The red haired boy ran through the woods, a black weasel following him, bouncing off the trees -sneasel. A burst of flames blasted a tree to his left, he rolled away and turned around, "Chill, Ice Shard"

The weasel turned around, ice littering it's claws. It flung it's claws in an 'X' shape and sent a flurry of ice shards towards the origin of the flames. The two heard a cry of pain and smirked as they continued to run.

"Chill, use Icy Wind!" The sneasel turned around and took a breath, exhaling a wave of ice, freezing the trees and ground ahead of him, "Good job, come back to your pokeball for now" He took a pokeball out and shot a red beam at his partner, returning him to the ball.

He rolled under a blast of fire and got his foot stuck on a root.

"Got you now, Silver." A man in a black uniform with a large red 'R' stood above him, a medium sized orange dog next to him -Growlithe- with fire licking it's lips, "You're coming with me"

"TOXIA NOW!" The red head- Silver- cried out, a small purple bat slammed its wings into the man's head, knocking him down, "Poison Fang on the Growlithe!" The zubat spun around, its teeth glowing purple, it flew and latched its teeth into Growlithe's neck, "Now Supersonic!" The bat let go and released a supersonic wave, causing the canine to howl out in pain. The bat was returned to it's pokeball and Silver took off running once more.

Silver managed to get about 100 yards further before dodging a ball of poison, 'Shit, they have a poison type' Silver growled to himself as he jumped over the pool of acid that was in front of him, he kept running, dodging globs of poison every once in awhile.

Silver looked back when the poison stopped coming, only to bump into a man with purple hair, wearing a black shirt with a large red 'R' on it, along with a gold stripe on either side of it.

"Petrel…" Silver paled, Petrel, one of Team Rocket's executive members.

"Silver, you're needed for our plans, you know that." Petrel smirked, a purple ball-shaped pokemon that was spewing toxic gas appeared near the executive, "Koffing, you've done your job." The poison type was sucked in by a red light and clipped back onto Petrel's belt, "Come on out Parasect!" He released a large, orange crab with a giant mushroom on it's back, "Use Spore" The crab clicked it's claws and shook its mushroom, small yellow spores covering Silver and causing the young teen to faint.

A young girl with blonde hair and a black jacket stood at a pier, beside her was a small black fox with a red tip in it's hair -Zorua, "You ready Ren?" She looked at her partner, "To Johto we go."

The fox flipped and smiled.

"Yea, I'm excited too" The girl smirked, "Watch out Johto, Emma and Ren are gonna take you by storm!" Emma punched the air above her head. Ren yipped loudly.

Ethan walked into Elm's lab, spotting Travis, a thirteen year old with sandy blond hair and a tan jacket along with a pair of jeans.

Beside Travis was a small yellow and black shrew with a yellow underbelly and a yellow stripe from the tip of his snout to the base of his skull -Cyndaquil- though it was from a family raised in forests as opposed to prairies like most of it's line, meaning that it's defenses were slightly lower but it was faster and had more powerful flames.

"Ethan you're back" Elm waved.

"Oh, Ethan." Travis looked at his longtime friend, then to Sobek, "So that's Cyr and Quana's child" He walked up and began pacing around Sobek, causing the small pokemon to grip onto Ethan's leg.

"It's alright buddy, he's just checking you out" Ethan patted his pokemon's head. Sobek hesitantly let go of Ethan and then got a glimpse of the Cyndaquil and snarled. The Cyndaquil also gave Sobek a dirty look, the flames on it's back erupting instantly.

"Sobek calm" Ethan looked at his partner, it was moments like this that he needed a pokeball.

"Cynder, watch the flames," Travis said, pulling his pokeball out and giving it a wiggle, "or it's into the ball you go"

Sobek growled once more and Cynder held it's snout back, a trail of white smoke coming from it's nostrils.

Travis returned Cynder before it could release it's attack.

"Sorry about that," Ethan said, his hand on Sobek's head, "I don't have a ball for him yet"

"Don't worry about it," Travis smirked, "Our pokemon are rivals, I think that's pretty cool"

"Yea I guess it is." Ethan said, he then turned to Elm "Lyra's packing right now, she's got a marill so she said that she won't need your second pokemon"

Elm seemed to frown at that, but grabbed an empty pokeball, "Here Ethan catch Sobek in this" He threw the ball and the black haired teen caught it, touching it to Sobek's head.

He waited until the ding and red light before picking it up and releasing Sobek once more. Travis also released Cynder and the two pokemon glared at each other.

"Thanks for the pokeball professor," Ethan said, "I'm gonna go tell my parents that Lyra and Travis are coming with me and pack." He then turned to Travis, "Meet in front of the lab in an hour?"

"Sounds good." Travis smirked, "Until then I'm gonna train with Cynder for a bit." He looked at the small shrew-like pokemon and smiled, "Let's go buddy" A small burst of flames popped up from it's back. The two ran off towards the league-labelled Route 29.

Elm sighed, "So headstrong"

Ethan ran out of the lab and to his house. As he neared he saw a fearow rider carrying a mailbag. He watched as the bird swooped down, slowing long enough for the rider to drop something into his mailbox then drop off a similar package at Lyra's house.

Ethan rushed to grab the package from the mail, ripping his letter open to reveal a small, flat machine. Ethan took out his Pokegear and hit a button, simultaneously hitting a button on the card to link the two. A picture of Ethan appeared on the card in the corner. His age and birthday appeared as well. There were eight slots at the bottom, all with different shapes.

Ethan put the card in his jacket and ran inside.

"Mom! Dad! I'm going to pack my bag!" Ethan yelled, bounding up the stairs and pushing his door open and running upstairs.

About forty-five minutes later Ethan ran down the stairs with his bag on his shoulders.

His parents each had something for him, his mother had a bag of pokefood and his father had a case of pokeballs.

"We decided that since you're going on a journey you could use some stuff, the food is for Sobek, if you start running low or are going to be away from civilization for a long time then give us a call and we'll transfer some to you." His mother said, putting the food into a storage capsule and tossing it to him.

"And these are just to get you started." His dad gave him five empty pokeballs and ten potion bottles, "Hopefully they'll be enough."

"Tanks mom, dad." Ethan smiled and hugged them both, "I'll be safe I promise. Love you!" He ran out the door, Sobek waddling after him.

Ethan ran straight to the front of the lab, where Travis was already waiting for him with a tired looking Cynder at his heels.

Lyra caught up to Ethan with her Marill, Larima, at her side.

"Ready?" She asked.

Ethan smiled, "Hell ya."

Travis started walking to meet them, "You guys ready to get going?"

Both nodded and the group turned towards Route 29.

Ethan stepped forwards, Sobek at his side, "Let's get going." The group began the trek towards Cherrygrove City, which would be nearly a week long.

LINEBREAK

The first day passed by relatively quickly, the group met no resistance in the form of wild pokemon, though they had seen a few sentret and rattata pop their heads out.

"I wish the wild pokemon weren't so scared of Sobek, I'd love to try and battle one." Ethan groaned.

"I'll battle you." Travis smirked, "Cynder and I spent the last week training so we should be able to overcome the type disadvantage we've got."

"Sure, I guess I'll take you on." Ethan said, walking opposite Travis about a dozen meters, "Ready Sobek?" The totodile snapped his large jaws in response.

"Cynder, we'll show them who's best!" Travis called out as Cynder jumped up and landed in front of his trainer.

Lyra decided to judge, "This is a match between Ethan and Travis, Sobek versus Cynder! BEGIN!" She said with a giggle.

"Cynder use Ember!" Travis called out. Cynder jumped into the air and tilted his head back, white smoke coming from his nose. As he shot his head forwards he released a flurry of red-hot flames towards Sobek.

"Sobek, Water Gun! Get close and use Bite!" Ethan shouted. Sobek fired a jet of water from his mouth and ran forwards, opening his mouth as he neared Cynder.

"Don't hurt him too badly!" Ethan shouted, realising that Sobek needing to be told to be careful.

Sobek complied as he bit down on Cynder, leaving only shallow wounds as he jumped back, avoiding an ember attack.

"Cynder, use Rollout!" Travis shouted. Cynder rolled into a ball and started towards Sobek, who grabbed Cynder and hefted him up, throwing him away.

"Good job Sobek!" Ethan called out, recognising the attack Sobek had used, Rage. It was one of the feraligatr line's signature moves that let it get stronger as the battle went on, "Keep it up!"

Sobek nodded and ran towards Cynder, punching the cyndaquil in the snout but taking a powerful Ember to the face as a result.

"Cynder use Smokescreen, hide and wait until you've got a clear shot then use Ember!"

"Sobek, wait for the Ember then rush in and use Bite!"

It was a standstill, Cynder was waiting in the smoke for Sobek to let his guard down while Sobek was waiting for Cynder to attack.

Ethan was thinking of a new strategy when Travis called out his next move.

"Smokescreen again! Cover the entire area!" Cynder complied, the small embers on it's back lighting up the smoke slightly as it inhaled.

"SOBEK WATER GUN!" Ethan shouted. Sobek fired a jet of water towards the embers, hitting Cynder and sending the small pokemon out of the smoke and onto it's back outside the arena.

"Cynder!" Travis ran over to his partner.

"Ethan wins!" Lyra announced.

Ethan and Sobek jumped in the air, celebrating while Travis gave Cynder a potion.

Ethan went over to Travis and extended a hand, "Nice match." He smiled.

Travis returned the grin and took Ethan's hand, "You too."

Sorry everyone. I know it's been like half a year. A lot of shit's been going on in my family and personal life so I really haven't been able to write at all. This chapter was planned to be bigger but I felt like getting it out before Halloween, which will hopefully be the next chapter as well. I promise that unless something major happens updates will be at least 3 a month from now until the end of the story.

There's a new poll on my profile for those of you who are interested in having a say in the story, it's for Lyra's second pokemon which I've decided will be a Grass-type. They're a bunch of choices there so go take a look.

Anyways hope you liked it, if you did leave a review, it'll make my day.