Summary:

Meet Will and his friends, Tenrou, Sanakou, and Axl. They're your (mostly) typical bunch of trainers who are getting set to head out together for the rite of passage that is a pokémon trainer's journey to collect the eight gym badges of their home region. Although they're a good bit older than most "beginning" trainers, they still have much to learn. Their plans are cut short however, when something goes awry that quickly sucks the whole group into the center of a conflict nearly a decade in the making.