Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon but I do own the Region.

AN: The pokémon in this story can have 5 moves instead of 4.

Lexi Blue jumped out of bed as soon as she heard her Noctowl alarm clock. Yesterday had been her birthday, and that meant that she was finally old enough to start her journey. She quickly put her light brown hair in a ponytail and went downstairs to get some breakfast.

The smell of toasted bread and fresh honey filled her nose as she came down the stairs. Her mother was busy pouring Moomoo Milk in cups on the table. ''Good morning honey, I put your backpack next to the door so you wouldn't forget it. But could you feed the Miltank's before you go?''

''Sure, and thanks mom.'' Lexi replied, grabbing a glass of milk. Lexi's mother ran her hand through Lexi's uncombed brown hair and walked back to the counter picking up a pair of glasses. ''Your father forgot his spare glasses again.'' she said, shaking her head but smiling. Lexi walked up to her mother and gave her a hug. ''Don't forget to call every now and then. We'll miss you.''

Lexi gave her mom another hug and a kiss on the cheek before grabbing her blue backpack. It was really warm outside and all of the Miltank's were lying on the grass. Lexi walked passed Cilly, her favorite Miltank, and stroked her back before walking to the shed.

All those years she had lived on their little farm, helping with the Miltank's, riding the Ponyta's. She even got to help with their Tauros a few weeks ago. But now she was going to start her own journey, just like her parents did before her. They had given her a lot of advice and taught her many things that were very useful to know as a trainer, or at least that's what they told her.

As Lexi grabbed an old red bucket to put the feed into, she noticed a thin rope. It went from the buckets, through the hay, passed the Miltank-food and ended at one of the stalls. She could hear the pounding of hooves on the ground and saw a light flicker on the walls. Suddenly she could feel a hand on her shoulder. ''Aren't you going to follow it?'' Her mother asked, pointing to the rope. When Lexi got to the stall she saw a big Ponyta running circles inside the stable.

''It's one of my best foals. I think it would be a great starter Pokémon. Lots of potential but no hotheadedness. So, if you want, you can have her.''

Lexi looked at the young Ponyta. It was active, but not hyper, and looked very curious. Her body looked slender but strong and she had beautiful brown eyes. Lexi walked up to the Ponyta and began stoking her head. The Ponyta gave a small nicker.

''She is beautiful, I'm going to name her Serafine.''

Her mother gave her a Serafine's pokéball so she could put it on her belt and after one more hug, Lexi and Serafine walked to the gate. There Lexi looked back at her house one more time before turning around and heading towards the lab of Professor Redwood.

While following the sand path to the pokémon laboratory Lexi started to get a little nervous. She wouldn't see her town for a long time. The houses of her neighbors she had walked passed every time she went into town, the pokémon she played with and of course her own home with her mom and dad.

As Lexi passed a garden filled with big red flowers, she looked up and saw Mrs. Bude waving at her while holding a very sad looking flower. Mrs. Bude walked to the gate of the white fence surrounding her garden and hold out her hand. ''I heard you're going on your journey today!'' she said happily while Lexi shook her hand. ''Be sure to catch a Magikarp! Then you could come back and join the annual Shinka suru festival.''

The Shinka suru festival was a big thing in Filium town. Every year trainers from all over the Uniqi Region came to let their Magikarp evolve into a Gyarados. They would fight the whole day and night till every last one of them had evolved. The town got decorated with blue ribbons and the lights would, for that one day, all change to blue instead of yellow.

Suddenly Mrs. Bude stopped and excitedly pointed to Serafine. ''Is that your companion? What a cute little Ponyta! I think you're going to have a good time together. Well I need to go back to my garden, good luck you two!'' and with a last wave of the flower, Mrs. Bude went to the back of her house.

Lexi had reached the middle of her town. Not far away, next to a silver Gyarados statue, stood the pokémon laboratory. The building was yellow with a grey roof and didn't look much bigger that some of the houses next to it. But Lexi knew that there was a big area behind the laboratory, where they kept all the pokémon.

Lexi saw a red haired boy leaving the lab with pokéball in his hand and a big smile on his face. It was Nat Peton, he had been a good friend of Lexi when they were kids. He would help out on the farm and they would have sleepovers. When he became friends with a girl who had just moved in, Lexi got the feeling she couldn't count on him anymore and they stopped talking. Lexi looked at the pokéball Nat had in his hand. That had to be a Cyndaquil, Nat always said that he wanted a Cyndaquil with him on his journey.

Lexi looked back to the pokémon laboratory, in the door opening stood a small man with brown hair and glasses, in a white lab coat. ''Lexi! You're exactly on time. Come, let go inside.''

''I know you have worked with pokémon before but that is not the same as having your own pokémon. A pokémon is a big responsibility, never forget that, it needs food and training but also time to recover and mental stimulation.'' said Professor Redwood pointing to her Ponyta, while leading her passed shelves with an uncountable amount of books on them.

Eventually they entered a room with grey walls. There was a big computer In the corner and in the middle of the room were two white tables. One of them had 2 pokéballs on it. Lexi followed Professor Redwood to the other table which had several small devices neatly stacked on top of each other.

''This is something that all travelers get nowadays'' Prof. Redwood said, handing her a small dark blue colored device. ''It's called a pokédex, we got the newest models delivered yesterday. I'm pretty sure you already know all the pokémon here, but as you travel you will encounter many kinds of pokémon you have never seen before. The pokédex is a sort of encyclopedia with every pokémon in it. It can tell you information about the Pokémon you point it to, and it automatically adds new data. But it can do much more, like, it's your trainer ID and it can also be used as a phone.'' Lexi looked at it and pointed it to her Ponyta.

''Ponyta, the Fire Horse Pokémon, about an hour after birth, its fiery mane and tail grow out, giving it an impressive appearance. Ponyta is world-class jumper and its hooves are 10 times harder than diamonds. This Pokémon known moves are: Growl, Tackle and Tail Whip. Female.'' said a robotic man-like voice. Prof. Redwood smiled and handed her a couple more things.

''Here are some pokéballs. Oh, and here is a badge case you can put your badges in.'' Lexi put everything in her backpack. ''Well, good luck.''

As Lexi walked out of the lab with her Ponyta beside her, she grabbed the map out of her backpack and looked at the forest not far from her. ''That's Dipter Forest.'' Lexi said out loud. ''We have to go through it to get to Diptera City''.

Lexi and Serafine walked for an hour before taking a rest near a lake. While the Ponyta started grazing Lexi closed her eyes for a minute and enjoyed the peace. She felt excited and could not wait to travel and see new things. This lake was nothing new, she had played here a thousand times. Mostly with her parents but sometimes with friends. There was also a wild Wurmple she used to watch as it came to drink from the lake. Till she got ill one day and had to stay in bed for a week. When she got better her dad had told her the Wurple had already evolves twice, and flew away as a Dustox. Lexi never saw it again.

Lexi opened her eyes and just when she was about to call Serafine so they could continue, Lexi heard a loud noise. A Spinarak jumped out of the bushes and looked a little surprised seeing them, but it recovered quickly and started to attack. ''Serafine use Tackle!'' Lexi shouted and Serafine ran towards the Spinarak. The Spinarak shot out a weird silk substance from its jaws but the Ponyta dodged it and hit Spinarak right on its head, causing it to fall to the ground and faint. ''Good job Serafine, our first fight! And we won!'' Lexi hugged the fire pony and the two continued with new energy.

They battled a couple more Spinarak in the forest and reached Diptera City just before the sun went down. Lexi entered a red building and walked up to a woman with pink hair. ''Hello, and welcome to the Pokémon Center. I'm Nurse Joy, how can I help you?''

''Hello, I am Lexi. I wondered if you could check my Pokémon. We had a couple of fights in the forest a while ago and I want to be sure she's alright.'' Lexi said while handing her the pokéball. ''Sure, just follow me.'' Nurse Joy put the pokéball in small machine and it started peeping after a minute or two. ''Your Ponyta is quiet healthy just hungry and tired. I will give you some Oran berries,'' Nurse Joy handed Lexi some blue fruit,'' and I'm afraid we're full at the moment but there is a hotel across the street were you can rest. '' Lexi thanked her and went to the hotel. Inside she saw all kinds of pokémon she had never seen up close before, there was a little girl with a 'Pachirisu', a man with a very big 'Starmie', a boy with a 'Hoothoot' on his shoulder, a woman that was feeding a 'Nidorina', and many more. The woman with the Nidorina saw Lexi staring and walked up to her. The woman was very tall with long blonde hair and a dark red outfit. Her hands were covered with bright pink gloves. The Nidorina that followed her was decorated with two red straps around its hind legs.

''Good afternoon girl, you seem a little lost.''

''I'm not really lost, well, maybe a little. It's my first day of traveling.'' Lexi answered nervously, she could feel her face getting red.

The woman her eyes started sparkling behind her red glasses and she smiled at Lexi while walking away, gesturing her to follow. '' Oh, it seems only yesterday I started with my first journey. If you want I can show you around a little, I'm Olive by the way.'' Olive said, not waiting for an answer. She continued walking a little longer and stopped at the Pokémon Center .

''This is the Pokémon Center, you can heal your pokémon in there for free. They also have rooms where trainers can sleep.'' After saying that Olive started walking again till Lexi saw a blue building. ''This is the Poké Mart. It's a store that sells supplies necessary for Pokémon training.'' Olive entered the building and continued explaining.

''You can buy all kinds of pokéballs to capture pokémon, potions to heal your pokémon, but also food, vitamins, and all sorts of other things you might need. Not all Poké Marts sell the same items, some even sell pokémon dolls.'' Olive walked out of the Poké Mart and Lexi quickly followed. She was very happy that someone was showing her around, but it was a bit much and Olive wasn't slowing down.

''So you just started your journey, what is your plan? Are you going to be a Coordinator, or a Breeder, or are you going to enter the pokémon league? It's so exiting, you're going to learn everything about how to work with pokémon and how to care for them! My first pokémon was a Squirtle, such a smart little thing, I learned a lot from him. What do you have?'' Olive stopped walking and turned to Lexi.

''Well, I have a Ponyta'' Lexi said, grabbing her pokéball. But Olive had already started walking again. ''And I don't really have a plan yet. At the moment I'm just going to collect badges and get stronger. But I don't know if I really want to go as far as entering the League.''

The wind was getting colder and Lexi was tempted to let Serafine out of her pokéball, just as she was about to throw it Olive started talking again. ''You know,'' she said while still looking straight forward. ''I already had a plan when I was your age. It is hard to just make something up on the spot, you need to know what you are going to work towards on your journey. Otherwise, well, it's kind of useless isn't it.''

Lexi suddenly felt really embarrassed. Did she really need a plan….was this useless? Her parents had travel the same way, but, had they done it the wrong way? Lexi just wanted to go back to her room and away from Olive. But she wasn't comfortable telling Olive this. No, she just had to wait.

After showing her a couple more things Olive went back to the hotel and said goodbye. Lexi went up to her room and let Serafine out of her pokéball. Lexi started to feel homesick. How could she ever travel around the world if she already had trouble now. This was her first city, she was just a couple miles from home. Serafine noticed her sadness and put her head on Lexi's shoulder. This made her smile. ''Thanks Serafine, come, let´s go to bed. We have a busy day ahead of us.''