AN: This is my first muti-chapter story I'm posting. I'll try to update around once a week. I might be slow and update in two weeks, or something, but go easy on me. I'm not used to the pressure. I'm still in school and I have swim practice for two hours every day, half an hour drive there, half an hour back, so that's three hours gone, and I have a lot of homework. I'll do my best though! But since this is the prologue, I'll add Chapter One as well! I'm posting this on a Saturday, and sometimes, for swim meets, I'm out of town, without my computer, so I'll post the new chapter on Friday, or Sunday. Thanks for accommodating!

This is a Contestshipping, Ikarishipping, Pokeshipping, Leafgreenshipping/Oldrivalshipping, Questshipping, and Kalosshipping story. So the friendships, sibling love, rivalry, and other things that are not those pairings, are just for the story. The pairings above are the ones that are going to be the end result. There might be some, (or a lot) of sibling love. I guess you have to read to find out!

This will commonly be in May's point of view, though I'll switch around, and I don't really do the POV thing...but I think I make it obvious enough who's POV it is.

Disclaimer: I'm doing one disclaimer for the entire story in the first chapter, if you don't like that, sue me. I'm lazy. I don't own Pokemon, or any of the characters. I just own the plot. I still don't understand disclaimers. It's a freaking site for FANFICTION! But here I am, doing one. Great.

NOTE: I'M GOING THROUGH AND EDITING IT NOW. THINGS MIGHT CHANGE SLIGHTLY.

May Maple held the sobbing boy close in her arms. "It's going to be okay Max. I promise. No one will ever hurt Mom and Dad again. They're safe. And no one will ever hurt you. I promise. I promise Max."

Nine-year old Max's shattered eyes stared tearfully at May. "Never May? Ever?" he whispered quietly, his eyes welling up with tears as he ran his hand over the two stones.

"Never," May said fiercely, hugging him tightly. "I swear to Arceus, and whatever God that's up there. You will never be hurt again, Max. I swear."

"Okay," Max whispered, prying his sister's fingers off and sullenly walking towards the car.

"Okay," May heard him say, almost a reassurance to himself.

Yes. May thought to herself, No one would ever hurt my baby brother again. Even if I have to hunt down the murder. Or abandon coordinating, and join the EIA to protect him. Yes. I will become an agent. The best agent. And protect Max.

May's phone buzzed in her pocket as she stood up, and brushed off her pants. She fished for the metal contraption, and when her fingers gripped it, she almost crushed it between her fingers, needing something, to take her sadness and anger out on.

"Hey," May said into the phone, her fingers clacking against the rough metal.

"Hey!" a louder, more girly voice rang through the phone.

"May. How're you holding up? Because it's gotta be hard being strong for yourself, and Max." Dawn brought voice to a quieter tone, her voice so very sad.

"Yeah...it is," May replied, her voice hard, yet delicate, as if the slightest breeze, would break her facade.

"Alright. So tell me. How are you?" Dawn asked, prying a bit.

May walked briskly towards the car, where Max was waiting for her, and the driver who had taken them to the graveyard. "Well...I'm not so great, but I'll be better. That's what happens when your parents die gruesomely for you, right? Anyways, Max is so sad, and so broken. So I'm going to quit coordinating. I'm going to join the EIA."

"Wait! The newly formed group? With Cynthia, Aaron, Bertha, Lucian, and Flint?" Dawn gasped, surprise evident in her voice.

"Yeah, that's the one. They're the boss of the Sinnoan Federal Agency, and all the agencies of the different regions, Pokemon Rangers, and all of that," May listed rapidly, nodding.

"If you get in, call me. I want to join. I'm your friend, and I'll stand by you," Dawn's voice was determined, "I'd call Misty, her cousin and PokeModel Marina, Leaf probably, Serena...maybe Zoey, but she loves coordinating too much. We're all your friends May. Marina and Misty have always been there for you at the formal gatherings...and so have I. Leaf has even tagged along sometimes. She misses you. Leaf thinks you are God, or Arceus. Like, she thinks you're amazing. Serena, she loves you, you know? Like an little sister. She'd do almost anything. And me...do you even need to ask?" Dawn asked.

"Thanks..." May choked up, her eyes watering. "Thanks Dawn," she whispered as she opened the car door and slipped inside next to Max.

"Petalburg Gym please," May dropped the phone to her chin as she spoke to the driver, muffling the sentence from Dawn. As soon as the taxi driver pulled into the afternoon traffic, May placed the phone properly, and continued talking.

"You know this is all...somebody's doing. And I'm going to make them pay," May said into the phone, her eyebrows scrunched up in anger.

"May," Dawn warned, her voice sharp and chiding. "Revenge is not healthy May. If you want to join the EIA, I support that decision, but not out of revenge, okay? May? Can you let it go?"

May took a deep breath, exhaling loudly into the mouthpiece. "Yeah, okay," she told Dawn, almost mentally slapping herself. "I'll do it to protect Max, and help myself. Not for revenge."

"Okay, I have to go. I'll call you later."

And with that, Dawn was gone, her side of the line, dead and fuzzy.

"You're joining something?" Max asked, leaning on his elbow, twisting his head towards his sister.

"Yeah..." May hesitated, unsure how to break the news. "I'm going to use some of Mom and Dad's will, to send you to a different school and protect you. I'm going to join the EIA, learn how to protect both you and me, without Blaziken, or any of my Pokemon's help, and all that. I guess I would become an agent, and I'd come visit you and stuff. Okay Maxie?"

"Don't call me Maxie!" Max grumbled indignantly, cracking a rare grin.

"Okay, Maxy-poo!" May laughed, slipping her phone back into her back pocket.

"We're here, ma'am," the driver said, stopping the car. May payed him, and the two grabbed the one bag they had brought, now empty, but had carried flowers for their parents.

"Be safe Max. Your leaving this afternoon. I join the EIA, and officially disappear, tomorrow. I'll keep in touch," May smiled, but her voice was serious again.

Max propped open the door, and climbed out, May following.

"Go pack," May ordered, nudging him towards the large upstairs.

"Yes, May," Max rolled his eyes sarcastically, and marched away, ready to pack.

May stood alone in front of everything she had grown up knowing. She stared at the large, fancy paintings, the collections of badges, and other Pokemon League things her dad had carried around. She saw the pictures her mom had always made sure to take...and she let go of it all, letting it become the past, and allowing herself to become a new person. A new identity.

May pulled out her cell phone again.

"Hello? Is this...Cynthia? Yes, Dawn gave me your number. Uh-huh...I'd like to become a EIA agent?"

Leaf Green was tired of the foster homes. It was so exhausting. Nice lady after nice lady. Kind sir after kind sir. Of course, that was only the appearance they put up. When they took her home, to a house full of mean, rude teenagers, Leaf would shrink up inside of herself, and become a mere shadow.

Her only solace, was her old, tattered, computer, that she carried around everywhere, and her Pokemon. She hacked, she broke into...she did whatever she wanted when she was on the computer.

And that was why foster home after foster home, no one wanted to adopt Leaf. She wished May was in Kanto to visit. She was always so kind, and so loving. Leaf could never do anything wrong in May's presence. Or Dawn. Or even Misty, Marina, or Serena, even if she was across the world.

She had gone on her journey, crushed the Kanto league, but it all didn't matter when she came back, did it?

Not when her drunken mother had killed herself. So now little Leaf was on her own, and was still a minor.

Yes, that meant the orphanage. And foster homes.

RING!

Leaf groaned, rubbing her temples, as she pulled out her nearly ruined phone. "Dawn?"

"Leaf?" Dawn's gentle voice drifted out of the old speakers.

"Arceus Dawn...I don't know how much longer I can do this," Leaf whispered painfully into the phone.

Leaf stared at the scene in front of her. The crowded kitchen table was sprawled with backpacks and books, and the younger kids squabbled with each other over the left over scraps from the morning scramble.

The older ones, the teens were further back, with full plates, laughing at the poor little ones. The kids' temporary parents were sitting on the couch, watching, with dark smudges under their eyes, their faces lined with worries and years of this.

Leaf stared at the plate in front of her, full of french toast and scrambled eggs. She dropped the phone onto her Chemistry textbook. She thought of May's selfless, kind attitude that she admired. "Dawn, just a minute."

She grabbed her plate, her hands trembling as she stared down the three large boys who dominated this house. She started walking towards the younger ones who couldn't get any food.

"Where are you going Leafy?" Derek grinned tauntingly.

"Is that food for us?" Toby smirked.

Leaf lifted her chin, and stared at them squarely in the eye. She placed the plate on the table, out of the way. "No, that for the little ones. The ones that you steal food from."

Then Leaf punched all three of them in the face. Hard.

CRACK! FWOP! SMACK!

Leaf rubbed her bruised knuckles, then with dignified grace, she picked up her plate, and walked towards the little girls and boys who cowered when she neared.

"Here," Leaf said kindly, stretching out her plate, offering up the food.

April, a little orange haired girl, cautiously took a corner of Leaf's toast. Leaf smiled warmly, and offered the plate to the other little ones. April popped the bread into her mouth, and when nothing happened to April, the other little ones all reached for a piece, needing something substantial, needing food.

Leaf smiled at the eager kids, who all shouted out muffled 'tank woo's', and then Leaf went back to Dawn, and purposely stepped over the still groaning boys. The parents of the household smiled at Leaf, giving disgusted looks at the older boys. They never liked them, but the boys were much stronger.

"Leaf?" Dawn's voice prompted.

"Did you hear that?" Leaf asked, sitting down, and sipping her glass of milk.

"Yes," Dawn said, "You punched them, didn't you? Finally stood up to them?"

"Yes," Leaf agreed.

"You know what happened to May, right? Well...she's going to join the EIA. I'm going with her. Are you in? You can make this world a better place. And you won't have to live like this. You'll see me, May, and any of the other girls whenever you want. Please Leaf. You'll be under Cynthia's possession. No one will hurt you again. You can help the little ones. You can, Leaf. Take this chance. The pay is high, you can help them," Dawn begged.

Leaf's mind ran at a mile a minute, as she thought of the possibility. "Yes."

"Yes, yes, yes, yes," Leaf gasped into a phone after a moment of silence. "Yes, please Dawn. Will you organize it?"

"No, but May's taking care of it," Dawn replied.

"Okay," Leaf smiled. "Okay."

She shut off her phone, and collected her books. Everything would be okay, when she was with her friends again.

Misty patted Horsea's head gently. Lovingly.

"Hey Mist!" Dawn's voice ran over the speakers. "MIST! MAY'S JOINING THE EIA, YOU WANT IN?" Dawn yelled into her phone, over the pounding of a waterfall.

Misty looked out onto the gorgeous lake, the wild paradise, undisturbed. So peaceful and wild. Too bad it would be tainted over soon enough by humans.

It was sad.

Misty was stuck in a middle place.

Here, there, yet nowhere. She didn't feel at home. She felt displaced. As if she wasn't where she quite where she belonged.

Sure Misty battled trainers, and worked her Pokemon harder, getting better and better, but was this really the life she wanted to live? Misty wasn't built to settle down and just follow through the motions. No, she wanted to live. To experience things that normal people couldn't.

"Yeah," Misty whispered, imagining life like this, but so much better. With her friends, and not her sisters, who didn't care for her. Not really, anyways.

It would be better, saving lives at the cost of her own. Misty wasn't afraid of pain or death. But she wanted to see all the world to offer, and saving people was just a bonus. It didn't sound so bad. Especially if her friends could come along.

"Yeah," Misty said louder, right into the phone. "Yes, Dawn. Who else is coming?"

"Me, May, Leaf...you too, right?" Dawn laughed.

"Yes," Misty grinned, returning Horsea and lifting her feet out of the warm pool.

"Hoenn, here I come!"

"Serena?"

"Oui?"

(Oui?-Yes?)

"Wanna join the EIA with me, May, Leaf, and Misty?"

"Leaf?" Serena stopped short. "Leafy?"

"Yeah."

"You're going to get her out of the hellhole système? Elle est is so strong for living in l'orphelinat."

(You're going to get her out of the hellhole système? Elle est so strong for living in l'orphelinat.-You're going to get her out of the hellhole system? She is so strong for living in the orphanage.)

"Yeah, we are. But Leaf's in a foster home at the moment. You in?" Dawn replied. The girls had all picked up a bit of French from Serena's constant switch between the two languages.

"Oui," Serena agreed, nearly dropping her phone excitement. "Calem joined the EIA, non?" Serena asked, grinning.

(Non?-No?)

"Yeah, he did," Dawn told her.

Serena grinned. "Fantastique!"

(Fantastique! Fantastic!)

"Mar?" Dawn asked.

"What Dawn?" Marina snapped, trying to reach the popcorn on the highest shelf.

Dawn giggled at the blunette on the computer screen, her wide blue eyes taking up nearly the entire screen.

"What's up?" Marina finally said when she snagged the bag of popcorn.

"So...all of us are joining the EIA. You in? Misty, Serena, Leaf, May, me...there's only you left. Zoey said no, and that she wanted to keep coordinating. I've got my Top Coordinator title. You in?"

Marina paused her movie, and turned to look at Dawn.

"The EIA?" Marina questioned.

"Yeah, you know...the Sinnoh Champ and stuff...Elite Four an all that?" Dawn smiled.

"Uh-huh...I do. So...we'll be a team? together?" Marina pushed. She stared suspiciously at her cousin. "Are you absolutely sure this is a good idea?

"Yeah we'll be a team. And of course its a good idea! We'll be able to help people," Dawn's eyes glowed with delight, knowing that she already lured Marina in. "Wanna do this?"

Marina paused, her dark eyes full of consideration and thoughtfulness. Mar wasn't one who made rash decisions.

"I guess so. Mist's there right?"

"Yep! And then we'll all be there...together!" Dawn crowed happily.

Marina shook her head and smiled at the blunette. "Yes we will."

The two girls shared a smile through the screen and camera.

"Alright! Bye!" Dawn said, and the screen winked out.

Marina smiled.

Dawn shut her phone off with a sigh. So many calls. But they were all successful, except for Zoey, but she had expected that. Zoey loved coordinating too much, to give up on it.

Now...all there was left to do, was get together with her best friends, and do what they cam to do.

Dawn smiled. She would be with her friends again. No more long-distance calls. It would all be okay.

AN: So yeah, this was short, but my chapters are all a lot longer. This is the prologue. Just a little peak on what's to come! But I'm posting the first chapter today too, so really, it's not that short... =)

I'm learning French, and since I've always seen Kalos as the France replica, I imagine Kalosians speak French. If I put any French into the chapters, I'll put the translations beneath the paragraphs they're in.

-Ang