Pokemon - A Mystical Journey

It was a quadruped, canine Pokémon with short, black fur and a red underbelly and muzzle. Its ears and tail are both short and pointed. Two fangs protrude from its upper jaw, and its triangular nose is black. There are white bands on its ankles, and rib-like ridges on its back.

It appears to have a simplistic, stylized skull on its forehead with the eye orbits creating eyebrow patterning above its actual eyes. It also has circular, red paw pads on each of its three-toed paws.

It was the fire type, Houndour.

While Jim was looking at his new Pokemon excitedly, Houndour was also looking at his young trainer. After scanning his trainer, he looked at the Swablu, Pikachu and Growlithe at his trainer"s side.

He instinctively felt that they were much stronger than him and could take him down easily so he didn"t act excessively aggressive.

He turned around to the two other humans by his trainers side. The older one didn"t give the predator pokemon much threat, in fact he felt he can take him down easily but the younger one made him feel like he was in the presence of his pack leader who could deal with him at any moments notice.

Houndour bowed down his head in submission to Alex and then looked back at his new trainer.

Alex seeing Houndour action just smiled softly thinking about the similarity to how his siblings pokemons reacted the same way.

" Jim why don"t you introduce yourself to your Pokemon." Alex motioned his cousin.

This also told Houndour not to act out of order and not harm his trainer.

Jim looked at the interaction of the duo, although not completely friendly it was a good start.

This interaction reminded him of the past event in the early morning before his departure.

Few hours ago in the Early morning,

Both Ben and Clara had released the pokemons at the same time and out came an identical pair of twins.

They were quadruped, feline Pokémon resembling a lion cub or lynx kitten. Its front half is light blue, while the rear is black. There is a short tuft of fur on its head and smaller tufts on each cheek.

The top tuft is smaller on the female one. It has large, oval ears with yellow, star-shaped markings on the insides, yellow eyes, and a tiny, red nose. Whenever its mouth is open, small fangs can be seen in its upper jaw.

A black marking encircles its neck like a collar and there are yellow bands above its forepaws. The hind paws are black on the male and blue on the female. Spiked fur surrounds the base of its long tail, which is tipped with a yellow star shape.

Ben got a male s.h.i.+nx while Clara got a female s.h.i.+nx.

The duo pokemons looked at the kids in front of them and then at the surrounding people. They bowed their head in submission to Alex and then looked at their new trainer whom they were told about.

" The one with black spot on the paw is Ben"s while the other one is Clara. Ben"s is a male while Clara is female. They will be your companion from today "

Gwen picked up the pokemons on her hand and held them up. Gwen hugged while Ben just patted his head.

The Pokemons seem to enjoy the soft touch of the kids and leaned forward. This let Alex feel that they would be fine together. There are Slowking, electabuzz as well as Espeon to help them so he wasn"t worried.

The kids were unaware of the Pokemons in front of them and asked Alex.

Alex told them," this is a s.h.i.+nx. It is mostly found in the Sinnoh region. It is pretty far from here.

They are powerful electric type pokemons known for their body strength and speed. They are very powerful Pokemon."

" Are they really powerful? But they are so small." Ben asked doubting their strength.

His s.h.i.+nx didn"t take it kindly and bit him on his hand. Ben jumped up and down in pain while his pokemon was smug. The adults just smiled at this and didn"t worry about his injury.

" Although they are small now, their fully evolved form is as big as Arcanine. You can ride them when they grow up." Alex tried to inspire them.

It did the trick and Ben shouted," Just you wait. I will train my s.h.i.+nx and then beat you to the ground for always. .h.i.tting me."

" I will wait for you then brat. The brat wants to be a trainer, So Clara what do you want to do in the future?" Alex asked his sister.

" I don"t knew." She said sadly while her Pokemon licked her face to help her calm down.

She still hasn"t made a decision about her future. But there is still time left.

" Why don"t you go out and play?" Gwen told her children and they rushed out.

Alex just looked at them enjoy with their new pokemons.

Present time,

" Alex what type of Pokemon is this?" Jim asked as he saw a pokemon not commonly found in Kanto.

Before Alex could answer, Gray intervened and said," why did you not ask me Jim? I am the one who decided this pokemon for you "

Jim answers without a hit of hesitation or mercy," Because Alex knows more about the pokemons than you, dad." His expression were blank as if stating an absolute truth.

The people around smiled at the words while Gray just hung his head and accepted the words since it was the truth.

" This is a male Houndour. They are strong fire type pokemons who hunt in packs. They have strong fire attacks as well as terrible bite force." He told Houndour information to his cousin.

" How terrible?" Jim asked curious.

" If he wants he could bite off your hand from your shoulder. That terrible." He answered.

His words made the people around inch away from them while Houndour was proud of his ability.

Jim unlike others looked at his pokemon without fear which earned him some respect from his Pokemon.

Alex had already warned his cousin not to be afraid of Pokemon no matter how scary they are or you will never be able to bond with them.

And this lesson worked now.

" Why don"t we head home so you can rest and head for yours trip tomorrow. " Gray said.

They were walking back to Jim and Gray home but Jim was impatient to start his journey.

" So are we leaving tomorrow morning." Jim said with antic.i.p.ation of the first day of adventure.

But Alex put the job of flus.h.i.+ng it down the drain. " No brat"

" Why?"

" Because tomorrow morning, I have a gym battle with the Cerulean city gym leader, Matter Waterflower. So we will be leaving at afternoon or the next day."

" But why do we have to wait so long?" Jim grumbled

"Or do you not want to see the gym battle, brat?"Alex asked.

Jim wanted to see a gym battle and also how strong his cousin was. Gray too wanted to see and asked," Can I join you too?"

" Ok" Alex shrugged and they continued for the house.

Meanwhile in the secret hideout of Devil"s Horn,

Late night,

" Sir what decision did the other leaders make?"

" We and Angel"s wing will take care of Alex and Cynthia while other a.s.sociation will deal with the other top rankers.

Of course anyone below top ten is a free target but whose prey the top ten had already been decided. And unless that a.s.sociation itself ask for help, no one can interfere not unless that target actively attacks you. "Devil said

The a.s.sociation also compete among themselves for fame and power do it is understandable they would create ways to prevent other from taking away their fame or decreasing power of others.

" So when will we target him, sir?"Joker asked with a hint of antic.i.p.ation of going out to hunt the top hunt.

" First we will collect his intelligence and after one month we will start the operation. This meeting is now dismissed. "

The members left the room with only devil still seated on his throne.

Devil was still thinking about Alex and mumbled," Even though you are stronger, we have the number advantage. In the end you will sc.u.m to numbers "

Alex is now targeted by the Devils Horn and Cynthia by Angel wings. How will their fight go? How will Alex battle with Cerulean gym leader go? Stay tuned.

To be continued...