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**The Beginning of Something Special!** (旅が新たに始まります！！何か特別なもの！, *A Journey Begins Anew!! Something Special!*?) is the first episode of Season 1 and the 1st episode of the *Guardians of Harmony* series overall.

## Summary

*Victoria Daisy and Arcturus Porter are getting their first Pokémon today! They meet a phoenix girl named Kiara Takanashi, and while the three of them become good friends, a Cyndaquil refuses to do the same with a Rowlet and Oshawott...*

## Plot

The episode starts with the voice of Kiara Takanashi telling how the world was created. After the backstory is finished, the very first song of the series, Mirai E, plays, and the episode truly begins after the opening ends.

Victoria Daisy wakes up feeling fresh. She starts commenting on how lovely it is to start her Trainer journey, but is stopped abpurtly when she accidentally bumps to Arcturus. He happily tells her that they're going to get their first Pokémon, leaving Victoria all bubbly and cheerful.

While on the way to the lab, the duo encounters a young girl with orange hair (who is clearly Kiara). She appears to be quite excited like they are, and rushes them to the lab (much to Victoria's embarrasment). Once they get there, they learn that the Professor had to do some field work, but find three Pokémon waiting for them anyways. Victoria happily pets the Rowlet while Arcturus smiles at the Oshawott (naming him Samu). The Cyndaquil, however, just frowns at Kiara, flat-out refusing to go with anyone and comically charring everyone's face. Victoria nearly loses her temper, but the Rowlet stops her, and because of her quils, the Trainer decides to give the Pokémon the nickname Quilina. While leaving, the trio bumps into a group of people who call themselves the Galaxy Team. Arcturus at first thinks the man (who introduces himself as Kamado) is the leader of a villainous team, but he assures them they're not and says his team is just here to study the Pokémon. Arcturus calms down and Kamado asks if he could get a survey from them, but they decline and continue to go on their way.

Meanwhile, a white cat-like creature is discreetly following the trio from behind the bushes as they leave the lab, hoping to find some Chosen Ones since not just anyone can become a Guardian of Harmony. She sees Victoria and senses the Element of Magic on her, the Element of Loyalty on Arcturus and the Element of Honesty on Kiara. While leaving the lab, Victoria notices the creature lying on the ground but brushes her off as some sort of odd doll somebody dropped. Kiara finds the "doll" cute and runs over to pet it, only to find out she's actually alive when she speaks. Victoria shrieks and thinks she's seeing things but the creature tries to calm her and assure her she won't harm her, only for the creature to get whacked on the head by Samu's Scalchop. The creature introduces herself as Kyubey and says she's looking for Chosen Ones, confusing the trio and their Pokémon. Kiara then dismisses these "Chosen Ones" as some sort of bad joke. When she explains that she's looking for Guardians of Harmony, the whole trio just laughs and walks off in different directions, dismissing her as joking...and leaving Victoria dismayed at a possible betrayal. Kamado and his team, meanwhile, are intrigued and are writing this down from behind a tree for their research.

Suddenly, Victoria's Power Necklace glows dark purple, indicating that if she doesn't stop, she'll turn into a witch. However, once she recalls the day she met Arcturus, the glow stops. Knowing better than to fall into despair, she quickly decides to find Arcturus, and then the Pokémon, and finally Kiara.

A few minutes later, Arcturus and Victoria find each other and their Pokémon in a forest near the lab. The fine girl starts crying and leans into the gentleman, surprising him. Victoria says that she really can't lose her most trusted friends, and apologizes. Arcturus forgives her and the two hug for a moment, parting once they hear a scream coming from Kiara. When they arrive...it turns out that a flock of Starly are attacking her, Cindy and even Kyubey! Furious, Quilina and Samu suddenly attack the Starly by themselves.

On the other hand, Arcturus shows Victoria a sword he found after nearly getting lost. Stunned, Victoria just says "Ugh, baka to you!", leaving everyone annoyed. Cindy, realizing she was missing friends, decides to give the final blow for the greater good, and sends the flock of Starly away. Due to all of their energy being used, however, everyone blacks out.

The next day, Victoria finds herself back at the orphanage. Quilina was sleeping in the same room, and Kyubey is actually wide awake. The Trainer says she's gonna get breakfast, but Kyubey stops her by calling her name. She says that she is a Guardian and asks if she and her friends could make a contract. The episode ends before a reply can be given out.

## Major Events

* This episode marks the beginning of Guardians of Harmony.
* Victoria and Arcturus meet Kiara and get their first Pokémon.
* The trio of Trainers meet the Galaxy Team for the first time.
* The Trainers and their Pokémon become best friends.
* Victoria learns from Kyubey that she is one of the first Guardians of Harmony.

## Characters

### Civilians

* Victoria Daisy
* Arcturus Porter I
* Kiara Takanashi
* Twilight Twinkle (cameo)

### Pokémon

* Rowlet (Victoria's; Quilina)
* Cyndaquil (Kiara's; Cindy)
* Oshawott (Arcturus's; Samu)

### Secondary Characters

* Kamado
* Cyllene
* Professor Laventon

## Trivia

* The **Harmony Color** announced before the opening (since the ending is not played in this episode) is **Daisy Purple**.
* Victoria and Arcturus have their first shipping hint in this episode (in this case, a hug).
* After this episode, each one will begin with a cold opening. This one instead starts the series off with a reanimated and retold prelude originally made for HololiveEN by Kiara.
	+ A similar case would occur just two episodes later.
* In the made-up prototype version, Victoria instead sings a Unovian cover of "Morning in Ponyville." This has since been scrapped from the finalized version.
* Made-up fans were initially left panicking when they saw Kyubey in the (currently made-up) preview, but calmed down after being informed that she is not the deceptive, evil genie who steals souls like her origin anime. She is also drawn with a bit larger eyes in the finalized version and speaks normally.
* Despite the era the episode takes place in, Victoria's bed is bright purple even though in real life, it would be extremely unrealistic for an ordinary person at the time to be able to afford purple cloth, let alone enough for a bed. It could, however, have been dyed/made by somecreature with color-based powers.
* Although it is unknown why Victoria's Power Necklace glowed dark purple in this episode, it *does* lampshade the truth about her and Arcturus in a future episode.

### Errors

(Please wait until animation is revealed!)

### Easter Eggs

* At the end, Kyubey says "Would you and your friends like to make a contract?", annoying Victoria slightly since it is a reference to *Pullea Magi Madoka Magica*. The episode ends before her answer could be revealed, however.
* Kyubey lying on the ground motionless like a stuffed toy resembles Pollun from *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart* when he pretends to be a stuffed toy.
* Twilight Twinkle makes a speaking cameo at the end of the prelude.
* The end card is similar to the one from the first episode of *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*.
* The very first shot of the series after the curtains rise is a title card that reads (in Archaic runes) "Prolog im Himmel". This is the title of the Prologue of Goethe's *Faust*, in which Mephistopheles and God make a wager over the soul of Faust. The runes underneath the title read "1 A.D".

## Videos

Prelude｜-holoENPreludeThe original version of the prelude