CHAPTER 3:THE CALL

IN THE WINTER AREA, SITTING ON TOP OF A TREE

DIAZ:.....

AND STANDING. DIAZ KEEPS CLIMBING THE TREE TO THE POINT. AND, WITH GREAT EFFORT, LEAP TO ANOTHER TREE.

DIAZ:....(SIGH) IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT HE WOULD LEAVE ME.

AND JUMP AGAIN TO ANOTHER TREE.

DIAZ:BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND. WHY DID MAXIMILIANO TAKE A LONG TIME TO MENTION IT?

AND JUMP FASTER, FROM TREE TO TREE.

DIAZ:I WANT TO SAY, I DON'T CARE. HE DESERVES IT FOR HOW VERY GOOD KING THAT HE WAS, AND THAT ON TOP OF IT HELPED ME TO IMPROVE MY LEARNING AND CUSTOMS! AND THAT ABOVE I LET ME BE ON A BED !!. AND DEFENDED ME WHEN NOBODY-

AND JUMPING MANY TIMES. DIAZ GIVES A WRONG JUMP AND HITS THE TREE, FALLING INTO THE SNOW ON THE GROUND.

DIAZ:OUH!....WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?.

AND GETTING UP. DIAZ NOTES BLOOD IN THE SNOW.

DIAZ:....EH?.

AND REVIEWING. HE REALIZES THAT HE HAD AN INJURED ON THE HEAD.

DIAZ:...OK, NO TO PANIC, IT WAS JUST A SMALL WOUND...BETTER I RETURN TO THE KINGDOM.

AND WALKING. DIAZ RETURNS TO HIS KINGDOM, ALL DARK AT NIGHT.

DIAZ:.....

AND HEAR A SHAKE.

DIAZ:....OH NO.

AND IT IS NOTICED THAT SOMEONE WAS TRYING TO ENTER THE KINGDOM, BUT ONLY COLLAPSED AGAINST AN INVISIBLE FIELD. SO HE'S GOING TO SEE THAT GUY.

DIAZ:...HELLO ARCEUS.

ARCEUS:WELL, WELL, WELLL. BUT IF HE IS THE SUCCESSOR OF ALL THIS DISGUSTING KINGDOM.

DIAZ:WELL, WELL. BUT HE IS THE ONE WHO LOST HIS RESPECT AND MARRIED A BALL.

ARCEUS:(IMPACT) HOW DARE YOU ?! WILSON AND I ARE JUST FRIENDS, OTHER THAN HE IS INTERESTED IN SOMEONE, RIGHT, WILSON?

AND HE TALKED TO A BALL LIKE THE ONE FROM THE MOVIE "CAST AWAY".

ARCEUS:SEE?.

DIAZ:ARCEUS, COULD YOU LEAVE THE KINGDOM AT ONCE ?. YOU STILL COMPLAINING THAT WE TAKEN OFF YOUR POSITION, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE DID IT.

ARCEUS:THIS SITE WAS WHERE THEY SHOWED EVERYONE HOW CORRUPT I AM AND THAT I ONLY THINK OF MYSELF AND, BLA, BLA, BLA, SENTIMENTAL GARBAGE FOR THE NON-LEGENDARIES.

DIAZ:I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT IT WAS US.

ARCEUS:ALL BECAUSE OF SIMÓN.

DIAZ:....WHAT?.

ARCEUS:SIMÓN DEMONSTRATED HOW CORRUPT I AM AND IN THE END, HE AND A FRIEND OF HIS DEFEATED ME. I DIED, I REVIVED AND THEN I DISCOVER THAT I AM NO LONGER A GOD TO THIS WORLD.

DIAZ:...MY DAD?.

ARCEUS:PAPA, IMBÉCILE, IT'S THE SAME. THAT GUY RUINED EVERYTHING...AT LEAST I DIDN'T HAVE TO SUPPORT EVERYTHING ALONE, DID WILSON?.

DIAZ:....DID MY DAD BEAT YOU?.

ARCEUS:....I TOLD YOU WE SHOULD CHANGE THE STORY WILSON, IT MAKES ME LIKE A WEAK!.

DIAZ:.....WOW....IT MEANS THAT IF I BELONG TO THE THRONE.

ARCEUS:OF COURSE NOT. EVEN THOUGH HE....HAS MADE AN EFFORT, AND I DECIDED ONLY TO IGNORE IT. IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT HE HAD REASONS FOR YOU TO BE ALLOWED TO BE SUCCESSOR TO THE KING. IF OR IF THEY SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED OR RESPECTED AND ALSO HAVE SOME BLOOD CONNECTION OF THE KING. AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT SIMÓN IS NOT EVEN THAT POPULAR WHERE HE REALLY COMES FROM.

DIAZ:.....GOOD NIGHT ARCEUS.

AND DIAZ WAS LEAVING HIM.

ARCEUS:REMEMBER MY WORDS DIAZ! WHEN YOUR FATHER RETURNS. YOU WILL SEE HIM DIE BEFORE ME!, BEFORE ME AND WILSON!.

AND ARRIVING AT THE CASTLE. DIAZ ENTERS WITH BAD WILL.

DIAZ: MAXIMILIANO!...I'M BACK!....I UNDERSTAND.

AND GOING TO A ROOM. HE TAKES A BANDAGE AND PUTS IT ON THE WOUND.

DIAZ:....

AND NOTICED LITTLE PRESENCE IN THE CASTLE.

DIAZ:...OK.

AND GOES TO HIS ROOM.

DIAZ:....DAD.

TIME BACK, WHEN DIAZ WAS STILL THREE YEARS OLD. DIAZ HAD HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM HIS FATHER BY BELLI. AND THE NEXT DAY.

DIAZ:....MAXIMILIANO.

MAXIMILIAN:HMM? GOOD "DIAZ"....DO YOU UNDERSTAND?.

DIAZ:MY SURNAME IS DIAZ.

MAXIMILIAN:EXACT. A GOOD JOKE...ALTHOUGH NOT THE BEST.

DIAZ:....MAXIMILIANO...HOW DID YOU MEET SIMÓN?.

MAXIMILIANO:....OU.... BELLI TOLD YOU.

DIAZ:...IS IT BAD TO ASK?.

MAXIMILIANO:...(SIGH) NO, HE ISN'T....I JUST HAVE HAD NOT HEARD FROM HIM IN A LONG TIME.

DIAZ:....WERE THEY FRIENDS?

MAXIMILIANO:...COME HERE DIAZ.

AND DIAZ SITS ON ONE SIDE OF THE THRONE.

MAXIMILIANO:LOOK DIAZ. BELIEVE IT OR NOT....I WAS AN IMBECILE.

DIAZ:IMBECILE?

MAXIMILIANO:IN A TIME. MY KINGDOM DID NOT TRUST ME, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE MY FATHER....WAS WORSE THAN I THOUGHT...BUT NOBODY COULD COMPLAIN ABOUT FEAR...I WAS A KING, SO I HAD MORE POWER THAN ANYONE ELSE...BUT ONE DAY TWO PARTICULAR POKÉMONS APPEARED....NOBODY KNEW THEM. BUT THEY SAID THAT THEY HAD A WAY OF ACTING VERY DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER.

DIAZ:WHAT DOES IT MEAN?.

MAXIMILIANO:THEY WERE VERY DRAMATIC, DISTRAWNED AND VERY FOOLISH, ALTHOUGH WITH A SOME FRESH SENSE OF HUMOR. THEY SEEMED NOT EVEN TO RESPECT THE KINGDOM, AS IF THEY WERE ONLY IN HIS HOUSE.

DIAZ:...MY DAD?.

MAXIMILIANO:AND HIS BROTHER...SIMÓN AND ALVARO....THEIR ATTITUDE SEEMED INSOLENT TO ME WHEN I MEET THEM AND I CHALLENGED THEM TO A POKEMON COMBAT. AND I REALIZED....THAT, DESPITE WHAT THEY SEEMED, THEY WERE BETTER THAN I THOUGHT.

DIAZ:DID THEY DEFEAT THE ROYALTY?

MAXIMILIANO:I KNOW, IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE....THE ROYALTY HAD LOST TO INSOLENT POKEMONS AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT SHAMED ME...I WAS WAITING FOR A MOON OR SOMETHING....AND YOUR FATHER...GAVE ME THE PAW.

DIAZ:....

MAXIMILIANO:TIME PASSED AND I UNDERSTOOD MANY THINGS THAT I HAD NEVER HAPPENED TO THINK. THEY....EVEN IF IT DIDN'T LIKE IT, THEY WERE MY BEST FRIENDS AND HELPED ME TO IMPROVE AS A KING.

DIAZ:WOW....BUT THEY WERE NOT WORTHY OF THE THRONE.

MAXIMILIANO:...IN THIS WORLD. ONLY THE POPULAR AND THE REAL BLOOD DESERVE A PLACE ON THE THRONE....BUT THE HELL WITH THAT. BLOOD OR NOT, THEY COULD EVEN FORM THEIR OWN KINGDOM....BUT TO TELL THE TRUTH. THEY PREFERRED THEIR LIVES AS THEY WERE, INSTEAD OF HOW THEY COULD HAVE IT .... DIAZ, IF I CAN TELL YOU ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR FATHER, IT IS THAT, IF I WOULDN'T HAVE MEET SIMÓN AND ALVARO....I MUCH DOUBT THAT MY KINGDOM WOULD REMAIN LIKE THIS .

DIAZ:.....

MAXIMILIANO:AND THEN HE ASKED ME IF YOU HAD A CHANCE OF BECOMING A KING. AND I DEFINITELY ACCEPT.

DIAZ:.....AND WHERE IS IT?.

MAXIMILIANO:....OU....

AND HE JUST DOESN'T ANSWER HIM.

DIAZ:.....MAXIMILIANO WHAT SHOULD I DO AS SUCCESSOR TO THE THRONE?

MAXIMILIANO:WHAT?

DIAZ:....I WANT TO BE WORTHY.

MAXIMILIANO:.....WELL. EACH NEXT KING MUST READ THE BOOK THAT TELLS THE CUSTOMS OF THE PREVIOUS GENERATIONS, AMONG OTHER THINGS. BESIDES THAT EACH SUCCESSOR MUST GO TO SCHOOL, UNTIL THE KING DECIDES THE MOMENT IN WHICH HE SHOULD LEAVE IT.

DIAZ:I UNDERSTAND.

MAXIMILIANO:....

AT NIGHT. IN HISROOM

DIAZ:....THE ROYALTY BOOK.

DIAZ:...OK. IS TIME....WELL....OPEN IT NOW DIAZ!

AND OPEN IT.

DIAZ:(Yawning)...DAMN!.

AND WITH EFFORT HE READ WHAT I COULD. AND IN THE NIGHTS HE LISTEN ABOUT HIS FATHER

BELLI:AND WHEN WE THINK HE DIDN'T SURVIVE. IT TURNED OUT I WAS ONLY REST FOR A WHILE.

DIAZ:WOW...

AND AT THE SAME TIME. HE STARTED TO TRAIN.

BELLI:6...7...8...9...10. READY DIAZ, ENOUGH.

DIAZ:NO!....A LITTLE MORE BELLI, PLEASE.

BELLI:....OK.

AND DIAZ KEPT TRAINING AND IMPROVING HIS STRENGTH

BELLI:OKEY DIAZ, YOUR NEXT STEP IS THE NEXT. DO YOU SEE THIS TREE?.

DIAZ:AHA.

BELLI:IT'S A MAHOGANY, ONE OF THE HARDEST WOOD TREES. YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT DOWN BUT USING YOUR FISTS AND WITHOUT USING ANY MOVEMENTS.

DIAZ:....GOT IT.

AND DIAZ, WITH FORCE, HITS HIM.

DIAZ:OUCH!.....

AND HE DOES IT AGAIN, BUT NOTHING HAPPENS.

BELLI:....IT'S VERY HARD TO BREAK.

AND DIAZ KEEPS HITTING HIM.

BELLI:...HEY DIAZ. WHEN YOU WANT TO NOTIFY ME AND WE BETTER GO TO ANOTHER TRAINING.

DIAZ:...I'LL STAY HERE UNTIL I CAN FALL DOWN THE TREE. YOU RETURN TO THE CASTLE.

BELLI:....OK, BUT COME BACK WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED.

AND BELLI, "GOING", DECIDES TO HIDE BEHIND A TREE. AND HE WATCHED HOW DIAZ KEPT HITTING THE TREE WITHOUT GIVING.

DIAZ:LET'S GO!.

AND IT GOES ON. AND IT GETS AT NIGHT.

DIAZ:OUH!....(SIGH)...ONE MOMENT.

AND NOTING WHERE I HIT. NOTICE A SMALL SCRATCH.

DIAZ:....GOOD....A LITTLE MORE.

AND KEEP HITTING.

BELLI:....

AND IT CONTINUED SO. WHEN HE GOT TIRED, HE RESTED NEXT TO THE TREE. WHEN IT RAINED AND SNOWED, IT JUST CONTINUED. SEVERAL POKEMONS WERE WATCHING IT, SOME STAYED A GOOD TIME. AND AFTER 10 DAYS.

DIAZ:TAKE IT!.

AND GIVES IT A HIT.

DIAZ:(TIRED BREATHING)....

AND NOTICED THAT HIS HANDS WERE DIRTY AND SOMETHING INJURED.

DIAZ:....

BUT DIAZ GRITS HIS FISTS HARD.

DIAZ:NOT YET.

AND WITH STRENGTH AND WITHOUT STOPPING. KEEP HITTING WITH GREAT FORCE.

DIAZ:NOT YET!.

AND PREPARED. GIVE ONE LAST HIT WITH ALL HIS FORCES.

DIAZ:....

AND A LITTLE BLOOD COMES OUT OF HIS HANDS.

DIAZ:....AYAYAYAY! HURT HURTS!.

AND WITHOUT PAYING ATTENTION. THE TREE BEGAN TO FALL INTO HIM.

BELLI:DIAZ!.

AND BELLI, BEING QUICK, GETS IT OUT OF THERE. AND THE TREE FALLS.

BELLI:ARE YOU OK?!.

DIAZ:....DID I DO IT?

BELLI:...YES....YOU MADE IT.

DIAZ:...YES! YAJU! IN YOUR TREE FACE, TREE! YOU THOUGHT I COULDN'T. BUT I KICKED YOU IN THE BACK OF THE TREE!.

BELLI:PFF, YOU ARE TALKING TO A TREE...WELL DONE.

DIAZ:....AUCH.

BELLI:MAYBE WE SHOULD REST NOW.

DIAZ:....THEN WE GO ON, RIGHT?

BELLI:...OF COURSE.

DIAZ:....

AND DIAZ HUGS BELLI'S FOOT.

DIAZ:THANK YOU FOR TAKING CARE OF ME.

BELLI:....I AM HERE TO SERVE THE KINGDOM AND THE SUCCESSOR.

AND CONTINUING SO. DIAZ INCREASES HIS STRENGTH AND THEN IMPROVES HIS MOVEMENTS. AND EVERY DAY ENDED WITH LISTENING ABOUT SIMÓN AND ALVARO.

BELLI:GOOD. THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY, HE RESTS.

DIAZ: ... MY DAD SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE INCREDIBLE.

BELLI: IT IS....HIM AND HIS BROTHER ARE SERIOUSLY AMAZING.

DIAZ:....BELLI....WHY DID MY DAD LEAVE ME?.

BELLI:....I....REST.

AND IT GOES FROM THERE.

DIAZ:....(SIGH).

AND HE BEGAN TO DREAM.

(DIAZ:.....

AND DIAZ NOTICED THAT I WAS SITTING ON A CHAIR. AND IN FRONT OF HIM WAS THE DINING TABLE.

DIAZ:...

AND SEE HIS PLATE.

DIAZ:....(SNIFF) WHAT IS THIS?.

AND LISTEN TO SOMEONE CHEW A LOT.

DIAZ:....

AND DIAZ SAW THAT HE WAS AT THE PUNTA. SO, GETTING UP, GOING TO SEE.

DIAZ:...HELLO?.

AND ARRIVING AT THE PUNTA. SEE A POKEMON EATING NON-STOPPING.

DIAZ:....EXCUSE ME?.

AND THE POKÉMON STOPPED EATING. AND LOOKED AT DIAZ.

:...HELLO.

DIAZ:.....WHAT ARE YOU EATING?.

:FRENCH FRIES, A LOVE FOR YOUR MOUTH. WHAT'S UP BUDDY?.

DIAZ:....FRENCH FRIES?.

:....HUH, IT'S WEIRD YOU DO NOT KNOW THESE THINGS.

DIAZ:...WHO ARE YOU?.

:AND DOES THE GUY TELL ME THAT DOES NOT KNOW REAL FOOD?. WHO ARE YOU?.

DIAZ:....MY NAME IS DIAZ.

:.....WHAT?.

DIAZ:IS SOMETHING HAPPENING?.

:....BUT.....NO....I DON'T....I-IS THIS IS A DREAM, RIGHT?.

DIAZ:.....YES, MY DREAM.

:...NO NO NO. THIS IS MY DREAM, CAN'T...

AND DIAZ SEEN THE POKÉMON SHAKE.

DIAZ: ARE YOU-

: HOW ARE YOU HERE DIAZ?!.

AND SUDDENLY. DISAPPEARS IN FRONT OF DIAZ.

DIAZ:WHAT?

AND SOME STRANGE VOICES BEGAN TO SOUND IN THE PLACE.

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AND WAKES UP.

DIAZ:....WHAT HAPPENED?.

AND RETURNING TO OUR TIME. IN HER BED.

DIAZ:....

AND DIAZ FEELS AN AURA.

DIAZ:...MAXIMILIANO?.

BUT HE REALIZES IT WAS NOT HIS AURA.

DIAZ:....gray.

AND DIAZ, WITHOUT DOUBT, HIDES UNDER HIS BED. AND HE ENTERS HIS ROOM.

POKÉMON:.....HE IS NOT HERE.

POKÉMON:THEY SAW HIM RETURN TO THE CASTLE.

POKÉMON:SO IT'S NOT HERE.

POKÉMON:CHECK THE BATHROOM.

AND SEEING THE FEET. THEY WAS GOING TO THE BATHROOM.

POKÉMON:DO WE REALLY LOOK FOR IT ?.

POKÉMON:YOU KNOW THAT HE WILL BE THE NEXT KING OF THE NORTH. AND NO WE CAN ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.

POKÉMON:WE HAVE THE CURRENT KING AND NOW WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE FARSANTE, DOES IT MATTER?.

POKÉMON:YOU WERE AT THE REUNION OF KINGS, YOU KNOW THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHO OBTAINED THE PLATINUM CROWN.

POKÉMON:BUT IT ISN'T THAT HE COULD WITH ALL OF US.

AND DIAZ, LISTENING TO EVERYTHING, BEGINS TO SCARE. AND SEEING THAT THEY WERE STILL IN THE ROOM, HE SEES A BALL OF HIS. AND, TAKING IT, POINTS IT AT THE WINDOW AND THROWS IT. AND THE BALL MAKES A NOISE AND THEN IT FALLS OUT THE WINDOW.

POKÉMON:DID YOU HEAR THAT ?.

POKÉMON:HE WENT THROUGH THE WINDOW! WALKING!.

AND BOTH POKEMONS LEAVE THE ROOM. AND DIAZ, SEEING HIS AURAS GETTING AWAY, LEAVES FROM UNDER HIS BED.

DIAZ:...MAXIMILIANO....

AND NOTING OTHER AURAS APPROACHING. IT GOES TO THE WINDOW AND, INSTEAD OF GETTING DOWN, BEGINS TO CLIMB TO THE ROOF.

DIAZ:(SHAKING BREATHING).

AND ON THE CEILING. START RUNNING AND SEE DOWN, POKÉMONS AT THE DOOR.

DIAZ:...OH NO.

AND DIAZ WAS RUNNING BACK THE CASTLE. AND SEEING THAT THERE WERE NO POKEMONS ON THAT SIDE. LOOKING DOWN, SEEING THE WATER.

DIAZ:....

AND PREPARED. JUMP AND FALL INTO WATER.

POKEMON:WHAT WAS THAT?.

AND DIAZ, GETTING OUT OF THE WATER, NOTES THAT THEY WERE APPROACHING HIM AND RUNS, AVOIDING BEING SEEN, UNTIL HE REACHES THE SNOW.

DIAZ:(BREATHING TIRED)....MAXIMILIANO....

AND SEEING THE ICY LANDSCAPE.

DIAZ:....BELLI...THE KINGDOM OF THE EAST....

AND DIAZ DECIDES TO GO EAST TO LOOK FOR BELLI. BUT BEFORE YOU CONTINUE, FEEL SOME AURAS.

DIAZ:....IS....

AND GOING TO THE AURA. COMES TO A ROCK, AND SURROUNDING IT.

DIAZ:....BRAIXEN?.

BRAIXEN:.....DIAZ?