The Random Adventures of Miji and Snorunt/Glalie/Froslass!

[aswertyuiol]

This is a chapter story following the awesome and random adventures of our heroes, Miji and Snorunt/Glalie/Froslass! I will add chapters as often as possible, and please no hate if there are a couple of filler chapters!

Prologue
Miji woke with a start. She had just dreamt about a volcano erupting and killing everyone she loved with her surviving. The dream had ended with her throwing herself into the lava, screaming: "THERE'S NO POINT LIVING WITH NO-ONE TO LOVE!"

She shrugged off the dream and got dressed. Checking her clock, it was only seven-thirty. Then she remembered. She was getting a Pokemon today! Her mother had called up Prof. Rowan (as she was a close friend of his) and asked for him to meet Miji at the Pokemon Center at eight o'clock today. He had agreed because, in her mother's words. "Rowan wanted to check out Lake Acuity anyway, so this was the perfect opputunity. Happily, she skipped outside into the freezing cold of Snowpoint City.

Miji immediately headed to the Pokemon Centre, where Prof. Rowan was supposed to meet her. He was there, of course, with three Pokeballs. "HI!" Miji squeaked nervously as she timidly went to sit down opposite the Professor. "Hello." Rowan replied. "So you're Miji, correct?"
"Um, yes. I-I'm Miji."
"Good. Pick a Pokeball, then."
Miji wasn't sure which Pokemon she wanted. Turtwig, the grass-type? Piplup, the water-type? Chimchar, the fire-type? She picked up a random one and opened it, expecting Piplup to pop out. Instead, there sat a Snorunt.
"Wh-What? There must be some mistake!" Miji stammered.
"No, there's no mistake. I want you to have Snorunt." Rowan replied.
"Oh!" Miji blushed slightly. Did he see her as talented, or special? "Wh-Why?"
"Because I think you're talented, and special. Plus I forgot to catch some starters." Rowan smiled slightly.
Miji smiled back. "Thank you, Professor Rowan..!" she said politely and called back Snorunt. But Snorunt wasn't having any of it. He popped right back out again, and shook his head. "Huh?" Miji said, confused.
Rowan laughed. "That one's a little feisty, I guess."
"Um.. Yeah.." Miji agreed and tried to get Snorunt to follow her back home.

"Mum, I'm home! Look who the Professor gave to me!" Miji gestured to Snorunt, who looked at her suspiciously.
"Oh, wow!" Miji's mother smiled as she waved to the little Snorunt. Snorunt glared.
"Sorry. He's not used to all the attention!" Miji smiled.
"Well, Miji, it's dinnertime already! I think you should have dinner, have a nice hot bath, and go to bed nice and early so you're ready for your adventure tomorrow!" Miji's mother suggested.
"OK, Mum!" Miji ate dinner and had a bath and went to bed, cuddling Snorunt and dreaming of becoming the Champion.

[aswertyuiol]

Bump! Please add reviews!

[Chandelurefan1]

It seems there is a solid start, but I think there should be more detail or you could make the chapters longer to increase interest

[bobandbill]

Don't bump your own thread please if it's just to ask for posts, as that's against the rules. I guess you have a week to take your time on the story then... Check the rules next time please.

There's no length limit on prologues but keep in mind that there are ones for chapters. (Check out the fic rules for more info). You'd want to use a line of spacing between each line of dialogue as well.

Snorunt is an unusual Pokemon to start with... and perhaps too much so? I'm not so sure I can buy Professor Rowan, who seems fairly organised by the games, wouldn't have caught usual starters. Moreso though, Snorunt seems rather odd a choice - they tend to prefer cold places so Rowan catching one near his lab (I assume they are there, but there was no mention of location) seems odd. Maybe some more on that would have been neat.

[aswertyuiol]

It seems there is a solid start, but I think there should be more detail or you could make the chapters longer to increase interest

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind.

Don't bump your own thread please if it's just to ask for posts, as that's against the rules. I guess you have a week to take your time on the story then... Check the rules next time please.

There's no length limit on prologues but keep in mind that there are ones for chapters. (Check out the fic rules for more info). You'd want to use a line of spacing between each line of dialogue as well.

Snorunt is an unusual Pokemon to start with... and perhaps too much so? I'm not so sure I can buy Professor Rowan, who seems fairly organised by the games, wouldn't have caught usual starters. Moreso though, Snorunt seems rather odd a choice - they tend to prefer cold places so Rowan catching one near his lab (I assume they are there, but there was no mention of location) seems odd. Maybe some more on that would have been neat.

OK, I'll keep it in mind not to bump it. (That sounds wierd, doesn't it?) I'll make sure to check the rules and make sure I've done it right. Also, it looked a lot longer when I typed it out. I do often forget to make a new line of dialogue, I'll keep that in mind also.

I know Snorunt is a wierd Pokemon to start with, but Prof. Rowan has his off days like everybody else! Plus since Miji's from Snowpoint City, and on the main Serebii.net site it says you can catch Snorunt at Acuity Lakefront, and there's no reason why Rowan wouldn't stop for a bit to look at the scenery? And because Miji left her house quite early and headed to the Pokemon Center where she was meeting Rowan, he could have worried about the time and headed up there SUPER early, so to kill some time he decided to stop and gaze at the scenery of Acuity and came across a Snorunt, which he promptly caught. TRUMPED! Lol, Jk.

Next chapter should be here by Monday afternoon!

[bobandbill]

Which then begs the question - what's Prof Rowan doing in Snowpoint on the other side of the region from where he's stationed? I know that professors can go on trips and all, but there's no indication of this in the story, and so it comes off as odd and unexplained on why he's there.

[aswertyuiol]

Which then begs the question - what's Prof Rowan doing in Snowpoint on the other side of the region from where he's stationed? I know that professors can go on trips and all, but there's no indication of this in the story, and so it comes off as odd and unexplained on why he's there.

Prof. Rowan is there because Miji is old enough to get her first Pokemon and she doesn't live in Twinleaf Town, so he agreed to meet her at the Snowpoint Pokemon Center because he could also have a look at Lake Acuity. It makes sense! It does explain, because it says he was supposed to meet her at the Pokemon Center, and you can understand why he'd meet her there if you either watch the DP anime or have played the 4th gen games. If you haven't done either, I can add an explanation. *Smug face*



Chapter One: Training – For romance!

Miji woke with a start. She blinked and yawned. “What happened yesterday?” she asked herself. After thinking it through a bit, she remembered. “Oh yeah! I got Snorunt yesterday!” … “WHERE'S SNORUNT?!” she panicked and jumped out of bed in her pyjamas. She ran downstairs and looked outside, only to see Snorunt sitting happily in the snow outside the front door. Miji breathed a sigh of relief.

Miji pulled on her boots and a jacket, because it (weirdly) wasn't that cold for Snowpoint, and sat down next to Snorunt. “Why'd you disappear and scare me silly?” Miji asked. Snorunt ignored her. Rolling her eyes, Miji looked where Snorunt was looking. The Pokemon Gym. Of course.

“Snorunt, if you really want to challenge that Gym, we'll have to do some hardcore training. And catch some fire-types. I mean, it'll be really hard.” Miji said. Snorunt looked at her hopefully and Miji smiled at her new partner's optimism. She knew she could count on him. “OK. Let's have breakfast, and then we'll go down to the mountain and train. Deal?” Miji got up. Snorunt nodded and dashed inside.

After breakfast and changing, Miji and Snorunt went to the mountain to train. They encountered Sneasels, Meditites and even another Snorunt or two, but Snorunt levelled up sufficiently. Just as they were leaving, a skier whooshed past. “AAAHHH!” Miji screamed and dodged out of the way. “Watch where you're skiing!” she shouted after the offender. The skier made a sudden stop and went back to Miji.

“You were saying?” He asked. He had just taken off his ski mask, and boy, was he gorgeous!
With spiky brown hair and shimmering deep blue eyes like the sea, he had Miji practically drooling.

“Um.. Nothing.. J-just saying how good a skier you are..” Miji stammered. Snorunt looked at her weirdly.

“Would you like to battle, milady?” the boy asked, eyebrow raised.

“Um.. Sure!” Miji replied nervously. “Snorunt.. L-let's battle this guy!” she said with awkward enthusiasm.
Snorunt dived in front of her, getting seriously pumped. He was practically screaming “BRING IT ON!”. Miji moved about eight metres back. The boy sent out a
Glaceon.
“If you win, milady, I might tell you my name.” The boy winked and Miji
tried to hold back a blush.

“Ready?” the boy asked.

“Definitely!” Miji replied. Her stutter was gone now she focused on the battle instead of the boy.

The boy started off with Glaceon dashing forward and crunching down onto Snorunt, too fast to dodge. Snorunt winced and surprised Glaceon by sending icy fangs down. Glaceon was able to dodge a little bit but Miji kept Snorunt on his feet.

“Glaceon, use Quick Attack!”

Snorunt took the hit.

“Snorunt, Headbutt!”

Glaceon wasn't quite fast enough.

“Glaceon! Use Ice Shard!”

“Snorunt! Protect!”

Snorunt made it just in time.

“Quick Attack!” the boy yelled.

“Crunch!” Miji countered.

“Ice Fang!” he ordered.

“Protect!” she said desperately.

It looked like a draw. “How will I win? Glaceon's so much faster.” Miji said to herself. Snorunt looked worn out. “I can't keep forcing Snorunt to try and counter all these moves.”

The boy and his Glaceon looked just as exhausted. “Draw?” he called weakly.

“OK.” Miji agreed.

The boy returned Glaceon and Miji scooped up Snorunt. They walked over and shook
hands. “Good battle.” They said in unison. Miji blushed.

“You're a good battler. My name is Darren.” Darren said.

“Oh..! Th-That really suits you. I-I'm Miji.” Miji stuttered.

“Thanks. That's a beautiful name, Miji. So, what's your goal in life?”

“M-My goal? Um, well it's to become the Champion.”

“Really? Mine's to become a co-ordinator.” Darren replied.

Miji was surprised, but then it made sense. Glaceon was a very popular choice for co-ordinators, along with Lopunny and Glameow.

“Maybe we should travel together!” Miji blurted out without thinking. She blushed furiously.

Darren smiled. “Sure, I'd like that.”

“R-Really?!”

“Yeah. It gets lonely travelling alone, you know?”

“Well, yeah!” Miji stammered, not sure how to respond to his answer. Snorunt poked Miji impatiently. “Well, we should head to the first Gym, I guess!” Miji said.

“OK, but we should work on some more training first. And catch some Fire-types.”
Darren replied.

“Let's head to Eterna City and train some more!” Miji said.

“Yeah.” Darren agreed.

And so our heroes headed south, to Eterna City.
Catch the next chapter to see what happens!

[bobandbill]

Prof. Rowan is there because Miji is old enough to get her first Pokemon and she doesn't live in Twinleaf Town, so he agreed to meet her at the Snowpoint Pokemon Center because he could also have a look at Lake Acuity. It makes sense! It does explain, because it says he was supposed to meet her at the Pokemon Center, and you can understand why he'd meet her there if you either watch the DP anime or have played the 4th gen games. If you haven't done either, I can add an explanation. *Smug face*

Why are you adding *smug face* to your posts? It makes you seem kinda rude in that you know an answer, but it doesn't serve you well because this sort of things should be within the story, not only answered when readers ask about it. If it's not obvious to the reader, then you need to make sure it makes sense in the story itself. It's good that you added it in now, but... be a bit more careful in how you reply in reviews. Trying o be smug about managing an explanation does not mean that there hadn't been a problem to begin with.

I have played the DPPt games multiple times in the record, and I can say that Rowan hasn't gone about giving starter Pokemon from outside his lab in there. (He did give a Pokemon to a protagonist in DP... because they used them when they found his bag and when he checked they seemed to get along with the protagonist/rival. In Platinum, he gave one outside his lab, but it's certainly indicated that it's not a thing he usually does, nor a prearranged plan to give a starter Pokemon to a trainer of a certain age.)

I do not watch the anime, but from what I know he hasn't gone about giving out starter Pokemon in a completely different town to the lab he stays in either. So no, your explanation doesn't make sense because this information is not in the story. We don't know that he wanted to have a look at the Lake - and if we don't know that, than a more 'obvious' way for him to provide a starter Pokemon is to just send it over the PC system, or organise a member from the Snowpoint Pokemon Centre to give it to her. Many times in the anime video calls have been shown to happen as well between characters, including professors. Hence why I asked about the original point as without this extra information it did not add up.

In-game trainers much younger than typical protagonists (e.g. pre schoolers) also have Pokémon of their own, so this doesn't help the 'is now old enough' deal - maybe there may be a minimum age to begin having a career in training Pokemon with the gym circuit and all, but maybe not with having a Pokémon to begin with.