Looking Backward on a New Beginning

Sara left her old house, nibbling on the cookie her mother had given her.
It was odd, being back home after so long. Her mother had certainly been suprised she'd returned, and even after she insisted she was only going to be in town for a little while, her mother demanded she stay so she could bake some cookies.

a pokeball wriggled on her side. she laughed to herself, then let out its occupant with a flash of red light.
the Swampert roared, thumping its hind leg against the ground happily, in excitement.
"Kyaa, you don't really like bein' in there now do ya, Lil' Squirt?" she chided, rubbing the large blue pokemon's head.
"Swammp!"

Kenichi Masayuki, former chapion of Johto, was walking by the new trainer and her Swampart not wanting to cause problems simply walked by hoping not to attract attention especially with his Charizard walking beside him

His prensence didn't go unoticed, however. Sara, as an experienced trainer, was always looking to add more pokemon to her Pokedex.
"Ai, that's a Kanto Pokemon, isn't it?" she called, jogging over to the other trainer with a smile.
Her Swampert following, a moment later, a bit confused.

"I see you know your Pokemon, yes this is a Kanto Pokemon but he's not what I started out with, might I ask for your name." Kenichi said trying to be polite to the new trainer

"My name's Sara Hikari, and this is Squirt." She introduced her parnter pokemon to the new trainer.
"i'm an ex-champion around here, but i haven't set out to take on the elite four in any of the other regions yet.
so, what's your name, nya?"

"My name is Kenichi Masayuki, I've been around places for quite a while in fact I have badges from almost all the regions, after all I was champion of Johto for a while." He stated "And this is my Charizard little gift from a friend raised him myself" Pointing to the Charizard standing next to him.

"Oh, thats amazing, nya!" she chided. "what brings you to Hoenn?"

"Just visiting, looking around I guess." Kenichi said

"Oh, that's nice." she continued.
"Do you have family or friends here?"

"Actually yes, quite a few friends here are just the gym leaders and the elite four members and of course Steven, and no family, they live in Johto. What about you?" Kenichi answered the kind trainers question

"i suppose i've made a few friends along the way," she said, thinking back. "not really any that followed the whole journey though. i kinda strived to do it by myself, but i guess that wasn't the smartest decision on my part! one time i got lost in the Petalburg woods for three days and i had to eat pokemon food!" she laughed, rubbing the side of her head nervously. " the only reason i haven't moved on to explore the other regions is because i had a run in with a rare pokemon here that i've been trying to catch."

"I see wait til you see Mt silver now that was an adventure on it's own for me at least I was able to train my Pokemon a lot while i was there but getting lost is never fun, and a rare Pokemon you say?" Kenichi said

"... yes. on my way home from defeating the elite four, i was surfing to Mossdeep city and i had a run-in with the legendary pokemon Latias. I want to at least meet it in battle one more time, but catching it is not my primary goal. the pokemon i've been trying to catch recently is Kyogre. i've, truthfully caught it before, but the thing was, i didn't feel prepared enough to take care of a pokemon like that, so i released it, hyai! i think i'm ready to hande it now. I've done some reasearch on it's whereabouts, but so far i haven't run into it."

"I wish good luck to you, I've caught me some of Johtos legendaries but never seemed to botherwith the other regions I've visited and I'm hoping to see if I can come into contact with all of of them even in the Unova region." Kenichi said to his new trainer friend

"Yes, thats the place where they discovered all those new species of pokemon, huyh? i would like to go there some time in the future. it'd be glorious. " she rambled, a bit awkwardly.

"Yes in fact I have one of the Unova region Pokemon and it is a fun place to be, so lively there." Kenichi stated

Shigeru ordered about 7 Great balls and Super Potions. "Will that be all?" said the shop keeper. "Yeah" Shigeru replied. The shop keeper leaned in forward. "Listen, if your thinking of taking on the Gyms here in Hoenn, your gonna need to be prepared." Shigeru said back to the keeper. "Yeah, I've about figured all the gyms here, and I'm all ready." The shop keeper looked good. "Ah, that's great to hear. Now, for all that merchandise, it's gonna be 9,100." Shigeru paid the fee, then exited the mart.
Shigeru had been in Oldale Town. He arrived at Hoenn, but he need to surf across Route 103 to get to the first gym, which would not be for sometime away.

*Transitioning back to Kenichi and Sara*

"Well I might be heading off around Hoenn want to join with me?" Kenichi asked the other trainer

"That would be great!" she exclaimed happily, her pokemon roaring in unison, sensing her excitement.

"How about we head towards the first gym in this region I'd like to see how the gym leaders are doing." Kenichi said smiling at the trainers excitement.

"Yeah. that'd be nice. it's been a while since i've met up with Roxanne. " Sara chided, patting her Swampert's head. "we should head off, nya?"

"Lets go" Kenichi said returning his Charizard and sending out his Feraligator "How about I show you my starting Pokemon he likes to walk anyways?" he said to the other trainer

"Oh, a Feraligator?!" Sara exclaimed." my sister Diana, who lives with my aunt in the Kanto region, has a Feraligator, ya!" she informed her new friend. her swampert, sniffed cautiously at the new pokemon.

"Oh really I've might have seen her somewhere in Kanto, well lets start heading out." Kenichi said trying to remember the last time re remember a different trainer with the same starter pokemon he had

"So... hm, do you know any other trainers from around here? " sara inquired, trying to start up casual conversation.