Chapter Two: Let The Adventure Begin Already!
Haha I actually started Emerald again to try and get most of the games plot into my head again, I appreciated the reviews a lot and I'm working hard to write this whenever I can so bear with me! Of course, I will add some differences to this story and sometimes Haruka will have to face some things alone because it will either seem better at the time or it will help with the story, and for people who asked me to RR your stories, if I haven't done it by the time this chap was published then I'll get round to it soon I promise! So onward with the story!
Disclaimer: No no and no I don't own Pokemon just this story!
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Haruka ran as quickly as she could to direction of where the voice was coming from and found out it was coming from the exit of Littleroot Town. Is someone being attacked maybe?! She thought worriedly to herself as she now stopped in front of the crises… If you could call it a crises that is,
"What the?" was all Haruka could say as she watched a Zigzagoon chasing what seems to be professor Birch himself,
"Ah! Haruka is that you? Quickly! Get a pokemon out of that briefcase over there and help me out! I'll explain later!" Professor Birch informed her in a hurried yell as he started trying to climb up a tree. Haruka on the other hand wanted to either laugh at the scene or sigh in embarrassment for him, she may not be used to all the pokemon in Hoenn yet but she knew that this pokemon couldn't be that much of a threat could it?
Ah what the hell.. She thought to herself as decided to do as she told and help him out,
"So what do we have here?" she wondered as she quickly opened up the brief case to find three pokeballs each with a different symbol printed on.
"Okay so there's a grass, water and fire type here, any one is good so which one?" she asked herself thinking, now being a bit picky at the worst time. "Haruka it doesn't matter! Just pick any except the water type!!" exclaimed the now terrified professor clinging on a tree branch for dear life,
"Really? Well it doesn't matter now 'cause I choose you uh.. Fire type?" Haruka called out not too sure of what the name or the pokemon for that matter would pop out.
"Torchic!" the pokemon cried out now standing in a pose ready to fight, it looked like a chick with red and yellow feathers and three huge yellow feathers stuck out on top of his head. "Hey I like this um Torchic did you say?" she asked the Torchic which just gave a simple nod and "Tor!" in response as it waited for a command impatiently. The zigzagoon noticed the torchic and finally left the professor, which gave him a chance to escape from the tree.
"Ok! Lets go, use your scratch attack!" Haruka ordered the torchic, they were both now getting into the fight quickly, the torchic did as he was told and went at surprising speed towards the zigzagoon, the zigzagoon tried to dodge but failed as she got scratched badly so she gave a mighty growl in anger as the torchic flinched a bit, "Don't worry torchic, just finish it off with Ember!" she called out once more hoping he knew this attack already which luckily he did, and so he aimed at the zigzagoon and fire came spurting from his mouth and hit his target perfectly, and made the zigzagoon run off in fear of fainting.
"Alright! We did it! Thanks for helping me out Torchic!" Haruka thanked the torchic happily while patting him on the head.
"Tor!" it replied back, happy to receive praise for an easy win, Ha! He never stood a chance against me! And apparently you too.. The torchic thought a bit arrogantly as he was being called back into the pokeball.
"Haruka! That was amazing how you knew what you were doing in the battle, and therefore I must thank you for saving me!" The professor came out from behind the trees and gave Haruka a pat on the shoulder.
"Its okay, actually it was kind of fun!" she answered back smiling,
"I see, well then there's no doubt that you're Norman's daughter that's for sure, I guess you are ready then, come back to the lab with me would you?" he asked as he started to walk ahead of Haruka, who was trying to understand what he meant by that last part.
Both Haruka and Birch were standing in his lab.
"So how have you been Haruka? Good I assume?" The professor asked while Haruka just gave a "yep" and a simple nod.
"Well that's great because first of all I would like to thank you once more by giving you that Torchic you just used." The professor stated now looking at Haruka expectantly.
"What? Huh? Really!? But wouldn't another trainer need this Torchic to go on a pokemon journey?" Haruka asked, taken back by the sudden offer,
"Uh, but Haruka? You do know that you're that trainer… Right?" He asked with a confused smile on his face.
"Huh? No I didn't, where did you get that idea from?" Haruka asked, now confusion written all over her face now.
"Why, by your parents of course! When I found out your family was moving so close to my lab,I offered straight away for you to have a pokemon and go on your own journey if you wanted!" The professor finished breathlessly, now gasping for air, then he continued,
"So your father agreed, knowing you wanted a pokemon for a long time, though he would have told you himself but.." he trailed off not too sure if should carry on,
"How come you stopped? Can you carry on please?" Haruka persisted, curious to know what was going on.
"Ok fine, you see he didn't want to seem like he was pushing into liking pokemon like he does, so he hoped your mother would tell you herself, but it seems like she didn't want to tell you either.. I wonder why?" While the professor pondered over this, Haruka already figured it out, it was obvious, her mum just didn't want her to go, even though she knew as soon as Haruka arrived here, she would already be receiving a pokemon and going off, just like it seems to be happening right now, she guessed that her mum just wanted to hold on to her, even if it was for just a little longer
… mum… She sighed to herself in head.
Now Professor Birch suddenly remembered something important,
"Haruka I know you probably want to ask your mother about all of this, but we've gone off the point entirely!" He exclaimed now catching Haruka's attention from her thoughts,
"You see, I wanted to actually talk to both you and Yuki so could do me one little favour and get him to come back here?" He asked now doing a begging pose with his hands.
"Well I suppose not… Which means I'll be taking Kyo with me??" she asked, now a smirk appearing.
"Kyo? Ah! You must mean the Torchic? Sure, of course you can take it with you!" The professor said, more than surprised by the fact she had to ask.
"Guess I'll talk to my mum later then, oh by the way Professor… Why were you being attacked by that zigzagoon?" Haruka asked, still having that same cheeky grin on her face. "Ah that, well I was on my way back here when I accidentally stepped on its tail and had chased me since! But please don't tell your father alright?" He pleaded, once again doing a begging pose.
"Hee hee, sorry, for laughing but no I wont tell him" Haruka apologised, actually holding in more laughter than anything else, then she thought of something important,
"Hey wait a sec, Yuki was looking for you just before so… Where could he be?" asked Haruka, a bit puzzled as to how the two could have possibly walked by each other without noticing each other.
"Really? Saying that, he must be in Route 103 which is very close to Odale town, now not to rush you but you really should get going now shouldn't you?" The Professor noted, now with a hint of impatience in his voice.
"Okay I guess your right, well off we go then!" she said happily as she rushed out the lab and into the tall grasses outside Littleroot Town,
"Hey Kyo come out!" She called out as she sent out her new Torchic,
Kyo..? Hmm not a bad name I suppose.. Kyo thought to himself as he hopped on the shoulder that Haruka was offering him to sit on,
"Okay, lets be prepared for any pokemon battles okay?" she told him as he gave a "Tor!" in agreement and marched onward!.. And though they did that it was pretty boring, as there was, oddly enough, no pokemon whatsoever and Odale Town wasn't even that far a Town anyway.
"Honestly, and there we were getting pumped and everything! Ah well, I'm hungry, and I wanna look around Odale town! Oh yeah right, gotta look for Yuki.. Bah this boy better appreciate what I'm giving up for him!" She finished off moodily marching off moodily in the direction of Route 103,
Ugh and I'm stuck with a person who goes on with herself for ages.. Someone help me.. Kyo thought to himself sarcastically as he was a bit annoyed having his hopes too high as well, so as they continued to trek through the grass they were still surprised as too how little pokemon seems to be about. That's when they saw Yuki just up ahead as he stood there in what seems to be a thinking position.
Odd.. Where's the pokemon? I wasn't able to do much training because of it! Now I'm hungry and there's nothing else to do so I guess ill just go- WAAGH!! Yuki was horribly interrupted from his train of thought because as he turned around he saw someone unexpected and very close to him too, and that was Haruka,
"Haruka?! Don't scare me like that!" he exclaimed,
"Strange, I never noticed that your hair was black underneath.." Haruka pointed out, not noticing how startled she got Yuki in.
"Uh huh… So what is it you want? – Hey when did you get the Torchic?" He asked, curious to know if Haruka actually caught it herself.
"You mean Kyo? After I saved your dad from the Zigzagoon he gave it to me" she simply said, now noticing that Yuki flushed a little from embarrassment. She didn't mean to be that cruel, really, I guess she just wanted some revenge. Then a thought came to Yuki, "Hey, how do feel about a battle?" he challenged her, ready to get his own back!
"A battle? Eeep, this will be my first trainer battle..!" she mumbled to herself, "Scared?" Yuki asked, trying to push her into it,
"No, of course not! I was just saying… Sure! I accept your challenge Yuki! C'mon Kyo lets go!" she called out to a sleeping Torchic who was rudely woken up,
"Tor!…" he grumbled, obviously not happy about being pushed off the shoulder and having to sort himself out, nonetheless when he was fully awake he ready for a battle just as much as Haruka!
"I have to admit I like your spirit Haruka." Yuki stated as tossed out his pokeball, "So don't get upset if you lose! C'mon on out Sapphire!" he called out grinning as a Mudkip came out of the pokeball and gave a cute "Mudkip!". Haruka was about to have a go until she saw Sapphire, and an "Aww!" came out automatically, it was true, the way this Mudkip posed was really cute! "Tor tor torchic?! Tor chic chic!" Just whose side are you on?! And you! Stop acting like that! IM her favourite around here! Kyo ordered, really loudly, quite clearly jealous of Sapphire.
"Oops, heh heh, sorry Kyo I'll concentrate more now, I promise!" Haruka called out apologetically as the Torchic just a gave her moody "Tor!" in response once more and waited for a command, Yuki went first.
"Alright, lets end this quick! Sapphire, use your tackle!" Yuki ordered not wasting time obviously. Kyo tried to dodge but was hit pretty bad by Sapphire,
Great, already he has a type advantage which means he'll most likely use water gun any second and Ember is going to be useless so.. I'll just try this! Haruka thought strategically as she called out, "Kyo! Keep moving fast and use Scratch!"
Kyo did as he was told, managed to hit Sapphire, but with great effort as he nearly missed her. "Kip!" was all that was heard as she straightened herself once more.
What? This Torchic isn't a pushover! Well then, it really is time to get serious! Yuki thought as he prepared for the attack that would end the battle.
"Sapphire! Take aim and use your Water Gun!" he called out, as Sapphire took a deep breath and shot a huge bullet of water straight at Kyo. It was strange because she did this at such great speed that there was no way for a weakened Kyo to dodge this time around, though nonetheless, he prepared himself to run until a voice interrupted him from doing so,
"Kyo! Don't! If we have to go down, then we go down with some pride! Use your Ember!" Haruka told him, trying her hardest not to sound upset or disappointed, at first Kyo was confused by this, until he actually got the idea and breathed in deeply and shot out a huge ball of fire at the ball of water. Yuki was also confused by this but quickly sussed it out and couldn't help but admire by how much pride Haruka had.
And so, the two attacks collided as both pokemon were still standing strong, continuing to keep blowing out their huge attacks at one another, both trainers were staring intently as they both couldn't believe what was going on, this continued for another… Three… Two… One.
"Oh no Kyo! I'm coming!!" Haruka gasped when she realised what had happened, rushed over as fast as she could and crouched down to pick him from the ground, sadly, Kyo was knocked out and Sapphire won who gave a "Kip! Mudkip!" in victory.. Suddenly Haruka didn't find Sapphire cute at the moment as she hugged her torchic, trying hard not to cry.
"Damn, I am such an idiot! Of course that Water Gun would beat Ember… I just thought, oh I'm so sorry Kyo.." Hurka trailed off as she returned Kyo into his pokeball, she about to get up until she noticed someone else kneel down beside her. Looks like he already called back Sapphire.
"Hey, there's no point getting too upset, I mean if you dodged and actually attacked me again straight away instead then you would have won! You put up a good challenge Haruka that's for sure" Yuki told her trying to cheer her up, however that didn't seem to work too well..
"I don't care! Kyo got hurt really badly because of what I did!" she snapped, now facing him with a hurt expression.
"True, but now you know for next time, It's good to be risky sometimes because then you learn from mistakes, or you get lucky, depends what happens" Yuki replied calmly, while Haruka just stared at him, wondering whether that was intended advise or an insult, however she decided to take it as advice when Yuki stood up and offered his hand to help her up, which she gladly took.
"Um sorry and uh thanks" she mumbled, blushing, as she hoped he heard him, while Yuki just gave a "Whatever" as he patted her on the head a little.
"C'mon lets head back to my dad now, he'll have a machine that will heal pokemon like in pokemon centre's" he told her as he started to walk ahead of Haruka who caught up and walked beside him.
"Hey, did you get Sapphire from your dad?" she asked him, remembering what Professor Birch told her before,
"Yup, just got it today actually." He answered back, "I thought so" she said quietly, and the two didn't really say much more after that as they travelled back through Route 103, Odale Town and finally back to the lab in Littleroot Town.
Yuki was talking to his dad about what happened in Route 103 while Haruka was standing by the machine, waiting patiently for Kyo to be healed.
"Haruka? I'm sorry about what happened in your first trainer battle, but there are always rematches right?" The Professor reassured, "Yeah I guess your right." She replied smiling, while Yuki had a puzzled face and wondered why she didn't get that happy in the first place when he tried to make her feel better when suddenly the machine went ping! And Haruka picked up her pokeball immediately and released Kyo.
"Tor!" Kyo cried out as he unexpectedly jumped into Haruka's arms,
"Kyo! I'm so glad your ok! Will you ever forgive me?" she asked him gently as she hugged him.
"Torchic tor!" Duh of course I forgive you dummy! He replied softly,
"Looks like he's grown attached to you Haruka, that's good" Yuki pointed out which made Haruka smile a little, "I guess so" she replied.
"Ahem, well now that your both here.. Yuki, you've been thinking of applying for the Hoenn league right? You too Haruka?" The professor asked them both, which both replied with a "yes" each, "In that case I would like to also give you Haruka, a pokedex! Yuki already has one too of course!", The professor took out of his pocket a red device and gave it to Haruka, who then went straight to explaining the wonders of how the pokedex works and how he would be thrilled if Hauka helped him with his lifelong dream of collecting data of every pokemon, Yuki was suffering silently as he has already heard the agonizing lecture once before and glanced over at Haruka, he wanted to laugh because although Haruka was pulling a straight face and seemed to follow and be interested in what he was going on about, he could tell by the ways her eyes would dart over in different directions that she was finding this really boring too.
"Well, now for the best part you two!" The professor raised his voice a little to gain their attention. "I would like you two to travel together!" he finally finished with a wide grin, leaving the other two speechless until Yuki spoke up, "What?! When did you decide this? I like travelling on my own!" he protested.
"I agree Professor! How can you expect two people who hardly know each other to travel for I don't know how many months?!" Haruka started too, not understanding this while Kyo looked up irritated at her for waking him up once again.
"Now now you two, when I say this I don't mean you have to be together all the time but I think that this would be good for the both of you and you can together as you fill the pokedex's!" he explained "So you two look out for each other alright?" he finished once more, looking at them both to see their reaction. Surprisingly enough, even though Haruka had her doubts, she held out her hand for Yuki.
"I hope we can learn to be good team mates Yuki if you really want to." Haruka suggested firmly as Yuki stared at her for a second thinking about it and decided to take it, shaking it lightly as Professor smiled, pleased with himself.
"Here you'll need these." Yuki said, now giving her five pokeballs,
"Wow! Now I can catch pokemon! Oh thank you Yuki!" Haruka thanked him happily now hugging him! Wait what am I doing?! She thought to herself worriedly, letting go. Both of them were now blushing pretty badly now.
"Uh your welcome Haruka.." Yuki replied quietly, looking to the other side while Haruka just stared at the ground unable to speak. Great.. Now I really do have doubts about this. They both thought to themselves sadly.
Haruka was now having dinner with her mum having told her everything that has happened (well, she decided to skip the part with her hugging Yuki) while both Kyo and her mother listened closely to every word.
"Haruka.. I just want to apologise to you for not telling you sooner, and that well, I was wrong! You truly do look good with that Torchic" Haruka's mum told her as she petted Kyo lightly on the head. "Here I've got something for you!" and she pulled out a brand new pair of running shoes.
"Oh mum!.. Thank you! These will be great! And um its okay, I understand why and don't worry I'll call and visit whenever I can!" Haruka quickly cried out as rushed tears came down and hugged her tightly, knowing that this will be the last hug she'll be receiving for a long time. While Kyo had stopped listening a while ago and carried on eating his dinner. So when Haruka had made sure she had everything, she said her final goodbyes to her mum and was standing outside the house staring.
Its weird, I only just moved here today yet I'm leaving on a new adventure.. My dream come true, which means no Gamecube for a while I suppose, goodbye house Haruka thought to herself laughing a little and started to walk ahead to the exit to meet Yuki who was already there waiting for her.
"It's already huh? Well Haruka, we get going are you sure you wanna come?" Yuki asked firmly making sure, Huruka gave a nod and started to follow him, more pokemon came out this time and surprisingly had to face trainers even though it was very late now since they both agreed to travel all the way to Petalburg City and rest there.
"Yay! We're finally here! Lets go and visit dad now Yuki!" Haruka suggested as she skipped around the city, Yuki on the other hand looked ready for bed.
"Don't be stupid. Yawn.. We can visit tomorrow when he's actually awake" Yuki complained, heading in the direction of the Pokemon centre.
"I guess your right, okay lets get some sleep then" she agreed a little sadly and entered the centre too. Though they came in later than they thought because the only room that was left was a couch in a corner the crowded and noisy building.
They now sat down next to each other, moody and sleepy from all the noise that's keeping them awake and then, Haruka started to cry, not out of sadness but..
"Woah! Haruka what's wrong??" Yuki asked worriedly wondering what could possibly have made her so upset,
"Nothing its just, I'm crying out of happiness.. You must think I'm weird right?" Haruka asked through tears.
".. No, not really but then again you have done- Huh? Haruka? Are you awake?" Yuki was interrupted by a sleepy Haruka who fell asleep, resting on his shoulder, "- stranger things.." Yuki finished off, he would have woken her up but just didn't have the heart, so he quickly fell asleep too. Resting on her head.
To be continued!
Did you like? Hope so, it took longer than I expected but it was worth it! In the next chap its gonna be based slightly on my character in Emerald! So until then, keep the comments going! Thanks guys!