Chapter 2: The Legends (part 1)

"Serena wake up." Calem nudged her with a smile on his face.

"Hm?" Her normally trended hair was covering her face like a Swadloon's leaves covering its body.

"I think they're having breakfast already."

"Alright, I'll be there in a sec." She slowly got up, stretched, and spat the hair out of her mouth.

"I know it looks cool and all, but is a dragon-type really worth a spot on your team?" Gold was getting some milk when Calem got down.

The kitchen was big enough to have a long rectangular table like yesterday, a big kitchen to Calem's left, a bar in front of the kitchen, and then have a Snorlax sit comfortably in the back. The kitchen and the living room were divided by a wall with a hole without a door to Calem's right. Behind the kitchen was a huge hall, which Nate explained yesterday to be the hall that leads to the first four Legend's rooms. Red with Leaf and Gold with Lyra to Calem's left, and Ruby with May and Diamond with Dawn to his right. The other four (including him) had to climb up stairs to get to the second floor, were their rooms were.

"Of course it is!" Diamond proclaimed after taking a sip of his coffee. "It takes half damage to almost everything and its only weaknesses are Ice, Fairy, and other Dragons! Ice types aren't very common and Fairy types look too stupid to be popular. In that case, only dragons can beat other dragons, and then that's a case of speed." He crossed his arms triumphantly.

"Actually," Calem said as he entered the kitchen. "Fairy types are getting super popular, since they can take out Dragon, Dark, and Fighting, which had only one weakness before." He sat down next to Nate, who was eyeing Diamond suspiciously.

"Electric types are the over-powered ones." Red muttered under his hat. "Only Ground types are effective against them, so you have to rely on its second typing to deal damage. Also, you can give an Air Balloon to a Pokémon with only Electric as its type and it can be virtually unstoppable for a turn or two if give him good moves. For example, lets give a Raichu an Air Ballon and Double Team. Even if you hit him with a non-Ground type move, he still has enough health to raise its evasiveness. After that, all you have to do is repeat the process to become practically untouchable." He shrugged, and everyone nodded in approval.

"Are you guys always the only ones up at this hour?" Calem asked, looking at Red, Gold, Ruby, Diamond, and Nate.

"Yeah." Gold sat down with a bowl of cereal. "The girls take a bath or brush their hair or whatever and Black, well..." He looked around nervously.

"Black and Hilda are the type of couple that kinda flirts too much and at the end of the day, well..." He seemed to struggle explain without saying the S word.

"I understand, I understand." Calem nervously smiled. "Speaking of getting ready though, if I go back to Kalos for a sec and come back, how much time passes for you?"

"Uh, normal time, why?"

"Because I have a thing I do every morning. I have a different look every day depending on how I feel as soon as I wake up. I guess I have to wake up earlier now. Also, you guys have the same clothes as yesterday. You don't change?" Suddenly, the situation became way more awkward.

"Uh, no." Ruby scratched his head. "We have tons of pairs of the same outfit. We started our journey with these clothes and grew accustomed to them so we look and feel kinda weird without them. Specially Red and his only hat." He pointed at Red, who covered his face with it.

"Do-" Calem pointed at Red, but Gold stopped him.

"Questions are for the question time."

"HYAAAAAAAAAH!" Nate finally stopped staring at Diamond and ran past him, stealing his scarf on the way. "MWAHAHAHAHA!"

"GODAMMIT NATE! GIVE ME BACK MY SCARF!" Diamond yelled and ran after him, leaving smiles on everyone's faces. Black got down with a huge yawn.

"Is he doing it again?" He mumbled. At everyone's nod, he caught Nate by the collar and gave Diamond his scarf back.

"Hey handsome." Hilda appeared behind him and clenched Black's butt.

"Hey! That's my job!" He returned the favor and kissed her. "Ooh!"

"Oh god." Gold covered his face.

"Stop it you two, you're making Gold as red as a shiny Gyrados." Leaf smiled when she arrived.

"LEAF!" Everybody immediately jumped and pleaded for pancakes except for Red, who let out a chuckle. She gave them her motherly smile and took out the ingredients.

"And I'm like: 'Oh yeah, I'm part of Team Delta. Rayquaza FTW!' And that idiot just stands there, staring at my headband like its freakin Mew." May laughed with Dawn as they walked in.

"Mornin honey." Lyra arrived and got some eggs.

"What up babe." Gold mumbled through a spoonful of cereal.

"Hello everybody! Hey Nate." Rosa smiled.

"What? I'm not part of everybody?" Nate laughed with the others.

"Bonjour!" Serena quickly sat next to Calem as he explained how they couldn't go to Kalos right now.

"Alright then. I guess we're all set for the Question Time. We're using the same order as yesterday." Gold announced.

"So Calem, any questions regarding me or Nate?" Rosa asked.

Calem seemed to think about it.

"Not really, sorry." He scratched his head.

"Okay then, here's a question submitted by one of us:

'How far are you in your relationship?' Really? Who submitted this?" Rosa looked suspiciously at the table full of trainers.

"Uh..." Calem and Serena nervously looked at each other.

"Our relationship is three years old, but we've only seen each other about a year, because we only had short visits between my journey and her acting career."

"Alright then," Black continued before anyone could say anything. "Any questions regarding the Unova pair?"

"Yeah, actually. You two kinda disappeared right after you beat Team Plasma. What happened?" Serena asked.

"Well," Hilda started. "I went looking for N. After finding him and his secret that I will never reveal," She darted her eyes at Black, who seemed mad at this. "I went back and beat the Elite 4 a second time. After that, I created the Unova Pokémon World Tournament during the events of Nate and Rosa's journey so I could find Black, who had disappeared without a word before I did." She have him a look that said: 'Go on, it's your turn to make me mad.' Black sighed and explained.

"I found Red on top of Kyurem's cave and battled him. After I lost, I demanded he taught me to become better with his intense cold mountain training. When I finally finished my training, I found out about the World Tournament and entered. Hilda and I got reunited, and I was the one to beat Nate when he entered too. After beating him I battled Blue too, but I lost. At the end, I became the fifth best trainer in the world, behind Red, Blue, Leaf, and Gold. After that I discovered Unova once again, this time with Nate and Rosa, visiting old friends and meeting new ones." Black finished.

"Nice." Calem laid back on his chair, happy that he learned the whole story.

"I don't know how I can top that." Dawn sighed when it was her turn.

"Actually, yes you can. How did Diamond catch all Legendaries if I have Zygarde and Yveltal? And Serena has Xerneas."

"Why do I have to be the one to explain this?" Diamond crossed his arms and sighed. "Arceus isn't stupid. He knows that humans are now powerful enough to capture gods and we may accidentally cause natural disasters if we actually do catch one. So, he created a failsafe. If any Legendary gets caught, an exact replica of that Legendary gets created from cloning the Legendary of another parallel dimension. It sounds complicated but it's really quite simple. So, I visited all the regions to catch them all. I didn't beat their leagues though. I just went there for the Legendaries. Understand?" Calem slowly nodded, a frown on his face. "Kinda. I guess."

"Whatever. It's our turn." Ruby pushed Diamond's face out of the way.

"Right." Serena nodded. "You said that you showed the world Mega Stones. How did you do that if Mega Stones originated in Kalos?"

"I knew you were going to ask that." Ruby smiled. "You see, I have a friend called Steven Stone who is completely obsessed with rocks and minerals. He visited Kalos years before your journey and came back to Hoenn, bringing back tons of Mega Stones with him. They were born in Kalos, but they flourished in Hoenn, thanks to Steven." He smiled in satisfaction.

"So," Lyra looked away with an unusual low tone. "I am guessing you're going to ask about what I said before. The fact that if I'm the second female Johto Master, then who was the first, and how come there is no second male Johto Master. I think I'll let Gold explain." She gave Gold a worrisome look and looked down. Gold was looking in the same direction with a pained look.

"Krystal...was a very difficult trainer to have a journey with. We constantly bickered and had battles after every Gym, she kept opposing me at every occasion, and she insisted we took the route with the most tall grass." Gold let out a short pained chuckle. "But we loved her. She grew up with us in New Bark Town and she was part of the team."

"After our journey, we went on a hunt for the three elemental Legendaries. I went for Raikou, Lyra went for Entei, and Krystal went for Suicune. Lyra and I got ours without a lot of trouble, but Krystal just couldn't catch Suicune for some reason. She refused to let us have a try, and Suicune escaped without a single shake even when using a Master Ball. So, Krystal did some research and found out that Suicune was actually caught before her and it was never released, meaning that her attempts were actually stealing attempts. She confronted the past owner to negotiate. Misty, the Water Gym Leader of Kanto, refused to release Suicune, which made Kris extremely frustrated. We told her to let it go, but her determination turned to stubbornness and she asked me to lend her Ho-oh. Ho-oh was known to grant lots of impossible wishes, like letting Lance keep his three Dragonites as a Champion or making his Aerodactyl learn Rock Slide. I let her borrow my Ho-oh and she immediately ran to catch Suicune. When I finally caught up, she was holding a Master Ball in her hand and Ho-oh was between her and Suicune. Krystal whispered something to Ho-oh and looked back at me one last time with a tear in her eye, before throwing the Master Ball and disappearing into thin air, Suicune's Pokéball gripped tightly in her hand. I later learned that Ho-oh's wishes always came with a cost equal to the difficulty of the wish. Since Krystal was essentially stealing someone else's Pokémon, her loss was losing her best friend. I still don't know if she's alive." Gold finished, his eyes watery with tears.

Calem couldn't believe how he could stay so happy all the time after all this. He couldn't imagine if he had lost Serena to Zygarde or something.

His gaze then turned from Gold to Red, hoping his story would be happier.

Hey! Sorry to kinda leave you on a cliffhanger there, but I'm kinda tired and I don't wanna leave you guys waiting. Anyways, I forgot to ask you for questions you may have for the Legends. Oops. I guess you can leave questions for Leaf and Red instead (Hey that rhymed). I hope you liked Krystal's tragic story, because I'll be adding more to the puzzle when she arrives.