Suffering. It was all the people and Pokémon of Palmo knew.
Once, Palmo was a peaceful place. Farms and industries alike had extra produce every year. People and Pokémon lived side by side, helping and cooperating with one another. Trainers could freely move around the region, the worst danger being a small Bactrol infection or the usual fall caused by tree roots. It was a perfect harmony.
That all changed when the first Lord of the Elements arrived.
He was once a normal Trainer, travelling and collecting Gym Badges. But one day, something happened to him. Nobody knows what, but he was changed. He became insane with powerlust, and he had a dark plan in mind.
He went from collecting Gym Badges and Pokémon to collecting followers. Eventually, he gained a follower for every Element that all Pokémon had control of. His team grew from one to twenty-two members.
They only wanted one thing: Power. They wanted to take over Palmo.
But they knew that a direct attack would cause their view to go extinct. Their leader, though insane, was an extremely clever man. He formulated a plan to get their way.
They went to Corrinth, Palmo's capital city. He released a cloud of neurotoxin-laced Bactrol. The city was plunged into chaos as plague swept in. It spread to other cities through deperately-escaping people and Pokémon.
The Lords of the Elements walked in after the destruction was wreaked and took over without a fight.
They tore down everything that had been built and destroyed everything that had been created as a result of the Pokemon-human harmony.
Pokémon attacked the humans who had been their friends for so many millennia and fled into the central Palmonian forests and deserts.
Twenty years later, they were still going strong, only getting crueller and more powerful as the years passed.
After three hundred years, nobody even knew what life was like before them. They only knew the ''now''.
However, there was still hope. There was one man, a man whose spirit was untouched by the hatred of the Lords of the Elements. This man was the only one who could stop them once and for all.