AN: This is a Post edit of the first chapter, I will be doing more to fix some grammar issues I have missed, but do enjoy.
"So Today's the big day, you're moving to the Valian Region aren't you Lyon?" Candice asked as she turned and looked towards the short white-haired kid, his favourite black cap covering part of his left eye.
"Ya, mom's already there I guess she had to be there sooner or later since dad is a gym leader. When I get there, I can't wait to beat dad's gym and show him what kinda journey I have been on so far, of course, he never told me what gym he was running. The only Pokemon he left, was the poke ball he left with you when I was 7, was it meant to be my partner Pokemon?" Lyon asked as he looked around at Candice's Pokemon all standing around them, her new ace Frosslass gently floating above them as they stood around the ball in the living-room of her house in Snowpoint City.
"That's right? Daren wanted me to give you this Pokemon when you turned 10 and began your journey over there in Valian, now before you take the Pokemon, take these first." Candice smiled as she pulled a small black device from her pocket, as well as a small silver box. "First It's your very own Pokedex, Professor Rowan wanted to make sure you got one, the other is from me, but I want you to open it after you see what Pokemon your father left you."
Picking up the Pokeball, Lyon smiled before tossing it up in the air, as the Pokemon was released the shine faded revealing a small Snorunt, falling into his arms Lyon smiled, the cold Snow Pokemon made his arms chill with goosebumps. "Neat a Snorunt, dad has a Glalie, it was my favourite when I was a kid, we always played together" Lyon said looking over at the silver box, shuffling Snorunt into a 1 armed hold he opened the box revealing a small gem-like stone, the gem had light blue colour to it, a yellow spot in the middle.
"Wow, it's a Dawn stone, wait isn't this used?" Lyon asked and Candice smiled and she nodded.
"Yup, when I first saw your Snorunt, I found out that your new Snorunt is a female from the way she acted around my Glalie when they first met. A dawn stone can only be used on female Snorunt to evolve them into Frosslass, so that mean's when you're ready, you have a decision to make."
"Thanks Candice, your Frosslass has grown to been a new favourite of mine ever since I had to come and live with you, and dad's Glalie was my favourite Pokemon to play with as a kid you could say I fell in love with Snorunt. It's no wonder dad chose this Snorunt to be my starter" Lyon said before returning Snorunt to it's pokeball holding it in his hand. I'm gonna go finish packing up my things before the boat leaves." Lyon said hugging Candice before heading to the guest room.
After 20 minutes Lyon had put his favourite black cap back on before looking over in the mirror on the desk he used to study Pokemon. He sported his favourite pair of acid-washed black jeans, a pair of black sports shoes with red and white laces, his black and grey plaid button up t-shirt over top a white tank top, a silver pendant his mother left him around his neck in the shape of a Pokeball. Picking up Snorunt's Pokeball he attacked it to a holder inside his plaid shirt under his breast pocket, however, the ball suddenly started to shake and Snorunt suddenly came out.
"Hey, Snorunt I didn't call you out, what do you wanna stretch your legs for a bit? I get it you have probably been waiting for me as long as I have been waiting to meet you." Lyon said and he put Snorunt on his shoulders grabbing his favourite hat, over shoulder bag as well as a jacket. looking back in the mirror he smiled "Well Snorunt, let's go see this Valian Region, I bet mom would love to meet you" Snorunt just cried out happily as Lyon ran for the front door waving goodbye once again to Candice who waited for him outside her house in Snowpoint City down near the docks.
"Bye Candice, I'll come back once I'm a powerful trainer and we can have a battle." Lyon shouted back at her as he walked towards the large boat where a few other trainers where waiting, as he approached he saw so many Pokemon out of their poke balls, walking up to a older man Lyon asked, "Umm shouldn't the Pokemon be in their balls? Won't the captain be worried about a fight?
"Oh you must be a new trainer aren't you, I can tell from those clothes, not a speck of dirt or tear clearly your a new trainer, or you've never gone on a journey. So let me explain about the Pokemon. The old man turned to face Lyon, the man's deep black suit covered in a bit of snowfall. "Well, a lot of ships actually hold tournaments to keep the guests entertained, hell I once fought a captain of a cruise ship, man.." The older man started to mumble to himself, Lyon just smiled looking over his shoulder at Snorunt.
"Guess that means you can stay out and enjoy the ship with me Snorunt, come on let's go." Lyon started to push his way past a few guests as he approached the captain, beside him stood a Luxray, its black and yellow fur sparking with electricity. Scanning the Pokemon with his new Pokedex he noticed the colour of the Pokemon was different on his screen than the Pokemon in front of him. Going to ask he stopped as he felt Snorunt tap him on the head shrugging he just walked up to the Captain.
"Hello is this the ship to Valian?" Lyon asked, the captain just smiled and nodded.
"Indeed, you must be a new trainer aren't you, I can tell by your clothes, brand new clothes are a clear sign of a new journey."
"Ya, I am, your the second person to mention that" Lyon said as another boy walked up, his short brown hair, slightly longer in the back walked up to Lyon a Piplup following up behind him.
"that makes two of us, hi I'm Drake," He said before pointing to the Piplup beside him, "And this is Piplup my buddy we're on our way to Valian to begin our journey together." Turning to look at the boy, Lyon smiled.
"I'm Lyon, but I guess you already heard that part, I'm actually moving to Valian, my dad got a position as a gym leader, though he never said what type of Pokemon he would use... He mentioned, he would use this chance to gather new Pokemon of his own."
"Sounds like your dad's being a kid again like when he was in our shoes." Drake said as the two boys started to walk up the platform towards the deck of the ship, laughing at the remark.
"Ya I guess you could say that, but dad's Glalie..man I can't wait to see it again."
"Oh, so your dad was an ice type trainer? That explains the Snorunt, runs in the family." Lyon suddenly stopped at the realization Drake had mentioned. Reaching behind his head he picked up Snorunt looking at it and smiling, Snorunt just kicked its small legs with glee.
"just like dad..." He muttered before rushing up a bit to catch up with Drake as the two boys reached the deck. "So Drake, where do you come from?" Lyon asked as he sat up against a railing watching Snorunt play with Piplup in the distance.
"I'm from the big city, Eterna City here in Sinnoh, but you said your moving to Valian Lyon? So that means your not sure exactly where you live?" Drake remarked and Lyon shook his head.
"Not true, I know I live in the first town past the port, dad had a fun idea of starting my journey from the boat so that's all he told me." Lyon smiled chuckling a bit. "It's so like dad too, he would always find fun ways to teach me stuff ever since i was 4, but when i turned 7 he had to go there so my mom went with him, I lived here in Snowpoint since then. With the Gym Leader Candice," Lyon explained as a large number of Pokemon were released from their balls before Lyon's eyes, many taking to the water, others taking to the skies as the ship started to pull away from the docks, Lyon and Drake standing up watched a few Gyarados jumps out of the water. "Wow those are Gyarados," Lyon said grabbing the Pokedex from his inside breast pocket before flipping up the screen as it scanned the Pokemon, however, the data wasn't added. "Huh..what happened, it's suppose to show it's info right?" Lyon muttered to himself as he turned to look over at Drake.
"It's a new system, there are a lot of the Pokemon in this world that have already been studied so they locked off the data to those you catch, it's a way to Keep track of your personal growth, of all the Pokemon we catch and learn more about by being with them. filling those pages and learning more about Pokemon on our journey, that's why I'm going." Drake said.
Looking down at the dex, it indeed said more info was locked off until Lyon caught a Gyarados himself, putting the dex away Lyon slumped back down against the railing he pulled out the small box that Candice gave him pulling out the Dawn Stone. 'What am I going to do with this, let alone when. I could follow dad and evolve Snorunt into a Glalie, or... I could evolve it into a Frosslass, this is going to be hard to choose, or maybe I won't evolve Snorunt.
As Lyon thought hard, the dawn stone twisting in his fingers he looks over at Drake for a moment who was going over his stuff when someone shouted. "Hey did you hear, there's a Pokemon battle going on in the arena," Lyon and Drake both looked at each other before nodding, the two of them putting their stuff away and gathering their Pokemon the two of them raced off to the arena located on the back of the ship following the growing crowd. As they approached their path was blocked by a boy and a floating sword Pokemon, the Pokemon poking at him with its blade and laughing.
"Come on honedge, this is no time to play, we're in the tournament now so we gotta focus."
"Wait, you entered a tournament?" Lyon said causing the boy to jump and turn to see Lyon and Drake, the boy smiled.
"Ya the ship tournament, you don't know? This ship is holding a tournament to help keep the guests and even the trainers on the ship entertained, everyone loves watching Pokemon battles so it's just loads of fun, are you guys going to enter? Oh I'm sorry, I'm Maverick, this is honedge, my Pokemon." Maverick said, his honedge wrapping its ribbon around Snorunt before suddenly spinning Snorunt in place. "Honedge, come on stop that, sorry, honedge is a bit of a handful. Recalling Honedge Maverick looked at Drake and Lyon, so are you guys going to put them back in their balls, I never leave Honedge out of its ball for long, since it's a troublemaker.
"No, The last time I tried that Piplup refused to listen to me when we tried catching a Pokemon before coming on the ship, seems it refuses it's Pokeball." Drake said, Lyon just shrugged,
"I never thought about it, I never been on a ship like this before so I thought it would be nice for Snorunt to enjoy the trip alongside me.
"Oh, that makes sense.." Maverick said. "But are you guys going to register for the tournament?
"Oh I definitely will, I just began my journey so I wanna see how I do in my first battle. Both Drake and Maverick looked at Lyon stunned, looking back Lyon was confused.
"You never battled with Snorunt before? Have you checked what moves it knows?Drake asked Lyon just shook his head. "well you should check, scan its Pokeball and find out. Lyon nodded as he returned Snorunt to its Pokeball, scanning it, his Snorunt's data added to the dex as well as seeing its moves on a display.
"Says my Snorunt knows, Leer, Astonish, and Powder Snow." that's not bad, right? Lyon asked and Drake nodded.
"That's better than Piplup, it only knows pound and growl." Drake remarked. "But Maverick, where is the registration for the tournament didn't it start already? Drake asked, but Maverick shook his head.
"Not yet, their setting up a bracket system for tonight, as well as having an Open invitation fight right now in the arena, so you two better hurry. " he said, Lyon and Drake nodded in agreement.
"Well I hope to battle you Maverick, I wanna see how strong that Honedge of yours is." Lyon said, Maverick just nodded. "Ya, well I'll see you two in the tournament, It's was nice meeting ya, maybe we will see each other later," he said as he left Drake looked over at Lyon. "I'm going to go find registration, then I'm gonna go find my cabin, maybe I'll see you later.
"ya sure, nice meeting ya Drake." Lyon replied as the two of them parted ways, Lyon smiled to himself before pulling out his Own Cabin card looking at the number and looking for his room, calling Snorunt from its ball again. Walking through the Ships Halls Snorunt followed behind Lyon, Stopping suddenly shaking. "Snorunt what's wrong? You look scared? What's wrong?" Kneeling Lyon looked over his New Pokemon, hand reaching into his bag only to find a small Candle Pokemon on his bag, the blue flame on its back flicking.
"Your Snorunt is scared because it knows fire is its weakness, and it should always know that fear." A girl's voice could be heard hands reaching for the small Candle holding it to her chest. "My Litwick is a Fire Type a bad matchup for your ice Type." Hearing the remark Snorunt suddenly let out an Icy Wind towards the girl and her Pokemon. As the icy wind flew towards the girl, her Litwick only made the flame on its head grow bigger the hot air causing the icy wind to quickly fade.
"Snorunt no, don't attack someone like that." Lyon grabbed his Snorunt holding it to his chest suddenly Snorunt let out a Loud Cry, the deep red sound waves caused the girl's Litwick to suddenly recoil in fear. Lyon covered Snorunt's mouth. "No Snorunt, stop this right now." Returning Snorunt to its Poke ball Lyon just hid his head. "I'm sorry, Snorunt shouldn't have done that.
"No it shouldn't have, that was Astonish wasn't it, That move...it bothers my Litwick so you should apologize. My Litwick didn't do anything wrong, your Snorunt started it.
"Snorunt didn't start that, you hurt Snorunt with that weakness remark, I'll have you know I've seen many Ice Types beat that weakness in Candice's Gym." Lyon said lifting his hat. "And I'm sure Snorunt thinks the same, that's why it attacked."
"Wait Candice? The Snowpoint City Gym leader Candice? You can't tell me you got to watch her matches with other trainers." The girl asked, her face sceptical as her Litwick jumped out of her arms and landed on her bag as it hung to her side looking up at Lyon.
"Ya, I stayed with her for a few years so after a few months I asked if I could watch since I knew I was gonna be a trainer one day. Candice said it was fine, and I got to watch her defend her Gym Badge against many fire and rock types with so many different strategies." As Lyon spoke he couldn't help but blush a bit before shaking his hair out before putting his hat back on. "My point is, my name is Lyon and Snorunt and me, we won't be scared of your fire-Type or any Pokemon." Looking at him she scuffed at his words but smirked.
"Name is Andrea, and if we ever see each other, than you better fight hard." Andrea puffed out her chest before walking past Lyon turning into a nearby cabin, watching her Lyon just smiled.
"Guess that must be her cabin, man that girl was hard to read, but seems like she's alright just loves to fight I guess." Looking at his own cabin card he looked towards the stairs then back to his card. "Seems I'm on the second floor, no wonder I was lost." Heading up the stairs he let Snorunt out as it blew cold wind in his face, in clear anger before jumping around, legs kicking. "Hey come on Snorunt stop it, you almost started a fight that we had no business even being in, you gotta calm down." Grabbing his Snorunt Lyon sighed before putting his hat on its head. "There, I'm sorry now come on let's go see the cabin then go sign up for the tournament." Walking through the hall Lyon looked at the many Pokemon and their trainers until he finally found it. Opening the door Lyon hung his bag on the back of a chair, Snorunt jumping on the bed. "is it comfy Snorunt?" walking over Lyon flopped back onto the bed feeling the soft comforter on his neck he sighed. "Well there's no going back now I'm heading to Valian, I wonder if Mom will ever get a Pokemon of her own, she was happy with me around but if I'm going on a journey, and dad's a Gym leader, she's probably going to get sad," Sitting up Lyon remembered the ship had a phone system grabbing his Keycard as well as Snorunt before using the Cabin's Videophone to call his mom in Valian. "
As the screen Lit up Lyon smiled at his mom, her black hair tied back in a ponytail, the pair of black suspenders she wore when she did yard work covered in dirt.
"Oh hey Lyon, Where are you calling from? Your not still at Candice's house are you, you should have left for the Ship by 10?" She immediate asked, Lyon just chuckled.
"No mom, I'm in my cabin right now," Lifting Snorunt it cried out happily. "This is Snorunt, it was the Pokemon dad left for me here." Snorunt smiled before jumping out of his arms and starts to jump on the bed again. "Snorunt come on stop don't."
"Seems like it has a lot of energy, just like you when you were that small, I can't wait to see Snorunt in person, the ship will take a few days to get here so have plenty of time to get to know your new Pokemon."
"Ya, by the way, mom, were you just doing yard work? Where's dad?"7
"He's outside with Glalie, it's going to be staying with me while he is at the Gym for least a few days so his new Pokemon can shine," Hearing his mom mentions the new Pokemon Lyon smirked.
"What new Pokemon what did dad catch?" Lyon asked but his mom just laughed putting her finger to her lip.
"I can't tell you that, if he found out I told you he would be upset with me for ruining the surprise." She said and Lyon nodded in agreement.
"Ya that makes sense, but least tell dad I'm on my way, oh and give Glalie a hug for me will ya," Lyon's mom just smiled nodding.
"Sure sweetie, now i need to get back to working on the yard, some wild Pokemon trampled some flowers near the house so we're putting in a small fence to keep them out, you're going to love the house," As her hand went to hang up Lyon shouted.
"Wait mom, I wanted to say something." Lyon said, his mom stopping suddenly. "Why not get a Pokemon of your own, since dad's gonna be at the gym a lot and I'm going on a journey, It can help keep you company instead of being all alone in the house.
"That's not a bad idea Lyon, I'm sure Daren can help me catch something cute and playful like your Snorunt.
"Laylia what's taking so long didn't just come in the get a drink?" A male voice could be heard in the background, the voice getting louder,"
"Sorry dear, Lyon called to say he's on his way and we got to talking," Laylia said as Lyon's dad came into view, his Glalie behind him.
"Lyon why didn't you mention he called." Daren said before poking his head into the video feed. "Hey son, how's Snorunt? Candice made sure you were properly packed for a journey?"
"Ya dad, and thanks for the Snorunt, I'll show how good I can be when I bet your gym," Lyon said, his fist clenching with excitement.
"That's the spirit Lyon, aim for the top and never back down from a challenge son, a Pokemon battle is a learning experience win or lose,"
"I'll remember that, bye dad, mom I'll call you tomorrow I want to go sign up for the Ships tournament,." Lyon waved goodbye before hanging up, his parents waving back. As the screen faded black Lyon caught the glimpse of something grey moving in the air. "Wait there was another Pokemon in the background, it was floating, or flying. Wonder what it was," Lyon shrugged before looking over at Snorunt standing on the bed, the comforter ruined.
"Snorunt come on... we will fix this later right now we gotta go sign up for that tournament, but I want you in your ball this time," Lyon said as he reached for Snorunt's ball before being blasted with the cold wind. "Snorunt stops that, you gotta listen to me, I just want to make sure we don't get distracted. I promise you can come out once we're there," he said as he covered his face to try and block out the cold before it stopped. "Thank you Snorunt," Recalling Snorunt to its ball he grabbed his Trainer ID from his bag, and Keycard before running out the door. Heading towards the front of the ship Lyon quickly looked around for a Crew member thinking that they're the ones to help him find his way to the Sign-up. Spotting a few he walked up, a bit out of breath, looking up he just asked, "Which way to the tournament sign-up I'm a new trainer and want to compete. The two looked down at Lyon the short-haired blonde spoke.
"Oh your a new trainer, where are you from? The sign-up is at the arena, there's actually something before the tournament no trainer should miss."
"I'm actually moving to Valian, where is the arena and what is going on before?" Turning the long-haired guy, the girl spoke her hand on her tip pointing back the way Lyon came.
"You went the wrong way than, it's back the way you came and up the stairs, you should see the signs and you can go from there. Come on Alistair the Captain needs us at the Helm while he's at the Sign-up, plus Steven is missing at the worst time,"
"Ya I know Katie but relax you're only gonna get grey hairs." Alistair said before the two rushed off Lyon turned around sighing running back down the hall towards the stairs stopping to take a breathe walking up noticing the arrow on the top.
"There it is like that women Katie said, should be easier now," following the arrows for a bit he finally found the large archway heading through he had to move his hat a bit realizing it's the back of the ship. Lyon let Snorunt out picking up his Pokemon. "There see? Just like I said before walking over to the desk, a bunch of trainers gathered around, noticing the girl Andrea and her Litwick as well as Drake. "Hey, Drake you haven't signed up either?"
Turning Drake waved, his Piplup poking its head out of his bag. "Hey Lyon no we spent a lot of time sight seeing, you?"
"I called my mom in Valian and my dad was actually home so got to talk with him too, also saw his Glalie and I think dad's new Pokemon course I didn't get a good look since the screen was fading." Lyon shrugged as he walked up. After waiting for a bit Lyon put Snorunt on his shoulders as he pulled out his Trainer ID. "Hey I'm Lyon."
"Hey there Lyon let me ask you, how many badges do you have, we try to bracket the trainers into classes to make sure everyone has the most fun." Said the crewmen, his light blue hair slicked back a bit. His fingers tapping a pen on the clipboard.
"Well none actually, I'm moving to Valian." Lyon answered reaching up for his Pokemon. "This is my first Pokemon Snorunt."
"Oh so you're in our Trainee class, if that's the case then allow me to give you this." He jumped up smiling as he reached into a box behind him, a small Silver and Red box. "This is a badge case, we've been given these to give to any new trainers we have on this ship. This was to be given to you when you got off the ship, but since you're here I will give you this now.
Taking the case Lyon flipped it open seeing small indents in deep red felt each one in the shape of a badge. "Thanks, I was wondering how I got one, didn't know if I have to register for the League also," Lyon said rubbing the back of his neck a bit with embarrassment.
"Oh yes you still do, once we land you just have to go to a Pokemon Centre and talk to Nurse Joy, she's the one with the pink hair, you wont miss her." He explained as Lyon wrote his name down on the paper under his title class, also noticing three other names.
"Thanks for the info, dad never told me that part, figures."
"Your father didn't tell you that info? That's a bit rude if I may be honest. Lyon just shook his head with a smile.
"Not really my dad enjoys teaching me things with a more hands-on feel, so this is just like him. The man relaxed as he just rubbed his neck chuckling.
"Well then that is relief on these sailors, enjoy your cruise, The tournament is after dinner so you will have plenty of energy.
"Thanks." Lyon said before heading over to Drake noticing he stood with his Piplup against the rail. "Hey, you waited for me?" Drake turned and shrugged looking up at Snorunt on Lyon's shoulders. Ya, well figured since Piplup and Snorunt seemed to get along, figure it be good to least have some company on this ship. Lyon smiled nodding in agreement.
"Makes sense, you're more experienced as a trainer than I am,could get some pointers from ya when we battle in the Tournament."
"If we battle in the tournament, we may both be Trainee's but as you said I got a bit more experience so you gotta reach me if we don't fight early," Drake said lifting his arm bent at the knee. Lyon smiled wider as he crossed his arms with Drake's Snorunt jumping in between their arms. "Seems Snorunt agrees with us."
"Yup, Drake, you just crossed with a new trainer with a dream of beating his old man in a Pokemon battle, so you better watch out," Taking away his arm, he held Snorunt to his chest before the two of them walked off towards the upper deck.