Ash's Paladin Adventure
Legend has it that a team of extraordinary adventurers possessing powers far beyond understanding or imagination will soon arise and save the world from an evil force...
Once upon a time, long ago, people of many different races lived in peace and harmony, whether they were human or not. The kings and queens of each land and race had celebrated for their unity, respected the duties of one another, and kept on helping their peoples following their hearts to destiny. As a gift for this peace, the gods and goddesses gave the people creatures with unlimited possibilities that were once spirits without purpose. The great demon king, Garyu Ketchumeréz, & several of his non-demon friends helped all races and Pokémon discover three virtues that can help them together: Friendship, Courage, and Destiny.
Friendship: the unity of others, regardless of differences, and binding them all together in harmony.
Courage: the power of the heart, containing one's virtues and feelings, duty against all odds.
Destiny: the power of fate, finding one's future and hopes to change it all if something is wrong.
But the happiness was not to last very long, for in one night each of the kings got assassinated by a mysterious figure, nobody knows what race this figure was of, then each person of each race got into chaos. And a mysterious new ruler came along to take care of all the thrones of each race and kingdom. This man's name is Giovanni. Ever since his rule over the land, he seeks to gain control over the entire world.
It was already 7 years since Satoshi Ketchumeréz, the son of Garyu Ketchumeréz, started his Pokémon journey & paladin apprenticeship. He wanted to be a paladin, because he followed the three virtues his father gave. Now that he had grown up, he had usually stayed in Pallet Village in the land of Katana with his surviving family members; Delia (his mother), Daisuke (his younger brother), Mina (his baby sister), and of course, Pikachu, his first and main Pokémon familiar. Their first meeting was electrifying, but they easily became friends within hours.
Satoshi is basically a half-demon, since his mother is not a demon at all. He doesn't know what his other half is, since his mother has completely forgotten what her race was. He has a nickname, and it's "Ash", because as a child, he got himself covered in it a lot after the fires in the fireplaces died out. Fires aren't his problem, neither is electricity, acid, poison, or cold, since he has high-leveled regeneration and middle-of-the-line recuperative powers. The most defining half-demon feature of him are his ears, dog-like, and the black markings under his eyes, shape like claw marks but isn't eye make-up.
Ash's attitude is the complete definition of "close-to-being-arrogant-and-hotheaded". Things don't always go his way. For one, his eager brash attitude often allows him and others to head straight into trouble. Magnificently Satoshi is high in strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, & charisma. His wisdom, however, is about as average as a Wiseman can get. He used to have very little understanding when it comes to females, he didn't know what half of them see in him, but after traveling with girls of different races, he now understands love (and even lust). He's the size of a medium-sized being (human-sized), and he let his hair grow out to a long flowing length (like InuYasha).
Even though he was crowned Pokémon master and graduated to a full paladin years ago, he regularly trained his Pokémon now and then. His team of Pokémon had grown since he had first started out at the age of 10. His travels had taken him to many different places. His main goal is to become King of the Paladins. He usually wears loose yellow breeches, a loose green shirt, several red sashes, and blue armor of treated silk (in the form of ordinary garb).
Satoshi's younger brother, Daisuke Ketchumeréz, is a lot more immature than his older brother. Although he has his Pokémon, he still needs to grow up. He had usually stayed in Pallet Village in the land of Katana with his family and of course, Growlithe, his first and main Pokémon familiar. Their first meeting was fiery, but they easily became friends within days.
Daisuke is a half-demon, like his brother. He doesn't know what his other half is either. He has a nickname, and it's "Dash", because as a child, he got himself in trouble a lot and he runs away before being blamed. Fires aren't his problem, neither is electricity, acid, poison, or cold, since he has high-leveled regeneration and middle-of-the-line recuperative powers. The most defining half-demon feature of him is his ears, dog-like.
Dash's attitude is the complete definition of "miserable-and-perverted". As the younger brother of Satoshi, he feels horribly overshadowed by Ash's greatness. Magnificently Daisuke has high strength, dexterity, constitution, & charisma. His wisdom & intelligence, however, is lower than his brother's. He is totally attracted to the females (regardless of race), he doesn't know what they see in his brother. He's the size of a medium-sized being (human-sized), and he let his brown hair grow out to a long flowing length like his brother's but he placed it in a ponytail.
Even though he passed as a Pokémon trainer and a full knight years ago, he usually doesn't care about what happens. His team of Pokémon had grown since he had first started out at the age of 10. His travels had taken him to many different places. His main goal is to become a girl magnet. He usually wears loose orange breeches, a loose yellow shirt, several blue sashes, and brown armor of treated silk.
Additionally, Ash's mom gave birth to a new young girl, Mina. It was already 7 years since she was born, her brothers tell her the importance of Pokémon journeys & her mother began teaching her how to be a wizard. Now that he had grown up, she usually stayed in Pallet Village in the land of Katana with her family, and of course, Bellossom, her first and main Pokémon familiar. Their first meeting was sweet, because they easily became friends instantly.
Mina is the only other family member that has no half-demon! She doesn't know what she is, since her mother has completely forgotten what her race was. But she does have some powerful magic in her. Even though she is a skilled wizard and a Pokémon trainer, she doesn't feel ready to leave home yet. Her main goal is to become one of the most powerful and most beautiful spellcasters. She usually wears a loose green skirt, a loose green shirt, and several red sashes.
As one of the youngest and only sister of both Satoshi and Daisuke, she carries the obligation to be as cute as possible. Since she is so young, her mother Delia worries about her the most. While she claims to be independent, she is really still a young girl who shows through her immature actions. So far, the only real mystery with Mina ties back to her mom and her true race. Magnificently Mina is high in strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, charisma, & wisdom. She has a very big thing for cute boys, even those older than her. She's the size of a normal medium-sized human child, and she let her blonde hair grow out to a long flowing length (like Shampoo).
"I won!" Satoshi had just finished a battle against his brother and won. Mina looked out of their kitchen window and sighed, "There he goes again, bragging about his victories." Their beloved mother, Delia, looked out the window, "Ahh, my little babies are growing up." Mina sweat dropped, "I'm still 6." Delia interrupted, "Ash is going to be 17 today! I better prepare celebrations for the big day!" Mina sighed, "He's only 17 years old. Besides, he doesn't need to grow up anymore. He's fine the way he is now." Then she looked at her other brother, Daisuke, who is weeping at his loss to Satoshi. "Him I'm not so sure."
After the Pokémon battle with his brother, Satoshi looked at his silvery nails and sighed, then looked up at the morning sun as it rose. "I wonder if he ever will get out of that stupid immaturity." A year ago, a rival of Satoshi's named Garrett Oakhurst just left on a journey. Gary is a half-elf ranger, whenever Ash had his guard down, his rival would pull an enchanted vine on him! Daisuke came to sneak up on his brother, but he forgotten that his brother had excellent senses.
Frustrated, Ash calmly said to Pikachu "Pikachu, thunder shock on Daisuke." The little Pokémon of lightning and electricity had electricity flowing through his body and threw some of it at Satoshi's immature brother. Even though, being half-demon too, it's still strong enough to shock Dash close to becoming unconscious. "No fair!" complained the little whelp of a brother. "So what you were about to throw on me."
"How could you tell I was coming, Ash?" wondered Daisuke out loud, "Did you hear me coming?" Ash calmly said, "That, and the fact that you need to take a bath." Dash sniffed his armpit, and then fainted! Dash's Growlithe dragged his beloved master to the dug-up hot spring out back. Mina then came into the conscious and oldest brother. She asked Ash, "When do I get to leave home?" Ash replied, "Normally when you turn 10." Mina counted, "So, since I'm seven, which makes what, 3 years?" Ash patted her little head, "Wow, you're pretty gifted at a young age."
On the other side of the family's mansion-like home, a small group of thieves came to rob the place. One of them is a young adult human woman with long fiery red hair named Jessica of Parker (or Jessie), the second is a young adult male human with short and smooth blue hair named James of Morgan, and the third is a male Poké-beast-man named Myoga Meowth (because he's part-Meowth and part-human)! Myoga looks like a normal Caucasian human like James, but he's got brown hair on his feet like a Hobbit, a lot of white flowing hair, a pair of green cat-like eyes, and a coin-sized golden crest on his forehead. They were about seven stories up on from the roof to the ground!
James quietly complained, "Why was it your idea to rob half-breeds, Jessie?" Jessie whispered the details to James, "Because, James, this family appears rich." Then Myoga complained while scaling the roof, "Why don't we just rob one of the gods or goddesses while we're up here?" Jessie got to the window and landed abruptly on her feet in the library!
Jessie commanded her companions, "Come on, it's safe now." James whined, "I thought you said this was going to be easy." Myoga answered James, "No, she said it wasn't impossible." "See? That's the same thing she said when we robbed that little halfling's house." Jessie & Myoga remembered him saying this countless times, so they both lip-synched him as he said, "And whom did he catch? Me. And who did he beat from the waist down? Me." Myoga landed on his furry feet with ease.
"Are you gonna jump?" Myoga scolded James. "You gonna catch me?" asked James. "We're gonna catch you, James." answered Jessie. James meekly asked, "Promise?" Myoga & Jessie promised in unison to James, "We promise now jump!" Reluctantly, James said "All right." There is a noise off to the side and Jessie & Myoga turn around as James falls to the ground, screaming. When they found him on his back, they helped him up. Myoga said, "Sorry, we though we heard something." "You did, me hitting the ground." James answered.
Mina heard a scream in the library and went to see what was going on. Satoshi (dragging a washed up Daisuke in toe) was with her, so he went to check it out as well. All three of them noticed the thieves. "Thieves trying to rob us!" cried Mina, and then she ties up Jessie, James, and Myoga with magic rope! "Great catch, sis!" congratulated Dash!
Myoga analyzed, "She must've put some kind of holding spell into that bracelet!" Jessie joked, "Yeah, must be the only way she can get guys to come home with her." Satoshi replied, "She'd have to put a feeble mind spell on herself and take an aging potion to take someone like you home!" "Besides, this is our home!" Dash added in. Jessie then said to her comrades, "See? I told you that they are rich." "Hey, do I smell cake?" questioned Myoga. James yelled at his semi-furry comrade, "Damn you and your appetite, Myoga Meowth! You could have at least cut the ropes first!" Myoga replied, "Same to the both of you!"
Suddenly, they heard Delia scream! "MOM!" Ash, Dash, & Mina dashed to see what was wrong, with the 3 rogues being dragged by Mina's spell! As soon as they got to the kitchen, a young blonde woman with a red and white bandana decorated with black tulips is confronting their mother. Daisuke (with hearts in his eyes) thought out loud, "Wow! What a beauty!" "Domino, the Black Tulip?" The 3 rogues said in terror, apparently they know her! For she is the right-hand advisor of Giovanni!
"What is it that you want, Black Tulip?" demanded Satoshi. "We've came what we're looking for and it came to us, go get him boys!" answered Domino and commanded at least a dozen black-armored men. Each man is human and are incased in black iron! As her troops stabbed the perverted Dash in the shoulders... he instantly snapped out of his perversity and into reality, "Obviously, she wants to kill me!" "You?" asked Domino, "Whoever said about killing and about my target being you, big boy?" She pointed at Ash. He asked, "What do you want with me?"
Domino answered, "A few drops of your blood is all we want. Nothing more." Reluctantly, Satoshi's fingernails lengthened into silvery claws of steel and he scratched himself a little bit on the lower end of the top of his left arm, letting some red blood drip out. As Black Tulip gathered some of the blood in a small crystal phial, Ash grabbed her by the ears and pulled her so they can speak face-to-face! "What is it, that you want with my blood, Black Tulip?" "My lord Giovanni wants your blood to break into your father's tomb!" Daisuke pulled out the spears in his shoulders and returned them to their owners' backs! "What's so special inside my old man's grave?" Dash asked violently. Domino smirked, "I'll never tell, and there's nothing you can do to make me!"
Meanwhile, Mina asked the rogues for a favor. "What? Help your family?" asked Jessie. "If you do... I'll pay you!" Myoga said "even for 10 gold pieces per rogue?" "Yes" whispered Mina! She freed her prisoners and all four of them plowed through the iron-armored men! Daisuke covered his nails, which are changing into claws, with his own blood and shouted "Claws of blood!" Just like that, 4 sharp boomerangs of red blood flew from Dash's bloodstained claws to Domino's vial of Ash's blood, cutting the string that carries it, sending it harmlessly to the ground!
"The key!" shouted a worried Domino! She pulled out a long-stemmed black tulip from out of nowhere and threw it like a dart at the phial, cracking it open! As the collected blood spilled out on the floor from the phial, steam rose from it as well, from this steam also appeared a rolled-up old decrepit scroll held rolled up by a mysterious ring from out of nowhere. The ring is a golden-colored metal band with a ruby sphere concealing a silver fang within it. Domino grabbed the scroll, but with surprise, a rainbow-colored aura from it warded her away from it, leaving a nasty burn upon her skin!
"What are you waiting for, you fools? Grab the scroll!" Black Tulip painfully commanded her troops, still smarting from the scroll's aura. Satoshi thought that this scroll could be important, so he snatched it before any of hee troops could! Surprisingly, the aura's not affecting him in any dangerous way! Within a minute, Satoshi & his siblings sent the soldiers flying out of their home like skyrockets!
Later, Ash looked at the enclosed scroll while Mina helped their mother fix everything up for his 17th birthday and Dash lazily looked at the scroll as well. Daisuke thought, "Maybe it's the last gift from the old man to Satoshi. Why didn't he give anything to me like that?" Then he asked his brother, "What is in that scroll?" "I don't know, I didn't read it yet." "Let me try," said a now confident James, "Obviously the ring keeps it from opening so whatever's in the scroll won't be withered away." Satoshi then spoke, "That's pretty confident hearing that from someone who steals things for a living." Myoga respectively replied, "Yeah well, have you ever heard of honor amongst thieves? We might live outside the law but we respect each other." Then the three rogues did a High-Five.
Satoshi then said, "Fine," and handed the scroll, after removing the ring. Dash said "Maybe you deserve better jobs than working as thieves." "Incredible," said James, "Everyone, take a look at this!" The scroll is written in common writing, but not the common language, and is covered with various marks. Satoshi placed his hands upon two separate red marks and recited an incantation of 3 blood-red words along those specific marks, hoping to decode the scroll; "Alanor, Salah, Bedara!" Nothing happens. Dash said, "Sis, maybe you can recite this incantation." As she and their mother arrived, Satoshi spoke defensively, "Can't blame me for trying. At least I––"Suddenly, the scroll sucks him into itself! Mina cheered, "Yahoo! I knew big brother still had that good talent!"
Satoshi's Pikachu recited the incantation (only in it's own language), and went into it too! Daisuke looked into the scroll and saw a picture of both his brother and his brother's Pikachu, what's most surprising was that it was now the pictures are moving! "Oh boy, I bet Garrett would be just jealous if he saw this!" said an awfully jolly Daisuke. Delia said, "I'll contact his friends," as she contacted a few Carrier Pidgey to deliver a few messages.
After waiting an hour, Dash saw some of Ash's friends arrive. On Satoshi's own journey away from his siblings, he's made a lot of fantastic friends. But Daisuke never met any of them. One of the girls Dash got instantly interested in the most: a human-elf hybrid girl with watery blue hair in a ponytail and fiery red bangs! Dash instantly flirted with her, "Hey, babe! Why don't we drop this stuff and go out?" Disgusted by his attitude, the half-elf girl slapped Dash across the face and shouted, "I'd rather have my elf half get taken away rather than to date with you! And besides, I have a name; it's Kasumi Waterflower, not Babe! And who are you anyway?"
Suddenly, blue-colored steam and yellow-colored steam rose separately from the old scroll, as it cleared... Satoshi, and his Pikachu on his shoulder, came out with a younger-looking scroll. "Geez, I thought it wouldn't have been that easy. Did I miss anything? I feel like I've been in that scroll for 2 months. I've made it up by reading all those other scrolls and other items I've found in there, as well as train." Dash spoke angrily at his brother (still in pain), "You've been stuck in that scroll for an hour!"
After hearing everything that happened recently, Kasumi took a caring look at Ash and softly spoke to him, "Good thing your half-demon blood healed you up fast." She gently brushed her hand on his left cheek. "Well," said Dash, "what's the purpose of this scroll, brother?" Ash said, "Pops gave me this old scroll, for faster training, and this new scroll is a map that leads to his hidden tomb, but in order to survive and enter it, we need to get something called the Fang of the Wolf Demon, but in order to obtain it, we have to go to a thievery guild in Cloud-Stone City in Antias."
"Xilus, the headmaster of teaching new rogues?" said the scared trio of rogues, "Why don't we just leave this place, wait until the whole thing, whatever it is, blow over, and you let us rob everybody?" Satoshi serious then said, "It won't blow over because, Giovanni is after my father's grave as well." "Pikachu, Pika Pikachu Chu Pika Pikachu." Even though he's part-Pokémon for some reason, Myoga understood everything Pikachu said and shouted, "You're kidding!"
James asked Myoga, "What did it say?" "He said that it gets better for us, this Fang of the Wolf Demon is a fang made of illuminating blue platinum the size of Brock Nishrek the Ogre." Brock the 12-foot peaceful forest ogre said, "That big, huh?" That easily got the rogues excited! "So what are we all going to do? Find the Fang?" asked a curious Dash, "Can we party first?" Satoshi said first, "Okay, but listen, rogues, I admit it isn't like me, but how do you feel about being my servants? At least you'll get paid."
The three rogues agreed to join the younger adventurers. And pretty soon the adventure for the Fang will begin soon...
TO BE CONTINUED
Preview of Next Episode:
Mina: Woohoo! We're on the road to Cloud-Stone City!
Dash: So, bro, how did you first meet Kasumi?
Ash: It wasn't love at first sight, if you must know.
Kasumi: But it soon developed.
Brock: The elven-half of her family is a bunch of entertainers.
Nest time: Dungeons and Dragonite #2; How Satoshi First Met Kasumi.
Author's notes: This is sort of a combination of Dungeons and Dragons & the show "Pokémon", plus a mix of some other shows I admit. Think of this as an alternate universe where the characters are older and the Pokémon they have reflect what they had.
So please, read and review this series. Keep me updated with "Pokémon" and ideas for modifying the show's characters a little to this Poké-D&D theme.