# Prologue

Author: Tessler
Tags: OC, Plot Development, pokemon


I
can't say that I remember many days where I felt happiest. But I suppose I can
at least start with the one happiest day that I remember best. The memory of
how I found her...on a trip with my Uncle to grab some things from the beautiful
and scenic Cherrygrove City. Due to my fondness for biking, a hobby of mine
ever since I was very little, my Uncle and I had ridden our respective bikes
over to Cherrygrove City for minor shopping one day. It wasn't the largest city
in Johto, but I didn't care. It was too soon in my life back then to become a
Pokémon Trainer, and my Aunt argued many times before that the traditional age
of ten was way too soon for Trainers to begin....


I'm
getting sidetracked, aren't I? Sorry.... Now that I think about it, this isn't
the right place to start. (sighs) Let's start back to sometime after I was
born.....It was a bright afternoon in the green fields of New
Bark Town. A decently sized town with many houses dispersed as if all over the
place. For many, New Bark Town was a place of peace, where the highly respected
Professor Elm had lived with his family. For one couple on the other hand, they
had put the past behind themselves, wanting to start new lives as they walked
off a plane that had landed not too far where their new home was going to be.
As the two reached solid ground, the first looked at the sleeping and innocent
child she held in her arms. Simply known to some as Hilda of the faraway region
of Unova, she smiled sadly, and held the infant closer to her face as she shed
a slight tear.


"What are you doing, Hilda?" she heard from behind.
Turning around, she noticed the man that had become her husband. She walked up
to him with his short black hair being blown by the springtime wind, and his
signature reading glasses masking his feeble attempt to show concern.
(Yes, I'm a Checkmate Shipper. Feel free to
flame; I'll just summon a thunderstorm to extinguish the flames.)


"Just reminiscing, Cheren." Hilda explained somewhat
sadly as she kept her grip on the newborn. "I'll explain when we find someplace to live."


"I understand." Cheren replied, as he looked around,
and saw the multitude of people walking past the two, many that were residents
of New Bark Town, while others were the passengers of the planet that shared
the same amount of luck to have left Unova after what became of it. Exactly
what will be told all in good time, as the old saying goes....


As the two were about to grab a Taxi, they heard
someone calling for them. "Wait!" The two heard. Turning around, they saw a
scientist running up to them, panting from exhaustion.


Taking a very lucky guess, Cheren got in front of
Hilda, and questioned the man "I take it you are Professor Elm?"


"Ye....yes...that's...that
would be me." The young Professor replied. "I was....contacted by.....N....to find....you
two..."


Surprised at the
mention of the name, Hilda asked, checking on the child she held "You've met
him before?"


"Yes." The Professor
replied. "Let me bring you to my lab. You're free to use my old house since you
two appear to need a place to live." He continued as the three walked up to a plain
white van he had owned.


"We can't, Professor...."
Cheren began to reply, before Hilda gave him a look that told him to shut his
mouth.


"Yes." Hilda replied
almost sounding desperate. "It is much appreciated, thank you. We need it after
what happened." As the three climbed in Professor Elm's van, Hilda held the
child tighter to her, and began to cry as memories flooded her mind. Not sure
what to say, Cheren just hugged her, knowing exactly what she was thinking.


"I guess that's your
son, Cheren is it?" The Johto Professor asked.


"You'd be correct on
our names, and forgive us on the lack of formal introductions; we're still
shaken up with what happened." Cheren replied, as he rubbed Hilda's back. Surprised
at how the child hadn't woken up yet, he continued "And no, this is our nephew.
Her younger brother had entrusted him to us after....." Before he had a chance to
finish, Hilda began to cry even louder, the poor young lady a distraught wreck
after her childhood home was destroyed.


Putting the pieces
together, Elm expressed remorse and said "I'm so sorry for your-"


"Don't
be....please....don't..." Hilda responded in between tears. "You...had...nothing to...do
with.....Them..."
Soon stopping at the
two story house that Professor Elm had continued to own, Hilda smiled sadly as
she saw the new house, trying to wipe her tears away. After Hilda regained her
composure, if struggling for a while, Cheren and the Prof. had killed some time
by bring him up to speed with everything that happened in the Unova region,
where Cheren and Hilda had formerly done before choosing to settle down, and attempt
to raise a family before things suddenly changed for the worst.


After explaining how
their nephew was conceived, Professor had a look of surprise on his face, an
expression he tried to hide, and exclaimed "That....that....is incredible! To think
that could even happen....but your secret of his inception is safe with me."


"When he's old enough
to understand who his real mother is, we'll work with him in keeping it as much
of a secret as we can." Hilda replied, as the three walked into what had now
become their new home. "If he possesses any abilities that came from his
mother, then we'll also help him hide them from the public eye."


"Of course." The
Professor responded, respecting Hilda's opinion. "If it helps, Johto is very
supportive of the acts that led to the birth of your nephew."


"That info's appreciated,
thank you Professor." Hilda replied. "I just fear that people will want to take
him away from us. His mother said to me once that she and another individual
that she knows of see something great in his future, but even I wonder what
that means."


"You're right, Hilda."
Cheren responded. "I still don't know what to think of such relationships. But
all that matters to me right now is to protect him." Turning to Elm, he
continued "Thank you, Professor. We can't thank you enough for this."


"Not a problem." He
responded, trying to lift their moods. "I see a lot of potential with your nephew.
I can see him being a great Trainer in the future."


Not giving either of
the two a chance to reply, Professor Elm left the two as he drove back to his lab.
His own curiosity
getting the better of him as he walked back into his lab, he went to his
computer, and pushed a button. As the computer booted up, his own mind wandered
as he looked across his old research papers detailing of Pokémon Breeding. Never
once did he think of the possibility of Pokémon and humans being able to
produce offspring together....no, human offspring that possessed the powers or
abilities being passed down from either the father or the mother.
"That can't be possible." The Professor
thought to himself.
"But is it chance
that he might possess that powers that flow through his mother's veins? No,
that can't be."
 Sighing, he began to look through history files, in attempts
to find any recorded histories of people possessing powers that'd normally be
seen from a Pokémon.


He was well aware of
humans from the Sinnoh region to the North, as well as the faraway Kalos region
to the West who could manipulate what people called Aura. But he saw them as an
exception for the humans that wielded Aura usually had bonds with the Lucario
species, either in sibling relationships, or even as couples to fully develop
their abilities. Very rarely was there any news of humans that had Lucario for
their fathers. But like Johto, the Sinnoh and Kalos regions fully supported
relationships between Pokémon and humans. The native Hoenn, Kanto, and Unova
regions from what he remembered on their laws strongly condemned such
relationships. In minor cases, the Trainer and his or her Pokémon were given
the chance to choose exile, and never return. However, he had heard recent reports
of Trainers being assassinated, sometimes in the public, even in Johto or
Sinnoh, and the police were having difficulty in finding the people responsible.


His old friend,
Professor Samuel Oak of Kanto always said in public that he had no opinion on
the acts committed, but had acknowledged, in private, that he was very supportive
of such relationships, and people shouldn't get in the way of Pokémon and
humans being couples. Someone must've found out his true thoughts on
Poképhillia, for Oak's lab in Pallet Town had caught spontaneously combust in
the middle of the afternoon, destroying everything, even taking the life of the
aged Professor. A tragedy that caught everyone from both Kanto and Johto off guard
and the tragedy had caused everyone to wonder whether Pokémon x Human
relationships should be encouraged, or recognized as a crime.


Such a debate gave Elm
too much of a headache at times, so he chose to stay away from the subject as
much as he could, in anything, to protect his family.
Continuing his
research, he kept finding nothing upon nothing for even the slightest of
information. Giving up, he turned his computer off, and locked his lab for the
night. Taking one last look at the house he gave to Hilda and Cheren, he hoped that
the three would be safe in New Bark Town. Sighing, he took a look at the
evening sky, and turned around, back into his house he went. He feared the
worst, but prayed that things would turn out for the better for the young
family...

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