Disclaimer:I Don't own Pokemon, nor do I own anything related to it. The only thing I own are my OCs
A/N:Thanks so much to everyone who's favorited this story, and even more thanks to those who took the time to write a review!
A soft, cool spring breeze blew across Route 1 as Mandy stepped onto it. She closed her eyes and listened to the soft sound of the leaves in the trees and grass rustling against one another. She also took in the clean scent of the air. It was so much better then the dirty, polluted air of her hometown. Taking focus off of this, she began to go over her knowledge of Route 1 in her head.
'Alright, if memory serves me right,' she thought, 'Route 1 is inhabited mainly of Pidgey and Rattata. And since I'm in the anime, not just the game, Spearow my also appear. I'll do my best to stay away from them and just stick to the first two.'
Mandy then began her trek through the grassy road to her ultimate dream.
She had been walking for about a half-hour now, and was beginning to get frustrated. She had seen plenty of Pokemon, but they all ran away before she could challenge them to a battle. Just as she was beginning to think her dream wasn't meant to be, she spotted something ahead of her. She ducked down into a tall patch of grass, as to avoid being spotted.
The creature was very small and had the build of a 's breast and lower wing feathers were a shade of creamy white. They also were atop its head, resembling eyebrows. Its back, upper wings and the top of it's head were covered in brown feathers. It had a small grayish-pink beak, with small feet the same shade and had sharp claws at the end of each toe. Its eyes were a shade of black, and were surrounded by two black streaks that ran across it's eyes.
"Wow! A Pidgey!" Mandy said softly, trying to be quiet so not to scare the Pokemon away. She pointed her Pokedex at the creature
'Pidgey, the Tiny Bird Pokemon' The machine stated, showing the creature's picture, 'Pidgey has an extremely sharp sence of direction. It is capable of unerringly returning home to its nest, however far it may be removed from its familiar surroundings.'
"This is my first step, I've gotta catch it!" She slowly rose from her feet and walked toward her target. She stopped about 3 feet from the wild Pidgey. "Alright Pidgey," Mandy said, trying to sound more confident then she actually was, "I challenge you to a battle!"
Though seemingly hesitant at first, the Pokemon eventualy called out, "Pidgey!" in acceptence of the rookie trainer's challenge.
Mandy's had reached onto her belt and pulled a small poke ball off, cried, "Charmander, I choose you!", and threw the poke ball into the field/battleground. In a flash of white light, the small lizard appeared. "Char, Char!" It cried. And so their first battle began.
Pidgey then flew a few feet from the ground and beat it's wings furiously, causing strong winds to start up.
"Gust!" she said, knowing the attack. She remembered that this battle was not restricted to the turn based system in the games. She could make her Pokemon move about on the field to allow them to dodge. "Charmander! Run left!"
He followed his trainers orders. Charmander managed to escape the brunt of the attack, but was a little frazzled by the move. "You ok Charmander?" Mandy called out, worried her Pokemon was injured. Charmander nodded as a response. "Alright Charmander our turn! Use ember!"
A stream of fire came out of his mouth and struck Pidgey dead on. It then fell back down to the ground. However, it did not stay down for long. It soon was back on it's feet. It had a slightly tired look on it's face. The attack had done some damage, but the battle wasn't over yet. Pidgey once more flew a few feet off the ground, but then came at Charmander head-on.
"Tackle, shoot! Charmander, get out of there!" Mandy cried, some terror in her voice. Charmander did his best to listen to her. He ducked down on the ground and managed to roll out of the way just it time to miss the tiny bird's attack. "Good job! Now, while it's back is turned, use ember again!"
Another small stream of fire came from Charmander's mouth and hit Pidgey dead-on. Pidgey fell to the ground.
Seizing the moment, she called, "Now! While it's down! Scratch!" the tiny lizard ran as fast as his little feet could go over to Pidgey. He then started swiping the tiny bird a few times with his small but sharp claws. After doing so about three or four times, Pidgey was finally down for the count.
"Alright, here we go," she reached into a small pocket in her bag and pulled out small, empty poke ball. Mandy enlarged it, cried, "Poke ball, go!" and threw the object at her target. It lightly bounced off Pidgey, opened, enveloped it in a red light, and pulled it into the poke ball.
The center of the ball flashed red, and began to shake from side to side. Neither Mandy or Charmander spoke or moved. Both waited in anticipation to see if their hard work paid off. After a few more seconds of movement, the red light in the center of the poke ball went out and stopped shaking.
At first, she was numb and couldn't move, but slowly, she began to walk over to the poke ball. With shaking hands, she picked the object up off the ground and held it in front of her face. It took a few seconds for everything to register in her mind. They had done it. She and Charmander had done it. They caught their first wild Pokemon! A huge smile spread across Mandy's face. She quickly ran over to Charmander and picked him up in her arms. Both had a huge smile on their face and were laughing.. She had tears of joy forming in the corners of her eyes, and the flame at the tip of Charmander's tail was flickering happily.
The newly formed team had taken their first step to the top. "You did good Charmander," Mandy said, cuddling her dearest Pokemon, "You deserve a nice rest." She pulled out Charmander's poke ball and pointed it hat him. She said, "Charmander return.", then a red beam shot out out, enveloped the creature in her arms and sucked him in. She gently re-attached it to her belt, looking a the poke ball in her opposite hand. A thought popped into her mind.
She gently sat down Indian style on the ground, place Pidgey's poke ball on her belt, and placed her travel bag in front of her. She rummaged through the various pockets in it, taking inventory of the things she needed to buy when she arrived at Viridian City. She had found two potions in her bag and about 3000 pokedollars, but other then those and her four remaining poke balls, she had nothing else.
Mandy then rose to her feet, flung her travel bag over her shoulder, and continued her walk toward Viridian City. This time with more confidence in her step then before, and humming an unnamed tune with a smile on her face.
About an hour later she came across a small figure a few yards ahead of her, one she had not seen before. It was similar to a rat.
It's body structure was rather small. It's front two feet were rather large and prominent on it's small face, as was it's whiskers. The creatures body was covered with violet fur on top, but it's underbelly was white. It's tail pointed upward and curled at the end.
"Wow, a Rattata." Just as before, she used her Pokedex to find out more info.
"Rattata, the Mouse Pokemon. Rattata is cautious in the extreme. Even while it is asleep, it constantly listens by moving its ears around. It is not picky about where it lives - it will make its nest anywhere"
"Alright, here we go again!" Mandy jumped out of the shrubbery she had hidden in. "Rattata, I challenge you to a battle!"
The small mouse quickly turned toward Mandy, and gave a cry in acceptance.
"Alright! Charmander! I choose you!!" With a throw of it's poke ball, the tiny lizard pokemon appeared on the field.
Rattata made the first move of the battle. The tiny mouse began running as fast as it's little legs could carry it, Head down and ready for a hard hit. Sensing the oncoming tackle attack, The rookie trainer shouted: "Charmander! Dodge it!" The fire type move as fast as it could, but the tiny lizard still could not move quite as fast as necessary to avoid the attack. With a loud thud, The tiny mouse hit Charmander square in the chest. Charmander fell on it's back to the ground, a panic stricken Mandy cried out to her pokemon.
"Charmander! Are you okay!?" Slowly, the fire-type rose back to it's feet, nodded it's head, and got himself back into attack position. Though still concerned, his trainer called out an attack to him. "Use Ember!" A stream of fire came from Charmander's mouth, hitting a still recovering Rattata head-on. The creature was pushed back, stunned. "Now! While it's down! Scratch attack!!" Charmander then charged the small mouse and unleashed a barrage of claw swipes on it, knocking out his opponent. Mandy knew this was her cue.
She rechedinto the ball pocket of her and grabbed a poke ball out. "Okay, poke ball go!!" And with a simple flick of the wrist, the object was thrown from her hand, and onto Rattata, engulfing it in a red light. Both trainer and pokemon waited anxiously as the poke ball shook back and forth, awaiting weather their joint effort paid off. Finally, after what seemed liked forever for the two, The poke ball stopped shaking and it's center was white again.
Mandy and Charmanderran over to the object, the trainer part of the team picking it up in her gloved hand. With a firm grip on it, and Charmander gripped in her arms, the teenager started jumping around, both laughing happily about their success. "We did it! We did it! We caught another pokemon!!" As their mini celebration continued, a golden glow was caught in the corners of their eyes. Looking to the heavens above them, the pair saw a golden bird fly through the sky. Though it's details were masked by sunlight, the teenager knew who that pokemon was.
"Ho-oh..." Mandy could not help but be in awe of the legendary bird. It held powers powers most pokemon could hold a candle to. It's bright light sparkled in her hazel, and Charmander's blue eyes. But just as fast as the the god-like pokemon had appeared in the sky, it flew off into the newly formed rainbow.
The sight of the rainbow pokemon only made Mandy's spirit grow stronger. With a flame of hope and determination burning bright in her heart, Mandy and Charmander raced off in the direction of Viridian City.
A/N: Sorry if you thought the battles were bad, I'm still a rookie at this! If you have an opinion, please comment, but don't flame, please!!