Authors note, I do not own Pokemon, Just Lox King
INTRO
The sun glares down on the treetops as the leaves provide shade for those down below. An older middle-aged woman dials a number from a website as she leans back in her smooth pinewood chair, it rings as she reads the prices of rare Pokemon and difficulty obtaining them. Other regions cost more, however, the Alolan and Hisuian regions are the most expensive jobs, as well as the longest jobs. She attempts to figure out the price of the Pokemon she wants, as she waits patiently and is fully prepared to pay full price for the job as a present for her dear grandson.
After three rings a female voice is heard on the other side, "Hello, this is Claws Hunting, Venassa speaking, Who is this?" The middle-aged woman responds with "Yes, hi I'm the lady who emailed you about the exotic bug-type Pokemon". "Ah yes, just so you're aware, it being this difficult to obtain and it not being native to the Kanto region, well not the evolved form isn't anyways, will make the prices go up significantly". "Ah yes, I completely understand, I'm fully prepared to pay any price for it".
Three days later, a sixteen-year-old boy runs home with a red face covered in beaded sweat. He pushes his black hair out of his face with excitement for today. As he reaches the door of an oak cabin in Viridian Forest, he opens the door shouting "Mamma I'm homeeee" Lox says with glee. He looks around not able to see his mamma, however, he does spot a birthday cake, an envelope, and a bag on top of a nicely crafted pine table.
He slowly approaches and examines the present and remembers the date "It's my birthday, I completely forgot about that", he said happily. As a branch hits the window, he picks up the envelope which seems to be expensive. Then he starts to open it with sweat dripping from his forehead, nervous and hopeful about what it contains. 'Lox, I have left this present for you, alongside 500 Poke and your trainer I.D which I've already registered for you this morning. You may open it when you get home, but open it outside and be careful", The birthday boy reads out loud as something falls out, it being the money and I.D. she mentioned.
He grabs the wrapped gift and tries to feel what it is, feeling a round sphere, he takes a quick breath, all giddy he immediately runs outside. 'Did she seriously get me one? I can't believe it, I wonder what it is, of course, I'm sure she respected the type I'm gonna focus on', Lox thought as he tried guessing what was in the sphere. He walks forward to the big tree in the patch of grass in front of his home, he ushers a bunch of Rattata, Pikachu, and Pidgey away so he can open the gift safely. He opens it revealing a premier ball and he jumps up and down, a smile bigger than the moon. He throws the ball up releasing a big pokemon, it looks at him with curious eyes and seems young, "Kle kle eve", it says.
A smaller than average, five foot five all black Kleaver that seemed to be pretty young. "Why hello friend, aren't you badass" He says smiling. He pulls up his Pokewatch to research this Pokemon and see its stats, level, and moveset. It seemed to be a male, level one, adamant nature and knows Furry Cutter and Stone Axe. Although he shouldn't know these moves this early, and all stats besides attack seem to be half the average. It also seems to have just been hatched the day before. "Curious…I love my new partner but…why is he a unique color, not shiny or normal", he says scratching his chin as the Stone/Bug Pokemon headbutts Lox gently.
"Aww hia hun", he starts to pet the hatchling. "Would you like a nickname?" The bug tilts its head. "Ya know, a name to have as your own, to say this is me", he explained to the Pokemon. It thought for a second and nodded, "vor, kleav", it said. "Well you are a Kleavor, so Axe?", it shook its head. "Blade? Katana? Rocky?", it aggressively stomped no. "Hmmm, how about Tomahawx", It nodded yes. "Great, I'm Lox, it's wonderful to meet you Hawx", the boy smiled. Lox gives Tomahawx some berries and a slice of cake as they both eat some and start to learn about the Kleavor as well as Scyther and Scizor. Nothing about the coloration mutation was found, however.
A few hours later, Lox decided to see what his new friend and family could do. "Tomahawx, use Stone Axe then use Fury Cutter three times", he commanded pointing to the big tree. The Axe Pokemon rushed forward and raised his left arm and swung, missing but sending pointed stones everywhere, then used Fury Cutter, hitting it twice but missing the third time. Tomahawx's moves caused some dents into the tree and surrounded it with pointed stones. "So you could set up while doing damage, I wonder if it stacks, I'll have to research that in a bit". His phone rings from a text, he flips open his phone and checks what it is. 'Lox, I am in the Safari Zone releasing some rescued Pokemon and gonna go to the casino later, make sure you change your outfit if it gets too hot, enjoy your new friend', the message read.
He looks down at his outfit, an all-black hoody with a Beedrill on it, dark grey sweats, and black and grey sneakers and shrugs. "My outfit is fine", he explained to his Pokemon. Tomahawx shrugs sees a patch of sunshine and runs to it. "Yo wait up", he says chasing after the stone bug. Tomahawx trips in a patch of flowers and lays there seemingly giggling, or at least that's what Lox thought. He lay down with his partner in a big patch of red and blue flowers. "So you like flowers, berries, sunshine, and scratches huh? That's pretty cool. I really like jogging, hanging out with wild Pokemon, and climbing trees", he smiles at the bug Pokemon as it rolls around in the flowers.
Later that evening, Lox is chopping wood alongside Tomahawx for the fireplace. As he wipes sweat off of his face he checks his watch that was sitting on top of his hoody he took off to chop wood safely. "Holy cow it's already five pm. I should probably run to Pewter City to top off all my supplies so I can safely start my journey tomorrow", the boy says to the playful pokemon as he counts all of his poke total. It came out to twelve hundred poke. From selling berries from the woods, helping around town and doing chores he had enough to buy what he needed. He had one full heal, two potions, two pokeballs, one nest ball, three oran berries, one lure and one super repel as well as some food for him and some basic bug type poke food. He ties his tent and sleeping bag together and put them into his very expensive but handed down Trainers Bag used to carry up to three tents which gave him more then enough room for everything.