Hello! Welcome! This is Pokemon XY - Kalos! I'm just going to called this XY for short though. If you don't know me I am MonfernoFreak, someone who loves Monferno, Chespin and Eeveelutions. I write Pokemon stories - typically journey stories - and this is the start of my brand new one! This will feature a kid who plans to travel the Kalos Region, with no set goal, but just wants to make loads of Pokemon friends. So now, let's begin!
Ep 1: Reaching Home!
I sighed. Feeling the wind on my face this high in the air was a refreshing feel and relaxed me. I felt at one with nature up here. It was a break from my busy household. I live with my mother and brother. My mum is a fashion designer and designs things for people and Pokemon. My brother's a Pokemon personal Trainer. Although for some reason they both work from home. I sometimes think they have brain tumours... My father's usually out travelling but we usually see him at least once a month. My sister's also travelling somewhere although ever since she left our house a few years ago, when she turned thirteen, we haven't heard from her. It's as if she walked off of the face of the earth.
Other than those few troubles my family's ok. My house is pretty cool anyway, we live close to the heart of Lumiose City. Ever since my mum hit her big break as a fashion designer we've gone from living in Santalune City to Lumiose City, and we've been climbing the ladder of class in this city ever since. I can see my house from up here. I was up on top of the Prism Tower in the centre of the city; it also being the main attraction of Kalos. I always thought it was weird how I never got told off for climbing to the top and sitting here. Idiots. I thought I'd climb up here one last time before leaving this town in the dust.
My birthday was two weeks ago although for some odd reason I hadn't felt the urge to leave yet. I mean, I don't have a dream. I don't want to become a Champion, Pokemon master or Gym Leader like most kids do. I really have no clue. All I know is that I want to travel, catch Pokemon and make new friends.
I was leaving tomorrow. That wasn't too far away since it was already sunset. All I had to do really was walk down the road to Professor Sycamore's Pokemon Lab. I sat there foretelling my journey, giving off a rare smirk in my case as I did so.
CHIRP! CHIRP! I snapped out of my daydream as some Fletchling and Staravia flew past me. It's so magical to see two Pokemon that originated from different regions live in harmony. The wind also picked up and it was so strong I felt as if it would blow me off the tower, so, I decided to get down. Before doing so I had one last glance of this magnificent view as I wouldn't see it for a long time…
I ran back inside my house only to find my mother waiting there for me.
"Sweetie you're home! You've been out all day!" my mother cried as she ran over to hug me. My mum had brown hair that was usually tied up in some swirly bun with hazel eyes. I got the green eyes and the dirty blond hair from my father. She usually wore a white shirt and some brown tight pants. When she was working or in the kitchen she wore a cyan apron with thick white lining.
"Mum please!" I groaned as I pulled away from her.
"Hmm. I thought you'd have that reaction. So I got you a gift!" she said with a cheer. I perked up at the word gift and looked over at my mum as she brought back a box. I calmly opened it and inside I saw some brand new clothes!
"Wow mum they look great," I told her with a hint of a smile. I didn't laugh or smile that often as I wasn't the type of person to laugh or smile at everything.
"Well then go try them on!" I ran out of the room and chucked off the shabby clothes I had on and put on my new ones. I walked back out and my mum squealed with excitement as they fit perfectly and looked great on me. I was wearing mustard coloured chinos and a white top. Over the white top was an unzipped jacket that was a very light sky colour. I wore black vans and also had three bracelets on my right arm; one was blue and red, one was white and black and the other was rainbow coloured. They all were about a centimetre thick and were made out of coloured thread and embedded into a pattern.
"Thanks mum, I love them. The perfect clothes to start my journey with!" I complimented her. She gave me a warm smile in return as she watched me run up the stairs.
"That's my boy…" I heard her mutter as I walked away.
"Bye!" I waved to my family as I started to walk down the road that lead to Professor Sycamore's Pokemon Lab. I decided after I got my starter I wouldn't come back home and immediately start on my own. I needed to show I wouldn't have to rely on anyone throughout my journey.
"Stay safe and keep healthy!" my mother reminded me.
"Have a safe trip!" my father yelled to me. My father had returned home to give me a send-off as well. I was wearing the clothes that my mum gave me and also wearing a necklace that was a strange rainbow colour – it was transparent but not transparent at the same time. My father had given it to me but I had no clue what it did. He said I'd find out in due time. It seriously seemed like it had no purpose at all though. "Prepare yourself Kalos, I'm coming for you!"
I walked into the large building that rested near the outskirts of town and I found in the lobby no one but a receptionist and a cute little Dedenne that rested on her head.
"Hello, I'm here to see Professor Sycamore…" I told the receptionist nervously. I had no clue as to why I was nervous. I guess starting your journey can give some people jitters?
"You must be the new trainer!" she realised. I nodded. "Well, one of them anyways…" I gave her a confused look as I hadn't heard of other new trainer/s. "You see, there's two other new trainers starting in Aquacorde Town and Vaniville Town and since you were meant to come two weeks ago… Well, Professor Sycamore kind of went to meet those two."
"No way!" I groaned.
"And he won't be back for another month! After he gives them their starting Pokemon tomorrow he's then leaving to go to the Kanto region for a month."
"Well then, I guess I'm going to Aquacorde Town!" I shouted with energy I didn't usually have. Why am I getting so pumped up over this? I usually don't feel like I need to shout or run but I want that Pokemon. I want to battle! "See you another time!" I dashed out of the door and headed for Route 4 but then realised that lots of Pokemon roamed Route 4. It was a few hours of roaming through the fields and then an hour going through the magnificent garden. I couldn't survive that long without any Pokemon by my side. I sighed. Looks like I'll have to go back home after all.
"Oh I'm so sorry to hear that sweety," my mother said as she tried to comfort me. "Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Yes actually. Could you by any chance get Kris to lend me his Staraptor?" I questioned. "He said no when I asked him." I gave my mum then 'pretty please' look until she caved.
"Alright, anything for my baby boy!" Too easy mum, too easy.
She came back minutes later with a pokeball in her hand.
"Ok, I've talked it over with your brother and he said he'd lend it to you only until you get your starter Pokemon. He said if it's not back by tomorrow night then he'll have to punish you!" my mum said with a wink. "You know how to work the pokeball transporter at the Pokemon Centre right?"
"Of course!"
"Good. Now, it's already noon so you better hurry if you want to get to Santalune City before sunset." She gave me a kiss on the head. I smiled, waved goodbye and ran out the door. I was so excited that yes, I ran.
Since I wasn't much of a flyer (even though I do like to sit on top of Prism Tower – logic) we decided to walk. We peacefully walked through the beautiful garden that connected Santalune City to a route that led to Lumiose City. We had already been walking for like six hours and sunset was quickly approaching… I had let Staraptor out of his pokeball to have a little fly around. At the moment he was flying above me as I spectated the garden. I hadn't realised that it had been over a year since I'd relaxed in this garden, as it is quite a relaxing place to be and makes you feel connected to Pokemon. They accept humans in their little home and will be friendly to you as long as your friendly back.
Up ahead I could finally start to see Santalune City and I saw Staraptor start to speed up. We had made it here on time, thankfully. We had left home at 12pm and it was about 6:00 now. The distance between Lumiose City and Santalune City was quite a short distance compared to other cities. Well, nothing like the walk between Vaniville Town and Aquacorde Town. That was only ten minutes.
"Star!" Staraptor chirped as a wild flock of Fletchling and Fletchinder flew right past Staraptor, some even hitting him.
I sighed and murmured, "No respect," to myself. Staraptor floated back to down to the ground as he no longer felt like flying in the sky with other birds who were dis-respectful and rude. I then looked closely at Staraptor's feathers and saw a bald patch where a scratch was. "Hey one of those birds scratched you!" Staraptor sadly nodded. "And it looks like it was with their beak. It was intentional then. Hmph!" Those birds better watch themselves!
We continued walking along the garden path after I potioned the scratch on Staraptor's wing and finally, we had made it to Santalune City! We walked into the all so familiar town side by side and it was a refreshing sight. I hadn't come back and visited here in so long. We moved when I was just 7 so it had been six- whole years. It brought back memories that had been long forgotten. 6 years had washed them all away.
I could see the Santalune City Gym from here and I knew I wanted to challenge it. I had known the Gym Leader, Viola, when I was young and told her when I became a trainer I would return to challenge her. And that's what I intend to do once I get my starter Pokemon!
BOOM! My attention was drawn away from my memories as an explosion summoned itself nearby.
"Star?!" Staraptor seemed startled by the sudden explosion and squawked as a reply to the loud noise. Staraptor wanted to start flying away like birds do when there's an explosion but I stopped him by tugging down on his wing.
"Staraptor stop! Keep calm. It was probably just a nearby Pokemon battle," I explained. Staraptor nodded his head and kept calm. "You should probably stay in your pokeball for now since we're in a big city." I then took out his pokeball and a red light beamed him inside it. I looked over towards where the explosion seemed to have come from and I saw a bit of smoke coming from the air. That sure doesn't seem like the smoke from the collision of two attacks, that seems like the smoke of a fire! Maybe I should swing by to see if everything's ok.
I ran up to the place where it was coming from and I saw that the smoke was coming from the Santalune City gym!
"What's going on here…?" I questioned someone who was also standing outside.
"…Team Flare…" the young boy murmured as he watched the Bug-Type gym begin to burn down. Ugh. Not Team Flare… Team Flare was an organisation of people in the Kalos region that promised all they wanted was to make the world a more beautiful place, but all they did was destroy things and treat Pokemon like garbage that they argued were "not beautiful enough". Every Pokemon was beautiful in some way, such as a Dunsparce or Goomy. Even they have beauty, if not on the outside then on the inside. And it seems they were burning down a Pokemon Gym this time. They have some nerve.
"AHH! Not my Vivillon!" a woman cried in fear. After a moment I retaliated,
"That was Viola!" after realising who screamed. I'm not usually the type of person to rush into situations like this. I didn't make rash decisions, I was calm, but there are Pokemon in there and also Viola! "Staraptor, go!" I threw Staraptor's pokeball underarm and into the air; my signature throw!
"Starrr-aptor!" Staraptor screeched as he whizzed into the air.
"Into the Pokemon Gym!" I commanded him as I started to run inside. He nodded and sped ahead, flying straight into the gym. When I got in there I saw Viola's beautiful forest Gym being burnt down. And, thankfully, the webs that were on the ceiling were burning too. I never really liked them. It just made it seem like it was forever Halloween. "Staraptor, use Whirlwind to extinguish some of this fire!"
"Raptor!" Staraptor called in agreement with my command. He then started to forcefully flap his wings which stirred up a heavy gust that started to blow some of the fire away. With some of the fire put out, it made us a path to Viola and Team Flare.
"I have to admit your Vivillon was a beautiful Pokemon. But you had to use it in battle. Couldn't you have used something less exquisite?" a woman with orange hair asked the Bug leader. Viola looked like a scared little girl as the woman's Pyroar seemed to be getting closer and closer to her.
"Brave Bird!" All of their heads jerked towards Staraptor and I; Viola, the woman with orange hair, the two men in slightly different uniforms to her with red hair, and the woman's Pyroar (who was actually a female Pyroar; you could tell by whether they had a mane or a long ponytail thing at the back of their heads). Staraptor came smashing into her Pyroar and it was slammed up against the wall with a lot of force. Pyroar fell to the ground with swirled eyes, meaning it had fainted.
"You little brat! How dare you come in here and make my Pyroar faint!" she moaned. She then opened half of her mouth and it showed her teeth clenched as she started to growl.
"Who are you?" I questioned the woman.
"I'm Aliana, one of four admins of Team Flare," she responded. She now had a smirk on her face and looked at Staraptor impressively. "So that's your Staraptor?"
"My brother's. He's loaning it to me so I can make it to Aquacorde Town so I can get my starter Pokemon," I responded.
"You're not even a trainer yet?!" she gasped, before smiling again and looking devilishly at me. "Impressive young boy. Hmph! I have a feeling we'll meet again."
"Unlikely, I wouldn't want to get involved with people from Team Flare."
"Well, until that time comes then," she softly said. She had gone from being a hot head like herself and her two teammates to being calm as still water. "Depart!" Suddenly a glass pane in the ceiling shattered and a ladder cam rolling down. They all grabbed onto a rung on the ladder as it started to slowly rise up again.
"You're just going to leave like that?! Coward!" I shouted. She just shook her head and smiled at me and eventually, was lifted out of sight and into a massive grey helicopter. Although there was the all so familiar red flame on the side, Team Flare's symbol. The helicopter flew away and all that was left was a burning gym. It wasn't like Team Flare to give up without a fight though… "Let's go Viola!"
"Right!" she responded as we ran outside to find that some fire fighters had just arrived and were already working to put the fire out. We felt the cool air on our skins after being near the scorching heat of a fire for so long and just sighed and sat on a bench next to the Roselia fountain near middle of town. "Are you by any chance Ty-"
"Tyler, yeah," I assured her with a cheesy grin. Yeah that's right, my name is Tyler. Tyler Colt's my name, and Pokemon's my game.
"Wow! You've grown up so much!" she screamed. I scratched my back embarrassed and replied with a simple "Yeah". "So, you're finally becoming a trainer. Remember our promise?"
"The Pokemon battle!" I shouted. "I assure you this will be my first stop after I get my starter Pokemon."
"I don't know about that. It might take a while to have the gym fixed from the fire…" she muttered with a sad look on her face.
"No matter – I'll wait," I told her. She gave me that 'oh you' look with a sigh to go with it. But she also gave me that 'you'll be waiting a while' look. Oh well, guess after I get my starter, I'll be spending a lot of time in Santalune City! My hometown. But before that, on to Aquacorde Town!
TO BE CONTINUED…
NEXT EPISODE - FIRST PIECE OF THE PUZZLE!
So, how was it? Veteran reviewers I'm sure you'll enjoy this story just as much as PUC. I will eventually be going back to finish it but I'm really not feeling PUC that much anymore. There are days where I'll go on it for half an hour or more but at that pace I'll never get it finished. So after this story gets on it's way I'll try to finish PUC. Anyways~ So, his name is Tyler. I thought that I would keep many things a mystery throughout this chapter and this story and you'll get more pieces to the puzzle regarding Tyler as we go along. Also I'm going to be slowing down the pace of Pokemon captures in this story, but speeding up the rate of important events like Gym Battles. Well, hope you enjoyed. And a review would be much appreciated :)
Until Next Time - MonfernoFreak