Ray leaned on the hand rail that kept him from falling overboard and looked at the buildings rising over the edge of the sea. He had left Pacifidlog town a week and a half ago a day after his fifteenth birthday to start his pokemon journey. The boat his grandparents had put him on was headed to the busy port city of Slateport. When Slateport came into view Ray was amazed. Pacifidlog was a small town with the biggest buildings being only two stories, but the buildings he saw now made those old two stories seem tiny. The boat neared the dock and dozens of Wingulls flew of their perches and they began to call to each other. ray instinctually knew they were talking about the new arrivals to the city. As long as he could remember he was always able to understand pokemon but when he tried to tell people they hardly ever believed him so he had given up. The boat captain, a man named Tyson, came down and tied a rope connected to the wharf and Ray jumped off the boat and onto the dock. A dark haired tan manwho was about 5'7 walked by and Ray asked him for directions to the pokemon center. The man quickly responded"yeah you go down this dock to the street then you go three blocks right and your there". Ray quickly gave a thank you and ran up the dock towards the street.
Ray walked past a sign talking about a pastrie shop next to the pokemon center when he bumped into a white haired girl. "I'm sorry I didn't see you there" he looked at the girl and was surprised. She was slightly taller then his 5'4, was wearing a plain white dress and had rainbow colored eyes. "Its ok its my fault I should have watched where I was going"she said calmly. "Its ok My names Ray. whats yours?" The girl quickly smiled."My names Arceus." Ray quickly nodded and walked past her then turned to ask her her last name. When he looked back she was gone like she had vanished into thin air. "Wierd" he thought then continued into the pokemon center. He saw plenty of people with pokemon, he saw poochyenas, oddish, zigzagoon, he even saw a boy with a pichaku on his shoulder. He was amazed by all the different pokemon he saw and looked down at his own pokeball on his belt. In that pokeball was a carvanha that he had helped escape from some tentacruel who were bullying it. After that they had become good friends and he had named the carvanha Chomp because he loved to bite playfully. Back at Pacifidlog he and Chomp had swam in the ocean near the island where the Sky tower was. Supposedly when it wasn't flying around the world the legendary pokemon Rayquaza lived at the top of the tower.
Ray was thinking back to those times when the nurse walked up to him." Hello can I help you" Ray fell over backward from the surprise and Nurse Joy began to laugh. He quickly asked where the phones were and nurse Joy led him to the far right corner where he saw a transportation machine for pokeballs and the tv phones. He quickly thanked the nurse and called his grandparents to tell them he got to Slateport safely. They quickly made him promise them to be safe and careful. After Ray hung up nurse Joy walked up to tell him something. "Are you Ray and if so Prof. Birch wants to talk to you. She gave him the professors number and went back to her desk.
Arceus was standing by a stone table big enough to reach her was in her apoth form. Across from her sat a emerald haired man wearing nothing but green pants and a green vest. Glowing lines and circles covered his body like tattos. She . Here in front of her was the lord of the Sky himself. Rayquaza. He floated a few inches above his chair and sighed like he was about to talk. All eyes turned towards him from Lugia all the way to Giratina. "So what did you call us for because its not even the beginning of the month." The other legendaries spoke their agreement. Arceus shook her head" Rayquaza I called you only. I didn't call the other, they came because they sensed us meeting so the rest of you leave"! All of them but Rayquaza grumbled and teleported back to their own regions. Arceus looked at her brother. She may have been the pokemon goddess but he was nearly as old as her and he was certainly almost as strong. She smiled"Now lets talk about Ray". Her brothers eyes widened in surprise then his pupils became thin like a snakes.
"Ray its nice to meet you at last. I was hoping we could meet face to face but I'm afraid I couldn't leave the lab". Ray listened while the professor explained why he couldn't meet him. "I know you were looking forward to getting your starter pokemon but we recently got a rare pokemon in and we rushed to study it. Well I guess you could come to little root town then start on your journey if that fine with you". Ray quickly jumped at the oppurtunity to travel to the professors lab to get his starter. On the screen Birch began to smile and snicker. "Well Ray I'm gonna send you the Treecko so you could get to known him". Ray began to hop in excitement at meeting his first pokemon. The teleportation system flashed on and there in the recieving container was the pokeball. Ray picked it up and attached it to his belt."Thanks Proffesor and I'll see you soon". He turned off the phone and ran out of the pokemon center after getting a Pokenav from nurse Joy to help him find his way to Little root town.
3 Days later
Ray was mad, hungry and about to scream. First off after his first night when he went to sleep a Slaking had come out of the forest and eaten most of his food. Second he and Treecko who he had named Meko after they had become friends, had fallen down a cliff and Ray had nearly lost all of his pokeballs. Thirdly the Slakings Vigoroth underlings kept throwing fruit at him and Meko for hoots. They would wait a while in between strikes then when he came around the bend in the road they would swoop down from the trees dropping berries like they were bombs from a plane. Worse off he was lost. The silver haired teenager walked through the parched forest. A vigoroth jumped down from the trees and began to throw fruit everywhere. Meko jumped off Rays shoulder and used Razor Leaf on vigoroth. With the attack hitting him in the face the vigoroth called out and was answered by a loud roar.
Out of the trees a giant fist smacked Meko into a nearby tree. "Meko no" Ray turned to Slaking and saw the giant gorilla like pokemon running towards Meko. Slaking hit Meko over and over again and Ray wasn't able to help because 3 vigoroths had landed in front of him to keep him from messing with their leader. As Meko got beaten more and more Ray felt anger well up inside him. With that anger came energy from deep inside him. Ray opened his mouth to shout but instead of noise a blue stream of energy came out and rushed towards the Vigoroth and past them the Slaking.. As soon as the stream of pure fury touched them it expoloded and sent the vigoroth and Slaking flying. Ray closed his mouth and the stream of power stopped. Did he just use Dragon Rage. He didn't have time to think about it because he found himself collapsing to the ground with Meko running towards him. Darkness swallowed him and he slept.
Rayquaza looked at Arceus suspiciously then relented. "Huh I guess I better start from the beginning. It all started when I met her".
Left ya a cliffhanger didn't I. Well next chapter Rayquaza will explain how he and Rays mom met and how they came to love each other.