"Coming mom!"
Our hero Flowe has just turned ten, and is now able to receive their Pokemon License in her home, the Hoenn region. However, her competitive twin sisters, the three being a set of triplets, are also receiving their licenses today.
Flowe glanced in the mirror one last time, straightening her signature light green Pokeball baseball hat, and making sure the matching colored ribbon streaming through her light brown hair was properly in place. With a quick brush off of her jean shorts and white shirt with a light green Pokeball outline on it, Flowe darted out of her plushie filled room.
The second Flowe stepped out of her room, she glanced over to her sister Flare's room, then to her other sister's room, Aquira's room, or the stay-out-or-you-die room.
As Flowe started to race toward the stairs, she was shoved to the side by her two sisters, tackling each other in a heated argument.
"I want first pick!" Aquira whined.
"You don't deserve it. I'm obviously the best." Flare countered.
"I'll drown you in a battle."
"I'll burn you to a crisp."
"I'll soak you through."
"I'll char you with my Pokemon."
They continued to snarl at each other, flinging insults left and right until Flowe pushed through the two, causing the trio to lose balance, shake and then flop down the stairs like a horde of Magikarp.
After the three picked themselves up from off the dark hardwood floor, they straightened their signature long ponytails, dusted off their clothes, and continued to rush to the family room where their parents were waiting.
All three were immediately quivering with excitement. Flowe was in her casual outfit, Aquira in her light blue dress, with matching blue ribbon in the hair and Flare with her red and white shirt, black skirt and matching ribbon of course.
"Well then," their mother started, beaming at them. "Some people are excited today."
"Yea!" Flare shouted. "We're gonna be Pokemon trainers!"
Their mother and father grinned at them even more.
Before any of the trio could explode with happiness, their mother pulled out two Pokeballs and held them out, one in each hand, for the trio to see.
The girls started to nearly jump up and down in happiness, when their father pulled out three Pokedexes from behind his back.
Handing one to each girl, he explained that these Pokedexes could be updated wherever they went, so they wouldn't need to get a new one wherever they happened to go. The trio scanned over the devices, opening them up, to be suddenly surprised by a strange voice who called himself Dexter.
But that was only the start as the trio's mother guided the girls' attention back to the two Pokeballs. All three were too caught up to notice that there were only two Pokeballs, instead of three.
Flowe watched as her mother handed a Pokeball to Aquira and said, "Mudkip," then handed one to Flare and said: "and Torchic."
It was at this point that Flowe realized she hadn't gotten Treecko, the common grass type starter from Hoenn, her home, let alone any Pokemon.
With a confused look on her face, Flowe turned to her mother, and started. "But, what about…?" That was when her mother cut her off, and plopped a large bag of coins into Flowe's empty hands. Very quickly, Flowe's mom explained.
"We couldn't find you a Treecko, so take this money, go to the market, and buy a Pokemon of your choice."
With an excited squeal, Flowe dashed out of her home in Verdanturf Town, leaped on her bike, and started to pedal all the way to Slateport City.
After a few hours riding at full speed on her bike, our hero Flowe has found herself staring at the great market at Slateport.
Flowe walked past a few stands, selling foreign starters like Bulbasaur and Piplup. She walked past people selling TMs, HMs, plushies, Starters, books, pens, paper, back backs, hats and more. But still no Treecko.
As she continued walking along, Flowe's attention was suddenly snatched by a strange man, wearing a proper business suit instead of the casual wear worn by most dealers. He was desperately trying to get attention, with a booming voice and flashy cart to sell wares from.
She stopped, pretending to look around at other shop-keepers, while always eyeing the strange man.
Eventually, another person approached the man and curiously asked what Pokemon he was talking about when he said that he was selling a specially bred Pokemon, created to be the best at battling.
When Flowe heard his reply, she shoved past the curious wanderer who asked the question, and blurted out: "I heard you had a Treecko!"
With a chuckle, the man dismissed the now fairly ticked off passerby, and continued to converse with Flowe. "You heard correctly," the man assured.
"How much for it?" Flowe asked eagerly, prepared to start her journey. The man seemed to take this as funny and laughed again. "Excited to start your journey I see… I'll not waste your time then!" The man paused for a minute then continued. "800 Pokedollars."
Flowe gawked at him, and he quickly noticed her shock, then, not wanting to miss out on actually selling something, he quickly added on to his shocking statement. "I'll discount it though, because no one else wants to buy it."
After a few minutes of negotiating, Flowe handed over 600 Pokedollars in return for a simple Pokeball, with her faithful companion Treecko inside.
After another few hours of pedaling, Flowe was home to gather her stuff before heading out on her Pokemon journey.
Turns out her mom had packed clothes, a new Pokeball belt, food, money, Pokeballs and a few potions in her backpack while she was gone. She had also forbidden Flare and Aquiria to leave yet, leaving them antsy and with nothing to do but to plan where they were all going.
By the time the trio was once again together, the plans had been made and confirmed. Only Flowe was unaware of these plans.
As the newly licensed trainers said their goodbyes, or tearful goodbyes in their mother's case, and left home officially, Flowe was still unaware. She only knew when her sister Flare said how excited she was to go to Johto and her other sister said she liked how she was staying in Hoenn.
Flowe curiously asked what this was all about, and while the trio was walking to Dewford Town to catch a boat to apparently different regions, Flare gave a large dialogue.
"While you were getting Treecko, Aquira and I decided that we couldn't all be champions, so we'd split up and go to different regions so we could all be champions."
Aquiria nodded in silent agreement, and Flare continued.
"I'm going to Johto," Flare explained. "Aquria is staying here in Hoenn, and we thought you could go to Kanto."
Flowe looked at the duo for a minute, blinked, and slowly nodded.
"I guess that makes sense."
The rest of the journey to Dewford town was silent, with the trio reflecting on their day so far.
By the time the three got to Dewford town, it was sunset, and the boat to Kanto had just arrived in port.
Before Flowe boarded, the three sisters said one last goodbye. For the first time, the three would be apart for more than a week at max. When the three finished, and Flowe boarded the boat and took off, they waved at each other until the boat was out of sight.