Chapter four.

Suicune's POV.

I trudged along a dirt road in an open field. We had left Pallet town far behind, it had been three days since we had found out what's been controlling the Legendary Pokémon. I was exhausted from running and annoyed at Lugia. He was leading me somewhere but he wouldn't tell me where we were going. I couldn't help but look at the tree line that ran beside the open field; I could swear that I could see something move out of the corner of my eye every now and then.

"Suicune, run!" Lugia shouted at me. I looked behind me and saw two rapidly advancing figures. I ran as fast as my exhausted body would allow. And soon enough the figures disappeared and I slowed again, as I did something slammed into my right side and threw me into the long grass. And I looked up into three sets of black eyes and three Pokémon floated above me. Celebi, Mew and Jirachi and I felt a large, heavy paw on my back and the three Pokémon flew up and started a battle with Lugia. I tried to get up but the paw held me down. I looked behind me and saw Entei and Raikou; Entei had his paw on my back. I was just about to attack Entei with Bubblebeam, and I saw Raikou's body begin to glow and I decided it was better not to. There was a rush of wings and a large Salamence landed in the field and a shadow fell over me and I heard chuckling.

"Well done, you two." I recognised this voice. It was the voice I had heard at the lake at I looked up and met the dark green gaze of a black haired man. I knew who this was, it was Eli; Ash's brother. "Now I will have, Suicune the spirit of the Northwind and Lugia, the guardian of the sea." And he reached for a Pokéball on his belt.

"Don't get your hopes up." said a voice and Entei was blasted off my back by an Aura sphere. There was a roar and the Salamence flew up into the air and collided head on with a Charizard. I looked around and saw Raikou fighting a Pokémon; it was the one that had saved me in the forest and the town it seemed to be showing up everywhere. I saw Jirachi fall out of the air and the Charizard slam the Salamence into the ground and then back off. Eli called to the other Pokémon to retreat and they ran off, Entei got up and glared at me before he did. The Charizard looked at me and flew off and the wild Pokémon that had saved me (again) turned and disappeared into the trees. And Lugia landed on the road.

"That's five now." He said grimly.

"Yeah." I said, I didn't want to talk about it. "So where are we going?"

"Will you stop pestering me?" he kept on saying this. "If you have to know we are going to see someone."

"Who?"

"You'll see." Obviously he wasn't going to say anything else on the subject.



"Fine then, can we stop soon?"

"There is a grove of trees up ahead. So we can stop there."

I sighed in relief; finally I could rest my aching limbs.

I gasped as I looked up at the tall building above me; the Bell tower.

"We're going to see Ho-oh aren't we?"

Lugia nodded. "He might know which mountains the crystal is hidden in. Since we have no idea I just thought we would come here and ask. I'll meet you at the top." And he took to the air. When I got to the entrance I blasted the guards with a Bubblebeam and ran up the many flights of stairs. As I reached the top I saw that only Lugia was there, he had entered from a large open window on one side of the room. I knew that there was a chance that Ho-oh wasn't going to be here, it would have been a miracle if we managed to get him here. I walked over to Lugia who had wandered off to one side of the room and was looking at something intently. As I reached him, I saw some weird carvings on the wall.

"Did Ho-oh leave this?" I asked.

"Yes." Lugia said, brushing his wing over the carvings "It's recent."

"Can you read them?"

Lugia nodded and looked at the carvings for a few minutes before he spoke:

"The thing of which you seek are in the mountains, which are near but far. Look in the mountain's fiery depths and follow it's rocky path, until you stumble upon the cavern at the end, there you will see the crystal, but along the way be careful of the monsters that stir in the mountain that will try to hinder your progress. Hmm, he seems to have known we were coming and what we were coming for."

"So where are we going to go?"

Lugia walked over to the window. "I think we should try out those mountains." He said, pointing towards some visible mountain ranges in the distance. Without anything else to say I ran out of the room and down the stairs, as I reached the bottom I saw the guards were still knocked out and I ran out of the tower. I ran through the forest that surrounded the area, I leaped over a rock, when suddenly I fell to the ground, withering in pain. And I looked up and saw an Alakazam, glowing; there was a trainer behind it. (Eusine from Ho-oh the Bells Toll)



"This time you will be mine, Suicune." He said. Oh great, this guy again. I thought. I wasn't in the mood for battling so I attacked the Alakazam with Aurora Beam. It hit the Pokémon and sent it flying backwards and into Eusine, and they slammed into a tree. I plunged into the trees.

Lugia's POV

I flew on above the forest. I had a weird feeling that I was forgetting something, I tried to work out what it was but it wasn't coming to me. Then I heard a familiar squawking and suddenly electricity was running through my body. I looked above me and saw Zapdos above, his body glowing and his black eyes stared at me. Then something punched me in the chest. Why does everyone have to attack me in the chest? I was just recovering over the last couple of attacks. The electricity stopped, I looked down and saw Mewtwo looking up at me with his now black eyed gaze, his fist glowing with blue energy. He came at me but I dodged out of the way and hit him with Hydro Pump and he fell down into the forest. Zapdos hit me again with an electric attack and I hit him Ancient power. Since it was a rock attack; it damaged him greatly and I knocked him into the forest with Whirlwind. And I quickly sped off, I knew know what I had been forgetting about, and I knew I needed to speak to Suicune after he had gotten out of the forest.

Suicune's POV

I continued on, this forest seemed to go on forever. The trees rustled above me, but I didn't pay much attention, just probably a bird Pokémon. Suddenly a Pokémon dropped down from the trees, it was Mewtwo. He sent a Shadow Ball hurtling towards me, and it slammed me into a tree. I hit him with Aurora Beam and he hit his head into a tree, knocking him out. And I continued throughout the forest, eventually I made it to the end of the forest. And Lugia was waiting for me.

"Can you continue on alone?" he asked me.

"Err, why?" I asked, unsure.

"I need to go back to Shamouti Island. I just realised that with one of the stones, Zapdos and me gone, Articuno and Moltres would be at each others throats. I need to go calm them."

"Okay then." I said.

"Are you sure you'll be alright without me?" he asked uncertain.

"I'll be fine." I tried to assure him. "I can do this."

"Once I calm them down, I'll come and find you and try to help."

I nodded and Lugia took to the air and I ran off in the direction of the mountains.



That's chapter four done, it was really hard to write this chapter and I'm thinking that maybe I won't continue on, it just depends on how hard the next chapters are. Anyway, its likely that I won't stop writing it, but lets just see what happens, Please review.