Dawn does not look like she does in the anime (*shudder*), just the games, and most certainly not have her girly personality. Anyways, this story is Diamond, Platinum, and Pearl all together. It will have each of their aspects, and some things I created.

Enjoy!

Chapter 1:

Dawn sat on the floor in her neat bedroom, watching the news report about the red Gyarados that resided in Johto, in the Lake of Rage. It quite interesting, especially when you're so used to blue Gyarados and how the dimwitted reporters got nothing whatsoever. If one was going to do a news story on it, they should have more proof of it all. Nevertheless, she wished they had so she could see it up close, not just a rough drawing (that wasn't even colored! The nerve!) that someone sketched.

She turned off the TV with her remote, for a dumb game show was up next, and she did not want to watch that, and hopefully never would. She got up from the shaggy rug on the floor, dusted herself off, and skipped downstairs, where her mother Johanna was knitting something furiously, probably for Barry, her long-term best friend. Every year, she knitted something for Barry, probably just to make him squirm. Johanna did enjoy see him making him make outrageous faces at them.

"Hey, Mom!" Dawn exclaimed cheerfully, walking into the kitchen to get some lemonade, one of her favorite drinks. The bluenette opened the refrigerator and grabbed a clear can of it, the yellow liquid swishing around as she opened it.

"Hey honey," Johanna replied, finishing up her work and working a bit slower. "Barry came calling for you about ten minutes ago. Maybe you should go see him," She placed the sweater next to her and switched on the TV to the cooking channel. Dawn gulped down the last of her sweet drink and headed for the door. Right when she was about to open the door, her mother turned around abruptly, and Dawn could sense she forgot to say something.

"Dawn! Remember not to walk in the wild grass. You don't have any Pokémon, remember?"

Dawn nodded once as her mother waved goodbye, and headed out into the ever present Autumn Twinleaf Town. There was a slight breeze in the air, which made it even crisper than usual. During the past year, Sinnoh had become considerably colder than usual, and Twinleaf Town actually had a thin layer of snow on the ground. She walked down the road for a bit, enjoying the scenery, as she did every day, and then turned a sharp left. Right around the bend was Barry's house, which was practically the same model as Dawn's except in reverse, and not to mention it was way more exciting than hers. She knocked on the polished door, and Barry opened it with a large bang and ran into Dawn, who tripped backwards.

"Barry!" Dawn complained as she fell down, looking at her friend with a nagging glare. This scenario happened quite frequently, and yet, Barry never learned from his mistakes.

"Oh hi Dawn!" He exclaimed, his fiery eyes sparkling as she got up."I came by your house earlier, but you were asleep. Now you're awake, so let's go! If you're late, I'm fining you 1 million dollars!" With that, Barry ran a couple of feet, and then stopped abruptly, a look of stupidity etched across his face.

"I forgot my journal!" he yelled, then ran back inside, slamming the door loudly.

Dawn sighed, then followed suit, seeing as how she was welcome in his house anytime. Walking inside, and sharing an understanding glance with the blonds' mother, and then climbed up the stairs to his green, yet fashionable, room, where he was frantically searching for his brown journal. Barry threw everything off his desk, a pen narrowly missing Dawn's head, found his journal, and then ran back to Dawn, him tapping his foot as if he wanted to go.

"If you're late, I'm fining you 10 million dollars!" He yelled, completely pumped, his orange eyes bright with excitement. Barry then ran out the door, leaving a trail of dust in his midst. Dawn followed him, and could hear his mother talking to herself about how hyper Barry was.

Dawn slowed down to a walk, and walked straight forward to Route 201, a scenic little route where people hung around, not really wanting to battle, more to converse, if anything. Why the heck is Barry so excited? Dawn wondered to herself as the bluenette walked straightforward. She then shook her head as if she was crazy, and then followed the road once more, deciding she would enjoy today, and not rush around like some excited Jolteon. No, she was more like a Shuckle- she liked to take things slowly and peacefully.

Barry was waiting up at the top of the road, tapping his foot impatiently, with his arms crossed. When he heard Dawn approach, he spun around and grinned, his annoyance with her being slow gone. He was positively bouncing on his heels from the buzz of excitement about whatever he wanted, and he kept running a hand through his already unruly blond hair, and then his grin just got wider and wider.

"So what exactly are we doing?" Dawn asked, cocking an eyebrow, staring at Barry, who seemed to be on a never ending sugar high, with a look of exasperation on her face.

"Duh, there's obviously a Pokémon in the lake here too, so we're going to catch it!"

Dawn shrugged her shoulders indifferently. What Barry wanted, she would deal with. It had been that way for years, starting from when they were just teensy little children, when Barry just demanded that he play with her. He and her started walking up to the lake, which was their old playground from when they were kids. Wonderful memories indeed…

"Woo! We're gonna catch ourselves a Pokémon!" Barry yelled, pumping his fist in the air, right before they entered through the of thick thicket trees. Dawn rolled her blue eyes, but persisted through the trees with Barry. While Barry was rushing, Dawn was taking her sweet time, making sure not to trip like Barry was every five seconds. She did not want to be like Barry, even though he was so fun to be around. If they were to swap personalities, she'd probably die. Everything so punctual and fast for him. Maybe he wanted to hang on to his youth. They were only eleven going on twelve, it's not like anyone would just openly flirt with one another anyways.

In what seemed like a split second, her thoughts diminishing, she felt a chill from behind. She twirled around, and saw a pair of glowing golden eyes, blinking at her from the darkness. Dawn's eyes widened and she ran to catch up with hyper Barry, not wanting to find out who those creepy eyes belonged to.

~oOo~

Lake Verity glistened and sparkled, the crystal water rippling gently, all thanks to the sun that was shining brightly up in the clear sky, with the couple wisps that tried to pass themselves off as clouds. It was what one would call, a "perfect day." To top it off, there was just a gentle breeze in the air, making Dawn's hair flutter gently. Both Barry and Dawn stood side by side, staring at the lake, basking in its beauty. Then the two seemed to snap back to reality and focus on what was on, in, or under, even over the lake. Or whatever it was that Barry had dreamed up.

"Where do you think this magical Pokémon is?" Dawn asked, a slightly annoyed tone accenting her voice, with her hands on her hips, looking around at Lake Verity. Barry, on the other hand, didn't answer but were several feet ahead of her, inspecting something. Curious as a cat, Dawn jogged over to him and tried to see what it was. Barry, sensing that Dawn was trying to see, moved out of the way, a good foot or so. In front of her was a beat up brown briefcase, its handles fallen over on the side and a post it note with a messy scrawl on it.

"What do you think is-?

There was a fierce flapping of the wings sound right as Barry was about to finish his sentence, and in a flash, two Starly came flying towards the two kids, their eyes fierce and their beaks unusually sharper than the average bird Pokémon. As if on instinct, they started attacking Dawn and Barry, scratching and pecking ever so fiercely. Barry grabbed Dawn's shoulders and yanked her backwards towards the briefcase.

"No time to find out!" Dawn yelled. She clicked open the briefcase, silently praying there would be something inside, and truly, inside were three, crisp Pokeballs, freshly polished and standing out from the brown. She grabbed one, then Barry did too, and they threw the balls in the air, hoping to release a strong Pokémon that would make these annoying birds go away. In a flash and large amount of light, a blue penguin Pokémon leaped out of Dawn's and Barry's leaped out a Chimchar, its little tale ablaze with the fire on it. Dawn recognized hers as a Piplup, right as it chirped out it's name.

"We need to battle!" Barry yelled, and tried to swat the angry Starly, but no such luck. It only ended up successfully scratching his hands, making them trickle out just a bit of blood. He would need a band-aid later.

"Fine!" Dawn snapped, shielding her blue eyes from the Starly. Barry and her were back to bck

"Piplup, use Pound!" Dawn yelled and Piplup rammed into the bird Pokémon. Dawn gasped, and looked at the Starly that was on the ground. "Oh my, I'm so sorry!"

Dawn turned around to watch Barry's battle. It was going very good, and he seemed to be really into it, yelling and cheering and making hand motions. His Pokémon was just like him too; fiery, impatient and headstrong. Chimchar than scratched the Starly continuously, and the Starly flew backwards. Dawn winced; that must've hurt the poor Pokémon.

I don't think I'm cut out for battling, Dawn thought to herself, and then commanded Piplup to use Pound again. After the last attack, the Starly fainted on the ground, and Barry's had been knocked out for five minutes, and Barry's Pokémon was in its, ball, so Dawn returned hers too.

"Whew, that was awesome!" Barry said, his eyes filled to the brim with excitement.

"They'll be okay, right?" Dawn asked, looking down at the Starly with a bit of concern, temporarily forgetting the nuisance they were.

"They will, don't you worry Dawn!" Barry said, and then he raised his hand in a high five. Dawn smiled and slapped his hand.

"You know I like Piplup!" Dawn said, looking at the Pokeball fondly.

"Hey!" a voice called out from the entrance of the lake. It sounded rather strained, and male, and very out of breath. "Did you use those Pokémon?"

A boy jogged towards them, a binder tucked under his arm and a half-eaten sandwich in the other. His blue eyes looked rather tired and even worried, and he had dark hair tucked away by a multi-colored cap, which was tilted slightly to the left. He came up to the two of them, and looked at them in exasperation. "Did you?" He asked again, dropping the sandwich and binder as he rubbed his temples. Barry eyed the sandwich longingly.

"Yeah, but we used them only because some Pokémon attacked us!" Barry protested bravely, recovering from his longing for food, now folding his arms and glaring at the cap wearing boy. Dawn nodded silently in agreement.

The boy sighed and bent down to pick up his dropped items on the light green grass."Come with me," He started walking towards the entrance again, and Dawn and Barry followed in confusion, with Dawn looking at Barry like, what the heck?! They kept walking and walking until they reached Route 201 once more.

"Listen guys, these Pokémon are owned by the Professor and they're extremely rare! Like super! You guys shouldn't have used them!"

"You're basically saying that you wanted our eyes pecked out," Barry said, looking at the boy. The boy rolled his eyes at him, but continued anyways.

"I'll let you keep them one more day, I'll just tell the professor it's a long story, and they'll be here tomorrow. By the way, I'm Lucas,"

"I'm Dawn, and this is Barry, he's impatient, hyper, feisty, headstrong and reckless." Dawn said indicating the two of them with her wiggling finger.

"And this is Dawn, she's boring, slow, not tough, thinks I'm insane," Barry mimicked Dawn's voice and act, but it didn't sound like her; it was way to high pitched. The funny thing was, Barry didn't even notice that Dawn was introduced twice, as Lucas sighed for what seemed like the hundredth time.

"It was nice meeting you Dawn, I'll just go and tell the professor this completely whacked up story…" Lucas smiled a completely forced smile. She felt bad for the poor boy; his original plan probably wasn't for two pesky kids to battle with ultra-rare Pokémon. "Barry. See y'all around," Lucas nodded and walked away towards Sandgem Town. As soon as he was out of sight, Barry jumped in the air, pumping his fist up and regaining that energy he had before their little escapade.

"Yes, our own Pokémon!" he cheered excitedly, and grinned at Dawn, his smile looking like it could take up his face.

"Sorry to rain on your parade, but we have to give them back tomorrow." She said, looking at Barry like he was crazy, which was partly true at least. It was sad that they had just gotten Pokémon and had to return them, but that was a little something called life.

"So what, do you really think I care?!" Barry snorted, right as a breeze picked up. He looked up at the sky with a dreamy expression etched on his face. "I'm going to spend more time with this little guy; you go on ahead to Twinleaf." He said, now distracted with the Pokeball in his hand, and with his other, a dismissing wave. Dawn rolled her eyes but smiled, and proceeded to go on to their cheery little hometown.