Chapter 1
An Old Route to Chikyuu
Our story begins in a small house within the confines of Blackthorn City with a young trainer sitting behind a computer. The young trainer by the name of Matthew Kinsin has been sitting behind the computer all night trying to find some information on new Pokemon rumored to have nested in a new region. Matthew’s fiancée, Caitlyn May Wesley, is sound asleep in bed, unknowing to the fact that Matthew has been up all night, her son Calin is asleep in the crib at the foot of her bed. The trainers Pokeballs sit on top of a shelf sitting next to the computer desk. Caitlyn’s Pokeball contains a Pokemon by the name of Eevee, which she had nicknamed Vee, while Matthew’s Pokeball contains a Pikachu by the name of Pika. All is quiet as the sun rises outside the window, until Matthew slams his fists against the computer keyboard.
None of this is making sense! Matthew thinks to himself frustrated All I’ve read about the supposed new Pokemon is that they’ve been spotted in the Chikyuu Region, nothing about sightings in the Johto Region, but I could have sworn I saw a different kind of Pokemon not too long ago! What else is there to do!? Matthew slams his fists against the computer desk once again, this time waking up Caitlyn.
“Everything alright honey?” Caitlyn asks, rubbing her eyes and looking towards Matthew.
“Yeah sweetie,” Matthew replies, agitation in his voice, “everything’s fine.”
“It doesn’t sound like everything is fine, have you been up all night?” Caitlyn asks again. Matthew grumbles a minute, “you have haven’t you?” she asks concerned.
“It’s just nothing is adding up babe, I have found nothing on that Pokemon I saw a while back,” Matthew explains, “there’s nothing explaining a Pokemon looking like that here in Johto, just a place called Chikyuu.”
“Isn’t that the place where Draco went?” Caitlyn asks, putting her arms around Matthew’s neck in a hug.
“Yeah, I think that’s where Draco went. I actually heard from him the other day, didn’t take him long to become the champion,” Matthew explains
“He was good with his Pokemon,” Caitlyn replies, “now about this Pokemon you saw, you said it looked like it turned into a Vaporeon right? Maybe it was just a Ditto still in a transformation.”
“No, it couldn’t have been,” Matthew replies, returning to his search on the computer. “Oh my god, this doesn’t make any sense!” Matthew slams his fists against the computer desk again.
“You know what? Come here!” Caitlyn replies, first grabbing the Pokeballs on the bookshelf then grabbing Matthews arm, “you need to lighten up a little bit.”
“Where are we going?” Matthew asks, still being dragged along by Caitlyn.
“You’ll see,” she says, “Jamie! Callie! Can I see you two for a minute?”
“Sure thing,” Jamie calls from the other room, “be right there!”
Caitlyn continues to drag Matthew along until they are outside. They stop in the backyard of the house, where there is a battle arena set up. Matthew knows instantly what Caitlyn is up too.
“Ah, I see what you did there honey,” Matthew says smiling. Caitlyn tosses him his Pokeball as Jamie, Caitlyn’s sister, and their friend Callie walk out to meet them.
“You called us for what I thought you called us for,” Jamie says, “Matthew upset again?”
“Just a little,” Caitlyn replies, smiling, “you two up for a tag battle, me and Matthew against you Callie?”
“Sure thing sis,” Jamie replies, grabbing her Pokeball from her belt. “Quilava and I are always up for a challenge!”
“As are me and Misdreavus!” Callie comments. “Let’s do this!”
Both pairs of trainers take their positions at each end of the battle arena. All four trainers look at the others with focused looks on their faces. Matthew is the first to make a move.
“Pika! I choose you!” He yells as he throws the Pokeball in the air, and his trusted pal Pika, a normal looking Pikachu appears from the Pokeball. Pika gets on all four legs and readies itself for battle, sparks emanating from its yellow fur.
“Vee! Let’s Go!” Caitlyn yells, releasing her Pokemon from its Pokeball. Her Pokemon is a finely groomed Eevee named Vee. Vee takes its battle stance and readies itself next to Matthew’s Pika. Both Caitlyn and Matthew wait for the Pokemon that they know Jamie and Callie are going to use.
“Quilava! I choose you!” Jamie yells, throwing her Pokeball up in the air and releasing the Volcano Pokemon known as Quilava. Matthew remembers the last time he fought Jamie’s Quilava. Quilava was able to use attacks like Rollout and Flame Wheel with such speed and accuracy that it almost scared him. He knew that him and Caitlyn had to watch for Quilava’s amazing speed, but he had no plan of attack against it.
“Come on out Misdreavus!” Callie yells, throwing her Pokeball in the air as well, releasing her Pokemon, Misdreavus, which is known as the Screech Pokemon. Misdreavus starts to float around the battle arena. Caitlyn stares at the Misdreavus with a smile on her face. She has already planned an attack against it, her and Vee have been training since the last time they faced off against Callie, and Caitlyn taught Vee a very useful attack for this situation.
“Vee use Shadow Ball on Misdreavus!” Caitlyn yells out quickly, knowing that Misdreavus wasn’t very capable of taking hit’s, especially super effective hits, she decided to teach Vee a Ghost type move, in this case Shadow Ball.
“Destiny Bond!” Callie yells out, and both Vee and Misdreavus both start to glow a bright white, the Shadow Ball lands its mark and hits Misdreavus. Likely, Vee receives a jolt of pain and falls to the ground as well, both Pokemon are considered unable to battle.
“Wait a minute, what did you do?” Caitlyn asks.
“It’s called Destiny Bond,” Callie explains, “When the Pokemon using Destiny Bond is knocked out by an opponent’s attack, the Pokemon that landed the attack is also knocked out, so pretty much if Misdreavus goes, Vee goes as well.”
Jamie looks over at Callie confused, “you had that planned all along?”
“Yeah,” Callie replies, giggling, “I’ve noticed that Caitlyn’s been out training with Vee to combat my Misdreavus, so I figured I’d put Misdreavus’ Destiny Bond attack to good use.”
“Wow, impressive Callie,” Matthew comments, he then turns to Jamie and says, “Well it looks like it’s just you and me now. You ready?”
“Always,” Jamie replies back, “Quilava, use Flame Wheel!” Quilava rolls itself into a ball of fire and rolls itself towards Pika. Pika jumps out of the way being commanded to use Brick Break, flies towards Quilava tail first, hitting it square in the forehead. Quilava falls to the ground, but gets back up quickly ready to keep going. Caitlyn and Callie recall their fainted Pokemon and walk over to the sidelines and sit down to watch the rest of the battle.
“Impressive Matthew, but not good enough. Quilava use Rollout!” Quilava rolls itself up into a ball again, and once again rolls towards Pika. Pika jumps up in the air again and dodges the attack, this time aiming a Quick Attack at Quilava, once again hitting Quilava in the forehead. Quilava shakes off the attack and fires back with a Flamethrower attack. Pika responds to the Flamethrower with a Thunderbolt. Both attacks collide with such force that they explode in midair causing a cloud of smoke. Both Pokemon are still standing when the smoke clears, but they are both showing signs of weakness.
“Quilava isn’t looking too good there Jamie,” Matthew says, his competitive spirit starting to show. From the sidelines Callie and Caitlyn watch the intense battle closely, Caitlyn admiring Matthew’s competitive spirit lovingly.
“You’re still not going to win Matthew!” Jamie fires back. “Quilava use Hidden Power!” Quilava releases many small green balls of energy which fly straight toward Pika and land a critical hit. Pika falls to the ground and gets up from the attack slowly, and fires back with another Thunderbolt attack that hits its mark. The battle seems to be about to draw to a close as Caitlyn and Callie continue to watch on, when suddenly, Caitlyn rises to her feet quickly, noticing what appears to be two people standing in the bedroom where her and Matthew sleep.
“What’s wrong Caitlyn?” Callie asks, looking up at the seemingly startled trainer.
Caitlyn looks back at Callie, trying to keep herself calm, “I just realized, I think I left Calin upstairs by himself,” and she quickly runs off towards the house. She opens the door and runs up the stairs worried about Calin, then stops at the bedroom door and suddenly has a vision. She can see a huge organization, what seems like its an underground organization, and she is standing next to three members of the organization, one man, and two women, one of them being a young girl just like her. She is standing a lot closer to the younger girl though as they look towards another man, who seems to be the leader of the organization. It all seems familiar to her, but she can’t remember where she’s seen it before. She shakes it off, not thinking any more of it, and opens the door to the bedroom, she can hear the battle raging on in the backyard through an open window. Strange, I thought I shut the windows she thinks to herself as she continues to open the door. When she walks into the room she sees a couple of dark figures sitting on the bed. She is unable to make out who the two figures are because of the bright morning sunlight. The two figures sit on the bed quietly, not moving an inch. Calin starts to fuss in his crib and Caitlyn walks over to it and picks him up. When she turns back to the bed, she can finally tell who the figures are. They are her friends John and Jessica. John is a young man about a couple years older than Caitlyn, with brown hair and brown eyes to match Jessica, a young woman about the same age as John, but with blonde hair and brown eyes. Both trainers are wearing weird outfits that seem familiar to Caitlyn, but again she cannot remember where she had seen them before. Bouncing Calin up and down in her arms, she walks towards the two trainers.
“How have you been Caitlyn?” Jessica says, standing up and getting off the bed, “Long time, no see!”
“Likewise here,” Caitlyn says, extending an arm to shake Jessica’s hand. “What have you guys been up too?”
“Same old stuff, just a different day,” John replies. “How about you? We heard you found someone special, is it true? Does Caitlyn actually have a boyfriend now?”
“Fiancée actually,” Caitlyn replies, turning to John now, “he proposed last week.”
“Awe, how sweet!” Jessica says happily, “Caitlyn’s going to have herself a new husband, and Calin’s going to have a daddy!” as she says this leans in and tickles Calin.
“Yeah, it’s going to be nice having someone around here to help out with Calin,” Caitlyn replies.
“So? Is he just a daddy to Calin, or do you really like him?” John asks, curiously.
“Of course I love him!” Caitlyn retorts quickly, “what would make you ask a stupid question like that?”
“Well it’s just that some of your past decisions haven’t been good ones honey,” Jessica responds.
“My past decisions?” Caitlyn asks confused.
“Don’t you remember any of it?” Jessica asks.
“No, not really,” Caitlyn says, “besides Matthew, most of my past is all just a big blur. I honestly don’t remember much of it.”
“Well that’s a shame now isn’t it,” John replies, “I guess we’ll leave you to figure it out by yourself then. In fact, it’ll be better if we just dropped the subject completely.”
“Why don’t you guys just tell me a little about my past?” Caitlyn asks curiously, still holding Calin. John and Jessica look back at her with disappointed looks.
“If you did remember anything about your past, you would know why we couldn’t tell you anything about it,” John replies, “you would also know why we were here.”
Caitlyn puts Calin down and looks at John and Jessica concerned, “why are you guys here?”
“All in due time Caitlyn,” Jessica responds, and footsteps could be heard coming from down the hall, “I believe it is time for us to go John,” she says looking over towards John. John responds with a nod and both trainers fly out of the window. Caitlyn stands there for a moment confused before Matthew, Callie and Jamie walk in through the bedroom door. They are all talking about the battle that they had outside.
“You know I would have won that match if Pika wasn’t so fast,” Jamie laughs, being the first through the doorway, “how did it get so fast in the first place?”
“Caitlyn isn’t the only one that has been training,” Matthew laughs, “Pika and I…” he stops mid-sentence and notices Caitlyn standing in the middle of the room holding Calin, she has a concerned look on her face, “…honey, are you alright?”
Caitlyn stands there for a moment before replying, “Yeah, yeah I’m fine.”
Matthew goes to say something when his computer pings at him, he turns and looks at it for a moment before sitting down and saying, “Hey, it’s an e-mail!”
Caitlyn sets Calin down and walks to the computer, “who’s it from?”
“It’s from Draco,” he clicks on the link that Draco sent him, “wait it’s a video chat, hang on. I’m going to bring it up now.” Matthew clicks a few things, sets up a video camera he has sitting next to the computer, then returns to the screen and a video feed of Draco Dragen, the champion of the Chikyuu Region, appears on the computer screen.
“What’s up Draco?” Caitlyn asks from behind Matthew, her face visible to Draco from his own video feed.
“Not much, Caitlyn,” Draco replies, “I do have a request for both you and Matthew though.” Draco turns to face Matthew, “I also have something I would like to give you. A guy named Vincent gave it to Lyum, and Lyum said Vincent wanted me to give it to you? He said it was pretty important.”
Caitlyn cringes at the sound of Vincent’s name, but no one notices. “Sure, what is it?” Matthew asks Draco.
“A Pokeball, I can’t show it to you because I’ve already got it set up on the transporter should you choose to receive it. It’s no ordinary Pokeball though, and I don’t really know what is so special about the Pokemon inside,” Draco explains.
“Well, send it over and I’ll have a look at it,” Matthew replies “Callie, you think you and Jamie could run down there and set up the transporter for pick up?”
Callie and Jamie nod and run downstairs, Caitlyn stays behind and both Caitlyn and Matthew return to the computer screen, “so what is it that you needed to talk to us about Draco?” Caitlyn asks.
“Well, it’s about the Chikyuu league,” Draco replies, “I know it didn’t take me that long to become champion of this region, but the league organizers want me to take on all challengers. Now I have a bunch of people from the Chikyuu Region participating in the tournament already, but I still need two more people to compete, and what better two people than the two of you.”
Matthew and Caitlyn look at Draco for a moment before turning to each other, “I’m up for it if you are,” Caitlyn says.
“I’m in too,” Matthew replies, then turns towards Draco, “how will we get out there?”
“Don’t worry about that either,” Draco replies, “I’ve got that taken care of as well. My first elite…erm, Jackie…will pick you guys up at the Olivine City harbor in two days. Be warned though, Jackie is an odd fellow.”
“We’ll make a mental note,” Caitlyn replies. Suddenly, a new video screen pops up on Matthew’s monitor, Matthew looks at it and notices it’s Callie and Jamie.
“We’re all ready for pick up Draco!” they say, knowing that Draco can hear them through the video feed. Draco nods and walks away from the computer for a moment, and a flash of light from the side of the screen can be seen while they listen to a bunch of static noises both from Jamie and Callie’s video feed and from Draco’s. The light and static sounds lasts for about a minute, before it disappears from both video feeds. Jamie goes and grabs the Pokeball, and Callie looks into the camera and says, “I think you’re going to like this Matthew.”
“Yeah, I agree with Callie on that one,” Draco says, returning to his computer and sitting down. “Hopefully that Pokemon will be able to aid you a lot in the Chikyuu Region. You guys do realize that Chikyuu’s one of the toughest leagues in the world right? Only the top trainers can compete in it.”
“Yeah, I realize that,” Matthew replies as Callie’s video feed disappears. “How is everyone else doing?”
“Everyone’s doing fine over here,” Draco replies, “most of them have become gym leaders for me. It sucks you two couldn’t get going as fast as everyone else has.”
“Yeah, I think it also didn’t help we didn’t have a dragon type Pokemon like you did,” Caitlyn responds.
“I don’t…” Draco starts before getting cut off by the re-arrival of Callie and Jamie.
“Here you go Matthew,” Jamie says, handing Matthew what appears to be a glistening silver Pokeball. Matthew stares at the shining Pokeball for a moment, examining it from all sides.
“Well, why don’t we take a look at what’s inside?” Draco says, leaning closer to the computer screen.
“Okay,” Matthew replies, almost silent. Caitlyn picks Calin up off the floor and Matthew tosses the silver Pokeball in the air. The Pokeballs flash is brighter than a normal Pokeballs, as Caitlyn, Callie, Jamie, Draco and Matthew have to cover their eyes to keep from blinding themselves. When the Pokeball’s flash dims, the five trainers uncover their eyes to the revealing of a familiar looking Pokemon.
“An Eevee?” Callie asks, looking at the Pokemon confused.
“That’s no ordinary Eevee though is it Draco?” Caitlyn responds, turning back to the computer screen, “and I’m not just talking about the silver coat it has either.”
“I don’t think so Caitlyn,” Draco replies, looking at the Eevee curiously, “I’ve never seen an Eevee that looked like that though. It’s very intriguing.”
“Well you can be assured that we’ll definitely keep our eye on it for anything out of the ordinary,” Matthew says, as the Eevee jumps up on his shoulder. Matthew giggles and looks at the Eevee, “you know what, I think I’m going to call you Eve. Sound good?”
“Eevee!” says the Eevee smiling. Mark pets it and smiles more, then turns back to Draco, “so what do we have to do to prepare for the league?” he asks.
“Well like I said before, this is one of the toughest leagues in the world,” Draco replies, “even the first gym leader is tough. So just make sure that your Pokemon are prepared.”
“Will do Draco, catch you later,” Matthew says shutting down the computer, turning to Caitlyn and the others.
“Are you two ready for this?” Jamie asks.
“I’m not sure sis,” Caitlyn replies, “all I know is that we have two days to prepare.”