THE LEGENDARY WAR

CHAPTER 1

Raize groaned inwardly and turned his face into his pillow as he heard a knock on his bedroom door. A few moments later his mom opened the door and walked in.

"Really Raize, it's about time that you got up. You have been acting like a Slaking all week, just loafing around in your night ware all day."

"There's not much else to do mom" he replied as he turned around on his bed to face her, rubbing his face all the while to belie the fact that he had been up for hours already.

"Well that's all about to change for you soon dear." She said as she threw an opened letter on to his bed. "It appears that you have passed the Professor exam and they want you to start your internship three months from now."

"You opened my mail mom? Whatever happened to privacy?"

"If I don't open them, Arceus knows they would never be. That's the third time that they've mailed you, they are waiting on your response."

With a sigh, Raize sat up in his bed and ran his hand through his hair as he looked down at the letter.

"Do try to contain your excitement", his mother said sarcastically. "Haven't you been waiting for this opportunity for a while now? At the young age of fifteen you've just become the world's youngest Pokemon professor!"

"That's probably just because I'm the only one who was there when….when", Raize started to say but broke off as he tried to hold in the tears as he remembered the tragic events of what happened that day three years ago while he was on his journey to being a pokemon master.

Seeing the sad expression on his face, Raizes' mother coughed and changed the subject hurriedly.

"I forgot to mention your girlfriend is downstairs for you."

"Himawari?" he asked shocked, I thought she was away travelling with her dad.

"Yes Himawari, unless you have another girlfriend I don't know about."

Raizes' face turned red at his mothers' retort.

"She's not my girlfriend"

"Sure she's not. Anyways you had better come downstairs and greet her and do at least put on a pair of pants. The both of you are way too young for you to be showing off your boxers to her."

With an embarrassed expression on his face, Raize hurried got a pants and shirt out of his wardrobe and put them on and headed outside. He had barely taken a couple steps outside when he felt something brush against his leg. He looked down and saw it was Kitsune, one of a litre of Vulpix pups they had found a year ago abandoned. His mother had found homes for the other six pups but this little one had refused to leave, even going as far as gripping into Raizes' leather jacket that day with its' teeth to avoid being taken in by the family that his mom had found for it.

"What's up Kit?" Raize asked it as he bent down and scratched under its' chin gently.

"Vul!" it exclaimed happily and made a small jump up on to his hand.

With a sigh, Raize scooped up Kit and it proceeded to snuggle its' self into the crook of his arm and closed its' eyes with a contented expression on its' little face. Proceeding down the stairs, he made his way towards the kitchen where he could smell his mom preparing something on the stove for him to eat. He entered the kitchen to find Himawari sitting at the table with a plate of toast in front of her.

"Yo" he said when she looked up at him.

"Yo? Yo? That's all you have to say to me after not seeing me for months?" Himawari replied with a slight pout.

Raize just shrugged and took up a slice of toast from the plate in front of her and proceeded to eat it.

"Hey!" she exclaimed, "I was eating that"

"Correction, I'm eating" he replied

"You haven't changed much since I've last seen you Raize."

You have though, Raize wanted to say to her but he couldn't bring himself to. Her silky dark brown hair had grown longer, now reaching an inch or two past her shoulders, her lips seemed a bit fuller but the most amazing part was her eyes. They seemed to have become a deeper and darker blue. He'd always loved the color of her eyes, sometimes it felt like he was drowning in a magical sea of possibilities when he looked at them.

"Is that a bad thing?" he asked her as he took at the seat at the table, transferring Kitsune from his arm to his lap.

Instead of replying, Himawari just sighed and continued to munch on the toast in front of her. After a few minutes had passed, Raizes' mom decided to break the silence in the room.

"How's your dad Himawari?" She asked as she placed a plate in front of Raize

"He's ok" Himawari answered with a cheerful expression on her face. "He decided to stay for a few extra months in Unova saying he was onto some giant break through discovery. That reminds me, he sent you a present Raize."

"Oh?" Raize replied as he looked up from eating, an eyebrow raised as he looked at Himawari inquisitively.

"Yeah", she replied, blushing because of how intently Raize was staring at her.

She reached into her bag and pulled out a pokeball. She looked at Raizes' mom who nodded at her, giving her the go ahead to release the pokemon from the ball. Pressing the button once to enlarge the pokeball and tapped it again causing it to split open. There was a flash and a pop as a ball of energy leapt out of the pokeball and onto the ground where it materialised into a Timburr.

"Why'd he send me a Timburr?"

"He ran across it during one of his explorations and remembered that you liked fighting types so he caught it for you and- ".

"And what?" Raize asked Himawari

"Well he thought it would be a good fit for you to take with you on a journey around the region again"

Raize scowled and started to say something but Himawari interrupted him.

"Don't be mad at him, it was mostly my idea. I thought it would be good for you to get out of the house and travel instead of moping around all the time. It's been three years already and while I can't imagine the amount of pain you must still be going through but it's unhealthy for you to keep living your life this way and I'm sure they –"

"Don't mention them" Raize said to her quietly as tears formed in the corner of his eyes.

"Raize…..I'm sorry"

"You should give a little thought to how others feel before you open your mouth" Raize said curtly as he suddenly stood up from the table. Startled by his suddenly getting up from his seat, Kitsune hopped off his lap and gave him a look of indignation before walking over to the kitchen window and laying down in the patch of sun streaming through it.

"Raize!" his mother shouted behind him sternly as he walked out of the kitchen. A moment later there was the sound of the front door being opened and closed.

"I am thinking about you though" Himawari muttered under her breath sadly.

Raize had gotten to the entrance of the forest behind their house when it dawned on him how harsh he had been on Himawari. With a sight he leaned back against a tree and thought back on everything he had done over the past three years. He wasn't the same eager little boy he had been when he first set out had on his pokemon journey. Ever since that day when he had challenged the pokemon champion he had become sullen and withdrawn. He had become touchy and snapped at most people when they were just trying to help him. How was a person supposed to react when he had been through what he had been? As a matter of fact, what had he been through? The last thing he could remember about that day was the sky become dark and ominous and this mysterious figure in the sky. He had been knocked unconscious by debris when that figure, whatever it was had started destroying the area. When he had awoken he had found himself inside a hole. From the top of the whole he could see the face of his Infernape staring down at him. He had had a split second to register the strange way Infernape looked before it had crumbled apart into tiny sandy like particles and rained down on him.

At first he had tried calling for help but to no avail as he heard no one reply to his cries. The next thing he had tried was to summon one of his pokemon, but try as much as he did, the balls just bounced and rolled on the ground, none of his pokemon team bounding out of them. It took him a few attempts but he soon managed to jump up and grab a hold of the edge of the hole and pull himself up. What he saw he finally managed to pull himself up out of the hole was something that he could not quite manage to comprehend, even now after all this time he still did not quite understand what happened. The whole world was in the same boat as him, lost as to what had happened on that unfortunate day.

"I'm sorry" a voice said suddenly, interrupting from reminiscing about the past.

Raize opened his eyes and looked to his left and saw Himawari standing there, with her head held down.

"No, I'm the one that should be apologising" Raize replied as he pushed himself up off the tree and faced Himawari.

"You've always been there for me, ever since we were little kids. Always selflessly trying to help me…. I shouldn't have been so harsh with you just now. It's just that….."

"I know, I just thought that this would help you clear your mind. I've seen how badly you've been feeling these past few years and I've been unable to do anything to help you out. I should have realised that going on a trip would have been a really bad idea, especially now that you've gotten accepted to be a professor which puts you one step closer to trying to make sense of what happened three years ago."

"you're right, it has been my hopes for the last couple years to become a professor for that reason but, I didn't pass the exam-"

"But-"

"I know what the letter I got today says but, the only reason they let me in at such a young age and with such horrible results is because, as much as I don't know about what happened. I'm the only one who's experienced it. So I think I'll take you up on that journey, it doesn't matter if I show up tomorrow or a week from now. For some reason I don't believe that any of us will ever learn what really happened that day until whatever was at the heart of it, decides to let us know."

"Are you sure Raize? We don't have to go if you'd rather-"

"I'm sure Himawari, let's go have ourselves an adventure"