Prologue!

** Hey im Jeremy Strong im 16 years old and im from Lilycove City and today 
i start my journey
to be a Pokemon Master well im gonna try anyway. My Mum and Dad is really 
strict with me that
they didn’t want me to start when i was 10 years olds they said "you've got 
plenty of time for that
after you've finished school, we want you to get a good education first". So 
i never even had a
Pokemon before. My little sister Jess is six years old, she don’t want to 
train pokemon she wants
to help them like Nurse Joy. My best friend Aaron started his journey last 
year, he was gone for 8
months and went back home after that he said it was too tough by him self 
although he had his
Lairon with him. He lived in Oldale town so once i got my Pokemon from 
Professor Birch I’d go
and visit him and see if he wants to start again.
Every year kids, teenagers and even adults all over Hoenn get to become a 
trainer by sending a
statement about why you want to become a trainer to Professor Birch, he 
picks out the best 10 and
they get sent to Littleroot town and pick their own Pokemon, lucky for me i 
was picked. **



Rise of a new trainer!

I ran along route 123 hoping to catch up with the wild Absol " Hey...wait " 
i shouted hoping it
would stop but it kept on running like it was chasing something it's self. 
We both came to the end
of the road as a cliff blocked our path. The Pokemon ran up to a girl that 
appeared out of nowhere
and hid behind her legs like it was frightened of me. The girl was wearing a 
long black dress with
a white belt wrapped around her waist, i looked up to see her face but it 
was coved with a white
scarf only revealing her eyes and her hair. Her hair was long and dark brown 
as for her eyes were
a sparkling deep sea blue colour. “Oh it's your Pokemon. Sorry” i said. I 
turned around and went
to head back down the long road. “Jeremy?!” I quickly turned around with a 
confused expression
on my face. “Who are you?” i said waiting for an answer but she just pointed 
at the sky. I looked
up with out moving my head to see nothing but a bright blue sky with the 
sun's beams blinding
me, i squinted my eyes and raised my arm to protect them from the sun's 
rays. “Jeremy!” she said
again, everything went bright only revealing the outline of the girl and her 
Absol. “What?!” i said
still squinting my eyes from the blinding light. "JEREMY!" she shouted.
I jumped as she shouted opening my eyes to see Jess standing next to my bed 
holding her
favourite stuffed toy of Pikachu in her hand while rubbing her eyes with her 
other hand.
“I can't get back to sleep “she said in a sweet voice. I looked over at the 
clock on my bedroom
wall. “8:30?!” i said pulling the blanket over my head. “JEREMY!” Jess said 
as she shook me.
“What Jess?” i said as i sat up from my warm and comfortable bed. “Can i 
sleep in here with
you?" .I sat at the end of my bed scratching my head witch turned into a 
long stretch and a yawn.
“I gotta get up now anyway, you can lie down while I’ll get ready" i said as 
i got up and lifted her
up onto my bad. She crawled over to the pillow and rested her head on it, as 
soon as she hit the
pillow she fell asleep gripping her teddy tight.
I walked over to my draws and pulled out a black t-shirt from the top draw, 
i pulled it over my
naked chest pulling my silver chain out from under it. I then opened the 
second draw and pulled
out my worn out jeans with a rip on the knee (Hey its in fashion). I pulled 
them up and zipped it
up tight. " YAWN man its to early " i said as i walked over to the mirror 
hanging on the wall, i
took a look at myself to see my hair sticking up on end, i reached over to 
my gel sitting on my
bedside table and took a big dollop of gel in my hands and mixed it in my 
hair. "Wonder what
Pokemon I’ll get? Hope it’s a Golduck, naaah they won’t give you a Pokemon 
like that for your
first one" i thought to my self. Once i styled my hair into a retro kind a 
look i picked up my back
pack full of clean clothes and snacks and headed out my bedroom making sure 
i had everything i
needed. I stopped at my door and looked over at Jess who was sleeping “Bye 
Jess “i whispered.

"Jeremy, where you going?" a voice said coming from the living room. I 
walked into the room
and saw my mum sitting on the sofa drinking her regular morning of coffee. 
"I thought you was
asleep?" i said "Where’s dad?" i continued, She put her cup down on the 
coffee table and reached
her bag sitting beside her on the floor, she pulled out her purse that liked 
it was looked full of
money. "How much will you need?" she said with a smile on her face. I shook 
my head "its ok
I’ve saved up enough from that part time job I took" I said, but she 
wouldn’t listen. She pulled out
a roll of money and handed it out to me waiting for me to take it. I looked 
at the money then at my
mum. "It's from me and your dad, it was your college money we saved up when 
you was little but
you've chose another path, at the end of the day it's still yours. Go ahead 
take it" she demanded me
to take so i did. “Thanks mum, so where is dad?” I asked once again. “He’s 
gone to see Brendan,
maybe you’ll run into him on the way” she said trying to cheer me up from 
the fact that my own
dad wasn’t even here to see me leave, he’d rather go and see his best 
friend. “Maybe” I mumbled.
“Have you talked to your sister?” I picked up my back pack off the floor 
threw it over my
shoulder. “Yeah she’s asleep in my room; I thought I’d leave her to rest”.
Mum nodded and walked with me over to the door, “Your dad left you his 
Flygon so you could
get to Littleroot a lot easier” she said as she opened the door. Flygon was 
the only Pokemon that
we had, it was my dad’s first Pokemon well really it was a Trapinch at 
first, Flygon was really
warm hearted and loved to play around with me and Jess.
I looked at my mum who was trying to hide a smile. “What?!” I asked, at that 
point someone
pulled me back wrapping their arms around my body and trapped my arms so I 
couldn’t move. I
looked up and saw a green head with big red eyes staring down at me 
“FLYGON!”, Flygon
dropped me making me land on my arse, mum stood there laughing at me as 
Flygon bent down
licking my cheek. “Ok Flygon, that’s enough. Flygon, you can stop now” I 
mumbled but the big
green dragon wouldn’t stop.
“Come on Flygon we gotta get to Littleroot town” Flygon bent down as I 
jumped on its back, I
waved as we took off. “Bye dear make sure you keep in touch” she shouted as 
we was already 15
feet in the air.

When we arrived at Littleroot there was only one person waiting out side the 
laboratory.
“Must be early” I said as Flygon landed. I jumped off Flygon’s back and 
walked up to the girl
sitting on the stairs to the lab with Flygon behind me. “You here to get a 
Pokemon?” I asked. She
looked up from a letter or something she was reading and looked me in the 
eyes. She had these
weird but cool eyes; they were a medium brown colour with a green coloured 
ring in the middle
of the brown.
“Yeah, I think we’re early though?!” she said. Her eyes went from mine to 
Flygon “Is that your
Flygon?” she gasped. I looked over at Flygon and walked over to him. “His 
dads although we get
along better” she stuffed the letter into her bag that was beside her and 
walked up to Flygon.
“You’re so cute” she said as she stroked him on the head, he was loving it 
so he rubbed his head
on her cheek.
More people started to turn up to collect their Pokemon. “Flygon you best be 
going back”. Flygon
nodded and gave me a lick on the cheek once again before he took off. I 
wiped the slobber off my
cheek. The girl laughed “So how come your starting your journey now, you 
must be about 18?”
she asked. I looked at her as she waited for a reply. “I’m only 16, my mum 
and dad wanted me to
finish school before I did anything. What about you?”. “I went to Rustboro 
School so I had no
choice but to wait until I was 16 to do anything”.
More people started to arrive and were waiting out side the lab. “I left my 
bag over there!” she
shouted, she ran passed the trainers and over to the stairs leaving me 
behind. I went to follow her
but a man in a lab coat came out of the laboratory so I stopped to listen to 
what he had to say.
“Please line up and I will check if your name is on the list so we can get 
started”. He seemed a
little moody, that’s going to make us feel welcome I thought.
All the trainers lined up leaving me at the back, some people started to run 
away, I think they were
trying to sneak in to get a free Pokemon but had second thoughts when he 
said he’d check the list
for our names.
The girl I met was second in line altogether there were only 10 of us. The 
line went down quick
the guy in front of me went in.
“Name please?” the man asked “Jeremy Strong” I said proud of myself. He 
looked at me in a
sarcastic way “Yeah, go on in”.
I walked in, looking around as I followed the crowd. The place was huge, 
there were shelves of
books, big computers, small computers on desks, bottles of coloured liquid 
in tubes. Over in the
other side of the lab was an Alakazam sitting on a chair with wires attached 
to its head, arms and
its chest.
“Hello I’m professor Birch, well done for to you all for getting here on 
time. This is my son and
my assistance Doctor Jake he will call your names one by one and you will 
come up and pick a
pokeball from this box”. I looked at the box that Jake was holding, it had a 
label on it saying
“Starter PKM number 1153” I didn’t have a clue what the number was for, 
maybe it was a code
for this years trainers.
“Hello Pokemon trainers as you heard Professor Birch I will call your names 
out, please don’t
release them until you get out side. Before you leave make sure you have 
picked up your
Pokemon licence from Professor Birch after you have picked your Pokemon”.

After a wait that seemed to take forever it was my turn. I walked up to Jake 
and picked a Pokeball
from out of the box, I then walked over to Birch to get my licence and 
walked back into the line,
as I walked back I noticed a little wave coming from the girl I met.
“Ayla Sumpter please” the girl I was talking to went up. “So her names Ayla” 
I thought to myself.
“Ok you all now have your very own Pokemon, I wish you luck on your journey 
as you may now
leave and see what Pokemon you have” Birch said. At that point everyone ran 
out of the lab in a
hurry to see their Pokemon.
As I ran out side there was already Pokemon released from their Pokeballs. I 
looked around to see
what everyone got. There was a Poochyena, Pidgy, Sandshrew, Pichu, Ledyba, 
Totodile,
Makuhita and a Treecko.
“Hey Jeremy!” I followed the voice and saw Ayla standing under a tree with a 
Charmander. I ran
over to her holding my Pokeball tight in my hand. “You got a Charmander?” I 
asked
“Yeah, just so happens to be my favourite” she said as she bent down to 
stroke her Charmander.
“So what did you get?” she asked. I held out the Pokeball and released the 
Pokemon. A flash came
from the Pokeball and to my surprise an Eevee stood in front on my wagging 
its tail and calling
out a little cry. “An Eevee, I think we got the best ones” she said. I was 
to busy fussing my Eevee
to answer to her. “Ok Charmander lets get going don’t want to waste be 
wasting anytime getting
those gym badges” she got up from her knees “It was nice to meet you Jeremy. 
Hope we get to see
each other again” she started to walk away. I only just clotted on to what 
she said “Ayla!” She and
Charmander stopped and turned around. “Next time we meet lets battle!”
“You’re on” she waved and walked on. Eevee jumped up my leg wanting more 
fuss, a bent down
and pat him on the head. “So Eevee you up for challenging the gyms as well?” 
The small brown
fox let out a small roar. “Take that as a yes” I said as we headed of to go 
and visit Aaron in Oldale
Town.