rewritten 17/3 -2008

A refreshing spring breeze passes by. Spring has come and Rachel is still in Fortree. Elli has ditched her because she wanted to travel a little more. She has now turned 14 and is on the edge of going crazy since nothing seems to happen in Foretree.

Near a river shortly outside Fortree, a young boy is training his pokémon.

"Phoebe, Tackle!"

Feebas used Dragonbreath, the wild Poliwag flew backwards in an amazing speed and got knocked out.

"Wow! Amazing Phoebe! "

"I see you enjoy training Feebas, Chris." Rachel said.

Chris turned around to see his sister. "How long have you been standing there?" he asked.

"Quite some time" She winked.

Chris had actually been enjoying everything around in Fortree since he got to train Feebas and his sister convinced him not to run away a cold winter's day. That accident had made them closer to each other and some people constantly commented that they got so well along with each other. But what was it that was so special with pokémon? And why did they bring so much happiness in to a little boy's life? Then it clicked in Rachel's head.

"You know, lately I've been thinking that you may keep Feebas if you help me catch a pokémon. Heheh, what do you think?" she giggled.

"R-really!" Chris asked excitingly.

"Yupp!" Rachel smiled, "Feebas likes you more, you know."

Chris crossed his arms, "Well duh! Of course!"

She grabbed his jacket and lifted him up, "You know there's a limit of your cockiness that I can handle you know…" Rachel whispered angrily.

Chris sweat dropped "Uh... But yeah, I'll help you catch a new pokémon!"

Rachel dropped him, "Good! Thanks." Then she turned her back and started to walk ahead.

"Some things never change…" Chris sighed and then got up and walked after his sister.

And that's how the day started from a normal training session and sleeping under the tree from getting her a new pokémon.

They walked down the road and checked at their sides if they saw any pokémon.

"How about Pidgey?" Chris points at a sleeping Pidgey in a tree.

"No…"

"Ah, over there's a Zigzagoon!"

"No…."

"Magikarp, Poliwag!" Chris waved with his hands in the air.

Rachel looked up to the sky, "No, but I would like a water-type pokémon…"

Chris groaned, "Tell you what, let's split up in search of pokémon. Call me on my pokénav if you find something interesting, okay?"

"Sure thing!" Rachel said before they split ways.

She looked around in the grass, behind bushes and trees.

"Hmm… I wonder what pokémon I should get… Maybe a Dodou so I'll have company every time I'll go running… But it'll probably out run me… But, what about a Ralts! Oh, they're so cute!" She skipped to a rock and looked behind it. "No, nothing there…" She looked up. "Maybe I should look in the forest…" She walked pass the rock and entered the forest. "It's strange though… for a couple of weeks ago I didn't like pokémon at all, but now I actually am interested in them. I even studied about them… well... a little. I learned some of the pokémon and their weaknesses. I… I've even gotten respect for my brother… I think I've really grown!"

"Boo", a head popped up behind a bush.

"EYAAAAAAAAH!" She punched the face as a reflex.

The person fell backwards. Then shortly popped up again, furious, "What are you DOING!" The person yelled at her. It turned out to be a boy with dark brown hair. His hand covered his nose.

"It's your fault! You scared me!" Rachel yelled back.

He groaned, "Well, you didn't have to hit me just because I scared ya!" He took his pokéball from his belt, "I challenge you to a pokémon fight!"

"But…" Rachel said, "I-I don't have any pokémon…"

"Huh?" He lowered the pokéball. "Then why the heck are you here?"

Rachel crossed her arms, "I'm here with my brother to catch me a pokémon, duh!"

"Where's your brother then?"

"Uhh…. W-well..." Rachel began.

"You two split up and you end up in a forest, full of bug pokémon alone, with no pokémon for protection?"

Rachel looked at the ground, and then up again, "Uh… yeah…" she replied.

"Heheh… You're stupid!" he started to laugh.

"What did you say!"

"I said that you are stupid."

"How DARE YOU!" she punched him again in the nose.

He flew more backwards this time, hit a tree with his back and fell facedown to the ground. A half minute later he got up, even more furious than last time, and was now bleeding. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOIIING!"

"BRING IT ON!"

Just then, they heard something in the bushes.

"What…? W-who's there?"

Then a pokémon popped out of the bushes. It was blue and reminded little of a crocodile.

"What kind of pokémon is that?" Rachel asked.

"I haven't got a pokédex yet, but I was on my way to Littleroot town. But, I think that's a Totodile."

"It's sooo cute!" Rachel said. "I'm going to call my brother now!"

"Tsssk… what makes you think that he'll be able to position you from there he is?"

"Oh! We… we never thought of that…" Rachel said. "Ehehheh… ehhh…" she laughed of embarrassment.

He sighed, "You're hopeless!..."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING HOPELESS?"

"St-S—s-stOoop strangling-ng-ngg meEee!"

The pokémon then fell facedown to the ground.

"Wh-" Rachel let go of the guy and he fell to the ground. "Hey, what happened?" Rachel ran up to the pokémon.

The guy did the same thing, "Looks like it's heavily wounded… But what could---"

Then 2 strange shadows appeared. Then they saw two shadows of humans. When they looked up they saw a woman and a man. They had a blue bandana with a strange white patterned on it, Blue jeans and a black & white striped t-shirt.

"Tssk… kids, this can be troublesome…" The man said with an annoyed tone to the woman

"Let me handle this…" She said and walked closer to Rachel. "Excuse us, but that's our pokémon…"

Rachel shook her head, "Prove it or I won't believe you! This pokémon is seriously wounded, I can't hand it over to a couple of strangers!"

"Just hand over the pokémon and well take care of it… Why should you care so much! It's not even your pokémon! It's just about time before you'll forget about it!" The woman grew inpatient.

"…." Rachel looked at the woman and the man.

"Come on. This is ridiculous! Let me take care of them!" The man said

"We'll wait with the violence, George!"

"Run" The guy next to Rachel whispered.

Rachel then lifted up Totodile and began running way from there.

"WHA! HEY HOLD IT!" The woman yelled after Rachel.

"Cyndaquil! Smoke screen!" Cyndaquil came out from the pokéball and used its smokescreen attack. Rachel and the guy then took the opportunity to flee.

"Just who the hell where those guys!" Rachel panted as she ran. She looked behind her to see if someone was there.

"Maybe they're one of those Team Aqua guys…"

Rachel looked to the right and then saw that guy again. "When will you learn to stop sneaking up to me?"

"Old habit, probably never…"

Rachel sighed.

"What's your name?" he suddenly asked

"Huh? My name's Rachel, What's yours?"

"I don't like my name…" he said with an annoyed tone.

Rachel groaned, "It's rude if you ask for someone's name and don't give your name back!"

"Tssk… Fine!" He looked away, "It's Hikaru…"

"What's so bad with that?"

"I don't feel like telling you that…"

Rachel sighed, "Some people are just hopeless…"

They continued running till they came out from the forest.

"The pokémon centre is that way" Rachel said and started to run in that direction. Hikaru ran after her.

"Don't worry!" Joy said. "We'll heal him right away!"

They went to the waiting room and sat down.

"I hope Totodile's okay…" Rachel said.

They were sitting in the waiting room for about 1 hour now. Hikaru was starting to get bored.

"He'll be fine!" Hikaru yawned. "Sometimes it takes a while for a pokémon to get recovered. Hnn, its 11 o'clock. If I were you I would take a rest now."

"What about you?" Rachel asked

"Me?" Hikaru said, "I'm used to go to sleep at 3 am. For some reason, Girls seems to crave more sleep than us guys…"

Rachel groaned, "No! It's just that you like to spend your night time reading porn and waking up for lunch! We'll excuse me for not liking to watch porn every night! Good night, WET DREAMS!" Rachel left the pokémon centre.

"What the heck is with that chick?" Hikaru said to himself. He sighed. "Girls are weird…"

"I hate that guy! Just who does he think he is!" Rachel stomped the ground on her way back home.