Chapter 2: The first Step
Today was the day I was supposed to try yet again to get my starter pokemon. Yet again, you might be asking? Yeah, I'm currently 18 and have tried for a few times before, each attempt being unsuccessful. I could've applied whe nI was 10 years old, but my parents didn't want me to go out of the house too early; they wanted me to have more experience, more knowledge and more maturity before I would get my trainer's license. They decided I would be ready after my 14th birthday. I then proceeded to show Professor Dom that I wasn't: I decided to pull a prank in the lab with Pikachu. We originally only wanted to mess with the fossil resurrector's settings, but Pikachu ended up being a little too excited and fried the fossil machine. Dom was so pissed off after seeing this that he decided to delay my start by a year. The year after, I overslept and Hugo, Garrison, two of my neighbors who were long due to get their first pokemon, picked their pokemon along with an outsider. I was disappointed at first, but then accepted and was happy for my 2 neighbors, probably the two youngsters the village respected the most, even though there were only five of us to pick from. Aphmau was always seen as the big entertainer between the five of us, and Satiel was as close to Aphmau as Garrison was to Hugo. I was always seen as the last man, but it didn't really matter, because they still respected me in some way. The year after, Aphmau, Satiel and I were gone playing in the woods when Dom gave that year's starter batch to kids from Crossroads Corner. We seriously felt bad, even more so after saying that Dom was hoping we'd show up. I thnk he figured out by then that the best way to have some peace would be to send us away. The time after, I was gone buying groceries for Mom while training Pikachu against Pidgeys for some pocket money. That time, Aphmau, Satiel, along with some silly green kid got them. And here it was, today, about to happen again, if it wasn't for this guy.
"Want me to show you where the lab is?" I asked the visitor. "Sure" he simply replied. "Thanks by the way. If it weren't for you, I would've probably forgotten it was today and wouldn't have obtained my starter again." I told him. "What do you mean again? You forgot to get your starter before?" he asked. "Well, this is the 5th time I'm trying to get my starter." I started explaining. "And you're expecting to be a champion?" he cut me.
That had never crossed my mind. How could I ever hope become the champion if I can't even remember what the day to get my first pokemon was, or if I'm completely disorganised, or if I can't stay out of trouble. "So, where are you from?" I asked him. "I'm from the Tawny Archipelago" he said. "Ah, yeah. Very nice place. My father took me there a few times while he was working there. I especially loved the cocktails." I told him. We entered Professor Dom's lab. He was busy with another kid. The lab assistant came to us and asked if we could find an apricorn for her research. Luckily, I kept harvesting Apricorns daily for the day I'd leave, knowing that there are people who take them in exchange for pokeballs. I gave her one, and she told Dom that we were ready to get our pokémon.
"So, you're finally here. Please Jean, give me one reason I should give you a pokémon. As for you, outsider, could you get me my parcel that's waiting in the Crossroads Corner pokémart?" He told us. "Do you really want to deal with Pikachu and I for another year?" I told him. "I mean, I know he's dying to come back here and check the trading machine. Who knows, he might even set it up the same way we did with the fossil machine." He sighed and looked at me. It was obvious that just my sight was annoying him. "Fine, you're getting a Pokémon this year. As for you," he turned to Sean, "Why aren't you moving?" He showed a weird looking package. "The pokémart clerk gave it to me as soon as he learned that I was going to New Arden. Here it is." he told him. "Good" he said. "Now you get the first choice." "I'll take Squirtle!" he said excitedly. He seemed to want a Squirtle very badly, maybe due to his history with water types since he lived in Tawny. At least, I saw how it could be practical. The ohter kid picked Bulbasaur, probably to have an advantage over the other. Dom and the kid who received Bulbasaur were looking at me, laughing. I'm guessing Dom had already taken the time to talk behind my back. I was stuck with Charmander, which cool: it was the one I wanted to pick anyway. He gave a Pokédex to Sean and the obnoxious kid, and then he looked at me and said "Sorry, that was my last one." I walked out and Pikachu was waiting for me. I sent out Charmander and they both examined eachother. They then greeted eachother happily and looked at me. It didn't matter to me if it seemed like everything was against me, I had finally done the first step.