Brian: Starting in Kanto
Chapter Two: Choosing a starter
Brian started on the thirty minute road too the breeding center, wondering what pokemon that was available this year. Normally the new trainers would go too a local pokemon lab and get one of three starters, usually a Charmander, a Bulbasaur and a Sqirtle. Catertown on the other hand did not have a pokemon lab, but instead a breeding center, here the new trainers could choose from different pokemon that came from eggs found at the breeding center. Normally this was more common pokemon such as Pidgey and Magikarp, but some times you could be lucky enough to find rare pokemon such as Dratini or Kangaskhan. The amount of pokemon you could choose from depended on how many pokemon the breeding center managed to produce.
"Maybe they got a legendary pokemon too, that would be awesome" he though while kicking a small stone in front of him along the road. "Like a Moltres or a Zapdos… awww, I can't wait" Brian picked up the pace by this exiting thoughts, better come in early too get the pokemon he wanted.
As Brian started to close in on the center he noticed a person sitting under a tree by the road. When he got closer he noticed it actually was a girl, about his own age. She got long black hair and wore a black skirt and a black top with some sort of white pattern on. A black leather belt with nails sticking out of it was hanging loosely around her waist. When she spotted Brian she quickly got to her legs and came straight in his direction. Brian noticed she was holding a black orb or something in one of her hands. Suddenly she tossed the black orb and screamed "Gastly… I choose you…"
Brian stumbled backwards by this sudden event. He tried desperately to maintain his balance, but ended up falling on his back in the middle of the dirt road. "What's going on?" he managed to say. "I challenge you to a battle" the girl firmly stated ready to make her first move. "Well you see… I'm not a trainer yet… so I really don't got any pokemon to fight you with" Brian slowly got to his feet, dusting of his shorts, "I'm Brian by the way" he tried being as polite he could, reaching out his hand. She just stared at him with her dark brown eyes before she grabbed the black orb again and pointed it towards Gastly. "Return Gastly… It looks like this looser doesn't have a pokemon yet… How pathetic." Gastly disappeared in a red beam of light into the orb.
"So that black thing you got there is actually a pokeball?" Once again Brian tried to be polite. "So you've noticed, huh" the girl sarcastically shot back. "Why is it black? Shouldn't it be red and white like the usual pokeballs?" She gave Brian ice cold gaze "So I painted it black… stupid…"
"Whow… no need to get hostile girl" Brian sweated "By the way, I didn't catch your name" he continued. "That's because I never told you my name… It's Amy… Like you care, now get out of my way" she pushed Brian to the side started to walk away.
"Man… teenage hormones at its worst…" Brian picked his bag back up from the road and headed towards the breeding center once again.
Ten minutes later, Brian entered the breeding center all pumped up with excitement. "It's about time you showed up" Rob was sitting on a bench just inside the door. He wore a pair of dark jeans, and a white sweater with dark blue stripes across. He was a bit short with icy blue eyes and dark blonde hair. "I've been waiting here in like twenty minutes."
"I got here as fast as I could Rob… Have you checked out the pokemon yet?" Rob got up from the bench and walked over to an older gentleman. "This is Mr. Furret, we gonna get our pokemon from him." Brian and Mr. Furret shook hands, "Well Brian, and Rob, we got six pokemon you can choose from, they are contained in these pokeballs." He walked over to a table with seven pillows, on each pillow, a pokeball was placed. In front of each pillow, a small sign containing some basic information on the pokemon contained in each of the pokeballs. "You said we could choose one of six pokemon, but why are there seven balls then?" Brian asked curiously. "This pokeball over here is empty. It used to contain a Gastly, but a sweet little girl named Amy picked it up about half an hour ago. She actually brought her own pokeball with her that she rather wanted to use instead of the one we provided." Mr. Furret picked up the empty pokeball and put it into his pocket.
"Now to the pokemon… Starting from the left here we got quite a treat. This is a Ditto, it can transform into the same pokemon it fight against, copying its moves and all. In the second ball you'll find Voltorb, a quite unstable electric pokemon and are known to self-destruct when it feels threatened. In pokeball number three we got a Seel, Easy too train, elegant and a powerful water pokemon. Pokemon number four is Weedle, not very strong in the beginning, but is quick to gain experience and eventually evolves into the feared Beedrill. Next to Weedle we find Mr. Mime Jr. A very cute mime pokemon, known too imitate all and everything. And finally in the sixth pokeball we've got Diglett the digging pokemon, known to dig large underground tunnels."
Mr. Furret took a step away from the table and turned towards Brian and Rob. "You go first Brian, I got some trouble deciding…" Rob gave Brian a light push, shoving him in front of himself. Brian stepped forward, stretched out his arm and picked up a pokeball. "Mr. Furret, I think I'm going with this one."