Wrath of the Sky Serpent
Prologue
"My perception of time is skewed. It's a hard thing to keep track of when you've been on your own for so long. I've lost count. Lost count of the days that I've been on the run for. It feels like it's been years now, since that day..."
"I was 17 when my home was taken from me. My friends, family, any familiar faces. They are only a cruel and bitter memory of the life I used to have. I haven't had much human contact since then, figuring there was no point to keeping ties with people. Especially if I was just going to lose them all over again..."
"My life was subject of one cause; betrayal. I remember the day vividly, when my home was razed to the ground. It haunts me everywhere I go. Aspertia city was desolated in front of my very eyes, and my family and friends slaughtered in front of me. And for what? What personal satisfaction can someone gain from betraying his own people? This is not a trait of a human being, nor any pokemon. This is a far more sinister trait than any human or pokemon can harbor within themselves. What goal would someone go so far to achieve, that they would call on the wrath of a greater being to do it for them? Was it worth upsetting Rayquaza?"
"The legendary sky serpent...I don't normally dare say it's actual name. They say that it can hear it's name being called from anywhere in the world. And for someone on the run, it's not a particularly wise or smart idea to be using it. The master of the sky would have no trouble flying across it to hunt down it's prey. I remember the look of it so clearly..."
"A massive green dragon that soared through the air effortlessly. An admittedly majestic sight, as well as a terrifying one. With glowing yellow circular runes, and red tipped shutter like wings running all across it's body, with a fin like tail. This creature was unlike anything I've seen before... I had a much better look at it when it was busy tearing the roof from my house, and breathing fire into our dining room. The rest of the time, while I was being evacuated from the city, all I saw was a shadowy figure flying through the black smoke and flames that were rising into the sky. A mark of where Aspertia used to be."
"My family... I never saw them after I escaped. I blacked out when the creature was tearing apart my home. I was in the hallway when the creature caught sight of me...those terrifying black and yellow eyes...I ran back down the hall when I felt the heat of it's charging attack. A glowing purple light reflected off the walls. I was lucky enough that by the time it had released the beam, my Jolteon had managed to tackle me out of the way of the shot. I hit my head against the wall from the saving tackle, and blacked out instantly. I woke up later from a shock that Jolteon had shot into me that woke me up. It had managed to drag me out of the city and away from the flames. I wouldn't be living right now if it wasn't for Jolteon. It had saved my life, but I was the only one who it could save."
"After the dragon pokemon had cleared, we went back down amongst the ruins of the city to find our family. The sight of the bodies of both pokemon and people was overwhelming. We had managed to make it back home, but I saw no sign of my parents or my younger brother and sister. All I saw was him... Mayor Urien...walking from the ashes of my home, holding that big jewel in his hands that he had dropped off at our house days before. He had given that to my dad for "safekeeping." Safe being the irony word in that term. I'm guessing that was what drew the sky serpent here, and the result was far bigger than anyone had thought. He came back after Jolteon and I had searched my place, accompanied by the police. We ran after he had told the police that my family was the cause of the sky serpent's attack on the city. Apparently this was his plan all along. My father never got along with that prick, and the mayor had framed us for the deed."
"And so here I am. Stuck up in a cave here in the Moors of Icirrus, hiding away from the mobs of police that hunted me. If it wasn't the police, it was the sky dragon who was enraged to find its personal artifact in my home. Even the mighty sky serpent has been hunting me to bring me to justice. Escaping it has been difficult, but we've managed on our own. My mission now is to stay alive as long as I can. Try and ready myself for the day I can stand against the sky serpent as an equal. If not, to at least get close enough to Urien to drive a knife into his back. Like he did to my family, or on a bigger scale, to his own people. He just did it with the help of something larger. Something that at least had the spine to do it... "
"They say the knife that waits, cuts deeper. I will make sure the next time we meet, I will drive as far as I can, so that he can get at least a fraction of the pain and despair he's caused. This, I swear..."