Pokemon Special: Protector's Code

Chapter Two

“Okay, so who are we looking for again?” asked Gold before stretching his arms above his head and letting out a blatant yawn.

“Crystal,” replied his best friend and archrival, Silver. “Or a girl that looks like her, but isn’t her.”

“Seriously?” responded Gold, shooting a glare at him. “We’re looking for her twin sister.”

“If you knew, you shouldn’t have asked,” he replied calmly.

Gold groaned loudly and turned to his Aipom. “Ataro, where did I put that picture of her again? And what was her name? Amy, right?”

“Why do you need her picture?” asked Silver, genuinely puzzled. “She’s Chris’s twin sister. They should look exactly alike.”

“Not all twins look exactly the same, Silver,” replied Gold, rolling his eyes. “And I remember that she was a bit different from Chris…damn it Ataro where is it?”

His partner Pokémon looked innocently up at him and then scuttled up his body to perch on his shoulder. Grasped in the three-fingered hand at the end of his tail, the Long Tail Pokémon stretched out to reveal a picture of the soon-to-be pokédex holder.

“See?” said Gold, waving the picture in Silver’s face with triumph. “They aren’t completely alike.”

Silver squinted at the picture, with his Sneasel peering over from his shoulder. It took him moments, but he soon identified the difference. Like Crystal, the trainer had dark hair, but didn’t have the same bluish-hue that she had. Instead, her hair was slightly browner. The next and only other difference Silver noticed was that the trainer’s eyes had a sharp and amber shade in contrast to Crystal’s icy and pale blue.

“You’re right,” he finally conceded and pulled away from the picture. “And her name isn’t Amy. It’s Amber.”

“If you’d known before, you coulda said so,” grumbled Gold before stuffing the picture into his jacket pockets. Admittedly, Silver had forgotten the trainer’s name as well, but the shade of her eyes had jolted his memory. But Gold had no need to know that… “So where are we starting anyway?”

Before Silver could reply, Gold’s Pichu suddenly shot out from his pokéball. The two boys exclaimed in surprise. Pichu didn’t even allow for any time for reaction, as he sprinted away from them as if he’d seen something incredibly interesting.

“Pichu!” yelled Gold, before hurdling off after him. “What’s the matter?”

“Wait a second, Gold,” started Silver, but cut off when he realized that he had already made it far from hearing range. Sighing, he began sprinting after the two as they entered Viridian Forest. “That idiot…”

***

Amber flopped down under a great oak tree with a heavy sigh. Finally, some rest. The last few days had been hectic. For some reason, a flock of Spearow had passed the forest and had caused a huge uproar to the ecology. They’d specifically targeted smaller and weaker Pokémon in large groups. It wasn’t for any particular reason either. They didn’t do it out of revenge or defense, it seemed all out of spite and malice. As a “Protector” of Pokémon, Amber had made the strange occurrences her business, flittering from location to location to chase away the random Spearow attacks.

By now, most of the Spearow had figured out that she was a force to be reckoned with, but she was still on alert. It was precisely for this reason that when a sudden and desperate cry nearby from a Pokémon shriek, that Amber was almost immediately on her feet.

“Mister, let’s go!” she shouted, releasing her Misdreavus from his pokéball and racing off in the direction of the cry. As she ran, she released the rest of her Pokémon: Veevee the Umbreon, Nix the Onix, Rillri the Marill and Gligie the Gligar.