Author's Note:

Greetings, one and all! I am Locke. You may know me (and, as a result, this story) from my Google+, or you may be completely new. Either way, I welcome you, Dearest Reader to my first proper story... The Journey Of A Life Time. Enjoy, and be open about suggestions I could make to improve (Afterall, we aren't perfect). So, without any further delay, Let's get this show on the road!

Chapter 1

A young boy looked at himself in the mirror, scrutinising his appearance and outfit.

He wore a brown ten-gallon hat with a white strap running across the front of it, his neat brown hair ran down his neck, stopping just at his shoulders. Beneath his Magnolia jacket, he wore a dark blue T-shirt. To aid his survival in the inhospitably cold Sinnoh a scarlet scarf was draped across his back, his orange and red backpack hung loosely, the weight of everything in it bogging him down.'This is a stupid outfit, why did my Mother pick this out?' He thought to himself before quickly shrugging of his negativity

"I suppose I'll come to love it!" The boy shouted to himself

"Jake! Are you ready?" The boy's Mother shouted up, hearing that her child was awake.

"Yes, Mum! I'm ready!" Jake replied as he grabbed his cookie dough coloured egg and walked downstairs, careful not to damage the fragile container and revealed himself to his Mother.

"Jake, I was right!" she exclaimed happily clasping her hands together "that outfit certainly does suit you!"

"Muumm.." The teen groaned at his Mother "don't talk like that, I'm not entirely convinced that you were in your right mind when you picked it out. You of all people should know that red and brown don't go together. Besides, if you were going for the white highlights, why are they only on my hat?"

"Nonsense, Son, besides you said that you'll come to love it, didn't you! Now, don't you want to get one of Terra's children and take one with you? I know that Lucina likes you, she'd probably be happy to join, and I don't want you to have no Pokėmon, not in an area with such strong Pokėmon around. Please, just take her."

She said, pleading with Jake Frantically trying to give him protection and have a conversation.

"Mum, I'll be fine, I don't want to take her anyway, I like Turtwig and all, but I'm waiting for this egg to hatch, and then I'll properly start my Pokėmon adventure, okay? But I'm still going, without Lucina.'he paused to see his mother's reaction, she still looked worried. " I'll probably pick her up when I get back, my egg should have hatched by then." He said, half denying his Mother's request. "Anyway, I've got to go." He said, before walking to the door and opening a portal to a bustling metropolis.

As Jake left the house, he looked at his surroundings for the last time in what would be a while.

"This place never excited me this much before." He said to himself, grinning. As he looked at the grey and sloped brick wall 20 feet ahead of him, he found himself looking up and seeing a red outline to an orange roof, he stroked his egg as he walked through the busy streets of Veilstone City. Jake soon found himself heading south, through a street of high rise buildings, turning right, he saw a large flight of stairs, leading to the Pokėmon centre he saw earlier, as he looked up, a particular building stood out to him, as it towered above the rest, it was also painted a peculiar orange colour, with pink banners on the front. The department store, he stood there for a moment, considering entering to get some extra supplies, but thought against it, he was well supplied. He continued walking West, and then North, following the main road until he came across a group of abandoned warehouses, he shuddered as he thought of the terrifying ghost stories he had been told, he'd heard urban legends about his mother, and how she'd defeated an evil team some time ago, releasing the horrible monstrosities of nature from the base of the team, and into the warehouses, he stood there, silently staring at the hollow shells of the buildings which stared back in similar silence cracks in the rusty corrugated steel revealed pitch black 'anything could be in there' he thought to himself

"I'm sorry little egg, you can probably sense my fear, I'll bet the warehouses are scaring you as well. I should have asked Mum about the stories. I'd heard, she would've clarified them for me." He explained to the egg, hugging it tightly, feeling a sudden wave of protectiveness wash over him. He ran away to the west until he reached a line of trees, signifying the end of Veilstone City, he looked to his left, staring at a dojo with a brown roof.

"I'll be back, Maylene. you may be old, but I'm not a fool, I'll come back for you." He said to himself, and to the dojo, somewhat hoping that Maylene heard him. He carried on moving on until a girl with long blonde hair, an orange scarf that she could easily pull up to her nose, purply-blue eyes, and a black tracksuit with a red lining confronted him.

"Who's Maylene? Is she your girlfriend?" The mysterious girl asked him

"What!? NO! She's, like, 40! I'm only 15, that would be gross! No, she's the gym leader of Veilstone, you know - the strongest trainer in the city? Even though my Mother is the champion. Anyway, who are you, and why were you listening in on me?"

He asked, practically ordering the girl to give him answers.

"Well, I'm Chloe from Priville, and I'm none of your business." she said saluting him, laughing slightly to herself, "I'll tell you more, Mr. Greedy once you tell me about yourself." she said in a voice you could use on a child, reversing the interrogation.

Slightly annoyed at her tone he replied "Fine, I'm Jake from here in veilstone, and I'm just about to leave on a Pokėmon journey, but I don't have any Pokėmon, just this egg here." He said, loosening his grip on the egg to show her. "Now, tell me about yourself."

"Well, I'm Chloe from a far off place called Ransei, in particular, The kingdom of Yaksha. I'm actually royalty, believe it or not, yeah, I'm descended from a guy called KotarŌ, he lived quite a while ago, but he was a ninja! How cool is that!? Anyway, I'm following in his footsteps, and since I heard that he had a strong link with Zorua and Zoroark, I decided to find one and befriend one, didn't I Nyx?" she said as a Zorua appeared where a tree was and giggled happily. "So, I was on a journey to get to better know Nyx, is that alright with you? And, since you're leaving here, I'll leave here with you too! Oh, and you're a wimp, those warehouses aren't scary at all!" She smiles smugly and stands there, waiting for Jake to get moving.

"What!? No, I'm not a wimp, I've just heard all sorts of Rumours about that place, and none of them are nice. Now, on you go. I don't need anyone else here on my journey." He said, refusing her accompaniment.

"Well, tough, I'm tagging along! Now, hurry up slowpoke!" She shouted. Nyx cast up an illusion of her being a Slowpoke holding and egg and started whining

"Fine, but I'm ignoring you. I don't need, or want you on my journey, so you're not going on my journey with me." He said, giving up.

"Yay! Come on Nyx!" She said, and extended her arm, Nyx then promptly jumped onto her arm whilst returning to his natural form Jake sighed and walked on, ignoring Chloe and her yammering and stroking his little egg