'I can't believe how much has changed in the short time I've been here in this small area. It seems like almost yesterday I just got here…I don't know how I let 200 years just fly by that fast…' Shaymin thought to herself as she sighed and stood up out of her little 'nest.' She shortly then smelt a few flowers around her 'nest' and started walking down the now lush grassy crater of Mt. Cinnabar.

Once Shaymin got out of the crater and back onto the uneven rocky landscape, she sat down at an edge of the mountain and the bright blue ocean, now with a sheer cliff separating the two landforms. Shortly after she sat down, she noticed the sun making its way lazily upon the horizon. The golden rays that start emitting from it coat the waves down below and create a sparkling effect, aided by a slight breeze blowing small leaves and blossoms through the sky. "This is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in…quite some time."

After the sun finally crested over the waves the effect faded as fast as it appeared. Shaymin slowly got up and stretched, followed by a yawn. "Whelp, time to get back to it…I guess." Shaymin whined to herself before walking towards Viridian forest, which had now occupied the small town next to it…

Typhlosion's flames were a neon blue fading into white at the base, like always, as he started walking out of a large lava tube, his home for the previous night, being one of the nights where he got stuck away from his primary home. "God, why does it always have to be so hot in here every time I show up?" The Typhlosion asked itself as it climbed the rest of the way out into the blinding sunrise. He looked away from the sun and towards the mountain and noticed something moving atop of it. "Hmm, I wonder if… it's someone else." Typhlosion said to out loud to himself, which he has seemed to do a lot lately. He started walking up the small amount of mountain, which was becoming lusher as he continued up. But considering most of the mountain is solid rock, lush was just some grass and flowers.

Once he finally made it to the top of the mountain he saw the movement was only a sunflower blowing casually in the wind. Typhlosion had not noticed the slight breeze until he reached the top, but it had a sweet, nostalgic scent to it. He then looked over at the sunrise, not as bright now, and noticed a violet flower at the base of the mountain, blowing away slowly completely out of position in the volcanic wasteland. "That's weird, but why should I care. I'm here to find food, not flowers." He muttered to himself and started to walk down the mountain again, watching the sunrise.

Once he had almost reached the bottom, the sun come completely over the silent waves and Typhlosion winced in pain then turned sharply to look at his burns on his side. As he went towards the forest, he thought to himself, "And that's why I don't go out in the sun." He got behind the cool shade of the forest trees and shrubbery and got down to all fours before running into the forest.

While Shaymin was walking towards the forest she saw a small flock of shiny Starly flying to the North, an obvious sign it's turning spring if the flowers didn't already give it away. She sighed once again and jogged into the dense forest, now overgrown by trees and shrubs. Since the volcano erupted again, there hasn't been any humans here to keep the forest in decent shape. As a result many fruit bearing plants, and consequently more hostile pokémon have taken this forest as their home. The once low leveled population had been driven out by these more skilled pokémon.

Shaymin hadn't made it even 10 feet into the dense forest before watching a large ball of electricity fly right by her. She immediately turned the direction it came from and shot an energy ball, hitting the opposing Raichu shrouded in the trees. After he cried out and fell to the ground, the surrounding pokémon got quiet and kept their distance, obviously this pokémon was stronger than her small form showed.

She casually walked through the forest until she came to a large clearing, almost 100 feet in diameter. She looked to her left and saw the large bush with its bundle of sitrus berries, like always. She walked over, feeling a little more secure as she started collecting the sweet-smelling berries. She started humming to herself as she collected the last couple berries and turned around, almost immediately stopping in her tracks staring to the opposite side of the seemingly circular clearing.

There was a large bright red and yellow glow coming from behind some trees, meaning a large fire type was present. She continued staring for a few more seconds before shooting another energy ball and sprinting towards where she entered. She turned around just in time to see a large blast of fire obliterate her energy ball and slam into her right in her back…

"Yes! I hit it!" The large fire type yelled loudly to itself. It ran quickly through the small clearing thinking to itself, 'Oh, this will be a great meal, I haven't had any meat in weeks.' He continued these happy thoughts until he arrived at the small grass type. He hadn't noticed, but it was gathering berries, which were now burned or incinerated. It also had a small violet on its head, burning a bright yellow, the same color of the pokémon's flames.

He put out the remaining flames strewn across its body, oddly not being something the fire type liked; you'd think a fire type like him would like fire, but, he hates it. After putting out a small fire on the tree behind it which he hadn't noticed, he flipped his small prize over. He gasped as he saw Shaymin's face on the pokémon, causing him to shout, "Oh no, nonononono."

He picked up her limp body and carefully started running through the forest, asking himself why the one pokémon he attacked had to be a legendary. After a few minutes of running and defending against hungry pokémon's attacks, a small house appeared at the edge of the forest and a small beach. The fire type quickly entered the house and laid down the small pokémon on a vine-covered couch. As the few remaining original pokémon have told him, this is a very famous pokémon trainer's house.

That means nothing to him though as humans have been extinct for almost 200 years. He was reminded of this fact when he came in and now he started thinking as he relaxed a little, 'Humans come up in your mind just as much as cavemen, very crucial but you never really care about them anymore. Their time had come and gone, and that was how it had to be in the long run.'

He came back to and walked over towards a small corner of the house where he stores water, right next to windowsill. Once he got over to the corner, a small Murkrow flew in and sat on the windowsill. "Get out Wildfire. I'm busy right now." The Murkrow continued sitting there, knowing Typhlosion wouldn't do anything, he'd burn the house down. The Murkrow replied cockily, "Yeah, well whatcha gonna do about it?"

Typhlosion got a slight grin on his face as he said, "This-" and used swift, which nailed Wildfire right in the chest, sending him flying off the windowsill. He laughed as the small bird pokémon hit the ground cold. "…So you do have some skills." Typhlosion jumped and twisted backwards after this remark, revealing Shaymin had awoken. He quickly answered, "He's just annoying."

Shaymin noticed that Typhlosion's flames on his back were turning white from their earlier yellow/red color. Her curiosity defeated her and she asked, "What's up with that anyway?" Typhlosion only stared at her until she continued, "Your flames, they just turned white, and they were red earlier." Typhlosion understood what she meant after the further explaining and paused before stating, "I-…it doesn't matter." Shaymin had slowly managed to stand up on the couch, fully revealing her burns that he had not seen fully earlier.

Once she was in a more comfortable stance she looked him strait in the eye and said, "Really, ok then, I guess that's fin-" As soon as she finished the last syllable she shot an energy ball at him, whom instantly jumped out-of-the-way and barely withheld himself from using swift, his flames had shot a blood-red. Shaymin smiled a little, withholding a grimace from her burns, as she deducted her answer. "So,…it has to do with emotions?" The way she said it, it seemed more like a statement than a question, but Typhlosion knew he needed to answer.

He did nothing but stand defeated before the wounded legendary, still feeling weaker than her even in her current stage. After a moment longer of silence he walks over and sits down next to Shaymin, who is about at the same height standing as Typhlosion is sitting, and pulls something out something Shaymin hadn't earlier seen; a charred fire stone, colored like a burnt piece of cherry wood, with a flame symbol in the center.

"It has to do with this too…" Shaymin expected him to continue, but after a few seconds she realized he was done. She looked up at him and noticed his flames had turned a cerulean blue with a smidgen of white at the base. He put his stone back where it came from and got up, as did Shaymin. Shaymin was limping on one foot and still had some pain on her side as she walked, but she could walk none-the-less.

After his flames lost their last tint of white, Shaymin asked, "You know, I never did get your name?" The Typhlosion's head popped up quickly as something important came to mind, but his response said otherwise, it came in a quiet tone, "Its Bluefire." His flames started turning white again as he asked a little louder, "Is yours just Shaymin, or…something different?" Shaymin looked up to Bluefire and answered timidly, "Its…Violet." Bluefire continued sitting on the couch silently until, without him even noticing, he was asking her, "Is that because your flower is-"Violet cut him off with a short yes before walking outside and looking up at the sun, which was almost directly above her.

Bluefire followed her outside and watched her walk slowly out of the forest, which the house was right at the edge of, back onto the volcano. Typhlosion started to follow her out of the forest until he got to the edge, then he stopped and remembered his burns. After a large sigh and he looked up at the bright noon sky, he started to trudge back to his house, his flames losing their last tint of white…

"Come on Dai! We don't want you to get lost! Again…" "I won't! Even if I do I do I'm strong enough to protect myself!" Dai yelled back, running to catch up with the other two, tripping on a log but getting up and continuing. After a few seconds of Dai running he caught up to of his parents. Grant it he ran straight into the back of his dad, Bayonette. "Sableye!" He yelled and turned around to see his son standing right in front of him with his hands behind his back. "What dad? I didn't do anything." His dad sighed and said, "Well, just don't do nothing again Dai." Dai jumped up and then ran off yelling, "Thanks dad!"

Bayonette continued walking through the forest, getting denser as he went. He suddenly walked into an area where the trees and shrubs faded and into a clearing to reveal Dai eating some berries and Absol collecting some sitrus berries from a small patch of bushes. The next thing Bayonette noticed was a small patch of burning grass and a large burn mark on the side of a nearby tree, putting him at the angle where it looked like something could have been shot that direction.

Bayonette walked over to it, between Dai and Absol, whom had finished collecting, turned around and acknowledged Bayonette, "Hey Banish, you find anything?" "No, just a lost mind." Banish replied, nodding towards Dai, still eating berries obliviously. "You find any food Sirus?" Sirus walked over to Banish and showed him his collection of berries. "Those look pretty good." Banish said, looking up at Sirus' eyes. They stared at each other for a minute until Banish noticed Dai was done eating and was looking up at them curiously. "But, we can't have them here, we need to find somewhere more…" "…secluded." Banish finished Sirus' sentence, looking around at the lush forest surrounding them.

"So if we came in from over there…" Sirus said to himself, looking to his right, "...then we should leave somewhere around here." Sirus finished, looking to his left at the burnt tree and burning grass right next to them Sirus seemed to miss. Dai ran over to it and asked, "What do you think did that Daddy?" Both Sirus and Banish said in unison, "I don't know Dai." Dai stared at the tree curiously before saying, "Maybe that over there?" As he finished he pointed through some trees at a blue flame moving and disappearing into what seemed to be a small house. Both of the parents looked up at the house, then after a few seconds looked back down to see Dai had started running towards the house. "Dai! No!" Sirus yelled as they both started running after him.

Bluefire had made it into his house, and the first sound he heard was moaning from outside the window. He looked out his window and saw nothing but some trees and flowers. He looked down and saw the black Murkrow lying on the ground with what seemed to be a large pink bruise across his stomach. Bluefire started thinking, 'That's a little much for swift…did I really hurt him...why do I care he's sooo annoying…'

Wildfire continued moaning and Bluefire started to feel guilty. "Uhh, are you ok?" He said downwards unconfidently. Wildfire slowly looked up and replied weakly, "Do I sound ok?" Bluefire started to say something, but Wildfire cut him off, "No, I'm not ok. You hit me with swift do I look ok?" Before the Murkrow continued, Bluefire managed to insert, "You definitely sound like it." After that Wildfire continued for what seemed like an eternity to Bluefire before he finally calmed down.

"Are you done now? Can I look at your bruise?" Bluefire asked calmly, not wanting to start Wildfire off again. He wasn't expecting an answer but he shortly got one: "Bruise? What are you talki-…Ohh, you mean this thing?" Wildfire then pointed his wing at the large pink spot on his belly, getting a nod from Bluefire. "That's just a discolorment, like you and your burns, I'm shiny in that spot…of course it's pink, but only true men can pull pink off." At this point it was apparent that Wildfire was faking his injuries, he'd already gotten up and flew up to the windowsill. Bluefire sighed, his flames starting to turn red again, but mostly white.

"Well obviously you're fine, so I'll see you later." Wildfire started to say something as Bluefire slammed the window, or what was left of it, shut, almost hitting Wildfire. He then quickly span around to eat, it was just after noon. He could tell because he felt this sensation in him, meaning he could transform if he felt like it, but he hasn't in forever. He has no point, it's only for two and a half hours, and he burns himself every time he transforms.

Bluefire walked over to his stash and grabbed a few Oran berries. He started eating one as he turned to the door, planning on eating outside. Right before he got outside however, he stopped in his tracks as a Sableye appeared at his door. "Hai." It said happily, a curious smile on its face. Bluefire returned the 'hi' and lied the berries down on a table next to him. "I'm Dai." The Sableye said happily, obviously very young, to not be scared by something so much taller that it is. Not long after its last comment, its curiosity took hold again, "What are those?" Bluefire continued standing in place as his flames continued changing into a bright white, which was the current focus of Dai's eyes. "Umm…these are Oran berries…you want one?" Bluefire asked casually, getting an instant yes from Dai. Typhlosion grabbed one and handed it to Dai, whom immediately started taking small bites out of it.

Typhlosion walked outside with Dai, after grabbing a few berries for himself. He might as well make company with whoever shows up, despite their age. They both finished their berries and Bluefire walked back inside after stating his name, as requested by Dai. After he was inside he turned around and Dai was right in front of him, he jumped, which made Dai do the same.

Almost if on cue, an Absol came running around the corner and saw the situation. "Uhh…sorry about him. He shouldn't have come in here." The Absol said quickly. Dai turned 180 degrees and greeted the Absol, "Hai dad." Bluefire looked from Dai to the Absol and asked, "So Dai's yours?" The Absol nodded, walked up to Dai, and grabbed his shoulder, "Come on Dai, we need to leave this Typhlosion alone." Dai didn't leave a space for his dad to breathe before he said, "Actually daddy, his name is Bluefire." The Absol stopped and looked up at Bluefire before slowly saying, "Hmm…mine's Sirus. Nice to meet you."

As soon as Sirus finished a Bayonette came limping into the filling room. Dai was the first to notice, so he made his comment, "Hi dad." Sirus turned around and added to the comment, "I found Dai, Banish." Banish did no more than take in a slight breath at that remark. He then walked up to Sirus and breathlessly asked, "Why…did you leave me…after I tripped…on that log?"

Sirus snickered a little after hearing this but then Banish grabbed his head and pulled it down to his eye level, "What's so funny Sirus?" Dai backed up towards Bluefire about the same time as Banish started to glow purple and navy blue lighting up the room. He let go of Sirus and the glowing got continuously until it was blinding for Sirus. He turned his head away about when Banish laughed and the room became nothing more than a glow of purple light…

As the noises and distractions fade away, an unintentional harmony of pokémon's voices; various birds chirping, the wind blowing through the dry spring buds and small leaves, various sounds, much like in a morning forest, fade in slowly, as well as a single recorder playing a constant rhythm. After about thirty seconds the voices fade out and the single recorder is heard playing its smooth rhythm quietly with the wind until waves from a nearby beach overcome the other sounds, finally ended by Violet humming on the beach…