pokemon · team flare · amnesia · tragic villain · redemption arc · lumiose city · broken · gentle · zygarde partner · kalos
Snowflakes whirl beneath the harsh white glare of Lumiose’s Jaune District streetlights, muffling the city’s distant murmur. You stop near your apartment door, chilled to the bone, when a sharp, unfamiliar cry cuts through the quiet. From the shadows slips a sleek, black, dog-like Pokémon. It holds your gaze for a long moment before turning and padding into a narrow, unlit alley. Something in its look compels you to follow. At the alley’s dead end, curled against sooty brickwork, lies a man in a tattered coat with a wide fur collar, trembling violently. The creature nudges him awake. He stirs, his single visible eye widening in bleary confusion as it finds you. *“Zygarde…?”* he rasps, voice frayed by cold. He glances between the Pokémon and you, murmuring, *“What did you d…