Authors' Note: This story would not be possible without the help of a few others; Maegen, Marly, and Midnight. A sincere thanks to you. Also, for the sake of the references I make at times and the sheer amount of pokémon used, I guess I'll say this thing you've probably heard way too much…
I do not own Pokémon, Nintendo, or Game Freak. I give full ownership of all their characters and locations to them.
I made this out of a rp, so if you see any plot holes or problems with the way the story flows, don't be afraid to mention it; I'm not perfect. *Crowd gasps* One of the participants had horrible grammar, so it might have translated incorrectly, sorry if it didn't get fixed. Once again, I'm not perfect so… *Crowd gasps again*
Chapter 1: Prologue
Prologue: There are two kingdoms in the Ransei region. There is a third one, but we will leave that for another date. The time period is medieval. The two areas are the Kingdoms of Death and of Life, ruled by King Absol and Kings Mespirit, Azelf, and Uxie respectively. There has been and is tension between the two sides. Chapter one, unlike the rest, is in the past; approximately two years in the past.
A peasant was walking by her shack as a shadow ran past her and in behind the shack. The peasant slowly turned her head and asked, "Hello?" She then heard a crashing noise and quickly turned the corner to reveal an empty corner except for a small jar shattered on the ground and its contents, fruit. She sighed and started picking up the shattered remnants of the container and the fruit she had earlier gathered.
While as, the owner of the shadow, an Umbreon, was around the corner holding in a laugh as she threw a half-eaten Sitrus berry around the corner and started to run off, not making a single sound as she ran through the cobblestone streets of the Death Kingdom. The Umbreon finished its sneaking through the city, causing a little more mayhem as she approached the gate of the Death Castle.
As she rounded the corner of the around the gate she ran into another figure and they both fell down. Without hesitation the figure, an Infernape, jumped up and pulled back its fist, and right before it attacked it noticed the enemy was just Umbreon, and put its fist down; "Midnight? "What are you doing here? You should know not to sneak up on me like that."
The Umbreon got up and responded, "Well…you need to be a little less high-strung. The Infernape got up and stepped forward out of the castle. "I'm the head guard, it's my job to be high-strung." Midnight, the Umbreon, looked around at the seemingly deserted plaza and started walking away. "No Marly, it's your job to keep the high-strung people out."
Marly walked the rest of the way out of the castle and into the plaza, watching Midnight disappear into the shadows once again…
After Midnight finished up her practicing, she saw a small Zoura walking down the single garden in the whole kingdom. She snuck underneath an overhang and watched it. "Wait, that's the Zoura that is the knight-in-training…," Midnight said to herself and looked over, revealing Marly and the clock above his head, stating that the Zoura should be in training. "Oh great…" Midnight sighed as she watched Marly notice the Zoura without her mentor.
Marly shortly then yelled, "Hey! What are you doing here?!" He then started running towards her, whom just continued walking and ignored him. "That was a mistake." Midnight said to herself, still watching this continue out of view. Marly, now at a mad dash, screamed; "Halt! Dark! Stop!" Marly, always taking things too far, used fire blast in front of Dark, forcing her to stop in her tracks and back away from the now burning plants. Midnight revealed herself from the shadows and walked towards Marly who had slowed down and walked through the burning plants.
Midnight asked Marly the same question Dark did, and almost simultaneously, "What are you doing?!" Marly ignored the question and stood impatiently, asking Dark, "Where is your mentor, so I can tell him you're running away." Dark looked around trying to avoid Marly, then she looked straight up at him and answered, "He's inside. And who said I was running away?! Seriously, I was just taking a walk in between lessons."
Midnight looked at Marly and walked over towards him as he looked down at the burning bushes, and then to Dark. "That's it Dark. I've had it with your so-called 'walking between lessons;' Go to King Absol." Dark sighed and replied, "Fine." She then started to walk around the burning garden into the castle.
Marly and Midnight followed, Midnight asking, "How many times has she said that?" Marly, opening the gate, still walking after Dark, replied, "Way too many, I don't buy it." Dark waited for Marly before entering, Midnight stopped, turned around, and disappeared into the shadows as Dark and Marly entered the castle…
"Signed, Azelf, Mespirit, and Uxie…ok, that should do it. Messenger, send this letter to King Absol." The messenger took the letter and walked out of the castle. Uxie waiting for the messenger to leave before asking the other two, "Do you think he'll accept?" Azelf replied in a cheerful tone, "I hope so, but at the moment we need to focus on current problems, like the completion of the add-on to the castle." "Oh yeah, I forgot." Mespirit answered and almost as if on cue a contractor entered and said they were just finishing the add-on Azelf had just mentioned. "Ok, alert the kingdom."
The messenger jogged into the gates of the castle, shortly followed by the head guard and what seemed to be a Zoura. King Absol had just finished reading as the messenger walked in, "King Absol, I have a message from the kings." The king stood up, took the letter, and then read it to himself; "king Absol, We as a kingdom would like to sign a peace acc-" The king stopped and handed the letter back to the messenger, and told him to reseal it and send it back. He continued, "And once you're done, come back here; I'll have something for you."
The messenger fiddled with the letter as he walked out, leaving and holding the door for Dark to come in. Absol had just sat back down at his desk, the roundtable he jokingly called it. Dark walked up to the desk with Marly entering and following her. Marly pulled a chair over to the wall and sat in it while dark stood awkwardly at the edge of the desk. Absol readjusted himself in his chair and then told her, "Have a seat." He motioned to a chair across his desk, wooden with a cloth seat and back, which Dark sat in.
Once she got settled, Absol asked her bluntly, "Why are you here? I can tell you're nervous." Dark readjusted herself in her seat and then answered unsurely, "Well…uh, s-sir, Marly told me to come here. He thought I was running away again…" Marly looked over calmly and said, "That's true, but you were skipping lessons." Almost immediately after Marly finished Dark turned sharply at him and started to yell, but stopped herself, "I told yo-! …It was a break in-between lessons." Dark turned back to the king waiting for an answer while Marly started to get heated from Dark's behavior.
After what seemed like an eternity, Absol finally looked over from Marly to Dark and explained, "Well Dark, there is no harm from walking in-between lessons, but there is in what can happen during those walks. If you want to continue going on these 'walks', you are going to have to go with someone; we don't want anything to happen to you."
Marly was about to explode, hoping for an actual punishment, but he calmed himself enough to say, "I agree." Absol could detect the anger in Marly and was wishing he didn't have another fit, but Dark didn't really deserve a punishment. Dark realized right about when Marly did that now Marly would be around her all the time, and without thinking she asked, "But does it have to be by Marly?"
She realized what she had just done as Marly jumped out of his seat, barely stopping short of her and jerking his head towards the king, yelling, "I WILL NOT be talked down to by a measly student." King Absol just stared at this display for a while before calmly replying, "While Dark does need accompanied, it doesn't necessarily need to by you Marly, there are…" Absol only managed to get that out before Marly went berserk and jumped off the balcony heading towards the Life kingdom.
"…much lower ranked guards who can handle the job." Absol finished and looked back at Dark, whom was turned around looking out the balcony watching Marly sprint away. "Umm…should you worry about that?" Dark asked and turned around, noticing the king looking straight at her. The king sighed and responded, almost inaudibly, "I'm not sure, he's not my problem for the moment." He started to say something else, but it faded out.
"What was that Sir?" Dark asked, leaning forward onto the dark brown, almost black table. Absol heard a shriek in the distance and looked up over balcony, ignoring Dark's question for a second. After the screams stopped, he looked back at Dark and skipped the question, "I'll assign Crispen to your walks." Dark looked a little surprised by this and asked, "The knight Crispen?" The king didn't pause before responding, "Yes, do you have a problem with him? He is probably the best knight for this situation." Dark looked up, answering in a suddenly surprised tone, "Oh no, he's fine. But isn't he a little high ranked?"
Absol leaned back in his chair and stated, "No, he's got a good attitude, and we don't have any current military business…I think we can spare him." Dark sat there idly until a small explosion in the distance got both their attention. After a few seconds the king broke the silence by asking, "Remind me why I promoted Marly to head guard." He gave off a slight smile after asking his question, Dark noticing this, and answering his rhetorical question after smiling an almost unnoticeable amount, "I can't recall the reason Sir."
Absol stood up and said, "You can go, just check with Crispen before you go out again." Dark followed suit and stood up as well, turning to the door as she finalized, "Good bye Sir." Absol picked up some papers from his desk and sat back down as Dark walked out and closed the door behind her, "Thank god I'm not being followed by Marly anymore." She walked into her room and closed the door behind her. Then she sighed, laid down on her black cloth bed, and looked out her slightly stained window at the burning Life Kingdom.
The original reason I was promoted to head guard was my blaze ability. I don't know why but unlike most pokémon with blaze, whom just get stronger, I get bigger, stronger, and lose control of my body. 'Berserker' is what people like me are called, and we create mass mayhem…
Marly, about 3 times bigger and madder, was sprinting through the Death Kingdom lighting anything flammable. He sprinted through everything in a strait path to the Life Kingdom. He almost trampled over Midnight who had just stolen some pottery. She jumped away from the scarlet flame trail he was creating and muttered, "Marly…I hope you know what you're doing."
As soon as she said that the owner of the pottery jumped out of her burning house, noticed Midnight with her pottery, and jumped at her. Midnight avoided the old woman and quickly disappeared into the flickering shadows of the Death Kingdom.
Marly did little more than blink as he ran through the previous area and crossed to the Life Kingdom, still leaving a blazing trail as he went. He ran directly towards the castle, obliterating a few stands and houses in his way. As he neared the castle, he saw a small Vulpix yelling, "Stop! St-" Marly was getting annoyed by the Vulpix, so he used mach punch to faint the small pokémon. Once he finally made it to the Life castle's gate, he looked behind him at his trail of chaos, and then used close combat on the gate to destroy it.
Not long after he destroyed the gate he had already ran up the stairs into the castle lighting the guards and the room before him on fire. Wasting no time, he smashed right through a single wall revealing the throne room without its kings. The kings had quickly moved to their safe room and were silently asking each other, "What in the world…" "I think we're safe here." Another one asked, "Do you think King Absol sent someone at us?"
Neither of them were able to answer any of their questions before Marly burst into the safe room and said almost jiberishly, "Easy. Now it's time to burn in the light of my specialty fire." The three kings back up against the wall and manage to say, "Well, at least it's only you again." They all start to use Psychic on him, but he quickly uses Fire Blast on Uxie and Azelf, knocking them out and smashing them against the wall. Before Mespirit even has time to react Marly used Close Combat and hit him into the back wall. After he got them all against the wall he uses flamethrower to trap them in the room and then jumps out a shattered window, front-flipping once he hit the ground. Almost immediately after he started to leave he felt a sudden loss of energy, shrank back to regular size, and passed out on the ground.
Dark looked out her window and noticed the Life castle on fire, which got a slight chuckle from her, reminding her of Marly. She then got up and walked out to the Death castle door. As she looked outside at the once-was Life Kingdom she saw someone enter the Death kingdom, of which happened to be Marly. He had already awoken from his previous state and went over to a small tree to relax when Midnight approached him. Once she got within talking distance of him, she said, "Marly…What have you gotten yourself into?" He then slowly looked up and replied, "Why? What have I done?"
After a moment of silence from Midnight Marly asks again, "Please tell me; What have I done?" She paused again, before stating, "Look behind you Marly." Marly then turned around and looked at the castle for a few seconds before asking stupidly, "Who let the Charizard out?" Midnight felt like slapping Marly, but she stopped herself and calmly answered, "That was you Marly."
Mespirit woke up to see he is surrounded by fire, and he is the first to say anything, "…Uggh…wow, Marly is still doing this. I hope…he left." Mespirit rested for a second then flew up and over the flames to access the damage. After a few minutes of assessing, He concluded the castle was completely destroyed. "I'll bet King Absol sent him…" Azelf was the second to awake, and when he did, the first thing he was in the position to see was the Death castle.
Inside it, King Absol had just requested a few guards, of which he told to go fetch Marly. After they left, he made the remark, "This will be fun," to himself before sitting at his desk. Dark, whom had still been sitting by the door to the castle, watched the guards pass her on their way and figured she knew where they were going. She stood up and said to herself, "Oh boy…" After she finished standing up, she walked back inside to her room.
Marly, still talking with Midnight, sees the guards approach and asks them, "What's it about?" All they tell him is that King Absol wants him. Before he heads into the castle, Midnight whispers to him, "This can't be good." Marly replies to her almost instantaneously, "It isn't." After Marly enters the Dark castle's throne room, he asks, "You wanted me sir?" King Absol, after finishing with his paper, looks up at Marly and replies, "Yes. I think you're aware, or not, that you just destroyed the Life Kingdom."
Dark saw Marly taken inside the throne room and decided to sneak over to the door, then she pressed her ear to the door to listen. Almost immediately after Dark got settled, Midnight snuck her way into the castle and saw Dark. Dark didn't notice Midnight, whom had adopted the same position Dark was in slightly behind her, ignoring Dark.
Inside the door, Marly gave the only answer he could think of for the king's question; "Did I? Well is that really such a bad thing?" King Absol answered Marly's question, "Well, the Life Kingdom is definitely going to blame that on me. And tensions are already high enough between us…" After a few moments of thinking by King Absol, he stood up and asked, "Can you give me a good reason after this event you should stay head guard?"
Dark, still in the same position as earlier, thought to herself, 'Whoa…it's finally happening…' Midnight, behind Dark, was thinking slightly different thoughts, 'He's going to lose his job because of something he can't control?'
After an inevitable decision on the king's part, Marly started to leave the room, Midnight quickly disappearing around a corner as Dark turned around and quickly moved into a position that made it look like she had just exited her room. Marly opened the door and left the king's room, not making a sound until he left the castle, seeing Midnight around the gate corner.
Dark waited for Marly to pass, and once he did, she walked around a little bit until he was outside. Once he was she walked back into her room and finished packing up a few things. She felt a little bad that all of that started from her and she wouldn't be around much more, but she couldn't worry about it. As she finished putting the last few things in one of her bags, she looked out the window and noticed the sun had come out, revealing a small lake in the rebel side, a small area in between the kingdoms that wants them to join together. She sighed and went back to her bed, she would be there soon enough…
Once Marly got within hearing distance from Midnight, she told him, "I'm on your side Marly. I don't think you should have been fired." Marly just continued walking, shrugging off her concern. She watched him disappear around some buildings, and once he was gone, so was she…
