A/N: Here goes nothing. This is thefirst fanfic that I've written and decided to upload to this site so let's not waste any more time and dive right into it. I hope you enjoy reading.

"7:30 already… how can the sun be so damn bright this early in the morning?" Tyler complained with an alarm clock ringing in his ears and a few sunbeams creeping through the blinds landing on his face.

It was an all too common occurrence living in the mostly desert Orre region. You were guaranteed two things living there, the sun would be up bright and early, and it would be hot. Tyler knew this all too well having lived there his entire life, but that wasn't going to stop him from complaining about it. Rolling out of bed, he walked over to the desk where the alarm was and gave it an angry tap to shut it off. Still shaking cobwebs out of his eyes, he shuffled over to the wall sized window that lay next to his bed and pulled the blinds. The already bright room became flooded with white light, blinding him as he fell backwards into his Pokémon in his room now joined Tyler in waking up, each yawning and stretching of their own accord. Caelum, his Staraptor was always the first to reach alertness in the morning and seeing the desert sky through the window, flew up onto the bed next to him.

"Star! Star, Tor!" The bird Pokémon cried. Tyler gently ruffled the feathers on his back before throwing open the sliding glass window to which Caelum quickly flew through, cawing loudly in appreciation.

"You just can't get enough of the sky can you buddy?" Tyler called after him, but didn't receive a response. It wasn't until a minute or so of appreciating the morning view from his window that Tyler noticed the heat from outside was messing with the air conditioned bedroom and the room would get muggy if he didn't get Staraptor inside soon. Caelum was still leisurely soaring above Phenac City catching updrafts and rolling over for fun.

"Hey Caelum! How about an Aerial Ace on the way back here?" Tyler yelled, hoping the bird would hear him. In immediate response, the bird dove out of the sky, white contrails forming beneath him as his speed increased. He was still a good distance from the house window when he pulled up and charged towards Tyler's room only pulling up to fly over the house at the last second and then circled back around again to fly inside the room. "Nice job!" Tyler reached out and stroked the red crest off his Pokémon's head and happily cawed his name.

The other two Pokémon in Tyler's room weren't quite as ready for morning as Caelum was but were now at least awake. Magnus, his Quilava was up and staring at Tyler wanting attention as well. He ended up jumping onto the bed, tackling his trainer in the process. Tyler rubbed his head as Magnus playfully cuddled with his trainer. His Eevee on the other hand, had already found her usual hiding spot in the heat of the day, a shady area by the air vent that pumped cooler air into the room. A spoken good morning to her was met with an emotionless "–vee" from the little puffball. Tyler and his three Pokémon had been a group now for almost a year. The affectionate Magnus was Tyler's first Pokémon, being gifted to him as an egg when he turned 14. Caelum joined Tyler and Magnus as a Starly two years later, having been imported to Orre from a breeder in the Sinnoh region. His latest addition was Eevee, who joined the group less than ten months ago from a Hoenn region breeder.

Having now seen his three Pokémon at least awake, Tyler decided to follow suit and head for the shower. Grabbing a towel out of his closet with a yawn, he walked across the hallway to the bathroom for his "favorite" part of the morning. He already knew he was at a disadvantage when he saw his younger sister impatiently pouting next to the doorknob of the bathroom giving him a dirty look.

"Get lost you Ty-tanic idiot!" The younger Britney screamed. She was definitely going through that little sister phase all older siblings related to. That time when she would make it her mission to go out of her way to inconvenience her older brother. "I was here first, you need to wait!"

"Ah clever, because my name is Tyler and you used titanic… that's clever." Tyler had foundthe best way to deal with his bratty little sister was to just dismiss everything she said or did. It might not have been the most effective method of dealing with her, but he couldn't argue with the results.

"Shut up already! I can't deal with you this early in the morning, and especially if I haven't showered yet!"

"Then what's stopping you?" Another pout from Britney

"Obviously, someone is in there since the door is locked."

"Are you sure?"

"YES!"

"Did you check?"

"YES I DID!"

"Honey can you please stop fighting?" Their mother could be heard sighing behind the door. "I just don't know how you two can be so energetic this early in the morning."

"He started it by looking at me!"

"It's kind of hard to miss a giant Joltik in the middle of the hallway."

"Mom! Tyler is calling me names again!"

"Tyler dear, please play nice with you sister."

"Okay, fine." Teasing his sister was always a fun way to pass the time but Tyler decided to leave it at that for the time being.

As Tyler returned to his room, he saw it had become relatively messy assisted by Caelum and Magnus who were now hopping around the room playing with each other. Dodging the Pokémon, Tyler walked over to his desk where a few papers were scattered about and books had fallen on the floor. He stacked the papers up on the desk, reaching for one of the fallen books with his foot. Succeeding, he grabbed it between his big toe, and slowly raised it up towards his arms, grabbing it just before it slipped back on the floor. He placed the book on the papersnext to his alarm clock and cleaned the rest of the mess. Having finished tidying up the room to his liking, he poked his head out of the door again, scouting for Britney and concluding she'd already finished her shower, he left to start his.

Tyler never had success maintaining his hair after stepping out of a shower. His dark red colored hair that matched the crest of red on his Staraptor's head always ended up looking disheveled anyway so what was the point. Looking in the mirror though, he decided he was due for a shave and grabbed the electric razor out of one of the drawers his dad and he shared and got to work maintaining his beard. He was stupidly proud of his beard that had been grown out of laziness from not wanting to shave in the mornings. Ironically, now it took significantly more effort to maintain the beard than it was to shave every couple days as he had been doing. But after a few weeks of letting it grow in, and noticing a subsequent amount more attention from the ladies around town, Tyler wasn't going to get rid of his pride and joy as long as it kept growing, even if it was at times uncomfortable in the desert heat.

Satisfied with the medium length buzz job he had given himself, he left the bathroom and departed down the stairs to breakfast and the cliché TV breakfast table his house turned into in the mornings. His father was already sitting at the table having a cup of coffee, reading the newspaper, and talking to his mom. He figured it was about some police work that his dad recently did. It was a fitting career for a man with the last name Lawson, what with being a "true son of the law" if you will. Both Tyler and his dad heard that joke too many times to count, but nobody stopped using it. When he wasn't in his uniform, his dad didn't exactly look the part. Sure he was strong and very much fit but Tyler always thought his dad looked stronger in it; probably because he always saw him as dad and not Officer Lawson like the rest of Phenac City did. Mom was busy making her magic happen in the kitchen darting back and forth between the table, serving up food for her husband and preparing places for her kids to sit. As Tyler sat down he was quickly greeted with some eggs and a pair of pancakes which he was always grateful to have start his day with. In true sitcom fashion, Britney came down the stairs complaining about losing her ribbon that she liked to tie her hair up with, and Tyler paid her no attention again.

Breakfast finished, Tyler put his dishes in the sink and walked up stairs back to his room. He was the only one in the house who had Pokémon to take care of so naturally that meant they were his responsibility. When he got back to his room, the three Pokémon knew that it was feeding time and flooded him with attention. Tyler was still surprised that the bag of Pokémon food he kept in the back of his closet hadn't been depleted. Back when Magnus was a Cyndaquil, one of his favorite pastimes was over indulging on food, but since he'd evolved he seemed to have gained more restraint. The three bowls for Caelum, Magnus and Eevee were set out and as Tyler filled them with food, each Pokémon responded in kind with a smile. A buzzing noise came from Tyler's desk after he'd put the food bag away, walking over there he picked up his cell phone answered it.

"Hey this is Ty."

"He-hey Tynamite what's up?" A familiar voice buzzed in his ear.

"Nothing, 'sup with you Charlie?"

"You got plans today?"

"Not exactly, why?"

"The guys were thinking we'd have a get together later today. You want to do anything?"

"What did you have in mind?" He asked starting to get dressed.

"What do you think, this is Phenac City bro, there's like two things to do."

"You don't sound like you have an answer for me."

"Come on! Get out of the house for once man. We can't just chat online all the time."

"Yeah but you know how hot it's been lately, it's like the inside of an oven out there."

"You know, you're acting just like your Eevee right now. Oh no. It's too hot to go outside. I just want to stay indoors and be an antisocial prick."

"Shut up." Tyler looked down at his Pokémon and saw Eevee staring at him as if she knew she was being talked about. He bent down and scratched her behind the neck getting a smile from her.

"See we planned ahead though. We knew you'd say something like that so we were just thinking we'd go the movies."

"Alright, what's playing right now?"

"Some generic action movie that starts at noon. Figured since we all like bad movies we could go see the thing and just laugh at it."

"Okay sure, that sounds like fun."

"Aight, laters Tynamite… you better show man, or we'll get you."

"I get it, I'm going." Tyler sighed hanging up the phone. "Guess I got plans for the day."

Ever since Teams Cipher and Snagem disbanded a few years earlier, Phenac City had seen a boom in development thanks largely in part to acquiring the zoning and operating rights to the nearby Realgam Tower. Over the past 5 years, Realgam Tower has become the number one destination for gamblers and Pokémon trainers alike in the Orre region. They've recently expanded their gambling facilities to become more like a traditional casino, full of slot machines and card tables in addition to all the Pokémon related gambling games like Battle Bingo. But the tower was also home to a state of the art battle coliseum and quickly became a very popular draw for trainers around the Orre region. Coupling this with the local Prestige Center, a facility that served as the only quote unquote Gym in the region, the entire area had become about as popular with Orre's Pokémon trainers as the famous Mt. Battle.

Most of the leftover profits generated by the tower have gone to upgrading the feel of our fair city, and walking along the streets to the movie theatre to meet with his friends, Tyler had become familiar with most of the new additions. The Pokémon Center in particular has benefited greatly, becoming a more modern facility with more advanced medical equipment, more staff and facilities to house and operate ambulances. It also didn't hurt business that this was the only Pokémon Center within God only knew how many miles, so it garnered a lot of attention. The movie theatre wasn't that far away from the Pokémon Center, another upgraded beneficiary of the nearby tower. Originally the theatre only had five screens, and housed relatively subpar amenities, hell the damn thing wasn't even air conditioned back when Tyler was a kid. If you went midday to a matinee back then, you would be guaranteed to hear the fans during the film more than you did the actual dialogue. But now the appropriately renamed Desert Flower Theatre, housed 12 screens, and became the hot spot location for local teenagers to hang out when they had nothing else to do.

Tyler had a tendency to be the first person to show up when he was invited, which was why it was such a surprise that he was actually the last person who had showed up out of his usual crew. Charlie whom he'd talked to before was already waving him on over, yelling at him to hurry up. At this announcement, the three other people around him all joined in. There was Carl, Charlie's twin brother. The two dirty blondes were virtually impossible to tell apart until you were standing next to them where you could see Carl was slightly bulkier than his brother. There was also Amber, a friend Tyler met when her family moved in from Pyrite Town a few years back after the Cipher incident there had finished. Lastly there was Michael, your typical jock type who played just about every sport you could imagine and a few you haven't heard of, but was a very personable guy to hang out with. A round of high-fives was in order when Tyler finally got in arms reach. The gang went into the theater and lounged around until the movie actually started. As the group expected, the movie wasn't a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, just your typical average action film with poor character development and a stupid story hidden beneath some admittedly cool looking but cliché action sequences. Before long, the five movie goers had given up on the film, and left for a leisurely stroll around town with a chunk of the movie to go.

"That was barely worth the price of admission." Tyler sighed, hands deep in his pockets as they left the theater.

"I thought it was okay." Michael interjected. His taste in movies was… let's just say he wasn't going to be picking Oscar award winners anytime soon.

"It had like one scene that didn't suck and that was it." Charlie chimed in. "You know that scene with the tanks; that was okay…"

"The rest was complete garbage." Carl finished Charlie's sentence placing a lot of emphasis on that first syllable. It always weirded out Tyler whenever the twins finished each other's sentences like they just did.

"Smelly garbage too, like someone left a Garbodor in the sun all day." Amber was always quick to make jokes like this, and the group got a quick laugh out of it.

"Now what do we do?" Tyler asked Charlie. "It was your plan to go to the movies and that backfired, so now what?"

"Man, I don't know." Charlie shot back kicking a pebble on the ground, "I mean I expected the movie to suck but it wasn't fun watching it."

"Charlie, bad movies are only good again when you can watch them in the comfort of your own home. Plus you don't have to worry about ushers threatening to kick you out for laughing too loudly."

"Well what about you Tynamite? You got any bright ideas?" The group now rounded a corner onto the main street leading to the heart of town.

"Come on guys, you know I'm bad at on the spot decisions…" Tyler trailed off his sentence looking up at the one cloud in the sky. An awkward silence carried on as they kept walking closer to the Pre center, still located at the heart of the city. You would think that because of the economic expansions of the past few years the Pre Center would be one of the beneficiaries, but you wouldn't be able to tell that from the outside. For the most part it looked like it hadn't changed a bit, still a stone, half-circle facility built directly in the heart of the town. It also served as a basic trainer school and was where all of Phenac City's youngsters first learned about Pokémon. Tyler remembered his first time attending the school after he'd hatched Magnus when he was 14. Justy, the main teacher and the pseudo Gym Leader of the facility was a perfect teacher in his eyes, having taught him almost everything he knew about battling. As if on cue, the purple haired trainer stepped out of his facility stretching and catching the group's gaze.

"Hello again everyone!" Justy's eyes lit up and his infectious smile broke through the bored aura of our group's mood. "How are you all doing today?"

"Bored, we can't think of anything to do." Amber sighed while Tyler practically squealed. His eyes always lit up when he saw Justy. It was rather embarrassing to admit to but he respected Justy highly and it always seemed to show through when he was nearby.

"Well… you are standing in front of the Prestige Precept Center, and I happen to have some free time since my class has just let out. Could I interest any of you in a battle?" Everyone in the group's eyes shifted to Tyler. They all knew he couldn't resist a battle when offered one.

"Is that a challenge?" Tyler asked adopting a wry curvy smile.

"Is that a yes?" Justy's eyes narrowed mimicking Tyler's appearance. He had his answer.

"I'll be back in ten minutes." Tyler kicked off in the direction of his home ecstatic he had a battle to look forward to.

"Some things never change…" Justy laughed as he and Tyler's friends stepped inside the Precept Center.

Excitement brewing up in Tyler was never anything new when it came to Pokémon battles. He always got a giddy kid on Christmas morning face whenever he had the opportunity to show his stuff, and he was good at it. He had cleared basic training school with Magnus after only four months of classes, a feat that to this day was still the fastest anyone had ever moved up to advanced classes in the school's history. From that point on, Tyler took a real shine to Justy and his admiration of him quickly blossomed. In less than a year's time, Tyler was ranked as the 9th best trainer in the entire town, despite having only Magnus on his team. Once he'd become the trainer of Caelum, the two of them quickly forged a powerful partnership that saw him evolve to Staravia and then Staraptor at the same rate as which Tyler's abilities as a trainer evolved. Eevee being the newest addition to the team hadn't seen too much action over the almost year they'd been together, but she knew how to handle herself in a battle enough for Tyler to use her unique strengths to win.

Arriving at home, Tyler quickly scampered up the stairs in his house and excitedly opened his door startling Eevee out of her peaceful slumber in the process. Magnus and Caelum could already sense the excitement in Tyler's body language and in turn got pumped up, Magnus accidentally flared up along his back, a bit too close to Tyler's bed for comfort.

"I know you're excited Magnus but don't try to cook my bed buddy." Magnus looked embarrassed for a moment before resuming in his excitement. Tyler had to find his Poké balls for each of his Pokémon and in spite of him having cleaned his room earlier this morning it took longer than he would have liked to admit to find them… in the obvious location on his desk next to the book he picked up earlier. Grabbing the three red and white balls, he clicked the small button in the center of them, raising them to their normal size and in separate pulses of red energy returned his Pokémon to their homes before shrinking them back down and attaching them to his belt. A stupid question popped into his head as he ran down the stairs and left his house yet in a dead sprint to his impending battle. "What would it be like inside a Poké ball?"

Having long sense abandoned the question by the time he'd returned to the Pre Center, Tyler stood before the sliding doors, entering the facility. Justy was already waiting for him on the other side of the large rectangular field that would be used to hold their match. Looking around, Tyler quickly found his friends cheering him on surrounded by a swarm of other aspiring trainers that must have been using the center's basement for training. Not to mention this was a battle of the city's top two trainers so word had spread surprisingly quickly considering the challenge was less than half an hour ago. As was tradition for Tyler whenever he entered the facility he placed his hand over the graduation photo from the day he made it to the advanced classes. Aside from shorter hair, no beard to speak of and Magnus being a Cyndaquil held in the younger Tyler's arms, there wasn't any change in their joyfully goofy smiles. Tradition fulfilled, Tyler stepped onto the field ready or a fight.

A/N: And there we go, that's one chapter in the books. I plan on uploading the first few chapters over the course of the day so if you enjoyed what you read you can expect a relatively quick update soon. - This is DrPhill26 signing out and I hope to see you next time.