"Dusk!" the sleeping girls blue-green eyes popped open as she rolled out of bed, her short auburn hair a mess, sticking up in odd angles.
"Mom," she yelled, "What time is it! Oh shit!" she yelped looking to the clock.
"Watch your language! Hurry up! You're goin' to be late!" called a tall willowy woman from the door a backpack in her arms.
"Out! Out! Out!" she yelled and pushed her Mom out of the doorway and snapping the door shut. She quickly pulled on the clothes that were set out on her desk. Pulling on a red skirt and black leggings under it next the red ankle boots. The tight black shirt came next; over it was an elbow length red jacket, a black thunderbolt over the back. She ran down the stairs and grabbed the one shoulder backpack that her Mom held out.
"DUSK!" She turned face-to-face with her father his twinkling brown eyes holding out a necklace with a small pokeball on it, "Here…use it when you need it." She stopped for a moment to observe it…it was not like a regular pokeball…or great ball or even ultra ball…it was small purple with a gold M engraved on it.
She looked questioningly up at her father. However, he did not say a word and slipped it over her head letting it fall. She stopped and looked into her Fathers chestnut eyes and then ran out the door. The two parents watched her as she ran up the road to Professor Oaks Lab in Northern Pallet Town.
"You think she'll be ok Ash?" whispered the older woman, a worry line creasing her brow.
He smiled and kissed her gently, "She'll be fine Myst…she our kid after all."
"But she seems too young…" whispered the red haired woman, leaning against the chest of her husband. Her Azumarill sitting on the lawn with a Richu.
"They raised the age that a kid can go out on their adventures to 13…I think she should be old enough by now!"
"Yet another reason I don't want her out there…Team Rocket is coming back to power…"
"Yes well…the New Dex holders should be able to handle them!"
"I hope your rights…come…I need some coffee…" Misty walked back into the house her Azumarill following her.
-I WANNA BE THE VERY BEST-
"Oh damn…oh damn…so freakin' late…" Dusk puffed, her bag thumping against her hipbone. Her feet pounded onwards.
"Uff!" She yelped and fell on the ground, she looked up, "Jesina!" the eldest daughter of James and Jessie smiled slightly at Dusk.
"Oh…hey Dusk…" the purple hair girl helped Dusk to her feet, "You're kinda late…"
"I know! I hope he has an extra! What Pokémon did you get?"
"Charmander…it was the last one available…Rory got the Bulbasaur and Damon the Squitle…"
"No!"
"Sorry…I guess…but I really got to get going…" the girl left her yellow-green eyes downcast as she walked past Dusk.
"Bye…Jesina…" Dusk walked up the hill to Professor Oaks, her eyes downcast; maybe he will give her Pikachu like the one her dad had…or maybe an Abra…something…anything.
She knocked on the door and watched it pull open, smiling slightly when she caught sight, "Uncle Gary!"
"Oh Dusk! Your Ashy and Myst told me you would be by! Come to select a Pokémon have you!"
"Yes…but Jesina told me she got the last one…"
"She did…well the last of the regular Kanto Region Starters."
"Please Uncle! I want a Pokémon…anything! An Abra…Pidgey! Something!" She begged with her uncle, pleading.
"I do have this one Pokémon…it's a bit of a handful…difficult to train."
"I'll take it!"She cried desperate.
"Well alright." Gary pulled her into the Lab he carefully pulled out a pokeball, a set of arrows in all directions in the center a question mark, "Release!"
The ball opened…it mewed slightly and blinked up at Dusk. Its soft tan fur being shaken out, it white paws tapping the ground.
"AN EEVEE!"
"I know it's not a Bulbasaur or Charmander or Squirtle. Nevertheless, this one is the offspring of my Espeon and Umbreon. I trusting my favorite niece will take good care of her?"
"Of course Uncle Gary!" She lifted the Pokémon into her arms, letting it snuggle under her chin.
"Oh and try not to keep her to confined she dislikes her pokeball." Handing her a poke Dex and a set of pokeball he sent her on her way.
Walking down the hill to the center of Pallet Town, she wondered where to go next. If she could go to South Pallet she would end up at the Harbor, the ship could take her to the Orange Island. If she went, West she would be in Jhoto…North would only lead her to Kanto.
She stopped for a moment and thought about everything. She was a Kantian she should start her journey in her homeland. Smiling she went up north, she had to say goodbye to her parents anyway. Pallet town had become quite famous in recent. The reigning Kanto Champion lived here, as well as the previous Cerulean City Gym Leader. Not to mention the Oak Family.
Her father had a training building here; people would come from all over just to spend a few weeks in the Intensive Training Camp for Pokémon and Humans alike. Pallet had flourished in the past decade or so. It was a larger town with a larger population. However, the Pallet Clans like the Ketchum's and Oaks were still living there. It was a mapped town and was now quite famous. However, much to the resident's annoyance, and to some relief, there was yet a Gym open there.
So off went Dusk. She could see her Mother and Father waiting by the gate of their home. Her Mother wasn't much of a homemaker but she did love gardening, roses and daffodils speckled around the blue-picket fence house. Misty demanded something blue and Ash wanted red. So they blue-picket fenced their red and yellow Trimmed house, in honor of the residing Richu.
As Dusk approached her Childhood home she smiled, it was a common sight to see Ash Ketchum sitting on the porch of his home reading the latest in Trainer Papers, marking rising stars and underdogs for the Upcoming Kanto Tournament. Dusk couldn't compete just yet; she needed a team and badges first. Misty could be found tending to her garden or playing with her baby water type Pokémon, she had become a successful Water Pokémon breeder when she and Ash settled down.
"Mama!"
"Dusk!" she pulled her daughter into a hug, she hadn't been able to say goodbye to her this morning when she bolted out of the house in fear of being late, "What Pokémon did you get darling! I hope it's a Squirtle! You know how much I love water Pokémon!"
"No it's not a Squirtle."
"A Charmander then! You have you Old Man's unquenchable flames of greatness!"
"More like flames of the Egotistical…" growled Misty under her breath.
"No Dad not a Charmander!" She laughed; Mom and Dad always poked fun at each other.
"A Bulbasaur then! A good reliable Pokémon to have!" shouted Ash proudly.
"Nope!"
The elder pair looked dumbstruck; they looked at each other, then at the lounging Richu on the porch.
"You didn't get a Pikachu…did you?" whispered Misty.
"No…not a Pikachu!"
"Then what DID you get!"
"An…Eevee!" the little ball of brown fur crawled out from behind her leg, it looked up at Misty and Ash with its big eyes and preceded to jump into Dusk's arms and settle belly down on her shoulder, Eevee's back claws clinging into the clothe of her shirt.
"Aww it's so cute! This is what Gary gave you!"
"Yea! He said it's one of his own Pokémon's offspring!"
"Probably that Umbreon and Espeon of his."
"Yea!"
"Well an Eevee is a fine Pokémon to start with!"
"Thanks Dad!"
"Where are you gonna go? Jhoto? Orange Island? Perhaps even Hoenn!"
"No I'm starting here! It my Homeland I'm going to Master this place first!"
"Alright! However, be safe. Don't get mixed up with all that Team Rocket stuff. Mind your manners when you're around people. Oh and-"
"Mama I know!"
"Ok…but be sure to change you're… B-R-A-S!" she whispered, heat rose in Dusk's cheeks.
"MOM!" she exclaimed.
"Alright…alright! Get going before I change my mind about letting you go!"
"Ok…I love you." Pecking a kiss on her Mom's cheeks she hugged her Dad, "I'm gonna knock you off your pedestal Papa…just watch…there's a new Master in town…she wants her place!"
She let go quickly and ran off into the road he Eevee hanging on for dear life.
"WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT YOUNG LADY!"
"What did she say?" asked Misty.
"She's gonna knock me off my pedestal she says. Well I've been the Kanto Master for nearly a decade and a half, I don't think it's going to be too easy!" laughing he headed back into the house, Misty shaking her head over her husband's antics.