Dam I suck, sorry for the BIG delay on this story, a lot happened... thats it, a lot personal stuff. Anyways, like I said on my other stories, I will try to update this and the other ones more frecuently but to honest dont expect much, at least not right now but I will try my best. I want to get good at writting in general and also in english so I want to continue writting, also my mind doesnt stop thinking of ways to continue the story. Maybe I struggle to update them because I want them to be big proyects as well, and with all that happened in this months also doesnt help.
I have big plans for this story and my other two, I havent been idle all this time and I have planned the "road map" for this stories, even if this stories dont get a lot of attention I will still update them because I want to, this story in particular is the one I wanted to wrtie for so long and now that I started has become the more difficult one to do. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter. English is not my first language so sorry for any error in the writting.
The days passed, each day I spent recovering from the poisoning I suffered because of the Vileplume. I know it wasn't intentional, but nobody blamed me for holding on that grudge for a while. At least the days were not boring, spending time with my family is always nice. I'm not going to see them in a long time after my journey starts, so, I'm enjoying my time with them. Also, I've been spending my time with Ralts because she didn't want to leave my side. The researchers and colleagues of Professor Oak were fascinated by Ralts and her strange coloring. There had been reports of pokemon of different color in the past, but they are really uncommon. It was also a strange thing to see a Ralts here in Kanto, and also that it had already formed a mental connection with someone so young and not captured yet.
I talked with her about that, that I was going on an adventure to capture and train more pokemon, that I will be exploring the world and help my pokemon grow strong. At that she expressed how she loves the idea, and she would happily accompany me. I was happy to say the least and my friends were jealous because in theory, I got my starter pokemon first, also, I would start my journey with two pokemon instead of one, to that I said "Well, I think the severe poisoning and cuts around my arms are a good tradeoff for starting my journey with two pokemon, don't you think?" Everyone laughed and cringed at the same time.
To be honest, these days I couldn't sleep well, just thinking of everything that led to this point in my life. Since we were so little, we have been friends, never staying too far apart from each other, we made our promise when we turned ten, and now… we will not see each other for weeks at a time. Just thinking about not seeing them for that long fills my heart with sadness, but in the end, we promised… we promised.
FLASHBACK
"I've been telling you, those six seem to never run out of energy, just look at them" A woman sitting with her friends looked right in the direction of six kids running around a big tree in the middle of the playground in pallet town. "I know, my little Ash never stops talking about the professor's camp they are entering next month, it's driving me insane I tell you" said Delia to her friends which all of them just nodded in sentiment.
While they were having that conversation, the group of kids were running around the big tree in the middle of Pallet Town. The leading kid was Blue/Gary laughing because no one was able to catch him, behind him was Red and Gray/Ash, trying to get to Blue first, behind them was Black/Arthur and Green laughing and enjoying their time, and last, was Steel/Riley smiling, but then he started to slow down, and with a smirk, he stopped and started running in the opposite direction "Haha, you guys are too slow to catch me" said Blue "You guys should just stop AAAA" and then he crashed with Riley tripping everyone on top of them while laughing. At the bottom Blue and Steel were not happy being crushed by everyone. After they calmed down, everyone laid down on the grass, looking at the tree, the sun shining through its leaves was a sight to behold to those kids. And at that moment… "I swear… that I will become the greatest pokemon trainer in the world" said Gray smiling "No… I will become the greatest in the world" Said Blue "Me too" said Red and Black at the same time. "I swear that I will become this region champion," said Green. "I swear that I will become the greatest pokemon ranger in the world," said Riley. Every single one of them sat up and looked at each other. In silence they all nodded and put their hands together and chanted "¡That's our promise!" Everyone laughed and they continued to play for the rest of the day… to the misfortune of their moms that just wanted to rest.
Flashback End
"Yeah, looking back at that day, it felt magical." Ralts looked at me and stared into my eyes "I guess you saw my memory?" I asked while laughing a little and felt the now, all too familiar mental connection, "Yes, it was beautiful" said Ralts inside my head. "You know… I don't want to call you Ralts all the time, how about I give you a proper name?" Ralts, upon hearing this, instantly jumped into my chest and nodded her head furiously "Ok, ok haha, I actually have been thinking of one, how about, Luna?" Ralts had stars in her eyes and nodded again "I love that name, thank you Master" "Yeah I still don't feel right you calling me master" "But isn't that what you want to become? a pokemon master? so it's only right if I call you that Master" I could feel her emotions through our mental link and she was just feeling gratitude and happiness, so I couldn't say no to that. "Ok you win, for now, I think i will go out. This is my final day in this bed and the day we get our pokemon. It's earlier than usual and in about two hours everyone will be here to get their pokemon and I feel tired of just "resting", the poison is gone, and I only have minor cuts around my arms already bandaged." I said while standing up and putting Ralts on my shoulders so she could wrap her hands around my head and stand up.
I walked out of my room and from the medical bay which was inside the professor's lab and went outside to the ranch. Outside were a few pokemon roaming around but I was looking for one in particular. Dragonite. I wanted to thank him for searching and finding me that night. I already thanked Alakazam because he came to visit on time with Professor Oak. After some time, I found him by a pond laying down, and looked right at me "Hey Dragonite, I wanted to thank you for saving me that night" I bowed a little to him in gratitude "Roo'' he just waved and got me into a big hug, I got scared for a little but his hug felt gentle and warm. He then stepped away and looked at the sky "Haha, thanks Dragonite" "Roo?" he then pointed to the sky and himself "He asked if you want to ride him and fly around for a while" I heard Ralts talk inside my head "¡Yeah that would be awesome Dragonite!"
I hopped on Dragonite back and put Ralts in front of me. Shortly after we took off. We started slowly, hovering around the ranch, but then, Dragonite started to fly higher and higher until we reached the clouds and passed them. Then, I saw one of the most beautiful sceneries I have ever seen. It was still pretty early and because of that the sky was just starting to show some warm colors. We catched the sunrise. "This is why you asked me if I wanted to fly Dragonite?" We just continued to fly peacefully, I sat and spread my arms, feeling the wind and the warmth of the now sunrise. I looked down and Ralts was doing the same thing I was doing which made me feel happy inside.
After some time Dragonite looked down and the back to me "Roooo" "He said to hold on, we are going down" I nodded and held Ralts close, looking at the beautiful sky again "I will see you soon" I said more to myself because I wanted to see this sight again. We flew straight down, slowly at first, then I could see Dragonite smile, then he picked up speed, at first I panicked, but then, I smiled as well and took a better stance. He sped up and when we broke the clouds I saw that we were at sea, south of Pallet Town, he never stopped speeding tho and after a few seconds I began to worry, just before we hit the water, he changed directions, flying straight to Pallet Tow at sea level, I could feel the water beneath us "I can handle a little faster Dragonite" I said confident only to fill my gut drop by the immense speed that Dragonite just put, safe to say I overestimated Dragonite speed. We got to Pallet Town and shortly after we landed outside of the Lab. I got down and felt a little dizzy but put on a brave face because I saw my mother, friends and professor Oak in front of me. My friends looked at me with shock and smiles, my "aunts" and mom were looking at me with disapproving eyes and worry, but professor Oak was looking at me with something akin to approval. "Young man, I am proud of you" said P. Oak before looking pale because of the death stare that my mom sent his way "ahem, I mean. That was irresponsible of you Arthur, you should be resting your body." He closed his eyes, not wanting to look at my mom. "Sorry, I just wanted to go out, I got tired of just waiting in that room with nothing to do." I just shrugged and looked at my mother who at first, looked worried and angry, but after hearing me and seeing that I was fine, relaxed. "I know but, I will never stop worrying and you know that… Thanks Dragonite for keeping him safe" My mom said, finally dropping her death stare to Professor "Rooooo" Dragonite smiled and bear hugged my mom, dropping her and then flying away in the direction of the pond. "Well… I didn't expect that" said my mom, a little surprised. "Yeah, Dragonite is really gentle, he is one of my friendliest pokemon. Well, I know how impatient some of you are so… lets get right down to business" P. Oak said walking inside the lab and we followed.
"It's rare that someone starts at my lab with a pokemon. In the last generation, before you my dear students, there were three that started here in this lab… Sadly things didn't work out for them, I lost contact with two of them and one just banished. But now, not one nor three, but six of my own students are starting here their journey and you don't know how proud you all make me feel, I know that this is the first day of your journey, but I already know that you will change the world, your connection within yourselves is one of the most important things you have, never forget that. While speaking of connections, the pokemon inside this balls, are special, each and every one of them will form part of your adventure, remember what you learned all this years, treat them with respect and care, train them, but don't overdo it, they are living things like you and me, without further adieu, let's begin." As he finished all of the pokeball opened and out came six pokemon. A Bulbasaur that started running in circles, happy. A Squirtle and a Charmander that looked at the Bulbasaur as if it was a little kid, then looked at each other and you could see sparks flying from their eyes. One of the other pokemon was another Charmander, although this one looked more wary of his surroundings, but looked full of energy. Then there was a Pikachu that the moment it came out of the Pokeball, he sent it flying with his tail like he hated it and went to the corner of the lab. The last pokemon didn't come out of the pokeball, but that didn't matter because at that instance, everyone knew… felt what their partner would be. After a moment of silence, Bulbasaur calmed down and looked at all of us, then ran directly towards Green. She just smiled and catched the flying bulbasaur, laughing. Meanwhile Red and Blue went directly towards the Charmander and Bulbasaur respectively, picking them up and holding them in their arms. I walked towards the other Charmander. At first glance, he looked at me suspiciously, but then calmed down one he looked at Ralts. I knelt down so I could look him more directly in his eyes. "Charmander, Would you like to be my partner?, I promise you, that if you follow me, you will become one of the strongest pokemon out there, so, what do you say?" I extended my fist looking him directly into his eyes. A moment passed, I could see that he was thinking of what I just said, then "¡Char!" we clashed fist "!Ralts¡" "!Yes¡", I grabbed Charmander and held him in my arms.
That only meant that Steel and Gray were left. At first Gray tried to go for the pokeball but for some reason it jumped out of his hand in Steel direction, and after a moment, Steel grabbed it, freeing the pokemon inside it, it was a Riolu. "I always got this feeling that you were going to choose that one Riley… well, it appears that it chose you haha" said P. Oak. The moment Riolu was out, he stared directly towards Steel, looking him directly into his eyes, without saying anything, he grabbed him, and a big smile appeared on his face. "This feels right," he said.
At last, there was only Gray and Pikachu, at first, we thought that he was going to connect with him the same way we connected with our pokemon, but when he got close he got electrocuted.
"Well, not all of us get to connect at first with our pokemon Ash, so give him time and earn his trust, I know you can do it" said P. Oak. "Now, you all got your starter pokemon, well, at least the majority of you. Remember that this is only the beginning, after this you will encounter everything, the world has to offer, so, to help you in your journey I will give you all this." He then opened two briefcases and inside were six pokedex with 5 pokeball. "You already know what these are, so I won't give you all an explanation on how to use this. I am proud of you my dear students, from the moment you wanted to join the camp when you were ten to now that you are sixteen, I know that you six, will have an awesome adventure and get to know a lot of awesome pokémon" He finished with a big group hug.
With that every single one of us started bonding with our pokemon. Time passed and Blue was the first one to go. "Well, I won the lottery we did so I'm going first, who is going next?" said Blue ready to go at the edge of town. "Well, if I'm not mistaken, I was second, but knowing Mom I will stay a few days, maybe change with Gray so I can recover a little longer." I said putting my fist to Gray which he bumped back. "Alright, I cannot wait to go," said Gray, all excited, until his Pikachu electrocuted him again. "Well then, I always got to go first, and this is not going to be an exception. I Am not good at goodbyes speeches so, smell you all later" He waved goodbye and started his journey.
"Oh man, I also wanted to go after Blue" Said Red "Well, at least you won't be going last, and you are going right after Gray so stop your whining." I told him "Well I guess you are right; I'm going to get to know my Charmander better you guys, see you all later" he waved and went back to his house, shortly after everyone did that.
The day passed and I got to know Charmander better. From what the professor and the conversation I had with Charmander (thanks to Luna), we found out why he was wary of his surroundings. Red's Charmander was born in a controlled environment while mine was from the wild, when the professor's colleagues found him, he was on the verge of dying, so it was normal for him to be a little wary of everything around him when we met. Now he still is a little insecure, but at least I got to bond with him in the course of the next few days.
Shortly after Blue started his journey Gray was so impatient and went away without telling us, we only found out because his mom told us. At first, we were disappointed, but we knew better, we knew that this was going to happen. Out of all of us, Gray was the most impatient one, so we all knew he was going to do this, that's why I lent him my spot. If he was going to go out without telling us, then at least he would follow the order.
That night there was a bit of a storm, and we all got a little worried for Blue and Gray, but relaxed because this is what we trained for, there wasn't any way that any of them would scare a mob of pokemon and be attacked by them under a storm. No that couldn't happen.
The next day was Red. He and Steel decided to go at the same time, so that only left Green and me. I was going last, so I really took the time to get to know my pokemon, and with that I also trained a little.
"Well let's see what you got first Luna" I pointed the pokedex at her while she was in the ground next to Charmander.
Pokemon species: Ralts Name: Luna Gender: Female
Type: Psychic/Fairy Ability: Telepathy Nature: Mild
Entry: Ralts senses the emotions of people using the horns on its head. This Pokémon rarely appears before people. But when it does, it draws closer if it senses that the person has a positive disposition.
Moves: Growl, Disarming Voice, Confuse Ray, Double Team.
"Huh, it also registered your name Luna, that's weird… You got a pretty good moveset already" I could see Ralts smile and could sense happiness irradiating from her "Now let's see what you know, Charmander."
Pokemon species: Charmander Gender: Male
Type: Fire Ability: Blaze Nature: Hasty
Entry: The flame that burns at the tip of its tail is an indication of its emotions. The flame wavers when Charmander is enjoying itself. If the Pokémon becomes enraged, the flame burns fiercely.
Moves: Scratch, Growl, Ember, Bite.
"Dam, you guys got some serious firepower haha" Charmander at this also became happier "Now let's see what we can do. For what I researched, the first Gym will be Brock, a rock type gym. Right now, we are at a disadvantage, while Luna isn't weak against rock type attacks, you are Charmander. Now don't get sad, it's normal, but I also saw that with training, you can learn Metal Claw. There isn't much information on the internet about how to train you, but I saw some type of training that they do to learn Iron Tail on some pokemon. We will be adapting it so you can learn Metal Claw. You ready?" He did a little jump and screamed, letting me know he was more than ready. "Awesome. Luna, I want you to practice the move double team until you are proficient at it, right now it will be your main form of defense and evasion and if you master it, we can use it to confuse our opponents." "I will give it my all, Master" I heard how happy Luna was inside my head and decided to not even correct her on the whole master thing.
We started training; we were using the communal area for training purposes that the lab had. Luna started on her mastery of double team while I started to direct Charmander training. The technique I saw online was vague on purpose because of the training value. No one gives advice on move training, that knowledge is very sought after. There are a lot of trainers that don't want to waste time on trying to figure out a form of training for a specific move or don't have the money to spend on a TM.
At first, we didn't know those items existed. When we found out we were shocked and started arguing with P. Oak as to why he didn't teach us that. He told us that he didn't teach us that because he didn't like the use of TMs. He explained to us that, while the use of those items was "normal", it had a heavy disadvantage, the pokemon that learned a move through TMs was not going to use that move to its full power and to do it would cost a lot more training. TMs were used by trainers that wanted the easy path, who didn't like to spend time training. From that point we understood that if we wanted to achieve our dreams, we would have to train hard for it. While we said that if we could help it, we wouldn't use those items a lot, but maybe if we needed the extra help we would use them, like they were supposed to be.
I began with what I thought would be a good place to start. If Metal Claw involved his claws, then maybe training his durability and strength with it wouldn't hurt, so that's what we did. He began scratching a nearby rock while focusing on his claws and trying to make them stronger while taking breaks in between. While my pokemon were training I didn't slack off and began training myself, some running and calisthenics to keep my body in shape.
Later in the day after we took a big break we were once more on the training field, but we weren't alone. "HI Black, how are you guys doing?" Green asked while Bulbasaur was in her arms. "!Saaur¡" "We are doing good Green, we just finished our break and are going to start training again. What about you? Are you ready for tomorrow?" As the last two, we were the only of our friend group left in town. "Yeah… honestly, I am scared. I haven't been alone like I am going to be tomorrow. It scares me a little to be honest, although having my friend here is going to make things a lot more easier" she said while petting Bulbasaur "Well, I could go with you if you want" She looked to the ground, thinking what I just said "As much as I would like that… No. I need to do this or I will never grow as a trainer" she looked at me directly with fire in her eyes "That was the right answer" I smiled at her. She was always timid and scared to take the first step, so seeing her like this makes me happy.
"Anyways, I actually was here to ask you a favor" She said while putting Bulbasaur down "And that would be?" "Well… I challenge you to a pokemon battle, do you accept?" she took a battle stance and looked directly at me, while I could see her trembling a bit, her eyes looked determined. "Alright, to make things fair, this will be a 1 on 1 battle, I will choose Luna" when hearing this Luna jumped in front of me and looked ready.
We took our positions to start the duel "I hope you are ready Black because I am not going to lose" "We will see about that"
A.N. Like it says on the chapter, they are staring their journey at 16, not 10, this story is not sunshine and rainbows, I will try to do it the more real way. The pokemon world is full of dark shit and I will use that, this story will not be a dark one but expect that in the future will deal with some dark stuff.
If you havent already noticed, this is a megre between the games and the anime, not just the characters but also the world.
Characters:
Blue - Gary (Merge between anime and games)
Gray - Ash (Anime)
Red - Red (Merge from anime and games. Anime = Origins).
Steel - Riley (Anime/Games/Au)
Green - Green (Games/Au)
Black - Arthur (OC)
Also, I read the first chapter again and noticed some errors. Mostly decribing the characters so I edited that.
