Chapter 1
Pancakes and Licks
West of the Johto/Kanto land mass is a small region of many forests and the famous Professor Rose. Each of its towns is named after Australian fauna. This is the Amarco Region.
Our story begins in the smallest town in the Amarco Region, Eucalyptus Town.
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The smell of pancakes wafted through the house, although this didn't wake the sleeping teenager. What did wake him up was the crazed Poochyena jumping onto his bed and licking his face. The boy slowly opened his eyes, and saw the Pokémon. Sighing he sat up and placed the puppy on the floor.
"Come on, Taz," He muttered sliding his feet over the side of the bed.
Standing up he walked into the bathroom, closing the door and shutting out his pet. The boy looked into the mirror. His russet-brown hair was cut short and looked like a rattata's nest. He started rubbing his magenta eyes, which contrasted off his rather tanned skin. He slowly looked down at the sink, and turned on the tap. He started washing his face and sighed.
Walking out of the bathroom and back to his room, he grabbed a pair of clothes, packing the remaining clothing into his pack. He looked at the clothes he had picked out, a pair of black jeans which were worn and torn. He slowly changed his clothes, so he was wearing the loose fitting jeans. He grabbed his belt, with slots for holding his pokeballs and put it on so it held the jeans in place. He took of his own shirt and grabbed the shirt he was to wear, a plain white t-shirt. He looked at his favourite tracksuit jacket. It was red and had two silver strips running down the arms; adidas was written in silver over the front, he put it on leaving it unzipped. He quickly put on his shoes and socks before leaving the room.
As he was leaving the room he turned off the light and grabbed Taz's pokeball. He slowly walked into the kitchen wear his mother was cooking pancakes. She had beautiful green-eyes, which were glowing with happiness. Her tanned skin was mostly covered up by her long russet-brown hair. She had her favourite meadow-green apron on.
"Good morning, Luke," She smiled at the teenager.
"Morning," He simply replied.
The woman hummed a happy tune as she served the pancakes onto Luke's plate. She literally spun back over to the pantry and took out a bottle of maple syrup. Twirling like a ballerina back to her son she continued to hum. She stopped and poured the syrup on the pancakes and smiled at the teenager looking at her.
"Bon, appetite'," She smiled.
"Thanks," Luke replied before looking at the pancakes, with hungry look on his face.
The boy started shovelling the pancakes into his mouth quickly and efficiently. Quickly going through the food, and obviously enjoying it.
He sat back and sighed, looking at his mum. She was astonished on how quick he devoured his breakfast.
"Delicious," He smiled.
"Grumpig, when I ate mother's pancakes earlier today I didn't eat like I've never been fed," A teenage girl's voice scolded.
Luke sighed and turned around; standing there was his twin sister. Her long jet-black hair was tied back into a ponytail and her green-eyes were glaring at him with a sense of humour, that wasn't that kind. Her skin was tanned like her twin, but it looked pale seeing as she was wearing all black. A black v-neck singlet with the word 'Darkrai' written in red printed in the middle of it. The leather pants she was wearing were extremely tight and looked almost like tights, but were covered by pitch-black boots at her ankles. The last part of her menacing look was a black leather-coat that had a spiked collar and went all the way down to her ankles.
"Still goth are you now, Sam?" Luke sighed, standing up.
Sam looked at her brother and growled "Shut up, boy!"
"Make me," Luke replied getting more agitated.
"I still don't believe you're going to start your journey, pathetic," She spat.
"Wanna bet," Luke growled.
"Yeah, I will," Sam glared.
"At least do it outside, I just cleaned," Their mother sighed.
"Ahhhh, ok," They said in unison.
The two teenagers walked out the back door and into the backyard. Each of them stood on their respective sides of the yard, and glared at each other.
Sam ordered "Rai!"
Her Electrike (That had been named after Raikou) quickly ran out of their house and stood at Sam's side of the field.
"Taz," Luke replied.
The Poochyena bolted out of the house and jumped on Luke knocking him over. If that wasn't bad enough, Taz started licking his face.
"Battle," Luke managed to blurt out.
Taz barked and got off and growled at Rai. Sam smirked, her eyes letting of a small glimmer of amusement. Luke growled at her expression.
"Bite," Luke ordered pointing at Rai.
The Poochyena quickly ran at the opposing Electrike, ready to bite it.
"Thunder Wave," Sam smiled.
Rai shot a wave of electricity at Taz to paralyse it. Unfortuantley it was too late to stop the puppy that launched its fangs into Rai.
"Now shake it," Luke laughed.
Nothing happened though; little blue electric bolts were running down Taz's body. It was paralysed and couldn't move.
"Get out now," Sam commanded.
But Taz's bite was to strong and Rai couldn't get out and cried out in pain.
"Throw it up in the air," Luke ordered.
Luckily Taz could move and threw its opponent up into the air with no problem.
"Thundershock," Sam commanded.
Rai was coming back down, and was scared but managed to follow his master's order. He shot out the bolt of electricity at the Poochyena.
"Dodge," Luke commanded.
Taz was paralysed again and couldn't move. The bolt came at the puppy and hit him full on. Rai hit the ground straight after, and a shroud of dust came up into the yard.
Luke and Sam looked at the field then at each other. Sam glared at her twin before looking back to the battle.
There were two figures in the field. One was standing over their fallen opponent.
Taz stood above Rai and let out a happy bark. He looked like he was flowing with pride, and ran over to Luke and jumped on him, and started licking his face.
"Well, looks like I win," Luke gloated.
"Yes, but next time I will be the victor," Sam growled.
She returned Rai to his pokeball and looked around before running to the fence that faced off into the Kurrajong Woods. She struck her hand into a bluck berry bush and pulled out her pack.
"Tell mother, I said goodbye," She smiled at Luke before jumping the fence.
"Wait," Luke called running to the fence still holding Taz in his arms.
Looking over the fence he saw a teenage girl wearing all-black running into the woods.
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"What do you mean she left?" Luke's mother yelled.
"I couldn't stop her," Luke tried to reason.
"Yes, you could've," She yelled.
"No, I couldn't have. Stop blaming me for something that isn't my fault, I'm bloody 13 you can't expect me to know what to do when something like this happens," Luke exploded, "Just leave me alone," He added the last bit with a whisper.
"I'm sorry," His mother replied "I'm just upset."
"She would've left anyway," Luke soothed.
"I know," His mother replied "And you'll have to go sometime as well."
"Yes," Luke nodded.
"You have my permission to leave," She told him.
"Thank you," Luke answered.
He stood up silently and walked over to his mum and kissed her on the cheek. He walked over to the door where his pack was lying. He picked it up and slung it over his back and opened the door and walked outside, he was headed for the Kurrajong Woods.
Amarco is an aboriginal word meaning beautiful place.
This is my first Fan Fic so please review.
