I wake up to the sound of my pokemon making their assorted sounds… I blink, letting my eyes get used to the tediously bright light coming in through the windows of my unlucky room. I get out of bed, and look through my bag for my second of seven outfits of clothes. I put on the black silk t-shirt, and the black baggy jeans, grinning at just how pale it makes my skin look. I look into the mirror, and make sure I look well enough to go out…I leave my pokemon their food, and quickly run to the washroom, where I shower, and finish putting my outfit together, with the silver neck chain that's holding a blue sapphire gem in the shape of a snowflake. I walk back to my room, growing tired by the repetitive wallpaper.

"Okay! It's time to go! Everyone, into your pokeball!" I say with as much energy as I can, considering the fact that I've had no food or caffeine for around twenty-four hours… "Okay! LunarFlower, Shadow Flare, Fire Tails, and Aquamarine, we have ta go! Our flight's leaving in around an hour. And I have to go out to eat…" With that, I make my four pokemon return to their pokeballs, and attach them to my dark blue jacket sleeve. I walk out of my hotel room, and go down the six flights of stairs until I finally see the elevator I went up on. I sigh, and return to the main level, finding everyone still asleep.

I walk over to the counter and put the key behind Nurse Joy's desk, and head towards the restaurant and food portion of the Pokecenter, craving food. I walk up to the counter, waiting for the Nurse Joy behind it to finally realize I'm here…

"Oh! Good morning! Your up early, how may I help you?" Nurse Joy asks, still obnoxiously happy, especially for this early in the morning.

"I'd like coffee, with lots of milk and sugar, and ummm…." I rub the back of my head thinking of what to eat… "Oh! I know! Butterfree honey on bread please? Two slices of it?" My stomach roars at the thought of the food…

"Here ya go! That'll be… 5.50!" She says her grin making me seriously think she has been drinking way too much gin…

"Okay…" I hand her the money, and pick up the tray she gives me… I walk over to a table, and sit down, looking out at the sunrise. I slowly start eating my breakfast, watching as people slow start coming in… I watch the clock on the wall, waiting till it finally strikes 7:00am before heading off to the airport for my 9:00am flight. Which means, I gotta wait an hour… I look at the door, watching people swarm in, I sigh, as almost all of them come in large clusters of people, swarming over this place like a hive of Beedrills. I see the familiar form of the most annoying person walks in… Ayden Volcano. I watch him, hoping he doesn't see me… Hoping that I don't have to waste my Hour fighting him… but of course… Just as everything else in my life erupts into flames, Ayden sees me, and starts heading my way…

"You can't say you're busy this time! No Jumpluff to run away after. Aiko Rainbow, I challenge you to a trainer battle!" Ayden says in his commanding voice, obviously trying to intimidate me.

"So, your willing to put so much energy out so early in the morning? Honestly… Don't people ever take it easy anymore? Fine, I accept your challenge! Let's go outside. I don't want to disturb anyone." I say, sighing at the idea of having to put out so much energy so early in the morning. I follow him out the door, watching him clear everyone out to make a small area for our pokemon battle. I sigh, as he takes the area far away from me.

"Let's start! We will use only one pokemon each! And when I'm through with you, your gonna go running home crying to your bimbo sister!" Ayden yells across to me. I only sigh at the older trainers childish behaviors…

"Okay, to start this round, I choose you, Shadow Flare!" I yell, throwing the pokeball containing my dark fire type pokemon, releasing the said pokemon in a crimson light.

"You've got a Houndour? An interesting turn of events, but still, no match to my Hephastus!" He yells as he throws out his pokeball containing his orange and black dog pokemon… The two dog-pokemon circle each other, Ayden's Growlithe 4 inches taller then my sleeker darker Houndour.

"Shadow Flare! Use your Ember!" I yell, crossing my fingers watching the flames erupt from Shadow Flare's mouth. I see the blast hit Growlithe in its front left paw, causing it to stumble and fall down momentarily before leaping back up, it's orange fur burned, and obviously hurting.

"Hephastus! Use your Bite attack!" Ayden yells to his pokemon, causing it to leap at Shadow flare with its sharp ivory white teeth bared and ready to draw blood.

"Shadow Flare! Try to avoid it!" I yell watching intently, hoping that the move doesn't do much damage… I see the obviously quicker Houndour quickly leap away from Growlithe, only to have its back paw caught by the Orange puppy's mouth. "Shit… Shadow Flare, use your Ember!" I yell, hoping that the pokemon isn't too hurt; I see the blood dripping from its paw onto the ground underneath, causing a crimson stain on the cement… The young Houndour opens it's large mouth, and launches an ember blast at the larger pokemon, aiming right for its head. The flame shoots across and hits the other pokemon knocking it back quickly, a critical hit. The puppy pokemon's facial fur is stained black by the ash of its once bright orange fur.

"Grrrowlithe!!!!" Hephastus growls once, before falling down, knocked out.

"Hephastus!" Ayden cries, recalling his pokemon into its pokeball. "Fine here! You think your good?" Ayden yells, throwing me the victory money before quickly running back into the Pokecenter to get his pokemon treated.

"You did great Shadow Flare!" I yell, and run over to my pokemon, that was still lying on the ground. I take off my backpack, and pull out a potion and spray it onto Shadow Flare's paw watching the bleeding stop and the paw to heal back to normal and his health to return 25/25. "You deserve a break, I'll recall you into your Pokeball. Kay?" I recall the tired pokemon, and check its stats once more, just to see if it raised a level, or learned anything new… I jump up in triumph as I find that Shadow Flare went up a level and a half from the tough battle.

After putting my backpack back on I walk back into the Pokecenter; looking at the clock… only half an hour has passed, meaning still have time to waste. I look around through the swarm of people, and see Nick sitting alone at a table, looking barely awake. I walk over to him, having nothing better to do, practically doing a dance to get through the swarm of people moving about in herds. I finally get to Nick, after five minutes of effort. "Good morning! How was your sleep?" I ask cheerfully, forgetting the fact that I ditched him last night.

"Fine. Beyond the fact I couldn't get a room, and had to sleep with tones of strangers, a lot of which had frightening obsessions with bug pokemon." Nick murmured, sighing loudly, before perking up again. "Hey, did you hear someone beat Ayden in a pokemon battle? Everyone's gossiping about it, I wonder who did it?" He wondered out loud, obviously thinking of what trainers had suitable types to take on fire pokemon.

I meekly raise my hand, "I did! He wanted to have a Trainer battle, he used his Growlithe, and I used my Houndour. Growlithe's bite attack's damage was reduced by the darkness part of Shadow Flare." I explain, hoping he believes me.

"Really? Wow, that's pretty cool, Growlithes are really tough for a first stage pokemon. Misty told me so!" Nick told me, grinning at his chance to prove his intelligence. "According to Misty, Arcanine is one of, if not the, strongest fire type pokemon!"

"Humph, Ninetails and Houndoom are better…" I mutter, in pure favoritism of my own pokemon and their types.

"Great debate, you must have went through English with 100%, right?" Nick mutters, very sarcastically.

"I didn't go to school, I was taught by my parents, my sister, and her loyal league of junior trainers! And if I thought I was going to be graded, I would have been more proper, and do a better job…" I mutter with almost no sound.

"If you say so!" Nick replies grinning.

"I do!" I return, grinning and sticking my tongue out. I look at the clock, and see it's about time to go for the Pidgeot flight 333, so we get good seats! "Okay, let's go, we want good seats. I've always been afraid that they'd like, lock us up in cargo if we're too late…"I declare, as I stand up, and start walking towards the door… Stepping on a lot of feet just to get them to move. When I finally get out of the overly crowded building, I mutter, "Stupid people oughta watch where they're standing…"

"What was that?" Nick asks, not hearing me as he squeezes through two people, and outside, looking like an amusingly blue worm.

"Never mind, lets go get our seats." I say, walking to the street, and starting to try and hail a taxi. I sigh, and finally see one come to a stop, the yellow standing out against the gray surroundings. "Can you take us to the Airport please?" The taxi pulls away from the curb with us in it, and drives towards our destination… I look out the window, watching people and things fly by as we head towards what's hopefully the new 1-year- old airport…

"According to Misty, the Airport was built a year ago and connects all of Jhoto together, however, the Kanto region preferred the old fashioned way of travel and refused to build them." Nick rattled off again, how much information does this kid know? Honestly, if he doesn't stop talking, I'd think that he'd be a genius.

The city rushes by quickly, and the airport comes into view with the airplanes taking off and landing, looking like an in sky ballet. The cab driver stop, and I pay him his money, and put my backpack back on. Nick and I stand, staring in awe at the huge Air Port before walking in, and looking for the front desk.

"Hi, how may I help you?" A tall man in a suit asks, looking down on us.

"Umm… We're here for Pidgeot flight 333. Umm… Here's my I.D.?" I say, with a lot of uncertainty in my voice… I flash my I.D. and follow the direction he points us to… I look up the looming escalator, and step on it uncertainly, really not liking escalators. I sigh and subconsciously move behind Nick, as the escalator ends, signs lead us to our destination, swarms of people going in every direction, almost like at an intersection at a road. I follow Nick as he weaves his way through the crowds, and finds our airplane. We flash our I.D. yet again, and get shuffled to first class, yet again.

"Wow, if I knew being related to Erika gave me such benefits, I'd never have whined about her to Fire Tails." I say, already starting to miss my sister.

"Yeah, I know what you mean, Misty could be really really whiny, annoying and bitchy at times, but I still miss her."

I yawn, sitting down in the fluffy soft violet cushions of the first class seats, and sigh, ready for a long, long trip. The overly formal, over rated classical music is turned on, echoing around the first class department like eerie wails of the opera… I yawn loudly; listening to people who wanna look like penguins wasn't my idea of fun. I lean back in my chair, and do up my seat belt, just incase I don't wake up before take off… I hear the click of Nick's belt, and become aware that he was doing the same thing I was. I sigh, and start to fall asleep against the fluffy violet chairs.