"Thoughts"
"A pokemon speaking through telepathy"
"(Pokemon speaking to each other)"
Chapter 21: Passing the Test
Saturn growled as he watched Toxicroak and Glameow exchange blows,
"You better not lose Toxicroak!"
"(R-right…)" the poison pokemon panted
"(Tch…)" Glameow hissed
"X-Scissor! Now!"
Toxicroak grunted as he followed the trainer's command. Toxicroak's arms glowed as he crossed them over his chest. Glameow charged forward and countered the attack with an Iron Tail.
"Mud Bomb!"
Toxicroak's throat-sack inflated and soon the frog like pokemon exhaled numerous small bundles of mud at the catty pokemon. Glameow, caught off guard by the sudden assault, was thrown back a few feet.
"Follow up with Brick Break!"
Toxicroak took a step back before jumping into the air to hover above Glameow with the said attack, ready to strike.
"(All of you, please stop!)" Tsubaki pleaded
"(She's right! At least hear us out!)" Kakashi reasoned
As soon as the Zangoose and Seviper tribes spotted each other, they had immediately went straight to trying to rip the other pokemon apart. Kakashi had pulled his mate out of the battlefield and towards a safe place. The two pokemon looked on with sorrow as their families kept on fighting.
"We have to stop them!" Dawn exclaimed
"Right!" Ash replied as he pulled out a pokeball
"Wait!" Brock ordered as he grabbed Ash's wrist with the pokeball, "We can't intrude. This is their fight!"
Dawn's eyes widen,
"But we can't just stand here and watch!"
"Dawn's right" Ash added, "We have to stop this somehow! If we don't one of them might get seriously hurt!"
Brock grunted as he agreed with Ash,
"That's true but Zangoose and Seviper are bitter rivals. Even if we do somehow find a way to stop them from fighting, they'll just go right back to fighting in a few seconds…"
"…"
Dawn fell her to knees and hugged Paul's Luxray form tightly,
"Paul, where are you? I… I'm scared…"
Paul looked over to Dawn as he felt her grip becoming tighter and her shivering body pressed against his. He pressed his nose to her face and lightly licked away the tears now rolling down her cheeks.
"(What should I do…She's so scared…and here I am…doing absolutely nothing about it!)"
"(Paul!)"
The Luxray snapped out of his anger to turn his head towards Buneary, who was now rushing to his side,
"(Paul, we have to hurry! The sun is gonna rise in a few hours!)"
"(What?)"
Paul's eyes instantly flew up to the sky and saw that the full moon was no longer at its highest peak; instead, the moon was now just beginning to disappear behind the horizon. The sky in the distance was stained with a crimson color that signaled the sun that would soon follow.
"(Tch…this isn't good…)"
Pikachu, who heard the brief conversation, stared at the Luxray,
"(…Paul?)
"Are you sure they're here Uxie? I can't see them anywhere" Mesprit asked as she checked her surroundings
After leaving the Hall of Origin, the two siblings had set out to locate Azelf and Zoey.
"Yes, I can feel their presence getting closer…" Uxie answered
As if on cue, Azelf and Zoey had emerged from nearby bushes,
"Uxie? Mesprit?" Zoey spoke with a bewildered look
"Uxie! Mesprit! What are you two doing here?" Azelf questioned
"His Majesty told us that you two got ambushed" Uxie responded as he let out a breath of relief at seeing the two in one piece
"His Majesty said to leave things to Mel's pokemon but we were still worried…" Mesprit commented
Azelf nodded his head in understanding but Zoey raised an eyebrow,
"How does His Majesty know that Mel's pokemon was with me"
"He felt their presence beside you… by the way, where are they?" Mesprit asked before looking around
"They're holding off Team Galactic from capturing us"
"Then we should keep moving to lengthen the distance between the enemy and us"
Everyone nodded and kept moving farther away from the echoing aftermaths of attacks. As they ran, Zoey realized something,
"Wait… Mel works for Giratina right?"
"Correct"
"And Giratina is with Team Galactic"
"Yes"
"If that's true then why is Mel helping us? If anything, I would expect her to be the enemy. I mean, since His Majesty don't really trust her…"
The three Lake Guardians looked at each other for a few seconds before Uxie spoke up,
"It's true that His Majesty doesn't trust Mel, but he does trust the fact that Mel has no intention of destroying the world she sacrificed her life to save"
Zoey grimace d as she remembered when Arceus told her about how Mel saved the world from paralysis. Mel had sacrificed her life to prevent the oncoming darkness from spreading, then a few months after that, Dialga had used his powers to reset Mel's time and bring her back to life.
"If His Majesty believes that, then why can't he just talk to Mel about saving Giratina? I've seen him look depressed and always calling out Giratina's name…why is that?"
"That, my child," Uxie spoke, "is a story to be told by His Majesty"
"…Why don't we look for Mel? I want answers and I have a feeling she knows them…"
The three pokemon nodded their heads,
"We have some questions of our own as well" Uxie said
"Let's teleport to where she is! I can sense her presence near Paul's" Mesprit suggested
The others agreed and soon vanished in a flash of light produced by Mesprit.
Mel let out a whistle and raised an eyebrow as she watched the scene before her. Out in the clearing, where Dawn and the others were, the Zangooses and Sevipers were fighting it out with each other. Kakashi and Tsubaki stood off towards the edge of all the fighting, yelling out to their comrades to stop. Mel chuckled lightly as she leaned back onto the tree on Daichi's back,
"Geez, they've seen each other for about 3 seconds and they go straight to fighting!"
"(Aren't you gonna go help?)" Torterra asked
"Nope, the council said this is Paul's test. I can interfere only if things get to out of hand"
"(Then doesn't an all out war count as 'out of hand')" Piplup asked
"No"
Daichi shook his head as he heard Piplup yelling at Mel's laziness,
"(Mel, you probably should interfere, the sun is going to rise soon. Paul won't be able to stay in his Luxray form for much longer)"
"…"
Mel remained silent as she gazed down to the clearing from the hill they all stood, her eyes narrowing with each passing second,
"Come on Paul, think of something quick. The moment I step in… is the moment you fail this test…"
"Mel!"
The shout caused Mel and the pokemon to turn their heads to a light that was dying down to reveal Zoey and the Lake Guardians.
"Zoey? Azelf, Uxie, Mesprit? What're you all doing here?"
"Don't worry about that, but Mel" Zoey walked up to Mel until she was 4-5 feet away from Mel, "I want answers now!"
Before Mel could even think about what Zoey was talking about, Daichi called out to her,
"(Mel! Come here quick! Paul just charged into the warzone!)"
"What! That idiot!"
"Luxray come back here!" Dawn yelled aloud
"What's Luxray thinking?" Brock wondered
Paul dodged every attack that was heading his direction. His eyes wondered through the crowd of pokemon, searching for the tribe leaders.
"(What's he doing? Tch… I've got to get him out of there!)" Kakashi said but before he could run, Tsubaki's tail grabbed his paw, "Huh? What's wrong love? I'll be back before you know it)"
"(No…it's…not that…)"
"(Huh)"
Kakashi then noticed that Tsubaki was panting and leaning forward slightly as her tail flew to her stomach. Kakashi's eyes widened,
"(Don't tell me…of all times…)"
"(The baby's coming…)" Tsubaki whispered
Mel grunted and balled her fists,
"That kid has some timing to wanna come out into the world right now!"
All the pokemon stared at Mel with wide eyes,
"(What!)"
"(Off all times to give birth…)"
Piplup looked up to Mel,
"(Well? This certainly counts as 'out of hands')"
"Tch…"
"Go Mel!" Uxie encouraged
"Uxie?" Mel questioned
"I'll defend you if His Majesty asks…"
Mel kept her gaze on Uxie for a short while before nodding and turning her attention to Zoey. Mel thrusts her right hand before Zoey,
"Zoey, quick, pull my wristband off!"
"….What…?"
"Just do it!"
Zoey was unsure of what to do.
"Pull it off, my child"
"Uxie?"
"As I've said before, that wristband she wears keeps Mel in her human form but once it's removed she transforms into a pokemon"
"But the catch is that the only ones who can remove the wristband are the people connected to my brothers and I" Mesprit informed
"Meaning only Paul, Dawn, and yourself may remove it" Azelf finished
Zoey took in a deep breath as she clutched the black wristband and pulled on it. Once the wristband left Mel's arm, fire started to circle around her body. Mel gave a soft smirk,
"It's been awhile since I've been a pokemon"
Zoey watched as Mel's hazel brown eyes turned into a blood red color. The fires surrounding Mel soon engulfed her whole body. The fires grew more intense as they grew in size. After a few more seconds the fire left just as quickly as it came, and in Mel's spot stood a large black dragon. Zoey took a few steps back in amazement,
"A black Charizard…"
AN: Um...I'm back n.n;;
Sorry about the long wait...I think this is the longest time I haven't updated...Oh well...I had bigger plans for this chapter and it's originally supposed to be longer but because of writers block, school, and other stuff I had to make it shorter that I wanted like way shorter...It was supposed to be about 20 or so pages on Microsoft Word but I only got to 7. (That's why this one was mostly revolving around Zoey and Mel since I originally planned it to be the beginning of the chapter and not the beginning, middle, and end) And besides I didn't want to leave you all without a new update for to long since some of you might lose interest or something
Anyway...
Hakiri Angel: I thought about what we were talking about and I decided to add them in later...like around the same time May and Drew come in simply so I can get the idea of their personalities and stuff. By the way I read your fanfics to get an idea and they were really helpful. Love them too keep up the good work
fanfiction1037: Thanks for the idea it was really helpful. Once I read it my brain started kicking into gear about how that would happen and how it would effect the others n.n