On the road to Pewter City!

After everything had been said and done with the journey lying ahead, Ryan, Anthony, and Sam finally went off on their journey to become masters. Ryan of Gym Battles, Samantha of contests, and Anthony of……well sort of in between.

The journey had been fine so far, the 3 of them had just stopped to make camp for the night and Ryan went off on his own to go get some extra firewood. Anthony was bored out of his mind and just layed back in the grass, Samantha was sitting by the fire and tried to keep on a happy face, however she was worried. Just this morning Ryan was acting happy and idiotic like he always does, but he hasn't said a single word since they left Pallet town, and he even left Kitsune at the camp with her and Anthony. She knew Ryan cared about Kitsune more than anything in his life, and she knew he and Kitsune always went everywhere together. She had noticed that he had changed right after her father had a talk with him back in Pallet town moments before they left. Samantha decided to just get some sleep on it and layed down in her sleeping bag with Shocker and Squirtle hugging up next to her. Anthony's Umbreon and Bulbasaur were also out of their pokeballs and they were just laying down next to a tree with Ryan's Charmander Pyro.

Ryan's POV……

I was grabbing the extra firewood for 2 reasons right now. 1. I needed to let off some steam (no pun intended) after what happened earlier. 2. Well we needed more firewood. We had just gotten started with our journey….I thought it would start better than this….guess I was wrong. You know the funny thing is, I've always wanted to leave home, but now I feel miserable that I did. Espacially after what the professor told me.

Flashback….

Anthony and I had just gotten back inside when we saw Samantha already stuffing first-aid sprays, tm's, and God knows what else into our bags. I looked around and saw the professor acting really weird, as if the world was ending, then the phone/monitor started flashing and the professor ran over to it like a mad-man, it looked like there was an officer Jenny on the phone. I had to admit, those girls were total babes, but DEFINATLEY not my type. He turned around and looked even more grim as the call ended. Then as we all got ready to go, he told me to wait and he asked Anthony and Samantha to wait outside. After they had gotten out I walked over to him to see he was trying to say something to me, but just couldn't find the right words.

"Professor….are you ok?" I asked, he just looked at me again, then he stared at the ground.

"Ryan, I don't know how to say this….but…your father….he was in an accident and now…..and now he's missing." Said the professor, I felt my heart stop right there, my father? He was in an accident and to make matters worse, he was missing? I just stared at the professor and tried to think that what he said was a lie.

"If your trying to make a joke professor that was a pretty lame joke….he's in Saffron City right now." I said as I glared at him, he seemed frightened but he shook his head.

"I wish I WAS joking. But I'm serious, your father went missing is Saffron City. I'm sorry…" Said the professor, but I didn't want to hear it and I quickly went outside with Kitsune following close behind me. As we were making our way out of Pallet town I thought Samantha was trying to say something, but I didn't listen to her, I was still thinking about what her dad said. Then I started thinking about my mom and how she'd react to the news of dad's disappearance, I knew she wouldn't take it well. So we continued on in relative silence.

Flashback over……

I finally got the last of the extra firewood and I was heading back to camp when I thought I heard something in the bushes. I looked over and I saw nothing, so I just assumed I was imagining things and I just kept walking back to camp. As I just about reached camp I heard the noise again and I was getting sick of it.

"Alright who's out there? Show yourself!" I shouted to whatever was out there. Nothing answered and a tiny fruit dropped from the tree, I chuckled a bit. I was getting scared of fruits now all of a sudden. As I was about to continue my walk back to camp, I felt something cold hit my head, and I fell to the ground and I saw what looked like people with white jackets on, but before I could see anything else, my world turned black……