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sicker — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:11:22 CDT

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Pokemon masters work!

sicker — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:22:28 CDT

Pokemon masters work.... you may know Pokemon master owns this site but hes on it less often so I featured most of his best work
here.

Gardevoir journey trough the Nether world
The life of a hero
The pokemon pokedex
Fun-games

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sicker — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:35:54 CDT

15th August 2008
Hello guys! its...sicker! Here! wazup?
Everybody luvs sicker! I'd love to take over this site. I've sent a letter to the
maker asking if I could take over. Hope he replys!
-sicker

10th August 2008
Hello guys! its...sicker! Here! Well i've added a new page today
click here to see it!

Site Rules

sicker — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:59:38 CDT

Well I didn't really wanna post this but I felt the need to.
1) No Cursing
2) No Spamming
3) No Hacked pokemon of any kind please
4) No Double posting of any kind please
5) No Scamming
6) No Un-authorized Advertising

Breaking any of these rules will result in a warning, then banning. I think all of my members are above breaking these rules, but I posted them just in case.

Pokemon_Master

Hello we love this site we posted a add on this site and we posted a add on are site for this site
Who are we? we are PENGUIN BAND
-the most club penguin band ever.

PokEmon Moving pictures

sicker — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:42:35 CDT

Hey its Sicker! With my 1st page I ever made, on this site
well this page is about pokemon MOVING pictures heres my favourites!

Pika-dance 3-d

The blue red - and + dance!

PIKA RUN!

More.....

News

sicker — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:28:25 CDT

7/23/2008
Well its been a few days.I have been busy on the forum site. But I have a new official platinum trailer. heres the trailer
The film begins with Shaymin by an oasis, as Dialga appears. He drinks from the water, before being attacked by Giratina from the Torn World, in Another Form. Giratina comes through a portal, grabbing Dialga and dragging him into the Torn World. Shaymin gets caught in a whirlwind and is sucked through the portal, too. Dialga and Giratina fight, while Shaymin tries to survive - unnoticed by the giants - the battle. A advenurous-looking man with a Shieldon watches the battles from afar, spotting Shaymin. There are also glimpses of a computer simulation observing the battle, on the ship of Zero. Zero is this film's villian, who seems to be watching Giratina with the aim of capturing it. As the battle progresses, Shaymin absorbs a dark gas, and then explodes. The explosion causes a portal back to the real world to form, sucking Shaymin through. Dialga escapes through the portal, but it closes before Giratina can get through. Giratina keeps hitting the same spot over and over, in what the computer calls a "time loop". Dialga flies off and is not seen again in the film. Shaymin is thrown into a river, and goes out of control down a huge mountain to a small seaside town. We find Ash, Brock and Hikari in the town, with their Pokemon, enjoying Brock's cooking once more. Ash is scolded for not washing his hands before eating. As everyone is preoccupied with the Pokemon eating, a grey Shaymin starts eating "hot cakes" from the table. Piplup attacks Shaymin, causing a barbeque to be knocked over in the chaos. Shaymin absorbs the smoke and then explodes as before. Hikari saves Shaymin from being attacked by all the angry Pokemon, washing her under a tap. Its revealed that Shaymin can talk telepathically, and she talks of "ACHI" ("that place"), with irritates Ash as he can't understand. Shaymin teases Ash a lot about being stupid, but befriends Hikari. They take Shaymin to a Pokemon center, where Brock hits on Nurse Joy until his Croagunk punches him and drags him away. Shaymin says she'll lead them to "ACHI", sitting on Ash's head and making him move where she wants to go as he complains. Team Rocket watch in the Pokemon Center, and decide to try to steal Shaymin. In a garden full of strange isometric and rectangular statues, the sides of some start to ripple and Giratina appears briefly. Team Rocket pick up Shaymin and run off, but are then sucked into a statue, which has become a portal to the Torn World. Everyone except Brock is sucked through, where Ash, Hikari, Pikachi and Piplup battle Giratina while rescuing Shaymin. Running from Giratina, they bump into the man who watched the earlier battle, who introduces himself as Mugen Graceland, a "genius scientist". Ash and Hikari comment on him introducing himself as a "genius scientist", and Shaymin mocks him. He leads them to a portal back to the real world, while explaining that Palkia and Dialga's battle (in the 10th film) caused a black smoke to fill the Torn World. This infuriated Giratina, explaining his attack on Dialga in the beginning of the film. Pikachu, Piplup, Shaymin, Ash and Hikari return to the garden, where Brock is waiting. Team Rocket appear too late, and are left behind with Mugen in the Torn World. Back in the garden, Ash and Hikari attempt to explain about the Torn World and Giratina, but are stopped by the appearance of Magnemites and Magnetons. Zero comes down on a hover-board, with Magnezone as his side-kick. They disable the Magnemites long enough for them to flee into the streets of the town, chased by Zero's Magnemites, Magnetons and the Magnezone. Escaping onto a train leaving town, they talk with people on the train, and Shaymin tranforms into Sky Form when exposed to some flowers. It is explained that Shaymin transforms when exposed to special flowers found at the top of the mountain, where all the Shaymin live. It is decided to help Shaymin return home. The train is attacked by Zero's Pokemon, who are fought off by Pikachu, Piplup and Shaymin. Magnezone smashes the side of the train, but is repelled just before the train enters a tunnel, leaving all Zero's Pokemon to smash into the side of a hill. On a boat, the group are going up a river to reach Shaymin's garden. They play around, and Shaymin teases Ash more, until Zero appears again. A portal opens in the water, sucking Shaymin and the others in, and Zero and his Pokemon follow. Ash, Hikari and Brock battle Zero's Pokemon, and find Mugen, who leads them into a cave. Giratina and Shaymin battle, until Shaymin's Sky Form trasformation wears off. He's saved by Pikachu on Staravia, who rejoin with the group. Shaymin causes another explosion by absorbing the dark gas, allowing them to excape, and Giratina and Zero follow. With everyone in the real world, a gigantic airship appears in the valley which Zero flies to with his Pokemon. Giratina changes to his normal form, and sits on the bank of the river. A gun from Zero's ship shoots Giratina, who flies up to attack the ship, but is caught in a giant trap that begins sucking Giratina's energy away. Everyone except Brock board a hover-board and fly up to the ship, where they battle Zero's Pokemon, and Mugen enters the ship to disable to computer. It is revealed in a flashback that Zero used to be Mugen's pupil, studying the Torn World, until he became obsessed with Giratina's power and decided to catch and take his power. Mugen disables the computer and the trap, freeing Giratina who collapses unconscious inside the trap, but also accidentally turns off the ship's engines. The trap falls apart, dropping Giratina into the river, and the ship begins to come down. Everyone escapes on the hover-board, except Zero who stays on his ship. Just before the ship crashes, a smaller ship seperates from it. The larger ship crashes into the forest, as Pokemon flee from it. Giratina climbs out of the water, then drops down and seems to be dead. He starts to breathe gently, though, so everyone and all the Pokemon from the forest gather around. Shaymin heals Giratina, just before Zero reappears in his small ship. Giratina chases Zero through a portal into the Torn World, where Zero smashes towers of ice. In the real world, this disturbs a glacier on the mountain, which begins to slide down the mountain, toward the town. As Giratina and Zero fight, everyone tries to think of a way to stop the glacier destroying the town. The disturbance uncovers Regigigas' temple, awaking him and causing him to come out and stop the glacier, joined by a herd of Mamoswine. Shaymin turns into his Sky Form and creates a portal, allowing Ash into the Torn World, where Giratina is being defeated by Zero. Team Rocket watch, admitting they would like to help but can't think how they could. Ash jumps on the ship and tries to persuade Zero to stop. He refuses, closing up his shields as a dark cloud covers everyone. Ash covers his face to protect himself, as Shaymin absorbs it all. The explosion opens a portal back to the real world, sucking the ship through. Zero refuses to let the ship return, however, until Giratina fires a ball of energy which shoots it through. Team Rocket and everyone is sucked through the portal, leaving the Torn World, with enough time to allow Giratina to leave. Zero's ship crashes down next to Regigigas, before it is covered in ice by Piplup and other Pokemon with ice beam. Everyone rejoices stopping the glacier, then find the Shaymin garden nearby. It is full of other Shaymin, who change form at will. Shaymin says goodbye, admitting she likes Ash really, and leaves with tears in her eyes. All the Shaymin turn into Sky Form, and fly away. Giratina is seen flying off too, to continue its attack on Dialga. In the closing credits sequence, Zero's ship is recovered, and he is arrested by Office Jenny and helped out of his ship by Mugen. Ash, Hikari and Brock leave the town to continue their Pokemon Journey.

Pokemon_Master

7/17/2008
No Pokemon news really ,but I updated the links page so you can use it now (it was messed up before).well otherwise have a good day. we'll have a summary for the new movie on Saturday hopefully

Pokemon_Master

7/15/2008
The release date and and official name of the new Pokemon ranger game was revealed at E3. It will be called Pokemon Ranger:Shadows Of Alma. I am pretty sure Almia is the new region where the game will be located. The release date is November 10th 2008. In the Japanese game you were able to transfer a manaphy egg, riolu, and a darkrai But it is unknown if you will be able to do this in Shadows of Almia.
I've also got some high resolution pics from platinum.Head to Serebii.net to check 'em out.

Pokemon_Master

7/14/2008
Okay today there was some early screenings of the new movie. Pokebeach has a summary but not super thorough. I will copy and paste it here but full credit goes to Pokebeach.com. There have been some rumored speculations that the 12th movie will be an all out battle between dialga palkia giratina and arceus. this is still just a rumor but when the normal screenings come out I will tell you the status. Okay below is Pokebeach's summary of the movie. Careful as it contains spoilers! Remember this was taken directly from the Pokebeach website.

The Reverse World is a world that accepts pollution from the Real World in the form of poison so that the environmental balance of the Real World isn't destroyed by air pollution. Giratina looks upon Dialga and Palkia as its enemies, because the effects of contamination in the Reverse World have increased as a consequence of last year's time-space clash. Dialga, who is resting at a lake, is attacked from the Reverse World by Giratina and dragged to the Reverse World, and Shaymin, who is at the scene, also gets caught up. Escape is impossible for Dialga, but Shaymin manages to escape by absorbing the poison that's all over the Reverse World and exploding. When it does, it opens a hole in the Reverse World, and Dialga and Shaymin escape. While escaping, Dialga places the Reverse World in a time loop, closing it so Giratina can't enter the Real World. Shaymin is the Gratitude Pokemon. It breathes in the world's dirty air and expels it as restored, clean air. However, if it breathes in poison, an explosion of violent energy occurs. That ability is called Seed Flare, and its explosive power has the strength to open a big hole in the Reverse World. Giratina, wanting to use that somehow to leave the Reverse World, gives the appearance of wanting to attack Shaymin. The problem is that Shaymin doesn't understand Giratina's intent, and has a personality where it flees, saying "I'm going to be eaten!" It appears to have a bad habit of saying, "I'm going to be eaten!" to people who have no intention of doing so, and running away, thinking it's about to come to some kind of harm. It even says "I'm going to be eaten!" to Ash and runs away the first time they meet. While dodging attacks from Giratina, Ash and crew head toward a flower garden that Shaymin longs for. As it has a habit of carrying flowers, it says it's going to cultivate a flower garden of Glacidia pollen that induces sky change. Unexpectedly during the journey, Shaymin touches the Glacidia pollen and becomes its Sky Form. Its personality becomes somewhat strong, and it unreasonably tries to battle Giratina instead of just running away... it goes without saying that this is a bad idea. Once again, Seed Flare is used, enabling Ash and co. to escape the sky they're sucked into. Shaymin says, "You've gotten this far because of me. Be grateful." Ash believes that Shaymin's personality hasn't changed after all. Incidentally, Sky Form has the achilles heel of weakening in cold and night time, reverting to its Land Form (a useless runaway). Normally Shaymin rides in Dawn's arms or on top of her head. However, when Giratina or Zero attacks, it has a habit of riding on Ash's head. Shaymin's reason: "If I'm going to be eaten anyway, I want to be eaten with Ash." Zero schemes of making the Reverse World his, not caring about the battle between Giratina and Shaymin. Shaymin is captured, it uses Seed Flare to make a hole in the sky, as Giratina wishes, Giratina escapes into the Real World and is captured, and its space traveling ability is scanned. The scanning equipment was created by Mugen, and Zero was Mugen's original assistant. When the scanning system fails and starts sapping Giratina's life, Zero lies and says he'll discontinue scanning. Even though Ash and Mugen stop the machine, the space traveling ability is already copied, and Giratina begins to die. Understanding Giratina's situation, Shaymin revives Giratina with Aromatherapy. (I wasn't moved by this because it seemed forced.) Having obtained the ability of space travel, Zero praises it as beautiful and to remove the origin of the Reverse World's pollution, he begins to destroy the support pillars of the Real World. His actions cause an iceberg in the Real World to start moving, creating a crisis where towns and villages are destroyed. To stop Zero, using space travel, Giratina, Shaymin, and Ash have a midair fight in the Reverse World. Meanwhile, in the Real world, Dawn and co battle with Ice attacks in an attempt to stop a moving iceberg, but it doesn't stop. Just then, in the nearby shrine, the sleeping Regigigas starts up and as if to say, "You're not so tough!" it pushes the iceberg back with its bare hands. It seems impossible, but that's what happens. In the Reverse World, the battle is decided with Ash and Shaymin's Seed Flare. Zero is defeated by the attack, and they gain control of the situation. As I mentioned before, Ash and Shaymin's conversations are very interesting. The previews made me think that it only became attached to Dawn, but truthfully, its relationship with Ash was more dramatic. When Shaymin arrives at the flower garden and says its farewell, it grins in relief and kicks Dawn in the shin. At the flower garden where they part, Shaymin who up until now has been boasting, "Be grateful to me" finally says "I'm grateful" and Shaymin, Dawn, and Ash all tear up. Herds of journeying Shaymin look just like an Ice Sky Bouquet. As a custom, this region sends people they're grateful to bouquets of Glacidias that resemble Shaymin. Ash's mom, Dawn's mom, and Brock's family are all shown being given bouquets of Glacidias at the end of the movie.

Pokemon_Master

7/13/2008
Hey you guys I have been away for a while but yeah I am back. And bringing news. The new CoroCoro issue has been released. There are many new questions answered and many new ones left unanswered. But here's what the issue told us.
The Japan release date is September 13th 2008.
Team Galactic has gotten stronger and them and there HQ have been updated.
The Battle Frontier will make a comeback in the Fight area. No news on what you do in the different areas but the battle tower will remain in the fight area.
Wifi's been updated as well in certain areas. Those areas will let you have up to 20 friends at one time on together.
Poffin making got an update as well. There will now be a Swalot machine. The berries go into the mouth and something happens to them. The swalot machine will be available in the wifi area.
A cool new gadget called the battle recorder lets you record your battles and share them.
The gts isn't only gts now. It has many new wifi spots and has a newer and bigger building.
Shaymins transformation with Glacidia's Flower was confirmed. Giratina's was confirmed that it is origin forme in the torn world and another forme in other places. It is still unknown if there will be an item to transform it outside of the torn world. To me this brought up a question. Will there be wild pokemon in the torn world or will there be trainers or something in the torn world?This will hopefully be cleared up in the next CoroCoro issue.
Shaymins Sky Forme gets Serene Grace ability and maxes in Speed and Special attack. It also learns Air Slash.
Giratina Origin Forme gets Levitate ability.
We also get new sprites. you can clearly see new shaymin land forme, both Giratina Formes and bidoof as well.
The detective looking character from before is in a police force looking for team galactic. And the short pink haired one is a member of team G. If you don't know what characters they are go to the platinum pictures and you will see two men above Eterna. One is wearing brown(hes on the right) the other in white(left).
We also get new pokemon center basements.
And we get animated back sprites.

Typical CoroCoro. Leave us with just enough to keep us interested in what will come in next issue.
here are some scans of the new CoroCoro issue.

Thanks again toPokebeach.com and Serebii.net

Pokemon_Master

7/8/2008
new trailer out for the new movie.click here for extra scene at the end.click here for English subtitles.click here for an old trailer(doesn't reveal much).click here for another extra scene. I was reading pokebeach.com and I found scans of the new expansion.Yay!Shinies are back. But this time the only way you can tell they are shiny is by the color. They have no other marking or anything that tells you it is shiny. The shiny pokemon in this set are Drifloon, Duskull, and Voltorb.There is also a whopping 6 Pokemon that are level X which is double what the past expansion's have. There might be more with the last two scans. Looks like they're bringing back a lot of things because they brought back the base set charmander and evo. pokemon in there original art. well not completely original, Mitsuhiro Arita did the artwork over again(he did the original artwork) but you can't really tell. there are some slight differences in the card such as Poke-Body instead of Pokemon Power and just small things like that. But don't take my word for it see for yourself(you can't read the word differences unless you can read Japanese)

Please note:all of these scans are from Pokebeach.com full credit to them. there are two scans missing because Pokebeach hasn't found them. I will post them when they get here.
I also got the card list and set deck lists.(also from Pokebeach.com) Scroll down to find them.

Set Lists

Tangela - Common - 70 HP [G]
Tangrowth - Rare - 110 HP [G]
Scyther - Uncommon - 60 HP [G]
Scizor - Rare - 100 HP [G]
Sceptile - Rare Holo - 100 HP [G]
Combee - Common - 50 HP [G]
Vespiquen - Rare - 100 HP [G]
Cherubi - Common - 50 HP [G]
Cherrim - Rare - 80 HP [G]
Skorupi - Common - 60 HP [G]
Shaymin - Rare Holo - 70 HP [G]
Shaymin LV.X - Rare Holo - 100 HP [G]
Ponyta - Common - 50 HP [R]
Rapidash - Rare - 80 HP [R]
Heatran LV.X - Rare Holo - 120 HP [R]
Magikarp - Common - 30 HP [W]
Gyarados - Rare - 130 HP [W]
Bibarel - Uncommon - 100 HP [W]
Finneon - Common - 50 HP [W]
Lumineon - Rare Holo - 80 HP [W]
Snover - Common - 50 HP [W]
Abomasnow - Rare - 100 HP [W]
Pichu - Uncommon - 50 HP [L]
Pikachu - Uncommon - 70 HP [L]
Raichu - Rare - 90 HP [L]
Raichu LV.X - Rare Holo - 110 HP [L]
Voltorb - Common - 60 HP [L]
Voltorb - Common - 60 HP [L]
Electrode - Uncommon - 90 HP [L]
Gastly - Common - 50 HP [P]
Haunter - Uncommon - 80 HP [P]
Gengar - Rare - 110 HP [P]
Misdreavus - Common - 60 HP [P]
Mismagius - Rare Holo - 80 HP [P]
Budew - Uncommon - 40 HP [P]
Roselia - Common - 70 HP [P]
Roserade - Rare - 90 HP [P]
Duskull - Common - 50 HP [P]
Duskull - Common - 60 HP [P]
Dusclops - Uncommon - 80 HP [P]
Dusknoir - Rare Holo - 120 HP [P]
Dusknoir LV.X - Rare Holo - 140 HP [P]
Drifloon - Common - 50 HP [P]
Drifloon - Common - 50 HP [P]
Drifblim - Rare - 90 HP [P]
Bronzor - Common - 60 HP [P]
Bronzong - Rare - 90 HP [P]
Giratina - Rare Holo - 100 HP [P]
Machop - Common - 60 HP [F]
Machoke - Uncommon - 80 HP [F]
Machamp - Rare - 130 HP [F]
Machamp LV.X - Rare Holo - 150 HP [F]
Onix - Common - 90 HP [F]
Swinub - Common - 50 HP [F]
Piloswine - Uncommon - 90 HP [F]
Mamoswine - Rare - 140 HP [F]
Larvitar - Common - 50 HP [F]
Pupitar - Uncommon - 80 HP [F]
Torterra - Rare Holo - 140 HP [F]
Infernape - Rare Holo - 120 HP [F]
Tyranitar - Rare - 140 HP [D]
Sableye - Uncommon - 60 HP [D]
Stunky - Common - 60 HP [D]
Skuntank - Rare - 100 HP [D]
Drapion - Rare - 110 HP [D]
Magnemite - Common - 50 HP [M]
Magneton - Uncommon - 80 HP [M]
Magnezone - Rare Holo - 120 HP [M]
Steelix - Rare - 130 HP [M]
Empoleon - Rare Holo - 130 HP [M]
Dialga - Rare Holo - 100 HP [M]
Bagon - Common - 50 HP [C]
Shelgon - Uncommon - 90 HP [C]
Salamence - Rare - 140 HP [C]
Starly - Common - 50 HP [C]
Staravia - Uncommon - 70 HP [C]
Staraptor - Rare - 120 HP [C]
Bidoof - Common - 60 HP [C]
Regigigas - Rare Holo - 100 HP [C]
Regigigas LV.X - Rare Holo - 150 HP [C]
Luxury Ball - Uncommon - Trainer
Great Ball - Uncommon - Trainer
PokeDrawer+ - Uncommon - Trainer
PokeHealer+ - Uncommon - Trainer
PokeBlower+ - Uncommon - Trainer
Energy Link - Uncommon - Trainer
Marley's Wish - Uncommon - Supporter
Cyclone Energy - Uncommon - Special Energy
Warp Energy - Uncommon - Special Energy
??? - ??? - ??? (Venusaur from Base Set?)
??? - ??? - ??? (Charizard from Base Set?)
??? - ??? - ??? (Blastoise from Base Set?)
Grass Energy - Basic Energy
Fire Energy - Basic Energy
Water Energy - Basic Energy
Lightning Energy - Basic Energy
Psychic Energy - Basic Energy
Fighting Energy - Basic Energy
Darkness Energy - Basic Energy
Metal Energy - Basic Energy

Giratina Deck

2x Treecko - 50 HP [G]
1x Grovyle - 80 HP [G]
1x Shaymin - 80 HP [G]
2x Duskull - 50 HP [P]
2x Dusclops - 80 HP [P]
1x Dusknoir - 120 HP [P]
1x Giratina - 100 HP [P]
1x Miltank - 70 HP [C]
1x Energy Switch - Trainer
1x Full Heal - Trainer
1x Poke Ball - Trainer
1x Warp Point - Trainer
1x Mom's Kindness - Supporter
1x Miasma Valley - Stadium
6x Grass Energy - Basic Energy
7x Psychic Energy - Basic Energy

Dialga Deck

2x Magnemite - 50 HP [L]
2x Magneton - 80 HP [L]
1x Magnezone - 120 HP [L]
2x Voltorb - 60 HP [L]
1x Electrode - 80 HP [L]
1x Skarmory - 80 HP [M]
1x Dialga - 100 HP [M]
1x Farfetch'd - 70 HP [C]
1x Super Scoop Up - Trainer
1x Full Heal - Trainer
1x Switch - Trainer
1x Poke Ball - Trainer
1x Mom's Kindness - Supporter
1x Electrical Vein - Stadium
6x Lightning Energy - Basic Energy
7x Metal Energy - Basic Energy

Pokemon_Master

7/7/2008
I found this on the official movie site. So there definitely is going to be a pokemon event for shaymin but the question is when. In other news the Pokebeach owner found an extended trailer. Click here for the video Just so you guys know I get most if not all of my information from pokebeach.com and serebii.net but of course I don't plagiarise and I give all credit to them. Thanks guys I hope to get this site more known and its own site so they can become affiliates of mine.I got more pictures of platinum look at the picture page.

in other other new I found these frames of shaymin in the 11th movie. The anticipation of both the game and the movie is killing me!

Pokemon_Master

7/4/2008
Okay I got some new platinum info.Apparently in Floarama town there is item you get there called Glacidia's Flower. It's a key item that will change Shaymin Land Forme to Shaymin Sky Forme. It is unclear how trading and battling will work between Diamond and Pearl to Platinum. Shaymin is an event Pokemon but can come in two formes, Both with unique stats abilities and types.People thought Shaymin would change just as Deoxys did in the Third Generation of Pokemon games. But it is unclear now. Sometime in the game if you go to Floarama town you will get the Key Item called Glacidia's Flower which will let you change from land to sky forme. To change formes you select Glacidia's Flower, Then select Shaymin and there you have it A new Shaymin forme. You can change it as you please so that will not be a problem.
As always I will post new information when it comes.

I was looking over Pokebeach.com, one of my favorite pokemon information sites, and I found a a very informative interview. here is a link to the main pokebeach.com news page because I don't wanna fill up this page with the interview. Click here for the interview with Masamitsu Hidaka, formerly the original pokemon Director by the way this is a link of the second interview that the pokebeach creator and Masamitsu Hidaka.Scroll lower down the page to find the first interview.

Pokemon_Master

7/1/2008
No new news really and there probably wont be until the new issue of CoroCoro comes out late next week.
I am however adding a Pokemon Platinum page.Please don't go on the links page there is nothing there but I forgot how to delete and I can't find how with all these new Wetpaint updates.

Pokemon_Master

6/30/2008
Well I haven't updated this in a lllllllooooooooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggggg while and i finally decided to revive it. okay so yesterday was the last day to get the Gamestop event Deoxys. There is likely to be many more pokemon events in the near future. So pokemon has finally gotten some new shirts and in my opinion they are awesome!my favorite is the hypno one. Heres the link they are awesome but as expected...awesome things are expensive. they're expected to be around $42.00 you better start saving up if you want one of these great t-shirts.

The new TCG expansion has been released in honor of the new movie Giratina and the Bouquet of the Icy Sky:Shaymin. There appears to be many more pokemon lv.X in this set. around 8 of 'em! Temple of Anger Cry From the Mysterious is supposed to be the name. well we will just have to find out! ;]

Pokemon_Master

6/24/2008
Giratina, Shaymin, and Regigigas will all have alternate forms in Platinum. Platinum will be released in the autumn of 2008 in Japan and sometime in early 2009. It is an expansion to Diamond and Pearl not a remake of Gold and Silver.Although an expansion to the famous d/p it will have tons of new features including underground now having wifi. Giratina is the main pokemon and will now be the pokemon pursued by Team G. There has been many rumors that shaymin will not be an event pokemon in Platinum as well as features that will possibly be added. Volkner will leave and its unclear if he will replace Cynthia as the champion of the elite four. There have also been rumors that the pokedex will come with a new height/weight feature that will let you put in your own personal height and weight. I will be making a forum so you can post your ideas for what you think will be included.

Its getting colder in Sinnoh...so much colder that the main characters of Platinum have gotten new, warmer, outfits. Is it because of the recent opening of the ruined world? or did the Blizzard on the road to Snowpoint city go global?

Pokemon_Master

older news
The Eleventh Pokemon movie will be Released July 19th. The American name is still unknown but The Japanese name is Giritana and the Bouquet of the Sky-Shaymin.A new form of Giritana was revealed on Valentine's day. Click the link to see the new form Pokemon-Movie. You will first see Shaymin but the new Giritana is in the top right corner. Giritana, Palkia, Dialga, and Regigigas are in the movie although I am not sure that Regice, Regirock, and Registeel are but i liked the picture.

Polls

sicker — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:27:37 CDT

Put your answers on Threads!(they are at the bottom of the page)

*Which games should be remade?*

A-Yellow,Blue,Red

B-Emerald,Ruby,Sapphire

C-Crystal,Silver,Gold

Yellowjacobo

My poll question is.....Whats your favourite pokemon?

muckips
eevees
Absols
or you can't pick

- sicker

Forums

sicker — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:35:40 CDT

Steps to making forums on this page.

Add a page on this one.
Type a topic as the name and elaborate in the area like this one.
Scroll down and it will say "Threads"
start typing and viola you started a forum.

View sample page for step-by-step instructions.

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Pokemon giveaway week 1

jedirules — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:28:13 CDT

So if you have ever been on cheatplanet.gamesradar.com you know that weekly R.Pad gives away pokemon. He temporarily stopped pokemusings. and gamesradar weeped. The users of cheatplanet decided to start there own pokemusings until R.Pad starts again. The users give away pokemon that they themselves giveaway.Well i decided to start doing this. I am going to giveaway a phione and a phione egg. For entry read the rules below.

Your Favorite Pokemon

jedirules — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:27:01 CDT

What is your favourite pokemon? Well you can tell us in this thread

Tell us about it and tell us why you like it. It might make it as the Pokemon of the Week if you help it get a vote.

Messages From Pokemon_Master

jedirules — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:21:12 CDT

Well I had nowhere else to put this so I just made a new page. Well I have some messages for all you members of Pokemonmastersinfo.wetpaint.com

1) We need to advertise!!!!!!

I have a few forum pages but I can't get them started until we get more members.

To get Pokemon Trading Center started we need to have at least 25 active members.

To get Boss Battles started we need to have at least 50 active members.

To get Pokemon Giveaway we need to have at least 100 active members.

So ADVERTISE!

2) I Made an abbreviation for our site since the name is so long. From now on whenever you want to abbriviate our site, post it as PMI

3) We've made our site name shorter! You can either type in http://pokemonmastersinfo.wetpaint.com/ OR you can type in http://pokemonmaster.tk/ whichever one is easier for you. And just to let you know I am also going to make a forums Site that will directly link to pokemonmaster.tk!Yea

4) I got the Forums site up. It is just been started so it will be undergoing major improvement.but heres the link anyway

Pokemon_Master
Well since my pokemon trading center is still closed,I decided to post my Trade Shop here for now.
This Is what I have:

Shinies:

Shiny Deoxys level 100 350-z(nickname)

Shiny Charizard level 100

Shiny Dialga level 100

Shiny lucario level 80(traded)

Events:

Gamestop Deoxys UT

Alamos Darkrai Slightly Touched (level 57)

Lv37 Pokemon Ranger Manaphy Mana(nickname)

Lv10 MYSTRY mew UT (pokerus)

all my pokemon are real.Offer any hacks or start cussing and the trade will end immediately.

What I want
Shinies

Events

Movie Shaymin UT(shiny if possible)

Alamos Darkrai UT

MYSTRY Mew UT(Shiny if possible)

10 aniv Celebi UT

10ANNIV Dogs UT

Pokemon_Master

Gardevoir Journey through the Netherworld

jedirules — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:11:23 CDT

This story is not yet finished but I will check every day and add new chapters...tell us what you think so far
Gardevoir, Journey through the Netherworld

1. Prologue
2. A New Life
3. Divine Protector
4. The Unexpected Visitor
5. Balance of Power
6. Enlightenment
7. The Ancient Prophecy
8. Unrest
9. The Final Quest
10. Love of a Mother
11. Transfigured
12. A Path of Forgiveness
13. Best of Both Worlds
14. Prophecy Fulfilled
15. Ying and Yang
16. A Constant Reminder
17. “My Friend! It Has Been Too Long!”
18. Epilogue

Chapter 1: Prologue
Excerpt taken from Gardevoir’s Book of Life, the last chapter and beyond.

It was then, right then, the moment that I had sensed coming was at hand. The ultimate destruction was about to take place. My loving and honorable trainer, Darren Diamond, was about to be destroyed. There, in the cell that was my pokeball, I knew that it was now or never. The love that bound me to my trainer overcame my will to survive. I knew there was only one way for me to defeat this foe which was before my beloved trainer, and that was to make the ultimate sacrifice.

I had been having revelations for the past month that my trainer was about to be placed in a life threatening circumstance. However, I lacked the ability to communicate with him, as I had never grasped his language other than a few words. I tried desperately to warn him in many ways; affecting his feelings so that he would be afraid, refusing to cooperate, and eventually attacking an entire Pokemon Center staff. However, my trainer’s curiosity overcame all of these things, and he followed that horrible woman into the cave which held the legendary Groudon.

The time has come, I thought as I watched Groudon stand over my fallen trainer. Two large globs of magma drifted up from the floor of the cave and hovered in the air, held up by the power of Groudon. With my powers at full blaze, I forced open my pokeball and launched myself in front of my trainer. The magma fell from the ceiling at an alarming rate, so fast that I didn’t think I would reach my trainer in time.

Using my powers to their fullest extent, I created a shield of energy so strong, that the second I got in front of my trainer, the lava glanced off like a rubber ball off a rock. I was infuriated that anything would even try to harm my trainer, so I unleashed the full potential of my powers, turning my blood into a powerful energy that would give me near infinite power. I could feel my eyes burn with this power, and light shown about me. It was time to get revenge on this beast that had wished destruction on the one I loved the most.

In my mind I formed balls of psychic energy out of the air that was in the room. Groudon could not see these for it did not have psychic eyes. I thrust these psychic balls of destruction at the beast with gruesome accuracy. Groudon did not know what to do, for it was being attacked by an unseen foe. It stumbled and fell to its knees. I did not give up however. I pelted that creature until it could take it no more, and it fell to the ground with a groan of pain.

I could hold the power no longer. All of my blood had been turned into energy to protect my trainer, and I sank to the floor. It was so hard to move, and I hardly felt my head as it slapped against the rock. This was the end of my life, and I knew nothing could save me now. I felt kind hands support my neck and body, and I forced my eyes open to look into the face of Darren Diamond one last time. Exerting the last of my strength, I reached my hand up and touched his face. I had given my life to him, and he was the last thing that I saw. Slowly, I closed my eyes, and let the darkness take me.

The darkness was not harsh; rather it was soft and gentle. I felt it lift me slowly into the air. I still could not move in the slightest, so I didn’t struggle. The power was amazing, and my feelings were instantly calmed. A small burst of energy came to me, and I opened my eyes.

There was nothing but darkness all around. I sensed that I was moving, but I could not see a single thing. I held up my hand in front of my face, and even it was shrouded in this dark and fine mist. As I lowered my hand, I saw a small, bright speck in the distance. It was light, and my body felt as if it had to reach it. I felt something grab my hand and pull me towards the light. When I arrived I saw that the light was a doorway into another world. The Netherworld.

It was an absolute paradise. There was a lush plant life with rivers and waterfalls everywhere. There were people and pokemon everywhere, and it seemed too beautiful to be true. In the distance was a large stone building with large pillars. It was sitting on top of a mountain, and looked so huge that it seemed to be part of the mount it was upon. Although everything seemed to be perfect, but nothing took my breath away until I saw the figure that was holding my hand.

Chapter 2: A New Life
Beginning Chapter in the Book of Passing

It was my sister. It had been many years since her passing. We had been playing in the forest together when we were young, and she contracted a fever. I took her to the place where my parents lived in the forest, but despite all of the things we tried she got weaker and weaker. One day she finally gave up the hard fight, and drifted away in her sleep. I could remember that day as if it had happened yesterday. Tears had fallen from my face when I saw the body of my sister laid into the ground in the forest where we lived. A small rock was placed at the head of the grave to mark where she lived. But now she was right here in front of me, and happiness flooded into my soul.

“Sister!” I shouted, “I feel the greatest of joys! I feel as if it has been forever since the last time that I have seen you!” My sister smiled, and we embraced. She felt solid and real, not like the spirit she was.

As if reading my thoughts, my sister said, “Yes, we are solid here. This, the Netherworld, is not the place that we rest forever after we have passed our mortal life. Rather, life is an eternal progression, constantly changing. We work here like we did in our mortal life, but it is as if our old life was nothing but a dream. This time doesn’t mark the end of our last life, but rather a continuation of it.”

I tried to soak up everything that my sister was saying, but it seemed impossible. The Netherworlds a place of work and progression? It was so hard to believe. My sister, obviously seeing the conflict in my face said, “Come, you must see the library of history. It will reveal many mysteries to you and you will understand the world around you in a better way.”

She took my hand again and led me to a stone path. My eyes followed to where it led, and I saw it went to the large building that I had seen earlier. It seemed to be the only building that was in the Netherworlds that I could see save for a small house that was near the library.

While we were walking my thoughts drifted back to Darren, my wonderful trainer, and I wondered if he was still in danger. My feelings could sense that something was wrong; I detected a plot of evil against him in the future. It was then that I longed to be with him to protect him from anything that might go wrong. My sister grabbed my hand harder and pulled me. I sensed that I had been trying to go back to where I had come from.

“Sister,” she said. “You let your thoughts out too freely. Here in the Netherworlds we can communicate by thought. However, if you can not focus and contain them, they are sent everywhere so that anyone can hear. Please sister, concentrate on your thoughts.”

I did. I, being psychic, had great control over my mind when I needed to. My sister smiled as she sensed my thoughts disappearing from the air. “Now,” she said, “we go to the library of history.”

A short walk later and I found myself at the base of the large building. I stood in awe of the immensity of it. I noticed that the entire building was open to the air; the whole thing was made up of stone pillars that held a ceiling up, which made the building look Greek in origin. There were enormous shelves of books, so tall that they reached up to the ceiling. People and pokemon worked together in organizing and developing this area. It took me a moment before I realized that I could understand every word that the humans said. Humans and pokemon were communing with each other, it seemed like a miracle.

I was able to keep these thoughts to myself, and my sister didn’t expound on the fact that I had discovered. She just led me through the crowd to one of the large bookshelves. She walked up to a short man that was standing on the base of the ladder who was wearing a uniform.

“Sir, will you find the book of my sister,” she said nonchalantly. “It has recently been completed and we need to find out what her calling is here in the Netherworld.” The short man nodded, took one look at me, and then scurried up the ladder. I saw him scanning through the books as fast as he could, and after about a minute I saw a satisfied look come across his face and he pulled out a large book that was the color of the ocean. I felt a strong feeling of déjà vu come over me as I saw it. The ocean, I thought. The place where I met Darren.

The man slid down the ladder quickly and handed the book to my sister. She took it and thanked him, then guided me to a table nearby. Quickly she flicked through the pages as if she was bored. I saw in the pages times that had in my life; the good and the bad were all there. Finally my sister stopped a few pages from the end and she read the end of my story silently to herself. When she was finished, she reverently looked up at me and said, “You gave your life for him?”

I nodded. She smiled, for she was honored to be the sister of someone who had done something so noble. She turned one page over and looked at the page. I looked over her shoulder to see what she was reading. There was a small message that I couldn’t read because it was very small and the bottom was signed and had a stamp of approval on it. My sister grinned as she read.

“Well,” she said, “It looks as if you are to be the Divine Protector of your former trainer. I guess that is to be expected with you giving your life for his sake.” I took the book away from her and read the small print detailing my work and what I was supposed to do. “That job,” my sister said, “is the most honorable and noble of all work we have in the Netherworld.”

I looked up at her. “What do I need to do?” I asked. I was ready to fulfill my duty to Darren even now that I had passed beyond his reach. He was truly my friend, and I was wanting to help him any way that I could.

Chapter 3: Divine Protector

“First,” my sister said, “you must take this and keep it with you at all times.” She opened the book up to the back cover page. Pinned to it was a necklace with a small silver chain that was very fine. The bottom of the necklace held a heart-shaped jewel that had a clear white hue to it.

I took the necklace from the book and put it around my neck. It felt warm against my skin. My sister explained, “This is a crystal that will link you and your emotions directly to your trainer so that you can tell when he is in need of help. It will also guide you to wherever he is so that you can reach him quickly to save him.”

I held the crystal up and gazed into it. “And how am I supposed to get to him when I am here in the Netherworld and he is in the Mortal world?”

My sister smiled. “That crystal will glow a deep crimson when your master is in need of your help, and then you are to go to the portal. Follow me and I will show it to you.” She began to walk towards the place that we came into the library. I looked over the world and saw that she was heading towards the small shack that I had seen before. After a short walk we reached it.

“Inside this door is the portal to the Mortal world. However, it remains locked until your crystal glows, so you must…” She was cut off because my crystal began to glow a deep red color. The door of the shack swung open and a strange force pulled me inside. The floor was a circling swirl of white energy and the room was covered in mirrors. The door shut tight behind me and I felt my body plummet into the energy. I felt warmth around me for a moment and then the sensation ended. I looked up and saw that I was standing in a cave, a cave that looked very familiar to me. I gasped as I saw the ceiling and floor and recognized this as the place where I had battled the legendary Groudon.

I realized that this was the Cave of Origin, and also realized that this must have been why new creatures were coming out of it all the time, since it was so readily linked to the Netherworld. I looked down at my body and saw nothing. I was invisible in this world, so the better to help me save my master.

I felt the necklace begin to pull me forward. Quickly, I followed the promptings of the necklace until I was out of the cave and flying over the ocean. I saw a large rain cloud in the distance. It was circular, and looked completely out of place. I saw the calm ocean water turn to enormously high waves once they were underneath the cloud. A sick feeling came over me and I realized that my trainer was in serious trouble. The necklace pulled me even faster in to the rain.

I had expected the rain just to fall right through me but it hit me just as hard as if I was mortal. There were still things I did not understand about being a Divine Protector, but I figured that things would come as I tried harder at it.
After about a minute I saw a large island in the middle of the ocean with the sun pouring through the clouds on it. On the top I saw the creature which I had given my life to save my trainer, Groudon. Magma was swarming around it and Groudon seemed to be calling out into the ocean for something. A large wave came from the sea and smashed into the island, taking tons of rock with it. I was panicked because I thought that my trainer was on that island, yet that was not the place my necklace was pulling me. It seemed to me I was heading straight for the ocean.

I tried to look through the rain, but I couldn’t see anything. Then, an eruption from the top of Groudon’s island lit up the entire area and I saw a small oil rig in the middle of the ocean. The necklace took me to this place and inside of it. The place was absolute chaos. There were pokemon battles breaking out everywhere. There were people in red suits battling with people in blue suits. I looked around to see if Darren was there, and I saw him up on a podium where two large men were battling. I saw him take a blue stone that was lying on the stage, and then begin to run for the exit. The crystal I had began to burn against my skin and I looked up and saw that the building was collapsing.

I flew towards the ceiling and surprisingly held it up. I threw it away and it was caught by the fierce winds outside. The cataclysmic battle between the two legends was now in full view of everyone there. I heard screams of people below as they witnessed what was supposed to have never happened again. I saw Darren running across the deck towards something. I gasped when I saw that he had dropped the red orb and it was rolling across the deck.

He was almost there when I saw a wave leap over the side of the rig and rush towards Darren. I stood in front of him and with the powers of my necklace warded off the dangerous waters. A ton of debris that the wave had washed up was now between him and the red orb. I rushed to it and used my hands to stop it from rolling off the deck. I looked up and saw the blue orb flying through the air. It bounced and then rolled, touching the red orb.

The two orbs floated into the air and the two battling beasts were instantly calmed. They returned to their slumber almost immediately; Groudon sinking into the rock he was standing on and Kyogre sinking into the ocean that he had made his home. The clouds dissipated at once, and the sunlight dimmed down. Waves that had been as tall as buildings immediately ceased raging and the sea was calm again. The only things remaining from the battle was an enormous island in the middle of nowhere and a destroyed oil rig.

I looked to my master and saw him being congratulated by his fellow humans. They had evidentially witnessed his power that I had known all my life. I noticed something odd however. It seemed as if the world I was in was fading around me. Everything looked blurry, except for my necklace, which I noticed was becoming more visible. In fact, my whole body was becoming visible. I soon was standing in the Netherworld, right outside the shack I had entered only a little while ago.

My sister was standing there waiting for me. I looked at her. “I have so many questions to ask you dear sister,” I said quickly. She nodded and began to explain to me everything about being a Divine Protector.

Chapter 4: The Unexpected Visitor
A Day Later

Cool winds whipped past my body, but I could scarcely feel them. The weather was misty, and the winds made it look as if some unseen being was using them to show how truly fearsome it was. I stood next to my wonderful trainer Darren in a place that I never thought I would stand, at the foot of my own grave.

It was truly a beautiful funeral. All of my friends were there as well; Gyarados, Salamence, Gengar, and Tyranitar. Darren placed my body into the small plot of ground he had purchased. One by one, they all threw a small bit of dirt on top of my lifeless frame until Tyranitar gently closed my grave with a push of her hand. It was finished. My funeral was over, and my trainer was somewhat at peace. I closed my eyes and passed into the Netherworld.
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I had learned a few things since my time in the Netherworld. I learned that my trainer didn’t have to be in absolute danger for me to go to him, but his emotions had to be extreme. My emotions were tied to his, and the crystal that I wore around my neck was tied to me, so whenever my emotions flared, so did the red light in the crystal.

However, I noticed that some of my spirit had lingered with Darren since I had left him. My sister told me that it was common when a pokemon sacrificed for anyone there was usually a tie between them for a while but in time it would wear off.

I could sense through my emotions that he was having strange dreams about my coming to the Netherworld, where he would see my death through my eyes. It was very strange, for although they were somewhat accurate, they were chock full of errors and mistakes. Such is the human mind.

However, I had wondered what I was supposed to do the times that I wasn’t working. Darren didn’t need me all the time, and in the Netherworld I don’t have to sleep, and I had learned that time in the Netherworld went much faster than time on the real world. I asked my sister for her opinion on things that I could do, and she showed me to the library again.

She led me to a different isle than the one that contained my book which, like the other shelves, had hundreds of thousands of books. I stood with my mouth open as she led me down the isle. “Pick one!” She said cheerfully. “They are all books written by those who have lived here. Some talk of their life, some talk of things they’ve done in the Netherworld, and some are just stories made up by the people or pokemon that life here.

I took a small gray book off the shelf and opened it to the first page. I stood in amazement as it seemed the words jumped right off the page and into my head. I not only read the book, but I understood it completely. What seemed to be a boring story about an old trainer who pretended he could talk to a Sandshrew was interesting, just because I experienced it for myself. My sister, obviously satisfied, walked away to get a book for herself.

In ten minutes I finished the book about the old man and the Sandshrew and had just picked up another when I realized, hey! I can read! I had never been able to read in my mortal life, so this was a major excitement for me. I got the feeling that these books weren’t written with words, but rather with feelings and emotions. These books were amazing, and I couldn’t put them down.

After what seemed like hours I heard something behind me. I put down a book that I was reading about a Spheal in a circus and turned around. I saw something that took my breath away.

There was a swirling vortex of dark purple energy swarming in a pillar behind me. I stared at it and saw a white light at the top descend the vortex and rest upon the ground. The vortex of purple matter shrank and covered the light, and then with a brilliant flash it was gone, and in its place stood my old friend Gengar.

“Gengar! It is so good to see you, and for you to see me,” I yelled and I rushed over to him and embraced him.

He grinned and said, “It is very good to see you too,” in a deep base voice. “It had been terrible without you. Darren has been taking it very tough.”

“I know,” I said, but then I realized something. “How did you get here?” I asked him. “I thought you were supposed to be in the mortal world, have you died?”

Gengar let out a blood chilling laugh. “Of course not!” He looked me in the eyes. “Let me explain. When I pokemon dies in life that fulfills its destiny, it comes to this wonderful place.” He looked around and sighed. “However, if a pokemon refuses to take their destiny and dies a coward, they become stuck halfway between both worlds, which is what I am. Trapped. Not until I can complete my destiny, which will take a lifetime.”

A tear came to my eye and hugged him again. “You poor soul. I am so sorry for you.” He seemed to shrug it off.

“Everything is all right. I am on the right track to becoming unleashed from this trap which I am in.” He smiled. “Well, I had better be heading back to the mortal world, Darren let us all out for a while before we head to Blackthorn, I’ll tell the others that you said hello.”

“Wait,” I said before he left. “What was your destiny in your former life?” I was curious, and if he told me I might be able to find a book about him.

“I was a great Aerodactyl in ancient times. I had the chance to stop a large meteor that was coming straight to earth, yet I fled, and because I fled I died in the blast, and it caused the extinction of many pokemon. I have been trapped in this body ever since.” He said it with pain in his voice. “I need to go now.” He said, and before I could say anything he disappeared into his swirling purple vortex. In an instant he was gone, and I stood awestruck.

After gathering my senses I walked to the bookshelf again, searching for a book that could better explain why my friend was in such pain and when his punishment would be over. After a minute I found the book I was looking for, The Failure of Aerodactyl. I opened it up and began to read the story of my friends’ past life.

Chapter 5: Balance of Power

The book about my friend’s former life startled me. I had always known him, ever since the day that Darren captured him in the Sprout Tower, yet I never knew what his past was. After I had read his book once, I read it again, absorbing the words of my friend’s life, taking them into my mind. There were two parts to the story, one of life and one of death.

The Failure of Aerodactyl: A Tragic Life Story, Part I

It all began in ancient times. It was a time of peace and prosperity. The land was governed by the pokemon King, an Aerodactyl that was exceptionally strong. The pokemon was blessed in birth to be exceptionally large, 50 meters long and with a 75 meter wingspan. The pokemon was compassionate and ruled with care for all that were under him.

However, all was shaken when the king’s royal adviser, a Xatu which was exceptionally good at foreseeing disasters, told of a large rock which would fall from the sky. The rumor spread everywhere and all the pokemon throughout the land gathered to Aerodactyl for protection. Aerodactyl was confident that he would be able to take care of this problem, until the day which the rock was to fall from the heavens. Here is a first hand account that Aerodactyl thought shortly before his death on the matter.

“It was soon to come. On the morrow I was to take flight to the skies to face this rock which was going to strike the kingdom on which I reigned. I was exceptionally confidant that I would be able to take care of this small matter and that life would go on as it had for years. However, that night something happened that shook my soul and forced me to flee for my very life.

“I was looking out of my cave the night before I was to save the world. There was a crisp breeze blowing, and when you looked up at the sky you could see a full moon. Right next to it was something that looked like a star, but had been getting bigger for the last few days. I didn’t care though, for I was the strongest pokemon in the land. My pride was shattered, however, when I looked across the landscape and saw the most horrifying thing.

“There, standing right in a beam of moonlight, was the pokemon Absol. Its fur was standing on end, and its head was tilted back observing the falling rock. I knew Absol only appeared before cataclysmic events, so I was shocked. Maybe I would fail, and there was no way I could escape. I thought on this until I heard a strange sound coming from the Absol. It was a song of despair and sadness, yet the Absol seemed to glorify it. It sang:

Oh Falling Rock coming from the sky,
When it comes we must all die,
The earth it will soon be a flame,
And Aerodactyl is the one we’ll blame,
For though it is his destiny,
He’ll cut our bonds and make us free
To linger here while he escapes,
Our anger now is what he takes.
For as this rock shall crush our days
Aerodactyl will be the one who pays.

“The song chilled me to the bone. I panicked so much that I ran. At the edge of my cave I flapped my mighty wings and flew away. I flew far away to the other side of the earth. I stayed on a small island and felt the earth shake when the rock hit. In that moment my fate was sealed. I was guilty of the deaths of millions of creatures. There was only one way in my mind to atone for what had happened.

“I flew many miles above the earth. I looked down onto the hard rock below me and held my breath. I pulled my wings in next to me and dove towards the ground. I reached uncanny speeds as my rock body plummeted to the ground. I felt nothing as I collided with the ground, but everything went dark. I was at peace. I had done what needed to be done, and now awaited my judgment.”

I put down the book. A tear had come to my eye. It was terrible, because I knew what was going to happen next. I picked up the book and read the next chapter slowly so that I wouldn’t miss anything.

The Failure of Aerodactyl: A Tragic Death Story Part II

Aerodactyl came into the Netherworld differently than most. Because he had shamed himself and had an enormous amount of blood on his hands, he was brought straight to judgment. Here follows the rest of his account.

“The Balance of Power between the two worlds was amazing. What I saw of the Netherworld was beautiful because there had just been an enormous amount of destruction in the mortal world. However, I did not enjoy the serenity for long, as I was taken to the Judgment Room.

“The Judgment Room is a place reserved for the most wicked and shameful people or pokemon who have ever existed. As I entered, I saw an enormous room that was ten times larger than the cave which I had lived in. In it I saw all of the pokemon that had died on my behalf. All looked down on me as I entered the room. I knew this would not end well for me.

At the very front of the room were three large thrones, and upon them sat three pokemon; one of the mortal world, one of the Netherworld, and one of the world in between. I easily recognized the mortal pokemon, it was the legendary Mew that kept in contact with me and aided me in my leadership. The other two I did not know and I don’t believe that any mortal has ever seen them.

The pokemon of the Netherworld was a tall figure, draped in a long, black cloak. A hood shrouded its face and just looking at it chilled me to the bone. To its side it had a long staff with a scythe on the end. I couldn’t look at it because of the fear which struck my soul.

The other pokemon, the one of the world between the worlds, was a long dragon. It was transparent, but still looked quite fearsome. Its scales stood on end, and it had long whiskers on its nose. It seemed to be the king of ghosts. I bowed before these three mighty pokemon and pled my case.

After that, the three were dismissed for an hour. When they returned they decided that I was to spend my life stuck between both worlds until I had fully repented of my horrible sin. I asked what I had to do, and the large dragon pokemon leaped at me, and with one of his clawed hands he grabbed my body and smashed it into a small ball and breathed on it with his fire. The pain was almost unbearable, but when I came to I was back on earth, hovering a few feet above the ground.

I was a Gastly.

Chapter 6: Enlightenment

I put down the book slowly. What I had just read echoed throughout my entire frame. I had judged my Gengar friend as being a sad and lonely type long before, but I never knew why. He had everything; fame, acceptance, and the most important of all, power. His book had truly enlightened me from my former state of ignorance.

As I set the book back on the shelf where it belonged I sensed that something terrible had just gone wrong. Under my feet I felt the earth starting to tremble ever so slightly. I looked around at the masses of people and pokemon and they all seemed confused. I ran quickly outside the library.

A mass of people and pokemon had formed in a small field and were all looking towards the sky. I ran towards them and began to stare towards the sky as well and heard what sounded like flapping wings and a clashing battle, but I could not see a thing. I turned to the nearest pokemon which happened to be a Dewgong and asked, “What is happening? What are the noises in the sky that I hear but do not see?”

The Dewgong looked at me and said, “Concentrate your mind on the sky and focus upon the noises, and then it will be clear to you.” I turned my head towards the noise and stared at the sky and focused on the sound. Slowly, as if coming out of a mist, two pokemon began to appear.

I recognized them as being the legendary pokemon that were created and destroyed Groudon and Kyogre. The one with a flame for a body and feathers that glowed in every color of the rainbow was the phoenix pokemon that had created Groudon, Ho-oh. And the sleek white pokemon whose powers were almost unparalleled throughout the universe was the creator of Kyogre, Lugia. They were fighting intensely, tooth and nail. Lugia called Ho-oh a traitor to his word and launched an attack at him which made him fall from the air.

At the last possible second Ho-oh pulled itself out of its fall and rose up to meet its foe. “Now with fire that is as sacred as was your trust, you shall perish,” it said and opened its wings. Fire began to envelope Ho-oh and it looked like it was going to burn to ash. Lugia launched another beam of energy at Ho-oh, but to no avail. The fire formed a protective barrier over Ho-oh. All at once the fire flew off of Ho-oh and gathered around Lugia. Lugia screamed as the fire burnt it, charring its flesh. Lugia could not sustain itself any longer and it fell towards the ground.

The crowd that I was in backed away to form a ring of people and pokemon. Lugia fell into the center of the ring and lay unmoving. Slowly, it became clearer and I didn’t have to focus to see it. As soon as it had materialized in the Netherworld, it lifted up its head.

“Why?” Lugia asked to himself out loud. “Why did my friend betray me like that?” His questioning was slowed however, and the enlightenment of the Netherworld settled on him and he realized that it had been a grave misunderstanding. Lugia let out a scream of despair as he realized that he had not been forgiving and had acted exceedingly rash. I could feel his thoughts running through my mind for he was making no attempt to hide them. I felt miserable because Lugia did as well.

I was about to step forward and comfort him when my crystal began to glow, pulling me towards the portal. My thoughts turned to Darren’s because I knew he must be in trouble. The crystal pulled me out of the Cave of Origin and towards the continent of Johto.

I was in a place that I had never been to before. The crystal took me to what looked like a tomb in the middle of nowhere. There was crazy weather that was going on, hailstones the size of baseballs were falling all around. I entered the tomb and let the crystal guide me to my trainer.

I found him with a woman at the end of the cavern. They were leaning over a small altar and reading an inscription. I came up from behind and read the writing that was on the altar. It said, “The Unown Riddle.”

What is it that flies higher
Than the Guardian of the Sky?
Swims deeper than the Beast of the Sea?
The answer is no lie.
What is it that sleeps longer
Than the lifeless beasts of past?
Answer this our question
And we’ll do all that you ask.
However, choose ye wisely!
And do not be a dunce!
There is one clue we give it now
Repeat yourself but once.

My mind began to race furiously. It seemed to be an impossible riddle, for nothing fit in. There was always a counter between things. Nothing was the answer. I cleared my head hoping that I could be enlightened by the powers of the Netherworld, and slowly they came. I was right.

Nothing was the answer to this riddle. I jumped for joy and looked at Darren, trying to figure it out. I whispered the answer into his ear and I saw sit right up. My speaking went straight to his thoughts. He explained to the girl he was with what he thought the answer was. He placed funny looking tiles on the altar and soon small pokemon were swarming everywhere. The couple disappeared and the red glow of my crystal faded. Once again I was in the Netherworld.

Chapter 7: The Ancient Prophecy

A tear of joy came to my eye as the world faded around me. I turned and stepped back into the Netherworld. Darkness spun around me like a swarm of angry Beedrill, and I shut my eyes because of the intensity. I felt the darkness close in around me and they open up into the Netherworld. When I opened my eyes I could tell immediately that something was wrong.

The first thing that I noticed was that it was dark. The Netherworld is never dark, I thought as I stepped onto the grass. The next thing I noticed took me completely off guard. I saw the legendary pokemon that my friend Gengar had described in his book, the one with the long black cloak and scythe. The pokemon was holding its scythe out at arms length and a strange power seemed to be emanating from it. It was pointed directly at Lugia, the beast who had recently joined us here.

Lugia was suspended in mid-air, with its arms and legs flung outward. It seemed to be in a trance. Something seemed evil here, something dark. The legendary pokemon seemed to be in a trance itself, as though it was being controlled by something far away. I gasped as it did something I could not predict.

The pokemon lowered its hood. Underneath was skin that was unexplainable. It didn't look like anything like the dimension that we were in. It was truly a retched sight. It looked like a mistake, and that’s all I can do to describe it. With one fluid movement of its mighty arms, the scythe came down fast on Lugia’s head. I thought for a second that the blade would strike Lugia, but it didn't. Instead, it fell about an inch short of where Lugia was, and the slice had created a gap in the air. It is hard to explain what I saw, it was as if the air was solid and the scythe had cut through it. Lugia looked towards the gap, and then towards the chalk white demon. The caped figure nodded its head, and Lugia stood up on its two legs. It lifted up its head and walked very awkwardly through the opening. It was easy to see that Lugia was not made for walking.

The instant that Lugia's tail entered the portal, it zipped shut, and became as the air around it. However, the darkness stayed. In fact, clouds were forming in the sky, and I felt rain upon my face. I walked up to the crowd of people and pokemon that were together and stared at the place where the legendary Lugia had just vanished. I was about to reach the actual spot where it had vanished when I felt a tug on my arm. I turned around and saw that it was my sister. She spoke through her spirit towards me like she had taught long ago, "We must leave. Something is about to happen that we don't want to be a part of."

I had a dark, sick feeling enter into my chest and I could tell she was right. We were leaving quickly when I turned my head over my shoulder to see the hooded creature one more time. However, what I saw made me freeze.

The creature had shrouded itself in its long robe and was slowly drifting away, as if it had no feet. That was not what was surprising, but what was surprising was that a human, very large in stature, grabbed the robed figure by his bare hands and held it up to his face. "What did you think you were doing?" he yelled. "You just completely disregarded the prophesy. Do you think that we like living here, with nothing to do all the time?" The man had many followers, people and pokemon alike. They all gathered behind him as he was practically screaming at this creature.

There were a few, such as my sister and me, that did not get mixed up in what was happening. They just walked off or stood watching helplessly. "Prophecy? What is he talking about?" I asked my sister. However, before she could answer, the man brought his arm up above his head and threw a crushing blow to the hooded creature's face. The creature fell upon the ground.

"Ever since you've brought us to this place you promised that one day we would leave." The man was seriously angry. "Go back to our homes and our families. But you have just lead us from bad to worse. First, after we had been brutally injured by that freak Mew clone, you stopped us from contacting people to come save us by erasing us from all computer databases around the world. We thought that you had saved us with that ship you made rise from the ocean, but it ended up sinking halfway to our home and now we are all here, stuck, never able to return. We have been here for a year now and just when the prophecy begins to fulfill itself, you have to screw it up. You are just a glitch, not even supposed to exist. What do you have to say for yourself, Missingno?"

The hooded creature looked up, its hood fallen back and its terrible face revealed. I now understood the reason why it was so demented. It was a glitch, an accident. Although Missingno had no mouth, it began to speak to the people. “And who made that prophesy?” Missingno said in a cool but harsh voice. It sent shivers through my spine. The glitch looked the people in the eyes and said, “That is right, I can tell your thoughts. You know that I made that prophecy, and so I think that I will be the one that will make the call when and where it is fulfilled.

“You all remember what I said. I said that a mystical creature shall come, one that is powerful enough to destroy the world but one that is compassionate enough to take you. You have been waiting for two years, but things still have to happen before those things take place. But because of your ignorance you have thought that this Lugia was the ticket to your freedom. And yes, it does have the power to destroy the world, but that beast has little or no compassion.

“And now I make a final prophecy, that within two years this beast will come to save you, and I prophecy that it will be one that you have personally worked with in your lifetime. So I say that you should prepare for that time, for only the ones who believe me will be taken back to their homes and their families.”

Missingno shrouded its head, turned, and glided away, the people were all awestruck. This creature had totally confounded them, and now they had more of a clue of what to look forward to.

My sister and I turned to leave. We were walking swiftly, but I quickly felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned abruptly and saw that it was Missingno. I did not know what to do, so I froze. It stared at me from beneath its hood. Finally, it spoke.

“You are going to have a big part to play in this prophecy.” And that was all that it said. In the blink of an eye, Missingno was gone, and my sister and I looked at each other. We both had no idea what was going on, but I could not wait until the next day to find out.

Chapter 8: Unrest

Needless to say, the argument between Missingno and the muscular man, who I came to find out was named Jonathan, had shocked the very Netherworld as I had known it before. One of the first things that I had learned in this world is that there was a pattern in all things, and just as we lived through one life in mortality, we would live another quite like it in the Netherworld. Balance of power was critically essential, and that’s why these people returning home seemed to be impossible.

Yet it had been declared. These people would be taken back to the world from which they were stolen from, and then they would live normal lives. However, even though this was far from the norm, it was not unheard of. There were a few accounts in the library that I had read of immediate transfusion across the veil that separated our two worlds. Even though I had this ability with the crystal necklace that I wore, it only let me retain a spiritual form rather than these rare cases of people and pokemon retaining a solid form across the dimensions.

However, something was bothering me beyond belief. Ever since Missingno had spoken of me doing something for these people, I had indulged myself in reading the books in the library more intensely, looking for clues that would help me understand what I would be doing. Yet I didn’t know where to start looking, until later that same day.

Even though humans and pokemon in the Netherworld are not required to eat, sleep, or drink, they are quite comforting sometimes. I had been so busy lately that I had not slept eight months. I thought I would enjoy a nice nap to remind me what it was like back in mortality.

I used my psychic powers to lift my frame from a small table at the library and out into the open fields. It was sunny, but not scorching hot. I found a place alone on the grass near a willow tree. After I sat down and smoothed out a place under my body, I placed my head on my hands and drifted off.

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There I was, standing on a tall mountain. Snow whipped by fierce winds ravished my cold and almost lifeless body. Yet I trudged on, hoping that I would soon reach my destination. It was coming closer and closer with every footstep. With one final push, I stepped over a rocky outcropping and on to the very top of the mountain. There it was, the doorway to the mortal world.

I was old and weak, and it took all of my energy just to reach this portal. It had a metallic ring around it, and the center was filled with pulsating colors of energy. I struggled on; it was only twenty feet away. Then ten. Then five. The energy was draining from my body fast. I took one more step, and then fell face first on the ground before the gate.

I looked up. It was there, I could touch it if my arms were not frozen solid. I could only look on with despair; I needed to reach this portal. It was my final test and if I failed it, I would never get the second chance I had fought so hard to attain.

Gradually the cold moved towards the center of my body. My arms grew numb, and so did my legs. However, as the physical pain dulled, the emotional pain grew. The guilt of the thing that I had done began to creep up on me. I had repressed it for so many years, justifying it when all along I knew it was wrong. The despair of failing at my one chance to redeem myself was crushing my spirit. I had done everything that I could possibly do, and it wasn’t enough.
My senses, one by one, began to disappear. First to go were the powers that helped me to hold my head up. With a snow muffled thud it fell to the slow laded ground. Then the sense of touch left me, and I felt nothing through my physical body whatsoever. And then my eyes began to dim, starting from the very corners and then edging closer with everlasting blackness. It was then I gave up.

Then the most amazing thing happened. My eyes began to work their way back. My body was immediately filled with warmth. And the powers that held my body upright were restored. At once I looked up, not knowing what I expected. I saw myself still standing upon the top of the mountain, yet the cold and the wind was gone. I smiled and jumped for joy. Then I turned around and saw my rescuer.

She was the one I was searching for, the one who could make everything right. She was standing outside the portal that I was about to enter. The elegant smooth pink body, hovering a few feet above the air, beckoned me in. It was with the greatest amount of gratitude that I entered.

Mew, being the guardian of the mortal world, watched over its only direct entrance between the Netherworld and the mortal world. Also, because of her position in the world she was the only one who could offer me a path of redemption for the sin which I had committed long ago.

I explained everything to Mew, even though she already knew all about what I had done. I told her about Terra, my trainer of so many years ago. I had despised her with every fiber of my being, and to this day I don’t know why. She was kind-hearted and sweet, always taking care of me and helping me from day to day. However, I was arrogant and thought that I was better than her by all means. I hated her kindness, and I spat back at her kind words. Yet, she would always give me love in return and always turn the other cheek.

Then one day she encountered a most horrendous disaster. She was hiking in the woods when she fell through a hole in the ground that had been slightly camouflaged. She fell many feet until she at last hit the ground. Bruised and broken, she called me from my pokeball and cried desperately for me to help her. I looked at her and saw that she didn’t have much time, yet nothing that happened to her could shake my hatred towards her. Then she looked me in the eyes, and wept. Slowly life left her, and I became free once again.

Or so I thought. Then, as we both knew and could remember so well, Mew appeared before me. I told Mew I could remember what she said to me. “Gardevoir! What hath thou done to this thy master? She would have readily given her life for you if it was required! And now, thou standeth here before me. What say ye?”

My very frame was shaken to the core. It was then that I realized what a terrible thing I had done; I had refused to love, even one that had loved me so much. I wept for the loss of my trainer and begged Mew’s forgiveness, but Mew had seen what a creature I had become. Therefore, she sentenced me to live in the Netherworld until I was able to traverse the lands to where she lived. I asked, “Where is mercy? Why can’t thou grant me mercy?”

Mew then spoke again. “You are forgetting that there are the laws of justice to be satisfied. Justice requires you to travel through blistering deserts, pouring rains, and freezing mountains to reach me. Only when you have suffered enough to fulfill the justice you have earned, you may obtain forgiveness.”

Mew now looked at me. I didn’t hear any words, but the thoughts came into my head. “You did your very best to fulfill the laws of justice in coming here, yet you did not finish it completely.” The sorrow which I had felt earlier came back to me again in one sudden rush. “Yet,” Mew’s words appeared in my head again, “I shall grant your wish of mercy.”
I was immediately filled with happiness beyond all belief. Mew led me away from the mountain and through the forest where two Gardevoir were watching over a newly laid egg. Mew motioned towards the egg, and I entered inside of it. I head the voice of Mew once again, “When you show me that you can love someone greater than yourself, forgiveness will be yours.”
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I awoke with a start on the grassy hill underneath the willow tree. Now I knew why I lived in such peace here in the Netherworld while others lived in unrest. It was because I had completely fulfilled my duty as a pokemon to my earthly trainer Darren Diamond. I had a personal bond with Mew, the creature that Jonathan and his fellow scientists genetically tampered with. I didn’t know what any of this meant, but I had a sure feeling that a short talk with Jonathan and a quick trip to the library would be all that I needed to figure it out.

<note from ERN INC.>
Sorry, I totally spaced and forgot to mention the middle world. I really meant to in that last explanation. No. Missingno is over the Netherworld. The dragon creature that turned Aerodactyl into Ghastly was the legendary in between but I really don't think I'll expound on him in this book. Anyways, I hope that clears this up.

Chapter 9: The Final Quest

“No! I will not tell you what happened, it was too embarrassing.” Jonathan was infuriated, and he tried to stomp off. I had just asked him to tell me what transpired on the island that Missingno had spoken of.

I sighed. “Jonathan, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.” He pretended to hear me. Stupid human, I thought. Darren would have been much more willing to listen to his pokemon.

I raised my hands and brought them together. Jonathan froze through my psychic energy. I turned him around with small motions of my hands, and then levitated him back towards me. I lifted my hand softly to his cheek and whispered with a sad look in my eyes, “Please will you tell me what happened on the island.” It was an old telepathic trick that I learned as a young Ralts that would hypnotize any person into doing what you wanted them to do. Jonathan whimpered at the sadness of my eyes, and he consented to tell me the story.

“A few years ago,” he said with a shaky voice, “me and my crew were hired by some man named Giovonni to take a team of scientists to an island far south of the whirlpool island. It was covered in jungle and very humid. The scientists said that they would be able to find a very rare pokemon there, the elusive Mew.

“My crewmates laughed at such a notion, but I began to be extremely curious. I listened intently to the conversations that the scientists would have, and although I could hardly understand what they said, it sounded like they were planning to capture Mew and use it in an intense cloning process. Needless to say, I became very interested in what would happen.

“Being a ship’s captain, I was skilled and writing logs and journals. The lead scientist noticed these skills and asked me to write the proceedings of what transpired on the jungle island. I consented, and they gave me a nice computer for which I could record the events that happened.”

I was getting nervous at this point. He was beginning to talk about my friend from so many years ago. And genetic experiments? What other terrible thing could they do to her. However, I calmed my emotions and listened to the rest of his story.

“We found Mew quite easily. I was shocked and amazed to see that such a pokemon existed. The scientists were very excited and began immediately working on producing a clone from Mew. Giovonni had specified that the clone we were to make was to be genetically enhanced to be all-powerful.

“The scientists tried explaining the cloning process to me. I couldn’t really understand it because I had just been a sailor for my entire life, but it involved cells being implanted into eggs and genetic fusion of amino acids and complete deoxyribonucleic acid mutations. They also used advanced chemistry to erase all emotional hormones that were naturally made. Anyway, to make a long story short, they created five embryos. They grew them in the lab for a month and picked the strongest, most healthy one and implanted it in Mew.

“Five months later Mew gave birth. We christened the new pokemon Mewtwo. However, it proved too strong for mortal man to contain. Without warning it erupted one day, injuring Mew and destroying our boat and our lab, and then flew off into the distance. We tried calling for help but all of our equipment was damaged by Mewtwo or glitched by Missingno.

“Remember Missingno? Well that is where he came into existence. Mew’s great power called him to the mortal world to capture her son and subdue him. Missingno’s power in the mortal world has great electrostatic effects, and causes all electrical equipment around him to glitch and malfunction. However, Mewtwo was too strong for even the force of Missingno, and he was beaten back. Missingno could not return to the Netherworld without a consolation prize however, so he raised our boat that Mewtwo had sunk, and influenced us to get on.

“We thought it was a miracle, but it turned out to be our destruction. Half-way to the Whirlpool Island our boat immediately sank, drowning all aboard. We have been here ever since that terrible day.” Jonathan looked me in the eyes. “That is why we are so eager to go back home.”

I paused. I was about to slap Jonathan silly for the things he and his crewmates had done to my best friend, but now I truly felt sorry for him. He had misunderstood the balance of nature and how things should be. There were never coincidences; Mewtwo had been created for a purpose other than a destructive weapon, and I think that I was beginning to see the light.

“Thank you Jonathan. I am so sorry that you had to bring that up to me. But I hope that I can be able to help you in any way that I can.” I released the trance I held on him and floated away.

Ten minutes later I was in the library pouring through books. Books about the crew members, books about Mew, and most importantly, my very own personal book. However, there was one problem with these books; they only told the past and did not convey the future. I searched eagerly for clues as to what I was supposed to do, but it was to no avail.

Just as I was about to give in to despair I felt a small touch on my shoulder. I quickly spun around to see Missingno standing behind me. He whispered just one word to me from behind his hooded cloak, “Come.” I quickly got up and followed him. He led me to a different part of the library that I had never been to before. There was a tall iron gate that was closed over the small portion of the library. This was odd because I had never seen a place in the Netherworld other than the mortal world portal that was locked.

Missingno reached from within his robes and brought out a large brass key which he used to unlock the door. It swung open with a loud creak, as if it had not been unlocked in years. “This is the hall of prophesy,” Missingno said. “Very few creatures are aloud in here because some will attempt to stop the future from happening, but I believe that I can trust you.”

“Why would anyone want to stop things from happening in the future?” I asked him. He smiled.

“Sometimes we are all a little short sided. We do not see that bad things must happen at times so that it brings to pass a greater good. Like a purging fire that destroys a forest. It eliminates the old trees so that new ones can grow. Sometimes we don’t want to go through these fires, but we must always know that a greater good will become of them.”

He picked up a large black book. There was no writing on the cover, but as he opened it I saw that there was an enormous amount of scribbles on the pages. I tried reading over Missingno’s shoulder, but it was to no avail. The words were too small and I just couldn’t hope to read them.

Before I could ask to read the book Missingno had closed it and placed back on the shelf. I really wanted to read what it said, but I did not get the chance. Missingno looked at me from behind his hood and said, “You have had an interesting life, have you not?”

It took me a while to answer. I was not expecting this question so my mind took a few seconds to realize what he was asking. “Um, I guess so. I have had some pretty unique experiences.”

“Yes you have,” said Missingno. “In fact, you have a bond to Mew that so very few creatures share. I would venture to say that it is almost equal to that strength between you and your trainer.

“You also know that Mew is in the greatest of pain. She has lost her only son, and she yearns for his love every day. You have the bond between her which can enable you to help her. You know love and compassion because you have traversed through the deepest of sorrows. However, you can not completely give of yourself, because you are still bonded to your trainer. You must bring your trainer to her to let him see of her pain so that he will remember his bonding with Mew.

“Yes, many years ago Darren Diamond met Mew. He had fallen into a river and was flung over the edge of a waterfall. He was about to die when Mew saved him. He has been connected with her ever since. It is time for you to reunite them, and then the answer of what you must do to save Mew and yourself will be realized.”
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I slowly eased into the mortal world. I journeyed through the Cave of Origin, across the oceans, and to the small town of Blackthorn. It was cold and dark. The nighttime sky shone across the entire valley. I entered into my old home, where Darren still resided.

I found him sleeping in bed. He was so peaceful. He seemed like he had not a care in the world. I knew what I had to do. He had to be brought to Mew one way or another. I touched my hand to his head and concentrated on his thoughts.

First, I saw him standing in a misty field. He seemed to be looking for something. Mew, I thought. He must be looking for Mew. The subconscious mind is powerful, and so he must have sensed somewhere in the world an old friend was hurting. I realized that he needed my guidance.

In his dream I focused an image of myself. To him it appeared that I came out of the mist. I watched him through the eyes of the image I had superimposed into his dream. He began to cry when he saw me. I could tell that he missed me beyond what words could express.

I walked up to him and grabbed his hand and pulled it towards me. I then led him across the ocean to the island where Mew awaited him. He was in awe at the place I had taken him to, but by the time he had turned around, I pulled my image out of his mind. I then saw him turn and walk into the forest.

This was all that I needed to do for now, I thought as I slipped backwards into the Netherworld. He will soon discover what we truly are together. And I will learn what I need to do to fully repent of those sins I committed long ago.

Chapter 10: Love of a Mother

I now realized what I had to do. I had to make the Journey through the Netherworld to the portal of mortality. I could not remember much about my previous journey because it was an entire lifetime ago. There was a common saying in the Netherworld that went, “If we were to remember everything that we had ever done, we would never do it again.”

When I first had heard the quote I thought that it was very true, but I did not know why there was such a bad connotation to the sentence. I thought that we were striving to be the best that we could. However, as I came to ponder on it more, I realized that if we were all as good as possible there would be some terrible consequences.

I noticed that it was the striving to make ourselves better that defined who we were and what gave us experience. We become better when we realize what we have become through our hardships and our trials. So, because we were reborn every time we went from world to world, if we remembered our past mistakes, we could never become the good people that we became in the end because we would constantly be bringing ourselves down. Life was made for us to be happy. I do not mean that we were meant to be instantly gratified through things that in the end tear us apart, but to experience true joy and love in its purest form.

Ever since I had entered the Netherworld, thoughts of my mortal life began to slowly fade from me. I remembered main events, such as turning points in my life, but I couldn’t remember the little things such as my old daily routine and childhood friends. However, I wasn’t sad because I realized that because I didn’t know them now, it was for the best when I returned.

All that I knew about the journey that I was about to walk upon is what I had seen in my dream. I remembered there was a large desert, one that was very hot with a blistering sun and no plants in sight. There was also a large ocean that constantly had a hurricane above it. After that was an enormous mountain range. It was large and rocky with temperatures below zero degrees. At the top of the largest mountain was the place which I was going. It was the place where the portal where I would be able to enter resided, and thereby I would meet Mew again.
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It was time for me to depart. Before I left however, I wanted to talk to one person one more time. The person that had been with me since the moment I first appeared in the Netherworld.

My sister.

I found her sitting on a rock by a small little brook that ran past the library. She was calmly meditating. I watched her for a moment, taking in the tranquility of her soul. Energy of peace and goodness was radiating from her so strongly that I could taste the sweetness of it. My soul was racked with pain as I realized that this was probably the last time I would ever see her.

I approached silently, gliding across the grass. She sensed my presence. Slowly my sister opened her eyes and turned towards me. Looking into her sweet, kind eyes brought me to tears. I was leaving my sister, the one I felt I had not known for long enough. She quietly guided me down to the rock that she was sitting on and put a comforting arm around me.

“What is the matter my sister?” she asked. She could sense my extreme sadness since our feelings were intertwined. She caringly caressed my back and said, “Tell me, I will understand.”

I looked at her, tears welling up in my eyes. “Sister,” I said, tears getting in the way of my words, “it is time for me to leave.” It seemed to me like my sister was stabbed by a white hot knife, and she struggled to comprehend the few words that I had said. I held her had tenderly, “My friend that saved me from myself is now suffering beyond mortal imagination. She has been rejected by the one that she called her son. I must go and make peace, for only one may tame the beast.”

“Why you?” she asked. “What do you have that no one else in the Netherworld does?”

I looked her in the eyes and gave her a faint smile, trying to reassure her of my decision. “I owe Mew my very soul and existence. It’s because of her mercy that I was able to come to the Netherworld and get a chance to redeem myself from my past sin rather than wallow for eternity between worlds. Hell.” I nodded my head at her and said, “We know why it is Hell; there is no progression or completion in that life. You are forever trapped because of your wickedness.”

She nodded. “I would not want you to suffer anything like this ever, and I am eternally thankful to Mew for saving you from that horrible fate.” I stood up and so did she. We embraced, but not with only our physical bodies, but our emotions intertwined. I felt greater love for my sister than I have ever in my entire life. It was a feeling that I don’t think I will ever forget, even across the barrier of the Netherworld.

I released her and looked into her eyes. We spoke no more words, for there was nothing to be said. The time had come for me to leave, and it felt as if my heart had broken in two. I bowed to my sister and she bowed to me; a sign of perfect respect. I turned and began to slowly drift away towards the smoldering desert of destruction. I felt that I could not look back, for if I did then I would not have the strength to do all that was necessary. This was my time, and I needed all of my strength to survive what lay before me.
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I remember this, I thought as I came right to the edge of the desert. A memory ever so faint, but yet it was there. I sighed in disbelief as I surveyed the scenery. There were miles and miles of blistering sand dunes and no shade whatsoever. The air was as dry as it could possibly be, and every breath hurt. There were from time to time slight winds that would jar up causing dust devils that pelted one with millions of razor sharp fragments of sand. Yes, I remembered this place all to well.

Being psychic I didn’t think I had to worry about the hot sand. I had always just glided along with my powers and rarely ever physically touched the ground. Yet I knew something was wrong with my train of thought. My memory was not very clear, so I took little notice to it. I began across the desert as quickly as my mind would let me.

However, as I drifted over the first part of the sand my psychic powers left me almost immediately. My body fell against the sand and it burnt my flesh. The pain was equivalent to touching ones hand to a red-hot stove. Now I remembered why this trip was going to be so painful. I quickly rose to my feet. I still had some of my psychic powers left, but they were only a fraction of what they should have been. I used them to help myself along the best I could, so only my feet had to touch the sand. I felt water leave my system quickly, and my panting became heavier and raspy after the first two hours.

The desert seemed to go on forever and after every dune I climbed there was another right after it that was even higher than the first. Constantly I had to push myself forward because my body just wanted to give up. I did not give head to those feelings however, because I knew that I was walking to save my friend from certain death. She held the balance of the world in her grasp, and if she died than it would mean certain destruction of the mortal world as we knew it. Already it seemed as if something was out of balance, though I could not place a finger on it.

For two mortal days I traversed the desert. The sun never set, and it seemed bent on not letting me reach the portal to mortality. My feet were burned so severely that my legs twitched in pain every time that my feet touched the ground. It hurt, and for some reason I wasn’t able to heal myself like I had been able to in the past. As a matter of fact, I had not been able to feel pain here in the Netherworld, but I had always remembered what it was like from mortality.

I finally climbed over a sandy dune to see in the distance a large black rain cloud. The second trial was in sight. Half a day of pain and suffering from blistered red feet and I had finally arrived. This point was supposed to be a place where the traveler could rest from their travels for a short period of time. Here there was some vegetation and plenty of shade from the overhead clouds. I also noticed that my powers were back at their full energy, which helped me take a load off my feet.

There was also a small fountain that burst at the edge of an enormous cliff. I ran and filled my body with the pure liquid. I had been without water for these two and a half days and my insides burned. This water refreshed me physically and I felt much better. I stood up and looked towards my next trial, the ocean that would lead to the mountain range. I could not see very much however, because the rain clouds above made it almost pitch black, but I could every once and again see large waves frothing below being stirred by the rain. This would be an equal challenge, I thought, as the desert had been. I rested just a little longer there, and then took my position at the top of the cliff.

I stared down into the darkness below me, hearing the churning waves beneath me, seemingly calling out for me to jump into their midst. There was the crash of wave upon wave and upon rock and I knew that I could not delay the inevitable any longer. With my eyes closed I jumped into the fury of water.

The plummet seemed to me like hours. Wind and mist flew past me as I fell towards the darkness of the black water below. Then, unexpectedly, the water slammed me in the face and I sank below the waves.

I was expecting my powers to have disappeared as they had during the desert, but now was not the case. I quickly formed a bubble of psychic energy around me right before I crashed into the ocean floor. Quickly, I used my power to bring me up to the top of the ocean where I dropped my shield and let the rain pour on my body.

I saw the test that this was. I used energy every time that I protected myself from the monstrous waves, and in a while I would loose the ability to save myself and I would sink into the depths of the ocean. Naturally I did not want to even cut it close, so I began to stride across the water, using my powers to allow my feet to touch the water that they might heal from the burns they received.

I did not know what direction I was going. It was so hard to tell direction in this ever-changing environment. Every once and a while I would see a flash of lightning and visualize a place far away; large mountain ranges where I needed to head. However, after just a small time I would loose direction and have to defend myself from the water while I waited for lightning to flash again.

I could feel the energy leaving me bit by bit. I grew weary with every wave that pounded against my psychic shell. I knew that unless I reached the mountains soon that I would surely have to give up and sink into the ocean. There was another flash of lightning and I saw the mountains nearly a mile away. They were so very close, and I rushed quickly to reach them. However, in my ignorance I walked right into a trap.

I didn’t notice it at first until I realized that I was going downhill. That is strange, I thought. Water doesn’t go downhill. Slight sensitivity began to kick into my feet and I realize that the water beneath me was moving at an incredibly fast rate. I looked down the best I could and saw that I was in the middle of a gigantic whirlpool.

I did not know what I was going to do. Not even in my memory did I remember this underwater tornado appearing. I tried to use my powers to pull myself out and away, but a gigantic wave came and pulled me in. My psychic abilities had suffered all that they could, and I had to give up.

I felt the water take me and shake my body like it was a rag doll. I swirled around hundreds of times every second. My mind began to reel and I became extremely dizzy. My arms and legs felt like they would be torn off in a few seconds. Just as I was go give into despair, the whirlpool ejected me from its grasp, and I floated slowly away, deep under the water.

This is the end, I thought. Soon I will drift into the mortal world with no recollection of what I have gone through. I tried to breathe, but the water choked my lungs. My entire body gave an involuntary shudder as the water became fire in my lungs. It was time for me to leave. I had done, all that was possible.

As my mind began to fade from conciseness, I remember that I felt a small touch on my hand and warmth around my entire body. Then all I saw and felt was darkness. Such cruel darkness.

When I came to, I heard the sound of waves beating against the shore. Where have I been sent to? I thought. It sounded like a beautiful place. Maybe I will live on the beach as I grow up this time.

I arose slowly and opened my eyes. A beam of light was directly above me, and was warming me to my very soul. I looked over the ocean and suddenly a wave of memories came flooding back. The gigantic whirlpool, the pain, and the hand. The hand! I thought and I turned around. There was my sister standing next to me. She had saved my life. I was at a loss for words. She had come all this way for me, just to save me from a fate worse than death.

“Sister,” she said, “I never had a chance in mortality to fully meet my purpose as a Gardevoir. I have never felt towards anyone the love that I feel towards you. That is why I came and saved you, because as you are bonded to Darren Diamond I am bonded to you.”

I smiled. Infinite joy filled my body and gave me strength. I stood up beside her and said, “Thank you so very much, sister. However, I believe that it is time for us to leave this world behind and to journey into mortality.”

She smiled with me and nodded. Together, we turned toward the mountain range.
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I began to shiver uncontrollably with my sister. We were huddled next to each other for warmth. It was terribly painful to move on. The rocks were razor sharp and there was no clear pathway for us to follow. There was little snow, but the air was so cold it felt as if the rocks were ice. We continued together, each supporting the other with our warmth and our companionship. After about a day of traveling we reached something that had a very distinct impression on my memory. The base of the mountain which the portal was on.

Slowly we began the ascent. My burnt feet began to loose all feeling as they froze solid. Earlier that day the water from the sea began to freeze to my body, and I was very stiff, as well as my sister. Despite our hardships and frozen limbs, we still pushed on. Yet I felt something terribly wrong. I felt that my energy was draining faster than I had anticipated. I didn’t think we would reach the top in time. We would die first. I began to panic, but my sister continued to push towards the top. I could see that she was suffering as well, but she did not give any sign of complaining. I followed her example.

I pushed myself over a rocky outcropping and realized that we had made it to the very top. Twenty feet away was the portal, yet it seemed as if it were a hundred yards away. We started walking towards it, but between the energy we had just exerted and the cold temperature here I felt all strength leave me. I also knew that Mew was not going to save me this time, so I had to go all the way.

Yet, it was impossible. My sister and I both fell into the shallow snow that surrounded the portal of energy. It was right there, but there was no way we could to it. It was impossible. Déjà vu began to come back into my mind as I realized that we had come so close but had failed, just as I had so many years ago. I slowly glanced over at my sister. I spoke in thought to her, “It is impossible, we can never save Mew any more.”

She looked at me. I heard her thoughts in my head, and I wished that I had not. My sister said, “You are right, we can not make it.” Her eyes began to glow blue, like mine had years ago when I had fought the legendary Groudon, “But you can.” I realized that she was making the same sacrifice that I had made for my trainer years ago. Her blood boiled and became psychic energy. I felt her power flow into my body giving me restoration. I was soon standing up, fully rejuvenated. I felt amazing, but I looked down at my sister. All of her power was gone, and she would soon be gone from me.
I ran and lifted her up with the strength she had given me. Her eyelids fluttered and she looked at me with her beautiful eyes. I began to cry, and the tears immediately froze to my face. Her face was ever so beautiful as she slipped from the Netherworld. She had accomplished her destiny in this life that she had not been able to in the mortal world. I was pleased, but there was an aching in my heart that I could not remove. I would probably never see her again, wherever she went.

Her body melt away from my hands like sand and drifted away. Somewhere in the mortal world, a great Ralts was being born, one that would be rewarded in mortality for this act of selflessness. I quickly rubbed away the ice from my cheeks and looked towards the portal to mortality. I didn’t know what I would see on the other side, but I was ready for this adventure to be at an end. It had already claimed one innocent life, and I was going to make sure that no one else was going to fall to it.

I slowly stepped into the portal, and into the realm of the mortal world.

The Life of a Hero

jedirules — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:13:20 CDT

This is not my story. I got it off the internet from serebii.net forums it is copyright of ERN INC. This story is incredible and I am encouraging you to read this. You will be amazed.

1. Introduction
2. An Unrefusable Offer
3. Sootapolis
4. Groudon
5. Cataclysm
6. Guardian of the Deep
7. Unbalace of Power
8. The Unown Riddle
9. Regi Revelation
10. Meteor
11. Deoxys Destruction
12. Rayquaza Rescue
13. Mew's Mistake
14. Giovonni
15. Mewtwo's Companionship
16. Legendary Squall
17. Unfrozen Statues
18. Double Trouble
19. A Ruined Earth
20. Celebi's Future
21. Epiloge

And now, cue the introduction.

Chapter 1: Introduction

This is the tale of my life, and though the real story begins when I was thirty, the adventure began when I was seven years old. Growing up in the town of Blackthorn, I knew the legends of the elusive dragon pokemon as well as everyone in the city. My best friend Lance and I hiked up the waterfall north of the town almost every day because he swore that he saw a dragon in the lake above the waterfall. After about a month of this, he devised a plan to capture this elusive dragon, for there was an unseen bond between the two, and he seemed possessed by the dragons' very existance. He told me that he must be left alone to capture it, so I left him alone overnight.
When I arrived the next morning I saw the biggest smile on his face as he showed me a pokeball. He threw it in the air and out popped a small, worm-like dragon, about five feet long. It swam in the water, but never farther than 5 feet away from Lance. He said, "He's such a small dragon, I'll call him Dratini." And so my friend Lance became the first known person to have captured a dratini. For a few minutes we just stared at the beautiful dragon, its silky scales and smooth features made it seem to glow. This glow made me want to touch it, to caress it, and to love it, but as I stepped towards it I slipped and fell into the lake. Struggling and gasping for breath, I tried swimming back to shore, but the current had me in its grasp. I looked towards the waterfall and knew that I was going to go over soon. As I was flung over the edge I saw the jagged rocks below me, so sharp that they looked like black thorns, the same rocks the town was named after. I shut my eyes and waited for death to take me.
But it didn't come. I slowly opened my eyes and found myself in what looked like a pink bubble. I was but a foot from the pointy rocks. I let out an enormous sigh of relief. Then, unexpectadly, the bubble shot upwards, like a rocket. When I was above the falls I could see Lance looking up at me, dumbstruck. I floated down beside him and the bubble popped, and I hit the ground with a thud.
It was only then that I saw my rescuer, the legendary Mew. Mew flew around Lance and I and seemed quite pleased with what he had done. It giggled as it summersaulted through the air. I watched the little pokemon in awe. Mew then began to leave, but before it did, I yelled, "Thank you, Mew! I'll never forget you!"
Mew laughed once again and then flew away, and that was my first encounter with a legendary pokemon. This experience inspired me to become a trainer, that maybe one day in the future I would see my legendary friend again.
My training began on my eleventh birthday. My father, who was a world renowned trainer, presented me with my very own dragon pokemon, a small Bagon. I was so excited that I almost left the house without saying goodbye to my parents. Through the years, Bagon and I became the best of friends, through the wins and the losses.
On the day that I left my home, Lance and I went our separate ways. We met at the southern gate of Blackthorn and Lance said, "When we are both famous one day we are going to have to battle sometime." I nodded, for I couldn't find any words leaving my best friend.
Lance went on to become the most powerful dragon trainer in the world. I still read about his accomplishments in newspapers and see him on the covers of magazines. I went on to master the art of battling, though I followed this path out of the spotlight unlike Lance. We had battled eachother over the years. Sometimes he'd win, sometimes I'd win, and we were still great friends, but after we separated it had always felt as if there was a wall between us.
My pokemon team grew quite well over the years. After long and careful training, my little Bagon became a full fledged Salamence, who quite enjoyed flying and didn't mind my frequent world vacations. Other than Salamence, I have raised a Gengar, a Pupitar, a Gardevoir, and a Gyarados. Each one has a story worth a novel, but the story that I wish to tell is of our life together as a team and the obsticals that we overcame together.

Chapter 2: An Unrefusable Offer
Blackthorn City, March 5, 6:30

DING! DONG! The doorbell rang loudly and echoed throughtout my house. I was in the living room with my Pupitar. He had been feeling kind of sick. His eyes had glazed over and his shell had turned deep brown in color. These were all signs of imminent evolution. As you can probably imagine, I was very excited to have a Tyranitar come into the family.
The doorbell kept ringing so I hurried to answer it. I was very annoyed. However, if I had known what would happen to my life because of this man at the door, I would have never opened it up.
I opened the door to see a man standing patiently, as if he hadn't been ringing my doorbell like a maniac. He was dressed in a blue suit, a bizzare fashon that I have never seen in my days. He also wore dark sunglasses and looked as calm as a sea before the storm.
"Can I help you?" I asked. I was straight forward and to the point. The man just smiled at my reaction.
"Yes you can." He replied. "More than you can possibly imagine at the moment. May I come in?"
I showed him into my home. Taking him to the living room, he saw Pupitar and remarked, "Oh dear, he looks dreadfully sick. Are you taking care of him?"
"Its a 'her' and obviously you have never studied Pupitars." I said to him. "They get very sick before they evolve, because their body is creating special enzymes that will break through the shell. Her eyes are glazed because fluids are spreading over them, changing them to smaller, sharper eyes. She has been getting worse for the last two weeks, so it has to be very soon now. However, it still could be a week or more."
I sat down in my lazy boy chair and leaned forward. The man sat on the couch next to Pupitar. He began the conversation.
"What do you know about the cataclysm that happened in Hoenn ten years ago, Mr. Diamond."
"Well, I know it had to do with an idiotic team that had upset the balance of nature by unleashing two ancient pokemon. Must have been Team Rocket, in another foolish attempt to take over the world." I replied. "The two titans clashed and there was much destruction. I can still remember seeing freak thunderstorms and enormous heat waves even here in Blackthorn. I also know that there were two children, I think their names were Brendon and May, that stopped the titans from destroying too much. I don't know much more than that, because that was all that they showed in the news. Why do you care if I know anything about this?"
Pupitar was getting nervous. She hopped over to me with a groaning sound. She didn't like to move, but she didn't like this new person more.
The man looked me in the eyes. "We have found the resting place of the great Groudon, the ultimate ground pokemon." It took a second before I grasped what he said. "Groudon appears to be dormant, we have done numourous tests on it for about a year and can detect no signs of life at all. I wanted to know if you would be interested in seeing such a beast, or the body of one anyway.
I thought about it, and I began to be suspicious. "Why me?" I asked "I don't even know you, and I don't make my self known to many people. How did you ever find out about me?"
"To tell you the truth, we first went to Lance to ask him if he would like to see Groudon, but he said that he was to busy with the League and all so he recommended you in his place."
"Pupi, Pupitar!!!" screached Pupitar. I looked at her and saw an enormous crack running down the outside of its shell. I could see it glowing on the inside, a reaction of steroids pumping through its body, making it stronger. Without even thinking, I grabbed Pupitar and ran outside. I just finnished paying of my house, and I didn't want it to be destroyed. Once outside, I placed him on the ground. The shell broke open and the inside sprang upwards. Once regaining its true shape, the glowing stopped, and for the first time I beheld my Tyranitar.
The man came up from behind me, gazing at Tyranitar. "You must be a powerful trainer, Mr. Diamond, to have trained a Pupitar so well. You have to take this job."
I ignored him, and began speaking to my Tyranitar. "My, how you have grown. It seems as if only yesterday you were hatching from your egg. Now you are probably strong enough to topple Mt. Silver.
"Roooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr!" Tyranitar bellowed and she stomped a foot, shaking the ground around us.
"Whoa! That enough excitement for today." I said as I held up a Great Ball, "Return!" A red beam of light shot out of the ball and brought Tyranitar back inside of it. "That was exciting. My team just got another wonderful addition.
The man interrupted, obviously in a hurry, "We will pay you one million Pokebucks for you to come and investigate , and I'll also give you this." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a ruby jewel, the same shape and size of a pokeball. "This is a valuable item in Hoenn, known as the Red Orb. I thought you'd like to take it with you when you see Groudon." There was something about this orb that made me have to accept this offer. It was as if the jewel was calling for me, and pursuading me to go.
"Alright, I'll go. What do I have to do?"
The man smiled. "You need to be in Sootopolis in two weeks. You can take an airplane from Goldenrod to Lilycove, then order a helicopter to take you to Sootopolis. I have all of your plans worked out."
"Well," I replied, "would you please scrap your plans, because I perfer to plan my own traveling arrangements. I will be in Sootapolis by tomorrow, is that okay?"
The man looked astonished. "Well, sure, if you think you can make it that fast."
"I know I can, I have the fastest flyer in all of Johto, Salamence, come on out!" I threw a small pokeball and out came the giant Salamence of mine. He reared up on both feet and stretched.
"Well, I'll leave you on your word that you can be there tomorrow. I have to go. I probably won't see you for a while. Meet my coworker in Sootopolis and she will help you with finding the legendary beast." He handed me a small buisness card with an "A" on the top and a person's name and address on the back.
I still didn't know his name, "And who are you exactly, you haven't told me what you go by."
The man turned, and said, "My named Archie Mizu, at your service." which was funny because I was technically at his service, for a price of course. "I have to go now, I'll hopefully see you later."
After he left I went out to a shed in my back yard and pulled out an old leather harness that I had made custom for Salamence. Although I usually ride bareback. Sootapolis was very far away, and I didn't want to fall asleep and fall off. After struggling to put it on, I finally got it. I went inside and grabbed some provisions and locked the doors. After fastening my backpack, I climbed on the harnessand strapped myself onto it, laying down across Salamence, so that I could tell him where to go.
"Salamence! To Sootapolis!" I yelled. With a roar, he leaped into the air and pushed down with his wings and flew into the air. We reached the cliffs north of Blackthorn, and rode a thermal to as high as it would take us, then we began our trek towards Sootapolis.

Chapter 3: Sootapolis
Sootapolis City Limits, March 6, 1:30 A.M.

I'm glad that Salamence loves flying, I thought as we shot through the air. He must be completly worn out. I had taken a short nap on the way, and I felt a little refreshed. Salamence had roared, meaning that Sootapolis was in his sight. After waking up, I made preparations for landing, adjusting the harness tighter for the rough flying ahead. I could see the full moon reflect of of the ocean, which was more than a mile down. Even though I was strapped in, I clutched Salamence's neck tighter.
After about half an hour Salamence dropped a little, a signal that Sootapolis was just below us. I pushed the base of his neck, a sign for him to dive. He pulled his wings down across his body and fell like a rock. Though I had been a little bit sleepy, all tiredness left my eyes as we plummeted towards the city. I looked toward the ocean and saw a cluster of lights sittnig there, like they didn't belong. Here was Sootapolis, the City of Origin.
The lights jumped up to meet us as we fell towards them. One red building grew larger as we were heading right for it. The "P" on it clearly distinguished it as a Pokemon Center. At the last possible moment, Salamence pulled out of the dive by expanding its wings at full force to bring us to an abrubt but soft landing. Pulling my emergency cord, I slipped out of the harness and climbed of Salamence. Once I was off he curled up into a ball and went to sleep immedietly. I called him softly into his pokeball and attached him to my belt.
I folded my harness up and packed it away in my backpack. After a big yawn, I entered the Poke Center. There was a Chansey behind the counter, asleep, but I shook it awake gently.
"Excuse me. Can you take my pokemon and heal them overnight?" I asked the sleepy pokemon. Chansey gave a yawn and took my belt with all five of my pokemon on it. One of the nurses came out and gave a yawn as if Chansey had just waken her up.
"Would you like a room?" She asked in a low, monitone voice.
"Yes please. I've been flying all night. All the way from Blackthorn City." I replied.
She looked up at me. "Blackthorn, eh? We don't get many visitors from there. What are you here for?"
"I'm supposed to be meeting someone for buisness." I said. I wanted to keep my Groudon expidition as classified as I could.
"I see." she said. She fumbled with some keys in her draw and at last pulled one out. "Room 202, one of our best. Have a good night."
I took the key and hustled up to my room. I entered and locked the door behind me. After hanging up my backpack on the coathanger, I changed into my PJ's and crawled into bed. After thinking about the days events, I quickly drifted off to sleep.
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Dim light began to peer through the window at me and slowly aroused my sleeping body. It was morning, but the crater of the volcano kept out most of the early day light. I walked to the window and looked out to see that there was a quiet rain drizzling outside. For the first time in ten years I saw the beautiful city of Sootapolis. It looked different then I remembered. Some of the older houses had been replaced by newer stone houses and the water level had increased slightly. I put on my clothes as well as a light jacket for the rain.
After hurring downstairs, I found the breakfast buffet and began to eat a quick bowl of cereal. A Chansey came up to me and brought me some bacon and eggs to eat with my cereal. What great service I thought.
When breakfast was over I went to the front desk to pick up my pokemon. The same nurse that gave me my room was sitting at the desk. She had her hair combed and make up on, and she looked much happier. I handed her my room key.
"Did you enjoy your stay here at the Sootapolis pokecenter?" she asked with a smile on her face.
"Very much so," I replied. "May I get my pokemon back? I'm in a bit of a hurry." She nodded and went into the back room and brought out my belt with all five balls attached to it. I took them from her and quickly fitted the belt around my waist. "I hope they weren't any trouble for you."
"Now that you mention that, Gardevoir was a little jumpy today, but it was nothing serious." she said with a smile. I smiled and said goodbye, and as I was leaving I looked in the back room. I saw two Chanseys sitting in medical beds with blank, stupid looks on their faces. Right then I knew that Gardevoir's little struggle must have been major mayhem for the medical staff.
The card that Archie gave me said 229 Golduck Lane. As I was trying to find it among the stairs and roads that were Sootapolis, I wondered why Gardevoir had a fit this morning. The last time anything like this had ever happened was when later that same day a Ryhorn nearly trampled me to death. Something is up I thought. I know it!
After climbing a few stairs I found Golduck lane, and after some confusion found house 229. It was a new model, made of very nice stone with two pillars holding the front of the house up. I knocked on the wooden door and heard footsteps behind rushing quickly. When it opened I was face to face with a tall woman with black hair in a blue suit.
"Darren Diamond, I presume?" she asked in a very proper but cold voice.
"That would be me," I said mimicing her proper style of voice. Her eyes narrowed at me and she scowled. She pushed past me and ordered me to follow her.
"Wait! What's the hurry?" I asked her. She stopped and turned to me. I could sense that she was nervous about something, and I was determined to find out what it was.
"I, um, I'm just scared of the dark, thats all." she replied. I knew it was a lie, the quickest and cheapest lie in the book. I was going to get to the bottom of this. Strange things were afoot, and now I was mixed up in it.
I followed her to the center of the town where a man stood guard over the small entrance of a cavern. The lady walked right up to him and showed him something inside of her coat. The man nodded, aparently not wanting to get in any type of argument with this woman, and stepped aside, letting us in.
I pulled out my keychain and turned on a small electric light. Looking up, I could see thousands of Zubat clinging onto the ceiling of the cavern. Every once and I while I'd see a Golbat fluttering around. We began to decend into the cavern. It was like a gigantic spiral staircase, going down and down. We reached a large steel door at the bottom, and I was confused. A door in a cave? I thought. The lady opened it with a great struggle and told me to step inside.
There were a few electric lights glowing, but not much else. It was a large cavern, not one that you would expect in the middle of a peaceful town like Sootapolis. While I was admiring this cave I heard the door slam behind me. Oh, I see, their going to lock me in here. Well, two can play at this game. I reached for Tyranitar and threw his ball into the air. With a roar he came out of his Great Ball. "Tear down thi-" I was cut off.
I felt one of my pockets get really heavy. I reached for it and pulled out the Red Orb that Archie had given me. It was being pulled towards the center of the room. I held it back with all of my strength. All of a sudden, the pulling stopped. I thought I was safe, but all of sudden the strange orb began to glow very brightly and a red ray shot throughout the room. The ground started shaking and I saw two dots appear on a gigantic boulder in the middle of the room. I gasped as I realized that those dots were eyes.

Chapter 4: Groudon

The trembling ground shook me to my knees, but I still could not take my eyes of the legendary Groudon. Magma seeped up through the ground and formed itself on his body. All of the rock and dirt that was covering him fell off as the magma flowed over its body. When its entire body was enveloped in the magma, Groudon lifted back its head, opened up its arms, and gave an enormous roar that made the ground shake even harder. I looked to see Tyranitar struggling to keep her balance.
Suddenly, the air started to get really hot. The ceiling began to glow as if it were the sun outside. Pieces of large rock began to lift from the floor and float in the air. What have I done? I thought. I must stop this before it gets out of hand!
“Tyranitar! You need to stop this! Use your hyper beam and send this foul creature to the abyss! Tyranitar’s mouth filled up with the white hot intensity of a hyper beam and then forced it towards the Groudon. A direct hit!
It did not seem to hurt the Groudon, but instead it looked very annoyed that someone was interrupting his moment of triumph. It focused its eyes on my Tyranitar and the boulders that were floating in the air all rushed forward at her. With her mighty arms she was able to destroy a few of them, but after a while it was all she could do to hold them back.
“Hold on Tyranitar!” I yelled, but then I saw my mistake. A large fissure was opening up in the rock, right for my Tyranitar. “Run Tyranitar!” I yelled, but it was too late. The fissure opened up right under her and she fell in about five feet, and then the fissure closed. I called her back into her Great Ball before she was completely crushed.
“Gengar, you’re the only one that can avoid these rocks of doom,” I said as I pulled him from my belt. “Go, beat him with your shadow punches!” A burst of light shot out as Gengar exited his pokeball. The boulders turned and shot towards him, but as they reached him, they fell right through him. He absorbed into his own shadow, and shot towards Groudon. All of a sudden I could see him, punching Groudon all over its body.
Groudon was confused with this little ghost pokemon, but it eventually learned a new strategy against him. It lifted up its hands and two large hands of magma shot out of the ground. It swung them around his entire body and I started looking desperately for Gengar so that I could warn him. There he was! I thought, but I was one second too late. A boiling hand of lava struck him down and he flew through the air, knocked out.
Gyarados! I need a water pokemon to finish of this beast! I thought as I pulled a small net ball off of my belt. When the enormous form of Gyarados was expelled from his net ball, I yelled, “Do your rain dance, Gyarados! Cool this beast off with it. Gyarados began to twist and turn in a thousand different ways, and small black rain clouds began to form at the top of the cavern. Groudon lifted its ugly head when it felt a few drops on its head. It eyed the clouds with disgust and they disappeared without a trace.
“Gyarados, hydro pump!” I yelled. He gathered gallons of water in his mouth and spat two torrents of water towards Groudon. By the time they reached him, they had lessened in size but were still enough to knock Groudon backwards a few inches. Groudon’s rage was evident, for its entire frame was shaking, and tons of rocked swarmed around it like a mob of angry bees. With one forward motion, all of the rocks flew towards Gyarados. With a cry of defeat, my precious Gyarados fell to the ground.
I was about to call him back when some of the rocks that nailed Gyarados flew against me and after being hit a few times I realized that my belt had been pulled off and pinned against the far wall of the cavern. I turned to Groudon and realized that my fate was entirely in its hands. It looked at me with anger. It had been embarrassed by me and my pokemon, and now it was time for me to be taught an eternal lesson.
With and earthquake he shook me to the ground. I caught myself on the ground just in time to look up at the horrible figure of Groudon looming over me. I knew it was hopeless for me now. I saw it lift its magma hands from the earth and hold them above me. They plunged downward. I was about to close my eyes and wait for the inevitable doom which was about to befall me, but I saw a red light shoot from the far wall and form in front of me. It was my beloved Gardevoir.
Her eyes were blue with fury, and a blue shield was around her. The lava hands glanced off. With anger equal to that of a hen guarding her chicks, she fought the Groudon. The selfless love of Gardevoir and the power of her fury were combined into an attack force greater than I had ever seen. Groudon shrieked in pain, and I saw psychic energy build up around it and crush it. With a loud crash, Groudon fell to the ground and lay, unmoving. As soon as it was defeated, the light in my sweet Gardevoir’s eyes dimmed, and with a heavy sigh fell to the ground.
I stood up and ran to my Gardevoir. I picked her up and tried to see if she was alive. There must be some sign. Anything! I thought as I held her. Her eyes opened ever so slightly and she reached her arm up and touched my face. Tears rolled down my cheeks as I watched her take her final breath and slip away. The psychic powers that held her body upright left her, and she ceased to be with me anymore.
At that moment, I was wracked with emotional pain that was almost unbearable. “Why?!?” I screamed at the top of my lungs, echoing throughout the large cavern. “Why?” I repeated to myself quietly. I heard a small groan ahead of me. I looked up to see Groudon struggling and fighting to get up. With a scowl, I reached into my bag and pulled out an Ultra ball, one of a few that I had, and I threw it at him. The ball bounced of his rocky skin once and then opened up, sucking Groudon inside. With anger I watched as the ball landed on the ground and began to twitch. I realized that, though weak, Groudon was trying everything he could to escape.
After a few agonizing seconds, the Ultra ball stopped twitching and I had captured a Groudon, though not for fame or even for power, but so I could learn to forgive it someday, somehow. I went to the far wall where my belt lie, no longer pinned down by the rocks that Groudon had used. I called my beloved Gardevoir back into her pokeball and put her in my jacket pocket, closest to my heart. I then walked up to the Ultra ball on the ground, picked it up, and attached it to my belt.
Just as I finished I heard the steel door behind me open and five men in blue suits rushed at me. One, appearing to be the leader, said, “Where is Groudon?”
“He has been vanquished. He dove under the magma to hide his defeat.” I lied. I didn’t want anyone to know that I had captured him, for I wasn’t the person that wanted fame.
“In that case, you are under arrest for the awakening of Groudon and for possibly destroying the city of Sootapolis!” the man said and the four other men grabbed me, took off my belt, and handcuffed me. They marched me out of the cave and into the city. Hundreds of people had gathered to see what the freak sunlight that had recently happened. There was a video camera watching me with a reporter standing in front of it. I closed my eyes as the men loaded me on a helicopter. I closed my eyes and brought my hands, cuffs and all, up to my eyes. As the helicopter lifted of the ground, I wept once again.

Chapter 5: Cataclysm

It had been two hours. I hadn’t moved from my former position. Four of the men who arrested me pretended to ignore me, but the leader of them tried to get a conversation. “So, where do you live?”
“Blackthorn,” I said in a quiet voice. He had been asking me questions ever since we got onto the plane, and I had been giving him one word answers every time. After about half of an hour more, he gave up and went to talk to the pilot. I looked up and saw the man with my pokeballs healing them with a large machine that was on the wall of the helicopter, which looked sort of like a vending machine.
With a sigh I turned to the window and looked out. Right then I knew that something was wrong. First of all, we were still in the middle of the ocean, but giving the time that we had been flying, we should have been in Lilycove by now. Second of all, we were heading south, not north-west. I was through with my silly ideas of investigation. I wanted answers now.
The leader came back from the cockpit and told me, “5 minutes to Lilycove. I looked up at him with a look that could kill.
“Don’t give me that crap; I know we aren’t going to Lilycove!” I snapped back. My anger boiled up inside me, and I was ready to jump up and strangle him with my handcuffs. He smiled.
“Well done,” he said to me and I was taken aback. “You are right, we are not going to Lilycove, but we are about to land.”
“Where are we going to land, we are in the middle of the ocean?” I asked, not out of anger, but out of curiosity.
“Look out your window and see for yourself.” He said with a smirk. I quickly turned to look out the window. At first all I could see was ocean, but as the helicopter began to land I saw a large platform with a building on it. As we descended I saw that it was an old oil rig which had been remodeled into some sort of luxurious hotel. With a small thump we landed on a helicopter pad on the roof of the hotel.
One of the four men came up to me and unlocked my handcuffs. “You no longer need these,” he said. They escorted me out of the helicopter and into a small entrance that lead to an elevator. We filed into it and the leader pushed a button that took us to the lobby.
When the doors opened I found that we were in a large ballroom filled with people, many who were in elegant blue dresses or tuxedos. There were some people who did not seem to be a part of this elaborate blue club. In the center of the room, there was a large statue of a water pokemon. I had never seen it before, but it seemed to be flying through the water and have some of the same patterns on it as my Groudon did. I shrugged it off, these people were crazy pokemon worshipers, I was sure of it.
A waiter came to us and took us to a table. He said, “There have been quite a few people wearing blue tonight. Is it a special club or is it the latest fashion?”
The leader of our small group said, “It’s a special club. We are dedicated to the preservation and saving of water pokemon.”
The waiter nodded, and then took our orders. When he arrived with my steamed lobster, I was very excited. I hadn’t eaten since breakfast, and I gobbled it up, parsley and all. My captors watched me eat with awe, and barely touched their own meals. The evening continued for an hour.
All of a sudden there was a hush throughout the crowd. A few of the non-blue people were confused, but held there peace. I turned to the stage that was in the ballroom and saw a man walking on. I immediately recognized him as Archie Mizu, the man that had tricked me into fighting Groudon. He was carrying a metal box, and I could hear something round and hard inside. He stood at the podium and welcomed the people there.
“Hello, to all my friends and to the people joining us tonight,” he said into the microphone, and I swore he looked right at me, “Tonight we celebrate the return of the most powerful pokemon in the entire world.
“Many millennia ago, there was a cataclysmic battle between the pokemon of the land, and the pokemon of the sea. After many years of terror, the land pokemon reincarnated the spirit of the earth into a living pokemon, with all control of the ground and magma. It created large mountains and landmasses with sheer thought. The pokemon of that era named the creature Groudon.
“In protest, the pokemon of the sea reincarnated the spirit of the ocean in the same manner that Groudon had been created. This pokemon gathered the waters together and with force of unparalleled magnitude, it carved great oceans from the rock itself. In less than a year these pokemon had made enormous continents and oceans that the only way for more was to challenge the other to an epic dual.
“For hours the two pokemon fought, and the sun and the rain were pulled in to join. This battling would have brought the entire world to complete destruction, but the pokemon of the land and the sea saw their great mistake. Together, they forged two orbs, one of ruby and one of sapphire, and enchanted them. They presented the two orbs to the legendary pokemon, and they were both calmed, and their spirits left them and entered into the orbs. The two legends became the very rock that they were created from, and were stored away from the world by the pokemon of the land and the sea.” He finished his epic story and looked out over the people. The people in the blue attire gave a thunderous applause, while the other people just looked at each other out of confusion.
All of a sudden, there was an explosion at the back of the room. A gaping hole appeared there, and tons of people in red suits began poring through. One, bigger and stronger looking than the rest, yelled out, “Archie, your time here is over!”
Archie smiled, “What are you going to do about it? I have this!” And with his hands he pulled off the cover of the metal box which he was holding, to reveal a glowing blue orb. I heard screams from the people that were there, but the blue suited people smiled as they looked up towards the incredible statue of the water pokemon. The blue light rested upon it and its eyes began to glow. “Behold! The legendary Kyogre has returned.
The large Kyogre twisted its body and hovered in midair. It looked downward and two holes broke through the floor. Very quickly, water rushed in. This seemed to rejuvenate the Kyogre, and it dove into the floor and broke it open. Archie had a crazed look on his face, like he had finally gotten the evil thing he had always wanted.
Something had to be done fast. I only knew of one pokemon that had the slightest chance and defeating this monster. The men I was with were looking at the enormous hole that Kyogre had made, so I snuck up behind them and grabbed my belt and ran. I reached the entrance of the hotel before they had made it out of the ballroom, and I rushed outside.
The rain caught me unaware. I slipped and was pelted by the large drops which were falling at an enormous rate. Hurricane force winds were also there. I struggled across the deck of the rig and looked out over the ocean. Through the torrents of rain I was able to see massive waves everywhere. I reached my belt and pulled off Groudon. I threw him on the deck. The ball bounced twice and then opened, revealing the enormous house-sized form of Groudon. It looked at the rain and grimaced. It lifted up his hands and started making rotations with them. I looked upwards to see the clouds miles above open up, and the sun poured through. It was as if my Groudon was being called up to heaven.
The ray of light grew bigger and hotter. My Groudon looked up and saw that it could not extend his light beyond a certain point. This angered it. “Groudon! Keep it focused! We need to end this cataclysm before it begins. Call to Kyogre and make him fight you. You can win this! You have me!” It turned to me and looked me up and down. It was then it realized that I was a trainer worthy enough to command him. It let out an enormous roar, and a towering column of magma shot up from the ocean floor. It jumped into the air higher than I thought was possible, and it landed right in the middle of the lava. More and more magma came up and hardened. In less than fifteen seconds, Groudon had created an island. I looked towards the top of an enormous mountain that was on it and saw a speck of red which was Groudon.
My plan was in place. I heard Groudon emit an enormous roar that literally shook the earth. Magma swarmed around him, and it seemed to me that he was saying, “Bring it on!” A gigantic tidal wave shot towards the island and took out a large portion of the island. However, I knew Groudon could hold his own for a while, so I rushed back inside to see what mayhem was going on.
I stepped inside the building and saw that a war had broken out between the reds and the blues. It paralleled the war that was going on outside. There were pokemon batting everywhere. There were water and land pokemon engaged in combat. I saw the leader of the red team and Archie fighting on a stage. Two Mightyena were fighting to the death, biting and clawing each other with their claws.
While there were fighting and taunting each other, I snuck up and stole the blue orb which was lying on the ground. Archie had made the mistake of telling me how to defeat the beasts that were dueling outside. I gathered the other orb into my hand and began to run outside, but an earthquake hit, and shook everyone to the ground. I looked up and saw the building above the ballroom twist, and then rip from its foundation. The wind carried it off, and the battle between Groudon and Kyogre was fully visible to all. Many of the innocent people screamed as they realized that the story that they had been told was coming true.
I stood up, but checked my hands to realize that I only had the blue orb. The red one had rolled away. I rushed towards it, but a wave came over the deck and washed a ton of debris in front of me. The two pokemon reared up at each other, and I realized that soon they would hit each other with enough force to send a shock wave that would destroy the entire building. I saw one thing that was possible.
With the skills of a pokemon trainer that I had gathered over the years, I threw the blue orb as accurately as I could. It bounced and then rolled next to the red orb. Once they touched, they both began to glow. The orbs flew into the air together and orbited around each other. The two legends stopped their fight and gazed at the orbs in awe. Then, with one bright light, the orbs opened up and sucked the life force from Groudon and Kyogre. With one last groan, my Groudon curled up into a ball and sunk into the earth. The Kyogre also turned back into rock and sunk back into the ocean.
The two orbs, with their energy inside, stopped glowing and fell back onto the deck where I was. I collected them and put them into my pockets. I turned around, and I heard a thunderous applause. I had saved everyone from doom, and I was a hero.
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I looked through the mists on the top of Mt. Pyre. Maxie, the red suited man, and Archie had told me this is where I was supposed to return the orbs. I walked and saw two elderly people. Silently, I walked up to them and returned both of the orbs, so that they could stand next to each other for eternity. They seemed to understand, and no words were exchanged between us.
Five minutes later, I arrived at a funeral plot that I had purchased for my beloved Gardevoir. I let her out of her pokeball and beheld her lifeless form once again. The tears came back to me. I released all of my pokemon from their balls so that they could behold the funeral of their friend. I placed my friend in the grave and threw in a handful of dirt. Each of my pokemon did the same thing, first Salamence scooped some in, Gengar put in a small handful, Gyarados pushed some in with his jaw, and Tyranitar closed it with a gentle push. I placed Gardevoir’s pokeball on the headstone and read the inscription. Greater love hath no one that they lay down their life for their friends. I called my pokemon into their balls, and descended the mountain.

Chapter 6: Guardian of the Deep
Mt. Pire, March 8, 3:00 A.M.

“No Gardevoir! You’ll die if you do! Don’t throw your life away for mine!” I yelled at my Gardevoir. She was standing before Groudon, who seemed twice as big as it supposed to be. I was on my feet in the cavern, trying to reach out and protect my Gardevoir from death, but for some reason I could not reach her. She turned and smiled at me, and then she destroyed the Groudon with her psychic powers and fell to the ground. I knew it was going to happen, and once she had fallen the power that held me back was released, and I rushed to her.
“No, no, no!” I said as I held her in my arms and held her. She smiled at me and then went limp. However, this time I was not left with the corpse of my friend, but I saw Gardevoir step out of her body and look towards me. Then my point of view shifted, and I saw the world through Gardevoir’s eyes, and felt through Gardevoir’s feelings. I saw myself on the ground. I had my eyes closed and was sobbing over my deceased friend. I felt mixed feelings of happiness and despair. I felt happiness because I saved my trainer from certain doom, but sad because I was connected to my trainer through my feelings, and as long as he was depressed, so was I.
After watching him for a while, I turned and walked away. I felt everything grow dark around me, and I saw a light above. It grew and I was in a place where I was in complete rest, and I could still feel the emotions of my trainer. I came to him every time his emotions were extreme. I stood by his side when he was in the midst of destruction and also on the top of Mt. Pire. I comforted him and guided him. I was his guardian angel.
My eyes shifted back to myself, Darren Diamond, and I saw myself picking up the ultra ball with Groudon inside. I turned and saw fifteen men rush at me with firearms. The all aimed at me, and I closed my eyes out of pain. All of them shot at once, and I awoke with a gasp.
I was sweating all over. I sat up quickly and realized that I was panting. It was only a dream, I thought. But even then, I knew that there was some truth in it, such as Gardevoir’s life after death. I had felt her presence over the last few days. I read somewhere that if a pokemon fulfills its destiny in life, it moves on to a state of absolute peace. However, when they fail to do so, they become the ghost pokemon of the world, as if to give them a second chance at life.
Today was the day that I had decided that I would head back for Blackthorn. I gathered my pokemon together in the small house that I had rented from the couple at the top of the mountain. After eating a small bowl of cereal, I went outside and released my Salamence. I climbed onto him bareback and told him the destination. Before we left for Blackthorn, I had some unfinished business that needed to be attended to.
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I sat on the top of the island that Groudon had created. I had been trying to find it in my heart to forgive it for the death of my Gardevoir ever since it had happened. It wasn’t until this morning that I had felt any other feelings toward Groudon except for hate. It was then, at that moment on top of the mountain, that I realized that every bad feeling of hatred and sorrow hurt my Gardevoir. I also realized that Groudon hadn’t meant for Gardevoir to die, and now she was in a better place.
I looked down to the boulder that was in front of me, the lifeless head of Groudon, with the rest of his body underground. “I forgive you Groudon,” I said softly. I took his ultra ball off of my belt and placed it on his head. I found another rock that was fairly heavy and held it above my head. “I release you from my ownership. Rest in peace, my friend.” With all the strength I could gather, I threw the rock down on the ultra ball, and it shattered into a million pieces.
Once this was done I felt completely at peace. I looked at my friend’s lifeless form and though it was completely dormant, it was as if I could feel its spirit was rejoicing for freedom. I smiled, and right then I felt the presence of Gardevoir beside me. It felt so nice to be here on this island.
I was ready to leave, my business finished, but when I turned to view the spot where Kyogre rested, I felt that something was wrong. I didn’t know exactly what, but I felt that I had to stay put and look for the events that were to unfold. I noticed the water started to run against the current, which seemed impossible. The water began to twist and sink, and turned into a gigantic whirlpool.
I gazed at it in amazement. The whirlpool must have been a mile across. It was then that I began to fear, the only pokemon that I knew was Kyogre, and the whirlpool was directly over the spot where it had sank into the sea. However, the sheets of rain were not falling, so I was a bit confused. I looked to the center of the whirlpool and saw the form of Kyogre rise from it. Impossible! I thought. This can’t be happening.
But it was happening. I saw the legendary beast rise from the ocean, unmoving, lifted by some sort of water cyclone. As it climbed higher I realized that it was black as stone, not the blue and red that it had been when it was alive. I was really confused, but then my answers came.
From the depths of the blue rose a creature of such power that I had only heard of in legends that the old men of Blackthorn would tell us. A sleek, white bird pokemon leapt up from the sea with Kyogre in its grasp. I could tell that it was mad, mad that its territory had been invaded and destroyed by this lifeless rock. This was the legendary beast that the ancient people called Lugia.
As I stared in awe at this legendary bird, I tried to remember all that I had heard about it. I knew that it lived in a tower a very long time ago, and that its friend lived in a neighboring tower. Every day the two would battle each other to strengthen their powers. However, one day there was a mishap, and the fire pokemon of the second tower destroyed the tower Lugia lived in, and it burned to the ground. It was then that they both realized their powers were too strong, so they both left and lead lives of exile. It was rumored that Lugia lived at the bottom of the ocean because its strength was too powerful, and I guessed that I proved this rumor true.
Lugia looked at its foe with extreme hatred. It attacked the rock of Kyogre with a blast that knocked it miles away into the ocean. I was glad that Kyogre wasn’t alive, for if it was, it wouldn’t have felt really good.
Lugia looked toward the island that had not been there the last time it had come. I was afraid, and I grabbed my Salamence off my belt, but I didn’t open up the pokeball. The Lugia saw me with its sharp eyes and dove towards me. The elegance and grace of that wonderful pokemon entranced me, and I put Salamence back on my belt. Lugia landed and eyed me. Then, with a heavy sigh, I saw a tear drop from its eye.
All of a sudden I saw visions and emotions running through my head. I saw Lugia swimming through the waters, hurrying because something was in danger, and Lugia was the Guardian of the Sea. I saw it arrive with confusion, for there was an island that was there where no island had been before. After searching for a few days, it found the body of the legendary Kyogre. Lugia was enraged, for it had been the leader of the water pokemon who had enchanted the blue orb and laid Kyogre to rest. With that, Lugia showed me that it had been betrayed by the land pokemon, and they had succeeded in raising another landmass. I saw into the plans of Lugia, as it was preparing to meet its friend, the leader of land pokemon, and solve this embarrassment.
“No! Don’t do it! It’s a big misunderstanding!” I yelled at the Lugia, but it didn’t want to hear what I had to say. It raised its large wings and flew into the air at lightning speed. I didn’t know what to do. I thought, I wonder if Archie knew what would happen when he upset this precious balance. At first I wondered where Lugia was going, for maybe when I got there I could do something. Then I remembered that the tower that the legend spoke of was in the city of Ecruteak city, which was a day’s journey by flight.
There was only one thing that I could do to get there in time, although I was hesitant. I could travel instantaneously between places through Gengar’s powers of interdimensional travel, but this caused extreme pain for Gengar, so I rarely used it. I released Gengar from his pokeball and explained what happened and what he had to do. He nodded, although I could tell he was not happy.
“To Ecruteak City, Gengar,” I said, and he cringed. He reached his hand up into the air and pulled it down, and it seemed to rip the very fabric of space-time apart. With his arms he held it apart, and I quickly crawled through it. It was so hard to hold the portal open, and every second crushed him more. In less than three seconds we were in Ecruteak City, and Gengar had fainted from exhaustion. I pulled him into his pokeball so he could rest.
I looked up to see the pokemon center. It was a rundown building that matched the style of every house, wooden and worn. I pushed open the door and saw a nurse sitting at the desk. I signed some papers and let her take my Gengar to be healed immediately. After that, I went to see the Mayor. Maybe he would have an idea of what to do.

Chapter 7: Unbalance of Power
Ecruteak City, March 8, 3:00 P.M.

“So, what you’re saying is that in about an hour there is going to be a legendary squall so bad that it might destroy the entire earth, if not at least the city?” the mayor of Ecruteak said with a laugh as I sat in a chair across from him. He wiped a tear from his eyes he was laughing so hard, and then calmed down. He clasped his hands together and rested them on his hardwood desk. “Forgive me for this, but I just don’t see how this could possibly happen. That tower has stood in our town for a thousand years, and nothing has happened around it, other than a few stories being raised. Do you have any proof that this is going to happen?”
“Only my word, and I would hate for this beautiful city to see something so destructive. A lot of people might get hurt.” I said this with as much persuasion that I could, but I could not make him budge. “Well, I see there is nothing more that I can do. I bid you farewell until this great cataclysm has ended, and then I’ll be back.”
The mayor chuckled. He put his feet back up on his desk and pulled up his newspaper. I was just going through his door when he called, “Wait! Wait just one second!” I turned and saw him staring wide eyed at the front page of the newspaper. I turned, and felt a little confused. “Come here,” he commanded, “Is this you?”
I looked down at the front page of the paper and the headline screamed, Beasts of the Past Stopped by Lone Trainer. Right as I read that, my stomach began to churn. Oh no! I thought. I’m in the spotlight! There was a large picture of me standing among the wreckage looking out towards the new island that Groudon had created. There were assorted pictures of Groudon and Kyogre battling and one of me holding both of the orbs. There were dozens of witnesses claiming that I had saved them from utter destruction.
The mayor shook his head. “I don’t believe it, I just can’t believe it,” he said as he gazed over the paper. He looked up at me, “Everything you have told me is true isn’t it?” I nodded. He sighed and sat down on his chair.
He looked at me, “This is out of my hands, I’m sending you to the base of the standing tower.” He typed something on his computer and then opened his drawer and withdrew a small medallion from within. “Take this and give it to the monks who stand guard there. They will give you information to aid you in protecting us from this disaster.” I took the small medal from the mayor and looked at it. It appeared to be made of pure gold, and was made in the shape of a teardrop. “Go quickly, for our fate is in your hands.”
I left the town hall and hurried to the north of the town. I could see the tower, but it was surrounded by a dense pine forest. I looked around and found a small trail leading through the forest. A quick jog later I found myself staring up at the enormous wooden tower of Ecruteak City. Two men with bald heads stood guarding the door. I walked up to them.
“I’m sorry, but this tower is off limits to any civilians. You’ll have to turn around,” the monk on the left said calmly and quietly.
I showed him the medal that the mayor had given me. “I have permission from the mayor; I need to see the head of your order about an important business.” The monks both stared at the medallion in amazement.
“I am so sorry sir, please enter!” the same monk said and they both opened up the large, cherry wood doors. I stepped inside and the silent monk motioned for me to follow him. We walked up many flights of stairs to the top of the tower. As we reached the top floor, the monk bowed to me, and then opened a sliding door for me to enter.
There were three men, two of which seemed to be twins, one dressed in a white and blue robe and the other in a rainbow colored robe. They were facing each, with eyes closed, deep in meditation. Each one was holding a feather which matched their attire perfectly. The third man welcomed me in.
“Greetings friend! It is an honor to have you here. Please, sit down.” I sat down comfortably on the ground, and the third man sat down as well. “I am Atama Ga Ii, the head of the order. What brings you to our humble abode?” As quickly as I could, I told him of the feelings I had felt around Lugia, and how I felt some horrible thing might become of it. When I had finished, the old man was flustered. “I sense that everything you have told me is true, for these pokemon are extremely powerful, but to gain that power, they had to sacrifice the power over their thoughts. Young one, I do not know what to do, for the outcome of this dispute is unknown to me. Come, we shall witness the events as they are unveiled.” I walked with Atama to the back of the room, where he pulled up the paper curtains and we could see the beautiful country before us.
I looked up and saw the talons of an enormous bird, with feathers the size of wooden planks and the color of the rainbow. It seemed to be waiting for something to happen. “This is Ho-oh, the legendary bird of rainbow, our resident. After a minute of looking at the Ho-oh I gazed towards the horizon and saw a tiny speck. It was growing rapidly, and within a minute it had reached the tower. I gazed in awe at the two, these pokemon were not supposed to exist, and yet here they were, right in front of my eyes.
“My friend! How wonderful it is to see you after all these years of separation!” I turned around in confusion and saw the man in the rainbow colored robe had his eyes open and was speaking to the other man.
“You traitor!” said the other man with a sneer. “I have just returned from the middle of the ocean and I found the very creatures that you promised to destroy with me, both alive. You are the only one besides I who knew their whereabouts, and I didn’t free them.”
I was completely flustered with these two men talking that I turned to Atama. He spoke very quickly, “These men have been meditating on these two pokemon for so many years that their minds have fused together, so we are hearing the speech between the outside beasts through these men.” It seemed impossible, but after the events that had transpired in the last few days I was ready to believe anything. I turned to watch the men talk.
“My friend, this is foolishness that you speak of,” the rainbow suited man said. “I have not left this tower for over a hundred years. I would never have imagined awakening the very thing that had brought us together in friendship.”
“You are no friend of mine!” the blue robed man spat. “With this you shall perish with your evil tendencies!” I turned to the windows just in time to see a beam of yellow light shoot towards the place where Ho-oh rested. At an unbelievable speed, Ho-oh left its perch, and the beam shot through the ceiling of the room. Atama and I covered our heads, but the two men did not even flinch.
“What are we going to do?” I asked Atama as we watched the legends fly higher, eyeing each other with evil looks in their eyes.
Atama shook his head, “There is nothing we can do. It would take a power greater that I have ever seen to quail this battle.” With that, we turned to the two men, who now both had anger apparent on their faces.
The rainbow monk said, “I believe it is you who are the traitor. I have been your friend your entire life, and now this is how you repay me, by trying to kill me?”
“It is your fault, you foul creature! You have upset the precious balance of life with your actions,” the blue monk retorted. “You must pay the consequences for your actions.” And with that there was another flash of light from outside. I looked and saw that it missed Ho-oh, and wasn’t directed downward towards the town..
A tear rolled down the cheek of the rainbow monk. “I love you, my friend. I have loved you like a brother. If you strike at me one more time, I will be forced to destroy you. My powers have grown more than you could possibly imagine.”
The blue monk’s hatred burned hotter as he saw weakness in his enemy. “You betrayed me, so I am just returning the favor. I loved you too, but you broke my trust in you. Be gone!” and with that another beam of light struck towards Ho-oh, this time a direct hit!
Ho-oh fell backwards, head over heels, and then began to plummet to the ground. Right before it hit the ground it lifted its wings and saved itself. The rainbow man looked perfectly calm. “That is the last time you shall harm me or anything else,” he said quietly. The blue monk looked at him in confusion. “Now with fire that is as sacred as was your trust, you shall perish,” said the rainbow monk calmly as if he had told them goodbye.
I looked out the window to see what was happening. Ho-oh outstretched its wings and the beautiful colors of the rainbow shown very brightly. Lugia launched another beam of power towards it, but nothing happened. I turned and saw fear in the blue monk’s face. The colors on Ho-oh’s wings began to change to a fiery red color, and the flames from its body left it and swarmed around Lugia. The fire enveloped Lugia and crushed its body with heat and pressure.
The blue monk was in pain, screaming. “What have I done? What have I done?!?” he said as he writhed in pain. All of a sudden the flames cooled, and Lugia fell to the ground. I watched it fall, and I saw it land what looked like the base of an old tower, one that had been burned itself. The pokemon fell through the floor, and no more could be seen of it. I turned to Atama and saw him weeping. I looked at Ho-oh and saw it flying in the air. It then flew off, to who knows where, and I had a feeling it would never return.
The rainbow man said, “Goodbye my fallen friend. You were the only one I could trust, and now I can trust no one.” Atama walked up to both of them and commanded that they stop their meditation. The blue robed man got up from the floor, and the rainbow robed man opened his eyes. They knew what had happened, and what needed to be done. However, I didn’t.
“What’s the matter? What does this all mean?” I asked Atama as we hurried down the hall. He opened a door to a room filled with scrolls and records of every kind. I became confused again.
“This was bad, very bad,” Atama said as he rummaged through some scrolls. “Those two held an alliance of friendship and companionship, a symbol of all the people and pokemon throughout the entire earth. Not only were they connected to each other, but every living thing and the balance of the ecosystem was as well. That balance has now been broken, and soon weather will be out of control, plants will cease to grow,” he turned to me with a very serious look in his eye, “Even the very bonds of friendship between pokemon and their masters will be shattered. When the great symbol of friendship was destroyed, it began to affect us all.”
I was taken aback by this. I gathered my feelings and turned to him. “Is there anything I can do Master Atama?” I asked.
“Yes!” he said as he stared at a scroll. “There are some ruins that were recently discovered five miles south of here. This scroll states that there are walking inscriptions that will save the symbol of friendship from complete destruction.” He looked up at me, “Your guess is as good as mine to figuring out what that means, but you must!” He rolled up the scroll and gave it to me. “You are the only hope for us now, or this is the end of the world as we know it.
I nodded, turned, and ran down the stairs as quickly as I could.

Chapter 8: The Unown Riddle
Ancient Ruins, March 8, 5:30 P.M

I struggled to keep going. The wind was so great that I could barely walk. It had only been an hour ago since the symbol of friendship had been broken, and already hurricane force winds forced me to take extra caution. I had arrived at the place where Atama had directed me, and I could see a small compound that the scientists who discovered these ruins built. All of a sudden the wind quit as quickly as it began.
I know I didn’t have much time until something else was wrong, so I forced myself to run to the compound, even though I was extremely fatigued. When I was thirty yards away, I felt something hit my shoulder hard. This urged me to run faster as I realized that golf ball sized hail was falling. Within seconds I reached the building and the door automatically slid open for me.
At first glance I thought that the entire place was deserted, but after a few seconds I heard a voice yelling for help in the back, I rushed to the back and saw a pile of wreckage that had come from part of the compound caving in. I looked and saw a woman with her logs trapped under some of the wreckage, and she was stuck fast. She had her blonde hair tied up in a bun. When I entered she looked up at me through her glasses. She was in a lab suit, so I could only guess that she was scientist.
“Well?” she said, thankfully but anxiously, “are you going to get me out of here or what?” I nodded and called my Tyranitar from her Great Ball. She stood there and looked at me with a frustrated look.
“That won’t work,” the woman said. “I tried that with my Machamp and he just walked away. He’s probably rummaging through the rubble right now.”
I turned and looked at her. “You’re right. The friendship between us is gone, but the respect between us is exactly the same.” I then turned to my Tyranitar and said, “Help this lady Tyranitar, like I saved you from that fissure.” Tyranitar looked at me, then walked over to where the woman lay, and lifted up the wreckage with one of its mighty hands. Quickly, the woman crawled out. As soon as she was safe, I called Tyranitar back into her Great Ball. It pained me to see our friendship gone, and almost brought tears to my eyes.
I turned and saw the woman calling here Machamp back into its ball. She turned to me and extended her hand. “My name is Eve, Eve Pearl. May I know the name of my rescuer?”
I took her hand and shook it. “Darren Diamond,” I said, but realized my mistake when I heard her gasp and clasp her hands over her mouth.
“Darren Diamond! You’re the trainer in all of the newspapers!” She was as giddy as a school girl. “Is it true? Can it be possible? Eek! It IS you!”
“Eve, quiet!” I said and tried to hush her. I could tell she knew something was wrong from the look in my eyes, and she was silent. I pulled the scroll that Atama had given me. I unrolled it and showed it to her. “I don’t know what this is or what it has to do with the ruins around here, but I do know it holds the key to the freaky weather that we have been having, as well as the broken friendships.”
I gave her the scroll and her mouth dropped in disbelief. “I don’t believe it. I only recently discovered these same writings inside the ruins here. Where did you get this?” she asked.
“From the monks in Ecruteak City,” I replied. She nodded and turned back to the scroll.
After some careful study, she lifted her head from the scroll. “This is the history of the Unown. I’ve pieced part of it together from the writings inside the ruins, but it wasn’t as extensive as this version. It also gives a map to through the mazes of the ruins.”
“That must be where the monk Atama wants me to go.” I said. “Can you lead me to a place that looks promising?”
Eve nodded, and she grabbed a gas lantern that was among the rubble. “We must hurry,” I said. “It’s only a matter of time before our worst imaginations come true.”
We walked to the sliding automatic door and went outside. There was a problem with the elements. The sun was burning brightly, in the same intensity of when Groudon had summoned it. Eve hurried to a small entrance in a rock. The pillars holding up the opening were engraved with peculiar pokemon that looked like small letters. We hurried inside to avoid the scorching sunlight. It was dark until Eve lit the lamp. We were at the beginning of an enormous tunnel. She looked at the map, and guided me through the labyrinth of tunnels.
I was very uncomfortable because I felt as if we were being watched. The small pokemon that looked like letters were on every wall, and it seemed to me as if the inscriptions were alive and watching us.
After five minutes of walking we came to an altar, and it was a sight indeed. Above it on the wall was a long, ordered group of these letter-like pokemon called the Unown. I saw that they were arranged in words, so I read them out loud.

The Riddle of the Unown
What is it that flies higher
Than the Guardian of the Sky?
Swims deeper than the beast of the sea?
The answer is no lie!
What is it that sleeps longer
Than the lifeless beasts of past?
Answer this, our question
And we will do all that you ask!
However, choose ye wisely!
And do not be a dunce!
There is one clue, we give it now
Repeat yourself but once!

The instant that I finished the riddle the bottom of the altar opened up and revealed a compartment filled with hundreds of tiles which had the Unown on them. They were organized into 28 columns with five of the same Unown in each column. I looked on the altar, and after blowing off some dust I noticed that there were seven squares painted on it. It was then that I realized what needed to be done. I needed to solve this riddle, and then the Unown would aid me.
“The Unown are known for speaking in riddles,” Eve said from behind. “I have no idea of what they are saying here though.”
“Well, I think I know what they want me to do. They want me to answer this riddle, and then, using the tiles in this compartment, place them on this altar here, in their allotted spots.” I said with dismay. “And I think that they sooner we finish, the better.”
I looked up at the ceiling and could hear loud thumps coming from the outside. It could have been hail, or worse. I looked back at the riddle and tried to figure out what it was.
Eve came up from behind and stood by me, trying to make sense of it. “Space?” she suggested after reading the inscription.
“No,” I said. “It has to be seven letters long.” After looking at the riddle for a little longer, I said “Rockets!”
Eve gave me a look of stupidity. “These are ancient writings from ancient pokemon; they didn’t know anything of technology.” She was right, so then I began to explain the riddle out loud to myself.
“Obviously the first line describes the legendary Rayquaza, Guardian of the Skies. The third line is a little trickier, being either Lugia or Kyogre, with the last line telling that there is an answer to this riddle.” I stopped to catch my breath. “The next thing it describes are probably Groudon and Kyogre, or even the Unown themselves, sleeping eternally. The next few lines make no sense though. ‘Repeat yourself but once’? Does that mean that I have two chances at this?”
“I think,” Eve said, “That it means that the answer repeats itself in some way, maybe a letter or a pattern. So we are looking for a word like that. I can’t think of anything however, that fits the Unown’s description.”
Suddenly, it clicked in my head! I knew the answer! I reached for the tiles and pulled out seven from the box. I placed them in their proper order and read them out loud.

Chapter 9: Regi Revelation

“NOTHING!” I yelled in excitement. I was so excited that I had figured out the answer that I was jumping up and down. Eve was dumbstruck.
“How did you get that?” she said.
I explained. “To the ancient people and Unown there was nothing that could fly higher than Rayquaza, there was nothing that could swim deeper than Lugia, and after knowing that the cataclysmic beasts of Groudon and Kyogre had been put to rest, they knew that they would never rise, so nothing could sleep longer. And,” I said, trying to keep up with my excitement, “Nothing has an “N” in it which repeats twice!”
Eve shook her head. “That’s amazing, I probably never would have even thought of it.” I was about to say something back when all of a sudden the letters that spelled out NOTHING started glowing and then sunk into the stone of the altar. The room started shaking and Eve grabbed on to me for balance. I looked around at the walls and saw that the Unown were peeling of and floating in the air. When they had all come off of the walls they turned towards us and swarmed around us. I tried to look past them, but the swarm was so thick that I couldn’t see anything.
I didn’t know what I was going to do, when I looked in front of me and saw the words ‘WHAT DO YOU ASK OF US?’ in front of me. I was shocked and amazed in these little creatures. Finally I came to my senses and spoke out loud, “I need a way to repair the Symbol of Friendship, which has been broken.
‘YOU NEED THE SYMBOLS OF THE EARTH TO AID YOUR WISH!’ the Unown spelled before me and then all vanished into thin air around me. I turned to Eve and said, “I need a wish to be answered? That’s what they were supposed to do for me.” I finished my sentence and I felt the floor shake again. I looked at my feet and saw the floor fall away, but the Unown were underneath, holding me and Eve up. Slowly, they lowered us into an ancient cavern. When we reached the floor, the Unown sank into the ground and disappeared.
I looked around. We were standing in a large room with a small, crystalline object in the center. There were also three gigantic forms around us and the crystal, but were shrouded in darkness and I could not tell what they were. I did not know what to do, but the Unown came to me and spelled themselves out.
‘THIS,’ they spelled around the crystal, ‘IS JIRACHI, THE CREATURE THAT ANSWERS ANY WISH WHEN IT IS AWAKENED.’ I didn’t believe what I was hearing. A pokemon that granted wishes? It had to be impossible. ‘HOWEVER, IT ONLY AWAKES ONCE EVERY THOUSAND YEARS.’ I was shocked to hear this, because the Unown wouldn’t have said “However,” if it meant that its next awakening would be any time soon.
‘THEREFORE, THE ONLY WAY TO AWAKEN JIRACHI TO GRANT YOUR WISH IS TO HAVE THE THREE SYMBOLS, ONE OF ROCK, ONE OF ICE, AND ONE OF STEEL AWAKEN IT WITH AN UNIMAGINABLE POWER!’ As soon as I read the word “Power,” the cavern lit up with a pale blue light, and I saw the three titans it had spoken of.
‘BEHOLD! REGIROCK, REGICE, AND REGISTEEL! THE ONLY FORCE THAT CAN AWAKEN JIRACHI FROM ITS THOUSAND YEAR SLUMBER! THIS IS WHY THEY, ALONG WITH US, WERE SEALED AWAY LONG AGO, FOR THIS POWER THAT THEY CARRY COULD BE DEADLY IN THE WRONG HANDS!”
I looked at the titans. Regirock with its body of enormous boulders and rocks brought fear to my heart. As I looked at Regice I could feel the cold around it reverberate throughout the entire room. Finally at Registeel, it seemed that the metal that encased its body was super strong, and its face of dots seemed to look right through me. They each took a step forward towards the crystal that was Jirachi, and seemed to stare at it. I could see the Unown behind them swarming, as if controlling them.
Then, all together, the titans lifted their arms above their heads and from their faces a white beam of energy came forth and struck the crystal. The crystal began to change and melt away, and all that was left was a tiny pokemon of metal, still sleeping on the ground. The white beam of energy from the eyes of the titans turned green in color and the tiny Jirachi began to stir, and then opened its eyes to see us standing before it. It hovered in midair, and I heard its thoughts in my head.
‘It is far too early! I should not be up just yet!’ it thought and then looked at me. ‘Perhaps you are in dire need of help?’ I was amazed that I was hearing words in my mind from this little creature.
I stepped up to it and said, “I wish to have Lugia revived, and that it might once again be friends with the legendary Ho-oh, and thereby end the madness which is spreading throughout the world.” Jirachi looked at me with a smile.
‘What you have wished for has been wise. It was not selfish nor was it evil in any way. You wished to help every person on this planet rather than helped yourself. I will grant you this, your unselfish wish.’ And with that, the Regis gathered before me in a line. They’re eyes shot out energy again, but it was flat and looked like a portal, and through it I beheld the burned down tower where Lugia had fallen.
Jirachi came up behind me and rested on my shoulder, and watched the events unfold. I saw some rustling among the floorboards, and then saw the great Lugia jump into the air from the ruined building. There was a smile on its face, and it seemed that Jirachi had given Lugia an understanding of the Symbol of Friendship. I saw it fly and meet Ho-oh, and the two looked at each other, and I could plainly see they had forgiven each other. As I saw them fly away, the revelation of the Regis disappeared, and they returned to their places.
I turned to Jirachi with a smile. “There was nothing greater that you could have possibly given me Jirachi,” I said, beaming.
Jirachi smiled as well, and I heard its thoughts in my head. ‘It was a pleasure to answer your wish. Now I must return to my millennial sleep, for these titans can only keep me awake for a short time, even with all of their power. I bid you goodbye, Darren Diamond.’ I smiled as I saw Jirachi lay back on the ground in its spot. The Regis shot black beams out of their eyes, and Jirachi became covered in its crystalline shell once again, and slept.
The Unown appeared beneath my feet and Eve’s, and they carried us up to the ceiling. When we arrived back at the altar, the ground reappeared underneath us, and the Unown fit back on their places on the wall. I turned to Eve, and she had her mouth hanging open. I too was amazed at the events that had transpired in these ancient ruins.
“I have to get back to base camp and report this!” Eve said with glee. I laughed out loud.
“No one is going to believe you.” I said. “I am the only one who would believe you.” She looked at me in disbelief, but then it dawned on her that what had just happened was completely unbelievable unless you had seen it for yourself. She seemed to be disappointed. I tried to comfort her. “Well, at least your pokemon like you again, right?”
This made her laugh. She said, “Well, I sure hope so, or that was the best day I have ever wasted in my entire life.” We laughed together as she showed me out of the ruins. When we got out we saw that the weather was perfect, and there were no signs that horrible weather had happened at all. In fact, it was such nice weather that Eve reached into her pocket and pulled out five pokeballs. She threw them all up into the air and for the first time I saw her pokemon. She had a Machamp which I had seen before, a Magneton, an Arcanine, a Golbat, and a Bayleef.
She called to them all to her and they gathered around her obediently, and she told them a story about a man and a woman who saved the world from absolute destruction.

Chapter 10: Meteor
Blackthorn City, May 30, 4:30, Two years later.

I kicked up in my lazy boy chair and grabbed the remote to my T.V. I hardly ever used it, but I had made enough money over the years to buy things that I didn’t need. The Pokemon League Tournaments were on, and they were always fun to watch. Pathetic trainers who had somehow amassed eight gym badges were brutally pushed aside, but it was always a sight to see those truly exceptional trainers battle. Lance was in charge of the Tournaments this year, and I always saw him in the front row of every match. The top three winners of the Tournament would have the privilege of challenging the Elite Four.
Watching the Tournament brought back old memories. I turned off the T.V., got off my chair, and walked into my trophy room. My old trainer coat was hanging in a display case with twenty four badges that I had earned over the year, along with an enormous trophy of when I had won the League Tournament. I went on to the Elite Four, but when I got to Lance my pokemon were too tired to perform their best. I was swept away. There had only been a handful of people to beat the Elite Four, and the most famous was known only as “Ash.”
There were other awards that I had gained over the years, such as some beauty contests and a Battle Tower record that had been set somewhere in the Sevii Islands. I looked at the pictures and noticed a picture of me and Gardevoir together. It brought a tear of sadness to my eye to see her there. I looked at that picture for a minute, and then left the trophy room.
I went outside to enjoy the beautiful summer air. I breathed in deep, and then lay down on the grass. As I was enjoying the warm weather, my little Eevee came up to me and licked my face. I smiled and sat up. Eevee was very playful and jumped up at me, trying to get my nose. I wrestled with the little rascal. About a year ago I met a pokemon trader from the other side of the world. He told me he was looking for a Larvatar for his girlfriend back home, and had heard that I had bred my Tyranitar recently and that she had a litter. When the little babies had grown up, I was able to trade him for an Eevee that he had captured far away.
Eevee got tired eventually and walked away into the house through the doggie door I had made. I began to train it, knowing that Eevees had the power to transform into three different pokemon using different stones. I still hadn’t decided on Flareon, Jolteon, or Vaporeon, so I had decided to wait a while until I had made up my mind.
I stayed on the grass of my back yard until I heard the phone ring inside. I got up and hurried inside. The phone was on the wall by the door. I looked to see that it was Eve calling, so I pressed the button that said Confirm Call. The screen above showed Eve’s face. There was a sparkle in her eyes; she looked very excited about something.
“Hey Eve!” I said happily. “How are things at the Mossdeep Space Center? Good? Or would you rather be digging for relics?”
“Actually, that’s what I’d like to talk to you about,” she said with her beautiful smile. “For the last year we have been tracking a meteor through the immensity of space. A few days ago it was caught in the gravity well of Earth, and we have been tracking its decent. We just got the exact coordinates of the impact site, right smack in the middle of a small island around the Sevii Islands. There is a team of scientists that are going by boat that are going to watch and record it’s decent, then run some analyses on the meteorite. I was invited to go along with these scientists, and by pulling some strings I got the permission to bring one friend aboard. What do you say, buddy? Are you in or out?”
“When does your boat leave?” I asked. This sounded interesting. Eve had invited me on some of her scientific expeditions, but they had always been dull and uneventful, except to her.
“We have already left in a small ship from Mossdeep, but we are docking in Vermilion City for fuel and to restock on supplies. We should be there tomorrow morning if the weather holds out. The ship’s Castform hasn’t changed from sunny all day, so I think we are good. Take the ticket I’m sending you to the dock, and they’ll let you aboard. Eve out!” As soon as she said that I heard the printer start working and out popped the ticket from the machine. I took it in my hands, and could feel another adventure coming on.
“Eevee! We’re going on a trip, come along now,” I called to Eevee. Swiftly she came in and rubbed against my legs. I called her into her pokeball and placed her on the belt with the rest of my pokemon. I went outside, called on Salamence, and flew to Vermilion City.
The view was amazing. I had forgotten about how Mount Silver looked from the air. The towering figure stuck upwards as if it didn’t belong. I hung on to Salamence and tried to keep my balance. I didn’t want to bother with his harness today, and he never minded me riding bareback. We flew off towards the setting sun.
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I kept my hands in my pockets in Vermilion. I had just eaten a big dinner at a sushi joint about a block from the pokecenter. Vermilion was a pleasant, quiet harbor town that was old fashioned, much like Blackthorn was. I had left my pokemon at the pokecenter and decided to go on a short walk down on the beach.
It was in times of solitude that I felt closest to Gardevoir. Even as I walked along the beach I could feel her presence beside me, guarding me from thoughts of hatred or malice. Ever since she passed away two years ago, I had been a happier person. Not that I was happy she died, but the very fact that I had a guardian angel enlightened my soul.
I sat down on the beach and looked over the dark ocean. It was hard to believe some of the events that happened in this same ocean. I thought hard about the events that transpired two years ago. I felt as if those things had pushed me to the extent of my capacity, and I was a better person now because of it.
There was only one thing I regretted about the lucky things that happened to me, and that was all of the publicity. Thousands of people were trying to find out where I lived so they could come and ask me if the newspapers were true. The good citizens of Blackthorn were kind enough to me to deny knowing me to any newcomers to our town. Life had been pretty hectic, but most people had forgotten now, and things were dying down.
As I was thinking of these things an old newspaper that was blowing in the wind blew against me, and I looked at it. I couldn’t see it very clearly, so I pulled out my small key light and turned it on, and began to read the paper.
The headline screamed ‘Team Rocket Disbanded!’ I read through some paragraphs, but really wasn’t that interested. Team Rocket had been an annoyance ever since it was formed. I could care less whether it existed or not. I never really feared them.
I kept on reading until I found an article about Professor Oak. He had discovered how Eevee evolved. I was curious, and found myself enthralled with in the article. ‘It has been known that Eevee has five evolutions,’ the newspaper quoted Oak. I was interested; I had only heard there were three evolutions a year ago. I read on. ‘The two evolutions known as Espeon and Umbreon were considered spontaneous and random evolutions of Eevee. However, after some extensive research in the area, we concluded-’ Right as I read to that point, the small battery in my light failed. I picked myself up off of the sand, and headed for the pokecenter. I’d finish the article in the morning; I was too tired to read any more.
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Over breakfast at the pokecenter, I pulled out the newspaper and began reading from where I left off. ‘However, after some extensive research in the area, we concluded that these evolutions are based on friendship and love for a trainer. As an Eevee grows closer to its trainer, the need to impress the trainer burns within them, and it evolves suddenly and unexpectedly. What distinguishes between getting an Espeon and an Umbreon? That depends on the time of day the pokemon feels the urge to show their very best.’
The article kept on going, but I noticed the time. Eve’s boat had just arrived at the dock, and although it wouldn’t be leaving for an hour, I wanted to get there as soon as possible. I kept thinking about my Eevee becoming either an Espeon or an Umbreon. It was very nice to have some new options.
As I turned around the corner to get to the dock, I saw an old woman with a booth next to one of the small buildings. The sign above her stand said ‘Haircuts: 500 Poke bucks each!’ I thought about it. It sure would make Eevee happy to get her hair cut, so I called her out of her ball. She yipped and tried to play with me, so I picked her up and walked over to the stand.
“Hello young man!” the old woman said with a smile. “Would you like me to give your Eevee a regular cut, or for 300 poke dollars more I could give it a beauty cut?”
I spared no expenses. “Give her the beauty cut,” I said. “She is the cutest little thing.”
In about half of an hour my little Eevee was looking as dazzling as ever. She pranced up to me with a look that showed she was very proud of the way she looked. She looked at me with love in her eyes, and I returned the look with happiness. “You did a great job.” I said to the old woman. She smiled and bowed to me.
I looked back down at my Eevee and noticed something wrong. She was shedding all of her fur. The beautiful brown and white hair just fell away, and she seemed to grow a little bigger. The sun also seemed to beam a little brighter. Eevee, now looking like a naked cat, started to shiver. I bent down and offered to hold her during the transformation she was making. She took a step towards me, and then I noticed something different about her. Her stubby tail began to grow into a long, snakelike object. Once it reached full length it split into two. Her ears also grew larger and very mysterious.
“So, this is an Espeon,” I said. “I thought it wasn’t going to be completely furless.” Just as I finished my statement, my Espeon shook as if shaking water off of its back, and as it did, millions of purple hairs flowed over her body. They made her body look sleek and shiny. The last change that happened was her small, cute eyes grew very large and mysterious. Very elegantly, she walked towards me and pawed my leg affectionately. I smiled and called her into her pokeball. I called her into her pokeball and headed off to the dock.
There was a man standing watch there, so I showed him my ticked and asked him where the boat was. He told me it was clear at the end of the dock, and recommended that I started running.
One quick jog later I beheld the boat that Eve was on. It was a fine ship, very high tech, one that you would not expect to see in such an old fashioned place. It had lots of radar dishes and weather testing equipment. There was a large solar panel on the top which seemed to provide energy for the entire ship. I walked up to a metal plank that loaded onto the boat. I walked up it and there was a scientist looking over the boat. I was about go aboard when he stopped me and asked to see my ticket.
Before I could pull it out I heard yelling behind the scientist as Eve pushed him out of the way and gave me a big hug. “It’s so nice to see you in person! It’s been too long!”
“Not really,” I said. “It’s been two weeks.” She laughed and let me go.
“Yeah, but it seems longer, maybe just because I’ve been so busy. She kept on talking as we went into the boat. In fifteen minutes the boat left the harbor and sailed for its destination in the Sevii Islands.
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“Meteor impact: 60 seconds!” blared a megaphone over the deck. I stood next to Eve on the top deck looking towards the island, which was about a mile away. It was a very awkward looking island, rising up from the ocean and then leveling out, completely flat.
Eve turned to me. “This is going to be the second most exciting thing I have ever seen!” Being a scientist, I’m sure she realized that this moment was very rare and almost unbelievable, like the Regis. I wasn’t sure if she had told anyone about what had happened, but I did know that if she did, no one had believed her because it was still very quiet. It had happened two years ago, yet it was still fresh in my mind.
All of a sudden I began to hear something, very quietly at first. “Meteor impact: 15 seconds!” the megaphone blared and began a countdown. I looked up in the sky and saw one of the stars was getting brighter and brighter. A thundering roar could be heard from it as it sped towards the ground. It drowned out the countdown the megaphone had begun, and speedily fell.
It was a colossal explosion! First, all I could see was a bright light that covered from the explosion, and then the sound of the impact knocked me backwards. I felt the whole ship shift in the water as the waves of sound beat against it. When everything had become calm, I looked and saw that the island was ruined, and a smoldering crater was all that was left of it.
After the entire crew of scientists got up from being knocked down, they speedily readied the boat and steered it towards the small island. All of a sudden, I got a bad feeling my mind. I felt that it was Gardevoir telling me something I couldn’t understand, and it began to hurt. But then, I realized that I wasn’t the only one having a headache, and as I looked around I saw everybody grabbing their heads and had looks of pain on their faces. Maybe something from the meteorite had caused something to happen to our brains, and we were all hurting because of it. Then in an instant, the pain subsided and we came to our senses again.
I looked toward the island and could feel the heat coming from the meteorite. When we were about one hundred yards away from landing on the island, I saw a small figure, just for a moment, rise from the island. I squinted my eyes to see what it was when from this small figure came a blinding flash of light. I shut my eyes immediately, but could still see the bright light through my eyelids.
Obviously the captain had closed his eyes as well, for in a moment we came to a screeching halt on the rocks around the island. The boat was damaged beyond repair, and the blinding light subsided. I scrambled to the edge of the deck to see what had made this horrible light which had destroyed our boat. It was like nothing I had ever seen.

Chapter 11: Deoxys Destruction
Unknown Sevii Island, May 31, 9:40

There was a strange creature that was in the crater of the meteorite. It was looking at the boat with its mouthless face. It was sleek and red, standing on two legs and with four arms that did a double helix around each other. Its head was odd shaped, and it had two black eye sockets, with glowing eyes in each. But the most entrancing thing about it was a large jewel that was in the center of its chest, which glowed a faint purple glow. All of the scientists rushed to side of the deck to see the creature.
The lead scientist ran up right next to me. “Oh my goodness! What do we have here?” He said, very fascinated. “By observing the arms it almost looks like a Deoxyribonucleic Acid strand. Amazing! We will christen this new pokemon Deoxys, for its D.N.A. like appearance.”
I looked again towards the Deoxys. It was taking enormous steps towards the boat, and it looked towards all of us. All at once the headache that I had felt in the ocean came back to me, and I grabbed my head and turned away. Then, as soon as it had begun, it disappeared. I turned and looked towards the Deoxys. I heard people exclaiming that it was an alien. I never had thought about it in my entire life, a pokemon from space. It was preposterous, and yet it was standing in front of my eyes.
Suddenly, something amazing happened. The pokemon’s arms began to grow longer and sharper. Its head grew backwards, and into points. Its legs also grew pointy, and it lifted off the ground into the air. It was a thing of beauty, and the entire ship was entranced.
Its four arms came together and gathered a ball of energy from nothing, and held it for the entire boat to see. Then, a horrible thing happened. The energy ball was released from the Deoxys, and it shot right towards the boat. I ducked in cover just as it hit the side of the ship. There was a huge explosion, and the boat literally buckled under the blow. The ship sunk a little, and then rested on the shallow ocean floor.
After getting up and dusting off some debris from my jacket, I looked towards the Deoxys, and saw it change again. Each of its two arms became one, and grew longer still. Its head grew straight and backwards. Its entire body became streamlined, and it shot off towards the horizon.
Everyone got together, and a look of dread was on everybody’s faces. Everybody filed down the stairs to see what they could salvage from the equipment. I followed Eve. Some of the scientists were radioing for help, and some getting the emergency supplies. I was about to tell Eve something when the megaphone echoed over the deck, “Meeting in the conference room immediately!” Eve leaded the way, and within fifteen seconds we where there with the rest of the crew.
There were many chairs all over the place in a jumbled mess. I saw people picking them up and sitting on them, so I did the same. The lead scientist stood at the front of the room and began to talk.
“My fellow scientists and friends, a terrible occurrence has just transpired. We have just witnessed a pokemon with more power than ever seen on earth. As we know by the writings of the famous philosopher Georgious of ancient times, ‘A pokemon can only grow to a certain point, for there is an earthly limitation on all creatures.’ This is completely different. This pokemon evidently is not from earth, but from another planet, so it doesn’t have the same earthly limits that our pokemon do. This explains the power of this alien Deoxys.”
I though about the idea that had been presented. It seemed plausible, but something was wrong here, but I couldn’t put my finger on it until he said the next part of his speech.
“Our tracking systems saw that this Deoxys is heading for the main land of Kanto. At the speed it was going, I kid you not; it will be there in thirty seconds. Who knows what destruction it will reap upon those poor citizens? I suggest we radio as quickly as possible to tell the good people of Kanto to hide away from this alien.”
That’s what was wrong, I thought. I stood up. “I have to interrupt you, sir, because I have noticed something different about this pokemon. It is not from earth, so therefore it must think differently than we, in a way that we can never understand. From growing up and evolving for millions of years on a different planet, if it thinks anything like we do it would be a miracle.
“I also noticed that after we felt the headache, we all turned and hid. That must seem very offensive to a pokemon like that. Think of it this way, as Deoxys being a person from another culture. Think if someone came up to you and started swearing and flipping you off, because their culture thinks this is a sign of friendship. You would probably feel awkward because your culture says that this is bad, so you would ignore the person probably, and keep going on your way. However, to this person, walking away and ignoring after the sign of friendship has been given is the most shameful thing that can ever be done, therefore, they might attack you if that’s what their culture does. They would have no understanding, and neither would we.
“I think that Deoxys was greeting us with that blinding light and splitting headache. It might not feel things as we do, and doesn’t know how fragile of creatures we are. So when we rammed our boat onto his new territory, he was a little startled, so he gave us his greetings again and when we felt it, we turned away, which must have enraged it to the point of destruction. I think we need to understand this pokemon more before we judge what it is doing.”
A man in a white scientist suit called up and said, “We have just received word that Deoxys has reached Cinnabar Island. Bringing up visual.” A gigantic white screen pulled downward at the front of the room and a projector from the back lit up, and we saw the enormous dormant volcano of Cinnabar, and the dotted lights that were its town. The scientist, who obviously had not been listening to me, said into the computer, “Run for your lives, that pokemon is more powerful than you could possibly imagine! The scientists tried to stop him, but it was too late. We saw the people of the city turn off all of their lights, the small Deoxys swarmed above the city. Then I saw the enormous ball of light appear with the Deoxys, and launch towards the volcano.
The volcano shook for a moment, and then erupted. Tons of molten rock shot into the air and lava poured over the rim of the volcano towards the town. All of a sudden, the camera flickered, and then went off.
“My theory has been proved,” I said to the scientists. “Spread the word throughout the rest of the cities not to flinch when Deoxys gives his headache greeting, for if they do, their entire city will be destroyed.” I left the room and walked to the top deck. I heard footsteps behind me and Eve was there, panting.
“I’m coming with you!” she stammered. I smiled, and called Espeon from her pokeball. She looked at me with her mysterious black eyes.
“Espeon. Teleport us to Cinnabar as quickly as possible. We need to see what we can do to save those poor people.” Espeon nodded softly, and its eyes began to glow. Its body, along with mine and Eve’s, began to glow and lift into the air. There was a swirl of light, and I saw we were in Cinnabar, right in front of the pokecenter. People were running towards the end of the island, as far away from the lava as possible. The lava flow had already hit the town, and some of the houses had been destroyed.
I called Gyarados from his pokeball and said, “Cool down that lava Gyarados. We need to save as much of this island as possible.” I then turned to Eve. “Eve, go help the people down by the shoreline.”
Espeon ran beside me, and we tried to keep up with Gyarados. The gigantic dragon-fish used the water from its body to cool down the rock, and with enormous torrents of water made the lava become cool stone. Espeon also helped, making a psychic barrier that held lava from flowing any further. I called Tyranitar from its ball to help. With its enormous arms it picked up rocks and dirt and threw it onto the lava. After about an hour of this work they had succeeded in stopping the magma from flowing any further.
I ran to the beach, and found Eve with the other people. I took her hand and pulled her away. “There is only one pokemon I know might have an understanding of Deoxys’s nature. That is the legendary Rayquaza, who resides high in the atmosphere, but noticing that he hasn’t already come, he must be resting in his resting place. We need to get to Pacifilog town as quickly as possible.” And with that, Espeon teleported us there.

Chapter 12: Rayquaza Rescue
Pacifilog City, May 31, 3:00 (Pacifilog time)

I covered my eyes for a second as they adjusted to the bright light that was shining down from us. Here was Pacifilog Town, a small village in the middle of the ocean. It had been rumored that the people of this place had built it because they were waiting for something, though no one alive knew what it was now.
I ran along some of the wooden planks that were used to cross from house platform to house platform. Once I got to the eastern edge of the city, I called my Gyarados from his pokeball. His long form appeared in the water before me and Eve. Its head came right up next to us, and if it hadn’t been mine I would have been very afraid. A small crowd of people had gathered around us, as usually happened where I went.
I climbed onto my Gyarados’s head and held onto the horns that were tall. Eve climbed on next to me, and held tightly to his horns. “Gyarados, to the Sky Pillar!” I yelled, and with a roar he sped off towards the middle of the ocean.
The Sky Pillar was very large, and it seemed to be raised from nothing. I heard that it was built by people trying to get to heaven thousands of years ago, but the building was halted when a gigantic pokemon came and made its home at the very top. The building was so large we saw it half an hour before we got to it, and Gyarados was swimming really fast.
After a long journey we finally reached the pillar. We climbed off Gyarados, and I called him back into his pokeball. There was an enormous door that lead into it. I walked up to it and with some struggle found I could not budge the door. “I’ll take care of it,” said Eve, and she called her Machamp from its pokeball.
Machamp flexed, and the muscles bulged out of its body, evidently showing off. “Machamp, open up that door so we can get inside!” Eve yelled. He walked over, and each of his four arms grabbed onto the handles of the door. With a grunt, Machamp threw them open. They creaked loudly, but it was very quiet and dark inside.
“I have a solution. Magneton, light up this shack,” said Eve, and her Magneton came out with a burst of light. Beams of electricity began to cross between its magnets, and the Magneton became a light for us. I saw a large spiral staircase that wound up throughout the structure. It was so high that I could not see the end.
“I think we should fly as high as we can, until it gets too narrow, then we’ll walk the rest of the way,” I said, and called out Salamence. I climbed onto him and then helped Eve on behind me, and she put her arms around my waist, and I put my arms around Salamence’s neck. With one mighty thrust of its wings, my Salamence pushed itself into the air.
I could tell that he wasn’t very happy. Salamence liked gliding rather than flapping its wings. It was a lot of work, and very tiring. The height didn’t seem to bother Magneton at all, it just hovered right nest to us all the time being our light. The tower seemed to go on and on, and the walls never seemed to get closer together.
Finally, after fifteen minutes straight of flapping, Salamence was panting from exhaustion. I told him to move towards the stairs, and we jumped off. I called him into his ball before he fainted. I was getting pretty tired myself, wondering how far it was to the top.
Eve told her Magneton to float to the top and give off a thunderbolt to show that it had reached it. We watched Magneton shoot upwards like a rocket, and grow smaller and smaller. After about thirty seconds, I saw an enormous shower of sparks. Motivated by it being within sight, I ran as fast as I could up the enormous spiral staircase.
Panting and sweating, we reached the ceiling of the tower. I could feel the wind on my face coming from a behind a small door. It was easier to open than the one down at the bottom. Before I went through the door, I looked down. I could barely see a tiny speck of light where we had left the doors open. I shuddered, and hurried inside the room with Eve.
It was a large and spacious room with rocks strewn about. In the very center, there lay the enormous form of Rayquaza sleeping on the floor. Its breathing was loud and uneven, and twisted its long green body over. It was definitely not having a very restful slumber.
“What do you plan on doing?” Eve said. I turned to her and told her a little story that I had.
“There is a legend passed down only through the citizens of Blackthorn city, that many years ago a dragon named Rayquaza landed and shed its skin there. The skin was kept in the town hall for many years, and is said to still be there. Every child that is born in Blackthorn is presented with a green dragon scale, which is said to bond that child with the great dragon Rayquaza.”
As I finished my little story, I withdrew a necklace that I always wore. On the end was a small, green scale that shone in the dim light. I held it in my hand and let the scale dangle on the end of the chain. I slowly approached the dragon, twisting and breathing.
All at once, it opened its eyes and reared back, as if to strike me. I remained perfectly calm, and I felt the bond between us grow. I began to think as it did, and I felt that it thought my thoughts as well. Rayquaza soon learned of Deoxys, and the havoc it was wreaking on the continent of Kanto. It gave a roar that shook the entire pillar, and knocked Eve down to the ground, but I stayed upright. Rayquaza lowered its head, and I climbed onto its neck.
“Take my Espeon and teleport to Kanto. I’ll meet up with you there!” I yelled at Eve and I tossed her Espeon’s pokeball. She caught it and waved. Rayquaza looked towards the ceiling, and with a mighty roar it cracked and then broke apart. It shot upwards into the sky. It felt as if immediately I was shot out of a cannon as Rayquaza bolted forward. It was all I could do to hold on around its neck as we blasted off towards land at breakneck speed.
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Night had fallen really fast. I could even see dawn approaching slowly as we neared Saffron City. This seemed to be where Rayquaza was heading, so it must have been where Deoxys was. It was then I saw the Deoxys, standing in midair, looking down on the large city.
It turned towards Rayquaza, and immediately I felt the headache come towards us, but it didn’t seem to affect Rayquaza in the least bit. I was able to feel a little of what it thought and I realized that Deoxys was trying to speak, but it was so powerful that humans only felt pain. Rayquaza, however, was very strong and could feel what Deoxys was feeling.
Deoxys didn’t speak in words, but in thoughts. I felt its thoughts through Rayquaza and realized that it was angry with the world. Deoxys had come to the world because its entire species had been annihilated in a cataclysmic event on its own world, and it had been forced into space to life alone for the rest of its life. I saw and felt thousands of years of pain and solitude that brought tears to my eyes.
Then I saw the impact from Deoxys point of view. It had found a place where there were other beings that faintly resembled itself. I saw him offer a token of happiness with a flash of light, where his world would have honored and respected, but the people ran their floating vessel right into his new territory. It was confused and hurt, so Deoxys decided to ask the people why they had done such a thing. When it did, the people turned away and hid.
This made Deoxys so sad and angry that it felt it had to destroy the people who were extremely rude to it. It had been alone for many years, and all it wanted was to be accepted and loved, but the people of this earth just turned and shunned it away. The lack of understanding had been the downfall of all the people that had come across its path.
I looked towards the Deoxys, and I thought I saw a tear drop from its eye. A human characteristic. How very odd, I thought. Through me, Rayquaza was able to tell the things that had happened to me and what I knew about this strange new pokemon from the heavens. It looked towards the Deoxys, and screeched a loud call that split my ears.
I knew what it said, for it was like I was saying. Rayquaza said that humans were weak, so horribly weak that very few could understand and comprehend the majesty of a truly powerful pokemon. Most are fools, even the ones that profess they are smart. They see things differently than you and I. For example, when you try to talk to them, your mind connects to theirs and gives them pain, physical pain.
Deoxys fell back in the air. It had not even realized that, nor did it seem to know what it had done in destroying many things. It turned to Rayquaza and seemed to ask if it could ever be forgiven of the humans for all of the horrible things it had done.
I smiled and Rayquaza smiled too. Rayquaza’s thoughts said that if Deoxys were to stay, than Rayquaza would be its companion, and soon people would know the name of Deoxys for good rather than evil. Though Deoxys had no facial expressions, I felt through Rayquaza that it felt immense joy! So much power was released from it that the skies seemed to catch on fire.
As it was flying around in joyful bliss, I heard an explosion on the ground. Rayquaza sensed it too, and we tried to warn Deoxys, but it was too late. A large military shell had just nailed it, right in the jewel-like chest. I looked at Deoxys, and I could tell that it was hurt badly, but energy swarmed around it, and it regenerated faster than the blink of an eye. Deoxys was very bad, and assumed its attack mutation.
I heard the thoughts through Rayquaza to Deoxys, that it should flee rather than fight, for fighting only leads to pain and suffering. Rayquaza reminded Deoxys of their partnership, and how people would love Deoxys someday.
Deoxys thought, and then changed into its speed form, and then stood at the ready. I felt Rayquaza was going to take things into its own claws, and it sped towards the ground at a super speed. Another shell was launched, but it was quickly destroyed by a powerful fire from Rayquaza’s mouth. We were near the ground and saw the small launching pads. Rayquaza shot past them at a speed that knocked them all down, and then came back again and tore them up with its vicious teeth. It then headed to the forest just north of Saffron and let me off on a small trail.
I looked at the legendary dragon that my people held in such great esteem and finally realized why. Rayquaza was very wise, and was not one to rush into a battle, though it could win most battles it was put into. It was also kind to those that were unfortunate. But most of all, it was understanding. I stroked the scales of the legendary beast, and it smiled back at me. Then with a mighty twist of its body, it flew into the air. I watched it and saw the small form of Deoxys follow Rayquaza, and they both flew off together.
I felt better about myself then, just because I had met the very pokemon that I had been bonded to since birth. The only other pokemon that I had ever felt like that with was Gardevoir. I had felt her presence this day, protecting me from my own quick and rash decisions. She had made me very wise. I smiled, and then I jogged to Saffron city to see if I could find Eve to tell her the story that had just happened.

Chapter 13, Mew’s Mistake
Unnamed Island, August 20, 12:30 P.M.

I had been having an odd dream for many weeks, and now it was unfolding before my very eyes. I pushed through the thick jungle looking for my destination. The trees kept me shaded from the sun, but I was still sweating profusely.
The dream I had started with me standing in the middle of a misty field, looking for something. Then, I saw Gardevoir step out of the mist and took me by the hand. Tears streamed down my face as I saw Gardevoir alive and happy. She guided me across the ocean, past the Whirlpool Islands, and two a small, jungle covered island. It was there she let go of my hand and left across the ocean. I turned to the island and started searching for the secret that made me feel unrest.
I had invited Eve to come with me, but she was working with a team of meteorologist that was investigating strange weather patterns that had began to occur throughout the entire world. There were large thunderstorms, enormous windstorms, and gigantic blizzards rolling through the atmosphere that followed no particular pattern.
With one final thrust I came into a clearing. It was about one hundred feet around, and full of short grass. In the center of the meadow was a group of tents and other equipment. There was also one permanent structure, a tall, creepy looking thing, and it was in the center of the compound. I decided to call Eve on my satellite phone.
After a few rings I saw Eves face on a small screen on my phone. “Hey howdy hey!” she greeted me with a smile. I smiled back. “What are you calling me for? Come across anything interesting?”
“Actually, yes.” I said. “What can you tell me about this place?” I held my phone up so that the small camera could see the abandoned place. I heard a gasp from the phone, and I heard her say something that I couldn’t make out. “What?” I asked.
“It’s Missingno,” she said. “It’s a long story, and I only know the rumor, but there was a privately funded genetics camp that needed to do some work in a secluded spot in the world, so they went away, and nothing but the master computer back at their base where they transmitted their information. Then, one day, as a scientist was looking for information on the camps progress, he went through the log of expeditions that were out, and number thirteen, the genetics camp, was missing. It went eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, just like that. So this scientist called the camp Missingno, a glitch that had taken out all the information of it.
“The scientist presented the information, but no one believed him, for computers don’t randomly delete numbers. Only the two or three people that had known of the camps existence believed, but everyone else thought of it as a joke. But then one day, the computers just went wild. The word Missingno came up on all of the computers. The thing that was weird was that the word Missingno had never been written in a computer, so it was as if something in the world of cyberspace had ‘heard’ this name and took it upon itself.
“Recently, some computers and electrical equipment have been destroyed, leaving only one word on the screen, Missingno. Some people think that it is the work of some evil team, trying to dominate computers, while others think it is a form of artificial intelligence. It seems as if you have reached the camp where it all began, proving that this isn’t just a rumor.”
“Thanks Eve. That really solves some questions, and brings new ones up. I’m going to explore this place and see what more I can find out. Darren out!” I said, and I turned off the phone. I started towards the genetics camp. The tents looked to be used for sleeping only, for there was little in them. I headed for the tall structure, where it looked like they had done genetic experiments. The front door looked to have been blown off its hinges.
Inside was dark and the air was stale. I found a large switch on the wall, and I flipped it. Some sparks flew, and then the lights came on in the building. The entire place was metallic, with dozens of computers everywhere. There were also lots of test tubes and expensive machinery strewed over the floor. There only seemed to be one computer that was working, so I went up to it and touched the screen. It came to life and listed a journal from ten years ago. I opened up the first entry and began to read.

PROJECT: MEW CLONE
SPONSER: GIOVONNI
DATE: November 30.
We have just arrived on the island. This is where we believe to find the legendary Mew. Camp had been set up, and we are beginning construction of our genetic laboratory. Expedition throughout the island is to start tomorrow. High moral throughout all scientists.
DATE: December 1.
Found Mew. At first it seemed to be reluctant in following us, but after some time we were able to convince it to come back to the laboratory. Tests confirm, Mew is female, which is needed for cloning process. Running some of its hair for a D.N.A. analysis today. We are very lucky to have this chance; it is as if Mew is too naïve to know what is really happening.
DATE: JANUARY 17
It has been two years since we first found Mew, and now the embryo created. The new child Mew shall be extremely powerful, as commanded by our leader Giovonni. New pokemon must be male, for a double X chromosome would cancel out the genetic enhancements we are adding to the D.N.A. We are ridding it of natural compassion, so that it can grow up to be the ultimate weapon.
DATE: JANUARY 18.
Embryo implanted inside of Mew today. Tests show that small pokemon is growing well. Only a few more months, then Mew will give birth. Mew seems to be having some depression, and we have no idea why. We are trying to aid it during its pregnancy, but it is really painful for her.

There were a few more entries that I skimmed through, because they were dull, just reports of how the scientists moral was and such. After a while, though, I came to an interesting entry.

DATE: MAY 27
Mew gave birth. We christened the new pokemon Mewtwo. We can see the effects of our genetics on him already. While its mother it’s sleek and graceful, it seems to be distorted and ugly. Mew takes care of it very well in our facility. Our machine equipment can already sense the enormous power of this small pokemon.
DATE: MAY 24
It has been one year since Mewtwo’s birth. Mewtwo has been growing rapidly, in mind power as well as physically large. It has been really calm lately, which is odd, because we programmed him to be a fighting force of fury. Mew still cares for him. It seems as if only a mother could love such a disfigured pokemon.
DATE: JUNE 4
Terrible things have occurred recently. Mewtwo proves too strong for any person to even hope to control. It brutally attacked its parent today, and wounded it badly. Mew flew off, obviously hurt more than just physically. We attempted to get Mewtwo to a containment area, but it pushed us out of the way with its psychic powers. We felt hopeless as it destroyed our computers and instruments, and then escaped into the wild. We abandoned camp as quickly as we could to find that our ship that we arrived on was utterly destroyed. Mewtwo flew off into the distance and we never saw him again. We tried calling for help, but there was a glitch in the system and the word Missingno was on every radio screen. We were very afraid of what we were going to do.
DATE: JUNE 16. FINAL ENTRY
We have been rescued in the most peculiar way. Our ship has mysteriously been raised from the bottom of the ocean. We have loaded all that we can carry onto it. We ask whoever finds this compound to be careful and realize that everything we have is true. We are leaving now. Journal finished.

I sat down on a padded seat that was in front of the screen. I knew Mew was real, so this entire story seemed believable to me. I felt such pity for Mew; its own flesh and blood had fought against it. I realized why I had come, because my friend needed my help.
I turned and saw Mew floating in the air behind me. She had a look of deep sadness on her face, and turned and floated out the door. I followed it, and she led me into the southern part of the jungle. It used its psychic powers to move the bushes aside and to create a path for me. In about five minutes we reached an ancient tomb or something like it. Mew went inside, and I followed.
I couldn’t see anything, but then Mew’s body began to glow brightly, and the entire cavern was illuminated. There were strange writings and lots of pictures all across the walls. I gasped as I saw one of these pictures that had Mew above a waterfall, saving a poor child that was about to crash into the rocks. I realized that small boy was me.
Mew directed me to another wall that had an enormous painting on it. It showed Mew in the center, with three strange birds surrounding her. There seemed to be a power that drew the birds to her. There were writings all around it, and I began to read the story.
‘Many years ago, there were three pokemon whose powers balanced the others. They took the shape of birds, one of fire, one of ice, and one of lightning. They flew over the earth, hating each other, but never daring to attack each other, for if one destroyed another, the remaining one would take over the earth. Not wanting to give up any of their power, they continued to fly around the world, but they never were content.’
‘Tensions were mounting, so the great pokemon Mew decided to aid their souls. It gathered the three birds together and connected her spirit with them, so that they too could be carefree and enjoy life, rather than live a life of hatred. This worked, and the three birds flew off, happy with life once and for all.’
I then realized what Mew was telling me. Ever since her child had rebelled against her, she had been saddened and hurt. Therefore, she had broken off ties with the three pokemon so that they wouldn’t have to suffer as she did. The three bird titans returned to the way they were before, and were now circling the globe, pulling weather storms with them. Once their storms had become big enough, they were going to fight each other. Thunderstorms to power up Zapdos, hail storms to cool off Articuno, and wind storms to stoke Moltres’s flame body.
I knew something else. There was only one way to get these three titans to stop, so I hurried out of the tomb and had Espeon teleport me back to the mainland. I had to find the one they called Giovanni.

The life of a hero part 2

jedirules — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:06:09 CDT

sorry i had to use two pages the other one was messed up

Chapter 14: Giovanni
August 20, Viridian City, 4:00

I actually knew Giovanni personally. About fifteen years ago when I was a young aspiring trainer I challenged his gym and beat every one of his predecessors. He was amazed at the power that I had shown. We battled. With his strength and trust with his pokemon, he easily overcame me. I was ashamed, but he told me not to worry, and that I had a lot of potential. He said that in a few years I would be able to roll over him like he had not put up a fight. I smiled and he made me feel better about my loss. And in three years I returned and beat him, earning his badge.
This is why I was here in Viridian, because he ran the only gym in town. Even if he was not there, I would probably be able to find out where he went. I saw the gym set the northern hill, and I hurried towards it quickly.
I walked up to the door and found that the front door was locked. If I wasn’t desperate, I would have walked away, but I needed to get my questions answered as soon as possible. I pulled out Gengar and released him. “Gengar, go inside and open up this door.” Gengar smiled and nodded, then walked right through the door as if it wasn’t even there.
I heard a chink and the door swung open. I stepped in, and let Gengar walk besides me. Things were dark and dusty, but I did see a small light shining in the back. I was cautious, and snuck past the maze of walls to reach it.
I turned the corner and I saw a candle on the ground with a man kneeling in front of it. It was Giovonni. He looked up as I entered, and said, “Ah, Darren Diamond, I remember you. Not only when you soundly triumphed over me, but also when I saw you in the paper for soundly triumphing over Groudon and Kyogre.” He grinned. “Please sit down with me. I was just meditating, but I would enjoy a conversation with such a legend much more.”
“Penny for your thoughts,” I said. He looked up to me, and I could see there was deep sorrow in his eyes. He began to tell me his story.
“Many years ago, I got started off on the wrong path. I had a good group of pokemon, and I was promising to be a great trainer. However, I had too much pride, and I treated my friends as tools to help me achieve greater things. Over time, I was able to form a team which would help me to take over the world, which would have been the extent of my power. You see, once a person has power, they are afraid to lose it, and that was true with me. I was the leader of Team Rocket, and with it I was able to lie and cheat my way to the top.” He looked at me and smiled.
“Recently however, when I was trying to kidnap pokemon and to sell them back to their owners for money, a kid about the age you were when we first met discovered this. He knew it was wrong to even want what I did, and he challenged me. I had no fear, but when he opened up his pokeballs I saw that he was a master, ever so young of a master but a master nonetheless. The bonds of friendship between him and his pokemon were so strong that I saw no way that I could win. I fled from him twice, abandoning my current plans so that I could start new ones and avoid this trainer. Funny how I could not beat such a small child.”
He bent over and shook his head. After that, he sat back up and looked me in the eyes. “Then, as I was running this gym about a year ago, ready to launch my most powerful plan yet, in reclaiming my weapon named Mewtwo and using him to take over the world, that one trainer came to stop me. I did everything I could to stop him, but he defeated me nonetheless. It was then that I realized the errors of my ways, and I realized that this young trainer was really speaking the truth. I didn’t run away from him this time, but I thanked him for saving me.
“I left Team Rocket to themselves, and within a month the entire group failed without their leader. Ever since then I have been deciding on what to do with the rest of my life. I have come to the conclusion to find my son which I had long ago.” The candle had almost burned out. Giovonni got to his feet and grabbed another candle from a cupboard, lit it, and set it on the floor next to the old one.
Giovonni wiped his hands. “My son, from what I have heard, has started off on the wrong path as well, so I am going to find him and save him from making the same mistakes that I had.” He shook his head again, and looked at me, “Well, I know you didn’t come from Blackthorn just to catch up on old times, what do you need my help for?”
After I had heard his story, it was hard to bring up the fact of Mewtwo as it was a part of his past that he was trying to forget, but I realized that I needed to ask him to save Mew and to save the world from Zapdos, Moltres, and Articuno. I started to speak. “What do about where Mewtwo lives now? It is very crucial that I find him.”
Giovonni’s smile turned to a frown. “Alas, I can not help you, for you will seek to use him as a weapon that will destroy the world and destroy yourself. I thought a trainer of your magnitude would understand that!”
“Giovonni!” I said forcefully, “I don’t want to use your clone as a weapon, but I wish to aid it to love Mew as its mother who gave him birth and raised him.” I explained the situation of Mew and her connection with the three legendary birds that were about to destroy the earth in their fight for supremacy.
Giovonni was astounded. “Why you? Why has the legendary Mew decided that you should be the one to save her from her solitude?”
“Many years ago, when I was seven, Mew saved me from inevitable death at the falls of Blackthorn. I feel like Mew trusts me because of the life debt I have to her,” I said, hoping that it was enough to convince Giovonni.
Giovonni looked at me. “I trust you. Mewtwo is in a very difficult to reach, in a cave near Cerulean City. At least, that is where we tracked him to after he escaped the genetic lab. He was searching for seclusion from the horrible people that wanted to harness his energy and use him as a weapon. He has no friends, as we endowed him with an uncompassionate heart. Go, Darren. You must find him and save us from the events that are about to transpire.”
I nodded. I turned to leave, but then turned back. “Thank you for everything, Giovonni. I hope that you find your son.” He smiled and told me goodbye. I left through the front door, and called Salamence from his pokeball.
“Its time to go to Cerulean City,” I said to Salamence. He roared triumphantly, and it made me laugh to see him brag of his power. I climbed on him bareback, and we shot towards the city of water, Cerulean.

Chapter 15: Mewtwo’s Companionship
August 20, Cerulean City, 9:30 P.M.

I sat upright in my bed at the Cerulean Pokecenter, thinking of what I was going to do. I had no plan, so I thought I would spend the night before I plunged into the cave where Mewtwo lived developing one. There was nothing I could think of for the moment, so I decided to sleep on it.
That night I had a strange dream. I saw myself walking into the cave, not knowing what would happen, but I was content, for I knew a plan would present itself. I saw many powerful pokemon around me, but they all ignored me seeing that I had a greater power with me than any of them. I stepped through the darkness with only my little light, and took small steps to the depths of the cave.
Eventually, I came to a large pedestal that seemed to have been raised from the earth itself. I saw a pokemon at the very top, and even though my vision was clouded, I knew it was Mewtwo. He noticed me and came flying down at me with psychic powers blazing. I shielded my eyes with my arms and a bright light overtook me.
I shot awake. I didn’t quite know the meaning of the dream, but I felt that if I was to go into the cave, I would probably not return. I turned and looked at the clock. 2:49 it read, and so I lay back down on my pillow to try and get more sleep. I tossed and turned, because every time I closed my eyes I saw Mewtwo, not clearly because I didn’t know what he looked like, come down with psychic fury towards me.
I had a restless night. I knew what I had to do, but I was afraid of the consequences. I knew Mewtwo was not the least bit afraid to kill a person, and I knew that he would not have a second thought after he did. I was so confused with what had to be done when I felt a soft peace come to me, soothing me. Thoughts came to me, and I knew it was Gardevoir speaking, ‘It will be alright. Go to the cave. Confront Mewtwo.’
With that reassurance I got up from my bed and clothed myself. I was ready, and I felt peace. After tightening my shoes, I went downstairs and picked up my pokemon. I stepped outside to see the beautiful sun begin to come over the edge of Mt. Moon. The sky seemed to be ablaze with the power of the morning. I stretched and took in the crisp morning air that was all around me. The whole town was still asleep, and I began my trek to the hills.
After a while of searching, I found the entrance to the cave. It was under a low overhang, and was very dark. I pulled out my small light and began to wander through it. After about fifty feet I came to cool, glassy water. I didn’t think it was shallow enough to cross, so I called Gyarados from his pokeball and released him in the water. He roared and squinted at the small light. His roar shook the cavern and made me stumble. I hushed him and climbed on his back.
Slowly and sleekly, like the sea serpent he was, Gyarados swam through the glassy water. I shined the light all around so that I could see what was there. I saw hundreds of Golbat on the ceiling of the cave, and every once and a while I’d see one of the rocks, either a Geodude or a Graveler get up and walk away.
After ten uneventful minutes we arrived at the other end of the large underground lake. I got off and called Gyarados back into his pokeball. I continued on foot. The place seemed like a maze of gigantic proportions, and I felt scared for a moment that I had taken the wrong way. However, for a second I felt something grasp my hand ever so slightly that I thought there was something about to attack me, but saw nothing. This hand lead me forward, into the maze. I realized it was Gardevoir, and I felt her presence.
I saw light ahead of me. Strange, I thought. No one has found a second entrance to this cave. I was perplexed. The hand left me, but I knew where to go now. I followed the light through a small tunnel and then I entered into a large cavern.
The cavern was perfectly circular, seemingly out of place in a cave that had so much debris strewn about. In the very center was the tall pedestal which I had seen in my dream. I felt a wave of fear wash over me, but then remembered that everything would be all right. I looked towards the top of the cavern, and saw that the light was coming from the top of the pedestal.
I started to climb, exactly as I had in my dream. The light at the top seemed to shift, and then left its mount and came down next to me. It was Mewtwo, but it was so bright that I couldn’t see exactly what it looked like. Its psychic powers were evidently very strong if it needed to expel them in such a manner. The light just stood next to me in the air, and I felt words in my head. It was Mewtwo speaking.
“Who dares to enter where I have come to wallow in pain and suffering?” he said to me. The voice was full of pain and sorrow. It almost brought a tear to my eye. “I wish that you would leave me alone. I do not wish to become the weapon of any person, even though that is my purpose.” It was as if not only his thoughts were upon me, but his feelings as well. The waves of emotion flooded over me, and I could see that this pokemon was truly sad because it could not love, nor be loved.
“I have come to teach you compassion and love,” I said. The words just jumped out from me, and I felt as if I didn’t even say them. It was strange; I almost didn’t believe it until Mewtwo’s light shook.
“And how would you, a lone pokemon trainer, ever dream to teach me compassion?” The remorse from his voice had turned to deep hatred. The genetic tampering with this pokemon had given it extremes in powers as well as emotions. “I know genetic science because I too want the same thing. To love would be wonderful, but to be loved would be the greatest. However, I can not love, and anything that tries to love me I must destroy, not because I want to, but because my genetic laws bind me to. I am a slave to the soul that was given me.”
After the words and emotions disappeared from my head, the light around Mewtwo dimmed. There I saw the pokemon whom was speaking to me. I could see very slight similarities between it and Mew. However, this pokemon was much taller, with a large vein jutting out from the back of its head connecting with the heart. His arms were long and narrow, not short and stubby like Mew’s. His face was disfigured and ugly, and his eyes glowed like hot embers.
I thought of a response, but I was at a loss for words. This threw Mewtwo into a rage. “You can’t even behold the hideous pokemon ever to walk the face of this planet, yet you think you can teach me emotion! You are a stupid human, like them all! Why do you tempt me with such thoughts of hope? I am the mistake, the MISTAKE! You have no idea what it is like to have been born of the perfect mother and yet never be able to love her back. I want to love, I really do, but I CAN’T! Don’t you see this?” He stuck out his hands, “These hands were not made to embrace or to love!” His powers shook the room. Large rocks began to fall from the ceiling.
“Genetics are so feeble when compared to the power of love,” I said. This time I knew where the words were coming from. I tried to stop her from doing it, but Gardevoir said the words, “I shall bestow my loving and caring spirit on you, so that you will be able to love!”
I felt Gardevoir leave me. Mewtwo got defensive against me, for he thought it was I who had spoken. The psychic powers that he had flamed around him in a spectacle of power. He rushed towards me as he did in my dream. I lifted up my arms to shield myself from the impact.
But it didn’t come. I opened my eyes to see Mewtwo looking up towards the ceiling. I looked up as well, and I saw the form of Gardevoir floating high above, gently drifting downward. The peace that Gardevoir always brought me came flooding back, and the whole room seemed to be filled with her power. She descended upon Mewtwo. She touched his lips as if ordering him to be silent, and then embraced him. With the embrace she faded into him, all the kindness and love that she was made of, not one speck of evil in her.
Mewtwo’s eyes opened wide, as if he had a greater understanding. His deformed lips curved up into a smile and he let out a laugh through his real mouth and not his mind and it echoed throughout the cavern. The joy he felt was radiant and I, seeing it, could not help but smile. Mewtwo floated into the air, his powers floating gracefully over his body and into the air. He had been cured, and he could now feel compassion and love for others.
“My friend!” he said and he floated down from the height of the cavern. “Thank you so much for bestowing this gracious gift upon me, for I can now feel love towards my mother!” Mewtwo reached his long arms around me and embraced me. I clasped my hands behind his back as well and we shared that tender moment for a long time.
“I’m free!” he said, and he let go and jumped back into the air. “Free of the horrible curse which the genetic scientists had placed on me. Free!”
I smiled, but then remembered why I had come, and felt extremely agitated. “Mewtwo!” I yelled. “We need to find your mother as quickly as possible. She is on the island that you were created on. The fate of the world depends on you and you alone!”
Mewtwo stopped his rejoicing and came down and touched me on the forehead. With the touch I floated into the air with him, and just hovered right next to him. He lifted his hands above his head and then dropped them to his side. As he did the world seemed to fall away from us, and we were together in dark nothingness. He raised his hands to his head again and the world jumped back at us, and I found that we were on the island that Mew had inhabited, right under the shadow of the genetic complex.
I instantly saw Mew sitting on a rock watching us with her sad face. Mewtwo looked at his parent and they stared at each other for a long time. I didn’t know what kind of conversation was going on or if there was any communication at all. Then they both rose into the air at the same time.
“Mother! Mother! I love!” Mewtwo said with joy. The warmest emotions took over my soul as I saw them embrace each other and weep. I couldn’t hear Mew’s thoughts, but Mewtwo’s were clear as a bell.
“Mother, I love, I love you!”

Chapter 16: Legendary Squall
Hidden Island, August 21, 10:30 A.M.

All of a sudden, my phone rang. I tore my eyes away from the scene of love between mother and son and switched it on. Eve’s face appeared on the screen, and I could tell that something was terribly wrong. Static danced across the screen and the room I saw her in was shaking.
“Darren!” her voice shrieked over the phone. I could see living fear in her eyes. “An enormous thunderstorm seems to have stopped right above us. There are gigantic towers of lightning all around us. The weather institute is being destroyed. We need you he-”. The screen went dark. I shook the phone, and the screen came back on. It was a white screen that had nine letters on it, MISSINGNO.
I dropped the phone in terror. It was the glitch, the very thing which Eve had told me about. The phone exploded as it hit the ground, and shards of plastic and metal went flying everywhere in a cloud of smoke.
“Mewtwo, Mew! We need to get to the Hoenn Weather institute as quickly as possible. The legendary birds are beginning to reap their destruction!” I yelled. Their dance of love and companionship ended, and floated down on either side of me. With their hands they lifted me into the air.
“We shall save this earth. My powers will be used for good, as I want them to be.” Mewtwo said. Mew and Mewtwo gripped my arms tighter as we floated higher and higher above the island. Then, instantaneously, the world began to turn underneath us. I knew that it was us that were speeding, but because Mew and Mewtwo were always next to me, it looked as if the earth was turning and we were standing still.
As we slowed down I noticed that the air was really cold. Dark clouds were all around us, and snow began falling very hard. I looked upwards and barely glimpsed Articuno, the bird of ice flying high above. Mew and Mewtwo ignored it however, and we headed straight for the Weather Institute.
As soon as I saw the building I noticed the amount of lightning that was striking near it. Mew took my hand and pulled me away from Mewtwo, while Mewtwo flew towards the Weather Institute. He stood atop the building and lifted up his hands. Immediately a large psychic shield surrounded the building. I saw lightning bolts glance off the shield. I also noticed that the building was beginning to repair itself as I saw Mews eyes glowing.
I heard Mew’s thoughts in my head, “My son is luring in the legendary pokemon. I can only bestow my blissful spirit upon them if they are weak and unable to move. Look!”
I looked up into the middle of the storm and I saw a great figure of a bird descend from the sky. It was yellow and spiky, like the lightning it wielded at the end of its wingtips. The lightning no longer came from the clouds, but from the Zapdos itself. The thunderbolts were five times as wide as the regular lightning bolts, and they seemed to weaken the shield with every hit they made.
“It’s a trap,” Mew said. “My son could hold that shield up with his eyes closed. He wants Zapdos to think it is doing a good job so that it will come in closer.”
And Mew was right. When Zapdos was practically perched on the shield, the shield disappeared and Mewtwo flew straight up towards the Thunderbird. Zapdos dove towards him as well, lightning flying off of its wings like a thundercloud. The two collided, or so it looked like. Mewtwo pushed Zapdos backward with his mind, and the bird went flying through the air. Then, Mewtwo held out his hands and began to glow a deep purple. The energy waves from his hands shot towards Zapdos and the bird couldn’t take it. With a screech that could have been heard around the world, Zapdos fell to the ground. It quivered a little, and then collapsed.
Immediately the thunderstorm stopped, and the sun began to shine. But the sunshine didn’t feel very hot, because it soon got very windy. Mew produced a small shield around us so that we were protected from the wind. I looked for the pokemon which was causing it, and I didn’t have to look long.
I had to shield my eyes, because the blazing bird Moltres came flying through the air right above us. The wind stoked its body so that it burned brighter than the sun. A twister of fire enveloped the bird, and it was truly magnificent to behold. It saw Mew and I in the shield, and dove towards us. Mew dropped me, and flew off to meet the challenger.
As I floated in the air I realized that I wanted to help these two pokemon in their battle. I called Salamence from his ball. He stumbled through the air at first since he wasn’t used to coming out in midair, but he regained his balance and flew up to me, and I sat on his neck. I called Espeon and Gengar from their balls as well, and I had Espeon balance herself on Salamence’s head and Gengar to balance on Salamence’s tail. We were a tank of pokemon, flying through the air.
As Mew proceeded to fight Moltres, I steered Salamence towards the gigantic bird as well. It looked at us with an evil eye and shot a stream of fire that was about ten feet wide, like nothing I had ever seen before. Espeon deflected it with her psychic powers; she had seen the attack coming. Gengar shot shadow balls at the Moltres, but it only seemed to annoy it. It shot another stream of magma, but Salamence avoided it with a barrel roll. Salamence swooped down and slashed Moltres across the face with glowing claws, which was his signature move. Salamence’s had came away burnt, but Moltres’s face had three claw marks across it. It did not look happy. Right before it hit us with another stream of fire, Mewtwo and Mew got in the way and blocked it with their shields.
Mewtwo and Mew had surrounded the Moltres, and there was an evident look of fear in its eyes. A zap of psychic energy flowed through both the mother and the son, and Moltres fell in a heap of fiery feathers, about ten feet from Zapdos. The wind stopped, and Moltres’s body became the regular fire orange color that it was when it was not on fire.
The cold that I had felt when we had first arrived came back to me. Suddenly, enormous hailstones the size of bowling balls began to fall through the air. A few almost hit me and my pokemon, but Gengar and Espeon were good enough with their attacks that none hit us. I looked down at the Weather Institute and saw that there was a large group of people outside. They are in danger, I thought.
Suddenly they all disappeared, right in front of my eyes. It was only then that I realized that Mewtwo could read my thoughts, just as Gardevoir had been able to. The bond I had shared with my beloved Gardevoir was now exactly the same with Mewtwo, since they were one and the same together now.
I looked towards the sky and saw a large blue beam shoot downwards from the heavens, towards Mewtwo. Mewtwo skillfully dodged it, and it hit the ground and the entire area turned to ice, trees and all. The bird which launched it, Articuno, followed shortly afterwards. With elegance unparalleled, it dove towards its two enemies, firing beams of ice and chilling the air around them. Mewtwo and Mew didn’t seem to mind however, and soon Articuno was on the ground, twitching and then finally stopping as if it was dead.
The weather subsided immediately, and the sun began to shine normally, completely unhampered with. Mewtwo embraced Mew, and together they landed on the ground in the middle of the fallen birds, which had fallen in a triangle around them. I steered my Salamence downwards and landed just beside Moltres and Articuno. I turned and looked at Mew, wondering what it was going to do.
Mew put her hands to her mouth and began to giggle. The carefree spirit of Mew was shown in its tiny little body, as if happiness were the only thing there was to care about in the entire world. The three birds lifted their heads, as if trying to hear the laugh. Although I could not understand their body language, I knew they were happy as well.
Mewtwo raised his hands, and the birds lifted into the air. Blue energy flew from his fingertips to the birds, and they regained their energy. The torrential weather didn’t come back, but the three pokemon danced through the skies, happy and carefree. They didn’t seek for power anymore, because they were blinded by their own happiness.
Mewtwo took Mew’s hand in his, and they began to fly away. “Wait!” I yelled. He turned towards me.
“You will always know where to find me when you need me, for I will be with you when you are most desperate. And your wonderful friend Eve is at the Maulville Pokemon Center with the rest of the people I teleported their.” I saw Mewtwo’s smile on his face, just before he turned. “Thank you Darren Diamond, for returning the favor that my mother gave to you so long ago. You have truly saved my life.” And with that, the two legendary pokemon shot off towards the horizon.
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I flew towards Maulville to find Eve. Sure enough, there was a crowd of confused people, some citizens of Maulville, others recently teleported their. With some difficulty I found Eve. She was just as confused as everybody else, trying to make her way through the crowd. She saw me, and our eyes locked. I ran up to her, and she ran to me.
“Are you all right?” I asked. She nodded and fell into my arms, exhausted. I pulled her chin up and looked her in the eyes. She smiled and embraced me, so happy to see me and that I was with her. I hugged her back, and it was that moment that I realized I truly loved her. I realized that it was time to stop my lifelong journey and settle down with the woman I loved. I raised her chin again and tenderly kissed her lips.
I realized that life is too short to not be with the people you love. I married Eve and we moved to my house in Blackthorn City. Life was very good to us. We had three children that grew up and became trainers themselves. When I was 45, and all of our children had moved out, I was ready for a vacation. I wanted to see the places that lead me to Eve, and she agreed to go with me. We planned a little trip to Ecruteak City. Little did I know the events which were to happen when we arrived there.

Chapter 17: Unfrozen Statues
Ecruteak City, July 7, 5:30 A.M.

I got out of bed. The dream I just had was amazing, about something that was about to happen. I went to the desk that was in our room and proceeded to write a note to Eve when she woke up. She was used to Mewtwo sending me places, so she wouldn’t mind in the least. I wrote the note as quickly as I could.

Dearest Eve,
I had another dream tonight. In it I was walking up to the ruins of the burned down tower, for there was someone I was supposed to meet there. This person had a ball the size of a pokeball, and it looked like an enormous dew drop. The name Soul Dew came to my mind as I saw it. This person had a Pikachu with them, and then we went into the building together. I also saw someone going to Eon Island as well. I must investigate.
Yours truly,
Darren

I left the note on the desk, quickly got dressed in my trainer uniform, and then left the building. The sun was barely peeking over the mountains. I hurried towards the burnt down building, which was just north of the town. After a small jog I found myself at the base of the building.
As I arrived I didn’t see the trainer that I saw in my dream. In fact, no one could be seen, it was just me. I walked up to the building, or what remained of it, and I tried to imagine Lugia falling from the skies like it did the last time I saw it. I imagined the lifeless body flying out of the air and crashing into this wreck of a building.
“Yo!” I heard from behind me. I turned and saw the trainer. She was very young, a teenager I could tell, with brown hair pulled up into a pony tail. She also had a Pikachu perched on her shoulder.
“Hello,” I said. “I was told that I was to meet you here. What is your name? I didn’t have the pleasure of knowing that.”
“I’m Rinoa. I’m roaming around for fun. I met an old geezer in the mountains that had only his head out of his coffin and he asked me to take the Soul Dew and told me that the answer was here. And-,” she paused to kick the Pikachu which was drawing(with a marker and whiteboard) an old man with only his head out of his coffin Dracula style. “This is my eccentric Pikachu, Felix. He is one pain in the ***. Try having meals with him just once. Are you the answer that geezer was talking about?”
“No, I’m not the answer,” I said to her, thinking that she was pretty rude to make fun of the dead. “But I can provide the solution. Follow me.” I heard some kind of scratching noise, so I turned around and saw the Pikachu writing something on a white board. I saw Rinoa smack Felix across the back of the head, as if he had written something that wasn’t supposed to be written. I chuckled, I could tell they liked each other, but it was a love hate relationship.
I led the pair into the building, careful of the rubble and debris. I could hear Pikachu and Rinoa behind me, fighting about something, but I didn’t care about what. We went down a burnt staircase that apparently had not been crushed by the Lugia falling. I told Rinoa to watch her step, and we carefully descended the staircase.
It was dark at the bottom, and I was about to pull out my keychain light, but Felix took care of it for me. He was a very smart Pikachu, and pulled out a light ball that he carried on him, one that stored electrical energy he didn’t use, and it began to glow and lit up the entire room. As my eyes adjusted to the sudden light in the room, I saw the room and what was in it.
It was evident that Lugia had not fallen this far through the building, because everything was basically untouched. It was a large room with ancient designs throughout it. There were also three enormous statues of pokemon there, all which looked like big dogs or cats. It was evident to see that they represented fire, water, and electricity just because of the patterns on them and the way they looked. However they were motionless and colorless. I wondered if they had been made from the very same stone that Groudon and Kyogre had been made of.
I looked towards the center of these three beasts and saw there was a small pillar with a small indent in it. I walked up to it, and I realized that this is where the Soul Dew was supposed to go. “Rinoa, bring the Soul Dew here.” I said. She quickly and quietly did so.

“Oh my ******* ***, I don’t ^^^^ ********* like this,” wrote the Pikachu.

Rinoa looked like she wanted to bash him up, but smacked him on the back of the head.
“Too much could go wrong, but I’m ready for whatever happens, even if it comes to battling these beasts, though I know I would lose.” I said to them.

“What the ****!? These guys’ll bow down to me. I am the power!” wrote the proud Pikachu.
I laughed. “Legendary pokemon are either amused or annoyed by the pitiful attacks that regular pokemon do, unless they are extremely powerful.”
Then without warning, the room began to shake. I turned and saw that Rinoa had put the Soul Dew on the pillar without me giving consent. I heard three crashes around me and I saw that the statues had fallen off of their platforms. They began to move and shake the sleep from their eyes. Color was restored to their granite bodies.
They all let loose an enormous roar together, and I put my hands to my ears. The ceiling shook and finally broke apart. I barely had time to see Felix launch an array of thunderbolts towards the water pokemon, who I remembered from the legends as being Suicune, purifier of the waters. The Suicune groaned under the power of the lightning, and shot out a pillar of water from its mouth. I would have bet my life that the water would have killed Felix if I hadn’t sent out my Espeon and told it to deflect the beam of water.
Then without warning, the other two pokemon leaped out of the building and started running away, leaving Suicune with us for us to battle. My Espeon had grown over the years, but I still wasn’t sure to if she could handle a two on one battle with a Suicune.
It was easy to see that Suicune was extremely ticked off. It charged the two pokemon so fast that wind began to trail behind it. Suicune ran past and the wind knocked both Felix and Espeon down.
“Felix, thunder!” Rinoa yelled.
“Helping hand Espeon!” I yelled to my Espeon. Espeon began to glow and the Thunder that came off of Pikachu, increased in size by the light ball, began to grow even larger and were completely accurate. They were about to strike Suicune all over its body, but all of a sudden the bolts of lightning were sucked out of the building and away. Suicune eyed the two pokemon smiling. With a final jump, it leaped out of the building and began to run away very fast. I called Espeon back into her pokeball, and Felix returned to Rinoa’s shoulder.
“What the **** was that all about?” Rinoa said in surprise. I glared at her.

“I coulda screwed these guys like all the sucker pokemon in the wild grass with mah limbs tied up, eyes blindfolded, ears stuffed, mouth gagged, nose covered, tail severed in one second IF a certain guy didn’t interfere.” He glared at me. Rinoa did a vicious kick that made her foot rise from overhead and crash down on the Pikachu’s skull so hard it drove him into the ground.
“This is not good,” I said, ignoring the two. “Bring the Soul Dew; I have an old friend I have to see about this.” We hurried out of the building (Felix picked himself up from the crater from the impact) and continued along an old dirt trail that I had traveled many years ago. I came to the building of Ho-oh’s roost. The two silent guards were still outside. It made me wonder what they did all the time.
Remembering me, they let me in. I hurried up the stairs with Rinoa to the place were Atama Ga Ii was. He was the only one I knew who not only believed in the legends, but could also tell me what to do.
As soon as I got to the top, I found my old friend. He was very old now, and I could tell by the look on his face that he was afraid of something. “Come,” he said.
“Who’s dat foo? What the **** is he doing here?” wrote the Pikachu. Rinoa grabbed him by the ear and looked like she intended to throw him out of the window but threw him on the ground instead and performed the same vicious kick. Felix picked himself up again to follow after Rinoa, Atama and I.

Atama led us into the room with millions of scrolls. He began to read from one of them.
“Awaken not the beasts of water, lightning, or fire, for when the three beasts of the Tower of Lugia are awakened, they will run away from their powers out of fear. They each have the power to clean and strengthen the element they are a part of, so every element will strive to come to them and be purified. Lightning will reach down from the sky to touch Raikou, the beast of electricity. Magma and fires will rush to be with Entei, the beast of fire. All lakes and rivers will flow towards Suicune, the beast of water. The three beasts will run away from these things, and so the elements will flow across the land, destroying everything in their path. The only way to stop them is to have the souls that were given to them by any pokemon taken away, so that they will become lifeless again.”
Atama looked me in the eyes, and then took me to the window. Just as he opened it I saw Ho-oh swoop down from its roost and begin flying towards the ground where strange things were happening. I saw magma coming out of a nearby mountain, something that seemed almost impossible. I also saw the lake of Ecruteak rushing away, as if someone was pulling it away with a long string. I also saw dark thunderclouds begin to gather and saw lightning striking at the ground in one specific place.
I heard Rinoa gasp when she saw the sight of absolute destruction. Even Felix seemed to be humbled by the sheer power of the elements combined. I realized there was only one thing to do.
I called out Espeon. I reached into my backpack and after looking for a long time I found a small boat ticket that had the words Eon Island printed on it. I gave it to Rinoa. “Rinoa, my Espeon is going to take you to Lilycove. You probably haven’t been there before, but you need to find the harbor and then give the ticket to any sailor, and they’ll be happy to take you to that island. There are two pokemon there that will help you when you show them the Soul Dew.”

“How did you know?” Rinoa asked. The pikachu’s expression went blank for a moment, like falling asleep with your eyes open. Then he was back again, the little pain in the neck.

“A good friend told me,” I said as I thought of Mewtwo. I thought why Mewtwo didn’t come and save the world. Then I realized that we were working with souls, and Mewtwo, in all his power, could only make those pokemon faint, but could not remove their souls like the two pokemon Latios and Latias on Eon Island could. I knew he would try to prevent the disasters from getting out of hand like Ho-oh was now doing and I knew that many legendaries would be doing the same.
“Espeon, take Rinoa to Lilycove, and be careful.” I said. Espeon’s eyes began to glow, and in an instant they were gone. I said goodbye to Atama and hurried down the stairs. I was going to do the best that I could to help this, but I knew that the entire fate of the world was in Rinoa’s hands. She was our last hope.

Chapter 18: Double Trouble
Ecruteak City, July 7, 12:25 P.M.

It was an awesome sight. There was destruction everywhere showing where the three beasts had run away. The skies were growing dark, and I looked into the sky and saw masses of legendary pokemon come together in the sky, apparently gathering to do everything they could to stop these three beasts from destroying the entire earth.
I saw Lugia joined together with Ho-oh, both together in their mighty glory. I saw Rayquaza high above, with the small figure of Deoxys by its side. Mewtwo was there, with two or three Mew’s. The legendary birds Zapdos, Moltres, and Articuno were there with the spirit of Mew, ready to fight. Jirachi had apparently been awaken by the Regis, and was flying along with the rest of the pokemon. The Regis themselves were on the ground beneath them, but were tall enough to break the tree line and were perfectly visible. This would be a battle to end all battles. I turned my thoughts towards Rinoa and Felix. If they failed it would be the end of the world.
I needed to witness this for myself. After I had sent Rinoa to Eon Island, I came back to Ecruteak so that I could save Eve from the destruction that was happening. I found her just in time to save her from the ruins of the pokecenter. Raikou had run right past it and a large thunderbolt set the place ablaze. I called Salamence from his pokeball and climbed onto his back along with Eve. We flew into the slew of legendary pokemon, who were apparently making a plan.
While the pokemon discussed what was to be done in a language that I could not comprehend, Mewtwo flew down to me and greeted me. I asked him, “Why did you lead me to that place with that trainer if you knew that the world would be put in jeopardy?”
I saw the odd smile of Mewtwo’s creep across his deformed face, and I could tell that Gardevoir was trying to tell me something through his mind. “Darren, you can only see one side of the canvas of life. You must understand all that happens in the Netherworld, the place that we go when we die. You see destruction, pain, and agony, while we on the other side see life, prosperity and beauty. All that is destroyed comes in its full form to the Netherworld, and it is a wonderful time. When things in your life grow well, the forms in the Netherworld leave to strengthen the new things growing in the real world. However, this does not answer your question.
“The real reason that you were to call upon the ancient statues was to fulfill your purpose in life. The other trainer had this same calling, to bring the legends together to save the world. If anyone but you two would have placed the Soul Dew on the altar, then the world would have had no chance. However, because you have worked through the years to become a pokemon master, you were able to gain each of the legends trust so that they would fight for you. And I am you, bonded with you forever, and I will lead these pokemon into battle.
“There is balance in all things, even life.” Mewtwo, or rather Gardevoir, winked at me. “And now it is time to save the world from complete destruction, for we can not rid ourselves of one world or another. The time has come!”
Mewtwo clapped his hands together and a burst of psychic energy came from them, which was evidently a signal to the other legendary pokemon. They flew off towards the rampaging dogs, in an attempt to slow their destruction. I ordered Salamence to fly off in the same direction, but we were very slow compared to them that the battle had begun before we had arrived.
Mewtwo advanced on the Entei. With psychic powers blazing he fell from the sky and shocked the Entei to the ground. It fell with a thud that shook the ground enough that it was visible. It looked as if the beast had died. Before Mewtwo could enjoy his victory however, magma that had overflowed from the ground approached and engulfed the Entei, yearning for Entei’s purifying powers. The lava rejuvenated Entei, and he jumped from the lava only to run again, spreading destruction even more places.
It was then that I realized the three pokemon Entei, Suicune, and Raikou were running all over the globe, and were bringing the world to its knees. Whenever a legendary used an attack that was water, fire, or electricity based, they would follow the dog of that element. Physical attacks were used mainly, but still the elements would rush to aid their purifiers.
I saw the Suicune, racing away in a different direction, pulling lakes and rivers behind it that destroyed a couple of villages. I nudged to Salamence to go into a dive, and we shot towards the ground at a speed that matched Suicune. Eve held tightly around my waist, as this was very terrifying. “Salamence, slash that beast!” I yelled. I gripped a Great ball from my belt. I had a plan, and I hoped it would work.
Salamence’s dive, combined with the strength of his arm, knocked Suicune to the ground. It twitched unexpectedly, as if it was trying to recover from its nerves being shaken up. I threw the Great ball that I was holding at the Suicune. The massive form of Tyranitar appeared.
“Use your earthquake powers!” I yelled to Tyranitar. She nodded conformation and stomped on the ground. An enormous fault popped out of the ground at the incoming waves that were all around. It was to be a barricade.
The waters crashed against the land that had been raised up. Lakes and rivers were being held up by my Tyranitar, just in her mind. However, it was very hard for her to continue. I could see her face was cringing from the weight that she was holding back with her mighty hands and powers.
Then the worse thing happened. The water pushed through the earth that Tyranitar was holding up. The water pushed onto Tyranitar, and I could see the enormous pain that it was in. I called her into her pokeball so that she could be safe.
I looked on helplessly as the water rushed towards the fallen Suicune. I thought all was lost, until I saw something fall from the sky. Two pokemon, blue and red in color, were shooting towards the Suicune as well. I saw Rinoa on the blue one and saw Felix and Espeon on the red one. These were the two pokemon Latias and Latios, the soul masters.
I saw that each of the pokemon held a Soul Dew, the object of calling a soul in or out of a creature. The water was about to touch and revive the fallen pokemon when the two pokemon flew down and touched the pokemon with their Soul Dews. Suicune let out a roar that echoed throughout the earth, and then fell silent. It turned to stone, and the waves which once had so much power just fell lifeless on the ground.
I flew down next to Rinoa with a smile on my face. Espeon jumped off of the Latias and onto Salamence. “Way to go!” I yelled. “We fought them off. Let’s get to the others and save this world from complete destruction.” Rinoa nodded, and with her two new friends she flew off. I could not even keep close to them, but I tried nonetheless. When I realized it was hopeless, I told Espeon to teleport us to them to keep up with them.
The calming of the other pokemon was more or less the same as the Suicune. The legendary pokemon aided in holding off the lightning and magma while Latias and Latios touched their Soul Dews to the fallen pokemon, which were knocked out by the legendaries as well. The legendary birds dive bombed the two pokemon, and once they had fallen the Regis would beat the pokemon and hold off the magma and the lightning. The elements were finally calmed, and the legendary pokemon breathed a sigh of relief.
I heard words in my mind, “It was a beautiful day in the Netherworld.” Mewtwo and Gardevoir said to me. “But it was a horrible day in our world.

Chapter 19: A Ruined Earth.

The Mews that were there used their psychic powers to take the statues together back to the burned down building and put them in their original places. Then, the legendaries gathered together in front of the Regis. They came together and made a revelation, just like they had for me in the Unown Cavern. I saw with them the entire world from space. There were large scars across the earth which the magma, lightning, and water had caused.
I saw my town of Blackthorn with a large slab of magma running through it. I saw the city Sootopolis drowned with water. There were many of the people sitting on rafts that had been made hastily. There were some unknown cities that had scars of where lightning had come through and torn down buildings. It had been the ultimate destruction, one that the world would never forget.
The Regis ended their revelation and walked off. It was amazing how those three titans could move with such large bodies. They headed for the Unown ruins, and they took Jirachi with them. The things that they had shown me were incomprehensible. The world had literally been destroyed.
I turned and looked at the onslaught of legendary pokemon that were in my midst. They had fought a good fight and were extremely tired. Jirachi had fallen asleep again, for waking up so much in the last few years must have been so overbearing that it could not use its full potential powers. I saw Deoxys, who had apparently been learning about human culture from Rayquaza, because it had a human friend with him. I smiled when I saw that it was my very own daughter.
There were other humans among the midst of these awesome creatures. Other than Eve and me, I saw Lance the dragon tamer, as well as Giovonni who was speaking with Mewtwo. A young trainer was standing next to Giovonni who had long red hair. I wondered if this was his son that he had spoken so highly of.
Rinoa was there with Latias and Latios, the Grim Reaper pokemon, who had joined the slew of legendaries. It seemed as if through all of these things that Rinoa and Felix hadn’t changed one bit.
I saw Archie and Maxie there as well; the disturbance had evidently brought them to Ecruteak City. It was amazing how in touch these people were with nature. It was as if they could feel the slightest disturbance in anything that went wrong. They were watching the legendary birds with awe, for the bird’s joyful spirit had come back and they were dancing gracefully through the skies.
It was a sad celebration however. The world had literally been destroyed. The damage that was done would never heal, but we would have to adapt to what had happened and press forward, or we would never be able to truly live. One by one, the legendary pokemon left the sad place where the three beasts were laid to rest.
I turned to Eve, “Well, I think it is time to go home now. We never can really have a vacation as disaster seems to follow us wherever we go.”
She smiled a sad smile, and with that we flew to our home in Blackthorn.
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Everything was a mess. When we arrived we saw that the magma flow ended about halfway through our house. So many priceless things were gone for good, things that we held close to our hearts all those years. Photographs of children growing up and the toys they used to play with were burned down with the rest of the house. It was a very sad sight, to see all that we had built up be taken from us in the blink of an eye. It made me completely depressed just by looking at it.
There was ash and soot everywhere. Smoke was still coming off of the timbers of the house. Many houses looked like this, and the smoke drifted up to the heavens. Eve and I began to look through the debris to see if anything was salvageable.
As we stepped over the rubble of the burnt down house, I stumbled a little. Barely catching myself, I found myself looking at the old picture of Gardevoir and me. I was amazed that it was still there, and that it had survived the fire.
It was then that I realized that it was the doing of Gardevoir herself, and that she had saved that picture just for me. The feelings of depression left me. Homes can be rebuilt, memories can be remade, and my family was safe, that was all that mattered to me. For the first time that entire day, I smiled.
I found a few more things that I had saved scattered around the ruins of the house; torn photographs, a piece of the Ultra Ball which I used to capture Groudon in, and a few of my Gym Badges. These things were so dear to me, and I thanked my guardian angel Gardevoir for saving them for me. I picked up my few treasures and placed them in my jacket where I had held Gardevoir so long ago, near to my heart.
Eve had found a few items that were precious to her as well, and we showed the things which we had found to each other. She had found her old glasses that she had when she first met me, some pages from her favorite books, and an old photograph of her parents. I put my arm around her and just felt great that the biggest treasure that I had in the world was completely unharmed.
She fingered a small paper in her hands. I took it from her gently, and found out that it was a poem that she had written after the incident with Ho-oh and Lugia, but it applied more to this circumstance than that one had. I read it out loud.

When Everything Goes Wrong
When a sailor is upon the sea,
There is nothing that he fears,
Even when the ocean roars,
He stares back and he sneers.

Yet when the waters take his boat,
And pull it beneath the waves,
He does not swim or flee away,
But with the boat he stays.

And so it is with life and love,
And friendship in every way,
We must stay strong, we must go on,
And work hard day to day.

For a sailor can’t live without his ship,
Or we without our friends,
We must keep our honor strong,
And stay together until the end.

For we must do all that we can,
When we feel we do not belong,
For a true man is the one who can smile,
When Everything Goes Wrong.

The poem brought tears to my eyes. It was so true, that we must work together no matter what had happened. What else could we do? We had to move on and smile while we did it, for how else could we rise as a people. And with that I helped Eve up and we began to clean the wreckage.

Chapter 20: Celebi’s Future
Blackthorn Falls, July 10, 7:30 P.M.

Here I was, sitting on the hill on which my life as a pokemon master had begun, right next to the falls that were crashing on the rocks below. Eve was sitting right next to me. We had cleaned up the most of the rubble that remained of our house, but the town was still recouping from the intensity that the magma had brought upon them. As we looked out towards the town, I spoke to Eve.
“Eve,” I said, “It’s amazing, all of the things that we have been through, all the ups and downs, we have come to be better friends. And even though we have all of this destruction to still recover from, with a little hard work we will move onward. It’s the mission of the human race, no matter how hard we are suppressed; we always manage to come back out on top.”
Eve smiled. “Spoken by a true genius,” she said. I put my arm around her and we started to watch the sun set. As it lowered beneath the horizon, the sky did not get dark. This is unusual, I thought. All of a sudden, I saw Eve look straight up and gasp. My eyes followed her gaze, and I saw an amazing sight.
There were two pokemon descending from the sky. One I recognized as the legendary Ho-oh, burning brighter than when I saw it at its roost in Ecruteak. The other was a small green pokemon that I had never seen in real life, but had seen in sketches and ancient rock paintings. It was called Celebi, the pokemon of time.
Ho-oh unfurled its wings and stretched out wide. Every color of the rainbow was seen in its wings, and they flowed from its body out, and it was truly a spectacular sight. The entire valley was lit up, and the falls looked like a rainbow themselves because of the immensity of light which was shown everywhere. The light was so brilliant and so perfect that it struck the very fibers of the human heart and filled the soul with joy and true happiness that words could not describe.
Then something that I would have never imagined happened. The colors in the air and the fire in the sky all came together towards Ho-oh. The came together in a burning ball of energy, and it all disappeared in an instant, and Ho-oh was gone. All that remained was ash, and it rained upon the ground in a small cluster. Looking at the ash, I saw a small bird stick its head out, and flutter off.
I had only heard of this experience happening. There were magnificent trainers that were truly good and loved by all people and pokemon alike, and when they had reached the point of excellence, Ho-oh would appear before them and show them its true colors, then die and become reborn. I was honored to see Ho-oh in all of its glory, and was pleased that it would come to me for this blessed experience.
The remaining pokemon, Celebi, came down towards us. It smiled, and then lifted us off the ground with its psychic powers. When Eve and I had floated up next to the legendary pokemon, it grasped our hands and I saw the world begin to speed up, as if someone pressed fast forward on time.
All at once I saw buildings everywhere in Blackthorn leap from the ground. The city was back, and was looking better than when it was destroyed. I saw other cities all rebuild themselves as if it was by magic. I saw cities expand and technology increase. When time stopped, we were thousands of years in the future, and the destruction which we had been so concerned with was completely forgotten.
Celebi froze time and began to show us the entire world. Life seemed so different, since everything Eve and I had been familiar with was now long gone. We looked at cities the size of mountains, and saw the changes in the terrain. Eve and I were amazed that the world was able to recoup from such a disaster. The land had been altered just a little; I saw the continents were farther apart that they had been. People and pokemon lived in harmony with each other, and the world was all but perfect.
The voice of Celebi came into my mind. “This is the future which you have built up. Your good friend Mewtwo saw this. Without the destruction that you unleashed, the world would have taken a different turn...” I saw the world swirl around us and then beheld a world of complete destruction. “It is amazing how the small actions which take place in a short amount of time can be the deciding point of the entire future. Your heroics and power were the focal point of these two worlds.”
I looked again and saw hollowed out buildings from what looked like an all out war between humans and pokemon which had left all dead. Celebi spoke to me again. “People will scoff and blame you for the destruction which has happened in their time, but that doesn’t matter, because now you know that your action and your action alone were what changed the future from absolute destruction to a world of peace and tranquility.”
Then everything disappeared from view and the world that we knew came back into place. The psychic powers that held us brought us down to the ground gently. Celebi smiled at us, and then flew off. I turned and looked at Eve, and we both smiled. The experience was something that we would keep to ourselves, and not share with anyone, not even our beloved children.

Chapter 21: Epilogue
Blackthorn City, February 28, 6:30 P.M., Seventy years later.

“Well, that’s the majority of it,” a slender young man said to a group of movers. “Grandfather would be sorry to see that we sold his old house, but we need the money now more than ever, and Blackthorn is prime real estate.”
The walls of the ancient house were bare and the rooms empty. Darren Diamond’s grandson walked through the hallway, checking each room to make sure that it was empty. Coming to the last room at the end of the hall, he reached his grandfather’s bedroom. He stepped inside, looking for anything that had been missed.
Upon entering, the grandson saw the place where the bed once was; it had left marks on the wall and in the floor. Rain pattered on the window outside, and every once and a while a lightning flash would illuminate the room. Just before the grandson turned to go, a bolt of lightning struck and the whole room lit up, and he saw what looked like a small “G” on the wall.
The grandson was stunned. He walked up to the wall and sure enough, there was a letter on the wall. He touched it with his right hand, and a small door opened up in the wall. Upon looking inside, the grandson saw a ton of papers, badges, and awards. There were writings and newspaper clippings scattered throughout the small closet. And in front of it all was a thin black book with the letters JOURNAL across the top. The grandson extracted the journal and opened to the first page. He gasped when he saw that it was the property of his grandfather who had died two years ago, the one he had not known very well.
The beginning of his book was simple enough, just telling the reader that the words that he wrote were true and that if someone were to read the book, they could benefit from it. The grandson turned the pages of this small book and saw amazing pictures of legendary pokemon such as Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi. This is beyond belief, the grandson thought as he saw a lovely picture of a Gardevoir holding hands with a pokemon he had never seen before, but looked deformed and repulsive. Many chapters were in this journal, each telling of significant events that Darren Diamond had experienced in his life.
The grandson spent hours sitting in his grandfather’s bedroom reading the small book. After a while, he reached the end when Celebi had shown Darren the future. A small tear trickled down the grandson’s face as he realized that his grandfather was a hero, a master of pokemon, something that he had always wanted to achieve, but had never been able to. He finally reached the last page, which struck him the deepest. It read:

How My Life Has Changed Me
I will not pretend to say that my life was at all easy for me. In fact, it was more difficult than the lives of many I have come in contact with throughout my life. I have, however, had my beautiful wife Eve to aid and comfort me ever since the day that I had met her. I have also had the help of my beloved Gardevoir who softened my soul when I was angry, who lifted me up when I was down, and who gave her very life so as to save mine. I think that the only way that I could have achieved my destiny in life without these two important figures to help me whenever I needed them.
Yet, if you have read through the experiences that I have had in my life, you will understand that I had a destiny so large and so grand. I had saved the world from destruction in more than two ways; I saved the present and I saved the future. But now I wonder what I should do now that I have accomplished my destiny. It seems as if my life is now just low key, slow and unmoving, like a stagnant lake. I feel as if there is no more purpose in life other than my duty to Eve to remain her husband until we part. And life is sad now, nothing to do now except for to think of what I had done in my life. I am not ashamed of anything that I have done in my life, and am proud of the things that I have done, but I know now that soon I will have to lie down and never arise. I believe that my Gardevoir will be there to carry me to the place that she called the Netherworld.
It has been very trying after I had “saved the world”. I have had to bury all of my pokemon save Gengar, who I released into the wild to search for another trainer. Every time my thoughts drift to my Salamence, Gyarados, Espeon, and Tyranitar, a tear comes to my eye. They’re buried in all parts of the world, the places that they liked the best, and it was all I could do to send them off with my love. It is only Eve and I that remain.
The words that I have written may seem impossible. Honestly, I wouldn’t believe them myself if I found them, but there is proof. If you are ever to stumble across the clone pokemon Mewtwo, ask him about the one called Darren Diamond and the works that he did. Gardevoir is a part of Mewtwo now, and still keeps in contact with me from time to time, and I am sure that will not change when I am in the Netherworld.
And now to the reader of this small note, I ask you to keep this journal and the papers that accompany it and treasure them. Show them to the world so that they can know that the world they live in is now safe, and that even though things might come to pass that seem overwhelming, they should know that it will all be for a greater good. I leave my words with you.

D.D.

The grandson was shocked in the things that he had read. His grandfather had been a hero, and had lived a hero’s life. From the little that he knew about him he had thought him to be a boring old man, but now he greatly respected him as a friend that he never knew.
The grandson emptied the small compartment of all the small papers and books and put them under his arm. He clutched the journal with his right hand, and slowly walked out of the room, turning the light off behind him. He was reverent, for he knew that the walls of this ancient house once harbored the most heroic man of all time, Darren Diamond. He slowly walked out of the house.
A beautiful young woman was waiting for him, and the rain had just lifted. A beam of light poured down upon the house and made the grandson feel more respect for his grandfather. The young woman asked, “What took you so long? You were in there forever!”
The grandson smiled. He held up the journal to show her, and as he did, he looked towards the sky. For just a second he thought he saw something that looked like a picture in the journal in the sky, and then it was gone. Could it have been this legendary Mewtwo? the grandson thought as he got into the car with the young woman. Maybe what his grandfather wrote was true. As the car sped off into the distance, the beam of light on the house faded, and the rain came swiftly back. The house groaned as if under some enormous weight, for it no longer held a hero or the descendant of one.
“It is done,” Mewtwo said as he alighted upon the roof of the old house, and with that, the house collapsed to the ground. He took one final look at the wreckage, and then flew off into the distance.
THE END

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Week 5:Froslass

jedirules — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:38:17 CDT

After a long vacation I finally added week 5. Froslass. This is my new favorite pokemon and also the only Ice/Ghost type pokemon. When a Female Snorunt Comes across a Dawn Stone it evolves into one of the most awesome pokemon ever!

Type: Ice - Ghost
Species: Snow Land
Height: 4'03"Ft.(1.3m)
Weight: 58.6lbs. (26.6kg)
Ability: Snow Cloak

Pokedex Entries

Diamond and Pearl: It freezes foes with an icy breath nearly -60 degrees F. What seems to be its body is actually hollow.

Sprites

Diamond and Pearl

Front Back

Front(Shiny) Back(Shiny)

Other

Week 4:Weavile

jedirules — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:37:05 CDT

For week four we have Weavile!
Weavile has three claws on each paw, unlike it pre-evolved form, Sneasel, which only had two.
Weavile's appearance looks like that of a bluish-black bipedal feline, clad in a bright red crown, and collar. Weavile has two tails, instead of three like its pre-evolved form. But like Sneasel, it seems to look a little feminine due to its body and the "eyelashes" on its eyes.

Type: Dark/Ice
Species: Sharp Claw
Height: 3'07"(1.1m)
Weight: 75.0 lbs. (34.0kg)
Ability: Pressure
Gender Differences: A female Weavile has smaller ear feathers than a male.

Pokedex Entries

Diamond: They live in cold regions forming groups of four or five that hunt prey with impressive coordination.

Pearl: It sends signals to others by carving odd patterns in frost-covered trees and ice.

Evolution

Basic Level up with Razor claw at night

Sneasel Weavile

Sprites

Diamond and Pearl Back

Other

Week 3: Tyranitar

jedirules — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:36:08 CDT

Its penchant for shattering the countryside is similar to that of the Tarasque. It also vaguely resembles Godzilla.

Type: Rock/ Dark
Species: Armor
Height: 6' 07"(2.0m)
Weight: 445.3 lbs(202.0kg)
Ability: Sand Stream

Tyranitar is a large, green, reptilian Pokémon. Tyranitar appears to have spikes near the end of its tail with the tip of the tail itself being segmented. Tyranitar's feet and hands each have three claws on them. Tyranitar has a blue rhombus on its chest and has two rows of green spikes running down its back. There are black, triangular holes on Tyranitar's knees, chest and back. Because of its Dark sub-type, Tyranitar are insolent and selfishly uncaring towards others. They are extremely strong, and their thick, rocky hides give them a good resistance. Because of this, they are always looking forward for a battle, and will not flinch at anything. If enraged, Tyranitar sets off outstanding earthquakes that can completely change the entire landscape, often representing a major headache for cartographers causing them to redraw maps.

Pokedex Entries:

Gold:Its body can't be harmed by any sort of attack, so it is very eager to make challenges against enemies.

Silver:Extremely strong, it can change the landscape. It has an insolent nature that makes it not care about others.

Crystal:In just one of its mighty hands, it has the power to make the ground shake and mountains crumble.

Stadium 2:Its body can't be harmed by any sort of attack, so it is very eager to make challenges against enemies.

Ruby & Sapphire:Tyranitar is so overwhelmingly powerful, it can bring down a whole mountain to make its nest. This Pokémon wanders about in mountains seeking new opponents to fight.

Emerald:A Tyranitar is so overwhelmingly powerful, it can bring down a whole mountain to make its nest. It roams in mountains seeking new opponents to fight.

Firered:Extremely strong, it can change the landscape. It has an insolent nature that makes it not care about others.

Leafgreen:Its body can't be harmed by any sort of attack, so it is very eager to make challenges against enemies.

Diamond & Pearl:If it rampages, it knocks down mountains and buries rivers. Maps must be redrawn afterward.

Evolution:

Basic Level 30 Level 55

Larvitar Pupitar Tyranitar

Sprites

Gold Silver Back

Shinies
Emerald
Front Back

Diamond and Pearl
Shiny Front Back Normal

Trozei

Other