Chapter 1 – Reborn, the City of Ruin

A/N: To those readers who clicked on the story, just because it says Reborn. This is not to the anime/manga Katekyō Hitman Reborn!. This is a original Pokemon Fan Game, made by Amethyst. if you wish to check it out and play the game download it at... (why the hell can't I put in the website?) Well just search Reborn Evolved if you want to get to the website. Small warning... though the story is Rated M for mature, this story at certain points may have themes unsuitable for people. I'll be sure to point it out when that happens. Other than that enjoy the story!

Time: 7:00

Location: Train station (Origin town… still undecided.)

PHUUUUEEE!

"Will call here. We've got your boarding passes." A train conductor yells, as several kids who about to start their journey gather round. All seem to grab their passes, but one girl stays and talks to the man. "Another one for Reborn City, huh?"

"That's right." The girl gives a cheery smile.

"They sure have been pushing that new league." The mans says as he grabs, he hands the girl a ticket. "This is you right?"

"yes, it has my name on it, Lucille Luxen." The girl takes the Boarding pass, which oddly very unique as it had a picture of the person and their gender on it. Lucille, was a fifteen-year-old girl. She had long blonde hair and dark grey eyes. Though her hair often covered her right eye. Her usual style of clothes were a black shirt, dress, and boots.

"Right." The man says. "Arrival at Grandview Station will be in a few hours."

"Thank you." The girl politely bowed. Walked to the train.

"Just between you, me and the ol' battered fence post, I hear Reborn City's kind of a dump." The man continues. "Why anyone would wanna go there is beyond me. And yet, you ambitious Trainer-type folk have been heading' out in droves."
PHUUUUEEE!

"But off you go now." The man says. "Train's leaving any minute."

The girl waves good bye, and continues through the train. She walks her way through until she finds herself in a practically empty cart. Other kids around her age are there, but there is only four.

The girl ponders if other trainers will come into this car as well. She continues to take an empty seat by a window. Glancing into her reflection, she fixes her hair out of her eyes. Looking at the area above her right eye sat a scar, one she never remembered getting. Whenever she looked at it, she felt scared and sad. So, she once again covered her right eye with her hair. It did impair her vision a little but, she could still manage to walk just fine. She then reminisced upon her reason for going to Reborn. She remembers hearing from her mother when she finally became Fourteen her mother told her the region of her birth. Though her mother was quite against Lucille to leave, she did relent. The reason for why Lucille grew up in another region, was none other than the stand point of Reborn's economic standing. At a young age the Economy of Reborn declined, causing many to lose jobs, including her father. Though the Father believed they could get through it, her mother did not and took Lucille away.

The girl's eyes stayed on the passing land scape, as her hands unconsciously moved to her necklace. A small pendant of sorts, it had a simple chain, was made of silver and had a Crescent moon carved into it. One would think it could be a locket of sorts, though it never opened. If one looked closely one could see that she's had it for years. Although memory of when, or how she got it failed her. But even still it was something important to her, and rarely was left out of her sight.

"Why hello, Lovely." A boy same age as her had said. The boy had a head of white hair part of it falling to the shoulder, blue eyes, and clothes of black like Lucille. Although her clothes seemed to lack the elegance of the boy's. "What is thine fair maiden's name?"

The girl looked at the boy with slight suspicion, and in a slight mocking tone. "I think it's better for thine person to speak thine name first."

"Well alright, fair maiden." The boy smiled, and bowed to Lucille. "My name is Percival Jeramiah von Decibel Leonardo De Whitehall III. Though you can call me Percy."

Lucille sat in amazement as such a long name. She then turned to greet herself, "Nice to meet you, Percy. My name is Lucille Luxen, and my friends call my Lucy. Are you off to Reborn as well?"

"Yes, Madame Lucy. I'm off to face the League." Percival said in a polite tone. "… As well as trying to find a fine fiancé."

"*Cough*" Lucille choked on her own breath as Percival stared straight at her.

Percival smiled at her reaction. "Tis, but a simple joke…. Although you seem to fit the role well, if you're interested?"

"Hell, to the no!" Lucille screamed, with this startling meeting. There wasn't much chance for her to agree to a proposal.

"HA, ha! That is quite the reaction." Percival laughed it off. "My apologies for my poor jokes. It's just… It's been a while since someone didn't mention any thing after hearing my family name."

"?" Lucille looked at Percival in confusion. Thinking, "(Was I supposed to recognize it?)"

"Ah!" Percival said in surprise. "I see, this quite rare. Ahem. My family are the Whitehalls. A family of amazingly strong and talented Pokémon trainers. I am… The second child of five…"

"Really? That's amazing! I'm coming to Reborn and barely started my journey." Lucille's eyes turned to excitement, as she knew meeting someone like Percival would probably be good to teach her. "How many champion titles do you have?"

"Heh…" Percival looked to the ground with slight disappointment. "None… so far… But I'll change it with the reborn League! I've heard that my parents have faced it before, and failed to best it. So, in order to reclaim my families honor. I've bestowed it upon myself to take on the league and become Reborn's new Champion."

"Sounds good." Lucille said with a smile. "To be honest, I'm not really here to become any sort of champion… More or less this is an exploration journey."

"Oh." Percival sounded intrigued. "So, you've decided to travel to Reborn to find yourself? Such a splendid goal! I know that doesn't mean you'll be facing off against Pokémon Gyms. But if you would, I think it's be better to travel in a group. What say you?"

"Hm… sure." Lucille played it off cool, but on the inside, she was happy that an experienced Pokémon trainer would be helping her.

"Then it is settled! We shall travel the land of Reborn, and have a marvelous journey! May our splendid adventure await us!" Percival cried cheers of joy.

The two then sit silently as their conversation ends. The ride to Reborn is a long one. As they pass through the land. Percival seems to fall asleep in his seat. While Lucille looks out admiring the view of the passing scenery. Just a desert landscape, hills of sand, cactuses plotted around, with the occasional rocky cliff. It's just a peaceful passing, until on one of the cliffs Lucille notices a white Pokémon.

Their eyes meet for a split second. A shiver runs down Lucille's spine. "Brr…"

"Okay, thank you very much! I'll see you when we get into the city." A person with White hair says to a trainer, gets up and heads to where Percival and Lucille sat. "All right, Hello there!"

"I'm awake!" Percival jumps as he wakes from his slumber.

"Your turn now; sorry for the wait." The Person says to the two.

"Turn? For what?... And Who are you?" Lucille asks the person in confusion.

"Oh, my name's Ame. I'm the Manager of the Reborn League." Ame explained. "You two were also looking to sign up for it, right? It would be great if so! We're finally just getting things off the ground again. Not too long ago the whole region was almost completely abandoned… even by the Pokémon."

"Really?" Percival had a worried expression.

Meanwhile Lucille talked in a voice even she could barely hear. "I didn't know it was that bad…"

"…Uh, but!" Ame had gasped. "Don't let that worry you! It might not be an ideal place, but our gym leaders are nothing like you've ever seen before, and I think you'll find Reborn to be a Region like no other too!"

"Well… My reason for coming here does change then." Percy declared. "I'll still challenge the Reborn League all the same."

"… I wasn't really coming here for the League, but I was going to explore the region." Lucille says, before wondering. "But wait, if you're the League manager, why are you here?"

"I'm coming back from some business out of town, so I figured I might as well introduce myself early and get a head start on everyone's registration. Could I see your boarding ticket please?" Ame asked the two of them.

"Sure." Lucille agreed to Ame's request.

"Here you are." So did Percival.

"Hmm… Lucille Luxen, and Percival Whitehall." Ame looks at some of the papers she has on her clipboard. "Okay, I've got you down. We're almost to Grandview Station, so after we disembark just follow me to the Grand Hall. There, I'll give you a starter Pokémon to really kick off your adventure in Reborn. Sound good?"

"Hm… Well I pretty much already have my team set." Percy said, he already had five Pokémon on him already.

"Impressive." Lucille said.

"Then if you-." Ame stops mid-sentence and looked at Lucille… no looking behind her.

"Um…" Percival also saw the shadowy figure behind Lucille.

"…" Lucille quickly turned around, not seeing anyone. And had another shiver run down her spine.

"Something's not right…" Ame looks around, and glances out the window. "Shouldn't we be decelerating already? Oh no—Move!"

Ame grabbed the hands of both Percival and Lucille and pulled them out of the trains window, right before it crashed.

KABOOM!

Lucille laid on the ground unconscious "…"

"…y!" Someone called out

"…" Lucille stayed motionless, though the voice to her sounded familiar.

"…y, are you okay?!" The voice called out once more.

"LUCY!" The voice shouted.

"ah…" With that Lucille woke up, finding herself on a bed of broken rocks and glass scattered around. Lucille looked around in confusion, but with dread in her heart she knew that something bad happened.

"…Thank goodness, you're alive…" With a sigh of relief Ame was one of the first people that Lucille noticed.

"What happened just now?" Percival who was also their asked.

"That train exploded right as we pulled into the station." Ame went over to a broken door. "I'm-. I'm just glad I could get you out of there in time, but…"

"…" Lucille face grimaced as thinking about the other people in the train.

"Don't need to think about that now." Percival place his hand on Lucille's shoulder for comfort. "(shame a good amount of those trainers showed promise… would have been good to fight them…) *sigh*… Why did this happen?"

"Who would even-." Ame who was also upset by this was then interrupted.

"Hihi!" A girl interrupting Ame came running over. She had green hair in a pony tail, and wore a yellow cheer leading outfit. She seemed oddly happy.

"… Julia." Ame facepalmed, as the girl came running over. "Julia, what did you do?"

"Whaaaaat? I didn't do anything!" Julia cried out in a high-pitched voice. "I was at the gym-gym and then suddenly BOOOOM, so I came running! Cuz you know if things are exploding, I gotta be there to see it. It's so cool!"

"Uh huh." Ame said in annoyed tone. She then turned back to the destroyed train station. "Based on the timing, this must have been a deliberate attack. Somebody rigged the train to destroy Grandview Station."

"By the looks of it, they did a pretty good job!" Julia exclaimed in joy. Fairly inappropriate for the current situation.

"Well, you're not wrong." Ame reluctantly agreed. As with the destruction of the train station no trainers could come or leave, they region for a good amount of time. "But this isn't the time to be admiring their work. Whoever was behind it could still be monitoring from nearby… I'll have the perimeter locked down. There's a chance we could catch the perpetrator before they get away."

"…" Lucille had started to shake. This was an event she had never encountered before. Something that had, been placed in her mind. An event to not be forgotten.

"Sorry, but I have to go. Catch up with me later." Ame said to Percival and Lucille. "Until then…Mm, there should be another trainer who you can meet to show you around. Find her in front of the Grand Hall. It's just down this road; you can't miss it… and uh, don't worry about all of this. I'll handle it."

As Ame left to commanding some of the officers around, Julia came to greet the new trainers. "So, you're new here? I'm Julia, Captain of cheer and pep, and all things bubbly and bright! Oh, Pop Quiz! Are you going to take on the reborn League?"

"yeah…" Percival said in a low voice. Still somewhat processing what events just transpired.

"Correct!" Julia exclaimed, although there was no wrong answer. "Then I'll be seeing you very soon, because I'm also the Electric Gym Leader! I'll be looking forward to your challenge, so go on, get down to the Grand Hall!"

"Sure…" Percival said as he grabbed Lucille's hand. and the two wandered into the black and broken city, known as Reborn.