You know, I've always liked pokemon. I mean, who doesn't in this world? Hell, my family is full of pokemon lovers. My mother was a former elite four member back in the day, and both of my sisters are trainers.
My Eldest sister, Crystal, aka Chrys, is the best pokemon catcher around, and my other sister Lyra, just became a trainer last month.
Actually…I was supposed to start my journey along with her, since I am her twin. But I ended up getting sick with pneumonia and couldn't go. Lucky for me my best friend Ethan, decided to wait until I got better to start his adventure.
Now today was the start of my journey! I quickly got dressed, putting on my favorite T-shirt and my good pair of traveling shorts. I tied my blue-black hair into pigtails, but I left the back down. I put a meganium flower clip into my bangs to keep them out of my face. I looked around to see if there was anything I had missed.
"Kotone! Breakfast is ready!" I heard my mom shout from down-stairs. I looked around for anything that was missing.
"Coming mom! Just give me a second!" I kept looking around, and noticed that my traveling bag wasn't in the room. "maybe I left it down stairs…" I thought to myself.
I descended to the first floor and was greeted by my mom and Pichu~n, our pet Raichu.
"Rai!" Pichu~n walked up to me and nudged my leg. I knelt down to pet the large 'chu. "chu~n" it made a strange purring noise, meaning that it was happy. I stood up and walked over to the table and sat down. My mother came over to me with a plate full of chocolate chip pancakes.
"There you go sweetie, nice 'n hot." She smiled as she set the plate in front of me. She tried to fight back tears of happiness and sadness, "My little baby's growing up…" she sniffed and wiped away a tear.
I paused from eating and took a sympathetic glance towards my mom. I turned around, "Don't worry mom, my other sisters all did this before me. Besides, I'll come back and visit."
She hugged me, "I'm going to miss you kotone."
I hugged her back, "I know mom, I'll miss you too." I turned back to the plate and finished up my breakfast. I found my bag next to Pichu~n's bed. I got up and grabbed it, I saw my poke gear charging in the corner of the other side of the room. "Mom? Can you hand me my poke gear?" I asked her while shouldering my bag.
"Sure thing hon." she gave me the strange radio/cell phone device. We said our goodbyes once more and I headed out side. Ethan was waiting for me along with his marril.
"Ethan!" I gave him a hug. "Good morning!" I smiled.
" Hey Kotone," He waved and hugged me back. "how are you this morning?" he asked.
"Excited." I told him, however excited wasn't the word, I could be bouncing off the walls in absolute joy that this day has finally come. But, there were no walls to jump off of.
"Shall we go to the lab?" He grinned and held out his hand.
"Of course." I didn't take his hand. I know it probably hurt his feelings, but I didn't like him in the way I knew he liked me. He was like the brother I never had, so it just didn't feel right to me. We headed to professor Elm's lab to get our starters.
"So have you decided on what pokemon you're gonna get Kotone?" Ethan asked me.
"Gee, I don't know," I began with a sarcastic tone in my voice. "I think I'll get a cyndaquil."
Ethan looked confused, "but aren't you allergic to cyndaquils?
"Duh Ethan, I'm getting a chikorita." I smirked, then proceded to laugh at the fact on how stupid Ethan was. I shook my head, "your such a tard Eth!" I walked on ahead of him, leaving the poor boy a few feet behind.
"Hey! I'm not a tard!" He ran to catch up with me, but I just went faster.
"Yes you are!" I laughed and we raced to the lab. I got to the door first. "ha! I won!" I panted, I guess my lungs hadn't recovered fully yet. Because it took a while for my breath to return.
Ethan walked up to me, "Hey, you ok Kotone?" he patted my back gently to make sure I didn't choke on anything.
"Yeah…" I coughed, "I'm good," I breathed deeply, then stood up straight. "lets go."
Ethan opened the door for me, and we both walked in. We were greeted by professor Elm, and went through the whole "starting out" routine. We got pokedexes, information about how they work, and our duty as trainers. Now it was time to pick our starters. I chose chikorita, and Ethan chose totodile. I let my starter out and scanned it with my pokedex. The gender came up as male, so the nickname I picked out was perfect.
"alright little chikorita, from now on I'm going to call you Hibiscus!" I picked up the little plant dinosaur and hugged it. "Do you like the name?" I asked him.
Hibuscus gave a small "chiko" of approval. I turned to Ethan and saw that he hadn't let his totodile out yet.
"Ethan? Aren't you going to let your totodile out? I asked.
He shook his head, "nah, I'll wait till I get home. Speaking of which, I forgot my poke gear!" He headed towards the door, "I'll catch up with you later Kotone!" He waved, then left.
I smiled and waved back, "Bye Ethan." I looked at professor Elm, "Professor Elm? didn't you also say you wanted me to run over to Mr. Pokemon to get something for you?"
Elm nodded, "why yes, I did. Can you please do that now Kotone?"
"Sure professor, can do! Lets go Hibiscus!" I ran out the door, my chikorita by my side.
I stopped walking when I got to the edge of town. "We should probably stop by cherry grove and get supplies." I stated.
Hibiscus "chi'd" in approval, and we started heading towards cherry grove. The pokemon we fought along the way gave hibiscus a chance to level up twice. We arrived in cherry grove after about a half hour.
A kind old man gave me a map card for my poke gear, he also showed me around town. I thanked him for the tour and the map, and then headede to the poke mart for supplies followed by the pokemon center to heal up hibiscus.
We headed to the next route, I tried to go through the normal way, but the road was blocked by two trainers having a battle. "Shoot! Looks like we'll have to find another route Hibiscus." I sighed and proceded to walk through the grassy path.
AN: So what did you think? Please review, and let me know if you see any errors~ I'll try and update this maybe every week or every two weeks! ^^