Chapter 3

May

She knew it was wrong, these feelings she had. She should hatred or maybe even disgust or fear towards those men who had tried to destroy the world. Instead she felt these calm gentle feelings. When she first met each of them, she just thought they were odd.

At least she did till she discovered their goals. She knew she had to stop them, stop them from destroying everything. She knew, but each time she met them, the feelings grew.

The warm feelings that she had no name for. Even now that she had wiped out both of their organizations the feelings still remained. She had finally gotten all eight Gym Badges and gone to challenge the Elite Four. She wasn't sure what would happen.

She realized in the back of her mind that it wasn't normal to have gotten as far as she had without once losing a battle, and still with each new win she was more amazed than before. So when she finally lost her first battle against Elite Four Sidney, she was disappointed but also rather relieved.

She wasn't some miracle trainer that was incapable of losing. She wasn't perfect. She wasn't a machine, unable to make a mistake.

She was human.

Under the relief of this realization though was bitter disappointment. Not in her precious Pokémon companions, but in herself. She felt that in losing the battle she had failed them. But it hurt, the disappointment that flared in her chest. There had only been one other time that her chest had hurt so much when it hadn't been physically injured.

When she had gone to Mt. Pyre to tell the elderly couple there the events that had transpired since the orbs had been stolen, she had been surprised to find them there, returning the orbs to where they belonged. Hope had flared in her chest, though she knew not what she was hoping for.

As the two men walked past her she wanted to call out, to stop them. Why? For what reason? When Maxie turned and walked back towards her, the hope felt like so many daggers digging into her chest. When he gently called her name, it was like he was saying goodbye. It hurt so much it felt like her heart stopped. When he walked away without another word, she looked towards Archie, who was looking at her but not looking at her eyes and then together they walked out of her life.

As she watched their retreating backs a single tear had made its way down her cheek. Now the pain of disappointment in her chest seemed like a dull ache compared to that sharp pain, but just remembering brought some of that sharpness back to her chest. She didn't understand! What was it that was causing her so much pain?

No. She had to put that out of her mind. She had to focus on training her Pokémon so that next time, she leaves the building in triumph. She had to put those two men out of her mind, so why did it seem like she kept seeing them everywhere?

She had thought she had seen Archie at Mossdeep, but the sight of his blue bandana could have been a trick of the light playing on the ocean waves. She was sure that Maxie had been at Sootopolis, he had such remarkable red hair. She had always wondered how that hair felt. Was it soft and smooth, or rough and stiff from being in that style for so long? Why was it that when she let her thoughts wander, they always drifted towards the two who she had brought low?

She shook herself slightly to try and focus. When she lifted her head to the sky, she was sure. As a Trainer she would be useless until she found out what this emotion was. So while she was going to train her Pokémon to get stronger, she wasn't going to be focusing her full attention on it.

Not yet. No, she was going to figure out what it was that was causing her so much pain.

But… where should she start?

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New Author's Note: And the final prologue is redone. Didn't change any of the writing, just added paragraph breaks in all three. Now to get to writing the next chapter.

Author's Note: This is the final part of the prologue, this one being in May's point of view. I had these three chapters written for a while, and decided to post them after I ran them past my new Beta, MorohtarSingod. Big thanks to him! It will probably be awhile before another chapter is out, because I want to work on my other stories! Please bear with me; I am not fully in control.

I am not a writer! I am a puppet controlled by fictional characters!