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Note #342 of professor Acacia's pokemon research log.
Pokemon are so damn cool.....Champion Alder's Volcarona is definetly one of the coolest!
I also want to finally have my own pokemon and begin my journey to become the greatest Professor of them all! But these damn Unova-region rules state that you can only become a trainer when you are 14 and a youngster when you are 11...I wish I was born in the Kanto-region, there you can start your journey with 10....AND I AM 10!
But no, I still have to wait nearly one whole year to own just one pokemon as a youngster.
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"Hey Prof hurry up, you are already late. I knew you were going to be late again, so I especially came here to remind you. We have our first concert today and we still have to get into the zone beforehand." A girl's voice screamed from outside the house.
The boy, who was currently typing on his laptop and was about to delete all he had just written, shot up from his comfy chair with a frigthend look on his face.
After calming down the boy went to his window, opened it, and shouted down at the street. "Damn Roxie, your scream nearly gave me a heart attack and it's still early afternoon, our performance is in the evening. And what do you mean by getting into the 'zone', I don't even know what you mean!"
The girl standing on the street, Roxie, retorted. „Look at the sky Prof, the sun is already going down, just hurry up and come down."
Looking at the sky and seeing the sinking sun the boy, Prof, answered in a grumbling tone, "Damn, I really lost track of the time, I'll be there in 5." And closed his window.
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A short while later, two 10-year old children were running down the sidewalk towards a shady looking building, a old pub owned by Roxie's family. The facade of the building clearly shows its age, the pub is in dire need of repair, but it still seems like safe enough to go inside. The white haired little girl just ran through the open passage straight into the building, but the little boy huffingly and puffingly had to stop a the building's wide open entrance.
'How is Roxie so damn energetic, she ran the whole way, from my house to the old pub, without stopping...and she doesn't even do sports. I mean, I also don't do many such activities, but I at least go jogging with my dad and she still has more stamina than me. This is so unfair.' Complained the black haired, black eyed boy inside his thoughts.
After complaining a bit more and getting the air back into his lungs, Prof also went into the building. The passage led into a big room underground with a raised platform at the other end of the room, clearly made for announcments or making music. The inside of the room was rather clean and its walls had fading and ripped posters all over them. The stage had two big loudspeakers on top of it, one on each side of it.
Prof went to the platform where Roxie and one other person, a chubby brown-haired boy and their third band member, were waiting for him.
The chubby boy, Cook, then said. "There you finally are Prof, let's get into position and do 2-3 testruns before the performance starts, I don't want us to embarress ourselves when we play for the audience for the first time." And started climbing the stairs of the stage.
"Hey, do you two already know which pokemon you want to catch when we get our youngster-license next year?" Prof asked, changing the subject, trying not to get too nervous before the performance even started as he and Roxie followed Cook onto the stairs.
Roxie answered directly. "I definetly want to catch a poison-type pokemon, they are so awesome. And Weezing is coolest of them all, so I'am gonna try to get a Koffing! And with my then super-duper strong Weezing and the rest of my team, I'll be opening Unova's first poison-type gym right here in Virbank City."
"And I am gonna catch a Grimer, I'll train it every day and join Roxie as a gym-trainer. Everyone who want to challange Roxie then has to go through Muk and me first!" Cook shouted with conviction, as if he could already see it.
'I already knew that he had a crush on Roxie, but damn, Cook is simping hard.' Prof said mentally.
After the climb, Roxie grabbed her bass guitar and stood in front of her microphone, center stage, since she was the lead singer and songwriter of our as-yet-unnamed band.
After checking if everything is ok with her equipment Roxie turned to Prof, who was standing diagonally behind her and tuning his electric guitar and asked."What pokemon are you gonna catch as your first one, Prof? You could also catch a poison-type pokemon and join my gym..."Seeing the betrayed look that Cook threw her, Roxie cleared her throat and continued. "...join OUR gym as a gym-trainer."
Prof tussled his short black hair and looked up at the ceiling. "I have no idea, no that's wrong.....I have too many ideas what pokemon I want to catch first and which pokemons I want to have on my team. I would like to have a dragon as my first pokemon, I can then start training it when I get my youngster-license with 11, and have a headstart when I start my journey with 14, that would be especially good, because dragon pokemons are generally weak in their first form and need a lot of time to train and evolve...but even then I would have to decided which dragon I want to have, even tough only deino and axew are really viable, due to the fact that most other dragons are not from Unova, and the youngster-license only allows the possession of 'generally acknowledged harmless pokemon', which practically means a stage or form one pokemon, so pokemon like Druddigon are out, even deino just barely made it onto this list due to it's irritable temper.
But that also brings up the question where to even get a deino or axew, those are nearly as rare as a legendary pokemon. So I probably have to think about another pokemon. But there are simply so many type-options, 17 to be exact, that I personally find so much cooler beside the poison-typing, for example..."
"Ok, ok, a simple 'no' or 'probably not' would have been enough, but it is also my fault for asking you such a question." Roxie interrupted Prof's monologue. "I sometimes forget why we call you 'Prof', mister know-it-all 'professor' Jasper Acacia."
After that little episode, our Mc, now known as Jasper, finished tuning his guitar and Cook also finished checking his drums and they started their first testrun.
After about 30 minutes, the three finished their third and final testrun and made a short break, so that they are in top form when the performance starts.
During the trio's break a group of 6 entered the room and went in front of the stage, waiting for the performance to start while talking to each other. 3 of the six were humans and 3 were pokemons. All three humans were wearing casual clothes. The pokemon with them were Electabuzz, Roselia and Riolu.
"I hope out children won't mess up too bad, not that I would blame them, but it would be really embarressing for them and could leave a nick in their confidence." A tall, handsome man with black hair and brown eyes in his 40s said to the woman he had his arms locked with, his wife, and another man with a more rugged look. His Electabuzz was standing beside him, looking around the room, if it was looking for a threat or just something interesting is unknown.
The black haired man's wife, a tall woman with blond hair, black eyes, an exquisite face and curves in all the right places, looking about 29 years old despite being nearly 10 years older and radiating a mature charm answered her husband, while holding Roselia inside her arms. "Calm down darling, Jasper and his friends will do just fine, he is our son after all. We even taught him how to act since young, even though he has no interest in our profession as actors, he still knows he to handle such situations."
The rugged man with brown hair laughed at that. "That's right Joshua, listen to Gina, you both are top actors of Pokewood, if your son has stage-fright, the sun would have risen in the west today, isn't that right Riolu?"
And his partner answered with wise words. "Riolu, Ri-Riolu"
"You are right Captain, but what about your daughter, Roxie? Do you think she will have problems standing on the stage?" Joshua also laughed and asked the man generally known as 'Captain', due to being the Captain of one of the passenger-ships going to and from Virbank City and Stratos City.
The Captain sneakily looked around him, to see if his daughter was nearby and after confirming she wasn't, he whispered. "That will never be a Problem for this daughter of mine, she is an energetic little mankey, always making trouble. I am more concerned about the possibility of her falling off the stage than her having stage fright."
And all three broke out in laughter.
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Hey there, here's the author, Black_Dragongod.
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This is my first time writing a novel so I welcome all tips to make myself a better writer.
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While the three older people were having fun and the three younglings were preparing themselves, three other people entered the 'concertroom'. Cook's parents, his older brother, all three having pokeballs with them, and his 2 years younger sister Lou, who pesters her brother nearly every day, so that she can join the band as guitarist. Her Idol is Roxie so she really hoped her brother and Roxie get together.
Roughly 5 minutes later Jasper, Roxie and Cook went onto the stage to begin their performance and even though the performance of the three was definetly not perfect, it wasn't bad either and everyone, whether on or in front of the stage, human or pokemon, enjoyed the evening.
After the concert Jasper, Roxie and Cook got a big applaus and praise from everyone present and then all helped cleaning up the hall so that everyone could go home earlier.
After saying goodbye to his friends and their family Jasper and his parents slowly walked along the sidewalk home and enjoyed Virbank City at night, with it's neon-lights and a totally diffrent atmosphere. Roselia was already sleeping in Gina's arms and Electabuzz was kicking away stones that were lying on the sidewalk, but it was stopped by Joshua shortly after, because one of the kicked stones hit his butt.
But the near idyllic moment was broken when the group of 5 were near the Virbank Complex and saw a tongue of flame rising into the air, followed by screams of multiple pokemon and loud battle sounds. Roselia woke up with a startled cry and went into a battle ready stance.
"Stay here Jasper, your mom and me will go and see if somebody there needs out help, let's go Gina, Electabuzz" Joshua shouted and ran into the Complex along with Electabuzz, his wife and her pokemon.
But Jasper had other plans, he had never seen an actual fight between wild Pokémon and even trainer fights he only saw a few times on TV and the one time they saw a fight in the gym in his father's hometown, Nimbasa City . And the few times he saw his parents' Pokemon fight was in their movies, but he knows their every move is scripted in advance, so it doesn't count as a real fight to him. Being a generally very inquisitive and curious boy, and especially when it comes to Pokémon and Pokémon battles, he rushes to follow his parents to see what they will do. But he followed at a little distance lest he get caught by his parents or worse, get caught in the fight.
When Jasper got near the spot where he saw the tongue of flame, he could already see what all the fuss was about.
A group of 6 Krabbys and 2 Kinglers surrounded a visibly aged and exhausted Magmar and a trembling Magby trying to hide behind the much larger Magmar.
Right then one of the Kinglers started gatherung water energy on it's truly giant claw and wanted to finish off the battle by hitting the Magmar with a mighty attack, that Jasper quickly identified as a crabhammer. Meanwhile Magmar got ready for a last stand to defend the Magby behind it. The Magby is probably it's grandkid, going by the visible aging marks the Magmar showed.
Magmar gathered energy in it's mouth and let loose a desperate flamethrower, trying to stop Kinglers Crabhammer, but it just wasn't enough and the Kingler easily weathered the flamethrower and moved in front of Magmar by walking sideways, rising up it's big claw that had finished gathering energy by then.
Just when it looked like all hope was lost for the two fire pokemons two commands rang through the air. "Electabuzz, Thunderbolt on the attacking Kingler!"
"Roselia, use Magical Leaf on all the Krabbys and the other Kingler!" Jaspers parents shouted in sync, without coordinating beforehand, showing their great teamwork even though they have never gone on a pokemon journey or did the gym circuit, so technically being just hobby trainers.
The Thunderbolt snaked through the air incredibly fast and hit the attacking Kingler with near pinpoint precision. Clearly doing a lot of damage due to it's strength and being super effective on the water pokemon.
The Magical Leafs arrived shortly after, avoiding the Magmar and Magby and raining down on on the second Kingler and the Krabbys, which took a lot of damage from this also super effective attack.
The Krabbys and second Kingler gave up their encircelment and fled into the nearby Ocean, the attacking Kingler though showed why it was this group's leader and powered through Electabuzz's Thunderbolt with sheer tenacity and willpower and hit the Magmar with it's weakend, but still quite strong Crabhammer. The Crabhammer knocked down the Magmar, but Kingler didn't try to attack another time and limped away, still being quite fast, submerging shortly after throwing Joshua's Electabuzz a resentful look.
Joshua and Gina, together with Electabuzz and Roselia hurried to help the Magmar, though the pokemons remained cautious of the Magmar, just in case it sees them as aggressors.
Just as Joshua reached out to help up the Magmar a shout rang through the air.
"Don't touch that Magmar, dad!"
Whirling around Gina and Joshua saw Jasper running to them, his expression a weird mix excitement and worry.
"You were so awesome there mom, dad and you too Electabuzz and Roselia." Jasper, seeing Joshua quit his attempt of touching Magmar, stopped worrying and shouted in fascination.
But his excitement came to a stop abruptly, because he could see the storm clouds metaphorically brewing above his mother's head. "Jasper Acacia, we clearly told you to wait for us outside the Virbank Complex! What do you think you are doing here, you could have gotten hurt!" His Mother all but screamed, clearly worried about him."
But Joshua interrupted his wife's rant. "Even though I am totally on your side honey, but now is not the time for this. We will continue this later, we have to help this Magmar and Magby first. Why did you stop me from helping the Magmar just now Jasper, it clearly needs our help right now."
Even though she was not satisfied with the situation, Gina still knew what had priority in this situation. "Answer your father's question first, but this isn't over, mister!"
Jasper quickly nodded to his mother, glad she stopped shouting at him, at least for the moment, and answered his father. "If you had touched the Magmar, you would have lost your hand! A fit Magmar's body temperature is more than 1200 °C and even if this Magmar is old and exhausted, it's temperature is still at least 900 °C, this one is just keeping it inside of its body, so you didn't notice. Multiple Magmars were documented beeing able to do this."
Upon hearing this, Jasper's parents had a horrified expression on their faces, realizing just how close to losing his hand, arm or even life Joshua really was. "Thank Arceus you stopped me from touching Magmar, son. You really are our little Professor".
Which made Jasper really proud of himself.
But then Gina thought about something and decided to just ask her son. "But why then didn't Magmar use its heat in the battle, it would have helped it alot."
"Because it would have harmed Magby more than the Krabbys and Kingler. Magby ist clearly a newborn and it being so near Magmar the whole fight over, the heat would have hurt it the most." Answered Jasper without even thinking about it, his parents looked visibly impressed by the fast answer.
Just then the Magmar opend its eyes and tried to rise up, but it failed and fell onto the ground again. It was clear that the Magmar was dying and the pokemon center was too far away. Even if Jasper's parents caught the Magmar, it wouldn't make it. The Magmar had realized it too and looked at its grandkid Magby, visibly saddend, but then it turned its gaze to Jasper's family and back to Magby. It then raised its hand and pushed Magby into our direction.
Magby, realizing its family member was dying, started to cry, but Magmar didn't look at Magby, only at Jasper and his family, a silent plea in its eyes and while Joshua and Gina were hesitating, Jasper had already decided that that Magby would be his first pokemon. "Can we please keep the Magby mom, dad? It cannot survive on its own and Magby can become my official first pokemon when I get my youngster-license next year. It can stay with us as a pet-pokemon till then and I can already bond with him and do some light training, pretty please!"
Joshua and Gina looked at their son,the crying Magby and the dying Magmar and then nodded to each other. Joshua then said to the Magmar soothingly. "Don't worry, we will take good care of Magby and it will become our Son's first pokemon in the future, you habe our word for that."
Visibly relieved Magmar closed its eyes for the last time.
And that was how Professor Acacia and his mightiest pokemon, Magmortar, met for the first time.
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Hey there, here's the author, Black_Dragongod.
If you notice a mistake in grammar or logic, make sure to write it in the chapter comments!
This is my first time writing a novel so I welcome all tips to make myself a better writer.
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