Pokemon fanfic - Knights of the Silver Mountain : The first saga. Return of the Red Dragon.
Authors Note : I am exceedingly nervous, for I wrote something pathetic in its story, structure, and so on. For worse, I cannot predict when will I present next chapter, or I can do such. Therefore, I wish any reader to treat this piece of writing with generosity, yet with reviews of sound criticism which will help me greatly on writing better work in future. Also, I want to demonstrate my respect on Pokeluv101, whose great fictions draw me into FFnet.
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Prologue – Time before the year when everything started.
'Then the mad woman said with cracking voice, while her body was trembling with madness. "When fear, dispair, injustice, tyranny reach its height, hero will rise from white land. Fatherless child, crownless prince will draw sword from moon, with wizard from oak of incomparable wisdom and trickster with eye of fearow. Child of forest, the queen of beast of forest shall follow the prince, with young lord of gold, whose vein bore the dragons blood. Prince shall bring light in mountain of moon, port of cerulean water. He will fight against darkness in city of flower, town of death, and the city of glory. Darkness shall be broken in the evergreen forest, while prince shall hold his redeemed crown upon the peak of snowing mountain, in the castle of silver."' – Count Palletus Oak, 'Thousand and several more stories I ever heard.'
It was the winter of 189th year of the 'Draconian Calendar' that a young woman, who called herself Delia and her son, Red came to the pallet town, and open a small inn in a corner of the market street. From that day, she worked hard from dawn to midnight, and offered delicious food with kind attitude to every customer. When she has arrived, people shot a suspicious glare to the woman. For several years, flying rumors says that she was a harlot, or a robber, or a maid who had been exiled from Viridian for give birth to a bastard of the duke and enraged the duchess, but such rumors grow cold as nothing about her own past came out from her lips.
However, even she has become a reliable member of the market community as years floated away, a dark shadow still lingers on the roof of 'Galloping Ponyta', for her son was not in comfortable relationship with kids in the castle.
Red was a silent child who likes to play by himself. However, there were two more factors that kids were hostile with him. One was the color of his eye, the other was strange aura which rouse some uncomfortable feeling to kids.
Color of his eyes was as many said, 'red as fresh blood.' Even adults cannot be comfortable in front of the glance of him, and that makes kids to not go close to red unless they try to bully him, which has been considered as some kind of heroic act of 'repelling the red eyed monster to its dungeon' to many kids. Then one day before tenth birthday of red come, there was an incident that made them to give up on bullying Red.
On that day, Green Oak, the grandson of Count Oak has been slipped away to market to make and escape from hectic schedule riddled with literature, geometry, sorcery, and many other things that tormented a 9 years old boy. As he wanders on market and enjoying free air and tasty snacks, he saw a strange sight at corner of street. A girl was bullied by some kids at the corner. Green saw it, and tried to get away, not to entangled with some problem. Then, a red eyed boy tried to stop them to hurt the girl, only to get beaten by bullies. Then, as a bully raised his fist to hit him, Green tried intervene to stop them, but before he do it, the beaten boy grab a stone on the ground, and hit head of the bully, and beat them until blood stained his hand and sleeves. He would have sentenced to a heavy punishment for hurting boys unless Blue, the girl saved by him and Green himself had give evidence in favor of him. That was how 'Pallet Trio' meet each other, and how their friendship started. After that incident, Red spent most of his time in the library of Pallet castle, reading various book by himself, and suffered same hardship with Green, due to the earnest request of the heir that he will manage to do better when he has someone who can be with him while he study. In these days, Blue occasionally visited her friends and offered some tea and cakes from lady Daisy, while having some conversations with Red and Green. One day after such meeting, Blue says to her father, the best hunter in the fief that 'That boy, he does not isolated by people. Instead, it is him who isolates other people from him.'
While they spend their time with such a peaceful, the march 12th of 199 D.C. (Draconian calendar) arrives, precisely a year before the great festival, 'Celebration of 200th year of Golden Dragon Rising.' In that day, Count Oak dispatched Red to look for Green and Blue, for he has some important matter to order to the trio.