Chapter 1 – The Beginning of an Adventure and an Unexpected Friendship!
It was a quiet and peaceful morning in the Sinnoh Region. Starly were happily singing in their groups and two Shinx were playing without a care in the world in the open field of Twinleaf Town as a warm breeze swept through the grass startling one of the Shinx as the other playfully laughed before chasing after him.
Twinleaf Town is a reasonably small town, not many people lived there, which was why peace and quiet was considered normal around there, as was the fresh air that blew, the smell of leaves from the trees wafted through the entire town. People who were out bright and early had gone for an early morning walk through the town, enjoying the calm, relaxing atmosphere. From one of the houses, however, it was anything but calm and relaxing, as shouting and banging could be heard.
Through one of the second story windows, a boy, around 18, with medium-length light-brown hair, which reached just past his ears, with the front of his hair slightly shorter than the rest, and blue eyes, was seen rushing around his bedroom, getting dressed.
"Come on, come on! I'm going to be so late!" the boy shouted in annoyance.
Once dressed, he stood in the middle of the room, exhausted, wearing loose black jeans tucked into dark blue high top sneakers, a dark blue hoodie with black sleeves and a white under shirt. Remembering the reason he was in a hurry, he grabbed his black & white backpack from his desk chair and darted down the stairs, through the hallway and out of the front door almost knocking into his mother who was walking up the path as he ran.
"Daniel!" she shouted while she breathed heavily from the surprise and narrow escape of being tackled, "what are you doing?!" she shouted again.
"No. Time. Pokémon. Late. Talk later!" he yelled back to her between breathes as he ran down the path, almost tripping over his own feet.
"That boy." His mother muttered to herself, "always in a rush to get somewhere. If he just set off 5 minutes earlier he wouldn't need to run everywhere" she finished, walking into the house.
Getting tired from his constant running, Daniel decided to start strolling down Route 201 on his way to Sandgem Town. He knew he didn't have a Pokémon to protect him from wild Pokémon that could appear, so he had to be careful when he made his way to the next town. In the distance Daniel could see a bright red roof.
"The Pokémon Centre! I'm almost at Sandgem Town!" Daniel shouted, "My Pokémon is waiting for me at Professor Rowan's Laboratory! I'm coming future partner!" He shouted with utter excitement at the thought of meeting his new partner; taking off down the path with a direct course to Sandgem Town.
His excitement was short lived as his feet immediately came to a holt when he heard loud rustling coming from the near-by bushes. It sounded too loud to have been caused by the wind, there hadn't been any wind or breeze for the last half hour, no, it must have been a Pokémon.
"This could be bad" Daniel thought, "I don't have any Pokémon and here I am, seconds away from being attacked by a Hariyama or something!" he continued talking in his head, his mind creating an outcome that was unlikely to happen.
"H-hello?" he nervously spoke out to whatever was hiding, "I-I-is someone there? It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to know who's there" he said in an attempt to make them reveal themselves.
Building up courage, he slowly made his way to the side of the path and approached the bush where he had heard the noise. Getting closer and closer to the source of the noise, Daniel slowly reached out his hand to move the leaves away so he could see who or what was hiding behind there, but just as he got closer a black figure emerged from behind the bush and past Daniel's face, causing him to fall sideways and land on the hard stone path.
Daniel let out a loud and agonising scream as he landed on his arm, thinking it might be broken, but that was the least of his worries, because his agonising screaming had angered the Pokémon further; he knew because he heard a long growl. Sitting up and looking over at the growling Pokémon, he noticed it was a Poochyena, an unusually big one compared to other Poochyene he had seen on TV.
"Would you look at the size of that Poochyena!" he said in amazement, but soon got confused, "what would a Poochyene be doing here? They normally appear in the Hoenn Region."
After his short narration of the Pokémon, he was forced to cover his ears because the Poochyena had let out a piercing howl to call its friends over as backup. Within a matter of seconds two more Poochyena emerged from the bushes, both just as angry.
"So that big one is the leader then?" Daniel muttered under his breath, "How am I going to get out of this mess? I don't have any Pokémon to fend them off and there are three of them." He pondered.
The bigger Poochyena of the three stood behind as a smaller one walked slowly over to Daniel, gritting its teeth and growling loudly. With every step the Poochyena took forward, Daniel moved backwards, hitting a tree with his back when he ran out room. He was cornered, and there was nowhere to run. The Poochyenna then picked up speed and lunged forward, opening its mouth wide, showing off its razor sharp teeth, heading in the direction of Daniel, who protected his face with his arms, scared and waiting for the Pokémon's attack to connect. Suddenly, another black figure shot out of the bushes next to Daniel and jumped into the path of the Poochyena, biting hard into its side with its powerful mouth.
The Poochyena let out a piercing howl of pain that echoed entirely through Route 201 before it was thrown back to the other Poochyena, who were shaking with fear from what they just witnessed their friend go through. When the brave figure landed on the ground, it was a small, green turtle Pokémon with a brown shell.
"Oh wow, it's a Turtwig!" Daniel commented, "It's not every day you meet a wild starter Pokémon!"
"Tur!" the Pokémon turned to Daniel, giving him a serious smile as if to say it'll take care of the Poochyena.
Turtwig then turned its attention to the three bullies, Turtwig only had to put one of its feet on the ground in front of him, in order to let the Poochyena know it shouldn't be messed with and the bigger Poochyena scooped up its fallen friend, quickly escaping with the other Poochyena while they still had the chance.
Moving away from the tree, Daniel walked over to the Turtwig that had saved him, holding onto his arm.
"Man, you sure helped me out there, Turtwig. How can I thank you?" he asked the Pokémon.
Turtwig closed its eyes, holding a foot out and shook its head, indicating that it didn't want any reward for helping him out and started walking towards Daniel, sniffing the arm that he was holding.
"Tur?" the Pokémon looked in confusion as to why Daniel was holding his arm like that.
"Oh this. It's nothing. I must have landed on it when the Poochyena surprised me, I'll be all right!" he quickly reassured the Pokémon. "I know!" Daniel said getting an idea, taking his backpack off, pulling out a small bag containing a few Oran Berries and holding out his hand, "here, eat these, they're good for you, you know" he said smiling at Turtwig.
Turtwig looked at Daniel and happily took an Oran Berry from him, eating them and smiling at him.
"Tur-twig!" it said, which Daniel took as a 'thank you'.
"It's good, huh?" he smiled, "I'm heading to Sandgem town to get my very first Pokémon so I can go on a journey and become the Sinnoh League Champion one day" Daniel explained to the Turtwig as it finished the second berry, "I think you should come too so you can get checked out. I know you didn't take damage from the Poochyena, but it would still make me feel better if you did." He informed the Turtwig.
Turtwig nodded its head at him in agreement, appreciating Daniel's concern, "Twig!"
"So let's get moving! Sandgem Town isn't going to come to us!" Daniel said while raising an arm to the air.
"Turtwig!" the Pokémon shouted, raising his front foot, mimicking Daniel.
As Daniel and Turtwig made their way down the path to their destination, an old man and two slightly younger men, all wearing lab coats, were running towards them.
"Are you two all right?" the older man said, "We heard loud howling coming from here and thought there might be trouble." He continued.
"Yeah, we're doing all right now, there was a bit of trouble, but that's all been sorted thanks to Turtwig here, isn't that right?" Daniel replied, looking down smiling at Tutwig, who was now blushing at being praised.
"Well aren't you a brave Pokémon" the old man knelt down to Turtwig and gave it a light pat on the head, "I suppose we had nothing to worry about!" he added.
Standing back up, the old man looked to Daniel, "so young man. I assume since you have this Turtwig you're on your journey?" he looked at him confused, "funny, I don't remember giving you a starter Pokémon" he admitted to Daniel.
"Oh no, no." Daniel corrected him and failing to realise what the old man had just said, "you see, Sir, I'm not on my journey just yet, I was just on my way to Sandgem Town to get my starter Pokémon when I was stopped by wild Poochyenna." He explained, "That's when this wild Turtwig arrived, it saved me from them and managed to chase them away, so it's not my Pokémon. I was just about to take it to get checked out."
"Hmm. I see." Said the old man, "Well, in that case, you had better come to my laboratory and choose your own then, should you not?" asked the old man, knowing the answer.
"I guess so…" admitted Daniel, pausing for a second, "wait!" shouted Daniel when he realised, "You mean you're Professor Rowan?!" he questioned.
Nodding his head, the Professor picked the Turtwig up and started walking with the two younger men, "we can get this little one checked out there when we arrive." Informed Rowan.
"Hey! Wait for me!" shouted Daniel as he quickly put his backpack back on and ran down the path to catch up to them.
To be continued…
So that was the first chapter of my Fan Fiction and I think it turned out rather well. Please leave a review on what you thought about it as I'm always open to feedback and improvements.
Chapter 2 is coming your way soon!