Pokémon are real!?

I always thought Pokémon was made up, just another series of animated monsters in a kids show. I didn't know the large odd looking egg I found in my backyard would hatch into a Charmander! Then my favorite Pokémon appear! Rate M for my mouth.

A.N. This story is just to funnel out some ideas and may or may not be updated.

~Intro~

Hi! My name is Anna Vargas, 5 feet no inches tall, I have brown eyes and curly brown hair that touches my shoulders. I am a bit on the big size but I'm not over weight, BMI be damned. I'm just your average 18 year old odd ball living in Texas, and no I do not live on a farm or a ranch, just in a somewhat rural neighborhood dominated by trees. My life is pretty boring and normal so I will won't bore you with my childhood. What I am going to tell you about is my experience with Pokémon, both the animated monsters and my real life team.

Yes, Pokémon are real!

~Story~

It was just another day down in Texas, a hot and humid Saturday in June. So if the Air Conditioner wasn't working you were sweating a lake like I was.

"Agh." I remember groaning as I threw off the thin white sheet that was covering me during my sleep, or my attempt to sleep. Even with most of my hair in a pony tail, wearing purple shorts and a pink tank top, sweating a lake. Looking at my alarm clock that mocked me with the ungodly time of 4:21 in the morning!

"When is the AC goanna be fixed?" I asked my still darkened room, the sun wasn't even up yet and I was suffocating form the heat trapped the house, my door open to circulate the air did not help things.

Getting up was the last thing I wanted to do was get up, but I had to cool down somehow and get some sleep. So I made my way through the darken house, being able to move around in the dark being skill of mine. I made my way to the fridge, opening the door, flinching from the bright light and welcoming the cool air that hit me.

"Ahhh~." I enjoyed the cool air for a bit as I scanned the fridge; it was nearly empty since it was the day before me and my dad would go grocery shopping. All that was there was some bottled water and chicken breasts that was going to be lunch tomorrow for me and my dad.

So I just took a bottle of water and closed the door, before heading back to my sauna of a room. Breaking open the cap I drank the cool water or rather chugged it, finishing half of it in one go.

Turing on the light to my room showed me that my room was a mess. Some clothes, papers, and books on the floor, unmade queen sized bed, anime figurines on the near empty book shelves, a lot of anime posters tacked to the wall between glow in the dark stars and moons, a forgotten and warm salad rap on my night table with a sweating paper cup of melted ice sitting in a puddle of water.

Normally my room was clean... ish, my books where normally on the shelves and no leftover food in my room after the cat got a hold of my left over chocolate.

I just ignored the leftovers and set down my cool bottle of water on the night table next to my bed before went to lie back on my bed, leaving the sheets off and trying to go back to sleep, but it only made me bored not asleep.

"I need to sleep." I grumbled tossing and turning, trying to get conferrable but that got me no where fore I decided to play a game to pass the time. So getting up again I rummaged through a drawer that had all my games in it, which wasn't much as I only had a Nintendo Wii and a 2DS to play them with.

So grabbing the 2DS I turned it on and decided to play the game that I had gotten as a graduation present, Pokémon X.

Don't get me wrong, I like Pokémon and grew up watching the first 150 Pokémon battle it out, but it kept and lost my attention with the new seasons of Pokémon being the same plot just different Pokémon or characters filling the roles.

Pokémon X and Y had my attention, not because it was the latest of the Pokémon seasons but because they were brought back some of the first 150 Pokémon. I loved the nostalgia it brought back and the new evolutions of some of my favorite Pokémon.

The game started out like they all do, with the professor of the region, Prof. Sycamore, greeting you and telling you a bit about Pokémon as if you were completely new to it, boring. He asked if I was a boy or girl, which I like the option of having now, unlike the first games. I typed in my name and then started my Journey in the Kalos region.

Meeting my rival and friends in the next town and getting my starter Fennekin, who I nicknamed Kurama. It was a cute fire fox type Pokémon, the other two seemed cute to but I wasn't into frogs or water types and grass types would not be much use to me going through a forest against other grass types.

~Gotta' catch 'em all! Pokémon!~

Going through the routes to get Lumiose city and the Prof's lab, it was easy to see the game had French influences with the tower/gym looking like the Eiffel tower. I thought it would be the first gym but the roads were blocked. So I just went to the lab and met up with the other trainers before meeting the Prof.

Then something different from the cookie cutter Pokémon game was that we had to battle Prof. Sycamore. It warmed my heart to see the Kanto Starters but I almost didn't want to water gun Charmander with my Panpour but I made it.

After I defeated Professor Sycamore I was able to choose a Pokémon from the Kanto starters. This had to be the best thing ever to happen in Pokémon!

I could choose Bubasur, the grass type Pokémon that would evolve into a big flower dinosaur.

Or Squartal, the water type Pokémon that could be a giant turtle with CANNONS in it's shell.

Or Charmander, the fire type Pokémon that would evolve into a bad ass fire/flying type dragon, but it's yet to yet the dragon typing

Torn between desire and need, I already had two fire types, Kurama and a Pansear, on my team but I really wanted Charmander. I also already had a water type, Panpour, I didn't really need a grass type since I caught Pansage. I took time to think this threw, not knowing I would be able to sill get the other two Kanto starters by trade.

So throwing need to the wind I chose Charmander to lead my party.

My team was complete with Kurama, my Fennekin, my new Charmander, a Pikachu I named Thor, as well as a Panpor, Pansage, and Pansear.

~Gotta' catch 'em all! Pokémon!~

I don't know when I fell asleep playing the game but a loud noise outside my window startled me from my sleep.

'What was that?!' I thought, fear keeping me in an upright position on my bed, the light was still on and was casting a shadow in my window. I didn't move as it could alert whoever, or whatever was outside I was there and awake. It was just barely dawn, so there was very little light outside, very few creatures were awake at night. I knew there were more normal, nocturnal animals but the ones that came to my mind where the Chupacabra, a lady had goats and chickens just down the road, and a 9 foot tall Bigfoot.

This is all I can think of after watching a Hutting Bigfoot marathon on tv the night before.

I nearly screamed at there was aloud roar, terrified and paranoid it was a Bigfoot in the backyard, possibly just outside my window since it sounded so close. I slowly moved away from the possible entrance for the hairy beast and stayed quiet and left my light on, any movement could get its attention. I jumped out of my skin as I heard something heavy land on the roof of the house, just above me, and it sounded really heavy.

My terror lasted for a few more minutes as it had become quiet, I shook in fear before I could get up. I left my room quietly and looked to see if my dad was still asleep, he was, but I peeked out a window in a dark room, to see if anything was still moving outside.

I saw the usual vegetation, the pond and large mound of sand in the back yard. It seemed like nothing was out there but I knew it wasn't my imagination that made those sounds.

I gathered my courage and opened the back door carefully, the sound of nosily bugs reached my ears and the humidity hit my hair, making it even frizzier then before.

Brushing it out of my way I looked around at the porch, my dad's every day car, a white ford mustang we dubbed, The Old Man, seemed to be fine and his weekend ride, a Harley called Little Red, was still where they were yesterday.

Not making a sound I listen for anything out of place, but there noting but the wind and birds chirping. So getting braver I opened the door more and stepped out...

There was nothing odd outside so I bravely walked out the door, closing it behind me but not locking it, just in case. Bear foot I walked on to the browning grass looking for any odd or big foot prints. I saw noting on the ground and walked further away from home to look up at the roof. It looked normal too, well as normal as roofers could get it after my dad's DIY attempt at fixing it, the black shingles looking in place.

Turing around I checked the pond, the murky water made it hard to see anything but the bank around it seemed fine. Then I turned to the sand mound, we had when my dad got someone to make the pound deeper.

The mound was about 8 feet tall and noting by sand as it had been dug recently. I carefully walked around it looking for something, I wish I hadn't, because I found a big foot print right in the sand.

I looked around in fear before taking a second look at the giant footprint, it didn't look like a Bigfoot print. The print looked more like a lizards, a giant lizards foot print.

~Gotta' catch 'em all! Pokémon!~

I had told my dad about what I found but he thought it was a joke and left for work, leaving me alone. Frustrated I tried to find a camera, only to find it had no batteries. There was a store not far from home but I was scared of whatever could be out there from this morning.

With not much else to do I started up my Pokémon game again until I fell asleep.

~Gotta' catch 'em all! Pokémon!~

"Yes! Boo-ya!" I yelled happily at my 2DS as I had just beaten it for the first time. It took me about a week but I finally defeated the Kalos Elite 4 and it's Champaign.

I glowed in my victory, mentally thanking my Pokémon team for such a good job. My Charmander, now Charzard was the last of my team. Thanks to him Mega evolving into Mega Charzard, he was the black and blue badass that turned the Champion's Pokémon black and blue.

Calming down as the credits rolled on the screens, I set it down and went to grab a snack and drink from the kitchen.

It was early in the morning and my dad took off to work early this Saturday for extra pay. So I was alone in the house and after finishing the Pokémon game... board with nothing to do but fill up the pokédex.

Taking out a can of soda and baby carrots I headed back to my room when I saw something out of the corner of my eye, a small orange flame in the backyard.

While it wasn't unusual for people to burn things like lawn clippings and chopped wood outside in their yards it wasn't usually so early in the morning, and not on top of the sand pile we had in the back.

Confused, worried, and annoyed thinking my dad had started the fire there, thinking it wouldn't spread there by itself.

"That dumb ass." I muttered angrily as I got my shoes on this time, going out to put out the flame to prevent a fire from breaking out. The thought of what happened last week had faded from my minds as a fantasy as I grabbed the shovel from the shed on the way, going to put it out with the sand. I carefully climbed the steep sand pile, not even thinking about how my out of shape father had gotten up there.

Near the top I noticed the sand seemed to dip in the middle, and as I got up I froze as I looked into the dip in the sand pile. There was a large imprint of something big in the sand and what looked to be pieces of glass only they weren't. Looking past them was an orange oval, about the size of my head, laying there in the middle of a small fire that I had seen from the window.

"What is that?" I asked confused as I used the shovel to gently prod the egg. It felt... solid, like a chicken egg. I tapped it again only this time it wiggled on its own afterwards. Startled, I reeled back almost falling off the sand pile.

"What the hell?! Is- is that thing... Alive?!" I asked out loud looking around to anything that told me I was imagining this or it was a joke.

Then I started hearing a crack coming from the orange egg, which got me curious as to what it was. I watched it glow white, entrancing me to look, and it seemed to take on a filmier form before me. My heart raced with excitement as the light faded and there was a small flame and an orange creature that looked like a cartoonish dinosaur.

'Is that... a...?'

I couldn't breathe as my brown eyes met large dark reptilian eyes.

'No. It can't be.'

It looked to be about a foot tall, maybe a foot and a half with its long tail which had a small flame at the end of its tail that didn't seem to hurt it. Two little fangs protruded from its short snout and a cute cream colored tummy.

"Char?"

The fire lizard looked at me in curiosity and... longing?

"H-hello." I greeted it dumbly. Surly it couldn't be what I thought it was?

"Charmander." It said, almost conferring what I thought it was, now... was it real?

Bending down to get a closer look, I offered it my hand to it slowly, it seemed to smile at me and walk towards me.

"Char! Char!" it cried happy and cuddled up to my legs. It was so adorable and warm. I could feel the heat coming from its body and feel its soft lizard like skin on my own. It felt real so far until I looked at the flame on its tail.

Looking back, it was a really stupid idea but it was to know if I was dreaming or not.

"AAAHHH~! HOLY FUCKTARDS THAT HURTS!" I yelled, having put my hand in the Charmander's tail flame. The fire was real, so I guess that meant the Charmander looking at me in horror was real.

"Oww~ A water Pokémon would be great right now, or a burn heal." I muttered, cradling my injured hand.

"Char?"

I looked at the orange lizard that looked terrified. I gave it a small smile to try to clam it down, it would not be good to have an adorable living flame thrower wondering around.

"Hey little fella, its okay. I was my stupid fault for trying to touch your tail." I tried to assure it and it looked uncertain as it back away from me. I frowned as it retreated so I decided to give it some space for now.

I carefully climbed down the sand pile being mindful of my sting burning hand and went to the pond, carefully dipping in my injured appendage in the cool water.

"Ahh~ much better." I sighed in relief the water provided my burn before taking it out, not wanting to noodle in a catfish or whatever else was in the pond.

"I better get back inside and get that Charmander something to eat before it wanders off." I planed, glancing up at the sand pile just in time to see the Charmander try to get down only for the unstable sand to crumble under even his light weight.

"Char, char. Charmander!" It cried out in fear as I saw it roll down the sand pile, heading for the deep end of pond below.

"CHARMANDER!" I called out it's name worriedly as I sprigged over into the fire Pokémon's path, my upper arm being burned by its tail before I wrapped my arms around it, stopping it from getting any closer to the body of water.

I ended up pitting my tongue as I was about to cry out in pain from the flame but tensed around the saved Pokémon.

"Char! Char, char, Chamander, Char!" I heard it say worriedly, but I smiled at it weakly.

"It's okay little fella, How about we get something for ya inside? It's dangerous for you to be out here by yourself." I told it and it seemed to like the idea as it smiled at me, it's eyes wide in happiness.

"Char Char!"

I giggled at how cute it was and got up off the ground, carrying my new Pokémon inside.

A.N. So how was that? Feel free to tell me what yall think. I know it's not perfect but this is a more of just for fun story. Changed the age of the OC a bit for some things.