"Human speech"

"Telepathy/aura"

Thinking

"Pokemon speech"

Pokemon move


Prologue

(? POV)

"Big brother, wake up already!"

The yelling, along with the constant poking on my nose, make me open my eyes slowly. The little zorua seems excited for some reason. Did he find a new pokemon in the forest to mess with?

"What is it, Shade? I'm trying to sleep here..." I mutter angrily.

"It's today, Chrome, it's today!" He yells while jumping up and down frantically.

Having had enough of his antics, I grab him and hold him so we are face-to-face. "Would you mind telling what is so special about today that you rudely disturb my sleep?"

"Today's the day we will leave to travel the region!"

I merely stare at him in silence. How did he find out that I intended to leave? And... "What do you mean, 'we'? Last time I checked, I had the intention of journeying -alone-."

"Oh, that's simple big brother. I told mom and dad, and..."

"YOU DID WHAT?!" My interruption went unnoticed.

"...convinced them to let me go with you."

Finally letting go of him, I stand up and stretch my arms. I -should- be angry at him, but seeing as he solved the issue of talking our parents into letting me leave, I won't have to sneak away and worry them to death. Now another issue is present, however, that wasn't here before: how am I supposed to protect Shade while travelling?

I sigh. "They were not happy about this, were they?"

"Nope!" He answers matter-of-factly while snickering.

Seeing as the purugly's out of the bag, I decided to say goodbye to our parents as soon as we find them, and leave. A bit heartless, but I've already made up my mind. We left the cave, found them, and said our parting words. They were against it, for obvious reasons, but had no intentions of stopping us as we left. At least I promised to keep Shade safe, and that we both would return one day. That, if anything, made them cheer up.

"Now then." I said before changing my appearance. Now I am a human male with short black hair, gray eyes, a blue track jacket, navy blue pants, and black combat boots. "Come on, we're leaving."

Shade jumped up on my right shoulder, and we left towards the closest human settlement: Lumiose City.


Fact about Chrome's Journey: it was once "Calem's Secret" but I scrapped it and made this instead. The original name was also Pokemon: The Journey of Zoroark.