[h1][color=Lightblue]Charlie Cedar[/color][/h1]

Today was the day. Charlie was going to finally become a trainer, even if his mother didn't want him to, it was going to happen. He put on his headphones and walked out the door of the house. It was a brisk, overcast morning, the  gray clouds giving the sunshine a silver tint to it. All over the town, on all the shops, the Windows, hell, even bus stop signs had the poster about the event. He didn't understand how she thought he wouldn't notice. He walked I up the marble steps of the lab to only bump into something. He looked up and his eyes widened. There was a line... Out the door. He walked up to the front when a tall man in shades with a ComLink stopped him. Excuse me, you can't cut in line, these people have been waiting for hours. Charlie sighed, [color=Lightblue]"Ugh... Hawthorn, you [i]know[/i] me."[/color] The man took his shades off and was surprised. [color=f7976a]"Oh, oh. Um Mr. Cedar we didn't know you were coming."[/color] Alex scowled at the taller man. [color=Lightblue]"Yeah, well neither did I until about a month ago."[/color] Hawthorn let him go by and Alex saw that even the huge lab seemed to be full of people. It seemed like she invited everyone in the region but her own son.

Alex pushed through the crowd with angry grunts from the people he bumped into. He made his way to the front of the crowd where the professor stood wa img at the flashing cameras and lights. Beside her was her assistant, Layla, who was smiling as well. The press were attempting to ask her questions, but it was impossible to hear as it was drowned out by the rest of the people who were talking. To the side of her on the stage there stood huge crates, maybe 20 on each side of her. Some of them were open and he saw the gleaming colors of a Pokéball, and the sleek white and blue of a Pokédex. He then saw boxes behind her which were sealed shut like they were delivered just then. He noticed a couple other professors from different regions. He noticed Professor Bonsai from the Kosei Region [sub][@Heckno12][/sub], the same mess that he usually was, with papers falling out of his disorganized folders, and he wasn't surprised to see Professor Juniper, who was traveling to different regions to collect data on Pokémon.

He was still mad at the fact that out of all the random people here, he, the Professor's son wasn't actually told about it. He couldn't wait to get his starter and begin his journey. He then heard a deep voice through a microphone. [color=662d91]"Silence, silence! The Professor will now make her speech."[/color] Despite the mans call for silence, the room erupted with applause. He then heard a higher pitched voice which he recognized as his mother's. [color=92278f]"First of all, I would like to thank you all for coming to this event, and I would especially like to thank those who came from dustant regions. Over the past three months when the flyer was handed out, I had many questions about why I was holding this event and just giving these Pokémon away. Well now I'll reveal it. When I was a little girl till all the way till I was 20, I never had the pleasure to experience a Pokémon companion. I never had the chance to go on a journey, and I just want to make sure that postpone don't have that same, awful experience as me,"[/color] Alex's jaw dropped. [i]She is so fake! She was rich! She had no problem going on her journey when she was 10. She's never going to stop hearing from me about this one![/i] [color=92278f]So with out further ado, the doors to the sanctuary will now open. To a great today, and a better tomorrow!"[/color] The room was filled with applause as the doors opened and people rushed into the sanctuary. There was a big digital clock on top of the Sanctuary doors that read '60 Min'. He only had an but to find the Pokémon that he wanted. He followed along with the crowd towards the sanctuary.