"Thoughts"
"A pokemon speaking through telepathy"
"(Pokemon speaking to each other)"
Chapter 20: Team Galactic Moves
Pikachu's ears twitched lightly as he heard bushes rustling,
"(Hey you're back!)" Pikachu exclaimed as he noticed Paul emerge from the bushes in his Luxray form
Paul ignored the electric pokemon and went straight to Dawn's side and nuzzled the palm of her hand to get her attention.
"Luxray!" Dawn yelled happily as she pulled Paul into a hug, "It's good to see you again!"
Paul simply nodded in response.
"Oh wow! Your Luxray!" Brock called out
"It's good to see you again Luxray!" Ash greeted as he kneeled down to eye level with Paul
Paul just yawned and sat beside Dawn while staring at Kakashi and Tsubaki. Kakashi noticed the look and caught the question in his eyes.
"(Kakashi? What's wrong?)" Tsubaki questioned as she noticed the Zangoose was staring intently at the Luxray
"(That Luxray…his scent is somehow…. familiar)" Kakashi replied
"(Really? …Now that you mention it…)"
Before the two continued their conversation, Paul called out to them,
"(You two, go over there!)" Paul ordered as he motioned to Torterra and the other pokemon, who were hiding behind some bushes with Torterra motioning Houndoom and Gallade to leave and do something
Kakashi raised an eyebrow as he heard this but after a light nudge from Tsubaki encouraged him to follow the Luxray's command. Dawn gave a confused look as the Zangoose and Seviper disappeared.
"What are you planning, Luxray?" Dawn asked Paul as she scratched him just behind his ear
"I really don't like having to do deal with other's problems… maybe Dawn could help me with this"
Paul answered Dawn's questioned by running off, turning his head only to motion Dawn to follow.
"Luxray!" Dawn yelled out before running after Paul
"Dawn!" Ash exclaimed
"Let's go with them" Brock suggested
"Right! Let's go guys!" Ash called out to his and Brock's pokemon
"And… there they go!" Mel exclaimed as she watched everyone run off
Mel sat on top of Daichi's back, causing her to blend into the environment as to not get detected. Her newly bandaged right arm was resting behind her head as she leaned back on the tree on Daichi's back.
"(Was it really alright to provoke Paul?)" Daichi asked
"Eh who knows!" Mel replied with a shrug as she stared up at the full moon
Daichi sighed at the human's carefree attitude and choose to quietly follow the group without being spotted.
Zoey sighed as she stepped foot onto the grassy field that surrounded Lake Valor. Neji stood beside Zoey while Yori was on Zoey's shoulder.
"Azelf! Where are you?"
Once the question left Zoey's mouth the water started to ripple at the center of the lake. A blue pokemon that looked similar to Uxie and Mesprit emerged from the ripples.
"Zoey! What are you doing here?" Azelf asked before noticing the two pokemon at Zoey's side, "And why are Mel's pokemon with you?"
"Well the council wanted me to tell you to be careful since they suspect that Team Galactic will make their move soon and I honestly have no idea why Mel's pokemon are with me. She just told them to come with me here without telling me."
Azelf raised an eyebrow before nodding,
"I see…"
While the two spoke, Neji's ear twitched lightly as he spotted some bushes rustling in the corner of his eyes.
"Zoey" Neji spoke out using his aura, "We have a spy…"
"What?"
Neji raised one paw and formed a blue orb before throwing at the bushes that once held his attention. From the bushes came a Toxicroak with its trainer close behind. The person had blue hair that stood to make it like he had horns on and wore a black and white uniform that had a "G" on his chest. Zoey immediately noticed this,
"Team Galactic…"
The man chuckled,
"I came here to kidnap you but with Azelf here it'll be easier for Master Cyrus's plan…"
"Zoey, you have to run!" Azelf stated as he hovered in front of Zoey
"But what about you? They're after you too!"
Azelf growled, as he knew Zoey had a point. Neji then struck a fighting pose while Yori jumped off of Zoey's shoulder and to Neji's side,
"(Don't worry about this guy!)"
"Yori is right! Leave him to us!"
Saturn, the Toxicroack's trainer, smirked,
"You two aren't going anywhere"
Saturn raised his left hand a snapped his fingers. At his unspoken command, countless Golbats flooded the sky, ready to strike. Zoey gasped at this,
"You two can't take on this many opponents on your own!"
"Just go!" Neji yelled his voice now ordering them to obey him
"Zoey!" Azelf shouted as he flew away, "Let's go!"
Zoey turned to Neji and Yori one last time before throwing a pokeball into the air,
"Glameow! Help them out!"
Once Glameow's pokeball returned to Zoey, Zoey ran off with Azelf by her side. Glameow began hissing with her fur standing on end, Neji narrowed his eyes as his paws glowed blue with his aura and Yori growled while the flame on his tail grew brighter. Neji then threw an Aura Sphere into Lake Verity, causing a huge tidal wave to soar above the Golbat. Yori ran towards the towering water with a fist surrounded with electricity. Saturn's eyes widen as he saw this,
"It knows Thunder Punch?"
Yori then launched the said attack into the water that was now falling down onto the Golbat. Saturn then realized that Neji and Yori were playing with a simple fact of science, that water conducted electricity. The electricity from Yori's attack soon spread like wildfire through the water and was able to knock out about half of the Golbat. Through the confusion of electricity and falling water, Glameow had sprang forward with her tail aglow, her sights set on Toxicroak.
"Don't let those two get away!"
At Saturn's command, a few Golbats began flying in the direction Zoey and Azelf had gone. Yori saw this and jumped onto Neji's shoulder then leaped into the air to land on a high tree branch. Yori's right fist began to generate electricity while the other went ablaze with fire,
"(Hey! Hey!)" Yori then pushed off of the branch to dive down towards the Golbats, "(Where do you think you're going?)"
"We're your opponents!" Neji shouted as he took on a good number of Golbats on his own
"Toxicroak! Pay attention!" Saturn growled in frustration as he spotted Glameow closing in on the frog-like pokemon, "Poison Jab!"
Poison Jab and Iron Tail soon collided.
Arceus straightened himself out as he received a telepathic message,
"Zoey and Azelf were ambushed…"
"What!" Uxie exclaimed, "We have to go help!"
"No!" Arceus voice echoed through the Hall of Origin, "If you go there you'll only be walking into their trap! Remember Team Galactic are going to kidnap Zoey, Paul, and Dawn to lure you and your siblings out of hiding!"
Mesprit hovered to her brother's side,
"But what about Azelf and Zoey! We can't just let them get captured!"
"Your Majesty!" Both Uxie and Mesprit called out to Arceus
"They'll be fine…After all, I'm sure this was why Mel had Neji and Yori go with Zoey to Lake Valor. To keep Zoey and Azelf safe." Arceus replied, "For now just leave this to Mel's pokemon"
Mesprit narrowed her eyes,
"But you told us not to trust Mel…"
"I did…but I'll trust the human that Giratina trusts…"
Uxie and Mesprit looked at one another before nodding, both having the same idea in their heads.
"Luxray slow down!" Dawn called after Paul
"Where is he taking us?" Ash wondered out loud
"Must be important if they're running this fast!" Brock suggested as he noticed that Kakashi and Tsubaki were moving at the same pace as Paul
The three trainers and pokemon soon made it into a clearing that was softly lit by the moonlight that peeked through the trees.
"Luxray why did you bring us here?" Dawn asked as she bent down to Paul's level.
Before receiving a reply, everyone heard howling towards the right of the clearing. From the bushes came Dawn's Houndoom with a bunch of Sevipers close behind him. On the other side of the area, Gallade ran out of the bushes with a group of Zangooses behind him. Kakashi and Tsubaki gasped at the sight,
"(Why did you…)" Kakashi growled at Paul
"(You can't run away from your problems forever…)" Paul replied as Dawn clutched his fur
"Why do those pokemon look angry?"
Brock's eyes traveled from the Zangoose tribe, to the Seviper tribe, then over to Kakashi and Tsubaki. He then noticed how Tsubaki hid behind Kakashi and how protective Kakashi was being,
"Maybe it's cause they don't like the fact that these two are together…"
"Really?" Ash voiced out, "Now that you mention it Zangoose and Seviper do have a long history of being bitter rivals"
Dawn gasped, as she got teary eyed,
"That's so sad! It's just like Romeo and Juliet!"
Off in the distance, Mel couldn't help but chuckle to herself, as she heard what Dawn had said. Daichi turned his head slightly,
"(Do you need something?)"
The question caught Mel's attention; she looked over her shoulder to see Paul's Torterra with Piplup on his back.
"Torterra! Piplup! What are you two doing here?"
"(Shouldn't we be asking you that?)" Piplup replied
"Hm…good point!" Mel said as she gave another chuckle
Torterra sighed as he stepped beside Daichi,
"(I'm guessing that the Council of Legends have something to do with you two being here)"
"Yup! So anyway why don't we all just enjoy the show!" Mel said as she went back to watching the scene before them
AN: Ehh...sorry bout the update taking longer then usual but I had to leave for vacation and then the back to school shopping...yea... but for some reason I've been getting writers block a lot more often n.n;;
If you have any ideas for the next chapter or want to put in a suggestion for the next chap then you're free to do so cause until I get new ideas the next chap won't be out for a while...
Anyway...
lovelyyuyu: now that you mention it she does sort of remind me of yoh lol
CrystleIceFire: you really think this story is spectacular lol you flatter me n.n;; and you're gonna be reminded of your younger sister later on in future chapters since i mentioned Mimi is gonna be brought back
Hakiri Angel: um... to be honest i have no idea why i put them together but i never like random pairings in stories so i do have an idea for those two later on in future chapters...why does it bother you? and lol if i out keith and kate into the story im gonna have to play the game again to get their characters down...then again their both main characters and for some reason in pokemon games the main character is mute -_- so i could probably make up personality...or do u have a personality in mind?