Chapter 1: The First Step

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>Leah<

"Scarlet!!" Thundershock!!" My partner jumped and hit the foe with a blast of electricity. The pidgeotto fell down the floor, fainted. "Pidgeotto is unable to battle, plusle wins!" "Yeah! Awsome!" I said lifting my partner up in the air. "Here.. It's now yours, the zephyr badge." Falkner handed it over to me. "That was a great battle!" I reached out to shake my hand and we did. I put the badge into my case. The first step to the Pokémon League. One day, I'll be the champion. "What's your name again?" "Leah!, Leah Acacia. We opened the doors of the gym then I turned to Falkner, "Thanks again!" Then I went out. I looked at my partner walking with me. She smiled, I also grinned back.

"So what's the plan? How about we go eat out, how does that sound?" She nodded. I walked around town and saw the perfect restaurant for us. We went inside and took a seat. I sat on table number three with Scarlet playing with the condiments. A waitress came with a pikachu on her shoulder. "Welcome, ma'am to Pika-chew the awsome diner, may I take your order?" She said to us in a cowboy accent. "Yeah, I'll have a grilled cheese sandwich and a glass of lemonade. Also Some fries and two kiddie milk boxes." "Gotcha ma'am, would you like the limited edition rocky road ice cream?"

"No thanks." I smiled. I turned to Scarlet and she pulled out a yellow pokéball. "I'm gonna regret this." I let out a green furred Pokémon with yellow stripes and a lightning bolt birthmark on his right leg, my electrike. "Bolt, hey! We're eating here in this restaurant today, how does that sound?" My electrike just turned away. I think he's disappointed because he lost the battle.

The waitress came back here's your order. "Thank you miss-" I looked at her name tag "Miss Bella." "My job is to serve" she bowed. "Have a nice meal!" I picked up the sandwich and made a loud crunch when I bite it. This is really the kind of food I'd like to sink my teeth into. Crunchy on the inside, soft and fluffy on the inside and not too cheesy too. I sipped some lemonade from my glass to wash it down.

My Pokémon were enjoying too. Scarlet was eating fries and Bolt's chugging down his milk all was right with the world.
I finished up my lunch. Looks like the others aren't done. I looked around, and there are so much pikachus. I think I should catch one. I reached for my pocket and took out my pokédex. I tried to scan pikachu. And as usual I ignored the species, weight, height and blah. I tapped on the button, "location" and it said "unknown". Crap.. How did the employees in this restaurant even get one?

Hmm.. Right now, I should plan on how to get to the next gym. Ecruteak City is pretty near but Azelea town is too. "Plus! Plus!" I turned to my partner and she pointed up to the T.V. Screen.

"Incident in Azelea town"
"Today in azalea town, there was a roberry in the grocery store. All that's stolen were fashion magazines, expensive clothes, empty pokéballs and a masterball. All we know that the robber is male and his blood type is B. Alright back to you Collen."

Then the picture went back to the studio. Oh man! Masterball, someone stole it. But how can it be that it's in a grocery store? I looked at my partner and her eyes were filled with worry. "Well nothing about us right, we should probably go to Ecruteak City." She nodded. I returned bolt to his pokéball and put the money on the pocket like things they put the bill on. We went out.

I walked down the sidewalk to the direction of Ecruteak City. The first step into the Pokémon League. The first step toward victory. The first step toward championship. "Watch out Johto league here I come!!"

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