chapter 3: a new life

when i came out of the orb i landed back on the forest floor and looked up at the human.

"hey little guy, my name's Ryan and i know you can't speak but can you at least act out your name for me?" i knew what he meant so i shot an ember attack into the sky and then burned some dry leaves with my tail, i then pointed to the two things that just happened and let him figure the rest.

"so you shot an ember attack and then set some leaves on fire but i think that the leaves are now burning so ember and burning, or ember and burn, emburning, no wait Emburn! is that your name, Emburn?" i smiled and nodded with my tail glowing happily.

"well then Emburn let's go to your new home, hop on." he gestured for me to climb on his shoulder so i did and enjoyed the view.

"let's go." i said but to him i said

"charmand charmander" and then we were off. he walked to his house, it was relatively big but i guess that was just me because i was only about 2 feet tall. we went inside and he let me off his shoulder, i proceeded to walk around the house and explore a little bit, there were a lot of rooms and there was one that had some berries, i realized i hadn't eaten breakfast yet so i tried to jump up to get them but i couldn't reach.

"you hungry? here you go" he handed me three cherri berries, which i ate with glee because those were my favorite berries. he just smiled at me and chuckled for a bit.

then came this strange noise echoing throughout the house i got a little scared and shot a small ember at the air.

"don't worry it's just the doorbell it won't hurt you." Ryan then went to, what he called a door and opened it revealing another human dressed in a white uniform carrying a brown box, the human appeared to be female.

"here you go sir, just sign here please" the girl asked as she handed Ryan a flat piece of wood with a stick and what looked like thin solid snow. Ryan wrote on the wood and gave it back to the girl who gave him the box.

"have a good day sir."

"you too." he closed the door and set the box down. i came over to him to see what was inside.

"oh wait i don't have my package knife with me, say Emburn could you use scratch on the shiny part." i nodded and did as he said, Ryan opened the box to reveal some small spongy things that came in different colors, i thought they might be something to eat so i put one in my mouth but spit it back out because it tasted pretty bad.

"haha, no Emburn you don't eat those, but i guess you found that out already. now let's see what's inside this box." he reached his hand inside the spongy things and pulled out a thin black shiny thing with a button on the bottom.

"it's a hologram message but from who?" he pushed the button and out came a smaller human made of blue light, but it talked.

"hey Ryan it's me Alex, remember me from middle school? you probably do, but anyway i sent you this message to inform you that i'm coming over for a visit on saturday cause it's been what 2 years now so yeah i'll be coming over so be prepared." then the blue light human known as Alex disappeared.

"so what was that all about?"

(Ryan ears) "char charmander mand char?"

"oh you're probably wondering who that was right? well he's an old friend of mine back when we were about 13 in middle school, it's been 2 years now. WAIT did he say Saturday? that's tomorrow, Alex is coming tomorrow" Ryan seemed really excited for his friend coming over. two years ago was when i was born so he hasn't seen Alex in the time that i've been alive. it was a few hours after mid morning and we went out for a walk in the park, i saw some pokemon playing around over in another area and Ryan said i could go, so i went over and joined them. in the group was a Stunky, a Rattata, a Plusle and Minum, and a Snivy.

"hi i'm Emburn I'm new here and i was hoping you guys would like to play?"

"sure you can come join us, we were just going to start playing tag. oh my name's Greenroot by the way."

"my name's Bucky" replied the Rattata

"mine is Streak" said the Stunky

"and ours are Cloud and Shocker" the Plusle was shocker and the Minum was Cloud.

"hey Emburn what's that?" Greenroot pointed to my wrist where the bracelet was.

"oh this, it's a memory charm my brother gave me before we split ways. you see my nest was destroyed by a really fierce Aggron nad my brother and i were the only ones who survived. he wanted to go his own way so he gave me this to remember him by." they each had a look of sadness and awe on their faces.

"you know what let's not sit around moping and get to that game of tag you guys were talking about." the rest of the afternoon we played tag and other games until it was time to go back.

"Emburn!"

"that's my call, see you guys later probably." they all waved goodbye and i hopped back on Ryan's shoulder as we went back home. we got back, ate a quick dinner then went to bed, in his spare time Ryan somehow managed to put together a small bed for me to sleep in along with a stone to put my tail on as i slept.

"looks like you made some friends today bud, well that's good we had a good day today, see you in the morning." he then turned off the light and went to sleep, and so did i. this night i had some pretty good dreams and woke up nice and ready. after Ryan woke up we went downstairs and he made these fluffy tan disks along with some disk-like cooked meat, he said it was something called pancakes and sausage, but whatever they were they were good and i ate everything in a few bites, then i ended with a very satisfying burp.

"well i see someone has an appetite. for such a small pokemon you sure can wolf down food pretty fast." then the doorbell rang and standing there was a human i knew as Alex.