Symphony of Time
The wind washed through the silent hills making almost no noise. In fact, it seemed as if, in a trance, the world had stopped in time. Down in the valley was a small town. Nobody was outside in the early light, and the luscious grass sparkled, glazed with the morning dew. Nothing stirred as the bright sun crept over the mountains bathing the town with light like golden honey, when without warning, the silence was shattered with the sound of a wooden door being thrown open and rubber shoes slamming against the grass rapidly.
"Hi, my name is Damien! I'm 15 years old, and I'm finally ready to start my Pokémon adventure! May I please see Professor Coke?" I said as I burst through the door of the local research labs. "You're older than most children that come in here ready to start their journey with Pokémon. What kept you from starting five years ago when you turned 10, and why are you choosing to go now?" the young woman sitting behind the desk asked politely. "My Mother wanted me to stay around and help out at the Pokémon Day-Care Center for a few more years until she could find a helper, so I stayed and helped."
A crash behind me interrupted our conversation as the Lab door was again thrown open and the sound of someone's running filled the room. Before I could even start to turn around, I was roughly shoved aside, by a girl with brunette hair, the shade of chestnuts. "I must see Professor Coke!" she said, gasping for air. "Why Amanda. Are you finally starting your adventure today too?", the assistant asked standing up and hugging Amanda. "Too? Who else…" Amanda started to ask, but then whirled around to look at me.
"Holy Arceus! You're starting too! That's totally awesome, and maybe we can travel together and our Pokémon can become friends." My childhood friend Amanda said, as she ran over and hugged me, possibly breaking a few ribs in the process, as well. She let me go just as we all heard a man's voice from behind us ask, "Did someone say Pokémon?"
"Professor Coke!" we both said turning to face him. Professor Coke was wearing a pair of black sunglasses, white lab coat, and had crimson hair. "I said Pokémon!" Amanda said jumping up and down like a Plusle might do if it gets over-excited. "Very well follow me." He said, opening a door to his right, and gesturing for us to follow.
Inside the room, there was a table with three Poké Balls sitting neatly in a row. They gave off a shine that can only be obtained by purchasing newly manufactured Poké Balls. "I already know which one I want." Amanda said confidently running forward and grabbing the Poké Ball in the center of the table. It glowed red in her hand. "I choose you Chimchar!" There was a flash of white light and the Chimp Pokémon appeared, smiling, at Amanda's feet. She scooped him up into her arms and gave him a ferocious hug, to which he, no longer smiling, returned in kind.
Professor Coke then turned to me and gestured for me to go and take one of the remaining two Pokémon. As I walked up to the table, I suddenly noticed that another Poké Ball had appeared on the table, as if out of the thin atmosphere. Without thinking I picked it up and felt a tingling sensation erupt up my arm and transverse my body. Then a deep male voice echoed from within the confines of my head. "You have been chosen! It is you destiny to become what you are becoming."
The lab quickly, and utterly faded away and I unexpectedly found myself in a bizarre place, filling me with a sensation pulsing with the power of time. A blue orb flashed into existence from the surrounding darkness. It hovered just in front of my face and I could feel the entity that was confined to that tiny orb. Images began to conjure up around me. I saw a gravel road and I was walking down it with two other people. That faded away and was replaced by another one, this time showing me in a bloody battle with the Legendary Bird Pokémon – Zapdos. Just as Zapdos shot a 'Thunderbolt' at me, a roar that rocked my body, until it fell to pieces, rang out from somewhere behind me. I couldn't see the Pokémon that did it, and before I saw anything else, I was instantly awoke back in Professor Coke's lab, lying on the floor, sweat dripping down my face, and Amanda standing over me, looking concerned.
I sat upright just as Professor Coke came running over. "What in Coca-Cola happened?" he demanded, helping me to my feet. At first I couldn't think straight everything became a vortex of confusion, but then everything suddenly rushed back and I managed to say, "There was a fourth Poké Ball, and I chose it."
"What are you talking about?" he asked, then saw the Poké Ball I had in my hands, and looked over at the other two still lying there on the table. As his mind slowly processed this, his expression suddenly changed from concerned to extremely curious.
"How strange, I wonder what Pokémon could reside in there. It's appeared to you for some unknown reason, but the thing that intrigues me is, what Pokémon has that kind of power to distort and change time?" he pondered, making sure I was okay, then leading us both outside into the warm sunlight.
"I know of only one Pokémon with that power, and it's considered a deity." I said, as I remembered that I am obsessed with that kind of information about Pokémon. I'm thinking the same thing, but why would he choose you, he has never served any person or even made direct contact to anyone other than his sister, and, or cousin." Professor Coke said scratching his chin, deep in thought.
"Why not me?" I asked defensively. "Is there something wrong with me?"
"NO! No, no, no. There's nothing at all wrong with you, it's just..." he started to say.
"It's just what?" I asked not knowing where this was going.
"It's just that why would he choose anyone human being? Also, are we certain it really is him?"
"Well, why don't we find out?" I said throwing the Poké Ball into the air. The ball soared in an arc and a blue flash of light escaped from it, so intense that I was forced to close my eyes, and when I opened them…I gaped in awe.
Standing over me, sun glinting off the massive diamond set in his chest, the Legendary Pokémon – Dialga appeared. I felt a great presence as he looked into my eyes, then a voice, the same voice I had heard back in the labs rang out inside my head. "I am Dialga – Guardian of Time, and you are whom I have chosen to become my life-long partner."