After shoving my face with that bit of cake last night, I wasn't surprised to find a gross taste in my mouth when I woke back up. My breath probably smelled really bad and I probably didn't smell much better. While the cramped room I felt stuck in was better than nothing, I was still angry that I had to sleep in here. Looking outside through the small attic window I got a pretty good view of the slow rising sun. Still really tired I watched as it got brighter and brighter until it started to hurt my eyes a bit.

I thought to myself, "Is this what I'm gonna have to deal with now, every fucking morning"

Rushing myself I had already put on my clothes so I could hurry downstairs and use the bathroom before mom and puffs. Thats when I was faced with a certain, very serious problem.

"Who locked the attic door!" I whispered angrily.

I almost felt like yelling, but that probably wouldn't have ended alright for me. Mom and puffs are always on the same schedule and really hate when I change that.

I tried to pry open the door. But that didn't work. And I still couldn't make any noise so I didn't even try to kick or punch it open. I probably wouldn't have been able to do that anyway.

Running out of ideas, I was getting really tired of this and it started feeling stuffy in the attic. I somehow was starting to hate this place even more. So I went over and tried to open my window. Pushing and pushing I was finally able to pry it open. And to my surprise, "holy crap it so cold out here," was the first thing I said, cooling down the room in seconds.

A thick fog had rolled in, and I couldn't see anything past the backyard. The air was so calm and cool I couldn't help but bask in it for a few minutes. Staring at nothing and looking down, I had an idea. At first, I thought about peeing out the window, but then I though, "Maybe I could climb down; The ground doesn't look that far and the roof to puffs room was right there under the window." I decided to jump and grabbed my bag. Putting my stuff in it really quickly and let it down in the corner of the room for later when I would come back. moving on I worked forward and made my way out of the room.

I stepped out one leg at a time and hung on the roof for a bit. Looking down in a bit of fear before letting go.

I tried to get a grip on something but everything was way to wet.

my flip flop slipped on the roof, then when I hit puffs roof I rolled down, down and down some more. I yelped when I hit the moist backyard dirt.

"HOLY MOTHER. Did you just jump from there!?" I heard from near.

"Are you okay, did you break anything?!" the person said in a shrill tone.

I sat up, not in much pain.

"I don't think so," I stuttered.

The person wants clearly a girl, and her long brown hair tied up with a bandana helped me notice. She was wearing a lot of red and green and looked really worried about me.

" I've had worse, Could you help me up," I asked " I gotta be somewhere with a professor,"

"Well if you're okay," she slowly said pausing and turning back "Wait, are you berry,"

I shook yes while she helped me up.

"OH!" She yelled, dropping me.

She quickly helped me up though. While she apologized she moved her hands a lot along With what she said.

"Sorry for dropping you," she stuttered "I'm May, my dad sent me to get you,"

"You're dad?" I asked.

"Well my dad is the professor,"

"Oh cool, but why don't you call him that?"

"Uh, it's do weird though, like if I called him daddy or something, I don't like it,"

" I get that, so the professor sent you?" I asked " I don't know he had a daughter,"

"Well yeah! And he wanted me to… well I don't know how to put this but I'm going to give you a Pokemon!" She said while fidgeting a bit.

"Your gonna give me a Pokemon…" I trailed. I was really surprised. I didn't even have my own room yet, and he wanted me to have a Pokemon?

Reaching out she handed me a Pokeball. "My mom never let me try for one of these," I mumbled to myself.

"Alright! My dad wanted me to tell you not to… oh I can't believe I forgot!" She said grieving to herself.

"Wait I think k he said something like, 'Don't open that until you get to the lab' yeah! I think that's what he said. Alright I've gotta go," She yelled while running off.

"I've gotta make it up to oldale and do some stuff! Happy travels Berry!"

"But I'm not going anywhere," I questioned, but I don't think she heard me.

I loomed over the ball, wondering what pokemon was in it. But is seemed I didn't have to give up any time. The ball popped and the Pokemon immediately popped out, landing in front of me in a blue light.

I held my breath for a bit in when I saw it.

The Pokemon was gray, and looked none I've seen in sinnoh, or even far back in Johto when I live there.

It loudly barked at me with a row a really sharp teeth. "Hi, I'm berry, I guess I'm going to be your master," I said slowly. It moved a bit closer. Growling and probably smelling my fear, and my sweat. It started barking and tried to tackle me.l

Quickly I grabbed it's ball and brought it back, not knowing what else to do I opted to get the professor's house. Besides that I'm pretty sure he still might want my help.

Or did he just want to give me a Pokemon? I didn't know, but I could ask him when I got there. Sadly the fog running rampant around town was way too thick to see in and I felt like i was running in circles. Soon enough at one point I ran into a wall, it was a bit weak and a pale color, then I looked down and saw myself. Well, the imprint I left when I jumped from the window.

"Dammit I have been running I circles," I started mumbling to myself in a rage. I was then annoyed by a short girl,a lot shorter than me.

She was running up from behind and not really paying attention to where she was going. She had sandy blonde hair, bright orange overalls and a jumpy attitude. She was grasping a Pokeball and screeching to herself.

"I got one I got one! I'm finally a master, a Pokemon master!" She screamed.

Looking at me I stood straight, and tried to walk past her without starting anything bit she noticed me.

"Hey are you a trainer!" she asked skipping towards me.

I quickly jumped back to my senses

"What, what the hell are you doing,"

"You have a Pokeball, that makes you a trainer! Im Austin and I'm want to be champion of hoenn!"

"Okay but did I ask," I jokingly said.

" I'm gonna be just like Wallace and steven! so I'm gonna battle just like they did!" She screeched.

Bored and angry I decided to talk to her to cool my nerves.

"But you can't be a master or a champion right," I asked. " Don't you need to battle and catch tons of Pokemon for that,"

" Oh, um, I guess, well does that mean?" She stopped talking and fiddled with the ball.

Then she quickly threw a blue light at me. A green pokemon popped out at me, a small one. It was shifting backward and making some space between us. Just as it had gotten out.

"Well, what are you waiting for it's your turn!" She yelled.

"I never said I would battle you," I mumbled. I didn't know if she heard me.

We were still in my backyard and I swear I heard my mom in the bathroom a bit ago. I chose not to end up with another problem on my hands and tried to bolt off, but the furry, dog pokemon. From before had already popped out of the ball and tried to fight.

My Pokemon barked and snarled at it's clear target, the other pokemon.

"Woah a Poochyena, I've seen Those before!" Austin said excitingly, " That's the bite pokemon! Come on let's battle, I want to be a master already!"

Thinking about it I wondered if may was really serious about me not opening the ball.

"So austin," i asked " what was this pokemon again? I just 'caught' it and have no idea what it does,"

"Yeah yeah! I know that, I read it in my Pokemon book! Poochyena know tackle! And uh… well I left my book at home but I remember that!" she said getting even worse with the stuttering and skipping around she was doing. It was kind of funny though.

"Okay so let's battle then!" I said, since Austin was getting me a bit excited, and I'm pretty sure the Poochyena would kill me if I didn't let it attack something soon.

"Okay!" Austin screamed, "Treecko, I mean… oh yeah! I forgot your nickname. Leafstorm! Attack the Poochyena with," she pause and scratched her head a bit," OH! LEER!" She quickly yelled.

Leafstorm sat still for a second, lunging forward and looking poochyena dead in the eye, but my Pokemon leaned back a bit a let out a loud bark dead in its face, making it back away quite a bit. "Okay… poochyena, Tackle leafstorm!" The Pokemon jumped up and bumped the Treecko backwards into Austin, and it scurried, hiding behind her.

Poochyena started barking, and howled at leafstorm until Austin brought it back into its ball.

Austin yelped, "You jerk Pokemon, you hurt my Pokemon," she repeated.

"Could you stop yelling, and could you stop barking already!" I said, but neither listened. I really didn't like all this noise.

Austin sorta coward a bit at the poochyena. Grasping her ball.

"Leafstorm no…" For a second I thought she was okay but noticed her flinch with every bark.

"Poochyena," I mumbled. It didn't stop.

"Hey," I said, trying to get it's attention.

But it kept going, backing Austin against a wall. She whimpered,"poochyena hurt my Pokemon," I was starting to feel bad for her and a bit angry at my Pokemon.

"HEY COULD YOU SHUT UP!" I yelled at the Pokemon. It turned back at me with and snarled! "my mom is way worse than you, stop barking already," I said to it. It stopped barking for a second and stared at me. Right before it started barking again I brought it back and quickly tried to apologize to Austin. But I never got the chance when I heard my mom from inside.

" Hey who's in our backyard! Puffs come here! There might be another scout following us," she yelled. "Berry! BERRY, COME DOWN HERE AND DEAL WITH WHATEVERS OUTSIDE,!" She yelled.

Coming to my senses I yelled "gotta go, you better run too," to Austin and ran off. Who knows what would happen if mom and puffs caught me like this.

" I-i, So what if you won! I'm gonna be the best! Stupid berry boy!" austin yelled. Looking back I saw Austin running off and looking back, but I couldn't tell what she looked like from the distance I gained. But it didn't look happy.

I kept going until I had to stop, the fog had passed and I could finally see where I was. The houses actually weren't that far apart i did get lost in the fog. But luckily i made it to Professor Birch's house just as he was walking out.

He was only wearing a basic shirt and some shorts with slippers. on the phone yelling and looking stressed out. clearly tired and groggy he didn't look very happy. Like he's been really busy.

That's when the police car pulled up. In front of him