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CodyJ
January 24th, 2007, 11:46 PM
This fic takes place in the land of Hoenn. This story follows a boy's adventure through the land of Hoenn as he makes friends, enimies, and catches various pokemon. It follows the same order as the game, with some added events of course because the game by itself is just not the same. And it kind of starts almost exactly like the show did, but please try to keep on keeping on, I'll make it better! Alright, here it goes!!!

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CHAPTER ONE
AN ADVENTURE BEGINS...SORT OF...

EEEEE! EEEEE! EEEEE!

The alarm rang in the small room. A boy shuffled around in his bed, still half asleep. He searched blindly for the source of the annoying sound. He swatted at his bed side table to no avail. He knocked the alarm to the floor, though not preventing the sound. He gave a tired groan as he lifted himself from his bed. He looked about the room with half closed eyes. His blankets were in a knot from all of his tossing and turning. But the stupid noise would not stop!

The door to his room opened letting a brilliant flourescent light pour into the room. The boy's mother chuckled at him as she saw his state of disposition. "Well, someone doesn't look to excited to be alive in the world this morning." She busily went about cleaning and picking up dirty clothes and other items left from the previous day. As she was leaving the room, she picked up the alarm clock, looked at it, turned off the alarm, placed it nicely on his bed side table, then turned to him and said quite matter-of-fact-ly. "You know you're late, right?"

"WHAT!?!" His eyes shot open as he turned to the alarm clock. "AAAHH!!! Mother, why didn't you wake me up!?!" He blasted out of his bed, grabbed some clothes from his dresser and flew to the bathroom. His mother approached the door and spoke to him from the other side. "I'm sorry, I kind of...forgot?" She said, trying to think of a good excuse as to why her son was late for his first pokemon. "YOU FORGOT!?!" He flew out of the bathroom completely bathed and clothed. he ran down the stairs, grabbing his backpack and hustling out the door. "I'll be back before supper, you liar!!!" He shouted at his mother as he ran off towards Professor Birch's Pokemon Lab. His mother watched him go. She laughed a little, completely pleased in the fact that her son would have to stay home for another year.

The boy ran and ran and ran and ran. He wore a green bandana, his brown hair spiked up and over in a stylish manner, his green highlights shining through in the bright sun. He had dark blue jeans, a bright white shirt, and a green hoodie, and bright green flt soled shoes. He saw the lab in the distance. He was sooo close! Then he heard the party bells chime...though, not as happy to him as they would have been had he had a new pokemon in his hands. His paced slowed to a mear shuffle. He excitement fading to nothing.

A whole year. He thought solemnly to himself. One whole stinking year! As he reached the steps, the doors to the lab flung open as tons of pokemon champion hopefuls ran out and down, knocking him about in the hurry.

"Well, well, well, Jackie-Boy." The smarmy voice of his next door neighbor rang out to him. Jack looked up to her as she slowly walked down the stairs, a tiny pokemon following close beside her, equally as smarmy as she. It was an Eevee, a darn stuck up one too. "It's nice to see that you have held up to your reputation and was late as usual."

Jack flashed her a glare that quickly faded as soon as it had come. "I...I really wanted to come, Ashley."

"Oh, I'm sure you did! But it's too late now, so there! Ha ha ha ha!!!" She laughed uproariously at her little joke. Her Eevee followed suit by squeaking along with her.

Jack walked slowly up the stairs, brushing past Ashley and her new Eevee. "Where are you going?" He turned back to her. "I'm going to talk to Professor Birch." She laughed at him even harder. She grabbed the rail for support from her onslaught of giggles. "A lot of good that will do! Oh, this is rich! Ha ha ha ha!"

He brushed her attitude aside and walked into the Lab. There was confetti all over, most likely from the ceremony that had occured before. There was a large man bustiling about cleaning up, he had a few Mr. Mine helping out with the cleaning.

"Uhm...Excuse me?"

The man looked up, then flashed a huge, white toothed grin. "Oh, hello there Jack, so nice of you to join us...well, me." Jack was a little nervous. "Are there any pokemon left?" Birch's cheery disposition sort of sifted into that of uncertainty. "Well, if you had only been here earlier...I...uhm...well..." He snapped his fingers and started bustling about. "My keys...where are my keys." He reached into his pocket and pulled uot a ring with hundreds of little shiny keys attached to it. They shimmered in the light of the lab. Jack looked at him in hope.

Birch turned to Jack and gave a "follow me" wave with his hand. Jack followed after the Professor through various hallways and rooms until they reached two large double doors. "This way, I just found this little guy the other day! I don't know how well he'll react to you, but you never know, right?" Birch opened the doors to reveal Jack's starter pokemon to be. All Jack saw was a little green-ish fat pokemon, stuffing it's face with food.

"Hey, Munchlax." Birch said. "Come on over here and meet your new trainer!" Munchlax turned to Jack, a sort of twinkle in it's eyes. He saw the tall skinny boy and walked over to him, gave him a quick sniff, then reached deep into Jack's pocket and pulled out a granola bar, which used to be Jack's breakfast. Munchlax cheered then hopped up into Jack's arms as they both laughed, until Jack fell down, unable to hold up both of their weight.

"Well, it seems that both of you make quite the team! Well, Jack, it seems that you were lucky this time, don't be late again!" Birch said with a pointing finger. "Here is your Pokedex, here are some pokeballs, and also some extra potions for you. So get along now, the other new trainers are probably lightyears ahead of you by now! You got a lot of catching up to do!"

Jack raced of the pokemon lab, Munchlax in tow. They burst out through the doors and the sun hit them like a ton of bricks. They both shielded their eyes from the sun, then looked out into the distance. "This is the start of a brand new adventure Munchlax. I have a fealing that this is going to be the greatest time of our lives!!!" "Munchlax!!!!!!"

"Not so fast, tardy-pants!" Ashley's voice rang out through the still air. "So what if you got a pokemon! It still wont even come close to mine! Look at it, and it's... .... ... fat!!!" Munchlax shot Ashley an angry glare. Eevee pounced up and began a stand down with the Munchlax. They both growled at eachother. "Well, well, well. It looks like we got a battle on our hands, Jackie-boy."

"It sure does, Ashley." He stared back into her fiery coals.

"Hmm.... ... ... Eevee sand attack now!!!"

Eevee quickly flung her tail about sending sand into the air, clouding vision and debasing accuracy. Munchlax brought his hands to his eyes and shielded himself from the surprise attack.

"Hey! No fair!" Shouted Jack.

"All's fair in love and war my friend. And this is war! Eevee, sniff him and scratch him up!"

Quick! He thought to himself. What moves does Munchlax know? He tried to think of something to do when a cry rang out from the battle field. Munchlax flew out from the dust cloud after being scratched by Eevee. Munchlax slowly got up, a little befuddled by the onslaught. Uhm...Metronome! That's it. But I don't know what will happen! Oh well, I don't have much choice!

"Alright Munchlax it's time for-"

"Eevee, Quick Attack!"

Eevee flew out of the sand striking Munchlax at blinding speed. Munchlax fell back to the ground again, crying out in pain.

"Hold on Munchlax! Get ready for a Metronome! Go!"

Munchlax nodded at his new trainer and hopped up and started to wag his fingers in time. "Munch lax munch lax munch lax!" Eevee stood still, scowling at Munchlax's little trick.

"That's cute Jack, too bad it doesn't do anything!"

"Ha! Shows what you know! Let it rip, Munchlax!"

Munchlax flung his fingers in Eevee's direction. A littl bubbled of light popped and then nothing happened. Nothing happened?!? No!

"Oh, Jack! You make me laugh! Let's finish this Eevee! Do another quick attack! Go!"

Eevee sneared at Munchlax, who still remained pointing his fingers at the little pokemon. Eevee then sprung into action. She lept up and shot straight at Munchlax, aiming directly for the knock out blow. Right before she struck, a blast exploded from Munchlax sending Eevee flying through the air. Fire exploded in thousands of different colors striking Eevee again and again, sending her farther and farther into orbit.

"Dragon Rage!!! OH NO! MY EEVEE!!!" Ashley through her hands to her face in shock as Eevee was pummeled into the sky.

As the destruction ceased Eevee fell to the ground with a huge thud, knocked out. Munchlax cheered, his fists in the air. "Munch lax!!!" Jack ran to him with arms stretched out wide. "Oh I'm so proud of you, Munchlax!"

"This doesn't mean anything, Jack! Enjoy your pride while it lasts! I'll beat you soon enough!" She put Eevee back into it's pokeball and stormed off.

Jack stood up and watched her leave. "Well, Munchlax. Let's go back to my house and get ome grub!"

It jumped up with glee. "Munch! Munch! Munch!" Jack laughed at his Pokemon's antics then heaved him up and over his shoulders and carried him out over the horizon back to his home for some lunch. All that Jack knew, was that this was going to be on very, unorthodox adventure!

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Did you like it? Please, tell me whatever you think! Criticism is welcomed and much appreciated, but flames make me sad, so please refrain from barbecueing me. Thanks for reading! Hopefully, if you liked it, I'll write more. I promise that it will get more interesting and to the point from here on out, the first chapter was mainly exposition.

Thanks again!

Yami Rui
January 25th, 2007, 12:06 AM
All Jack saw was a little green-ish fat pokemon, stuffing it's face with food.


Edited Version
The only pokemon Jack saw in the room was small and plump, bluish with a little yellow around the bottom of it's face and the bottom's of it's feet.

See what happens when you put some thought into your description and take your time thinking about it. Your dragon rage description was better, but sending Eevee into orbit...dragon rage isn't that powerful.

While Munchlax isn't a pokemon I haven't seen that often in fics, the whole wake up late, get the last pokemon which seems to be uber-powerful {Munchlax's attack sending a pokemon into orbit} was started in the first episode of the Pokemon Anime.

I recommend you read the sticked threads in the Writer's Lounge if you wanna seek more improvement.

AC Coda X
January 26th, 2007, 08:54 PM
Eh, I agree with Rui. Your word choice was a bit off, if you wanted to state that Dragon Rage is powerful enough to knock an inexperienced Eevee oh, say, twenty feet or so into the air. Orbit? I disagree. Anyway, she's right in saying that the waking-up-late and then receiving a Pokemon with huge amounts of power is a theme that has too many advocates already. Jeez, no matter how annoyed we get with Ash, our first characters always seem to emulate something about him. Why is that?

CodyJ
January 27th, 2007, 01:59 AM
yeah...I'm not gonna go any further in this story anymore. I have realized that I'm gonna need to cook up something a tad more interesting, actually, a lot more interesting. I kind of figured it was doom from the very beginning. But oh well, better to have tried than never tried at all. Thanks for your criticism though, it is much appreciated.

AC Coda X
January 27th, 2007, 12:02 PM
A-hem.... *refers to "sins of fanfiction" thread* Just because you get a bit of constructive criticism doesn't mean you should give up here and now. I can say that if your plot was going to be a fairly cliched OT story, you do need to rewrite parts, but that doesn't mean you can't make this fanfic good. Revise the plot so that it ends up more original, rewrite some of the first chapter, come on! Don't give up on it yet. (Admittedly, I gave up my first fanfic here, but that's because it didn't end up like I wanted it to and I thought that no one was reading it.) Now get out there and write!

ProtrainerEon
January 27th, 2007, 01:52 PM
Did he say it was because of the constructive criticism? NO, he didn't. He actually thanked you for your comments!

But IF it in fact that that is the reason for your stopping, then I'd have to agree with Art Critic Cubone.

[I just thought that needed to be said.] -__- ;)

AC Coda X
January 27th, 2007, 06:36 PM
That's not what I meant, Eon. *growls* I meant that just because there's something wrong with the story, he shouldn't give up on it. Heck, one of my favorite OT fics, "Quest for the Legends" has been badly written in the past. Butterfree (the author of said fic) didn't give up, and kept rewriting it, so now it's much better then its original form.

CodyJ
January 28th, 2007, 04:09 AM
I actually ahve been working on a different fic, much better and more original, I should be done with the first chapter here soon. So, yeah, it's not because of the constructive criticism that I am quitting this fic, I've just realized how bad it is. When I wrote it, I was just writing to be writing, nothing big or anything. So I decided that if I wanted to write something, I'd better think of something more original, so I did! And I think it's pretty cool. So...yeah, thanks anyways though, your input is much appreciated.