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The creation of a Shadowsmith

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It was the year fifteen-twenty-two, and in a forge on the edge of the town, a fifteen year old Eevee busy working on the anvil with the newest order of Town Guard Swords repairs. Her name is Antonietta Annunziata Smith, as she haven't yet picked her elemental path. Her father Giovanni Flamesmith the Flareon hopes that she becomes a Flareon when her sixteenth birthday comes around, as it is common tradition for all Eevees in the Smith family. He know that his daughter haven't been the happiest since that day.

That day, five years prior, on a full Lunar Eclipse, a Leafeon and an Eevee, Antonietta and her Mother, were running along rooftops towards the Castle. Antonietta felt more closer to her mother and the rest of the Sunweavers. There three things the Sunweavers were known for: Being either Leafeon or Espeon, being the best Tailors in their communities, and being the best thief in their area. When they got close to the Castle Walls, Ginerva made then-ten-year-old Antonietta to wait out of sight. While Antonietta waited, Ginerva sneaked into the Castle.

Ginerva sneaked into the Guard Quarters and put on one of their uniforms. As she marched past countless guards, whom never attempted to stop her, she walked all the way to a small supply closet. She managed to hide in there before any guards noticed her. She removed the armour and made a hole in the wall into another small room. This room happens to be the Royal Closet of the Queen, Queen Mew.

Ginerva used her Seed Bomb move to blow a small hole in the metal lining.  She sneaked in and used her Double Team to distract any of the guards whom had heard the explosion. Ginerva grabbed the Crown and a few Flawless gems into a small pouch. She managed to escape to the roof, however, a few of the Royal Guards had her surrounded. Ginerva decided to use a Flash and Double Team combo. However, while she was trying to escape from the confusion that she had caused, an Aura Sphere crashed into her back. The pouch that had the gems flew into a bush below while the Crown slid out of the Messager Bag, to only be recovered by a Guard using Vine Whip to grab it. Due to the strength of the Aura Sphere, Ginerva struggled to see whom had launched it. Much to her surprise, it was Queen Mew herself whom had used it. Before passing out, she heard the Queen mentioned the word "Dungeon".

Antonietta covered her mouth, to maintain her silence. Once they were gone, she quickly and quietly ran over to the bush and recovered the sack before disappearing.  As she was running, she was caught by a Guard. She Retaliated and used Swift on the Guard.  Once the Guard was a bit off-balanced, Antonietta quickly used her Quick Attack to escape. Her father was angry about what she had done, however, he was even more angry with his wife. Within a month, with the Archbishop approval, divorsed his Wife.  He kept a very tight reign on his daughter until she was a Mid-Teenager.

Currently, in fifteen-twenty-two, Giovanni was walking through the streets, looking for more broken metal stuff that he could use to improve his Forge supply. As he was walking, someone whom was hiding their face, stabbed him in his back before running away. The blade was heavily poisoned when it was inserted into his body. The blade broke off within his body. Before long, someone had told Antonietta about it and she rushed to the scene.

"Father!" Antonietta ran up to the scene, but was stopped.

"Get back!" the Guard shoved her back, and gripped his weapon more, ready to strike out at her.

"That's my Father!" Antonietta growled and points at Giovanni's body.

One of the Soldiers, from the looks of his armour, a high-ranking one, stepped towards her, basically glaring at her, "Go home, little girl. We will catch the murderer. Go home."

Antonietta growls before walking away. She hated the fact that she couldn't do anything. In her mind, it was one of the Guards had killed her Father and ruined her entire family's livihood. When she arrived back at her home, she saw a feral Pokemon with a scroll in its fur. It was late at night by this point and the moon was beginning to rise. She managed to get scroll off of the Pokemon's fur before it ran away. She opened it up and surprised that it was in Night Glyphs, a secret Sunweaver trick that only one-out-of-ten from the Clan knows about it, let alone know how to use it. It was from her great-grandfather Tancredo Sunweaver. It was about her mother, whom had signed it with her own glyphs, and stating that she was very much alive.

"I'm glad she is alive still." Antonietta smiled up at the Lunar Eclipse, "However, I lost my family to the Royals' Avarice. To the Archbishop's Hubris. To this Country's Evious Jealousy. I want to make this country right. If I must Sin to do it, then I will do it by following in my Mother's footsteps. I will become........a thief."

She looked at the Moon and feel its power flooding her and she became an Umbreon. When she looked at herself in the clear pool of water nearby, she smiled by her new form's beauty. After five to ten minutes, she walks into her Forge and made a beautiful necklace, with a flawless ruby in the center, to represent the Lunar eclipse. The metal was silver.  She put it onto her neck, where it has remained for the remaining ten years up to her current adult age of twenty-five. The fire of hatred for the Crowns and the Archbishop continues to burn as bright as that day. it rivals her late-father's entire fiery personality. Ever since that day, she added the name "Shadow" to her surname, due to her Umbreon form and mastered the Moon Glyphs, since she is a Umbreon.

The finishes her newest weapon.  It appears as a normal metal rod, until she flicks it and it appears as a collaspable Kunai. Another collaspable weapon of hers, made out of steel instead of Steel with iron core, was a sword, equally strong, but more swifter then those of the guards. As she examining the Kunai, Antonietta smiled wide a very wicked smile, that rivals the grinch's.

"It is time to bring forth this Country's Sins!~"

Then she flicked the Kunai shut and pretend masterfuly that everything is normal. She was still figuring of how to create a honest group of Thieves, in a Guild-like fashion. Thus forms the life of Antonietta Shadowsmith.
This is my contest entry for :iconpoke-renaissance:'s up-coming contest. The theme is "Innocence Taken".    :thumb551155414:


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GobboKilla's avatar
Awesome story~ (and background) :floating:
Things might get interesting when she meets Yuurei ;P

Though, really, Giovanni? :rofl: