A/N: Finally, welcome to the 1st somewhat official chapter of Pokémon Esprit. Writing chapters on a daily schedule is really difficult (for me at least) but I'm really trying to get out content as much as I can so I hope people don't get too upset about this.

Anyways, before I leave I just want to clarify that the rules of the series is still here. I forgot to mention this on my last chapter, but the rule that this setting will take place in the world of the video game but with the logic of the anime, it also means that there are no physical or special types of attack or defense. I honestly think that the concept of that belongs in the videogame's logic, but not in with anime's logic.

Now that we in the first chapter, we can finally get into where the story starts off, Anyways, if there is nothing else to discus, then I hope you enjoy this chapter and a great day!

Disclaimer: I don't know if I need to do this or not but to be safe, I'm just going to say that I do not own anything Pokémon related. I only own this story and its characters. Okay now you can enjoy.

Chapter 1: The end of a journey

"We'll get serious too! Torterra, dodge the flamethrower and use stone edge!" Torterra, despite him being a heavy, oversized green and brown turtle that is known for his slowness, crouch low towards the ground and took a huge leap to the right. Using the powerful muscle within his legs, Torterra manage to avoid the flame beam, and with one stomp on the ground, a trail of stone pillars erupted from the earth and struck the other pokemon. Knocking them high into the air and landed hard on the ground.

An awed expression filled my opponents face. But not too long afterward, he began to smile and laugh with glee.

"Dang Kato!" He said with a joyful tone. "I swear, every time we meet you always surprise me in some way shape or form. I guess after all this time; I still can't get over it."

I smiled back at my opponent, "I'm glad you haven't changed much either Alex."

Alex looked back to his pokemon. His Infernape, the final evolution of Chimchar, stood back up with an annoyed expression. "This brings back a lot of memories of when we first met. When was that a year ago?"

"Not even close" I said laughing at his answer, "You must have some memory lost to say that. It has to be at least four years."

"Four years!" He said placing a hand behind his head. "It feels like it was only yesterday. I wonder if this battle will end with the same outcome as our first one."

"Hey, that was years ago. We've all grown up so any outcome can happen now."

"Let's see then shall we?" Alex put on his usual smirk, looking forward to this battle, "Infernape, get in close and use fire punch!"

The flaming monkey's hand became engulfed in flames and Infernape ran in close.

"Torterra use stone edge!" Stone pillars began erupting from the ground at Infernape's feet, but the red starter soon turns out to be very nimble and sidestep through all the attacks. It had little trouble getting close as it weaves past the erupting pillars. "Defend with protect!" My pokemon made a loud roar and a green shield went up in front of him, blocking the fire punch as it came.

"Infernape, jump into the air and use Fire Blast!" the fire type launched itself into the sky and fired a fiery projectile the shape of a symbol.

"Avoid it Torterra," Similar to the incident with the flamethrower, Torterra crouched down and leap backward to avoid the blast.

"Keep on using fire blast!" As Infernape landed on the ground, he started unleashing a series of the fire move.

I reminded myself that Infernape was a tricky target to catch and made a plan to counter his speed. Torterra leap from side to side trying to avoid the attack, but was then caught at the third blast. Regardless, the earth pokemon shook the attack off with minor damage.

"What?!" Alex questioned in shock.

"You didn't think me and Torterra grew soft after all this time did you?" I stated with a confident smile, "My pokemons and I went through some intense training since the last time we met. It would have been a downright shame if all that was for nothing."

"Take him out with Flare Blitz!" Suddenly, Infernape's entire body became engulfed in flames and then charges towards Torterra with great speed.

"Torterra, cover the battlefield with sandstorm and evade." My pokemon made a roar to the sky and large clumps of dust and sand started to engulf the area. At the last second, Torterra manage to leap to his right side, avoiding Infernape's charge attack with only a scratch.

As the fire type started coming out of his flare blitz, the field was already consume by the sandstorm, making it difficult for anyone to see and slowly damaging all pokemon in the area. Everyone, except my Torterra.

"Finish it with earthquake!"

"Infernape, jump as high as you can!" Alex said covering his face with his arms to block the sand. Infernape followed his trainer's voice and jump high as the ground shook and erupted.

I smiled at this opportunity.

Now was my chance to use it. I closed my eyes and focus my mind. I took a deep breath, and then all of a sudden, my perception of time slowed and my mind open up to the world. This is the result of my physic power. For a while, I never knew how I got this power, nor exactly what it is. For all I know, I could have been born like this or maybe this was some sort of accident. What I do understand is that this strange mental power of mine enhances my mind, to the point where I can think faster, smarter, and be able to sense the presence of others. I could even tell how strong my opponents are if I focus hard enough. It was a powerful asset in battle, so gave this mode a name. I called it, Esprit.

I visualize and scan the battle field; not with my eyes, but with my mind. The world turn to a light shade of blue and all I saw were me, the pokemons, and Alex all frozen in my perspective. I saw Infernape stuck in the air so I acted fast. This mental power only last for about four minutes in my perceptive, and after that I have to wait the same time used in order activate Esprit again. But time doesn't matter because while I'm in this state, my brain works and process information much faster than it normally would.

I focus on the two pokemon's distance and made a note on Infernape's speed and reaction time. Judging on how Infernape's movement in the air is, he will most likely land and slide to a position that I predicted to be one hundred twenty degrees from Torterra. I judge that the fire pokemon would land in less than three second and I had my plan.

Quickly exiting the mental world, I shouted as quickly as I could, "Giga Impact on your back right!" At the instance my words left my tongue, Torterra jump and turn, facing Infernape's direction. Then the earth pokemon's body became shrouded in a light purple aura and blasted towards the fire pokemon at rocket speed.

Thanks to the sandstorm being an annoyance to anyone who wasn't a rock, ground, or steel type, Infernape's reaction time slowed and unfortunately couldn't avoid Torterra's charge attack. The fire pokemon made a grunt of pain as he was tackled by Torterra.

An explosion of smoke cover the area, and as the dust cleared, so did the sandstorm. Infernape laid flat on his stomach outside of the battle ground. I wasn't sure if Infernape fainted or not because I was having too much fun looking at Alex's face.

"What just happen?" he said in a mostly confused but awed state, "how the heck did you react so quickly to my move?" I tried my best to hold back my laughter and excitement from his reaction. I can't wait to see his face when I explain everything to him. I wonder if he'll understand or believe it.

But before I could say another word, the wounded Infernape slowly got back up to his feet. In one quick motion, the flame pokemon let out a loud roar in rage. All signs of fatigue faded from his face as the fire on the pokemon's head intensify, causing the flame to burn hotter and larger.

"Blaze," I said commenting on Infernape's special ability, "Whenever Infernape has taken enough damage or is on the edge of losing, his overall fire type moves increase in power by a large amount. But because it activates when the pokemon is on low health, the next attack it takes will likely be the last."

"Glad to see your knowledge of battling is still as sharp as ever." commented Alex now paying attention to the match. "But just because we're against the wall doesn't mean this battle is over."

"I'm glad to know that you're still the aggressive and stubborn type. I like that trait; you don't give up even with the odds are against you."

"I guess we all can be a little stubborn sometimes. "Alex stated, "But after this I hope you can finally explain to me what has been going on with you."

"So you mean I tell you everything when I get everyone together or when I beat you in this match?"

"We'll see who beats who! Infernape use agility!" As the flames blaze with heat, Infernape's body began to channel a white aura around his body, increasing his already high speed. "Now use fire punch!"

"Use stone edge!" I called out. Torterra stomped on the ground and stone pillars erupted from the ground.

With great speed, Infernape charged towards Torterra, managing to avoid all of the stone pillars in the process. Unfortunately, Torterra couldn't keep up with Infernape's now enhance speed and took the fire punch directly to the head. Torterra grunted in discomfort but stood his ground.

"Get some distance away from him!" I called out to my pokemon. Using the trained muscle within his legs again, Torterra leap backwards away from his opponent. Infernape wasn't just fast, he was powerful too. "Use razor leaf!"

"Avoid them Infernape!" Using some acrobatics and his high speed, Infernape dodge the assault of leaves but not without difficulty.

"Infernape hid your location with double team!" Suddenly, fake images of Infernape began to form around Torterra. "Use Fire Punch again!" At the same time, the copies of Infernape all charge towards the center of Torterra.

"I guess now's the time to end this." I said looking towards my pokemon who nodded in response, "Torterra, surround yourself with Frenzy Plant!" Before the clones could connect, several giant vines erupted from the gearth around Torterra. Each vine stopped the clones in their path, preventing them from attacking directly.

"Now take them all down!" I said. Torterra swayed and the giant vines came up in the air and then smash downwards, catching a few Infernape clones in the process while some escape. The vines didn't stop there. As Torterra's plants lay on the ground, each started to move from left to right, wiping at nearby Infernapes.

"Keep yourself hidden again with double team." Alex said to Infernape. More flame pokemons started materializing on the field again.

I focused my mind and activate Esprit again, clearing my thoughts and slowing my perspective of time. The world around me stopped and I scan the presence of my opponent. Since the clones were just illusions, I could easily tell the fake Infernapes from the real one. The real Infernape stood about ten meters to the upper right side of Torterra, running on the side of the field.

I closed out of my mental world and came back to reality. "Torterra! Focus you attack to your right!" The earth pokemon understood my call and summon the gigantic vines down on the real Infernape who was too surprised to dodge.

Torterra may have gone a little bit too far as he willed four vines to slam against the flame pokemon, resulting in a loud explosion like sound which shook the earth and dust covering the area. As everything began to settle down, the frenzy plant began to disappear. The fainted Infernape laid flat on the ground in defeat. Alex, even though he lost the match, stood with a gentle smile.

"All right!" I exclaimed in victory. I ran up on the battlefield and jump onto my pokemon's back. Or shell if you want to see it that way. "You did great buddy. We're definitely going to win tomorrow." Torterra smile back at me, his face filled with confidence. I noticed he wanted to say something so I smiled and activated my Esprit to connect my mind with my pokemon. Oh yeah, did I also mention that I could talk with pokemons with this power? I guess it's a silly thing to do as an idea but in reality, its actually a great way to communicate with my pokemons.

"Infernape was a worthy opponent to face, but after all we've been through this won't stop us right Kato?" Said Torterra through my mind in a deep but kind voice.

"Yeah, I'm sure nothing can stop us the way we are now. But are you sure your ready to fight tomorrow?" I asked back.

"Hey, don't underestimate me kid. I'm not some old pokemon ready to go to sleep. I can take anything the world throws at me."

"You do sound like you're trying to be older than me."

"That's just me trying to spread some wisdom onto you. Somebody has to."

"I'm not sure calling yourself strong and confident is exactly wisdom. I think a better description would have to be... Egotism?"

"HEY!"

"Just kidding." I lightly chuckled to myself and I earn a semi aggressive nudge from Torterra's shoulders.

"Return, Infernape." I heard Alex say, returning Infernape back into his pokeball. He was still smiling when he walked up towards me, "Kato, you are one heck of a trainer."

"Thanks, but it's my pokemons that deserve the respect, not me."

"Don't say that," Alex said walking up and punching me lightly on my shoulder. "Anybody can work to become strong physically, but you have to work even harder to become strong mentally." You have no idea, I thought. "But you've got to tell me how you did all that stuff with knowing where my pokemon was and where he'll be."

"Well, every battle is a strategy and every strategy comes from a battle."

"Come on, again with that saying?" Alex said annoyed with my usual quote that I always say to him

"Don't worry, you'll find out later," I said turning away from Alex. "Let's go back inside; we have lots of stuff to talk about."

"Before we go Kato, do you mind if you can clear the fog away from this place." asked Alex.

"Why do you ask?"

"Well, I want to see the landscape again from up here. You've got to admit that the view from the top of this waterfall is pretty amazing right?"

I smile back at him. "Sure, why not." I jump off my pokemon and drew out a pokeball from my bag. "Rotom, I need your assistance." I release Rotom from its ball, revealing an orange, lightning rod shape Pokémon with light blue eyes. When out of its pokeball, it had a wide smile and made a little chattering static sound as if it was laughing.

"Rotom, can you use Defog to clear the area?" The plasma pokemon responded with a static noise which I assumed was a laugh and flew upward. Its body then began to glow in a cyan light and the fog that covered the landscape began to move. A few seconds later, the large area of fog dissolve, allowing the sun to finally shine and the landscape to be in view. I activate Esprit to him and said "Thanks for that buddy."

"No problem boss." Rotom said cheerfully.

Alex let out a short whistle and placed both hands behind his head as the land began to take shape. "I've got to admit, the league picked an amazing spot to build this place." He gazes out besides the top left side of the water fall. I return Rotom back into his ball and shared the view with him.

I took in the scenery, a small but long breeze blowing through my hair. We were on top of a short but wide mountain with a large waterfall flowing down the middle of it. A large forest surrounded the bottom area followed by the ocean off of the shore. It was a beautiful piece of nature, but what stood out for me was not the view or the waterfall. It was the fact that on an island with little to no civilization on it and was mostly covered with green, there was the one building that stood in the center of it that shined like a gem in the sand.

I looked behind me, admiring said building. It was designed like a cathedral with five towers connected to it and a poke ball shape symbol on the front window. "We've come a long way to get here." I said out loud.

"You've come a long way to get here." Alex corrected emphasizing on the word you've. "I'm not going to challenge those guys today."

"Why not?" I said in a bit of a complaining way. "We have waited years for this, the least you can do is try."

Alex shook his head as he answer, "I'm not strong enough to compete with them unlike you. Plus, I know this type of life style isn't cut out for me."

I sign a bit but I understand where he was coming from.

"Come on." He said walking back and placing a hand on my left shoulder. "Let's get back inside, heal our Pokémon, and talk about what's been going on and why you call me out here all of a sudden."

"Sure, and let's get something to eat too, I'm starving."

"As long as you're paying for the both of us."

"Hey! Why should I be the one to pay?"

"Because you're the one who called me out here in the first place dummy." He said laughing.

"How about we have a race instead?" I said walking in front of him. "The last one in has to pay."

"Okay first of all, you're being way too competitive today." He said, "And second, you just made a deal that you won't win."

I took off running, "First one there gets to eat whatever he wants!"

"Hey! You can't just make a bet and run off like that!"

"Can and just did!" I shouted back.

"Oh you son of… wait up!" Alex rush back to the building at the center of the island.

It was an amazing feeling to finally meet like this since I've been in isolation for about two and a half years. Well, in actuality it was two years and seven months, but I guess it doesn't really matter. Laughter echo from the front door of the cathedral as we both enter its door step. It was both happy, yet sad at the same time. Soon, tomorrow will mark the day where my pokemon adventure ends. Tomorrow will be the day when I finally challenge the Elite Four.

"Did that really happen?!" asked Alex eagerly as he was eating a taco.

"Yep, Hoenn is quite a crazy place. Really different compare to Sinnoh, but since the climate there is a desert compare to this place, I don't think I'm ever going to return soon." I said shuddering with the memory of the weather there.

"What else did you do there?" Alex began asking questions quickly, "Did you meet anybody important or did you fight any new pokemon that I never heard of? Did you fight any of those new mega evolutions that had been on the news? What about the professor there? Did you manage to talk to him? What about the legendries? Oh wait! Can you at least tell me how the beach girls there were? Since Hoenn is a tropical island, they have to have a bunch of-"

Alex was soon interrupted as I chuck a cup full of water at him, leaving his upper body partly wet.

"Dude, what was that for?" He asked plainly.

"There are other people inside this pokemon center that can hear us you know." I whisper in an angry tone, "Talk like that and will be kicked out for being suspected as perverts! Then I'll never be able to challenge Cynthia."

Alex placed a hand underneath his chin and an elbow on the table. "That's so strange how you and the champion of Sinnoh know each other like best friends since the first year of your journey."

I took a sip from my cup. "I wouldn't exactly call us best friends. We're more like, I don't know, training buddies?"

"Training buddies." Alex repeated.

"Hey, I can't think of everything about every situation."

"No, but you are able to calculate strategies on the battle field in less than a second."

I shrugged at his comment and said nothing, taking another sip from my cup and soup.

"So are you sure that you know nothing of this, 'Esprit' of yours?" Alex asked.

"Nope, the only thing I do know is that it started showing up since the beginning of my adventure and started getting stronger as time went on."

"Whelp, maybe you had some sort of accident and you forgot about it."

"I highly doubt that."

"Well, I guess that explains how you got so strong over the years. I still can't believe that you can talk to pokemon with that power. Sill, isn't it, like, cheating to be using psychic powers against people in battle?" Brian asked in curiosity

"Hey, if it's a power that belongs to me and I am able to use without harming others or myself, it shouldn't be a problem." I said with mild confidence. "Although, I have decided to not rely on my Esprit during my battles with the elite four and the champion, nor will I even talk to my pokemon through it. I want to prove to both myself and to the people who know about this that I am strong without this power."

"Okay then," Alex said satisfied. "So, in other words you're purposely limiting yourself to prove just how strong you are."

I let out a little chuckle at his remark. "Sure, if you want to put it that way. But I'm still planning on using Esprit if my back is against the corner."

We then took a few minutes of silence to finish our food and rest up. It's been a pretty long conversation as we both review what happen on our journey. To summarize it up, I took my first two years of my pokemon journey very slowly. Beating other trainers and gym leaders, seeing some of the landmarks within Sinnoh, and I even manage to beat up an evil organization and make huge discoveries with Cynthia. It's kind of a long story. After the first two years, I realized my mental powers began to become stronger, but at the same time, unstable. It was a major problem for me and after seeing just how strong the Elite Four was at the time, I decided to start training myself to better control my powers and make my pokemons stronger.

"You know, I'm kind of glad you called me up here." Alex said breaking the silence. "After two years of training on top of that mountain, I was starting to worry if you were still alive or not."

"Yeah well, originally I was kind of hoping to stay there for another year or two." I said feeling a bit bored.

"Seriously?! Come on, I know we live in one of the coldest place in the world but not even we can live on top of that mountain for two years alone."

"Ok first of all," I said giving him a look of annoyance. "It took placed on the side of Mt. Coronet, not on top. Second, it was two years and seven months, much longer than you would expect. Third, I wasn't living there alone; an old man named Kumo built a cabin there and allowed me to stay with him. And finally, it is possible to live on Mt. Coronet alone, as stated by Kumo."

Alex sat there puzzled at his seat for couple of seconds.

"What?" I asked.

"Don't tell me," Alex began with a sigh, "that after the two long years on top of that mountain-"

"Two years and seven months and on the mountain's side."

"-the only thing that changed about your personality is that you now have a habit of correcting people and stating every little information in a specific way?"

"Well technically, I didn't discuss every single information in a-"

"It doesn't matter!" Alex sighs and placed a hand on his forehead. "Kato, you don't have go around and talk about every single detail about something. If you do, then you'll just annoy more people."

Alex than sat back in his chair and took a sip from his cup. I took his words into consideration. I guess it has been a while since I talked to any person that I knew.

"All right," I said getting up from my chair. "It's about time I call it for the day and start preparing for tomorrow."

"Wait a minute; you said you had something else to tell me." Alex said stopping me from going.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." I sat back down and took in a deep breath. "Three days from now, I am planning on leaving Sinnoh and spending some time in Kalos for a month or more."

"The Kalos region? Are you trying to find a way to get stronger through that mega thing?"

"Mega evolution," I corrected. "And no, the reason why I'm going is because I am meeting a man there that has caught my attention."

"What do you mean by that?" Alex question.

"One day, while I was still on Mt. Coronet, a messenger came all the way from the Kalos region in order to find me. The person who sent that message said that he knew who, or more accurately, what I was and that he was exactly like me."

There was a short, silent pause before Alex started talking again. "Someone like you?" He repeated.

"Yes, apparently I'm not the only one with this strange mental power. I assume that this mysterious man is saying that he has the same power or can do the same stuff as I can. Of course I was skeptical at first, but then I realize that his message interested me to much to ignore."

Alex lay back in his chair and thought for a moment. "So what does he want with you?"

"He said he wanted to talk to me for a while now," I answered. "or someone like me. He was saying that I could be a big piece in a little project that he has that could potentially help the world."

"Do you know what this 'little project' is?"

"Something about bringing a better relationship with people and pokemon."

Alex took a good six second to process the information in before taking, "Sound's too suspicious to me. I mean, that sounds too much like an evil plan to me."

"Yeah, but what if he's telling the truth? I've been living with this power for a while now and I would like to know where it came from."

Alex let out a loud exhale. "All right then, what's going to happen now?"

"I called everyone that was on the journey with us. We're going to meet together the day after tomorrow at my hometown at around one. That's when I plan to tell them everything that has happen."

"Oh good, it's been a while since we got the group together." Alex commented. "But are you sure that you want to meet in Twinleaf town?

"Yes, it's about time I meet my family again after all these years." I said with the feeling of regret from the memories.

After another pause, Alex stood up from his seat. "Well, I guess I should let you get some rest for tomorrow." He grabs his backpack and started heading towards the entrance of the pokemon center within the cathedral.

I waved at him. "See'ya later Alex!"

Alex waved back. "See you later, future champion."

A/N: Another chapter completed!

Again, writing chapters like this can be really hard to keep in order for me so please be patient.

Okay, for the question of the chapter: Who is your favorite legendary pokemon and why? I guess my favorite legendary would be Arceus since he's basically God, but I also like him for how much of a badass he was in his movie. I mean come on, he single handily took on not one, not two, but THREE legendary pokemons all at the same time with ease. Not including the fact the those three legendries were also basically gods in there own respective ways.

Tell me, was this chapter too short because I felt it was compare to the prologue, but give me your thoughts on the length of chapters.

Also, the next two chapters may feature a lot (and I mean A LOT) of action in its content so I hope it doesn't bother people too much.

Don't forget to review it could really help me and with my productiveness with this story and I wish you all a great day.

Signed -The Grand Enchanter