hapter 1 "The Adventure Begins!"

I woke up this morning, as I always do. But today, today is my 10th birthday and the day my Pokemon journey begins!
As soon as I recongnized this, I quickly got dressed and headed out the door.

"Here son, happy birthday!" My mom said as she blocked the door.

She gave me a box, with pictures of pokemon on it. I opended the box and got a pair of Running Shoes!

"Thanks mom! Gotta go!" I said as I headed out the door.

"Don't forget to check..." My mom seemed to be trying to tell me something as I headed out.

The sun was bright, the light was shining off of the water. It was just another day in Sootopolis City for some, but for me...it was the
start of a journey!

It was about 2 years after the legendary Pokemon Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza fought. The city finaly built a submarine station!
I headed over there hoping they would let me go to Littleroot for free.

"Ticket please!" The submarine captain told me.

"It's my birthday! May I get a ride to Littleroot?" I asked.

"Kid, first of all, happy birthday! Second, I would totally let you ride, but I don't make the rules around here."

Just then I remembered that my mom wanted me to check something. I quickly got the running shoes out of my backpack, and took out the directions.

"Kid!" The captain alerted."You do have a ticket!".

"Where?" I asked.

"Right here, it fell out of those instructions" he responded. "Come aboard friend!".

I got on the submarine, it was fancy, kinda like in those story books about some place called "England". Anyway, I took a seat.

"Alright, our first stop is Littleroot Town! Get buckled up and lets go!" the captain told everyone on the loud speaker.

As we decended, there was an astonishing amountof pokemon! Some I haven't even seen before! There was this one in perticular I liked.
It was brown with many fins, and a red dot near it's head. It followed the window on the submarine and was looking at me the whole time, right up to the shallowest of waters.

"ALLRIIGHT! Were here at Littleroot,please take all your belongings...If you are departing with us that is!" the captain said with an adventerous tone.

As I hopped out of the submarine, I went straight to Professor Birch's lab.

"Sorry, but the professor is out doing field work. Come back later." Someone said as I walked in.

I went out and started to search for him. Sure enough, I find him...

" Give me those Pokemon!" A man in a red hooded jacket said.

"There are no Pokemon in there!" Professor Birch replied. "Oh, you! Take my bag! Choose a Pokemon! Hurry!"He yelled, once he noticed me.

I took the bag, there was 3 Pokemon with labels."Aaron-The Iron Armor Pokemon", "Ralts-The Feeling Pokemon", and the Pokemon I have been dreaming about,
"Mudkip-The Mud Fish Pokemon". I quickly took Mudkip, and yelled at the guy mugging the Professor.

"Hey, Battle me!" I yelled.

"Heh heh. Alright, this is gonna be easy!" The guy replied.

I sent out Mudkip, he sent out some kind of lava Pokemon.

"That's a Slugma! Good thing you chose Mudkip!" Professor Birch exclaimed!

The man commanded the Sulgma to use Lava Plume, it looked very painful!

"Why don't you just give me those Pokemon now, and save me the trouble?" the guy taunted.

I commanded Mudkip to use Water Gun...
"Why should I let a criminal like you win?".

As Mudkip used Water Gun, the man ran over and snatched the bag.

"HAHA! Slugma give 'em an extra attack for the road!"

The Slugma made the air around us very hot, Mudkip seemed as if it almost fainted.

"Professor...I..I just don't know what happened...I'm sorry, but...I failed you..."

"You didn't fail me." he said in a calming voice."Listen, how about I give you that Mudkip?"

I was surprised at what the professor said. I was expecting him to be dissappointed.

"Really? I can have him?" I asked, excited about owning my first Pokemon.

"Yes, you can have him. Just watch out for shady people like that."he replied "Well, I guess I will get going back to my lab..Oh, I almost forgot. Happy birthday!"The professor
handed me 5 pokeballs and a Poke'nav."Take care of every pokemon you meet, alright?".

"Alright, I promise. I won't let you down!" I responded.

I headed back to Sootopolis. On the way, the same fish pokemon followed me. The Poke'nav activated. It told me The pokemon's name was Relicanth, and a bunch of other facts about
the pokemon. It seems they were able to combine the Pokedex and the Poke'nav...