"My parents always told me that being a trainer is a wonderful thing to experience, I always agreed but now, the first day of my journey I have to go back on that one, It sucks"
From the diary of; Jenna S. Hodgers (January 23rd , 2398)
Chapter two:
Enter Ryan.
The first 30 minutes were fun, Josh and I laughed and we had fun pointing out everything there was to see on route 204, "Look a tree" "Hey a Budew" "Look at those clouds" you get the picture.
But don't blame us for being happy because the sun was shining and the route was empty except for the two of us and some wild pokèmon.
After that we decided to let our pokèmon out, dad also bought Josh a pair of those ugly gloves that in his case were bright yellow, to walk alongside us.
The recently named 'Nathaniel' or just 'Nate' apparently didn't like me as it ignored me for a good 98% of the time but hey, so did I.
Where Nate ignored me 'Lola the female Lotad' was as happy as well .. a Lotad can really be and occasionally sprayed us with a weak beam of water while skipping around us.
And according to the town map we both owned route 204 leads to Floaroma Town after walking one day (sleeping the night included), two if you're slow.
The moment the sky turned slight orange-ish we decided to 'set up camp' or we tried to.
The 'camp' we picked was a nice green patch of grass with some trees scattered around it.
I decided that it would be safest if I picked the food and Josh would .. keep Nate and Lola busy or something like that because otherwise we would all be eating leaves or pokèfood.
After rummaging trough my bag I found a container with canned something after borrowing a fork from Josh we placed the container with an unknown substance next to us and started eating.
It tasted rather .. tasteless and well .. didn't fill that much.
After cleaning the forks with a piece of toilet paper we decided to feed our two pokèmon.
I grabbed the container with food blended for poison-pokèmon while Josh grabbed his.
Apparently Nate loved his food as much as we did because after a few hesitant bites he ducked his head and charged at me, from behind .. sneaky bastard.
The reaction Josh gave me wasn't what I hoped for between laughs in he nearly shouted "Oh My God, Shrimp he just like .. attacked you" before laughing again.
Even my nearly stoic Nidoran apparently thought it to be funny as he had this smug look on his face.
I stood up again and glared at my Nidoran "Nathaniel, did you miss pokèmon-trainer relationship classes or something ? You. Don't. Attack. Your. Trainer." I gritted between closed teeth.
Josh started laughing again "He likes you shrimp," he said.
"Shut up." I hissed back.
"No need to get angry, geez " he said in a mock-tone.
I just rolled my eyes at his comment and sighed.
As it started to get darker we were facing another big problem because we had to use the toilet.
As everyone knows a toilet is commonly found inside a house or a public place like a Pokècenter and that common knowledge also told us that the nearest center was atleast another day from us(if we walked fast) and so Josh and I glanced at each other with a rather pained look as we both picked up a roll of toilet paper and left to find a tree.
Surviving sucks.
After our enlightening little adventure we grabbed our sleeping bags and just tossed them on the ground.
"What now ? we can't just leave our stuff on the ground 'cause someone might steal it?"
Josh said while trying to tie his backpack to one of the nearby trees.
"I'm going to use mine as a pillow, I'd notice it if someone tried to steal it" was my response.
Before sleeping however I sprayed my holy bug-repellent spray around my 'bed' and watched Josh finish tieing his backpack to the tree.
Then I returned Nate to his pokèball, don't want to have him eaten by the big bad budew around here, or do we ? *insert mad cackling*
Josh did the same with Lola before crawling inside his sleeping bag, I followed his example.
We both mumbled a "G'night" before dozing of.
And yes we are stil wearing our clothes, Why ?
We are outside, with only a sleeping bag and we don't want to freeze to death or something like that.
After waking up because someone, Josh , stepped on my face.
Besides Josh stepping on my face my neck hurt(Never Ever use backpack as a pillow again), I was tired and I just knew that today would be a major disaster, Why ? it was raining.
It wasn't raining that much no, it was the kind of rain you see during a funeral or a sad scene in some clichè romantic movie.
So after putting my sleeping bag back in its cover I made me and Josh a huge breakfast consisting of a container with canned bread (Yes they even have canned bread) and a bottle of water.
After our delicious breakfast we let our lovely pokèmon out again for their meal.
However, the moment Nate saw his breakfast he decided otherwise and ran away only to return a few minutes later a red mouth and another smug expression.
I decided against trying to figure out just what he had been eating.
"Aren't you just cute, Yes you are, Yes you are ~" Josh was nearly choking his Lotad while 'hugging' it.
My dear sweet Nathaniel decided to give me a token of his affection as well by using my shoes as a toilet.
Now more than ever I hoped karma would do it's job.
Fifteen minutes later, my shoes thankfully clean again, we could set out.
As I might have mentioned before we could make it to Floaroma Town today if we walked fast.
Glancing at Josh I had a feeling that it wouldn't happen, and I knew I was right.
That's when my cellphone decided to ring, it just had to be my mother.
I was right, she called, completely frantic, and asked me whether I was alive, healthy, had eaten enough, didn't get poisoned by Nate, if Josh was allright and where we were.
Another 15 minutes later I was finished and ready to go.
Josh wasn't.
He was still hugging and giving Lola idiotic petnames while I told him to get up and get moving.
"But Jacob just look at her, She's so cute and cuddly and nice and pretty and .. " I zoned out after pretty.
If Josh wasn't going to move I would do something myself.
After deciding between staring at clouds or training Nate I went for training Nate.
"Nate, Come here" the Nidoran eyed me with suspicion before walking over to me.
"I want you to tackle that tree over there," I pointed the tree out, it was near Josh and Lola.
Nate grunted before looking at the tree with a disinterested expression and then started running.
He dashed past the tree and before he noticed he was past it he slammed into Joshes side effectively making him lose his grip on Lola who then flew out of his arms and slammed into the ground, Knock Out.
I just stared wide eyed at my purple monster as he looked around him before laying down and grunting.
"Jacob your Nathaniel knocked my Lola unconscious !" Josh shouted while picking his Lotad up.
"I'm sorry Josh, but apparently my Nidoran needs glasses because I ordered him to tackle the tree over there because you refused to do anything besides hugging your Lola"
Josh looked like he was deciding between commenting back or giving up.
He gave up.
"Oh shut it Shrimp, we shouldn't be arguing now because look at that" he emphasized on the that while pointing to a bundle of white lying on the grass.
After walking closer, Josh following close behing still carrying his Lotad, I saw it was a human, a bruised one that is.
The boy was wearing white clothes that now held grass stains on them and was apparantly caught off guard by my Nate and fell over.
Nate being the emotional pokèmon he was just sat there.
Then we were blinded with a flash of red light before seeing a small red dog-like creature running awa- wait a minute that's a Growlithe!
The Growlithe ran away in a red blur while barking enthusiastically.
The boy still lay there unconscious.
Great, just great.
After a quick discussion between me and Josh, "Hey I'm innocent it wasn't my pokèmon that knocked the guy over in the first place" , we decided to just ignore that little detail and gently poked the boy in his side.
"grrzz.. not noww ... go 'way .. I said go away !" the boy groaned before jumping up, grabbing his head and sitting down again.
After a few minutes the boy seemed to feel better and looked at us expectantly "Well tell me what happened already, It's not everyday I find myself lying on the grass with peasants now is it ?"
Josh and I shared a look before answering "You were knocked down thanks to my Nidoran, We sincerely apologize" in a mock rich-guy voice.
The boy was silent for a time before sticking his nose in the air and answering "I, Ryan of Deswards the second, accept your apology in hope that it may not happen again"
He then stood up again and dusted his pants off before taking a luxury ball from his belt and summoning a big bird-like pokèmon we recognized as a Staraptor.
"I will take my leave now, Lucy Fly!" and he disappeared, oblivious to the big grass stain on his backside and his missing Growlithe, Rich people truly are weird.
Lola took that moment as a sign to wake up and spray us both with a weak beam of water.
After eating lunch on the same spot we slept last night we set out, for real this time.
We covered about half of the distance we had left to Floaroma and decided to once more camp outside, we didn't really have much choice in the matter.
Lola was completely healed again but was a little more wary of Nate, and Nate himself well he just enjoyed himself sitting and looking like he was staring at some clouds.
Josh and I talked some more about completely uninteresting things like the weather and stuff.
As the sky once more turned crimson we ate dinner, canned something again, and returned our pokèmon (I did, Josh decided to cuddle with Lola in his sleep, remember me telling about those people thinking of pokèmon as dolls ? wel Josh looks like he does that) and I sprayed some more bug-repellent around me before crawling in my sleeping bag.
Then I woke up and saw a huge Ariados breathing in my face, drool coming out of its jaws.
I screamed and trashed around, hitting Josh in the face with a foot, and then realized it had all been just a dream and apologised to Josh and his now-awake Lola before falling asleep again.
The next morning I checked the campsite and saw a huge Ariados web spun between two trees and shuddered, it had al been real, too real.
And so much for actually having something to keep bug-pokèmon away from me.
Wow just wow I got 4 reviews, well three if you don't the one about misspelling your own name (don't worry happend to me one time too .. and my name is one of the most common in the Netherlands)
Anyway,, Because of something very sad happening, I had to put my dog down because of cancer, I wasn't in the mood to write.
But here it is after (a few weeks?) and I'm going to immediately clear somethings up:
1. No battle scene, yet. I've read hundreds of stories where the trainer1;battles immediately and wins 2;battles the second chapter and wins/loses but in my opinion that's going to be saved for the next chapter.
2. Why all the survival-details ? Because I find it to be disturbing reading stories where the food is delicious and they apparently don't need to use the toilet or where they don't get bugged by bugs (always happens to me)
3. Will it be a typical pokèmon-hates-trainer-at-first-but-then-likes-him-because-the-trainer-is-so-awesome relationship? No, Nate will probably always not-like Jacob, they'll eventually get along in a 'pass me the salt please' kind of way but that's all you can expect.
Y-Ko: Thank's for the review and the compliment about my English, and yes I'm currently on the look-out for a Beta so if anyone is interested please do PM me :)
Bb ?: Thank you !
Omega the Omniscient: Oh My God *Looks horrified* ... I did indeed give them a ten year age-gap,I immediately fixed it so they are once more the same age, and thank you for your review it's really nice and about the clear danger I'm one of these people that hate 'I got myself a gyarados and it loves me soooooooooo much and will never ever eat me 'cause I'm its trainer and stuff ~~' anyway thank you for taking the time to review (all of you *gives a cookie*)
I spellchecked the story with the spellchecker on the site here but it doesn't do whole sentence checks like with commas so anything I got wrong please tell me so I can learn from it.
Next chapter is already outlined and I'll introduce Bob.
Disclaimer: Still don't own pokèmon, never will :(