Searching for Love

CHAPTER 1: Dreams for traveling

Hello again, this time I brought you a story based in the "Pokémon: Black and White" show. This story focuses on Ash's Oshawott and his adventure through the Unova region. The ones who watched the show will know how the Sea Otter Pokémon is, but I wanted to give a new focus in his story, and his romances. With this clarification, let's begin with this story.

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CHAPTER 1: Dreams for traveling

Traveling with Ash was a journey that changed his life completely. Oshawott was... partly happy. He could meet many Pokémon, he fought many battles, he had become stronger and he was able to face his fears. The otter should be happy after that his journey with his trainer had ended in a good way; however, not everything was like that. At the beginning, it was difficult for him before choosing Ash as his companion through the Unova region.

The Sea Otter Pokémon remembered a bit how his first days were since he was born. He only remembered the face of the being that took care of him all this time: Professor Juniper. She was very kind and fond with him. Not only that, he had as companions a Tepig and a Snivy, which played and lived in the Professor's laboratory. Oshawott was raised by her along with the other Pokémon. She thought that every Pokémon had qualities that made them unique. Oshawott had a behavior of an innocent, infantile and playful child. He looked very happy at the beginning. Over time, he was gaining some particular qualities. One of them was disappearing easily. He could be lost inside or outside the laboratory for hours. Juniper was much worried about his sudden disappearances. It seemed that he liked to go to places that he considered nice for him. The Professor came to think that his Pokémon was going to get lost one day and they wouldn't see him again; fortunately, nothing of that happened. He used to get into trouble, but it wasn't so much.

When Oshawott grew up a little bit more, Juniper said to the Pokémon starters their objectives: to be the first Pokémon that was going to accompany a young person that started its journey as a trainer. They kept in mind those words and had to be prepared for the day when a young person aspiring to be a trainer chose them to start its journey. Snivy, Tepig and Oshawott waited that day of going on a travel. Usually, the aspiring person had to choose only one Pokémon of the three. After choosing, the two remaining looked how the lucky Pokémon was chosen by the youngster, starting its journey, and also, a valuable friendship. Commonly, it had to get another Pokémon to replace the one who was traveling with a human, doing a rotation. Some left and other ones stayed.

Oshawott always wanted that a young human chose him to accompany him in its trip through the region. He always showed his most adorable and happy side to have more opportunities to be selected. The days passed and the only thing that he saw was the youngsters choosing either Snivy or Tepig, staying Oshawott in the Professor's laboratory another time. This continued for days, weeks, and he even thought it was for months. The otter was too much time without being selected to be the partner of a newly-started trainer. He always saw a companion leaving while he was with Juniper another time. That enthusiasm for traveling with somebody through the whole region was progressively disappearing. He was getting sadder and sadder for not being chosen, it was as if everyone didn't want him since the beginning. Was he doing something wrong? Wasn't he adorable enough to be chosen? Something was very wrong. He was getting sadder and depressed, to the point of to be in shock for not being chosen. The Professor Juniper said to him to cheer him up that he was going to be chosen next time, but it was uncountable times that he was rejected to travel with someone. He tried to be as positive as possible, but nothing worked.

His life made a one hundred and eighty degrees twist when he met two young men, which one wanted to had his first Pokémon. Oshawott was rejected so many times, but he thought that day was the perfect opportunity to travel with someone. He had a very strong feeling of he would finally be chosen as a partner of a trainer, so he prepared himself and put his best face. He went with Snivy and Tepig along with the Professor to introduce themselves to the aspiring person, who was accompanied by a young man with hat that came from another region. One by one they were introducing themselves, until it was the otter's turn. After materialize, he showed his cutest face he had. He saw that the boy with hat was looking closely, as if he wanted to inspect him carefully. Afterwards, he heard some words that he liked so much. "Aww, aren't you the cutest." said the boy with hat. The otter never before in his life had someone said such nice words to him. He heard before from the youngsters that he was weak, ugly, and useless. Hearing that put him much more depressed, but now he heard nice words of somebody, and Oshawott felt grateful with him.