Prologue: We Were Only Supposed To Be Rivals

We were never meant to be friends, we were never meant to be in love, we were only supposed to be rivals. Hell at the beginning I didn't even want that, I had hated the cheerful grin that the pigtailed girl wore and I had never wanted to see it or her again. Fate though had something else in mind for us, something that when I first met her I would never have guessed was in store for us.

With a father like mine it was no wonder I turned out how I did. I admit it I was a jerk, a bastard, a cold despicable person that didn't deserve her even as just a rival. Though she was always there where ever I went, I sometimes wondered if she was stalking me or something. I bet to her I seemed to be the stalker with how I always wanted to battle her to prove that I was stronger, I was the better trainer even with how abused my pokemon. The more I knew her the more though I began to change.

When I began to fall for her I hated myself, this feeling was a sign of weakness I thought. I couldn't admit to myself let alone her, I couldn't be falling in love with that pigtailed wearing freak. I just couldn't be and even if I was I knew she would never love me. She would be better with her friend Ethan then she would ever be with me. I was the monster, an inhuman monster incapable of showing how I truly felt after years of shielding my heart from these feelings. All I could do was change, I started to show my pokemon the love and trust they deserved. It took a while but I knew once I was ready I would be able to face her once more.

As I trained and changed, as did our relationship, one moment we were rivals the next we were friends. I valued her visits to me in the Dragons Den while I trained away so I would one day be able to battle her as a true rival as someone who could be at her level, she was the champion after all.

Then the day came, a day I thought I could finally beat her. The battle raged on and on for several hours we were pretty even in strength. The battle had ended in a draw of all things. Her Meganium and my Typhlosion had fallen at the same time. I saw her smile and felt her arms around me as she said she was so happy that I had finally been able to even come in a draw with her.

Though this is near the end of our story, maybe I should start near the beginning when I was Silver Sakake and she was Lyra Soul. I was the son of the ex-boss of Team Rocket and she was a girl from a small town by the name of New Bark. Back to when that cheerful smile of hers first started to break through my defenses I had placed around my heart.