Hey guys, I know its been a while, but I've had massive writers block, and ive been busy as all heck. But after much wait and anticipation, heres the second installment of the Cataria Region.

Enjoy :)

Pokemon Legends of Cataria

Part Book Two: Guardians of Cataria

Prologue:

It has been two and a half years since the attack on Glacia, and Ryder had been brought into the Guardian Academy.

During the time he had spent in the capital city of Apollox, Ryder had learned hundreds of new battle styles, and he and his pokemon had become closer than ever before.

Ryder had traded in his old clothes, the black T-shirt and jeans, for something a little more appropriate.

He now wore black hiking boots, with thick black jeans that would help him during the harsh northern winters, if he ever went back. He wore his pokebelt, which hung down to his left side, showing four ready pokeballs. There was another dark green belt that went around his waist, partially covering the tight part of his black pokebelt. On his chest he had a black, light long-sleeved shirt, and had an olive green button up, collared shirt, with who buttoned breast pockets. Finally on his head, Ryder wore a camouflage bandana, that wrapped around his head, and his shaggy brown hair, like a sweatband.

He was now nineteen, and ready to move on, into the world of a full Guardian.

To be a Guardian, you must take classes in combat, survival skills, and the different types of pokemon, save Ice, Ghost, and Dragon types, that would be taught as advanced classes, to the few Recruits that pass the final test. If a Recruit made it that far, they would defiantly need to learn about those three mysterious types.

Along with the normal classes, you get to choose one specialty course, that would help you with blending in to the normal society, and keep your identity as a Guardian a secret.

The course could be anything from science, to artist, to weight trainer if the Recruit chose it.

Ryder had chosen to specialize in Pokemon Archeology, while his friend Alyx, a fellow Guardian Recruit, an amazing artist, had chosen Art as his own specialty.

Archeology had always interested Ryder, and he instantly chose it when the offer came up. He was a definite shoe-in for the course because his grandfather, another Guardian, was a leading force in the Archeological field.

The class amazed Ryder. He not only learned about the different types of fossils that had been discovered, and the pokemon that were once alive within them, but he also learned about some of the living pokemon dinosaurs, like Tropius, Lapras, and the prehistoric fish pokemon Relicanth.

The best part of the class was, after Ryder had graduated from the Guardian Academy, he would receive a pass card to be able to use the research and development station on the Pokemon Reserve south of Apollox, to be able to revive fossils!

Ryder had also discovered in his learning, that the Pokemon Reserve was actually set up by the Guardians, as a place to store their own pokemon, where they could be free to roam as they will, as opposed to being locked in a pokeball or a computer. It was also set up as a place for orphaned, or abandoned pokemon that Guardians saved on their missions. Ryder heard that even some of the Team Nova's pokemon that Ryder had attacked were living in the Reserve now.

Team Nova...

No matter how hard he threw himself into his studies, everyday Ryder thought about what Team Nova had done to his family.

First, they had killed his Uncle Max, along with other Glacian miners, by staging a collapse in the salt mines, then, they took a direct stab at Ryder himself, trying to assassinate him with a Durant, then a Litwick. When that didn't work, they came after his family, killing his father and burning down his home. Ryder had finally come to terms as to why Rage, his uncontrollable alter ego, had sent all of them to hell.

Ryder had taken classes to learn to control his ability, but made little progress. He was now able to call upon Rage at will, but couldn't control him, or push him back into Ryder's soul.

Ryder knew that Rage would be an extremely helpful asset to the battles against Team Nova, and needed to learn to keep him under control.

Now, after the two and a half years of constant training, it was time for Ryder to complete the final tests, before moving into the advanced classes, and becoming a true Guardian.

The final test will make or break him.