There was a time when humans and pokemon lived in peace, living as partners, friends and protectors. But humans, greedy as they are took advantage and with confidence in strength that they hardly possessed, they tried to enslave the pokemon race. Pokemon, enraged by this declared war bringing death and destruction to both races. Arceus, god of the pokemon and creator of the universe could not bare to see his children fight. He denied humans the right to capturing pokemon, draining the power from most of the other legendaries in the process, in a final attempt to stop the fighting. But this was not without a price. Arceus fell into a deep sleep leaving the two races to fend for themselves in a hostile world. Arceus mighty as he was did not completely stop these abilities. A few legendaries and humans still had their abilities. Humans with good intentions could use their skills to as "Specials", they wished to end the war that would surely destroy the planet. Afraid, the human race turned against these "Specials" whose abilities began to work when they turned a certain age. At first the humans began to kill the Specials off when they were discovered but when a way to find whether someone was Special or not was discovered, the humans began to have yearly ceremonies where everybody of a certain age was tested. This age grew smaller and smaller until it became the age of eight. Even though those who tested were just children there was no mercy for them. They were killed or chased into the forest, eventually to be killed by the pokemon of the forest who hated humans. Humans killed Specials most of the time unless the Specials could run fast enough. It was almost impossible to escape by running and even more impossible to not be killed. The Specials were slowly dying out, with an even smaller amount being discovered every year. Anything that was onced used by humans to help pokemon were destroyed, and quarentined as dangerous relics. As such many towns were mostly destroyed to rid any chance of Specials to rebel against the human race. Specials could heal, tame and save pokemon. They were the last chance.