Disappearance

Vermilion Forest

The forest near Vermilion City, bordering Saffron City on its northernmost end. It is home to Pidgeys, Meowths, and many bug type Pokemon. As the forest between Saffron City and Vermilion City, two cities with official gyms, there would naturally be trainers flocking around the forest.

At this time, somewhere within the forest, a 12 year old young man with black medium and wavy hair, stood with his eyes following on a silhouette of a bird flying on low ground heading towards another figure.

It is a small, plump-bodied avian Pokemon. It is primarily brown with a cream-colored face, underside, and flight feathers. On top of its head is a short crest of three tufts. The center crest feathers are brown and the outer two tufts are cream-colored. Just under its crest are its narrow eyes which have white sclera and pupil along with its black irises.

Angular black marking extend from behind its eyes and continue down its cheeks. It has a short, stubby beak and feet with two toes in front and one in back. Both its beak and feet are a grayish-pink. It has a short, brown tail made of three feathers.

"Scyther, use Quick Attack!" Folker said with a commanding tone.

Scyther!

A figure of a bipedal, insectoid Pokemon could be seen. Its body is primarily green and has a thin, cream-colored section between its head, thorax, and abdomen. Its reptilian head has two narrow, triangular eyes and three blunt horns extending from its forehead. Its arms end in large, white scythe blades. Two pairs of cream-colored wings extend from its back. Its thighs have large, upward-pointing spikes. Its feet are tall and almost extends its thighs, rounded, and conical; each foot ends in three small, white claws on its front side.

Suddenly, the green mantis-like Pokemon, with fierce eyes, let out a sharp cry as it quickly ran towards a brown bird and let out a slashing motion. The attack hit straight on the bird's figure as it fell down and fainted with its eyes in spiraling motion.

'That's the last Pidgey for today' Folker muttered as he glanced at the panting Scyther.

"Great Job Scyther, let's head back to the city and get some rest" Folker said as he reached out his pocket and grabbed a ball divided by colors red and white, an ordinary Pokeball. A red light came out of the Pokeball and reached Scyther as it went to the Pokeball.

Folker smiled as he held Scyther's Pokeball. He put the Pokeball in his pocket and slowly walked away from the forest.

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Vermilion City

A prosperous port city, home port for many ships, situated near a sea inlet to the south. Trainers from various regions such as Johto, Sinnoh, Hoenn, and etc. stop at Vermilion City to start their Journey in the Kanto region. Winds from the blue sea blew through the port city to start a new day.

Sounds of ship horns combined with crowd sounds from all sorts of people roaming around the city could be heard.

At this time, on a seemingly unassuming concrete house with orange roof, a typical Vermilion city style house, sat a young man with medium and wavy hair on a wooden chair as he read a letter on the table.

"I can't believe that Mom just left me like that!", Folker muttered. His face expressed disbelief as he wondered why his Mom left him with a letter and some Pokemon egg.

The Pokemon egg was left behind by his mysterious father, Clydon, who suddenly disappeared around a year ago. His mother was worried but never showed it on her face for Folker's sake. Of course, Folker noticed it but he wouldn't point it out anyway. She also never really talked about the reason behind the sudden disappearance of his father.

Around a year after his father's sudden disappearance, now her mother disappeared too. At least this time, she left behind around 12,000 Pokedollars as well as some things for Folker.

'What's up with my parents and their disappearance tricks? Just what the hell are they up to?' Folker thought.

As far as he can remember, his parents were from Sinnoh and migrated to the Kanto region for some reason. He speculated that his mother went to look for his father in Sinnoh.

His mother told him to go on a journey and catch some new Pokemon, challenge some Gyms, and chase for his dreams. Being a kid, living in the Pokemon world, what dreams can he have aside from becoming a Pokemon Champion?

'Mom must have waited for me to get old enough to go on a journey before she left to find Dad' Folker mused.

He also read in the letter that he absolutely must not come anywhere near the Sinnoh region.

'Yep, I'm definitely gonna come to the Sinnoh region to mess around' Folker thought with a mischievous smirk on his face.

As for his parents, he wasn't really that worried about them. While they were quite irresponsible parents for leaving him behind, he knew that they were really strong trainers.

He remembered how his father defeated the Vermilion City Electric type Gym leader, Lt. Surge, just because his kid refused to believe how strong a trainer he was and fought toe to toe with one of Kanto region's Elite 4, Agatha. Who won between them, no one aside from them knew.

As for his mother, Aurellia, he never really saw her in a Pokemon battle but his father often told him that she's a really strong and terrifying Pokemon trainer.

He opened the egg incubator and grabbed the egg inside. He then held the egg with blue stripes and looked at it, wondering what Pokemon it would turn into.

'It's probably the offspring of one of Dad's pokemon from Sinnoh. Knowing Dad's pokemon, I wouldn't mind if it turned out to be any of them. Gotta be careful with it' Folker thought silently.

It's been around a year when this egg came to be and it still hasn't hatched.

Folker reached for his Pokeball in his pocket and released the Pokemon from inside.

'Scyther!'

The pokemon let out a sharp cry and looked at Folker with a serious expression, wondering what his trainer was up to.

Scyther is Folker's first Pokemon, given to him by his mother around a month after his father's sudden disappearance. She said she caught it somewhere in the National Park in Johto.

At first, Scyther was stubborn and refused to listen to Folker. But gradually, it slowly recognized Folker with his numerous attempts to befriend it and eventually gave in.

"You're all I have left for now. Let's go out there to beat some kids 'till they cry, catch some new Pokemon to add to our team, become the Pokemon Champion across all regions in the world, and crown myself the Pokemon Master! What say you?" Folker vocally expressed with a smile and burning passion in his eyes.

Scyther stared at Folker, looking interested as it smirked and let out a sharp cry, indicating agreement and excitement.

'Scyther!'

"Now that's more like it" Folker said with a smile.

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AUTHORS NOTE:

I edited Folker's age from 10 years old to 12 years old. 10 years old is just too young to start a journey. I know that 12 years old is young as well but at least it better than 10