Chapter 1

"Ah, here you are, Rose!" Professor Juniper called out to twelve year old Rose Kirasaki. In a pair of jeans and a green shirt, snap-back perched on her messy auburn locks, Rose looked very much so like the adventuring type. She felt like it, too. She liked to think that she kind of looked like Ash Ketchum, the champion of every Pokemon league known to Unova.

Rose waved to Professor Juniper before running up to meet her. Professor Juniper had light, honey blonde hair that was turning grey and blue eyes. She was an expert on Pokemon.

"Sorry I was late, Professor." Rose began. "I kind of got lost trying to find my way here." she bowed her head sheepishly and twisted her sneaker into the ground. Her chest heaved slightly as she regained her breath.

"That's perfectly alright." Professor Juniper replied and together they walked into her lab. They nodded to passing scientists until they got to the door with all of the pokemon on the other side of it.

"So have you thought at all about your starter Pokemon?" Professor Juniper asked her.

"Um... no. Not really. You see, I'm just so excited to start my adventure!" Rose explained hurriedly and smiled widely at Professor Juniper with wide purple eyes.

"It's the same with everyone, so you have nothing to worry about." Professor Juniper chuckled and then opened the door. Beyond those doors was Pokemon Trainer Heaven. Row upon row of pokeballs and pokemon from all of the different regions. Rose nearly fainted from awesome overload.

"Rose? Rose... Rose, are you okay?" Professor Juniper asked.

Rose shook herself awake from her fantastic reverie and nodded. "Uh-huh. There's just so many pokemon, though!" she exclaimed and ran in, feet stomping as she traveled down the rows and rows of pokemon.

"Oh my gosh!" she shrieked at one point. "It's an aron! I here they love to eat cars... I've always wanted a pokemon that could eat cars!" and then she would take off running again.

The professor shook her head. "So much enthusiasm locked in such a small body.." she murmured to herself. "Let's hope that her choices will be wise..." and then she resumed to waiting patiently.

Finally, Rose was in the middle of the room, six pokeballs with labels on them in her arms. She set them down of the table provided. According to the new law of the world, each new trainer must have two pokemon with them from the beginning of their adventure or they would be kept in captivity.

"Let's see... I have a Ralts, a Plusle, an Absol, a Dratini, an Eevee... I wanna evolve this one into a Leafon... and a Vulpix... I know Eevee is an extremely rare pokemon, as are Absol and Dratini... oh drat! I can't decide! I know I can catch the other three by myself later on, but which one?" on and on Rose rambled until finally the Absol, the Eevee, and the Dratini were on the table in front of her, the other three pokemon having been put back into their respective shelves.

"Okay... Dratini is a dragon type. It also evolves into Dragonair. Dragon types are really powerful... Eevee has several evolution types... What if it accidentally evolves into the wrong form?... Maybe I should put Eevee back for now... And then Absol. It doesn't evolve. I don't have to worry! It's really cute and misunderstood... Like Darkrai! I used to dream of meeting Darkrai someday... Okay..." Rose then started pacing back and forth, one hand jammed in her mouth as she bit her nails rough and the other hand clenched at her side.

"Dratini, Absol, Eevee... Dratini, Absol, Eevee..." this pattern continued on in Rose's mind in a near endless loop for a while.

"Rose? Are you okay?" Professor Juniper called out. "It's been a while."

Suddenly the solution hit Rose. She quickly put back one of the pokeballs and then ran up to Professor Juniper with the remaining two.

"All done, Professor. It was such a hard choice, though!"

"It typically is... Let me see who you picked."

Rose handed both pokeballs to Professor Juniper, who examined each closely and then nodded. "A nice match-up." she commented. "I think you picked well. Most go on looks. You in a way did as well; I could hear you talk. However, you took a deeper aspect of them and chose accordingly. Very well done." They walked out of the room full of pokeballs and back into the main lab, one of them practically bouncing off of the walls in excitement.

"Okay... so now your pokemon have been registered in our database... This is for you." Professor Juniper passed Rose a pokedex. "This is to register all of the new pokemon you meet."

Rose took it with shaky hands and stared at it in awe. This was hers. She was becoming a trainer at last!

"Oh, and you'll need this." Professor Juniper handed Rose a Trainer ID. "For ID. So everyone can see who the new Champion-hopeful is!" the professor smiled widely before handing Rose a watch.

"If you ever need my help, I'm a call away. It also has geographic functions and a clock. Also a few more useful applications. It's the improved version of Sinnoh's Poketch." Professor Juniper explained. "Do you understand all of this so far?"

Rose nodded, incapable of any words as of the moment. She thought that she would black out. It was glorious!

"Here are some Pokeballs and a journal... now am I forgetting anything?..." she looked through her papers. "Oh! Yes! The gym badge case. We don't want you losing your victory badges, do we?... I think that's all... Do you need me to go over anything?"

"No, Professor. Thank you so much, Professor!" Rose started jumping before putting everything into the satchel hanging at her waist.

"Have fun on your adventure!" Professor Juniper called out. "Don't forget to collect data for us!"

Because of all of the problems that the Pokemon world has faced, this story is in the future. Ash Ketchum is an adult and if you haven't noticed, Rose idolizes him. Rose might meet Dawn later on, I haven't decided yet. Please review!