The Orange Islands
Ash, Brock and Max are on their way to the Orange Islands to find Lugia, the pokemon Ash had helped many years ago.
"So, Ash, how do you know Lugia?" Max asked the boy.
"When Tracey and Misty were travelling with me through the orange islands, we were headed to the next island for a rest, but got caught in a storm. Luckily, we landed right on the island but there was a festival taking place. I was named the chosen one by Melody." Ash explained him.
"Wow. And you saved the world?" he asked again.
"Yes, I had to. There was no one else named Ash to save it." he chuckled.
"Why did they have to be named Ash?" Max asked again.
"Because the island had an old prophecy. Reading that 'if the three bird titans clash, then the world shall turn to ash'." Ash told him.
"Titans birds? Oh yeah! Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres!" Max remembered.
"That's right, Max. Hey, is that it, Ash?" Brock asked, pointing to an island in the distance. They landed on the beach, and explored a bit.
"So, Ash. Which way to the main building?" Max asked, looking around.
"I'm not sure. I was being guided, so I didn't really pay attention." Ash rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. Then he stopped in front of the dining hall.
"Well, this is it." he said, walking up the steps. They followed him, but it was empty. They walked down another hall and Ash bumped into someone.
"Hey! Watch where you're going, will you?" the annoyed voice said.
"Sorry... Melody?" Ash asked, looking at who he bumped into. He saw the girl he had helped in the past.
"Yes, who are you?" she asked, staring at Ash and dusting herself off.
"You don't recognize me?" Ash asked.
"No, have we met?" she asked, looking around him.
"It's me, Ash." he said.
"Ash? What are you doing out here again? The prophecy hasn't foretold anything new, if that's it." she told him.
"No, we're just here to see Lugia." Ash told her.
"You want to see it again? Why?" she asked curiously.
"Our friend won't move from out of a tree, and she was saying something about a prohecy and world's destruction. We thought of Lugia when we heard those words.
"Okay, let's go." she said, walking down the hall with them following. They all jumped in Melody's boat and sped towards the pedestal island. When they got there, Melody began to play Lugia's song. She finished, but there was no Lugia.
"Melody, what's wrong? Did it hear you?" Ash asked her.
"I don't understand, Lugia always hears it. What's going on?" Melody looked around, Then a vortex of water shot up and exploded. Inside, was Lugia.
"Lugia! We thought something happened to you!" Ash sighed in relief.
"Who are you?" the creature asked with telepathy.
"It's me, Ash!" Ash said.
"Oh, Ash! Thank goodness you're here!" Lugia responded.
"Something wrong?" Ash asked, tilting his head.
"I'm afraid so." it responded.
"What is it?" Ash asked.
"It's not important right now. What brings you here?" Lugia said, landing on the ground.
"My sister's in trouble, and she was saying something about a prophecy and the world's destruction. Ash thought to ask you for some information." Max said, stepping beside Ash.
"It was smart, but alas, I don't know. But I might know someone who does." Lugia added.
"Please, take us to him." Ash said.
"I'll need your help. Now, follow me." Lugia said. Lugia flew out towards the sea with the kids in the boat. When they stopped, Ash realized they stopped on ice island.
"Lugia, why are we on ice island?" Ash asked, looking at the familiar island.
"You'll see soon enough." Lugia said, then dove underwater and didn't resurface.
"I wonder what it's getting?" Melody looked over the edge of the boat.
"I don't know, but it should be a water type." Brock thought out loud.
Then Lugia popped its head up with something on it. A submarine. Lugia slid it off into the water and motioned for them to get in. They hopped in and dived after Lugia. When they saw him, he stopped in the middle of an ancient colosseum.
"Where are we?" Ash asked, looking at the area around them through the window.
"You're in the middle of where I was born." Lugia told them.
"Why were you born in a colosseum?" Brock asked it.
"Being a Lugia, I was abandoned by my parents and had to learn everything on my own. I woke up right here, and had no idea where I was." Lugia told them.
"You must have been confused and scared." she said to it.
"Yes, I was terrified. I tried to fly to the water, but I couldn't quite fly yet. I had to flop over to the edge. When I finally made it, it felt weird to swim at first, but I was helped by a miracle." Lugia told them again.
"Miracle? What do you mean?" Ash asked curiously.
"I was saved by a pokemon. It helped me learn to swim and fly. I never got to thank him though, because he left one day without saying a thing." Lugia said sadly.
"That's so sad. What happened to you?" Melody asked, concerned.
"Well, I didn't have much of a choice of what to do, so I just kept practicing at flying and swimming." Lugia said again.
"Where do you think that pokemon went?" Ash asked Lugia.
"I'll tell you, Ash, he's in there." Lugia said, and pointed towards a trophy statue. There was some writing inscribed on it, with a picture of a pokemon unknown to Ash and his friends.
"Is he trapped?" Ash asked the large creature.
"No. He's been in a slumber for 3,000 years." Lugia stated.
"So if you knew him when you were young... then you're over 3,000 years old too!" Max said in realization.
"Correct, Max. He will awaken again when he is summoned. Ash, you have to read the inscribed message on the statue to summon him." Lugia told him.
"Wait. You just said we have to summon him. Where is he exactly?" Ash asked.
"He is in a different space, and must be brought back." Lugia said, and Ash nodded. Ash got in a scuba suit and swam out towards the statue. Once he reached it, he read the message.
Less your name be Ash
you shouldn't beceit the power of the two
as thy brother, contained in the statue
shall awaken, and quell the calamity
with a sacrifice of a bold broken heart
Ash waited for something, a sound, a movement, anything. But nothing came from the statue. Ash swam back to the sub.
"Why isn't anything happening, Lugia?" Melody asked it.
"I don't know. You read it all, right?" Lugia asked Ash.
"Yes, every word. Maybe the moss covered some words." Ash thought out loud. Ash swam back out and checked under the moss, sure enough there were words, three lines.
Lugia shall sing its song and the slumber curse shall be lifted
Lugia's song sang twice calms the beast and makes it nice
If it is not sang a second, the beast shall destroy the world
Ash quickly swam back to the sub and told Lugia to sing its song. Once Lugia started, the statue started to glow. The trophy on the top started to float up. Then the pokeball seperated from the rest of it and opened. A red flash came out and blinded everyone, when it faded, a pokemon lay there. Then to the left they all heard a roar, and to the right they heard a different roar. Lugia swam over to the creature.
"Ah, master. Finally, you are brought back to this world." Lugia said, rubbing its wing over the body.
"Why was he in a different space?" Ash asked.
"He was considered a monster among the water types, so they banished him to another dimension for eternity." Lugia told him.
"So, how were we able to bring him back, if he was stuck for eternity?" Brock added.
"The world was in war back when he was banished, wasn't he?" Max asked.
"Indeed. All the pokemon were fighting over which were a better kind of pokemon, land walkers or water swimmers. When the war was finished, he had dissapeared." Lugia told the group.
"That's it! The world was unstable from the war, and now the time and space stability ouputs are different and more secure. When they inflicted the banishment, the world was unstable and so there was the small hole in space where he could return back through from the other world, so he still had hope!" Max stated.
"Smart observation! There was a war and it did shake the world stability into a wormhole. When the wormhole closes, the world is brought back to normal. But if something happens during the wormhole dissapearing, then it would stay in space." Lugia added.
"What? Space and ti... what are you talking about?" Ash shouted in frustration.
"Don't worry about it, Ash. We just need to figure out how to find the two pokemon that cause this problem." Melody said.
"That won't be a problem, stand back." Lugia told them. Melody steered the sub away and Lugia swam to the middle of the colloseum. He drew his head back and many white spheres circled him, then he shot them into the air. They flew out of the water and circled the colloseum. Then they flew up into the clouds and dissapeared, they came back down green and purple and were absorbed into Lugia's body.
"Ah, I see." Lugia said to himself.
"Let's go!" Melody said cheerfully. Everyone left for the location Lugia was headed for. But they forgot one little thing... the pokemon, they didn't sing the song. And so as the statue warned them...
it will go on a rampage and destroy the world until it hears Lugia's song a second time.
END