Hey guys. I did have this up for a while but I took it down and now it is back up... Enjoy. An completely shit myself by Lord Genesis Shadow's latest The Man with the Gallades Arm chapter. I was to post this earlier but I had a family thing, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon however I do own a small minority of characters from this story, mainly James and the variant of Gold I have created although technically the name is still copyrighted whoever-it-is-supposed-to-be-copyrighted-to, I just own Gold's behaviour for this fic.

Hello my name is James Ashcroft, I am an average 16 year old from a small backwater town of New Bark Town. Home of Professor Elm's lab and was once home to a trainer known as Gold who set out from here to start an adventure that would lead to being the greatest trainer in Johto.

I live with my mother, May Ashcroft. But due to the weirdness everyone just refers to her as 'your mother' when they refer to her when the conversation is directed at me. My father is also a trainer somewhere in the Kanto region, I don't know much about him and honestly I have never asked. I'm not even sure what I would do if I found him.

After seeing the success of Gold I have decided I am going to be a Pokémon trainer, the reasoning is of my own feeling. I have always wanted to leave New Bark Town, others would disagree with this but I don't care all that much. After about 2 weeks of preparing myself with learning about Pokémon I set off on one spring day to get my first Pokémon from Professor Elm.

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I woke up to light streaming steadily through the gap in my curtains onto my face, temporarily blinding me. I closed my eyes and sat up to avoid the narrow beam of light, I blinked a few times to rid myself of the flecks of light on the insides of my eyes and slowly got out of bed.

My room wasn't all that amazing; a computer sat in the corner next to a rather large TV of around 32 inches. An Xbox 360 sat next to it along with a small shelf of games, also housing my Nintendo DS and a small pile of games beside that, a large red rug spanned most of the floor, I opened the curtains and let light flood into my room when I heard my mum shout.

"James, I know you're up and ready so get a shower and come down here, don't worry about packing. I've sorted it all out for you."

I groaned and literally dragged my feet across the ground into the hallway.

The hallway itself was rather large considering there was only four doors along it, mine and my mother's rooms were side by side on the right whilst opposite were the bathroom and a small cleaning cupboard that also housed the boiler, I walked into the bathroom and took a quick glance in the mirror before I stripped from my boxers and climbed into the shower.

I had mousy blonde hair and light blue, almost grey eyes. I was quite fair skinned and was roughly around 5 ft, 9 inches tall and I weighed roughly around 126 pounds or 9 stone. I wasn't all that strong so not much muscle spread across my thin arms, there were some detail around my stomach but other than that I was rather thin.

After about 5 minutes I stepped out of the shower and quickly dried myself with a towel before pulling on my usual attire, which consisted of: A grey plain t-shirt, dark blue jeans and black trainers, I also wore a black jacket. I put on my glasses and exited the bathroom as I went down the hallway I admired the artwork my mother had painted of her old Pokémon: An Absol, a Gardevoir, a Gyarados with strange red scales instead of blue and a Growlithe. The latter had managed to evolve into an Arcanine shortly after my tenth birthday.

I walked downstairs into a large living area. Filled with more paintings and a large TV flanked by a large sofa that was unique in the way it went in a sort of semicircle around the TV, my mum called from the kitchen.

"James, come here. I have breakfast set and I have packed what you will need for when you leave." I walked into the kitchen as she mentioned the last part and I noticed the black backpack on the counter, its pockets at the sides and front were a navy blue and I also noticed a Master Ball sat next to it along with a plate supporting a small mountain of toast.

"I managed to find the Master Ball for you, since It was a gift from Gold I thought you might want to keep it, for sentimentality." I nodded whilst I tackled the top piece of toast; I found that I rarely spoke unless I needed to. I wasn't always like this but after my two best friends left New Bark Town I just became reclusive, preferring my own company and all that jazz.

"I also packed some basic things too, a spare change of clothes, some food for both you and your Pokémon, your Pokétch that finally came back from the shop and I added a few of your books in case you get bored"

"Thanks mum" was all I managed to say whilst wolfing down the toast, I was barely concealing my excitement of finally being a Pokémon trainer. When I had finished my final piece of toast I took my Pokétch from my bag and checked the time, 11:58am. I still had a little time to myself so I went out for a bit, leaving my bag. I would come back for It after I had a Pokémon.

"Oh yes, James before you go. I programmed my number into your Pokétch and noticed you had some emails from Gold, did you notice?" I sighed; of course I knew I had emails from Gold. But I just could not be bothered, not after what happened when Gold left. I ignored the emails, the further apart we were, the better. I just turned and smiled at my mum.

"No, I didn't. Thanks for telling me." And with that I walked out of the house.

New Bark Town was nothing really special; it was a small woodland town with only 3 houses and Professor Elm's lab. The house northeast of mine used to be home to Gold, who left New Bark Town in order to catch a Pokémon thief but had failed to apprehend him and instead continued onto taking on the Indigo Plateau and beating a guy called Red. Gold became the best trainer in Johto.

The house to the east of mine was home to another one of my friends, a girl named Lyra. She had also left New Bark Town on the same day Gold did, leaving me on my own. I remembered that she used to have an Azurill that had newly evolved into a Marill by the time she left. She treasured Marill with all her heart and I was always envy of her for the bond she built with her Pokémon.

The final building was Professor Elm's lab, I did not know much about the Pokémon professor except he spent a large amount of time in the field studying wild Pokémon and his family lived above his lab. He had a wife and a young son, my knowledge of the man ended there. But that was where I was headed and so I set off.

The climate in Johto was rather hot but cooler than the other regions, currently it was around 25 degrees Celsius outside, I gave a breath of relief as I stepped into the air conditioned laboratory. As I looked around I noticed two things, the first was a nurse joy who passed me on the way out from a back room where I saw one of Elm's aides lying there clutching his leg as blood spilled steadily down his leg from a bullet wound in his thigh. The second thing I noticed was professor Elm sat at his desk, head in his hands, sobbing uncontrollably. The machine besides him was completely empty, three Pokéball shaped indents could be seen.

Son of a bitch! This wasn't looking up for me at all.

A/N: Well here is a remake of chapter 1, those who are newly reading this fic, I will tell you that you did not miss much in the original chapter 1.

Enjoy, Read and Review, If you are honestly going to flame then PM me, don't take up one of the infinite review spaces for whoever might actually want to review this and have a nice day/night.

Lord Genesis Shadow and nightshadowdark are helping me in minute ways with this, go look at thier fics whilst I edit this one!

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