Now that the school day was over everyone was leaving, as we took the paths to our respective houses, Barry approached me with a strained pleading smile, looking like he kissed a dementor, "Hey Hikari, can I come over to your place to hang out for a bit?" After the mess in the morning, Mr. Curtis handed out a pop quiz, Barry being the natural dumbass that he is, was slacking off on his homework, he totally bombed the quiz and now he was trying to hide from his mother before she found out about it. Barry's mother was normally a sweet heart, she was after all she was like any other parent nice to others but once she felt the need to discipline you, your ass was going to hurt.
While the woman stayed home most of the time, she could become deadly accurate with her slipper that even sparked fear into the fully evolved pokemon of our Twinleaf Town, heck even the space lama Arceus himself wouldn't be safe if he pissed off Mrs. Summers. I can testify to that, one time when me, Barry, and Noah were hanging out at Barry's house, we had ransacked the kitchen for sweets, while we were munching on a jar of chocolate cookies, Mrs. Summers came home from running errands only to see the kitchen was a mess with a trail of crumbs leading straight to us on the now crumb filled living room.
I could only describe the feeling of pure terror upon seeing her smile on her darkened face, "naughty brats need to be punished" she spoke, as she bent down to take off one of her slippers. The moment we saw her bend down, Me and Barry both bolted off the couch heading for the back door as fast as we could move. Noah, not knowing what would happen, tried to follow us, we tried to delay the inevitable, but of course fate could not be changed. The first to go down was of course Noah, both of us heard a loud smack sound followed by a cry of pain, turning my head back I saw Noah on the ground clutching his butt as the spinning yellow slipper approached me.
I tried to dodge by diving to the ground and rolling to the side, the only thing that came to my mind as I felt the sharp sting on my butt was, she was hacking, she somehow had access to the auto lock hacks, "Barry run!" I called out.
Barry was by far the most physically fit out of all three of us, he was the furthest away from the demoness, and by now the slipper had locked onto him he only had a few more feet to go before he could hide behind a tree. Just a little more, then he would be spared, with whatever little luck he had, Barry made it behind the tree as he hid behind the tree, however he made the mistake of looking back at his mother thinking he was safe from her slipper.
I swear on my very life that her slipper that had missed Barry, became a boomerang as it suddenly turned right around and slapped his butt. After hearing Barry's cry of pain, his mom's darkened face became a lot brighter, but she still had that scary smile on her face, "Okay kids come inside and clean up your mess, and brat when you pick yourself off the ground, bring my slipper."
"Yes, mom", After a few more moments on the ground we all picked ourselves up and started cleaning the house while Mrs. Summers was sitting in a chair in the kitchen watching us clean. In short summary Barry's mom was scary.
Just thinking about that incident made me subconsciously clench my cheeks together, "Yea, sorry Barry, while it would be nice to have you over I have homework to finish so I'll be too busy ."
"Liar!" Barry's originally pleading look turned to one of outrage, "What do you mean you'll be busy with homework?! I know for a fact you finished it during lunch, also how in the world do you finish all of your assignments in a few minutes?"
"Magic", I said while spreading out my hands in a wide arc gesture, what else could I do? I had an adult brain in a child's body and if I couldn't solve questions meant for borderline ten year olds then it could only mean I was dumber then Barry. Diverting Barry's attention by changing the topic, "I don't know why you're so afraid of your mom, why not just play up the sympathy points by using the black eye Misdreavus gave you."
Charisma check passed plus five exp, Barry bought the diversion. Barry's look of indignation turned to one of joy, "yea, you're right I can use this to my advantage", he said while pointing to his eye.
By now we had reached my house, "alright Barry, I'll see you tomorrow and hopefully you'll be able to sit correctly at your desk tommorow." While I gave a small wave, Barry just flipped me off as he turned to continue down the road to his house, walking into the house I immediately noticed that it was clean, to clean meaning probably momma was expecting guests. Hearing the vacuum somewhere upstairs, I followed the sound and found momma with the vacuum in the hallway, "Hey Hikari, how was school?"
"It was good, as usual I aced another quiz, oh and Barry pissed off Kyra's Misdreavus so he has a black eye." Momma raising her eye at the latter asked "what did Barry do to Misdreavus?" Snorting at momma's response I spoke "Barry accidently crushed her pokemon treats so she brought a hydroflask for him to run into" Momma just shrugged at my answer, "eh, knowing Barry something like this was bound to happen sooner or later."
Holding back a chuckle I asked, "So who is coming over?", "Can't I just clean the house because it's dirty?" she said while giving me a look of mock offense, "No we're all lazy when it comes to keeping this house clean."
Momma just sighed, "fine, my sister or your aunt Hannah is coming here to spend some time with us, she'll be here for a week, your dad just left for the airport. Aunt Hannah was the younger sister by four years of my mom, she had slightly darker brown hair than my mom, but had the same pale skin and green eyes. Aunt Hannah lived in Unova, and owned their family's gardening store, "Giving her a bright smile I asked, "what can I do to help?"
"Can you change the rag on Shinx's collar, to a cleaner one, then pick up whatever miscellaneous stuff is lying around the house, clothes, dishes." Shinx, hearing his name, came out of the bathroom with a dirty rag around his neck, "sure but what's with the rag?" Momma just looked at me and tossed me a clean rag, "all Shinx does is run around the house, may as well make him scrub the floors while he's at it."
"Alright then, Shinx come here for a sec", after forty more minutes of cleaning the house was finally clean, just as we heard dad's car come up the driveway. Running outside I gave my aunt a hug, "Hello little Hikari, how have you been? Do you have a boyfriend yet?"
"Auntie, I'm not even ten yet, other than that I've been fine, acing my classes while preparing to go on my journey, by the way do you have a boyfriend yet?" I asked with my eyes narrowing at the last part, she stumbled for a second before regaining her footing, "You dare to use my own spells against me, Hikari, then prepare for my counter attack." I was still within grabbing range and she caught me by surprise as she put me in a headlock, where she then gave me a fierce noogie, "mercy, mercy, dad help!!", I called my arms trying to get her off me.
"No can do Hikari", he said while pulling out his phone, "no dad what are you doing?!" while still trying to resist my aunt. "Gathering childhood blackmail", my eyes widened in alarm as for the longest two minutes of my life he just stood there, watching me get noogied "alright I think she's had enough Hannah". My savior momma called from the front door, as she approached my aunt finally released me as she went to hug momma.
"Hello Hilda it's been too long", while they hugged I was glaring at my dad as he was laughing at me, laugh while you can dad, my revenge will be legendary. When the two sisters were done hugging, we all went inside. Once we were inside, aunt Hannah released her pokemon Lilligant, her leavanny, and a Petilil? That one was new, the two Leavannys sat at the table while they ate their greens while Hannah's Lilligant instead choose to watch over smaller pokemon at their little kiddie table we had set up, after we all finished we all moved to the living room and were just vegging out on the couch.
After we had all recovered from the borderline food coma, aunt Hannah, her lilligant, and the petilil approached me, "Hikari, dear I would like to offer you something." Raising my eyebrow I looked to mom and dad but they looked just as confused as I was, since no one said anything Hannah continued talking, "Hikari has shown that while she may still be immature, she is responsible, and is about to go on her journey I would like to offer you your first pokemon."
"What", my eyes widened as my eyes turned to the Petilil, looking back over to my parents neither of them looked as confused anymore, as their eyes were on me. Turning back to face my aunt she started speaking again, "A while ago Lilligant laid an egg, and Petilil hatched. Recently while working in my shop I noticed that Petilil constantly kept sneaking off to go watch the pokemon battles between the local kids. When I asked what she wanted to do, she said she wanted to go out into the world, instead of giving her away to an eager trainer may as well keep her in the family, and that made me think you Hikari, so what you say do you want Petilil as your first pokemon?"
I walked over and crouched in front of the adorable little thing, "Petilil do you want to join me on a journey to get stronger, to see the world?" Petilil didn't even hesitate before nodding "ilil", I couldn't resist and hugged her, I noticed out of the corner of my eye Lilligant shedding a small tear, the Lilligant let out a small squeak as I grabbed her bringing her into the hug once she realized what happened she didn't resist and joined in.
The hug lasted a few more minutes before we all settled ourselves, turning to my aunt, "thank aunt Hannah, for this.", "Don't worry about it it is what is best for everyone, once we go to the pokemon center I'll help you register Petilil as your pokemon, consider this an early birthday gift." Now my parents who had been silently observing this finally butted in, "alright Hikari, now you must remember to take care of Petilil, and don't train inside the house."
"I'm surprised that you are so comfortable with me having a pokemon?"
"Why wouldn't we be? You are about to turn ten so regardless you would have had a pokemon, in a few months, now you get a head start compared to the other kids", Said my dad "plus its a grass type and I have no complaints about that." of course that one was from momma.
"Alrighty then, the sun is about to set, lets go to the pokemon center to register Petilil under Hikari", the process was faster than I thought it would be. When we walked in I finally met one of the Nurse Joys. Once my aunt verified her identity, Petilil's pokeball and an empty pokeball were put in a pokemon transfer system. When Nurse Joy came back she had a tray with two pokeballs and my new trainer I.D., taking what was ours we all thanked her and left the center.
Now that the day was over I released Petilil onto my bed as she looked up at me with determined eyes. We both knew that we would have a long journey ahead, but that could wait for now we both closed our eyes and went to sleep.
(Author note - did you like the chapter? I felt in the mood and now yall get another chapter. Please let me know if you have any story suggestions, I have five out of six pokemon picked out for the team)