Okay this is my first Pokémon, not my first fic I've been writing in the One Piece section…so if you that check those out also. Now I'm trying to work on my grammar, and I do have a slight writing disability so if you see any mistakes please point them out and I'll work on them. Now before I start, the reason why this fic is called Following the Gray Line is simple the two main characters, Shan and Mac, and there teams are neither good nor evil….there the…in-between.

This is the only moment I'll show this-

Human talk: " Blah "

Pokémon Talk: 'Blah'

Human and Pokémon thought: 'Blah'

Also I really am thinking of turning this fic M just because of the language used it this fic…trust me you'll know what I mean.

I don't own Pokémon, but I do own Shan, Mac and there future teams.

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Chapter 1: Welcome, Now it's time to go

Skuntank has had a reasonable life, his trainer feed him, treated him right, and gave him a roof over his head. Their apartment was located in the slums of Hearthome City on the tenth floor of a rundown building. There rooms heater was broken down and the freezing cold air of Sinnoh's winter put the room at an unnatural cold,

None of this really mattered to Skuntank, his purple fur protected him from most of the cold air. What did bother the giant skunk was horrible stench in the air. Now Skuntank wasn't easily bothered by bad smells, but the metallic smell of blood mixed with the rooms natural odor and the bone chilling cold somewhat overloaded his senses.

The purple pokémon's eyes focused of the decapitated head of his beloved trainer, which now laid four feet away from his lifeless body, long dirty blue hair covering his blank soulless eyes. Skuntank would have loved to suffocate and/or kill the ones who killed his trainer but at that very moment his body couldn't move.

'Hey, hey Vini I got me one! He had uh…' Skuntank looked at one of the two other pokémon in the room (Skuntank made three) who was trying horrible to make a headless joke. The creature was larger than most humans, with gray skin, four arms, and looked like he was wearing a black banana hammock, the Machamp's four arms moved wildly as he searched threw the rooms cabinets.

'What Brucey?' Skuntank's eyes now moved from the large four armed creature tossing random stuff out of the cabinets and onto the floor, to a small pokémon with it's blue-green vines cover it's body, big white eyes glaring at everything he looked at from behind those vines, little red boot like feet pacing back and forth.

'I ……um……forgot.' replied the Machamp named Brucey who stopped to scratch the back of his head…seemed like he forgot he had four arms…but stopping his search caused Brucey to receive a vine whip to the back from the small Tangela named Vini.

'Forgot!? What have I said about finishing your thoughts you dumbass!'

' I'm not a dumbass, dumbass!" Brucey shouted back, face somewhat red from anger, muscles pulsing…and subconsciously flexing.

Skuntank watch the Tangela yell back with some sort of not so witty comeback, which distracted the Machamp even more. To the large furry poison pokémon they were both idiots with ten brain cells between them.

' Gahahaha, your both dumb fucks.' a rather chilling voice filled the air making the Machamp and Tangela jump, rather startled, Skuntank just huffed in irritation.

Recovering from the shock the cold voice caused the Tangela started to bounce in anger. Skuntank would have guessed if there was a human…well a living human they would have found the pokémon rather cute, but that's just cause they didn't understand all of the profanity that was being spewed out of Vini's mouth.

A floating pair of glowing red eyes signaled the entrance of a fourth pokémon into the room. One that seemed to (at the same time) scare them, yet also royally piss the other two off. The red eyes bounced around the room, the dark laughter getting louder, then it just…stopped.

The eyes glanced at the Skuntank, then the dead body of the trainer. A large toothy smile soon appeared out of the air just under the red eyes.

' Vini we're done here, Brucey you carry the Skuntank.'

Vini looked worried 'Bu-but we haven't found anything yet!' the Tangela argued, Brucey just gave a shrug and quite easily lifted the big skunk off of the ground.

' Gahahaha! But Kelly did!' the voice mocked, that seemed to change the Tangela's emotions from worried to angry.

'Damn it! She always takes Vini's thunder!"

'Oh shut the hell up you yarn ball and get out of the building.' growled the voice.

Vini stormed out of the room, throwing what seem to be a hissy fit, Brucey following along confused 'Brucey thought Vini was a grass type…'

So they headed out of the room, the Machamp carrying Skuntank over his shoulder. The journey down the stairs didn't feel that long to Skuntank, but it was rather pain with all the running down the stairs while riding on Brucey's hard as rock shoulder, the poison type wouldn't be surprised if a few of his ribs were broken.

A rather loud squawk greeted them as they left the run down building 'About time you dolts got here! Your five minutes behind schedule!'

From the corner of his eye Skuntank say a multi colored bird pokémon with a music note shaped head. Odd that, you don't usually see Chatot in these parts of Sinnoh, there usually around the warmer climates of Sunyshore, and from the birds voices it was also female.

'Ah shove it Bree we're here aren't we.' growled Vini.

Bree puffed out her chest in annoyance and anger 'Well I…' the Chatot took a deep breath, then let it out '…Brucey just set down the Skuntank.'

The Machamp did as he was told right before both he and Vini were enveloped in a bright red light. Skuntank's eyes followed the trail of red to two humans hidden by shadows. One was female, he could tell, holding two pokéball's then shrinking them and placing them on her belt next to three others. The second human was male and was somewhat taller than the female and was wearing a hat…that was all he could tell about that one.

The Chatot, Bree, squawked and flew over to the human's, landing the male humans shoulder. Skuntank could feel the gaze of those human's on him, looking him over.

"Can I kill it?" asked the female human, a rather sadistic playful grin showing threw the shadows. The man just sighed while lighting a cigarette, placing it between his lips, taking a long drag then exhaled smoke pouring out of his nose.

"No…" the man looked around, noticing those menacing red eyes that Skuntank saw earlier "…Konpaku, you have it?" the eyes faced the human's, soon followed by its mouth and an odd purple body. Skuntank really couldn't get surprised anymore due to the days events, if there can be a Tangela and a Machamp taking orders from a Chatot, then there could be a Gengar.

Konpaku the Gengar pulled a pokéball out of nowhere, now that was something Skuntank recognized…he still wasn't sure how it worked but Skuntank was positive that was his own ball.

The man gave a small nod and pulled out a Luxury Ball, the black ball with red and yellow design was enough to give away what type it was "Good…Konpaku return." the Gengar soon disappeared into the Luxury Ball.

The shadow covered man turned his head to talk to the woman, the Chatot hoped over to his other shoulder so her trainer could see the woman clearly.

"Trace, are you positive we everything we need?"

The woman gave a nod and tapped her head "Yep, even had Kelly put all the informant she pulled out into my head."

"Any important people in this shit hole?"

"Nope, just some people down on there luck, a rapist, and three thief's." The man gave another nod before enlarging a second Luxury and tossing it in the air, there was a click followed by the red light that the balls released. Standing a few feet from Skuntank was a rather large red, orange, and yellow pokémon.

" Yougan, burn it all down…" The large fire pokémon grinned while raising it's cannon like arm and started to fire large blast of fire.

'Burn baby burn!' Yougan laughed, still firing it's fire even thou the building was already starting to burn.

Skuntank was growing dizzy from the sheer heat the pokémon was emitting, the air it was showing the heat waves coming off of its body. It was at that moment the man bent down to Skuntank's eye level, looking him straight in his eyes, the poison pokémon even noticed the man was wearing glasses.

"Our friend Mini is going to love you big guy." Raising the red and white ball to Skuntank's face, the man gave a small smirk, Bree the Chatot seemed to be giving him an eerie smile also.

"Welcome to the team, from now on your names going to be Granger."

The newly dubbed Granger gave off a low sigh knowing full well there was nothing he could do in his condition, even if he could….would he really want to. Feeling a hard tug Granger was sucked into the odd void that was the pokéball.

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"Jackie! Where's my leather jacket!" shouted a rather pissed off seventeen year old girl, wavy shoulder length red hair somewhat of a mess as she searched her room.

"I think it's on the coat rack by the door sweetie." a rather air voice said from another room in the house.

Giving a huff in annoyance Shan Wells looked into the mirror, giving her appearance a once over before collecting her backpack and jacket. She wore a black long sleeved shirt with the words 'Fun University' written on it, worn and torn jeans, and one black and one white shoe…the black shoe had an angel draw on it, while the white one had skulls decorating it.

Grabbing her somewhat larger than normal backpack off of her bed, she walked rather quickly to the front door. But not before stopping to glare at the rather large man sleeping on the living room couch.

Yanking her brown leather jacket with fur lining off of the coat rack Shan shouted towards the houses kitchen "Jackie I'm leaving tell Mike. I'll see you two when hell freezes over."

The air voice called back from the kitchen, the woman didn't seem to be paying attention "Yeah…yeah, make sure your back before dinner sweetie.", Shan rolled her eyes while pulling her jacket on and slammed the door shut as she walked out of the house muttering foul words about her Aunt and Uncle under her breath.

'Finally…I'm about to just…go.' Shan thought picking up a rock off the ground and bouncing it in her palm a few times. Catching it she then chucked it threw the top widow of the house next to the one she just walked out of.

"Hey! Mac! Get the fuck down here it's time to go!"

Nothing happened, no one responded back, no one came to check who the hell threw a rock threw there window…nothing. Growling under her breath and muttering a few cusses Shan stomped up to the houses front door, putting on her best innocent face and knocked.

Seconds later a somewhat tall middle aged blue haired woman answered the door, Shan gave Jenny Herbs a somewhat lopsided smile.

"Hey Mrs. Herbs, is Mac ready to go?"

Jenny raised an eyebrow at her sons friend giving the young girl a small frown "He never mentioned going anywhere to me…"

Fake tears started to well up in Shan's eyes "B-B-But he promised me he'll travel with me…on…on my journey…" The red head gave a small sniff and hung her head, her hair falling forward.

Jenny growled under her breath before stomping back into her house, she turned around so quick she didn't catch the small smirk that appeared on Shan's lips.

Pretty soon Jenny's shouting from upstairs could be heard from outside. Suddenly there was a crash and the yelling stopped rather quickly after that, Shan took one large step to the side.

Right when she moved two blurs where thrown out of the open door, Shan leaned over to look threw the open door, giving a small wave of her hand "Thanks Mrs. Herb."

Jenny smiled back "It's nothing sweetie, that boy really needs to get out of this house and have a life…I was hoping to get him interested in police work. But if going on a trainers journey with you is what it takes to get that boy doing something then I'm all for it."

The mother then looked at the things she tossed out of the door "See you when your journey's finished!" Jenny gave a laugh and slammed the door.

The red head was laughing as she looked at the eighteen year old boy on the ground…then kicked him in the shin.

"Get up you lazy basterd we a have two day walk to Sandgem and the Lab."

"Screw…you…Shan." the boy on the ground grumbled standing up. The teen was several inches taller than Shan 5'5 …yet she could still kick his ass…with shoulder length dark blue hair.

His dark brown eyes focused on Shan in an evil glare wishing harm to come to the girl while he placed his green and brown bureau onto his head. He was wearing a green scarf that somewhat hide is chin, a black turtle neck sweatshirt under a buttoned up brown vest. Over the brown vest was a dark green jacket with a rather…artsy design of the legendary pokémon Rayquaza on it's back, Shan herself bought that jacket and forced Mac to wear it…seems he's gotten used to it now. Finishing off his not so stylish outfit were long black jeans with brown patches on his knees , and greed shoes.

Shan gave Mac and grin before grabbing his scarf, pulling him closer and smacking the back of his head rather hard.

" Don't be like that Mac, we have a journey to start, so get your bag. We're leaving this shit-hole hic town and seeing the world."

Mac crossed his arms, his glare not wavering from her "I told you two days ago I'm not go-ack!"

Shan didn't want to hear his whining and started to walk…still hold Mac's scarf in her hand, dragging him along behind her.

"Shan…can't…breath!" the green wearing teen gagged.

"Oh shut up you wuss we have a journey to start!"

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Okay hope that was to bad, and I hope you readers liked it. Now to my One Piece fic fans DRNA will be updated again later this weekend.

Now to the people reading this (Gray Line) did you like it? Hate it? What do you think of the glimpse into two of the villains and there teams? What do you think of my main characters Shan and Mac? They weren't mary-sue were they?

NEXT CHAPTER! Meet the starters, Dresden and Law! Who are they and what are they like!?

Now here's a poll from yours truly…which start will Shan get? And which will Mac get? (Take note that I already know what each of there teams are going to be, and I've already written the first five chapters of this story.)

Now that, that's done review! No flames but criticism on what I did right and what I did wrong will be nice.