Quartz and Lapis started the quick walk to route one, both excited for what awaited them, but also a tiny bit nervous, the farthest they'd ever gone was to Alalop Town that was situated after route two.
"Hey um, Quartz?" asked Lapis.
"Yeah, what's up? Quartz asked back.
"So um… are we going to travel together, or…." started Lapis, nervous to go on.
Lapis, at first, was just his best friend, but sometime between the ages of eleven and twelve she formed a crush on Quartz, of course he didn't know it yet like most crushes, but she was hoping he'd get a hint sooner or later, sadly though he didn't.
"No thanks, I'd rather have it we travel by ourselves, would be much more interesting to see how much we've accomplished when we meet up somewhere, no offense though, that's just how I'd like to do it, sorry." said Quartz with regret.
He did actually sound regretful for basically stomping on her request, which was one of the reasons she liked Quartz. He really did care about how his friends and companions were feeling.
"It's okay, just asking. Can we at least travel to Alalop Town?" asking Lapis sounding disappointed.
"Sure! I'm fine with that." said Quartz, feeling happy that he could at least provide one wish for his best friend.
"YES… I mean, um, let's go!" said Lapis, slightly embarrassed for her outburst.
Meanwhile, in the ancient ruins of Hepheus, a man with a white top hat, a monocle, a white cloak, white suit, and a slick metal staff with a pure black pokèball on top stood at a giant rock slab that couldn't be opened by any force he put upon it.
"Hmm, a fitting challenge, Mecha-Darkrai, STEEL SHADOW OUTRAGE!" yelled the mysterious figure.
His pokémon, a cross between a robot and Darkrai, obeyed, unleashing an attack that would have made Rayquaza jealous on the giagantic rock slab with a painting from very ancient times, the rock slab didn't even get a dent.
"Now that's disappointing now isn't it? Well maybe I might want to study this, see if there's any clues to be had on It." said the man.
The mural had paintings most likely done by pokémon. It showed a pokémon emerging out of nowhere, resembling Arceus to a tee. Next it had a painting of the commonly known fact of Arceus creating Dialga and Palkia, however, when it got to Giratina, it changed, it showed a painting of a gigantic pokémon with horrible red eyes, gigantic horns, a body with flames enclosing some parts, and more, the pokémon was creating a third legendary, Giratina, while this was happening an intrigued Darkrai waiting by the fiery pokémon's side. Next it showed Giratina overpowering Dialga and Palkia and Arceus fighting the three, Darkrai, Giratina, and the fiery pokémon and after, banishing them and their creator to their own realms to rule, Giratina to the Distortion World, Darkrai to aid Hepheus in his banishment doings, and the fiery pokémon to the most feared place of all in the pokémon world… hell. The final painting showed Arceus creating a stone like object which, as it seemed like, to keep the fiery pokémon in its own realm.
"Hmm, nothing that I didn't already know, however, that stone, it intrigues me so." said the man in a disappointed voice.
"The reason why the Gabbro Region is feared by many people, because it's the region where so many horrible events took place, many battles in the Great Pokémon War, serious crimes committed by messed up individuals, but WHY these things happened is unknown to most and the story of why is on this very mural itself, it shows what truly happened when Arceus first created the world and when the pokémon Hepheus, and his minions, Darkrai and Giratina, tried to kill him in this very region, out of fear of speaking of him, every region banned the mention of Hepheus and his doing when civilization became much more advanced. So the story was changed, to Arceus creating all three, and Giratina turning against the rest and being banished, now, Hepheus is still in his horrible realm, waiting, so angrily to be released (even though he will still rule hell during the wait), with his minions, or MINION I should say as I have one right here, the only thing keeping him there seems to be that stone, only Arceus himself must know where it lies, it's in the Gabbro region of course I know that from MANY other sources that were hidden deep in the past, but other than that, no one can say or else they would've found it already, either that or they're too scared to unleash Hepheus. However, I need that stone, to release him and control him as mine, I've already captured Darkrai and made Mecha-Darkrai, and have made sure VERY strong precautions were made, I'm not stupid enough to unleash the ruler of Pokémon hell and wing it from there, I have the things necessary, so given by this mural, the stone opens the slab, great another search, oh well guess I better get started." finished the man.
Just then, the man felt a vibrating in his left pocket, he pulled out his pokégear.
"Yes Raven, what is it?" asked the man.
"Lord Darrius! The gym leader of Pohatu City has discovered us, and the police are chasing us!" said the girl known as Raven.
"IDIOTS, get back to the base as soon as you can, without them following you! Once you get there, wait for me, I have a new task for you, I will also decide upon all of your punishments later, no go!" said the man, now revealed to be "Lord Darrius" furiously.
Lord Darrius now started to walk back to the entrance of the room, pleased about his discovery, but mad about his minions actions.
"Soon, that won't matter, because once I've freed Hepheus, and turned him into Mecha-Hepheus, I will be unstoppable and Team Mecha will rule with a true iron fist!" said Darrius, smiling at the possibilities.
Sorry for the whole emphasis on "hell" going on in this chapter, but I wanted to make an intimidating legendary and that was really the only way I thought I could emphasize it. I hope you liked it, will be making more chapters very soon!