Fifteen Years later
Starlight opened her ice blue eyes and stretched her jet black body. Slowly she got up off of her bed of clouds and shook herself before tapping her mother with her tail
"Wake up mother." she said
Rayquaza opened one of her yellow eyes blearily "What is it?"
Starlight looked at the sky dragon incredulously "You need to go to the Hall of Origin for the Meeting of Legends, remember!?"
Rayquaza yelped and flicked herself upright "Damn I forgot!"
The black Rayquaza giggled "I noticed, otherwise you'd be up already."
"Don't get sarcastic with me young lady."
Starlight rolled her eyes before asking a question she had been holding back for nearly fifteen years.
"Mum...?"
"Yes."
"Can... I... come to... the... meeting?" she said hesitantly, not daring to look her mother in the eye
Rayquaza looked at her daughter and folded her arms "And why would you want to come to that?"
The black Rayquaza shrugged "I just really really want to come." she said quickly I am a legendary Pokemon aren't I?"
The Dragoness of the Sky looked skywards and let out a long soft sigh "None of us know what you are?"
"So you're all talking about me are you?" said Starlight irritably folding her arms across her chest.
"Not all of the time... Okay you can come if Arceus permits it. Otherwise you stay outside."
The teenager nodded. Rayquaza flew from Sky tower with Starlight on her tail. When they reached the colossal golden palace in the sky known as the Hall of Origin they stopped.
"Stay here," commanded Rayquaza as the emerald dragon floated inside the chamber. After ten tense minutes for Starlight her mother and father came out of the solid silver doors. Giratina grinned
"You are allowed in as long as you don't cause trouble."
"Me? Cause Trouble? You must be mad."
Rayquaza paused before saying "What about the time when you nearly blew up Sky Tower with a Dark Pulse?"
Admonished the young black rayquaza flexed her silver wings and decided just t keep her mouth shut. The trio walked in to the hall and took their places. Starlight stayed a little to the side of the assembled legends. Dialga looked at her with scarlet eyes. Starlight's glittering blue orbs returned the gaze with an intensity not even the Time Deity could hold out against. Turning away, Dialga faced Arceus who was beginning to speak.
"Pokemon of the Legend Council, we have a new arrival today." she motioned with her head to Starlight. Every head turned to look at her for a second. This was the first time they had seen her since she had been a tiny hatchling. The difference was alarming. She was incredibly thin yet muscular and her body longer than Rayquaza's. The moonlight coloured wings had grown into massive sail like structures that she could flap to help her fly even faster than she could normally. Her markings were silver and shimmered like molten metal; her tail was constantly flicking back and forth. No legendary could look her in the eye. Not the carefree Mew or the cool and distant Mewtwo, the hoteheaded Ho-Oh or the mighty Groudon. Even Arceus didn't look at her eyes directly
Do they have a fucking problem with me or something? she thought, anger and annoyance rising in her chest.
Arceus coughed and said "Right, back to business. Does anyone want to tell me why I feel such a disturbance coming from the Johto region?"
She glared at them all; the Johto Legendaries in particular shuffled in their places and quailed under her cold gaze. When no answer was forthcoming Arceus leapt in between them
"Well?" she repeated
Her snowy white fur bristled and electricity seemed to crackle through the yellow horn like structures on her back. Anger and rage spilled out like lava from a volcano, from within her emerald eyes.
"We don't know." murmured Lugia feebly, her silver feathers were dull and lack lustre, clearly showing that she had been stressed for a while.
Deciding to interfere, Starlight moved herself in between Arceus and the others.
"It's clear that they have no idea what's going on and are stressing about that fact," she said calmly
Arceus gazed distantly at the young ebony dragoness as if she had just stepped out of a spaceship from another planet. Finally, for only the second time in fifteen years, The Alpha Pokemon looked directly into the eyes of Starlight. Ice blue fused with emerald green as the two females stared at each other. Suddenly, a flicker of flame winked into existence behind Starlight's eye and a burning pain lanced across her forehead and molten daggers plunged into her heart. Closing her eyes she moved backwards in order to put as much distance between Arceus and herself as was possible. In her haste, however she tripped over Entei and fell head over tail, landing in an undignified jumble of wings and tail. Picking herself up, she flapped her silvery wings and whipped out of the room.
Arceus widened her eyes in total shock at what had just happened. Looking to Rayquaza and Giratina with a questioning look on her face, she was disheartened when they shrugged and looked just as confused as she was. Sighing deeply, Arceus said
"Talk among yourselves for now. Giratina, Rayquaza. Come with me."
The aforementioned pair nodded and followed Arceus. Casting a fearful glance at Giratina, Rayquaza whispered
"Have you ever seen her react like that to anything?"
The Renegade Pokemon shook his head "No, I haven't. I don't even know what happened"
Shaking herself Arceus interrupted "She looked at me then suddenly backed off as if she was terrified of me."
"She's never shown fear to anything," explained Rayquaza as Arceus opened the door.
"What are you doing here?" asked a voice from beside them. The three legendaries nearly jumped out of their skins as Starlight appeared next to them. Her eyes were ablaze and full of anger, pain and confusion. All these emotions were in turmoil, swirling around each other like a nest of baby serpents, tangling then untangling themselves from the mix of total chaos. Worry was evident in the green dragon as she hugged her daughter. A moment later, Giratina embraced the youngster… or tried to. With a surprised yelp Starlight wriggled free of them both
"You know I don't like getting double hugged." she said breathlessly. "I'm claustrophobic"
Chuckling Giratina nodded "So that's why I never did it before."
Starlight nodded then hugged her father before backing away and glaring at all three of them
"Why are you out here?"
"We're worried about you." said Rayquaza
Giratina and Arceus both nodded. Shifting her gaze to the ground Starlight felt shame rise within her. After many long moments of tension, with the adults not even daring to breathe, Starlight finally spoke
"When I looked into your eyes, I saw you, Arceus. I saw your life and all of it's hardships. Everything negative in your life flashed before me and it was so overwhelming it scared me."
Lost for words Arceus looked to Giratina and Rayquaza for help. They were speechless. Seeing Giratina so speechless; Arceus couldn't help herself. She laughed hysterically. Starlight snapped
"Why do I never see when anyone is happy? It's always the bad moments that flow into me!"
Ceasing her laughter Arceus whispered softly "I don't know. I've never seen or heard of any pokemon having this ability."
Glistening tears dripped from the corners of Starlight's light blue eyes. Rayquaza put an arm around her shoulder and pulled the teenager closer to her. Unusually, Starlight didn't resist. Usually, hugging was on her terms and her terms only. Giratina paced around helplessly
Clearly, this is a female moment he thought to himself
Thinking for a minute, Arceus said finally "I'd like to, if she wants, to take Starlight under my wing so I can try and tame this power of hers."
"It's up to her," said Raquaza as she looked at Starlight
The teenager turned her sharp gaze to Arceus, trying not to look into the God Pokemon's eyes again. With a nod Arceus stated
"Come here tomorrow and we'll start."
turning around, Arceus walked slowly back into the hall. Heaving the massive sun coloured doors open, she turned her head back to the trio
"Are you coming?"
"You two go." said Starlight weakly "I'll fly home myself."
"Are you sure dear?" asked Rayquaza.
Starlight nodded. Both Giratina and Rayquaza hugged her tightly one more time then Starlight spread her wings and took off…
As she made her way back to her place, Arceus thought
Is this what that dragon meant?
Well I hope y'all liked chapter 3. Sorry it took so long I was working on something
Slasher
