Chapter 4- The Pokémon Thief and FREEDOM!
"Hello? Lyra, it's a disaster! Umm, what should I do? What should we do? Please come back to the Lab ASAP!" with that, the professor of Johto hangs up on me without even a goodbye.
"Um…ok? Let's go back, Megan." I say out loud.
"CHIKO!" she shouts and runs ahead. I run after her, catching up to her before she runs into Cherrygrove City.
"Megan, you can't run off like that! I do NOT want to lose my first ever Pokémon. Okay? I am not mad, but I think we should go back." She looks sad-faced but follows me to the fencing where I spot the rude redhead from earlier walking up to us.
"You got a Pokémon at the Lab? What a waste. That's a Pokémon that's too good for a wimp like you. Don't you get it?" his attitude and words fires Megan back up and makes me so angry, I start to see red.
"I'll show you who the wimp is!" he smirks.
"I'd like to see you try, I too, have a good Pokémon. I'll show you what I mean!" with those words, he sends out a Cyndaquil. "Let's see your bravado now, girly."
"My name is Lyra, and Megan here will kick your Cyndaquil's butt! Use Tackle!" but, his Fire-type is faster, and uses Leer to lower Megan's Defense. And she keeps going with her Tackle, knocking the little Fire-type near his Trainer.
"Now, use Tackle on that excuse of a Grass-type!"
"Dodge and use Tackle yourself Megan!" she does and with another hit, which happened to be critical, she defeats the Cyndaquil. He calls back the fainted Pokémon, and asks if I am happy I won. I don't answer, and he goes on to say that he'll become the world's best Trainer. As he pushes past me, he drops something. I pick it up and find the name of this obnoxious boy on the Trainer Card. Silver Sakaki…why does that sound so familiar? Before I can give it back with a 'Here you are' he snatches it away from me.
"Oh no, you saw my name!" and he runs from me and Megan. I only blink at his sudden disappearance, but shrug it off and continue back to New Bark.
When I enter the Lab, the police officer standing next to the Professor accuses me of taking one of the Starter Pokémon of this region. "…because rule number one! The one who stole the object, thing or Pokémon will return to the scene." Well, that's the most stupid rule about thievery I've ever heard of! Thankfully, before I can defend myself, Ethan comes in and yells:
"It wasn't her! I saw a red-haired guy looking into the building!"
"I fought a redhead. His name is Silver." I leave out his last name; but for what reason, I have no clue. The officer writes down the name and description of the boy, who I finally realize stole the Cyndaquil he used against Megan, and leaves.
"Whew, I'm sure thankful they believe you're innocent of that, Lyra." With that, Ethan leaves and I turn to Elm.
"Oh, it's terrible! We heard a commotion outside, and when we returned, the Cyndaquil from the set that you got your starter from was gone! But what was Mr. Pokémon's big discovery?" I take the Egg Case out of my bag, after taking a lot of things out, and give it to Elm. He jumps back and I fear for the Egg, as it starts to fall to the floor, but Elm catches it. "Huh, this could be a Pokémon that I haven't seen before, but we won't know till it hatches. I'll do some tests on it and see what we can do with it." As I pack my things back up, Elm notices my PokéDex. "Who gave you that?!"
"Professor Oak, he was with Mr. Pokémon at his house." I say it breathlessly, and without any feelings.
"Woah, that means that you could try for the Pokémon League! Professor Oak is great at seeing the potential in Trainers. It won't be easy, if you want to go that route, but you could at least try Violet City's Gym. But before you go, you should discuss with your mom about this." Only nodding, I pick up Megan and leave the lab to head home. After a somewhat-heaty 'discussion' with Mom, she agrees but only if I send her money from my travels. I agree to that, but I made a point of telling her only ten percent of what I earned from battles with other Trainers.
"Well, if you can't carry any more money, send me some, then you can battle others to your heart's content! Just be careful, honey." She gives me a final hug.
"Will do." and with that, I walk out of my house to start my journey. Inside, I am ecstatic, I am finally free of Mom's rules and I can do whatever I want!
"YES!" I scream after I am far along Route 32, slightly scaring Megan. But once she sees my smiling face, she chirps out her name.