I refuse to die. Hello all once again I have defied expectations and have created a new chapter to this story. Hopefully you all didn't get to bored waiting. However I must apologize for the long wait, I had a some personal complications as well as a lot of summer school work since I'm taking some classes early. As always I hope you enjoy this chapter and constructive feedback is always welcome and indeed appreciated. Shout out to Epifex and his Emerald nuzlocke comics, Also shout out to the return of DJ Ephixa his music allowed me to stay up until around 3 in the morning to Finnish writing this chapter. If you interested in some good music search Iceproofcomet on youtube and listen to the Sierra 117 playlist, BOUNUS POINTS to anyone you gets the reference. Okay sorry for your time now for the story.
As we jogged to the outlook I couldn't help but think about which starter I would choose. I had talked to plenty of trainers who had stopped at the school to challenge Cheren for the basic badge. From what they said all three starters had both their strengths and their weaknesses. I had used all three in training battles at the school and cared for a starter trio and had developed opinions on each of them, Snivy was a quick fighter with a bit of an attitude, Tepig was a pretty versatile fighter but spooked easily, and oshawott was strong and hard fighter but was quite vain and self centered. That being said I still couldn't decide.
When we got to the outlook I heard a slight dinging sound;like a wind chime, then I felt a presence in my head followed by my mothers voice "Is Isabel with you?" she asked in a hollow sounding voice. Mom's Chimecho floated out of a bush, it was shy so it was most likely hiding there waiting for me, it's telepathic ability linked my mother's mind with with and was the reason for her voice sounding hollow.
"Yes she wanted to go with to see me pick my starter so I said she could come" I replied in thought-speak. I hadn't given much thought to what had happened this morning and hearing my mother's voice brought those memories back to the surface. Of course I wasn't sure how strong my mother was with psychic abilities as people who raise or train psychic type pokémon start to gain psychic abilities of their own so I ended the connection to try and prevent her from knowing what I was thinking.
Mom's Chimecho startled to float away towards home and I turned to the stairs and started up to the outlook. About half way up I started to hear more familiar voices which I instantly recognised as Griffin and Chijioke, by the time we got to the top of the stairs it was 4:38. Upon noticing us Chijioke; who was standing on a light pole, flipped of it and landed in front of Jaires and me.
"You're late, again" He started like he did every time we went somewhere.
"I was only 8 minutes late, get off my back. Geez" I replied putting him off.
"So has any seen the professor's assistant?" asked Jaires after he had looked around and noticed that the five of us were the only ones there. He walked over to the far side of the outlook and gazed out across the Unova region.
"Wait, who's the professor's assistant? Is she the person who's gonna give you your pokémon?" Asked isabel.
"I don't think that the assistant is a "she" the professor probably has a male assistant" I replied playing devils advocate to her.
"hello! Sorry I'm late! I got a little lost" called a ditzy looking blonde as she huffed her way up the lookout stairs she had Shoulder length Blonde hair with a lime green cap that had a white bow on the side perched on her head. She wore a black and white shirt under a orange fall jacket. She had emerald green eyes with red glasses that were frameless on the top. Her purse was also a lime green as were her knee length pants. her sho's were orange to match her jacket. Needless to say the look suited her.
"Umm yes can we help you?" I asked thinking that she was still lost though I don't see how someone could get lost in this town as it was quite small.
Griff stepped towards the group "Matt, Jaires, Chijioke, Isabel" he turned to each of us in turn as he spoke. He then gestured to the new woman "meet Bianca, assistant to professor Juniper and she is here to give us our pokemon."
Isabel elbowed me in the ribs as she was almost my height being a bit tall for her age at 4'12 "told ya so." She whispered with a grin.
"Yea, yea alright, don't push your luck" I replied poking her in the side, she stifled a giggle as it was her most ticklish spot and one of her few weaknesses.
"Thanks for the introduction Griffin, how have you been?" Said Bianca in reply to Griff as she walked towards the center of our group and proceeded to dig in her bag for something. When she found what she was looking for she smiled and looked at us pulling out a tube like object. "This is a very special moment for young trainers, the moment they choose their first pokémon." She then pushed a button on the front of the tube and the entire face slide upwards revealing that it was hollow. Inside there were three pokéballs.
"Well Griff I'll let you choose first." Said Bianca as she turned to him.
"You always did have a sweet spot for me, well I thought about it and I believe the only logical choice is to pick Oshawott." He took a ball from the container; for that's what it was, and clicked it open. In a flash of white a blue otter like pokémon materialized on his head. He grabbed the shell on his belly and raised it to the sky with his head raised like a sea captain at the head of a ship. Griff looked up and the Oshawott fell off his head, The pokémon tried to grab his ginger hair but missed, however he did manage to grab Griff's blue polo and held onto the collar with one hand; the other holding the seashell. Griff started laughing, it was a whole hearted laugh that was in no way mean or directed at anyone.
"well I guess you should go next Matt." Stated Chijioke who did not know about my predicament in choosing a starter.
"Um… yea… sure" I hesitated before raising my hand toward the container; which Biance had brought towards me in response to Chijioke's statement, as I brought my hand closer the pokéball in the middle rocked and clicked open. As the light dimmed I held in my arms a little orange and black pig. It was smaller than most Tepig and I instantly recognized it. "Tepig? Is that you?" I was amazed it was the Tepig that I had taken care of during my time in the trainer's school. The Tepig looked up and he snorted blue embers affectionately.
"Well that's a surprise, I've never heard of a new trainer being reunited with a starter pokémon they took care of while they were still in trainer school." Said Bianca in astonishment.
"How did you know that?" I asked her surprised that she knew about that.
"It's obvious based on Tepig's reaction. Tepig are only known to snort blue embers for two reasons. One they are experiencing intense sadness, or two they are expressing feelings of intense happiness." Explained Bianca. (not gonna lie I really just made that up. Oh well it fits the story I suppose.)
"Well I guess that leaves the last one to me." said Chijioke as he picked up the last pokéball and clicked it open. The last pokémon to materialized out of the white light was a green snake like pokémon. She balanced on Chijioke's shoulder with her arms crossed and head down, her tail quivered as she held her balance, It was quite impressive.
With the last pokémon being chosen Bianca put away the container. "Well it's too dark now to do anything so we'll meet at the pokémon center first thing tomorrow, say 8:50?" She said as she turned to leave. We all agreed to meet her there.
"Well I should get going then." Said Griff as he started down the stairs with the Oshawott still holding onto his collar.
"I've got to go to, later." Said Chijioke as he vaulted the railing the Snivy keeping her balance the whole time and even flipped through the bars of the railing as Chijioke vaulted them.
"I'm gonna stick around for a bit, it's a nice night out." said Jaires as he sat on a bench with his Magby.
"Okay, well I gonna head home, see ya tomorrow." I said as I turned toward the stairs and started down still holding the now asleep Tepig. Isabel Quickly followed holding skitty. I had to say I was glad that she had gone along since I didn't have to wait until I got home to talk to her, plus it meant I wasn't lonely. we got to the bottom of the stairs and started home the buildings cast odd shadows looked almost alive in the eerie twilight.
Okay so I'm thinking about putting authors notes down at the end of the chapter as well as on top. So here goes. My friend Jaires (yes the one in the story) is thinking about making a comic adaptation for the story. So leave comments about it. Another thing is that that while this was a longer chapter It might be a little bit of time before the next chapter goes up since Im going to introduce another major character and I'm still working out some interaction issues also I thought I would try my hand in some writing contests so I'm entering some work. All right smell ya later!
