I was panting, still lost somewhere in Victory Road. Luckily, I was still in the caves since I had no idea what the sunlight would do to my eyes. It's funny really, to other Pokemon, Deino don't have eyes. I say that's contrary. We do have eyes, the black fur before our green fur is covering our eyes. I had to explain to both Scorcher and Quartz that Deino does have eyes. Shaking those thoughts out of my head, I ran up some stairs, whether humans made them or not, I was not about to find out. I was worried that that one Durant was following me. Slasher, I think was his name. I kept running up stairs to get away from it all, not knowing whether or not I was running towards freedom. I had to stop suddenly as the stairs I was facing was going back down. I was now in a small chamber somewhere in Victory Road. The only two stairs around were leading back down to the war. However, there was another was out and that was through the gaping hole in the side of the mountain. Not really wanting the Durants to catch me, I ran outside the mountain the first time in my life.
Normally, Deino's don't like running outside of the mountain, but I had to in order to save my life. I couldn't quite describe the light that was penetrating through my eyes that blinded me, but now that the light was in my eyes, I couldn't see where I was going now. I had to squint to see where I was going, but something human made blocked my way. Okay, something inside me told me to go right so I did until a gigantic wall blocked my path. So I looked to my right and a gigantic wall also blocked my path. I went and jumped left and skidded down a mountain cliff unable to control myself from stopping.
"AIYEEEEEEE!" I yelled the whole way down, hitting a small rock which sent me tumbling head over paws. When the cliff finally ended, I landed hard on my stomach. "Ugh, remind me never to do that again." Shakily, I got to my feet, and this time going left, I kept squinting to see a human building in my vision. At first, I thought it was just an illusion, but the closer I got to it, the more it was real. Sighing a breath of relief, I headed for it. And I didn't even have to battle!
Or so I thought when something hit me. I looked back to see a Durant who used Dig to hit me. I groaned. I was so close to freedom, yet so far! Since I used all my energy running, I launched a pretty pathetic Dark Pulse, which of course, did nothing to affect the Durant. The Durant seemed to realize this and jumped to use Bug Bite. I cringed, waiting for the Durant to come crashing down on me, when I realized a huge shadow was blocking the light, somewhat. I slowly opened my eyes to see two long, skinny furry legs in my vision.
"Wha-?" I asked before I passed out.
I slowly opened my eyes to see where I was and realized I was back in Victory Road. I looked around to see a strange Pokemon perched on a rock, looking at me intently.
"W-who are you?" I asked, observing the creature more closely. Its ears were in the form of a 'V' with the top half and its claws were orange. The rest of it, I couldn't describe the color of its body. And it looked like it had wings near its knees. I frowned since I had never seen a Pokemon like this. If it was a Pokemon. Then it started laughing.
"Confused?" the thing asked. "Destiny is a very funny thing, don't you know?"
"Who are you?" I asked again, this time growling. From what I could make out, it sounded like a male.
"No need to get hostile," he said rather cheerfully. "Or was it aggressive? Oh, wait, they mean the same thing. As for your answer, it is not time for you to know my name just yet. I know all about you Jewel."
"How did you know my name?" I asked surprised.
"Hmmm, how do the stars know when to move?" the orange Pokemon shot back. "How does the Earth know when to change its seasons? I have been watching you ever since you were born. I have been waiting for a Deino of your stature that could possibly end that silly war. The war that has been going on for generations. But, you cannot do it alone Jewel. Head for a place call Striaton City and wait."
"Wait for what?" I asked curiously. I had so many questions to ask him.
"Hmmm, I cannot say anymore," the orange Pokemon replied much to my frustration. He looked up as if admiring something long past. "This place used to look beautiful, a pity the Heatmors tried to take over."
"Oh guid, the Deino is waking up," a voice boomed in my head as I slowly woke up.
"What happened?" I gasped as I remembered what happened.
"Easy noo lassie," the voice said. "Ye had a mighty tumble off Victory Road." I looked around and had to squint to see two strange looking Pokemon. One I recognized as a bird, but it had a random feather growing out of the middle of it's forehead. The other, I had no idea what it was supposed to be. I knew it stood on four legs and being brown with a tuft of black fur growing out of its head, I didn't know what to call it.
"And who are you?" I asked.
"Ach! Mah name is Talons the Rufflet," the bird said.
"And I'm Charger the Bouffalant," the other Pokemon said. "Your lucky to survive, not many Deino's do survive."
"Aye, take it from mah partner," Talons said. "That war is weel out of control in Victory Road. The other Pokemon doesn't want et tae spread. Sae we grouped together aboot what should we do."
"And what did you do?" I asked, trying to understand why Talons spoke like that.
"We decided tae set up watch Pokemon," Talons said. "Two tae each month. That way, if any Heatmors an' Durants try tae brang the war oot here, we'll be here tae stop the wee beasties."
"And the two of us got elected to watchers this month," Charger said, taking over. "We only have two weeks left before two new elected Pokemon take over our shift. All Pokemon are strictly forbidden to actually enter Victory Road, except if an innocent Pokemon, like a Swoobat or a Deino, is trying to escape. I imagine Boldores and Meinfoos don't like it either."
"Why do you speak like that?" I blurted out to Talons, unable to keep the question inside my mind.
"Ach, don't ye ken what a northern accent is, eh?" Talons asked, rather testily. "Mah family comes from a proud heritage o' Northern Braiveries. Hence the northern accent. An' Ah don't think ye ever told us yer name lassie or where ye are goin'."
"Oh, I'm Jewel," I replied. "As to where I'm going, I don't really know. I just want to get out of here! I'm fed up with that blasted war. I don't want anything else to do with it!"
"I don't blame you Jewel," Charger said. "Most of us want to go in and end the war, but most of us have children to look after, so it's almost an impossible task."
"So there's zero chance of ending it?" I asked.
"Almost lassie," Talons said. "There's hope that 'un day someone will come an' end et." For the first time since I woke up, I took a real good look at my surroundings. I was looking (to be honest, I was squinting) around a bunch or green leaves and brown bark of trees. I only know these things since Scorcher taught me these things.
"Where are we anyway?" I asked.
"Ach! Allow us tae welcome ye tae Route 10!" Talons replied. "Or at least that's what the humans call et. Us Pokemon, call et Stream tae the Mountains."
"And what do you call Victory Road?" I asked, slightly amused about giving one route two names.
"The Waste Mountain," Talons said. "Et was called the Streaming Mountains a long time ago."
"Why?" I asked.
"Charger, would ye care if ye explain et, eh?" Talons asked. "He can recite et from memory."
"It was said that it was pretty before with a lot of rivers flowing down from it thousands of years ago," Charger said, rolling his eyes from what I couldn't tell. But I did noticed that Talons was going somewhere else. "All the Pokemon got along well, Durants, Deinos, Boldores, etc. you name it. No one can remember what the Durants looked like before the Heatmors came. It is said that they looked nothing what they look today. Durants were pure was one of the purest bug types there were and not being another half type, like a Butterfree. At that time, the Heatmors were a bunch of nomads, trying to find a place suitable for them to settle down and live. It was said that the Heatmors were a posion type Pokemon back then, slowly starting to turn fire. Every time the Heatmors tried to settle down and burn a forest to the ground, other Pokemon forced them out and they were forced to move on. Until they came to Streaming Mountains.
"Both humans and Pokemon called it the Streaming Mountains because of the simple fact that rivers flowed throughout it. When they Heatmors came, they found out there was very little resistance because the Boldores were way to slow to stop them and the Deinos didn't have the highest attack power. The Woobats didn't want to get involved because they controlled the ceiling space only and the Meinfoos, well they got too lazy to do anything. It was only when the Heatmors poisoned the Durants food supply was when the Durants started killing Deinos to feed themselves and started to gain the armor to defend themselves from Heatmors. A few Heatmors in particular could vaporize water because they would have their fires burning so hot it would turn into steam. That is how Victory Road became like it is. Any questions that you have?"
"Why did the Durants turn into part steel?" I asked.
"Och, because of the simple face that steel couldn't be hurt by posion," Talons replied, dragging a leaf with some sort of berries on it.
"Noo eat up young 'un," Talons said, pointing to the food. "After a day like yers, Ah bet yer pretty hungry, eh? If yer wondering what the berries are, they're called Sitrus berries. 'Twill help ye restore yer strength." Taking heed of Talons wise words, I was eating them, but also reminding myself to eat to fast otherwise I might swallow the wrong way and choke.
"I'll bet she'll love Opelucid City," Charger stated in the middle of my meal.
"What's Opelucid City?" I asked in between berries.
"Also ken as the Village of Dragons," Talons replied as he passes me something that held water. "This is what humans call a 'bowl'. A neat wee gadget if ye ask me." I sipped the water from the bowl and realized it was fresh clean cold water.
"Thank goodness it's not hot," I said giggling. The Heatmors drank their water hot so the only small pools we had were steaming hot. I then looked up at the two. "What was about this with the Village of Dragons?"
