Part 1: The Beginning of it All

"No! Please... Don't leave me all alone!" cried a small vulpix. She quickly wrapped her torso around her mother's legs, causing the ninetales to nearly lose her footing.

"Hush, Flare," she cooed, shaking her six-year old daughter off. "We'll only be gone for tonight. We have to meet up with an old friend."

"It's gonna be fine. Don't worry, we'll be back as soon as we can!" a male ninetales told his child, a grin threatening to break through his calm facade. While Flare's parents were completely calm, and even mildly amused, Flare was in the middle of a panic attack.

Tears began streaming down the her already slickened fur. Her eyes took on a bloodshot appearance, while her coat began to darken. Wracking sobs shook her entire frame, and the female ninetales let out a long sigh.

"If you calm down, we'll visit the river to catch magikarp next weekend. Is it a plan?" Flare's father asked, uncomfortable with seeing his little kit so upset.

"Plan? Plan... Wait..." Flare thought. Suddenly, her ears perked. Her crying ceased, and her eyes took on a suspicious glint. Unfortunately, this glint went unnoticed by either of the elemental foxes. "Yeah," she stated, voice suddenly monotone. "It's a plan."

"Good. We'll be back by sunrise tomorrow, OK? We love you." The ninetales gushed, giving her daughter a small lick on the forehead.

"Ok, bye!"

The two ninetales then trotted out of the entrance to the small cave the small family called home.

"Time to set my plan into motion." Flare thought with a mischievous grin.

Flare waited no more than two minutes, then slipped out of the rocky cave. Licking the gravel from her paws, the fire fox kit looked towards the sun, blinking as it's harshness blinded her. Squinting to see her surroundings, the vulpix was suddenly assaulted with a barrage of memories, each one harder to visualize than the last. Blinking back tears, she rarely left her cave for this sole reason; it was far to hard to be outside when all it did was bring her pain. She missed the beautiful meadow spread out before her, and the bird's-eye view from living on a mountain. But now wasn't the time to reminisce in old memories.

Flare scanned her surroundings. She paused as she saw a flash of cream fur dart into the woods that lay in the distance. She deftly ran after it, sprinting as fast as her undeveloped legs would allow her to go. She followed the two ninetales, while keeping a comfortable distance, for a little over 15 minutes. Right when she was about to collapse, she spotted her parents circling around a small clearing. They skillfully managed to keep themselves hidden in the foliage, and she clumsily mimicked their actions.

She managed to see with her acute eyesight that her parents were conversing, while occasionally gesturing to a large building that lay in the middle of the clearing.

The tall gold structure was smooth and reflected sunlight, almost like a mirror. It was several stories high, and appeared to Flare like a monster rising out of the earth. The building alone must have taken up an acre worth of space, and it's size both worried and entranced her at the same time.

Realizing she had zoned out, her gaze quickly snapped back to her parents. She let out a breath she didn't realize she had been holding when they were still there. Her mother had picked up a worried expression. However, even with her advanced hearing, her ears could not distinguish their words. Trying her hardest to read their lips, she focused on them for another few minutes. Suddenly, her father gave her mother a curt nod, and then they both sprinted into the clearing.

Flare waited a few seconds after they were both inside, and stumbled after them. She awkwardly stood in front the of the building, wishing that she had watched how her parents had actually entered. Seeing that there were no holes to get in, she moved closer to examine what she assumed was a door. When she was about three feet away, there was suddenly a loud whirring sound. Just when Flare was turning around ready to sprint back to the safety of the foliage, the doors opened. She gave a dramatic sigh of relief and bounded inside.

The walls were all glaringly white, and seemed to shine and sparkle in an unnatural way. The floor was made of cold and sleek slabs of white stone cut into the shapes of squares. It bothered her how the CLACK, CLACK, CLACK, of her footfalls was reverberating around the room.

The bright light coming from the ceiling definitely wasn't sunlight, but was coming from small, bulb shaped objects. The young vulpix glanced around, becoming entranced with these new sights. An unfamiliar smell suddenly hit Flare, and she wrinkled her nose in disgust.

"It smells like... lemons, and soap, and something strong that I can't name..."

Flare continued to look around, when suddenly a voice drifted from down the hall.

"We need more food? Already? God, they must think that we have an infinite stock or somthin'..."

The gruff voice snapped Flare out of her trance, and she remembered the task at hand. From where she had entered, there was a single long hall visible. At the end, it branched off into two, and Flare wandered down the one that didn't have the scary voice. As her parents always told her, not all Pokémon are nice! That thought nearly drove her to tears, for it reminded her of a best friend recently being kidnapped. She shook her head, trying to physically remove the thoughts from her head. She had to follow her parents!

Finding a large, open area at the end of the hall, Flare curiously poked her head in. What she saw shocked her to no end. Her parents stood there with their muscled quivering, teeth bared, and fearsome snarls rippling from their throats. As scary as that was, that's not what shocked her the most... they were directing their anger at another Pokémon! Her parent's snarling was something that she's only seen once before, when a hypno had cornered her in the woods. But now, they were in a standoff with a large, rock-like Pokémon. It appeared to be a large boulder with a snake head, and it frightened her.

She took notice that along the wall, there were quite a few large tables and desks to hide behind. She slowly crept out and darted behind the one closest to her.

"Oh really," the boulder Pokémon roared. "You plan on taking us down? I'd love to see you try! We rule everywhere that you've ever set paw on!" the strange Pokémon boomed. It's voice literally sounded like rocks in a tumbler, and every time it spoke, Flare winced.

"Oh, we'll try, and we'll win! We are Revolution Team Horizon, the best there is!" Flare's mother shouted.

"That's right, boulder boy," her father shouted with enthusiasm. "Now bring it on!"

And so it began.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POKEMON. GOOD THING TOO OR ELSE EVERY GAME WILL HAVE THE MAIN CHARACTER AS ME HAVING N FALL IN LOVE WITH HER. Umm... I said nothing xD

AN: OK! Fanfic attempt number 2! I kinda forgot last time that I was re-doing the first chapter and I didn't feel like just editing it for the few that had already read it... So I deleted it and now the new version is up ^u^ Weellll if you couldn't figure it out, the boulder pokemon is a golem :D Next chapter is gonna be up within a week or two, since I just need to do some grammer with that too.

PLEASE REVIEW CAUSE I LOVE TO KNOW HOW I'M DOING! I ALSO LOVE FEEDBACK, AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT BEING TOO HARSH, CAN TAKE IT ;D

Alright! Have a nice day~