Canalave City was definitely a large city, but not as large as Hearthome City or Jubilife City. It was a port city with a long stretch of water running right through the middle. I healed at the Pokémon Center and exited. For some strange reason though, there was a lonely house sitting behind the Pokémon Center. It looked old and rather eerie and it gave me the chills. I walked away quickly, half expecting something to jump out of the house at any moment.
I ran across the drawbridge that connected to the other side of the city. However, I stopped in the middle of the bridge because at that moment, I saw Barry running up to me.
"Hey Vinny! Looks like you don't have to scare me every time we meet!"
"Heh, I guess so. Oh uh, were you just at the…?" I trailed off, but Barry understood and showed me his new badge sitting in his trainer case.
"It was tough, man! But when the going gets tough, I just get tougher! I'll bet you do too! So let's go! Right now, you and me!"
He did get tougher. His Pokémon were not so easily taken out with one hit anymore. The battle was still easy, nonetheless. After the battle, Barry and I shook hands and we parted. I ran to the gym and took a brave step inside.
The whole gym was a bunch of panels and rails and elevators. I battled every trainer in the gym, as usual and went to fight the gym leader, Byron who, not surprisingly, was related to Roark from Oreburgh City. Man, that took me back! Anyway, Byron battled with Magneton, Steelix, and Bastiodon, but all of them were no match for my fire power. After I beat Byron, he gave me the Canalave City Mine Badge and TM91, Flash Cannon. I made my way to the bottom and exited with my new badge.
Standing outside was Barry. He looked like he was waiting for me, no, he was waiting for me that whole time.
"Hey, you did it! You got the gym badge! Not a surprise, coming from you, but still, good job! Hey, um, follow me to the library!" And he darted off, not waiting for me. Curious to see what was so important, I rushed to the library as well.
I got to the library and Barry and I walked inside. I started to ascend the stairs until I reached the top floor. Barry was waiting for me there and he motioned for me to come over to one of the bookshelves.
"Hey, um, while you were at the gym, I decided to take a short break from training and look at what I found!" In his hands was a book about the history of the whole Pokémon land. "I thought you might find it interesting. While you're reading that, I'll go look for another book."
I sat down at one of the tables and opened up the book. Some time passed and I was still reading the book that Barry handed to me. I was really engrossed in the book, but then I came across a certain chapter that made my heart stop.
The Impact of the Charizard Legion
When Arceus created the universe, it created three beings that would spread throughout the world and bring:
Willpower
Emotion
Knowledge
When the three beings spread throughout the land, humans and Pokémon alike were created. However, there was no judgement for good and evil. Evil humans spread throughout the world like a virus and did horrible things to both Pokémon and humans. But then a group of humans and their Pokémon got together to form the Charizard Legion. The Charizard were set free from their masters to commit the good that would cleanse the Earth. Among those Charizard, one of them was a very powerful Charizard said to have wiped out a whole evil organization at once. That Charizard bore offspring, whose descendants taught their descendants and on and on until the current day when a descendant known as the Great Charizard showed the true strength of the same Charizard from long ago.
Mega Evolution was discovered when the Charizard Legion was formed and it was also discovered that all Charizard could Mega Evolve. However, the Great Charizard surpassed the power of all the known Charizard that were in the Charizard Legion. It was said that the Charizard could go beyond the limits of Mega Evolution and a new evolution was discovered called Giga Evolution. Scientists concluded that there may be other evolutions, but no one has discovered anything like it yet.
I closed the book and I just sat there for the longest time just thinking. I remember that mom used to tell me stories of dad, but I never remember her telling me about Giga Evolution. I wondered if I could achieve Mega or even Giga Evolution. And maybe even beyond. At that moment, I wanted to become the true descendant of the Charizard from long ago. I wanted to become a legend, no, I wanted to go beyond legend. If I trained hard enough, maybe I could-
BBOOOOOOOOOMMMM!
Suddenly, a huge explosion could be heard from far away. Barry ran up the stairs and looked at the TV that was sitting there.
"A huge explosion has been sighted coming from Lake Valor! A news crew is going to investigate the destruction!" On the screen, a large stack of smoke was billowing up from the lake. There was only one person, or team I should say who was behind this. Take your best guess. Upon seeing the smoke on TV, I grew angry and darted out of the library faster than a Rapidash. I sent out Fearow and told him to fly directly to the lakefront. He understood and I got on. Team Galactic… I'll do everything in my power to stop you.
I HATE you, Team Galactic.
xxxx
Fearow flew over Lake Valor at immense speed.
"Okay, Fearow! We're gonna drop right… here!" I jumped off Fearow, returned him, and landed on the ground with a loud THUD.
I hurt each Grunt as much as possible, but I tried my best not to kill them. I was even madder than before. I busted my way through the whole Grunt force and entered the cave in the middle of the drained lake.
Inside the lake was yet another Commander who introduced himself as Saturn. Yeah, they sure ain't gonna rule the universe with these names. The battle was short. Saturn told me of Mars at Lake Verity catching the legendary Pokémon which resided there, and that he had already caught the Pokémon in the current lake, called me a child like the rest of them, and left along with the rest of his buddies, but not before I beat him to a blood-splattering pulp. I exited the cave and told Fearow to fly to Lake Verity.
Fearow and I landed in Lake Verity where I saw Barry trying to stop Mars. I went on to beat up every single Grunt there and throw each of them into the lake where they all died a horrible watery death. I advanced on Mars who was having an argument with Barry and put a stop to the argument and beat the crap out of Mars as well and taking my revenge from when we were at the Windworks. Barry was standing there watching, and horrified as I unleashed the beast inside me.
"Don't worry Barry, I wouldn't hurt my friend." I growled viciously watching Mars run away. "That'll teach her not to mess with my friends."
"Wow… just, wow. I can't believe you had this much power-"
"No. I do not have 'that much power'. I'm weak. I must avenge my father's death. You see the grave over there?" I pointed to my father's grave on the other side of the lake.
"Yeah. What about it?"
"What about it? That is my father's empty grave. He was murdered, as I recently found out."
"Oh. Welp, I think we should make our way up north, man. The last lake just so happens to be up north just outside of Snowpoint City. I think we should go together."
"Sure, but just this once. We're supposed to be rivals, right?"
"Heheh, yeah."
"Come on out, Fearow! Come on, Barry. Let's fly to Celestic Town. That's how we get to the north. We gotta pass through the mountains."
So we left Lake Verity and did just that. We double-battled trainers on Route 211 and made our way into Mt. Coronet. I used Strength on the boulders that were there and we continued on. In the depths of Mt. Coronet Cave, Fearow used Defog and blew away the fog so that we could continue on. Soon, we made it to the cave's entrance and stepped outside, and holy shitballs, it was freakin' cold! I quickly warmed up both of us with my body heat, so I was like a walking furnace. We fought trainers on Route 216, who were no match for me because I had my fire. Barry luckily had a Luxray, which used superconductivity on the ice Pokémon. We continued north on Route 217 unaware of what we were going into.
