"You'd better get a move on, its almost time for you to begin your journey. Dinner will be ready in ten minutes..." His mother handed him a bundle of clothes and then exited the room closing the door behind her. With a few disgruntled moans and groans Terriq took his time taking a shower and getting dressed. He picked up 5 pokeballs and carried them downstairs. When he got downstairs, Terriq put the pokeballs in a large rucksack and headed into the kitchen, poured himself some cereal and sat at the table.
"I'm sorry but you've got no time for cereal now. Mr Johnson is waiting for you in slateport, you are to be there for 7:00 and it'll take half an hour to get there." Terriq's mother explained as she took away his cereal.
"Mr Johnson? Why do I have to meet him?" Terriq retrieved his ruck sack and start going through the contents of it. After a minute of shuffling the contents around..
"My masterballs! Where are they?"
"If you'd let me explain! Mr. Johnson, as you know has been a bit late on making the masterballs so he wants you to pick them up in slateport... Now, what's you objective?" Terriq picked up his bag and walked towards the door.
"My objective? To find and capture all the legendary pokemon!" And with that, Terriq set off on his journey.
Terriq walked out onto the small patch of grass that surrounded the cottage that was his house. He kneeled down, reached inside his rucksack and pulled out a greatball that seemed to shine and glimmer in the suns light
"Go! Fearow, help me get to slateport!" The pokeball was thrown high into the air. The pokeball snapped open and a large Fearow burst out crying "Fearow! Fear! Fear!" It flew high into the morning air and turned itself round towards Terriq. It dived down towards him, almost into a nose-dive. Just as the majestic bird was passing, Terriq took a gigantic leap towards the Fearow grabbing hold of the scruff of its neck. Terriq had always loved riding around on the back of the Fearow even though he was never to go beyond the town of Petalburg. Off they both flew, towards Slateport. It took about an hour to get there and by the time he had, Terriq and his trusty Fearow were both feeling drained and tired. He landed the Fearow next to the pokemon centre and returned him to the pokeball. Terriq entered the centre and stood at the counter waiting for the pokeball containing the Fearow to be healed. He glanced around the room and to his surprise he saw a familiar face. It was he long time friend Seth. Seth was talking with a pigtailed girl who looked very angry. He sat down beside Seth.
"Oh! Hello Terriq, i had a feeling you would be here," Seth didn't seem surprised to see Terriq, he had a large smile on his face. "I was told to wait for you actually, Mr. Johnson says," Seth pulled out a little card, "Oh the writing too small, here have a look at it yourself..."
'Dear Terriq,
I'm sorry that i could not give you the masterballs personally, i been called away on urgent business, I've left them with Saria. Your Mother says she does not need the Fearow anymore, so consider it yours...
Good Luck and Take care,
Mr. Johnson'
Terriq peered over the piece of card, to look at the girl who he presumed was Saria.
"Well?"
"Well what?" Saria said in an angry tone.
"Look, I don't have time for your games, just give me the masterballs!" Terriq grew angry, he stared at Saria.
"Is that anyway to treat a lady?" Saria pouted.
"Well I'm not talking to one so it doesn't matter... Now hand over the masterballs!"
"I wouldn't bother Terriq, she doesn't have them with her, they're at her mansion, which is in the country" Seth sighed.
"We'll just have to go and get them then. Lead the way..." Terriq stood up from the table and Seth followed dragging Saria with him.
"Hang on a minute, why should I let you have the masterballs anyway? Maybe you don't deserve them! Maybe you'll waste one on a catterpie or makuhita! There's only one way to see if you are worthy of them and that's a pokemon battle!" Saria tugged herself away from Seth's grip and ran outside." The only way you get the masterballs is by fighting me! Espeon, Vaporeon! Show Terriq we mean business!"
"If that's the way you want it then sure... Keeok, Terraflare, sort this mess out!" With a flash of light a Metang and a very mean looking Typhlosion appeared. "Keeok use Iron Defence! Terraflare use sunny day!" The Metang started to glow whilst the daylight got brighter and brighter, the flames on the back of the Typhlosion flared up high over its head.
"I can see what you are trying to do but it won't work! Espeon use helping hand and Vaporeon use bubble beam on that Typhlosion!" The Vaporeon started to glow and then it released a very big beam of bubbles that instantly KO'ed the Typhlosion!
"Ha ha! This battle will soon be over!"
"Return Terraflare! Go Vile fume!" A very small vileplume appeared. "This isn't over yet! Keeok use iron tail on Espeon!" The metangs whole body glowed and then with incredible speed and agility rushed towards the Espeon, there was another bright flash and the Espeon had been KO'ed. It whimpered as it lay lifeless on the floor.
"No! My beautiful Espeon! Grr... You'll regret this... Oh no, I left my other pokeballs at home! It doesn't matter I can still win with Vaporeon! Use your quick attack Vaporeon!" With with a quick burst of speed the Vaporeon tackled the metang to the floor.
"Are you Ok Keeok?" The metang got back up off the ground gave out a low growl answering Terriq's question. "OK, lets finish this off, Vilefume! Use Solarbeam!" The vilepumes petals drew in energy from the bright morning sky. Terriq could feel the warmth of the air on his neck. "Now attack the Vaporeon!" A giant beam was emitted from the vilepumes petals, knock the Vaporeon to the ground. There was a long silence as the smoke was lifted from the battlefield. When the smoke had finally lifted it was obvious that Terriq had won, the vaporeon lay limp on the floor.
"I let you win because i didn't have my most powerful pokemon, Xenon with me..." Saria pouted. She returned the fainted pokemon back to its pokeball and ran round the corner of the pokemon centre. She reappeared shortly after riding a bike. "Terriq you use that Fearow and Seth... you can use that trampy Rapidash that you always use..."
"Cherry is not trampy... she's just old! Anyway we'd better hurry, i've just heard that the police have surrounded the mansion" Seth said as a rather old looking Rapidash appeared from its pokeball.
"What? Come on, we'd better hurry, Grandpa will kill me if he finds out somethings happened to the mansion"
The morning sky was almost over as the sun had risen high into fresh crisp air. Terriq, Seth and Saria had finally arrived at Saria's Grandfather's Mansion but were being refused access by the police.
"But I live here with my Grandfather!" Saria complained as she was being led away from the entrance of the house.
"Then I'm sure you'll be OK if you let us do our job and question your grandfather" One of the officers on duty said.
"What has my Grandad supposedly done?" Saria sternly asked.
"Nothing but we just got a report saying that the mansion has been burgled and…"
"What?" Terriq leapt up into the air and grabbed hold the policeman shaking him angrily. "Please! You have to tell me what was stolen… it is very important because…" Terriq didn't finish the sentence because someone had put their hand on his shoulder.
"Terriq, calm down. " It was Mr Johnson, Saria's Grandfather. "Yes you are very right to be concerned because someone has stolen the Masterballs." Terriq's face turned pale. "Well when I say 'someone' I actually mean 'something'… It was a pokemon, I'm not very sure what it was, but it came crashing through my window and used its psychic power to lift up the bag of masterballs and fly away with them.
"Great…" Seth sighed. " Which direction did it go off in?"
"It headed towards Noctu Forest. Don't think about going in there though, its far too dangerous. Wild pokemon are very powerful in there and even the strongest of trainers have come out telling the strangest of stories…" Mr Johnson warned.
"It's OK, Saria and I will go with him. There'll be less of a danger if there's more people to fight wild pokemon." Seth cried triumphantly.
"So I don't get a say in this then?" Saria pouted angrily.
"Yes that's exactly right you don't…." Seth looked over into the distance towards the mountains. "Do you hear something?" The ground began to shake. There was a low rumbling sound that was steadily getting louder and louder. One of the police officers sent out a sentret. The sentret leapt up onto its tail and tweaked its ears. It slowly lowered itself and started to run in circles. Something had spooked him. The rumbling grew louder and louder with an additional but faint mooing sound…
"EVERYBODY! RUN! IT'S A HERD OF TAUROS! THEY'RE STAMPEDING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN! RUN!" Mr Johnson released an Abra and teleported away. The police got back onto their various vehicles and sped off leaving Seth, Saria and Terriq stranded.
"We don't have a choice we have to get going towards Noctu Forest!" Terriq cried.
"Xenon! My Arcanine Xenon's pokeball is still inside the mansion, I must save him!" Saria ran off into the mansion. The stampeding Tauros were drawing nearer, they could now be seen running and picking up speed! Saria eventually ran back outside clutching a pokeball very tightly.The two boys began running in the direction of the forest but it was too late. Saria looked on in horror as the Tauros ran at the boys. A strange small pokemon flew inot the sky and began glowing… The herd of Tauros hit them at full force yet both of them didn't move or fall over. Saria looked at Seth and Terriq. They had turned see through, Saria could see straight through both of them. It seemed that the Tauros had ran straight through them. Eventually the herd passed and Terriq and Seth returned to normal.
"What was that…? What happened to you two?" Saria cried as she ran towards them. The pokemon flew past her head.
"Mew! Mew! Mew… mew… mew… mew…" The pokemon flew left and right making Saria lose her balance and fall over. She dropped her pokeball containing Xenon in it. The pokeball flew high into the air and joined the floating pokemon.
"That must be the pokemon that stole your Masterballs Terriq! Wait! Where are you going?" The pokemon flew off in the direction of Noctu Forest with the pokeball following it carefully. "It's got Xenon!" Saria cried once more.
"Looks like you have no choice but to come with us to the forest now!" Seth said jokingly.
"We don't know what Mew wants with our pokeballs, we must catch that Mew as soon as possible…" Terriq said urgently.
"So that's what it was…" Seth pondered… "But how did you know that?"
"There's no time for that now, I'll explain on the way…" Terriq cried as he ran off into his next chapter in his journey