Before this chapter begins, I would like to state that Benen Lakemine Vangurle and Jack Cameron do not belong to me. They belong to fellow authors Black Murder Heavangelon (Benen) and Jack of Blades (Jack), so ask permission from these authors to use these characters in other stories.

Our New Destination

"Dratini! Now use your Dragonbreath!"

"Delcatty! Evade that attack!"

Within the small community of Littleroot Town that rested near the edge of the Hoenn region were two trainers made battle in the mid-morning hours of the fresh, bright new day. Two Pokemon, a Dratini, that was a Dragon Element with light blue and white skin, white wing-like appendages on the sides of its head, a white snout, a white dot in-between its large brown hued eyes, and a Delcatty, a Normal Element that looked like a cat with dark colored eyes, cream colored fur and purple fur that covered its large ears that housed three points upon the tips, a mass of purple fur that covered its neck like a collar, and a tuff of the same purple hued fur on the tip of its thin tail, were battling it out upon a lush green battlefield within the valley of Littleroot. The Dratini opened its mouth and unleashed a green blast of draconic flames that blazed toward Delcatty. Delcatty, seeing the attack coming toward it, immediately jumped out of the way of the attack and let the Dragonbreath hit an empty target.

"Hang in there Dratini…we'll think of something!" came the cry of inspiration from its trainer.

This trainer was Beka Goldheart, a seventeen year old Pokemon trainer who stood about five feet seven inches and had flowing red hair that flowed down to her shoulders like a phoenix and sparkling hazel eyes that gleamed in the morning sun. Her attire consisted of a white sleeveless hoodie that had emerald green coloring on the hood, an emerald Pokeball design around the neck, and green lining at the bottom of the hoodie, a pair of white gloves that had green fingers and wrist cuffs, a pair of emerald green pants, and sneakers that were white and housed green designs along the sides as well as a gold star near the back of the sneakers.

"Heh, heh…you'll have to do better than that Beka!" came the taunting of the other trainer Beka was battling.

Her opponent was May Maple, a seventeen year old Pokemon coordinator and daughter of the Petalburg Gym Leader Norman who was at the same height as Beka and had long brown hair that was pulled into two pigtail-type pieces and dazzling blue eyes that glowed in confidence against her opponent. Her trainer look consisted of a green and white Pokeball designed bandana that wrapped around the top of her head like a hat, a pair of white gloves with black fingers and black cuffs that housed a green line in the center of it, an orange dress that was sleeveless with a black collar that was pressed down against the trainer's chest and housed white Pokeball designs along the trainer's waist and a thin white line that flowed down the trainer's front, a pair of black biker shorts, and orange, white, and black designed sneakers with black socks.

"I know," smirked Beka and then called out with: "Dratini…now go into Double Team!"

"Well, Beka is certainly catching up to May in this battle…" smirked another trainer who was leaning up against a wooden fence post.

This trainer was Brendan Birch, a seventeen year old Pokemon trainer, like Beka, and son of Hoenn Pokemon researcher Prof. Birch who was about three inches taller than Beka and May and had snow-white hair that spiked back and deep brown eyes that hinted shades of ruby light. His attire consisted of a green and white Pokeball headband that wrapped around his forehead, a black short sleeved shirt that had a high collar and an orange Pokeball design around the shirt's collar as well as two orange designs on his shirt's sides, a pair of finger-less orange gloves that had black cuffs and a green line that wrapped around the center, a pair of black shorts that reached down pass his knees and had another black pair of pants underneath that reached the top of his green, orange, white, and black sneakers.

"Well, they are both battling extremely well…" quoted another trainer that was beside him.

This trainer was Benen Lakemine Vangurle, a Dragon Trainer who was a bit older than his fellow trainer friends and stood at a height of five feet eleven inches and had dark colored hair and eyes. His attire consisted of a dragon tamer outfit that was tattered with scars from previous battles and had black markings upon the areas where black would be housed at. There was also a shiny green S emblem that was upon Benen's attire that showed that this trainer was a previous member of Team Sky, but only due to the fact that he stayed in this group to seek revenge for his parents that were murdered by this team. Upon Benen's right shoulder was his recently acquired/hatched Pokemon called a Swablu, a Normal/Flying Element that looked like a small bird with sky-blue feathers that covered its body, two blue feather streamers that poked from the top of its head, a sky-blue short tail, white cloud-like wings, a white beak, tiny white claws, and deep grey colored eyes.

"Wonder who will win?" spoke the final member of the group.

This male trainer was Jack Cameron, a Pokemon trainer like Beka and Brendan who was around the same age as Beka, May, and Brendan and around the same height as Brendan with brown hair and brown eyes. His trainer attire consisted of a red sleeveless jacket that covered a black shirt, blue jeans, red and black sneakers, and a red and white Pokeball print hat.

"Okay Dratini," said Beka, "now use Double Team!"

In a flash of white light, Dratini was suddenly accompanied by identical illusions of itself that surrounded Delcatty.

"Delcatty," called out May, "use Swift!"

Delcatty opened its mouth and shot out thousands of golden stars of light that sliced through the Dratini illusions, breaking them apart, and hitting the real Dratini.

"Hang in there Dratini! Now try Extremespeed!"

In an instant, Dratini launched itself at Delcatty and slammed a massive critical hit into the Normal Element.

"No! Delcatty!"

"Now Dratini…finish this off with Hyper Beam!"

Dratini opened its mouth, forming a sphere of golden light from within, and shot out the attack in the form of a blazing stream of golden hyperactive light. The attack slammed hard into Delcatty and caused the cat-like Pokemon to faint.

"Delcatty is unable to battle," called out Brendan, as he ran up to the sideline and acted as referee for the battle, "Dratini is the winner! The victory goes to Beka!"

"Yes!" cheered Beka, "Great job Dratini!"

"Dra-i!" exclaimed Dratini as it quickly wrapped up around its trainer form and then came to rest around Beka's neck and upon her shoulders; acting like a scarf.

"Congrats Beka," praised May as she went over to Beka after she recalled Delcatty back into its Pokeball, "you and your Dratini are much stronger than before."

"Heh, thanks May," said Beka, "but it was really Dratini that deserves the credit…I've just been helping it out."

"So are you ready for the Battle Frontier Beka?" asked Brendan.

"Yup, I think my team and I am ready to go all out in the Frontier!" said Beka with enthusiasm in her voice, "I just want to get out there and see what it's like!"

"You know Beka, you remind me of a certain someone else we need to go get so we can all go the Frontier," giggled May.

"Oh yeah!" exclaimed Brendan, "Good old Poliwag!"

"Poliwag?" asked Jack, raising a brow to Brendan.

"It's what Brendan calls their friend Edgar Knight," explained Benen quietly.

"Oh really?" said Jack and then pulled out a notepad and wrote down as he chuckled: "Poliwag: aka…Edgar Knight."

Benen softly sighed at Jack's actions as Swablu made a sighing chirp in agreeance to its trainer.

"Well," suggested Beka, "maybe we can go visit Edgar in Cerulean City in Kanto…remember before he left that he said we were more than welcomed to come visit him since he's running the Cerulean Gym?"

"Yeah," said Brendan, "and we can see how well the Poliwag swims!"

Brendan began to laugh loudly at his compliment as May, Beka, Benen, and Jack sweat-dropped to Brendan's verbal action.

"Well, should we get going?" asked Beka.

"Yeah, I think it's a good idea if we begin to move know," said Brendan, "we can catch a ferry that goes to Vermillion City in Kanto and then head up north to Cerulean. If we leave now, we can make it to Cerulean by tomorrow morning."

"Well then," said Jack, "if you guys are going to Cerulean, then I guess I'll go on my own for awhile."

"Huh?" asked Beka, "How come?"

"I have to go back home for a moment to something really quickly," explained Jack, "but I can meet up with you guys at the opening ceremonies for the Battle Frontier, which is in about three days."

"Well, okay then," said Brendan, "until then…"

Jack nodded and then threw out a Pokeball, calling out:

"Ryu! Come on out!"

In a flash of white materialized Jack's Dragonite, nicknamed Ryu, that was a Dragon/Flying Element that had light orange skin, a scaled tan underbelly, a small pair of orange and light blue membrane wings on its back, white claws, a small orange horn on the top of its head, a pair of tan antenna that waved up above its head, and large dark colored eyes.

"Brao!" bellowed out Ryu in its deep cry.

Jack then jumped on Ryu's back and once secure on top, Jack tapped lightly on Ryu's sides and caused the Dragonite to kick up into the sky and fly off into the sky. With a final wave of his hand, Jack and Ryu took off at high speeds into the distance. After they were gone, Benen spoke with:

"Well, it appears I need to make a quick trip home as well."

"You too?" asked May.

Benen nodded and said:

"I have to return to Orre for a brief moment and take care of something at Mt. Battle."

"That's right," asked Beka, "you were born at Mt. Battle, correct Benen?"

"Yes," nodded Benen, "and just like Jack, I'll meet you three and Edgar at the Battle Frontier at the opening ceremonies."

"Okay," nodded Beka, "be careful Benen."

Benen softly nodded and pulled out a Pokeball and threw it, calling out:

"Azuleblaze! Go!"

In a flash of white light materialized Benen's Salamence, nicknamed Azuleblaze, that was a Dragon/Flying Element that had blue scales that covered its body, red scales that marked upon its head, along its throat, under the inside of its sturdy legs, and under its tail, giant red wings, a grey scaled underbelly, white claws, a white lower jaw, a tri design on each side of its head, and slinted black eyes.

"Sa-la-mence!" roared out Azuleblaze to the sky.

Benen then jumped upon Azuleblaze's back and once he was upon his mighty dragon, Benen waved to his companions good-bye and signaled for Azuleblaze to take flight. With a few powerful beats of its red wings, Azuleblaze lifted off the ground and into the sky; where it then flew off with Benen and Swablu off into the distance.

"So it's just the three of us huh?" said Brendan as he looked at May and Beka.

"It'll be just like before!" exclaimed May, "When we all first meet up here and began our new journey with Hoenn!"

"Yup," smiled Beka.

"Well, come on then," said Brendan, "we better catch a ferry to Kanto before it's too late," suggested Brendan.

"Right," nodded Beka, "so let's go."

And so, after getting final preparations ready to head off into the world once again, our heroes begin to make the journey to Kanto where they would meet up with an old friend of theirs' as well as a brand new and unexpecting adventure to await them.

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Coming up, the return of Edgar Knight as well as the beginning of a three part chapter series in Cerulean City…