Author's Note: For is a magic number. Simon is delegating me more work. Yey. On with my job. By the way, Renny and Aaron are based of the boy and girl characters in Crystal...names are mine, images is theirs.

NAME: Renny

AGE: 14

HOME: New Bark Town

HAIR: Long teal and in two pig tails

EYES: Black

CLOTHES: black and yellow shorts, tight red shirt, and a white shirt

FUN FACT: She and her twin brother are both new trainers

Zell and Krysta spent the day walking through Cherrygrove City. They walked and talked for awhile, telling each other of their goals and hopes. The pair was becoming close friends in a short time, but they knew that their goals and dreams were more important than anything else.

Soon, they started heading for route 29. As they entered the grassy area, a pair of trainers came running up the path. They were young and happy; talking loudly and exitedly at one another. They disturbed Krysta. It was a pair of twins, one boy and one girl, who dressed almost exactly the same. Black and yellow pants, red and white top, and yellow and black headgear. They stopped and looked at Zell and Krysta.

The four trainers watched each other for a few seconds before the twins whipped out their pokeballs and shouted, simultaniously, "Let's fight!"

Krysta looked nervously at Zell, who merely nodded as he selected an old looking pokeball from his belt and faced the male trainer. Krysta looked at her opponant nervously as she fingered Echo's pokeball. The teal haired girl opened her pokeball and said "Cynda, I choose you!"

Krysta tossed Echo's ball out and intoned the age-old custom of poketrainers everywhere.

"Echo, I choose you!"

Through her nervous mind, she heard two more shouts urging their pokemon into battle.

"Wartortle, go!"

"Chikorita, I choose you!"

The other trainers giggles reached Krystas ears.

"That's your pokemon? It's a shrimpy little thing...whats it called again?" Her pokedex chimed and answered her. "Zubat; Number 41; Nickname: Echo; Trainer: Krysta Moon"

Krysta's blood boiled. Shrimpy? Echo was fine the size he was. She'd show this prissy little trainer what was what.

"Echo, supersonic, now!" Echo started trilling in an ear-piercing warble that caused the enemy Cyndaquil to roll over and twitch spasmoidically. The other girl ordered her pokemon to Tackle Echo, but the poor pokemon was so confused that it tripped over its feet and hit the ground hard.

Echo fluttered above the battlefield and waited for orders obiediantly. Krysta's mind raced. Finally, she remembered something. "Echo, Leech Life!"

Zubat darted in at the pokemon and drained some of its hit points away. The Cyndaquil tried tackling Echo, but ended up plowing into the dirt again. The poor pokemon had hit the ground so hard that it had fainted. The other girl ran to her pokemon with tears in her eyes. She held her partner and tried apologizing to the unconcious pokemon.

Krysta pitied her. She went over and held out a Revive she had squirreled away and offered it to the girl. She looked up at Krysta and smiled weakly. "Thank you...My name's Renny, and this is my Cyndaquil, Cynda...You and your Zubat are good...Hey look, Aaron and the other boy are still fighting!"

Indeed they were. Zell's Wartortle was a larger pokemon than Aaron's Chikorita, by the grass type pokemon had the defensive advantage over the water type. Finally, Zell straightened and asked his pokemon an odd question. "Hey Wartortle, getting tired of playing with the newbie?"

His large, blue pokemon looked back and nodded once. "War!"

"Okay then, Wartortle, Bite!"

The Wartortle leapt at the smaller pokemon and bit it savagely on the neck. The Chikorita screeched and fainted. Zell recalled his pokemon and watched impassively as Aaron tried to take care of his partner.

Zell and Aaron shook hands and spoke in low tones with each other and started laughing about something. Eventually, Chikorita and Cynda were amply recovered that their trainers decided to be on their way. Zell furrowed his brows thoughtfully. "Hmm...I wonder who has the Totodile then..."

Krysta decided not to ask and started down the path. Suddenly, she stopped. Not too far off the path was a berry plant, so she walked off the road and plucked a berry off of the small tree. She gave it to Echo, who tucked it into his claws happily. Ask Krysta was about to go back onto the road, a wild Pidgey launched itself at her in a rage.

"PIDGEY!"

Echo took the tackle attack and was hit hard, but he countered almost automatically with his Leech Life. The Pidgey tried attacking him again, but Echo dodged. The pidgey tried again and was rewarded with a hit, but Echo used Supersonic and got the pokemon confused. The Pidgey tried yet again to tackle Echo, but missed and hit a tree. Krysta noticed that the bird pokemon was getting weak and decided to try and catch it. She threw the pokeball...

It rocked once...

Twice....

And a third time...

And stopped.

Krysta yelled and jumped up and down. She had caught her second pokemon! She released the Pidgey and used a potion on it. When it tried to fly away, she recalled it and decided that she would name it. "Hmm...I'll call you...Storm."

She nodded once nd then started marching off towards New Bark Town. This was indeed a good day.

Zell followed her and was marking something in a notebook he had pulled out. Krysta dropped back to see what it was, and noticed that it had six pokemon names at the top and a list of other pokemon underneath the original six names.

"Whats that?" she asked.

Zell grunted and replied. "It's a battle log; I'm seeing if it helps me raise my pokemon."

Krysta nodded and asked another question. "Where'd you get your Wartortle from? I thought that they weren't indigenous to Johto.."

"They aren't" he confirmed. "My cousin bred this one and of my other pokemon and sent them to me. I have a Charmeleon and an Ivysaur as well...My cousin is the best trainer in the world. It's kinda funny, you remind me a little of him..."

Krysta's intrest was piqued. "Oh? How?"

"His starting pokemon wasn't one of the three typical starters...I think his first was a Pikachu..."

Krysta wrinkled her nose. "A Pikachu? That's not so weird..."

They continued down the route in a happy silence.

Author report: Hm...I wonder who Zell's cousin is...Oh well...maybe we'll get to meet other such trainers later... Please read and review!