"Thoughts"
"A pokemon speaking through telepathy"
"(Pokemon speaking to each other)"
Chapter 17: Council of Legends
"Aerial Ace!" Ash commanded Staravia
"Dodge it Turtwig!" Gardenia, the Eterna Gym leader shouted
The group was currently in the Eterna Gym watching Ash battle Gardenia for his second badge. Brock, Dawn, Pikachu, and Yori were cheering Ash on while Paul, Zoey, and Mel were talking to each other,
"So you're the Renegade Trainer…" Paul whispered
Mel simply nodded her head as she watched Ash's Staravia get knocked out by Gardenia's Turtwig. Mel gave a yawn as she looked over to Zoey while leaning back in her chair,
"After this we're gonna have to go to Spear Pillar too see what the Council of Legends wanted"
"I know" Zoey replied before turning her attention to Paul, "By the way, Paul, you guys are heading to Hearthome City right?"
"Yeah and?" Paul asked
Zoey gave a small smirk, "I remember Kenny saying that he's going to a contest in Hearthome…the same contest Dawn's going to enter in…"
Mel raised an eyebrow as she noticed Paul's right eye twitch slightly and twitch even more when she asked,
"Who's Kenny?"
"He's Dawn's rival in contests but they're childhood friends" Zoey chuckled lightly before continuing, "Paul doesn't really like Kenny since Kenny just loves teasing Dawn"
Paul growled slightly as his gaze turned into a glare,
"That idiot better keep his hands to himself or else…"
Dawn turned her attention away from the battle after hearing Paul's growl,
"Huh? What's wrong Paul?"
"Nothing…" Paul grunted with a scowl on his face while Zoey chuckled in the background
Dawn gave a bewildered look as she heard the referee confirming Ash's victory over Gardenia.
"Alright then, I call this meeting to begin!" a large pokemon called out
The pokemon had a white body with a long mane extending away from its head, a golden streak on its head, its golden hooves softly tapped the floor it stood on, and a golden cross shaped wheel attached to its abdomen. His green eyes moved across the room while his red pupils watched all the pokemon before him. 33 pokemon stood before him in the large hall they were all in, this was the Council of Legends in the Hall of Origin. Of all the pokemon in the hall, Rotom stepped forward,
"Your Majesty, we should really do something about that Team Galactic!"
Arceus, the pokemon Rotom spoke to, nodded his head,
"True…"
Uxie hovered to Rotom's side,
"Your Majesty, Team Galactic is going to try and use Dawn as bait to lure my sister out of her domain!"
A pokemon that looked similar to Uxie and Mesprit went to Uxie's side; the pokemon was a blue fairy that had a red gem on each of its two tails as its yellow eyes looked up to Arceus,
"Please, Your Majesty, if anything happens to our sister or Dawn that the boy, Paul, might refuse to transform into a pokemon"
Arceus closed his eyes to think for a second before opening his eyes and looked over at two pokemon. One of the pokemon looked similar to a cat except it had a long tail and long hind legs. The other pokemon looked more like a pink fairy with small light green wings on her back and two pink antennas where the tips were a light green. Both female pokemon looked over to Arceus,
"Celebi, Mew…"
The two said pokemon straightened out and looked at the alpha pokemon,
"Yes?"
"Go to Mel and have her…observe…"
Celebi and Mew gave each other a confused look, but shrugged it off and flew off to do as they were told. Once they were gone, Arceus turned his head and gave another order,
"The rest of you are dismissed, but be sure to keep an eye out and try not to get captured by these malevolence humans…"
The rest of the legendary pokemon nodded their heads and soon enough Arceus found that he was soon alone and his thoughts drifting off to the one legendary pokemon that wasn't at the meeting,
"Giratina…my friend, why did you betray us…"
"Come on you two! Can't you guys stay a little longer and at least hang out with us?" Dawn exclaimed as she finished chewing the food in her mouth
The group was now in a restaurant to celebrate Ash and Paul's victory over Gardenia and obtaining their second badge. Zoey was about to refuse but Mel had spoke first,
"Why not? We're not in any rush!"
"Mel…" Zoey tried to reason
Mel chuckled huskily,
"Relax Zoey! If we're late then just blame it on me!"
"Either way it's your fault if we're late…"
Zoey then received a chuckle as a response. Dawn looked over to Zoey before asking,
"Where are you two heading anyway?"
"We're going back to Snowpoint for some stuff!" Mel replied after swallowing her food
"Oh…"
Brock, who was looking through his guidebook, caught everyone's attention when he asked,
"Hey guys, why don't we check out the Ancient Statue?"
"Sure!"
In front of an old pokemon statue at the edge of Eterna City stood a blond woman. The woman was wearing all black and the hair bands she wore were resembled a Lucario's aura sensors with a yellow strip going around it. The woman turned her head as she spotted a specific person in the crowd that had formed long before. In the crowd were Ash and the others. The woman smiled softy as she walks over to the group,
"Mel! How've you been? It's been so long since I've last seen you!"
"Hey Cynthia! I've been good" Mel replied happily
"Cynthia! My lovely la-"
Before Brock could finish trying to woe Cynthia, Croagunk jabbed him in the side with Poison Jab and dragged the unconscious breeder away.
Ash gave a confused look,
"Cynthia?"
"Idiot" Paul murmured under his breath, "You're a pokemon trainer and you don't know who the Champion is"
Ash's eyes widen,
"You're the Champion?"
"That's correct" Cynthia replied
"Wait!" Dawn called out, "How do you and Mel know each other?"
Cynthia giggled lightly,
"We've known each other for a few years and we've had a very… interesting meeting"
Everyone raised an eyebrow while both Cynthia and Mel giggled,
"So Cynthia, why are you here?"
"Well I wanted to learn about Sinnoh's history" Cynthia answered as she looked back at the pokemon statue
The group walked up to the statue and noticed the description was written in a weird language.
"What's that written in?" Dawn asked
"That's the Unown language" Cynthia replied, "It tells of the birth of Dialga, the temporal pokemon, and Palkia, the spatial pokemon"
"Wow…" Ash and Dawn said in amazement as they stared at the statue
As the group listened to Cynthia explain the legends, Zoey leaned towards Mel,
"Mel, we should really get going"
"Yeah…" Mel replied, "Hey you guys, Zoey and I have to get going now"
"What! So soon!" Dawn whined
"Sorry" Zoey apologized as she and Mel walked off
While they walked away, Cynthia shot Mel a look and was answered with a waving hand that meant the Champion would be informed later.
A lone pokemon stared at the starry sky that lit up the town nearby, standing just on the outskirts of the town. The pokemon was a shadow like creature, which had his head covered by fog like mask. His skinny arms were crossed over his chest and through the darkness of night it looked like the pokemon was wearing a ripped cloak. The pokemon turned his head when he heard his name being called by a soft and gentle voice,
"Darkrai…"
Darkrai turned his head to see a female pokemon with a swan like body. She had pink wings that were rounded at her side; on both sides of her face were ornaments in the shape of a crescent moon.
"Cresselia, what do you want?"
"Darkrai, please tell me you're not going out to cause the humans nightmares again?"
Darkrai chuckled softly,
"Now why would I do that, my dear Cresselia?"
"Well why else would you be near a human filled place?" Cresselia questioned as she hovered beside the dark pokemon and laid her head on Darkrai's shoulder
"Maybe I give the humans nightmares just to see you? Who knows…" Darkrai replied as he closed his eyes
Cresselia smiled softly before rubbing her cheek against Darkrai's,
"It's been a while since we've last seen Mel and Daichi"
"True, it's been 3 or so years I believe…"
"You know, you didn't have to attack Temporal Tower back then…"
"What can I say? Team Galactic was able to brainwash me""So they did! I'm just glad that Mel and Daichi were able to stop you" Cresselia whispered
"I swear those two really gave me so many bruises…and you did to my love!" Darkrai called out
Cresselia giggled in response and the two were soon silent while watching the stars.
Zoey and Mel were near a lake while resting on their way to Snowpoint City. In the lake was Shellos and another blue pokemon. The blue pokemon looked like a dog with a fish tail and a light blue collar. It's fin like ears twitched slightly while it swam through the water before resurfacing and calling out,
"Vaporeon!"
The pokemon was Nanami, Mel's Vaporeon. Shellos and Nanami were both playing in the water by splashing water at each other. At the shore of the lake were Akira and a red pokemon leaning against each other. The red pokemon resembled Akira, except that he had red fur, a fluffy yellow tail, an even fluffier collar and a bunch of fur collecting on the top of its head. It was Kenji, Mel's Flareon,
"Flare…eon!" Kenji called out while yawning out loud
Near Kenji and Akira were Yori, Glameow, and Misdreavus playing in the grass. A little farther away from the lake were Mel, Zoey, and two other pokemon. One of the pokemon looked like a jackal standing on its hind legs. His forepaws were black and had a white spike on the upper side of his wrist and a third spike on the pokemon's chest; it was Neji, Mel's Lucario. The two trainers were on top of the second pokemon's back. The pokemon was a large Torterra; it was much larger then Paul's Torterra, this pokemon was Daichi. Mel was leaning against the tree on Torterra's back with a leaf pressed alongside her lips and playing a sweet melody. Neji was doing the same as his mistress as he laid down on the branch over Mel's head. Zoey's head laid on Mel's lap as she slowly drifted into the dream realm while listening to Mel and Neji's harmonic music. Mel opened her closed eyes as she noticed nearby bushes shaking. Mel turned her head slightly after lowering the leaf from her lips to see two pink pokemon emerge from the bushes,
"Mew, Celebi! What are you two doing here?"
"His Majesty wanted us to tell you to observe the humans" Mew replied while curling her body around Mel's neck while Celebi rested on top of Mel's head
"I see…" Mel said, "So Celebi how are things with Grovyle?" Mel asked with a smirk
Celebi puffed out her cheeks,
"My dear Grovyle is to concerned with doing the work the Council of Legends give him, so he doesn't pay attention to me anymore!"
"I keep trying to tell her to talk to him but…" Mew said
Mel chuckled as she brought the leaf, in between her fingers, back to her lips and resumed on playing the tune with Neji. Both Mew and Celebi smiled tenderly as they heard the music; the two pokemon snuggled closer to Mel and, just like Zoey, surrendered to the sandman.
AN: yay! Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness & Time reference!
If you guys haven't realized it yet, Mel would be the player in the game while Daichi was the partner pokemon when he was a turtwig.
Anyway I know I haven't been showin much of any ikarishipping but they will have their moments in the next chapter or so
Anyway as you can see... my team is now going to show up so I think I should tell you all why I gave them the Japanese names they have sooo
My Torterra is named Daichi because "dai" means large/great & "chi" means earth/land/wisdom/intellect. So i figured a large pokemon that's a ground type would fit to have Daichi as a name also because since he's older out of my other pokemon he'd be wiser then the others
My Monferno is named Yori because......well I have no real reason for naming him this since "Yori" means trust
My Lucario is named Neji because....well if you watched Naruto then you would know why. I mean come on! Lucario can see with his eyes closed with his aura while Neji can do the same with Byakugan
My Flareon is named Kenji because "ken" means study & "ji" means two. Idk i just liked the name at the moment so I used it
My Jolteon is named Akira because it means bright/clear. I figured to name her this since she can use electricity to light up things
And finally my Vaporeon is named Nanami because "nana" means seven & "mi" means sea. Funny thing is of the seven evolutions I could evolve Eevee into, I got all the evolutions and Vaporeon was the last one! (aka: 7th one) and it was a water pokemon sooo yea
Anyway:
shippofan2k: yes team galactic will try to kidnap Dawn again in a future chapter
suigetsu-is-da-bomb: lol don't worry ur not being rude! I take forever to update because I can sometimes have writers block or I don't know how to write out a scene