Okay. I really need this stuff out of my mind, but the romance is still pending in my mind on this semi-AU fanfiction. Plus, it's driving me nuts. Pokémon is based off from the anime, just a little twist on the plot and characters, and I would be throwing in game characters that you are all familiar with.

I don't own Pokémon from both anime and game.

Chapter 1: Armor Isle

A woman groaned in drowsiness as she poured a cup of coffee from the machine into her mug. It was 5:30 in the morning, and she had less sleep than the usual five-hour sleeping tradition. Not only that the day was early in the morning, the air was cold, and everyone in the house had to wear cotton long-sleeved pajamas with pants on. Despite living in an island, the years retained all four seasons.

The island she and her family were living on was called the Armor Isle. It was one of the islands that were known to be a defensive fort a long time ago when people waged war against each other with Pokémon and where the history of how children started their journey at the age of ten. In the textbooks, it said that because the invaders had water-based Pokémon, the people living on the island were weak against them. Everyone in the island asked the king for help, but he, too, didn't know what to do even if his advisors gave him many options that couldn't help raise his people's morals. He was the only member of the royal family, the last of the most prestigious son, and he had no heir which people were now questioning his ability to rule. Then, a child, no older than ten years old, and a Psychic Pokémon, which nobody had seen, told him that if he were to build a fort for three days and two nights, something special will help them win the war. The people didn't believe the child because he was far too young, but they didn't have a choice for it was the only option they had. They followed his words and worked nonstop with their Pokémon from the bottom all the way to the top. For three days and two nights, they have completed their walls all around their kingdom, and the invaders arrived with their promised Pokémon. The battle began, and the people fought from above and below to defend their homeland. Just in the middle of the battle, something extraordinary happened around the island. The weather changed from rain and lightning to sandstorms and heat waves. Wild Pokémon and the invaders' Pokémon were confused and attacked the invaders without warning. The earth shook under their feet, but only the invaders fell while the island stood in one place. As the strange calamity occurred, the invaders fled the island, and the people were safe and unharmed. Therefore, the king made the ten-year old child his heir and made a rule that any child who reached to the age of ten shall experienced his or her journey outside of the island.

Today, the tradition still stood, but people made compromises on the rule.

She frowned. What was she doing again? The woman tried to remember what was she supposed to do for the next two hours. She wasn't good on tiny memories or remembering daily chores like any other professors did, but she was one hell of an energetic woman from working in one spot and training her Pokémon. She glanced the list she placed on the refrigerator and read the contents: wake up and get coffee, get laundry and fold up clothes, bring clothes, wake the kid(s) up, cook breakfast, make lunch, send her/them off, make breakfast for Pokémon, and the lists goes on and on. How did this all begin again?

Oh yeah. Demetra Sumerelian, the famous translator of the ancient texts along with being the co-founder of a newly found battle technique with her brother, has earned the title of nanny or mommy. People who lived near her and around her laboratory thought she was kind, but later, it was amusing and cute to see the kids drive her nuts. It has been ten years since the problem rose around the regions, and the important places were on alert to pinpoint the areas of the problems.

The meeting was a big deal for everyone in there because it meant that an apocalypse has begun; however, they were all calm and dealt with the situation. Every nurse, officer, gym leader, and other cooperation prepared for anything to come. After the meeting, there were incidents of trainers running away from such beasts and arriving at the Pokémon Center with all of their Pokémon fainted by one hit. The people described these Pokémon as very dark colored creatures like their coats were almost black and had emitted a strange black aura around it. They said that they were once a gas-like energy before forming into a Pokémon that would haunt the routes and forests. These dark Pokémon would attack humans, but they would later disappear before they could be found. Because of that little incident, she and her colleagues had called all these Pokémon from their freed prison, Negative Pokémon, and they worked to the bone to find the kids and train them.

Not only that they found them they found the solution on destroying the demons. For many days and weeks, the translations and the reenactment of the battles were concluded that their ancestors used weapons to defend themselves before they used Pokémon with them for battle. Both of the Sumerelian siblings were the first to fight each other and test out the basic rules of the battle. They tested out some weapons for close range, mid-range, and far range, and only some were effective to fight the Negative Pokémon. The selection of weapons was done; now it was the creation of the weapons that would benefit today's era.

The Sumerelian siblings, along with a few companies, decided to create weapons as soon as possible since the children are growing up. They decided that Amity was the designer of the weapons (and they forbade her in making flashy designs) since Demi and Sage would continue working on devices that would be portable. The companies they selected would have to keep this top secret in Demi's lab since she couldn't trust other companies to do this. The Sumerelian woman heard about other organizations that are hunting down the blueprints to be used for their own benefit, and she wouldn't let them have it when everyone and the Pokémon were all in danger. They have created a few weapons to be tested out and now is being handed down to the girls until the right timing. She and Sage's hard work had paid off, and now Demi had to double- no, quadruple her work to teach the kids, train the kids, train herself with her brother, and take care of kids. It was a very hard task that her brother and her colleagues put on her shoulders.

Oh no. Don't get her wrong. She had no problem of babysitting and taking care of kids; she love kids like any other women do.

It's just that it was one of those frequent sleepovers her niece, or daughter, planned out along with other three girls and her childhood friend's niece/daughter (which she ultimately questioned why did all the girls have to sleep over in one room instead of two rooms). Her childhood friend was somewhere in the other regions exploring places that would include danger and new discoveries, and the woman was stuck doing all the chores that her friend left her to do. That meant sleepless nights, listening to giggling until three in the morning, screaming, running up the stairs to tell them to go to sleep, and wake up only to have two hours of sleep.

Whoopy.

Monferno.

Freakin'.

Doo.

Oh, how she loathe thee. She wished that she wish her friend would get stuck somewhere for a few days and come back ranting about how terrible her days were. Instead, she made a mental note to torture her childhood friend after her travels around the world.

She recollected her memories from the ten-year prior of her long-timed mission. It wasn't easy, but nobody said that it was easy. The girls everyone found were just six to five years old; one of the girls was just a newborn. When Demi and Sage heard about the attacks on the six to five year old children, they both rushed to the places with their overgrown birds that knew Agility and Fly combinations. It took them less than a few minutes to find them and save them in different timing and places. Three of the girls were lucky; only two lost their whole family. It was a good thing that Demi adopted one of the girls and took care of the other one who was adopted by her friend. Plus, she had connections to the other professors in the regions to ask permission from the families, or the next attack would be the part where Demi and Sage wouldn't be there on time. Now every summer, they would be sent to her lab and house just to teach them, instruct them, and train them to defend themselves for any battles coming up.

Her thoughts were disrupted when her watched beeped 5:40, and she knew what was next.

"Time to get the laundry."

Before she placed her mug on the table, she looked at the empty mug and empty coffee maker. The Sumerelian woman sighed tiredly. Oh, and she added another thing on her list: get a supreme, double shot, ultra-strong coffee for the morning.

0000

"Girls! Wake up! It's 6 o' clock in the morning!" The switch light flicked on, and the lumps in the bed and sleeping beds groaned simultaneously. She knew the rule that whatever happens in the bedroom would never be mentioned outside of the house, but this was really ridiculous to her. The bedroom was large enough to fit five people with two on the queen-size bed. The room was colored pink, much to the adult's distaste in color, and there were a lot of decorations from the walls down to the floors. There were a few posters on the wall that had cute Pokémon on it, and there were a few photos on the wall. There was a bookshelf, a wardrobe, a dresser with a vanity, a few Pokédolls on the shelves, a lamp, a television, a VHS and DVD player, and a small table where the phone and an old photo near the bed. The "mom" sighed.

"You have at least two hours to prepare yourselves to freshen up and eat a light breakfast. You, girls, have a test coming up at 9 o' clock in my laboratory, so I don't want you girls to either starve yourselves or throw up. Just because you, four, are sixteen years old, and one is just eleven years old, doesn't mean you could go on a diet just by skipping and taking the test at the same time." She pressed the button next to the light switch, and the blinds on the window automatically opened up to reveal a semi-light sky.

"Trust me. I tried that when I was your age." More groans were heard under the covers, and the "mom" had a glint in her eyes, having a backup plan if those groans were to cease immediately.

"Unless you don't want to choose your own Pokémon, then I'll have Uncle Sage choose one for you all." One of the lumps threw the cover off and yawned.

"Okay. I'm up, Miss Sumerelian. I'm up." The first lump was a redheaded girl who had her choppy hair short to her chin. She wore a goldfish, with a horn, patterned pajama, and the teenager cracked one of her turquoise-colored eyes open. The woman sighed.

"Morning to you too, Misty. Please, just call me, Demi."

Misty was the first girl who Demi and Sage saved from the Negative Pokémon. It happened in Cerulean City, a city in Kanto, where she and her sisters were playing out of the city. Professor Oak's aides called him about a strange Pokémon roaming around the city, her mentor called the Sumerelian siblings for an emergency. When she and her brother got there, the girls were running away, and Misty got separated from her sister. Demi got there in time to grab her and fly very far away from the Negative Pokémon. Her brother, Professor Oak, and the police were there to make sure that Misty was okay, and her sisters cried in happiness when they hugged their dear little sister. A few days after the first incident, Demi was sure that Misty was one of the girls and asked her parents to train her to defend herself against the Negative Pokémon. They were hesitant and reluctant at the beginning, but they knew that if they want their daughter to be safe she would have to go with Demi until the time comes. Therefore, Misty was currently training with the other girls on the summers, while her sisters would substitute her as the Gym Leader.

In one of the sleeping bags, a lump struggled to get out before a head popped out with sapphire eyes and neck length, brown hair split to her shoulders.

"Good morning, Miss Demi." The girl yawned and unzipped her sleeping bag open. She was in her red pajamas, and it had pink kittens running around her clothing. Demi twitched. It was either the pajama was just damn too "cute" or her name not being recognized.

"Just call me Demi, May. We are all familiar with each other in this house, and hearing 'Miss Demi' or 'Miss Sumerelian' makes me sound old."

May was the next girl that Sage, this time, saved. While he was around the Hoenn region, where May lived, Professor Birch called him about a situation around a well-known city. Sage didn't waste time and rode his flying Pokémon around the route. The Sumerelian brother spotted not one but three Negative Pokémon that were ready to attack a young girl. He knew that he was outnumbered even if he had his Pokémon with him and decided to catch her from above. With much struggle to lose the Negative Pokémon, he was able to get her and fly to the nearest police station. In good timing, Professor Birch and her family were relieved that May was safe. Demi visited her brother by coincidence because she had a call from Amity on another island that needed her help. When she met May, she recognized May as another of the girls and knew that she would venture on her own like her father. However, May's nervousness around Pokémon had to delay her journey until she learned how to fight against Pokémon like those.

"You're not old yet, mom. You're just in your thirties." Another lump poked its head, revealing blue hair and blue eyes. Demi rolled her eyes and pointed her thumb to the bathroom.

"You are so lucky that I'm giving you a head start, Dawn. Who knows how long you are going to brush your hair?" Dawn wore pink pajamas with white polka dots and smiled at Demi, brushing down her neat hair with her hand. The "mom" had a soft look toward her "daughter."

Dawn was one of the girls who weren't so lucky, and she was living with her because she was the only child who could remind her of her beloved cousin. On that day, Demi was preparing herself to leave the Sinnoh Region after presenting the research to Professor Rowan and visiting Dawn and her mother. Before she could leave, Rowan drove up and told her about a terrible incident in Twinleaf Town. Demi felt scared for her two family members and rushed out from the hotel. When she got there, the house, where her other family was in, caught in a blazing fire. The people sent out water Pokémon to douse the fire out, but the fire was raging from top to bottom. Fearing for them, she sent out her fire Pokémon and water Pokémon to find anyone in there. They both understood her fear and dashed in before the entrance collapsed. It was a heart-wrenching moment for her, but her two Pokémon came out alive with only one person. Demi cried when she found out that her niece was alive, but she too cried in sorrow when she knew that her cousin was gone.

After the "accident," Dawn would not tell her what happened in that house because she would stare the white walls with no emotion, and Demi seemed to know that was going on. Seeing Dawn like that broke Demi's heart and caused something to stir bitterly in her heart, and it took a lot of time for Dawn to recover back to her perky self. Every year on the certain day, they would visit her mother's grave, and that same day, Demi swore that she would protect Dawn with everything she had. She would try to make Dawn happy with anything she wanted because she loved Dawn as a daughter like her cousin.

"Aunt Demi!" Those who were awake turned to another lump popping up from the sleeping bag to reveal a girl with long brown hair with her curled-away bangs somewhat split in the middle. She wore her bluish-green pajamas, and her blue eyes were revealed when she looked up at her "aunt" and pouted.

"Do you know when's Mama Amity coming back?" Her heart felt a stab when her "mama" was off leaving her "daughter" to new places. It was painful. How could her childhood friend leave her with Demi if Amity was into an adventure without taking the child with her?

This child was Leaf, and she was once a niece to her childhood friend, Amity, who was currently the mother and the guardian. She, too, was another unlucky child who had both of her parents killed, but she was also lucky that Amity was in Johto at night. She had a call from Professor Oak that his aids' daughter was missing, and the Sumerelian woman went into a panic. She called her brother first, but he didn't pick up his Pokénavi. In frustration, she decided to call Amity only to hear her say that she already spotted the girl and told Demi to call back later. The professor swore for a few minutes until Amity got a call back. To her relief, Amity and Leaf were fine when they entered her home. Amity retold the whole story that she encountered a Negative Pokémon that developed into a strange bird-like creature that she hasn't seen like the other flying types. Leaf's health was fine, but like Dawn and May, Leaf suffered a trauma for flying Pokémon. Demi knew that her childhood friend was very close to this girl and was off into another "adventurous" travel, and Leaf would talk nonstop of Amity's discoveries and adventures with a bubbly attitude. However, she felt that Leaf was also a part of Demi's family even if the girl was her friend's niece and daughter.

"She called last night and told me that she would come around to see your testing, Leaf. I think Amity would be around today or later." She guessed that it would some how include getting a morning run by wild Ursaring, sprinting away from swarms of Beedrill, or swimming with a school of Carvanha. She half-hoped that she would come back and half-hoped that something funny happened to her. Before she could tell them to move their little hinnies to the bathroom, Demi's eyes narrowed.

Something's not right in this picture. She smelled something oddly familiar in the room and observed the lack of messiness on their heads. Misty had her hair nice and straight, and May just didn't have any hair sticking up this time. Leaf's hair was oddly silky and shiny, and Dawn, the blue-headed daughter, didn't have any hair poking out of the covers like she used to every morning when Demi woke her up.

Oh no.

They just did not use that.

"Girls? Did you, all, use my conditioner this evening?" The Sumerelian woman gave everyone in the room a deadpan glare, and the twinkle-eyed daughter, who just ducked under the covers to avoid her gaze, threw her comforters off.

"Sorry, mom! My conditioner went empty, so we had to use three of your conditioners." Demi winced to hear that they used up that much of her conditioners.

Oh dear Zapdos, Articuno, and Moltres. Dear Entei, Suicune, and Raikou. Dear all legendaries wherever the hell they are. She knew something would be off in her house. She should have bought more supplies since their sleepovers would consist of wasting conditioners, shampoos, soaps, food, electrical energy, and anything she could list off from her mind.

"At least tell me before you use my conditioner. Great. I have to call Amity to buy more conditioners somewhere else." The Sumerelian woman said and pointed to Dawn's marble bathroom.

"Now, I would recommend that you all get to Dawn's bathroom, Leaf's bathroom, or use my bathroom quickly. You have at least thirty minutes before breakfast is ready." In an instant, all the older girls threw their sleeping bags and covers off just to scram to the three bathrooms with a lot of arguments and struggle. Demi wanted to knock her head against the wall, but for some reason, she spotted the last lump sleeping on the floor ignoring who got first and who got last.

"Soul. Soul, wake up. Today's the testing day." The little lump groaned, but the young girl poked her head out and yawned.

"Good morning…" Demi smiled. The light-headed brunette with light brown eyes was a ten-year old girl, an appropriate age for children to leave on a journey, and she was considered to be the little sister. She was adorable to the extent that the girls wanted to become a family together, even though she had two brothers and a mother in Johto.

Soul was the youngest of the group because she was one of the luckiest girls who didn't have to face the Negative Pokémon. Demi and Sage were on their trip to Johto to visit Sage's old friend and colleague, Professor Elm, at the beginning of the fall season. Demi left the two eleven-year old girls, Dawn and Leaf, to Amity back home, and she was on her way to help Elm on his research due to lacking of staff. When they got to the lab, they saw a little girl running around with a Pokémon behind. Elm introduced them to Soul, and the little girl she met was the last of the girls. Upon hearing this from Demi, Elm was astounded to hear that Soul was one of them and was the luckiest one who doesn't know what the Negative Pokémon was. Elm, Sage, and Demi talked to her mother about the situation Soul was in, and her mother was astounded to hear that something like that would have happened to her little girl. She didn't resist; she said that Soul is allowed to leave on summers while she would explain her sons about her leaving to another place.

"Good morning to you too, sleepyhead. You're the last person to wake up, and the girls have already taken over the bathroom. I do hope that you know that you also need to freshen up and eat light." Soul threw the covers off to reveal white pajamas and stretched her muscles.

"Don't worry. I'll wait." Demi smiled slightly. She was the kindest and less rambunctious of the five, and it sort of balanced the whole group out with a tomboy, a mischievous niece (Demi reminded herself to give her childhood friend a slow and painful death), an optimistic daughter, and a bubbly girl. She was the sweetest girl that she met, and Demi seemed to be used to their eventful days. She turned around to exit the room.

"I would suggest that you go to Leaf's room or my room if there isn't a line. Today is the day that you girls will be tested, and this is an important side mission while you, all, decided what to do in your Pokémon journey. Now, I'll be downstairs preparing you all light meals. If there is a problem, just holler out."

0000

"Ah! Professor Sage! Wait! Where are you going?" Slipping into his coat, Professor Sage hastily walked out of the door. In a brisk moment, he threw a Pokéball in the air without answering his aide's questions.

"Arcanine! We're going now!" Out of the Pokéball, an orange and yellow large canine howled and dashed to its trainer. It looked like it was a mixture of a dog and tiger with stripes on its body, but its yellow hair flew in the wind like a wave of fire.

"Wait!" One of his aides ran out of the lab and asked once more.

"Professor Sumerelian! Where in this island are you actually going? The testing is going to start less than fifteen minutes!" Sage got onto the fiery dog and growled in frustration.

"Damn it, Demetra. Tell me to bring my Pokémon because they were all faster than yours; you could have told me at night or before that, but no." He turned to his aide and pointed out.

"Wait here and watch over the lab for me. If my son comes around and asks for me, tell him that I'm picking up the girls from Demetra's house." The aide realized what was going on and nodded. It seemed that he was picking up the girls from his sister's house, but all of the girls were running late somehow. It must have happened when Sage called his sister about the girls, and Demi told him that something must have happened to her Pokémon. It's that, or she must have not have enough Pokémon that has the speed.

"Ah. Okay." Not replying back, Sage ushered his Arcanine to go to Demi's house.

The island was pretty large for an island small. It was probably because in the horizon, it looked small, and the old fort only covered one-third of the island. However, when people entered the island, they were amazed that both the city and the walls were larger than they expected. It was a half-city and half-town like place that had bridges over the aqueducts and parks for Pokémon and people to relax with fountains in the middle. The island was first in ruins since the eruption of a volcano, but the people who came here rebuilt the place into an improved place. It still retained its stones, but the architecture supported the place where it would never be destroyed by an earthquake. People who lived in there were peaceful and quite busy, and the only busy people were Sage, Demi, and the aides in the island. The other places were houses, souvenir shops, markets, and working buildings for technology. However, the most famous place where Armor Isle was the Battle Coliseum.

The Sumerelian brother looked to his side to see three huge coliseums. It was once a single coliseum back in the days when it was only for the residents in the island to fight against each other with their Pokémon. It was a simple Pokémon battle one-on-one, but later it became a double battle. Since Sage and Demi have a new battle technique, improving the battle arenas, and improvised the rules, both people and Pokémon fight each other in order to win. However, this battle was only used in the Battle Coliseum in Armor Isle because it is considered dangerous to be used in the regions. That rule was a strict rule, and both Demi and Sage agreed to each other that all officers must enforce the law if a trainer used this to fight other trainers or fight a wild Pokémon. Unless they are selected by the Sumerelian siblings and received a badge of approval, no trainers are to use this technique outside the island. That is why Sage is picking the girls up for their tests to prove that they could handle this dangerous mission.

Sage glanced down at his Pokémon. The large canine was one of his fast Pokémon, and they were all useful for their preparation of attacks of the Negative Pokémon. If they were to encounter a Negative Pokémon, Sage could only use up to two to three Pokémon in a battle against these Pokémon. However, if Sage and Demi were to tag battle, they could only use one Pokémon and help each other. There were many types of statuses he could use to his advantages, but he stuck with the speed demons of the regions. Demi focused more on Attacks and Special Attacks to break the defensive; however, they all trained their Pokémon to learn how to evade and defend against each other. The girls were trained to borrow their Pokémon and use them for battle, but it also took time to trust their Pokémon until they could trust their own Pokémon.

Same goes for the Pokémon.

Their training wasn't easy than it sounds. Their Pokémon were very hesitant on letting their trainers to fight with them. Many of their Pokémon just shook their heads and put their trainers back in the safety area. It did frustrated everyone, and they all knew that it was instinct that motivated the Pokémon to protect their masters. However, it was getting to the point that Sage and Demi had to prove their worth to gain their Pokémon's trust. Their starters understood the situation of the world, and they agreed to let their masters fight with them. Therefore, everyone could only depend on their starters until the other Pokémon, fortunately, decided to trust their trainers too.

Looking at the time, he knew that he would arrive on time. He had three other Pokéballs on his belt, and they all were fast enough to make it in fifteen minutes. Then, he remembered what he was supposed to do. Not only he had to pick up the girls, there was important news that he received from Amity.

"Damn it. Demetra is going to have a fit when she's going to hear when she hears that Amity is bringing over the professors with special guests. Demetra doesn't mind the professors, but who knows how she would explode when she's going to hear these special guests? Thank Arceus that I'm not in Amity's shoes."

0000

"Why do you continue watching the humans? I know that those girls are the Eves of Mother, but you don't have to check their progress every day."

"Yes. They are capable on handling on their own and proved themselves to defend themselves five years ago. What reason is there to watch over the human world when you could watch for those demons the humans now call them Negative Pokémon?"

"…"

"Brother. I understand that watching the Mother's Eves are important, but now is not the time to wallow over her death. It is time to continue watching over the world and track down those demons."

"…"

"Brother!"

"Brother!"

"What is your answer, brother?"

"…Fine. Everyone! Prepare for the coming of the Eves! Set aside your differences between humans and Pokémon! We must help them destroy these demons with our powers! We shall aid them and destroy the Creator of the Other World!"