[Game] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure: Celadon City Vandel

[Dragonstrike]

Well, he'd asked for it...time to face the music...

"Well, guess those questions aren't too surprising...and you have every right to know who I am and what I fight for since you're joining me on this wild ride called 'my life'...*sigh*...hope you're ready for a bit of a long story..."

Spoiler

"My full name is Reiner Arendse.  I'm part of a long, long, long line of extremely powerful Dragon Tamers that hail from Blackthorn City in the nearby Johto Region.  But...I was kicked out of the city by the Elders for evolving my beloved Seadra into a Kingdra without their explicit permission.  And for encouraging a Sneasel from the nearby Ice Path to continue his thieving ways...those were the main two offenses I was charged with that earned me my exile from the City of Dragons.  

"The Elders had left me to the mercy of the world.  No help from Blackthorn, nor its Dragon Tamers, nor my family.  Just me, Sneasel, and a Kingdra I could barely control, starting with nothing but the clothes on my back and the items we could carry. For two years, we barely scraped by on little else but what Sneasel could snatch from random passerby and street stalls in Mahogany Town.  It was rough.  And I had to try and keep Kingdra in check as well, which was by no means an easy task.  Believe it or not, she has a strange tendency of getting set on fire to varying degrees at almost every opportunity despite being a Water and Dragon type.  And whenever Sneasel got caught Pickpocketing?  Well, we usually had trouble talking our way out consistently, so...we fought.  And won.  Few trainers in that area expect the might of a near uncontrollable Kingdra combined with the loss of their ability to use items and support moves, surprisingly.

"And then we were noticed by Team Rocket, a criminal organization, because of our 'incredible skill in both thievery and battle.'  Yes, that's a direct quote.  Petrel was the one who recruited me, and Proton is the Executive I was assigned to work under.  For the past two years, I've been working on climbing the ranks of Team Rocket with only one goal in mind: revenge.

"The Elders have wronged me.  All I'd ever wanted at that point in time was to show I was as strong as my family.  My cousin, Lance, who'd left Blackthorn on his own terms with his Dragonite and is currently a member of the Elite 4.  My other cousin, Clair, who was constantly called a shining example of a Dragon Tamer throughout her schooling, despite her...temper and disregard for her pokemon's well being at times.  She's recently been appointed as Blackthorn's newest Gym Leader from what I last heard, and much like me, her signature pokemon is a Kingdra.  My parents and their dragons.  My ancestors and theirs.  Trying to live up to that kind of legacy...I'd dedicated my life to it.  And the Elders shut me out of being able to do so completely.

"So I planned to show them just how much of a mistake they made, completely shutting me out like that.  They're going to pay, and Blackthorn's going to change for the better because of it.  Tradition has a place, but I draw the line at exiling a 16 year old kid from the city permanently because all he wants to do is live up to that very same tradition that seems to hate his guts.

"But it didn't end there, even.  The real kicker is they DIDN'T completely abandon me, as I learned relatively recently.  They were giving me one more chance, but decided not to inform me of it, instead watching me from the shadows without me ever noticing them while I struggled to survive and learn how to control my Kingdra...and now, they've decided I've finally failed this final 'test,' and have declared a Wild Hunt to bring me in for trial, which is essentially the same thing as putting a bounty on my head, except it's exclusively for Dragon Tamers.  And who are they sending first as their personal representative?  My cousin, Clair Arendse, armed with the 'sacred' draconic weapon Megido's Revelation and the knowledge of how to completely shut down the three pokemon I use the most in battle."  Reiner tightens a fist.  "I REALLY draw the line at that."

Reiner had been getting angrier and angrier as he continued his story, but he calms down after he finishes.

"Well, that's my story, I suppose...what shaped me into who I am today.  Don't tell anyone that story, period.  Few need to know that much about me.  No preferences on women's clothing, by the way.  Not really had time to develop an opinion on it.  Never really had much of a love life in the first place, let alone the time for one since I was exiled."