The young emerald-eyed girl quickly put her necessities in her bag, clothes, snacks, her mother's pocket watch, and her father's old map of Kanto, as well as her brand new adventuring set, with a sleeping bag, kindle knife, and a flint and steel, into her bag and tied it into a noose knot, just to keep things safe, grabbing it, and ran to her door, beaming happily as she rushed to go down the stairs to bid her parents farewell. Marina was so excited to meet Professor Oak that she forgot about the slippery mat outside of her door, and slid all the way to the stairs. She would've fell, too, if it hadn't been for her father walking upstairs to warn his daughter of the time, who'd caught her as soon as she lifted off the mat. 

"Where do you think you're falling, kiddo? The only place you should be falling is asleep on your adventure, if you're going to be running around like that everywhere," he chuckled, looking down at her with similar colored eyes. He was a tall, muscular man, sporting a dirty blonde goatee and neatly combed hair, donning a grey sweatshirt, slacks, and an apron, or his work clothes, as he was the manager of the PokéMart in Viridian City. Marina looked up at him and kissed his cheek, grinning widely. "Okay, Dad, you know you won't be able to catch me when I'm out on my journey!" she chastised as he set her down up on the first step.

He looked at her and smiled earnestly, "No, but I think your Pokémon will. You can't only rely on yourself to get things done. That's what the crew is for, got it?"

"Aye, aye, captain!" she replied as she hugged him and rushed down the stairs to meet her mother.

Her mother stood, leaned against the countertop that divided the kitchen and the living room and smiled slyly, her blonde locks hiding her ochre eyes from Marina's view. She licked her lips slowly as she drank from her glass of water and spoke, with a thick accent. "Aye, aye..captain?.." She muttered to herself as she crushed the glass in her hand and glared daggers at her daughter. [B]"Only I am the captain, you deckswabber, you! For your mutiny, walk the plank! You scurvy dog!"[/B] she shouted, pointing for her daughter to leave out the door, but now seeing her eyes, Marina could clearly see tears dripping from her eyes, something rarely seen by anyone. "Just..go.." she whispered, whimpering and keeping her eyes away from her daughter.

Marina, her lips pursued and her eyes determined, marched toward the door, but not before looking back over her shoulder towards her teary-eyed mother. "I will be a great leader, just like you, [I]mama[/I]. Just you see." And with that, she walked out the door and began to run towards Oak's lab, rushing away from the life she once knew and towards the life she wished to lead. When she arrived to the front doors, she had noticed a sign up next to the door, so she had jumped, leaned against one side, and appeared as if she was looking off the bow of a ship. Soon, she would meet her first mate, and be going on her way, on her grand adventure. 

She wasn't the only one there as she noticed another person, looking as if they were also waiting for Professor Oak. She blushed slightly, as she noticed she probably looked like a total dork, how she was. She slowly slid down to sit on the sign and waved shyly.