Well, here's the second chapter.

Chapter 2:Lake Spirit Rescue

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I ran through the forest as fast as I could, Anubis right next to me. We jumped over fallen logs and ducked under brushes. Fortunately, my goggles kept anything from getting in my eyes, and Anubis was so small that he didn't have to worry about it. Eventually, we reached what I knew to be Verity Lake. We saw the source of the booming and immediately wished we hadn't. In front of us was a humongous chrome robot with a saw-blade for a left hand and a cannon for the right. We both looked at each other and gulped audibly. The massive robot turned to face us, showing a man inside a glass chamber where the robot's head should have been.

And people, I'm not exaggerating when I say he looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.

His shirt, his pants, his jacket; all of them were totally chrome. Honestly, weirdest outfit I've ever seen. Of course, who was I to judge when I wore strange clothes myself? I wore dark purple, fingerless gloves, along with a silver hooded jacket and white shirt. I had brown hair, along with blue jeans and yellow shoes. My goggles were also shaded, covering my green eyes. Yeah, I was pretty weird-looking myself. Anyway, the man was now looking at us with a scowl.

"What are you doing here, kid?"he sneered."I THOUGHT I had scared away anyone stupid enough to get in my way."I clenched my fists angrily.

"What gives you the right to go stomping around like you own the place!?"I yelled angrily. The man pointed both weapons at me.

"These,"he said darkly, charging the cannon. My eyes widened.

"Oh, crud,"I muttered. We immediately leapt out of the way of a blue energy shot, which scorched the ground we were standing at just seconds before. Man, I'm glad I was a dodge ball champ back in middle school.

"Is this guy trying to kill us!?"Anubis shouted. The man pointed the weapons at us again.

"That would be a yes,"I remarked, preparing to jump again. But before the man could fire again, there was a pokemon cry from the lake. We turned to the lake and saw none other than Mesprit, the being of Emotion rising out of the water. I saw the man grin evilly out of the corner of my eye.

"THERE you are!"he shouted, now aiming the weapons at it.

"You will NOT do any more damage to the forest OR my lake! LEAVE!"Mesprit shouted in a female voice. Weird. I thought Legendaries didn't have genders. The man obviously didn't understand her. He fired the cannon, but Mesprit had some good reflexes. She immediately flew out of the way, but the man aimed it again. This time he fired a net, unfortunately htting his mark this time.

"Okay, time to help,"I muttered. Anubis ran towards the robot as I ran to Mesprit. Fortunately for Anubis, the man now had his attention on me. Of course, for me, that was UN-fortunate.

"Eat this, you little bastard!"he said, aiming at me. Nice langauge. He fired again, but I jumped backwards as fast as I could, just BARELY dodging it, but still feeling the heat of the blast. With this distraction, Anubis managed to reach the glass covering. Still heading towards Mesprit, I saw Anubis grin and rear his fist back. He threw it forward and shattered the glass. He then began to jump around the console like a demented pogo stick, giving me time to free Mesprit.

"You okay?"I asked as I pulled off the net. She floated up to my level, shaking her head and staring at me.

"Who are you, human?"she asked, then shook her head while muttering "Mesprit, humans can't understand you. You need to remember that."

"My name is Ken, and yes, I CAN understand you,"I replied calmly. She looked at me with widened eyes.

"You...can?"she asked hesitantly. I simply nodded. She stared at me a moment longer before holding her twin tails in front of her and placing them on my forehead. In that instant, a burst of energy out of nowhere surged through me. A gasp escaped my throat and my eyes snapped shut. All the sounds around me seemed to vanish from my ears. I opened my eyes again and saw that I was floating in a strange, empty whiteness, with nothing else around. But then I began to hear multiple voices, one after another, seemingly out of nowhere. The first sounded like snickering, along with electricity crackling. The next sounded like the wind blowing, along with the sound of colossal wings beating. The next one was REALLY weird. It sounded like a child crying out in joy. For some reason, the shout sounded electronic...and insane. The next one sounded like a man chuckling in an amused tone. Finally, the last sound I heard was what could only be described as a VERY eerie and ghostly moan.

After all that, my senses seemed to come back to me all at once. I was back at Lake Verity and saw that Anubis was still toying with the man. I looked back at Mesprit and saw that she was smiling widely at me.

"What...was that?"I asked, trying to comprehend what the heck just happened. Her smile only got wider.

"You're the one,"she said. I raised an eyebrow.

"The one what?"

"AAAAAAAARRRGH!! HOLD STILL, YOU LITTLE RUNT!!"Our heads snapped back to them. Deciding that he was done messing around, he smashed his little fist into the console and jumped down, using the robot's limbs as footstools. He reached us as the console exploded and the man was knocked out. Anubis climbed back onto my shoulders, panting as the robot fell over on its back, immobile.

"Nice job,"I said, smiling at him. He sighed tiredly.

"Can I have something to eat?"he asked. Before I could answer, we heard a groan. The man slowly stood up and looked at us angrily. Wow, I figured he'd be dead from all that; or at least out cold.

"You little BASTARDS! You've ruined everything!!"He started walking towards us while pulling up his sleeves. Anubis jumped in front of me to cut him off. I looked down at him.

"Anubis, please get out of the way,"I said calmly. He gave me a very confused look, but complied. The man reached us and reared his fist back. I couldn't help but smirk. He swung forward, but tilted my head quickly, dodging the punch.

"Nice try, I suppose,"I said with a bored shrug. This only made him angrier. He swung again, but I ducked."Is that all you got?"He swung again. I sidestepped."Oh, so close."Same as before."Ooh, felt the wind that one."Rinse. Wash. Repeat."Okay, I've had about enough of this."I reared my foot back with the movement of my last dodge and then kicked him in the gut. When he doubled over in pain, I quickly struck him in the back of the head, knocking him out.

"Wow, that had to hurt,"Anubis said with a chuckle, looking at the unconcious man.

"Good job,"Mesprit told us. She then looked down the road, as if hearing something."C'mon. Some of your human vehicles are coming. Follow me."She quickly flew into the forest, the two us following. We got into the forest just as police cars arrived. Of course, I wasn't paying attention. I was thinking about all those voices I heard. Who were they? And what did Mesprit mean when she said I was "The one?" Eventually, we reached a small cave. Mesprit motioned for us to follow her. We looked at each other, shrugged and walked into the cave. We saw that it lead to a stone wall with strange writing on it. Were they Unown letters I heard about?

"Friendship,"Mesprit said, confusing us."All lives touch other lives to create something anew and alive."Then something REALLY weird happened. The wall started to collapse in on itself, revealing another tunnel. Mesprit turned and saw our jaws practically on the floor. She snickered a bit."Well, c'mon. We don't have all day."We shook our heads and looked at each other, then looked back at her.

"Hey, hold up a moment!"I said. She looked over her shoulder."WHERE exactly are we going?"She smiled again.

"To meet some friends of mine,"she said simply. Our eyes widened. She began to fly down the tunnel. Anubis and I took one last glance at each other, then ran after her at top speed. We KNEW who she meant by friends. After about 5 minutes of running, or flying in Mesprit's case, we reached what looked like a HUMONGOUS underground city."Welcome to the Hidden City of the Legendaries."

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