Golden Flames
Hiro ran out the front door. He dodged out of the way of the early morning commuters of New Bark Town. He was just to excited about today to care about who he knocked down on the way.
"Move out my way old man!", he shouted. The elderly man didn't hear what Hiro said until it was too late. The two slammed into each other with a loud thud. The old man descended to the ground and gave a muffled oomph of pain from under his white beard. Hiro on the other hand, kept going through the air smacked his chin on the side walk. He struggled against the urge to cry, to many people were watching him. Blood trickled his neck as he stood up.
The old man was lying on the ground clutching at his heart. A small crowd formed around the two crashers. The old man started to make gasping noises, as if he were a magikarp out of water. The crowd cast angry glares at Hiro. Hiro began to say something in defense but an unknown hand grabbed and yanked Hiro away from the scene. When they were far enough, the figure let go of Hiro's arm and turned around to face him.
"What the hell did you do, man?", asked Gold. Gold was Hiro's best friend, the one who pulled him out of the crowd, and the main character of this story. He was wearing a red and white hoody, jeans and his lucky black cap. He surveyed his bleeding friend and let out a sigh. "You hit another old man didn't you?"
"They should learn to move out of the way. And second don't cuss. This may be a teen rated fanfic but still.." Hiro took out a napkin from his back and put it to his chin. Gold cringed as he saw the red liquid ooze over the white hankie. He didn't like blood very much. Gold looked away from his friend. He too, was excited about today but not as much to break his face over it. A smile came over his that could Aipom jealous. He, Hiro, Crystal and Silver were leaving town today. The four already got their partners from Prof. Elm yesterday. Gold never left New Bark Town so the idea of journeying alone with his cyndaquil, Pyro both scared and intrigued him. Hiro finished dabbing himself with the tissue. His friend was staring blankly at the sky, completely lost.
"Uh, Gold this is the part where you say that I should walk slower around old men and when you ask me why I'm using the word cuss instead of curse and then tell me I'm weird for thinking the world is a fanfic," Hiro cried. He shook Gold. "Come on Gold talk to me!"
Gold snapped back into reality. He felt a severe pain in between his ears. He hadn't thought that hard in weeks.
"Hey Gold let's take out Pyro and Highfang." Gold nodded and took a red and white ball out of his front pocket. Hiro did the same and threw it into the air. The poke ball opened and in a flash of white light a blue alligator of some sort came out. The creature yawned. It was.. Damn it! All of you know what a Totodile looks like by now right, must I explain?
Totodile turned to look at Hiro then looked at Gold.
"Toto," it said sheepishly. Without warning it jumped into the air and latched on to Gold with its fangs Gold screamed, Highfang's teeth weren't developed yet but still could bite some of your toes off. Gold kicked the pokemon off his foot and into Hiro's arms. Hiro and Totodile glared at Gold.
"Gold you didn't have to kick it. That was just a sign of affection for Totodile."
"Then why doesn't it bite you instead?", Gold pulled off his shoe to look at what Totodile did. Hiro gave him a smug smirk.
"It's because Highfang knows who's in charge." He looked down at his watch. "We got to head for the ceremony." Gold threw his poke ball on the ground. Instead of Pyro, a blue and tan ball with red spots came out. Hiro giggled at Gold.
"Uh, Pyro wake up," Gold nudged the cyndaquil with his foot.
"Remember yesterday when you thought Elm gave you a soccer ball instead of a pokemon," Hiro burst into tears of laughter. "Then Pyro got mad and set your hat on fire, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!", Hiro doubled over from laughter and pounded his fist on the grass. Gold ignored him and lifted the fire mouse on to his head. It uncurled itself and fell asleep again on Gold's hat (which now had burn marks and a hole on it).
"Pyro's pretty lazy isn't it Gold?", Hiro teased.
"Shut up. Pyro's just tired, it's only; what like 7:30," Gold snapped. No one was going to talk about his pokemon while he was around. "Do want a lift to the ceremony or not?" It was customary for the rookie trainers to race to Cherrygrove City. The whole town turned up for the event. If you didn't show up, you weren't recognized as a trainer from New Bark Town. Hiro stopped laughing and gave Gold a look of amazement.
"You got a car?", Hiro asked.
"No. I got my mom's Abra." Without another word Gold took out another poke ball and threw it in the air. The sleeping psychic gave no response to coming out, it just floated beside Gold.
"Teleport," Gold demanded. Abra eyes opened wide and cast a pale blue light. Gold and Hiro were surrounded by the same light. Next thing Gold knew, his legs lost contact with the ground. His muscles were useless against Abra's telekinesis. Abra clapped its hands together and the two boys and three pokemon vanished out of thin air.
Meanwhile…
Crystal tapped her foot on the stage. The two other trainers were late. She met the two yesterday and had come to the conclusion that they were total idiots. She and Silver were the only ones who came on time. The red haired boy did not say anything to her or the race official. He just sat down on one of the chairs placed for the trainers. She herself didn't sit down because of him, there just wasn't something right about him..
"Rita," said the trainer's chikorita. It nuzzled itself against her leg. Crystal was grateful for it's company, she was the only friend she had left. All her other ones stopped talking to her when she announced she was leaving.
The race official came up to her and asked if she wanted to sit down. Before she could sit down, a loud cracking noise came from behind them.
"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Crystal remembered that scream. That was the scream Gold made when that cyndaquil tried to burn his hat..
"The idiots are here.."
