Here is chapter four. This one's gonna have some crazy stuff happen. This time, it will be straying off to the adventure side of this story. I guess you could call this a "clean chapter". This chapter takes place two weeks after the events of chapter 3. By the way, I should tell you a new character is being introduced. Enjoy, everybody.
I woke up to a loud pounding noise. I looked at the door, as did Reshiram.
"Hello, anyone home?"
Who the hell would be at our door at...8:00 A.M? what could he possibly want? I walked up to the door, and asked who was there.
"I'm a newscaster, I have a few questions for you."
"What kind of questions are we talking about?"
"I'm asking whether you now about the cause of the mysterious weather a few weeks ago."
"Actually, yes, I do know about the mysterious weather conditions, come in...so, what do you need to know?"
"The cause, and possibly...wait, wait a minute, is that...is that Reshiram?"
"Oh. Yes it is. I actually found out about it from her."
"You're saying she can speak?"
She butted in with
"Yes, I can speak. If you have questions, I would be glad to answer them."
"How did you find Reshiram?"
"Believe me, that's a very long story. Let's just get to what you need to know."
Reshiram explained to the newsman that the mysterious lightning storms were Zekrom's doing, and that we had actually put a stop to them.
"Zekrom usually causes things like this while he's angry. Actually, Brian over here suggested we go speak to him, so we did. We managed to get him to calm, and once he did, the storm instantly dissipated."
"And we know Zekrom as your counterpart, how did you get him to calm?"
"We was mad at a few people's decisions, and was flaring up about it. I explained to him that all entities make their own decisions, and that he shouldn't be mad at anybody for it. He unexpectedly came to a peaceful conclusion, which honestly, I've never seen happen before. We actually think that something else might have influenced him. Maybe someone else. I don't know."
"That's very interesting...actually, you wrapped everything up pretty nice. You answered every question I might've asked. Thank you, I guess I'll get going now...hey, wait up. If you find out any more information, will you tell us?"
"I don't see any problem with that, sure."
"Alright. When you've gathered enough information, visit our offices at building 503 I'm Castelia City. See you later."
Once he left, I thought to myself that it may definitely the time to see what calmed him so fast. This was the perfect opportunity.
"Well, you want to find out what's going on?"
"Oh, definitely. I'm really anxious to get answers. Let's go try to find him."
We walked out into Mistralton City, and went north up towards Dragonspiral Tower to see if he might have been there. When we arrived, there was no sign of him anywhere. We checked every floor to see if we might find him. Did not happen.
"Where else may we be able to check?"
"Maybe where we'll last found him. In that clearing in the woods. We were..um..I think just north of Lacunosa Town."
"Alright, let's fly there. No way we're going to make it there by walking."
On our way there, we discussed what may have happened with Zekrom.
"It must have been someone else influencing him. Especially if he normally wouldn't agree."
"I don't know. Maybe he came to his senses, and realized that an argument won't solve anything. It is very possible that someone or something could have easily influenced him to either agree, or calm down and act like he agreed. I guess we will have to find out."
"We almost there?"
"Think we're about half way, I'm not sure. Once we find Lacunosa Town, we'll know where we're at. Oh look, there it is. Wow, we got here fast."
"Okay, now I guess we go north from here."
We eventually reached the same clearing where we last found him. We landed, and looked around. Still nowhere to be found. Damn it, when were we gonna find him? Where could he be? Then I thought of a place where he HAD to be.
"Hey, Reshiram, I think I know where he is. Well, obviously you remember all that mess that happened behind the pokemon league a few years ago. All that mess with team plasma. It was all over the news. Well anyway, I think he's in that castle."
"I'm surprised I haven't thought about that. He has to be there. If he isn't, than I have no idea."
When we finally reached our final destination, we went inside to look for Zekrom. There were so many rooms. It was ridiculous how many rooms there were. We eventually reached the top floor.
"This must be it. Let's go in."
Now I'm not sure of this, but I think I may be psychic. He was exactly where I thought he would be. When we got inside, Zekrom wasn't the only one there. Behind him, there seemed to be a Lucario. I figured that Lucario may be the cause of Zekrom's calmness.
"Hey, Zekrom."
The both of them turned around instantly, Lucario was beginning to charge an aura sphere. Zekrom told him that we are of no danger, and that we were the ones that he'd encountered a few weeks ago.
"Alright, fine."
As it turned out, Zekrom was awaiting our visit, and on top of that, my hypothesis was correct. There WAS someone else.
"I've actually been waiting to see the two of you again. I want you to meet Lucario. It was thanks to him that I didn't become engulfed in anger when Reshiram put up her reasoning.
"How did you manage to do it, Lucario?"
"I have, as you know, the ability to manipulate ones aura, allowing me to control emotions. I saw he might have gone overboard, and attacked, or started an argument that could've only been resolved by conflict."
"You were there the entire time?"
"Yes, but obviously in hiding. I'm horrible with anybody I don't personally know until I'm introduced to them properly."
I had never seen a Lucario before. I know you can only find them in very select locations. This was actually pretty neat for me. I'd actually previously studied the Pokémon once I discovered it's existence a few years back. I figured it was to e to introduce myself to the both of them.
"Hello, the both of you. This is actually the first time you've heard my voice surprisingly. My name is Brian, and as I've said to Reshiram, I'm not very interesting. I'm not very exciting either. My life is mostly dull."
All of a sudden there was a cracking sound.
"What was that, Reshiram?"
"I don't know. Sounds like it came from somewhere up there"
"There it is again"
"The structure must be crumbling. This place IS a wreck."
"Let's get out o.."
In a split second the ceiling began to collapse. It a large amount of it fell onto Zekrom.
"Damn it! That didn't feel too great."
We had to get those stone slabs off of him before any more of them fell. We managed to do it mostly because of Zekrom's and Reshiram's combined strength, and got out of the way just in time. That entire area of ceiling collapsed, revealing the sky.
"We better get out of here. Follow me."
We all followed Zekrom out of the room through an alternate exit. Things were collapsing all around us. We had to be careful, or one of us might get badly injured. Every which way we went, there were things collapsing around us, and exits blocked. Eventually we had to blast our way out. Reshiram told all of us to stand back. We all noticed her tail glow orangs as she was preparing to use Fusion Flare on the door. Once we realized what she was doing, we all backed up, and stood behind a wall while she did her work. We all heard a very loud explosion accompanying the sound of the stone wall breaking.
"Alright, there we go. It looks like it just leads to another room though. It's pitch black."
Once we entered the room, it was, indeed, pitch black. The only one of us who could see anything was Lucario, due to his auric vision.
"Watch it. We're surrounded!"
Zekrom decided to light his tail, which revealed multiple enemy Pokémon ready to attack us. We were surrounded by three Mienshao.
"Looks like we're in a fix."
"Nothing I can't fix."
Zekrom attacked one of them with an extremely powerful thunderbolt, instantly knocking it unconscious. While Zekrom was doing that, Lucario was working on the one in front of all of us. He flung an aura sphere that sent the enemy flying backwards. As it was laying motionless on the ground, He ran over to it, and repeatedly swung at it until he was sure it wouldn't be recovering any time soon. Reshiram charged a hyper beam, which was masterfully shot at the last remaining enemy, who was sent flying into the wall behind it. It, too was out cold.
"We have to get out of here. We don't have a lot of time!"
Lucario blasted another aura sphere at the wall. The wall crumbled into pieces and revealed the outdoors. Once we all escaped the building, we stood there and watched the structural integrity of the building deteriorate.
"Holy shit!"
"Would you look at that."
"Well, WE lucked out this time around."
"This is going to be on the news."
We barely made our way out of there in time. The building g collapsed completely. The only things left were a few barely standing pillars, and rubble.
"How did you think this happened?"
"Multiple things could be causes to this. For one, the building was turned into a wreck a few years ago, and over time, the now limited amount of support couldn't have handled all of the weight above, thus it crumbled, and the rest of the building went with it. I would go through a list of causing factors, but it would be pointless. Let's leave."
I suggested we all go to my house to sort things out, and become more acquainted with each other.
"Let's all just go to my house. We can catch up there."
I flew on Reshiram, and Lucario flew on Zekrom.
"Well, that was fun, Reshiram!"
"I guess it was! I mean hell, but fun!"
When we got home, we figured that both Zekrom and Reshiram couldn't both fit inside.
"Zekrom and I will catch up outside, it's alright. It would give you a chance to meet Lucario."
"Alright."
Lucario and myself went inside of my house where we both relaxed until Lucario said
"I've heard quite a bit about you and Reshiram. In an interspecies relationship? It's different, but I don't see anything wrong with it. I did my best to calm him, and succeeded."
"And I thank you for it."
"You are welcome. Glad I could help."
I turned on the T.V, and checked the news. Sure enough, uninterrupted coverage of the event. They even had coverage of the collapse from the Pokémon league's hidden security cameras. It looked pretty intense. Well, it WAS. Luckily, we weren't captured by the cameras. I didn't want the publicity. I looked outside to where Zekrom and Reshiram were talking to each other. They looked to be getting along fine. No arguing or anything. Good. Hope they catch up well.
"So, how did you meet Zekrom, Lucario?"
"I met him about a week before the encounter between you, Reshiram, and himself. I was roaming the forest when I saw him. He was just standing there. He was emotionless. I even viewed his aura. It's like he was shut down...
..."Hello. Are you alright? Hello? I don't understand this. What's going on? Wait a minute. I recognize this Pokémon. I think it's...if I'm correct, this pokemon is Zekrom. He is electric type. He has the ability to create the illusion of an invisible aura by interfering using electric waves. He must be trying to ignore me.
"I know you're trying to ignore me. Is there something in may be able to help you with?"
"Actually, maybe you can help. I'm going to let you in on something. I've encountered an interspecies relationship. It was between my counterpart, Reshiram, and a human. It happened about 3 months ago. I don't know anything about the human, but once I get a hold of either one of them, I'm going to teach them a lesson. That's not right. A relationship should be between two of the same species.
"Now hold on a minute. An interspecies relationship? I find no harm in that. Two entities that have feelings for each other should. Be able to freely have a relationship. Nothing wrong with that."
"You do have a point. I guess I can agree. Wait. No I can't! I refuse! I am her ideal partner.
"Well, it's your opinion, and I guess I can't change that."
"Yes, and you won't."...
"A week had passed since that day, and in that week, we really got along with each other. We became friends pretty quickly. But then Zekrom started thinking about the whole relationship again. His tail began to light up, and it became very cloudy in the area. It was lightning like crazy...
..."AHH! DAMNIT! I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE!"
"what is the problem, Zekrom?"
"It's about Reshiram and that human! Its an annoyance that I must take care of! I know that Reshiram will notice this storm, and she will know it's my doing! And I guarantee you that she will bring that human with her! I just know it! And look, I'm correct! There they are. "What do you think you're doing with that human? It's not natural!"
"Now you wait a minute! It's perfectly fine! Nobody can tell me what to do! There's nothing wrong with what we've done! You leave us alone"
"Reshiram, you know damn well it's supposed to be the two of US."
"Not anyone else, I know, I've heard this story before. To tell you the truth, I don't care. I'm going to do what I please, and you have no control over it. A relationship is a relationship, and I need you to understand that. It's. The same as being gay; there's nothing wrong with it. Two entities that love each other, no matter their preference, or even species, should not be looked down upon just because it's 'different'. Please, try to understand what I am saying."
"That's when I used telepathy to tell Zekrom that Reshiram was correct."
"I see, you do have a valid point. I have no choice but to agree with you. You've put up a good argument, and you've opened my eyes. Now, Reshiram, I understand what you've been telling me all this time. You are correct when you say that I have no control over you, and I agree you continue on with your life the way you want. I won't interfere anymore. Goodbye...
..."And that was the end of everything. Zekrom had put a stop to his storm, agreed with Reshiram, and flew off. That was it. I got to know him well enough to know where he usually flies off to. I figured that he flew off to the team plasma castle. I went over there, and found him. He was just standing there the same way he did when I first met him."
"You did a good thing, Zekrom. I appreciate your understanding."
"Reshiram made a lot of sense back there, and you contributed to it when you said she was right. It really opened my eyes. I was so ignorant. I hope she knows I'm sorry.
"I think she understands."
"I sure as hell hope so."...
...We stayed in that castle for the rest of the week - until today. I guess we got out of there just in time, huh?
"I guess so. Hm, so that's how you met Zekrom. Interesting. I wonder what they're talking about out there. If they still have problems, I hope they're settling them. Lets go out there."
"Alright."
We walked outside. When we got outside, it was just small talk. Nothing serious. But I was still curious what they were talking about. In was even a bit nervous. I don't know why though. I was beginning to become a bit bored, so I suggested we do something.
"So,what do you all say we go to celestial tower and ring the bell? Help the spirits of deceased Pokémon become enchanted."
Lucario was very open to the idea. He said yes immediately. Everybody else also agreed to come, so we flew up to the top of celestial tower. We all stood around the bell.
"Alright, everyone hold onto the bell...aannd...let go!"
The bells sound travelled through the area. The bells toll sounded almost magical. It definitely was relaxing. Lucario noticed a few things.
"That caused a lot of activity. I can feel the spirits of the deceased moving around rapidly. Weird."
"Well, that was nice. Have any other ideas? Anything else we may be able to to?"
Nobody could really think of anything, so we just went back home.
"Wait a minute! I forgot to tell you that the collapse got on the news! Thank god we weren't captured on camera though. The extra publicity is not needed. Another thing I should mention, Zekrom...
I had completely forgotten then reason that we went to find Zekrom in the first place! I explained to him about the newsman, and that he wanted to know about the storms, and that Reshiram had told the newsman only the basics, and had not released any personal details.
"I know, Reshiram told me all of that mess. Just don't spread any personal information. Thank god you haven't already."
"That newsman won't be getting any information from any of us, Zekrom. Don't worry."
"Alright. Thank you...well. Lucario and I are gonna take off. It's starting to get a little dark."
"Where will we be going, Zekrom? That castle is destroyed."
"I figured we could settle at the clearing where we met. Maybe build there."
"That sounds fine. Well, let's get going then."
"Alright, see you guys later."
"Yep."
"Bye!"
"Well, Reshiram, let's go inside."
I turned the T.V on to the news again. Still covering the collapse.
"Wait a minute, one of the cameras DID capture us! Look at this, Reshiram! There we are. Great, the headlines even say Human escaping castle collapse with the legendary Pokémon!"
Then there was knocking on the door.
"God damnit."
This chapter was very fun to write, and it's the longest one so far clocking in at over 3,000 words! I thank everyone that at least views this story. It keeps me writing these! I thank all of you! Chapter 5 will most likely jump around to different events, I don't know how I'm going to do chapter 5 yet. I guess it will be a surprise!
