CHAPTER 8: Turning Point as Ho-Oh Arrives!
Ho-Oh was flying higher in the sky than ever before. Team Rocket had totally brainwashed it. All it knew now was evil, and mean. It also knew it's mission: Find the two gods, find anymore, and catch them to bring Giovanni his Power he grasped at, but never had a firm grip on it.
"Hooooo-Ouuuuuuu!" It said, it's eyes glazed over, the madness and insanity dancing like flames inside Ho-Oh's pupils. The Rocket on the ground saw how well
Ho-Oh flied, and was disappointed.
"It doesn't fly high enough! Damn, I will never get to the Heavens. I guess I will take my chance. I will make Ho-Oh do that little 'god trick' Antue...er, Entui...Whatever did. I will sit on it's back, and hopefully will live. I will catch the Gods myself!" Said Butch, the Rocket. "But if only Cassidy were here. May she be at peace in Johto, and may she have ultimate power, as I soon will! Ho-Oh, come back!" But Ho-Oh did not listen. "HO-OH! COME BACK!" Butch got out a whip and began to whip the sky, making the whip crack and startle Ho-Oh so bad that he fell down. Ho-Oh landed on a rock, and then bounced up and perched itself upon it.
Butch ran over to it. Butch thought of his new girlfriend, Lee. She was in training to be a Rocket. Sure, Cassidy was a -nice- girl, but she was no match to Lee.
With a smile on his face, Butch climbed onto Ho-Oh. "Ho-Oh! Sacred Fire, Fire Blast, Safeguard and Recover...You might wanna do the Recover real strong; I don't know if we will get hurt or not. I hope I do not get hurt! Who needs yo-Listen and obey, Ho-Oh! Moves, now, please!"
Ho-Oh opened its mouth and Sacred Fired up at the sky. Ashes fell down on him, like if he were a phoenix. Then he Fireblasted a circle around himslef, so that the fire was a whole tornado spinning around him. Then it Safeguarded to protect him and his master. At last he Recovered, and the sky lit up like diamonds and it became clear, then the noises blended into a spinning cry, a screech, and everything was color. The sky's atmosphere came down upon the two beings, and like a vacuum cleaner, sucked them up, but it went so fast, it was like defying gravity, speed and sound itself!
Then it stopped, and the sky spit Ho-oh into space, and he went up, up, up, higher! The Throne was just a few feet up-just a few hundred feet more up. Butch guessed at least a mile, but Ho-Oh began to flap, and was startled, but he rose faster-And then the nebula turned up to a Cloud, and they were there.
Raikou saw the bird Ho-Oh rise from the planet with the bird crying it's eerie cry. The cry echoed all over.
"ENTEI! IT'S HERE! THE HUMAN IS HERE! HO-OH IS HERE! GET DOWN! MEET ME THERE OKAY?!" Bellowed Raikou and Entei got up, and pounced down on the clouds. It was a very hard landing, and as soon as Entei landed, it said a secret Pokemon word (unpronounceable to humans, so I do not bother to type it.) and the ground spit Entei down to Earth.
A few nanu-seconds later, Raikou and Entei were staring at a burned building.
"Is this the hideout place?" Called Raikou. "Yes. I thought no one would look for live god Mon in a dead place were no one comes, now that the fire is out. We will hide here, and pray that Suicune will follow close behind." Entei answered. "I'm scared, Entei. We may never be truly alive again, you know that?" "Yes. But it is for Earth, and we are Earth's proctors. 'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.' I heard a person say that on an old Sci-Fi movie......" "Yes, I suppose you are right. Lets do this. For Earth." Cried out Raikou. "For Earth!" Echoed Entei, who was not happy of how his life had turned out. Happy images flashed through it's mind; playing as a small Mon with a beautiful angel, another of him barking it's first words at Suicune, it's first battle, first faint, first TM it found lying on the ground... Then the two Mon entered the Burned Tower in Ecruteak City. But as soon as they entered, they fell down a huge hole.
"An easy way to get to the basement," commented Entei. And then the two God's swayed their heads back and forth, lifted their short tails high, and chanted at the same time, a beat for a beat:



"Stone for an eternity for the sake of God and His Earth
And His People,
For They The Evil who have Banned us
And only One with a Pure Heart can Free us With His or Her
Touch
Touched by a miraculous hand will be us Free."
And the two stared at each other, tears falling as the painless act took place.
Entei's legs were turning solid and Riakou's back was freezing up as the turned into gargoyles. Then Entei cried, "IN ERCUTEACK!" and Raikou finished, "MEET US SOON, SUICUNE, FOR ONLY WHEN WE ARE THREE AND THE HOLY HAND TOUCHES US WILL WE ALL BE FREE!" But before they could both say good-bye, their mouth muscles were stone, and their eyes widened as they were forced to sit down and finally, no one could catch them for evil. They were stone.