Not far from the small town of Pallet Town, there's the route leading to Viridian City called Route 1 and that's where this story begins. The route was a peaceful place, where Pidgey and Ratatta like to hang and play. Up and coming trainers will often take their first steps as Pokemon trainers on this very path and that's what it was for Lucia Wildflower. She was 10 years old, had been for a few days now. She was meant to begin training on the day after her birthday, but family and friend circumstances meant she wasn't able to and thus left her home in Viridian City to collect her starter Pokemon from Professor Oak slightly later then most children of her age would. Yet she certainly could not wait to begin her Pokemon journey.
Those circumstances were simple, her parents were Pokemon Breeders and would travel to the Sevii isles every weekend to help out in the daycare that existed up there. This time, Lucia's babysitter couldn't come in to look after her as he was unfortunately ill with a rather nasty stomach bug. With no other options, the caramel haired girl was dragged along to the sevii isles. It wasn't like her parents hadn't tried to cancel the visit to spend time with their beloved daughter, but a load of trainers had left Buneary and Bunnelby - two Pokemon known for breeding and producing eggs at a very speedy manner, so the daycare needed every pair of hands they could get.
It hadn't taken long to choose between the trio of starters and soon Lucia had been walking out of the lab with a adorable orange and scream Charmander at her ankles. The fiery tail of the Charmander was in tip-top condition and it's scales sparkled in the bright sunlight. Definitely been treated right and it actually wasn't long before Lucia discovered her starter's gender, giving her a chance to name it. Little Delta was a girl, with a personality that fitted a fire type. She was boastful and very much eager to battle. She often wouldn't listen to commands as a result, but that only made it more fun for Lucia. As she wanted to learn to tame the fire type properly, that was her only wish.
"Delta, use Ember!" she called out loudly - her voice filled with confidence and cheer - when they encountered a common Rattata, the purple Pokemon evidently challenging them to a battle as it used Quick Attack without warning. It was meant to be a simple one-hit battle, but it didn't work out like that. No, Delta choose to use Scratch instead of the move called. Every battle, the same occurrence would happen over and over with no change in the formula. She would ask for 'Ember', but her starter would use Scratch instead even when it wasn't the best. This happened more and more, and it was a little annoying after a while. She even started to try scolding the very Pokemon that was starting to 'bug' her. "Delt-!"
Her annoyed scream didn't get the chance to be finish as a long flash of lightning jolted above her head in the formerly blue skies above, clouds formed and connected as well. Dark and dangerous, now she was quite understandably nervous. A lightning storm, now? Whilst she was out and about, instead of being in a Pokemon Center. Not safe! Returning Delta to her poke ball with a quick movement of her hand and the red glow flashed quickly, she began her quick ran towards Viridian Forest. She would continue her training the next day, hopefully...
As she ran, rain splattered down and soaked the mud path below her. It was sludgy, hard to move and very messy to move across at a pace faster then walking. Sinking, that's what her feet were doing since the mud was basically slime with no stable surface for her to relax those toes of hers into. Her legs became covered in brown muck, as she fell over a rock that was embedded in the ground. Face also brown now, she snarled out loud with annoyance evident in her voice. But that would be the one of the last proper actions she would do for a long time...
More bright lightning flickered and powdered the ground below the sky in its powerful embrace, trees were set ablaze and some began to fall onto the mud path that Lucia was running along to make it back to the nearby city. Smash, one of the trees splintered and broke in half when it crashed into the ground below. Now very frightened for her life, she tried to move faster down the mud path as quick as she could manage with the deep mud below her. It was to no avail though, as a tree before her was hit and began to fall. Just as she arrived right underneath its falling path...
Lucky! That's how she felt when she managed to duck fast enough to skid below the tree before it crumpled to the ground. But then a loud screech was heard, Spearow on route 1?! That wasn't common, but that wasn't the main problem. They sounded angry, at something. What hair-brained lunatic would anger a Spearow, a Pokemon known for attacking trainers and their Pokemon on a regular basis? But soon after the screeching began, a loud crackle and spark was heard. An electric type Pokemon, using their Lightning Rod ability perhaps and then Thunder Shocking the opponent. She couldn't tell very well, all she knew was that a large blue blast had been summoned and was streaking closer and closer towards her.
Alright, not so lucky. Caught in the backlash of the attack, she was thrown backward into one of the fiery trees. Burnt and bruised, her skin a pale shade of brown from bruises and the mild to extreme burns that caked her body from the impact with the tree. Some electricity aftermath had also effected her, judging by the static bursting off her clothes and causing her to cry out in absolute pain. Her pain-filled green eyes opened once, twice...but closing properly, as her energy faded from her body and left her in a unconscious state from the pain.
Alright, hope you enjoy this new story. Its just a short story to pass some time.