Cassandra Castro lived with her father in their apartment above her father's gym in Bleakwood City. She had never met her mother as she had disappeared soon after her birth. Cassandra loved watching people challenge her father's gym. She thought it would be good practice for when she could get a Pokemon of her own, and challenge her father to a gym battle. She had even cut a small peep hole into the side of the gym so she could watch when she wasn't supposed to. That was just where she was on the mourning of her tenth birthday. Her father was losing to a young boy wearing a yellow jacket and a tweed cap. He looked no older than her. Beep, beep, beep, beep. It was her alarm. She pressed the reset button, and hurried upstairs to grab her bag. She stopped by the mirror and adjusted her long lavender hair so it wasn't all over the place. She stopped by the gym where her father was just handing a badge to the challenger. "Bye Dad" she called, "Love you".
She ran out the door and down the street to Purrfessor Uno's lab. "Sorry I'm late" she cried as she scurried in.
"I'm sorry" Purrfessor Uno said, "we are out of starter Pokemon".
"You don't have one streameow, Purrgrassenate, or Litten?" she asked in despair.
"I'm sorry, no" he responded.
"But you do have the backup starter Pokemon, Shinx, right?" she asked. "Sorry, no" he said apologetically.
"But you do have something, right?"
"All we have left is a Psycat." he said.
"I'll take it" Cassandra replied.
"You don't want this Psycat, it just hatched from it's egg a few months ago, and is not ready for battle" the Purrfessor said.
"I don't care," Cassandra said, "I can wait a few months to battle with it." "Then it is yours," he handed her a pokeball, a pokedex, and some empty pokeball, "Good Luck!"
Cassandra hurried off to her father's gym. "Hey, Dad, I'm home" she called out as she entered.
"Back so soon, I assume you want to challenge me to a gym battle, right?" She smiled apologetically, "Sorry, Psycat isn't ready for battle yet."
"So you got a Psycat, I see?" he smoothed over his hair just like he used to do when Cassandra was a child.
"Yep" Cassandra replied and headed to her room.
"Cassandra, look, I've been meaning to tell you something" he said.
"What is it dad?" Cassandra noticed her dad was looking very uncomfortable all of a sudden.
"How do I put this? So as you know, you can now go on a journey to concur the Catova League." her father said cautiously.
"Yeah, what about it?" Cassandra said nervously.
"Well, I recently got a call from your mother-"
"-I thought she was dead?" Cassandra interrupted.
"That's what I thought too, but anyways, she said that she wanted you to go to a camp for young trainers like you to get used to battling and to bond with their Pokemon. I said that I thought a journey would suit you best, but if you can't battle right now, then..." he trailed off.
"Of course I would love to go" Cassandra wrapped her arms around him, "so how do I get there?"
"Your mother said that she would send a ride to pick you up at noon, if you changed your mind," her dad explained, "now why don't you go pack your bags?"
Cassandra hurried upstairs and grabbed her favorite purple suitcase with the picture of a Purrfessor on it. She threw open the doors of her closet and grabbed a two of her favorite casual lavender dresses. She then grabbed five pairs of her lavender pants, six lavender hoodies, four t-shirts with her favorite Pokemon on them including Mew, Litten, and others, and finally she grabbed three pairs of lavender shoes. She then proceeded to pull a lavender hoodie over t-shirt displaying a Purrfessor and a caption saying: Purrfection. She went to her mirror and started pulling her hair up into a neat braid. When she was finished she added a lavender hair clip.
"Cassandra, your ride is here." It was her father.
"Coming" she called as she grabbed her suitcase and put on her favorite lavender baseball cap. She ran downstairs and embraced her dad.
"Bye, see you later." She called as she ran out the door.
On the street a long black limo was parked. On it's side were the words: Camp Pokéblood.
"I'm here to pick up a Cassandra Castro" the driver said.
"That's me!" Cassandra said as she climbed into the backseat.
Soon the limo was on it's way. Cassandra watched as the city flew by. After a while they left the city and started driving on an out-of-the-way path. Cassandra fell asleep after awhile. She awoke to the sound of kids playing outside. Cassandra peered out the window. Outside were kids all dressed in the same outfit. Jeans and a t-shirt that had the words Camp Pokéblood on it and a picture of some Pokemon. As she went past some stopped what they were doing and looked, others either didn't notice or didn't care. Finally the limo came to a stop in front of a big house. Cassandra got out of the limo and walked up the steps. On the porch was a tall man who greeted himself as Mr. P. It stood for Palkia he explained.
"Wait, you're Palkia, like THE Palkia, legendary Pokemon Palkia?" Cassandra stuttered.
"Yes, yes, we've been over this." Mr. P said, "Now about why you are here-" "-Why is this camp called Camp Pokéblood?" Cassandra interrupted.
"I was getting to that," Mr. P said, "Now where was I? Oh yes, why you are here, anyways, your mother said you have come of age-"
"-You know my mother? What do you mean by coming of age?" Cassandra interrupted.
"We really need to work on that interrupting problem of yours. Anyway, yes I know your mother, and by coming of age I mean you have gotten your first Pokemon am I correct?" Mr. P held up a hand, "Don't answer that, that was a rhetorical question. Now any questions?"
"Who is my mother? Why is this camp called Camp Pokéblood? How do you know my mother? Are you really Palkia? Do you have any cheese? I could really go for some cheese now" Cassandra blurted.
"Why did I even ask?" Cassandra opened her mouth. "That was also a rhetorical question. So I know your mother because she is Mew. That is why we call this place Camp Pokéblood, because everyone here has some Pokemon blood in them. Yes, I am Palkia and no, I do not have cheese." Mr. P explained.
"My mother really is Mew?" Cassandra asked.
"Yes, now put on this shirt." Mr. P handed Cassandra a t-shirt similar to the ones she saw kids wearing except hers had Mew on it.
Once she put it on she was led outside where a boy with lavender hair and the exact same shirt on was waiting. He introduced himself as Jason, he said his mother was also Mew, he then led her to a cabin, where she would be staying.
"Meet your new sister, Cassandra" he called out as he walked in.
Inside were two girls, most likely twins and a boy with a buzz cut. All of them had lavender hair and the same shirt Cassandra and Jason were wearing. The boy introduced himself as Jack, while the girls introduced themselves as Lauren and Katherine. Cassandra looked around the room, it was a typical cabin except the floor was covered in lavender carpet. Their were four pairs of bunk beds on each side of the room. A collection of chests were at the end of the room opposite to the door. Above the far left top bunk was a dragon head sort of like the decorations of a magical animal called a moose that some of her friends had. Above the top bunk on her right hand side closest to the door a sword had been put up, whereas on the top and bottom bunks of the closest bunk to the door on her left there were two pairs of wings, one on the top, and one on the bottom. Cassandra walked over to the far bunk on her right and set down her stuff. She grabbed out a picture that she had made in second grade of a smiling sunflower and hung it up. Bang, Crash, Boom. Cassandra looked up.
"I'm Home!" A tall boy practically sang as he came in.
"Give it up Charlie" Lauren rolled her eyes.
"Yeah" Katherine agreed, "Besides we have a new camper."
"Oh," He looked over at Cassandra, "Hi, my name is Charles, but everyone around here calls me Charlie."
Cassandra blushed, "I'm Cassandra."
"What a beautiful name" Charlie replied.
"Ew, Charlie, stop hitting on your siblings" Lauren squealed.
"Wait" Cassandra said, "We are siblings?"
"Yeah, that is why he is here" Katherine replied, "because this is the Mew Cabin."
Cassandra just stared, why, when she finally liked a guy, did he have to be her brother?