Grace Pastel is a young girl who lives a cozy life in Jubilife city with her father, and for her, Pokemon battles are just something that she watches on television or online. Entertainment to be seen at a distance. After turning fifteen, she watched as young people her age got ready for their first journey across Sinnoh, all aiming to become the Champion. She usually scoffed at them, wondering how one could throw away a comfortable life in the city to risk their lives in the wild for an unobtainable goal. And yet when she was asked by her father to deliver a package to her mother living two towns over, something clicked in her brain. Suddenly, she decided that she wanted to be the very best. Inspired by Traveler and Practical Guide to Evil.  Cover by @grimwyer on Discord. Join the discord here! You can vote on polls, get pinged when a chapter goes up, discuss the story with other readers or ask me questions! Two chapters a week on Wednesdays and Sundays, from July 3rd Warning: this is a slow story, there is a romantic subplot, and the tags + content warnings are there for a reason. This story is not actually grimdark, but do not expect something out of the anime. Nobledark would be a more accurate tag that RR does not have, and it is still the darkest large Pokemon fic on the site.  Crossposting on Scribble/SB/AO3/FFN/QQ/SV