Disclaimer: I do not own any copyrights related to the pokemon/nintendo franchise. If you wish to sue me, go ahead. I have absolutely nothing of value you could sue me for. X3
Note: This fic shall take place in the Sinnoh Region. Ryou is the name I gave my rival character in Diamond, so whenever you see the name "Ryou", please assume this is the rival character from the Diamond/Pearl games.
"Ryou, dinner's ready!" his mother shouted up the stairs. Before she could blink, her boy came rushing downstairs, his feet making loud thuds on the floor as he approached. As soon as she finished her blink, her boy had already helped himself to a large helping of Nira Tama(1), and was already fishing out his chopsticks from the appropriate drawer.
Ryou took a seat at the table, placing his hands together, and happily cried, "Itadakimasu!(2)" and dug in. The TV was emitting sounds of a cooking show, one of his mother's favorites, and she was helping herself to her share of the Nira Tama. As he neared finishing his meal, and his mother had just started on hers, a news broadcast interrupted his mother's cooking show.
"We are sorry to inconvenience you by interrupting whatever show you were watching," the female newscaster started, "but we have some startling news on what could perhaps be a new, undiscovered species of pokemon." Ryou slurped down the last of his meal and put all of his attention on the TV screen. "Lately, there have been sightings of a strange creature eating the spheres various people and trainers have buried within the underground tunnels. According to the witnesses who saw this creature, it looked like 'an Eevee in some kind of mole form.' the Jubilife News station is currently offering rewards for any clear photographs and or the capture of this creature for proof of existance. The reward will depend on the quality of the photo, or the condition of the creature. Thank you, and enjoy your regularly scheduled program."
A large grin spread across Ryou's face as the TV showed his mother's cooking show again. "I'm going to be the first person to capture this new pokemon!" he announced joyfully, getting up and rushing out the door at the speed of a motor vehicle. His mother sighed and shook her head.
"He could've at least washed his dishes before he ran off like that..." she mumbled, eyeing her son's bowl and chopsticks that were just lying there on the table.
About an hour later, Ryou was in the underground tunnels of Sinnoh burying some spheres he had just dug up from the walls. He then walked away for about ten feet and sat down to wait for the mysterious creature to pop up. About ten minutes later, what seemed like forever in Ryou's mind, his shperes started shifting around in the dirt where he had buried them. He focused his attention on them, eyeing them anxiously. A couple of the prism spheres he buried popped out of their hiding place, along with what seemed like a smooth, wiggling raisin. A few whiskers followed the raisin, along with the head of some mole-ish creature.
Ryou had dug out a Dusk Ball from his bag by now and mumbled, "It really does look like an Eevee!" The creature's attention was focused on the prism sphere, which it was constantly sniffing, so Ryou figured that it was a good chance to try an capture this thing right now. He quickly tossed his Dusk Ball at it, and hit it perfectly on the nose. The ball opened and the creature glowed red for a second, but then the glow shattered and the Dusk Ball flew back into his hands, causing Ryou to blink a few times. "Someone already captured this thing? Aw, man!"
The creature jumped out from the soil, and now its entire body was exposed. It had no tail, a long orb-ish body, and all four of its legs were merely small and round with three claws sticking off of them. As it continued sniffing the sphere, it muttered something that sounded like, "Mole, mole!" Once it finished sniffing the orb, it broke it up with its claws into tiny little pieces, each shard only half an inch large at the most. It then started eating the shards of the sphere, enjoying each shard as if it were a gourmet poffin.
Once it was finished, Ryou had crouched onto his abdomen to become eye level with it and said, "Hello, there!" The creature looked at him with interest, slowly making its way towards him and sniffing him out. It found a more interesting scent, however, within Ryou's bag of spheres, and proceeded towards it. Seeing this, Ryou pulled out some of the various spheres he dug up, moving into an upright sitting position, and held out each orb towards the creature. It sniffed out each sphere, only taking the prism shaped ones and smashing them on the ground so that it could consume them. Once it finished, it rubbed against one of Ryou's legs, muttering, "Mole! Mole!" happily.
A voice came from the tunnel the little mole dig, calling out, "Diggy!!! Where are you? You should've come back by now!!!" Ryou identified the voice as that of a girl around his age, and noticed the little mole creature was making its way back towards the hole it dug. Before it went back in, it looked back at Ryou and cutely waved one of its paws at him, and then jumped in. He blinked, then stared at the hole it escaped into. Just as he was deeply lost in thought as to where the creature might've gone, or who it might've belonged to, the ground beneath him suddenly felt hollow and weak. He blinked for a second, and then he floor he was sitting on gave way, causing him to fall who knows how far down, screaming in shock the whole way.
As soon as Ryou landed, he was greeted by the giggle of some girl, causing him to look towards the source. He saw the mole creature from before being held in the arms of a very pale girl. She wore boots that went over her knees, a skirt that just barley went below her knees, a tee-shirt, a sleeveless jacket, and one of those winter hats with the little poof ball on the top, all some shade of green. Her hair was short, just curling towards her head at the top of her neck, and was a jet black color. Her eyes, which looked pure and innocent, were a deep shade of sapphire blue. All over her clothes were these strange black X's, each with a red dot in the center.
"Hello there," the girl said. "My name's Shinju, and I'm sure you've already met Diggy here. What's your name?"
"Umm, Ryou," he answered, getting off of his bum and rubbing it. "Just what is Diggy, anyways?"
"Oh, you don't know? Diggy's a pokemon, silly!" She giggled.
"I knew that, I mean, what kind of pokemon is it?"
"He's a Moleon.(3)"
Ryou blinked. "A what?"
"A Moleon," Shinju stated, as if it were an obvious fact.
"What's a Moleon?"
"It's an evolved form of Eevee, silly! Isn't it obvious?"
"What type is it?"
"Isn't it obvious? He's a ground-type!" She giggled again.
"And how does an Eevee evolve into Moleon, exactly?"
"You use a dusk stone on a boy to get it to become a Moleon." She paused. "What kind of pokemon do you have?" she asked, looking curious.
"I got a lot of pokemon! Wanna battle me so we can see what kind of pokemon each other has?"
"Um, okay! How many pokemon each?"
"How about a full six on six match?"
"Alrighty! But, why did you say 'full' when someone can carry more than six?"
Ryou blinked. "You've got more than six pokemon on you?"
Shinju nodded. "Uh-huh! I've got every form of Eevee on me, each inside of its own ball!" she replied happily, pointing to the X's on her outfit.
"But... Those don't look like Pokeballs..."
Shinju blinked. "What's a 'Pokeball?'"
"You don't know? It's what you use to catch a pokemon." Ryou dug out a few kinds of them, showing them to Shinju. "The regular kind, the red and white ones, are good for beginning trainers. The blue ones with red on the top halves, called Great Balls, have a higher catch rate than the regular ones. The ones with black and yellow on the top, called Ultra Balls, have-"
"Hold on a second!" Shinju interrupted. "Why do you have so many different catching devices with different catch rates when you could just use an Eaveon(4) X?"
"A what?"
"An Eaveon X! These crosses on my outfit!" She pointed at them again.
"And just how do those catch pokemon?" Ryou asked, with his left eyebrow slightly higher than his right one.
"How about I just show you?"
She pushed the red dot on the X that was on the front of her hat, and the X popped off. The ends of the X curled so that they connected about one and a half inches from the red dot, and a green bubble appeared in the empty space. A line formed from at the sides, starting at the red circle and ending in the back of what now clearly looked like a strange pokeball. She tapped the red button on her pokemon's forehead and it glowed red, then was sucked into the ball. The line disappeared, as did the green part of the ball, and it returned to the black X it was while it was resting on her hat. Ryou looked absolutely dumbfounded at the sight of these strange Pokeballs at work and could only gawk at the X which now contained Shinju's Moleon.
"How did-!?! Where's-!?!" Ryou mumbled, unable to form a sentence. Shinju giggled again, then put the X back on her hat.
"You have no idea how these work, do you?" Ryou shook his head. "Where are you from?"
"Twinleaf Town."
"Where's that?"
"It's about 5 kilometers up from here. Why?"
"You mean there are places with people in higher sections of the Earth?"
"More like on the surface of the Earth."
"So you're not surrounded by rocks?"
"Not unless I'm in a cave or the Underground tunnels. Why, do you live further down?"
"Yeah, It's about ten minutes if you have a Moleon dig through the rocks."
Ryou paused, taking a moment to let all the information sink in. "Could you show me?" he asked.
"Sure! But you have to show me this surface world, too, okay?"
Ryou nodded. Shinju then started walking in some direction, motioning for him to follow, and they eventually reached a tunnel going further into the earth at a 30 degree angle. It seemed like it was too smal for an adult to fit through, but just large enough for the two of them to slide down with a little wiggle room.
"So this is the way in?" Ryou asked.
Shinju nodded. "Yup! Just follow me!" She jumped into the hole, sliding downward at about 5mph, and once she was out of sight, Ryou wriggled in after her, surprised at how smooth the tunnel was as he slid down into a place no one on the surface ever knew about.
(1)Nira Tama is a Japanese dish. It's kinda like a leek stew with eggs in it.
(2)Itadakimasu is what the Japanese say before every meal. It's kind of like thanking the chef, saying thanks for the food, that sort of stuff. And since the Pokemon games were originally from Japan, why not throw in some Japanese cultural stuff in a Pokemon fanfic?
(3)Moleon is pronounced Mole-ee-on. It's an evolved form of Eevee I made up.
(4)Eaveon is pronounced A(as in the letter)-vay-on. This word will come up later on in the story, especially when Shinju talks about where she's from.
Well, that broke a record for me. The longest I've written so far is 3 and a half pages! This one got a little over 4. Not much of a stretch, I know, but that's good enough for me!
