I gulped upon hearing what Grej just said, but before I knew it we were dragged around once again, this time however we split up with ease as Lyra and Isabel waved goodbye and Grej patted my back gently.

"come on, we're going to the training grounds kiddo." he said as I began thinking a little bit about what Lyra and her grandmother were talking about before Grej flicked my helmet to grab my attention.

"Lyra is someone you don't wanna be with for sure, you've only seen the good side of her, however I know that she's more then what meets the eye. She's one of the few you don't wanna try and marry."

"Don't tell me what to do."

"Look. She's an executioner for a reason boy. She messes others up and plays with them mentally and physically before draining them. I saw it, no wonder she has a dungeon underground for prisoners that she gave an offer to and accepted." Grej said as I gave him a glare, however he gave me a sigh.

" Sure, try it. But if you die from it, then it isn't my responsibility to save you, that falls upon Lyra herself." He finally said as I looked down at the cobblestone road before looking back up at the road ahead of us, mostly fields of flowers were to the side of us as we kept going for a while until we arrived at a much bigger building, it wasn't that tall, but it was massive. As we entered we were greeted with sixteen battling field, seven of which were being used by a whole load of different pokemon, most of the battles used traditional moves whilst two of the battles actually involved real weapons, mostly swords and shields.

"Okay, Opex will probably be in the other room. Come on." Grej said as he walked along the spectators that were looking at one of the fights, probably family members of the pokemon who were fighting. However we moved into the other side of the building and went through a set of doors after some guards let us through.

Their armor looked gorgeous with metallic roses depicted on their armor along with their vines that ran down the whole armor.

After we went past the Grej looked at me.

"Royal guard armor, one of the highest status a pokemon could get here, they get their own armor set hand made by what they desire. The most common one however is the rose, elagant but spiky, depicting their will and power."

"and where's yours?"

"At home, I don't wear it often since I kinda outgrew mine, it's a little bit too small on me." He said as we arrived at the other battle grounds after walking through the dark corridor with the only light coming from the end of it all.

As we looked around a voice could be heard from above both of us.

"Late now aren't we Grej?" A much manlier voice said as Grej looked back up at the Goliscopod who looked like a behemoth compared to even Grej currently as he walked down next to us. Only then did I notice every little detail. The small claws he was supposed to have had been modified a bit, all of which were now katana's instead, he wielded an axe instead of all the swords I came to see, his head was covered in chain mail armor, his two main hands had a square buckler and his back had four petruding ice pillars that were at least a meter or two in height.

"Hey Opex, been a while. This kid right here is my new student, Hellas. He came to learn." Grej said as the two shook hands before the Goliscopod looked at me, I of course bowed in front of him as the Goliscopod patted my back.

"no need for formality here Hellas, just enjoy yourself while me and Grej have a small tussle." Opex said as Grej chuckled a little bit and patted my shoulder with his gauntlet while looking at Opex before going over to the sideline and taking a good look at the sword Grej put down, It's design was magnificent, some sort of bird, with its wings spanned out on both sides of the blade as it's head's tip was also the tip of the sword with a red ruby for eyes. Making me look at it for a while before I looked at the two fighters up on the field, Grej wielding a replica of his own sword and the goliscopod taking a stance with the four swords in its smaller arms and its ice soul element that it wielded, The faint viel of cyan ice incircling his arm as if it was a sphere, slowly the ice trail around his arm quickly drew into his hand as he shot out an Ice beam at Grej, who quickly dodged it and ran up towards Opex.

The fight was Amazing as I watched the two of them, only two pokemon came in for the time being, one of them was Lyra as she sat down to do some paperwork from the looks of it, pulling out red glasses and putting them on as she flipped through the papers occasionally jotting down something or looking back and forth between them. However the second pokemon that approached me was a scizzor who took the seat right next to mine. He seemed rather well kept, even Lyra had some tuffs of fur standing on end from time to time, and Grej along with Opex had some form of scratch on their bodies besides Grej's massive scar. However the scizzor next to me didn't even seem like someone who held a weapon in his pincers, the two of us looking at each other from time to time however as Grej finally tired himself out the scizzor began chuckling after I turned my head away from him.

"Ah, Hellas... H-He's Krediax... My brother. Kredi... This is Hellas... My student." Grej said as he was gasping for air between his words however Krediax only looked at me and smiled before we both got up to formally introduce ourselves however my eyes went wide open as I saw a more then deadly wound on the scizzor, all the way from his shoulder a slightly shaky cut was made all the way down to his stomach, the main outline was crimson red before the red took over.

"It's rude to stare Hellas, especially when it was made for someone's life." Krediax said as I looked up at him as he was a little bit taller then I was however my eyes went back to the scar. My mind immediatly jumped. How in the hell did someone who looks like he never lived a battle have a scar like this? What did he do to have a scar like this?

"Ahem... Nice to meet you, the Names Krediax, right paw to the king himself as I'm his advisor." Krediax said as I looked up at him and bowed slightly before holding out my gauntlet for a handshake as He did the same with his pincer smiling as we shook hands.

"Your fight was magnificent brother. I hope that we'll have one sooner or later. Who knows how long my scar will heal." Krediax said as Grej just nodded, still taking in deep breaths as he looked around the place with Lyra already gone a few minutes ago.

"Uhm Grej, are you sure I'll be able to make it to the fight?" I asked looking at Grej a little concerned as he chuckled.

"Listen kid. We're not gonna go to that fight, tonight we'll be hunting for something not even I have been able to catch for the last 4 years!"

"Oh come on Grej, you won't be able to hunt that Destructive being down on your own. You know how sly it it. It slipped through many professionals fingertips on multiple occasions."

"shut it Krediax, let me tell the story to the boy."

"Oh God, here we go again..."

"5 years ago, a truly massive Zoroark by the name of Simas came here to Vespasia on a boat, most said that he would live a lovely life here thanks to his soul evolution being one of the three rarest ever, being a dragon. Now it didn't take long for him to suddenly vanish from the capital city, many of the mon that knew him didn't seem him at all for months on end, but when he finally returned nobody could figure out what happened to him, the same night he came back he single handedly-"

" pawdly."

"Okay Krediax. Single pawdly took out one of those scout towers out where we were checked." Grej said as I recall the thing being a bastion where the guards were on duty doing their own, stuff.

"Anyways,he ripped throught the guards and tore down the tower, leaving everyone clueless as to what happened there in the morning, only the two remaining survivors were able to tell the tale, even they died after a few days from their injuries. But soon, the whole capital started to fear the name Simas, and in the first year he attacked quite often almost weekly, but now, We wait for him every night and he only comes out exactly every 4 weeks... Tonight is the night he's gonna be coming out, and I want you to come and help me capture him for good!" Grej said enthusiastically as I nodded slowly, slightly fearing the thing now that he told me about the Zoroark.

" Uhm, I'd like to know how big he was, I mean you say he's massive, yet Zoroark's should be around your height."

"Yeah,thats true, thankfully we measured him immediately when he arrived exactly because he was insanely massive. Back then he was around 220cm tall, or about 7'2, we think that he might have grown 1 or 2 extra Inches... But other then that, that Zoroark is a rampant killer who we have no idea who it might be... Since we believe he disguises himself as an average everyday civilian. Regardless, you two should get going, me and Opex have some... Private matters to discuss." Krediax stated as Grej chuckled and tapped my shoulder before motioning me to follow him, of course I did and looked at him before I followed suit, walking out of the place with him as the sun was already setting on us, the day pretty much went by in a flash, even though we took our time in the training hall. The two of us went out of the upper echelons of the city before we went back down to one of the lower ones, buying ourselves a mug of beer and drinking it in the tavern, the creeky planks coupled with the rather strange flavored drink didn't fancy my taste buds too well, eventually drinking it but Grej drinking at least five by the time I finished with half.

This day was somewhat a blessing and a curse, as after we came out of the tavern and started going back, Grej was right, as a howl could be heard near the edge of the city. Making Grej grab his sword and run off towards the direction.

"He's here! Take cover and come with me!" He shouted as the townsfolk immediatly went into the nearest building as a good few of the guards came out, Grej just gave them a few motions as they all nodded splitting up in groups as he took my arm and yoinked me into the nearest alleyway, my heart pounding in my chest as my gauntlet became a bit sweaty.

We waited right there for a while as the howls became more apperant. And soon enough the Zoroark passed by our alleyway Grej holding back the guards as I looked at the bright orange maned Zoroark, it had some lines running across its body as it had its snout in the air as if it was trying to sniff out something, only for its eyes to avert over to us before it growled and cleaved the street and ran off, with Grej giving persuit to it, now with me and the guards right behind the Zoroark. We chased it through the streets before it hopped up onto a balcony and then took another leap onto the house tops, leaping across them with ease as we continued to run after it, however as we were starting to approach the wall Grej seemed to smile and ran up a few boxes, hopping into a cart and jumping off of it onto a balcony before he ran across it and jumped onto its railing, afterwards he landed on the top of the building, taking out his sword as the Zoroark turned around from the wall and straight back towards Grej, as he raised his sword the beast took a stand against him and was about to sink their claws into Grej, but as Grej brought his sword down to strike the Zoroark dodged to the side and kicked him in the waist, sending him tumbling down everything and leaped back to where he was, turning around again this time and running back again, leaping at the wall and managing to jump high enough to grab the ledge and pull himself up even though multiple guards were there to try and stop the thing they seemed to be frozen with fear from the sight, however before we noticed the guards atop the wall began giving off smoke and dissapearing suddenly since they all were illusions. I looked at Grej as he sighed and looked out, only to see the mon still running away leaping from rooftop to rooftop as Grej put his sword away "Next time, always next time..." He said to himself as he looked at me.

"Oh, don't tell the other guards It kicked me out of its way, It sure has some strength in those muscles of his." He said as I smiled a little and nodded. Slowly walking back towards the city center as he held his abdomen for some time until we reached the center where he let go of his side and waved towards the guards, they seemed hesitant at first until he wielded his sword. I looked around a bit until He notified some of the guards and whispered something to one of them as the Blaziken nodded and ran off rather quickly as we headed back towards the training facility where he faught Opex, however he pushed me into one of the smaller alleyways as I got scared by him from the sudden push.

"I think it's time we had some... Man to man conversation." he said as he looked down at me, his eyes seeming to flare with strength and willpower, something that I knew my body wouldn't be able to handle as I felt my body shrivel up at the thought of having to go through the same thing we had on our training day. However he just patted my head and grinned

"wanna go fishing sometime?"