Chapter 3:Beginning of the Journey As soon as I woke up, Charmander was on my bed staring at me and whispered,"Donut...". I knew by the look on his face, that was the only thing he dreamed about. After getting dressed we went to the vending machine to get Charmander a pack of donuts. After getting Charmander his donuts, I went downstairs to meet the rest of the group for breakfast . As soon as I got to the lobby, I saw Kristy and Skitty sharing a pack of poptarts and Gavin and Turtwig sharing a plate of bacon and eggs. Charmander went with Turtwig and Skitty so they could talk about their new trainers, while I talked to the rest of the group. "How did you guys sleep last night?". Both replied with a positive response. After breakfast we started traveling down the path, when we saw on of the kids who was at the starter pokemon ceremony. "Hey" she said to us. "I challenge you to a battlee"she said her finger pointing at me. I tried to get out of it, but since she really patient I had to accept. "Go,Torchic!" she yelled throwing the red and white ball. "Go, Charmander!" I said as I threw the poke ball. Out of her pokeball came a little orange chick pokemon. I took out my pokedex to see the data on it. "Torchic, a fire type pokemon. A starter pokemon originally handed out by professor Birch. When in battle, it loves spewing flames at the enemy." said the pokedex in a mechanical voice. "Charmander, use scratch!". Charmander zoomed to Torchic with its claws extended, slashed Torchic on it's stomach. You could see tiny drops of blood fall from the torchic's stomach. This made Torchic angry and it used focus energy. Charmander continued his scratch frenzy but Torchic opened it's mouth. Charmander looked at me with a look on his face that said "Why?". When he realized it, it was too late. Torchic began shooting embers like crazy. Charmander was hit by a couple embers, but overall he was fine. " C'mon Charmander!Finish it up!" I yelled. Charmander's eyes, burning with determination, opened his own mouth, and let his own flames seep out. After a couple more ember, Torchic fell to the ground unconscious. When I looked at my pokenav, I had receiver 1000 poke for winning. The girl recalled her Torchic, and ran to the city to heal it. We began to start down the road again. I opened my pokedex to see what level my Charmander was. The pokedex read "Lv. 7". Randomly a message appeared on the screen. It read "Congratulations, your pokemon egg is hatching" Gavin and Kristy who caught the message at the corner of their eye stopped so I could take the egg out of my backpack. As soon as I took it out the egg was already cracked. Out came a blue doglike head with a black mask and red eyes. It looked at me and said "Daddy!". Obviously since im the first guy he's seen, he thinks I'm his father.He looks around and sees Kristy. "Mommy!". Obviously, I could tell Kristy and I are going to have to be together for a while before Riolu can understand were not his actual parents. So I just smiled and let Riolu ride on top of my head. We could see the next city on the horizon... To be continued