Author Notes: Hey guys, Jpr123 here! So I've wanted to do this for a long time, as of recently my fics have been exclusively pokemorph fics, but this time around I wanted to try my hand at what actual pokemon was like with my own twist again.
Just like most of my fics this one will also be SYOC story, so make sure if you're up for submitting a character be sure to read the OC submission form at the end of the chapter.
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A young trainer was tightly wrapped up in her sleeping bag, she felt the hard cold ground underneath and the smoldering coals of the fire she made last night right beside her. She felt a slight push on the side of her arm, but quickly shoved away what ever was trying to wake her up. She felt another shove, but just like before she simply pushed it away. Then a feeling that she was very much used to, an electrifying shock quickly woke her up. She stood up straight with her bright red hair flying everywhere, her green eyes darted towards the grumpy pikachu that was right beside her. He had his arms crossed in disappointment that his trainer could stay asleep for so long.
She rubbed her eyes and stretched her arms. She naturally fixed her hair by running her hands through it, as she didn't have a mirror on hand, or a small lake to look at her own reflection at the time. Reaching into her backpack the young girl pulled out a map and a compass, her pikachu sat on her lap to see what his trainer was doing.
"Alright Wendy, you can do this, you can do this, just make it to the next town, and we have another soft bed to lay down on. Pikachu, I bet you can't wait to sleep on that bed right?" The young girl said.
Pikachu nodded in response to Wendy's question. He hopped off of her lap and tapped on his pokeball in a self return. Wendy stood up and got dressed for the long trek she would have to do once again. She put on her military green tank top and quickly covered it with her red zip up hoodie. She put on her black short shorts and on top of that was a faded grey skirt. She tied up her red and white sneakers before throwing on her backpack to start walking to the next town.
While walking in the forest, Wendy took out her badge case and was very happy to see the three badges she had earned at the beginning of her journey. In the region of Yava, gym leaders would use different teams against you depending on how many badges you had previously earned in the region. Thanks to knowledge from her friends she had already challenged the tougher gyms that were by far the harder ones with more than four badges, and the gyms that would give her the most trouble with her current team, aside from the grass type gym.
The region was also well known for being a mostly forest region, right now Wendy was in the deciduous forest area. This forest was a common migrating rest area for many different species of bird and bug pokemon from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh. As for Alolan and Unovain pokemon, they weren't all that common in the region of Yava, unless they were brought over by their trainers or raised by a breeder. The region itself was very much enriched with Sinnoh mythology and the religions from Sinnoh were heavily integrated in Yavanian culture as well.
After a few hours of just trekking through the forest Wendy came to the side of a lake, and decided to set up a small rest area to refill on water and maybe take a bath. On the lake there were a few other pokemon who were grazing on the grass or basking in the sun. Reaching into her bag, Wendy pulled out two pokeballs, and set them on the grass. She set up a few cloths on the bright green grass and poured out the dried pokemon pellets for her team.
The first one to come out was her male pikachu, he was the first member ever on her team. She took pride in him as he was quite the expensive buy from the breeder she got him from. Pikachu was a loved pokemon species in the region of Yava and getting one from a breeder took a lot of paper work and a lot of money. Either way Wendy did mange to get her hands on this particular pikachu and there was no turning back.
The next pokemon to come out, was her only other member of the team. It was a riolu that she also got from a breeder. Riolu wasn't really a fighter on her team, just more of an accessory. He had also cost Wendy a lot of money to buy from a breeder, as he was bred for stats, but his childish and cowardly personality wasn't really ideal for fighting.
"Alright guys it's lunch time, sorry I don't have any berries this time around. I wasn't able to find any on the way to this lake, and I couldn't find any nearby," Wendy said. She knew she was lying to her pokemon about not being able to find berries, she was actually just too lazy and too tired of traveling to go out and find wild edible berries. Another problem was that both of her pokemon were completely raised in captivity and wouldn't have the skills to find berries on their own.
Sitting by a big body of fresh water was nice, and it mean't that Wendy could fill up her small reserve of water once again. The only downside was that water was very heavy, but you needed water to survive so she filled up her canteen and many different water bottles anyway. Wendy also took this chance to have her first bath in ages, she didn't really mind the cold water by this point as it was incredibly refreshing to wash off the sweat and dirt that was caked on her skin.
Once her bath was finished she returned to where her pokemon were scarfing down lunch. She grabbed her self cooking oatmeal, and noticed that it was her last one. This was a clear sign that she needed to head to the next town to restock on supplies.
"Ah man... when you watch all the propaganda that encourages young teens to go on a pokemon journey, it only shows the positive stuff. Traveling the world, growing with a team, and battling for a chance to complete dreams of many different trainers. They never show you the sheer amount of survival skills you need to hone," Wendy thought to herself.
Wendy had started her journey a lot later than what most people have. The age you could go out and travel the world with a pokemon was the age of ten, but Wendy had started her journey at the age of fourteen, and now she was sixteen. She didn't regret that decision at all, as it allowed her to gain information from friends that had started their journey's at ten. Much like her friend Justin, whom she had grown up with. By this point she knew he must've gained eight badges as he had the title of being the youngest elite four member.
Wendy's end goal for her journey wasn't to prove that she's an adult or anything like that. She simply wanted to be the strongest trainer in all of Yava, completely uncontested in her home region. She wanted to get to a point where pokemon would approach her for training and every trainer that saw her would challenge her to a battle that she could easily win. That is what Wendy wanted.
Once Wendy finished her lunch she stood up and stretched out her arms. As she did so, a loud boom echoed throughout the forest. Her head darted towards where the sound had come from, and there was a noticeable black explosion cloud that had formed over the forest tree line. She returned both pikachu and riolu into their respective pokeballs and decided to investigate what had happened.
She ran through the forest as she did so, she could hear the explosions getting louder. She had to cover her ears as each shockwave shot through the trees. She held on tight to her sweater and backpack when the winds got stronger, but she was determined to see what was going on, as normally an explosion in the forest meant two pokemon were fighting over territory, which meant a possible easy capture of the loser. When she got to the clearing, her suspicions were right there she saw quite possibly the strongest pokemon she had ran into when she first arrived in the forest. It was the same sceptile that had chased her off so many times, she could tell it was the same one from the large scar along its back. It was fighting against another pokemon, but this time around she didn't recognize who it was. The pokemon a large female torterra, and behind her were a few eggs.
Wendy knew what was going on, sceptile wanted those eggs, and it was clear he wanted them for sustenance. Wendy watched and was hopeful that she wasn't going to be detected by either of them, she had done battle with that sceptile before and lost badly, and she didn't want to deal with a overly protective torterra that could easily counter pikachu.
Sceptile had backed Torterra up against a tree, and her eggs were right behind her. Torterra's eyes were constantly darting left and right, despite the fact that Sceptile was right in front of her. This was probably due to her being careful not to leave her eggs alone while she tried to fend off Sceptile.
Sceptile put up both of his fists and a light green energy began to dance around his body. His stomach growled loudly and an intense glare was burning in his eyes. His glare was filled with desperation and determination, as it if he hadn't had a decent meal in days. Large blades extended from his elbows, they were much longer than anything that Wendy had seen from the sceptiles that were bred for battle. He spread out both of his feet and took a deep breath in knowing that he would have to earn this meal.
Torterra dipped closer to the ground and backed up slightly staring Sceptile down. She was very careful in her movements and was waiting to see what Sceptile was going to do. To a spectator like Wendy this fight was very slow as no one was making a move, but there was a tension in the air that was rarely felt in a trainer versus trainer match.
Seconds, minutes ticked by, almost half an hour had passed by, and no one had still made a single move. Torterra and Sceptile were locked in this forever staying stare down, as a single loss in concentration for Sceptile meant death and a single loss in concentration for Torterra meant losing her eggs. When Wendy was just about to fall asleep Sceptile tightened his stance and leaped towards Torterra. Sceptile's movement was fast, unlike anything Wendy had seen before. He darted around in a zig zag pattern perhaps to throw off Torterra's focus, and when Sceptile eventually got in close, Torterra simply stepped back slightly. She thrusted her head up forcing it into Sceptile's stomach, the forest lizard was thrown into the side of tree, he fell to the ground and coughed up a clear mucous like substance. He squinted his eyes from the immense pain and clenched his fist before darting away into the forest.
Wendy watched the torterra simply pick up her eggs and place it on her back. She walked into the forest slowly disappearing from Wendy's sight, which reminded Wendy that she needed to be careful when exploring the forest. Now all she had to do was get to the next town as soon as possible, and see if she can get her fourth gym badge.
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Author Notes: Hey guys so let me know what you thought of the first chapter of Three Keys. I'd love to know! Updates may be inconsistent for this story as I do want to focus on another fic that I'm currently working on. I'll try to stick with a biweekly update schedule, but they may come out either quicker or slower than that.
Now time for the OC submission form, just to let you know I'll be stricter with this OC submission than I normally am.
Name: Anything can go here, just please don't use accents.
Age: Anything above 13
Height: Anything goes, just please keep it realistic, don't worry I know that 6'3" people exist.
Gender:
Appearance: Anything goes here as well. If you want anime candy coloured hair, go for it. If you want a large chest or rippling muscles you go for it. If you want an average joe kind of character by all means you go for it. If your character has scars moles or birthmarks you can also put that here if you want. Remember this is important, I don't want to see a list I want to see a good description of what your character looks like.
Clothing: Go wild, jewelry or specific clothing, you can really do anything here. Express yourself and make this enjoyable to read, I don't want to see a list, I want a description of what the clothing looks like.
Personality: Can never have too much personality, again just go wild with what you want.
Likes: What kind of foods do they like? Love interests? Goals? Certain Passions? You decide.
Dislikes: Fears, general things they don't like such as rude people. If you can't come up with anything here just start listing off things you personally don't like, it's what I do all the time.
Perks: (Optional) Aura or Psychic based abilities - if you do put this in, if your character has these. They will be looked at and dissected by myself and my beta for this fic. Your character will singlehandedly go through the harshest acceptance process, if you put this in everything else about your character and their pokemon team must be absolutely perfect to put them through.
Origin: How did they grow up? What is their background, did they come from a different region or did they grow up in Yava. Remember what happens in their origin should reflect their personality and clothing, as how you're brought up in the world greatly affect these things.
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Author's Note: Alright just going to put this here, but for pokemon species anything goes in this category except for the following evolutionary lines.
Pikachu
Riolu
Torchic
Aron
Any and All Legendaries, this includes mythical pokemon as well
Ultra Beasts
As for team size a maximum of 6 pokemon, and if you would like your character to catch pokemon later on, I can do that as well. Just to let you know I will dictate which pokemon they catch if you do choose this route. If you choose to have a shiny I will be very strict on if I think your character is a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu. As shiny pokemon in the fic have special properties unlike the games, it's just something I want. If you want a shiny we can work out the details when you submit.
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Pokemon Species: Mega pokemon are allowed wether they currently have one or will gain one later on.
Nickname: (Optional) Please try to stay away from accents if you do want a nickname
Personality: This is not to be confused with nature, it would be their overall personality. How do they act around their trainer? How do they act in battle, how do they act away from their trainer, and how do they interact with the rest of their team?
Legalized Move set for Tournaments:
This is where you would put their standard four attacks. These attacks will be considered second nature to the pokemon, and will be the moves they end up using the most.
Other Attacks (Optional)
These are their attacks outside of their standard four. Remember the dynamic of these attacks are that your pokemon has to try to use them as they don't get nearly as much practice using them, and are prone to mess them up mid battle. Please keep the limit to 8.
Z-Moves: They are not allowed, as I feel they are special to the Alola region and should stay there.
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This is regarding OC submissions as a whole, I'm not only looking for protagonists or good guys, feel free to submit people like villains, heroes, friendly rivals or antagonistic rivals.
