Chapter 1: Enter Kumori
A lone boy walked into the stadium-like room. His hair tied back in a low ponytail reaching below his lower back and his coat trailing behind him. What looked like bandages covered his left hand under the coat he wore. Beside him, a demon dog-like pokémon walked on, following its master. A growl escaped its lips.
"Relax Houndoom, this is just another challenge, nothing more nothing less," said he. His faithful pokémon relaxed and stood ready beside where the boy stood.
Kumori Shirogano, an odd boy of eighteen who had traveled so far to reach where he was. The Pokémon League. A place where legends were made and Champions stood tall, remembered forever. This was his time, he believed, his day to become the next Champion of the Elite Four of Sinnoh. He just had to beat one last person and the title would be his.
A smirk formed at the corner of his lips and a gleam in his two-colored eyes, one green, the other gold, shone brightly, matching those of his partner beside him.
A young boy looked at an empty pokéball under the light of a full moon. "I'll never get a pokémon if I just stand here doing nothing," he thought. At that moment, a small bark was heard. The boy stood up, bangs covering his right eye. He ran, his girlishly long white hair flying behind him. The ten-year-old boy stopped at a near by bush where the barking was heard.
Curiously, he moved the bush just enough for him to see. What looked like a pack of demons surrounding a puppy. The boy watched, as the strange pup was cornered against a bolder. The puppy let out a feeble cry for help, but noticed no one around.
The boy ran, with the pup in his arms. He looked down and noticed the pup looked exactly like the demons running after them, only smaller. The pup looked back up at the boy and let out a small whimper. Howls from the bigger demons rang out through the forest, and the boy seemed to have gotten paler after hearing them, running faster now.
Darkness enveloped them within the forest nothing could be seen. The boy ran blindly until he tripped and fell, but he quickly got back up and ran again, the puppy safely in his arms. He arrived at a clearing where the only light that lit the night was that of the full moon. Growling was heard in front of him as the demon dogs were slowly walking towards him, becoming visible now.
The demons closed in, a single demon came forward and let out a stream of flame. Immediately, the boy raised his left arm as it was swallowed up in the bright red flame. The boy cried out in pain, holding the puppy in his arms, and dropped to his knees screaming. At that moment, a pair of bright lights grew bright from the edge of the clearing.
Kumori gently petted his Houndoom on the head with his bandaged arm. Houndoom relaxed and stood still as the Elite Four Champion of the Sinnoh League made its way into the stadium.