Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. Everything in this story is written by myself with some assistance in correcting grammar and the sorts.
Steven Stone is on the rocky coasts of Mossdeep in search of stones. These aren't regular stones that one can injure someone with if thrown. The stones that he is looking for are evolutionary stones, the ones that help specific Pokémon reach a new stage of evolution. The man with silver hair looks up into the night sky with an almost perfect view of the Moon.
"It's getting late. Time to head home," he says to the beldum floating behind him.
The duo make their trip back to the stairs that leads them back to the city. They ascend the steps slowly to take in the view that only appears on winter nights. Beldum takes the lead as they climb the final step and continues ahead of Steven towards the direction of his home. The sound of running from a pair of footsteps catches his attention as the calm night goes on in silence. With a sense of curiosity he makes a detour to where he believes the sound came from. Steven notices that the path he is on leads him to the Space Center.
"C'mon Beldum," he turns to his partner. "Let's check it out," he points in the general direction of the giant center.
Steven, now in the lead, walks faster than usual as the sound of someone running gets louder. The noise escalates until he hears the footsteps as if they were next to him, but there is no one in sight. Now at a run, he goes to the collection of trees to see if someone is running on the other side, but still, no one. A sense of panic begins to rise in his chest as he runs to the Space Center. He starts ascending the large set of stairs skipping a few with every step. A few more steps and he reaches the top. . Steven finally sees two figures, presumably the ones who made the sounds earlier, covered by the shadow cast by the clouds blocking the moonlight. A slight gasp sounds from the figure on the right, a woman from what he can tell.
"What are you two doing?" Steven questions them before slowly walking towards them.
The person on the left quickly grabs the woman next to him and runs towards the cliffs. Before he can even react, the figure throws a pokeball into the sky and releases a walrein into the ocean below them.
"Use Ice Beam!" the figure says with a rough voice.
The man's walrein releases a beam of ice directed at the cliff then cascades down towards the ocean creating a makeshift slide. The pair lock hands as they run towards the wall of ice. Steven begins his chase, but it is too late. They jump onto the ice and make their way down to the ocean where their Pokémon awaits. The two climb into a wooden boat that must have been previously set before their arrival on the island.
Steven runs to the edge of the cliff. "Why are you running?" He screams his question into the night.
Without receiving so much as a response, he turns around looking in the direction from where they ran from. His beldum is near the entrance to the Space Center where it is currently hovering around what looks to be a basket of some sort. There is no point in running seeing as how those people left, and it is eleven at night. A few steps in Beldum's direction, he can clearly see that it is, in fact, a basket. His pace slows down as he nears the object. He squats down to inspect the ordinary looking basket when he hears movement from inside.
Once again curiosity catches his interest and he quickly removes the lid to find a small child. A boy or maybe a girl. He can't really tell without some form of lighting. It finally clicks in his head that the two figures that just escaped are this child's parents, and they just abandoned their child at maybe one of the best places to do the worst thing possible. After gathering the basket into his arms, he makes his trek back to his original destination—home.
Steven's house is stationed on one of the cliffs that overlook the ocean in the direction of Lilycove City. Being quite famous, Steven's home is two stories high, a basement, and a backyard being the Shoal Cave. Inside his house, the bottom floor consists of a spacious living room filled with collections of rocks from over the Pokémon world and one stone, or actually a meteorite, from space. His collection is something he is very proud of along with being the former champion of the Hoenn League. In a few years, he will begin is journey in search of a new stones that have surfaced in the Kalos region. Inside the living room are three doors, one positioned opposite of the entrance leading to the kitchen, and two on the left side with the closer one being a bathroom and the farther one being a closet.
The basement has been converted into his own personal study. Steven believes that being one with rocks helps with understanding their nature. Inside the study is a large oak desk with a new laptop sitting on its center. Flanking the laptop are large stacks of paper with research on the currently known evolutionary stones. Behind the desk is a large chair that is state of the art on the level of comfort and is customized to match is love of stones. On the wall opposite to the desk is a large screen that is often used for meetings or talks with Professor Birch. Alongside all the walls of the den are shelves that carry books detailing the founding of evolutionary stones, reports from researchers from abroad, and studies of Pokémon belong to the ground, rock, and steel type.
The second floor is where all the living quarters are. After ascending the steel set of stairs is a lounge where one can just sit on with two couches that sit a few meters apart. Between the couches is a coffee table made of sycamore. All of these sit atop of a large rug with a portrait of Mount Silver and the Tohjo Falls. Past the lounge area is a large hall with a single door on the left, two doors on the right, and a single door at the end of the hall.
The door on the left is his room with a king sized bed covered in grey and blue sheets similar to the color of beldum. His rock collection continues from his living room with one of every type of evolutionary stone. A small library sits at the wall adjacent to the window that looks out to the cave. On the opposite side of his room are two guest rooms that decorated the same with a bed and red sheets. A desk sits against the wall with the window looking out towards the town. A TV hangs from the corner of the room and a small library of magazines that would entertain a reader for a short amount of time.
Steven arrives at the entrance of his house and slowly inserts his key into the door while carefully balancing the basket in one arm. The sound of the door unlocking brings relief to him. After once again balancing the basket in one arm, he removes the key and places it back into his pocket. Carefully taking off his shoes, he places them by the entrance and then ascends the steel staircase to enter one of the guest rooms.
Slowly placing the basket onto the bed he pushes aside the sheets and makes room for the arrival of small boy with black hair and a patch of blonde near the crown of his head. With great care, he manages to lift the child out of the basket and lay him down on the bed. Now going back to the box, Steven finds a pokeball and a letter that has been folded into three. First, he grabs the pokeball and places it on the nightstand sitting next to the bed. Then, he grabs the letter and unfolds it. In it he finds a letter from his parents that just escaped the island.
Inside the letter reads, "This is the only way we could have continued living, the costs of taking care of our child and ourselves is too much. Poverty has broken this family apart and abandoning our child is the last thing we would do. Please take care of him and treat him as if he is your own. We are sorry and we will forever be in debt to you. The child's name is Aslan Cornwallis and he is now yours."