Journey of Friendships
Chapter 2: Late!
"Time to get up Marcello," Mrs Forrester called to her son.
"Ten more minutes," Marcello moaned tiredly.
"You're late," she replied. Marcello was downstairs completely dressed and eating his breakfastbarely a minute later.
"I take it you're looking forward to becoming a Pokemon Trainer the Marcello," she said with a grin. He only nodded as he shovelled his food into his mouth. He quickly finished eating and ran out the door. He approached Professor Birch's lab at dangerously high speeds. Another kid sped around the corner and ran straight into him.
"Watch where you're going!" they shouted at the same time. Marcello quickly glanced at the person he had run into. He caught his breath. This was one of the people from the dream he had had last night. The other boy looked up at him and did a double take. Obviously he had experienced the same dream last night as well. Suddenly, both of them remembered why they had been in such a rush.
"I'M LATE!" they both yelled.
Prof. Birch looked up from his work as two ten year old children burst through the door into his lab.
"Are we to late to get our starter pokémon?" they gasped out.
"I'm afraid that all of my usual starter pokémon have already been taken."
"Are there any other pokémon we can have, Professor?" Cato asked. "We really want to start our journey today."
"Well I do have a few pokémon that you can choose from." the professor replied.
"Great," said Marcello happily. "I can start today."
The professor led them to a small back room where there were a few pokeballs sitting on shelves. Prof. Birch picked up three pokeballs and let the pokémon out of them. The children smiled when they saw that they could chose between a Rattata, a Persian or an Eevee.
Cato quickly moved forward and picked up the Eevee. "I want this one," he said with a smile.
"No fair! I wanted that one!" moaned Marcello.
The Professor grinned and tossed another pokeball to him. "Then have one," he said.
Marcello quickly released the pokémon from its ball. The small Pokémon shook its head and looked around the room.
"Alright, I got an Eevee!" Marcello shouted. "Return Eevee."
The Pokémon sprang aside nimbly, darted forward and knocked the pokeball out of his hand with its tail. Marcello quickly picked it up and glared at Eevee. It ignored the glare and jumped onto his shoulder where it seemed to be content.
"Excuse me, I need to get you some things that you will need for your journey," said the Pokemon Professor as he left the room.
"You know we need to give at least one of them a nickname," Cato said from behind him.
"Why?" Marcello asked.
"Eevee, Tackle," Cato said with a smirk.
Both Pokemon leaped forward and used Tackle upon Marcello.
"Oww!" he moaned. "I still don't see why we need to give them nicknames!"
"They'll get confused when we give them orders, and we won't be able to tell them apart, what-so-ever. So I'll call mine, Neo," he stated.
"Ugh! I'll call mine Eon, if nicknames matter so much to you."
Just then Prof. Birch returned with 6 pokeballs, 2 pokedexes and 2 pokenavs. "Here you are," he said cheerily as he handed them their gear. "I hope you have a safe journey."
"Thank-you Profes…" Before they could finish their thanks a loud explosion was heard from outside, in the reserve.
"The Pokemon!" the professor cried out. They all ran out into the reserve to find two people, dressed in red clothes, throwing nets over the fire type pokémon.
"Hey, stop, you can't do that!" shouted the professor.
"We can and will" said a boy, who was about sixteen years of age.
"Nothing will stop Team Magma from rising again," said his partner, a 15 year old girl.
"Not if I have anything to say about it," Marcello snarled angrily.
"You don't," replied the boy as he pulled a pokeball from his belt. "Let's go Numel!"
"Eon, let's show these creeps whose boss," Marcello said to his pokémon.
"Numel, Tackle!"
"Eon, dodge and the use Quick Attack!"
Numel charged at the little pokémon who dodged and then tackled it with incredible speed.
"Garr, Numel try an Ember!"
"Eon, do you know Swift?"
"Vee," the pokémon nodded an affirmative.
"Then use it!"
Numel opened its mouth and released small burning hot embers, directed at Eon. Eon countered by spraying small glowing stars from its mouth that knocked away the embers and struck Numel, inflicting enough damage to knock it out.
The members of Team Magma were shocked that their strongest pokémon had lost to this newbie.
"Eon, get rid of these creeps with a Take Down!"
The small pokémon flew through the air and rammed Numel into its trainers, sending them all flying.
"Team Magma will return!" they howled as they shot away into the horizon.
"Thank you so much!" said Prof. Birch. "Here, as thanks for your hard work take this potion and use it to heal your pokémon."
"Thanks Professor," both of the new trainers called as they left to start their journey.