Author's Note:

Hello all and welcome to the second chapter. This one mostly introduces the other legendary birds and does a little explaining as to how they all relate in this version of the Pokemon World. I hope you all enjoy the chapter.

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First Family Visits

Human babies were bizarre.

Most pokemon were pretty mobile from the moment they were born, able to walk on their own in relatively swift order. Humans however, they didn't seem to be capable of much beyond waving their arms and legs foolishly for several months, Zapdos had to carry little Spark around most of the time to begin with (a challenge in and of itself since he lacked human arms).

Then came the issue of feeding, while he knew that human babies didn't eat what he did, he didn't know what they were actually fed with. Fortunately, many of his fellow pokemon had had experience with young humans and a motherly Luxray was more than happy to nurse the boy alongside her own cub.

While he was legendary to many in the world, Zapdos was a familiar face to those who lived on the island, meaning that help was never far away during his rather…unusual...challenge.

Technically, he wouldn't have ever had to worry about childcare until the time came for him to raise the Zapdos that would take his place, so taking Spark under his wing was certainly strange.

Then his siblings found out.


Moltres was the first to come and see him, basically flying from the equator where she dwelled without stopping to see with her own eyes.

The great fire bird nearly set the whole forest alight as she landed, such was her haste to know the truth, and she strode towards him with purpose.

"Zapdos! Have you truly adopted a human child!?"

He rolled his eyes, "'Oh, hi Zapdos, how are you?' 'Oh, I'm fine, how's everything going with you?' 'Oh, just great thanks.'"

She was unamused by his sarcastic response, "Brother…"

He glanced at her, not at all fazed by her smouldering glare, "Yes, yes I did."

Her glare softened into a look of curiosity, "Why?"

"He wasn't born…normally."

"What do you mean?"

"He hatched, from an egg."

There was a pause…

"WHAT!"

She gaped at him, "But that's impossible!"

"I know."

He glanced back at the nest, where Spark was currently sleeping, "I don't know how this happened, but I saw him hatch with my own eyes."

She sighed, "So you took him as your own."

He looked back to her, "It felt right, how it occurred is a mystery, but I'm certain that he needs my protection. He didn't hatch until I touched the egg."

She nodded in understanding, then glanced at the nest herself, "Can I see him?"

He gave a smirk and stepped aside, allowing her to peep inside the nest, where she cooed affectionally upon seeing Spark.

"He's adorable!"

Zapdos didn't think anyone could say otherwise, Spark was snuggled into a bed of soft grasses and leaves, made even softer by clumps of wool donated by some mareep that lived on the island. With a thumb firmly in his mouth, he certainly looked ridiculously cute.

Moltres looked up, "What did you call him?"

"Spark."

She stared, "Really, Spark?" She sighed, "Couldn't you have come up with something a little more original?"

"Spark is a great name!" He protested.

She ignored him and looked at the boy thoughtfully, "I think he looks like a Fredrick."

"I'm not calling him Fredrick!"

"C'mon, it's a strong, normal, human name."

"But he's not a normal human."

"Zapdos, 'Fredrick' is far better than the cliché of 'Spark'!"

And so, the argument went on for quite some time.


Articuno arrived much later.

She had to travel all the way from the South of the world, and the lands of perpetual ice, so, with his island being located in the more temperate region in the Northern Hemisphere, it was a long flight.

Unlike Moltres, she landed with the innate grace that she always seemed to display in everything and fixed him with a hard stare.

"Zapdos, why have you adopted a human child? Don't you realise how dangerous that is, it should be returned to the humans immediately for its own good."

Expecting this, Zapdos returned her stare, "Firstly, yes I am well aware of the dangers, secondly, I'm not sure that the humans are the best ones to care for him, in fact, I'm not sure how 'human' he actually is."

Her eyes narrowed, "What do you mean."

"He hatched from an egg."

Her eyes widened in surprise, "But that's not…but how?" She paused, "Fascinating."

She stared at him again, "Tell me, has he shown any signs of extraordinary abilities, advanced senses, innate powers and such like?"

He sighed, "No, not so far anyway."

"Please let me examine him."

With a roll of the eyes, he allowed her to peer into the nest. This time, Spark was awake and happily waving his arms around as he lay on his back, he gurgled up at Articuno as she gazed down upon him, not bothered by her presence and scrutiny.

After staring at him in silence for a long time, she finally turned to Zapdos, "Well, as far as I can tell, he's a normal, healthy human. Though it might be prudent to keep an eye out for anything unusual as he develops."

He looked at her knowingly, "And no doubt you'll want to be the first to know if he does."

She blinked once, "But of course."

She looked back at Spark, her expression softer. Lowering her beak closer to him, she let the boy try and grab her beak, and gave a small smile.

She turned once more to Zapdos, her expression serious, "You should call him Norville."

He actually winced at the thought of lumbering his son with such a name, "He's already called Spark."

She shook her head in despair, "Of course you'd give him the most obvious name imaginable."

"Well its far better than Norville!"

Again, the argument lasted for some time.


The final visitor was none other than Lugia himself.

While Moltres and Articuno were his siblings, Lugia was more akin to a father in how they thought of him.

While most pokemon conceived naturally, he and his siblings came into being slightly differently. They, like all pokemon, hatched from eggs, but the eggs themselves did not come from 'parents' per say. In fact, Zapdos' birth 'parent' was actually lightning itself, his egg appearing before his predecessor through a lightning strike. From hatching, the previous Zapdos raised him until her death upon his reaching of maturity, in this sense, she was his 'mother'. However, while he, Moltres and Articuno all hatched at the same time, Lugia hatched long before them and was the one to guide them through their early days as adults.

Because of this, they thought of him as their father, despite the fact he was not truly related to them in any way.

In a way it was kind of a surprise that he knew what had occurred, Lugia spent most of his time roaming the depths of the oceans, only appearing in times of crises or before worthy trainers, hardly a place to receive news.

Nevertheless, here he was.

Lugia eyed Zapdos with amusement after he'd landed, "Well Zapdos, I wasn't expecting to become a grandfather so soon." He looked eagerly at the nest, "So, where is he?"

The lightning bird merely gestured with his head and Lugia was immediately peering into the nest. Within seconds, the wide-awake Spark was laughing his head off and grinning like a lunatic, as the mythical leader of the legendary birds pulled silly faces at him.

Eventually, once he'd grown tired of the game, Lugia turned his attention back to Zapdos, "I like him, he reminds me of you when you were that age."

The lightning bird smiled a little at that, before looking a little more serious, "I'm guessing you already know about his unusual 'birth'?"

The elder nodded, "Indeed, a most strange happening." He looked approving, "You were right to take him in yourself." He grinned, "Because it means I get to be a grandad!"

He immediately looked back at the baby and blew a raspberry. Naturally, Spark thought this hilarious and shrieked with glee, and this continued for quite some time until Lugia faced Zapdos with a serious expression, "You know, I think that Damien would be a great name."

Zapdos simply stared.

"Really?"


Eventually, after a lot of stubbornness from all sides, Spark's full name became Spark, Damien, Fredrick, Norville.


PS-And so Spark meets his 'aunts' and 'grandad', who all give him a different name. Please let me know what you thought and any suggestions for future chapters.