Genre: Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe (heavy), Crossover (slight)

Characters: Cast from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh (with a few liberties)

Rating: M for blood, gore, deaths, sexual content

Disclaimer:

I don't own anything from Pokémon. This story will involve and contain a lot of what I mentioned in the rating. After playing some games, I got inspired to write this (yes, I am a huge gamer). People that have played the games in the Devil May Cry series will undoubtedly see some similarities, since this will be inspired by the aforementioned series. Like some of my fics, romance is in order eventually, and mostly between Ash and May. Misty takes a backseat , but she will be a friend in this story later on. Last but not least: enjoy this work of fiction and if you don't happen to like it, then don't read it. Constructive criticism is always appreciated, because I'm always looking for ways to improve my writing. Also, if I don't update in a while it means I'm busy, and quality takes time. Nobody wants a rushed product. This story might start off slow, but it will ramp up eventually. But most of all:

Have fun!

Cardente

OF DEVILS AND POKÉMON

Countless millennia ago, our world was threatened by a force that would have ensured that mankind and Pokémon never came to be, should it came to pass. This force originated from a world beyond our own, a plain called the Underworld, or as it would be more commonly known, the plain called Hell. Described in ancient texts, a powerful being, called the Prince of Darkness which came from the Underworld, attempted to bring our own world into his own domain, making it its own. But he never suspected that he would be stood up against by an unsuspecting warrior.

This being, whose name was never mentioned, was also a denizen of the Underworld, a being from Hell. But where other devils had no sympathy for anything but themselves, he had been touched by a sensation. A sensation called emotion, that slowly developed within his body and mind. He could not allow this transgression that his brethren were planning to continue. He took up his powers and rebelled against his own kind. This was the start of a great conflict.

This conflict lasted for a long time in the Underworld, before it eventually was unleashed on our own world. During this time, the first forms of sentient life started to appear, and this being, fearing that the conflict would eradicate all of life if it continued, managed to defeat the one who had orchestrated the attack from the very beginning. But the price for this victory was high. While the attack and conquest were averted and the Prince of Darkness seemingly slain, the unnamed being was cast out of the Underworld in the ensuing clash. He arrived on our world, and was thrown into a slumber that lasted countless of years, the greatest extent of its powers gone, sealed away in the Underworld where he originated from.

The being awoke in a new time and age, where mankind and Pokémon coexisted peacefully. Using what remained of its power, it took the appearance of a man and ventured into the world to explore. He would experience life, fell in love, he would marry, and would father a child, a son. His child carried his own blood and the blood of its human mother, an offspring that no-one would have thought possible.

But now that he was mostly a human without his original powers, he started to experience the other aspects that came with it. He grew older, and realized that he would eventually perish. And when he would perish, no-one would be left to protect the world from the forces of the Underworld, should they return to take the human world again. Therefore, he made a decision that would ensure the safety of our world. He named his son the new protector of the human world when it was still a baby, and left his wife a sword that she would give to their son. The sword would be, in his hands, strong enough to defeat the devils. His son, however, would come to know his true heritage much later, and the sword was created with what power remained inside his father's own body. His son would carry the sword like it was a family heirloom.

The next step was to seal himself and his own leftover power in a dreamless state on a place unknown to anyone, because if he died, fragments of his power would still remain. His power could be abused, or more importantly, it could lead those who found it to search for his sealed off source of power, still left in the Underworld. So he hid himself, far away from anyone or anything, and nobody would ever find him, not even his own son, to ensure that mankind would never be in danger because of him. Only when the time would come, his location would be revealed to the one who carries his blood. And only then his son would know where to search.

Years have passed since he sealed himself, and his son has grown up to be a strong individual, with a kindred spirit like his father. He works mostly for himself, accepting jobs that are interesting enough to look into, like the supernatural. He wouldn't accept a job if he didn't want it or cared about it, even if he was offered more money than the initial amount.

There would be only one person in the entire world he would listen to, and who he would obey without question:

His own mother, Delia.

His main interest was like his father used to have, and slowly the legacy of his father was going over in him. He became the modern day slayer of devils, the son of the devil legend that protected us, a man unlike the world had ever seen:

The modern day devil hunter, Ash Ketchum.