Lore of Yandor #6
The Acron Province is the province of music, dancing, acting, media, technology, etcetera. It's where many performers thrive and prosper. Their performers are the best of the best. They brought their more advanced technology, unique music, and media into all the provinces after the COY was established. Without them no other provinces would have computers, tv's, warp pads, neon lights, stereo's, etcetera. The province has very few laws. The citizens have a lot of freedom to do almost whatever they want with no repercussions. Despite that, the number of crimes committed there isn't actually that high, because the pokemon don't want to ruin their province's image so that they can get more visitors. However, criminals from this province commit crimes in other provinces, specifically in the Eskor Province. The Eskor Province may have a very defensible border with many requirements and security checks in place that you have to pass to enter. But it's not easy to tell if an Acron pokemon is a criminal or not, considering how they never cause any trouble in their province. Plus, Lumen, the representative, never does anything about them even after they commit a crime in another province. The only time the guards actually do their job is when someone messes with a performance, stage, or nightclub.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Croudor Province: Flaming Pass (8BF dungeon)
1BF
Flames rose up the canyon walls of the pass as Niles, Sheila, Havan, and Naoto entered the Flaming Pass.
"Holy shit… it's so hot in here." Niles panted while fanning himself.
Sheila was generally unaffected by the heat. "Hey, at least you can't sweat, I mean look at Naoto and Havan," She commented.
Naoto's fur was damp with sweat. "I almost prefer to be freezing in the Eskor Province right now," he said. "I just hope the heat will be our only problem, that way, we can get this mission done quickly."
Havan wiped some sweat off his forehead. "Just avoid the flames by staying in the middle and we should be fine," Havan told them. "I'll lead because I can handle any wild pokemon that try to attack us."
Havan led the group once again as Naoto followed behind him, then Niles, and Sheila decided to hang in the back.
2BF
Sheila looked like she was trying to remember something. "I know that there was something else to this mystery dungeon other than the everlasting flames but I'm not sure."
The ground started to shake.
"Ummm…" Naoto looked at Sheila. "Are earthquakes that something else?"
Sheila shook her head. "Earthquakes don't normally occur in this area of Croudor. All I know is that the Flaming Pass leads into the Wasteland Furnace."
Niles gulped. "We don't have to go there do we? because I really don't want to go anywhere near a place with a name like that," he asked with a worried expression. "I am a grass type after all, this is the closest I'll ever be to fire."
"Unless Aeron lied to us about where the nactvite crate was I don't believe we have to," Havan assured him. "We just need to look for any paths, caves, or ledges with an outpost set up on them."
"Then let's start looking before we miss it," Sheila said looking all around. "I just hope the outpost isn't a bandit outpost or something."
"Yeah, Aeron didn't say what kind of outpost it was so we should be on our toes here on out," Naoto suggested.
"As long as I lead, no pathetic bandits will be able to harm us!" Havan gave a confident grin. "Stick close and watch your backs."
BF3
The ground shook once again and made a rumbling sound. Before Havan could react fire erupted from the ground burning his arm making him jump back.
"AAAGGHH! Arceus! That hurt!" Havan yelled looking at the blackened part of his arm. "That's going to leave a scar."
"Are you okay Havan?" Sheila asked, worried. "Burns can sting for a while."
Havan just smiled. "No need to worry, I can handle a burn," he responded. "I'd be no hero if I let a burn hold me down."
"At least your arm didn't catch on fire because we don't have much of a way to put it out," Naoto commented.
"And now we know why the ground shook before, so we should really be careful where we step," Niles discerned. "I'm assuming the fire geyser thing was that 'something else' you were trying to remember Sheila."
"Yeah it was," Sheila frowned. "Sorry that I couldn't remember Havan."
Havan shrugged. "You need not to apologize Sheila. I'm leading for a reason after all," He assured her. "Now let's go find that outpost!'
BF4
As the team was looking around for any place where an outpost would be at, a magmar noticed Havan and left his home to attack the trespasser.
"Fire Punch!" the magmar yelled as he threw his fist that was engulfed in flames towards an unsuspecting Havan.
The fist connected with Havan's back sending him into the canyon wall and the fire rising up it, and making him bounce off of it and onto the ground.
He screamed in pain and his back was on fire. He rolled around on the ground to try to put out the fire.
Sheila went wide eyed. "Havan!" she yelled. "Just try to put out the fire and we'll try to defeat the magmar!"
Naoto quickly attacked with a fake-out which the magmar took notice of and grabbed Naoto's arm to throw him to the ground.
Sheila turned to face the magmar. "Toxic!" She shouted as she spewed out dark purple gas towards it.
The magmar readily moved out of the way as the gas went right by it.
"Rock-tomb!" Niles shouted, glad that he had a move to handle a fire type.
He hurled a large rock at the magmar which slammed into its face causing it to stumble nearly falling over.
It recovered from the attack and angrily glared at Niles. "Clear Smog!" It shouted as it spewed out light purple smog towards Niles.
The smog engulfed Niles, making him cough and wheeze. "I don't think I can handle another attack like that!" he announced to the others.
"You won't have to worry then!" Havan shouted as he jumped up. "Stone Edge!" Pointed stones rose from below the magmar which he managed to avoid the brunt of but not without getting scraped by one of the stones.
"Dragon Rage!" Sheila announced as she spewed out blue flames from her mouth at the magmar which died out before getting to it.
Naoto ran towards the magmar and used a Force Palm attack. He hit the magmar's stomach with the palm of his hand, paralyzing the magmar.
Niles took the opportunity to attack it when it was down clutching its stomach. "Rock Tomb!" He hurled another large rock at the magmar. The collision from the rock hitting its head snapped its neck.
"Yes! I actually did something this time!" Niles exclaimed happily.
"Good job kid." Havan said, clutching his burn wounds. "I can't believe that I was caught off guard like that. Not my best performance."
"Yeah, you've really been taking the heat for us this time," Naoto said.
"Now hopefully that's going to be the strongest pokemon we face in this dungeon because you and Niles aren't ready for any other pokemon like that one," Sheila told them.
"The reward that Aeron said he'd give us better be worth it." Niles said.
"Since Havan is injured, I'll lead us the rest of the way," Naoto informed them.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Glimmerstein COY Hall
Court and Jessica were both in the waiting room of the COY hall. Jessica was wiping off the receptionist's desk.
"I appreciate that you're taking the time to clean this place up," the receptionist said. "I'll have to give you some poke for your work."
Jessica smiled. "Thanks Ma'am, I like to clean so I don't mind cleaning up this place at all," she said. "What's your name by the way? Mine's Jessica."
"It's Julie," the raichu responded.
Court pulled out his lute and opened the COY hall's doors so that anyone walking by would hear. He turned to look at the raichu receptionist. "So you mind if I play a song here? Just to... I don't know… make it less boring here."
Julie just laughed. "Why would I? It's the Acron Province!" she answered. "No one I know is against any music here!"
"Alright!" he walked over to where Jessica was. "I'm going to play a little song for you while you clean."
He cleared his lungs and quickly tuned his lute to his voice.
~I get on with my life as a bard~
~I'm a witty kinda' pokemon~
~I love to play to adoring fans and…
~Give them their roses back afterwards~
"heh heh." He gave a small chuckle.
The raichu had her hand on her chin and was nodding. Jessica smiled and started to sweep the floor now.
~I like to contemplate…
~What it is that makes music so great…
~But when I start to daydream…
~My mind turns straight…
~To women…
~Do I love women more than music?~
~Do I love women more than music?~
Some pokemon that walked by the COY hall heard his song and walked in to listen.
~I like to use words like 'finale' and 'key'~
~Because music is what keeps me driven~
~But when I stop my talking~
"If I can ever learn to keep my mouth shut, that is."
~My mind turns straight…
~To women…
~Do I love women more than music?~
~Do I love women more than music?~
~I like to hang out with my beautiful teammate, Jessica, and the lovely Raichu receptionist~
"Who I have a hunch might be able to send us up whenever she wants."
The receptionist held her hand to her heart and blinked rapidly. She didn't say anything because she didn't want to interrupt him.
Jessica turned her attention to him. "I-I didn't know that you thought of me like that…" she said with a surprised look.
~And though I'm a songbird 'cause music's my life.
~The subject's...turned straight…
~To women...
~Do I love women more than music?~
~Do I love women more than music?~
~I hate waiting in an office lobby…
~And watch the world go on, while I sing to pass time in vain~
"Because music only makes the wait bearable, not shorter, at least in this Totodile's opinion."
~But I just think back to women…
~And why...oh why…
~Why would I love women more than music?~
~I love 'em both with all my soul, and though I know that answer's lame~
~Yes this song might be all about my love for women…
~But it's still music that I'm playin' all the same!~
~And I love women just as much as music!~
~Yeah, I love women just as much as music…
"Thank you very much." He bowed and everyone whom was listening clapped.
Julie pointed at him. "Just before you think your little flirting comment worked. I want you to know that I have a boyfriend!" she warned him.
Jessica walked over to Court. "Do you really think I'm beautiful?" she asked.
Upon hearing that, Court decided it was time that he left.
Jessica wanted to go after him but she decided it was better to just finish cleaning.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Flaming Pass
BF6
As the group were walking the ground shook heavily and a loud rumbling was heard.
Just before the flames erupted from the ground Sheila was able to pull Naoto back before he was fried.
"T-thanks Sheila that was too close," he thanked.
"I do what I can for my friends," Sheila smiled.
Havan pointed to what looked like an outpost on a ledge. "There's the outpost up there!" he informed the others.
Everyone gave a sigh of relief.
"Alright now let's head up there get the damn nactvite and leave," Niles said as he found the way up which was cleared of flames.
The outpost was made of stone and was pretty small with a large opening that acted as a window to oversee the pass.
Naoto squinted his eyes and held his hand above them. "I don't see anyone from here," he informed his friends. "So I think we're good."
"Good, now let's hope the nactvite is actually in the outpost," Sheila said as they all rushed towards the outpost.
Meanwhile… on the ledge above them…
Nilsine the delphox and a scrafty were peeking over a pile of boulders at the 4 mercenaries.
"That has to be the same treecko and salandit from before back in the Jagged Burrow," Nilsine said. "But I don't remember them being mercenaries…"
The scrafty shook her head. "Are you sure that's them then?" she gave a quizzical look. "Because I'd like to know if we are going to kill them or not."
Nilsine thought for a moment. "It has to be, I'm sure of it," she said. "A treecko and a salandit traveling with each other is a rare sight… I think."
The scrafty scoffed. "If you think and don't know then how can you be sure of it?" she complained.
Nilsine glared at her. "Don't you start doubting my memory, Vaylie." she retaliated. "We are going to capture them whether they're the right mons or not."
Vaylie just crossed her arms. "If we do capture them and they're not the right ones, you know what Skorge will do right? Plus, what if we fail?!" she asked.
"I'm sure Skorge won't penalize us for not bringing the right ones when he knows it's not easy finding two specific pokemon," she assured Vaylie. "And if we can't get them… then, if we can maybe, we can get one of their friends."
"What would capturing their friends do for us?" Vaylie questioned. "We came out here to find two specific pokemon to bring to our mother, not completely different pokemon."
"We will use whomever we get as bait to lure the two we need into a trap!" Nilsine smirked. "Whatever the case may be, we have to at least accomplish something with this ambush."
Vaylie smirked. "We should since it seems like their strongest mon is injured," she pointed to Havan who was grasping his burnt arm.
They both got down behind the boulders again before Havan looked up at their ledge.
"Hmph, I feel like we aren't alone here," Havan told the others.
"Then we should hurry up and bring this crate of nactvite we just found!" Sheila announced as she and Naoto carried out a crate and set it down.
"Now we just need to use our badges to teleport out of here with the nactvite," Niles said, smiling.
Just before they were able to teleport out of the dungeon with the nactvite, Nilsine and Vaylie jumped down from above.
"Dazzling Gleam!" Nilsine shouted as she emitted a bright flash of light which knocked Havan out, Sheila and Niles were able to shield their eyes and resist the attack, Naoto while not getting hurt by the attack was however blinded by it.
"High Jump Kick!" Vaylie shouted as she jumped up high and brought her foot down on Naoto, knocking him out.
"Ah shit! Of course we wouldn't be alone here!" Niles grunted and looked at sheila. "Once again we are facing the Fireforged alone."
Sheila got into a fighting pose. "And we will defeat them again!" she exclaimed. "You two are not killing any of us!"
Vaylie just laughed loudly. "Ha! Good luck with that, your best fighters are knocked out!" she taunted and grinned. "You all are coming with us to see how mother will punish you for harming Graves!"
Vaylie hoisted Naoto onto her shoulder.
Nilsine shook her head. "You two really should just run away, no sense in fighting an unwinnable fight," Nilsine suggested. "Or you can just come with us without fighting at all and we'll leave your friends alone."
Niles looked at Sheila. "We can't get to Naoto and teleport him out of here with that scrafty holding him. But, we can get Havan out of here before Nilsine takes him," he told her. "And I'd rather not just go with them."
Sheila nodded. "Yeah, I don't trust that they'll leave Havan and Naoto alone if we did after what we saw in the Jagged Burrow," Sheila gave a saddened sigh. "We might be able to save Naoto later when we have the rest of our team to help."
Niles frowned. "Let's just hope that the Fireforged don't kill him first," he said. "I don't like the idea of abandoning Naoto but it's necessary, we can't win this fight."
Sheila turned to Nilsine and Vaylie. "We aren't going with you two savages! And you're not taking Havan either!" she announced as she ran to Havan before Nilsine could grab him and teleported him and herself out of the dungeon.
Niles immediately put his hand on the crate of nactvite held his badge up and teleported out as well.
"Well, it looks like we have to lure them with this mienfoo then," Vaylie shrugged. "Good thing we didn't just go for the treecko and salandit."
"I'm not sure if Skorge will be happy about this though…" Nilsine worried. "He always expects complete success. Ugh, wish I had recalled the fact that mercenaries could just teleport out like that..."
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Glimmerstein COY Hall (happier things)
Jessica just finished organizing everything in the COY hall. "All done!" she said proudly.
Julie held out 750 poke. "Here you go Jessica for your efforts of doing what a certain janitor should have done already," she said as Jessica took the poke happily.
"I wonder what Court is doing right now…" Jessica thought aloud.
Court was currently watching a performance not too far from the COY hall. A mega absol was the one performing. It looked like his fur was glimmering and he was wearing black eyeliner, he looked more woman than man. He had created his own jazz band with double team clones and was playing the best damn jazz music court had ever heard.
"How does he do that…" Court said, confused. "I didn't think anyone could create their own band with their clones…"
Many of the pokemon in the audience were dancing.
"I LOVE YOU LUMEN!" someone in the audience shouted.
Once the song came to a close the Lumen clones disappeared leaving only one sitting at the piano. He got up and went to the front of the stage and struck a pose and grinned as everyone cheered and clapped. "See I still got it!" he exclaimed. "Just because I've stopped performing regularly since I became representative doesn't mean I lost my touch, Kale!"
A jolteon, presumingly whom Kale was, walked up onto the stage. "Yeah yeah, whatever you say Lumen," he responded. "It's not like I doubted you at all."
Lumen just brushed by him. "That's what I thought!" he scoffed. "No one can doubt my performing capabilities. Every one of my performances have been absolutely glamorous."
Court just now realized that the mega absol was Lumen, the one he and Jessica were waiting for, and ran up to him.
Lumen sighed and cocked his head. "I'm assuming you want an autograph or something?" he assumed.
"Well that wasn't the real reason why but I would like an autograph as well!" Court responded as he pulled out his lute. "You can sign my lute."
Lumen took out a permanent marker and put his signature on the base of the lute. "There now run along," he said as he turned to walk away before anyone else came up to him.
Court was about to leave until he remembered that he had something more important to tell Lumen. "Wait!" he shouted.
Lumen gave a long sigh. "Do you want me to kiss you as well?" he asked. "That's another common one."
Court shook his head. "N-no, me and my team were supposed to deliver a letter to you for Vermex," he explained.
Lumed gasped. "Oh! A letter from Vermex…" he said. "Why didn't you tell me that first."
Court scratched the back of his head. "Well you offered me an autograph, which I wanted, then decided to leave before I could."
Lumen just shrugged. "I mean… I guess that's understandable," he discerned. "So where's the letter?"
Court gestured to the COY hall. "In there, your receptionist has it," he informed him.
"Thanks for telling me," Lumen said as he walked towards the COY hall.
Before Court could follow him, a luxio came up to him. "Hey you're a mercenary correct?" They asked. "I've been looking for a team to join and was wondering if you're recruiting."
"I wasn't expecting this to happen, but sure!" Court responded. "Follow me to the COY hall and we'll see if my leader will allow you to join!"
They started to head towards the COY hall.
Jessica was sitting in a chair until Lumen walked in. She jumped up and walked over to him. "Are you Lumen?!" she asked the mega absol.
"Of course I am! No one can mistake this fabulous body for anyone else!" he exclaimed. "Now then, uh… Julie! Give me the letter from Vermex!"
Julie took the letter off the desk and walked over to Lumen handing the letter to him.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have a private letter to read," he announced as he went up to the stairs behind the receptionist desk and walked up them.
Just then Court and the luxio walked in.
"So your name is Tuba then," Court said as he went over to Jessica. "Well Tuba, meet Jessica."
"Hello, Jessica, nice to meet you," Tuba greeted her. "I'm hopefully going to be your teammate soon."
Jessica clapped her hands. "That's good to hear, we could use the help!" she gave a thumbs up.
She sat back down with Court and Tuba. "Now what do we do?" she wondered.
Court shrugged. "I could sing another song…" he suggested while smirking.
Before Jessica could answer, Niles, Sheila, and Havan appeared from the warp pads.
"What happened to you Havan?! You have burns everywhere!" Jessica asked worriedly.
"Yeah… and where's Naoto?" court questioned. "Don't tell me I jinxed it by saying you'll be fine."
Sheila just glared at him. "Naoto's been captured by the Fireforged," she informed them.
Court and Jessica lowered their heads.
"I guess I did jinx it," Court said, feeling guilty.
Jessica patted his back. "I don't think it's your fault at all."
Havan put a hand on his head. "It's my fault for not being able to save him," he lamented. "If I hadn't been such a fool in the Flaming Pass I would have had the health to do something!"
Sheila frowned. "Havan don't go blaming yourself, none of us could have predicted that the Fireforged would be after us."
Havan shook his head. "What kind of hero can't save someone from some simple raiders!?" he continued to lament. "I knew someone was watching us. I should've… I should've, ah! nevermind. We can just put all our effort into saving him and I can redeem myself as a protector of the pokemon."
"We should deliver the nactvite to Aeron and hopefully his reward will help us in our plan to save Naoto," Niles announced to his team. "We will save him."
Sheila smiled. "I'm glad you have confidence, Niles, but…" she had to say the bad news. "We can't possibly do it with our team at the moment, we need more suitable pokemon on our team that can handle the Fireforged. No offense to anyone here or anything, but you guys understand right?"
Havan nodded. "For once, I do believe that not even I can handle all the Fireforged with any of your help," he said. "Although, I don't know of anyone who'd help us."
Sheila thought for a moment. "I do actually," she told them. "A midnight form lycanroc lives in the Tesparia Province close to the Savage Lands. I met him before and he's a retired mercenary, but I know he'd be willing to help anyone. His name is Sornos"
Niles nodded, "Okay, that's one pokemon we can recruit, is there anyone else?" Niles asked hopefully.
Tuba got up, "Um… I wanted to join your team," he told him.
Niles nodded. "Alright, welcome to Team Eternity," he said. "We may still need more help, at least one more pokemon."
Everyone was trying to think of someone but no one did.
"Then I guess that's all we'll have," Niles announced, disappointed. "We should go give the nactvite to Aeron now."
Havan picked up the crate. "I do wonder if his reward is worth what we went through."
"Yeah and if it'll actually help us," Sheila commented.
"We also need people to go find and recruit Sornos the lycanroc and maybe search for some more possible teammates after we talk with Aeron. So who wants to do what?" Niles questioned the team.
AN: I want to know who wants to go and recruit Sornos and possibly anyone else. I promise you that nothing life threatening is going to happen for those missions.
OCs on missions
Recruit Sornos
1. Niles
2. Sheila
3. Havan
Find other pokemon to recruit
Everyone else
Of course here's the usual OC Form
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, thanks for reading guys, hope you'll be here for the rest of it. ^:^