Author's Note:

Hey everyone! Digitall, a first-time writer, here and I just want to thank you for clicking on this story. I'll make it quick since you probably would rather read the story than my little note up here. This fanfiction is a sequel to the Pokémon XY/XY&Z anime series, and I guess every other series of the Pokémon anime technically, but mainly the series set in the Kalos region. It is recommended you have watched that before reading this but it's not necessary as I will try my best and set up all backstory needed to fully understand the plot of this series. This is going to be a long project and I hope you will bear with me all the way to the end. This first chapter is meant to be a prologue to the story, a Chapter 0 of sorts. You can completely skip it if you'd like and you may not even understand it on the first read-through anyways. Anyways, without further ado I present my entry into the fanfiction universe: The Flare of Kalos.


Sparks. Flames. Ashes. Is this the cycle of all life? The conception, the life, and then the death. What about before? What about after? I thought I knew. I was so sure. Maybe I wasn't. Was it just a whim? They seemed to know the answer. Maybe they didn't. They fought with everything they had as if they knew, so surely they did. I lost the fight so I suppose … I didn't have the same amount of resolve. Did I always have these doubts? Did I always reject the humanity around me? There was once a time, I know. Those two remind me of that time. A humanity worth living for, where has it been hiding since then?

The ashes are already surrounding me, but I don't feel like moving. I don't deserve to move anyways. Even if I did move, where would it take me? These ashes. They're somewhat comforting. I deserve them for my actions. I brought upon these ashes so its only fair that I lay among them. If I'm lucky I just might join them.

Were my actions just? When did I become so selfish? When did it become wrong to help instead of ignore? When did my desire become domination rather than cooperation? Did those two know? No, surely they couldn't. One of them I met only a night ago. Twenty-four hours changes a whole lot, yet not enough. They never backed down from their ideals, so what am I doing laying in these ashes? Do I continue what I started or do I restart what I once was? Is there even time for that?

Those two … they gave me all the answers yet all the questions at the same time. The others around them too, even that little girl, they all knew their answers it seems. Yet despite my time on this planet, I do not. Life is cruel and unjust I suppose. Sometimes the sparks turn to ashes too quick to notice the flame. I must've missed it. Those two, I saw it in them though. I wish I could speak to them right now, I want to understand their reasoning for defying me. Not that they want to protect this land, but as to why they choose to.

Enough of these ashes, I will search for my own spark once again. This land they choose to protect, I will go and see for myself its worth once more. I feel their flame, even now. It is warm and inviting indeed, but that is them and I am me. I must develop my own flame in this land they protected. Then and only then will I pursue my goals. I will find you, my very own flare of Kalos.