Sapphire is a girl who is afraid of power. With that, she doesn't do battling with her Pokemon and refuses to take the Pokemon League challenge. She didn't even get her first Pokemon until she was sixteen and her close friend, Steven Stone, had given her a torchic. She lays low, mostly staying at his house in Mosdeep city to the point she could be considered living there. Just as a friend, of course. But things begin to change. Steven is more tense and away more, and suddenly he is to the point of begging Sapphire to do the Pokemon League challenge and helping him solve Hoenn's biggest threats--Team Magma and Team Aqua. On top of that all, there is a tension growing between the close friends and hearts begin to have minds of their own.