The day Calemine arrived in Kalos, it was quite sunny, with only a few clouds in the sky. She was thankful for the pleasant weather as she helped her mother's Mienfoo move boxes into the new house. It was odd to be living with her parents again-she'd been living on her own since she went to school in Unova, three or four years ago now, but her father's transfer to Unova's Kalosian military base, in Kiloude, coincided with her own desire to move here-so cutting costs seemed smart.

She hauled the last box up to a high shelf upstairs in her room-or, it would have been her room, if she'd intended to stick around-and met her mother on the stairs.

"You've a letter from the local Professor, Calem!" she said, before wrinkling her nose as she caught wind of her daughter. "But before you go anywhere, missy, you've got to take a shower."

Calem sighed and started to say, "Oh, come off it, I'm not that-" She'd lifted an arm to sniff at an armpit, and was cut off by her own smell. "Fine," she finished, and called over her shoulder as she went back up the stairs, "but I'm not staying the night. I've missed you guys too, but I want to get going sooner rather later."

She hurriedly got dressed afterwards and ran out of the house with a rushed "Bye!" called over her shoulder, and met two girls outside. She quickly learned they were her new neighbors, of sorts-though she explained that she wasn't planning on sticking around.

"Oh, we aren't either," said the taller, older girl-Serena, was it?-who still slightly younger than Calemine herself. "We're challenging the League too, you know. I'm a bit surprised the Professor even knew who you were, really, since you've just moved here. I did, too, but my mother's... well known." She waved a hand dismissively. "You, on the other hand..."

"Well, I should hope he'd know who I was," Calemine replied, "seeing as I transferred here more to study under him than for the League. Put applications in for both, but yeah."

"...Applications?" Serena tilted her head curiously, as the two started to lead Calem down the path.

"Well, yeah. I mean, I'm pushing twenty now, it's not exactly like I've never had a chance to do this before. Everyone gets one shot free, I imagine, but you don't exactly see many people my age doing this."

The younger one, Shauna, whistled. "Dang, you are old. I thought Serena and I were a bit old to be doing this at fourteen and sixteen, but like, wow."

Calemine mock-pouted. "Now that's just mean. ...Oh, hey, those guys over there are waving at us. Friends of yours?"

Serena nodded, and dragged Calemine over to the table. "This is Tierno and Trevor," Serena said, motioning to the tall, heavily built young man and the much smaller apparent-nerd in turn. "And boys, this is Calemine."

"Just call me Calem, please," she said, sitting down.

Tierno said, "Yeah, what sort of a name is Calemine, anyway?" Calem nodded and began to say something, but was interrupted by Shauna asking if they could get their Pokémon now. "All righty, then," Tierno answered, "here they are! A pokemon each for the dude and dudettes."

"Serena, Shauna, Trevor, does anyone mind if I just go ahead and take the Grass-type? I always do if I can."

Shauna and Serena both shrugged, and Trevor asked, "Why are you asking me? I already have my Pokémon, it's just you three."

Calem cocked her head. "Soo... Right." She put her hand up to her face in frustration as she said, "Tierno, you know I'm a girl, right." It wasn't a question by the tone so much as just rhetoric.

"You are? Oh, I guess that explains the name, then. Sorry dude. ...Dudette."

With a shrug, Calemine took the Pokeball with the leaf on it, leaving Serena to take the water drop and Shauna to take the flame-who asked as she did so, "You seriously didn't notice? Jeeze, you guys are really blind sometimes."

So they spoke a bit more, and eventually set off-Calem with her new Chespin, Ironbark, by her side.