Hello! Dream For Tonight here with my latest project! I have high hopes for this and I hope it turns out well. For those of you that saw this up before, I removed it due to someone(you know who you are) telling me that it's against the rules...so I ended up rewriting.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, or the start-of-the-chapter songs. Everything goes to their respective owners.

Chapter 1- Pilot

Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. -Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten

"Gate 17, now boarding. I repeat, Gate 17 now boarding."

You get up from your seat and check your jacket pockets for your airplane ticket, blowing dark purple hair out of your face. Nodding to your Solrock floating beside you, you grab your luggage by the handle and present your ticket to the flight attendant. Once given confirmation to continue, you step into the, rather narrow; you note, corridor that leads to the door of the airplane. You look around the aisles of the airplane, trying to remember which seat you were supposed to be in, a small line of people beginning to gather behind you.

Now…what was that seat number again? You think, mentally slapping yourself upside the head.

You quickly nod, thanks to Solrock remembering your seat number was F606. Someone taps you on the shoulder from behind. You turn around and see the person you can assume tapped you before has his emerald eyes narrowed into a glare, others behind him moving their heads to see why they couldn't move forward.

Sweatdropping, you hastily make your way down the aisle, slipping one of your luggage bags into the storage compartment above the seats and take one with you, placing it under the seat of the person sitting in front of you. Solrock weaves through the mass of people, trying to find you and when he does, plops down into your lap, managing to not impale you with any of its spikes. You have the luck of having the aisle seat in your row, so you lean into your chair and try to avoid the flood of people pushing past you to get where they need to go.

The person sitting on your left pokes you in the head, making you snap your head up in annoyance.

"What?" you ask.

The girl lifts her head to avoid colliding with yours, then gestures to the space between you and her, which happened to be very little. You scoot away, cradling Solrock and putting your feet on the luggage in front of you.

"So…what's your name?" you ask the girl, noticing the plane had quieted down as smaller conversations ensued and pilots and attendants were making last-minute preparations for the flight.

The girl takes out a notebook and opens it to the first blank page she finds, which wasn't too far off from the front cover. She then takes a red gel pen from a canvas bag hung on her knee and begins to write. You can see the hand movements, but not what she's writing. Before long, the girl presents the notebook to you, holding it up.

"My name's Raine. I'm 13 years old. What about you?"

"I'm Nicolette, also thirteen. Call me Nikki," you hesitantly say, raising an eyebrow at the notebook.

Raine smiles at you, and you get a good look of her for the first time, blocking out the voices of the flight attendant and methodically strapping your seatbelt on, Raine doing the same. You take in her appearance. She certainly has the height of a thirteen-year-old, possibly shorter. She has really light blue hair with bangs that frame her face cutely. Her eyes complement her hair, you think- falling into the same generic color category as her hair, but several shades darker and have a certain depth to them that remind you of Lake Verity.

So pretty…you think. You think about your own appearance: definitely taller than Raine by about three inches, give or take. Dark violet hair with mostly sideswept bangs and a few strands that fall in front of your ears. You have deep hazel eyes that seem more amber-gold than most people with hazel eyes and receive complements on them often.

Continuing the conversation you started, you add, "Where are you headed? I'm going to the Kanto region."

Again, Raine turns to her notebook and scribbles under the part where she wrote her name. A few seconds passed, and you see Solrock levitating Raine's notebook in front of you.

"I'm planning on going to the Sevii Islands with my cousin. My family lives there and I was planning to see them for a little bit."

"Really? That's nice of you. By the way, I hope you don't mind if I ask, but are you deaf? Mute?" you hesitantly ask, not wanting to offend the small girl.

Raine laughs quietly and nods, taking her notebook back from Solrock and beginning to write again. "Yes, I'm mute. Don't feel bad for asking- everyone does at one point. That's why I always have my notebook. I always find it easier to write rather than trying to sign to people."

You open your mouth to reply, but before you could get a sound out, someone comes up behind you and taps you on the shoulder. You turn around, raising an eyebrow at the young man before you.

"Hi…are you Nicolette Vogt?" he says.

"Yes…why?"

He pulls something up next to him and lifts it into the storage compartment above your head. Afterwards, he shoots a grin at you. "I found it in the terminal. You should keep track of your stuff." And with that, he disappeared into his seat some rows up.

Huh…you think. Nice guy, pretty unassuming. I feel like I've seen him before, though. Hmm… Turning back to Raine, you say, "It always is. Definitely saves the trouble of learning how to sign!" The two of you share a laugh.

The airplane begins to move faster. A few moments pass before Raine blinks and begins to write in her notebook, her hand shaking as she tries to keep her writing from jumping up and down.

"I've been meaning to ask you, but I never got around to it. You never mentioned why you were going to Kanto, just that you were. So…why are you?"

"Hmm?" You shake your head as the blunette waves her notebook in front of you. She leans towards you expectantly, waiting for your answer.

"Oh, why am I going to Kanto? Just like you, I'm going to see my family. My little brother to be specific. He can't be by himself for too long, especially since there's no one to take care of him all the time," you say, shrugging.

The smaller girl next to you nods and takes her notebook back, scribbling for about two seconds before presenting the page to you again.

"Go on."

"…Okay then. Um…well, our parents died when we were little. I was about seven and my brother was two. We were sent to an orphanage and when I turned ten, the owners and caretakers let me try to become a trainer, to see if I could make anything out of it. Sometime after I left, our former neighbors came and adopted my brother, and said that they would come back for me when I returned. Of course, they let me know about it. Since my first journey was a success, I'm traveling again to make some money to pay them back, because they do so much for us. You get it?"

Raine nods happily, stretching her fingers as she writes in her notebook. Her eyes follow her shaking hand as she writes. "Yeah! I can't believe you two were that young when you lost your parents. You still remember the whole thing? Anyway, it's really nice that you're doing this to pay your neighbors back. But there are a lot of things you can do to earn money. Why did you become a trainer?"

Weird place to cut off...
So, that's the end of the new first chapter! Questions, comments, concerns? Leave them in a review!

-Dream