. Let me know. Have a nice day :D