Episode 1

The companionship

Sam had left his home town Dragonroot 3 days ago, and had no intentions of going back. His parents had forbid him to become a pokemon trainer,but Sam crept out to proffesor Rose and collected an Eevee. Now he was feeling confident, and couldn't wait to go to his next battle. His Eevee, even though it had liked its pokeball, prefered walking with its trainer. Sam had nicknamed Eevee Espeon. He knew it was stupid, but he wanted his Eevee to evolve into an Espeon more than anything. While lost in thought, a trainer leapt out of the grass.

"Hey you!" he shouted. Sam was still thinking hard.

"HEY! YOU!" Sam looked up.

"You don't have to be so loud, I heard you the first time," Sam said.

"Then why didn't you answer?" the trainer shouted.

"Because that's when you send out your pokemon. But since you haven't...GO ESPEON!" Eevee raced to meet its challenge.

"HAH!" The other trainer laughed. "You called your Eevee an Espeon? LAME! GO HOUNDOUR!" The trainer said, and released the dark/fire pokemon.

"Espeon! Use quick attack!" Espeon rushed at Houndour, who was slightly winded. "Now, use Rollout!" the Espeon curled up into a ball and aimed at Houndour.

"Houndour! Move to the left!" the other trainer said. Houndour sidestepped at Espeon's rollout.

"HAH!" Sam laughed. "Time to win! Espeon, use Star Jump!" suddenly Espeon broke out of the rollout,and leapt up in a star formation. "Now, use Star Spin!" Eevee spun like a whirlwind in midair, then slammed straight into Houndour, which fainted. "Alright!" Sam cried. "Espeon, nice job!" the other trainer was stunned.

"Wow," he said. "Can I come with you? I have to improve my skills."

"Sure," Sam said. "But what's your name?"

"It's James," he replied. "Where are you going?"

"That's my problem," said Sam. "I don't have a map. Could you tell me where Foretwood City is?"

"Foretwood City?" James thought aloud. "You have to go past Corphish Bay, and into Foretwood. If you go to the centre, you'll find Foretwood City."

"Alright then, let's go!" said Sam.

After 2 days of walking, Sam and James entered Corphish Bay, where a man at the entrance was selling tickets for the Ocean Underground. Sam was delighted.

"Great! An Ocean Underground ticket! I have to get one!" he said, and rushed to the stall.

"But why do we need one?" James asked, trying to catch up with Sam.

"Simple," Sam replied. "We need an Ocean Underground ticket in order to go to the Ocean Underground, where the 7th Gym is. I need tons more tickets to get to the other locations, but this is a start." Sam bought 2 tickets, gave one to James, and then headed out to Foretwood. "

What are you doing?" James asked. "If you want to go to Foretwood City, you have to take the Gondola!" Sam stopped. He ran towards the Gondala ticket stall. "Why is he so excited about everything?" James muttered to himslef, before running after Sam.

Halfway on the Gondola course, the Gondola began to sink into Foretwood.

"Why's it doing that?" said James aloud.

SNAP.

The Gondola plummeted down towards Foretwood, with Sam and James trying to get out.

"ANYONE WHO HAS A FLYING TYPE POKEMON, HELP!" they yelled.

"GO PLULSE!" said a voice. Sam and James turned round. A girl with long brown hair and green eyes and a Plulse were looking at them.

"Uh, sorry to sink your boat," said James, "but that thing can't fly." the girl seemed shocked.

"What? How about Pikachu or Mareep?" she looked up hopefully.

"They can't fly eith...OWWWWWWWWWW!" Without realizing, the Gondola had smashed into the dense Foretwood. Sam, James and the girl were trying to walk.

"What happened to the other people?" asked the girl.

"They used their flying pokemon to get away, as we would have if you hadn't been so stupid!" James said angrily.

"Don't blame me!" she retorted. "I hardly know anything about pokemon! I was just sent by mom and dad to get you home Sam."

"You mean to tell me that this dimwit was sent to get you?" James asked Sam.

"She's not a dimwit, she's my sister!" Sam said. James was surprised.

"THIS DIMWIT IS YOUR SISTER?!?"

"HEY! I'M NOT A DIMWIT!" the girl yelled. "And my name's Kate!" she then looked at Sam, "AND THIS IS YOUR FAULT SAM! IF YOU HADN'T RUN AWAY THEN WE WOULDN'T BE HERE! But since we are, can I come with you and get badges?" James was about to speak, but Sam interrupted.

"Sure sis. Did you bring clothes?" Kate nodded. "Then let's go to Foretwood...ARRGGGH!" A gang of Sneasels had appeared from nowhere and grabbed Sam.

"SAM!" Kate yelled, and was about to give chase, when he noticed James grinning. "What are you so happy about?"

"I don't see why those Sneasels came, Sam is perfectly capable of running off anyway."

"THIS ISN'T FUNNY!" Kate screamed.

"And I'm not laughing am I?" James replied cooly. "You've stalled us!"

"WHAT? YOU'RE THE ONE WHO WAS GRINNING!"

"AND YOU'RE THE ONE WHO DIDN'T KNOW A THING ABOUT POKEMON TYPES! NOW COME ON!" James said, before running off.

"Weirdo," Kate muttered, before following.