Professor Oak was feeding the pokemon breakfast, a daily routine, when he noticed a large pokemon flying towards Pallet Town, a smile appeared on the old mans face, "he's home" he said. The large pokemon landed in front of Oak's laboratory, it's owner returned it to it's pokeball before walking into the lab. "It's been how many years and still haven't learned how to knock?" Oak said, laughing. "Sorry, gramps" The person said. "It's fine my boy, so what brings you back to Pallet, Keem?" The professor asked. "I've come to pick up a pokemon" Keem replied with a huge grin on his face. "Oh, THAT pokemon" Oak said walking to the freezer.
After getting his pokemon, Keem left the lab but spotted a figure standing just on the outskirts of town. 'He's too ashamed off himself to even enter his hometown' He thought to himself. The figure just stared at the town, a place he once called home. "Is this how Corey feels? Too ashamed to face the townspeople?" He said aloud. "No, I feel the exact opposite" The figure turned around and saw the person he was just talking about. "Personally, I can't wait to return home." Corey said. "Then why haven't you?" The figure asked. "I could ask you the same thing" Corey said. "I promised myself that I wouldn't return until I've become League Champion." The figure replied, "Now answer my question, why haven't you returned?" "I'm not ready, what I've done is far worse than anything you've done, the people will forgive you, hell even old man Oak will forgive you." Corey said, "I came here because I thought I was ready to face the town...I was wrong"
"Hey, you remember when we started our journey? You, me, and Keem?" the figure asked. "Yeah, you gave Keem his first loss over there" Corey said pointing to a patch of land. "Time flies. Will I see you at the championship next month?" The figure asked. "Yeah, you'll see me holding the trophy over my head" Corey laughed. "I'll see you then, Corey" The figure said before turning back to the town. Corey turned in the opposite direction and started to walk towards Viridian City. "See ya later, Jandro" He said to his old friend.
As Corey neared Viridian City, he saw a battle taking place between a buff Hispanic man and a middle aged man. "Growlithe, ember!" The old man commanded. The small dog pokemon shot small fireballs at a large round rock like pokemon, the fire bounced off barely doing any damage. "Golem, finish it off with Earthquake!" The buff guy said. Golem did as his trainer said, stomping it's large foot against the ground and causing a small earthquake below the fire type, ending the battle. Just by watching that short battle Corey could tell that this buff guy was a powerful trainer. "Thanks for the exciting battle meng" The buff guy yelled to the old man who was already walking off. "Exciting? You dominated the battle" Corey said walking up to the trainer. "My name's Corey" He said extending his hand. "Every battle is exciting meng, and I'm Hansel" The buff guy said shaking Corey's hand.
"So what are you doing out here, just battling random trainers?" Corey asked. "Well I came to battle the Viridian gym leader but I found out that he quit. So now I'm just training for the Pokemon League since their allowing trainer's with seven badges enter this year." Hansel replied while returning his Golem. "I'll see you there then" Corey said walking further into the city. "Alright meng, later!" Hansel said waving.
Corey wasn't sure what he was going to do in Viridian now, he originally intended to train there but with the League coming up soon, more and more trainers would be training there. And that's when he thought of the ideal place to train, "Go Charizard!" Corey said releasing his pokemon. "Fly to Mt. Ember!"
For the next month trainers all over Kanto trained hoping to achieve one goal, to become League Champion, but it won't be an easy task, with only the most powerful trainers entering it would surely be quite the show...
And that's the end of the chapter, I didn't want to get into detail about each character training so when the next chapter starts it'll pick up at the beginning of the League Championship.