Hey there party people! MBenz here with another story! I've had this on my mind literally forever. I've read two other stories that had a similar idea but since they AREN'T UPDATING I figured I give it a shot myself. As stated in my summary there will be OCs in here but the story of Awakening is remains relatively unchanged (Except for maybe a couple things here and there).
Hope you like it!
It was nighttime at the kingdom of Ylisse. But the silence of the night was broken by a large thud that awoken a young man who was asleep in a forest clearing. He had dark blue hair that matched his dark blue clothing, a ragged white cape, a large piece of shoulder armor on his left arm and a bear shoulder with a tear drop looking design on his right. He also had a white belt held a sheathed sword.
After hearing him wake up a younger girl who was asleep next to him. She had blond hair done in pigtails, wore a yellow dress and brown corset over some sort of bell shaped cage with a staff right beside her. The two of them decided to investigate the forest to see what was wrong, leaving their other two companions behind asleep.
"It sure is dark… and quiet. Where the birds go…?" the girl asked nervously.
"Something is wrong here…" the man said as he scanned the area. He was especially wary since he's heard rumors going about on unusual creatures that have been spotted around Ylisse. In the beginning they were just a couple sightings of odd looking birds and rodents but as the weeks pass the sightings became more frequent, people claiming to see everything from "walking plants" to "foxes that breathe fire".
"Sol!" cried a gruff voice that broke his thoughts.
The two of them turned to see a creature of what could only be described as a large mountain cat jumping out in front of them. But it was definitely different looking in appearance; it had pure white fur which contrasted with its black-blue face, sharp claws and short triangular tail. It's most noticeable feature a sickle like horn coming out of the right side of its face.
"Chrom…" She whispered as she got behind the man.
"Stay behind me. It must be one these… animals that have been appearing lately." Chrom said as he grabbed his sword's hilt; almost waiting for the feline to attack, but it did no such thing and kept glaring at them with its piercing red eyes. When the two humans didn't move it expression went from stoic to frustrated.
"Sol! Absol!" It started barking at them and made gestures with its head as if it was saying 'Leave now!'.
Before they had a chance to react a large tremor shook from beneath them.
"Ahh! Chrom!"
"Gods, what- what is this madness?! Lissa, stay close!" Chrom commanded her.
Then they noticed as the earthquake continued the trees started to topple over. Not wanting to wait any longer the white creature ran in front of them.
"Absol!" It shouted before it ran ahead.
Without thinking twice Chrom turned to Lissa.
"Lissa. Run."
"Huh?'
"I mean it! GO!" He exclaimed as he pushed her ahead of him. They took off just when a large portion of the ground was raised in behind them and making lava burst from the ground. Chunks of molten rocks flew from the cracks and as they landed in the trees it set nearly the whole forest ablaze, leaving Chrom and Lissa to run for their lives.
Meanwhile…
In another part off the burning forest a girl in her early twenties was running behind a giant blue bipedal turtle with a rock like shell (Carracosta) releasing streams of water from its mouth trying to put out the fire. By her feet was a small black fox with a turf of red fur on its head (Zorua).
"Keep going Riptide! We gotta get out of here!" Shouted the girl in a panicked tone.
"Carra!" The large turtle nodded as he unleashed another stream of water ahead as they kept running.
This is crazy! Five minutes ago I was doing some sketches of the Snowpoint Temple, now I'm in the middle of the forest?! That's on FIRE! This is so not how I wanted to spend my day! She ranted in her mind not noticing a molten rock heading right for her, until it was destroyed by a shadowy ball of energy caused by her fox.
"Whoa! Thanks Midnight!"
The little fox responded with a happy yip. At least I have my Pokémon with me…
The trio continued running until the girl fell down when two other individuals jumped of a small cliff and onto her.
"OW! What's the big idea?!" She exclaimed in irritation but turned confused when she saw the people dressed in what could be described as medieval style clothing. The strangers in turn were also perplexed not only by her sudden appearance but by her "weird" style of clothing. She wore brown steam punk style goggles on the top of her head, a red shirt over a black vest, black denim jeans, brown hiking boots and a dark gray scarf wrapped around her neck, slightly covering her mouth. She had hazel eyes, dark purple hair done in a shoulder-length ponytail on the left side of her head, with the ends of it and her Hime style bangs ending with red-ish hue.
The cries of her animal companions (which they suddenly noticed) snapped them out of their stupor as they remembered what they were doing before.
"Sorry for running into you but we need to get out of here!" Chrom apologized quickly before he and Lissa ran off. Having nowhere else to go she decided to follow them. When they were a good distance from the fire, Chrom noticed the stranger and her animals following them.
"Now that we're… relatively safe. Who might you be miss…?" He asked her as she tried to catch her breath.
"Name's Ryo. And you are…?"
"Chrom, what is that?!" Lissa asked pointing at the sky before he could respond. Everyone looked the see a light coming from the sky. Turning into a portal surrounded by Zodiac symbols that opened like an eye.
Suddenly four humanoid figures came through the portal and fell to the trees below. They stood up from the fall, seemingly unharmed, with their eerie red eyes glowing through the darkness.
"Lissa. You and Ryo better stand back." He ordered as he unsheathed his sword, the Falchion.
The two girls did as they were told as Midnight and Riptide stayed close to protect them as well.
The four creatures lurched even closer, breathing a purple miasma from their gaping mouths. Three of the zombies, one carrying an axe and the other two swords, suddenly dashed towards Chrom and the animals. Chrom managed to get out of their path and give the axe wielding one a quick slash across its body, but instead of it falling defeated, it turned its neck in a bone crunching fashion to look at Chrom and swung it's axe at him again. Luckily Chrom blocked it and gave the zombie a strong push to the ground, then stabbing its back with his sword; causing it to disappear in a cloud of smoke.
While trying to regain his composure he saw the little black fox blasting a zombie with what looked like multiple spheres of dark magic (Shadow Ball) and the giant turtle slamming it's large flipper on the ground making pointed rocks with blue aura appear from the ground (Stone Edge) to pierce the other. Chrom suddenly thought back to these animal sightings across Ylisse.
But a scream of terror broke him out of his scrambled thoughts "Lissa!"
Lissa and Ryo had their backs against a boulder as they faced another zombie. Lissa holding out her staff trying to provide some sort of protection as Ryo was holding to her trying her best not to cry.
Not happening! Not happening! Not happening! Ryo thought in a panic state.
Seeing their owner in danger Midnight and Riptide ran as fast as they could to get to them.
Just when the zombie raised its axe on them, another figure came through the portal. But this one was definitely human, wearing regal looking blue clothing with a blue cape that was dark red on the inside of it and a sword strapped to his side. He had short blue hair with a gold headband on top and wearing a blue butterfly shaped mask. He landed on the ground just in time to block the axe from the girls.
As he was straining from the sheer weight of the blow he turned to Chrom. "Help!"
"…Right!" Chrom responded breaking out of his stupor as he charged for the zombie. Getting distracted from the battle cry, the masked swordsman pushed its weight of him as he and Chrom managed to slash it in perfect sync; turning it to smoke.
Lissa lowered her staff in relief and Ryo was calming down but still being cautious with this new character that showed up.
As the stranger withdrawing his sword Chrom walked up to him. "Quite an entrance. What's your name?"
He said nothing as he turned his head towards Chrom.
Meanwhile… In another plane of existence…
Dialga was not happy. No scratch that, he was furious. Someone or something, somewhere, was trying to alter time, without his permission! He can overlook Celebi's time travel exploits because she only uses it for sightseeing, but these individuals, as there was more than one, were trying to directly trying to change history.
He understood that there were events that are painful and people wish they can go back and change it but things happen for a reason. One thing changes and everything changes.
Palkia was in no better mood either. Because of this event it was also sending ripples throughout the dimensions and it was creating small portals across multiple worlds and sucking unsuspecting Pokémon through! At first he only had one suspect…
"Okay Palkia I know what you're thinking but this one? Not my fault!" Defended the djinn Pokémon Hoopa, growing terrified by Palkia's judging gaze.
"As much as I loath to admit it brother, Hoopa is telling the truth." Hissed the Renegade Pokémon Giratina. "These occurrences are too sporadic. Too random."
"That is not the only thing." Spoke Arceus, the god of all Pokémon as he stepped forward, with the Lake Trio flying around his head. In light of recent events he called meeting amongst the Legendaries in the Hall of Origin to discuss what they have been seeing, as more and more them were witnessing these events before their eyes.
"As witnessed by Regigigas not long ago. Right beside his temple a human fell through a portal."
Those words alone were enough to send the entire hall into a frenzy. So far they were fortunate enough that these portals weren't showing so close to towns but that was no longer the case.
"Well you are going to bring that human back right…?" Asked Celebi shyly.
"No."
That got them in even more of a frenzy. Especially with the God of Space.
"Are you serious?! You are not going to do anything about this problem?! WHY?!" Palkia demanded.
"Peace, son. Let me explain. I'll bring the human back but not at this moment. Uxie suggested we can use this human to figure out whom or what is causing this anomaly. Besides there is something blocking us from bringing her and all the misplaced Pokémon back, so we couldn't even if we'd try. We discovered that this particular dimension has no Pokémon of its own, if any of us would go we would just spread panic amongst these people and you and I know how well these Pokémon trainers can handle these kinds of situations, or need I remind you?"
"He is right brother. Remember Spear Pillar?" Dialga spoke up. He didn't like the plan but it was probably the best one they have. *1
Palkia sighed in defeat "Fine. But doesn't this human have relatives that would worry?"
This time it was Uxie who answered. "She has relatives but a good majority of them are either refuse to talk to her or distant relatives who barely know her. The only one she is close to is an older brother."
Uxie knew the reason why, but figured it wasn't their business.
"Well just hope this plan of yours can fix this mess." Dialga said, somewhat glaring at the Being of Knowledge.
"Maybe I can explain…" Said an unknown female voice. Every Legendary turned to see a small human-like figure at their feet. She had long green hair a red dress with a see through cloth seemingly floating around her. Her most striking features were pointed ears and the fact that she was practically glowing.
"Who are you and how did you manage to find this sacred place?" Arceus questioned in a dangerous tone. Humans have NEVER been in the Hall of Origin without his say so and even then it was a rarity; they were lucky to get as close as Spear Pillar.
The woman only bowed at deity. "I apologize for my intrusion, Lord Arceus. My name is Naga. I can tell you are all upset with someone who changes history but I'm here to tell you that you need to make an exception this time…"
*1) I thought it would be a good reference to the Gen 4 games.
Well this is my first chapter! I hope you like the direction I'm going. Next chapter will have more, I promise! So in the meantime read some of my other stories, two of them as of now hasn't had any reviews and I really want some feedback on how I can improve!
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