The Colors In Between
Chapter 1
It had been two years since the battle between the Black and White Warriors. After the battle, both Warriors disappeared. The Unova Region is significantly different.
Now, in Aspertia City, a new hero's story is unfolding.
"You're gonna have to run faster than THAT Mei!"
"Shut UP Hugh!" Mei huffed as she and her childhood friend ran through the streets.
"If you don't hurry, I'm gonna get the better Pokémon!" he teased.
Mei urged her legs to run faster as she sprinted side by side with her friend Hugh.
"Do you think Touko did this when she started her journey?" Mei suddenly asked.
"Why don't you ask her?" Hugh replied.
Mei grinned in playful annoyance. Everyone knew Touko had mysteriously left the Unova Region about a year and a half ago. She was spotted in foreign regions not long after she left. In an interview, she said she was going to catch and achieve all the Final Forms of the Legendary Pokémon. Mei's mind flashed back to what Touko had said Final Forms were.
"The Final Form is exclusive to only Legendary's. It allows the Trainer to tap into and use the special powers and abilities that Pokémon possesses, like time travel. In order to achieve it, one must catch a Legendary Pokémon and make it yield to them. It was him who discovered it."
She hadn't been seen since the interview.
Touko was widely known for her achievement of the Pitch Black Final Form while Zekrom was still in its stone state. It allowed her to defeat Team Plasma's King. Throughout the entire interview, Touko never mentioned the King's name: N Harmonia. Mei was able to tell that Touko was saying that it was N who discovered Final Forms. She had achieved and honed hers much faster than he had. But what Mei didn't understand was why Touko was willing to tell so little about N.
"There she is!" Hugh's shout snapped Mei out of her thoughts.
They were approaching a dock overlooking a river. A young woman was standing there.
"Hey! Bianca!" Mei shouted. The woman turned around. She had short blonde hair and wore a green beret with a white bow on it. Red glasses were perched on her nose. She had a puffy orange jacket on over a white shirt with a black undershirt and green capris that stopped just below her knees, with orange shoes that also had bows on them. Black bows. She had a thing for bows. Bows, orange, green, and white.
"Ah!" She smiled and pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose. "I'm so glad we could meet up!"
She pushed the button on the side of the box she was holding.
"Ta-da! The Pokémon that will become your partner is here in this box! Pick whichever one you want!"
Mei's eyes shone with excitement. This was it! Her journey was beginning!
She stared at the Poke' Ball in her hand. It contained Oshawott. Mei had loved Oshawott since she was little. The fact that Touko had chosen Oshawott when she'd started her journey made Mei love them even more.
"Hey, Mei! Let's have a battle!" Hugh suddenly exclaimed. Mei started. But she wasn't about to back down from the challenge.
"OK! But I'm gonna kick your butt!"
Hugh grinned. He was very passionate about Pokémon battles.
Not to mention a doting brother to that adorable little sister of his. Mei though fondly.
"GO! Snivy!" Hugh shouted. A green snake-like creature popped out.
"OOOOOH!" Bianca squealed. "Cheren chose a Snivy when we started our journey! I chose Tepig!"
"And Touko chose Oshawott," Mei stated. She didn't shout in excitement like she usually did when talking about her hero. She was aware that Bianca hadn't seen her BFF in over two years. She was worried it would be a sore subject.
"Yeah! She did!" Bianca chirped.
Mei sighed in relief. Maybe she could talk to Bianca later.
"You're spacing out again Mei!" Hugh called.
"Oh right! GO! Oshawott!" Mei called.
The little otter Pokémon burst out of the ball.
Ladies first," Hugh said.
"Hmph! Your loss! Oshawott! Use Tail Whip!" Oshawott wagged its tail cutely. Hugh's Snivy looked down, distracted.
"Snivy! Pound!"
The Snivy snapped out of it, then leapt into the air, throwing itself at Oshawott.
"Dodge it, then use Tackle!" Mei commanded.
Oshawott jumped out of the way in a backward flip, then launched itself into a Tackle attack.
The force of the attack sent to duo skidding about ten feet back. Bianca shrieked and jumped out of the way.
"Careful!" she called, pushing her glasses up the rim of her nose.
"You can do it Snivy! Pound it again!"
Mei said nothing. Her Oshawott dodged the hit, then doubled back into a finishing Tackle attack.
Hugh's Snivy couldn't take it. It fainted.
"AWWWW YEAH! We won!" Mei shouted. Her Oshawott jumped up into her arms.
"You were just GREAT out there Oshawott!" She looked at Hugh and Snivy.
"You two rock too!"
"Oh shut up Mei," Hugh said, grinning. He returned his defeated Snivy to its Poké Ball.
"Wow, Mei, you're really good!" Bianca said.
She moved towards Oshawott to heal him.
"You battle just like Touko," she said softly.
"I-I do?" Mai asked, surprised.
"Yep. Your style is uncannily like hers. I wonder how she is."
None of them noticed a figure behind a tree not far away.
"So that person chose Oshawott too. And Bianca is right about this Mei's fighting style."
Before anyone had time to notice, the figure was gone.