The Palace of Natural Armonia Gropius

"It's over! No human will ever hurt or manipulate a pokemon again! All thanks to my friend Zekrom who is the representation of my thought!" N said in an imposing and confident tone to a kneeling and hopeless Mirto.

"Even being the champion and the strongest you were not able to defeat me, you do not deserve to be called the protector and the champion of Unova" N said in a disappointed and contemptuous tone.

"Now I just have to show myself as the strongest trainer and the one who beat the champion to order everyone to give up their pokemon and let them free" N said with a serious and determined tone.

"Don't do it! You don't know what it hurts to lose your family! Please, don't make them suffer like that" Mirto said with a downcast and sad tone as he pleaded with him not to do it.

"I know that you lost your partner a long time ago and that you only limited yourself to roaming the world after that, but that doesn't bother me, I'm glad that you follow what you feel, but that's not enough to let the pokemon suffer and leave everything behind just like you" said N with a bit of regret and understanding and then confidently say the last.

"You lost in a fair and clean battle, Zekrom is the personification of my thought and you lost to him, so you have nothing to say to me" N said with a sharp tone leaving Mirto without the strength to continue and then turning to see Touya.

"I was waiting for you, you have the Light stone of course, as I saw it in my future, but this is not a good place for the final battle" N said seriously to Touya, who had a serious and ready look as well.

"Than comes from the depths that my palace rises!!" N said loudly as he spread his arms around causing a huge earthquake a few seconds later.

Outside the league, a great palace began to rise from under the ground, surrounding the entire pokemon league and then launching roads towards it.

One of those roads went through the roof of the room where Touya Mirto and N were, landing next to N and giving way to the palace.

"See how my palace rises answering the call of this king!" N said in a haughty and quite confident tone.

"I will wait for you on my throne, there we will see who is right, the one who wants the pokemon to separate from humans and live fully and happily and the one who thinks that both should live together" said N with an explanatory tone while looking to Touya seriously.

"At that moment it will be shown who has a stronger conviction, you or me!, And above all who of us is correct" N said with a sure and determined tone and then go up to his palace.

Mirto could only kneel on the ground in utter despair as he sank into the thoughts of him and apparently remembered his past with pain.

'It's the same as always, I'm just a champion attempt, I can't even stop a child with delusions of grandeur who wants to hurt my region' thought Mirto angrily as he clenched his fists and teeth on the ground.

*Tap**Tap**Tap*.

Mirto looked up for a moment and saw Touya climbing the palace stairs.

"Y-young Touya, where are you going? Can't you see that he has already beaten us?" Mirto said with difficulty and a low tone as he looked at Touya's back.

Touya turned around with a confident smile and said.

"He only beat you Mirto, I'm still in perfect shape, I still have a lot to prove" Touya said with a sure smile and without any trace of fear or insecurity.

"You don't realize, it's impossible to beat him with his legendary next to him!" Mirto said in shock when he saw the calm with which Touya took the situation.

"If he beats me, it's because Reshiram didn't respond to me and because he's right, plain and simple" Touya said calmly making Mirto look at him in confusion.

"But don't worry! I'm sure that Reshiram will appear and help me, after all pokemon and humans must be together like this they have always been and they will be" said Touya giving a thumb up with confidence.

"If he doesn't appear then I just have to give everything to the end for all those people who love their pokemon, that's what a champion does, right?" Touya said with a confident smile and then continued walking towards the palace.

Mirto was only shocked by Touya's words and then smiled slightly.

"Give everything even when you know you will lose huh? He would definitely be a better champion than me" Mirto said, regaining his hope a bit as he sat on the ground.

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At Touya's house, his mother was quietly watching television until she was interrupted by urgent news.

"Good afternoon! This is the reporter Emilia with the latest shocking news! We have just spotted an anomaly in the pokemon league! A great palace completely surrounded the league as well as even breaking into it! We don't have any news of the champion or the elite four but it is believed that those responsible for this are the most controversial cult in recent months! The team plasma! Stay with us to discover more about this situation!" The reporter said with an exalted and concerned tone and then pointed the camera at the pokemon league.

Touya's mother was shocked at this news, then adopted a worried and anxious attitude when she remembered that Touya was involved in all this.

"Be careful son, I know you can do it" Touya's mother said with concern but believing in her son as a whole.

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Touya walked up the stairs with a determined look as he adjusted his cap to get to N.

Upon entering the palace, Touya could notice that it had a very refined interior, even more than Yakon's gymnasium, as well as that the ground reminded him of the starry sky, but that it transmitted an eerie aura in each place.

And with just taking a couple more steps, Touya met 6 of the 7 sages lined up all with serious and confident looks.

"Whoever embraces his destiny lives long years, whoever rebels receives a lesson from it" said a sage dressed in a red robe and then took a step forward.

"There is no better virtue than that which fights vice" said the sage dressed in blue, also taking a step forward.

"The frog in the pond cannot conceive the vastness of the ocean" said the gray-robed sage, taking a step forward.

"The evil is not in having faults, but in trying to amend them" said the sage dressed in dark brown taking a step forward.

"Justice is what moves the noble, and greed, the villain / there are not two suns in heaven, nor two kings for the same people" said the last two sages, one dressed in light brown and the other in purple.

They all surrounded Touya in a semicircle ready to start the fight.

"King N told us to let you pass, and Lord Ghechis for some reason remained silent, but we cannot let you pass!, that would put all our effort in jeopardy, so it is up to us six to join forces to defeat you here and now!" Said the red-clad sage with seriousness and determination, making Touya take one of his pokeballs to start the fight.

But before starting, a familiar voice interrupted the conversation.

"But look at nothing else, if here are all those who owe me a beating" Yakon said, standing next to Touya with a sure smile.

"How are you Touya? We already knew they were going to do something in the league but I never thought they would build a palace, even so, we were ready for this" Yakon said with an excited smile making all the Unova leaders appear and face to the sages.

"Hello chosen! You seem to have already made your decision!" Iris said greeting Touya with a mocking smile.

"I don't know what the hell you think by believing that we wouldn't take action against you, we even had to bring in hundreds of trainers to stop all your recruits out there" Aloe said with a serious and confident tone.

"Tch, you fools, you can't even accept your defeat peacefully" said the purple clothed sage with annoyance.

Drayden looked at Touya for a moment and said.

"It seems that you already have that will Touya, in which case there is nothing to fear, go ahead, go and fulfill your role" said Drayden nodding with satisfaction when he saw Touya.

Touya nodded back with a small smile and then ran through the palace quickly.

Going up the stairs Touya found several rooms entering the first one quickly.

Upon entering he could see two recruits from the team plasma doing absolutely nothing, so he just turned around and looked into the next room.

Upon entering, Touya could see two women with indifferent gazes which were a bit scary.

"A chosen young pleasure, I am the muse of love" said one of the women with pink hair and white dress indifferently.

"A chosen young pleasure, I am the muse of peace" said the other blonde haired woman in a white dress and also with an indifferent tone.

"I-it's my pleasure, I'm Touya" Touya said without knowing very well how to interact with them.

Touya tried to see through them, but there was only a big void and nothing else, it was creepy.

"We are responsible for taking care of King N, he lived with pokemon abused by humans since he was a child without having any connection with humans, a child with a pure and kind heart" said the muse of peace without changing her expression in any moment.

"Ghechis found him and raised as his son knowing that this child was one of the chosen ones, but even he was not safe from the horror of this world" said the muse of love keeping her expression unchanged.

"He developed the ideal of saving all pokémon from his aggressors understanding his pain and suffering" said the muse of peace, still without changing her expression.

"And it is for all this that Ghechis gave him a new name that goes according to what he means" said the muse of love with the same expression.

"Natural Armonia Gropius, is the name of the one who will lead us to a better world" they both said at the same time making Touya have a chill as well as a greater understanding of N.

After this, Touya kept running through the palace until at one point he was stopped by a member of the shady trio.

"In that room, it's where King N has lived since his childhood, I can't see what it means, but I'm sure you can do it" said the ninja of the shady trio and then disappeared.

Touya entered said room finding a somewhat strange decoration.

The room was what every kid would want, a toy train, a basketball court, even a skateboard ramp.

But all those things only transmitted the loneliness of N, in addition to a clear disinterest and no kind of affection for the person who gave him all this.

It was strange, a happy environment that never made anyone happy, even though it may seem like it, it was never completely happy.

Touya could only feel empathy like always, after all, N didn't even have his mother to help him, but then he put that aside and went to stop him even more confident than before.

And just before entering N's room, Ghechis appeared, blocking Touya's path.