Wow, in five days would it be six months that I haven't updated! Can't believe that much time has flown by and a lot has happened too, but that doesn't mean I have abandoned my fan fiction and my wonderful reviewers. I wouldn't let writer's block get to me, and its taken me till now to finally get back into this story while enjoying my summer too!
Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own anything from Pokemon, except the characters that I've made and you've grown to love…. and thank you very much for your patience!
Chapter 5: Two Captures, One Shock
Angelina and friends fly back toward Cerulean City and arrive at Cerulean Cape to meet up with Danielle and Seamus. It was a beautiful place surrounded by lakes and overlooking the city. They were also restocking their supplies and filled their stomachs with food while their Pokemon were being treated at the local Pokemon Center.
Angelina had just gotten Christina to bed and was standing at window of her rented room sipping carefully at a cup of hot chocolate. The view wasn't so bad; as she gazed over the hills of Cerulean Cape. She noticed a strange cluster of sparkling things near the top of the hills. They reminded her of diamonds.
"Hey Angel," Dani said, brushing her dampened raven-violet hair from a quick shower. "What'cha doin'?"
Angelina didn't removed her gaze from the glittering things at the top of the hill. They seemed to be moving a little, like floating candles. But the light they gave out was sharper than that of fire, and it was bright silver in color.
"Doesn't look like star-gazing," a voice from behind Dani made her jump as she felt arms around her waist and soon relaxed when it was her boyfriend, Jeremy.
Both girls had changed out of their traveling attire and into their pajamas. Dani had on a pink spaghetti-strapped top and gray shorts while Angelina wore a white sleeveless nightdress that barely hit mid-thigh. This made them glare at Seamus, whom was leaning against the wall with a smirk and his arms folded while eyeing Angelina's curves.
"Can we go up there?" Angelina asked.
Jeremy shrugged. "Yeah sure, I'm just as curious."
Angelina smiled, "Great," she said, then pulled on a pair of jeans after the guys left the room while Dani placed on her white jacket and flip-flops.
POKEMON
It's a battle, winner or lose
It's the friends you make
It's the road you choose
We got the right stuff
So make your mind up
Find the courage inside of you
If you're strong you'll survive
And keep your dream alive
It's the Battle Frontier
POKEMON
Be the best you can be
And find your destiny
It's the master plan
The powers in you hand
POKEMON
They now headed in the direction of Cerulean Cape, walking in the middle of the road most of the time seen as there seemed to be no cars around at all. The sky was clear, the moon was full, but no stars. As they reached the foot of the small hill that Angelina had been looking at from her window, they could see that there was a small lake near the top of the hill. It was glowing.
They took the footpath that led up to the lake. The climb wasn't hard, but Angelina could feel her heart racing as she and her friends neared the lake with its glowing things. They were silent as they crawled up to the side of the lake and peered over the embankment. They gasped at the sight that was creating the sparkling lights: a crowd of Staryu, floating on the surface of the lake. Their central jewels were all lit up.
Angelina and Jeremy were reminded of the way they'd hang around the packaging area when Team Rocket resorted to selling Star Pieces and Stardust. They'd pick up the pretty Star Pieces and admire them. They were red in color, but whenever they caught the light they would always shine silver, but Angelina knew where they came from, she decided that the Star Pieces looked a lot nicer on living Staryus, and she made a mental note to discourage her teammates away from selling Star Pieces once she got back. But right now, she had to catch a Staryu.
"What's she doing?" Dani whispered to Jeremy as their best friend released her Ivysaur and singled out a Stary-u to attack with Razor Leaf.
The Staryu was caught unawares and it immediately straightened up in the water before leaping out of the lake and onto the grass, just a few feet away from Angelina's gang. Its jewel glowed even brighter, and hundreds of little stars were projected from it like tiny golden bullets – a Swift attack. The stream of stars hit Ivysaur full on, and Ivysaur growled angrily as it got up.
"Tackle!" Angelina ordered quickly.
Ivysaur delivered an impressive Tackle that made the Staryu fall backwards into the lake. Angelina and friends watched anxiously as a few bubbles rose from the surface. After a few seconds, the Staryu floated to the surface again. Angelina tugged a free Pokéball from her belt and tossed it towards the lake in an underarm throw. The Pokéball took up the Staryu and landed on the grass with a soft thud. It rocked slowly from side to side; the button in the middle lit up once, and it fell still.
Angelina and friends had been holding their breaths for the past thirty seconds. Now they let it out slowly as Angelina picked up the Pokéball. Glancing up, she noticed that the rest of the Staryu had disappeared from the lake, probably sunk out of view.
"Well done, Angel," Jeremy praised calmly. "We'll bring Christina up here tomorrow for a picnic to celebrate."
Later the next day, Angelina and friends trudged through a small field behind a housing estate on Cerulean Cape. It looked like a nice, quiet area to live, but the gang was walking past there and back to the lake for their picnic. Angelina followed, but her attention was half on avoiding muddy patches in the grass and half on a large, white building at the other side of the field.
"You're being quiet, Lina," Christina said concernly.
"I'm okay, really," Angelina replied, still looking at the mysterious old building. "Hey guys, I'm gonna look around for a while."
Jeremy, Dani, and Seamus stopped walking and exchanged suspicious glances while Christina was confused.
"Don't worry, I'll be back soon." Angelina assured. "You have my Poke Gear number if ya need me."
"All right, just be careful."
As soon as her friends were no longer in sight, Angelina sprinted off towards the building, not bothering about her shoes getting muddy anymore. The building was surrounded by a barbed wire fence which held a faded wooden sign: 'DANGER: DERELICT BUILDING. DO NOT ENTER.'
"Whatever," Angelina said.
Steadying herself on one of the wooden posts, she swung her legs over the fence and landed in the long, unkempt grass on the other side. An old plaque by the door mentioned that this place was a power plant... or at least, it used to be.
Angelina pushed the door. It wouldn't budge. So, having glanced around nervously to make sure nobody was watching, she kicked it as hard as she could. It fell through with a crack as it landed on the tiled floor. She thanked compulsory martial arts training with Team Rocket for that.
There were various holes in the walls, ceiling and windows that let the light in. Angelina wandered through the building silently, loving the adrenaline and the feeling of being somewhere that she blatantly wasn't supposed to be. She heard a noise behind her, and her heart skipped a beat. She spun around instantly to find herself face to face with a Magnemite. The nail on its head was buzzing with static electricity.
In mild alarm, Angelina called her Misdreavus out of her Pokéball.
"Attack, Mistress!" she commanded.
Mistress's eyes glowed as she issued forth a Psywave. The Magnemite fell from the air and landed on the tiled floor with a loud ding. It looked to be knocked out. Angelina felt sorry for the Magnemite and wasn't was about to leave the Pokemon alone while she carried on exploring. She took a Pokéball from her bag and tossed it. It captured the Magnemite easily and vanished to be stored cared for at Professor Oak's Lab.
"Well, that's another new Pokémon, I guess," Angelina whispered. Just then, there was a brief flash and a rumble of thunder. "Looks like a storm."
'A storm? Just like that? Weird.'
Angelina called her Misdreavus back into her Pokéball and decided to turn back. It wouldn't be good if the building got hit by lightning while she was still inside. From the looks of things, the old power plant had already been hit several times in the past. It made sense seen as it was high on a hill in the middle of a field, a perfect target for lightning. And besides, there was nothing to see.
Angelina shielded her eyes from an exceptionally bright flash of lightning. The thunder that followed was so loud that the whole place seemed to shake. For one terrifying moment, she thought she'd been hit (or come close to being hit). 'This must be a pretty bad storm,' she thought.
And then she heard something else. It didn't sound like thunder. It sounded like...some sort of bird cry. She felt her hair standing up on end, and tingles running up her arms. It was subtle at first, but it became more intense. Angelina turned around just in time to see a blinding bolt of lightning hurtling in her direction. She threw herself to the floor and it struck the wall, reducing a large section of it to rubble and ash. She shook her head, trying to get rid of the colors and lights that were dancing in front of her eyes.
There was the noise again. The bird cry. Then a shadow appeared. Angelina rolled over onto her back and found herself staring into the furious eyes of some sort of bird Pokémon. She froze. It was so big that it made her Pidgeot look like a Spearow. Its plumage was gold, and the undersides of its wings bristled with tiny bolts of lightning. Its beak and talons were razor sharp. At first, Angelina was mesmerized by its appearance. Then she realized.… it looked indescribably angry. She'd just walked into its home.
Angelina didn't have much time to think. She couldn't get up to run, so instead she frantically struck one of her Pokéballs' buttons before scrambling away. She nearly had a heart failure when she saw her three foot Ivysaur looked next to the formidable bird Pokémon. Part of her wanted to run away, but she just couldn't. It wasn't right. Her only other option was.... to battle.
"Razor Leaf!" Angelina yelled once she'd found her voice.
Ivysaur looked fired up, as if it were eager to prove itself. It sent out an intense barrage of sharp green leaves. Its opponent was so huge that the attack couldn't miss, but it didn't seem to do any damage either.
"Try a Giga Drain!"
Again, the attack connected, but nothing seemed to happen. The bird seemed to cry out mockingly. Then it drew one wing back and casually swatted Ivysaur to the side as if it were a speck of dust. For a fraction of a second, Angelina was angry. But her anger was quickly replaced by pity. She ran over to her Ivysaur, examined it quickly and put it back into its Pokéball. It looked to be in pretty bad shape.
Her next feeling was that of terror. The giant bird looked angrier than ever. The sparks of electricity on its wings were building up.
'It's an Electric Pokémon,'Angelina realized, 'so therefore its attacks won't work on a Ground Pokémon.'
With trembling hands, she unleashed her Aron. She was about to order an Earthquake, but then she remembered that a ground-based attack would never work on a Pokémon that was in the air.
"Rock Smash!" Angelina called out.
Aron looked at his trainer desperately as the bird started to peck at it.
"Okay, okay..." Angelina shook her head. "Rock Slide, then!"
At first she thought nothing was going to happen. She was about to call Aron back and make a run for it, when gradually pieces of debris on the floor started to rise. The bird was too busy pecking at Aron to notice. All at once, a bundle of rock was dropped on it from above. The rocks landed on its head with a deafening crash, and it fell to the ground. Angelina waited. It didn't move. Aron was eyeing it warily.
Finally, Angelina let out a sigh of relief. She was about to call her Aron back when...
The bird arose again with a piercing shriek, shaking the dust and grit from its wings. It was looking a little weaker, as if it were struggling to stay in the air.
"Try another Rock Slide, Copper!"
But Rock Slide was slow, whereas this opponent was fast. It launched itself at Aron in a powerful Tackle attack, knocking it out instantly. It rose into the air, cawing triumphantly, as Angelina called back her fainted Pokémon. Two down, only four left...
"Go, Blaze!" Angelina threw in the second Pokéball on her belt.
Typhlosion emerged, slightly worried at the prospect of battling such a gigantic opponent. But it stood its ground, and Angelina forced herself to smile. "Your best Flamethrower!" she commanded.
Typhlosion cried out as it took a deep breath and produced a blazing Flamethrower. It hit the bird in the face and it screeched in anger. It responded with some sort of air attack – but it was too powerful to be a Gust attack! – that simply blew the fire out of its way and back towards Angelina. Angelina screamed in genuine fear. However, she didn't leap out of the way but instead leapt towards the oncoming blaze, she grabbed hold of her Typhlosion and pushed it out of the way and to the side. She let go of Typhlosion, who jumped back into battle straight away and started launching Ember attacks at the bird of its own accord whilst dodging Peck and Thunder attacks skillfully. It was treating it like some sort of training drill.
Angelina, still lying amongst the rubble, was in two minds over what to do. Her initial reaction was fear for her Pokémon, battling it out on its own. It was a hopeless cause. It would be better to run. But no: if Typhlosion was able to keep going, then so was she. As she climbed to her feet and dusted herself off, she noticed that she had burn marks on both arms and grazes on her legs, and her shirt had been slightly burned off from when she had seized Typhlosion.
If she had stood around thinking about it, the pain would have hit her and she would have quit – she wasn't actually that brave by nature when it came to pain, although she liked to think that she was. But she leapt over the pile of rubble and onto the 'battlefield' where the bird Pokémon was now walking on the ground, coming ever closer, driving Typhlosion further and further back. Typhlosion was weakening.
Angelina wondered why the bird was walking now. Then she noticed that part of its left wing was badly burnt and its right was in an awkward position as if it was injured in some way. 'We're making progress,' she thought.
Typhlosion's part in the battle soon ended – it collapsed out of pure exhaustion and Angelina called it back with silent but immense gratitude. When she'd first set eyes on the nothing-special Cyndaquil back during her second trip in the Johto region, she'd never imagined that it had so much fight in it waiting to be unleashed. Now she knew that it wasn't to be underestimated.
But she wasn't out of danger yet and hastily released Staryu. If she were to lose this battle, she would lose in style: Misdreavus would be the last to fight. As Staryu appeared, the bird suddenly took to the air again as if the sight of its opponent strengthened it, somehow. It knew that it was at an extreme advantage. Angelina longed to call for a Hydro Pump or even an Ice Beam, but she knew that Staryu wouldn't have either of those attacks at this level. So, instead, she called for a Water Gun.
As if sensing the urgency of the situation, Staryu steadied itself and a terrific blast of water ensued forth. The large bird seemed surprised by its power but it was too late to dodge. The attack hit full on and the bird was thrown against the back wall. It fell to the floor and hopped onto its feet weakly, stumbling every so often as it ran forwards again. Sparks of electricity leapt from its wings.
"Spin Tackle!" Angelina commanded.
Staryu was looking particularly on form. Like a boomerang, it flew into the air, hitting the bird on the head with each of its five limbs before returning to its original place. No damage to Staryu as of yet. It was at full strength.
With its last few ounces of strength (or so it seemed), the bird
screeched and unleashed a dazzling Thunder attack. It was unavoidable. Angelina could do nothing but crouch by the door, out of the way. She didn't even have to look to know that Staryu had fainted. She felt a rush of heat zoom past her head, which was followed by a burning smell. She cursed as she looked at a few locks of her hair at the left side of her head that were singed at the bottom.
Now was the time to let out her anger. The battle was almost over.
"You wanna fight for real, huh?" Angelina yelled, returning Staryu to its Pokéball. "You wanna beat me? Think I'm not good enough for you? Fine! I'll give you a fight!"
The bird loomed over her and screeched loudly. Angelina had never been so scared. But she still had one last Pokémon. She had her fortress. And she let her loose.
"Go, Mistress! Do me proud. If this is to be the end, let's make it count!"
Mistress made a sound of general agreement. She narrowed her eyes and began to glow the classic blue color of a Psywave attack.
"No, not strong enough!"
In that split-second of hesitation as Mistress cancelled her Psywave attack and waited for a command, the bird took its chance to attack. Something shot from its beak, passed straight through Mistress and out of the door, missing Angelina by a few inches. 'A Drill Peck attack? Lucky miss.'
"Shadow Ball!" Angelina ordered. She wasn't shaken. It was too close now. She had to carry on.
Mistress obeyed swiftly and shot forward a black and purple ball of shadow. It struck the bird under its chin, knocking it backwards. And still, it got to its feet again. Another Shadow Ball. The same happened.
"I'm sorry to do this to you, Mistress," Angelina said, "but I need a Destiny Bond right now."
As always, Mistress listened to her trainer with neither complaint nor hesitation. The Destiny Bond was in place. Now all they had to do was wait for the bird to attack. It stood shakily, staggering around. It was weak, but its rage was still there in its dark, flashing eyes.
"Attack," Angelina whispered.
But it wouldn't attack. It wasn't falling for it.
"Mistress, Perish Song!" Angelina commanded. It was something that she had hardly ever done before.
As the bird realized that it was about to be attacked again, it took its chance. Before Mistress could begin her Perish Song, it released a Razor Wind attack followed by a Thundershock (or a weak Thunder attack) and its level advantage was such that that was all it took. Mistress fainted, almost graciously, and a split-second later, the bird went down. And it stayed down.
Everything was silent. There was the rustling of the wind in the grass. Angelina stood astonished. Now that the battle was over, she was back to her old self. Limping, nursing her stinging wounds and fighting the urge to cry, she walked around the fallen bird and looked at it with a mixture of excitement and terror. She reached out to touch it but was too afraid to do so.
"That's not right," Angelina muttered. "It just can't be what I think it is?" and yet she knew it was definitely a Pokemon, a bloody strong legendary one. She then took out her Pokedex.
'Zapdos, the Electric Pokemon. It is said to appear from clouds while dropping enormous lightning bolts and when the sky turns dark as lightning showers down. It usually lives in thuderclouds and gains power if stricken by lightning bolts.'
Angelina knew she had seen a Zapdos in the Orange Islands, but another one was all that mattered to her now as she ran for her bag that she had thrown to one side and searched through it. She almost did cry when she couldn't find any Pokéballs. But finally, she did. Just one. A plain Pokéball. She gazed at it for a moment before casting it towards the bird. "Fly true," she whispered.
The Pokémon was so large that it took a while for it to be absorbed. The ball fell with a clatter and shook violently, rolling around in circles. Angelina poised herself to give up and run should the bird break loose. It took about five minutes (or it felt like five minutes) for the ball to finally become still. As Angelina approached it, it twitched once...twice...and then nothing.
With shaking hands, Angelina picked it up. Just as she was coming to terms with what she'd done, it turned white and disappeared from her hand. If Angelina hadn't been so dumfounded, she might have panicked in case it got lost somewhere and didn't end up at Professor Oak's Lab. But she still couldn't believe it. Was she even awake? Feeling terribly stupid and cliché, she pinched herself. It hurt. So did everything else.
Then Angelina heard footsteps from outside. Still stunned, she didn't turn round. The footsteps came closer. A low voice said, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Hmm?" Angelina blinked and turned round. "What?"
Her ex-rival/friend, Seamus, was standing in the doorway. He was carrying a Great Ball in one hand and looked out of breath. "How did you get in here?" he asked sourly. "Did you break the door?"
"No, I...I mean, yes. I wanted to have a look round."
"So is that why you didn't come with us?" Seamus snapped, eyeing Angelina suspiciously.
"Maybe," Angelina shrugged. "Why are you here, anyway?"
"God...you mean you don't know what this place is?" Seamus rolled his eyes.
"No, but I'm sure you're gonna tell me."
"This is the old Power Plant!"
"Well done, Einstein," Angelina remarked, returning to her old self again. "The sign outside the door says so. So you can read. Well done."
Seamus backtracked a little and glanced at the sign.
"Okay, there is a sign. But I didn't read it. I just knew."
"How nice for you."
"I'm looking for Zapdos," Seamus replied in a professional manner, adjusting his collar and scanning the building.
"Apparently it nests here."
"Why are you looking for Zapdos?" Angelina felt a bowling ball drop in her stomach.
"Oh c'mon, babe! You know it's one of the Legendary Birds."
"Well yeah, I knew that," Angelina said, trying to cover her tracks, and she was scared.
"So, have you seen anything?"
"No," Angelina replied instantly. "Nothing here. You must have got it wrong."
"You wouldn't be lying to me, would you?"
"No. In fact, I came here to look for Zapdos as well. But the legends can't be true. As you can see, there's nothing here. No nest, no feathers...no Zapdos."
"You really are lying," Seamus said immediately. "I know you are."
"I am not lying!" Angelina widened her eyes in innocence. "All I've got from here are a couple of Magnemites."
Seamus glanced at her belt and smiled slowly and knowingly, making a show of it. Angelina felt her heart leap into her throat. She didn't like the way he was looking at her. "So you caught a Magnemite, huh?" he asked. "Prove it. Show me."
"I can't," Angelina replied. "It's gone to Professor Oak's Lab."
"Oh, really?" Seamus advanced towards her; she backed off. "Last time i checked, you only had five Pokémon on your belt. You now have six. What else did you catch?"
"Well, I didn't catch Zapdos, if that's what you're thinking,"
Angelina lied (or was she lying? She wasn't sure). "I only have Pokéballs with me. If such a Pokémon as Zapdos exists, no ordinary Pokéball will be able to catch it, right?"
"Possibly," Seamus said, still suspicious, "but tell me what you caught."
"If you must know," Angelina replied furiously, "You were with me last night when I caught Staryu at Cerulean Cape. I'm also carrying Misdreavus, Ivysaur, Typhlosion, and Aron. And I caught a Magnemite, just now. I was just passing by and decided to check this place out. Is that acceptable to you?"
"Fight with me, then," Seamus ordered.
Angelina was about to take up his challenge before she remembered the horrible state that her Pokémon were in. There was no way they could fight. "I...I can't!" she replied, mortified that she was turning down a challenge.
"Oh, you can't?" Seamus looked equally mortified, but it was just an act. "And why not?"
"My Pokémon are all fainted. They're worn out.... from all the fights in the Battle Frontier."
"You're actually competing in the frontier challenge?" Seamus raised his eyebrows. "I thought your brother was the only one doing that."
"I got a letter in the mail offering my participation, so why not?"
"And you didn't pass any Pokémon Centers on your journey?"
"No. I mean, yes. I did. But we didn't...we didn't stop."
"Ha!" Seamus laughed. "We're staying at a Pokemon Center,
Angelina, and I never mentioned a Pokémon battle, maybe a fistfight will do."
Angelina eyed him angrily but stood her ground even as he moved closer. 'He wouldn't dare,' she thought. She remembered that she had a gun. The thought comforted her, even though she wasn't intending to use it. Seamus wasn't worth a bullet. A punch in the face? Maybe.
"I won't fight you," Angelina said calmly.
"No, I wouldn't if I were you," Seamus remarked, looking her up and down. "You're in pretty bad shape. Looks like you've been fighting enough already. What happened? Did someone catch you trying to swipe something and beat you up?" He laughed at his own 'work of genius' joke.
"That's none of your business," Angelina said, blushing. She wished she had a long coat to hide the burns and dirt on her clothing and any wounds that she had.
"You couldn't have been here too long before I arrived."
"Unless Jeremy and Dani sent you to find me." Angelina muttered, then sighed. "I just.... came in to shelter from the thunderstorm."
"Thunderstorm? That's strange. They say that Zapdos sometimes appears when there's a..." Something was set alight in Seamus's eyes. He looked at Angelina. Her eyes widened in fear. "Hey," he said. "Wait a minute. There was no storm."
"Yes, there was! There was thunder and lightning and I nearly got h...oh, shit. No." Angelina just dropped a big hint.
Before the situation could get any worse, Angelina put her bag on her back and bolted past Seamus towards the door. He didn't bother following her, but as she passed him, he took hold of her arm and pulled her close. With a little smile, he gave her a fleeting kiss. Angelina was too shocked to say anything.
"I know you're lying to me, Angelina. I'll be watching you." Seamus smiled at her stunned expression. That had been the intended effect.
"Well, that'll be rude," Angelina whispered in reply, pulling herself free, "I'll meet ya back at the Pokemon Center."
Needing time to think (and time to get her new Pokémon), Angelina went into the city and stopped at a Pokémon Center. The healing took longer than usual because some of her Pokémon had needed extra treatment. Angelina was glad that her Pokémon were okay now, but her desire for her new Pokémon outweighed her happiness and she exchanged her Ivysaur for...
Zapdos. That's what it said on the screen. Angelina did a double take. No, it really did say that! "Oh, my God," she whispered. "I caught Zapdos."
'I caught Zapdos! I captured a fuckin' Legendary Pokémon! Can you believe that?'
Saying it out loud brought it home. She gasped and shielded the screen with her arms in case anyone (or her friends for that matter) was watching. Her heart rate doubled.'This can't be real,'she thought. She glanced at the screen again. 'Holy shit,' she screamed silently,'it is real!'She seized the Pokéball, fitted it to her belt and was about to go to her rented room; her injuries were totally forgotten by now. It was only when her friends walked inside the center and approached her.....
"What happened to you?" Dani screamed.
...that she remembered all the burns and bruises that she'd earned whilst capturing...
'Oh, my God. Zapdos. I caught Zapdos. A Legendary Pokémon.'
"I...." Angelina had been about to formulate some story. But for some reason, she changed her mind and told the truth. "Guys, you won't believe what happened."
"Try us!" Jeremy said, he and Dani look concerned. Seamus had his arms folded and glared sternly while Christina gazed curiously between Angelina and her friends.
"She doesn't have to," Seamus said. "SHE caught Zapdos."
"What makes you think that?" Angelina raised an eyebrow and met Seamus's gaze confidently. "Are you gonna frisk me for it?"
"You wish, sweetheart."
Dani gasped and Christina giggled while Angelina blushed and managed to maintain eye contact to prove her confidence. "Look," she said, "it was an accident, really. It attacked me, I fought back, it fell, I caught it. I didn't know what it was until you turned up spouting off about it! How was I to know that you wanted it? It wasn't as if I stole it from you, although if I had done, I guess that would make us even seen as you blatantly snatched that Eevee from under–"
"Don't even go there, Angelina," Seamus warned, his eyes narrowed evilly.
Angelina's eyes widened in shock then narrowed angrily as she got up into her ex-rival's face, "Fine then, I won't," she said, her lips so close to his that he could feel them. She turned heel without another word, walking away toward her rented room.
Later that evening when Dani and Christina were sitting in their room after Angelina had bandaged her wounds up, she began her unlikely-sounding tale of how she had broken into the abandoned building in the field nearby and had been attacked...fought...and ended up catching Zapdos.
"Angelina...." Dani's eyes were wide with not just accusation, but also disbelief and admiration. "Do you realise what you just did?"
"I...I think I do...."
'I captured Zapdos. It's mine. All mine.'
"You just captured a legendary Pokémon, Angelina! You're just like me and Amber now! We've had our chances at seeing legendaries or hearing about their stories. You've heard what happened with my Mew, and Amber still has her Lugia, but just look at your brother and when he's encountered legendaries on his adventures!"
"Yeah, I know what you mean."
"Would it be okay if I saw it?" Dani asked. "I'm not dismissing your story, ya know. If I see it, it'll confirm it."
"I can't let it out!" Angelina whispered. "It's crazy! It attacked me with thunderbolts and everything! God, you should have seen what it did to my Pokémon!"
"But they're okay now, right?" Dani asked quickly.
Angelina nodded. "You really wanna see this Zapdos, don't you?"
"Sure I do." Dani grinned. "What trainer wouldn't?"
Angelina told Christina to stay behind in her room while she and Dani went into the back garden of the Pokemon Center. After glancing around nervously for a few minutes, Angelina released the Pokémon from her sixth and final Pokéball. There was a flash. Thunder was heard in the distance.
Then there was the familiar sound of bird cry again. And when she saw the bird hovering in the air above her, Angelina couldn't deny it anymore. It was real. She had just captured a Legendary, and yet she felt more scared than pleased.
"Wow. But you know, a lot of people would say that that wasn't right," Dani said, confirming her fears. "Capturing Legendaries, I mean."
"I can see how they might think that..." Angelina whispered.
"But...winner takes all, right?"
"I suppose so, yes."
Angelina hastily recalled her Zapdos with a call of, "Return, Tempest."
"Tempest?" Dani questioned with a smile.
Angelina shrugged. "I dunno. It just goes with it. 'Zapdos' is too hard on the ears. And besides, subtlety is everything. I wouldn't wanna go proclaiming to the world that I own a Zapdos.... would I? Dani?"
Dani suddenly looked all serious. Angelina rarely sees her best friend like that.
"Most certainly not. Whatever you do, Angelina, don't tell anyone. Especially Team Rocket, you'll get mugged for it if they ever caught wind that you have a legendary, believe me."
§To Be Continued§
I wasn't sure if I was going to split this chapter into two parts and make one into a cliff-hanger leading into the next one or just put everything in one big chapter. So yeah, twenty-two pages, think I'm good for now!
*isn't based off an episode for once
*Angelina catches Stary-u at Cerulean Cape
*Angelina captures the legendary Zapdos, Seanus isn't thrilled, and Dani forwarns to keep the Pokemon hidden.
*Angelina has Typhlosion, Aron, Misdreavus, Ivysaur, Stary-u, and Pikachu for her team line-up.
*Angelina, Jeremy, and Christina meet up with Dani and Seamus
Comments and suggestions are welcomed! Thanks for reading! Happy Summer, guys!