"No. No. No. A thousand times no! You will not leave this town!" Bianca's dad was yelling at her a bit louder than usual. I just leaned against the wall next to the door watching everything. Eventually, her dad noticed me.
"Dusk, how long have you been there?" he asked. Bianca turned around very quickly.
"Long enough. Bianca, lets go to Juniper's. We don't want to keep Cheren waiting, do we?" She quickly went out the door. He dad only held his head.
"Keep her safe. I don't want to lose her." I could hear the concern in his voice.
"I'll bail her out if she needs it. Otherwise, she's on her own. She needs to learn on her own." I just walked out and closed the door.
"About time you two. What were you doing?" he asked.
"Oh, uh… we were… just…" she began to stammer.
"We were having a chat on how to ditch you over a cup of tea. What do you think?" I replied sarcastically.
"Let me guess, her dad didn't want her to leave?" It was no secret about Bianca's dad, so it was the natural thing to think.
"Nail. Hammer. Ding. Now, into the lab and further down this buneary hole we go." I said.
Inside the lab were rows upon rows of books and a nice farm outside with many pokemon roaming outside. A minccino rounded a corner and cried out down the row. A woman about 5'11" came out from the row. She had on shorts and a lab coat. She had brown hair with small earings.
"Welcome to the lab! I'm glad none of you are too badly hurt from your squabble over who gets what pokemon." She obviously didn't know about the fight in the room, so I decided to not say anything. Bianca had other ideas.
"No, only our pokemon fought. Dusk's seems to be very good. It was able to defeat both of ours easily!" She almost seemed happy that her oshawot might have some brain damage from that tackle.
"Well, I see that you are a capable trainer Dusk." She smiled.
"No I'm not. It did it all on its own." Snivy decided now was a good time to craw back over my shoulder.
"Snivy? I thought it was of a docile nature. Hmm, I may have to check that, but I have a task for you to do!" I groaned because I thought it would be more boring homework like koffing gas emmitions or the amount of zubats in a cave. "It will actually be fun Dusk. I will ask that you meet every pokemon in the world and record its data. I even have a pokedex for you all." She pulled out a red book-like thing and gave one to each of us. I opened it and saw only 3 files. As I suspected, they were tepig, snivy, and oshawot.
"Well, time for you to be off! Bye!" and we were again literally pushed outside.
"So, I guess we head to route 1 and on to Accumula Town. See you there guys." I started walking very fast since I wanted to quickly get away from that town. I wanted to see and hear everything with my own eyes and ears. However, nature was not that kind. I stepped on a rattata's tail and it bit my leg. Snivy hit it and sent it scurrying away, only to have a raticate and three rattatas come back. Needless to say, I ran, and I ran right into an eevee. Those things were rare, but I had no pokeballs.
"Hey there eevee, want to come with us?" All it did was sit and stare at us. Snivy lept off my shoulder and went up to it. Snivy pointed towards Accumula town which surprisingly was in view already. "I guess it'll follow us?" I asked Snivy. He nodded and started walking to the town with the eevee following it. I got to town and immediately went to the pokemon center. It healed snivy and I got a proper ball for my eevee. Eventually, we were able to have a sit on a bench in the park away from people.
"Ok, you two. We are going to get along like best friends, so I'm going to give you better names than just your pokemon names. Snivy, I think you should be Fyl, and eevee, I'll call you Lunarid. You two like your names?" Fyl climbed on my shoulder and into my hood, right where he likes it. Lunarid just nodded his head and rested his paws on my leg.
"All who have pokemon in their balls, you are enslaving them and forcing them to give up their freedom! We of Team Plasma want you to consider what you are doing!" I just look up and see many funny dressed people standing together. All of them had a big letter P on their chests.
"Says who? Maybe they want to be with us. Maybe they want to be our partners." They all turned back to me. Many of them had disgust on their face, some were surprised, but I saw a man in a bigger robe that was purple and brown instead of that ugly gray color the grunts were wearing. He was obviously their leader.
"Who dares challenge Team Plasma? Speak up boy!" He scowled. I could tell that he was not a very nice person.
"It's polite to introduce yourself first, but just so you know, my name is Dusk." I then got up and made to leave with Lunarid trailing right behind me.
"Dusk, I ask you this: Are your pokemon happy? Do they really want to be with you? Does that eevee want to evolve or stay the way it is?" His questions were ones I had already thought of, so I normally wouldn't care. That is, until Lunarid started growling at him.
"Lunarid, don't bother with them, they're just baiting you. Stick close so they don't steal you." Lunarid looked at me, gave them one more growl, and happily ran beside me.
"I see you are not afraid to stand up to them. I respect that." A boy in a white shirt and green hair approached me. "I don't like the method, but you are very giving and treat your pokemon well."
"I do try to be kind to them. They are my partners after all. I intend to become a powerful trainer so I can help others become stronger." I did want to become champion, but I wasn't so sure about the rest. I guess I was trying to impress him.
"Well, care to prove it with a battle then?" At the word "battle" Fyl popped his head up and looked at the boy.
"I guess Fyl wants to get in on the action. Sure, I suppose we can fight." I crouch and let Fyl crawl onto the ground.
"I will let my friend Patrat fight this time." He sends out a small brown creature with red and yellow rings around its eyes.
Fyl tackles the patrat and is hit with a leer attack. Fyl then uses many sharp leaves like throwing knives and hits the patrat. It goes down easily.
"Your pokemon. It said… I must have been mistaken." He starts to walk away, but suddenly turns around. "My name is N. I want to make sure pokemon do not get hurt by people in anyway."
"My name is Dusk, and I respect that goal. Make it come true." I said that believing every word of it, not knowing how it would change my destiny forever.