Chapter - 2 Growing Up

In the middle of the night, inside a hospital, a baby cry could be heard inside one of the rooms. Inside stood a doctor and a nurse, who was holding a baby and a woman and a man, who seems to be a couple.

???: Congrats sir, ma'am. It's a healthy boy and a beautiful one at that!

???: P-Please let me see him...

The nurse then passed the newborn baby to a young beautiful woman. She had long white hair and a pair of golden eyes.

The woman, who is his mother, took a closer inspection at him. Alongside with a man beside her, who also seemed to be his father.

Father: He is indeed a beautiful baby, don't you think so, honey?

The mother remained silent and focused on the baby on her arms. The baby boy has beautiful white-colored skin like the snow and his hair is colored onyx-black with golden color on the tip of it. If that was not beautiful enough part of him, then it would be his eyes, one to the left side has the color of blue-ocean, while the other was golden-yellow.

As a baby, he was already giving off a calm, yet noble aura around him. One could mistake him as a child born from a rich family.

Mother: What a strange yet beautiful child, you are. I feel like I'm staring into my soul when I'm looking at you.

Father: What should we name him?

Mother: Soul. Soul Winterflame. Welcome to the world, Soul.

Father: A little bit strange name, but hey! Who am I to judge my wife, haha…

Mother: Oh shut up and get out of here! I don't want to see you anymore today, I'm tired.

Father: B-But-

Mother: No but! Please, doctor, escort my idiot of a husband out of here.

The doctor nodded and dragged the man out of the room, followed by the nurse. The woman then let her eyes shut down and rest. After all, it was a painful experience and took a lot of her energy away from her. She did not want to experience it again.

The baby, who has the soul of a reincarnator now named Soul, couldn't see anything but darkness when he opened his eyes. He begins to freak a bit out, because, he thought, he was born blind.

Soul: 'What's going on? Why can't I see anything? Am I blind?'

<No host, you are not blind but was just born, so you can't see anything, yet.>

Soul was of course surprised by the sudden robotic voice coming out of nowhere. He then remembered what he wished for before his reincarnation, so he calmed down quickly and asked in his thought.

Soul: 'Are you the system God built?'

<Yes, I am called Pokemon Master Guide System, but host can, of course, give me a name, if the host wishes for it.>

Soul: 'Do you have a gender preference?'

<No, you can call me in both male and female names.>

Soul then thought for a while then said.

Soul: 'Then I call you Arc from now on, as for your gender, I just think of you as a genderless person.'

<Affirmative, does host wish to ask any question while in your baby form?>

Soul: 'Yes, please tell me the basic about this world, from what I could tell in the anime, manga, and games does not show everything this world has to offer. So I guess I need to know it better since It could help me in the long run, after all.'

Then the system, now names Arc begins to explain every basic information, Soul needed to know about this world.

The system started with the world structure, telling Soul that the time in this world is moving ten times slower than his old world because it's ten times bigger. The peoples living in this world including the Pokemon aged tens time slower than normal. An example would be that for 1 year in this world it would take 3650 days and 120 months to reach there.

That means Soul needs to wait 1200 months before he could begin his journey! He cursed himself and his luck for this, even though it could help him when he begins his journey, but not now when he was just born!

The next thing the system explained was organizations in his region, Kanto. Apparently, The Pokemon League is already going after an evil organization called Team Rocket, who are stealing Pokemons and doing some illegal stuff, leading some of the young trainers to die early.

Some Pokemons and their trainers in the league have already lost their lives, protecting others. Soul nodded in his mind taking this information calmly because he already expected this to happen.

Afterall there not much difference in the human dark nature in this nor his old world. Of course, people will die, but what can he do now? Nothing, just laying down and waiting till he becomes strong enough one day and stops them from killing more Peoples.

He gained more and more information about this world history and learned a few new things, he never has heard before.

Just like that 6 years have passed. Soul has now grown up to be a healthy boy with a feminine face. Nevertheless, he gained a lot of information for the past 6 years in his new life.

He also begins to train his body at the age of 3 and doing some basic stretch out, before running around the town while helping a few peoples on the way.

One could describe him as reliable person, though he sometimes work so hard, he often come black and fell asleep, as soon as he touched his bed. Only to be woken up by his hungry stomach

He also started practicing his power when he was 5, because according to the system, he needs a strong body to be able to control his powers better. So now once in a while, he would practice his power on himself and sometimes on his family Pokemons.

His father usually works in his office, on a computer desk with various documents and papers. Making him very busy and rarely come out, but he always there when his family needed him.

His mother is working as a Pokemon Caretaker and usually would take care of several Pokemons. Sometimes she took Soul with her so that he could familiarize more with her work and the Pokemon there.

His family Pokemons consist of Arcanine, Growlithe, and Pidgeotto.

He also helped around the house sometimes. Usually when both of his parents are busy. He would usually cook for them and they would always smiled and give him a thumb-up while saying 'thanks champ.', or 'Oh my! You're growing up so fast!' But never let him learn the art of knife.

So his routine is basically eating breakfast, morning training, taking care of the family Pokemons, lunch, afternoon training with his powers, studying, spending times with his family, dinner, watching Pokemon battle together, and finally rest.

Today would be a special day for Soul. Because today he would meet with Professor Oak. The reason for this was that his father and mother have to leave him for a while, because of their works. Leaving him alone with Professor Oak since they also are taking their Pokemons with them.

He stood up and doing his normal morning routine to lunch, after that Soul left with his father, while his mother and their Pokemons are helping her pack up.

Soul was a little bit nervous meeting Professor Oak. What if he somehow messed up? What would his parents think of him when they come back? Many thoughts were coming inside his head.

His dad, who saw that he was nervous when they were walking. He couldn't help but smiled and pat his head, surprising him a bit as both their eyes locked up at each other.

Father: Don't worry champ, the professor is quite nice and he was once a champion of the Kanto region. You will probably learn a lot from him, while You will probably learn a lot from him, while we're gone.

Soul nodded as he sighed in relief and went back to his usually normal self. One would think, he wasn't nervous at all before.

Soon enough they arrived at Professor Oak laboratory and knocked on the door as it was open up by an old man. This old man was none other than Professor Oak himself!

Oak: Ah, Fred! You're late! Would you like to come in for a nice cup of tea?

Father/Fred: No thanks, professor Oak. I'm just here to leave little Soul here and hoped that you could take care of him for a while, while we're gone.

Oak: It's not a problem at all, actually, I think he could play with the Pokemon in the garden, while I'm doing my researches.

Father/Fred: Thank you, professor. Soul listen to me. Please don't cause any trouble to the professor and behave yourself, okay?

Soul: Yes dad. It's nice to finally meet you, professor Oak, my name is Soul Winterflame, I hope that we can get along with each other.

Oak: Haha, nice to meet you too Soul. I hope that you will enjoy staying here with me for a while in the meantime.

Father/Fred: Well, It's time for me to go. Goodbye champ, hope you can get a girl when we've come back.

Soul: Dad! I'm only six years old!

Both Fred and Professor Oak laughed at this as Soul saw his dad was walking away and waved his left hand saying goodbye. After that, he was left alone with Professor, Oak who was smiling to him.

Oak: Well Soul, how about I show you to your room and give you a tour around the place?