"First, what is your name?"

Rufus walked towards the front door of Professor Oak's Pokemon lab, each step sounding heavy in his ears, feeling the beating of his own heart. There was no reason to be this nervous, he knew, but he was going to get his first Pokemon, and he was excited. Or at least as wound up as he ever got, which in terms of other people translated to "slightly fidgety." He'd been waiting years to start on his trainer's journey, and now that the time was finally here, he couldn't help but feel like this was a truly monumental moment.

He raised his hand and knocked, rocking back and forth on his feet slightly, waiting for an answer.

::As the boy stood on the roof of the set of stairs that went up to the door of the laboratory as he knocked the door opened a young girl with blue eyes and blonde hair wearing an aide uniform she was one of the many who helped the brilliant and wise professor with all of the research for he was the one that mostly got referrals for assistants who applied chose to work with him. She smiles and lets you in to the lab as she says, "Hello are you here as a beginner trainer? If so then welcome and come in!" As she said enthusiastically opening it wider for him to enter the inside of this great building.::

"Yes," Rufus said, stepping over the threshold, hoping he didn't do anything embarrassing when he met the Professor, like faint. The Professor was something of a living legend, even among trainers not remotely interested in the more academic side of Pokemon. To someone like Rufus? He was about to meet the incarnation of his own dreams.

"My name is Rufus," he said, not entirely sure how things were supposed to proceed. It was common knowledge that you went to Professor Oak for your first Pokemon, but everyone he had spoken to had been very vague about what was actually involved.