Pokemon- Challenges.
I don't own Pokemon but I do own the OC's. Andrew and Buttonz are real and don't mind me using them in my stories. ^___^
Chapter1
"CATCH YOUR POKEMON TODAY!" The blaring loud advertisement on the TV made me jerk awake, flailing my arms I swung toward the man who was laughing on the screen, knuckles made a dull clunk against the TV screen, a small suppressed laugh escaped followed by a series of shushing sounds from about four other people. Rolling over I rubbed my eyes to look at the images dancing across the TV that had somehow migrated from the desk it had been on last night to the nightstand teetering precariously supported by a stick. My eyes started to scan my room from my bunk bed. On the bottom bunk I shared with a friend of mine when she came over my eyes found the perpetrators, a curly mop of brown hair was visible behind my coat rack and some hideous pink shoes under my computer desk. My little sister and her friend had come over for the weekend. Groaning I rolled over all the way to push myself up onto my hands and knees. 17 years old, a late starter to being a Pokemon trainer but it was the only way out the house, a few of my friends where coming with me like Buttonz and Andrew. In fact Buttonz was laying next to me in the bed, wrapped up in her leopard blanket and her head buried into her purple pillow case, a set of stuffed animals crushed to her body by her arms. I smirked at her sleeping form, Shadow was on the floor his head rising off the blue pillow case he had slept with last night. "What..." He muttered sleepily but the rest of it was muffled from his head falling into the pillow. "Spirit! Time to get up!" My mom shouted from the front living room I could hear the slight constant click of her rocking chair beat against the wooden flooring. Today me, Buttonz and Shadow where going to the Pokemon ranch to get ourselves some Pokemon to start out fresh with. We'd be sorta hitch hiking our way to the ranch near some place called Pellet Town, it's where Ash Ketchum came from, he was sorta everyone's idol even if it was 30 years since he had become what might as well have been a Pokemon master. "Evaria.. OUT." I mumbled sleepily and the shoes below my desk twitched the brown mop of hair shook from behind the coat rack near the door. "Iyah sister, out so me and my friends change." I pointed toward the door and the shoes twitched. "Take your friend with you." I commanded and eventually the three year old came out from behind the coat rack with a pout like look on her face. "I have to get ready to go, I'll play with you later." Evaria's lower lip trembled in a pout before she pushed the chair out of the way and helped her friend out from under the desk.
Getting out of bed once the door was shut I groaned as my muscles protested to movement, sleeping in the same bed with Buttonz was rough sometimes. Kicking Andrew in the foot the guy jerked and groaned at me pulling the blanket over his head. "Get up nii sama." I replied and he smacked his lips but I kicked his foot again. "Ariba!" I shouted in Spanish at him the word I had been taught for 'up' in my Spanish class. "Spirit.. shut up.. it's not past noon go back to sleep." Buttonz protested but I bounced onto the bed to tug at the leopard blanket on her. "Nee sama! Get up!" I laughed and plucked at her face till she growled at me. "UP UP UP! Okaa san said we had too." I yanked Andrew clean out of his sleeping bag, he wasn't a very big guy but he was strong from his days of working out. Buttonz was the biggest of us, tall and solidly built she had long black/brown hair with blue eyes and pale skin but when she got out in the sun it turned dark. Andrew had short light brown hair and was curled up in his PJ's in an attempt to compensate for the lack of a sleeping bag. A knock came to the door and my dad opened the door moments later. His black curly mop of hair was the first I saw followed by a dark brown face. "You guys getting up?" His voice held a certain confidence to it, sure he hadn't raised me as a child leaving that to his mom who had adopted us as her own children while he got his life straightened out. "Yep." I replied and was grudgingly echoed by half asleep voices of "Yes sir." and "Yes dad." My two friends had basically been adopted into the house as family since we had met in my freshmen year of high school. So instead of two girls (me and Evaria) in the room it was really me, Evaria, Buttonz and Andrew living in the room when he didn't sleep out on the couch or we all moved into the front living. I'd graduated high school this year in June so my mom was letting me become a Pokemon trainer with my friends. Andrew was coming cause he had nothing better to do and I had asked him to come, it's not like he had anything in town to stay and do. "Good." My dad said pulling his head out and shutting the door. Andrew rolled over, shirtless as normal, grumbling softly about the lack of a sleeping bag this morning, he grabbed up his backpack and headed to the bathroom, swinging the door open and shutting it with a softness he'd always had. Buttonz rolled over, sat up, looked at me and groaned, it was a cool summer day and she hated getting up early. "Augh." she groaned at me and I laughed, most of the time I wasn't immediately awake but today I was, the warm sun washing into my room was so great. "Come on nee sama, uppity up up." I grinned at her as she groaned and laid on her back staring up at the wooden slats of the bunk above her.
Walking over to my dresser I started to fish around for what wasn't in the backpacks packed up sitting in my closet. A simple set of camo shorts, a black T-shirt with a dragon on it, a belt to hold the shorts up, (I'd been loosing weight since Andrew had coaxed me into keeping him company as he worked out), a matching black bandanna to go along, my new shoes felt a bit weird but I loved them, my mom had given them to me last night. "Spirit are you up yet?" came a voice and I opened the door to look at my mom, a shorter woman with gray in her hair, no teeth in her mouth and she had a old feel about her but she was my mom, taken me and my little brother in when no one else seemed willing too. Her blue house coat was wrapped around her and she gave me that purse lipped smile before wrapping me into a hug. "Oh, my big girl is growing up so fast. seems like yesterday I was changing your diapers."
"And that I was just meeting you, first girl to play to play on the football team in a long time." Shadow laughed, he had met me that way, only girl in the whole school who was willing to go out and take a unnecessary beating for two hours a day after school. "Or that I was sitting next to you in science class." Buttonz chimed in from the bed, getting out of bed in a set of tinker bell PJ bottoms with an ICP top. "When your done getting ready I have something to give you all." My mom planted a kiss on my forehead, snagged Andrew by the ear to give him one and Buttonz leaned over me to get one too. She even grabbed my dad and gave him, Evaria, and her friend a kiss. "Come on Buttonz hurry up and change." I said fidgeting with the cloth of my bandanna. Buttonz shrugged and ushered me out of my room toward the kitchen, grabbing Shadow as she walked, the faint scent of cinnamon rolls filled the house along with bacon, eggs, ham, cheese, milk and juice.
Gathering food on a plate I sat at the table with Andrew and Buttonz, forks and knives scrapping the heavy stoneware plates. "My god Spirit, you didn't get the best thing." Buttonz said pointing out my lack of hash browns. "Oh well, I guess I'll just die from the lack of hash browns." I replied with a bit of sarcasm and the three of us started to laugh. "Hurry up you three, I'm already dressed and ready." My mom came walking out of her room, jeans and T-shirt. "I thought we was walking.." I muttered and she shook her head. "No you're not going to walk to the ferry."
"It's just down the road." I mumbled and she looked up from tying her shoes up with a look that could kill. "Ok, we're not walking." I held my hands up and went back to eating. "Sister!" Evaria called walking from the back of the house where dad's room was. "What sister?" I called and she pulled something out from behind her back, a scribbled drawing of something, what it was I had no idea but she knew and was proud of it. "For you." She smiled proudly as her pig tailed friend looked at me with doe eyes. "Aww really? Thank you sister!" I leaned out of my chair to hug her and my younger brother came stumbling out of his room, PJ pants hanging off his ass and black hair tousled from sleeping, he walked to the bathroom, shut the door, walked back out and to his room. Rolling my eyes I let Evaria go "You take it with you?" she asked and I nodded my head. "Yeah I'll take with me." My sister laughed happily and ran back to our shared room with her friend. "You guys got everything?" I asked before taking the last bite of my eggs mixed with ham and cheese. Andrew nodded his head and Buttonz gave me the sign language yes, ( they had their mouths full). "SPIRIT! BUTTONZ! ANDREW!!" Came loud shouts from outside, the three of us looked up to see a gang of people starting to fill the front living room. Buttonz mom, dad, sisters and nieces and nephews, Andrew's uncle, aunt, sister and brother then our friends pushed into the house. "HAVE A GOOD TRIP!!" They shouted and the kids tossed confetti up into the air before they all converged on to us at the table. "Oh my god Spirit, I can't believe your leaving us!" My friend Red head shouted as she flung her arms around my shoulders. "It's only for awhile." I muttered and she made a face "Still," My friend Kai said putting hands on her hips as she came up on my other side. "We'll miss you." she grabbed my head and pulled me into a hug. Buttonz and Andrew where getting the same treatment from their family, hugs and kisses, promises to return with tales of adventure and the such. Eventually my mom came up behind me and pulled me out the chair by my ear to hug and kiss my forehead. My family was all tough love, damn Italian blood.
"To the car!" My mom called from the door, her blue eyes holding a steely quality. chugging down the rest of my juice I darted to the room, Buttonz was changing in it but it's ok, she had all the girl parts I had so eh no big deal. "Vamoose sister! Okaa san wants to go."
"Yeah yeah yeah." Buttonz replied as she pulled her pants up, back to me, I swung the closet door open to grab my big gray back pack. Swinging it onto my back I heard Andrew behind me and tossed him his black one from between my legs. "Thanks sis." He swung his backpack on and I tossed Buttonz's onto the bed before reaching up into the upper level of the closet to grab my wallet. I walked over to the computer desk to grab my cellphone, hooked up to the charger I pulled it out the wall and unhooked the charger so I could slip the folding phone into my pocket. Charger went into the side pocket of my backpack. "Come on you guys, mom is getting antsy." My dad called from the kitchen, filling his coffee cup with fresh coffee I smiled and nodded my head. Andrew grabbed his cellphone and so did Buttonz. "HEYA!" I shouted with a fist in the air before jumping forward and laughing "Onward defrosted tuna team!" We laughed and ran out to the car, everyone else was already at the ferry.
The ride to the ferry was spent in the back of the old car assuring my mom we would be fine on our way to pallet town and that yes we would get Pokemon who where suited to us so we could have fun with them. "Now I don't want you guys to get hurt." she told us for about the 50th time that day or maybe that car ride. "Hey mom, didn't you say you had something for us?" I leaned forward from the middle seat in the back, arms against the driver and passenger seats. "Oh yeah, in my purse." She pointed to the black and gray mini backpack. Grabbing it I flipped it around till I found the zippers. "The big pocket." I opened up the pocket and found a set of watch looking things. "They are brand new from the Sinnoh regions!" She said as we stopped at a red light. Green, black and purple. I knew Buttonz would want the purple one so I just handed that to her. "Spirit the green one is yours, Andrew yours is the black one. Their called Poke-Tech's you can add and customize to it as you go." My mom seemed so proud that she'd found something good. "Wow.. aren't these things expensive?" Andrew commented as he adjusted the black velcro strap onto his wrist like Buttonz was doing. "Yeah but I have connections and you all know that." Mom gave us that mischievous look and we grinned in reply.
Eventually we pulled up into the parking lot of the ferry, we lived on a island north of Cinnabar island, it wasn't on the main maps or really well known at all. Unbuckling seat belts and pushing at each other to get out of the car the three of us piled out onto the dirt of the ground. "Tickets! TICKETS!" shouted a man at the foot of the ferry waving his hat to be noticed over the small crowd. Everyone was on the docks to greet us good bye. I couldn't help but like all the attention, I was normally the quiet type who kept their heads down. Hell, even the PE teacher I didn't like from school was here to wish me off. Buttonz slung her arm over my shoulders and grinned, she was just as pumped as I was to go on an adventure, Andrew was too, I slung my arm over his shoulder and drew him closer. "The three of us," Buttonz said "POKEMON MASTERS!" She laughed and we grinned at her. "To the Pokemon league?" I asked and they nodded to me, hands in a circle "Promise." we all said in unison and laughed as we ran threw the crowd of family and towns people, It wasn't often that three friends ran off to become Pokemon trainers. Today was the start of a new journey for me and my friends, we'd probably show up on TV once or twice with the way we acted, maybe even in jail if we got to wild.
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With a ferry ride underway we get bored out of our minds on the deck but not for too long. Meet Professor Oak, chapter 2
Translations!
Ariba (Spanish) Up
Nee sama (Japanese) sister lord
Nii sama (Japanese) brother lord
Okaa san (Japanese) Mom/mother