Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, and I do not plan to. This story plot was all made up by me, but the Pokemon characters (like, species) are all to Nintendo.

Shadow Fight

Chapter One: The Missing Alakazam

Silver flew with amazing speed to the forest of Ilex. It was the annual Legendary Conference, and she was about to be late. Picking up speed, she collided with another whizzing Pokémon.

"Wha!" Silver cried out in surprise. The other Pokémon looked up after rubbing its head. "Oh, so sorry!" Silver stammered.

"It's alright!" said the pink Pokémon. "I was just checking if there was anyone else coming in. Oh! Silver! It's you!"

"Ah…Mew. It's nice to see you again. Is everybody already there? Am I late?" Silver asked.

"No, you're just in time. We need to wait for Alakazam, though. He's not here yet, apparently."

"Poor old dear. He is VERY old, but so intelligent. Let's make our way in." With that, the two Pokémon neared the small stone shrine. A Houndoom stood at the entrance, keeping an eye out for other Pokémon. Nodding to Silver and Mew, the Houndoom stepped aside to give them access to the door.

Silver and Mew pulled a feather and whisker respectively, and pushed it against the door. It glowed with bright intensity, and soon, the two legendaries were sucked into the mysterious green vortex.

Blinking her eyes to get used to the bright light compared to the dark shadows of the trees in the Ilex forest, Silver looked around. Indeed, all the legendaries of their time were there. There was a long table in the middle of what seemed to be a hall, and legendaries of all kinds were seated, eating an assortment of wild berries.

From Silver's view, the right side of the hall were filled with Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Suicune, Raikou, Entei, Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Manaphy, Phione, Azelf, Mesprit, Uxie, Heatran, Giratina, Cresselia and Shaymin.

On the left side of the hall, there were Mewtwo, Ho-oh, Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Latios, Latias, Jirachi, Deoxys, Dialga, Palkia, Darkrai, Regigigas, and Arceus. At the very end of the table sat a tired and worried Celebi. Celebi was the organizer of every year's Conference, having the shrine a great, secretive place to hold their conversations.

Leaving Mew, who was already sitting and chatting with the other legendaries, Silver glided past the crowd of Pokémon to get to Celebi. She called out: "Hey Celebi!"

Looking up, Celebi smiled at Silver and made her way over to her. "How are you, my friend?"

"I'm perfectly fine; though I see you look a little worried. What's wrong?"

Celebi sighed, and replied, "Alakazam is missing."

Silver looked at her in shock. "Alakazam…Missing?! I know he's old…but he's too smart to get lost. He has been here since…what? Two centuries ago?"

"Yes," Celebi muttered. "We have a feeling he has been killed."

"WHAT?!" Silver cried in utter shock.

"Keep it down, Silver. I know it's a big loss, to the legendaries, the Conference, and even the other Pokémon. But, in order to continue to Conference, we still need another Alakazam to assist us. We still need someone to remember our conversations." Celebi looked weary at mentioning this. "There's no one we know that well that actually would be willing to lend their Alakazam to us, be it trainer or friend."

Silver smiled a little. "I think my sister can help. She has befriended and caught an Alakazam."

Celebi's eyes practically lit up in delight. "Really? Would she be willing to help us?"

"Very." Silver replied. "She's a legendary herself, even though she doesn't come to the annual Conferences. Do you want me to fetch her now?"

"Yes, indeed. We need Alakazam in order to start this year's Conference. Please, go now!"

Silver nodded, and made her way to the door. Appearing so suddenly, the Houndoom jumped back in surprise as Silver made her way out. Facing the Houndoom, she asked, "You're Hellfire, right?"

The Houndoom nodded. "Are you looking for Shadow?"

"Yeah. I need to ask her to borrow Lazam. D'you have an idea of where she is? I left in a hurry, so I didn't take account of where she was going."

"Wait. We'll play messenger. If this works, Lazam will come in her Pokéball." Hellfire faced the forest and howled a name. "Nocturnaaaaa!"

There was a very faint sound of a breeze, and soon, the Noctowl that Hellfire called came swooping down silently. "Yes, Hellfire? What is it now?"

"Mistress's sister needs Lazam. Tell Shadow and bring Lazam over in her Pokéball."

"Alright. Let's hope Shadow doesn't mind." Turning her head ridiculously, Nocturna flew off into the night.

"Here." Silver said, plucking out two feathers. "Keep one under your tongue. Give it to Lazam when she gets here. Thanks for your help." Taking the other feather, Silver went back through the portal to the Conference Hall.

While Silver was inside munching away on some delicious, fresh Oran berries, outside, Nocturna had come back, with a Pokéball clutched tightly in her talons. Dropping the Pokéball with great accuracy, it bounced onto Hellfire's head, and in flashes of red, Lazam came out just to see Hellfire using Flamethrower in Nocturna.

"What was that for, bird-brain?!" Hellfire growled.

"For commanding me as if I was your personal servant and messenger. Seriously. And I just couldn't help dropping the damn Pokéball onto your head." Nocturna hooted in delight as she swooped up and down, narrowly missing every Flamethrower sent her way.

"Hellfire. Nocturna. Stop." Lazam said in a mystical leader-like voice. Immediately, as if they were afraid of the Alakazam for a brief moment, the two fighting Pokémon paused and looked at her. "Where's the feather, Hellfire?" Lazam asked calmly.

Hellfire gagged, and spat out something silvery. Nocturna had backed away in disgust, for the spit was aimed slightly at her. "There." Hellfire panted, trying to remove the rest of the feather from underneath his tongue.

"I'll take that." Said Lazam, and using Confusion, she picked it up and walked over to the shrine door. Pressing the feather against the rotting wood with her telekinesis, there was a green flash before Lazam had left for the Conference Hall.

Still outside the shrine doors, Hellfire and Nocturna continued to glare at each other.

A/N : This is my first fanfiction on Pokemon. I have never written stories for stuff like this, so if it's horrible, that's perfectly fine with me, as long as I can improve. If you want to, please review, for I want to see how many people bother reading new work. Then I'll move onto uploading the next chapter. If I didn't say so already in the story, Silver is a Lugia. And yes, they do have genders. Thank you for reading!