POKAYEMON DREAMS 01 – ANNIHILATION

"Gotcha!" Speech

"What is she talking about?" Thought

"Who are you?"Unknown

Found Potion! Narration

CHAPTER 02 REAL OR NOT

I thought about a lot of things…

Like why I never had any friends beside Latias. And why I was afraid… afraid of being alone. I think it was because of my younger years as a child…

A child version of me was standing in front of me. Same red shirt, wearing black pants and the same black shoes as my older self. His hair was shorter than mine but still spiky.

The scene changed from a white empty world to a school, a class room from the looks of it. Outside of the window it was sunny, with a blue sky and some clouds moving slowly through the sky. Outside of the room I could hear children laughing and running around, an announcement was made on the speaker thing… something about going home or something, it sounded like home… or was it tome? Dome? I don't know. Looking back to my younger self, he was drawing something while sitting down. I did mention in the last chapter that I wasn't much of an artist but hey, a kids drawing isn't that good to begin with.

Walking over standing behind him I could recognize the drawing, it was an Oshawott holding an apple instead of a Scalchop. I think I remember now. Oshawott's were my favorite of any starter for a trainer, I planned to get one when I was young. The other kids said I wouldn't get there, that my life is meaningless, someone who would get in everyone's way. I had no friends except for Latias who liked me for some reason. At first I thought it was her feeling sorry for me or that she actually liked me for who I was.

Suddenly I woke up from my dream.

"Oshawott Osha!" Oshawott shouted slightly shaking a little, probably trying to wake me up.

I opened my eyes to see Oshawott looking at me with a worried look.

"Huh? Hmm…it was just a dream…" I said still half asleep.

"Osha Oshawott?" he said after holding on to my hand with both of his paws.

"I'm alright," I smiled "it was just, a weird dream."

"Osha…"Oshawott didn't seem to be convinced but decided to let it go. Oshawott walked over to my shoulder bag and crawled inside to stay warm. Yesterday I… uh, was lost. I was still at route one but since a random storm approached we slept inside a small cave we found near the cliff edge. The cave inside was small, moist and warm. I forgot to take a sleeping bag with me so… I fucked up… *sighs*, I got lost in route one, slept in a cave without a sleeping bag and my food was eaten (Latias ate it.).

I noticed Latias' Pokéball to my left. Picking it up, I noticed that the ball was empty. Looking around the area I couldn't see Latias inside or outside the cave. Oshawott noticed me looking around.

"Hey Oshawott" I asked looking back at him. "Do you know where Latias is?"

"Oshawott." He said shaking his head.

"Must be wandering around…" I muttered before getting up. Oshawott got out of the bag and walked towards the caves entrance. Walking behind him I reached the caves entrance and searched past the trees hoping to catch a glimpse of Latias... nothing.

Walking to the path with Oshawott in front I thought of the worst things that could happen to Latias. A Latias is rare Pok émon, especially in the Unova region.

"Where is she?" Iasked in my mind. "I have told her not to go and wander off like that, especially in a forest. *Sighs* if anything happens to her… what do I-"

"Osha!" Oshawott called out while pointing ahead towards the trees. Kneeling down to Oshawott's level I said "What is it Oshawott?"

Oshawott ran towards the direction he pointed, I quickly followed. Oshawott was ahead of me by 5 steps, for a little Pokémon he was running fast. Perhaps Latias was playing again, pretends to be gone but when you least expect it she appears in front of you trying to scare you. That has happened on occasions when me and Latias walked around the forest near Nuvema she would use her uh… invisibility ability, um… something about using the light to make her invisible I don't know. She would vanish and try to scare me, playfully of cause but she

10 minutes had passed by the forest was very quiet, the only thing that could be heard was the river nearby.

"Oshawott any signs of Latias?"

"Oshawott….osha?"

"Oshawott is something wrong?" I asked. Oshawott ran forward waving at me to follow him. We ran out of the trees towards a road. Over the distance I noticed smoke, it was very faint, like someone had set up camp, probably last night or set up recently. Instead of using the road Oshawott ran towards the trees. Maybe Oshawott was using the trees so we wouldn't be seen?

Oshawott slowly came to a stop and looked up at me and pointed out of the trees. I knelt down beside Oshawott. Quietly I moved a small branch out of the way to see a small campsite. The campsite was small. One the left was a sleeping bag with something inside, I couldn't make it out from where I was. The campfire was still set aflame cooking something inside the pot hanging above. That was when I noticed the girl, the girl looking at Latias. Latias was staring back at a young girl also staring at Latias, the girl had short black hair up to her neck, black shorts with a black belt, red shirt with a pokéball symbol on the chest, a sweater was wrapped around her waist, and she was wearing black sneakers with white lace. Beside her was a Minccino standing right next to her, it didn't seem threatening but I didn't want to take that chance.

"W-what Pok émon are you?" the girl asked as if she was expecting a response.

"Latias, Hey!" I shouted as I ran out of the bushes with Oshawott quickly catching up. Latias turned around and charged towards me and hugged me.

"Laaa! Laa!"

"Latias, you shouldn't be wandering off by yourself." I said to her as she nuzzled her head onto my chest, but she didn't seem to listen to me.

"Is this Pokémon yours?" the girl said as she slowly walked up to me.

"Y-yeah." I said with a small hint of shyness in my voice.

I wasn't really much of a talker. Heck, if it was someone else talking to me for long periods of time… all of my responses would be either:

01. "Yeah."

02. "Okay…"

03. "No."

04. "Excuse me?"

05. "Bye!"

06. "Right…"

"What Pokémon is it?" she asked staring at Latias again.

"A Latias…" I said "Latias' are female Pokémon; um… they are native to the Hoenn region." "Or was it the Johto region?" Ithought.

"If you'd like you're more than welcome to sit with us." The girl offered us a seat at her camp where her Pokémon was sitting eating something, a berry from the looks of it.

"Uh… y-you wouldn't mind?" I asked stuttering a little.

She shook her head. "My name is Sakura Kanai, and this is my friend Minccino." She smiled as her Minccino looked up and waved at us. "Minccino and I have been best friends ever since my mom gave her to me on my 10th birthday."

Oshawott walked over to Minccino and noticed the Minccino standing in front of him was female. After that he slightly blushed and smiled and greeted her. "Osha…." He said.

Sitting down near the fire, Latias rested beside me with her head on my lap. Sakura sat to the right of us.

"My name is Zack Raines" I began, "That's Oshawott, he's my starter Pokémon and this is Latias, we only just started our journey yesterday."

"You too huh?" she said "so… are you going to collect gym badges and competing in the Unova league?"

"No…" shaking my head I looked back at her "I'm going to join the saviors."

She looked up at me and asked, "The saviors?"

"That's right." I nodded. "Why do you want to join them?" she asked. I paused there for a moment thinking of what to say.

"Well, I want to do something good with my life. Not to become a celebrity for defeating a champion and finally becoming one. I want to make a difference in this world, to… become a hero maybe." "Ugh back out now!" Ithought quickly realizing how lame that sounded.

"A h-hero? Oh yeah… Saviors are known for their heroic work." She said before smiling.

"Uh…" "C'mon talk to her! Tell her about her starter Pokémon. Stop being a statue and Talk!" After scratching my head I asked Sakura…"So, uh…is Minccino your starter pokemon?"

"I have had Minccino ever since I was young. I didn't want to feel greedy before I started my journey." She looked up at me after throwing some old paper into the fire "Did you find Latias just now?"

"No, Latias has been with me ever since I was young." As I looked over at Latias who had just levitated up from her space to grab some apples from a nearby tree. She pulled a few apples off a branch and levitated down towards us.

"Lah?" she handed me a red apple. "Thank you Latias." I said. Latias smiled and passed the other apples to Sakura, Oshawott and Minccino. Latias rested her head on my lap while eating her half eaten apple.

"So where are you headed?" I asked.

"I don't know…gyms are not my thing so I…I'll have time to think about what I want to do. Hey, um...Zack? Do you mind if I go with you?"

"Uh…s-sure I guess, I mean I don't mind…" Looking down at the fire I thought… "She's going to leave anyway… it's not like she's going to follow me much anyway… they're all the same…"

We ate our apples and waited by the fire a little to get warm. Looking up at the sky I noticed the clouds were getting darker. Not that it was getting late but it looked like a storm was on its way…cool. Sakura also noticed the clouds and immediately got up.

"Minccino! C'mon we're going now." She quickly said.

"Minccino!" Minccino said as she climbed inside Sakura's bag. Her tail started to move around inside of it. Grabbing Latias' pokéball I returned her inside then stood up. The fire was now gone and the clouds in the sky was getting darker by the second.

Oshawott ran towards me and jumped up on my left shoulder.

"Accumula is just past this road. If we hurry we can make it." Sakura seemed to panic as smaller drops of rain began to fall.

"Sakura, is everything-" I attempted to reach out to her but then she screamed;

""I don't like it!" she shouted shocking me. Silence surrounded us.

Minccino looked up at her trainer from her bag with a sad look. Sakura seemed as if she was afraid. Why was she scared of the rain?

"I-I'm sorry…" she looked up at me. "I-I-I shouldn't have shouted at you like that…"

"No it's alright." Scratching my head I stared at the ground, and then looked back up at the clouds in the sky. I looked over at Sakura and said…"C'mon, let's run to the Pokémon center then."

"Huh?"

"Let's go." I ran up to her and grabbed her hand as we ran to Accumula. We both ran as fast as we could, Sakura was holding her bag with Minccino inside tightly while Oshawott was holding onto the strap of my bag. The clouds were getting darker but we finally made it to Accumula seconds before the rain began. The center was on the right side of the town so we continued running until we entered the center doors as it opened for us. The center was bright and clean. On the left was a large window with a couple of chairs and next to it.

In the corner was a vending machine for drinks and another for snacks. On the right was a small doorway with a small sign reading:

'ROOMS 01-10'

Up front was a small desk with a nurse joy reading from a clipboard with an Audino next to her.

I let go of Sakura's hand and looked at her. Sakura smiled at me then walked up to the desk. I followed her shortly after watching the rain from the inside.

"Excuse me." Sakura gained the attention of the nurse who looked up at Sakura as she placed the clipboard down on the desk next to a computer.

"Hello and welcome to the Pokémon center, how may I help you today?" she greeted with a smile.

"Could we have a room for the night?"

"Of cause" nurse joy said before she stood up "Let me just get your rooms ready, please wait here."

Nurse joy left and entered one of the rooms behind the reception desk leaving me and Sakura alone.

I walked over to the vending machines to get some drinks for everyone. I set Oshawott down on the nearby seat and got my money out from my pocket. "Hmm, let's see…1100 PD." PD is shortened for Pokédollars "Okay a drink is…100? Fine…at least it's better than nothing." Ilooked back at everyone else. Sakura and Minccino stood next to the desk facing away from the window me and Oshawott were next to. I decided to buy one drink each for everyone and some snacks until we get to the room. The snacks machine had:

Chocolate bar PD 30

Potato chips plain PD 20

Potato chips spicy PD 20

Instant noodles spicy PD 50

Fresh apple PD 150

Sandwich Coming Soon

? N/A

? N/A

Gum PD 05

I bought 5 chocolate bars…150 gone. Potato chips times 5 is 100 so that's 250 spent. Instant noodles… times 6…300… 550… 50 left. After buying all of the food and drink I placed them in my bag and walked over to Sakura staring at the floor.

"Are you alright?" I asked but her sight remained focused on the white clean floor. "I'm fine now" she said.

"Um… if you don't mind me asking, w-what was that about?"

"N-nothing, it's nothing really." She said still staring at the floor. I decided to just forget about it. It wasn't my business anyway. A minute passed by, nurse joy remained gone, no one entered the center and the Audino had left… I think, I'm not sure since the deck is high up and it might be behind it in…silence. That creeped me out for some reason.

The T.V. was turned on, may as well watch it to pass the time.

On the T.V.:

"Hello and welcome back to channel 1000 Unova Entertainment." A woman said in an energetic voice.

The scene changed to a Birdseye view of the Unova region.

"Castelia City is the origin of the organization who has dedicated their lives to help and protect the citizens of Unova is The Saviors."

My attention then turned to nurse joy as she exited the room behind the desk and gave Sakura a silver key with the number 06 imprinted on it. "Your room is ready." She said. "Just through there, and the fifth door on your left. If you two need anything, just ask me."

"Thank you" we both said in unison as we walked to through the doorway and down the hallway. I stopped halfway and walked back to the reception.

"Excuse me; nurse joy is there a phone I can use?" I asked.

"Of cause, it's inside your room."

"Thank you" I said before quickly walking to our room. Sakura waited for me outside before we walked in together. The room was small with two bunk beds on either side of the room. In front of me was a window and in front of the window was a small T.V. Sitting down on the right bed I took off my bag and placed Oshawott down beside me and released Latias on top of the bed with her head resting on the pillow, talk about good aim.

"Oh yeah, I got some food and drink from the vending machines earlier." I grabbed multiple snacks in my right and a drink in my left hand and handed them to Sakura.

"Thank you" she said before grabbing some for her and Minccino and sat down on the opposite bed.

I gave some chocolate to Latias. Latias opened her eyes and looked at me then at the small piece of chocolate in my hand. She opened her mouth a little and licked it a few times before eating it. I then gave her some lemonade which she happily accepted. Oshawott drank some lemonade and ate some chocolate.

"Sakura" I said turning around facing her "so what was your plan before I came along?"

"I don't know" she said before shaking her head lightly. "I was wandering around Unova for a few days; I guess I was trying to find something that would spark my interests. But I found nothing."

"Okay, this is a boring conversation Zackary… *sighs* what the hell do I even say? Small talk? Thanks a lot dad for telling me about how to talk to girls (!)."

I used the remote and switched through the channels one by one looking for something to watch. In the end I found a movie we could watch, nothing too serious but it was an okay one, by okay I mean not too boring and not that good. I'm not sure why I did watch it since I hated it but everyone else in the room seemed to like it. From what I remember about the film it was about a woman travelling the world to paint landscapes, Pokémon and people for her dying father who has spent the past 40 years in bed (Probably because of an accident I'm not sure.) and she wants to paint these things so that her father can see the outside world again or something like that. Oshawott slept right through the movie while Latias resting her head on my lap got upset about the movie, the same went for Minccino. Sakura looked bored of the movie and was instead reading from a magazine.

Commercial

The scene changed to a Charmander about to drink a potion.

"Do you hate it when you are about to drink from a potion feeling refreshed and energetic once more but some annoying pest knocks it out of your paw?" Asked a man with a burly voice.

A shadowed Pokémon then knocks the potion out of the Charmanders paw making it tear up. The shadowed Pokémon was probably a Bulbasaur.

"Well cry no more as the Potion Level Three you can drink from your favorite Potion and feel once again refreshed." The Charmander smiled after drinking the potion who then turned to the shadowed Pokémon with a glare before using ember.

"But the Level three Potion comes with a special bonus. That bonus is this; if you are about to drink your potion and the pest knocks it out of your paws then you will receive 75% HP back no matter what kind of Potion it is, and that nasty pest will be incinerated."

The shadowed Pokémon is lit on fire again screaming and running away. The commercial ended and another appeared about a car commercial. We then watched a movie after feeling bored. The movie wasn't anything too special or worth telling about, it was just another one of those random movies they show on TV. 2 hours later the movie ended at around 7.14pm, feeling tired I decided to get some sleep so that tomorrow I could get up early and go to the Saviours first thing. Sakura agreed on this as well and slept in her bed with her clothes on.

I removed off my gloves and shoes and climbed into the bed. Latias lied down near the wall while Oshawott slept next to her. Closing my eyes I tried to relax and drift off to sleep but that didn't happen for almost an hour. Seriously, that's how long I counted.

I couldn't sleep much. Mostly it had to do with joining the saviours soon and... There was the other thing. I turned around to see Sakura sleeping with Minccino in her arms. I never had to sleep with someone else in a room before, except for Latias who stayed in my room most of the time taking up half of my bed whenever I tried to sleep. Winters were the best since she was like a warm cushion but the summers were the worst.

I turned over in bed facing the wall and to Latias whose head was resting on the other side of the pillow. Oshawott and Latias were hugging each other as they slept.

Closing my eyes I could hear Latias and Oshawott breathing followed by my own breathing. In my mind I thought about what I wanted to do tomorrow; join the saviours. Tomorrow I was going to join the saviours and make a difference in the world.

Slowly I drifted off and fell asleep.

I remembered a little bit about my dream. I was in a burnt empty field, the skies were grey and the wind was cold and I could smell burning like wood or grass. Perhaps it was grass that was burnt because of the black ground under my feet. Looking around I was met with nothing, just silence and a burning smell that I disliked since it now hurt my eyes.

"Okay"Icoughed "this is weird."Isaid since this dream felt real like it was a lucid dream "Alright!" I cheered "let's go race car!" I said closing my eyes pointing at the ground in front of me expecting to see a race car when I opened them again. I opened my eyes... nothing. No race car or... house? It's better than nothing I guess.

Walking over to the two story house I approached the door to see that it was slightly open. Looking around the field to see once again nothing I entered the house but suddenly I found myself on the first floor in a green room. Looking back outside the door were some stairs leading down. In the room was a small window but it was fogged up to see outside. On the floor was a train set in a circle around the room with a wooden train moving slowly around the tracks.

"What kind of lucid dream is this?" I said in frustration. Holding my head with both hands I tried to get this stupid dream to do what I wanted to do like have some fun in this dream world... *sighs*

As I held my head trying so hard to get something interesting to happen I heard something smash from downstairs. Opening my eyes I turned around to see something so horrible I jumped back towards the window. It was humanoid in appearance standing as high as 7 feet tall. Its body was burnt and rotten like a corpse. The smell was so disgusting I almost threw up. The feeling felt so real I almost thought that I would throw up in the bed that I was currently sleeping on.

"W-w-w-what...what the" I said in fear as I tried to step back but the wall prevented me from moving back.

Its eyes... there were no eyes, just two empty sockets but since it had no eyes it felt as it could still see me. It had burnt clothing on and had a tail? It looked like a Pikachu's tail but it was red at the tip and a heart shape? The arms looked like that of a Grovyle, its face was human but its teeth looked sharper than a humans tooth. All of its limbs were burnt and covered in maggots and dried up blood.

I tried to open the window and jump out of it, I knew that the fall alone would break my leg or probably kill me depending on the angle I fall, but to get away from this thing or waking up would be better than another second with this thing. But before I could open the window the monster lifted its arms up slowly touching the ceiling and ran towards me shrieking like no human or Pokémon I had ever heard.

Scared I tried to jump out of the window by smashing the glass but to no prevail. It towered above me about to strike. My arms covering my head as I closed my eyes waiting for the strike until….

I woke up.

It was morning. 7.18am… I looked around the room for anything out of the ordinary. After a nightmare happens I usually do that, I guess most people do when they awaken from a nightmare. Latias was still asleep moving slightly and breathing softly. As for Sakura, Minccino and Oshawott they were watching a TV show, a cooking show about a young girl in her early 20s with her companion a female Dewott. This show is popular in the Unova region with over 5 seasons. I noticed that Oshawott was watching the show while blushing.

Getting up from the bed I slowly shifted Latias off me and let her sleep for a little while. I lightly rubbed my forehead and yawned a little. Quickly I put on my shoes and gloves.

"I should get going soon. Man that was a creepy dream."I thought to myself. Oshawott got my attention when he came over towards my leg and pulled on my pants to get my attention. Looking down at him he happily gave me half an apple. Smiling, I accepted it and thanked him for it.

"Are Pokémon always this trusting when they spend a day with their new trainer?"looking back at Latias who hadn't moved from her position yet, I started to think back when we first met… she hated me at first, but then she finally accepted me… I had asked many times in my childhood about that.

"Uh, Sakura?" I said gaining her attention. Oshawott and Minccino both looked at me. "Um… are you sure you want to come with me?" I said. "You don't have to if you don't want to."

"Yeah." She said smiling. "And besides, I want to find out what I want to do." She got up and looked at me again with her hands behind her back. "And you seem like an okay guy." She giggled at that. But in my mind I thought about; if she got to know me then that "An okay guy" Will turn into a boring guy with nothing interesting to say.

"*Sighs* I'm boring as hell. Thanks a lot dad for telling me how to talk to girls." I said that last part sarcastically in my dark cold grey mind.

Turning around to wake Latias up I was met with no one other than Latias herself with her face very close to me smiling. Jumping back a little, Latias immediately grabbed me pulling me in for a tight hug.

"Okay," she said "let's get going. Come on Minccino." Minccino jumped up in Sakura's arms as Sakura walked over to get her bag that was placed on a chair near the window.

Getting out from Latias' hug, I returned her to her ball and picked Oshawott up and placed him on my left shoulder. My satchel shoulder bag or whatever it's called felt lighter than usual. Perhaps I was just nervous or I was feeling tense.

After getting out of Latias' hug I stroked her long neck to her head a few times and returned her to her ball.

We walked out of the door and made our way to the front desk were we saw nurse joy sitting at the desk typing something into the computer in front of her. She stopped typing as she noticed us approach the desk. Sakura handed her the keys.

"Thank you for letting us stay here." Sakura said before smiling.

Nurse joy took the keys and nodded. "Please come again any time."

"Thanks." I said before walking towards the exit of the center with Sakura. Before I exited the building I noticed a phone near the entrance.

Thinking back to when I was at home I said I was going to call mom when I got to Accumula.

"Uh, sorry I got to make a quick phone call." I said to Sakura who didn't seem to mind as I walked back inside

The phone machine thing (I forgot what it was called.) was almost clean, except the small multiple graffiti on the small desk in front of the phone monitor. The graffiti had people's names on it, different kinds of Pokémon and small writing that caught my attention reading 'Nurse joy, take your top off.'

"Okay…" I whispered quietly as I picked up the phone and started dialling my house phone number. Oshawott now stood on the desk in front of the phone monitor and also noticed the small text about nurse Joy. He on occasions looked back and forth at the text and nurse joy who was still behind the desk writing on a check board. A small blush appeared on Oshawott's white face.

"Maybe he likes that Audino?" I thought as I turned around to see the Audino Oshawott was looking at. But the Audino was not there. I looked again at Oshawott whose blush increased as well as his goofy smile got bigger.

"Nurse Joy? Um… okay?"confused about the whole scenario I was about to ask Oshawott about it but I heard a woman on the phone.

"Hello?" the woman asked. But it wasn't just any woman. "Mom, hi it's me, Zack." I said after I turned to the monitor. My mom was in her usual attire. White buttoned up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and blue pants with a small tear on the right thigh. That tear was on purpose since she wants to stay in her words "Hip" and "Cool", things like that.

"Sorry I didn't call yesterday." I said "we almost got caught in the rain so we rain to the center and uh, I guess I forgot about it."

"That's alright." she said before noticing Oshawott still looking at Nurse Joy. "And who is this?"

"This is my starter Pokémon, Oshawott." I looked at him as he turned around to look at my mother. His blush had faded momentarily, but as he looked at her for 10 seconds his blush increased, smiling and waving at her.

"Osha, Oshawott" he happily said. "Aww, isn't he cute." She said. "He is a 'He' right?" she questioned.

"Yeah..." I responded while nodding. "Oh right, before I left Nuvema town, Latias appeared and wanted to come with me." "Well that explains where she disappeared to…" she sighed. "For a minute there I thought she flew off or got herself captured."

"Wait a minute!" she suddenly said. "Did you say 'We'? Did you make a new friend?"

"Uh… kind of." I said quietly but loud enough for her and Oshawott to hear.

"So? What is your new friend like?" mom said while smiling.

"She's just travelling with me until she figures out what she wants to do with her life."

"See Zack? Didn't I tell you, you would make friends out there?"

"She never said that…" but before I could respond mom was distracted by a beeping noise coming from somewhere nearby. My mom had some sort of timer thing that reminded her of things to do, a to do list of some kind, I never paid much attention to that thing or never asked her what it was for. I'll just say she's making something in the kitchen.

"I'm sorry Zack, I have to go now. Call me when you have reached the saviours HQ."

"I will. Bye."

"Take care." We both put down the phones and the monitors switched off.

"Ah! I forgot to ask about Yuri… I'll ask mom when I get to the saviours."

The outside was clear. No clouds in the sky and no people on the street, it was completely empty… except for us. Walking over to the store behind the center, just outside the store were soda and snack machines. The store was small and painted blue. The windows had posters scattered around each window. Some of them had the following:

01. 75% off Sale at Nimbasa City on Wednesday to Friday.

02. Pokémon Battle starting next week at Castelia City from 9AM to 3PM.

03. Pokémon Day-care for 100 PD a Day.

04-This is a story, reader. (I'm not sure what that one was about.)

05. S? at ? ? City this ?day to Wednesday ?. (The text was fading badly. I couldn't make it out.)

We entered the small shop together. Inside it was a little bright. The tiled floors were slightly stained and some small cracks on a tile or two. The walls were painted white with more posters about half price sales and offers. Beside the walls were shelves full of potions, food and accessories for both trainer and Pokémon. To the right was the cashier behind the small brown desk. The cashier was an elderly woman probably in her late 60s placing some items near the cash register. Small bottles what appeared to be Potions for Pokémon.

Sakura walked towards the other side of the shop while I walked near a shelf close to the cashier. The shelf had various items like:

Potion 300PD

Ether 1200PD

Revive 1500PD

HP UP 9800PD

PP UP 9800PD

Protein 9800PD

Iron 9800PD

Calcium 9800PD

Zinc 9800PD

Carbos 9800PD

Vitamin 9800PD

"Wow an HP UP. Never seen once for sale. Damn it! If I only had some money to buy this..." I said disappointed in my mind after wanting to purchase a rare item for so long and try it out on Latias or another Pokémon I had caught. A rare item like this in a small town like Accumula won't be gone the next time I return with a lot of money... right? Knowing my luck it'll probably be out of stock.

The HP UP bottle fit in my hand. The bottle was lightly brown with a white label wrapped around the entire bottle with the name, logo of company who made this stuff, and at the back were the ingredients of this drink. The white cap on top of the bottle had a small green triangle imprinted on it, the same went for the others. The same triangle imprinted on the cap each with different colors. Suddenly I heard the cash register open as the cashier put some PD inside. Sakura was buying some potions… two of them from the looks of it.

"C'mon Zack, open your eyes and listen; she is going to leave you, mock you even. Run! Run to Castalia!"In my mind I turned around putting down the HP UP."This could be my chance to start anew." I thought trying to find hope in getting some friends."Run while you can. Don't let these fools walk all over you." after that I placed my hands in my pockets and looked at the ground. I noticed from the corner of my eye, Oshawott was staring at me. My expression was glum, bored even.

"Hey." Sakura said as she walked up to me. "Here I got you this." Looking down at her right hand, Sakura passed me a chocolate bar, while in her left hand beside her waist was the bag that contained the two potions she bought recently. Now that I realize it, on her left hand- I mean on her wrist were multiple dried up cuts probably a week or two old.

"Knife wounds? Did Sakura cut herself?" concerned with her cuts I wanted to ask her about it but quickly I decided against it.

I slowly grabbed the chocolate bar from her and looked at it more closely. The chocolate bar was wrapped in a red wrapper. The front read out; 'Eden Chocolate Bar' I have heard about this chocolate. Anyone who eats this chocolate can restore their HP a little. Same goes for any other Eden product.

"Thank you." I said before taking the chocolate bar from her. "The nice lady at the register said I could get two if I spent 500 in store." She smiled "So here ya go."

"I'll eat it later. But again, thank you." I smiled lightly as I opened my satchel and put the chocolate bar inside.

We left the shop but as we left I noticed at the corner of my eye in the sky were about seven helicopters flying towards Castelia city.

The helicopters were black and had a yellow logo on the side of one of them; I couldn't make out the logo so I continued to watch them as they flew past the town in the direction of Castelia.

"Never seen that many helicopters at once like that…" Sakura said as she watched the helicopters. The helicopters flew by and disappeared from view.

We started to walk towards the towns exit. As we were walking I heard bird-type Pokémon yelling their names to each other, Pidoves, Swellows, and a Fearow I think. A few Pokémon from other regions especially bird and water types usually come to Unova for a few months for the winter I think or was it mating season? Well whatever the reason it was nice to hear Pokémon from other regions, makes me wonder if I'll go to other regions for a mission when I join the Saviors.

We finally reached the towns exit and began walking. With each step I took, I knew that I was getting closer and closer to starting my career.

To be continued...

Trivia:

Sakura originally was called Sophia in the Alpha version I had wrote a while ago, this change was due to a character later on had the same name as her.