After a yawn, she sat up and stretched, waking the pokemon that slept beside her.
The pokemon, a young Bagon, yawned and looked at the girl with a smile and a happy growl.
The girl looked down at the bagon and smiled back. It was a small pokemon, a little under two feet tall, with a blue body, short arms and a hard, gray plate on it's head. "Good morning, Saphira," the girl said.
The two got out the bed, and the girl rubbed the sleep out of her brown eyes while Saphira arched her back in a massive stretch.
"I'm surprised we got any sleep," the girl said while she walked to her dresser. "I'm so excited!" Saphira agreed with a happy grunt while she leapt back on the bed and started making it.
The girl got some clothes from her dresser and started changing.
'I can't believe I can finally be a pokemon trainer!' the girl thought as she pulled on a dark blue pair of jeans.
She had finally turned ten, the age when a person can finally get a pokemon trainer license, just a few weeks before today. She had always loved pokemon, and already had her first chosen :her Bagon Saphira.
She loved all pokemon, but her favorites were dragons.
After pulling on a blue t-shirt, zipping up a red hoody and checking her shortish brown hair in a mirror, the girl turned around to see her pokemon finish making the bed and smile with a happy grunt.
The girl smiled and thought of when she got the pokemon.
When the girl moved here with her family, they made friends with Professor Birch who had a lab not far from their house. When she was out walking one day, she came across something odd in the grass. She went to look and found that it was a pokemon egg. She excitedly ran back to her house and showed her parents. They were both surprised and said they should show Professor Birch. When they got to his lab, he was very excited. He checked the egg's condition and found it was in good shape, although he didn't know what kind of pokemon was inside. The girl was happy that the egg was ok, but regretful because she thought that the professor would want to keep it for research. Because of this, she was shocked when the professor put the egg in her hands and said, "Take good care of this egg. It wouldn't have survived if you hadn't found it." When the girl started to question, the professor only said that the egg was hers because she found it, and he would tell her how to take care of it until it hatched. Overjoyed, the girl thanked the professor and eagerly listed on how to take care of the egg.
Not long after, they called the professor, who came to their house and watched the egg hatch into a Bagon.
Saphira jumped off the bed and walked over to the girl who said, "Thanks Saphira. Let's go downstairs."
They walked down the stairs, jumping the last step and landed in the kitchen where the girl's mother was cooking.
"Good morning Sarah!" she said with a smile.
"Hi mom," Sarah smiled back. Saphira waved to Sarah's mom with a happy growl.
"Good morning to you, too Saphira," the mother said as she bent down and patted the dragon pokemon on the head.
While her mother put two plates with food at the table, Sarah and Saphira seated themselves in chairs and started eating.
"So," Sarah's mother said as she sat down with her own plate of food and began to eat,"are you excited?"
"Of course!" Sarah said. Saphira smiled in agreement.
"Good," said her mother. "Your father is thrilled too. He wishes he could be here but he's at the gym."
Sarah nodded. Her father was the gym leader of Petalburg city. They always got along well because they both loved pokemon and had something to talk about.
As they ate, a boy came down the stairs and into the kitchen, rubbing his brown eyes.
"Good morning honey!"said the mother as she got up and laid another plate of food on the table for him.
"Hi William," Sarah greeted her little brother.
"Hi," William said with a yawn. He ran a hand through his messy brown hair then sat down in the chair next to Sarah and began to eat.
"So, it's today, huh?" William asked his sister with a tone Sarah couldn't recognize.
"Yep," Sarah said. William said nothing more and concentrated on his food.
A small conversation was exchanged, surprisingly with William saying nothing, until the meal was finished. The siblings helped their mother clean the dishes while Saphira got Sarah's backpack.
They all worked together to make sure everything was packed in the backpack:a blanket and pillow, a few cooking utensils, and other necessities like a toothbrush.
Sarah got her Pokenav, put it in her pocket and hoisted the backpack on her shoulders. Her mother smiled and hugged her while saying, "I love you and I'm very proud of you. Have fun and be safe."
"I will," said Sarah after the hug. Her mother pet the Bagon on the head once more and said, "You be safe too and take care of Sarah." Saphira grunted in assurance.
Sarah turned to her brother. "Bye William," she said as she hugged him. He hugged back, not saying a word. After the hug, he avoided her eyes. Sarah looked regretful.
"Come on, William," she said, not unkindly," you know you're not old enough to go yet."
"It's not that.." said William, still avoiding eye contact, "I'm gonna miss you too much." Sarah glanced at Saphira who had a look of sympathy on her face.
Sarah frowned sadly and looked at her brother. "I'll call as often as I can to say hi, ok?" she said, trying to lighten her brother's mood.
"Ok.." said William, clearly thinking that it wasn't good enough.
Sarah hugged her brother again, then repositioned the backpack on her back.
Everyone, except William, went out the door, and Sarah and Saphira began walking down the trail toward the professor's lab with her mother waving until she was out of sight.
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Please Read: Any good? I know this chapter is really short, but the next ones are a lot longer. I'm sorry if this story is seeming to go by fast, but it gets longer and better.
I love dragons and I'm a big Eragon fan, so I thought it would be fun to write a story about a trainer with dragon pokemon.(When Sarah found Saphira's egg, I was NOT trying to imply that it was the same thing Eragon did.) This story takes place in the Hoenn region. Sarah will travel through Hoenn and end up with three pokemon on her team. Saphira will be the only dragon TYPE, but the others are pokemon like dragons. I really hope people like this story because I've been working very hard on it. Please review to let me know. It's ok if you don't like it, but please don't be rude when you say you don't. If you have any questions about my story, my email should be open. Thanks.
Note: Eragon fans should've noticed the name Saphira. There will be more names throughout this story, at least at the beginning, for Eragon fans and Harry Potter fans. Also, if you would like to know why I'm going to name every pokemon in this story, here's why. And it makes pokemon twice as fun: Let's say, you don't nickname your Mightyena, so you call it 'Mightyena.' But when you think about it, 'Mightyena' is only the name of that SPECIES of pokemon. So, calling a Mightyena 'Mightyena' is like calling a German Shepherd 'German Shepherd.' It's their species, so it's not their NAME. So, I don't see nicknaming pokemon as nicknaming. I see it as naming. If you don't agree with this, that's fine, but please don't decide not to read my story because of it. I'm really really nervous that no one will like it. So, please read, review, and enjoy.