Chapter 1: Fire
Blue eyes opened to fire.
The flames licked the walls of the room like a tongue, setting alight to everything that it got a hold of.
The owner of the blue eyes screamed, his pajama top the only thing protecting his chest from the flames, and it wasn't going to be the best guard. The boys first instinct was to jump out his window, but then a though came into his head. The boy leapt over the flames, out his room and across the hall. The room he went into was only just catching fire, and next to the back wall was a bed, a small girl with ginger hair laying in it.
"Zena!" the boy yelled, waking the girl.
The girl shot up, and after seeing the burning monster storming into her room, screamed.
The boy grabbed the young girl, Zena, and opened the window, breathing in, before jumping.
The boy pushed off with all his might, trying to get as far away from the house as possible in one jump. The boy and his sister held their breath, before smashing into a body of water.
The boy and Zena swam to the shore, which was a few hundred meters from their burning house they had leapt from. They both panted as they came ashore, looking up at their smoldering home.
"Mum..." croaked the young girl, "A-and Dad..."
"I know..." the boy sighed, ruffling his own ginger hair, before hugging his sister.
"Survivors?" came a voice from a nearby bush, before two men came out, they were dressed basically the same, with purple jackets with a blue 'Q' with a red outline on the right sleeve, probably a logo of some kind, black t-shirts underneath with the logo printed on the front, like on the sleeve on their jackets, purple baseball caps, with the logo on it and black cargo pants tucked into purple boots. They both had brown eyes and black hair.
"Who are you?" growled the boy.
"Us?" one of the men smirked, "We're grunts from team Quantum!"
"Team Quantum?" Zena asked.
"That's right!"
"Leave them," said the other man, "They're only kids."
"Why did you burn our house?" the boy yelled.
"Ah, your parents had important information, and if the wrong person got hold of it, they could stop our plans!" the first man said.
"So you burnt the whole house?" the boy growled.
"Yes," the second man grinned, "We wanted to leave an impact, a sign saying 'Don't mess with team Quantum', get it?"
"Yes," the boy growled, "And it makes me sick ."
"As long as you don't puke down me, I don't care," the first man laughed at his own joke.
"That wasn't funny!" the boy yelled, starting to walk in their direction.
"Emory, don't" Zena said, gripping his arm.
Emory closed his eyes, before looking up, "I'll avenge our parents some day," he growled at them.
"Goodbye for now then!" the second man laughed, before running off, his comrade in hot pursuit.
After the men were out of sight, Emory broke down crying.
"Luckily you haven't sustained any bad burns," the nurse said, "You should be released within a day!"
To that comment Emory smiled, "Thanks you."
"Emory!" a ginger girl ran into the room Emory was staying in.
"Zena!" Emory smiled weakly at his younger sister.
The young girl climbed up onto her brother's bed, sitting next to his chest.
"I'll be released within a day," Emory smiled.
At that comment Zena's eyes lit up, "Really?"
"Really!"
"Well... I can't wait until you get out of hospital... Because I was thinking... Well maybe we journey through Destro to track team Quantum down?"
Emory's face went from a smile to a look of concern, "I don't have a pokémon Zena, I can't..."
Zena's face dropped.
"Did you say you needed a pokémon?" one of the nurses asked.
"Err..." Emory gasped, "Yeah?"
"Well, my electrike had an egg recently, and its hatched, I could give you the baby electrike that hatched?" she offered.
"Yeah!" Zena exclaimed.
"Ok," Emory smiled, a lot calmer than his little sister.
"I'll also lend you money for some clothes and pokéballs," said the nurse, "you can't go on a pokémon journey in your pajamas!"
"Yeah..." Emory smiled, "Thank you so much!"
After a few hours, Emory was released from the hospital, and with the promised electrike and money, went off with his sister to get some clothes.
"After this," said Emory to his sister, while looking at a blue raincoat, "We can go hunt down team Quantum."
"Yeah!" Zena cheered, "We'll show those punks not to mess with the Govannon family!"