Chapter1: There's always a beginning to a story...

As the sun shone across the rooftops of Viridian City and as the wild Pidgeys chirped happily across the treetops of Virrididan Forest, people went on with their own businesses and Pokemon Trainers passed by to pay a visit to the Pokemon Mart and Pokemon Centre.

Adam from Viridian City closed his eyes for the countless time and sighed, he was sitting on a green couch in a corner of the Pokemon Centre in Virrdian City.

Adam, around the age of 14, wearing baggy denim Jeans and a white long sleeved T-shirt with long brown hair that just comes up to his brown eyes was at the Pokemon Centre because his family pet Pokemon, Growlithe was injured from a wild Weedle's poison sting and Growlithe wasn't in a good shape, so Adam's Mum told Adam to take him to the pokemon centre nearby their house.

Adam didn't sigh about Growlithe though, but because he wanted to be a Pokemon Trainer, who battle other trainers with Pocket Monsters, or Pokemon as commonly known, another species other than humans that live on this beautiful planet. But he couldn't, why? Because he didn't have his own Pokemon Trainers License, or PTL, he didn't have his own Pokemon nor did have a Pokémon Directory Index or shortly as a PokeDex, butmost of all his mother wouldn't let him.

After Adam's father died in a dangerous Pokemon battle, all that was left was the house, Adam and his Mum. And his Mum was against all about Pokemon battling.

As a nurse in white with pink hair rolled in two buns walked over to Adam he snapped back to reality. "Your Growlithe is fine, just let him rest in his Pokeball for a while, he's really young..." and she gave Adam a Pokeball with Growlithe sleeping slowly in it.

"Thanks." Adam replied.

Adam walked out of the Pokemon Centre, he started to walk back towards Pallet Town when he saw a dust cloud coming from the direction of Pallet Town, Adam squinted at the centre of the dust cloud and could make out a man clad in black running with something in his arm, he got closer to Adam and he shouted:

"Get out of the way!!" and he flew right past Adam and other people roaming the streets, then an old man in a white lab coat, brown pants with grey hair came running past behind him.

"STOP! THIEF! he stole my..." shouted the old man as he tripped over a petrified Rattata, a common rodent pokemon with sharp front teeth. Adam jogged over to the old man and helped him up.

"Thanks, pant, pant you look like a pant like a healthy young man pant, pant stop that thief, will you? he stole my specimen and pant and this might be a new discovery to all of the Pokemon!! I'm Professor Oak.will you do me a foavour? this is a desperate thing you know." asked Prof. Oak.

"Well, if it consists saving a new discovery about Pokemon, I will, I guess..." replied Adam, looking down at his shoes.

"Here, take my Pokedex and the only Pokemon that I could get my hands on before i ran after the thief, quickly now, go and get that parcel!" and Prof. Oak handed Adam a red and white sphere that had a black line through it's diameter with a silver button in the middle of the line, a gadget called Pokeball, used to capture and store a Pokemon and a metal book like red thing with a big green circle on the top left hand side of the gadget only known as a PokeDex. Adam took both of them uneasily and introduced himself.

"I'm Adam Ruronin, thanks for the offer, but my mum won't let me have a Pokedex and a Poke-"

"Nonsense, forget about your mother, we have a scientific break through here, the world won't stop because of one woman, now would it?" Prof. Oak budged in.

"That Thief stole a very, very important DNA sample that got sent to me a few days ago, and it's investigation could lead to a much more knowledge to how Pokemon came to existance... argh Enough chit-chat! we need to get that parcel back, and I'm getting too old for this, please get it back as quick as possible, before that thief gets away!" and Prof. Oak collapsed on the ground, breathless. Adam looked over at the Pokeball in his hand and in it he saw an orange lizard like Pokemon with it's tail end burning.

"Hey, it's a Charmander, my Dad died because of..." murmured Adam as he put away the Pokedex and the Pokeball containing the orange lizard looking Pokemon. He started to remeber when he was about 7, the excitement that his Dad was coming home, he was so excited about him coming home that he stood and waited at the front door. He waited andwaited and waited, but nothing came down the path. Then he saw some police cars driving down to his house. He wondered why they were coming. He looked around himself to see if there were any thiefs running away...

Adam snapped back to reallity at the thought of the Thief, he didn't want to let down Prof. Oak, so he started to run after the thief.

"I'll be waiting for you in the Pokemon Centre Adam!" Prof. Oak shouted from the ground at the shrinking figure in the distance as the figure waved back in reply.

Adam ran for all he was worth at the disappearing dust cloud in the distance, some of the people pointed out that the thief was running into Virridan Forest. When Adam reached the outskirts of the forest he found a path going down it, and a few harassed looking trainers, Adam went over to one of them and asked if any one in black ran past here.

"Yes, someone did! and pushed us off of the road! how rude he was!" replied a stuck-up looking woman.

"Thanks!" said Adam as he ran down the path.

"Becarefull in there son! its like a maze in there! and don't forget the bug Pokemon!" shouted the woman, Adam thought that he saw the woman shudder t the thought of bug Pokemon, but he just waved back.

Inside the forest it was beautiful. sun shone through the tree tops murcilessly to create an aura like effect. He looked around and found footprints in the damp grass and also the foliage around it was bruised and damaged in places: a sign that who ever ran away was in a hurry.

'This must be the track of the Thief.' Adam thought. He crept onwards through the forest lead by the footprints. Adam gripped Charmander's Pokeball tighter as he rounded a bend in the path and came up to a dead end. He walked in to the centre of the path and looked around, his back to the path.

"What do you want with the DNA samples that I stole from Oak, kid?" a voice asked, that made the the hairs on the back of Adam's neck stand on end. A bead of sweat ran down Adam's cheek as he slowly turned around to look straight in the eyes of a man. He wore a long-sleeved green T-shirt with matching black pants and on the T-shirt it had a golden shape of some kind of bird, though Adam couldn't recognise it.

"You want it back? I see that you have a Pokeball, with a Pokemon in it!" shouted the man while he observed Adam. He then unclipped a Pokeball from his belt.

"Lets see if your any good." the man sneered. He threw the Pokeball in the clearing between himself and Adam. The Pokeball opened in a cloud of white and shot out a big red light that started to form a ball shape and the colour started to darken and Adam could make out a black ball with a sneering face that had a black haze or a mist hanging around it....

"Gastly..." it hissed.

"A Gastly?" Adam muttered. He flip his Pokedex open and pointed the little knob at Gastly, then pressed a big red button, he'd seen his Dad do this once before when he paid a visit back home.

"Gastly, the gas Pokemon. Gastly is a Poison and Ghost type. Its usualy found hanging around in graveyards and abandoned houses, its gaseous body can go through walls and objects. However, it can be blown away from the wind." the Pokedex said allowed in a toneless robotic voice.

'Great, my first Pokemon battle, I don't even know what my Pokemon's attacks are, or how I'll battle this guy. I'm screwed!' thought Adam. He threw out Charmander's Pokeball, and in a ball of smoke out came Charmander. Charmander looked like a overly large orange lizard sanding on its hind legs, and its tail burning brightly, its essential to keep a Charmander's tail burning, or if it goes out, your Charmander would die.

"Humph, a Charmander, after I beat you I'll claim that that fire lizard mine as well!" shouted the man in black. Adam desperately started hitting buttons to try and find Charmander's moves, but couldn't find it, he was panicking now.

"So, who exactly are you?" asked Adam in a shaky voice, trying bide some more time while he still looked for the moves button.

"Michael, from the Team Legends. The team that will soon gain control of all the Legendary Pokemon in the world!" the Team Legends grunt replied.

"Why? why do you want to control all of the Legendary Pokemon?" Adam had never heard of Team Legends, and this was his first ever Pokemon battle and this Michael character isn't what he wanted to meet right now...

"To take control of all of the Pokemon in the world." He replied simply. Then Adam found the button he had been waiting for! There was a list of 3 attacks; Scratch, Growl and Ember. A plan was starting to form inside Adam's head.

"Why do you want to control all the Legendaries and all the Pokemons?" asked Adam as he peered at the LCD screen of the PokeDex from the corner of his eyes.

"Shut Up! I'm just a grunt! I don't know much! just shut up!! you're already waisting enough or my time! Gastly, Lick attack!" Roared the Team Legends grunt. Gastly flew over to Charmander and licked him gruesomely in the face; Charmander made a face that looked like he just had something cold go done his spine.

"Charmander, Growl!" shouted Adam. But Charamander was paralized! he couldn't move!

"Gastly! go for another Lick attack!" and Gastly lunged for Charmander again!
"Dodge it Charmander!" cried Adam, just as Gastly was in range of his licking, Charmander shook his head out of the paralysis and rolled out of the way of the charging Gastly.

'I hope this would work...' thought Adam as Charamder came back in front of him, with determination on his face.

"Ok, here's what we're gonna do Charmander..." and Adam told Charmander his plan. The Rocket grunt noticed this and told Gastly to go for another Lick attack.

"Get ready Charmander..." and as Gastly closed in on Charmander, Charmander started to growl , very fiercely. Gastly looked at the very angry looking Charmander and started to back off. Now was the cahnce and Charmander lunged himself into the air right at Gastly! and tried to Scratch it! But Charmander's sharp claws went right through Gasty's startled body!

"Physical attacks wont affect Gastly, his a Gohst type!" smirked the Grunt, then Adam just said the simple word:

"Ember."

and with that, as Charmander was falling through the air to the ground, the fire lizard turned around and shot a stream of Embers right at Gastly!
Gastly was hit by a mix of startlement and by the burning attack of Charmander's Ember. Gastly was pushed into a tree, well, pushed though a tree to be precise. Everyone in the clearing stood there tense waiting for Gastly to float through the tree it just went though, and after about a minute Gastly appeared through the tree it just went in through, and it didn't look too healthy.

"Gastly! use Hypnosis!" demanded the Grunt. Gastly closed his eyes as he concentrated on a hypnotic wave. And as he poped his eyes open a huge hypnotic wave shot out towards Charmander. As the wave hit Charmander felt dozy and started to droop. And as he lost balance he landed face down in the grass fast asleep.

2 minutes later

Charmander was dreaming he was flying, with big wings soaring through the air. Enjoying himself, another flying Pokemon came up next to him as he soared smoothly through the air. The Pokemon looked as though it was a pinkish white Mouse, but bigger, with a long tail behind it, it came right next to Charmander and it started to wisper:

"Wake up Charmander, wake up Charmander..." but the voice sounded very familiar, considering that Charmander lived inside a Pokeball nearly all of his life next time it whispered, louder, and the voice sounded even more familiar than before, where did he hear this voice?

Then he started to remember being in a white lab, sitting inside a Pokeball with two other Pokeball's next to him; one had a Turtle with a bald head like Charmanders, but it was blue. and the other looked like a Toad, but with ears and had a huge Bulb on it's back. Then he saw something move in the corner of his eye, something green... Then he remembered hearing shouting and screaming, then a hand grabbing his Pokeball clumsily as the holder started running outside. Then he remembered being handed over to a boy, the boy....

It hit Charmander! He was in a clearing in the Virridian Forest fighting a Gastly! then the voice came again, as clear as it can be: "Charmander!! please wake up!"

Charmander's eyes snaped open as he found himself in the grass. He picked himself up and looked around and saw the boy, then the Gastly, badly wounded and almost going to feint.
"Well done Charmander!" cried Adam. "Ok, another good Ember attack should finish Gastly off, now GO!"

And at that Charmander summoned all the fire particles that all fire Pokemon have in them, all that was left in his body and concentraited it in his mouth, then he shot out a stream of Embers at Gastly. Gastly was too tired and out of strenght to dodge the burning hot Embers and it hit Gastly square in the face, feinting him.

"Woooooooo Hoooooo!" shouted Adam. "We did it, we did it, we did it! I won my first Pokemon Battle!!" he started to dance around and Charmander just stared at him, thinking that he couldn't have beaten Gastly with out this trainers help.

Adam then picked himself up and walked over to the Team Legends Grunt.
"Now hand over the package you stole or else Charmander will Ember you." said Adam, Charmander waddle over and made a menacing look. The Grunt looked from Adam, then to the little orange lizard.

"You don't have the guts." replied the Grunt. Adam nodded at Charmander and Charmander opened his mouth and started to gather Embers inside it. The Grunt eyed Adam and looked back at Charmander, keeping his eyes on the lizard he drew the brown paper Parcel from behind him.

"Boss said that this would have been an easy task, if I had my Gengar why I oughta..." muttered the Grunt, out of ear shot of Adam. Adam walked over to the Grunt and took the package from him. Adam didn't know what to do: should he walk away now? or should he take him back to Virridan City to hand him into the police? or should he- but as Adam pondered on these thoughts the Grunt stood up and ran away into the thick foliage, out of sight. Adam sighed again, but a different sigh. A sigh of relief and triumph.

He returned his orange fire lizard Pokemon back into his Pokeball and started the walked back to Virridian City Pokemon Centre to hand back the stolen Parcel back to Prof. Oak.