AN1: Sorry about the wait, but I got really busy lately and not only that but whenever I wasn't busy I wasn't in the mood for writing, and I'd rather write when I actually want to so the chapter isn't shit.
Lore of Yandor #8
The COY was first created in the Age of Kuroi 500 AD. It's the only proper form of government that Yandor has ever had. Their goal is to keep peace between the provinces. The COY consists of the senate a.k.a the senate head and representatives, mercenary bands, guards, and the military. The senate head has about as much power as an emperor would. Every age since the Age of Kuroi is named after the senate head. The representatives have complete power over their province, for the most part anyways. They can't do all that much without the senate head's approval first however.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Glimmerstein: COY hall
A dewott, quilava, and pikachu all wearing pure white scarves walked through the front door of the COY hall. They all were wearing necklaces with a pendant hanging from them. The dewott's pendant was an electric yellow colored crystal. The quilava's pendant was an ocean blue colored crystal, and the pikachu's was an orange colored crystal.
Lumen went up to them to greet them. "Ah... Team Fate, you arrived at the perfect time," he said. "Team Eternity is ready to go out and rescue Naoto."
"Of course we are, you told us to get here at our earliest convenience," the dewott said as he tightened his scarf. "We're always ready to help anyone in need, we are a rescue team after all."
"Yeah and I wouldn't pass up an opportunity to fight some Fireforged!" the quilava exclaimed while raising a fist in the air.
"I just hope that we'll all get through this okay…" the pikachu commented, twirling her pendant nervously.
The dewott patted the pikachu's back. "We'll be fine sis' we have plenty of pokemon here to help fight," he assured her. "I'm pretty sure we actually outnumber the Fireforged right now."
Lumen shrugged. "I guess you guys do, don't you? There are only 9 Fireforged including their leader as far as I know." he informed them. "But they make up for that in their sheer ruthlessness and prowess in battle."
Niles gulped. "Good to hear that we at least outnumber them, but I doubt all of them would be there waiting for us," he assumed. "Whatever the case may be, we should prepare a plan of attack beforehand. We can't have all of us be there when me and Sheila "Give ourselves to them" for Naoto."
"Right, because I doubt they wouldn't get suspicious of us if we had 11 pokemon around us just for a trade off," Sheila agreed. "By the way, Team Fate, what are your guys' names? We do need to introduce ourselves after all, I'm Sheila."
"The name is Jin, the quilava's name is Taiyo, and the timid pikachu next to me is Ciel."
"We'll do introductions later while we travel," Sornos said. "We should start heading to Naoto's location now."
Havan nodded. "I agree with that notion, because I don't think Naoto would like to be tortured any longer than he has to be," he reminded them.
"Then we're off to the Croudor province!" Sheila announced as everyone walked towards the warp pad to Jono city.
"I wish you guys good luck in your efforts," Lumen said as he waved them goodbye.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Croudor Province: Outside of Gohirk Quarry
Everyone was hiding behind a slab of rock, just in case any of the Fireforged were looking their way.
Niles took a look at the tracking device. "Yep, Naoto is in that quarry for sure," he told everyone. "We just need to come up with a plan. Any ideas?"
Everyone went into a thinking position until Jin spoke up.
"Since the quarry isn't a mystery dungeon, we should be able to send multiple groups from different directions," he said as he looked over at the quarry. "It's hard to tell from here which ways are most viable though."
"How about we just split up into 3 groups and pick a direction?" Rukous suggested. "Better to decide now rather than sit here and think."
Niles bit his lip. "Then me and Sheila will have to enter through the front to meet up with whatever Fireforged is waiting for us," he said. "Two groups can approach the left and right sides for a sneak attack while we, and whoever else is with us, distracts them."
"And the fourth group?" Court asked. "What do they do?"
"They look for Naoto while we fight," Niles answered. "Hopefully, only one Fireforged will be guarding him."
"Then that's the plan huh, unless anyone has a better one?" Havan questioned.
"Nope, I think it's the best plan we can really do right now," Lulu said.
Niles nodded. "So it's settled then. The items we bought should be quite helpful as well," he assumed. "Now, we need each of us to join a group."
Sornos stepped up. "I'll lead group one," he said as he walked over to Sheila and Niles. "I think we should have experienced fighters or mercenaries leading each of the groups."
Havan then walked over to the right. "Then I'll lead group 3. I'd like to be the hero that saves Naoto," he said with a confident grin.
Shinji was already with group 3 before anyone else chose.
"My team will lead group 2 then," Jin said.
"I'll join Niles, Sheila, and Sornos at the front," Rukous said as he walked over to them.
"I think that group 3 is my best bet," Court discerned as he walked up next to Havan. "I need to make up for me jinxing the mission."
"I'll join group 2," Tuba walked over to Team Fate.
"No more for group 1, two is enough pokemon to be with us," Sheila said. "Any more may be too risky."
"I shall join group 3," Lulu said as she flew over to Havan, Court, and Shinji.
"And I'll be in group 3," Jessica said as she went over to group 3. "It's hopefully the safest choice."
"So everyone has decided, correct?" Niles asked them.
They all nodded in response.
"Then let's go rescue Naoto!" Niles exclaimed as everyone raised their fists in confidence.
Age of Zezula: Year 780: Location: Croudor Province: Gohirk Quarry
Nilsine was looking outwards and noticed Sheila, Niles, Rukous, and Sornos walking towards the front entrance.
"They sure found us quicker than anticipated…" she thought. "Vaylie's not going to be happy that she can't harm Naoto anymore."
She headed over to a metal bridge that overhang above the Quarry's entrance and leaned forward on the railing.
"Hey! Ansuis! Come up here!" she shouted towards a shiny greninja that was leaning against a boulder at the bottom. Half his face had a burn scar.
"I'll be right there Nilsine, stop yelling so damn loud," he said as he jumped up to the bridge. "So they're here…"
They looked at the 4 Eternity members that just now arrived at the entrance. They looked up at them.
"We're here, now where's Naoto?!" Niles shouted at them.
Nilsine wagged her finger. "Hmpph! You're in no position to be making demands like that," she warned. "You won't see your friend until you come up here and surrender to us."
Niles sighed and shook his head. "How can I trust that you'll actually let him go then?" he questioned.
Nilsine stared at him for a few seconds. "You don't," she firmly stated. "You just have to be willing to participate in our little deal and you automatically keep your friend alive."
None of them liked the sound of that.
"We aren't going to do that until you at least show us that he's alive!' Sheila demanded.
Nilsine growled to herself. "If you keep arguing we'll kill him in front of you, how's that for seeing him?!" she stated angrily. "Now please, do him a favor and surrender yourselves."
At this time group 2 arrived from the right side and had both Nilsine and Ansuis in their sights. They hid behind a boulder.
Jin held out his hand to stop the others from walking forward. "Alright, there they are," he said. "We must wait for the right time to attack."
"On your move Jin," Taiyo nodded.
Sornos looked up at them and looked back before Nilsine and Ansuis noticed.
"Group 2 is in position," he whispered to the others. "When they attack, we attack."
"Gotcha," Rukous said.
Ansuis's eyes became narrow as he watched them.
Nilsine crossed her arms in frustration. "Are you guys really this stupid?! I'm not bluffing! You'll only be trading yourselves for a mienfoo head if you keep this up!" she continued to warn them.
Niles and Sheila looked at each other and headed towards the stairs on the left side of the cliffside.
"Seems that they aren't," Ansuis commented.
Nilsine grinned. "See, was that so hard to do? Now Naoto can go home safely," she said. "Ansuis, go tell Vaylie to bring him over here."
As Ansuis turned to walk back to the right side of the bridge and get off it he saw a Hydro pump attack heading for Nilsine.
He shot out a scald attack to try and stop it.
It didn't push back the attack but it did knock it off course, yet it still hit Nilsine's left arm.
Nilsine quickly turned around and gasped. "Of course, I should have never thought that they'd actually do the trade. Looks like Vaylie will get to kill that mienfoo after all," She scowled and looked down at Sheila, Niles, Sornos, and Rukous. "You made a big mistake mercenaries!"
Then a Fire blast followed in suit and Ansuis just stood there as it soared right between him and Nilsine.
Next Tuba had gotten onto the bridge and jumped at Ansuis with a Thunder fang attack.
Ansuis uppercutted his jaw sending him flying back to the ledge the bridge was connected to.
Finally a Thunderbolt was shot straight at Ansuis and it hit his left side.
"Hrnng…" he grumbled in pain. "You're lucky that I was distracted by that luxio, pikachu."
He jumped to where group 2 was and got into a ninja-like fighting pose. "But this time, there will be no more lucky shots."
Once Ansuis did that, Nilsine pulled a lever that was on the bridge.
Sornos looked over to the left and saw that a long blade was hiding there, it was most definitely a trap.
"JUMP NOW!" he shouted to the others.
Two long blades that were hidden on both sides shot out quickly and continued to rotate.
Niles, Sheila, and Sornos were able to jump over it.
Rukous also was able to teleport out of the way.
Instead of jumping over it again Sornos used Stone Edge to break both the blades. "Problem solved," he commented as he, Niles, and Sheila ran over to Rukous.
Nilsine looked down at them and frowned. "Better than I thought…" she thought. "But you're staying down there!"
She pulled a different lever that opened up a large pit in front of the stairs. It was most certainly nigh impossible to jump over, even for a pokemon.
"There's no way we can get to the stairs now since we have no flying pokemon with us," Rukous stated.
"Couldn't you teleport up there?" Niles questioned.
"I could… but I can't teleport others and I don't think I can defeat Nilsine on my own."
Sheila sighed and looked around trying to find any other way up, but to no avail. "Looks like we have to move on forward until we can find an alternate way up."
Nilsine laughed. "Good luck getting through my traps, mercs!" she shouted as she walked off the bridge.
Group 3
Havan was leading Lulu, Shinji, Court, and Jessica towards a ruined factory that resided in the quarry.
Havan glanced at the tracking device and looked like it was at the factory. "He should be in that factory, but we need to remember that this device tracks his badge, not himself," he explained to the others.
"So, there's no guarantee that we will actually find him?" Jessica asked worriedly.
Lulu held out her wings in a shrug-like fashion. "The chances of him being there is higher than our chances of finding him anywhere else without a tracker to guide us," she explained.
"I'm sure he'll be there guys!" Court said. "Better to try than not at all."
Shinji was already walking towards the factory. "He better be there…" he mumbled to himself.
"Wait up man!" Court shouted as he and the others tried to catch up with Shinji.
Minutes later…
Shinji was ahead of everyone, Havan was leading everyone else.
"So Lulu, what were your parent's names?" Jessica questioned looking at Lulu.
"Macy and Larson, both were honchkrow," Lulu responded. "They were rather well-known detectives, I'm sure you've heard of them at some point."
Jessica's eyes lit up. "Oh yeah! I have heard of them," she exclaimed. "They investigated a big murder crime in Mightfrost, when the representative's son was murdered. My parents told me about that event when I asked why our province was so uptight and overprotected."
Havan looked back at them. "Except they never found the killer," he added. "If only I was there to save the day, then the Eskor province would have never changed."
Lulu looked at the ground. "That may be the case but they were still grand detectives," she mentioned. "And I've inherited their skills, I learned front and back on how to be a proper detective."
Court smirked. "I'd say you'd be fantastic at interrogating because anyone would do anything for a pretty lady such as yourself…" he said as he waited for a reaction from Lulu.
"Honestly, I'm flattered Court, but you'll have to try harder than that to get me interested in you like that," Lulu retorted, not blushing one bit.
Court just kept walking as if nothing happened.
They all entered a rather dark tunnel.
Havan was looking at the walls on the left and right side of them. "These walls don't seem natural to the rest of this quarry…" he pondered.
As if on cue, the sound of a pressure plate being stepped echoed throughout the tunnel. Court lifted up his foot and looked where he stepped.
"Shit…" Court spoke as the walls started to move towards them. "WE GOT TO GO!"
Shinji being the closest to escaping the trap was the first one to get to safety.
Thanks to the darkness, while Havan was running, he tripped over a pothole in the ground.
Jessica was having trouble running in the darkness but Lulu helped her along quickly. However, they didn't notice Havan and ran right by him.
Court caught up to Havan and helped him up.
Havan nodded and started to run again.
The walls were inches away from their arms.
Jessica and Lulu managed to get to safety.
They looked at Havan and Court motioning them to hurry. "Come on guys! You're very close just keep running!" they shouted.
Havan was pulling Court along and they both scraped by, however…
"AH! FUCK!" Court yelped in pain as he tried to pull his hand, that was crushed between the walls, out.
Jessica cringed watching this. They could hear the bones snapping and being crushed as Court continued to scream in agony.
Havan swiped up some rebar that was lying in a pile of junk. He shoved it between the walls and started to pull back on it.
"Hrrraagghhhh!" Havan grunted loudly as he managed to pull the walls open just enough for Court to pull out his hand. "*Huff* And I *huff* save the day once more."
Court nodded, grasping his mangled hand, he was seething in pain. "Yeah, you sure did, but I think most of my bones are now broken and I'm bleeding everywhere, inside and out!" he cried out as he showed them his hand. "I would like some medical attention please."
Jessica was looking away in disgust. "I think I saw a bone poking out of his hand…" she was covering her mouth. "I've dealt with raw bloody meat before, but seeing something like that on a living pokemon is way worse."
Shinji glanced at it then away. "I've been through worse, get over it so we can get a move on," he coldly stated. "Naoto can't wait for much longer."
Luckily, Lulu had medical supplies in her handbag and patched up Court's hand.
Lulu smiled. "It's the best we can do until we can return to a city," she told him and put her wing on his right shoulder. "You'll just have to tough it out from here."
Court grinned. "That's easy enough for a tough guy like me, I don't even feel anything anymore!" he said nonchalantly.
Lulu and Havan looked at each other. "Numbness has already set in…" Lulu whispered to him. "It worries me."
"We can't go back now, this isn't a mystery dungeon so we can't teleport out with our badges," Havan reminded everyone. "We just have to keep moving. He'll survive through it, it's not bad enough for him to bleed out."
Once again Shinji was ahead of them as they all rushed up to catch up with him.
They were quite close to the factory now, which looked a lot bigger now that they were closer to it. Even the rust was visible from where they were. Many parts of it have fallen apart and were scattered around it.
Havan stopped them. "We have to watch out for any more traps when we head inside, alright?" he questioned with his arms crossed. "We can't have anyone else be injured, as I expect a fight with a Fireforged when we hopefully find Naoto."
Shinji shook his head and brushed beside Havan. "I don't have time to listen to your warnings, I need to save Naoto as quickly as possible," he firmly said as he entered the factory.
"What's up with him?" Court asked, messing with his bandage.
"Don't touch the bandage!" Lulu yelled and Court's hand snapped away from his bandage. "Shinji probably just cares a lot about Naoto, it's understandable as to why he's being like that."
"He could just be a little more nice to us, it's not like we are trying to hold him back…" Jessica commented. "He doesn't even know exactly where Naoto is anyways without the tracker."
Havan coughed to get their attention. "Let us head inside and save Naoto," he stated as they all walked inside.
Inside the factory
Before anyone went anywhere Havan kicked a jawed trap aside that was laying on the floor. "Right out of the gate with the traps," he commented and looked at the tracker. "Alright, so we should head up to that room up there."
He pointed to a large rusted metal room that was several stories up. The walkways and stairs were very rusty and were falling apart.
Jessica gulped. "That's not safe one bit," she stated the obvious.
"Either that or we dig through all the scrap and junk to find a way underground," Lulu mentioned, pointing at the mess on the floor. "Heading up is our best bet."
Court rubbed his injured hand. "Easy for you to say, you're a flying type, you should carry us up there." he suggested.
Lulu thought for a second. "I guess, but I don't think I could carry Havan…" she pondered.
Havan turned around and started to head up the stairs. "I can get up there myself while you fly Jessica and Court up," he told them. "I'll be fine."
They stood in silence for a bit until Lulu spoke up. "Alright then Havan, whatever you say." she said. "So who's going up first?"
Havan touched one of the railings and it broke, falling down with a *BANG* "Tch, the railing might as well not exist at all," he mumbled and continued to walk along the walkway.
He finally got to the walkway that led to the room that Naoto could possibly be in. Jessica, Lulu, and Court were already at the door.
Havan breathed in and out heavily. "Here I go," he said to himself as he carefully made his way over there.
He was halfway there, then the flooring of the walkway collapsed under him.
"NO!" he shouted. He was able to grab the railing that was still hanging off the rest of the walkway and climbed back up,
He brushed himself off and looked at the others who looked relieved to see that he didn't fall to his death.
He sighed in relief. "See… fine," he stated as he walked up to the door to the room. "Now we can save Naoto and get out of here."
He 'opened' the door, but it just kind of broke off its hinges. They looked at it in surprise.
"No one needed that door anyways," Court joked as Havan tossed it off the walkway which made a loud crashing sound as it landed in a pile of scrap.
Havan glanced inside and saw no one inside. "I guess Shinji went the wrong way," he commented as he looked at the tracker and looked at a cell. "He's in there I believe, we cannot see into the cell so we'll just have to open it and hope that it's not just a badge."
"Then let's go while no one is here!" Court exclaimed as they rushed over to the cell.
Havan opened the cell door to find nothing but darkness. "Dammi-" Before he finished complaining flames spewed out of the cell, luckily he was able to jump to the side before getting roasted.
Havan stomped on the ground in frustration. "How did they fool us like that!?" he asked no one in particular.
Lulu sighed in disappointment. "They may have already killed him…" she suggested with a frown.
Then, Vaylie walked into the room clapping her hands. "Good haha… good job getting all the way here without dying guys, I'm really proud of you," she said sarcastically. "For once, one of Nilsine's tricks worked; she had predicted that mercenaries would have a way to track each other through their badges."
Havan clenched his hands into fists. "I'm going to serve you the justice you deserve!" he shouted.
Everyone prepared for a fight and Shinji came in out of nowhere.
"I heard the shouting from here," he said as he too got into a fighting stance. "I'm going to make you regret capturing my friend, Fireforged!"
Vaylie scoffed. "Suuuurrrrrre you are, I just want to get this over with so I can go and finish off your annoying brat of a friend," she taunted as she put her hand and fist together.
Group 1
Niles, Sheila, Sornos, and Rukous were following Nilsine as she was walking up at the top of the quarry.
"You know, you guys really should learn to give up," she stated. "I mean what's with you hero types always being so damn determined?"
"It's because we can't just give up, we can't let pokemon like you just get away with harming innocent pokemon!" Sheila yelled in response. "It's about time someone did something about you Fireforged!"
Nilsine stopped and looked down at them. "Well looks like there's a dead end ahead and still no way up!" she informed them. "Now what are you going to do?!"
"Not listen to you and find the way up!" Niles retorted.
Nilsine shook her head. "Ha! Not likely," she taunted as she pulled another lever which opened up a large rusty pipe that was sticking out of the stone wall and it also lowered a metal wall behind the group, trapping them in what was a essentially a container for liquids now. Water began spewing out of the pipe.
"So you help us by giving us a way to float up?" Rukous looked skeptical. "I don't buy it."
Nilsine walked over to a power box. "You're right about not buying it, because I'm not very good at helping others!" she flipped a switch on the power box and the water then became electrified. "That's enough electrical power to take out a legendary in 2 seconds tops! Toodles!"
She waved goodbye as everyone immediately jumped up onto a boulder, rock or a ledge.
"Arceus I hate her!" Sornos exclaimed as he watched her walk off snickering.
AN2: Group 1! Tell me what your OCs are going to do in your situation! There's the pipe, electrical box, and an elevator with no walls that's sitting at the top.
AN3: Group 2! Strategies for fighting Vaylie, go!
AN4: Group 3! Strategies for fighting Ansuis, go!
AN5: Team Fate was submitted by VesuviusPM, thanks Vesuvius! (I'm going to call you Vesuvius)
I-is that… the one and only OC form under here!
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Name:
Nickname/alias (If applicable):
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