From approval from ShadowsyaoranX-77, I give you the rewrite of Pokemon Master: Sakura! I promised said author that I will not change neither the tone and the story at all. I do not mean to offend the author and his or her writing skills but the story could use some tweaking. The chapter titles will remain the same as well as the story plot but more description and errors will be corrected and some things will be added due to the original author's request and so forth.


Pokémon Master: Sakura Rewrite


Prologue


Explosions blossomed into the sky as flames eat away the forest in its fury. People ran away in fear, leaving behind their home.

A man emerged from the blaze with a dog-like creature sniffing the ground by his feet. His nondescript face is covered by a mask of a skull. His long cloak fluttered in the air majestically as he yelled, "Come out, Aaron! I know you have the book, so hand it over! Or I'll destroy this village until there is nothing but ashes!"

The horned dog-like animal looked upward towards the forest, growling and barking.

The man glanced at the direction his companion pointed and grinned.


Deep in the forest where terror had not reached, a man clad in a long tattered cape ran swiftly with a book clutched in his left hand and a long staff with a blue gem embedded at its crown.

He continued to run until he reached a cave inscribed in odd and foreign symbols. He looked around, calling, "Spiritomb, can you hear me?"

Without warning, a ghastly mauve figure appeared before the man. "Sir Aaron, what I am at your service?" Spiritomb asked in a coarse voice.

Sir Aaron held the book in front of Spiritomb. "Take the book. The Skull is after it and I still have unfinished business to attend to."

Spiritomb looked thoughtful for the moment until he complied. "Very well but give me the Keystone to seal the cave."

Sir Aaron nodded and took out an oddly shaped stone from his pocket. The book and the stone floated towards Spiritomb as Spiritomb disappeared. "Leave now, Sir Aaron. The Skull is approaching." Spiritomb warned as he vanished.

Without a second thought, Sir Aaron ran out of the cave, watching the entrance vanished without a trace.

A bone flew out of the brush heading straight towards Sir Aaron but Aaron easily knocked it away with his staff. He glanced around to see the man with the skull mask come into sight. Behind him were a Houndoom and a Marowak.

"Believe you got away, Aaron?" the man sneered.

Sir Aaron stood his ground as the man continued, "Hand over the book, Aaron or I'll have Marowak and Houndoom beat you to a pulp."

"That is why I'll never give the book to you. You treat Pokémon as if they're your slaves when they are truly our equals." Sir Aaron shot back.

The man laughed cruelly as his Pokémon gave each other puzzled glances. The man stopped laughing when he noticed Aaron was no longer in possession of the book. "The book! What did you do with it?" he demanded.

Sir Aaron just gave him a small smile and held his staff tightly in front of him. The gem glowed actively as five stones, each with a unique symbol, appeared around the head of the staff.

"As the Guardian of Aura, Sir Aaron, I command you to soar to the far reaches of this land to your guardian withhold!"

At this command, the stones transformed into balls of light and flew off into different directions.

The man could do nothing to stop this from happening as he watched the stones disappeared from sight. He glared at Aaron harshly as he shouted. "So you didn't put the five elements into the book. No matter, I'll still obtain all the items you've hid and rule the world with an iron fist with the powers of the legendaries!"

Sir Aaron just smiled, his eyes closing but the man misinterpreted the action as mocking.

"That's it! Houndoom, Flamethrower! Marowak, Bonemerang!"

Houndoom and Marowak launched their powers at Sir Aaron at its fullest. When it finally the target, a heavy explosion erupted.

When the smoke cleared, Sir Aaron has disappeared but his staff was planted firmly in the ground where he once stood.

"Find him!" The man ordered as Houndoom and Marowak ran in opposite directions.

As the man followed his Pokémon, the staff shook slightly as the jewel faintly glowed.

Suddenly the staff disappeared leaving behind nothing but an indentation in the ground.

The new saga of the Next Pokémon has begun…


I hope you like the rewritten prologue. Did I still keep the tone of the story because I think the tone is not just right... ?

Author Notes

Dialogue - In the original, I thought that 400 years into the past could not have speak in such a modern way. I changed it to an archaic dialect to fit the time Sir Aaron lived in.

Description - Some description is added to get some readers a better idea what they can imagine. Not that the original is bad, just hard to imagine what sort of man the Skull truly is. Some description could be added to give him a threatening air around him than just a simple threat.