Pokemon: First Journey

(A Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen fanfiction)

Chapter 1: Impatience

AN: edit 2-16-13 I am so sorry for not updating this story! I promise I will start writing this again once I replace all the names with the canon names :x. I will get to updating this ASAP so please be patient!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Pokemon franchise.

Characters:

Leaf Tanaka: A very upbeat and optimistic girl and heroine of this story. Her biggest dream is to become the greatest trainer her town has ever known. She lives with her parents in Pallet Town where she impatiently awaits the day when she can begin her first journey.

Green Oak (known as Blue in the games): Professor Oak's grandson and Leaf's rival. A very competitive young man who lives to win. He's also a bit of a sore loser. He may seem to be annoyed with Leaf, but it may be a façade?

Red: A mysterious trainer that Leaf will meet periodically during her journey. Red seems to be very experienced with Pokemon. Not much is known about him, only that he is very quiet in nature. He will be an important character to Leaf in later chapters as a source of inspiration.

Pallet Town/ Leaf's home:

All was quiet within the Tanaka residence, almost to the point that Leaf couldn't bear it. She tossed and turned in her bed with only the soft ticking of her bedside clock keeping her company. She had no idea how long she'd been awake, only that she couldn't wait for morning to come already. Leaf turned her gaze upward as she glanced at the clock on her wall. It's just 12:15?

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, the clock's incessant noise seemed to get louder and louder as she threw back the covers in frustration. She couldn't take this anymore! With a sigh, she got out of bed and came towards the desk where her bag was kept. She felt so happy and excited when her parents finally gave her their permission to go on this journey! And the fact that Professor Oak, the Pokemon Professor, would be giving Leaf her first pokemon was enough to make her jump for joy. The only thing that was a nuisance to her was the fact that Green would also be embarking on his own journey the same time she was.

But still, even the thought of that boy wouldn't dampen her excitement. She couldn't find it in herself to wait for another 8 hours, so she had to do something.

Opening her bag, she rummaged through one of the pockets and brought out three pokeballs. She had gotten them while she made a short trip to go to Viridian City to pick up some groceries for her mom yesterday. It took her all of the willpower that she had to not go within the grass and search for her own pokemon. Instead, along with the groceries, she bought those three pokeballs with her own money so that she could use it to catch her own pokemon.

"Hee hee, this is going to be fun!" She looked outside her window and saw that there was a full moon that would light her way through the night. "Perfect." She placed the three small balls within the inside of her pajama pant's pockets and tiptoed her way out of the room, careful not to wake her parents.

…Outside:

She felt the cool, summer air hit her skin as she gently closed her front door. Skipping down the steps, she put on her pair of white and pink sneakers and made her way towards the edge of town where the first patch of grass was seen. She ran a tentative hand through her long, light brown hair and sighed. "C'mon Leaf! This is no time to get cold feet!" Not giving herself another chance to think about her actions, she ran straight into the grass, feeling the drops of dew land on her pants.

"All right, now where can I find my first pokemon?" The only sounds that she heard within the grass were the cricket's chirping and her own footsteps. "Hmm, maybe I should go in further?"

She walked a few steps then stopped, listening as she held her breath.

Suddenly, there was what sounded like a pair of wings flapping from behind her. "Ah, over there!" She turned and saw a small bird with a light brown colored beak. It tilted its head and looked at Leaf with interest. "Okay, don't worry little guy, I won't hurt you. I promise." Without lifting her gaze from her target, she got out one pokeball and pressed the middle button, making it larger. She had seen how this was done millions of time on TV, and it seemed really easy. So if they could do it, she could do it too, right?

Raising her hands up high and with as much force that she could muster, she threw the ball as it opened. For a short second, it released a small, red beam which surrounded the unsuspecting tiny bird pokemon just as the ball closed.

"Yes! I caught it!" Leaf ran towards the ball, about to pick it up, but then something stopped her, preventing her from picking it up. The ball began to tilt back and forth violently, as if the captured pokemon was trying to get out. "Huh?" After a few more tilts, the ball suddenly opened, revealing the tiny bird once again as it chirped angrily at Leaf then flew away from her.

Filled with shock, her mouth was agape as she waved both of her arms frantically, trying to get the pokemon to come back. "Please! Come back!" She broke out into a sprint, trying to keep her eyes on the bird. "I need you! You would make such a great partner!" That was partly true, but the other reason why she really wanted the bird was to get a head start. She just wanted to be ahead of him for once.

At the thought of her stupid and annoying rival, she sighed dejectedly and stopped chasing after the flying pokemon. "Ah, it's no use!" She dropped down on the ground and sat, glaring at the grass as she tore several blades from the ground. "If Green ever found out about this, he would never let me live it down."

Green was her next door neighbor who had been living in Pallet Town for just as long as she had been living there. In a way, he was what you would call Leaf's 'childhood friend.' Although he was never friendly towards her, oh no. Whenever he would see her, he would always ask her to compete with him, whether it was to find out who was the fastest runner, greatest swimmer, and biggest eater, Green would always win.

"Yes, that's always been the case!" Remembering all of those times that Green had ridiculed her, a strange force of energy coursed throughout her body. "I can't give up now!" She picked herself up off the ground, about to step forward when a strange sound stopped her. Her heart began to beat faster as a sense of paranoia grew from within her. "Wh-who's there?" The sound came more frequently now as she tried to decipher what it was through her haze. It sounds like a… wheeze? Leaf knew that she should have been scared out of her mind at that noise, but curiosity got the better of her. Instead, she tried to pinpoint exactly where the wheezing was coming from.

It came again, this time from straight ahead of her right behind the oak tree as something seemed to float out from behind it. Fear gripped her again as she mentally screamed. Noooo! A ghost is gonna come and get me! The wheezing turned into a groan as a hoarse voice was heard. "Ugh, where… am I?" It floated out from the beneath the tree and came towards her, groaning and wheezing along the way.

Without a second thought, Leaf dropped to the ground and picked up a lone stick. Once she got a tight grip on it, she let out a cry and ran towards the ghost. "AAHHHH! I'll get you before you can get me!"

"Wha-?" He didn't stand a chance as what looked like a girl in her pajamas come at him, the tip of the stick landing straight on his face.

Leaf's eyes were shut as she kept on swinging the stick at the ghost, landing a solid hit each time. "Go away go away go away!"

She heard one last groan and a hard 'thud!' as the ghost landed on the ground. A feeling of relief came over her as she opened her eyes. "Well, that was a close… one?"

Her breath was caught in her throat when she saw what she believed to be the 'ghost.' What was beneath her was what looked like a purple ball with a face. His eyes were closed but his mouth was wide open. Beneath his mouth was a design that resembled a skull and crossbones. That's when realization hit her. What she was hitting wasn't a ghost, but a pokemon. A talking pokemon!

But wait, there's no way a pokemon could talk, right? No, it wasn't possible! If that was the fact, then there really was some ghost out here and she had attacked this poor pokemon in fear. "Oh, I am so sorry!"

She quickly picked up the pokemon and ran back home, planning to nurse it back to health as she hoped that she wouldn't run into anything supernatural.

~End Chapter 1...

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