Author's note: Okay people, if you review you're awesome. The first few paragraphs follow Jayne but the story mostly follows Bhaven.

Disclaimer: No…I don't own Pokemon.

Jayne and her new Charmander took their very first steps together out of professor Oak's lab. The little pokemon sneezed and scurried behind Jayne as a boy approached her. Or at least she thought it was a boy. As the kind approached her she noticed its strange features. He had luminescent features, so beautiful were they, yet frightening. His skin was tinted pink and although he had short brown hair two pink ears stuck out of it.

When Jayne saw his tail she was sure it was a costume. He was dressed in loose black pants and a T-shirt with an ultraball logo on it. He smiled at her and she noticed that his nostrils were slightly slanted. Other than that and his great beauty he looked almost normal. His eyes were green and large, so that they gave him the appearance of being astonished.

"Nice…costume," Jayne muttered.

"Oh, it's no costume," he responded in a clean, sharp voice. Her Chamander hugged her leg which immediately told her there was something wrong with this boy, nevertheless she aloud him to pass by her. She walked away rather quickly feeling suddenly ill and uncertain.

She fled to the forest that led out of Pallet town. She was ready to find new pokemon, new adventures. She stoped at a rock to rest. For some reason, she didn't want her journey to begin in Kanto. The idea of a mere 151 pokemon to find seemed laughable. She wanted to go to Hoenne. She wanted to catch hundreds of pokemon and be the strongest trainer ever.

"You want to battle?" said a sudden voice. She turned quickly and realized it was the same strange boy she'd seen before.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Bhaven," he explained. "Something the matter?" he asked his ears twitching.

"N-no. What are you?" the question escaped her lips before she realized how rude it would sound.

"A 14 year old, like you…a boy as well, last time I checked. But…also a pokemorph."

"You mean people like you really exist?"

"Well I do believe I exist so I'm going to say yes. I'm part mew, watch this." He waved a hand towards a tree and lifted it a bit above the ground so that its roots were the only things connecting it to the earth. He waved a hand for her to follow him to the tree he'd just moved. Underneath, where the trunk had once sat was a confused looking diglet.

"It's adorable…" Jayne muttered.

"Do you want it? I'll catch it for you."

She blushed slightly. "No that's all right." She paused for a moment. "How come I haven't seen you around before?"

"The man who adopted me wouldn't let me see other children; he said that they would pollute my mind and distract me from my destiny."

"Then how'd you get out here?"

"I broke his legs with my mind." She shuddered slightly, feeling all the more uncomfortable about this boy. He touched her lightly on the shoulder but quickly withdrew his hand as if he'd never touched a girl before. She understood the gesture though and smiled meekly at him. "So would you like to battle?" he asked again.

"Uh, sure," She responded. At this her Charmander looked uncomfortable again.

He took out his pokeball. "Go, Vulpix!"

"A Vulpix? I never heard of that as a starter pokemon."

He shrugged. "He wouldn't give me a real starter because of what I am, but he gave in and gave me a Vulpix when I…" he didn't need to continue for the battle began.

"Charmander, tackle!" the little fire pokemon obeyed and raced towards the Vulpix who seemed to easily dodge its attack.

"Quick attack, now!" Bhaven ordered while Charmander and Jayne were both recover from the shock of not hitting their opponent. It hit the Charmander easily and knocked it to the ground. "Now, bite, while it's down," Bhaven said easily. Vulpix obeyed and Charmander flinched so the boy trainer took his chance to finish the battle and ordered his pokemon to do one last quick attack.

"You…won," Jayne muttered in disbelief. "How'd you know how to win? I thought you were a rookie trainer like me."

"Yeah, but I studied."

Jayne withdrew her Charmander and walked away, looking for the nearest pokemon center. The boy looked at her longingly, knowing that somehow he'd failed at his one attempt to make a friend. He sat down awkwardly and snuggled with his Vulpix.

At least, he thought, he did have one friend: Vulpix. The little pokemon did seem to appreciate and like him, or perhaps it was just because he was half pokemon himself. Nevertheless he was happy to have the small creature's company, because if all confrontations went like the one with that girl, he didn't expect to make anymore friends in the future.

He sighed and returned Vulpix to its pokeball. It was already growing later in the evening, so he took off and continued to viridian city.

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Viridian city loomed in the distance, and Bhaven was happy to see it, because he was growing quite tired. He wasn't the kind of kid who thought things through, so he hadn't bothered to pack a sleeping bag. He'd have to bunk at a pokemon center, he realized.

He walked more quickly, stopping only when he heard agonized breaths in the distance. Tired as he was he walked towards the source of the sound. He didn't bother to pull out his Vulpix, knowing full well he was the most powerful creature around.

He saw a man in all black, pinning a girl to a tree. Though he was too far to make out their features he knew the man was a rocket. He walked faster and faster towards them.

As he neared them he realized with a shock that the girl was the same one he'd battled earlier. "Hey!" he called at them. The man stopped what he was doing to look around.

"What the fuck, you little freak get out of here," he swore at Bhaven.

Bhaven stood his ground. "You get away from her."

"You little creep, I said go away," The man said again and with this he drew out a pokeball. "Go, Ratata," he ordered.

Bhaven took one look at the pokemon and with a mere flick of his wrist flung it towards a tree, where it collapsed, unconscious.

The man stared back at him in wonder. "What kind of pokemon are you?" he asked before withdrawing his Ratata and fleeing.

"Are you all right?" Bhaven questioned. "What did he do to you?"

"He tried to rape me…" she muttered trailing off. Bhaven approached her shaking form.

"What's your name?"

"I'm Jayne."

She seemed to just collapse into his arms. Never having done so much as hold a girl's hand before, he found that this was new territory. He gave her a hug and her breathing slowed a tiny bit. He breathed in her scent; he was taller than her and her head only just touched his chin. Before he'd noticed she had large brown eyes and long brown hair. But he hadn't noticed how small she was. She seemed almost child like in her skinniness and pale skin. But her face showed she was his age. Her lips were quivering slightly. "It's all right, I'm here now," Bhaven said gently. "I can take you far away from the rockets; I can take you to…Johto, or Hoenne or Vani." Jayne had never heard of the last name but she perked up slightly at the sound of Hoenne.

"But I don't know you."

"So? If you get there and you don't like me you can always get away from me," he responded. "Please come with me, I know I'm a morph, but I won't hurt you."

She nodded her head. "I don't want to be in Kanto anyways."