Okay, here is chapter five! I am sorry for the longer than usual delay. My family has been busy recently and I didn't have enough computer time to type and the written part took awhile itself. This chapter is shorter than usual because it's pretty much just a filler. Again, sorry. I hope you enjoy the chapter despite it being a bit short! :D
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN POKEMON.
"Okay, let me get this straight," Dialga said in an exasperated tone. "You asked your apprentice..."
"Pearl," Palkia interrupted, lifting his head out of his clawed hands to correct his counterpart. "Her name is Pearl."
Dialga rolled her eyes. "Okay. So you asked PEARL to play a game of checkers with you shortly after her hatching, and you LOST. How the hell do you loose to an hour old baby!"
Palkia put his head back down into his hands. "She's smart Dialga! I think she's a genius! I can't help loosing to a genius! Even if she is just one hour old!"
Pearl walked over to Palkia and patted him on the back. "It's okay Daddy. It was probably just beginner's luck. I'm sure you'll win next time!"
"Why? You gonna let him win?" a little Dialga boy asked sarcastically, walking up to stand at his mother's side.
"Diamond, that wasn't nice at all!" Dialga scolded him angrily.
"But Mom, you and I both know that that's probably the truth. Why do you hang out with an idiot like him anyway?" he replied in an annoyed voice.
Palkia sighed sadly and wrapped his tail around his body. Pearl gave him a sympathetic look before turning to Diamond with an angry look on her face. "You can't talk about my Daddy that way! YOU'RE A JERK!"
Diamond raised an eyebrow. "Well, duh! Of course I am."
Pearl's anger level rose and she was about to attack him and give him a piece of her mind when she heard Palkia say "Don't even bother, Pearl. He's right. Dialga's too smart to be hanging around an idiot like me."
Dialga walked over to him and put a leg around him in their form of a hug. "Palkia, don't be that way; it's not like you. I don't care if you're smart or not. You're still my counterpart and my friend." She smiled. "Besides, you always know how to make me laugh."
Palkia automatically brightened and sat up. "Really?" He smiled when she nodded. "Gee, thanks Dialga! You're a really awesome friend."
Dialga released him from her hug and then gave him a stern look. "And if I ever catch you putting yourself down again, I'm gonna kick your ass so hard that Pearl will feel it!"
Palkia laughed. "Okay. I promise I won't!"
Diamond rolled his eyes. "Oh, spare me," he groaned.
He was suddenly knocked to the ground when a lavender tail hit him square in the face. Pearl, the tails owner stood over him and growled. "Why don't you do everyone a favor and shut the heck up?!" she snarled.
He groaned and rubbed his throbbing face with one of his forelegs. "Ow. Mom! She hit me!"
Dialga turned to face him and just grinned. "Welcome to the world of legendaries, son. Pearl is your counterpart and she gave you what you deserved."
He narrowed his eyes and frowned. His eyes narrowed even more as Pearl put him into a headlock. "Yeah. So don't go running to your mommy every time I give you what's coming to you. Ya big momma's boy!" she said as she rubbed her knuckles against his scalp.
-ooo-
"Serena? What are you looking at?" Cresselia asked as she approached her apprentice.
Serena snapped out of her hypnotized state and turned to face her mother. "I was watching that," she said, tilting her head towards a flower patch in the distance. The flowers swayed back and forth with the breeze as a bunch of Butterfree and Beautiflies flew by in the air above them.
Cresselia smiled. "I can see why you were staring. It's a beautiful scene. Like a work of art."
"Art? What's that?" Serena asked, her magenta eyes filled with curiosity.
Cresselia closed her own amethyst ones to think of a definition. "Art is... well... it's a hard thing to define. I think of it as expression. Art can become anything you want it to be. From a poem, to a painting, and even to a dream. The art takes the form of whatever the creator wants to express. Be it happiness, or anger, or sadness, or love."
Serena smiled. "I like it."
Cresselia's smile got even bigger. "If you like art, I'm sure you'll like dreams. That's a good thing, considering that's what you'll be learning."
"What do you mean?" Serena inquired.
Cresselia gave the child a hug and said "Since I am the legendary of dreams and you are my apprentice, I will be teaching you how to give people sweet dreams while they sleep."
Serena nodded. "And what exactly are 'dreams'?"
Cresselia let go of her daughter and smiled at her once again. "Well, dreams are like art. They become whatever you want them to be. They take place in your mind and are kind of like pictures that you can see with your eyes closed. When you dream, your greatest desires can become true."
Serena grinned at her mother. "I like the sound of that. I'm thinking that I'm going to enjoy being a dream giver."
"I know you will," Cresselia replied. "I know I do."
-ooo-
"Derek! Put those poor Magikarp down! They didn't do anything to you!" Deoxys yelled to her apprentice, who was juggling three of the said fish pokemon.
"I don't care if they didn't do anything to me! This is fun!" Derek replied as he ignored her orders and contiued to juggle the squirming Magikarp.
"Having trouble controlling your apprentice, Deoxys?" she heard a psychic voice say. She looked up and sure enough, there was the psychic feline who called himself Mewtwo.
"Mewtwo? What are you doing here? I thought you liked to be alone," she said, wondering what the answers to her questions were as she watched him and waited for his response.
"I do like to be alone. But my apprentice got bored and started driving me insane with her complaining. So I brought her to you. Since you're always hounding me to loosen up and have fun, I figured you would know how to entertain her," Mewtwo replied in a calm manner.
Rachel flew down and floated in front of Deoxys. "Hiya! My name is Rachel! Daddy says you're a fun expert. Is that true?"
Deoxys chuckled. "Well, I'm not exactly an expert, but I'm more fun that your serious, pain in the butt Daddy will ever be!"
Derek dropped the Magikarp back into the water and flew over to see what was going on. "Who are they, Mom?"
"Oh, Derek, this is Mewtwo and his apprentice, Rachel. Mewtwo and Rachel, this is my apprentice, Derek," Deoxys said, introducing everybody.
Derek grinned on the inside. Someone other than Magikarp to mess with for fun. He floated over to Rachel. "Hello stupid, little kitty cat," he said in an annoying tone.
Rachel's eyes narrowed in anger. "Shut up, you ugly, no mouth, pathetic excuse for a creature."
"That was pathetic. Were you hatched this stupid, or did your freaky looking father drop you on your empty, little head," he rebutted.
"That's it!" she screamed as she lept forward and tackled Derek. "Take that! You freaky, melted plastic thing!"
Derek balled his hand into a fist and launched a punch at Rachel. It caught her in the jaw, but it just made her angrier. She quickly regained her composure and spun to slam her tail into his side.
The two adult legends stood nearby and watched the children fight and fling insults at each other.
"Shouldn't we do something?" Mewtwo asked in a worried tone. "They might actually hurt each other."
Deoxys just laughed. "You and I both know that trying to stop them would be useless. Don't be such a worry wart. Neither of them knows how to use attacks yet and they'll eventually wear themselves out."
"That's a very good point," Mewtwo commented.
"Thanks," Deoxys replied. Suddenly, she remembered what Rachel said earlier. "So you think I'm a fun expert, huh? I'm flattered, Mewtwo."
Mewtwo groaned and rolled his eyes.
Deoxys smiled with hers and laughed.
-ooo-
"Alpha, please calm down. We need to get started if you're going to learn everything," Arceus called to the little white and gold blur that was running around the room and giggling up a storm.
"Awww! Come on Mom! Learning peoples' names and stuff is boring! I wanna play! Couldn't you teach me this stuff later?" he whined, finally coming to a stop in front of her.
Arceus closed her emerald eyes and sighed in exasperation. This wasn't going as she had planned it at all. She opened her eyes and looked at the excited child before her. "Okay, let's make a compromise. Is there anything I can do to make learning more enjoyable for you?"
Alpha scrunched his forehead in thought. "Well, is there anyway to make learning about the other legendaries more active? Couldn't we just invite them over or something?"
Arceus smiled at him. "Yes, we could do that. And it would be a great way for the apprentices to meet everyone! Good idea, Alpha. You'll make a fantastic leader one day."
Alpha rolled his eyes and smiled as his mother went to tell the messenger Pidgeots to tell the others that there would be an introductory meeting for the apprentices to get to know everybody.
"Okay then, it's all set. There will be a meeting for you to get to know everybody," Arceus told him when she came back.
"Um, Arceus, we have a problem," a voice said. The two creation pokemon turned to see Uxie, a blindfolded Uriah, Regigigas and his apprentice, Titan.
"Yes, Uxie? What is it?" Arceus replied as Alpha stared at the group with wide, curious eyes.
"Well, Uriah didn't know about having to keep his eyes closed and I didn't realize that he had them open. I went to introduce him to Regigigias and Titan, since they also live in Snowpoint City. Now Regigigas can't remember anything! Could you possibly return his memory?" Uxie explained.
Arceus sighed. "Yes, I can return his memory. Just make sure that Uriah keeps his eyes closed from now on."
"Where am I?" Regigigas inquired. "And who the hell are you?" he added, pointing a large, stubby finger at Arceus.
"Just shut up and hold still while I return your memories. Then you can answer your own stupid questions," she replied as her eyes lit up and his memory was restored.
Well, I hoped you all like it! Sorry to leave ya hanging there at the end. I couldn't think of anything to put after that and I have kept you waiting long enough as it is. Besides, it seems okay ending like that. Anyway, reviews are to the heart as whipped cream is to the mouth, so please review!