Beyond the Great Frontier
A simple story of brave trainers who went beyond the great fears of the unknown
"Please my Lady, you don't have to do this… it was an accident."
After shutting her suitcase, the young lady looked at her dear valet with concern in her eyes. She stared at the scars of the treatment he received last night at the hospital, each stitch on his forehead was a reminder of her mistake… a horrible and painful mistake.
"What did the doctor said?" asked the Lady looking at him.
"I already told you that it´s nothing, just a little scratch," the Valet gently moved the Lady and took the pink suitcase once again and started unpacking her clothes. "This is unnecessary, we all make mistakes and there is no point on traveling to Unova…"
"No, it's not like that, I have to do it," at that moment, the Lady took her clothes and started packing for the third time in a row. "I don't want to cause more accidents, or act like some kind of lifeless doll. I don't want to be surrounded by people telling me what to do every single day. I just cant live like this anymore!"
Shocked by her words, the valet looked at her while he stepped back. Was that the way she looked at him? An annoying servant of hers? Was he really one of those people that make her life miserable? Was he really hurting his dear, and secretly loved, Lady?
"Wait, I wasn't talking about you! It's the woman who cuts my hair, the other one who pick my clothes, and my mother that is always screaming at me…" the Lady said as she realised her mistake, she took his hands with tears rolling down her face for hurting the only friend she had in the entire world. "Please, don't think that I see you like that!"
The pink suitcase started to move slowly, her powers were striking again and he couldn't stop it. He looked at her eyes, she was crying and he knew that she wasn't happy with her lifestyle… he would do anything to stop her suffering… even if that meant letting her go. He bowed to her and said with heavy words:
"If that is your decision, I respect it; and don't worry, I believe you… excuse me, my Lady…"
He turned around and walked out of the room, regretting every single word that came out of his mouth. There was no turning back now, she would travel across the seas without knowing the feelings of her dear valet. If only she knew that his heart was only hers… but she didn't…
All she knew in that moment, when he closed the door of her room, was that her powers were starting to move her pink suitcase. That really scared her, the fact that she could not handle it was already going out of her control. Just like yesterday, when she accidentally threw a teacup that flew across the room and landed on the last person she wanted to hurt in the entire world… her dearest friend, Darach…
Chapter 1: Homesickness plus necessity equals to… Battle Frontier?
It all started in one afternoon, it was autumn in Unova and the leaves were flying all around the region. One member of the honorary Elite Four was far from noticing the nature surrounding her as she was looking at the clouds in the top of the Victory Road, thinking of how they looked like a magical castle in the sky. She thought of how the cold wind of winter would be embracing her home during this season of the year; after all, the seasons of Unova and Sinnoh were quite different.
Even though the skies of Unova are truly delightful, I can´t stop thinking about my beloved home, —the Lady thought with a bittersweet smile. With one graceful step, Caitlin turned around and headed once again to her training thinking about her team. She needed to improve it, even though Team Plasma was defeated, she knew that getting stronger was not an option anymore. She noticed a big change on her friends who were also trying to get a stronger team. She had Reuniclus, Musharna, Sigilyph, and (of course) her dearest Gothitelle. She remembered the wise advise of Alder, it's not about how many Pokemons you have, but how well you train them.
Alder… most likely the only person who had enough patience with me when everybody else gave up— she owed her career to him, and she knew that she would never be able to thank him enough.
Four years have passed since she left Sinnoh, the moment when her powers were so dangerous that it reached an outrageous point were innocent people, including herself, would get hurt. Cynthia Shirona did everything to help her, but it was helpless. Caitlin´s powers would go crazy every time the Sinnoh champion tried to guide her. For an odd reason, the Lady couldn't take any of the blonde champion´s advise—. I am sure that pride didn't let me, I felt so jealous when I first met her! She is so smart, strong and beautiful… Everything I want to be in my life.
Usually, Caitlin and her friends would train at the Victory Road, but they always took a different road that was closed for the general public. When Caitlin walked into the cave, an exploding sound of an exciting battle roared into her ears. Yup, they were here.
After descending some levels, the Lady saw the battle was between Marshal and Grimsley. Shauntal was sitting on a rock on the other side watching with a big smile with the company of her Snorunt. Wait, when did she caught a Snorunt?
The young lady quickly surrounded the battlefield and sat besides her friend on the hard and uncomfortable rock. Marshal was fighting with a Shroomish and on the other side, Grimsley had a Skorupi.
"Where were you?" Asked Shauntal as she hugged her new icy Pokemon, "You never wander off for hours, that´s Alder work."
"Well, lately I´ve been thinking about my home, quite a lot actually…" answered the Lady with a sad smile.
"Homesick?"
"Maybe… just a little," Caitlin wasn't a big fan of making a scene, she smile and watched her friends fight. "And seeing Grimsley fighting with a Pokemon from Sinnoh isn't really helping."
"You should go back and visit your family, a couple of weeks wouldn't hurt!"
"Thank you for being so sweet Shauntal, but no, I cant leave now," answered Caitlin crossing her arms feeling a bit cold. "We are in a middle of an important training and I need to find two more Pokemons to complete my team…"
"Use Poison Sting!" screamed Grimsley calling the attention of the ladies in the battlefield.
"Dodge it and use Tackle!" Shroomish quickly jumped avoiding the attack but didn't obeyed his trainer orders as he prepared his body with a glowing green energy. "Wait! Don't use Absorb!"
But it was too late, Shroomish used the grass type attack and it didn't affected Skorupi. The Poison Sting hit the little grass Pokemon and he was defeated. The little purple bug jumped with joy and pride looking at his trainer who carried him with a smile.
"Thank you so much Skorupi, now get a good rest" said Grimsley taking a Luxury Ball and returning his Pokemon, then he looked to his friend who was trying to get close to his new Pokemon. "So, he doesn't listen to your orders, huh."
"Yeah, I´ve been trying everything, but he doesn't listen…" the master of Fighting-type tried to pet his Pokemon, but the little one just got up and tried to tackle him… without succeeding by bouncing on his well defined muscles. "He also gets a little aggressive after loosing…"
"Hey don't worry! All you need its time, after all time can define any figure…" as soon as Shauntal finished her sentence, a loud scream came out of her mouth while she reached on her pocket a little notebook. She started writing in it and her little Snorunt peaked at it with curiosity. As Marshal returned his Shroomish to his Pokeball, he thought how cute his Ghost-type specialist friend looked when she was writing.
"Jeez, if I could get a coin for every time you get inspired because of us, I would have more than a hundred" said Grimsley a little annoyed with her loud voice.
"Oh please," Marshal rolled his eyes. "Quit saying things like that, it´s silly."
"You don't believe me? Then give me a coin every time Shauntal gets inspired because of us and you´ll see."
"Seriously?" those were the only words that could come out of his mouth for this nonsense.
"If you never try, you'll never know" Gimsley just smiled and extended his hand waiting for his friend respond.
He just sighed and took a single coin out of his pocket and gave it to his mocking friend.
"Shh! Shh! I´m trying to concentrate…" the ghost type master demanded.
Marshal and Caitlin smiled, Shauntal was lost in that moment in her "creative trance" where she would mumble some words to herself while writing in her notebook. Sometimes she would act quiet in those moments, in others she could be annoying and very impulsive without thinking.
"Well I´ll be damned!" said Grimsley in a dramatic voice, "the only and faithful champion has returned!"
"Oh your sarcasm," responded the one and only Alder Adeku, champion of Unova with a similar tone, "it´s the only thing that makes me wake up in the morning everyday. Anyway, how´s the training? Did I missed anything?"
"Not really," answered Shauntal without thinking, "only that Marshal lost to Grimsley and Caitlin is depressed."
That last statement was over exaggerated, but it was shocking enough to surprise her friends. Caitlin stared at her friend pretty annoyed, she made it sound like she wanted to jump in front of the Nimbassa subway! Sure, she was sad and sometimes it make her cry… but it was not that tragic and bad!
"Are you really depressed or Shauntal just mixed her fictional characters with us again?" asked Grimsley.
"N-no! I-I mean, I´m just a little homesick," replied Caitlin with a very nervous tone, she didn´t like this kind of attention. "I´m not depressed or anything!"
"Caitlin," said Alder calling her attention pointing to his own purple eyes, "have I ever told you that I can detect a lie with just one look?"
"Yeah… like three times today," Caitlin mumbled under her breath.
"Really? I can´t really recall…" Alder looked at the roof of the cave as he scratched his lazy Sunday beard. "I can´t be that forgetful."
"Wanna bet?" asked Grimsley. "What´s Marshal´s age?"
"32!" answered Alder with excitement, he was truly convinced of his answer.
"28…" corrected Marshal slightly blushing, both Caitlin and Shauntal giggled on his back as they knew how his Fighting-type specialist friend was a bit concerned of his older looking appearance.
"Well that´s funny, I bet none of you could tell my age…" but before Alder could finish his complaint, all the elite four answered at the same time:
"43."
"Though mentally, you are like 10 years old," added Grimsley with a slim smile.
"Anyway, as I was saying before…" said Alder pretty annoyed by the Dark-type specialist. "Caitlin, something that I do remember is that you haven't visited your home since you came here to Unova. Now that I think about it, why haven't you do it?"
Caitlin quickly bit her lip as she played with her hair, she was someone quiet reserved when it came to her personal feelings toward her home and sharing it in front of four people wasn't easy for her. The Psychic-type specialist was a grown young woman now, close to hit her 19th birthday, but there were times that she was just the same little shy girl she always has been.
"I don´t really feel comfortable going back there," she replied honestly. "I didn't left in the best terms possible and going back now its just so… weird and awkward."
"Caitlin, you had change quite a lot this last four years" said Marshal calmly with a smile. "Now you can fully control your powers and your patience its beyond its limits."
"Yeah, if you can bear Alder´s bad memory and his horrible jokes, you can take anything!" Grimsley truly knew how to light up the mood.
"My jokes are not as bad as your attitude," that answer made Caitlin and Marshal laugh, Shauntal was too busy writing in her little notebook. "If I can recall correctly, you used to live in the Battle Frotnier, am I right?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, I have an idea," before Alder could share his brilliant plan, Caitlin tapped lightly Shauntal´s head to get her attention back, she quickly pointed to the champion and now everyone in the tiny cave was listening to him. "How about if we go all together to Sinnoh?"
The four members of the elite four opened their mouths in surprise. That kind of idea was so unexpected and also very unheard of. Sure, Alder wasn't your typical well behaved champion… but he surely wasn't this kind of crazy.
"Leave Unova without the Elite Four and the champion?" asked Marshal.
"I know it sounds crazy, but the next league tournament wont take place in like… what? Eight months?" asked Alder, Caitlin nodded as she remembered the date. "The League Association has been on my back asking me for new innovated league events that can call the attention of trainers, and going to that kind of place will surely call people´s attention. You guys need to train but most importantly, Caitlin needs to visit her home. Everyone wins at the end."
As silence filled the room, Caitlin bit her lip with pure excitement. Of course she wanted to go back with her friends, confronting her past with her new allies would be the easiest way to do it. She also missed her parents so much, and a special someone she truly wanted to talk ages ago but couldn't find the courage to do it. If her friends said yes to the idea, finally she would have the strength she needed to reopen that lost chapter in her past and finally rewrite it making things write. She wanted her family to see her again not as the little fragile princess of the Battle Castle, but as the strong and brave Elite Four trainer she has become.
The Pokemon Champion League would not take place until June or July of next year depending how things went for the Association at the beginning of the semester (bureaucratic stuff that she never fully understood). That meant that the Champion and the Elite Four was able to leave the region for a couple of weeks as long as they returned before the beginning of May.
"We should go!" said Shauntal happily. "It would be exciting and I also need to find my sixth Pokemon!"
"It surely sounds… interesting…" replied Marshal with a hand in his chin, thinking all the training he could get.
"Ok, I want to go," said Grimsley. "I hate this season and all the pumpkin-crap stuff, the farther I get to be from those, the better for me."
"Then it´s decided!" said Alder clapping his hands once. "We will be going to the Battle Frontier in Sinnoh, you better pack up something warm because it´s winter over there."
Authors note: So after some years I finally decided to translate my story. If you find some grammar mistakes, Im sorry, Im only a mere human that doesn't have English as a native language jaja. Anyway, I surely hope you enjoyed the first chapter and please, let me know what to think in a review :) And if you already read my story in the original language and now reading this… hello again I guess! I wont be changing anything from the main events but maybe alter some minor details but the story will mainly stay the same I guess.
Oh! One more thing: if you really need to know in which universe this story is taking place... I guess it would be a mix between the game-verse and the manga-verse combined with my own-verse.
Thank you very much for reading and reviewing :)