Broken Honor and Armour: Wasaki's Tale – Part I

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.

Authoresses Note: Sooooooo sorry for the long wait. Due to slight writers block on the main storyline I have decided to finish up Wasaki's tale in a few parts before continuing with the main story. It's a little confusing to have him jump around in the story so I'll clean it up now. Here's part one, enjoy. Oh and I have a request of you all but I'll tell you at the end of the chapter.

Wasaki, with some coaxing from the hyper potions he was being given, finally came to. Opening his eyes he found himself face to face with a worried looking Annette. He gave a groan and tried to lift his painful body but her hands gently pushed him back down.

"Easy boy, just lay down for a bit. You had quite the scuffle there." She said soothingly. He gratefully obeyed and lowered himself slowly.

He couldn't remember for a moment why he was in such pain, all he could think about was how he felt like a rampaging Onix had ran him over, but as soon as he heard Annette start mumbling about how some people couldn't control their pokemon his memory jolted.

Sacha.

Sacha had fought him, and almost destroyed him at that. What's more is that he had shouted out incriminating information about Wasaki's little mentioned past to his new team.

To Maleah.

Once again he tried to lift himself back up and once again Annette attempted to stop him. This time however he resisted against her hands and brought himself into a shaky standing position.

"You sure your okay?" She asked worriedly, but in her eyes they both knew that he wasn't staying down either way.

He grunted his affirmative and sniffed the air. Picking up the scent of his teammates he followed it about sixty yards in front of him. They were sitting in a clearing in the tall grass. He slowed down just as he approached the outside of them, he didn't want to come too close just yet.

They all turned at the same time to look at him. Ayana and Kinesis gave him slightly fearful expressions, Shiva was giving him a look of curiousity, but Maleah was giving him a depressed and downhearted look. He knew that they knew now.

He gave a sigh, "Look, I know what you heard-" He started to say but Maleah cut him off, looking suddenly angry.

"Yeah. We heard. Not told by our teammate. Not confided in, heard. We heard from a passing Absol who was trying to kill you. Don't you think you could've warned us, your team, of any Pokemon you may have provoked? Don't you think that we could've been in danger? Did you ever think of that?" She growled at him.

There was a silence for a moment before he lowered his head. "No, I didn't think of that." He said sadly.

"I thought not." She sniffed angrily. She turned around, swishing her long tails for dramatic effect, and stalked off with Ayana and Kinesis following silently.

He was at loss for words. In truth, he hadn't thought of that but at the same time he didn't want them to know. He had known the truth would have made them hate him.

"He said you were a dictator, is that true?" A deep and rough voice asked. Wasaki looked up to see Shiva lying on the grass.

"It was true, it's not anymore." Wasaki said. Shiva gave a low grunt.

"I know where you're coming from." He said quietly. "When I was about ten years younger and ten years more reckless I decided to challenge the current leader of our Sharpedo school, my own cousin. I don't know why I did it anymore, I suppose at the time I considered him weak and gentle. He was gentle, but he was a good leader because of it, he didn't get into petty battles with other schools over trivial things like most leaders. In fact he didn't even want to fight me, he said that I could take any followers I had and leave if we desired."

Wasaki looked at him. "Did you leave?" He asked.

The Sharpedo laughed sadly. "No, I had no followers. They knew I would be a ruthless leader so no one supported me. Instead I did the worst possible thing a Sharpedo could do."

"What did you do?" Wasaki asked curiously.

"The most dishonorable thing a Sharpedo could do. I attacked him without warning and without any time to defend himself. I shot forward while he was telling me to take some other Sharpedos if I wanted and attacked him. He didn't even see it coming, in fact no one did. No one even noticed until the water turned clouded with red from the wound on his neck." He said this all with the utmost regret etched on his face.

"How did you escape then?" Wasaki asked.

"I didn't. They all attacked me at once. But they didn't attack to kill. They attacked to inflict the most pain. I had done the most dishonorable thing and deserved the most dishonorable death. They were to attack me until I was near death and then leave me for dead. Let something else finish me off. But instead of a hungry Pokemon smelling freshly spilled blood Annette found me. She captured me and nursed me back to health."

"Have you ever gone back?" Wasaki asked, "To apologize?"

He laughed sadly again. "No, of course not. I have been stripped of my honor and my dignity. I am an outcast and if I showed my face out there again they would not hesitate to kill me straight out. Just like you it appears." He pointed out.

Wasaki nodded sadly. "I want to go back. I don't care if they kill me, I want to go back and tell them I'm sorry. But my words are meaningless, I too lost my honor and turned on my on kin and species. I don't know how to get it back."

"You have more courage than I do. I refuse to swim in oceans. Annette has tried to get me to swim but I always refuse. I am no longer worthy to swim where my proud species swims. But you do have a way. That other Absol, the one who attacked you, I know a way you can at least do him a favor."

Wasaki's ears perked up, "You do? But how? The only thing I would like to do is be forgiven. It's been eating away at me and it's going to destroy me sooner or later."

Shiva nodded, "That Absol was taken away by the police. He was muzzled and tranquilized and removed from his trainers care. They said he was going to be put down."

"Put down?" Wasaki asked curiously but with growing dread.

"Killed. They are going to kill him, he is considered a danger to other Pokemon and himself." Shiva explained gravely.

"But he CAN'T be killed! It was all my fault!" Wasaki cried out.

"You can always stop it." Shiva pointed out. "They took him in that direction. I can't help you because I can't walk there obviously. But this is something I think you'll agree that you have to go on your own anyways."

Wasaki nodded. "I know, I have to do this myself. Thanks for all your help."

He turned in the direction that Shiva pointed out. It was down a dirt path. Without any hesitation he broke into long strides and took off down the path.

"Maybe you'll think better of me after this Maleah. Maybe I can set things right now." He thought to himself and took off faster as he go a hold of the scent and followed it wherever it would take him.

Maleah found Shiva lying by himself in the clearing. Wasaki was no where in sight and Annette was panicking.

"Shiva, have you seen Wasaki?" She asked.

"Perhaps, but you won't find him here." He said mysteriously.

"What do you mean?" She asked suspiciously.

"He's off to go do something that he's been meaning to do, don't worry about him. He'll be back in awhile."

"What?! Where did he go?" She cried.

"To go save that other Absol and his honor and pride." He informed her.

Maleah sighed, this could only turn out badly, "Alright. So he's gone? As in, we're all going to worry about him until he's completed his 'task'?" She asked.

"Yes." He said simply.

Maleah sighed, "Then I'm going with him. I don't know why and I don't know where he is now but I'll find him."

"You'll do well if you head in that direction." Shiva pointed down the path Wasaki took earlier.

"Thanks, wish us luck." She said before taking off down the path following Wasaki's scent.

Authoresses Note: There it is, short I know but they'll have more action soon enough, once I get into them.

Oh, and as for my request. I am looking for any number of artists who might be willing to do a request pic. I would love to see a picture of Wasaki, Derak, Abha, Avis, Favian, or any character of your choice. How about it? I'll accept any picture and will link it to my profile so that everyone can view your work. Of course I will not take any credit for the picture, all the credit will be in your name. Do I have any takers? Please contact me via PM if your interested :)