Prologue:
Chase and Derek sat in the kitchen of their little home in Newbark town. Chase, being naturally a morning person was sitting up, smiling and peppy, ready to embark on his new journey.
Derek, also anticipating his journey, slouched and was half asleep, his black hair down in his face. He looked up at his twin and almost laughed to himself. So different they were. This journey would definitely bring out the best, or worst, in both of them. His eyes fluttered as he waited for breakfast to be served.
As they ate, Chase chatted with his parents jollily and Derek actually laughed a little as his family picked and poked at him about his first pokemon. "What's wrong with my seedot?" he asked. "Nothing dear," his mother replied. "But we all know you picked it because it evolves into a dark type." His whole family chuckled again. Derek loved dark pokemon. He saw their power, their ability to manhandle their opponents. His success, he thought, would come through the dark type pokemon.
Chase looked down at his new pokemon happily. His spheal looked at him gleefully at him. He patted its head and it almost rolled away. He giggled. "You're just a little ball of fun aren't ya buddie?" he laughed again as his seal cooed affectionately.
The starters this month at Elm's lab were spheal, seedot, and Nidoran♂, all brought from hoenn, due to the new rarity of the original three starters. The two boys exited their house and headed down the road towards route 29. "Hey Derek, I'll race you!" called Chase as he took off running out of town. Derek shook his head; he hated it when he did this. Derek walked calmly until he caught up with his brother. Chased breathed heavily as his brother strolled up next to him. "What's the deal man, you didn't even run, your no fun." Derek shrugged. "Lets just head out, I'm going up route 46. you can head on to cherrygrove I'll probably see you later." Derek said and walked past his brother.
Shocked, Chase ran in front of Derek. "Woah, bro I thought we were traveling together, what's with the split so soon?" Derek looked at his brother straight on. "Look, you're my kin and all but I think we'd both be better off if we split now. We can train separate and maybe when we meet up again we can have a great battle to see who really is better at this training thing." Chase rubbed the back of his head. "Ok man, I guess I'll see you around. Good luck." Chase turned and waved as he headed towards the next city.
Derek headed through the gate and onto route 46. He was going to be better than his brother, he thought to himself. No matter what it took.
Chapter 1
Chase waved to the man that had given him the johto map as he headed through cherrygrove city and towards the next route. "Violet town is my next destination and my first gym!" Chase thought with excitement. "This means me and spheal will get to test how good we are in a real pokemon league battle! First though, I should probably catch some other pokemon to add to my team." As he said this he was walking through tall grass on route 30. He saw a rattata and a hoot hoot asleep because it was still in the early morning. He decided those would not be much challenge so he kept on.
As he came to a dense part of the path, he saw a little crevice in a tall tree. In it, he saw an Abra sitting and eating a berry. His eyes narrowed. His jolly nature vanished and he became serious. Abra could be a great asset to his team and he knew enough about pokemon to know that if he wasn't careful it would teleport before he could catch it.
He crept closer and closer, empty pokeball in hand. When he was close enough, he launched the pokeball shouting "Pokeball, GO!" The Abra looked up and vanished, leaving the pokeball to hit the back of the tree. Letting out a cry of shock, Chase stomped the ground in frusteration. "Spheal, come out." The blue ball pokemon appeared and looked up happily at its trainer. "Sphe-" it muttered. "Spheal we need to find you a friend, but Abra got away so let's keep looking." As Chase walked, holding spheal in his arms, he heard a rustle in a tree.
"Spheal, head butt that tree." The seal obeyed and rolled fast and shook the tree as it collided with it. A Teddiursa fell down and hit its head on the ground as it fell. It sat up and rubbed its head with its paw and looked at spheal, aggravated. It stood up and started running straight at spheal.
"Spheal, get ready for battle!" Chase yelled. "Use your powder snow!" A shot of chilly wind shot out of Spheal's mouth and hit Teddiursa in the face, halting it. It rubbed its eyes and then plopped down and began to cry. Chase was stunned. Not knowing what to do, he walked over and picked it up. "Aw common now, don't cry. It will be ok. I'm sorry for hurting you." The Teddiursa looked up at him and sniffled. Chase smiled and wiped its tears from its eyes. "Hey, come with me. I'll get you something to eat and you can travel with me and everything will be ok." He, spheal, and the Teddiursa walked into a clearing and sat down. He gave his pokemon some berry blocks and watched as they ate.
"Teddiursa, you're going to have to toughen up to hang with me and spheal here." He said rubbing Teddiursa's forehead. "We're gonna be in a gym battle soon and I can't afford to have you start crying during the match. Can I count on you?" Teddiursa hesitated, but smiled finally and laughed with Chase.
Meanwhile, up route 46, Derek was in a deep battle with a trainer. He was battling a mountainman with two tough rock-types. Seedot was out battling with a geodude. "Seedot, hit it with another absorb! Finish it off!" Seedot concentrated and drained the last of geodude's energy, leaving it fainted and exhausted. The Mountainman returned it to its pokeball and sent out his next pokemon, Nosepass. "Seedot, return." Shouted Derek. "Go, Poliwag!" Derek's only other pokemon appeared and wagged its tail energetically. "Hit it with a bubble attack!" The bubbles shot from Poliwag and KOing the rock type instantly. The stunned mountainman looked on in disbelief. "You're a better trainer than I've faced in a long time, and you're just a beginner." Derek grinned a determined grin. He intended to be this way. "I'm just going to get better too. Maybe I'll meet you again on my travels!" He left the trainer still stunned and walked on towards the caves ahead, hoping to find more powerful pokemon to add to his team.
