I turn right out of the Pokémon Center and continue on my way to Route 20. I briskly hop onto my bike and speed through the route to get to Floccesy Town. "Man! I should've spent the night at Floccesy Town!"

After getting off the phone with Bianca to get directions, I sped down hills and then up a big one then turn left heading across a bridge. I continue straight then turn left heading down a few ledges, then turn right and finally make it into Floccesy Town. I turn left then right onto Route 19. From there, I turn left into Aspertia City.

I hop off my bike breathing heavily. "I... don't think I've... petaled that much since I thought something was chasing me in Pinwheel Forest..." I take out my xtransceiver and call Bianca.

"Hello?" she answers. "Oh, hey, White!"

"Hey, where am I supposed to go?"

"Right when you arrive in town to your right should be a big hill leading up to a wonderful view of Route 19. Just go up there and wait for them to arrive."

"How many are there supposed to be?"

"3, two boys and one girl."

"Good, so no Pokémon will be left out. Alright, I'll call you later, Bianca, bye."

"Bye! Oh, and don't forget to visit Cheren! That's the city of his gym!" she shouts and waves goodbye on her end then hangs up.

"Cheren? Seriously? I guess I will have to visit him." I walk to the top of the hill and gaze at the view. "Wow! It's beautiful!" I let Lucario out of his pokeball. "Look, isn't it pretty!"

He gazes out at the view. "Beautiful indeed."

We watch the sun rise completely and I check the time. "10:33... It's been a couple hours... I completely forgot to ask what time they'll show up..."

"Dummy," Lucario says with a face palm. "You would expect the champion to remember something as simple as that, but noooo."

"Don't mock me, I don't need or want it."

A few more minutes pass until you hear some rumbling and talking coming up from behind.

"Me first!" 1

"No, me!" 2

"What about me!?" 3

I remain where I am not turning around still gazing at the scenery.

The kids seem to reach the top and look around.

"The lady described isn't up here just some girl and a Lucario." What sounds like a smack resounds through the area. "Ow! What was that for?!" 2

"That's not just some girl, idiot! She's the champion!" 1

"How do you know?" 2

"By the clothes she's wearing and the way she puts her hair up. As well as the Lucario." 1

"How would you know? She could be some fake dressed up impostor for all we know." 3

"That's true, but..." 1

"How about we just go and ask her?" 2

I can hear them approaching me nervously and I get a gentle tap on the shoulder. "E-excuse me, M-Miss?" 1

I turn around and you can hear a gasp from all 3 of them.

"You really a-are the champion!" the girl, who was the one who said I was the champion, says. She has beautiful purple eyes and long dark, almost black, hair, like mine.

"I can't believe it!" the boy, who said I was an impostor, says. He has blue eyes, like mine, with short green hair.

"This is really cool!" the last boy says. He looks exactly like the other boy.

They must be twins. They have the same color hair as N. Oma! A combination of me and N! If we had kids? What am I doing!?

"Is there something I can do for you?" I ask them already knowing the answer.

"We were wondering if you've seen a blonde haired lady with a green hat and red glasses, have you?" the first boy asks.

"We're here to get our first Pokémon!" the girl says excitedly.

"Actually, I'm one of her best friends and she had family visiting. I was coming here anyway and decided to do this job for her."

"So the champion is gonna give us our first Pokémon!? This is so cool!" the second boy exclaims. "I can't believe this!"

"That would be correct. So, what are your names?"

"I'm Jason!" the first boy says.

"Violet," the girl says.

"Roger," the other boy says.

"As you know, I'm White the champion of the Unova Region, and I'm here today to give you your first Pokémon!" I shuffle through my bag and pull out the case of the starter Pokémon, handing them to Lucario. "In here is the Pokémon that will be your partner!" Lucario opens up the case.

"I choose Tepig!" Jason exclaims grabbing Tepig's pokeball before the other two can react.

Violet chooses Snivy and Roger goes with Oshawott.

"Now, you've got your Pokémon, so I'll give you this too, a Pokédex!" I grab the Pokédexes from the box and hand one to each of them. "You want to know what it does? The Pokédex is a high-tech device that automatically records the Pokémon you encounter! Now, I'm sure you've been to a Pokémon Center before. Do you know what a PC is?"

"It's where you can deposit and withdraw your Pokémon," Roger says knowingly.

"Very good!" I exclaim. "Then I guess I'm off! I'll hopefully see you at the league! I'll expect a challenge!" I say beginning to leave.

"Wait!" Jason yells reaching out for me.

I swerve away from his hand and turn around. "Yes?"

"Isn't there more to it? Don't you have to show us what to do?" Jason asks, pulling his hand back, obviously showing that he knows I don't want anyone touching me.

He's not as dumb as he looks, well at least in the body language department.

"Like how to catch a Pokémon?" Violet asks.

I sigh. "Alright, follow me." We all walk to Route 19. Once we arrive, I begin explaining things to them. "Okay, here's how it works. The Pokédex's pages fill up automatically when you meet Pokémon. And when you catch a Pokémon, more detailed information on it is added to the Pokédex. Release your Pokémon to watch." They do as told and I walk into the grass. "Here, I'll show you how to catch Pokémon." A Purrlion jumps out at me. "Lucario, shoot an extremely small aura sphere at it."

"Yes, Master," he replies and shoots an aura sphere the size of a normal sized strawberry.

"Purr!" Purrloin cries out and falls to the ground.

"Now you use a pokeball after lowering its HP," I say and toss a pokeball towards it. After three shakes it clicks, confirming I caught it.

"Wow! You caught it!" they all yell, excitedly.

"Now for the important stuff. First, go find a healthy Pokémon to catch. You need to remember this next bit. It's best to lower the Pokémon's HP before you try to catch it. Use your Pokémon's moves to lower the HP of the Pokémon you want to catch. Making it fall sleep or paralyzing it will make it even easier to catch." I reach into my bag and pull out 15 pokeballs giving 5 to each of them. "Use these to capture some Pokémon."

"Really?!" Jason exclaims.

"Thank you so very much!" Violet says excitedly.

"You're welcome. Now, are you guys going to battle each other or what?"

They all face each other, ready to battle, to determine the best. I walk over to a tree with Lucario and sit down to lean against it. The pokeball with Purrloin shrinks. I carefully watch the battle and the one who won was Violet. I smile to myself remembering how I won against Cheren and Bianca with my own Snivy.

"Yes! I won!" Violet cheers hugging her Snivy.

I stand up and walk up to her. "Congratulations, you really have a knack for Pokémon battles and you chose an awesome starter Pokémon. I should know. Now, you enjoy that time being able to hold her because soon enough you won't be able to." I take Purrloin's pokeball and hand it to her. "I already have all the Pokémon, so I want you to take care of this Purrloin for me. Raise her with lots of love."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes," I say with a smile.

"T-thank you," she says flustered and warily grabs the pokeball with Purrloin.

"That's so cool, Violet!" Jason yells. "You got another Pokémon!"

"I expect to see you and everyone else's faces at the league. I'll be waiting! Now, you all have a great journey!" I say and with those last words, I return to Aspertia City.

...

I check the time to read 11:44 am. "Wow, that took a lot longer than I thought..."

"When are we going to visit the girl?" Lucario asks.

"We can go around 1. I want her to have plenty of time to wake up."

"She's probably already up. Just because you sleep until 1 doesn't mean she does."

I pout. "Shut up... Since we have a little time, should we visit Cheren?"

"I would love to," Lucario says.

"Alright, I want to trick him into thinking I'm a new trainer. I need to change." I walk into a nearby public bathroom and change into something else. {[(Let's go with Dawn's outfit from the anime.)]} I take out my ponytail and fix my hair. As well as put my hat away. I walk back out, after changing, where Lucario is waiting. "How do I look?"

"I didn't even recognize you, good job."

"Good and thanks. Alright, return," I say, returning him to his pokeball. I begin walking around and eventually find the gym. When I walk inside, I don't see a gym but a school and get a little confused. A blonde girl notices me and walks up to me.

"Are you a challenger?"

"Yes, indeed I am."

"Alrighty then, I can show you the way." She walks down the hall and turns left. We travel through the classroom and to the other side to a door. "Through here is the gym. Good luck, you'll need it. Cheren is tough!"

"Not tough enough."

She looks at me shocked. "Well aren't you so full of yourself." She snickers and scoffs. "Alright, I'm gonna get the whole school to come and watch you lose." She walks to the area with all the students. "Hey everybody! Cheren has a new challenger and she believes that he's not tough enough for her! Who wants to see her fail?"

You can hear the sounds of desks and chairs sliding and students running to where I am. They all look at me with no pity. I shrug.

"The more the merrier!" I say sarcastically and walk into the gym.

Straight ahead of me is Cheren up on a stage. He seems to notice all the people coming into the gym because he looks up. "Do we have a new challenger?"

"Yeah, and she thinks that she will beat you easily," the blonde girl fusses.

"Is that so? I'm looking forward to it," Cheren says with a grin.

The students all walk off to the sidelines to make enough room for our battle.

I change my tone of voice so he won't recognize me. "You ready?"

"As always. Let's go Stoutland!"

"Stoutland, aye? Different..." I say, thinking to myself while tossing out my Pokémon. Lucario appears and the students gasp. Yeah, fighting types are effective against normal types.

"Type disadvantage, typical. That must be why you're so confident. But don't think just because there's a type disadvantage that you'll win. Lucario is a steel type and we have a move that is super effective against him."

"I know. Now, let's stop talking and get to battling! Lucario aura sphere full power!"

Before Cheren could even say dodge Stoutland was hit full blast. Stoutland was thrown back against the stage and tumbled to the ground, obviously not getting up.

The students all make loud gasps. I turn to look at them and seeing their mouths wide open. I snicker.

"...Wow..." is all Cheren can seem to say.

"So? Could I have my badge now? Unless you really want to have a battle," I say and Lucario walks to my side. I toss out another pokeball to reveal my Serperior. "Against your Emboar?"

"How do you know that I have an Emboar?"

"I know a lot of things about you including all your embarrassing secrets."

"Wh-what?"

"Come on! Let's have a real battle!"

"I'd have the advantage."

"Think of it as payback for when I had the advantage."

He tosses out Emboar and it seems like he recognizes me. I smile. "You ready old friend?" Emboar nods. "Alright, let's show her what true power is!" Emboar blows smoke out his nostrils in determination. "Wow, somebody's really fired up! Well, let's put that fire power to good use, flamethrower!"

"Counter it with leaf storm!"

The attacks cancel each other out.

"Incredible power! Now, heat crash!"

"Thanks! Dragon tail!"

The attacks hit each other head on and disperse.

"Energy ball leaf storm!" The storm of leaves plows straight towards Emboar with an energy ball in the middle. "Follow up with leaf blade dragon tail!"

"Dodge!" The attacks hit Emboar head on anyway, and he falls to one knee.

"Impressive, you've gotten much stronger. No Pokémon usually survives that combo," I say impressed.

"Can you still go on?" Emboar struggles to get up and keeps collapsing back to his knee.

"This battle is over," I say and reach into my bag for an Oran berry. I walk up to Emboar. "It's nice to see you again, Emboar." I give him the berry and pet him in his favorite spot. He eats the berry becoming rejuvenated and coos in happiness.

Cheren comes down from his stage and walks up next to me. "How did you know this was his favorite spot to be pet? And how do you know any embarrassing secrets about me?"

I laugh. "Have you still not figured it out? I'm surprised, someone as smart as you hasn't figured it out," I say, not looking at him but at Emboar. "Seems like Emboar did from the beginning."

"What?" he says confused.

I turn towards him and step back a little when I see him. I think I just got a nose bleed... Cheren is like model status now! Which I already knew, but it's a completely different experience in person! Bianca sure is lucky, but I have someone better in my heart. I clear my throat and speak. "Long time no see, Cheren."

"Oh my Arceus! White!?" Cheren cries out and hugs me. "I haven't seen you for two years! Two years! Why haven't you contacted any of us!? Not your brother, mother, the professor, Bianca, or any gym leaders! Arceus! I should've known your move combos!"

"I missed you too. I am the Champion you know, I'm very busy."

"I've heard you've only had two challengers, Rosa and Iris, seems to me like you have plenty of time."

"Fine, I haven't been busy with Champion duties. I've been searching for someone and I'm going to visit someone that might know where that someone is."

Cheren sighs. "It's N, isn't it?"

"Wh-wha?! No!"

"Of course, I should've known that's what you've been doing all these years. You love him, don't you?"

"Yeah... I do," I admit.

"Now that I'm with Bianca, I can tell you this. Ever since the first time you saw him, I automatically knew that you liked him, I could see it. You know how I felt? I felt extremely jealous because I... well... I liked you."

"Wha!?"

"It's true... Every time when we would see him, I wanted to steal you away and keep you all to myself. But I never had the courage."

"Oh, Cheren..." I say sadly and put my hand on his shoulder.

"No, what's past is the past and now I'm head over heels for Bianca."

I smile at that. "I love how you confess your feelings so openly about Bianca."

His face turns red. "Y-you didn't hear that!"

I snicker. "Alright, I didn't hear it this time, but next time I'm telling."

He growls. "Fine..." He looks at his watch. "12:12, I'm surprised you're up so early."

"That's what I was telling her," Lucario says.

"Old habits die hard, I guess," Cheren says and laughs along with Lucario.

"She actually woke up really early, at 7:30!" Lucario says.

"No way, I can't believe you! There is no way that, White, got up that early! I remember when I once tried to wake her up and I was warned by her brother not to, but I did. She threw me out the window!"

I puff my cheeks out in frustration. "Stop making fun of me! Jerks! Serperior, let's go to Rosa's house!" I storm out of the gym with Serperior slithering behind me. I change back into my normal attire in the nearby restroom and then explore the town. "Now, I wonder which house is Rosa's?"

"It's the smallest one," a female voice says from behind me.

I turn around to see a woman with a blue shirt with a red dash on each side of the shirt's sleeves. Along with a matching red skirt and blue tights. Her hair is up in a large bun with a red hair tie.

She looks familiar. "Ma'am?"

"Rosa is my daughter," she says and her eyes pop. "You're the Champion!? Why are you looking for my daughter? Did she do something wrong?! Ooo, she's gonna be in sooo much trouble!"

"Oh, no no no!" I say waving my hands. "She's not in any sort of trouble! I just need her to help me with something." Who is she? This is going to bother me...

"The Champion needs my daughter's help? What in the world for?"

"I believe there is somebody that she knows and knows where that said person is." Maybe in my travels?

"Is that said person maybe a wanted love of the Champion?" I feel heat rise to my cheeks. "Oma!" ([{Oh my Arceus!}]) Her face lights up. "Then let's hurry to my house!" She grabs my arm and pulls; Serperior following behind, snickering most likely at the face I made when she grabbed me along with the face I'm making now. When we arrive at the house she turns towards me. "This is our house. Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Jordan, Rosa's mother."

"As you know, White, the champion." Why does this woman look so familiar?!

She opens the door and calls out. "Rosa! We have a very special guest! Come and say hello!"

"Coming mom!" a voice calls back.

She enters the house with all her groceries, and I slowly follow behind making sure she's not gonna drop anything. Once I figure she's got it, I awkwardly stand in the middle of the room, unknowing if I should sit. Serperior slithers in behind me and circles half way around me on the floor and leans her head against my shoulder. I pet her and look around at their house that's about the same as my mother's house.

"Hey, welcome back, mom. And hello, very special guest," a boy, with extremely messy hair, says from the couch who's watching tv. He continues to watch tv when he acknowledges us and waves a hand behind him 'hello'. Beside him curled up on the floor is a Samurott.

I guess that's her brother and his starter.

"Thank you. Now, come on and help unpack the groceries, Nate. This is Rosa's twin brother, Nate."

"No way! I have a twin brother too!"

"What a coincidence!" Jordan says.

"Yes, ma'am," Nate says with a sigh and lousily gets up. Once he sets his sights upon me, his eyes pop out of their sockets and his face reddens. He hurriedly tries to fix his hair but with no prevail. Jordan laughs like she knows why he's so flustered. "The first time I see the Champion and I look like this..." he mumbles grumpily then looks at me nervously. "OMA! You're the Champion! Why are you here to see my sister?! Did she do something wrong?!"

I laugh because he asked the same thing his mother asked me. "No, I just need her help to find someone that she most likely knows where he's at."

"Why? This person must be pretty special for the Champion to be looking for them."

"During my journey, we occasionally met and I always looked forward to seeing him and continuously wanted to talk to him. He was really interesting and before I knew it I was the one that understood him the most. Then it happened so quickly he was my enemy and I truly hated that. In the end, he was just being used as a puppet. Then he left and I can't believe I didn't stop him."

"Mom, I'm here! Who is this very speci–" Rosa yells then stops when she sees me. "The Champion? Why are you here?"

"I'm here cause I need your help."

"The Champion, needs my help? What could there possibly be to have the Champion to need my help?"

"I need your help to find someone."

"Who?"

"Does the name N sound familiar?" I ask.

"N? Long tea green hair?"

"How many N's do you know?"

"True... Yes, I know him."

"Do you know where I can find him?"

"Hold on, I'll be right back," she says and runs back upstairs.

I turn towards their mother. "While I have a chance, do I know you from somewhere?"

"I used to be a Pokémon Center receptionist at Nimbasa City and also Mistralton City."

"That's where I remember you from!"

"Most people do. You're welcome to sit down." She gestures to a nearby table.

I sit down at the table and Serperior sits next to me on the floor.

We're interrupted by Rosa running back down the stairs now accompanied by her Serperior as well as holding a large round black stone, the dark stone. Her Serperior comes to mine and they begin to seemingly talk. She sits down on the other side of me and sets the stone on the table.

"Sorry I took so long! N gave this to me and told me to take it to Dragonspiral Tower to awaken Zekrom."

"Why haven't you gone yet?" I ask, wondering why she wouldn't want to have the powerful dragon on her team.

Jordan places a glass of lemonade in front of both of us. I mouth a 'thank you' and she just smiles and nods.

"I haven't really thought about it..."

"I bet he'd show up when you awaken it," I respond, knowing that is what he always seemed to do.

"He probably would. He would always show up. When I went to the league and lots of other places. You know he would always talk about a certain trainer that taught him a lot. I'm guessing that trainer is you."

"I wouldn't doubt it. I was the only trainer he would talk to," I say and take a sip of the lemonade.

"He also said that there was a certain trainer he wanted to tell how he felt."

I choke a little on the lemonade but manage to swallow it; not wanting to spit it out all over the table and replay what happened yesterday. "O-oh r-really?"

"You okay?" Rosa asks.

I give another small cough and Jordan snickers knowingly. "Y-yeah, I'm fine."

"Alright," she says not fully believing what I said. "Anyway, he's apparently searching for you."

"That's a nice thought, but it could be possible he was talking about someone else..."

"Mom, I'm gonna pack. It looks like my journey might be a little longer," Rosa says, getting up from the table. She grabs the dark stone and makes her way upstairs.

I sigh from both relief and weariness.

"Could I go too?" Nate asks me.

"I don't see why not."

"Yes!" he shouts with maybe a little too much joy. "Maybe I can learn some techniques from you." He runs up the stairs behind Rosa along with his Samurott.

"How old are they?" I ask their mom.

"14, Rosa's older by a minute," Jordan responds.

"So 4 years younger, huh? This should be interesting..."

"I hope you do find your love. You deserve to be happy."

"Thank you so much for everything," I say with a courtesy nod.

"It's no problem."

The twins race each other down the stairs, shoving each other into the walls. Each with their own backpacks slung over their shoulders. Nate's hair now somewhat fixed with a hat on.

"We're ready!" they call out in unison.

"Alright, then I guess we should be going," I say standing up, re-gripping my own bag. I push my chair in behind me and walk to the door.

"By mom! Be back soon!" the twins call out and we all leave the house.

-~-~-~-~-~-Happy Easter! 🐰🐇🐰