LOVE AND SACRIFICE(v3)

Love and Sacrifice(v3): A Look Into the Enemy Camp

In a relatively empty, but very clean room, two adults, friends since they were children, fenced. Suddenly, they stopped, finding that they both had their 'swords' at each other's throats. Sighing, they withdrew their swords and put them back.

The first, a young man in his early twenties, or maybe even younger, brushed away some of the wild, light brown locks of hair that fell over his face, then wiped away the beads of sweat the coated his brow with a handkercheif. His intense blue eyes seemed to dance with a merriment that otherwise didn't show on his face. "Good fight." He commented.

The second, a slightly older woman with very short black hair, and bangs that fell over her left eye, smiled slightly and then answered. "Yes, it was. Though I am still waiting for the day when one of us wins."

"Another tie?" A woman about their age asked, saluting infront of the other woman as she spoke. "Your excellency, kernel Haris wanted to see you."

"Really?" She raised an eyebrow, but nodded. "I'll be right there, you're dissmissed." She turned to the man she had previously been fencing with. "And you may leave to."

"Yes mam." They both saluted, and left together.

"So, how was the fight?" The other woman asked as they walked down the hallways together.

"Good, as usual." He replied.

"Will you be coming down to my base next week?" She asked.

"I might. I have some... other buisiness to attend to here."

"Oh." She looked outside a window and noticed a pidgeot waiting. "I need to leave now. An instructors work is never finished... You'd think they could find someone else to help teach them proper pokemon handling." She sighed, and put on a sort of helmet over her short dark brown hair. "See you next week Reix!" She waved, then ran outside.

He watched her go, then turned and began to walk back to his quarters. He had a lot of work to do, mainly planning. Next week, they were going to do away with the Kaitan Alliance, and take over, as planned. And those hybrids were going to be a big help.

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Hidden behind the guise of the Elite force of the Kaitan Alliance army, Zentai[1], was a corporate subsidiary of Team Rocket[2] that worked on breeding and genetically enhancing pokemon, and also on testing the effects of crossing human and pokemon DNA. Team Rocket was a mainly industrial corporation, and a major financial backbone to the Kaitan Alliance, and with the help of Zentai, it secretly manipulates the Alliance. Unknown to the leaders of the Kaitan Alliance, Sai was planning on completely taking over and overthrowing the Alliance.

The leader of Zentai was twenty-four year old Yiana Naventa[3]. The brilliant mastermind behind many, if not all of Zentai's current plans. Haris Kahin, Reix Corlis, and Vaela Demis were three other highly respected individuals of the organization.

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"Your excellency." Colonel Haris bowed as Yiana Naventa entered the room.

She acknowledged him with a slight inclination of her head. "What is it that you wanted to see you for?"

"We've been monitoring the movement of the hybrids for the past few days. They have been doing their best to keep their whereabouts secret, but we've managed to locate a few of them. They all are heading for this base, as we had anticipated."

"Good. Is there anything else?"

"Actually, yes." He turned to his desk and picked up a folder, his dark brown eyes quickly looking around the room, as if making sure they were alone. "We managed to get some pictures from some of the attacks." He handed the folder to her.

Yiana quickly browsed through the pictures, then allowed herself to smile slightly. "Good work." She commented. "I'll be keeping these."

He nodded.

"I trust you'll keep monitoring them." This was more of a statement than a question. As soon as the words left her mouth, Yiana left to go back to her office, and look over the pictures.

When she got back, she locked her door and sat down at her desk. Some of the pictures were clear, others were blurry. The clear ones showed her seven individuals, all surprisingly young. Considering all the damage they had caused, she had expected them to be a bit older. One shot showed three youths together. Two boys, and a girl. One boy had bright red hair, and red eyes. He also had a tail with a flame at the end. Obviously the fire hybrid. The other boy she was not completely sure of, though judging by his spiky hair, he was the electric hybrid.

The girl, however, was another matter. She didn't seem to be a hybrid. In fact, she seemed like a normal civilian... Why was she with those two boys, who was she, and what did she know? They were going to have to keep close tabs on that girl. Something about her seemed very familiar...

The other four, however, were obviously hybrids. Another boy, and three girls. The boy had had metallic grey eyes... mercury would probably be a better description. His platinum blonde hair gave the appearance of being very wiry, and his skin was tinged with grey. There was something... innocent about him, despite the blood that stained the sharp blades on his hands. Of the girls, they seemed to be the grass, ice and ground hybrids. The grass and ice hybrids seemed normal enough in appearance, excluding their oddly coloured hair, but the ground hybrid had taken a more pokemon like appearance. She had a human figure, but was covered in brown fur, had a tail, and tiny sandshrew like ears.

Yiana put the pictures away, and got up, moving to the window that was behind her desk. She looked outside and saw some cadets training along with their pokemon. It wouldn't be long before they would be promoted to real soldiers, fighting for what they believed was right. That was the way things should be, and the way things had always been.

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[1] It's a japanese word. I forgot what it means... 'Entire force of soldiers' or something like that...
[2] Yup, good ol' Team Rocket! Though it's changed quite a bit.
[3] I dare you to say her name five times fast without making a mistake! :)

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