Hello!

It's been a week then. Sorry for the late, school stuff take some of my time you know. Anyway chapter 3 is there!

Enjoy!

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Chapter 3: Life really begins

Lurio had to wait a few months before being able to go. Contrary to Gre, he didn't really know what to do with his life. So he just decided to go outside, explore the kingdom, discovering new areas... He already told Durry this and he didn't really care, seeming to not worry for his adopted son's future. When came the day, Lurio went outside, a bag on the back, ready to go, to join the Greninja. The Conqueldurr joined him, smiling, not looking sad. The Lucario noticed his presence and smiled at his turn to the old Pokémon. He had some tears appearing on his eyes which he swept away. Durry began to talk:

"So, I guess that is it then."

"Yeah, I guess."

"Which place you wanna visit first then?"

"I don't know, probably the Steel federation siege. I wonder how it looks like."

"Heh. A true fortress I assure you."

They began to hug each other strongly.

"Be careful, son."

"Same for you dad."

Then he walked towards the exit, and looked at the Conqueldurr, waving at him. He did the same and continued to walk.

"Thanks for everything." Lurio thought. He walked through the portal, and turned around again, seeing Durry still staring at him, from far away. Some tears came again. He swept them away again, walking to discover a world.

He was walking for a long while. Villages were really far away from each other and the nearest city is still miles away. He got stopped by several Steel federation patrol to let them look what was inside the bag. Seeing nothing potentially dangerous, they apologized and went away. Lurio noticed the security around his home increased pretty much and imagined the security in all the region too. He didn't know why and not much did. He asked to several travelers and they didn't know neither. Except some who said a dangerous Pokémon was in the region, well hidden. The Lucario was then looking around to see if there was actually a suspicious Pokémon nearby. He didn't but decided to still be ready to any situation. During the travel, he was observing his surroundings: there were many trees which some had fruits on their sticks. There were many bushes and small trees with berries on them or flowers. The road wasn't too intrusive and didn't take too much place but it was enough for a Pokémon to be oriented. The combat type was remembering the first time he saw the forest. It was a whole new world opening to himself. And today, he was finally able to explore it and discover new landscapes. After a few hours, he finally arrived in a camp, where Pokémons usually come to rest after a long travel.

A Chansey welcomed him really friendly:

"Hello! Do you need something?"

"Well, I'm beginning to be hungry."

"No problem! Go to the orange tent. They'll give you something."

"Thank you."

In the orange tent were some meals like soups or salads. He went for the carrot soup and some bread. The soup wasn't bad but not as tasty as Durry's one. The bread was really good though, not hard at all to chew and hot enough. When he finished, he asked to the Chansey at the entrance:

"Excuse me but do you know where is the nearest city from here?"

"You mean Shatmeen? » the Chansey answered quickly enough. Lurio nodded. The rose Pokémon added: "From here, follow the road heading toward the east and don't take any turn. You'll get there in 10 hours approximately."

"Thanks again."

"You welcome, good luck!"

The Lucario waved and followed the road. He wanted to go to Shatmeen because it's a good start for the bounty hunters, so he believed Gre would be there. He wasn't sure but he had to try. After 4 hours, the night was coming, making the area darker. The Lucario had to hurry, he heard the nocturnal Pokémons were aggressive. They're maybe rumors, but he didn't want to see if they were true. He reached the nearest resting camp breathless due to his big footing. He was welcomed by a Chansey again:

"You just arrived in time."

"Yeah we can say that..." replied Lurio, noticing night was completely here, making the whole forest dark.

"Are you hungry?"

"I'll just take some bread thanks."

He went in a resting tent with some bread. Plenty of Pokémons were here, some were sleeping on bed made of hay with sheets on them and some weren't sleeping, they were either eating, either trying to sleep. But when the Lucario entered they all stopped what they were doing and stared at the combat type Pokémon, with... fear?

"Hello?" Lurio said.

Nobody answered.

"Hey, I'm not a killer. Why are you all staring at me?"

A Gogoat finally answered:

"You don't know? We don't see much Lucarios here. And the one we heard about is... mad."

The others nodded. Lurio wanted to try to reassure them:

"Well, I'm not that guy. If I were him I would have already destroyed this camp if I were "mad" right?"

It seemed to work. The Pokémons looked at each other and they accepted him. He was really sleepy so he ate fast his bread and fell asleep on a hay bed. He woke up rather early. We gave him a cup of miltank milk, said goodbye to the chansey and went away, continuing his journey. He didn't see many travelers this morning compared to yesterday. It was probably because of the early time. While he was observing the landscape, he saw Shatmeen. It looked like a big city, made completely of rock. There were many buildings and all of them had walls of rock and the roofs were made of wood. The main building was taller than the others and was situated at the back of the city and looked really more fortified. Many Pokémons were leaving and entering in the city. It was becoming bigger than expected when he came closer of the entrance. Two Escavaliers were guarding the entrance. One of them called out the Lucario, suspicious, and blocked the entrance with one of his spears:

"Halt! Why are you here stranger?"

"I'm here to see an old acquaintance again."

"Yeah..." the guard replied in a septical ton. "Who is he?"

"A Greninja named Gre, he's a bounty hunter."

The other Escavalier seemed to recognize Lurio's old acquaintance:

"Oh yeah that one. He set off again last night."

The Lucario was disappointed of the news. He arrived too late. When he was about to ask where he did go, the guard asked:

"Why do you want to meet him?"

"We know each other, I just need to find him." the combat type answered, aware that it wasn't the best answer. The guards snorted, seeming to not believe his words:

"Alright kid, you see we aren't racists. But recently, one of your kind just killed several Steel federation members. So we've been told to be prudent every time we see a Lucario. So what you're saying is absolutely not a good reason for us to let you pass."

Lurio was surprised. A Lucario killed several Pokémons by himself? He understood the suspicion of the Escavaliers. But he had to enter:

"But I'm not..."

"What is happening?" an unknown voice said.

The Lucario turned around and saw a Magnezone with two Magnetons.

"Officer, this Lucario wants to enter in Shatmeen, but he's really dubious. He wants to find someone." a guard answered.

The Magnezone looked at the lucario, interrogating him:

"Where are you from?"

"Peak village." Lurio answered simply.

The Magnezone got his eyes widened. Lurio understood he was linked with Durry. The officer asked finally with uneasiness:

"Who... did raise you?"

The Magnetons and Escavaliers were confused by this question. But the Lucario was now sure the Magnezone was the Magneton he saw long ago:

"A Gurdurr."

"I see..." he stopped for a moment looking at the sky, remembering the day Durry found Lurio as a Riolu. "You can let him pass."

"What?" the two Escavaliers said with a surprise ton, not understanding the situation.

"I said let him pass."

"Alright sir."

Lurio finally entered. The ground was in rock. There were many shops and Pokémons, especially bounty hunters and signs with contrats. The combat type felt really small compared to the enormous buildings. Then he turned to the Magnezone:

"Thanks for helping me."

"That was nothing kid. I just did my job, be happy I helped the Gurdurr to keep you with him. Now go on and do your thing. As I said to your "father", I don't want to be related to this case."

He started to get away and then added:

"Everyone is scared of Lucarios now, kid. Be careful about that."

And he went away. Lurio nodded and continued his way through the city. He was asking to different bounty hunters if they knew the Greninja, fortunately a Scizor told him what he wanted:

"Gre? Well this night he went to the black lake for a contrat. Even if he's probably gone, you should go there. In case you find something. If you don't, try Frator village. It's near of the lake, towards its north."

The Lucario thanked the bug type and leaved Shatmeen for the black lake. All he knew about that place was the fact the lake was literally black, he heard it was something like "oil" but he wasn't sure. Nobody knew the utility of it. In his way he saw a Muk coming from the lake, heading to Shatmeen. He decided to interrogate him:

"Excuse me but have you seen a greninja lately?"

"Of course! I did find one as a bounty hunter. He helped me for getting back my home from crobats. He is really talented for a young one."

"Really?" the Lucario replied, satisfied to have found the job giver. "Where did he go?"

"Towards the plains tower. He told me he had another contrat."

Lurio didn't know at all there were plains nearby:

"But where are these plains?" he asked.

"Just go forward through the black lake. You won't miss the tower."

"Alright. Thank you very much."

"You welcome young one!"

And he continued his journey through the forest, following the road. But then he began to smell something. He never smelled something like this before. It was really bad smelling. He covered his nose with his hand and walked. He knew the smell wasn't from Muks, he knew their smell and this one was different. After a little while, he found the source of the smell, it was the black lake. He was surprised by the surprising dark black of the liquid. He didn't expect it to be that black. He wanted to touch the lake, he was curious about this mystery. He soaked one of his fingers in the oil and examined it. It was kinda slimmy and finished camouflaged with his black hand. The lucario was getting disgusted of it and regretted his choice. Now he had to wash his hands before he can touch anything. He decided to go to the nearest watering place. But without noticing it, he found his way to the plains. There were no trees except some really far away. The ground was full of grass. It was really empty, there were not many Pokémons around. And the Muk was right, the tower was unmissable. It wasn't that tall, but still impressive. It was in majority made of rocks, but the beams and the roof were made of wood. Some Magnetons and Magnemites were levitating around. Without any doubt, this tower was a Steel federation outpost. Lurio was heading to the outpost. When a Magneton noticed him, he decided to ask informations:

"Excuse me officer but how am I supposed to wash my hand?"

The Magneton looked at the combat type hand and noticed to black liquid:

"What is it?" He asked.

"Some "oil" I guess."

The electric type didn't seem to be surprised:

"Just use the watering place of the tower. We won't care."

"Thank you officer." the Lucario nodded.

It was a little stream circulating next to the wall. Lurio used the water to wash his hand and managed to not let fall any oil in the stream. Then he remembered why he came here. He returned seeing the magneton:

"Have you seen a Greninja lately by the way?"

"Umm... no."

The combat type Pokémon didn't understand during a few seconds. But then he understood the situation and was surprised of the information:

"What? But..."

"Sorry but we didn't see any recently. Were you expecting a bounty hunter to come here? Because we did put an announcement at Shatmeen. Maybe just wait for a moment, he'll maybe come. "

Lurio nodded and sat on the grass, not too far from the tower. It was strange because Gre must have already come here. Something must have disrupted or something similar. Gre is supposed to be always focused on his current objective. Suddenly a Magnemite was approaching really fast. He was panicked. He talked to the Magneton with a ton telling there was an emergency:

"We reported us an attack near of the Giant snow peak!"

Lurio immediately stood up. His home risked to be attacked! Durry was probably in danger! He had to go. Now! The peak was visible from his position all he had to do was heading to it. He ran trying to be as much quick as possible. He heard the Magneton yelling at him:

"Wait! You don't know what..."

He didn't hear the end. But he didn't care. He continued to run. Gre was probably aware of this and went there...

He ran until he was exhausted. He was near of the peak and night was coming. It was becoming darker but he still continued. Really exhausted, he did stop and almost fell off on the ground. He had to rest, for a bit. After a while, when he rest enough to be able to run again, he heard someone yell. He didn't know who it was but they were clearly suffering. He sprinted toward the source. All of a sudden he gasped, he found a whole battlefield. Many trees were destroyed and holes were on the ground and especially... corpses of different Pokémons were here. Some were still bleeding. They were from the Steel federation. It was a horrible scene to watch. They lost a battle but who did this atrocity?... A Lairon was still alive though. Lurio ran to him:

"What happened here?" He asked.

"No... you aren't him..." the lLairon said, really painfully.

"But who?"

"Just run... you can't do anything against him... run... or he will kill you..."

There was suddenly a sound. A branch broke.

"He found you..."

The Lairon just stopped moving after his last words. He was now dead. But Lurio wasn't alone. He felt something. Something strong. Stronger than everything he knew. He noticed some sort of blue sparks on a Gigalith. It was from an aura sphere. Someone landed behind him. Lurio turned around and saw another Lucario. But he was different. The blue fur was darker with black lines, he had more beige fur and more spikes on his red hands and feet. The tail was beige. The foe Lucario was staring at him with an inexpressive look. Lurio was intimidated. He was shaking and tried to hide his fear. The foe Lucario suddenly said:

"You aren't one of us."

"What do you mean?" Lurio didn't understand the meaning of these words.

"It doesn't matter."

The foe Lucario suddenly leapt towards Lurio and prepared a quick but strong aura sphere. Lurio wasn't able to react in time. He was going to get hit... But he felt being pushed aside by someone else. The aura sphere stroke a tree which fell off. He didn't know who it was but when he looked at him his fear disappeared.

"Are you ok brother?" Gre asked, worried.

« I'll be okay."

Lurio stood up and got himself in position with Gre and warned him:

"He's fast, be careful."

"Yeah I saw that." He prepared a jump. "But I'm faster."

"Wait!"

But he was too fast. Gre jumped upward and threw a big water shuriken at the enemy. The Lucario dodged by jumping aside then he landed on a tree's trunk and he finally jumped toward the Greninja. But he seemed to have expected this. He moved his body so he was able to dodge theLlucario's punch. Then he managed to grab him on the stomach and threw him on the ground. Unfortunately the enemy landed hardly on his feet, without injuries. When Gre landed, the Lucario leapt on him to do a drain punch on him, Gre created a water shuriken and used it as a shield in time. But the impact was too strong, so he was knocked on the ground. The Lucario was now about to strike a violent drain punch on him. Lurio had to do help Gre now. So he threw an aura sphere on the Lucario. He noticed the attack and jumped backwards, letting Gre safe. Lurio joined the battle.

"Thank you. I won't forget that..." Gre thanked his brother.

"No problem but focus on him for now."

And Lurio was right. The foe Lucario were preparing a strong aura sphere.

"Wait..." Lurio thought

"Two aura spheres?!" He thought out loud.

"What?!"

The lucario then threw two aura spheres at the same time at both, making them separate due to a huge smoke cloud created by the explosion. Lurio thought his aura vision would be finally useful, because he wasn't able to see something in the smoke. While he was using it, he saw two auras, one was the Lucario, more hostile, and the other one was Gre. The Greninja was behind him. Suddenly he did a waterfall attack, heading towards the foe Lucario really fast. But Lurio felt something bad coming. The foe Lucario knew what was happening. Quicker than ever, he jumped upwards and was about to smash the Greninja's head with his powerful punch. Gre stopped his attack immediately and jumped backwards. But it was too late. The Lucario dealt him a violent drain punch on the head. Gre was a bit sinked into the gound, unconscious. His head was now bleeding. Lucario yelled in rage, getting out of his aura vision:

« NOOOO! »

He sprinted forward, jumped towards the enemy and was about to deal a high jump kick. But the foe Lucario rolled forward and Lurio missed, injuring his leg. He turned around, staring at the enemy, full of rage. But the foe Lucario finally talked:

"Sorry, but you've seen me as your friend here did. So I have to kill you too."

"As I'd let..."

Lurio blinked and the lucario disappeared. His eyes widened of surprise and tried to feel the hostile aura. He was right behind him. When Lurio noticed, he received a strong kick in the head and was sent away and stroke a rock. His whole body was painful and his mouth was bleeding. "A single hit..." Lurio thought, ashamed to be almost fainted by one hit. When he was about to stand up and continue the fight, the foe Lucario threw an aura sphere on him.

"I'm sorry..." Lurio whispered.

And the sphere stroke him, destroying the rock. Lurio felt a sudden huge pain. But he immediately fell unconscious.

He woke up. How was he still alive? That aura sphere was supposed to kill him. He wasn't in a camp, he was still in the forest in the night. His bleeding stopped but the pain was still here. He stood up with great difficulty and looked around. There were still the corpses. But Gre wasn't here anymore. He looked around again in panick. Where was his body? There was still the marks of it. We took him. But where? Then he saw some big prints on the ground, heading to the other way. He decided to follow them, he wasn't sure if it was help but had to take the risk. The forest was calm. Too calm. Nocturn Pokémons should be out there at this time. They were probably scared after what happened. He didn't know how long he was unconscious. He had to be quick. He didn't have to walk for too long before he found a light. He decided to walk faster to get there. When he was near of the source of the light. He saw three Pokémons. A Garchomp, a Charizard and... Gre. But the Charizard was near of the Greninja's head, his month in fire. Lurio panicked and managed to run forward despite the pain. Both Pokémons heard him coming and they prepared themselves. When Lurio finally showed himself the Garchomp shouted:

"The Lucario!"

"Wait." The Charizard interrupted the Garchomp. "Look. He's severly injured, that can't be him."

The Garchomp looked at the Lucario and agreed with the Charizard. But Lurio wanted Gre:

"Let the Greninja go!"

The two Pokémons looked at the water type and the fire type replied:

"Kid, you're outnumbered and injured so don't..."

"Let him go!" Lurio interrupted. He prepared himself for a battle.

"Alright. You wanted this."

The Charizard took off and told the Garchomp:

"Let me take care of this."

The Garchomp nodded and stepped backwards. The Charizard did a flametrower on the Lucario. He dodged but in pain. Battling was really hard because of his injuries. He guessed the Charizard was seeing if he was really able to fight. The Charizard did this time an air slash attack with his wings. The Lucario managed to roll aside and dodge it. He was wondering how he would be able to hit the enemy. The trees would be useful to reach the fire type. This was it then. He ran on the tronk until he reached the top. The Charizard flought at the same height and was now rushing him fast. The Charizard made the work easier. He leapt on him and his punch was recovering itself with ice. Ice punch was now ready to strike. Suddenly the Charizard peaked down. The Lucario's attack missed and now the flying type was behind. His month was in fire. But the Charizard did thunder punch instead of a flamethrower. Surprised of this decison, Lurio has been smashed down on th ground. He was fainted. Again.

Gre woke up because of the noise. His body was hurting, especially the head. He remembered he was in a battle against the Lucario and he saw him in the sky, about to strike him. He guessed he has been hit. But then he thought about his brother Lurio. He gasped and stood up and just noticed the Garchomp and the Charizard, staring at him. But what he saw shocked him. Lurio was laying down, severely injured, next to the fire type. He was now in rage, go in an offensive position and created a big water shuriken:

"You... you did this?!" Gre said in a threatening tone.

"Well, we warned him but he didn't listen." The Garchomp replied.

"No don't taunt him." The Charizard interrupted before the ground type continued. The fire type added:

"To be more precise, he wanted to fight us before we could explain what was happening..."

"What have you done to him?!"

"He isn't dead I assure you. If I wanted to kill him, a flamethrower would have been perfect. And my thunder punch wasn't too strong, so don't worry I just neutralized him."

Gre was still holding the shuriken, ready to throw it. But he decided to destroy the weapon. It would have been stupid to fight with these injuries:

"Alright I forgive you, but we gotta get in a camp and fast."

Then his head hurt suddenly, it wasn't that painful but still unpleasant. The Garchomp noticed:

"Was it a Lucario who did this?"

"Yeah, we can say that..." Gre answered.

"Why "we can say that"?"

"He was different, he didn't look like a normal Lucario."

The Charizard, interested, asked:

"What do you mean?"

"He had a darker blue fur with black lines, more beige fur, more spikes, red paws and hands..."

"I see..."

Suddenly a crack came. The three Pokémons stared at the origin of the sound. The Charizard told to the others:

"Get the injured Lucario. I'll take care of this."

"But why..." The Garchomp disagreed with this decision.

"Because if the Greninja were true, I am the perfect guy to fight him."

"Oh yeah..."

Gre didn't understand. Why should the Charizard be able to take care this? The Garchomp didn't look to be bad fighter. A Lucario appeared, looking like the same as the one before. He talked first:

"Well I found my targets, and I have two more apparently."

She was a female. That means there are several Lucarios like them. That fact afraid Gre. The Garchomp asked to him:

"Is she the one who attacked you?"

"No..."

"So there are more of them..."

The Lucario was now ready to fight in an offensive position and started with a taunt:

"Please let me kill you quickly. It was a long way to come here so I don't want to spend time on you..."

"No." The Charizard interrupted. Suddenly he was glowing. It was a light similar to the one when a Pokémon evolve. The Charizard was becoming black, his stomach became blue. His wings's shape changed, becoming sharper but still usable and blue fire was getting out of his mouth. He roared loudly, intimidating Gre and even the Lucario, who looked surprised. She whispered:

"So he was still alive..."

The Charizard didn't listen and did a powerful blue flamethrower on the Lucario. She jumped really high but the fire type was continuing his flamethrower and aimed to his target. She immediately threw an aura sphere towards the Charizard. He noticed in time, so he stopped the attack and managed to dodge the projectile by jumping aside. When the Lucario landed, she closed her eyes and then her hands had more aura. Seeing the nasty plot, the fire type took off and attacked above the enemy with a big air slash. The Lucario leapt on a tree behind her and used it as a springboard to dodge the slash. The air slash stroke the tree, damaging the trunk to make it fall on her. Her eyes widened and quickly made an aura sphere. When the tree was about to hit her, she used the sphere as a shield. At the impact, an explosion came and many parts of the tree were sent away. The Lucario was hit by the explosion but was still able to fight. The Charizard took advantage of the distraction and placed himself just above his target. When she noticed the flying Pokémon, he did a flamethrower down oh his position. The Lucario managed to dodge in time but his paw has been hit. The pain she was feeling was visible on her face, grimacing. Despite the pain, she did an aura sphere at the Charizard who dodged it easily. But she immediately did another aura sphere after the first shot. The fire type reacted too late and was hit on the wing. He yelled in pain and was forced to land hardly. The Lucario was now laughing and approached the Charizard:

"Ha! Who has the advantage now? You little..."

Suddenly the Charizard stood up and caught the fighting type by the neck. She gasped and prepared another aura sphere. But the fire type took one of her hands with his free one. Not able to do her attack, the Lucario started to panick. The Charizard opened his mouth widely, ready to spit fire. But the enemy approached her hands each other closer enough to do a flash canon on the Charizard's stomach. The pain was enough for the charizard to free her. He immediately took position for the flamethrower. But she wasn't here anymore. She was standing at the top of a tree, staring at him with a murderous look:

"We'll meet again revenant. And this time, I'll ice you..."

And she disappeared. The Charizard transformed himself as a normal Charizard again. Gre was staring at him, astonished by what just happened while the Garchomp wasn't. He just said:

"Well played Charles."

"Thanks Gaby."

Charles was now looking at Gre:

"You don't know mega-evolution?"

"What?" Gre answered, completely ignoring what was it.

"Well... it's hard to explain."

The Charizard searched the words to use. Then he continued: "To be simple, it's the fact we can "evolve" into a more powerful version of ourselves. But it's not really an evolution. It's just for a certain time."

"So those lucarios are... mega-lucarios?"

"Yeah, you got it. But this concept isn't known of the public. Only a few people and the high commanders of the Steel federation are aware of this. And I am one. An experiment subject in a certain way."

Gre didn't know what to think of this story. The concept of mega-evolution was interesting but thinking of the Lucarios made it looking like dangerous. But something was intriguing him:

"The Lucario called you "revenant" meaning she didn't see you since a long while. What does that mean?"

The Charizard was surprised of this question. He firstly stayed silent but then he answered:

"I have no idea. Maybe she confused me with someone else."

Gre didn't believe that but decided to stay silent. After Charles took a rest, the three Pokémons went away, heading to the nearest camp, bringing Lurio, sill unconscious. Arrived at the camp, the Chansey took charge of Lurio and brought him in the infirmary. Gre didn't know how much time passed while the Chanseys treated the Lucario. After a moment, Charles and Gaby joined him. The Charizard was the first to talk:

"So, the Lucario and you are close friends. Right?"

"We grew up together in the Peak village, as brothers." the Greninja answered softly.

"Oh I see. And you are both bounty hunters?"

"I am. Lurio just wants to see the world. Explore it."

"Okay."

There was a silence. But Gaby decided to break it.

"Alright. You see we're bounty hunters as well. And we're searching those Lucarios for a while now."

"I understood. But I don't want to join you. Lurio was almost killed by my fault. I don't want this to happen again."

"Even if they destroyed the Peak village?"

Gre's eyes widened and his head immediately turned to the garchomp, who added:

"Many corpses were found."

Gre was ready to kill him, his look was now murderous:

"Are you trying to incite me to join you with something I love?"

"Nope. I'm just trying to say if you don't hunt them, you let some killers free without doing anything."

Gre calmed down. But he was worried about Durry:

"Did you see a Conqueldurr?"

The Charizard decided to answer:

"No. But I don't give him many chances to be still alive."

The dark type was almost crying, thinking of Durry being dead and his home being destroyed was horrible. He stayed silent for a long while staring at the ground, wondering what he should have done to help the village and Lurio especially. Now he wanted to avenge the village, Durry and Lurio. Those Lucarios almost killed everything he loved. He closed his fist strongly:

"They deserve to know what pain Lurio and many others felt."

A Chansey suddenly showed up from the infirmary:

"Greninja, the lucario is waking up."

When Lurio woke up. He saw several Chanseys standing all around him. He got up but the Chanseys stopped him:

"Please calm down. Your injuries aren't completely gone..."

"Where am I?" the Lucario asked hurriedly.

"At the camp near of the Peak forest. A Garchomp, a Charizard and a Greninja brought you here. But please wait a little the treatments are almost finished."

He nodded and waited until he completely recovered. Then he left the infirmary after thanking the Chanseys and saw Gre who immediately ran and hugged him:

"I was so scared you may be gone forever..." He said in a sad tone.

"I'm sorry for worrying you."

"No... that was my fault if he almost killed you..."

"No! It wasn't! I did choose to come there and I knew the risks. Don't blame yourself because of my choice."

The Greninja stayed silent. Then he just said:

"Okay..."

Lurio looked around, searching if the Garchomp and the Charizard were here:

"Where are the Charizard and the Garchomp?"

"There."

The voice was from the Charizard, behind him with the Garchomp. The fighting type turned around hurriedly.

"Don't worry I won't burn you or something."

Lurio still didn't drop his guard and stared at the Charizard and the Garchomp, wary.

"Hey you didn't listen to us so it's normal you got beaten down kid." the Garchomp said.

"Even if it's kinda true, we didn't want to kill you. Remember that thunder punch? I did that to neutralize you. If I wanted to kill you, a flamethrower was perfect. By the way we found the Greninja and brought him to stop his head bleeding. If we didn't come, he would be dead right now."

The Lucario was ashamed to have attacked so nice people. He wanted to excuse himself but Gre talked first:

"Lurio." He stopped for a moment but continued: "The Lucario destroyed the Peak village..."

"Oh no..." Lurio got his eyes widened, his heart started to beat faster and he was shaking his head. Trying to not imagine the village's state and the possible deads. He asked: "Is Durry found?"

"We don't know." Gre answered.

Tears were shedding from the Lucario's eyes after this sentence. He didn't want him to be dead. There was a little hope for the conqueldurr to be alive. But it was little. Everyone stayed silent during a while, watching the Lucario staring at the ground, trying to believe his father survived. Suddenly he asked the Charizard:

"Where is the Lucario?"

"You mean "they"." Charles answered.

"There are several of them?"

"Yes. Let me explain what we know about them."

And he explained the story with the same way he did with Gre. When he understood the concept of mega-evolution, he just asked:

"How do they do this?"

"Well..." the Charizard stayed silent for a moment but decided to continue: "It's thanks to a rare stone. We don't know how to find it and how to make it neither. It's still a secret for the scientists."

"Okay."

The Charizard seemed to understand perfectly his intentions. Lurio knew it would be really lucky to find a rock like this but he had to, so he would able to fight those Lucarios and make them pay for what they did.

"So you want to join us?" Charles asked.

"Of course." Gre and Lurio answered together.

"Alright then." the Garchomp replied. "There is a rumor about weird lucarios seen in Firstone city."

"The travel will last like four days." Charles added.

"That's far..." Gre commentated.

"But it's our only information. So we have to go there kid."

When they were about to go, the fire type turned to Lurio:

"I forgot to introduce myself. I am Charles and the garchomp is Gaby. We're bounty hunters."

Gaby greeted with his sharp arm.

"Lurio." told the Lucario.

Charles smiled and decided to lead the group:

"Let's go then."

The group left the camp, heading to Firstone city, in front of the sunrise.

End of chapter 3


How was it? You can review to tell me how it was if you want. The wait for chapter 4 will be surely longer, so please be patient. The story won't be completely focused on the lucarios but I'll try to make every part of the story at least interesting.