Its exciting waking up to your birthday, especially when you're getting your starter pokemon! Well, Maxwell's the lucky 10 year old today.
"Max, wake up! Today's your birthday!"
"W…wh…what?"
"You're 10 today!"
"OH!"
I jump out of my bed accidently hitting my sister in the head and it made her make a mean face at me as she glared. I apologized and rushed down the stairs to open presents. As I jumped into them, "Not so fast young man!" I heard my mom say. "Better eat your breakfast!" I hopped into my chair and munched down on some cereal. After breakfast I went and brushed my teeth, change, got ready and finally, jumped into the presents.
I got brand new backpack just for traveling from my mom. From my sister Maxine, I got some new clothes and a new pair of PokeZooms. I received a cool new sleeping bag for my journey from my grandparents, and from my friend Sherri, I got a PokeDS with the game PokeExplorer! After the presents were cleaned up, my mom hurried me to the professor's lab.
"Hello there Maxwell, it seems like you've come here for your first pokemon!"
"Yup! And I already know which pokemon I'll choose!"
"And who'd that be?"
"The one and only… MUDKIP!"
"Well the here's mudkip's pokeball."
"Thanks," I let mudkip out of his pokeball
"I'm naming you… Bubbles!"
After I got bubbles, I decided to go on a journey to the Hoenn League, and that means I've got to catch 5 more pokemon and go on a journey, and that's exactly what I'm going to do!
I send Bubbles out to walk with me and right when he came out, he sniffed the air and signaled me to follow him. Bubbles led me right to a lone starly. "Hmmm, I thought starlies were from Sinnoh!" I thought to myself.
"Let's catch it Bubbles!" Right there that's when I realized that the starly was a shiny pokemon, it was super rare!
"Let's hurry Bubbles! Use water gun!" The mudkip shot a beam of water out of its mouth and it hit the starly directly. Starly then flew up and came charging down at Bubbles that's when I realized that it was an aerial ace! A powerful move for a tiny starly, "Bubbles jump out of the way!" But it was too late, the starling pokemon crashed head on into my mudkip and he flew back a couple of feet, "Hang in there buddy, we can do this! Use tackle!"
Bubbles came charging at starly and the tiny bird hit a tree as he flew back. "Quick, while it's stunned, use water gun!" It was a direct hit at the bird and she fainted. "Let's go pokeball!" I threw the pokeball softly at starly and it sucked her into the pokeball. It shook for a while but it finally clicked!
"Woo! We caught a starly buddy!" Bubbles hopped into my arms and I hugged him. When I tried to get mudkip to return, he shook his head and I just accepted it. Mudkip was like Ash Ketchum's legendary Pikachu! I want to be like Ash someday….
"Come on out starly! We're eating lunch!" I tossed up starly's pokeball and he formed into his bird self. "I almost forgot, I've got to give you a nickname!" Starly just flew up and twirled, "Oh! I know! Shimmer, since you're a shiny!" She squawked and nodded.
I got them some awesome pokefood and took out my PokeDS and sat by the lake. I played PokeExplorer and chose mudkip as my starter pokemon. I sat down by the river and intensely stared at the screen and played. After a while, I felt a sudden splash at my feet and looked down, I saw that it was a harmless magikarp. But I somehow felt the need to get it inside of my pokeball so I decided to call my starly. "Shimmer, over here! We've got a magikarp to catch!" After five seconds, I saw Shimmer glide over as Bubbles was running below him. "Alright Shimmer, use wing attack! Then follow up with a gust!" Shimmer did just that and the helpless magikarp easily fainted, and it was easily caught as well. I soon identified my pokemon with my pokedex and it turned out my brand new magikarp which I named Gary, is level 19! That means it evolves in just 1 level! Shimmer is a level 12 and Bubbles is level 13.
After walking through many routes and getting lost for 4 hours, we finally got to Rustboro city. I looked around and found the gym, I found my way to the gym leader Roxanne. She was a rock type trainer so I decide to use Gary first and then whip out Shimmer and Bubbles.
"Alright challenger, don't expect and easy fight. Come on out nosepass!" "Okay then, let's do this Gary!" "A weak little magikarp to fight my nosepass?! Very funny."
"Nosepass use tackle." The nosepass easily rammed my magikarp.
"Okay… Gary, use tackle!" It flailed around and finally jumped on the nosepass.
"Pathetic, nosepass, tackle again!" It hit Gary hard…
"Hang in there buddy…" Suddenly… in all of the struggle, Gary decided to glow very bright and turn into a… GYRADOS! It was so cool!
"Okay then Gary… I expect you to know water gun, so use it!" Gary focused all of his rage into the water and shot out a huge geyser of liquid, "Wow! You know hydro pump!" Nosepass instantly fainted and Roxanne sent out a geodude, "Gary, go in for a bite!" He jumped at the geodude and used his huge teeth to chomp it. The geodude fainted like nosepass did. For her last pokemon, Roxanne sent out another geodude, I decide to return Gary and let Bubbles battle.
"Geodude, rock throw!" The pokemon started chucking rocks at Bubbles,
"Well then, counter it with water gun!" Bubbles shot out a stream of water and it crashed into the geodude.
"Finish this with tackle!" the mudkip charged at geodude and smashed into it.
"Geodude has fainted, the winner is Maxwell Cooper from Little Root town."
"Alright! We did it team!" Roxanne walked over to me and handed me a badge case and the one and only stone badge! "Here, that was an easy battle for you when your magikarp evolved!" "Thanks, that was an awesome fight!