A.N - So this plot bunny bit me in the ass and will not let go. An easy way of looking at this story is Haru, the OC plays the role of the player in the Black and White Pokémon games in uniting the Musketeer quartet, except the one she finds first is Virizion, not Cobalion.

This story will combine elements from the anime as well as the games, such as being able to use more than four moves at one time. I hope you will find this story enjoyable.

I would also like to mention right now that this story IS NOT a pairing story. It is, and will end, as a pure friendship story. Cool? Good. Onto the story. :P

Chapter 1 - Haru

Buying herbal supplies was just one of the routine things Haru did on her weekends off. Making potions everyday was part of her job as a Pokémon Healer, and how she had come to be one was something Haru pondered every now and then.

Like most Pokémon trainers, Haru started her journey through the Pokémon world at age 10. Hailing from the city of Fortree, she started her journey in the Hoenn region and began to capture and train Pokémon to compete in the Hoenn league. Her kind nature towards Pokémon was, to her, nothing out of the ordinary when she saw other trainers and their beloved Pokémon, or the gym leaders she defeated on her journey, so she thought nothing of it. She was just an ordinary trainer on an ordinary journey that millions of others had taken before her.

To begin with, her goal was to become a Pokémon Champion, but the more she thought about it, the less the desire to be the best gripped her young mind. Her journey in Hoenn ended with the league, where she placed within the top eight finalists, giving her a bitter taste of great defeat for the first time since she lost against Tate and Liza at Mossdeep Gym.

Haru decided to travel the world and see what the other regions had to offer. From Hoenn she went to Sinnoh, again placing in the top eight of the League. Her enjoyment of battling beginning to fade, Haru travelled to Johto and Kanto where she began to see that maybe her true calling was not to become a Pokémon Master.

One incident in particular came to mind when Haru travelled through the Ilex Forest and found several injured Pokémon. The trainer that owned them was fairly new, and did not have any potions on hand. Haru had the necessary herbs to heal the wounds, and soon the Pokémon were as good as new. The trainer thanked her most profusely for her help since the Pokémon were even better than new, but Haru didn't process what that incident meant until she entered the Indigo League.

It was in this League that she finally won, but it came at a great cost. The Altaria she had taken with her to all regions had been hurt extremely badly due to all of the battles before the final one, exhausting it. The pain Haru felt when she watched her beloved Pokémon was so strong that Haru felt it would cripple her on the spot. Never had her Pokémon been hurt that severely, and even though Haru came out on top, she refused to battle the Elite Four.

"I will never battle again," she declared to the elite four and the Champion, Lance. "I would rather risk myself in battle against your Pokémon than to see my own hurt that badly again."

At thirteen years old at the time, her logic of course was far from perfect, but none the less her wishes were honoured, and she did not fight the Elite Four.

"Come back and challenge us again if you ever change your mind," Lance said with a smile and a wave. Haru bowed and politely said that she would, but in her mind, it was a hollow promise. She knew she would never return to the League.

Once Altaria and her other Pokémon were healed, she decided to journey to the Unova region. This time, she travelled not to battle, but rather to study the many different types of herbs that were unique to the region. Haru began to reawaken her love for nature and the balance needed to keep it in order, and it was then she decided to continue her work on special potions and food especially for Pokémon, things she had worked on as a side job during her quests but never paid much attention to. Remembering the incident in the Ilex Forest, along with other incidents of the same nature, Haru figured she might just have a knack for special medicines.

And so, she arrived at Nacrene City, but disliked the way the town looked. It was too orderly and plain, but it led to the Pinwheel forest, where huge trees grew. It reminded Haru of her home on Fortree City, and how much she missed running among the trees. Haru decided that she wanted to live in the forest eventually, but for a while she set up shop in Nacrene City, selling her potions. Eventually her reputation grew and people from all over Unova were ordering from her, so much so that she could not meet the demand. Haru hired some helpers to make the potions and Pokémon food while Haru herself continued to develop the mixes to make them better and better. Eventually her shop philosophy became about serving the individual rather than the wholesale market, and it was this change that caused her business to flourish as customers who had previously bought off wholesalers came to her shop instead to buy direct. This change also allowed her to finally meet the demands as once sold out, that was it for the day. It was a more relaxed environment that Haru had been missing since she left her home of Hoenn.

Soon enough, five years had passed and Haru turned eighteen. Her dream had become a reality in helping Pokémon through her medicines, and in doing so she treated hurt forest Pokémon in her spare time. Due to this, she had become friends with many of them. It was this that made her decide to build a house in the Pinwheel forest permanently.

She was extremely careful when she went about doing this; the logs chosen to build her house were picked by the help of the forest Pokémon. They were trees that were neither homes nor special to the residents of the forest. With their help, she chose a natural clearing and hired a construction team that specialised in natural energy, and construction began. Her house was finished within a few weeks.

And so, Haru settled down in the forest, making medicines every morning and baking treats for her Pokémon friends every afternoon. She continued to explore every inch of the Pinwheel forest, but every now and then she felt as though she were being watched by something other than the wild Pokémon. Sometimes when Haru looked around, she would see a flash of light green and white, but always shrugged it off as just another wild Pokémon, like a Pansage. It also made her curious about a small clearing in one part of the forest that the wild Pokémon had told her was forbidden for humans to enter. Respecting their wishes, Haru didn't go anywhere near the area, but it didn't stop her curiosity on the subject. She wondered what could be in there... or who.

One thing she did discover however was what looked like a broken shrine right outside that area. It was extremely old, and Haru could not guess what it may have looked like. So, she sought out some Pokémon historians in the area who were able to come up with a possible design based on two other statues just like it. With the help of some of her own Pokémon (she kept a party of three on her person at all times out of habit) and the forest Pokémon, she rebuilt the shrine.

"I wonder what Pokémon you're dedicated to," she pondered after she finished cleaning it and giving it a polish. Noticing the leaf patterns on the base, she figured it must be a grass type legend. "Maybe Celebi? No... It doesn't look like the Ilex Shrine... It doesn't look like a Glacida flower either, so it's not Shaymin."

Once Haru got home, she contacted Professor Hale to ask if he knew of another grass type legendary Pokémon by e-mail. Haru knew Professor Hale since she had shown him the legendary Pokémon she had managed to capture and allowed (with their permission) to study them. Although Entei had not been happy with the proposal, Shaymin and Latias had been willing to allow Professor Hale to observe them. The three Pokémon, along with the rest of Haru's team, resided with Professor Birch.

After coming home from a day at the shop, she saw that she had a reply.

'Dear Haru,

I am not as familiar with Unova region legendaries as I am of Johto ones, but there are legends about three Pokémon who fought against humans in the middle ages. One of them is likely to be a grass type. The shrine you rebuilt was destroyed due to humans anger over the destruction of their homes back in that time.

Maybe now you've rebuilt the shrine, it will return?

Regards,

Professor Hale.'

Haru replied back with her thanks and went to research the three Pokémon Professor Hale had mentioned, and that was the day she discovered the existence of the three Musketeers.