The walk home seemed to take longer than usual. Genis stared down at the majestic poke ball that seemed to have some kind of hypnosis over him. He wanted to open the ball so bad that his fingers were hurting but he remembered his mom's request.

"Don't open that poke ball until you get here first. I wanna test your skills out. I want the surprise to be for both of us." Misty said with a smile.

"Typical," Genis thought. "That's just like my mom to wanna be a part of everything little thing that goes on with me."

As Genis was thinking, the wind picked and blew his red Pokémon hat right off his head. The wind seemed to carry the hat away from Genis who was frantically trying to reach for it. The wind was always one step ahead of Genis, picking up just a little every time Genis reached for the hat. When the wind had gotten tired of playing with Genis, it lifted the hat once more and sat it on a gate. Genis stopped at the gate, and read the notice on the gate's door.

"Pokémon Fields," Genis read aloud to himself. He remembered these fields as being off limits to anyone who did not have the city's badge, nonetheless a Pokémon. So? True, Genis did not have the city's badge, but he did have a brand new Pokémon! Genis grabbed his hat and reached for the handle to the gate. As he was about to turn the handle he heard voices in the dusty trail. Genis jumped in the bushes and waited.

The mysterious voices were from a group of kids who were coming from the lab. They had obviously just gotten their Pokémon and were headed back home. All of their poke balls were still in their hands and Genis had wondered if their parents had given them the same request as his mother did. As the group of kids got closer Genis could tell they were the kids who lived in his city. He had seen them all before but had never spoken to them. The group was formed of two older girls and a boy that looked to be around Genis's age. As the near the bushes where Genis was hiding, Genis noticed that the two girls were twins. The both had long black hair but one had green eyes, the other blue. The girl with green eyes wore a black tank top that revealed her lower stomach and blue jeans. She wore the same sandals Genis's mom did. The blue eyed girl wore a white "Gotta Catch Em All" T-shirt and black sweat pants. The boy they were with that was around Genis's age was a black kid, which Genis thought was strange because you didn't see to many black kids playing with Pokémon. He wore a brown cargo shorts and a white V-neck shirt. He had a brown rosary around his neck and a diamond earring in each of his ears. His shoes were so white that anyone that stared at them long enough would go blind. Genis looked for the boys Pokeball but the boy did not seem to have one.

"Umm.. ok. You can come out the bushes, dude." Said the green eyed girl. Genis's heart stopped. he didn't move. How could they see him?

"Dude, you're wearing all red and tried to hide in a green bush? You lose cool points for that one." the green eyed girl continued. Genis stepped out of the bushes and tried to analyze the three strangers.

"Ok, well if you're just gunna stare at us like at least tell us your name." said the blue eyed girl.

"Genis"

"Genius?" Your name is Genius?" said the green eyed girl

"Shut up, Lily, he was talking to me," the blue eyed girl barked. "Well, Genius, my name is Diamond."

"Actually, my name isnt Genius, it's Genis. Minus the U." Genis said feeling a little more comfortable.

"Well, whatever. Like I said, I'm Diamond and this is my sister Lily. You've probably already noticed were twins but were nothing alike."

Genis looked at the black kid and asked: "What's your name?"

The black kid smiled and replied, "Whats it too ya?" The three erupted in laughter but Genis didn't know what was so funny.

"Calm down, man." said the black kid. "You've never seen that episode of Spongebob?"

"I don't watch Spongebob." Genis replied.

"Eh, okay. You don't have to be an asshole. But anyway my name is Jamal."

"So, Diamond, Lily, and Jamal? Right?" said Genis as he pointed to each one as he said their names.

"Correct." Lily and Diamond said at the same time.

"That was cool," Genis laughed.

"You get use to it." Jamal said. "By the way, why were you in those bushes anyway?"

"Oh," Genis started, "I was about to go into Pokémon fields but when I heard you guys coming I tired to hide. Guess it wasn't a good hiding spot huh?"

"Guess not," Diamond answered walking toward the gate. She stopped at the gate's door and continued: "Pokémon Fields huh?" She turned and stared at Genis. "You know you need the badge from the city right?"

"Yeah, I know. But I guess I was just a little curious is all."

"Well you know what they say, curiosity killed the Delcatty." Jamal said walking past Genis. "C'mon everybody let's go back to my house. I'm getting hungry. Your welcome to come too, Genius."

Genis ignored the fact that they continued to get his name wrong. As they all started walking back back towards their home town, Cherrygrove Town.