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Johto Journeys

Chapter 1

The Boy with an Eevee

The boat sailed off into the distant sunset. To many, this would be a perfect romantic sunset to watch on the docks of Sandgem Town, but to one blue-haired girl, it was almost heart-breaking. She was hugging her Starter Pokemon, hiding back her tears. Her name is Dawn Berlitz, and she was saying farewell to two of her best friends during her journey in the Sinnoh region. Somehow though, the Coordinator found the courage to keep her charming smile on her face.

"I'm going to miss them, Piplup." Dawn told her trusted partner. She was going to miss one of them the most. His name was Ash Ketchum, the boy who went with her in Sinnoh. During the time, she developed a sense of love for him. He was brave, loved Pokemon, and looked on the bright side of things.

"Wait, we have to get to Hearthome City! Buneary has to get to her appointment as soon as possible! Come on Piplup." Dawn told her Penguin Pokemon and they were on their way. Luckily, her mom knew that Dawn was on her way to Hearthome, so she was going to be on the road for now. The sunset was setting and the sky was getting darker. She would have to rest for the night on Route 202.

The night silence was almost unbearable. She wasn't used to the fact that Ash and Brock weren't there anymore. Sure, it was a nice night. Some Kricketune were composing soft songs to the night, and some Starly settled down in the trees to sleep for the night. She liked this sort of clearing.

"All right Piplup, we're camping here for the night. Let's get comfortable, all right?" Dawn asked Piplup as she took out her sleeping bag. Piplup nodded and started to relax when there was a Flamethrower attack that pierced the sky near-by. This surprised the Coordinator, which meant a Pokemon battle was going on. She had to go see what was going on.

Dawn hid next to a tree and saw a battle going on. It was a Typhlosion fighting against an Eevee. There were two Trainers commanding the Pokemon. One wore a regular flame-printed shirt with black shorts while the other Trainer had a black beanie, blue button-down shirt with a white T-shirt and beige pants. She couldn't see their eyes though.

"Typhlosion, Flamethrower again!" The flame kid commanded. The Volcano Pokemon reared its head and unleashed a powerful stream of fire. Eevee leapt up in the air.

"Eevee, Shadow Ball!" The other boy ordered. Eevee created a dark energy ball and fired it. The attack was fast as it struck the Fire type pretty hard, making it stumble back.

"Follow up with Iron Tail!" Eevee landed on the ground and dashed at the Volcano Pokemon, slamming a gray tail, hurting Typhlosion again.

"Typhlosion, jump back and use Swift!" The flame Trainer ordered. Typhlosion shook off the pain and fired out a lot of yellow stars, which flew towards Eevee.

"Trump Card, let's go!" The Eevee Trainer commanded. Eevee stood its ground and flat colored squares came out and fired at the Swift, equally matching the power. The Volcano Pokemon looked pretty tired already.

"Once more, Flamethrower!" Flame Trainer commanded. Typhlosion charged up thanks to its ability of Blaze and unleashed a huge stream of fire.

"Dodge and finish this battle with Double-Edge!" The other Trainer commanded. Eevee dashed towards the Flamethrower and dashed in a bright white energy. The Evolution Pokemon leapt on the stream and dashed forward and was enveloped in flames thanks to the Flamethrower. Both the Flame Trainer and Dawn were surprised as Eevee rammed Typhlosion in the head, making a small explosion.

Typhlosion was knocked out after that as Eevee crackled white electricity a bit for the after-effects of Double-Edge.

"Wow, no wonder why you're known all over. Thanks for the battle." Flame Trainer thanked. The Eevee Trainer nodded as his Eevee jumped up to his shoulder and he walked into the forest, which seemed to be towards Sandgem Town. The Flame Trainer returned his Typhlosion and walked away too.

"Wow, that Eevee Trainer was really good, huh?" Dawn asked Piplup.

"Pip, Piplup!" Piplup agreed.

As Dawn walked back to her campsite with Piplup in her arms, she wondered about that powerful Trainer when the ground crumbled beneath her. It was a pitfall trap and she screamed while falling down. She landed on her back while Piplup was safe. She groaned, holding her head.

"Ow, who put a pitfall trap in the middle of nowhere?" Dawn complained.

"That would be us, twerpette!" A voice declared. She couldn't believe it. Out of all the people to see again, Team Rocket was the last on her list.

"Team Rocket? What are you guys doing here?" Dawn asked.

"Well, we're going to grab a present from Sinnoh to present to our boss, and what better than your Piplup?" Jessie told Dawn. Meowth had a box with a rubber hand. It reached down and suddenly grabbed the Penguin Pokemon. Dawn couldn't even stop it because Meowth's machine was too fast.

"Piplup!" Dawn cried out. The Penguin Pokemon struggled against the trap, but it was no use. James put Piplup within a glass capsule for containment.

"Thanks twerpette!" Team Rocket declared and left laughing while going towards the forest.

"No, Team Rocket! Come back!" Dawn yelled from the hole. She tried to climb up the hole, but there were no edges, and she couldn't reach the top.

"Hey, who's here?" A voice asked. Dawn looked up and saw a familiar Eevee. The Evolution Pokemon looked away as the Eevee Trainer from before found her.

"Are you all right? What happened?" The boy asked. He reached down to take her hand. She reached up and took it as he surprisingly pulled her up almost with ease. Dawn was finally out of the hole.

"Team Rocket happened. They made this hole and took my Piplup. Did you see them?" She asked. The boy up close had brown eyes and brown hair.

"No, but I could help you find them. Which way did they go?" He asked.

"They went that way. I'm going to go see myself too." Dawn answered and took out Togekiss's Pokeball.

"Togekiss, help me find Team Rocket!" She asked.

"Ninjask, you help too!" The boy called out. The Flying-Bug type came out buzzing and joined Togekiss for the search.

"Thanks. I'm Dawn. You are?" She asked the boy's name as they ran into the forest at night.

"I'm Mikee Aeros. It's nice to meet you." He answered, making her smile a bit.

"Come on Meowth, can't you run faster? Our balloon isn't too far from here." Jessie asked her teammates.

"I'm going as fast as my legs can! Give me a break!" Meowth yelled back.

"I'll break something all right!" Jessie barked back. Their balloon was up ahead and it was lucky that no one found it yet. They jumped in pretty fast with Piplup still in the glass capsule. The Penguin Pokemon was looking really sad. He thought he wasn't going to see Dawn again after this.

"Don't worry Piplup! You'll be better off with da boss! He'll take great care of you!" Meowth replied to the Pokemon. That didn't cheer Piplup up at all. The balloon was beginning to take off when it stopped all of a sudden. The three looked up to see that it wasn't rising. In the moonlight, there was a silver lining.

"Huh? Is that string?" Jessie asked. Just as soon as she asked that, a swarm of Ariados came onto the balloon through the 'string'.

"No! Dat's an Ariados's web! We're in their nest!" Meowth yelled as their three screams echoed through the forest.

That's what Togekiss and Ninjask heard, as both Pokemon turned around quickly and flew back to their Trainers. Mikee and Dawn both returned their Pokemon and moved onward in the forest where the Pokemon pointed out. In a few seconds, both of them found the Meowth balloon, completely webbed up and no one in sight. Mikee looked around the site.

"Piplup! Where are you?" Dawn asked out. Mikee got close to Dawn.

"We have to look around by foot. We're going in Ariados territory. If you yell out, they'll attack us. Eevee, get ready." Mikee asked his Eevee. The Evolution Pokemon nodded and jumped off.

Dawn heard Piplup's cry and dashed in the direction it came from. "Piplup, I'm coming!" She called out, leaving Mikee back to look around. He yelled out for her, but she didn't listen. Piplup was her Pokemon, and if Piplup was in terrible danger, she had to save it.

The Coordinator came across a large clearing where there was a large wall of web. Team Rocket and Piplup were all on the wall, struggling to get free. The three noticed Dawn and glanced up at the trees. This alerted her and she jumped back to see Ariados, about ten or more all around the trees. Each and every single one of them glared at the Coordinator. One of them aimed and fired a Sludge Bomb at her. A Shadow Ball met the attack head-on and it exploded, protecting Dawn. Mikee ran in with Eevee as the Ariados seemed to focus on the Trainer.

"Dawn, get your Piplup out of the web! I'll hold them off! Ninjask, let's go!" Mikee called out as he sent his Ninjask out. Dawn nodded and went to Piplup. She was trying to pull off the web, but they were pretty thick. String shot was fired again at Dawn, and her lower body was attached to the web. She couldn't break free. Two of the Ariados that Mikee wasn't battling aimed at her and began charging up energy. It was the Hyper Beam attack.

"Twerp! Watch out! It's the Hyper Beam attack!" James warned. She looked as the two aimed and fired the Hyper Beam. She closed her eyes and braced for the attack.

"AAAAAUG!" Someone yelled as she didn't feel the attack. Dawn opened her eyes and saw Mikee there, shielding her with his back as both attacks hit his back. He groaned as the attack exploded on his back, which tore the web apart. Eevee and Ninjask both fired Shadow Ball at the two Ariados, knocking both Pokemon out. Mikee was on his knees, breathing hard as the back of his short was torn off completely.

"Mikee! Are you going to be okay?" Dawn asked as she ran to his side, going down to her knees.

"Don't worry about me…How's your Piplup?" He asked in between breathing hard. The Penguin Pokemon went to Mikee and looked pretty worried.

"He's fine. We have to get you to a Pokemon Center and fast!" Dawn told him. Eevee and Ninjask looked worried too. He nodded and looked around to see if Team Rocket was around to help, but they left. They were long gone.

Idiots…They left someone like this girl to Ariados. If I see them again, they're going to get it. Mikee thought and grunted from the searing pain on his back. Dawn helped him as they stumbled onward into Sandgem Town.

Well, this is what I have to far, but this is the Prolouge Chapters where I'm continuing onward from the anime, where Dawn had to stop by Hearthome City to drop off Buneary. It's going to be a couple of chapters before the first chapters of the Johto region. It's to build up character between Mikee and Dawn.

This chapter is dedicated to phantom130 5, since phantom is my new Beta-Reader. This story is going to go along ten times better for those who really liked Johto Journeys. Thanks again phantom! I'll be writing Chapter 2 for you right now after this is published.

~PerfectPhoenix~