Alto Mare
"Ahh, this is the life." I said as I lounged in a sun chair in the water filled city of Alto Mare. The sun was shining, my team was relaxing in the sun, and everything seemed peaceful.
Diance (my Dragonite), spoke, and Toru (my Delphox) translated through telepathy. "This is the break we needed after almost getting killed because someone (cough) Flare activated the self destruct sequence and blew up a Team Rocket base.
"Yeah!" said Flare (my Flareon) said. "The water is nice and cool, prefect foe a swim. Hey Diance, you coming too?" He said energetically. For some strange reason, he likes water. It would make more sense if he was a Vaporeon instead of a Flareon.
"Sure!" Said Diance "Does anyone else want to join us?" Lucas (the Lucario) decided to join, but everyone else, being fire types, did not like to get wet at all, so they declined.
The rest of my team consisted of Radience my Rapidash, and Tristan the Blaziken. Most called me a fire type trainer. I just would befriend those who wanted to be my friend, and those happened to be mostly fire type Pokemon. Some Gym battles were harder than other but my family would always pull through for each other.
I winced as I remembered my broken leg. I had Tripped when the base exploded, breaking by left leg.
"Hey!" I said. "Who wants to explore Alto Mare? I bet we could find some good ice cream here." All of my team were ice cream fanatics, and had basically decided to go on a quest to find the best ice cream in the world.
My team cheered, and we headed off to find the best ice cream shop in Alto Mare!
Later That Day.
After a somewhat lazy day, I left the the the Pokemon center. My team had already been asleep, so I decided to go on a walk. I found a bench in a moonlit park, and sat down to rest. "Quite hard to believe it has been three years since my journey started." I said to myself. Three years of excitement, joy, mourning, rivalry, and friendship. And as I sat there, I went through the memories of my journey.
Kanto, Pallet Town
"Mom"! I yelled through the house, "Where is my backpack?"
"Its in the closet, like always." Came the reply.
After packing all the necessary stuff I needed for my adventure, I sat down next to my Dratini, Diance. "You ready, Diance?" I asked my Pokemon. She nodded excitedly, ready for an adventure. "We are gonna become Pokemon masters, just like Red!" I said, looking with admiration to the house of Red.
Red was a legend in Pallet Town. It was no secret why. He had beaten all the Gyms and the Elite four, plus the Champion. It was no question that he is the best Pokemon trainer in the world.
later
"By mom!" I called out as I left the Pallet Town boundaries, and north up Route One. At the end of the day I had made it to Viridian City, and by the end of the week had gotten to Pewter City.
As I walked around the city, I heard a whimper down a alleyway. Diance went to check it out and I followed. What I found was a ingured Eevee being beat up by a bunch of Meowth. My mind kicked into high gear. "Diance, Take Down!" I yelled, causing the Meowth to scatter.
I ran down to the Eevee, grabbing a Potion. The Eevee shuddered, but did not have the strength to move away. "Hey there buddy." I said in a soothing voice as I knelt next to the Eevee. "This will sting, but it will fix you right up." I said, spraying the potion of the cuts it had.
"Do you have a trainer?" I asked. It just shook its head. I saw its paw was twisted badly, most likely broken. "If you want, I can put you in a Pokeball, get you fixed up, and then, if you want, can come on our adventures." It just nodded, and I got the second member of our family.
A couple of months later
"Diance, use hyperbeam!" I yell, the intenseness of the battle was crazy. Sliph co. had been taken over by Giovanni! The Team Rocket leader! I tracked him all the way down to a Sliph co warehouse in Viridian city. Since he took over Sliph co, Pokeball prices skyrocketed, and I went to find him after I completed the final gym.
"Rhyhorn, counter!" He yells, but the damage has already been done, because the Rhyhorn is sent flying through the warehouse.
"That's how ya do it, Diance!" I yell as the Rhyhorn is knocked out. I now turn to Giovanni. "Your days of crime are up. Your only place in this world is in a Jail cell!" As I star running towards him, as stupid as it sounds.
He just smirks and drops in a trapdoor under him before I could get to him, and then closes up under him. I run towards the wind as I see that bastered get away in a sports car, shooting down the street.
I walk to the Pokemon center with Diance, now a Dragonair, Flare, having evolved into a Flareon shortly after saving him, Radience, finding her In the savanna in southern Kanto, and she is also the one to "rally the troops", and Lucas, a Roilu with the strongest will I have ever seen.
After going to the Pokemon center, I walked back to Pallet town to say hello to my mom before heading out to Hoenn. A ambulance races by on the road to Pallet. Confused, I pick up the pace before coming to a car wreckage.
My heart stopped. That was Giovanni's car, and the other... the other... "Oh Arceus." I say as I run to the wreck of my mothers car, pushing through the croup of people. What I saw changed my life forever. My mother was on a stretcher, to paramedics and a Chansey were standing there, mourning in their faces as they looked upon my mothers dead body.
"No no no no no please no!" I said, hoping my eyes were deceiving me, but deep down, I knew she was gone.
Kalos, One and a half years after my mothers death
I was never very good at socializing with anyone but Pokemon, but after my mothers death, I wouldn't speak to anyone unless necessary. Sure, I would seem like a happy-go-lucky person outside, But deep down, whenever I heard about Team Rocket, an anger unlike any other came to the surface, and all I would want to do is take revenge on Team Rocket, not just for killing my mother, but for the pain they are causing to hundreds of others.
"Ian?" asked Toru, the newest member of our team.
"Yeah?"
"What are you going to do, now that you have defeated the Kalos region?" She asked, and I bit my lip. I remembered how my mother talked about my father being a scholar.
"I've been thinking about taking biology in Lumiose university for a semester, see if I like it, continue if I like it, or continue my adventure if I don't."
One semester later
"So, I take it you are not continuing?" Asked Flare as I walked away from the graduation ceremony, all my belongings in hand.
"Yeah, there were to many people, am I right?" Questioned Diance.
"Yes." Was what I answered.
I had flashes of my semester. The first day, where I got on the wrong side of my roommate. My Biology class, where I refused to talk in group conversations. My job at a cafe, and getting fired because I would not speak at all. My social status as a outsider caused many to pick on me, just for being shy.
This experience just showed that I was just like a Shellder whose shell has been closed to the world, and it would refuse to open its shell.
"You know, we could help you with your social skills." Said Tristan.
"Really?" Asked gratefully, looking at my team, the only friends I had.
"Sure." said Lucas. "After all, that what friends are for."
"Thanks guys, this really means a lot to me." I said, looking gratefully at my team.
And in the next few weeks, my friends helped me be able to talk to strangers for basic things, and it felt good, actually being able to talk to other people, even if I was still shy.
A few days before present
"All personnel evacuated" Said a mechanic voice coming from the master computer in one of Team Rockets bases in Hoenn. "Self destruct sequence activated!
"Uh oh" Said Flare, his paw on a big red button.
"You HAD to press the big red button, Flare!" Said a sarcastic Tristan from the other side of the room as red lights started to bink all around the base.
"Self destruct in T- 45 seconds!
"No time for that, just run!" Yelled Toru, already sprinting out the control room's exit.
"Everyone, RUN!" I yelled as the rest of my team shot out of the room with me right behind them.
"Self destruct in T- 30 seconds!"
"OH SH*T" I yell, running out the entrance of the base, with everyone else beckoning me from behind a rock 75 meters away.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1,"
I slide behind a rock just as I hear a quiet boom and feel the earth tremble. After the trembling stops, I look over my rock. The base did not explode spectacularly, but had just collapsed in on its self.
"That was anti-climactic." Said Lucas, looking at the collapsed base.
"Lets never do that again." Said Radience.
"Agreed." I said getting back up, but I yelped and fell back down, feeling that my leg was broken.
I blacked out before I even hit the ground.
End of flashback.
"There you are!" I heard Toru say telepathically. "Everyone is looking for you, silly." He said, the he sat down on the bench, right next to me. "What are you doing here, anyway?"
:Just remembering the past, that's all." I said. "Come on, Lets head back to the Pokemon center." I told him as I got up and started to walk back.
As we walked (I limped) back, I see Diance flying overhead. "Hey DIance, over here." I yelled to her, causing her to land next to us.
"Where were you?" She scolded. "I was looking all over for you."
"He was just in a park, remembering what has happened since he left home." Said Toru flatly.
"Thank goodness your ok, I thought you were kidnapped." She said as she looked me over.
"Lets just get to the Pokemon center, I tiered." I said, heading back to the Pokemon center.
The drowsiness did not go away, and I collapsed, but just before I hit the ground, I heard:
: “Rest now my children, for when you awake, a whole new world shall be your home!”
My head hurts was the first thing to come to mind as I woke up. Then I noticed my surroundings. It looked very much like the dryer parts of Kanto. "I don't think I went camping last night." I said, but was shocked when I hear my voice. It had dropped significantly. I looked around, seeing only Diance, the rest of my team missing. I went to wake Diance, but saw a red-orange, three fingered claw reach out. I froze, and looked at my body. What I saw was the body of a Charizard. I did what any regular person would do if the woke up in a different body. I panicked.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUGHHHH!!!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. This naturally woke Diance. As soon as she saw me, she was on her feet, charging a hyper beam.
"Who the hell are you!?!"
"Diance, its me, Ian." I yell, definitely not wanting to get nailed by a hyper beam attack.
"Ian is a human, not a Charizard." She yelled.
"Your name is Diance, I met you when you were a Dratini, and your favorite flavor of ice cram is mint chocolate chip." I spat out as she prepared to fry me.
"Sweet Aceus, its you." She said in shock, canceling her hyper beam. "But you're a Charizard, and we are not in Alto Mare." She exclaimed.
"And the rest of the team is missing." I said, a deadpan look on my face. "I should Firs get used to my body, and if i'm a Charizard, that means I can learn to fly!" Getting excited at that last thought.
"Slow down. You probably get used to your body first before you try flying. And trust me, flying is hard." She said, and what she said made scene, but she was missing one other important factor.
"We also need to find the rest of the team." I reminded her.
"Your right, but where do we start? This place looks enough like Kanto, but the mountains are different, and this plain is to wide to be in Kanto." She said.
"If you do some flying, maybe we could find a town. That's where the team would assemble anyway." I pointed out.
"Yeah, I will start looking, you get used to your body, I will come back in a few hours, or if I find a town."
"Sounds good to me." I said, starting some simple movements and stretches.
A Couple hours later
We had been walking for a while now, going to a small village north of where we were. It was approximately 5 miles from where we woke up, and took about an hour to get there.
As we got into town, only a few Pokemon were there. Almost all of the shutters in the window were shut. As we turned around a corner, we stopped dead. There was an open air market, most of the stalls unattended, but a few were being manned by strange creatures. The front half of them looked like a prey bird Pokemon, the back half looked like a cat Pokemon. One of the ones just yelled "Dragon!" before flying off. The remaining six stood there. Then one walked forward. The feathers on her head ended in a dark purple.
"Who are you, and what is your businesses in New Gleipnir?"
"My name is Ian, and this is my friend, Diance." I said.
"I don't speak charish, so please, say that again." She said (at least I think it a she), with growing impatience.
I was about to replete, but Diance stopped me. She grabbed a stick laying on the ground, and rote what I said, but added the question 'where are we.'
I sighed. this was going to be a long day.
Griffon Kingdom,
Gilda POV
30 min. ago
As I woke up from my nap, I noticed that something strange was going on. As I stood up on my cloud, a bird flew past me, but that's not whats strange about it. As it flew by, it said "Talonflame!". I found That weird, so I stretched my wings and flew after it. It was about 4 paws high, Had a red body with black wingtips, and smoky gray feet. Then it started to go so fast that I could barely keep up with it. As I looked around, I saw a bunch of new and different animals I have never seen before. A group of blue turtles swam in the water. A bird that seemed to be made out of metal glided up higher than I was flying. Some sort of big panda seemed to be sparring with a monkey with its head of fire. These creatures were as far as the eye can see, on land, in the sea, and in the air.
As I flew back to town, I knew today would be different to say the least.
When I got back to town, almost everyone was hiding in there houses. The only griffons outside were my friends.
"Hey Gilda." Said Slash as I landed. Guess the whole gang is here. Edge stood to my right, looking at a strange new bird that kept saying "Spearow" and was pecking at her claw. Next to her was Gratitude. She just looked panicked about the whole ordeal that was happening. To my left was Slash, and next to him was Grange. He just had a deadpanned expression on his face. And finally, there was Sarah. She was the egghead of the group, looking at all of the new creatures with fascination.
I was about to ask what in tartarus was going on, when two dragons just walked around the corner and froze. The rest of the gang was frozen by these two dragons, one was red with the tip if its tale on fire, and the other was yellow and the front side of it had paler scales, like those of a snake, but it definitely dide'nt look like a snake.
Since nobody else was brave enough to go up and ask them why they were here, I went to ask, knowing dragons can understand griphonus.
"Who are you, and what is your businesses in New Gleipnir?" I asked. Just a simple question.
The red one responded with. "Char char charizard char char."
"I don't speak charish, so please, say that again." With a hint of impatience.
The red dragon was about to say it again, but the yellow dragon stopped him, picked up a stick, and wrote a message in the dirt. It said 'My name is Diance, and this is my friend, Ian. Where are we?'
I sighed. this was going to be a long day.
