A minute later, teacher Jordan came back into the office.
“I know it’s a lot to take in, your father thought a lot if it was okay to let you know about his family, he wasn’t sure it was something you needed to know about, but the fact is you have the Santos name and that is not something to hide, thanks to your father doing his best to clear his family name so that you can stand proudly as a pokemon trainer”.
Yes, I’m proud of my parents, I might not like the family history but there is no reason to hesitate, I will make my parents proud of me and the Santos name will be remembered for having some of the best pokemon trainers in the world and not because of the mistakes made by previous generations.
“Also, you will be safe here in the academy, your family might have a lot of enemies, but we will make sure you leave this place with enough strength to protect yourself.”
I didn’t even think about that, someone coming after me because of who my parents are, or for whatever crimes my family have committed.
“That’s the reason I’m making it hard for you to take it easy with your classmates, as you might have noticed being a legacy puts a target in your back and the more special treatment it looks like you are receiving, the more pressure you will receive from your peers, so prove yourself and beat them all”.
I suspected something like this, but I’m going to have a really hard time making friends here, no need to think too much about it though, I was going to be number one anyway.
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“Lastly, there is someone who would like to see you, come with me”.
We left the office and walked through the corridors of the building until reaching the water area, apparently there are arena stages for every element. The room we walked into looked like some kind of lake with a small ground area on each side and on the center, small platforms distributed through the water for land pokemon to stand in.
“He likes this place the most”.
Teacher Jordan grabbed a pokeball from his belt, letting the pokemon inside come out into the arena. I was surprised by the huge silhouette suddenly appearing in front of me, a crocodile with powerful jaws and intimidating sharp fangs, it was Feraligatr, but one I’ve met before.
“Igor! It’s been so long since I last saw you”, I said as I hugged the enormous creature, Igor is my dad’s starter pokemon and one of his strongest team members, I barely reach his waist, for a Feraligatr, Igor is on the bigger side being almost twice my height.
“Gator!”, he says while patting my head.
Looking at Igor I remember how we used to play together when my father came back to the village after weeks of being outside for work. He was there when my dad taught me how to swim, I have a lot of fun memories with Igor in them.
“Why is Igor here?”
“Igor was severely injured before your father left on the expedition, so he decided to leave him here until he comes back, Igor is a great helper for the academy”.
“But he is one of his strongest, how can my dad deal with his enemies without him?”
“Igor might be one of his strongest, but your father has raised a lot of strong pokemon to battle alongside him, no need to worry. There are some others here in the academy”, he smiles, “but you haven’t met them before, so I want to surprise them when they see a younger version of Javier”.
“That will be fun”, meeting my dad’s pokemon seems like a good way to feel closer to him.
“By the way, I think I know the answer but did you ask for a Totodile egg?”
“Of course, I wouldn’t have any other pokemon as my starter”.
“I knew it, well Igor here has been quite busy helping produce an egg for you”, teacher Jordan laughs while Igor looks somewhat embarrassed when I look at him, “so your starter will be his kid, make sure to take good care of it”.
“Ga, Gator”, Igor looks pleased and I notice a smile on his face.
I look at teacher Jordan expectantly, he is going to give me the egg now, right?
He notices the look on my face, “We can’t show so much favoritism, you will have to wait until Wednesday for your starter like everybody else”.