[Pokémon] An Evolution of Pokémon(Rated PG-13+)

30 years from now, when mankind finds the key, to unlocking the powers of terrifying monsters, will mankind, erase its imprint on the Pokémon world. This isn't a story of the extinction of mankind, but rather, the evolution, of Pokémon. It began on a cold night in the lab of Proffesor Sycamore, he had the company of Proffesor Birch. They were discussing a new phenomena, which occured within Kyorge and Groudon. As it had seemed, a new form of Mega Evolution, occured within the two legendary Pokemon, and that this would forever change the Pokemon world. With the help of Proffesor Birch and Brendan, the beasts were subdued, and Sycamore finally had what he needed to expand his research. So Kyorge and Groudon were tested upon, every experiment known to man, were issued. Sooner or later, Sycamore realized how Kyorge and Groudon reacted to the Blue Orb and Red Orb, and thus the research team, did something terrible, something that must never happen to any legendary Pokemon, if they hope to contain its power, and contain their safety, they unlocked the power of the orbs using the mega ring, and thus it began.......

The full power of Kyogre and Groudon were finally realized, and their terror upon the Pokemon world began. Their destruction began at Lumiose City, killing Sycamore and so many others. The grand city of Kalos, fell with Prism Tower collasping, this shook the very foundation of the Pokemon world. Word spread like wildfire, reaching millions of homes. After witnessing the full extent of their power, many hid indoors. But others, planned to contain this power, with everything failing, in front, of their faces. Thus anyone who made efforts to capture Kyogre and Groudon failed, and died. Everyone had to collaborate, good or bad, a new issue was ruled. The only hope left, was to fight "fire with fire". "Containing a legendary of equal strength, to battle, as our last hope, for living, it is our cause; as a species, we will not fall". This was believed by many, so starting with the Rainbow Wing, legendary artifacts, were collected, one after the other. In hopes that a combined effort of many legendary Pokémon would stop Kyorge and Groudon's rampage. A glimmar of hope was realized; all the artifacts were collected......but then, it all happened........

Everything failed. All the legendaries were awoken, yes, but it didn't play out how you would think it did, this tale doesn't end happy. Every last legendary Pokémon, targeted and murdered, millions, upon millions, upon millions, of humans. Soon, there was nothing left, only Pokémon......

These Pokémon were rampaging still. Only by a group of three Pokémon, stopped everything. All the fighting, all the damaging, everything, stopped. The legend was inscribed, as the Kalos Trio who stopped it all. Xerneas, Yveital, and Zygarde, the all-powerful three. The legendary Pokémon, were put into a deep slumber, only to awaken by the Ancient Artifacts, these were to be guarded by centuries and centuries.

Days went by. It turned into weeks; months.......years. The idea of Pokémon trainers diminshed, and under everything, humans were forgotten. Pokémon developed speech, they developed cultures, and unions. A new way of living. There isn't multiple regions, but a single entity known as Poldra. The Kalos Trio, leads this land. There is an army, citizens, everything. To protect the Ancient Artifacts, a new issue was ordered. An issue known as "The Elite Task Force Initiative", stationed a group of three soliders, near the Ancient Artifacts. This group of three was known by the humans, as The Starters. The world has changed. This isn't a story about the extinction of Pokémon, but its evolution.

Chapter 1: The Timid, The Bold, and the Naughty(Part 1)(Quilava)
"HEY, QUILAVA", a voice screeched. It was too early in the morning, to get my ass up out of bed, and do something productive. Soo........I went back to sleep.

"ARE YOU GONNA WAKE UP OR NOT?" That voice was getting quite annoying, and the worse part, I knew who it belonged to. Unfortunately, it was Sneasel who came to wake me up. Dammit. Now I have to get up.

"DON'T MAKE ME COME UP THERE, QUILAVA, YOU KNOW I WILL!" Sneasel was only getting louder and louder and louder! But I'm way too comfortable to get up. School sucks, you know. Thankfully, the voices were getting quiter. Maybe Sneasel decided to stop, it'll be a first. I began hearing footsteps.

It probably was nothing. Maybe a newborn Ratatta upstairs, it happens often.

The steps have gotten louder.

Maybe a Raticate.....I can't tell the difference.

The steps got even louder.

But I love my bed...........dammit.

The steps stopped....

Thank Arceus, it stopped. Now I can get back to sl....

My thoughts were interrupted as a sharp pain ran through my stomach. The pain was unbearable, I felt that I needed to throw chunks all over myself. I fell out of my bed, and my body struck the floor, and I sprung awoke. In all my blurry vision, Sneasel was standing over me, she'd had punched my in my gut. Sometimes, I want to kill her.

"Quilava, oh how, you never change......." Sneasel said, as she snarkly hovered over my limp body.

"You couldn't have dragged me, out of bed? You just had to punch me?" I asked, but through my voice, you can tell that I was in considerable pain.

"Stop acting like your limp, we'll be late to class. If your really feelin' raw bout it, just get some medical attention.

"Since when are you up and raring to go to school, what's the occasion"

"Nothing, just really, REALLY hungry......" Sneasel stared at me and rolled her eyes.
"Fine you little baby" Sneasel reached out her arms towards me, I grabbed her hand, and to be honest, her sharp claws, only made my pain worse. Sneasel pulled me back on my feet.

"Ready to head out?" Sneasel asked me.
"Yep"

We advanced out the door of my home, and walked towards the school. The school wasn't to big. It was near a cafe, and that cafe had a sign that read the word "Gym" on it, the hell that means. It was also inbetween a lake, and near that lake, read the sign "Striation City", the other words are hard to make out, probably because its half destroyed. We entered the school, and found our usual suspects.

There were three, wannabe thugs, standing against the wall. The one on the right was Deino, he's usually the follower, he takes orders, copies people. You know.....the snarky bastard you'd punch in the face, given the chance. The one on the left was Axew. He's just there, he sometimes help, he is a free-spirit, but will do anything for the big-baddie. That big-baddie was hanging in the middle, and his name is Druddigon. He's just the head bully, picks on little guys, takes their lunch, snarky one-liners, in a phrase, Scum-Of-The-World. He's not even scary, barely messes with myself and Sneasel. So I don't care, I should, but I'd rather not.

The head proffesor, Slowking, was calling for all of us to sit down. Time for schooling......great.

"Hey guys, whatsup" Slowking greeted with a smile. This was especially odd, considering, he's usually tired as hell, and this was dawning on me, and I know I wasn't the only one to notice. Sneasel tapped on my shoulder.

"Quilava, did you notice something, a little, I don't know, really odd about the Proffesor?" Sneasel whispered.

"Yeah, it's really odd, he's never like this, maybe he finally got a girlfriend" , I joked.

"Oh my god. Of course...what else, maybe he got hitched to that weird looking rock on his desk" Sneasel responded.

It donged on me.......Slowking never had that rock before. That's probably it. He has a thing for rocks. Hey, everyone needs a hobbie. Sneasel has a thing for her riducoulsy long claws.

"QUILAVA" Slowking yelled. "CAN EITHER OF YOU, TELL ME, WHO WERE THE TWO POKÉMON WHO BEGAN THE WAR"
"Ummm.........welllllll........you see.....it was obviously" I was jumbling through my thoughts. "Can I have a hint, please?"

"Okay, here's your hint, this war, ended all human existence"

Of course, THAT WAR.......I was completely stumped.

"I give"

"It was Kyogre and Groudon. Quilava speak with me after class"

"Sure thing"

Slowking, pisses me off sometimes. He intentionally singles me out, in front of, EVERYONE. And now I'm missing lunch for this. You how someone could get if they're hungry, right? Yeah, it sucks. No one wants to be hungry. Well, one infinity later, after listening to the same crap, over and over again. Its time to get the talk. Sneasel began walking past me....

"If your feeling raw about me hitting you, in your sleep, just wait till Mr. ShinyRocks get through with you" Sneasel whispered in my ear. "Don't be too late for lunch, k'?" Sneasel rubbed her paw on my shoulder, and drifted off. Sometimes, I don't get her, but she's my best friend.

"Quilava, can you come to my desk please, you know how slow I am" The proffesor requested.

"Whatever you say"

I walked up to his desk.

"I am getting worried about you, Quilava. Sooner or later, you won't be a Quilava. You'll be a Typhlosion. You'll have to grow up. And you know what they say, those who forget their history, are..."

"Doomed to repeat it, yes, Proffesor, I know the standard crap, you always tell us"

"DON'T YOU USE THAT TONE OF VOICE WITH ME"

"I know, I know. But someone of your intellect, shouldn't need to stay the same thing, over and over again." I was flattering him. It's what usually happens. I flatter, he would forget everything about what happened, for a smart guy, he's a little slow.

"Oh, you think I'm smart, gee thanks." That weird looking rock, is catching my eye.

"What's that weird looking rock on your desk" I was only curious, it can't be too noteworthy. Slowking formulated this weird, creepy smile.
"If you are to know, some salvaged research, tells me, this is in fact a Mega Stone"

"A mega what?" I was flustered. "Looks like a regular old rock to me"

"Legends say that there are many different kinds of these rocks....i mean....stones. And when it reacts to a certain Pokémon, it gives them considerable strength. I always had a theory that maybe the Blue and Red orbs, that awakened Kyorge and Groudon were mega stones. I mean look at all the signs, new loook, powered up, THEY took out an ENTIRE SPECIES....and....."

"Slow down Proffesor." I needed to stop him, his ramblings, would make me more late than I already am. Besides, he's going about stones that give us magical powers, hah, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

"Sorry, go ahead and get to lunch, don't want you to starve"

"Okay see ya, have fun with your rocks" I yelled walking off.

"I intend to do just that" Slowking responded.

The only thing I am wondering, is what is Sneasel doing. She's probably doing her claws or something. Typicall Sneasel.
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Chapter 1: The Timid, The Bold, and The Naughty(Part 2)(Sneasel)

Walking to lunch, never felt so lonely. Well, its not my fault, Quilava got himself dumped in class for an extra few minutes. Well, I'm not going back for him. I'm starving, like a sick Rattata. I hear screams, in the corner. This must be Druddigon, bullying some poor, poor sap. Looking over my shoulder, I see my suspicions were correct, except, this isn't the usual suspects getting the sour treatment....

This kid was new.

A short, skinny kid. He had large, blue floppy ears. In fact, his whole body was really blue. He is DEFINETLY new. That wasn't fair, not all.

"Why are you messing with me, I didn't do anything to you" The mystery kid asked with sorrow. Druddigon knocked him back, only for his possue, to catch him. These are the types of things I hated in a person. It was making me angry just thinking about how they think. But what the hell do I do? Like I wanna help, but I couldn't do anything, probably only get beat up.

The mystery kid dropped to the floor. That was it. I ran towards his side. Druddigon looked at me, with that smirky ass, creeper smirk. Makes me wanna kill him.

"Hey, Sneasel. Didn't see you here. Rethinking that you should hang with us, rather than that loser?" Druddigon said.

"Fat chance" Druddigon always wanted me, but bullies aren't my type. "What's up with you pickin on little guys?"

"What? This kid won't do squat jack to me!" Druddigon, then crossed the line. He got in the kid's face. As far as low moves go, this was the worst.

"DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO ME" Druddigon yelled in his ear. At this point, the kid was sobbing.

"Stupid ass kid"

By this time, my head was hot, and it happened. My fist balled up, and icy wind, flowed through my fist. I lunged my fist straight through Druddigon's rough skin, and just like that........he fell............oh how that guy fell. His possue got wide-eyed. Seeing their boss's ass get handed to them wasn't on their agenda for the day. Axew dragged his fainted body away...

"DON'T YOU THINK, I'LL FORGET THIS YOU ASS" Axew sweared.
"YEAH WE WON'T FORGET THIS" Deino followed.

The three wondered away, I looked at the sobbing kid.

"Need help?" I asked

"Please"

I helped him back on his feet. I feel bad for the kid. New, and already was he beaten.

"So whats your name new kid?"

"M-m-m my naaaam-me is Riolu"

"Nice name, we should go to lunch, do have anyone your meeting up there?" I asked. It seemed as Riolu didn't have many friends.

"It was those guys, but they beat me to a pulp" This boggled my mind. How could someone so nice, hang with such jerks.

"But...but....you are so nice"

"But I didn't know that, once I asked them to stop bullying another kid, they stopped bullying him, and started on me."

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, you can always hang with us" It was a nice gesture, considering he had no friends, being in his shoes. I wouldn't want anything different.

"Who's us?" Riolu asked, flustered. I guess it's important to mention Quilava.

"Well, now I'm waiting on a friend of mine, he should be here any minute" I just wasted so much of my time on waiting for that slowpoke, Quilava.

"Is he nice?" Riolu asked.

"A little bit of a sourpuss, plus he has a bad temper, but a nice guy, he will like you, speaking of which......" Quilava caught up with us mid-sentence.

"Whatsup Sneasel, who's he"

Well its time to introduce some people.

"Well...Quilava, this is Riolu. Riolu....Quilava"

Quilava, responded in an oddly generous manner.

"Nice to meet you" Quilava greeted, as he corressed Riolu's hair.

"What are we doing standing here, now that we got to know each other, lets go EAT, IM STARVING" I said. You never know who you might run into. Its always a nice experience to see someone. Little did I know, that us three, will bloom into a beautiful relationship. But for right now, the only thing on my mind is food. And well, its time to go get some,

New friends, new enemies, how fitting, for one day of school.

Chapter 2: Dreamyards and Drafting(Riolu)(Part 1)

Weird, how someone, could be so nice to you, despite even knowimg them first. These guys barely knew me, who I was, why I'm here, what's my agenda, nothing, yet this is the most warm welocme I was given in years, it was nice. When I looked at my surroundings, I could tell that whoever Quilava and Sneasel were, they didn't have much friends. To put it blunt, they didn't have anyone but each other. That struck me odd, Pokémon of their kind don't usually hang out. I mean Quilava is as hot as a volcano, in a sense of tempature, of course. And Sneasel, felt as cold as ice, something was wrong here. Maybe something happened, when they were younger....

Yeah that's it.....

No way they would just take a liking to another....

But who am I to judge, they found me beaten and bruised, it isn't my position to talk....

The bewildered look on my face, processing this, got the attention of the two. But I was so deep in thought.

"RIOLU", Sneasel screeched. I snapped out of my thoughts immediately. My attention was on the others. Great....they already think I'm odd.

"We asked you a question, Riolu.....did you hear me?"

"In all honesty, no" I added. Its not like I didn't want to, but I zone out from time to time. It's a horrible habit of mine.

"Okay, I'll ask again" Sneasel said, she seemed a little annoyed at me.....wouldn't be a first. "Where are you from?" That question struck me, VERY confused. Aren't we all from Poldra.

"What she meant, Riolu, is what area from Poldra are you from?" Quilava explained.
"Look, there's six different areas of Poldra, you could come from: Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos. Its simple stuff, you should know this"

I felt so stupid, when brought up by Quilava. I almost sound like I was weak, lonely, AND stupid. But now I know, from a small explanation, what they meant. Of course I knew where I'm from; Sinnoh.

"Look, Sneasel and I are from Johto" Quilava explained. "But everyone's gotta migrate, so here we are in Unova, we lived here ever since. Sooooo.....where are you from?"

"Sinnoh" I responded.

"I ALWAYS WANTED TO GO TO SINNOH", Sneasel expressed excitedly. She started rambling on and on about what she wanted to do there. Sneasel is such an energetic person. She asked me questions, about what were the people like there, in which, I would respond "I don't know". And then asked me about Eterna Forest, in which I would respond "Never been there". Each and every question I responded to, I couldn't give a clear answer.

"SO HOW ARE YOU FROM SINNOH, BUT HAVEN'T BEEN TO ALL IT HAS?!", Sneasel angrily expressed.

"Well, I never said, I lived there for long, just was from there", I said.

"Oh, what happened?" Sneasel asked. I don't get what it is that brings people down when I say that. Is it really that depressing...?

"It must have been when I was younger. All I know, is that I'm never in the same place for long" I answered.

"Well, that's depressing." Sneasel looked down at my plate of untouched berries and leftovers. She extended her claws, and stared at me.

"Are you gonna eat that?" Sneasel requested.

"Actually......" I tried to form my words, but as I did, Sneasel stabbed my berries and put them in her mouth. Looking to the left of the table, there wss a disgusted look on Quilava's face. It was actually pretty funny.

"What?" Sneasel asked as she had a mouth full of berries, and she could barely articulate her words, it sounded like a gargled mess.

"I don't understand, how you guys like berries?" Quilava detested. "Especially, sitrus berries."

Quilava and myself couldn't formulate, what Sneasel was saying, her mouth was stuffed, and she was moving around, like a deranged vigoroth. Quilava looked at me and I looked at me, and we couldn't help but laugh. Sneasel was very embarrassed, but it didn't matter. It was one of the few times I laughed, and it felt good. Sneasel swallowed her berries, and began to speak.

"Hey guys, how 'bout we go to the Dreamyard after we're finished here"

Quilava spoke up, but not to answer, but to speak to me. "What about it Riolu? The Dreamyard is a relaxing place, actually the only relaxing place here. We can hang there, for the rest of the day."

I smiled. This seemed too good to be true, people who I could actually be around. So why not? I accepted.

"Great, its settled then, lets g-"

Sneasel's words were interrupted as the Café doors swung open. Three Pokémon entered; One was a green-like serpent, another one was a large-burly beast, with flames, fuming from its neck, the last one was a tall, intimidating, blue creature, with shell armor, plated throughout their body. These guys looked powerful, the type of guys, no one would mess with, if they knew what was good for them. The Café silenced, as the three began to speak.

"Hello, students of Stration City." The green serpent spoke up.

"As you may know, Poldra is ran by the highly prestine group, known as the Kalos Trio. This trio, saved all of us from extinction. They are the reason we are here today. And as some of you also know, Poldra has an army, this army, is amongst our elite, those who will serve and die to protect Poldra. To do so, we protect all of our past history, so that no one may obtain it. We are here to call others to join in our ranks, as members that will make our society a better place...."

Quilava spoke up.

"That's great and all, but who the hell are you guys?!

The green serpent, chuckled for a bit, and then spoke.

"Oh, where are my manners? Introductions are in order aren't they? Well, if you are to know, the big flaming pig, over to my left, is Emboar. The blue knight in shining armor to my right is Samurott, and I am Serperior. And us three.....we make up some of Poldra's strongest. And it is our duty to directly protect the area of Unova. We are Poldra's finest: The Elite Task Force Regiment Five!"
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Chapter 2: Dreamyards and Drafting(Serperior)(Part 2)

Another year, another useless, attempt to try and draft. Why the hell, Xerneas, wanted me to do this, I don't know. It seems every year, students get a little bit more snotty. I mean I was going to introduce myself, if that brat, gave me the time. Stupid kid. But I guess its something to live with. I have bigger fish to fry, than students, who don't want to join the army. I have the Haunting Force to deal with, artifacts to protect, and other Elite Regiments, I have to rally with, no use staying here. Better get this over with while I still can....

"So anyone who would like to join, please step up and make yourself known. There is nothing to be ashamed about joining our world's finest." I announced.

And like I expected no one budged an inch.

"Hey, Serperior" Emboar whispered in my ear.

"What is it Emboar?" Emboar then told something that I should've pointed out.

"That kid, that called you out, doesn't he look familar?" Emboar was refrencing that kid who called me out to introduce myself. As far as I could tell, he didn't look familar, but he had a familar feel. I feel I should know this. Maybe I could go over paperwork and try to find some files, that resemble him.

"I'm not too worried about it, right now, Emboar, I don't see anything, in him, maybe its your imagination" I said.

"Probably. Maybe it is." Emboar responded.

"Well, lets head out guys" I said, but at that moment, another guy walked him, he had deep blue, rough skin, and his stomach seemed to be in deep pain. As a matter of fact, it was almost completely frozen. Looks like he got the wind knocked out of him. For a punch like that, someone should've had a good amount of strength. This guy could've died. Who did this?

"Hey, kid." I called to him, he walked up.

"Can you point me to, who punched you?"

The kid, was pretty banged up, he scouted around the room, and pointed to a kid sitting next to the same kid who called me out. Everything seemed to match up, so I called Emboar to my side.

"Yes, Serperior" I pointed to the accused, who nearly killed this guy.

"Teach her, a leasson or two, about murder"

"Yes, Ma'am"

Emboar walked over to her, and grabbed her by her throat. As he did so, he pulled the girl in the air, completely helpless. The injured kid smiled a bit.

"SO, I HEARD YOU LIKE PUNCHING PEOPLE, HUH" Emboar squeezed his grip.

"HEY! GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF HER" The brat yelled at Emboar. Emboar wasn't even fazed by this kid's advances, to try and harm him.

"YOU KNOW YOU COULD'VE KILLED HIM, SOLIDER!" Emboar yelled as he squeezed his grip, more. "WHAT'S YOUR NAME!"

The person in question, teared up, as she tried to say her name.

"S...s..snnn....snnee"

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU" Emboar squeezed his grip more. "WHAT'S YOUR DAMN NAME?!"

"SNEASEL, SIR, MY NAME IS SNEASEL!"

"GOOD, now I want you answer me this...DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA, ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OD YOUR ACTIONS, YOU COULD'VE MURDERED HIM"

"YES I DID KNOW" Sneasel yelled, in agony.

"SORRY, SNEASEL, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE YOU DON'T" Emboar corrected, as he squezzed even further, he could kill her at this point. "HOW DOES THIS FEEL, BEING COMPLETELY HELPLESS TO SOMEONE ELSE, I OUGHTA KILL YOU"

Sneasel began to cry.....she couldn't breathe, and she was helpless to Emboar's strong grip.

"PLEASE DON'T" Sneasel yelled.

"Emboar, that's enough" Samurott ordered. "Let her go, she learned her lesson"

Sometimes, you gotta love the silent types, only speak when neccessary, my favorite type of person. Emboar, at this point, let Sneasel go. As he did, her two other friends tried to comfort her. I almost feel bad for the kid. But again, can't be wasting more time than we did already. Samurott began to speak up once more.

"Anyone who changes their mind, about our program, can find us in Kalos. If you want to join, you'll have to walk, or wait next year"

And with that, I'm guessing, we're done here. Let's not waste anymore time. Had enough for one day.
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Chapter 3: Rendezvous Point(Samurott)

This was all wasting my time, dealing with some stubborn kids, while we had a mission to do. Not my idea of "fun". Our mission was tasked as so:

Meet up with Swoobat and Lilligant in Wellspring Cave, to obtain knowledge on the Haunting Force's whereabouts. Then report it back to Zygarde. But we were already also assigned the pleasure of having to recruit new members. None of it made any sense. We didn't do anything other than nearly kill a kid, that's all.

Our little stop made us waste time, especially on something this important. If anyone got to Swoobat and Lilligant before us, who knows what would've. Wellspring Cave wasn't far off. Just past the Daycare Center.

Or should I say ex-Daycare Center. After that we'd get there.

"Hey, Samurott" Serperior called to me.

"Yeah"

"Remind me where the Rendezvous point was again?" This was flabbergasting. She is supposed to be our quote-on-quote "leader" but she can't remember part of her damn mission. She stared at me intently. I refuse to tell her, especially since we were so close. Maybe she's making fun of my intelligence. But not telling her, won't win me any medals,

"Wellspring Cave" I answered.

"Where's that at?" I was left absouletly lost for words, she didn't even know we are literally 20 feet from it.

"HOW COULD YOU FORGET WHERE IT IS?!" Emboar outbursted. "Now, we're lost, what's the bigwigs gonna think? This is horrible, I'm STARVING, and I'm not gonna eat some damn BERRIES. You better find a way to fix this Serperior....You got us in this, now your gonna get us out, and I'm not planning on going back to those fuc-"

"We're here." I interrupted Emboar as we approached the cave. Emboar clinched his stomach.

"Butterflies in your stomach, Emboar?" Serperior asked, as she observed Emboar.

"No, just starving! Forget what I said eariler, you guys had to have nabbed SOMETHING from that Café"

"Nope" Serperior responded.

"I hate you guys."

"We love you too, Emboar. Lets go in"

Wellspring Cave, was a small cave. It had one ledge, and one pond at the very end of it. Stepping in, gives you a nice breeze from the pond and the temperatures are significally cooler. One entry, one exit..it wasn't the most ideal point to meet up, but it wasn't too suspicious. But man, was I wrong.

When we stepped inside Wellspring Cave, and the picture was horrifying. Emboar nearly gagged at the sight of the cave, especially, with his already weak stomach. When we stepped in, Swoobat and Lilligant were there, yes....

But Swoobat was pinned against the wall, with stone piercing his skin, the middle of the stones, we're dropping in fresh, red blood, while the ends, were topped with red-brown blood, a symbol that Swoobat was long gone. Swoobat's heart stamp on its chest, was slashed, and dripped pints of blood. Hos wings were ripped off his body and enveloped around his neck. While the other wing were impaling his body.

Lilligant, was lying on the ground, her head was decapitated, but there was no sign of her head. The lower half of her body was burned, but alot of the leaves were ripped of her body, and spread around the cave floor, covered in blood, dirt, and mist. Lilligant once always had a nice aroma about her.,but her aroma now was sour and distgusting.

Across the cave was a pond, there was a little bit of blood, and part of a limb, but it was circular, so it didn't belong to either. So whatever happened, Swoobat and Lilligant put up a good fight. But it wasn't enough, may they Rest In Peace.

"Holy ♥♥♥♥...."Serperior said."Well there goes our mission...we failed"

"Who do you think would've been so cruel, as to kill them in this manner?" Emboar asked.

"Obviously, it was the Haunting Force, these guys have zero remorse." I stated.

"Well, let's pick up these bodies and bury them." Serperior ordered. As she was picking up Lilligant's body, a shrooded figure appeared behind her.

"SERPERIOR, BEHIND YOU" I yelled. For a second, she looked confused. I drew a large beam of water to the figure, the figure was pushed against the wall. The figure stared at us three, and grinned. Sableye.....

Sableye disappered like a flash of light, and reappeared behind me, it launched itself like a torpedo, hitting me in my gut and sent me crashing into the other side of Wellspring Cave. As I tried to get back on my feet, Serperior was using her quick agility to catch up with Sableye. They were jumping all over the cave, but Sableye was cornered. As Emboar and Serperior tried to make their move, Sableye disappered, leaving nothing but a Substitute. Sableye was continually getting weaker, as evasion was draining its energy. As Serperior and Emboar were chasing the little demon, I got back on my feet and took aim at it. I lauched a Hydro Blast to Sableye, and hit its left side, toppling it on the floor.

"I got him, he's mine!" Emboar said as he rushed towards Sableye. His fist was enveloping itself in a sprew of electricity.

"You little devil, time to die.....Thhhunder Pu-" Emboar yelled. But as he almsot landed the killing blow, another figure appeared in front of im, grabbing his fist and tossing Emboar aside, sending him next to Swoobat's corpse. The figure turned out to be Seismitoad. He was missing one of its bulges, the round things ridden throughout its body. Serperior noticed it too. So these guys killed Swoobat and Lilligant.

"So you must be the two, who killed Swoobat and Lilligant" Serperior said. Sableye spoke back in a sarcastic and senister tone.

"Nice solve, Proffesor. Who tipped you, dumbass?" Sableye said. "For a group called Elite, I'd thought you'd put up a decent fight, to say, I'm.....disappointed."

"Why, did you do it?" I asked. "Especially, like this"

"Simple really." Sableye answered. "I simply wanted fun, with your spys, I mean, we didn't know for sure how much information they got. But we were sure for one thing"

"And that was?" Emboar asked as he got back up.

"That their deaths must be as painful and brutalnas possible, to repay them their hardwork." Sableye replied in a devilish and senister tone. "For the record, Lilligant should've never thrown leaves at poor Seisme over here, kinda ticks him off"

"Why are guys here, anyway?"

"Well to be blunt, we know you kiddies, have a lost toy of mine, so be good boys and girls and hand it back." I think I knew what they were after, the Ancient Artifacts of Unova...the Light and Dark stones.

"Are you referring to the stone artifacts" I refrenced.

"No, I can get that anyday, you see, I don't waste time like you three, I'm actually after some other stones, Mega Stones to be precise.

"Mega-what?" Emboar said in a flabbergasted and confused look

"No use wasting my breathe with you guys, I don't have much more time, so I'll be taking my leave." Sableye then focused his energy and all the scratches we dealt, and all the wounds on its body, were completely healed. Like nothing happened.

"I have somethimg to tell you guys, before I go. For one, don't bring spies, if they can't put up a decent fight. Also, next time we meet, which I'm sure will be sooner than you think, I'll have both the Gengarite and Sableyite on hand. And you three will be hopeless to me. Chao.."

Sableye, along with Seismitoad, disappered in a flash of light. Leaving us three in the middle of the cave, panting. Breathless. Bruised and scrathed. Wounded.

"Are you guys, okay?" Serperior asked.

"Yeah" Emboar and I said in unisan.

"Let's get out of here, I had enough for today" I requested. We left out the cave, and now there were a whole new set of rules. Mega-stones? The hell are those, and what do they want with them? And why were they looking for them here, of all places? One thing's for certain, I need to hope Zygarde tells us something. We walked past the Daycare, past the Café, and headed back to Kalos so that we could report. We were all exhausted from that fight, and none of is said anymore than three words to each other, the whole walk, we were completely drained, every step was a shrug off the floor. We were all thinking the same thing, like "What do we do about whatever the Haunting Force has planned?" We can really only stop and wait for the fireworks to happen, we have no lead, nothing, so when we see them, its imperative, that they are stopped.

Chapter 4: Ashes to Ashes(Riolu)(Part 2)
Man, it's been a few days, since those guys showed up. As far as I could tell, what happened that day, was kinda brushed off and forgotten. Sneasel recovered and Quilava is still headstrong, and I'm-well...I'm still timid, and I can barely approach four feet to a person before I choke up. Sneasel and Quilava accepted me, but you know what they say........"You can never go wrong, by having a lot of friends."

Druddigon bursted in the class, with his posse. He flaunted, like he was victor, in his own little battle. He felt like a badass, for having somone from the Elite Task Force, choke Sneasel.

"WHAT'S UP ♥♥♥♥♥ES?!" Druddigon outbursted as he walked through the doors. The whole class turned in his direction. "Bet'd ya, no one ain't gonna be crossing us, now." His posse giggled along with their boss's false pride.

"Aren't we, Sneasel?" Druddigon glared at Sneasel, reminding her of what happened a few days back. Slowking yelled out, interrupting their self-gloating.

"You three are late, sit down"

Druddigon smirked as Axew spoke out.

"Calm down, gramps. We're only having a little fun"

Deino followed.

"Yeah, gramps. We're only trying to have some fun"

The three sat down in their respective seats and Slowking continued his lessons on Pokémon Matching Theory.

"The Pokémon Match Theory. A theory which states that some Pokémon can't be around other Pokémon, based upon their biological makeup. For instance Grass can injure Water, Water can injure Fire, and Fire can injure Grass. Each Pokémon has an element that they can not be around, for their own safety and health."

Other than that, the leasson was rather dull, it was reiteration on material we learned before. I fell asleep more than once, and always answered questions correctly. Today, I didn't go tge Café after class, I went to the Dreamyard.

They say that during the Great Pokémon War, the only place unscaved was the Dreamyard. It comes with good reason, too. The grass is a bright green, and although the buildigs were abandoned, it added a sense of wonderment and awe, when you gazed around. There were trees and underground caves, it felt, what's the word?

Ancient.

No wonder Sneasel and Quilava made this place their home, away from home. It's beautiful and no loud noises of others, just the sound of nature. The calmy wind. The swaying of the leaves. I heard footsteps behind me. I looked behind me to find Sneasel. She waved her hand in the air.

"HEY, RIOLU" Sneasel shouted. She quicky ran up to me. When she caught up to me, she was panting and gasping. "H-h-h-h hi"

"Hey." I responded. Sneasel caught her breathe and stood up.

"See, that you finally got a chance to come to the Dreamyard.....Isn't it awesome?" Sneasel asked. I gazed around me, and reminded myself of everything, and said "Yep"

"I love it here too." Sneasel said. "No other, pesky Pokémon. No one to order you around. Nothing, but you and the environment."
"So...." I said. I couldn't make up my thoughts.

"What?"

Since she's here, I might as well ask her a question that has been bugging. Sneasel sat down and I followed.

"How are you and Quilava-"

"Become friends?" Sneasel finished.

"Umm..yeah. How did you know?" I asked in return.

"A lot of people tend to ask me that. It's not surprisng. With me being the Pokémon, I am, and Quilava being the Pokémon he is. Realistically, we are supposed to stay, FAR away from each other. But it's fine." Sneasel explained.

"So are you guys, a thing?"

"NOT IN A MILLION YEARS! He's so flippin' agitating, and headstrong. No way. But you and him are the only ones, who doesn't drive me insane, so we get along" Sneasel stood back up and looked behind her. "Speaking of which, where is he?"

I looked behind me and all-around. No sign of him.

"I-I...don't know."

"I'm going back to find him. Are you coming?" Sneasel turned towards me and gazed. I stood up and we exited the Dreamyard. We went back towards the class and found Quilava standing outside. Quilava started to walk in our direction.

"Sorry" Quilava said. "Got held up by Slowking, again. So let's go."

All three of us, made our way to the Café, ate as usual and left. We traveled the majority of the city; Sneasel and Quilava gave me the Grand tour of everything, from the pond to Wellspring Cave. Of course, the majority of the Straition City was familar to me. But a tour always felt nice. These guys seemed to grow on me. I like them.

When the tour was finished, it was late at night. Quilava and I made an arrangment to sleep in the same room together. Sneasel said ir'll be fun, except for the fact that he snores so loudly. We stood outside the large buildings, we'll be sleeping in.

Quilava streched out his arms and yawned.

"Man, I'm beat" Quilava tiredly said. "Well, time to hit the hay, I'll see you tommorow Sneasel"

"See ya Quilava, don't have to much fun, Riolu; Quilava is a very, heavy sleeper"

We parted ways, and went up the building and into our room. Once we entered, Quilava immediatley layed down, with his entire body spread outward. I was going to say something, but he was out before I knew it.

"Good night, Quilava" I mumbled under my breathe. I layed down and closed my eyes, ready for a new day tommorow. You never know, what might happen...

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Chapter 4 : Ashes to Ashes(Quilava)(Part 2)

The field below me is a vast, green and empty. Odd. Taking two steps forward, look around, continue. Take two steps forward, look around, continue. I continued this motion until a forest appeared in front of me, out of nowhere. The hell? The entry to the forest was laid out, in front of me. I hesistated to take a step into it. I leaped in there: eyes closed, preparing for the worse to happen. I enter the forest.

And Immediately Fall.

The fall lasted so long, I wondered when I'll ever reach the ground. I was falling through a large ravine. Therefore, it was dark and unpleasant. Cold and damp. How could this get any worse? I landed flat on my stomach, sharp pain making its course through my veins. The inside of my stomach was eating itself out. The pain of standing, was gradually increasing.

I barely stood up, and looked around my surroundings. I was standing the same vast, green and empty field. When I took a few steps forward...the same forest. With the same entry point. Again, when I stepped in, I fell to the ravine below me, before landing back where I started. What is going on?

I repeated the same methods, in hope, something will eventually change. No use. Same results, every-single-time. It was endless loop. Each time, the pain from falling became more painful and stepping forward became even more nerve-wrecking. So what am I going to do?

When landing on my stomach, for the unbillionth time, I looked behind me. Brown, autumn-like leaves, covered the grassy-like plains, I was familarizing with. I stepped one foot into the leaves, the leaves crumbled and burned completely. The once, brown leaves now lay a black and burned pile of Ash.

But I continued. The events that played out, were similar. A forest appeared before me, again, completely out of nowhere. I hesistantly extended my foot into the forest and took a step in.

I fell. Again.

I prepared myself for the pain that awaits, the bottom. But to my surprise, I landed on the ground; unscaved and fine. I looked around and found a mysterious figure stand before me. The figure was green and fairy-like, and had wings. When I approached it, it turned towards me, and spoke.

"Quilava..." The figure said.

"QUILAVA!!" The figure raised its voice.

"WAKE UP!!!" The figure said in the loudest tone.

I snapped awoke, with Sneasel and Riolu standing over me. They both seemed pretty upset. Sneasel had dried tears in her eyes.

"Thank goodness, you're not dead." Sneasel said.

"Why would I be dead?" I asked. I rose out of my bed and stood above them.

"I think you need to see this..." Riolu said. I instantly got nervous. What happened? I know it's bad. Definetly. How bad could be? I walked outside with Riolu and Sneasel, and the very sight ofmit gave me chills.

The air was pitch black, and thin. The aroma smelled like ash and heat. The trees were burned down. A pile of unconscious bodies lay on the floor. Please tell me, they aren't dead. The buildings were ingulfed in flames. The Café was burning throughout. The school....oh god, the school, was completely in ashes. Nothing left of anything. As far as I could tell, the remaining ones alive were us three.

"What's worse, is that some people are completely missing or dead" Sneasel said. She was struggling to make the rest of her sentence. "S-s-sslowking is gone. He disappered. We don't have a clue to where he is."

"B-b but who would?" I said.

"I don't know, but we're lucky to be here" Riolu responded.

"How come you guys aren't dead?" I asked.

"We hid under your bed, they guys who did this, must've assumed you were dead, so they didn't check, to make sure you actually were." Riolu explained. "One thing is for certain- we can't be here anymore, we should get all that we can."

"Where will we go?" Sneasel asked.
Riolu pulled out a slip of paper, it was covered in dirt and ash. It's barely legible, as it was. I cleaned off the remaining grime and dust. On the paper read:

Poldra's Elite Army!
Join Among Poldra's stromgest and Protect Your Nation!
To register, go to the Prism Tower in Kalos.

There was also a picture of Prism Tower on the side of the paper. It was intresting, to say the least. But why the army? So many more options than just that, to put matters worse, Kalos is such a long trip, if you don't know how to get there. And I don't know ANYTHING.

"It's our only choice, Quilava" Riolu said.

"We have so many more options, why the army?" I was puzzled to his reasonings.

"We can't support ourselves, at least, not for too long, we'll die in a week. With the army, all of your needs are given to you, as well as, a working job." Riolu answered in a more serious and intimidating tone. Sneasle spoke up, she was being unusually silent.

"Are you sure, Riolu?"

"Sure. If not, you can blame"

For his sake, he better hopes he is. I'm not going to have Pokémon die, because of his stupid decision. I'll play along to it, for now. I spoke up once more.

"Alright, let's get what we need and get out of here, I don't want to know, who did this, and sure as hell, don't want to xome face-to-face with them. The other two agreed and began salvaging items. Food, water, medicine. It was all here. I made my way to what was leftmof the school, and looked around where Slowking's desk was, searching for some extra remedies.

I blew away the ash, to find a rock. The same rock which Slowking showed me a few days back. I picked it up and examined it. Not a single scratch. We could use money. This seems valuable enough. I should pick it up. Perhaps, Slowking wasn't a crazy, old teacher after all.

When I stepped out, the other two were ready to go. We had Potions, Full Heals, Berries and this rock. When I approached Sneasel and Riolu, I spoke out.

"Well, I guess, we're on our own, now. What we'll need now, more than ever, is each other. We need to be willing to help each other, stick together and when it comes to it, die for each other. Are we in agreement? I won't take no for an answer"

"Yep" Riolu nodded

"Sounds good to me" Sneasel said.

"Alright, with that, let's go"