They spent numerous weeks training and deciding what to do, until both decided to travel around the world, looking for the most powerful of all creatures.

The man had acquired this power, which might even kill him if not used properly, and was confident about his decision.

Both the man and the Pokémon were at home, with the man telling his parents what they planned.

The father didn't agree with this.

"So, you are telling me you want to leave the village and take Lucario with you?" The father said indignantly, "We need you in this village, you are our best hunter!"

"Father, I won't discuss this," the man said while preparing his stuff. "You have no right over me," He said whilst put the supplies on his back. "I gave you everything you have, and I thank you for taking care of me," He said whilst walking towards the exit.

"Son…"

"Bye," The man said, already crossing the exit, facing the lucario resting on the wall.

"That's all?" Lucario asked with a confused and surprised expression.

"He knows I'm right," He said whilst walking, with lucario following shortly after.

They began their travel, going thorough nature.

When they needed to eat they ate, when they felt thirst they drank, going straight towards their objective: to find legends.

His ambition became bigger: simply becoming as strong as a Pokémon wasn't enough anymore. He sought for something even bigger this time: Those legends he heard while still a child, pokémon so powerful they could change the weather, change a population's mind, being the incarnation of a concept of nature and many others.

He knew it was pointless. All he would acquire was more power and, maybe, glory.

But it was addicting.

Eventually, on a random day, they were silently crossing a forest in the southern region, when Lucario asked:

"Back at our first serious fight," Lucario broke the silence "Why didn't I die when you knocked me out?" Lucario asked curiously "You destroyed a trunk with a punch, why was my head still intact after that last hit?"

"You got surprised by my aura," The man claimed "I wanted to test that sudden strength I felt, so I destroyed that trunk by throwing everything I had at it," he said. "After I jumped I only landed on you, I didn't have enough strength to deliver another blow," he explained.

"So if I dodged that landing…"

"You would have won, yes," He answered quickly "I still can barely control this, even after all the training we had in the weeks that followed."

"I avoided talking about that fight earlier, but since we touched the subject, I want to know more," Lucario stated and started thinking about the details of the fight. "I didn't notice your hand after you punched the tree. What was its state?"- He asked.

"It got severely damaged, but not as bad as before," the man answered. "It was already healed when you woke up."

"So I could have won?"- Lucario asked

"Yes, easily," he answered. "My aura let your guard down."

"I had my senses to the max after that jump," The pokémon claimed "There's no way I got distracted!"

"I sensed your aura," the man explained, "It looked quite surprised."

Both reached the end of the forest and stopped.

They were greeted with a long and rough canyon, which seemed to end at the horizon and were at the edge of one of the canyon's slits.

"Perfect," the man said in a sarcastic manner. "We'll find very few resources from now on," he added as he looked down the slit.

"I thought you liked challenges," Lucario said, lifting his eyebrows. "Isn't this what you wanted? " The pokémon said, looking at his trainer.

"I wanted battles," the man said walking backwards. "I never fought a Pokémon seriously besides you."

"Wait," Lucario said as he watched his trainer walk backwards, "what are you doing?" Lucario asked.

The man stopped and said:

"I'm going to try something," the man said. "I don't know if this will work, so stay alert."

Lucario watched whilst the human started hopping, looking at the other edge of the fissure.

"Are you trying to-"

"Yes," the man answered before his pokémon could finish his question.

The man proceeded to rush, running as fast as he could before jumping with both of his legs, destroying a portion of the ground with the impact of his legs and blasting off into the air.

"Are you mad?!" The pokémon yelled as he watched his master fly his way into the other side of the fissure.

"Yes!" His master yelled back.

The man slowly flailed his arms around the air in an attempt to stabilize his landing.

It wasn't very effective.

Lucario cringed as he watched his master hit the ground numerous times.

The man stopped, groaning in pain on the ground.

"Are you okay?!" Lucario asked unsure.

His master didn't say anything, only letting out a thumbs up as he got up.

"What were you thinking?!" Lucario asked, completely confused. "You could have just walked around it!"

"It's faster this way!" the man answered.

"You're going to die this way!" the pokémon yelled. "What are you talking about?!"

The man started to rush again before jumping back the same way.

"I've done something like this before remember?!" the man yelled while airborne.

Thankfully, he managed to land this time, sliding across the ground while trying to brake.

Lucario was surprised he landed with no problems this time.

"In our first fight," the man said whilst he patted the dust in his clothing, "I jumped high above you, remember?" he asked.

"Then why did you crash into the ground this time?" Lucario asked confused.

"Because last time I jumped whilst standing still," the man explained, "With barely any impulse."

"Won't you waste a lot of energy?" The lucario asked.

"I can take it," the man claimed, "Besides, this will be part of my training," the man said whilst indicating the lucario to hop on his back.

"Whatever you want then," Lucario said, then did what his trainer wanted.

With a strong impulse, the man jumped highly above the ground, crossing the gap and landed firmly, sliding briefly on the ground.

Lucario was not accustomed to this kind of impact and felt sick.

"Are you okay?" his master asked.

"Yes," Lucario said, shaking his head, "I just need to get used to this a little," he added.

"Get ready then," the man said, readying another jump.

Lucario felt the impact again, but this time he was prepared, and could pay attention to the feeling of the soft breeze hitting his fur.

It felt amazing; the vision of being high into the air whilst moving above the slits was incredible.

They stayed in this rhythm for a while: jumping and sliding in the landing before jumping again, across the gaps, travelling through the canyon in a rather quick pace.

Until Lucario sensed the aura of a flying being moving rapidly in their direction: the aura of a pidgeot.

"Look out!" he yelled to his master.

The man looked at the flying pidgeot then quickly threw lucario higher in the air, with the man taking the full hit in the arm whilst still in the air.

Lucario had his trajectory change with the purpose of keeping him in the air for a longer period of time, but the pidgeot saw that as an opportunity and began turning itself in the air.

Lucario started processing every option he had at that situation immediately whilst the pidgeot changed his original target, with his current target being lucario.

The man hit the ground on his back, later adjusting his next landing with his left arm, sliding along the rocks before yelling:

"Block!" the man yelled to his lucario.

Lucario managed to successfully block the pidgeot's attack right on time, with both of his arms; however, the steel type pokémon was now falling towards one of the canyon's slits.

The man ran as fast as he could before jumping, trying to save his pokémon from harm, catching Lucario in mid air and latching onto one of the slit's walls.

"Are you okay?" the man asked Lucario with his own hand buried on the wall.

"We're both injured," Lucario said, resting his arms. "He took us by surprise."

The man noted the injury on his forearm: an open cut with tiny blue flames trying to cover it. Lucario also had cuts on his arms, but they weren't as bad as his master's.

"We can't make another mistake like this," the man said. "Hold on me."

Lucario held himself on his master, who let go of the wall, landing themselves at the bottom of the slit.

"We should have an advantage here," the man stated, letting go of the lucario. "I thought flying types were super effective against fighting types," the man said. "Why are your wounds so light?"

"Because I'm also a steel type," Lucario explained, "Steel is resistant to flying types."

"Now that's certainly…" Lucario's trainer looked up. "… something."

The pidgeot was looking at them whilst in the air, without advancing.

"He's waiting for something," the man stated.

Lucario sensed the pidgeot's aura for a moment.

"Someone," Lucario corrected.

The man had his attention drawn by a figure, slightly distant, walking at the bottom of the slit. It was a charizard.

Lucario noted a noise behind him, and quickly checked what it was: it was a graveler.

"Are you happy now?" Lucario asked to his master.

The man laughed and said, "Be quiet and get ready."