Chapter 1

4 A.M.

The next morning, Gus was awoken by his mother calling to him.

"Gustavo get up or you'll be late for your meeting with your girlfriend!" yelled his mother.

"Ya mom, I start my journey today, remember? I don't need wake-up calls anymore. Besides, what are you doing being up at four in the morning?" asked Gus.

"Well sorry for knowing you were leaving at this time and wanting to give you a proper send off," his mother replied.

"Mom the whole point of leaving this early was so you couldn't give this send off," he replied quickly with venom in his words.

The look of pure hurt flashed across his mother's face as he walked out the door with five pokeballs on his belt (each filled with a Pokémon from his long-missing father), not once stopping to check if she was okay with what he said, stopping only to adjust his brand new backpack on his shoulders ,and then walking to the field just outside town where the meeting with his girlfriend was set for.

Meanwhile at his girlfriend's house, she was sneaking out when, out of nowhere, her sister said "Hope you're not leaving without me!"

"Now Freya, you know Gus doesn't like you tagging along with us everywhere we go," she replied.

"Well tough, I'm coming whether you like it or not, Selene. You can't make me travel by myself now can you?"

"I can if i beat you in a Pokémon battle."

"Fine! If you beat me in a Pokémon battle then I'll let you two travel by yourselves, but only if you can beat me in a Pokémon battle! But for now let's go, we don't want to keep Gus waiting, you know how he gets when you do that, right?"

"Fine, let's hurry. We only have 30 minutes to get there now and here I was wanting to walk there, but now we have to run there."

5 A.M.

"Hey Gus," "Hey love" said the two twin sisters as they approached him.

"Just in time! Wait, what's this? Selene, I thought we were traveling alone."

"Well, only if I can beat my sister in a Pokémon battle, which you will referee."

"Fine, but this will be a one-on-one, since your sister only has one Pokémon, unlike us where we both have five Pokémon. Right Grasse, Flore?"

Suddenly, two Pokémon jumped out of a nearby tree, both saying, "Tree ko, Tree ko!"

"Ya that would be fair, right Sunny?" then out of another nearby tree came out another Pokémon just like the two before, saying, "Tree Ko Treeko!" "So what you say sis, do you accept these rules?"

"If it means I can battle you, yes."

"This will be a one-on-one battle between Selene of Violet City and her sister, Freya of Violet City. The battle will be decided when one of either Pokémon is unable to battle. Contestants, are you ready?"

"Are you kidding? I was born ready, said Freya

"If this is the only way to travel alone with you, then I'm ready to win it all!

said Selene.

"Then let the battle begin!"

"Okay Torch it's time to shine!" said Freya.

"Let this day be a day my sister will remember, let's take control Silly." Selene sent out a Dratini. "Sister, you can have first attack."

"That be your biggest mistake, Selene. Go Torchic, peck attack!"

"Silly, counter with twister."

Torchic was hit hard into a tree and was instantly knocked out.

"Torchic is unable to battle! Selene is the winner!"

"Freya, you have a lot to learn if you want to beat me, now don't you?"

"I can't believe I lost in one hit, but mark my words, Selene. I'll beat you, I'll beat you one of these days!" with that she ran off to the forest south of the field and never looked back once.

"Return, Silly. There, with that settled, love, let's go."

"Love, we got to beat our hometown gym before we move on. Don't we?"

"I believe you are right, love."