Dawn sighed to herself, and only herself. There was no one around for miles at her little campsite. The sun had set more or less an hour ago and Dawn sat herself the campfire, in front of her small lone tent, with her favorite blanket wrapped around her. She rubbed one of the edges between her thumb and index finger.

Dawn had started her journey about a month ago. She came up to her Dad asking to be allowed to become a pokemon trainer. Now her Dad was one of the assistants for Professor Rowan, and he half expected her to become an assistant herself. So for her to come up to him and explain that she wanted to become a pokemon trainer was a big shock to him, but he supported anything she would do.

She left with another boy around her age. Barry something-or-another, he was the one to convinced Dawn to become a trainer, rather forcefully actually, since he wanted to be one too. However he was very impatient, and it made him head out before Dawn could, he even forgot his pokedex. They have been neighbors and friends since they were children. Dawn actually wanted to travel with him. She never got the chance to ask him though. She wanted to ask the day before they left on their journey, but she became shy of asking for no particular reason, and the day they left. Barry had already left before Dawn realized it. Now every now and again, Barry would literally run into Dawn. They would chat a little, maybe a quick battle, and then he was off again. Dawn never knew where he wanted to go in such a rush.

Dawn was getting tired of traveling alone. She hated being lonely. She made a promise with herself, for now on, she was going to be more assertive. That way she would at least would have had a traveling companion... for as long as she could keep up with him anyway. However, at the moment being assertive wasn't enough to keep her from feeling all alone in the world. She once or twice considered going home. She never really planned her life so that she could become a trainer. Barry was just talking rather rapidly and loud, and it just made sense for her to do what he said. She did agree to it though because she thought it would be a great experience. Well it's becoming obvious that this experience wasn't for her.

Dawn removed her blanket somewhat and picked up a pail of water. She was about to put out her campfire and go to bed when she thought she heard something.

She put down the pail and tried to listen intensively. It sounded a lot like a whining sound. It was rather faint. It didn't sound like a pokemon that would normally be in the area she was in. Her curiosity got the best of her as she slowly made her way toward the whining sound. It was becoming clearer, but also was dying down. As Dawn got closer to the source of the sound, she was able to make out a form in the darkness. It wasn't a pokemon, it was human. It was also talking to itself as well.

"Come on you stupid..."

It was a rather young voice, but on the deep side, so a boy, probably around the same age as Dawn by height of the form. He seemed to whacking at his poketch.

Dawn thought about going out to introduce herself, seeing as maybe he could cure her loneliness, but this was a stranger in the woods. He looks harmless though, if not a little irritated. She considered going back to camp and ignoring him, but then she remembered her promise. She would be more assertive!

"Hello?" Dawn said poking her head out of the tree and moving closer. She could see him better now.

"Uh... Uh... Hi?" He replied back. As though not sure of himself.

"What are you doing out here, at this time of night?"

"Well... I... Could ask you the same thing."

"I set up camp nearby, but I heard a whining sound and came to investigate. Did the sound come from you poketch?"

The boy hid the arm the poketch was strapped too behind his back.

"No! No! I... came here... because I heard it too."

"No you didn't. I see you trying to hide it." Dawn came closer to the boy. She could now make out his outfit and facial features. He was rather cute and... and was he blushing? "If it's broken, maybe I could fix it?"

"I doubt you can." He said with a nervous laugh. "Um sorry about changing the subject but um... Where are we and what time is it?"

"What do you mean where are we and what time is it? Isn't it on your poket- Oh that's right it's broken so you wouldn't know the time. But how do you not know where you are, it's not like you just appeared here right?"

"Yeah... ha ha... But please, just tell me where we are at?"

"Okay? We are in Eterna Forest."

"Eterna Forest..." He repeated to himself as he looked around.

"So do you have camp set up somewhere?"

"I... No."

"Then come with me to my camp."

"I... rather not."

Dawn wasn't going to take no for an answer, she was going to be assertive.

"Please", she grabbed his arm. "I insist", and she dragged him against his will back to her camp.

Lucas and Dawn sat around her roaring camp fire. Lucas seemed rather fidgety and kept looking around.

"So... You know." Dawn said. "I just dragged you to my campsite, when I don't even know your name."

The boy thought for a while, what did he forget his own name? "It's Lucas." He finally answered.

"Lucas huh? I'm Dawn, nice to meet you."

Lucas kept looking at his broken poketch. Dawn was able to get a good look at it under the light from the fire. It was really fancy. It had far more buttons than a standard one and was a bit bigger.

"Where did you get that fancy poketch?" Dawn asked.

"Um... This thing... I... won it... in a special contest."

"Uh huh..." Something wasn't right about this boy. He had some really strange poketch that didn't work. He didn't know where he was and he always answered the questions after great thought or pauses. He was hiding something...

"So tell me Lucas." Dawn continued with an inquisitive tone. "What are you doing here in the forest?"

"I... got lost."

"Right right. And the whining noise?"

"I... my poketch broke... remember?"

"Uh huh. I think there is something your not telling me Lucas."

The boy jumped slightly. "What do you mean! I'm not hiding anything!" He suddenly shouted. He then caught himself and face palmed.

"Right... Come on, your hiding something" She moved over near his spot around the campfire. "And I want to know what it is."

"I-"

"-Won't rest till you tell me."

"I think your really cute!" He found himself saying rapidly.

Dawn leaned back a little, that was not really what she was looking for.

"I..." Lucas said, he took off his hat and covered his face with it.

Dawn moved a little closer to him. She then grabbed onto his hands and slowly forced them to move away to reveal his face. Dawn looked at Lucas.

"Well maybe... I think your cute too."

One word kept ringing in her head; assertive, assertive, assertive...

Dawn leaned in closer, she tightened her grip on Lucas. She inched her way closer to Lucas, who seemed to stunned to react, this is what it means to be assertive right! Dawn closed her eyes... and she fell through Lucas.

She stood up and looked at Lucas. He seemed to be fading away. Dawn looked at her hands they seemed to be grabbing air as the fading hands in them just drifted through her. Dawn looked at Lucas in horror.

He just smiled apologetically at him.

"I'm also sort of a time traveler." He said, before he finally faded away into the nothingness.

Dawn couldn't believe what she just saw. Lucas just disappeared into thin air. A time traveler? No he couldn't be? Could he? He was a strange boy, no doubt about it, but a time traveler? It would explain why he seemed so fidgety... And that he didn't know where he was... If the future had such cute boys though... But really a time traveler? Is it really that hard to believe though? He did just disappear... What if he was just a figment of her imagination? Though he felt way to real to be an imaginary friend... Well one thing is almost certain, she would probably never see him again...

Dawn tried to push the thought from her head. She only spent roughly ten minutes with the boy, and yet he was all she could think of. She put out the fire to her campsite, and grabbed her blanket and headed back into her tent. A thought came to her head, she would have kissed a time traveler, if only she had a little more time.

I really like the idea behind this story, and how everything is planned out, having some trouble with the middle part though, hope it won't be too rough. I would like to know what you guys think. I personally believe I might have rushed relationship development between these two characters but it was to get a plot point across. But when I read it along with the other chapters, I know I have something good here. Probably a few grammer errors somewhere in there, but what can you do. I'm beginning to wonder how relevant Dawn and Lucas shipping in the fanfiction world is nowadays, considering new games and characters are coming out, do people even search for such niche shippings?