Disclaimer: Pokémon is not mine!
Chapter 1: New home, start a journey
It was a bright new day. It was still early, but the sky was clear and everyone had already started to move; going to work, cleaning, cooking, training o doing what they usually did.
Katila was still sleeping. She was tired. She and her mother had just moved from the southern region and she had to unpack everything that was hers without help, cleaning and tiding up the room until she decided it was acceptable. She had go to sleep almost right after, not feeling hungry. She had thought more than once that she deserved some help, but her mother had unpacked everything else, and she couldn't say it was unfair. Still...
Katila yawned, awaking. Suddenly, a flutter sound invaded the room and stopped one meter away from the bed. Katila though she could hear the sound of the tiny claws hitting the ground in the silence of the room.
"H-Hey, you! Wake up! I-it's late!"something shouted from the ground, away from the bed.
"I'm awake" Katila replied, throwing a pillow to the fletching that had gone to awake her. The pokémon fled downstairs, terrified and shouting "She's trying to kill me!". Katila looked how the pokémon flew downstairs with one of her eyebrows raised. "I'm not" she muttered, still half asleep, and then lied on the bed again only to remember that she was supposed to start a journey around Kalos that day. She sighted, wanting to sleep more, but she got finally up and went to the wardrobe to take some clothes: trousers, a dark T-shirt, a leather jacket, mountain boots and mitten. She took more clothes so she would have clean ones and put a cap over her short, brown hair. She looked at herself in the mirror, and nodded. Comfortable and perfect for a long trip. Katila went downstairs.
Her mother was in the kitchen. The girl noticed the letter from Professor Sycamore on the table, but she knew perfectly what was written on it. Without it, she wouldn't have to travel around Kalos. Katila's mother heard her footsteps and turned around fast. She gave her daughter a tense smile. The fletching was nowhere to be seen.
"Well" her mother said "I guess it's time for you to go. Do you have everything ready?"
"Yes, I'm ready" Katila replied. They looked at each other, in a tense silence.
"You know..." her mother started "You know you don't have to do this, right? I mean, we have been through difficult situations and our relation mother-daughter is not the best but..."
"Mom" Katila interrupted her mother " t's fine. Really. Ok, it's true, I'm not excited about this, but I don't mind either. I agree with Sycamore that this will be great for both of us. It's just... we just moved and I'm still tired. But he arranged everything for today and it can't be helped"
"Yes, I understand. Good luck with your journey and take care" her mother gave her a small, yet sincere, smile this time "I love you, Katila. Really"
The girl smiled back.
"I know. Thanks"
And she stepped out of the house.
And at the very moment she went out of her house, she found a boy and a girl around her age waiting there. He wore some kind of blue tracksuit and she was wearing a black blouse with a red skirt. Katila stared at them, confused by their presence.
"Who are you and why are you here?"she asked.
The boy laughed a little when he heard the question.
"Sorry for the surprise. My name is Kalm and she is Serena, my sister. We are your new neighbors. Welcome to Vaniville Town!"
Katila keep staring at them "...'kay, I guess"
Serena sighted at her reaction.
"I told you we should have send them a card fist or something, Kalm. Why are you so stubborn?"
"Sorry, sis. I love introducing myself by surprise and you know it" he laughed, a little embarrassed, though.
"Okay, I don't want to sound rude, but I have to go" Katila said. She had better things to do that listen to sibling argue. Or listen to anyone, really "I'm supposed to travel around Kalos with a pokémon and under the command of Augustine or some shit like that, so..."
"Oh, yes, that's also why we are here. We have to go to the next city when we will be given our first pokémon." Kalm interrupted.
"You call the Professor by his first name?" Serena asked, stunned.
"Uh... Yeah, sometimes. I guess that's not usual since he's a professor. He's an old family friend and helped us to move here."
"You're friends with the Professor?!" Serena was even more stunned "I envy you"
"Me too" her brother supported "It must be cool being friends with someone so famous!"
"I... guess" Katila said. She didn't seem very happy about it.
"Well, we're going to the next town. Don't be late or you won't have a pokémon!" Kalm shouted as he started running to the town's gates. Serena just smiled and waved at Katila. She looked them get further.
"...I'm going to fucking kill Sycamore if I have to travel with them" she stated. What the fuck was he thinking, exactly?
"Are you still here?" a deep voice from her left said. She turned to look at the ryhorn that was giving her a bad look. "Leave right now and don't come back again!"
"It is not you which must decide that" Katila replied, calmly but harshly "And sooner or later, I'll be back. You all are my family whether we like it or not"
The pokémon stood up, furious and ready to charge, but the human left. She was in a hurry and didn't really want to argue with the ryhorn. Katila went out the town to the next one, that was only a few minutes walking north. At first she even thought everything was the same town.
But she couldn't explore anything before she heard Serena's voice calling her from somewhere. Katila looked around her until she found a table with a lot of people around it. Kalm and Serene where there so she guessed she had to go with them. Katila approached them and sited on the only free chair left. Besides from Kalm and Serene there were also a small redhead boy, a fatty tall boy with a funny T-shirt of a vanillite and a tanned girl with strange ponytails. Too many people at once. That couldn't end well.
"Everyone, this is Katila" Serene introduced her. "She just moved from the southern region. Professor Sycamore told us, as well as your name" Serene clarified at the strange look Katila gave her. She nodded to herself, then. "Katila, these are Shauna, Trevor and Tierno..."
"What?" Katila interrupted. Everybody looked at her, surprised. She looked them back, a little uncomfortable. "I mean... Is 'Tierno' your name?" she asked him. Tierno nodded.
"Is there something wrong with that?" Trevor asked.
"No, no. It's just... Well, you know I'm from the southern region, which means my first language is Spanish and not French. And in Spanish 'tierno' means 'tender', which is not a bad meaning but not a very common first name, either. I wasn't expecting that, sorry" she apologized.
"Interesting" Trevor mumbled. "I always wanted to learn other languages, but I'm never able to decide only one to start with."
Shauna was giggling, though, as well as Serene. "Oh, Tierno, your name is the cutest thing ever!" The boy blushed, a little embarrassed, and pointed out her weird ponytails. Kalm made them stop, reminding them about the pokémon. He was impatient, wanting to know about his new companion.
"Oh, I know!" Shauna suddenly said. "You need a nickname!"
'I need a what?!' Katila didn't like that. She glare at Shauna immediately.
"You can't nickname someone you just met" Trevor protested.
"But this way we'll be best friends faster!"
Katila didn't like that at all.
"Enough!" Katila shouted. The "Tierno" thing had been funny, but there where thing she wasn't going to allow. "I've tried to be polite, but I'm going to put this clear right know: You are not going to give me a nickname and we are not 'friends'. We have just barely met, and we are not going to be 'friends' just because you want. We may or may be not end up being friends. Also, I am not a 'cheerful' person, I am not a 'nice' person, I am not a 'friendly' person and I am not a 'helpful' person. If I have to choose between being nice or tell someone to shut up, I tell them to shut the fuck up. And I'm going to travel alone. I would like to get out of here before night, so now, please, the pokémon"
Everyone looked at her, shocked and uncomfortable. Shauna seemed to feel guilty, and puzzled, but Katila didn't apologize or even say anything more. She just waited until someone gave her a pokémon.
After some more uncomfortable seconds, Tierno finally take out a case with three pokéball. The three opened and the pokémon stood on the table. The right one was a froakie that had his eyes closed refused to look at them. The left one was a chespin that started bouncing of excitement the very moment she touched the table, asking cheerfully who would be her trainer. On the center there was a fennekin that seemed more than annoyed by his partners. The only thing he did was glare angrily at the chespin when she hit him by accident. Katila blinked, as she thought she had seen his eyes turn light blue for an instant. She immediately wanted the fennekin.
"I'm going to travel alone" Katila said to him "So you rarely see your partners anymore. I think I like you so, is that ok?"
"Ok?" the fennekin replied "Your telling me that, if I go with you, I can get finally rid of the annoying and the weirdo and you ask me if that is ok? You should have theft me five years ago, when I was an egg! The name is Átok, by the way"
"I guess it's settled, then" she said, glad but puzzled by his answer." I'm Katila. Anything else before I go, people?" she asked the humans. Kalm and Serene had already chosen the chespin and the froakie respectively.
"Oh, yes!" Trevor said. "Here" he gave her the pokédex and some pokéball. "And, hum... good luck"
"Thanks. Good luck for you too" she replied, while she put everything on her bag and getting up.
"¡One second!" Kalm stand too. "Senshi wants to fight with Átok before you leave. Would you mind?"
"Again?" the fennekin complained.
"I have a trainer! This time will be different!" the chespin replied, still on her trainer's arms.
Katila sighted. At least she had the advantage type, so it should be fast.
"Whatever" she accepted.
Átok let his ears down, not exactly excited with his trainer's decision, but he knew too that the battle was going to be easy, so didn't complain. Both trainers faced each other while their pokémon were in front of them. Senshi was jumping again, overexcited with the perspective of a battle even though she was supposed to have lost many times before. She stopped bouncing for a while when his trainer asked for it. Then both humans agree to start.
"Ember" Katila commanded with apathy.
"Tackle, Senshi!"Kalm was more excited than his opponents.
"Sir, yes, sir!" Senshi replied, and jumped, starting running towards the fennekin so she would hit him with all her strength. Átok simply stare at her, tense an ready to dodge if it was necessary. But, before, he shook his ears and some sparks floated into the air for a second before they fade. He was ready. Senshi got even nearer than before. She could even jump and hit him, but before she managed to do that, Átok open his mouth and let many little fireballs out, throwing the flames at the plant type pokémon. The attack hit her critically and she fall on the ground, unable to keep fighting and at the verge of tears because it hurt and she had lost. The fennekin just rolled his eyes.
"Can we go now?"
Katila nodded. She waved the others and started walking at the exit of the town that lead to the forest. It was time to start the journey.
Welcome to my storylocke! I don't have much to say except I hope you enjoy it. It is also being uploaded at my tumbrl (its on my profile :3 )
Also, since we are in the Kalos Region, I need to ask you the question: bulbasaur, charmander or squirtle? Leave your chioce on the coments or send me a PM :3
