Chapter 28: Make a Wish!
"Skitty…what have you been eating?" Lyla mumbled as she began to awake from her sleep the next morning. "You're heavier than normal."
She opened her eyes to find two wide diamond-like ones staring back at her and she screamed. The Sableye sitting on her stomach was very alarmed by the sudden noise and it began to scream as well. Noah rushed into the tent to see what all the commotion was about and his mischievous little Sableye hopped off of Lyla and climbed onto his back.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Lyla demanded.
"Sorry, he's a little curious," Noah replied as his Pokémon played with his hair.
"Clearly," Lyla muttered as she sat up.
Outside the tents, Aiden and Eziray were training with each other and Skitty was out exploring the edge of Lake May. Before leaving her tent, Lyla sent out Pikachu for one of her daily doses of medicine. She mixed it up into its food and left her alone to eat it. Then she raced out to tell the others about the dream she'd had that night.
"Hey, do any of you know about a Pokémon named Jirachi?"
Eziray and Aiden paused and looked at her with puzzled faces. Noah didn't seem like he was familiar with the Pokémon either, so Lyla explained her dream and how vivid it had been. Then she mentioned Jirachi's warning – something was coming. The other three grinned a bit and told her it was just a dream, but she wasn't convinced so Noah offered to lend her his PokéGear.
"What's a PokéGear?" she asked.
"Well, in Johto, many trainers carry these around like Hoenn trainers carry a PokéNav. It's got the date and time, a radio, a map, and even a phone function. I've got Professor Birch's number stored in here, so you could give him a call if you'd like. If anyone knows anything about the Pokémon you saw in your dream, it'd probably be him!"
"Awesome!" Lyla exclaimed as he handed her the device.
The device was black with two white Pokéball shapes on each side. It flipped open to reveal a large, watch-like screen. Noah showed her how to dial the number and then she held it up to her ear like a cellular phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Professor Birch?"
"Yes?"
"This is Lyla. I'm using Noah's PokéGear…"
"Oh, Alright! Hello! Is everything okay?"
"Yeah! Everything's going well. I just had a bizarre dream last night and I was wondering if you knew anything about a Pokémon named Jirachi."
"Jirachi, huh? Yes, I know about it – that's the legendary Pokémon that comes out of hibernation for one week every one thousand years."
"Wait! He's real?!"
"Yep! If he's found a partner that he can befriend, then he will appear to that partner during the Millennium Comet."
"Do you know what Jirachi looks like? I want to know if it's really the Pokémon I saw in my dream last night."
"Sadly, I wasn't alive yet during the last Millennium Comet so I've never seen Jirachi before. I've only been able to see artwork and read about him. I find it interesting that you had a dream about him last night though…"
"Why is that?"
"Because the Millennium Comet is due to begin tonight!"
"Is that a joke?"
"No, Lyla. I'm serious. I'm not sure where you guys are, but they're hosting a festival somewhere way outside your hometown. Well, it's actually out in the middle of nowhere, but someone sent me an invitation for it you see."
"Well if Jirachi appeared to me in a dream, then does that mean he's looking to befriend me?"
"Not necessarily. Are you sure you didn't read up on him when you were little? Maybe your parents told you about him in a bedtime story or something."
"I don't think so…"
"Well, I wouldn't be worried if I were you. You should be honored if a legendary Pokémon wanted to be your friend," he joked with a chuckle. "We'll I've got some work to do. It was nice chatting with you. Be sure to look up in the sky tonight!"
"Thank you, Professor!" she exclaimed before handing the device back to Noah to end the call.
No one really had much to say about it after that. They were all pretty interested now, but it was hard to believe that Jirachi would just randomly pick Lyla to be its friend. Lyla thought hard, trying to remember if her mother had in fact told her about Jirachi when she was little. She began to recall her mother mentioning it at some point, but she wasn't sure if it really happened or if she was just conjuring up some event that had never happened. She finally deemed it best to just shrug the matter off and get ready to hit the road again.
"Are you sure you wanna stay behind?" Eziray asked, cocking her head.
"Yeah, this looks like a nice, open space to train so I think this is where we'll split off," Noah replied, stroking his Bayleef's forehead.
"Awww, I guess then this is good bye then!"
"For now, but I'm sure I'll run into you all again pretty soon."
"I suppose!"
The three bid Noah farewell, slung their bags over their shoulders, and hit the road once more. It was a quiet day; no one seemed to be out and about looking for a battle, so the trainers made huge progress. By sunset, they'd found themselves in a slightly mountainous region and surprisingly had enough energy to keep going so they trudged on.
"This way!"
Lyla halted upon hearing the voice and looked around for the child who had said it. That voice seemed so familiar to her but it was so brief that she didn't have time to analyze it. The others paused and asked her what was wrong.
"Did you hear that?" she gasped.
"Hear what?" Aiden asked.
"A voice just now…"
"What did it say?" Eziray replied.
"It wanted us to go that way," Lyla replied, pointing to a small trail leading off into nowhere.
"I think you just imagined it. Getting tired?" Eziray asked. "We can set up camp here for tonight if you want."
"Can we go check it out?"
"Are you sure? We have no idea where that trail leads. What if we get lost or something? What if you miss your contest?"
"I'm sure everything will be fine…I just have this strong feeling about something."
"Well, alright then…"
A little reluctantly, Eziray and Aiden followed Lyla down the overgrown path. It wound up being rather short and curved around the hill, leading the trainers to a dead end overlooking a wide canyon. At the bottom of the canyon, all sorts of vehicles were gathered and people were assembling tents, rides, kiosks, and other attractions. The whole area was boarded by tall poles connected by strings of bright, colorful lights.
"What's a festival doing all the way out here?" Aiden wondered out loud as Lyla searched for a way to get down there.
"This must be the festival that Professor Birch was talking about!" she exclaimed as she noticed a somewhat steep path leading down.
"I guess we could go take a look!" Eziray exclaimed, taking the lead and racing down the trail.
"So what are they celebrating?" Aiden asked as he and Lyla carefully made their way down.
"The Millennium Comet. Professor Birch said it only comes every one thousand years! This is all so strange though…Do you think what he said about Jirachi is true? I just find it too coincidental that I dreamt about him last night and here we are at some festival held once every one thousand years."
"I wouldn't get too excited. A thousand years is a long time and if that's how long it's been since anyone else saw Jirachi, then a lot of what Professor Birch told you might have been a myth."
"That may be true…"
The trainers reached the base of the hill and strolled into the festival. It seemed like the set up was pretty much done and vendors were already selling things to customers who had arrived early. Lyla paused at one of the booths, as soon as she noticed a bronze statue just a few yards in front of it.
"That's him!" she exclaimed. "That's the Pokémon from my dream!"
The statue was a life size replica of the legendary Pokémon Jirachi. There was a small plaque at the base of it, honoring the Pokémon and describing its history. Lyla read over it but was disappointed to not learn anything that Professor Birch hadn't already told her. The nearby vendor had been studying them carefully and decided to make his move.
"Hello, travelers!" he exclaimed. "You're eyeing Jirachi there, I see!"
"Do you know anything about this Pokémon?" Lyla asked, scurrying over to his stand.
"I know that it grants wishes!" the vendor exclaimed. "Much like these little trinkets here!"
"I see…" Lyla trailed off, walking away. The statue was just a ploy to get people to buy his merchandise. Unfortunately, it worked.
"I'll take one!" Eziray exclaimed.
"Ez?" Aiden said as she handed the man a couple bills from her pocket.
"Wonderful! Let me show you how the Wishmaker works," he offered, holding up one of the dream catcher-like objects. "First, think of a wish. Any wish! Just don't tell anyone."
"Okay, got it!"
"Now, do you see these seven triangular pieces along the edges?"
"Yes!"
"Tonight, when the Millennium Comet can be seen, hold the Wishmaker up so you can see the comet through the weaving and then fold down the triangle with one star on it. Tomorrow, fold down the triangle with two stars. The next day, fold down the triangle with three stars, and so on. In a week, once the Millennium Comet is gone and all of the triangles have been folded down, your wish will come true!"
"AWESOME!" Eziray exclaimed, enchanted by the charm in her hands.
"Come on, Ez," Aiden said with a chuckle.
The two hurried to catch up with Lyla who had found a newspaper stand and was reading some coordinator magazine from it.
"So what do you guys think?" Aiden began. "Shall we set up camp here tonight?"
"I don't mind!" Eziray exclaimed.
"I'd love to," Lyla replied.
The three found an open area just outside the boundaries of the festival and they set up their tents. Inside of her tent, Lyla sent out all of her Pokémon and gave Pikachu her second dose of medicine for the day. The others each got a bowl of Pokémon food.
"Eat up everyone!" she exclaimed.
"The star is coming!"
Lyla gasped at the voice which was exactly the same as the one she'd heard earlier. Her Pokémon looked up at her curiously and she asked if they'd heard it too. They shook their heads and she walked out of her tent to Aiden's – it sounded like the voice had come from in there.
"What's up?" he asked as she looked around his tent. His Pokémon were having their dinner too and he was sitting on top of his sleeping bag, examining the crystal that Captain Stern had given them.
"I heard that voice again…It's gotta be Jirachi. It sounds just like he did in my dream," she said, sitting down next to him. They both watched his Pokémon eat for a moment and then she took the crystal from his lap.
She held it up for a moment and watched the lantern's light reflecting off of it for a moment. Then she could have sworn it spoke to her.
"In here!"
She gasped and dropped it as she stood up suddenly. Aiden stood too, asking her if she was alright.
"It's here! It's here! I can't wait to meet you!" the voice echoed.
"I-I need some sleep," she said nervously as she fled the tent.
She immediately turned into her tent without even acknowledging the Millennium Comet which could now be seen overhead in the starry night sky. Eziray was perched on a nearby rock, admiring the beauty of the bright white streak it left behind as it trailed through the sky at an extremely slow rate. She held her Wishmaker up to the comet and folded the first flap down before hopping off of the rock and racing to her tent.
"Good morning, Wish Maker!"
"That voice again…" Lyla trailed off without even opening her eyes.
"Wake up, Wish Maker! I've been waiting so long to meet you!"
Lyla opened her eyes to a friendly face hovering over her. Then she sat up and stared at it in complete shock.
"Jirachi?" she asked as it floated down to her. "Is this another dream?"
"No, because we're both awake now!" the Pokémon exclaimed. "I can't tap into your dreams if neither of us are sleeping!"
"Where did you come from? How did you know where to find me? Why me?"
"You sure ask a lot of questions! I came from space I guess and I didn't find you, you found me!"
"What?"
"LYLA, YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT!" Eziray exclaimed as she and Aiden burst into her tent. "Last night, after you went to sleep, that crystal thing started glowing! And before we knew it, it was gone and this Pokémon was sitting in its place!"
"You mean we've had Jirachi with us this whole time?!" Lyla asked as it floated around, curious about the conversation.
"Yeah! That must be why he chose you!"
"But why me and not you or Aiden? I mean Aiden's been the one holding onto it for the most part…"
"It's just a hunch, but maybe because you were the first one to touch it back at the Oceanic Museum."
"I was?"
"Yeah, it was kind of like a mad dash for it between you and me but Aiden and I were thinking back and we both think that you were the one to touch it first. That's the only reason we could come up with, but then again, maybe he doesn't need a reason at all. Maybe it was just a coincidence," Eziray explained.
"What's going on?" Jirachi asked with a frown. "You don't want me here?"
"No! That's not it, I promise! I'm just surprised, that's all!" Lyla insisted.
"Then you'll be my friend?"
"Of course!"
"Oh, yay!" the Wish Pokémon celebrated as it twirled around. "What's your name?"
"My name's Lyla! These are my friends Aiden, Eziray, and Skitty!"
"Nice to meet you all!"
"So is it true that you grant wishes?"
"Wishes?" the Pokémon echoed curiously.
"Oh! Oh! Can I make a wish?" Eziray begged.
"What about your dumb Wishmaker thing?" Lyla muttered.
"I wish for a new hat!"
"Hat?" the Pokémon repeated.
"Yeah, just to test if it works!"
The Pokémon closed its eyes for a moment, and before she knew it, Eziray was completely buried under a pile of hats that just appeared out of nowhere. Lyla and Aiden gasped.
"AWESOME!" Eziray shouted as she burst through the top. "Next, I'm going to wish for…"
"Hold on a minute, Eziray," Aiden said as he peered out of the tent and watched a man running around in a panic.
"THEY'RE GONE! THEY'RE ALL JUST GONE! I'M RUINED!"
"I think those hats belong to that vendor…"
"I guess when you wish for something, it has to come from somewhere," Lyla said with a sigh.
"That Pokémon is probably a Psychic-type seeing how it's been communicating with you telepathically," Aiden reasoned. "It probably just teleported them here."
"Can you teleport them back, Jirachi?" Lyla asked. "We wouldn't want the poor man to go out of business!"
"Okay!"
As quickly as they had appeared, all of the hats were gone and Eziray was very disappointed. Then Jirachi suddenly fell down into Lyla's arms and she asked if he was okay.
"I'm so sleepy…" it trailed off as it went to sleep.
"Sleepy? You've been asleep for a thousand years! How could you possibly be sleepy?" Lyla demanded.
"Good night!"
And with that, the Wish Pokémon fell asleep and Lyla sighed. There were still so many questions she had for it. Oh well, they'd have to be answered later. For the rest of the day, the trainers enjoyed all that the festival had to offer – carnival rides, games, small Pokémon tournaments, and so on. Towards the end, they passed by a booth as they made their way back to their tents. They didn't even notice the woman standing in front of it.
"That was quite a spectacle you put on this morning, you know…" she trailed off.
"I'm sorry, Commander! I just thought I should act how any vendor would act if all of their merchandise suddenly vanished before their eyes!"
"I told you not to call any attention to ourselves! I don't care if Jirachi himself appeared and did a little jig for you as he made this shit fly all over the damn place with his telekinetic abilities. You are to stay quiet and unnoticed, do you hear me? This place is crawling with security, and we don't need your stupid ass thrown into a loony bin!"
"Do you think Jirachi did it?"
"I don't know! It'd be rather strange if he did…What would a legendary Pokémon want with hats? Furthermore, why would he return them?"
"Do you think the human he's with wished for the hats?"
"I don't think so. Surely he's under Team Magma's control now. I mean what else could they have been after back at the Oceanic Museum in Slateport? We must find them and get that Pokémon for ourselves. That's why I need you to be quiet," she hissed as she turned, keeping her face low so no one would recognize her.
"Have you found Jirachi yet, Shelly?" a man's voice echoed through a tiny speaker over her ear.
"Not yet, sir. There's no sign of Team Magma anywhere. I think we should move out and search Forina."
"Not quite yet. I'm certain that they've gone to find Professor Europa and she's supposed to be at that festival."
"Well, technically, she is here sir. She's just a little subdued at the moment…Once we intercept Jirachi, we'll be able to unlock the Eye of Truth's power – I made her spill everything."
"Great work, Shelly. I'll be seeing you soon."
"Yes, boss!"
The next morning, Lyla awoke to find Jirachi awake and rather upset about something.
"Jirachi? Is everything okay? What happened?"
"Thank you, Lyla."
"For what?"
"For being my friend! I'm just a little homesick…"
"Do you want to return to space?"
"No…I want to go back to Forina!"
"Forina? Where's that?"
"It's a wonderful place! It's the prettiest place on your entire Earth! That's where I was resting until I was found and sold to rich people!"
"Oh, right! You become all crystalized when you're hibernating…but how did you end up at the Oceanic Museum?"
"The rich people's ship sank and I was found many, many years later by another man. Then he gave me to you!"
"How do you know all this if you were asleep?"
"I don't know…I just do…"
"Well, let's see. Maybe I can find Forina on my PokéNav," she said, fiddling with her device.
Jirachi drifted about above her, trying to look over her shoulder at what she was doing. When she finally found Forina, she sighed. It was far from where they were – very, very far from there. For some reason, however, Lyla couldn't find the heart to tell him no. Instead, she went out looking for Aiden and Eziray. Jirachi and Skitty followed her out.
"I wonder where they went off to…" she trailed off as she wandered around the festival, passing by the hat booth.
The undercover Aqua grunt gasped as he saw Jirachi floating along behind her. Once she was out of earshot, he picked up his walky-talky hastily and spoke into it nervously.
"H-he's here!"
"Jirachi?! You saw him?"
"Y-yes! And you're not going to believe this – he's not with Team Magma. He's with some girl."
"A girl?"
"Yes!"
"…I'll be right there. Please get rid of her."
"Rodger that!"
"A girl?" Shelly wondered to herself. "How could she have gotten ahold of Jirachi? Perhaps Team Magma was after something else after all. How could I have been so quick to assume that Team Magma was familiar with the legend of Jirachi and that they'd made the same connection we had? I can't believe I was so foolish…We should have gone into that museum and looked for ourselves! I guess it's easier this way though. It'll be like stealing candy from a little baby."
"There you guys are!" Lyla exclaimed once she finally found her friends. They were both hanging out around the food kiosks, enjoying the beautiful day.
"Good morning," Aiden greeted. "Hello, Jirachi."
"Hello, Aiden! And Eziray!" the Wish Pokémon exclaimed.
"Good morning, Jirachi! How are you?" Eziray replied.
"Well, he kind of wants to go home…" Lyla trailed off.
"Where is 'home' exactly?" Aiden asked as Lyla pulled out her PokéNav to show him. Both he and Eziray gasped.
"Lyla, it'd take weeks to get there!" Eziray exclaimed.
"But what about Espeon and Gracie? Can't they teleport us?"
"That's a little out of their range I think," Aiden replied.
"I feel bad though. Someone took him from his home and we're the only ones who can take him back…"
"You're not taking him, anywhere!"
They turned to find an Aqua grunt standing before them with a Poochyena sent out for battle.
"Team Aqua!" Eziray exclaimed, gritting her teeth.
"Who are you?" Jirachi asked naively.
"A very, very bad man!" Lyla exclaimed. "Stay away from him!"
"Poochyena, use Take Down!"
"Skitty, use Sing!"
"Myaaaaaaaaaa!" Skitty sang, releasing multicolored waves of sound.
The waves traveled forward and into both the Poochyena and the grunt's ears, putting them both to sleep. As the grunt fell to the ground, they all saw that Commander Shelly was fast approaching.
"Oh no!" Lyla exclaimed, backing away slightly as the Commander slowed and paused just a few yards away.
"It's rather unfortunate that we'd have to meet under these circumstances, trainers. I'm sure you're all wonderful people, but I'm afraid you have something we want. If you surrender Jirachi to us now, I won't have to get aggressive with you."
"Not a chance!" Eziray shouted back as Aiden arrived at Lyla's side to protect her.
"Well, fine then…Sealeo, come on out!"
Just as she lifted the Pokéball from her waist, a large white van came screeching up beside the trainers and opened.
"Get in!" a tall woman with dark bluish hair and glasses exclaimed.
"Professor Europa?" Shelly observed as the trainers climbed in with Skitty and Jirachi. Then she watched as the van zoomed away. "How could this happen?"
"Um, hi…"Aiden trailed off. "Thanks for helping us out. Now, who are you?"
"My name is Luna Europa and I'm an astronomer," she began. "It's a good thing I got away from Team Aqua when I did or they would have used Jirachi for terrible things!"
"Terrible things?" Jirachi echoed, voice trembling slightly.
"You mean they had you captured? But why?" Eziray questioned.
"Because I'm one of the main researchers alive today who studies Jirachi and the Millennium Comet. They used me to learn about Jirachi's Eye of Truth."
"What the hell?" Lyla asked, not convinced by the woman's story.
"Do you see that crease on Jirachi's belly? It's an eye – an eye that, when opened, can absorb and let off a tremendous amount of power from the Millennium Comet. On its own, Jirachi can teleport small things like money, gems, and material items. With the power of the Eye of Truth, it can teleport something bigger and much more frightening…"
"And that's why Team Aqua wants Jirachi?" Lyla asked, protectively wrapping her arms around the Pokémon in question.
"Bingo!"
"Just a quick side question…if you were captured and brought here by Team Aqua, whose van is this?" Aiden asked as he peered through the window at the festival disappearing in the distance.
"Don't worry, I'll return it as soon as we get back!"
"Get back from where?" Eziray replied.
"From Forina!"
"Hear that, Jirachi? You're going home!" Lyla declared.
"Hurray!" the Wish Pokémon exclaimed.
During the next few hours, Professor Europa went into detail about Team Aqua's plans to use Jirachi to make the legendary Pokémon Kyogre appear so that they could capture it and control it with the Red Orb, using the Pokémon to flood the land with treacherous rain storms. She also mentioned how thankful she was that Jirachi had fallen into the hands of kind-hearted trainers rather than Team Magma who were just as wicked as Team Aqua. That night, they stopped to rest, keeping one eye open until morning. It was the third night of the Millennium Comet and Professor Europa predicted that they would arrive in Forina on the final night of the comet.
"Hey, I almost forgot!" Eziray whispered once everyone else was asleep. She pulled her Wishmaker out and held it up to the sky as she pulled the third flap down. Then she smiled and put it away. "Three down, four to go…"
For the next few days, they all traveled for miles and miles in that van, stopping each night to rest. On the seventh and final day of the comet, they arrived in Forina – a thick, green forest completely untouched by humans and inhabited by a large abundance of Pokémon. Jirachi zipped about, reminiscing and reacquainting himself with his homeland. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the place, actually, everyone except Lyla. Jirachi would be going to sleep that night and he wouldn't wake up for another one thousand years – that meant that she would never be able to see him again. Their time together had been rather brief but those past few days of traveling really strengthened the bond she had formed with this Pokémon. She had grown so attached to him that it was hard to let him go.
"Don't be sad, Wish Maker!" he exclaimed.
"Why do you call me that?" she asked with a smile.
"Because, the very first time I saw you, you made a wish!"
"I did?"
"Yes, in your dream!"
"What did I wish for?"
"You don't remember? You wished to become a better coordinator! But I don't know how to do that…"
"Don't worry, Jirachi. That's something that I'll have to do on my own!"
"Well, if it means anything to you, you're the best coordinator I've ever met!"
Lyla giggled. She was the only coordinator he'd ever met but his compliment touched her anyway. The smile soon faded as soon as she remembered that this would be her last day with him.
"This way! This way!" he exclaimed, racing ahead towards a cave. "This is where I'll lay down to rest!"
"Sunset's coming soon, isn't it…" Lyla trailed off.
"I'm afraid so…It's better for Jirachi though. As soon as he goes to sleep, those thugs won't have the chance to use his power for bad," Professor Europa explained.
"I know, but…"
"Come on! What are you waiting for? I want to show you where I sleep, Lyla!"
He led them into the cave and brought them to a large, stony pedestal at the center of the cavern. The walls surrounding it were tall and thick and there was a massive opening overhead, letting sunlight pour through.
"Up here!" Jirachi exclaimed, perching at the top of the pedestal.
"When exactly will you go to sleep?" Professor Europa asked.
"When the comet is gone!" he replied.
"Is there any way you could go dormant sooner?"
"Wait, why?" Lyla demanded.
"The longer he's awake, the more chance we risk Team Aqua finding us…"
"That's true…I suppose he gets tired when he uses his abilities," Lyla suggested.
"And we did leave all of our stuff behind," Eziray added.
"Jirachi, I wish for our tents and supplies that we left behind!" Lyla exclaimed.
"Okay!" the Wish Pokémon responded, closing his eyes as all of their belongings appeared, one-by-one.
The trainers organized it and packed it away as Lyla and Jirachi spent their last moments together. For some reason, however, the wish hadn't been enough to exhaust him.
"Let's see…" Lyla trailed off, wondering what else she could wish for to help him get to sleep.
"Well what do you know…That grunt was right! They did intend to take Jirachi home!"
"Oh no!" Professor Europa gasped.
"Jirachi, you can't sleep now. You've yet to grant our wish," Commander Shelly said with a malicious grin as a troop of Aqua grunts flooded the cave.
"YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM!" Professor Europa screamed, rushing to Jirachi's side. "What you're planning to do with him is sick! I won't let you hurt him and I won't let you destroy this planet!"
"Stupid bitch," Shelly said as her Mightyena charged at Professor Europa and knocked her out of the way. "We're not destroying anything. Come along Jirachi; our boss is waiting."
The commander held up some sort of metal cube contraption and before Lyla could react to save her friend, a long net shot out from the box and Jirachi was entangled in it.
"The Millennium Comet is out! Hurry up Shelly!" a voice ordered through the speaker over her ear.
"I have our target and I'm coming out," she replied. "Sealeo, please close off the entrance to this cave."
"No!" Lyla shouted as she and the others followed after the fleeing Team Aqua members.
Just as Team Aqua exited the cave, a Sealeo waiting outside used Ice Beam to seal off the entrance and trap the trainers within.
"JIRACHI!" Lyla screamed.
"Combusken, Fire Spin!"
"And you use Flamethrower, Charo!"
Aiden and Eziray both sent out their Fire-types to melt the ice. To their surprise, the ice was rather thick and sturdy so it was no easy feat. As the two slowly powered their way through it, Aiden began to strategize a way to get Jirachi back. He knew they'd have no chance taking out a commander along with an entire army of grunts and apparently their leader as well. They'd have to sneak out and analyze the situation carefully without being noticed.
"I'd like to help too!" Professor Europa exclaimed. "I haven't got any Pokémon but I'll do whatever I can!"
The four nodded and waited for the two Fire-types to finish melting the ice. As every moment passed by, they began to realize just how powerful Shelly's Sealeo must have been. When the ice was finally melted, they quietly slipped out.
"What…" Professor Europa gasped as she caught a glimpse of the scene unfolding just outside the cave.
Jirachi was lying still on the ground, both eyes on its face shut tightly and the eye on its stomach opened wide. A Grumpig stood over him and both of their bodies were glowing blue. A thick white beam of energy was extending down from the Millennium Comet and into Jirachi's Eye of Truth. A man that the trainers had never seen before was standing back, arms crossed victoriously as he watched his dream become reality. He was dressed in a formal black suit, his heavily muscled chest slightly exposed, with the Team Aqua symbol stitched just under the V of the neck. He also wore a blue bandana that displayed the Team Aqua symbol displayed, and he had a short black beard with a slight mustache as well.
"The day has finally come…" he trailed off. "All of this searching can come to an end because we now have the means of bringing Kyogre to us! Grumpig!"
The Grumpig's eyes began to glow blue as well and Jirachi cried out in pain, taking in a massive amount of energy from the Millennium Comet. A large figure then appeared before them all, floating on a small body of water that was nowhere near large enough to contain it.
"Kyogre," the leader began, holding up a shining crimson orb, "as your new master, I command you to obey!"
"ROOOOAAAAAH!" the legendary Pokémon roared.
Author Notes:
First major cliffhanger of the story! I hope it was exciting enough. I definitely strayed far from the movie about Jirachi because, in addition to wanting to make it more original, I wanted it to make more sense (I'm sorry, but that movie was so contradicting and nonsensical). I hope you all enjoyed it and are looking forward to the next part! Be sure to review ;)