Fourth installment... a bit disappointed with this one

But at least I'm back to writing :D I do not own Pokemon! (I want to own a Pikachu or Lucario though...)


Meetings -4-

Marie had watch Red fly away with Charizard, going to the designated hot spring where he would be recovering his injuries. After giving Charizard something to eat and some patting and laughed when Charizard gave her a big kiss, meaning giving her a thorough lick on the face, she bid them goodbye. Marie watches Red and Charizard disappeared with sad eyes and looked towards her Pokegear.

"I hope Red's going to be alright…" Marie then looked down when she felt someone holding onto her hand and saw Riolu looking up at her, her paws on her hand. Marie smiled and knelt down, patting Riolu's head as Lucario placed his paw on Marie's shoulder. Ninetales then nudged her nose onto Marie's cheeks and the girl started laughing.

"You're right, he'll be just fine. He's Red and he's strong, I believe in him."

/

Go to Ilex Forest

Marie snapped her eyes open from her sleep and sat on her bed, a hand on her head as she tried to catch her breath. Ninetales then quickly jumped on her bed brushing Marie's hair from her face with her tails.

"I'm okay Ninetails… it was just a dream…"

Come, go to Ilex Forest, child

Marie flinched and her hands quickly went to her head as an unbearable pain shot through her head. Right now Lucario and Riolu ran to her room carrying a glass of water as Marie quickly drink it before taking deep breaths.

"D-Did you hear that voice, Lucario?" Lucario shook its head and Marie frowned.

"I thought I heard someone talking to me… was it a dream? But I heard another just now…" Ninetales swayed her tails in front of Marie, hoping to cool her down.

"Ilex Forest… can you get me my Pokegear, Riolu?" The small Pokemon quickly jumped off from the bed and took the Pokegear from the desk before handing it to Marie.

"Thank you." Marie looked towards her Pokegear and started to look through the map in search for the llex Forest.

"Ilex Forest… isn't that a forest where they have a small temple in the center? A temple for the time pokemon they say…"

'… Should I call Green? But he's going to have his tournament at the Indigo Plateau…'

Come, come to Ilex Forest

"It's the voice again…" Lucario and Riolu's ears went up in search for the said voice but couldn't feel anything and looked worriedly towards Marie.

"That's it, I'm going to Ilex Forest and finding out what is this all about." Marie said, throwing her blanket away and walked into the bathroom as Ninetales quickly followed her after softly pushed Riolu back from trying to follow Marie into the bathroom. Marie then walked out already dressed and grabbed her bag and strapped it around her waist and took her pokeballs out. Marie then looked at Lucario, Riolu and Ninetales.

"Wanna come?" Lucario, Riolu and Ninetales nodded and Marie returned them to their pokeballs. Marie looked at her excited pokemons and nodded.

"Let's go to Ilex Forest." Marie then stepped out from her house and whistled. Some wild pokemon and Pidgeot then quickly gathered in front of her.

"Protect everyone, I'm going for a while. Don't worry about me." The wild pokemon nodded before scattered to their homes once again and she patted Pidgeot's feathers.

"Ready to fly, Pidgeot?" Pidgeot let out a sound of excitement and Marie smiled at it before jumping onto its back.

"To Ilex Forest, as fast as you can." Pidgeot flapped its wings as Marie held tightly onto its feathers as she wrapped her scarf around her.

/

When Pidgeot landed on the ground, Marie quickly returned it to its pokeball. She carefully stepped inside the forest, looking around for any signs of pokemon or people.

Come closer

"It's that voice again… come closer he said…" Marie said as she tried to listen to the mysterious voice in her head guiding her through the forest before she stopped when swarm of pokemon gathered there under two giant pokemon, all seemingly happy and glad about something.

Closer, child

Marie saw a majestic bird like pokemon looking at her and a silver pokemon she doesn't recognize. But then she remembered her brother talked to her about legendary pokemon and her eyes widened.

"Ho-oh? Lugia?" the swarm of pokemon then moved around to make a path for her to walk as she carefully approached the two legendary pokemon.

"What had happened? You shouldn't be here… and Lugia too…" Marie was about to touch Ho-oh before she pulled her hand back, realizing what she was about to do.

It's alright, child

"Is that really you who called me here, Ho-oh, Lugia?" Both pokemon nodded at her as Marie slowly touched Ho-oh's wings and brush over it softly as she did the same with Lugia.

"But… why? If you wanted help, you should have gone to my brother… you must have met the pokedex holder. They're very strong…" Marie said after Ho-oh and Lugia had explained to her the reason for their presence in this Ilex Forest.

Child… you are worried for them, correct?

"Yes, of course I am… they're my friends and my family… but sometimes I just felt that I couldn't be of help because of my weak body…"

You don't always be strong to be able to help

Marie smiled when Lugia roared and leaned her head against its wing. Sitting between these two pokemon with so many wild pokemons surrounding her felt so warm. Marie looked towards her pokeballs and saw that her pokemon also felt calm and happy.

Go child, go be with your brother. And have these…

Two feathered fluttered down to Marie's outstretched palm. A rainbow and a silver feather and Marie looked up to see Ho-oh and Lugia staring into her.

There are many pokemon in this world and humans often don't realize their selfish reasons or ideas. But people like you, your brother and those pokedex holders are people whom we can trust to help. Promise me child, you will take care of pokemon, yours or not, like they deserve to.

"I promise… I will protect pokemon from people want to do them harm like this mysterious masked person."

Good, farewell now child… let us meet again in the future

Marie watches both Lugia and Ho-oh flew away and turned towards the pokemon people from various places sent to help the pokedex holders.

"Now, let's get all of you home shall we?" Marie said smiling as the pokemon in front of her shrill, letting out voices of excitement. Marie then looked towards the feathers and then towards the sky.

"They're going to be just fine, I have my own things to do." Marie then lets out all her pokemon.

"Lucario, Riolu, Ponyta, Ninatales, Pidgeot, Dragonair, let's get these pokemon home." Marie said as she stood up from her place and herded the pokemon towards the exit of the forest.

"Wait, Marie? Is that you Marie?" Marie had just finished herding the pokemon to the nearest pokemon center when she heard a familiar voice calling her name. Marie turned around and saw the pokedex holders, without Red she noticed, standing in front of her.

"Yellow? You let your hair down!" Marie said, walking up to the younger girl to give her a hug.

"You knew…?"

"Of course I knew, my idiot liar of a brother is probably the only one who didn't notice." Marie said with a sigh before noticing a boy and a girl standing next to Blue. The girl looked familiar to Marie and she finally remembered the last time she had contacted Professor Oak.

"Chrystal! You must be Chrystal from Professor Oak's lab!" The girl seemed to remember Marie as well as she quickly stepped and grabbed Marie's hand.

"And you must be Marie, Red's sister! The one who lived to take care some of Professor Oak's pokemon! It's very nice to finally meet you!" Chrystal said, shaking her hand.

"It's very nice finally to meet you too. And you are…" Marie said, looking towards the solemn boy next to Blue.

"This is Silver, he and I knew each other since we're small. They're the pokedex holder of Johto, there's supposed to be another one, Gold was it? But he ran off with Red…" Marie was certainly surprised, she thought she'd definitely get to see her brother but it seemed that she has to wait much longer to finally get to see her brother.

"Red's gone? Oh…" Blue then gave her a sympathetic smile and placed her hand on Marie's shoulder.

"Don't worry, you'll see him. Or you might be able to call him?"

"I wish I could do that, but Red's not very good at keeping things… and he lost his pokegear. So I guess I just have to wait until he finally decided to drop by for a visit…" Marie then remembered the reason why she met them here in the first place and quickly went into panic.

"Are you guys alright? Is Red alright? You guys didn't get hurt from the fight, right? I heard there was this mysterious masked man trying to control Ho-oh and Lugia… and that's why I came here…" Marie said before smiling as she showed them the feathers she got recently. She then heard Yellow gasp as Blue stared at her hand and she noticed Green stiffened at the side.

"That's the Rainbow and Silver feather! Feathers of Ho-oh and Lugia! How did you get them, Marie?" Blue said, looking at her curiously.

"Well, I heard voices one night telling me to go to Ilex Forest… it turns out it was Ho-oh and Lugia who called me here. I'm not really sure why they call me here, but then they gave me these before they flew away."

"And?" Blue said, clearly very curious.

"And then I just helped herded all those pokemon the people kindly lend to their homes." Marie then looked at Silver who kept staring at her and offered her hand for a shake.

"Nice to meet you, Silver. I'm Marie." Silver looked at her hand then Marie for a moment before shaking her hand.

"Silver." Marie then walked to Green's side as Blue, Yellow, Chrystal and Silver started talking amongst one another (perhaps not Silver).

"Hey."

"Hey." Green replied, not really looking at her.

"Thanks for the brooch." When Marie said that, Green snapped his head towards her before looking away once again making Marie giggle.

"Professor Oak told me, you don't have to give me this, you know… it must be important to you…"

"… Just take care of it." Green said.

"I will."

/

"I didn't know Marie knew Green." Yellow said when she saw them standing next to each other.

"I kind of spied on them last time, they're actually pretty close. But I don't really know how they knew each other in the first place."

"Maybe she knew him from Red?" Chrystal asked.

"Last time I checked Red didn't even know they knew each other."

"You're not going to spy on them again, are you Blue?"

"Maybe."

"Blue…"


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