Four Friends To A New Beginning (Re-edited): by Nicole May

Time for a re-edit… I'm using Microsoft Word to help me check all of the spelling and grammar errors in this fan fic! And guess what? I can't believe I've found so many errors… common typing errors to be exact! And I've added something special with the re-edit! I've put up the accented words to some words that really need to be accented! Like Pokémon, fiancée, naïve and a bunch of other stuff! Well, if you really got confused with the fan fic last time because of spelling errors, that won't happen again! So here it is! Thank you for reading this statement!

Oh, yes, the ever so loveable disclaimer should be always there too!

Disclaimer: I DO NOT AND I REPEAT, I DO NOT OWN Pokémon FOR THE ONE MILLIONTH TIME! Thank you…

So, here is chapter 1, again, if this is your first time reading this, enjoy it anyways…
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Chapter 1 - Something Unexpected

Somewhere in the Hoenn region, particularly in Littleroot Town, lived a girl who is just ready to start her journey. She had short black hair with a headband keeping the rest of her hair in place, wears a white hooded jacket in which the hood was never used, a skirt which is not so short, and of course, had a backpack on her back. Sitting on a porch outside her house, she was holding a Pokéball that it seems the Pokémon inside it hasn't been let out. She remembered the time when her father gave it to her at her birthday. And now, she's going on a journey that she never imagined. Because she thought too much, she never notices anything going on around her neighborhood.
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Then, a voice calling her name a lot of times gotten into her head, until she snapped out of daydreaming.

"Avegaille!" a voice somewhere behind her called.

"Huh?" Avegaille turned around and saw her mother standing behind her.

"Avegaille, haven't you noticed our new neighbors who just moved in?" Mrs. Amethyst asked.

"Huh?" Avegaille stood up and looked around the neighborhood. She saw a moving truck and then, came out of it a girl with long brown hair, whose back part seemed to be cut. She was also wearing a bandana decorated with the Hoenn League Symbol. Her red shirt somehow matched her bandana tied on her head. She also wore biker shorts part of it covered with a mini white skirt. Finally, she has a pack loosely strapped to her waist.

"Avegaille! Are you paying attention?" Mrs. Amethyst asked again. "Why don't you introduce yourself to our new neighbors?"

"Okay, mom," Avegaille said as she walked off to the house next door.

But before Avegaille could even knock on the door, the girl that she saw earlier just got out of the house. Noticing Avegaille staring blankly at her, she finally introduced herself first.

"Hi, I'm May Maple," she said. She looked at Avegaille who wasn't responding. "Hey, are you okay?" She snapped her fingers in front of Avegaille's face.

"Huh?" Avegaille shook her head, and looked at May. "Sorry, I was just a bit nervous about..."

"You already got your starter Pokémon?" May asked, very excited. "What kind of a Pokémon is it, anyway?"

"I don't know," Avegaille replied. "I haven't even taken it out of its Pokéball yet...."

"Hey, you want to come with me?" May asked hesitantly. "I'm going to the house besides ours. I think you've met the people there before."

"Actually, we just moved here last week and I'm not really good with meeting new people," Avegaille said shyly. "My mom just forced me to go here."

"Well, then, maybe you should go with me then," May said as she held Avegaille's hand and both of them walked to the house next to May's.
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Entering the house next to May, a woman approached them and tried to introduce herself and also her family.

"Hi, both of you must have just moved in here," the woman of the house said. Then, she looks at Avegaille. "Wait, haven't you moved here last week?"

"Um, yeah," Avegaille replied softly.

"Then, why don't you two tell me your names," the woman asked.

"I'm May Maple and this is...uh, wait, you haven't told me your name yet," May said as she turned to Avegaille.

"Avegaille Amethyst," Avegaille replied.

"My son wanted to meet new friends, I think he's upstairs, and by the way, I'm Mrs. Birch," she said to them.

"Okay, then," May said as she and Avegaille went upstairs.
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As the two of them went upstairs and entered a room, they saw a boy packing things into his bag. May decided to tap the boy's shoulder to get his attention. The boy turned around and was surprised to see two girls in his room.

"Hey! Who are you two? Just what do you think you're doing here?" the boy asked demandingly.

"Hey, calm down, we're not going to do anything to you," May said to him.

"Sorry, by the way, the name's Brendan, Brendan Birch," he introduced himself. "And you two are?"

"May Maple and this is Avegaille Amethyst," she replied.

Brendan noticed the Pokéball that Avegaille was holding and decided to ask something about it.

"Hey, where did you get that?" Brendan asked.

"This Pokéball, oh, it's a Pokémon given to me by my dad before he went back to Kanto," Avegaille replied.

"So, you came from Kanto?" May asked. "I'm from Johto. My family always travel through different cites."

"Well, aren't I the lucky one, stuck here in Hoenn even when I was born," Brendan said sarcastically. Then, he remembered something. "Oh, darn it, I forgot, I was suppose to help my dad to catch some Pokémon." After that, he went out of his room.

"Do you think that he's weird?" May asked Avegaille.

Avegaille just shrugged as both of them went out of the room.
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As the two of them got out of the house, they heard a loud scream, asking for help. Both of them quickly rushed out of town ask they saw a Professor being attacked by two wild Poochyenas.

"Help Me Please!" the professor screamed. "In my bag, there's a Pokéball."

May quickly rushed to the professor's bag as Avegaille finally decided to release her Pokémon. May was surprised to the Pokémon that is impossible to catch in the Hoenn region, even if she's new to the place. She took out also one of the Pokéballs in the professor's bag, releasing a Torchic while Avegaille released a Charmander.

"What is this Pokémon?" Avegaille asked herself.

"Char-man-der," cried the Pokémon.

"Oh, right, a Charmander," Avegaille exclaimed. "Quick Charmander, use your Scratch attack on the...what is that Pokémon called again?"

"On the Poochyena!" May exclaimed. "Torchic, scratch attack on the other Poochyena!"

Both Pokémon followed the orders of the trainers. It's wasn't that long until the Poochyenas ran away. The professor stood up from the ground as he thanked the two trainers.

"Thank you very much," the professor said. He looked around the place. "This isn't much of a place to talk, so let's go to my Pokémon Lab."

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end of chapter 1....
If you have a hard time pronouncing the new character's first name, which is Avegaille, it's pronounced as Abigail.

Ah, finally, the end of Chapter 1… well read on, I have a lot of chapters than this…