Hello. My name is TheWanderingMist. I'm not very prolific in my story-writing and I have a tendency to let things get later and later, as with my other stories. Once past a certain point, however, a switch flips in my brain and I can write for an hour straight about anything. Moving on…

Pokémon is something that I will always love and, though I will always buy the main series games no matter what (barring a few obvious exceptions, like the games suddenly turning into something entirely different [although Alola is looking kinda Orange Islands-ish and that would be amazing]), I wanted to try something new. I had heard about the Nuzlocke challenge and read through the original comic, so, in November 2013, with an accidentally ordered copy of Pokémon X, I set out on my own Nuzlocke challenge. But, seeing as it was my first Nuzlocke, I gave myself a bit of a cushion, of which this was the result:

The Six Miracles Nuzlocke Challenge:

The regular Nuzlocke rules apply with the following exception:

Exception: You have 6 revives from fainting under these conditions:

Condition 1: It must take place within 5 real-world minutes

Condition 2: You may not Fly, Bike, Roller Skate, etc. (you may Surf if necessary). During this time

Condition 3: You must use the Centers of Lumiose City for these healings.

And there was one more rule I added to make it a little more challenging to do things:

Additional Rule: You may only ever fly to Lumiose City.

And thus, I set out on a journey through Kalos in mid-November 2013, concurrently with my copy of Y. However, after a while, I focused solely on Y, having learned the wonders of IV breeding (successfully managing to get two outstanding potential Chespin and a Shiny Hidden Ability Eevee on my first try with the Matsuda Method [about 60 other Eevee had been born by that point, but all were non-Matsuda Method]). By the time I remembered my unfinished X Nuzlocke, it had been misplaced and I had my younger brother's copy of X instead in my case. But just two days ago, I found my copy of X tucked away accidentally in his DS case in the charger compartment. I remembered bits and pieces of what happened in my Nuzlocke, and having recently been watching a Let's Play of Pokémon Insurgence Ranklocke by Patterrz, I was inspired to write a story based on my X Nuzlocke.

Since I only remember bits and pieces of my Nuzlocke from years ago, it's going to be a real rough start for Riza, a Kalos girl who blacked out in Prism Tower and lost all but a few fragmentary memories of her journey. And so, dear reader, we can begin, if you would but kindly turn the page…