TheShinyWriter
26th May 2012, 12:20 PM
Hi Everyone! Here I am writing another Story!
This Story doesn't have much violence so I would rate it PG.
This story is about a young girl (10 years old) who finds her way into a completely different dimension, far different from her own home. I am going to try my best on this fan fiction story and I have great plans for it. If there are any spelling/ grammer mistakes please don't hesitate to tell me! Enjoy!
Across the Unknown Dimension
Chapter 1
I hung up my coat on the rack and trudged over to the couch. I sunk into the seat. I had a rough day at school. Idiots were very common in my school especially this guy called Jamie, he just made a fool out of me and I was almost jumped by a group of students on the way home. I picked up the T.V remote and pressed the button. The T.V screen flickered and slowly switched to a channel. I stared at the screen as it slowly changed into shapes and colours forming a cartoon. I wasn’t that bothered to be honest, life was always slapping me in the face when I never needed it. I wish I could have a different life, less strife and friends and family I could count on.
My parents were ALWAYS at work so I never spent any time with them, and when I tried to they were always busy with slideshows, presentations and what not. I dragged myself to the kitchen and got out my ingredients for my Triple-Sandwich; I got out the chopping board and sorted the vegetables slowly placing them on the sandwich. I never wanted to be alone at home, no one would welcome me when I got home, and no one would tell me "Well done!" for completing and passing my tests. I was just the black sheep, while everyone stood with their friends as I stood alone.
I walked with my snack over to the couch, and sat into a slouch, nibbled it and watched the screen. The T.V was quite new and above it stood a small photo of me, but no one ever paid attention to it. I heard a noise. A strange and eerie noise. Rattling, knocking and the doorbell could be heard. I slowly pulled my body from the couch to the door, tired of the insane knocking. I looked through the eye hole. It was a tall, dark long haired Woman with a brief case and wore a white dress with Dark Glasses. I opened the door.
"Who are-?"
"Lara Whitegate, yes?" I looked at her with a sharp eye. How did she know my name?
"Yes. I'm Lara" I said sarcastically "Why are you-?"
"Here" She handed me a strange device "This is from your grandfather" she explained. The device looked really basic but the colours and design looked as if they were not from this Country, or planet for that matter. The woman quickly walked away.
"Wait!" I yelled, but by the time I did so she was gone.
I went inside and had a look at the strange device the woman had given me. It was a touchpad device; it had a note stuck to it.
Dear Lara
I am sure you have received my gift; I heard life is getting too boring for you so I decided you are ready for this
With love,
Grandfather Whitegate
Why didn’t he tell me what this thing does? But knowing my grandfather he probably wanted me to find out for myself. The drop down menu had four different options:
1. Teleport to dimensional space
2. Home dimension
3. Register
4. Change Location
I wondered what these meant. I fiddled about with it for a while, studying the unique structure. Then the phone rang, I picked it up, fearing who it might be next. I looked at the name. It was Violet. Violet was quite tall with black long hair and wore the same wary and bright. I shouldn't tell her what happened to me today, She may have well thought I was crazy. I answered the phone.
"Hi Lara!" She said excitedly.
"Hello Violet, Why are you so excited?" I asked
"Well...um, how do I put this" She stammered "Darren just asked me out!"
"Oh Great Darren" I never really liked Darren. He always kept Violet away from me so I didn't have any friends and was nasty to me behind Violets back. "Well I'm happy for you (not)"
"So how was your day Lara?" She asked with certainty.
"Well apart from almost being jumped and Jamie making me a national fool at the school, the days been Fine" I said.
"Oh, sorry Lara I must've caught you at a bad time, I never knew your friendship with others was so bad..."
"It’s not my friendship! Everyone at school HATES me" I shouted "They see me walking in the corridors and start throwing rubbish at me! Then they take and drop my lunch in the litter bin!"
"You never eat your lunch anyway..." she said quietly
"That’s not the point!" Sometimes her attention to most things was annoying "It’s like I'm on one team with about 3 or 4 people and nearly all the schools on the other!"
"Maybe I'll talk to you later when you calm down!" She snapped.
"No, wait Violet!"
"Bye Lara" She Hung up.
No one would ever understand my life and when they did, they criticized it. I went back to the device; I decided to register my home. I searched for it and registered it. Then I saw the option "Teleport to Dimensional Space". I decided to pack before I pressed it, because I had no idea of what I would find. I packed my coat, some food, clothes, first aid and my bag. Now I was ready I could press the button. I tapped the option. Then there was a bright light, the room turned into a sparkling star. I had to close my eyes because it was so blinding.
The light faded and became a valley full of green. I looked around staring at the trees; it was hard to believe I had just teleported from inside a gloomy house to cool place like this.
"This is Incredible!" I exclaimed "wow!" I have never seen a place full of plants and flowers of different shapes and sizes. On the high trees there were coloured berries that had a rough or smooth texture. I climbed up the tree; it looked like it hadn't grown fully, and sat on the branch. There was no one here, but why wasn’t there anyone? This place was so heavenly; even I could stay here for all eternity. I thanked my grandfather in my head.
I picked one of the pink fruits and ate it; the taste was like something out of heaven. I could definitely make a pie out of this. I tried all the fruits on the trees; each one was as sweet as the other, apart from one berry which was extremely bitter. Yuck! I stared at the cloud filled sky; this place IS perfect for me and anyone. The breeze blew in my face causing my hair to blow all over, but I didn't care. My nature was in sync with this blissful place. I packed some berries in my bag and started to set off. I had no idea where I was going but I wanted to explore a bit.
Then I heard a noise. I could hear heavy breathing, and there was a battle cry in the area. In the corner of the clearing stood to be what looked like two animals. One of them was backed into a tree and was stood on four legs. Its tail was in curls and it had a curly hairdo with a red body and soft, padded paws. The other animal was large and blue with a spiral on its belly and was standing on two legs with large hunky arms. I stared at those animals; they didn't look like cats, dogs or any of those things.
"Poli...wrath!" It cried as water burst forth from its spiral and hit the red, curly animal.
"Vul...Vulpix!" the poor thing crashed to the ground, whimpering in pain. I HAD to do SOMETHING! The awful blue monster walked closer to the crimson animal, ready to strike its last blow. I picked up a nearby rock and threw it at the terrorful thing. It turned and started to walk towards me, and when it saw I had no one with me, it smiled frighteningly.
"Run!" I yelled to the red creature.
"Vul...pix?" it said as it saw me being followed by the blue menace. It managed to stand up on its four legs and stared at the creature with determination. Then it opened its mouth. "Vul...Pix!" It cried as forceful flames shot out and surrounded itself and it charged into the creature. The blue creature still shocked from the impact, turned and ran off.
The red creature walked over to me and sat in front of me, hurt, but still smiling. It licked its paws where the scars were.
"Wait, I've got something for that" I said as I reached for my bag and rooted through it till I found the first aid kit. I unlocked the box and searched for a bandage, while the animal just beamed at me with curiousity. I took out the bandages and carefully grabbed her paw, she hesitated wheather she should let me touch her paw, but she let me and watched. I wrapped it around her paw, she winced a few times but was fine. She stared at the bandage.
"Vulpix?" she asked curiously.
"It’s called a bandage, they help your paws get better" I announced proudly.
"Vulpix!" she cried happily.
"Well my names Lara" I told her.
"Vul! Vulpix!" she cried.
"Hey! You need a name, don't you?" I asked her.
"Vul!" she answered.
"Okay, how about Flame?" I asked, she shook her head, "What about Firess instead?" I asked again.
"Vul! Vulpix!" She cried happily.
"Ok, Firess it is!" I said. I walked across the clearing, and then I realized I hadn't packed my tent.
It was getting dark, and Firess looked as if she was getting tired.
"Vul!" she yawned.
"Hey Firess, do you know if there is anyone here or any towns, cities?" I asked her. She looked at me with a sharp eye, and then thought for a moment.
"Vulpix!" she answered and she walked in front of me and pointed to a bush with her bandaged paw.
"Why is she pointing to a bush?" I thought to myself. I stepped towards the brambles with Firess right behind me, when I heard something. It sounded like crowds of people bustling through a street, children shouting and playing and animals making sounds.
I walked through the bush and found the streets which I had heard, as hundreds of people were busy carrying briefcases and bags. I wondered where civilization had gone! But I have never seen this city before, maybe they just built it? No it couldn't be that, you couldn't build a city straight away and then people start coming. Then, while I was busy thinking, Firess walked towards an orange building and gave a cry. I suddenly snapped back into reality and saw what she was in front of. The building was full of windows and was very large, there were pink creatures scurrying about inside. I followed Firess, I'll tell you, the building was bigger than it seemed. On closer inspection this looked like an animal hospital. Then a lady with a pink outfit and nurse hat called us over from the desk.
People stared at us as we walked past, they looked at us as if we had been dragged out of a bush (which indeed we had however my hair seemed straight!) but Firess didn’t seem to care. She just limped past with her paws and her head held high.
"Oh hello Vulpix! How’s your paw been?" the kind woman asked "I trust it doesn’t hurt too much?" Then she looked at me. "Oh you have a trainer now it seems! It was just the other day when you out there wild in the forest, but look at you now! I simply must tell Joy, she'll be pleased to hear such news! Well I'm Nurse Joy!"
"Um I'm not trying to ruin the conversation, but what is this place?" I asked, feeling utterly stupid upon asking this question.
"Oh dear, don't you know?" she asked, puzzled "The city is called Vilo city, and well, this is the Pokémon Center!”
"The what?" I felt ignorant now.
"The Pokémon Center, We help cure and make your Pokémon better!" She announced. There was laughing and giggling in the corner of the room, obviously someone thought that someone like me was too stupid to learn around here.
"Um, ok. What’s a Pokémon?" every second I asked these questions the people in the corner laughed even harder. The nurse paid no attention to them, smiled at me and continued to answer my questions.
"You see Vulpix here? She is a species of Pokémon. There are many different kinds and sometimes you can tell their species by their cry or their appearance" She explained "But people are saying there are many NEW species out there just waiting to be discovered! Like legendary Pokémon are exceedingly rare as sometimes there are only one of them!"
"So there’s more like Firess?" I asked curiously
"So that’s what you called her! That names perfect for you Vulpix, oh wait, Firess" She corrected.
"Vul! Vulpix!" Said the happy Firess
"So yes, there are more than one, and I know there are more than 400 different kinds or so" She answered
"Whoa" I said, this place was AWESOME you can do whatever you want and you don't have any parents to boss you around.
"Well would you like some help with that paw?" She asked kindly
"Yes Please! I'm afraid I only had a bandage so I couldn't do so much..." I trailed off.
"Oh that’s fine! We'll fix her right up!" she exclaimed.
"But, but I don't have any money" I said sadly.
"That’s fine, you don't need money because the Pokémon Centers free! Because a Pokémon’s health is more important than money!" she said, trying to cheer me up. Believe me it worked.
"Really?! Thanks!" I told her. Firess walked onto a tray-like bed and waved her paw at me, I waved back and off she went into the hospital room! My goodness this was SO much better than doing tests and homework! I watched through the window as they examined Firess, put on a clean bandage and she hopped back onto the tray. Her paw seemed to be getting much better, for which I was relieved. Then a large and pink Pokémon, using my new word, pushed the tray back into the room and was smiling at me as nurse Joy went back behind the desk.
"This is Audino, she’s just come here to train as a nurse" She told me gleefully "Firess is much better now! We have done a check-up, she’s fine and we have took off the old bandage and put on a new one"
"It seems that Firess paw is really getting better!" I said even happier now.
"Yes it is!" Nurse Joy replied "By the way have you considered going to Training&Pokemon School?" She asked.
"Where’s that?" I asked.
"It’s just east of this Pokémon Center next to the fountain, you can't miss it" She directed
"Sure, I'll check it out. Sorry for asking loads of dumb questions" I apologized
"Oh its fine! It happens all the time!" She said. Then she passed 6 red&white balls to me.
"What are these?" I asked, yet another dumb question.
"Poké balls, you catch and put your Pokémon in them to rest or just to keep them safe" She pointed out.
"Ok so do I do the same with Firess?" I asked.
"Firess, can you see the small button on that Poké ball?"
"Vul!" she nodded
"Touch it so, what’s your name again?" She asked me.
"Lara, Lara Whitegate" I replied.
"Lovely Name!" She complimented "Ok, so push the button Firess so Lara can keep you safe and when she needs you she can just chuck the ball and you will be out again!" Firess did as instructed and pushed the button. Then she disappeared in a bright red light and the ball started to wobble. Then it stayed still. "That shows that you have managed to catch a Pokémon, but be careful some Pokémon are very hard to catch!" she told me" Now chuck the ball into the air!" I did as I was told and Firess was out again!
"Wow! Technology’s really great these days!" I said, suited.
"Yes, indeed it is! Now quickly off you go!" She told us "Best be off early yes? You don't want to see the bad side of Mr. Monly" She advised.
"Ok! Let’s go Firess!" I told my partner.
We walked east of the Pokémon Center and by the fountain, and soon found the school. It was so, well, small. Where were we meant to practice? We strode inside and found a rather large space in the middle of the room with some quite big gym mats. There were quite a few students already here and they looked from what looked like age 7-11. I walked in and found a mat with a little girl sat on it; she looked about 9 years old.
"Hi!” She greeted me with a high pitched voice "I can't believe it! They’re going to give us our Pokédex today! They identify Pokémon and tell us about our own! All we have to do is flip it open and it tells us! By the way my names Alicia"
"Cool, my names Lara" I said, glad that I don't have to ask what a Pokédex is.
"Cute name!" I stared at her at loss for words. Then I sat down on the mat with Firess and Alicia.
Then suddenly the door swung open and a shadow cast over us all. He strode into the classroom (more like a hall if you ask me) and stared at the children.
"To learn how to fight, you must battle your way through every challenge I give you, then when you are ready you shall battle me, if you win you will leave and graduate" He shouted "but be warned if you fail...well you don't want to know what happens if you fail..."
All the children were shaking now, even their Pokémon were scared, but Firess didn't care and quietly laughing at the lot of them.
"Firess!" I whispered sternly "Don't be mean!" She turned her head away and stopped laughing. Alicia's Pokémon was small and yellow with black tipped diamonds for ears with a small round body, pink cheeks and a small black tail. I had to admit it was a perfect match for Alicia with her blonde pigtails and rosy cheeks.
The teacher was wearing a karate outfit, I guess he took fighting seriously. Maybe Nurse Joy was right about being late. If I was late, uh, I don't want to think about it. Anyway, he was very tall and had brown hair and bulky muscles, he wasn’t in a kindergarten school, I could tell you that.
"Now I want ALL of you, to practice your moves or battle with your partners" He told the children, yet again shouting "At the end there will be a tournament to prove who will go against...ME!" Again all the children shook in fright at the mention of battling with Mr. Monly. "Now Begin!" He commanded everyone.
"Wait, I don't get this, we battle our Pokémon?" I asked Alicia, fearing being burnt by Firess.
"No, no, no silly! We battle each other with our Pokémon, not us battling them!" She shook her head, tutting.
"Ok let’s practice separately first then have a practice battle!" I decided.
"Ok let’s do that! I'll practice with Sparky and you can practice with your Pokémon!" She squealed happily. I was quite happy she went with it otherwise I would have had a very hard partner to work with. Then Mr. Monly came to our mat, he eyed me with suspicion and gave us an element-proof Pokémon dummy. Then he walked away to the next mat.
"What’s wrong with him?" I asked Alicia.
"Oh, never mind that, he's always like that with new people to the class" Answering my question.
Firess licked her paws, she hadn't done that for quite a while, and she wasn't limping anymore. Maybe it was time to take the bandage off? I picked up Firess carefully and unwrapped the bandage. Then she started acting as if she was in pain, closing her eyes, then opening one to see if I was watching.
"You’re fooling no one, Firess" I said smiling. I continued to take the bandage off, unwrapping it. When I finally unwrapped it, Firess stepped back onto the mat.
"Vul! Vulpix!" she whimpered, feeling a little numb.
"Just shake it a little, Firess" I instructed. She did as she was told and shook it a little, she stopped after about 2 minutes. And walked again, so it was good as new!
"Okay, let’s start" I told Alicia. She nodded.
So I needed to train Firess, but what should I focus on? Attack? Defence? Or maybe agility? Yes, agility! That’s what I'll focus on!
"Firess, I want you to run in a straight line! Okay?" She gave a tiny nod and stood at the start of the mat. When she had mastered agility I can teach her to use both her agility and attack towards the dummy. "I want you to run back and forth till you get faster!" I instructed her. She ran forward, pushing her legs and paws against the mat, she ran back and forth like a turtle which slowly evolved into a rocket. Then suddenly, her paws began to glow as she rushed forward. "Okay Firess! Hit that dummy!" I commanded her. She hit the dummy with great impact as it fell to the ground with a massive dent on it.
"Vulpix!" She cried happily "Vul! Vul!"
"Great Work Firess!" I praised her and gave her a sweet berry I found in the forest. She ravenously ate it and sat down, licking her paws.
"That’s quick attack!" Alicia recited "That’s pretty advanced, no one here knows that move, yet"
"Really? Well Firess learned that quite fast" I said, it was really great no one else knew the move because that would mean we were at an advantage.
"Okay, you know when you did that thing when your legs glowed Firess?" she gave a quick nod "Well that’s called Quick Attack, so when I say that, it means do that move alright?" she understood and went back onto the mat.
"Vulpix!" she was ready for more training.
"Right, Firess use Quick Attack! On that dummy!" I ordered. She did the same as she did before, gradually building up her speed as her legs started to glow. Then, she charged into the dummy with a massive impact. Maybe I should try endurance now? Yes, that’s how I'll do it! "Right! Firess use Quick Attack repeatedly on the dummy!" I called. She spun round and pounced on the dummy then jumped back, spun round and did it again. She was doing quite well until she tripped on the corner of the mat. I think she did it about twenty times in eighteen seconds. That was quite good but she had room to improve.
I worked on her speed and endurance for quite a while, and then focused on something else. I think it was time to work on her fire abilities. I told her to practice aiming her fire at the dummy, she did great on it. The flames were quite small but it was thick throughout the flame, showing how much power was held inside. I sort of made it into a game for Firess, saying if she did well she would win a prize, and I had LOTS of berries so that was nothing to worry about. Then, yet again, Mr. Monly came around the mats. He eyed me like he did before and gave me a red device, passed one to Alicia and left just as fast as he returned.
Alicia stared at the device, her eyes shining, and slightly drooling. It was a little embarrassing seeing her do this. But why was she so fascinated by it? It’s just a red device and moreover looked like a regular video game. Then it spoke.
"Please state your name" The device spoke, I assumed this device was the Pokédex that Alicia was going on about earlier.
"Lara, Lara Whitegate" I replied to the Pokédex.
"Welcome, Lara, what Pokémon would you like to study today?" It asked a loud tone. I decided I should check on Firess's profile.
"Vulpix" I told the device. A loading screen came up and as I waited there was a tiny animation of a Vulpix running about, and the background was of flames. Hmm, nice touch.
"Wow, I think they set it up to each other’s first Pokémon!" She cried excitedly, I saw her animation of her Pokémon joyfully jogging about with an electric background theme.
When the device loaded it showed what Firess's moves and abilities. I was quite thrilled that her ability was flash fire meaning it was able to transfer an opponent’s fire attack into fire for itself, strengthening its fire type moves. I learnt what her attacks were. I hope I can remember them. Her moves were: Tail Whip, Roar, Ember and the move I taught her, Quick Attack. I was happy I knew what moves she had now. I guess tackle was the same as Quick Attack only it was slower. I tried Growl, but all she did was growl at me. It wasn't called Growl for nothing. Alicia and her Pokémon were doing great! They were like a tag team together and I learned that her Pokémon was actually called Pichu, it was an electric mouse. It was time for our practice battles now.
"Now! It’s TIME for your practice battles!" Mr. Monly bellowed "start NOW!" All the children started to battle each other. But it was our turn now. Alicia was really confident and stepped forward with her head down which slowly rose up.
"Let’s Battle" She said a highish tone.
"You know sometimes you go a little TOO over the top Alicia" I said, chuckling "Ok! Firess go!" I called, as Firess jumped onto the mat.
"Go Sparky!" shouted Alicia, as the small Pichu leapt from Alicia's shoulder to the ground and ran to the mat. "Since I'm such an awesome trainer, I'll go first!" She announced. Firess stood there ready for what Sparky might do as he stood on his two legs with his arms outstretched. "Ok! Sparky use Charm!" She commanded. Hearts started floating towards Firess. Uh oh, this move looked bad. What could I do to counter it? I know!
"Firess! Counter it with Ember!" I yelled. Firess torched all of the hearts as all of them vanished in a puff of red smoke. All the children stopped battling and gathered round our own battle. Wow! Was I really attracting this much attention?
Alicia stood there thinking. Then, suddenly she decided.
"Be ready Firess..." I advised her. Firess nodded, even she expected surprises from the duo.
"Ah hah!" she shouted "Sparky, use Thundershock!" Thundershock? That was definitely going to hurt her. I needed to think, and fast! Sparky was building up energy ready to fire!
"Piiiiiiiiiiii......" murmured Sparky as he was nearly finished charging. Oh, what could I do? Oh wait!
"Firess! Quickly! Dodge it with Quick Attack!" I shouted to her. She ran, gradually speeded up as her legs glowed, she dodged the shock.
"Not so fast!" Alicia waved her two outstretched fingers "Sparky, control the current!"
"What?!" I asked in shock. The current stopped and turned following Firess's tail. "Firess! Behind you!" I told her. Firess turned. "Set your tail and fire with Ember and use Tail Whip to hit it back!" I ordered her. Still running, Firess forced fire from her mouth with Ember, she looked at her body and fired. Her body turned into a strong sea of flames as she became stronger and stronger. Then, finally, she set her tail on fire and hit the incoming wave of electricity.
The flame merged with the electricity and fired right back at Sparky.
"Pi?" It stared at the whirlpool of fire and electricity, asking Alicia for an answer.
"Sparky! Dodge it, and fast!" She yelled, but before he could I decided to strike.
"Ok Firess! Trip Sparky up with Tail Whip!" I smiled, I was going to win this battle! Firess ran behind Sparky, who was unaware of what was going on, tripped him up and leapt out of there. The beam hit the stunned Sparky.
"Pichuuuuuuuu!" It whimpered in pain, unable to stand up. Everyone stared at me, shocked of how advanced I was.
Alicia picked up Sparky, cuddled him and said to me "Great battle Lara, You taught me alot"
"Pichu....pi" Sparky mumbled to Firess, saying well done to her. Then Alicia walked over to me and shook my hands, as she walked out of the classroom towards the Pokémon Center.
Everyone started crowding around me and Firess, making a fuss over us. It wasn't exactly hard was it? But most of the children said it was, and said that I may have a talent for it. Firess was very happy for the attention and was petted by most of the children, who started to stroke her velvet fur. Then Mr. Monly stepped from the crowd, and looked at me, all the children stepped back in silence as they watched with anxiety. He watched me and then turned to the other children.
"Remaining winners fight other winners, and..." He turned to me "...you fight the other students" and he quickly walked away.
I fought through all of the students one by one, each of the trainers had either energetic or exotic Pokémon, of which I had never heard of. Many of these Pokémon had skills and tricks of their own of which I had to avoid. But if you ask me, many of the children were either holding back to escape the chance of battling Mr. Monly or beating everybody to get out of this school and escape the wrath of Mr. Monly's mystery anger. Then after my last battle, I was the only one left. It was time to battle Mr. Monly...
This Story doesn't have much violence so I would rate it PG.
This story is about a young girl (10 years old) who finds her way into a completely different dimension, far different from her own home. I am going to try my best on this fan fiction story and I have great plans for it. If there are any spelling/ grammer mistakes please don't hesitate to tell me! Enjoy!
Across the Unknown Dimension
Chapter 1
I hung up my coat on the rack and trudged over to the couch. I sunk into the seat. I had a rough day at school. Idiots were very common in my school especially this guy called Jamie, he just made a fool out of me and I was almost jumped by a group of students on the way home. I picked up the T.V remote and pressed the button. The T.V screen flickered and slowly switched to a channel. I stared at the screen as it slowly changed into shapes and colours forming a cartoon. I wasn’t that bothered to be honest, life was always slapping me in the face when I never needed it. I wish I could have a different life, less strife and friends and family I could count on.
My parents were ALWAYS at work so I never spent any time with them, and when I tried to they were always busy with slideshows, presentations and what not. I dragged myself to the kitchen and got out my ingredients for my Triple-Sandwich; I got out the chopping board and sorted the vegetables slowly placing them on the sandwich. I never wanted to be alone at home, no one would welcome me when I got home, and no one would tell me "Well done!" for completing and passing my tests. I was just the black sheep, while everyone stood with their friends as I stood alone.
I walked with my snack over to the couch, and sat into a slouch, nibbled it and watched the screen. The T.V was quite new and above it stood a small photo of me, but no one ever paid attention to it. I heard a noise. A strange and eerie noise. Rattling, knocking and the doorbell could be heard. I slowly pulled my body from the couch to the door, tired of the insane knocking. I looked through the eye hole. It was a tall, dark long haired Woman with a brief case and wore a white dress with Dark Glasses. I opened the door.
"Who are-?"
"Lara Whitegate, yes?" I looked at her with a sharp eye. How did she know my name?
"Yes. I'm Lara" I said sarcastically "Why are you-?"
"Here" She handed me a strange device "This is from your grandfather" she explained. The device looked really basic but the colours and design looked as if they were not from this Country, or planet for that matter. The woman quickly walked away.
"Wait!" I yelled, but by the time I did so she was gone.
I went inside and had a look at the strange device the woman had given me. It was a touchpad device; it had a note stuck to it.
Dear Lara
I am sure you have received my gift; I heard life is getting too boring for you so I decided you are ready for this
With love,
Grandfather Whitegate
Why didn’t he tell me what this thing does? But knowing my grandfather he probably wanted me to find out for myself. The drop down menu had four different options:
1. Teleport to dimensional space
2. Home dimension
3. Register
4. Change Location
I wondered what these meant. I fiddled about with it for a while, studying the unique structure. Then the phone rang, I picked it up, fearing who it might be next. I looked at the name. It was Violet. Violet was quite tall with black long hair and wore the same wary and bright. I shouldn't tell her what happened to me today, She may have well thought I was crazy. I answered the phone.
"Hi Lara!" She said excitedly.
"Hello Violet, Why are you so excited?" I asked
"Well...um, how do I put this" She stammered "Darren just asked me out!"
"Oh Great Darren" I never really liked Darren. He always kept Violet away from me so I didn't have any friends and was nasty to me behind Violets back. "Well I'm happy for you (not)"
"So how was your day Lara?" She asked with certainty.
"Well apart from almost being jumped and Jamie making me a national fool at the school, the days been Fine" I said.
"Oh, sorry Lara I must've caught you at a bad time, I never knew your friendship with others was so bad..."
"It’s not my friendship! Everyone at school HATES me" I shouted "They see me walking in the corridors and start throwing rubbish at me! Then they take and drop my lunch in the litter bin!"
"You never eat your lunch anyway..." she said quietly
"That’s not the point!" Sometimes her attention to most things was annoying "It’s like I'm on one team with about 3 or 4 people and nearly all the schools on the other!"
"Maybe I'll talk to you later when you calm down!" She snapped.
"No, wait Violet!"
"Bye Lara" She Hung up.
No one would ever understand my life and when they did, they criticized it. I went back to the device; I decided to register my home. I searched for it and registered it. Then I saw the option "Teleport to Dimensional Space". I decided to pack before I pressed it, because I had no idea of what I would find. I packed my coat, some food, clothes, first aid and my bag. Now I was ready I could press the button. I tapped the option. Then there was a bright light, the room turned into a sparkling star. I had to close my eyes because it was so blinding.
The light faded and became a valley full of green. I looked around staring at the trees; it was hard to believe I had just teleported from inside a gloomy house to cool place like this.
"This is Incredible!" I exclaimed "wow!" I have never seen a place full of plants and flowers of different shapes and sizes. On the high trees there were coloured berries that had a rough or smooth texture. I climbed up the tree; it looked like it hadn't grown fully, and sat on the branch. There was no one here, but why wasn’t there anyone? This place was so heavenly; even I could stay here for all eternity. I thanked my grandfather in my head.
I picked one of the pink fruits and ate it; the taste was like something out of heaven. I could definitely make a pie out of this. I tried all the fruits on the trees; each one was as sweet as the other, apart from one berry which was extremely bitter. Yuck! I stared at the cloud filled sky; this place IS perfect for me and anyone. The breeze blew in my face causing my hair to blow all over, but I didn't care. My nature was in sync with this blissful place. I packed some berries in my bag and started to set off. I had no idea where I was going but I wanted to explore a bit.
Then I heard a noise. I could hear heavy breathing, and there was a battle cry in the area. In the corner of the clearing stood to be what looked like two animals. One of them was backed into a tree and was stood on four legs. Its tail was in curls and it had a curly hairdo with a red body and soft, padded paws. The other animal was large and blue with a spiral on its belly and was standing on two legs with large hunky arms. I stared at those animals; they didn't look like cats, dogs or any of those things.
"Poli...wrath!" It cried as water burst forth from its spiral and hit the red, curly animal.
"Vul...Vulpix!" the poor thing crashed to the ground, whimpering in pain. I HAD to do SOMETHING! The awful blue monster walked closer to the crimson animal, ready to strike its last blow. I picked up a nearby rock and threw it at the terrorful thing. It turned and started to walk towards me, and when it saw I had no one with me, it smiled frighteningly.
"Run!" I yelled to the red creature.
"Vul...pix?" it said as it saw me being followed by the blue menace. It managed to stand up on its four legs and stared at the creature with determination. Then it opened its mouth. "Vul...Pix!" It cried as forceful flames shot out and surrounded itself and it charged into the creature. The blue creature still shocked from the impact, turned and ran off.
The red creature walked over to me and sat in front of me, hurt, but still smiling. It licked its paws where the scars were.
"Wait, I've got something for that" I said as I reached for my bag and rooted through it till I found the first aid kit. I unlocked the box and searched for a bandage, while the animal just beamed at me with curiousity. I took out the bandages and carefully grabbed her paw, she hesitated wheather she should let me touch her paw, but she let me and watched. I wrapped it around her paw, she winced a few times but was fine. She stared at the bandage.
"Vulpix?" she asked curiously.
"It’s called a bandage, they help your paws get better" I announced proudly.
"Vulpix!" she cried happily.
"Well my names Lara" I told her.
"Vul! Vulpix!" she cried.
"Hey! You need a name, don't you?" I asked her.
"Vul!" she answered.
"Okay, how about Flame?" I asked, she shook her head, "What about Firess instead?" I asked again.
"Vul! Vulpix!" She cried happily.
"Ok, Firess it is!" I said. I walked across the clearing, and then I realized I hadn't packed my tent.
It was getting dark, and Firess looked as if she was getting tired.
"Vul!" she yawned.
"Hey Firess, do you know if there is anyone here or any towns, cities?" I asked her. She looked at me with a sharp eye, and then thought for a moment.
"Vulpix!" she answered and she walked in front of me and pointed to a bush with her bandaged paw.
"Why is she pointing to a bush?" I thought to myself. I stepped towards the brambles with Firess right behind me, when I heard something. It sounded like crowds of people bustling through a street, children shouting and playing and animals making sounds.
I walked through the bush and found the streets which I had heard, as hundreds of people were busy carrying briefcases and bags. I wondered where civilization had gone! But I have never seen this city before, maybe they just built it? No it couldn't be that, you couldn't build a city straight away and then people start coming. Then, while I was busy thinking, Firess walked towards an orange building and gave a cry. I suddenly snapped back into reality and saw what she was in front of. The building was full of windows and was very large, there were pink creatures scurrying about inside. I followed Firess, I'll tell you, the building was bigger than it seemed. On closer inspection this looked like an animal hospital. Then a lady with a pink outfit and nurse hat called us over from the desk.
People stared at us as we walked past, they looked at us as if we had been dragged out of a bush (which indeed we had however my hair seemed straight!) but Firess didn’t seem to care. She just limped past with her paws and her head held high.
"Oh hello Vulpix! How’s your paw been?" the kind woman asked "I trust it doesn’t hurt too much?" Then she looked at me. "Oh you have a trainer now it seems! It was just the other day when you out there wild in the forest, but look at you now! I simply must tell Joy, she'll be pleased to hear such news! Well I'm Nurse Joy!"
"Um I'm not trying to ruin the conversation, but what is this place?" I asked, feeling utterly stupid upon asking this question.
"Oh dear, don't you know?" she asked, puzzled "The city is called Vilo city, and well, this is the Pokémon Center!”
"The what?" I felt ignorant now.
"The Pokémon Center, We help cure and make your Pokémon better!" She announced. There was laughing and giggling in the corner of the room, obviously someone thought that someone like me was too stupid to learn around here.
"Um, ok. What’s a Pokémon?" every second I asked these questions the people in the corner laughed even harder. The nurse paid no attention to them, smiled at me and continued to answer my questions.
"You see Vulpix here? She is a species of Pokémon. There are many different kinds and sometimes you can tell their species by their cry or their appearance" She explained "But people are saying there are many NEW species out there just waiting to be discovered! Like legendary Pokémon are exceedingly rare as sometimes there are only one of them!"
"So there’s more like Firess?" I asked curiously
"So that’s what you called her! That names perfect for you Vulpix, oh wait, Firess" She corrected.
"Vul! Vulpix!" Said the happy Firess
"So yes, there are more than one, and I know there are more than 400 different kinds or so" She answered
"Whoa" I said, this place was AWESOME you can do whatever you want and you don't have any parents to boss you around.
"Well would you like some help with that paw?" She asked kindly
"Yes Please! I'm afraid I only had a bandage so I couldn't do so much..." I trailed off.
"Oh that’s fine! We'll fix her right up!" she exclaimed.
"But, but I don't have any money" I said sadly.
"That’s fine, you don't need money because the Pokémon Centers free! Because a Pokémon’s health is more important than money!" she said, trying to cheer me up. Believe me it worked.
"Really?! Thanks!" I told her. Firess walked onto a tray-like bed and waved her paw at me, I waved back and off she went into the hospital room! My goodness this was SO much better than doing tests and homework! I watched through the window as they examined Firess, put on a clean bandage and she hopped back onto the tray. Her paw seemed to be getting much better, for which I was relieved. Then a large and pink Pokémon, using my new word, pushed the tray back into the room and was smiling at me as nurse Joy went back behind the desk.
"This is Audino, she’s just come here to train as a nurse" She told me gleefully "Firess is much better now! We have done a check-up, she’s fine and we have took off the old bandage and put on a new one"
"It seems that Firess paw is really getting better!" I said even happier now.
"Yes it is!" Nurse Joy replied "By the way have you considered going to Training&Pokemon School?" She asked.
"Where’s that?" I asked.
"It’s just east of this Pokémon Center next to the fountain, you can't miss it" She directed
"Sure, I'll check it out. Sorry for asking loads of dumb questions" I apologized
"Oh its fine! It happens all the time!" She said. Then she passed 6 red&white balls to me.
"What are these?" I asked, yet another dumb question.
"Poké balls, you catch and put your Pokémon in them to rest or just to keep them safe" She pointed out.
"Ok so do I do the same with Firess?" I asked.
"Firess, can you see the small button on that Poké ball?"
"Vul!" she nodded
"Touch it so, what’s your name again?" She asked me.
"Lara, Lara Whitegate" I replied.
"Lovely Name!" She complimented "Ok, so push the button Firess so Lara can keep you safe and when she needs you she can just chuck the ball and you will be out again!" Firess did as instructed and pushed the button. Then she disappeared in a bright red light and the ball started to wobble. Then it stayed still. "That shows that you have managed to catch a Pokémon, but be careful some Pokémon are very hard to catch!" she told me" Now chuck the ball into the air!" I did as I was told and Firess was out again!
"Wow! Technology’s really great these days!" I said, suited.
"Yes, indeed it is! Now quickly off you go!" She told us "Best be off early yes? You don't want to see the bad side of Mr. Monly" She advised.
"Ok! Let’s go Firess!" I told my partner.
We walked east of the Pokémon Center and by the fountain, and soon found the school. It was so, well, small. Where were we meant to practice? We strode inside and found a rather large space in the middle of the room with some quite big gym mats. There were quite a few students already here and they looked from what looked like age 7-11. I walked in and found a mat with a little girl sat on it; she looked about 9 years old.
"Hi!” She greeted me with a high pitched voice "I can't believe it! They’re going to give us our Pokédex today! They identify Pokémon and tell us about our own! All we have to do is flip it open and it tells us! By the way my names Alicia"
"Cool, my names Lara" I said, glad that I don't have to ask what a Pokédex is.
"Cute name!" I stared at her at loss for words. Then I sat down on the mat with Firess and Alicia.
Then suddenly the door swung open and a shadow cast over us all. He strode into the classroom (more like a hall if you ask me) and stared at the children.
"To learn how to fight, you must battle your way through every challenge I give you, then when you are ready you shall battle me, if you win you will leave and graduate" He shouted "but be warned if you fail...well you don't want to know what happens if you fail..."
All the children were shaking now, even their Pokémon were scared, but Firess didn't care and quietly laughing at the lot of them.
"Firess!" I whispered sternly "Don't be mean!" She turned her head away and stopped laughing. Alicia's Pokémon was small and yellow with black tipped diamonds for ears with a small round body, pink cheeks and a small black tail. I had to admit it was a perfect match for Alicia with her blonde pigtails and rosy cheeks.
The teacher was wearing a karate outfit, I guess he took fighting seriously. Maybe Nurse Joy was right about being late. If I was late, uh, I don't want to think about it. Anyway, he was very tall and had brown hair and bulky muscles, he wasn’t in a kindergarten school, I could tell you that.
"Now I want ALL of you, to practice your moves or battle with your partners" He told the children, yet again shouting "At the end there will be a tournament to prove who will go against...ME!" Again all the children shook in fright at the mention of battling with Mr. Monly. "Now Begin!" He commanded everyone.
"Wait, I don't get this, we battle our Pokémon?" I asked Alicia, fearing being burnt by Firess.
"No, no, no silly! We battle each other with our Pokémon, not us battling them!" She shook her head, tutting.
"Ok let’s practice separately first then have a practice battle!" I decided.
"Ok let’s do that! I'll practice with Sparky and you can practice with your Pokémon!" She squealed happily. I was quite happy she went with it otherwise I would have had a very hard partner to work with. Then Mr. Monly came to our mat, he eyed me with suspicion and gave us an element-proof Pokémon dummy. Then he walked away to the next mat.
"What’s wrong with him?" I asked Alicia.
"Oh, never mind that, he's always like that with new people to the class" Answering my question.
Firess licked her paws, she hadn't done that for quite a while, and she wasn't limping anymore. Maybe it was time to take the bandage off? I picked up Firess carefully and unwrapped the bandage. Then she started acting as if she was in pain, closing her eyes, then opening one to see if I was watching.
"You’re fooling no one, Firess" I said smiling. I continued to take the bandage off, unwrapping it. When I finally unwrapped it, Firess stepped back onto the mat.
"Vul! Vulpix!" she whimpered, feeling a little numb.
"Just shake it a little, Firess" I instructed. She did as she was told and shook it a little, she stopped after about 2 minutes. And walked again, so it was good as new!
"Okay, let’s start" I told Alicia. She nodded.
So I needed to train Firess, but what should I focus on? Attack? Defence? Or maybe agility? Yes, agility! That’s what I'll focus on!
"Firess, I want you to run in a straight line! Okay?" She gave a tiny nod and stood at the start of the mat. When she had mastered agility I can teach her to use both her agility and attack towards the dummy. "I want you to run back and forth till you get faster!" I instructed her. She ran forward, pushing her legs and paws against the mat, she ran back and forth like a turtle which slowly evolved into a rocket. Then suddenly, her paws began to glow as she rushed forward. "Okay Firess! Hit that dummy!" I commanded her. She hit the dummy with great impact as it fell to the ground with a massive dent on it.
"Vulpix!" She cried happily "Vul! Vul!"
"Great Work Firess!" I praised her and gave her a sweet berry I found in the forest. She ravenously ate it and sat down, licking her paws.
"That’s quick attack!" Alicia recited "That’s pretty advanced, no one here knows that move, yet"
"Really? Well Firess learned that quite fast" I said, it was really great no one else knew the move because that would mean we were at an advantage.
"Okay, you know when you did that thing when your legs glowed Firess?" she gave a quick nod "Well that’s called Quick Attack, so when I say that, it means do that move alright?" she understood and went back onto the mat.
"Vulpix!" she was ready for more training.
"Right, Firess use Quick Attack! On that dummy!" I ordered. She did the same as she did before, gradually building up her speed as her legs started to glow. Then, she charged into the dummy with a massive impact. Maybe I should try endurance now? Yes, that’s how I'll do it! "Right! Firess use Quick Attack repeatedly on the dummy!" I called. She spun round and pounced on the dummy then jumped back, spun round and did it again. She was doing quite well until she tripped on the corner of the mat. I think she did it about twenty times in eighteen seconds. That was quite good but she had room to improve.
I worked on her speed and endurance for quite a while, and then focused on something else. I think it was time to work on her fire abilities. I told her to practice aiming her fire at the dummy, she did great on it. The flames were quite small but it was thick throughout the flame, showing how much power was held inside. I sort of made it into a game for Firess, saying if she did well she would win a prize, and I had LOTS of berries so that was nothing to worry about. Then, yet again, Mr. Monly came around the mats. He eyed me like he did before and gave me a red device, passed one to Alicia and left just as fast as he returned.
Alicia stared at the device, her eyes shining, and slightly drooling. It was a little embarrassing seeing her do this. But why was she so fascinated by it? It’s just a red device and moreover looked like a regular video game. Then it spoke.
"Please state your name" The device spoke, I assumed this device was the Pokédex that Alicia was going on about earlier.
"Lara, Lara Whitegate" I replied to the Pokédex.
"Welcome, Lara, what Pokémon would you like to study today?" It asked a loud tone. I decided I should check on Firess's profile.
"Vulpix" I told the device. A loading screen came up and as I waited there was a tiny animation of a Vulpix running about, and the background was of flames. Hmm, nice touch.
"Wow, I think they set it up to each other’s first Pokémon!" She cried excitedly, I saw her animation of her Pokémon joyfully jogging about with an electric background theme.
When the device loaded it showed what Firess's moves and abilities. I was quite thrilled that her ability was flash fire meaning it was able to transfer an opponent’s fire attack into fire for itself, strengthening its fire type moves. I learnt what her attacks were. I hope I can remember them. Her moves were: Tail Whip, Roar, Ember and the move I taught her, Quick Attack. I was happy I knew what moves she had now. I guess tackle was the same as Quick Attack only it was slower. I tried Growl, but all she did was growl at me. It wasn't called Growl for nothing. Alicia and her Pokémon were doing great! They were like a tag team together and I learned that her Pokémon was actually called Pichu, it was an electric mouse. It was time for our practice battles now.
"Now! It’s TIME for your practice battles!" Mr. Monly bellowed "start NOW!" All the children started to battle each other. But it was our turn now. Alicia was really confident and stepped forward with her head down which slowly rose up.
"Let’s Battle" She said a highish tone.
"You know sometimes you go a little TOO over the top Alicia" I said, chuckling "Ok! Firess go!" I called, as Firess jumped onto the mat.
"Go Sparky!" shouted Alicia, as the small Pichu leapt from Alicia's shoulder to the ground and ran to the mat. "Since I'm such an awesome trainer, I'll go first!" She announced. Firess stood there ready for what Sparky might do as he stood on his two legs with his arms outstretched. "Ok! Sparky use Charm!" She commanded. Hearts started floating towards Firess. Uh oh, this move looked bad. What could I do to counter it? I know!
"Firess! Counter it with Ember!" I yelled. Firess torched all of the hearts as all of them vanished in a puff of red smoke. All the children stopped battling and gathered round our own battle. Wow! Was I really attracting this much attention?
Alicia stood there thinking. Then, suddenly she decided.
"Be ready Firess..." I advised her. Firess nodded, even she expected surprises from the duo.
"Ah hah!" she shouted "Sparky, use Thundershock!" Thundershock? That was definitely going to hurt her. I needed to think, and fast! Sparky was building up energy ready to fire!
"Piiiiiiiiiiii......" murmured Sparky as he was nearly finished charging. Oh, what could I do? Oh wait!
"Firess! Quickly! Dodge it with Quick Attack!" I shouted to her. She ran, gradually speeded up as her legs glowed, she dodged the shock.
"Not so fast!" Alicia waved her two outstretched fingers "Sparky, control the current!"
"What?!" I asked in shock. The current stopped and turned following Firess's tail. "Firess! Behind you!" I told her. Firess turned. "Set your tail and fire with Ember and use Tail Whip to hit it back!" I ordered her. Still running, Firess forced fire from her mouth with Ember, she looked at her body and fired. Her body turned into a strong sea of flames as she became stronger and stronger. Then, finally, she set her tail on fire and hit the incoming wave of electricity.
The flame merged with the electricity and fired right back at Sparky.
"Pi?" It stared at the whirlpool of fire and electricity, asking Alicia for an answer.
"Sparky! Dodge it, and fast!" She yelled, but before he could I decided to strike.
"Ok Firess! Trip Sparky up with Tail Whip!" I smiled, I was going to win this battle! Firess ran behind Sparky, who was unaware of what was going on, tripped him up and leapt out of there. The beam hit the stunned Sparky.
"Pichuuuuuuuu!" It whimpered in pain, unable to stand up. Everyone stared at me, shocked of how advanced I was.
Alicia picked up Sparky, cuddled him and said to me "Great battle Lara, You taught me alot"
"Pichu....pi" Sparky mumbled to Firess, saying well done to her. Then Alicia walked over to me and shook my hands, as she walked out of the classroom towards the Pokémon Center.
Everyone started crowding around me and Firess, making a fuss over us. It wasn't exactly hard was it? But most of the children said it was, and said that I may have a talent for it. Firess was very happy for the attention and was petted by most of the children, who started to stroke her velvet fur. Then Mr. Monly stepped from the crowd, and looked at me, all the children stepped back in silence as they watched with anxiety. He watched me and then turned to the other children.
"Remaining winners fight other winners, and..." He turned to me "...you fight the other students" and he quickly walked away.
I fought through all of the students one by one, each of the trainers had either energetic or exotic Pokémon, of which I had never heard of. Many of these Pokémon had skills and tricks of their own of which I had to avoid. But if you ask me, many of the children were either holding back to escape the chance of battling Mr. Monly or beating everybody to get out of this school and escape the wrath of Mr. Monly's mystery anger. Then after my last battle, I was the only one left. It was time to battle Mr. Monly...