Pokemon, The Five Families Preview

In the four regions: Kanto, Johto, Honen, and Sinnoh, each of these regions were once a peaceful and growing community. But like all eras of peace and harmony, it was a phase designed to end. The peace and innocence of the four regions eventually descended into the life of crime and greed due to the sudden uprising of criminals forming into groups and carrying out operations in a manner that seemed well planned.

Originally, the crimes that were being carried out by multiple groups were slightly non-threatening, things like: Thieving, tax evasion, counterfeiting, and armed robberies. However, as time passed, many of these groups of criminals grew greedy and had the desire to earn more cash. As a result, their crimes became much bolder and dangerous.

The groups of criminals began to establish their individual territories in developing towns or populated cities to ensure that the locals know that they are here to stay. Once the groups established their presence in the selected area, that was when the presence of crime really took it's toll on the world. The groups began to extort local shops, warehouses, restaurants, practically anything that was connected to the local's day to day life, and began to collect money from the owners of the buildings for protection and brought a new shade of grey into the owner of the building's lives by establishing a "fronts" and "rackets" in their seemingly innocent business. These fronts and rackets was one of the many cores on how the groups of how the groups of criminals made a large amount of profits, the fronts are used to forward and sell a large amount of illegal materials or activities to the public in a subtle manner: drugs, guns, unlicensed minor casinos, Pokemon, and prostitution were the main source of currency for the Criminals.

Eventually, these groups of criminals became known as a "Family." It is not in a reference to blood relatives, but those who are considered like blood and have rankings. The Don is the leader of the Family. An Underboss is the Don's right hand. Capos are considered to be the captains of the family who are in charge of the soldiers. The soldiers are the front line leaders for the lowly enforcers and associates of the family. And finally, the Enforcers and Associates are the unofficial group a part of the crime family, not very important but act as "Militias" of a Family's territory or the take over of another territory. Once all of the four regions groups of criminals considered their own groups as a Family, an all-out crime war broke loose. The four regions were almost like a battlefield for the warring Family's. Their desire to claim more territory for their profits is what drove the war into an almost near blood bath; to make matters worse, the local citizens were caught in the middle of the crossfire.

The civil war between the criminal family's lasted for a very long time. There were many family's that wanted to claim the Regions for their own, but as always, there is only one winner per region.

The first Family that won complete and utter dominance was the Neo Family from the Johto Region, headed by Silver Soul with his Underboss, Gold Heart, and the favored Associate, Crystal Williams. Together, these three individual started from scratch when the Family War began and built their way up the ladder of becoming a very vicious crime family that specialized with fronting drugs to the streets and seducing many through prostitutes. The Capos of the Neo family are Will and Karen. The Soldiers are: Clair, Whiteny, Chuck, and Jasmine. The Don of the Neo Family was infamous due to his alarming rate of his climb to power, the fact that Silver ruled his territories with an iron grip, and the mysterious ability to send Rival Family's to jail at will. Gold, Silver's Underboss, was not really significant to Silver's take-over of the Johto Region, but he was known to be the first to join Silver and was extremely loyal, providing him with privileges that seemed out of character compared to how Silver treats his sub-ordinates that has failed a task; there was a rumor going around that Gold and Silver are closer than just friends. Crystal on the other hand, was paramount, if not, one of the major factors that caused the Neo family to take over Johto so quickly, she provided the majority of the Neo family with Pokemon she caught herself; although Crystal had the ability to become a Capo or even replace Gold as an Underboss, she stated that she is only a provider and will do anything to aid the family, but will not contribute through violent means. The members of the Neo Family wears a black suit and a red dress shirt underneath, their insignia is an eerie white mask, their insignia is stitched to the left breast pocket of their black suit.

The second family to become a "Major Crime Family" was the Oak Family from Kanto, headed by Green Oak, with his Underbosses Red Oak and Blue Paterson. The Oak family was the first of the Regions to have two Underbosses and four Capos at once yet one less soldier, but this provided an unstoppable force like of nature. The Capos of the Oak Family are: Lorelei, Agatha, Bruno, and Lance. The Soldiers of the Oak Family are: Brock, Misty, and Koga. Unlike the Neo Family, the Oak Family was one of the first groups of criminals to form a Family, founded by Green Oak's Grandfather, who was known as "Professor" Oak. Once Green took over, he turned a band of street thugs into a force to reckon with. When Red came into the picture, Red was considered to be stronger than Green, however did not have the same intelligence as Green, thus became the unofficial term of Green being the "Gun" and Red being the "Trigger"; the two were the best of friends to an extent where Red adopted Green's last name to prove his friendship. Blue became an Underboss by speeding through the ranks of the Oak Family, she became the go to woman if Green needed someone killed or collect information from the streets. The Oak Family is revered and feared the most out of all the Family due to their power, however, they are not as profitable because, while they do not have any weak points in their range of crime life, they only specialize in any crimes other than extortion. The members of the Oak Family wears a dark green trench coat with a white dress shirt underneath, their insignia is a grand oak tree, their insignia is stitched to the left breast pocket of their dark green suit.

The Third Family that became a Major Crime Family with the least amount of blood was known as the Birthstone Family from the Honen Region, headed by Sapphire Birch, with her Underboss Ruby Fire, and the Capo Emerald Watson. Unlike the Neo and Oak Family, the Birthstone Family became what it was through diplomatic terms, offering minor crime families the opportunity to merge together and become profitable by specializing in fashion both human and Pokemon alike, taking over fashion industries by force and controlling the tides of fashion world wide and eliminating the competition through assassinations of a company's president or buying them out. The two other Capos are: Wallace and Steven Stone. The Soldiers are: Roxanne, Brawly, Wattson, and Flannery. Although the Birthstone Family was known to become a Major Family with the least amount of blood, the start of the Birthstone Family's history was by far the bloodiest, their Don, Sapphire Birch, was completely blood thirsty and notorious for eliminating anyone that stands in her way with a constant aura of rage, she and her family killed anyone from men and women to babies; although Sapphire lacks intelligence and tactics, she makes it up for her devastating raw power and it is without a doubt that since her reputation of being brutal is almost known world wide, that was the reason why many of the Minor Family's in the Honen Region were quick to join Sapphire. However, when Ruby and Emerald was recruited into the Birthstone Family, Ruby rose to the ranks of the Birthstone Family and replaced the Underboss, he then began to persuade Sapphire into using more diplomatic terms instead of sheer violence, since Sapphire was not too bright, she reluctantly agreed as well as agreeing to Ruby's plan on exploiting Honen's trendy public by specializing in its genre; in the world of crime, many would agree that Sapphire is just a figure head of the Birthstone Family and Ruby is the one who truly runs the Family's affairs. Emerald became the third Capo of the Birthstone family for one reason only, he was the only one who can calm Ruby and Sapphire from a heated argument; although Ruby is considered to be a diplomat, he is almost as hard headed and short tempered as Sapphire. The members of the Birthstone Family wears a light blue suit with a white dress shirt underneath while wearing a light blue fedora, their insignia is the zodiac symbol of the Aquarius, their insignia is printed on the fedora.

Finally, the family that ruled Sinnoh is the Berlitz Family, headed by Platinum Berlitz and her two Underbosses Diamond Nelson and Pearl Palmer. Together, these three individuals took down Sinnoh's Rival Crime Families through Political means and bleeding the Rival Families dry of money, they specialized in: Casinos, Mining excavations, and Media. Out of all of the four Crime Families, the Berlitz Family was arguably not a Crime Family at all since Platinum's Father is one of the Politicians in the Sinnoh Government and when Platinum first started her new Crime Family, she was doing quite poorly until Pearl and Diamond came into the picture. The Capos are: Aaron, Bertha, Flint, and Lucian. The Soldiers are: Rorak, Gardenia, Maylene, Byron, and Candice. Diamond was well liked amongst the Berlitz Family, his ability to offer diplomatic options to where it seems nearly impossible beyond repair proves to be extremely useful, not only that, but he also proposed to copy the Family structure hierarchy of the Oak Family, giving Pearl his position to stand with him and making the Berlitz Family Deadlier. To say Pearl was a deadly fighter was a complete understatement, when Pearl joined with Diamond, he may have been solely responsible for training the majority of the Berlitz Family including Platinum herself and the majority of the operations that involves claiming a territory was led by Pearl and a handful of enforcers and associates; there is a rumor going around that Diamond and Pearl are more than just friends as well as Platinum taking an interest on Diamond, Diamond and Pearl do not deny they are more than just friends, but Platinum only responds with silence. Don Platinum may have started off with a mediocre performance, but she may be considered the most deadliest Don out of the four Regions when it comes to Intelligence in both the amount of money each Family is making and know which businesses she could cripple, her ability to license Casinos and the mining excavations does not arouse any suspicion in the public since her father is well known, but what the public does not know is that she is the head of a Crime Family, making her a much deadlier foe and connected to many corrupt politicians; although Platinum was trained by Pearl, has Diamond to convince almost anyone to settle civil dispute through means of peace, and the Berlitz Family richest out of the Four Regional Families, they are the weakest when it comes to actual power since Platinum does not have the killer instincts like Sapphire, the street smarts of Green, and the Fist to rule effectively like Silver. The Berlitz Family wears polished grey suits with a black striped dress shirt underneath, their insignia is the crown of an Empoleon, which was neatly stitched and refined at the back of the grey suits.

The Man that Gold and Crystal ended up following took the north exit of Mahagony town, which led them through route 48. Gold and Crystal then noted that he didn't go through the pay toll and sprayed himself with repel, he then took the grassy parts of route 48. The man then took the left pathway which led him deeper into the Lake Of Rage's harsh forest, the two Neo Family Members continued to tread through the forest carefully and was trying everything in vain not to alert any of the local Pokémon to attack and make any sudden attacks on them. After thirty minutes of stalking, the man finally reached his destination, it was a warehouse hidden deep in Lake of Rage's forest side, the man then knocked on a wooden door three times and whispered something over through the door, the door then opened and the man went inside.

Gold and Crystal looked at each other and nodded, the Consigliere then suggested "We'll have to remember this area so that we can send in some of our guys to take them out. But for now, it's too risky with just the two of us, we don't know how many people are inside of that warehouse and more importantly, we don't know who these people are."

"Relax, we've dealt with hot-shot new Crime Family's before, remember?" Gold chuckled softly "They stir up a lot of shit, we only send in two guys to fuck em up and disband them. It will be like every other time, alright?"

Crystal sighed and shook her head, "I just got a bad feeling about this..."

When the announcement came on that the club opened, the entire room were immediately filled with high-rollers, clubbers, and many, many Slowpoke Tail addicts. While the guests of the clubs were partying to the beats, it was unknown to the most that once the DJ of the club drops the bass, it was when Slowpoke Tails were being sold to many people of different classes. The bartenders were responsible for handing out the Slowpoke Tails to a selective few out of the crowds, who were really dealers of the Neo Family, they find targets that are interested in the products by asking a code known to all Slowpoke Addicts "Care to ride the high side?" Once that code was spoken, the addict must respond saying "Only for a little while," the dealer and the customer then dances together on the dance floor, once the DJ drops the bass, the two customer dances together in a lustful matter, regardless of gender, and slips the drug to the customer's pocket while the customer hands the money to the dealer after the bass effect wears off.

A man in a brown trench coat with a hat covering his eyes began to walk and push the crowds away that were leaving The Masked Children Club, which ended at 2:30Am. The bouncer that is an Enforcer of the Neo Family, was ensuring that everyone was leaving still stood by the door with his muscular arms still crossed.

When the bouncer saw the man in a brown trench coat walking towards the door, he held out his arm and warned him "Club's closed buddy, haul your ass the other way." But once the man in the trench coat tipped his hat upwards, the bouncer's face turned pale and immediately stepped aside and said "Don't keep him waiting, you Stantler cocksucker."

The man in the trench coat simply laughed and shook his head as he walked in. The entire club was a mess, there were waiters and waitresses still cleaning up all the vomit and picking up the clothes, along with the loose change. He knew full well that there was someone watching him with a piercing look, a feeling that could never be forgotten. The man the walked up to the observation door, which was left unguarded. He went through the door and went upstairs to the room where he found Crystal standing beisde Silver, who was leaning on the glass window, and Gold, who was sitting down and staring at the man with the trench coat.

Immediately, Gold jumped from his seat released his Pokémon, a Typlhosion "Who the fuck do you think you are, barging into a private room?" The Neo Underboss was clearly pissed, when he heard no answer, he kicked up his threatening presence tenfold "Explorato, show him the wall."

The Typhlosion's smile turned dark and quickly pushed the tench coat man to the wall roughly and began to tower over him and opened his mouth to have a Blast Fire ready to turn him to dust.

"Dammit Silver- call your dog off!" The trench coat man wailed, he stared at the horrific fire with a pale face, almost as if he was staring at the depths of Hell's fire "Seriously, stop playin, get him off me! Its me, Looker!"