Okay, I'm just going to post this since I feel like it. There were only two reviews for the Prologue, so I will answer them now:

alee the hufflepuff - I'm so glad you enjoyed the prologue, and I hope you enjoy chapter one just as much.

St. Elmo's Fire - 1) As I have already mentioned in one of my other stories (Researcher's Destiny), I use the same grammer that the Pokémon Company uses.

2) I described them that way to give a hint as to who they are, which you will find out later. I didn't want to give to much away.

3) Okay, I admit that that was randomly placed, but that's what random is.

4) Look to number 2 for explaination.

5) Okay, this one got me a little upset when I read it. I put in the summary that May moved in with her Aunt Natalie in the summary and I didn't really like the idea of making an OC to replace Norman. Plus, the death of Caroline was important to the story because it makes things tie together and makes it to where May could understand one of the Pokémon I'm giving her.

Now that I've got that over with, I should mention one more thing: This story takes place during the Omega Ruby storyline.

Enjoy!

May stared at the passing scenery without truly seeing it as her father drove them to Littleroot Town in the van. It's been seven years since the night her mother died and her father had decided that it would be better if she moved in with her Aunt Natalie in Littleroot for a while. It wasn't that May hated her aunt, far from it, but she also knew that her father needed a break as well but was denying himself that.

Things have never been the same after that night. For three months, they hadn't been able to stay in the living room for more than ten minutes at a time (now they could go an hour without flashbacks), mealtimes had become somewhat tense for close to a year, and even now, seven years later, May still suffered from nightmares that would send her fleeing to her father's room for comfort. Their personalities also changed: where May was somewhat chatty, she was now rather shy. Her father became more stotic to challengers with every battle that passed, like he no longer trusted them too much. Not that May blamed him for it.

She even still carried the knife that the challenger had given her before he left. It was the only tangable thing she had to prove that the silver-haired teen had even existed in her life, and that she hadn't dreamed him up at some point because of the trauma that caused her to forget most of what had happened. The earliest she truly remembered of that night was right after her father and the challenger appeared and the challenger comforted her.

It was just a too bad that they never caught his name. All the good he did for them and they were never told his name. Her father had tried to ask the other Gym Leaders, but either they didn't know or they had sworn not to tell. It was rather frusterating to the eighteen-year-old, but it was the way it was and there was nothing she could do about it.

The drive came to an end sooner than May expected, and they were in front of her aunt's house. Her Aunt Natalie was on the porch with her Machamp out of his pokéball, which wasn't that unusual. Once her father cut off the van, the woman and her Pokémon walked over, Machamp grabbing the boxes in the trunk. After a quick greeting and goodbye, her father re-entered the van and drove off. May helped the Machamp move her belogings to her new room before going off to see one of her best friends, Brandon Birch.

After only a few minutes of hanging out though, Brandon shot off, yelling that he had to help his dad, Professor Birch, with some things. May wasn't too disgruntled and decided to go back to her aunt's house to think about things. Before she could reach her aunt's house, however, she heard the sounds of barking and howling mixing with yells of panic. She quickly ran to the scene, even if she didn't have any Pokémon, to help whoever was in trouble.

She stopped when she arrived and took in the odd scene in front of her. Professor Birch must have startled another Pokémon during his field work again because he was being chased by a dark silver wolf pup. She noticed his bag had been dropped at some point and hurriedly selected a pokéball within.

"Please help," May whispered before throwing the pokéball. Out came a pale green gecko with a thick darker tail, pale amber eyes and a red underside.

The battle only lasted three minutes, then May turned her attention back to the Professor. Soon afterwards, the duo went back to the Lab and May got to keep the Treecko she had battled with, since they had already bonded. He also gave her a Pokédex to which she scaned her starter almost instantly.

{Treecko, the Wood Gecko Pokémon. Treecko is cool, calm and collected - it never panics under any situation. If a bigger foe were to glare at this Pokémon, it would glare right back without conceding an inch of ground. This Treeco is male and has the ability Overgrow. He knows the moves Pound, Leer, Absorb and Bullet Seed. He also has the egg move Dragon Breath, which has not been unlocked yet.}

May stared at the Pokédex before bringing her attention back to the Grass-Type and thinking before snapping her fingers, Treecko staring at her with his pale amber eyes the entire time. "What do you think of the name Forest for you?" she asked, unsure if her starter would like that name.

The Treecko stared at her, crossing his arms over his chest and nodded. "Tree," he muttered, which May took to translate as "okay".

"Forest it is," May said with a nod, picking him up and putting him on her shoulder, him gripping her blue bandana. "Do you know where Brandon went?" she asked the professor.

"I think he went to Route 103." Professor Birch had barely gotten the information out his mouth before May ran out his lab. He just shugged and went back to work.

May ran back to her aunt's place and grabbed the backpack that she had packed for just this purpose three months previously. After a hasty goodbye to her rather bewildered aunt, May ran north to Route 101 to challenge her old friend to a battle.

Okay, so I skimmed a lot of it, but it is the way it is. Also, I should mention that Natalie (my OC) is Norman's younger sister. And that May and Brandon are childhood friends, along with Wally, because that's cute.

Ages for those three are as follows:

Brandon: 18 (a few months older than May)

May: 18

Wally: 16

Anyways, please review and you can still guess who those teens in the prologue are (though they aren't teens anymore). If the descritions weren't enough, here are their known Pokémon:

Dark-skinned teen - Golbat

Pale-skinned teen - Numel

Silver-haired teen - Mawile, Lairon

See you guys next chapter!

~pokedawnheart; 1/14/2018