First chapters are always boring

Please note, basically the entire story will be different. Some elements will be the same though.

Cassius woke up lazily, blinking his eyes a few times as he stared up at his ceiling. The sounds of the ocean floated through his always opened window. The waves crashing against the shore, the sounds of the wingulls and pelippers crying out in the morning, the sounds of the city just waking up, it was music to his ears.

Cassius Rushton was a morning person, usually. Cassius was really more of a anytime person. He didn't really dislike any part of the day, or night. He didn't really dislike any day of the week either, mostly just days that he had to work.

He sat up, stretching his back, and pet his umbreon, who was also awake and stretching. "Time for work, boy." He swung his feet off of the bed and stood, stretching one more time before he shuffled around his room, grabbing pieces of clothing.

His room looked messy. He had a surfboard that was leaning against one of the blue walls of the room, and a few posters of bands his listened to hung up on other walls. His bed was unmade, and never was made. His bed was against a large white window that always stayed opened, but prevent things from coming in with a screen. His drawers had clothes hanging out of them and his desk had few books on it, but nothing more than that.

This was just part of his morning routine, or afternoon routine, or whenever he woke up and had to go to work routine. He would grab his bag, and put his uniform in it, blue pants, black and white striped shirt, matching blue bandana, then do the normal morning things, like brushing his teeth, putting on deodorant, running a brush through his messy blond hair that always fell in his face because he was too lazy to style it. He had dark blues eyes and matched the ocean and they were a little dimmed when he remembered he had to go to work.

He grabbed his bag and slug it over his shoulder, leaving the room with his pokemon. His grandpa was already at work, so he grabbed a poptart and headed out. He lived with his grandpa in Lilycove City. It was nice. The city was right next to the ocean and had tons of things to do, like going shopping at the department store or doing contests in the contest hall. Cassius' favorite thing to do was go surfing.

However, today was not a day for surfing. He got onto the beach and called out Siren, his beloved gyarados, and rode him across the salt water to the secret hideout of Team Aqua.

Team Aqua was a 'villainous' organization in Hoenn that was hell bent on creating more water for water pokemon. Their rivals, Team Magma, wanted the opposite, more land for humans. Cassius was a grunt of Team Aqua, and lately he had been hating every second of it.

He joined when he was younger, around the age of thirteen. His parents had left for Kanto three years prior for their job, leaving him to live with his grandpa in Slateport city, where he was born. Cassius' grandpa ending up getting a job in Lilycove, so the two moved there, which is where Cassius ran into Team Aqua.

To a thirteen year old, Team Aqua didn't seem that dangerous. They loved the ocean and wanted more of it, and Cassius loved the ocean and wanted more of it. It was perfect for him, and he looked very good in the uniform, he thought so, anyway.

He learned very quickly that Team Aqua wasn't easy or nice. They were dangerous and serious about their mission. They beat up anyone that got in their way and did anything to get what they wanted. It was rough and Cassius really don't know how he survived the past four years of it, probably his dumb luck had something to do with that.

He arrived at the base and entered it, going down the busy hallways to the locker room, where he changed into uniform.

"Cassius, finally." Shelly, his curly, ginger haired commander sighed when Cassius entered the room she was in after he finished changing. "I was wondering when you were going to finally get your lazy ass here."

"Such a warm welcome." He muttered, but he knew Shelly was joking with him. Shelly could be a bitch, but she was actually pretty funny sometimes.

"Have you fully recovered from yesterday's mission?" Shelly asked, referring to the mission where he had cut his leg on a lose branch. His leg was bandaged, but the medics of the team said it was nothing too bad. They cleaned it up and sent him on his way.

"Still hurts, but I've had worse." He shrugged it off, tying his bandana onto his head. He did have worse injuries, but that's what happened when you ran with Team Aqua.

"Good, I don't need you bailing out of missions." Shelly said, putting her gloved hands on her hips. "As ironic as it seems, you are one of the few grunts that won't screw up an entire mission. Given that, I've decided to assign you a partner."

"Partner?" Cassius questioned, furrowing his brows.

"She's a newbie. Get in here!" She shouted and a girl hurried in. She looked annoyed that she was yelled at and folded her arms across her chest. She was slim, with long brunette hair and violet eyes. "This is Leighton. Leighton, this is Cassius. He'll be your new partner from now on."

"Partner?" Cassius repeated. "I don't understand. Why do I need a partner? We do missions in groups." He explained, not understanding why he needed a partner.

"Sometimes you do solo missions." Shelly replied. "Anyway, she needs to be trained and Archie decided that it was best if each grunt was partnered up with a new recruit. So, take care of her, got it?"

"Yeah, understood." Cassius mumbled as Shelly went off to go give the other grunts their partners. "Nice to meet you, Leighton." He brightened up a little, realizing how moody he probably came off. "So, why did you join Team Aqua?"

"Hm." The girl mumbled with a shrug. "Nothing else to do."

Cassius just stared at her, not sure if she was being serious or not. This girl gave off a snobby vibe and didn't seem too impressed.

"Alright, mission time!" Shelly shouted and left the room. They followed and Leighton stayed right by Cassius' side, afraid she'd get lost.

"No worries, you got partnered up with the best guy." He grinned, taking a hold of her wrist. "Just listen to me and you won't get too badly injured, or arrested."

"What?" She asked, terrified.

Leighton's first mission didn't go as smoothly as Cassius hoped it would. It wasn't too complicated, but as usual, Team Magma came and got in the way. Commander Tabitha of Team Magma was annoyed, Shelly flirted with him, he called on his right hand grunt, a girl Cassius' age who had an espeon, and then Shelly called on Cassius to battle her, since he had an umbreon and had the type advantage.

"That was horrible." Leighton muttered to herself as they walked home that night. She was back into her normal clothes, something frilly and girly. "I'm going to have to take a three hour shower to get all the dirt and sweat off of me!"

"You'll get used to that." Cassius shrugged. "They literally come and crash almost all of our big missions. The same thing happens each time."

"I don't think I can handle this…"

"Welcome to Team Aqua!"

I changed his hair. He'll get a brunet streak in it later.