[[[Author's Note

first and formost I'd like to thank my girlfriend, wolfexpert for pushing me so hard to write this, and all the creative support she gave, and my Editor Grimore Fantasia over at FIM fiction. And I did not create Pokemon, only the concepts for the charachtors, locations, and situations]]]

Within a dark void floating aimlessly… something about the sudden sound of a crackling fire, and the feeling of soft ground, an intoxicating yet unknown aroma, and the cold grass shivers him awake, by quick and sporadic movements drove his legs he scampered on awake. He arose, his fur a light mahogany, his … 'mane'… Hair? … Going with hair; His hair is quite a shade of red and unruly as it drapes down his neck, with a black tattoo on his left ear and deep midnight blue eyes.

"My head…" he says woozily and sickly. Dazed and confused

He can't think straight 'Who am I… What am I… why can't I walk properly… where am I? What's that sound' he says taking a good looking around at the makeshift hut, probably made from the skin of ... something. Asked the Mahogany-furred Pokémon to really nobody

He is unsure what as he his ears twitch as he listens around...The Sounds of Insects enchant the night as the sounds of a fire burning. As well as a discussion outside, in which he, out of a sick and cruel Arceus given curiosity, walks out to it, where his almost appalled at what he saw;

A carcass of a large and bear-like Pokémon with what appears to be a big ring on its stomach, Roasted over a roaring flame, He's unable to identify it and BOY does it smell good to him. So he cautiously approaches the unguarded food and his mouth opens subconsciously as his dry mouth can feel its Smokey flavor… its rich texture, cooked to perfection. Only to have it replaced with a rude tackle from the side, he yowls in pain, and tears leak from his eyes as he bounces along the ground three times before settling, he scrambles up to rise

"You, stop!" A voice yells from the direction our hero was knocked from, it was female, but you could barley tell that by how angry she sounded, and how loud she yelled "You dirty thief!" she yells further. Much like him, her fur was unruly, but the difference, she had her fur circled around a bone on her head. She had a cold piercing gaze, and with a cold piercing voice, other Pokémon like her, surrounds the Mahogany furred Pokémon with weapons made of bone, rope, and twigs. However that doesn't mean they weren't sharp, that's stupid to think.

With a smirk on her face, and her cold gaze unwavering "Now… you weren't trying to steal a bite of our food from your fellow Vulpix without asking nicely weren't you stranger?~" she asks, The mahogany furred Pokémon gulped before the Vulpix, he shook his head no, unable to speak from sheer terror, as he scuttled to back away.

"Come now...we aren't going to hurt our own kin…" the Vulpix says

"But chief I tho-" one says with a dumb sounding voice, only for him to get interrupted a head bonking over the head by the Vulpix aforementioned. Who is indeed the chief? She's very Chief-like, very dominant, standing five inches over her cronies; But the Sapphire-Eyed Vulpix stood 3 inches above her.

"What do you want with me?" The one with Sapphire eyes asks to the chief, getting a chuckle from her, he watches her every movement…

"Now now… It's what we all want in this dreary world of greed and malice. Wealth and Food, we already have the food part. So I think you can tell what we want out of you…" She says as a dagger is tossed to her, fashioned out a claw, which she quickly grabs in one of her tails, but can easily get it to her mouth.

"Wealth." She says with a Giratina-ish grin. "Now, we already searched you… you don't have a wallet. Shame, but we do have use for you, we need a distraction. There's a night guard there who wields damn good flashlight, and somehow beats us every time… despite us having the type advantage…" she explains as if she were talking to a young child.

Through all that the Sapphire eyed Vulpix stared, and then said. "Listen… Lady, I don't know who I am, I don't know who YOU are, I don't know where I am, or what a flashlight is. All I know is that I want food, and you have it. Can I have some?"

The Chief smiles, and using her tail flips the knife into her mouth, walking up to the meat, she cuts through it with ease, because the meat was so tender, and then spinning around again hitting the meat to the Sapphire-eyed Vulpix, which he catches with a jump, quickly consuming

"You made the right choice in your allies… Driftwood." The Chief says with a satisfied tone, as others followed her, The Sapphire Eyed Vulpix seemed excited over something, and not just the meat

"Sorry Driftwood." Another Tribal Vulpix says to him "It's not your actual name… more of endearment." He says as the, now sad, Sapphire-Eyed Vulpix rises to follow him

"Well at least it's something." The Sapphire eyed Vulpix said, then continues to ask "… Why Driftwood though?"

You see, We found you along the Drift, a beach that's nearby this little outstretch of land, its where all of things that fall into the local waters end up, stuff like necklaces, pictures, personal belongings… So forth, any who, Reason we took you in at all, is because we thought you were one of us. " The Tribal Vulpix Explains with a chuckle

The Sapphire Eyed Vulpix seemed a little less amused "Why'd you think that? I barley knows who I am… I needed some food which is why I went along with this."

The Tribal Vulpix looks to him and says… "We thought you where one of us. With that Odd Tattoo on your neck." He then walks off, leaving the Sapphire Eyed Vulpix Standing there in confusion… and then he follows… he can see it in the distance, a large imposing building… that rose into the air, it looks almost like a small castle, with the spires… but he can also see a searchlights going around the area… as the other Vulpix dive into the bushes….

The Chief spoke from the bushes. "That's it… That's the city's reserves..." The Chief says to him "We need you to take on their leader, a Volbeat named Officer Grahm while we sneak in during the bedlam and take what rightfully belongs to us; Anyway, Grahm wields a flashlight, and he can use it to deflect the fires aside or into the air, so your fire attacks won't work! GOOD LUCK~" The chief after explaining it all dives into the bushes

The Sapphire eyed Vulpix walked forward and as soon as he was out of earshot he mumbled "Rightfully yours my fluffy ass…"

He arrives at the money reserves… he then looks up into the air wondering for a moment which one is their leader. He mutters to himself

"Guess a shot in the dark is better than nothing…" he then picks up a good sized rock using one of his tails, lightly tossing it into the air to catch it in the same one to check for proper weight, he then does a spin with his body and with his best, he tosses the stone into the air, and he closes his eyes, hoping it worked.

Unfortunately it did; with a loud "OW!" And a sudden bright light pointing straight at his face, as the sound of buzzing fills the air, as if it were an alert of sorts. An Alert towards something… The Light from above begins to get closer as the rapid sound of wings is heard and an orb of light begins to descend from the air, as the searchlight, which seems to be coming from the orb begins to spin around quickly, and he can already hear the rapid flutter of small bug-like wings as they grow closer to the ground, dust is sent flying in most every direction… He can see the Pokémon inside.

It was an insect like Pokémon, wielding a metal cylindrical tube like device that emitted a light with a reach, a strap on it that he was spinning masterfully around that stub of an arm that he has. He also had fuzz that went around his neck that resembled the fluff of a coat. With swirling antenna, he lands, and points the flashlight straight into the Sapphire eyed vulpix's face

"Agh!" he responds with covering his eyes from the sudden light, but then looks up after a couple seconds, his eyes glimmer slightly

"Well, never seen one of you with Blue eyes before." The Pokémon says. The Sapphire Eyed Vulpix can somehow identify this Pokémon as 'Officer Grahm' The Volbeat that he was warned of earlier. He continues on to speak...

"So, what are your name then Scottie?" He asks shining the light in his face

"A-actually I was kind of hoping you'd tell me, you see I don't know who I am you see I woke up in a Vulpix cla-"

"Whoa whoa whoa hold up there, Scottie." says Grahm waving his stubs in a 'slow down' kind of motion, as said Vulpix Clan is sneaking around behind him "So, Scottie, you mean to tell me… you don't know who you are… but you woke up with a clan of Vulpix" Grahm says to him

The Sapphire-Eyed Vulpix nods… but then inquires "Why do you keep calling me Scottie?" Receiving a head tilt from the officer "… You look like a Scottie… but I have one thing to ask you there, Scottie, if you don't mind me calling you that."

"Go ahead… and uh shoot. " The Sapphire Eyed Vulpix, now known as Scottie evidently, responds.

In a blink of an eye, without any time to react, almost as if by the speed of sound, or something even faster, Grahm whacked Scottie with his flashlight, Hitting hard as a truck, and Scottie was in so much pain from it his ears had a slight ringing in his ears, as he cries out from the sharp, blunt, pain now present in the side of his face them as he rolls to the side... looking up again with tears in his eyes back to the Volbeat, who is spinning that flashlight in hand

"Scottie, do you think Iiiii'm Stupid?" he asks "You're just another no-good dirty thief who wants to steal from the town reserves, well did you know that this money goes to funding important things! Huh? You little scumbag?" he says preparing to whack him once more but he quickly evades

Scottie was afraid, terrified even. He was warned about this. But what could he have done, and all he could really "Please! Sir! I didn't know! I just-"he says only to be quickly WHACKED once more but this time from the right, with both his ears ringing, he feels distorted from the constant moving lights. Hot tears stream from his eyes and pass over his probable wounds. He lands to the ground, sobbing in pain… in fear…

"I-i-it hurts s-s-so much… "Scottie says softly between sobs "this is it… this is where I die… I'm going to die… I'm going to die… I don't want to die…" he looks to the approaching Volbeat figure of Officer Grahm, swirling his flashlight "p-please… no… h-have mercy…. I-I don't want to die… I-i… please…. Please … Please don't kill me." Begs Scottie pathetically to the approaching Volbeat, Looking up at him his ears ringing, his vision blurring some… he takes a sharp inhale "I didn't know… they… they… they told me to keep you distracted… I was just going to run away… but but… they were watching me… Please I don't want to die… I don't want to steal… I just want to find out who I am…" Scottie states then bowing his head, and lowering his head expecting the worse

Only instead of the final blow, he can feel the flashlights harsh glow ending... he looks up at Grahm Who did not strike... but instead looked down on him.

"So, you really have no connection? You're just a hostage they forced into labor?" Grahm inquires softly, receiving a nod from Scottie in response. Grahm sighs, feeling exceedingly guilty… He mutters under his breath "A Vulpix that doesn't want to rob us blind… That's exceedingly odd…" he mumbles, taking off his hat, and bowing, to allow a round, blue berry to roll off of head, and over to the injured Scottie, then says to him.

"Here, Eat this Scottie, It's called an Oran berry. Its juices are a natural medicine that speeds up the healing process of the body. They taste pretty darn good too!" Grahm says positively

Scottie looked at the berry, and hungrily ate it, it was so good, so full of flavor, and he didn't even need to peal it that it was just so soft. He already felt his wounds recovering. As he stands up proudly, his tails wagging. Scottie found something in this world… a friend.

He speaks in thought the following "Maybe I'm not doomed to a life of crime… Maybe it's… Maybe its stopping criminals…" he ponders… only to be interrupted by Grahm's exclamation of the following

"C'mon Scottie, We got criminal scum to bring to justice!"

Scottie shakes his head getting to it "Uh Right!" he says quickly following after the Volbeat, as they both entered the reserves, Grahm begins to shake his wings, and sending out lights in an odd pattern… Looking up into the air as lights begin to organize into shapes, and harmonious buzzing is heard

Scottie had to ask "What are doing…?"

"I'm telling the other Volbeat, as well as Illumise, that you are my ally, and that we're going in, they'll be surrounding the parameter, and getting Sergeant Louie… You'll meet him when you do." Grahm explains quickly, he looks up into the air and sees a pattern in the air, well, odd to Scottie. Which Grahm turns too "How many are there?" he asks him

After a moment of thought Scottie replies with "About… Five I think. I never really counted… I don't even know if I counted correctly." With a sheepish grin, and a small chuckle, but

They talked for a while, about the chief, about what the situation was… many things, though it was in whisper, they bonded a little. As it turns out, Grahm was a pretty cool guy after all; he explained many things there to him, things that won't be delved into right now. Right now they have an issue to focus on.

They can spot the Vulpix Tribe with bags and bags full of riches, the chief herself wearing a fine looking tiara, differentiating her from the rest of the common rabble.

Grahm jumps forward, pointing his flashlight in all of their faces "Stop right there criminal scum!" he exclaims at the top of his lungs towards the group, as Scottie joins up next to him

The Chief Scowled "How DARE you betray is you little runt, after we found you… fed you..." She says with a rather angry tone which ushers a growl from Scottie

"You also sent me to die!" he responds

The chief waved her paw and says "Details details…" with her eyes closed and a tone that seemed rather… calm. Something was wrong here. In the five minutes he had known the chief… Scottie did a quick headcount.

Four.

"Grahm look out! It's a trap!" he yells suddenly and hastily, but it was too late. An array of small fireballs, almost like embers, blasted in from behind Grahm, he screamed out in pain as they made harsh contact with him. He fell forward dropping his flashlight and it rolled over to the chief

"George!" he exclaims weakly reaches out. But he didn't have the time, or the reach before a Vulpix jumped in front of him, kicking the flashlight over to the chief, and then letting out a loud roar which caused a ripping and wild windstorm that blasted Grahm across the room and a loud CLANG was heard when he hit a support beam…

"What in the…" Scottie says staring at the attack

"Like that, it's called Roar, here's an EXAMPLE!" The Vulpix yells, performing Roar against Scottie, blasting HIM … well not as far, because for better or for worse, the wall was rather close. Scottie slid down in pain... he couldn't feel the will to get up.

The Chief, wrapping her tail tightly around the Flashlight approached Grahm who was weak and on the floor…

"How Ironic... I wield the same weapon you used to have trumped, and even killed a few of my kind… now you want to know what I'm going to do darling?~" she asks so cheerfully it was downright sadistic…

"I'm going to beat you down, blow. For. Blow. Until you realize that we deserve what we've obtained from you… Or you die. I like the Die idea~" She says, then wiggling her tail and then spinning her body around to put as much momentum as she can and then a loud

CRACK! Was heard from the metal of the flashlight hitting the Volbeat's Carapace and he slams and bounces along the ground…

"Please, no! I-I have a family! A Wife and two kids! They're still larva!" Grahm says backing away in sheer terror, as he scuttles back helplessly

"Oh boo-hoo…" the chief say giving him another good WHACK

Scottie is watching in dismay as these acts transpired... terrified… horrified… he's watching Grahm go through what he went through, barley even an hour ago… and it made him feel angry. It began to boil his blood watching one Pokémon beat up a defenseless other, especially for reasons of greed. He wanted to make sure nobody ever felt as scared as he did, starting tonight.

Despite his pain, he began to rise as his legs stuttered his body weak and tired. He began to growl loudly and audibly.

"Let him go." Scottie demands, as the entire tribe looks to him

The chief chuckles at him "You're not quite the person to make demands…" she says as the entire five-Vulpix-band draw their bone-made spears. And they begin to approach Scottie

"I have one thing to ask… What would you like your tombstone to say? " The Chief asks him

"That he spent the rest of his long life making sure scum like you never hurt anyone again!" Scottie yells, adjusting his posture, raising his tails and closing his eyes. Then four of Vulpix taking a running charge, He thinks back to all not too long ago… that move. … Maybe he could use it too, he inhales once…. Then with the force like that of the winds, he lets out a roar! Its force is strong enough to blow back the four Vulpix into the wall, leaving Scottie panting, out of breath and exhausted…

The Chief took a single look at her comrades, looks to Grahm, looks to Scottie … grabs the smallest bag, and runs out of there without a single word said, in her panic she had dropped the flashlight, it landed with a Klink and a clank

Scottie looks over to it for a moment before walking over to the metal torch… and he then, by using his nose, he begins to roll it over to the injured and hurt Grahm … who with a smile says

"… You did good kid…" Says a weak, beaten, Grahm looking to the young hero with a smile "Scottie… roll me on my back please… I need to buzz this in…" he says straining

Scottie has no idea what to say… He felt a sense of honor, he felt good about what he had done… but he has no idea what's going to happen next, will he be a hero? Or is he just going to blow away with the wind… with a paranoid tone Scottie Replies "Ok sir…"

And using the same method he had used to roll over the flashlight, he rolls over Officer Grahm and steps back, he knows full well what he meant by, 'buzz it in'. With that being said; Grahm calls in a few Pokémon like him, other Volbeat and some others, except they were more effeminate, with purple boa like fuzz, their face skin being a lighter blue with thinner, shorter antenna, and the design on her carapace. Scottie easily puts two and two together, and identifies them as the Illumise that Grahm mentioned earlier.

They quickly take both him and Grahm over to the police station, a somewhat prestige building in the center of town, made of pure white stone. And had a blue painted roof, they were known as the Port Town Police Department.

The next morning, Scottie is seated in the waiting room outside the office Sgt. Louie, who Grahm had mentioned earlier… he waited outside while they decided his fate…

He then hears a chuckle coming from a nearby desk, with it entails "Oooo you're in trouble-e-e-e now mutt." a rather annoying male voice, that sounds like he's trying to be a cool guy.

The guy himself seemed about barley half Scottie's height; he had white fur on his head, with an orange nose, cyan fur on his torso, and had blue fur on his ears, arms and legs, he looked as if he were a swimmer otter in a bodysuit, but his two notable features where a shell on his upper torso, and a police cap on his head, he leaned back in his chair

"You are so screwed good sir!" The Pokémon says, and then continues "Officer Grahm and Sergeant Louie NEVER have to talk about anything in private unless it's really bad!"

Scottie looks over the Oshawott; he spies a name on the desk 'Will'. He remembers that name in case he needs to ask if he can deck him later… with his feet.

"I'll have you know I saved officer Grahm's life last night." Scottie replies to the Pokémon with a slight growl

The Pokémon known as Will takes a gander at him … and then starts laughing "You? Save an officer's life? HA! I've never heard FUNNIER!" Exclaims will "I may have just gotten here a minute ago, but that doesn't mean I was born yesterday. You're a Vulpix, which just means by default I am like a knight of a Chevalier Team of Yoran compared to you." The Pokémon says hopping up on his desk

"Which is good because I'm going to be the captain of one!" he says holding up his shell, "I will lead great and noble crusade throughout the land, and vanquish all evil with my bravado and my blade!" will yells "and of course with my charm… All that's stopping me is the ok from the Sergeant, but I'll get it soon enough."

Scottie rolls his eyes and replies with "You talk too much, has anyone ever told you that? Because you do and it annoys me."

Will shot a glare towards Scottie "Hey, do you know what I am?" he barks at Scottie

"Annoying?" asks Scottie.

"No!" Will yells at Scottie… he then calms down trying to regain his fake suave "ok ok... let me put it this way… I'm an Oshawott… ok? An Oshawott evolves into Dewott, which evolves into Samurott… Gee, who's the only family in port town with all three?" Will asks, obviously just asking because he knows the answer and wants to hear it. "I'll give you a hint, one's the master of boats coming in and out, and the other is our best captain…"

Scottie ponders for a moment… Then he just shrugs and responds with "Hell if I know, but you're still annoying."

Will is about to open his big fat mouth once more, but a sudden outburst silences both of them

"I am your daughter's Arceusfather! I was at her wedding, I've saved your life, and we were best friends since the police academy, and all I'm asking of you is to trust me!" Grahm's voice yells

Will have a big smile on his face as he began to walk back to his desk "I'll go get my handcuffs ready scum~" Will whispers into Scottie's ear as he walks off to his desk… "Only times I've ever heard Grahm say that is when he is absolutely sure about an arrest…"

This didn't help Scottie's moral… 'What if everything I did last night meant nothing…? What if I'm being arrested anyway…? Oh great, I'm going to prison and I don't even know who I am, or what I have done'…

Suddenly out from the large door walks out a large dinosaur like Pokémon with a great long neck, with brown as its primary color, its head, as well as segments of his body where green with banana like fruit dangling from his neck like a beard, as well as large yellow 'toes' on its feet. What gartered Scottie's attention was his large leaf-like wings… he wondered if he could fly using them. This Pokémon wore a sash, with a badge on it with the name 'Louie'.

With a deep voice, that could gather any person's attention, he says. "I'm Sergeant Louis. Son, what you did last night was exceedingly noteworthy… As thus, your amnesia may help you to become far different from others of your kind…" Louis then pauses for a moment to make sure he still had Scottie's attention.

Which, he did, he had the vulpix's full unwavering attention. While will was walking up behind Scottie handcuffs ready

"… and those differences are what I wish to utilize. Which is why, with great honor, as well as Grahm's talk of your honor, I hereby give you my approval to start up a Chevalier Squad in port town." Louis says proudly

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Will exclaims running over and pushing Scottie out of the way and then pathetically, he says. "S-surely you must mean me sir! He's a Vulpix! He has no honor!" Will says looking, and sounding, as if he were about to cry.

Grahm walked right up to him, getting as close to him as possible with a glare that could pierce through an iceberg, and right now it was focused on the Oshawott known as Will.

"'That Vulpix' is called Scottie. From what I saw, he has more honor in his paw pad then you do in your whole body…." Grahm says sharply to the Oshawott "he could probably teach you a thing or two about honor… And you know what; I'm assigning you as his partner. Maybe you'll learn a thing or too"

"What, that can't be! I was supposed to be the leader, me!" Will exclaims, as Grahm promptly ignores Will turns to Scottie

"So what's your team going to be called?" Grahm asks

Scottie thinks for a moment… "Siege. Team Siege…." He says as Grahm goes over and rustles his fur as Will stands there, Rage filling him...

'I will be the leader of a Chevalier team, Scottie… I swear right now. You will slip up, I will be there… and if you don't I will make sure you slip up one way or the other…'