AN: Thoughts will be in italics that way it's not confusing when I have someone think to themselves. Also instead of rescue/exploration teams, they're mercenary bands. Mercenary bands basically do everything that rescue/exploration teams do, except that they're valued far more and have more of a variety of missions to take care of.
Lore of Yandor #2
The Croudor province is the largest province of Yandor, not the most civilized however. They share borders with the Acron and Tesparia province. The land contains mainly deserts, mountains, canyons, ravines, and many caves. The biggest volcano, Mt. Krovahx is located here. The more grassy and forested land is down south, closer to the Acron province. The capital, Jono city, is located in the north west, close to Letarah desert, the largest desert in Yandor, and right next to a beach and a relatively small forest. This province tends to be the most unified. Generally the pokemon there don't complain about how they're treated, and they are treated fairly by the COY. That doesn't mean that they don't get mistreated by other pokemon at all and some of the pokemon that are high-class certainly rub it in other's faces. The representative of this province actually allows pokemon to ascend the social class ladder. For example, A grass type can rise to high-class if they can earn their spot. However, it's not all too common for that to happen. One thing that is common however, is crime. The security here will only care to deal with more serious crimes. Crimes like simple theft, trespassing, small riots, vandalization, etc. are all ignored. They do this because the representative wishes for the police force to be able to focus and be prepared for some serious crimes or attacks. This province also has the strongest military, they even have some types from other provinces within it. The border that sits between them and the Acron province is the most peaceful in Yandor. The Acron and Croudor provinces like to trade with and support each other. The cities and towns closer to the Acron province even share each other's cultures.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: location: Olisicar palace courtyard
Zezula and Lorial walk into the courtyard to see team Shatter Star standing near a large fountain waiting for the treecko laying in the grass on his back to wake up. An espeon, whom is the leader of the mercenary band, Shatter Star, turned to Zezula and walked up to him.
"This all happened as we were leaving the courtyard, so unless this treecko was hiding he must have just appeared out of thin air, considering we were looking towards the entrance," the espeon told them.
"Are you sure you just didn't miss him or something? Because I'm sure pokemon don't just appear like that and I know treeckos can't learn teleport," Zezula asked.
"Excuse me, but me and my team aren't idiots nor are we blind and you should know that, we are Royal rank after all," she said, offended.
"Yeah yeah, I just don't believe that a treecko can suddenly appear out of thin air like it's some magician's ridiculous magic trick," he said with a look of disbelief.
"Also, couldn't the treecko have fallen into the courtyard?" Lorial suggested.
"Yeah that would be possible, if treeckos could actually fly!" Zezula exclaimed.
"Someone could've been carrying him. He's light enough for anyone to carry," Lorial said.
"You know that I have guards that watch the skies specifically for flying pokemon. So I highly doubt they would've missed them flying in," he said.
"Who said that your guards were the best?" Lorial asked.
"I did! We have top of the line guards at this palace. I'd suggest that you should stop arguing with me and just let me and Veria discuss!" he demanded.
"Fine, I will…" Lorial conceded, crossing her arms.
"You two are forgetting that there was a flash of light and that loud noise, and the noise did not sound like someone hitting the ground. I know it seems preposterous, but him appearing out of nowhere is more likely than anything else," Veria explained.
"Whatever happened, I don't care about at the moment. Let's just wait for that damn treecko to wake up and then ask questions," Zezula said with a frown.
"Very well sir," Veria nodded her head.
"GUYS! The treecko is waking up!" a mawile said
Everyone went to where the treecko was lying as he opened his eyes. He got up and backed away quickly with a shocked expression.
"WHERE AM I! WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE AND WHY ARE YOU POKEMON!?" the panicking treecko shouted.
"Woah there man, calm down a bit please. My name is Araya," the mawile told him. "You're in the Olisicar palace courtyard located in the Postron province in the land of Yandor and me and those pokemon are team Shatter Star," Araya pointed to where Veria, a fletchinder, and a galvantula were standing. "It's not our entire team though."
"What's Yandor, and what's a team Shatter Star and why are you a talking pokemon and who are the rest here?" he asked, still panicked.
"Araya let me talk to him," Zezula commanded.
Zezula walked up to him and Araya moved away. Which made the treecko back away seeing the imposing kommo-o getting closer to him.
"My name is Zezula, Senate head of the COY," he held out his intimidatingly clawed hand.
"..."
"..."
"..."
They stared at each other while Zezula awkwardly waited for a handshake from the treecko.
"It's not like shaking my hand and telling me your name is gonna kill you, I know you aren't a savage pokemon or anything," Zezula said with a smile.
"M...my n…name is Niles," Niles said as he shook Zezula's hand.
"About damn time this treecko said something useful," the galvantula said.
"W...wait treecko?" Niles gave a confused look.
"Yeah, you are a treecko aren't you? Haven't you looked at yourself before?" Veria said.
Niles then looked down at himself and saw his pinkish-red belly and three green toes.
"WHAAAT THE HELL! I AM A TREECKO!" he gave a shocked expression.
"Jeez, maybe he did fall into the courtyard," Veria joked with a stifled laugh.
This guy is something else. But he's just so damn frightened right now. Maybe if it was just me and him talking he could calm down a bit, just enough to get some straight answers from him. Zezula thought to himself.
"Alright, everyone leave now, I'll handle it from here on" Zezula commanded. "Lorial go back to cleaning the foyer while me and Niles here have a chat."
Team Shatter Star exited the courtyard and Lorial walked back into the palace.
"Alright now that it's just you and me, can you tell me how you got here please?" he asked.
"I… I don't know one moment I was sleeping and then the next I woke up here. That's all I remember," Niles exclaimed.
"Hmm, where did you sleep?" Zezula questioned
"In my house on my bed, where normal people sleep," Niles told him.
"So you mean to tell me you actually just appeared here randomly from your house while you slept?" He said with a suspicious look as a far-fetched flew over the courtyard, which it then got hit by a stone edge attack from one of the guards. "Seems a little far-fetched to me."
"That must be it, I don't have the capability of sneaking into this courtyard or anything else illegal nor would I ever," Niles exasperated.
"I'm inclined to believe you, since I highly doubt a pokemon like you could get past my guards, but I really don't get how you were transported here just like…" he said. "that." he snapped his fingers.
"It's the truth I swear," Niles protested.
A treecko appears out of nowhere in my courtyard Coincidentally after I was rambling on about needing a beacon of hope, no less. No, this can't be more than just a strange occurrence. This pokemon isn't some beacon of hope gifted to Yandor. Zezula thought to himself.
"I suppose I should just let you go. I have no inclinations to argue with you. So please, peacefully make your way back home and forget that any of this happened," Zezula told Niles.
"But, I don't live here in Yandor. I live somewhere else probably far away," Niles said.
Niles wasn't sure if he wanted to tell Zezula that he's supposed to be a human and that he's from the human world. He decided it's better to keep it a secret.
"Alright, then I suggest you go to the Croudor province. It's where most grass-types usually live and there's an orphanage in Jono city named Swell Hearts Orphanage that'll take you in. I'll have one of my guards lead you to the teleporter for the city," Zezula told him.
"Ok, thanks for not, like, punishing me or anything," Niles said with a sigh of relief.
"Yeah, it's the least I could do, you don't seem like a criminal or anything," Zezula said. "Farewell, Niles."
"Goodbye," Niles waved as he left the courtyard.
Zezula shook his head as he headed towards the palace doors, what a day this was.
Niles was stopped by an aerodactyl guard standing before the entrance. He looked up in awe at the flowered lattice archway connected the large and imposing walls of the courtyard.
"Come with me, kid, this way to the teleporter," the guard beckoned with a wing as he walked through the entryway.
Niles followed him along a pristine pathway into a building with 4 teleporters in it all leading to the capital cities of the four provinces. The guard motioned with his wing towards the teleporter leading to Jono city. Niles nodded and stepped into the teleporter.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Jono city capital city of the Croudor province
In a flash of blue light, he was in a nearly identical building. But, the aerodactyl guard was gone and a magcargo was at the right side of a doorway, assumedly the exit. Niles was about to walk up to the fire snail but a krokorok pushed Niles to the side.
"Sorry kid, but I have something important to do," the krokorok said.
The magcargo and krokorok spoke for a bit until the krokorok left.
"Alright youngin', have you been to Jono city before?" the magcargo asked, their voice was ancient, a clear sign of his age.
"No, but I want to know where Swell Hearts Orphanage is," Niles told the magcargo.
"There's maps of Jono city on the desk to your left, it'll tell you where the orphanage is located," the magcargo informed him.
"Okay, thanks," Niles said as he took one of the maps.
Niles left the building and looked at the map.
So it's located on Clearance Avenue, luckily that's not too far from here and then once I get there I can think of a way to get home or maybe just wake up from this crazy dream, Niles thought, looking around him.
The vastness of the unfamiliar city was certainly daunting. Most buildings did not differentiate much height-wise and had uninform placements that allowed for small alleyways between each one. However, there were a few outliers here and there that towered over the others. Their designs were not typical for what Niles is used to, being made out of smoothed obsidian with a crystalline sheen to it. Most roofs were rounded into a protruding sphere with a thin spire at the apex. There were also some sort of gem-like formations, of many colors, adorning the edges. All the windows shared the same gem style with added transparency, reminiscent of stained glass.
As evidenced by the lack of modern roads, this world did not possess vehicles of any sort. Instead, there were wide, sandstone pathways filling that space. Lastly, Niles noticed palm trees sprinkled around and in the center of the paths.
Niles was in awe at the spectacular craftsmanship. Perhaps these really aren't your typical pokemon... Man, fantasy architecture is a whole other experience when you're actually there. This one place has already made my world boring in comparison. Then again, I haven't left my small town very often. But, surely there's not just pokemon living in this world, right? For there to be a whole society, there has to be at least some humans...
After a bit of walking, he heard some shouting. He didn't understand what they were saying but he didn't have time to react as a salandit ran into him nearly knocking him down.
"Sorry!" the salandit said as it started to run again.
"Okay then, that was random," Niles said.
He looked back to see an angry Camerupt running towards him.
"GET BACK HERE YOU THIEF!" the camerupt yelled as Niles moved out of the pokemon's way.
So that's why that salandit was running so fast, he discerned.
Seconds later that same salandit turned around quickly and leapt over the camerupt before it could react. The salandit was already gone.
As Niles was looking at his map he was suddenly tackled into the alleyway on his right with that salandit lying under him. The camerupt ran right by them, not noticing that the salandit was under Niles.
"Hey there, sorry about tackling you and hiding under you," the salandit apologized as they got up.
"Why'd you have to use me to hide yourself and also, why'd you suddenly come back this way?" Niles asked.
"Because this alleyway was my escape route and you happened to be right next to it," the salandit told him. "I wasn't going to just wait for you to walk away."
"Yeah I can understand that. Although, didn't that camerupt call you a thief?" he questioned. "And as a responsible person, I should shout that I've caught the thief, HE-hmphf!"
The salandit quickly clamped his mouth shut.
"Please don't, what I stole wasn't that valuable anyways, he can live without it. I don't want to get caught on my first time stealing something. My mother would be so disappointed in me if I did," the salandit begged. "Come on, please?"
"Okay, okay, I'll be nice and let you get away with stealing whatever you stole," he said. "I better not get in trouble along with you if he comes back with the police."
The salandit gave a sigh of relief.
"He won't bring any guards, they only deal with more serious crimes. Like I said, what I stole isn't that valuable, it's my first time you know?" the salandit reasoned before offering a small smile. "Oh, and by the way my name is Sheila."
"Nice to meet you, I suppose. My name's Niles," he told her. "Anyways, I guess this is where we part ways now."
He started to turn away but then Sheila spoke up. So he looked at her again.
"Actually I have a favor to ask of you," Sheila said.
"And what is the favor?" he asked.
"I need some help stealing a rare medicinal plant from some bandits. It's my second thieving mission that my mother told me to complete," she said. "But, I don't think I could do it alone. I've learned that I'm not such a great thief after that camerupt saw me stealing from him and not only that, I ran right by my escape route and had to turn around and run back… You know the rest."
"So you want me to help you steal from some bandits that could kill us, because you believe that you'll get caught stealing from them?" he asked, clearly not liking the idea that much.
"Look, I know you probably have somewhere to be and all but I promise you we'll be fine and I can reward you for helping me," She begged.
"No." he stated, shaking his head.
"Please, if I do that mission alone I'll surely get caught and who knows what the bandits will do to me. You're the only one at this moment who can help me!" She exclaimed.
"Couldn't your mother help you? Or maybe a friend of yours?" he questioned. "I'm just some random person you ran into."
"My mother is currently on her own mission and I have no friends at all," she said with a frown. "So please help me. I'll even share what I get from the plant."
"Okay fine, I'll help you," he said with a sigh. "You're lucky that I'm a nice guy."
I hope I won't regret this. Maybe after I help her I'll just wake up suddenly. Then again, when she tackled me I did feel pain. This may all be real and I'm actually a treecko now, in an unfamiliar world filled with talking pokemon.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" she gave him a tight hug.
"You're welcome and please let me go, you're hurting my arms," he said with an awkward smile.
She released him from her hug.
"First I need to give this to a trader in an Unseen Thieves' hideout. I believe there's one in this very alleyway coincidently," She mentioned.
She walked further down the alleyway while Niles followed her. She knocked on what looked like a brick wall in a specific way. A second later and that section of the wall lowered down into the ground revealing a stairwell.
"Huh… Well then, secret entrances into a hideout, not that I'm surprised or anything," he shrugged. "I guess I'll just wait out here, because I don't think a non-thief should be down there."
"Unless you feel like being beat down by a bunch of pokemon, then yes, you should stay out here. I won't be long," She told him.
She walked down the stairwell and through the door at the bottom. There was a flareon behind a desk surrounded by a chain-link wall.
"I'm here to trade a stolen item," Sheila told the flareon.
The flareon opened a small door above the desk.
"Give me the item and we'll see what it's worth," the flareon firmly stated.
She slid a rare Arceus statuette under the door. The flareon took it and examined it with an emotionless gaze.
"1,500 poke," the flareon exclaimed as he gave Sheila 1,500 poke.
She then left the hideout to see Niles leaning on a wall.
"So what did you get for what you stole?" he asked
"1,500 poke," she said proudly.
"I thought you said it wasn't that valuable?" he questioned.
"1,500 poke isn't as much as you may think it is, at least in terms of stolen items," she said. "You have rather high expectations for an inexperienced thief..."
"Whatever, I just want to go now," he said impatiently.
"Alrighty, let's head towards the bandit hideout," She told him.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: The Jagged Burrow
Niles and Sheila were staring into the cave entrance into The Jagged Burrow. There were torches on both sides of the entrance and an arcanine's upper torso was hung up by two ropes that were tied around its forepaws at the entrance leaking fresh blood while his bloody rib cage was visible. The bottom half was lying on the left side of the entrance leaned against the cavern wall. Above it, there was also a symbol, painted in black, that showed a Skarmory's head with a saw blade welded on top of it.
Niles and Sheila looked at each other with a very unnerved look.
"That blood is seemingly fresh, someone is here and is probably very dangerous. I don't know if we should do this…" Niles said with a nervous look.
"Let's just be quick about this before things get worse, they're just bandits. I doubt they would be smart enough to see us sneaking around. Plus, that arcanine is a bandit as well, look at the tribal paint on his forehead. Whoever came through here hopefully will be fighting with the bandits here. A perfect distraction," Sheila reasoned with him.
"I hope you're right, cause I don't want to end up like that arcanine. I like having my body parts attached!" he exclaimed.
They headed into the burrow, walking slowly while looking around cautiously. They entered a room with multiple beds, two of which had mutilated corpses in them and blood was everywhere. Sheila spotted an opening that was within the left side of the cave wall that had stalactites and stalagmites that could hide them.
"Let's go under there," She whispered while pointing to where the hidden area was.
Niles nodded and followed her into the hidden alcove. The alcove led further through the hideout, almost acting as a sort of vent.
"So why are you even a thief if you believe that you're a terrible one, couldn't you do something else, like something not so shady," Niles whispered to Sheila.
"It's because my mother wants me to follow in her footsteps. You see, my whole family consists of grand thieves. Every one of them has done some very grand heists in their time and my mother wants to keep the family legacy going. She won't allow me to do anything else and I don't even know what else I could do even. The only thing that I thought about doing that wasn't being a thief was being in a mercenary band. I've always wanted to explore this world and actually help others rather than stealing from them. But I don't have anyone to create one with," she said with a frown.
"Did you ask your mother if she would create one with you?" he asked
"Yes, but she's too caught up with being a grand thief and keeping the family legacy going. So of course, she wouldn't want to. So I was left with the option of being a thief, despite the fact that I never really wanted to be one," she lamented.
"That's really unfortunate, to have to be nothing but a thief because your mother wants you to continue your family legacy rather than see you happy with what you actually want to be, a mercenary," he said "Although, I don't really know what a mercenary band is, but they do sound like they're very revered groups of pe-okemon."
After Niles said that the sound of footsteps echoed through the hideout. Sheila was already crouched down behind the stalagmites.
"Get down!" She whispered loudly.
"What?" he asked, confused.
She pulled him down to her.
"I heard footsteps," She told him. "Ssshhh."
A feraligatr wearing some spiked pauldrons was walking towards the room they were in. He was dragging a tied up and gagged heliolisk by its right foot. The heliolisk was wiggling around trying to escape the feraligatr's grasp.
"Would ya stop movin' like that!" the feraligatr complained. "You ain' breakin' out of those Nactvite chains, no one can."
"Hmm...hmphf!" the heliolisk grunted but stopped wiggling.
"We'll see what the boss has in store for you tryin' to run away like a scared little hatchling," the feraligatr exclaimed.
Once he left the room, Niles and Sheila got back up and continued to walk further down the alcove.
"At least that heliolisk is just another bandit, no reason to feel bad for someone like that," Sheila stated.
"Yeah, let's not interrupt those two," Niles said.
They arrived in the main room with the medicinal plant that was in a pot sitting on a wooden table in the far right corner. There was also a jail cell in the room. However, the same pokemon from before are in the room as well as 2 other pokemon, one was a delphox and the other was a skarmory with a saw blade welded on his head. The heliolisk was being held up by the delphox and feraligatr in front of a large pit of fire. Niles and Sheila remained silent.
"So you thought you could run away! What kind of a pussy bandit leader are you?" The skarmory said as he ripped out the gag in the heliolisk's mouth.
"I know not to mess with you or anyone that's a member of the Fireforged, so I did the smart thing and tried to escape," the heliolisk exclaimed with a worried expression.
"You think runnin' was smart, HAHAHAHA! Don't make me laugh, running is just as stupid as staying and fighting or hiding," he said with his head tilted to the left. "Thhhhheeee smart thing was just killing yourself on the spot, it would have spared you the pain that I'm about to make you endure."
"I was taking a chance, can't we just make a deal?" the heliolisk questioned hopefully.
"Ok," the skarmory said with a sinister grin. "I'll give you your own eyes to keep in your collection and you'll keep quiet while I rip them out."
"N-no t-that's not what I meant!" The heliolisk started to panic.
"Come on, I offer a deal and then you reject it, I'm never that nice to anyone," the skarmory said, shaking his head. "I mean, I thought it was a good deal, because your eyes are pretty and all, why wouldn't you want to keep them in a collection. I know I would."
"I'd like to keep them where they are currently! And how could I look at them if I don't have eyes to look with?!" the heliolisk retorted. "How about I offer you a deal instead."
"N-n-n-n-n no, you lost your chance at a deal, now I'll just kill you in whatever way I want, is that ok with you?!" the skarmory exclaimed.
"No, I'd rather live, you know?" the heliolisk said.
"You could've lived if you had accepted my offer earlier. You know, when I asked for that plant over there, and you also could've lived if you had agreed to my deal," the skarmory told him. "Pokemon can live without their eyes, sure you would've been blind but at least you'd be alive. Oh well…you asked for death instead, I guess that's how the cookie crumbles."
"Shit, he wants the plant," Sheila said worriedly.
"Bu-" the heliolisk was cut off by the feraligatr grabbing his throat with his right hand.
The metal bird grinned menacingly. "No, I don't want to hear your whimpering anymore. It's starting to hurt my ears. Now Graves, how should I kill this one?" they looked at the feraligatr.
"Gut this fool," the feraligatr known as Graves said.
"GUT HIM! You say." the skarmory chuckled lightly. "Sounds good to me. Nilsine!"
The delphox put her right hand on the saw blade on the skarmory's head. After a few seconds of flames, it then became red with heat.
"I'm going to sneak over there and grab the plant before he can take it," Sheila told Niles.
"W-what, what if he sees you?" Niles asked, clearly worried.
"He won't, trust me." she assured him. "They're busy enough to not pay attention to me sneaking over there."
"But aren't you a bad thief?" Niles questioned, but she ignored him and left their little alcove and went under the nearby wooden table.
"Please don't see her," Niles prayed. I'd rather not have blood on my hands within my first day in this world. Plus, I don't know how many more approachable pokemon like her there are. It is nice to have someone to talk to so soon.
"Now, have you ever wondered what your insides looked like?" the skarmory asked the heliolisk.
"N-no," the heliolisk struggled to say.
"Well you'll get to see them anyways, everyone's wanted to see what their insides look like at least one time in their life," the skarmory gave a vile, toothy smile. "I just hope you have a different reaction than AAAGGGHH! Because that's what everyone seems to looove to say."
The skarmory then brought his head down and forced the saw blade into the heliolisk's stomach, waited for a split-second, and then quickly lifted it up through the heliolisk up to it's chest and then quickly slashed it diagonally left through its stomach and it's blood and intestines spilled out, while some hung from the stomach. The skarmory's head was covered in blood while a few guts slid off it, an intestine was still hanging from his head.
"AAAGGGHH!" the heliolisk screamed in agony.
The heliolisk's face grew grayer until the life of its eyes left it.
"I'm gonna be sick," Niles said, about to puke.
"How disappointing, he had the exact same reaction, letter for letter, can you believe that?!" the skarmory asked angrily as the intestine on his head slipped off.
"He doesn't even deserve to be cooked and become our dinner, absolutely disappointing," the skarmory complained. "Throw his body in the flames. I'm going to grab that plant."
Oh no... where's Sheila! Niles thought to himself nervously.
As the heliolisk was tossed into the fire pit. The skarmory went to the table in the far right corner. The plant was gone.
"HUH!? Who, what, where, why, how?!" he said with a surprised and angered look.
He quickly turned to look under the table where a now freaked out salandit was hiding.
"OH, OK! So you thought you could just take the plant without asking me huh?" he asked, clearly pissed. "Well let me tell you, you can't have it!"
He pulled her out from under the table with his beak and yanked the plant from her with his talons.
"Luckily for you I don't have the time, or care, to absolutely slaughter you, so I'll give the honors to Graves instead," he hissed through his sharp teeth that were still gripping onto Sheila's scruff.
He threw her across the room and into the wall. Niles immediately ran out to her.
"Aaanndd you also had a friend, welp all the more fun for Graves, Come Nilsine, we must give this plant to our mother," he motioned Nilsine to follow him. "Oh and Graves, you better kill these two or I'll have to punish you!"
"Should'n' be that hard," Graves taunted, glaring over at the two small pokemon.
The skarmory and Nilsine left the room and exited the hideout.
Niles had helped Sheila up.
"Waterfall!" Graves shrouded himself in water and rushed towards Niles and Sheila.
They jumped to the side and Graves ran into the wall.
"Oomph!" Graves shook his head.
"Toxic!" Sheila shouted as she shot out a dark purple gas towards Graves.
It seeped into his body and he started to feel sick.
"You won' survive long' enough for that ta be a' use!" he exclaimed.
"Niles! Use a move now!" Sheila commanded.
"H-how do I?" Niles questioned worriedly.
"Just think of a move you know and use it! You don't have forever!" she shouted.
Shit, shit, shit, um okay so I'm a treecko. What would a treecko know...? I got it!, he thought to himself as he focused his energy for an attack
"Mega drain!" he said as green energy came from his hands, sucking the life from Graves.
"Agh! Damnit!" Graves shouted but he shook off the pain quickly for another attack.
"Ice fang!" Graves announced as he ran at Niles with his jaws wide open, his cold-infused teeth in view ready to pierce flesh.
It would've killed Niles had Sheila not jumped in front of him to take the attack.
"Nnngh!" Sheila winced in pain. "Dragon rage!" Sheila yelled as she spewed forth blue flames which engulfed Graves.
"I've had enough of this!" Graves said, sounding very weary from the toxic poison in his veins. "Waterfall!" he was then engulfed by water and rushed at Sheila.
Sheila jumped over him as he ran right into the jail cell that was in the room and hit the wall.
"Fuck!" he shouted as he held his head.
Niles went and pulled the lever to the gate, locking Graves in the cell.
"Who's the fool suffering now?" Sheila taunted. "Now you will quite literally rot in the cell,"
The feraligatr took an antidote out and drank it.
"Or you won't rot in the cell, but you're still trapped and that's all that matters," she said with a slightly annoyed look.
"When I get out of here, you two are DEAD the next time I see you!" Graves exclaimed.
"Yeah and we'd rather not see your ugly maw again," Niles told him. "Let's leave now Sheila."
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Jono city gates
"I can't believe we actually beat a member of the Fireforged!" Sheila said excitedly.
"But you didn't even get the plant," Niles said with a quizzical look. "We were there for that weren't we?"
"Yeah, but come on! The Fireforged are the most dangerous raiders in Yandor and we managed to defeat one," she said. "I don't care that I didn't get the stupid plant."
"Right, I certainly didn't expect to be fighting a raider that's a member of the most dangerous raider group. To be honest, it was kind of fun," he responded, sounding a bit unsure of it. "Who was that skarmory anyways?"
"His name is Skorge, the supposed leader of the Fireforged. Mostly evidenced by their symbol. And you were all worried about me like I was your girlfriend," she teased.
Niles blushed. "N-no I'm not into you like that, I just didn't want you to die or anything," he said with a nervous smile. "That's a perfectly normal thing for a person to do."
Sheila laughed before raising a brow. Person? What a weird term to call yourself... I'll question it later. Right now, I'm sensing opportunity to finally get myself out of this thievery nonsense.
"Relax, I was just teasing you," she said with a grin. "You know when I said I wanted to be a mercenary and that I had no one to create one with. Well now I do and it's you. I'll even let you be the leader."
"Um, I mean, I know I said that I thought the idea of mercenary bands was all great and stuff, but I don't know about being the leader of one."
"Come on it'll be fun, we'll get so much poke and we get to explore all of Yandor. We may even become a famed mercenary team with pokemon thinking that we are grand heroes and all that," she tried to make it sound appealing enough.
Niles felt a weight upon his heart, his expression turned dour. By now I realized that this definitely isn't a dream. I still have no idea how to get home to the human world. Now I have made a friend who actually saved my life from that raider... I might as well create a mercenary band, it's the least I could do to repay Sheila, he thought.
"You know what, I will. Let's go create a mercenary band!" he announced.
AN2: I'm surprised that, just in my introductory chapter, I got as many OCs that I have now. I really appreciate it guys. Next chapter is when I introduce one or two of them.
OC Rules
1. The classic. No Mary or Gary Stues. You can submit some very skilled and/or powerful OCs, but you must give them at least 2 or 3 weaknesses.
2. There's a bar of quality that you must pass in order for your OC to be accepted. This is because I get some OCs here and there that lack any substance at all, and boy is it hard to work with that. Luckily for you guys, the bar isn't that high and you have unlimited attempts anyways (please no spam though).
3. No human turned pokemon OCs.
4. I will not accept incomplete OCs or OCs that just do not fit into the world of Yandor.
5. No main villains/antagonists. I'm very iffy about them in general, as they're hard to fit into the story.
6. PM your OCs please. I'd much rather see reviews in the review section over them. I know this hurts the guests, but it's really not that difficult to set up an account. If you do end up sending one in the reviews for whatever reason, the only way I'll accept them is if you clearly put time and effort into it.
7. Fair warning, no character is safe from death. Since, I roll dice to determine battle and choice outcomes. However, I may overrule the dice on certain occasions. In short, I'll try to do what is best for the story.
OC Form!
Name:
Nickname/alias (If applicable):
Species and gender (You can submit any species including legendaries, besides Arceus. And for genderless pokemon, just tell me what they prefer to be considered):
Estimated Age (Pokemon don't age the same as humans, so I just need you to tell me if they're a child, teen, young adult, adult, or elder):
Role (Teammate to the main character, recurring villain, just some random shopkeeper, another mercenary band leader/teammate, or maybe a pokemon that I can just kill as an example of how shit Yandor can be):
Province (tell me what province they live in, just know that certain types usually live in a certain province, but they can be in any province really (very unlikely). Read the Lore of Yandor in the introductory chapter for info on that. You can ask any question about the provinces if needed and if I can answer it):
Personality (I need decent enough description that'll allow me to get your OC right):
Character Alignment (You can look up the alignments on google or just ask me about it):
Backstory (I won't ask for much here, just give me a backstory that really shows why they are the way they are):
Relationship? (No, this doesn't mean sex scenes are planned. I'm asking whether or not you're fine with your OC having a relationship develop, and their sexuality):
Ability:
Move-set (give me 6 moves):
Fighting Style (Can be as descriptive as you feel it should be):
Quotes (This is so you can give me a general idea of how they act, talk, and how you'd see them being written. A minimum of 4 is required.):
Other things that you must tell me (like if they have anything unique about their appearance, or if they can mega-evolve, stuff like that):
And the form for mercenary bands (Just put this form above the OCs that are in the team)
Name of team:
Scarf color:
Rank (E, D, C, B, A, S, H, W, Royal):
Members:
Why created:
What they've done:
Forms will be on my profile so you can copy it from there.
And that's all for the intro thanks for reading guys, hope you'll be here for the rest of it. ^:^