Hello there guys, DragonEmperror2810 here. This is my first fanfic for Pokemon and as you all see in the summary and pairings or so. This is a Lucario x Eeveelution shipping that are quite famous a few years ago among Pokemon, until the authors unexpectedly stopped writing this pairing's stories. Hopefully, this doesn't happen to mine, I certainly don't want to since I too love this pairing, but personally this depends on your feedback (Reviews, Favs and Follows etc) so I hope we can cooperate with one another on this.
With that said, let's move on to the main course of tonight
Chapter 1 – Mysterious Client
Castelia city is the heart of business and economy of the Unova region. It's located in the south centre of Unova and is perfectly suitable for harboring sea ships due as it is located at the north of the river. Every day, thousands of Pokemons, be they businessman, office workers, tourists or just regular pedestrians, walks along the hustling bustling roads of Castelia City, making it the most active cities in the whole region.
However, behind these tall skyscrapers and successful company buildings lies a dark secret, a secret that happens often especially during the night.
"S-Stop, what are you people doing!?" The female Buneary shrieked as she and her companion are driven into a dead end of an alley.
Two female Pokemons found themselves trapped at a dead end of an alley while seven male Pokemons stood on the other side of the same alley, blocking the two females from their one and only means of escape. Each and one of them were clad in a different but familiar clothing of a street gangster with the typical spiky black leather jackets, metal chain accessories, ripped jeans and whatnot.
"Hurhurhur, don't worry miss, we're not gonna hurt you or anything." One of the gangsters, a Croagunk, said as they inches closer towards the cute girls with dirty looks in their eyes. "We just want to have fun, that's all."
"That's right, and if you girls be obedient, I'm sure both of you will love what we're gonna do to you two hehehe." Another one of the gangsters, this time a Zubat, stated maliciously and the two girls couldn't help but shiver in fear at his words.
The gangsters continue to walk towards them until the Buneary's Swablu companion stepped forward. "Y-Y-You take another step closer and we'll scream!" The Swablu tries to act tough against them but the gangsters merely laughed at her weak attempt of intimidation.
"Sssssss you can ssscream as loud asss you want missss but right now, you're both are ssstanding at the deepessst part of Castelia city where not even the police could enter." Their third companion of the gangster, an Ekans, explained. "And even if they did, thisss place is like a large maze, it'll take the copsss a good long while before they could get here."
"Hurhurhur, what he said." The Croagunk agreed.
Realizing that intimidation is futile against these nasty people, the two screamed for help.
"H-Help! Someone help us!" The Buneary shouted loudly to the night skies.
"Someone! A-Anyone!" The Swablu joined in.
Rather than frightened, the Zubat closed his eyes as if hearing their shrill scream is a pure bliss to him. "Aaaah, I just love it when our prey helplessly screamed for their virginity."
"Yes, very pleasssing indeed…" The Ekans hissed happily.
For the next several seconds, the gangsters merely stayed where they are, waiting for the two girls to finish their futile attempt of a rescue that will never come.
"I think these two are done screaming their lungs out. Koff, knock them both out with sleeping gas. Let's take our time with these beautiful ladies." He demanded to their Koffing buddy. "Koff?"
Puzzled when his companion didn't gave any sort of reply, the Zubat looks behind. "Hey, where did Koff go to?" The Bat Pokemorph said when he realized the Koffing isn't around. The rest of the gangsters imitated his action. "Koff! Where are you!?"
"Did he bail on usss…?" The Ekans wondered. "He'sss alwaysss a pussssy when it comesss to thisss…"
The Zubat contemplates about this before shrugging it off carelessly. "Well, if he did bail on us then it's his loss, not us." The Zubat answered with a 'meh'. "Now then, where were we…?"
By now, the two girls have stopped their screaming and switched to small whimpers instead as they both watched the six remaining gangster cornering them.
"Please…don't hurt us…" The Buneary pleaded.
"Hehehe, don't worry. Like I said, we're not gonna hurt you, we just wanna have some good ol' fu—"The gangsters stopped their approach when a garbage bag fell right between the two parties. "Hey, who do the hell dump this piece of crap here!"
"…I…don't think thatsss a garbage bag." The Zubat was a bit puzzled at what his snake buddy is talking about. After taking a good look at the thing closely which he referred to as a 'piece of crap', he realized it wasn't what he expects it to be, it was...
"…Koff?"
It was their gangster friend, Koff the Koffing, all badly bruised from head to toe with blood and toxic substance oozing out from the cuts on his body. His left eye is swollen purple as if someone just dealt a Mega Punch mercilessly straight right at it and his right leg are bent at awkward angle by the knee. The only indication that the Gas Pokemon is still alive is its weak and ragged breathing.
The gangsters gave their companion a moment to look at before slowly, ever slowly, stare upwards to where Koff just fell from.
A figure can be seen perched right on the railings of a fire escape close by like a predator stalking its prey. The figure's whole body is mysteriously shrouded in the shadows with its intimidating crimson-red eyes being the only thing visible for them to see in both awe and fear.
"You, who are you!?" The Zubat demanded bravely at the newcomer, unaware of the danger the Bat Pokemon is about to get himself into. "Come down here, you coward!"
The figure stayed silent at his question. However, the shadowed being honored the Zubat's second request and fearlessly leapt from the railing before dramatically landing on the concrete ground that cracked slightly under impact. Both the gangsters and victim couldn't help but stepped away from the figure, it's not every day you see someone jumped from a third floor and land on the ground safely, it's lethal even by Pokemon standard.
"Were you the one who did this to Koff!?" Zubat demanded, still unfazed despite the show he did. "Hey, answer me!"
The shadowed being casually walked forward, completely ignoring the body of a barely-alive Koffing nearby and goes directly to the area which are illuminated by a nearby street lights. Going into the lighted area, the being slowly reveals himself starting from his knee high combat boots-equipped legs, heavily-chained baggy blue camo pants, blue curved tail, arms covered in elbow-long pair of gloves and its black vest looped filled with more belts until the figure's head which are covered by the vest's hood with black pointy cat-like ears protruding out from the holes on top.
The Snake Pokemon's eyes went wide in complete horror. "I-It's the Red-eyed Devil!" The Ekans stammered the moment he saw the shadowed being's true form.
"The what! Oh for the last time Kans, that's just a load of bullcrap! There's no such thing as a Red-eyed Devil, it's just a crappy urban legend!" The Zubat shouted at the Ekans, momentarily ignoring the person who just leapt from above. "It's just a normal Lucario, nothing to be scared about. Get em' boys!"
The battle begin when the Croagunk lunges at the Lucario with his left palm glowing purple, intent on attacking and poisoning it using a Poison Jab attack by the chest. However, before it could even reach its intended target, the Lucario parry his arm to the side with his forearm before punching him straight in the face once the Pokemon is in range.
Saliva splutter out of the unfortunate Croagunk's open mouth from his attack but his turn does not end there as the Lucario then thrust his knee straight into his guts. To finish it off, the Lucario then palms the Poison-type Pokemon with a Force Palm while it is still in midair, hurling the Croagunk back to his friends in full-power. Upon seeing the incoming projectile known as their Croagunk buddy, the gangsters immediately evade him by moving to the side. All except for a Scraggy who immediately joins the Croagunk upon collision before they both come down crashing into a nearby pile of garbage, knocked out.
A Machop comes next, the Pokemon tries to deal several punches, kicks and chops at him but the Lucario merely weaves through his entire flurry of attacks as if they were nothing. Frustrated, the Machop doubles his effort without realizing that his moves are becoming more and more uncoordinated. It was only when the Aura Pokemon breaks his defense did he realize his mistakes but by then it was already too late.
Once an opening reveals itself, the Lucario jumps up into the air before going back to the ground once more while doing the familiar horizontal chop of the Brick Break attack at the Machop's exposed neck. While there is visible damage from the outside, there are no doubts that the simple act has dislocated an important bone or two of the Fighting-type Pokemon. The Machop wordlessly fell to the ground on his back afterwards.
Despite defeating three Pokemons in one go, one of the remaining three gangsters which is a male Glameow is still brave enough to charge at the Lucario with his sets of claws raised high to the skies to initiate the infamous Fury Swipes attack.
CLANG!
Unfortunate for the Glameow, the feline has totally forgotten that he is dealing with a Steel-type Pokemon. His beloved metal-like claws instantly shatters the moment it made contact with the Lucario's armored skin, officially rendering them useless now. The Glameow stares at the remains of his claws in disbelief but doesn't have the time to mourn for them as the Aura Pokemon then does a roundhouse kick at the feline right onto the brick wall beside him. The trauma of the attack is so strong that the Glameow's irises rolled to the back of his head.
As the Glameow slowly falls limp to the ground, the Lucario focuses his deadly scarlet eyes onto the remaining gangsters which are the Zubat and the Ekans whom are staring at the (nearly) dead bodies of their gang buddies in a mixture of fear and shock.
"I-It really isss the Red-Eyed Devil…" The Ekans hissed in fear.
Despite seeing it first hand, the Zubat still doesn't care about such crap. "Let's make a run for it!" The Zubat declared, realizing that fighting the Lucario is suicide. "We'll r-remember this, you!"
The remaining two turn to flee the bloodshed. However, if they thought they could get away from the dangerous Lucario, they have no idea how wrong they are.
Not caring about their downed buddies the two remaining gangster tries to fled the battlefield as well as Castelia City's infamous 'Blood-eyed Devil' they just witnessed firsthand. Unfortunately for them, the Lucario is one step faster than them both and hurled a twirling one-meter long bone right at them. Functions just like an actual boomerang; the bone rapidly spins towards its intended target and makes a direct hit right at the Ekans' skull with a loud and sickening crunch before doing a detour to return back to its rightful owner. The Snake Pokemon collapsed with blood flowing from its slightly ajar mouth afterwards, whether if he's still alive or not is hard to tell.
"Gah!" The Zubat gasped when he saw the Ekans goes down. Led to desperate will to survive, the Bat Pokemon flaps its wings wildly and lunge to the sky for the sake of freedom. He didn't bother turning to look around even after flying good distance away from the scene. Just when the Zubat thought the coast is clear, a glowing blue sphere suddenly zipped right under his left arm, punching a decent-sized hole on his bat wings. "Noooooooo~!"
The Zubat's scream of despair are the last thing heard before the bat Pokemon descends back to the solid ground via gravitational force.
Back at the alley place, the Lucario didn't bother sparing a look at the Zubat knowing full well what would happen to him. While falling from such a height won't kill the Zubat, the Bat Pokemon won't be able to move a single limb for the next 3 months or so. The same goes for his other gangster buddies as well.
Going back to the current matters at hand, the Lucario approaches the two trembling girls who are hugging each other for their lives.
"P-P-Please don't hurt us…" The Buneary pleaded fearfully at the Lucario. "We'll do everything you tell us to do, just please don't hurt us…"
The Lucario halted in his tracks, his venomous scarlet-red eyes unwavering as he stares at the two shivering girls before him. Terribly frightened by this, the Buneary shut her eyes tight to avoid the intimidating eyesight of the man who just single-handedly 'murdered' seven gangsters with ease. It's not like she ever wanted this to happen, she and her Swablu friend was just taking a shortcut home from school because it was already late night and they certainly didn't expect to encounter one of the city's gangsters along the way.
Eyes still closed shut; the Buneary could do nothing but hug her friend's arm as her only means of security for whatever tragedy bounds to happen to both of them afterwards. Her mind began thinking the worse possibilities that could ever and she couldn't help but shiver at each and one of every negative aspects she just did. Now she regrets thinking about such thoughts.
As she contemplates about this, confusion began to fill her mind when she didn't hear or feel anything even after waiting for several moments. Curiosity overawing her fear, the Buneary opened her left eye to sneak a peek but was surprised at what she saw.
Nothing, the Lucario was gone out of sight, as if he had just stealthily vanished out of nowhere.
'W-W-Where did he go?" The Buneary asked as she frantically looks around. It was then did the bunny Pokemon hear the familiar sound of the police's sirens coming from the alley's entrance, it was faint not to mention echoed but there's no mistaking it. Help is on the way.
It's too bad for them that the problem is already dealt firsthand by an unexpected individual nonetheless.
Perched on one of rooftop edge of the worn-out buildings nearby, the same intimidating Lucario vigilantly watches as the two girls he had just saved were safely taken in by the Castelia's Police force. Once he was sure they're both deem safe and secured, the Aura Pokemon did a sharp turn around and ran to the other side of the building before skillfully leaping off to another building's rooftop. A criminal must not return back to the crime scene, after all.
The Lucario repeated his parkour several more times, jumping from one building to another building nearby as if it wasn't dangerous at all. Along the way the Pokemon had to duck in the shadows once more when a helicopter flew above him, probably belongs to one of the many news companies who desire to have a good headline for their morning news, either way he didn't give a care. It was only when he's twenty blocks away did he slowed his running speed down…but even then he wasn't away from a pair of wandering eyes.
Several moments later, the Fighting-type Pokemon landed on the rooftop of a run-down six-storey apartment that looks like it has seen better days. The windows either has its glass surface shattered or replaced by planks of rotten wood and the walls meanwhile has lost its paint after years of lack of maintenance. Overall, it's a haunted apartment, a perfect hideout for criminals such as the Lucario himself.
Rather than using the fire staircase besides the building, he chose to stealthily scale down on one side of the building like a Galvantula before arriving at one of the many windows on the third floor. Inside the building, the interior looks just as ugly as it is from the outside. In fact, it looks far worse, with trashes heavily scattered on the floor, thick dusts covering all the already-beaten down furniture and walls scribbled with graffiti full of vulgar words.
Again, it's a perfect hideout for criminals such as the Lucario himself.
The Fighting-type Pokemon obviously lived there alone as he casually jumped into the apartment through the window. He cautiously glances around the empty and dirty room once he's inside as if threat is still imminent within his own home.
His thoughts are entirely correct.
"That was a chivalrous thing you did back there." A feminine voice said from behind him.
SLAM!
In a matter of half a second, the Lucario spun around, materializing the bone staff into his hand again before slamming its long shaft onto the throat of the person who is bold enough to sneak up on him like that. In fact, he wouldn't hesitate to snap the person's head off if things were to come for the worse.
"Oof!" The woman said as the Lucario forcefully slams her onto the brick wall behind with the aid of his bone weapon.
"Who are you?" The Lucario demanded with a growl, finally revealing the deep male voice he has. His deep scarlet-red eyes amplify just how terrifying he truly is.
"That hurts, you know."
The Lucario pressed his bone further at that. "Answer me!"
"My my, getting frisky now are we? I'm sorry to say but I already have a husband and children."
He merely growled, prompting the female to sigh. "Alright fine, my name is Eva but before we go any further, can you please let go of me?" The woman named Eva requested, pointing at the bone staff that are pressed on her throat. The Lucario frowned but he heed her request and moved his weapon away, albeit warily. "Thank you, now as for why I'm here, you're a mercenary right? I would like you to do a job for me."
Now that he is a healthy distance away from the woman, the Lucario could see that she is more or less an Eevee, with hazel-brown hair and perky rabbit-like ears as well as the bushy tail that were waggling casually behind her back. Eva was clad in a brown business suit and pencil skirt that suits perfectly with her Pokemon species' color. She looked so relax and carefree as if she had just came to visit an old friend rather than trespassing on a criminal's hideout.
The Lucario frowned at that. While what the woman said was indeed true, such knowledge is only available to the people being a part of the dark underground community. It was definitely irregular for a normal civilian to know about this information.
"And what job would that be, if I may ask?" He asked her, the bone staff still held tightly within his grasp in case the Eevee tried to do anything funny.
"Well, you see, I'm the director of a big company here in Unova region but I have quite an issue with my family, they—"
"Get to the point." He growled.
Eva pouted, obviously displeased at being cut off but there was a tiny glimpse of mischief hidden within that chocolate brown eyes of her when he gave his demand. "Long story short, I want you to be a bodyguard and protect my daughters."
"What?"
"They can be a little bit disturbing not to mention annoying sometimes but I assure you that they—"
The Lucario motioned her to stop. "Let me get this straight…" He said. "You came all the way here, the red danger zone of Castelia city, home to many criminals civilians can possibly imagine including me, just so that you can hire me to do babysitting duties."
He gave her another dose of his intimidating glare, which doesn't seem to affect her one bit. "Do I look like a babysitter to you?" He asked. Eva opened her mouth to answer but changed her mind afterwards. "Get out of here and don't ever come back."
Lucario turned around and walked away but quickly halted within his tracks when he heard clasping sound from behind.
"I figured you won't agree to this at first so I brought something that could probably convince you."
The Lucario turned around just time to see Eva opening a silver suitcase lying on the worn-out coffee table nearby that has several rotten pizza slices and empty can of beer scattered all over the surface but the woman are either immune to such intense filth or she just didn't care at all, and revealed several sets of neatly-arranged bundles of Unova's official currency bills. He would've questioned her where the aluminum suitcase came from since he never saw it a while ago but he was too focused on the vast number of Pokecredits before his very eyes to even care.
"So, still not interested in doing this, Mr. Red-Eyed Devil?" She inquired with a winning smirk.
Alright guys, that's it for the first chapter. I hope it's not too short or anything. Don't forget to review and tell me your opinions on this story. Was it a good intro? Does it require some improvement? Are there any grammar errors or whatsoever there? (Personally, I think there's a plenty of grammar errors there since my English aren't that good)