Hi everyone, XFunkyYellowDragonX here! This is my first ever pokemon fanfic and this chapter basically sums up Eleanor's backstory and what has happened before the main story begins, there will be flashbacks to some of these events in the story but I wrote this so that everyone who reads it will have a clear idea of the events leading up to the story and why some things are how they are. I would really appreciate it if you left a review on this chapter to say how good you think the idea is and what you might like to see happen to the Kalos gang. If you have an OC that you think could be introduced as a rival or friend then please PM it to me as I think my OC, Eleanor, should have some friends and rivals that aren't seen in the anime. Enjoy :)

Eleanor Yvonne is Serena Yvonne's twin sister. She has short black hair (the same style as Serena's xyz design) that she wears in two low bunches and icy blue eyes that are a vast contrast from Serena's darker ones. Her hair is a few inches longer that Serena's, reaching slightly bellow her waist when left down; it is also dead straight. She is slightly shorter than her sister and has a more curvaceous figure. Although smaller she was far stronger and was very nimble and brave. She wears a dark blue fedora with a black ribbon around it; a short sleeved white blouse with a black collar and neck tie; dark blue 3/4 sleeved blazer; black ripped skinny jeans; stylish brown leather boots and a few black and gold bracelets. Her skin is quite pale but not unhealthily so. Her eye and head shape is the same as Serena's.

Eleanor and Serena's dad left when they were 7 and their mother, Grace, was really upset. Eleanor shared a lot of personality traits with her father such as: his determination, his battling ability, his intellect and his caring nature as well as having the same icy blue eyes as he did. Because of this whenever Grace looked at her all she saw was her ex-husband. Steven Stone, the ex-champion of Hoenn and the girls' father, was actually a great man but a combination of him not being home a lot and a huge fight they had over his Aggron accidently destroying the garden led to the divorce, their move to Kalos and Steven's resignation as Champion. After they moved to Vandiville Town, Grace started noticing Eleanor's similarities to Steven and that is when she began avoiding her and shutting her out.

While Grace and Serena were out training with Rhyhorn, Eleanor would climb up the enormous 25ft tree overlooking the back garden and read one of the many books she had about pokemon battling, pokefood, history, mathematics, science, legendries, all the different pokemon and fictional stories too. Sometimes her mother would forget about her and go inside with Serena, lock the door behind her and Eleanor would be locked out all night, the worst thing was they would often not even realise she was gone. Eleanor also knew how to cook as a lot of the time Grace and Serena would have meals without her and she would have to go to the store and buy something herself and cook it. One night, there was a power cut in Vandiville Town and everyone but this one family had no heating, electric, or anything else like that. Everyone in the small town went to their house until the heating was back on however Grace had not told Eleanor that they were going and left her behind while she and Serena went. For 2 days Eleanor was alone in the dark, cold house.

One night there was a thunder storm and in a rush to get Serena inside, Grace had forgotten about Eleanor and locked her out. It was around midnight and Eleanor was sleeping in the hollow part of the big tree when she awoke to a large white and blue pokemon attempting to wake her up by nuzzling her face, confused, Eleanor let the Absol lead her outside, the thunder and lightning had now stopped but the rain was still heavy, Absol directed her over to an assortment of different berries: Oran, Pecha, Razz, Pinap, Iapapa and Cheri. Eleanor mixed them together into recipes she had learned about in her books before giving sharing them out between herself and Absol. From that day on the two became the best of friends: training, reading, playing and surviving together. When Eleanor was locked out or feeling sad about how her mother treated her, Absol would always be there to support her, she was even there when Eleanor was left alone during the power cut. When Grace found out about Absol she had insisted that if Eleanor wanted to keep her around then she would have to find a pokemon for Serena as well so the two had gone out to the forest to find one. They came back with a dark red pokemon egg they had found near the river which Serena and Grace were happy about. Eleanor had decided to name Absol 'Luna'.

About 2 months before Steven had left, Serena and Eleanor had attended Professor Oak's pokemon summer camp. It was to be two weeks long and instead of it being in Pallet town, it was held in a vast wood in Johto, a 5 hour journey from Pallet town. During the camp, everyone had gone exploring in the woods and Serena had got lost, her relationship with her twin still intact at this point, Eleanor had gone to look for her. After finding her sister they had headed back to camp when there was an almighty gust of wind that managed to blow over a tree. Seeing it fall and about to land on Serena, Eleanor had pushed her sister out the way, the tree crushing her ankle instead of Serena. Hearing the girls' screams Ash Ketchum, who was also attending the camp, had ran to their aid, helping Serena move the tree and get Eleanor back to camp. It turned out Eleanor had broken her ankle and had to stay with someone at all time for the remainder of the two weeks. Both Ash and Serena stayed by her side for the next 10 days and when it was time to leave Eleanor and Ash kept in touch and continued to do so, even when Ash was on his journey. The two are like best friends, they always have time for each other and know almost everything about the other. After Misty had left Ash had called Eleanor for advice as to he could stop girls 'liking' him and it was Eleanor that gave him the idea to pretend to be dense. Ash knows all about Eleanor's family situation and about the bond she and Luna share that allows Eleanor to understand what she is saying.

For Ash's 14th birthday party Eleanor convinced her mum and Serena to let her go to Kanto with the money she had saved up. She had also brought him a brand new hat (Kalos hat) and made some special pokemon food for Pikachu that is even better than Brock's. All of Ash's friends were there: Misty, Brock, Gary, May, Max, Dawn, Zoey, Paul, Tracy, Professor Oak and of course his mother Delia. They all, apart from Delia, were surprised to see Ash hugging and interacting with this girl as they thought he was really dense. By the end of the party they all really likes Eleanor, especially Pikachu after having the pokemon food she had made. After staying the night in the guest room she learnt that Ash was heading to Kalos next, which made her excited as she would get to see him more but also sad as she knew she would not be able to travel with him. After returning home alone as Ash was arriving in Kalos the next week, Eleanor was surprised to hear that Serena had decided to go on a pokemon journey and Grace wanted her to go as well. Of course, she knew why, Serena wanted to escape Rhyhorn racing and Grace didn't want to be left alone with Eleanor so had sent her too. Eleanor was overjoyed and called Ash immediately to tell him that she would be able to travel with him after all. Eleanor had dived into preparing herself and getting everything ready, surprisingly Grace had brought Serena and Eleanor a new outfit for their journey (outfit stated above) and supplies for both of them. At 13, almost 14, years of age the two girls were allowed to officially capture their pokemon and Eleanor had started to work a newspaper round and shop job so that she could afford a custom made pokeball for Luna (white on the top half, dark blue on the bottom half, with a dark blue lily design on the front of the white half). Serena just got Grace to buy her an Ultra ball to catch Fennekin (the pokemon that had hatched out of the egg).

Eleanor's dream is to become the Kalos Queen and prove that even if your not a girly girl who likes dressing up and putting on make up you can still be a good performer. Eleanor doesn't despise her Serena however she doesn't like her either. Serena never did anything about the way Grace treated Eleanor and because of how close they use to be this really upset her, Serena never questioned her mother on it because she was quite oblivious to it and thought she was simply closing herself off from them on purpose.

Hope you all liked this preview/prequel of my story, I hope to get the first chapter up soon as I've been off school for a while with concussion so I've got loads of time on my hands. I hope you all liked the concept for this story and are looking forward to the first proper chapter to this story :)

~ XFunkyYellowDragonX