First Book: Leyenda, the Year of the Beginning of the End

Chapter 1: Look Out!

Disclaimer: I don’t own Pokémon, Get Ed, Super Robot Monkey Team and Dragon Booster. I only own some OCs like Yisel and the Leyendarian Creatures. Xiara is owned by Moviefan18. Alex is owned by Alex Marsden. This is the redone version of Leyenda. Chapters that will be changed are chapters 1-12. Hope you enjoy the longer, cleaner and way better version of the first Jewl Region Series story: Leyenda.

Sound… one of the beautiful aspects in this world. The resonance, the vibration in the eardrums—I like listening to the world around me. The battering of the feathered-covered wings of a Flying-type Bird Pokémon, the flutter of a flying Bug-type, the laughter of Leyendarian children, the vibrations of the ever moving earth below… it was all amusing to me. The beauty of life in the form of sound.

Sight… another beauty. Luscious green grass pushed by the salty sea wind, gray and brown century-old bricks rimmed the cliff of green grass still protecting it from pirates that are already long-ago dead and colorful kites as different shapes and sizes as their owners and their Pokémon down below.

I turned to look at the ocean. The Rubí Sea holds many memories from the day Leyenda rose from the deep ocean floor to the day the Leyendary Pokémon decided to make this island their resting grounds to the pirate invasions that came to the creation of this fort that is now a park—Saints’ Park.

Leyenda is indeed a beautiful place.

“Watch out!” I heard somebody yell out, but before I could ever react, a ball had hit me square behind the head. “Oops… heh, sorry… Yisel,” she chuckled nervously.

I glared at the person who had hit me—Xiara Ayala, my best friend. She had scruffy, but laid-back dark brown hair, dark brown eyes and cinnamon-colored skin. She wore a purple blouse with traces of black in the design, a jean skirt, black leggings and dark purple shoes.

Behind her was Delilah Melez. She also had cinnamon-colored skin and brown eyes, but long black hair, freckles on her nose and she was shorter than me and Xiara. She wore a white tank top covered by a baby blue open blouse, blue jeans and white flats with images of Beautifly line silhouettes in different colors.

Beside Delilah was her best friend and “sister”, Julia Hernández. She was a millimeter—proved in school by our Science Teacher—taller than Delilah; she had short black hair and small black eyes. She wore an orange blouse with a small bird silhouette in light blue with brown jeans and blue shoes.

“¿Por qué no usaste tus poderes?” Delilah asked in Leyenda’s native language, Spanish. She and Julia don’t speak English very well like I and Xiara do. We’ve traveled more out of the Jewl Region than they have so we had to learn some other languages before our departures to the other regions when we were younger—but that doesn’t mean we traveled together, mind you. I met all of these chicas in school.

But anyway, Delilah and Julia can defend themselves with some sentences in English and they understand me very well.

“Because I wasn’t payin’ attention to your volleyball game!” I retorted as I touched where the ball had hit me. It stung a bit, but it was nothing.

We were all in Saints’ Park enjoying our weekend and playing volleyball like typical teenagers when I felt something and stopped playing to admire at the Rubí Sea. Well… I’m not the typical teenager, to say the least.

My full name and title is Lady Yisel Merced Rosario, the Pyrochic and the Red Fire Gym Leader of Bayoan of Leyenda of the Jewl Region. Wow, that’s a mouthful! Yes, I’m a Gym Leader of this here island… and proud of it!

Xiara ran up to where I was resting on, the fort’s old bricked wall which protected and covered the cliff edges. “It went down there!” She pointed down the fortified cliff. Below stood a lonely white and gray cemetery that was connected to the cliff. Those buried there were ancient war heroes and sheriffs by the time of the pirate invasions.

“It’s a great time to practice,” I told them. I turned to my Pokémon, who sat quietly on the fort waving her twin-tipped tail in the air slowly and intimidating as possible. “Hey Espeon, retrieve the ball with Psychic.”

“Es… peon?” She titled her head in question to why I couldn’t do it, but sighed and obeyed otherwise. The ball floated in the air and landed on Julia’s hands.

“¡Gracias!” Julia chirped as she and Delilah took off to continue their game.

“What’s wrong, Yisel?” But Xiara stayed. She rested on the fort next to me.

“Espi, es espi on! On!” Espeon encouraged me to talk to her about the situation once again with her. The Sun Pokémon jumped off the fort and on my shoulder.

“If you wanna know, I’m spacing out more than usual,” I told her. I mean it, I got hit by a soccer ball in Gym Class because of my spacing out; I have the dent on my brain to prove it!

If this is Leyenda Gym Leader puberty, then it’s hard! Heh! A little more about myself, I’m a thirteen-year old girl with shoulder-length brown hair, brown eyes to match and a fiery spirit. I usually wear my Gym Leader outfit, a black blouse with a red fire symbol in the middle that means my Gym’s symbol with two holes on the back, dark blue jeans and red and yellow sport shoes.

“I don’t space out like that without my control. I chose the visions to come, not them to me.”

Did I mention I have Fire and Psychic powers? No wait, Delilah did. “Why didn’t I use my powers?” she said before. Yep, yep. She said it. Born with ‘em, discovered them at the age of ten and told by the Government to become the first Leyenda Gym Leader and discover Leyenda’s secrets, to which I accepted and moved to the Gym days later with my parents.

“Maybe something is gonna happen?” she inquired, a confused look on her face.

“Yeah… maybe…” I gasped as the world turned black for a few seconds.

A giant bird made of rock… glowing with many marks on its body… flying over seas… sharp calling…

“It is time.”

“Snap out of it! Yisel!” Xiara called. My sight returned to normal as I saw Xiara’s snapping hand in front of me. “What happened? What’s wrong? What’s the vision?”

“Propherok,” I said simply as I located Delilah and Julia. “Guys, c’mere!”

“¿Qué paso?” they asked.

“Propherok viene pa’ ‘ca ahora. Avísenles a las personas que se alejen de las calles, busquen a la policía, pero aléjenlos. Las calles se van a hundir y llenarse de agua.”

The three nodded to my order and ran in different directions. Xiara took to the other side of the park, Julia ran out of it into the old city and Delilah took off into an old alley.

I released three Pokéballs into the air. From them emerged my Pokémon Team: Ninetales, Xatu and Blaziken. Espeon jumped off my shoulder and reunited with the Pokémon. “Warn the Pokémon. Make them steer everyone away from the streets!”

“Blaze!” Blaziken grunted and jumped his ninja-like jump to the top of the nearest building and started to shout to the airborne Pokémon. They all turned to him and frantically started pushing humans aside.

“Nine!” Ninetales looked at Espeon. She jumped on Ninetales’s back and the Fire-type sprang from the ground and ran in a fast pace towards anywhere.

“Xatu.” The Mystic Pokémon stood silently on his place. He closed his eyes and his mind traveled to the consciousness of other Pokémon, just to warn them.

We worked for a few minutes before I saw him, the Phoenix of Prophecies—Propherok.

He was a majestic sight to see. He screamed at the top of his lungs his arrival and all of the Leyendarians praised him. His brown body was covered in dust from being in stone slumber inside a cave for who-knows-how long. His golden talons and beak reflected the noon sun. Propherok landed on Saints’ Park and let out another cry.

“Let’s go,” I whispered to my friends and Pokémon when we were all reunited. We all walked towards the giant stone phoenix. He looked at us with those dark magenta eyes and curved his eyelids in a glare. We trainers stood military-straight to Propherok and saluted him by stretching our right arm, then closing our right hand and placing it in our heart. “Somos guardianes humanos de Leyenda y la líder guardián de Fuego. Para el servicio del pueblo y usted, Fénix Profeta Propherok.”

Propherok nodded and his eyes turned soft. He shook his stone-brown feathers to clean up his dust to look more presentable. He took two steps, clutched the ground tightly and started to cry a rhythmic sound.

It was a song that could take you into a mystical trance. If it could be complemented by that time, it could be with a drum set or a nice guitar.

Propherok started to grow glowing markings around his body and a light emerged out of nowhere…

And that was all it took to start the legend…

Translation:

Rubí: Ruby (in either English or Spanish, it’s pronounced the same way)
“¿Por qué no usaste tus poderes?”: “Why didn’t you use your powers?”
Chicas: Girls
“¡Gracias!”: “Thank you!”
“¿Qué paso?”: “What happened?”
“Propherok viene pa’ ‘ca ahora. Avísenles a las personas que se alejen de las calles, busquen a la policía, pero aléjenlos. Las calles se van a hundir y llenarse de agua.”: “Propherok is comin’ here now. Warn the people to get away from the streets, look for the police, but get them away. The streets are going to sink and fill themselves with water.”
“Somos guardianes humanos de Leyenda y la líder guardián de Fuego. Para el servicio del pueblo y usted, Fénix Profeta Propherok.”: “We are Leyenda’s human guardians and the Fire Guardian Leader. For the service of the people and yourself, Prophet Phoenix Propherok.”