Far in the northern part of the continent was a mountainous country called Tempestas. The main part of Tempestas rested on the second highest mountain. The taller mountain behind it hid the Thunder Temple, the previous home to the spirit of thunder, Zapdos.

"So how big is Zapdos?" Quill asked, obviously feeling a bit nervous. "If it symbolizes power to the pokemon in Tempestas, it must be kind of terrifying, right?"

"Actually, if what I've learned of Zapdos is accurate, Zapdos would be no taller than me." Noctowl said.

"That's actually kind of short as far as legendary pokemon go, isn't it?" Quill asked.

"Not necessarily." Aamira said. "How could you say that after Shaymin? There are quite a few small legendary pokemon. Zapdos would actually be somewhere in the middle, I think."

"Keep in mind, this is only based on speculation." Noctowl said. "Who knows how big she and the other two bird pokemon might have grown in all of the time they've been sealed inside of their gems?"

"Well it doesn't really matter…" Quill said. "After Raichu I might start having nightmares of electric type pokemon."

"You can't let him rattle you!" Aamira said. "Come on, he's obviously full of himself."

"You'd think that, wouldn't you?" Noctowl asked. "Something horrible happened to him once. Now it's not that he acts as if he has no emotions; he really has no emotions."

"What?" Quill said. "How's that possible?"

"Below the mountains is a lake where a legendary pokemon is said to live." Noctowl said. "This pokemon is the being of emotion. When Raichu came searching for a greater power, he challenged that legendary pokemon. It warned him against fighting it, but Raichu didn't listen. The two of them fought and Raichu ended up winning."

"Wow, Raichu defeated a legendary pokemon?" Quill asked. "So what happened?"

"The being of emotion is Mesprit." Aamira said. "According to Mesprit's legend, whoever touches it will lose all of their emotions after three days. So that happened to Raichu?"

"Yes." Noctowl said. "At first he felt horrible for what he had done, knowing he had injured an innocent pokemon and that he wouldn't feel sorry at all after three days. Those three days must have made him mad. But on the third day, he felt no guilt for what he had done, and he cared nothing for everything else. This is what he told me: 'Losing my emotions was the best thing that could have ever happened. Now I can get stronger without anything to hold me back.' I truly felt sorry for him, because he had forgotten what was most important. Because of what Raichu had done, his son Pikachu had to suffer the neglect of his father. Now I doubt Pikachu even remembers what Raichu was like before then."

"That's horrible." Quill said. "He probably feels bad and doesn't even know it. He can't really think that it was the best thing that ever happened to him, because that would technically count as an emotion. So he can't feel anything."

"Exactly." Noctowl said. "He has become two thirds of a living being. He can't be thought of as truly living without even a single emotion. Anything that happens can be qualified as an emotion, because what do you feel if you have nothing to feel? Emptiness? But that would also qualify as an emotion. So now Raichu exists and nothing more."

"I sort of feel bad for the way I had thought of him before…" Aamira thought. "If only there was something I could do."

"I'm afraid there isn't. All legendary pokemon have a curse of some sort, and that curse either affects them or those closest to them. Sometimes even both. But being two thirds of a living being is perhaps the worst there is. Of course, there's also a legend associated with that."

"There is?" Aamira thought, but as hard as she tried to remember, she couldn't think of it. "What is it?"

"It's best you don't know. It's best no one knows actually. Not only would it bring harm to the legendary pokemon, but most likely death to any pokemon who try to fulfill the legend."

The two of them could tell Noctowl had no intention of telling them what the legend was, so they continued on. They reached the temple around noon. It didn't look all that impressive on the outside. On the inside though, it looked almost just like the Ice Temple in Glacies.

The place was made of a strange type of stone or metal. In the center was a pedestal that the Icy-Gem was floating above. There were a few pillars surrounding the platform it was built on top of. In the back were statues of Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres all standing underneath a statue of Lugia.

"Okay, let's wake up Zapdos." Aamira said. "And see if I really am the chosen one." She added in a skeptical tone. She walked up onto the platform, took the Icy-Gem from its place, and replaced it with the Spark-Gem. The Icy-Gem's light faded in Aamira's hand. "I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. On one hand, this means I'm not the chosen one and that I was right all along, but on the other it means we can't take it with us."

"Well maybe Raichu will change his mind." Quill said.

"I doubt it." Noctowl said. "We might as well take it with us though, just in case a miracle happens."

Aamira nodded and put the Icy-Gem in her collection bag. "Alright, now we wake up Zapdos." She reached out her hand, but the instant she touched the Spark-Gem, she was hit by a bolt of electricity and thrown back. A thousand thoughts rushed into her mind at once.

'The pokemon here— Why don't— When will I be able to re— My—ear frie—olu. You shall travel fa— Th—ator must be st— they can't be a— to f— the ge— of li— The spa— of al— must be protected! To any who can hear this memory, stop the tr— his name is—'

Aamira sat up, panting hard. Her head was pounding.

"Are you alright?" Quill asked. "Where did that lightning bolt come from?"

"Oh how could I have forgotten?" Aamira asked. "Most electric type pokemon communicate using electricity!"

"Does that mean you heard Zapdos's memory this time?" Quill looked at her eyes. "Yea, you must have! You're eyes turned yellow."

"Yea, but it's never been like this before…" Aamira thought for a moment. "Actually, I take that back. It was just like with Suicune's Treasure. The memory must have been tampered with."

"Mismagius…" Quill said. "I should've known she had gotten here too…"

"But don't you think it's strange?" Aamira asked. "So far the only treasures with a tampered memory were the only ones that hadn't been stolen. It can't have been Mismagius. And I think Zapdos was thinking about a traitor. Zapdos said its name, but I couldn't hear it since the memory was tampered with. But Zapdos's memory definitely said 'his' name."

"So Mismagius didn't do it? Then maybe it's Honchkrow's new boss?"

"That's exactly what I was thinking…" Noctowl said. "Maybe Zapdos will be able to give us some information if we can revive him."

"I doubt it…" Aamira said. "Remember? Suicune couldn't remember after he was revived. And… the strange thing is… I never used Aura Release on Suicune's treasure…"

"Suicune is an Aura Reader, remember?" Noctowl said. "Entei, Raikou, and Suicune all were before they died and were brought back by Ho-oh. He was able to use his own power to bring himself back after you woke him up."

"No one tells us anything anymore…" Quill said. "Well now that you heard the memory maybe you'll be able to use Aura Restore."

"Okay…" Aamira walked up to it again. "Here it goes, again."

Aamira put her hands on the gem and concentrated. She felt the familiar feeling as if something were blocking her way. She reached out and snapped it in half and felt the gem's aura running again. She must have felt the aura of the Icy-Gem, but didn't even have a basic aura training then to know what it was.

Like in the other temple, the base of the statue glowed and a set of bells appeared.

"Bells again?" Quill walked over and was about to touch one of them.

"Stop!" Aamira said. "Remember what happened last time?"

Quill backed away from the bells hastily. "I almost forgot."

"It's that song I was humming earlier, remember? I bet that's the one that we have to play on these bells." Aamira started to play the song. While the bells in the Ice Temple sounded beautiful and pure, these sounded sinister and powerful. But like in the other temple, the pillars surrounding the pedestal started glowing according to which bell she played. At the end they all started glowing at once and the platform the pedestal was built on top of slid back to reveal a staircase."

"So this is what happened in Glacies?" Noctowl asked.

"This is exactly what happened." Quill said. "So then the treasure must be down here."

The three of them walked down into the temple's dungeon. Luckily it seemed to be about the same size as the other one, though the pokemon seemed a little stronger. They got through the dungeon without much of a problem and ended up in the temple's depths.

"Look, it's another of those paintings." Aamira pointed to the painting in the back of the room. It was like the one in Glacies only instead of an Articuno it was a Zapdos. Zapdos was flying in front of a carved out painting of the Spark-Gem. Behind Zapdos was the shadowy figure of Lugia and in the lower right corner was a Riolu looking up at Zapdos. "Well this should be easy."

The three of them walked towards the painting.

"HALT!" A voice echoed through the room.

"We forgot about the temple guardian." Quill said. The four of them turned to their left. A statue made of metal stepped off of its platform and walked towards them.

"HOW DARE YE DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF THE THUNDER SPIRIT!"

"Registeel…" Aamira said.

"Wait, defile it?" Quill said. "But Regice thought Aamira had actually been Articuno's Riolu guardian. Or is that the reason?"

"WHAT TRICKS HAVE YE PLAYED ON THE ICE GUARDIAN?" Registeel asked. "NONE SHALL PASS WITH AURA LIKE THOU'S. BLACK AS MIDNIGHT AND PURE EVIL. THOU SHALL NOT PASS HERE IN THIS LIFE!"

"Evil?" Aamira said. "Aura as black as midnight, what do you—?"

"SILENCE! THOU SHALL NOT TEST THE GUARDIANS! NO EVIL SHALL PASS!"

"We're not evil!" Quill said. "We're just—" Noctowl cut him off.

"I don't think he can be persuaded by words." Noctowl said to them. "It looks like a battle is inevitable."

Registeel attacked them with Ancient power. Aamira and Quill dodged to the side and Noctowl flew into the air.

"We're at a type advantage." Aamira said. Aamira used Aura Sphere. Registeel raised its arms and used Iron Defense.

Registeel used Lock On on Quill and followed up with Ancient Power. Quill tried to dodge but wasn't able to. Quill used Flame Wheel to counter, but Registeel used Iron Defense to counter.

Noctowl used Hypnosis. Aamira and Quill followed up by combining their Aura Sphere and Flame Thrower. Noctowl used Dream eater and Steelix woke up. Registeel used Lock On on Noctowl and followed up with Charge Beam. The attack was unavoidable and Noctowl fell out of the air. He struggled to get up and flew back into the air.

"Not used to this yet." Noctowl said. "Don't worry about me, you two!" Noctowl circled overhead while the three of them continued to fight on the ground.

Aamira used Aura Sphere, but Registeel used Iron Defense again. Quill used Flame wheel and knocked Registeel back. Apparently it was vulnerable after using Iron Defense. Noctowl attacked with Sky Attack, but didn't do much.

Registeel got up and used Ancient Power on Aamira. She was knocked into the wall, which partly collapsed and caught one of her feet. Aamira struggled to get free. Registeel was about to use Charge Beam, but Noctowl came to the rescue by using Extrasensory and causing Registeel to cringe. While it was cringing Aamira and Quill used their Aura Sphere and Flamethrower combo. Registeel used Charge Beam on Aamira before she could get free. Quill ran in front of her to block the attack.

"Quill!" Aamira shouted.

"You would attack someone when they can't fight back!" Quill shouted at Registeel.

"I DON'T CARE ABOUT HONOR, ONLY MY DUTY AS A GUARDIAN!" It used Ancient Power on Quill and knocked him out of the way before using Charge Beam on Aamira.

Noctowl attacked using Sky Attack again. Registeel knocked him away using Iron Defense to cushion the impact of Sky Attack. Aamira was finally able to free herself, but only by using Force Palm and injuring herself. She used Quick Attack on Registeel, who wasn't able to block it in time. However, Registeel was so hard that it did more damage to Aamira.

Quill used Flame Wheel and followed up with Flamethrower. Noctowl used Hypnosis. Aamira and Quill used their combo again and Noctowl used Dream Eater before Registeel woke up. Registeel used Lock On then attacked Noctowl with Charge Beam again, this time knocking him out.

Quill attacked with Flame Wheel. Although Registeel protected itself with Iron Defense as usual, Aamira was able to jump above it and use Force Palm right when its Iron Defense faded.

Registeel fell back, unconscious. Quill and Aamira watched it for a minute to make sure it had been defeated, then ran to help Noctowl. After a while they got him to wake up.

"So we won?" Noctowl asked. "We defeated a legendary pokemon?"

"It looks that way!" Quill said happily. Why Registeel had attacked was still a bit of a mystery, but Quill could tell that this little adventure had excited the old Noctowl.

"Do you think he's okay?" Aamira asked them. "He was only doing his job…"

Registeel's "eyes" started glowing and he struggled to get up. "YE… SHAN'T… PASS!"

"Please!" Quill said. "Just tell us why you're attacking us!"

"RIOLU, WITH AURA AS DARK AS MIDNIGHT… YE COULD ONLY HAVE COME TO ATTACK MASTER ZAPDOS. I MUST PROTECT ZAPDOS!"

"Just listen!" Noctowl said. "Zapdos disappeared hundreds of years ago and this temple was sealed. We came to bring back Zapdos and the treasure he guarded!"

"THE TREASURE BE NO GOOD TO PETTY THIEVES!"

"We're not thieves!" Quill said. "We're only trying to revive Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. We already revived Articuno but Tempestas's leader took back the Icy-Gem. He said he'd only let us take it to Glacies if we found the treasure."

"YE CLAIM TO BE TRYING TO RESTORE ORDER, YET WHY ARE YE TRAVELING WITH AN EVIL ONE?"

"I'm not evil!" Aamira said. "Not that I know of anyway! And what do you mean my aura is dark? It's always been silver and gold."

"YE CLAIM TO BE AN AURA READER? IT WOULD MAKE SENSE SEEING AS HOW YE CAN USE THE POWER OF AURA. BUT YE NOT BE AN AURA READER. YE BE A DARK READER."

"Dark Reader?" Aamira asked. "I've never heard of anything like that."

"THEY BE THE EVIL VERSION OF AURA READERS. THE DARK VERSION. ONE OF THEM MUST'VE STOLEN MASTER ZAPDOS'S POWER! IT MUST BE YE WHO DONE IT!"

"But we told you!" Quill said. "Zapdos disappeared hundreds of years ago and we only came to revive him! If you don't believe us he'll never come back."

Registeel looked at them for a while. (At least they thought he did. It was hard to tell.) "IT BE NOT POSSIBLE FOR A DARK READER NOT TO BE EVIL. YE BOTH BE IN DANGER OF THAT ONE. I WILL CHOOSE TO TRUST YE, BUT NOT THE RIOLU. I'LL BE WATCHING THEE."

"Fine, just don't attack us again!" Aamira turned to look at the painting. Like in the other painting it was surrounded by some ancient writing. This time it was different though. "What…? What is this? I can read it."

"You can?" Quill asked. "But you couldn't read it in Glacies."

"Or in Divum if I remember correctly." Noctowl added.

"'Heart of gold and soul of silver. They alone have the power to restore the treasure. Lightning shall return to the rumbling thunder. With the power of lightning this gate shall fall and you'll see the spirit's wonder.'" Aamira said.

"Without a doubt." Noctowl said. "Are you sure no one taught you how to read this?"

"Yea, I'm pretty sure…" Aamira said. "What's going on…?"

"We'll figure it out." Quill said.

Aamira nodded and walked towards the painting. She did the same thing she did in Glacies. She tapped into the aura she borrowed from the Spark-Gem and used Aura Sphere on the painting of the Spark-Gem. The painting started to glow brightly enough to blind everyone. The ground started shaking and all of them but Registeel fell. When the shaking stopped they all got up.

"If this is like Glacies, the statues outside must have moved to reveal another staircase." Quill said.

Quill was right. And like the Ice Temple, it led outside to the other side of the mountain. On top was a set of large iron bells.

"YOU MUST KNOW THE SONG OR YOU COULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR." Registeel said. "PLAY IT NOW AND BRING THE LIGHTNING BACK TO THIS PLACE."

Aamira noticed that there was a chain attached to each of the bells. She pulled them all in order to play the song of Tempestas. Thunder rumbled overhead and the sky lit up with lightning that jumped from cloud to cloud. It started striking the mountain that Tempestas was built on in certain places according to which bell Aamira rang.

"This is so strange." Quill said. "It's eerie looking, but it looks cool at the same time. I see now why they see lightning as their treasure and Zapdos as a symbol of power."

They could hear pokemon shouting in excitement on the other mountain and saw them replying to the lightning with their own electrical attacks. After a while the bells started playing on their own and Aamira went over to join Quill and Noctowl. The sight was enchanting, but Aamira found she couldn't concentrate on it.

"I had no idea there was a dark version of an Aura Reader." Aamira said.

"When we were in Glacies we didn't even know what an Aura Reader was." Quill said. "But you were an Aura Reader before. What changed? You don't seem any different to me."

Aamira smiled. Quill couldn't possibly understand how much it meant to hear him say something like that. Or did he? He couldn't feel her emotions anymore, but he might as well have been able to. Quill knew her almost as well as Aamira knew herself.

"THOUGH I DON'T TRULY BELIEVE IT POSSIBLE, IT WOULD SEEM THAT YOU ARE A ONE OF A KIND GOOD DARK READER. BUT IS IT POSSIBLE?" Registeel said. "I FEAR WHAT YOU WILL BECOME IN THE FUTURE."

"I won't let myself change! I don't care if my aura has; I swear I won't!" Aamira said.

"BUT HOW CAN YOU PREVENT IT? WE CHANGE A LITTLE WITH EVERY PERSON WE MEET. IN ANCIENT TIMES, AURA READERS WERE ISOLATED FROM EVERYONE ELSE TO PREVENT THEIR AURA FROM CHANGING." Registeel said. "AND IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO QUILL WHO YOU SO OBVIOUSLY LOVE AS A BROTHER, WOULDN'T YOU LOOK FOR REVENGE?"

Aamira couldn't think of what to say. Sure she would, probably, but wouldn't anyone regardless of what their aura was like? "I guess I'll just have to do my best to make the right decisions, even if I don't always know what they are. There are so many people in this world who suffer. Raichu for instance whose only two thirds of a living being. I want to help people like that as much as possible. That's all I really want."

"THAT'S HONESTLY ALL YOU REALLY WANT? I FIND THAT HARD TO BELIEVE."

"That's what I want the most… I think…" Aamira said.

They all had a lot to think about as they made their way back to Tempestas. Raichu was waiting there for them.

"So you really did it." He said. "Good. There will be no war against Chalybs. But are you the chosen one, Riolu?"

Aamira pulled the Icy-Gem out of her collection bag. "See for yourself." It remained as dim as ever.

"I see." Raichu said. "Well then, while I'm grateful to you for bringing the lightning back, you can't have it."

"You're not grateful…" Aamira said.

Raichu looked over at Noctowl but he obviously didn't really care. "What I say goes. I said you could only take it if you were the chosen one."

Aamira handed Quill the Icy-Gem and turned back to Raichu. "Do you know what we've been through! We had to fight a Registeel to get through there! He thought I was evil! But you don't even care, do you! Why I'm even wasting my time yelling at you is a mystery! Why's the Icy-Gem so important anyway? It's of no use to you!"

"Uhm, Aamira…?" Quill said.

"What!" Aamira replied a bit louder than she had intended. She turned to Quill and was stunned by the sight. The Icy-Gem was glowing in his hands.

"Well, isn't this a strange and unpredicted turn of events?" Noctowl said. "I must go on more investigations."

"He's not the chosen one." Raichu said. "The Spark-Gem didn't glow when he held it."

"But it glowed when Aamira held it." Noctowl said. "You remember the legend. Not the chosen one, but the chosen siblings."

"How? Those two, siblings?"

"Well, Aamira was technically adopted…" Noctowl said. "But they still see themselves as siblings."

"Again, how many legends are we in?" Quill asked.

Noctowl smiled. "Who knows? Unfortunately, no one knows the full story. It only speaks of a brother and sister who work together to awaken the legendary pokemon. There was more to it, but no one remembers what it was. It was never written down and there's a chance that much of it has been changed, so the story stopped being told altogether. But it has to do with the legend I mentioned earlier. The legend involving the three pokemon of being. It was said that one of the siblings would be two thirds of a living being. It's you, Aamira, because you lost your memory."

"Am I really two thirds of a living being?" Aamira asked.

"Yes." Noctowl said. "Will, emotion, and memory, the three things that create being, all interlock with one another. Because you lost your memory, you emotions and will were both manipulated based on the first people you met. The first person you met was Quill. Because of that the two of you became like brother and sister, which made you both perfect for the legend. Until now I had no idea."

"So we're apart of this legend and no one even knows the whole story?" Quill asked.

"Fine then…" Raichu said. "You can have the Icy-Gem on one condition. The legendary pokemon must be woken up in a certain order. Since you woke up Zapdos, you must now wake up Raikou. If you can do that, you can have the Icy-Gem."

"Okay, so where's Raikou's treasure?" Quill asked.

"Figure it out." Raichu said. "Because up until now, no one else has been able to. But it's late. We'll allow you to stay at our Inn for the night, but you must get going by tomorrow."

"Fair enough." Noctowl said. "You two wouldn't mind if I stuck around to help out, would you?"

"No! Not at all!" Quill said. "That would be awesome!"

The three of them followed Raichu to the Inn. Noctowl and Quill walked in and Aamira was about to follow, but Raichu called her.

"Aamira, just one thing." Raichu said. "A few electric types can communicate using electricity. I don't know if anyone else heard what you said, but I did. On the top of that mountain you said you wanted to help people like me."

"Yea? And do you really care?"

"Are you mocking me? Never mind." Raichu looked at her for a second. "I suppose if I still had any emotion I would want your help, but I don't."

"Well, do you think you would be grateful if I did help you?" Aamira asked. "How do you expect to stop me?"

Raichu shrugged. "Do as you will, I don't care. But if you do, even though I don't really feel thankful… Thanks anyway." Raichu turned to leave and Aamira watched him go.

Aamira thought for a minute. Raichu had chosen to thank her. 'It was his conscience.' Aamira smirked. 'His conscience told him to thank me. I guess that means his emotions aren't entirely gone after all, which means there might really be a way to reverse it…'

Aamira turned and followed Quill and Noctowl into the Inn. They had waited for her and undoubtedly heard everything Raichu had said. No doubt they had figured it out too.