OoC: This is an open RP, therefore anyone interested may join. It is limited to three, however, and it's first come, first serve. Though, I do ask that you please have correct spelling, and fair sized posts. If that is the case then welcome.
BIC:
Chad was standing against the rail of the S.S. Anne, Omen, his Murkrow, was perched on his shoulder. Chad was 17 and about 5'9" and he wore a sleeveless green shirt that was torn at the bottom and black slacks, he had black boots that went up about half way up his shins and had a piece of metal on the toe of each boot, he wore a dark grey trench coat with a pad on his left shoulder specifically for Omen to perch there. Chad had a feeling of pure exhilaration, he had a mission and it was the most important thing he'd ever do in his life. He began remembering everything that he had done just to make it this far. All the things that he had to do.
It all started about two years ago, Chad had been traveling the Kanto Region collecting the badges from all the gyms he visited. He was on his way to Viridian City, to collect the last of the eight badges. As he was passing through Mount Moon, there was a cave in and he fell through the floor and ended up landing in the center of a huge circular room. Omen fluttered down and looked at Chad concerned. Chad pushed himself up and rubbed his left arm, a bruise was forming, Omen hesitated and then perched on Chad's shoulder. Chad couldn't see anything in the suffocating darkness, so he reached on his belt and called out his Charizard, named Napalm. The great creatures tail flame set a dim light through the room, and Chad looked about to get his bearings. "Well, guys, doesn't look to bad," He said to his pokemon in reassurance, mostly for himself, "We can get out of here no problem." He looked around the room when something caught his eye, he walked over and examined a mark on the wall, it looked like a hieroglyphic but there was no sign of any others in the room. He took out a sketch pad and copied it down quickly, if it was a hieroglyph, then it must be important, somehow he just knew that it meant something of importance. "Well, that's done," He said putting the sketch pad away. He looked up at the hole that was blocked by the fallen rocks. He walked over to Napalm and climbed up on his back. "OK, Napalm, let's get us out of here." Napalm let out a roar and flew straight up with Omen fluttering behind him. When they grew nearer the blocked exit Chad called, "Alright, Napalm, dragon claw!" Napalm broke through the clutter of rocks and flew through the cave and out of the exit on the Pewter City side.
"Good job, Napalm, you've earned a rest." He held out Napalm's pokeball and the Charizard disappeared, Chad hooked the pokeball back onto his belt, then held out his arm and Omen came and perched up on his shoulder again. He decided then that he would find the meaning of the Mark he'd found, and so he started going around to every scientific research center he could find, but no one knew what it meant. Chad was about to give up when he received a tip from a pokemon professor named Oak, he said that there was an expert of hieroglyphics named Professor Tiber, but he'd supposedly gone mad and went into hiding. So Chad set off around the world searching for any hint or clue and finally found out that there were rumors of a man who lived on Mount Mortar.
So there Chad was climbing up the side of Mount Mortar looking for a cave that could be anywhere on the Mountain. When he spotted a hole on the mountain face and climbed to the opening of a moderately large cave. "Hello? I'm looking for Professor Tiber." He called into the cave and his call echoed back from out of the cave.
"Who's looking for me? What do you want?" A stern but weak voice called from inside the cave, and Chad approached the cave and looked inside, he saw what looked very much like a small home, there was a bed and a table, a fire was glowing in the corner and book shelves filled with books about pokemon, science and ancient symbols.
"I've found a hieroglyphic and I need to know what it means." He called into the cave looking for a sign of movement. Then the small, old man appeared from behind a book shelf, he looked confused and came over. Chad took out his sketch pad and opened it to the page with the strange mark on it. The Professor snatched it out of his hand and took it into the cave, beckoning Chad to follow. Hesitantly, Chad followed him into the back of the cave, he looked at the small, timid man, he couldn't be taller than 5'1" and his steps were shuffled, quick steps. Professor Tiber kept on glancing back to ensure that Chad had followed, and every time the professor glanced at him, Chad would feel a bit like he was being surveyed, like behind the beady black eyes he was just looking for Chad to have a flaw.
"Well lad, keep up, come now we don't have all day, this isn't a tour after all." He walked over to a large stone, covered with notes about some sort of prophesy, from what Chad could read. Professor Tiber took out a piece of paper covered other markings and ripped the other mark out of the sketch pad and placed it with the others, "Now then, let's see what we have here..." Professor Tiber began reading the prophesy, Chad felt a little out of place standing aside idly while the professor read to himself. "Well, that can't be right," Professor Tiber scratched at his receding hairline.
"What is it? What can't be right?" As Chad spoke the professor jumped, a little startled, then shook his head and started rumaging through the pile of papers, grabbing various papers and placing them to the side.
"I'd almost forgotten you were there my boy." Professor Tiber looked at Chad with a scrutinizing look, "First of all, what is your name child?" Chad felt a little rush of irritation at being called a child, but he was forced to shake it of, after two years working towards finding the meaning of this mark, the last thing he wanted was to upset the person with the answers. "And whats more, how did you find me?"
"Chadwyck, Chadwyck Myroen, but please call me Chad. As for how I found you, I heard about you from Professor Oak of the Kanto region, he said that you were the best researcher to go to for information about that symbol," He indicated the sketch of the mark as he spoke, "And for the last two years, I've been working toward finding the meaning of that mark, and doing so meant finding you. So I just sort of, hunted you down." Chad finished and looked to the professor for his response, in the mean time he took out some pokemon food and handed it up to Omen, who ate it greedily, and then hopped down on the ground and looked up at Chad, waiting for his approval to look around the cave, "Oh, alright, just don't go to far off." Chad smiled at Omen as he hopped off through the cave.
The Professor hadn't even stopped searching the many notes to listen to Chad's answer to his questions, "You've got yourself a good looking Murkrow, you're a good trainer," He looked up briefly at Chad then to where Omen was settling down on his bed, "So, Oak told you about me, huh? Me and him go way back, at least before the incident, but that's not why you're here. Right then, back to business..." Professor Tiber picked up a stack of papers that he had made, "This, my boy, is the prophesy of the Elders, an ancient race of humans whose only purpose was to guard these," He held up drawings of what looked like identical pokemon eggs, "These are the eggs of life and death, and they are very, very dangerous." He looked so serious that Chad had trouble looking him in the eye.
"They're only pokemon eggs, right? How dangerous can they be?" Chad couldn't help but think that this was just some sort of joke and Professor Tiber would tell him what he wanted to hear any minute, but the professor didn't exactly seem like the joking type, and the look in his eyes didn't help prove otherwise. "How exactly do you mean dangerous? I've never even heard of them."
"Few people have, they hold a great but terrible power, for you see as their names suggest, these eggs hold the power over life and death." At Chad's look of disbelief, he picked up another piece of paper and handed it to him, "Look there, that is a photograph of some hieroglyphics found in the Hoenn region. The eggs are shown there," He pointed at the center of a huge circle of different drawings, "The eggs are protected by the Elders, as signified by the circle of markings around them," Then he picked up another picture, "But here, you see that the Elders have all gone and the eggs have grown darker, more ominous. These Elders slowly died out over the years, and left behind the only these hieroglyphics all around the world, but none have ever been as disturbing to find than what this piece of the puzzle you brought to me reveals." Professor Tiber took the paper that held the prophesy he spoke of out of the pile. Chad was still looking over the photographs, sizing them up, trying to make sense of things.
"But, Professor, you can't believe in this, I mean they're only myths, legends, aren't they?" He lowered the picture to see the professor's glare piercing his disbelief. The professor looked at him with such seriousness that Chad took a few steps back.
"Legends? Foolish child, look around you, everything you see in your life, couldn't they have ever just been considered legends? Look at the evidence that has already been unearthed," He turned and took a book out of it's place among the others in the book shelf, "Take, for example, Lugia and the Three Legendary Birds, have they not been proven to exist?" He flipped through the book and showed the photographs to Chad, who was feeling a bit ashamed of himself. The professor placed the book back amongst the others, "This is no mere legend, now are you going to listen to what this prophesy says, or are you going to leave?
"I'm sorry professor, please continue, I won't interrupt again." Chad hung his head slightly and shrugged it off and looked to Professor Tiber as he continued.
"Now then," The professor cleared his throat, feeling very pleased with himself for putting up a convincing argument, "This states that the eggs have a hundred year hibernation, at the end of which, the eggs hatch and two of the most beautiful pokemon in creation emerge from the shells and fly up into the sky, high up into the atmosphere, where they circle the entire world. It's called their 'Celestial Dance' and when they have run out of energy they crash back into the soil and return to their hibernation." Professor Tiber looked at Chad to make sure he was paying close attention, "These eggs must then be retrieved and brought back together before they next hatch or what emerges from these eggs will be the harbingers of destruction. The pokemon that emerge will destroy all life and everything."
"Wait, I'm sorry to interupt, but, why would these pokemon destroy the world just because they weren't together when they hatched?" Chad scratched the back of his head and began mumbling different ideas to himself.
"These pokemon, aren't normal pokemon, they are the very essence of life and death, one cannot survive without the other, without one the others power goes unchecked, leaving no limit on the power that these pokemon hold." Professor Tiber took another piece of paper from the seemingly endless pile of information, I've been studying this legend for most of my life, and the last Celestial Dance was..." He looked over the paper, it was covered in peoples names and different dates, "Ninety-nine years and roughly eight months, more or less, according to a family who had a relative witness the dance the last time it happened."
"That would mean that there is only four months until the next Dance, and if no one else knows that prophesy then, no one would have brought the eggs back together at the end of the last one." Chad looked concerned, and the Professor only nodded at him as he was deep in thought himself. "What are you going to do, Professor?"
Professor Tiber never looked up, he just stared at the same spot, thinking to himself. Finally he said, still staring blankly, "I'm not going to do anything, rather, I can't do anything," He finally looked up at Chad, who felt like he knew what Professor Tiber was thinking, "My boy, you must find these eggs, it falls on you to do so, this is your task, I'm sorry that it all rests on you." Chad shook his head in disbelief, he took a step back.
"I can't, I've never done anything like this, I'm a pokemon trainer, I'm no hero." He tried to hand the Professor all the papers that he had handed Chad throughout the conversation, but Professor Tiber held his hand up and shook his head.
"But, you must become one, or everything is lost. You are the last hope for this world, these powers must not come to pass on us, they must be brought together." He was packing up all the notes on the eggs he could, "You must take these with you, they might help you find what you are looking for."
"Why can't someone else do it? Why does this task have to fall on me?" Chad stumbled back onto a flat rock and put his head in his hands, "What if I can't do it?"
"Chad fate has chosen you, and you must realize that you are the only one who can do it, you found the symbol that finished the prophesy, you are the one who must now make the prophesy true. I may not know you well, but I know that you can do this, from the very moment I first saw you I could tell that you were not a normal trainer, this is your task, and your time." He came over and placed a hand on Chad's shoulder, "You must try, for all of us."
Chad stood up and looked at Professor Tiber, he felt so helpless, he was certain of only one thing, the Professor was right, he must try or no one would, "Alright," His voice started weak, but then grew loud and powerful, "You're right, I have to try, if I don't, no one will!" His declaration woke Omen from his sleep and the pokemon hopped over to Chad's feet, "Omen, are you ready for an adventure?"
"Murkrow!" It cried approvingly and fluttered up and perched on Chad's shoulder.
"Don't worry, Professor, you can count on me, I'll find those eggs and I won't give up until they've been brought together!" He walked out of the cave, determined and ready for the challenge ahead.
Chad was snapped back into reality by the sound of the intercom.
"Docking at Snowpoint City ETA: Five Minutes. All passengers please prepare to disembark. I repeat...
BIC:
Chad was standing against the rail of the S.S. Anne, Omen, his Murkrow, was perched on his shoulder. Chad was 17 and about 5'9" and he wore a sleeveless green shirt that was torn at the bottom and black slacks, he had black boots that went up about half way up his shins and had a piece of metal on the toe of each boot, he wore a dark grey trench coat with a pad on his left shoulder specifically for Omen to perch there. Chad had a feeling of pure exhilaration, he had a mission and it was the most important thing he'd ever do in his life. He began remembering everything that he had done just to make it this far. All the things that he had to do.
It all started about two years ago, Chad had been traveling the Kanto Region collecting the badges from all the gyms he visited. He was on his way to Viridian City, to collect the last of the eight badges. As he was passing through Mount Moon, there was a cave in and he fell through the floor and ended up landing in the center of a huge circular room. Omen fluttered down and looked at Chad concerned. Chad pushed himself up and rubbed his left arm, a bruise was forming, Omen hesitated and then perched on Chad's shoulder. Chad couldn't see anything in the suffocating darkness, so he reached on his belt and called out his Charizard, named Napalm. The great creatures tail flame set a dim light through the room, and Chad looked about to get his bearings. "Well, guys, doesn't look to bad," He said to his pokemon in reassurance, mostly for himself, "We can get out of here no problem." He looked around the room when something caught his eye, he walked over and examined a mark on the wall, it looked like a hieroglyphic but there was no sign of any others in the room. He took out a sketch pad and copied it down quickly, if it was a hieroglyph, then it must be important, somehow he just knew that it meant something of importance. "Well, that's done," He said putting the sketch pad away. He looked up at the hole that was blocked by the fallen rocks. He walked over to Napalm and climbed up on his back. "OK, Napalm, let's get us out of here." Napalm let out a roar and flew straight up with Omen fluttering behind him. When they grew nearer the blocked exit Chad called, "Alright, Napalm, dragon claw!" Napalm broke through the clutter of rocks and flew through the cave and out of the exit on the Pewter City side.
"Good job, Napalm, you've earned a rest." He held out Napalm's pokeball and the Charizard disappeared, Chad hooked the pokeball back onto his belt, then held out his arm and Omen came and perched up on his shoulder again. He decided then that he would find the meaning of the Mark he'd found, and so he started going around to every scientific research center he could find, but no one knew what it meant. Chad was about to give up when he received a tip from a pokemon professor named Oak, he said that there was an expert of hieroglyphics named Professor Tiber, but he'd supposedly gone mad and went into hiding. So Chad set off around the world searching for any hint or clue and finally found out that there were rumors of a man who lived on Mount Mortar.
So there Chad was climbing up the side of Mount Mortar looking for a cave that could be anywhere on the Mountain. When he spotted a hole on the mountain face and climbed to the opening of a moderately large cave. "Hello? I'm looking for Professor Tiber." He called into the cave and his call echoed back from out of the cave.
"Who's looking for me? What do you want?" A stern but weak voice called from inside the cave, and Chad approached the cave and looked inside, he saw what looked very much like a small home, there was a bed and a table, a fire was glowing in the corner and book shelves filled with books about pokemon, science and ancient symbols.
"I've found a hieroglyphic and I need to know what it means." He called into the cave looking for a sign of movement. Then the small, old man appeared from behind a book shelf, he looked confused and came over. Chad took out his sketch pad and opened it to the page with the strange mark on it. The Professor snatched it out of his hand and took it into the cave, beckoning Chad to follow. Hesitantly, Chad followed him into the back of the cave, he looked at the small, timid man, he couldn't be taller than 5'1" and his steps were shuffled, quick steps. Professor Tiber kept on glancing back to ensure that Chad had followed, and every time the professor glanced at him, Chad would feel a bit like he was being surveyed, like behind the beady black eyes he was just looking for Chad to have a flaw.
"Well lad, keep up, come now we don't have all day, this isn't a tour after all." He walked over to a large stone, covered with notes about some sort of prophesy, from what Chad could read. Professor Tiber took out a piece of paper covered other markings and ripped the other mark out of the sketch pad and placed it with the others, "Now then, let's see what we have here..." Professor Tiber began reading the prophesy, Chad felt a little out of place standing aside idly while the professor read to himself. "Well, that can't be right," Professor Tiber scratched at his receding hairline.
"What is it? What can't be right?" As Chad spoke the professor jumped, a little startled, then shook his head and started rumaging through the pile of papers, grabbing various papers and placing them to the side.
"I'd almost forgotten you were there my boy." Professor Tiber looked at Chad with a scrutinizing look, "First of all, what is your name child?" Chad felt a little rush of irritation at being called a child, but he was forced to shake it of, after two years working towards finding the meaning of this mark, the last thing he wanted was to upset the person with the answers. "And whats more, how did you find me?"
"Chadwyck, Chadwyck Myroen, but please call me Chad. As for how I found you, I heard about you from Professor Oak of the Kanto region, he said that you were the best researcher to go to for information about that symbol," He indicated the sketch of the mark as he spoke, "And for the last two years, I've been working toward finding the meaning of that mark, and doing so meant finding you. So I just sort of, hunted you down." Chad finished and looked to the professor for his response, in the mean time he took out some pokemon food and handed it up to Omen, who ate it greedily, and then hopped down on the ground and looked up at Chad, waiting for his approval to look around the cave, "Oh, alright, just don't go to far off." Chad smiled at Omen as he hopped off through the cave.
The Professor hadn't even stopped searching the many notes to listen to Chad's answer to his questions, "You've got yourself a good looking Murkrow, you're a good trainer," He looked up briefly at Chad then to where Omen was settling down on his bed, "So, Oak told you about me, huh? Me and him go way back, at least before the incident, but that's not why you're here. Right then, back to business..." Professor Tiber picked up a stack of papers that he had made, "This, my boy, is the prophesy of the Elders, an ancient race of humans whose only purpose was to guard these," He held up drawings of what looked like identical pokemon eggs, "These are the eggs of life and death, and they are very, very dangerous." He looked so serious that Chad had trouble looking him in the eye.
"They're only pokemon eggs, right? How dangerous can they be?" Chad couldn't help but think that this was just some sort of joke and Professor Tiber would tell him what he wanted to hear any minute, but the professor didn't exactly seem like the joking type, and the look in his eyes didn't help prove otherwise. "How exactly do you mean dangerous? I've never even heard of them."
"Few people have, they hold a great but terrible power, for you see as their names suggest, these eggs hold the power over life and death." At Chad's look of disbelief, he picked up another piece of paper and handed it to him, "Look there, that is a photograph of some hieroglyphics found in the Hoenn region. The eggs are shown there," He pointed at the center of a huge circle of different drawings, "The eggs are protected by the Elders, as signified by the circle of markings around them," Then he picked up another picture, "But here, you see that the Elders have all gone and the eggs have grown darker, more ominous. These Elders slowly died out over the years, and left behind the only these hieroglyphics all around the world, but none have ever been as disturbing to find than what this piece of the puzzle you brought to me reveals." Professor Tiber took the paper that held the prophesy he spoke of out of the pile. Chad was still looking over the photographs, sizing them up, trying to make sense of things.
"But, Professor, you can't believe in this, I mean they're only myths, legends, aren't they?" He lowered the picture to see the professor's glare piercing his disbelief. The professor looked at him with such seriousness that Chad took a few steps back.
"Legends? Foolish child, look around you, everything you see in your life, couldn't they have ever just been considered legends? Look at the evidence that has already been unearthed," He turned and took a book out of it's place among the others in the book shelf, "Take, for example, Lugia and the Three Legendary Birds, have they not been proven to exist?" He flipped through the book and showed the photographs to Chad, who was feeling a bit ashamed of himself. The professor placed the book back amongst the others, "This is no mere legend, now are you going to listen to what this prophesy says, or are you going to leave?
"I'm sorry professor, please continue, I won't interrupt again." Chad hung his head slightly and shrugged it off and looked to Professor Tiber as he continued.
"Now then," The professor cleared his throat, feeling very pleased with himself for putting up a convincing argument, "This states that the eggs have a hundred year hibernation, at the end of which, the eggs hatch and two of the most beautiful pokemon in creation emerge from the shells and fly up into the sky, high up into the atmosphere, where they circle the entire world. It's called their 'Celestial Dance' and when they have run out of energy they crash back into the soil and return to their hibernation." Professor Tiber looked at Chad to make sure he was paying close attention, "These eggs must then be retrieved and brought back together before they next hatch or what emerges from these eggs will be the harbingers of destruction. The pokemon that emerge will destroy all life and everything."
"Wait, I'm sorry to interupt, but, why would these pokemon destroy the world just because they weren't together when they hatched?" Chad scratched the back of his head and began mumbling different ideas to himself.
"These pokemon, aren't normal pokemon, they are the very essence of life and death, one cannot survive without the other, without one the others power goes unchecked, leaving no limit on the power that these pokemon hold." Professor Tiber took another piece of paper from the seemingly endless pile of information, I've been studying this legend for most of my life, and the last Celestial Dance was..." He looked over the paper, it was covered in peoples names and different dates, "Ninety-nine years and roughly eight months, more or less, according to a family who had a relative witness the dance the last time it happened."
"That would mean that there is only four months until the next Dance, and if no one else knows that prophesy then, no one would have brought the eggs back together at the end of the last one." Chad looked concerned, and the Professor only nodded at him as he was deep in thought himself. "What are you going to do, Professor?"
Professor Tiber never looked up, he just stared at the same spot, thinking to himself. Finally he said, still staring blankly, "I'm not going to do anything, rather, I can't do anything," He finally looked up at Chad, who felt like he knew what Professor Tiber was thinking, "My boy, you must find these eggs, it falls on you to do so, this is your task, I'm sorry that it all rests on you." Chad shook his head in disbelief, he took a step back.
"I can't, I've never done anything like this, I'm a pokemon trainer, I'm no hero." He tried to hand the Professor all the papers that he had handed Chad throughout the conversation, but Professor Tiber held his hand up and shook his head.
"But, you must become one, or everything is lost. You are the last hope for this world, these powers must not come to pass on us, they must be brought together." He was packing up all the notes on the eggs he could, "You must take these with you, they might help you find what you are looking for."
"Why can't someone else do it? Why does this task have to fall on me?" Chad stumbled back onto a flat rock and put his head in his hands, "What if I can't do it?"
"Chad fate has chosen you, and you must realize that you are the only one who can do it, you found the symbol that finished the prophesy, you are the one who must now make the prophesy true. I may not know you well, but I know that you can do this, from the very moment I first saw you I could tell that you were not a normal trainer, this is your task, and your time." He came over and placed a hand on Chad's shoulder, "You must try, for all of us."
Chad stood up and looked at Professor Tiber, he felt so helpless, he was certain of only one thing, the Professor was right, he must try or no one would, "Alright," His voice started weak, but then grew loud and powerful, "You're right, I have to try, if I don't, no one will!" His declaration woke Omen from his sleep and the pokemon hopped over to Chad's feet, "Omen, are you ready for an adventure?"
"Murkrow!" It cried approvingly and fluttered up and perched on Chad's shoulder.
"Don't worry, Professor, you can count on me, I'll find those eggs and I won't give up until they've been brought together!" He walked out of the cave, determined and ready for the challenge ahead.
Chad was snapped back into reality by the sound of the intercom.
"Docking at Snowpoint City ETA: Five Minutes. All passengers please prepare to disembark. I repeat...
