POKEMON LUCARIO AND THE MYSTERY OF MEW: REGIROCK'S TALE
CHAPTER I: PROLOGUE
They were the opposition. They were the enemy. They were not to be trusted. They were humans. We were Pokémon. More specifically, we were the Regis.
We had originally being constructed by our king, Regigigas. He was a gigantic golem, with moss on his body, and seven dots as his "face" (a trait that we all inherited, but in slightly different patterns). He was the Continent Pokémon, and he supposedly used his unparalleled strength to tow the world's continents with ropes. But, a being on a tier so high I had never seen him personally (who we only knew as The Original One), had granted Regigigas' wish to have three servants who would carry out his every wish. I was one of those – one of the Regis.
The others... There was Regice. Regigigas had constructed her body completely out of Antarctic Ice from the Ice Age, and then called upon The Original One to bring her to life. She wouldn't melt even if immersed in magma, and was cold enough to freeze solid any nearby object – if she chose to. She was the Golem of Ice.
Then there was Registeel. Regigigas had started to heat Iron Age metal in an ancient furnace and then had Regice cool it to form an unknown metal harder than any known substance that also, mysteriously, shrinks and stretches flexibly. Regigigas again requested The Original One's power to bring him to life. The funny thing was, no one could ever figure out what he ate – if he did so, he did not do it with us. When asked, he simply said "Every legendary has a never-to-be-revealed secret." He was the Golem of Steel.
And then there was me, Regirock. Regigigas, before he made the other two, constructed my body from numerous rocks unearthed from different locations (most of them brown, but some a sandy orange), placed them into my body shape and, for the final time, summoned The Original One to bring me into existence. I was perhaps less powerful then the other two, but I was the most defensive. I was the Golem of Rock.
And so we served him, not questioning it, not doing anything Regigigas didn't want. Every Legendary Pokémon had a place. The Original One had a place. Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf had a place. Heck, even Heatran, that ugly crab-like fire demon (who we still didn't know the gender of) had a place. And our place, for the time being, was to serve Regigigas. We passed through many Ice Ages, many Stone Ages, many Iron Ages, and many ages hands down. Until...
Humans separated us, using all the methods they had at their disposal. We held out a long fight, but they eventually subdued us. They brought Regigigas to the Snowpoint Temple at the North of Sinnoh, and sealed him away, only to be re-awoken if all three of us Regis were to be before him again, to serve him as we were supposed to, as we had for so long, and as we would have continued, if it weren't for those humans. It had been so long since those events, I do not even remember what those particular humans even looked like.
They had planned to take us to the polar opposite of Sinnoh (which was on the North of the world), to Hoenn, where it was warm, and there was lots of ocean. They planned to seal us away there in three separate chambers, so only one who unlocked the Sealed Chamber could unlock us. But we weren't going to give in that easily...
On the way, in the region of Kanto, we broke free of those humans and knocked them out. We then wandered all over the region, trying to find a way back to Sinnoh, but there was no way except across the sea. And none of us, myself in particular (rock goes with water like ice to fire) were able to swim. We were stuck. And the only way we would ever cross the sea is the way we came over – with humans.
Eventually, we came across a mountain range northwest of Kanto, with a huge rock formation in the middle, known as the Tree of Beginning. Wandering inside the huge rock formation, we, eventually, in the heart room, came face-to-face with Mew, the ancestor of all Pokémon. After explaining our story, she proceeded to tell us her own.
She explained that this Tree was a living organism, and the blue crystals everywhere in the tree and around it get their energy from sunlight, and that the tree had a symbolic connection with her, which is partly why there were so many ancient Pokémon in there (although they weren't ancient at the time). It has a circulatory system that distributed various nutrients throughout the tree, as well as a complex antibody system, in the form of red blobs that attack and disintegrate any potential outside threats.
She then made a deal with us. She would transport us back to the Sinnoh region, if we first took the role of guardians for the Tree of Beginning, for a certain period of time. Having no other way to get back to Sinnoh – to Regigigas, and not stupid enough to disobey a request from a higher Legendary Pokémon, we agreed.
And so generations passed. No intruders came, except for one occasion, where a human names Aaron came in, but he beat us to the heart room. By the time we caught up with him, he was gone. Mew explained that the human had sacrificed himself to bring peace to the then-medieval human land outside the Tree of Beginning. It left me to wonder – what about humans? What was their purpose? Why were they bad? And why did some Pokémon go with the humans?
And Regice, Registeel and myself continued to be guardians, and we might have been guardians for Mew forever, if she didn't return one day with two other Pokémon. She often went to the castle, so she said, to play, and often brought back toys for herself, but this was the first time she brought back any other Pokémon. They were a Meowth and a Pikachu.
While they were still asleep, Mew told us the story of how she got them. We didn't listen much, as it seemed unimportant at the time. Boy, how wrong we were. In relation to the Pikachu and Meowth coming here, we were, within days, going to have to deal with the first intruders since the Aaron fellow all those centuries ago.
And I still feel... mixed, odd feelings toward the humans.
I recommend you see the movie before reading this. However, it should be just as enjoyable without the movie.
The Regis are sorely under-appreciated in the fandom, so I decided to put things right with the following fic. This is NOT a one-shot, and it will be part of a trilogy, with the other two tales telling the same story, but from Regice's and Registeel's POV's, respectively.