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Prologue: A Dreamy Plea
Kat was confused.
She had no idea where in the world she was. She blinked. Once, twice, three times. Nope. She was still in the same, strange place.
So she was confused. And hating every second of it…
There were ruins all over the place. Crumbling buildings that might have been breath-taking long ago, but were now decrepit and…well, ruined. Once towering columns now lay in pieces around her. Vines and ivy clustered thick and wild in some places, appearing to be the only thing holding some dubious structures together. Even the large marble platform she stood on must have seen better days. And with the thick mist hanging heavy in the air, it was a wonder how she could be seeing any of this at all.
All in all, things were a mess…
“Geez, Jay’d love to dig around in this place,” she muttered.
Her archaeologist brother would probably sell his soul for a chance to study these ruins. If it was over a century old and falling to pieces, she could count of her brother to revert to a drooling mess. Personally, Kat wasn’t all that interested in the past. She just wanted to know where she was. It didn’t look like any place she knew of in Unova.
Was she in another region or something? How did that happen?
So deep in her contemplations of sudden and mysterious land mass travel, Kat almost didn’t notice the sudden appearance of a crowd of people. She nearly shouted in surprise. One second, she was all alone. The next? There were a bunch of people everywhere.
Well, more like “kids” to be correct. The youngest looked about ten or something, but the majority of them seemed around her age. It was strange. They all looked like they came from so many different regions. Closest to her, she recognized some people wearing clothing typical of the Kalos regions. There also seemed to be people from the Sinoh region, the Johto, and even as far as the Kanto region. It boggled her mind. Kat had only read about those places—lands so far from Unova that you could only reach them by a boat or a plane—from her brother’s books.
Even stranger still was the fact that the others all came in pairs; one girl to every boy. It was like some crazy gathering of representatives from all over the world. How odd…
But that thought stuck in Kat’s head. She looked around and sure enough, there was another Unovian standing not too far from her, a brown-haired and brown-eyed boy who must have been her age. She felt like laughing, it was so strange.
This is all so absurd, she thought with a dry chuckle. I must be dreaming…
The air suddenly shifted, so slight that Kat thought she must have imagined it. A bright, blinding flash of light forced her eyes shut. When she opened them next, recovered from the sudden attack of blindness, she gaped.
Standing before them all was a Pokémon. A tall, regal creature that looked slightly equine with a white and gold body. A massive wheel-like structure framed its back.
“Beautiful…” Kat couldn’t breathe. Her fingers itched for paper and pencil, begging for a chance to draw the majestic Pokémon.
It looked vaguely familiar, and the name felt as if it were on the tip of her tongue. Kat knew it had to be a Legendary—no other Pokémon could give off an aura of power like this.
As she and the other humans stared, the mysterious Pokémon's eyes slipped closed as it bowed its head. Smaller flashes of light appeared in front of the creature, forming the shapes of other species of Pokémon. Power radiated off of each other and Kat knew at once that they too were Legendary Pokémon. Other beautiful creatures that she yearned to commit their images to paper.
And the voices. There were so many of them. Kat could hear them all, clear and bright as bells.
Two voices captured her attention at once. Her gaze was drawn to two Pokémon that stood side-by-side with each other, away from the others. Both appeared slightly draconic in nature and were a magnificent sight together. The one on the left was pure white, like fresh snow with glowing blue eyes. The other was its opposite, completely black with smoldering red eyes.
Kat couldn’t take her eyes off of them. The two Pokémon’s gazes held her entranced.
But just as suddenly as they appeared, all of the smaller Pokémon disappeared. They faded away, but not before Kat caught the flash of fear in each of their eyes. That same fear echoed in their voices, which caused dread and anguish to fill her stomach. She wanted to reach out to them, tell them that they would be alright. She wanted to help them.
Soon, it was just the first Legendary Pokémon left, gazing sadly down at the space where the others once stood. But even though the other Pokémon were gone, the space was far from empty.
Humans now occupied that area—large groups of them. Seven, by her count. Who were they?
Each group was distinguishable by the clothing they wore. Uniforms. The group standing in front of Kat looked…Well…
She honestly thought that they looked ridiculous. Who even wore such silly, medieval armor and robes nowadays? It was laughable. She couldn’t make out any of the people’s faces, but two of them—both men, she figured, based on their body shape—stood front and center of the group.
They must be the leaders, she realized.
She wished that she could see what they looked like. All she could make out from their blurry images was their hair. She’d never seen hair like theirs before, a light green color. Not the same shade as grass, but somewhere in between the colors of mint and green tea.
As she stared, Kat’s head immediately started to hurt. Pain lashed her skull, like a wild Conkeldurr had started bashing her head. Images flashed before her eyes.
Fire. Pain. People and Pokémon alike, wailing in anguish and despair. Their voices penetrated her head in a deafening roar. The two dragon Pokémon, those beautiful white and black creatures, fought each other mercilessly.
No…This isn’t right…Stop it, please…! Stop!!!
Who was responsible for this? Rage swelled up inside Kat. Who was responsible for all this pain, this fighting? Who dared to create this suffering?!
TAKE WHAT YOU SEE HERE, AND HOLD IT CLOSE TO YOUR HEART.
Kat looked up through tears she didn’t even know were being shed. The strange groups of people were fading away, as was the pain that afflicted her, churning her insides like boiling oil. Rubbing her eyes furiously, she looked around to see some of the other children in states similar to her own. Had they all seen visions similar to her own, to cause such grief?
“Who’s voice…?”
REMEMBER THIS MOMENT.
Kat started. Her eyes shot up, fixed on the white and golden Pokémon. The creature stared back down at her and the others, eyes pleading.
STOP THEM. DON’T LET THEM SUCCEED IN THEIR PLANS.
Something wasn’t right. Kat felt odd. Her whole body tingled, like tiny electrical pulses were coursing through her muscles. She looked down and cried out.
She was fading, disappearing. She tried to fight it, screaming and shouting as the voices of the other children joined in. They too were fading away and dissolving like mist. No one wanted to leave. They wanted to stay.
</i>PLEASE…SAVE MY CHILDREN.
Just as the last of Kat’s body faded, she threw her head back and screamed.
“Wait, Arce—!!!”
…
…
Kat jolted up in bed, pale purple eyes springing open wide in fright. A scream lodged in her throat and for a second, she thought that the sweaty strands of red hair wrapped around her neck and face were hands, strangling her. She couldn’t breathe.
“A-Ah…What…?”
She looked around. She was in her bedroom, safe and sound. The clock on her nightstand red five o’clock in the morning.
A nightmare, that’s all it had been. Just a bad dream.
But…What did I just dream?
She couldn’t remember much of it. How strange. There had been pain, screaming, voices, and something else…Why did she feel that the color green was important? And somebody wanted something, but what…?
“I must be nervous about tomorrow,” she rationalized. “Back to bed for me…”
Tomorrow was an important day, after all. She couldn’t afford to be exhausted. So Kat lay back down, buried her face in the pillow, and pulled her comforter back over her head.
PLEASE…SAVE MY CHILDREN…
SAVE…MY…CHILDREN…
Kat was confused.
She had no idea where in the world she was. She blinked. Once, twice, three times. Nope. She was still in the same, strange place.
So she was confused. And hating every second of it…
There were ruins all over the place. Crumbling buildings that might have been breath-taking long ago, but were now decrepit and…well, ruined. Once towering columns now lay in pieces around her. Vines and ivy clustered thick and wild in some places, appearing to be the only thing holding some dubious structures together. Even the large marble platform she stood on must have seen better days. And with the thick mist hanging heavy in the air, it was a wonder how she could be seeing any of this at all.
All in all, things were a mess…
“Geez, Jay’d love to dig around in this place,” she muttered.
Her archaeologist brother would probably sell his soul for a chance to study these ruins. If it was over a century old and falling to pieces, she could count of her brother to revert to a drooling mess. Personally, Kat wasn’t all that interested in the past. She just wanted to know where she was. It didn’t look like any place she knew of in Unova.
Was she in another region or something? How did that happen?
So deep in her contemplations of sudden and mysterious land mass travel, Kat almost didn’t notice the sudden appearance of a crowd of people. She nearly shouted in surprise. One second, she was all alone. The next? There were a bunch of people everywhere.
Well, more like “kids” to be correct. The youngest looked about ten or something, but the majority of them seemed around her age. It was strange. They all looked like they came from so many different regions. Closest to her, she recognized some people wearing clothing typical of the Kalos regions. There also seemed to be people from the Sinoh region, the Johto, and even as far as the Kanto region. It boggled her mind. Kat had only read about those places—lands so far from Unova that you could only reach them by a boat or a plane—from her brother’s books.
Even stranger still was the fact that the others all came in pairs; one girl to every boy. It was like some crazy gathering of representatives from all over the world. How odd…
But that thought stuck in Kat’s head. She looked around and sure enough, there was another Unovian standing not too far from her, a brown-haired and brown-eyed boy who must have been her age. She felt like laughing, it was so strange.
This is all so absurd, she thought with a dry chuckle. I must be dreaming…
The air suddenly shifted, so slight that Kat thought she must have imagined it. A bright, blinding flash of light forced her eyes shut. When she opened them next, recovered from the sudden attack of blindness, she gaped.
Standing before them all was a Pokémon. A tall, regal creature that looked slightly equine with a white and gold body. A massive wheel-like structure framed its back.
“Beautiful…” Kat couldn’t breathe. Her fingers itched for paper and pencil, begging for a chance to draw the majestic Pokémon.
It looked vaguely familiar, and the name felt as if it were on the tip of her tongue. Kat knew it had to be a Legendary—no other Pokémon could give off an aura of power like this.
As she and the other humans stared, the mysterious Pokémon's eyes slipped closed as it bowed its head. Smaller flashes of light appeared in front of the creature, forming the shapes of other species of Pokémon. Power radiated off of each other and Kat knew at once that they too were Legendary Pokémon. Other beautiful creatures that she yearned to commit their images to paper.
And the voices. There were so many of them. Kat could hear them all, clear and bright as bells.
Two voices captured her attention at once. Her gaze was drawn to two Pokémon that stood side-by-side with each other, away from the others. Both appeared slightly draconic in nature and were a magnificent sight together. The one on the left was pure white, like fresh snow with glowing blue eyes. The other was its opposite, completely black with smoldering red eyes.
Kat couldn’t take her eyes off of them. The two Pokémon’s gazes held her entranced.
But just as suddenly as they appeared, all of the smaller Pokémon disappeared. They faded away, but not before Kat caught the flash of fear in each of their eyes. That same fear echoed in their voices, which caused dread and anguish to fill her stomach. She wanted to reach out to them, tell them that they would be alright. She wanted to help them.
Soon, it was just the first Legendary Pokémon left, gazing sadly down at the space where the others once stood. But even though the other Pokémon were gone, the space was far from empty.
Humans now occupied that area—large groups of them. Seven, by her count. Who were they?
Each group was distinguishable by the clothing they wore. Uniforms. The group standing in front of Kat looked…Well…
She honestly thought that they looked ridiculous. Who even wore such silly, medieval armor and robes nowadays? It was laughable. She couldn’t make out any of the people’s faces, but two of them—both men, she figured, based on their body shape—stood front and center of the group.
They must be the leaders, she realized.
She wished that she could see what they looked like. All she could make out from their blurry images was their hair. She’d never seen hair like theirs before, a light green color. Not the same shade as grass, but somewhere in between the colors of mint and green tea.
As she stared, Kat’s head immediately started to hurt. Pain lashed her skull, like a wild Conkeldurr had started bashing her head. Images flashed before her eyes.
Fire. Pain. People and Pokémon alike, wailing in anguish and despair. Their voices penetrated her head in a deafening roar. The two dragon Pokémon, those beautiful white and black creatures, fought each other mercilessly.
No…This isn’t right…Stop it, please…! Stop!!!
Who was responsible for this? Rage swelled up inside Kat. Who was responsible for all this pain, this fighting? Who dared to create this suffering?!
TAKE WHAT YOU SEE HERE, AND HOLD IT CLOSE TO YOUR HEART.
Kat looked up through tears she didn’t even know were being shed. The strange groups of people were fading away, as was the pain that afflicted her, churning her insides like boiling oil. Rubbing her eyes furiously, she looked around to see some of the other children in states similar to her own. Had they all seen visions similar to her own, to cause such grief?
“Who’s voice…?”
REMEMBER THIS MOMENT.
Kat started. Her eyes shot up, fixed on the white and golden Pokémon. The creature stared back down at her and the others, eyes pleading.
STOP THEM. DON’T LET THEM SUCCEED IN THEIR PLANS.
Something wasn’t right. Kat felt odd. Her whole body tingled, like tiny electrical pulses were coursing through her muscles. She looked down and cried out.
She was fading, disappearing. She tried to fight it, screaming and shouting as the voices of the other children joined in. They too were fading away and dissolving like mist. No one wanted to leave. They wanted to stay.
</i>PLEASE…SAVE MY CHILDREN.
Just as the last of Kat’s body faded, she threw her head back and screamed.
“Wait, Arce—!!!”
…
…
Kat jolted up in bed, pale purple eyes springing open wide in fright. A scream lodged in her throat and for a second, she thought that the sweaty strands of red hair wrapped around her neck and face were hands, strangling her. She couldn’t breathe.
“A-Ah…What…?”
She looked around. She was in her bedroom, safe and sound. The clock on her nightstand red five o’clock in the morning.
A nightmare, that’s all it had been. Just a bad dream.
But…What did I just dream?
She couldn’t remember much of it. How strange. There had been pain, screaming, voices, and something else…Why did she feel that the color green was important? And somebody wanted something, but what…?
“I must be nervous about tomorrow,” she rationalized. “Back to bed for me…”
Tomorrow was an important day, after all. She couldn’t afford to be exhausted. So Kat lay back down, buried her face in the pillow, and pulled her comforter back over her head.
PLEASE…SAVE MY CHILDREN…
SAVE…MY…CHILDREN…
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Hey guys, guess what? I've officially indulged in my childhood to bring you an all-new story! I give you "Fate of the Unknown: Kat's Tale"!
This comes as a challenge put up by the awesome
. For those of you not following her, she just took up a new story project that involves a Nuzlocke run of Pokemon X. As a bit of a fun challenge, she's asked if other Pokemon fan writers wanted to do the same. Here's the journal, incase you're curious about the challenge. --->fav.me/d8sf5yx
Since I recently got back into the series (thanks to the kids I babysit every once in a while), I signed up to tackle Pokemon White. So with an emulator installed onto my laptop, Pokemon White downloaded, and yet ANOTHER writer's block keeping me from dealing with "Hearts of Darkness", I give you my Nuzlocke run!
Now then, I'll be going by her rules on this. So I can't revive any fallen Pokemon, except in the case of those Legendary battles, for story purposes. I have to at least try to catch the first one I encounter in any area, and I can't have two of the same species (except if there's a Shiny, 'cause if that's the case that rule is totally out the window!). Naturally, any Pokemon I catch, with the exception of the Legendaries, will be nicknamed. And when I defeat Alder, the "no revive" rule is out. That's one of her rules too, and it makes sense the way she explains it. (Being on a Champion's salary would allow to but plenty of rare revives, no? XD)
I'm saying this now, that I don't intend to make this one of my main stories. "Hearts of Darkness", "Heart and Soul", and my Fairy Tail series are big commitments that I try to update every month. But this is really fun, so I will try to update it as often as possible. Lord knows, I've got a few stories that I haven't touched for a while because I've been focusing on my three main babies and a loss of motivation. But I'm saying this now, this story shall not be discontinued, dangit. This I swear!
Now, that that long explanation's over, if you haven't read's new project, "Fate of the Unknown: Bellamy's Tale", and like Pokemon, I suggest you give it a try. You can read the prologue right here. --->fav.me/d8sn1mp
I don't own the Pokemon series. Some OCs will show up in this, but you get the basic idea. I only own a part of this fic.
next:fav.me/d8wo034
This comes as a challenge put up by the awesome
. For those of you not following her, she just took up a new story project that involves a Nuzlocke run of Pokemon X. As a bit of a fun challenge, she's asked if other Pokemon fan writers wanted to do the same. Here's the journal, incase you're curious about the challenge. --->fav.me/d8sf5yx Since I recently got back into the series (thanks to the kids I babysit every once in a while), I signed up to tackle Pokemon White. So with an emulator installed onto my laptop, Pokemon White downloaded, and yet ANOTHER writer's block keeping me from dealing with "Hearts of Darkness", I give you my Nuzlocke run!
Now then, I'll be going by her rules on this. So I can't revive any fallen Pokemon, except in the case of those Legendary battles, for story purposes. I have to at least try to catch the first one I encounter in any area, and I can't have two of the same species (except if there's a Shiny, 'cause if that's the case that rule is totally out the window!). Naturally, any Pokemon I catch, with the exception of the Legendaries, will be nicknamed. And when I defeat Alder, the "no revive" rule is out. That's one of her rules too, and it makes sense the way she explains it. (Being on a Champion's salary would allow to but plenty of rare revives, no? XD)
I'm saying this now, that I don't intend to make this one of my main stories. "Hearts of Darkness", "Heart and Soul", and my Fairy Tail series are big commitments that I try to update every month. But this is really fun, so I will try to update it as often as possible. Lord knows, I've got a few stories that I haven't touched for a while because I've been focusing on my three main babies and a loss of motivation. But I'm saying this now, this story shall not be discontinued, dangit. This I swear!
Now, that that long explanation's over, if you haven't read
's new project, "Fate of the Unknown: Bellamy's Tale", and like Pokemon, I suggest you give it a try. You can read the prologue right here. --->fav.me/d8sn1mpI don't own the Pokemon series. Some OCs will show up in this, but you get the basic idea. I only own a part of this fic.
next:fav.me/d8wo034
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not bad, i actually haven't read a pokemon fanfic and i rarely get time to see the cartoon anymore 