By Crystal Streams



Chapter 2

As Kris was leaving the Professor's lab, she saw a tall, red-headed boy trying to look inside through a window. She didn't recognise him, so she walked over to see who he was. "What are you doing?" She asked.

The boy glanced up at her. "None of your business!" He glared at her. "Go away!"

Kris blinked. "Hmmph. Well, fine then... Jerk..." She muttered. The red- haired boy glared at her again.

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Kris had been walking for an hour already, and she was starting to get bored with no one to talk to. Deciding it was better than nothing, she took out her lone pokeball and released her chikorita. After the red light had faded, the small, cream-colored pokemon, shaking it's head. "Chiko..."

"Hello!" Kris smiled. "I'm you're new trainer, Kris. Say, would Chizo be a good nickname for you?"

The chikorita looked up, seeming to study her, then nodded and said, "Chika!"

Kris grinned. "Great! Well then, Chizo, let's go!" They continued together, Chizo muttering the occasional 'Chika'.

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By the time they got to Cherrygrove City, it was almost dark. Kris headed to the Pokemon Center, handing over Chizo to be healed.

She woke up the next morning, gave Chizo some pokechow, and they headed out to Professor Elm's friend's house.

They came across a couple of pidgeys and rattatas, which Chizo defeated easily enough. It wasn't a long walk before they found what they were looking for. Kris knocked on the door.

The door opened, and Kris saw a middle-aged man standing there. "Ah," He said. "You must be Kris. Professor Elm said you'd be coming. Come in."

He walked over to a table and carefully picked something up. He brought it over to Kris, and handed it to her. It looked like a large, white egg with blue and red markings all over it's surface.

"I know an old couple who run a pokemon daycare center. They gave this egg to me not long ago. I believe it's a pokemon egg." Chizo snorted and rolled his eyes, as if that was the most obvious thing in the world. "I want you to take it to Professor Elm for me." Kris belatedly noticed that Chizo had disappeared from her side.

"Chika!" She turned to see her chikorita sitting happily on the head of an older man who had just come in the room.

"Chizo! Get back here!" Kris snapped. The man laughed.

"It's alright. He's certainly a playful one, is he yours?"

Kris nodded. "Yeah..."

The man stared at her for a second. "My name is Professor Oak. You look dependable. Would you like to do a favour for me?"

Kris blinked, a bit surprised. "Certainly. What?"

He handed her a small, red pokedex. "This is the newest version of the pokedex. It instantly records any pokemon you catch. I'd like you to help me fill it up."

Kris grinned. "Really? Sure, thanks Professor Oak!"

He smiled. "No problem. I already gave one to another young trainer with a cyndaquil. He was...quite interesting, to say the least."

Kris giggled, she had an idea who he was talking about. She bid farewell to Professor Oak, tucked the egg in her backpack, and left.

As soon as she stepped out, her phone started to ring. She realized it was Professor Elm.

"Hello, Kris? It's a disaster, who would do such a thing...Just hurry back here, right away!" He hung up.

Kris stared, confused. What was Professor Elm talking about? She stopped by the Pokemon Center, and headed back to New Bark Town.

She had scarcely left town when she ran into the red-haired boy she had seen outside the lab earlier. He blinked, looking at her. "Hey! You again...hmmph. It lookes like you have a pokemon. Well, I've got a pokemon too, why don't we battle?"

Kris shrugged. "Sure."

They boy threw out a pokeball, and a totodile emerged. The tiny water pokemon grinned, snapping it's jaws. Kris nodded to Chizo, and he walked over to the other pokemon. The boy took the iniative, and yelled to his totodile, "Totodile! Use your scratch attack!"

Chizo tried to dodge, but the totodile was faster. It scored a direct hit on him. "Chiko!!!"

"Chizo, come back with your tackle!" Kris yelled. Chizo rushed at the pokemon, ramming into it. The totodile responded by clamping his jaws of Chizo's head. The poor chikorita's head could hardly be seen through the totodile's jaws.

"Chizo!" Kris gasped. Chizo struggled, trying to break free. A couple of leaves fluttered down, landing around the two pokemon. Then a few more fell...

The totodile looked up as one of the leaves fell on his snout. "Dile!!!!!" The leaf left a small, but painful cut on the pokemon's snout. He loosened his jaws, releasing Chizo, and starting crying as more razor-sharp leaves swirled around him.

"Chizo! You learned Razor-leaf!" Kris yelled happily.

"Chika!"

The boy angrily recalled his crying totodile, glaring at Chizo. "Hmph. My pokemon is weak, that's the only reason it lost. Anyway, my name's Kamon, and I'm gonna be the best pokemon trainer there is. Now move, I don't need weaklings slowing me down." He pushed past Kris, running towards the Cherrygrove City Pokecenter.

Kris blinked. "Wait a minute, we just kicked his butt, and WE'RE the weaklings?"

"Chiko..."

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Kris stepped in Professor Elm's lab. The professor was nervously wringing his hands while speaking to a police officer. They both turned as she came in.

"I heard a pokemon was stolen here. Apparently it was a young man with long red hair." The officer said.

Kris gasped. "Hey! That was the guy I just fought before!"

"Could you tell me his name?" The man asked.

Kris nodded. "He said it was Kamon."

"Great, so his name is Kamon. Thanks." He nodded to her and left.

"This is terrible..." Professor Elm was saying. "Oh yes! What was the big discovery earlier about?"

Kris took the strange egg out of her backpack and handed it to the professor.

"This? But, is it a pokemon egg? If it is, it's a great discovery!"

Chizo cocked his head. "Chika?" The two humans ignored him.

Kris started to tell him about everything that had happened. "What!? Professor Oak gave you a pokedex? That's great! Professor Oak is a world- wide known professor! You seem to be getting along well with your pokemon, too." Chizo looked up at him. "You should visit the Gym in Violet City. It should be an interesting experiance."

Kris looked at her pokemon. "Well, Chizo? What do you think?"

"Chika!!"

She giggled. "Well then, I guess we're on our way!"

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Thanks to everyone who reviewed the first chapter.

Dawn the Espeon-Suicune will appear eventually, along with the other two dogs. Not for a while though, I have to get to Eucreteak first...

Morbane-Thank you! ^_^