It begins…

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon! I only own my OCs and every original idea that will appear in my story. With all that said, enjoy!

Waking up with a start, a young man scans his room to insure that he was indeed in his home. Sweat drips down his face and lands softly on his thin blanket. His hands are trembling and he does his best to calm his nerves but is slowly failing. Something moves from the foot of his bed and orange light fills the dark room. The source of the light came from the man's most trusted pokemon, a Typhlosion by the name of Samus. She goes to her trainer and licks his hands. A warm smile comes across his face and his hands became steady. He looks over and spots the picture that has been haunting him for years. It was a picture of him and the woman he loves kissing one another. Closing his eyes, he begs for forgiveness. The Typhlosion jumps on the bed and pushes him off in order to get him from falling into a funk.

"I needed that," the man says after he contains his laughter.

He gets up and heads to the bathroom to begin his morning ritual even though he normally performs it three hours from now. Upon entering the bathroom, he spots his red color toothbrush that had his name engraved upon it. Running a finger across the four letters, he thinks to himself why he had to be named Juan before he chuckles to himself and proceeds to brush his teeth. After he finishes, he washes his face and hair, dries his face and then combs his hair. Then Juan exits the bathroom and heads to his room to get dress for the day.

+O+

Three hours later…

Juan steps out of his house and catches the sun as it is rising from the horizon. He looks back at the house before he heads out of Olivine City. When he passes the city limits, he pulls out his poke gear and calls his best friend. After about the third ring, his best friend picks up.

"I just got into the office and I'm not even sitting in my desk and you end up calling me… What do you want Illuminate?" Juan's best friend answers the phone with a hint of extreme annoyance in his voice.

"What did I do? Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed or something? Man, you need to get laid," Juan replies, his voice dripping sarcasm as he tries to contain his laughter.

"I hate you… Why am I friends with you again?" Juan's best friend asks as he glares out a window that stands behind his desk.

"You know the answer to that Michael. We are friends because… Well, because we fought each other and ended up forming a pokemon battle club together," Juan answers with a smile on his face.

"Right… Don't forget that you owe me quite a bit of money and I do want you to pay me. So, why did you call me?" asks Michael as he sits down on his extremely comfortable chair.

"Where you able to schedule a date for a meeting yet or did you forget about it?" asks Juan as he walks under a tree for some shade.

"I'm going to give you the same answer I've been giving you for the past two months, I working on something and you are going to love it. When I'm done with that little project, we will then have a meeting where everyone can come and no arrests will be made," Michael answers as he shuffles through his paperwork.

"Fine… But it better be awesome or I'm going to never stop calling your office non-stop for a good three weeks!" Juan threatens as he lets a smirk come across his face.

"If you do that, I… Will… Have… You… Arrested," Michael slowly states as he lets a smirk of his own run across his face.

"You're kidding right? Right? Hello?" Juan nervously asks but receives his answers when he hears the click of a phone hanging up. "Great… I don't think he's going to let me mess with him for a long time."

+O+

Juan continues to head north until the building he was heading too appears from the horizon. Years ago, this huge plot of land was home to a farm that harvested milk from Miltanks. Now it was home to the most successful pokemon-breeding center in the world. A massive two story building, with 2,000 acres of land in the back of it carefully used to breed and care for pokemon. The name of the business is Twilight and it's founder and current owner was Juan's younger sister, Angel. With a soft sigh, he enters the building.

Upon entering, he spots Angel's right hand man, the amazing Sandra, manning the front desk. He gestures to her grabbing her attention and begins to mockingly pull a gun to himself and pull the trigger. Laughing at Angel's older brother stupid antics whenever he asks for his sister, Sandra tells him that she was in the back with their newest employee. Juan thanks her and heads to the back to face his judge, jury and executioner. Opening the door, he spots his sister teaching their newest employee, a local girl by the name of Gina, how to properly groom fire types. Upon spotting her brother, Angel's eyes are lit with rage. She then mouths to him, what do you want? Juan mouths back that he wants to talk.

"Excuse me Gina, my brother needs to talk to me. See if Sandra needs any help and we'll continue where we left off," Angel kindly and softly says.

"Ok…" Gina awkwardly replies as she looks at the two siblings knowing full well that something bad was going to happen.

Gina quickly exits the room leaving Juan and Angel alone. Juan looks over at his sister and spots her adjusting her black fingerless gloves.

That's not a good sign… Juan thinks to himself as he continues to stare at his sister.

After adjusting her gloves, Angel brushes lint off of her black shirt and then proceeds to crack her neck and hands.

Damn it… That's really a bad sign… Juan thinks to himself as he nervously looks at the door.

"So… What do you want to talk about?" Angel sweetly asks her older brother.

"You see… I was hoping that I could get off of work for awhile," Juan answers meekly.

"How much time are we talking about?" Angels asks as she proceeds to glare at her older brother.

"I don't know… A couple of months," Juan answers.

Angel begins to emit an aura of absolute rage when her brother replies. She begins to shake due to the rage and then begins to stomp her way towards him.

"It's only for a couple of months! Heck, I'm not expecting a paid vacation! I just want some time for a journey!" Juan quickly spits out as he tries to calm his sister down

When Angel was a couple of inches from him, she swings at him and connects with his left cheek.

"A COUPLE OF MONTHS IS NOT SOME TIME! THAT'S A HELL OF A LOT OF TIME! I FINALLY GET YOU TO COME TO WORK AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME!" Angel screams as she swings at him again.

Juan ducks and moves behind her and slowly begins to walk backwards. "Look, I know that you are mad but I really have to do this! I need to do this! Hell, I got you that silver Eevee!"

"DON'T BRING ALEX INTO THIS! AND IF IT WASN'T FOR HIM, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A JOB ANYMORE!" Angel continues to yell as she quickly stomps towards Juan.

"I'm sorry about bringing Alex into this! Please hear me out!" Juan yells back but stops when he runs into a wall.

"Why don't you stand still and then I will hear you out," Angel sweetly replies as she slowly walks towards Juan, a smile plaster on her face.

"Angel, what are you doing?" Juan asks as he eyes his sister, fear clearly written on his face.

"Nothing…." Angel says as she picks up a steel pipe that was conveniently lying on the worktable to her left.

"Angel… Angel… Angel!" Juan screams as he manages to dodge the steel pipe.

Juan begins to dodge another one of her swings. With every miss, another object is broken. With each dodge, more of Juan's energy begins to fade. With each swing, Angel gets closer and closer to hitting her older brother. It continues like that for a good minute before Juan ends up tripping on a broken vase and falls on his ass. He tries to get up put is force back down by his sister's foot. She then positions the pipe to face towards him as she glares down at her brother, the rage gone from her eyes.

"You do realize that all of this is coming from your next paycheck," Angel calmly states.

"Yes sir," Juan quickly replies.

"You are going to search for Athena again aren't you?" Angel asks.

"Yes sir."

"Since I have Gina here to help, you can take your time," Angel said.

"Thank you!" Juan happily said.

"Don't thank me yet. I want a red Gyarados," Angel demands.

"What?" Juan yells after hearing her crazy demand.

"Don't worry, you can take your time on getting it. But don't come back until you do!" Angel states as she removes her foot off of her brother and moves the steel pipe away from him.

"Thank you sis."

"You're welcome."

"I love you!"

"…"

"Come on…"

"…."

"It's not going to kill you."

"I love you too big brother."

"See! That wasn't too hard."

Juan hugs his sister and opens the door. Sandra and Gina greet him by acting like nothing ever happened between him and his sister. He says goodbye and they end up telling him good luck. With a smile on his face, he exits the building. Remembering that he had one more thing to do, he pulls out his poke gear and calls his mom.

"Hello?" a kind voice answers the phone on the first ring.

"Hey mom, just calling to let you know that today is the day," Juan replies.

"Did you tell Angel?" Juan's mom calmly asks.

"Yes," Juan quickly answers trying to hide the gulp that tries to emerge.

"Did she try to kill you?" she calmly asks with a serious tone.

"No… She just tried to break a few of my bones with a steel pipe," he answers trying to shake out the memory.

"I'll talk to her… Ok then… I love you."

"I love you too mom. Bye."

After hanging up, Juan looks up at the sky and vows to himself that he will not rest until he finds Athena.

+O+

Author notes: Whew… That was one tough chapter to write… So much anger and annoyance to the hero of the story. Well, one of the heroes at least. I'm working hard to make sure that my first ever pokemon fic becomes a success. Btw, thank you Silver Don for the review. I took your advice to heart (tenses are my greatest enemy) and I did my best to fix that problem in this chapter. Anywho, this chapter wasn't as dark as the first one and that is due to the fact that it was following a protagonist and not the antagonist. It might be awhile before I write the next chapter because I don't know where to begin. Well then, that's all for now and don't forget to review!