A/N: So this is an idea that's been floating around in the void of my head for some time. I'll just ask you all work with me on it and wait patiently for me to figure out how to draw it out nicely. I know where it's going and how it's going to get there, so hopefully this will be fun.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any of the characters in the manga, series, or the anime, nor the games. I do however, own Kathy.

Prologue:
Rogue

"Well… that's it… it's officially expired Blue."

A moment of silence followed and a sigh rang through the air. A blue fingerless-gloved hand held a trainer license, the sun glinting off of it from the spot they were perched at. The beam reflecting up onto the cave wall that covered them for the time being. A light breeze moved through the air, causing the card in hand to shift silently before blue eyes stared at it with a bored look, "Years later and the thing finally goes bad…"

A soft sound of comfort from behind her made a magenta hair covered head tilt towards it, pink lips pulling into a small frown before the woman heaved another sigh, "Yeah… I suppose it doesn't really matter any more though…" A shifting occurred and the long serpent like body of her companion, a dark blue with a white belly, rested soon behind her back, "Don't worry about it, I'll be okay." The tip of the tail of the creature reached up, resting on her shoulder. Her head rested against one of the two large dark blue beads that felt cold to the touch, but yet vibrated slightly with power.

"It nothing to worry about, nothing but a 'thing.'" A flicking motion of the wrist caused the card to go whizzing out over the edge of the cliff, Kathy Flyer's feet pulling underneath her for her to stand, the tail of the Dragonair she traveled with dubbed 'Blue,' falling to the side on the cliff side she had settled on for the night before. Quietly she stretched out, standing on the tip of her boots while raising her hands high above her head. The wind catching underneath her vest, a dark blue cotton with two Dragonair wings on the back and orange fluff on the collar, causing it to blow backwards.

Blue watched uninterested for the moment before looking out towards the rising sun. A soft grunt coming from him, his eyes following the card as it continued to whizz downward at terminal velocity, flicking however once the wind would hit it and traveling further and further away.

Trainer: Kathy Flyer
Age: 15
Date: April 1, 2002
Expiration Date: April 1, 2016
Licensed Pokémon Trainer.

Blue's eyes turned towards the woman who had become his partner for the past eight years, watching as her hands dropped to her sides from over her head, and she rocked on her heels, a sleepy look on her 29 year old face. The singular pokéball that she used to carry Blue around at times bouncing on her collar as it hung on a chain around her neck, just above the dip down that her white t-shirt took, dirt stains cover it here and there from the climb up.

The Dragon had decided he would rather fly up than give her a ride up. Not an uncommon thing when she said something smart to him at an unwise time, so for hours she had struggled herself up to the side of the cliff wall in free climb, the 13' foot lizard as she so favorably would call him while irritated, basking in sun ignoring this fact, until he watched as her body crawled, struggled, and clawed its way up over the edge where he had been resting.

Now she had dust from the climb yesterday, and as he inhaled, an irritated flick of his tail occurring, a need to bathe as well. Blue glanced down, staring as the expired training license flicked out of existence below trees and rock, and then back towards the woman.

Kathy crossed her arms, and her lips pulled into a slight smirk, a chortle exiting her causing her shoulders to shake. "Guess that means we're going rogue, eh Blue?" Now a bright smile took her face, making the Dragonair give a high pitched sound of delight, head bobbing up and down and light glinting off the pearl under his jaw. "Yeah… no licensed battles if we run into one, almost borders on illegal…" She then gave a snicker before starting to have, hands moving behind her head, "But there isn't anything that can catch us once we hit the skies!" Her hand moved up towards the Dragonair, Blue's face coming down and nose pressing to her hand before she turned, resting her forehead against his own, feeling his body curl lightly around her in a display of affection that had grown over time.

The two of them could fight like Persians and Growlithes, however rarely was it ever a serious fight, nothing that couldn't be solved with a smack to the back of the head by a tail, or a long quiet walk and a few moments of separation. They had been together for a long time after all, and because of that the bond they shared, one made in blood, tears, and trust, had not been broken once by any of their arguments.

Just because Kathy's training license had expired, didn't mean it would change that. Smiling she left him to move towards the back of the cave in the side of the cliff, Blue following quietly behind. She grasped two leather footpads with soft silk underneath sewn into them. Lifting up the center length of his body to assist, Blue watched as she attached quietly each of them around him, softly tanned buttered leather being belted quietly as the woman worked in securing them. He was in the mood to allow her to ride him today, and should that change, he had no doubt there was a lake he could find that he could fling her down into after a few clever tail movements to cut her loose. Lowering his head he allowed her, once her feet placements were secured, to grasp his neck collar. The collar itself was also a belted band of soft leather with silk sewn to make it comfortable around his neck.

The original designs of the collar had been improvised after many an unsuccessful testing, back in the beginning when he had originally evolved into a Dragonair five years ago. The design now called for his comfort, as well as straps of durable leather. She would, once standing and balanced, strap those to her waist band of her own belt on her brown cargo shorts and use the other two for steering, one on each side of his neck.

It had taken some time to get Blue used to that… and one of those incidents where Kathy tried to push him into it had landed her with a broken arm, an angry nurse, and a rather irate Dragonair that refused to come out of his pokéball. In fact if she could recall correctly, as she had taken several hits to the head that day as well from Blue's tail because he went into a rage, if she released him out of it, he would press the button with his tail and quietly just go back in.

Usually she just sat back for the ride now, they rarely had anywhere they absolutely had to go after all, and just let him pick where would go. At 29 years old, Kathy had long since had her Pokémon adventure… and she was in no rush to go on another one. She was content, and out of her Pokémon catching days. After all, I failed as it is… She reached into her cargo shorts' big pocket on her right thigh and pulled out a map of the continent, eyes lidded and bored as she unfolded it. There were marks and creases that had ate away some of the color of it at the folds, the map more than likely just aging on ten years old, the corner of it burned away, blocking where the compass used to be, and she laid it out on the ground after crouching and resting her elbows on her knees, a groan exiting her in the process.

"Alright Blue, we're here." She pointed towards a location in a mountain range that laid just inside of the Kanto border before crossing over to Johto, her eyes turning up towards him, before looking back down, "I picked last time, where do you wanna go this time?" Blue leaned down, staring quietly and intensely at the map. She could see him thinking behind thos crystalline eyes he had, a lighter blue rather than the amethyst she was used to seeing in the bred. Soon his tail came up, and he pointed quietly towards a single mountain.

"…If my mind serves me right… that's gonna be a helluva ride. Nasty winds and storms." Kathy's hand came up and she rested her chin on her palm watching him without turning her head up, before he let his tail move and hover before resting back on the ground with a 'thump.' Blue however turned to her, watching her own expressions in thought. For a few moments they were quiet, a pondering silence lingering, before she turned back to the map and began to fold it up uncaringly all the same, shoving it back in her pocket with a shrug. "But whatever, Mount Quena it is then." She moved back towards him and secured the final belt, the one that made it so his body wouldn't just slip out of the foot holds, and the one around his neck before she lifted herself up, catching Blue watching her with an intense gaze. It was a gaze she had gotten used to from him over the years, ever since he was a Dratini really.

They never talked about it, the day she had found him and he had, inadvertently, found her. That night in the rain, just outside of the Fuchsia City Safari Zone in Kanto years ago. She felt him begin to shift as she planted her feet on top of him, securing the belts on top of her shoes and letting out a low breath as she kept her weight up off her feet. Leaning forward with practiced and learned balance. She began to secure the belts along her waist, and watched as he lifted his head up and back, making it easier for her reach for the reigns she held attached to him.

As she attached the cuffs at the end of each reign around her wrist, and then grasped hold, she let out a breath of relief. Blue jolting forward however the cliff's edge caused her to suck it right back in as her body tensed and fell into a wide foot balanced stance across his back, the belts on her feet shifting appropriately to allow her to compensate for the dive of his serpent like body, face turning forward and eyes stinging from the rushing air that roared in her ears, feeling her hair raise up off her neck and billow behind her and her vest flutter from the air now ripping through it.

As the trees below the cliff they had perched upon came up to meet them rapidly, she gently pulled back on the reigns, feeling Blue instinctively pull his body up from the dive as she leaned forward and he shot off over the tree tops. A smile breaking her face she called out over the wind, "So Do You Have Any Idea How To Get There?" She then quickly shut her mouth out of the fear of a bug flying down and hitting her in the back of the throat. It wouldn't be the first time.

She got a calming reassured hum from the dragon who twisted rapidly, her feet tensing and her body stiffening in spots so she was able to ride through it with a laugh (rather than a scream or instinct pain from being jerked) before he shot towards the cliff and then directly up the face of it. She used her body to lean forward, hands clenching onto the reigns and using her feet to make her parallel to him by leaning in on her toes before he leveled out once they breached the peak of it. The air thinner and she shut her eyes as she forced her breathing to slow and deepen in order to take as much in as possible. The wind resistance against her though pushed her back up straight and perpendicular to her partner while she maintained leaning slightly forward as he shot off over the mountaintops and towards the West.

"I guess so then." She murmured thoughtfully. She wondered what Blue might be up to this time, but really, she was always up for seeing or going to a new place. If only she knew what she would run into though when they would finally get to Mount Quena…

Maybe then she would have realized, that she should have picked this time.

A/N: And thus our Protagonist is introduced. Next chapter, Kathy comes across a rare Pokémon that she wasn't even aware existed, manages to crash into it's home, and who knows how much more chaos and shenanigans she and Blue get into. Please drop a comment or a review and let me know what you think and I will see you on the next chapter!