Indigo League Challenge, Mt. Moon Task – 6 drabble collection (excluding extras), second drabble 200-250 words.
Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompts #451 – marvellous
A Trail of Dust Particles – Alain's Journey
Drabble 02: Sycamore's Assistant
Professor Sycamore was far more involved with the world than he'd expected a researcher to be. He pulled the bookworm part of him out into the real world and he did it so easily. Saddled him with a pokemon first thing, said no-one could call themselves knowledgeable about pokemon without having at least one as a friend and companion.
And so Alain received his first pokemon: Charmander. And his first job as well, because the life of Professor Sycamore fascinated him far more than the life of a pokemon trainer. And received a fresh new outlook on things, because Professor Sycamore ran his summer camp for Trainers and had visitors day in and day out and found time to spend with all his pokemon as well and managed to see everything as "marvellous", no matter how mundane it looked to everybody else.
And it was a blur of colours at first: wild, dizzying colours that made him want to go back to his books but there was something addicting too. Like bitterness with a sweet aftertaste and maybe it was worth staying for that.
And after that, he began to genuinely like Professor Sycamore and the breath of fresh air he brought and the way he was always searching for knowledge and passing it on and not just from easy to find books but out in the wilderness where he had to work for it and earn it –
And he decided. He was going to stay with that man.