Hmm, looks like this is it… wonder how I got here?

The white haired boy wondered as he stood before the towering structure. His heart was beating fast and adrenaline was pumping through his entire body as he thought about the challenges that lay inside.

"The League…"

He had come such a long way from the day he had started his journey. He felt the weight of the Pokeballs on his belt and he could almost fell the excitement of his companions. They were as eager to get this show on the road as he was. Each and every one of them had played an important part in helping him reach this far and now the final challenge stood before him – The Elite Four.

Standing in front of the structure made him think of all the things that he had been through. All the challenges he had faced and all the friends he had made along the way. It had all started the day he moved to the small town called Littleroot…..

Riding in the back of the moving van, the white haired boy played on his gameboy and wondered how much longer it would take for him to arrive. He was getting sick of being tossed around the van like a ragdoll on every little bump in the road and the ride had started getting unusually bumpy. He was thinking about how long it might take him to get completely settled in this new place when suddenly the van came to a stop and he was thrown against its front wall. He got up, put his gameboy in his pocket and stepped out of the van.

He looked around and he saw two houses on the opposite sides of the street from each other. Well it wasn't really a street. It was more like a gravel pathway. Apart from these two houses, he could make out a larger building in the distance. He was just wondering what It was when his mother walked out the front door of one of the houses. She led him inside the house whilst saying something but he wasn't really paying attention. As they went in, he was could see a bunch of Vigaroth moving them in and he heard his mother talk about how convenient it was. She then walked away to arrange her kitchen. He walked up to his new room and saw that it had been set up to resemble his old room in the city as closely as possible. He looked around and sighed

"Littleroot… looks like im stuck here…"

The voice in his head sounded depressed and for good reason. He was stuck in a tiny little town out in the middle of nowhere. What was worse was that his father was not going to be living with him. That meant his father's Pokemon weren't gonna be around either. His eyes fell on a package on his bed. He walked over to it and opened it up. It was a wall clock whit a note attached to the back.

"I'm sorry for putting you through this Sean, but I don't have much of a choice. I thought this would look good in your room though. Love, Dad"

The clock had a picture of a few of his dad's pokemon on its face. He sighed as he set it and hung it up on the wall above his mirror. Then he switched off the lights and went downstairs.

The movers had left and the house looked more like a home. His mother was watching something on the television. He was about to step outside to explore the town when his mom called out to him

"Sean! Sean, come quick! Its dad, he is on TV!"

She sounded exited. Sean walked up to the TV and looked but all he saw was the host of the show signing off with a little quote.

"Aww, looks like its over. Hey, what's with you? You seem glum honey"

Her voice was soothing but it didn't make him feel all that better.

"I'm fine mum. I'm going to go out for a bit. See ya" he said and walked out the door.

No sooner had he stepped out of the house that he saw the door to their neighbors' house open. A woman about the age of forty stepped out and looked at him and smiled

"Didn't you just move here from the Kanto region?" she shouted out to him, "why don't you come inside?"

It seemed rude to decline so he walked over and followed the lady into her house. Their house was pretty much the same as his house except that it felt like whoever lived there had been doing so for a long time. Everything seemed to have a place and nothing was out of its place.

"You must be Sean. I spoke to your mom when she arrived" she said handing him some tea. "You know my daughter May is just about your age. Maybe you should go say hi" she added, noticing the glum look on his face and pointing to the stairs.

"Thank you" said Sean as he finished his tea and went upstairs.

He walked into the only room upstairs. It was completely different from the rest of the house. It looked like it had been hit by a tornado or something because things were just lying all over the place. There were papers all across the desk in the corner, the TV that was hooked to the Nintendo 64 was on and the bed was unmade. Then he noticed a pokeball lying there in the middle of the room. For a second he got curious as to which pokemon might be inside it. He walked up to it and bent down to pick it up when he hear a voice from the doorway

"Who are you?"

He jumped and dropped the pokeball on the floor as he turned around. He noticed a girl in the doorway. She seemed to be about his age and was wearing a red top with deep blue shorts. She had a yellow bag around her waist and a green bandana over her head.

"Oh hi, I'm Sean. I just moved in next door" he said, a little startled.

"Since when does that give you permission to barge into someone's rooms and snoop through their things?" she folded her arms in and started tapping her foot.

"I'm sorry"

"I'm just kidding dummy. I'm May by the way" she laughed and walked over to her PC.

"I think ill get going now" he said and walked out the room before she could say anything else.

Once outside he decided to explore a little more. He walked around a while and realized that there wasn't much to do around here. His mood was a little better now. He walked to the edge of the little town and he noticed a little girl in yellow standing by some trees. She seemed to be listening intently to something. Since he didn't have anything else to do he walked over to the little girl

"Watcha listening to?" he asked casually

"There seems to be something going on out there. But I'm afraid of the wild pokemon. Can you please check it out for me?" she seemed a little worried.

"Yea sure" he walked out onto the dirt track and he noticed that the noise that the girl was referring to was coming from a patch of grass up ahead. He could hear someone shouting for help. He ran over to the source of the sound and saw rather peculiar sight. A man in a lab coat and a pair of shorts was clinging from a branch of a tree while a Zigzagoon stood under it. The Zigzagoon did not look very happy.

"Hey! You there! Please help me out here! There are a few Pokeballs in my bag over there" he screamed indicating a satchel lying on the ground.

"Sheesh, wonder what he did to piss off that Zigzagoon?" thought Sean as he jogged over to the satchel. He opened it and three Pokeballs fell out. He picked up one of them and threw it into the air as he had done so many times with his dad's Pokeballs.

The pokeball opened and out came what looked like a little orange chicken

"Is that a Torchic?!" he was amazed as torchic was a rather rare pokemon.

"Oh good, Torchic is a good choice. Now hurry up and give it a command. I can't hold on much longer" the man was looking pretty desperate.

Sean closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He could feel his heart beating faster as his instinct took over

"Torchic! Use scratch!" he said as he opened his eyes.

The battle wasn't very long but to Sean, it felt glorious. Even after he had called Torchic back into it's pokeball, his heart was beating fast he had a huge grin on his face. Something about pokemon made him feel alive. He realized that in that brief battle, he had forgotten all about his worries of moving to this little town.