Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon. Wither it be anime/manga/or game, I don't own it! So, now that we've got that out of the way.

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She couldn't believe it. Her parents had really gone though with it. They really moved the family all the way to Hoenn. Eris Maple sighed and brought her knees up to her chest.

Eris was a young 18 year old girl, a depressed 18 year old girl. Her hand went up and brushed her shoulder length red hair out of her gray eyes. She looked up, watching a box that threatened to fall on her, ready to move.

What are they thinking? Mom isn't a good driver! Shouldn't the moving company have supplied a driver as well? She thought to herself as she crawled over to the right, having avoided a falling box, a result of a bump in the road.

Needless to say, by the time the moving truck had stopped, Eris was in a foul mood. And seeing her mother's unbelievably cheerful face, didn't help.

Eris loved her mom, no doubt about that, but sometimes...

"Eris! Look at it! Isn't this town, Littleroot I think it was called, beautiful!" Her mother clasped her hands together and smiled, her light brown eyes sparkling. Seeing her mother so happy, Eris decided not to comment.

Eris stretched, reaching her hands up to the sky, letting her black tank top over her gray tank rise and show off her flat stomach. She finished stretching and put her hands in her khaki colored cargo capris.

"Look at our new house! Isn't it cute? Oh, you're going to have your own room!" Her mother was ecstatic, her curly red hair almost bouncing along with her.

Eris bit her tongue, not wanting to upset her mother. It wasn't like her own room was such a big deal, she was an only child, she was bound to have her own room.

They walked inside and saw various Vigoroth moving things around, Eris frowned, hoping nothing would be damaged and started to walk upstairs.

"Oh, before I forget! Your dad bought you a new clock, don't forget to set it!" She heard her mother yell up the stairs, making Eris sigh.

When she walked into her room, she frowned. White, just...white. Did the previous owners even TRY to add color to the house? Eris doubted it. A plain new bed, courtesy of her dad. Along with that a computer desk, with a computer, a counter right next to it with the previously mentioned new clock.

She picked the clock up and made a face. It was way too girly for her tastes, but she shrugged and set the time. It was pretty early still, only 1:30 in the afternoon. She set the clock back down and sat in front of the computer.

There really wasn't anything interesting to do, though a Potion caught her attention. Did they come as a free gift for buying a computer? Its not like she needed it, she had no pokemon.

Despite the fact that her family was quite well off, she had never bothered to get a pokemon and become a trainer. Her father said it was just plain laziness, and even though Eris was lazy, it wasn't the reason she didn't have a pokemon.

Heck, even I don't know why I don't have a pokemon. She thought bitterly. Perhaps she should ask dad to get her one. Despite those thoughts, she withdrew the Potion. Maybe she would give it to dad, or use it on his pokemon.

"ERIS! COME QUICK!" She heard her mother scream downstairs. Startled, Eris stood up quickly, hitting her knee on the computer desk. She cursed her luck but ignored the pain and ran out of her room and downstairs.

"Oh, Eris. Come quick, your dad might be on TV!" Her mother said, standing in front of the downstairs TV. Eris frowned and then winced, the pain from her knee getting to her.

This is what her mom made her hurt herself over? Eris had nearly fallen down the stairs, afraid it was some real emergency.

"Mom, we see dad everyday, so what if he was on TV?" Eris said, but her mother ignored this, making Eris sigh. She walked over to the dining table, about to sit down when her mother remembered something.

"ERIS!" Once again, her mother's yell startled Eris.

"Dammit! What now!" Eris yelled back after having hit her knee, in the same spot. Eris sat down on a chair and examined her knee. Her mother laughed it off.

"Oh Eris! I know you're upset about having to move, but really." Eris resisted the urge to fall off the chair and hit her head on the table. Just barely resisted.

"Our next door neighbors, they're really good friends of your fathers. You've got to go meet them and introduce yourself." Her mother said and sat down on the chair across from Eris. Eris frowned and rubbed her knee.

"And why would I do that? Why don't you?" Eris said, narrowing her eyes suspiciously. Her mother's hand went up and covered a girlish giggle. Eris rolled her eyes, getting an idea as to why SHE had to do it.

"Because silly! They have a son about your age!" She said and clasped her hand together. Eris' mother had always been a romantic person, making Eris wonder sometimes just how her mother and father could have ended up together.

Eris decided to interrupt her mother, before she went too far into a silly daydream about how she and the neighbor would fall in love.

"I seriously don't care." Eris said tonelessly only to be ignored once again. Eris got up and started to walk out the door.

"Have fun Eris!" Her mother called from behind her, the only response was a door slamming shut.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." She mumbled to herself as she leaned against the door of her new home. She ran a hand through her crimson colored hair and with a sigh, pushed herself off the door.

The neighbor's home wasn't too far. At most, a 5 minute walk from her own house. Eris knocked on the door, though her mind screamed for her to go back home. She stood there for a few seconds, before a woman older than her mother answered.

The woman looked at Eris up and down with her dark brown eyes, making Eris uncomfortable.

"You wouldn't happen to be our new neighbor, would you?" The woman asked after getting a good look at Eris. Eris wanted so much to just say 'No' and go back home, but then she'd end up with a 'talk' from her mother.

So, Eris smiled weakly and nodded. The woman grinned and opened the door wide, all but shoving Eris inside. Their house wasn't that much different from hers. More decorations, more color, that was it. But knowing her mom, that wouldn't take long to fix.

Eris took a good look at the woman that was to be her neighbor. Waist length snow white hair with a khaki colored sun dress and tanned skin. A cheerful look on her face, slightly unnerved Eris even though her own mother was like that.

Man, I know they'll become wonderful friends. Eris thought.

"This is just wonderful! So you're Norman's daughter? How wonderful!" The woman said, Eris only smiled weakly while the woman continued.

"I'm Mrs. Birch. My husband is out doing some fieldwork, so you missed him. This is my daughter, Emily!" Mrs. Birch said in one breath, making Eris wonder if she'd ever take another breath.

"Oh! You must meet my son, Brendan! He should be upstairs, why don't you go see him?" Mrs. Birch said. Somehow, Eris found herself at the top of the stairs and walking towards this boy's, Brendan's she corrected herself, room. Did Mrs. Birch have the same idea in mind as her mom?

She didn't think about it any further, she walked into his room. This wasn't like a typical boys' room. She had many guy friends back at her old home, and their rooms were messy, walls covered with posters of girls or pokemon championships. This boys room, was more about nature, and pokemon in nature.

And it was clean, yes, clean. Eris could barely believe it. Maybe she'd gotten Emily's room by mistake? She thought about it and walked deeper into the room, fascinated by the decorations. She felt something hard bounce off her foot and looked down. She had accidentally kicked a red and white pokeball. Fascinated, she bent down to pick it up, but was interrupted.

"Hey! Who are you and what are you doing here!" A voice from behind her asked. Forgetting the pokeball, she spun around, ignoring the pain from her doubly injured knee, and looked straight at the boy she guessed was Brendan.

"My names Eris Maple. I'm you're new neighbor, your mom told me you might be up here, so I came up to introduce myself." She said, somehow it sounded tacky to her. The boy in front of her 'Ahed' and nodded.

"So you're our new neighbor. I was expecting a boy when I heard you were a Gym Leader's kid." He said and came to pick up the pokeball she was previously going to get.

He had snow white hair with a green bandanna, something from his mother no doubt, and bright blue eyes. He wore a black and red shirt, with black and gray short and...black pants underneath that?

Eris took that boy comment, crossing her arms and glaring. Brendan seemed to realize that glare and tried to fix his mistake.

"Uh...I mean...Its cause..." He tried. Eris scowled.

"What? Just because my dad's a Gym Leader, I was suppose to be a boy? Is that required to be a trainer too?" She growled, Brendan gulped and took a hesitant step back.

"Er...No! I just meant cause there were so few serious girl trainers!" He said. Eris thought it over and knew it was true. She dropped her scowl and instantly smiled.

"True."

Brendan sighed. He didn't want to get on her bad side.

"So, I take it you don't have any pokemon?" He asked, seeing the lack of pokeballs. Eris frowned and nodded.

"Want me to get you one? I could...Darn! I was suppose to held dad out with that research. I'm sorry Eris, guess thats gonna have to wait." He said. Eris laughed and nodded.

"Na, its okay. I'll just show myself out." She said, but Brendan had already gone to his computer, forgetting about her.

Well, maybe coming over here wasn't that bad. He didn't hit on me, so thats a good sign. Plus, he seemed pretty cool, despite that little boy comment. She thought to herself as she walked around her new hometown. Her thoughts were interrupted by someone tugging on her hand.

Eris stopped and looked down. A little girl with brown hair in pigtails looked at her with big brown eyes. The small girl smiled when she saw she had Eris' attention and pointed to what seemed like an exit for the town.

"Could you go look over there for me please? I hear some bad noises other there, but I'm too scared to go look." The little girl said and gave Eris a pout. Eris shrugged. Why not? They both walked over there, the little girl behind her.

Eventually Eris noticed the little girl was no longer following her and looked back. The girl was there waving at her. Eris frowned, why did she agree to this?

"Ah! Somebody! Please help!" She heard a voice yell after she had gone a few more feet. A chunky man wearing lab coat was being chased around by a strange pokemon. Its fur alternated between light and dark brown and it wouldn't let the man go. The man seemed to have seen Eris and yelled once again.

"Young lady! Help me! Take one of the- OW!" He was cut off by the pokemon nipping at his heels. Eris held back a laugh.

"One of the pokeballs over there and use the pokemon inside to save me!" He yelled once more before being bitten again. Eris looked around and finally saw a bag that had spilled three pokeballs.

"Yo! Which one?" She yelled back. The man yelled once again as the rampaging pokemon caught up with him again.

"It doesn't matter!" He yelled. Eris shrugged and picked up the middle one. She threw the pokeball out and watched as an orange bird came out.

Man, just my luck. She thought. The man seemed to catch sight of what pokemon Eris had chosen.

"Torchic! Excellent! Have it use scratch attack." He ordered. Eris hated taking orders, but eh, it was the kind of situation that she knew nothing about.

"Er..okay. Torchic? Use scratch." She said lamely. The orange colored bird chirped and lept into action. It used its sharp talons to scratch the chasing pokemon, diverting its attention. Without warning, it jumped at Torchic and tackled it, sending sprawling towards Eris' feet.

"Don't let it get away with that Torchic! Use another scratch!" Eris cheered, somehow getting into the battle. Torchic nodded in agreement with her and ran up towards the other pokemon, scratching it right in the face. The other pokemon let out a howl and ran into the tall grass behind it.

Torchic rejoiced and ran right up to Eris. Eris picked it up and held it out at arms length.

"That was great. You were unbeatable." She congratulated it. The man they'd saved walked up to them, having picked up the two other pokeballs.

"That was amazing. Hey, you're Norman's daughter, right?" He asked. Eris hugged Torchic to her chest and nodded.

"Thats great. I'm Professor Birch. You were great with Torchic. Say what? I'll let you keep her, as a welcoming present." He said. Eris smiled and looked down at Torchic, who also seemed to be happy about this arrangement.

"Really? Thanks Professor!" Eris said. Prof. Birch grinned and nodded.

"Why don't we go to my Lab. I'll tell you more about Torchic, and clear up any question about Hoenn you might have." Eris nodded and followed the Professor to his lab.

Hmm. Maybe meeting the neighbors wasn't such a bad idea.

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Maya-ma: So..yeah. I've been wanting to do a story for Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. R&R please! Be gentle.