Prologue

Layla: "Hey Darth! How come you haven't published any stories lately?"

Darth Leo: "I've been working hard on this chapter for all of you."

Layla: "Does that mean that you'll be working on Dark Temptations?"

Darth Leo: "Yup!"

Layla: "Yay!"

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"Ugh! They are such a nuisance! Why do people keep these pesky Pokémon." I complained.

"Come on Ivy! They aren't that bad!" Said my older cousin Leo.

I watched Leo's Zoroark wrap her furred arms around Leo from behind. She began nuzzling Leo, much to my disgust.

"Seriously? You're only saying that because you're dating your Zoroark!" I countered.

Leo whispered something into his Pokémon's ears.

"What are you doing Leo?"

Leo finished whispering and as he did, Leo's Zoroark giggled an admittedly cute giggle.

The very next moment, the Pokémon disappeared.

"What the? Where did she- GYAH! GETHEROFFMEGETHEROFFMEGETHEROFFME!"

I was panicking. I wasn't expecting a Pokémon to hug me, let alone a Pokémon that squished her furry womanly mounds into my back in the process of hugging me.

"What's the magic word?" Leo said.

"Please damn it! I hate Pokémon!"

Leo chuckled at me and said "That's enough Layla. It's my turn!"

Leo's Pokémon let go of me and I turned around to try to hit her for hugging me, but by the time I did that, she was gone; instead she was hugging Leo from behind.

"How the heck is she doing that?" I asked.

"She using Feint Attack without the attack. The move makes the user appear behind the target's back before attacking. It's virtually impossible to avoid with the exception of Lucario and Riolu and their Aura sensing abilities."

"Please don't make her do that again!

"She was just trying to be nice!"

"No Pokémon is nice! They can be destroyed for all I care!"

Leo looked concerned at me. I knew what he was going to say.

"Why do you hate Pokémon so much?"

I sighed. I knew this would come up eventually, so I decided to get it over with so it doesn't come back up to annoy me.

"It started when I was a young girl. I was minding my own business and digging holes to plant flowers. I was attacked with several Poison Stings before I blacked out. I was in the hospital for over three months. The doctors had trouble removing all of the poison. The last month of my hospital stay was me trying to learn how to walk again. It was pure torture. They never told me what hospitalized me until I was let go. Pokémon."

"Oh. I had no idea..."

"I know how you feel, Ivy." Leeland said.

"How? There is no way you could have experienced what I did."

"I've experienced the anger, Ivy. In a way it was. My mom loved me, but Dad hated my guts. My father abandoned me as a kid in a forest full of "monsters." I fell from dad's Pokémon and broke my leg. Alphys attacked me, but was saved by Kitsune. She was a Zorua. She got her mother and her mother brought me to her den where she patched me up and I ended up being raised by her."

"Oh. Raised by Pokémon? How was it?"

"It was better than you might think."

"How? I would have thought it would been terrible."

"I kinda became an unofficial Pokémon trainer that day. Kitsune never left my side and always listened to me whenever I would ask her to do something. At night, the three of us, Kitsune, her mother, and I would snuggle together for warmth. Not all Pokémon are evil, Ivy. Kitsune, a Dark type, could have left me there to die. I don't want to to change your opinion for my sake. I want you to make that decision for yourself. It's just something to think about."

"I'll definitely think about it."

"We'd love to stay, but we need to catch the next ferry to the Kanto region before the huge snow storm hits. Here is Pokégear you can have. I already registered both Leo and my Pokégear numbers. Call us if you need help or have a question. It comes with a tutorial app to help you get started."

"Okay! Thanks! Bye!"

I watched the boys walk away from me towards the docks.

A lot has happened and was said today. I definitely have some thinking to do.

The cave nearby is the perfect place to think. It was secluded and fairly well hidden spot near the base of the mountain where I lived.

I always kept some camping supplies in the cave in case I decided to stay the night.

I kept things like hotdogs, marshmallows, chocolate, graham crackers, and wood.

It was the perfect food for an overnight stay.

I entered the cave and was hit with a gigantic wave of drowsiness that I couldn't explain.

Darkness swirled in my vision before I passed out on the cold stone floor.

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"Ivy... Ivy..." said a disembodied voice.

"Hello?" I called out.

"Save him..."

"Save who?"

"Save him... wake up..."

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I opened my eyes and immediately realized I was freezing. I grabbed an extra coat that I always kept in the cave and walked to the entrance of the cave to discover it had snowed four feet. I could only see four feet ahead of me.

"Great. How am I supposed to get out now?"

"Ahh!" Something yelled out.

"Someone's in trouble!"

It took me about 30 seconds before I discovered what appeared to be a child hanging off a high ledge.

"I got you!"

I pulled its arms up, surprised that it was so light. I pulled the child onto my shoulders and trudged back to the cave.

I carefully placed the child on the floor while I got my blankets. I wrapped the child up as quickly as I could and sat next to the child and laid down on the floor. Might as well get some rest.

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"It's your destiny, Ivy... Don't resist it."

"What destiny?"

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I awoke the the sound of menacingly loud growling.

"Huh?"

"Who. Are. You?" Said a very angry, male, anthromorphic Growlithe child.

"Ivy. I'm not a Pokémon trainer if that's what you're worried about."

The young Growthlite relaxed slightly and looked at me cautiously.

"Look. I don't like this more than you do, but we're trapped in this cave until the storm passes. I can feel you hate Pokémon and I feel the same about humans. If you ever try anything, I'll bite you."

"Why do you look half human?" Ivy asked.

The dog Pokémon sighed.

"Of course..." The Growlithe said, clearly annoyed.

He spent a few moments to calmed down.

"I better get this explanation out of the way" the Growlithe continued, "All Pokémon have two forms. Anthro and Beast forms."

(Anthromorphic basically means human like and bipedal or walks on two legs)

"If you hate humans so much, then why are you in anthro form?"

"Frankly because it saved my life. "

"How?"

"As much as I'd hate to admit it, I don't have a good grip on cold slippery surfaces in my beast form then I do in my anthro form."

"Why did you start hating humans?"

"Why do you care?"

"Because I'm curious and because I'll tell you why I hate Pokémon."

"Don't you still hate Pokémon?"

"I do, but not as much as I have before."

"Why? What happened?"

"Leeland."

"Who's Leeland?"

"Do you want me to show you?"

"How?"

"With my Pokégear! Leeland gave it to me."

Arcanine's POV, flashback.

"Quickly! Get to the den, Son!"

We were being chased by a Pokémon trainer.

"Dragonite! Use Hyperbeam!"

"Got it!"

I tripped on a tree root and fell flat in my stomach.

I felt the heat of the Hyperbeam sear my fur as it flew above my head and definitely heading towards my mother.

Everything moved in slow motion as I watched my Mom unable to get out of the way of the Hyperbeam.

"Moooooooooooooom! Nooooooo!"

Mom was hit and launched into a tree.

I felt a boiling hatred emerge from the depths of my heart. It was an all-consuming flame that could not be quenched.

I may have been too young to fully understand my feelings, but one thing I did understand. Humans took my Mom. And they were going to pay.

Ivy's POV, present.

"What's wrong?"

The fire dog looked furious at me. This can't be good!