Hey everyone Acchanmotto here...as the title says, this is a BrendanxDawn fanfic and I do ship these two. I would like to ask people to read even if you dont agree with the pairing. If you do, great! I'm really excited to write this fanfic and spent a lot of of time writing it. If you have any constructive criticism, good or bad, please tell me in the review. Thank you and enjoy!

Chapter 1 Brendan X Dawn

As the sun slowly rose in the horizon of Lilycove city, Brendan slowly opened his eyes as the rays shined upon his face. He stretched, relieving his tense muscles from his slumber.

Across the boat, he saw his lifelong partner, Sceptile, still sleeping with his arms behind his head. Brendan smiled as he saw the twig that Sceptile kept in his mouth bob up and down with every breath. It was just strange how the pokemon was able to keep that thing with him everywhere he went. Brendan turned, looking at the city, and sighed. It was going to be another boring day. Life as a champion wasn't easy.

After beating Wallace, he quickly asked the water trainer to stay in the room, as Brendan was hoping to explore more of the Hoenn region. He then went to the Battle Frontier on the request of Scott, and easily beat that as well. So now, there was literally nothing to do.

It wasn't that he didn't like Hoenn, in fact quite the opposite. Hoenn was his hometown, and he loved every part of it. But when you're head and shoulders above the competition, it's not fun anymore. He even went back to Sky Pillar to see Rayquaza, wanting to interact with it, but the mighty dragon pokemon was nowhere in sight.

Lifting the white hat that had covered eyes when he was sleeping, he woke up Sceptile and they rode back the city, returning the boat to the man they borrowed it from. Standing outside the pokemon center, he called Salamence, and asked the red and blue dragon to fly him home.

*Brendan's POV*

It didn't take long for me to fly home, as Salamence was used to the destination, and dropped down in front of my home. Instantly, a swarm of little kids who recognized me mobbed me, asking for autographs, and other things like I was some kind of celebrity.

It took me a while to get out of that, but I thankfully entered my home unharmed.

My mom was busy sipping coffee, watching TV. The coffee maker was still running in the kitchen, and the she was watching some morning news. In the second the door closed, she turned around and smiled.

"Welcome home, honey. How is everything?"

I shrugged, notifying her that there wasn't much happening.

She sighed, and smiled. "You've been home more often, and everytime you've given me the same response. Do you think it's time to go somewhere else?"

My eyes widened. I've heard about other regions, and to be honest, have been interesting in visiting, but I couldn't leave my mom, or this place. I looked to the side and wrinkled my nose, pondering what to do.

I sat down on the couch as my mom went upstairs for a moment, then descended back down holding a piece of paper. She handed it to me, and looked up to her in confusion.

"What's this?"

She then went on to explain that Professor Birch gave her this ticket. I scanned over the ticket and saw that the ship was leaving in a week. Professor Birch wanted me to go on a journey to a new region. Apparently, I was supposed to meet up with the Professor over there. The urge to go tugged at my heart, but my priorities immediately stepped in. I looked at my mom with worry.

"What about you?"

She sat down next to me and took my hat, then tussled my hair. "I'll be fine. Your dad visits me all the time, and I'll always have memories. Just promise me, when all is said and done, you come back and visit."

I hesitated. I never forgot my mom. Even as I was taking on gym leaders and bad guys, visits to my mom were consistent, as the fear of her getting lonely was too much to bear in my heart.

She placed a hand on mine, and gave me a sad smile. "You have so many years ahead of you. Spending them like this isn't going to make you happy. All my years of youth are almost gone. I made sure that every moment of my young life was exciting. Brendan, you're only 13. You can't spend the rest of your life lying around."

Using her hand to push herself up, she went to the kitchen to get more coffee. I sat there, staring silently into space. When she came back out, I stood up and nodded to her.

"I'll go upstairs and pack my stuff".

Before any of us could do anything else, we heard something outside. Opening the door, our eyes widened. There in front of us was Sceptile being chased by the neighborhood kids. Seeing us, he ran back into house, and fainted onto the couch.

My mom giggled. "Oh, my. You shouldn't forget your Pokémon like that Brendan. I'll take care of him. You can go upstairs."

I nodded my thanks and walked up to my room.

For the next six days, I spent every minute with her. If I wasn't going to see her in a long time, then I might as well compensate for a little bit of the time that I'll miss. Somedays we would stay around Littleroot and just take walks to Oldale. Others we would on faraway places, taking Mr. Britney's boat and going to Dewford or the Battle Frontier.

On the day before the boat would leave, I treated her to the hot springs in Lavaridge. It was getting late, but we liked having not many people there, as we could talk about personal matters without worry. Sceptile, not able to take the heat of the springs for a long time, decided to sleep outside the springs. It wasn't surprising. This place was the place he didn't like the most. He got burned like fifty times at the gym.

Mom glanced up to the moon, and breathed happily and she relaxed her body. "The moon sure is bright tonight, huh, Brendan?"

But my mind wasn't on that. I didn't really mean to change the subject, but the question just blurted out in my mind. "Why can't you come with me?"

I didn't hear her say anything. Just the water that moved around us. After a moment, she said, "Do you know why you are a champion and your dad is only a gym leader?"

I looked at her confused.

She continued to look up at the moon. "Your dad could be just as good as you, but there was one thing that he never showed to anybody, not even you." I stared at her in disbelief.

My dad? No way. Everyone looked up to him. Before people started looking at me as the champion, they just called me "Norman's son".

She proceeded. "There were times when your dad couldn't believe in himself. He believed in his pokemon, true, but when you really, really pushed him, there was nothing he could do. Do you think he could've beaten the elite four, much less the champion?"

I slowly shook my head, not wanting to offend my dad who I looked up to so much, yet if I couldn't say that he could because he didn't.

Finally, she took her eyes off the glare of the moon, and stared at me. "Brendan, you've come a long way. You've gone farther than your dad can ever imagine. It's time for you to go even further."

I soaked in her words, and nodded my head, not sure at all what to say. The only thing that I was sure of was that I was going on a very, very long vacation.

I didn't get a second of sleep, but in the morning I was fully awake. It was 11 in the morning, and I was patiently waiting in line for the cruise. I took off my hat to not raise any suspicions that I was the kid champion, and so far it was working. Sceptile trotted after me, annoying the people who behind me, but if they complained, I would shrug and say, "Sorry, sir, he doesn't like the poke ball."

It took the crew a while to get everything ready since the boat was coming from a different region, but once the boat departed, the passengers stood on the deck, waving goodbye to the people on the port. I stood in the very front, but did not wave. I just stared at my mom and exchanged nods. No "goodbye" or "I love you", just a simple nod that told the other that we were going to see each other again.

So that is chapter 1. Sorry if Brendans mom was in a lot of this lol dont worry this isnt a fanfic about Brendan and his mom. Dawn will come later. And I am also aware that Brendan has a Sceptile rather than the usual Swampert. Sorry to the people out there...I just feel that he looks better with it...yea start booing me lol please review! Thank you!