A Trainer's Story: Kanto

From the past or Future

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Chapter Two: Rewind or Fast-forward?
-Ren-

I was sleeping peacefully in the comfortable bed of the Pokémon Center. The rays of the sun peeked through the curtains shining throughout the room. Trying to shield myself from the light I enclosed myself under the covers .I could hear the running water of the shower and a faint hum coming from in there and tried to ignore it and get back to sleep. The sound of the water stopped and the door opened with Luke coming out of the bathroom half dress.
“Wake up,” he said to me.
“It’s too early,” I replied trying to get back to my slumber.
“Its eight-fifteen breakfast is gonna start in another fifteen minutes.”
Answering back with a yawn I made myself more comfortable “Let me sleep will it kill ya to give me five minutes.”
Then an idea popped in Luke’s head, “If you don’t get up I’ll go get Minccino.” And with that I shot out of bed now wide awake from the threat. “If I had known that would work I would have used it all these years.” He chuckled.
“I am taking a shower I’ll be down soon.” With that I used ten minutes to shower and the five to get dressed. I put on my usual clothes and casually went down stairs to the Cafeteria passing by a few people on the way. Once I got in the eating area I picked my food and spotted the table my friends were sitting at.
Placing my food down, I greeted the girls, “Morning Aria, Cerulean.”
“Morning Ren,” They both greeted back. I released Kaeru and the unusually large Pidgey I named Storm whom I got two bowls for and filled each with Water Type food and Flying Type food respectively. I continued to sit down and began eating my own meal. Looking around our table I saw our Pokémon Charla, Minccino, Buizel, Quagsire obviously Cerulean’s, Blasty, Spearow Luke’s probably and my Pokémon.
“So Cerulean do you only train Water-Type Pokémon.” Aria asked the red head.
“Yeah I do,” she replied, “I have the same dream as my grandma, to be the best Water-Type Pokémon Master ever and to become an Aquamarine Researcher that’s why I specialize in Water-Types.”
“That’s interesting.” I said intrigued.
“So what do you guys want to do,” she in turn asked.
I answered first, “I want to be the Kanto Champion and learn more about this regions legends and myths.”
“With your attitude you won't get far,” the purplette scoffed.
“OK so what do you want to do,” I retorted.
“I'm not sure I've always thought being a Pokémon Professor or a teacher at the Academy would be nice,” Aria explained, “I’ve always liked learning about Pokémon and teaching about them would be interesting.”
The last person was Luke, “I want to be a Pokémon Photographer, which is why I took so long to come back.”
“Or maybe you have the same sense of time like Ren; I swear you two are so alike.” Arianna sighed.
“What you all want to do is interesting.”
“Hey Ren are you going to challenge the Gym here,” Aria asked while taking a sip of her drink.
“Nah I'm passing this one for now,” he simply said and before anyone could ask he answered, “I'm not taking this Gym because one, it is the strongest Pokémon Gym in Kanto and two, I’ve only got two Pokémon, Kaeru a Water Type and Storm a Normal-Flying Type and in this case is not helpful because this is an Ice Type Gym.” Unknown to us a man wearing a large black trench coat, a hat and sun glasses over heard the small conversation and smiled to himself and walked away.
“Nicely thought through most trainers I see usually run to his Gym especially beginners,” Cerulean began, “And if you run in there he gives no mercy.”
“Thanks for the info and how about we head out soon.” I suggested while I took my plate as well as my Pokémon’s bowls. We all cleared the table and went to my room to gather my gear. While in my room I decided to call my mom, selecting my mom’s name I waited as my Xtransceiver rang until someone picked up on the other side.
“Oh hey Ren how are you.” My mom asked.
“I'm fine I'm in Viridian City, we got here yesterday but I forgot to call.” Kaeru jumped in front of my face and waved to my mom.
“Oh hi Kaeru, Ren have you caught any other Pokémon.”
“I got a Pidgey.”
“Oh look at you, my young boy all grown up, you’re just like your father and grand-father although it seems like yesterday I was changing you diaper.”
My face started heating up and I blushed in embarrassment, “Mom.”
“Oh oops, I forgot about the pot on the stove, I’ll talk to you another time okay sweetie.” With that the other side was cut. I then decided to call Professor Acacia so I selected his name. After a while the Professor picked up.
“Oh hello Ren my boy how are you.” The Professor asked.
“I'm fine Professor by the way I found this unusually large Pidgey.” I said as I switched the camera to Storm. The Professor examined Storm for a while.
“This Pidgey has gigantism, a rare syndrome in Pokémon and even rarer in humans,” the Professor started explaining, “A Pokémon with gigantism has an unusually large size which could be found in one in a thousand Pokémon.”
“I see thanks Professor.”
“No problem Ren, call me anytime if you need something on Pokémon, now I need to get back to work.” Professor Acacia then hung up. Just as he hung up Luke walked into the room to get his stuff as well.
“Let’s go.” Luke said. I returned Storm and Kaeru jumped onto my head making himself comfortable. I walked down stairs with Luke the girls already in the lobby. Once we were done we restocked on items by the Pokémart, such as healing items and food.
We trailed down the path towards Viridian Forest admiring the building of Viridian City. The gentle breeze rushing through my hair, the small modern City and the buzzing of life as people paced in all directions. We came to the entrance of the forest and we decided to go straight in.
As we trekked under the dense forest canopy I came across an Oddish and thought to capture it so the others decided stop and watch while Luke took pictures of Pokémon around the area. “Storm I choose you.” I yelled as I released my Pidgey from its Pokéball. The wild Oddish released yellow particles from its body towards my Pokémon. “Storm use Gust.”
My Pidgey began flapping its wings making a current of wind that blew the Stun Spore back towards Oddish although the spores had no effect.
“Now use Sand-Attack then Quick Attack.” I commanded. Storm then kicked up sand into the wild Oddish’s eyes blinding it and rocketed towards it leaving behind a silver trail, slamming its head into the Oddish.
The Oddish began to glow green as did Pidgey. What I noticed was that glowing spheres floated from Storm’s body and when they came in contact with the Pokémon some of Oddish’s wounds healed up.
My Pidgey began to glow white as it began to grow in size and grew a short mane, Storm had evolved into Pidgeotto the size of a Pidgeot.
“Nice Storm you evolved into Pidgeotto,” I congratulated my Pokémon. Storm’s wings began to glow and it made a beeline for Oddish and slammed its wings into it knocking it out. “Nice you learnt a new move.”
“GO Pokéball,” I shouted as I threw the capsule at the weed Pokémon.
1…2…3… the Pokéball dinged signifying capture. I went to retrieve my newly captured Pokémon.
“Alright,” After I completed my battle we continued through the forest trying to keep the general direction of the way through. Along the way Aria caught an Oddish with the battle ending fairly quickly because of Charla.
Luke caught an Aipom as well as a Nidoran while still taking photos of surrounding Pokémon. As we got deeper in the forest we started noticing something was wrong in the distance there was an unusually large overgrowth of giant thick thorns. Luke released his Aipom.
“Aipom which way do we go to get out,” Aipom used the hand on its tail to pointing at the thorns, “So we have to get through the thorns huh.”
The group suddenly heard a loud shrilling shriek that resounded through the entirety of Viridian Forest and soon following the shriek was a bright circular wall of energy coming from the center of the thorns expanding out and passing through the group.
“What was that,” Cerulean asked
“Aipom,” it cried as it turned back towards the thorns.
“Froakie Froa,” Kaeru cried out as well.
“Char Charmander,” Charla also cried out.
Suddenly the three Pokémon ran and squeezed through the gaps between the thick bulky thorns. The trainers quickly tried to reach for their Pokémon but failed as they reacted too slowly.
“Kaeru/Charla/Aipom,” three out of the four called out to their Pokémon.
“Where are you going,” Aria shouted. The four of us stood there in shock and wonder of what to do. We trailed around the large vines looking for a way to get through the thick obstruction. A bright look appeared on Cerulean’s face as she smacked her forehead with her palm. She stopped in her tracks and we did as well.
“What is it,” Luke asked.
The red head grabbed a Pokéball from a belt and hurled it, “Armaldo time to help out.” The armored and plated Pokémon revealed itself from the bright light.
“Armaldo,” it cried. Light bulbs lit up in all our heads at the realization of the idea.
“Use Slash,” the armor plated Pokémon hacked away the thick vines with its scythes clearing out a path for us. We followed Armaldo deeper in the thicket of vines, the deeper we went the thicker they got. Armaldo kept moving forward but began to slow down as it was getting tired, its slashes getting weaker and slower.
Cerulean told Armaldo to take a rest. Every one sat down except for me I was worried about my Pokémon like the others, but I just couldn’t sit down. I shouted on top of my lungs, “KAERU, EVERYONE WHERE ARE YOU?!” I stood there and my only answer was silence.
Turning my head I saw a hand on my shoulder then I saw Aria’s face, upset as well, “You need to calm down, all our Pokémon ran off but we need to stay calm.” I just starred at her and I felt myself calm down a bit.
“Ok,”
“We need to keep going north which is where they ran off to,” Luke explained.
“Armaldo you rest enough to continue?” Her response was a cry from the Armored Pokémon, “So start again with sla-.” Unfortunately she was interrupted by tremors below our feet. We panicked a bit unsure of what to do nowhere to hide. Enormous vines larger than any we had seen sprouted rather quickly from the ground and flung us into the air to separate parts of Viridian Forest.
We were hurled a few feet over the trees and when we began our descent the branches broke our fall. Though branches were there to help soften the fall it still hurt like hell. Lying on the ground I groaned in agony as I slowly stood up. I surveyed my surroundings and spotted sandy purplette hair by a bush strewn all over the ground.
As fast as I could I ran to the bush and found it to be my friend and she was clutching her leg in pain. “What’s wrong what happened to your leg?” I reached for her leg and as soon as I touched her ankle she shrieked in pain.
“I think I twisted my knee on the branches and on the impact of the fall.” She hissed.
“Come on, try to get up I’ll help you up,” Aria moved into a sitting position and outstretched a hand; I took her hand in mine and pulled her up although her momentum caused to come forward and I caught her in an embrace. I put her arm over my shoulder and I looked around at my surroundings.
“How do we know which way our Pokémon went?” she asked. I didn’t know so I closed my eyes and thought until suddenly a light bulb lit in my head. I grabbed a Pokémon and threw it and out came Storm.
“Can you fly up and tell us which way is north,” My Pokémon nodded and soared up closing her eyes and feeling the wind. Storm called from above pointing in a direction with her beak before descending. “Thanks Storm, now we need to find a way through these thorns.
“Otto Pidgeot,” Storm wing glowed white and she gave one strong flap of her wings and white saw blade creations of air shot forward cleanly slicing through a large portion of the thick blockage.
“Nice, looks like when Storm evolved she learned Air Cutter as well,” Aria said, “Let’s move on.” We continued going on towards the center of the Forest but we pause for a while as another wave of green energy radiated through the forest. The girl I was supporting asked “What is that?”
I looked at her and replied, “I wish I knew.” That’s when I notice my Pidgeotto began shredding down the overgrowth at much quicker rate. “But whatever it is, it’s drawing in our Pokémon to the centre of the forest.”
The two of them trailed behind Storm with the bird Pokémon taking breaks as she needed rest from breaking down the foliage. After what felt like days they had reached the center of the thicket and there were their Pokémon and nearly the exact same moment an Armaldo into the large clearing. Their Pokémon were running around gathering all sorts of different berries no even acknowledging their trainers presence.
“I wonder what they’re doing,” Cerulean inquired, “And Aria what happened to you.”
“I think I twisted my ankle after the fall.”
“Look, in the middle of the clearing it looks like there’s an injured Pokémon.
Indeed, in the middle of the clearing there was a small Pokémon that was glowing green next to it was a gold and black Pokémon with a 4 pointed star on the end of its tail. They moved closer to inspect and to their shock was a Celebi. The Pokémon turned around and the trainers noticed it was a Shinx but a shiny one at that fact. When the little Pokémon noticed these people its fur began to glow blue and 3 blue spheres formed in the air above its torso.
As it was about to unleash its attack Kaeru leapt in front of it forcing the attack to stop and fizzle out of existence.
“Froakie, Froakie Froa,”
“Shin, Shinx shin inx,”
“Froa,” Although they couldn’t understand what they were saying it didn’t seem like this Shinx trusted people. The other Pokémon had returned with the berries and slowly fed them to the Celebi.
Cerulean knelt next to the Celebi and felt the grass legends for head, before worrying, “Celebi’s fever is abnormally high and we need to do something high, Dewgong come out.” The sea lion Pokémon appeared. Cerulean quickly grabbed a towel from her bag and had Dewgong wet the cloth before cooling it. She placed it on Celebi’s forehead and crushed up the tomato berries she could reach for then proceeded to feed the crush berry to Celebi. I set Aria down before I proceeded to join the rest the others in gathering berries. Shinx kept a wary eye on us all trying to be as close to Celebi as possible.
We waited for half an hour with the water from the towel being changed nearly every 3 minutes. After the half hour had gone by, with Celebi in a better state this allowing us to calm down bit. “It’s going to be okay.” The red head said to us.
We heard growling near us and it was the different coloured Shinx. The Pokémon was bared is fangs at us as an icy coating and surrounded them. The Shinx used its tail to point out of the forest. I tried to calm the Shinx, “Easy there we just want to help, look we already help Celebi be better.” I moved closer to Shinx its fur glowing. Bending I held my palm out to show I was friendly, but instead I got two freezing fangs that dug into my skin.
Kaeru moved quickly and hit the Flash Pokémon in the side with its glowing palms forcing it to let go. Both the Shinx and I yelped in pain for two different reasons. The good side no blood, the bad my hand encased in a layer of ice. My friend quickly ran by my side.
“Charla come quick,” Charla ran over to me and began warming my hand with her tail flame.
“Aspear Berries,” Cerulean said before Storm came with a couple of them, “Eat this.” I did as I was told and took bites out of the fruit and the water type trainer crushed the other berry and spread the paste over my hand. I began to have some feeling return to my hand.
I heard more growling and Kaeru’s shouts, it was angry for the Shinx biting me. Kaeru hit the shiny Shinx in the head with pound causing Shinx to retaliate by using Bite catching Kaeru’s arm with its jaws. In return, the frog unleashed a Bubble attack forcing the flash Pokémon to release my Pokémon.
I felt like I had to intervene, “Kaeru stop!” My starter looked at me before disengaging. The Shinx however was still pissed and continued the attack until a loud cry of pain was heard, it wasn’t from the battling Pokémon no it was…Celebi.
“BRRIIIII!” The green legend rose up into the air a dark green aura coating its body. The two Pokémon stopped fighting and watched the time Pokémon. The most distinct feature was that its blue eyes and the blue tips of its antennae had turned a blackish-purple. Releasing another shout of pain Celebi’s cloak began to expand and wash over us and the whole forest, a sense of fear from the radiating aura from the Celebi.
“Celebi what’s wrong?” Aria shouted out to the pained Pokémon, the time travelling creature writhing in agony. It stopped completely moving, floating still in the air before snapping its head to stare at us with an expression of anger.
The ground beneath began to tremble as giant vines sprouted from the ground grabbing every living creature in sight, I saw my friend being taken by the vines and I could only watch before being taken as well.
We all tried to break free but alas awe failed, even our Pokémon tried only to reach the same results. Charla’s flames weren’t strong enough; Storm couldn’t cut through these without her wings, every time Dewgong tried to free one of the other by freezing the vines a different one would intercept.
The vines began to squeeze tighter not allowing us to breathe properly; the world began to fade before I thought today we were going to die just as we started our journey…

The ends if you liked it please favorite and like constructive criticism is always welcome but flames will be doused by Cerulean’s team of water types. Tell me if you enjoyed and what you would like to see in the story. Until next time what will be made of our friend you’ll see in the next chapter.
Next time: Pewter and the lunar visitors of Mt. Moon