She could hear the chirps of Pidgeys from outside her window. She was normally awake before the bird pokemon began to chirp but her mother had let her sleep a little more in preparation of her pokemon journey. The blond looked over to the clock on her nightstand, informing her it was six o'clock. The young lady climbed out of bed, careful not to disturb the sleeping Miltank on the floor.
She opened a small rectangular box on the chest at the foot of her bed. Inside was a jean overall skirt decorated with black buttons, a red shirt with puffy sleeves and a white collar. Next to the box was a pair of white stockings and red and white sneakers. She collected the clothes and clean undergarments and made her way to the bathroom down the hall.
Several minutes later she left the bathroom, returning to her room to place her clothes in the hamper. She noted her Miltank wasn't in the room and neither was her bag. She pulled on her sneakers and made her way downstairs, it was there she found her Miltank eating it's breakfast and her bag placed at her usual spot at the table. She pat the pokemon on its head before taking her seat at the table. A young man with messy brown hair placed a plate of eggs and bacon before her with a smile.
"Mornin' shorty." he smiled, ruffling her blond hair. The thin freckled girl pouted.
"Don't be mean Terra!"
"Ah c'mon Kairi, lemme tease you for a little while! You'll be off, adventurin around Johto, with your best friends and ma and I will be without you for who knows how long!"
"It wont be forever Terra, just calm down!" the young lady sighed, diving into her food. He ruffled her hair.
"Take care," she nodded with a mouth full of food. With a warm smile the young man placed a bento on the table and left the house to take care of morning work. Kairi finished up her food and cleaned her dish by hand. She returned to the table to pack away her lunch. She found a note from her mother attached to it. She should of expected as much, it wasn't that her mom was terrible or neglectful, with her leaving on this journey her mother and brother had to take over her chores. She must of picked the harder, heavy duty job. At least she said a farewell last night in case of this happening.
"Come on Mittens, it's time to go." The Miltank mooed as she followed Kairi out the house.
Nick clomped down the stairs, pulling on his yellow jacket in a hurry. Kairi was going to be here any second and he was hardly ready. He glanced over to the couch where his loyal Pikachu was packing necessities in his gray one strap backpack. Next to the Pikachu was Simon and his Sentret, both looking equally bored and ready to split. Simon was dressed in a light black short sleeved coat lined with purple, underneath was a light purple long sleeved shirt. He was wearing a pair of light blue jeans, held up with a white belt around his waist and black boots on his feet.
Nick zipped up his jacket and sighed. Mrs. Locke sighed, approaching Nick to hug him.
"I knew this day was coming... but I'm still not ready to let you all run off..."
"We'll be okay mom," Nick smiled. "We wont be alone."
"Oh I know! But my babies leaving home...!" the woman looked ready to burst into tears, making Nick sweat a little.
"W-we'll call home... and... you know..." a knock came to the door as Nick tried to back away, with an actual excuse he moved quicker to the door. Kairi greeted him with a smile. Simon got up from the couch before she could say good morning. Infuriated, Nick perused to yell at him for his behavior. Kairi sighed.
"I guess I should go?" She watched Nick's Pikachu rise up from the couch and run off, dragging Nick's bag with it. She did not get too far with it being so heavy. She scooped up the pokemon and bag and turned to leave. "It was nice to see you again ma'am."
"Kairi, can you wait a moment?" The young girl nodded. Mrs. Locke reached into the pockets of her apron to pull out two pokegears. One yellow and white, the other purple and black. "I ordered these for the boys, I was going to surprise them with them but, well you saw, they ran out before I could give it to them!"
"Alright, I can take them to the boys." the woman clapped her hands.
"Thank you so much Kairi!" the girl skipped out of the house and made her way to the professor's lab. She was about to enter when she noticed the bushes shaking. Curious to know what was going on, she peeked at the space between the lab and the tall bushes. To her surprise it was a boy!
He was a tall lanky young man with flaming red hair, his coal eyes were rather angry and concentrated on whatever he was looking at in the window. He looked rather shifty although, dressed in a black coat and navy pants which were accompanied with black dress shoes.
"Gee mister, if ya want to see the professa you can just go in instead of standing there like some creep." Kairi spoke up. The boy jumped, startled that he was caught in the act. He scowled, approaching Kairi and giving her a rough shove.
"Get out of here you stupid bitch." He snarled.
"Alright, not like your a pleasantry to spend time with anyway." the girl frowned, dusting herself off and inspecting the Pikachu for injury. With the two of them unharmed they entered the lab. The professor smiled.
"Kairi! It's great to see you!" the girl smiled back, handing off the bag and Pikachu to the owner and respective pokegear to their owners. Her Miltank came to her side and rubbed her head against her leg.
"It's great to be here professa!"
"Now that you're all gathered here we can begin!" The professor motioned to the table top where three pokemon waited, a Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and a Totodile. "Please chose your starter so you all may begin your journey into the world of pokemon!" he motioned to Kairi.
"Why don't you go first Kairi?"
"Sure thing professa," she approached the table, examining over the pokemon. She made her decision as she lifted up the Chikorita. "I'll take this one!" Simon was the next to come up to the table and without wasting a second he lifted up the Cyndaquil leaving the Totodile for Nick. Just as the professor was about to speak up once more Simon made his way past his friends and out the lab door.
"My, what a quick runner. He must be eager..." the man sighed. "well, I would assume you two are too but if it's not trouble may I ask a favor of you two?"
"Uh, sure."
"Great! My friend Mr. Pokemon lives in a house north of Cherrygrove City, he has an important item for my research but I'm too busy today to pick up. So can I depend on you to to pick it up for me?"
"Sure thing professa!" Kairi took Nick by the arm and pulled him out of the lab. The brunette nearly tripped over his feet but by crashing into Kairi managed to straiten himself out.
"Why'd you stop running?" he asked, rubbing his nose.
"The creepy guy at the window is gone..."
"The creepy guy?"
"Yeah... there was a guy at the window. I saw him before I went into the lab, I guess he left?"
"That's good. We don't need creeps in New Bark." Kairi smiled, taking her friend by the hand.
"Can you believe it? Those people have been fighting for two days straight!"
"That's silly! How can two people fight for two days?" Nick shrugged in response. The two weeded their way through the tall grass to a clearing in the field, there stood a small wooden house with a dark brown roof. The red mail box next to the house indicated this was the house of Mr. Pokemon. Kairi knocked on the door.
"Um, hello? Mr. Pokemon are you in?"
"Ah, one second." The lock clicked and the door opened. An aged old man dressed in a brown suit and matching hat in hand greeted the pair. "You must be Kairi Miller and Nick Sakati, am I correct?"
"Yeah, that's us."
"Come in, come in." Mr. Pokemon lead the two to a couch across the the one room house. Kairi felt her self twitch. She hated messes and boy this place was terrible. Papers were stacked or thrown all over the place, the bookshelves were half empty with books all over the place. The man's desk was covered in book, paper and various cups of half finished and cold coffee.
"So, what did you want to give Professor Elm?"
"This rare..." the man began to clear away paper surrounding his desk to locate a glass cylinder with a large white egg inside. "egg!"
"An egg?"
"Golly. It sure isn't like any egg I've seen on the farm. It must be a pokemon egg!"
"Pokemon don't lay eggs..." Nick replied in a deadpan tone.
"But we've never had a live birth before on our farm before! If they don't get pregnant or fat and the babies suddenly appear they must come from eggs!"
"And that's why I wanted to give it to Elm." Mr. Pokemon smiled. "No one knows where pokemon come from, under the watch of a pokemon professors and if my theory is right, this egg will have our answers!"
"Oh. Well, that surely be a huge step in learning the origins of pokemon." Kairi accepted the offered egg with a grin. The two stood up, ready to leave, when someone entered the building. Surprisingly, it was Professor Oak. Kairi let out a silent strangled scream.
"Ah, it seems I'm a little late." The professor frowned.
"Late for what...?" Nick asked slowly, trying to snap Kairi out of her shock.
"I recently received a letter from my grandson and friends, I was informed Simon and his friends would be leaving for their own journey. I wanted to deliver these to them." The professor pulled three pokedexs from his bag. Kairi's screams slowly raised in volume. Nick's mouth fell open, utter flabbergasted.
"W-w-wait... You mean that Steel girl in Kanto... she know you?"
"She's been friends with my grandson for years and Steel highly regards Simon. So I wanted to help prepare him for his adventure with my new model of pokedex!" The professor approached Nick and handed the yellow and white model into his hand, Oak then placed slipping a white and pale blue pokedex into her bag along with the purple and black model. "Well, take care. I have to get going!" And the professor was gone. Kairi was unable to shriek any more at this time, Nick took her by the arm and bid Mr. Pokemon a farewell.
"Oh golly gosh! Simon knows the prestigious Oak family? He's so amazing!" Nick scoffed. "Oh don't be like that Nick!"
"Alright..." he mumbled. Kairi approached a nearby tree. She could easy tell that it was an apricorn tree, specifiably a pink apricorn tree, with her limited knowledge. She tapped on the hard skin and then lightly sniffed the hard fruit.
"It smells really sweet... I wonder if I can cook it..."
"Probably not, apricorns are mainly used for Pokeathlon training shakes and can only be blended with an Apriblender. Other than that you can make pokeballs out of it but the chances of finding anyone who can still do that is slim to none."
"I'll keep it anyway." Kairi smiled, stowing the fruit into her bag. "You might need it for when you enter the Pokeathlons!" Nick suddenly blinked, feeling a vibration from his back pocket. It took him a moment to realize it was his pokegear.
"If you want it." He replied as he answered the call. "Hello?"
'H-hello? Nick? It's a disaster! Uh, um, it's just terrible! What should I do... Oh...! J-just come back here! Please! I've lost everything!'