A/N - Hi - this is just a super quick note to say thanks for taking a look at my fan fiction and i hope you enjoy it. I'd also like to mention that i know there are several things (though not neccessarily mentioned in this chapter but will be in the future) that are different to the games/anime, but i am aware of these difference and have put them in in order to try and make this slightly more realistic. Also, this first chapter is quite short, but further chapter will be much longer. Thanks for reading and i hope you enjoy the fic.

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Pokémon Lilac – The Kanto Chronicles

Chapter 1

As the sun broke the skyline light flooded over the small town of Pallet and another beautiful spring day began. The sun shone brightly as it rose up in to the increasingly brightening pale blue sky, quickly warming the early morning. The sky was almost clear apart from a couple of small, wispy clouds that hung high in the sky, drifting slowly across it. The only sounds that disturbed the quiet of the early morning were the occasional chirps and squawks of pidgey and spearow that roosted in the trees around town.

The moment the first few rays of sunlight slipped through the gaps in the curtains and spilt in to Lilac's bedroom she stirred, her eyes blinking open sleepily. Within seconds she had remembered what day it was and all the excitement of the past night came rushing back to her. Despite the earliness of the hour sleep was suddenly impossible.

Lilac sat up, keeping the duvet pulled tightly round her to keep in the warmth, and looked around her bedroom, rubbing her eyes sleepily as they started to focus properly. It was a small bedroom, only just large enough to fit her bed, wardrobe, bookcase and desk. Directly opposite her bed, which had its head board up against the back wall, was her bedroom window with the pale purple curtains pulled shut over it. To the right of the window was her desk. On the small wooden chair by her desk she'd sat her backpack, which she had packed the night before, with her clothes for today folded neatly over the back of the chair. Even though the alarm clock on her desk told her it was only five minutes past three in the morning Lilac slid out of bed and started to get dressed.

She had chosen a lilac tank top, a mini skirt that fell three quarters of the way down her thighs in a pale pastel shade of violet and a pair of pale lilac knee socks with her purple baseball boots. In her bag she'd also packed a lilac hoodie with the pokéball emblem in white on the front and a matching water proof jacket. Picking up the hairbrush laying on her desk, she began to tidy her hair which was tangled from her nights sleep. Though no matter how much she tried, Lilac's hair almost always had a dishevelled look to it.

Lilac was small for an eleven year old with pretty pale blue eyes. She wore her thick, blonde hair down where it fell to just a little above her shoulders. Her fringe ended about two centimetres above her eyebrows which was shorter than normal because her mother had insisted on cutting it before Lilac left home.

In Kanto, it was compulsory for children to attend school from the age of five until the age of eleven. After completing their compulsory education, and turning eleven, children can apply for a pokémon license. Lilac had had her application form for her pokémon license ready from the day she had finished school at the end of the previous year, and had posted it the morning she had turned eleven almost a week ago. The previous day Lilac had received her license in the post.

Since Lilac had been little, all she'd wanted to be was a pokémon trainer. In Kanto, most eleven year olds after finishing school leave home to travel the region in order to become good pokémon trainers by catching many different pokémon and battling many trainers. Lilac felt like she'd been waiting for this day all her life.

Several hours later Lilac's mother was also awake and Lilac was ready to leave. Her mother had made Lilac her favourite breakfast of pancakes with strawberries and syrup. Her mother had made a huge amount of pancakes that Lilac couldn't possibly have eaten in one sitting so her mother had wrapped them up in tinfoil and packed them in Lilac's backpack for her to eat later. She'd also given Lilac a large handful of small change for her to use for payphones to call home and for laundry machines to wash her clothes.

Along with the things her mother had given her and the hoodie and water proof jacket Lilac had packed the pyjamas that she had been wearing earlier that morning, clean underwear, her money in a purse, a map of Kanto, her hairbrush, her blue water flask with the cap shaped like a squirtle, a sleeping bag, a torch and her brand new pokédex which her mother had bought her for her birthday last week. She'd also gotten a black pokéball belt which she wore now with the six empty pokéballs which were also a birthday present already clipped on to it.

Right now Lilac stood outside of her house facing her mother who stood just outside the door way.

'You're sure you've got everything?' Her mother asked once more. She knew her daughter probably did, but she couldn't help but worry.

'Yes mum.' Lilac's mother didn't press any further and instead pulled her daughter in to a tight hug. After a long moment she pulled away and let her daughter go.

'Promise you'll call me tonight so I know your okay?'

'I promise mum.' Lilac told her mum sincerely. The excitement she'd felt earlier in the morning seemed to have seeped away and she suddenly felt sad about leaving home and her mum.

'Good luck.' The excitement was back once again as she remembered what she was leaving home for, to become a pokémon trainer, and she smiled.

'Thanks mum.' Her mother smiled back at her daughter and waved as Lilac began to back along their front yard towards the road. Lilac had to turn as she walked on to the road but turned around again to wave at her mother before started off along the road. She turned back a few more times to wave again to her mother who remained on the door step waving to her until eventually she was too far away to see. Adjusting the bag on her back slightly she turned to face the direction she was heading in properly and set off towards the edge of town and the start of route one. To go become a pokémon trainer.