Chapter 02 - Radiant Blue - The Stage is Set
Part 01:
10:27pm, August 18th.
In the city, 10:00pm is curfew and is recommended that all students head back to they're dorms at this time, this basically ensures that all students are safe and away from danger, it's not like they aren't allowed to stay out at night, it's simply just "recommended".
Mainly due to many things happening at night which are considered dangerous, like rank 0 delinquents wandering around trying to get into fights and steal, however despite this there are far worse things that people worry about, the so-called city rumours that get spread across the city.
The things people will say or overhear...
"There has been a monster that can perform attacks which only pokemon should."
"I keep hearing about horrific experiments that take place within the city."
"There is a guy whose body rejects Pokemon attacks, physical or not!"
"If you stay out late there are people with strange clothing wandering around."
"Security is extremely high around night time I hear, I keep hearing people are shot if you get in they're way."
"There is a foreign girl with short blue hair wandering around the city, I wonder if it's true?"
And the rumours spread all over the city, from the higher class places all the way to the low class places, it didn't matter where in the city, these rumours can happen from all angles.
Outside of a specific apartment within Silver City is a person who can confirm a few of the rumours and confirm them to be true, the boys name is Hiroshi Yuudai. Every room in the apartment except one room has the lights off, the room which still has the light on is the room where Hiroshi lives.
It's a normal basic room of the average student, there is a shelf which stores books, comics and DVD's, a single bed next to the only window in the room and a table with a bunch of workbooks and such. Next door there is a door which leads to the bathroom where a shower, sink and toilet is.
The problem with the place? It's simple really.
Hiroshi is one of the few normal students who don't have any pokemon at all, as a result the room should be branded "a trainer" room, however for his case it's a "normal" room which is considered stranger in a city like this.
Back in the main room in the middle is a rolled up dark blue rug with some kind of head sticking out of it, obviously Hiroshi went out to buy some new carpets for his floor.
"Not! Why would I even think about buying new carpets to begin with?"
Of course the boy was talking to himself, as not everyday someone get's into a situation like this, considering it was dark outside he didn't noticed that the unconscious girl was wrapped in carpet rug until he got inside the room and flicked the room light on.
"Better yet, what does someone do in this situation? Unroll the rug? No, what if she's not wearing any clothes, then she might wake up and shout 'ayah! Pervert' then I'll be kicked out of the city and forever be alone."
Whether or not this situation is considered a comedy scene isn't the issue to the boy, he had a couple of things he was trying to get his head around.
(What was she doing outside my apartment room, rather if no one else had noticed her means that she appeared after all of the lights in the apartment went off.)
Only Hiroshi left his light on in his room when he left for the day, this wasn't done intentionally but once again due to his general bad luck streak.
(She must have headed to my apartment because of the light.)
The only thing which was worrying Hiroshi was the fact she had the rug wrapped around her, to him their is no way of deducting what had happened to her up to the point where she arrived to his room, but that isn't the issue.
(I can't tell if she's hurt or not, anything could have happened if she is like that...)
A few minutes have passed and the young lad is still thinking about what to do, suddenly he decides to make his move.
(Gah! I'll have to unroll the rug, I need to confirm if she is okay, I don't care if I get branded a pervert by this girl, I can't take risks.)
"M-maybe I should use an 'awakening heal' to wake her up aha!"
Awkward silence befell across the room, of course even he knew how bad of a joke he made.
"Okay back to the point here."
He reached out his hand towards the rug wrapped around the girl.
His hand was about a few centimetres away from the rug's end point.
"Hm..."
The body with the dark blue rug rolled over gently, the girl's face was now facing Hiroshi who pulled back his hand due to the sound she made, her face was a gentle light colour and there was short light blue hair that was partially over her face look gentle yet made her look fragile at the same time.
"Uh... eh?"
The girl suddenly opens her eyes, not slowly it just opened instantly like someone who fell asleep on the bus then wakes up exactly at the point where they would get off.
Hiroshi was simply staring right at her, he didn't know how to react, that blank face she gave staring right at him was pretty intimidating, but there was two problems, first being the rug was still wrapped around her and the second thing is that she was on the floor looking up at him from a sideway position.
"Uh, are you okay?"
She took a deep breath, Hiroshi threw his head back thinking she was going to yell as he anticipated but then she speaks in a calm voice.
"Hello."
The only thing he noticed was those deep blue eyes of her which stood out the most, the only thing she did was blink, Hiroshi who was standing there in shock was thinking.
(Wait, was she directing that at me? Huh, no wait that's not the point here, what kind of situation is this anyway?)
"Uh... hi, a-are you okay by any cha-"
*GROWL*
A large stomach noise came from somewhere, the room then goes back to silence once again. Hiroshi then opens his mouth and asks...
"Are you hungry by any chance? I was going to eat something right now."
The girl nods whilst trying to hide her embarrassment at the fact the origin of the noise came from her.
"W-well first off, you need to roll out of that don't you?"
The look gave of a confused look at first, only to realise what she was wrapped in.
"AH! Good idea! I'll do that!"
She rolled towards him whilst loosening the rug as she rolled.
"GAH!"
The boy panicked as he thought she wasn't wearing anything under the rug, so he was covering his eyes just in case.
"Hm? Is there something wrong, why are you covering your eyes?"
He opened his eyes to see the girls face right up to his, she was only a little bit shorter then him, Hiroshi takes a step back realising that she is wearing clothes.
"Ah, it's nothing... hm?"
He noticed her clothes seem out of place, almost like foreign clothes.
The girl was wearing sandals, and is wearing black shorts, on top of her she was wearing a white short sleeved shirt, however the shirt was too big for her and the overall look matched with the shorts and sandals.
*GROWL*
"...um, let's eat then!"
Part 02:
Sitting on Hiroshi's bed was a girl stuffing her face with his remaining food supply he was planning to save for the holiday, which is now reset to zero for him.
*Sigh*
"I guess I have to go out shopping again..."
The girl stopped eating suddenly.
"Am I causing you trouble? I can stop eating if you want."
"It would be a waste if you stopped eating that rice now, plus I'm not bothered much about it."
"You're a really kind person, thank you!"
She now went back to eating again.
"Can I ask why you had a rug wrapped around yourself earlier?"
"Some homeless guy gave it to me."
"W-what?"
(Okay that's a bit weird, let's move away from that topic)
"So? Can I ask why you were outside my apartment?"
"I was being chased."
"Huh? Chased?"
"Or was it hunted, I tend to forget these things a lot."
"H-hunt- No wait that doesn't change anything, who is chasing you?"
"The Fallcoast I think they were called."
"I'm sorry, I can't really understand much."
She puts down the bowl which doesn't have a single bit of rice leftover.
"Ah, that's right an outsider like you wouldn't know about them, the Fallcoast is a religious faction that is trying to capture me, they are one of many factions set in the Land of Haven."
(Religious faction? Haven thing? What is this girl going on about?)
"Ah, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Iria, also known as 'knowledge of all'"
(Now, it's even more confusing then before, for now I'll play along for now.)
"So uh Iria was it? Why are you being chased to begin with?"
"They want to get the 'knowledge of all' I can't let them do that."
Hiroshi, being dumbfounded at every sentence the girl kept saying is now shifting his head across the room.
"So? Where this 'knowledge of all' is it a book? A Pokemon perhaps? Or is it some kind of data memory stick which you lost."
"I feel like your making fun of me."
"I feel like I'm being made fun of."
"What do you mean by that?"
The girl seems a little bit angry, mainly due to his comment and the fact that he doesn't understand what she is trying to say.
"Religious faction? Is that some kind of crazy cult that stupid people get tricked into joining, and as for the Knowledge can you explain the details about it to me."
The short light blue haired girl let out a sigh of disappointment, then closes her eyes and puts one hand on her chin then looks back at Hiroshi who is sitting on the floor.
"The Fallcoast isn't a so-called-crazy-cult, but an actual faction that acts on its own belief, its set in the Land of Haven which is a region of its own right."
"Okay?"
Hiroshi wanted to reply but feels he would be making her even angrier if he did reply.
"As for the 'knowledge of all' that would be me myself."
She places her hand on her chest and pouted.
A familiar silence once again fell across the room, this time however it was caused by the girl not Hiroshi this time.
"Uh... no it's not getting to me."
"Huh? But I explained it in more detail, what don't you get!"
"First thing was how you are uhh... the 'knowledge of all? Are you like, super smart?"
"Ugh... you are making fun off me, the knowledge of Pokemon of course."
"Please elaborate."
"The knowledge of all pokemon types, abilities, types, bodies anything about pokemon, all of this information is inside my head, I can find the perfect weakness to beat any pokemon in any kind of situation, whenever a pokemon fights another pokemon or even a human."
(A really egotistic trainer? Or a really smart one? Either way I still can't get my head around all of this.)
"Prove it, send out a pokemon right now and tell me the perfect way to take it out, as well as its type, build and attacks."
"I can't as I don't have own any pokemon myself."
*SMACK*
That was the sound of Hiroshi smacking his head on the ground in disappointment.
(I wasn't expecting that, I really wasn't expecting that.)
Iria pointed at Hiroshi who was on the ground in despair.
"Well then, you send out a Pokemon and I'll tell you how to fight it, this place is crowded with owners of Pokemon everywhere, the same would apply to you as well."
Hiroshi lifted his head up and replies as fast as he can.
"I don't own any Pokemon."
...
"Uwah! What do you mean by that?"
"It's not my fault, reality isn't like the games where your kind professor just hands over a Pokemon for free just because he or she feels that the owner is a 'good' person."
The blue haired girl threw her body back onto the bed, now facing up onto the ceiling.
She started thinking to herself, Hiroshi who was trying to guess assumes she trying to think about other ways to prove herself.
"Well, for the time being I'll believe in your 'ability' you can show it off anther time anyway."
Hiroshi let of a small sigh then stood up.
"Eh?"
"I won't deny your so-called 'ability', as simple as it sounds I also possess a strange supernatural ability myself that I still can't get my head around."
"Hm? What do you mean by that?"
True, this student may seem like an ordinary person from a normal persons point of view, however that isn't true, the power to negate and push back a pokemon whether it's a special attack or a physical attack is out of place from anyone's point of view.
"I have a power to negate and push back a pokemon whether it's a special attack or a physical attack, whether or not it's physical or not, just by simply touching them, back when I was a kid would hurt Pokemon on accident without realising it, not even science can explain this."
"So is that why you don't have pokemon?"
A person who is given a rank 0 in the city, isn't worth taking a look at, if the person was a rank 1, then they would have hope of reaching ranks 2, 3, 4 and might be able to become the 9th rank 5 in the entire city. Rank 0s are people who don't have pokemon or don't try in exams, or bother showing interest into Pokemon whatsoever, which is why Hiroshi is in rank 0, for not having any pokemon, he's clever but the rank makes people think otherwise.
"Now that I think about, yeah that might be true."
Because of his rank not many people know about his power, only a few people that know about it, they are Kamachi Harland, most people in his class and Alexandra Ekaterina.
*PFFFT*
The sound from the girl trying to hold in her laughter was pushing Hiroshi's temper.
"W-what's so funny?"
One again she took a deep breath and sat back up to stare at him.
"I mean, for someone who doesn't believe in my words, you call yourself a believer in science? That could be the work of God himself."
"Then tell me where about is this Haven you talk about, which region is it in?"
"Huh? The Land of Haven is the region."
"I've never heard of such a region! Kanto, Sinnoh, Unova, Jhoto and Hoenn are many places I've heard off, but there isn't a place in the world called the Haven, I even had geography today and the map doesn't show a place like that."
She opened up her arms to try and get a point across.
"It does exist, it's a really, really large place! How is it you don't know about it is something you atheists can sit down and talk about together."
"Okay! Let me assume that the place does exist, then what about these 'factions' you mention a second ago, is it an alternate name for something?"
"No, it's as I said, a faction is a place where people of the Haven join varying on their beliefs within the land, take a look at your own religious system, each region has their own group of people with their own beliefs, something like that I guess."
"Then which faction are you from?"
"I can't remember."
*THUD*
Again another fall to the ground in disbelief, this time Hiroshi jumped back up instead of staying down.
"WHAT! Do y-?"
She wasn't looking at him, she was simply staring outside the windows where the night sky is out and clear, he couldn't see Iria's face, but he felt a pain in his heart, a feeling of guilt for getting angry.
"I... really don't remember, one day I woke up in the middle of the fields around Kanto then wandered around up to the point I realised that I'm being chased, I don't even know if I had a Pokemon nor family."
"..."
The boy was looking at the floor now, he couldn't bring himself to reply, the mood changed so quickly, how could he reply.
"So this is Silver City."
Hiroshi looked up to see her still staring outside the window, he replied...
"Silver city is much different from any of the other regions, but is still pretty damn large, the place uses its own rank system, have tournaments and is filled with more students than there is adults all over, some rich, some poor."
He then adds.
"Amazingly we don't use the 8 badge gym system then the elite four systems, people work hard for they're ranks rather then win for it, they are test both mentally and physically. Overall the city is a great place for students and especially for young trainers."
"That's pretty surprising."
Hiroshi stood up.
"Well then, since it's pretty late why don't you stay here?"
"Eh?"
"I mean since its better then outside, you can sleep on the bed, I have a spare sheet I can use on the floor, and if you need to do anything privately you can use the bathroom over there."
"But I bothered you enough."
Hiroshi was looking in the cupboard for a sheet that he can use on the floor, his face was covered.
"You haven't bothered me at all, I don't mind and if you're being chased I think it would be best if you slept here rather then outside right? Ah, also the bed was washed today so it's almost good as new."
Hiroshi wasn't looking at Iria's face, she made a small bittersweet smile, like a small tear was going to appear, but she held it in, when Hiroshi turned around she was staring him with a smile and says.
"Thank you."
Hiroshi fell asleep on the floor while the girl slept on the bed, for the rest of the night a warm feeling fell across the room, a moment like this last for so long.
The next day will be August 19th Tuesday.
Between the Story - 03:
*This is Alpha, preparing to move into position.*
Outside the second gates of Silver city, two people are walking towards the entrance. One of the two people had a business suit on, this person was Endou from the Fallcoast Faction. The other was dress in green was taller than Endou Villard of the Frontway who is part of God's Arms which is a more powerful faction from Endou's one, these two people are from the Land of Haven, a location which is still unknown to most people.
Set at the second gates entrance were about 5 to 6 soldiers with Pokemon and holding MP5A4 Submachine guns, it was obvious that were guarding the second gate's entrance.
*This is Delta, enemy in sight, awaiting signal from beta.*
Usually there would be security guards set around the area, this situation however was different, these soldiers are the main military units of the city, dispatched to prevent attacks and enemy assaults and to do other top secret tasks which the main city's people don't know about.
To get into the city, students would have to go through two processes, the first process is the entry pass section where ID checks are made on both trainer and pokemon and the other part is the main gate, this is where the buses and so are placed so students who live in the deeper parts of the city can get there with the help of travel. The two people from the Haven simply smashed the first gate into pieces like it was nothing and is approaching the second.
*Beta here, time is 3:56am date is 19th August, signal will fire at exactly 4:00am*
"My, oh my, so this is silver city? Despite looking and sounding all rich and highly advanced the security is pretty weak."
In front of the two are armoured men with guns and aside them where fire based Pokemon, Flareon, Arcanine and Magmar's were placed around the soldiers, this part of the military unit was Delta squad which was holding the second gate's entrance.
Villard gave off a sinister smile and says...
"Just because I'm dressed up in green, labels me as a grass type does it? Hahaha wow! That is a rich joke!"
Shifting his head from left to right at the soldiers from Delta squad he continues to ramble on.
"Say? At this point your supposed to tell us to put our weapons down right? Or were you ordered to kill me on sight eh?"
Villard wasn't carrying any weapons and neither was Endou, Villard of the Frontway shrugged his shoulders.
(And yet you smashed down the main gate, you goddamn freak!)
The person who was whispered that was one of the main soldiers in Delta, Samuel Jason, who was speaking to himself.
"I'd prefer to call him a monster rather though, but yeah I can see your point."
"!"
Endou who was standing a few metres away from Villard was sorting out his collar on the black business suit that he has been trying to keep clean since the front gate was smashed down. He was talking at one of the members of Delta.
(W-what there was no way he heard that? that's impossible?)
Endou was staring at Samuel, however the distance was so far away, it would be impossible for a normal person hear someone whisper at that distance.
"Define impossible?"
(!)
"Impossible is a word used when a certain target is not possible to reach, then if that's the case then wouldn't the situation your all in be considered 'impossible'? my ears never lie, and neither their ears either."
(Sorry ears? t-theirs? no! I'm not going to get distracted by crazy talk, it's almost time for the signal.
"Villard of the Frontway, the plan from here on out?"
Endou then shifted his head towards Villard who looked like someone who won the lottery.
"I'll be wandering around the city whilst getting attention from all over, hopefully I might be able to fight someone strong or else this entire trip would have been a waste of time."
"And me?"
"You don't fight, I want you to stay hidden after I finish this 'first' fight, only when you track down the Girl you take care of anyone she is with, as long as you hide until then you should be able to pull this off easily."
"For once you sound serious, I'll help out fighting for now, after that we'll head into the city and I'll ."
Endou walked a few metres, Villard just stood there and let out a much larger smile.
*Time is now 4:00am*
"Fire the signal, now!"
All the Pokemon at the front used a Fire blast towards the man in green, out from the side alleys next to Delta Squad were two other squads, on the left was Beta squad which had Water Pokemon with them, and on the right was the Alpha squad which had Grass Pokemon.
"Not going to work, at least try a little harder!"
A whirlwind flew across Villard, the strength of it was so powerful it quite literally blew the fire blast attacks away as if it was nothing.
Next to Villard was Dark Pokemon with white fur, Absol.
(There's no way? that Absol shouldn't know how to do that!)
*Thud*
(Eh? what was that?)
One of the soldiers from Alpha heard a sound similar to teleport, and then he suddenly heard growling from behind.
Endou let out a sigh of disappointment.
"I told you, my ears never lie, and neither does theirs, I was able hear your battle plans from the very beginning."
(No way! Something was listening to all of our plans from the beginning!)
*Beta, Delta, They knew about the att-*
*SMASH*
All members of Alpha turned around to see a Nidoking, stopping on the remains of the leader in Alpha, just the sound of crunching was enough to show how horrific the enemy is.
"W-wha! Fire now!"
Villard of the Frontway started to walk up towards the Squads on the front gate who were in an extreme case of confusing.
"HANH? That's it? THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT? I'M GOING TO ENJOY SLAUGHTERING ALL OF YOU AT LEAST TRY TO ENTERTAIN ME!"
Villard of the Frontway, laughing at the soldiers firing attacks from all over, went calm all of a sudden, and then looked at the front gate.
"After I'm through with everything I'm going to be taking your head Aldrich."
The name Aldrich that Villard of the Frontway was referring to was the name of the Superintendent of the city, the main 'Leader' of the city and is in charge of the main board of directors, these people are what makes up most of the city systems, choices are made from them and most decisions within the city.
It was almost as if Villard was directly speaking to Aldrich Gaius himself.
The main issue here is that Aldrich is hidden from everyone, only very few people out of the entire city doesn't know where his existence is and yet those people are still hard to find, the city is said to be constantly watched by Aldrich.
