Pokemon Ch 2

I do not own Pokemon but I do own the OC's

Sitting on the deck of the ferry I held the map out for Andrew and Buttonz to look at. It was a rough drawn version of the one I had back home. "So, we'll be going to Pallet town to meet some Professor Gary Oak right?" Buttonz asked as she leaned forward to point toward the marking I'd made for towns. "Yep."

"And we'll get our Pokemon from him?"

"If I remember correctly yes we will."

"That's awesome."

"I think he owns the ranch thingy.. So I think we might have to work for him before we can get a Pokemon or something like that." I put the map onto the deck boards and pinned the two ends nearest me with my knees. "We're all good with that.. Hard work don't hurt." Andrew mused as he pinned the top left corner with his knee. blue eyes looking at the map closer. "How old is Professor Oak?" Buttonz pinned the top right corner with her hand and leaned over the map to add her own shadows to the rather colorful map I'd drawn. "I don't know, he was like rivals or friends or something with Ash."

"Thee Ash?"

"Yeah."

"That's so awesome." My friends continued to study the map and ask questions. We'd been to Cinnabar island once or twice, met the gym leader on a field trip but we'd never been to the main land so aside from what we'd learn in classes it was mainly a mystery. "I hope I get an awesome Pokemon." Buttonz mused silently as she sat back on her legs, a dreamy look on her face as she stared off into space. "I want a Growlithe, or a Ponyta." I smiled broadly as Andrew picked his head up from examining the region around Pallet. "I thought Fire types where hard to raise Spirit. I don't want you to get hurt." Big brother to the end, I swore Andrew would worry about me on his damn death bed. "But they are so awesome Nii sama!" I leaned forward in an enthused manner, he rolled his blue eyes upward. "I'm not saying their not cool or anything, I just don't want you to get hurt."

"I promise I won't get hurt, you're the one into the dark types."

"Dark types won't burn you."

"No but they'll eat you alive."

"We'll I'm gonna make sure the Pokemon likes me."

"And I'll train my fire type not to burn me."

"God you guys sound like a married couple." Buttonz interjected with a groan, our bickering had drawn her from her wonderful little world of fantasy. "Yeah well, what kind of Pokemon do you want?" I crossed my arms and regarded her coolly, the sea breeze kept tugging at my hair sending it flying every which way. "Well.. I'd like one of those Sinnoh Pokemon.. the purple cat looking thing?"

"Oh that thing?"

"Yeah.. it's my favorite color." Buttonz grinned and we smiled at her, she was totally in love with the color purple. "Whats the Pokemon called again?" Andrew got his legs under him to just fall back onto his butt and stare past my head toward the direction we'd come from. "Ummm I think it's Glam..something." Buttonz replied to Andrew's question with a tilted head and puzzled frown. "Glameow?"

"Yeah something like that." Buttonz nodded her head toward me before I laid out on my back, shoe heel holding the map down against the breeze. "Good thing none of us get sea sick." I muttered offhandedly making Andrew and Buttonz laugh softly. "Yeah." They replied in soft lost tones.

A couple hours later and I was storming up and down the length of the ship next to Andrew in a race. We'd gotten so bored with the lack of cellphone signals and playing with the Poke-tech's my mom had given us that we where racing each other. It seemed to amuse the crew greatly, watching three kids go stir crazy on their deck. "OH! What now!?" I shouted as I reached the stern just a step before Andrew did, he was doubled over hands on his knees gasping for breath. Sweat poured down his face and dripped onto the boards of the deck. "God you damn race horse." He panted between the words before letting himself fall over. "Oh has someone gotten slow?" I asked with a grin. We'd always been competitive during high school, it was 'I can do more sits up then you' or 'I can catch a ball better then you can!' and the such. It drove my mom crazy when it was just us in the house bickering over who could do something better. It never came to blows, Andrew just wasn't the fighting type and I could basically wake him up in the middle of the night to tell him I had to go pee or something stupid like that and he'd just roll back over saying 'ok'. I smiled down at the older male with a triumphant look as Buttonz came up and slung her arms around my shoulder with a bored sigh. "Sister." She whined at me "Where did you put that food?"

"The sammiches?" I tilted my head to look at her as she nodded her head eagerly. It was almost dinner time if my watch was right. "It's in my backpack.. or it should be.."

"No, I checked."

"Andrew you got the food?" I asked and he lifted his head to shake it at me. "You checked your own bag?"

"Yep."

"Then we must of left it."

"How could we of left the food?" Buttonz whined and fell over to drag me down to the ground with her. "I don't know, we just did." I leaned back against her as she complained softly to herself about how she now lacked her favorite Japanese foods. Rolling my eyes I looked up at the sky, it was turning a dark purple toward the east but it was alight with fire in the west. Sometimes I loved sunsets. "We can eat what the ferry has cooked."

"Augh, fine." Buttonz sat up and yanked my bandanna off my head to start toying with my hair, she was so weird at times, in the four years I'd known her she always had to be doing something or she'd get crabby most of the time.

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It was late the next day before the ferry docked a bit south of Pallet town, the late evening sun was killing my eyes, I put my arm up to block the rays of the sun halfheartedly before Andrew tapped my shoulder. My older brother pointed toward the mainland. Wow Pallet town was a lot bigger than I thought it would be. Trees towered around the town. houses where one and two stories tall but I could see the red dome top of a Pokemon center, the blue roof of a Pokemon mart wasn't visible yet. "WOW!" I shouted and put a hand to my head leaning back from the railing, my head hit Buttonz's stomach as she came up behind me. "It's huge! Think of all the hot guys Spirit!" She laughed and leaned over the rail in an attempt to see better. Andrew rolled his eyes, "It's ok Andrew, We'll get you a hot guy too." I laughed as he twitched. "Nope, that's ok." he said with a smirk on his face. "Do we stay at an Inn or a Pokemon center?"

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"Well.. We don't have Pokemon so I guess we stay the night at an Inn." I turned to look toward Buttonz who nodded to my answer. "Who wants to swim the rest of the way!?" I shouted as I started to walk backwards as if I was gonna make a run for the rail. "NO!" my older siblings shouted and I made a running motion, in a matter of seconds I was knocked flat on my ass by both of them. OW. "Oh my god you guys, I wasn't serious.." I groaned as I gasped for air and the two of them looked at each other a bit guilty. "Well mom would of killed us if she found out you swam nearly two miles to shore."

"I know I'm stupid to do that kind of stuff on the ferry to and from Cinnabar but those waters aren't infested with god knows what." I replied and Andrew arched his eyebrow at me. He'd been with me on that field trip. It had been AWESOME! Coming home from Cinnabar island at the tale end of the school year, the water had been perfect for it. The teachers hadn't let us go swimming in the whole week we'd been there so I took the opportunity to go do some diving right off the ferry rail. Shirt and all. Andrew rolled his eyes at me before one of the crew members walked up behind us. "We'd appreciate if ya didn't go diving off the rails of our ferry again Miss." I tilted my head back to look at Borus, the man who'd had to send his Squirtle after me cause I wouldn't take the life lines when I had jumped the ship. "Ah, don't worry Borus, got my guard dogs here to make sure I don't do anything stupid this time." I smiled up at the man, he'd been pretty worried when Squirtle had used water gun to shoot me back up onto the ship deck. "Your speed boat is here so get everything ready." Borus held his hand out to yank me up to my feet. We gathered all the things we had and boarded the speed boat in under 10mins.

Surprisingly the speed boat bobbed so much against the swells of the ocean that I got sick off the back of the boat. Standing at the back of the boat with me was Andrew I smiled softly at him, we only had a couple more minuets of it to go. "I hate boats.." I muttered and let out a sick sounding burp. He laughed and patted me on the back. "At least you ain't fell off the back of the boat."

"True.." I reached into my backpack and pulled out a water bottle, gargling I spat off the side of the boat, the faces I made where priceless sometimes. "I'm sorry you got sick kid.." The captain of the boat said as the boat jumped a huge wave and landed roughly on the stiller waters below. "Nah it's ok, not your fault." I shrugged softly before taking another drink of the water. "YEAH WOO! HIT THAT BIG WAVE UP THERE!!" Buttonz shouted and pointed toward a rather big swell that was heading up to the right of us. "You wanna capsize my boat don't you?" Laughed the woman as she spun the boat's controls so we no longer went against the swells but with them toward land. "Awww." Buttonz sat back in a twisty chair behind the captains seat and remained silent for the rest of the trip to the shore.

Before the boat could even be moored against the dock I was clamoring toward the dock, my shoes hit the boards of the dock and I dropped to my knees rubbing my face against the worn down boards. "Sis ." Andrew waited till I looked towards him. "Lands that a-way." he pointed to my right and I blinked before getting to my feet and darting toward the hard pavement of the dock area. "Pfft, Spirit don't know what a good boat ride is." Buttonz shrugged and hopped off the boat. I rolled my eyes at her. "Thanks for the ride lady." Andrew waved as I ran up the dock to catch up to my friends. I could see Andrew and Buttonz ahead of me, I twisted and turned threw the people till I caught up with them. "ID please." A woman said in a crisp tone from my left. "ID?" I asked stupidly and she nodded her head. Blue hair cut short, different shade of blue hat with a black bill around it marked her as a police officer. "Oh um my name is Spirit." I smiled at her as I heard a loud bark, turning my head I looked toward the crowd that had gathered ahead. "I'm sorry but you can't come into town without an ID." The male officer said loudly over the crowd. "Please come this way." From the crowd parting I could see a set of police officers with Growlithes! They ushered Andrew and Buttonz back toward the woman who had asked for me ID. "You three don't have ID's?" The woman frowned slightly at us but I hardly noticed, I was too busy admiring the other officers Growlithes. "No." I heard Shadow say as I reached out toward the right Growlithe who turned it's head toward me with a curios look. "OH MY GOD HE'S SO CUTE!!" I shouted and plopped down right on the ground to cuddle the fire type dog to my chest so happily. The officers blinked at me like I was crazy. "Sorry about Spirit.. she has an obsession with fire types." Buttonz and Andrew reached down to grab me up by my arms away from the Growlithe. With a soft whine I tilted my head back to look at the lady officer who was smiling at me. "Well.. Wait a minuet, Spirit, Andrew and Buttonz?" she pointed to each of us. "OH! I know who you guys are, Professor Oak sent me an E-mail about you three coming from that little island north of Cinnabar?"

"Yep tha'd be us."

"Ok, then these are yours." The woman held up a finger for us to show some patience as she patted the back of her skirt and the front pockets of her shirt. "Drat." she muttered and turned on her heel to walk into a little mini police station. "Rupert do you know where I put those Pokedex's?"

"No ma'am."

"Oh here they are!" The woman said triumphantly as she came back out, three boxes piled atop one another in a precarious manner. "These are your new Pokedex's. They'll tell you every thing you need to know about the Pokemon in Kanto." she balanced the boxes into one hand and read a sticky note on the top one, handed it to Andrew, read the note on the second handed it to Buttonz then handed the last one to me. "Pokedex?" I muttered holding the slim box in my hand. The sticky note had my name on it. "Yeah it's a special electromechanical item that holds all the information of Pokemon in the Kanto region. Regions like Kanto and Sinnoh have their own too." She smiled at us. "They're also your ID's." Buttonz and Shadow let my arms go to inspect the boxes with both hands. I turned around with the box in hand. "It's in the box right?" I asked and the officer nodded. Finding the seam I wiggled my fingers into till I heard the tear of cardboard. Pulling the flap back I found a series of red and white balls within. Blinking at it I held one in my hand, was it a Pokeball? My fingers roamed the surface of the ball till it hit a small upraised area like a button. My thumb pressed it in and a small 'beep' announced the ball growing to larger portions. "Wow." Buttonz muttered as she fiddled with her purple and white Pokeballs. Andrew had blue and white. Custom Pokeballs where hard to come by. Reaching in further my fingers found paper.

Dear Spirit,

Sorry your Pokeballs where not custom but you gave me no favorite color. Or much of anything to go on.

Oak.

Blinking softly in the failing light I saw the officers waiting to see what we thought of it. Placing the balls into my pants pockets I flung my arms around the female officer with a happy "Thank you police lady!" Andrew and Buttonz thanked all three officers happily. "Oh my name is Jenny, Officer Jenny." She smiled at me warmly before we ran off to find an Inn or something to spend the night in. We found one in the corner of the corner of the docking place. Small but nice the rooms where a bit cheap but they rocked. We shared a room. Buttonz in her own bed, Shadow in the top bunk with me on the bottom bunk. We'd figured that out the moment we walked into the room. A small table was set up in the corner with a phone and lamp. Across the room from the bunk beds was a TV set up on top of a dresser. A night stand stood by the head of the bottom bunk and one near Buttonz's bed too. I kicked off my shoes and plopped down onto my bed. I couldn't wait to see my Pokedex. I dumped the contents of the box onto my bed, Pokedex, instruction manual, a electronic map, and a sheaf of folded up papers. Once again my Pokedex was red since I had told the old man no favorite color, Buttonz was black and red with the letters ICP seemingly written in blood across the front. Andrew's had his name printed across the back with a set of dog prints across the front. Insert envy here. Oh well no need to get jealous. I could buy or trade things like that later in other towns maybe. Opening the Pokedex I let my fingers trace over the key pad. A small thumb print scanner and the like sat on the inside of the door of the Pokedex. The screen lite up with a beep

"Greetings Trainer 1805 3431 4440." the electromechanical voice greeted. Out of a small orb at the top a hologram of a chibi character appeared. Things had so gotten Hi-tech since Ash had been around! "I am Pokedex, your Pokedex." The little chibi man danced around on his holographic pad in greetings. "Wow, is that my ID number?"

"Yes Trainer 1805 3431 4440, 1805 3431 4440 is your number."

"Do you know my name?"

"Spirit Fair-Wind."

"Yep."

"Input command."

"Ummm.."

"Invalid command."

"Shut up."

"Invalid command." I groaned at the little AI old man. "Wow Spirit yours talks too?" Andrew asked from the top bunk. "Look at what mine is!" He waved the wolf hologram toward me with a typically pleased look on his face. "Does yours know your name?"

"Yep."

"How about you Nee sama, does yours know your name?"

"Oh my god yes! It's a talking ICP symbol! With a Hatchet man!" My friend squealed with delight and curled up with the Pokedex. "Mine is a cocky old man."

"I am not."

"See?"

Andrew laughed at me as I gave a sigh to the Pokedex that winked off as I set it down onto the pillows. "Lets go get something to eat, I'm starving."

"K, don't forget your Pokedex. Officer Jenny said it was our ID, someone else might want to know we are." Shadow climbed out of his bunk to land onto mine and then swing out by the small out cropping that his fingers could hold onto. I just scrambled across the bed and into my shoes. The three of of checked for money, room keys, Pokedex/ID thingy ma jigs before we left, cellphones and Poketech's where no big deal, we hadn't taken those more then four feet away from ourselves since leaving the island.

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Professor Gary Oak, the grandson to Professor Oak. Rival to Ash Ketchum and leading Pokemon authority in Pallet town, leader of the regional exchange of Pokemon trainers. Find out what I'm blathereing about in Ch3!