The Legends of Ecruteak.
By Lakyan.
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon. Satoshi Tajiri created them. Nintendo owns them. So yeah. Just keep in mind that the Pokemon world is very advanced compared to ours, so a lot of stuff as invented a while ago.
"My name is Eusine Hunter. For ten years I tracked Suicune. I never caught him. No, another trainer did… Just as the legends predicted… These legends have been passed down through the citizens of Ecruteak City." The strange man said, his Noctowl sitting next to him.
"I am descended from the man known as Mason Hunter. He is my great-great-grandfather, and he lived 150 years ago…His story sparked my quest for Suicune…I failed. But where I failed another trainer succeeded.
But the story I have to tell begins 550 years before Mason was born. It begins with the completion of the Ecruteak towers. 700 years ago…"
700 years ago…
The towers were finished at long last. The western Brass tower, said to awaken pokemon. And the eastern Tin tower, where pokemon are said to rest. They were built to foster friendship and hope between pokemon and people. The celebrations lasted for two days, during which time a silver-coloured pokemon, and a rainbow-coloured pokemon landed atop the Brass and Tin towers respectively. On the night after the celebrations, eerie howls echoed throughout the city. When the city woke they found the footprints of three 4-legged pokemon weaving in and out of the buildings and heading in the general direction of the Brass Tower…
550 years later…
Mason Hunter looked up at the Brass tower.
"The silver pokemon, at the top of the Brass tower." He whispered.
Mason glanced at the Tin tower.
"The rainbow one," He glanced at the door in front of him.
"The three cat-like ones."
Mason turned at a distant sound.
"Mason?"
Andrea Cording yelled.
Andrea was Mason's best friend. She too was eighteen, and lived across the road from the Brass tower.
"Dreaming about the pokemon again?" She said as she got nearer.
" Yeah…" Mason sighed.
"Well the only way your gonna catch any of them, is to have, strong pokemon…"
"I have…"
"A good soul…"
"Not sure…"
"And a damn long rope if ya gonna climb that thing!" Andrea looked up at the Brass tower.
"Yeah…" Mason followed her gaze.
"I suggest starting with the silver one."
"Uh-huh"
They both stood there, outside the Brass tower, silent.
"I'll try tonight…" Mason said.
"That boys gonna get nowhere if he only dreams of catching the sacred pokemon…he needs to get out there and do it if he really wants them." Mason's father said, looking out the window at his son.
"He's been training for eight years now, and he's achieved quite a lot. I believe he can do it." Mason's Mum said as she watched her son turn to walk home.
"Well I'll talk to Erik and see if he's finished the Ultra Ball yet."
"If he has, Bryce, then buy Mason as many as you can, or else there's no hope."
"OK Karen, I'll see what I can do…"With that Bryce Hunter left.
Mason walked into the room as his Dad left.
"Hey Mum!" Mason called.
"Mason! We know how you feel about the silver pokemon so…"
"How?" Mason asked.
"So your father went to talk to Mr. Silph about the latest in pokéball technology." Karen ignored her son's question.
"Ultra Ball?" Mason whispered excitedly.
"The one and only!" A new voice said.
Bryce stood in the door with Erik Silph, founder of Silph Co.
"There are only six Ultra Balls so far… So we can only give you five…we need one to copy to make more." Mr. Silph explained.
"Th-thank you Mr. Silph." Mason choked as Bryce put the small yellow pokéballs into his son's hands.
"So when are you gonna try for it?" Karen asked.
"Tonight…" Mason mumbled.
"Then you'll need this." Bryce pulled a rope out of his rucksack.
"And maybe this too…just in case." Erik handed Mason some Heavy balls.
"And most importantly, this…" Karen disappeared upstairs.
After a few minutes she came down and handed Mason a small crystal bell.
"Ahh. The Clear Bell. Perhaps the most important aid of trainers seeking the legendary pokemon. In the presence of the Clear Bell, the legendary pokémon become visible." Bryce Hunter explained.
Mason walked outside and looked up at the tower.
"Good Luck."
Mason looked up the Brass tower again. He knew better than to enter the tower from the ground floor. There were no stairs going up the nine-tier tower so he had to climb the outside.
Mason tied his dad's rope into a loop. He aimed the rope and threw.
The sky began to get dark. Suicune woke from his invisible slumber. Something was wrong. Something didn't feel right.
Suicune roused Raikou and Entei from their sleep.
They sensed something wrong too.
The three of them walked over to the window. They were on the third tier, and so could see quite a bit. It was Entei who saw it first.
A boy was climbing onto the ledge in front of them.
Mason was tired. It had taken what seemed like hours to get to the third tier. He struggled and finally pulled himself up onto the ledge. He sat down with a sigh and looked at out the Tin tower. He had the feeling someone was watching him. He could hear voices whispering.
Mason looked back at the wall behind him.
There were three pokemon staring at him. The one in the middle stepped forward. It had yellow fur and was carrying clouds on its back. Mason could see streaks of electricity running through the cloud.
My name is Raikou. A voice said in Mason's head.
Mason looked directly at the pokémon as it started to rain. The eyes of the other two pokémon glowed yellow and the glass shimmered and dissolved. Mason was now face to face with three pokémon as tall as he was.
I am Suicune. Said the blue one.
I am known as Entei. Said the red and brown one.
"I-I'm Mason…" Mason stammered and it began to rain harder.
Mason took out a pokéball and called out a Dragonair.
"Get rid of this rain." Mason told his Dragonair.
The Dragonair tried it's hardest but could not banish the rain.
The storm is not natural. Raikou explained.
"What?" Mason wondered.
Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres have returned. Suicune said quietly.
If you are seeking Lugia, then we shall guide you to the seventh tier. Entei offered.
Mason stepped into the third tier of the Brass tower, where noone had been for 550 years, and noone would go again.
High up in the clouds, Articuno flew. The snow from its wings was melted by Moltres flames, which was flying nearby. Articuno and Moltres flew around in the clouds waiting for Zapdos to get there. A fizzle of electricity announced that Zapdos was on his way.
On the ledge of the seventh tier, Mason gazed at the clouds.
"Thank-you for bringing me here." Mason bowed slightly to the legendary cats.
You are most welcome, Mason. Said Raikou with a slight bow.
Lugia is on top of this tower…
A crack of thunder cut Entei short. The thunder alarmed Suicune, Entei and Raikou.
When Mason turned back to face the three, they were gone. Again he aimed the rope and proceeded to make his way to the top of the tower.
Mason pulled himself onto the ninth tier. He looked around and saw that Lugia was not on this tier. So he called out a Machoke. The Machoke drew back its fist and broke through the glass window.
He recalled the Machoke and stepped out of the rain once again.
Mason looked around the room. There was a small staircase leading up to the roof. But that wasn't what caught Mason's attention. On the staircase were several large glittering silver feathers. Mason picked one up and examined it. It was about a foot long and mostly a silver colour that gleamed in the light. Mason picked up another one and put one in his rucksack.
Mason climbed the staircase and opened the door at the top.
Lugia stirred in his sleep. Mason quietly stepped up to it.
Lugia was huge, several times bigger than Mason was.
Mason gingerly placed a hand on Lugia's face.
Lugia opened his eyes and in fright flared his wings and snapped his beak at Mason.
"I won't hurt you." Mason stepped back. "Just don't hurt me…"
I won't… Lugia said.
Lugia spied the silver feather. Lugia pulled it out of Mason's hands.
Another clap of thunder sounded and a flash of light illuminated the top of the tower. The rain ceased.
A yellow bird pokémon flew from the clouds.
Oh-no… Lugia said.
Zapdos flew closer and the air around it crackled with electricity. Moltres appeared from the clouds too.
Zapdos and Moltres powered up their attacks. They threw their attacks at Lugia simultaneously and the two columns of fire and electricity converged to form a single beam that slammed into the tower roof where Lugia had been a split second beforehand. The roof burst into flames and Mason dove down the staircase again.
Lugia flew around the Brass tower spiraling down to the ground. Articuno had joined the chase too. And all three of them combined their attacks and sent them after Lugia. But most of the attacks hit the tower and set it on fire. Lugia neared the bottom of the tower then pulled up skimming the ground. He turned and flew over the Tin tower waking up the rainbow pokémon, Ho-oh, before turning away to head for the Whirl Islands.
Lugia knew about a cave there, and he knew that he was safe underground. On his way he crossed over a city called Goldenrod. Lugia lost Mason's silver feather somewhere over that city.
The three birds left Ecruteak after Lugia fled.
The Brass tower was burning. Bryce and Karen ran outside when they heard the third tier burst into a red-hot blaze. The third, forth, seventh and ninth tiers were on fire. A distant scream rang out. Bryce scanned the tower.
"Mason!" He yelled when he saw his son dangling from the ninth tier ledge.
As he and Karen watched a strange blue pokémon dart from the midst of the flames, and stopped next to Mason. Mason climbed on the back of the pokémon. The strange blue pokémon jumped down onto the eighth tier then crashed through the window, and disappeared from sight.
"Mason…" Karen whispered.
"Nice save Suicune! Thank-you!" Mason sighed.
We are stuck on this floor. Fire above. Fire below. Raikou explained.
"But can't Suicune's water put out the flames?" Mason asked.
No. My water can only do so much. Suicune dropped his head.
"So we're stuck…" Mason dropped his face and Entei and Raikou did too.
For three days the flames raged. The first five tiers had collapsed into each other, on the second day.
Every tier was a blaze of flame, but for some strange reason the eighth tier didn't burn as fast as the others.
Bryce thought it had something to do with the blue pokémon that saved Mason.
It was the late afternoon, on the third day of the flames.
Aloud crack echoed around the town.
All the people at the foot of the Brass tower recalled their water pokémon and ran for their lives as what remained of the Brass tower collapsed in on itself.
"Mason!" Karen yelled.
The pile of rubble burned for another hour, until a sudden downpour extinguished the last of the flames.
Once the fire was out completely, the people and pokemon of Ecruteak City rummaged through the debris to try to find Mason. It was Andrea who found him. He had perished when the tower collapsed. His brown hair was badly singed. He was lying amongst three large pokémon who had died too.
The rain stopped again and a reddish glow formed at the top of the Tin Tower. What appeared to be a rainbow streaked down from the tower, swooped over the ruins of the Brass Tower. The rainbow pokémon circled the ruins and the people fled from the ruins climbing over the still intact wall of the first tier.
Ho-oh landed in the middle of the group. He looked at the pokémon and Mason. Ho-oh took off and flapping his magnificent wings rapidly.
By the Ashes of my father, and his father before him, I command you to live! Ho-oh said and a fine ash sprinkled down from it's wings and settled on the four.
Ho-oh settled down next to Mason and for a few moments nothing happened.
Mason stirred. Opened his eyes. Saw Ho-oh. Stood.
"Are you…?" Mason started.
Ho-oh. Ho-oh said.
A howl rang out as the three cats awoke and saw the sacred phoenix in front of them.
Suicune, Entei and Raikou bowed before the rainbow-pokémon as it took off and flew away, leaving behind one of is rainbow-coloured feathers.
Ho-oh did not fly back to the Tin Tower, but flew off into the distance. Mason turned to the three legendary cats and said one word.
"Goodbye."
We'll never forget you.
Never.
Ever.
With that Suicune dashed off, leaping over burnt logs, and up onto the top of the wall, where he stopped.
Entei copied Suicune but jumped up onto the wall on the other side of the ruins.
Raikou remained in front of Mason.
Someday we shall meet again. Raikou said.
The three legendary cats threw back their heads and let out a long howl and raced off, disappearing into the forest.
Mason took a deep breath and turned to face the unburned doors. He placed his hands on the doors, threw them open, and stepped out of the Burned tower and back into Ecruteak City.
Present Day…Eusine took a deep breath.
"Mason's grand son, my grand father, moved to Celadon City, thus made Celadon my hometown. But the legend was passed down through my family and the Ecruteak Gym Leaders. When I caught wind of it, I started my hunt for Suicune. Then fifteen years ago, I saw it. But only after another trainer caught him first, before I could. She saw Entei and Raikou too. She caught all three of them after obtaining Mason's Clear Bell. She also caught Lugia too, with the aid of the Silver Wing, one of the silver feathers that Mason picked up. Ho-oh too was caught by the same trainer, with the only Rainbow Wing known to exist. The hunters also fell to her. Yielding their power to her and she had caught all the legendary pokémon. She learned the legends, gathered the items, and went on a search. Suicune, Entei, Raikou, Lugia, Ho-oh, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres.
They were captured by the only trainer deemed worthy of them in 150 years. She was worthy because she too is a descendant of Mason Hunter. She inherited the items from her mother, and heard the legends while passing through Ecruteak. But still she wasn't satisfied. She had to have the rarest pokémon of all. The last two legendary pokémon…Mew…and…Celebi…But those are other legends and stories…"
Taking a deep breath, Eusine, stood slowly and left.
He paused as he stopped in the door.
"I shall tell you the story of the capture of Suicune next time…"
The End.