It was the finally the morning after yesterday's hard work. We quickly ate our oatmeal and headed off towards Vermillion City. When we got there we boarded all of our stuff onto the ship. In an hour we would depart.

We went to the Poke Mart to past the time. I was looking through the magazines and I found a Pokémon Trainer guide book that seemed helpful to make me a great Pokémon trainer. I was reading an article about nutrition and decided to give Spike some calcium to raise his strength. I asked Misty if she would buy some calcium for Spike and she said yes.

I gave the calcium pills to Spike but he refused to eat it. I convinced Spike to eat it by telling him it would make him stronger. He laughed, and told me he'd never complain again about eating stat increasing food again.

Misty also bought me the Poke trainer guide I was looking at and a super potion just in case I ever needed it.

We left the Pokemart to get aboard the ship the ship was getting ready to depart. It was going to take three days to get to Mossdeep City. We got settled into our room. Our room number was MD67 meaning main deck room 67. Our room had one bed, a couch, a shower, and a sink. And carpet of course, duh!

Then there was an announcement from a microphone from another room. "The ship will be departing now." This was my first time on a ship I felt kind of nervous.

"Mossdeep City here I come!" I shouted very loudly making a scene. I gazed at the reflection the sun had on the water as we sailed off into the horizon.

It was day one. The ship glided through the water I loved the cool breeze. We were passing Fuschia City. Fuschia City was the biggest city I've seen in my entire life. It had tons of buildings not as high as skyscrapers but nearly. I saw everything from just gliding past, and as I read in my trainer handbook that the safari zone was located here and that there is a safari zone in each region. We exited Fuschia City and now we were on the Western Sea.

"Oh no," the microphone said, "were approaching a Gyarados – try to stay calm". I saw the Gyarados. He was firing dragon rage at the boat - he was about to break through. "Seal the crack!" the microphone said. I knew just then what I had to do.

"Spike this is what eating disgusting food pays off for!" I yelled, "Spike use shadow ball and fire it right in the Gyarados's mouth when it tries to use dragon rage." The Gyarados was charging. "Now" I cried loudly. Spike fired it and it hit the dragon rage he was charging up causing an explosion inside Gyarados's mouth. Gyarados cried in pain, retreating to the seabed.

After that, everybody started yelling screaming and hugging me! Maybe I was cut out for battling after all. That night everybody was eating dinner and the captain had me come up on this stage.

"Thanks for saving us all," he said excitingly. "We probably would be Gyarados stew if it wasn't for you." Everybody clapped. "How long have you been battling."

"Since now," I said nervously.

"Well how about that," he laughed. "I would like to award you for your bravery a medal."

"Thanks," I said not knowing what else to say because I've never been in front of an audience before.

"I'd also like to present you with this a Poke Dex and five Poke Balls."

I took the gifts graciously, thanking him. I was overjoyed – what a great start to my Pokémon training journey.