*Italics will represent a single character's thoughts in the story*
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Author Notes: {It should be known that there are two authors in this story. One being myself, and another being IrisuWhite. We both worked on this story together. Another thing to note is usually we stick between 2K and 4K words per chapter with the exception of big events that will most likely exceed beyond that. We do intend on taking this story to other regions in the future and anyone is welcome to submit a character into the story, but we will introduce the character when and if we see fit. We've decided to take elements from both the games and the anime. This is our story so expect some twists throughout it. I'm personally new to fanfictions, so I do ask to bear with me in the time of learning. Constructive criticism is welcomed and appreciated. This will be one of our shorter chapters as it's only the beginning, but rest assure that more content will be out relatively soon. I appreciate anyone who takes time out of their day to read this. Without further ado, let's dive right into it!}
Chapter 1:
Not So Cloudy Day.
At the start of route 1 from Accumula town to Nuvema town, A young girl named Star sits sleeping by a tree surrounded by multiple pokemon sleeping next to her. Star is a ten-year-old girl with her long brown hair in a ponytail. Her appearance is that of an athletic girl with black leggings and white shorts. She has a tanned complexion and a cute yet sporty short sleeved shirt. On her left hand is a dragon emblemed bracelet.
" Loin…" A young girl, Iris climbs down from a tree and looks at Star and the sleeping pokemon. Iris is ten-year-old girl with a dark complexion and long purple hair and short pigtails on the top. She wears a yellowish shirt with little pink sections on the collar and sleeves. She has a pink sash on her waist and white leggings that reach down to her lower legs. Iris huffs and walks towards Star, she reaches towards her shoulder and shakes her. "Ngh...Ngh!" Star frowns as she swings her hands in the air,
"No cutting, I was here first!" Iris jerks back taking her hand off star in surprise. Star brings her hands back down and smiles.
"Now… I choose you… Osha...wott…" Iris huffs, she looks down and sees a Purrloin sleeping next to her. Iris kneels down and pats the Purrloin until it wakes up. The Purrloin looks towards Iris half asleep as Iris leans in and whispers into the Purrloins ear. The purrloin jumps up in excitement as it looks towards Star. Purrloin jumps into the air and uses fury swipes on star.
Star jumps up. "OWOWOWOWOWOW!"
"Who, Wha-" Star looks around and sees Iris and a Purrloin at her feet. Purrloin starts rubbing on Iris as if it wants something.
"I-Iris, back away, that Purrloin is mine!" Star says as she looks angrily at the Purrloin knowing that it was the one who scratched her. "This is the perfect first battle for my Oshawott!" Star reaches into her backpack and scrounges through all of her luggage trying to find her poke balls. "Um..." Star says as she fails to find any poke balls in her bag. "But I just got my Oshawott, I couldn't have lost its poke ball already!" Star falls on the ground in disappointment. Iris lifts up her hands and sighs as she closes her eyes. Purrloin looks at Star confused by the situation. "Loin?" Iris whispers to Purrloin and Purrloin moves over to Star and rubs against her leg. Star looks down at the Purrloin with tears in her eyes. "Thank you Purrloin, I'm okay. Guess I need to tell Juniper that I lost my Oshawott…" Iris angrily grabs Star by her hand as she and drags her along the path to Nuvema town. "Wait, let's at least search for Oshawott!"
Hours later, a small car is cruising through the east end of Castelia City passing the many shops that fill the city. Only a single backpack of things strapped to the back of the passenger for his luggage holding an egg and a middle-aged lady occupies the driver's seat.
Cloud stared out the window with his head leaning against the glass. Outside of the car were big buildings towering all around him with pokemon and trainers scattered everywhere. The bright blue sky was full of fluff clouds and the occasional wild pokemon flying over him to a destination he didn't know of.
It was a lot different from what he considered home.
"Have you ever been to the isshu region before?" The woman driving the car named Joann asked him. She's dressed in bright spring colors with a spring hat to help keep the sun out of her eyes. Cloud looked over at her, and she smiled. "It's a lot different from Kanto, I'll tell you that."
"It is," he said, unable to match her enthusiasm. "The only thing I've seen that comes to mind of this is Celadon City in Kanto and I've been there only once."
Joann let out a soft sigh as she reminisced. "Ah, Kanto. I've spent more times fooling around there than I did collecting information for pokemon science." She chuckled. "I blame the boys I was with. You can't travel with attractive people and not want to date them, you know?"
"I don't know," he replied straightforwardly.
His companion shook off his stiff replies and turned the radio down some. "We'll be at the lab in a few minutes. Professor Juniper is a great professor. You may even meet some trainer's your age! I think you and everyone will get along. Everyone in this region is pretty laid back. Not too loud or anything like that."
Unlike a certain somebody, Cloud thought, nodding along. Barely being fully awake was killing him and Joann picked him up before he could get any energy in him. Hopefully the rest of this region will be more reserved.
Star and Iris edge closer and closer to the lab through Nuvema Town. Wild pokemon are seen in every direction of them through the vast plains on both sides of them. Both young and elder trainers of the town are out and about as the breeze is ever so slight in this Spring time weather.
Professor Juniper's lab comes into sight over one of the hills. The lab's sheer size is something of the likes Star has never seen before. It's perfectly trimmed and symmetrical bushes that follow the walkway; as well as the trees growing with berries attached to them. pokemon and trainers seem to be harvesting the berries from these trees. Before the two realized it, the Lab's front door is at their forefront.
Star looks at the lab and freezes up. "Iris… What do I tell Juniper, I loved Oshawott, we were such good friends right away." Star looks at Iris with a saddened face and tears bubbling up in her eyes. Iris angrily drags Star into the lab. "Wait a second Iris!" Star tries to stop Iris from dragging her into the lab, but Iris is to strong and kicks open the gigantic door to the lab making a loud noise that reverberated throughout the entire lab. Juniper looks over in shock. "What was that?" Juniper jumps out of her seat in shock and sees two girls standing at the front door. Juniper angrily walks towards the two. "Do you two not know common courtesy? Seriously, making such a ruckus in someone's lab." Juniper leans in closely glaring at Iris whose expression tells that she's indifferent to Junipers scolding. Juniper changes her look to Star who has a terrified expression. "What's your names?" Star looks down terrified, with Juniper being even angrier than she imagined, W-What do I say, I'm so sorry… She thought as the guilt of losing Oshawott bubbled inside of her. Juniper sees the look on Stars face and realizes she may have been too harsh on them. Junipers expression changes from an angry expression to a guilty one., "D-don't cry, I just want you to-" But before she could finish her statement, Star looks up with her eyes closed and yells at the top of her lungs. "I'm sorry professor, I lost the Oshawott you gave me, even after you told me to take care of it!"
In that same instance, a car can be heard pulling up. As Cloud gets out of the passenger side of the car, a Purrloin crosses him making full eye contact. "Loin…." as Purrloin continues walking but never loses eye contact with Cloud.
That- has to be a bad omen…. Cloud thinks to himself.
Cloud walks to the front door of the lab conflicted as to why the door is just open. Cloud flinches at the obnoxiously loud noises coming from the girl screaming about her lost Oshawott.
Juniper looks at Star confused. "I didn't give you an Oshawott though, that was given to a trainer who arrived earlier." Star looks at Juniper in confusion. "Huh, But I was the first person here and chose Oshawott, you even said we made a great team." Star looks at Iris who shrugs her shoulders, and then looks back at Juniper. "I was so sad about losing my Oshawott and now I'm being told I never had one, are you saying I was dreaming or something?" Juniper looks towards Iris and sees her expression as she tried to ignore the subject. Juniper looks towards star trying to comfort her. "Well, I don't know if you were dreaming but I don't remember giving you an Oshawott. I don't have any more pokemon now, but I can help you get one.". Star looks at Juniper and bows to her "I'm so sorry for the confusion!" Juniper raises her hands in an uncomfortable form. "Don't worry about it, come on get up." Star gets up and looks at Juniper, "So, what do we do to get a pokemon." Star asked curiously. Juniper smiles and grabs a poke ball from her pocket, but before she can begin her explanation, Iris jumps in between Star and Juniper angrily and huffs. Juniper and Star both looked shocked. "Is something wrong?" Juniper asked. Iris looks towards Star with a pouting face and transforms. "W-What's going on?" Star asked in confusion. As the smoke cleared Iris turned into a Zorua. "Zorua!" Star screamed recognizing the pokemon who looked up to her with a saddened face. "Zor Zor…" it cried looking up at Star. "Do you know this Zorua?" Juniper asked after regaining her composure from the Zoruas transformation. Star looks at Juniper and smiles. "Yes, this Zorua is from the forest around Opelucid town, he always played with me since I was a child, we would practice routines to be a Pokemon Idol, Zorua always helped me." Juniper just looks confused. Cloud walks in with not wanting to know what shes going on about but also lets his curiosity get the better of him. Zorua notices Cloud and starts barking. "Zor!" Star turns around and looks towards Cloud who is looking confused. "So...I feel like I'll regret this, but what exactly is a Pokemon Idol?" Stars eyes light up "Good question! A Pokemon Idol is a marvelous joint collaboration between pokemon and the Idol to perform the greatest concert of all time, to lift people up and be a beloved figure for the people!"
" Yeah… I can honestly say I regret asking now." Cloud says through an annoyed tone.
Professor Juniper looks onto Cloud with a smile. "Welcome to the new region, Cloud! I see you've made a safe trip here and you even managed to bring that egg your mother told me about from Kanto!" Cloud walks to Juniper handing her the egg. "Yes. It's from a breed of Scyther's that my mother was working on. She's always been for the advancing of new pokemon to a region they are scarce in." Star looks in awe. "Scyther, what's that? Is it cute, does it have a nice voice, maybe it can be in my idol group?"
Cloud looks over to Star with just a blank expression. Cloud reaches at his waist band before grabbing a pokeball and throwing it in the air. Scyther appears from the pokeball. "SCYYYYYY" Star heads over towards scyther in an instant. "That high pitched cry, the small wings on its back, the light green tone of its skin, it could easily fit under a cool idol type!"
Scyther slowly begins to take backwards steps towards Cloud with a worried look on its face. "It's okay, Scyther.. She's only admiring you."
Professor Juniper reaches into her coat pocket pulling out a couple of pokedex. "Now Star, Cloud, I want to entrust you all with these pokedexes." Juniper walks over to cloud and hands him a pokedex. "This pokedex has the ability to store data from pokemon all around Unova, their typing, their abilities; anything you could need can be found in this pokedex." Juniper heads over to Star to hand her the pokedex. "All you have to do to use this pokedex is face the scanner towards the pokemon you want to know more information about and it will register in your dex."
Professor Juniper walks over to her desk grabbing a few things before heading back to Cloud and Star. "Here are both of your badge cases and 5 Pokeballs each. Cloud and Star both take their badge case and Pokeballs before looking back at Juniper. "Pokemon battling is ever-changing. This is the first time in history that the Pokemon League is opening it's doors to double battling with two trainers. The standard single division is still around but double battle are now the main event of the pokemon league. Just figured I'd mention it to you guys before you set off on your respective journeys"
Star looks towards Juniper. "Wait, what about gym battles?" Juniper smiles. "Obviously they will be using the double battle format as well. So, to challenge gyms you will either need two pokemon or a partner to battle with." Star looks disappointed. "But I don't have anyone to travel with, let alone battle alongside, even If I beat the gyms, I don't know how far I'll get in the singles division. Iris always said I was hopeless in single battles." Star looks towards Cloud with hopeful eyes.
Cloud gets a random surge of goosebumps. Oh no…. Cloud thinks to himself.
After releasing a big sigh Cloud looks to Star. "You cannot be serious.. You expect me to go on a journey with someone who thought she lost a pokemon she never had to begin with?"
Star looks disappointed. "It's okay, You probably will have a skilled partner in no time…" Star looks down towards Zorua. Juniper looks over towards Cloud. "Cloud, do you per chance have anyone that your planning on competing with, I do know that she can be a little...Dense at times but She will be able to grow alongside you and be a valuable partner in the future. Also, you just arrived from Kanto, you don't know any of the pokemon or areas around this region, what could be so bad about taking a local with you?"
Cloud just glares at Star. He begins massaging his temples. "I-Fine…"
Star smiles menacingly as she switches to a joyful smile as she lifts her head towards cloud. Star runs towards Cloud giving him a hug. "Yay! You won't regret it, we'll be the greatest team ever!"
For some reason, I highly doubt that. Cloud subtly nudges Star off him before Scyther and he heads for the front door of the lab to exit.
"Wait, where are you going!" Star yells chasing after him. She turns towards Juniper as she runs out with Cloud and Zorua. "Thank you, Juniper!" Juniper waved towards the two "Have fun on your journey. As the two of them exited the lab Juniper heads towards the door to close it, but as she did, the door came off its hinges. Juniper sighs… "Well, at least it's nice weather out…"