Chapter 3:
AN:Hey everybody I'm finally back to this story after a long time and in case some of you may not know I'm now on summer vacation so I'll have more time to work on this. So without further wait let's get started.
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Italics=thoughts
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Disclaimer: I only own my OCs and the story itself everything else belongs to their respective companies and creators.
Julio's POV
"So I'm pretty sure you know what i'm gonna evolve Korudo into." Yuki said to me.
"Yeah Glaceon." I answered holding Hikari in my arms.
"Yep but what do you plan to evolve Hikari into?" She questioned.
"I'm gonna let her decide." I answered.
"Really? No strategy behind your team based on her evolution?" She said surprised.
"Nope whatever she wants to evolve to I'm fine with it." I said rubbing Hikari's head softly getting a sound of happiness from Hikari.
"Well that shows you really care about your Pokemon's feelings." Yuki said with a smile.
"Of course. I'll never force any Pokemon I catch to do anything they don't want to." I said confidently.
"Well thankfully I've checked with Korudo many times if he's fine with evolving into a Glaceon and he seems very on board with it." Yuki said rubbing his head.
"Hey I think we're almost there." I said noticing a few white houses in the distance.
"Yeah that's Pallet town and see that big place with the turbine? That has to be professor Oak's lab!" Yuki said and I saw a large building with a wind turbine and several windows.
"Well let's pick up the pace." I said as I began to walk faster.
"Hey wait up!" She said walking faster in order to keep up. "Jeez you're in a hurry."
"Of course I've been looking forward to finally going on a journey forever." I said a bit excited. "And when I get my pokedex I'll be able to."
"Yeah I know how you feel. It wasn't until recently I was able to convince my dad to let me go on a journey." She said.
"You have an over protective dad?"
"Yeah. I know he means well and I love him but he's so pushy about it." She said with a sigh.
"Well at least he's letting you go now." I said. "That's what matters."
"Yeah. Well like you said let's hurry up." She said surprising me by taking off into a run.
"Hey wait!" I called after sprinting to catch up.
10 minutes later
"Ha beat ya~" Yuki sang sticking her tongue out at me.
"You got a head start!" I said pouting causing her to giggle.
"Yeah yeah. But it doesn't matter because we're here!" She said.
"You're right. Let's get going to the lab!" I said excited.
We began to walk through the small town and towards the large laboratory at the end of town. Now that we were close to it I could see the laboratory had six windows on the bottom floor and four on the second. We walked towards the doors a bit tired from the run here and the stairs that lead to the top. We looked at each other and knocked and almost immediately a man with a lab coat opened it.
"Ah hello! You must be Julio and Yuki!" He said. He was a middle aged man with gray hair and sports a light maroon polo shirt underneath his lab coat. He wore a brown belt supporting his beige pants along with matching brown loafers. I recognized him immediately as none other than professor Oak himself.
"Yes we are and it's a honor to meet you." I said bowing my head lightly.
"Now now no need for formalities. Now I hope you two are ready for your pokedex."
"Yes we are." We said in unison.
"Good then please follow me." He said leading us through his lab where we saw a few assistants working on computers, machines, and even dealing with pokemon. He lead us to the back where he walked to a desk and picked up two red devices which he handed to us. "These are your pokedex with them you will be able to document what pokemon you catch. Also these are updated to be able to show your pokemon's moves and other things. Now why don't you test them on your Eevee."
"Okay." We said together. We placed our pokemon on the floor and flipped our pokedex open and held it out towards them.
"Eevee. Eevee has an unstable genetic makeup that suddenly mutates due to the environment in which it lives. Radiation from various stones causes this Pokémon to evolve." The pokedex said in a male voice.
"Cool thank you Professor Oak." I said gratefully while putting my pokedex away.
"It is no problem. I always enjoy seeing a trainer start their journey." He replied kindly. "From what I can see you two take great care of your pokemon. The shine of their coats and their happiness says it all."
"Thank you." Yuki said smiling happily.
"Now I have another thing for you two." He said walking back towards his desk and bringing over two metal cases. We glanced at each other curious about what it is."Now as you two know it is also my duty to give a trainer their first pokemon and as you two know this would have fallen on professors Sycamore and Rowan had you gone on a journey in your respective regions. It only felt right to allow you two to choose one of those pokemon."
"What but we have our Eevee." I said surprised.
"Yes you do. Now i'm not gonna force you two to choose among these but please consider the idea of taking one of them." He said kindly. I thought it over and I could tell Yuki was thinking the same. We looked at each other and nodded.
"Okay. I'll take one to be one of my pokemon." I said with a confident smile.
"Me too. They did go to the trouble of sending them to you plus these pokemon more than likely want a trainer." Yuki said confidently.
"Great now who wishes to go first?"
"You go. Ladies first after all." I told Yuki who nodded and walked forward.
"Now these are your choices." Oak said taking the poke balls out and releasing the pokemon inside. The first was a blue frog pokemon, while the second resembled a fox and the last looked to resemble a porcupine.
"They are Froakie, Fennekin and Chespin." He said pointing to each of them in turn. I looked at the three of them in curiosity. They all began to stare at me and Yuki though Yuki looked to be thinking hard. Personally I would have gone with Fennekin partially because I loved fire types but also because she(Judging by it's high-pitched voice) seemed confident and ready for a battle, though they all were great choices.
"I'm gonna need a bit of time so you can have Julio pick right now." Yuki said slightly embarrassed.
"Its alright after all this is an important decision." The professor said kindly before walking to the other case and taking out the poke balls.
"Well these are your choices." He said throwing them into the airan releasing them.
The first was a Piplup that I was already familiar with. The second one was a monkey pokemon that I recognized as a Chimchar and the third resembled a turtle which I recognized as a Turtwig. I looked at all three of them and they looked right back though after a bit the Piplup lost interest and began to look around. I was fine with that since my sister had one and I didn't want to pick the same as her. Though these two were hard to choose from but after a bit I decided and knelt in front of Chimchar.
"Hey Chimchar how would you like to join me?" I asked kindly and after a bit the Chimchar let out a happy noise and climbed on top of my head in excitement.
"Well it seems Chimchar is happy." Oak said chuckling. I pulled out my pokedex and scanned it revealing it was a he, and it only knew two moves. But something else surprised me. It's ability.
"Hey professor, I thought the fire starter typically have blaze." I said showing him my dex revealing Iron Fist under ability.
"Incredible. You received quite the special pokemon. That is it's hidden ability." He explained.
"Woah." I said at a loss for words. "Well it doesn't matter so long as you're my friend."
Chimchar jumped off my head and approached Hikari letting out a sound of greeting which she returned.
"Hmm...gonna need to come up with a nickname later." I muttered. I then turned my attention to Yuki who had decided on the Fennekin to my surprise.
"Huh...I thought you would have gone with the Froakie." I said.
"Well I decided on the little miss here because I felt she would be perfect." She explained.
"Well it appears that you two have decided on your pokemon. Here are their pokeballs along with a badge case and a few extra poke balls for when you decide to catch more pokemon." He said handing us a the said items. "Hmm...oh my look at the time!"
I took a glance at the electric clock and was shocked to see it was past eight.
"What? It wasn't this late awhile ago." Yuki exclaimed.
"We gotta get going!" I said.
"Now now. It will get dark soon and it's not a good idea to be caught in the dark while traveling." Oak said.
"Well what do e do?" I asked.
"Hmm...I know you can stay here in the lab for tonight and head back in the morning but it would probably be best to inform your parents." He suggested.
"Alright but where do we sleep?" Yuki asked.
"Easy. I have a few beds in the lab for when my assistants end up staying the night."
"Alright. It's a good thing I always have my backpack just in case." Yuki said.
"Same here." I said.
"Well good to see you're the type of trainers who liked to be prepared." Oak said chuckling. "Alright I'll show you to the phone so you can call your parents."
After we managed to call our parents and told them what happened the professor showed us where we'll be sleeping and the restroom so we can shower and change but before we did that he treated us to a meal of Chinese takeout which was really good to my surprise. I let Yuki go first while I began to think of a nickname for Chimchar. I must have spent quite a while because Yuki came in with a towel around her neck and dressed in a blue tank top and black short-shorts.
"Well I'm done." She said turning her attention to me."I'll keep an eye on these two while you're in there."
"Thanks." I said and grabbed my stuff and went to the bathroom.
Hikari's POV (Surprise)
"So new guy, how's it feel having a trainer." I asked Chimchar.
"Good. He seems like a nice guy." He responded. "I can't wait till our first battle."
"Well you're not wrong on that he's really kind though he may appear cold at times. Plus there's no doubt you'll get strong with him." I said.
"Cold? From what I've seen he's really friendly." Korudo said walking over.
"To be honest yes he is cold with those he doesn't know." I answered feeling my heart skip a beat when he came over.
"Well he seemed to warm up to Yuki quickly." He pointed out.
"You got me there. I'm not sure either." I said frowning in thought before gasping. "You don't think he's attracted to her do you?"
"What?! Even if that's true Yuki wouldn't feel the same." He said before his eyes widened. "Wait she could!"
"What do you mean." Chimchar said.
"She's normally shy and embarrassed around people but with him she's at ease and comfortable." He answered. "Plus you saw how she blushed when he called her cute."
"Isn't it a bit early for that though." Fennekin asked walking over.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well they barely know each other for one and two does your trainer show any REAL signs of liking her?" She asked me.
"No...but he is really good at hiding his feelings from people, so it's hard to tell." I answered.
"Well try not to interfere and if they do like each other shouldn't you two be happy for them?" She questioned.
"Well that's not the issue it's just like you said it's early for them to end up together. Plus we don't know if they'll travel across Kanto together." Hikari said.
"True but I have a feeling they will." Korudo said.
"What are you four talking about?" Yuki said from the bed. She was currently brushing her hair.
"Nothing!" We said together, why? We don't know since she can't actually understand us. At that moment Julio walked in wearing a black t-shirt and black shorts.
"Well that was relaxing." He said stretching. He then glanced at us. "Getting along?"
We nodded and when he sat down I jumped into his lap. He chuckled and began to rub behind my ears filling me with pleasure at his gentle rubs.
"So what time do you think we should wake up?" He asked Yuki.
"Maybe around ten. Then we can head back after we do what we need to do." She said as she finished brushing her hair.
"Good idea. By the way tomorrow let's have a battle." He said getting surprised looks from everyone except me since I knew at some point he would request one.
"Wait you're serious?" She said surprised.
"Yeah I want to see how strong Korudo is plus it could be a good chance to see how our new pokemon do." He reasoned.
"Well I guess it wouldn't hurt…" She said. "Alright tomorrow we have a battle."
"Cool!" Julio said excited causing me to roll my eyes at how much he loves to battle.
"Well we better get to sleep." Yuki said getting comfortable on her bed, Fennekin and Korudo hopped on top of the bed and curled up at the foot of the bed.I did the same except cuddling next to Julio while Chimchar passed out at the foot of the bed with it's tail extinguished snoring.
"G'night." Julio said before falling asleep. After a few moments Yuki fell asleep as well and soon I joined them in bliss.
AN: Well with that Julio and Yuki get a new addition to their teams and their pokedex. Now them getting these starters was something planned from the beginning though it took a while to decide between the Kanto starters but I decided on them instead. Regarding Julio and Yuki don't expect it to get to where they're dating till half way through the story. Also I've decided to not do descriptions of Pokemon because I believe most people who read this are familiar with how most look and if not and you're curious you can just look it up after all you are on something connected to the internet. The only time I'll do a description is if it's something special which you will see an example of in the far future of this story.
Also if you want to take guesses on what Hikari will evolve to please leave a guess on that and if you're right I'll send you a private message about that.
Please leave a review with any thoughts, guesses on future team members for Julio,Yuki, and even Satori and if you want to leave suggestion on a pokemon you want them to get leave it in the description and I will think about adding it.
Next time on Pokemon: Crimson Journey: Julio and Yuki begin their two on to battle before heading back to Viridian city. After the battle it is revealed a couple of people watched the battle and reveals themselves. Who wins the battle? And who are these two? Find out next time on: Julio vs. Yuki and Rivalry sparked. Don't miss it.