This is a story about a country inhabited only by Pokemon named Aesler. The way Pokmeon live in the story is similar to that of the humans in a way as they have towns and cities, furniture and so on. I started writing this fic about a year ago while the idea is two years old but it still remains my first fanfic and I still have a lot to learn so comments and critisism are always welcome.
Disclaimer: I sadly don't own Pokemon but I do own the characters and plot of this story.
Introduction
Aesler is a country dominated by the Jicicle Dynasty, a dynasty of tyrants. The Jicicles are greedy, heartless and power-thirsty and since they rose to power, Aesler decays. However, the land of Aesler was once prospering and living in peace because of its noble rulers, the Representatives. The Representatives were seventeen pokemon of a different type each who used to rule the country for thousands of years. They were just, kind, wise and protected Aesler and its pokemon. They had a mark named Golen which appeared (it's unknown how) at the bodies of the pokemon who were worthy enough to rule the country. The Golen seemed to have mysterious powers. It always chose pokemon who were great leaders and wonderful characters. As long as the Representatives (or Golenors, which means chosen by the Golen) ruled, the pokemon lived happy and peaceful lives.
However, it seems that even the Golen and its mysterious powers make mistakes. There came a time when the mark chose the wrong pokemon. Horan, an ambitious and power-thirsty Dragonite, wanted to rule the country alone. Although the sixteen other Representatives had their reservations for their partner, none of them could imagine that he was planning to betray them. "They'll die in three days… In three days, I'll be the sole ruler of Aesler!" That's what Horan wrote in his diary which was found later on. Indeed, three days after these words were written in the diary, the Representatives disappeared, not to be seen again. Horan though, wasn't there to finally dominate the land. He had left for the north and never returned. Thus, the country was a toy in the hands of any pokemon with power as the pokemon were too panicked to bring any resistance. That's how Jicicle, with the aid of an army he had formed, attacked Sorvenvar, the greatest castle in Aesler and the place where the temporary leader lived. The weak and incapable leader that was picked to rule the country until a decision about how Aesler would be ruled was taken, got killed. Since then, Jicicle's descendants rule Aesler and no new Representative was born... until twelve years ago.
Jolty, a twelve-year old Jolteon, is the first Representative to be born after three centuries. Although very young, Jolty has to leave her house and begin her life as a Representative. That's because the former-capital, Forenham, the only place in Aesler that's not under the tyrant's control, is besieged by the tyrant's army and is ready to fall. As the city is pretty important for the fight against the tyrant, Jolty has to rush to the city's side and help the Forenhamians beat the army. Then she must begin a rebellion and to do that, she has to journey around Aesler and prove herself to be a good Representative.
At the point the story begins, Jolty has met three other kids of her age, Rien, Delilah and Feather, in a forest. The three kids ask to join her in her struggle to overthrow the tyrant but she denies their offer thinking that they saw her mission as a game. However, when the father of Delilah, who's the tyrant's advisor, and a soldier stumble upon the Jolteon and start chasing her to take her to the tyrant, Rien, Delilah and Feather appear to her rescue and show her shortcuts out of the forest. A three-day-long chase begins until the four Pokemon reach the southern coast of the Great Gulf and ask the Lapras herd to save them and carry them to the former-capital to the north of the Gulf.