Well then! First I'd like to say thank you for reading this story, I know my first fic was a total disaster but I promise this one's better! I'm writing this with PurpleComet5's help with grammar and KyuubiKR8 for the plot, thank you both!
Just as a slight warning to those who don't like OC's, there are three inside this story, but two of them (mine) are to explain how Severa got there and the other one (Kyuubi's) is to combine both Pokémon games, they're not going to be there all the time, but they may run into the main group once in a while.
Anyways, I actually remembered the author's note this time, I think I got Severa's personality right, but it may as well be a bit OOC, and about Kalm's total OOCness, it's just to add more personality to his character (don't mind him, it'll go away in some chapters, only until he gets to know Severa) if you find any of the characters OOC review it, I could use some advice on that subject.
(Also, forgive me for Laurent or Miriel, I'm not THAT good at english to be able to write them easily)
I do not own anthing except for my OC's, the rest goes to its respective frandchise (and Kyuubi's OC, of course)
Now, don't let my rushed author's note stop you, enjoy! And please review if it's possible!
"S-Severa! Stop! Don't do that! You'll disappear and we don't know where you'll end if you do that!" Suzume yelled, but I didn't listen to her, I had already made my mind.
"Please Severa! You don't have to do this! There's another way, there's ALWAYS another way!" Yukito yelled too, I sighed and turned around "Please, I said I would do this and I will, so stop yelling and start thanking me" I tried to be strong, I really did, but the words made tears form in my eyes.
"P-please…don't make this harder than it is" I whispered, finally breaking down, Suzume cried furiously as her eyes widened "Severa! Don't!" Yukito yelled, I closed my eyes and sighed "Goodbye. I'm sorry I couldn't be everything I had to be" then I simply stepped into the light, the twins' screams sounded so far away…
"This is it, then? That's how it ends?"" I whispered, the light dissipated and slowly, turned into pitch black darkness…
"Fleet! Fleet!"
"Ow! Stop it already!" I yelled at the bird in front of me, to find myself in a bed, a bed I didn't recognize.
"Wait, what? Where am I? And what exactly am I wearing?!" I exclaimed. Way more worried about my bright pink clothes made of a weird material than my unknown location and the strange bird still pecking me.
"This is…soft, really soft…but first, where am I?!" I yelled at the tiny bird, the red critter tilted its head and flew over to a closet in the other side of the room.
"What? Do you really think I would barge into someone else's closet and put on clothes that aren't mine?!" I yelled again, the bird shrank and landed on the floor, someone yelled from below.
"Dear, breakfast is ready! Get dressed and come down!" a woman exclaimed happily from the kitchen 'wait, I know that voice…Mother?!' "O-okay! I'm coming down" I said nervously, loud enough for the familiar woman to hear me.
"Well then, I guess I have no choice, I can't go down with these weird clothes to investigate, can I?" I asked the little bird with a wink, the bird chirped with agreement—I think?—and flew downstairs to let me change, but the only thing inside the closet was a black, tight sleeveless shirt, a really short red skirt, some long black stockings that didn't appear to cover anything, some black shoes and a pink hat, or at least it was the only attire that caught my attention.
"Gawds, not even something proper inside here, I guess I have no choice" I sighed, after some minutes of scoffing and grunting to pull the stockings higher or the skirt lower I simply gave up 'at least I look kinda good in this' I finally thought, trying to comfort myself more than actually compliment my clothing.
I fixed my ponytails into a large one to get the hat right and went down the stairs; the bird was flying around and chirping like nothing weird was happening, but next to it…
"M-MOTHER?! WHY ARE YOU HERE?! WHERE ARE WE?!" I yelled, probably loudly enough for the whole world to hear, my mother flipped her beautiful red hair and sighed "Good morning, dear, don't you remember? We moved here yesterday, this is our home now" she said with concern. The TV—a strange device the twins had shown me some time ago—was on, it showed a commercial of the AnnaMart, then suddenly changed to the news, strangely enough being presented by another Anna.
"This is Vaniville Town, In the Kalos Region, we moved here because your father got the invitation for a new job, you didn't agree at first but I managed to convince you after a while, so we came, you unpacked in five seconds and drifted into sleep without even having dinner yesterday, perhaps that's why you don't remember anything, it was certainly sudden" mother sighed.
Something popped in the news that got her attention "Hmm? Oh, it seems your father is gaining some reputation out there, if only he had known he'd be so famous when we met, he was always so modest…he still is, of course, but at least he doesn't have to worry about being forgotten anymore" she said sweetly, I turned quickly to the device and the screen changed back to Anna.
"Well, anyways, I made you a sandwich, eat it quickly and go out to see for yourself, perhaps say hi to our neighbors" she winked, of course, I didn't know what she meant then, but I would find out in some seconds.
"Um, thanks mother, but don't expect me to shut up after a sandwich! I demand answers and I WILL have them later! I'm just hungry right now!" I yelled softly at mother, she giggled at me, annoying me in the process; as I walked out of the house the little bird flew to my shoulder and made me remember something.
"Oh, mother, what's the bird's name?" I asked while eating, not worrying about my manners in the slightest, she giggled and shook her head "he came here a while ago and refused to go, he seems to like you so why don't you name him? He's a Fletchling" she explained, I frowned at the weird name and sighed.
"Okay then, you're Robin from now on, hope you like it because it's settled and I will not change it" I said with annoyance, the bird chirped.
"He likes it, good job, now go and say hi! We have lots of neighbors now!" mother said quietly, concentrated on the cake in front of her, I nodded and walked out with Robin as I finished the snack.
In front of my house were three kids around my age just standing there and chatting, along with a sleeping rapidash I would assume it was mom's. The first and only girl had two twin royal blue ponytails, white skin and green eyes, her clothes were a matching blue and white. The first boy had slightly long black hair with blue eyes and white skin, and his clothes were a blue jacket, dark blue jeans and a bag hanging from his shoulder. But the second boy had something else…
He had long dark brown hair flowing down his mid-back with a strand looking a bit orange-like, tanned skin with strange lines, red eyes and long, rabbit looking ears falling on his shoulders, he had a short sleeved orange shirt with the silhouette of a carrot in darker orange, with a brown jacket tied around his hip and dark brown jeans with sneakers, I couldn't help but stare for a second before being snapped out of my thoughts.
"Oh, Hey! Welcome to Vaniville Town!" the girl exclaimed energetically "I'm Cynthia, our mothers were friends before we were born, I live across the street!" Cynthia practically jumped in excitement at saying this, I sweat-dropped and nodded stretching out my hand "Sumia's daughter, I guess, I'm Severa, nice to meet you" I said, Cynthia quickly shook my hand and jumped next to me.
"Well, Severa, these two are Kalm and Yarne, Kalm lives next to you and Yarne next to me" she said pointing at the respective, I bowed slowly "Nice to meet you" Kalm bowed immediately while Yarne nodded "Nice meeting you too" Cynthia giggled a bit and nudged Kalm.
"Come on! Speak a little, you're too quiet" she said playfully, Kalm blushed "Uh, sorry, welcome, nice to meet you" he said nervously, the energetic girl kept giggling before turning to me "Guess what! We came to get you!" she said, Yarne nodded 'Gods, they're enthusiastic, I'm gonna have quite the hard time with them' I thought, glancing at the jumpy Cynthia.
"The very same Professor Pendragon lives here in the Kalos region, I heard she has a task for seven kids, including us" the brunette said, Kalm glanced at him and continued "You may know her as Professor Tesla; she got married some time ago. But I'm surprised she knows who you are. You did just move to Vaniville, after all" he said nervously, his blush never fading away for a second.
"We'll wait for you in the next town over! And you know what?!" Cynthia practically squealed in my ear, turning my sweat-drop into a thick mark "You seem to have one already, but we're going to get…a Pokémon!" she squeaked "A WHAT?!" 'Those meddling twins! They got me inside the pokémon world! Oh, are they gonna pay once I get back to Fire Emblem…'
"A pokémon, you do know what a pokémon is, right?" Cynthia asked, a bit calmer "Of course I do, I was just surprised, it is very…exciting" I said, trying to contain my anger 'I shouldn't explode on a girl I just met, not even if those devil twins erased my memories, changed my history and dropped me into the pokémon world without so much as telling me…'
"Well of course it is! Now hurry! Let's go!" she said with a wave of her hand before running away "C-Cynthia! Wait!" Yarne quickly ran after the girl, Kalm sighed and glanced at me. "Sorry, I have to go after her, she trips easily and it's mine and Yarne's job to carry her back" he explained before running too, I face-palmed.
"Ugh, I bet those two are rolling on the floor laughing at me, or giggling, I am SO gonna KILL them…! but…perhaps I should go along for a while, they never let me have any pokémon and I'm about to have my second one, anyways, let's go for now, Robin, perhaps they'll let me out of here if I clear this thing…" I told my bird, Robin chirped a bit in agreement.
"Okay, to the next town, then" I said quietly, the now awake rapidash next to me nuzzled itself against my arm "stop it! You'll burn my skin! But…you're cute, I should ask mom for your name later, I'll be back in a while, don't worry" I said sweetly, then reality settled in and I blushed intensely "I'm getting soft, I'm supposed to be angry at the two devils! Sorry rapidash, gotta go!"
Before any of the pokémon could react I sprinted towards the direction Cynthia and the rest had run to, which was in turn a small road between towns surrounded by trees, I saw the signs of a harsh fall in the pavement, in form of a small dust cloud and a stone out of the road 'she really does trip easily, it seems' I moved the stone back to its place and kept walking to find Aquacorde town, but before I was able to look around I heard a familiar energetic yelling.
"Hey, Severa! This way! Over here!" I tried to suppress the incoming thick mark and turned to the surge of the voice, Cynthia, Kalm and Yarne were sitting on a table with two boys I didn't know, one of them had bright red hair similar to mine (only mine is slightly pinkish), glasses with brown eyes and looked kinda serious and a bit older, his clothes were a white short sleeved shirt with formal gray pants and dark gray shoes, he glanced at me from his book at the mention of my name. The other one was rather handsome; he had white hair and purple eyes, and was wearing an open white shirt with a purple one underneath with jeans and sneakers.
"We were just talking about you! C'mon, have a seat!" Cynthia exclaimed, I took the only seat left between Yarne and Kalm, the latter turned to me "This is the meeting place, Severa. I'll introduce you. Everyone this is Severa" he simply said 'I could do that by myself' I thought rather rudely, but quickly shook it off, the white haired one blinked with a smile.
"Well, Cynthia's description didn't begin to cover her beauty, I see!" he said confidently 'great, a philanderer, my day couldn't get better' Yarne seemed to understand my annoyance and continued "So, Severa, this is Inigo, I know he may seem like a pointless skirt-chaser…" "Hey!" Said skirt-chaser exclaimed "…But he's actually kinda nice, and he's a really good dancer!" he said, trying to make him sound better "T-that's not true…" Inigo muttered quietly, his attitude changing completely.
"And this is Laurent, he can be a bit harsh sometimes, but he always gets perfect scores at every test you throw at him, and is actually really nice, even if he gets annoyed pretty easily" Yarne continued, Laurent glared at him and blinded everyone in the process, then turned to me "Pleased to make your acquaintance" he simply said, ignoring the rabbit.
"Well! I hope everyone gets along! But, y'know? I feel like we would be closer if we called each other by nicknames!" Cynthia exclaimed happily, Inigo shook his head slowly with his usual smile "Sadly, I do not agree, Cynthia, as no name is more beautiful than the one given to my dear Severa, it would be a shame to let such a name go to waste" he said, handing me a rose in the process "Perhaps Inigo's words weren't the right ones, but we cannot nickname someone we just met" Laurent said from behind his book.
"Well, what about you decide a nickname, Severa? That way we don't overstep anything" Yarne suggested while moving his ear behind his shoulder, I shrugged "Well, I'm not really used to nicknames, but you can call me Sev, that's how my best friend called me back in my old…hometown" I said nervously, trying not to complicate things any further, Cynthia perked up "Oh, sure! Sev fits you perfectly! I'm sure we're gonna be great friends, so I'll call you that, too!" Yarne and Kalm thought for a second before nodding "Okay, I'll call you Sev too" Yarne said "If it's okay…" Laurent then shook his head. "My apologies, I would prefer calling you Severa for the time being, perhaps I may call you Sev later" he said, Inigo sighed "If this is milady's wish, I shall blindly comply" everyone chose to ignore the last comment as Cynthia turned to the dancer.
"Hey! Can we see the Pokémon now? I want to meet my new partner soon!" Cynthia exclaimed, Yarne smiled "Yeah, it was pretty amazing to meet my Pokémon, only the three of you need one" he said, Laurent nodded "Indeed, these are your choices" he said before pulling out a box with Poké balls "The poké ball in the left has a plant-type chespin, the center one has fire-type fennekin and the right one has water-type froakie, choose carefully!" Inigo added, Cynthia gulped.
"It's haaaaaaard! Why don't you choose first, Severa? Like our welcoming gift to you!" she said happily, I sighed and thought for a second "Robin turns into a fire-type later, if I'm correct" I asked Laurent, he nodded "Well then, fire may seem cute, but I think I'll stick to the water-type" I finally said, Inigo nodded in agreement "a fine choice! There, this is yours now" he hand me the poké ball sweetly, Cynthia giggled "This is the best part! Why don't you give your Pokémon a nickname?" she exclaimed, I sighed.
"Okay…what about…Sheik?" I just blurted out, remembering the unknown-gender person the twins were talking about the other day, Laurent glanced at me "After the mysterious guide from the fairy tales, I assume" the redhead quickly answered, before I was able to reply he continued "A fitting name, Cynthia? Kalm? Have you decided on your pokémon yet? He asked, Cynthia nodded "Yup, fennekin's the one for me!" she squealed, Kalm nodded "Nice to meet you, Chespin, we will be traveling together from now on" "Oooh, and the nickname! For you, fennekin…I know! You'll be Est! After one of the Legendary Rapidash Knights!" she exclaimed, Kalm shook his head "I think I'll stick to Chespin, I'm not good at nicknames" he just said, Cynthia pouted for a second before Laurent decided to interrupt again.
"We have something else for you, it may help you in your journey" he said before handing some kind of red books to us. "These are Pokédex, it automatically registers any pokémon you encounter, if you catch the pokémon it gives you even more information, it may help you to understand pokémon on a much deeper level" I examined it for a second, it already had the pokémon Froakie registered inside, it was certainly strange, but I decided to just shrug it off to avoid anything 'Hold it…I'm missing something' I thought.
"Journey?" Yarne asked, like reading my thoughts, Inigo nodded "The professor's task, as you may have noticed, is for the six of us—along with a young man you will meet next town—to go on a journey with our pokémon and complete the pokédex, but of course, you still need permission from your parents" 'well, this could be fun, at least way better than going back on time, but I wonder why they erased my memories of the rest of the children and most of the first generation…the only thing I remember is the plot…' I thought, before Cynthia snapped me out of my head, as always, it seems "Oh my gosh, that sounds awesome! Don't you think so Sev?" she asked animatedly, I sighed "Yeah, it sounds nice"
"In other words, it is an important task from the professor, which is why you will need these letters" Laurent now handed us a letter each "give these to your parents, good luck, I do not doubt they will give you permission" Inigo stood up, making the redhead glance at him "well, I believe that's everything, I look forward to our journey together, Sev" he winked at me, I had to resist the urge to scoff "but for now, I will meet you later, Laurent was interested in some pokémon next route and he'll definitely drag me there, dead or alive" he said, his smile not faltering "Inigo, please stop. Deliver the letters and we will meet you at the next route" he said quickly, before standing up and dragging Inigo by the shirt.
"Well, quite the bunch aren't we" I just said, my usual attitude finally flowing out "Well, I guess we are in the good way! I'm sure we'll get along perfectly!" Cynthia pointed out before jumping out of her chair, Kalm sighed "I knew about the tradition in Kalos, but I never thought I would be chosen" he stayed in his place, seemingly to examine his pokédex "Well, we were lucky, I guess" Yarne turned to me "In Kalos, kids are often picked to carry a pokédex and go on an adventure, but you have to give that letter to your mom before setting off, I'll wait here, my mom is a friend of the professor and she already knows" he said, before calling the waiter and ordering a carrot cake, Kalm quickly followed his example.
"Okay then, I'll be going, If I'm fast enough, I may be getting a cake like Yarne's before going to the route" I stood up and walked away, but then I heard footsteps behind me "Sev, wait!" Cynthia yelled, I stopped and turned around, trying to hide my annoyance "Yes, Cynthia?" the girl recovered her breath and smiled "I want you to be my opponent in my pokémon battle debut!" she exclaimed while pointing at me, I sighed for the thousandth time in the day "Okay, let's do it, I don't want my first battle to be against a pokémon I'll never see again, anyways" I muttered, the energetic girl smiled brightly "Wohoo! Thanks! Ok, Est! This is our first battle! Let's win it heroically!"
"We'll see about that" I said confidently, we took our stances and released our pokémon, Est first then Sheik, completely ignoring Robin's constant chirping "well then, Sheik! Use bubble!" I yelled, getting absorbed in the battle "Oh gods, Est dodge! Quick!" the little fox dodged the bubbles coming out of Sheik's mouth effectively "Good! Now use…uhhh…tail whip!" she exclaimed while looking at her pokédex for her pokémon's moves, but failing to read the description "Don't worry Shiek, prepare your next attack, same as last time!" the blue frog nodded and his eyes turned into horizontal lines, Est shook her tail as Sheik shrugged "Wait, what?!" the bluenette quickly checked the move's info, to find out it really didn't do much.
"Whoops, Sheik! Bubble!" the frog then quickly jumped and attacked from above, making it way harder for the fire pokémon to escape, in the pokédex, Est's HP reduced alarmingly, she wouldn't stand another water attack. "Okay, okay, we can do this, scratch!" the fox jumped at Sheik and scratched at his cotton-like neck, but his HP only reduced by four, nothing really bad.
"Awwwww, well, your turn, Sev, get ready Est!" I thought of my options for a second, 'Est doesn't seem like she could dodge anymore, or stand another water attack, if I ended the battle quickly Cynthia would most likely be quite sad, but if I used a weaker move, such as pound, she would at least think she put up the fight, but this would be longer and I really want that carrot cake, but…well, I can eat in the way to the professor' I thought "Well, I can't use only one move, can I? Pound!" the frog jumped and hit the fire fox, Est's HP was on red now.
"Rgggh, Est! Scratch again!" "Sheik counter with bubble!" Fennekin suddenly threw herself to Sheik, but he jumped back and dodged to the side, Est ran past and the frog used bubble, the fox fainted.
"Oh, Sheik leveled" I said, quite surprised as Cynthia ran to the little fox "Est! are you okay?!" The fox opened her eyes and nodded happily, Cynthia smiled. "Gosh, that was AWESOME! I can't BELIEVE we will be doing this daily, this will be so much fun! And you were amazing, Sev! You and Sheik are perfect for each other!" she exclaimed quickly with fennekin on her arms while giving me 500 pokédollars (I think they were called like that), Kalm appeared from behind her with the remains of a carrot cake "It was quite the battle, both of you".
"Thanks, it was actually really fun" I said calmly, bending down to pet Sheik "Oh, here, let me heal Sheik, mom always makes me carry potions in case I see a wounded pokémon, she said that's how she met her rapidash" she explained while applying the potion, the frog smiled and jumped back to his poké ball "You lucky frog, instead of walking around like me you just jump back in there and wait 'till I call you. I wish I had a poké ball now" I just muttered at the sphere, Kalm and Cynthia laughed for a bit.
"Well, let's go together this time, I promise not to trip!" the bluenette exclaimed, Kalm shook his head "Impossible, I haven't seen you not tripping once on that road" "Hey! That's not true!" and, as predicted, Cynthia did trip while saying "I would NEVER trip twice over the same pebble" next thing we know, she's on the floor. Both argued for some minutes before we arrived to the small town, when we walked into the intersection everyone went to their respective houses.
When I walked in, mom was decorating the same cake from the morning; she soon noticed me and turned around "Hey! So what did you and the neighbors end up doing? Kalm came yesterday to say hi some minutes after you locked yourself, he seems really nice" she said, then turned back to her cake "Uh, yeah, about that…" mom glanced to me and noticed something poking out of my bag, said lucky frog.
"Wait, is that a pokémon? You got your first pokémon?! Lucky you!" she exclaimed before kneeling to look at my froakie. "Well, you shouldn't be talking, I may have a frog but you have a huge rapidash out there, I'm not the only one who's lucky" I said. Robin slapped me with his wing and chirped a bit. "Heh, well, I may have Tiamo, but you have both Robin and your new friend! You're a pokémon trainer now too! Congratulations!" she exclaimed before hugging me with all her strength, almost choking me to death, actually.
"M-mother! That's enough! You're crushing Sheik!" the frog was, indeed, being crushed. Mom quickly apologized to us and continued "And I guess that means the professor chose you, right?" she then said, a bit more serious "Mm-hm, here" I said while handing her the letter "Oh, okay, I see she did marry him, finally! After months of stalking them with Sumia to get them together they just did!" she exclaimed while reading "Well, I guess they had to, that was from before you were even born, I used to live here! Then I met your father and we moved to our old hometown. Gods, I could just run to Luminose to congratulate them…but it says here this is your job!" she explained, snapping me out of my thoughts of 'and I'm the one obsessed with everyone's love life'.
"Uh, what? Luminose?" I asked, she nodded excitedly "We've barely unpacked and you're already going to the city! And the rest of the region too! Oh, this is so exciting!" Before I could keep asking she pulled me to my bedroom "I can't believe I'm getting my daughter ready for her journey around the region! We have to pack, I'm giving you some of my supplies for Sheik and Robin here" she said while throwing some potions and pokéfood into a newfound bag next to the two pokémon on my bed. "You have some spare clothes, money, your 3DS, oh, and this!" she kept throwing things into my bag, then threw some kind of device at me I barely caught.
"And this is…" I asked, blocking a stray coin from hitting Robin "Oh, it's a town map, just open it and it shows the place, you can use the buttons below to navigate and select places, always keep it close!" she exclaimed before giving me my—rather small, through having so much inside—pink bag, I threw it on my shoulder and held it with my right arm as she ran downstairs, by the time I went down she was cutting a piece of cake and placing it on a tiny box for food with a fork.
"Here, you can have this, tell me if you like it! It's a new recipe your father taught me, you can come anytime! I'll be here with Sumia and our pokémon, just remember, Vaniville town, I don't want you forgetting the name of my childhood hometown in the middle of your journey" she half-scolded "of course I won't! *ahem* anyways, I'll be going, expect me to come back with my pokédex overflowing with pokémon! I mean it!" I yelled while opening the door "We'll see about that dear! Good luck! I love you!" she yelled back, even though we were like five feet away "Love you too mom! I'll be back greater than the Champion and you know it!"
I really didn't expect everything that came after my decision to comply and amuse those little devils just to get a pokémon, right then, the first thing I had to do was go to the route, but that route wasn't just some dusty road crowded with pidgeys, it was the first road I would fight pokémon on, and, gladly, not by chance the last one.
Meanwhile, that's how my journey around Kalos began…
Thanks for reading, then! I really hope you liked it, if there's something you want to ask me about the fanfic you can PM me or review it, and I would appreciate if you reviewed this first chapter, just to know if I did good or if I still need to practice.
About updates, right now this is my first multi-chap, so I'm not really used to actually having to finish a chapter with limited time, so just for the first five give me two weeks between each, I'll post them as soon as I finish them, after the first five chapters I'll try to update every week, and just to warn you my writer's blocks are fairly common, yet not long, don't worry, I'm not planning to abandon this story!
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