Acacia, Lickitung, and a Cool Pokémon Journey
Part 11
"What was that?" wondered Acacia aloud. She and Manny had just left Bill's lighthouse and were on their way to Pewter City when the strange cry from the last chapter was heard. It sounded like something really big and really powerful.

"I heard it too. That is the weirdest Pokemon call I've ever heard," agreed Manny.

"How can you tell it's a Pokemon call?" asked Acacia.

"No other living being can say an actual word. I heard something that sounded like a Pokemon name I've heard of before. I just forget what and where," replied Manny.

"If it is a Pokemon, we should try to catch it! I'm going out there to find it," she declared. She turned to her Pokemon, "Coming Lickitung?"

"Licki!" said Lickitung. Then it slurped up an on-the-road snack it had just been eating and ran after her.

"Wait Acacia! We have no idea what that thing is, how strong it is, or even if it's real! You could get hurt. Acacia!" Manny called out to them, but it was too late. Acacia and Lickitung were out of hearing range already. Manny raced to catch up. He arrived to an amazing site. There in front of him in a small clearing stood Acacia and Lickitung. They looked mesmerized. The thing that made them look that way was staring Manny right in the face. It had long white, rectangular wings, a triple pointed head of white and royal
blue, strong looking white haunches on which it was sitting, and a lengthy tail which it swished around like an Indiana Jones whip.

He stopped gawking long enough to grab Acacia's Pokedex out of her hand, which was now paralyzed with fear and excitement. He opened it and pressed the analyser button. It said,

"Lugia. The Legendary Pokemon. Not much is known about this Pokemon, except that it is a flying/water type. Legend has it that when the three legendary bird Pokemon, Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, are brought together in one place, it rises from the ocean to either do great harm or great good,"

"Lu, lu, lu, Lugia!!" said Acacia, "This is the greatest Pokemon find of the century! And if Lugia is here, the three other legendary Pokemon are around here somewhere! Where's Articuno? Where's Zapdos? Where's Moltres?" Acacia babbled. But her thinking seemed to be logical. If Lugia was here, the three birds must have been somewhere nearby.

"Hey Acacia, calm down. Let me ask you a question. Can you understand Pokemon talk when you're transformed?" asked Manny.

"Yeah! But this is hardly the time to be talking about this! Why?!" yelled Acacia.

"Well, if we could somehow communicate with Lugia, maybe we could find out what it's doing here and where the other birds are," replied Manny in an 'As a matter of fact' tone of voice.

"Hey, that might work! I'll be a Pokemon Lugia see's all the time so it won't be threatened," said Acacia with enthusiasm. She ran into the forest so Lugia wouldn't see her. Moments later, an Articuno burst from the tree tops. It could only be Acacia.

Here is the conversation between Acacia/Articuno and Lugia translated. Manny is listening to it in the Pokedex:

"Hi Lugia! Nice weather today, isn't it?" called out Acacia/Articuno.

"Yes. It is isn't it. What are you doing off of your island, Articuno?" questioned Lugia.

"Well, I, um, I came to see what you were doing since you came out of the ocean. Remind me again how that happened," requested Acacia/Articuno.

"Don't you know?!! You're the one who did it in the first place! Don't you remember how you called the other birds together the other day to give me that ultra wedgie!! You really don't!!! If you don't, I don't think you could be the real Articuno, are you?" exclaimed Lugia.

"Hey! Take it easy feather-head! OK, I'm not really Articuno. What I want to know is why have you been following these people and their Pokemon and where are the other birds?" asked Acacia/Articuno.

"To answer your first request, I'll tell you a story that happened not so long ago. A few hours back, I was preening after the ultra wedgie and getting ready to dive back into the sea when I saw a Dragonite inside a lighthouse. Now, I knew that Dragonites are never seen inside. They prefer the great outdoors. Even if it was a trained Dragonite, it would have had its trainer take it outside. This Dragonite seemed perfectly comfortable. I knew that something strange was going on, so I flew down for a closer look. When I got there, Dragonite was gone and a little girl was standing in its place. She had transformed by some means. I found this most intriguing. So I followed those people through the forest. After a while of impatience from their failure to notice me flying overhead, I called out and they came running. One ran into the forest with some sort of plan. I'm still waiting for her to come back and put it into action. And that's where you came in," explained Lugia.

"Well, what about the other birds? Where are they?" asked Acacia/Articuno.

"They are probably wondering where I am and are out looking for me. Ah, there they are now!" said Lugia. She pointed towards the setting sun at three primary colored specks. As they moved closer and closer, their outlines became clearer and clearer. It was Moltres, Zapdos, and the real Articuno!

"Where have you been Lugia?" asked Zapdos.

"We were quite worried about you," remarked Moltres.

"Who is that? My identical twin or something?" questioned the real Articuno.

"My name's Acacia. Nice to meet you. Hey, why are you all giving me that look? Come on, move back guys. Guys! Ahh!" shouted Acacia. She called down to Manny, knowing he had the translator, "Quick Manny, throw Pokeballs! Get them away from me! They look like they're going to peck my eyes out!" Manny did exactly that. He and Lickitung started throwing ball after ball after
ball. Acacia began attacking the three legendary Pokemon with ice beams and blizzards and pecks. After five minutes of throwing balls at the three birds, they were all captured. Lugia remained. Acacia came back to earth and became herself again. She picked up the Pokeballs.

"Well, we caught the legendary birds. Only one left. What do you say Lugia?" asked Acacia. The Pokedex translation said, "After how well you battled my brothers, of course," Acacia threw up an empty Pokeball and Lugia was sucked inside. She picked up the four Pokeballs. She gave Zapdos and Moltres to Manny. He sent his Gloom to the PC in exchange for Moltres. Acacia kept Lugia and Articuno, also filling up her six Pokemon spots. After doing this, Acacia, Manny, and Lickitung danced around for joy for a full
hour! But soon, their excitement winded down and they resumed their journey to Pewter City, with four strong and rare new Pokemon. Also, this meant they had four new friends.

NOTE: Acacia and Manny were able to capture the birds because the birds all had twins. The capture of the birds in this chapter is the reason only one of each is out their in the Pokemon world. See them all in Pokemon 2: Revelation Lugia!