Brave Bird (A Pokémon Fanfic)

Chapter 1: The Beginning

Vrr vrr... vrr vrr...

"Ugh..." You were enjoying your sleep until your phone began to vibrate against the hard surface of the desk near your bed.

Reaching your arm out, you tapped around the table until you felt the familiar casing of your phone. Turning your body over, you laid on your back and rubbed your eyes with the device in your other hand. Tapping the button on the side, you squinted from the sudden brightness of the screen and noticed a missed call.

"Joy?" You mumbled out your friend's name. Joy was your closest friend. The two of you had the same interests and hung out with each other often. While you were wondering why she was calling, the screen lit up again with her name appearing. It seems like you won't be getting your beauty sleep this time. With a sigh, you slid your finger across the screen and turned on the speakerphone, being too tired to bring it up to your ear.

"Hello?"

"Farren!" Joy was essentially yelling through the phone, making you regret putting her on speaker, "Get your butt off the bed and turn on your computer right now!"

"Joy..." You had no energy to even think right now, let alone even get up from the comfort of your bed, "Why are you calling me at 3AM...?"

"You'll understand what I mean soon! Just get on your computer and go to the Pokémon website!"

"Pokémon website...? What for?"

"That's why I said you'll know when you see it! Come on, pleeeaaasssee?"

"If this turns out to be something dumb, I'm going back to sleep." You grumbled your complaints to Joy as you kicked off the blankets and drooped your way over to your computer.

"Come on Slowpoke~ Are you there yet?"

"Yeah yeah, give me a moment."

Your computer let out a low hum as you lightly tapped your fingers across the keyboard and made your way to the site.

"Alright Joy, I'm at the website."

"Finally~! It felt like hours passed by already~"

"Shut up." You huffed and scanned the site, "So? What am I supposed to do?"

"Check the latest announcements. There should be a tab on the side of the screen. Do you see it?"

"Hmm... is it this one...?" You furrowed your eyebrows, clicking the side tab that read 'Latest News'. All of a sudden, a pop-up appeared before you. It was a character customization screen.

"Create your Pokémon trainer...?" You read out the lines at the top of the screen and raised a brow, "Joy, is this what you wanted me to see?"

"I heard that after creating a character, you'll be invited to see something really cool~!"

"And who, exactly said this?"

"Um..."

"Joy?"

"Some people on the internet?"

You let out an exasperated sigh, "Come on, Joy."

"Okay okay, if we don't see anything cool after creating our characters, then I'll buy you that cake from the shop across from school."

"...Deal."

Looking at the variety of character customization tools, you were a little impressed by the variety of designs they had. You tried making your ideal character look a little like yourself, but with some pizzazz here and there. You were too focused on designing your character that time seems to have passed quickly to your surprise.