Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ The Call to a Trainer's Destiny ❯ The Start of a Trainer's Journey ( Prologue )

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.

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Prologue -The Start of a Trainer's Journey

It was night and she couldn't sleep just yet, knowing that they were showing the Johto League matches on TV.

"FAYE!!! GO TO SLEEP NOW!!!" a woman called from downstairs.

The girl walked to her door and yelled back, "IN A MINUTE, SIS!!!"

She walked to her bed and dropped on it, her eyes never left the screen where she watched the most entertaining Pokemon battle. She didn't blink for a full five minutes.

"Scizor! Use your False Swipe!!!" the trainer on the screen shouted. He had clearly been dominating the vigorous match. Just when the opposing trainer was about to call out an order, the TV shut off.

"HEY!!! I WAS WATCHING!!!" Faye yelled as she turned her head toward her door.

Her sister was standing right there with a remote in her hand. She smirked, "It's time for bed..."

"Where'd you even get that remote??" she asked. Faye ran to her sister in an attempt to take the remote from her. She jumped as high as she could but her sister was just too tall.

"Vince made it for me...you always have that staying up late watching TV problem so he made it so I can shut you off...now BED!" she teased.

Faye glared at her sister and said, "You and that jerk are so evil...night, QUINN!!!"

Her sister shot her a mean glance. "SHUSH!!! It's Q, not QUINN...EVER!!!" she warned. "Q" hated being called Quinn so she developed and got used to her much shorter nickname.

"Whatever...go already...!" Faye said. She laid under her blanket and looked up. There was a window right in the middle of her ceiling, right above her bed. It gave her a beautiful view of the night sky. Faye loved looking at the sky. She always dreamed of being up there sometime. "The sky is so cool...riding on a Pokemon up there would be cooler..." she thought. In about another half-hour she was asleep.

To soar in the sky...
To ride the clouds...
To feel the wind rush by...
To fly away without a doubt...

Now tell us, what do you want...?
Tell us...

I want to be a trainer...

Wake up and look in your hand...

Faye laid in her bed in the most strange position. Her blanket was just thrown across the bed and half of herself wasn't even on the bed at all. Though she was quite a heavy sleeper, she never snored or drooled or anything.

"FAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYEEEEE!!!!! WAKE UUUUPPPPPP!!!!!"

"...a trainer...I-huh...?" she sounded half asleep still.

"FAAAAAAAYYYYEEEE!!!!!" her sister continued to shout.

"Huh...?! Ahh...NNGGGAAAAHH!!!" she screamed as she fell off her bed and onto the floor. "...cool dream..." Faye said to herself while rubbing her head. When she finally recovered from her dazed state, she felt something in her other hand. She opened her hand and there was a tiny object in it. It looked like a key of some sort. "...look in your hand...?" she thought, "...uh-ok, this is getting weird...". Faye quickly got up and rearranged her bed.

"FFFFAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYEEEEE!!!!! WAKE UP YOU LAZY DORK!!!!"

"I AM UP!!! SHUT IT, Q!!!" Faye yelled back. She got dressed into her short black dress that ended above her knees, the white t-shirt and her blue denim pants under the dress. Then she went to the bathroom down the hall to brush her hair and teeth and wash up. After she was done, she tied her sea-blue hair in the usual pigtails she had. Her hair was short so the pigtails were tied behind her ears and dropped right below her shoulders. When she was done, she ran downstairs into the kitchen where Q was. "Hey spaz-sis!" she joked.

"Shut up dork...now eat up..." Q replied to her remark. Q walked across the room from the stove to the kitchen table, her dark brown hair waved as she turned.

"Hey, umm...did you...by any chance come into my room when I was asleep?" Faye asked, remembering about the small key she found in her hand.

"No...I may be evil, but I'm not a snoop," Q replied. "Here's your breakfast kid..."

"Pain-cakes?" Faye teased as she looked disgusted at her breakfast.

"Ahh! Just eat it! You've done so like hundreds of times!!!" she called back.

Faye stared at the slob of a mess on her plate. Her eye twitched as she picked up her fork. "Listen slob, you don't like me and I don't like you...but YOU are not gonna give me another stomachache...kay?" she mumbled at her food. Faye often talked to her breakfast just to imply at Q's bad cooking. She herself wasn't a great cook but she could make better pancakes than her sister could. She reluctantly dipped her fork into the slob and shoved it in her mouth. Her face went blank when the taste filled her mouth. Then fortunately, the phone rang and Q went to pick it up.

Q nodded and said a few "yeah" or "uh-huh" to the caller. In the background, Faye tried her best to swallow, then silently coughed and hacked as the yuck taste still swam in her system. She quickly gulped her whole glass of orange juice. Then she snapped over and over, calling for something. "Here Ned...NED!" she whispered as her sister talked on, unaware of her actions. A Growlithe came by and Faye dumped the rest of her breakfast onto the ground.

Q hung up and turned to the table again. Faye, who was watching their pet Growlithe eat, instantly turned her head up to face Q. She then smiled nervously.

"Ok twerp...Pr. Elm wants to see you pronto. So shove off and get to his lab..." she said.

Delighted to get away from her home and dreaded sister, she ran out to the front room where her bike was. She grabbed her hat from the coat hanger by the door, got on her bike, and rode off. Faye rushed down the road and headed to Pr. Elm's lab. She loved riding fast so often she would have to hold down her hat to prevent it from flying off. The wind whipped at her and caused her hair to fly back. And her favorite part was about to come. Right before she would get to the lab, she would have to go down this steep hill. Right when she got there, Faye stopped, looked at the vast area below, and let her bike drop down the hill. She loved it. About another minute or so, she arrived at Pr. Elm's lab. She parked her bike right by the entrance and went in. "Hey Professor!!!" she shouted as she popped her head in.

"Oh hi Faye..." he said.

"So what did you want me for?"

"Oh, I, there's this errand I want you to do..."

"...hmm...a long one?" she smirked, thinking about how long she could be away from Q.

"Kind of. I want you to go to the Cherrygrove City Pokemon Center and deliver to Nurse Joy this," he explained and took out some kind of box.

"And that is...? Wait...there are TWO Nurse Joys?"

"Well, supposedly and well...anyway, it's a new medicine that was supposed to be given to every Pokemon Center here in the Johto region...it'd be faster if someone delivered it rather than mail. You know your way, I'm sure you can get there faster than any postal service can!" Pr. Elm continued.

"Ooooooh...ok!"

"But...of course you'd be crossing through some areas where Pokemon roam...so first, I want you to go down to the Pokemon Center here and Nurse Joy should be able to explain the rest."

"Sure, ok."

"But remember, that medicine is important, don't lose it."

"Ok, I know Pr. Elm! Bye!" she shouted as she walked out the door.

"MAKE SURE YOUR SISTER KNOWS ABOUT IT!!!" Pr. Elm shouted back.

"SHE WON'T MIND!!!" and Faye rode off to the Pokemon Center. She had to carry her bike up the hill, which was a terribly difficult and tiring task, and it took her about another ten minutes to get to her destination. Once again, Faye parked her bike and chained it safely. She entered the building and went to the front desk where Nurse Joy was. "Hey Nurse Joy!"

"Oh hi there, you must be Faye right? I didn't expect for you to arrive this early..." she said. Nurse Joy was nice and smiled warmly.

"Well, I ah-I'm fast when it comes to bikes..." she said when a sweatdrop formed.

"Oh well, I'd like you to meet a young trainer," she said.

Then a boy waiting patiently while sitting in the waiting room stood up and walked over to them. "I'm Hiro, and you are...?" he asked while giving out his hand.

"Faye!" she smiled and grabbed his hand into a friendly shake.

"While you go and deliver the medicine to my sister in Cherrygrove City, Hiro will be accompanying you so no wild Pokemon will hurt you," she explained.

Faye cocked an eyebrow and looked at the trainer to her side. "Wait...so he's supposed to be like my bodyguard?" she asked.

"Well..." Nurse Joy began.

"No, I'm not. The point of it is to follow you to Cherrygrove City cause then I don't know my way around here and I need directions. When we get to Cherrygrove City, you're supposed to take a bus back here," Hiro said.

"WHAT!?!? So why don't I might as well take a bus there too???" Faye bursted out sarcastically.

"Faye please...Hiro will need directions and a bus wouldn't take you there as quick...I hope you understand," Nurse Joy said apologetically.

The outraged girl suppressed her sparked anger and gave an exasperated sigh. "Fine..."

Hiro didn't look too happy knowing that Faye had a seemingly short fuse. Nurse Joy told her to leave her bike back so when she arrives, she can ride it back home.

"Ok...I guess we'll be going now..." Hiro said to Nurse Joy. Then he said goodbye and ran outside where Faye was waiting a while ago.

"Took you long enough..." she said.

Hiro's delighted expression faded as he realized that Faye wouldn't exactly be one of his favorite people. "Which direction do we go...?" he asked.

"Just follow me..." she replied.

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As they get onto the road to Cherrygrove City...

The two walked silently until the reached the city's exit. Faye broke the silence. "Do you have a map?" she asked Hiro.

"Yeah, here..." he replied as he took out a card from his shirt pocket. He handed it to Faye.

"Umm...what's this...supposed to be...?" she asked with a blank expression. Faye stared at the strange card.

"Don't you have a PokeGear?" he asked her back.

"A what???"

"Oh, so you're not a trainer...?"

"Umm...no."

"Oh, I didn't know...that..."

"Well what did you think??? If I was a trainer...then I wouldn't have you tagging along!" she yelled.

"Well sor-ry...how was I supposed to know?"

"You put two and two together...YOU'RE following ME cause there are wild Pokemon around...I don't have any Pokemon to battle with! YOU follow ME cause YOU are a trainer, YOU are supposed to be some kind of bodyguard or something! A big DUH!!!" she explained.

There was a short pause. Then Faye started walking again. Hiro inserted the card in his own PokeGear attached to his sleeve. "Well, according to the map, we need to pass through Route 29 to get to Cherrygrove," he said while following her.

"Route 29...that's right ahead."

"The map shows that it's a straight road there too."

"That makes things easier I guess..." she mumbled. They made their way down the road, and it was about a half-hour walk until they reached the forest areas. There weren't any turns or anything and the path was pretty straightforward. They continued to walk until they heard some shouting off in the distance.

"What was that?" Faye asked, looking at the direction the voices came from.

"I...don't know..." Hiro replied. Then he instinctively ran off deeper into the woods.

"HEY!!! WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING???" Faye yelled as she tried to follow him. "COME BACK HERE!!! WE CAN'T AFFORD TO GET LOST!!!"

"Someone could be in trouble..." he thought. Then he stopped when he spotted two trainers in the middle of a battle.

"WAIT UP HI-" Faye ended her statement when she spotted Hiro. "What's going on?" she asked.

"It's a battle..." he replied.

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A/N: Ok, just the prologue. Now as you can see, the chapter title referred to Hiro, not Faye. And oh yeah, I did in fact use the Hiro from Gold/Silver. But Faye is a completely made up character, not the girl from Crystal. And I know maybe some of you are still wondering about perhaps the time and maybe more about the characters but if you would just wait and read the next chapters, some questions will be answered in the next chapters. Pretty please review!!!