Part 1: The Beginning of It All
The boulder Pokémon was surprisingly fast for a moving rock.
It rolled with extreme speed towards her father, who hastily dodged. As reared back, Flare's mother lunged at its throat. She instead got a hold on his unprotected face, and began to pull and tug as the boulder growled. Flare's father acted as back-up, encircling the snarling Pokémon. His muscles were completely tensed, and he was ready to pounce at a moments notice. Suddenly, the large rock leaned back on his heels, and did a lousy front flip. Flare's mother was harshly thrown to the side, landing awkwardly on her paw, while the boulder began to spin. It rolled towards Flare's father, and Flare watched on as he was slammed the opposite direction.
Flare's mother got up and began trotting towards it. Her body seemed to jerk to the side with every step, and Flare realized with horror that her mother had a broken paw. She hoped to Arceus that this wouldn't get her too hurt in the long run. She and her father did needed her to be able to hunt and take care of them, after all. Those hopes were crushed when suddenly, her mother dropped to the floor whilst letting out a pained yelp.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the beast, her father let out a steady stream of fire directly in the creature's face. The creature shrugged it off without so much as wincing.
"You two Ninetales planned on facing a full-grown Golem and coming out victorious? May I remind you that I am both a rock AND a ground type?"
"Yeah, and that rock and ground type is about to become rubble in the dirt!" Flare's father cried. Suddenly, his eyes began to glow an intense yellow. He transfixed them on the Golem, not even stopping to blink. A golden orb suddenly emerged from his eyeballs, beginning to float around majestically. The Golem was captivated by it, and watched on with an enamored expression as it began to swirl around his body. He spun around to view it, and suddenly it disappeared. The Golem's eyes glowed a deep red, and he began to swivel and spin.
"Yeah! We managed to confuse him!" Flare's mother shouted, rolling off of the ground while keeping the injured paw high.
The Golem tumbled in Flare's direction, and she slid further behind the desk she was hiding behind. The Golem then looked at her father, and the floor began to crumble and rise from the ground.
"Whoa!" Flare's mom shouted. "Watch out, it's a stone edge!" Flare's father darted to the back of the Golem. Both of them had momentarily forgotten that the Golem was confused and not in control of where the stone edge would fly, and that mistake would cost them greatly.
The stone edge flew not at her father, but at her mother. Flare watch as her mother's eyes flew wide, then attempted to jump out of the way. But that was an impossible feat for even the fastest Ninjask. The butt of the stone sailed and hit Flare's mother directly on her temple. Had she not tried to dodge, it would have been far less severe of an injury. When Flare saw her mother crumple to the floor, she was in complete shock. As the tears entered her eyes, she began to tremble. Her mother's chest gave erratic heaves as she attempted to suck in air.
"M..M...MOM!" she shrieked. She ran out of her hiding spot at top speed, rushing towards her mother. Nothing else mattered to her but her mother at this point, and all of her common sense was quickly forgotten. She stood over her mother, who was coughing up pinpricks of blood.
She desperately looked over at her father only to find that he was right behind her. He picked her up by the scruff of her neck despite her high-pitched whines. He burst towards the hallway from which Flare originally wandered in. Flare was ready to struggle, but soon realized that her father wouldn't leave her mother behind unless there was no other option. After all, they were in "love", as her father said it.
Just a mere ten feet from the exit, a shadow slipped into the doorway. It glanced up and flashed a wicked grin. It gave off such a strong aura that you didn't have to be a Lucario to feel it's malevolence. It even appeared to have knives attached to two places on its body and sharp claws as long as any full-grown Ursaring. Long white fur stained pink at the edges flowed majestically behind her stocky body.
Flare's father growled, a deep and threatening sound never heard by Flare before. She whimpered and her father stopped, instead giving the Pokémon a vicious glare.
"Absol..." he mumbled, still holding Flare by her scruff.
"Hahahahaha... seems you managed to momentarily stun my subordinate... I can easily send out a stronger opponent, and your mate won't be the only one to take her last breath today," she stated in a chilling and distinct voice that had a hint of... hysteria.
"Wait...'Take her last breath'? Does she mean... Mom is dead?" The vulpix was too young to comprehend death, and didn't yet know what it mean to be dead. However, that would change very soon...
"...But, I don't want to waste such a fun task on a plain ol' grunt, now do I?"
Then the Absol snarled and lunged.
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It all seemed to happen in slow motion. Flare's dad jerked his head to the side and let go of Flare's neck.
Flare sailed through the air, then landed harshly on her right shoulder.
And then the sickening sound of Absol plunging her knive-like claws into her father's throat reached her small yet sensitive ears.
Flare watched as the sparkle departed from his eyes, and slowly became a cold, dark nothingness. Blood leaked from the hollow spaces between the Absol's claws.
The blood.
The blood.
D.
It leaked in pools around him, trailing to Flare's paws and painting them a deep crimson. She trembled and shook with such ferocity that it was a miracle that she didn't collapse into her father's scarlet life force.
When the Absol began stalking towards her, her vison flooded red. A deep, numbing feeling began to take over her body, and she honestly didn't mind. It felt like a warm, gentle embrace.
However, with every step the Absol took towards her, the embrace squeezed harder. Pins and needles began to slowly pierce themselves into her body, and she shook with even more force, but this time not out of fear. It was out of rage.
Suddenly, the Absol stopped. She slowly took a few steps back, and bolted out of the room. The Golem looked at her with its piercing eyes and gave a hearty laugh.
"She's not scared of you, is she? I could crush you in one second like the little pest you are. In fact, I think I will." The Golem barreled towards her, and she could feel those pins and needle getting stronger, like she was hit with a Banette's Curse attack.
As the Golem who most likely stole her mother's life bounded towards her, she snuck a quick glance at her father.
And he wasn't breathing.
Flare's eyes went wide, but quickly took on a ferocious look. Her pupils began quickly shrinking and expanding. Her body filled with a white hot fury, completely unlike anything she had ever felt before. Her body soon became engulfed in flames, and her innocent childhood was coming to an abrupt end.
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The Golem had never been filled with more fear in his life.
The small vulpix, only about six years old, was completely engulfed by anger and fury. That he could take. But the pillar of fire that was shooting out of her fur like a bat out of hell? No thank you. Even if he took very little damage from fire, this was the strongest flame he had ever seen. And that pillar was rapidly expanding outward, towards him.
"That must have been why Absol fled," he thought to himself. He was told that all Absol could predict upcoming disasters, but thought nothing of it at the time. And now it would cost him his life.
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She saw nothing.
She felt nothing.
But was she nothing? No. She currently had more power than any Pokémon in the world, legendary or not.
The pins and needles feeling returned and began to quickly multiply, until she was screaming as loud as her throat would allow. Her white hot fury quickly combined with white hot pain, forming an agonizing combination. Suddenly, a pillar of fire larger than a Reshiram's Fusion Flare engulfed her. It shot towards the stars, going farther than the most powerful telescope could see. It quickly expanded outward, swallowing everything in its path. The Golem didn't even have time to scream.
Everything the flame touched immediately vanished, no ash, no trace of it ever being there. Flare wasn't even spared from its wrath, but having minor burns being the one unleashing it's fury. It continued more than one hundred yards outward, engulfing the entire building and a small portion of woods. The flame finally stopped, shooting up towards the sky while slowly fading away.
Flare collapsed, spent of all energy plus much more than she could afford. As the black engulfed her, she had not one thought, her brain too tired even to make a simple sentence.
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A small, pink, pixie-like creature was suddenly knocked to the side. It had felt like a machamp had used its drain punch attack, small but noticeable, while still managing to suck the life out of her. A bright feeling of anguish, rage, and pain suddenly washed over her, stronger than any emotion she had ever felt before. As the feeling diminished, she sensed where the blast came from, and teleported out of sight without a sound.
When the dizzying sensation of teleportation finished, the Pokémon took in her surroundings. She saw a small vulpix, only around six or seven, who was completely still. The pixie Pokémon realized that the Pokémon was dead, and she felt her heart drop.
"So young..." she thought. "But wait!"
The vulpix's chest began to rise and fall, and the strange Pokémon felt a surge of relief. "Thank goodness!" she exclaimed.
She soon was hit by that anger again, albeit much less strong. She began to see visions of what the small child went through, clips and pieces of her hardships.
"Oh, my.." the pixie thought. She picked up and cradled the young elemental fox into her chest, a small gesture of affection. And then she teleported out of sight.
"You'll be safe from now on, child..."
AN: Ok, Chapter 2 is done! Chapter 3 I'll try and have up by the end of next week! Next one is in first person, and we meet a mysterious pokemon (thats not the one at the end of the chapter... PM me who you think that was and I'll tell you if you're right or not!) and I won't ruin the rest xD Oh, and thank you to everyone who reviews and follows and faves! And, if anybody is reading this without doing that, well... I hope you like it! ^^u PLEASE R and R! I love to know what I can improve on AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT BEING TO HARSH! I actually like it a little harsher cause that way you get more of that brutally honest opinion ^u^ Ok... done babbling now, have a nice week~
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EDIT: I AM SOOOO SORRY I THOUGHT THAT I POSTED THIS LAST WEEK WHEN I ACTUALLY JUST POSTED IT INTO THE DOC MANAGER ^^'' I was wondering why I was getting absolutely no response xD Okay welp yeah sorry bout that xD