Queen's feather

Chapter 1

-Author notes-

Alright, it's been a while since I've written a fanfic but by no means do I have extreme knowledge of everything in the games. I will screw up some personality traits of the characters and I'll know it as well. I'm going to try my best to keep as close to the games as possible within X/Y and Black/White. As to what my character looks like, I'm replaying X/Y to get a better visual of how she would react in certain situations, along with playing Black/White. On with the story. Rating may change due to a Pokemon's mouth and character's mouth.

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"Sapphire."

"Yes, lady queen?"

"Your journey in Kalos starts soon. You'll be the daughter of the Rhyhorn racer Grace Artemidoros and your name is Amethyst Artemidoros. Do not disappoint me in this decision. You'll need to walk amongst the common people to know their interests and knowledge on how to rule properly when you take the throne."

"Yes, lady queen."

"…The boors are gone, Sapphire. Honestly, they always seem to have me in a twist on this decision of ours. I personally would pick a different name than Amethyst, Aerowen sounds perfect for you. Do try your best when meeting pokemon that you don't talk to them when around other people. Shadow and Gladiolus will be with you on your journey. Have fun and come back with boyfriend~!"

"I'll do my best mother, and you wish! The man that captures my heart would end up being brain fried by Gladi! Not to mention the horrors that Shadow would put the man through. I'm off mom, do try to keep the boors twisting like a serperior!"

"I will, Sapphire! And do say hello to your friends as well!"

Aerowen sighed as her memories of leaving the comforts of the castle for her first pokemon journey. So different and captivating it was to her thirteen-year-old eyes, that she scarcely remembers those hard days of having to rough it out in a storm or escape a trapinch, who later became her flygon, or defeating a megalomaniac bent on making the world 'beautiful' again. She could only sigh in fondness of being in love for the first time before it was crushed by another. They still remained friends despite the baggage they both carried. He was now being trained to become a gym leader or part of the elite four, she wouldn't know. All she knew was that he was being trained to replace someone and that was it. She was champion of Kalos and princess of the entire region as well. Sapphire Julianus was her real name, Aerowen Artemidoros was her alias. She set her sights on the horizon. A journey awaits her.

Wingulls flew overhead as the boat Aerowen was on came closer to its destination. Said person could only gaze out at the blue sea set before her. She was Champion of Kalos and was being sent to Unova on a mission or vacation by her mother's words. She wouldn't call it a mission or a vacation but an opportunity to get away from the monotony of being a royal and champion. She sighed in happiness as the sea breeze tousled her black hair before a clacking sound caught her attention. She gazed at her bag knowingly of who was making that sound. Xerneas, the legendary fairy Pokémon of life, was quite adamant that it will not leave her until she passes. She brought along some of her champion team; Shade the absol, Lixue the sylveon, and Arthur the talonflame…and a little stow away, Shadow Jr. Mischievous little zorua didn't know she knew he was there in her bag.

She had two bags, one with all her items on her journey around Kalos and the other was for her Pokémon and the starters Professor Sycamore gave her. She began to think on Unova. It was among the few that didn't have a monarchy to rule it. Kalos and Unova had been quite close in the past and from her understanding, her family had ruled it after the tyrant king destroyed everything to bring back his precious Pokémon. She smiled in remembrance of how his Pokémon came back to him when she beat him in battle. She hoped they live happily with their eternal lives together. A whistle from the boat signaled that their destination was visible, and she took in the site of Unova's port city, Castelia.

From there, she was to go to Nuvema town to visit Professor Juniper. She smiled widely at the thought of all the new sights she would 'see' and new friends she might encounter along the way. She thought back to her home of Kalos and Diantha, the champion of Kalos in her stead while away, before shaking her head from the negative thoughts she harbored for the positive thoughts. She sighed as she picked her two bags up, clacking increasing in tandem from Xerneas, and set out to meet whoever was to help guide her to Nuvema town.

She took one step off the deck when Lixue appeared from her bag in a flash, striking a pose to announce his arrival. She rolled her eyes at the sylveon's silly antics before throwing her arms up in the air and giving a whoop of excitement, uncaring of who was around her. Lixue also gave a cry of excitement as he gently ran around her a few times before standing next to her, two ribbons wrapped around her left leg. Aerowen looked down at the sylveon with a giant grin and said Pokémon gave a cry of glee. Shopping~!

Oh, she needed so many things. Ingredients for her homemade pokepuffs, her Pokémon hated store bought one. She began to think over a list. She didn't need much for herself, aside from water bottles, a tent, and a good-sized sleeping bag. Her Pokémon were the ones that had the most needs. Shade was a hoarder when it came to pokepuffs while Lixue was a messy eater as Arthur was the neat freak of them and Shadow Jr. love to play pranks to get a couple more pokepuffs to eat. Xerneas was indifferent with eating them. Pokepuffs were pokepuffs to the legendary and ate both kinds, store bought and homemade.

Aerowen gave a smile as she left the docks to see if anyone was to be her guide to Nuvema town. A cough to her left caught her attention and she looked to see a bizarre man in painter's clothes, but he held the air of an experienced trainer. He gave a short bow to her as she did the same. The man looked at her with a painter's eye before she tilted her head to the left, confused.

"Miss Artemidoros, I presume?" She nodded twice as she gave a smile. He smiled at her as he opened his arms in a wide manner.

"I am Burgh of the Unovan Gym leaders. When your professor asked for you deliver some of Kalos' starters to Professor Juniper, the professor jumped at the chance to study some of Kalos' pokemon. It does seem like you brought one of the fairy types as well." He said as he looked at Lixue with a painter's glint in his eyes. Lixue gave a bark of confusion but didn't like how he stared at him. Aerowen patted him on the head to make the fairy type give a cry of contentment, using his ribbons to move the hand to scratch his head but the hand moved away. She brought a hand to her bag to stop Xerneas' attempts to get out of the ball to look at its new surroundings. Having a near 10-foot-tall Pokémon may seem ordinary but if it was a legendary, all hell would break loose. She looked at Burgh again, but he shook his head. "This is neither the time nor place to do that, Miss Artemidoros."

"Call me Aerowen. Being called miss all the time gets tiring and many people do that in Kalos as is. Now, can you direct me to Nuvema town? Lixue here can tell Shade where I need to go." Said Pokémon gave a bark of confirmation before looking at Burgh. He seemed quite confused but looking at Aerowen as she nervously smiled and laughed before sighing. She must have a no sense of direction with keeping to roads. So, he told the fairy type Pokémon where they needed to go, all the while thinking that he must look like an insane man for talking to a Pokémon. She left with the directions and Burgh left to go back to his gym.

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-Two hours later-

Aerowen was walking in tow with Shade in front and Lixue beside her. The fairy type always had two ribbons on her left wrist, as a guide. She had been classified as legally blind a few weeks before she came to Unova. Arthur was perched ahead in a tree, not far from the entrance of the town, as he watched for anyone that even tried to get near his trainer/mistress. All her Pokémon viewed her as mistress and she was resigned being that, but she had to remind them that there were very few people that could understand how Pokémon talked. Pokémon either learned how to talk like a human or used psychic abilities to talk.

Talking and understanding Pokémon was a family ability. Being a Julianus meant being a mediator for Pokémon and humans. Her family wasn't always known as Julianus but Aerowen shook her head of the thoughts of her family. Her older sister, 'heir' to the Kalos throne, was known as Freya and her twin was known as Fredric. She was the youngest and the boors, what her mother calls the nobles or council, decided she was to be the heir instead of her older sibling. She was supposed to be a prime and proper lady, but she wasn't like that. She embraced being out in nature and communing with the various Pokémon inside/outside the palace. Her mother only seemed to encourage her 'wild' behavior by taking her out into various places in Kalos. She loved it and loved her mother all the more when they talked to the Pokémon about humans and how to best pacify their anger.

This went on until she reached ten. She was introduced to some Pokémon the council got her. The Pokémon were outright obedient and never questioned her on anything. It was like they were meant to be statues and not her friends. She did try asking them why they were like that once to her mother and she was tight lipped about it, acting not like her mother at all. The boors had gone behind her mother's back and constructed something on a Pokémon's home, making the Pokémon there very angry. Her mother had tried to have it torn down, but bureaucratic red tape prevented her from tearing it down and she had to play a puppet for a bit with Sapphire, her real name, to discourage 'wild' behavior and act like proper.

Lixue pulled back on his ribbons and it broke Aerowen's inner thoughts as she looked down at the fairy type to get a cry from Shade and Arthur that they were in Nuvema town. Xerneas was in its ball most of the journey. When outside of its ball, it stayed close to Aerowen whenever possible. She tilted her head to the right a bit and walked in, having recalled Arthur and Shade. She looked around to see the blurred outlines of the houses and people. She wasn't completely blind, but all she could see were blurred outlines of anything far away.

"There you are, Artemidoros!" A feminine voice called out to her from behind and she looked around frantic to find the voice who called her. Lixue tugged her left wrist and she looked down at him. She then saw a faint image of someone in front of her. Faintly blurry but she could see some detail. Oh! This must be Professor Juniper!

"I'm sorry Professor! You have to know that I can't see well. Professor Sycamore should've told you about my blindness. Ahem, aside from that light blunder, I have the starters professor told me to give you. If you need anything…" She said to the professor before said person pointed to a building. She followed the finger and could see the outlines of a couple teenagers near the building, a man and woman. She couldn't see any facial features from her distance, but she knew they were a man and a woman. The professor must've waved them over as she couldn't catch their names…

Juniper called out at the top of her lungs. "Cheren, Bianca. Come over here and say hello!"

Aerowen winced, almost deafened from the professor screaming into her ear. She took a step back and moved her jaw to force open her ear canals. One problem with being able to talk to Pokémon and understand them was that her hearing to hear a shrill whistle meant for canine Pokémon. Not enough to where everything damaged her hearing but enough to hear the little Pokémon's voices. Lixue's ribbons rubbed in a soothing way and she took comfort in it. She saw the teens come over and the woman seemed to trip on air before she began to fall to the ground. Not having to need a command, Lixue unwrapped his ribbons from his trainer's wrist and positioned himself to catch the woman in her fall. He bore her weight as she used him as a stand to get back up before giving a cry of hello.

"Professor," said Cheren, "Why call us over when someone from Kalos is supposed to meet us here?"

Before Juniper could answer, the Pokémon who helped Bianca let out a yipping cry. Either it was a hello or a way of saying that it was right there, he wouldn't know but he did notice how different it looked. It was blue and looked quite girly in his opinion, so he assumed it was female. The 'female' Pokémon seemed to walk back to her trainer and wrap two ribbons around her left wrist.

Said trainer smiled. "Looks can be deceiving, Cheren, was it? I'm from Kalos and Professor Juniper, can you tell me why you called them over?"

Aerowen asked as she looked back at the semi-blurry outline of the Professor, who in turn gave a smile at her question. "Cheren and Bianca here need someone to go on a journey with, since their friend is deathly afraid of Pokémon and moved to Hoenn. Not sure if that would be any good for them but, the fact remains that they need someone around their age to take a journey with."

Bianca watched the exchange of information with the professor and the Kalos teenager when she looked at the Pokémon next to her and almost fainted at her lack of notice. This was Aerowen Artemidoros! Champion of Kalos and pokepuff chef! She was standing near her idol and she failed to notice her! Stupid airheadedness! Curse you! "Cheren! It's Aerowen Artemidoros?! I can't believe the champion of Kalos is here! In Unova! Cheren, I'm standing before my idol!"

Cheren clammed up for a moment. He stared at the girl for a brief second, then coughed before pushing his glasses further up his nose. He was certainly surprised at this revelation but to know she was champion to boot as well, this might be an interesting journey after all. He looked discretely at the Pokémon next to her and it shook its head, as if saying it wasn't going to fight.

"Lixue isn't going to fight your starters. When professor said that you needed someone to journey with, it means I'll be taking that journey with you and I will have a starter from Unova to be more qualified. I might challenge the gyms to see what challenge they can give me, and I might not. I'm already champion of one region, being champion of two regions is too much for me."

Aerowen said as she patted Lixue on the head as the fairy type seemed content to be patted and scratched where the hand went. Cheren took notice of the Pokémon looked when being given affection, she must really love getting attention. He absentmindedly began trying to make connections on what made the Kalos champion how she was as the professor came forward with three pokeballs. "These three hold the starters. Oshawott, Snivy, and Tepig. Bianca, Cheren, Aerowen. Choose one to start your journey with."

Oshawott was a water type so while Aerowen wanted the advantage with water for later gyms, she looked at the other two. Tepig was a fire type and she had gone for a fire type when she first started. Snivy was her best bet. She smiled at the thought before choosing the ball Snivy was in.

"Snivy, your new name is Mimosa." Aerowen said as she released Mimosa so he/she could get acquainted with her team. She pulled her dex out to confirm that Mimosa was indeed a female and was glad that another female was on the team for Shade to talk to. Speaking of Shade, she patted her bag to ensure her team was still there and four clacks soothed her fears. There wasn't one time where her team was stolen from her and given back to her by said person as he/she was bodily threatened by her fire/psychic starter.

"I choose Oshawott." Bianca said as she picked up the pokeball with Oshawott. Cheren choose Tepig. He turned towards the Kalos champion with a glint in his eyes and she smiled at him, possibly not noticing the glint. She just continued to smile as she looked down at the snivy with curiosity clearly written in her face.

"I challenge you, Artemidoros." He said before she snapped her head up to him, surprise written clear across her face before a blooming smile appeared on her face. "I gladly accept but, call me Aerowen. Being called my last name and miss is very annoying to me. Plenty of people do that in Kalos as is." She said and he nodded. "What are the rules? I clearly have an advantage with experience in battle than you two do, so some rules need to be placed."

Her statement caused Cheren to think. Yes, she has advantage with experience in battle and could easily wiped the floor with a single Pokémon alone, if need be. But having rules to ensure it was fair was encouraging. "You can't use any of your champion team on us. Just the ones we got is all. Second, the first one to faint or too injured to continue wins."

"Some good thinking Cheren. I concede to these rules and will only use Mimosa." She said before seeing Cheren enlarge Tepig's pokeball, blurry as hell but she saw it happen. "Mimosa against Tepig."

She muttered before forming a whistle in her throat until she remembered her new Pokémon didn't know the whistle system. Well, after the battle, she'll begin to teach Mimosa the different whistle tones she would use during battle. She thought back to first time she got Pyre, he only knew tackle and leer. It was a possibility that Mimosa knew them as well and she was willing to try it out.

"Tepig, use tackle!" Cheren said, ordering Tepig to tackle Mimosa.

"Mimosa, dodge and retaliate with a leer before giving him a good tackle in return." Mimosa gave a cry of confirmation, but she got hit from the forward and looked at her opponent with her meanest glare as she retaliated with a tackle. Tepig shuddered and took the tackle head on, giving a cry of pain causing Aerowen to flinch a bit. Cheren took a calculated look before issuing Tepig to use tail wag.

"Look down, Mimosa." She said and her Pokémon obliged, but clearly confused about why her head was down. A stampede of little hooves told her that her opponent was going to tackle her, and she retaliated by tackling him in turn. Both gave cries of pain and struggled to get up. A blue leg stood in front of them both before they were picked up by their trainers.

"Is Tepig ok, Cheren?" Cheren had squirted some potion on Tepig, causing the little fire pig to squirm some in his arms but he looked at Aerowen with Mimosa.

"Yes, he's fine but why did you Pokémon stop either one from continuing?"

"They wanted to battle until neither one could move properly, so Lxiue stepped in as mediator."

'Now I see. The fairy type stepped in so neither one would injury each other beyond what we help them with.' Cheren thought as Tepig squirmed in his arms more.

"Dammit Moccus! Stay still!" He said before the tepig stopped squirming in his arms to look at him and gave a squeal of happiness to have a name. Moccus nuzzled his trainer's cheek as Bianca helped Aerowen with Mimosa. The little snivy made it apparently clear that she disliked the potion sensation on her body, by hissing as best she could as the potion worked to heal her. But it didn't matter as Bianca stood not far away to initiate a battle with Aerowen. Lixue gave a small tug on Aerowen's left leg and she looked down to see the ribbons pointing towards Bianca.

"I'm your next opponent, Miss Artemidoros!" Aerowen gently shook her head negatively.

"Don't call me miss. I've been called miss too many times from my time as Champion, so just call me my normal name." She said with a smile before setting Mimosa down. The snivy looked at the Oshawott with content cry before both gave a small battle cry to signal their readiness for battle. Bianca, new to being a trainer, called out her first move along with Oshawott's new name.

"Kanaloa, tackle!"

"Mimosa, try to dodge before using tackle and follow it up with leer."

Kanaloa attacked first, hitting Mimosa head on with everything his little body could. The snivy gave a cry of pain and tackled it in return for hurting it. She then gave him the meanest glare she could muster, making him shudder at the glare and backing away slightly. She gleefully went after her opponent, giving him a tackle to the side before once more to the front. She was about to deal one more tackle for good measure when she was picked up from behind, making her hiss a bit and releasing vine whip to hit whoever picked her up.

"Lixue, bring her here and put her down." Her trainer's voice came in and she noticed her vine whip wasn't doing much damage against the older Pokémon. Lixue brought her over to her trainer and she was picked up, but she got sprayed by the horrid potion, making her hiss in retaliation. She looked at the older Pokémon at her trainer's left side and cocked her head, confused as to why he wore such an odd badge on his neck. She then looked up at her trainer's eyes and found they were lightly glazed silver. A beautiful color but weren't human eyes not glazed over like hers were?

Bianca used a potion on Kanaloa, all while looking disheartened by the events. She wanted to beat her idol but seems like some rumors were true. Experience in battle beats a green horn trainer any day. She could have brought out one of her other Pokémon to wipe the floor with them, but her idol agreed to terms that Cheren told her.

"Bianca? Don't be sad. I've lost battles in Kalos and I'll possibly lose battles here. I'm not overly experienced in Pokémon battles like older adults are but I know when I'm bound to lose and not lose." Bianca looked at her idol and noticed her eyes, asking about them.

"Oh, my eyes? I was announced as legally blind a few weeks before coming here. Lixue here is my seeing eye Pokémon but it doesn't mean I'm completely blind. I can still make out what you, professor Juniper, and Cheren look like." Aerowen said, with her hands on her hips and her face serious. Cheren blinked in surprise at the statement but it's what possibly made the champion of Kalos unique. Bianca gasped but giggled all the same. All the while, they held their Pokémon in their arms. Except Cheren, Moccus was on the ground.

"Can we get going already? I'm fucking starving here, Wen."

"Why do you say that, mister Lixue?"

"Huh? Why fucking not? I'm hungry!"

"I'm not. I had food already."

"You've not had food until you've tried Wen's pokepuffs. They are delicious!"

Aerowen ignored the conversation between Lixue and Mimosa and choose to listen to the conversation between Bianca and Cheren. She didn't want to suddenly begin talking to her Pokémon like she normally did at the league, where she could converse with Xerneas on the various things it had experienced over the thousand year before it went to sleep. It was an interesting experience but her experience with said conversation were often interrupted by visits to the palace to keep up with her royal duties. She never hated conversing with her Pokémon, it was just awkward to have other people look at her with judgmental eyes.

"Aerowen, can you come with me to talk to my parents? My dad might not let me go." Bianca said and her idol gave a nod while smiling. She grabbed Aerowen's hand and pulled her along, all without considering that she was legally blind and needed her seeing eye Pokémon with her at all times. That left Cheren, Mimosa, and Lixue outside. Mimosa was on Lixue's back as the fairy type Pokémon looked at the door anxiously for her trainer. Muffled shouts and curses were tossed around inside before Bianca came running out with eyes red from crying and Aerowen angry at Bianca's dad.

"Damn fucking idiot…Trying to keep his daughter from having a Pokémon journey…" Angry mutters were heard from Aerowen as she adjusted her hat on her head and soothing her hair as best she could. Frazzled that the jackass that was Bianca's father was being a giant idiot, she tried to think calming thoughts, but she really couldn't calm down. She needed a psychic type to help her keep calm at times and as well to round out her team. She then began to think back to Kalos and how much time she had left before figuring she had a year before the badge run came about.

The Badge run was something she thought of when reigning champion of Kalos for 6 years as so many people came to victory road to only to stay on the road to challenge whoever came after them. While it built much experience for the challengers, too many Pokémon were injured or hurt while traversing the road to get to the elite four and its champion. The gyms were running a little low on badges to hand out as well since so many people challenged them to get said item. So, the badge run gave the elite four a much-needed opportunity to evaluate what the gyms needed to make sure their gyms stayed challenging and secure.

The secure part came from the rise of Team Plasma rallies in Kalos. It wasn't wholly welcomed but it was a very slow rise as it was mostly in Unova where Team Plasma was on the rise. Why it hadn't picked up much speed was because of Team Flare and Lysandre's near attempt to end humanity to make the world 'beautiful' again. The prospect of releasing your Pokémon after one team had tried to end humanity, along with Pokémon kind, wasn't very welcoming to many minds in Kalos. And after 6 years as reigning champion, with any challengers coming and going within those years, she wanted to get her feet wet in a new area before the badge run started and planted her squarely in the champion area of the elite four.

It was with great reluctance on the other members to let her go about her way, with orders to not USE the fairy type in Unova, and greater importance to experience regions outside Kalos. It would broaden her horizons on what to expect from other regions as Kalos only had to offer so much in terms of Pokémon. She wanted to leave any fairy type in Kalos since fairy type wasn't widely accepted in other regions yet, but two fairy types came along.

Adjusting her hat, one she got from a store in Lumiose city, she gave a bright smile at Bianca and Cheren as they waited ahead of her. Mimosa and Lixue walked alongside her, the former on the latter's back as the latter's ribbons were wrapped securely yet loosely on her left wrist. It made her think back to a training regimen she made up for her team back in Kalos and sighed softly as her new team would have to go through a regimen based on their advantages or weaknesses. All while she thought this, the wheels of the heroes slowly begin to turn and twist to ensnare both in its grasp.