My first attempt at a pokemon fic, have I gone insane or what?

Katherine has always had a knack for dealing with Pokemon, and has always wanted to become a trainer, only her mother has refused to allow it. But now with a chance to finally become one, Katherine is in for the adventure of a lifetime, and she might just discover how much more than a knack it really is.

Disclaimer: Pokemon does not, I repeat, does not belong to me. Any original characters that pop up do, so no copying.

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  "I said no Katherine, don't ask me stupid questions when you already know the answer."

  "But mom…"

  "For the last time no! I forbid you to become a Pokemon trainer!"

  Katherine didn't move, fury reaching a breaking point inside her. "Why is it the only one you care about is yourself?!" she burst, ignoring the look of venom her mother gave her.

  "Young lady if you ever use that tone of voice with my again I'll-"

  "You'll what? Punish me? Throw me out on the streets? Here, let me help you with that, I can't stand being in your marvelous presence anymore anyway." That being said, Katherine stormed out of her mother's flower shop and into the streets of Blackthorn City.

  Walking down the street Katherine clenched her fists, fighting back tears that threatened to well in her eyes. *I refuse to cry because of that excuse of a human being.*

  Stopping to see where she was Katherine found herself in front of the Pokecenter where she volunteered her extra time. In fact she spent as much time as she could there, away from her mother and the flower shop. She had always liked Pokemon, ever since she was little, and had volunteered at the Pokecenter to learn about them as much as she could, and Nurse Joy had become close to a second mother to her.

  Deciding to see if there was anything she could help with she walked into Pokecenter and found absolute chaos.

  Chansey were running this way and that trying to calm down a raging Tauros. Nurse Joy looked besides herself and the trainer was desperately trying to get close to the raging pokemon.

  Nurse Joy suddenly spotted her. "Kat! Be careful!"

  Katherine didn't heed Nurse Joy's warning, she didn't need to, she knew that the Tauros wouldn't attack her. She started to move ever so slowly toward the bull.

  "Hey! Are you crazy? Get out of there!" the boy yelled at her. Another wasted warning.

  The Tauros suddenly looked at Katherine, and she locked eyes with it. "Don't worry, no one's gonna hurt you," she said in an almost unbelievably calm voice.

  The Tauros inexplicably started to calm down, Katherine moved a little closer to the Pokemon. She finally got near enough to touch it, which she did, stroking its nose with her hand.

  "See, you're safe, nothing to worry about," she said soothingly, starting to scratch the Tauros behind its ears.

  There was a sudden flash of red light and the Tauros dissolved, sucked back into its pokeball.

  "Why do you always worry me like that Katherine?"

  Katherine looked up at Nurse Joy and smiled. "I don't see why you worry Nurse Joy, all these times I've never been attack by a Pokemon."

  "I still worry because of the risks you take, Tauros can be very dangerous, especially when they're confused like that."

  "I don't look at them as risks, I look at them as something that needs to be done and something that needs help."

  "Well, that's your philosophy and I won't argue with it. But if you'll excuse me, I need to take care of this Tauros." With that Nurse Joy turned and walked toward a Chansey with the waiting pokeball.

  "Hey Nurse Joy!" Katherine called out, "is there anything I can help with?"

  Nurse Joy just had to smile at Katherine's enthusiasm. "No, today's a slow day, and there aren't any serious cases, too bad every day's not like this." She and Chansey went back to an examination room.

  Katherine sighed, *great, now what am I going to do?*

  "Hey."

  She turned to find the Tauros's trainer. The boy stuck out his hand, "hi, my name's Vincent, I just wanted to say thank you for calming down my Tauros."

  Katherine smiled, "no problem," she said, shaking Vincent's hand, "my name's Katherine, but everyone calls me Kat."

  "Well Kat, thank you again. Are you doing anything, or could we maybe have a chat?"

  "Sure, I've got nothing else to do."

  She and Vincent walked into the lounge where a several trainers were already relaxing. A few recognized her and waved hellos. Vincent stopped at one of the vending machines. "You want anything?" he asked.

  "If the waters aren't sold out one would be nice."

  "One water coming up," he said, grabbing a water and two sodas.

  Sitting down at one of the booths Vincent fumbled with a pokeball on his belt. "Come on out Golduck," he said, flicking open the ball. A Golduck materialized onto the floor, looking at its trainer expectantly.

  "Here you go buddy, one nice cool soda."

  "Golduck!" the water type exclaimed happily. Grabbing the soda from Vincent's outstretched hand he quickly tore off the tab and began gulping it down.

  Kat smiled as she took a sip of her water. "A soda crazy Golduck? And I thought I had seen weird with the Growlithe that liked water."

  "What can I say? Golduck somehow always knows when I'm having a soda, and he gets royally PO'ed when I don't get him one, believe me, you don't want to be on the receiving end of this guy's fury swipes."

  "Mmm," Kat replied, absentmindedly running a hand through her blue hair, she was still getting used to the fact it was short, having been cut recently. Her mother had loved her long hair, it reaching halfway down her back. Kat's decision to get it cut was not well received, her hair now only reaching a little below her ears. But it was still her hair, not her mother's.

  "Something wrong?"

  "What? Oh, it's nothing, I was just thinking about how mad my mother must be right now." She suddenly felt a surge of anger, and slammed her fist down on the table. "How can she make that decision for me? Who's says she gets to decide whether I become a Pokemon trainer or not?"

  Kat looked up to find Vincent looking rather frightened. She immediately felt shameful for her sudden outburst. She stood up, "sorry, I really should be going, thanks again for the water." She quickly walked out of the room.

  "Gol, golduck?"

  "Poor kid, guess her mother doesn't like Pokemon, it's really too bad, you should have seen how well she dealt with Tauros, she'd make an excellent trainer."

  "Excuse me."

  Vincent looked up to find a women with light blue hair and wearing a dark blue cape speaking to him.

  "Did you be any chance get that girl's name?"

  "Yeah, her name's Katherine, she's not in trouble, is she?"

  "No, I just want to talk to her, thank you for your information." That being said the women walked out the door, leaving Vincent rather confused.

  "Well, that was odd."

  "Dude, do you know who you were just talking with?" Vincent was starting to get annoyed, why were all these people suddenly bugging him? He turned to look at the trainer.

  "Well obviously no, does it even matter?"

  "That was Clair."

  Vincent almost choked on his soda. "Clair? As in the Blackthorn City Gym Leader Clair?" The trainer nodded. Vincent cupped his forehead in his hand, "I think I need to lie down."

*****

  Kat sighed, normally this was her favorite place to be. She could see a good portion of Route 45 from here, and she always liked watching the wild Pokemon, but today she just wasn't feeling right, not after that outburst at Vincent.

  "How could I be so tactless, bursting at Vincent like that, he was being nice."

  She sighed again and stretched, lying down on the grass. Too bad she couldn't stay here forever.

  "Katherine! Are you out here?"

  *Great, here comes my mother, should have known she'd find me sooner or later.*

  She rose to her feet and turned, only to feel her mouth drop down in shock. Looking at her was the most beautiful Dragonair she had ever seen, its blue scales shimmering in the sunlight.

  "Dra?" The Dragonair looked at her questioningly, as if asking why she was staring.

  "Good Dragonair, you found her. Hello Katherine."

  Katherine focused on the source of the voice, only to find her voice had left her.

  "Lady Clair?" she managed to squeak out.

  "No need for formalities dear, just call me Clair."

  Kat gulped, "alright, Clair."

  "Come, let's sit," she said, motioning to a tree, "I want to talk to you."

  Kat nodded, still feeling nervous, and followed Clair to the tree. Clair's Dragonair stretched out in a sunny spot and promptly went to sleep.

  "Now," Clair said, sitting down in the shade of the tree and motioning for Kat to do the same, "I understand that you're the one that calmed down that Tauros."

  Kat nodded, "it wasn't really anything special, I-"

  Clair cut her off, "don't sell yourself short, you have a way with Pokemon, I can tell. I also understand your mother refuses to let you become a Pokemon trainer."

  Kat nodded, lowering her eyes to the ground, "I guess you heard that…"

  "Well, I think it's a crime not to let you become one, which is why I'm going to sign you up myself to become a trainer."

  Kat's head snapped up. "Really? You're serious?"

  "Yes, you leave tomorrow to get your starter from Professor Elm in New Bark Town. Don't worry about your mother, I'm going to explain everything to her. Tonight you should probably get packed, meet me tomorrow morning in front of the Pokemon Center." Clair stood up, "Dragonair! Time to go!" she turned her head and smiled down at Kat, "see you tomorrow." With that being said she returned Dragonair and walked back toward the city.

  Kat stood up, still not quite believing what had just happened.

  "Okay, either something is playing a rather elaborate and cruel practical joke, or today starts the rest of my life."

  She stared up at the clouds, watching a flock of Pidgey fly by.

  "No," she whispered, "no one would play this sort of trick on me." Silent tears of joy began to stream down her face. "After all these years, I'm finally going to be a Pokemon trainer."

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