chapter 5: the journey begins
I woke up bright and early and went down to what i believe is called the 'chicken' or was it 'kitchen'? anyway i went to that where shortly after Ryan came downstairs to make breakfast, this time it was 'ham and cheese omelets' all i know is that they were good, i ate slower but still finished faster than Ryan.
"heheh, well slight improvement but you still eat too fast." after he was done eating he went upstairs and changed what he was wearing, along with having what looked like a Khangaskan pouch on his back.
"alright bud you ready?"
"let's go."
'Charmander'
"well it seems like you're ready then, hop on it's gonna be a trip." i climbed on his shoulder as we left the house and set off. our first stop was a small building with a blue top and thin crystal all around it except the back. we went inside and Ryan bought some more red and white orbs which as i hear around they're called pokeballs, and along with those he bought some containers with purple liquid inside. we left the building and then went into the woods that he found me in, i needed some training so we decided to stop and train a little bit, the first pokemon we encountered was a pidgey which i took down but afterwards Ryan threw a pokeball at it and it was absorbed into the ball. this happened about two more times, with a ratatta and a pikachu, right before we left the forest i remembered the burrow and sitrus berries, i gestured to Ryan to follow me and he did. we made it to the burrow and i was relieved that it still had only my scent inside it, i crawled inside, saw the berries and picked them up, i rolled each of them upward one at a time and then crawled up myself.
"here, we might need these."
'Charmander char mand mander"
"so i'm guessing this is where you stayed before i caught you huh?, and these berries might come in handy later, good job Emburn." he put the berries in the pouch and i climbed back on his shoulder. we then left the woods into another town, we stopped by a building with a red top this time and i was returned to my pokeball, outside i heard someone say
"welcome to the pokemon center we can restore your pokemon to full health", i then heard a clicking noise but suddenly felt back up to full strength and stamina. i was released out of my pokeball and we went off to an even bigger buiding with a brown roof and people in black clothing stopped us and said.
"are you here to challenge gym leader Giovanni"
"yes i am."
"how many badges do you have"
"oh uh i don't have any i was hoping this would be my first gym"
"you must be required to have 7 badges before challenging Giovanni, a good gym for starters is in pewter city which is right next to this one."
"ok thanks i'll go there" we left for pewter city and along the way Ryan trained his other pokemon for what was known as a gym battle. when we made it to pewter it was already nighttime and he decided to sleep at another building with the red top. i got put in my pokeball for the night because i didn't have my bed with me, so i spent the night on the forest floor gazing at the stars above. i woke up in a pretty akward way, i was released form my pokeball but was still asleep, for about another 20 seconds, then i woke up thinking 'how in Arceus's name did i get on the floor?' then i looked up at Ryan and it all made sense.
we headed for a building similar to the previous one and entered.
"wow this place is huge, i hope you're ready for the fight of your life Emburn." i nodded and then a spotlight revealed a man with spiky brown hair and a green chest covering with an orange one underneath.
"who challenges the pewter city gym leader?"
"my name is Ryan and i challenge you to a battle for my first gym badge."
"very well i shall challenge you with only two pokemon, my geodude and my onix." Brock picked out two pokeballs from the wall and threw one. out of that pokeball came a geodude, Ryan then threw me out into battle. i hit first with an ember attack then followed up with a scratch, it hurt it a bit but not enough to knock it out, next thing i know i was thrown to the ground by a tackle, but i managed to throw it off and land a tackle of my own which hurt it quite a bit, then i finished it off with next sent out a giant rock snake that was called onix and this one wasn't gonna be as easy as the geodude, but my spirit wouldn't go down. i charged at it, i landed a bite attack, bad idea, biting onix made my mouth hurt like crazy and i'm pretty sure i cracked a tooth, i didn't have time to see though because the pain was taken over by another pain throughout my whole body. turns out onix used pound, and sent me flying across the room with its tail. i got up really weak this time, but Ryan thought i had enough and sent me back to the pokeball, i heard the others that he sent out, rattata, pidgey, pikachu, butterfree, all went down one by one until i was left. i went out of the pokeball and tried to stand as best i could, onix wasn't looking too great either, a few more hits and it is going down. i shot a smokescreen to blind it for a bit, then i used scratch to get more of it's health down, i tackled it, to the ground, it then tried thrashing around trying to hit me, but i was just that little bit quicker to dodge, and it didn't help that the smokescreen was blinding it. with one final charge up i unleashed a powerful ember attack right at it's face, that was the end of the battle.
"Onix return. here you go Ryan, an official boulder badge to congratulate your success on beating the first gym. you just took your first step but there are many more ahead, i hope you can achieve what you're aiming for, and with that little charmander of yours, i think you're gonna go quite far."
"thank you Brock, it was a fun battle, bye."we then left the gym and headed straight to the building known as a pokemon center to heal all of us up. after that we went back home and celebrated our first victory, which lasted up to around 2AM. in the morning i woke up felling sore yet stronger, i looked in the solid reflective water on the wall and sure enough, i chipped a tooth from that fight, it was sore but the pain would go away in a while. i went to wake Ryan up, but then decided to let him sleep a little more, i went to a bigger room in the house which had a large black plank on the wall, i wondered what it was so i pushed some bumps on the bottom, and the plank was all of a sudden hving many lights on it, like an inkay suddenly startled, or a malamar trying to lure prey. i held down another bump and for some strange reason the sound coming from the plank got louder and louder, i let go, but it was loud enough to wake up Ryan.
"jeez Emburn is the T.V not loud enough for you?" Ryan then picked up a smaller plank with a lot of bumps on it, pushed one of the bumps and the 'T.V' went back to black.
"if that was your way to wake me up then congratulations, you succeeded." he looked a little annoyed but he still looked amused by what i did. he then just laughed for a little and decided it was time for breakfast. after eating we decided to go for the next gym which was in Cerulean city, we packed up i waited for Ryan to change and then we were off. we made it to Cerulean city before dark, so we decided to challenge the gym right away. the gym leader was misty, who uses water type pokemon, bad news for me, Ryan would have to stick with Electro the Pikachu for most of this battle. as i thought, he sent out Electro first, the staryu wasn't much of a problem to take care of, but then she sent out starmie and it was the onix incident all over again. electro was the first one to fall, then butterfree, then pidgeotto, and finally rattata. i was the only one left, luckly starmie was injured, and i hadn't battled since we made it into the gym. i went out and immediatly started, i hit it with a dragon rage, which sent it really into pain, but i wasn't fast enough to dodge the bubblebeam heading towards me, and i was struck right in the face. then it started to gloat.
"give it up runt, you won't beat me, even if you got that move in, i'm still standing." that was enough to send me full wild mode.
"well then, i guess we'll see how tough you really are." i launched towards it, faster than it could follow, and landed a scratch right at it's center which held it's gem. i turned around and fired two embers before it could even react, and with one final run, i tackled it to the ground. we won with that last move, and Ryan was awarded a dew badge.
"well done kid, you really had me thinking i was about to win, but thact charmander of yours really has a 'never give up' spirit, good job." before we were about to leave i felt something strange, like i suddenly had an adrenaline rush mixed with being too hyper, then i was surrounded by light, i could feel my appearance changing, my claws becoming bigger and tougher, a sudden horn coming from the top-back part of my head, and i was getting taller. when the light faded, i looked down and realized that i was now a charmeleon.
"wow this is awesome... wait is that MY voice!?" i could hear myself talking differently, i always looked forward to evolution, but i was never really prepared for it.
"wow Emburn you really got stronger, now you're a charmeleon." i nodded back, we went to the pokemon center to heal up and spend the night, and in the morning, more adventures followed.
Author's note: this was one of my longer chapters and i hop you liked it. next chapter is going to take place when Emburn evolves into a charizard then i'll skip to the 6th gym in kanto because writing/typing the entire adventure would take way too much time, also i haven't played gen 1 past misty's gym so yeah. but anyway i'll just skip ahead, also i probably won't be uploading for the next 4 or 5 days because i'll be away from my computer. so bye and i hope you enjoy this story so far.