I'm excited to announce the collaboration of one of my favorite Pokémon movies. I will tell you right now that we are talking about Troy's journey. It's not as easy as you think. We've got to sort some things about a few of the characters. I am collaborating with the writer who adopted my OCs: LEGAL-EAGLE53/QUEENSPELLER67.
We've agreed to do a character guide and we're not listing the movie characters because that's obvious. Also, because the rewrite of the anime (featuring Troy) is in the works (and I haven't forgotten that. I just finished my Digimon story, Free As A Bird), the attire hasn't changed for the characters. Not in the Orange Islands, anyway. We have the characters and their ages.
Queen/Legal: Troy's journey (the one he goes on before he meets Ash) will be on my profile. The anime rewrite (at least the Kanto episodes) will be on MDL96's profile.
MDL96: I will be bringing back the Kanto journey story that I had deleted before. I had a little trouble figuring out the appropriate way to continue on with it but me and Queen will work together on that.
Character guide:
Ash Ketchum (age: 11)
Misty Waterflower (age: 11)
Troy Black (age: 19)
Tracey Sketchit (age: 15)
Expect some major changes as we rewrite each of the movies up until the Sinnoh saga. For now, enjoy our retelling of the Power of One.
Deep in the heart of the Orange Archipelago, surrounding the island of Shamouti, are the three legendary islands that are home to the three great birds: Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno. The three islands, named after the type that is associated with each bird, are said to be the meeting place of the world's ocean currents. Each legendary bird acts as a counteraction to the other, maintaining harmony and balance in the world.
Nevertheless, there is a prophecy that warns against disturbing the harmony of these three islands.
Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, or lightning
Lest these titans reek destruction upon the world in which they clash
Though the water's great guardian will arise to quell the fighting, alone its song will fail
Thus the earth shall turn to ash.
O Chosen One, into thine hands bring together all three
Their treasures combined tame the beast of the sea.
"Now it begins." A male voice mutters.
The face of the man belonging to the voice curves his mouth in an amused smile, like he will enjoy what is about to happen. The man's name is Lawrence. Lawrence III, after his father and grandfather. Lawrence is a man of quality and taste, having devoted his entire life's work to capturing and collecting rare Pokémon. Due to this obsession, he has amassed a great deal of wealth and is currently standing in his ship over the Orange Islands, on his way to the Shamouti area.
From first glance, Lawrence looks like a charming, articulate man with an easy smile, soft eyes, and dark blonde hair that looks almost green and an earring lying in each ear. Beneath this charming demeanor, however, lies a ruthless, driven man who will stop at nothing to achieve whatever goal lies in front of him. Ever since he collected his first Pokémon card, a Mew, Lawrence made it his mission to collect as many rare Pokémon as he could. While he certainly had quite a collection, he feels as though it would be incomplete without the titans of fire, ice, and lightning, but especially the beast of the sea. That is the prize he seeks.
As he reads the tablet underneath the glass case in front of him with the famed Chosen One prophecy, he hears an alarm go off. He snaps out from his thoughts in curiosity, wondering what could have caused the alarm to go off.
"Analysis indicates that the titan of fire referred to in the ancient inscription is the legendary Pokémon Moltres, believed to have originated in a remote region of the Orange Islands," a female computer voice speaks to him. Holograms of the three birds are shown as they are described. "The titan of lightning is the Pokémon, Zapdos, and Articuno is the titan of ice. Historical documents confirm that the three legendary Pokémon are unique species found in the vicinity of Shamouti Island."
Lawrence moves towards the chair in the center of the room and sits down. A map of the Shamouti Island area is displayed on the computer screen in front of him, highlighting the three surrounding islands in the respective color of the legendary Pokémon associated with the island. Fire Island is red, Lightning Island, yellow, and Ice Island is blue. Either of the three birds would make a fine addition to his collection but he has bigger fish to fry.
He moves a switch on the armrest upward, causing the chair to rise up into the ceiling, painted like the Sistine Chapel, and into the observation area of his ship.
"Which one is nearest?" He asks his computer.
"The fire Pokémon, Moltres." It replies.
Looking out the grand windows, he gets a view of the clear blue skies, sunshine, the miles and miles of ocean, and especially the islands that housed his targets. A chessboard is now displayed on the computer screen this time, showing Moltres where the king would usually be in a real game of chess.
Lawrence chuckles. "The chase is on."
At the bottom of the ship, shots were fired from the guns. The shots immediately freeze upon impact on the ground, making the island start to look like an iceberg. Underneath all of the ice, a flash of red made its presence known. Flame burst out of a cave and a flash of cream and red flies out of it. It is Moltres, the legendary fire Pokémon whose flame is used to light the Pokémon League torch.
Lawrence smiles as he sees the Pokémon flying towards the ship. He continued firing blasts to occupy Moltres. It dodges many blasts but is hit by several as well. Once he feels like he has Moltres weakened, Lawrence flips a switch opening the underbelly of the ship. Dark rings fly out from it towards the legendary Pokémon, who manages to dodge the initial wave that comes its way but is unable to dodge them all and is captured. With their mission accomplished, the rings return to the underbelly of the ship.
Lawrence smiles in accomplishment. Moltres now belongs to him. On the digital chessboard, the representation of Moltres disappears. Representations of Zapdos and Articuno then pop up on the board as he prepares for his greatest conquest.
"Bring together all three," he says to himself. "Their treasures combined tame the beast of the sea…Lugia."
On a bright, clear day, our heroes are navigating the Orange Islands by boat on their journey through the archipelago. Pikachu sits on the metal railing of the bow in front of the boat, looking out at the miles of ocean that stretched as far as the eye could see. Behind him, a Lucario is meditating on the floor. Lucario breathes quietly as he feels the balmy breezes blowing against him and hears the sounds of the ocean waves rocking the boat.
In front of the galley window sits Pokémon watcher, and new member of Ash's travel team, Tracey Sketchit. Tracey is sketching something in a notebook, possibly Pikachu and Lucario. As a Pokémon watcher, Tracey observes Pokémon and even sketches them in their natural environment. He is a quiet and reserved young man of fifteen, long dark green hair with a red sweatband around his forehead, a shirt of an equal shade of green, red cargo pants, and blue shoes. His eyes are a light brown and emit the quiet kindness that suits his personality.
At the back of the boat is the rest of Team Ketchum. The fiery, red-haired former gym leader of Cerulean City, Misty, who is looking out at the sea with a Togepi in her arms. Beside her is the leader of the group himself, Ash Ketchum, aspiring Pokémon Master. He also is looking out at the sea after having woke up from a short nap a short time ago. He stretches his arms as he lets out a yawn.
"It's a nice day," he says.
"It sure is beautiful," replies Misty as she turns to the Pokémon in her arms. "Right, Togepi?" She coos at it. Togepi replied back happily.
Light snoring can be heard from behind them. Ash turns to see the other member of their group, former Kanto champion and his mentor, Troy Black, still sleeping. Troy's long dark brown hair is sprawled across a makeshift pillow made from a pile of rope, his muscled, tattooed arms displayed in the sunlight due to the black tank top he wears. He also wears tan capris and grey Vans sneakers. A necklace with a symbol wraps around his neck and his silver wristwatch lays on his left wrist.
"Troy, wake up," he gently says as he shakes Troy to try and wake him up.
"Five more minutes, Mom," Troy moans as he moves to his other side. He ends up falling off the rope and hitting his head on the hard ground of the boat. He lets out an 'ow' in pain before sitting up and opening his eyes, which were a forest green. He gives Ash a dirty look that says 'how dare you interrupt my nap' while Misty giggles at his misfortune.
"Are we at the next island already?" he asks, thinking that was the reason why he was awoken. He shakes his head free of the metaphorical cobwebs in his head from the long nap.
"Not quite," replies Ash. "We will be soon though so I wanted to wake you up."
Upon hearing that explanation, Troy lays his head back down on the rope.
"Then I'm going back to sleep," he says, turning away from them and closing his eyes.
Ash gives Misty a mischievous look. She nods, knowing what he wants her to do. She takes out her Staryu's Poké Ball and releases the starfish Pokémon quietly.
"Staryu, use Water Gun on Troy," she whispers, giggling slightly at what was about to happen. Ash also cracks a grin, knowing that this was going to be funny.
Staryu does as commanded and blasts the stream of water towards Troy. He wakes up almost immediately and cries for Misty to stop the attack as he becomes drenched with water.
"Alright, I'm up! I'm up!"
"Ok, Staryu. That's enough." She smiles, returning it to its Poké Ball.
Troy stands up and glares at the two of them, water dripping from his hair and creating a dark spot on his clothing that looked like he had jumped into the water (which, if you asked Ash and Misty, would have been plan B if he had slept through Staryu's Water Gun). He puts his arms down on the side railing of the boat and looks out at the ocean with them.
"I'm getting old, kids," he groans. "I need my naps otherwise I get cranky."
Misty lays a hand on his broad shoulder. "Oh stop it," she chuckles. "You're only nineteen. You're not old."
"I'm older than you kids are," he points out. Despite his annoyance, a smile begins to work its way onto his handsome face. A chuckle soon escapes his lips as well. The three of them look to see Tracey begin to join them.
"Hey, Ash," he says. "Do you think we have enough time to give the Pokémon some fresh air?"
"Sure, Tracey," a female voice above them says. They all turn to see the boat's navigator, Maren. She was a beautiful young women with green hair that stuck out the front of her black backwards hat, wearing an orange and blue jacket, pants and a red t-shirt.
"It'll take about an hour to get to the next island," she explained. "There's plenty of time."
Hearing this, Ash immediately plucked a Poké Ball off of his belt and enlarged it with enthusiasm.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" he asks, before throwing it into the air.
Soon after, all the other Pokémon were either on the boat or in the sea. Ash wanted to bring out Charizard and Snorlax but they were too heavy for the boat so they had to be called back. Troy's Gengar was brought out and immediately starts doing everything to disrupt Lucario's meditation, including trying to scare him and poke him in the side. Lucario did everything in his power not to strangle the ghost Pokémon, even with a nerve bulging in his temple and his anger quickly rising. Ash's Squirtle even got in on the action by lightly "squirting" Lucario's face.
"Do that one more time and you're dead," growls Lucario before settling back into his meditation.
Gengar mischievously grins at Squirtle, nodding approvingly for him to keep doing it. Squirtle flashes a thumbs up and this time lets loose a full-fledged Water Gun at Lucario. They both double over in laughter at their handiwork, ending up on their backs and tears flowing out of their eyes.
A growl interrupts their laughter. Gengar and Squirtle look to see Lucario's face turn completely red, despite his black and blue face. His red eyes were almost blood red now and his paws were clenched in fists, his teeth bared.
"You two are dead!" he roars. "Come here!"
"Run, Squirtle!" Gengar cries as he and Squirtle run to the back of the ship with Lucario tailing right behind them.
"Lucario's mad, Gengar!" Squirtle cries.
"I'm well aware of that, Squirtle." Gengar says before disappearing to try and escape his teammate's wrath. Squirtle looks around helplessly, realizing that he's alone now.
"Gengar!" He cries as Lucario rounds the corner and moves in for the kill. Troy thankfully comes to his rescue by stepping in front of Lucario.
"Lucario, that's enough," he says sternly. "Go back and meditate. They're just having fun."
"Yeah, at my expense," Lucario protests but Troy cuts him off.
"I don't want to hear it, Lucario. Meditate, now."
Cursing under his breath, Lucario moves back to the bow of the ship so he can sit down and meditate again. He moves past Tracey's Marill, Venonat, and Scyther, who are enjoying the nice weather too.
Just as he is about to be comfortable, the sea quickly turns violent without warning. The sky turns dark and everyone is doing everything they can to keep themselves from falling off the boat. Ash and Misty recall their sea Pokémon while Tracey manages to recall Scyther and Venonat.
Maren does everything she can to keep the boat on course but even she is no match for the violent crashing of the waves. They soon find themselves pushed away from the island where they were supposed to be heading towards. After a few more agonizing and tense minutes, the sea finally calms down.
Seeing land ahead, Maren recognized it in a heartbeat.
"We're way off course," she says.
The other members of the party gasp in confusion.
"What do you mean we're off course?" Troy asks.
Maren points to the island up ahead.
"That's Shamouti," she replies. "We're right in the middle of the Orange Islands."
Guided by a large school of Magikarp, the boat made its way into the bay of Shamouti Island, where adventure seemed to be calling them. Little does the group suspect that this will be their greatest adventure yet.
So that is the end of chapter one. Work on chapter 2 is already commencing as we speak. Once again, this is a collaboration between myself and QUEENSPELLER67. Hope you guys are enjoying the story so far. Leave a review with your thoughts as the story progresses.