The Aura Within | Pokémon

Six | Town Of Serenity

"We're here," Soul announced as their destination came into clear view.

Heiwa Town, also known as the Town of Pure Serenity. The sky was always a soothing blue color and the people there were full of generosity. A place where there were never any form of conflict, nor was it ever a place with a generally low crime rate. It only made Soul wonder how on earth did a nice little town as that one become a setting of a fight between two foreign knights.

"Heiwa Town, the Town of Pure Serenity," Mark commented.

"Legend has it that this place was once the ground where the first War of Kanto had ever taken place," Axel informed, catching the blonde woman's attention. She hadn't heard about this before and quite frankly, she was interested. "It's said the person who stopped it wanted peace among the people, so he sacrificed his own life to grant that wish."

"Oh yeah, I've heard of that," Akira inputted. "The person had made a deal with Jirachi to grant that one wish in exchange for his life, or at least I think that's how the story goes."

A person sacrificing their life for peace among the people? That sounded a bit too extreme in Soul's opinion. From what she experienced, war would almost always be an inevitable event of humanity for centuries to come. It would make sense if this person had taken part in battle and died while defending his cause, but if it was just a civilian sacrificing their life for the sake of stopping a war and keeping peace among the people, then it might as well be classified as a lost cause.

Besides, war was an ugly thing. War would happen no matter what, and one side would always come out victorious. The only price they had to pay were the lives of the people who put their life on the line in order to defend their cause. That's why she believed that exchanging your life for something as fantastical as peace was a ludicrous thing to do. Even with peace, the people who died are still dead. There was no point.

At least, that's what she believed.

"Come on," Soul announced, glancing over at her teammates. "Let's get going."

"Ugh..." Gallade groaned obnoxiously. "Can we at least have breakfast first? I'm freakin' hungry!"

Soul stopped walking and looked over her shoulder, her eyes landing on her goofy Gallade. As soon as they made eye contact, he became startled and got into a stereotypical defensive position. The blonde woman opened her mouth to say something, but Gallade beat her to it.

"N-Never mind! I can wait!" he shrieked in a scared voice.

Strange, she wasn't going to say anything mean to him. She was just going to tell him that they'd eat when they arrive into town.

Maybe she might have taken it too far yesterday night when she knocked him out. Well, in her defense, he was disobeying her— his master and captain. Since she didn't have the water bucket with her, she had to resort to other methods.

"Okay," was all Soul replied with before she walked forward toward Heiwa Town, the rest of the squad following behind.

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"Food!" Gallade exclaimed as he ran over to a nearby cafe. Lucario shook his head before walking toward the cafe.

"I shall go get him out before he does something absolutely embarrassing or something absolutely ludicrous," Lucario announced before entering the cafe himself.

Soul nodded her head, knowing completely well that Gallade couldn't be left alone for more than a few minutes before he did something very stupid. She looked back at the remaining squad members, each one waiting for her instruction.