"Guys stop it!"

Calem and Serena finally stop dragging me and the drop me on the ground. "Hey!" I push myself up and look forward. Two people stand there in white clothing. One has blonde hair and the other has a dark-indigo hair colour. The blonde one is obviously a boy, the other a girl. They're also wearing ascots. The male wearing a blue one and the female wearing a red one.

"Flabèbè... Have you heard of it?" The male one asks.

Serena steps ups to answer.
"Flabèbè, Number 669 in the National Pokedex, named the Single Bloom Pokemon. They're a female only species and one of the smallest recorded Pokemon in existence at Barely 10cm in height, tied with Joltik. It's flower comes in 5 different colours. They evolve into Floette at level 19."

"... I was not expecting that." The female speaks after a moment of silence.

"Well, if you know that, you must know they are of the recently discovered Fairy type..." The male speaks up again.
"This new type caused literal chaos in the type matchup system!" The female comments. "For that reason alone, we've been doing research into the type matchups of the fairy type... Mainly because Professor Sycamore asked us." She adds.
"Oh, we forgot to introduce ourselves!" The Male realises. "I am Dexio." He properly introduces himself.
"And I'm Sina!" The female says.

"Nice to meet you two. I am Raphie." I introduce myself back.

Before Serena and Calem can speak their names, Sina interrupts.
"Wait, Raphie... Like Lysandre's supposed son? Dexio, the Prof was talking about him right?"
"Yes, I recall hearing your name... The Professor was going on about how you're likely going to wind up one of the greats if you follow out the destiny paved before you... No idea what he's on about to be honest." Dexio adds.
"Oh you know the Prof... He still has the imagination of a young child. Perhaps he's read too many fairy tales..." Sina comments.

"Can we introduce ourselves now?" Serena asks.
"Oh sure, go ahead." Sina allows.

"Well, my name is Serena. Unlike my brother here, I wish to study into Pokemon evolutionary lines and their 'move pools', as people put it." She proudly remarks.
"And I'm Calem! I'm gonna be the very best trainer... Like no one ever was before!" He says, trying to top Serena's introduction.
"I can't help but feel that's some sort of reference..." I comment.
"To catch strong Pokemon is a real test, to... To... To... Ah..." Calm tries to continue a sentence but seems to be drawing a blank.

"It's nice to meet you three at last. But we must get going." Dexio informs us.
"Yeah, we gotta give the Prof some updates about the fairy type!" Sina explains.
"But before we go, I'm going to give you these." Dexio holds out two discs and hands them to me. They are marked 27 and 54 respectively. I assume they are TMs. "Return and False Swipe TMs."
"Return is number 27. The friendlier the Pokemon is, the more damage it will do! And False Swipe never faints a Pokemon! Useful when catching Pokemon!" Sina briefly explains what they do. I open my TM case and place them in their respective spots, then closing it again.

"Well, we need to go get the next badge anyway. Do you think we'll meet up again?" Serena asks.
"Who knows? The path of fate is often paved by us, but sometimes a second party steps in to guide us..." Dexio replies.
"Stop being mysterious! Let's go Dexio!" Sina grabs his arm and runs inside.

"Alright... What were we doing again?" I ask, I blanked out due to the conversation.
"The second gym badge... First hurdle there is Route 5! Let's go!" Calm grabs my arm and pulls me along, happily laughing. I run along with him to avoid ruining my only pair of good shoes.
"WAIT UP!" Serena runs after us.

"Luca!"
"WAH!"
"WHAT THE?!"

I have no idea why we suddenly collided with something.
"Hey!"

I hear a feminine voice, but it does not belong to Serena.

"Would you mind getting off my Lucario?"

I look up. A girl in Roller-skating attire with a white and red colour theme. Her blonde hair is tied up in a huge ponytail that sticks out of the back of her helmet.
"Ah! Yes! Sorry!" I nervously stand up and pull Calem off the Lucario. Good thing it doesn't look injured. It gets up, unfazed about what just happened.

"Wait, you're Korrina... Gym leader of Shalour City, right?!" Calm seems to be getting all excited.
Koran does a quick twirl and kicks her leg high into the air, as well as posing her arms. "That's me!" She quickly resorts back to standing normally. "I was just out here training with my Lucarios, one ran off and collided with you two! I don't know why..."
"Hm... I have a Riolu of my own. Could that be it?" Calem suggests.
"Yeah, that was probably it." Korrina chuckles a little. "Well, sorry about that! I'd best be going now. I guess I'll see you all later... Oh, and watch out for this Buneary that's been running around this route. No one knows how it got here but it likes causing trouble. Bye now!" Korrina skates off into the distance, the Lucario lingering for a little before it decides to chase after its trainer.

"Buneary? They aren't native to Kalos..." Serena says, walking up to us. She must have overheard the conversation.
"You think it belongs to someone?" Calem asks.
"If that was the case, you think they'd have claimed them by now..." I comment.
"Well, I guess we won't have trouble if we just avoid it..." Serena chuckles, then making her way through the route. "Kya!" She suddenly trips over a brown blur.

"What was that?!" I cling to Calem out of fear. Calem doesn't look too amused, but he seems fine with it.

The brown blur then zooms up to Serena... It's that Buneary! It grabs some things from her bag and runs off with them.

Serena gets up and quickly inspects her back. "My berries! My Holo Caster! ..."
Her face now has a look of hatred while looking horrified. "MY NOTEBOOK! GET BACK HERE YOU THIEVING RABBIT!" Serena sprints off after the Buneary.

"Guess we have to follow..." I let go of Calem and run after Serena, and Calem quickly runs past me.