Song: The red jumpsuit apparatus – your guardian angel

Surprised? I bet you people are thinking like, w00t!?! An update? Didn't she abandon this thing?!
The answer is, no, I never did. I just shifted priorities and this one came low down on the list, but now I finished this chapter and it's up, so be happy and R&R, okay?
Enjoy:'3
Also, feel free to check the Bonus Chapter if you're having problem with getting to know the characters. I will update it every now and then so it will stay refreshed and all new stuff will be there to.

Just as Rachel was about to grab the pokéball, the doors slammed open. They saw a shape of a young girl. As she stepped in they started to see more of her. Blood-red hair, it was Yume.
"It has started to rain." She said as she flipped her hair.
"Eh, really?" Rachel asked.
Yume sighed, "Why else would I get in?" she walked up to the desk. "Can you heal my pokémon and could I get a bed here for the night?"
Rachel felt slightly ignored, but she just shook her head, grabbed her pokéball and walked over to the yellow couch. Yume followed her with her eyes. Then Joy said something for her and she got her pokéballs back and Yume walked up to Rachel. "Are you going to sleep at the centre tonight?"
Rachel thought for a moment, "Yeah why not…" she replied.
"Good, because I already told Nurse Joy that you would." Yume said and crossed her arms, "Want to accompany me to the room or do you want to spend the whole night looking for it?" She raised an eyebrow. Rachel groaned and got up from the couch, "Fine." She replied with an annoyed look on her face.
They made their way to the room. Halfway, Rachel realized that she would never been able to find it by herself without Yume's help or asking Nurse Joy for directions. After Yume opened the door, she headed for the nearest bunk and climbed swiftly up the ladder and made herself comfortable in the upper bunk. Rachel sighed as she went for the bed under Yume and laid her bag next to the nightstand and looked around in the room. She saw Hikaru sleeping in the bunk opposite to her. Resisting the urge to hit him or put his hand in a bucket of water, she went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth. When she was done, she returned to the bed and lied down. Rachel closed her eyes and tried to sleep. But there was a disturbance that kept her awake. She opened one eye and looked to the right. It was Yume's head, hanging up-side-down. Rachel let out a gasp of surprise, but then she calmed down and collected her cool. She pointed a finger at Yume and had a serious look on her face. "Hey little girl, what do you exactly want from me?" Rachel asked. Yume blinked a couple of times before she answered Rachel's question.
"A new acrobike since you pushed mine into the river." Yume answered from the bed under Rachel's.
Rachel sighed, "Hey that will take like forever. Can't I just get your number and I'll call you when I can afford one?"
"No because you're going to forget more easily, so I'll follow you until I get a new one."
Rachel groaned. "You really are a pain in the ass. Hopefully I'll get used to it."
"Looking forward to traveling with you!" Yume said cheerfully with a sarcastic look on her face as she did a greeting pose. Rachel just rolled over, "So… do you have a pokédex?"
"No, but I'm traveling to get one." Yume answered.
"Really huh…" Rachel placed her arms under her head, "Hikaru's doing the same, and maybe I should get one too… Do you need one to be a trainer?"
"Well, no, but it makes things easier. Such as knowing their species, weakness, facts and where to find them." Yume answered.
"Hmm… is it easy to get one?"
Yume flicked her bangs out of her eyes, "Hnnn, yeah, you just have to go to Littleroot Town and ask professor Birch if you can have one. He's not really professor Oak, he won't ask so many questions, but he'll still look if you have a good potential for being a good trainer."
"Oh…" Rachel said and blinked some times to get a clearer vision. It was 2 am, and they were still awake.
"So are you from here?" Yume asked.
"Yeah, I have lived here my entire life. Kinda boring, so I'll be absolutely excited when I'm going to leave this area for the first time."
"Really?" Yume asked, "Well, I'm kind of homesick. Everyone in town is so nice even though we're poor and living in harsh conditions right now."
"Where are you from?" Rachel asked.
" Fallarbor Town" Yume replied as it was a completely normal city.
Rachel had seen on TV how people had it there. People were trying their best to survive and trying to live a normal life. The people who had not got used to breathing polluted air and ashes would get sick in no time.
"I'm living with my father in a small house in the outskirts of the city where there's always snowing ashes, it's because he makes glass of the ashes. He's quite famous actually." Yume thought for a moment, "I had a younger brother too, but he never got used to the air so he died. Just like my mom. My big brother chose to travel when he was 10. I was just 7 by then. Haven't heard a word from him since. That was 3 years ago."
Rachel rolled over to the side and looked down at Yume, "So… you're 10 years old?"
"Turning 10 this winter." Yume replied.
"What?! Really!? I thought you we're 11-12 years old!" Rachel said.
Yume sighed, "That's the truth…"
"Hey, what kind of things did you father do?" Rachel asked.
Yume looked up at Rachel, "I have some good things with me, maybe you'll get the opportunity to see me use them sometime. "
Rachel rolled over again, "Well, you'll be sticking with me for a long time so I'll probably see at least one thing if they're useful."
Yume nodded.
"Well! We'd better also get some sleep! Hikaru has been sleeping like a baby since we got here. Good night!" Rachel said.
"Uh… good night." Yume confusedly replied.
Hmmm... So now what? I've gotten a pokémon but what do I want to become? ... Chris is aiming for the pokémon master, but that doesn't really interest me. I've also heard about something called Idol trainer, but what is that?
Shortly after Rachel thought that she quickly fell asleep.
Rachel quickly got up from the bed that morning. The sun was soon to rise, Hikaru and Yume was still asleep. Rachel was not really that type of person that wakes up first so she felt a little weird this morning being the first one to wake up. But she shook that feeling off and decided to get changed. Shortly after, Yume woke up. She looked at Rachel with tired eyes and frizzy hair. "Are you already awake?" She said in a sleepy voice.
"Un." Rachel replied, "And don't worry, I was not planning to sneak away or something."
Yume raised one eyebrow. "Sure..." she replied before she turned around and grabbed her clothes before she headed to the toilet to change.
'Oh great... that sure made me sound a lot worse.' Rachel groaned and kicked Hikaru's bag that was on the floor. A groan was heard from the bed behind her. She swiftly turned around and saw Hikaru rolling over and continued to sleep. She sighed as she put on her bandana and walked out of the room, past a half-awake Yume.
"Come on out Totodile!" Rachel called out and threw her pokéball to the ground. A white light flashed and then Totodile greeted Rachel with a happy smile and a strange noise.
"Dai Daile!"
Rachel raised one of her eyebrows before she bent down and patted Totodile on his head and smiled cheerfully.
"Hey sis!" A familiar voice said. Rachel turned around and saw her little brother waving and running up to her. She smiled and shyly waved back at him, trying not to seem as hyper as him. "Hiya Chris..." she said. He smiled at her when his sister laid her hand on his shoulder and sighed a little.
"Hey sis," Chris said, "Wanna go train?"
Rachel put her hands behind her head, "Sure!" she said and turned around to Totodile, "Let's go!" she said and they walked to the tall grass. Rachel looked around then she stopped and pointed her finger to a Zigzagoon who was eating berries.
"Chris, look!" she said. Her brother walked up next to her and looked in the direction she was pointing at. "Go Totodile!" Rachel called and Totodile jumped forward and caught Zigzagoon's attention. Zigzagoon barked at Totodile for interrupting in its meal. Totodile raised his arms in the air and answered back to Zigzagoon.
"Totodile!" Rachel called, "Uhm… uh… an attack… Water gun!"
Totodile bent his head backward and then forward and shot a powerful beam of water at Zigzagoon. The attack hit and made Zigzagoon fly backwards a little, it shook its head and then growled at Totodile. Rachel turned around and looked at his brother, "Do you have any ideas for what Totodile has for attacks?" she asked.
Her little brother shrugged and thought for a moment. "Uh, how about, bite?"
Rachel nodded and returned to Totodile, "Totodile, use your bite attack!" 'If you can use that attack that is…' Rachel thought for herself and crossed her fingers. Totodile arched forward and bit Zigzagoon on its head. It gave away a strangled cry and tried to shake off Totodile. When Zigzazoon successfully threw of Totodile, it charged against him and gave him a powerful tackle, sending him backwards to Rachel.
"Totodile!" Rachel cried out. Totodile eagerly responded her call and got back to its fighting stance. "Water gun!" Totodile shot out another beam of water that knocked over Zigzagoon. They waited for Zigzagoon to attack back, but it didn't. "I think it has fainted…" Rachel said after a while. Then the cheering began and Rachel hugged Totodile. Chris looked at his sister, "Eh, Rach… What did your friends go?"
Rachel picked up Totodile in her arms, "What friends?" she asked as she turned around and looked at her brother. He smiled unsurely, "Uh, you know… those 2 guys from before? That red-haired girl and that guy you always yell at."
"Eep!" Rachel let out of surprise, "Shoot, I forget about them!"
Chris sighed, "By the way, are you planning on leaving Fortree?"
"Jupp!" She said and stretched her arms up in the air. "I'm going to Littleroot so I can get a pokédex and then I'll travel around Hoenn I guess…"
Chris starred out in the distance before he opened his mouth to say something. "Mind if I join you?"
Rachel looked at her brother, "Huh? Don't you want to be the pokémon master?" she asked, "You know… Be the best catch them all, that stuff?"
"Of course, but to became the best pokémon trainer you must be an official pokémon trainer and you can only become that if you get a pokédex." Chris answered.
"Oh, I see…" Rachel said and looked up in the sky as two Taillows flew by. "Wanna go train some more?" she asked.
Her brother smiled, "Sure, but what about your friends?"
She sighed and pouted a little, "They're not my friends, just annoying people following me." Then she continued walking forward in the tall grass and her brother followed her.

"Whew! I'm tired!" Rachel said as she sat down under a tree and leaned back to rest. Chris quickly joined his sister and Feebas jumped up on his lap and Chris replied with a smile and started to pat his Feebas. "Good girl, Phoebe." He said cheerfully. Rachel sighed and put her hands behind her head, "Nice weather today, eh?"
"Yeah…" Chris said, "Are you planning to leave today?"
Rachel was quiet. A nice breeze passed by, carrying leaves in the air and swished by them before she looked down to the pokémon she got yesterday. It felt like she had known it forever and wouldn't change him for another pokémon.
"Un…" She nodded, "Today feels right."
Her brother bit his lip before he took a deep breath, "I agree. Totally impulsive, but I agree."
Rachel groaned, "But I don't want to clean my room…"
Chris laughed and threw some grass at his sister, who yelled at him and threw back. They eventually woke up their pokémon and ended the grass fight with laughter.
"So today?" Chris asked and looked at her sister, waited for her final decision.
"Jupp, today." She said and patted Totodile on his head. "Maybe we should like, leave a note, moms at work."
"Or we can wait for her to return?" Chris suggested. He seemed to doubt his sister's previously idea. Rachel shook her head, "Mom ends late and besides… I think she would be off happier the sooner we left." Rachel looked sadly to the ground, "We remind her far too much about dad…"
There was another moment of silence before Chris got up and reached out his hand for his sister to grab and help her up. She first looked surprised, but then she smiled, grabbed his hand and heaved herself up. She rushed of the dirt on her clothes and then looked at her brother. "Let's go home and pack our stuff."
Chris nodded and they returned their pokémon to their pokéballs and ran home.
As Rachel grabbed the ladder to climb up to their house Chris called after her. "Hey sis, remember not to pack to much unnecessary stuff. Just pack the stuff you need. Remember, you'll be the one carrying your stuff!"
Rachel groaned, "Yeah, yeah, I know!" She answered back as she pulled herself up to the platform and ran up to the door. She opened the door and looked around, just to be sure that her mother hadn't returned home yet, then she dashed of to her room and slammed the door. Five minutes later she got out of the room and had a shoulder bag with her. She flicked her hair as she was satisfied with her packing and walked up to the fridge and packed down some food for the next coming days. Her brother walked out from his room and closed his door. "Are you done?" he asked. His sister waved her hand without looking at him as a sigh that she was in the middle of something important. Chris sighed. He crossed his arms and waited for his sister to finish the thing she was doing. Rachel snuck her head out from the fridge and smiled at her brother. She closed the door to the fridge and walked over to the table where some wrapped up sandwich were standing. She put some sandwiches in her bag and one in her pocket. The last one she threw at her brother. He caught it with both his hands and looked unsurely at his sister. She placed her closed hands on her hips. "I'm not going to carry all the food!" She said and winked. Then she headed to the front door and opened it. She turned around and smiled at Chris, "Are you ready?" she said and smiled cheerfully.
Chris nodded, "Yeah" he looked at the table. There was a note left on it. "Is that the message to mom?" he asked and pointed at it.
"Uh-huh." Rachel said. She sighed impatiently, "Chris, hurry up!" she called at him. Chris returned to his sister and nodded. He ran up to her and he closed the door behind them. As she climbed down the ladder and reached the ground she saw two people standing there. "Oh, shit…" Rachel murmured. Her brother looked questionably at his sister, and then he saw what she said it to.
"Trying to leave without us?" Yume asked. She had her arms crossed and looked slightly bored.
"Us? What do you mean by 'us'? You mean you." Rachel replied with a flat tone.
"Hikaru is going to help us too." Yume replied. A sigh was heard from Hikaru.
Rachel seemed annoyed. She stretched her back and sighed, "Fine! But don't get in the way too much, because if you do, me and my brother will leave you guys and then you can kiss my butt good bye in ever getting a new bike from me."
Yume snorted, "Yeah, yeah, whatever. Are we going to go now?"
"Sure…" Rachel said and flicked her hair sarcastically since she won the argument with Yume. Yume grinded her teeth behind Rachel's back, refusing to accept the fact that she lost. Rachel turned to her brother, "So where are we going to go now?" she asked. Chris picked up his pokénav and clicked on the map button on the menu. "West, then south to route 119." He put back his pokénav in his pocket.
"Okay." Rachel replied. "Maybe I should get one of those navigators…"
"You can look for one when we arrive at Mauville or Slateport." Chris replied.
Rachel stretched her arms in the air before she bent down and picked up her Totodile. Totodile replied with a happy gurgling sound and Rachel laughed. Chris turned around and looked at the people walking behind them in silence. He smiled shyly, "Uhm so… now when we're going to travel together some while, maybe we should present us?"
Yume looked at him, "I'm Yume from Fallarbor. I'm nine years old, turning 10."
Hikaru ran a hand through his hair and sighed, "My name is Hikaru and I'm from Lilycove City. I turned 15 this year and I have raised my pokémon 2 years earlier but I decided to become an official trainer maybe a couple of months ago."
Chris smiled, "Well, I'm Chris, I live here in Fortree. I'm eleven years old and Rachel over there," he pointed at his sister who was now in front of him, "…is my older sister." He smiled again, "Pleased to meet you." He tapped on his sister's shoulder with his finger, "Sis? Your turn."
"Humph!" Rachel snorted, "I'm Rachel, that's all you need to know!" she replied short and flat. Chris sighed. 'She really hates traveling with them… Oh well, she didn't make a fuss about me joining. I guess that's one good thing'
He placed his hands behind his head and walked up next to his sister. She was walking quite fast, probably because she wanted to get there as quick as possible so she could get rid of Yume and Hkaru.
'Hopefully she'll get used with them...' Chris thought and smiled unsurely at his sister who gave him a confused look.

And so,
they started their journey by leaving Fortree City. Oh, wait a minute, the adventure started long time ago, but now they finally started to move from the familiar area. A long journey always starts with a small footstep as many people say.

Zomg! Lolzors! I never thought it would take such time to get them away from their start town :x
But it's done!
Song: She's just Oblivious - ???