Hi, my name is Greg Marina and for those of you that don't know me, this is my story.
Ever since the rise and subsequent fall of team plasma in Unova alongside our own team galactic here in Sinnoh the starting age for trainers was raised to 14 along with a mandatory 2 Pokémon rule to ensure that new trainers are as safe as they could be although in this current climate of extremist trainers and aggressive wild Pokémon, the term safe has a very broad meaning.
I grew up in Snowpoint city, where my dad works as the water type trainer attached to Candice just to ensure the towns safety incase a strong fire type was to make its way across the water from Stark mountain and considering he trained under Marlon in Unova and has beaten Crasher Wake in battle he's far from a slouch in terms of firepower, My mom on the other hand is an archeologist working on Snowpoint temple, her partner Bastiodon was given to her by the university in Canalave when she graduated.
On my Tenth birthday like most kids these days I was given what would be my starter, not being from a town that housed a regional professor it was down to our gym leader to provide me with a starter provided I passed my E rank licensing exam which considering my parents was a piece of cake which is how I ended up with my starter, Snowflake the most timid Cubchoo Sinnoh has ever seen and before you ask I know that Snowflake isn't a suitable name for what would hopefully one day become a 9ft tall bear but I was 10 and didn't know any better. Once I had my starter it was time to enroll in Candice's training class which with very little else to do in a town as isolated and empty as Snowpoint I soon began to excel at which meant that by the time I reached 14 snowflake and I had become a force to be reckoned with amongst the novice trainers of the town. With the introduction of the 2 Pokémon law to start your journey most trainers spent the 4 years between obtaining a starter and starting their journey desperately trying to befriend a wild Pokémon to the point where it would join their team or manically saving to buy one from a trade terminal, I however was a little bit different as my parents had always said that they would use my fathers connections to secure a Pokémon that they believed would benefit my journey as such I spent those years without a worry bar training Snowflake for our grade D license test where we would face our first official battle against one of Candice's trainers.
And that brings us to the current day or to be more precise my 14th birthday, now I'm assuming that most people don't wake up with a 10kg bear cub sitting on their chest but that's how I've woken everyday for 4 years as Snowflake somehow no matter what I do always finds a way to escape from his ball and sneak into my room so today like any other day started with wrestling a bear out of bed before putting on my new travel gear ready to sit the license battle and get my second Pokémon which despite my begging my parents still hadn't revealed to me which was worrying as I was starting to think they hadn't got one ready, now that I'm ready to go I walked down the stairs expecting to see my parents except that they weren't there all that was there were 2 pokeballs a dive ball and your standard pokemart device and a note: Dear Greg we're sorry we couldn't be there this morning however your Dad and Candice had to go South towards Mt Coronet as someone has reported an attack by a Pyroar pride and as such Candice asked if I and a few of the other trainers would guard the route gates in their absence on the table is your dads Slowbro release him and he will teleport you to the gate. Love Mom.
So pocketing the spare pokeball and using the dive ball to release Ricochet I left the house only to instantly be stood within the southern gatehouse where I was expecting the usual spotlessly clean room with my mom and a few other trainers would be sitting around the coffee machine what actually happened was I appeared in what looked like a warzone, the roof was on fire, there was blood on the ground and ear shattering roars we're only cut off from by what sounded like the entire earth being torn asunder all of this coming from the route to Mt Coronet, seeing the fire I immediately returned Snowflake knowing that despite his knowledge of Water Pulse he would be next to useless against a fire type, and well I had Ricochet with me, and although he wasn't the strongest of my dad's Pokémon I had yet to see the day a wild Pokémon especially one over which he had a type advantage, what was worrying me however was the blood pooling on the floor and the viscous sounds of battle coming from the route being unsure of what to do but knowing that Ricochet could turn this to our advantage I opened the gatehouse door and never in my wildest dreams did I expect what awaited me.
Upon looking outside I immediately wanted to vomit, Mrs. Penrose the shops clerk was looking towards the gate with lifeless unseeing eyes, the bottom half of her body burnt away while her Croconaw who had always been an extremely kind and joyful Pokémon seemed to be on a full blows rampage where she was mauling a female Pyroar, possibly the mon that had commit the atrocious injuries on its owner looking to my right I saw my mom stood behind her Bastiodon who was squaring up to 3 male Pyroar and was starting to look a bit worse for ware, looking about I could see giant spikes of rock coming from the ground and knew that the sounds id heard from inside had been Bastiodon using stone edge to defend the town, my mom who had previously looked so calm and collected saw me and instantly her face filled with worry, she ran over to me as ricochet joined the battle instantly wiping out a Pyroar that was sneaking towards Bastiodon from behind with ricochet in the battle the odds looked more even although my mother still seemed extremely worried, when she reached me she immediately passed me her Sawsbuck's pokeball and ordered me to ride him to the gym and sound the alarm, as she hugged me she told me that the other 2 gates were facing similar attacks and that once all of the immediate townspeople had reached the gym it was to be placed on lockdown, whoever the senior trainer there was, was to take charge of the gym until someone reached them, she looked me dead in the eyes and told me to stay safe and that they hadn't heard from my dad or Candice yet and if I got chance to go back to the house and collect the pokeball from the table as it contained my second Pokémon, she then ordered Sawsbuck to stop for nothing until it got me to the house. The ride from the gate to the gym only took seconds but felt like hours, I could see clouds gathering and bolts of electricity shooting down from the port, which is when I realized that this wasn't just a group of rogue Pyroar this was a planned and coordinated attack on the town, we skipped the house as I knew my parents had all of their mons with them now and I already had my new Pokémon in my pocket, not that now was a suitable time to introduce myself.
Reaching the gym I ran inside and remembered being a child touring around on my dads shoulders as he pointed out a red lever and a yellow phone and told me that if ever I couldn't find him or Candice and I thought the town was in danger I was to pull the lever and use the phone, so that's what I did, A ridiculously loud alarm went off which I expected to bring trainers running from the rooms within the gym but instead there was nothing, as locals started arriving and could see the thunder and flames gradually getting closer they flocked inside, so picking up the yellow phone from my dad's office realized there was no numbers on the phone just a dial symbol, which I pushed and within seconds was answered my a calm but decisive officer Jenny that demanded to know what was the issue and where I was calling from, upon receiving this information she hung up, left sitting there confused I realized I needed to check on who had reached the gym to tell them the orders from my mom, when I entered the main hallway I realized we had an issue, I couldn't spot a single professional trainer in the building and so far it seemed that none of my fellow rookies had made it either so once it seemed that there were no more people coming I pressed the lockdown button and closed the gym.
With the automatic shutters around the building there was no natural light, and once the power went out and all we could hear were the faint sounds of explosions through the blast doors, there was no way to tell the time either, after what could have been a few hours or even as much as a day the gym door started to glow red and it gradually got redder and redder until it started to slowly melt, knowing that there were Pyroar involved in the attack I realized it could be them that were trying to get in and as such myself and another rookie trainer, the only other trainer to have made it to the gym a girl I vaguely knew from Candice's class named Eliza resolved to fight whatever came through the door, so releasing Snowflake and Sawsbuck, while she released two Pokémon, a Magnemite and a Fomantis, which is when I realized we were absolutely screwed if that was a Pyroar trying to break in, as we stood there ready to battle I remembered my new Pokémon but being an unknown quantity I chose to keep it in its ball as it could cause more harm than good.
The metal of the door slowly dripped and ran down towards the ground until eventually we could see outside, and waiting for us was the biggest and meanest looking Pyroar I'd ever seen it and 4 others slowly advanced on the doorway as we prepared to try and fight these creatures that could probably crush us all with ease, just as they reached the doorway and we're poised to pounce and rip and burn us to pieces just like poor , there was a bright flash and Infront of the advancing creatures stood Roark of Oreburgh and Lucian of the elite 4 but I only had eyes for the other 2 people stood behind them both of whom we're covered in blood, and dirt and ash but I'd still never been happier to see my Dad and Candice, upon making eye contact with my dad he dropped to his knees and wept.
So that's chapter one, I'm hoping to produce 2-3 chapters a week, let me know in the reviews what you think of the story and any criticisms or advice is more than welcome.