Pokémon 1600s

Pokémon 1600s
By BlastSage



Chapter 1: Port Vermillion - A New Trainer

"Theo!" screamed a sailor. "Theo! Get over here, now! The captain needs a word with ya!" Nearly instantly, a boy came up from below deck. Theo Rayford was 15 years of age, but looked many years older than he was. He had messy black hair which he rarely kept under tame. His eyes were gray, almost looking like steel, and that could see through anything. He was wearing white pants and a black and white striped shirt. Theo was medium heightened, but strongly built considering all his years working on the wooden ship the Indigo Plateau. He had been with the ship and crew since he was seven. Before them, he had an easy life with his rich parents. Unfortunatly, they were killed in a destructive attack from a mysterious group of pirates, which he could only remember them by the "R" on them. So the captain, who was also his uncle, adopted him into the crew, and since then, Theo had been working for him. But to him, the captain was his father, and the captain had always treated him like a son.

Theo rushed up from below deck and ran up to the front of the ship, where Captain (or uncle) Rayford stood. Theo looked where his uncle stared and saw a faint speck of land in the distance. "What is that place, Uncle Rayford?"

His uncle responded by saying "Over there, Theo, is a new land that was just charted, even though people already live there. It is a whole continent, and that peice over there is Port Vermillion. But we won't be able to dock there until tomorrow morning." He sighed, then continued. "There have also been strange rumors started up at that place that drives some businesses away."

"What kind of rumors?" Theo asked.

"Some good, some bad. A fellow friend who had traveled here said that there are strange beasts, beasts no other part of the world has. Rumor has it that they are spreading out through the world. The name of these creatures, he said, are known as Pokémon. Strange name, isn't it?" Theo nodded. "Anyway, you better go back to your bunk and get a good night's sleep. You already did enough chores for the day, and we won't get off this blasted ship for a few hours. So prepare for tomorrow, young man." He pushed Theo away, and Theo headed straight for his bunk. He thought about the new land, and about Port Vermillion along the way. But what interested him most was about the new animals called Pokémon.

"I wonder what they are like" he thought as he slipped into his hard wooden bed. "Are they fierce monsters, or cute creatures?" He thought about this as he slipped into his dreamworld. In it, he dreamed about what the possibilities of what Pokémon looked like...

"Theo," Captain Rayford whispered while he shook Theo to wake him up. "Theo, time to get off the ship. We are at Port Vermillion.

Theo sat up straight when he heard this. Finally, he would get to find out what Pokémon were. Theo put on his only good clothes he had that were the least bit formal and walked to the top deck. He ran over to the rails, and overlooked a vast seaside city. The Indigo Plateau wasn't the only ship in port. There were many more. He looked over all the people scuttling about when he noticed a huge, HUGE difference. A pile of rocks, big gray boulders, were piled in the middle of a street. But the strangest part about the pile was that it had eyes. And it was moving!

"Oooooonix," it roared, and it turned to face straight at Theo. Theo half jumped, half stumbled backwards, from the roar and fell onto the floor of the ship. He was staring as the rock snake slithered away. Walking very cautiously, he walked off the ship, only to noticed many more Pokémon. There was a creature with four arms lifting up 2 boxes on each arm with ease, a giant jellyfish swimming nearby, a huge, brown bird transporting humans between ships, and many more. Theo thought he was dreaming when he saw all this.

Theo's uncle summoned him over. "Well lad, this may take a while to unload, maybe a two or three day stay in Port Vermillion. Why don't you go and blend in with the civilization here." He looked over at the Machamp carrying the boxes. "I think I will explore some of these creatures for myself." He walked off, leavng Theo all alone. So having nothing to do, he started walking down the pier, admiring all the Pokémon helping others with their work.

"I wish I had one to help with my chores" he wondered. "It would make life a whole lot easier..." He snapped back from his thoughts as he realized that he had wandered into a crowd of people watching something. He could here whispers among them about "battling" and "attacking" and "who was going to win". Theo hurried to the front of the crowd expecting to see a big fight, but faced something better. Two trainers were facing each other, shouting out strange commands to their Pokémon. The one the crowd was shouting for was a guy named Tom. He had a turtle with fins on its ears and a fluffy white tail.

Tom shouted "Wartortle, Water Gun!" The Wartortle opened its mouth and shot a straight stream of water at the other trainer's fire Lizard. As the water hit it, the lizard, which the trainer called Charmeleon became dizzy, and fell. Everyone cheered as Tom took out a small red and white ball. Theo thought he was about to play with Wartortle until Tom recalled his Pokémon. Tom then collected a bag of money and started to walk Theo's way.

As soon as Tom was out of the crowd, Theo ran up to Tom to get more information about Pokémon. "Hey, you! Tom!"

Tom stopped where he was and turned around to see a boy running toward him. "Yeah, what do you want, kid?"

"Tom," Theo panted. "That was an amazing victory." Tom nodded as Theo continued. "But what I want to know is, how did you get a...a...a Pokémon?"

Tom stared at Theo for a while. "You must be new here, right?" Theo motioned for a yes. "Well, I guess you can get your first Pokémon in the bushy areas around Vermillion City. To catch one, you'll need this." Tom tossed the kid a pokéball, which he caught. "But I don't know how you will make it weak without a Pokémon. Your on your own, kid." Tom turned around and continued walking his way.

"I guess I'll go toward the bushy areas," Theo said to himself when he realized it was noon already. His stomach growled. "After I get some lunch."

After his lunch, Theo began searching in the eastern forest for a Pokémon to catch. "Here Pokémon. Come out, come out where ever you are." he kept chanting as he waved a little of his saved lunch in the air. He continued doing this for ten, twenty minutes, but without success. He started to go downhill, and as he did, he started to complain to no one in particular. "Why am I here anyway?" he asked angrily. "There is probably nothing here anyway. All I am just doing," Theo stretched his arms out and yawned, "is wasting my time." Theo's speech became slower and slower. "I should...be heading...off for the..." He layed down under a tree and began to doze off. "ship." There he slept, unaware of a shrouded figure eating the food out of his hand.

When he awoke, he was surprised to see the figure resting at his feet. In fact, he was so surprised, he stood up very quickly, forgetting that he was at an angle, and so started to fall down the hill. "Eeeeaaaaaaiiiiii!" he yelped as he hit branches, rocks, and clumps of dirt on his way down. He screamed for help as he scrambled to try to stop himself, but none came. The figure that slept near Theo automatically woke up from the screaming for help. It looked to the side and saw a teenage boy falling downhill. It lived in this area, so he knew that up ahead stood a cliff that led to a rocky beach. It hesitated for a moment, then decided that he could save the boy for the food he had eaten. So he pulled his tattered blue cloak close to his body and began to run downhill.

Theo looked up ahead through the whirls of brown, green, red, and yellow as he reached out for something to hold. All of a sudden, he felt a root brush his fingertips, and wishing to grab it, closed his hand as tightly as possible. He was lucky as he felt his arm being jerked. Theo could finally look around, and panicked when he saw nothing but air after the ground ended a few feet behind him. "Now I'm safe," he said to himself, thinking the danger was over. He was wrong. The root started to give way, and Theo was losing his grip from the wet surface. "Help!" he yelled.

The figure finally reached the boy, only to discover that he got there the second Theo began to fall. He could hear the scream getting fainter and fainter. He began to think about his last decision he had made.

Meanwhile, Theo was 50...55...40 feet away from the jagged rocks below, reaching out is if to try and grab him. "I'm going to die a bloody death at a young age" Theo thought. He closed his eyes and waited for the rocks to tear his flesh and wash him out to sea.

The stranger's mind was made up. "HYP-NO!" screamed the Pokémon as he spread his arms out wide, swinging his pendulum furiously back and forth. His cloak was blown away by the surge of energy being gathered. Hypno and Theo were both glowing an eerie blue as Hypno's Confusion attack was activated.

Theo felt energy flowing through him at the last second and felt himself getting lighter as he floated toward the top of the cliff. He collapsed from the fear he had when he reached the ground, and fought to regain his breath. It took a few minutes, but as soon as he was calm again, he saw the Pokémon that had rescued him clearly for the first time: a Hypno. It was going around the bushes, searching for the cloak it had dropped. It was a very dark yellow, sort of tinted like. Theo attempted to try and thank Hypno. " Uh...hi, Hypno. Thanks for...saving my life," he said, his mind a complete blank. The Hypno acknowledged the thank you with a "hypno" as he found his cloak. As soon as he put it on, he started to back away from Theo.

"Don't go yet," Theo pleaded. He rummaged through his sack he had strapped to his shoulder, and took out the rest of his saved lunch. He let it out for the Hypno to eat. The Pokémon gladly accepted the food as Theo gently but carefully tried to take off the cloak. The Hypno jumped away from his hands and ran off into the forest. "Hey!" Theo yelled, but it was nowhere to be seen. Theo sighed, then looked at the sunset over the cliff. He realized the time. "Whoa, I got to get back to the ship before Uncle Rayford begins to worry." So he picked up his things and left the spot.

Theo got back to the Indigo Plateau late after dark. He walked up to the top deck and searched for his uncle through the crowd of people taking a tour of the ship. He saw his uncle near the front of the ship, giving out orders for unloading the ship for the day. He walked over to Captain Rayford.

"Hey, Theo, my boy? Haven't seen you all day. Been explorin' the land, haven't you?"

"Yeah, I have. It was kind of boring if you ask me, though," he replied, remembering to leave out the part about falling over the cliff.

"Yes," the captain replied, looking over Theo's shoulder. "It must have been boring indeed. By the way, who is your friend?" Theo looked over his shoulder to see the cloaked Hypno standing behind him, looking down as to hide his face.

"Hypno!" Theo greeted his new friend, who stepped back one step. "I guess we're not that much of friends yet." He said.

Well, you might as well get dinner and get to bed, it is starting to get really late, and we have another day's work to do."So Theo, followed by Hypno, went to the dining room for dinner, where Hypno ate everything in sight as quickly as possible. Half an hour later, Theo was ready for bed. But Hypno was nowhere to be seen. "He must have found his own place to sleep for the night," Theo guessed as he closed his eyes and fell asleep, tired from the day's events.

Just below his bed lay Hypno, who was wondering about the boy that slept above him. This boy was different from all the other humans it had met in its life. All humans, he thought, where drunken, gambling, older humans, who were abusive to their Pokémon. That was the way he was raised as a Drowzee. But he had never met a young human. He liked it.

Hypno looked around for a place to sleep. He spotted the red and white Pokéball lying on the floor. He went near it, picked it up, and pressed the little white button on the front. He was sucked into the ball's void in a brilliant flash of red. Then all was silent.