Entry 3, Littleroot Town

And for my first, Ah crap moment. I haven't updated this in a bit, damn it. I got so caught up with the move and then…things happened and I kept forgetting to write. I only remembered because…well mother reminded me to make sure I do keep this updated.

….Well I should start. The ride to new town was rather long, but I was comfortable in the moving truck. I found it quite nice really. Though it was dark, and a tad stuffy. But that wasn't all that much of a bother.

When we arrived, it took a few moments for the back of the truck to open. That was again, fine by me. I had to get up and grab a few things before I exited, so when the door opened I was able to hope out almost instantly.

And speaking of instantly, my mother came out of the house the truck was parked next to so fast I wasn't even able to get that much of a look at the "town." I say the word only because others say it. It seemed more like a village to me. Very few houses, not much at all. The largest building had to have been the professor's laboratory. Either that or a school.

Ah school….I'm not sure if I can say I am going to miss it or, or if I'm going to pass by the place and laugh. Then sneer.

Well anyways, my mother had come out of the house, our new house. She was SO happy. How happy you ask, how about I let her words do the talking, yes my memory tends to be THAT good.

So, she said, and I am quoting here. "Jayce, we're here, honey! It must be tiring riding with our things in the moving truck." I WANTED to respond, but she was so quick. "Well this is Littleroot Town. How do you like it? This is our new home! It has a quaint feel, but it seems to be an easy place to live, don't you think? And, you get your own room, Jayce! Let's go inside." The last line was a WTF thing, I had my own room at the old place.

Well, I had to force myself to blink a few times. As she went back into the house, with me following a few steps behind her. What met me on entering was the sight of several pokemon, Machoke, moving things around and into place. As well as my mother standing directly in front of me, still looking extremely happy.

"See, Jayce? Isn't it nice in here, too? The mover's pokemon do all the work of moving us in and cleaning up after. This is so convenient! Jayce, your room is upstairs. Go check it out dear! Dad bought you a new clock to mark our move here. Don't forget to set it!"

After that my mother seemed to go into a slightly dreamy state for some reason, I could do nothing but sigh, shake my head and follow my mother's instructions. Thankfully finding the way up wasn't hard, there were stairs dead ahead so I made straight for them. But once on the top floor though I had a few problems. There were several doors up there!

What else could I do but play, "What's behind this door?!" ….I can suddenly imagine a random tittle screen coming up.

Back on point I had to try several doors, I found the bathroom, a closet and a guest room before I found my own. It was a very…empty bedroom. There was a lot of space, most of my stuff was against the front and furthest side wall. And all I had was a TV, some games, and my computer, plus a few pics and other things on the side wall. So more or less…I don't own much. I know, rather sad isn't it.

After checking on my things, rearranging a few things I finally went and checked on the Clock. It was a very simple analog clock, so it was simple to set the time. The only time keeping thing I had on me was a small watch I had on me, a gift I got from a young age and kept up, or really should said whenever one died or got damaged I got a new one but that is beside the point.

With my room clock set, my mother's timing showed it was perfect as ever. Not sure if that pun was intended or not. Well anyways she came into the room, still looking extremely happy.

"Jayce, how do you like your new room?"

I believe I said, "It's has more room than my old one, so I like it."

"Good!" She then looked quickly at the room. "Everything's put away neatly! They finished moving everything in downstairs, too. Pokemon movers are so Convenient! Oh you should make sure that everything's all there on your desk."

"Already have mom, checked it the first thing."

"Alright, just checking." She then headed on downstairs, leaving me in a blinking idiot again. This is when I begin to feel that I'm going to be in the state a lot.

Well I get over it with a shrug, and check a few more things in my room. And then I head out and back downstairs, where I hear the TV going. When I reach the bottom of the stairs my mother instantly realizes I am there.

I'm going to speed things up a little here, this entry is getting a long for my liking. I realize I may create longer, but for my first long one I'm speeding it.

Anyways my mom notices me, calls me over because she notices that Dad's Gym is on the TV. I don't know why I only caught the trail end of the program, meaning I missed the problem, and from the sounds of it they were only reporting in front of dad's gym. So no good information there. Mom seemed slightly down that she didn't get the full program, but I didn't mind. I was still a little, and still am at the time of this writing, mad at him for…several things.

Well mom pulled herself together and told me that professor Birch, who is indeed a friend of dad, does indeed live next door. And she recommended I go and visit him. So, I do.

I simply walk out of the house, back outside with a view of the village I have moved to. Oh goody I say again. Well I turn and head straight to the house next door. I mean to knock on the door before entering, but for some reason, it appears no one has heard of locking their doors, I simply step up to the thing and the change in wind causes it to open without so much as a push. I'm stumped for just a few seconds before I give a shrug and enter.

I walk a bit into the house before a lady at a nearby table notices me, she turns to me with a nice glare that would make most would be robbers want to run away, but I am neither. I stand my ground and answer the question of "And you are?" with honesty. And she instantly calms down, and I'll admit I did relax a tad when that glare of hers lessened, alright I WAS affected…

Well after intro she was so much nicer, eventually she made a note that she had a daughter and that said daughter was upstairs, and that I should go introduce myself, especially since said daughter is looking forward to making new friends.

So after excusing myself, I go ahead and try and find this mystery daughter. I've already noticed how this house seems to be designed in a mirror image of my own, so I made the assumption that the daughters room would be in the same reflective spot as my own, and I was right.

The first, and only really, room I walked in was just about as empty/spacious as my own. The major difference was that there were clues that a female lived in the room, easy to see ones, which is all I am saying on the subject.

Spotting this daughter wasn't too hard, walking up to her was however. Remember on one of my earlier posts that I said it would be unlikely for the professor to have a daughter, a good looking one at that. Well I'm telling you now, do not bet on my luck for I would have just lost. Why? Because at that instant I realized the professor did indeed have a daughter, a good looking on at that.

So that was why I had some problems walking up to her as she did whatever she was doing. But then I steal my nerves with the figuring that I would never be able to get a girl like her anyways so best not to get my hopes up. And with my nerves steeled I walked right up to her, and basically said a very polite Hello.

That is when I notice she appears to be busy with something, and with my words I distracted her, and then caused her to look at me. Oh dear me, I could hardly keep drool from forming and a blush from coming to my face as she started to talk.

"Huh? Who….Who are you?" I force myself to take a deep breath and then introduce myself to her. "Oh, you're Jayce. So your move was today. Um…I'm May." It was about here that I notice she has a slight blush to her face and does seem a tad flustered, I figured it odd. "Glad to meet you! I…I have this dream of becoming friends with Pokemon all over the world. I…I heard about you, Jayce, from my dad, Prof. Birch. I was hoping that you would be nice, Jayce, and that we could be friends. Oh, this is silly, isn't it? I…I've just met you. ehehehe…. Oh, no! I forgot! I was supposed to go help Dad catch some wild pokemon! I'll catch you later!" And like that she was gone.

I was shocked to be sure, I never expected that. Later I counted the number of times she said my name, and I was shocked at the number. Granted it is a low number but still…Once would have been enough.

After that first "conversation" I leave the house, a quick conversation with May's mother and then I head back home.

The next several days to almost a week I do a few things around the village for my mother. I meet May a few times, but each and every time it goes much like "Hi! Nice to see you." Quick two line conversation then May is off again with something she forgot to do. And each and every time I notice, she has a blush and is flustered around me.

I'm not COMPLETELY dense alright, after a bit I start to realize she may have a crush on me…or something like that. I have no real clue. At one point I mean to ask, but the day I decide I should I find out she took off, I quickly find out where and decide, ah why not I'll try and catch up. And I don't even have a pokemon…so smart of me.

I make it to the exit of the village and the beginning of the nearest route before I realize, "Oh shit, I don't have a pokemon."

And in yet another example of amazing timing around myself I hear a scream.

I instantly jump, almost literally, into action and rush towards the screen. There I see someone, quickly realizing that it's Professor Birch, is being chased around by a pokemon. I quickly realize it's a Poochyena. The Pooch corners the professor and he then notices me.

He yells for my help motioning to a bag saying there are pokemon inside of them and to use one of them.

Without thinking I rushed to the bag and looked. I find three pokeballs. I had no clue which one to pick, but then something drew me towards one of them and I quickly went with it. With one quick and easy movement I throw the ball out releasing the Mudkip inside. Which ironically is exactly the pokemon I would have wanted as a starter.

The Mudkip comes out, standing ready for battle in front of me and catching the Poochyena's attention. The fight is actually rather short, for because of the age of the pokemon both only know very basic moves, so I simply order Mudkip with tackles while trying to keep it away from the Poochyena's attacks. I had little difficulty, for after only a few successful hits the pooch was out and all had been settled.

With the professor out of danger, I got down and looked at the mudkip, and he looked back at me. We sort of stared at each other as the professor made his way back to us. When I noticed he was almost at us, I stood back up and recalled the mudkip.

The professor was glad to be rescued, and thankfully he recognized me near instantly. And in doing so said I should come by the lab later so that we could talk some more. So after handing him back the mudkip, which I was slightly upset about, and he crabbed his bag he was off. I looked around a tad before I went back home. I didn't do much mostly just finished up a few things I needed to do, then I headed onto the lab.

I was truly amazed at the size of the place, I rather liked it. It should have been easy to get lost, but I found the professor rather quickly.

Once I was in sight of him he was off talking, "So, jayce I've heard so much about you from your father. I've heard that you don't have your own pokemon yet. But the way you battle earlier, you pulled it off with aplomb!" I joke you not, that is what he said, I have no clue what that even means! "I guess you have your father's blood in your veins after all. Oh, yes. As thanks for rescuing me, I'd like you have the pokemon you used earlier. While you're at it, why not give a nickname to that Mudkip?"

All right I'll admit it, I was shocked. I was actually getting a pokemon, and one that I had already starting bonding with, score! I decided to nickname the Mudkip, Mud. I know, real original.

"If you work a pokemon and gain experience, I think you'll make a darn good Trainer. My kid, May, is out on Route 103 studying pokemon. It might not be a bad idea for you to go see May. What do you think?" I thought it was a good idea and told him just that. "Great May should be happy, too. Get May to teach you what it means to be a trainer."

Now let us stop for a moment here. I'm the son of a gym leader, and I just battled with a pokemon like I've been doing it for some time. Do I really need to be taught "what is means to be a trainer"?!

Moving on, After that he bid me farewell and I left. I did go home real quick to do a few things and grab a few things and then was out and near the front of the rout. But then that is when I realized, I needed to write everything that just happened down. It did help that I heard my mother randomly tell me in the morning too.

So now, I do believe I got this up to date again, for now. I'm about to begin my first steps. I'm starting with a mudkip named Mud. And with no way to catch more pokemon…was that smart? Anyways, I'm off….Let's see what's out there. But first I realize, my luck is so strange! What's next I find out about a criminal group of some kind…..I think I just jinxed it.

AN: Well, got another part. Longer than the rest, but not as long as It can be. Yes I decided to shorten it and leave out conversations, but only because I found them unnecessary and all around time consuming. But that is of little importance.

What I am interested in however is what is coming up. I know I still got a bit before I'm able to catch pokemon, but planning ahead never hurts. I only have two other pokemon set in stone that I want to catch:

Poochyena

Taillow

I am also thinking on a few others, but I am not sure as of yet. So here I am asking you, what pokemon would you like me to try and capture. Remember they have be from Hoenn but other than that, go for it. I'll pick the ones I like the most and get those for certain, while others I'll get if I don't have an overkill of Pokemon already.

That is the other thing, I don't want an overkill amount. Unlike my normal games, I want to waist time with training. So that means I'm going to have to constantly waste entries and time to make sure all pokemon are at a certain level at every point in the game. this is extremely time consuming, so please make sure the pokemon are exactly what you really want. I will also need nicknames for them.

So leave a review/comment with the pokemon you want, or drop me a message. I'll most likely decide quickly, and let you know. And until then, I'll be seeing you.