Ch. 1 The Festival Begins

A cruise ship travels through the water surrounded by various Pokémon in the water and in the air. On the deck there’s a large group of trainers alongside their Pokémon roaming around and playing around. Suddenly a trainer alongside his Pokémon run towards a table covered with various foods. The group arrives at the table and start immediately devouring various plates of foods. Suddenly he starts putting the food into a bag and behind suddenly a girl in sunglasses stands behind him alongside an Audino.

    “Hey you” The girl says to the boy

The boy turns around and lifts the bag over his shoulder.

    “Stop acting so crazy, your freaking everyone out” she starts berating the boy for his actions, before a large roar is heard from the side of the ship.

     “Karp!” the boy runs towards the roar and then dumps the bag full of food off the side of the ship.

    “What are you doing?” the girl asked confused about his actions.

     “I lost my food on the way here me and my Pokémon haven’t eaten in a few days.” The boy says still dumping food.

Looking down there’s a large Gyarados swimming alongside the ship chewing the food that was poured into its mouth.

    “We were a little too excited by the buffet and went a little too crazy” the boy says while looking at the Gyarados who now has a content look on its face.

    “So that’s why you were acting so crazy, wow Karp grew looks huge” The girl says looking at the Gyarados.

The boy looked at the girl with a confused look and begins starting to realize who she is.

    “Erika?” the boy looks surprised at the girl who takes off her sunglasses

    “Yup, it’s been a while hasn’t it Curt, how’ve you been?” The girl says happy that he recognizes her.

The two start talking with each other, meanwhile an odd trainer walks around the ship being followed by a Munchlax whose eating on cookies it’s pulling out of its fur.

    “Were so lost” The trainer falls down and tries to think “Okay, we passed the battle field, and we turned left at the food court, so we should be near the groomer’s by now, but where is it?” He says confused by the map.

 He and the Munchlax start looking in all directions, and suddenly Munchlax catches a wonderful scent and runs off.

    “Munch, where are you going?” after turning a corner the trainer crashes into a girl in a lab coat, suddenly a Toxicroak starts to attack him.

     “Gunk stop!” The girl says to the Toxicroak.

The Toxicroak stops and jumps back to its trainer lifting her up; the boy starts to get up and then begins to apologize to the girl.

    “It’s okay before, it’s my fault as well I was too busy looking for the groomer that I wasn’t looking, are you okay?” The girl says before he can apologize.

    “You were looking for the groomer to?” the boy says looking confused.

     “Yeah, I’m hoping to see some of the Pokémon there and hopefully I’ll find an oddly colored Pokémon” the girl says while looking excited.

    The boy starts to get happy and begins to rush towards the girl grabbing her hands happily.

    “You get it!” The boy says excitedly.

The girl starts getting wireded out by the boy’s reaction.

    “Some on else get’s it. The people I asked for directions all gave me confused looks when I asked them for the groomer’s, but now someone else gets it.” The boy says excitedly explaining himself.

The boy looks excited before the Toxicroak starts to attack him again; suddenly a Gallade jumps out of its pokeball and blocks the attack before it and the Toxicroak begin to eye each other wanting to fight.

    “Stop Gunk, its okay he just got a little excited for a while stop attacking.” The girl yells at the Toxicroak who starts to calm down.

    “Rallen, listen to my voice” the boy pulls out a small pouch from his bag before putting it into the Gallade’s face “Smell the incense and calm down, don’t get to excited.” The boy says to the Gallade calming it down.

The Gallade calms down and slups down looking at its trainer and the aggressive look on its face fades away replaced by an extremely innocent look. The girl looks at the pair and notices its face and starts thinking about the pair.

    “That Gallade, it looked like a mad Tauros a second ago now it looks so innocent like it wouldn’t hurt a fly.” The girl says looking at the Gallade.

    “I’m sorry for Rallen, sometimes he’s a little uncontrollable, and well I gotta go now I need to find my Munchlax.” The boy says yet again apologizing to the girl.

    “Wait a second; if you’re looking for the groomer’s to, so let’s find it together, I’m Camille.” The girl says before the boy can run off. “This boy and his Gallade is interesting, professor I’ve already found such an interesting subject.” The girl thinks to herself.

The boy looks confused but starts to get happy and says

    “Okay, I’m Avery” In a nervous tone.  “Mr. Fuji, I’m already making friends, I’m happy I came already.” The boy thinks to himself.

Suddenly a Munchlax start to approach the two with a handful of cookies.

    “Huh? Munch where’d you run off to?” Avery asks the Munchlax.

The Munchlax starts to lift up its trainer and begins to run around the next corner, being followed by Camille and both the Gallade and Toxicroak. They all stop in front a room, inside of the room theirs a man taking care of a group of Pokémon.

    “Thanks Munch you found the groomers.” Avery says to his Munchlax.

     “Oh, your back Munchlax, did you find your trainer?” The man inside asks Munchlax curiously as he walks out.

 Avery starts to get nervous and begins stammering; suddenly Camille comes up and talks to the man.

    “This person’s that Munchlax’s trainer, and we were both wondering if you’ll show us some of your breeding techniques.” Camille says answering for Avery.

The group starts talking as on the next floor a boy with binoculars looks down at them.

    “So that got resolved, No suspicious people in this area.” The boy says as he walks off alongside his Dewott

Before turning around a corner and pulling out a pokegear and dialing a number.

    “Hello, Zachary reporting in no suspects appear to be on the cruise at the moment, but I’ll keep monitoring the movement in the area, Zachary out.” Zachary says putting the pokegear away.

As he and his Dewott walk off he begins to think.

    “I was hoping to wrap this case up quickly but it looks like this is going to be a longer mission.” Zachary thinks to himself.

As the pair walk off an announcement is heard over the ships speakers.

    “Hello all trainers, this is your captain speaking, we’ve arrived on Knot Island, we’ll soon begin the process of registration. For all of you taking part in the competition tomorrow please head to the towns Pokémon center and then talk to the Nurse Joys there to register. I hope you all have an enjoyable time at the festival.” The Captain says over the loud speaker.

A large group of trainers exit the ship and begin heading to the Pokémon center, meanwhile hidden in the shadows a camera looks at the trainers.

In an unknown location a group of people look at a monitor watching the trainers.

    “This group looks promising, there appears to be a lot of strong Pokémon in the group.” One of the figures says looking at the group of trainers.

    “It doesn’t matter if their Pokémon are strong or weak as long as things go according to plan we’ll have achieved power dwarfing all of them.” The largest figure in the group says.

    “Our spy is already amongst them, soon we’ll find its location as well, and hopefully she’ll root at the International Police’s rat.” Another figure says while fanning herself.

Suddenly a man with short brown hair with a large scar over his left eye in a suit with a large unzipped black trench coat and a giant red R on the t-shirt underneath.

    “Now let’s begin the festival that’ll mark the revival of Team Rocket.” The man says excitedly looking at the monitor.

Next Time: Ch. 2 The First Challenge