After the battle with Yvonne, I went home to get changed out of my soaking wet clothes. My mother picked out some clothes she thought looked rather 'adventuring.' While Yvonne was the girl in red, Mom made it so I was the boy in blue.

My mom and I made our way down to the town gate where Trevor, Tierno and Shauna were waiting. Their parents were also there, except for Shauna's dad.

"You ready?" asked Trevor.

I gave him a nod. "Ready as I'll ever be."

"I seriously can't wait!" cheered Shauna. "Chespin is really excited."

"Froakie won't stay in his pokeball," added Tierno.

His froakie was easily the most energized of all of our Pokémon. While Trevor's Fennekin liked to distance herself from the others, and Shauna's Chespin never stopped smiling it was Tierno's froakie that was the most excited about a journey. Pancham was pretty stoked as well, but it wasn't 'cool' for him to show it around the other Pokémon. He was pretty stubborn.

"Shauna!"

It was her father. He ran over to us, and caught everyone's attention.

"I wanted to give you this."

Jeremy held out a pokeball, and Shauna couldn't have squealed more.

She carefully took the pokeball out of her father's hands, and threw it up in the air so the Pokémon inside could reveal itself.

Unsurprisingly it was a swirlix. Even though Jeremy had like, seven of them, Shauna seemed pretty excited to get one.

"Thank you!" she said, jumping into her father's hands.

"You're welcome Shauna," he smiled. "I just want you to make sure you are ready for your journey."

After we said our goodbyes, and we were all set to go, Tierno's dad cranked open the town gate. That's when Yvonne showed up.

She didn't say anything but walked past us, gave me a look of disgust, and strutted down route 1.

"Don't mind her," said Shauna, "She's always been like that."

"Ready guys," asked Tierno.

"Ready."

Together, the four of us took our first step outside of Vaniville Town.

THUMP!

The gates of the town closed behind us, and we all had a jump.

"Sorry!" we heard a sound Tierno's dad say from the other side of gate, "My fingers slipped."

Tierno looked a looked embarrassed about his dad, but it was a little funny.

We heard cheers and goodbyes as we walked down route 1, easily the shortest route in the history of the world.

"Is that it?" I asked, rather confused. In less than twenty seconds we had made it to Aquacorde town. I looked behind me, and could easily see the town gate. No wild Pokémon, no Pokémon battles; I was rather disappointed.

"Yeah. Route 1 isn't really a route," explained Trevor, "The road between the new towns was created long ago when war broke out in the region. Some of the town favoured one side of the war, which some sided with the others. The town was separated between neighbours, but not to so far as both towns still kept contact. To the large armies the towns were separate, but the towns still acted as one."

"It was a rhetorical question," I sulked, "I wasn't really that curious."

"Cheer up X-Meister," Shauna said giving my shoulder a shove, "Route 2 is right up ahead."

"Well I'm going straight there!" I said starting to march forward into Auracorde town.

"Well can we spend a little while in Aquacorde," asked Tierno, "There is a dance show happening in town the now; I kind of want to check it out."

"Fine," I said, but I didn't really know why I did. It wasn't like we were going to spend our whole journey together.

"Yeah," I said. He skipped off with the Shauna down one of the towns streets, leaving me with the human computer.

"I'm gonna go as well," he said to me straight, "The professor told me one of his aides are in town and I have plans to meet up with her."

"Can I come?" I asked, not particularly wanting to be left alone in a foreign town in a region I had only lived in for almost a month.

"No offence Xavier," he sighed, with a smile that said 'I feel sorry for you' "But you would kind of cramp my style."

He gave me a shrug and ran off in a different direction from the others.

"Great," I said, "All alone."

On cue, my pokeball in my bag by began to shake, as if Pancham could tell I was a little lonely.

I took the ball out of my ball, threw it to the ground and said hello to my Pokémon.

"Pan-pa!" he cheered.

"That's a cute Pokémon," a woman walking by me said. She was quite old, wore a dark brown gown, had dark hair and had large tooth like earrings that matched her necklace.

"Thanks ma'am," I said, reaching down to pet Pancham while looking up at her. I was acting more polite than usual, something that happened whenever I was talking to an old person.

"A Pancham right?"

I nodded to her.

"That you're first Pokémon?"

I nodded again.

"Can you speak?"

I nodded, then realised I wasn't speaking and said, "Yeah sorry."

"No need to apologise, do you have much experience in battle."

"Not really," I said honestly, "I don't have a gym, badge yet."

"Well then how about I go easy on you in a battle."

"Uh…"

I didn't really see that coming. She looked a little old to be a trainer.

She turned her loose belt around, to reveal a large selection of pokeballs.

"A one-on-one battle?"

"Ok then."

I was feeling a little lonely, and a battle couldn't hurt.

She jogged over the beach bricks until the distance between us was great enough for a battlefield.

"As your Pokémon of choice is already clear," she shouted, "I suppose as it is up to me to reveal my Pokémon."

She selected one of her many pokeballs and through red lights released the Pokémon inside.

Swablu, the Cotton Bird Pokémon

For some reason, it likes to land on people's heads softly and act like it's a hat. Don't mistake this friendly trait for weakness as Swablu is as powerful is as it is fluffy.

My pokedex went off inside my pocket without my consent.

"So you're a student of Sycamore" the woman in brown smiled, "I'll be expecting great things then."

She expected so much of this battle, I felt a little under-levelled. A small crowd of maybe seven or eight had gathered around us. I took a deep breathe, and gave my first attack.

"Pancham, Karate Chop!"

My Pokémon sprinted around and jumped up to where the swablu was flying. The cloud like Pokémon however easily evaded the attack by swooping down in the opposite direction.

It needed no command from its trainer, so the swablu had obviously been trained well.

"Swablu, Mist!"

Swablu breathed out a cold breath than loomed in the air. Blue smoke made it impossible to see either Pokémon.

"Pancham get out of there."

Pancham however didn't come out of the smoke. He was obviously confused in the haze. Through the fog I could see the outline of the little guy, he was lost in the maze.

"Swablu, Aerial Ace!"

The opposing Pokémons fluffy wing sharpened to a point, and to flew straight into the haze to strike Pancham head on.

My pancham was knocked right out of the haze, but didn't have time to do anything.

"Swablu, Ice Beam!"

The cloud of a bird was now back up in the sky and shot a beam of ice and snow in Pancham's direction.

"Pancham! Dodge and Comet Punch!"

Even though Pancahm was determined to carry out the command, the little guy couldn't move fast enough.

He was hit with the Ice Beam and became trapped in the ice.

"Pancham, Arm Thrust out of there!"

Pancham couldn't move.

"Swablu, Finish this off with a Take Down!"

I would describe how the attack went, but I wasn't looking at the swablu. I was looking at my pancham, how he was stuck in the ice and how there was nothing I could do to help.

As you would have expected, the battle was finished there and then. The crowd disbanded, obviously a little disappointed that the battle hadn't been longer, or maybe that I wasn't Pancham wasn't strong enough.

I felt like an idiot. The only trainers I had even bet in a battle were my friends who didn't aspire to be battlers and against the two trainers who were actually good, I lead Pancham to failure.

I returned Pancham to his pokeball; a little ashamed I had him faint again.

"That was a good battle kid," the woman smiled, coming closer. "You lasted longer than most."

"Thanks," I said.

"You're gonna be something great one day," she said smiling. "Hopefully this could help?"

From the satchel that hung from her shoulder, she brought out an egg.

"Take this."

"I..I can't accept this."

"It's fine, you need it more than I do," she laughed, shoving the egg into my hands with surprising force.

"Thank you ma'am."

"Please call me Drasna," she said, "Maybe we'll battle again Xavier."

"Sure."

Drasna turned and walked away down cobbled steps and across the plaza to the bridge that I guessed must have led to route 2, hopefully a more exciting route than the first.

"That had to be the worst Pokémon battle I have ever seen," mocked a familiar voice. Yvonne, the girl in red.

I didn't reply, a little lost for words.

"I'm just kidding with you; the fact that you survived for so long against Drasna was surprising."

"You know her?" I asked.

"Everyone does, Drasna is famous throughout the region as a master of dragon Pokémon. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Dragon in that egg."

The dragon type was known for being an extremely strong type. Maybe a powerful Pokémon, no offence to Pancham, was what I needed.

"That is why I want that egg!" she proclaimed. She went from being slightly nice, a side of Yvonne I hadn't yet seen, to a rather mean growl. "And I'm willing to battle for it."

"Willing?" I asked, not actually implying a question, "I'm not giving up this egg for anything."

"Not even for these?"

She held up a yellow pouch bag with the sign of a berry on the side.

"A bag for keeping berries?"

"Not just a bag for keeping berries," she said smiling, "A bag full of berries."

She opened the pouch to reveal lots of colourful snacks inside.

"What would I want with berries?"

"Berries are not found anywhere in Kalos region, and go for really high prices in shops. One of these would go for 10,000 pokédollars."

Without thinking in the slightest, my mouth made up my mind for me, "Deal!"


Sorry for not updating… but Pokémon X and Y exist so… yeah. A few people didn't want to read this because it the games weren't released, so hopefully this story should get some more traffic now!

Question: Which game did you get/are you getting/ do you want: Pokémon X or Pokémon Y

I got X because I really just liked the Pokémon better. SwirlixSpritzee