Pokémon: Spirit Amethyst
Chapter 1: Shadows
"In a world of Shadows the light is almost gone. Soon there will be no help for anyone. But the light of the children shine dimly. Hopefully that is enough to stop the chaos. If not all worlds will end. Other lights peak through the darkness. If nothing is done they will blow out soon enough. Something must be done before the darkness is too strong. Will you be the last hope for the world?" A women's voice said.
"What do you mean? How come you are telling me this?" I asked her.
"You must help us, please…" The voice disappeared.
The scene turned to black, then I opened my eyes and shook my head a few times. I was in my father's gym. There was no noise at all. I guess that was all a dream. Oh, well. Today is when I officially become a Pokémon trainer. I was going to get my first Pokémon along with my friends; Topaz and Jade. By the way my name is Opal and I'm ten years old today on August 16th. Although I'm the youngest of my friends. My father is Morty, the gym leader of Ecutreak City. I'll eventually take over the gym from him. My mother is Natsu, a Suicune. And I have two siblings; Emil (older brother) and Miku (younger sister) making me the middle child. I looked more like my father though. I had blonde hair and red eyes. And I inherited my father's psychic abilities, along with communicated with ghost Pokémon. I'll get into more later.
I walked outside to see my friends waiting for me. We made a promise to get our starter Pokémon at the same time so we could travel the regions together.
"What took you so long sleepy head?" Topaz teased.
"Isn't that always the problem? He does nothing but sleep!" Jade added.
"Sorry, I had another weird dream today. Anyway I'm ready to go now!" I responded.
"Finally! Well let's go!" Topaz said taking the lead of our threesome.
"Can I lead this time?" I whined.
"You'd get us lost Opal! At least Topaz kinda knows where he's going!" Jade stated.
"Fine! You want to be the leader? Then beat me in a race! The starting line is here and the finish line is Olivine City!" Topaz said. Then he added, "I doubt you'll beat me though!"
"You can bet on it! I will beat you this time!" I commented to him getting into position to run.
"Aww! Come on guys! Now is no… It seems like I won't be able to stop you… AGAIN! So ready… set… go!" Jade yelled as we ran at the go. Topaz was ahead of me like always, but I don't care. The score is 50/50 after all. When we got to the route leading to Olivine City he went left as I went right, which was right through Moomoo Farm. I took the long way so it would more of a challenge. I saw Jade about 50 feet behind us trying her hardest to keep up. However I didn't see Topaz anywhere.
I didn't have any time to worry or waste though, so I started jumping over the Milktanks. A few minutes later I came to the finish line. Jade and Topaz came about two minutes later. We were all a little out of breath.
"Well… It looks… Like you won Opal…" Topaz huffed trying to catch his breath.
"I told… You I would… Beat you…!" I stated with a grin on my face. Jade nearly fell to the ground trying to catch her breath. I felt bad we left her behind and that she tried so hard to keep up with us.
"Well I guess it's time to head to Professor Elm!" Topaz stated now with all of his breath back.
"What?! That is in the opposite direction of here!" Jade yelled looking like she was about to kill Topaz and me.
"Umm… Calm down Jade, we were just deciding who would lead." I said trying to calm her down. About five minutes later we started walking back to Ecutreak City. When we got there my mother came out.
"Opal, you need to come in now." She said in her usual calm tone.
"I guess we'll see you later!" Topaz stated as he left.
"See you tomorrow when we leave for our journey!" Jade added as she followed after Topaz.
"Why do I need to come in? Don't I need to get my Pokémon?" I asked walking in the gym.
"Yeah, you do need to get your Pokémon, but you are going to get one Morty and I hand-picked for you." She answered back leading me into a room.
"Really?! That's so cool! Well which is it?!" I asked trying to contain my excitement.
"Well here's the Pokéball. Throw it to find out." She stated handing it to me. I took a deep breath and let it out. It was a Ghastly, the Pokémon my father had as a starter.
"Would you like to give him a nickname?" She asked me.
"Hmmmm… I think I'll call him Amethyst!" I replied.
"Ok, well it's kinda late. Off to bed with you now!" She said. I guess I got up pretty late without realizing it. So I went to my room and lay in my bed. Amethyst flew around above my bed. I watched him for a few minutes and fell asleep. I woke up after hearing a noise at my window. I walked over and looked out to see nothing out of the ordinary. Then an Absol appeared at my window causing me to fall backwards. It disappeared in a shadow. What was going on here? I climbed out my window and Amethyst followed close behind me. There were patches of black everywhere. And no one was seen for miles. This was getting weird. I started to walk around.