AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello everyone! This will be my 2nd fan fiction, after The Shadow Tunnel (which is about Minecraft). This will also be my first tale about Pokemon! I used to love the games (and especially Pokemon Platinum) when I was 10, so I guess now I'll revisit that old world of mine's by writing a fan fiction! I know this particular story isn't very popular (at the time of this writing it only has 24 views, despite me releasing 3 chapters), but that doesn't matter! I will keep writing, not only for others, but for myself as well!

I'm also quite busy (violin/piano practice, writing a book, writing The Shadow Tunnel, and school, and etc.), so I may not have much time for this!

This is told from Rowan's point of view! It's rated T for some light romance (eheheheh), and scary/cartoon violence scenes (not that there are any cartoons, but you get what I mean).

As always, please leave a review or a favorite! Even a small comment of appreciation really makes my day, and motivates me to write more!

Now, I know you didn't come here to hear my blabbering, so on with the story!


My name is Rowan. I am a 14 year old boy with black hair, and blackish eyes. My skin is fair, like my parents. I wear glasses.

I also live in the world of Pokemon.

Which region? I don't live in a region, currently. I came from Sinnoh, though. I know that for sure.

I live in the mini-region of Oceanview. It's a pretty large island. I think it deserves to be a region. But the authorities are reluctant to do that. They think that with Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova, there are enough regions.

Which is fine with me, really. I don't think of it much. My life is too busy, anyway.

The reason for the busyness? I attend the Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies. It's very competitive. I am learning to become an Arena Contestant, which means I have to spend hours a day studying and practicing with my prinplup, called William.

An Arena Contestant? That means I challenge the various gyms and battle arenas around the world. Arena Contestants have to be very strong and smart, and they must know how to use their pokemon to achieve victory.

Which, like I said before, means quite a lot of practice.

But enough about that. Let me tell you about Oceanview.

In Oceanview, there are two main towns. One is called Goldenfield, and the other is named Seacrest. Goldenfield is located near the center of Oceanview. Seacrest is a port city, built in the south.

There's also a small village known as Snowfield, which is located in the north, where the mountains are. I don't know much about it. I think it's a small research town. I'm not sure. Even though it's not far from the Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies (which is also located in the mountain range), I've never been there before.

My father works in Snowfield. He's a scientist. I don't know what he studies, but whatever it is, it must be important, because he gets paid well. My family can afford a nice townhome in Goldenfield.

Not that I'm in Goldenfield much.

You see, the Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies is a boarding school. That means you sleep there too, instead of going back to your home every night. There are dormitory buildings around the school, some for the girls, some for the boys. There's also a large cafeteria, which is built to serve the students breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I come home every two weekends, and on holidays. My father doesn't visit much, and it's usually my mother and my young sister, called Annie, at home. Goldenfield is a pretty nice place. I always look forward to visiting there. It's warm and sunny, unlike the Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies, which is usually very frosty, snowy, and cold. The city also has a lot of fun things to do, like the annual Pokeblock (a popular food that many people feed to their pokemon) and Poffin (another type of food that comes from my home region, Sinnoh) festivals. There's also many cafes, restaurants, and even a large library. William likes the library very much, though he can't read.

Sometimes, my father comes down from Snowfield and takes me, Annie, and William out to see the sights around the town. Annie adores William, since she can't have her own pokemon yet. She also likes Snowstorm, which is my father's Glaceon, though not as much, since she rarely sees him.

But back to Oceanview.

The southern beaches are very popular among the tourists. Sometimes, if I get the luck to go down there on holidays, I can usually see people from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova sunbathing, swimming, or licking ice creams. But it's their pokemon that really interest me. Once, I thought I saw a snivy. Another time I got to meet a mudkip, which is a cool pokemon that I really like. Too bad it's from Hoenn.

I wish Oceanview had its own unique pokemon, but the scientists haven't found any yet. Instead, the land is populated by a mix of pokemon from Kanto and Johto. For some reason, there aren't any Hoenn or Sinnoh pokemon. And no Unova pokemon have been sighted, since Oceanview was formed long before Unova had been discovered.

As for William, my mother tells me my father brought him with me when we moved to here from Sinnoh. He was just a little baby piplup back then. Now he's a prinplup, though he still has some of his old piplup fur, since he just evolved a month ago.

Oceanview is a pretty nice place. In the north (where Snowfield and Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies is located), there's a large mountain range, called the Icypeaks. Towards the middle of the mini-region, there's a lush valley, where Goldenfield is located. There are forests at the top of the valley, and fertile farming soil in the lower areas. To the west, there are more mountains, and to the east, there is a mysterious, swampy forest. In the south, woods cover most of the land, but then it becomes plains, and finally, the beaches. Seacrest is located in the southwest. There's a small fishing town called Yarenville, which sits by a small cove in the southeast.

Other than that, I don't think there are any more towns.

But there is an abandoned village called the Ghost Town, which sits in the middle of the eerie, eastern swamps. Close to the village is a strange place called the Grim Tower. Many of the Oceanview citizens stay clear of that area. It's rumored that the Grim Tower is haunted, which isn't very surprising, considering that most of Ghost Town is populated by, well, ghost pokemon.

The seasons in Oceanview are mild. In the summers, Seacrest gets sweltering hot, but Goldenfield only gets a bit warmer than usual. During the winters, Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies and Snowfield get unbearably cold, but Goldenfield remains pretty much the same. I don't know about the climate of Yarenville, though. It's pretty isolated from all the other towns, and the locals, according to my friend Garret's dad (who is a traveling businessman that's been to Yarenville several times), don't communicate much to any visitors.

Now that I've said pretty much everything about Oceanview, there's one last thing I forgot to tell you about.

Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies is not the only school.

There's a rival academy, called the Goldenfield School of Pokemon Trainers.

It's located in the lush wheat fields a bit north of Goldenfield. The school mainly specializes in training Wilderness Rangers (who are supposed to travel the lonely roads and forests between different cities and help out stranded people and pokemon) and Domestic Trainers (who are supposed to teach pokemon how to do jobs like help carry things and use their powers to help people do difficult jobs, or train pokemon to become pets). They're larger than the Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies, which specializes in training Pokemon Specialists (who study and heal pokemon) and Arena Contestants, but we've traditionally been better than them.d

I think that's about it.

I've told you about who I am. I've told you about Oceanview, and about Winterhill Academy of Pokemon Studies. I've also talked about the Goldenfield School of Pokemon Trainers.

I guess it's time to go.

But I'll be back, I promise.

But right now, my mother wants me to take Annie and William out to walk around Goldenfield, so I've got to hurry. See you. And thanks for taking the time to read about me.

I hope you'll come back later, so I can tell you more.