Prologue:

-~* The Calm *~-

It had been a rather good day for Princess Frangipani, if she did say so herself. An exploration team formed by the Royal Guard had, at her request, entered a soft-place and came out with an Aura-Plate. If she was not mistaken, she could detect a Dragon-aura within it, almost like a shadow heartbeat.

She had just placed it within the case with her other two Aura-Plates, which she thought to be the Fairy-Plate and Steel-Plate, when suddenly there was a great racket outside her door.

Frangipani hurried to listen. She could hear guards calling to each other, sounds of a battle, and an unfamiliar voice screaming.

Frangipani dove backwards, grabbing her wand-blossom as a silver explosion blew open her door. The blossom-fairy whirled around, eyes gleaming as she faced her foe.

In the door stood a slightly familiar two-face-fae. Her true face was a mask of fury and rage.

The two-faced-fae pointed a finger at Frangipani, while her hindjaws gnashed their fangs in anger.

"You!" the two-faced-fairy cried. "You Mother-Father-damned Renegade-spawn! Go and rot in Renegade's Prison! I demand that the lava of Behemoth scorch you, the waters of Leviathan smother you, and Nightmare to plague you until the end of your miserable, sorry life you spoiled, selfish, fragile faeling! I could kill you right now, and I don't see why I shouldn't!"

Frangipani flinched at the terrible insults, but retained her calm and cool exterior, and tightened her grip on her wand-blossom.

"I'm sorry," Frangipani said, sounding as serene as she could. "I do not believe we have met, fellow fairy-heart. It appears you know me, but I shall introduce myself nonetheless. My name is Princess Frangipani Regium. Who are you…?"

The two-faced-fae crossed her arms, a scowl settling on her true-face. "Oh, you don't recognize me? So that's how little you valued my father? Well, I shall give you a hint, then. My name is Jade. And my father was named Mandis."

Frangipani's eyes widened. She now recognized the two-faced-fairy, and knew exactly why she was here. "Now, Jade…" she spoke, carefully. "Be rational about this. I did send your father alone to retrieve a Legend-Treasure, and it's a very dangerous task, it's true… But he could have refused. He did not. He went of his own free will, I had no control over if he would have chosen to obey my order or not."

"Of course you had control! You're the Mother-damn Princess!" Jade shrieked. "He was always putting the Royal Guard and pleasing the Royal Family above everything else, and you knew it! You could've sent backup with him!"

"I did. Now leave, unless you wish to be executed for treachery," Frangipani spoke, allowing a growl to enter her voice. "Don't you think there are others grieving, too? Have you not noticed you are the only one amongst them acting out violently and without reason? Take a cue from the other mourners. Leave my presence, spend some time grieving until you have returned to your previous state of mind."

"You don't know me, you don't know what's good for me. You didn't even remember my father until I came here, did you?" Jade hissed. "You just saw a pawn. Loyal, and expendable." Her hindjaws opened, and spat out a silvery orb as Jade prepared her Flash Cannon attack.

But before Jade could fully prepare it, it was dispelled by a swinging scythe.

Frangipani stifled a sigh of relief. "Janette. I am pleased to see you. Would you care to escort this young growthless out of my castle? Or better yet, my city?"

The elderly disaster-wolf nodded, and turned to Jade. "Jade. It's not worth it… Come. We really must speak."

Jade looked like she wanted to protest, but Janette shot her a glare. Aura weaknesses be damned, Janette knew she could easily kill the two-faced-fairy if she so desired. And in that instant, Jade knew so too.

Jade sat in Janette's office, staring angrily into her hands.

Janette did not glare at the young two-faced-fae. The disaster-wolf merely looked disappointed.

"Jade," Janette began, simply. "Your father would not condone your actions."
Jade bit her lip. "My father's dead. You wouldn't know what he would and would not condone."

"I would. My mate, Hector, and I were both good friends with Mandis. And I am not entirely convinced that he is dead."

Jade slammed her fist down in front of Janette. "Don't you dare toy with my emotions!"

Janette did not flinch. "He was one of the most powerful warriors in the Royal Guard, Jade. Only matched by Hector and myself. Even without this…" Janette turned around, picking up a small object wrapped in cloth from a shelf, and dropped it in front of Jade.

Jade grabbed it, and unwrapped it revealing a familiar chunk of Mega-Stone.

Jade's lip quivered. "H… How did you get this?"

"Mandis gave it to my keeping, trusted I would pass it on to you, along with a message. He knows how powerful you are, and how you would need to channel your grief into something to get over his absence, if he did not return," Janette said. "I am willing to give you that Mega-Stone. I am also asking you to consider training, and being a part of the Royal Guard for at least a month… If after you receive training, and after that month has passed, you wish to go after your father, I will not stop you. But if you try to kill the Royal Family again… Your death will be as slow as the King and Queen wish."

Jade thought over the offer. "Janette… Ma'am, I accept."

Author Corner

So! This is going to be a rather odd PMD story. No humans. Minimal, if any, Legendaries. No Legends. And a LOT of really weird terms and names for Pokemon...

So here's the author corner. I'll dump comments and what all the terms mean, here.

Blossom-fae is a Floette, two-faced-fae is Mawile, and disaster-wolf is Absol.

Soft-places are Mystery Dungeons.

Aura is used in place of the word 'Type'. And yeah. Frangipani isn't obsessed with looks like a 'normal' princess or fairy or fairy princess. She's obsessed with rare archaeological artifacts! XD

Sadly, that has some consequences for her, as we just saw...

I had too much fun coming up with insults for them. You can probably figure out what Legend is what. ^^

Anyways, really hope you enjoyed the prologue. We'll meet our three real heroes in chapter one, but no worries. Jade and Janette will return soon enough... :3