Having young trainers die in their first year of training isn't ideal. Things had to change and so change they did. Ash alongside his Pokémon shall take the world by storm. He shall become known as powerful, unstoppable, legendary. But most of all...
Eight year old Ash Ketchum was standing across a clearing from a Deino. The two were unmoving, just staring at one another. One frozen in awe, the other in curiosity. Ash Ketchum, a short tan skinned lad with wild raven locks and auburn eyes,dressed in a maroon tank top, black shorts and black sandals started at the infamous Pokémon Ash may have only been tutoring with Professor Oak for a few months, but one of the first things he was assigned to do was learn what Pokémon are the most likely to kill you.This Pokémon of course took the top spot.
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Young Ash was currently in the forested wilds that surrounded Pallet Town. These forests could of course house some very powerful Pokémon, but they were all kept in check bythe all encompassing eye of the Legendary ex-champion Professor Oak's Pokémon Alakazam, so the chances of a child coming across one was very slim. Plus most Pokémon areless inclined to hurt a child for various reasons
Deino, Ash believed did not come under this. Not to mention it is a dark type. Alakazam of course probably knew Miracle Eye but for it to be effective, he had to be aware of the Pokémon in the first place. Seeing as Ash hadn't been teleported to the Professor's lab and Professor Oak hadn't sent out his Charizard and Dragonite to deal with the threat, the Deino must be new around here.
Looking at the Pokémon, Ash noticed much to his dismay many disparities between this Deino and a regular Deino. Deino, from what Ash knew from his homework on the Pokémon, was usually only two foot seven, or eighty centimetres, tall. This one wasn't. Ash himself was four foot three, a little bit above average for a child his age in terms of height. Deino seemed to have a similar affliction, as instead of the usual eighty centimetres, this Pokémon was easily three foot nine, or one hundred forty four centimetres. The Deino was abnormally big and it seemed it's strength was proportional to its height. Also, instead of having blue scales it had green and instead of having having tufts of red fur in its shaggy chest, it had pink wisps instead.
Great. Ash thought, a large Shiny Deino. At least I'll go out in style, morbid humour for an eight year old, but fret not, he got it out of a film Ash had always been curious about the Deino line. It was like sampling the forbidden fruit to him. In secret he researched the species as well as dragons and dark types
He had hoped that when he went on his journey, he would encounter one. Maybe not capture it, but try and see just why this Pokémon was deemed the most dangerous. After all,feared and dangerous just screams cool to a child
Seeing this Deino, Ash now knew why that was the case. But even still, he felt no fear. Just awe and astonishment. Even though this was a Deino and not it's evolved form, the potential destruction could be felt emanating from the Pokémon.
Ash briefly wondered where it could've come from, but he quickly pulled himself from his musings, as in the presence of an apex predator such as this, one does not introspect The Deino's fringe blew in the wind as a cool summer breeze swept across the clearing. Ash got a look at the Deino's narrow eye's that shone an unruly pearly pink but were also unseeing. Ash had, through a lot of classical conditioning, learned to associate the Deino species as ravenous, wild, beasts that attacked and destroyed like some dammed juggernaut. This Deino displayed none of this. It showed what Ash assumed to be sparks of a quiet intelligence. Or it was satisfied with finding a meal, but Ash preferred the ideal of the former. In his lessons Ash had learned that Pokémon were intelligent creatures and not to be taken lightly.
