Note: Trenberry town is on the northeast side of Pastoria city, near Lake Valor. Speckle town is to the west of Pastoria, near the corner at route 212. This was very confusing to figure out at first.

And yes, Natasha, Daniel is VERY oblivious to what could go wrong with those kinds of contests. The Nidoran documentary just kind of popped out of my head when I thought "What is one of the most boring Pokemon, yet so uncommon that people would want to learn more about them? Nidorans that what!"

Sorry about the grammar problems and strange out of place words, but ffnet likes to mess up my sentences and delete words and symbols. Also some warning: this chapter will be a little s l o w! bear with me here the next one will be better.

Please Read and Review, but no flames if possible 'cause I ran out of marshmallows to roast the other day :P

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Chapter 1: Leavings and new meetings!

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The letter from the company (which had a really strange name called Specter & Company) said this:

Dear Daniel Terrian,

You have been selected as one of the Grand Prize winners of our Pokecontest! All you have to do is come down to our office at the address indicated on the envelope and claim your prize! If you can get here within three days, you can also bring a friend to get a Pokemon and come with you! Remember that you only have three days so hurry!

Wow. I could not believe I had actually won. I mean, there must've been tons of people who entered this, and out of all of them, I was picked to come!

I didn't have any really close friends, so after reading that I went upstairs to my room, and gathered what I needed. I managed to find an old backpack from when my mom had a Pokemon journey (if she went on one why couldn't I?!) in a place that she said was, "The great, wide, beautiful plains of the Kanto region." I figured she never used the thing, and its on its last leg, so why not take it?

"let's see, I have my sleeping bag, a few days worth of food, a set of clothes, don't think I'm missing anything..."

I put the backpack on, came down the stairs, and headed to the sliding back door when I remembered, I forgot to grab a map and my money! I can't believe I almost left it all! So I left the back door closed and went through the hallway to my mom's room where she keeps all the money. I guess she thought that if she could hide all the money from me, she could keep me from going anywhere. What she didn't count on was me watching exactly where she puts it all in case I wanted to buy something. Hey, don't blame me for being so sneaky, I'm 15.

I was reluctant to take the money, but if I wanted to get to Trenberry I had to have something. So I entered her room and looked for the hidden panel that hides the box where she puts our money. 'She ought to have tried to hide this better' I thought as I opened the secret hatch in the bottom of her dresser. 'After all, I'm a kid. Finding where stuff is hidden is my job! Besides that, she won't need my money when I'm gone'.

Since the dining room was right next to hers, I figured that I might as well write her a letter so she won't worry as much. After all, I'm not heartless. It was convenient, too; The map was in the roll desk near the corner of the room. When I opened the desk up and looked in, I was surprised at the amount of dust that was gathering around the supplies in there. Dusting the papers off some, so I could see, I found the map near the bottom of a pile of what looked like letters from her brother. 'I wonder what happened to him,' I was guessing that she quit writing to him, why else would there be so much dust on these old letters. Wiping off some paper and finding a pen under all that rubble (she was never really organized when it came to office supplies), I began to write a letter to mom, explaining where I went.

Dear Mom,

When you read this, I will be gone. Don't worry, I just went to Trenberry Town to deliver something for one of my teachers because he can't go right now. I took some money and the map if it takes longer than I thought. I will try to keep in contact if it takes longer than a few days.

See you soon,

Love, Daniel.

'Sigh, I hope that she takes this alright. I don't really want to go like this, but I know she would never let me go otherwise. Besides, this way she will at least know that I haven't abandoned her totally. After all, it's not like I won't send her letters, or like I will be gone forever'.

After leaving the note next to her purse, which she forgot again, I slipped my map into my backpack and cut across the house to the back door; almost flinching at the thought of how mad my mom would be later on.

And on I went to Speckle Town to obtain supplies that I couldn't get from around the house. Anyway, I couldn't be seen leaving the town, because Arceus knows that my mom talks to everyone, and if someone saw me, my mom would somehow know instantly that I left town.

Looking around for anyone, I was suddenly glad that we lived near pastoria city. Because if we lived near Sandgem or Twinleaf, I would have to go through MT. Coronet to get anywhere near Trenberry Town.

(Come to think of it, who names a town Trenberry or Speckle? Or Sandgem and Twinleaf for that matter? It sounds like it was something an author with writer's block thought of.)

So, ignoring the funky town names, I hopped over our white picket fence and went into the thick slew of a forest that people called safari zone, heading west away from Trenberry. I just hoped that I got to Speckle town in one piece.

Coming from Pastoria, it was almost as if the Pokemon were non-existent. Even though it's normally full of Pokemon, it was eerily empty today.

'I wonder what happened to all the Pidgey and Starly that are usually out at this time'?

After traversing the forest for quite sometime (and getting lost) I started to get edgy, since I don't have anything to protect me. Trying to look everywhere at once, I missed the gnarled root that protruded from the ground in front of me. "Whoa"!

I stumbled forward right into what could only be described as the aftermath of a war zone. An area about the size of half of Pastoria in front of me was practically destroyed; trees uprooted, the grass charred, and what looked like something made huge chunks of the earth get thrown around and just... well... disappear.

"What the heck... it looks like a huge battle went on here".

"You just read my thoughts"

"What? Who's there"?

Just then as I said that someone emerged out of the tree line on the left side of the field. He looked about 15 and was wearing an orange shirt and blue jeans; he also had dark brown hair that looked like it was in need of a good washing.

"Who are you"? I asked.

"I'm Salle, who are you"?

"The name's Daniel. Do you know who - or what - did this"?

"No, I hoped that you knew" 'Unless he did this... No, he couldn't have'. "Do you mind if I come with you? After all, I sure don't want to be alone if whatever did this decides to come back".

I was debating whether or not if he should come with me and I thought 'Why not, the letter said I could bring a friend too'. "Sure," I said "Where are you going anyway"?

"I'm heading to Trenberry Town, I've got some business there".

Hey, he's going to the same place I am, did he win the contest too? "Me too, I was just going to stop over at Speckle Town to get some supplies. You don't happen to have any pokeballs or Pokemon, do you"?

"I only have a few pokeballs with me that I brought, come over here and I'll give you one".

Carefully navigating past the holes and dead trees in the clearing, I was slowly making my way over there; And just when I only had about 20 feet left to go before I could get to Salle, what sounded like a furious roar of an ursaring bellowed out to the right.

"What was that"? I said beginning to panic.

"I don't know, but it's heading this way"! He said hastily, "Hurry up and get over here"!

I didn't want to face anything that could make a roar like that, or this destruction for that matter, and I sure didn't want to face it if it was angry. Scrambling over to Salle, no longer watching where I was running; When suddenly, bursting out of the right of the clearing like a zubat out of hell, came the mother of all Tyraniars. And to tell the truth, it looked like it had just had its tail stomped on and was slapped across the face by a Pachirisu before it stole his dinner. In other words (excuse my french) it was pissed. Unluckily for us, we were directly in its path.

"Oh son of a Mankey, we better get out of here Daniel, NOW!!"

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Yay for new sayings, obscure references, and cliffhangers to nowhere!

Well, that's the next chapter folks! Hoped you liked it, I had some trouble in the middle figuring out where in the world I would put this, and the answer came from a review. From one of Rellymaster's stories, I found out that his character lives in Sinnoh so I figured I would put it there.

The next chapter should have a fight scene in it, as well as new characters, enemies, and more mindless ballyhoo to boot! In other words: FUN!!

Thanks for the reviews guys, I really appreciate it. It helped to have those O.C.s for the story too, and I hope that Salle came out alright. (Ducks under a table to avoid any possible thrown projectiles from the audience). The next chapter will be better than this one (action-wise), this one, I admit, was slower than I wanted it, but it was necessary to get Dan out of the town and on his way(that and it's one heck of a time for a new character to come in).

speaking of OCs, I'm accepting about 3-4 more of them in about 2-3, maybe 4 chapters at the most until I won't need them for a while. still nice to get reviews, as I found out that they do, in fact, help.

See ya later. Bai.