"Camden wake up you have to meet Ava and Ethan at Professor Oak's." My mother didn't have to tell me that twice.
I got up and ran through Pallet Town to Professor Oak's lab that morning. The sun was shining, the Pokémon were stirring, the world was more alive than it had been in a while. When I reached the door of the lab, my friends Ava and Ethan arrived. This would be the day that we would receive our first Pokémon and begin our adventure. We have waited 17 years to do so. This being that Hoenn Region learned that if you take 10 year olds out of school the world would fall apart, so they moved the age up to 17.
"Today's the day, the sun is shining, now let's go get those Pokémon!" Ethan burst with joy. Professor Oak is his father, so he has been googly eyed over the Pokémon since he was a little boy. Ava and I knew he would be eager and had already agreed he would pick first.
"Hello Camden, Ethan, Ava. Who wants to choose first?" Ethan looked at us with those pleading eyes; we motioned for him to go. Professor Oak took him back to a table, he chose a pokeball and returned to use with stars in his eyes.
"WHICH DID YOU CHOOSE?" I shouted when he wouldn't tell us.
"I chose..." he liked to hold things out. He says it creates suspense. It's working. "...SQUIRTLE!" He always gets it out at some point.
"Squirtle is a water Pokémon." Ava pronounced, "Then I will choose Bulbasaur the grass Pokémon so I can defeat you Ethan HA." Ethan glared at her with hate in his eyes. He hated to lose at anything. Ava walked back and claimed her Bulbasaur.
"Well then I guess I get Charmander." Good thing my favorite Pokémon type is fire. I had wanted Charmander to begin with anyways. I walked back to the room and grabbed the pokeball that contained my new Charmander.
Professor Oak granted us our pokedexs and wished us luck. From there we were out to begin our adventure to see new places and find who we are.