January 16, 2020 - Outskirts Of Pecha Town

Lucario's Perspective

" outside is clear " I peered through a pair of binoculars, then tossed them aside.

I motioned towards my rescue team colleagues, then the house.

There were reports of criminal activity going on inside this shack.

I saw a group of magnemite and magneton police officers moving around the place.

" lets go " I whispered, our squad slowly made our way towards the front door.

Me and Greninja pulled out tranquilizers provided by the police, I winced while inserting the darts into the gun.

I peeked in through the window, the whole place was a mess, junk was littered all over the floor, but a dark shape caught my eye.

I squinted, it was a poliwrath lying on the floor, and is that… blood?

I turned away from the window and gave a signal to Gren and the others.

I took a deep breath in, and kicked open the door.

" P.T.P.D! get on the… ground ".

I gagged, it was horrible.

There were dead bodies sprawled all over the place, Ninetales looked away and closed his eyes.

The officers bursting in through the backdoor had the same reaction.

I holstered my tranquilizer and walked over towards one of the bodies.

He was a mienfoo, it looked like they all belonged to one of the local gangs. I inspected the body, he was completely pale and his veins were showing, I turned the corpse's head to the side and saw three finger sized holes on his neck.

Small amounts of blood were seeping through the hole, he was sucked dry of all his blood!

I got up and looked at the officers, they had the same revelation.

" hey Luc, I found something " Scyther was poking a tuft of blue fur on the ground, I picked it up and examined it.

" it's from a Lucario ".i placed it down on the floor.

So me and Jojo aren't the only Lucario's here...

I went outside the door and nodded at the lieutenant magneton, Gren and the others followed me back to the station.

Somewhere else…

Jojo's Perspective

We were walking through this forest for a while now, my feet… paws were starting to get sore.

" almost there! " Evie said cheerfully.

The trees here were so tall they looked like they were touching the clouds, Raymond was marveling at them too.

" Here's the place " Evie turned to a gap in between one of the trees, it led to a mess of branches and leaves.

" we're going to take a shortcut to the dungeon " we all walked through the gap, the trees were starting to get closer together, and I think I stepped in something.

We approached a barbed wire fence, with a sign that read " private property - do not trespass " and small print on the bottom that said " especially you, fox ".

Evie started digging something up near the fence, when she was done, she pulled out some wire cutters.

" wait isn't this a federal offense or something? " Raymond started to back away, couldn't blame him.

" federal smederal, come on Ray, you gotta break a few rules to have fun right? " Evie stood on her hind legs and started cutting the barbed wire with her front ones.

" besides, we aren't going to steal anything, this guy's fence is just blocking the way " she turned her head towards me, " right Jojo? "

I scratched the back of my head, " I'm pretty sure i did worse, yeah come on Raymond ".

Raymond approached the fence, " a-alright, but if we get caught it's your fault " he pointed at Evie with one of his leafy arms.

Evie smirked, she finished cutting open the fence, " just wait a second ", she buried the wire cutters back in the hole and covered it up with some leaves.

" alright, lets go " I walked through the hole first, careful not to cut myself on the wire.

Evie gracefully jumped through, it seems like she did this a lot.

Raymond hesitantly stumbled through the fence and gave me a worried look.

" follow me, and stick to the bushes, this guy isn't too happy with people going through his land… "

We followed Evie through the property until we found the entrance to the mystery dungeon.

It was a cave, probably a mine shaft.

" You first Jojo " Evie stepped aside, I slowly walked into the mines with my friends following me.

Evie's Perspective

I've been through this mystery dungeon quite a few times before, but this time was different. Now there were no enemy pokemon around, this was strange…

We were walking around for quite a while, until we came across a door.

" I never seen this appear before " I went up to the door and felt it with one of my paws, it was made out of stone, and it was really cold.

" well let's open it up! " Jojo walked towards it and dramatically kicked it open, revealing what seemed to be a tomb.

Torches were hung all around the walls, I almost dismissed it until i realized, " who lit these? ".

The walls and floor were made out of stone, moss covered a good portion of the walls.

In the middle of the room was this giant stone coffin, I did not want to see what was in there.

I inspected one of the walls and wiped the moss off, there were strange engravings on them.

Wait a minute, giant stone door, a tomb, walls with strange engravings…

This was an ancient temple!

I squealed in joy, imagine the treasure, the knowledge, I could get interviewed on the news!

I looked behind me and saw Jojo and Ray giving weirded-out looks at me, " sorry… " i gave them a reassuring smile so they wouldn't think i was crazy.

I saw something on the ground and picked it up, it was this strange stone mask, with what seemed like dried blood splattered on it… ew.

I gently placed it down, being careful not to break it.

" What the hell is this place? " Jojo was running his hand along the coffin

Raymond was poking some moss on the wall, then he yelped and recoiled back from the wall.

We both looked at him, " t-there's something in the wall… "

Jojo's aura tendrils began levitating, " everyone step back " he had a serious expression.

He took a deep breath in, his arm suddenly started glowing yellow, I should ask him about that.

"「Sendō Ripple Overdrive!」" he struck the wall with his glowing fist, the room shook.

Something screamed behind the wall, before going quiet and making a crackling sound.

" w-what was that! " Raymond was shaking.

" everyone be careful! We aren't the only ones in here… "

What does he mean? Someone else is here!?

I looked at Jojo straight in the eyes, " what's going on? Who did you punch!? "

He still had that stoic expression, " i can only hope that was a 'who' "

" wha-what else could it be!? " Raymond panicked and tripped over himself.

I helped him up, the walls began shaking, people… no… 'things' were making gurgling sounds behind them.

The coffin in the middle started shaking too, something was in there.

A hand burst through one of the walls, it wasn't from any kind of pokemon I've seen, unless… it wasn't a pokemon.

" both of you get behind me " we cowered behind Jojo.

That 'thing' crashed through the wall and revealed itself.

It was a human, like in the fairy tales, but… it was different.

It was like a walking corpse, it had this horrible stench, and its eyes were trained at us.

It made this growling sound, before charging straight at Jojo!

I tried to cover my eyes but my body was frozen in fear.

The monster leapt at him, its mouth wide open, exposing a grotesque set of teeth.

" Jojo! "

I expected to hear Jojo screaming from being torn apart, what I actually heard was the same crackling sound as before, with the monster violently screaming in pain.

It was being disintegrated by a yellow energy, the same one Jojo was producing earlier.

Jojo's entire body was now glowing yellow.

The rest of the walls were now collapsing, revealing more of those monsters, staring straight at Jojo.

" You wanna end up like your friend here? Well come and get it you undead raisins! "

Undead?… impossible!

The zombies all charged at Jojo, who was now glowing even more!

"「Sunlight Yellow Overdrive !」" he delivered a flurry of punches onto the crowd of undead, disintegrating all of them!

All that was left of the monsters was an enormous pile of dust, Jojo leaned on a wall, catching his breath as the yellow glow around him faded away.

Jojo looked at both of us, " you guys OK? " he said, still breathing heavily.

Raymond spoke up, " what were those… things? "

" i'm pretty sure you figured it out already "

I stumbled back, " a-are they dead? "

He scooped up some zombie dust and let it seep through his paw, " I'm sure of it… ".

The coffin in the middle of the tomb started shaking.

Jojo sighed.

A zombie emerged from the coffin, but this time it looked different.

It was more intact then the rest of the zombies, it was clad in medieval plate armor, with its face exposed , it looked around the room, seeing the remains of its fellow undead.

" you may have slain these monsters with your hamon… but the ripple cannot pierce my armor, prepare to die, mongrel "

Jojo tilted his head to the side, " is that so? Well allow me to prove you wrong you over-sized mosquito! "

Jojo charged at the armored monster, he ducked as it tried to backhand him, that yellow energy covered his arm, "「Metal Silver Overdrive! 」``He punched the side of the monster's armor.

The zombie froze in place, yellow light suddenly started bursting from its face, it gave a pained scream before crumbling into dust, its armor collapsing to the ground, surprisingly unharmed.

The energy around Jojo disappeared again, he stood there for a moment before approaching us.

" let's get out of here, unless you wanna go forward and attend dinner with these guys " he pointed towards the piles of dust.

Me and Ray both shuddered, " no thanks, we'll stay with you " I looked towards the door of the tomb.

We all left the mystery dungeon, I think that was enough adventuring for one day.

Later

Jojo's Perspective

We all decided to hang out in Lucario's house for the afternoon, she wouldn't mind.

Raymond was flipping through the channels, while Evie and I were relaxing on the enormous couch.

Evie turned to me, " hey Jojo, what was that thing you did with those zombies? "

" you mean this? " I started doing hamon breathing, and then letting the energy cover my right arm.

Raymond looked over to me, Evie inspected my arm. " what is that? ".

Raymond leaned on the couch.

"It's called 'hamon' or 'the ripple', it's an ancient power used back then to fight vampires and other undead ".

" vampires!?, you mean the types that burn in the sun? ". Evie's eyes widened

" yeah ".

Raymond turned away, " that's crazy… "

I laid back on the couch and turned my head to the television, I couldn't believe how big these screens were.

" those rescue teams… are they part of the police force, or are they their own separate thing? " I asked Ray, who perked up at the mention of the rescue teams, I think I found his dream job.

" nah, they're separate, but they do work with the police ".

We stayed quiet for some time, watching the news channel, until Evie jumped up.

" oh! I almost forgot! "

She took off her bag and rummaged inside of it, she pulled out a pair of clackers, the same ones that I woke up with when I got here...

" you dropped these back at mt Cyrus, here " she handed them to me, I fidgeted around with the acrylic balls, wait a minute…

These aren't acrylic at all! These were made out of steel!

I put them in my schoolbag, they would make for a good weapon.

we hung out for a couple of hours before Ray and Evie had to go, " you guys wanna go adventuring tomorrow? " Evie asked

Ray and I nodded, " sure ".

After they left, the house got eerily quiet, I looked at the clock, it was 6:00.

Lucario should be home by now, and right on cue the front door opened and I sensed a familiar presence coming in.

" Jojo, I'm back! " she entered the living room where i was and saw me lying on the couch.

She sat down and relaxed, she started shifting around a bit, " did you have friends over? ".

I got up, " how did you know? ".

She picked up a strand of brown hair off of the couch, " Eevees can be pretty messy ".

I sighed and laid my head on the couch.

" this place is bizarre " I thought to myself as I fell asleep.

2 hours later

Raymond's Perspective

My mom let me stay outside for a little bit, It was dark outside, and I could see clouds forming.

I was walking outside, kicking small rocks that were in my way.

The only light sources that were illuminating the path was the occasional streetlight.

I stopped when I saw a tall shadow behind me, I turned around to see who it was.

He was a tall, pale Lucario, wearing a dark grey coat, and a long dark purple scarf, I'm pretty sure I saw a ponytail on his head too.

" say, young man? Do you happen to know a Riolu with green eyes around here? "

He was talking about Jojo, I felt a little uneasy around him, "y-yeah, he lives with one of the rescue team members over there " I pointed towards Lucario's house with a vine.

" Hmm, thank you, he and I used to know each other, but I doubt he remembers me ".

I noticed his breath wasn't visible, it was pretty chilly outside.

" well thank you for the information, I will not trouble you any further " he walked away from me.

" oh, I forgot my manners, I am Straizo, you won't see me around often, goodbye " he turned his head away and continued walking.

I shuddered and made my way back home.

Chapter 5 End

This part was fun to write