"Hi! Sorry to keep you waiting! Welcome to the world of Pokemon! My name is Birch, but everyone calls me the Pokemon Professor. This... is what we call a Pokemon- " The video continued to play on his PokeNav, but Siam had tuned out. The one window in the truck let him look out at the landscape as he was driven past. He had begun trying to count the trees as they whizzed past, but the moment he started, they were gone. The Truck stopped shortly after, and the doors were opened, revealing Siam's mother and a couple of the moving company's Machoke.

As Siam hopped down out of the truck his foot landed on a fluffy brown tail, which promptly retreated under the truck, sending him toppling down to the ground face first.

"Siam!" His mother exclaimed, helping him off the ground "We're here at last! It must have been tough riding in the back of the bumpy moving truck all that way" She said, brushing him off.

"It was ok, a little warm but fine, I think I just chipped a tooth!" He checked each tooth with his tongue, a rough edge and slight sharpness told him that yes, a tooth had been chipped.

"It'll be ok. Well, this is Littleroot town. What do you think? This is going to be our new home!" She got more and more excited as she spoke, leading him towards the house the truck had pulled up beside.

"It's a little boxed in with the forest surrounding it." He responded, taking note that the only way into the town was the road the truck had come, or the forest.

"It has a quaint feel, but it looks like it should be a nice place to live, don't you think? And you get your own room this time, Siam!" She followed him as Siam rushed inside, ignoring his obvious nerves about the size of the place.

"I assumed as much since Atlas said he was moving in with Uncle Boyd over in Violet City" Siam muttered as he avoided the Machoke shifting the lounge. "I'm going to go have a look at my room" Upstairs and to the left Siam found his open room, nothing of interest to be found there, but the Machoke moving in and out seemed to be pressing in on him. He rushed back downstairs to get a measure of fresh air.

Downstairs his mother waved him over to the tv, a news report was ending about the Petalburg gym, it would seem Siam had just missed seeing his father on the report.

"Oh... It's already ended. Looks like your dad was on, but we missed his part. What a shame. But that reminds me... One of Dad's friends lives in this town. Professor Birch is his name, he lives right next door, so you should go over and introduce yourself" His mother said once the report had finished, and had begun trying to usher him out the door. Which is something Siam considered very strange, but went with it all the same.

He approached the front door of one of the few other houses in the town and rapt at it only three times before awaiting an answer. A woman about his mothers age answered the door "Oh, Hello. And you are?"

"Sorry to bother you, my name's Siam Taillon, My family has just moved into town" He began, attempting to keep his eyes on the woman and ignore the closeness of the edge of the forest.

"Oh right, you're Siam, our new next-door neighbour! Welcome!" She smiled wide and invited him into the house, the ground floor looked very similar to the house he had just moved into, and Siam guessed the floorplan wouldn't be very different at all.

"We have a daughter about the same age as you. She has been excited about making a new friend, she should be in her room upstairs. I hope you'll go and introduce yourself!" She smiled and pointed up the stairs, then it dawned on him; These two, this woman and his mother, may be trying to set him up. He shook his head and smiled, it would be rude not to introduce himself anyway.

Siam advanced up the stairs and approached the room that would be his in the floorplan; The door was open and a young woman was standing at her desk across from the door.

"Pokemon fully restored, items all ready, and...!" She had spotted him in the mirror, just before he started to knock on the doorframe "Who... are you?"

"Hi, I'm Siam, I moved in next-door and thought i'd come over and introduce myself, your mother said to look for you upstairs, I hope I'm not-" He had begun an introduction that started to get a little long winded.

"Well, I'm May! Glad to meet you! When Dad- oh I mean Professor Birch- told me about you moving here Siam... Well I was hoping you would be nice and we could be friends... B-but that's just silly, isn't it? I've just met you! Oh no! I forgot! I was suppose to be going out to help Dad catch some wild Pokemon! Siam, I'll see you later" at which point the excitable young lady rushed out of her room and down the stairs. Preferring not to enter the young woman's room unescorted, Siam also retreated down the stairs and out the front door.

Siam stepped outside to hear a loud scream from north of the town, along the road the truck had come. Rushing to the edge of the forest he saw a man being attacked by a poochyena; "H-help me! Halloo! You over there! Please! Help me out!". Siam had never used a pokemon, but seeing the bag on the ground and the three pokeballs spilling out of it, he knew he had to help. He ran to the bag only to be cut off by another Poochyena, looking around he counted six Poochyena surrounding Siam and the man, one of them had grabbed onto the mans leg and was shaking at him. Siam heard one of the small bite pokemon growling behind him, turning he kicked at it as it lunged towards him. The one standing over the pokeballs attempted to jump onto his back, only to be hit square in the side by a smaller brown critter, which Siam immediately recognised as a zigzagoon.

Turning about heel, Siam punched the Poochyena on the man's leg square in the snout "RUN" he yelled at the started and only lightly bleeding older man. The man ran for his life back to the village as Siam and the very weak zigzagoon, struggled against and fought back the Poochyena. As they managed to beat back one, another would launch onto them. Seeing an opening, Siam scooped up the helpful ball of fur and dashed back into the village, following where he saw the man go and running straight into the biggest house in the village.

"You saved my hide. Thanks a lot! Oh? But you're Norman's body, Siam!" The man said as he locked the door behind Siam. "I didn't even realize who you were at first. You've grown into quite the young man." Siam wasn't paying attention, once he'd gotten inside he'd recognised the man, but was already too busy checking the zigzagoon's wounds. "-Looks like you really are your father's son!"

"Do you have anything to heal this pokemon? It really got beat up getting us out of there" Siam said, noticing the broken tail-tip and scratched face.

"No sorry, I think you should try and give it some rest back at your new house. You're mother will certainly be interested to hear what you did!"

Name: Antony

Species: Zigzagoon

Type: Normal

Nature: Brave

Level Met: 2

Characteristic: Often lost in thought

HP 13, Atk 6, Def 7, 6, 6, Spd 6

Professor Birch accompanied Siam to his house, his mother made a fuss when she saw them, but let them in all the same. While Siam took some time to check the zigzagoon over, Birch explained to Siam's mother everything that happened. "You know, if you work with your Pokemon and gain experience, I think you'll make a pretty excellent Trainer. My girl, May, Happens to be out on Route 103 right now, surveying Pokemon for me. That's just past Oldale town, there is a Pokemon center there, It might not be a bad idea for you to head out that way yourself. What do you think?"

"Absolutely not!" his mother interjected "Not after what you say just happened on Route 101!"

"This thing is hurt, if I don't get it to a Pokemon center then I might as well bury it right now" Siam spoke up, vivid language yes, but it got his point across.

"Great! I'm sure May'll be happy to see you. She can help teach you what it means to be a Trainer." Birch said, offering Siam a pokeball to capture the zigzagoon with.

"I'm not a pokemon trainer, I'm repaying a favor" Siam finished as he lifted the pokemon in his arms and carried it out himself.