This is my first Pokemon fanfiction so please help me out. I hope you enjoy...
CHAPTER 1 The Journey Begins
I sat on my bed staring at the clock on my dresser. It's red numbers sliced through the darkness like a Scyther's blade through cheese. 6:59, the clock read. One more minute and I could go down to the Pokemon lab. All my life had just been preparation for this day. I rocked back in forth impatiently and was mentally yelling at the clock to hurry up. I had tried to get down to the lab at six o'clock but, that didn't end that well.
Professor Palm came out of the lab and yelled at me really loud for waking her up. I'm sure that all of Echo Town was up by now. The red number's finally changed to 7:00, and I launched from my bed. I had all my clothes all ready on so I was ready to go. I took a quick look in my mirror just to make sure that I looked alright. My cobalt colored hair was short and my brown eyes stared deeply at myself through the mirror. I quickly ran out of my room and down my stairs.
I accidentally slipped on the last step and landed face first on the hardwood floor. I didn't bother with getting breakfast, I had already gotten a bowl of cereal two hours before. I opened my door to my hometown of Echo Town. Echo Town was in the west part of the region of Zylae, and home to me, Dacian Burrow.
In Zylae there arefive Pokemon Professions you can go into; Pokemon Training, Pokemon Contest, Pokemon Researching, Pokemon Breeding,and Pokemon Coaching. Ever since my older brother started his Pokemon Journey, I've wanted to be a Pokemon Trainer like him, just better.
I went through the town and passed all the familiar places I knew for a long time. This may be the last time I saw this town for a while so I looked at all the things I remembered about Echo Town. I saw the Echo Town Pokemon Center, almost every town or city has one. There was the Politoed's Café and the hospital. Echo city was renowned for being the best medical care in the world, and I was proud that my Dad was a doctor who worked there. Across the street from the hospital was my school. Ever since the Rayquaza incident eight years earlier the trainer age had been risen to thirteen. When you were ten and were sure you wanted togointo thePokemonprofession, you had to take three years of Pokemon School.
Next to the school was the Pokemon Lab. When I walked near it I saw it actually just looked like someone's house. I went to the black door at the front and swung the brass knocker back and forth. I think I may have knocked a little to hard, but I was really excited.
The black door opened to Professor Palm herself. Professor Palm was an attractive women with long orange hair that made her look like a famous movie star.
"You again, go away your not supposed to be here until eight." She said with disgust. She had on a bath robe and was obviously not happy to see me. She started to close her door when I stuck my foot in the door to stop it.
"Please, Please, just let me come in. The sign says that the labs open at seven," I protested. She looked at me like I was crazy then peeked outside to look at the sign.
"Oh god, your right," she said. She sighed then held the door open for me. I entered the lab and saw that it was just like a house, except for the fact that machines covered every inch of it. I saw a small couch amongst the jungle of metal and sat down. The couch I was sitting on was so blue that it was almost painful to look at. I was so excited that I just couldn't stand still. I started to rock up and down on the painfully blue couch.
"Hey kid, you haven' a seizure or something," the professor said as she entered the room. She was now in a white Lab coat, as she went over to one of the machines and pushed buttons in some special way that I couldn't understand.
"No, um, I'm just really excited," I answered. I then saw her go over to another machine and type in more things I didn't understand.
"Well, come on and choose your Pokemon, I want you out of my house," Professor Palm said, as she finished fiddling with the machines and turned to me.
"I… really? Before the others get here?" I said excitedly. Professor Palm started playing with her orange hair as if she was bored.
" Yeah hurry up, okay. Pick your Pokemon from the table over there," She explained as she pointed to a small table with a purple table cloth. On the table were five balls with red on the top and white on the bottom.
"Umm, what Pokemon are there?" I asked. I had no idea what kind of Pokemon she was given out.
"Ugh, there's a Charmander, a Petapur, a Chinchou, a Shellder, and a Ralts," She said. I could feel her temper rising.
"But what's a Pe…"
"JUST TAKE IT AND GET OUT," she screamed. The Professor shoved a pokedex, a empty pokeball, and one of the pokeballs with a Pokemon in it into my hands. She then shoved me off the coach and pushed me out of the door. She slammed the door shut, leaving me alone outside.
"Wow, she's nice," I muttered to myself sarcastically. So now there I stood on the front porch of the professor's lab with a Pokeball, and I didn't even know what was in it. I decided that before I could move on that I needed to figure out what Pokemon I had. I put one of the pokeballs on my belt and the Pokedex in my pocket, and examined the occupied pokeball a little closer. I could feel that it was heavier then an empty pokeball. It was like I could almost sense the life inside it.
"Okay come out, whatever you are," I called. I felt a quick jerk from the pokeball and light started to flow from the pokeball onto the porch's floor. Then in the light appeared a medium sized figure then the light faded and in it's place was a blue figure. It had a thin trunk for a nose and a thick tail that had large petals running up it all the way to the creature's back. It's eyes were surrounded by a ring of yellow fur, and the Pokemon came up to my waist.
"Peta, Peta!" The creature called. It then came up to me and snuggled up to my leg.
"Wow, you must be…" I started, but then I heard the door of the lab open and the professor peeked her head through.
"WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE!" she yelled and then she launched out of the door with a baseball bat and the look of a maniac on her face. Seeing this I got scared and me and my Pokemon ran as far as we could from that crazy women. When it looked like we were far enough from the lab I turned to see if she was still after us. It didn't look like she was anywhere to be found.
"Pet…Peta Pet," exhaled my Pokemon. I looked at it, curiously then bent down and softly petted his back.
"I think you're a Petapur, lemme' check," I said to Petapur as I took the pokedex from the pocket of my blue jeans. I opened the red contraption that looked almost exactly like a Gameboy DS. I opened up the contraption and a robot like voice started to speak, "Please point the pokedex at a Pokemon, or look through the data base for…" I pointed at my Petapur.
"Petapur, the Grass Tapir Pokemon. Petapur's petals which are on it's back change color according to Petapur's mood. Also they are used as pack animals to carry heavy objects on it's back." The computer voice explained. Now, that I thought about it when I let Petapur out of it's pokeball it's petals were a bright sunny yellow, but when we were running away from the professor they turned a dark purple. Now it's petals were back to yellow.
"Hmm, what should I name you, how about…you're a, boy right?" I asked it. The creature shook her head in disagreement.
"Okay, so your female… I'll name you… Flora," I suggested. The Petapur shook her head for the second time. "Oh, I know, I'll name you Ivy," I said hoping she'd accept the new name.
"Petapur!" she yelled in agreement, as the petals on her back became a even brighter yellow. Then she started to stomp her feet up and down as if she was doing a little happy dance. I laughed, and we both stomped down the road towards my parent's house to say goodbye.
About ten minutes after running away from the professor and naming my Petapur, I arrived at my parents house. It wasn't a really big house, it was dwarfed by some of the mansions on the outskirts of Echo Town. My house was normal-sized, and pretty much looked like every other house in Echo Town, but just because this house looked normal on the outside, didn't mean the people in it were normal. Ivy and I entered through the front door and entered my house.
"Hey, I'm back… Mom?" I called as I entered my house. The inside of my house was completely different then the "normal" outside. As I started to walk inside the purple carpet surrounded me, and the yellow wallpaper enveloped every inch of the walls. Pictures of Psyducks in ridiculous outfits were set up on the walls, and all the lights were tinted blue.
"Oh, your home, is that a Petapur?" My mother greeted me as soon as I came in. When I went to greet my Mom something stopped me in my tracks. On her head, nested on top of her raven black hair was a Spinirak. This green spider-like Pokemon was just sitting on my Mom's head like it was tanning at the beach.
"Umm, Mom there's a Spinirak on your head," I said to her. Her face suddenly filled with fear. Her eyes started to enlarge and she stood completely still. As you can guess she had a little arachnophobia.
"Don't worry, I got it!" shouted an older voice. It was my grandma and in her hand was a long wooden cane. She was aiming right for my Mom's head.
"Grandma, No!" I yelled to her. I yelled so loud it startled the little guy, and he jumped off my Mom's head and onto Ivy who had wandered right next to a coat hanger. This startled Ivy causing her to knock down the coat hanger. Then the small spider Pokemon scurried out of the open door.
"Whew… Dacian, I thought…" My mother was interrupted by my rude grandmother.
"What the hell is that?" She interjected pointing to the Petapur. Ivy made a short little snort at this remark.
"This is Ivy, my Petapur… Where's dad?" I asked as I looked among the purple and yellow.
"Oh, sorry I forgot to tell you, your father left late last night to go to a doctor's convention in Minos City…" She was interrupted again by my grandmother.
"Good riddance too, I don't need his know-it-all attitude at ma' house!" She then stomped off with her cane muttering to herself.
"Well that's grandma!" She said optimistically. Yeah, Grandma. My mom says that once grandma was a Zylae League champion. Now she's just crazy and senile. My dad has tried many times to get rid of her, but she always finds some way to come back. She manipulates my Mom to buy all her crazy needs like the Psyduck paintings and blue tinted lights.
"You pack your money?" My mom asked impatiently. We were both back on our porch saying our goodbyes. Thank God Grandma wasn't there.
"Yes, Mom," I answered. Ivy snuggled up to my leg and let out a little yawn.
"Oh! One more thing, when you get to Posida Town say hello to your older brother," She said to me.
"Okay, bye Mom, I'll call you at the next Pokecenter," I hugged her back and me and Ivy left the porch.
"Hey kid! Look out!" Someone yelled from out of nowhere. Then a bright red Frisbee came from the sky and hit me straight in the forehead.