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It was just another day for Gaoh Mustard, the dojo master of the Master Dojo, a martial arts school located in the Isle of Armor, an island off the coast of the Galar Region that he was the exclusive owner of as he had paid for everything with his own money.
Only he, his wife Honey, his son Hyde, and his students were the only inhabitants on the island, including the troublesome students Klara and Avery, both of whom had talent but we're way too arrogant for their own good...
Mustard usually took his walks around the dojo as he did not want to be too far away from his home so that he could play more video games after he was done..but this time he felt something different, like something was telling him to go in a different direction today as today as Mustard felt like something was calling out to him... and the sensation wouldn't go away until he figured out what was going on.
"And today of all days when I'm getting a new student for the dojo after such a long time."said Mustard with a sigh as he began making his way deeper into his Island then he usually did as he knew that they were hostile wanderer Pokemon around that we're not too fond of anyone... especially humans.
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"I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION!...!"yelled Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere, the third daughter of the Valliere family after her conversation with the original one, or known better as the alpha Pokemon Arceus.
But as soon as she stopped yelling that's when she noticed that she was no longer in the Hall of Origin, in fact she wasn't in any kind of building at all as now she noticed that she was outside... in some kind of large field filled with grass and different ponds everywhere.
"Did that overgrown horse transport me to a... swampland?"Louise questions as she looked around and tried to find anything that was reminiscent of civilization but couldn't find anything.
As the young Noble woman began to look around she noticed that there was all kinds of creatures around her that didn't look like anything she had ever seen back in Tristain. There were creatures of different sizes and shapes and anything she had ever seen back home in her home country.
She saw a creature that look like a fox but it was black and it appeared to have a tough of black fur on its head. The next creature was some kind of blue turtle with an oversized head. Then there was this cute little brown puppy like creature that she knew that her older sister Catteleya would just love as it was honestly cute.
As Louise looked around she quickly suspected that these creatures must be the children of that damn horse that sent her to this place in the first place! As that was the only explanation her brain could come up with as she remembered the conversation she had with Arceus.
The conversation she had where she accidentally realized that she accidentally agreed to be teleported to that horse's world after not hearing him out...
"Why...Why?! Why did I not hear that horse until the end and just agreed to it?!"said Louise that she looked around, trying to come up with something, anything that could rationalize her being where she was, as nothing made sense to her anymore.
Just a couple of minutes ago she was back in Tristain Academy of magic trying to summon her familiar, then she gets kidnapped by some overgrown lion made of metal, only to be brought before a horse that actually yelled at her...and now, she's in some kind of wilderness that's completely different from anything she's ever experienced all because of her stubborn attitude to get a familiar!
"I'll... I'll show Arceus that I am worthy of getting a familiar! I won't let this get me down as a Valliere will not allow themselves to be disgraced like this...now, I should figure out a way to get out of these swamp lands and find something, anything reminiscent of civilization and get in contact with the local Noble in charge."said Louise, hoping that this plan would work as it was the only plan she could come up with.
And that is when she heard something approaching her at a fast pace... and as she turned around all the color in her face disappeared as she saw what was coming towards her as what appeared to be a large bull with oversized horns and a large afro of hair was charging at her at the pace of a horse pulling a wagon!
Louise quickly reached for her wand and tried to command and explosion to defend herself... only this time nothing came and that's when she remembered that Arceus had sealed her magic away as a form of a handicap or as he stated, because he didn't want to a void mage using magic in his world.
"THAT STUPID HORSE!"yelled Louis as she made a run towards the nearby tree line to avoid getting hit by that overgrown bull they clearly wasn't happy to see her.
And as she made her way into the woods to her surprise it began raining!..Why was it raining when it was dry where she was standing just a few minutes ago?! She literally couldn't have run more than a few feet into the tree line to avoid that bull but now she was in the woods nearby and it was raining! How in the name of the founder was it raining when she literally just ran a few feet away from where she originally stood?!
If that wasn't bad enough she felt the hair in the back of her neck stand up as she slowly turned around to see the most terrifying thing she had ever seen up here from a large patch of grass. As from a large patch of grass appeared a giant insect the size of a horse. It was red in color but that was the last thing that concerned her as like the bull that had charged at her earlier, this pokémon as well had an extremely large set of horns! And by the looks of things, it looked like it was ready to charge!
"Umm... nice bug..."said Louise, before she heard the creature begin to scratch its foot on the ground, indicating it was getting ready to charge.
"Ahhhhh!"shouted Louise at the top of her lungs as she ran for dear life through the forest while that giant oversized bug was chasing after her, with the clear intention of skewing her with its horns!
"I hate this! I hate this! I hate this! I hate this! I hate this! I hate this...!"said Louise over and over again as she ran as far as her legs would take her as although she was not used to running, she would prefer to be exhausted and have the alternative getting trampled over by that oversized bug!
As Louise ran deeper and deeper into the forest she saw what appeared to be a bridge over a body of water and she quickly crossed it... and to her surprise and much relief, the giant oversized bug did not follow her as it appeared to have only wanted her to leave its territory, nothing more and nothing less...
"Phew...That was it close one."said Louise as she fell onto the muddy floor.
But at this point she couldn't care less about her clothes as all she wanted to do was take a breather as all that running had really exhausted her and she wanted nothing more than to take a breather and a few minutes of rest before she could look around and try to find someone, anyone who can help her as at this point she didn't care if she ran into a peasant or a merchant! All she wanted was to find another human being that would help her out!
"My Queen...Big sister Cattleya... Professor Colbert..."said Louise to herself as she remember the only people who ever had her back throughout the sixteen years of her life, from her childhood best friend who was now the queen of her country, to her big sister who was always sick, and even the only professor at the school that ever believed in her despite the fact she gave him no reason to...
All these people were located in who knows how far away now and she had no way to contact them and let them know that she was all right...she knew the others are probably assuming that she left on her own and used her familiar to escape the academy or something? She knew that's at least some of fellow students who ridicued her would believe that and they would probably spread rumors throughout the school if that was the case.
She was sure Kirche would be the one spearheading that, with the quiet Tabitha doing nothing but reading a book nearby.
The thought of that made Louise want to cry as she already was called Louise the zero... now she was going to be known as Louise the coward who ran away from the Tristain Academy of Magic just because she couldn't handle the ridicule anymore... but none of that was true!
She didn't have that overgrown lion kidnapped her!
It with all that horse's fault!
He was the one who sent her to a world different from her own just to send her on a one-year journey to prove herself worthy of gaining her familiar! He was the one behind all of this so why was she the one suffering just because he's some deity with power beyond her!
But before Louise could continue these thoughts... she heard more wrestling sounds in the distance and looked up to see some kind of crab, a really big crap looking at her and it did not look happy to see her.
"Crawdaunt!"said the strange looking crap like creature before it released a powerful burst of water at Louise, sending her flying and she was splashed with a powerful blast of water!
"Ahhh!"shouted Louise as she was pushed into a nearby bush which luckily softened in the blow up landing on the floor!
"That hurt..."said Louise as she got up and rubbed her back, only to realize that the crab was not finished with her yet as it was charging towards her with all four of its legs.
"Ahhh!"screamed Louise as she began to run away as fast as she could again and luckily saw something that look like the exit to this horrible forest!
Now Louise hated running and she always did but at this point she didn't care and she just wanted to get away from this overgrown crab as fast as possible as she figured that if she got out of what it perceived to be its territory... then it would leave her alone just like the oversized bug did when she crossed the bridge.
Louise knew it was a long shot by what other choice did she have has she had literally nothing but the clothes on her back at this point is she was no better than a peasant at this point... and the thought of that made her wanna cry and vomit as she couldn't believe she's been reduced to such a state just because of some deal she struck with some wannabe deity!
So running on her theory Louise exited the forest into her surprise the rain stopped raining and instead and intense heat was felt around her! Before she could question what was going on with this land's weather she turned back and much to her relief the giant crab like creature just ran to the end of the forest line before stopping. It looked at her with content before it decided to go back in.
"Phew... I'm so glad my theory was right otherwise I don't know what I would have done as I couldn't fight back."said Louise with much relief as she wondered why the weather changed again just because she exited the forest.
This time the weather changed to become an intense heat as all around her she felt like she was in some kind of miniature furnace... Louise quickly felt her clothes begin to dry even though they were soaking wet just a few minutes ago but soon they began to become quite again from all the sweat that was coming off of her body.
"Looks like I'll have to take a bath when I get out of this situation."said Louise who was panting like a dog as not only was she tired, hungry, lost, scared, and on the verge of crying... she also was really thirsty as this heat was not helping her body contain her bodily fluids.
But before she could breathe another sigh of relief... she quickly ran into another bull!
This one look more like the bulls she was used to back home but instead this one had three tails instead of one.
"Maaahhhhhh!"said the bull like creature as it did not appear to be happy to see her.
"Oh, come on!"said Louise that she couldn't believe she would have to run once again to avoid getting struck by this giant oversized bull with three tails!
But to her surprise the bull didn't charge but instead lifted its front hooves high off the ground before slamming them back onto the ground, and before Louise knew what was happening on earthquake started to shake the ground beneath her!
"An earthquake! Why is there an earthquake of all things?!"said Louise was getting dizzy from all the shaking before she fell to the floor, which luckily managed to knock her back to her senses.
"Ow! Ah, da,da,daaa..."said Louise, before she looked up and to her dread the bull had closed the distance between them and now it was literally in her face.
"Ahhh!"said Louise as her fight and flight instincts kicked in, or more specifically her flight instincts that she quickly began running up a nearby case of stairs.
Wait...? Stairs! That means there are humans on this horrible piece of land! That means there are people she can communicate with instead of these Pokemon creatures who have done nothing but harass her since she got here! Did Arceus order them to harass her or something but she doubted that was the case and they seem to only want her out of their perceived territory.
Her theory was further backed up when she looked down and saw that the bull with three tails did not follow her... and in fact it did not even bother following her as it just walked away like she was not worth it... and Louise had to admit a part of that really stung for some reason despite the fact she was more relieved by the fact that it chose to leave her alone after going up the stairs.
As Louise looked around she saw a huge tower made of wood... most likely a watchtower for some nobleman to have his personal guards stay there and keep eyes of his or her domain! Louise knew this was her chance to talk to someone that she was sure that there was someone in that tower who could talk to her!
Someone who could help her out of her current predicament!
So despite the fact the stairs were large she quickly made her way up them and after catching her breath at the top she quickly noticed that the land before her seem to have been carved out to show a path to the wooden tower that seem to have some kind of bear like creature at the top as a symbol.
Perhaps that was the family crest of the noble!
But at this point she could care less as all she wanted to do was find someone who could help her! Be it's a merchant or even a peasant she just wanted some help! She just wanted to talk to someone, anyone so that she can find out where she was and what she could do!
As she still had a year without her magic on this piece of Earth and she needed to find a way to survive, as at this point survival was the most important thing to her as she just wanted to rest, relax, and hopefully get something to eat and drink that was worthy of her Noble status.
But as Louise was making her way to the top of this carved out mountain... she quickly felt a pair of sinister eyes looking at her from behind. Louise felt that the eyes facing her were different from the others as she turned around to see some kind of red wolf like creature staring at her..
Only it wasn't a typical wolf as it stood on its hind legs and had a large puff of hair on top of its head. But the most distinguishing feature about the creature was it's glowing red eyes that look like they were ready to pounce on her and destroy her!
"Lycanroc!"said the wolf like creature has it began to slowly approach her.
"Get back! Don't you know who I am! Stay away from me you stupid dog!"shouted Louise, before she looked down and noticed some rocks near her so she's excited to throw them at the wolf, hoping to scare it off!
But as she picked up the first stone and threw it she realized that this wolf like creature was not exactly sane as it just stood there and took the rock to the face like nothing happened... in fact it was so far as to even smile, something that scared Louise to her core as how can something smile after getting struck in the face with a rock?!
But that thought quickly shifted to fear as the wolf-like creature raised its front paw into the air and slammed it into the ground, causing a pair of blue rocks to quickly start forming on the ground. And before Louise could say anything she quickly realized that it was an attack as the glowing blue rocks quickly headed towards her!
So Louise did the only thing she could do at that moment and jumped out of the way just before the blue rocks struck her, causing the wolf-like creature to actually appear to chuckle at this.
"Ahhh! What did I do to ever to deserve this?! All I wanted to do was summon my familiar and show those jerks at the Academy that I was a real mage! Now I'm about to perish at the hands of some kind of wolf like creature!"shouted Louise at the top of her lungs as she wanted to know where she went wrong.
But the wolf-like creature could care less as it just ran towards Louise!
"Stay back!"shouted Louise upon noticing this before she picked up more rocks and began throwing them at the wolf in an attempt to get it to back off.
But this just made the wolf smile more as it kept on taking rock after rock, and soon it's body began glowing a red color before it made its way next to Louise and before she could say anything it punched her in the gut!
This punch knocked the wind out of the young girl as she was flying a few feet into the air... before she landed on the cold hard floor and look like she was close to passing out.
"Ow!.. Is that what getting punched feels like... because I don't like it!"said Louise as the wolf continued to approach her.
"Stay back!... I order you to stay back! I Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere order you to stay back!"shouted Louise as she tried to create an explosion with her wand, any explosion that would get this wolf to back off!
But no matter how many times you tried to cast an explosion nothing happened as she knew that it was all in vain as her magic had been sealed but she had to try something, anything that would save her from this wolf as it was clear that it had no intention of leaving her alone like the others. Louise was scared, The mask she had put around herself to defend herself from the bullying was quickly starting to crumble...Now, the only thing left was the scared little girl that she had always been... the girl who was always afraid that she would never be a true mage...!
"Stay away from me, you stupid dog!"said Louise with fear as the wolf-like creature just slowly approached her in an almost mocking faction.
This scared her to her core as tears began to form on her face and soon she appeared to be crying as the wolf creature got closer and closer!
"Someone, help me!"shouted Louise at the top of her lungs, hoping that someone, anyone that could hear her would save her!
"Squirtle, use bubble beam!"shouted someone behind the wolf creature.
And before Louise could see what was happening she saw a small blue turtle-like creature appear behind her and spit out a beam of bubbles at the wolf, something that clearly bothered it as it turned around and covered its face before it took the attack.
That is when Louise noticed the young man around her age with dark hair and blue eyes approach her. He had his hair tied in up top not, I was wearing what could be described as a uniform of some kind... once she didn't recognize.
"Master Mustard, I found the screaming girl!"said the young man as an older gentleman soon joined him.
"I thought I was hearing screaming when I went to go pick you up Saito, now we know it was some girl screaming for help. Lycanroc... I know it's in your nature to seek out battle but did you really have to pick on such a poor little girl?"said Mustard as he identified the wolf as Lycanroc.
But the Lycanroc appear to be annoyed as it quickly began charging towards the old man and his student!
"Look out!"shouted Louise, as she was concerned for her saviors!
"Mienshao, use close combat!"said the old man as he toss some kind of red and white ball.
Louise was confused as to why he did that until she got her answer when the ball opened and released some kind of mongoose like creature out of the ball. The creature quickly took a battle stance and charged towards the creature known as Lycanroc.
And before Louise is very high she saw that the creature who had been harassing her earlier was easily defeated as soon as it was struck with multiple punches and kicks from the creature known as Mienshao!
"Use force palm!"ordered Mustard, causing the martial arts Pokemon to quickly place its palm on Lycanroc, before a large amount of force forced pushed the wolf-like Pokemon back.
This knocked the wolf-like creature away before it hit a nearby large rock next to Louise. The poor girl was freaked out until she noticed that the wolf-like creature had been knocked out as it clearly was outmatched by the old man's creature.
"Saito, capture that Pokemon at once!"ordered Mustard.
"Yes Master!"said Saito, before he threw another one of those strange looking balls that hit the wolf-like creature in the head.
And before Louise's very eyes the creature was absorbed as soon as the ball opened up, before it quickly fell to the floor as it closed up. Then before her eyes the ball began wiggling a few times before a click sound was heard at the end when the ball stop moving.
"Yes!"said the young man as he ran for his ball.
"Phew.. looks like I just caught a Lycanroc."said the young man as he picked up the strange ball like device before he looked at Louise.
"Are you okay?"questions Saito as he had extended a hand to help her up.
"T-Thank you."said Louisa she accepted the gloved hand and quickly stood up.
"What are you doing here in the Isle of Armor? Only people with the armor pass are allowed to be on this island? And the only way to get here is by Corviknight Taxi."said Saito, until he noticed that the girl in front of him didn't seem to understand anything he was saying.
In fact she look like she was shocked that they were even speaking the same language.
Louise on the other hand was freaking out as this guy wasn't speaking Gallian, but she could clearly understand what he was saying like the language she was speaking had always been there with her. Was Arceus responsible for this?!
"You don't look like you're from around here as your clothing doesn't match to the terrain. Are you a cosplayer or something?"questions Saito, as the outfit didn't look like anything he had seen before.
Not from his homeland of Kanto, or anything here in the Isle of Armor, and certainly nothing in Galar, the region he was currently located in.
He came here to train under Gaoh Mustard, an old friend of his grandfather who personally agreed to assist Saito in his training to become a proper Pokemon trainer. Saito had set out from Kanto with his Squirtle with the intention of training for a few days in the Isle of armor before heading out to Galar to meet up with his pen pal, Hop Laventon.
Hop personally promised Saito over email that he could help him take part in the gym challenge, where Saito plans to beat Leon Laventon, Hop's older brother and The undefeated champion of Galar.
But his plans would have to be on hold as now he had to help some pink-haired girl who was on the Isle of Armor for some reason. He had just arrived at the dojo and changed into his uniform when the master of the dojo summoned him to help him look for a report of a girl being located on the island, and that she was being chased by the wanderer Pokemon!
"Where am I...?"said the girl quietly.
"What was that? You need to speak more clearly."said Saito, as he didn't hear her question at all.
"Where. Am. I?"asked Louise slowly and more clearly.
"Oh, well you're located in Isle of Armor, just off the east coast of Galar."said Saito, wondering how this pink hair girl didn't know that.
"So, I really am in another world?"said Louise with shock before she passed out.
"Whoa!"said Saito as he quickly grabbed her before she fell to the floor.
"She's exhausted and clearly in pain after everything she's been through. Saito, carry her back to the dojo so Honey can have the healing Pokemon treat her injuries."ordered Mustard.
"Yes Master."said Saito with zero hesitation, as who in their right mind would leave such a poor defenseless girl alone when she clearly looks like she's been through a lot.
How as a decent human being could he do such a thing like leave her behind!
"Wow, she's really light."said Saito, picking up the girl and giving her a piggyback ride as he began making his way down the stairs with his master close behind.
"What do you think she was doing near the Tower of Darkness?"asked Saito, wondering why she was going to the tower that was forbidden to go to and less given special permission by Mustard himself.
"I believe she was looking for anyone who could help her out and as soon as she saw the building she couldn't help herself."replied Mustard, as that theory was the one that made most sense to him.
"Makes sense. But she must be crazy to come here of all places without a Pokemon as the wanderer Pokemon on this island are no joke."said Saito, who knew this as that's what his parents told him before he headed off for Galar.
"I don't think she's from around here as based on the look on her face she's never seen a Pokemon before in her life."said Mustard, as who in their right mind would call Lycanroc a dog.
"Well based on her mannerisms and clothing I'm guessing she's some kind of rich girl who's probably never been outside her home estate before... but that's just my own theory as I have no proof of that, and I think this clothing she's wearing is some kind of uniform, like mine."said Saito, as the three of them made their way through the Forest of Focus.
"Perhaps she can give us answers as soon as she wakes up."said Mustard, as clearly they were not going to get answers out of this unconscious girl anytime soon.
"Yeah, for now we need to get her to miss Honey so she can heal her."said Saito, as the two men continued to escort Louise through the Forest of Focus.
"Don't worry pinkie, I'll make sure you're safe no matter what."said Saito, as what kind of gentleman would he be if he allowed this poor girl to suffer anymore than she already has.
And although he didn't notice, Louise smiled in her unconscious state like her body was telling her that she found someone who would watch over her in this new world that was completely foreign to her.
So yeah, I decided to go with Galar.
Not only was it the most popular choice based on how everyone was leaving me comments or PM, but I also believe it fits Saito and Louise.
Galar has always been one of the more interesting regions in the Pokemon world and it's similar to Great Britain.
Also, in The Familiar of Zero there is a country known as Albion, which is also based on Great Britain.
So I figured it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for Louise to get used to this environment if she's in a Pokemon region that's similar to her home country of Tristain.
Plus with all dimensions of royalty and all that in the Pokemon sword and shield game it just made sense to me...
Now as for why Hop and Leon are called Laventon...
This it's because I believe in the Pokemon theory where they're related to Professor Laventon of Pokemon Legends Arceus as the resemblance is too similar in my book!
So in my mind they are related so it makes sense that their last name would be Laventon.
Anyway Galar is the region they'll be exploring so if you have any suggestions for Pokemon, feel free to leave some suggestions in the comments section.
Or send me a private message with your ideas if you're too shy to share it with the rest of the world.
I hope all of you can support my decision and I hope you understand why I chose Galar as the region of choice.
Now get ready in the future as prepare for trouble, and make it double.
But I won't explain why yes no spoilers!
Have a great day everyone and I hope to see you all next time as the journey continues!
PrimusPilus signing off!