A teenage boy walked through a verdant forest, carrying nothing but a backpack and one Poké Ball on his belt. He was about sixteen and had dark brown hair and brown eyes. He stopped and sighed at the town he was nearing. He would stop at the store there, pick up more supplies, and move on. Just like always. He stopped at a cliff as he came to it. The moon was rising. Hunter sighed again and began setting up a small camp. It was nothing special. A sleeping bag and a lantern were all that he needed. But not right now. Hunter took out a sketchpad and started to draw the rising moon, with the town below it. A Pidgeotto, with a loud cry, took to the air, flying across the moon. Hunter jotted the image down while it was still fresh in his mind. Other sketches filled the pages before the current one. They were all of either Pokemon or nature scenes. He had ambitions of becoming an artist when he grew up. His parents had said that he had a promising career as an artist. After they had been killed in a car accident, he had set out. The only Pokemon that was protecting him currently was the family's pet Buizel. It was in fighting shape, but was growing old, as his mother had used it during her closing days as a trainer. Hunter looked at a prior sketch. The Buizel in the picture brought back the memory of it posing for a picture. Not really posing, since the Water Gun it had launched for the picture was moving, but the Buizel was not just good for posing for pictures. Despite its age, it could still fight, and it had saved Hunter from both thieves and thugs on more than one occasion during his two years on the road. Hunter opened the Poké Ball and the Buizel came out in a bright flash of light. With a puzzled "Bui?" it looked at Hunter.
Hunter smiled at it. "Nothing's wrong Buizel. Just thought you ought to get out tonight."
The Buizel smiled and nodded. Hunter lay back against the small rock he was leaning against, and closed his eyes for a moment.
And got the shock of his life.
Suddenly, he could still see. The landscape was distorted in a flaring blue and white light, and the aura surrounded Buizel as well, enveloping its body. Hunter snapped his eyes open. They opened so suddenly that Buizel ran to him, its tone wondering if he was alright.
Hunter nodded and stroked the Buizel's head to calm it. "I'm fine, Buizel. It was nothing."
Inside a cave that was situated near a mountain spring, a Lucario opened its eyes. He ran outside, his ears twitching. He closed his eyes and the sensory bundles on the back of his head, which most people mistook for dreadlocks, flared outwards. His gaze traveled over the land until it came to a small cliff, where it could sense two creatures. One was a Pokémon, a Buizel to be exact, while another was a human. Young, with the strongest Aura Lucario had ever seen. I need to find this boy, he thought to himself. He began jumping up the rock walls that surrounded the spring, then, once at the top, began to make his way towards the cliff.
Hunter finished drawing the moon and the town beneath it. He slid the pencil inside the wire that bound the notebook together, then slipped the notebook into his backpack and climbed into his sleeping bag. He felt Buizel crawl into his sleeping bag and lie down next to him, its warm fur adding more heat to the sleeping bag. Both were asleep only seconds later.
Lucario came onto the ridge, approaching the lantern and gazing at it for a moment. He then knelt by it, picked it up, and blew it out. He looked over at the two sleeping forms to see if they had stirred. They hadn't. He silently walked over to them, ending up on the boy's side. He knelt, about to pull the cover back, when he heard someone speak.
"Now, Buizel!"
A stream of water slammed into Lucario's face, taking him by surprise and sending him back, spluttering. He looked up through drops of water streaming down his face and bared his teeth at the human's Buizel. The human was standing next to it, holding a large stick. Hold on. I'm not here to hurt you.
The human looked somewhat shocked at Lucario's presence inside his mind, but then recovered. "I don't believe you! Buizel, Aqua Jet!"
With a loud Bui! the Buizel conjured a pillar of water around itself, then shot forward towards Lucario. Lucario called upon his Bone Rush attack and met Buizel head on. He could see the Buizel's face shatter into pain and effort as it tried to hold off Lucario's power. Lucario swung one side of the bone staff into the side of Buizel's head, sending the water Pokémon crashing to the ground.
The human's voice came again. "Don't give up, Buizel! Use Swift!"
A stream of stars shot from the Buizel's tails as it swished it from side to side. Lucario managed to dodge a few, but they were so many, so fast…he couldn't avoid being hit. He dropped to the ground after the attack and called upon Metal Claw. His knuckle spikes elongated into long claws, and he faced the Buizel in a combat stance. The human saw it and called out to the Buizel. "Fury Swipes!"
The Buizel charged forward, its own claws glowing now. Lucario met it head on and they fought each other around the cliff, Buizel charging forward and locking claws with Lucario and sometimes being thrown to the ground with small cries of Bui!
Eventually, the struggle began to slacken. Buizel, not being able to keep up with Lucario's powerful attacks, gave one last effort and lunged at Lucario, its claws extended. One claw managed to scratch Lucario's cheek. The second didn't get a chance as Lucario-with claws still extended-hit Buizel with an uppercut on the chin, sending the Pokémon flying into the air and onto its back on the ground, unconscious. The human ran to the Buizel, cradling its head in its arms before recalling it in a flash of red light into a small, red and white orb that he then shrank and placed on his belt. He faced Lucario, his stick ready. Lucario sighed and rolled his red eyes. He then ran at the human full out, jumping high into the air when the human tried to hit him with the stick. As he fell, he landed on top of the human, pinning its arms to the ground and thrusting his muzzle into the boy's face. Listen, human! I told you that I didn't come here to hurt you!
"Care to tell that to my Buizel?" the human asked in an obnoxious voice.
You ordered your Buizel to attack me first. Speaking of which, how did you know I was coming?
"Buizel was able to sense you long before you got here."
Lucario got up and took a hold of the human's stick, tossing it over the ledge. What's your name, human?
"Hunter. What Pokémon are you?"
My name is Lucario. Introductions aside, have you ever heard of a thing called Aura?
"No. What is it?"
It's the energy that's inside every living thing. In ancient times there were people who could see Aura.
"What does this have to do with me?"
Your Aura is the strongest I've ever seen. I have knowledge of the Aura myself, so I can teach you what I know.
"Thanks but no thanks. I'm happy being normal." He turned and began to pack up his things, dumping rocks out of his sleeping bag. Lucario noted that those were what he had at first mistaken for the boy and his Buizel. He hadn't used his second sight. That was sloppy.
He walked over to Hunter and stood in front of him, blocking the way to his lantern. You don't understand. This could change your life if you let me teach you.
"My life is messed up enough right now, thanks!"
Lucario resisted the urge to roll his eyes again in front of the human.
I can see that I'm not going to change your mind easily.
"Try never, buddy."
Lucario's paw clenched as he repressed an urge to Force Palm this wisecracking human.
If you ever change your mind…
"Which I won't."
Lucario pointed at the mountain he had come from. I'll be in a glade on top of that mountain.
"Good. Another reason for me not to come to you."
You'll have a home that you can actually settle down in, instead of wandering around.
"I like wandering around."
Like I said, human, if you want to…I'll be waiting.
Lucario ran towards the edge of the cliff and jumped off of it, hitting the ground running back to his home. He smiled slightly as he ran. The boy would come around. And then it would get interesting.
So, there you have it. This has been on my computer for a while now, and I was waiting until I'd finished the series (there's gonna be a lot, most of which will involve Hunter (I'm not vain, I just find it easier to write if I'm familiar with the main character) travelling and meeting more legendary Pokemon. (I also don't care if anyone says that Lucario isn't Legendary. Shaymin's probably legendary and there's more than one.) Anyway, more to come soon! R and R, please!