"Awwwhhh…what time is it?"A young girl named Lana woke up one morning to find herself late to pick a starter pokemon. Lana is ten, and has only started to learn alot about pokemon; she has long shiny brown hair, and beautiful brown eyes, with a light brown hat over her head, and a light blue shirt that reaches down to her light red skirt, with a backpack over her shoulder; and very new sneakers, that shimmer in the combined colors red, and white. Her mother, and her father both own a gym one in Petalburg city, and the other in Lilycove city. "8:00 o' clock, already, heh time sure flew by…well in my dreams of course" "Lana…sweetie wake up, its already 8:00 o' clock". "Lana don't forget to eat your breakfast that I left on the table, ok?". "Ok mom, at least I won't forget this time". Lana(Thinks)…I'm gonna be late if I don't get up and get ready) *The door opens* "Huh" "Lana…your father just called…he said he wanted to talk to you" "Alright, I'll be right there mom." "Lana…I have a friend called Birch, well Prof.Birch of course, anyway you told me that you would love to travel and battle pokemon trainers all over the world right?" "Yeah, why?" "Well he has a lab near Littleroot-town, and..well I was thinking…maybe you could visit him there" "But, why?" "Well I haven't seen him in a long time, and so have you, and he could teach you a lot more about pokemon then you already know" "Really!" "Yup, so why don't you go pay him a visit ok?" "Ok, sure" "Bye Lana, and don't forget that wherever you are I'll always be there, and you don't- "What, What's wrong dad?" "I have to go now Lana, and tell your mother that I will be back soon…ok?" "O-kay dad…bye" "What did your father say dear?" "He'll come back very soon mom(Thinks)…..I know he will) "Hey mom, I'm going to go visit a friend of dad, ok?" "Ok dear, but be back soon" "I will mom, and you can count on that". Linda(Thinks)…Oh my little girl has grown so much now.. that…I have to let go of her…I can't keep on treating her as a child….soon she will have to go on her own, but…until then Lana will always be my baby-girl) "I hope that she won't miss dinner like she did last time she went out". Lana(Thinks)…I wonder what dad was gonna say just before he hanged up the phone…oh well my dad is very busy at sometimes, but even I get used to it, and that I must admit). *The horizon sets beyond Lana's mere imagination* "Awwwwwww" Lana was pleased with the sight of the horizon just over the side of a cliff…..cliff oh-no. "Wha-Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh" The screen zooms out, that leaves Lana's voice echoing through the woods. "Huh, what was that" a young boy begins to rush over where he heard the screams come from. "owwwwwww…..oh-no my bike" *Lana starts to check if there she has a flat tire* "Well I don't have a flat tire, but I don't have time to get to Birch's place either". *The screen zooms back to the boy* "I better get going, I-….. "Huh" *A swarm of beedrill come out from a huge old oak tree high above Lana* "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH". "Huh, arghhh" *the boy pulls out his skateboard from his backpack, and rides off to the one location of where the source of the voice is coming from. "B-B-BE-BEE-BEEDRILLLLLL" (Oh great what a great time to get chased by a bunch of beedrill, and now how much more bad luck can I ever get from crashing my bike; to getting chased by a pack of beedrill…arghhhhh…i gotta find a way to loose them…hmmmmmmm….I got it…I'll just cut right through this route, and then I'll go back to my bike whenever they're not behind me…then I'll quickly ride my bike to Prof.Birch's lab as soon as possible…oooooo Lana you are brilliant). *The young boy cuts into route 107, and heads straight for a bridge across the river to the place where beedrill love to be at*. "Now if I could just-wha huh…ahhhhhhhhhhhhh" *The screen zooms out again once more* "Huh, again…but where could it be coming from, and who?". *Lana then falls down another cliff, and at the same time looses all those beedrill* "Great..owwwww…and once again a had fallen down another cliff…arghhhhhhh I just hate-huh" "Uhhhh, are you ok?" The boy had never seen anyone else around here at all. "Hey, do you need help?" The young boy held out his hand to her, at first though Lana was staring at him for a while then she took his hand; and he helped her up. "Uhhhhh, thanks for the help, oh and by the way my name is Lana if you were wondering" "Lana huh?, well my name is Daniel" Daniel had the same color hair with a hat over his head, and a black shirt; with a red and white vest over it that stretched down to his light blue pants (that were a little baggy) and a black wrist band exactly like Lana's (But only smaller, and skinnier) and black, white, and red sneakers. "Oh-shoot, I almost forgot something" "Forgot what?" "Well you see…my dad is a gym leader of Petalburg city, and he asked me if I could visit his old pal for him" "Hmmmmmm, oh I understand now, but is your dad's name Norman?" "Yes that's it" "Oh really, well then that must mean that your headed over to Prof.Birch's lab, am I right?" "Uhhhh yeah, but how'd you know?" "Heh, Oh just a guess" Daniel gave a wink at Lana, and began talking about Prof.Birch. "You see….when a child becomes ten he/she can pick a starter pokemon to battle other trainers, and well most likely other things like that, and this year I'm gonna finally get one" Lana had a confused face for a while, then she began to grin a little bit after thinking that she'll be able to have to great surprises in one (That is if her mom, and dad will let her travel on her own to become a pokemon master). "I'm headed over to Birch's place, since you gotto head there too, well maybe I can- "Done" "Huh?" "Done with what, I thought that you were gonna ride on my bike, and we can head there at the same time together" "Heh, well I…ummmm…but you don't have a bike" "Of course I do, let me just pull it out of here……………ah- ha, I found it" "Oh, it doesn't really matter now, I got my bike fixed…so…lets go" (As you can tell from this part Daniel did want Lana to ride on his bike…and he also used the word "together"……alright if you don't get it then never mind) *Lana, and Daniel both rode their bikes up to Prof.Birch's lab just near the beach* "Hey professor, its me Lana…Norman's daughter" "Really, your Norman's daughter, Hmmmmmm; then you must be Lana" "Funny, cause that's what I just said" "Hey, dad you can't forget me now can ya?" "This is your dad?" "Yup, Lana meet my dad Birch" "Well its really pronounced "Prof.Birch" of course you would already know that be now" "Oh yeah ummmm….Professor I was wondering if you could- "If I could let you pick a starter pokemon?" "Uhhh yeah, but how'd you know?" "Well you see your dad has been telling me everything about how you want to someday travel from place to place, and visit other unique places like that, and so yeah sure here you can pick from these three pokemon that I just caught recently". *Prof.Birch took out the first poke ball, and gave it to Lana* "Here about this one?" *Out came a treeko* "Uhhhhh, well maybe not that one" "Ok then how about this one then?" *out came a mudkip* "Hmmmmm, a water pokemon?" "Or if not that one, then how about this one?" *Out came a cute little torchic* "Awwwwwww, how adorable" *The torchic walks up to Lana, and rubs against her leg* "I'll take this torchic" "Alright then, but are you sure?" "I'm positive Professor" "Ok then here take these too" Birch hands out the new, and latest poke dex, plus 5 poke balls* "Thanks Professor" "No problem, I just-huh "And I'll pick this mudkip for myself" "Well ok then Daniel here you go too" *hands Daniel a poke dex, with 5 poke balls* "Thanks dad" "No problem son" "So…I guess this means I'll be able to travel around the world from now on" "UH-huh, but not only that it means that I'll be the number one pokemon master, and I bet- "Oh please, tch likes that's ever gonna happen" "Hmmmmm, you know you two can travel together, and help each other out…..so what do ya say?" *Both Lana, and Daniel (think) well….maybe I could travel with Daniel; Hmmmmm…..maybe I could travel with Lana) *Both say….* "OKAY" "That's great" "uh-huh, oh-no I gotta be heading back right now…my mom might get worried, well bye Daniel, and you too Professor!" Now that Lana has a pokemon she can finally travel around the world, not alone but with Daniel too. But only if her mom, and her dad accept that she is old enough to travel beyond the far reaches of Houen; will she ever get to see the world? or will she end up staying at home like usual? Find out next time, to be continued…