Chapter 4

A Sweet Melody

Shamouti Island was known for great weather, but not so much for Pokémon trainers. In fact, the island became forgotten among many trainers, causing decreasing tourism from trainers. This meant that more and more of those who lived on the island started to live primitive lifestyles. They eliminated technology from their lives, instead having strange dances with even stranger singing.

Melody also lived there, but she was the only one of her family who hated this strange way of living. But given it had been a long time since Ash Ketchum and his friends had visited there, she became lonely. Her days were spent sitting by the ocean and playing her flute.

One day, Melody was playing her flute when loud noises started coming from the ocean. She kept on playing, until a gigantic splash came from the ocean, and a huge bird Pokémon flew out. It was Lugia, an extremely powerful and rare Pokémon, the same one Melody had encountered before when Ash had visited. Melody was shocked to see Lugia. She realized that when she stopped playing the flute, Lugia started to go back underwater. She started experimenting with her flute, realizing that different pitches made the Lugia do different things. A high pitch on the flute caused Lugia to become docile.

"I wonder…" she said.

As she was by herself at the edge of the ocean, she had no way of contacting her family, who had destroyed all of their technological items in a big bonfire. However, she did bring Ultra Balls with her each day she went to the ocean, just in case a water Pokémon were to attack her. She did not raise Pokémon, but only wanted to protect herself from them. This time, though, she had an idea of doing something totally different. Playing her flute with a high pitch, she watched Lugia become very peaceful. She then tossed an Ultra Ball at it. The Lugia did not fight the Ultra Ball, and ended up being caught. Melody swam out and picked up her Ultra Ball. She had caught Lugia!

Melody wanted to leave Shamouti Island very badly, but she had no way to leave, with no transportation available due to the lack of technology. But she now had an idea…

Opening her Ultra Ball, Lugia came out. She started playing her flute until Lugia began to fly. She experimented with the flute until Lugia came down to her so she could jump on the back of the giant bird. The she played her flute in order to cause Lugia to fly, with her onboard. She was on her way to Kanto – and a brand new lifestyle.