Chapter 2: Welcome to Hoenn

The boat docked in Slateport, blaring its horn. "Welcome to Hoenn, passengers!" the captain said cheerfully over the speakers. People began to disembark, heading off into their separate directions.

One passenger stepped out with more spring in his step. His black and teal, accented spiky hair had a grey sun glasses, nestled in his hair. He also wore pair of black, fingerless gloves with gold trims, and a teal and gold pair of headphones on his neck. As he walked out of the port, his jet black sneakers tapping a beat, a lavender and red, smiling pup jumped up unto his shoulder. She sniffed the air, a bright blue ribbon billowing out from the jewel on her neck.

"So Shade," the teenage kid murmured to the Zorua on his shoulder. "Whatchya think of Hoenn?" Shade licked his ear, and he smiled. "Same here. I even got a picture of Latias before we even docked!" He danced an excited jig, and accidentally backed into someone behind him. "Oops, sorry man." He apologized, while turning around. Turns out, he bumped into a trainer.

The trainer wore a black jersey, with a red sleeveless jacket and blue denim pants. His jacket matched his cap well; red coloured with a white pokeball outline on the centre. The trainer was silent, but something about just told the boy he was strong. The trainer looked completely unfazed by the whole incident. He simply brushed it off and went along his way, with his Charizard and Pikachu following behind.

"Huh, strange guy." The boy said, looking at Shade. "Oh, well time to go and become champion of Hoenn," he exclaimed excitedly. "Alright, where do we go, first?" Taking out his pokenavi, he began checking through places to visit. "Maybe I should try a gym, I wonder if there are any nearb- Owww!" he was interrupted by a blue, bubble frog who had jumped on his other shoulder and smacked him behind the head. "What was that for Froakie?" The Kalos starter jumped into his backpack. It wasn't long before it returned with a black and red pokedex. "Oh, right I'm supposed to get Professor Birch to load in the Hoenn Dex's data for me, first," the boy said sheepishly.

Checking through the map of Hoenn , he quickly found the Professor's Lab. It was in a town called Littleroot. Usually, to get to Littleroot it would take three to five days if you travelled around the coast to Dewford then Petalburg then Oldale and finally reach Littleroot, or he could travel through Route 103. Neither those options were possible, the trip would be too long and would use up the last of the money, which he needed to buy more food. Travelling through Route 103 would be better except he didn't have a Pokemon that he could surf on. So the only other option left was to take a hike through the forest between Slateport and Oldale Town.

"Well, it's now or never, let's go, you two!" the boy pumped his fist in the air and sauntered into the forest with Shade and Froakie pouncing after him. 'Does he have any idea where he's going?' Froakie asked. Shade smiled and simply responded ' It's Nathan Rave were talking about here, he obviously knows what he is doing.' 'So we're lost as soon as he loses sight of Slateport?' 'Most likely,' Shade smirked. And just like that the trio was off to Oldale Town.

(Couple hours later…)

Nathan had pretty much lost his way through the forest, and to top it off his pokenavi died. So after spending hours upon hours of trying to get to Oldale Town, he finally relented and decided to set up camp for the night. But what happened the next morning was completely unexpected to all three of them.

"Alright guys, just let me finish making breakfast, then we'll pack up and go." Nathan announced to his two Pokemon. Shade and Froakie were playing around a tree. Just as Nathan was about to start cooking something caught his attention. He saw a bright glow emerge from the treetops before a fiery explosion engulfed the area beneath it. The explosion rocked the entire forest.

"What was that?" the young trainer exclaimed. Without giving much thought to what to danger might be, Nathan and his Pokemon were running towards the destroy area. 'Whatever that was must have been really powerful. Maybe it's a legendary Pokemon? Whatever it is, I want to find it' Nathan thought, as he picked up speed.

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