I'm going to stop accepting ocs for awhile, because even though this is only the second chapter, I already have what, like five ocs? Anyways, I'm a bit nervous that people are going to get annoyed at me because I didn't write their characters how they wanted me to. I'm honestly not quite sure why I choose my first fanfic to be an oc accepting one, seeing as how I feel about writing other people's characters. This doesn't mean I'm discontinuing the fanfic though, far from it in fact. I'm just not accepting ocs until I feel comfortable writing them. Anyways, rant over, here's the second chapter. Enjoy!
Tara briskly walked through Dewford Town, gazing all around, at the azure water crashing onto the beach and sending a spray of sea into the sky to Brawly's gym. As she stared at a flock of wingull and pelippers, she crashed into a hedge and was greeted by a face full of leaves. She withdrew and picked some leaves out of her light brown hair. "Dang bush." Tara muttered under her breath. Eyes now set firmly on where she was going, she continued onwards to the Pokemon Center.
Tara stepped into the Pokemon Center and quickly shuffled away from the entrance, not trusting it to not close on her hoodie. Spotting a tuft of the pink hair that all Nurse Joys had, she walked over the desk that protected the healing machine from randomly getting stolen. Somewhat. Nurse Joy's head popped up. "Hello! What do you need?" She inquired cheerfully. 'Well, one would be quite cheerful with a name like Joy.' Tara thought.
"I've come for my starter pokemon." Tara responded, though not nearly as ecstatic as Nurse Joy.
"Certainly then! Come right this way..." Nurse Joy faltered, unsure of what to call Tara.
"Tara." She answered Nurse Joy, slightly impatient to get her starter. Names weren't really necessary when choosing a pokemon, now were they?
Alright then Tara, follow me." Joy responded, still, well, cheerful. Tara followed Nurse Joy, hoping there wouldn't be anymore time wasters. "Well, here we are! Time to choose a pokemon!" Joy exclaimed. The room in question had a paned glass wall and a built in pedestal of sorts that was rectangular with a circular side and had three pokeballs settled into dents. Tara strayed closer to the pedestal as Nurse Joy released the starter pokemon from their pokeballs. "First off, we have torchic, the chick pokemon." Joy explained as she let it out of it's pokeball.
"Torcheec!" It exclaimed joyfully. Tara had already passed torchic over, as cute s it was, she still thought it was overrated, and darn, did that thing have big feet.
"Then of course, we have treecko, the wood gecko pokemon." Stated Joy as she released treecko from it's pokeball as well.
"TreeckO!" It confidently yelled to no one in particular, crossing it's arms coolly. Tara smiled at the confident treecko, loving that it was a lizard-like pokemon.
"And finally, but certainly not least, we have mudkip, the mud fish pokemon!" Nurse Joy exclaimed, well, joyfully. (What else would you expect from someone named Joy?) Joy pressed the button on the pokeball, causing light to arc uot or it and form into a mudkip with a frumpy frown on it's face that quickly became a smile.
"Muudkip!" The pokemon acclaimed, mouth opened widely. There was something about this mudkip that intrigued Tara, and it wasn't just because of it's eager nature but the fact that it was small. It wasn't that tiny, just petite enough to sit pretty comfortably on an average ten year old's shoulder. True, mudkip was more of an amphibian than a reptile, but Tara just loved this mudkip. More so than the treecko, in fact, which she herself was mildly surprised by.
"I'll take the mudkip." Tara informed Nurse Joy.
"Good choice! Here's his pokeball, and of course, Mudkip!" Joy cheerfully placed the mudkip into Tar's arms as she told them abut some random useless boring stuff. "Blah blah blah...Oh yes! I've almost forgotten! Would you like to nickname Mudkip?" Tara nodded, eager to nickname Mudkip and be done with these time wasters. "Ok then, what would you like to nickname him? Nurse Joy inquired.
Tar pondered for a moment, thinking of good nicknames. "How about Shrell?"
"Keep! Kip Kip!" Shrell the mudkip nodded vigorously, showing his support for the name.
"Shrell it is then! Do you need anything else?" Joy cheerfully replied.
No! I mean uh... no." Tara quickly patched up her mistake, hoping Nurse Joy didn't notice it.
"Alright then, good luck on your pokemon journey!" Joy said, completely oblivious to Tara's mistake.
"Thanks!" She called back to Nurse Joy as Tara swiftly exited the room, eager to be away from the time wasting Joy.
Back in the main room of the Pokemon Center, Tara was just about to leave after Nurse Joy had insisted on giving her some pokeballs, when some random guy raced into the room shouting "I made it!" He then preceded to trip on his untied shoelace and fall face first onto the floor. The random dude quickly sprung back up, checking his watch. "New record!" He announced, fists pumping. (Picture anime sweat drops... NOW!)
"Okay then, good to hear..." Tara remarked as she sidestepped the stranger on her way out.
"I've come for my starter pokemon!" He stated, a grin on his face.
"Good! Come right this way-" Nurse Joy said, as cheerfully as the guy who fell on his face, even when he interrupted her.
"Michael!" He informed Joy as he followed along.
'Those two are a perfect match, personality wise, at least.' Tara thought, rolling her eyes at their over-enthusiasm.
"I want ...mumble...kip." Tara could hear some traces of Michael and Joy's conversation.
"Cer...mumble...ly. You ...mumble.. the pre...mumble...s person cho...mumble... a mud...mumble...ip." Joy answered. At least, it seemed like she did. "I think ...mumble... ha...mumble... ano...mumble... o...mumble..." The rest of the conversation dissipated like mist in broad daylight as Tara exited the Pokemon Center, hugging Shrell.
Well, here's the second chapter! Sorry 'bout it being late, though I never actually posted a release date for this chapter. So, I had finished typing it on my kindle but couldn't copy it so I could send it to my laptop to post it. I ended up copying and pasting it in chunks. I had sent it to the laptop and posted it, but I had to delete it because it did some weird thing and you couldn't read it, so what you're reading right now is the version that was retyped on my laptop. So anyways, sorry if version is a bit... iffy. At least it has paragraphs now! On the other hand, we have the first submitted oc, Michael! Anyways, I hope you enjoyed and keep a look out for some slowpoke action!