Okay, so obviously if you're reading this, you didn't read the description. Nice job. This story is stupid on purpose, so no smart-alecky reviews. I would like some reviews if I make grammatical, spelling, or Pokemon world in-general mistakes. Also, if you have an OC you want me to use in the story or have ideas for the future of the story, shoot me a review. Make sure you let me know every single little detail, like if your OC has a single freckle on the back of their leg kind of thing. I might not use every OC I receive, but I will try to fit them all in. And don't worry, I'll give you credit at the end of each chapter if I use the OC you send me. Okay, I'm gonna let you read this first chapter, I'm done talking. Byyyyyye!
Chapter 1
The ship rocked on the waves, disturbing Lydia and preventing her any sleep in her cot. The waves rolled the ship back and forth, back and forth, and the constant movement kept her hazel eyes from closing. She wished with her entire existence that the ship would stop moving so she would be constantly forced into different positions and locations on the bare cot.
It was enough that she hadn't had anything to eat for two days, and without any sleep, she could feel her sanity slowly slipping away. Annoyed, she rose from the cot and opened the window. Then, letting all of her built-up anger boil, she began to yell profanities at the sea. It felt relaxing to be able to speak her mind to an entity that could not respond. She hated when people tried to give her advice or interrupt her. She just wanted people to listen.
After about three minutes of the ongoing disruption also known as Lydia's mouth, her mother came out of the darkness of the cabin and put her hand over Lydia's mouth. "Hush, child! You'll wake Kyogre again!" her mother scolded. "I'm sorry, mom," Lydia apologized. Her mother, satisfied for now, let go of her and went back to her cot in the back of the cabin. Lydia, making a comment about her mother under her breath, turned back to the window and stared for some more. After a long, carried out five minutes, she passed out on the swaying floor.
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Kyogre had been woken up by the leader of Team Aqua. Along with the help of Team Magma, the Hoenn champion, the Sootopolis City gym leader, and two young trainers each with seven gym badges, Team Aqua tried to prevent Kyogre from flooding the entire world. But after journeying into the Cave of Origin, located in the middle of Sootopolis City, none of them were powerful enough to stop the rampaging whale from showering the entire world with rain. Soon, most of the world had been flooded with the exception of a few tall mountains in several different regions. Few people escaped the flooding by fleeing to boats and mountains. Most existing Pokémon did not escape, and the most that survived were water and/or flying type. Although there was proof that all other types still existed, very few were ever seen.
Lydia and her family lived in Slateport City, and were one of the first families to receive the news of the severe hurricane. They ran to the ferry dock at the east end of town as fast as they could to catch a boat to float them to safety. After a wild scuffle with several people, they managed to get on a small cruise ship that let them take a small cabin until they were able to find any land again. After two days, all of Slateport City was underwater, and so was most of the Hoenn region. Within a week the storm had reached the regions Johto, Kanto, Orre, Almia, and Sinnoh in that order. In two and a half weeks it reached Kalos, and in three weeks, Unova. After a month, when the storm finally ended as Kyogre once again became tired, most of the world was made up of tiny archipelagos. Many people prayed for the coming of another Hoenn legendary, Groudon, to bring the land back, but the ground-type Pokémon never appeared since. With all hope virtually lost, many people were left to either work with their own devices on small, barely livable islands or drift aimlessly in the open ocean. After two years of chaos on the wide open blue, the cruise ship that Lydia's family had been residing on, the S.S. Janette, had begun to run low on rations, and everyone was starting to pay for it. Disease, though fortunately had never been a problem yet, was suddenly becoming an increasing issue. With no hope of ever finding land, the ship was on the brink of anarchy.
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The Next Day
"Land, ho!" was all that it took to give her the energy for the day. She sprinted out of the cabin, through the hallways, and outside on the deck to catch a glimpse of the land. After about three minutes of trying to find land, she couldn't see anything as far as the horizon. She searched and squinted, looking for anything that looked even remotely like ground. After some more searching, she got discouraged and started to head back to her cabin. That was when she noticed that she was the only person on the starboard side of the ship. "Oh, silly me," she thought with sarcastic disgust. "The land must be on the other side of the ship." She hated herself for being so gullible as she made her way to the port side.
Sure enough, that's where everybody was, staring in awe of the spectacle before them. It was a long, bobby stretch of land that Lydia immediately could tell that used to be a mountain range. She felt the joy overflow her as this very lovely piece of art unfolded in her eyes. She began making plans for how she would adjust back to life on the land. She dreamed of picking berries of the trees and eating them right then and there. As she thought of it, she spotted a line of Pomeg berry trees on the coastline. Her mouth watered. Pomeg berries were her favorite. She thought of all of the different flavors that Pomeg berries possessed and how it could possibly be so sweet and yet still be spicy. To say the least, Pomeg berries enchanted her, and now there was a whole line of trees that grew them right in front of her on the skyline.
"Lydia, why are you drooling like that? Stop it!" she heard from behind her. She whirled around to find her mother standing behind her with her hands on her hips and a stern face. Sheesh, does anything make this woman happy, Lydia thought. Suddenly self-conscious, she wiped the area around her mouth with the sleeve of her cardigan. She turned back to witness the brilliant spectacle once more and thought about how beautiful it was. She just couldn't believe the fact that she was about to set foot on this wonder of an island, or mountain, or whatever it was. She wasn't really sure, but she still loved it. Then came the hard thought. It was a terrible thought. She couldn't believe that she had thought it, and yet the thought was true. This thought was so true, she almost burst into tears. It was the worst thought in the world. And yet she knew it was true.
"I'm gonna have to share those Pomeg berries, aren't I?"
She then thought that it might take days to reach land since it was far off, but this was minor. How could anything be worse than this? Sharing Pomeg berries was like a sin to her. If she saw one, it was her's. At least if they have Pomeg berries there, then there might be other kinds of berries, right? This thought settled her after the literal .3 seconds of all of this thinking. Suddenly, after all this thought about food, she ran to the nearest toilet and vomited.
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Three Hours Later
She was right about it taking a few hours. The S.S. Janette took dock at the island surrounded by Pomeg trees. Lydia fought the urge to leap straight off the deck and onto the shore of this new area they had found. She had forgotten how beautiful it was to walk on solid ground, and she couldn't wait to start again. She was surprised to find that there was even a dock in place, meaning that there must be civilization near.
Lydia could tell that everyone else was very tense and excited, as many were leaning over the rail trying to catch a glimpse of the boarding bridge lowering onto the dock. She couldn't blame them, though. At this point, land was a rare and wonderful thing. The first chance anyone got to use any land they found, they took it by the neck and strangled the opportunity until it passed out. Everyone wanted to use the land, and everyone was eying the Pomeg berry trees, which made Lydia extremely uncomfortable. Those Pomeg berries are mine, she thought, and nobody else can have them. Though you do know that your parents and friends all taught you how to share, right, said a voice in the back of her head. I don't care, those were only influences to tell me that those corny kid's shows were right, she thought in retaliation to herself.
That was when a sudden rumble came from the ground. Then a small crashing could be heard coming from a dense forest just where the beach ended. Everyone's attention suddenly shifted towards the ruckus coming from the forest. The noise grew louder and louder, and everyone on-board grew more scared every second. Nobody knew what it possibly could be. Could it be a group of pokémon stampeding this way? Was it one large pokémon crashing through the forest? Nobody could tell, and yet it grew louder and louder. Suddenly, many of the trees practically bent over as the thing making the noise came out. Everyone gasped in astonishment.
"It's the welcoming party coming to greet us!" someone cried with joy.
Everyone on the boat cheered, all except for Lydia, who was too preoccupied with her own thoughts to even care about what was happening around her. "Isn't this wonderful, honey?" her mother asked her with glee, which Lydia hastily responded with, "Seviper, no seviping!" After the sudden shock of the moment, Lydia finally turned her attention to the sudden wave of people that she had never met. Suddenly giddy 'n' gleeful, she squealed and felt even more of an urge to break her legs or drown trying.
She suddenly became conscience to the fact that they had lowered the boarding bridge already. People were flying out of the ship as if they were Mankeys in a tree that had seen a banana on the ground. Lydia could have sworn she felt the ship slightly tilt in the direction of the flow. She bolted to the nearest stairs, passed the bathroom that still needed some maintenance, and found the exit to the ship. She was practically trampled by the wave of people as she took her first step into the beeline for the exit. She managed to keep up and eventually left the ship for the first time in two years. Suddenly joyful that she no longer had to worry about the waves crashing against an uneven surface keeping her awake would no longer be a problem.
"Welcome to Wahen Town in the Coronet region!" a boy around five years older than her said to Lydia. "Oh, thanks," she replied with some giddiness left inside of her. Another person of the welcoming party, looking somewhere in her early forties, said the same thing. Many people started saying the same thing over and over again that she could not believe that she had gotten out of it as quickly as she did. She stared at the opening that had been made by the stampede of welcomers and notices that there was a cobble road leading to a nice looking town that she deduced might be the Wahen Town she was told about. Without a thought, she bolted in the direction of the town, but then turned back because she knew the Pomeg berries were waiting for her and calling out her name. She charged at the tree with full force, and when she smacked against the bark, the tree capsized and became two-dimensional. She sat there in complete bewilderment.
"Those 'trees' are just used for catching the eyes of passing ships. They're just painter cardboard," said a voice behind her. She whipped around to see the boy that had initially welcomed her to the region. "Oh my dear lord Arceus, you scared me!" Lydia said, a little agitated. "Yeah, sorry about that. I do that a lot. It's a bad habit. My name's Simon, by the way. What's your's?" "Lydia." "That is a lovely name." They stared at each other for two seconds when Lydia piped up, "So, are you going to lead me to where I can find real Pomeg berries? This is kind of a disappointment." "Sure, there's a nice restaurant in town that uses them as an ingredient in almost everything. They literally call themselves 'the Pomeg Masters'." The thought of this kind of food made Lydia's mouth salivate like there was no tomorrow. "Can you take me to the restaurant, then?" Lydia questioned, being careful not to spit all over Simon with the new-found moisture in her mouth. "Sure, I'll lead the way."
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On the walk to Wahen Town, Simon told a curious Lydia about how the Coronet region had formed. The land that the entire region sat of was once a large mountain range that went down the middle of the Sinnoh region. It only made sense to make the land left over from the flood a new region since it was vast enough. The entire region is made up of three islands. One in the north, one in the east, and the largest one in the south. Each of the islands were named after a former Sinnian city that was close in proximity to the island's current location. The largest and southern-most island, Hearthome, was naturally the center of action in the region. It held the region's capital, Tetra City. In the east was Veilstone, which had a slightly different culture than the other two islands, but was still generally the same. The island's main purpose was to provide agriculture, lumber, electricity, and basically every essential need for the rest of the region. The northern-most island, Snowpoint, had only begun construction, and there was only one city that had been built so far; Mecklenburg City. At this point of the explanation, they had reached Wahen Town, and Lydia made a mad dash around town to try and find the restaurant.
Okay, so you made it to the end of the chapter. Good job. Cupcakes all around. And Pomeg berries. Those things are tasty. Anyways, thanks for reading. If you didn't like it, who cares. Read something else. But if you did, thanks again. Also, remember the thing about the OC's, because I'm being serious. I will use them and give you credit. Anyways, thanks for reading, and I'll try to make chapter 2 as soon as I can. Byyyyye! :)