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Zeno, a teen on the run from his past life, finds his way to Alola in hopes of restarting his life as a regular Pokémon Trainer with his partner, Growlithe. However, no matter how hard he tries, he can't full...
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My right hand drifted to where my knife was clipped to my belt, but I resisted grabbing it. The last thing I needed was to kill someone else, even if it was Scourge.
"SCOURGE!" I shouted, stalking over to him, my friends unsure if they should follow or not. By the sound of their footsteps, they were following, but keeping a safe distance.
Scourge turned to face me, and after a moment of confusion, he grinned widely, his scars stretching on his face.
"Well well well," he boomed, giving a toothy grin. "If it isn't Zeno, son of Giovanni! I'd thought I'd never get to the chance to see you again you son of a-"
"Save it," I snapped. "You're going to pay for what you did to Charizard and Arcanine!"
He boomed with laughter as I stood a few feet from him. I was a foot shorter than him, but to me size didn't matter. You just needed to know how to fight.
"You mean that Charizard that was with you?" He asked, his voice having a thick Kantonian accent. "I only meant to clip him, but you know what they say when you start getting old eh?"
Most of his buddies laughed, but a few of them narrowed their eyes, most likely filling the "old" part away.
I whipped out my knife, rage starting to overrule my common sense. "You will pay for what you did Scourge!"
He gave a cocky smile. "Will I now?"
Before I could do anything, Alex and Robert tried to drag me away while Hau faced Scourge.
"Hi, uh, Scourge," Hau said. "It's nice to meet you and all, but, uh, we need to go. Don't mind Zeno here, he has an anger problem. Anger management, am I right?"
Hau laughed nervously and Scourge didn't look amused.
"Anyway," Hau said. "We'll leave you fine gentlemen be. We need to go."
Hau joined us as Robert and Alex dragged me around a street corner.
"What were you thinking!" Alex hissed. "Put that knife away."
"Watcha five doing?" A voice asked from behind us.
We spun around as I tucked my knife away to see a girl leaning against a wilting tree. She looked to be 16, 17, and wore a purple, black stitched dress. Her eyes looked grey and her purple hair only went to her shoulders.
"Hi," she said, smiling at us. "I'm Acerola."
When we didn't say anything, she sighed. "You're supposed to introduce yourselves you know."
"Sorry," Alex said. "I'm Alex."
"Zeno," I said warily.
"Robert."
"Hau."
"Lillie."
Acerola smiled. "There you go. Now we know each other. And back to my original question. What are you five doing?"
