Chapter 1 - Meeting

The sunlight in his eyes woke him up almost immediately, making the rock skin pokémon rub his eyes. He tried to bury his head on the soil he was lying on, but it wasn't working, and he could hear his mom's voice calling him anyway.

Larvitar slowly got up from his comfortable position and walked towards the green plain, where a tyranitar was holding some Oran berries. "Mom..."

"You're awake. Now eat your breakfast Larvitar." the child nodded and grabbed the blue berry with his hand and threw it in his mouth. He then proceeded to chewing and swallowing it. The small pokémon sighed as it continued to do it was doing, and his mom was watching him the entire time. She sensed there was something bothering her son a few days back, but when she asked, Larvitar would always reply with a smile. "It's nothing mom."

After he was finished he told her he was going to explore the forest area a bit, and maybe if he could, meet up with that ranger who was showing Ash and the others around before they left. Ash was his trainer before he went to what he remembered was called the Silver Conference. Technically, the black-haired boy didn't own him, but he was there ever since the rock skin pokémon hatched out of his egg. And Larvitar held on to those memories long after his friend had gone. He always wondered, was he able to reach his goal and win? Or maybe he lost and went somewhere farther away..?

Larvitar thought he would be really happy with his mom and everything was peaceful. He was...but he missed the feeling of travel. To see new places and to meet new people. Most of all to be with the person who supported him through his worst times in life.

He had never informed the tyranitar about this, even though he knew she was worried about him. It was risky, but he wanted to take on the consequences head on. It was better than being stuck here on Mt. Silver...

"Larvitar!" a girl's voice snapped him out of his thoughts as he saw he was approaching the base where the humans normally stayed. Suddenly a woman with red hair that has a few spikes at the end, green eyes, and a matching striped band on her head. She was wearing a weird orange and blue suit that seemed to reflect her being a ranger. At least, that's what the pokémon thought anyway. "What are you doing here so early in the morning?"

"Nothing." he replied, but of course to her it sounded like 'Lar...'. Humans can't understand their speech, but that didn't stop them from being friends and comrades. Though it was annoying they can't get what they were saying even though it wasn't true the other way around.

"Going for another stroll?"

"Yep." the rock/ground type pokémon nodded to confirm what he said. "Alright then, be careful Larvitar."

"Of course." and with that she went back inside the building.

The hatchling exhaled lightly as he turned and started to walk again to a deeper part of the group of trees. He was still deep in thought about the whole thing when he bumped into something really soft...and pink. Landing on the ground with a small 'thump', he winced at the pain and pointed at the thing he slammed into because he was sure it was alive. "Watch where you're going!" Larvitar shouted.

"Me? You were the one that hit me on the face!" the balloon pokémon retorted. The rock/ground type pokémon blinked twice before he asked. "Who are you? And how did you get here?" the normal type pokémon had a circle-shaped body and was color pink. She had cat-like ears, big blue eyes, and a green-capped marker on her left hand.

"Hmph. That's no way to treat a hurt pokémon." she pouted. He was starting to get irritated with her. "This is supposed to be a Pokémon Reserve, so you're not allowed here." the hatchling stated while trying to put some authority in his voice.

"I'm not some kind of poacher dummy." he was on the verge of using a Hidden Power on her.

"Y-you-!"

"I have a name you know, it's Jigglypuff." she cut in. "And my dream is to be the best singer in the world~!" the statement felt strangely a little familiar to Larvitar...but he questioned why. Out of the blue he remembered the boy saying nearly the same thing.

'My dream is to be the greatest Pokémon Master!'

"...hey Jigglypuff, do you know a person named Ash?" the name seemed to have an effect on her, which the hatchling did not really expect. "Yeah...I know him." she muttered back.

"I know it's sudden but listen, I want to go on a journey to find him. But I don't really have much to go on at the moment. Since you came from the outside, do you think you could help me out?" Larvitar didn't know why he said such things to her, but he had a feeling she knew a lot, more than he knew. He had only been out for a couple days with Ash and company, so that didn't strengthen him well on survival skills. The rock skin pokémon was originally planning to go alone...but it would be safer to go with another pokémon. "Well?"

"You're asking a stranger to travel with you? You're so naïve." he couldn't give up here.

"I ask again, are you willing to travel with me?"

"...fine fine...but only because you seem to really know Ash." Larvitar showed a small smile, but then realized he couldn't leave without telling his mom. Yet would she really allow him to go? Jigglypuff was already walking to the direction of the hanging bridge when she noticed that her companion wasn't moving. "I thought you wanted to find him. What's keeping you?"

"...my mom." he mumbled sadly.

"You live with your mom?" she asked with what the hatchling guessed was shock. He guessed that many pokémon don't even know their moms anymore. "Yeah, so? I'm probably way younger than you think."

"Huh...that's interesting. So are you going to tell her or not?"

"I-I honestly don't know..."

"Boy you didn't think this through didn't you?" the balloon pokémon sighed. "Come on; let's go to your mommy."

"D-don't treat me like a kid!"

"But you are." Jigglypuff countered.

"Shut up."

"By the way, you haven't told me your name yet."

"It's Larvitar." he huffed. "Follow me and don't get sidetracked okay? This place is really big and easy to get lost in." he quickly took her hand, which actually made her flush from embarrassment. The rock/ground type began to lead her past the trees and into a clearing where the large tyranitar was waiting while holding a couple more berries. "You're back...and you have a guest too."

"Mom...I-"

"It's okay Larvitar...if you want to go to find your friend, then you have permission to go." the hatchling was stunned. How did she know? "But make sure not to get caught or hurt along the way alright?" he felt like he was about to cry. She found out...even though he didn't say anything. She knew it would be dangerous, but she still chose to let him go anyhow. He thought that time where he was kidnapped had scarred her. It did, but Tyranitar could see the determination in his eyes. Tyranitar turned her attention at the pokémon who was staring at them. "Keep him safe for me Jigglypuff." the normal type was surprised that she knew her name, but it was her species name, so it would have been easy to figure out. The mother and son hugged each other tightly, and then separated with light droplets in both of their eyes. The balloon pokémon could do nothing but watch them.

"Let's go shall we?" she asked as she made a 'come on' gesture with her hand after a few moments and started to move away.

"R-right." he responded as he went to her and trailed behind Jigglypuff.

A/N : I felt pretty lazy when I was working on this one. So if it sounds bland, I apologize for that. I really wanted to try to make a story about these two since well, Larvitar was so cute and I hated it that it had to stay with his mom instead of Ash. T-T So...yeah. It's just a random idea. I have no idea where it's going to go, but I might as well go on with it since I typed it down.

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