Warning: I do not own or claim to own Pokemon or any of the original characters from the show in any way shape or form. My own OC's are mine though, sorry.
From that day on I never saw the man who had sat in my room with me. It was from then on always the grumpy, menacing, all-powerful man I had come to know every other day of my life. His soft moments were rare, but nice.
The best gift I ever got was from him.
I was five, my governess was a wreck, and I had run of the place. All the grunts were scared of me along with the majority of the higher ups. Not because I was mean, oh gosh no I was still the perfect little angel I had been a year ago, but after my parents death the slightest little things could cause me to cry, and even though grandpa Giovanni didn't particularly pay attention to me I was his, and no one who made what was his cry got away with it.
And so I didn't have many friends. Grunts never brought their kids or siblings for me to play with, it was against the rules, and the higher ups kept their kids to themselves. Being known part time as the elusive granddaughter of the unbeatable gym leader Giovanni didn't really help much either. Kids were scared of me, most adults were too.
So I was alone.
Two weeks before my fifth birthday I remember going to my grandpa's office. He was in an important meeting of course but let me sit in anyway. I had recently caused a grunt to do something right and get promoted and I was sure I was going to be lectured for helping people get ahead of me in life. So like the goody two shoes I was I sat and waited patiently for the meeting to end.
"Keeran" he said, not so much stating as commanding me to his side as he stood. I jumped off my chair and stood next to him, waiting for what he would say. "Come, we have somewhere to be." He finished, walking out of the room. I quickly followed, having a hard time keeping up with his long strides. Finally we arrived to a room I had never been to before. It was huge and warm and inviting. The walls were lined with shelves, which were lined in fabric and cushions for the eggs that sat on them behind the glass doors that covered the front of each shelf.
"This is egg room 207. These Pokémon are all eggs right now as you can see. These Pokémon all happen to be from the Sinnoh region. You are allowed to pick one as your birthday present." Grandpa had said, stopping at a bin in the middle of the room that grunts were emptying onto the shelves.
"I can have any egg from here that I want?" I had questioned, looking around the room in awe.
"Yes, but there is one Pokémon I think you will enjoy the best out of any in this room." He stated, reaching into the bin in front of him and pulling out an egg in a container. It wasn't particularly bright or shiny or anything, but I knew that he had picked it for me. The cushion the egg sat in was green, my current favorite color, with a large green and blue bow attached to the top of the case. Through the cases glass I could see a white and blue egg, with two small yellow dots on it.
"What is it grandpa?" I asked, excited. "You have to tell me what kind of Pokémon it is grandpa! It's cheating if you don't!" I explained, reaching excitedly for the case. He lifted it a little more until it was just slightly out of my reach.
"Ah, but you see it would be cheating if I told you granddaughter. If you can tell me what kind of Pokémon it is then I will give it to you early. If not then you must wait until your birthday for your present." He explained. I opened my mouth to ask another question before he cut me off. "And no, the grunts will not give you the answer, they have been ordered not to." That was the first challenge he had ever given me, and I was ready to meet it head on.
artzy: Well that's the next installment there folks. No battle or anything yet but Giovanni is starting to train his granddaughter you could say with his challenge. Thanks for reading and please review so I know if you guys like it or not.