The bushes rattled a slight bit, shook then stopped. A tiny girl jumped from the leaves with a roar and pranced on top of a leaf, crushing it beneath her feet.
"I have vanquished you, dumb leaf!" She yelled in victory. The child stomped the leaf several more times with joyous laughter. In the corner of her eye she caught sight of something small and red. A bug type Pokemon had emerged from the bushes next to where she stood. From what she remembered her father telling her, she knew it was a Wurmple. The girl set her sights on this tiny bug and chased it into the bushes. The Wurmple scurried as fast as it could to get away from her.
"Come back buggy!" She called. The Wurmple waddled its fat little body and made it into the grass right at the edge of her town. A large sign read "Now leaving Pallet". What she didn't read, given her reading skills were still minimal was, "Unsafe! Wild Pokemon in tall grass."
The little girl let out a large laugh as she chased the bug deeper into the grass. The Wurmple ran into an opening near the edge of the grass. Throwing its body into a tiny hole, it got away.
"Oh man." She said as she stomped her foot and turned to walk back to town defeated. She knew she shouldn't have gone so far from the house but the excitement was too hard to resist.
As she tuned back around her saw next to a tiny tree was something white and shiny. She ran to it and found it was a tiny little egg. It wasn't big and had several red and blue markings around the whole thing. She picked up and examined it, passing it between her hands. It was a colorful egg with different specs of blue, green and yellow.
A soft growl emanated behind her and her chest hardened. She turned, egg still in her grip, and faced several Rattata. Their beady little eyes staring up at her and the egg. The little girl didn't know if they wanted to hurt her but they jeopardized her dropping the egg, which was her new favorite thing.
"Go away." she said to the small rodents. They growled at her and edged closer. "Go away!" She called again. The small mice didn't back down and sank into the ground, in an attack stance. Her heart pounded and her hands grew sweaty.
"HELP!" she called, the Rattata swarmed her, they bit at her feet and clawed at her legs. She screamed and hugged the egg tight against her body as she kicked several of the Rattata in the face.
"NINA!" A voice came. The little girl kept kicking and screaming and crying and clinging to the egg when she was lifted from the ground. The rats falling away from her. Her feet hurt, but she was just happy to get out of here. She opened her eyes and saw the person who saved her was her father. She clung to his body with one arm, the other holding the egg. Nina's father flopped her on the ground. Tears streamed down Nina's face as her father examined his daughter's feet and legs.
"Darcy!" He called to his wide. A small woman in a blue sundress exited the house and ran straight for them, distraught at the sight of her daughter.
"Nina! Oh my god, are you OK?" She called. "What happened?" Nina was still holding the egg, rocking on the ground in pain.
"She went out into the grass." Her husband told her. He ran inside to grab the first aid kit..
"Nina?" her mother said stroking the child's hair. "Nina, are you all right?"
Her daughter nodded through tears and grabbed the egg closer to her body.
"What do you have there Nina?" Her mother asked trying to grab the egg from her arms.
"No." Nina whispered. "I found it, it's mine." Her mother pulled her arms back in surprise.
"OK, Nina, you can keep it." She stroked her daughter's hair and waited for her husband to come back with the bandages.
Nina's father returns from inside the house with water, towels and bandages. They clean Nina's up and carry her to the living room. Her feet swelled and were so red her mother told her husband to place her on the couch. As he sets up down, he noticed the little egg Nina's was holding.
"She wouldn't let me touch it." Darcy told him after Nina had fallen asleep.
"Well, she found it in the woods so it can't be dangerous. Those are small and harmless." He said picking the egg up from Nina's sleeping hands.
"Those Rattata didn't seem so harmless." Her mother said playing with her earrings.
"They were wild Pokemon, Darcy. We can't blame them." He kissed his wife on the forehead and grabbed a few more blankets from the hall closet. "If that egg was so important she risked her life to keep it, than we should be respectful and let her take care of it." He wrapped the small egg in the blankets and placed it in a bowl and put it on the table in front of Nina. Her eyes behind her eyelids flickered back and forth to show she was dreaming. Her father wondered if she dreamed of the egg or what had just happened. He kissed Nina on the cheek and stood back up, grabbing his coat.
"Well I need to go pick up Machamp from the daycare." He kissed his wife and hugged her. "She'll be fine. We just need to watch those cuts and keep them clean." His wife nodded.
"I love you." He Said.
"I love you too."
He left to pick up his Pokemon and Darcy spent the rest of the day watching Nina and cleaning her wounds.