Start of Dawn's Sinnoh Journey

Out in the Sinnoh Region, a blue-haired girl was waking up. Her name was Dawn and today she was going to go on her first Pokemon journey because she was now ten years old. As soon as Dawn woke up she began to make herself look neat and tidy; she was very, very fussy of how she looked especially with her hair. And since today was a very special day for her she wanted to look perfect. She was wearing a black V-neck tank top with a white undershirt and a a pink skirt, gold hair clips that held up her hair in front.

"Perfect." Dawn said.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door. A blue-haired woman named Johanna entered the room; she was Dawn's mother. Johanna had a grey and white cat Pokemon named Glameow.

"I'm glad to see that you are up early dear." Johanna said.

"I am ten years old mom." Dawn replied.

Dawn was quite a boastful girl.

Over breakfast Johanna checked to see if Dawn had everything she needed. Dawn explained that she had everything packed and also had the postcard Prof. Rowan gave her. In the Sinnoh Region Prof. Rowan gave out starter Pokemon to beginning trainers. The three starters were Turtwig, a grass type, Chimchar, a fire type and Piplup, a water type. Turtwig was a green and brown turtle Pokemon with a stick on it's head and Chimchar was a monkey Pokemon. Dawn hadn't decided which of the three she wanted but she knew it would be special to her since it was her very first Pokemon. Dawn's dream was to become a top coordinator like her mother was in the past. Johanna had many trophies and things she won from Pokemon contests in the past. Johanna warned her daughter that she would have to learn to be a great Pokemon trainer and breeder before she could become a top coordinator like her.

It was soon time for Dawn to leave for Prof. Rowan's lab. His lab was located in Sandgem, the next town over. But Dawn wasn't exactly ready. All the things that Dawn had packed were just clothes and jewelry in a big suitcase; she wasn't good at packing sensibly. Johanna packed the things Dawn actually needed in a light yellow backpack and gave it to Dawn.

"This is what you really need." She said.

One last thing she gave Dawn was her first contest ribbon she wore in life for luck; it was old and dirty now. Dawn put on a white beanie with a pink Poke Ball print on it and pink knee high boots with black socks underneath and now she was ready. She got on her red bike, said goodbye to her mom and headed off to Sandgem Town.

Once Dawn reached Sandgem Town, she tried to look for Prof. Rowan's lab. But there was a slight problem, even though she had the map for the lab on the postcard she couldn't read the map because she was terrible at reading maps. She tried to find it but to no avail. Suddenly she bumped into an old man wearing a lab coat, he was Prof. Rowan.

"Sorry." Dawn apologized.

She explained that she got lost while trying to find his lab. Luckily Prof. Rowan was on his way back to the lab so he could lead her there himself.

"Lucas warned me there was a chance you might get lost on your way there Dawn." Prof. Rowan said. "He told me you had a terrible sense of direction."

Dawn frowned at that comment. Lucas was a childhood friend of Dawn's but he always teased her about her terrible sense of direction and things like that.

"How is Lucas doing?" Dawn asked. "I heard that he became one of your assistants."

"He is, but at the moment he's out traveling with his Pokemon." Prof. Rowan answered.

Dawn hoped she would get to see him again.

When they arrived at the lab, they saw there was a broken window, papers and books all over the floor. The assistants were panicking and there was only a Turtwig around. A Chimchar and Piplup were missing. A man named Yuzo, who was one of Prof. Rowan's assistants explained the mess. What had happened was that after the assistants fed the three starter Pokemon, Chimchar tried to steal Piplup's food. That made Piplup angry and it fired bubbles at Chimchar causing the two to fight. The assistants tried to calm them down, but it didn't work. And then the Starly and Staraptor began to panic and released Whirlwind inside the lab making a mess all over the floor and breaking a window. Then they flew out the window and Piplup and Chimchar got out too. Prof. Rowan was not happy with what happened, but he told everyone to get the Pokemon back. Dawn offered to help; the quicker the Pokemon were found the sooner she could get her starter Pokemon. Prof. Rowan accepted the help and told her the Pokemon would likely be in the forest and he also warned her to be careful.

So Dawn went into the forest to look for Piplup and Chimchar. She soon found them with Chimchar swinging on the trees and Piplup blowing bubbles at it. Piplup was still mad at Chimchar. Dawn tried to get Piplup to stop fighting, but Piplup ignored her and blew bubbles at her then took off again.

"Oh man, this is going to be hard." Dawn whined.

Dawn soon found Piplup again, but it was stuck in a big web. A Zigzagoon, Ninjask, Pidgey, Weedle, Dunsparce and Rattata were stuck in the web too. Dawn was shocked and had to think of a way to get them out. But then an Ariados appeared and started attacking Dawn with Sludge Bomb. Dawn came up with the idea of getting Ariados to attack it's own web; she placed herself in front of the big web and when Ariados attacked with Sludge Bomb again the web broke apart from the attack and all the Pokemon were set free. Dawn grabbed Piplup and ran away.

"Phew, we are safe now." She sighed.

She checked Piplup to see if it was okay, but it pecked her on the face.

"Hey!" Dawn shouted. "I just saved you from that Ariados. You should be thankful!"

Piplup chirped away; it was a spoiled brat sort of Pokemon.

Suddenly there was more trouble; a swarm of Ariados appeared. Dawn and Piplup had stumbled into their territory. One of them was purple with blue markings, instead of red with black markings. This meant it was a shiny Pokemon. The Ariados attacked by trapping Piplup and Dawn with webs and attacked with Poison Sting too. Things were looking bad now. Just then Dawn remembered the container of food that Prof. Rowan gave her, which was to help find Piplup and Chimchar.

"Piplup we'll use the Pokemon food to distract the Ariados and then we'll use Bubble Beam to escape." She said.

Once Dawn threw all the food to the Ariados, Piplup used Bubble Beam to break the web cages apart so they could escape. But then Ariados used String Shot to grab Dawn by the leg.

"Quick Piplup, get out of here now!" Dawn shouted.

But Piplup wasn't going to leave Dawn, especially since she had protected it so much. The Ariados threw a Poison Sting towards Dawn, but Piplup jumped in and it started to glow. It was using the move Bide. Piplup released a blast of energy and made the Ariados swarm leave, but the shiny Ariados was still there. Dawn wasn't sure what to do because Piplup was exhausted and she only had a small amount of Pokemon food left. But then something came out of her backpack. It was a black Poke Ball with red and yellow stripes.

"Hey this is a Luxury Ball. Mom must have packed this for me." A Luxury Ball was a type of Poke Ball that caught Pokemon and made them friendlier.

"Well I guess there is no other way." She threw the ball at Ariados and it was sucked in.

"It may not be a full capture, so we'll use this as an opportunity to escape." But Ariados was captured in the ball; so it seemed Dawn just caught an Ariados.

"I didn't exactly plan for that to happen on my first day as a trainer." She sighed.

But she picked the Luxury Ball up to ask Prof. Rowan what to do.

After everything that had happened Dawn considered this to be a good idea to get back to the lab, but first she and Piplup came to a big lake in the middle of the forest. This lake was called Lake Verity. Dawn saw Starly and Staraptor with Chimchar, so Chimchar was heading back to the lab now. Suddenly there was a gust of wind and ripples appeared on the lake. Dawn and Piplup watched in surprise as an invisible spirit came out of the lake and vanished again.

"What was that?" Dawn asked, surprised.

Dawn and Piplup then headed back to the lab and she told the professor what happened at Lake Verity. Prof. Rowan explained that there were stories about a mysterious legendary Pokemon living in the lake, so he assumed that it's what Dawn saw. Dawn also told him about capturing the shiny Ariados in her Luxury Ball.

"Well Dawn, you certainly have had quite a day." Prof. Rowan said. "And it's not every day someone catches a shiny Pokemon. So you should keep it and consider it your first capture."

Dawn wasn't sure, but since she did plan to capture more Pokemon she couldn't argue not to keep it. One of Prof. Rowan's assistants passed a tray over which carried a pink Pokedex just for Dawn and five empty Poke Balls.

"So Dawn, which one of the Sinnoh starters do you wish to take?" Prof. Rowan asked. "Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup?"

Dawn had already decided; she wanted Piplup, considering how well she and Piplup worked together as a team to beat the Ariados swarm.

After getting Piplup and her own Pokedex, it was time for Dawn to leave and set off on her journey. Prof. Rowan told her that she was always welcome to contact him if she needed help, and then he and his assistants said goodbye to her with lots of luck. Dawn said goodbye too and left on her bike.

This was the start of Dawn's first Pokemon journey.