Chapter 1: Test Anxiety
As the girl walked to her seat she remembered everything that had led up to this point.
She was a pokemon trainer, taking a test that was needed to face Roxanne and only the best could do it.
She began to sweat as she thought about the fact that many of the trainers in the room were older and more experienced than she, after all she was only six.
She then looked down and saw the test sitting on her desk.
An announcement was made on a speaker above.
It said, “Participants in the gym leader challenge exam will soon begin. Please do not begin your test until instructed to do so.”
The voice sounded like a recording and she decided to scope out the competition.
As she looked around many others were doing the same.
She noticed that many of the ones that saw her laughed and began whispering to the other participants in mocking tones.
She had gotten used to this and had grown accustomed to having no support other than that of her Pokemon.
They were her only friends, ever since “it” happened.
She put her head on the chair and looked at the ceiling as she stared at it and thought about that day for what seemed like the millionth time.
When she was a toddler she lived in Cinnabar.
She was out on her dad’s boat with her Charmander, Rex and her dad.
They were out fishing and having fun together, but then a large booming sound coming from the island.
She looked at the island and it seemed peaceful enough.
Then the shockwave from the booming sound reached her boat.
It created very choppy waves, and the sea became rough and larger waves appeared.
Then another booming sound came.
This time from the mountain, and as she looked at it she saw--.
A girl busted into the gym and had a look on her face of arrogance and a happy grin.
Soon after a large number of people followed her.
She had been one of the earlier arrivals, but now the place was packed.
The loud, stupid looking girl followed Roxanne around like an idiot.
Many of the people in the room looked at her and began snickering.
“At least they’re not laughing at me now” the girl thought.
She turned her attention to her paper as she tried to ignore the idiot girl.
She answered the questions to the best of her knowledge now thinking back to her days studying with her grandmother.
After “it” happened, she had studied with her Grandmother for three years, learning about being a pokemon trainer.
Although most kids her age were playing in mud, she had no interest in such pointless activities, much preferring doing things that would get her closer to her dream of being the best.
She remembered how her grandmother, who nagged her constantly do study, had helped her to become who she was today, and made her a better, stronger, and smarter person and for that she thanked her.
She answered the questions with ease and afterward turned in her test.
She noticed that she had gotten done much earlier than most of the others, so she asked one of the assistants if she could get some ice cream.
One of them pointed out the window to an ice cream cart across the street.
She thanked the person and went outside and got her ice cream.
She returned to find that she had been pranced.
The doors were locked and she couldn’t get in.
she could her snickering from the other side of the door, and slammed the door as hard as her six-year-old hands could.
She eventually gave up and ran away crying.
She ran into a forest and sat down at a tree and her crying had turned into sobbing.
She sat there sobbing for quite some time until she heard voices.
She hid in a bush and looked to see whom they were coming from.
She saw three people in red uniforms talking.
She listened intently and intrigued.
“So what now?”
“I guess we’ll go back to the boss.”
“Wait till those Aqua suckers realize the trap we set for them.”
“I’d love to see the look on their faces.”
“Those losers don’t even realize that we’re about to make a little repeat performance of the Cinnabar Plan!”
The girl got a wide eyed look on her face. She now knew that she had to hear this.
“With the boss’ plan we’ll erupt Mt. Chimney just like Cinnabar!”
“And remember even if this fails, we still have the Meteorite Plan!”
“Mt. Chimney is going to erupt, Aqua will look like fools, and our plan of expanding land mass will come another step closer to fruition!”
“The girl now once again remembered “It”.
She was on her boat with her friend and her dad, the waves were huge and she had just heard another loud sound and was thinking to herself that the last loud sound they heard had created her current predicament and knew that this one meant things were about t get worse.
Then she heard a sound like fireworks.
She looked up and not fireworks, but balls of flaming ash were flying through the sky.
Her dad tried to steady the boat by working the sail but a flaming ball of ash went through it and caught it on fire.
Then a large wave hit the boat and knocked everyone to the side.
The girl was holding her companion in her arms tightly, trying to protect it.
The wave had knocked her around the ship, but then she looked up.
Everything looked fine, but then she noticed that her father wasn’t there.
She ran to the sides and looked out into the sea.
Her dad had been thrown overboard by the wave and was now gasping for his life, against the raging ocean.
He was a strong man and she believed in him.
He looked at her and she at him and they stared at each other for a moment, but then he got a look of fear in his eyes.
Her companion recognized what was going on and leaped from his owner’s arms and pushed her.
She fell and her companion jumped on her.
She thought he had gone mad and was attacking her but then she noticed that the flaming mast had given way and would have crushed her if Rex hadn’t pushed her out of the way.
Then she remembered her father.
She looked back out to see, and saw him go under.
As he fell beneath the waves, with his last words he shouted his daughter’s name, “Lulu!!!”
She cried then like no person should ever have to, and fell to her knees in despair.
She had been traumatized by that memory and her childhood ended that day.
She became serious in everything she did and was very protective of everything she held dear, which was not much, but the horror did not stop there.
The entire boat had now caught on fire.
Her Charmander had gone inside and came back out dragging with all its might, a wooden table.
It then broke off the legs and nudged Lulu and signaled for her to get up and ready to go.
Rex threw the table in the water and it floated. He grabbed one of the legs and handed one to Lulu and jumped on.
Lulu jumped as well, and they rowed to the island.
The shower of fire continued.
Rex as if with strength it didn’t even know it had batted away the fireballs with powerful Metal Claw attacks.
They eventually made it to the island and there found the entire town destroyed, save the Pokemon Center.
She walked in.
There were a few people there.
They all looked up to see Lulu and Rex standing there.
They got up and ran over to them and hugged them.
Lulu hugged them back and began crying again, but this time in joy.
One of the people said, “We’re so happy you’re all right! Everyone here was the only ones to survive and we thought we had lost you. Where’s your father?”
Lulu looked down and began crying.
The townsfolk put their hands to their mouths in shock.
After a good while of crying she looked up and around the room.
She walked up to one of the people who had been her neighbor and asked, “Where’s my mommy?”
The whole room got silent and everyone looked down.
Lulu realized what had happened.
She hugged Rex tight and began crying once more.
Rex, who was normally tough and arrogant, joined her in mourning.
She cried until she had no more tears and then looked around the room.
She saw their neighbor sitting in a corner staring at something in his hand.
She walked over to him and peered over his shoulder.
It was a picture of his family.
He looked at her and grabbed her.
He cried over her shoulder.
She gathered up the courage to ask him, “What are we going to do now?”
“…I don’t know Lulu. I don’t know.”
She went over to the front desk and reached her small hand over the top and wrung the bell.
The Nurse manning it peered over the desk and looked down to see the girl and her Charmander standing there.
“Where do I go now?”
“There’s a fairy coming from the mainland to take everyone there. We’ll figure out what relatives you have and you’ll live with one of them.”
As the woman said the fairy came and took them to the town of Pallet.
They determined that Lulu’s grandmother was the best person for her to live with.
She rode a bus to Lavaridge where her grandmother lived.
She lived there for three years.
Her grandmother was a kind and caring person, but Lulu insisted that she be her strict teacher for her stay there.
So her grandmother taught Lulu about being a pokemon trainer which was her only passion now.
Lulu also caught a Torkoal in her stay there that she named Puff.
It became her second companion.
Back in the present, Lulu had decided it was her duty to stop these criminals from fulfilling their plans.
They had gotten far ahead while Lulu was thinking about her past.
She jumped out from the bush and ran at them with a rage like none she had ever felt.
She stopped and pointed at them as she yelled, “I’m going to make you pay!”
the group of three looked back to see the six-year-old glaring at them and laughed.
“Ha, ha, ha, ha, sure you will, kid. Well, what if I don’t want to pay? Are you going to make me, brat?”
“I’ll do more than that, I’ll avenge my parents!”
“And what did we ever do to your parents?”
“You killed them, you murderers!”
“Many people have died in the pursuit of our goal. Your parents were needed sacrifices to make our boss’ dream a reality.”
“And what dream is that?”
“To expand land mass, to give people and pokemon more room to live and prosper.”
“You people are sick!”
“You merely do not understand our vision, and it looks like we’ll have to show you; the hard way.”
“Fine with me.”
“Very well. Go Sandslash!”
“Go Numel!”
“Go Macargo!”
“Go Rex and Puff!”
this is what i have so far. the story is set in the manga. i need some help. first i can't come up with a title, and second i don't know what should happen next, and there may be editing on what i do have that i should do. can an experienced reviewer help me?
As the girl walked to her seat she remembered everything that had led up to this point.
She was a pokemon trainer, taking a test that was needed to face Roxanne and only the best could do it.
She began to sweat as she thought about the fact that many of the trainers in the room were older and more experienced than she, after all she was only six.
She then looked down and saw the test sitting on her desk.
An announcement was made on a speaker above.
It said, “Participants in the gym leader challenge exam will soon begin. Please do not begin your test until instructed to do so.”
The voice sounded like a recording and she decided to scope out the competition.
As she looked around many others were doing the same.
She noticed that many of the ones that saw her laughed and began whispering to the other participants in mocking tones.
She had gotten used to this and had grown accustomed to having no support other than that of her Pokemon.
They were her only friends, ever since “it” happened.
She put her head on the chair and looked at the ceiling as she stared at it and thought about that day for what seemed like the millionth time.
When she was a toddler she lived in Cinnabar.
She was out on her dad’s boat with her Charmander, Rex and her dad.
They were out fishing and having fun together, but then a large booming sound coming from the island.
She looked at the island and it seemed peaceful enough.
Then the shockwave from the booming sound reached her boat.
It created very choppy waves, and the sea became rough and larger waves appeared.
Then another booming sound came.
This time from the mountain, and as she looked at it she saw--.
A girl busted into the gym and had a look on her face of arrogance and a happy grin.
Soon after a large number of people followed her.
She had been one of the earlier arrivals, but now the place was packed.
The loud, stupid looking girl followed Roxanne around like an idiot.
Many of the people in the room looked at her and began snickering.
“At least they’re not laughing at me now” the girl thought.
She turned her attention to her paper as she tried to ignore the idiot girl.
She answered the questions to the best of her knowledge now thinking back to her days studying with her grandmother.
After “it” happened, she had studied with her Grandmother for three years, learning about being a pokemon trainer.
Although most kids her age were playing in mud, she had no interest in such pointless activities, much preferring doing things that would get her closer to her dream of being the best.
She remembered how her grandmother, who nagged her constantly do study, had helped her to become who she was today, and made her a better, stronger, and smarter person and for that she thanked her.
She answered the questions with ease and afterward turned in her test.
She noticed that she had gotten done much earlier than most of the others, so she asked one of the assistants if she could get some ice cream.
One of them pointed out the window to an ice cream cart across the street.
She thanked the person and went outside and got her ice cream.
She returned to find that she had been pranced.
The doors were locked and she couldn’t get in.
she could her snickering from the other side of the door, and slammed the door as hard as her six-year-old hands could.
She eventually gave up and ran away crying.
She ran into a forest and sat down at a tree and her crying had turned into sobbing.
She sat there sobbing for quite some time until she heard voices.
She hid in a bush and looked to see whom they were coming from.
She saw three people in red uniforms talking.
She listened intently and intrigued.
“So what now?”
“I guess we’ll go back to the boss.”
“Wait till those Aqua suckers realize the trap we set for them.”
“I’d love to see the look on their faces.”
“Those losers don’t even realize that we’re about to make a little repeat performance of the Cinnabar Plan!”
The girl got a wide eyed look on her face. She now knew that she had to hear this.
“With the boss’ plan we’ll erupt Mt. Chimney just like Cinnabar!”
“And remember even if this fails, we still have the Meteorite Plan!”
“Mt. Chimney is going to erupt, Aqua will look like fools, and our plan of expanding land mass will come another step closer to fruition!”
“The girl now once again remembered “It”.
She was on her boat with her friend and her dad, the waves were huge and she had just heard another loud sound and was thinking to herself that the last loud sound they heard had created her current predicament and knew that this one meant things were about t get worse.
Then she heard a sound like fireworks.
She looked up and not fireworks, but balls of flaming ash were flying through the sky.
Her dad tried to steady the boat by working the sail but a flaming ball of ash went through it and caught it on fire.
Then a large wave hit the boat and knocked everyone to the side.
The girl was holding her companion in her arms tightly, trying to protect it.
The wave had knocked her around the ship, but then she looked up.
Everything looked fine, but then she noticed that her father wasn’t there.
She ran to the sides and looked out into the sea.
Her dad had been thrown overboard by the wave and was now gasping for his life, against the raging ocean.
He was a strong man and she believed in him.
He looked at her and she at him and they stared at each other for a moment, but then he got a look of fear in his eyes.
Her companion recognized what was going on and leaped from his owner’s arms and pushed her.
She fell and her companion jumped on her.
She thought he had gone mad and was attacking her but then she noticed that the flaming mast had given way and would have crushed her if Rex hadn’t pushed her out of the way.
Then she remembered her father.
She looked back out to see, and saw him go under.
As he fell beneath the waves, with his last words he shouted his daughter’s name, “Lulu!!!”
She cried then like no person should ever have to, and fell to her knees in despair.
She had been traumatized by that memory and her childhood ended that day.
She became serious in everything she did and was very protective of everything she held dear, which was not much, but the horror did not stop there.
The entire boat had now caught on fire.
Her Charmander had gone inside and came back out dragging with all its might, a wooden table.
It then broke off the legs and nudged Lulu and signaled for her to get up and ready to go.
Rex threw the table in the water and it floated. He grabbed one of the legs and handed one to Lulu and jumped on.
Lulu jumped as well, and they rowed to the island.
The shower of fire continued.
Rex as if with strength it didn’t even know it had batted away the fireballs with powerful Metal Claw attacks.
They eventually made it to the island and there found the entire town destroyed, save the Pokemon Center.
She walked in.
There were a few people there.
They all looked up to see Lulu and Rex standing there.
They got up and ran over to them and hugged them.
Lulu hugged them back and began crying again, but this time in joy.
One of the people said, “We’re so happy you’re all right! Everyone here was the only ones to survive and we thought we had lost you. Where’s your father?”
Lulu looked down and began crying.
The townsfolk put their hands to their mouths in shock.
After a good while of crying she looked up and around the room.
She walked up to one of the people who had been her neighbor and asked, “Where’s my mommy?”
The whole room got silent and everyone looked down.
Lulu realized what had happened.
She hugged Rex tight and began crying once more.
Rex, who was normally tough and arrogant, joined her in mourning.
She cried until she had no more tears and then looked around the room.
She saw their neighbor sitting in a corner staring at something in his hand.
She walked over to him and peered over his shoulder.
It was a picture of his family.
He looked at her and grabbed her.
He cried over her shoulder.
She gathered up the courage to ask him, “What are we going to do now?”
“…I don’t know Lulu. I don’t know.”
She went over to the front desk and reached her small hand over the top and wrung the bell.
The Nurse manning it peered over the desk and looked down to see the girl and her Charmander standing there.
“Where do I go now?”
“There’s a fairy coming from the mainland to take everyone there. We’ll figure out what relatives you have and you’ll live with one of them.”
As the woman said the fairy came and took them to the town of Pallet.
They determined that Lulu’s grandmother was the best person for her to live with.
She rode a bus to Lavaridge where her grandmother lived.
She lived there for three years.
Her grandmother was a kind and caring person, but Lulu insisted that she be her strict teacher for her stay there.
So her grandmother taught Lulu about being a pokemon trainer which was her only passion now.
Lulu also caught a Torkoal in her stay there that she named Puff.
It became her second companion.
Back in the present, Lulu had decided it was her duty to stop these criminals from fulfilling their plans.
They had gotten far ahead while Lulu was thinking about her past.
She jumped out from the bush and ran at them with a rage like none she had ever felt.
She stopped and pointed at them as she yelled, “I’m going to make you pay!”
the group of three looked back to see the six-year-old glaring at them and laughed.
“Ha, ha, ha, ha, sure you will, kid. Well, what if I don’t want to pay? Are you going to make me, brat?”
“I’ll do more than that, I’ll avenge my parents!”
“And what did we ever do to your parents?”
“You killed them, you murderers!”
“Many people have died in the pursuit of our goal. Your parents were needed sacrifices to make our boss’ dream a reality.”
“And what dream is that?”
“To expand land mass, to give people and pokemon more room to live and prosper.”
“You people are sick!”
“You merely do not understand our vision, and it looks like we’ll have to show you; the hard way.”
“Fine with me.”
“Very well. Go Sandslash!”
“Go Numel!”
“Go Macargo!”
“Go Rex and Puff!”
this is what i have so far. the story is set in the manga. i need some help. first i can't come up with a title, and second i don't know what should happen next, and there may be editing on what i do have that i should do. can an experienced reviewer help me?