Okay, thanks to all those who submitted OC's. Everything's pretty even now, but I'll still be accepting OC's so feel free to submit. Anyway, the first three chapters will be short dealing with the gangs individually before the actual story begins. The first initiation is the Infernos, second is the Roses, and third is the Tidal Wave's initiation so your characters will appear either in this chapter, the next one, or the one after that so stay tuned. Below is a list of the OC's that I arranged based on their roles. The leadership roles vary, but all the characters are around equal in the plot.

Gang Ranks:

Infernos:

Warlady/Flame Queen (Leader): Incinera
Fire Chief (Second-in-command): Harlequinn
Lieutenants (Third-in-commands): Shadow Cat, Blaze, and Mort
Soldiers (Members): Joker, Cold Flame, Sid Vicious, and Johnny Rotten

Roses:

Warlady/Petal Goddess (Leader): Flora
Thorn Knight (Second-in-command): Ralu
Lieutenants (Third-in-commands): Narcissus, Lullaby, and King
Soldiers (Members): Tiger Lily, Rose, Thorn, Poison, and Ivy

Tidal Waves:

Warlord/Hurricane Admiral (Leader): Typhoon
First Mate (Second-in-command): Mistress of the Sea
Lieutenants (Third-in-commands): White Ice, Splash, and Gail
Soldiers (Members): Bane, Waverunner, Glitch, and Glace Water


Initiation I

The Infernos

A young woman with light brown almost reddish eyes stood inside of a large warehouse smoking a cigarette. On her head was a red cap with the letter "I" on it covered in red flames. Her long, messy, black hair fell out of the cap revealing bright red highlights. She had a large red coat on and had a look of impatience on her face. By her side was a Charizard that had the same look on her face.

"Incinera, its finished," a voice said from behind. "We can start the fighting part of the initiation now."

The woman whirled around to face her Fire Chief, Harlequinn. She had bleached blonde hair and lustful baby blue eyes. Harlequinn was dressed in her usual red, slinky dress that exposed the tattoo of their gang insignia across her breasts, and a pair of deadly high heels.

"Its about time!" Incinera barked as she put out her cigarette. "Its the first of the month and the gang knows I'm busy! Well, lets hurry up and go see what kind of skills those two new recruits have." She walked out of the warehouse with Harlequinn and her Charizard following close behind her. Incinera gazed at the graffiti on the wall. It was an "I" surrounded by flames much like the insignia on her cap. "Not bad. Where are those two?"

"Blaze and Shadow Cat took them across the street to the field so they could get ready for the fighting part."

"Good," Incinera replied as she jumped on her Charizard. "Everything's on schedule. Go around the valley and get Mort and the rest and tell them to bring all of their Pokemon to the field. Chari, fly me to the field so I can meet these new recruits."

With a mighty roar, the Charizard took off at a moderate speed before finally landing in the field across the street. Incinera hopped off of Chari and came upon two of her lieutenants, Blaze and Shadow Cat.

Blaze had a curvy build with short black hair in a pixi cut, light red eyes, and a light tan. She was dressed in a black form-fitting t-shirt that ended a couple of inches above her navel, black mid-thigh length shorts, and black knee-high combat boots with red laces. Her shirt had the word "DANGER" on it in bold yellow letters and her black fingerless gloves had the gang insignia on them.

Shadow Cat was slightly taller with dark brown eyes and layered dark brown hair that went to her shoulders. She was dressed in a red v-neck t-shirt with black short shorts and wore a red bandanna. Around her neck was a Sun stone that she had obtained several years ago.

"Alright," Incinera started. "I need to know is the names of the new recruits."

"They're going by Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten," Shadow Cat replied.

"Take me to meet them," Incinera replied simply.

They led her to the two new recruits and Incinera gazed at them. The one who went by Sid Vicious was around six foot two with spiky black hair. He was dressed in a white t-shirt with a Team Rocket "R" on it, (which Incinera would make sure was burned if Sid managed to get through the initiation), ripped blue jeans and motorcycle boots.

Johnny Rotten was a bit shorter, around five foot eight with orange spiky hair. His black t-shirt read the words "I Hate Sinnoh" and his black jeans had chains attached to them. Like Sid, he was also wearing motorcycle boots.

"I'm the Flame Queen of the Infernos," Incinera began. "Call me Flame Queen or just Incinera. I saw your artwork and there's no doubt that you two are talented, but you also need to know how to fight with both humans and Pokemon. On the streets anything can happen and you have to be prepared so for the fighting part of your initiation, you'll first fight against some of the gangs weaker Pokemon without using yours and then you'll fight against some members of the gang. Got it?"

"Got it," Sid and Johnny said in unison.

"Good," Incinera replied. "Now there's one rule that goes not only for members of our gang, but goes for members of every gang in Saffron and that is you can leave the gang whenever your debts are paid, but if you even think of switching to the Roses or the Tidals, we will kill you. Same goes for these two, my Fire Chief, and anyone else in any other gang."

"We understand," Sid stated.

"That's good to know," Incinera told them. "Blaze, go to the hangout and call Harlequinn and make sure she's on her way with Mort and the others."

"You got it, Flame Queen," Blaze replied as she began walking in the opposite direction.

"Hey babe!" Johnny suddenly called out as he noticed the red heart-shaped tattoo with white wings on her lower back. "Nice tattoo!"

Blaze immediately turned red which didn't go unnoticed by Incinera or Shadow Cat. "Let it go," Incinera told her. Blaze nodded her head and continued to the hangout. Incinera turned to face Sid and Johnny. She couldn't help but admire their fearless attitudes. "Follow me and we'll get started..."

****

Incinera stood on the top of the old bleachers to the east of the field. Harlequinn, Blaze, and Shadow Cat were all beside her. She glanced at her third lieutenant, Mortis. The young man was dressed in his usual black robe, but like always, Incinera felt uneasy around him. He was an extremely capable trainer which is why he was made lieutenant, but Incinera still felt mildly distrusting towards him.

"Alright!" she called out as she suddenly remembered that she had an important task to complete. "Joker, Cold Flame, release your Pokemon!"

The two soldiers of the Infernos stood in the field facing Sid and Johnny. The male who went by Joker, reached for the Poke Ball containing his Quilava and the female who went by Cold Flame reached for the Poke Ball containing her Ninetales.

"Go Heat!"

"Flame, I choose you!"

The Quilava and the Ninetales rushed at Sid and Johnny. They only had to last forty-five seconds against the two Pokemon, but they were completely unarmed and had to face the Pokemon alone. Quilava attacked Sid while Ninetales focused its attention on Johnny.

"Gotta get this stupid thing off!" Sid yelled as he began trying to pry Quilava's mouth from his leg.

Johnny ran around the field narrowly dodging the Ember attacks and figured that if he could just endure the forty-five seconds, the rest would be easy. "Aaaah!" he screamed as one of the blast of fire hit his arm. "Damn, that hurt!"

The two continued fighting the Pokemon for the remaining amount of seconds until it was finally over. "Alright!" Incinera called out. "Time! Joker, Cold Flame recall your Pokemon and get in there!"

"Heat come back!"

"Flame, Return!"

The two recalled their Pokemon and ran towards Sid and Johnny. Incinera snapped her fingers and Blaze, Shadow Cat, and Mort immediately ran towards the two while Incinera and Harlequinn looked on. Watching Sid and Johnny fight back against the barrages of punches and kicks, Incinera noticed that they didn't hold back against the male or female members of the gang which excited her. Too many times, her male comrades had been killed because they were too 'honorable' to hit a female, but Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten defined their names. "That's enough!" she finally told them. "Sid and Johnny, you two are in! Now, let's get back to the hangout..."

****

After a half hour, Sid and Johnny had mostly recovered from their initiation and were now in the main room of the warehouse along with the rest of the gang. Incinera took a deep breath and replaced her black and red shoes with a pair of red high heels. The Flame Queen next removed her large coat revealing that she was dressed only in a red bra that revealed the Inferno tattoo on her lower back, and extremely short black and red spandex shorts. She gazed in a nearby mirror and applied her bright red lipstick.

"Okay!" she started. "I'm going to paythe rent for the warehouse! I'll be back in a couple of hours! As you all know, Harlequinn is Fire Chief so listen to her. If anything happens while I'm gone, there's gonna be hell to pay!"

"Pay the rent?" Sid whispered to Johnny. "I think I know exactly what type of 'paying' she's doing..."

"Now we know why she's the 'Flame Queen'," Johnny snickered back. "She definitely looks hot in those shorts..."

Incinera hadn't heard them, but it didn't matter. She knew that all of her gang knew how she paid the rent to the corrupt policeman that owned the warehouse. It was a degrading task, but Incinera knew that if she continued doing what she was doing, she'd stay out of jail and she'd keep the warehouse for no payment.

"Blaze, Cat," she started as she headed out of the warehouse. "Show the new recruits around Scorch Valley while I'm gone."

"Got it," the two replied in unison.

"Alright Chari," Incinera told the Charizard as she climbed on her back. "Let's get this over with..."