Greninja, the Ninja Pokémon. It appears and vanishes with a ninja's grace. It toys with its enemies using swift movements, while slicing them with throwing stars of sharpest water that can split even the toughest of metals.
And that is exactly what this Greninja is making use of in this heated battle with these weird but dangerous creatures with hard bone armor and mysterious red markings. The Ninja Pokémon swiftly dodged a sequence of claw swipes that aimed at its stomach before vanishing into thin air. What followed were countless throwing stars compressed of glowing blue water that pierced the armor that came from every direction, successfully breaking off the bone-y material. The creatures were now defenseless and fell victim to a large pump of water that crushed them ruthlessly, wiping out the entire army of monsters.
Greninja landed in the middle of the evaporating beasts that dispersed in black smoke. But taking a closer look at the ninja, it is not what it seems.
This Greninja appears to be a young human male with half of dark blue and white spiky hair and light pink eyes. Seemingly at the age of seventeen, apparently he wears a dark blue hoodless jacket/cardigan with a casual dark v-neck tee underneath it, black dojo joggers, black tabi boots with armor, black fingerless gloves, and the iconic pink tongue, or in this case a scarf which covers his mouth in the same fashion as its tongue used to. Where its bubbles are usually on its arms and legs, they were replaced with, once again, armor of the same white color.
The now human Greninja reflects on just how it got here. A huge tear in the sky appeared out of nowhere and began sucking in everything in its vicinity, along with the unfortunate ninja frog. The day where the most hardest decisions it had ever had to make which was leaving the ideal trainer he ever had a strong connection with.
Ash Ketchum.
The warm-hearted and very determined trainer hailing from Kanto made haste and rescued the then Froakie when he took the mirrored Electro Ball for his first Pokémon friend Pikachu the day they first met. That trust continued to grow until it fully evolved into the powerful Ninja Pokémon while facing off against a hotheaded Bisharp and mysteriously gained the weird phenomena when it's and Ash's hearts become one, to the point where Ash literally feels what it feels when battling. That's how much their bond really is: a transformation between trainer and Pokémon.
The human ninja frog smiled in content at all the memories and adventures it had experienced alongside Ash and his other three companions. But something had to ruin it.
A large avian-like creature squawked loudly from above before diving down after seeing its supposed next meal. Greninja decided to play smart this time. He concealed more of his face with his pink scarf and disappeared into the trees on the side of the path he was taking towards who knows where. It watched as the huge bird landed with a shake of the ground. It looked around for the human that was just here but something had decided to just ram itself into its eye, it shrieking in despair at the sharpness the mysterious object had.
Unbeknownst to it, Greninja flipped high above it before tossing down a black ball that left a trail of smoke behind it and when it landed on the grassy floor that was the forest, it covered the entire area in smoke, blinding the already damaged vision of the giant bird. It couldn't dodge in time the multiple slashes to its face when it was busy fumbling around with its loose vision. It went staggering back from the force and lost balance. The smoke finally cleared, showing not one, not two, not three, but possibly over fifty of the human Ninja Pokémon all lined up ready to throw down again. The bird's vision finally regained its sight back and didn't falter at the many humans there were now. It flew in the air and sent out a volley of feathers that rained down on the face of the planet, getting rid of the fakes. The real Greninja acrobatically maneuvered through the air, avoiding the sharp feathers easily, but oddly didn't dodge the last one which, to the bird's perspective, pierced his human body right through the chest. The bird squawked in success, ignoring the small puff of white smoke where the body is and descended to the "fallen" human it subdued. It went to start feasting but when it bit into it, a soft texture attacked its taste buds. When it looked to inspect it, the ninja's body turned out to be replaced by a weird, green plush doll.
Greninja didn't even let it start thinking of its next move when he jumped on the bird's back and continued to slash away at the pieces of bone to lessen the defense. A huge feather came crashing down on the ninja but vanished into a puff of smoke, again replacing its body with a substitute. He basically glided towards the ground and landed with grace.
He really wanted to end this now.
He closed his eyes in remembrance of his former trainer and best friend Ash. Soon came a huge water veil that concealed his form momentarily before dispersing, showing a more upgraded version of the human. Where his white half of hair was now shaded raven black with a red lightning bolt. His blue half of hair and blue clothes now grew a lighter shade of the color and he also now holds a large shuriken compressed in water.
He opened his eyes and switches from pink to crimson red. They narrowed deeply before he detached the huge shuriken off his back and concentrated. After a while, his eyes and the red lightning bolt in his hair glowed brightly with power. The shuriken grew even larger and changed color, from blue to a bright red-orange, the shuriken spinning so quick with incomprehensible speeds. The large red star was released from the grasp of the Ninja Pokémon, the speed alone was enough to cut through the front of the bird and back. The force was so great, that the top half flew high into the air while the bottom half instantly went bye-bye. The top half soon came crashing down and evaporated into that thick black smoke cloud.
Greninja heaved a huge sigh of relief before scanning to see if more would jump out of nowhere. With nothing else happening after a few minutes, he nodded and reverted back into his normal self then continued his trek down the narrow path.
xXxX
He finally made it to a city, a pretty advanced one at that. Cars traveling down a slick road non-stop, citizens going about their business talking on their weird white devices, people conversing with each other through the shop's windows. But what really got his attention were some of the different people around here. They were diverse due to their unique, extra appendages on their heads, arms, legs, and backsides. Ranging from dog ears to lizard tails, these folk were very much like some of the Pokémon at home. He wonders if they could use moves like them but that seems very unlikely.
He also noticed how the normal crowd looked at the animal people. Almost like they were scared or even angry at them. Greninja didn't know what was going on, but he sure as heck doesn't like it. He couldn't help but have a strong sense of justice; he is the fabled hero of the dignified Ninja Village. But it was mostly thanks to Ash that he's like this right now. That boy can sure rub off on someone as fast as he makes friends out of them.
Night seem to come way faster then he would've liked. He has nowhere to stay for the evening and he could appreciate a nice, cozy bed to sleep in. He sighed and concealed his mouth with his scarf before hopping on the roofs of the resident houses. The Ninja Pokémon jumped from one house to another in an amazing speed, careful not to reveal his presence to the city.
A loud clang put his jumping on hold and the ninja sank into the ground in a veil of shadows. He traveled like this for a while on the dark ground near the valleys where he stopped and witness a large amount of crates being hauled onto huge airships and boats. The people were exactly like the ones he saw in the city, but now with masks that only hid their eyes. What were these people referred to as here?
"Hurry it up! This dust ain't gonna ship itself!"
A rather loud and arrogant voice resounded through the area commanded the animal men. He spotted an orange haired man with a bowler hat and weird clothes...also with dark liner around his eyes. Is that normal for males to put on themselves? The Ninja Pokémon shook his head and continued to travel in the ground in his shadows. He then saw them acting rather suspicious when they kept looking around, almost as if they are keeping watch for anything to happen. It didn't help when they were acting quickly with loading the carts and talking in hushes and whispers.
'So these guys are thieves apparently. If that's the case, I must stop them immediately before they get any further.'
He went on the offensive and tackled an unsuspecting criminal guy from out of the shadows underneath, pushing him against a stack of the crates knocking them over. The commotion garnered the rest of the team of thieves and went to investigate. When the group got there, they found their fallen comrade slumped against the pile of broken wood and dust crystals, completely out of it. They were confused on how he ended up like that before two of the men's eyes rolled behind their sockets and collapsing to the ground in front of their friends, with them looking frantically for the perpetrator.
'They outnumber me ten to one. I can fix that.'
He flickered in front of them and that was alone for them to jump from their spots in surprise. They were even more scared when nine figures appeared next, in front, and behind the blue and white haired boy. They turned out to be copies of the unknown child and before they can respond correctly, blue throwing stars compressed of water were conjured up between their curled fingers. Five of them leaped in the air and threw them down horizontally, covering up their escape routes. They were forced to take them and how bad it was to do. The five weren't done as they sprinted quickly, leaving a white streak of light behind them. The men tried to block their incoming attacks with their swords but ultimately failed when they broke immediately upon contact, and taking the blows anyway. Now that five were on the floor not getting up anytime soon, the five fakes disappeared leaving the fight five to five. The rest ran screaming for the hills but were halted when black smoke covered their vision, preventing them from advancing. They attempted to swat away the black fog but were put down instantly with a slash to the backside.
Greninja stood there, now all alone in the night. That was when the orange man decided to show up. He was getting fed up with waiting and wondered why it was that they were taking to long. He was answered with a strong and fast kick to the face. Reeling back from the force, he narrowed his eyes, annoyed that this plan was going to be trouble yet again.
"Whoever was stupid enough to even attempt that, please, I dare you to try it again."
Now Greninja was not one to underestimate his opponents and so did the logical thing and stayed concealed in the shadows. Roman was fuming and quickly sense movement behind some crates and so he shot a flare of fire dust towards the area, igniting the place with hot fire.
Torchwick scanned the entire area that was in flames and smoke before smirking and walking away.
Nope.
Greninja front-flipped in the air and threw water shurikens that Roman was quick to dodge. The infamous criminal gazes at the boy whose eyes glowed a menacing red along with a lightning bolt in his hair acting the same. A large star was in the grasp of the annoying boy and transformed even larger and glowed red-orange that looked like it was on fire. The spinning star sped through the air with Roman again avoiding it but the impact was so great that the force managed to nick Roman in his stomach. He hissed in slight pain and witnessed something very terrible. The boy leapt over the two machines of their dust transportation and brung his hands together with a spiral of blue water forming in between. Moments later, a huge pump of water streamed through the gap between the two forces and successfully destroyed both ship and plane. Unfortunately, that stirred up more trouble, especially for Roman. For Greninja, he was perfectly fine way up in the air away from the massive explosion that erupted due to the amount of explosive and fire dust that were aboard.
Roman was absolutely livid. The second dust failure this week (two days in row) and to make it even worse, he planned to go alone this time away from the city but the universe was just not having it. Why was he even doing this really?
Seeing as there was no point in staying here any longer, he fled the scene hastily. Greninja watched him go and couldn't help but think just how similar he was to those aggravating Rocket grunts. He went ahead and put out the fire with blasts of pressurized water for the biggest fires and small pulsing blasts of water for the weaker ones.
His keen senses kicked in and expertly threw a quick water shuriken towards the newcomer, who was a middle-aged blonde woman with green eyes and a...tiara? The star whizzed by her head and cut a strand of hair off the woman and dented the wall behind her, small rocks falling from their glued spot.
The woman raised her hands in wariness and preparation in case this gets out of hand, "No need to be so cautious around me, young man. My name is Glynda Goodwitch. I am here on behalf of Professor Ozpin of Beacon Academy. We noticed your battle previously here and all we can say is that we are certainly impressed with your prowess during a battle and your strange ways of fighting. We would like to speak with you and question you on your intentions for the future."
Greninja eyed her suspiciously and narrowed his red orbs of fire before sensing nothing off with this woman and cancelled his ability in favor of nodding at her. The huntress's eyes widened marginally higher than their normal position at the large throwing star that was on his back vanish along with his transformation.
'Could that have been his semblance?'
She could only nod in appreciation without changing her expression and lead him away to a small building.
xXxX
"Young man, I would really much appreciate your explanation on your battling strategy and your odd transformation mid-battle."
The Ninja Pokémon was now sitting across a man in green with white hair and small glasses holding a cane in one hand and a mug in the other. A strange box that looked quite similar to the Kalos Pokédex showed him battling the animal men and the girly man with orange hair.
For the first time, he cleared his throat, lowered his scarf and began to speak. His voice was surprisingly normal with a natural monotonous tone in his voice with every word, "I was born in a ninja village and raised there my whole childhood and learned the ways of their people. I've practiced day in and day out my natural abilities ever since birth to morph real copies of myself, attack with inhuman speeds, and I also have a perceptive affinity with water and the darkness."
Ozpin hummed in understanding with Glynda nodding her head at his dull but straight answer.
"And this...transformation. Would this happen to be your semblance by any chance?" Ozpin inquires.
"You would be correct in your assumption, Director Ozpin. My transformation is my semblance and it's called Battle Spirit. In this mode, my leg power enhances and my water and dark side increases drastically as well."
"Fascinating. Oh! I am terribly sorry, I forgot to ask for your name. Would you tell us?"
Greninja thought for a minute before answering, "My name is Jiu Ketchum."
Ozpin smiled and hummed again and asked, "Would you like to come to my school?"
Glynda looked to her boss in bewilderment. Again? What is it with these children?
Greninja, or Jiu, frowned underneath his scarf. It couldn't be the schools that he knows since this is a different world he already knows that. But something about that smile and he swore there was a tiny glint in his eye that tells him that something is up. This school is no ordinary school.
"I will take your word for it, Director Ozpin. I accept the invitation."
Ozpin smiled a bit more and clasped his hands, "Excellent. It seems my work here is done. I will expect your arrival at Beacon. Glynda, show him the way out."
His associate nodded and directed Jiu out. The Ninja Pokémon now only had one thought.
'Where is this Beacon?'