Author's notes: Hey guys Kt4 here, bringing you a new story. I've tried to create a somewhat original story that doesn't use any anime/manga characters and have also created Original characters. So it will be heavily based on the games. There won't be too many special Pokémon. I won't take too much of your time so read on!
Human speech "Sand attack does no damage"
Pokémon speech "Sand attack does no damage"
It all starts here…
A Region-wide heatwave had settled upon the Kanto region. With people and Pokémon alike all leaving their homes to visit lakes nearby, the wild Pokémon weren't even jumping out of the grass to attack passing trainers, it was just way too hot. The people of Cerulean City were grateful that Misty allowed public access to the pool that day. However on route 5 there was a bit of a problem, the water and ice Pokémon in the day care center weren't taking the heatwave too well. A young lady about the age of 15 was working furiously between placing electric fans around the poor Pokémon along with ice and water and dealing with the heat herself. She had dark brown hair with caramel highlights; she had slightly tanned skin due to working outside when her parents needed her to and her eyes were a shade of bright blue, enhanced by the handful of freckles on her face. Due to the intense heat she only wore a tank top and a pair of short shorts, her parents the day care couple were on a couple errands (mainly getting more water and ice) so she had to take care of the Pokémon whilst they were out. Placing bowls of Poké-food in the play pens, she smiled weakly as the Pokémon jumped for joy exclaiming as their way of thanks, she would always reply with "your welcome", the fire types were more active than the others, as she was placing more food down she was assaulted by… lack of a better term a ball of cotton.
"Whoa there little guy" after regaining her balance she grabbed the cotton puff Pokémon off her face with a small smile "you nearly made me spill all the food you know?"
"But you're so busy! I wanna have some fun you know?" said cotton puff replied.
The 'Little guy' was a small Pokémon called Cottonee, however it was a very special Cottonee, as if a Pokémon from the Unova region in Kanto wasn't rare enough the tiny Pokémon was also alternately colored, or in a more local term a shiny Pokémon and she was owned by non-other than the day care couples daughter whose name is Opal. She was a special girl, having grown up with Pokémon all of her life (whether owned by her parents or not), she could understand what her own Pokémon (after a week or two) were saying and in turn communicate with them.
"Alright Maria just let me finish up with distributing lunch first alright?" Opal replied patting the puff ball on the head.
"Fine" Maria the Cottonee replied and quickly launched itself out of Opal's hands.
Due to the extreme heat she had tied up her hair in a ponytail in hopes of reliving her head of the pressure, however she still felt like she was melting. After giving all the Pokémon their food she gladly took refuge in the kitchen, sipping away at her water as she wiped the sweat off her brow, sadly Maria landed on her head and was not helping with the heat.
"Really Maria…" She questioned almost desperately.
"Sowwy" The Puff replied "at least I'm not heavy"
Her break was cut short when a series of rapid knocks on the front door grabbed her attention, Opal quickly sighed to herself and threw on an apron to look somewhat decent and rushed towards the door yelling "coming" on the way. As she opened the door she was greeted by an odd sight, a teenaged boy was leaning against the doorframe as sweat dribbled down his face almost like a river. He had shocking green hair which somehow shaped an antenna (somehow…) and his skin was pale. His eyes which were closed earlier opened to reveal an electrifying green (how he has so much green she didn't know) which stared at her slightly. He wore a black vest with orange lines lining the ends, he had a black tracksuit top tied around his waist and was wearing a pair of black tracksuit bottoms.
"Can I help you?" Opal's question snapped him out of his stupor.
"Yea could I get some water please?" His chest heaved rapidly with heavy panting. Taking pity on him Eva led him inside. After downing a couple glasses of water (effectively cutting off her water supply) he gratefully flopped on her couch under the air conditioner "Ah… you saved me…"
"What were you doing out on such a dreadful day?" she turned around to look at him to see he was still staring at her "And will you please stop staring at me? It's rude." He realized the implications of that statement and blushed slightly.
"Sorry" he added "I'm just interested about that Pokémon on your head"
Clearly having forgotten the little puff on her head Opal grabbed Maria and placed the puff in front of her hugging it like a Teddy "This is Maria the Cottonee, say hi Maria"
"Hi" The Puff bounced in her hands, floating every so often with the help of the leaves on its sides. To Katcha it only sounded like it said its own name. He just stared at the oddly colored Pokémon.
"Aren't Cottonee supposed to be green?" He questioned, he stared blankly at Opal "did you dye its fur or something?"
Opal was shocked at the question "Excuse me? Do you realize who or what I am? And where we are for that matter?"
"Clearly not, you wanna clarify?" He shot right back at her, his eyes blazing in challenge crossing his arms across his chest.
Before Opal could reply the front door opened, both teenagers glanced at the middle aged couple walking in both carrying multiple bags. The couple smiled when they saw Opal and hurriedly moved towards the back door. After the two went outside (Mainly to help out with the water and ice Pokémon) Katcha turned fired another question at her.
"Oh and who were they? Your partners in crime?" He accused more and more, "You got anymore abused Pokémon back there?"
"Those were my parents…" Opal stared blankly at him "oh and before you jump to conclusions get your facts straight."
"What the fuck's that meant to mean?" He replied confused
"Did you read the sign outside?" she calmly replied.
Taking the hint he walked out the door and came to a crashing realization, looking more deflated then ever he slowly slinked back into the house. A sign outside clearly stated "Pokemon Day Care" and he had completely missed it on his way into the house.
"So what?" he re-challenged "Your Cottonee is still an odd color, I'm sure you did something"
Having dealt with this problem many times (the first few times were frustrating), Opal shoved an article about Shiny Pokémon into his hands, after processing the contents of his short read his head started shifting further down until…
"I'm sorry!" He pleaded finally apologizing, getting onto his knees and bowing, tears were freely flowing out of his eyes "Please forgive me for jumping to conclusions!"
"If you're so sorry then I guess I'll forgive you…" Her thoughtful look quickly became a mischievous grin.
"Really?" he asked, hope filling his voice.
"However" he instantly deflated as she added "You have to help out around here, and then I might consider forgiving you."
"Anything! I'll do anything!" a fire burned in his eyes.
After explaining what she wanted him to do (involves a lot of scrubbing of toilets and cleaning the pens while the Pokémon were out). He grumbled with the work he was given but he got on with it. Leaving Opal and her Cottonee to relax under the air conditioner, she found out that his name was Katcha (an odd name for sure) and within an hour or so he was done.
"So… you never answered my first question" she started as she saw him wobble towards a chair collapsing in said chair, her parents had relieved him of his duties. "What were you doing out on such a horrible day?"
"I was trying to reach Cerulean…" he breathed deeply before finishing his sentence "wanted to challenge the gym leader there"
"Oh?" this actually interested her, she didn't think that he was a trainer yet considering she hadn't seen his Pokémon, "Can I see your Pokémon?"
"Sure" he replied as he grabbed 3 Poké-balls from his pocket, enlarging them he tossed them lazily into the air, revealing that he had a Scyther, a Butterfree and a Beedrill. "Meet Kenshin the Scyther" Said Pokémon bowed its head, "Akaime the Butterfree, Kai for short" It flew around the room in a busy fashion, "and finally Sting the Beedrill" Sting cheerfully flew around the room following Kai.
Opal was quite excited by the sight of the 3 Pokémon, her eyes were sparkling in awe. "Wow…" As Maria and the others got acquainted, Opal whipped out a notebook, taking down notes on Katcha's Pokémon (Such as natures and distinguishing features). After writing down what she wanted to know she slipped the notebook back into her apron. Turning to Katcha she started "Hey wha-" she cut herself off as she saw that he was fully , she pouted silently to herself and sat back down. It had long since cooled down from the heatwave, deciding that now would be a good time to start dinner she made her way towards the kitchen, as she walked into the kitchen she came across her parents.
"That boy was a great help today" He smiled, "Tell him he can come by whenever he wants"
"So what're you going to do now sweetie?" her mother asked.
"I'm gonna make dinner" She replied, started taking out ingredients "making stew."
As the parents left their daughter to her devices she began cooking, the Pokémon in the house started playing a cheerful game of tag (minus Kenshin cause he's way too big for that) Maria being the slowest due to her lack of wings. As the stew was finished Katcha by some superhuman method woke up and slinked into the kitchen.
"Whoa it smells good!" he exclaimed.
"Hungry?" she asked as she set a bowl in front of him whilst carrying her own, however before she could touch her bowl Katcha had already demolished most of his stew. Staring slightly in shock when he finished his bowl, he looked towards her sheepishly.
"Could I get seconds please?" holding out his bowl, she numbly took it and served him more. She took the time to serve the others (by others I mean Pokémon), she quickly had her own serving and scooped some more for herself. Leaving enough for her parents she brought the rest for the Pokémon. Sitting in relatively comfortable silence Opal worded her question carefully however before she could ask her question Katcha beat her to it.
"Sorry… again for accusing you" He seemed calm compared to before; however that may just have to do with his comical apology earlier.
"It's ok" Opal shrugged "It was a misunderstanding"
This seemed to cheer him up; seemingly more animated he quickly asked "So how did you get Maria anyways?"
"A passing trainer gave me her egg" She replied "He didn't have enough space in his party and decided that I needed more Pokémon"
"Wait more Pokémon?"
"Yea, Maria isn't my only Pokémon"
"Wow can I see the others?"
"Other, I only have one more"
"Still, let me see it!"
"Alright" she sighed as she picked out another Pokéball from her pocket; she pressed the button and out popped a Nidoran "Meet Maelstrom"
The Nidoran was small; however it had a sparkle in its eyes. Almost as if it were thinking of some nasty plot (stuff like firing poison stings onto your chair before you sit on it or something), its purple body was covered with dark purple spots, and it also had a purple lightning bolt on its left hind leg.
"Oh my god" Katcha stared at it "It's so cute!" he had launched himself without control at Opal who was carrying Maelstrom, she simply dodged his cuteness induced charge and watched as he slammed face first into the floor.
"You have to be careful with Maelstrom" she said as she held her Nidoran
Getting up from his supposed fall he quickly said "Yea I will be how can I hurt something so cute~"
"Opal he's scary" Maelstrom stated as he stared at Katcha
"No… I meant be careful handling him"
"Why? Does he have the poison point ability?"
"No but he isn't harmless either, he's quite naughty"
"So do I get to hold him or not?"
Katcha looked at her expectantly.
"Nope"
"Aw"
As the conversation continued with Katcha pestering Opal to let him hold Maelstrom; the other Pokémon had finished their dinner and had fallen asleep. Maria acted as a pillow for Kai and Sting, whilst Kenshin stayed upright as he slept. Opal noticed the sleeping Pokémon and smiled at the adorable sight, ignoring Katcha and recalling Malestrom she took a camera out of her apron's front pocket and snapped a photo.
"Say Katcha, why don't you stay here for the night?"
"Really? AWESOME!"
"Yeah its fine, I doubt the Cerulean Gym will be open at this time"
Katcha recalled his Pokémon while Opal gently picked Maria up. She then showed him to the guest room; leaving him to it she prepared herself for bed. Plopping onto her bed she cuddled Maria as sleep started to take over.
I decided to leave it at that, I know it's not that long but it's only the start! Stay tuned for the next chapter! Also I will be leaving information about the Pokémon teams at the bottom of each chapter so you can see the journey so far (when it starts of course).
Trainer
Name: Opal
Cottonee * (Maria)
Ability: Prankster
Nature: Bold
Gender: Female
Nidoran (Maelstrom)
Ability: Hustle
Nature: Naughty
Gender: Male
Trainer
Name: Katcha
Scyther (Kenshin)
Ability: Technician
Nature: Adamant
Gender: Male
Butterfree (Akaime)
Ability: Compound eyes
Nature: Hasty
Gender: Male
Beedrill (Sting)
Ability: Sniper
Nature: Jolly
Gender: Male