Yo! My name is Jet, and this is the story of my journey to becoming one of the world's greatest pokemon trainers. Or so I think. I suppose I should start the story with some background information. I am a 15 year-old (practically 16) student finishing his sophomore year at Ecruteak High School. The end of the sophomore year is a very tedious time for those students who wish to pursue a career in pokemon because every year Professor Elm accepts 20 upcoming junior students from all over the Johto region as apprentices. These students get a free trainer card if the student doesn't already have one. A trainer card allows a person to legally own and train pokemon by battling them. Though most students already have a trainer card by then since they change the legal age to 15. I've yet to get mine. Along with the trainer card, these lucky students also get a pokedex to help Elm gather information on the various species of pokemon. To select these students, there is an exam that tests the students knowledge of various subjects on pokemon. The top 20 scorers on the exam get the apprenticeship. This apprenticeship lasts two years and is the equivalence to the junior and senior years of high school.
I live in an beautiful home with my older brother, Ivan, and my mother, Jill, located on Route 37 just south of Ecruteak City in the Johto region. My father's name is Rick. He studies pokemon for a living. What a cool career! I suppose you could call him a pokemon professor, but he's not a hot shot prof like Oak or Elm. He works for a company called the Battle Frontier. This company has been a great hit around the world after their first battle tower in the Hoenn region. Now every region has a least one battle tower. They've also created other buildings in which battles have different rules and conditions. The Frontier is so popular in Johto that they have their own TV channel and radio station which broadcast live battles straight from the Battle Frontier. Because of my father's job, he isn't home very often. He's out traveling the wide world of pokemon looking for special behaviors in pokemon and studying the concept of pokemon natures. He does try to visit home at least twice a month though. This story starts on the first Friday of May. Dad said he's coming to visit this weekend and he has a surprise for me. I simply can't wait to see what he has brought home for me today.