Book of Legends: Sinnoh Arc
Chapter 9
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When everyone was gathered together, they pooled their collected information together, Ruby taking notes in a notebook before setting the pages on the table. "So based on what Aqua learned from Fuego at the Ironworks and what we gathered with the siphoned energy from the Windworks from the owner, Team Galactic used the energy they gathered to create this bomb. Problem is we have no clue where they would set it off." Ruby examined, looking to the others as Jou was absent to tend to the wounded Buizel he found from the Windworks. Luxray and her young were beside the table eating but Luxray tuned into their conversation, adamant about helping as much as she could for as long as she would be traveling with them. "Would it be bad if there's a chance of them setting the bomb off over at Lake Valor? Like they did at Lake Verity and Acuity to draw out the spirit?" Yugi inquired. Ruby's lips fell into a thin line. "With a heavy heart, I have to say it sounds like something they would do and would explain the disturbances from before. I'm sure a cave with easy access in the middle of a lake won't just be a home to the spirits without there being a catch of how one could go inside and not see a hint of the spirits the moment you enter." Ruby confirmed. "Then we should get mail to the group stationed close to Lake Valor so they can get an upper hand on the situation before Team Galactic does."
"If anything, I'm sure they are already on the move there after Bakura's mail of the Acuity spirit disappearing. I just hope they won't be too late." Yami spoke as he looked to him. He nodded as Jou arrived back at the table with Buizel tucked into his arms, wrapped up and sleeping. Aqua glanced over to him. "How is it?" he asked. "Still a bit shaken but it'll make it with a little rest." Aqua nodded as he scooted over so he could sit down. "So what we come up with so far?" Jou asked. "We assessed that the Galactic Bomb Aqua heard about would be set off at Lake Valor. The group there should be heading there now if we're lucky that they got suspicious from Bakura's mail so they can keep it from discharging and protect the spirit if they're not too late in arriving." Yami explained. "I'm sure they will...they have ta." Jou murmured. "With Marik and Toben having the mentality of a two-year-old, let's hope they remember to trigger their competitive nature to stay focus on the matter at hand." Seto muttered. "Oh stop being such a wet blanket. They know better and if I didn't know any better, will do their best to impress." Ruby said with a chuckle and Seto glared to him.
"You know something again, don't you?" Ruby smirked as he twined a piece of hair in hand. "I wouldn't be a good analyst trainer like you if I didn't watch everything that occurs around me, including ourselves." he said cheekily and Seto held back the urge to hit the table so he wouldn't get scolded. He really hated when his own sibling kept secrets from him and leave him out of the loop. "That matter aside, now that we know what's going on here that wisely resolved itself, we can move on and meet with Crimson in Eterna." They nodded to this and those that haven't ate went to grab something for themselves. Once they all finished and fed their pokemon, the stepped out the center as Astral trotted back over to them. Yami knelt down to look to him. "Find anything?" Astral gave a negative shake of his head and the other sighed but nodded. "Then everything we learned is all we will get from Floaroma." The other took out Astral's pokeball and had him return. "You did well. Thank you." he whispered before leaving when he heard Aqua call for him at the exit leading to route 205.
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After gathering all they needed, Malik, Kaiser, Marik, Topaz and Toben began to head for Lake Valor. Marik began to talk off Malik's ear animatedly which began to tick Malik off since they had just stepped out onto route 214 when he opened his mouth. "For five minutes...can you stay quiet for five minutes?!" Malik snapped as he looked to Marik. Said male went tight-lipped and nodded firmly. "Good. Now...about the lake..." He murmured. "There's been talk of a bomb and Team Galactic going for the last spirit residing there with it. If that's the case then we need to haul ass there before they have the chance to set it off and causing massive damage in drawing the spirit out." Topaz spoke. Malik and Marik looked to him. "Where the hell did you learn all that from?" Malik questioned. Topaz pointed to Toben who waved excitedly when attention was brought to him. "Ok...I guess one of his friends sent it to him since I think he barely had the mental capacity to register all of that on his own."
"Hey!"
"Give him some slack. And besides, we kinda started working with 'em and haven't traded information so we can contact them if we need to know something." Topaz concluded. Malik huffed as they continued on, eventually finding a sign that directed them to where the Valor Lakefront entrance was located. They quickly traversed the rest of the way, coming across the entrance before heading in. Glancing between each other, they shared a nod before making their way through the resort half of the Lakefront and to the actual lake itself, spotting a figure in grey standing at the edge of the lake fiddling with something. Looking further ahead brought their gaze to a cave resting in the center of the lake, most likely the home of whatever spirit resides there now. "That uniform doesn't look like anything we know or seen..." Marik mumbled. "Nope. We found our man." Kaiser said as he reached into his bag as the man stood. "Clarei, go and get that item he has in hand." he whispered, tossing out the ball and called out his Furret.
She blinked for a moment before seeing the grunt ahead and charged forward. The grunt was blissfully unaware as he readied to press the switch that would set off the bomb to finish the tasks at hand before calling his superior in charge of Valor, Saturn, to collect the spirit. "I will get the greatest praise for completing this task." he murmured and was ready to hit the switch when Clarei leapt up, causing him to yelp as she landed onto his back with tiny claws digging into his uniform. "Ah! Where the hell did you come from?!" Clarei squeaked as she continued to scurry about him. He growled as he reached to grab at her. "Don't worry, Kai-kai! I can help!" Marik called, taking out a pokeball. "Kai-kai?" Topaz questioned. "Don't ask." Kaiser mumbled as Marik brought out Moas, his Armaldo who bore quite a few scratches and scars along with a sealed shut eye. "Whoa...what happened to him?" Malik asked.
"Can't answer! Too long a story! Ancientpower now!"
Moas roared before the ground tore up around him, producing large stones packed together from his prehistoric power before sending them at the grunt. Clarei jumped off just in time for the attack to collide with the grunt, knocking him into the lake. When he came back up, he groaned at the group that he had the misfortune to not notice as he was too focus in completing the task given to him. "Argh! This isn't going as planned..." The grunt hissed as he clambered from the lake, pokeball in hand. "Go Stunky! Use Toxic!" The skunk pokemon chattered softly before unleashing the noxious acid at them. Moas easily swiped away the poison from making contact with the use of his tail but Clarei wasn't as lucky as the glob of poison landed on her, making her squeak terribly in pain. "Clarei!" Kaiser called as the smaller pokemon collapsed to the poison. The grunt grinned maliciously as he hit a small switch on his emblem before sending Stunky to attack again. "Fury Swipes on that Furret!"
"Block him, Moas~"
The revived fossil moved with a speed that the grunt wasn't expecting, hunkering down in front of the poisoned pokemon and took little damage from the flurry of swipes to his hardened hide. "Ya wanna see some Fury Swipes, I'll show ya Fury Swipes but with Slash instead!" Marik called as Moas stood to his full height, raising an arm before making a mighty slash at the Stunky. The pokemon couldn't evade in time and was flung back to the grunt's feet. The grunt cursed as he stepped back with Moas on guard. With the grunt challenged, Kaiser hurried over to Clarei and lifted her into his arms. "Alright weird grunt dude, just hand over that switch and we'll let you go with little consequences. Or I can send ya flying. I won't care either way once I get that switch." Marik demanded. The grunt only chuckled as he glanced to them. "Oh. It shouldn't be me you should care about..." he murmured, making them blink. "What's he talkin' about?" Toben muttered. Not long after he spoke, a sharp blade of air whipped past him, leaving a large crater close to where Kaiser was, making him tuck away into a roll to avoid getting hit which also caught Moas' attention.
"Kai-kai!"
"Kaiser!"
"What the hell was that?!"
They all turned back to see a man walking towards them, eyes narrowed as he zoned in on the grunt. "You had one job before I arrived...to set off the bomb and draw out Azelf so I can collect it..."
"He must be part of Team Galactic..." Malik whispered. "More like a commander to Team Galactic...and you foolish children are in the way..." The commander spoke, glancing back to them. "Help me, Commander Saturn! I can't handle them alone and won't be able to set off the bomb with so many lousy kids in the way to disrupt me!" The grunt cried out. "Such a useless task. Golbat, Supersonic!" The large bat pokemon descended in front of them before letting out a high-pitched screech. They all covered their ears from the sound before Marik glanced up, the look in his eyes changing. "Moas...Rock Blast!" Moas snarled as he dug his tail into the ground before sending rocks flying at Golbat. "Dodge and use Air Cutter." Saturn commanded as Golbat flew up to avoid the rocks before sending two more slices of sharp air at Moas. "Shit..." Marik growled. "Moas! Block it! Kai-kai! Get that switch! I'll hold him off!"
Kaiser nodded as Clarei moved to his shoulder and held on as he bolted for the grunt that regained his composure and seeing him, he smirked as he held the switch up.
"Too late..."
Pressing the button, Marik's eyes widened. "Fuck!" he gasped as the detonator went off, blinding everyone as the Galactic Bomb went off.
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Crimson looked up as the ground rattled violently, causing concerned citizens to come out from their homes to inspect. "That...is not a good sign..." he whispered softly to himself. Elsewhere, Ryou jumped when the ground quaked underneath him. He looked to Bakura worriedly. "Bakura, you don't think..." he whispered and he gave a grave nod. "Looks like the Galactic Bomb went off..." Zinluta, who was out at the time, looked in the direction of Veilstone, eyes narrowed with deep seated determination. She knew full well what was to come next per her breed's nature and natural abilities. "Looks like Zinluta knows what's about to happen next too..." Bakura murmured as he looked to the disaster pokemon. "Mhm..."
En route to Eterna, the quake reached even to that group, causing Luxray's young to become frightened. Kneading her claws in the ground, she motioned for them to calm down before looked to the group and yowled in warning. Yami stopped to look back to her, frowning. "That must've been the aftershock of the Galactic Bomb." he spoke. "Really?! All the way here?!" Jou exclaimed, shocked. "Most likely. If they siphoned that much energy for it to put the region out of commission for a day, then it was expected to be something short of cataclysmic that would rattle the spirit from hiding." Ruby confirmed. Yugi bit his lip in worry. "Then...what about Malik...and the others? If they were at the lake when it went off..." he whispered, afraid to continue with his tepid thought. "I worry as well but let's get to Eterna first and regroup. Hopefully our fears are not a reality when we go to call them." Yami said as Aqua brought out Arcane and Luaith along with Venetus. "Jou take Luxray and her young onto Venetus and go ahead of us. We'll be there as soon as possible." he said. "Ya sure?" Jou asked, Venetus looking to him before nudging him gently. Luxray looked to him as well and nodded to the trainer. He looked to them both before nodding and looked to the others. "Dun take too long..." he whispered, hefting the Shinx into his arms and hopped onto the large fruit pokemon's back. Luxray hopped up in front of him and Jou patted Venetus' neck.
"Let's fly. Hold on ta me, kiddies."
They dug their claws into the fabric of Jou's pants before Venetus took off. They watched him go before they situated themselves onto Arcane and Luaith and took off for the depths of Eterna Forest. But it wasn't just the physical world affected by the Galactic Bomb. Diamond slept quietly against Giratina's side but the antimatter pokemon was on high alert and couldn't join her in slumber. The large body was tense with fear and worry as it felt the tremors even in its own world. With such a reaction to phase even the Distortion World, the time was close at hand for there was no way the last lake spirit would be safe from such a blast and drawn out from its own dimension. Time was running out for all forms of life. It looked down to Diamond and knew her presence would be needed but it will try its best to continue to keep her safe until the moment she is truly needed. Palkia and Dialga's rage won't be easily quelled but if she could turn it into a being to care for the life of those that shunned it from history, it was sure she can break the control to befall onto the time and space pokemon and stop them before the world was changed indefinitely.
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When they reached the forest entrance, it was getting close to dusk. "This forest would become a hassle to travel at night but we can't waste too much more time that we don't have." Aqua muttered. "Luaith should provide us enough light to get the out the darkness should it hit night before we're through. Let's hop to it." Ruby spoke as the two fire pokemon entered into the forest. The trodden path of many people that traversed into the forest before them provided a guide to make their trek easier on them to get to town quicker. Yugi looked around as the pokemon followed the trail at a reasonable gait, occasionally jumping over a loose obstacle in the way or ducking so no one would be hit with a low hanging branch. However, before they could get deeper into the forest, a pokemon's cry off to the side drew Yugi's head towards it.
There, just by the corner of his sight did he catch sight of an Eevee being hassled about by a rather adamant Murkrow holding it cornered next to a moss-covered rock. The tiny pokemon tried it's hardest to bat it away but it was futile as the bird continued to squawk and squabble, flapping its wings threateningly as a show of dominance. "W-wait! Yami, stop!" he cried and Luaith skidded to a halt. "What's wrong?" he asked, looking back to him. "We don't have the time to stop and smell the flowers, kid." Seto snapped from ahead but Yugi ignored the jab as he leapt from the pokemon's back and ran where he had spotted the tormented Eevee. Yami watched him before motioning for the others to continue on as he guided Luaith to follow Yugi. "Hey! Leave that Eevee alone!" Murkrow turned to him and flapped irritably, hopping towards him. Yugi squeaked, stopping as the irate bird came for him next. Glancing to the Eevee that was watching him, he motioned with his head for it to run off while he had the bird's attention. Eevee whimpered a little, catching the attention of Murkrow once more and it turned to it with a dastardly Leer to keep it in place. Yugi bit his lip before looking to Yami as he called out his name. "Fight with the Eevee, Yugi." Yami spoke as he watched the situation. "But...I don't know any of its moves."
"I'm sure it's nothing different from your own Eevee. Show me what your pure heart is capable of in this situation."
Yugi listened to him before turning to the Eevee that was about to be attacked by the Murkrow that decided it had enough with the interruptions and ready to do what it came to do. Eevee gave a pitiful yelp as he huddled against the rock once more and Yugi made his decision. "Eevee! Listen to me and I can help you! Now use Tackle!" he called and the Eevee looked to him before glancing to the Murkrow and with a determination brought out by Yugi's voice, it stood before rushing at the Murkrow, knocking into it, making it squawk with the sudden aggression from the once timid pokemon. With narrowed eyes, it took for the air and turned its attention onto Yugi and Luaith whinnied, ready to attack but felt Yami's hand on her neck. "Let him handle it." he murmured and she snorted but held back. Yugi gasped as Murkrow came at him and went to duck before he could be hit but instead, a pained squawk responded to him and he glanced up to see Eevee before him, Murkrow on the ground from another Tackle. He smiled before moving to stand.
"We have this, Eevee. Let's get rid of this bully."
Eevee responded with a jovial bark and once Murkrow was back up, it squawked viciously as it took to the air once more, wings taking on a fierce change. "Wing Attack...hm...Eevee, Quick Attack!" he called as Murkrow dived for Eevee. Eevee barked again before charging at Murkrow, picking up speed before leaping up, ramming it while it was still in the air and threw it off course and out of its own attack. "Now...let's see...do you have Swift?" he asked and Eevee barked in response. "Then let's get 'em with Swift!" Eevee barked again as it turned to Murkrow that got back up once more and took in a deep inhale before letting out the rain of stars at the downed Murkrow. It squawked in pain and Yugi grinned. "And one more Quick Attack for the win!" Eevee nodded as it charged for Murkrow once more, picking up speed once more and in from of the mossy rock that it had cowered against before, Eevee made it stand as it rammed the Murkrow one last time, sending it into the grasses deeper into the forest. Eevee's tail wagged and he smiled. "You did it! Now you shouldn't have any more problems now." Eevee turned to him and barked as it began to glow, making him gasp.
"Is it...evolving...?"
"Looks that way but how?" Yami murmured, touching Astral's pokeball at the prospect of another form of evolution for Eevee over the elemental stones that gave them Jolteon, Flareon and Vaporeon and the day/night timed evolution for Umbreon and Espeon. Eevee's form continued to shift and grow before the light dispersed, revealing a leafy variant of Eevee standing before them. "Oh my..." Yugi whispered. "Well I must certainly say this is something I never seen before. And different from the evolutions I'm used to seeing." Yami spoke, taking out his pokedex along with Yugi and scanned the new pokemon before them.
"Leafeon, the Verdant pokemon. It basically does not fight. With cells similar to that of plants, it can perform photosynthesis. It is an evolved form of Eevee."
"Well that confirms it then. A new evolution of Eevee based on surroundings." Yami stated as Luaith cantered over to Yugi's side. "I see. Well at least this way, it has a better chance to fend off any potential dangers." Yugi spoke, smiling down to Leafeon as he began to walk back to where Yami and Luaith waited. Leafeon looked back at the forest that had been its home for so long then to the retreating back of Yugi, the young and vibrant trainer that helped it through so much in such a short amount of time. Leafeon knew well that Murkrow won't stay quiet about the incident, knowing there was a bigger and badder pokemon that would come in its place if not its own flock. It knew it would find plenty of safety in Yugi's hands and grow to be stronger that way too. So with a bark, Leafeon bounded over to Yugi, pawing the back of his legs and caused him to look down.
"Huh? What's wrong, little guy?"
Leafeon barked again and Yami smiled. "If I knew any better, it would like to come with you, Yugi." Yami spoke and Leafeon nodded to his words. "Really? It wants to come with me?" Yugi asked and Leafeon nodded once more as it leapt into his arms and Yugi laughed softly. "I told you, a pure heart earns the rewards granted to them by the pokemon when they prove they are worth it. I live by that rule and I'm happy to see it is followed with my own eyes." Yugi smiled as Leafeon nestled itself in his arms. "Ah that's right, you need a name. Hmm...first we need to learn your gender. Let's do one wag for male, two for female. Sounds good, right?" Leafeon nodded as it wagged its tail once and Yugi nodded. "Male it is, now let's see about a good name." He hummed as he walked up to Luaith and handed Leafeon over to Yami so he could climb back up, Luaith kneeling down so he could get to her back. When she stood, Yugi snapped his fingers at the prospect of a good name. "Got one! How does Hisui sound?" he suggested as said pokemon hopped over Yami's shoulder to reach his lap and barked happily. Yugi smiled warmly as Yami guided Luaith back around to the main path of the forest. "Hisui it is. Welcome to the family." He said, patting his head and he barked once more before settling on his lap as Luaith trotted along the forest path, her glowing mane of fire a beacon to guide them the rest of the way to Eterna.