My name.... is Shadow. No one is sure why that is my name, or where I came from. Not even me.... I just woke up on a beach one day, with a Professor named Juniper and another female figure shaking me awake. I didn't remember anything about my past... except my name... and a figure of a certain blazing pokemon... The other female became like a mother to me... she raised me for several years, until I turned 16. While I lived in her hometown, Nuvema, in the Unova Region, I befriended Cheren and Bianca. Cheren is a knowledgeable young man about my age, and Bianca is a fun-filled naive girl also at 16. The three of us are a perfect trio, just enough competition to make our friendship more like a family relationship. We felt like we would be unstoppable together....
"Here you go Shadow, don't open it 'till your friends get here. And be sure to stop by my lab later!" Prof. Juniper said as she handed me a gift box, I took it up to my room and set it down on a table when Cheren walked in. "Hello Shadow, Prof. Juniper told me to come, and she also said she went to go get Bianca as well." I nodded. "You okay," Cheren said, "You're a lot more quiet than normal?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, just a little headache.... I've been seeing that white pokemon in my dreams a lot more lately...."
"Maybe that pokemon caused some kind of dramatic experience as a child, so you don't remember it."
"That sounds somewhat reasonable... maybe it has something to do with why I can't remember anything from back then...."
It was then that Bianca came into the room. "Hey Guys! What's up?
"Juniper came in a while ago and gave me this gift box. I'm guessing it has something for all three of us inside" I said. "It was given to me, so I guess I'll open it..."
"That sounds reasonable" said Bianca. I proceeded to lift the lid off of the box. "It's a note" I said. "It says, 'Inside this box I have three gifts one for each of you, they are the pokemon Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott. Choose wisely, and then come see me in my lab.'"
"Oooh, Pokemon!" said Bianca " I think you should pick first Shadow." "Naturally" Cheren said.
"Ok then..... I'll pick..... Snivy!"
"I call Oshawott! You can have Tepig Cheren!" Bianca said
"Hey, why do you get to pick for me!? *sigh* oh well... i kinda wanted Tepig anyway..."
"Hey, I got a great idea Shadow! Let's Battle!" Bianca said.
"Woah now! We can't battle in here! The room will get practically destroyed!"
"Oh so what? We'll clean it up! Go, Oshawott!" Bianca threw the pokeball and the small Otter pokemon hopped out.
"*sigh* All right then. Let's go Snivy!" I tossed my pokeball up in the air and Snivy blasted out onto the ground.
Bianca ferociously command her Oshawott, it lunged at Snivy from all around the room, crashing into everything as it went. Fortunately my Wii was undamaged, and Snivy emerged Victorious.
"Wow Shadow, cool battle, that was awesome!"
"BIANCA, LOOK WHAT YOU DID!" I shouted
"ohhhhhh....."
"FAIL!" Cheren shouted as he emerged from behind the stairwell, where he'd been hiding. "Alright then, I'll heal your pokemon, and then you'll fight me, Cheren said. Don't worry, I don't battle as ferociously as Bianca does."
And Cheren was right, the room didn't get any more destroyed and yet the battle was still extremely close. But Snivy still emerged victorious.
"Awww.... oh well, let's go apologize to your mom about the room, then we need to go see Prof. Juniper." Cheren said.
"Yeah! Let's go do that." Bianca said. We all walked down the stairs.
"We're sorry about the mess in the room" Cheren said "We can clean up!' said Bianca.
"Nonsense! Don't worry, this is a pivotal moment in your lives, and besides, you do need to go see the Professor right? Well, go on!" We began to walk outside. "Oh wait! Shadow, c'mere a minute, I need to give you this!" She handed me an Xtransciever, and sent me on my way. "Thank's mom!" I said, then I followed my friends outside.
I decided that I wanted to stay with Bianca, it would've been extremely boring to just sit there with Cheren the whole time. Unfortunately, what I saw made me wish I had stayed with Cheren. Her dad started yelling at her, but she stood through, and denyed him. She saw me with a worried look on my face, and assured me that everything was fine. I was afraid that this would cause a lot of trouble later on though....
We went back to Cheren and stepped inside her Lab. She gave us the whole introduction of herself, noted about how we had already had a battle, and told us the reason she was giving us pokemon. It was for the pokedex, so she gave each of us one and told us to meet her on Route 1. Outside, we found my mom, she gave us a town map and we all said our goodbyes.
"Hey Shadow, I've got another great idea!" Bianca said. "Let's all take our first step on Route 1 together!"
"I guess that couldn't hurt anything. Let's do it!"
And so we did. Next, the professor explained to us about catching pokemon, then told us to meet her in the pokemon center in Accumula town.
"Hey, let's have a competition to see who can catch the most pokemon!" Bianca suggested. "Wow, that's not a bad idea, and the professor will like it too, because it will fill up Pokedex pages." Cheren approved. "Ok then" I said. Then they departed.
It was because of this that I caught my first official team member, a Lillipup, which I named Canindor. I also caught a Patrat, which I only plan on using for the completion of the Pokedex. Cheren and Bianca only caught two Pokemon each, including the Professor's pokemon, meaning that I won the contest. Then the professor called us on our Xtransceivers and told us to hurry up to the Pokemon center. We went and she gave us the whole shebang on the Pokemon center and the Pokemart.
Now this is where the adventure truly began for us. A strange man named Ghetsis, leader of Team Plasma, was giving a speech in the plaza. Something about this man... was doing something to me... my headaches got worse... and I saw that White Pokemon every time I closed my eyes... And the speech... about liberating pokemon? Why would we want to do that? We enjoy the prescense of pokemon, and they enjoy being with us? He says that pokemon are not truly happy with trainers... but if you ask me, they would be less happy if they were liberated....
Once the speech was over, and Ghetsis left, one peculiar stranger was left, named N. He talked about my Pokemon talking.... how strange... and my headaches weren't any better. Perhaps it was not Ghetsis, but he who had something to do with it? Or perhaps it was just coincidence. He seemed to share the belief that pokemon are unhappy with being with trainers, and asked me to battle him so he could hear my pokemon's voice again.... I thought he was a bit crazy... but I let him battle me anyway, I could use the training.
"I never expected pokemon to say such things..." he said after he was defeated... I was unsure what he meant by that, but I chose not to communicate with someone I was convinced was crazy. He left, but something told me I was sure I would see him again.... Also, my headaches got better after he left... 'Strange....' I thought to myself. Cheren told me he was going to challenge the gym leaders in the next towns, and he left as well. I, however, needed to train my Canindor.................................................................
END of PART 1
