Disclaimer – I do not own Pokemon, although I do own all of the Pokemon mentioned in this story and characters except those of which are not mine.

Author Note – So I just looked at Chapter One and the chart that I made of Axel's grades isn't formatted correctly for the website. Even so, I don't think it matters enough to change it. Also, for those who don't understand the Pokemon names look at the bottom Author Note. There you can see what the names are derived from, because I used Latin roots to create these names. Along with that, nearly all characters will be put into the story. Those that are sure to be included are…

Narutosama12's Dustin Izumi

Slayerboy929's Jaden Namikaze

Templar of Honors' Cyril Gray

Of course, these may not be main characters, but they will most definitely be part of the story at some point or another. All of those who I promised will be main characters, I intend on keeping my promise, and if I don't I'll scold myself.

Sorry for such a long note. I hope you enjoy the story!

Chapter Two

The sun rose early, and I placed Serra into his PokeBall for safekeeping and so that he did not have to wake yet. I planned on catching a Navi so that I could train it to become a Navaro, and then I could fly everywhere; or maybe a Cani, so I could ride it to the places that I needed to go. I could probably catch both since I had two PokeBalls.

I left a note, but all I wrote was Today I'm leaving. I don't know if they cared, but on the inside, I hoped they did a little. Without a thought in my head, I walked out of the door and placed my key under the mat, not needing it anymore. I walked down the path, the sun rising above the forest where I was heading. An archway hung over the path into the forest with a warning sign that Pokemon were ahead.

I waited a few minutes at this archway, and soon Cole arrived. He gave me a faint smile before releasing his Cedio. "We'd better let our Pokemon out," he told me. "I'm going to try to catch a Navi."

I nodded and released Serra. A few other people were walking towards us, but made no attempt to talk. The two of us walked into the forest, knowing the general direction of where Philadelphia was; which was the first place that I had to head and it was also a way to Boston. We talked about stupid things, and soon enough we stumbled upon our first Pokemon.

"This one's mine," he told me. "Cedio learned a new move. Cedio, Fire Tackle!" The Navi looked at Cedio as it came towards it with mild concern, merely hopping to one side to dodge it. Even so, I noticed that it had been hurt a little by the heat. "Again!" yelled Cole. Even though Navi were flying type Pokemon, its wings were not fully matured, so all it could do was glide for a few seconds. It's not really flying, but skilled falling.

The Navi seemed bored, but it could not dodge Cedio's attack this time. It fell back and climbed up a tree. At first I thought it was going to run away, but I noticed that it was gliding out of the tree. It flew – fell, rather – quite fast, its peck pointed at Cedio. "Harden!" Cole ordered. He knew that Cedio would not have time to get away, so the air shimmered around Cedio and his body grew dense, more compact. The bird Pokemon hit its target, and Cedio flinched backward.

"Fire Tackle." The Navi seemed to sigh as Cedio came charging at it, but did not make a move to dodge the attack. Cole pulled a PokeBall from his pocket and threw it at the Navi. Just before it hit, the ball opened up and a jagged red beam extended from it and careened the shape of the Navi, pulling it in. The ball fell to the ground and shook for a moment before sitting still. Cole fist pumped and ran over to the PokeBall, picking it up.

I gave him a smile, and we continued on our way. The rest of the route was kind of uneventful, except for at one point when another Navi came swooping by. It landed in front of Serra, and they stared at each other for a moment, examining the other. They circled once, and Cole and I shrugged. I pulled out my PokeDex and examined the Pokemon. I read the inscription aloud to Cole.

"Navi – the Gliding Pokemon

Navi is skilled at gliding from tree to tree, able to climb up even the roughest bark with its sharp talons. It is extremely friendly with plant Pokemon, even though its attacks are super-effective against said Pokemon. Plant Pokemon and Navi will bond instantaneously, and will willingly be caught by the trainer of the plant Pokemon with consent from said Pokemon."

I gave the PokeDex's entry a chance. "Serra, tell Navi that it's okay to be caught." Serra looked at me for a moment, and I wondered if he truly understood what I wanted. And then an instant later, he turned to the wild Navi and made a strange gulping sound. The Navi seemed to understand, since it abruptly turned to me with its eyes closed, waiting for capture.

I gave Cole a sideways glance before tossing a PokeBall at the Navi. Right before impact, the ball opened up and a red beam shot out of the ball. It engulfed the Navi, and it sat motionlessly on the forest floor without even giving a shudder. I walked over to it and picked the ball up, releasing the Pokemon to join Serra again. "Serra, come here and get on my neck," I told him. "Navi, you get on my head."

I helped Serra to latch onto the back of my neck to face skyward, and then I placed Navi on my head to nest there and chirp with Serra's gargling noises. Cole let his own Navi out, and it rested upon his head, also, his Cedio floating contently beside him. With that, the six of us carried onward, through the enwinding forest that seemed to go on forever and ever, never letting loose to the city of Philadelphia.

Hours passed as we walked, jogging at some points to get away from a few wild Cani that we had no intention of interacting with. Surprisingly enough, we met no one else on the way through the forest. Soon enough, it was lunch time, and our Pokemon helped us gather berries and roots of plants.

Cole and Cedio set up a fire and I placed some berries into a pot to melt into a type of soup. After about ten minutes, I placed some of the roots into the liquidities of the berries to give it some nutritional content, although I knew that the taste would be quite bitter. Once it was finished, Cole poured the so-called soup into different bowls, and we all ate up. Once we finished lunch, we set off once more.

The journey took us all day, and we did not break the threshold of the forest until dusk. The Navi stopped chirping at this point, and the Cani were getting ready for rest. I looked up and saw the stars, something that I had not seen in a while. Even though Colonia was a small town, it created a lot of light pollution, diluting the stars to just show an inky, black night sky.

But here… in the forest, in nature, everything was so peaceful. I spotted out as many constellations as I could possible. I did not really understand constellations, because truthfully, you could make the stars into any shape that you wish. For example, if you look hard enough, you can turn Orion into a dragon. I pointed this out to a teacher once, but I was just ignored by her. The only thing she did was profess about my "cleverness." But it wasn't cleverness – it was just observing.

"We shouldn't set up the tent," I told Cole as we sat down to cook dinner.

He gave me a sideways glance. "Cedio, could you fetch us some firewood?" he asked his Pokemon. "And Navi, could you get some berries?" I did not know how Cedio would accomplish his task, but I did not ask. Cole looked back at me and shrugged. "Sure, I don't see why not."

"Seeing that I got the better grade in cooking and identifying poisonous berries," – Cole had failed at identifying the poisonous loco berry, which I never will let him live down – "I will cook the food, and you go set up the sleeping bags or something."

He gave me a stupid smile before lumbering off to do whatever. I looked down at Serra and Navi playing, and I decided not to disturb them. I grabbed a pot and walked down a clearly marked path to find some food to cook. By the end of the path, I had collected a bunch of Pute, Ruti, and even Cru berries. Without another thought, my feet carried me back to our makeshift campsite as I staggered with the pot. When I got back, I noticed a small pile of firewood that was surrounded by rocks. On either side of the rocks were two sticks, and tied to that with lashings was another horizontal stick.

"Cedio and Navi made that," Cole informed me as I gaped at the formation. It was quite a feat for a Pokemon, and the four of them played together, crawling up trees and latching onto each other. "The ropes are some vines that they found. There's more here."

Together, we tied the pot to the top stick so that it dangled over the pile of sticks. I grabbed a stray stick from the brim of the forest and asked Cedio to light it for me. He did so willingly, and I placed it in the pile as it ate away at the bark from each stick. Soon enough, a roaring fire was going, and Cole and I set up some bowls to place the finished meal in.

Ten minutes later, the six of us ate the bitter-sweet tasting berries. Cole and I decided that while in Philadelphia, we had to pick up a cookbook with all-natural food. The two of us returned our Pokemon to their respectful PokeBalls and put them away. We crawled into our sleeping bags and stared up at the stars, gazing at the moon and whatnot. It was a full moon, so it sprinkled light all over the land. There were chirps from bug Pokemon that I could name, but I did not bother to.

Soon enough, I had fallen asleep, and I suddenly wished that I hadn't. What I saw disturbed me to the extreme, but I could do nothing about it. I tried pinching myself as I watched the scene unfold, trying to wake up, but nothing would help. It was as if I was anchored to the floor, like I was truly there.

"Give me the key," hissed the man, "and everything shall be fine."

He was in a jail cell, and I recognized the man as Darren Burns. His dark hair was cropped short, and his eyes were blood red. And I don't mean just his iris; I mean his whole eye, so that there was no pupil and no white. I felt so much anger for no reason as I stared at this man, and then I looked out of the cell, because I was in it, and saw another man that I assumed to be the guard writhing on the floor in pain. The scene was all too vivid as he screamed in agony.

"All you have to do is give me that key," Darren whispered mockingly. "Just give it to me."

"Why… don't you just… bust yourself… out?" the guard managed to get out.

Darren laughed, and that just made it that much worse. His laugh was scary, and I backed away from him, cringing. I got a little knot in my stomach as if I could feel the man's pain, but that was impossible. This was just a nightmare, a terror in my dreams, and I wished I could just leave.

"Believe it or not," hooted Darren, "these imbeciles actually used Nomagus iron to retain my… ah… powers." This dream was getting stranger and stranger, and I drew blood finally from my shoulder from pinching it. I didn't curse like I wanted to, afraid that the dream would make them notice me. "Even so, they cannot stop my illusionist abilities. For example… Voltrao, Dragon Breath."

The man's eyes widened and he screamed even louder. Finally, he pulled out his key, and I quickly sat up, clutching my chest. My heart was pounding faster than I had ever felt it pound, and I was drenched in a cold sweat. I took in as much air as possible, gasping for more, savoring the tasteless oxygen. I got up queasily and walked over to the edge of the woods, gripping onto a tree. An Iusum clambered down in front of me on a string of web protruding from its butt.

"Hey buddy," I whispered. It was no bigger than my fist, and I pet it. It gave a purring sound as its black body turned pink, and it dangled its six legs in the air as I scratched it, careful not to touch the spikes on its back. If you touched its spikes and it drew blood, a poison is released into the blood that will drive you crazy. Of course, it easy easily cured with a rocidem berry. Even so, it is hard for the victim to find such a berry while in psychosis.

I stopped petting it and went back to my sleeping bag. I was still startled by the horrible dream about Darren, so I could not fall asleep. Instead, I suffered insomnia for the rest of the night. Soon enough, the sun rose as dawn approached, giving off a show of various colors. I listened to the Navi awakening from their sleep. Absentmindedly, I gathered berries and kindle, bringing extra in case the next place we went did not contain such accommodations. Philadelphia is a city, and there were probably no berries there, much less a park.

When I got back, I managed to light a fire after about ten minutes and I allowed the berries to cook. I thought about many things, and one of those included was my family. My brother and sister were twins, and they stayed at the house until they were eighteen. They stayed in school, and then my brother went to medical school while my sister went to law school. Both my parents were lawyers, and my father usually was gone for days on business trips and whatnot, which left me alone seeing that my brother and sister had already left for higher education in Chicago.

I felt no remorse about leaving. In fact, I wanted to leave, and I had planned it all. But then by the time I decided to leave, I was eligible for Professor Lark's school, and it was a dream-come-true. I was able to travel the world, get away from that town, because for all I cared it could burn to the ground. Even though no one really talked to me, it was a small price to pay for being able to get away from there.

Cole woke up a while later, and again the six of us had a meal. It was small since I wanted to reserve the berries and roots that I had found, but it was enough to fill us. Navi perched himself atop my head once we finish, and Serra claimed my neck once more. Cole's Pokemon did the same, but his Cedio floated aside him at head-level, "talking" to his Navi in a strange tongue that involved clicking its supposed tongue that I doubted existed.

We traveled for about an hour before we stumbled upon our first town. I opened up my PokeDex and examined the GPS, using the satellite to locate where we were. I watched it zoom in on our spot, showing us a satellite image of the town we were at. Finally, words materialized on the screen on I read it aloud to Cole.

"Scranton, Pennsylvania. It lies in eastern Pennsylvania. Scranton is a small town that has a small verity of Pokemon including Cani, Suttac, and Loc. The Pokemon Center can be found on New Deli Avenue, while the Poke Mart can be found on Broad Street."

"We better head over to the Pokemon Center so that we can get a room," Cole told me when I put the PokeDex away. I agreed immediately, and we walked through the streets. A lot of people were walking around with their Pokemon, and some of the Pokemon I did not even recognize. There were these stout, four-legged things with pincers and a sharp tail that crawled and it almost looked two dimensional. Cole told me that he had seen it once before and that it was called Cefer and that it could burrow at high speeds through metal.

"That's crazy," I whispered in awe to him.

Finally, after a few wrong turns, we came upon the Pokemon Center and walked in through the sliding doors. It was bustling with activity as people held their Pokemon. Some suffered simple injuries such as broken bones, while others had more serious ailments that I cannot even describe. We walked past this room through another door and into the hospitality room. We got in line and waited for our turn.

"Hello," Nurse Joy said to us happily once we got to the front of the line. "How may I help you?"

Cole gave me a sideways glance as if to say You tell her. I sighed and said, "Yeah, uh, one room for two people, four small Pokemon."

"Yes, that will be fifty dollars," she informed me, typing rapidly at the computer. I reached into my pocket and unfolded the wads of hundreds that I had taken from my parents before I had left. They would not notice that it was gone, and even if they did, I would be the last one they expected. I handed her the money and she gave us a keycard, pointing us towards stairs. "You're on the second floor. Have a nice day!"

Cole and I climbed the stairs and found our room. I unlocked the door and we set our stuff down on either bed. Cole opened a window and we set our Pokemon on the floor to continue to play with each other. It was still early in the day, so we went out to explore the town and left our Pokemon to just play around in the room. Like the PokeDex said, it really wasn't that big of a town. There were many clothing stores and outlet malls, and we marked on our PokeDex's GPS the food stores and the restaurants so that we did not have to eat my horrible berry creations.

"This place looks good to eat," Cole said, pointing across the street. We went in and had sandwiches that made my food taste like dirt. After about ten minutes, we left and went back to the Pokemon Center and played with our Pokemon.

"We should try battling again," I said after a little bit. "Two on two, it would be fair."

Cole gave me a look and smiled. "No, it won't be fair," he told me. I gave him a quizzical look. "Because I'll be playing against you."

I gave him a smirk and we called our Pokemon outside in the back where there was a battlefield.

Author Note – these are the roots at which I got the Pokemon from.

English Latin

Poison Loco

Blue Puteulanus

Red Rutilus

Green Crudus

Not Non

Magic Magus

Spore Ludo Usum

Cure Medicor

Cat Cattus

Pincer Forecept