"No no no no no!" A 14 year old boy named Oliver Snow said as he took his clothes from the closet when he noticed the time which was 11:00 "I'm going to be late!" Oliver looked in the mirror and quickly combed his somewhat long black hair with his fingers. Today was the day he was going to get his starter Pokemon "Oh man, Maya must be mad at me for being late."

"Oliver!" His father shouted from outside of his room "That girl is here!"

"Uh- I'll be over there in a moment!" Oliver shouted back as he quickly put on his grey jacket and hastily grabbed his backpack and put in some essentials "Tell her to wait a couple seconds!" Looking in his mirror once more, he examined what he was wearing "Er, good enough." He decided that a light blue shirt with his grey jacket and the usual jeans he wore was fine "...What am I missing? Oh right!" He grabbed the glasses on his drawer and put them on "Okay."

After, he walked into the main room and saw his friend sitting down impatiently "There you are!" She shot up from the couch and nervously said "We're going to be late! We might have even missed our chance to get a Pokemon!"

"Oh how exciting it must be for you kids to be getting your first Pokemon." Oliver's father smiled at them and continued "I remember when I got my first one, I was so happy once they gave me my Cyndaquil." He then looked at a photo hung up on the wall. It was a recent picture of him, Oliver, and a Typhlosion. "It's funny because if I never decided to continue my journey and travel to Unova, I never would have met your mother."

As his dad went on, Maya whispered to Oliver "Where is your mom anyway? I haven't seen her recently."

Oliver whispered back "You'll see why when we get to Snowbelle City." Turning back to his father he noticed that he was finished talking "Well dad, I guess we'll be heading off now." The duo said goodbye then walked outside into the streets of their hometown, Lumiose City "Now where's the Pokemon lab?"

"You don't know- Ugh, just follow me Oliver." Maya groaned then led the way towards the lab which was actually nearby since they both lived in South Lumiose "It should just be around the corner here..." As they walked through the city Oliver pondered what starter he would choose. He considered the fire type Pokemon, Fennekin or maybe the grass type Chespin. "Since we're almost there have you decided on what Pokemon you're going to choose?"

"Uh... My father chose Cyndaquil when he started his journey in Johto so I might take after him and choose Fennekin." He went over his choice again "My mother has a water type starter she got from her time in Unova and seeing her current occupation, I guess I'll go with Froakie." Oliver locked that in as they approached the steps of the Pokemon Lab "Looks like we're here."

"...Should we knock? Or just walk in?" Maya scratched her head "I've never actually been to this place before I always just walk past it." The two of them slowly went up the steps when the door to the lab swung open and a familiar boy walked out

"Oh man, I got a Chespin!" The boy was obviously very happy and then he saw Oliver and Maya "Oliver? Maya? Is that you?" This boy lived across the street from the two "Aw man... Seeing as how you two are here you are obviously going to get a Pokemon too."

"Yeah we are, why what's up?" Oliver noticed the change of expression on the boy's face

"It's just that my little sister was going to get a pokemon but she's running late." The brown haired boy known as Cole said somewhat saddened "We were going to travel together."

This was starting to make Oliver feel bad "Sorry. Hey, she can still leave with you and you can maybe catch a pokemon for her?"

"Oh right! I'll do that!" Cole ran off "Thanks Oliver, see you around!"

Oliver and Maya waved to him as he left but the sound of someone clearing their throat attracted their attention "Huh?"

They turned around again to the entrance of the lab to see a person with orange hair and grey eyes, he appeared to be around 18 and was wearing a grey vest over a long sleeved white shirt and black pants. "Hello there, my name is Trevor. I'm professor Sycamore's assistant." He was holding a container in his hands "I'm assuming you two are here for Pokemon as well?" They both nodded "Very well then." He went down the steps and moved towards them "I am sorry but that boy took Chespin, we only have a Froakie and Fennekin for now."

Maya was slightly upset, she wanted Chespin but she settled for Fennekin because she knew Oliver wanted Froakie "Can I take the fox?" She said halfheartedly

"Fennekin? Of course." Trevor took out one of the two pokeballs and sent out the Pokemon that was inside "Here she is." Trevor and Maya looked at the Pokemon which was looking up at Maya very happily

"A girl? At least that's one thing I like about it." Maya looked down at the fox pokemon disapprovingly making it frown and let out a small "Fenne..."

"Hey come on now, cheer up." Trevor tried to make her happy "My friend Shauna was stuck with Fennekin and she ended up liking fire types a lot. Also, just a few months ago she was made the new gym leader of Santalune City and like I said she likes fire types so her gym is based around that." Oliver remembered that the former Santalune City gym leader stepped down from her position to focus more on her photography career with her sister

Maya took another look at Fennekin "Well...She is kind of cute." Maya smiled and it smiled back then happily jumped into her arms "Haha, maybe she isn't so bad after all."

Trevor turned to Oliver "It looks like you have to take Froakie. I hope you aren't disappointed." Trevor let out Froakie who then glanced at Oliver and quickly shied away and held onto Trevor's leg "Wha- Hey!" The assistant pulled Froakie off his legs and held him in his arms "Sorry he's a bit shy." This made Oliver worry, what if this was an issue that would last a long time? "Go on Froakie, he's your new trainer."

Trevor put the pokemon back onto the ground and it hesitantly approached Oliver "F-Froa..."

Oliver knelt down to face the frog pokemon and said "Hi there." It looked back at Trevor who urged him on "Don't worry, I won't do anything." The Froakie then seemed to relax "Okay good." Oliver stood back "Now what?"

"Oh right. You two will be needing these." Trevor fumbled around in a satchel he had on and pulled out a couple of devices "These things are known as a Pokedex, they provide information on all the Pokemon in Kalos and beyond." He gave one to each of them then pulled out another pair of objects "Now these are called Holo Casters. They let you receive and view hologram clips and they are also used as communication devices among trainers."

"Cool." Maya examined the device before pocketing it "Do you have any tips for us before we leave?"

"Hmm." Trevor put his hand to his chin "I suggest heading to Santalune City first to take on Shauna because her gym is the first gym most new trainers go to." He had a look on his face as if he remembered something "Ah right! if you want to take on the gyms the way my friends Callum and Serena went, after Santalune you would want to go to the gym right here in Lumiose City then after here you past through Camphrier Town to get in Cyllage City and..." Trevor noticed how much he was rambling on so as an alternative he took out two empty badge cases and gave them to the duo "Look in those and you should see the order the gyms are meant to be fought. How you get to the cities they are in, that's up to you." Their conversation was cut short when Trevor's HoloCaster began ringing "Oh hold on." Trevor answered the call and a hologram of a man with long hair and a full beard was displayed "Yes professor?"

"Trevor would you kindly come back inside and help me out with this project I'm doing? I could really use your assistance."

"Of course professor Sycamore, I'll be right there. I'm just finishing up here." The call was ended and Trevor retreated back into the lab "Good luck you two and tell Shauna I said hi!" After that, he closed the door

Oliver looked at the badge case "Santalune, Lumiose, Cyllage, Shalour, Coumarine, Laverre, Anistar, and Snowbelle." He set up the order they were going to handle the gyms in "You okay with that?" Maya agreed and they left Lumiose City and entered Route 4 after they put their pokemon back into the pokeballs

"This is so exciting Ollie, I can't believe we're on our own now!" Maya's ponytail moved around as she jumped up and down in excitement and froze in place when she had an idea "Hey let's have a battle!" Oliver looked at her oddly "You heard me, a battle!" She sent out her Pokemon and as she did it she said "Come on out, Firefox!" The Fennekin heard her nickname and sounded confused "You don't like it?" It shook their head no "What about...Ember?" It seemed to like the name "Okay, Oliver! Ember and I challenge you to a battle!"

"Uh no thanks-"

"You have to accept! If a trainer's eyes lock with another's they must battle!" Maya shouted "It's in the trainer handbook!"

"Trainer handbook? Maya what are you- Fine let's battle." Oliver knew he couldn't convince Maya otherwise so he went along with it "C'mon Froakie, let's get this over with." He unenthusiastically sent out his Froakie "Let's do this Maya."

"You're not going to name him?" Maya asked

"Uh, how about Specter? After all, Froakie was the most overlooked starter in our region awhile ago." Oliver looked at the Froakie to see if he liked the name and he did "Alright then. Specter and I accept your challenge."

Now at the large fountain, Oliver and Maya moved a sizable distance away from each other to give their Pokemon space to battle "Okay Ember, use flamethrower!" All Ember did was look at Maya in confusion "Oh right you don't know that move yet. How about tackle?" Ember focused on Specter then charged at him

"Try to dodge it Specter!" Obeying the command, Specter leaped over Ember and landed behind her "Now do what she did, tackle!" Specter attacked Ember, hurting her slightly "Do it again!" He landed another successful hit "Great!"

"U-Uh dodge it Ember!" Ember tried moving away but Specter was remarkably faster than her, allowing him to get another hit in "Okay okay!" It was clearly obvious that Specter was going to be the victor "You guys win!" Maya quickly surrendered the match

"Good job Specter." Oliver knelt down and patted the Froakie on the head "Looks like I beat you Maya."

Maya seemed sad when she was holding Ember "I didn't think having Pokemon fight would have me react like this." She looked like she didn't want to battle anymore

"You aren't going to give up on our adventure when it barely started are you?" Oliver worriedly said hoping that his friend wouldn't leave him

"No of course not, I'll just have to get used to it." Maya said as she stood back up "You didn't have to be so rough."

"What? It's a battle they are all going to be like this." Oliver retorted "And anyway-"

A voice gasped and exclaimed "Is that a Fennekin?" The voice came from a girl who seemed the same age as Trevor wearing a pink hoodie, denim pants with pink shoes, and she had her brown hair in a single ponytail tied with a black ribbon "They are the best!" The girl ran up to Maya and noticed that the Fennekin was hurt "Oh no! It's hurt!" The girl pulled out a potion from her pink purse and sprayed it on Ember, healing the bruises

"What are those?" Maya asked her about the potion "They heal Pokemon right?"

"If you don't know what these are you two must be new trainers, am I right?" Maya said yes "Well yeah, these are potions they heal up your Pokemon." She pulled out two of them and gave one to Oliver and Maya "Use them when they look hurt alright?"

"If you don't mind me asking, who are you?" Oliver honestly wanted to know

"Oh right I forgot to introduce myself!" The girl smiled and announced "I'm Shauna and this is my... Huh? Where is she?" Shauna turned around and surveyed the area "Ah I forgot." She pulled out a pokeball and let out the Pokemon inside which was a tall orange fox-like pokemon holding a stick, it's long fur reminded Oliver of a witch in robes "And this is my Kinniekins!" The pokemon heard that name and seemed to be embarrassed by it "Del..." Noticing her embarrassment, Shauna faced it and told it "Aw shush, it's a good name and you know it! Right guys?" Once she turned her back on the Pokemon it shook it's head in disagreement

"What Pokemon is that?" Oliver thought to himself as he pulled out his Pokedex and used it to identify the Pokemon, Maya did the same

"Delphox, the final evolution of Fennekin. Using it's psychic powers it can generate a flame up to 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit, at times it will gaze into the flame at the tip of it's branch allowing it to see into the future"

"That's what Ember will turn into?" Maya said in amazement while her Fennekin approached the Delphox and Oliver ended up saying to himself "Shauna..." He thought the name over and remembered what Trevor said "You're the Santalune City gym leader that Trevor was talking about!"

"The one and only!" Shauna proudly stated "Why you want to challenge me?"

"Yes!-" Maya told her but Oliver interrupted "But you have a Delphox, it's way stronger than both of our Pokemon combined!"

Shauna sighed and put her fingers to her forehead "Sadly, I am not allowed to use Kinniekins because Santalune city is the place most trainers go to for their first gym battle and using a Delphox would be unfair." Thinking about the two Pokemon she used, she kept talking "If you want to see the Pokemon I use in my gym, well, you gotta go challenge me!" Looking at the two starter Pokemon she realized that they would have a hard time fighting her team "Why don't you guys train a little bit? Maybe catch a second Pokemon?"

"Will do." Oliver confirmed their plans but then realized something "But we don't have any pokeballs."

"You're lucky I'm a nice person." She pulled out six pokeballs and gave them three each "I was going to catch some Pokemon later but you guys need them more than I do." Shauna closed her purse and began to leave "See you at the gym."

"Well Maya," They looked at each other then at their Pokemon "We have to train if we want to stand a chance."