A Shadowbolt In the Making!

[Lucian Finch]

The wing beats became louder and louder until a gigantic golden pidgeot landed before Richard. Her giant golden wings spread, and sparkled in the light, then landed upon the ground. On the monstrous bird`s back her master sat, gently gripping her large golden feathers. It took him only a moment or two to climb off of his giant Pidgeot, and already Lucian started off towards Richard.

Richard couldnt get himself to look at Lucian, remembering the murder of his parents. Lucian was there for his revenge, which he was not looking forward to himself. His mind raced from each end of the spectrum, thinking of how Lucian might want to kill him. Probably by the most painful means possible, Richard glanced around to make sure that Tor and Meowth were long gone.

"Just kill me Lucian, get your revenge... dont make me wait." Richard told him in a calm manner.

Lucian snagged his friend by the front of his shirt and pulled Richard towards himself. He snarled in his face, while his narrowed light purple eyes did the talking for him. How could Richard, after all of these years, even think that that could possibly be the only reason that Lucian would want him dead..

"You make me laugh Richard, how could you possibly think that this is over my pathetic parents? In killing them, you freed me Richard! You created the monster I am today, and I personally think you for that. But you are going to die to make way for the new ruler of the world, Lucian, leader of team Zephyr."

[Seiji]

*claims coin*

William practically stalked his nephew. It was his job to take the boy far away from his father so that Lucian could do his job. Will himself had seen how his brother had been softened and corrupted by his youngest child, according to his views that is. He noticed the Shiny poocheyna in Tor’s arms and smiled. It was just like him to think of grabbing something that he knew one of his elders wanted and protect it from harm to give it to them. That’s what would make him a good grunt.

He moved one of the braches of the bush he was behind, purposely alerting Tor of his presence before stepping out from behind it. “Well well if it isn’t my youngest nephew Tormund.” There was a broad smile on his face as he said those words. He had waited for quite a while to call Tor his nephew and was glad that he could finally fulfil his desire to do so. He nodded his head curtly to his soon to be dead brother’s meowth. He didn’t mind the meowth personally, it was just the fact that it was his brother’s. “Come along Tor, lets go for a walk while our teammate and my dear brother talk.” He began to set off at a pace he knew Tor could keep up with. “So what’s been going on since I last visited you on the hatchery?”

[✓Digital™]

Richard narrowed his eyes at the very mention of this new 'team' that Lucian proposed and knew it meant absolutely nothing but trouble in the not so distant future. The thought made him sick... Lucian was sure to get rid of anybody in his way, Richard knew what a twisted person the younger man was on the inside. Such a dark past meant nothing but pain and destruction in the future, Richard couldn't even begin to think about the terrifying reign Lucian was about to bring forth. It made the very cored of his being shake in fright. If he died now... who would protect Tormund?

A scene suddenly flooded his head, perhaps this was his life flashing before his eyes? A gigantic Feraligatr charged forward, its terrifying roar echoing through his head, at an opposing Pidgeot. A great fight ensued between the two, while behind them the sky blackened and a roar, far more powerful and shocking than the feraligatr shook the earth. Was this the future?

Richard snapped back into reality, wondering what it could possibly mean. He gazed back up at Lucian, who punched him in the face several times. Blood flowed down his face, especially from his nose. But he grinned.

"You're a fool Lucian. I might not be able to stop you, but the world will not allow you to send it into chaos! Other trainers will stand up to you and beat you down until there is no fight left in you. Team Zephyr is nothing, it'll never be as great as you think it will. The true leader of Shadowbolt is your biggest nightmare, and don't you worry...."

For a moment Lucian has a tiny bit of concern on his face, but hid it well. But this pointless speech of Richard's was about to come to an end. Tucked in his belt was a blade, in which Lucian grabbed hold of. He was careful to bring the blade out in the open and looked it over. Richard eyed the long knife, then closed his eyes. He wouldn't give Lucian the satisfaction of seeing the light fade from his eyes. It all happened so suddenly, the blade plunged into Richard's chest.

"... hhhe will come... he.... will... come..." gasped Richard, tumbling to the ground. Some blood got on Lucian's shoes and the man kicked the corpse in the face.

"Worthless old man, you just don't know when to shut up..." Lucian motioned for his golden Pidgeot to him. He looked back at Richard, deciding to get rid of his body himself, and carelessly grabbed his limp hand then dragged him over to his flying pokemon.

"But don't worry, I have an idea that might just interest you.." And after loading Richard's body onto the Pidgeot, Lucian got on the birds back and flew off.

[Anakin Sayo]

“Well well if it isn’t my youngest nephew Tormund.” He was shocked “Y-you’re my Uncle?” He saw Will nod, and thought that it was his answer. “Come along Tor, lets go for a walk while our teammate and my dear brother talk.” Tor nodded and walked alongside him. “So what’s been going on since I last visited you on the hatchery?” He had no idea where to start. “Well I’m not quite sure what happened since I left with Anakin the day after you visited but sir has come down with a case of lung cancer.” He looked down the road behind them and saw nothing but a red spot. “Wait! Where’s Dad gone? And the guy that’s meant to be our teammate?”

[✓Digital™]

Meowth stared at Tormund, then back where they had came from and felt a terrible sadness tug at her heart. She just knew that something bad must have happened to Richard, Meowth yearned to go back to her master but obeyed his request. She leapt up onto Tormund's shoulder and purred softly, trying to block out the sadness in her mind.

A Murkrow fluttered over the head of a young girl, who was about the same age as Tormund. Lily, followed by Lucian, came into view and soon joined the two. The young girl looked excited to see Meowth, who didn't budge an inch. Murkrow landed on Lily's shoulder and stared at Tormund. Lucian on the other hand had a bit grin on his face.

"Your father decided that it was about time to take a break from all of this chaos. He made me the new leader of the team and asked William, your uncle, to train you. Richard went off to study the behavior of pokemon in the mountains and won't be back for quite some time." explained Lucian with a devious smile. Lily looked skeptical but didn't say anything, she wasn't really interested in playing in the forest.

[Anakin Sayo]

Tor heard Meowth purr for him. He had no idea where his father was. He felt an adult’s hand on his shoulder and looked up to see that it belonged to his Uncle. "Your father decided that it was about time to take a break from all of this chaos. He made me the new leader of the team and asked William, your uncle, to train you. Richard went off to study the behavior of pokemon in the mountains and won't be back for quite some time." He looked at the man who had spoken. “I don’t mean to be rude but who are you?” He had never heard anyone of his description.

[Lucian Finch]

Lucian grinned at the boy and approached him to get a better look at him. To him, Tormund lacked the intimidating appearance that Richard had but seemed like decent grunt material. However, once Tormund found out about Richards actual whereabouts... he could turn on them. Lucian had zero intentions on promoting Tor to anything past a grunt, the less he knew about Team Zephyr the better.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I forgot to introduce myself! My name is Lucian Finch, and your father is a very good friend of mine. The man practically raised me actually! Heh, good guy your father is!" lied Lucian very convincingly.

Lily seemed to space out into her own little world. She broke free from the group and went to play with Murkrow in the tall grass.

[Anakin Sayo]

"Oh, I'm sorry! I forgot to introduce myself! My name is Lucian Finch, and your father is a very good friend of mine. The man practically raised me actually! Heh, good guy your father is!" He smiled at him and then heard his uncle speak. “Tormund why don’t you go speak to my daughter, Lily? I have to speak to Lucian for a minuet.” He watched as Tor walked out of ear shot then turned back to Lucian. “The deed’s done then I guess. You don’t happen to have an extra dark ball to give to the boy do you? I only have the one you gave me to start with.”

Tormund followed the girl with the Murkrow. “Hiya. I guess we’re cousins, eh? My name's Tormund Sayo by the way.” He pulled Yuki’s pokeball off of his belt and released her. The shinx looked around confused and completely disorientated. She looked from the eleven year old girl to her master whom was still holding the shiny poocheyna. “Shinx!” The young shinx called out as a friendly hello to the stranger. Tormund put down the fainted pokemon and pulled off an empty pokeball. He enlargened it and once that had happened he threw it lightly at the Poocheyna. Hopefully it would stay in there as he didn’t fancy carrying it around everywhere he went. He’d look after the Poocheyna for his father, he’d train it and then give it to him when he ran into him again.

((CE2029=Pokemon Speech
1E90FF=Tormund Sayo’s speech
00FF00=William Faolan’s speech

I used William on this account because I can't log out.))

[Lucian Finch]

Lucian raised an eyebrow when William pulled him aside, and asked about the infamous new Dark Balls that he had recently recreated for his own personal gain. He had to wonder what a young boy could possibly need with a dark ball, Lucian could've cared less about Tormund's weak little Shinx and Richard's precious dark blue eared Meowth. Lucian waited until Tormund was out of hearing distance before he replied.

"'Course I have a couple of dark balls... wait... A dark ball... For the kid? What for? That'd cause nothing but problems." replied Lucian in a low tone of voice, not wanting to attract attention.

Lily paused and turned when she heard Tormund's voice behind her, she didn't really know what to say to him... Most of the books she read were on Pokemon behavior, and read very little human related materials, so didn't really know how to respond. Meeting a cousin for the first time, especially after eleven years, was quite a surprise. Lily was very fond of Alphonse, her eldest cousin, and since Allan and Tormund were brothers she figured that they might be somewhat alike.

"Lily Faolan, nice to meet you Tormund." replied the girl, Murkrow had been circling around in the air but landed on Lily's shoulder when she spoke. It wasn't often that Lily spoke, so Murkrow was curious to know what was going on.

The little dog pokemon didn't need to struggle against the pull of the pokeball, since it was sure that Tormund would want to take good care of her since she was different from most pokemon.

[Seiji]

"'Course I have a couple of dark balls... wait... A dark ball... For the kid? What for? That'd cause nothing but problems." William hadn’t thought that that giving the dark ball to his nephew would cause trouble but then he remembered that Lucian had just killed the boy’s father. “I had just thought that it was his right but I just remembered how risky keeping him on the team would be.” He looked over at his nephew and saw him capture the shiny poocheyna that he had been carrying around. “Anything in particular you want him to be taught?”

[Anakin Sayo]

"Lily Faolan, nice to meet you Tormund." He smiled at her as he reached up and scratched Meowth’s head. Some parts of the story about his father’s dissapperance didn’t make sense. Wouldn’t his father have said something about wanting to do research and wouldn’t he have taken Meowth with him if he knew that Uncle Will was going to be looking after him? “Its nice to meet you, to. Who gave you your Murkrow?”

His eyes returned to the pokeball. If the Poocheyna came out of it ready to battle, he was ready to battle against it again. Then the pokeball stopped rocking and emitted a soft ding. “Hey, you know what, we should battle just for fun. What do you think? I’ll let you choose from anyone of my pokemon, other than Meowth of course to make it fair.”

[Lucian Finch]

Lucian was a little more than confused now as he tried to figure out what on earth William was talking about. He was starting to feel a bit conflicted, wondering if his friend planned on making this boy something more than he should ever be. Quite frankly Lucian would've loved to see Tormund disposed of, just like Richard, but had no reason to kill the boy... not yet at least. His eyes narrowed with his suspicions, Lucian started to feel as if he couldn't trust William anymore.

"His right? His right to what? That boy has no right to anything while i'm in charge, on second thought... Ms. Grey is going to train the kid, I don't want you to favor him over other new recruits." hissed Lucian, his Pidgeot swooped over the the tree tops and landed gracefully on the ground. Her golden feathers sparkled in the light, and she spread her wings just for the effect. The blood had been cleaned off her feathers in her absence so nobody would ask questions. She hopped over to Lucian, sensing the tension in his voice, and stared at William in quite a threatening manner.

"Which reminds me... We need to get back to the base soon, Olivia has an appointment with me later to discuss some pressing issues."

Lily glanced up, looking a little bit dumbfounded. Her glasses slid off her face and into the grass, her vision instantly blurred and Murkrow came to her aid. He dove off her shoulder, grabbed her glasses, and returned to his perch within seconds. Lily smiled and carefully grabbed her glasses from his beak.

"Thanks Murkrow." Lily told her bird pokemon, who rubbed his head against hers affectionately. A battle? Nooooo wayyyy was the first thing that came to mind. She didn't want her precious Murkrow getting shocked by her cousins electrical cat thing.

"Um... Your Shinx versus my Murkrow.... that'd be stupid of me to commit to. An electric type against a flying type is suicide, even though." she trailed off a little towards the end, mostly thinking out loud. However, Lily had a new pokemon that she could try out, and considering that Tormund's Shinx had been in a fight recently she had a good shot at winning.

"How about I use my new pokemon?" Lily asked, reaching for a pokeball from the backpack she had on. She pressed the button in the middle, the ball enlarged itself, then released the pokemon inside. Floating in the air was an odd pokemon, a Koffing to be exact, which reeked of a strange odor. "Hey Weezy, are you up for a fight? And maybe afterwords we can go out and catch some new pokemon?"

Weezy was the name of the Koffing by Lily's side, he looked incredibly happy for some reason and had the goofiest look on his face. His body bobbed up and down, which was his way of saying sure!

"Koffing!"

[Anakin Sayo]

He smiled as he saw the koffing. [color=1E90FF“Yuki isn’t my only pokemon you know. I have another.”[/color] He pulled off the pokeball he had p;aced on his belt before the appearance of his uncle. He then released the pokemon within it and to his surprise it contained a slugma. He’d use Yuki though as he was sure that she’d give it her all for him aswell as her father which was his father’s Electabuzz. He got down on a lnee and ruffled the fur on her head. “No matter. Alright, do your best Yuki. I know you’ll do your parents and myself proud,” He smiled confidently at her. “Now go get ‘em!”

The eleven year old stood up again as Yuki ran forward a bit and took a defensive stance in front of him, as he assumed a crossed arm position. He was really starting to look like a minature version of his father now, well with grey hair instead of brown. “You can have the first move seeing as it was I that challenged you.” He looked down at the slugma. “As for you. Pay close attention. We’ll train soon afterwards.” He looked back up, ready to battle.

[Seiji]

“His right? His right to what? That boy has no right to anything while i'm in charge, on second thought... Ms. Grey is going to train the kid, I don't want you to favor him over other new recruits. Which reminds me... We need to get back to the base soon, Olivia has an appointment with me later to discuss some pressing issues.” William merely shrugged. “Sorry oh great one. It’s better that way anyways Lucian. If he ever finds out about the death of my spoiled brat brother of mine then he’d be semi-easier to talk out of murdering half the organisation. I’ll let you go then, I can look after the boy and my daughter in the meantime.” He looked over at the two children, then shook his head. “God, Tor’s not just going to need to be taught skills with pokemon but women aswell.” He smiled. “Well you have fun with Olivia, alright?”

[Lucian Finch]

Lucian just chuckled at the blatant attempt at an insult, enjoying William's moment of complete inferiority. Of course, Lucian would always be on the highest part of the food chain when it came to team dynamics, William was just a pawn in a big game of chess. Quite frankly William had no idea what was really going on behind the scenes of Zephyr, and this particular occasion proved that Lucian was absolutely right to keep his "friend" in the dark. Olivia Grey was the only person that Lucian felt he could trust.

"Oh great failure of insults, how did that please thee? Did you enjoy your moment of stupidity while I laughed at you from inside my head? Oh great one? Good god William, you're more of a child than that brat of a nephew is." Lucian taunted, finding great humor in his words. Pidgeot seemed to enjoy it as well, seeming to smile with her eyes in approval. But Lucian suddenly paused when William mentioned Richard again. "Richard was more of a man than you could ever dream to be William, its a shame that his talents went to waste. When you act like a child, you look like a fool you know."

Lucian began to pace around William, but in a slow, creepish manner. His cold eyes locked onto the other man with a vengeance. He stopped dead in his tracks when he got behind William, he crept forward.

"Your loyalty lingers, and quite honestly, dear William, it concerns me greatly." Whispered Lucian, only half staring at him now. "Is it wise to poke a sleeping bear? Is it wise to mock a man who can make you disappear in the blink of an eye? Where would poor Lily go if you died so suddenly? Ah, so many questions, so little time for moments of mistrust. But lets just hope that I heard you incorrectly, and that this was all a big misunderstanding... Time to go."

Before Weezy could make his first move, Pidgeot suddenly swooped in to interrupt the fight. Lucian mentioned that it was time to go, so letting the fight start would only mean they would have to wait longer until the battle was done. Lily looked surprisingly happy when Lucian's shiny Pidgeot showed up, not wanting Weezy to get hurt.

"Is it time to go?" asked Lily, who was quite fond of the golden feathered bird.