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Pokemon Fan Fiction: PIONEERS
CHAPTER 1: Beginning of New Era
I threw the car’s key to the top of only table in Grandma’s living room, and looking around curiously. I couldn’t imagine Mom has grown up in a place like this.
Grandma’s house was a small stilt house made of woods. There were only one huge living room in front area of the house and a small hallway to the kitchen, that was placed at the back area of the house. There 2 bed rooms on right and left side of the hallway, and a bathroom at back area, behind the kitchen.
I gave a poor smile to my Givenchy purse, that Dad have brought from Kalos, instead of Espurr that I wanted desperately. I prayed silently, hoped that I would enjoy my vacation here, cause I still needed to spend a whole week, in this backwoods.
Buzz-buzz
My Holo Caster was buzzed. I totally wanted to ignore it but instead, I slid my hand to my purse and took out my green lime flawless Holo Caster. Red Rose’s letters blinked in front of the screen, showing Mancy’s name and her picture I have saved before.
I took seconds to calm myself and cough to clear my voice before answered it. Mancy shown in the flying screen, with 2 familiar faces I also expected. I put my perfect confidence smile, pulled my lips to the right, and faced the screen so they would see me in my best angle.
They were in Laskar’s Town Plaza, for the premier announcement of Pokemon’s Marine World that would be the one of main Gym, once Pokemon’s Adventure project inaugurated in our region. Project that was opposed hardly by Dad, mostly because he grown up with ugly stories of Pokemon.
‘Hy Mancy, how’s Marine World?’
‘Celline!!! This place is awesome! You should be here, right away!’, said Mancy. She moved her Holo Caster so I could see views around them. That was a super-crowded place that made me tough for splits seconds, that I was lucky I wasn’t there. But, hey, everyone at town was there, except me.
I envied them.
Mancy shown up again in the screen with Simone stood beside her, tried to grab the Holo Caster, and she got it.
‘You must be here, NOW!!’, Simone said impatiently, she looked at me with her fierce eyes, that I answered by shaking my head.
‘I can’t,’ I answered firmly, ‘my Mom said I can’t leave Grandma’s house except for “family” emergency!”
Simone sighed, Kayla and Mancy couldn’t hide their scared faces, like everytime they have done before, when Simone signed any kind of disappointment to anything. But then Simone rolled her eyes, elevated her shoulder, and said, ‘No biggie, your lose for missing this!’
She smiled defiantly, and added ‘Work your best to make your Dad sign the approval’s letter. You have to join us in the trainer’s try out!’
Simone known very well how to make people hopeless. She smiled once again before she cut the connection. Left me alone stared angrily to the screen.
She known I could try everything and my Dad still wouldn't let me go to the try out! He wouldn’t let me join the Pokemon Journey!
He even boycotted his hotels from every guess that try to brought in pokemon, no matter how famous, rich, important the guess was.
I needed more than miracle to be able to join in! DAMN IT!!
***
Mom and Grandma walked out from kitchen, laughing, I couldn’t help but irritated, and though that they laughed at me. I sat down and withhold my cheek with my elbow in my thigh. I brushed my hair when Grandma approached me, tried to not look to her eyes.
‘Cella,’ Mom called me softly, firm every syllable in my nickname. She got the effect that she wanted. I looked to Grandma who brought a tray full of cookies, made well especially for me.
Yeah, she even put my name on every cookies, my full first name, Cellandine, perfectly with the double ‘L’ that even my teacher used to miss. I admitted her effort and took the smallest one from the edge of the tray and smiled to her when gave a really smile bite.
‘Ohh wait,’ she hastily get in to the hall. I was sure she entered her chamber cause I heard a door closed. I grabbed half of cookies on the tray and put them to my purse. I could see Mom’s pissed eyes. I whispered harshly to her, ‘You can’t make me eat them.’ She sighed, but didn’t say anything.
Grandma came back with a huge smile in her face. I swallowed the piece of cookie I had in my hand from the start, to make her happy. She thrilled and shown her affection by giving me a huge hug, made me coughed and spewed little bit of cookie that I just ate.
‘I have something for you,’ her eyes widened enthusiastically. I tried my best to look exited, when I hoped, she won’t bring out more cookies.
Fortunately, she shown me a, pretty, I admitted, charm-bracelet. I recognized a small sized pink pokeball as one of the charm and some silvers’ small sized pokemon, also a simple small flower shaped from four silver petals, with a darker shiny round stone at the center. I didn’t know why, I found it really appealing.
‘This is for you, my mother gave it to me when I was younger than you. She said she got this from her friend when she visited Johto!’
She pressed the center of pink pokeball, turned it into a real sized pokeball. ‘This is called heal ball, my mom said. She never had any chance to use this, cause, well, we never caught pokemon with this kind of ball before. But I heard in TV, about...’
Grandma talked about the new system government set for us, the trainer try out, and new pokemon era. For the first time in my life, I heard her with real excitement. Mom looked at me from back of Mom’s shoulder, frowned and shook her head. I raised my shoulder, looked back at Grandma and asked her more about the news she has heard, that I’ve already known so well.
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