Shadows on the Horizon

In the end, the journey might be more important than the destination, but there are always those pesky shadows on the horizon, lying in wake for our inner turmoils...

Phase 00 - Start of a New Adventure!

Shinou. A land, located roughly somewhat north of Kanto, that most people would describe as a mysterious land with vast, rolling praries and a mountain halving the land and carving its way through the terrain. While the land of Shinou was temperate, at times it would have its cold weather, and henceforth, there were less popular tourist spots than a land such as Kanto or Houen. Shinou would be more of a place for old, married couples to settle down after all of their kids had left the house more than anything else. But, even in Shinou, Pokemon trainers started their journies-to be the best, but also to try and find their roles in life via their journey.

But, to the boy with sandy blond hair, there was a dream that shone through his eyes. He wanted to be the best, and he wanted to get to the top-as fast as he could. He never really stopped to enjoy any of his daily activities-some people disapproved of that, and thought that he would just run through life with no destination, only to crash and fall hard on his knees. However, he just ignored these people-he'd show them what a difference he could make, and how quickly he could do it, as well-hell, he wanted to rise to fame as a famous Pokemon trainer, and that's what mattered to him!

The girl with the amazingly-dyed vibrantly blue hair was a social butterfly, and your typical girly-girl. To her, her adventure with Pokemon seemed like it was going to be more of a party. While she was aiming to be the best Pokemon Coordinator, she actually hated the land of Sinnoh. She'd cursed herself for being born in a town as dull as Futaba, and she just wanted to be able to goof off and run wild with her friends.

It wasn't that she didn't have passion, however. She wanted to do all she could to be a Pokemon Coordinator, though she actually wasn't as firm on her dream as she might've liked-hell, her roots in being a Coordinator stemmed from her mother's presence and unusual talent. Her mother had a history of winning the most contests consecutively in the land of Shinou- but then her career was shattered, due to her sudden love affair with a mysterious man, leaving her with a child and ending her dreams of worldwide fame.

And the blue-haired girl was the same child who shattered her mother's career, so she felt a certain sense of responsibility, to say the very least...

Shinou was a mysterious land, however. Despite its general appearance as yet another landmass unusually devoid of tourist attractions, it held, if anything, even more interesting legends to unfold. whether it was unusually cold weather, perhaps caused by a shift in attention of a certain legendary Pokemon, or mysterious happenings throughout the land that signified that perhaps evil forces were at stake, all of this was interesting to the boy with the red beret, who was, for the moment, aimless. He didn't really know what he wanted to do with his life, but, with the mysterious happenings in the news, along with a rather unsettling dream-that the boy could have sworn was produced through unnatural means, he was hoisted into the role of being a Pokemon trainer, albeit, he wasn't quite sure why he'd been chosen for this role.

Each of the three children weren't particularly close with one another before starting their travels. However, these children, though they weren't capable of seeing it yet, needed each other to survive and to thrive on their journeys.

Their journies would begin....very soon in the future.