Here's chapter 2. We get to see Hiro make his first Pokemon capture, and it's a pretty funny character.
Chapter 2: The Three Guardians of the Tower
Inside Hiro's house, we see Hiro and his family sitting at a table with tons of food on it. Everybody claps their hands together and say "Itadakimasu!" and start eating. In a corner of the room, we see Hiro's and his sisters' Pokemon eating out of dog bowls on the ground. Hiro takes a large helping of sashimi and ramen and starts slurping it up using his chopsticks.
"So, you're leaving for your journey today, Hiro?" asks Satsuki, the sister with wavy light blue hair.
"Hmm.... yeah. I'm gonna be meeting with Chris as soon as I'm done eating." says Hiro with his mouth full.
"You're gonna make lots of friends in far-off places and build up a large array of Pokemon for battle. Oh that sounds like such fun!" says Sumomo, the sister with bobbed brown hair.
"Speaking of friends, I wonder if Hiro will meet that one 'special friend'," Tamao, the sister with long purple hair says as she nudges Hiro with her elbow, and evil smirk on her face. When Hiro hears this, he nearly chokes on his ramen, taps his chest with his fist, and takes a tall sip of water before he breathes out a heavy tuft of air.
"Tamao, you need to stop going into personal matters like that" says Sakura, the sister with pink hair ponytailed on each end of her head.
"Hehe, sorry, sorry" replies Tamao, eyes closed and smiling as she waves her hand up and down.
"You alright, Hiro?" asks Koume, the sister with wavy dark green hair.
"Yeah" replies Hiro. Hiro finishes the last of his meal, puts down his plate and chopsticks, and says "Gochisousama. If you don't mind, I gotta get ready."
Hiro calls Ibui as soon as it's done eating. As he's loading his backpack, he notices the outside.
"It's foggy today, how odd."
"Yes, it's really strange. In the last week, we've been having some wierd weather. First there was the lightning storm, and then that heatwave." says grandpa.
"What do you think might be causing it?" asks Koume.
"If you'll remember, shortly before these events, someone's been vandalizing the sacred tower. The gods are angry." replies grandpa.
"Who do you think would do such a thing?" asks Sakura.
"Maybe I can go check it out. The old burnt tower's just on the edge of town, I can pass by as I'm leaving." says Hiro.
"You shouldn't bother, the police are checking it out, and they'd hate you getting in the way." says grandpa.
Hiro finishes putting on his shoes by the door and exits the house. As he's walking down the stone pathway, we see him and his family waving their goodbyes to eachother. In the next scene, we see Hiro walking with Chris up to the burnt tower, which has a bunch of police signs around it.
"Hiro, are you sure we should be doing this?" asks Chris.
"Yeah. You want to find out what's causing this, right?" asks Hiro.
"I think I'll just wait here for you. Be careful."
"I will." replies Hiro as he lifts up the police tape, ducks behind a car, and dashes into the tower with Ibui. As Hiro does this, we see one last scene of Chris looking up at a Yorunozuku perched on a branch. When Hiro enters, he's shocked at all the ink markings, potato chip bags, and soda cans everywhere. Ibui tries nudging one of the wrappers with its paw. Hiro hears someone coming so he grabs Ibui by his back fur and runs into the basement. Ibui's set down, and he stumbles a bit dizzily, and Hiro sees statues of 3 giant dogs covered in ink markings. He goes up to one of the statues and notices all the mist is pouring out of its open mouth. This statue has a very slim body compared to the other 2, tufts of fur down its back, and a diamond shaped horn on its forehead.
"Is what Jii-san said true? Are these statues really angry?"
"Hey, stop right there!" a voice comes from up the stairs, startling Hiro. We see Officer Junsa descending the stairs, and Ibui's sniffing the ground.
"So you're the one who's been vandalizing this place?" she says.
"N... no... I was just curious so...." stutters Hiro.
"...so you sneaked in here, into a police investigation area?" Junsa finishes his sentence. Hiro nods.
"I'm sorry, I didn't intend to get into your way!" pleads Hiro.
"I'm afraid I'm still gonna have to take you in. Sneaking into areas like this is still a violation of the law and.... huh? What?" Junsa notices Ibui sniffing the ground.
"I think he's on the trail of the culprit." says Hiro.
"That's impossible. Our entire team of Guardie couldn't even find it." replies Junsa.
Ibui stops sniffing and looks at a zigzag marking made of blue ink. It growls at a part of the zigzag and rams into the wall.
"Ibui, what are you doing? What?" Hiro's startled to see part of the wall move and turn into a Chacleon that just had the wind knocked out of it.
"So that's what's been causing this the whole time?!" shouts Junsa. "I'm gonna call back-up to send me a cage."
"Wait Junsa! I'm a Pokemon trainer, so let me catch it!" says Hiro.
Junsa looks at him for a second and says "By all means, help get rid of it. If you can, I'll drop your charges for sneaking in here."
"Thank you, Junsa. Go Ibui, use Taiatari!" commands Hiro.
Ibui rams into the Chacleon again. Chacleon removes a box of markers from its mouth, takes out a black one, and draws a glasses and moustache pattern on Ibui's face. Then it camouflages. Ibui's confused, but Hiro notices the blue zigzag stripe left behind.
"Ibui, attack the moving stripe. Use Kamitsuku!" he commands.
Ibui bites the moving zigzag and Chacleon reappears screaming and turning his color black (side note: Chacleon's special ability is to changes its color based on its type, which depends on the last attack to hit it. Kamitsuku's a Dark attack, so it turned black).
Hiro pulls out a Monster Ball from under his belt and tosses it at Chacleon. Chacleon becomes imprissoned, the ball wobbles a bit, but then it stops.
Hiro starts grinning and runs up to the ball shouting "YATTA! I caught my first Pokemon."
Hiro picks up the ball, shrinks it to a marble-size, and puts it back on his belt. Junsa picks up one of the potato chip bags.
"Good job, kid. Hmm... that Chacleon, it came from the Houen continent, and these potato chips and this cola, they're distributed from a company in Houen" she notes.
"Oh, so the Chacleon must've snuck aboard a shipment going over to here, snuck out some food, and hid here. But what explains the markers?" asks Hiro.
"Who knows. It must've found a lost case full of them on the ground." answers Junsa.
"So, what about this mess?" asks Hiro.
"Don't worry. Being a famous landmark, the city will definitely take care of it."
Hiro goes over to look at the statue pouring out mist again. He observes it for a minute, and then, it cracks, causing Hiro to jump back.
"Officer Junsa, the statue, it... it cracked!"
"What?"
Junsa goes over to the statue to take a look at it, and she notices that blood is leaking out of the crack.
"What the hell is happening?" asks Junsa.
Suddenly, all 3 statues produce cracks all over their bodies, each of them bleeding out of the cracks. Eventually, 3 beasts shaped like the statue emerge out with blood on their bodies and dash out of the tower.
"What? Were... were those the gods my grandfather was referring to?" asks Hiro.
Screams are heard from above. Hiro, Ibui, and Junsa run out to see what happened. They just see some police officers shivering on the ground from the sight that passed them.
"You, did you see where those Pokemon came from?" asks a voice. Hiro looks around to see Utsugi-hakase, the famous researcher from Wakaba Town.
Hiro replies "Yes. I saw everything. Let me show you where it happened."
In the next scene, Hiro, Ibui, Junsa, and Utsugi are standing before the rubble that the 3 beasts came from.
"So it's true. These Pokemon have been imprisoned in stone all these years" says Utsugi as he picks up one of the bloody pieces of stone.
"Utsugi-hakase, what were those things, and why were they bleeding?" asks Hiro.
"Those were Raikou, Entei, Suikun, the 3 gods created by Houou many millenia ago. According to legend, there was a great battle between all the gods at some point, and these 3 got imprissoned after sustaining bloody injuries" explained Utsugi.
"Cool" awed Hiro.
"You're a beginning trainer, am I correct?" asked Utsugi.
"Eh? Yes.. yes I am" replied Hiro.
"To pay you back for explaining what I missed, how about I take you back to my laboratory with me. Wakaba Town is said to be one of the most perfect places for beginner trainers because the wild Pokemon around the area are weak. Would you like to go there?" asked Utsugi.
"Really? Thank you so much" said a gracious Hiro.
"My plane leaves tomorrow at noon. I hope you can make it."
"I'll be sure to" replies Hiro.
Utsugi-hakase leaves the tower. Hiro's about to leave too until Junsa tells him "Hey kid, I appreciate your help with ridding of that Chacleon!"
"Hehe, no problem."
"But, I kinda feel bad for you being stuck with such a rebellious Pokemon."
"I'm a trainer, and Pokemon obey their masters." Hiro takes Chacleon out of its ball. "See" he says before Chacleon almost immediately scribbles all over his face with a marker. Hiro gets a giant anime sweat drop.
"Chacleon, stop it" but Chacleon still scribbles. Hiro recalls it to its Monster Ball.
"Good luck raising such a thing" says Junsa.
"Thank you" says Hiro as he leaves.
Hiro's now at the registration counter in the Pokemon Center. The woman there says "Wow, you're pretty impressive. You see that blue zigzag on your Chacleon. That means it's a shiny Pokemon, a very rare type of Pokemon with a color different from the rest of its species. And this is your very first capture?"
"Yes!"
"Being a shiny Pokemon, I'm gonna give this an S ran..." the counter lady's saying until Chacleon suddenly marks all over her face.
"I mean, it's a D rank."
"WHAT!?!?" says a shocked Hiro.
"Shiny or not, this thing is too damn disobedient. In fact, the fact that it is shiny is the only thing saving it from an E ranking" replies the lady.
At another counter, a man's saying "Congratulations, sir! Your Yorunozuku is a very fine specimen. So powerful and obedient, and you say you just caught it?"
"Yes." Chris is talking with the guy at the other counter.
"Wow, this is so great, it deserves an A rank!"
"Thank you very much." Chris puts Yorunozuku back in his ball. Hiro's head lowers with gloomy wavy lines over him after hearing that Chris got an A rank for a very common Pokemon while he got D for a shiny.
"So you're leaving for Wakaba Town, eh?" says Chris, who's now outside, talking with Hiro as the sun sets.
"Yes, tomorrow at noon."
"I guess this is where we part ways, then, huh?"
"Yes, it is. I hope we cross paths sometime during our journey."
"I do as well. For now though, sayounara" Chris says as he walks away.
"Bai bai, Chris-kun" Hiro waves as he walks in the other direction with Ibui at his side.
End of Chapter 2
NAME CHART
-Yorunozuku=Noctowl
-Officer Junsa=Officer Jenny
-Guardie=Growlithe
-Chacleon=Kecleon
-Taiatari=Tackle
-Kamitsuku=Bite
-Utsugi-hakase=Professor Elm
-Suikun=Suicune
-Houou=Ho-oh
JAPANESE CULTURAL NOTES
-'Itadakimasu' is said as gratitude for the food before eating, and 'gochisousama' is said after eating.
-Sashimi is strips of beef or some other kind of meat.
-'Yatta' is a Japanese expression exclamating stuff like "I did it!" and stuff like that.
Chapter 2: The Three Guardians of the Tower
Inside Hiro's house, we see Hiro and his family sitting at a table with tons of food on it. Everybody claps their hands together and say "Itadakimasu!" and start eating. In a corner of the room, we see Hiro's and his sisters' Pokemon eating out of dog bowls on the ground. Hiro takes a large helping of sashimi and ramen and starts slurping it up using his chopsticks.
"So, you're leaving for your journey today, Hiro?" asks Satsuki, the sister with wavy light blue hair.
"Hmm.... yeah. I'm gonna be meeting with Chris as soon as I'm done eating." says Hiro with his mouth full.
"You're gonna make lots of friends in far-off places and build up a large array of Pokemon for battle. Oh that sounds like such fun!" says Sumomo, the sister with bobbed brown hair.
"Speaking of friends, I wonder if Hiro will meet that one 'special friend'," Tamao, the sister with long purple hair says as she nudges Hiro with her elbow, and evil smirk on her face. When Hiro hears this, he nearly chokes on his ramen, taps his chest with his fist, and takes a tall sip of water before he breathes out a heavy tuft of air.
"Tamao, you need to stop going into personal matters like that" says Sakura, the sister with pink hair ponytailed on each end of her head.
"Hehe, sorry, sorry" replies Tamao, eyes closed and smiling as she waves her hand up and down.
"You alright, Hiro?" asks Koume, the sister with wavy dark green hair.
"Yeah" replies Hiro. Hiro finishes the last of his meal, puts down his plate and chopsticks, and says "Gochisousama. If you don't mind, I gotta get ready."
Hiro calls Ibui as soon as it's done eating. As he's loading his backpack, he notices the outside.
"It's foggy today, how odd."
"Yes, it's really strange. In the last week, we've been having some wierd weather. First there was the lightning storm, and then that heatwave." says grandpa.
"What do you think might be causing it?" asks Koume.
"If you'll remember, shortly before these events, someone's been vandalizing the sacred tower. The gods are angry." replies grandpa.
"Who do you think would do such a thing?" asks Sakura.
"Maybe I can go check it out. The old burnt tower's just on the edge of town, I can pass by as I'm leaving." says Hiro.
"You shouldn't bother, the police are checking it out, and they'd hate you getting in the way." says grandpa.
Hiro finishes putting on his shoes by the door and exits the house. As he's walking down the stone pathway, we see him and his family waving their goodbyes to eachother. In the next scene, we see Hiro walking with Chris up to the burnt tower, which has a bunch of police signs around it.
"Hiro, are you sure we should be doing this?" asks Chris.
"Yeah. You want to find out what's causing this, right?" asks Hiro.
"I think I'll just wait here for you. Be careful."
"I will." replies Hiro as he lifts up the police tape, ducks behind a car, and dashes into the tower with Ibui. As Hiro does this, we see one last scene of Chris looking up at a Yorunozuku perched on a branch. When Hiro enters, he's shocked at all the ink markings, potato chip bags, and soda cans everywhere. Ibui tries nudging one of the wrappers with its paw. Hiro hears someone coming so he grabs Ibui by his back fur and runs into the basement. Ibui's set down, and he stumbles a bit dizzily, and Hiro sees statues of 3 giant dogs covered in ink markings. He goes up to one of the statues and notices all the mist is pouring out of its open mouth. This statue has a very slim body compared to the other 2, tufts of fur down its back, and a diamond shaped horn on its forehead.
"Is what Jii-san said true? Are these statues really angry?"
"Hey, stop right there!" a voice comes from up the stairs, startling Hiro. We see Officer Junsa descending the stairs, and Ibui's sniffing the ground.
"So you're the one who's been vandalizing this place?" she says.
"N... no... I was just curious so...." stutters Hiro.
"...so you sneaked in here, into a police investigation area?" Junsa finishes his sentence. Hiro nods.
"I'm sorry, I didn't intend to get into your way!" pleads Hiro.
"I'm afraid I'm still gonna have to take you in. Sneaking into areas like this is still a violation of the law and.... huh? What?" Junsa notices Ibui sniffing the ground.
"I think he's on the trail of the culprit." says Hiro.
"That's impossible. Our entire team of Guardie couldn't even find it." replies Junsa.
Ibui stops sniffing and looks at a zigzag marking made of blue ink. It growls at a part of the zigzag and rams into the wall.
"Ibui, what are you doing? What?" Hiro's startled to see part of the wall move and turn into a Chacleon that just had the wind knocked out of it.
"So that's what's been causing this the whole time?!" shouts Junsa. "I'm gonna call back-up to send me a cage."
"Wait Junsa! I'm a Pokemon trainer, so let me catch it!" says Hiro.
Junsa looks at him for a second and says "By all means, help get rid of it. If you can, I'll drop your charges for sneaking in here."
"Thank you, Junsa. Go Ibui, use Taiatari!" commands Hiro.
Ibui rams into the Chacleon again. Chacleon removes a box of markers from its mouth, takes out a black one, and draws a glasses and moustache pattern on Ibui's face. Then it camouflages. Ibui's confused, but Hiro notices the blue zigzag stripe left behind.
"Ibui, attack the moving stripe. Use Kamitsuku!" he commands.
Ibui bites the moving zigzag and Chacleon reappears screaming and turning his color black (side note: Chacleon's special ability is to changes its color based on its type, which depends on the last attack to hit it. Kamitsuku's a Dark attack, so it turned black).
Hiro pulls out a Monster Ball from under his belt and tosses it at Chacleon. Chacleon becomes imprissoned, the ball wobbles a bit, but then it stops.
Hiro starts grinning and runs up to the ball shouting "YATTA! I caught my first Pokemon."
Hiro picks up the ball, shrinks it to a marble-size, and puts it back on his belt. Junsa picks up one of the potato chip bags.
"Good job, kid. Hmm... that Chacleon, it came from the Houen continent, and these potato chips and this cola, they're distributed from a company in Houen" she notes.
"Oh, so the Chacleon must've snuck aboard a shipment going over to here, snuck out some food, and hid here. But what explains the markers?" asks Hiro.
"Who knows. It must've found a lost case full of them on the ground." answers Junsa.
"So, what about this mess?" asks Hiro.
"Don't worry. Being a famous landmark, the city will definitely take care of it."
Hiro goes over to look at the statue pouring out mist again. He observes it for a minute, and then, it cracks, causing Hiro to jump back.
"Officer Junsa, the statue, it... it cracked!"
"What?"
Junsa goes over to the statue to take a look at it, and she notices that blood is leaking out of the crack.
"What the hell is happening?" asks Junsa.
Suddenly, all 3 statues produce cracks all over their bodies, each of them bleeding out of the cracks. Eventually, 3 beasts shaped like the statue emerge out with blood on their bodies and dash out of the tower.
"What? Were... were those the gods my grandfather was referring to?" asks Hiro.
Screams are heard from above. Hiro, Ibui, and Junsa run out to see what happened. They just see some police officers shivering on the ground from the sight that passed them.
"You, did you see where those Pokemon came from?" asks a voice. Hiro looks around to see Utsugi-hakase, the famous researcher from Wakaba Town.
Hiro replies "Yes. I saw everything. Let me show you where it happened."
In the next scene, Hiro, Ibui, Junsa, and Utsugi are standing before the rubble that the 3 beasts came from.
"So it's true. These Pokemon have been imprisoned in stone all these years" says Utsugi as he picks up one of the bloody pieces of stone.
"Utsugi-hakase, what were those things, and why were they bleeding?" asks Hiro.
"Those were Raikou, Entei, Suikun, the 3 gods created by Houou many millenia ago. According to legend, there was a great battle between all the gods at some point, and these 3 got imprissoned after sustaining bloody injuries" explained Utsugi.
"Cool" awed Hiro.
"You're a beginning trainer, am I correct?" asked Utsugi.
"Eh? Yes.. yes I am" replied Hiro.
"To pay you back for explaining what I missed, how about I take you back to my laboratory with me. Wakaba Town is said to be one of the most perfect places for beginner trainers because the wild Pokemon around the area are weak. Would you like to go there?" asked Utsugi.
"Really? Thank you so much" said a gracious Hiro.
"My plane leaves tomorrow at noon. I hope you can make it."
"I'll be sure to" replies Hiro.
Utsugi-hakase leaves the tower. Hiro's about to leave too until Junsa tells him "Hey kid, I appreciate your help with ridding of that Chacleon!"
"Hehe, no problem."
"But, I kinda feel bad for you being stuck with such a rebellious Pokemon."
"I'm a trainer, and Pokemon obey their masters." Hiro takes Chacleon out of its ball. "See" he says before Chacleon almost immediately scribbles all over his face with a marker. Hiro gets a giant anime sweat drop.
"Chacleon, stop it" but Chacleon still scribbles. Hiro recalls it to its Monster Ball.
"Good luck raising such a thing" says Junsa.
"Thank you" says Hiro as he leaves.
Hiro's now at the registration counter in the Pokemon Center. The woman there says "Wow, you're pretty impressive. You see that blue zigzag on your Chacleon. That means it's a shiny Pokemon, a very rare type of Pokemon with a color different from the rest of its species. And this is your very first capture?"
"Yes!"
"Being a shiny Pokemon, I'm gonna give this an S ran..." the counter lady's saying until Chacleon suddenly marks all over her face.
"I mean, it's a D rank."
"WHAT!?!?" says a shocked Hiro.
"Shiny or not, this thing is too damn disobedient. In fact, the fact that it is shiny is the only thing saving it from an E ranking" replies the lady.
At another counter, a man's saying "Congratulations, sir! Your Yorunozuku is a very fine specimen. So powerful and obedient, and you say you just caught it?"
"Yes." Chris is talking with the guy at the other counter.
"Wow, this is so great, it deserves an A rank!"
"Thank you very much." Chris puts Yorunozuku back in his ball. Hiro's head lowers with gloomy wavy lines over him after hearing that Chris got an A rank for a very common Pokemon while he got D for a shiny.
"So you're leaving for Wakaba Town, eh?" says Chris, who's now outside, talking with Hiro as the sun sets.
"Yes, tomorrow at noon."
"I guess this is where we part ways, then, huh?"
"Yes, it is. I hope we cross paths sometime during our journey."
"I do as well. For now though, sayounara" Chris says as he walks away.
"Bai bai, Chris-kun" Hiro waves as he walks in the other direction with Ibui at his side.
End of Chapter 2
NAME CHART
-Yorunozuku=Noctowl
-Officer Junsa=Officer Jenny
-Guardie=Growlithe
-Chacleon=Kecleon
-Taiatari=Tackle
-Kamitsuku=Bite
-Utsugi-hakase=Professor Elm
-Suikun=Suicune
-Houou=Ho-oh
JAPANESE CULTURAL NOTES
-'Itadakimasu' is said as gratitude for the food before eating, and 'gochisousama' is said after eating.
-Sashimi is strips of beef or some other kind of meat.
-'Yatta' is a Japanese expression exclamating stuff like "I did it!" and stuff like that.