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Hello SoFurry this is Shade, this will be a revised version of my first chapter of this story. The title is no longer “Needed Trust" and is now “An Adventure of a Lifetime". I decided to redo the whole chapter with a different approach to it and I revised my plan or whatever you want to call it because the plot moved way too fast to my liking and I ended up leaving out a lot of things that I would like to have in the story.So here it is hope you enjoy! :)

Chapter 1: Reality

(Ajax's POV)

“All Ship inhabitants we are now docked in Lumiose city! All passengers getting off the ship please make your way to the docking station. Thanks for sailing with us!" The ship captain sounded off as I was getting my things gathered from my room.

“Thank arceus I can finally get off this ship!" I said stretching putting the last of my stuff into my bag. Believe me a cruise ship may sound fun but it's actually quite a horrible ride if you've never rid before. Trying not to think about sailing to much anymore before I made myself sick I quickly exited my quarters and made my way to the deboarding area, where a line of people deboarding was now wrapping around the ship twice.

Wow so much for getting off this ship I thought to myself as I quickly found the back of the line before it got any bigger. Ever get that feeling of having something in your grasp but it was quickly stolen away at the last second? Well that's what I was feeling right now only it was with a ship and my freedom, and not a person or smaller 'object'.

After about 2 hours of waiting I was finally able to hand my papers to the lady so she could verify that I was getting off the ship.

“We hope you enjoyed your stay with us aboard S.S Pelipper!" The lady said to me as I set my first step onto the stairs that took me off that godforsaken ship. I didn't respond, I was too focused on leaving the ship to respond.

Now on the dock floor it was precisely 11 in the morning. Deciding it would be a good time to eat since I hadn't ate all morning. Walking up the stairs from the dock to the streets of Lumiose city I saw a trainer nearby that I recognized as the one and only Ash ketchum and his pikachu having a battle with a blonde guy with glasses(for those of you who don't know who this is it's Clemont the Lumiose gym leader and his bunnelby I think…

You see I'm from the Unova region which is where I've grown up all my life so I'm not what's the word…. Familiar with much other pokemon than the ones I've seen there. I smiled watching the battle between the two for a few minutes daydreaming about future pokemon battles for me. Why was I smiling? Well today is the day I get to start my journey I've been dreaming about for a very VERY long time.

To introduce myself, I'm Ajax. In the Unova region I lived with my parents and siblings in a somewhat nice house. When I was young I had seen a pokemon battle on the street. Watching this battle was when I first realised my dream of becoming a pokemon trainer. Something about the bond of trainer and pokemon when in battle and the techniques and closeness of one another sparked it for me.

When I was able to get a job I worked my ass off saving the money I received for this very journey. After about 5 years of working here I am! Due to having this job I always had to work the night shift so I never got to go outside of school and meet many people so I don't really have a lot of friends outside of school to get close to. Of course I haven't had a girlfriend either but that was for a different reason than just work. I mean I found a few cute and some even asked me out, but for some reason I always felt that I had no connection or feelings for them.

After walking down the street for a bit I found a place called the Lumiose cafe and decided I would go in there and eat. Walking into the cafe I noticed it was very fancy and elegant. All of the people here looked like they somewhat had some form of a lot of money or fame or both.

Walking by some of them I got a few glares sent my way probably towards the way I looked. I was wearing my usual Black sneakers, black skinny jeans, a white t-shirt, a black black sleeveless jacket, and my trademark black cap with a fire design that was colored in with shades of blue. It wasn't because I was fat either, I mean I'm not no bodybuilder, but I'm not what you would call chubby or big boned either.

Deciding to not let them ruin my mood I sat down at my table that I directed to and opened up the menu. Most of the food was pretty expensive, but I could afford it since it was just me eating. Finally deciding what I wanted I ordered the spaghetti and meatballs because for some reason at that moment I had a sudden craving for pasta.

After about a ten minute wait my food was served to me which I then thanked the waiter and began eating. The food was amazing! Not just any amazing either, I mean like grandma's cookies amazing! After I was done eating I wanted more but I was so full that when she asked if I wanted anything more I hesitantly turned her down. She then thanked me for coming and left me the checkbook which I payed and left her a ten dollar tip on the table and made my way outside with my bag.

When I got out of the restaurant I decided I would go to the pokemon store before they closed and pick up the essential items for a trainer. Shortly after arriving at the pokemon store I took out my checklist and began to go through the aisles and grab what I needed. On my list was a sleeping bag, a flashlight, clothes, food, water, batteries, pokeballs, potions and or healing items, a map, and a pokedex. Having the first few already checked off I just needed now pokeballs, healing items, a map and a pokedex.

The first aisle I went to was the pokeballs and I got about 9 or 10 of those deciding that was probably enough to catch my first pokemon with. Next was the healing items aisle. After finally getting done in that aisle I had pretty much cleared what they had out. It may sound like a lot and it was but better safe than sorry right? Finally I went to the tech aisle to pick up a pokedex. In the aisle I had the option between two types of pokedexes… The older models which were less expensive, or the newer model with easier interface and some form of poke translator but it costed more. After spending a few minutes deciding, I opted for the newer model deciding it would be more helpful plus it came with a map on it. Arriving at the checkout I put everything on the counter where she scanned it all and I gave her my bag to put it all in. Coming out of the store I ended up spending around 30,000 out of my 100,000 pokedollars I had saved.

Coming out of the store it was 5 pm so I decided it would be a good idea to check into the pokemon center for the night and get some sleep before starting my journey tomorrow. On my way to the pokemon center I heard a loud shouting coming from a alley way and I decided I would investigate. Sneaking into the alley way I was then able to make out two figures one holding the smaller one in the air. The much bigger was definitely big around and didn't look that muscular but he did seem like he was around 30 years old. The figure being held in the air was being held by its neck slowly getting choked. It was a small blue jackal like pokemon with red eyes and a small muzzle that I had never seen before in my life. After a quick evaluation of the situation I decided to take action before the pokemon got hurt even further.

“You little piece of shit! All you do is lose battles! You're going to fucking pay this time!" he said shouting at the pokemon who appeared to slowly lose consciousness, “You hear me? I'll make you p--!" The man was interrupted by me tackling him causing him to release hold of the pokemon letting it drop to the floor. In the process of tackling him I rolled and landed on my feet about 3 feet away from him. He then stood up in dizziness from being stunned by me tackling him.

“Who the hell do you think you are?" he shouted at me in a touch tone, “You're interrupting my important business!"

“Important business? Important business?!" I asked him with my anger now peaking, “What the hell is so important about beating the shit out of your pokemon for losing a battle?" I was so angry at this son of a bitch that I could feel my blood boiling through my skin.

“Everything! He needs to learn that bad things end with bad consequences!" he shouted again now rolling up his sleeves.

“Sounds like you should take some of your own advice." I said to him in a furious tone. Before he could respond I charged at him full force and punched him right in the forehead sending him backwards 2 feet onto the cold hard concrete. He was completely knocked out. It may sound harsh but what would you have done? Try to talk to him and say hey stop just so you can get punched yourself? Realising the man was knocked out I quickly snatched the pokemon's pokeball off of his belt and turned my attention the unconscious pokemon.

The pokemon's blue fur was matted with blood and he had bruises all over its body and what appeared to be a dislocated left arm.

“Oh my god you poor thing!" I quickly said picking him up, “How could someone do this to you?" Now taking a glance back to where his 'trainer' was it appeared that he had gotten up and ran. Good I thought to myself, servers the son of a bitch right. Focusing on the task at hand now I now started a sprint towards the pokemon carrying the hurt pokemon bridal style to avoid hurting it as much as possible.

“Hang in there we're almost to the pokemon center!" I said out loud trying to comfort the pokemon even though I knew he was unconscious. Something in me wanted this pokemon to be ok, who wouldn't have that feeling? But to me it was like My life depended on his survival.

Arriving at the pokemon center I barged through the doors getting a surprised glance from the other trainers in the center. I ran up to the front desk where Nurse Joy gave me one of those in awe looks.

“Nurse Joy!" I quickly said out pausing for a breath, “This pokemon is hurt and needs help!"

“Oh my Arceus what happened?" she asked taking the pokemon from my hands and handing him to chancey who quickly took him into the back room.

“No time!" I told her, “Just please make sure he's ok!" She gave me a quick nod and ran into the back with Chancey.

Sticking my hands in my pockets I sighed letting a tear fall from my face, “Please be ok! Please be ok!" I whispered to myself before taking a seat at one of the couches that was unoccupied by any others. I put my hands on my knees and began to sob not knowing why. About 15 minutes later nurse joy walked out and sat next to me causing me to look at her and suddenly stop crying..

“Riolu is hurt pretty bad and we don't know the full extent of his injuries yet, so to help us find out would you please tell me what happened?" I nodded at her beginning to tell her every last detail of the event.

“Oh my Arceus!" She let out a look thinking about how cruel someone could be, “How could someone be so cruel?" She let down a tear after that sentence.

“I don't know Nurse Joy," I comforted her, “Quite frankly I don't care either all I care about is that Riolu's survival!"

“Right I'll make sure he gets everything he needs," she nodded, “And Ajax thank you for what you did it was very noble of you and I'll make sure to report this to officer Jenny as soon as Riolu is fixed!" She then started on her way to the back.

“Nurse will he be ok?" I asked.

“I don't know yet, but all we can do is hope!" She replied then entering the back leaving me to my thoughts once again.

What would've been the case if I got there sooner? Would he have better odds at survival? Ugh quit telling yourself that there's nothing more you could've done! said a voice in my head. I knew it was right but I kept getting this feeling like I could've done so much more and I didn't know why.

About 3 hours later Nurse Joy walked out with Riolu in her arms.

“We managed to heal most of his injuries, some of them however were far more severe so we are giving him some medication to take so the pain isn't as bad while he heals," Nurse Joy told me handing him to me, “I'm handing him off to you since he doesn't have a trainer!"

“Thank you Nurse Joy for everything really!" I thanked her.

“Don't mention it!" She replied, “It's what I do! Now then I checked you into the room down the hall it's 3c you can't miss it!"

After thanking her again I made my way into the room with Riolu in my arms and my bag on my shoulders. After setting my bag on the floor, I set down Riolu on the bed so he could rest.

“So you're a Riolu huh?" I said aloud taking out my pokedex I scanned Riolu and found out he was the emanation pokemon and that he knew the moves quick attack, force palm, counter, and focus blast! Wow he is a really cool pokemon! I don't know how fond he'll be of me or if he will wake up at all tomorrow but I know one thing is that I'll ask him if he would like to be my partner for my adventure.

Letting out a yawn I sighed thinking about how good the day was then how bad it turned then good again when I found out Riolu was going to be ok. Slowly I covered up Riolu trying not to wake him. After doing so I made my way to the couch and grabbed a blanket from my bag that I had sat next to the couch and unfolded it. After laying down on the couch I yawned once more before drifting off to sleep. What a Day….

(To be Continued)

Hello! It's me Shade here just wanting to thank those who commented to help me revise this story and get it turned into this which is where I wanted it to be I appreciate any and all feedback on the story. This is the first chapter out of many I plan to write for this story now that I have my plan sorted out. Thanks! -Shade