@ Becoming: (the whining before the congrats as always)
Plot flaw: So now if Casey knew/heard of trainers who enrolled there to study, then that means someone from the Nomeko must have came back from the island to tell the tales. What does that mean? Somebody knows where the island is then... However, you can easily fix this problem...
instead of "Right now, she needed to go to Nomeko, an island whose location is unknown, even to the trainers who would be going there." you can change it to "Right now, she needed to go to Nomeko, an island whose location is unknown to the trainers who would be going there, including herself."
Hurray for not clich?d nicknames!!!!!
*rofl at Wal-Mart*
This certainly reminds me instantly of one thing after reading about a trainer taking a boat to go to an island: Pokemon the first movie. It certainly does... (but that may not necessarily be a bad thing, so don't feel discouraged. It's just that after 4 years of Pokemon fanfic reading, I do expect quite a bit more than average fanfic readers.)