Frosted Heavens
Crystallized Wind
I have read some fics that were amazing, had good characters, fantastic plots, etc..., but this isn't about those fics, this is about my fic, actually my first fic, I wanted to give it a try aswell, like the title this adventure takes place in Hoenn, everyone that reads this fic, also I'm dutch so my English isn't that perfect^-^'
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A worn out, rusty truck drove on a bumpy, sandy road. The truck passed some evergreen forests. The sun was shining brightly and the sky was clear, then a village came into view. In the village stood a lot of trees. Some were bigger and stronger, than the others, on those trees wooden houses with straw roofs were built. Those houses were interconnected by wooden bridges and stairs, inhabitants must always watch out that they didn’t fall off the stairs.
“We almost reached Fortree city.” the woman smiled happily, she drove the car. “We made a long trip, I am tired.”
“Don’t let the truck crash into a tree.” the old man joked as he sat beside the woman, his very own daughter.
“I wonder how the kids are doing back there?” the woman asked a bit worried.
“They will be fine.” the old man laughed.
“I hope we reach it soon, I am tired of sitting in this old truck.” The other man
muttered, a bit annoyed.
“Please, I want to have a pleasant ride till we reach our new home.” The woman replied.
In de back of the truck two children were sleeping peacefully on a soft sofa, that stood beside a closet. The girl slept soundlessly, while the boy snored very loud. A box that stood on the rim of the closet fell off, and landed on the floor with a loud thud. The girl woke up because of the sound and got off from the sofa. She saw her brother still sleeping and snoring.
“Hmm...I wonder what made the truck stop?” she thought.
Suddenly the car stopped. Because of the sudden stop the girl lost her balance and fell on the floor. The girl got up, and picked up the box. She walked towards the closet and placed the box back on the closet, however another box that stood on the ground, slowly slid towards the girl and quickly gained speed. The girl picked up another box and tried to set it back on the closet, but the other box bumped into her and she lost her balance, but the box that she was holding, landed hard on her brother.
“Ouch...what was that?” the boy fumed angrily. “You probably threw that box to me.”
“No, I didn’t...!” she yelled, but suddenly the truck stopped again, both children lost their balance again and they fell on the floor. The door opened and in the opening stood their mother, smiling warmly.
“We’re finally here, Hanako, Masaaki, please come with me, we’re going to our new house.” she said smiling, as she walked on a sandy path towards a tree. There were stairs on the tree that could be used for climbing the trees.
“Akira!” an old man yelled. “Wait for me, please!”
“Oh, sorry dad, I totally forgot about you, you see, I was a little exited.” Akira apologised, a little embarrassed. “Okay, where is Mr. Yoshikazu, anyway?”
“I am here, I thought, Mr. Takeo would find you, so I quickly followed him.” Mr. Yoshikazu replied a bit annoyed because the others had already left. As he quickly followed, he thought he saw a girl out of the corner of his eye, he quickly turned around but didn’t see anybody.
“Strange.” Mr. Yoshikazu thought wondering, maybe it was only his imagination. However when the group continued climbing the stairs a rope fell and the girl came down. She then quickly threw her rope up in the air and it swung a few times around a tree branch. The rope was tied tightly, and she quickly climbed up the rope so she could keep sight of the group.
The new houses were the group would live from now on were very high, almost on the top of the tree. Hanako who had a feeling that someone was watching them, turned around, because she thought she heard something. She walked over to the rim of the platform and she saw a pink scarf lying on the wooden floor. The girl that had lost her scarf looked down at Hanako. Hanako observed the area but didn’t see anybody. She then looked up and saw the girl sitting on a high tree branch.
“Everybody, someone is spying on us!” Hanako screamed at the top of her lungs.
“Damn, I am spotted, I have to flee for now.” The girl muttered angrily as she swung her rope towards another tree branch. She then tied the other end of the rope to another tree branch. The girl then jumped on the rope and she walked over it. Then, suddenly everyone heard a scream from a tree nearby. A boy had fallen over the rim of the platform.
“Taro!” the girl screamed as she jumped off the rope, to save the boy.
“Look, that girl had jumped off the rope in order to save that boy!” Hanako shouted worried.
The girl succeeded in grabbing the boy, but was now falling down with him, into the depth.
“There is one plus point to this, my family won’t blame me anymore,” the girl joked sad.
“Chikorita, you have to help me, come on out!” Hanako screamed angry as she threw a round, red sphere to the ground. It burst open and a green creature appeared. It had dark green seeds on its neck, and a bright green leaf on its head.
“Chikorita, use your vine whip to catch that girl!” Hanako ordered. Two of chikoritas seeds extended into two green whips, which it used to catch the falling girl, and save it from a certain death. Chikorita then lifted them up and gently put them on the platform.
“Great job chikorita, return.” Hanako thanked her pokemon happily.
<Always there to help you> the chikorita said happily.
The chikorita had turned into energy and was then sucked inside the ball, she put the ball back on the belt and walked towards the girl that was spying on them earlier. However when she almost reached the girl, a cloud of dust appeared on the stairs and then rushed towards her. Hanako was a bit shocked at first, but quickly figured that this woman must be the mother of the girl and the boy.
“Hello I am the mother of Emiko and Taro, and I can’t thank you enough, for saving them.” The woman cried happily. “Is there anything I can do to thank you?”
“Uh...maybe you can....” Hanako tried to say but was interrupted by her mother.
“Well, yes, actually you can help us.” Akira interrupted. “Maybe you would like to help us a bit with getting our furniture up here, you see we just moved in, and everything is still in the truck.”
“My pleasure!” the woman shouted as she ran towards the stairs and then ran off.
Hanako was still a bit confused about this lady, she wondered how that woman could run so fast, the woman really didn’t look very athletic. The woman was a bit eccentric. She then decided to talk to the girl and her brother, and she walked over to them.
“Hi, my name is Hanako.” Introducing herself, she still wondered why the girl would spy on her, so she decided to ask. “I kind of want to know, why did you spy on us?”
“Sorry, some times I am a bit suspicious of new people.” She laughed embarrassed. “By the way my name is Emiko, and thanks for saving me and my brother.”
“Well, you are pretty athletic, how do you do that?” Hanako asked curious.
“I am just very good at athletics.” Emiko said smiling. “Do you have two pokemon, we could have a battle?”
“Yes I do, but I don’t really want to battle.” Hanako replied sad. “And I don’t really have any experience with pokemon battles.”
“Oh, okay, maybe tomorrow?” Emiko asked joyfully. “I’ll bring my friends too, bye!”
Emiko then jumped up towards the tree branch, were her rope still hung. She jumped on it and walked to the other tree, like this Emiko, came farther and farther, ‘till she disappeared in the tree branches of the evergreen trees of Fortree city.
Hanako walked back disappointed towards their houses and joined the group again. The group was inspecting their houses a bit, and found them very well looking. Then a cloud of dust appeared again, and Hanako figured that the cloud of dust was probably the mother of Emiko and Taro, bringing the furniture to their houses.
“Here you go, your furniture.” the woman smiled as she dropped the furniture. “Glad to be of service to the savers of my son and daughter, but now I’ve got to go, my children are waiting for me.” She replied happily as she rushed off again.
Hanako thought the woman was weird, but anyhow she still liked her, and she helped with the furniture. Akira then asked if she could help her with the furniture or if she wanted to explore the town a bit. Hanako didn’t want to help with the furniture, and so she quickly ran off to explore the town.
When she rushed down the stairs she saw a bird-like pokemon that flew by. Its skin had the colour of a clear, blue sky, its wings however were like tiny rain clouds. The pokemon flew happily but suddenly, it was angered when it saw Hanako. Hanako was confused by this pokemon, she wondered why it was angered all of a sudden. It flew to Hanako and used one of its wings to get a spot of dirt off her cheek. It then flew further happily, while Hanako was still confused because of what happened. Suddenly a rope fell down, close to Hanako.
“Hey, Hanako.” Emiko greeted happily, who came down from the rope. “I finished my homework sooner than I thought, so I thought ‘why not to visit Hanako’.”
“Hi Emiko.” Hanako replied happily, somehow Emiko let her feel happy and cheerful. “What was your homework?”
“Oh, some things about flying pokemon....” Emiko explained bored, but was interrupted by a voice.
“Emi!” a boy shouted that came running towards Emiko and Hanako. “We tried to find you, but you had already disappeared into the trees, we had to run pretty fast, Kenshin even ran in a fat woman.” The boy explained, laughing.
“Oops, sorry, poor Kenshin how is he feeling now?” Emiko laughed. “I wanted to introduce you guys to my new friend.” Emiko explained as she pointed at Hanako.
“Here I am.” A boy shouted angrily, but suddenly he tripped over a rock and fell. “...On the ground!”
The whole group burst out in laughter when he made that comment. Emiko then introduced her friends, Kenshin and Kenta to Hanako, while Hanako introduced herself to the others. They decided to walk towards their school, which was a long walk. When they arrived Hanako panted, but Kenshin, Kenta and Emiko were anything but tired.
“How do you guys keep fit like this, with such a long way to school?” Hanako asked while she panted. “And why is the school on the outskirts of the town?”
“Well, we all are kind of used to this long walk, and because of al the trees in the town we had to built the school here.” Emiko smiled. “Look, there swim some feebas in the lake.”
The school was built near a lake and Emiko saw a pair of feebas jump out of the water. Feebas were a bit ugly, had a brown skin that had dark brown spots on its body, its fins however were clear blue like the sky. Feebas were pokemon that were rumoured to evolve into the beautiful milotic, a pokemon that was said to be able to calm emotions like anger and sadness.
“Emiko, I had encountered a bird-like pokemon that was angry because I had a spot of dirt on my face, just before you appeared, and I want to know which pokemon it was, do you know it?” Hanako asked curious.
“How did it look?” Emiko asked smiling.
“Its body had the colour of a clear, blue sky, but its wings were like tiny rain clouds.” Emiko said as she tried to remember what the pokemon looked like.
“I think it was a swablu, these pokemon hate dirt, and they will do everything to keep things clean.” Emiko happily explained. “Didn’t you learn about pokemon on school?”
“No, I did go to school but the pokemon of the flying type that I had learnt were pidgey, murkrow, skarmory, delibird, hoothoot, pidgeotto, natu, xatu, pidgeot, doduo and dodrio.” Hanako said as she tried to remember the pokemon that she had learned. “I never have heard of a pokemon called ‘swablu’.”
“We have never heard of those pokemon, except for doduo, dodrio, natu, skarmory and xatu.” Kenta replied confused. “Wait, from which region did you come?”
“I come from Jotho, why?” Hanako answered.
“Oh, you aren’t from this region, so that’s why you had a pokemon I never had heard of.”
Emiko shouted exited. “Can you send it out again, please?”
“Uh, okay, chikorita come on out.” Hanako said as she threw her pokeball, it burst open with a flash and the chikorita was before their eyes again.
<Who do I have to save now?> the chikorita asked determined.
“You don’t have to rescue anyone chikorita, oh, by the way, these are my new friends.” Hanako said embarrassed. “They were a bit curious about you, so they asked me to let you out.”
“Wow, you can understand it?” Emiko asked excited. “On our school they say you have to be specially gifted to understand a pokemon.”
“Nice, I wish I could already try it, but I don’t have any pokemon yet.” Kenta said disappointed. “Kenshin and Emi are lucky, they can talk to their pokemon but haven’t tried it yet.”
“I don’t feel experienced enough yet.” Emiko protested. “I am a bit jealous of you, Hanako, you can already communicate with your chikorita.”
“Oh, but I have another pokemon than chikorita.” Hanako said happily. “I guess you don’t know this one either but, sunkern come on out!” Hanako shouted as she threw her other pokeball, and just like the one before, it burst open in a flash.
The pokemon that appeared was tiny and looked a bit like a seed, it was bright yellow, it had brown stripes that ran vertically across its body, it had black beady eyes and on its head it had a short stem with on the end two green leaves.
“How cute, what is it called?” Emiko asked starry eyed.
“It is called a sunkern, it is a grass type and it evolves with a sunstone.” Hanako explained. “Do you find sunstones in...uh, what’s this region called?”
“Hi there sunkern, and this region is called Hoenn.” Emiko informed her. “Oh, why shouldn’t we let out our pokemon and let them play with those of Hanako.”
“Great idea, Emiko!” Kenshin shouted. “Let’s go, swablu and mukkurru!”
Kenshin threw both pokeballs and they exploded with a flash. The first one was swablu, the bird that Hanako had already seen once, but the second one, Hanako had never heard of. It had a grey body colour, but its face was white. It had a little beak, of which the top was black, its tiny wings were also grey. It had a white belly, tiny feet and a black and white tail.
“These birds are cute, I already like this region, in the Jotho region you couldn’t find birds this cute.” Hanako said starry eyed.
“Well, actually, the mukkurru is a new discovered species and it isn’t from this region, it comes from the Shinou region, and it’s still being studied.” Kenshin explained.
“Now it’s my turn, go plusle and minun!” Emiko shouted exited as she threw her pokeballs.
They burst open and two mouse-like pokemon appeared. They were both bright yellow, however there were differences, the first one had red cheeks with a plus symbol on them while the second one had blue cheeks with a minus symbol. Their tails were also different, the first one’s tail was red and had the shape of a plus, while the second one’s tail was blue and had the shape of a minus. Their ears were long, but the colour of the tips of their ears was different, the first one’s tips were red, while the second one’s were blue.
“How cute!” Hanako screamed like a fan girl.
“Plusle, minun, I like to introduce you to our newest friend, Hanako, she also has two pokemon, so please make friends with them.” Emiko smiled. “They are called sunkern and chikorita.”
Plusle and minun quickly ran over to sunkern and chikorita, some time later mukkurru and swablu joined them as well, the group of pokemon then started talking.
<Hey, you are probably the new ones> plusle greeted.
<Yes, we are> chikorita replied a bit annoyed. <We have made a very long trip, you know>
<Yes, we came to here, all from Jotho, I am sure tired> sunkern yawned. <Well, I am a bit sleepy so, see you tomorrow, I guess.....>
<The first one has already dozed off, good start> mukkurru said sarcastic.
<It’s tired, let it sleep, it has to get back its health> swablu protested.
“Swablu, mukkurru, we are going home, say goodbye to your new friends quickly, or we’ll be late.” Kenshin said annoyed.
<See you tomorrow, chikorita, sunkern> swablu smiled happily.
<Yeah, yeah, bye> mukkurru murmured bored.
“Return mukkurru, return swablu.” Kenshin shouted as red lasers shot out of the pokeballs, turned mukkurru and swablu into energy and sucked them inside the pokeballs. “Bye, Emi!”
Kenshin then quickly ran off, back to Fortree city. After a while he disappeared into the woods. And the group was still left there, talking a bit. Hanako found it a bit strange that Kenshin ran off like that. But it didn’t bother her very much.
“Hey, why didn’t he say goodbye to us.” Hanako said annoyed. “That’s just rude!”
“Well I have to go too, see you guys.” Emiko replied sadly, because she had to leave already.
“Wait!” Hanako shouted.
“Huh, what’s up, Hanako?” Emiko asked confused.
“You wanted a battle, and you get one!” Hanako said determined. “Come on, we can battle there.”
Hanako pointed at an open spot of grass with some trees that surrounded it. It was also surrounded with tall grass, bushes and some blooming flowers. Hanako walked over to her side of the field. Some clouds drifted in front of the sun, blocking the bright rays of the sun.
“Please?” Hanako pleaded.
“Oh, okay, why not!” Emiko shouted as she walked over to her side of the field.
Both Emiko and Hanako were staring at each other, waiting patiently ‘till the other one threw her pokeball and released her pokemon. A soft breeze blew and the flowers swayed in the wind, in the lake some pokemon were watching the two girls, in the grass and the trees were also pokemon who were curious what was going to happen. Hanako and Emiko decided that Kenta should be the judge and he stood in the middle. Finally the silence was broken by a drop of rain that had fallen on the water. Emiko then started to move. They were both going to use one pokemon.
“Let’s go, plusle!” Emiko shouted as she spun around and then threw her pokeball on the field. It burst open and the red mouse appeared out of a flash.
“Chikorita, come on out!” Hanako shouted as she threw her pokeball on the field, and it exploded with a flash revealing the leaf pokemon, chikorita.
“Plusle start things of with a quick attack!” Emiko shouted confidently.
Plusle ran towards chikorita and quickly gained speed. After a while plusle was going very fast and it left behind a white trail of light and a cloud of dust. It came near chikorita, but suddenly changed direction as it was running around chikorita, Emiko however wasn’t worried, she knew what plusle was trying to do, Hanako was worried, what was plusle planning, she asked herself. Hanako felt very unsure.
“Uh....chikorita use razor leaf!” Hanako shouted.
Chikorta tried to hit plusle with numerous razor-sharp leaves, but they just missed it, plusle was just too fast to hit. Emiko smirked, Hanako was panicked, and didn’t know how to react, however, Emiko didn’t know what Hanako could use against her. But Hanako quickly reacted with a strategy, that maybe was going to work
“Chikorita, listen closely, and try to determine were plusle is by the sound of its rushing!” Hanako shouted.
Chikorita heard the command and closed her eyes, after a while chikorita faintly heard the sound of plusle’s rushing and it was getting louder. Suddenly a silhouette appeared behind chikorita, but chikorita quickly jumped and it barely dodged plusle’s quick attack. After a while the dust disappeared, and the view was cleared. Chikorita got back on the field and glared at plusle, she was not going down without a fight.
“Use razor leaf, chikorita!” Hanako shouted confidently, she had a plan.
Chikorita obeyed quickly and shot out numerous razor-sharp leavess. As the leaves were nearing, Emiko shouted to plusle that it had to dodge the leaves, Emiko didn’t saw it from a distance that the leaves weren’t meant to hit plusle and all leaves were shot too high.
“Your chikorita isn’t very good at aiming, is it!” Emiko laughed.
<How dare you, I can aim, I just didn’t aim at plusle> chikorita fumed.
“My chikorita didn’t try to hit plusle!” Hanako smirked.
Emiko gasped, she saw that all the leaves were going to hit a big and heavy tree branch. The numerous sharp leaves hit the tree branch, and it then fell down towards plusle. Plusle was terrified when it saw that the big tree branch came down and was going to smash it, chikorita and Hanako smirked, their plan was going to work.
“Quick plusle, get away from there!” Emiko shouted worried.
“No you don’t, chikorita, prevent plusle from getting away!” Hanako shouted.
<All right boss, I am on a roll> chikorita screamed with exitement.
She ran towards plusle who was trying to get away, chikorita knew that it wasn’t going to be smashed under the tree, so it would at least do some damage to it. Plusle tried to get away, in the tall grass, but chikorita used its razor leaf to hit it just before it could jump into the grass. Plusle was hit by some leaves and fell to the ground, crying in agony.
Then a thunderbolt was heard, apparently a storm was coming up and it started to rain. Emiko saw an opportunity, she knew that, with the lightning plusle’s power would be doubled. Hanako saw her disadvantage, and ordered chikorita to use tackle. Chikorita quickly ran off towards plusle, plusle however, was gaining electricity. Just before chikorita was going to hit it, plusle unleashed a deadly spark attack that electrified chikorita, she fell down, crackling with electricity and hurting wounds. Grass types, like chikorita, were resistant against electricity, but this spark attack was amplified and thus, she received the full blow.
<Ouch...that hurt, well I guess I have lost the battle...> chikorita muttered before she fainted.
“Chikorita is unable to battle anymore, the winners are Emiko and plusle!” Kenta declared.
“Wow Kenta, you sounded like a real referee!” Emiko smiled, while she returned plusle.
“You did great chikorita, you deserve a very long rest.” Hanako said, while a few tears rolled over her cheeks.
<Thanks.... but, we did lose the battle...> chikorita muttered, while she was returned to her pokeball.
Hanako put the pokeball on her belt and stopped crying. She then walked over to Emiko and Kenta. A bit disappointed in her first loss, she didn’t start talking, but then the clouds drifted away, and the three trainers watched the sunset.
“Hanako are you ready for your two last weeks of school here?” Emiko asked cheerfully.
“I think so.” Hanako replied. “What do you need for school?”
“Well, only your pokemon and some times they give you homework, you can come to my house to study, we always study together.” Emiko explained. “I always score the least, of us three.”
“Oh, and who scores the most of you?” Hanako asked curious.
“Oh it’s mostly Kenshin, but with the big tests coming up, we don’t know what will happen.” Emiko confessed. “There are three things you have to succeed in: first, battling, I am very good at that, second is knowledge, like knowing the body colour of an aron, and third is communication.” Emiko explained. “Communicating is something which very few succeed in, only if you succeed in all three, you can become a trainer.”
“Wow,...uh, what is an aron?” Hanako asked feeling stupid.
“It is a rock type pokemon, and appears in Granite cave and Victory road, I think.” Emiko answered. “I hope that’s correct.”
“It sure was.” Kenta replied.
“Oh man, its late, oh no, my mom is going to be so angry.” Emiko whined. “Anyway, see you tomorrow!” Emiko shouted.
Emiko threw her rope again, to a tree branch, climbed up and then threw it again. After a while Emiko had disappeared, and was out of view. Kenta said goodbye too and ran into Fortree city’s trees, he too disappeared, after a while. Hanako then walked home by herself, she felt a bit lonely now everyone was gone. She saw some birds high up in the sky, some of them were swablu, but the other were bigger, their whole body was surrounded by clouds, but their skin was still as clear as the sky, Hanako smiled and then ran off towards home. After a while she reached the tree, where her family was residing now. Hanako quickly climbed up the stairs and after a while she reached the platform of her family’s houses. Her mother suddenly came out of the house, and she looked worried. When she saw Hanako, her face was getting red.
“Where were you, Hanako Yoshikazu?” Akira fumed. “The sun has already set!”
“I was hanging out with my friends!” Hanako shouted. “What’s wrong with that?”
“What’s wrong with that is, your food is getting cold, we were worried, and now we hear from you that you were just hanging out with your friends.” Akira screamed angry. “School is tomorrow, so eat your meal and go to bed!”
After eating her food, some screaming from her mother and getting bullied by her brother, she had gone to her room, changed into her blue pyjamas and jumped into bed. She watched the full moon for a while and then finally dozed off to sleep. Her mother came into her room, smiled and closed the door.
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EDIT: I've decided to delete everything, simply because there is a limited amount of characters permitted in a single post, so I decided to wipe the biographies and chapter list away and leave it like this, probably because I'm too damn lazyT__T
A new girl in town
A worn out, rusty truck drove on a bumpy, sandy road. The truck passed some evergreen forests. The sun was shining brightly and the sky was clear, then a village came into view. In the village stood a lot of trees. Some were bigger and stronger, than the others, on those trees wooden houses with straw roofs were built. Those houses were interconnected by wooden bridges and stairs, inhabitants must always watch out that they didn’t fall off the stairs.
“We almost reached Fortree city.” the woman smiled happily, she drove the car. “We made a long trip, I am tired.”
“Don’t let the truck crash into a tree.” the old man joked as he sat beside the woman, his very own daughter.
“I wonder how the kids are doing back there?” the woman asked a bit worried.
“They will be fine.” the old man laughed.
“I hope we reach it soon, I am tired of sitting in this old truck.” The other man
muttered, a bit annoyed.
“Please, I want to have a pleasant ride till we reach our new home.” The woman replied.
In de back of the truck two children were sleeping peacefully on a soft sofa, that stood beside a closet. The girl slept soundlessly, while the boy snored very loud. A box that stood on the rim of the closet fell off, and landed on the floor with a loud thud. The girl woke up because of the sound and got off from the sofa. She saw her brother still sleeping and snoring.
“Hmm...I wonder what made the truck stop?” she thought.
Suddenly the car stopped. Because of the sudden stop the girl lost her balance and fell on the floor. The girl got up, and picked up the box. She walked towards the closet and placed the box back on the closet, however another box that stood on the ground, slowly slid towards the girl and quickly gained speed. The girl picked up another box and tried to set it back on the closet, but the other box bumped into her and she lost her balance, but the box that she was holding, landed hard on her brother.
“Ouch...what was that?” the boy fumed angrily. “You probably threw that box to me.”
“No, I didn’t...!” she yelled, but suddenly the truck stopped again, both children lost their balance again and they fell on the floor. The door opened and in the opening stood their mother, smiling warmly.
“We’re finally here, Hanako, Masaaki, please come with me, we’re going to our new house.” she said smiling, as she walked on a sandy path towards a tree. There were stairs on the tree that could be used for climbing the trees.
“Akira!” an old man yelled. “Wait for me, please!”
“Oh, sorry dad, I totally forgot about you, you see, I was a little exited.” Akira apologised, a little embarrassed. “Okay, where is Mr. Yoshikazu, anyway?”
“I am here, I thought, Mr. Takeo would find you, so I quickly followed him.” Mr. Yoshikazu replied a bit annoyed because the others had already left. As he quickly followed, he thought he saw a girl out of the corner of his eye, he quickly turned around but didn’t see anybody.
“Strange.” Mr. Yoshikazu thought wondering, maybe it was only his imagination. However when the group continued climbing the stairs a rope fell and the girl came down. She then quickly threw her rope up in the air and it swung a few times around a tree branch. The rope was tied tightly, and she quickly climbed up the rope so she could keep sight of the group.
The new houses were the group would live from now on were very high, almost on the top of the tree. Hanako who had a feeling that someone was watching them, turned around, because she thought she heard something. She walked over to the rim of the platform and she saw a pink scarf lying on the wooden floor. The girl that had lost her scarf looked down at Hanako. Hanako observed the area but didn’t see anybody. She then looked up and saw the girl sitting on a high tree branch.
“Everybody, someone is spying on us!” Hanako screamed at the top of her lungs.
“Damn, I am spotted, I have to flee for now.” The girl muttered angrily as she swung her rope towards another tree branch. She then tied the other end of the rope to another tree branch. The girl then jumped on the rope and she walked over it. Then, suddenly everyone heard a scream from a tree nearby. A boy had fallen over the rim of the platform.
“Taro!” the girl screamed as she jumped off the rope, to save the boy.
“Look, that girl had jumped off the rope in order to save that boy!” Hanako shouted worried.
The girl succeeded in grabbing the boy, but was now falling down with him, into the depth.
“There is one plus point to this, my family won’t blame me anymore,” the girl joked sad.
“Chikorita, you have to help me, come on out!” Hanako screamed angry as she threw a round, red sphere to the ground. It burst open and a green creature appeared. It had dark green seeds on its neck, and a bright green leaf on its head.
“Chikorita, use your vine whip to catch that girl!” Hanako ordered. Two of chikoritas seeds extended into two green whips, which it used to catch the falling girl, and save it from a certain death. Chikorita then lifted them up and gently put them on the platform.
“Great job chikorita, return.” Hanako thanked her pokemon happily.
<Always there to help you> the chikorita said happily.
The chikorita had turned into energy and was then sucked inside the ball, she put the ball back on the belt and walked towards the girl that was spying on them earlier. However when she almost reached the girl, a cloud of dust appeared on the stairs and then rushed towards her. Hanako was a bit shocked at first, but quickly figured that this woman must be the mother of the girl and the boy.
“Hello I am the mother of Emiko and Taro, and I can’t thank you enough, for saving them.” The woman cried happily. “Is there anything I can do to thank you?”
“Uh...maybe you can....” Hanako tried to say but was interrupted by her mother.
“Well, yes, actually you can help us.” Akira interrupted. “Maybe you would like to help us a bit with getting our furniture up here, you see we just moved in, and everything is still in the truck.”
“My pleasure!” the woman shouted as she ran towards the stairs and then ran off.
Hanako was still a bit confused about this lady, she wondered how that woman could run so fast, the woman really didn’t look very athletic. The woman was a bit eccentric. She then decided to talk to the girl and her brother, and she walked over to them.
“Hi, my name is Hanako.” Introducing herself, she still wondered why the girl would spy on her, so she decided to ask. “I kind of want to know, why did you spy on us?”
“Sorry, some times I am a bit suspicious of new people.” She laughed embarrassed. “By the way my name is Emiko, and thanks for saving me and my brother.”
“Well, you are pretty athletic, how do you do that?” Hanako asked curious.
“I am just very good at athletics.” Emiko said smiling. “Do you have two pokemon, we could have a battle?”
“Yes I do, but I don’t really want to battle.” Hanako replied sad. “And I don’t really have any experience with pokemon battles.”
“Oh, okay, maybe tomorrow?” Emiko asked joyfully. “I’ll bring my friends too, bye!”
Emiko then jumped up towards the tree branch, were her rope still hung. She jumped on it and walked to the other tree, like this Emiko, came farther and farther, ‘till she disappeared in the tree branches of the evergreen trees of Fortree city.
Hanako walked back disappointed towards their houses and joined the group again. The group was inspecting their houses a bit, and found them very well looking. Then a cloud of dust appeared again, and Hanako figured that the cloud of dust was probably the mother of Emiko and Taro, bringing the furniture to their houses.
“Here you go, your furniture.” the woman smiled as she dropped the furniture. “Glad to be of service to the savers of my son and daughter, but now I’ve got to go, my children are waiting for me.” She replied happily as she rushed off again.
Hanako thought the woman was weird, but anyhow she still liked her, and she helped with the furniture. Akira then asked if she could help her with the furniture or if she wanted to explore the town a bit. Hanako didn’t want to help with the furniture, and so she quickly ran off to explore the town.
When she rushed down the stairs she saw a bird-like pokemon that flew by. Its skin had the colour of a clear, blue sky, its wings however were like tiny rain clouds. The pokemon flew happily but suddenly, it was angered when it saw Hanako. Hanako was confused by this pokemon, she wondered why it was angered all of a sudden. It flew to Hanako and used one of its wings to get a spot of dirt off her cheek. It then flew further happily, while Hanako was still confused because of what happened. Suddenly a rope fell down, close to Hanako.
“Hey, Hanako.” Emiko greeted happily, who came down from the rope. “I finished my homework sooner than I thought, so I thought ‘why not to visit Hanako’.”
“Hi Emiko.” Hanako replied happily, somehow Emiko let her feel happy and cheerful. “What was your homework?”
“Oh, some things about flying pokemon....” Emiko explained bored, but was interrupted by a voice.
“Emi!” a boy shouted that came running towards Emiko and Hanako. “We tried to find you, but you had already disappeared into the trees, we had to run pretty fast, Kenshin even ran in a fat woman.” The boy explained, laughing.
“Oops, sorry, poor Kenshin how is he feeling now?” Emiko laughed. “I wanted to introduce you guys to my new friend.” Emiko explained as she pointed at Hanako.
“Here I am.” A boy shouted angrily, but suddenly he tripped over a rock and fell. “...On the ground!”
The whole group burst out in laughter when he made that comment. Emiko then introduced her friends, Kenshin and Kenta to Hanako, while Hanako introduced herself to the others. They decided to walk towards their school, which was a long walk. When they arrived Hanako panted, but Kenshin, Kenta and Emiko were anything but tired.
“How do you guys keep fit like this, with such a long way to school?” Hanako asked while she panted. “And why is the school on the outskirts of the town?”
“Well, we all are kind of used to this long walk, and because of al the trees in the town we had to built the school here.” Emiko smiled. “Look, there swim some feebas in the lake.”
The school was built near a lake and Emiko saw a pair of feebas jump out of the water. Feebas were a bit ugly, had a brown skin that had dark brown spots on its body, its fins however were clear blue like the sky. Feebas were pokemon that were rumoured to evolve into the beautiful milotic, a pokemon that was said to be able to calm emotions like anger and sadness.
“Emiko, I had encountered a bird-like pokemon that was angry because I had a spot of dirt on my face, just before you appeared, and I want to know which pokemon it was, do you know it?” Hanako asked curious.
“How did it look?” Emiko asked smiling.
“Its body had the colour of a clear, blue sky, but its wings were like tiny rain clouds.” Emiko said as she tried to remember what the pokemon looked like.
“I think it was a swablu, these pokemon hate dirt, and they will do everything to keep things clean.” Emiko happily explained. “Didn’t you learn about pokemon on school?”
“No, I did go to school but the pokemon of the flying type that I had learnt were pidgey, murkrow, skarmory, delibird, hoothoot, pidgeotto, natu, xatu, pidgeot, doduo and dodrio.” Hanako said as she tried to remember the pokemon that she had learned. “I never have heard of a pokemon called ‘swablu’.”
“We have never heard of those pokemon, except for doduo, dodrio, natu, skarmory and xatu.” Kenta replied confused. “Wait, from which region did you come?”
“I come from Jotho, why?” Hanako answered.
“Oh, you aren’t from this region, so that’s why you had a pokemon I never had heard of.”
Emiko shouted exited. “Can you send it out again, please?”
“Uh, okay, chikorita come on out.” Hanako said as she threw her pokeball, it burst open with a flash and the chikorita was before their eyes again.
<Who do I have to save now?> the chikorita asked determined.
“You don’t have to rescue anyone chikorita, oh, by the way, these are my new friends.” Hanako said embarrassed. “They were a bit curious about you, so they asked me to let you out.”
“Wow, you can understand it?” Emiko asked excited. “On our school they say you have to be specially gifted to understand a pokemon.”
“Nice, I wish I could already try it, but I don’t have any pokemon yet.” Kenta said disappointed. “Kenshin and Emi are lucky, they can talk to their pokemon but haven’t tried it yet.”
“I don’t feel experienced enough yet.” Emiko protested. “I am a bit jealous of you, Hanako, you can already communicate with your chikorita.”
“Oh, but I have another pokemon than chikorita.” Hanako said happily. “I guess you don’t know this one either but, sunkern come on out!” Hanako shouted as she threw her other pokeball, and just like the one before, it burst open in a flash.
The pokemon that appeared was tiny and looked a bit like a seed, it was bright yellow, it had brown stripes that ran vertically across its body, it had black beady eyes and on its head it had a short stem with on the end two green leaves.
“How cute, what is it called?” Emiko asked starry eyed.
“It is called a sunkern, it is a grass type and it evolves with a sunstone.” Hanako explained. “Do you find sunstones in...uh, what’s this region called?”
“Hi there sunkern, and this region is called Hoenn.” Emiko informed her. “Oh, why shouldn’t we let out our pokemon and let them play with those of Hanako.”
“Great idea, Emiko!” Kenshin shouted. “Let’s go, swablu and mukkurru!”
Kenshin threw both pokeballs and they exploded with a flash. The first one was swablu, the bird that Hanako had already seen once, but the second one, Hanako had never heard of. It had a grey body colour, but its face was white. It had a little beak, of which the top was black, its tiny wings were also grey. It had a white belly, tiny feet and a black and white tail.
“These birds are cute, I already like this region, in the Jotho region you couldn’t find birds this cute.” Hanako said starry eyed.
“Well, actually, the mukkurru is a new discovered species and it isn’t from this region, it comes from the Shinou region, and it’s still being studied.” Kenshin explained.
“Now it’s my turn, go plusle and minun!” Emiko shouted exited as she threw her pokeballs.
They burst open and two mouse-like pokemon appeared. They were both bright yellow, however there were differences, the first one had red cheeks with a plus symbol on them while the second one had blue cheeks with a minus symbol. Their tails were also different, the first one’s tail was red and had the shape of a plus, while the second one’s tail was blue and had the shape of a minus. Their ears were long, but the colour of the tips of their ears was different, the first one’s tips were red, while the second one’s were blue.
“How cute!” Hanako screamed like a fan girl.
“Plusle, minun, I like to introduce you to our newest friend, Hanako, she also has two pokemon, so please make friends with them.” Emiko smiled. “They are called sunkern and chikorita.”
Plusle and minun quickly ran over to sunkern and chikorita, some time later mukkurru and swablu joined them as well, the group of pokemon then started talking.
<Hey, you are probably the new ones> plusle greeted.
<Yes, we are> chikorita replied a bit annoyed. <We have made a very long trip, you know>
<Yes, we came to here, all from Jotho, I am sure tired> sunkern yawned. <Well, I am a bit sleepy so, see you tomorrow, I guess.....>
<The first one has already dozed off, good start> mukkurru said sarcastic.
<It’s tired, let it sleep, it has to get back its health> swablu protested.
“Swablu, mukkurru, we are going home, say goodbye to your new friends quickly, or we’ll be late.” Kenshin said annoyed.
<See you tomorrow, chikorita, sunkern> swablu smiled happily.
<Yeah, yeah, bye> mukkurru murmured bored.
“Return mukkurru, return swablu.” Kenshin shouted as red lasers shot out of the pokeballs, turned mukkurru and swablu into energy and sucked them inside the pokeballs. “Bye, Emi!”
Kenshin then quickly ran off, back to Fortree city. After a while he disappeared into the woods. And the group was still left there, talking a bit. Hanako found it a bit strange that Kenshin ran off like that. But it didn’t bother her very much.
“Hey, why didn’t he say goodbye to us.” Hanako said annoyed. “That’s just rude!”
“Well I have to go too, see you guys.” Emiko replied sadly, because she had to leave already.
“Wait!” Hanako shouted.
“Huh, what’s up, Hanako?” Emiko asked confused.
“You wanted a battle, and you get one!” Hanako said determined. “Come on, we can battle there.”
Hanako pointed at an open spot of grass with some trees that surrounded it. It was also surrounded with tall grass, bushes and some blooming flowers. Hanako walked over to her side of the field. Some clouds drifted in front of the sun, blocking the bright rays of the sun.
“Please?” Hanako pleaded.
“Oh, okay, why not!” Emiko shouted as she walked over to her side of the field.
Both Emiko and Hanako were staring at each other, waiting patiently ‘till the other one threw her pokeball and released her pokemon. A soft breeze blew and the flowers swayed in the wind, in the lake some pokemon were watching the two girls, in the grass and the trees were also pokemon who were curious what was going to happen. Hanako and Emiko decided that Kenta should be the judge and he stood in the middle. Finally the silence was broken by a drop of rain that had fallen on the water. Emiko then started to move. They were both going to use one pokemon.
“Let’s go, plusle!” Emiko shouted as she spun around and then threw her pokeball on the field. It burst open and the red mouse appeared out of a flash.
“Chikorita, come on out!” Hanako shouted as she threw her pokeball on the field, and it exploded with a flash revealing the leaf pokemon, chikorita.
“Plusle start things of with a quick attack!” Emiko shouted confidently.
Plusle ran towards chikorita and quickly gained speed. After a while plusle was going very fast and it left behind a white trail of light and a cloud of dust. It came near chikorita, but suddenly changed direction as it was running around chikorita, Emiko however wasn’t worried, she knew what plusle was trying to do, Hanako was worried, what was plusle planning, she asked herself. Hanako felt very unsure.
“Uh....chikorita use razor leaf!” Hanako shouted.
Chikorta tried to hit plusle with numerous razor-sharp leaves, but they just missed it, plusle was just too fast to hit. Emiko smirked, Hanako was panicked, and didn’t know how to react, however, Emiko didn’t know what Hanako could use against her. But Hanako quickly reacted with a strategy, that maybe was going to work
“Chikorita, listen closely, and try to determine were plusle is by the sound of its rushing!” Hanako shouted.
Chikorita heard the command and closed her eyes, after a while chikorita faintly heard the sound of plusle’s rushing and it was getting louder. Suddenly a silhouette appeared behind chikorita, but chikorita quickly jumped and it barely dodged plusle’s quick attack. After a while the dust disappeared, and the view was cleared. Chikorita got back on the field and glared at plusle, she was not going down without a fight.
“Use razor leaf, chikorita!” Hanako shouted confidently, she had a plan.
Chikorita obeyed quickly and shot out numerous razor-sharp leavess. As the leaves were nearing, Emiko shouted to plusle that it had to dodge the leaves, Emiko didn’t saw it from a distance that the leaves weren’t meant to hit plusle and all leaves were shot too high.
“Your chikorita isn’t very good at aiming, is it!” Emiko laughed.
<How dare you, I can aim, I just didn’t aim at plusle> chikorita fumed.
“My chikorita didn’t try to hit plusle!” Hanako smirked.
Emiko gasped, she saw that all the leaves were going to hit a big and heavy tree branch. The numerous sharp leaves hit the tree branch, and it then fell down towards plusle. Plusle was terrified when it saw that the big tree branch came down and was going to smash it, chikorita and Hanako smirked, their plan was going to work.
“Quick plusle, get away from there!” Emiko shouted worried.
“No you don’t, chikorita, prevent plusle from getting away!” Hanako shouted.
<All right boss, I am on a roll> chikorita screamed with exitement.
She ran towards plusle who was trying to get away, chikorita knew that it wasn’t going to be smashed under the tree, so it would at least do some damage to it. Plusle tried to get away, in the tall grass, but chikorita used its razor leaf to hit it just before it could jump into the grass. Plusle was hit by some leaves and fell to the ground, crying in agony.
Then a thunderbolt was heard, apparently a storm was coming up and it started to rain. Emiko saw an opportunity, she knew that, with the lightning plusle’s power would be doubled. Hanako saw her disadvantage, and ordered chikorita to use tackle. Chikorita quickly ran off towards plusle, plusle however, was gaining electricity. Just before chikorita was going to hit it, plusle unleashed a deadly spark attack that electrified chikorita, she fell down, crackling with electricity and hurting wounds. Grass types, like chikorita, were resistant against electricity, but this spark attack was amplified and thus, she received the full blow.
<Ouch...that hurt, well I guess I have lost the battle...> chikorita muttered before she fainted.
“Chikorita is unable to battle anymore, the winners are Emiko and plusle!” Kenta declared.
“Wow Kenta, you sounded like a real referee!” Emiko smiled, while she returned plusle.
“You did great chikorita, you deserve a very long rest.” Hanako said, while a few tears rolled over her cheeks.
<Thanks.... but, we did lose the battle...> chikorita muttered, while she was returned to her pokeball.
Hanako put the pokeball on her belt and stopped crying. She then walked over to Emiko and Kenta. A bit disappointed in her first loss, she didn’t start talking, but then the clouds drifted away, and the three trainers watched the sunset.
“Hanako are you ready for your two last weeks of school here?” Emiko asked cheerfully.
“I think so.” Hanako replied. “What do you need for school?”
“Well, only your pokemon and some times they give you homework, you can come to my house to study, we always study together.” Emiko explained. “I always score the least, of us three.”
“Oh, and who scores the most of you?” Hanako asked curious.
“Oh it’s mostly Kenshin, but with the big tests coming up, we don’t know what will happen.” Emiko confessed. “There are three things you have to succeed in: first, battling, I am very good at that, second is knowledge, like knowing the body colour of an aron, and third is communication.” Emiko explained. “Communicating is something which very few succeed in, only if you succeed in all three, you can become a trainer.”
“Wow,...uh, what is an aron?” Hanako asked feeling stupid.
“It is a rock type pokemon, and appears in Granite cave and Victory road, I think.” Emiko answered. “I hope that’s correct.”
“It sure was.” Kenta replied.
“Oh man, its late, oh no, my mom is going to be so angry.” Emiko whined. “Anyway, see you tomorrow!” Emiko shouted.
Emiko threw her rope again, to a tree branch, climbed up and then threw it again. After a while Emiko had disappeared, and was out of view. Kenta said goodbye too and ran into Fortree city’s trees, he too disappeared, after a while. Hanako then walked home by herself, she felt a bit lonely now everyone was gone. She saw some birds high up in the sky, some of them were swablu, but the other were bigger, their whole body was surrounded by clouds, but their skin was still as clear as the sky, Hanako smiled and then ran off towards home. After a while she reached the tree, where her family was residing now. Hanako quickly climbed up the stairs and after a while she reached the platform of her family’s houses. Her mother suddenly came out of the house, and she looked worried. When she saw Hanako, her face was getting red.
“Where were you, Hanako Yoshikazu?” Akira fumed. “The sun has already set!”
“I was hanging out with my friends!” Hanako shouted. “What’s wrong with that?”
“What’s wrong with that is, your food is getting cold, we were worried, and now we hear from you that you were just hanging out with your friends.” Akira screamed angry. “School is tomorrow, so eat your meal and go to bed!”
After eating her food, some screaming from her mother and getting bullied by her brother, she had gone to her room, changed into her blue pyjamas and jumped into bed. She watched the full moon for a while and then finally dozed off to sleep. Her mother came into her room, smiled and closed the door.
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