Chapter 1 – Prologue

A young boy of around the age of 5 with blue hair, and blue clothing is inside a laboratory is playing with a Leafeon. A woman wearing a brown shirt with no sleeves along with a dark brown dress and white lab coat over the top walks up to the young boy. "Awww… you're so cute. So, I'm going to go to Silvermill Town for the semi-annual gathering of Pokemon Researchers. Did you want to come with me this time?" The young boy looks at the woman and nods. "Alright, it's settled. You'll come with me to Silvermill Town, the Carpers there have a boy the same age as you."

The boy holds the hand of the woman and walks out of the laboratory, as the woman locks it keeping the lights on for the Pokémon inside the laboratory.

A girl around the age of 5 as well with brown hair, blue eyes and wearing a yellow dress is walked up to by a tall woman with blonde hair, purple eyes wearing a black and gold dress as well as a lighter gold coat over the top. She has a fringe that goes over the top of her left eye. "Alright, Amber, are you ready? We're going to Silvermill Town." The girl gets up and walks up to the woman. "I will drop you off over at the Carpers."

Amber looks up at the woman, and looks at the Croagunk walking around being left behind in the building.

The boy in blue and the woman in the lab coat arrive in Silvermill Town and they talk to a man with light brown hair, and dark brown eyes wearing an orange jacket over the top of a brown shirt along with cream-coloured pants at the front the man's house. The man bends over to talk to Lapis. "So, you must be Lapis. Professor Corymbia doesn't stop talking about you when she's over here."

A woman with long black hair and blue eyes also wearing a long green dress, white socks and black heels walks outside to the entrance of the house. "So Professor Corymbia is here already?" The woman is accompanied by a boy in red and a black bandanna over his head. "Garnet, this is Lapis. He's a young boy just like you. Why don't you two go upstairs and play with Teddiursa."

Garnet nods and walks inside, the Professor Corymbia gives Lapis a push, and Lapis walks into the house following Garnet. Professor Corymbia then looks at Mr. Carper, "So, Makayla will arrive here soon as well I assume?"

"So, you two still don't get along well." Mr. Carper looks at the Professor, and a looks back behind the door. "Well, she's not a nice person. However, she still classifies as a Pokémon researcher, its best that you two don't fight amongst each other, it could cause issues for both of you."

"I understand. I'm not in much approval of her methods in Pokémon research or her field for that matter." Corymbia walks inside the house. "Do you know if she's bringing her daughter along?"

"No, I don't know. I'm not well acquainted with her. I only hold these meetings for the researchers and give some of the Pokémon we hatched from eggs that other trainers don't want. Though, now I'm reluctant to hand any over with her around." Mr. Carper looks at outside the house for any sign of another researcher. Mr. Carper sees a helicopter. "Well, there she is."

Upstairs, Lapis is feeding the ursine Pokémon belonging to Garnet. "Is this your Pokémon?" Garnet nods in response. "You already have a Pokémon?"

"My parents are breeders, they find many eggs lying around in the ranch and end up hatching them if the trainers don't want them." Garnet looks around sees a girl in a yellow dress walk into his room. "Oh. Hi Amber."

Amber looks around to see a Teddiursa in the room. "It's a Pokémon!" Amber walks up to the Teddiursa and pinches its cheeks, obviously distressing the ursine Pokémon. Amber looks at the boy in blue staring at her. "I'm Amber, what's your name?" Lapis looks at the poor Pokémon and replies with his name.

Downstairs, the arguing of two women can be heard. "So, Makayla. How's the husband?" Professor Corymbia tries to annoy the second woman.

"Travelling, but he's sending money back to us as usual. Though I should be asking you, Eira, have you even got a boyfriend?" Another woman assumed to be Makayla replies. "You're getting old, and you adopted a child didn't you? Poor kid doesn't even have someone to talk to while you're researching." Lapis and Amber hearing their parents argue walk downstairs to confirm it's them. Lapis and Amber then look at each other.

"Alright, that's enough you two." Mr. Carper walks over to calm the two down. "The meeting is about to start. We're going to exchange our findings."

"Now that I think of it, why does your field even exist?" Makayla says criticizing Eira. "Or do you actually believe in that fairy-tale stuff?" Eira looks back at Makayla with a less than pleasant face.

Amber and Lapis after finishing watching the two women argue, look at each other and head back up to Garnet's rooms. "The naïve woman still believes that Pokémon can think." She says it as if she's just repeating something someone else said.

Lapis replies also as if just quoting someone. "But they can." Lapis retorts to Amber, Amber then looks at Lapis with an unpleased face. Lapis walks back in fear. Garnet walks up to the two and asks what happened. "She's arguing with my mother as usual."

Garnet's face looks rather displeased with the answer from Amber, but ignores it and walks back to his Teddiursa. The two walk back in to play with the Teddiursa. They then walk out of the house with Teddiursa to play in a more open environment.

4.5 years later…

On another gathering of researchers, Professor Corymbia, Doctor Lavett talk with a bunch of other researchers around a table talking about their findings. "So, the Kalos researchers have managed to found more on this Mega Evolution but then go on to talk about crazy ideas like the bond between trainers and Pokémon being needed to unlock this form."

Outside the house, a 10 year old Garnet and Lapis is playing tag with a 9 year old Amber and their Pokémon: Teddiursa, Eevee and Quitten respectively. Quitten is a feline Pokémon coloured orange while its belly is coloured cream, its eyes are extraordinarily large. Its tail waves around from side to side while it walks. It seems to walk proudly. Its legs seem to be thin and straight.

Eevee, seemingly scared of Amber and Garnet, walks up to Lapis, and requests something. Lapis looks at the Pokémon wondering what it wants, and then realizes and returns Eevee to its Poké Ball. Garnet looks at Lapis, "Why'd Shae go back?"

"Shae's naturally shy of people." Lapis replies to Garnet, looking at Quitten. "I'm surprised, Quitten isn't the same way."

"Well, that's a shame. It'd be nice for Shae to play with Ted." Garnet seeming to have nicknamed his Teddiursa during the 4 years. "Well, do you know when you're going to be going on your journey?" The two stop, and Amber overhears them walking up to them rather than trying to tag them.

"No idea." Lapis looks at Amber. "Mum wants me to learn more about helping Pokémon recover from abusive trainers before I start the journey." Lapis then looks at the Poké Ball that contains Shae.

"Seems like it's the same with my parents. They want me to learn how to raise a Pokémon properly before catching some on my journey." Garnet looks at Amber. "Are you going to start as soon as you turn 10?"

"My mum wants me to receive a Pokémon from the Carpers when I start my journey."

Back in the house, one of the researchers sees the kids talking with each other. "By the way, aren't Lapis and Garnet of age to be travelling Eriden?"

"We'd like to wait a year before they enter the world alone." Corymbia replies to the researcher. "We want them to learn more about Pokémon before travelling."

"What about Amber? She's going to be 10 real soon, isn't she?" One of the female researchers asks Makayla.

"I'd prefer it if she went out in the world with 2 Pokémon. So I requested that the Carpers breed a Pokémon for her journey." Makayla looks at Mr. Carper. "Roman, do you have any idea what you want to give Amber?"

Mrs. Carper walks up to the two. "I know, what about we send all three of them on their journey at the same time. That way at the start of their journey, they can help each other. So, how about sometime next year? We should be able to get some interesting Pokémon by that time for all three of them to have."

"That's agreeable Maris." Makayla replies to Mrs. Carper, she looks to Eira. "So, are you worried?"

"What do I have to be worried about? I'd be more worried about your daughter than my son." Professor Corymbia replies to Dr. Lavett. "He can at least know how to raise his Pokémon properly. In any case, should we continue our discussion? We seem to have gone off topic." Corymbia looks out the window to see the three children playing with Quitten and Teddiursa. "I am much more worried about Amber than Lapis."

Featured Character:
Name: Amber
Age: 9
Pokédex Caught: N/A
Pokédex Seen: N/A
Badges: 0
Party:

Quitten (F) – Level 3
Ability: Simple
Normal

Featured Pokédex Entry:
Species: Quitten
Type: Normal
Pokédex Information: This Pokemon is extremely proud of itself. It is normally found around urban areas. It doesn't seem to fight very often.
Habitat: Route 51, Route 55.