Lol I swear I'd just be writing whenever I'm procrastinating. Sorry to leave you hanging. Reality managed to make me lose my inspiration somewhere. (WHY DOES LINE BREAK KEEP SCREWING UP).
Chapter 1
I fiddled with the necklace under my scarf. It was strung by a twisted black cord, and on it hung a cut gem that shined rainbows under sunlight and was encased in a simple leaf charm. Mother had given it to me the day I left and said that the jewel was an expensive jewel and to never ever take it off or lose it. I have often seen similar accessories on older trainers, perhaps it is a current trend?
I have often wondered, even if I wasn't actually going to leave, whether I would prefer Contests or Gym Battles. Both Mother and Katherine had preferred Contests(they are both performers, after all), but I think straight forwards battle is more of my style. Suri may not be a strong option yet, but we have plenty of tricks up our sleeves for that.
Meanwhile...
"Ahh.. Sharon, was that right?" Professor Oak smiled genially as he ushered me into the lab. "Your mother has been calling me every day for the past week, asking after you..." I could almost see a huge sweat drop appear his head.
"I apologise for any trouble Mother may have caused. I hope you can excuse her rudeness." If anything, the sweat drop somehow became bigger. We walked up the stairs, until we reached a large open area with latest model machines lined against the walls. The room was brightly lit, with giant glass windows pouring light into the room. He gestured me to sit and began rummaging around for something.
"Now if only I had an assistant.." He muttered under his breath. A few minutes later, he pulled out a green pokedex along with 6 empty pokeballs and handed them to me. I thanked him as I examined the pokedex with interest and I placed the spare pokeballs into the outer pocket of my shoulder bag. Suri gave a small chirp, reminding me of the purpose of this journey.
"Professor..." He looked back at me in question. "Can you.. tell me about Cephiene?"
"Ahh..." The professor pivoted on his foot and walked back to his stash. He pulled out a poster and laid in in front of me. It was the same silhouette poster as the one I had on my wall. Seeing my look of recognition, he took a seat and gestured.
"I often get visitors from Hoenn asking after her." That would make sense, given how worshiped Cephiene is in Hoenn. They are definitely many believers willing to travel across the continent for the slightest chance of meeting her.
"I was a wee lad back then, just a bit older than you when I went through the Kanto and Johto league, and decided to challenge Hoenn. It was a sunny friendly region, and I made many of my good friends there.." His expression turned slightly wistful.
"Oh sorry I was rambling. I passed by an orphanage during my journey, and stayed at the town to recover my supplies. That night I was training with Dragonite when I saw some fishy people creep around the town. Naturally, I followed them, and I heard them planning to set up camp around the orphanage to capture Cephiene as she comes to grant the orphanage's babies their soul bonds. Even back then, I was a huge fan of everything Pokemon, and therefore knew about many myths and legends about Pokemon. Cephiene was one of them, and so when I overheard what they were going to do... I challenged them to a battle and beat their behinds." He seemed oddly smug and got lost in his memories again.
"A few days later, I was woken up with the feeling of something dropping into my hands. By the time I fully woke up, and my eyes focused, her silhouette was all I saw." I stared slightly in doubt.
"How can you say that it was Cephiene with such certainty?"
"She gave me a keystone, would you believe it? Key stones are rare enough that no sane person would just willingly give it to me. Besides..." He gazed fondly at the poster. "I guess I just understood that she was Cephiene. Legendaries are often like that." I had a feeling that Cephiene wasn't the only legendary Pokemon he meant when he said that.
"Keystone..? What is that?" The professor turned around to dig into his stash again, before delicately pulling out a box.
"Keystones are a special, extremely rare item that allows a Pokemon to mega-evolve, along with a mega stone. The keystone is for the trainer, and the mega stones are for the Pokemon, and only together with those and a strong bond, may Pokemon Mega evolve. To be honest, I'm not too sure about the specifics, but you can ask Professor... Simon? Symore? Sycamore, I think, about this more. He studies the science behind mega evolution, and new Mega forms are being discovered everyda..."
I knew about Mega evolution. It was something that had briefly come up during some of my lectures, and so I had a vague idea of how it works. Wordlessly, I had pulled out the necklace behind my scarf, leaving the professor gaping at me.
"Where did you get one? Like I said before, these stones are extremely rare, and only found deep inside caves." I tilted my head in acknowledgement.
"Mother entrusted it to me and I was told merely that it was an expensive family heirloom." It did explain Mother's worry though, usually she understands that I am not clumsy enough to do anything as silly as misplace my items. "However, I have seen many trainer's with these Keystones around in Hoenn." The professor looked at me in disbelief before softly muttering to himself. It sounded something oddly like, 'It must be another weird Hoenn thing.'
Checking the time on the wall, Professor Oak refocused again and turned back to me.
"I must go and check on the Tauros' soon.. So Shannon, would you like to choose a Pokemon to take with you on your journey?" I stared back in confusion.
"But I have Suri here with me..?"
It turns out that Kanto had a lot fewer soul bonds than in Hoenn. In fact, barely any trainers from any region's first Pokemon were soul-bonds at all. It was just mainly Hoenn which got such a tradition. It was confronting. Despite understand a lot of the world's history and current affairs, it was still shocking that something so commonly accepted in Hoenn just didn't exist almost everywhere else around the world. Suri and I spent a while playing with the starters the professor offered me under his watchful eye but in the end, I decided to not accept his offer. Any and all Pokemon that come along with me on my journey, I want to put effort into myself. Getting handed free pre-trained Pokemon on a silver platter was not something I could easily accept, especially as one of the Rosehill Clan.
On my way out, I started hearing some voices and laughter. Must be more of Professor Oak's visitors. He is a rather famous person after all. Turning the corner, I immediately collided into someone and fell on my butt, Suri falling and landing next to me.
"My apologies. I was not watching where I was going." I said, tilting my head. The guy who I bumped into, a guy around my age with a purple shirt and a crazy mane of spiky hair, stood up and dusted invisible dust off his pants before giving me a condescending look.
"Watch it." He said, sneering and turned back to his many female companions, walking off and continuing their conversation as if nothing happened.
Picking myself up and putting Suri back on my shoulder, I looked back at the retreating figure.
"What an unmannered brute." Suri, who had nestled back into the confines of my scarf, seemed to agree.
I hate this. I closed my laptop and lost everything I wrote from before and I don't remember much of what I wrote, so a bunch of this is bullshit =.= I really wanted to get this out as fast as I could but, I refused to post anything under 1k words. I mean, that's just not nice. I get disappointed when writer's write just 2 or 3k so...
Btw if you have any plot tips plz help I feel like this is kinda boring
