Clap clap clap. "That was wonderful, son!" My dad cheered as we walked into the house. "I really thought you were doomed there for a second."

"Wow, thanks for the support dad." I said sarcastically. "So I guess you were watching the whole thing then?"

"Absolutely!" he exclaimed. "Your mother and I were watching from the window. You don't think I would miss my son's first pokemon battle do you?"

"You missed mine." My older brother Ivan bluntly stated from the couch where he is usually found sleeping or playing video games. He was mainly stating this to mess with dad. Ivan really didn't care that dad missed his first battle. This, of course, was because his first battle was done before he had his trainer card, which he has still yet to get. Ivan is sort of bum who graduated from high school the other year, but he hasn't really done anything with his life since. He's not too big on pokemon either. He likes the occasional battle, but not enough to get his trainer card.

"Ah...uh...hmmm...well, whoops." Dad said in reaction to Ivan's comment.

"You did wonder, Jet" Mom said trying to cover for my dad. "You were great too, Seth."

"Yeah. Thanks, Mrs. Iwata." Seth said in reply to my mother's response.

The rest of the night, we ate dinner and continued talking about the battle and my new pokemon. Later that night, Seth, Melody, and I let our pokemon play together while we the four of us studied for Elm's apprenticeship exam. Our pokemon seemed to get along just as well as we did. Yenz really enjoyed staying here with us and I loved him being here with us.

The next couple of weeks, I studied and battled with Yenz every free minute I had. It's a good thing that watching Frontier Network helps me prepare for the exam. It also helped that I got to battle my friends pokemon to. I really loved learning to battle. Oh, and Serah did pick her first pokemon the next day. She caught one of those Ledyba that spooked us the day we walked home together. At least I think it's one of those Ledyba. She bonded with it wonderfully. It was pretty difficult to defeat it the times that I battled it. Not only because of her type advantage, but also because of her great ways of analyzing the battles. Needless to say, I lost to her almost every time, but I could see Yenz grow stronger with every battle. I love my Yenz.

Finally that one day arrived. The day I had been looking forward to since I was five years old. It was that day in May where any eligible student who wished to go into a career with pokemon could take Professor Elm's Pokemon Knowledge Exam, or the PKE for short. The place was packed with students from all areas nearby Ecruteak City. It took a few hours, but I felt as if I had done wonderfully on the test. Serah, Seth, and Melody thought that they did pretty good on the test as well. At the end of the Exam time, the instructors told us to stay at home tomorrow because they would be calling us each individually to tell us whether or not we made the test.

So, the next day, I stayed home and sat next to my phone all day. I was so nervous. I sat in anticipation for a good amount of the morning, but there was no call yet. Yenz sat on my lap trying to play with my hand, but I was too busy running the test over in my head. Around noon, I received a message from Serah on my Pokegear saying she had been accepted. It made me smile. Soon after, I got a similar message from Seth and Melody. I was happy for them, but started to worry for myself because Elm only accepted 20 students out of all those who tested. I already knew of three that had passed. That meant only 17 more would be accepted. I thought about how at least 100 people had taken test in Ecruteak City alone, not to mention the other seven testing sites. The odds that a fourth student were to pass in the same testing region was pretty slim.

Then, the phone rang. Ring ring. My heart stopped. My test results have come calling me. Did I pass? I answered the phone. "Why, hello there Jet!" a familiar voice came from the other end of the phone. "So, did you happen to get your test results back yet son?" It was my father. Not the call I was expecting. He didn't come home a second time this month because he was doing some important research with former Hoenn league champion, current director of Devon Good Steven Devon, so he was pretty eager to hear the results of my test.

"Sorry pops. I haven't gotten the call yet."

"Well I'll be a Psyduck's bill. What're they waiting for, the winter festival?"

"They could be trying to call this very minute." I stated a little impatiently. I really wanted to know how I did.

"Okay okay. Well, call me when you get the news." He said. "Bye."

"Okay I will. Bye." I hung up the phone, and continued to wait by the phone again. My call finally came in another half hour. I was so psyched to find out. Yenz sat on a attentively on my lap.

"Hello. Is this Jet Iwata?" The voice on the other side of the receiver said. The voice sounded a little rough and tired as if he was about to repeat a speech he had said many times before.

"Yes this is Jet." I politely responded. Yenz sat quietly on my lap.

"Jet, as you may know, I am calling you about your attempt at the PKE that you took yesterday. We greatly appreciate the time and effort that you put into preparing and taking the test. We hope that, no matter what the results, that you continue to pursue a career in the pokemon field." The voice began. This didn't sound to comforting at the start. I started to get really nervous as he went over my scores with me. The scores didn't sound that bad. In fact, they sounded pretty good. I started to relax a little. "With the conclusion of your test results, I proudly state you ranked fourth out of the overall total. You have been accepted into the Professor's program. Congratulations."

"Thanks!" I said trying to keep some excitement inside. "Bye." I hung up the phone and immediately hugged Yenz and jumped into the air. "Woo-hoo!" I cheered alone.

"Yen yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!" Howled Yenz in equal excitement as if he knew exactly what we had just gotten ourselves into. In one week, Seth, Melody, Serah, and I would walk into Elm's laboratory and begin our apprenticeship. Not only that, we would begin our journeys as official pokemon trainers.