The Guardian

Hi this is the first story I have ever written I just got an urge to try my hand at writing fanfiction recently. I hope you enjoy this first chapter and don't be afraid to review constructive criticism is always welcome. I do not own pokemon but I do own the ocs in this story. P.S this isn't your standard pokemon setting this is a sort of a Tolkien style fantasy setting with more Oriental influence in the weapons and world.

Chapter 1: A Mysterious Savior.

We see a young man sitting by a small bonfire in a clearing in the middle of a forest, the man is about six foot one with long raven hair braided into a ponytail that reaches halfway down his back, he has a strong looking face with cleft chin, large jaw, and high cheek bones, but his most striking feature is his eyes they are a vibrant shade of green and have very melancholy look to them.

He is wearing a black sleeveless chiqong (a sort of kung fu uniform) with matching black pants and a silver sash tied around his waist. He has two dao broadswords strapped to his back and burlap sack carying his few belongings is on forest floor a few feet from him.

There was suddenly a loud a high pitch scream as if from a child, the man got up snuffed out his bonfire and began to walk towards in the direction of the sound.

After walking for few minutes he came upon quite the interesting scene in front of him was a small group of slavers who had just captured young looking Braxien.

The man stepped out of the bushes that were concealing him and made his presence known to the slavers.

The slavers stood up and drew their swords the man looked about the camp and saw that there was a total of five slavers "release this pokemon drop your weapons and swear that you will never deal in the slave trade again and I will let you live but if you continue on the course of action you follow I will have to take your lives" said the man.

The slavers chuckled at this and one of them walked up to the man raised his left hand to push him over but before the slaver's hand could touch him the man drew his swords and severed the bandits arm at the elbow before using his other sword to slit the slaver's throat.

The four remaining bandits where shocked by this display but quickly regained their wits and began to circle their new enemy.

One slaver tried to rush in and stab man with his sword this proved to be the slavers last mistake as the man easily sidestepped his predictable attack and countered by slashing the slaver's belly causing him to fall to the ground in pain and shortly thereafter die.

Then two slavers tried attacking at once one head on and another from behind, the man used one sword to parry the slaver in front of him and the other to parry the one behind, he followed up by straight kicking the man in front of him in the chest knocking him to the ground and then spinning to face the other man who he quickly stabbed through the heart. The man then turned and slammed both of his swords down on the other slaver killing him before he could get to his feet.

The last slaver was terrified now so instead of trying to fight the man who had just killed his four comrades he dropped his weapon and ran quicker than he had ever run in his life.

The man cleaned his blades on a patch of nearby grass before sheathing them on his back. He approached the bound Braxien and kneeled down to untie him.

The Braxien tried to move away from the man in fear but could little more shuffle inch by inch on his back do to his restraints.

"Be calm little one I desire only to free you from your bonds" said the man.

The Braxien calmed slightly at hearing the man's words and aloud the man to untie him.

"t-thank you sir" said the young Braxien who the man could now tell was a boy from his voice.

"There is no need to thank me young one but you are welcome"? said the man. "What is your name"? Asked the man.

"My name is Joshua". Responded the Braxien.

"And my name is Alexander". Said the man. "Are you far from your home Joshua"? Asked Alexander.

"No not too far". Said replied Joshua.

"Good your route home should be safe" Stated Alexander as he stood up and began to walk back to his camp.

"W-wait". Said Joshua causing Alexander to turn back and face him.

"Is something wrong"? Asked Alexander.

"No it's just…. You should come back with me my family would want to reward you". Said Joshua.

"I desire no reward for my actions but if you wish for me to come with you I shall". Said Alexander.

"Ok follow me then". Said Joshua happily as he began to walk in the direction of his home.

End of Chapter: 1.

Well that's it for chapter 1 but I should probably explain a few things, 1 the braxien is not the love interest in this story we will meet her in the next chapter, 2 in this story any human like pokemon can talk but the more animal like pokemon can't, and 3 the reason that the slavers had captured the Braxien is because most city states in this story have the human like pokemon as slaves or lower class citizens. Well that's enough explaining for one chapter so please leave a review and follow this story if you're interested. Once again I do not own the pokemon frachise.