Note: This story shall take place in the Hoenn Region, and MAYBE into the previous regions. I do not know much about anything beyond the third generation, which is Hoenn (which is my favorite version). I may use Pokemon from the newest generation, but I must say, again, that I don't know much about it and will probably only use Pokemon from the third and older. And no, I do NOT watch the show. I stopped after the second generation, but I've played the third generation on the GBA.

Other then that, then I hope you enjoy reading this chapter of mine.

Chapter One

The Boy and the Strange Girl

Somewhere, in a unmarked town, Northeast of Fallarbor Town, where the whole lands are covered with snow and the town is surrounded by mountains…

"GOT YA!"

Someone threw a Pokeball through the snow covered bushes, right behind a Lotad running away. The ball flew about a foot about the little Pokemon, hitting a tree and bouncing of it, hitting another tree, then another, then another. The Lotad stopped and watched the ball somehow bounce all around, it's head turning and following it until a boy's face popped out from a near by bush."Are ya ca-"

The Pokeball slammed right into the middle of the boy's face, then slowly dropped to the ground, leaving a large bruise in the shape of a perfect circle on his face. Dazed, the boy slowly fell to the ground, feeling like the world was spinning.

The Lotad nearly died from laughter, turning around and jumping into the tall grass, away from the boy.

"HEEEEEEEEEEY! ELRIC!"

Another boy came through the bushes, a bit older then the first one. He stopped when he saw the first boy dazed on the snow covered ground with his thrown Pokeball a few inches from his face.

"… You got to be shitting me…."

About ten minutes later, there was a roar of laughter as the older boy held his stomach from the cramps he was getting from his laughter.

"You should have seen yourself! Your butt was even in the air while you were out! It was exactly what would happen in a show!"

The younger boy, Elric, frowned, the bruise on his face as clear as day. Thankfully, his nose wasn't broken, but did bleed a little and had just stopped.

"Ahh… shaddup!"

Elric was a 16 year old teen, trying to catch his first Pokemon… again. He wore warm clothing, since it was snowing all the time where he lived. He had on a pure black long sleeved shirt that was red at the shoulders and around the collar of the shirt, going down the sleeves. His jeans were also black, with more red going down the seams on the side of them, wearing black and red boots for walking in (please, no reference to that song. xp ). On his hands were, not surprisingly, black gloves with the inside of his palms and fingers red. On his head he wore a black bandana that had a Pokeball symbol on it. While the bandana hid what his hair looked like and hung down over where his ears would be, his eyes were the one thing which attracted people's attention… his right eye was a ruby red, looking exactly like a ruby, while his left eye was a sapphire blue, looking exactly like a sapphire. His skin was very tanned from the sun always reflecting off of the snow.

"I mean, if you don't get serious soon, every person in our town will have a Pokemon but you! Hell, even preschoolers have at least one Pokemon on them at all times!"

Elric gave a look at the other teen.

"Catching Pokemon doesn't come as easy to some of us as it does you, Rex!"

Rex was Elric's friend, ever since they were in grade school. He would protect Elric from the bullies that would try to beat him up, since he had trained with his black belt father since he was barely able to walk. His clothing was much like Elric's, but had different patterns. Where there was red on Elric's clothing, there were swirls of blue on Rex's, like the wind and water swirling down his arms. The main thing he had different was that he had nothing on his head, letting his long black hair down, which reached to his neck. He was also tanned, not as much as Elric, but enough so that it complimented his soft brown eyes. Elric had always envied Rex because he was so handsome and many of the women in town wanted him as their boyfriend, but then again he had always protected him, so he figured that this was his own reward through some sort of karma. That, or the girls just really liked this 18 year old guy.

"Hey! I never said it was easy for me! Trust me, I have trouble with plenty of Pokemon I try to catch, more the half of them I fail at!"

Elric gave him a look, crossing his arms.

"Then what about that Growlithe you caught the other day with a single Pokeball, without even weakening it?"

"Ummm… luck?"

Now it was Elric's turn to laugh, shaking his head. Rex had always been like this, nice to everyone, while supportive, even to a hopeless case like him. Rex began to laugh with him, sitting next to him. Rex has about six inches on Elric, who was 5'6 tall, short compared to everyone else in the town. Rex patted Elric's back, trying to act cool.

"Don't worry, man, I'm sure that we'll find a Pokemon that you can catch for yourself soon! Then you can get your Trainer License like I do and become one of the very few Hoenn Champions! "

"Yeah right. Me, a Champion… the thought of it would even make the preschoolers laugh."

Rex grumbled for a moment, thinking.

"Listen, I know what I am talking about here, and I know you would become one of the world's best trainer's."

"How would you know?"

"I just have that gut feeling about you."

"That's probably just the poke food some of your friends dared you to eat for a hundred bucks."

They both began to laugh again now, slowly at first, then harder, Rex slapping his knee and Elric with a tear coming out of his eye. He wiped it away as Rex pointed to the darkening sky, getting later and later in the day.

"You see that shining star, right there?"

Elric looked at his finger, slowly following it up into the sky, seeing one of the few stars that is beginning to shine. It was, by far, the brightest one.

"That's your star, right there! I always see that star and I think 'Wow, that must be a great hero who cared for his Pokemon , enjoying his afterlife'. That will be you one day, Elric, you'll see!"

Elric stared at the star with Rex, putting his arm down now that he knew where it was. He began to think about what Rex said… a hero… a hero who cared for his Pokemon… was it actually possible to be rewarded like that if you are a hero and you chare your glory with your Pokemon? Well, it does make sense, since your Pokemon would do all the fighting. It would take as much effort for both the trainer and Pokemon to win a battle, that much he knew.

"You might be right about that star being a hero who loved his Pokemon… but-"

"Don't but me!"

He wrapped his arm around Elric's head, putting him in a joking headlock.

"You may not get the best grades in the class, but I've seen you in the practice battles you have at your Academy! You know all the weaknesses of every type, know how a Pokemon feels toward you, and you know what moves can effect your Pokemon's status! In battle, you are one of the best battlers I've ever seen, and those are with borrowed Pokemon from the Academy!"

Elric laughed a bit again, getting out of the headlock, looking back up to the sky and to the star. It was true, he DID know almost everything about Pokemon during battle, like how a Pokemon like Aggron can use Electric attacks like Shock Wave, and how Yawn can be used against the foe if the user's Pokemon knew Snore. He even knew how a Seviper moved when it was about to use its signature attack, Poison Tail.

Rex gave a sigh, standing up, patting the snow off of his butt.

"Well, we should get home before the weather turns for the worst. We all know how unpredictable the weather is here, and that play you're in is tomorrow. And hey, maybe we can find a Pokemon for you tomorrow! One which you can catch!"

"Yeah… like a Magikarp…"

Rex gave another laugh as Elric stood up next to him, stretching and making sure his bandana was still on his head.

"Well, if you do, then that's good! We can make it evolve and then you will have a Gyarados! We all know how strong they are!"

Elric gave a start. He hadn't thought of that…

"That's a good idea, Rex! It's a dragon type, so it's naturally powerful, and it's really easy to evolve a Magikarp, we would only need to till level 20!"

Now Rex gave a start, blinking.

"Damn, dude… how do you remember stuff like that?"

"Oh… eheh…"

Elric placed his hands in his jean pockets, smiling a bit. He gave one more glance at the star Rex had pointed at… and froze.

"Umm… hey…. Rex….?"

Rex turned to him.

"Yeah, Elric?"

"Does… does that star look like it's getting… bigger?"

Rex tilted his head, looking at the star.

"Yeah… you know what… it does look like it's getting bigger…"

Elric just had to give a grin.

"Bet you haven't heard that in a while…"

"Oh ho ho! What's this? Is little Elric dissing me?"

Rex laughed, but the smile from Elric's face was gone.

"Seriously, though… does it look like it's getting bigger?"

They both looked back up at the star.

"Noooo… not bigger…. But… shit! Get down, Elric!"

Rex tackled Elric to the ground, putting his body over his. A large ball of light suddenly flew over their heads, causing the trees to shake violently in the area. There was a sudden crash near them, making it feel like the whole world shook from it. Many types of Pokemon began to rush away from the crash site, their cries echoing in the whole area. After a minute, Rex let Elric's head up, both of them looking around, Elric looking toward the crash site. After they stood up, Elric began to rush toward where the light fell.

"H-hey! Elric! Don't go that way! It's dangerous that…."

And he was gone out of site.

"… way… damn it, Elric… always going off to make sure the Pokemon are alright…"

He ran a hand trough his black hair, thinking. In a moment, he began to run after Elric, shivering from it getting colder as night fell…

Elric continued to run, glad that his boots were made perfectly for the snow on the ground. He rushed and ran, jumping over a few Surskits to avoid running into them. He then finally reach what looked like a cliff, but looking down revealed that it was actually a crater, a giant crater that was over a hundred feet wide and long. Down inside the crater was something that made his eyes grow to the size of saucers.

"Is that… a girl!"

In the exact center was a girl, maybe older then he was. But what was shocking to him, other then her being in the center of the crater, was what she was wearing… she wore clothing that were almost skin tight, the red clothing on her chest leaving her shoulders and sides bare while covering her slightly large chest, going up her neck and doing down to wrap around her crouch area, she wore a mini skirt to hide this area though. She had red arm sleeves on, going up to her shoulders, spike coming out at the top of them. She also had red leggings on which stopped six inches from her waist, a strip was there to connect it with her clothing on her chest so they wouldn't fall down. Strangely, she had very thick red armor on her legs, too, a blue bullet shape in the middle of the front of them. On her hips where yellow disks going out to the sides. On her head was a sort of helmet, while at the sides where four very long pony tails, two on her left and right sides of her helmet. The two pony tails on top on both sides were red while the bottom two were blue. In the center of the helmet was a large blue part of the helmet itself. The thing which slightly stuck out through all of that was that she had a large, purple gem in the shape of a large diamond that hung around her neck, looking like it was fused into the fabric in her chest clothing. Her eyes were a very dark red while her hair, of the two wide strands coming down from the sides of her face, was black. What was showing of her skin shown that she was also tanned, but not by much, only a small one.

Rex continued to run, panting a little as he tripped slightly over a root.

"Damn… freaking… kid… whew!"

He had to stop to catch his breath.

"I was probably the most fit student in the academy… oh boy…. But whenever it comes to a Pokemon's safety… that kid is like a god, never running out of energy… huh?"

He looked up, hearing something… and now seeing it nearly made him wet himself as it flew over him… to where Elric ran toward.

"Is that… Rayquaza!"

End of Chapter One…