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Welcome to Defying Fate. This will replace the completed Guardian Angel as my main series. Don't worry, soaking in Summer will still be updated. I'm going to make sure that this story will be awesome, hopefully. I will go through, and edit the whole chapter, maybe change some things to fit what I had in mind for the story next.

For my whole career on Wattpad, I realized, all my stories were super short except for my most read one that my partner and I have together, as well as my partner's book. I then realized that my writing style is really rushed, so with this fanfic, I hope to make it at least 20 chapters. That is my goal. I hope you enjoy this series! Let's get started already! I just hope it isn't cheesy!

Disclaimer: Sadly, I'm not the owner of the beloved Pokemon, I am only a fangirl, who enjoys writing and reading fanfiction about the show!

ACT ONE:  THE AWAKENINGS

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"A long time ago, there was a prince. His name was Nicholas Shu. The Shu family ruled over all of the regions of Grauldia, the world we live in. It was arranged that he would be marrying the daughter of Hoenn's most noble family, Aleishia Wakana.

However, fate was too cruel. Nicholas loved another. Aleishia's hand maiden, April Haruka. She was a simple girl. Very kind, very modest. She spoke her mind, which was very uncommon back then. Aleishia and April were best friends, but while Aleishia was head over heels for Nicholas, April didn't like him. They fought frequently until that one day, in the midst of an argument, Nicholas had her pinned against a wall, their faces inches from each other. Before they knew it, his lips were on hers.

Aleishia found them, and became grieved with the feelings of betrayal and jealousy. She had known Nicholas didn't love her, but she never thought that he was in love with her hand maiden. Aleishia was so distraught, she threw them in her dungeons, and ordered them to be executed the following day.

Aleishia couldn't fall asleep that night. In the dungeons, the chains that bound April and Nicholas, were keeping them apart. They were thrown into the same cell, but the chains they were shackled in, teased them. They couldn't reach each other, just out of each others grasp. April spent almost the whole night sobbing hysterically in distress, trying to get to Nicholas. However it was in vain. Nicholas tried to comfort her early on, but soon found himself struggling to keep from breaking down too, because he couldn't touch her. He couldn't help her, or hold her before they died.

The next day came, none of the three slept a wink. April and Nicholas were brought out into the town square, charged with treason. Nicholas's death was cruel. He was hung. April watched as his outstretched arm tried to reach her. Their fingertips briefly brushed, causing sparks to whisk down their spines.

The worst part was, they forced her to watch the man she just recently realized she loved, get hanged. Aleishia came up to April, and slapped her. She yelled at her hand maiden about the jealousy she felt towards her. April then received the most painful death. She was burned at the stake, her screams and cries echoed through the whole town.

News soon reached the King and Queen of Grauldia. They were furious about their son's betrayal, and dishonor. Even more so, they were enraged with Aleishia. They didn't kill her, but they had her whipped in the capital's square, she was also whipped in the feet, so she could never walk again.

The most important thing that happened was that this situation caught the eyes of the legendary Pokemon creators of Grauldia, Arceus, the creator of life, and Dialga, the creator of time. They too were lovers that were star crossed. They lived in different dimensions, unable to reach each other. They took pity on the humans.

They reincarnated them, for hopes of them to be together. However, a similar situation ended up happening to the reincarnations. As far as we know, the lovers may have never gotten their chance to be together. We like to hope they did. Who knows, the incarnations could be anyone, we know this though, when the incarnates are found, they are given a mission, it's different every time. This legend is now well known as "The Lover's Curse" since the two never had their happy ending,"

A woman said. She had told the story to her daughter.

"What kind of fairytale is this? Where's the happy ending?" The little girl, approximately 7 years old, asked her mother.

"That's what I wanted to teach you May, you should know now, that life isn't always going to have a good end. Bad things are going to happen, and if you play them off and ignore them, it will only worsen," May's mother explained. May nodded slowly.

"I understand the world is cruel, it took Max and Daddy away from us!" May cried out. She noticed her mom tearing up.

"That's enough for tonight, good night my dear," May's mother said, kissing her forehead, and turning off the lamp providing light in the room. When her mom left, she mewed quietly in pain. The bottom of her right foot was aching painfully. From what, she didn't know, but she thought it had something to do with the mark.

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-•*9 years later*•-

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"Look, you may be the prince and all, but I'm not your hand maiden, I serve My Lady, and My Lady alone!" A girl with long chestnut hair spat.

"Listen beauty, I just want you to fulfill my one desire," The prince cooed suavely. He had not stopped walking towards her, and she walking away. She bumped into the wall behind her and squealed in shock. He twirled one of her fringes around his index finger. Her face saturating more pink. She could feel the prince's breath scavenge her face and

neck. Her face turned even darker than previously.

"W-What do you want, N-Nicholas?" She asked sternly. He gently stroked her chin gently.

"I want your love, in return," The prince said softly. She knew he was telling the truth. Her face reddened up.

"I-I," The prince interrupted her, by pressing his lips against hers. She didn't resist it at all. Melting right into it. Once they broke apart, Nicholas's powerful aura, weakened, due to his fear of rejection. The girl lightly punched his chest.

"You dolt! We could be killed for this!" She hissed.

"You didn't answer my question," Nicholas said bluntly. The girl stood on her tippy-toes and lightly kissed his lips before he depended it by pressing her against the wall again. She let out a cry of surprise that was instantly muffled by Nicholas's lips. She gasped when they broke apart again.

"Does that answer your question? Besides we are going to be dead if anyone finds us!" The whispered.

"Y-you, HOW COULD YOU!"

That's when he shot up. Panting, sweating. He wiped his forehead. He checked the clock on his bedside table. It read 6:57. At least the dreams made him wake up close to his alarm. Sighing, he got up and made his bed, by that time, his alarm went off, so he pressed the off button on it.

It was the first day of his junior year of high school. He slipped on a black t-shirt, purple vest, and aqua jeans, before running a brush through his green locks. There were five bowls in his kitchen that he each put one scoop in each, but they were all different from each other to meet the certain pokemon's needs.

He grabbed his pokeballs and set them all free to eat. Then, he went on to make his own breakfast. His dream flashed through his mind. At least this time it didn't make him watch them die. Ever since the death of his parents when he was seven, He kept having those nightmares. After eating and brushing his teeth he retrieved his partners and started walking to school, away from his sad lonely apartment.

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A girl sat in the front seat of a Mazda, her mom driving her to school. After 7 years of living in a different town, she was back. The quiet Fallarbor Town, couldn't fill the void of leaving the bustling Lilycove City. Her skitty was mewing happily, curled up in her lap taking a fat nap.

Her chestnut locks, framed her face in little dog ears, while the rest was hidden in her red bandana. She had a red shirt that stopped at the elbows, and her white undershirt covered up her part of her blue biker shorts that stopped about mid thigh. The most unique thing about her was her eyes. They were a brilliant blue. Mostly likely able to put the glow of a sapphire to shame.

Suddenly the car stopped and the girl hopped out with her skitty in her arms. She ran towards the building ahead, her backpack hitting her back every once and awhile. She remembered that she was in room 204 as her homeroom. The teacher she was unsure of. Once reaching the doors of the school, she returned her skitty. She was already a bit behind already.

Scanning the halls for the correct number, she made it in right as the bell rang. All eyes were on her, and she cowered away, with a red tinted face. She found a seat, and as she walked over, her right foot started aching, which caused her to fumble in her footing, causing most of the class to laugh at her. When she finally sat in the open seat, role was taken. Her foot was throbbing dully, but she payed close attention to role to see if she knew anyone. One stood out to her,

"Leaf Green?"

Once role was over and she had said she was here as well, the teacher, Miss Kaitlyn, let them all reunite and talk together. Her foot still hurt but not as much, she could still feet it though. She wondered why her foot had started to hurt, it rarely ever happened. Only when her mom mentioned that story, "The Lover's Curse" but even her mom doesn't even know about her foot. Nor does she know about the symbol on the bottom of her foot. She was so deep in thought she didn't realize someone was walking up towards her, which ended up spooking her when the person spoke.

"May? Is that you?" The person asked. It was a girl. She was really pretty, forest green eyes, thick rich brown hair, green themed outfit, no doubt about it, it was Leaf.

"Yeah, we were friends before I moved away!" May said. Leaf grinned.

"Well it's good to see you back around again!" Leaf grinned.

"It's good to be back! I really missed this place," May sighed.

"Yeah, but a lot has changed so don't freak out," Leaf warned.

"Is that even possible?" May giggled.

"Well you have been gone for seven years, why don't you sit with me at lunch and I can fill you in on the juicy drama and all that stuff?" Leaf asked. May beamed.

"Sure! Sounds great! Can't wait to meet your friends!"

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May's day went by very smoothly. She met all of Leaf's friends and got along with them very well. She got introduced to Ash, Lyra, Lucas, Kenny, and Zoey. They were all pretty fiery, like Leaf. Her day couldn't have gotten any better, until the end of the day, when something strange happened...

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Leaf and May were getting ready to leave the school. May had just gotten her things out of her locker. They were walking towards the doors when all of the sudden, May's foot began to hurt again. She stumbled a little bit gained her composure.

"You ok?" Leaf asked.

"Yeah, just a bit klutzy today I guess," May covered. Leaf frowned. As they kept walking, the throbbing intensified, eventually she stumbled, but instead of hugging the ground, her arms were flooded with warmth, and a nullified shock wave zipped down her back causing her to yelp, and fall back on her butt, away from her savior. She realized, it was a guy, and he must have felt the shock too. His face was painted with confusion, but then again, hers probably was too.

"If you don't mind, I was trying to help you," He snapped.

"I'm so sorry!" May said shyly. She noticed him rubbing his neck with an annoyed face.

"You should be more careful, Dog Ears!" He replied sharply. May helped herself up. She was about to fire back but Leaf interrupted.

"Just buzz off Drew, don't you have fangirls to snake charm?" Leaf raised an eyebrow. He scowled at her before taking off in the direction he was heading prior. Leaf scoffed.

"Tch, May, Drew isn't someone you should get involved with. Not only can he be a bit rude and self centered, he's bad news," She explained. May was only paying half attention. She had watched the grass-headed boy leave.

"I wonder what his story is?" May muttered.

"May! Don't tell me you're fawning over him!" Leaf exclaimed.

"WHAT NO!" May retorted. "I just wondered, what his story was?"

"Story?" Leaf asked.

"Story. As to why he acts the way he does," May verified.

"Oh, guess I never really thought about it that way," Leaf trailed off.

"Hey It's fine! Let's just get going. I'M STARVING!" May said, yawning at the end.

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May prepared for bed, taking a hot shower, brushing her teeth and hair, as well as putting on clean pajamas. Her hair was out of its bandana. Besides her dog ear fringes, her hair was mid chest length. She flopped on her bed and fell asleep.

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-•*Dream 1*•-

"Ugg! Quit falling on me all the time! Stupid airhead!" A green haired boy, who was vaguely familiar spat.

"It's not my fault every time you come near me it makes my foot throb in pain!" The dream May raged. The look on his scowling face changed, it's softened for a moment before turning hardened again.

"What?" He asked, his rude tone dropped.

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May was sitting next to Leaf on a beach chair. She was trying to hide her foot but Leaf noticed.

"Hey? What's that mark on your foot?" Leaf asked. May grew red and hid her foot from Leaf's view. Leaf's face turned smug.

"You have a tattoo your hiding?" Leaf asked.

"No way! I was born with it," May explained. Her attention was sucked from Leaf to a certain green haired boy.

"Woah Drew! nice mark!" Someone said.

"Why are you looking at the back of my neck! Besides you shouldn't be able to see that through my hair!" Drew snapped.

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A blue haired girl was crying in a corner, Her make up staying perfectly in place.

"I! I! I'm so sick of him making me do what I don't want to! B-But I can't do anything to stop him! I'm t-too w-weak!" She exclaimed, her plastic persona wearing off, to show a hurting girl, a real person. She didn't say anymore and continued crying.

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May shot up, panting, just then, her alarm went off. She sighed, turned off her alarm, and got up. There was no way she could snooze a bit after all those weird things she saw in her dreams. They seemed so, real! She started to put on her outfit, and let out her team.

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Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed the first chapter! I really hope this book ends up as good as I want it to! Stay tuned for the next chapter! I will be uploading a new Soaking in Summer chapter next, I'll go back and forth. Also, if you want to see more one-shots, just let me know. They don't take a lot of time if you have a good idea. Anyway! Thanks for reading! -Krissy

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