A/N: Whether you were wanting me to do it or not, I've done it. This is the first chapter of the follow up to The Challenges Ahead. However, it is not a sequel as such, more of a prequel, involving the girl who was killed by Mew in Mew's flashback. First chapter is mainly and introduction, hope you guys like it, enjoy. I don't own Pokemon. (It is set fourteen years before TCA)

The Girl Who Changed Her Fate

Chapter 1

It was just a normal day at high school; the sun was shining brightly on seventh day of March. The clouds scattered across the sky gave the school ground's appearance the effect of a late afternoon even though it was only lunch time. On the school field, the teenagers kept to their separate groups; the nerds, the popular kids and the lonely outcasts. However, inside one of the school buildings there were those few who were in a class, choosing to revise no matter what social group they were in. One student in there was Alivia; she was currently with her math teacher, revising calculus, and the trapezium rule. "So, wait…..I…No, I don't understand sir." She scratched her head in frustration and confusion. Her emerald eyes stared down at her textbook as she struggled to find her way around way the question. Her pen stayed on the same spot it had been for the last minute as she was trying to work through the question. Her teacher stood up and chuckled.

"You can use a calculator you know?" she nodded in response, coming out with another mutter relating to the question in front of her. "Alivia, you could also go outside for lunch. You're more than capable of answering these questions. I think you've just been cooped up in a classroom for too long. Go get some fresh air." He sighed and looked at her. "We've got the entire next double lesson to learn it." Alivia nodded and stood up, packing up her bag, although her face was clearly full of frustration, she forced a smile to her teacher as she walked out the door. "Alivia." She stopped "I mean it, you have no need to worry about the exam; you're one of the most capable students in the class." She smiled and then walked out of the room.

Almost as soon as she got out of the building, her friends were waiting there for her, springing to life as soon as they saw her. "Hey Ally" her friend, Frankie called. All the girls crowded around Alivia and walked along the courtyard in their group. The courtyard itself was no smaller than a full tennis court and was layered with grey concrete pavement, and a clay red brick line leading into the school's entrance; certain parts of the courtyard had small tree growing out of them, being held up by the plastic tubes to influence which way they would grow. The courtyard was a lifeless place in the summer because everyone would be on the field, and on days like this, it was much the same. "Hey, Ally, why'd you go to maths revision? We waited like…twenty minutes for you to come out. We wanted to know what you thought about you hosting the next house party?" Frankie gave her best innocent smile, hiding exactly what happened at one of them.

Alivia shrugged and gave a frown to her friends, and they immediately returned it. "Well.." she said before smirking "I guess I'll have to get my parents a ticket out to see a show or something cos we're gonna party hard." All the girls were giggling and exchanging smiles. They carried on walking until they had reached the field, moving over to a bench and they all sat on it, Alivia sitting on top of the bench in the middle. "Hey, Jackie, are you still dating Tom?" Alivia raised an eyebrow, frowning slightly. The blonde haired girl turned to Alivia and shook her head, making Alivia smile "Good, he was not treating you right. What kind of guy chooses to practice football on Valentine's Day?" just at that, an equally large group of boys came walking over the bench, being headed by one of the guys, he was taller than most of them and certainly leaner in appearance. His short brown hair was turning slightly blonde in the sun and he had face that had been slightly roughed by all his years of playing football.

"Hello girls." He smiled.

Alivia sighed and smiled "Hey Tristan." She bit her lip, her long auburn hair flicked to the side, her fringe staying just above her eyes as she smiled at him. She got off the bench and the two embraced with a hug "When were you gonna tell me that you worked at the new Pokèmart?" she smirked at the boy and chuckled, standing next to him with her toned body, looking up at him only a little because of their height difference.

Tristan laughed and playfully grabbed her and held her still "I was gonna tell you once I had quit. I know how much you will make fun of me for it." He let her go and they hugged again, both of them smiling "Seriously though Ally, don't poke fun at me. At least I have a job."

"You and me both, Tristan." She rolled her eyes "I got a job as a waitress at the local bar because they serve food there." They both looked back to their friends who were all talking with each other.

He smiled and pulled her closer "Hey, Ally, want me to bring Drae out?" she nodded and stood back as he released his pokemon from the pokeball. Before her stood and Ampharos, although this one was a little bit taller than normal and the ball on the end of its tail was blue, not red. The Ampharos bleated in greeting to them and Alivia hugged it as if the two had been lifelong friends.

"Geez Tristan, when the heck did Drae evolve?" he gave a simple show of two fingers "Two days ago…" he nodded and she smiled back at the Ampharos "He's certainly stronger than when he was that fluffy little Mareep." She giggled as the Ampharos glared down in embarrassment.

Tristan smirked "Yeah, but that fluffy Mareep did enough to make you look as shocked as a Jolteon's fur." She rolled her eyes at him again and shoved him as best she could, although it did barely anything. The groups rejoined and they all talked about whatever was current until the bell went for the end of lunch. The girls all hugged each other before leaving, waving goodbye to the boys.

When it came round to her maths lesson again, Alivia was once again struggling to find the solution to the problem. "Sir….Is this right?" he walked over to her and looked down at the work she had done. One simple gesture brought a smile to both of their faces, a thumbs up gesture was all it took for her to feel relieved and that maybe her exam would go right. However, before she could stay relieved for too long she noticed a certain someone looking in through the window "Titch?" she frowned. The teacher looked in the same direction and took off his glasses.

"Is that yours, Alivia?" she nodded and then all the class looked to her, almost in disgust from some, but the others just looked briefly before continuing to work. The Pichu in question was hanging by a branch and grinning as he waved at her. Alivia couldn't help but try to hide her smile as the small rodent waved excitedly, and even the teacher smiled. "Tell you what. You've worked pretty hard the whole day. You've got all the work done and more. Go on, you can go home early on my permission. Enjoy it." He smiled and opened the door for her.

Once Alivia was out, she went to the back of her classroom and saw the Pichu waiting there with the smile on his face gone "Hey Titch." She smiled and scratched his ears gently. Immediately the rodent pokemon jumped back and onto his place on her shoulder. "I know you got me out of the lesson, but you can't just run to my school." His ears lowered as he looked back at her with a sad face. She pouted to him and scratched his chin to calm him down "Come on you. Let's go home….Mum and Dad will be a little surprised." She shrugged and walked out of the school grounds.

After a few minutes walking, Alivia had made it to a crossing and she walked across into the pathway that cut right through the field. Titch jumped off and scampered ahead as they had their daily race with each other. However, this time, in the crops that were being grown on the field, it made it impossible to see where Titch had gone. The wheat crops that sprouted from the ground were tall enough to make the pace become a maze if there wasn't a path to follow.

She swore under her breath as the path disappeared from her sight when she looked down. "Great…..Titch you owe me." She sighed and trudged through the crops. For a moment she thought she had found him, but it turned out to be an oddly shaped and coloured grain. She flopped down on the bed of wheat and looked up to the sun, putting her sunglasses over her eyes and staying there until Titch came back.

She sat up straight as soon as she heard a low pitched growl coming from behind her and turned round. She reeled back when she saw a not so happy Ninetales glaring down at her, its tails were flicking violently as its crimson eyes stayed fixed upon her. "Whoa there; easy." She held her hands up to the pokemon and looked away. The fox pokemon got closer, still growling, the noise getting louder as it got closer.

As soon as it started, the noise stopped and she saw the Ninetales bound away. Alivia just sat there speechless, utterly terrified and to a certain extent curious. Shakily, she stood up and grabbed her bag, now searching for a way out again. "Piiii!" she heard and before she could react Titch had slammed into her face, latching on by her nose. He squirmed and crawled atop of her head.

"What's wrong Titch?" she looked up only to find that he had dashed away again, but before she could call out for him again she saw another two Ninetales approach her. Such rare pokemon were here, and she didn't know why. The two tried to walk around her, but she quickly figured out why and stepped in their way. "I can't let you have him." She called, although she was visibly shaking before the two vulpines "He's my friend, and you're not gonna get past me." She nearly fainted at how stupid she sounded, but even as they tried to get around her, she stepped back and blocked their way again. Soon they were getting frustrated and blast a small spurt of flames into the air as a warning.

She shook her head and stood her ground "No." was all she said. The standoff lasted for at least ten minutes and by that time she knew that Titch would have been able to get close enough to home by now. She dropped her guard and fell to her knees. However, the Ninetales did not walk past her like she expected, instead they closed in around her. "Hey, wait. What are you doing?" she raised an eyebrow, getting uncomfortable with this whole scenario.

The two Vulpine had paralysed her because of how nervous she was. They took this as their opportunity to seize whatever she had in her bag, although what they found at first wasn't of much use to them, a pencil case, and maths and chemistry books. They did eventually find her lunch box, trying to open it with their lack of opposable thumbs. One of them went to carry the bag away as his possession, but in an act of blind reaction, Alivia dived forwards to grab for her bag.

Her hand scraped at the bag's surface, but she couldn't hold her leverage well enough to stay up and get a grip on it. Instead, her hand smacked down onto the ground with a soft thud. However, the ground was slightly covered in a creamy yellow bristle of fur. She paled in the face as she was met with the angry glare of the Ninetales'.

Once again both the Ninetales circled her, both flicking their tails slowly, keeping their gaze fixed on her, making sure she didn't try to get away. Alivia watched as the Ninetales approached her, this was the one whose tail she had touched, and she knew of the alleged curses that were put upon such offenders. "Please. Don't hurt me." She whimpered, her voice croaking as she fought back the tears.

To her surprise the Ninetales stopped growling and licked her cheek. She did a double take and saw that she was fine; no cuts or bruises, no mental damage. She had come out of this unscathed. The other Ninetales joined in now and licked her other cheek.

Whilst she was being distracted by this, the two vulpine subtly wrapped their tails around her, and before she knew it, Alivia was on her back trying to push away the canines. The tails from the 'offended' Ninetales quickly flashed a bright light that could have only have been detected if you were to watch closely.

They nodded to each other and stopped, just keeping their hold on her. 'Human.' The voice of the Ninetales echoed in her mind and she stopped her face dropping with terror. 'You are aware that by the law of our kind. You are to have a curse placed upon you as a result of touching our sacred tails. We have been granted permission by Arceus himself to search your soul and find your punishment.' Their eyes glowed briefly, turning back to their crimson shade almost immediately. 'We have two possible options for you. We can change your form to that of which has been deemed suitable. Or there is the option that we kill you in order to protect ourselves which by the name of Arceus we are allowed to do.'

Alivia gulped and thought for a second "Do I get a choice?" they shook their heads at her, making her heart sink. After a few tense minutes, they had made their choice 'We have decided that because you did not offend because you were malicious, and because you were stupid.' She felt a little bit of anger at their bluntness. 'We have decided that we will change your form. Only fate will decide what that might be, although we can influence it slightly. Tell us about yourself human.' They sat down on their haunches. "Well, my name is Alivia Pontielli." She began.

At the same time, some changes were already taking place and she could see them happening, she could feel them happening. "I go to a high school about one and a half miles from here." She started to stammer as she got worried with the further changes and she could feel the subtle changes being made to her voice, although what the changes were was completely beyond her. "I have a group of friends, and my best friend Frankie. She's n…n…no I can't please tell me what's going on." Suddenly her changes completely reversed and she was back to normal. The ninetales frowned 'Girl, you have just changed whatever was in store for you. This time stay quiet!' the voice demanded.

Immediately she felt a sharp pain shoot through her spine. This was doubled to the point that she had got pins and needles in every part of her body. She lay back on the floor in agony as the ninetales watched on, and even they were starting to seem a little concerned at her changes. She screamed as she felt her head reshape, the skull cracking as it changed to fit her new body, which was also in the process of changing. She cried out as her spine seemed to grow and then split some.

After some time they looked down upon her and shook their heads in disbelief "Well, this was not what I expected." One of them said.

"No. It really wasn't, but you know what that means don't you?" they both nodded to each other.

Alivia woke, feeling significantly warmer, although far more groggy than before "W-what happened?" she looked up to see the two ninetales smiling down at her "Okay. What have I taken?" she joked with herself, hoping it was a dream.

"Alivia if you look at yourself. You will see the changes that you had influenced by changing your own fate." She looked down and around at herself, shrieking hopelessly at her new form.

She stood up shakily and looked back at her rear, spotting three tails sprouting from her spine. "I'm a…..a Vulpix!?" her attention shot to the two ninetales before her "how the heck!? Change me back, please. I had a whole life to get on with."

"We will not change you back. You have to endure the curse put upon you. It is law. You shouldn't however, be too disheartened by your new appearance because it is also law for our clan to accept any member of our species. We wouldn't be so cruel as to leave you by yourself, now come with us." One of them said to her in a rather blunt tone.

She shook her head "No, but you'd be cruel enough to change the species of a girl who didn't even intentionally grab your tail. If you hadn't been trying to…." She stopped as she realised that she was speaking in plain English to a pokemon. If she could have heard herself from the human perspective she would have only heard her new species name uttered in different syllable variations.

The ninetales stopped and growled directly at her "Would you rather have died? No, so quit moaning and just come with us." He sighed, sounding a little bit irritated. They began to walk "Come with us if you want a place to stay, with your own kind." She felt a pang at her heart with that comment, but silently followed behind, her steps a little more awkward than theirs.

A/N: Well there you guys go. There it is the first chapter for all of you. I hope this one will be as successful as my first story; I will get the next chapter out during my easter holidays. I may even get two done. Please review; it is what helps me get better. If I know what there is to improve then I will try my best to improve. If there was just something you like then great, I'd love to know what it was so that I could style my writing a little more like that specific part. Thank you.