Narrator / November 10th (Weeks Later)
The Airport in Lumiose City was as busy as ever, especially with people just arriving to meet up with family for Thanksgiving Break. It made having a trip to Kalos a bit more difficult, but our group was sure that it was worth it - after all, they had never been out of Alola before.
"Man, Kalos is super cold"
"Probably because you don't have a shirt on. I'm pretty warm myself"
"Kiawe, put on a shirt please" Lillie requested
"Fine" Kiawe sighed, pulling a shirt on over his head, which was a pretty rare sight to see
"If I remember correctly, we just head directly straight until we see the large tower, which means we'll have arrived in Lumiose City" Sophocles said, studying the map he had been given
"I can't wait!" Lana said. "I wonder what it's like; I've never been out of Alola before"
"None of us have, which means its a new experience for all of us" Mallow pointed out
The group of five made their way out of the airport with some difficulty, and headed straight down the pathway. After about ten minutes of walking, they decided to take a shortcut through a forest, and it didn't take them long to regret it.
"Anybody hear that?" Lana asked the group
"I don't hear anything" Mallow shrugged
On cue, old and creepy bells began to ring throughout the forest, and the group stopped in their tracks. A cold breeze blew past them, and wild Pokemon scattered from the scene. The bells were coming closer to them, closing distance, and vibrating against the trees. To them, it sounded like something straight out of a horror movie.
Mallow, Lana, Lillie, and Sophocles hid behind Kiawe, who quickly protested to the idea. "Hey! What are you guys doing?"
"You're the toughest one, so you deal with it" Lillie said
"But I'm too young to die!" Kiawe exclaimed as the bells became louder, almost deafening
A figure appeared within their eyesight down the trail. They wore metal armor, a white - almost grey - robe pulled over it, and had a bandanna on that left only his piercing black eyes visible. Five staffs were placed on his back, and the group pushed Kiawe forward, who brought out a Pokeball for safe measures.
"You all must be from Alola" He said; his voice was calm and collected, which was a strange contrast to his appearance and presence
"That's right" Kiawe answered
"I was informed of your arrival ahead of time, so I decided to come and meet you halfway"
"We weren't told about that" Lillie replied
"It was a last minute decision. Professor Sycamore must have forgotten to inform Kukui" He explained. "Come with me, I will take you to the lab"
Though the bells that followed him were creepy and intimidating, the group reluctantly began to follow him. In his eyes, they could tell that he meant no harm, but they were still on guard. Kiawe walked side by side with him, while the rest of the group kept back a couple of steps.
"So I don't suppose you have a name?" Kiawe asked. There was a brief moment of silence, and Kiawe instantly regretted asking the question, until he received an answer.
Their guide pulled down their bandana, revealing their face, and said, "My name is Custos, but the citizens of Kalos refer to me as Y"
"That's an odd nickname. How'd you get it?" Kiawe continued to press
"Me and my counterpart, X, are named after the region's legendary Pokemon, Yveltal and Xerneas" Y answered
"How cool, but what's with those bells?" Lillie asked
"That's the past"
Serena / 1am
It had been a long night - I had spent most of the day hanging out with Calem - and when I finally drifted off to sleep, it was straight into a nightmare.
I was somewhere in Lumiose City, running away from explosions that were being set off throughout the city like landmines. People were running for their life in the same direction as me, and I could see up above that Rayquaza was battling off against a Deoxys in the midst of thunderclouds. In this distance, Kyurem and Yveltal were destroying buildings and freezing people - wether it be stone or ice.
Behind, and currently chasing us, there was a flock of Ramparados with bright-red glowing eyes. In front of us, two Grimmsnarl appeared, and the crowd of people split directions in order to avoid them. I went off to the right, zigzagging through alleyways, until I tripped on something and fell onto my stomach. There was growling from behind me, and I tilted my head to see that one of the Grimmsnarl had hunted me down.
Turning back around, there was hand stretched out to me, and I looked up to see Ash with a warming smile on his face. I took his hand, and he pulled me up in the exact same way he had all those years ago in summer camp - where he had been "saving" me too. He pulled with a little bit too much force, and we were put into an accidental hug. But, it felt nice and warm, just like home was suppose to feel like. The surroundings sounds blurred out, and then died a couple of moments later, and I woke up somewhere around one in the morning, missing the ironic warmth from my nightmare.
Somehow, I was able to go back to sleep that night, and woke up early around seven in the morning, two hours before I was expected to be at school. I covered myself with my blanket, and walked out into my large backyard where the Rhyhorn were. Today - or at least this morning - it was foggy, and it was a bit hard to see. I flinched as soon as the old clocks kept playing, and I was confused, because they sounded like they were coming from up above.
"You're up early" Y said; I found him sitting on a branch of the tree next to me. He had to have been about fifteen feet up from the ground.
"What are you doing here?" I asked
"Can I have an apple?" He inquired, picking a green one off my tree. "I like the green ones the most; the sourness just feels right"
"I asked you a question" I put my hands on my hips sternly. "Plus, if you want the apple, you'll have to lower your bandana, which would show me your identity"
"If you want to know why I'm here so badly, it because's I sensed dark energy in this particular vicinity" Y explained. "I didn't mean to come here in particular"
"Dark energy? Here?"
"Did anything strange happen recently?"
"I had a nightmare last night if that means anything"
"Interesting" the apple in his hand caught fire. The black smoke coming off of it hid his face, except for one of his eyes that a golden glow to it. "Tell me about this nightmare"
"Well, there were lots of legendary Pokemon battling it out and destroying the city, and I was running from a flock of rampant Ramparados until I was cornered by a Grimmsnarl. I cut the corner and went into an alleyway, but I tripped, and... and..." I hesitated in finishing the dream, knowing what happened next. "Ash was there, h-he uh... helped me back up"
"That's strange" Y said. "I knew a girl who had a similar dream once - rampaging and battling legendary Pokemon. It may be a vision of the future if anything"
The apple finished its disintegration, and the smoke vanished into the fog. Y let the ashes of what had been his green apple sprinkle the ground beneath him.
"A vision of the future... but what could cause something so terrible to happen?"
His eyes and countenance suddenly darkened. "With our current circumstances, it may not be entirely possible. Between the reemergence of the elemental spirits, and X's plot..."
"I'm not getting you at all" I said
"It's time you learned everything" Y decided. "It all started fifteen years ago, around the time you and your friends were born, when a fluctuation in time sent a parallel timelines Calem to this world. The previous water-type master took us both in, and also the girl I mentioned before.
But something happened eight later, when we were all eleven years old. A primordial entity by the name of Abbadon followed Calem from his world, and began its rampage. The water, grass, fire, electric, and steel-type masters were able to seal him away, but at the cost of their lives. It's been years since then, but that entity slowly began to start showing itself again, dormant inside of Calem"
"Fire, water, and steel... so when they died, their types went into you, Ash, and the Calem that I know" I figured. "But wouldn't that mean that there's two dark-type masters?"
"You guessed right; where X, the other Calem, comes from, type-masters are chosen from birth. So somewhere out there, there exists another dark-type master"
"There's also some other things that don't make sense. I thought type-masters were chosen around our age?"
"Death by the hands of the ritual they performed cause their spirts to not awaken until recently, but Ash, Calem, and I were always chosen" Y said. "X and I can use Hidden Arts beyond just our respective types, which is a taboo, and one day we will pay the price"
"But what does this all have to do with my nightmare?" I questioned
"Much like X and I have tabooed the ways of Hidden Arts, you and Calem have something called forbidden love - a sin amongst us type-masters" Y revealed. A strong gust of wind blew past us, and I could feel my heart drop. "It's against the customs for a steel-type and fairy-type master to fall in love. X intends to use the energy harnessed by that taboo to descend darkness upon the world"
"S-So-"
"There is a problem though"
Elsewhere
"It's been five weeks, but nothing has happened yet" X said as the flowing black mist circulated around him, glowing with a bright golden outline
"There's only one reason I can recall that the bonds haven't completely formed yet" Corvinight recalled
"... It's not true love" X muttered, forming a fist. A shockwave of dark energy shot out, trembling the entire mountain that they resided on. Trees broke off from their roots, large rocks went tumbling down, and the Pokemon cowered in fear.
"True love can take time to form, it seems we will just have to wait longer" Corvinight suggested
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"So I can't fall in love with Calem..." I put everything together
"For the sake of the world, you can't" Y nodded pitifully. "I can't help but wonder why you chose Calem in the first place though"
"It was a choice between a boy who liked me, and one who didn't" I said. "In my eyes, I thought I made the right choice"
"Love is blind" Y stated. "Do you understand what that means? You could be so in love with someone, and still not know the first thing about them. Perhaps it was your low self-esteem, but you quickly jumped to the conclusion that Ash didn't care for you as much as Calem"
"That's because he doesn't" I faced down towards the ground in sorrow. "At least not the same way I do for him"
"If you see the world in such simple terms," He said, "then perhaps you are blind. Not everyone expresses love the same way, and it's up to you to figure that out and look for the signs in the person you care for"
"You mean... Ash l-likes me?" my cheeks heated up at the thought
"He... I don't know, that up for you to decide" He jumped down from the tree, holding a new apple in his hand. "I'm sure he likes you romantically, but it's for you to find out just how much"
"Oh, uh... right" I said
"I'm taking this apple by the way" He held it up to the sky as he walked away
"Jeez, who knew he could be so bipolar" I muttered as he disappeared from my sight
