A/N: Hey everyone! Chapter two is up! Hope you enjoy it!
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I stood at the Vermilion Port, waiting for my boat to board. I wore a new outfit, since my other one got torn from my battle against Arceus two years ago; A black, collared shirt and khaki pants. It was simple, but it would have to do. Everything I needed was in the fanny pack that hung around my waist, including my roster of pokemon: Charizard, Pidgeot, Alakazam, Rhydon, Gyarados, and Darkrai. I had left Mesprit back in Bill's PC.
Once I had boarded the ship, I walked to the deck and rested my arms on the railing; I stared back at Vermilion City as the ship sailed away, until Kanto was out of sight.
"Hey!" a young boy's voice sounded from behind.
Looking back, I saw a boy about the age of ten with platinum hair and big blue eyes. He wore a pale blue T-shirt and white shorts. I glanced down at his feet, seeing that his socks hung loosely and his tennis shoes were slightly paling. All of this seemed oddly familiar. Had I seen him somewhere?
"You're that guy who helped me from Team Galactic!" the boy pointed up at me with a large grin spreading across his face.
I remember now.
(Flashback)
I head through a small wood along the way. Huh? Who are those people? They sorta look like Team Rocket. But instead of R's, they have G's on their uniforms. They start yelling at some kid forcing him to give them his pokemon.
I walk over to them and call out to stop. They turn around, introducing themselves as Team Galactic, and say that I'm a witness and challenge me to a double battle.
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I walk off, leaving a happy little kid and two beat up Galactic Grunts. Serves 'em right for messing with me.
(End of Flashback)
"Oh yeah," I said plainly.
The boy's grin widened,"I was hoping to have thanked you, but you left so quickly. You're my idol! Please let me join you. I want to learn more about pokemon training!"
I looked around, then back at him. He gave me a pleading look. Well, some company wouldn't hurt, would it? Besides, everyone else had other things to do. And taking on an apprentice could be fun.
"Uh...sure...um?" he never told me his name.
After a moment, he understood what I meant,"Oh, sorry. My name's Aldin!"
"Aldin, huh? I'm Green Oak."
Aldin's eyes widened,"GREEN OAK?!"
I winced, covering his mouth,"Keep it down! Do want to be assaulted by screaming fan girls?!"
As I uncovered his mouth, he said,"Sorry. It's just that...I've never net a champion in real life before. I never knew that the guy that saved me was Green Oak, himself!"
"Well now you have."
After a moment of silence, I asked,"What's your roster?"
Aldin jerked a bit and started rummaging through his orange backpack. He produced five pokeballs and tossed them into the air; Out came a Marshtomp, a Raticate, an Abra, a Rapidash, and a Roselia.
I studied them, saying,"How do you treat them?"
"With love and care," he admitted proudly.
"Good," I continued to observe each one of them,"A decent team. But you can do better. With plenty of training, they can all evolve into their final forms."
"I'll see what I can do!" he said with confidence.
I smirked as he began returning his pokemon, "Hey, wait a minute."
Aldin stopped at his last pokemon and looked up at me with an innocent expression, "Yes Green-sama?"
Oh great. The kid was using honorifics.
"How about a practice battle to help you train?" I suggested.
The boy's face lit up, "Really?! I-I mean, it would be an honor!"
(Trainer Battle)
Aldin left his Marshtomp out to fight. The least I could do was give him a fair advantage, so I sent out my Charizard.
"An obvious mistake, Green-sama!" Aldin pointed out, "Water has an advantage against fire!"
My smirk widened, "Not unless you've planned a strategy. Go Charizard! Dragon Claw!"
Charizard flew high up into the sky, covering our view of the sun and creating a large shadow that cast down on Marshtomp, causing it to slightly jerk back. It took this as an advantage, swiftly flying downward and hitting the opponent and knocking it out.
Aldin stared at me in amazement as he returned his pokemon, "Now I know why you're the champion."
Next, he sent out his Raticate. The rat pokemon revealed its sharp teeth as it hissed venomously.
"Now, Raticate! Attack Charizard with Hyper Fang!" Aldin cried out.
As Raticate neared my Charizard, I ordered a Fire Blast. The attack shot Raticate back, making it hit the railing. Just as Raticate began to stand up, Charizard cornered it at the railing. The rat pokemon stared up at my pokemon in fear. I was about to order another Fire Blast but I was interrupted by the ship's intercom.
"We have arrived in Canalave City."
I returned my pokemon, "We'll battle another time. Let's get to a pokemon center."
Aldin did the same in returning his Raticate and followed me off of the ship. We headed into the pokemon center and gave our pokeballs to Nurse Joy. Once they were completely healed, we left and started walking down the dirt trail. Then, it hit me. Since I had been all around Sinnoh, couldn't I fly to Sunnyshore City and surf on my Gyarados over to the pokemon league? Of course! Green, you're such a genius!
I threw out my Charizard's pokeball, causing confusion to stir within Aldin.
"Hey, Green-sama. What are you doing sending out your Charizard? Are we having another battle?" he asked with a hint of hopefulness in his voice.
"We're gonna fly to Sunnyshore so we don't have to walk all of the way, which would take about a month without stopping to battle," I explained.
"Oh!" Enthusiasm evoked within his voice, "I get ride on one of Green-sama's pokemon!"
"Yeah, now hop on," I ordered as I jumped up onto Charizard's back.
Once we were both securely on Charizard, I called out to him, "Charizard! To Sunnyshore City!"
Charizard flew up into the sky and I knew that he would remember the way even though it had been two years since we were here.
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(Sunnyshore City)
"Woah! That was awesome!" Aldin screamed as we continued our way through the city to the ocean side.
"That's the twelfth time you've said that," I noted angrily.
"Sorry, but it was," he apologized.
When we made it to the beach, I sent out my Gyarados. Aldin got on after me and we surfed past the many small islands and battling swimmers until we reached the pokemon league island.
"Alright. Now to defeat the pokemon league and get my first key," I murmur.
"What key?" Aldin tilted his head up at me.
Shit. I haven't told him yet.
"Uh, I'll tell you later...huh?" I looked up from him, noticing a flash of brown hair.
Leaf? No.
This girl had shorter hair than Leaf. Her regular clothes was covered by a white robe with a strange twisting charcoal-black design at the bottom, sleeves, and hood. But that wasn't all; she was being chased by two others with a similar attire, only their robes were black with white designs. I couldn't tell if they were males or females since they wore their hoods up, unlike the girl.
"Come on, Aldin. Let's go after them," I tugged at his sleeve, getting his attention.
"Wah!" he squealed as I dragged him along into the small wood.
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Where the heck did they go? They couldn't have disappeared so easily. I mean, this wood isn't that big.
Aldin was panting next to me as I continued to search for the mysterious cloaked figures, "Green...pant...sama...pant...I'm...pant...getting...pant...tired...pant..."
"Just a minute," I shushed him until I heard the brushing of leaves nearby.
I looked up, seeing the girl from before jumping down in front of us.
She looked up at us, quite surprised, "You...I mean, um, hello. Have you seen to guys in black robes around here recently?"
"No." I answered.
"Good." She muttered, but because of my excellent hearing, I could understand her mumbling.
"I'm Isha, by the way," she announced, holding her hand out to me in a gesture.
"Green. Nice to meet you," I reciprocated, taking her hand in mine and shaking it.
She did the same with Aldin.
"Nice to meet you, Isha-san."
"You're taking on the pokemon league, am I right, Green?" she inquired.
"Yeah. How'd you know?"
"Well, why else would you be here?"
"Good point."
"Do you mind if I join you?" she asked, "I'd like to see two champions face off against each other."
"How did you know I was a champion?" I eyed her suspiciously.
"Pft. Well duh! What champion isn't famous?"
Another good point.
"Fine, but let's hurry. I wanna beat them quickly."
"Sure," Isha agreed.
"Yeah, Green-sama," Aldin followed.
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(Normal POV)
A young man watched the three of them as they headed out of the wood; he wore a black robe with white designs, similar to Isha's.
"So he's Oak-dono's son, eh?" he smirked, adjusting his rectangle framed glasses, "This will be fun."
Moments later, the mysterious young man jumped among the trees as he stalked them out of the wood.
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A/N: I assure you that the next chapter will be more interesting than this. Woah! Two new OCs in one whole chapter! And by the way, Isha means "protector" and Aldin means "old friend". I try to write the next chapter a bit quicker this time. Please R&R! I already have three reviews, three favorites, and three alerts for this story! Thank you all!
