Platinum Memories

Chapter One

By KhrystieKitten

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"Aqua! Is Amythest okay?"

"Physically, yes. Mentally no…" Marley lead the two to room they rented for the night, she cracked the door open. On the bed, Amythest was rocking herself back and forth, tears streaming down her face, grapping the ruined scarf mumbling her childhood friend's name over and over again. Worriedly Topaz rushed over to her side.

"Amythest! Amythest!" no response. She just stared with an empty look and continued to sob.

"Opal... Opal… Opal…."

"She doesn't respond… Give her tomorrow. She'll be better by then."

"I agree, she needs some time to think." Topaz looked at the Professor then, back at Amythest.

"Night…" he gave her a hug, still no response. He parted from her side and left the room. Amythest Stared at the scarf in her grasp, she put it to her nose and took the sent from it.

"Opal…" she croaked his name, reviewing how this happened. How this horrible situation happened.

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A normal day that it was indeed, snow lightly falling in Twinleaf Town. The Starlys lightly chirping. The young navy blue haired girl yawned from under the covers. She pushed the pearly white sheets aside. She had only a longs sleeved pink dress that went below her knees, the edges laced with white frills, a huge red bow around the waist and one tiny one tied below the coaler of the dress. Young Amythest yawned once more; she stretched her arms above her head.

"Ahhhhh….! What a nice sleep!" the girl removed herself from her warm bed, she unbuttoned the top half of her nightgown, slid it off her shoulders and it pooled at her feet. She grabbed a set of new clothes and went to her bathroom. Fifteen minutes later she edited dressed in her red dress. She walked to her night stand and put her white hat on, Amythest gladly walk over to her TV, to watch the Let's Ask Professor Rowan Special. She smiled, enjoying each and every second. Once the show ended, loud stomps followed. Within seconds a blond boy ran into the room, a huge grin plastered across his face.

"Hey Amythest! Did you see the TV!?" she pointed to the TV, "Good! Let's go see him!! He must have plenty of Pokemon!" the boy paused his rant of joy, to run over to a lone computer. "Awesome! You got a new computer!?"

"Um…Yeah…."

"Well any way, I'll be outside." Running down the stairs he yelled "Late I'll fine you 10 Million Poke!" Amythest just sighed at her energetic friend, she pulled her socks and boots one and skipped downstairs.

"Oh Amythest!" Her mother Joanna smiled "Opal was looking for you, he's outside. Oh yes, don't go into the tall grass!"

"Okay, Ma." Amythest walked out the building, Opal grinning and waiting. He took her hand, the two walked hand in hand. Opal pointed to the patch of grass, snow lightly falling. Amythest pulled on her friend's arm.

"Wait Opal…"

"Huh? What?" he asked dumbly

"My mom said not to go into the tall grass…It's dangerous…"

"So? We'll run straight through it!" Opal lessened the grasp on his child hood friend, took ten steps back and ran forward.

"HOLD IT!!!" Opal tripped, and fell flat on his face. The two pre teen straightened themselves up and turned to the voice. They gasped; it was none other than the grand professor Rowan.

"Ohmigosh!" Amythest squeaked. "It's Professor Rowan!"

"No way!"

"Herm… how reckless can you two be?" Opal gulped.

"Well… sir, we just wanted to see you." Amythest stuttered

"Yeah! We just wanted to get a pokemon…"

"Humph," he turned away from the two "They tried to go into the tall grass because they wanted pokemon…What to do…? Their world would surely change if they were to meet pokemon…" he turned back to them. "You two truly love pokemon, do you?" the two nodded

"Sure do!" he sighed

"…A pair of reckless kids who foolishly to enter tall grass with no pokemon. It worries me what people like that would do with pokemon."

"Er…Well… I…" Opal stuttered, he glanced at his childhood friend and frowned at the look upon her face. "At least give one to her. She's the responsible one here."

"! Very well. You are both responsible… very well, I'll trust you two with pokemon!" the elderly man glanced at his side, he paused. "…were did I put it?" just then a boy ran down the snow covered path.

"Professor!" he called.

"Ah, Topaz."

"You forgot your briefcase." The boy handed it over to the adult.

"Good timing my boy." The adult clicked the hunk of leather open, inside along with many research papers was three pokeballs. "Now you two chose one."

"You go first Amythest, since I am a gentleman after all."

"Okay Opal!" eagerly she grabbed the Chimchar's pokeball. "I'll take you and call you ChiChi!!" the chimp pokemon hopped out of its pokeball and hugged its new master.

"Alright, then I'll take Piplup!" Opal grinned and turned to his friend. "Amythest, let's battle!!"

"Okay! Go ChiChi!" the Chimchar jumped from her arm and onto the ground be for him as well did the Piplup.

"You ready?"

"Sure am! So ChiChi Scratch!"

"Piplup use growl the pound!" the flaming monkey charged for the tiny penguin and scratched at its face, she howled in retune. Annoyed she returned with a growl, and slapped him silly with a pound.

"Scratch again!"

"Hurry! Pound!" the pokemon contionusly threw their attacks at each other, soon one fell,the blond boy's Piplup. His jaw dropped,

"I…I lost…?"

"hmm… Indeed…"

"Don't worry dude… I was your first battle. " Topaz smiled, his Turtwig perched upon his head.

"Twig…"

"Oh…! Just you wait! I'll beat you one day ya hear!" he went to pick up his fallen Piplup, the proud pokemon only slapped his hand away.

"Hmm… I wish to see you two at my lab in an hour." The professor turned, his assistant waved goodbye and followed.