Written/Editted By: Kyla

Once upon a time, in another world in the Realm of the Nuzlocke Games...

When I was little, there was a fire in my parent's apartment. I was eight –years-old. It was the middle of the night when it happened. My mother and father screamed for help. Their room and the hallways were on fire and it was a mystery how it started. As my parents attempted escape, the smoke got to my mother, she pasted out and fell into the fire. My father lasted a little longer, but passed out as well, trying to save my mother. They were both cooked alive that night. I on the other hand, somehow lived. The smoke and fire flooded my room and engulfed me, but as if by miracle, a flaming figure, approached me. He spoke kindly, in a deep voice.

"You must live my child, you have business to tend to."

Then, the figure disappeared and phased into my body. I remember it like it was yesterday. I felt like hot magma flowed through my veins, and my fingers tingled. I was completely covered in fire, but I just fell asleep, like it was nothing.

The next day I found myself in a hospital, I remembered the flames that covered me. I craved the heat. I only felt comfortable with ten warm blankets on me, and the heater on high. The people who came in looked away from my face while working with me, claiming that whomever came in and looked at my face, passed out. I felt like a mutant. Everyone had their own stories on how I lived. Some believed a fire god saved me. Others thought I might have just gotten lucky, and that I was crazy for claiming the fire was on me, that I could have saved myself somehow. I think it was all a dream. That day, my apartment was inspected, somehow, my room was the only one that wasn't burnt. I seemed unscathed as well. The doctors saw no injuries. So they let me out when I felt better. As I walked through hospital halls. People dropped like flies. Something happened to me that night, I knew it.

Eight years later, I was still blinking people out when I looked at them. I felt all alone, besides in my dreams. I kept on seeing this one person, a girl, I watch her sit at the bottom of an ocean, through a layer of lava. It was as if the ocean was split between lava and water. I watched her like I would watch fish in an aquarium. She would watch me too. Every night, we would go up to where lava meets water and gaze at each other. It might seem crazy, but I was and still am madly in love with that girl. Her Blue Lagoon eyes enamored me. It would always feel cold when I was close to her, and I always sort of knew it felt hot for her on the other side. This last night, I got close to her, I was about to kiss her. Our, hands only apart from the lava-water barrier. Just before my lips touched hers. I woke up.

"Aw F@#%" I said to myself.

I was so close to her, yet so far. That night, I legitimately wanted to kill myself. Life was not about, crappy dreams and absolute loneliness. Tonight, I was going to hang myself.

I had a rope in hand, I propped myself on the edge of my balcony. But just before I jumped, My hands burned red hot. They were glowing too. I burned straight through the rope, leaving me to fall a six story drop. I was done for...
Then suddenly, fire enveloped me, exactly like when I was eight-years-old. The fire then turned to darkness, it was hot, extremely hot. The next thing I knew was, that I was not falling anymore. In fact, I landed somewhere completely new.
I was surrounded by grass, but in a walking distance, I saw a lava pool. When I approached the steaming hot wasteland, I found five Pokeballs. Inside them were a Victini, Solrock, Talonflame, Arcanine, and Flareon. Along with my Pokémon, there was a necklace with a flame-shaped pendant. When I picked it up, it glowed a fire-red, floated, and spoke.

"Welcome! I'm your complimentary guidance necklace. This is The World of The Nuzlocke Games!!! This world is made to challenge people, we bring people from all over the universe for certain special reasons!!! At the end of the challenge, that is, if you win, you will get the big prize at The Final Stage!!! You will also notice soon that we have something (or someone) special waiting for you!! Don't worry about it for now!!! Be on your way! If you need help, just call!"

I gathered my Pokémon and created a small home in the woods. Minding my own business, fighting Pokémon on the way for XP. Every day I would also challenge myself to do a stage, returning to the woods for dinner each night. But one day, on the way back from finishing Stage 12, I put down my stuff and went fishing, as I did so, I caught three catfish. Just as I was about to pack up, I saw something in the water, It was falling deeper into the blue. I didn't even think for a second, it was as if my body were being drawn into the water. I swam down...
The cold enclosed me, I felt my warmth deteriorating. But I had to retrieve whatever was falling. For a painful five seconds I was lost in the water, I was disoriented. Until I wrapped my arms around... her. I immediately swam up, disregarding the cold water. As soon as I breached the surface, I swam to dry land. I finally got to take a good look at her. My eternal joy tucked into one body, that was her. The girl from my dreams, I just knew it. Every night, I would take care of her and her Pokémon. Until one day... She awoke. I saw her move as I came back from the woods, she was cuddling her Manaphy. So I made a little noise to tell her I was coming, without actually putting myself out there. I then walked over to her, to see if she would notice me. I stared at her beautiful face and touched her silky soft cheek. She looked into my eyes, I looked into hers. I smiled and said.

"You Are the girl from my dreams aren't you"
She replied
"I remember eyes as red as fire"

She did know me.

"I know eyes as blue as the seas"

I went in for a kiss, the kiss that we didn't finish in our dreams, but...

She slapped me on the face and ran away with her Pokémon. It was just as bad as being alone, probably worse. Because I finally had the one person I wanted for "who knows how long" just for her to reject me.

"What is wrong with me" I said to myself, with a sigh.