Chapter 2

So, the following week was absolutely dreadful. First, I discovered that Amy had been cheating on me the majority of the time we had been together. Naturally, I broke it off with her as soon as I found out. The fact we were moving had made me miserable enough, and now my girlfriend was cheating on me. Oh, but that's just the start.

It also turns out that my Kanto League Trainer License is no good in Kalos. That means I not only can't train Pokemon, but I can't even legally own a Pokemon! And I can't do anything about it here in Kanto, I have to go to Kalos to get re-registered. Luckily, my credits from the Trainer School here would have transferred, but that still means I can't take my Squirtle, who I had nicknamed "Shellshocker" along with me because I have to get a new license in Kalos. That also likely means I'll be given a new starter as well, one that's not a Squirtle.

Professor Gary Oak, the local Professor, said he could take care of Shellshocker for me until I could get a license and get the money to have Shellshocker transferred to the Kalos Region, but I already knew that would take a long time. Still, I was at least thankful for that. Gary was a lot like his grandfather had been, though I've been told he wasn't always like that. They say something changed in him when a friend of his died a long time ago. I don't really understand it, but whatever, I guess. All I cared about was that I'd hopefully get Shellshocker back in the Kalos Region.

On the other hand, my Mother had already re-registered as a trainer in Kalos, so we'd be taking our Rhyhorn, Rai, with us. I had begged Mom to take Shellshocker under her name as well, but she said it was already registered to me, so there was nothing she could do. That didn't make me happy, but, I suppose that's just the way the cookie crumbles, as they say.

I spent what little free time I had with my friends, but eventually I had to say good-bye to them. It was a heartbreaking moment, one I wished I hadn't had to have. And then, after that, we moved, simple as that.

The new house in Kalos was all right...I guess...I had my own room now, which was nice. It had felt weird coming back home and sleeping in the same room as my Mom after having been away from her a whole year at Trainer School. My room was pretty simple, though; it had a computer, a dresser, a full-length mirror, a bed, and a few other odds and ends I had put up on the walls and such. I had spent a lot of time up there since the move, though, because I didn't really want to be here or be around anyone.

"Serena!" I heard my mother shout from downstairs and I grumbled. I was playing a game on my new handheld device and really didn't want to be disturbed.

"What, Mom?!" I shouted as I tapped the screen furiously.

"Someone's here to see you!"

"Tell them to fuck off!"

I heard my Mother stomp her foot. "Serena! You get your ass down here right this moment! I'm tired of you acting like this!"

I rolled my eyes and dropped the device onto my bed. "Fine! I'm coming!" I shouted and jumped out of bed. I hadn't bothered to change yet today, so I was wearing my pajamas, which consisted of nothing more then a long short-sleeved shirt that went down almost to my knees. My hair was a mess as well, which I'll note is not something I would have dared to allow before, but now, I just didn't care. "I'm here..." I groaned as I stepped down the stairs and up to my Mom.

Mom sighed and shook her head. "Honestly, Serena...I know you're upset about the move, but still..." She grabbed my hair and tossed it. "I know you, you never even get out of bed without brushing your hair three times. What's wrong?"

"I hate it here!" I shouted. "My friends are gone, my Pokemon I worked so hard to get is gone, everything I know is gone!"

Mom sighed and put her hand on her hip. "Well, there's two kids about your age right outside. One of them is a really cute boy-" I groaned in response to that. "Oh come now, I know you don't care about boys very much, but I think even you would like this kid."

I rolled my eyes. "Let's see, shall we?" I peeked through a small window in the door. What greeted me was not a really cute guy, though, but instead an absolutely stunning young woman. She couldn't have been any older then me, in fact, I was pretty sure she was younger. She was dressed in a pink short-sleeved shirt that had black ends and three black bows on the front. She also was wearing a pair of short shorts and a pair of pink sandals. She had brown hair that she had managed to tie into four pigtails, two in the back and two in the front. Her eyes also seemed rather stunning, like two bright opals shining in the sun. "Be right back!" I shouted and rushed upstairs.

I spent several minutes brushing my hair and putting it into a ponytail, and then another few minutes dressing afterwards. I had chosen a black shirt with a high-waisted red skirt along with a pair of black shoes. Finally, I finished off the entire ensemble with a red felt hat. "All right, good to go." I grabbed my purse off my desk, slung it around my arm, then rushed down.

Mom giggled the moment she saw me. "Seems something out there caught your eye, huh?"

I blushed and looked away. "W-well...I mean...maybe Kalos isn't going to be all bad, right? I shouldn't just wallow around in self-pity."

Mom giggled again. "Right...you keep telling yourself that. In either case, have fun with your new friends." She waved and walked over to the TV.

I stopped at the door to make sure my outfit was straightened out and I was truly ready. When I was, I opened the door and stepped out. Standing next to the girl was a cute looking boy. He was dressed in a blue long-sleeved jacket and long pants. He had a pair of big black boots, along with a black bag wrapped around his arm. He also had black hair that was about shoulder-length with some of it coming down in front of his face. "Hello, neighbor," the boy spoke up with a smile.

"Hi," I smiled, my first smile in Kalos. I extended my hand. "My name's Serena, Serena Yuki."

"Name's Calem, Calem Durant." Calem extended his hand and shook mine. "And this young lady is Shauna Giles." He waved to the girl I had seen through the door.

"Hello," Shauna said with a big smile. "Nice to meet you, Serena." She held out a hand.

"Y-you as well..." I blushed as I shook her hand. Her hand was so soft, and she was even cuter up close.

"Well, then, now that I've confirmed your identity," Calem spoke up and reached into his bag. He pulled out a letter and handed it to me. He then pulled out a picture and looked at it, then at me. "Yeap." He flipped it around, showing me it was actually a picture of me. "The Professor was right. You do live here."

I looked down at the letter. "Professor?"

I opened the letter and read it over. It said something along the lines of "My name is Professor Sycamore, these are Calem and Shauna, they're good friends of mine. I'd like you to become friends with them. Also, I'll give you a Pokemon since you don't have one." Again, that's my own paraphrase, I assure you, it was worded much fancier then that.

"So...who's Professor Sycamore?"

"He's the local Professor. He lives in Lumiose City to the north. Actually, now that I've found you, that means I've found all four of the other kids."

"'Other kids'?"

Calem nodded. "Professor Sycamore has trusted me with five Pokemon. I'm supposed to give each of them to one of four kids. He gave me pictures, names, and addresses for each of them. I'm supposed to keep the last Pokemon myself. He wants us to go on a Pokemon journey to help complete the Kalos Pokedex."

I groaned and rolled my eyes. You know, for an encyclopedia that had been created over twenty years ago, it seemed like nothing had been done on it because it always needed to "be completed", usually by kids. I think it was just the Professors' way of getting kids out into the real world, but whatever. It had been started by Professor Samuel Oak, and Gary and his colleagues had taken it over since his passing a few years ago. "And he picked me to do this?"

Calem nodded. "He said you were one of the highest graded students in the Kanto Trainer School."

"I don't know...I'd love to go on a Pokemon journey and all, but...I kind of want to start it with my starter from Kanto..."

"I don't think that'll be possible. You have to have at least two badges before you can use the Global Trade Station, and you can't import Pokemon from other regions without using it."

"What?!" I shouted. "Damn it! Why does this whole move had to be so fucking stupid!"

"I'm sorry..." Shauna spoke up and I turned to her. "I'd love to help you get your Pokemon if I can..."

I bit my lip. She was so cute, and she had like...these big eyes as she was saying that, and it made my heart just want to melt. I sighed. "I guess I don't have much choice..." I turned to Calem. "All right then, give me my Pokemon."

"I don't have them. I gave them to Trever to watch over."

"WHAT?!" I shouted. "Then where do I find Trevor at?"

"Oh, I'll take you to him. Just follow me." Calem smiled and then turned around. He started to walk off and I turned to Shauna. She smiled and grabbed my hand, which made me go red as a beat. She then began to walk beside me as we made our way out of Vaniville Town and to the north towards Aquacorde Town.

Vaniville Pathway, also referred to as "Route 1" was a short little path. It only took about a half hour or so to walk. I noticed some Pokemon around here playing in the trees and things off the path, but we stayed on the path the entire time. After that, we had arrived in Aquacorde Town. Aquacorde Town was a pretty small town, much like Vaniville had been. There were a few buildings here and there, but what caught my attention was the few tables and chairs sitting out in the middle of the town. Upon a closer look, I noticed two kids sitting at one table.

One of the kids was short and he was a solid ginger. His hair was in a sort of weird, afro-like mess. It didn't stick up on top of his head, but rather, stuck out all the way around his head like a big ball. He wore a pair of black pants, a white shirt with a grass-green vest over it, and lime-green shoes. The backpack on his back was also the same color, and I wondered how he was sitting in the chair comfortably with that on his back. Perhaps that's why he was hunched forward?

The other kid was big and fat. He was likely taller then me and wore a black short-sleeved shirt that had a Vanillite, a Pokemon in the shape of an ice cream cone, on the front of it. He wore a pair of orange pants and white shoes and his hair was black and stuck up on the top. In fact, his hair only seemed to exist on the top of his head, all of the sides seemed to have been shaved, or maybe he just didn't have any there?

Calem walked forward and took a seat in front of the two boys and Shauna let go of my hand and rushed ahead, sitting down next to Calem. I walked forward, examining all four of the kids now at the table. "Come on, have a seat," Calem said with a smile and pointed to the chair next to him. I looked around for a moment, but I noticed Shauna had sat down in the chair between the fat kid and Calem. I sighed and sat down next to him.

"All right, everyone, this is Serena," Calem spoke and waved towards me.

"Wow! So you're the Serena girl that Calem was talking about needing to find?" the fat kid asked.

"I must admit, Shauna had said earlier she saw a picture of you. Her description of you was spot on," the ginger kid spoke.

"Sureen, this is Tierno," Calem waved to the fat kid. "He can really tear up the dance floor and is going on this journey to learn about Pokemon and how they move."

"I want to create a Pokemon dance!" Tierno said with a big grin on his face.

"Nice to meet you," I smiled.

"And this is Trevor." Calem waved to the ginger kid. "He's a little shy, but he always gets prefect scores on his tests."

"Nice to meet you as well."

"Y-you too," Trevor stuttered.

"All right!" Tierno shouted. "Now that we're done with introductions, it's onto the first order of business! We all have nicknames for each other except for Serena."

Calem rolled his eyes. "Do we really need a nickname for everyone?"

Tierno looked at Calem with a glare. "I'd feel closer to everyone if I had a nickname for them." Tierno turned back to me. "So, would you mind if I called you 'Lady S.'?"

"What?!" Shauna shouted. "She's a 'Lil S' at the least!"

"U-umm..." I tried to interject but Shauna turned to Trevor.

"Why don't you come up with something?"

"WHAT?!" Trevor shouted. "Y-you want me to nickname someone I just met?! Are you crazy? Honestly, Shauna, you can't put people on the spot like that."

Calem sighed. "Why don't we let Serena decide what we call her?"

"U-umm..." Everyone was staring at me now. Tierno had pushed himself forward and looked hard at me.

"Oh! Serena, how old are you?" Shauna asked suddenly.

"H-how old am I?" I blinked for a moment. "I'm eighteen, why?"

"I have the perfect nickname for you, then, 'Onee-sama'!"

"O-Onee-sama?" I asked, surprised. Onee-sama was a Nippon word for "Older Sister" and was usually used as a sign of respect. But again, that was a word use in the Nippon Islands, where the Kanto and Johto regions were. This was Kalos, which was on the other side of the world. How did Shauna know such a term to begin with? And why did she want to call me that of all things?

Shauna nodded. "You're from Kanto, right? That means your from the Nippon Islands." She proceeded to explain the meaning of the term, then went into why she had picked it. "Calem's seventeen, but he won't turn eighteen for almost a year, I'm sixteen, but will be seventeen in a few months, Tierno is fifteen, and Trevor is fourteen. That means you're older then all of us. If we want a nickname to express being close to you, I think 'Onee-sama' works perfectly."

While it wasn't uncommon for younger people to call older people "Onee-sama" even if they weren't related, it was much more common for people only a few years younger then you to use the term "Onee-chan" which was a more personal term. I also explained that if they wanted to use a Nippon term as my nickname, I'd recommend something like "Serena-chan" instead, because I didn't really think I was old enough to be a "big sister" to anyone.

"Serena-kun," Shauna spoke with a smile and that made me blush. The term "-kun" is a somewhat informal term and usually used to express that you feel very close to a guy. However, that was the other part about it, it was used for males, not females.

"Serena-san might be better in that regard," I explained.

Shauna nodded and smiled. "All right, then! Serena-san it is!"

I blushed a bit more. I was happy that they were thinking so heavily about where I was from and wanting to make me feel happy that I was here instead of there. I wondered if I could go as far as to get them to speak my native language, but then I remembered they were Kalosians. I doubted any of them had even begun to study Nipponese, except maybe Shauna. "Well...now that that's out of the way...what's next?" I asked.

"We get our Pokemon!" Shauna cheered. "Hey, Tierno, you have them right now, don't you?"

Tierno nodded. "Trevor and I also already got ours, so all you three have to do is pick yours now." He reached down and picked up a small capsule. He put it on the table and opened it, revealing three pokeballs. One had a leaf symbol on it, one had a fire symbol, and one had a water drop symbol. He pushed the button on all three pokeballs and out popped three different Pokemon. One was a kind of weird brown creature. I had dark brown arms, white toes, and had a couple of triangular marks of dark fur on its face. It also looked like it was wearing some kind of green hood on its head, but I quickly realized that was just part of its fur. I'd later learn this Pokemon was called "Chespin".

The second one was a blue frog creature. It had two big yellow eyes that stuck above its head and some kind of white fluff that went around its neck. This Pokemon was called "Froakie". And then I saw it, one of the cutest Pokemon I had ever seen. It had beautiful golden fur on its body, as well as orange fur that stuck out of its ears. It had gorgeous fire-red eyes and its mouth and the fur around it was snow-white in color. It looked similar to a fox and I was immediately in love. This was "Fennekin".

I picked up Fennekin and smiled. "You're such a cutie!" I pulled it close and snuggled it, then realized what I was doing and quickly composed myself. "That is to say...umm...I like this one a lot." I cleared my throat and looked away.

"All right, then you can have it," Shauna spoke with a smile. "I'll take Lil' Chespin, then!"

Calem chuckled. "Guess that leaves me with Froakie. That's fine, a Water-type is a good one to choose for a starter."

"Oh yeah...what type are you, anyway?" I asked as I looked at Fennekin. Fennekin looked up at me with a smirk and breathed a small flame in my direction. It startled me, and I jumped back, causing the chair to tip back and me to fall to the ground. Calem blushed heavily as he got a good look down my skirt as I lied there with my legs sticking up into the air.

"Serena-san!" Shauna shouted and quickly grabbed my skirt, pulling it closed. "You shouldn't expose yourself like that."

"I wasn't trying to..." I'm pretty sure I was beat red at that moment as I slowly rolled onto my side and stood to my feet. I patted myself off and sighed. "Well, guess the little fox thing is a Fire-type."

Shauna nodded. "That's Fennekin. He's a cute little Fire-type." She giggled.

"Well, now that that bit of embarrassment is over..." I stood my chair upright, then sat back on it. My hand moved forward and lazily began to pet Fennekin without me even realizing it. "So what now?"

"Well, now you get this," Trevor said as he handed me a small rectangular device. "This is the Pokedex. It was first created by Professor Samuel Oak of Kanto. However, since he retired, and since passed away, he gave the task of its completion to other professors. Professor Sycamore has given the task of completing it to us."

"Hasn't the Pokedex been around for like...twenty-five years, though? Why isn't it complete, yet?"

"There's always new Pokemon to be found." Well, Trevor did have a point there, but still...

"Oh crap! I forgot to give this to your Mom when we were there." Calem pulled out a letter and handed it to me. "Can you give it to her for me? It's from Professor Sycamore."

I nodded. "Sure." I smiled and stood up. "Anything else? Or should I head home to give Mom this letter?"

"Nope, that's it!" Tierno jumped to his feet, and I swear I felt the ground shake. "Come on, Trevor! Let's go look for some Pokemon!"

Trevor nodded and got up. Him and Tierno rushed off to the north and I watched them go. I then looked down at the letter, then began to head to the south. Fennekin hopped down from the table and began to follow behind me. "Wait! Serena-san!" I turned, noticing Shauna was running up to me.

"Shauna?"

Shauna smiled. "I want you to be my first!"

Let's just say, I totally misunderstood that statement and turned beat red. "E-excuse me?"

Shauna pulled out her pokeball. "I want you to be the first person I battle!"

I slapped my forehead. "Of course..." I looked down at Fennekin, then up at Shauna. "All right, then, let's battle!"

"Come on out Lil' Chespin!" Shauna tossed her pokeball forward, releasing her Pokemon.

"Fennekin, use Ember!" I shouted and Fennekin unleashed a small blast of fire forward. Chespin only had time to appear before it found itself squealing as it was struck by the fire.

"Chespin!" Shauna shouted. "Quick, attack it with Tackle!"

"Ember." As Chespin rushed forward, Fennekin let out another small blast of fire, which struck Chespin hard. It caused it to roll backwards until it stopped at Shauna's feet, it's eyes swirling.

"I lost already?!"

I giggled. "Well, I was at the top of my class in the Trainer School I went to. Besides which, you were using a Grass-type against a Fire-type. That never ends well."

Shauna nodded. "All right, then next time I'll be sure to get some strong Pokemon to fight you with!"

I giggled. She was just so cute! "All right, then, I look forward to next time. Come on, Fennekin." And with that, we returned home to deliver the letter to my Mother.