-flashback-

"RUN!" was all I heard at my metal feet hit the darkened dirt. The orange hue of light illuminated my body from behind showing my shadow running in front of myself. I ran as fast as my feet could bare feeling the moist air wrap itself around me and zip behind myself as the raindrops bounced off of my helmet and into the dirt that seemed to effortlessly dissolve all the water under my feet. I was close, so close to the boarders wall... CRACK is all I heard next as I effortlessly flew into the air before hitting the ground in pain,I slid across the rocky soil as my face buried into the dark dirt feeling pain course through my legs My red eyes could only look back at the same mon who were chasing me, a Tyranitar in black armor and a Beartic who just looked away in guilt, the Tyranitar looked down at me with the utmost disgusted face I ever saw, The Blood trickled down the Tyranitars face slowly as the blood began to stream down his face quickly as the raindrops sped it up, eventually the blood went down into the ground.

"Good evening fellas" I said in a sarcastic tone as a small smirk crept up my face. The two Pokemon looked at each other, the Tyranitar instantly walked up to me and took off the Bola that was tied around my ankle, as I finally looked at the two, they both were panting heavily as their breaths were visible in the cold harsh nights air. I quickly batted an eye at the Beartic who took out a shiny stone from his fur and a blinding light blurred my vision as the rain only added to that blurry vision of mine, the cold only surrounded me more and more as I squinted my eyes before anything else, I collapsed on the ground as my blurred vision went to the dark soil and then I couldn't help it but close my eyes as I passed out from exhaustion and the pain that spread through my entire body.

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"A nation made out of fools and Imbeciles." I said to myself as I looked up at the blue sky with my left eye. The air was damp and yet it was fresh, my gaze looked around at the trees, swaths of vines hanging down as the massive flowers and trees blocked a good portion of sunlight. I couldn't care less as I shambled to the nearest cave with my remaining energy. as my feet clamped against the rock, my gaze spotted a small rock that was big enough for me to sit upon, as I sat onto it I sharply inhaled as my broken leg once again hurt and a sharp intake of air was all I could do right now. My eyes looked around as the bandage's that were on it were already drenched in blood and were already starting to fall apart quickly.

I couldn't do anything. "Is this the end? Will I die like this?" Is all that coursed through my mind as I looked up at the ceiling of the cave, I only looked at the patterns inside it until a ruffling sound was heard nearby the cave entrance, I got up and raised my fists in defense and looked at the shrub in anticipation for something to lunge at me, when it stopped a Honchcrow was there in the bush with an Altaria right next to him, the Honchcrow looked away from the angelic-looking Altaria and looked at me in shock until I lowered my hands at which point the both of them flew into the air.

My gaze went from them to the top of the cave where I still heard them flapping their wings in the wind, I got up from the rock with a grunt as I felt a jolt of pain go up my whole body as My left leg gave in and bent inward, I kneeled in front of the cave entrance for a good five minutes as I saw the two mon look at me with both of them having a worried look. I got up once again with a grunt as I forcefully pushed away the pain in my leg as I shambled out of the cave and into the Jungle once more. My whole body shaking from the pain as I gritted my teeth together harshly, I didn't go far before I collapsed on the ground. "I guess for the better." I said quietly to myself as I pulled myself along the dirt until a tree came into view. I slouched myself against it and tore out a nearby plant, I wrapped one of its long soft leaves around my ankle and tried to tie it together but to no avail. The leaf simply slid off my ankle and onto the dirt as blood was clearly visible on the leaf itself.

I sighed and tilted my head back as my gaze just looked up at the clouds gathering above me. "wanna cry out my sorrow?" I asked the clouds slightly as I once again heard flapping, this time I saw that the Honchcrow flap its wings above the trees and then look at me, after him, the Altaria came as well as the two of them looked at me with their piercing gaze.

"Umm, can we help you?" The honchcrow asked as he stepped closer to me, his voice sounded a bit rough but it sounded friendly compared to what I imagined.

"I would appreciate that... I need to make sure my legs work once again." I said as the Honchcrow nodded, he then stepped closer and grabbed me by the shoulder with his talons. "there's a couple of pokemon nearby, I personally hate the Mon who are there." he said as he started flapping his wings once again, slowly ascending upwards into the air.

The two of us didn't go very high and we were quite slow compared to what I saw him capable of, however, I didn't seem to care, the three of us eventually got to the edge of a cliff and he just lept off of it and into the vally before us, my eyes went wide as I thought he got me and was just going to drop and kill me, thankfully he didn't and as I looked past the trees and saw a small camp set up, as we approached, it was clear that about 4 tents were set up and an extremely small group of Mon had set up base, one of the tents was clearly bigger than the rest, maybe it was the groups leader, but before I could say anything... "Hey, monk! Come out already!" the Honchcrow shouted as a Minefoo came out from one of the small tents and looked at him. "What is it this time you pest? Did you come here to show me a carcass?" he asked as he came closer, the two of us also went closer and the Minefoo actually looked surprised to see that I was alive, I of course already held a grudge cause he just called me a carcass.

"GUYS, GUYS! COME OUT ALREADY!" the Minefoo shouted as the Honchcrow set me down and turned around towards the Altaria and flew back up to her, I just looked at the two of them and nodded, they didn't do anything but flap their wings before turning around and flying off. When I looked back I saw that the Minefoo came back with a Pikachu, a Mienshao and a Lucario. I looked at them as the Lucario just stared at me before sighing and walking over to me to pick me up. "what's your name?" the Lucario asked as its voice was high pitched compared to what I thought.

"wait, you're a female?" I asked but instantly knew I asked the wrong thing as she stopped. "okay, I had enough." she said as she let go of me and I hit the ground once again, she stepped over me and walked into one of the smaller tents. I just looked up at the grey clouds that started cracking with thunder.

Soon I felt a warm and soft fur wrap itself around my right gauntlet and I moved my hand around to grasp it, I then looked at what it was and found out it was the Mienshao's whip-like fur that usually dangled at the end of its arm, she was and looked a lot more feminine. I was blushing a bit as I thought how awkward the whole thing was, a female dragging a male right behind herself. The Pikachu and Minefoo both were male on the other hand and they pushed me into the main tent as well, the Mienshao set me down near the entrance, it was massive on the inside, A whole hoard of Mon could easily get inside, the whole place had lanterns lit and a wooden table in the corner, the back side of the tent was open to the forest revealing a wooden wagon, on top of the wagon, was another Pokémon that didn't have a tent but had some sort of brown cloak on it, as I looked at its direction the pokémon looked back towards me to show its red eyes that stared straight back at me.

It wasn't long but I was set down on a small bed sheet and the Mienshao looked at me with a serious gaze. "So... Where did you come from?" she asked as She Tore away a part of the bed sheet and wrapped it around my ankle and the other part of it she wrapped around my knee, I didn't say a word from the pain I felt as she took some wood and with the rest of the bed sheet she reinforced my leg to heal in a certain way, I just looked at her and then gazed down onto the ground. "are you numb? Or maybe silent? Oh! Oh! Are you a warrior who fought in a battle and lost and got injured?" the Pikachu asked as I finally got the courage to speak up. "I'm from Batalonia." the whole room went silent for a second, the only thing that was heard was the raindrops hitting the top of the tent from outside, the rain poured once again. I slowly got up as the Mienshao just looked at me. "are you serious?" she asked as she seemed to get up and clutch her fist, I knew this group already held a grudge against me based on her reaction alone, but now the whole room seemed like an enemy. "why are you here!?" the Mienfoo asked as he took out a torch and ignited the top of it with one of the candles that was in the lantern. "I'm here because I almost killed one of their generals." I said as I looked at him with a Stern face, he didn't buy it and held the flame close to my face, I flinched and closed my eye which was closest to the flame. "which one?" he asked as I got a bit uncomfortable answering that question.

"answer me!"

"I beat Bernstein and was thrown out for it," I said as all three of them just looked at each other for a couple of seconds and then burst out laughing, the entire area could hear their laughter as it was so loud. "YOU? Your joking, no way you could have beaten Bernstein, he's one of the strongest pokemon out there." the Pikachu said as he high fived the Mienfoo and the two left chuckling, the Pikachu took the torch away from my face and went outside with the mienfoo back to their own tent, when they left, the Mienshao laughed a bit more as she then looked at me." did you seriously beat him? I mean, you look pathetic."

I nodded and sighed. "true... But I did beat him! Not like this... Of course... But please believe me!" I pleaded as the silence from her just looking at me was broken as another figure entered the tent, it was the cloaked figure on the cart, it took off the hood of that cloak to reveal the face of an absol" what Kind of guest do we have?" she asked as the female Absol looked at me, the mienshao looked at me and then at her. "I'm sorry your highness, but it's not a good idea to stay outside for so long, you could get a cold!" the Mienshao said as the Absol approached me as she took off her cloak. "and what's your name... Bisharp?" she asked as she sat down right in front of me, as I opened my eyes seeing royalty right in front of me I also leaned up and reached out my hand, she took it and I kissed her paw. "the name's Hellas, nice to meet you." upon hearing my name her eyes went wide a bit before she shook her head and looked me in the eye. "wow, Never would have thought the prince of Batalonia would grace us with a visit." she said as she giggled, her smile and the atmosphere changed instantly to something more peaceful and sweet from the dark tone that I got from everyone else.

"Princess! Stay away from this filth!" the Mienshao said as she got in front of the Absol and put her arms out, trying to cover her as best as possible from me.

"Lola, please... He's clearly down, he can't do anything to me!" she said as the Mienshao slowly walked out of the way still keeping a close eye on me as Lyra pushed her aside slightly, the Absol then walked closer to me as she had to back off a bit from Lola getting between us. "the name is Lyra princess of Vespasia... It's a pleasure to meet you!" she said as she smiled, she was obviously a bit younger then me, maybe by one or two years, but it was clear she had a lot more experience under her waist then anyone at her age.

"anyways, I had never known that someone from your Kingdom would come here, I heard it's beautiful there." she said as she sat down on her haunches and looked at me. "that's a lie... The whole place is a wasteland filled with nothing but black dirt and metal stronger than steel underground." I said as she tilted her head to the side, clearly she was misguided a bit on my homeland, something I actually expected since the two are rivals and hated each other for about 80 or so years, no point in telling a nation about the truth if they aren't close I guess. "oookay? And why are you here right now? Shouldn't you be with your father and mother back at the castle or whatever royal building you have?" She asked as she got a bit closer, waiting for me to respond, her red eyes weren't the same, they glittered as if they wanted to devour knowledge. Lola gave up after a while and started doing tasks so she couldn't just stand there between the two of us. We got immersed into our conversation, by the time we finished the whole day almost passed by, I only saw the sun's golden rays hit the leaves of a plants outside and deducted that it was sunset, the warm feeling of all the candles really made the tent warm. "Oh wait, I should introduce the entire team to you!" Lyra said as she looked at me with a smile. I nodded at her with my blank face, I had no reason to smile since I had a broken Leg. But she ignored it and went outside to bring everyone in.

Lola just looked at me and then back down at the paperwork she was doing. "you know, you are lucky that she took a liking to you, she doesn't like everyone she meets." Lola said as she went back to writing papers, I just looked at her and raised an eyebrow but dropped it after a couple of seconds, tapping the bottom of the tent with my fingers as I patiently waited for Lyra to return. I couldn't stop thinking about anyone else other than the Honchcrow who just dropped me off, he didn't seem nice in the slightest, so why did he do it then? I thought to myself but was late as Lyra came back with everyone. "So guys, let me introduce Hellas he's going to be traveling with us for a while," Lyra said as I wanted to interrupt her right there and say no, but with the condition, I was in, I had to agree to that, I couldn't go off on my own with a broken leg.

The Lucario came up to me first. "Hi, my name is Brigett nice to see you." she said as she seemed a bit harsher than the rest of the group, I had absolutely no idea. "why is she acting like this? maybe just a personality of hers?" I thought to myself as we shook hands then she motioned over to the Mienshao who literally pulled me inside.

"This is Lola, my personal helper, and my assistant!" Lyra exclaimed as she looked at the Mienshao who only looked at me, I held out my hand... To get a whip slash straight at my face, I quickly pulled my hand away with a quick shout of pain as I hissed and started to rub my warm red cheek that got hit with a whip.

"Nice to meet you... Whip lady." I said as a small smile formed on my face, joking around was something I liked to do to ease the tension when I felt like things were getting out of hand, and I felt it might have been needed over here. Lola just huffed a bit as she also had a small smile on her face but it disappeared from her face as quickly as it came as she looked away, then I took a glance at the two younger ones who even though might have been still basic non-evolved pokémon their actions seemed like they were adults.

"and these two are Jack and Christopher," Lyra said as she pointed at the Pikachu first and then at the mienfoo, thankfully this time the two of them held out their hands and I greeted both of them with a small smile. After which Brigett motioned the two smaller Mon to come outside, she gave me a harsh glare but not straight at me, but at my helmet, I, of course, knew that she was looking at something I wanted to discard for a while, but being a gift from my mother, I couldn't just toss it away as easily...

Lyra set herself down on the sleeping bag near the corner of the tent, Lola also got into her own sleeping bag before taking out a scroll to read as she did she looked over at me, I of course couldn't get up so I just flopped my whole body across the floor as if I was a small blob of ink that spread out on the tent. Of course, I returned the gaze towards Lola. "what is it?"
I asked as my question seemed like more of a demand, she rolled her eyes before throwing me a blanket, it was rough, it was thin, but I couldn't believe it, after 4 days I finally get to sleep somewhat normally.

"t-thanks..." I said slowly as I looked at her she just kept on looking at me. "Tell me... Ughhh Hellas... Why did you come here?" she asked as I looked at her and then just let my head hit the floor of the tent, the candle wax started to give off a nice smell of apple pie as I just looked at the ceiling of the tent. "I didn't come here with a goal... I'm fleeing from my father..." I said as I finally sighed and took off my helmet, my long metal hair still intact as I had it all folded together on a pin.

"Well, if you have no goal... Why not join the royal guards? Or maybe become a bodyguard for Lyra." She said as she then put the scroll down next to herself onto the small tree stump they probably dug out.

"You see... I actually only won against Bernstein cause someone helped me out in that fight..." I said as Lola just looks at me intrigued by my words.

"oh really? Who helped you? Cause I doubted you would be able to take him out single-handedly... Did you use some kind of underhanded tactic?" she asked as she turned onto her side and leaned on her left arm, her head almost hitting the tents overhead since she was in a corner and the top of the tents was a bit low near the edge.

" well... Not really... His name was Rojza... Have you heard of that name before?" I asked but Lola just shook her head as she closed her eyes. Then she opened them once again before telling me to go on.

"well, he was once a legendary blacksmith, he made insanely good armor and weapons, but in battle he's known for having a ridiculously powerful support move called ''super brittle,," I said as I looked at her she put her paw to her chin as she squinted with her left eyelid." yeah... I do know that move actually... It's a strong ice type move for sure... What kind of pokemon is this Rojza?" she asked as I looked at her. "he's a Beartic, and able to mega evolve, just like me... Kinda" I said as her eyes went open at that.

"hold on, your dropping everything too fast... So this Beartic named Rojza helped you take down Bernstein... Where is he now?" She asked as I looked at her, I truly didn't know that... He did help them capture me and throw me out once and for all, but I don't know if he actually survived that meeting with them after I was...forcefully removed from my nation.

"Yeah...I have absolutely no idea what happened to him... I kinda miss him though...He was like a father figure to me even though my real father is Platinum...Rojza was always there, told me the basics, and trained me, but...To me...It meant the world." I said as I leaned up and pulled my one working leg closer to myself as I wrapped my arms around it. "You know...I feel like I betrayed him at some point...And I feel horrible for that alone, and I wish I could make it up to him the next time we meet." I said as I finally snap out of my thoughts and look at Lola and she just nodded at me.

"So, why did you see him as your father?" She asked as she put her feet down onto the ground from the small crate she slept on. "Well...My father...as the ruler of Batalonia always had to go and do stuff, he had time for my mother but not for me, My Mother was the only other Mon I had trust in since she always supported me in everything, she even gave me something that I used....lets just say that the gift was the reason I got thrown out of the nation." I say once again waiting for Lola to maybe slap me once again, but she doesn't, and actually, she gets up and sits down right next to me. "Anyways, enough about me...what about you?" I ask as she then looks at me with a raised eyebrow.

"You know I didn't have such an interesting life until a couple of years ago...I got to join the royal court of Vespasia and got sent over too one of the seaside castles where I met Lyra and got enrolled to become one of her servants... Even though It is kind of....slavery...I had to accept it, her father and mother are strict with her and everyone in her court, but Lyra has always been kind of a bumpy road to them." She said as she looked at Lyra who shifted a bit in her sleep when Lola stopped Lyra's head came up, she only stretched before turning around to face the two of us, she had her eyes open as she looked at us.

"what are you two doing?" She asked as her head went up again into the air before she got out of her small bed and lept near us, Lola almost got into a defensive position as she was about to strike at her Lyra stopped in her tracks and almost lowered herself as if she was going to defend against whatever Lola would have thrown at her, I blatantly got up to stand between the two, of course I instantly collapsed and Lyra rushed over to me to set me back down, she had to help a little, she let me use her as a kind of table to lower myself, I kinda took it a bit slower then I would have, her fur was a lot softer and fluffier then what I expected, I clutched at it a bit and when I finally hit the ground I lowered my body back down onto the bottom of this giant tent, Lyra of course went back to her bed and looked at me.

"Hey, Hellas... Did you have any plans for the future?" Lyra asked as she laid her head down onto the pink pillow she had, it depicted hearts on it in red as she looked at me with her red eyes. almost piercing the atmosphere as Lola got up and put out most of the candles she could reach, there was now only two or three candles lightly illuminating the whole room in a dark black hue, I looked at the ground as I had a plan, but I wouldn't know how Lyra would react to it, it might even be a death sentence If I told her that my actual plan was to take over Vespasia single-handedly.

"Actually...I do have one..ughhh..." I said as I was trying to make up an excuse to not say that I came here to destroy everything, That would have been something like terrorism, I looked at my gauntlets at they lightly shine in the candles orange warming glow, Lyra simply tilted her head at me as I finally got an Idea, It was perfect, I heard tales about it, maybe he could help me! "Well, you see, I came here to be trained by Grej" I said as Lyra's eyes went open.

"What? Are you seriously wanting to be as brutal as him?"

She asked as she seemed a bit worried from my comment, obviously...she knew who he was, a bisharp like me... A bisharp that...could mega evolve and most certainly kill anyone who dared to mess with him.

"Well, he might be a bit uhh, brutal...but That's not how I would describe him...I think he would be more of a...remorseless fighter...but I think we all have to agree on that he's really effective at his job."

I said as I started to slowly try and slouch my head between my hands that were behind my head, Lyra closed her eyes and laid her head down onto her pillow.

"Unfortunately...I think we can't just look away from that fact..."she said as she sighed right after, then looking at my lower body, I blushed a bit before actually realizing that she was most likely looking at my broken leg.

"We should get some sleep...You especially" she said as she looked me dead in the eye for a second before turning around on her bed to face to the corner of the room, I just kept looking at her as my mind went elsewhere, as If I wasn't even in the same plane of existence as them anymore. My vision was a bit blurry but I couldn't move my eyes off of her, she reminded me of Rojza, I kinda felt as if a tear started to descend my cheek but when I snapped back and grabbed my face there was nothing to feel besides my skin.

I finally laid back and put my hands behind my head as I looked up at the top of the tent, It was already way into the night as the sound of thunder could be heard far off in the distance, soon a couple of raindrops hit the top of the tent, the soothing sound of the rain was enough for both Lola and Lyra to fall asleep, I couldn't...It reminded me of what happened a week ago, but most importantly, the day that happened three years ago. "I'm a fool..." I quietly said as I took a big breath of air, closed my eyes and sighed as I felt the three candles dwindle in their luminosity, one of them even went out completely as I finally managed to close my eyes and fall asleep.

hey guy's, so this is what I was working on for so long, I just wanted to thank everyone who is currently reading this and a special thank you to Edmund, who I've seen make some good chapters in his own book and gave me the inspiration to write this book.
As of right now, I will be working on both books and I really want to expand on not just the world I have My other book in, but also see things from all perspectives...so....recap time!

We got to meet Bernstein and a Beartic named Rojza take care of Hellas(A Bisharp) and knock him out, a week or so later he was near Vaspasia and shambling along with a broken leg, thankfully he met a Honchkrow who brought him to a small group to look after him while he rests up. we also got to meet the group altogether, though some of them are still going to be a mystery for now...as of right now, I will be writing the next chapter, see you guys!

-the defiant