Alola! Pokémon Vibrant Sun
Chapter 2: A Slow Start! A energetic night and a lazy morning!
Alola Region - Melemele island, Hau'oli Outskirts
It was somewhat late at night, maybe about nine-to-ten PM when Amanda's father opened her door to their new home, it was mainly empty as per usual of a new house, but it was a spacious home, at least four rooms, including a nice deck outside, allowing you to see the morning sun or the dusk-ridden moon in its full glory.
Most of the furniture arrived shortly afterwards in a large truck, transporters carefully placed all of the crated furniture outside of the house, ready to be opened and easily be placed inside where it belongs.
"Huh...Guess we finally made it...This place looks amazing when its at night..." Amanda said as she noticed that they were near the shoreline, she saw the moon, it was almost full but nevertheless was shining like a star, the air was cool but the general temperature was still warm, making it a lot more tolerable than Amanda thought it was going to be.
"Yes it certainly does Sweetie, anyway, you should just explore around for a bit, it'll take some time to get the house in presentable order, so you might as well explore with Chester." Her father said with a tired but joyous smile, Amanda nodded lightly in return, silently thanking her Father as she took out a pokeball, it was more or less Chester's own pokeball.
Amanda smiled at the pokeball as she know that if there was any dangers, she knows that she'll be protected by her Stunky, nevertheless, Amanda thought it would best to head up north of their house, there was even a path there to begin with, so, to get more used to this new environment she went about her way north.
It was calm and graceful, serene almost despite being at night where most of the more, dangerous Pokémon scamper about, Amanda looked at the dazzling moon as she went up north, making sure that she won't get lost on the way, following the path that was paved with untilled or grass-laden dirt.
Surprisingly, there wasn't a lot of trees in the Hau'oli Outskirts, mainly shrubbery with an occasional palm tree here and there, meaning that she could see the ocean side and that they were at a high point Melemele Island, nearing a high point at least as Amanda looked out of a wooden fenced cliff.
To Amanda's surprise, she came across a sign that had directions to a village, not a city like Hau'oli, but a town, so Amanda assumed it wasn't going to be as big as say, Hau'oli city, nevertheless though Amanda knew for sure that she'll visit there.
For she knows that a Pokémon Journey mainly involves visiting every location the region has to offer, she knows for sure, she read that fact online.
Amanda yawned softly, it would be best to go home, she did enough sightseeing for the day, and her legs are starting to become sore and tiresome.
'...Well, at least I walked more than I usually do...' Amanda thought to herself as she gave herself a small but legitimately genuine smile, it was clear that she felt proud of herself, before the trip to Alola, Amanda bought herself a walker counter, a small device that basically tracks every single step she takes.
She reset the Walker before her exploration of Hau'oli Outskirts, she quickly grabbed it and take a look at it.
It was...about 220 footsteps, the walker beeped multiple times creating a tune, causing Amanda to smile, it was a new record! She hopped for joy multiple times!
"Yes! Yes! Yes! 220 steps! I need to tell Dad about it! he'll be so happy! And Chester too! Come on out Chester!" She said in a overjoyed voice, she then took out Chesters pokeball and threw it, unleashing the Skunk Pokémon from the ball.
"Stunky!" Chester said as he was suddenly picked up by Amanda and was hugged, causing the Stunky to yelp lightly in surprise from the sudden embrace, only to accept it fully by licking Amanda tenderly.
"Look at this Chester!" She said as she showed the Skunk Pokémon the walker, Chester looked at the little thing and saw the number, Amanda would always show Chester her walker, so it was joyous, sort of like her trainer.
"And I know for sure that I'm going to be walking even more than this new record!" She said as she moved Chester to her face, Chester yipped happily as it then licked Amanda's nose, she giggled in response.
"Lets go home Chester, we need to be well-rested for our journey Tomorrow!" Amanda said as her Pokémon nodded in agreement, she got out her pokeball, returned her Stunky and began to walk to her new home.
That was until she spotted a pair of eyes in a nearby shrub...This made Amanda both curious and fearful, would she really want to investigate? Or go about on her merry way?
It seems like her curiosity got the better of herself, taking two close steps to the presumed Pokémon, it didn't falter as Amanda got closer and closer, Amanda got out Chester's pokeball just in case.
Before Amanda could react, the pair of eyes jumped out of the Shrub! Causing Amanda to yelp in shock as the Pokémon revealed itself, it was...A Rattata...An Alolan Variant of the normal Rattata, its fur was black, ears facing forward, slimmer long body, sharper claws and some whiskers on the side of its nostrils, it squeaked as it defended itself against Amanda, showing off its sharp pointed teeth, subtle and stark differences to the normal Rattata.
"Woah..." Amanda said, she was very much ecstatic from the experience of meeting her first Alolan Wild encounter, but she was still cautious as The Rattata looked territorial.
"Rata! Rattata!" The Mouse Pokémon squeaked once again as it stood on its hind legs, despite the many sharp and dangerous features this Rattata has, its size doesn't really help when it comes to the intimidation factor, to be honest, to Amanda it looked quite cute.
"Hey Hey! I don't want to hurt you..." Amanda mentally slapped herself, she was trying to reason with a wild Pokémon...The Alolan Rattata quickly jumped up and tried to tackle Amanda! Amanda quickly dodged out of the way as the Rattata landed on its head, causing the Rattata to rub its head in pain.
"Awww..." Amanda said to the Rattata as it whimpered from the failed attempt of a tackle, Amanda then began to notice that the Rattata was noticeably thin...Thinner than a normal Rattata that is.
Amanda could see some bone sticking out of the Rattata's chest, in fact, after rubbing its head it tried to tackle Amanda once again, only to seem to fatigued to do another tackle, looking like a weak and powerless body shove than an actual tackle, it tore the emotional insides of Amanda, she could never see a Pokémon like this, may it be wild or owned.
"Wait here Rattata..." She said to the mouse Pokémon, surprisingly, it listened to Amanda, lying on its cream food-less belly from starved fatigue, Amanda frowned from the state of the Rattata, she hated when Pokémon are starving and actively hurts their well-being, she'll try her hardest to give said Pokémon a good meal...Its how she met Chester that way.
She found a nearby tree, on the top of it, there was a couple of succulent and tasty-looking berries, Amanda frowned once more, she isn't really much of a climber...But if it meant saving a Pokémon from emaciation, then she'll try something new.
With some doubt she climb up the tree slowly and carefully, taking her time to reaching range of the berries, she tried to be quiet about it, but her struggled grunts were stand out.
Finally she got close enough to grab at least two berries, she carefully grabbed one of the berries, she then realized she has no clue on how to get down, she looked around on the ground to see a mound of grass and palm leafs, she dropped the berry on the mound, effectively acting as a basket so that the berries wouldn't be bruised.
She grabbed the second berry and did the same process, the berry plopping down next to the other one, they were both big and blue, so they're Oran Berries, the perfect berries for filling and restoring health to Pokémon.
"Alright...How to get down..." Amanda asked herself, she gave up and simply slid down the tree, the landing was a bit rocky but to Amanda that didn't matter. She got the two berries, she looked to see the Alolan Rattata who was now whimpering in pain, it made Amanda's heart sunk even more so.
"Hey there little fella...Got something for you..." Amanda said as she placed the berry right in front of the Rattata, the Alolan Mouse simply stared at the berry, it then shot a glance at a small smile-bearing Amanda, she nodded her head approvingly, the Rattata then quickly snatched the berry and began eating the berry at a voracious pace, it chewed the berry, eating loudly but happily, grateful to have a decent meal in a long time, Amanda simply sighed in relief.
"Eat this other one or store it for later..." Amanda placed the Berry right next to the Rattata and began to walk home, once the Alolan Mouse was finished eating its first berry, it then stared at Amanda with thankful eyes as she walked away.
Alola Region - the Atone Household: Morning Time
Amanda woke up with some early morning sun beams flashing on her eyes, she sighed as there was worse ways to wake up by, she could've been woken up by an alarm clock, her room was unlike her old room from Sinnoh
Her clothes were all neatly placed and organized and placed where they belonged, the dresser, not on the floor and on top of the dresser, the PC wasn't set up yet but the desk for it was at least, her whole closet were neatly organized with several boxes of unpackaged boxes, Chester was still sleeping on its bed of old Sweaters, breathing lightly as it the natural warmth of the room didn't seem to faze the Skunk Pokémon.
Speaking of the Skunk Pokémon, its natural musk hasn't stank up the place yet, Chester himself smelled of sour cabbage, but not the whole house...Yet.
Amanda on the other hand...started to sweat as her thick blanket only made the issue even more problematic, it was about 90 degrees outside, about 30 degrees higher than a normal Sinnoh day in the middle of spring.
"Why am I so hot!?" She ask herself as she threw the blanket off of her, quickly realizing that she was in long shirt and jeans! she yelped as she was practically cooking herself! she threw off the long shirt and got herself a green tank top from one of her dresser drawers, slapping it on her as she then opened her window, hoping for some fresh cold air to blow into her home.
She then realized that she was in Alola, where the wind is hot during the day.
"Ahhh! this doesn't even make any sense! Yesterday night, the wind was cold! The climate was decent! Not heat-blasting!" Amanda exclaimed as a blow of warm air struck her, causing her to yelp again, she isn't used to this hot weather! Not one bit!
She expected it to be hot...But not THIS hot!" She said once again in surprise as she replaced her (inside-sweating) jeans with some beige shorts, she sighed in relief, at least she had something appropriate to wear in times like these.
It took about an hour to actually accept the fact that the temperature isn't going to change for the better until it was night fall, her Stunky was playing with a red ball that his trainer took out for him while said trainer was on the floor, sitting with her knees to her chest, her dad wasn't up yet, the professor was supposed to come to her house today but he hasn't knocked on the door yet.
'There is no way I'm going to get a heat stroke by using up all the energy I have.' Amanda said inwardly, she didn't want to waste her energy...So shes going to move unless she has to.
It then took her ten minutes to finally get off of the floor and go downstairs, most likely to get a glass of water to cool her off.
"Ah! Much Better!" She exclaimed once again, this time more in a positive way as she took a sip of water, Chester went downstairs with the red ball in its mouth, tilting its head in curious confusion when he saw his owner took a sip of her ice cold water...Then splashing a portion of it on her face.
She didn't seem to mind Chester's confusion on the situation, she nonchalantly went to her fridge, it wasn't stocked with a lot of food, her dad promised that he'll get some groceries tomorrow, there was a couple of things, there was some organic peanut butter, and there was a refrigerated loaf of sliced bread.
After some time she finished eating her breakfast of cold peanut butter on cold white sliced white bread, she liked it for what it was.
Then, finally her door knocked, this made the Brunette jump in surprise, she know for sure that it was the Professor! She quickly finished her breakfast and went up the front door, opening up to see the Professor of the Alola Region in full-person.
"Alola Amanda Atone!" He said, Kukui was a bit curious about why Amanda's face was dripping with water and her mouth was scattered with crumbs and organic peanut butter stains, but he didn't want to interrogate her.
"Alola professor, glad you've came!" Amanda said a bit louder than usual, causing the girl to smile sheepishly at the Alolan Professor, Chester crawled up to the front door, staring at the Alolan Professor who greeted the Skunk Pokémon with a heart-felt wave, Chester nodded in return curiously.
"Yep! And I'm glad that you've brought your partner along the way! I never really seen a Stunky this close before, do you mind if I pet him?" The Professor asked, Amanda was a bit hesistant but she was quick to mutter permisson for the Professor
"G-Go ahead, be careful though he doesn't like his tail being touched..." Kukui nodded as he placed a careful hand on Chesters head, Chester winced a little bit from the unknown hand before calming down.
"Don't worry about it, I have plenty of Pokémon back in my home, one of them is a Stufful even and they hate being touched! So, I know how to be gentle..." Kukui trailed off, rubbing Chester before scratching behind the Stunky's ear, a place that Chester doesn't like to be scratched at, which means one thing...
As soon as Kukui was about to speak again, he suddenly smelled a stench of something rotten, his nose scrunched as he exclaimed in a loud voice.
"Ugh! Why does it suddenly smell like Rotten eggs!?" He wondered as Amanda looked down in a embarrassed manner, Chester just unleashed his self-defense mechanism...Most likely due to the fact that Kukui accidentally rubbed Chester's fur in an uncomfortable way
"Sorry! S-Sorry Professor! Chester has a habit...Of unleashing a stink cloud...When meeting new people..." She said with a deep sigh as Chester looked at a wincing Kukui with a pair of innocent and unassuming eyes, Amanda looked at Chester at disappointment, she knew for a fact that Chester was going to release a stink cloud some day or the other, but not the Professor!
"Its okay Amanda...Maybe I shouldn't have stroked it when he barely knows me, Anyway..." He took a whiff of himself, he smelled the exact same stench as Chester's stink cloud, this only made Amanda to blush in embarrassment.
"We should meet at Iku town up north, be there in an half hour! Because I need to take a shower...No hard feelings to your Stunky by the way, anyway! Goodbye!" He said before walking away, leaving Amanda to her Stunky that noticed Amanda's disappointment, making Skunk Pokémon guilty for what its done.
"...Darn it Chester! You just had to Stink up Professor Kukui!?" She exclaimed frantically, clearly thinking that she screwed up everything, Chester guiltily whimpered and even looked quite sad from sorrowing his Trainer.
Amanda was quick to notice the Skunk Pokémon's guilt and regret and was keen on forgiving him, slowly petting it on the head to mentally tell him that it was okay and it was just a mistake.
"Lets just get this over with, I need to take a shower too in all honesty." Amanda told herself as she closed the front door, going to the bathroom and turning on the shower...Putting the water to cold for the first time in years.
After her cold shower, Amanda put her clothes back on, she got the backpack for her journey, it was grass green, big and spacious, but it was quite old, it had a couple of holes and some loose string threads here and there, she placed her walker counter on the side of her waist, wanting to break her record of 220 steps.
"Ready Chester?" Amanda asked to the now ready and willing Chester, it nodded in returned, Amanda returned the Stunky to its ball, with a confident mood she exited out of the house.
It was the start of her journey...Lets hope she'll gives it her all.