Chapter 1: Not A Visionary
Akira Seamoore and Kyoko Flare stood outside Prof. Turpentine's laboratory. He had called them to be there at five thirty in the morning because he said that he had Pokémon errands he needed to run for them. He also told them he was giving them Pokémon, which they where both very excited about. The two girls had their goals set high. Akira wanted to be the Pokémon Champion, she had heard many exciting stories about it from other regions of the Pokémon world. The most she heard about was Ash Ketchum of Kanto, and his daughter Amber, who was now Akira's age, 12. Meanwhile, Kyoko wanted to be a Fire Pokémon Tamer & Collector, and be friends with all of the ones that she does collect. She did not believe in heavy fighting and didn't care winning any championships, she wouldn't want that kind of publicity.
"And my dad gave us these for our errand!" Kyoko said, handing Akira a couple of potions and a few Pokéballs as well as an antidote.
"Wow!" Akira said, gratefully taking the items, and putting them in one of the side pockets of her Pokémon messenger-like bag, "Tell your dad I said thanks!"
"No problem!" Kyoko laughed, putting them in her red, fire decorated sling bag.
Suddenly the doors opened to the lab and Prof. Turpentine stood there, smiling down to the two girls, he wore an old-fashioned white lab coat, he stepped back, holding the door open.
"Please, please come in!" He said cheerily, and Akira and Kyoko followed him down a hallway and in one of the doors. The room was all chromed and shiny with new machinery. In the middle of the room was a chrome round desk with three Pokéballs on it.
"On the desk are three Pokéballs, obviously," The professor said, quickly adding in the last part realising how stupid the statement was, "There are three rare Pokémon in them, one grass type, one fire type, and one water type. I can't really remember what is in them so you'll just have to pick them out for yourselves! Now, you first Kyoko."
Kyoko slowly walked up to the table and quickly grabbed the Pokéball with 'Fire' inscribed on the chrome in front of it. "Go Pokéball!" She said throwing her ball down the ground, she closed her eyes as a flash lit up the room for a second… She opened her eyes and…
"Vulpix!" Said a small fire Pokémon, grumpily.
"Oh WOW!" Kyoko laughed, reaching over towards her Pokémon and cuddling it, as she did the Vulpix tackled her out of her arms. Kyoko fell back against the floor, she looked like she was about to cry.
"I must tell you that Vulpix is very bad tempered and you need to prove your worthy of its friendship to it. It'll be a bit of a challenge but I know are the best person to tame it down. Keep it's Pokéball too, you will probably need it."
"No. I don't believe this Pokémon should be constricted into this ball. Vulpix needs to be free, it's its nature." Kyoko replied, standing up and brushing off some dust off her spotted top.
"Now for you, Akira. Are you ready?" He asked, knowing that she wasn't as familiar with Pokémon as Kyoko was.
"Yes." Akira said, firmly. She walked up to the round table and looked at the two Pokéballs left, her eyes shifted from the inscribing, 'Grass' to 'Water' then to 'Grass' again. "There is only one way to settle this..' She thought, 'Ennie Minie Meenie Moe. Catch a Squirtle by the toe. If it uses Bubble, attack it back. Ennie Minie Meenie Moe." Akira picked up the Pokéball she had ended 'Moe' on. "Pokéball go!" She said, also throwing the ball to the ground.
Another flash was blinding for a second then Akira found herself in front of a Staryu. "Hiyaa!" It cried.
"Awesome!" Akira laughed, smiling down to it.
"Staryu is very tame and easy to train. It is also a very strong Pokémon. Look after it well Akira." Prof. Turpentine said.
"How do we know if their a girl or a boy?" Kyoko asked, wondering if her Vulpix was a girl or a boy.
"Well I do know that Vulpix is a girl," The professor was interrupted by Kyoko whispering, Yes! "And the Staryu is a boy."
Akira smiled and looked over to Kyoko, and then she took Staryu back into its Pokéball, clipping it onto the strap of her bag. "So didn't we have to run an errand for you?" She asked, determinedly.
"Oh yes that's right," Turpentine laughed, nodding his head, thoughtfully, "I need you too see my friend over in Silvervale, which is north from here. His name is Ned. He has something for me except I'm too busy to go get it. That's why I got you two over here. Your going to trek, with your Pokémon, to Silvervale by the Southern Golden Pass, you may meet some wild Pokémon and other Pokémon trainers but I'm sure you two will be fine."
"Great!" Akira and Kyoko said together, waving bye to the Professor and running out of the lab and to the path. A few streets away, they stopped to see where they had to go. Kyoko pulled out a map she had got from her father, "Look, its that way!" She said, pointing to where the townhouses stopped and a path, trees, grass and all types of bushes and flowers began.
"Wait," Akira said, stopping Kyoko from moving, "Where's your Vulpix?"
Kyoko's eyes widened and suddenly one of the Professor's Aides came running down the path, holding Kyoko's Vulpix carefully in his arms.
"You left this at the professors." The Aide said, handing Kyoko her Pokémon, "Be a little more careful next time, Ok, see you two around." And he ran back away from where he came and out of sight.
"That was close. Thanks Akira," Kyoko said, thankfully.
"No problem. Hey! Do you want a quick battle before we go on the Southern Golden?" Akira asked, hopefully.
"Sure, why not. We need to get our practice up for the new and upcoming challenges that await us!" Kyoko laughed, her Vulpix understanding that Kyoko really wanted to battle, so she decided to give her owner one battle of pleasure before she started being awkward.
"Go Staryu!" Akira said, throwing her pokéball up in the air, her Pokémon coming out of it like a silver figure then fading to its normal colour. "Now, use tackle!"
Staryu charged forward to the Vulpix and knocked it right back behind Kyoko and into someone else's front yard. "Vulpix!" It cried angrily, looking to Kyoko for its next instruction.
Kyoko blinked she remembered Prof. Turpentine saying that Vulpix was very stubborn, maybe it was just extremely angry and would take answers anyway. She smiled, "Vulpix! Use Tail Whip!"
Vulpix ran over to Staryu and started hitting it continuously with its tail so Staryu's defence went down. It smiled to itself and walked back over in front of Kyoko, "Vulpix!" It cried, happily.
"Tackle it again!" Akira called to Staryu, "But harder this time!"
This time Staryu charged to Vulpix much harder knocking it into the ground, causing more damage then last time.
Kyoko and Vulpix's eyes narrowed, and they fumed angrily. "Vulpix! Ember!" Kyoko shouted, frustrated. Akira bit her lip as bits of flame flew from Vulpix's tail, but when they reached Staryu it just bounced off its hard shell.
"What! Why did that happen?" Kyoko asked Akira, who was thinking for an answer.
"I know! Vulpix is a fire type, Staryu is water. Water repels fire.. Excellent!" Akira said, grinning. "Come on, Staryu. Let's finish it off by jumping into the air then tackling!"
Staryu leaped into the air and shot back down towards Vulpix. Suddenly as they made contact dust, and a lot of it, started swirling around Akira, Kyoko and their Pokémon. Akira waved her hands around until they saw that Staryu was standing on a fainted Vulpix triumphantly.
"Yes! We did it!" Akira cried, dancing around and catching Staryu in her arms as it jumped up to her. "You where great, Staryu!"
"Good match." Kyoko said, walking up to Akira, "You won fair and square." And behind her Vulpix jumped up and walked over as well. But it looked very frustrated. 'I hope it gets over that,' Kyoko thought as she started to head to the end of the road where The Southern Golden Pass began.
"Well, here goes nothing," Akira said, taking her first steps out into the Pokémon wild with Kyoko.