The fond memories of my childhood with my mother flashed through my mind as I sat on the plane to Kanto. The memories of getting comforted after falling down the stairs, her acceptance of the Eevee kit I had brought home when I was nine, the celebratory breakfast when I had got my trainer's license.

My only companion was Shade, the Umbreon I've had for the last 7 years. He sat on the seat next to mine. He was my first pokemon from when I started my journey in Johto. Most of my pokemon were at my brother's breeding facility and farm.

Some of my pokemon included my two Ampharoses , Jewel and Phalanx. Phalanx was a shiny Ampharos. In the last letter I received I found out that I now have a small herd of Mareep and Flaafy. He also told me about my Houndour, Rex, and how he was close to evolving. Lastly there was Nox, my Noctowl and how he was picking fights with Twitch, my Aridos. I sent all my pokemon to Dustin about three weeks ago.

I was going to change regions since I couldn't own a house yet. I was going to live with my dad in Pewter City. My dad helps one of the shops as an accountant at one of the shops at that town. The airport wasn't that far from the city, about a 5 minute walk. The plane was about 30 minutes away from the airport.

Shade was watching the sky on the outside of the window. I couldn't put him in his pokeball. I never could. We would always have to fight to get him in, so I just stopped trying. I scratched him under the black bandana with silver designs I put around his neck as a mark of ownership. I had to mark that he was owned in some way because I usually let him wander around at night. When I was at my mother's I would watch him wander at night by sitting on the house's rooftop. You could tell where he was since his yellow rings would shimmer at night. I always kept his pokeball on me in case my ownership was questioned.

With most of my pokemon's pokeballs I made them into jewelry. With Shade's it's a necklace that won't come off. No I'm actually really serious; the only way to get it off is to use kitchen shears. With my Johto's it was an anklet with the pokeballs as charms. And people say I'm not creative enough. I made sure that the anklet had a clasp. One might call me a slow learner.

The plane soon landed at the airport. I ended up carrying Shade since he fell asleep. I carried him over to a table and put him down. Then I went to collect my two duffel bags. The biggest and heaviest was the ones that had all my clothes in it. The second one that was half the size of the first was had all of my photography stuff and some of Shade's favorite food which was Jell-O. He loves Jell-o way too much. One might call it and addiction. I really don't know why he does. I only gave it to him once. I grabbed both the duffels and slung them over opposite shoulders. I went back over to the sleeping Umbreon and picked him up. I then went to the entrance.

I don't really remember my father. The best memory I had was when I was six. That was about 8 years ago. I couldn't remember all that much. I knew he had a Houndoom. But that's not where it started. It started at a game of Monopoly. I was winning. Then it shifted into us walking down at a beach near our home. It was when he was telling me that he had to go to the Kanto for his job and wouldn't come back for a while. And by a while he meant never.

I make it into the entrance way. I found a man holding a sign saying 'Blake Addams'. I shook my head. I always travel under my mother's maiden name of Heathermoor. My mother went back to her maiden name after he left. I chose to take it as my last name instead of hyphenating it. It was easier to remember who I was because of that. I walked over to the guy with the sign. Actually I was behind him.

"Hi I'm Blake Heathermoor. And this is Shade, my Umbreon. He's pleased to meet you." I said. Really, Shade was growling at the guy and crouching which was funny to watch. Shade was extremely protective of me but wouldn't attack anyone unless they injured me or I told him to. "I wouldn't want to pet him unless you want to get bit." I told the guy. Shade stopped growling and looked at me and replied with a quick but creepy laugh of "Umbree" I had to stifle my laugh, the man had a scared look " Okay I'm really sorry. He's overprotective but most of that was a show. I wasn't joking about him biting you though. He might still try to."

"Okay. Hi I'm your father." He replied watching Shade play with my shoelace. "You've really grown since the last time I saw you. I watched you beat the Elite Four in the Johto League."

"Um thank you." This man was not one of many words for sure. "And now that you're here I really want to spend time with you. Maybe you can go to school." He continued. I frowned deeply. I wasn't a good student at all. Comes from the slow learner thing.

"I'll spend time with you but I won't go to school. I want to continue journeying for a while here. Maybe catch some new pokemon. But I will not go to school!" yes that made me seem like a brat but I couldn't handle it. It's too much stress. "Oh I should tell you one thing. Shade never goes in his pokeball so he'll be out all the time."