~Syra's POV~

"Damn creatures. Trying to kill me while I'm trying to go find Maya or Pit." I muttered to myself.

You're probably wondering why I'm very angry right now. If not, then whatever. The reason why I'm mad is because I almost got myself shot of the sky by those damn creatures. They just started shooting me at random, and the only thing I could do was dodge and find a place to hide. It took a while, but I was able to find a place for the moment.

I looked at my surroundings for a moment. I noticed abandoned cages everywhere (most of them were bent up or destroyed). Plants were growing everywhere as well. There were some signs here and there, telling which way an animal was.

'This place looks like it an abandoned zoo,' I thought as I stared at a picture of some type of bird. I shook my head and continued walking around. This place began giving me the creeps, so I kept my bow out in case any of the creatures came out and attacked me.

As I was walking around aimlessly, I heard something hit the ground a few times. I jumped in surprise and hid behind one of the abandoned cages. After a moment of silence, I slowly peeked out from behind the cage to see a shocking surprise.

It was a little boy with a red and yellow stripped t-shirt, blue shorts, and red and yellow sneakers. He also had blue eyes and an oddly shaped, blond hair-do. He looked pretty innocent to me and sad as well. Judging by the look on his face, he looked lonely.

'Poor little guy…' I thought to myself.

Suddenly, I saw the same black dots from the stadium fall from the sky. I immediately knew that this meant trouble. I quickly out of hiding and took out my bow. The first creature had appeared and I quickly took it out with one shot. The boy noticed what had happened and looked over at me. I smiled at him, but then noticed another creature behind him.

"Behind you, kid!" I exclaimed as I shot the creature. After it was killed, I dashed over to the boy, who looked scared out of his poor little mind. "You alright?" I asked him. He nodded hesitantly.

"Y-yeah… I-I'm all right," he said. I looked around to see that the creatures had, mysteriously, disappeared. I raised an eyebrow in confusion, but looked back at the boy with a reassuring expression.

"Looks like they ran away…" I told him, but suddenly jumped from a loud thud that was just heard. I turned my head to see a giant statue like creature with weird arms.

'Holy crap! It moves!!' I thought as the boy began running. I quickly followed him, while shooting the giant as it followed us. "What the heck is that thing?! I can't destroy it!"I exclaimed as I kept shooting.

"It's Porky!" the boy said. I turned my head to him.

"Porky?" I asked.

"Yeah. He's been after me for a long time, and now he found me again!" he explained. I looked back at it.

"Well whoever he is, he won't be getting you anytime soon!" I said as I tried shooting its head a little. Porky probably got mad at me, since he tried attacking me instead of going for the boy. I quickly jumped out of the way of the first attack. As I landed on my feet, I was smacked by its arm and flown back several feet. I landed inside a cage and it came down onto me. Everything went black after that.

I woke up to have a blistering headache. I couldn't remember what had happened before. The only thing that I could remember was being thrown into a cage and the cage collapsing on top of me, which would probably be the reason of my headache.

I slowly opened my eyes completely to see the boy staring down at me with a worried expression. Also there was another boy next to him and staring at me as well. He looked the same age as the first boy, but he had black hair and a red cap. Also, he wore a blue and yellow stripped t-shirt, blue jeans, and red sneakers. The only thing that was added was a backpack.

"Ow... What happened...?" I said as I sat up and rubbed my head.

"You were hit really hard by Porky and got knocked out," the boy told me. That was when everything came back to me. The giant statue, the creatures, everything. I sighed and rubbed my head again.

"Oh, yeah. Stupid giant statue thing," I muttered as I tried to get to my feet. I looked back at the boy. "By the way, what's your name?" I asked. "I never really got the chance to ask you before this whole battle thing started.

"Lucas," he responded. I smiled.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Syra," I introduced myself. I glanced at the second boy that was next to him. "Whose you're quiet friend?" I asked.

"I'm Ness," he introduced himself quickly.

"Ah… I see." I simply nodded.

"So what are you doing in a place like this?" Lucas asked me. I looked back at him and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Well, for one thing, to escape those creatures you saw before," I started. "And second, I'm looking for two friends of mine. They look like me in a way. One is a boy, brown slightly spiked hair, blue eyes. The other is a girl, white hair, blue eyes. Have you seen them?"

"No. I've never seen anyone who went by that description," Lucas answered truthfully.

"Same here," Ness said. "Never heard of them in my life." I sighed.

"Great…" I muttered. "At least I know that they aren't here in this place."

Suddenly, I felt the presence of some one new. I wasn't sure whether or not this person was evil or not. I looked over to see some strange guy with a gun in hand. He had a motorcycle hat and a matching jacket on. He looked the same as the one at the stadium, the one who went by the name of Wario. He was aiming the gun at Ness and charging his weapon.

'Damn!' I thought. Both Ness and Lucas saw the man at that point.

Wario fired his gun at Ness, but he jumped out of the way. Wario seemed to get annoyed and fired a several more times at Ness, but missed every time. It looked as if Ness were floating every attack. After all the shooting, he gave up on Ness and turned his gun towards me and Lucas. I realized noticed this and took out my bow. He fired the gun at us, but right when I was about shoot him, I felt something push me out of the way. I fell to the ground a slid a few feet.

'Ouch. Who pushed me?' I thought as I tried to get up off the ground. I looked up to see Lucas running away. My eyes widened as I got to my feet and ran after him.

"Hey! Wait! Lucas!" I called him. He didn't listen to me; he just kept running. I looked over my shoulder Wario. My eyes widened as I noticed Ness as a trophy in his hands.

'Oh my Goddess…' I thought as I continued to run. I couldn't believe what Ness did for Lucas and I. He sacrificed himself to save us, even if he barely knew me. He kinda reminded me of Pit. He went off to save Maya, even if he barely knew her. He wanted to protect her, so he was going to risk his life to find and save her.

I sighed. I just hoped that they were OK…

It began raining as I was deep in thought. I didn't realize that I had caught to Lucas until a roll of thunder snap me back into reality. As we both stopped running, the rain slowly came to a halt.

Awkward…

"Lucas..." I started. "I'm sorry…about what happened to Ness. I'm sure that he was a good friend." Lucas didn't respond; he only looked back at where we just ran from. It was long gone now. I gave Lucas an apologetic expression.

In truth, I really did feel sorry for him. He just lost his friend, possibly his best friend. I knew his pain. I could relate to how he felt…in a way, though. Still, I knew what it was like to lose a friend.

Lucas and I continued to wander around the zoo, both of us staring at the ground. I could understand why looking was staring at the ground, but I wasn't exactly sure why I was. I guess I was still a little sad that Lucas lost his friend. That had to be it.

If it wasn't…then who knows what it was…

As I continued to stare at the ground, I suddenly bumped into someone. Lucas, then, bumped into me. I looked up at the person I bumped into.

It was a teenager, about a year older than me, with a red cap and a red jacket. He also wore long blue jeans, sneakers, and had a yellow backpack. He looked at Lucas, and then at me. After that, he looked back ahead again.

"Stay back, you two," he said to us. I raised an eyebrow.

"Why should we? We're not you're children," I told him. He turned his back to me.

"If you want to be killed by those creatures, then go on ahead," he said. I noticed the creatures before looking back at him.

"Are you calling me a weakling?" I asked him, giving him a hard glare. His eyes widened with fear. He could tell that I didn't take it very lightly if I was ever called weak.

"N-no… I'm not calling you weak. It's just that I don't want you getting hurt, that's all," he said. I rolled my eyes.

"Sure you weren't," I said as I pulled out my bow separated it into twin blades. Unlike Pit's bow, mine was red on the outer lining and white in the filling. I got into my battle stance, while Lucas stayed behind me. He looked up at the teenager for a moment. The teenager noticed him and gave him a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry, kid. I got this one," he said. I glared at him.

"Who would you be referring to?" I asked.

"Are you a kid?" he said with a sly smirk as he pulled out a red and white orb from him pocket.

It was pretty small, but I could still see it from where I stood. Then, he pressed a button that was in the middle of it and it was much bigger than before. He threw it, hit the ground, and opened up. Something immediately appeared from it, and it kinda shocked me.

It was a small blue creature, almost like a turtle, with big brown eyes and a curled tail. It looked really cute, but now wasn't the time to be getting all lovey dovey over a cute little creature that I had never seen before. Now was the time to get ready for battle.

'Whatever that thing is, a least it'll help us out,' I thought before dashing towards one of the creatures and destroying it immediately. I smirked, but it soon disappeared as I saw more.

'One down…a bunch to go,' I growled at the thought as I cut down some more creatures.

The little blue creature (which I found out was named Squirtle) was using water attacks, while Lucas was using strange attacks that I had never seen before. It kinda surprised me to see a kid like him to have strange powers, but I tried not to ponder on it.

I didn't realize that one of the creatures was about to attack me until Squirtle used its water beam to destroy it. I turned around to notice the teenager with a smirk on his face.

"You're welcome," he said before sending out his Squirtle to attack another creature. I glared at him, but continued to attack the creatures none the less.

The battle raged on, and I was nearly out of breath. As the battle continued, I would put my swords together, fly up in the sky, and shoot the creatures from up the sky for a while until I caught my breath. The battle lasted for two whole hours. It was like a full scale war was taking place.

After the last of the creatures were destroyed, I collapsed onto my hands and knees. I was panting so much; my heart began burning as if it were set on fire. Nevertheless, I was able to get to my feet and move around. I glanced over at Lucas and the teenager. Squirtle was already gone; possibly back in that red and white ball. I sighed and walked over to the two boys casually.

"Hope that it was the last one," I said. Both boys noticed me and nodded in response.

"Hopefully. Who knows when more will come," Lucas said, staring at the ground with a worried expression.

"I would recommend not staying here for long," the teenager spoke up. "It's a good thing that they're not here." I raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

"Who's 'they'?" I asked him.

"I'm looking for something; two things in fact. But I'm sure that you haven't seen them, so you wouldn't know," he said. I was about to snap at him, but held it back. I, then, shrugged.

"Good point," I said.

"I should get going now. Those Pokémon aren't gonna be waiting for me," he said before waving to us and walking in the opposite direction of us.

"Pokémon," I asked myself. What kind of name was that? I had never heard or seen one in my life…I think.

I glanced down at Lucas. He watched as the teenager walked away from us, but looked sad about it. I could tell that he didn't want him to leave, not after what happened to Ness. He would probably feel lonely again. I didn't want him to feel sad anymore. I bent down to his level and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Lucas, you don't have to be sad," I told him. He glanced at me with his sad blue eyes. "There's no reason to be sad anymore. You've got me and that teenager as well." He gave me a confused expression, but still had that hint of sadness in his eyes.

"What do you mean by that?" he asked.

"We're going with him, whether he wants us to or not. I'm sure that we'll be able to help him find these Pokémon that he's looking for," I told him. Lucas smiled at me before running over to the teenager, while I casually walked over to them.

"What are you doing?" the teenager asked. I stopped and folded my arms over my chest.

"I'm Syra, one of Lady Palutena's royal guards." I told him in a commanding voice. He stared at me in confusion.

"What are you talking about?" he asked. My eyes narrowed.

"Don't ask questions!" I snapped at him. "From now on, Lucas and I will accompany you on you quest to find these Pokémon that you are searching for. No ifs, ands, or buts about it."

"What?!" he exclaimed.

"I said don't ask questions!" I snapped at him. He flinched in fear. I calmed down quickly. "Now, tell us you're name so we could get to know one another more." He blinked at me several times. He was about to answer, but I cut him off. "No, forget it. I'll give you a name. You're name is Red from now on." He stared at me as if I were nuts.

"My name isn't Red! It's…" he started, but quickly shut his mouth after seeing my hard glare. I smiled.

"It's Red," I said in an innocent voice. Then, it turned hard again. "Don't talk back to a superior, you got that?"

"Yeah… I got it…" he muttered. I smiled again.

"Thank you. Now let's get moving," I said as I walked passed the two boys. Lucas began following me quickly, while Red cautiously stayed close behind. I smirked to myself.

Man, it felt good to be the leader…