Beep beep beep!

I smashed my hand on the alarm clock and threw it out the window. I wouldnt need that old thing anymore!

"You know you're cleaning that up!" My Mom caleld up the stairs.

I sighed and got out of bed, my blonde hair sticking up as usual. I went over to my laundry pile.

I sniffed some shirts. "Dirty. Dirty. Dirty. Dirt-...muddy. Hmmm." I had managed to find a clean yellow shirt and put it on. After a few minutes I got some blue jeans, sneakers and a black jacket. Hey, what if its cold?

"You're going to be late! ...Again!"

"Im coming Mom!"

I ran down the hall and slid on the railing to the kitchen where I got my toast, hugged my Mom and ran out the door. Something didnt feel right. Like I was forgetting something very important. Oh yeah! MY POKEMON!

"Forget something?" My Mom asked

"Yay! I cant believe I tried to register without Rex!" I giggled. Rex was my Pupitar.

"Not what I meant." She pointed to the broken clock outside, the dishes, and herself.

I ran upstairs and got Rex, ran back down and hugged my Mom.

"Love you Mom. Next time you see me, I'll be on the big screen!" I ran out the door.

"But what about your chores!" She yelled after me.

"I'll do them when I get back!" I gave her the peace sign and hopped on skateboard with Rex on my shoulder. We were journy bound now baby!

When I got near the registry I got off my board and tucked it in my bag. I stcuk out because it was to big, but that didnt matter.

"Why hello Jaden. Nice to see you again. Ready to sign up for your Pokemon liscence?" Professer Crandor asked. It had been years since the last Professer here in Goldenrod City had retired and they got a new one.

"Yeah! Although, there is one thing." I continued "When I couldnt get my lisence the first time, I was mad and went out into the woods. I saw a little Larvatar being attacked. I brought him in and trained him so would it be fine if I used Rex here as my starter?" I pleaded.

"Hmm. Well you have been training him for a while I'm guessing. Your bonds must be strong. Very well! Let me just get your age, and little Pupitar-I mean, 'Rex's statistics." He went on. Registry had changed over the years. Now they wanted to know everything before they stamped "trainer" on that card.

After a boring 2 hours I finally got up to get my new Trainer's lisence.

"Before I hand this over, might I ask why you couldnt get it last time?" The Professer said.

"It was summer. The days blended so I forgot which day it was and missed the deadline. Darn rules said I had to wait another 5 stinkn' years!" He nodded and handed my lisence over to me.

"Well, lets just hope everything goes right from here on. M'kay?"

"You got it!"

I took my board out of my bag and skated down the road. I was finally a trainer. I've had my first Pokemon for 3 years now and Im finally a trainer!

"Tar, pupitar!"

"I know right? This is so cool-" BOOM! I slammed into someone and went flying into the tree line.

"Pupitar tar..."

"How was I supposed to know you were saying look out? I dont speak Pokemon!"

"Pupitar"

"Touche, Rex. Touche."

I got up and looked at the person I had knocked over.

"Sorry about that," I said gesturing a hand to help him up. "Guess I should have been pupitaring to where I was going." I chuckled. Rex looked annoyed.

"Ah, its no problem." Said the boy as he grabbed my hand and got up. "Hi. Im Derek"

He looked about old as me. His brown hair fell in his face and covered one of his eyes. I noticed the fall scrapped his green pants and made his knee bleed, along with getting his clean white shirt all dusty.

"Oh man, you should clean that. Here," I took out a water bottle and a cloth.

"Dont sweat it dude. It'll heal. If us humans couldnt survive a scrape here and there without cleaning, would we have made it this far?" He laughed. I could tell he was the joking type. "Pikachu, I chose you!"

A Cindaquil appeared from a flash of light emitting from his Pokeball.

"Thats a Cindaquil." I said flatly

"All mouse types look alike to me." We both laughed. Rex looked really annoyed now. He must not have liked Derek's particular brand of humor.

"Anyway...wait, why did I call you out again? Oh yeah! He kid, wanna battle?" Derek asked.

"A battle?" I looked over to Rex who was now rolling around with excitment "Sure."

We went into the woods away from people.

"Cindaquil! Flame thrower!"

"Rex, use Dark Pulse!"

The attacks clashed in mid air

"Keep it going!" We both yelled

The power in the blasts grew and exploded with fury leaving us in a cloud of smoke.

"Cindaquil! Flamethrower again! This time add a spin!"

His Cindaquil, from what I could tell, used his flame thrower and spun around in circles most likely trying to hit Rex wherever he was hiding.

"Rex! Follow the flame and use Thrash!"

Rex propelled him self to the source of the bright flame throught he thick plume around him and SLAMMED into Cindaquil. Then it got mad. Flames lit up on its back that insantly blew away the cloud.

"CindaaaaaQUIIIIIIIIIIIIL!" It shouted as it let lose a powerful flamethrow, the strongest I've seen yet, against his owner's command.

"Taaaaaaaaaar!" Rex screamed as he was engulfed in the flames.

"No!" I yelled "Rex get out of there!"

He rocketed up

"No more text book atatcks. Rex! Use your gas to fly in circles around the fire and redirect it back to Cindaquil!" He obeyed and created a tornado of flames that was sent hurling to Cindaquil.

"My Cindaquil is a fire type, remember? Its own attack wont hurt it!"

He he. "Not my plan!" The fire engulfed Cindaquil so much so, that all we could see was a bright red ball of fire.

"Now, Rex, rocket foreward and use Dark Pulse!"

Rex used the gas to propell himself so fast, that his Dark Pulse attack surrounded him, turning him into a solid bullet of darkness heading right for Cindaquil! A firey explosion happened on contact and we lost sight of the "arena" again. When the smoke cleared, both Pokemon were out cold.

"Wow great skills! I never thought of using your Pokemon's natural abilities or atatcks like that before!"

"Your Cindaquil is pretty amazing too. I've never seen a Cindaquil, or any Pokemon for that matter, use a flame thrower like THAT after taking a direct hit!"

We talked and swapped straegies while the Pokemon played for what seemed like hours.

"Hey Jaden?" Derek asked

"Yeah?"

"Where exactly are you headed?"

"Unova. I hear theres some really rare Pokemon up there. Plus I want to test their Gym Leaders."

"Hey, Im goign to Unova too! Its actually a goal of mine to be a gym leader some day and I want to see how my Pokemon from all parts of the world hold up against the powerful ones all the challengers will bring."

"You have Pokemon from all over the world?"

"Not exactly. Only Cindaquil right now. I got in a accident during registration 5 years ago so I couldnt get my lisence. Now though, I can finally chase my dreams!"

"Hey, lets travel togther. With eachtoher's help, Im sure we can accomplish our dreams!"

Derek took a minute to think it over. Then he smiled.

"Sure!"

We bumped fist and there it was. My first traveling buddy. We were on our way to the top, and nothing was going to stop us!