HGSS: Sinnoh Saga
Season 1
Chapter 2: Twin Leaves
Ethan slid forward on the muddy ground.
"Wh-Whoa!" He fell forward, but placed his hand on the ground and he would barely slide. He stood up and wiped himself off. "Gah...Along with this and the shivering temperatures, this is HORRIBLE!" Ethan continued to walk on the snow-covered path. Mud prints were left in the white snow from where he had stepped in the mud. "So much for brand new shoes..." He said as he looked in disgust at the ruined shoes. "I bet Lyra's having a better time..."
In Kanto...
"No..." An old man said quickly.
"What? NO CONTESTS!" Lyra said furiously.
Back in Sinnoh...
Dawn was calling out the names of the pokemon. She was walking in an area without any traces of snow, not even in the trees.
"You know, that's rather odd that there's no..." Suddenly, she stepped off of a cliff and tumbled down. As she did, though, a blast of fire burst across the ends of her hair. If she hadn't fallen, it would have scorched her. She fell to the snow filled bottom of the cliff. Checking her ends, they were crisped and she took on an angry expression. "WHO DID THIS?" She screamed.
A horse pokemon tramped to the edge of the cliff and snickered. "A Ponyta? GAH!" She screamed and threw snow at it. It breathed Ember and melted the snow in mid-air. It then galloped off without anything else. Dawn sighed and stood up. "This way to Lake Verity. Maybe that snatcher went out there!" Dawn hurried through the deep snow.
About parallel to where she was, Barry was on a limb in a tree, scoping the area.
"Hmm, I wonder if that guy is around here..." Suddenly, he felt a pinch in his back. He skittered off of the tree. As he picked himself up and dusted off the snow, he saw a green pokemon hanging in the tree. It had nipped him with its toothless mouth. "That hurt! Wow, I guess I'm sort of a weakling..." He sighed and thumped himself on the head. He looked on down a path of snow. At the end, he could see the end of a water's edge. "Hey! That's Lake Verity!" He then rushed through the snow without stopping.
Ethan continued walking until he saw the edge of water. He hurried ahead and came to a clearing where there was no snow at all surrounding the lake. The lake was topped with moving water, rather than ice like Ethan would have expected. Beside him, a few yards away, Dawn penetrated the forest and saw the lake. She turned and waved at Ethan. A few yards from her Barry appeared and immediately stood at the water's edge.
He stuck a hand in the water and found it was extremely warm. "That's weird..." He looked forward. Suddenly, a figure moved from in front of the lake on the other side. "There he is!" He jumped, flinging water off of his pointing hand.
The man on the other side of the lake's eyes bulged.
Ethan rushed forward. "We'll handle him! Aipom, Swift!" Aipom jumped off of Ethan's head and wagged its tail, releasing a flurry of stars.
The man drew a pokeball and sent out a brown pokemon Ethan recognized as Sandslash. "Sandslash, Sandstorm!" The stars clashed into Sandslash before the sand was released. "No!"
"Hey, you must be...Khoury from Team Rocket!" Ethan shouted.
Khoury nodded and took off the mask, revealing his scarred face. "Correct! Now...I'll just be leaving..." He recalls his fainted pokemon, but as he did, more Swift slashed the bag at the mouth, and the starters spilled out onto the ground.
"There!" Dawn screeched. Khoury turned quickly. "Turtwig, use Razor Leaf!"
"Er, Chimchar! Use Ember!" Barry hurried to say.
"Piplup, Bubblebeam!" Ethan added. The three pokemon responded to their orders and released the three moves, barreling and throwing Khoury into the lake. As he made a splash, the water created waves and a fierce wind stirred. The three children dashed to the opposite side of the lake and snatched up the pokemon. The wind lashed the waters, and a cyclone formed in the center. The waves were only smashing against the wind wall, and the outside was calm and serene. Suddenly, a silhouette rose out of the water, flipped and landed again. Khoury was thrown from the water. He screamed in mid-air, and landed somewhere in the forest behind the lake.
The three kids high-fived and hurried back to the lab, through the middle path Dawn had come down.
Back at the lab, Jim and his Elekid were helping sweep up some of the wreckage. The explosion had knocked the cart into the hallway, destroyed, and thrown Rowan, his assistant and Jim across the room. Rowan was being treated by his assistant, as everyone else was cleaning. No further damage was done, as it was a VERY minor explosion.
The three trainers from before entered the lab and gasped evenly at the destruction.
"What happened?" Barry barked in astonishment.
"That guy that stole the pokemon set off a small bomb inside. It destroyed the cart and knocked some our winds out. But we're all right!" Jim glanced over at Rowan. "Or, the majority of us, that is."
They set down the starters. Rowan thanked his assistant and stood up. "Well, thank you for retrieving the pokemon..." Rowan started. He noticed the three pokemon standing in front of each of them. "It seems as if you have already picked your pokemon..." He said simply.
Dawn and Barry nodded. Ethan looked down. "Wanna come with me, Piplup?" He asked the small blue penguin. It nodded and grabbed his low pant leg.
"Well then! Those are your starters!" Another assistant walked out as Alexander said this. He handed him four PokeDexes and ten pokeballs. He gave each of them a PokeDex, along with Jim, and Dawn and Barry five pokeballs each. "And there you go. I want the four of you to travel the land of Sinnoh, gathering information on pokemon from all around!" Rowan cheered as he explained.
The four trainers nodded in agreement. Rowan also took out three badge cases and handed them to the trainers. He retrieved a blue ribbon case and handed it to Jim, who had just finished cleaning and recalled his Elekid.
The four trainers piled out of the lab, saying their goodbyes to Rowan.
Chimchar was perched on Barry's yellow hair, while Dawn had recalled Turtwig, and Ethan had done the same.
"Ethan!" Barry quickly shouted. "I challenge you to a battle!"
Ethan smirked. "All right then! I suppose you want me to use my starter?" Ethan asked.
Barry looked on with a look of sadness. "Er, well, Chimchar is weak to...but...um...whatever you want..."
Ethan snickered while Jim and Dawn were laughing. "Jim, could you be referee?"
"For a one-on-one match? What is it? 'Begin! And his pokemon fainted so the winner is-'? I mean, it's one pokemon! What in the world is the point of doing all that just for a one pokemon thing? It's a send out and faint! There really is no point so...is that what you want me to do? Waste our time by me being the referee and saying stuff during the match? Is that what you want, Ethan!" Jim snapped.
"Yup."
"Okay then," Jim sighed.
Ethan and Barry stood across from each other out in front of Rowan's lab. Jim stood in the middle, but on the outside of them, while Dawn sat a few feet from him, on the grass, Turtwig in her lap.
"This one pokemon match between Barry and Ethan will now commence!" Ji declared.
"Come on out, Piplup!" Ethan called, flinging his red pokeball above the field, sending his blue penguin out in a flashing light.
"Come out, Chimchar!" Barry called, sending out his red monkey on the soft grass. "Chimchar, Scratch!" Chimchar sped forward.
"Piplup, Bubblebeam!" Piplup started spinning and released bubble out into the air. They curved down and fell towards Chimchar. Chimchar weaved and flipped through the barrage of bubbles. It finally approached Piplup and lashed it across its body with its sharp claws.
Piplup stood up after being shot across the ground. "Piplup, use Bubblebeam!" Piplup span and threw more bubbles forward at Chimchar. They exploded on it and sent Chimchar through a cloud of damp smoke.
"Chimchar!" Barry shouted. Chimchar flipped up quickly and smiled. "Great, use Ember!" Chimchar was about to spit small flames, but it fell forward, fainted. "Whaaaaat?"
"And the winner is: Ethan!" Jim announced, waving his hand in Ethan's direction. Piplup jumped into Ethan's arms.
"Great job!" Aipom climbed to the top of Ethan's head as he recalled the mini penguin. "Good battle Barry!" He said across the field.
Barry held up a thumb. "Well, I'm going to head to Oreburgh, which is Northeast of here! See ya later! That first badge is mine!" He sped off into the distance of Sandgem.
"Wow. He's surprisingly fast!" Ethan said, cupping a hand over his eyes to see the smoke Barry left. "So, Dawn, what are you going to do?" Ethan asked, Dawn and Jim now standing in front of him.
"I was hoping I could travel with you two!" She said, ecstatic.
Jim and Ethan glanced at each other. "Sure!" They said in unison.
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There's the second chapter! They've received starters and now its up to the journey to see how their lives in Sinnoh will pan out!