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The Messenger part 1: Birth of the messenger.
By Xen

A fog. A deep fog that prevented a person form seeing anything in front of them. Yet Max somehow knew where he was going. Something was guiding him, but who or what he didn't know. He was lead to an open room. The room was like a circle with seventeen other doors, besides the one he standing in. Each door had some symbol on them, but he couldn't tell what they were. In the middle of the room, there was a sword. The sword was lying in the ground. What stuck strange to Max was that the sword looked new, while the rest of the room looked anent and ruined. A voice called out to Max. "Come to me, Maximus. You are needed."
"Who are you? Who is Maximus? What do you what?" Max yelled out.
"Come to me. You will find the way. You just need to come. The world needs you."
"What do you mean the world needs me? Who are you?" Max cry went unanswered. "Who are you? Max turned around too see the sword swing down upon him.
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Max woke with a start. "That dream. What I keep have it. What does it mean?" Max's Persian woke up. Max kept one of his pokemon out with him when he slept. A person could never know when a pokemon thief might chance by, especially when a trainer was alone.
"Nyarr nyarr nyarr." The cat pokemon said.
"I'm sorry buddy. It was that dream again."
"Nyarr nyarr?"
"No I don't understand what it means. Why do you think were going to saffron to see that specialist."
"Nyarr nyarr nyarr."
Yes and to buy some rainbow trout." Persian nodded. Max went into some deep thinking.
'I know those dreams have something to do with me. But, what is that sword mean. And why is that voice calling me Maximus.' Max got up and rolled up his sleeping bag. "Come on Persian. Lets get going. I know I'm not to sleep now." Persian made a big yawn saying 'I still want to sleep'. "Oh you're still sleepy huh. Well you can sleep in your pokeball." Max brought out a pokeball. "Persian return." Persian returned into his pokeball. Max finished packing his stuff and donned his jacket and continued on his way. Max was currently in his travel clothes his where his favorite jeans jacket, a red shirt, a pair of tan pants.
Max wasn't much of trainer, since he couldn't travel far he didn't really have the chance to get all the gym badges. Mind that Max wasn't a bad trainer, he did get badges form all the gyms he could reach. The reason Max couldn't travel far form his home was that mother was always sick and he had to stay home to take care of her. When she felt well enough to care for herself, Max could go on short pokemon joinery. It may have never lasted a week or two, but it was good enough time to get to a gym or capture at least one or two new pokemon. It was the best he could do, but he didn't mind. Currently this mini journey, he was traveling to Saffron city to see this dream specialist, so he could understand the dream that was been plaguing him for the past few weeks. Max kept walking along the road, when he saw something in the bushes.
'Must be a pokemon.' Max thought. "I almost to Saffron. I could take a little time off to catch a pokemon. Who knows, it might be a worth the catch." Max took out a pokeball. "Pinsir come out." Max threw his pokeball and his Pinsir appeared.
"Pinsir."
"Come Pinsir I spotted a pokemon. Let's go catch it."
"Pinsir." The bug pokemon said. Max and Pinsir ran into the woods searching for the pokemon. Max could always see it just go out his sight.
'That thing is fast, but it too small to be a Ponyta or a Doduo. Maybe it's a new kind of pokemon.' Max thought as he continued chasing after it.
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Max and Pinsir continued the search for what seemed like another hour. Eventually they stopped when they lost sight of the pokemon. They stopped in a rocky near a mountain.
"I think we lost it, Pinsir."
"Pin."
"Man that pokemon was fast. Its like it always moved just out of our sight, like it was leading us somewhere." Max looked around. "Speaking of where we are, where actually are we?" Pinsir shrugged its shoulders. "Oh man. We lost the road. It's going to take all day to get out here now. I guess you should return into your pokeball. Pinsir return." Pinsir returned to it pokeball. "Now which way would be the way to Saffron?" Max heard a noise behind him. Max turned around to see a piece of the rock wall break away to reveal an open passage. "How did that happen? I know I shouldn't go in but something is telling I should." Max slow entered the cave. "Why do I have the feeling I'm going to regret this?"
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Max continued following the path till he found a light the end of the cave. The cave opened up into a large room. "This room. Its the one form my dream!" Max had found himself inside the room he had been dreaming about. "Am I dreaming?" Max pinched himself.
"Ouch! Guess not." Max looked around the room a bit. "It looks almost like the one in my dream." Max looked one of the other doors around the rooms. He now recognized the strange symbol on it. "It's fire. And that one is water. I guess that physics and next to if grass. These doors here have pokemon symbols on them. But what do they mean?" Max continued looking around the room. He counted the doors and found that each of the seventeen doors have a pokemon symbol on them. "The only thing that isn't form my dream is the sword. Well as long as that voice doesn't go off, I guess I'm safe."
"So you have to me, Maximus." A woman's voice said. Max turned around to see one of the most beautiful women he ever met. Her body was very thin and pale, but other then that she was very beautiful. Her long green hair flowed freely around her body, which was clothed in white robe.
"Who are you?" Max finally said.
"All will now be explained. I am called Holly. I am one of the sprits of nature. You have brought here to do a task."
"A task?"
"You are to be the messenger of the trainers."
"Messenger? Trainers?"
"You are the one chosen to find the seventeen trainers around the world. These trainers are very important since they are the ones that will defeat a great evil in the future."
"The future? If there needed then, why would I have to find them now?"
"They must be trained to use the weapon of their element."
"Weapons of the elements? What are those?"
"They are weapons form a special chosen pokemon. It is your job to find these pokemon too, but they are never very far form there true master, since most of them are currently searching for them."
"What are these pokemon being made into a weapon?"
"Once the find there trainer and if you've unlocked the trainers powers, then the pokemon will transform into the weapon the trainer will use. Once they are found you will bring them back here, where they will go into training till they are needed."
"Unlocking powers? How I'm I so post to do that?"
"You will be given a tool to help you on your quest." Holly waved her hands a sword appeared floating next to Max. The sword was a boardsword with a golden handle. In the center of the handle was an opal gem. Max could see an array of colors within the opal. "This sword will help you on your task. It has the power to find the trainers and their pokemon as well as unlocking the trainers power."
"This sounds nice and all, but I not sure I'm the one you want to do this."
"You are the one we want. You where chosen long before you where born. It is your destiny to be the messenger. Nevertheless, do not think that your task will go rewarded. We will allow you one thing that you desire."
"So I get a wish?"
"Just ask and when you are done, it will be granted." Max thought for a minute.
"I want my mother to be well again. If I do this, will you cure my mother?"
"That I will. However, I have a few warning to give before you take this task. Once you touch that sword you are bound this task and will not be able to back down. Also once you touch the sword, it will take control over you."
"I won't be able to control myself? But how can I do the this task if I can't control myself."
"Well you won't be in full control of yourself. The main reason you where chosen is that your soul is divided into two halves. You are now Max, the pokemon trainer. But with that sword in your hands, you will be Maximus, the messenger."
"So, I will be this Maximus guy?"
"You will, for he is you. Maximus will be able to handle the things that you won't be able to do."
"Like what?"
"Like the ability to wield the sword. Also Maximus is willing to kill those that stand in his way."
"Kill? I'm going to kill people?"
"Only those that stand in you're way as a treat. Be it man or pokemon. Most of the chosen pokemon belong to other trainers and Maximus will be able to handle this better more then you could."
"So, if I take this into agreement. I would have to kill people?"
"It will not be you. It would be Maximus. He is not you. He is the messenger and can not be no held responsible for what he will do."
"And if I do it, my mother gets better."
"Agreed."
"And what happens if I refuse this?"
"You will accept, one way or another." Holly said in strict tone. Max thought for while.
"So, I'm guessing this is the nice offer." Holly nodded. "I guess I don't have a choice. I will do this."
"This pleases the gods. Just touch the sword and the agreement is sealed." Max grabbed the swords handle. A surge of energy went though Max and he fell to the ground. The last thing Max saw was the white light that devoured his body.
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"Arise Maximus. You are needed." Holly commanded. The figure formally known as Max rose forms the ground.
"I am here to serve you." Maximus said. Maximus looked about five years older the Max and was dress in black leather jacket, gray shirt, and black jeans. On his feet where boots and upon his hands metal gauntlets. On one side, his belt hung his stealth. On the other his pokeballs.
"Go now and find the Seventeen trainers. Your task will not be done till it is complete."
"Yes, my master." Maximus held his sword above his head. "Oh my blade take me to the first of chosen." The opal glowed and Maximus vanished.
"And so it begins. The messenger Maximus will not stop till the chosen trainers are found. The book of destiny begins now."
To be continued....
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