A.N - For those reading this, I'd appreciate some reviews a lot since I've never written a Pokemon fic before. :P I've had them checked over by Pokemon fans but I'd love some some feedback none the less to see if this is a story that appeals to the general audience. None the less, enjoy chapter 3!


Chapter 3 - Storm

Haru noticed that the shrine offerings she left every day were always gone when she returned the next day. Given that the forest Pokémon stayed well away from it, the young woman figured that it had to be the Pokémon that the shrine was dedicated to that ate the offerings. Although she longed to see it, Haru knew that her chances were slim.

It was only by sheer luck that she owned three legendary Pokémon herself. Latias was a Pokémon she befriended when visiting Alto Mare; there was a small herd living there. Latias and Haru had had so much fun playing together that Latias wanted to travel with Haru, who agreed and captured it. Shaymin was much the same way, but demanded a battle to prove her worth, something the young girl was more than willing to do.

Entei on the other hand was a different story. Aggressive and wild, she had left fruit at its shrine when she found it. The fire beast attacked on sight, and a huge battle was fought that ended in a draw. After healing her own Pokémon, Haru healed Entei.

"We fight until one of us wins. I don't want to capture you on a draw," she said to the fire beast, and with that, a much less violent battle was fought. Haru barely managed to win, and Entei was captured without a hitch, having gained respect for the young trainer by respecting its honour.

Even with the captures of her three legendary Pokémon, Haru knew it would be different this time around. For one, she had no desire to actually capture the Pokémon, only see it and maybe become friends with it. She was busy with her shop and her daily routine enough without throwing Pokémon training back into the mix!

Haru sighed as she finished grinding the herbs together for her new medicine. This was supposed to cure parlays only as well as increase health, cheaper than full heals or full restores, but effective in battle. It was part of her new range of status and heath cures, which were proving to be very popular. Once she finished all of the potions, there was a knock at her door as one of the shop assistants had come to pick up the latest batch. Haru handed the bags over and the assistant took it. It was the shop's job to bottle and sell the product, saving Haru time and allowing her to make larger quantities of the products she sold.

When Haru went to collect more herbs from the forest, she noticed that the clouds were moving faster than usual. Frowning, she knew that could only mean a storm of some kind was coming. After collecting all the herbs she needed, Haru returned to her house to check the weather feed and see what kind of storm she was in for. After seeing it as a severe one, she started making preparations to protect it. She taped the windows and boarded up the sunlights, then put door sausages on the bottom of the doors to stop any wind coming in.

"Alright, all in order..." she muttered to herself, and in her mind she hoped the Pokémon would be okay.


Haru was not the only one making preparations. The Pokémon did not need a weather feed to know when a big storm was coming, and so many of them were protecting their homes or hiding underground. Not all of them had strong homes, so Virizion was busy making sure that its friends were safe from the coming storm.

The Pokémon had only just finished preparations when a huge flash erupted in the sky, followed by a very angry rumble of thunder. Virizion noticed some Pasange were still trying to patch up their hollow of their tree, and ran over to help.

"The storm is almost here, hurry!" It shouted over the growing wind, using its horns to slice some branches down off a nearby tree to plug up the hole. With everything done, Virizion breathed a sigh of relief as the rain started to pour down.

The storm gained momentum as little branches and bigger, dead branches began to break off in the high winds, falling on the ground and dislodging some of the protective barriers put in place by the Pokémon. This caused a panic among some of them, causing them to desperately try and fix their homes.

Things got worse as much larger branches began to fall on the ground. Virizion noticed one heading straight for them and launched an attack, causing it to shatter to pieces. Virizion grabbed one of the branches and shoved it in the tree's hollow, serving as an effective block.

This continued on for some time as several more enormous branches fell from the trees. The Grasslands Pokémon continued to destroy them, but it was not an electric Pokémon, and could not deflect the lightning causing this. He could hear some Audino that knew Thunderbolt trying their best, and some of the water Pokémon putting out the fires, but the wind would not be stopped and the branches, though dropping in number, kept falling.

While patching up yet another home, Virizion didn't notice another huge branch come hurtling down towards the legendary Pokémon until it was too late. Tired from continually attacking the branches and saving its friends, it barely had time to look up before the huge log landed on it, its cry echoing around the clearing.

Virizion could vaguely feel the weight of the log and mind numbing pain before passing out.


Haru was glad that the storm passed with minimal damage to her property (her sunlight had smashed and one of the windows broke) so she boarded up the window as the storm raged into the night. She fell asleep eventually and woke up to several wispy low clouds moving fast through a sad light grey sky. Haru did her morning ritual and then proceeded to clean up the mess that the storm had made as well as order a new window and sunlight.

She also made sure her shop was closed for the day as she was too preoccupied with cleanups to make medicines, and she was sure her workers were likely the same. And so, with the cleanup done, she proceeded to start baking when there was the sound of several Pokémon crying at her door.

Answering it, she saw several forest Pokémon looking very worried, and knelt down, "what's wrong? Is someone hurt?"

They nodded their heads, waving their arms and crying some more, leading Haru to believe it was serious. Nodding, she went back inside and grabbed her Pokémon ball belt, her Pokedex as well as her medicine supplies. "Lead the way!" She said to the Pokémon and took off after them.

Haru saw the damage done to the trees as she ran passed and mentally pondered how long it would take to clean up this mess, even with all the Pokémon's help. She noticed a few of them were injured, but none were serious and she would get back to them later. Inwardly, she noticed that they were heading into a denser part of the forest where humans rarely came. Haru noticed that lots of the logs looked like they had been chopped not by lightning, but by attacks. But the wood was too thick to have been cut by a Razor Leaf or a Leaf Storm attack. Silently, the ex-trainer wondered what kind of Pokémon could have done this.

It then broke into a clearing where lots of the same pieces of logs were, and there against the tree with a giant log on top of it was a Pokémon Haru had never seen before in her life. She walked slowly towards the knocked out Pokémon, pulling out her Pokedex in the process to get a reading on this mysterious creature:

"Virizion, the Grassland Pokémon. Its head sprouts horns as sharp as blades. Using whirlwind-like movements, it confounds and swiftly cuts opponents. This Pokémon fought humans in order to protect its friends and is considered a legend."

Noticing the colouring of the creature in front of her, Haru realised. This was the Pokémon that she once noticed observing her... it was the same colours! Kneeling down beside the legendary Pokémon, she saw that this was indeed a very bad injury.

"Lei, come on out!" She called, letting out her faithful companion. "Please, cut up that log, get it off it!" She turned to the forest Pokémon as her Liepard got to work, "please, if any of you know Cut or Slash, help out too?"

Some of the Pokémon who knew the moves stepped forward and helped out. Soon enough, the log was off Virizion, revealing several bloody wounds and Haru knew it probably had broken ribs.

Suddenly, Virizion moved a little and opened up one pink eye. It blinked, then took one look at Haru and let out a snarl, trying to get up, but it didn't even manage to lift a foot before letting out a yelp and falling down, trembling in pain.

"This is not good..." She opened her medicine kit and pulled out some medicine for pain, "please, Virizion, you need to take this... it will make the pain go away."

Virizion glared at her so fiercely Haru almost winced from its intensity. The Pokedex had not told her much, as with most legendary Pokémon, but she had not expected such hatred. He held out the medicine closer, "Please, I only want to help you-OUCH!"

She dropped the bottle as Virizion bit her hard on the arm. "Ouch..." Haru had tears in her eyes, that bite had been deep. "That hurt..."

The Grassland Pokémon gave her look that clearly said it was supposed to hurt.

At a loss of what to do, Haru bound up her arm in a bandage and then it dawned on her. Maybe she had insulted Virizion's pride by trying to help it? After all, it was a legendary Pokémon, and while all Pokémon had a sense of pride, she felt that legendary ones had an even higher sense of it. Virizion had been observing her for some time, and she felt it was likely the creature had not wanted their first meeting to be quite like this. It was probably an even bigger blow to its pride that she wanted it to accept its help when it clearly did not like humans very much.

She bowed her head to Virizion, "I'm very sorry. I did not mean to insult you, or your honour this way." She looked back up at the Pokémon, "I understand if it insults you to accept help from me, but as a Pokémon Healer, I simply cannot let you lie here so injured, when your friends called upon me to help you. Please Virizion, please let me help you just this once."

The legendary Pokémon looked away from Haru, still angry, but the intensity seemed to have mellowed. He looked back at the woman, and after a long moment, gave a small nod of consent.

Haru smiled and nodded in return, "okay..." She turned to the forest Pokémon and asked them if they could fetch some water, which they ran off to do with a collapsible bucket Haru expanded and gave to them.

Rather than try and feed Virizion medicine, Haru decided to mix up a pain remedy to be applied externally. She warned the legendary Pokémon that it was going to hurt when applied, and it growled in pain at her when she did. Feeling its torso gently, she felt that some of the ribs were definitely broken, but there was little to be done except put it in a solid brace. She would have to call Nurse Joy out to help with that, but none the less she braced the smaller wounds on its legs, and one on its neck as well as applying her most powerful potions to the wounds to help them heal.

Virizion laid there silently unless Haru hit a painful spot, and the Pokémon looked ready to bite her again when she applied the medicine to its neck. Finally, everything was done, and she said, "Virizion... it's going to take a while for you to heal. Will you come back with me to my house? You can rest there."

Virizion gave her a look that clearly said it would like nothing better than to be anywhere where she was not, but there was little it could do in the condition it was in. Haru sighed softly; she wouldn't have been surprised it the Grasslands Pokémon hated humans even more now.


Getting Virizion to her house was easy enough once a suitable stretcher had been provided. Virizion had yelped loudly when transferred and passed out again, but now it was safely in front of the fire in Haru's lounge room with Nurse Joy checking the wounds while it was passed out.

"It was lucky you treated it when you did Haru, or the bones would have mended wrong," Nurse Joy concluded after her examination. "With some rest, it should be better in no time."

Haru sighed in relief. It was horrible seeing Virizion all bandaged up like it was, lying comatose on the rug. Nurse Joy seemed to be on the same wavelength.

"I've heard rumours of a legendary Pokémon in this forest, but I never dreamed it would be a Virizion..."

"You know about it?" Haru asked.

"Oh yes. Stories from old times tell tales of Virizion and its three companions who fought against humans in the middle ages to protect themselves and their Pokémon friends. They are said to hate humans because of it."

"The legend I read never mentioned names, only the Being of Swords, The Being of Strength, the Being of Iron Will and the Being of Water. I wonder which one Virizion is?" Haru pondered.

"Well, it's best to be very cautious of it," Nurse Joy warned, "It won't be happy when it wakes."

Haru knew exactly what the nurse meant.