Prologue
[Location: Viridian Forest]
[Date: January 3rd, 2006, 11:03 AM]
A little girl was lost in the middle of the woods somewhere in the Kanto Region. She had long blonde hair with two teardrop crystals on each side of her head. She wore a black hoodie with a white Pokéball design on the front, and a pair of jeans. She was about 5'5 in height, and wore black runners. Her eyes were a dark gray color.
This girl went by the name of Cynthia. She was a trainer just starting out on her first Pokemon journey. Truth be told, she wasn't from Kanto, but instead was from the Sinnoh Region. Her and her parents moved to Saffron City a couple of months ago. She had left Professor Oak's lab in Pallet Town on 2 days ago, the day when most trainers leave on their journeys.
However, she did not get her starter Pokémon there. She was given a Gible for her Birthday a few months ago. Her Grandparents have two Garchomp in their laboratory in Celestic Town in Sinnoh. They came to Kanto a few days before, and gave the Pokemon to her for her birthday. She figured that the Gible was the offspring of the two Garchomp
Cynthia was walking around hopelessly trying to find her way out of the forest. She had noticed a stick sticking out of the side of the trail, and thought "I have seen this stick before." It had taken her about 15 seconds to realize that she had been walking in one big circle for the last 2 hours. She thought she was about to cry at this. She fell to her knees with her face in her hands. "How do I plan on becoming a Pokémon Master if I can't even get out of a stupid Forest".
Cynthia decided to set up camp by a tree on the trail. She offloaded her backpack and let her inflatable tent inflate itself, and went to gather a few twigs and branches to start a fire. She got a box of matches from her backpack and blew on the forming coals, and cupped them, trying to keep the flame lit. Once the fire was going, she set a light cooking rack above the fire. She took out a package of pre-dried beans and shook the contents into a pot along with the leftover water from her water bottle. Lastly she set the pot on the stove.
As she was scooping the food into two separate bowls, she figured she would let her first and only Pokemon out of it's Pokeball. She had made enough food for the two of them. She reached inside her backpack and released a creature that was about two feet tall. It took a shark formation that the Pokedex entry said it was a land-shark Pokemon. It was a deep shade of blue, with a fin on the top of it's head.
"Gib-Gible!" it chirped. Cynthia set a dishful of beans at it's feet, and it smiled at her.
Throughout the night, she had had multiple dreams about her goals, and how they would come to be. She was standing in the biggest Pokémon Stadium in the world, she had won against a champion, she didn't know who it was but she was happy. She was waving her arms at the humongous crowd in the stadium and that was th... she awoke from the dream to see 4 Kakuna in her tent staring down at her. She saw the tent door torn and to inspect it. As she poked her head out of the hole, she realized she was sleeping under a tree infested with a Beedrill swarm. The sight gave Cynthia a jolt of fear. She climbed out of the tent, as the Beedrill looked down at her from the branches of the tree. Her fear had taken much more control of her brain than what was needed. Cynthia screamed and started running from the tree.
The Beedrill were beginning to gain ground on her. She was growing to be burnt out, and started decelerating. She eventually tripped over a rock and fell flat on her face. She tried to get back up but then was surrounded by the Beedrill swarm. She let out a death-curdling scream trying to promt somebody to help her out. The biggest Beedrill screamed its name before the whole swarm screamed. They rose their needles as the began to glow white. Cynthia covered her eyes trying to protect herself. They started flying toward her with their razor-sharp needles prepared to make an attack.
"Pikachu, use Thundershock!" Somebody yelled.
Cynthia opened her eyes to observe what was happening, after about a lifetime of 10 seconds the shock halted and the swarm of Beedrill flew away with a few of them with their wings on fire. She was still in a daze as the person that saved her walked up to her and held his hand out, offering to help her up. She accepted as he pulled her to her feet. The boy was about her age and stood about 3 inches taller than her. He wore a red hat with a white Pokéball design, red and white sneakers, blue jeans, a red open vest over a white tee-shirt. He had hair, black as a raven, and red-colored eyes, and finally he had a little yellow rodent perched up on his shoulder.
"Thank you." She exclaimed. At 10 years old, she couldn't help but blush at him.
"No problem, what is your name?" He asked,
"C-Cynthia." She studdered. She was making a complete fool of herself. "What about yours?"
He smirked "My name...is Red"
