Well, today's the day, I went out to be chosen between as a possible starter today, and I had a feeling that I was going to be picked.

My reasoning? I heard that there were three trainers starting out their journey, and groups of three tend to try and pick one of each type, making a circle of who's starter trumps the others.

Anyway, when the trainers took the starter Pokemon out to see which one they liked the most, I got to meet them all, there were actually five trainers there, but two of them had already gotten their first Pokemon, the three that were choosing were Calem, Shauna, and Ixana. Shauna seemed to be just like any other fun loving little girl, bouncy and energetic, Calem seemed to be a bit reserved, but he seemed that he would probably be the one to go for battling the elite four to prove his strength, Ixana on the other hand.... She was hard to get a read on at first, she wasn't really saying much, and just looked us over in a curious fashion.

After a bit of decision, Ixana walked over to me and knelt down, her first words to me were this: "You look like a pretty cute Pokemon, Chespin," at this point, I wasn't really sure that we'd get along, I wasn't wanting just another lass as my trainer, "but that's not all I want in a Pokemon you know" she said with a glint in her eyes "if you think that you're powerful enough to beat the best of the best, then you're the one I want, cos we're gonna go for break and take on the Kalos league"

I had the biggest smile of my life on my face at this point, if that's what she wanted, we were going to be pretty good partners.

She reached her hand towards me, and I nodded my head and shook it, that moment marking the start of the time of my life.

After Ixana choose me, Calem was the next to choose. Fennekin was his choice, wise in my mind, Fennekin would give him a slight advantage over me, due to our typings. Shauna of course was last to choose and went with Froakie. It seemed to me that that's probably who she would have chosen if she had chosen first too, with how happy she was, since she was practically swinging him over her head.

After that, Ixana and I headed towards her house, to say one last goodbye to her mom and pick up her stuff before heading off.

But of course, the first thing to do after getting your starter is never talking to your parents, you have to try a battle first, and that's exactly what happened, Shauna was the one to challenge us, stopping us on our way towards Ixana's house and sending out her Froakie.

I remembered Froakie from our time at the labs, he way pretty fun, he was mischievous and extremely fast. Needless to say, we were pretty good friends.

"Pretty fitting that our first battle is against each other, huh Chespin?"

he said to me before the battle began

"Yeah, just don't hold back Froak, or the match won't be too much fun!"

"You ready, Chespin?" Ixana called out to me

I turned back and nodded with a grin on my face

"Alright then, go for it!"

I charged towards Froakie to attack with a tackle, and he jumped as high as he could into the air. I smiled at that moment, knowing that he wouldn't see, he was a Pokemon that I grew up with, it wasn't that hard to predict what he was doing. I rolled back as the inevitable bubbles hit where I was standing, creating vines from the surrounding grass and hitting him with them as he fell. It worked pretty well, he stood up again, but he was dazed and almost finished, giving me the perfect opportunity to tackle.

And that was where my life started to change, not only did I met my trainer, but we even won our first battle.