The Dezen Discovery Old Version Chapter 3, a pokémon fanfic

The Dezen Discovery

By LoneGrowlithe

Chapter Three

"Get off the cupboard you stupid cat," I yelled up at the snickering Pokemon standing gleefully on the top of the wooden cupboard, and away from me, "Of all times for Larana to stay after school."

I looked again at the shredded bottoms of the curtains and glared once again at the cat. Kida just snickered at me and promptly sat down, and began to clean the puffs of fur about her feet, taunting me most likely.

"You're going to such trouble if Jessica finds out about this," I commented to the cat, "She'd kill you."

Kida just looked at me with boredom and continued grooming. I sighed; in the four weeks that Larana had owned the young kitten, the whole household had discovered that she was a mischievous and naughty creature. Clawing on the curtains and breaking lamps were some of her more daring escapades, but it included more in there somewhere.

So, because of her property damaging curiosity, or however Jacob had said it, she was confined to the room me and Larana shared whenever she was out of her pokeball. And considering that Larana kept her out of the pokeball nearly all the time, it meant that she was free to wreak havoc completely on the room.

Giving Kida one more glare, I left the room, closing the door behind me so she wouldn't escape into the hall and break something. Leaping down the stairs two at a time, I decided to leave the house and go do something creative. Writing a quick note to Jessica and Jacob so they knew where I had gone, I gathered up my jacket and left.

Idly wandering into town, I went to a common hangout for teens, besides the battle park. It was a large community centre building that rose up about four stories; it offered a wide variety of activities ranging from basketball games to classes on Pokemon training if you were getting ready to leave on your first journey. Larana had been attending the classes for the past week; sometimes I went with her, to see what it was like.

Once I entered the building, which, on the outside was painted a bland white and blue, I made my way up the stairs to the games room, which was where; basically, you played board games and that. Not long after I entered, I was involved in a game of monopoly with some other kids on the giant monopoly board set into the floor. I was in the middle of moving my piece when I noticed a friend of mine from school walk in the door.

His name was Joseph, he had short blond hair and blue eyes, was a bit of a laid back type of guy, preferring, as his usual standard of clothes, a jersey and baggy pants. I also happened to notice that he had a crestfallen expression on his face, as though someone had let him down about something, or broken a promise. Turning to the other kids who were playing the game, I handed my spot over to someone who wanted to play before heading over to him.

"Hey Joe," I greeted him with a light punch on the shoulder as I sat next to him on a couch, "What's up."

"Nuthin'," he replied quietly.

"There's somethin', now what is it," I pressed the subject, as I was want to do to try and cheer my friends up.

"I got a reply back from the competition officials," Joseph looked at me, I knew he had entered the contest too, trying like I was to get a trainers license for free, "No luck, I didn't make it."

"Aww man," I said, "bad luck then, but if you got yours, that means I'll be getting my reply back soon to."

"Probably," Joseph agreed with me as we settled to watch the monopoly game.

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The next day at school, I was far away from my studies, my mind had long since drifted to the fact that replies form the competition officials were popping up all over the place. In fact, most of my Pokemon Histories studies class wasn't paying attention at all, and the teacher knew it, so he left us well alone, knowing there was no chance he'd be able to get us to do work.

It was a welcome sound when the bell blared and school ended. Eagerly I snatched up my bag and blazed my way out of the school and towards home, hoping that the mail had been delivered today and that my own reply from the competition was there. Once I was up the steps and into the house, careful not to slam the door on the end of my bright cobalt braid, I made my way swiftly to the kitchen and picked up the pile of mail and pawed my way through it like a Linoone, but like many times in the past few weeks, my hands came up empty.

Sighing to myself, I left the kitchen and started on my way upstairs, when I cough from behind me made me turn around to see who it was. Jacob was standing behind me, having just come out of the living room, in his hands were three envelopes, all colored the same, a powdery sort of red, and close to maroon yet it wasn't.

"Good afternoon Sayunae," He spoke to me calmly.

"Are they…." I trailed off, looking at the envelopes in Jacobs hand suspiciously.

"Yes, they are," Jacob replied, smiling at me before handing me one of the envelopes through the spaces between the guard rails.

"Thank you Jacob," I replied quietly, taking the envelope, before suddenly dashing up the stairs.

"Your welcome Sayunae," he called after me, then added, "And don't let that cat out."

I reached my room and opened the door, swiftly jumping in and closing it behind me just as fast, and just in time as a fuzzy brown blur dashed out from under Larana's bed and headed for the door, only to collide with it painfully.

"Taaanaaa," Kida mewed at me pathetically.

"There is no way I'm letting you out, so stop meowing at me," I told her as I dropped my bag beside my bed and flopped onto it, lying on my stomach, holding the envelope tentatively.

As I looked at the envelope, unsure of whether I should open it or not, Kida jumped up onto the bed and curled up next to me for a snooze. Giving Kida a couple of strokes along her back, I carefully opened the envelope and pulled out the enclosed letter, and to me, it didn't really look as though I'd won anything, but I read it out loud to myself anyway.

"Miss Sayunae Waverson,

We are pleased to inform you that due to your marvelous essay, you have placed fourth in the Pokemon trainers contest. Enclosed in this envelope you'll find a bus ticket to Judan village, the starting point for this year's competition. Also enclosed are a guidebook and your official trainer's card.

The leading officials for this years contest are Professor Oak of Kanto, Professor Elm of Jhoto and Professor Bramble of Dezen.

The available pokemon for choice are:

Kanto: Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Pidgey

Jhoto: Chickorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, and Pichu

Dezen: Asydri, Cascardron, Leafius, and Zaep

Your bus will leave from Kerdan on the twelve of the month of Kyogre, we hope you will be present at the ceremony which is held on the fifteenth of the month of Kyogre.

Aaron Jenson

Head of trainer regulations Jhoto," I finished reading and just looked at the letter in shock.

A few minutes later, I was still looking at the letter in shock, and only vaguely registered the fact that someone had entered the room. I was suddenly jerked out of my reverie by a hand waving in front of my face.

"Hey, you looked like your zoning out a bit there," Larana commented to me as she picked up Kida from beside me, "Something wrong."

"Yeah," I gulped as I handed her the letter with a shaky hand, "Please tell me I read that right."

Larana looked at me skeptically before taking the paper and reading it over silently, and looking at it in shock much the same as I did before she handed it back to me.

"If you're referring to the fact that you won, I think you did read it properly," Larana said to me, looking and sounding breathless.

"You do know what this means then," I spoke softly.

We looks at each other for a few moments, before suddenly jumping on the bed screaming with each other happily, generally causing a ruckus as the letter fell discarded to the floor along with the envelope as it flew off the bed as we bounced. Our racket soon attracted the attention of the other residents of the household who were currently at home, and a disgruntled Jacob opened the door to our room, with half the house behind him.

"Just what, may I ask, is going on here," He demanded and we came to a sudden halt in our jumps and I fell backwards off the bed to land ungraciously on the floor causing everyone who watched to burst out laughing.

"Would you believe us if we said nothing," Larana smiled mareepishly.

"I think you know the answer to that one," Jacob sighed at us.

"Uh, yeah," I mareepishly got up from the floor, "We were just getting very excited, that's all."

"Excited," scoffed David, "About what."

"About something you'll never get," I shot back at him.

"Oh really, and what's that," He sneered, probably thinking I was bluffing.

'Hmmm, a trainers license for one," I smirked at him, "and a Pokemon."

"Say what?" Michael suddenly burst into the room, "Whaddya mean by that."

Grinning I made my way over to where the envelope and the letter had dropped, and picking the up, I handed the letter to Jacob while I went through the rest of what was in the envelope. I pulled out the trainer's guidebook and my trainer's license while Jacob read the letter. My trainer card was dark blue with red stripes on the top and bottom, and a pokeball logo on the right side, and the left side was my statistics, which basically consisted of my name, address, region, and birth date.

I looked back over at Jacob and watched as he finished reading the letter, and then he looked at me, a big smile crossing over his face.

"So, you won then," He said and I nodded, my grin widening.

"She what," David gaped and snatched the letter from Jacob and read it over, "That's no fair, I should have been the one to win, not some pansy like her."

"Pansy, come here and I'll show you pansy," I shouted, anger suddenly flaring up about me.

"You just try it," David retorted, raising his fist threateningly.

"I will," I raised my own fists and readied myself to pounce at him.

"Both of you stop it," Jacob suddenly yelled at us, causing everyone to jump in surprise, "good, now that that's settled, Sayunae congratulations."

Everyone else, save David who was wallowing in jealously, followed Jacobs lead and began congratulating me and looking over the letter and my new trainer card. It was a long while before they all left, leaving Larana and I to the peace of our room.

"Well, looks like two are heading out this year hey," Larana smiled at me cheekily after Michael had left.

"Ha-ha," I grinned at her, "where do you think you'll head to start your journey, Kanto, Jhoto?"

"Stuff that, I'm going with you," Larana said much to my surprise.

"You serious," I gaped at her and she nodded, "You really sure you want to come with me, it'd mean you'd have to wait another two weeks."

"I don't mind," Larana gave a small wave of her hand, "Besides, I'd rather travel around with a friend than strike out on my own."

"Awesome then," I grinned as I walked over to the desk and pulled out a spare notebook, "Now, we need to make a list then of what stuff we need to take."

"You'll be getting most of the stuff you'll need when you receive your prize though," Larana reminded me.

"Better prepared than not," I pointed out to her, "And anyway, we need to get stuff for you too, and Kida of course," I turned to look at the cat, only to find she was nowhere in sight, "Where is she by the way?"

"Oh no," Larana was looking at the open door in horror.

Even as we made our way to the door, we heard a loud smashing sound from down stairs and some loud swearing. We looked at each other in shock as we heard a colorful string of language coming from who we assumed to be Jessica.

"You know, I never thought Jessica knew those words," Larana winced as she prepared to make her way downstairs, "Boy am I going to be in trouble."

"You mean we, I was supposed to keep an eye on her as well," I said as I joined Larana and we went downstairs to face the wrath that was Jessica.

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"Now, are you sure you two have everything," Jessica fussed at us as we hauled our backpacks onto our backs.

For the past two weeks I had attended the Pokemon trainer's classes with Larana, and now, finally, it was time for me and Larana to leave.

"Yes, we have everything, blankets, clothes, food, the guidebook," groaned Larana, "Jessica, there's no need to fuss."

"What about her," I pointed at a sleepy Kida sprawled on the kitchen table, yawning blearily.

"She'll be in her pokeball for the bus trip," Larana informed me in a grumpy voice and I nodded in affirmation.

"Good then, can't have her causing havoc to the passengers," I grinned, "Or you for that matter, I wonder if I can find a pokeball to put you in."

Larana glared at me, and then suddenly lashed out with her hand, nearly catching me on the face as I ducked away.

"Oooh, touchy," I snickered as I took a few steps back from her, poking out my tongue.

"Mew forbid why the bus has to leave at four in the morning," Larana mumbled grumpily.

"Come on, you gotta be a bit happier than that," I laughed and jumping forwards, I pulled at the end of her jet black ponytail.

"Just how many cups of coffee did you drink tonight," Larana finally got fed up with me and yelled, despite the fact that most of the house was still asleep.

"Only one…"

"Oh goody," Larana mumbled, not really believing me.

"Dozen," I then added and barely dodged another swipe.

"Why drink so much coffee, it makes you a lunatic," Larana seethed.

"I couldn't sleep, so I decided to get something to drink," I explained cheerily.

"So you got coffee," Larana said shrilly causing Kida to yowl loudly and hold her ears.

"Well, why not," I snickered at her, if looks could kill, I'd be dead right about now.

"Now girls, calm down," soothed Jessica to no avail, as Larana was still grumpy, and myself still hyper.

I was about to make another comment to Larana to get her even more steamed when Jacob entered the room, fully dressed as were Larana and myself.

"Alright girls, time we left, you don't want to miss your bus," Jacob told us and I jumped towards the door enthusiastically.

Larana shuffled along at a slower place, pausing only at the door to pull Kida's red and white pokeball from her pocket, point it at the Pokemon that had fallen asleep on the table and return her to her pokeball which was then placed back in her pocket and she followed me and Jacob out the door and to the mini van.

Fifteen minutes later found us standing at the bus terminal, our backpacks loaded into our bus and us bidding Jacob goodbye.

"Now do be sure to call when you have the chance, otherwise Jessica will be going insane with worry," Jacob told us, "Now remember that you need to make the money I gave you last, you can't live off Pokemon battles alone."

"We know Jacob and we'll keep the advice you gave us in mind," Larana said, in a considerably lighter mood now that I had calmed down a bit.

"Yeah, and we will call when we can," I added as I gave Jacob a hug.

"Now then, off you go girls," Jacob smiled, "And have fun, and try not to get hurt."

"That last ones from Jessica isn't it," I commented as Larana and I made our way over to the bus.

"You got it," Jacob laughed and he watched us as we boarded the bus.

The bus pulled out of the terminal and from our seats we watched as we went past Jacob waving to him before we pulled onto the main road and went along our way, towards the small village of Judan where I could go get my first Pokemon.

TBC

Alright another chapter finished :D Descriptions and types of the new Pokemon I mentioned will come in later chapters, so keep and eye out for more chapters to come.