I still don't own pokemon and I still never will.

Chapter 1

The Curse

Present day

10 years have passed since Arceus gave Ember and Inferno Cyndaquil's egg. He and Chikorita are still close friends. In fact, Cyndaquil got 2 passes to the new colosseum that was finished recently. They had seen it being built one day on the way to the park, and he had asked his mom for a pass when it was done. Because he has 2, he is going to see if Chikorita wanted to go.

"Bye, Mom! I'm going to see Chikorita!" he said as he was leaving the house.

"Okay, Cyndaquil! Don't stay out too late, though!" replied his mother.

"Okay!"

He left and walked to Chikorita's house. When he got there, he said: "Hey, Chikorita! You home?"

"Yeah, be right out!" she responded. When she came out, she said: "Happy Birthday!" and gave him a white pendant. It had a nearly completely clear crystal on it.

"What is it?" he asked.

"Oh, its just a really old pendant I found. My mom says it can hold elemental energies, though."

"But then why is it empty?"

"Hmm… maybe no one ever needed the thing to hold anything. I thought it looked nice, so I asked my mom if I could give it to you. She said it was okay, so, you can at least put it on the wall in your house."

"Oh, okay. I'll hang it up later. I came to ask if you wanted to go to the colosseum with me."

"Yeah, I've got nothing else to do anyway. But I would go even if I did. And not just because it's your birthday…"

"What?"

"Oh, nothing! C'mon, let's go!"

"O….kay?"

They continued on their way to the colosseum, out of the main part of town, through the flower garden, and over a creek. As they were heading towards the colosseum, a voice came from somewhere.

"That's far enough! This colosseum… it will make an excellent base for me."

They turned to see a dark purple catlike creature. It was Dark Mew.

"Who are you? And what makes you think you cane take control of the colosseum?" asked Cyndaquil.

"MY name? I think you should be giving me YOURS, young ones."

"I'm Cyndaquil, and this is Chikorita." Wait, why did I just give our names to this creature? He's obviously not nice…

"CYNDAQUIL?!?! You… my master gave me orders to stop you!"

"Stop me? From what?"

"SILENCE! I am Dark Mew, and I'm going to destroy you!"

He pulled out what looked like a staff of some sort, and tried to fire a blast at Cyndaquil. He braced himself, but nothing came. Dark Mew tried again. Still nothing. "Gah! Well, I can at least do this…" He powered up a blue sphere of energy and hit Cyndaquil with it. He was sent flying into the creek, unconscious.

"CYNDAQUIL!" shouted Chikorita. She turned around and saw another sphere, this time orange, flying at her. She flew into the creek as well, next to Cyndaquil.

"There. Now, to take the colosseum as my own…

3 Hours Later…

Cyndaquil and Chikorita woke up and looked around. The were still in front of the colosseum, which was now cloaked in a dark aura.

"Hey, Chikorita, what happ…." She was staring at him awkwardly.

"What?"

"You… you have a bluish tinge… and is that water spouting from your back? How did you do that?"

"What do you… wait. YOU have an orangish tinge, and your leaf is… I don't know how to describe it, but it's a fire SHAPED like a leaf. And there's fire on your back."

"WHAT?" They both looked in the creek and saw their reflections. Everything Chikorita had said about Cyndaquil was true, and vice versa.

"This is weird. Lets go see the Espeon Elder. Maybe he'll know." The went back home, but when they got there, they noticed there weren't any pokemon around.

"Hello? Mom? Dad? Anyone?"

"GET THEM!" someone shouted. The two were knocked unconscious. When they woke up, the were tied up.

"What's going on?"

"Don't ask questions, answer them. Number one, who are you? Number two, where are Cyndaquil and Chikorita? And number three, why do you look like them?"

"What? We ARE Cyndaquil and Chikorita. If I wasn't Cyndaquil, would I know that I helped Chikorita when she was being bullied 7 years ago?"

"And if I wasn't Chikorita, would I know that he did it by using anger-powered ember attacks?"

"It… it can't be… but… it is… What happened?"

"We don't know we were hit by energy spheres, and we woke up like this. Does anyone know what's wrong?"

A voice came from the Sun Temple, home of the Espeons. It said: "I think I know. It seems to me that Cyndaquil, you've become a water-type. And Chikorita, you've become a fire-type."

To be continued…