First day

It was somewhat around 10 o clock when i woke up. Since I had already scheduled a meeting with prof. Grim, I dashed out this PokéShelter and went to my meeting. But before I start writing 'bout my meeting, let me introduce myself.

My name is Victor Mlhk. Do not ask me how to read my name. Mom once told me not even my father knew it. Who cares? I live in the city of Lavender, and that may be why so many people mock me when I tell them I'm gonna be a great trainer.

I am 16 years old right now. I know i'm too old to be starter, but since the beginning, mom said she didn't want me to become an offcial trainer, and I had to study as long as she wanted, and work half time to buy stuff I thought I'd be needing. I payed a real lot of money (around $5k) just to join the League. My ID is 292929 - I guess it was a lucky shot to get such a number. Before I started my trip, i bought a PokéGear, registered it with my ID number and bought some PkBalls also. This backpack o' mine carries only some clothes for special events, since my daily clothes are often those of the PokéShelter. For you who don't know what a PokéShelter (PS) is, it's something like an Inn, for pokétrainers only. Here in Pallet, it is often found full of researches, since Prof. Grim works at Pallet Pokémon Research Center.

In my pack you'll also find a DiscMan, which i use to play my favorite MP3s. I also carry a book one of my best friends gave me, it is called "Pokémon Legends". It is the book which pokemon games were based on. And of course, I carry the Pokémon League Official Trainer Guide, where all the rules of the Pokemon League challenge are explained. I have read it a thousand times, so i might to know it by heart.

Here in this PS, I met a boy named Yuu. He is also starting today, and since he is also reading Pokémon Legends, we decided to become each other's "rival". In the book, the main charcter (Satoshi) has a very strong rival (Shigeru) and it is the rivality between both that helps 'em to go on. So we decided to become rivals. He is from Pewter, so he is gonna pay a visit to his hometown soon. He decided (before we met) that he'd take a Squirtle at Grim's lab, and then head on to Viridian and Pewter first (type-advantges). I decided to take a Charmander, and then head southward, to Cinnabar Islands, where volcanos are hot... I guess it is a good place to train my Charmander, since he'll be feeling stronger. On my way i'll try catching water-type Pokémon to help me out defeating Sandalfon, the Fire-type Gym Leader.

Well let's now go back to the meeting. I was surprised to see Yuu already there, but after all, he was starting his journey today too. Today is Wednesday, and Prof. Grim didn't seem happy to interrupt his work because of us. He said that he had only a squirtle and a charmander left for beginners - yuu and i exchanged looks. I picked up Charmander, the pokemon i have dreamed for my lifetime and Yuu picked up Squirtle, and he seemed as happy as i was. We both shaked hands, and decided to have our first match right there. We put a Pkball as a prize (i had 5) and began our battle.

At first, Charmander seemed to have the advantage, for he was scratching up poor Squirtle so hard it was almost crying, but after some withdraws it seemed as sratching was useless. Since Charmander's attacks were rather useless, i tried making him growl, but he is not used with me at all, and his growls were useless also. Yuu defeated me and took the ball as a prize.

That match went on inside the lab, and we mad quite a mess in there. Prof Grim went really mad. He told us to fix whatever we had done and get off of his sight . He was not as calm and peaceful as the Prof. Oak from the book - i guess the author was being ironic.

Fixing our mess took us a very long time. After it was done, it was almost 2pm. We both rushed to the PS, showed our Pokédexes (which were given by Grim at the lab) and got our first free lunch (not exactly free, since we were working as trainers). We (i mean me and yuu) talked 'bout what each was gonna do. He told me he was gonna do the book route (meaning he would do the journey as Satoshi did in the book), though he'd fight in Viridian - his excuse for that was that Satoshi'd have battled Viridian Gym if it wasn't closed. also he'd fly wherever there were a Trainer Contest his Trainer Level would let him get into.

As for those contests, I told him I would also fly to 'em, whenever my Trainer Level would let me participate. Trainer Level stands like this: there are four Levels in each Gym. Depending om my Pokemon, i may choose to fight on any Level: Bronze, Silver, Gold or Crystal Level. They are valued 1, 2, 3 and 4 levels each, but you may only hold a badge from each gym. That means if i had a Pewter bronze badge and a Viridian bronze badge i'd be TL2 and if i came back to viridian and fought for the silver badge i'd be TL3 (i'd lose the bronze badge point in order to earn the silver badge 2 points).

So, after all journeys around Kanto I may sum up to TL32+TL1 if i defeat the Saffron Fighter Gym and +TL1 for each Pkmn League Official Event i win. I need to be TL30 with a badge from each gym in Kanto in order to Enter the Elite 7 Challenge. Before I defeat the elite 7 challenge i am not allowed to leave Kanto (that's part of being an offiicial trainer for the PL. normal citizens have free acces to any federation).

I know the #1 in the PL ranking is a young man called Razel. He is a fire type trainer and is actually TL112. that's Crystal badge on every single Gym, on every single federation (summing TL96+1) and some events +5 because of the Elite7 challenge. But there's a last challenge after you defeat the elite 7 and all other gyms. Other than events, there is the PKMasters Challenge. There are 29 PKMasters around the 3 federations and each is valued 5 points. But they are really hard to find and even harder to defeat. I know Razel hasn't defeated more than 1. That's because trainers who find them keep secrecy about it (they are competing with each other, and don't want every body tio have a medal).

It is now 8pm. I am very tired. I tried catching a Rattata but they run away of pkballs very fast. Charmander got some experience at least. I bought a ticket to ride south onboard the SS Sally. but i am not allowed to participate in the contest on the conves, since i should be TL5 to enter the lower level... At least, since my roommate is TL18, he went upstairs to enter the contest and i'm gonna sleep peacefully. Yes, i have a roommate here also. his name is Dan, but he is not very talkative. I had to have a roommate since I paid the lowest price there is on this boat: $2500. Now i have only $1200 left.

Now i'll just close this tripbook i started writing today and tomorrow night i'll continue. Just as a remember I'll leave my stats noted down right here:

Day: October 4, Wednesday
Carrying: PKDX, PKGR, PKball x4, Tripbook
Pokémon: Charmander
Charmander: stats OK not holding any item. Seems to be excited since it must be his first trip off palett.