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Chapter 1: the journey begins

My name is Emerald and I'm a 17-year-old eevee. Today started out different from my usual days because there's exciting news. My mother and father told me and my older brother that we'd be moving into a bigger place, a nice house near Eterna City. I heard it'll be a long trip, but we'd get to see loads of different landscapes where pokemon have become more civilised with each other to form communities. I didn't like packing my things away and mum and dad said we'd be leaving in the morning. So, we had to pack almost everything but the things we would need for tonight. Mum told me that life in Sinnoh would be different from how we were use to and that they would make sure me and my older brother would be looked after. Unfortunately, I don't believe her. This sounds harsh but this is how mum, and even dad, were. They'd make a promise and at a drop of a hat, they'd have to leave. Something told that life in Sinnoh wouldn't be much different from how they were now. I managed to pack most of my dresses, even if it took forever to do and wondered what our last meal in this house would be. My mother is a detail oriented Vaporeon, my dad is a charismatic Jolteon and my brother, who was about 3 years older than me, is a typical loner Umbreon. I sadly could speak more about my older brother than I could with our parents.

“Emerald, dinner is ready" my mother called out and I took my own time to go to the table. When I arrived, I sat next to mum and opposite my older brother. We were eating a plate of pasta bake with diced vegetables like peppers, onions and tomatoes cooked in a thick, creamy sauce topped with melted cheese. It looked and smelt great and was one of my favourite dishes. Dad and brother had the bigger pieces because as mum says “they're our boys and they need bigger portions" such a statement made me giggle and brother smile. While mum and dad were eating, I pulled funny faces over to brother, he just laughed and smiled his usual sweet smile. He evolved into an Umbreon before he was even 10 years old and though he was young for his evolution, he didn't Sercombe to the stereotype of all umbreons. That stereotype being that all umbreons were emo or goth like by nature, always finding some reason to be depressed or acting on negative feelings. Every time id see him, he'd always be wearing a smile on his face especially when mum and dad were not around, which was often.

I looked to the plate in front of me and wondered what was going through his head, I mean mum and dad were always busy like that and dinners like this were super rare. I often wondered if he saw me as a bother, more than often he'd cancel his plans last minute, even if he was looking forward to them whole heartedly, to be with me and made sure that I ate a proper dinner. Mum and dad were reporters and would often go away for long periods of time chasing up on stories and leads that took them across the region. That's how they told me and my brother how they met both for the first time and even still worked there through the time I was just an egg. While they were away as I was an egg, mum told me when they returned home there would be some snack packets and him as an eevee curled around me fast asleep. Even before I was born, he was there for me and stayed by my side until I was ready to meet the world. Mum said that dad proposed to her in the cheesiest way possible and she said the words that made him the happiest jolteon in the region.

I came to from my thoughts when brother booped my nose and with a wiggle, he laughed. Seemed like brother was always happy when we were spending literally any time together, we'd have fun by playing video games, reading book together and one night when mum and dad wasn't around, we prank called other pokemon around the area. With dinner finished, dad told us “off to bed and we'll be up soon" I knew he wanted to make sure we were sleep and I didn't mind it. Id usually be asleep but tonight, because of the move, we had to be up extra early and pack the last of our things before saying goodbye the house we grew up in.

The next morning, after we had packed everything that was left, we got into our car and followed the delivery people. It was going to be a long trip but with brother in the back with me, it was gonna be great. We'd see a range of other pokemon that was in our city going about there day to day lives but what I liked most about the drive was the view of the scenery. The mountains were huge with snowy peeks in the distance, closer to us was meadows and forests with towns between. Everything looked too good and full of such rich life, literally blooming everywhere. The forests seemed like great places to go exploring and even play games of hide and seek with possible new friends. Every once in a while, brother would point to a cloud in the sky and it would have a shape that would be of a pokemon or something funny, funniest one he pointed out was one shaped like a toilet and we both just laughed hard.

We finally arrived and the last thing we expected to see was a forest, it was full of trees that were thicker than the ones we had passed and even had a strange feel to the area, almost like we were being watched and I felt strangely at ease with it. We drove deeper into the forest until we reached our new home.