Hello again and welcome to chapter 30, like always, I hope you like it, and yes, he is based in him, it was obvious with the name.
"So why be ye all here sir?" I asked to Mr. Wilhelm, who I must add, had a strong foreign accent "For the same reason as always, politics, sometimes I wish that wasn't the only reason, but that's the life of a King" he answered, "Wait, ye be a king!" I said surprised, "I thought it was obvious, the clothes, the Rapidash and everything I said" he added "If it was obvious I be sorry, but I didn't knew, your majesty" I said in the most respectful way I could, "Don't call me like that, I am not king on this land, and if wanted that king of treatment I would wear a crown like those Galarians Clowns, just call me Mr. Wilhelm" he said, "Understood Mr. Wilhelm", we walked for a while until he asked, "And why are you two here?" he asked to both me and Zoroark "A challenge, my brother said that by doing it Zoroark and I would understand each other better" I answered, "And did it work?" he asked, "Aye, I taught her a sign language I used in my grandfather ship to communicate during loud storms" I said, "That is actually a good of doing, but a little late" he responded, "Late, why?" I asked, "You see, recently my royal scientists created a device capable of understanding some Pokémon analyzing the patterns in all the sounds they emit, but it will take time before it's finish" those news were interesting, "It sound like great news, but in my opinion if a trainer isn't capable of understanding their Pokémon, they failed as a trainer" I said, "That is a good opinion… looks like we finally arrived to Opelucid" he was right, in front of us was Opelucid city, "Do me a favor and before anything join that crowd over there, you won't want to miss the show" said that he quickly disappeared into the woods.
As Wilhelm said there was a crowd of people in the center of the city, everyone was looking to some fancy looking Reich soldiers that were holding drums, trumpets, and other various instruments, and then with surprising ability began playing military music, I recognized some Unovan marches, and I guess the rest were original from Reich region because I couldn't recognize theme.
After the music was over and everyone in the band was standing at attention a single person walked to the front of the band and said "We ask everyone present to remain silent until further notice" said the man with a less noticeable accent than Mr. Wilhelm and returned to where he came, the band began playing another song that made the role of signal for a group of elegant dressed men, but keeping the characteristic hat came in, and behind theme was Mr. Wilhelm walking on foot, I must said that he was shorter than I expected, but he still imposed respect, and walking with his head up as a sign of superiority he stood in the exact middle between the band, and us, it looked like he would give an speech, "I wonder where Stephen could be, he would want to see this" but I didn't have time for that because the speech began, "Lass do me a favor and go look fer Stephen, I'll be here if ye need me" She nodded and walked away.
"To all of you Unovan people here present, I am Reich's region king, Wilhelm Alexander the fifth, and I came here to discuss with your leader important matters, between them, the rewrite of the Magikarp treaty" by just mentioning it dozens of whispers could be heard between the crowd, "But that is not all, none of you should hear this news from me, but I am the one that will tell the truth, recently one of the most important research buildings in the Reich region was assaulted by the Unovan crime family, none other than the Bates themselves!" how glad am I that I didn't said my father's last name to Mr. Wilhelm, or I would be on trouble, "But they didn't worked alone, they were help by the infamous Kanto organization, Team Rocket, together they tried to steal a dangerous artifact that could devastate entire cities, thankfully the officers with me managed control the situation and protect the artifact, which is now hidden in one of the safest places of the world, but a raid like that couldn't have been done by those criminals alone, they had help, and after investigating we found out that they received help from somewhere here in the Unovan region, and there is only one person with enough power to get the information, no other than the champion, so taking extreme measures we came to the arrest of the former champion, and if my information is right the new champion has been chosen by an election, from now on Alder will be the new champion, and to end with the menace of the Bates family the Magikarp treaty will be changed to allow the Unovan army to give their soldiers the proper equipment to fight back in this war against the crime, and to make sure things are made I leave some of my best generals to advise the Unovans generals and end the reign of the Bates family!" if he weren't referring to my family I'll would probably be hyped by that speech, but I was really afraid, what if something happened to my dad, my brother or my uncle, I needed to find Stephen as soon as possible, I carefully walked back and got away from the crowd, during that I actually saw why were the soldiers walking in circles, it was a march-pass, but that is not relevant.
I ran through all the city trying to find Stephen, but I couldn't find him so I tried switching strategy, instead of looking for him I just had to look for Zoroark or any other member of the crew, and if they were with him, then I would find him, I looked everywhere and even asked to some citizens but none had seen neither my brother or my Pokémon, my desperate look called the attention of a tall old man with a peculiar beard, "Is something wrong?" he asked, "I am looking fer my brother and group of Pokémon, mostly a Zoroark" I said, "Don't worry, now I need you to tell me how the look, well the Pokémon are a Zoroark, Raichu, Serperior, Lucario, Lycanroc and a playful Gible, my brothers always wear his old fashioned clothes and small round glasses, he looks like someone from a pirates movie" I said "Ok, while we look for them, you'll stay in the gym, just leave it to the authorities" he said to calm me, "Thanks Mr…" I didn't know his name, "Drayden, my name is Drayden" he answered "Thanks Mr. Drayden"
He left me in the gym, when I got there, I received the news that he was the gym leader, he let me in the gym just telling me not to cause trouble and left. After standing in the exit for a while I began wandering through all the gym, until I found the gym puzzle and like in the old Striaton gym, there was no one inside, but this time had a different explanation. I was about to leave when I saw someone standing on the other side of the room, but it was too dark to see who it was, "Who be ye over there" but I didn't get an answer, so I decided to solve the puzzle and get to the other side, it took me a while but I eventually did it but when I got to the other side there was no one there, so I turned around and almost had a heart attack when I saw something standing in front of me, it was… Dad.
Well, this was chapter 30 I promise that this is the last lore chapter for now, next we'll have the seventh gym battle and some other stuff, see ya next time.