Sorry it took so long to update. I was kinda busy with other stuff. Well here's a long chapter to explain five minutes in real time... no wait probly ten or fifteen. At least I'm kinda descriptive when it comes to Pro. Olive.

Chapter Two: The Chosen

"What do you mean Professor Olive's not here? This is his lab, there for he should be here," I yell. A meekly built man cowered at the sound of my voice, raising his clip board as a shield. His hair was a dark blue color, almost black. He wore thick glasses and wore a lab coat. He could here the rattling of his knees as he swallowed hard. I couldn't believe how scared the guy was. I wasn't even trying to be intimidating.

"H-he went out to do some field research. I think he's somewhere on route 401. Can I please go back to work?" The assistant asked.

"Huh?" I muttered. Then I noticed my stance was kind of intimidating to the lab assistant. "Oh yeah… sorry about that," I said and relaxed my stance, giving off a less threatening vibe. I then turned to face Deo and Eris. "Well you here the nerd," I said, "Lets get to route 401 to find Professor Olive."

Deo led the way and I took the back with Eris walking nervously in the middle. Route 401 was a short, grassy path that connected the towns of Nemea with Lerna. It was filled to the brim with pokemon, though most were weak and not very intimidating, but it didn't matter to Eris. A pokemon was a pokemon weather it was a cute Pichu or a frightening Ladon. They were all something she feared.

On the way through the route we could see pokemon in the grass, playing. Every now and then Deo would throw a rock out ahead of us or to the side and a flock of Starly would fly away. Eris would always yell at him for startling her. Soon we could here talking.

"This is simply fascinating," The voice said. I pointed the voice out to Deo and we followed it off the path and into the deeper grass. Now was when we were in danger due to the high pokemon concentration and we were pokemonless. Thankfully we didn't encounter any that were looking for a fight.

We could here rustling up ahead and a man stood up. He was dressed in khaki shorts and shirt. He had a shoulder back slung across his side and a bag with many pouches. He held a clear bag in his hands and closed it before putting it away in his shoulder bag. That was when he saw us.

"Hello. What brings you three out here?" The man smiled kindly. He wasn't very old, but yet he was. He had dark brown hair but there was some grey in it. There was also grey stubble growing on his chin. He wore half moon glasses that were recently pushed back up his nose.

"Are you Professor Olive?" Eris asked, sticking her head out from behind Deo.

"Yes. Is there anything I can help you with?" He asked as he turned to face us. He folded up his arms and he looked at us.

"We were wondering if you had any starter pokemon to give us?" I asked from behind.

"Starters? But you guys are what? Eighteen, nineteen years old. Why did you wait until now to start training a pokemon."

"We all have our reasons. I just didn't care at the time, my friend Deo didn't want to leave his family, and Eris… well Eris had a traumatic-"

"I'll tell him. I used to live in the Sinnoh reigion. My mom was a trainer there and I loved pokemon. One day these men killed her with a pokemon. They almost killed me too for being a witness, but didn't." I could here the pain in her voice and could tell she was fighting back the tears. I wanted to hold her and tell her everything would be alright, but something was keeping me.

"I'm so sorry to hear that," Olive said. "If you'd like to come back to my lab I'll get you your starters."

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Once back in the lab, the three of us stood in front of a table. We watched as Professor Olive pulled out a steel suitcase and opened it in front of us. "Inside these pokeballs are the pokemon of gods. Taur, guardian of Gaea's earth; Merly, protector of Poseidon's seas; and Berus, Gate keeper of Hades' kingdom. Chose you're pokemon wisely, for you'll be taking on a task set forth by the gods themselves."

"Do you give this speech to all the new trainers," Deo asked.

"You can atleast go 'ooooo' and 'ahhhh' like the others," Olive said.

"We're also not ten like the others."

"Point taken. By the way. I know why it took you so long to start, but what made you start. Certenly something had to inspier you three."

"Something did. Ionl," I said. Just then Eris picked up a pokeball.

"I think I'll take Merly. I've always been fond of the water."

"You don't mean the Ionl. The one of legends," Professor Olive said.

"Yes, the very one."

"Ionl, in Nemea. I never would have thought to look for him there," Professor Olive said softly, still in disbelief that we had seen the legendary pokemon Ionl.

I looked at the remaining two pokemon; Taur and Berus, grass and fire. It wasn't a hard decision for me to make on which one to choose. I always loved Theseus' Minotaur and Taur was it's basic form. I took hold of the pokeball and gripped it firmly in my hand. I could feel the life force of the pokemon inside flowing through my body. I knew I had made the right choice.

"I'll take Taur. I've always loved Minotaurs and now I can have my own… eventually," I said and smiled, not able to take my eyes off the pokeball.

"I guess that leaves me with Berus," Deo said as he took the last remaining ball.

"Well now that that's all taken care off, Here are your pokedexes. Do I need to explain to you how they work?" Professor Olive asked.

"Not really. Just point the laser reader thing at the pokemon and it tells you a little about them. But to get the full description you have to catch the pokemon, right?" I asked. True, I may not have cared about being a trainer myself but that didn't mean I didn't know about their way of life.

"More or less. Now I wish you all good luck. If you'll excuse me now," Professor Olive said as he slung a bag around his back, "I'm off to Nemea to look for Ionl."

"That wouldn't be a good idea," Eris said.

"Why's that?"

"Three people were recently killed there. That's actually why we were here. We were witnesses to the murders," Eris explained.

"I see…" Professor Olive trailed.

"I have a question for you Professor. Why are you so interested in Ionl? I mean I know he's a legendary and all, but not many people would take on a legendary with such meager provisions," I asked.

"But that is what I study, Legendary pokemon. I want to know why are they so magnificent, why is there only one of them. There had to be more of them at some time or they wouldn't be here."

"Well good luck on your research professor. We're off to start our pokemon journeys," I said and waved. Deo and Eris waved as well and we stepped outside.

"So which way to Route 402?" Deo said.

"I think it's at the west side of town," I said.

"I thought it was north."

"No, north is 401."

"Guys, I think we should head home before we start our journey. Get a map, some supplies, and say our goodbyes. It'll probably be awhile before we get to see our homes again," Eris said.

"Good idea. But I have a better. Why don't we have a battle? Break in the new pokemon and see which one of us is the best," I said.

"Sounds like a plan to me, but I think it banned in town like this. We should head into 401 before we battle," Deo replied. I nodded my head and we walked towards 401, Eris trailed behind us. I looked back to see her dragging her feet, her gaze towards the ground.

"What's up?" I asked stupidly. I knew what was the mater, she was scared of pokemon yet she was becoming a pokemon trainer. She was nervous and terrified all at the same time.

She looked up and smiled a fake smile at me. "Nothing, I'm fine," She lied. Once on Route 401 we continued walking a bit. True we could battle now that we were outside city limits, but we didn't want to be too close to town, just in case. Once we were far enough out we stopped.

"Ready guys?" Deo asked.

"As ever," I said. Eris just nodded her head. I pressed the release button on the pokeball and it grew to fit my hand. I grinned as I felt Taur's life force fill my every pore.

"Let's show them how it's done, Taur I choose you!"

I know, I know. It's really cliché, but I just couldn't help it. Next chapter 'Baptism by fire'