It had been two hours since Red and Green left the harbor of Vermillion City, bound for the region of Hoenn. The very first thing Red did after the ship began moving, was catch up with Green on what he had missed over the past three years.
-Red and Green's Cabin-
Red sat down on the bed, a look of shock on his face that he'd been hiding since he heard the news about Blue, covered his face.
"I still can't get over it! Blue is a gym leader!" Green laughed at Red's bewildered look as he continued "I mean, just looking at him, you'd think he'd join the Elite Four or something! But a GYM LEADER?!"
"His loss against you in the Indigo Plateau really made him think about his methods." Green said as she got up and looked out their cabin window "He went back to the Professor's lab for one year, studying and training from the beginning, got eight badges again and became champion again all with his current team." She sighed and sat down in the cozy chair underneath the window. "One year after that he trained harder and became Viridian City's Gym Leader as he is now."
Red groaned as the ship began rocking, suddenly feeling a bit sea sick, and got up. "I'm gonna go get some air. I'll be on deck if you need me." Green watched Red leave the room and sighed "He STILL get's sea sick?"
-On deck-
Red groaned heavily as he looked out over the sea. He never was good with ships, even a light rocking motion made him very dizzy.
"Sea sick?"
Red slowly looked to his left and found a boy his age sitting on one of the deck chairs, a fishing rod sitting next to him, line cast out over the edge of the ship. The boy wore a black short sleeve hoodie with a strange looking red design covering the sleeves and simple green camo baggy pants. A straw hat covered his face, minus his mouth.
"I can tell. You see a lot of different kinds of people on boat's like these. If you look and listen carefully, you'll learn lot's about people." The boy patted a deck chair next to him on the other side of his fishing rod "Grab a seat and rest a bit." Hoping for any form of aid, Red quickly plopped down on the chair and sighed as the dizziness began fading. He turned to the boy "Thanks. I'm Red, from Kanto. I'm on-"
"A trip to Hoenn. I know." Red watched as the boy's mouth curled up into a grin as Red shot him a surprised look "I heard you and that orange haired guy talking about it before the boat left." The boy suddenly lifted the straw hat off his face, revealing azure eyes and messy silver hair. "Kira Thantos. Unova region. I'm traveling around the world."
The two shook hands. "Unova….. I've never heard of that region. Is that up north?" Kira laughed and shrugged "Dunno for sure. I've got a terrible sense of direction. For all I know, Unova could be underground…." He suddenly sat up and began a thinking pose "But then…..how would I have gotten on this ship? How would anyone-" He was quickly broken out of his thoughts as the fishing rod began dragging along the ground. "Hold that thought!" Kira yelled as he quickly grabbed the rod and began pulling.
A few seconds later and a Sharpedo was yanked out of the water. Many people on the deck yelled/screamed/fainted as the shark Pokemon landed. "Nice catch." Red commented, watching Kira untangle the Sharpedo from the line. "Aye, but it's not the Pokemon I'm looking for." Kira replied tossing Sharpedo back into the sea and restringing the fishing rod. Kira cast the line again, sat down in his chair, and sighed "I was hoping to find Kyogre around these seas, but I guess not. That was my seventy-sixth catch."
He pulled out a small black book and marked something on a page "And that was the twenty-third Sharpedo." Red chuckled a little and nodded to Kira "You've been at this for quite a while, huh?" Kira grinned in response before setting his straw hat back on his face and leaned back in his chair "Well, it'd be boring if I found it so quickly." Red slowly looked up at the sky "What kind of Pokemon is Kyogre? Is it rare?"
"Rare? It's a legendary Pokemon!" Red tilted his head slightly further back and found Green staring down at him. "Legendary? Like Mewtwo or Articuno?" Green nodded and sat down in front of Red "It's counter-part is called Groundon. I don't know what type it is. I DO know that Kyogure is a Pokemon you won't find by fishing!"
Kira suddenly bolted upright, a shocked look on his face. Green shot Kira a surprised look "Don't tell me, you thought fishing would work?" Kira suddenly began grumbling about water Pokemon and their sneakiness. "Well that's good to know. That's knocked the list of places to search by a lot. Thanks, Grass Green!"
Green's eye twitched and she glared at him "It's LEAF Green! And how did you know my name anyway?" Red chose that moment to chime in "He's good at learning stuff like that." Green's eye twitched again "I see…" Kira laughed "Relax! We still have a good ten hours' till we reach the Johto region!" He handed Green the fishing rod "Grab a seat! Catch some water Pokemon! Have a good time!"
Green and Red glanced at each other nervously then at Kira "Um…. This ships heading for Hoenn." Poor, poor Kira….
"DAMMIT! I'M ON THE WRONG BOAT AGAIN!"
-A few hours later. Evening. On deck-
Kira was amazed at Greens fishing skills. Despite being completely new to fishing, she had landed some very rare catches.
"That makes seven Seaking's, three Feebas, nine Relecanth and a Milotic, that one was awesome by the way." Kira remarked as he made a dash under a page he had dubbed 'Green's fishing catches'. Green laughed as she cast the line again. Red sweatdropped "And to think, this is the first time she's ever gone fishing…."
Red and Green quickly became friends with Kira as time went by. All three eventually began a fishing contest to see who had the best fishing skills. Unsurprisingly, Green won with another Milotic catch. As time passed, the three swapped stories of the beginning of their journeys.
"And the same Team Rocket leader was the Viridian City gym leader? How did the Pokemon association allow that?" Kira asked with a surprised look.
Red gave a tired shrug "Dunno. I guess they didn't know Giovanni was a criminal organization leader until after he resigned. Sure surprised me." "So who's the current Gym Leader?" Kira asked, writing down what Red had told him. When Red suddenly adopted a far away look in his eyes, Green sighed and rolled her eyes "Viridian's current leader is Water Blue."
"Ah." Kira began with a nod and began writing again "And he's the same rival Red battled against numerous times over your journey…. interesting." Green nodded in response, before pointing at Kira "So what about you? What was your journey like?" Kira laughed "I'm on it right now! Unova recently became part of the Gym Leader branch, meaning we're still getting Gym Leaders, so till they get that set up, I'm just traveling and searching for rare Pokemon and collecting other region's badges."
Red suddenly snapped out of it "Why are you looking for a Pokemon like Kyogre? Are you trying to catch it?" Kira grinned at Red's question and patted the small bag sitting next to his chair "Good lord no. I've already got my dream team! I may be just starting my travels, but my team is set. I'm just searching for it for fun!"
Green suddenly yawned and Red looked at his pokegear "Oh man! It's already midnight? We better get some sleep!" Kira smiled and nodded "Sorry, I kept you two up too late." Red and Green both shook their heads "No problem! We had fun! Right, Green?" Red said as he got up and stretched. Green yawned again and gave a smiling nod to Kira before heading for their cabin. Kira waved to Green before settling back into his deck chair and placing his straw hat back over his face.
Red gave Kira a strange look "Your not going to go back to your cabin?" Kira smiled and shrugged "Don't need one. The star's are awesome right now." "Hmmm, suit yourself. I hope we meet again in Hoenn, Kira." Red said with a shrug as he turned and walked down the nearby steps. Kira chuckled lightly and held up a small pokeball. It was purple on top and had two small red circles across the top, along with a large M in between the circles.
"I'm sure we will, Flaming Red. I'm sure we will."
The fishing rod suddenly began jerking towards the edge of the ship.
"Dammit! Get back here!"
-Near the Lillycove city docks. 7:30 am-
Green yawned and stretched as she exited her cabin. "Come on Red! The ship's nearly there!" If one looked over the edge of the ship, they would see a small port coming into view. Small fishing boats could be seen getting out of the way of the large ships path as it moved closer and closer. Red groaned as he rolled out of bed and onto the floor.
"Rocking motion….go on without me…..save yourself…."
Green rolled her eyes, she seemed to be doing that a lot lately, and sighed. For the record, she did that a lot too. "Oh, stop being so melodramatic! I'll wait for you on deck!" She sighed again and turned only to smack right into one of the sailor's who ran the ship.
"Ouch! Sorry sir!" Green exclaimed as she quickly helped the sailor up. The sailor laughed it off and smiled "Don't you worry little miss! We sailor's won't be shaken up by a mere bump!" Green couldn't help noticing a VERY familiar looking fishing pole in the sailors left hand. "Oh! That pole…."
The sailor looked at the pole, then to Green "You wouldn't happen to be Grass Green would you?" Green's eye twitched and slowly nodded. The sailor quickly thrust the fishing pole into her hand's along with a small envelope. "A 'Kira Thantos' told me to give you these two items. He left in quite a hurry, so I was unable to ask why. Have a nice trip little miss!" The sailor quickly saluted her and continued down the corridor.
"That little…." Green growled as she tore open the envelope and opened the folded up letter inside.
Dear Grass Green and Flaming Red.
Sorry I couldn't see you off the ship, but I had some buisness to take care of that couldn't wait. Anyway, Green, you must be surprised that you received my fishing pole. Don't worry about it, I can always get another one and you seemed to have fun with fishing, so I'm giving you mine. Consider it a welcome gift to Hoenn. We'll probably see each other down the road since I'm taking the gym challenge here in Hoenn like Red is. (Might as well as long as I'm stuck here.)
I'd like to battle the both of you sometime, but currently we (That is, me and my team.) are preparing for travel along with the important buisness, so you probably won't see me for a while. Well that's all for now I think….yeah I'm pretty sure. Alright then, see you both later!
K.T
P.S: Just remembered something, considering what I've learned about Red, he's most likely in bed with sea sickness right? Tell him to take three deep breaths and stare at the ceiling/sky (Depending on where you are.) for exactly twenty seconds. It's merely a temporary fix won't last longer than ten minutes….give or take. Alright, now I'm really finishing.
P.P.S: Sorry, I lied. Have you seen my straw hat? Blew off my head a bit earlier and I haven't been able to locate it.
Green quickly stuffed the letter into her bag (The Key Item's pouch!) with a huff, and dashed back into the cabin.
-A few hours later…..give or take. Somewhere above Slateport City….. In the sky...-
"I am never getting on a boat ever again…"
"You said the same thing on the S.S ANNE, and you said it again during the short vacation the Sevii Island. Face it, Red. You can't escape boats."
The two were now flying high in the sky atop Green's Pidgeot, which for the record she had lovingly named 'Steve'. It had taken them longer than expected to get to where they were now due to a rain storm that was attacking the route near Lillycove, which just happened to be in the direction the two were heading.
"If this map is correct, we should be above Slateport city. That's a little to the east of Littleroot Town." Red confirmed looking over a map he had received from Professor Oak a day before they left for Hoenn. Green nodded and patted Steve's back lightly "A little to the right, please?" Steve nodded and altered his flight path with a mighty flap of his wings. "I still can't believe you gave them different names." Red said looking over the map and giving Steve a curious look. Green smiled and hugged Steve "Why not? I think it's cute! Besides, Steve isn't the only one who's name's I've changed!"
Red gave a defeated sigh and went back to the map while Green pulled out five pokeballs and smiled at them. "Don't listen to the mean boyfriend! You guy's rule whether your names are different or not!" Nether of them noticed, but Steve puffed out his chest a bit as he flew onward.
A half hour later, Steve began circling high above a small town below. Red looked over the side and frowned "Think that's the place?" Green looked over the other side and nodded "I think so. Grandpa said the town would be small and surrounded by forest!"
-Meanwhile….. Down below….-
A boy about the same age as Red wearing a red sweater and black pants jumped out from the trunk of a large van and stretched his limbs happily, wiping some dust from his white hat. "We finally made it! Littleroot Town!" A woman quickly came out of a nearby house and smiled "Enjoy the trip Brendan? Sorry about making you come all this way in the back of the moving van. Your father needed some help with moving into the Petalburg Gym."
Brendan laughed and hugged the woman "Don't worry about it mom! I understand how busy father is. Beside's, the Machoke tell funny stories about their trainer's!" Brendan's mother rolled her eyes "Again with your jokes. People are gonna think your strange if you keep it up!" Brendan suddenly frowned and glared at the woman.
"I'm not telling jokes! I CAN understand what Pokemon say!"
His mother laughed and ushered him into the house, it was a spacious home with a second floor all to himself. "Go check out your room while the moving Pokemon finish unpacking. Make sure you set your alarm clock too!"
Brendan grumbled about his ability being real as he climbed the stairs leading to his room. He barely cast a glance at the clock and moved the hands wherever he pleased before grabbing a potion from his PC and descending the stairs.
His ear's picked up the all to familiar sounds of the news on TV as he entered the living room. Being the son of a gym leader meant he heard about his father on the news a lot, along with news on the other gym leaders around the world. Cable was awesome like that.
There his father was, looking all too uncomfortable in front of the news crew on TV. Brendan laughed mentally as he wondered if he would be the same when he became a gym leader.
We brought you this report live in front of Petalburg gym!
"Oh….it's over." His mother sighed as she switched the TV off. "Your father was being interviewed about taking the gym leader post. Don't worry, I recorded it for you."
If anyone asked him if he recorded every news clip on gym leaders, Brendan would quickly deny it. The three boxes up in his room told a completely different story.
"Oh yes! One of Norman's friends lives in town. Professor Birch is his name. He lives right next door, so you should go over and introduce yourself." Brendan sighed as he got up and left the house.
On one hand, he had a chance to become friends with a friend of his fathers…. On the OTHER hand, the second Brendan was asked if he had any talents, he would say he could understand Pokemon, without hesitation, Which always lead to him losing friends just as quickly as he made them.
Spotting the house easily, Brendan knocked on the door twice and smiled as a woman opened the door. "Oh hello, and you are?" Brendan smiled and nodded "I'm Brendan. My family just moved next door."
The woman mirrored Brendan's smile and motioned for him to come in. "Oh, your Brendan, our new next door neighbor! Please come in!" Brendan sweatdropped as she echoed his introduction, but entered the house anyway. The inside mirrored his home in every way for some reason.
"We have a daughter about your age." The woman began as she moved to the kitchen. "She was excited about making a new friend. I think she might be upstairs at the moment. She's usually out with her father doing research, but she wanted to stay home and meet you." Brendan nodded and ascended the strangely familiar looking stairs.
Why does her room resemble mine? Brendan thought as he looked around the upstairs room.
"Hi! Are you our neighbor?"
A girl about his age wearing a blue t-shirt, white shorts and a bandana matching her shirt, quickly got up from the desk she was sitting at and rushed over to greet him. "U-Uh, yeah! I'm Brendan. I moved here with my family from Johto. What's your name?"
The girl smiled and bowed slightly "I'm May!" She looked at him with sparkles in her eyes "This is so awesome! Finally a person my age! Everyone here is ether too old or too young to be friends!" May suddenly blushed faintly and looked down at her feet "We can be friends, right?" Brendan mentally shrugged, it's not like he had to tell her about his ability. "Of course!" He replied with a smile. May turned slightly redder and quickly pumped her fists into the air. "Awesome!"
She suddenly gasped and looked at her clock on the wall. THAT RESEMBLES MY CLOCK! Brendan noted.
"Oh no! I completely forgot! I was supposed to help dad catch some wild Pokemon!" Next thing Brendan knew, May was in front of an open window leading into a bunch of tree's. "I'll catch you later, Brendan!" She said before jumping out.
"Lame pun!" Came a voice from below. Not the Brendan paid any attention to the voice.
-Meanwhile…AGAIN!-
"That's it Steve, nice and easy…."
The two had finally decided to land, after a few minutes of searching for the letter Blue had given Red that had somehow become lost in his bag. Needless to say, they found it.
Red sighed and kissed the ground after jumping down from the bird Pokemon. His arms then shot into the air.
"LAND!"
Green blushed in embarrassment as several people began looking in his direction strangely. "Cut it out! Your embarrassing me!" Green hissed as she returned Steve. She then smacked his head.
"Um, hi!"
Green turned and smiled down at a little girl that had walked up to them.
"There are scary Pokemon outside! I can hear their cries!" Red and Green quickly heard a loud barking noise coming from the forest. The girl suddenly looked scared. "I want to go see what's going on, but I don't have any Pokemon…" Red, being experienced with this kind of thing, quickly stood up and patted the girl's head. He then turned to Green "Stay here, I'll go check it out, see if you can find the professor."
"But Red! You don't have any-" Green began as Red quickly ran into the forest. She slapped her head and sighed.
"That moron!"
Green never noticed a boy with a white hat run past her as she was pulled into a tour of the town by the little girl.
Reader's may be confused as to why I changed Pidgeot to Steve. Green will be using my nuzlocke team from FireRed. Yes I DID name my Pidgey, Steve when I caught it! I like Steve. Next chapter's already being written. Read and review.