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Chapter 3: Finding the One

6 Months Later

Ages

Lilly: 5

Professor Oak: 40 (remember Professor Oak {in the anime} is 50 when Ash starts his journey and Lilly arrives 10 years before that, right after both Ash and Gary are born.)

(For my sake, please humor me in my description of Route 1 and Viridian City. I know for a fact there is no lake or river in the game on route 1, but I need there to be one in my story. Another thing is that I know Viridian City isn't the best city to shop in cause it doesn't have any stores other than a PokéMart, but since it wouldn't make sense if they traveled to a larger city just for furniture and clothing, I am making it slightly larger that they make it out to be in both the game and the anime. I will remind you that this is called FANFICTION for a reason.)

Two people could be seen walking down the dirt road of Route 1 heading towards Pallet Town. Both could be seen carrying a decent amount of shopping bags in each hand. The first and oldest was Professor Oak, wearing his normal attire with his crisp, white lab coat over top of it. The second person was Lilly. While Oak had offered to carry most of the bags, she still bore at least two bags in each hand. She was dressed in a grey tank top and black cargo pants with dark red flats adorning her feet. Her black hair was pulled back into a high ponytail and a pair of sunglasses rested on the top of her head. The two were deliberately taking their time getting back to the lab, not wanting to end this little bonding moment. Pausing in their trek home, they decided to rest along the bank of a nearby river.

"You know, Lilly," stated the Professor as he sat down on a flat rock near the river bank, "Since you are my assistant, by law you are officially allowed to carry a Pokémon partner with you. I was meaning to ask you earlier, but never had the time. So, I guess this would be as good a time as any….Heh heh heh…" the Professor embarrassingly scratched the back of his neck as he chuckled. Oak cleared his throat before continuing, "There are some eggs that will be hatching soon, so if you want, you may use one of them. But, you could also use any Pokémon that we see out here on Route 1, even though they are more common."

"Hmmm…."

Lilly looked around from where she sat on the grassy river bank. Pidgey and Butterfree could be seen flying high above the trees while Rattata and Bellsprout scurried in and out of bushes. Down by the river, Poliwag, Slowpoke, and Tentacool were swimming carelessly both up and down stream. Before Lilly could give a reply to the waiting Professor, she noticed a group of Tentacool gathered around something a little ways upstream.

"Hey Professor, what's that?" asked Lilly, as she pointed over to the group of Tentacool.

"Hmm?" the Professor looked over to where Lilly was pointing, "Oh that's just a group of Tentacool, nothing to be worried about."

Lilly continued to look at the group of Pokémon and was going to brush it off until she heard a strangled cry and a flash of black and silver from the center of the group of Tentacool. Soon, the largest Tentacool sent a wave of poison needles at the object in the middle of the group and the strangled cry stopped.

Lilly gasped, "Professor! I think there's a Pokémon being attacked by those Tentacool!"

Professor Oak stood up and looked over to the group of Tentacool, "I think your right Lilly, hold on. Arcanine! Scare off those Tentacool!"

Arcanine appeared in a flash of fire and roared, startling the Tentacool.

"Now Arcanine," said the Professor, pointing towards the Tentacool, "Use flamethrower above the Tentacool to scare them off!"

Arcanine nodded and faced the nervous Tentacool before unleashing a mighty torrent of fire above the blue and red heads of the water Pokémon. The Tentacool, startled by the outburst of flames, screeched before fleeing farther upstream, away from their prey, which had started to sink into the depths of the river.

Lilly, noticing that whatever the Tentacool were attacking, hadn't moved and was sinking deeper into the water, quickly stepped out of her shoes and tossed her sunglasses off to the side before diving head first into the water.

(Remember, mentally, she is a 16 year old, so even though she looks five, she still thinks like a 16 year old)

'Since when is a river supposed to be this deep?' thought Lilly as she swam towards the black and silver shape that was slowly drifting deeper into the water. When she got closer, she realized that it was a Magicarp, only that the coloring was off. Instead of the normal orange/red body with yellow fins and whiskers, this one had a black body, with deep red fins and silver whiskers. Silver details could be seen outlining the band of scales that circled its middle as well as a circle of silver around the pupil of his eyes. Noticing she was running out of breath and the oddly colored Magicarp was both unconscious and covered in gashes, she gathered the medium sized Pokémon in her small arms before kicking her feet towards the surface. She threw her head back once she broke the surface of the water and gasped, letting the sweet substance called oxygen rush back into her burning lungs. She looked to her right and saw the Professor, frantic and worry sketched onto his face, cargo pants rolled up, standing in water up to his knees, motioning Lilly to swim over to him. Lilly carefully switched the Magicarp into her left arm before she swam using only her right arm towards the Professor. When she reached the Professor, he had promptly pulled both her and Magicarp out of the water and onto the shore.

"What were you thinking?" said Professor Oak as he searched through one of the bags for a super potion and an antidote, "You could have gotten yourself injured jumping into the water like that. I'm not going to lose my first assistant in under a year."

If it had been under better circumstances, Lilly was sure she would have laughed at the Professor. But, instead, she was busy trying to find a roll of bandages to wrap the wounds in. Soon, she had found a roll and had made her way over to the downed Pokémon before gently picking it up and wrapping the gauze and medical tape around its injured midsection.

"There is only so much that I can do for him here," said Professor Oak as he pulled out an empty Pokéball and tapped it to the fish Pokémon's forehead, "Let's get back to the lab so we can place this little guy in a sterile tank and give him treatment."

Lilly nodded before running over to her shoes and sunglasses, throwing them on, grabbing her bags, and catching up with the Professor, who had started to make his way down the path towards Pallet.

10 minutes later….

Lilly and the Professor could be seen standing in front of a tall, cylinder water tank with the black Magicarp floating inside, various tubes hooked into the tank to keep it filled with the right amount of water and minerals.

Lilly stared for a few more minutes at the Magicarp, a determined look in her eyes, "I want Magicarp to be my first Pokémon."

The Professor looked down at Lilly with one eyebrow raised, "Are you sure? They are very weak at first and are harder to train than other Pokémon."

Lilly's eyes gained a hard look, one that you should see on most 5 ½ year olds, "But that's just it, he isn't like all the other Pokémon, he's different. With him, I will show the world why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover."

Professor Oak thought for a moment before giving a small smile to Lilly and handing her Magicarp's Pokéball, "Then I am proud to say, Magicarp is now yours."

"No," said Lilly as she looked down at the Pokéball in her hands, "Not Magicarp, his name is Ryuu."

A.N. And Cut! Hope ya liked this chapter, cause I couldn't decide whether or not I did. ANYWAYS! Magicarp, or the now named Ryuu(it means dragon and/or imperial), will be the first Pokémon Lilly gets, but that doesn't mean she doesn't get one from the Professor when she decides to leave on her journey. I just had a conversation with a friend of mine earlier in the week and decided that I may make the sequel of this into a Harry Potter/ Pokémon Crossover….But that won't be for a little (coughLONGcough) while. Well whatever so anyways…..Ja-Ne!

.Must I say the obvious? Please review my story. This is the third update and I have only received two reviews. One from my crazy, wolf obsessed friend who is nicknamed after both a chipmunk and a squirrel (whom, by the way, was forced into being my first reviewer) and the other from OSR fanatic (to whom I thank dearly for being my first REAL reviewer!). Flamers, be warned. I will throw back any flames you give me AND will sick Bellatrix on you faster than you can say 'WTF?'