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Plot.
The Celestia Region. Home to unique people and Pokemon. The region is rumored to have been formed by the Lunar duo Cresselia and Darkrai. The legend says that Cresselia and Darkrai created Celestia as a place were light and dark can co-exist peacefully, after creating the region both Cresselia and Darkrai chose separate places in the region to sleep, awaiting the time the region would need them again. Ever since it's creation Celestia has remained a closed region not letting outsiders in, and being unkind to those who leave the regions shores. But things are changing in the region, the number of youth that wish to become Pokemon trainers is at an all time low, all of the youth are leaving the region to travel in regions like Kanto and Unova. In fact in the year 2013 only one trainer from Celestia wished to start her journey. A first for this happy region. It has finally been decided to open the region to seven young trainers from the other regions to travel through the region collecting the 8 badges along with the one native from Celestia. If it goes well then the region will open to all. Some of the people in the region are happy with this change, others not so much.

Upon hearing that the region was going to allow seven youth from other regions in to collect the badges a group was formed. This group Team Lunara does not wish for things in Celestia to change. They will do whatever it takes to keep the youth from succeeding. Even if that means awakening the slumbering legendary Pokemon Cresselia and Darkrai and controlling them to gain control of the region.

Chapter 1: Arrival in Celestia


spot number 1 on the map. Aurora Town: The starting town in Celestia. This is where your journey starts. This small port-town holds a Pokemon Center, a Poke-mart, several houses, as well as Professor Solaria's lab. The time you arrive is 8 in the morning

Catch-able Pokemon- None

What you can do- Arrive in Celestia.
Receive your Starter and a trainer kit (5 pokeballs, 5 potions, 1 pokedex) from Professor Solaria.
Create NPCs and interact with other characters.
Move on to Route 1.

What you can't do- Battle NPC's or other players

Key NPCS.
Pokemon Professor
Professor Solaria and her Swellow

Mysterious people in Orange


Route 1.


a small route between Aurora Town and Mercury City. Takes about 6 hours to travel

What you can do- Battle NPC trainers/other players
Catch Pokemon (Since I am the GM I will randomly ask another player to determine if I catch a Pokemon or not)
Explore

What you can't do- Enter Mercury City, mysterious people in orange outfits are blocking the entrance.
you can not challenge those blocking the Mercury City Entrance

This chapter will last for two weeks. Until then you can only be in Aurora Town and Route 1.

Catch-able Pokemon.


Badge Cases/Character Teams.

Items? What items? Hehehe....​

[FONT="Nunito"] Yuri Welkin - Chapter 1-1: New Horizons[/FONT]

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Yuri felt the crisp sea air on his face as he stood on the ferry looking out at the region he would be spending the next few months in. Would it be months, or merely weeks? Years? He knew next to nothing about the region besides its shape and name, so he had no way of figuring out how long it would take to explore it all. That wasn't even counting the time he would spend on the league challenge itself. But then again, he wasn't even sure if he should do the challenge in the first place. He got his free pass to this unknown region, so now that he was here would they really kick him out for ignoring the league challenge considering that it was the entire reason for sending him the ticket? Probably not, but it was best not to take chances. As long as he was doing it at all it should be fine, so he could just have it as a low-priority concern.

Yuri could barely contain his excitement when the boat finally stopped. Pulling on his backpack, he rushed off the ship the moment he was able and took a good, close look at Celestia. Or, rather, Aurora town, as he was informed upon his arrival. At first glance, the town wasn't very impressive. It looked like a nice place for someone who was into that "living out in the country" fresh air and nature stuff, but Yuri was already starting to miss being surrounded by innovation and technology, a forest of skyscrapers like back in Castelia. He shrugged it off though and looked for the pokemon lab. It didn't take long to find, but he also found that there were various other trainers, presumably in his same situation, surrounding the lab as well. It seems his excitement faded a little because he was slowly reverting back to the timid self he was around people. He was glad that that self wasn't an actual alternate self like that psycho. Yuri looked down and made his way inside the lab trying not to make eye contact with anyone. That usually triggered problems, conversations, or in the trainer world, battles.

Finally safely inside the lab, Yuri looked up and saw the woman he presumed to be the Professor of this region. He feels a little better around adults than youth because they aren't always trying to make friends with everyone, or alternatively, trying to bully everyone. They usually have better things to do. However, there are exceptions to that, but professors usually aren't considering that they have a lot of better things to do. Yuri, feeling better, held out the letter and ticket he received and said "Hi, I'm Yuri Welkin and am here to get a starter pokemon." He wasn't expecting the sort of response he got, though.

"Yes, of course. Nice to meet you, Yuri! I'm Professor Solaria." The first thing Yuri noticed was that she was excessively friendly. Thus, as she continued speaking, Yuri put his head down once more. "I know you're probably excited to start your adventure so I'll try not to keep you here too long. Here you go!" She handed him a pokeball and the rest of the typical starting equipment for a beginner trainer before he was free to go. He quickly stuffed it all into his backpack and thanked her before rushing out of the lab, not looking her in the eyes even once. Once he was out, though, he realized that he never took the chance to look around in the lab and see all the equipment. He peeked his head back into the lab slowly, hoping the professor wouldn't notice, and saw the typical fare for a pokemon lab before she noticed him and asked, "Did you forget something, Yuri?" which caused him to pull his head out and shut the door immediately.

Relieved to be done with that, Yuri took a deep breath before glancing around. He spotted the other trainers that had recently gotten their own pokemon all around him so he fled to a spot near the seaside that didn't have anyone there and sat down. Taking out his starter's pokeball, he reached deep into his backpack through a good deal of what some would call "junk" and found one of his inventions; the pokeball lock. He fit the device over the release button of the ball and attached the small touchpads to the surface before drumming a sequence along them, setting the code. Once that was done, he input it again to unlock it and let out his starter.

The Phanpy popped out of the ball with a yawn and briefly looked at Yuri before looking out at the ocean instead. He hoped it would warm up to him eventually. It started drinking the water but soon stopped after tasting the unsavory flavor of salt water. As it did so, Yuri realized that he was tired of referring to it as an "it". Knowing that it wouldn't have any notable gender differences until it evolved, Yuri instead decided to pick it up and check for reproductive organs. The Phanpy didn't seem to like that, though, and promptly blasted him with water it had stored in its trunk. "Agh! Fine, fine, I'll stop," said Yuri. "I got what I needed anyway."

Having successfully deduced that the Phanpy was indeed female, he put her down and got to work thinking of a name. He considered the data he'd collected on her thus far: She was a female, blue, and an elephant pokemon. She liked to blast water and drink water. He ran through the options now. Azula because she was blue? No, he didn't like that name very much. How about Ellie because she was an elephant pokemon? Good enough, he supposed. The name wasn't too important anyway. Next, Yuri looked at the Pokedex. According to it, Phanpy were known for their exceptional strength, apparently being able to lift a fully grown person on their back. Regardless of whether or not it was true, he didn't trust Ellie enough to try riding her.

Yuri stood up and looked to Ellie, saying "Alright, from now on, I'm calling you Ellie. Sound good?" Ellie, however, seemed too busy playing in the water to pay attention to him. He sighed and said,"We should get moving if we want to get to Mercury City before dark." Ellie again paid no mind to him so Yuri just returned her to her pokeball, the locking mechanism working automatically. He recalled a region map that was posted on a wall in the ferry and remembered that the next place after Route 1 is Mercury City. Finally ready to start his travels (and hoping Mercury City had more than Aurora Town) he set off to Celestia Route 1.

At least, that's what he was going to do until he saw that one of the trainers wandering around was a girl wearing a lab coat. She was probably actually the professor's assistant. Knowing that, he realized that this was a good opportunity to learn what Professor Solaria was researching. Professors tended to devote their time to studying one specific field pokemon science, such as the way Professor Juniper researches pokemon origins, Birch studies habitats, Oak studies pokemon-human interaction, and so on. It would be interesting to know, but he had already interrupted the professor twice so he would be even more nervous going in there again to ask. He was sure he would be okay asking the assistant if he made it clear that it was just business. Yuri decided to adopt a more stiff, "businessy" posture, as he called it, and walk towards her. "Miss, I would like to inquire as to the field of study that is researched by Professor Solaria." In his mind he was panicking, but he hoped it wouldn't show on his face. Or at least, show as obviously.
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Kenneth Barol: The Un-tempered Enthusiasm of a Champion! Or an immature child.

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[FONT="Nunito"] Yuri Welkin - Chapter 1-2: Too many people...[/FONT]

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When Yuri asked the girl his question, she took off her lab coat and put in into her bag. Was she ashamed to be wearing it? But why? Lab coats were so cool! His mind went to the one stored in his own bag belonging to his father. Maybe she was just more prone to the heat than others, and the coat was too hot. But those coats aren't often made of thick material and are white, a color that doesn't get hot very quickly not to mention that it was a fairly nice day today. Perhaps it was just getting uncomfortable? He really couldn't think of any counter-arguments to that.

"You must be one of the new trainers. I'm Amanda it's very nice to meet you" She said cheerfully. Oh, great. It looked like she was just as friendly as the professor, if not more so. Yuri started to tremble nervously, wanting to leave but not wanting to miss the answer to his question. Hopefully it wouldn't take her too long to get to the point. "So you want to know about the Professor's research, do you? Well I'm just the person to ask. See I'm the one that will take over once the Professor retires. What we're studying right now is Pokemon and how different ways of training affect them. It's rather interesting. My job is to do the gym challenge to help with our research. I'm also to help those that are new here, and continue my own research as well." Yuri relaxed a little, finally hearing the answer. It was an interesting subject, and getting a look at the professor's research notes would likely teach him some things that would be of great benefit to him if he scores a spot working for the Battle Company when he is older. Oh, and maybe with the league challenge too. Frankly, he almost forgot about that. After thinking for a moment, he realized that maybe he didn't need to look at the professor's notes. The notes of a future professor should do just fine. With the current professor's age, she shouldn't be too far from retirement (although she could still be far off, considering how long Professor Oak's been a professor) so maybe sending Amanda on this journey was a sort of final step on her way to professorhood. She can't have gotten this far without doing some degree of her own research.

Yuri looked back up from his musing ready to ask for them, but upon seeing her smiling face he looked back down again. This isn't going to work, she's too nice, he thought defeatedly. After quickly thinking of alternatives, he remembered that she was supposed to be helping new trainers along their journeys and would be taking on her own journey as well. That meant that this definitely wouldn't be his last chance to ask her. The longer he waited, the more complete her research, so that was definitely good. Deciding that waiting until later to ask was a good plan, Yuri now only needed to figure out how to escape.

"Oy! Amanda! How goes it? All grown up I see." Yuri quickly turned his head to see where the new voice had come from and saw an adult man with a Pigeot and a nearby boy that he assumed was his son and fellow new trainer. Yes! Yuri cheered in his mind. This man was his salvation, the perfect excuse for him to leave.

"H-how interesting," he said with an incredibly nervous smile. "I'd hate to keep you busy, but I've get to- got to got-get going." As he spoke, he slowly shuffled away before finally fleeing the scene. When he felt that he was far enough, he stopped and took a few deep breaths. He hated having to keep people away but feeling unable to just be mean to them. People would stay away if he were mean, but then he would be on the same level as a bully. With his composure regained, Yuri looked around and noticed that he had run into Route 1. He peeked around a tree at Amanda and the other pair and, upon closer inspection, found that the man who had spoken looked familiar. But where had he seen him? It took some thought, but he finally pieced it together. That man was Jeremy Barol, former Johto champion! What was he doing in Celestia, though? Yuri suddenly felt stupid as he realized that he had already figured that out before; bringing his son here to start an adventure of his own. If Mr. Barol has taught his son even half as much about battling as Yuri's father has taught him about technology, then that boy will have little trouble dealing with the Celestial league. Or at least the other trainers, considering the fact that he knew nothing about the Celestial league leaders.

Yuri's observation was interrupted by a pair of screams and a thud indicating that a couple people probably fell or something. Looking over, Yuri was shocked to see a young (and very pink) girl on top of a young (and very blue... no, cyan? Yes, cyan.) boy. He looked away quickly to give them some privacy before remembering that they were fooling around in the middle of town. What sort of privacy would they expect? How could Amanda be ashamed to wear a lab coat in public but these two not be ashamed to be doing... whatever it was they were doing in broad daylight? But then again, he never did confirm whether or not Amanda was ashamed of the lab coat. Nevermind the lab coat, Yuri turned away and instead focused his attention on the Route before him.

It was a relatively small route filled with nothing but green. With all the green in this region so far, he looked forward to being able to see some gray for once. Gray streets, gray buildings, maybe some gray metal structures. Well, they didn't all have to be gray, he was just used to the grayness of Castelia. He'd be fine with structures of other colors too. The thing about Celestia Yuri looked forward to learning about most had been the sort of technology used in such a secluded region, but it seems that it was a little too secluded and didn't really advance at all. He probably shouldn't be making such generalized conclusions without seeing the rest of the region first, though.

Scanning the area, he noticed a deviation from all the green; a black that was almost even purple. The source was a long ponytail belonging to an older girl. He paid the girl no mind, though, and decided to get down to business. If he was going to be doing the league challenge, Ellie would need to do some training. Yuri pulled the Ellie's pokeball from his pocket and expanded it, input the touch sequence, then let her out. "Alrighty then, let's see what you've got." Yuri then pulled out his pokedex from his other pocket and scanned the Phanpy. He softly mumbled the information that it showed out loud. "Okay, odor sleuth...not bad... tackle... pretty average...ooh, ice shard! That's a pretty nifty inheritance if you ask me!" While Yuri was busy mumbling to himself, Ellie took it upon herself to do some exploring of her own. The first thing she decided to do was to go meet that pretty lady with the Azurill, so she wandered over there. By the time Yuri noticed, she had already crossed more than half the distance between them. "Wha- hey! No! Bad Phanpy," commanded Yuri in a hushed sort of yelling as an (admittedly bad) attempt to keep the girl from noticing. "Get back here! Ellie, no!" When it was clear that she wasn't going to listen, Yuri simply returned her to her pokeball. However, he now probably had the attention of the ponytail girl. He didn't actually know if he did or not because he quickly looked away. Realizing that if she saw his pokeball with the lock on it she might ask about it, he put that away too before hurrying away from her. Once he had gone around a corner and safely put some trees between himself and her, he released Ellie once more only for her to go wandering back to the girl. He tried ordering her to come back a few more times before confirming that it was useless and returned her again to the ball.

Yuri sighed in defeat. How could he have gotten such a disobedient starter pokemon? He knew all about the many different species, how to raise and train them, and several other things essential for a trainer to know, so why was it so different in practice? Was he doing something wrong? No, he probably just needed to spend more time with Ellie. The problem was that he got nervous if he kept her out of the pokeball for too long, knowing that anything could happen that might trigger him to come out. Either way, he couldn't spend any time with her if that girl was there. He suddenly came upon the solution. He simply had to wait until the girl was gone, then it would be safe to let Ellie out! Yuri reached into his backpack and shuffled through all the stuff inside until he came upon a spyglass. He always thought spyglasses were cooler than plain ol' binoculars. Using that, he hid within some nearby bushes and observed her, waiting for her to leave while hoping to remain unseen.
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