The End Of A Journey, Yet The Start Of Another
Immediately Meso looked back. There, standing in front of him, was his childhood love, Korin. Hands on her hips, she stood there staring at him. Quickly he ran back, wiped away his tears and looked at her. But it wasn’t enough to fool her. “You’ve…been crying, haven’t you?” she said softly. “Me, crying, no!” Meso said quickly, wanting to retain his honour. “It’s alright if you did, I did when I first found out as well. Come on, lets go to the cliff.”
He let his legs dangle over the edge, as he looked out to sea. The sun was setting and pokemon were going to sleep everywhere. A pelipper flew into an indent in the cliff face, and nestled down with another pelipper and their wingull chicks. As Meso stared off into the horizon, he couldn’t help but remember when he was here last, with Balthazar.
“Look at it” he had said. “Isn’t it beautiful”. He turned to face Meso. “As you know, I am a pokemon breeder. One of the best too. That is why, there are a few people out there dedicated to stopping me, and my work. But they will not succeed, ever.” “Who are they, Balthazar” Meso said. “They are the source of all evil in Sinnoh. They are said to live in the shadows themselves. To the contrary, their signature pokemon is a gengar. They are Team…”
“Shadow…” finished Meso, now looking out at sea with Korin again. “Who”, she said, turning around to face him. “Team shadow, they are the ones who did it. They are the ones who murdered Balthazar.” His blood boiled thinking of their name, and rage filled his eyes. “Well then, good thing you get your first pokemon tomorrow, along with us!” He suddenly came back to the real world again. He had totally forgot about that. “Well, I best be off Meso, got to get back before tomorrow!” She gave him a kiss and walked off.
Meso lay in his bed, tossing and turning. He couldn’t get to sleep, because he kept having nightmares. He was running, and behind him a massive gengar chased him. Finally he drifted off, only to be awoken soon after. “Go away” he muttered, clawing at what ever it was awakening him. “What, you want to wake up late and miss your pokemon, do you?” “Oh ****!” he exclaimed, and flew out of bed. He threw on any old clothes, and wolfed down his breakfast. “Slow down!” his mum said. “They will be there all morning!” After they finished breaky, they headed over to the lab, where the professor was waiting. Also waiting was Hau and Korin. “Good morning, sleepy head!” “Leave me alone,” Meso said, and they walked inside.
“Alrighty then people, time to choose your pokemon. We have here a charmander, squirtle and bulbasaur. Meso, you drew shortest straw, so you can go first.” Meso thought hard for a second, before choosing. “Charmander” he said strongly. “Can do my son”. He released the pokemon for Meso to see. Straight away, it ran around the professor, tripping him up, and over to Meso, who it tackled over and began laughing. Meso joined him, and tackled him to, making his flame burn even fiercer. “Haha, you two are gonna get along just fine” the professor said, getting up and brushing himself off. “Well now, who do you two want?” Korin said Bulbasaur whilst Hau was stuck with Squirtle.
The professor handed them their pokedex’s, with Meso’s being black, Korin’s pink and Hau’s blue. Thanking him, they walked out of the lab. All saying goodbye to their parents respectively, they released their pokemon, for them to see. Charmander blew an ember at bulbasaur, who cried and vine whipped squirtle, then fainted. Squirtle bubbled charmander, and then they both fainted. They all laughed, and they withdrew their pokemon.
“Before you go Meso, I have a favour to ask of you” the professor said. He pulled out 2 eggs and gave it to him. He wasn’t expecting one, let alone two! “We found them in Balthazar’s backpack. As his most trusted student, he would want you to have them.” “Thank you professor”. “How come he gets two eggs?” questioned Hau. “It’s because he buckled down in school,” his mum said. “No fair” he muttered to himself, and walked off to route 201. Meso and Korin shortly followed, waving goodbye.
But in the bushes was aipom. He looked a little said. He ran back to his tree, collected some berries and ran off after them.