chapter 7: legends revealed

the flight to Cinnabar island was long, but i managed to pull through. we landed around a little after midday, Ryan decided that the gym could wait a little, so we decided to look around the town. we walked for a bit, then we saw a giant mansion that looked old and slightly burnt down, so naturally we went in. as it turns out this "pokemon mansion" as it was referred as, is actually the island's biggest tourist attraction. we went up the stairs to an empty room, it had a few journals and notebooks in it, Ryan decided to read some passages out loud.

" July 15th 1984

while exploring the amazon jungle we have found a map to some form of treasure, it seems to be three different stones spread throughout the world, but only three of them appear on the map, we are not sure what these stones are for, but we will start a search to find them."

" October 7th 1984

we have found all three of the stones, one of them seems to be green all around with a mysterious flame design in the middle that is purple, the second one that we found has blue around the outside but with the same flame pattern in the middle being brown, the final stone thatr we found was black on the outside but it too had a flame pattern in the middle that was blue. we don't know what these stones hold, but we have a feeling that they have something to do with pokemon. but one thing that all the stones had waqs another stone but all three were clear on the outside, but with a rainbow flame pattern in the middle."

"January 3rd 1985

we have done some research on these stones and with plenty of pokemon to test for, we have found the three key pokemon that the stones react to. the blue stone reacts mostly to a Blastoise, the green stone reacts mostly to a Venosaur, and the black stone reacts mostly towards a Charizard. while putting the other stones close to the pokemon holding the respective others, a much stronger reaction occured, we don't know what it means but we let the pokemon's trainers keep the stones for we had all the data we needed at the time."

" January 18th 1985

the three trainers came in today with their pokemon and demonstrated what we couldn't have uncovered in a decade of research. each trainer had fastened their clear stone to some accessory and then sent out their pokemon, each pokemon also had the stone fastened onto somewhere, each trainer held up their stones and a flashing light came from it and their pokemon. each pokemon was surrounded by a glowing shell, but when it broke free it's appearance changed. the Venosaur now had some extra flowers on it along with a more fruitful tree on its back, the Blastoise now had two smaller arm cannons and shell on its arms along with what seemed to be that its two back cannons fused into one, the Charizard had the biggest change of all, its usually flame orange skin turned into a charcoal black with a blue underbelly, its eyes changed from green to red, it had spikes on its shoulders that were tipped blue, and its head spikes seemed sharper and were also tipped blue, its tail flame had also become blue, and it had two flowing blue flames coming out each side of its mouth. these transformations were so astounding to us that we decided to label them as a new form of evolution, a mega evolution if you will. in this demonstration we have realized that it it the bond between the pokemon and the trainer that causes the mega evolution, i have studied the map again but it now seems to show three different locations of the same mega stones."

" February 20th 1985

i decided that we didn't need the map anymore so i locked it away in a safe underneath this very mansion, hopefully it will not be uncovered for a long time."

"well now Emburn i guess i know where we're going." i nodded back at him in acceptance. we took the stairs underground, my tail flame lighting the way, we came across a part of wall that seemed a little suspicious, after a bit of searching we found the typical book that uncovers the secret passage, and the wall slid open, inside the wall was the safe as the passage said. Ryan decided to send out Nightshade in order to phase through the iron door of the safe and get the map. after he emerged from the safe with the map, Ryan opened it up and saw the locations of each stone. after writing the location for the stone of a charizard, he told Nightshade to put the map back in the safe.

"ok we've got what we need from here, now let's go get that gym badge." we entered the gym, and the leader Blain was waiting for the next challenger.

"another challenger coming to Cinnabar island eh? well now, let's see what you have against my fire types." i returned to my pokeball as usual, i expected Ryan to send out Wake because he had the typing to deal with the fire types, but instead he sent out crusher, i was surprised but then i realized that being rock and ground type gave him an advantage. 'come on little buddy don't let us down.' Crusher didn't disappoint, for a little guy he packed a punch, Blain's Growlith went down after a rock slide to the face, his ponyta didn't fair too well either after an earthquake. things started to get tough when he sent out his rapidash, being one of the fastest pokemon on the ground, little crusher didn't have a very big window of opportunity to hit it, but after concentrating for a bit (and getting a few flame bursts shot at him) Crusher launched a rock tomb at the Rapidash, now trapped under rocks, Crusher finished it off with an earthquake attack. Blain sent out his final pokemon, an Arcanine, and being that it was faster than a Rapidash, i don't think that Crusher is going to last much. my thoughts were correct when it hit crusher with an ember attack, then followed up with a fire blast, even with a resistance to fire, Crusher had one opportunity to land one good hit on that Arcanine. that opportunity came when it charged at him with a take down, Crusher used what he had left and captured it in a rock tomb, that was all he needed to do to stay in the game, after it as trapped Ryan switched out for Wake, wake then finished it off with a surf attack.

"very well done young man, your Larvitar really showed determination, even in the face of defeat it saw a window of opportunity to land one last hit before it was done. and now if i may see it, i would like to give it something special." Ryan sent out Crusher, but then as he went out of the pokeball something happened, he was covered in a bright white light, his appearance changed, he took a more cocoon like shape, and he became around two feet taller. Crusher had become a Pupitar, 'nice job little buddy, you really pulled through in this battle.'

"well now it seems i'll be giving this gift to, not the larvitar that beat my team, but the Pupitar that beat my team. here you go, i will give your trainer a less difficult time with this, i will teach you stone edge, a very powerful rock type move." after he learned that move Ryan earned the volcano badge, this meant that we had enough badges to face the final gym. we left the gym and i was sent out of my pokeball.

"well now Emburn it seems that we have enough badges to face the Veridian city gym. but how's about we take a little detour, actually it's gonna be a big detour, the Hoenn region to be exact." the second i heard Hoenn i knew two things, one we were going to hunt for the stone, and second, we were probably gonna see Alex again. i knew where he was going at, so i crouched down to let him climb onto my back, and soon we were off.

"hey Emburn, it seems like you've gotten taller, i thought that Charizards only grew to be 5'7"." i simply nodded at him that i grew taller, you see charizards continue to grow until they reach a certain height, a typical Charizard grows to be around 7 feet tall, the information humans know is just the height of a Charizard right after it evolves. we continued to fly in silence for around 10 minutes until i could see Hoenn in the distance, since my eyes were better than Ryan's it took him about an extra 3 minutes to finally see it. we made it there about 6 minutes later, Ryan pointed out Alex's house and we landed in front of it. Ryan knocked on the door, and after a while we were greeted by a familiar face.

"hey Alex, look who's back."