Author's note

Hello, dear readers! This is my first fanfic! It wasn't beta'd and English is not my first language, so if you find any errors, please forgive me!

Mike, the Pokemon Pokemon Master

Chapter 1 – The adventure begins!

This story starts in a small pokemon village near Littleroot town, in the region of Hoenn. It was peaceful, even with the many child pokemon who played their noisy games all day. One of these children was a torchic and he was different from any other pokemon. Not because of his appearance, but because of his dream. While the other pokemon wanted to be captured by some trainer or just wanted to be free, this torchic wanted to BECOME a pokemon trainer. As soon as Torchic told his dream to his parents, they threw him in a rehab, hoping that he would forget that strange dream of his.

In the same village, another strange pokemon was born. This one was different physically and psychologically. When he was born, his parents were very happy. Happy because he was male and also because he had great power. The fact that he was shiny didn't matter much, but it made him look even more special. His family had a tradition and was responsible for breeding the manliest and most gentleman gallade of the world. His father and mother couldn't be prouder. But as soon as they started educating him to be the best, they noticed something wrong. Always that Shiny Ralts went to a pokemon battle, he hurt the oponent so much that other pokemon had to stop him from killing it. After trying for many years, his parents finally gave up, throwing him in the rehab.

It was in that rehab that Shiny Ralts and Torchic met for the first time.

The years passed by and both Torchic and Shiny Ralts evolved. They were able to evolve because every time Torchic asked Shiny Ralts if he wanted to be his first pokemon, Shiny would try to kill Torchic. One day, Shiny (now a Kirlia) escaped the rehab. Combusken tried to do the same, but he failed miserably. Only after some other years, when Combusken had evolved into Blaziken, they let him out. Once free, Blaziken decided it was not too late to start his journey as a pokemon trainer. So, he went off to search for some trainer stuff like pokeballs, potions and all this kind of thing.

Blaziken arrived in a human village near his and went to the pokemart to try to buy something. He had no money, so he gave up. Luckily (or not) a trainer saw him and decided to catch him. Blaziken was pretty strong, so after defeating all the trainer's pokemon, he grabbed the boy and took some pokeballs from him. The boy ran away totally scared.

"Yay, I got some pokeballs! Now what pokemon should I catch? Oh, I know! I might find some in the tall grass!" As soon as Blaziken stepped in the tall grass, he saw a Vulpix licking its front paw.

"What! But vulpixes are very rare in this region! Lucky me!"

Blaziken jumped as high as he could and landed with a blaze kick on the poor vulpix' head, causing her to faint.

"Whoopie! My first pokemon! I'll call you Layla." Blaziken threw a pokeball at her and went to Petalburg's pokecenter in order to heal her.

Nurse Joy was used to seeing wild pokemon coming in, usually asking to heal them. But she let out a "Gasp!" when the wild Blaziken gave her a pokeball. Without knowing what to do, she remebered that she had a special device that made it possible to understand pokemon's speech if they wore it.

"I'm sorry, but could you use this for me to understand you?" She asked, giving the device to the Blaziken. He wore it and repeated what he had said.

"Nurse Joy, please recover my pokemon. I think I hit her too hard."

"W-what do you mean by YOUR pokemon? Pokemon do not own pokemon."

"Well, I do. You see, my dream is to become the POKEMON MASTER."

"B-but YOU are a pokemon. How is that possible?"

"Oh, not you too. Come on. Just recover her, please."

Nurse Joy took Layla and recovered her, giving the pokeball back to Blaziken.

"Well, if you want so much to be a pokemon master, I think this device will be useful to you. You can keep it."

"Really? Thanks! Oh, and thank you for recovering Layla."

"So, her name's Layla. And what's your name?"

"I'm Blaziken."

"But it's a pokemon's name. You should give yourself a trainer name. It would help other trainers consider you one of them and distinguish you from other blazikens. Also, wouldn't it be cooler?"

"Oh, you're right! Call me Mike, then."

"Nice to meet you, Mike. And good luck in your journey."

"Thanks. See you!"

Mike left the pokecenter and let Layla out of the pokeball. "Come out, Layla!" She looked around, but couldn't find the trainer that had caught her.

"Hey, Blaziken. Where's the master?"

"I'm the master."

"Oh come on. No jokes. Where is he?"

"It is no joke."

Layla looked suspiciously at Mike for some seconds before accepting the fact he was really her master. "Well this is, to say the least, very strange. But since you actually defeated AND caught me, I have no choice other than coping with it. Now return me to my pokeball, please. I need some time to think." Mike then returned her.

"Oh, well. I wanted you to walk beside me like the other trainers' pokemon do. But maybe it is really too strange for the others a pokemon being a trainer... But I won't give up on my dream!"

Determined to be the pokemon master, Mike started walking towards the gym, where he would try to win his first badge. Before reaching it, he saw that a pokemon battle was taking place in the middle of the town. There was a good number of viewers. Watching the battle, Mike realized he had never done this before. He didn't even know how it worked exactly. "Better stay and watch."

The trainer farther from Mike looked like he had just stared his adventure, just like himself. But the other seemed to have much more experience. He wore green googles on his forehead, that prevented his messy black hair from falling on his (also black) eyes. His T-shirt was white and he had a dark blue jacket on, matching with his lighter blue jeans. The black-haired guy sent out his monferno against the newbie's mudkip. Although mudkip had the type advantage, it was no match against monferno and the battle ended really fast.

"Wow, you're really good!"

"I told you. But your mudkip did really well for it's first battle."

Both trainer returned their pokemon to the pokeballs and shook their hands.

"I guess I have to train more. See you!"

"See ya."

The newbie went away, heading to the Pokemon Center.

Mike was amazed. That battle was awesome! He wished Layla was that good. The blaziken was so distraught with his thoughts, that he only noticed everyone was staring at him when the green googled boy called his attention.

"Hey, you Blaziken! Prepare to be captured! Go, monferno!" The fire monkey came out of its pokeball and prepared for battle.

"W-what? You can't do that! I'm a pokemon trainer too!" Everyone widened their eyes in surprise. That blaziken was able to speak! The trainer was the first to recover from the shock.

"A trainer? You must be kidding! And how can you speak?"

"Nurse Joy gave this device here. And I'm not kidding. Look!" Mike sent out Layla, making all the people even more surprised.

"O-oh my gawd!" Was all blue jacket could say.

"Man, if I'll have to explain this to every person I meet, I'll go crazy! Just battle my pokemon already!" Without even knowing what he was doing, Mike started giving out orders. "Layla, use quick-attack!"

"A battle? OK!" Layla run in monferno's direction at super high speed, hitting it with great force. The monferno flew back some meters before hitting the ground.

"Ha! Didn't even saw it coming!"

"Hey, you're cheating! We were in shock, OK? Monferno, fight back with flame wheel!" Monferno attacked Layla, but she was very quick and was able to dodge it right in time.

"Another quick-attack!" Layla rapidly attacked again, making monferno faint.

"Huh, it was beginner's luck. I didn't even introduce myself, by the way. My name's Ringo." He said, while returning the fainted monferno to the pokeball.

"Um, maybe. The name's uhh... Mike! Nice to meet you."

"Hey, Mike. You may be a little strange, but you have potential. From now on, consider yourself my rival."

"Rival? What's that?"

"Well, it's kind of a competitor. In other words, someone who attempts to equal or surpass another."

"Oh, I see! It would be an honor!"

"Cool. See you then, rival."

"Bye!"

Only after Mike's new rival went away, he realized what he had just done.

"Oh my gawd, Layla! We did it! I can't even believe it!"

"Yeah. You were fine as a trainer indeed. It was quite easy!"

"You were fantastic! I wonder if we can repeat this with the gym leader..."

"Gym already! But I heard they are very strong!"

"Oh, but we could at least try."

"I don't know... But if you are so confident, let's go then."

"Right! Thanks for believing in me." Mike returned Layla and took a deep breath before going in.

"Gym leader, here I come!"

Author's notes

Well, you may think it's strange because really, a POKEMON as a POKEMON TRAINER! I must say it was my little sister's idea. And I thought it was interesting, so I decided to write it down.

Reviews and constructive criticism are welcome! Thanks for reading!