Saving Kalos (Y)
Summary: After just moving to Kalos from Pallet Town and setting in, Serena and Eevee go out to meet the neighborhood kids and ends up with another Pokémon and starting her very own journey. Join Seré, Eevee and her new starter as she travels with her four new friends, makes new friends both human and Pokémon, saves Kalos from Team Flare and falls for Calem, her next door neighbor and rival.
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Disclaimer: I do NOT own anything related to Pokémon. I DO own any and all of my OCs that will probably show up eventually though!
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A/N: So I decided to put this back up after taking it down a year or so ago. I haven't made to many changes and I've kept the original (for the most part) A/N notes as well. AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE FICS WHERE THE CHARACTERS ARE OVER POWERED, THEN DON'T READ!
Yay! A Pokémon Y fanfic! I just wanted to say that Serena will have the pale skin and light blue eyes, but she have brown hair instead of the blonde hair and she won't have a hat, instead she'll have a ribbon (Please refer to the style with the light pink ribbon she wears in Pokémon XY episode 2 when Serena is watching Ash on the breaking new on the TV). But she might also have different kinds of hair accessories/other accessories as well. Her outfit will be changed a little too and some other things/people/styles might be changed up/switched around/different too!
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~Dream Sequence~/~Flashback~
'Thinking'
"Talking"
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Chapter One – PokéPals!
~Dream Sequence~
I was in an underground area in front of a large machine that seemed to have a cocoon of a Pokémon on it. I stepped towards the machine but froze when I heard a low growl. I looked up at the machine and took a couple steps back, feeling fear and awe as the cocoon began to shake and glow. It glowed brighter and brighter until all I could see was white a second later a loud unfamiliar cry from a Pokémon sounded.
~End Dream Sequence~
I bolted upright as I let out a yelp, starting my mom's Fletchling, who I knew was just about to Tackle me awake, and my Shiny Eevee, who I nicknamed Yosei, who had been sleeping on one of my pillows.
"What a strange dream. It's been the same dream since a week ago." I said out loud. I shook my head and decided not to ponder on it right now. I looked at Yosei and Fletchling and gave them an apologetic smile. "Sorry about that, and good morning you two!"
My name is Serena Sterling, Seré for short! I'm 16 years old, about 5' 7" and I have pale skin, pale sky blue eyes and brown hair. My mère, Grace Sterling, who is a famous Rhyhorn racer, and I just moved here yesterday to the Kalos region, Vaniville Town to be accurate. We used to live in Pallet Town in the Kanto region but after my père's tragic death we decided to move.
I hoped out of bed and placed my Pikachu Nintendo 3DS XL that I fell asleep playing with late in the night, on my nightstand. I then walked over to my mirror and brushed my messy long hair and tied my hair into a high ponytail with a black ribbon that had a heart shaped ruby on top of the middle of the bow, leaving some hair out to frame both sides of my face which I clipped both side back with a heart shaped ruby hair clip each. Then I changed out of my pink pajamas and into a black collared black sleeveless dress that had a high waist red on the skirt, black leggings, red socks and black lace up knee high boots. I grabbed my red tote bag and placed the strap on my right shoulder and then slipped my black sunglasses on top of my head. I looked in the mirror and gave myself a pleased smiled. I looked great!
A glint of light caught my eye as I went to turn around. It was my heart shaped silver locket. I lowered my head slightly and opened it. Inside were two pictures. One was of mére and père when they had paused in their slow dance to turn their heads and look at me laughing as I grinned widely and had spun around holding Yosei above my head when I was 10 years old and the second was of my dad and I standing next to each other with birthday party hats on and grinning at the camera and holding our hands in a peace sign at my 15th birthday party a year and two months ago. My père, Justice Sterling, was a Pokémon Ranger. Mère and I knew it was a dangerous job but we never knew we would lose him to it. It had only been three days after my birthday that père died on the job, saving some people and Pokémon from a landslide. But he had gotten caught up in it and fell from the cliff to his death.
I blinked my eyes to keep the tears from falling and tucked the locket under my shirt. After my père died I had changed. I used to be so happy, always laughing and a burst of energy that wasn't afraid to show any emotion. Now I'm the cool, calm, collected, silent type with what people say is a regal air around me. I still show emotion, just not as much as I used to. But I'm not at all completely emotionless, mind you.
I picked up Yosei and placed her on my left shoulder as Fletchling settled on my right and headed downstairs. Mère was at the stove in the small kitchen and had just placed a couple strips of bacon on a plate that had scrambled eggs and two pieces of toast on it. She turned around when she heard us and smiled.
"Good morning, Serena!" She said as Fletchling flew over and settled on mère's right shoulder and handed me the plate when I walked closer. "Did you sleep well? Moving is sure tiring, isn't it?"
"Morning mère. I slept fine." I said moving over to sit on the couch. I watched the movie my mère had on as I ate.
I quickly finished my breakfast and got up, placing the plate in the sink. Mère turned towards me and smiled.
"Well, now that you've eaten, I think it's time you go out and meet the neighbors." Mère said. "There are a few kids here around your age. Maybe you'll make some new friends. Then later we'll go visit your uncle Augustine Sycamore. He's the professor here, did you know?"
"Yeah, maybe, I will. And yes, how could I forget about uncle Sycamore?" I said nonchalantly as I stepped towards the front. "See you later, mère."
"Have a good day, sweetie!" I heard my mère call as I walked outside.
I closed the door and looked up to see a boy maybe a year older than me, about 17, and a girl about two years younger than me, about 14.
The boy was tall-about 5' 12", had a peachy complexion, dark green eyes, a dark red hat with white sunglasses perched on the bill sat on top of his hair that was a midnight blue that was nearly black and fell down to his chin, wearing a blue turtle neck jacket with white stripes on the front, sleeves and bottom hem, regular blue denim jeans, and black combat boots with blue laces and a black messenger bag with blue decals.
The girl was short-about 5'2", had a slightly dark skin tone, pale mint green eyes and long brown hair-a few shades lighter than my own hair-which she had styled in pigtails. She wore a pink t-shirt decorated by three large black bows on the front and a pair of denim shorts with black frills at the ends. She had a matching pink wristband with a black frill. She had a pink Holo Caster clipped to her white and pink messenger bag with a black bow that matched her shirt across her shoulders and on her feet she wore pink strappy sandal-like flats with a small heel.
The boy smiled calmly and kindly as the girl grinned energetically.
"Welcome to Vaniville town. Name's Reinheart, Calem Reinheart. I live right next door." The boy said jerking his thumb to the right where another house connected to mine.
"And I'm Shauna Wilder! It's so great to meet you!" The girl said bouncing in place.
"Nice to meet you too." I said giving a cool smile/smirk. "My name is Serena Sterling and this is Yosei, my Eevee."
"Pretty name." I heard Calem murmur to himself.
I wasn't sure if he was talking about me or Yosei, so I stayed silent.
"That's a SHINY Eevee!" Shauna yelled in awe and amazement.
"That's right." I said, stroking Yosei's fur lovingly.
"THAT'S SO COOL!" She yelled excitedly. "Oh, yeah! Guess what?!" I looked at Shauna who looked like she was about to burst with even more excitement.
"What?" I asked.
"We've come to get you!" She exclaimed.
I blinked in surprise and I must have looked slightly uneasy because Calem stepped forward disarmingly and spoke, "Professor Sycamore lives here in the Kalos region." He started, even though I already knew that. However I wasn't about to tell them the Prof. was my uncle just yet. "He's given a task to five kids, including the three of us. But…I'm surprised the Professor knows who you are since you did just move here to the Kalos region, after all."
I just gave a secretive smile and said in an equally secretive tone, "Who knows?"
Though I did wonder in slight annoyance just what my uncle was planning. I saw Calem and Shauna exchange a slight glance.
"Well, I'm going to go on ahead to the meeting place!" Shauna bounced. "Oh! You know what?!"
"What?" I humored her.
"We're to get…OUR FIRST POKÉMON!" She yelled and then looked thoughtful. "Well, you'll be getting your second one, I guess. Anyways, I'm going! See you there!"
Shauna ran off, leaving Calem and I to follow at a slower pace.
"She's very…" I trailed off trying to think of a word to describe her.
"Hyper, energetic, excitable…maybe a little crazy?" Calem offered looking amused.
"Yeah…" I said.
"That's Shauna for ya. She's 14 years old and the youngest of us teenagers in Vaniville Town, unless… How old are you?"
I raised an eyebrow at him and frowned slightly, "Don't you know it's rude to ask a lady's age? Even more so without informing your own."
Calem at least had the decency to look sheepish and apologetic, "You're right, I'm sorry. If it helps any, I'm 17 years old."
We walked up to a gate which Calem pushed open and held the door for me. I nodded in thanks. He closed the gate door and quickly caught up with me.
"16." I muttered.
"Huh? You're 16?" Calem asked.
"Yup."
"So then you're like the middle kid of us Vaniville teens." Calem mused. "Tierno is the oldest at 18, I'm next at 17, then there's you at 16, Trevor is 15 and Shauna's the youngest at 14."
"Greaaaat, just what I wanted to be. A middle child." I said sarcastically.
Calem laughed, "Well, at least we're not all actually related." He said.
"True, I guess." I said.
'Although… I always wanted a sibling…' I thought.
"Ah! Aquacorde Town is just up ahead. There's a gathering place close to the southern entrance that all five of us were to meet up at." Calem said breaking me out of my thoughts.
Sure enough as soon as we had walked a bit into town we heard an excited shout from the left.
"Hey, Serena, Cal! Over here! Over here!" Came Shauna's loud and enthusiastic voice.
We saw Shauna and two others sitting at a table. Shauna was bouncing in her seat at the head of the table, to her right was a heavy set and friendly looking boy that looked about 6' 2" with black eyes and hair that was styled in a Torchic top feathers cut.
He was wearing a large black T-shirt that had a Vanillite design on it, orange cargo shorts, a yellow backpack, and matching black and yellow sneakers.
Next to him was another boy that looked about 5' 4" with an orange bob haircut and light grey eyes that held a rather serious and self-conscious expression.
He wore a white T-shirt with a green-grey vest that had a Pokéball logo on the left side of his chest, dark grey jeans and a green Holo Caster, backpack and shoes.
We walked over to the table and sat down, Calem next to Shauna diagonally to his right and me right next to him on his left. Yosei hopped down from my shoulder to sit on my lap.
"We were just talking about you, Serena!"
"Good things, I hope." I joked with a small smirk.
Shauna nodded enthusiastically and I heard the carrot top whisper in awe to Torchic hair about Yosei being a shiny Eevee.
"Looks like we're all here then." Calem said and then looked at me again. "I'll introduce you."
Calem look around at the other four, "Everyone this is Serena and her Eevee, Yosei."
The Torchic hair kid suddenly exclaimed, "Wow, Shauna! Your descriptions were spot on!"
"That's Tierno Jameson. He's a dancer and a really good one, despite all appearances." Calem said nodding at Tierno and then again at the carrot top kid. "And that's Trevor Lawrence. He's kind of shy, but an overall ace student."
Trevor nodded at me while Tierno grinned, "Nice to meetcha, Serena!" He looked thoughtful for a second and then voiced his thoughts. "Hey guys, I think we'd feel a lot closer as friends if we call each other nicknames! So, Serena, can I call you Lady S? You seem to have this regal and cool air around you."
"What?! No way! She a Lil S for sure!" Shauna jumped up and cried out before I could say anything. "What do you think Trevor?"
Trevor flinched back away from Shauna like she had burned him and was wide eyed.
"Shauna…you want me to nickname some I just met?!" He exclaimed looking nervous and then muttered. "You shouldn't put people on the spot like you always do."
Trevor seemed to think about it though and soon enough voiced his opinion, "How about something more causal and low key? Um, maybe S-kins?"
I grimaced at the names and then narrowed my eyes in a deadly glare at Calem just daring him to come up with another nickname as…well…as weird as those three. Although I kind of like Lady S…
Calem raised his hands up in defense and chuckled a bit, "How about you decide what you want us to call you."
"Seré is fine." I said uncomfortably.
"Seré?" Shauna said as if testing the name out. "That is so…so…" She grinned and I braced myself for her now predictable outbursts. "CUTE!"
"Uh…thank you." I murmured.
"Yup! We're going to be such great friends, so I'll call you that too!" Shauna said and then turned her attention to Tierno. "Can we see the Pokémon now? I wanna meet my partner now!"
"Haha! Alright, alright! Trevs and I felt just as excited when we got our first Pokémon!" Tierno laughed.
He then grabbed the capsule that was laying by his feet and put it on the table.
Calem looked at me, "Since you're new I'll explain what Pokémon is who and their types."
"Sounds good." I said.
"Okay, the one on the left is Chespin, it's a Grass type, while the middle one is Fennekin, it's a Fire type and the last one is Froakie, it's a Water type." Calem explained. "Why don't you go ahead and choose first."
"Are you sure?" I asked surprised.
"Yeah, it's fine. Right Shauna?" Calem asked.
"Yup! Go ahead! Pick one!" Shauna said and was bouncing in her seat again.
I looked at the three Pokéballs in thought for a moment before reaching out and picking the middle one. I smiled and stood up, holding Yosei in my left arm and walked a few paces away from the table. I turned to face everyone and let out my new Fennekin.
"Fenn! Fennekin!" It cried.
My smiled grew as I squatted down, knees together and placed Yosei beside me.
"Hi there, I'm your new trainer and this is Yosei!" Yosei greeted Fennekin warmly and vice-versa. "I hope you, Yosei and I will be very close friends!" I said and smiled even brighter when Fennekin agreed enthusiastically. "Hmm… I think I'll call you Kasai!"
Calem smiled at me and then turned to Shauna, "Go ahead, Shauna."
"Yay! My turn!" Shauna said and stared intently at the two remaining starters. By then I had returned to my seat with Kasai back in her Pokéball and Eevee on my shoulder. After a few moments of silence Shauna yelled startling us all, "I choose Chespin as my partner!" And snatched the left Pokéball. "We are just sooooo cute together!" She squealed.
"And that leaves Froakie for me!" Calem grinned and grabbed the remaining right Pokéball. "It's nice to meet you friend, I'm Calem. I can be a real Pokémon Trainer now, thanks to you!"
"Um…pardon me." Trevor stammered as we all looked at him. "I…uh…I have something from the Professor to give you three as well. This device will help you understand Pokémon on a much more personal level. It's a Pokédex."
Trevor handed the pink one to Shauna, the blue one to Calem and the red one to me. We thanked him as we received our Pokédexes respectively.
"Um… you see, the Pokédex I gave you is a high-tech device that automatically records a Pokémon's data upon meeting and capture." Trevor explained gaining a bit of confidence. "The reason you all get one is because the Prof. wants us to go on a journey with our Pokémon and complex the Pokédex. It's kind of like an important mission he gave us, I'm positive!"
Tierno laughed and shook his head, "Oh lighten up, Trevs. You're so serious all the time." Tierno then looked at me, "Um, here, Seré. Please take this with you." He handed me a letter addressed to mère. "It's a letter from the Professor. He said to give it to your mom before you leave."
"Alright, I will. Thank you." I said and put it in my bag.
"Alright, I guess we're done with our errand for the Professor." Tierno said to Trevor who nodded in agreement. "I guess Trevs and I will go look for Pokémon now. C'mon Trevs!"
The two got up and ran off leaving Calem, Shauna and I. Calem turned to me and spoke, "In Kalos, special kids are chosen to carry a Pokédex and go on an adventure. But you need to give that letter to your mom before you can do any of that. Our parents already okayed it, so we're all already good to go."
I nodded, standing from my seat and had just taken a few steps when Calem called out to me.
"Oh, wait! Before I forget!" He said. "All of us will be traveling together."
I raised an eye brow, "In such a big group?" I asked skeptically.
"Well, no, not like that. We'll be traveling together not in a big group but separated. But we'll never be too far from one another. Sometime one or two of us will travel with another of us for a bit but then go off on our own again. You get what I mean." Calem explained.
"Yeah." I nodded.
"Okay." He said as he and Shauna stood from their seats. "Tierno and Trevor have already gone off to the Santalune Forest so Shauna and I will wait for you by the entrance-"
"WAAAAAIT!" Shauna yelled out and marched over to me. "Seré, we're going to battle first! Right here, right now!"
My startled look morphed into a battle determined smirk.
"Alright then. You're on!" I said brandishing Kasai Pokéball in my outstretched arm.
"Yay! Go Lil Chespin! This will be our first battle together! We'll win with style!" Shauna declared releasing her Grass type starter.
"Not if we can help it! Time to shine, Kasai!" I said kissing Kasai's Pokéball and releasing my Fire type starter.
"I referee." Calem volunteered. "This is a one-on-one battle with no time limits. Begin!"
"Kasai, Ember!" I commanded.
Kasai let out a cry and opened her mouth shooting multiple tiny balls of flame at Chespin, doing major damage since she has a type advantage.
"Ahh! No, Chespin, use Growl!" Shauna said panicking.
Chespin looked panicked as well and opened it mouth to let out a loud growl.
"Block your ears and keep your eye on your opponent." I said calmly.
Kasai pinned her ears back to her head blocking out all sound and watched Chespin carefully. Once Chespin closed his mouth Kasai perked her ears back up waiting for my next command.
"Finish it off with a Scratch, Ember combo!" I ordered.
Kasai ran up to Chespin and scratched him a bunch before jumping away and using Ember while she was in the air before landing back on the ground. Chespin swayed and fell to the ground in a faint.
"Chespin is unable to battle! Kasai and Seré win!" Calem announced.
"Way to win it, Kasai! I'm proud of you!" I said hugging her after Kasai had run to me and jumped into my arms.
"Aww… I wasn't done watching my cute Lil Chespin battle yet…" Shauna pouted and returned her fallen starter but then smiled. "Still…you're amazing Seré! Here, I'll heal Kasai for you."
She pulled out a Potion from her bag and sprayed it on Kasai who winced at the stinging sensation of the healing spray.
"Thank you." I said. "Hey Shauna, can I give you some advice?"
"Huh? Sure!"
"Don't panic when battling. When you panic, your Pokémon can feel it and it'll make them panic or confused." I said.
"Huh… I didn't know that." Shauna said. "Thank you, Seré! I'll keep that in mind and next time we battle, I'll be as calm and collected as you! And we'll win for sure!"
I just smiled a bit at Shauna's enthusiasm and nodded, "We should get going so I can get this letter to my mom soon."
"Okay! Say hi to your mom for me!" Shauna giggled happily.
"Don't forget, we'll wait for you near the entrance of Santalune Forest." Calem said.
I nodded smiling a bit and waved as I turned around and headed home. Maybe living in Kalos wouldn't be so bad after all now that I have some new friends and a new Pokémon partner. I especially wouldn't mind getting to know Calem more! Tee hee!
End Chapter One!
A/N:Nine pages…NINE freaking pages and 3898 words including A/Ns! I was up all night typing this so you guys better enjoy this first chapter! Not sure when Chapter Two will be typed and finished. Soon I hope! PLEASE REVIEW!