Emma was on the boat from Unova to Johto. She would arrive Olivine City port and from there buy a Teleport to Cherrygrove. She was standing on bow of the ship, with Ren -her Zorua- on the ground beside her, working on its Illusion ability. It morphed into a pink hippo -Slowpoke- then into an orange puppy with black stripes and a white mane -Growlithe.
"Good job Ren, work on a Machop next ok!" Emma said excitedly when a sailor came up to her.
"Excuse me Ms. Cadbury, we'll be docking soon you should go to your room and pack your things." He said before walking off.
Emma nodded and ran to her room, Ren hot on her heels. She quickly packed her things -which were thrown all around the room- and made her bed.
"Alrighty Ren, we're in Johto now." Emma had a toothy grin, "Time to complete the Johto league!" Ren yipped, back flipping a few times.
The two left the boat, walking onto a pier in a large city bordering a beach. There were many fish pokemon swimming around happily. Emma noticed a few Buizel playing around with children while a Floatzel watched. She even saw a Gyarados in the distance, diving down on a smaller Water type, though she couldn't see what it was.
"WOAH" Emma squealed as she looked around, "It's amazing!" Ren yipped in agreement. The two explored the city for a while, before going to the pokecenter and up to the counter.
"Excuse me, is there anywhere I can buy a teleport in this city?" Emma asked the nurse.
"Oh, yes up on the roof we have a psychic who specialises in teleports, he's pretty pricey though." Nurse Joy responded.
"Thank you! Emma said, running off to the stairs, going up to the roof and looking around. She saw a man in the corner, a Kadabra floating beside him, lazily bending its spoon.
"Excuse me, are you the psychic who offers teleports?" Emma asked.
The man didn't bother looking up, "Yup, I can take you anywhere for $1000." he said.
Emma fished out her Trainer Card, "Here ya go." she said. The man took out his own card and they tapped, transferring her funds to him, "I'd like to go to Cherrygrove city please."
The man groaned, "Ok" And in a flash there were standing on the roof of a pokecenter in a wooded area.
"Wow, that was awesome." Emma turned to the man, but he was gone. "I couldn't even say thank you."
Emma looked around the city, looking in the direction of New Bark and noticed two trainers battling at the entrance to the city.
-Fifteen Minutes Earlier-
Ethan and Lyra arrived at the Cherrygrove City pokecenter and sat down to wait for Travis.
They didn't have to wait long however, as their blond friend rushed inside and turned to them.
"Someone stole a pokemon from my dad!" Travis shouted, "Apparently he was last seen on his way here!"
Ethan and Lyra jumped up, rushing out of the pokecenter and back towards New Bark Town.
"What kind of pokemon was it Travis?" Lyra asked.
"It was a Chikorita, apparently it was born in Hoenn." Travis said, "Has a couple special moves. Apparently she's pretty tough. Name is Flora." he blurted out, "Dad was gonna give her to Lyra but she got Larima before he could."
"I still would've taken her." Lyra huffed.
"Well that wouldn't have been fair." Ethan joked, "But I guess we can ask Prof. Elm if you can have her once we get Chikorita back."
"I'm sure dad wouldn't mind." Travis said, "He has Kiros for protection, and he's much more useful than a Chikorita that hasn't been trained. Plus Flora was there for one of us anyways."
Ethan nodded, "I'm okay with Sobek, Terminus, and Karl for now."
Travis looked puzzled, "Who's Karl?"
"Oh Ethan caught two Bellsprout." Lyra said, "Karl is the male, he was gonna give you a female, she's a bit bigger and her name is Spring."
Travis shook his head, "No I already have a plan for a Grass type, I'm going for a Jumpluff."
Ethan nodded, "I guess that works, unorthodox but that's what I expect from you."
Travis just smirked, looking at Ethan and bumping into a red haired boy. They both fell to the ground.
"Sorry." Travis rubbed his head as he stood up.
The red head stood up, glaring daggers at Travis, "Move. You're in my way."
"Hey, that's not polite!" Lyra shouted.
The red head turned to her, "Shut it. I don't have to listen to you."
"Hey, don't talk to Lyra that way!" Ethan shouted, pulling out a pokeball and releasing Sobek, who glared at the newcomer with distaste, "Who do you think you are anyways?"
"You think that's a pokemon?" the red head mocked, "This is a real pokemon." he released a black weasel with a red feather on its ear. It sharpened its claws and hissed at Sobek.
"Sobek, activate Rage, Water Gun!" Ethan shouted.
"Chill, dodge, then Hone Claws." the red haired said calmly. "Then Slash."
"Sobek, Work Up then wait for him to get close and Aqua Jet!" Chill scratched his claws together, causing them to shimmer as he dodged the blast of water. He then charged at Sobek, who's eyes glowed red as he buffed up slightly. Once the Sneasel was close enough Sobek wrapped himself in water and slammed hard into the weasel, sending it flying.
"Sobek, Water Gun while it's down!"
"Chill, dodge and use Icy Wind."
Sobek blasted a trench in the ground where Chill was moments before, and was hit by a wave of cold which left frost all over him.
"Sobek, Full Rage! Get in close and take him out!" Ethan shouted. A golden shimmer appeared in both their eyes as Sobek roared, growing slightly as his veins popped, "Now use Dragon Claw!" Sobek rushed forwards, his claws covered by green draconic energy. He slashed at the Sneasel, leaving deep cuts on its chest.
"Chill return." the red head said, he then glared at Ethan, "You'll pay. Go Flora!" the red head released a Chikorita, which was yellow as opposed to green and slightly larger than normal. It's leaf had slits in the sides and was nearly the size of the Grass type. "Use Razor Leaf!"
"That's dad's Chikorita!" Travis shouted.
The Chikorita whipped its head, throwing a bunch of small leaves towards Sobek, which flew hard towards the little crocodile and stabbed it, hard.
"Sobek! Ice Fang!" Etan shouted. Sobek jumped towards the Chikorita, ice lining his teeth. He chomped down on Flora and left ice on the little grass type.
"Flora, jump back and use Grasswhistle!" There was a slight intonation in the red head's voice.
"Sobek, roar as loud as you can!" Ethan shouted. Sobek roared as Flora let a soothing melody out, causing drowsiness in the surrounding trainers, though it didn't affect Ethan or the red haired trainer. Sobek too managed to stay awake, though the golden glow in his eyes subsided, as did the glow in Ethan's.
What was that? Ethan asked himself I could feel Sobek's emotions, it was, intense. "What's your name?" He asked the red head.
"Silver." He said, "Silver Sakki." He said.
"I'm Ethan. Ethan Beryl." Ethan introduced himself.
"Flora, Ancient Power." Silver commanded. Flora jumped, causing a large amount of rocks to fly from the ground and circle the Chikorita, then the rocks flew at Sobek.
"Sobek, Aqua Jet to dodge then get close and use Ice Fang!" Ethan shouted.
As the rocks flew at Sobek, the crocodile surrounded itself in water and dodged the rock before slamming into Flora, chomping down with frozen teeth, leaving even more ice on the Chikorita.
"Now, while he's close use Magical Leaf!" Silver said. Leaves flew from Flora, covered in a purple aura, with a small cry all the leaves stabbed into Sobek, who cried out in pain and fell over.
"Return Sobek!" Ethan shouted, calling his partner back. "Go Karl!" Ethan released the small Bellsprout, who slinked around, "Karl I know we haven't trained much but I need you to try your best, use Acid!" Ethan shouted. The Bellsprout slinked around before rushing Flora with surprising speed, wrapping around it and spewing acid onto her, causing her to cry out in pain.
"Flora return!" Silver called Flora back to her ball. "Useless pokemon." He grunted, "Go Toxia!" Silver released a small purple bat, who landed on his head and nuzzled him before turning to face Karl.
"Supersonic!" Silver commanded. The bat opened its mouth and released sonic waves, causing Bellsprout to spin around, looking lost. "Now use Wing Attack!" The Zubat's wings glowed white as it slammed into the confused Bellsprout, sending it flying down, "Now use Poison Fang!" Toxia's fangs glowed purple as it chomped down on Karl, causing it to scream.
"Karl come back!" Ethan returned the Bellsprout, he took out Terminus's pokeball, "This is it buddy. Let's do this." He released the owl. "Hows about we make a wager? Winner gets Flora."
"If I win I take that Totodile." Silver said, "And you don't tell anyone you saw me."
Ethan looked at Sobek's ball, he sighed, "Deal."
"Ethan no!" Travis shouted, "It's not worth your partner!"
"Ethan don't make that deal!" Lyra cried, "What if you lose?"
"I won't." Ethan said, "Terminus use Hypnosis!" Terminus flashed his eyes and put the Zubat to sleep. "Now use Confusion!" The Hoothoot's eyes flashed again, this time sending a shimmering purple and pink wave of energy at Toxia, knocking her out.
"I believe that's my win." Ethan said. Silver threw Flora's pokeball at Ethan.
"She's useless anyways." Silver said, walking off as Ethan caught the ball.
"Hey you! Wait right there!" Travis yelled, running after Silver.
The red head turned around and punched Travis in the face, knocking him to the ground, "Run after me again and you'll get much worse." He threatened before turning around and continuing on.
Lyra skid on the ground next to Travis, as did Ethan. "Are you okay?" She asked.
Ethan held out his hand and helped Travis up.
"I'm fine, let's go see my dad." Travis said, "And next time he shows up I'm going up against him."
They walked back to New Bark Town uneventfully. They saw Officer Jenny pulling up outside of Prof. Elm's lab, along with two other officers. They walked inside.
"Let's go!" Travis shouted, running into the lab. Ethan shrugged at Lyra and they followed after him.
Inside they were stopped by the two male officers, "Sorry crime scene, you'll have to leave." One of them said.
"I got the stolen Chikorita back." Ethan said, "We ran into the thief and I battled him, I even got his name. These two were with me."
The cops looked at each other before stepping aside, "Go see the chief."
The three teens walked further into the lab, where Prof. Elm was talking with Officer Jenny.
"... and when I turned back the pokeball was gone and I saw a black clad figure escaping out the window so I called you right away." The professor said.
"We saw the thief." Travis said, "Ethan battled him."
The officer and professor turned to look at the teens, "His name is Silver Sakki, I beat him and got Flora back."
"I see. Can I have a description of this boy?" Jenny asked.
Ethan nodded and described Silver to the officer.
"Alright, I'll notify the other city's officers to keep an eye out for him. If he comes back please don't hesitate to call." Jenny said, "We're going to head to Cherrygrove and try to track him." She left with the other two officers.
"Here you go." Ethan handed Prof. Elm Flora's pokeball.
"Dad, we were talking and if you don't mind I think Lyra could use Flora on her team." Travis said, "She needs a support type pokemon."
Prof. Elm nodded and handed the ball to Lyra, "Of course, I planned to give her to one of you after all." He then turned to a machine in the corner, "Feel free to use that machine to heal your pokemon by the way. Travis should know how to use it."
Ethan placed three of his pokeballs on the machine, and Lyra put Flora's. Travis went and hit a button, activating the machine.
"It should take around a half hour." Travis said. "I'm going to see my mom, make sure she isn't too mad." He said, "Dad I'll be back." He released Cynder and jogged off.
"So, did you end up getting to Mr. Pokemon's house?" Elm asked Lyra and Ethan, "I know Travis didn't go with you. He told me as much."
Lyra took the pokemon egg from her bag, it was white with blue and red triangles.
Elm took it, eyes wide, "I've never seen this kind of egg before, it resembles those two… no it couldn't be!" Elm was bewildered, "I'll take this for screening, you two should go see your parents."
Ethan nodded, "I'll be back for my pokemon in a little while."
"Same here." Lyra said. The two went home.
Travis walked into his house, Cynder at his feet. "Mom?" He shouted into the house. He saw his mom's Wobbuffet -Tuntun- standing by the back door.
He walked slowly towards the back door. He saw his mother, a woman with long black hair and hazel eyes, standing beside a pond with her Blastoise -Shellshock. Curled beside her was Phloze, Cynder's mother. Cynder flamed up and ran to his mother, cuddling the large weasel pokemon.
Mrs. Elm turned around, "Travis…" She said, "I'm sorry. I've been hard on you about becoming a trainer, but it's only because I love you."
"I know mom, I'm sorry too I shouldn't have run off without talking to you first. But I'm gonna head out again soon." Travis said. His mother hugged him.
"I know."
Yay! Silver has been introduced and Emma is now in Johto. I'm taking ideas for Emma's pokemon, as of now I've only decided on three, all of which appeared in this chapter. Though if anyone has an idea that I think is better I don't mind replacing a pokemon.
Hope you enjoyed. Thanks for reading. Leave a review!