Pokémon Red (Book 2)

Goodbye Kanto

Red's POV

It was a day when I was about to start a fresh journey. Everything seemed nice. New Pokemon, new people and especially new locations, and I was very excited to explore it all and make the adventure worth it.

'Red, you're already late', called Mom, still in her room. 'Professor Oak called up like ten times'.

I hurried down to my mom's room along with my bag. I wasn't happy saying goodbye to her again but was still excited to continue for a new adventure.

'I'm going', I said, sadly. 'Bye Mom'.

Mom hugged me. 'Bye, see you soon', said Mom. 'Oh, I'm going to miss you so much'.

'I am going to miss you too', I said, smiling. 'Pikachu ?'.

'Ah, he's out with Meowth, playing', said Mom, pointing towards the backyard.

'Bye, Mom', I said, running outside. It was chilly but spring season was close and that really was a good news.

As I walked outside, I saw Pikachu and Meowth running here and there trying to catch each other.

Pikachu stopped after seeing me and talked to Meowth. Pikachu and Meowth gave each other a high-five and Pikachu came to me.

'Come on, bud', I said, with a constant smile. 'It's time for us to go'.

Pikachu looked at Meowth. 'Pika ?', he said.

'Oh, if you want to stay, you can', I said. 'It's perfectly alright'.

Pikachu smiled and hopped upwards so that I could catch him. We hugged each other.

'Bye', I said. 'But you can always come to me whenever you want'.

I handed Pikachu his Pokeball. Pikachu held the Pokeball in his hands.

'Bye', I repeated. 'See you soon. Bye Meowth !'. Meowth ran towards me and said, 'Meowth !'. Meowth waved his hand.

I started walking to Professor Oak's Lab where my other Pokemon were, I already had Charizard in his Pokeball attached to my belt.

The air was humble and the clouds had a light pink-ish aura which moved away. The hid behind the clouds. The chirping of birds made it even better.

I ran the door bell of Professor Oak's Lab and Blue opened the door. He wore a casual black shirt with brown pants. He sure looked like a gym leader.

'Oh, good morning, Red', said Blue, with a smile no one has ever seen on his face.

'Hey, Blue. Good morning, first day of Gym Leading ?', I said, pulling my bagpack's strap upwards.

'Um, yeah. I'm pretty excited but nervous at the same time. It'll be amazing, I guess', he said, fixing his hair.

'Professor Oak's around ?', I asked.

'Nah, gramps left yesterday for Johto. He had some official work to do there', said Blue, with a sudden change of attitude.