Disclaimer: I don't own any Pokemon characters/themes/etc, only the
original characters/themes/ideas/etc, (see Chapter One). As for the title,
it has no bearing or similarities with "Not Another Teen Movie", so you
don't have to worry (?) about that...
Any grammatical errors are my computer's fault (hahaha)
To my reviewers: Thank you! You wrote such nice messages ^_^
~*~*~Previous Chapter~*~*~
Just then she heard a squeaking noise to her left, like someone stepping on a loose floorboard, and it was only two feet away from her. Kari took action. She laid one hand on the light switch. In the same moment, she flicked the light on and swung her heavy backpack in the direction of the noise.
~*~*~*~*~*~A Different Kind of Pokemon Journey Chapter 2~*~*~*~*~*~
"AAAHHH!" came a loud cry from Kari's left as she felt her backpack connect with the unknown "thing".
The lights came on and she looked down at Professor Tracy lying in a crumpled heap on the floor. His arm twitched.
"Ow..."
Kari threw her bag aside and sank to the ground next to Tracy.
"Oh my God!! I'm so sorry! You weren't coming and I thought there were wild Pokemon and- and- and- and-"
"It's okay," Tracy said, beginning to recover. "I was trying to scare you, but I guess it kind of worked..."
"More like backfired... but I thought you were in trouble!"
The twenty-seven-year-old professor grinned at Kari. He stretched his hand toward her and she helped him up off the ground.
"Gee, Tracy, have you gained some weight over the past week?"
"I dare you to repeat that."
Kari laughed, then suddenly the cold and dampness seized her momentarily and a violent shiver racked her body.
"God, Kari, you're soaked!"
"Yeah, it's raining cats and dogs out there. I needed to get out of the rain for a while."
"You know you're always welcome, Kari. Do you want a change of clothes?" he asked, raising an eyebrow and looking Kari up and down. Her clothes clung to her body and her hair was in complete disarray.
"You sure I would fit into them?" Kari asked, grinning. Tracy wasn't overweight, but he would always complain that he was and Kari made fun of him for it.
"I think you're small enough," Tracy said just as calmly. When she wasn't careful, he would throw the joke back at her.
"Yeah, I think so...hey, wait a sec...TRACY."
Tracy laughed ((A/N: yeah, and if you haven't figured it out by now, Tracy is a guy, if you remember from the TV series)).
The two were conversing in a small anteroom of a large mansion attached to an even larger laboratory. This was just the same lab that Professor Oak used only it had been added on to over the course of a few years to accommodate the growing number of Pokemon and new developments, etc. Professor Oak had since died and passed the lab on to Professor Tracy, who he took on as his assistant. (I think that was somewhere around the end of the second season, or something like that.)
As for Tracy and Kari's relationship, they weren't related to each other in any way, but were instead the best of friends. Kari would describe Tracy as her older brother, and Tracy would describe Kari as his younger sister. They picked on each other like siblings, but they were never angry with each other. Kari was always at the lab with Tracy, watching and even assisting him with experiments and research and such. She knew it inside and out, almost as well as Tracy himself, and was familiar with all the equipment and the Pokemon that were kept there.
Kari loved Pokemon, and everything about them. She had had the option of beginning a Pokemon journey long ago, but never took it. In a way she felt obligated to her mother, Tasuya who had diabetes. In a way she was afraid of the journey, and to tell the reason, we're gonna have to go back in time a bit.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Kari was the illegitimate daughter of Tasuya Sako and Kumai Kei. Tasuya was living in the quiet town of Pallet (where the current setting is now, by the way) when a handsome young Pokemon trainer-almost Master blew into town. Tasuya was eighteen and Kumai was nineteen. They met, fell in love, had a passionate affair, you know the details. Then Kumai left for the southern seas and left a pregnant Tasuya behind. Two days before her nineteenth birthday, Tasuya gave birth to Kari Sako-Kei. The next day, Tasuya received word that her beloved Kumai had been lost in the southern seas the four months before. They had been searching for his body ever since and finally concluded that he was dead.
Tasuya had to grow up that day, and she most certainly did. She vowed to never go near the sea again and to never let her daughter go on a Pokemon journey until they were fourteen, but deep in her heart she knew that she would never let Kari go when that time came. She did her best though, to protect Kari from the sea, but that didn't stop her from joining the school swim team.
Then, thirteen years later, Tasuya discovered she had a severe case of diabetes, and Kari knew she couldn't leave her mother no matter how much she wanted to.
And with that, we'll turn back to the present, just three weeks before Pallet Town School District' summer vacation I might add... (::someone shouts "FORESHADOWING")
~*~*~*~*~*~
Kari emerged from a spare bedroom in pants that were at least six inches too long, but not that big around the waist, and a sweater that said "ORANGE LEAGUE" in big orange letters across the front, the O actually looking like an orange. She raised her arms and turned around in front of Tracy.
"It works," Kari said.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Follow me, Kari, there's something I want to show you," Tracy said mysteriously.
Tracy guided Kari through an endless variety of passages and stairways and hallways that wound their way through the mansion and the lab before ultimately coming to two large double-doors.
"Here we are," Tracy said finally.
Kari knew where they were from pure familiarity with the lab.
"We're at the pool," she said.
Tracy nodded. "I've been entrusted with a new Pokemon. I'm sure you'll be ecstatic to know which kind of Pokemon it is."
Kari raised an eyebrow and Tracy opened the door.
~*~*~*~*~*~End of Chapter 2~*~*~*~*~*~
I had to cut off there because the chapter was starting to get long... (I love making cliffhangers! ^_^) R&R please, but go easy on the flames! Any inconsistencies are purely accidental. If there are any questions, please post them in you review and I'll be sure to answer them in the next chapter.
~*~*~Previous Chapter~*~*~
Just then she heard a squeaking noise to her left, like someone stepping on a loose floorboard, and it was only two feet away from her. Kari took action. She laid one hand on the light switch. In the same moment, she flicked the light on and swung her heavy backpack in the direction of the noise.
~*~*~*~*~*~A Different Kind of Pokemon Journey Chapter 2~*~*~*~*~*~
"AAAHHH!" came a loud cry from Kari's left as she felt her backpack connect with the unknown "thing".
The lights came on and she looked down at Professor Tracy lying in a crumpled heap on the floor. His arm twitched.
"Ow..."
Kari threw her bag aside and sank to the ground next to Tracy.
"Oh my God!! I'm so sorry! You weren't coming and I thought there were wild Pokemon and- and- and- and-"
"It's okay," Tracy said, beginning to recover. "I was trying to scare you, but I guess it kind of worked..."
"More like backfired... but I thought you were in trouble!"
The twenty-seven-year-old professor grinned at Kari. He stretched his hand toward her and she helped him up off the ground.
"Gee, Tracy, have you gained some weight over the past week?"
"I dare you to repeat that."
Kari laughed, then suddenly the cold and dampness seized her momentarily and a violent shiver racked her body.
"God, Kari, you're soaked!"
"Yeah, it's raining cats and dogs out there. I needed to get out of the rain for a while."
"You know you're always welcome, Kari. Do you want a change of clothes?" he asked, raising an eyebrow and looking Kari up and down. Her clothes clung to her body and her hair was in complete disarray.
"You sure I would fit into them?" Kari asked, grinning. Tracy wasn't overweight, but he would always complain that he was and Kari made fun of him for it.
"I think you're small enough," Tracy said just as calmly. When she wasn't careful, he would throw the joke back at her.
"Yeah, I think so...hey, wait a sec...TRACY."
Tracy laughed ((A/N: yeah, and if you haven't figured it out by now, Tracy is a guy, if you remember from the TV series)).
The two were conversing in a small anteroom of a large mansion attached to an even larger laboratory. This was just the same lab that Professor Oak used only it had been added on to over the course of a few years to accommodate the growing number of Pokemon and new developments, etc. Professor Oak had since died and passed the lab on to Professor Tracy, who he took on as his assistant. (I think that was somewhere around the end of the second season, or something like that.)
As for Tracy and Kari's relationship, they weren't related to each other in any way, but were instead the best of friends. Kari would describe Tracy as her older brother, and Tracy would describe Kari as his younger sister. They picked on each other like siblings, but they were never angry with each other. Kari was always at the lab with Tracy, watching and even assisting him with experiments and research and such. She knew it inside and out, almost as well as Tracy himself, and was familiar with all the equipment and the Pokemon that were kept there.
Kari loved Pokemon, and everything about them. She had had the option of beginning a Pokemon journey long ago, but never took it. In a way she felt obligated to her mother, Tasuya who had diabetes. In a way she was afraid of the journey, and to tell the reason, we're gonna have to go back in time a bit.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Kari was the illegitimate daughter of Tasuya Sako and Kumai Kei. Tasuya was living in the quiet town of Pallet (where the current setting is now, by the way) when a handsome young Pokemon trainer-almost Master blew into town. Tasuya was eighteen and Kumai was nineteen. They met, fell in love, had a passionate affair, you know the details. Then Kumai left for the southern seas and left a pregnant Tasuya behind. Two days before her nineteenth birthday, Tasuya gave birth to Kari Sako-Kei. The next day, Tasuya received word that her beloved Kumai had been lost in the southern seas the four months before. They had been searching for his body ever since and finally concluded that he was dead.
Tasuya had to grow up that day, and she most certainly did. She vowed to never go near the sea again and to never let her daughter go on a Pokemon journey until they were fourteen, but deep in her heart she knew that she would never let Kari go when that time came. She did her best though, to protect Kari from the sea, but that didn't stop her from joining the school swim team.
Then, thirteen years later, Tasuya discovered she had a severe case of diabetes, and Kari knew she couldn't leave her mother no matter how much she wanted to.
And with that, we'll turn back to the present, just three weeks before Pallet Town School District' summer vacation I might add... (::someone shouts "FORESHADOWING")
~*~*~*~*~*~
Kari emerged from a spare bedroom in pants that were at least six inches too long, but not that big around the waist, and a sweater that said "ORANGE LEAGUE" in big orange letters across the front, the O actually looking like an orange. She raised her arms and turned around in front of Tracy.
"It works," Kari said.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Follow me, Kari, there's something I want to show you," Tracy said mysteriously.
Tracy guided Kari through an endless variety of passages and stairways and hallways that wound their way through the mansion and the lab before ultimately coming to two large double-doors.
"Here we are," Tracy said finally.
Kari knew where they were from pure familiarity with the lab.
"We're at the pool," she said.
Tracy nodded. "I've been entrusted with a new Pokemon. I'm sure you'll be ecstatic to know which kind of Pokemon it is."
Kari raised an eyebrow and Tracy opened the door.
~*~*~*~*~*~End of Chapter 2~*~*~*~*~*~
I had to cut off there because the chapter was starting to get long... (I love making cliffhangers! ^_^) R&R please, but go easy on the flames! Any inconsistencies are purely accidental. If there are any questions, please post them in you review and I'll be sure to answer them in the next chapter.