Disclaimer: The ability to own Pokemon is unobtainable for me.

Hello everybody.

You're probably wondering why I'm updating so early again. Well, the first week of school is over for me so I thought I should celebrate with an update (It feels like it has already been a month. no joke.) This is probably the last update fo the next one million years. lol. I have to study 3 tests and 5 quizzes next week, and I'm not counting homework, so don't kill me. I'm already deader than the dead itself.

Some people asked me to be more descriptive in my story and I tried in this chapter. Hope it's better.

Well, enjoy the chapter guys! Not a lot of violence, but the plot is starting now.

Chapter 8:

The sun was shining through the opened window in Professor Rowan's room. A small warm breeze blew through the window, causing some of the papers on Rowan's desk to scatter to the floor. Frowning, Rowan took his time to pick up the papers and firmly closed the window shut to prevent anymore scattering papers. Then picking his pen up again, Rowan went back writing about an important report about the evolutions of Pokemon and his theory.

Rowan's small white office was on the small side, but cozy. On the right side of the room, there was a large maple wood bookshelf consisting of books about Pokemon, reports made by other professors in the other regions, and binders filled with data about Pokemon lifestyle, habitats, and others things. A small bed that was the size of a miniature couch was on the opposite side. Even though Professor Rowan has his own house in Sandgem Town, there were times when he had to stay late at the office to finish up his report and was too tired to walk back home. So, to get some sleep, Rowan used the small bed. During the past few months, he had been using the bed more and more often just to finish up his report. Against the wall and in the middle of the room were Rowan's wooden desk and a dark red swiveling chair. This was where everyday after work Rowan would record all the data he wrote down while doing his field research.

Rowan looked through his notes just to be sure and a knock came from the door. He turned around and saw one of his assistants at the door. The sandy hair assistant was a newcomer and was obviously not neatly dressed. His white lab coat had a couple of food stains.

"Professor Rowan, it's almost feeding time. Do you want me to go ahead and feed the starter Pokemon since the new trainers are not here?" Rowan looked at the small Squirtle clock on the wall above him and saw that it was 11 already. John's daughter and her friend are already late on such an important date.

"All right, I'll be there in a minute. Go ahead and feed them. I have a feeling that those two were going to be late. Oh, and change your coat. It's dirty." The lab assistant turned red from embarrassment, but nodded and headed to the back of the room where the large lab holding the three starter Pokemon was. Rowan frowned as he continued his report. If he had known those two were going to be late, he could've gone out and did some field research. This is why he hated tardiness. It made everybody else hang back.

Suddenly, Rowan heard a door slam and thought it was strange that John came back so early from his morning walk.

"Professor Rowan, we have a trainer who needs a starter Pokemon as well." Rowan sighed. So that was the reason. He was almost finished with his report, but it looked like he would have to put it off until after giving the trainer a starter Pokemon.

Rowan got out from his chair, and out of his small office. He arrived at the main hallway, and saw John and a young boy with a red flat cap next to John. The young boy was staring around the room with his head staring at the ground, and at the word 'Professor Rowan,' the boy glanced at a couple of seconds at Rowan with a look of amazement. Professor Rowan felt uneasy at the boy's astonished yet sad look. It was as if the boy knew something... The look quickly passed and the boy bowed politely toward the professor. "Please to meet you."

Rowan gave a nod in approve. "Nice to meet you too."

"His name is Lucas," John said quickly, "I found him on the road, ready to travel. However, he doesn't have a Pokemon, so I thought he could get one of the starters and travel with my daughter and her friend." Rowan thought for a moment and shrugged.

"Sure, that's not a problem. Follow me. I'll lead you to the lab." Professor Rowan walked down the hall, leaving the other two behind to follow in his lead. "By the way John..."

"Yes, Rowan?" John responded immediately.

"Your daughter and her friend are not here yet even though it's already past 11."
"Really?" John said puzzled. He looked at the clock and saw that it was indeed 11:10.

"Oh, dear. I guess I'll call the house to see if everything is okay. Lucas, just follow Professor Rowan into the lab." John quickly left to the front desk to place a phone call. Lucas hung back a bit, feeling uneasy following this man. After a couple of steps, Professor Rowan realized that the trainer was still standing in the same spot.

"Well?" Professor asked impatiently, "Are you coming or not?"

"Ah, yes, sorry," Lucas responded. He immediately ran to catch up and ended up tripping over his shoes. He landed face down on the floor. "Ouch." Rowan narrowed his eyes at the boy.

"Please be more careful," Rowan said flatly.

"Yes sir," Lucas said and got up immediately. He had a small bump on his forehead, but he didn't seem to notice it much. He quickly followed the professor down the hallway and toward two thick metal doors. Rowan pushed one of them and revealed the high-tech lab. On the side of the wall, there were computers, recording information as the lab assistants typed down stuff from papers. In the middle of the room, there were three Pokemon, waiting impatiently for food to be filled inside their bowl.

The Pokemon on the left side of the table was a thin agile brown monkey. A flame was burning from its back, and Lucas could immediately tell that it was a fire Pokemon. It looked mischievously at the other Pokemon, obviously planning to play a trick on the other two.

"This is Chimchar- a fire Pokemon," Rowan said, pointing at the monkey, "A little bit on the playful side but fast when it comes to speed for a starter." As if to prove it the fire Pokemon jumped up and down nonstop. Lucas shruged and thought that Chimchar was way to hyper for him.

On the right side of the table was a blue penguin Pokemon. It had a proud look on its face, like it was waiting to be fed like a king. This was obviously a water type Pokemon. The penguin gave a haughty look at Lucas' appearance. Deciding that Lucas obviously did not appear important, the penguin raised its beak proudly in the air and scoffed at the little boy. Lucas smiled weakly at the Pokemon. It was obvious that the blue penguin thought that Lucas was not worthy enough to train him.

"That is Piplup- a water Pokemon," Rowan said, frowning a little at Piplup's rude behavior, "Yes, it's very proud, but its attacks are pretty powerful and its speed is not too bad. It's a well balanced Pokemon." Piplup puffed its chest at Rowan's description of it. Lucas thought that Piplup was acting too proud and that was not a good Pokemon to train. Overconfidence is not a good thing.

Lucas turned to the Pokemon in the middle of the Chimchar and Piplup and saw something he couldn't believe. The last Pokemon was a green looking turtle with a small branch with two leaves on it, sticking out of its head. It yawned slowly and opened its eyes sleepily. It turned slowly toward the new trainer, and immediately its eyes miraculously were wide open.

"Turtwig!" Lucas opened his arms out and the grass type Pokemon jumped in. Rowan looked amazed at the bonding between the two. It was obvious that Lucas met Turtwig before.

"You know him Lucas?"

"Yeah! He helped me battle off a couple of Starly," Lucas said, laughing as Turtwig licked his face. Rowan's head suddenly realize that something was wrong here.

"And could you tell me about this battle?"

"Well," Lucas thought for a moment, "yesterday, me and this girl were attacked by those birds and umm... I found a briefcase next to me and there were Pokeballs in it so I used one of them and Turtwig came out... We were a team! We fought off those Starly with ease." Lucas petted the turtle Pokemon as it cuddled into his lap. Rowan realized that the briefcase Lucas was talking about was his and went missing yesterday. He was about to worry nonstop when it miraculously came back at the front of his door. Something fishy was going on here.

"Interesting... could you elaborate more on the incident...?"

...

"Dawn! Do you know what time it is? You know that you were so suppose to be here at 11. Why are you late? And why do you have a Muchlax?"

"Sorry dad. It's 11:15. I know. Damion got us lost again, and long story about Muchlax. We decided to bring him with us." Dawn replied, answering all of her father's questions in order. Dawn and Damion managed to arrive at the building just before John called the house. John would've given Dawn a huge lecture, but right now wasn't the time. He needed to get them to the lab quickly before Professor Rowan become more furious.

"Never mind that. You have to hurry. Rowan is already cranky as it is."

"Thanks a lot Damion," Dawn snapped at the blond hair boy, "If you had let me read the map, we would've been here earlier."

"Sorry, I am the expert in reading maps," Damion said defensively, "Besides the map used to the wrong type of key. I mean, how was I suppose to know that the blue line represent the river and not the road?" Dawn groaned. No wonder Damion did poorly in school.

"Come on guys," John said, impatiently at the quarrel, "What's done is done. We need to get to the lab."

"Yes sir," Damion mumbled. They walked briskly down the hall and Muchlax followed the two trainers in a slow duck like walk. After a moment John decided to tell them the news.

"Oh, by the way, I found a lost beginner trainer on the road today. Is it okay after you guys finish choosing your Pokemon, he could travel with you? I'm feel safer if you guys travel in numbers." Dawn looked at Damion for answers. After all, Damion was the one who usually called the shots.

"Sure, why not?" Damion said, shrugging his shoulders, "But I get the strongest Pokemon."

"Damion," Dawn snapped, "They are all on the same level! There are no strong Pokemon."

"But I get the one that can beat that kid's Pokemon." Dawn groaned again. Damion was hopeless and narrow minded.

"That's great," John said, sighing with relief, "He should be in there, choosing a Pokemon with Rowan."

"WHAT!" Damion exclaimed, "He's getting the first choice?!"
"Well," John replied evenly, "HE was here earlier than you guys were so..." John didn't finish what he was going to say. Damion was already sprinting down the hall trying to get to the double doors.

"Stop! No running!" John yelled, trying to keep up with Damion. Damion ignore Dawn's father and pushed open the door, only to find out that the trainer was somebody that didn't want to meet him. There was a huge silence followed by a loud scream.

"YOU!" And there was the sound of gagging immediately after that word.

Author's Notes

LOL. Somebody is being tortured. Wonder who?

It'll be a while before OCs will appear, so please wait. I need to start the traveling before I get to OCs.

Well, the next chapter will probably be posted in about 500 years. lol. jk. Sorry, this fall is going to be really busy for me so wait patiently and I'll have more chapters posted.

Now to thank the reviewers. (You guys are increasing everyday... O.O)

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Blake Wilson

Heh, this story doesn't really have a lot of reviews compare to others. I saw a story with a thousand reviews in less than 5 chapters. O.O Now that is something to be insanely jealous of. Well, thanks for the review. Hope you managed to contact with Sparky. And seriously it was no big deal. The request is not that weird.

ChoklitKisses

Thanks for the OC. I'll put her in if I have a place. Right now, I'm taking everybody's OCs, but whether or not I use them at all is another story. Depends on the chapters right now.

Muchlax has returned!! lol. Thanks for the review.

the shadow of hell

yay! yay! thanks for the review.

fatal whisper

Yeah, the story is taking a while to start moving, but that's because I don't write a lot due to the fact that I'm so busy. sorry. Well, I'm having trouble developing Lucas' personality right now. I'm in a dilemma of how to describe an 'idiot' yet strong trainer. lol. Thanks for the review. Sorry if the plot line is slow right now.

Lady of DarkFire

Heh, yeah it would be funny if Dawn released the dogs on him. Oh guess what? (motions you to come closer to the screen so nobody could listen to what we have to say) Dawn is actually going to use some 'fighting' skills on Damion in the next chapter. You'll see why Damion is scared of her. lol. thanks for the review.

xoxbb

oh okay, thanks for the specific battle. (oh, this is going to be good. MUHAHAHAH!)

Aiko

hey there. Thanks for your permission. (now going over to tell Sparky) Enjoy the chapter.

renniegirl

Thank you for the review! hope to see you next update.

Brenediction

Thanks for the review. Violence on the way.

SportyGurl1997

hahaha, yup cliff hangers are my specialty. (hold your applauses till the end... wait... cliff hangers makes it so that there is no end... lol.) thanks for the review.

Putchkins

thank you for the compliment. I never knew that most stories have the main character from some village, but then again, I don't read a lot of fanfiction since I don't have a lot of time. lol.

X-Spark

Yo! Thanks for reviewing. Hope you've finish your first chapter of the side story. And thanks for the improved OC. lol.

Unknown

Yup, glad it made you laugh (Finally! Somebody laughed at my jokes.)

I update early only if I got a chapter ready and its a special occasion or after I went through torture. lol. 100 reviews is amazing in such little chapters, so I couldn't help but to post up a new chapter. hey, if we get 500 in less than 30 chapters, I'll update early again. keep your finger crossed

AmethystPrincess93

thanks :) Hope you continue to review.

Anne

... O.O

uh, okay... though I don't really understand why you were forced you... but oh well, more reviewers yay! Hope you continue to review as well.

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Okay, finished up thanking.

Keep on reviewing and I'll see you in the next chapter (or in another story, depending if you read those as well...). Remember that I am busy so updates WILL NOT come as fast as they use to. In fact, I haven't slept for more than 5 hours each day...

zzzzzzzz...

-JapanDreamer