Chapter 2: New Humans-I Mean, Friends

CHAPTER 2:

 

Finally leaving the new town I just knew today, (literally) I marched down a short path and stopped, looking at a sign that had “Aquacorde Town” written in bold letters and a fat black arrow pointing right ahead of me.

Huh. And here I thought I had to go through tons of grass and be attacked by pokémon. 

If that happened….I’d be running around the place with angry pokémon chasing after me.

With a sigh, I continued down the brick path, finding Kalos quite the nice place.

It was actually very modern and had a really welcome aura to it so my previous nervousness was just blown away by the fresh breeze.

My eyes then floated upwards, looking up at the clear sky over my head and seeing a flock of Altaria floating gracefully through the blue space above me.

After a few minutes, I walked under a red stone arch and was greeted by two giant buildings, probably condominiums judging by the many windows and curtains inside. 

As I looked around, I kept taking in the fact that I’m not in Sinnoh anymore.

I sure am gonna miss the air back there. And the cafes that sold the best hazelnut filled waffles.

While thinking about food, I came down the stairs and jumped when a guy with a camera popped from the side of the road.

This guy looked about in his mid-thirties with graying hair at the temples underneath his green hat and wore brown loose pants paired with a matching mocha turtle neck sweater that made him look a little too barrel shaped.

“Hello!” he greeted with a faint Irish accent as he gleefully waved his hand at me.

 

“Would you like to take a picture?” he asked, pulling up his impressive camera with a wide smile on his face. 

I blinked at him, slightly shocked at the sudden greeting.

“Well, at least they’re not kidnappers.” I thought.

“Ah, thank you but, I’m good.” I replied with a gentle smile.

The guy stared at me with sudden awe, his cheeks giving a faint blush as a thoughtful look grew on his face.

“You look familiar.” He hummed, tilting his head at me a bit. Right when I was about to ask how, he made an ‘ah-hah!’ gesture and pointed his finger triumphantly at me.

“Is your surname perhaps Eden?” he asked excitedly, his eyes practically popping out of their sockets.

I blinked at him and tilted my head a bit. “Ah…yeah. How’d you guess?” I asked. 

This guy’s not perhaps a cop or something equally nerve-wrecking is he?

The camera guy nodded his head vigorously and took my hand, shaking it in greeting and almost making me fall at his force.

“It’s an honor to meet Analise’s daughter in person!” he exclaimed, his blush obvious now. “She was a great pokémon trainer!”

I blinked at him, surprised he knew mom. And now, many more questions popped in my head. 

Are you her old friend? A rival? Her old mentor? A cop? But I chose to ask the first question.

The camera man nodded at me with a wide smile and chuckled. 

“My name is Bruce. And Analise and I used to talk a lot before and take photographs of pokémon before she moved to Sinnoh. It’s great that you have returned!” he smiled happily.

Oh, so mom already got here before? Damn she knows her way around places.

            Right when Mr. Bruce was about to interrogate me with questions on how, when and why I’m here, a high, girl’s voice yelled my name with such loudness, my head popped up as I sweat dropped.

I looked up to see a girl about my age running towards me with a wide grin on her face.

She had brown hair that was tied up in four directions and light brown skin that made her light green eyes look bigger than they already are and a small pink, white and black sling bag over her shoulder.

She was also wearing short blue shorts paired with a pink top with black ribbons on them. As an accessory, she had a matching black flowy bracelet on her slight wrist.

I blinked at the new comer, wondering how she knew my name.

“Are you Sarah Eden perhaps?” she called, her soprano voice making me shudder at the highness.

“Ah yeah.” I replied with a sheepish smile.

At my answer, her eyes grew bigger and she gave me a bright smile, squealing in her place as she jumped up and down excitedly. 

If I’m gonna be travelling with her, she might get disappointed with my personality. I don’t usually talk when I travel.

She giggled loudly and took my thin wrist in her hand.

“I’m Shauna.” She smiled. “I was supposed to come get you in your house you’re your mom told me you were already on your way.”

I flinched, hiding the sour look on my face. My annoyance with mom was still present. Ah, she really never tells me anything.

 “We’ve been waiting for you to get here! The others are waiting in front of the café and we have some pokémon with us.” she said, already dragging me away from Mr. Bruce.

Before we left, we bid our goodbyes and I let Shauna drag me away.

 

“Hey, guys! This is Sarah!” she yelled, waving at three guys waiting on a table and eating some sweets that looked way too good for me to keep staring at.

The three guys turned to us and two of them smiled widely at me, while one of them just stared blankly at me.

As we made our way to them, I studied the new people.

One guy had his black hair shaved at the sides of his round head and spiky at the top. He wore orange shorts and a black shirt that had some kind of ice cream character on it. He also wore orange and black running shoes and an orange watch on his chubby wrist.

The next one was smaller and had orange, mushroom cut hair that almost hid wide light blue eyes. He wore green shoes, simple black pants and a green vest paired with a collared short sleeved, white shirt. He also had some kind of device hanging around his neck.

And the last guy was simply sitting on the table, staring at me with bored and blank eyes.

Talk about emo or anti-social. I was like that when I was in a bad mood but not to his extent. But I didn’t pay anymore heed to it. Since I’ve met people like him before.

This guy had chin length black hair partially hidden under a red cap with sunglasses propped on them. 

He also wore a pair of black combat boots that tucked in his blue pants paired with a blue and grey jacket. He also had a black sling bag over his shoulder.

Looking at all their small packs, I’m starting to think this journey isn’t one that has camping in a tent written on it.

At my arrival at the table, the biggest boy waved his hand at me.

“I’m Tierno! It’s nice to meet ya!” he greeted giddily.

“And I’m Trevor.” The smaller one greeted, raising his palm to shake hands with me. 

“By the way, that’s Calem over there.” He said, nodding towards the boy who suddenly gave a sigh as he stood up.

Shauna made a face next to me, puffing up her cheeks.

“Really Calem. Act more nicely. Just because you tripped and almost got drenched in the pond, it doesn’t mean you need to act so high and mighty!” she said, sounding annoyed.

Calem gave Shauna a slight glare then walked towards me, raising his palm and asking for a hand shake.

“Calem.” He said as we shook hands. “I wasn’t trying to be rude. It’s just you look a lot like your mom.” He said with a still blank face.

I gave him a slightly shocked look. “You know my mom?” I asked.

 She sure is popular. Calem nodded at me with a slight smile.

“Your mom and mine knew each other from back when they were kids. Or so mom tells me.” he explained, his dark aura seeming to get nicer and more welcoming. 

At the new names I’ve heard, I gave them all my best smile.

“My name’s Sarah. It’s a pleasure to meet you all.” I greeted.

At the introductions, we all took our seat and Trevor suddenly took out three familiar red and white colored orbs-pokeballs from his small back pack.

 

“Here are the pokémon Professor Sycamore gave.” He said. “Since Lumiose is still a little too far, he my mom these so we can have a partner pokémon to battle with.”

Shauna nudged me with the usual big smile on her face.

“Go on Sarah. You pick first.” she said. Wow, how kind. Usually kids would kill to get first pick at a pokémon or so I’ve heard.

I took a look at the three orbs, wondering what pokémon were in them.

If you’re thinking I have no clue what the pokémon types are and what pokémon can do, think again.

I do know my stuff since I’ve read books about pokémon even though I never thought of getting one myself. 

The problem was, I haven’t read any books about the Kalos region or its pokémon.

I pursed my lips and hesitantly pulled my hand out, staring at the pokeball rolling on the left side. 

Without thinking anymore, I grasped the pokeball, feeling the weird warmth on its hard exterior.

For some reason, I was just drawn to this one. Instantly, thinking about the little thing inside this orb, excitement grew in me and I couldn’t help but see my hand shake at the feeling.

“Are you sure of it?” Calem asked, his arms crossed over his chest as he stared with at me with a slightly shocked expression, confused at the fact I haven’t even seen the pokémon yet and was already choosing.

I blinked and looking down at the pokémon, I gave him a hard nod.

“I just….have a good feeling about this one.” I confessed.

Suddenly I blushed, hearing Shauna and the others chuckle at my reaction.

“Well, go on!” Tierno urged. “Bring out the pokémon! I wanna see which one you chose!”

Feeling the excitement get the best of me, I let loose a wide smile and threw the pokeball in the air and saw the black edges of the ball shine as it opened and a jet of light sped down in front of me. After a second, a familiar little fox like pokémon sat in front of me.

It was the same pokémon I saw playing with mom’s Butterfree!

“Fennekin!” it squeaked, grinning widely at me and wagging its thick, bushy tail in glee.

“Oh, a male Fennekin huh?” Shauna hummed. “That’s a fire pokémon, right Trevor?” she asked, turning to my mushroom haired friend. He nodded with a smile.

“I don’t really know much about it yet, but I do know it’s known as the Fox pokémon.”

Well, not much info. I just know it’s called a fox and it’s actually a boy. But thank you Trevor. I stared at the little fox with awe taking in every bit of detail in its tiny body.

Unlike the first Fennekin I saw, this one had shinier orange and red fur. And the fur on its white cheeks were longer and thicker too.

Just by staring in his orange eyes and cute button nose, I fell in love with the little thing and carefully crouched down, feeling the unusually wide smile on my face.

“Hi there.” I greeted gently, not knowing how to act around this creature.

As I’ve said many times, some pokémon just plainly don’t like me and Butterfree is possibly the only pokémon that I have a close bond with.

But this one just made a spark with me.

Unexpectedly, the pokémon boldly approached me making cute yelping noises. 

Shocked, my eyes widened and I carefully plopped to the brick floor, landing on my behind as the Fennekin drew closer, placing his plush paws on my lap and wagging his tail at me.

Before I could do anything or even squeal happily, he quickly jumped on my stomach, making me double over in shock and letting him lick me like I was its favorite piece of candy.

“Wa-wait…” I tried to say, but ended up giggling ad squealing as it reached a ticklish area under my chin.

My new friends laughed at the scene before them and I quickly carried my new Fennekin in my arms, sighing at the unusual warmth his fur poured into me.

“You guys have gotten close in such a short time.” Calem said with a smile filled with awe on his face.

“Yeah.” I muttered with my eyes closed since Fennekin just won’t stop licking me.

After my friend’s comments on how cute we look, Shauna, and Calem took the remaining pokeballs.

Shauna had a grass pokémon called Chespin and to me, it looked like some kind of brow otter wearing a spiky green hat. But nevertheless, it was still cute.

Calem chose a water pokémon-Froakie. A pokémon that, like its name, looked like a frog only it was blue and had giant yellow eyes and a necklace of thick white foam.

We asked about Tierno and Trevor’s pokémon, but they said they were gonna get their own once we got to Lumiose.

“What does Lumiose look like?” I asked loudly, making everyone look at me. 

Tierno suddenly jumped out of his seat with exaggerated force and….started dancing. I sweat dropped. Not really the answer I was looking for.

After he was done making impressive flashy moves, he finally made a pose with his fit in the air.

“Ah! Lumiose is the heart of the Kalos region! Haven’t you heard of it?” he asked.

 “Even though you came from Sinnoh, you should’ve at least heard of Lumiose’s great Prism tower and many shops and buildings! It’s also where my previous dance crew performed at. They had great cafés there by the way.” He added happily smirking as he rubbed the back of his neck.

I blinked at him, impressed at the way he described Lumiose to me. Just hearing it made you excited. Calem smiled from next to me.

“Well, as Tierno said, it’s a really nice place. No offense but, it’s way better than any city in Sinnoh. Well to me that is.” Calem said, priding at the cities in his birthplace. I raised my brow at him.

“Oh, really?” I taunted. 

“You’ve been to Sinnoh?” I asked, pulling my chin up and trying to show the pride I still had left for my home region. 

Calem leaned closer to me with a confident smile.

“Really.”

I knit my brows at him and decided to let it go.

After out introduction with the pokémon and Tierno’s small dance performance, we then headed off to Santalune City which was right before the great Lumiose city.

Author's Note

I Don't own Pokemon or any of its characters. Just My OC's.