Hoenn Region Master

Chapter 1: Yumi sets off

"Mom, when can I get my first Pokemon?" I asked. "When you're in twelve years old, honey." Replied my mother. "Oh, okay!" I said and went out to play with my friends.

Seven years later...

Yumi's POV

"BEEEEEPPP!" my alarm rang.

Hi, my name is Yumi. I'm so excited! Today's my twelfth birthday! I'm gonna get my first Pokemon today! Yay!

"Huh?" I said as I got up from my bed.

"Honey! Breakfast is ready!" my mom called.

"Be down in a sec!" I yelled.

I quickly brushed my teeth and washed my face.

I then put on my favorite jeans and my favorite navy blue polo.

I grabbed my napsack and filled it with clothes, a sleeping bag, food, Pokemon food, and water.

I raced downstairs and sat at the table. My mother put my favorite blueberry pancakes in front of me. "Yum!" I said as I started to wolf it down. "Slow down, dear, you're gonna choke!" my mom said, laughing.

"Happy birthday!" my father said as he entered from the door. "Hi, dad!" I said as I raced over to him and hugged him.

My father is the Petalburg City gym leader, otherwise known as Norman. He rarely comes down to Littleroot.

"I was told that you were gonna get your first Pokemon today, so I just couldn't miss out!" he said to me.

"If you're all done, let's go to Professor Birch's lab now!" I said to mom and dad. I was bursting with excitement, I just couldn't wait!

I opened the door and- oof! "Ow!" I said, as my behind landed on the grass. "Sorry, I wasn't looking at where I was going." A voice said and a hand appeared out of no where.

I looked up and saw a Hikari, he's my rival, though he's a few years older than me, he has black hair that wasn't gelled and black eyes. He wore a t-shirt that was blue and cargo pants.

"Hi, What cha doing, Yumi?" he asked me.

"I'm going for my first pokemon." I said.

"Oh, you coming for your first Pokemon?" Hikari said.

"Yeah." I replied. "Well, come on in!" he said. Mom, Dad and I walked straight up to Professor Birch.

"Hello there, ready, Yumi?" he asked me. "Yeah!" I said, practically jumping. "Here are your choices, Torchic, Treeko, Mudkip or an egg." He said to me. The Torchic was so cute!

"Can I have a Torchic and an egg? I asked him, giving him my best puppy eyes.

"Well, this egg is new so it'll give you some waiting to do and while you're waiting you can bond with your Torchic, so why not?

Oh, and take this too!" he said as he handed me the pokeball, egg, and 5 pokeballs.

"Thanks professor!" I said as I started to leave.

"One more thing, here." My mother said as she handed me a million dollars.

(One million dollars really isn't mush I have over 2,000,000 in on my trainer card!)

"Bye mom, I'll check as soon as I can. Bye!" I said as I broke into a run.

"Hold on! Aren't you too young to travel on your own?"dad called.

"It's okay! I have my Pokemon with me!" I yelled.

"Hold it right there, young lady!" my dad boomed.

I ran quickly into the country roads leading to the next town, Oldale. I stopped into a walk.

When it was nearing afternoon, I called out my Torchic.

"Tor-chic! Tor!" it said. It was so adorable, I cuddled it, and it began to warm up.

'Torchic, can you use ember to light us a fire?" I asked. I pointed to a pile of sticks and it nodded. It used ember and soon, the fire was blazing. I sat next to Torchic and took out the egg.

"Torchic, I'm Yumi, your trainer. You're my first Pokemon!" I said to it.

"Torchic!" it said back. "What do you think of this egg, Torchic? Torchic, that's too plain, do you want a nickname?" I asked.

"Torchic! Tor! Chic!" It said to me back nodding.

"Ok, how about, ummm, Flare?" I suggested. "Torchic!" It suddenly said and faced the bushes.

There was a rustling, and I got scared.

"Flare! Ember at the bush!" I yelled.

"Yow!" the bush yelled, as it went on fire.

Suddenly, Hikari came leaping out!

"Mudkip, water gun!" Hikari yelled as he threw a pokeball in the air. A mudkip came out and sprayed Hikari with water, causing the flames to die out. "Oh, are you okay?" I asked him.

"Yeah, thanks to Mudkip, here." He replied. "Oh, sorry." I said eyes downcast.

"Nah, I shouldn't have been following you anyways.

"Why were you following me?" I asked.

"Oh, you see I'm your father's students, I just joined this summer, and I got my first starter Pokemon today too.

I have other Pokemon too, but this is my first time in the Hoenn Region.

So he told me to look after you as you went on your Pokemon journey." He explained.

"Oh, I see. You've met Flare, right?" I said. "Yeah, this is my Mudkip. Say hi." He replied.

"Mudkip! Mud!" it said to me. "Heh, aren't you cute?" I said as I pet it. "Mudkip. Mud, mud kip!" it said to Flare.

"Did you give it a nickname?" I asked Hikari as we sat by the fire.

"No, not yet, I was planning on naming it Tide, but that makes it sound like a laundry detergent." He laughed.

His laugh sounded like a piano. Rich but light-noted.

"I think Tide is a good name, why don't you use it?" I asked him.

"Oh, okay." He said, startled that I would say something like that. He put on a funny expression and I laughed.

Hikari's POV

I was shocked.

She read the expression on my face and laughed.

Her laugh sounded like the tinkle of the wind charms.

I never noticed.

Ilaughed along with her too.

"It's getting late, we should tuck in." I said to her. "Oh, okay." She said to me.

We pulled out our sleeping bags and we called our Pokemon to come sleep with us.

Yumi then pulled out her egg and amazingly, she fit her egg in her sleeping bag too. I fell into a deep sleep.

There was a flash, and someone said, "Houndoon, Tyranitar, go!" I was then tied up and Team Firebolt's ugly faces appeared. I then woke up in a cold sweat.

"Good Morning, sleepyhead!" Yumi said to me.

I quickly rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and rolled up my sleeping bag into my bag.

Her Torchic was pecking at the food she put out. I then let out Mudkip to eat while I washed my face in the stream.

"AHHH!" Yumi yelled. I quickly called Mudkip to follow and we ran to her.

She was holding something that was glowing.

Then, a crack appeared and a little baby Pokemon came out. A baby Lugia. "Oh my god..." Yumi said as she started at the baby Pokemon.

"Professor didn't know what he was giving you when he gave you that egg!" I exclaimed as I marveled the Lugia.

It shouted at me.

"This isn't my egg, I found this one. This is my egg." Yumi said as she showed me her egg on her napsack.

"Where did you find it?" I asked. "Over there, it was floating on the stream." She answered. "It must've been Lugia's! This stream is connected to the ocean. It must've somehow floated here." I reasoned.

"Wow! Hey, there! I'm gonna name you Silver! 'Cause you're silver. Ok, Silver?" she said to the newly-named Pokemon.

It shouted at her. She laughed her tinkling laugh again.

"What attacks do you know?" she asked Silver. It walked over to a bush and then it started its string of attacks. It used Gust, Fly, Hyper Beam, Dive, Surf, and Foresight. Though, foresight didn't have mush use because the bush didn't do anything.

"Wow! You're so cool!" Yumi squealed as she hugged Silver. Just then, the egg on Yumi's napsack glowed, it was hatching!

Yumi's POV

'Oh my god.' I thought as I watched the egg crack.

My heart caught in my throat at the sight of it. The sight of a baby eevee.

"Vee?" it said as it came over to me.

"Oh my god. You're so cute!" I yelled and cuddled it. "Eevee! Vee!" it said.

"I'm gonna name you Hazel, okay?" I asked it. "Vee!" I agreed. "Hazel, this is Hikari, Flare, Tide, and Silver. Say hi." I said.

It walked over to and greeted them with whatever language it spoke. "Go, Flight, Titan, Power, Magma, and Slicer!" Hikari called, throwing out five pokeballs.

"Wow, these Pokemon are really impressive!" said examining the huge Pokemon. Flight is a Fearow, Titan is a Nidoking, Power is a Feraligatr, Magma is a Magmar, and Slicer is a Sneasel.

So I had a Torchic, Lugia, and an Eevee. Hikari had a Fearow, Nidoking, Feraligatr, Magmar, Sneasel, and a Mudkip.

"Here's some Pokemon food for all of you. And, Hikari?" I said to him.

"Yeah?" he answered. "You owe me 2 huge cans of Pokemon food." I said, jokingly.

"Heh Heh." He said blushing.

"I'm gonna walk around, Flare, you wanna join me?" I told my Torchic.

"Chic!" It said happily.

"Hazel and Silver, you stay here with Hikari and eat, okay?" I asked them.

"Eevee! Rowr!" they replied. I chuckled and left the campsite.

Hikari's POV

She left and I looked at the Lugia.

Then Slicer, and Eevee's ears perked up and they ran toward the way that Yumi left.

"AHHHH! Flare, ember!" a voice shouted.

Yumi! I quickly gathered the Pokemon and ran towards the shouts. It was Team Firebolt! "Lookie here, another little nuisance!" One of them said.

"Houndoon, Flamethrower!" He shouted.

"Umbreon, Reflect!" a masculine voice said. Just then an Umbreon jumped in front of Flare and reflected the Flamethrower back to the Houndoon.

It fainted in the intense heat, even for a fire Pokemon.

Yumi and I turned around and saw a boy with black hair and brown eyes.

"You okay?" he asked us. "We're fine, thanks." I answered. "Fearow, Drill peck!" I said to my Fearow.

It pecked at the Tyranitar, which only made it mad. It went on a rampage and I call out Power to stop it.

Then Power used a Hydro Pump, which hit it directly in the face. At so close range, the Tyranitar could not take it, so it fainted.

"Shoot!" Team Firebolt said and ran into the shadows.

"Uhhh..." Yumi said as she fainted. I ran quickly and grabbed her before she fell.

I returned my Pokemon into their pokeballs and ran back to the campsite.

The boy spread out her sleeping bed, and I lay her down on it.

I saw that she had a huge gash on her left lower arm and another on the side of her neck. I thanked god that it wasn't across her neck, or she would've died on the spot.

The boy and I found a first-aid kit in her napsack, and we applied some ointments on her wounds which caused her to flinch and we bandaged her thoroughly. "Thanks for the help." I said to the boy. "No problem. Your Feraligatr is really strong!" he commented. "Thanks, so is your Umbreon! Totodile was my starter." I replied.

"What's your name?" I asked. "Yin, what's yours?" Yin replied.

"Hikari, nice to meet you." I said as I stuck out my hand. He took it in his and smiled.

"Uhhh... Hey guys." Yumi said as she woke up.

"How do you feel?" Yin asked her. "Fine, thanks." She answered. "How did you get hurt? Do you remember how it happened?" I asked her.

She looked deep in thought, and then answered, "Yeah, the Tyranitar used slash, but he missed my Torchic and hit me."

"This is Yin, he helped me save you." I said. "Hi, Yin." She said.

Well, I re-posted this chapter, so RE-read it! It will help you understand the relationship between Yumi and Hikari later.